Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is.
Speaker 1: Moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 2: Welcome to our family all over the world, our efam,
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Speaker 1: Hey, how you going?
Speaker 2: Tell the kids to be quiet, Tell them you need
Speaker 2: some peace and undistracted space for God to speak. For
Speaker 2: all of you who made it out today in person, Welcome, Welcome, is.
Speaker 1: So good to see you.
Speaker 2: Oh big hat, A big hat to each and every
Speaker 2: one of you.
Speaker 1: I am excited.
Speaker 2: I would ask that you remain standing for just about
Speaker 2: ninety more seconds because I want to read my scripture
Speaker 2: and I want you alert and ready for what the
Speaker 2: Lord is going to speak from his word to you today.
Speaker 1: How many are excited? Oh boy?
Speaker 2: I used to when I was a rookie pastor get
Speaker 2: depressed if it was raining outside when we were coming
Speaker 2: to church, or rainy because we are kind of fair
Speaker 2: weather sometimes, and it doesn't take much to convince us
Speaker 2: not to come to church. And I used to think, oh, no, well,
Speaker 2: the people won't be there today, and then one day
Speaker 2: a switch flip for me. On the days where it's
Speaker 2: a little rainy, the people who really want to be
Speaker 2: there come and you can have some amazing, amazing experiences.
Speaker 2: So just look at your neighbor and say extra credit
Speaker 2: for real. It's probably beautiful somewhere where you are, but
Speaker 2: here we are together. Week five of a series called Ghostwriter.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the holy ghosts.
Speaker 2: When the Holy ghost gets a hold of you, there's
Speaker 2: no telling what you're liable to do. So don't be
Speaker 2: surprised today if you feel like shouting when I start preaching,
Speaker 2: or if a tear hits your eye and God speaks
Speaker 2: to you, we welcome the spirit of the Lord. I'm
Speaker 2: going to be sharing from Acts chapter four, verses twenty
Speaker 2: three through thirty one. This is a very practical message.
Speaker 2: I pray that God would surgically remove, rebuild, and insert
Speaker 2: whatever it is that He sees fit in your life today. Amen,
Speaker 2: Acts chapter four, verse twenty.
Speaker 1: Three through twenty one.
Speaker 2: And if you were here last week, you have a
Speaker 2: head start, because this is the very next thing that
Speaker 2: happens after the great miracle that we preached about last week,
Speaker 2: where I told you places everyone places everyone, And now
Speaker 2: we continue in a different place. In Acts, chapter four,
Speaker 2: verse twenty three, the Bible says, on their release, Peter
Speaker 2: and John went back to their own people and reported
Speaker 2: all that the chief priests and the elders had said
Speaker 2: to them. And when they heard this, they raised their
Speaker 2: voices together in prayer to God.
Speaker 1: Sovereign Lord. They said, you made.
Speaker 2: The heavens and the earth, and the sea and everything
Speaker 2: in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the
Speaker 2: mouth of your servant, our Father David. Why do the
Speaker 2: nation's rage and the people's plot in vain the kings
Speaker 2: of the earth do rise up the rulers band together
Speaker 2: against the Lord and against his anointed one. Indeed, Herod
Speaker 2: and Ponscious Pilot met together with the gentiles and the
Speaker 2: people of Israel in this city to conspire against your
Speaker 2: Holy Sols, Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your
Speaker 2: power and will had.
Speaker 1: Decided beforehand should happen.
Speaker 2: Now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable your servants to
Speaker 2: speak your word with great boldness, stretch out your hand
Speaker 2: and heal and perform signs and wonders through the name
Speaker 2: of your Holy servant Jesus. And after they prayed, Verse
Speaker 2: thirty one says the place where they were meeting was
Speaker 2: shaken and they were all filled with the Holy ghost
Speaker 2: and spoke the word of God boldly.
Speaker 1: Let's clap our hands and thank God for his word.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about something today, very important.
Speaker 2: The name of this message is this cutting room. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about the place called
Speaker 2: the cutting room.
Speaker 1: The cutting room.
Speaker 2: Some stuff that needs to be taken out, some stuff
Speaker 2: that needs to be added back in, and it all
Speaker 2: happens in the cutting room. That's where God has had
Speaker 2: you lately. In the cutting room. You were confused about it.
Speaker 2: You thought the story was over. It's not over. You're
Speaker 2: just in the cutting room. And Father, I pray that
Speaker 2: you would enable me like you enabled them in Acts
Speaker 2: chapter four, to speak your word boldly, no fear or nerves,
Speaker 2: only a desire to serve your people so that they
Speaker 2: may be built up for the very thing you've called
Speaker 2: them to do.
Speaker 1: I claim it now in Jesus' name, and I thank
Speaker 1: you for it.
Speaker 2: In advance. Amen, Amen, you may be seated. The cutting room.
Speaker 2: They took that term from back in the day when
Speaker 2: they were making a movie. They used to actually use
Speaker 2: razor blades and surgical instruments when they were taking the
Speaker 2: film and making it shorter, or if they were moving
Speaker 2: the order of the scenes around, and of course the
Speaker 2: director would go into the cutting room. It had to
Speaker 2: be a certain physical place. Now it's all digital. Now
Speaker 2: they've got software on the computer, like final Cut Pro.
Speaker 2: Isn't that what's called? Yeah, Final cut Pro, And you
Speaker 2: can do it all on your computer. But of course
Speaker 2: when you would do it physically and snipet and get
Speaker 2: the scissors or the razor blades or whatever they would use,
Speaker 2: you would go in a special room that was for it.
Speaker 2: And they even say this needs to hit the cutting
Speaker 2: room floor. And of course they didn't leave it on
Speaker 2: the floor. Actually, if it was an important movie, they'd
Speaker 2: pick those scenes up, put them in a canister and
Speaker 2: save them. Anyway, it's just a phrase, the cutting room.
Speaker 2: And as I thought about that, I thought about how
Speaker 2: I probably need to go to the cutting room more
Speaker 2: before I preach my sermons to you, Like, yeah, they're
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 1: Long, brother, you could, you could, definitely.
Speaker 2: I never have a hard time figuring out something to
Speaker 2: say to you on Sundays. I just don't. The Bible
Speaker 2: is awesome. God is awesome, and he wants to help you,
Speaker 2: so he gives me stuff. Is what the cut that
Speaker 2: really kills me? After I preach, I don't go back
Speaker 2: usually and regret things I said. I regret things. Ah,
Speaker 2: I should have said that.
Speaker 1: And so the.
Speaker 2: Cutting room, it can bring clarity to a story. It
Speaker 2: can make a story move along. It can keep a
Speaker 2: character consistent. You know, you might go in the cutting
Speaker 2: room and say, you know, this is a good scene,
Speaker 2: but it really doesn't fit with the character, so we
Speaker 2: got to get it out of there the cutting room.
Speaker 2: And I think one of the most stressful things in
Speaker 2: the world would have been if you were writing a
Speaker 2: book of the Bible as a human being God's word
Speaker 2: and you had to decide what to leave in and
Speaker 2: what to take out. Because like the Book of Acts
Speaker 2: where we've been studying, it's about the birth of the church.
Speaker 2: Very important story. How many agreed this is a very
Speaker 2: important story. This is how the Gospel got out of
Speaker 2: one little place in the world and came to us.
Speaker 1: Today, So what do you put in? What do you
Speaker 1: leave out?
Speaker 2: And Luke, who wrote this book is a doctor, so
Speaker 2: he's surgical, so he has to get his scissors out,
Speaker 2: you know, and make decisions about what to include, what
Speaker 2: to remove. And you could almost see him arguing with himself.
Speaker 2: And you know, I got to put that part in
Speaker 2: about when they brought Paul the handkerchiefs and people were
Speaker 2: getting healed off of Paul's handkerchiefs. That part is awesome.
Speaker 2: I am totally putting that in. And they put in
Speaker 2: a lot of the miracles, and the Holy Spirit had
Speaker 2: certain miracles included in the Bible, the Holy Bible, so
Speaker 2: that you and I could increase our own faith. I
Speaker 2: don't believe the miracles in the Bible are simply a
Speaker 2: history lesson. They are meant to inspire your faith for
Speaker 2: your life and your walk with God today. I believe
Speaker 2: God is still moving and I believe that this story
Speaker 2: is still being written, so.
Speaker 1: The miracles are important.
Speaker 2: I'm glad for the miracle that we read about last week.
Speaker 2: Last week we read about a man who was sitting
Speaker 2: at a gate called beautiful, and his situation was anything
Speaker 2: but He's sitting at a gate called beautiful not because
Speaker 2: he's resting, but because he's restricted, And it.
Speaker 1: Gave us hope because he got up.
Speaker 2: From that gate and became in himself a message that
Speaker 2: God used to teach people what.
Speaker 1: Jesus can do.
Speaker 2: Did you know God wants to turn your life into
Speaker 2: a message to show those who are looking at your life,
Speaker 2: how miraculous, how awesome and magnificent, how all encompassing the
Speaker 2: grace of God is. So I'm thankful that he left miracles.
Speaker 1: In the Bible. But I'm also grateful that.
Speaker 2: He left some mistakes in there too, the times where
Speaker 2: they didn't get it right, because the miracles give me faith,
Speaker 2: but the mistakes helped me understand grace. So if you
Speaker 2: read the whole Book of Acts, you got Peter and
Speaker 2: Paul are fighting over circumcision.
Speaker 1: What a great church fight.
Speaker 2: I get criticized over a lot of things, but I
Speaker 2: never saw a YouTube comment about circumcision at elevation ministries.
Speaker 2: And I will probably get one now, and that's all right,
Speaker 2: we'll block it, but YouTube might block it automatically. I
Speaker 2: got to stay on my prompt here today.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that they left some of that stuff in.
Speaker 1: You know, the times where I don't know. One man
Speaker 1: he lied.
Speaker 2: To the Holy Spirit and he died from it. Because
Speaker 2: that encourages me to know, like, oh, thank God that
Speaker 2: I don't have to lie to God. I can be honest,
Speaker 2: and my honest living brings more life. I'm grateful for
Speaker 2: the mistakes being left in there, because even the main
Speaker 2: characters that I read about in the Book of Acts
Speaker 2: messed up pretty bad in their past. Also, you'll see
Speaker 2: where the writer of Acts includes the message itself that
Speaker 2: was preached. So you've got miracles, you got mistakes, you
Speaker 2: got the message.
Speaker 1: And that's where I get the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: That the gospel of Jesus Christ is not come to
Speaker 2: him and buy a lottery ticket because you'll for sure
Speaker 2: win after you've received favor with God. That the message
Speaker 2: of the Gospel isn't come to him and go to
Speaker 2: heaven one day when you die. It is that by
Speaker 2: repenting and believing in Him, we can have life in
Speaker 2: His name right now. So I'm grateful that it includes,
Speaker 2: like you'll see many times in the Book of Acts,
Speaker 2: they say and Peter preached this, and Peter preached that,
Speaker 2: and he preached about repentance, and change and believe and resurrection,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad for that. But today we come to
Speaker 2: something that I'm very glad that was left in and
Speaker 2: I know you are too, because not only do we
Speaker 2: need to see miracles, not only do we need to
Speaker 2: see mistakes. Not only do we need to hear the message,
Speaker 2: but we need to know the method, and that is this,
Speaker 2: when I'm under attack, whether it's an emotional attack, a
Speaker 2: physical attack, whether it is a social attack, whether I
Speaker 2: feel it in my finances or in my body or
Speaker 2: just in my mind, how do I respond to that
Speaker 2: rather than react to that when I feel the pressure
Speaker 2: of the world on me, it helps me to read
Speaker 2: things like we just read from Acts, chapter four, verse
Speaker 2: twenty three thirty one, because these believers are under attack,
Speaker 2: not the kind of thing we call an attack either,
Speaker 2: not where somebody cut us off in traffic. Did you
Speaker 2: see what the devil just did to me? That wasn't
Speaker 2: the devil, That was just a Honda Civic. And the
Speaker 2: devil has the devil has much better vehicles to mess
Speaker 2: with you than a Honda Civic.
Speaker 1: That's not a temptation. That's called traffic.
Speaker 2: It happens to everybody, good, bad, saved tense, Skinny Tall.
Speaker 2: All of us deal with it at various stages of
Speaker 2: our life. But what we're really talking about here is,
Speaker 2: remember they did something good.
Speaker 1: Peter and John Wright.
Speaker 2: They see this man, they help him up, They helped him,
Speaker 2: and then, in trying to do good, trying to be helpful,
Speaker 2: instead of being rewarded for their helpfulness, they are hit
Speaker 2: for being helpful.
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like you got hit for trying
Speaker 1: to be helpful? You ever felt like you stepped in.
Speaker 2: To try to say something helpful to somebody and then
Speaker 2: they just attacked you for saying it and you just thought, well,
Speaker 2: I was just trying to help and they says something
Speaker 2: back like, well, why don't you help yourself and get
Speaker 2: your own kids straight before you start telling.
Speaker 1: Me how to parent. Mind now, maybe you needed to
Speaker 1: hear that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe that's exactly what they should have
Speaker 2: said back.
Speaker 1: But in this case, watch this.
Speaker 2: They are trying their best to just be helpful and
Speaker 2: they end up in jail, and not only in jail,
Speaker 2: kept overnight, but they are.
Speaker 3: Ragged out, publicly humiliated.
Speaker 2: In front of everybody, told that they are not allowed
Speaker 2: to speak anymore in the name of Jesus, and the
Speaker 2: Bible says they responded by saying, we must obey God
Speaker 2: rather than men. That's a good word for somebody all
Speaker 2: by itself, and it's not even my scripture for today.
Speaker 1: But Peter and.
Speaker 2: John said, I've got to do what God said do.
Speaker 2: I've got to do what the one who has the
Speaker 2: power to judge said to do, not the one who
Speaker 2: thinks they're a judge telling me what they think I
Speaker 2: should do. And then the Bible says that they went back,
Speaker 2: and we pick up in verse twenty three. They went
Speaker 2: back on their release to their own people and reported
Speaker 2: all that the chief priests and the elders had said.
Speaker 1: To them. Now I wonder what they share.
Speaker 2: Because it's a little vague right here, and so Luke
Speaker 2: doesn't take the time to say and they told him this,
Speaker 2: and they told him that, and then Peter said, and
Speaker 2: I told him we must obey God rather than men.
Speaker 2: And John was like, no, I had that line. That
Speaker 2: was my line. I said we must obey God rather
Speaker 2: than men. And Peter's like, well, I'm the one who
Speaker 2: told you to say it, and I just let you
Speaker 2: say it so you could have a speaking part. Who
Speaker 2: knows They don't talk about all of that, but they
Speaker 2: tell them what the chief priest have said to them,
Speaker 2: and they said, they told us we can't preach anymore
Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus. So now I want to
Speaker 2: take what they did, and I want to teach it
Speaker 2: from the subject of the cutting room, because they have
Speaker 2: a decision to make right now, and so do you.
Speaker 2: Am I going to allow my life to be led
Speaker 2: and limited by what the enemy told me? Or am
Speaker 2: I going to allow the director of this film to
Speaker 2: decide which scene happens next. For everybody who is in
Speaker 2: a transition, for everybody who is in a season of
Speaker 2: your life that feels uncertain, you can relate to these disciples.
Speaker 1: They are shaking with fear.
Speaker 2: They are certainly, in their own way, a little bit
Speaker 2: confused because I thought God wanted us to preach, but
Speaker 2: he let us get thrown in jail. I thought we
Speaker 2: were doing what we're supposed to do, but it went
Speaker 2: backwards instead of forwards. There are great results from what
Speaker 2: we're doing, but there is also great resistance. So if
Speaker 2: you are confused, join me and Peter and John and
Speaker 2: these levers in the cutting room where we can see
Speaker 2: what God wants you to keep in where we can
Speaker 2: see what God wants you to integrate, where we can
Speaker 2: see what God wants you to emphasize, where we can
Speaker 2: see what God wants you to eliminate, Where we can
Speaker 2: see which numbers in your phone are.
Speaker 1: Keeping you numb.
Speaker 2: Because those people are no longer supposed to be your support.
Speaker 1: System, but you keep running back to them. After one am, we're.
Speaker 2: Going to delete some stuff today. We are going to
Speaker 2: delete some scenes so you can see the good things
Speaker 2: God has prepared for you. Join me in the cutting
Speaker 2: room and we'll use three points, and I have a
Speaker 2: bonus point, but we probably won't get to it, and
Speaker 2: you'll be frustrated because I shouldn't even have told you
Speaker 2: about it if I was just going.
Speaker 1: To cut it. The points go like this, Number one.
Speaker 2: The review, the review, the review, write it down, the review,
Speaker 2: put it in the chat, put it in the comments,
Speaker 2: the review, the review, the review, the review, write it down.
Speaker 2: We gave you a free pin. Don't steal it, not
Speaker 2: use it. Write it down the review, the review. Number two,
Speaker 2: the reframe. That's the one I'm excited about. So don't
Speaker 2: shout much about the review, because we need to get
Speaker 2: to the.
Speaker 1: Reframe, the reframe, the reframe.
Speaker 2: Zoom the camera out, Zoom the why the reframe, zoom
Speaker 2: it in the reframe, Zoom the camera out, the reframe,
Speaker 2: the reframe, the reframe, not the reframe, not like refeeding
Speaker 2: it over and over again, but the reframe.
Speaker 1: And number three is the release. The release.
Speaker 2: It seems strange that I put that last, because the
Speaker 2: scripture started with these words verse twenty three. On their release,
Speaker 2: Peter and John went back to their own people. But
Speaker 2: that was the first release, and I'm going to explain
Speaker 2: that to you in just a moment.
Speaker 1: First, we talk about the review. The review.
Speaker 2: Is so amazing that we get to see these characters
Speaker 2: go through horrible things because we get to bend a
Speaker 2: from their experience and glean wisdom from it. I told
Speaker 2: my wife the other day, one of my favorite things
Speaker 2: about being only slightly young.
Speaker 1: I don't call myself.
Speaker 2: Oh one of the one of my favorite things about
Speaker 2: this sweet spot of life that we are in right
Speaker 2: now in terms of our age.
Speaker 1: That's how I choose to see.
Speaker 2: It, is that I get the privilege now to go
Speaker 2: back and revisit experiences that I've had, not only for
Speaker 2: the sake of feeling the memories of them.
Speaker 1: But one of my favorite things about my.
Speaker 2: Forties so far is getting to go back to myself
Speaker 2: in my twenties my thirties and relive those experiences with
Speaker 2: a better perspective, with a better perspective. Say it better perspective,
Speaker 2: and now nudge your neighbor and you might make them mad,
Speaker 2: but say you need a better.
Speaker 1: Perspective, because if you go go back, watch this to.
Speaker 2: A previous experience with a better perspective, you can get
Speaker 2: a fresh lesson. That is a formula for spiritual growth,
Speaker 2: is that if you revisit a previous experience with a
Speaker 2: better perspective, you can glean from it, to use an
Speaker 2: agricultural term, a fresh lesson. And the fresh lesson that
Speaker 2: came from the better perspective through a revisited experience can
Speaker 2: be used going forward in your life. And in this way,
Speaker 2: every regret you have is redeemable because revisiting that experience
Speaker 2: with a better perspective will give you a fresh lesson
Speaker 2: and you will see that it was something seven years
Speaker 2: ago that you blamed on the other person. But what
Speaker 2: you blamed on the other person might have only been
Speaker 2: fifteen percent them. It might have been eighty five percent
Speaker 2: what they tapped into that reminded you of somebody who's
Speaker 2: not even in your life anymore.
Speaker 1: Once you begin this process of.
Speaker 2: Going back over your life with God, you will never
Speaker 2: be the same. And that's what happened in Acts four
Speaker 2: twenty three. Watch this on their release? Am I not
Speaker 2: preaching good already? On my first point? I feel like
Speaker 2: I am on their release. Peter and John they got
Speaker 2: out of jail. But here's what matters. When you go
Speaker 2: to the cutting room of your life to evaluate why
Speaker 2: did that happen, what needs to happen next? What am
Speaker 2: I going to do about it? Did you hear what
Speaker 2: they said? How am I going to respond to this?
Speaker 2: When you are released from a situation, when you are
Speaker 2: between situations, when you are reevaluating situations, when you go
Speaker 2: in the cutting room, who is in there with you?
Speaker 2: The Bible says that Peter and John went back to
Speaker 2: their own people. This is not an ethnic statement, this
Speaker 2: is not a gender statement. This is a statement about
Speaker 2: the belief of the people that they needed to be
Speaker 2: around at that moment. And I don't know about you,
Speaker 2: but when I process my life, I need to be
Speaker 2: around believers. I had enough done conversations with doubters, skeptics,
Speaker 2: cynics that told me to tell them off, and I
Speaker 2: told them off, and I lost my job and you
Speaker 2: still got yours. So the cutting room as we see
Speaker 2: it today is not only about a place, but it
Speaker 2: is about the people that influence you. And isn't it
Speaker 2: amazing that they took the raw footage of what had
Speaker 2: just happened to them and converted it into a revelation?
Speaker 2: Did you know the Holy Spirit will help you do
Speaker 2: that to take the raw footage. One of my favorite
Speaker 2: documentaries of all time, My favorite movie of all time
Speaker 2: is a documentary about a band. I will not say
Speaker 2: the name of the band because some of you would
Speaker 2: criticize me for being worldly, and you would be right.
Speaker 2: And I love the band and I love the documentary.
Speaker 2: It's two hours long. I got so obsessed about the documentary,
Speaker 2: which is already a movie about a process. Okay, clarify
Speaker 2: that that I read a book about the documentary. So
Speaker 2: now I'm reading something about how something got made that
Speaker 2: was made to tell how something else got made.
Speaker 1: That's how much I like it.
Speaker 2: In my reading, I discovered that for this two hour documentary,
Speaker 2: there were over sixteen hundred hours of footage captured over
Speaker 2: the course of two years.
Speaker 1: So get this, they.
Speaker 2: Had to take two years of footage and make it
Speaker 2: fit in two hours. That's when I realized the importance
Speaker 2: of a cutting room. Nobody he's gonna watch sixteen hundred hours.
Speaker 2: I don't care, I don't care how much of a
Speaker 2: binger you are. Nobody is going to sort through that.
Speaker 2: And if that same raw footage watch this were given
Speaker 2: to me or I dare say to you, we probably
Speaker 2: could not have produced an award winning film out of it.
Speaker 2: But the person who went in the cutting room and decided.
Speaker 1: This scene here, this scene there, this has to set.
Speaker 2: Up that that person, the director, the one who employed
Speaker 2: the people who technically edited it, was able to take
Speaker 2: sixteen hundred hours over the course of two years of footage,
Speaker 2: put it in one movie and edit it down to.
Speaker 1: Tell a story that was compelling.
Speaker 2: And while you are looking at me like, yeah, that
Speaker 2: sounds challenging, please realize you do this every day.
Speaker 1: Every day you have twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Twenty four hours is one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes.
Speaker 1: So says chat GPT.
Speaker 2: In those fourteen one hundred and forty minutes, you experience
Speaker 2: some highs, don't you. You experience some good things, don't you.
Speaker 2: You experience some blessings, don't you. You have some bursts
Speaker 2: of insight, You feel kind of clear, you feel kind
Speaker 2: of smart, you feel kind of loving, you feel kind
Speaker 2: of joyful some minutes. But some of those remaining fourteen
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty nine minutes left over might be a
Speaker 2: little effy, and some of them might be downright horrible.
Speaker 1: But yet, when it comes down to you coming home.
Speaker 2: Especially if you're a teenager, and they ask you how
Speaker 2: was your day, you are able to take one thousand,
Speaker 2: four hundred and forty minutes of highs, lows, goods, bads, yeses, no's,
Speaker 2: and condense it into one barely audible word good bad,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: But it was much more than good bad or al right.
Speaker 1: It was some good, It was some bad. It was
Speaker 1: some alright.
Speaker 2: And I found out that what kind of day you
Speaker 2: think you have depends on who you had helping you
Speaker 2: edit when you.
Speaker 1: Reflect on it.
Speaker 2: That's why the Psalmas said, this is the day the
Speaker 2: Lord has made.
Speaker 1: I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute, will is a decision about something
Speaker 2: that hasn't happened yet. So he is deciding in the
Speaker 2: Psalm that the story I want to tell at the
Speaker 2: end of this day is that God made it. Everybody
Speaker 2: say God made it. That means he's the director of it.
Speaker 2: And that means there will be some scenes in this
Speaker 2: day that I wish I could cut, and He'll say, no,
Speaker 2: leave that one in because that's the mistake that's going
Speaker 2: to teach you the grace. And there are some seeds
Speaker 2: in this day that you won't even.
Speaker 1: Know to look for. But God will just give you
Speaker 1: a miracle.
Speaker 2: You'll just be sitting at the gate begging for change,
Speaker 2: and God will send somebody to give you something you
Speaker 2: didn't even have the faith to ask for. And God
Speaker 2: will put that in your script in the day that
Speaker 2: you were waking up wondering, I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a good day or a bad day. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now, it's not gonna be
Speaker 2: either kind of day. But you have some scissors. See,
Speaker 2: you have some scissors. Your scissors. I'm talking about editing. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about your scissors. I'm talking about your mind.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about your soul. I'm talking about your emotions.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about who you process with. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: you making a decision in your life. I will not
Speaker 2: process in my head any longer, because every time I
Speaker 2: edit in my head, every time I try to make
Speaker 2: sense out of my life in my head, it ends
Speaker 2: in the death of something that I love, kill relationships
Speaker 2: because you make edits in your head. They didn't do
Speaker 2: anything for me for Mother's Day. I'm getting out ahead
Speaker 2: of this one, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a little, a little prepaid tuition here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't do anything for me for Mother's Day,
Speaker 2: or the other way around, you know, like, well my
Speaker 2: mom wasn't this and that. And I want you to
Speaker 2: understand about editing from the Disciples, that you are.
Speaker 1: Always editing and you need help.
Speaker 2: One person, like one tenth clapped when I said that.
Speaker 2: That was not even like a quarter clap. It was
Speaker 2: a ten percent clap from one person. But the truth
Speaker 2: of the matter is you need help editing because every
Speaker 2: time time you make an overgeneralized statement. And imagine the
Speaker 2: statement that the Disciples could have made here. They could
Speaker 2: have said this is unfair, and they would have been right.
Speaker 2: They could have said, we have God's favor and they
Speaker 2: would have been right. And what was important about this
Speaker 2: moment was not the event, but the intention of the author.
Speaker 1: The author is God.
Speaker 2: So they understand in this moment, we have got to
Speaker 2: get into a place where we can process. Everybody say,
Speaker 2: process your process a lot of times, and how you
Speaker 2: deal with the thing that just happened to you is
Speaker 2: more important than the thing that happened to you. You
Speaker 2: can have the best thing happened to you, but it
Speaker 2: can become a.
Speaker 1: Backfire if you process it without God. Because if you
Speaker 1: get a promotion and it turns into.
Speaker 3: Pride, the pride comes before a fall.
Speaker 2: So you'll go back and say, if I had given
Speaker 2: God more glory for what he did and leaned into
Speaker 2: him more than he could have sustained what he started,
Speaker 2: but I got high and thought I got there without God,
Speaker 2: and then life had.
Speaker 1: To pull me down because I got pride for what.
Speaker 2: I got high. Because any process that does not start
Speaker 2: with God is doomed. Any process that does not start
Speaker 2: with God is dead in the water. And that is
Speaker 2: why that is why they came together in this place
Speaker 2: to pray, and.
Speaker 1: That is why they reported they told us not to
Speaker 1: preach anymore. What's the enemy been telling you.
Speaker 2: He's been telling you you're not good enough to do this.
Speaker 1: He's been telling.
Speaker 2: You you've run out of time and it's too late
Speaker 2: for you in your life. He's been telling you you
Speaker 2: will never be free of this thing. Maybe that thing,
Speaker 2: not this thing. It's just what you're gonna pass down
Speaker 2: to your kids. You did the best you could, but
Speaker 2: give up now.
Speaker 1: There's no need even try. What has your enemy been
Speaker 1: telling you?
Speaker 2: I think we need to take the enemies words over
Speaker 2: your life to the cutting room. Stop saying I'm in
Speaker 2: a bad season. You are in a season, and some
Speaker 2: days are good and some days are bad. Sixteen hundred
Speaker 2: hours a footage into two.
Speaker 1: Hours, eleven hundred and eighty nine.
Speaker 2: Chapters in the Bible, and we get this entire prayer
Speaker 2: that they prayed, and we're going to look at it
Speaker 2: right now because it is going to help you edit now.
Speaker 2: There will always be somebody to help you edit what happens.
Speaker 1: To you in your life. When you start going through.
Speaker 2: Your life and say, okay, what am I going to
Speaker 2: do in this decision?
Speaker 1: How am I going to respond to this? You will
Speaker 1: always have help.
Speaker 2: The devil will always be there to help you, because
Speaker 2: he has scissors too.
Speaker 1: The devil will be there to take out.
Speaker 2: Every kind thing, every good thing, every lovely thing, every
Speaker 2: generous thing. He might even cut away some of the
Speaker 2: good stuff that you did to make you feel like
Speaker 2: you never do anything right, you ever had a good
Speaker 2: day with your kids, And then the last thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: The cutting room. I'm not talking about film editing right now.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about knives and violence and cutting room and
Speaker 2: blood and shouting and cursing a whole good vacation and
Speaker 2: then thirty minutes from the house, and then you start thinking.
Speaker 1: All the things I did for you.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is just parental therapy right now, and maybe
Speaker 2: I should be paying somebody for this time.
Speaker 1: But I noticed how sometimes the whole thing can go
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 2: And then something happens so bad, And when I lay
Speaker 2: me down to sleep, it's like the devil.
Speaker 1: Wants to turn my bed into a.
Speaker 2: Cutting room and just start slicing me with all the
Speaker 2: stuff that went wrong today, and just start slicing me
Speaker 2: with all of the ways that I failed, and start
Speaker 2: slicing me. And somewhere along the line, I have to
Speaker 2: stop the slicing and tell the devil.
Speaker 1: You are not here to help me edit.
Speaker 2: Get under my feet, I said, get under my feet.
Speaker 1: You're not the director, you're not the author. You are
Speaker 1: not financing this screenplay.
Speaker 2: You didn't make me, you didn't create me, you didn't
Speaker 2: die for me, and.
Speaker 1: You don't get to drive me crazy.
Speaker 2: Get your scissors out my spirits, Get your scissors out
Speaker 2: this room, Get your scissors out my mind.
Speaker 1: Oh I am so so so.
Speaker 2: I need help. Somebody's yeah, I need help. So much
Speaker 2: is coming at me. I can't figure out what to
Speaker 2: focus on. I need help. So much is coming and going.
Speaker 2: I'm confused so much. As being said, I don't know
Speaker 2: what's important. So many priorities are pulling at me. I
Speaker 2: need help. And just like the devil wants to help
Speaker 2: you at it, so does heaven. So does Heaven. So
Speaker 2: does the Holy Spirit. You thought the Holy Spirit was
Speaker 2: just a goose bump. You thought the Holy Spirit was
Speaker 2: just a good feeling. You thought the Holy Spirit was
Speaker 2: just a shot a mohanda kaaba.
Speaker 1: He could say the hell on a bozuka and abdo
Speaker 1: hold on. That's all good too, And we get all
Speaker 1: of it, and we do all of it, and we
Speaker 1: want all of it.
Speaker 2: But what about when the Holy Spirit brings some scissors? Yeah,
Speaker 2: is surgical with the enemy.
Speaker 1: Now, I can't I can't cut out what happened.
Speaker 2: But I can refuse to make it the definition of
Speaker 2: my identity.
Speaker 1: Hear me, I must.
Speaker 2: Say it again, because I don't think you heard it,
Speaker 2: or you would to shout it.
Speaker 1: It is not the definition of your identity. It is not.
Speaker 2: So so so so we talked about the review, and
Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is some of the things
Speaker 2: that we say about experience are just not true. We
Speaker 2: will say to people, oh, well, I'm sorry you're going
Speaker 2: through something right now, but don't you know.
Speaker 1: We grow through what we go through. No, we don't,
Speaker 1: not automatically. Not automatically.
Speaker 2: If that were true, why did you go through it
Speaker 2: fifteen nine and sixty three times last month?
Speaker 1: Grow through what you go through?
Speaker 2: Sometimes you go through something and then you create something
Speaker 2: else to go through to keep you distracted from what
Speaker 2: you went through that you've been going through for the
Speaker 2: left last thirty seven years.
Speaker 1: Don't lie to me you grew through it, you'd be
Speaker 1: through with it. Here is what is true.
Speaker 2: While we do not automatically grow through what we go through,
Speaker 2: we grow through what we go over with God. That's
Speaker 2: the process of review of review.
Speaker 1: I sit down.
Speaker 2: All the time, y'all, and I asked the question, God,
Speaker 2: what am I missing in this?
Speaker 1: God? How did I focus?
Speaker 2: Holl you remember the insult that somebody said to me
Speaker 2: the other day in a professional setting and we kept
Speaker 2: talking about it and they said one hundred thousand things
Speaker 2: nice to me in the same session and one thing
Speaker 2: that I was like. And then if you could see
Speaker 2: my cutting room, it's like I took this scene and
Speaker 2: zoomed all the way in and I framed it. Just
Speaker 2: push in on me real quick, because look, how now,
Speaker 2: why are you gonna be stuck in.
Speaker 1: Something like that? How was I doing it?
Speaker 2: All? Right?
Speaker 1: Back to normal shock.
Speaker 2: Because after the review comes what they're reframing, and this
Speaker 2: is what they prayed because they made a great decision, right.
Speaker 2: Peter and John are like, we don't know what to
Speaker 2: do next. How many feel like I don't know what
Speaker 2: to do next in the area of my life? Raise
Speaker 2: your hand, Okay, you need to go to the cutting room.
Speaker 2: How many of you feel like it wasn't fair what.
Speaker 1: Happened to you? Raise your hand? Yeah, do you need
Speaker 1: to go to the cutting room.
Speaker 2: How many of you feel like there's something in your
Speaker 2: life that you can't decide if it needs to be
Speaker 2: there any longer. But it served you in a season,
Speaker 2: but it feel like it's getting in the way now
Speaker 2: and you don't know what to do about it coming.
Speaker 2: How many of you need to prune some things that
Speaker 2: you said yes to yesterday that are making you pop
Speaker 2: pills today because you said yes to them yesterday. You
Speaker 2: need to go to the cutting room now. When you
Speaker 2: go to the cutting room, listen to me. Listen to
Speaker 2: me closely and carefully. Church, I got a word for
Speaker 2: you today. It is important that you review, and it
Speaker 2: is important who you review with, mostly with God. Reviewing
Speaker 2: it with God doesn't look like asking God to write
Speaker 2: something in the clouds check yes or no. Lord, that's
Speaker 2: what the girl did in fifth grade, not God. God
Speaker 2: is not your fifth grade hopeful girlfriend. God doesn't do
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff all the time. He does it sometimes,
Speaker 2: But typically what we do wrong is when we sit
Speaker 2: down to process the problem, we process the problem.
Speaker 1: And we start with the problem. And when we start
Speaker 1: with the problem.
Speaker 2: We never really get to God because by the time
Speaker 2: we've been through the problem, we're so exhausted, we don't
Speaker 2: even see God. We are so confused, we are so blinded,
Speaker 2: we are so taken, we are so sins driven, we
Speaker 2: don't even see God anymore. And we start saying, well,
Speaker 2: I don't see any way this can work. I guess
Speaker 2: you don't. Now you wasted all your vision looking at it.
Speaker 2: On their release, Peter and John went back to the
Speaker 2: room and they reported all that the chief priests and elders.
Speaker 1: Had said to them. Now, how long did that take?
Speaker 2: They told us not to speak anymore in the name
Speaker 2: of Jesus, and we told them we have to obey
Speaker 2: God rather than the men, and they let us go.
Speaker 2: They could have spent three hours talking about how much
Speaker 2: it saw, they could have spent They could have spent
Speaker 2: days talking about how it didn't seem right.
Speaker 1: And if you take your complaining into the cutting.
Speaker 2: Room, what kind of movie you think this is gonna be.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a horror movie.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a slasher film.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to scare you to death and
Speaker 2: keep you up at night if you start with that.
Speaker 1: But watch now, I need every person who's ever.
Speaker 2: Been pentecostal or wanted to be Pentecostal for fifteen seconds
Speaker 2: to get ready to shout when I show you this.
Speaker 2: On their release, Peter and John went back to their
Speaker 2: own people and reported all that the chief priest and elders.
Speaker 1: Had said to them. Do you think anybody in this
Speaker 1: room knows what they should? Do? You think anybody else
Speaker 1: in this room has had training for this?
Speaker 2: Do you think anybody in this room has the political
Speaker 2: power to stand down the.
Speaker 1: Entire Sanhedron, the religious ruling body of the day.
Speaker 2: No, but watch this in verse twenty four. When they
Speaker 2: heard this the attack. When they heard this the threat,
Speaker 2: when they heard this the message of the enemy. When
Speaker 2: they heard this verse twenty four, they raised their voices together.
Speaker 2: Don't leave the three hundred Pentecostal people alone.
Speaker 1: They raise their voice is together.
Speaker 2: I'm not done yet in prayer to God. That's the
Speaker 2: part to God, because right now, if you just attacked
Speaker 2: me for helping somebody, I want to attack you back.
Speaker 1: But I can't talk to you right now because I
Speaker 1: need to.
Speaker 2: Go above your pay grade to talk to the one
Speaker 2: who made you.
Speaker 1: I can't solve this on the level as started on.
Speaker 1: I gotta go higher. I want to give you. I
Speaker 1: gotta teach you. I want to give you.
Speaker 2: Two things that you need to do when you find
Speaker 2: yourself under attack, when you can't breathe because of it,
Speaker 2: when you can't see straight because of it, when you're
Speaker 2: so angry you want to do some stuff that you
Speaker 2: hadn't thought about doing in a long time, but.
Speaker 1: You feel it kind of coming back. When you're so sad.
Speaker 2: That you can't figure out how to get out of
Speaker 2: the bed.
Speaker 1: I want to teach you the reframe. Two things. One
Speaker 1: go wide, Go wide, Go wide. Did you see how
Speaker 1: they started their prayer.
Speaker 2: They didn't start praying about God that.
Speaker 1: One Sadducee, he was so mean to me.
Speaker 2: I pray he'll have hemorrhoids tonight so you can show
Speaker 2: him your judgment. None of that and not starting with
Speaker 2: hemorrhoids or the problem or any of that.
Speaker 1: He said, He said, sovereign.
Speaker 2: Sovereign doesn't mean a lot to us because we.
Speaker 1: Think we run stuff.
Speaker 2: Sovereign doesn't mean too much to us because you thought
Speaker 2: it was your story. But it's his story, and he's sovereign,
Speaker 2: and he made you, and he gave gifts.
Speaker 1: To men, and he stirred.
Speaker 2: Them, and he seated them, and he watered them, and
Speaker 2: he runs them, and he cuts back, and he cuts.
Speaker 1: Offt and he raises up and he brings south. He
Speaker 1: is the sovereign God.
Speaker 4: Oh here, yes, here, that's it.
Speaker 2: So start with sovereign. How find somebody say, start with sovereign.
Speaker 2: Needs some new words in your vocabulary. Needs some big
Speaker 2: words in your vocabulary, some king words in your vocabulary.
Speaker 2: Need some Goddess in charge. You're not words in your vocabulary.
Speaker 2: Leeds some big God words in your vocabulary. So for
Speaker 2: everybody who needs to, go why, give me a wide
Speaker 2: shot on the screen. Go why, and realize, I'm going
Speaker 2: to give you the statement that really helped me this week.
Speaker 2: I was processing some things and I was processing them
Speaker 2: without God, and it was really punishing me, and it
Speaker 2: was really beating me up, and I was really having
Speaker 2: a pity party. And it really felt good for about
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. And then you get sick of it because
Speaker 2: you realize you're really just cutting yourself when you complain.
Speaker 2: You realize that you're really just cutting yourself when you condemn,
Speaker 2: whether it's you or others, you're really just cutting yourself.
Speaker 2: So the Lord dropped this and I started saying this
Speaker 2: is bigger than me.
Speaker 1: Give me a white shot. This is bigger than me.
Speaker 2: See what all we saw that we didn't see before
Speaker 2: they did what they did. That's what prayer' is supposed
Speaker 2: to be. You have too narrow of a definition of prayer.
Speaker 2: You think prayer is God is great, God is good.
Speaker 1: Let us thinking for our food.
Speaker 2: God is not inextricably linked to your digestive process of
Speaker 2: turning French fries into protein plus us through to our bodies.
Speaker 2: That's too narrow for prayer. It's too narrow for prayer
Speaker 2: to pray before you have a big match. Oh God,
Speaker 2: help me win this. What if the other kid prayed
Speaker 2: that more, and what if he's better than you?
Speaker 1: You can pray that. But prayer is much more than that.
Speaker 2: Prayer is an awareness to say it, this is bigger
Speaker 2: than me. That's why they say, Sovereign Lord, and watch
Speaker 2: what they prayed next. Tell me this doesn't feel out
Speaker 2: of focus. Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens. WHOA, We're
Speaker 2: going all the way back, yeap, going all the way
Speaker 2: back to remember who the director is. We're going all
Speaker 2: the way back so we can rem remember the source
Speaker 2: material in the beginning was the and the word was
Speaker 2: with God.
Speaker 1: In the word was God.
Speaker 2: So I'm going back to the one who spoke the word,
Speaker 2: so I can fight the word that the enemy spoke
Speaker 2: with the word that was here before my enemy was
Speaker 2: a thought. So go why tell somebody? Go why this
Speaker 2: is bigger than me? Sometimes that means I'm just selfish.
Speaker 2: Just because I don't like it, doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 1: Not the Lord. I told you.
Speaker 2: It's a cutting room. Some of what we have to
Speaker 2: cut is some of the stuff that we.
Speaker 1: Cling to.
Speaker 2: That God wants us to grow out of to help
Speaker 2: somebody else. Waking up praying, God, just give me a
Speaker 2: blessing today. God, make me a blessing today. I've been
Speaker 2: blessed so much. You mean, all this he gave you,
Speaker 2: the devil will cut all that out, make you think
Speaker 2: you have nothing to give. Yes, you do, Yes, you
Speaker 2: do well. No, you do, Pastor Stephen, you preach these words. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you live the Gospel, and you can cook good
Speaker 2: corn bread. And sometimes corn bread is better than a
Speaker 2: Bible verse. If somebody's going through something, make some cornbread.
Speaker 2: Take it over to somebody. W's what happens. Because God
Speaker 2: has given you gifts, and the enemy wants to eliminate
Speaker 2: your gift consciousness.
Speaker 1: To keep you stuck in selfishness. Go why go Why?
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, give me a wide shot, A wide shot,
Speaker 2: A wide shot, so I don't get all zoomed in,
Speaker 2: zoomed in, zoom in, zoom in, zoom in, zoom and
Speaker 2: zoom and zoom in.
Speaker 1: Em No, no wide shot. Give me a wide shot.
Speaker 1: That's the reframe, you see it.
Speaker 2: And even if you find yourself in a situation right
Speaker 2: now where you feel like you are Peter and John
Speaker 2: up against the whole Sanhedrin, where you feel like you
Speaker 2: were up against an entire system, a boss that definitely
Speaker 2: is not going to watch this message online, a medical
Speaker 2: diagnosis that they don't even have, experimental stuff for things
Speaker 2: that go on inside of you that you can't label,
Speaker 2: much less learn from.
Speaker 1: Yet, even if that's.
Speaker 2: You today and you say this is bigger than me,
Speaker 2: say this is bigger than me, Remember how your prayer started.
Speaker 1: Sovereign Lauren, don't just go wide, go hi, Go high.
Speaker 1: Go high.
Speaker 2: To the most high, whose name is holy, forever and ever,
Speaker 2: go high until you are one with Jesus and joined
Speaker 2: with him who died for you, go high until you
Speaker 2: are so far above the situation with him that it
Speaker 2: starts to look small the next time you stand in
Speaker 2: front of it. This is bigger than me. I'm small
Speaker 2: compared to this. I'm too weak for this. I don't
Speaker 2: have what it takes for this. These bills are bigger
Speaker 2: than my check. Don't you understand this situation is bigger
Speaker 2: than my experience, or or my training, or my knowledge
Speaker 2: or my wisdom.
Speaker 1: Say this is.
Speaker 3: Bigger than me, but God is bigger than this.
Speaker 1: That's the Holy ghost to let you know.
Speaker 2: This is bigger than me, but God is bigger than this.
Speaker 2: You want a demonstration, I'll give you a demonstration. Abby,
Speaker 2: stand up, Abby, stand up next to mom. Abby standing
Speaker 2: next to mom. Now, Abby, say this is bigger than me.
Speaker 2: Say it again, this is bigger than me.
Speaker 1: Truth to power, this is bigger than me. This is
Speaker 1: bigger than me. But now let's say we do this.
Speaker 2: Now there's something bigger than bigger like, Oh, she's gonna
Speaker 2: tell you when they get home.
Speaker 1: She's not because I'm only talking about height. She's a
Speaker 1: way better person than me, and and more convincing.
Speaker 2: But if I give you a physical demonstration, maybe you
Speaker 2: can see something with your spirit that you do not
Speaker 2: understand with your mental facilities.
Speaker 1: Because to reframe.
Speaker 2: My situation is to acknowledge this is bigger than me.
Speaker 1: But God is bigger.
Speaker 3: Than this, than this, than this, I don't care what
Speaker 3: the this is.
Speaker 1: God is bigger than this.
Speaker 2: We need to re edit this movie and remember for
Speaker 2: a moment who the real.
Speaker 5: Director is, who really backed your life, who really started
Speaker 5: your life, who really gave you those experiences, who really
Speaker 5: gave you those skills. So I see you staring at
Speaker 5: a mountain, and I know the mountain looks immovable, But
Speaker 5: when you praise Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and
Speaker 5: the earth, you realize that while you've been staring at
Speaker 5: the mountain, you could have been talking to the one
Speaker 5: who made it.
Speaker 3: Because this is bigger than me. I'm not gonna pretend
Speaker 3: like I know what to do.
Speaker 1: This is bigger than me.
Speaker 2: But God on a rainy Sunday morning, But God in
Speaker 2: a hopeless situation.
Speaker 1: But God in the middle of my loneliness. But God in.
Speaker 2: The middle of the process, is bigger than this. Somebody
Speaker 2: say he's bigger man this serve notice he's bigger.
Speaker 1: He's bigger than this.
Speaker 3: That's how I know I'm coming out because God.
Speaker 2: Is bigger than this, and I'm coming out with a testimony.
Speaker 4: Gous die.
Speaker 1: What high? Five six people tell him.
Speaker 2: God's bigger than this, He's bigger than this.
Speaker 1: You don't know what my this is. I don't have to.
Speaker 2: God's bigger than this. God's bigger than what they said.
Speaker 2: God's bigger than what they didn't do. God's bigger than
Speaker 2: God's bigger than bipolar. God's bigger than depression. God's bigger
Speaker 2: than this. God's bigger than twitter. God's bigger than this.
Speaker 2: God's bigger than Ai. Not gonna wipe us out unless
Speaker 2: God wants us wiped out, And then if he wanted
Speaker 2: us wiped out, he just sent.
Speaker 1: Another flood knock. Tell us to put the giraffes on
Speaker 1: the boat. God is bigger than this. Stuff. Stressing about stuff,
Speaker 1: stupid stuff. Save your strength for stuff that God called
Speaker 1: you to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Reframe it.
Speaker 1: I'm going wide.
Speaker 2: I'm going high because this is bigger than me.
Speaker 1: But my God is bigger than this.
Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: I gotta get in the cutting room because Jesus said,
Speaker 2: every branch in me that bears fruit my father prunes
Speaker 2: so that it will be even more fruitful. Oh, it
Speaker 2: is unpleasant at times to be in the cutting room,
Speaker 2: but if you stay there long enough and really give
Speaker 2: it to God, watch what happens.
Speaker 1: They lifted their voices together in prayer to God, Sovereign Lord,
Speaker 1: you made the heavens, you made the earth.
Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus, and the sea and everything in them.
Speaker 6: Stuff I can't see. God can stuff I can't fix.
Speaker 6: God can stuff I can't fish out. God can stuff
Speaker 6: that I would drown in. God can save me from.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean when I say the reframe. Stop
Speaker 2: praying so much about the problem that you never get
Speaker 2: to the God of the problem.
Speaker 1: Go to the cutting room. God is the main character
Speaker 1: of this story. Not you, not me, not.
Speaker 2: Your ex, not the person who walked out, not even
Speaker 2: the people who stayed. God will support you. God will
Speaker 2: sustain you. God's hand is on you. God has anointed you,
Speaker 2: God has called you. God is with you. God is
Speaker 2: bigger than this. Even when you get a blessing, don't
Speaker 2: worship a blessing because God is bigger than this blessing.
Speaker 2: Ask the children of Israel who were fed with manna.
Speaker 2: They thought this is what God has given us. But
Speaker 2: when this disappeared, God had something else. Because God is
Speaker 2: bigger than this. If God cuts it out, he already
Speaker 2: knows what he's going to put in his place. God
Speaker 2: is bigger than this. He has a thousand ways to
Speaker 2: provide for you. He has one hundred ways to help you.
Speaker 2: He has a million ways to see you through it.
Speaker 2: Don't get picky about it right now. Let him prune
Speaker 2: what he needs to prune so you can be fruitful.
Speaker 1: This is a productive cut.
Speaker 2: The instrument of scissors is surgical in the hands of
Speaker 2: the Savior. It's masterful what he's doing in your life
Speaker 2: right now. And if you stay there long enough, and
Speaker 2: if you pray there high enough, and if you pray
Speaker 2: there wide enough, and say, God, I'm in this right now,
Speaker 2: but I know You're bigger than this, and this is
Speaker 2: bigger than me. When they heard this, they raised their
Speaker 2: voices and said, Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and
Speaker 2: the earth and everything in them. You spoke by the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David.
Speaker 2: What are we doing talking about David. He's been dead
Speaker 2: over a thousand years. Because I'm going wide I'm remembering
Speaker 2: this in the first time that this happened to somebody.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Church.
Speaker 2: What blessed me the most about the text was that
Speaker 2: after they quoted Psalm Too from David, Why do the
Speaker 2: nation's rage and the people's plot in vain? The kings
Speaker 2: of the earth rise up and the rulers spend together
Speaker 2: against the Lord and his anointed one. They revisit, See
Speaker 2: the power of it. Please see the power of it.
Speaker 2: I know I preached too long, and I know I
Speaker 2: should cut some stuff, but I just want to give
Speaker 2: it to you so you have something when you go
Speaker 2: back into your mind tonight.
Speaker 1: Indeed, verse twenty seven. Verse twenty seven, Herod.
Speaker 2: And Pontius Pilot met together with the gentiles.
Speaker 1: The gentiles didn't even know God. They met together with
Speaker 1: people who didn't even know.
Speaker 2: God, and the people of Israel in this city to
Speaker 2: conspire against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed. They
Speaker 2: did the enemy, they did the opponent. They did the
Speaker 2: ruler what your power and will had decided.
Speaker 1: They did what God decided.
Speaker 2: The devil can't do anything to you without going through
Speaker 2: God first.
Speaker 1: And this is the release.
Speaker 2: When you let go of control, when you let go
Speaker 2: of what you've been trying to keep in the story
Speaker 2: and focus on and this one scene you get stuck in,
Speaker 2: and this one thing you can't get over, and this
Speaker 2: one thing you won't let God remove.
Speaker 1: When you let go, Watch what happens when you release?
Speaker 2: God releases, when we release, he releases, what does he release?
Speaker 1: Watch this?
Speaker 2: They did what you had decided beforehand should happen. Verse
Speaker 2: twenty nine. Please, now Lord, everybody say now Lord, say
Speaker 2: it with some gusto, say.
Speaker 1: Now Lord, that's what happened back then.
Speaker 2: Now Lord, take me into the cutting room and consider
Speaker 2: their threats. And God, don't let this overwhelm me to
Speaker 2: the point that I become paralyzed by it. And don't
Speaker 2: let me keep repeating this same mistake for ten more years. Now, Lord,
Speaker 2: don't let me back down just because it's scary.
Speaker 1: Don't let me give up what I worked so hard.
Speaker 2: To get just because there's pressure with it. Don't let
Speaker 2: me faint along the way and be disqualified. Somebody shout,
Speaker 2: now Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to
Speaker 2: speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand
Speaker 2: to heal and perform signs and wonders. They're not playing defense,
Speaker 2: they're playing offense.
Speaker 1: It's a release. Now they're giving up what they thought
Speaker 1: should have happened.
Speaker 2: They're giving up what should have been done for them.
Speaker 2: They're giving up on the way they might have wanted
Speaker 2: it to go. Now, Lord, heal and perform signs and
Speaker 2: wonders through the name of your.
Speaker 1: Holy servant Jesus.
Speaker 2: And verse thirty one says after they prayed, the place
Speaker 2: where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all.
Speaker 1: Filled filled, filled.
Speaker 2: With the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God boldly. Wait,
Speaker 2: I thought they were already filled with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: In chapter two they were. But you need a fresh
Speaker 1: refill for a fresh battle. And God set out give
Speaker 1: you a refill when you release it.
Speaker 2: And the place come on, where they were meeting, was
Speaker 2: what shaken.
Speaker 1: It was what shake him.
Speaker 2: The place started shaking, The place started shaking. When they
Speaker 2: went into the place, they were shaken. They had just
Speaker 2: been threatened, They had just been scared. They had just
Speaker 2: been intimidated. But after that they prayed, and after that
Speaker 2: they remembered who their God was. And after that they
Speaker 2: got their eyes on the.
Speaker 1: Sovereign Most High. And after they remembered what he did
Speaker 1: for Daithan.
Speaker 2: And after they called the name of Jesus, they weren't shaken.
Speaker 1: The place was shaken.
Speaker 2: And I think we ought to go into the cutting
Speaker 2: room and give God at least twenty four second.
Speaker 7: A place, second place today, Shake the place, Shake the place,
Speaker 7: Shake the place.
Speaker 2: This is your cutting room.
Speaker 1: This is your cutting.
Speaker 2: Room, and God is holding the scissors. This is your
Speaker 2: cutting room, and God is directing the film. When a
Speaker 2: director is really good, they give the director a privilege
Speaker 2: called final cut that means they can shoot whatever they
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 1: But by the time this film is released, the one.
Speaker 2: Who directed it gets to decide what goes in it.
Speaker 2: Your God. I know y'all are tired, but I came
Speaker 2: for three people. You've been cut off, you've been cut down.
Speaker 2: But God said, I'm gonna make you fruitful because your
Speaker 2: father has final cut. Heads baled, eyes close, Grab the
Speaker 2: hand of the person next to you.
Speaker 1: They're in the cutting room right now.
Speaker 2: It's not convenient in the cutting room. It's confusing in
Speaker 2: the cutting room. But God is with you in the
Speaker 2: cutting room. The reason I wanted to preach this series,
Speaker 2: the reason I wanted to preach this sermon, is you
Speaker 2: need some help with your edit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: are leaving out some things that God put in.
Speaker 1: This week, He's going to fill you with his spirit
Speaker 1: and flood you with the realization.
Speaker 2: Of how beautiful He made you, how wonderfully crafted you are.
Speaker 1: Is masterful. He's got final cut.
Speaker 2: He's going to show you that the people who left
Speaker 2: your life were not meant for the next season of
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 1: And he's going to show you where David is on
Speaker 1: the way. For every saw that has been rejected, this
Speaker 1: says your cutting.
Speaker 2: Room for everything you don't like about yourself that you
Speaker 2: thought was a bug. What if it's a feature. What
Speaker 2: if God wants to show you to put something back
Speaker 2: in something you haven't done in years that used to
Speaker 2: bring God glorious.
Speaker 1: Time is time.
Speaker 2: This is the cutting room. This is the cutting room.
Speaker 2: You came in shaking. I know I come to this
Speaker 2: pulpit shaken every week. But I asked God, God, would
Speaker 2: you take my nerves, would you take my fear? Would
Speaker 2: you take my uncertainty? And shake this place? And in
Speaker 2: the place where you're shaken, May God shake the place.
Speaker 1: And use you and use you. He's using He's using
Speaker 1: he's using you. He's using.
Speaker 2: Gotta cut some stuff back now so he can use you.
Speaker 2: Gotta cut some stuff out now so he can use you.
Speaker 2: Got to get some new disciplines in there so he
Speaker 2: can use you. But it's his scissors, it's his garden,
Speaker 2: it's his hand. You are his planting for his renown.
Speaker 2: He is the sovereign God. He made the earth and
Speaker 2: the sea and everything in it, and he made everything
Speaker 2: in you. Now I call it forth in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: I call forth miracles from your spirit. In Jesus' name, I.
Speaker 1: Call forth freedom from your spirit.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I call forth abundance of compassion, abundance
Speaker 2: of joy, wisdom from avolved, first, feasible, then pure. I
Speaker 2: call wisdom by the Holy Spirit of God. I release
Speaker 2: it in your life right now. I release it in
Speaker 2: your life right now, a fresh feeling of the spirit
Speaker 2: of God. I release it in your life right now,
Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus. And everybody who's been set free.
Speaker 2: Clap your hands and give God praise.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for final fight. You got the final
Speaker 1: you got the final.
Speaker 2: Say in my life. Head's about eyes closed, They crucified Jesus.
Speaker 2: They hung him on the cross and stretched him wide
Speaker 2: and hung him high. From that place of his death
Speaker 2: came the possibility of new life for you.
Speaker 1: There is someone here today.
Speaker 2: And lately in your life you've been realizing I need God.
Speaker 2: I cannot do this by myself. I need Jesus. I
Speaker 2: believe God brought you to this stream today. God brought
Speaker 2: you to this sanctuary today, this building.
Speaker 1: Today so that you could be saved. Right now.
Speaker 2: I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now,
Speaker 2: if you're ready to give your heart to God, ready
Speaker 2: to receive the forgiveness of your sin and repent of
Speaker 2: your sin, and trust.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I believe that He will hear you from heaven.
Speaker 2: And heal you, give you a brand new nature. Praying
Speaker 2: this together as a church family for the benefit of
Speaker 2: those who are coming to God or back to God.
Speaker 2: Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation.
Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior.
Speaker 2: And I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
Speaker 2: God and the savior of the world.
Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.
Speaker 2: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and
Speaker 2: rose again to give me life.
Speaker 8: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning.
Speaker 8: I am a child of God. On the count of three,
Speaker 8: raise your hand if you prayed that one, two, three,
Speaker 8: shoot them up all over the room.
Speaker 1: I see you, God sees you. God bless it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, amazing you too, amazing online.
Speaker 1: Just say it in the chat.
Speaker 8: I receive Jesus, I receive Jesus.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's shake this place with praise for the salvation.
Speaker 1: Oh my God, hall elud. Did you receive anything from
Speaker 1: the Lord today? Clap your hands.
Speaker 2: Well, join hands with your neighbor one more time. If
Speaker 2: you haven't caught something from him by this point, you won't.
Speaker 2: Now praise the Lord. Tell your neighbor I'm contagious. Tell
Speaker 2: them you hang around me, you might catch faith. You
Speaker 2: hang around me, you might catch praise. My father said,
Speaker 2: I'm blessed, and I am, and now I bless you
Speaker 2: in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Bless everybody who stays till I'm done. You want this blessing,
Speaker 2: this one's worth waiting for it, because I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you how blessed you're gonna be this week.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be so.
Speaker 2: Blessed this week that every weapon that the devil forms
Speaker 2: against you, it might fly by, but it won't work.
Speaker 1: It'll only make your faith stronger.
Speaker 2: Somebody say, how blessed am I gonna be?
Speaker 1: This week? So blessed? At any time you want to
Speaker 1: talk to God, you can talk to him wherever you are.
Speaker 1: How blessed am I gonna be this week? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the head and not the tale above and.
Speaker 2: Not beneath running over a Linda.
Speaker 1: And Ola bar or a child of the Most hi God,
Speaker 1: the righteousness of God.
Speaker 2: I am who God says I am.
Speaker 4: You love this this, I.
Speaker 2: Love you so much.
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