WEBVTT - Copy That 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.160 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.520 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.559 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.760 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.160 You know what the Lord showed us on our campus 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.600 pastor call this week, that the glory of the latter 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:33.200 house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Well, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.680 what in the world does that mean? I mean, God 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.800 said that through the prophet to some exiles who were 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.120 coming back and rebuilding the temple. And it was so 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.960 small compared to Solomon's temple, and so plain and so simple. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.440 It says that the people who saw Solomon's temple started crying, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.560 and they were crying so much that the people who 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.000 were shouting, because they never had a temple at all before, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.880 they were like, WHOA, this is awesome, this is amazing. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.320 This is a house for God. This is the place 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.480 we can meet with him. They couldn't be heard above 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.720 the weeping of those who could only compare what they 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:18.000 were looking at with what was before it. And so 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.640 God said, I don't want you to look at it 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.839 and compare it to the old Temple. And I believe 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.920 you're saying that to somebody in this room. I don't 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.040 want you to compare what I'm doing in your life 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.800 right now to what I did in your life in 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.680 a previous season when you didn't have a bad knee. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:40.000 I'm preaching to the over forty now. I know you 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.160 used to be the star wide receiver and receiver in Villain, Texas. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.440 But right now, right now, I need you to understand 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.000 it's not what the temple is made of. I told 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.600 our campus pastors. Even as our church is kind of 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.480 coming back, and you know, after the pandemic, it takes 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.240 time for people to come back, and so a lot 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.400 of the buildings they don't look like they did before 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.639 that thing that happened, which I can't say because Indo'll 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.360 take it out the YouTube algorithm. So I'm gonna just 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.200 beep it out, the thing that happened, and then if 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:12.720 you look at what it is right now and try 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.120 to compare it to what it was, you missed the 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:19.240 whole point. Because he said the glory of the Latter House, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.720 what I'm doing right now, He's pointing to Jesus, will 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:27.440 be greater than the glory of the former house. So 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.680 this is what I told them. Don't look for the gold, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.600 look for the glory. The gold is the external, that's 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.880 Solomon's temple. Look for the glory. So what God is 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.400 doing right now, He's trying to get you to attenuate 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:49.320 your mind to what he is filling you with. What 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.320 do you want to be filled with? You want to 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.840 be filled with fear, You want to be filled with depression. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.000 All you have to do if that's what you want 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.919 to do, it's just do everything you see the world doing. Okay, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.919 But if you want to be filled with joy, unspeakable, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:17.440 full of glory in the holy ghulfs, you can't. Oh God, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.960 I'm gonna start my sermon right now. Watch this. You 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.400 can't do what the world does and get what the 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:32.480 word says. So are you ready for the word of God? 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.160 I want you on your feet in the ready position. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.920 I am gonna pick up where I left off last week. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:50.400 Somebody shall copy that, copy that copy that. That was 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.080 the last thing in my sermon last week. So let's 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.600 pick up with the scripture that I mentioned last week. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:02.440 But I didn't get to mine it. Hebrews Chapter thirteen, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:07.760 verse seven, case your feet hurt from standing, only got 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.640 one verse, then you can sit down. Did anybody come 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:15.200 to church from over one hundred miles away today? What? 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:26.560 For real? Where from? Huh? I love that place. That's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.400 one of my favorite places. I didn't hear a word 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.400 they said, anybody come from over five hundred miles? Y'all 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.520 remember the song from the nineties, I would walk five 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:43.640 hundred And we're really gonna get YouTube flags the cite 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:54.400 who comes to Elevation Church. It's a great worship song, right. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.720 How about all the new songs we've been singing. You've 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:05.000 been enjoying that hmm. Lately we've been getting in these 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.240 writing rooms and just wanting to single word of God. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.080 And so you probably didn't hear it if you're watching 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.599 this later, but we just sang a song and it 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.560 goes straight from Matthew five. I'm gonna talk a little 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.200 bit about my dad today in the sermon, and I'm 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.039 gonna talk about him kind of, you know, kind of 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.080 tell you some of the good stuff, but the bad 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.719 stuff or whatever. It's gonna be what it is. But 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.760 one memory of my dad that's really precious to me? 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.400 Is he loved? My mom can tell you the Sermon 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.520 on the Mount Matthew five six and seven. So I 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.080 was thinking, like when we were writing that song where 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.240 we just go through the attitudes blessed to the poor 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.120 and spirit for their kingdom having blessed us and more 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.000 they become, and just singing those scriptures, I was thinking, men, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.960 the el Tring would love this. He'd be running laps. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.279 And so it's just exciting. We're gonna be recording again, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.360 what is it, October sixth, So we're gonna be recording 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.719 some new songs on October sixth, So you're all invited 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:03.479 for that. Also, you're all invited to Elevation Nights. We're 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:09.400 gonna take this glory on the road. That's right, I'm 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:15.120 gonna do it. So if you're in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:20.040 Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, or Jacksonville, come on out. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.599 That's October twenty sixth through November fourth Elevation Nights dot 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.599 com so they don't have to come from five hundred miles. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.600 We'll come to you. Man. It's gonna be so exciting. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Wow, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:39.760 look at you you walking, talking miracle, you live in 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:46.800 breathing miracle. The devil is so confused because you're you're 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.400 praising God after all he puts you through. This week, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.440 he's like flipping out. He's summoning all his little junior demons, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.039 Like I thought, I told you to a tackle, then 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.080 I got dead. But they ain't just take, They just take, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:13.240 They just tame, and they've made it a day. Hebrew's thirteen. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:24.000 Hebrew's thirteen, verse seven. Remember your leaders who spoke the 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.640 word of God to you, consider the outcome of their 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:34.160 way of life, and imitate their faith. Say my title 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.960 one more time to your neighbor. Copy that you may 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:42.920 be seated, You may be seated. How many have you 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:50.920 heard the sermon last week? Y'all? Do know they're free online, right, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.880 so if you ever sleep in or can't be here, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.080 make sure you catch up. A lot of times it's 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.040 on the second listen that you really get what God 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.520 wanted to say to you, because on the first listen 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.960 you're kind of like judging me, like, you know, if 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.720 I agree with this, if you can do it? There? 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.480 What are those shoes? You know? Just looking at stupid stuff. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.440 And then sometimes on the second time, it's not the distractions, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.160 but it goes deeper. It goes deeper. You go, oh, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.440 this is I got it on one level and I 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.960 got it on the second. Listen. So there's a value 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.680 in repetition. There's there's also a danger in repetition. I 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.800 felt like my sermon last week was a little more 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.640 on the negative side. I'm not apologizing for it because 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.160 I took it from the Bible where God warned Moses. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.800 It says he warned him, and I was warning you 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.800 make sure or see to it that you build according 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.000 to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.160 That's where God met with Moses and showed him how 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.880 to build the tabernacle, Holy of Holy's, table of show bread, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.760 all that stuff he showed him on the mountain, because 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.880 then he had to go down to where the people were. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.880 I always had these great ideas about ministry until people 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.880 showed up and messed up my ideas of ministry because 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.400 they don't do it like you tell them to, and 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.400 they don't run the first base, then second based in 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.920 third base. See them over there climbing the fence, playing 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.400 in the dirt and stuff. And that's me too, right, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.600 that's me too, and that's tricky to be a leader. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.520 How many leaders do we actually have here today? Worship leaders? 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:35.640 Let's start their worship leaders? Really cool. I want to 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.800 ask that again, but this time I want every parent 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.240 to raise your hand. How many worship leaders do we 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:48.760 have here today? Whether you want to or not, you 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.400 are teaching your children not only how to worship, and 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.400 some of that, you're teaching them as well. If you're 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.320 kind of a one hand in the pocket hand lifter, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.760 they'll probably do same thing. But it's also true that 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.560 you're teaching them what to worship every time you set 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:14.199 the schedule to say, well, we'll go to church if 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:24.360 we have time. Wow, I just felt an arctic wind. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:30.280 It's true. And I'm so grateful that Christy Collins pulled 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.000 out her iPhone and captured this video that I'm about 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.120 to show you because I feel most of the time 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.440 like i'm failing. As to Dad, I'm wired. I'm hard 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.360 wired to be hard on myself and some of you 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.440 are too easy on yourself, and some of us are 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.160 too hard on ourselves, and then we can help each 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.679 other out. But Holly's really good about it too. She's 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.400 always sending me these time hops do you'll do time 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.160 hop where it shows you this is what you were 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:56.880 doing five years ago, this is what you were doing 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.839 seven years ago, this is what you do nine years ago. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.000 And so it's just showed me it Charlotte Knights game 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.360 with the boys, just to remind me, good dad, You're 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:11.400 good dad, and I need that. But what Christie captured 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.080 we were doing our recording with Elevation Worship in Maverick 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:21.240 City called Old Church Basement. I sat right there with 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.120 my kids on that ledge. Our whole family was on 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.760 that ledge. The building still wasn't fully open. With COVID. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.600 Tested made this album. It's touched the world. It's probably 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.040 it's probably one of my favorite things I ever worked 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.600 on as a songwriter, as a pastor, as a producer, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.559 and I'm so thankful for everyone who's involved. But the 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:46.920 greatest part of the night wasn't on YouTube. The greatest 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:52.640 parts never are. The greatest part was when we were 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.959 recording the song wait on You, I'll trust in your primis. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.840 I'm gone on, wait on you gotta do with a 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.400 little growl, I'm going no, you gotta aggressively wait on 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:12.240 the Lord. Wait when I just couldn't take it anymore. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.760 And we were about thirty seven minutes into the song 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.439 and I shumped off the ledge and I ran down 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.800 and I couldn't take it anymore. And I looked up 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.080 and Abby was standing beside me. Now, my children are 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.760 very competitive. Last week I baptized Gramma called him up 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.280 on stage. I gave him a speech. I gave him 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:33.960 a Bible and Abby said that was a that was good. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.760 When am I going to be in a sermon again? 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.320 So I picked this out because it fit with my 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.679 theme of copy that. Watch this little fifty second video. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:13:27.440 I love this. I like that one. I favorited that 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.240 one on my phone. I could see it in those moments, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:38.199 you know those moments. I will interview your wife this 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.559 week and talk about those moments next week. If you 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.640 don't nod your head at me, do you have those 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:47.480 moments where you need an example, a better example. I 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.120 want to go ahead and beat all the trolls to it. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.079 I'm not going to be on Dancing with the Stars 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.440 with those moves. I know that I understand that my 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.120 moves are unorthodox. My kids tell me this all the time. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:04.280 They keep me humble. But we didn't choreograph that we 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:09.839 didn't practice, that we didn't have to. I didn't tell her, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.320 you know, I think I'm gonna do this like this 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.120 wounded eagle, move like an eagle that was shot but 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.480 not killed. I'm gonna come through, and I need you 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.080 to do it with me, so I don't look stupid. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:29.480 It'd be cute if you don't. I watched her. I 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:36.960 realized that there's what I say and there's what she sees. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:45.000 When people do what people see. Yeah, the challenge for 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.720 a lot of people I'm preaching to is that sometimes 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.800 you have to be something that you've never seen before. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.160 When I read my scripture, remember your leaders who spoke 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.800 the word of God to you. Put it on the 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.680 screen again. Because there's no power in my words. There's 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.520 power in God's words. Remember your leaders who spoke the 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.640 word of God to you, who told you I can 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.840 do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, who told 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.760 you God's hand is on you, who told you that 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.520 there's nothing more important than God, who told you that 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.200 if Christ isn't at the center of your life, the 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.160 whole thing will fall apart. Who told you and taught you, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.000 who preached to you and taught to you that you 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.960 are who God says you are. But in reading this, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.800 I realized that a lot of the people that I 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:45.120 preached to never really had someone to speak this word 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.520 over their life. So then they went with what the 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.800 world told them because they didn't know what the word 0:15:53.080 --> 0:16:00.520 said about them. That's uh, what I was going to 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.160 tell you about my dad because one time my mom. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.960 My mom was so good at this. She would cover 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.520 for his crazy as she'd pulled him to the side, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.360 and she'd say, you know, he's doing real good. I said, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.000 he's not doing real good. He's crazy. He's crazy. I 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.520 can't stand him. And he was doing he's coaching my teams, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.520 he's doing all this stuff. But one day she said, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.240 did you know he didn't have a dad growing up? 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.200 I didn't know that. I knew he didn't have his 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.320 dad long, but I didn't know that his dad had 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.440 killed himself. I didn't know that my dad had found 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:34.200 his dad dad on his own birthday when he was eight. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.320 I didn't know that. I didn't know that he was 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:46.840 making everything up. So even that one time when I 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.600 said I hated him and I wanted to kill him, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.320 when I was a teenager, and he picked me up 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.880 from school early and told me we were going out 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.800 to the National Forest and he had two guns in 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.160 the back of the truck and one of us was 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.360 going to kill the other one. Even though that isn't 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.760 necessarily the best parenting tactic, and it's not doctor Philip Roof. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.920 He didn't have focus on the family growing up. All right. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.240 I did the best I could. I did the best 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:21.120 I could. He's doing real good. If you saw, if 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.360 you saw what he never got to see. So when 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.159 the author of Hebrews is saying, here, remember your leaders 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:33.199 who spoke the word of God concerning you, he's not 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.520 so much talking about their words that they spoke, the 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.120 word of God that they spoke. But then he says 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.600 something really powerful. That's what I want to teach on today. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.760 Somebody shall copy that. Put it in the chat right now. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:49.280 Copy that. That's what they say on a walkie talkie 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.960 right copy that. It means I heard it, I've got it. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.879 I'm on it. You see these security people around our 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:01.040 church keeping you safe. Thank God for them. If you 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.080 knew how crazy some Christians are, you'd be clapping better 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:13.679 than that for the security team. But they say it 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.120 all the time I copy that, go, I assume Row 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:22.800 four copy that. And I wanted to call the sermon 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.919 that because that which you copy is that what you become. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.399 That which you believe is that what you become. And 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.560 so when he says, remember your leaders who spoke the 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.439 word of God to you, there are a lot of 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.639 words that were spoken to you and over you and 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.600 about you that have to be uprooted before the word 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.040 that God spoke about you can be planted. Now, remember 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.919 the Hebrews have not been a part of Christianity for 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.320 too millennium like we have, So they haven't had two 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.760 thousand years to get used to the idea that we 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.640 are justified by faith, not worse, it's all new to them. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.320 They have not had two thousand years to get used 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.359 to the fact that it is by grace you have 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.040 been saved through faith. It's not the blood that a 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.800 high priest takes. And remember I talked about this last week, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.679 that they serve in a tabernacle that is an earthly 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.520 copy of a heavenly reality. But even Moses, as holy 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.160 as he was, as important as he was, as amazing 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.080 as he was, only Moses could only lead them so far, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.560 and In the middle of this, he gives them an instruction. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:40.879 As he concludes his letter, he says, consider the outcome 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:47.240 of their way of life and imitate their faith, or 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:53.280 in other words, copy that can I preach. If y'all 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.520 have had enough, I'll go eat some Keto pancakes and chill. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.399 But the Lord said to me, first of all, consider 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.760 the outcome. And that hard to do when really what 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.800 you're seeing all day long in people's lives is you're 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.720 seeing just what I called it last week, a snapshot. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.040 Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.800 their faith. So question I've been thinking about is the 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.680 way of life that I am choosing producing the outcome 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:32.160 that I desire? Is the way of life that I'm 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:39.080 choosing producing the outcome that I desire? We need more 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:51.480 leaders in the world today, less opinions. We need more leaders, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:59.960 less influencers. Oh yeah, oh yeah. This is the part 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.640 to my sermon where I am a crotchety old man 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.880 telling you that what you are seeing on your real 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.520 r E E L is not real R E A L. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.800 This is the God's honest truth. The writer of Hebrews said, 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.800 imitate their faith. But we live in a time where 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:34.679 we are imitating their faith. So consider the outcome. I 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.679 wonder what happened five minutes after they took that picture. 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.200 I wonder what happened five minutes after they posted that. 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.040 I mean just five minutes, not five years. Let's talk 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:50.119 about five minutes after one day in church. I was 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.320 so sick of like preachers, always trying to be perfect. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.880 Me and my family we wake up every morning quote Ephesians, 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.320 pray and sing the Beatitude. And I said, let me 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.200 show you what this family is really like, and showed 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.200 one of our Christmas videos that was so beautiful and 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:04.240 welcome elevation and made it unto you as a child 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.280 is born and a savior this day in the city 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.240 of David that the Xavier as the country Chrystlier. And 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:14.240 then I showed the outtakes, and Holly Ferdick was one 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.119 step short of having to be bleeped what she was 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:22.639 saying to those kids in those outtakes. So watch this 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:28.480 outcome outtakes. Nobody is showing you their outtakes. You are imitating. 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:30.639 Now I gotta get this across. I don't careful I 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.480 have to say it every week for then I'll be 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.560 up here seventy five years old, dragging my right leg 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:41.800 behind me, talking about what you're copying is cropped. It 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.960 is only showing you so much. And a lot of 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.800 the people that we are emulating and imitating and talking 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.720 like and captioning like. And you know what's the weirdest thing. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:55.600 I thought we as parents were supposed to set an 0:22:55.640 --> 0:23:00.119 example for our kids. But now I see grown men 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:11.240 and women trying to talk like a kid, and it's cringey, y'all, 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:16.320 it's cringey. It's cringey when you're a dad of three 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:18.679 and you're still trying to show you got it. You 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.920 got game. You know what you got, You got dependence, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.560 you got bills to pay, you got a mortgage. Grow 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:32.639 up man, that's over. When I became a man, I 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.200 put away childish things. Now I'm not talking about not 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.639 having fun. I'm the goofiest dude in the world. But 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.440 what I'm saying is a lot of times like Romans 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.479 twelve to two is my favorite verse to explain this. 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.280 It says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.919 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.520 a lot of people will make the distinction between the 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.600 pattern of this world and the renewing of your mind. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:24:00.840 But really in the text, the juice of it is 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:08.320 intwo different words. It's conform transform. Conform is something you 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.800 can change, just like an attitude or a posture. Transform 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:17.160 is different. Transform is something that has to happen because 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:21.399 of what's on the inside. So since you have Christ 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.080 inside of you, now remember you're not serving that a 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:26.080 tabernacle built with human hands. You don't have a high 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:28.320 priest that was selected from among men. You are not 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.399 serving a shadow or a copy. You have a risen 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:34.679 Savior who set an example for you so that you 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:38.480 can copy that. And since that is in you, the 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.560 spirit of God is in you, not the spirit of 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:45.159 the world, not the spirit of worry, the spirit of 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:49.840 the world. You get to reproduce that because it's on 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:56.000 the inside, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:00.880 So what's in you has to come out. And that's 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:04.320 why the writer of Hebrew says, remember the word of 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:09.959 God that was spoken to you, and copy that in 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:14.280 your heart, and copy that in your life. Oh, I 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.600 forgot to read you the verse after that. I really 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:18.560 truly forgot. This is not a little thing. I'm doing 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:24.000 in my sermon. Verse eight says, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:28.840 and forever. So, he says, remember the leaders who spoke 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.680 the word of God over you, consider the outcome, how 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.400 it worked out for them. And we use all kinds 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:39.639 of excuses for bad examples. And so we'll do the 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:42.560 same dumb things that we saw growing up. And this 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:44.399 is what we'll tag it with at the end. And 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:50.080 look at me. I turned out all right, did you though? 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:57.359 Did you really? Because maybe it just hadn't caught up 0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:59.960 with you yet, Like, well, I don't cost it my kid. 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:02.560 My dad did it too, and it was good for me. 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:08.360 I turned out all right. I don't think. I don't 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.840 think you're all right. I'm watching it right now. I'm 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:13.240 seeing there's a little bit of a wound, just a 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:19.160 little bit of a wound, just a little something. How 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:24.000 do you copy what you never saw? And he said, 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:28.480 Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. So 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:33.760 like the devil isn't very creative, God is a creator. 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:39.880 The devil is not. The devil is so uncreative, everybody, 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:45.000 how uncreative is he? He's so uncreative that he only 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:50.240 has three temptations. That's the only way he can tempt you. First, 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:53.480 John says, the lust of the world, the lust of 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:56.160 the flesh, and the pride of life, lust of the eyes. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:58.520 This is the love of the world. I messed that up. 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.800 I'm gonna do this again. The love of the world 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:05.240 is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:08.840 and the pride of life. Go to Matthew chapter four. 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.320 We said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:16.520 and a lot of time times we think we're facing 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:20.760 a brand new temptation, but we're not. It's just the 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:28.199