1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Be sure to. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. 6 00:00:25,079 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: How this song the way? 7 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: Come on? 8 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 2: Lift your hands like this. God, we receive you in 9 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 2: this place. King of kings and Lord of lords, exalted 10 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 2: and lifted high, ever present, always faithful. Anything you want 11 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: to do today, Lord, whoever you want to heal, whoever 12 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: you want to set free, whoever you want to change. 13 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 4: Do it again. You've done it before, Do it again. 14 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 4: Do it again and again and again. 15 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 2: We give you glory and we rejoice in your presence 16 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,399 Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. 17 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Amen, Glory to God. 18 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: I don't think I have to tell you what to do, 19 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: but just in case, high five to seven people and 20 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 2: tell him he's going. 21 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: To do it again. 22 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, God is so faithful. 23 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: How many know He's a faithful God. 24 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 2: You know I've been preaching this series about God, and yeah, 25 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: I mean hopefully all the things we preach here are 26 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: about God. But in a very unique way, God has 27 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 2: been downloading to us that there's so much about him. 28 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: There are so. 29 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 2: Many ways that He desires to show up in our 30 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: lives that we haven't recognized yet. And so I started 31 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: Week one, I talked about how he's the God of also. 32 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: That message really meant a lot to me because it 33 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: reminded me that, you know, we haven't met all of 34 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: God yet. God isn't changing or morphing or expanding. He can't. 35 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 2: He's immutable, he can't change. But we, certainly, as we 36 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 2: moved through the different seasons of our lives, need to 37 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: see Him in different ways. And so he's the God 38 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: of also. Last week we preached on how he's the 39 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 2: God of. 40 00:03:53,480 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 4: Again and again and again and again, because if. 41 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: He's other, stop stop, because I got to move on 42 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: to part three. 43 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: God gave me a part three, And today I want 44 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: to talk to you about how he's not only the 45 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 2: God of also, and not only the God of again, 46 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:25,119 Speaker 2: but he's the God of already, the glory of the terms. 47 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: So real, quick, shake three hands and say it's on 48 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 2: the way, and you may be seated. 49 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: The God have already. You may be seated. You're here 50 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: for a reason today. You're here for a reason. Today. 51 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: God has something for you today. 52 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: The spirit of Thank you so much, in the spirit 53 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: of last week's message about the God of again, I'm 54 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 2: going to use the same passage from last week again, 55 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: John twenty one, Verses four through nine. Will select a 56 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: little different passage this time, but from the same story 57 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 2: and time permitting, I want to also hit that Luke 58 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: fifteen again from the Prodigal Sun. One was the story 59 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: of Jesus told a parable to teach, and one was 60 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: a miracle that he performed, but they share a similar 61 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: lesson the God of already verse four. Early in the morning, 62 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: Jesus stood on the shore, but his disciples did not realize. 63 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: That it was Jesus. 64 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: He called out to them, friends, haven't you any fish? No, 65 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 2: they answered, and he said, throw your net on the 66 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 2: right side of the boat and you'll find some. And 67 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 2: when they did, they were unable to haul in the 68 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 2: net because of the large number of fish. The disciple, 69 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 2: whom Jesus loved, said to Peter, it is the Lord. 70 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 2: And as soon as Simon Peter heard him say it 71 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 2: is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment around him, 72 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 2: for he'd taking it off, and jumped into the water. 73 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net 74 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 2: full of fish, for they were not. 75 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: Far from shore. They were not far. 76 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: Put it in the chat, not far, and tell your 77 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 2: neighbor not far, not far from shore. About one hundred 78 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 2: yards makes me get ready for football season. 79 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: About one hundred yards. 80 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals 81 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 2: there with fish on it and some bread. When they landed, 82 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 2: they saw fire burning coals there with fish on it 83 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 2: and some bread. The god of already and this message 84 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 2: has a subtitle, let him cook. I thought, I'll tell 85 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 2: you a little story. I couldn't remember. If I shared it. 86 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: My oldest son said he had never heard it. When 87 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 2: I was in high school, right after I got really 88 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: fired up for Jesus Christ, I was running around telling 89 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 2: everybody that they needed to be saved and they were going. 90 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: To hell and I wasn't, and so be like me. 91 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 2: I was burning all my Motley Crew and Guns n' 92 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 2: Roses CDs and listening to Striper and burned my Pantera 93 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 2: and went over to Petra. If you're in the subculture, 94 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 2: you know, if you don't know, you don't know. 95 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: You don't need to know. And so I just tell 96 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: people all the time. 97 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 2: I was very very bold, some would say zeal without knowledge, 98 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 2: but I was. I was excited, fired up my dad. 99 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: He was in church at the time. He'd been in 100 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:02,559 Speaker 2: church when I was a little boy. My mom always 101 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 2: took us to church, but my dad wasn't in church 102 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 2: at the time. He would go out and play golf 103 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 2: on Sundays, a little part three golf course, get drunk 104 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: with my uncle, and I think that sort of an atonement. 105 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 2: When I was getting ready to go to church, he 106 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 2: would wake up early and cook us breakfast, and so 107 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 2: he'd be over there making. 108 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: Some scrambled eggs and grits. 109 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: If you don't like grits, I don't need you as 110 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: a member Elevation Church. And then he would make on 111 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 2: occasions some corn beef hash. 112 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: Some fried baloney. 113 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 2: But it was all because he felt bad because he 114 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 2: wasn't going to church, so'd wake up early and cook 115 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: for us, and then he'd go off to the golf 116 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: course and we go to church. 117 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: And that was going on for a little while. 118 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 2: One Sunday morning, I remember really clearly whatever came over me. 119 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 2: I looked at him and said, Dad, this breakfast is great, 120 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 2: thank you for making it. But I want to tell 121 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 2: you something now. I'm only sixteen, seventeen years old something 122 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 2: like that. I said, it's not going to be long 123 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 2: before God's going to get a hold of your life. 124 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 2: I've been praying for you, and God answers my prayers, 125 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: and pretty soon you're gonna turn to the Lord, and 126 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: it's gonna be crazy, and you're gonna be reading the 127 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: Bible all the time and going to church and not 128 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 2: gonna be just cooking breakfast and going off. You can 129 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 2: cook this breakfast today, but eventually, soon and very soon, 130 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 2: you'll be going. 131 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: Church with us. 132 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: And I don't remember if he said anything. He didn't 133 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 2: go to church that day. He kept cooking, and I 134 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: ate and went to church. It was about a year 135 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: or more later when I had gone off to college 136 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 2: and I came back home to preach at Santi Circle 137 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 2: Community Church for a weekend. And after I preached the sermon, 138 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 2: my dad came down for the altar call, and when 139 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 2: I went down to pray with him, he said, never 140 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:04,599 Speaker 2: stop preaching. Well, you know, we had many bumps and 141 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 2: bruises after that. He wasn't raptured up to heaven. He 142 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 2: didn't become the next Pope, Billy Graham or Bill Gates 143 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 2: for that matter, But it really was a change in 144 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 2: his life. He started memorizing the Bible and stuff like that. 145 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 2: He told me something, He said, remember that day when 146 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 2: you told me when I was cooking breakfast that God 147 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 2: was going to get ahold of my life and all 148 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 2: this stuff you were saying to me. I said, yeah, 149 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 2: because I was proud of my prophecy having come to pass. 150 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 2: He said, what I didn't tell you is I felt 151 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 2: so sorry for you when you were saying all that, 152 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 2: because I thought He's going to be so disappointed. 153 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: He has no idea. 154 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: And I felt so sorry for you that you didn't 155 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 2: know how low I was and how far I was 156 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: from God. And I was standing in the shower every 157 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 2: morning before I go open the barber shop and just think, God, 158 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: if you give me the strength to get through this day, 159 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 2: I promise I'll change. But I couldn't change. And so 160 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: I sat there and listened to you, and I felt 161 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: so bad that you were that crazy and that naive 162 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 2: to think that I could change because you didn't know 163 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 2: how far away I was. 164 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: We're doing me a favor. 165 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: Will you look at your neighbor real quick and say 166 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 2: you're not as far as you think you are. That's 167 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 2: what God knows that you don't. That's what the devil 168 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 2: knows that you don't. That from that life that God 169 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: has called you to live, and from that victory that 170 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 2: He's called you to accomplish in his name, from that 171 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: freedom that to you feels like some sort of dream. 172 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: Right now, you're not as far as. 173 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: You think you are, because the God of already is 174 00:11:54,200 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 2: in the house. I tell you that story not to 175 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: impress you, but as the motivational speakers would say, to 176 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 2: press impress upon you, or rather to reflect myself on 177 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 2: these moments that we have in our life, like I 178 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 2: had with my dad, where you know something you don't 179 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 2: know how you know it, You sense it, even though 180 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:20,359 Speaker 2: your senses. 181 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: Are telling you different, your spirit says it. 182 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 2: It actually just came to me this morning to tell 183 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 2: you that story as I was asking God, how can 184 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 2: I bring them into this text, which is a story 185 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 2: about a fisherman named Peter who was called to be 186 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: a shepherd and had to make a transition because he 187 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 2: had been through an experience where he'd let himself down, 188 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: and he thought, let Jesus down. Now he's out there 189 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 2: fishing and Jesus is on the shore and. 190 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: I was wondering, like, what was happening in that moment 191 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: with my dad? 192 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 2: What's happening in those moments of our life where. 193 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: One thing is seen to be already in progress. 194 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: Do you remember when they used to interrupt your regularly 195 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 2: scheduled programming to give you a news report or a 196 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 2: weather report. Used to be watching Family Matters on Friday night, 197 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: watching Arkle try to get Laura Winslow one more time 198 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 2: on Friday night, and the news would come on, there's 199 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: a storm. They just interrupt your regularly scheduled program. And 200 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 2: then when they would get back to the program, after 201 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 2: they had said whatever they needed to say and just 202 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 2: broke in on your program, they say, we now return 203 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 2: to your regularly scheduled programming already in progress, and then 204 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 2: it would just go right back. No DVR, you can't rewind, 205 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 2: so you know, Erkele still isn't with Laura like like always, 206 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 2: and you just drop right back in in the middle 207 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 2: of it because it's already in progress. Now that's the 208 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 2: challenge with the text I read you, because I just 209 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 2: jumped right into something where you know, Peter has denied 210 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 2: Jesus three times, he's out fishing, who knows how bad 211 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 2: he felt, who knows how far he felt. He's already 212 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 2: seen Jesus. But Jesus shows up again. And I loved 213 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 2: verse four. This really touched me because I related to it. 214 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,599 Speaker 2: It said early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, 215 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 2: but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. 216 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: You know, kind of far off in the distance. 217 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 2: They're tired, they've been fishing all night, caught nothing, frustrated, 218 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 2: probably a little discouraged, and they did not realize it 219 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 2: was Jesus. But that doesn't mean he wasn't there. In Seminary, 220 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 2: they taught me this term that stuck with me. It's 221 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 2: called the already not yet view of scripture. And it 222 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 2: sounds like a contradiction, but it's not. It's just the 223 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: tension that we all live in. Everybody say already, now, 224 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 2: say not yet this side. You can be already already. 225 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 2: Y'all don't sound ready. How about y'all be already. I'll 226 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,359 Speaker 2: get to be not yet. 227 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: Already. Ah. Yeah. They taught me that in Seminary. 228 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 2: The Kingdom of God came when Jesus came to earth, 229 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: and he said, the Kingdom of God is at hand. 230 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 2: And he inaugurated that kingdom with miracles, signs, and wonders. 231 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: He did amazing things. 232 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: He was crucified, dead and buried, risen from the dead, 233 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 2: He's send it to the right hand of God, and 234 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 2: he's coming again to establish his kingdom once and for all. 235 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: He already died for the sins of all who will 236 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: believe on him. 237 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 2: He already rose to life, and he's risen with all 238 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 2: power in the keys of death, hell and grave are 239 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 2: in his hand. He's interceding for you right now. He's 240 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 2: already paid the price, he's already won the victory. But 241 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: as the Bible talks about these realities, there is a 242 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 2: sense in which they are already fulfilled and a sense 243 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 2: in which they are y'all still aren't ready. Maybe next 244 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 2: week I'll do it again again, and you can try 245 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 2: it again. But the picture here is that if the 246 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 2: Bible says you are saved, it will also say you 247 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 2: will be saved. And so it's talking about something that 248 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 2: happened and something that will happen. And it's like, I 249 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 2: am saved right now from the penalty of. 250 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: My sin, but I. 251 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: Am still not completely set free from the pattern of sin, 252 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 2: and That's why I can say I'm already a child 253 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 2: of God, but I'm not yet well behaved. I'm not 254 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 2: yet grown up like I want to be. It's the 255 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 2: already not yet. And I think if you'll look at 256 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 2: the Bible that way, it'll help you understand why sometimes 257 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 2: you see things in the Bible and you're like, oh am, 258 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 2: I even a Christian Hugh pray without ceasing. 259 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: I don't live that way. 260 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 2: Well, you already praise, but though without ceasing part that's 261 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 2: the not yet. Or the Bible even says that we 262 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 2: have been adopted into God's family, and then it says 263 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 2: that we are awaiting our adoption. 264 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: Which one is it? 265 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: Well, it's already technically true, but I have not yet 266 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: fully understood all of the implications of it. 267 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: It'd be like if they switched cameras right now. 268 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,959 Speaker 2: You know there's somebody back there that's on the other camera, 269 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 2: let's just. 270 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: Switch to this one. 271 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: And he had to be ready to do it, and 272 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: I gave him no preparation. That's why I had to 273 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 2: be there. He was already there waiting for a word 274 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: in order to do what he was there to do. 275 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 2: So you find yourself in moments in your life. 276 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: You get the sense that. 277 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,959 Speaker 2: You are dealing with the not yetness of you, and 278 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 2: you're hearing about the alreadiness of God, and it can 279 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 2: be hard to reconcile. So I think that's the scene 280 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 2: here with Peter and Jesus having breakfast on the shore. 281 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 2: I think that was the scene that day with me 282 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 2: having breakfast with my dad. 283 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: I think that's the scene in. 284 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 2: Your life as well, and I invite you into it 285 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: for all of your not yetness. 286 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: One scripture that I really love. 287 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 2: I honestly had never really paid attention to it, just 288 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 2: skimmed right over it. But Paul is describing this in 289 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 2: Second Corinthians six ' ten, So he kind of describes 290 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 2: it and it sounds a little schizophrenic, but I think 291 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 2: he's just being real. He says, second Corinthian six ' ten. 292 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 2: We are sorrowful yet always rejoicing. Then that sounds Paul, 293 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 2: you need some medicine or something. Man, You kind of 294 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 2: can't decide. I'm serious, sorrowful yet always rejoicing. And then 295 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 2: it gets better. He says, poor yet making many rich, 296 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: having nothing yet possessing everything. He's showing us this shift, 297 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 2: just a little shift. He's like we're sorrowful, yeah, rejoicing, 298 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,719 Speaker 2: we're poor, recounting poor, but out of our poverty. 299 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: It's creating a spiritual richness in the earth. And I'm 300 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: glad about that. 301 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 2: And then that last part really got me because I 302 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: taught you this last week, and I want to go 303 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 2: a little deeper, he said, having put it back up, 304 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 2: having nothing yet possessing everything. 305 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: So this is where I showed you my trick last week. 306 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 2: When I start getting entitled, when I start getting petty, 307 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 2: when I start forgetting what God has given me, it's 308 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: a little trick that I've learned to do to realize 309 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 2: that I have everything. Oh yeah, you're looking at a 310 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 2: blessed man, A very blessed man. 311 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: I got it all. 312 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 2: I have everything, And here's how I get everything. I'm 313 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: gonna teach you how to get everything in five seconds, 314 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 2: all right, because I can really convince myself. Nobody loves me, 315 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 2: everybody hates me. I guess I'll go eat worms. I 316 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 2: guess I'll just go over in my corner write one 317 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 2: of my other little sermons, and nobody loves me. 318 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 5: And then I go, no, oh, this is ridiculous. 319 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? 320 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 2: Not only have I been blessed with so many things. 321 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 2: But I do an exercise where I imagine the loss 322 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 2: of someone that I love the most. I imagine the loss. 323 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 2: You're like, that's very negative. No, watch where it's gonna 324 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 2: get me, because it's very very powerful. I imagine what 325 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 2: if I lost Holly? What would I give to have 326 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 2: her back? Two hundred dollars? Come on, man, everything, I'll 327 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: kill you in take yours if I have to to 328 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 2: get her back, everything, whatever it takes. I'll be uh, 329 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 2: what's the movie ransom. I'll be Mel Gibson. I'll be 330 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 2: Liam Neeson. I will storm through the gates of hell. 331 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 2: I would do I would give everything to have. 332 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: Her back, and I have her now, So what do 333 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: I have everything? See how quick that was. 334 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 2: I went from like being annoyed, being perturbed, just being 335 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 2: all you know, how stupid we can get when we 336 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 2: get adjusted to something that we've had access to too long. 337 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 2: We get acclimated to what's available, and then. 338 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: We become unaware of. 339 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 2: How valuable it is because we become too acclimated to 340 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 2: what's available. 341 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: So when it says in verse four, oh, I got 342 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: to give you a little bit more about this. 343 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 2: Early in the morning Jesus done on the shore, but 344 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 2: the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. I 345 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 2: realized that their awareness had not caught up with his. 346 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: Theareness yet he was there. They weren't aware. 347 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 2: Yet he was no less there because they weren't aware 348 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: of it. He's standing on the shore, cooking fish, getting 349 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: ready for them to haul in some more fish. 350 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: They'ven have plenty of fish. It's gonna be fished today. 351 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 2: But the one thing they couldn't know in that moment 352 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 2: was that he was already there where they were headed for. 353 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 2: But there was something he wanted to show them before 354 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 2: they got there too. And so I look at Jesus 355 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 2: in this passage and I realized that it's one. 356 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: Thing to look back over my life. 357 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 2: I feel like teaching and preaching and shouting and praising today, 358 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 2: and I see almost like a sign hanging over every 359 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 2: open door in my life, Jesus was here, you know, 360 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 2: like almost I think of Jesus as a graffiti artist. 361 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 2: You know how they have a tag and they tag 362 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 2: when they do it, and Jesus does it legally, but 363 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 2: they tag it. 364 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: I read, I studied a little. 365 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 2: Bit the first graffiti artist that was recognized for his 366 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 2: tag was named Cornbread and he was really cool. 367 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: He was in Philadelphia. 368 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 2: He hopped over the fence at the Philadelphia Zoo one 369 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: time when he was seventeen and spray painted the side 370 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 2: of an elephant and he tagged it Cornbread Lives. 371 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: And I look back over. 372 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 2: My life now and I see all these tags over 373 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 2: not just the open doors and the opportunities God gave me, 374 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 2: but even some of the closed doors that God didn't 375 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 2: let me go through. 376 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: And now I look. 377 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 2: Back and I see a tag that he says, Jesus 378 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 2: was here. I look back over some of the relationships 379 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: that God brought into my life and some of the 380 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 2: ones that I asked him for and he said not yet, 381 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: not yet. I look back over some of the already 382 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: blessings in my life, and I see that, hey, God 383 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 2: has already been working on this for a long time 384 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 2: for me. I mean, He's already done so much for me. 385 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 2: And the more that I access the already blessings in 386 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 2: my life, the more aware I am no takers get ready. 387 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 2: The more aware I am of the already blessings, the 388 00:24:52,800 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 2: better I can deal with the not yet questions. Reach 389 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 2: verdeck I already am in this good to get in 390 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 2: a space where you go, wait a minute, wait a minute. Yeah, 391 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 2: there are some things that I want God to add 392 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 2: to my life, but being blessed. 393 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: Is not about what he might or might not add. 394 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 2: It's about what I access that I already have, and 395 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 2: learning to access what I already have is the process 396 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 2: of gratitude, and gratitude is the access point to joy. 397 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: That's why I. 398 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 2: Love my little exercise, because when I am unaware of 399 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 2: a blessing, I feel like it's not there, even though 400 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 2: it is. 401 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: Read the scripture, Jesus was on the shore. 402 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 2: They didn't know it. He's there. They're not aware he 403 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 2: can be there. But until you are aware that he 404 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: is there, it will feel as if he's not. 405 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: So the challenge of this. 406 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 2: Season of my life as a grown man is not 407 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 2: to look back and say Jesus was there, but to 408 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 2: stand in the middle of my not yet and declare. 409 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: Jesus is here. 410 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 5: I've got to tag it while. 411 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 2: I'm going through it so I can hold to the 412 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 2: truth in this situation that what I will look back 413 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,719 Speaker 2: on in my life in the next season and say 414 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 2: God was there, He's here in it right now, but 415 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: his thearness always outpaces your awareness, which is how you 416 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 2: end up like my. 417 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: Dad, and you go. I felt sorry for you, You 418 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: felt sorry for me. I feel sorry for you. 419 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: God was working on your dumb butt and you were 420 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 2: too mind to say it. 421 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: God sent it, arrogant little seventeen year old punk. Were 422 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: some Doc Martin's. 423 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 2: To tell you God's going to turn your life around, 424 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 2: and you couldn't see it. 425 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: He was there, you just weren't aware of it. How 426 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: mean y'all got something you're worried about this week coming 427 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 1: up in your life. And I mean this week. 428 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: I'm not talking about when you turn ninety four and 429 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 2: will there still be Social Security and will Biden still 430 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 2: be president or somebody older. 431 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: But this week, this week, all right. 432 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 2: God's going to beat you to it. Let me get 433 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 2: more specific. Jesus is already there. Oh that's so nice. 434 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 2: Imagine Jesus is already there. This is the problem with 435 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 2: you Christians. You just have this imaginary friend named Jesus 436 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 2: that you think is going to work everything. 437 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: Out for you. 438 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 2: It's not imaginary. It's not imaginary for me. And I 439 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 2: don't know if you can say the same thing. I 440 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 2: have more proof that He has been there for me 441 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 2: than almost any other person. 442 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: In my life. 443 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 2: So if you wanted to convince me that God wasn't real, 444 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: you should have done that a long time ago, because 445 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 2: you're a little late, because I've already seen the ways 446 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 2: that He's made for me. I've already seen the things 447 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: that he's brought me through. I have already seen him 448 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 2: bring water from a rock. I have already seen him. Now, 449 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 2: high five somebody and say I already know. So you 450 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 2: can't make. 451 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: Me doubt him because I know too much about him. 452 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: I already know. I'm not studying a book to find 453 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: out if he's real. I'm not waiting on. 454 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 5: A scientist to bust stop in. 455 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 2: A molecule or splinting at him to tell me if 456 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: Christ lives. I got the tag over my life, said, jeez, 457 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 2: I lives. 458 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 5: If you know he's alive, shout up, Come on, give him. 459 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: An already praise. What's it already praise? 460 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: It's when I praise him in a. 461 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: Not yet situation for a blessing that he's all right. 462 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 5: I need pressed down, singing together. 463 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 4: Whoever I. 464 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: Need to teach, but high five at least three people. 465 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: But you didn't tell me what to tell him. 466 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 6: See ah, I think we need to recognize the connection 467 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 6: between appreciating our already as we. 468 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: Anticipate are not yet. 469 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 2: This is the greatest skill that God can give you 470 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: to help you fight depression, distraction, discouragement, temptation. See when 471 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: you stay in not yet and forget you're already, you 472 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 2: go running after stuff that is less than you because 473 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 2: you got tired of waiting on something that was not 474 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: yet ready for you. But when you know who you are, 475 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 2: when you know what you've already gotten, when you know 476 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: who's already chosen. 477 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 5: You to be His called you by name, seal you with. 478 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 7: His spirit, adopted you as his child, you can stand 479 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 7: in your already and say, like Paul, I don't have 480 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 7: it yet. 481 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: I love that word. 482 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 2: I went to therapy and my therapist taught me how 483 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 2: to say that word. 484 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: I'm serious. It helped me. 485 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 2: I say I just can't figure it out, and the 486 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 2: therapist will interrupt and say, ah, yet, I got. 487 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: All my nerves. I said, I'm not paying you to 488 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: correct me. 489 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 2: I said I can't figure it out and I hadn't 490 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 2: figured it out, and the therapist will say yet, And 491 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 2: every time they said, yet, it took me back to 492 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: how many things God had already done for me. 493 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 8: I see, My already gave me the balance for my 494 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 8: not yet. 495 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 2: That's why I want you to imagine things being out 496 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 2: of your life that are in your life, so you 497 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 2: can get back in your already. I drove up to 498 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 2: the church today and I was like, oh man, this church, 499 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 2: it got so much debt. 500 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: We just got to pay off all our debt. Oh wait, no, 501 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: God already paid off our debt. 502 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 2: That made me want Now you'll see why I'm in 503 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 2: such a good mood preaching today. 504 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: I preach real good with no debt on my back. 505 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 2: It didn't get paid off in those five minutes before 506 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 2: I came out to preach to you. I just recalled 507 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 2: it to my mind, and I accessed thee already, so I. 508 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: Can move ahead into the not yet. 509 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 2: You ever thought about how many things in this passage 510 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 2: of scripture that Jesus asked the disciples that he. 511 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: Already knew. It's kind of funny. Please hear me. 512 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 2: I'm not disrespecting Jesus when I say this. I'm just 513 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: using a current term to describe something that's in the text. 514 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 2: Jesus was trolling these boys. I don't mean like troll 515 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 2: the motor on the boat. I mean like troll of 516 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 2: messing with them. 517 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: Us. Jesus said, uh, okay. 518 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 2: First of all, I did a sermon that made him 519 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 2: mad one time, called sneaky Jesus. They thought I meant 520 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 2: that he was deceptive. I didn't mean deceptive. I mean 521 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 2: he'll sneak up on you. He snuck up on the shore. 522 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 2: Didn't tell him it was him, all right, So they 523 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 2: don't recognize him. He's there, they're not aware. That's just 524 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 2: like you right now. He is there in ways you're. 525 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: Not aware of right now. 526 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 2: And you'll look back and see the tag and it 527 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 2: won't say Cornbread lives. It'll say Jesus lives. But you 528 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 2: got to see it now. So he's on the shore 529 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,919 Speaker 2: and they don't know he's there. And then verse five, 530 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 2: he said, friends, haven't you any fish? 531 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: So the one who created fish doesn't know if they've 532 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:47,440 Speaker 1: caught any. 533 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 2: I think I speculate that he already knew, because he's 534 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 2: sovereign and he's God, so I think he knew. So 535 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 2: they say no, and then he says, okay, throw your 536 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 2: nets over to the right side of the boat, and 537 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 2: you'll find something. 538 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 1: Now. 539 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,440 Speaker 2: The other thing that he knew is where the fish were. 540 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,399 Speaker 2: He already knew that. And the other thing he knew 541 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 2: is that their nets were going to break and they 542 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 2: couldn't haul him in without some help. But then because 543 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 2: the nets didn't end up breaking. But the disciple whom 544 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 2: Jesus lost said to Peter is the Lord. As soon 545 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,800 Speaker 2: as Simon Peter hurt and say is the Lord, he 546 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 2: wrapped the telagramerun and jumped into the water. 547 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: And what I really. 548 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 2: Couldn't get over about this passage, and I don't know 549 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,319 Speaker 2: if you noticed it, is that it said they were 550 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 2: not far from the shore, about one hundred yards. 551 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:43,879 Speaker 1: Wait, so. 552 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 2: Let's do some math. They're in the boat fishing, catching nothing. 553 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 2: Jesus is on the shore one hundred yards away. I 554 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 2: don't know the exact dimensions of Peter's boat. It is 555 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 2: Peter's boat. That's why Jesus chose Peter to be his disciple, 556 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 2: because Jesus needed transportation. 557 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: I heard all these deep things. He chose Peter because 558 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 1: he was no. It wasn't his boldness, it was his boat. 559 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: That's why Jesus chose him. 560 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,760 Speaker 2: I'm settling it once in for all and his boldness, 561 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,240 Speaker 2: but mostly his boat because he needed to travel around. 562 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 2: So now Peter's back in that boat and he's fishing. 563 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 2: And I don't know the exact dimensions of the boat, 564 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 2: but I do know one thing. No matter how big 565 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 2: this boat was, is there anybody here who has a boat? 566 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: Got a boat? 567 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 2: Come on, God's not going to strike you for having 568 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 2: a boat. You have a boat in tithe and go 569 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 2: to heaven, all right? How big could the boat be? 570 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 2: If it was, let's say it was like a pretty 571 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,840 Speaker 2: big fishing boat, but just a singular boat. Some research 572 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,800 Speaker 2: that I accessed, it doesn't say it in the text. 573 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: It said it might have been about eight feet wide max. 574 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: That's not about right. 575 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 2: Is it conceivable that it would have been eight feet wide? 576 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: Okay, So you mean to tell me. 577 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 2: They have been fishing all night and they are about 578 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 2: to row in one hundred yards to the shore and 579 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 2: from one side of the boat to the other. Is 580 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:23,360 Speaker 2: the difference between we're starving and we're stuffed. 581 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:26,399 Speaker 1: You mean to. 582 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:31,520 Speaker 2: Tell me that they've been out there all night and 583 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 2: at just the moment they're about to give up. I'm 584 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 2: prophesying to somebody prophesying to somebody at just the moment 585 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,360 Speaker 2: they're about to row the boat ashore one hundred yards. 586 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,799 Speaker 1: What they don't know in that moment. 587 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 2: Is that if they take the nets from the left 588 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 2: side of the boat to the right side of the boat, 589 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 2: and if the boat is only eight feet and the 590 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 2: shore is one hundred yards away, that means it's easier 591 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 2: for them to keep fishing than. 592 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: It is for them to give up. 593 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 2: Follow me, you gotta go one hundred yards to give up, 594 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 2: but you only gotta go eight feet. 595 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,240 Speaker 1: For a great catch. 596 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,560 Speaker 2: And the fish aren't on the way when you drop 597 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 2: the nets. 598 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,240 Speaker 1: The fish are. 599 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 2: Already the fish at the moment you drop the nets. 600 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: The fish don't start to swim. Nah. 601 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 9: That's what Jesus got to the shore early, because it's oh. 602 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 2: The fish to swim, and they did. So. When you 603 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 2: drop your nets in your not yet season, you need. 604 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 9: To know that what's your fishing for is not far 605 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 9: from you. 606 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 5: You might be eight feet away from. 607 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 9: A new day, eight feet away from restoration, eight feet 608 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 9: away from freedom from your addiction, eight feet away from 609 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,520 Speaker 9: a relationship that will take you out. 610 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: Of the loneliness and bring you into fruitful union. 611 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 2: Hey, feet away when you hate to miss your harvest 612 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 2: and find out it was only eight feet away. 613 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 6: It's gonna be big, baby, It's gonna be big. 614 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna be big. You're gonna make a difference. You're 615 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,880 Speaker 1: gonna tell others. You're gonna help others. You're not just 616 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 1: gonna be selfish. You're gonna serve others. God already knows 617 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: what he's. 618 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 2: Called you to do, and the devil wants you to 619 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,520 Speaker 2: pull that boat in and give up because he knows 620 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 2: you're eight feet away. See, it is the principle that 621 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,839 Speaker 2: sometimes a small shift can make a big difference. A 622 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 2: small shift just to make a small shift. Today, you're 623 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:31,920 Speaker 2: not as far as you think you are. Whoever this 624 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,640 Speaker 2: word is for, it is burning like a fire in 625 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 2: my bones. You're not as far as you think you are. 626 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:44,040 Speaker 1: I wish I. 627 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 2: Could muster the faith I had when I told my 628 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,919 Speaker 2: dad that you're not as far as you think you are. 629 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,200 Speaker 2: God can snatch you with his pinky finger. He's strong, 630 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,879 Speaker 2: his hand is not slack. I don't care how far 631 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,120 Speaker 2: you are. You're not as you think you are. Not 632 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:07,000 Speaker 2: from God. He's God who told the sun when to rise, 633 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 2: and he did he's God. 634 00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. 635 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:15,360 Speaker 2: God who told the storm to be still and it did. 636 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 2: I'm talking about God who told the walls when to 637 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:20,439 Speaker 2: fall and they did. 638 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 5: I'm talking about God who told the bones. 639 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,640 Speaker 1: Come alive and they did. I'm gonna have another one. 640 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 2: And if he told the fish when to swim and 641 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 2: they did. 642 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: He will again. 643 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 2: And if he told the fish when to swim and 644 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 2: they did, he will again. 645 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,280 Speaker 1: It's a remix. 646 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 5: We hadn't even released him original. Yes, and we're already 647 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:48,960 Speaker 5: working on the remix. 648 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 1: Because he's God. 649 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,240 Speaker 10: Her, He's God. 650 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,160 Speaker 1: Hardy's stay bo. 651 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 5: Did you hear any devil? Cause he's God's how Handy's God? 652 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:00,680 Speaker 2: Dad? He saith? 653 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 5: Who man, it's all away, it's all away, it's all away. 654 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,359 Speaker 3: It's on the way. 655 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:09,720 Speaker 1: Let your dad's gown. 656 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 5: WHOA? 657 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: So I see a picture right now? Stay with me, 658 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,280 Speaker 1: Stay with me, Stay with me. I want to minister 659 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,360 Speaker 1: to somebody. You think you are so far from God. 660 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 1: Watch this. 661 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,719 Speaker 2: Not only was Jesus only one hundred yards away and 662 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,879 Speaker 2: they had no idea that he was. And not only 663 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,160 Speaker 2: were the fish only eight feet away and they had 664 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:45,279 Speaker 2: no idea that they were. But Peter, you have already 665 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:52,080 Speaker 2: been restored in God's eyes. Now it's time for you 666 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:58,680 Speaker 2: to be restored in your eyes. Receive it, Receiver it, 667 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,880 Speaker 2: Paul said, you can go from having nothing to possessing everything. 668 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:18,680 Speaker 2: Having nothing yet possessing everything. Your nets are empty. You 669 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:19,800 Speaker 2: don't have it yet. 670 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 8: That doesn't mean it's not there. So the gift you 671 00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:29,759 Speaker 8: have is real. It just isn't fully grown yet. The 672 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,960 Speaker 8: forgiveness that you have is real. 673 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,960 Speaker 2: You're just not fully acquainted and familiar with your freedom 674 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 2: in Christ yet. I'm saving your money on a therapy bill. 675 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,160 Speaker 2: This is what they're going to do if you go 676 00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:41,640 Speaker 2: over there. 677 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,759 Speaker 1: I'm trying to save you some money on a therapy bill. 678 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 2: Drop a little something in the bucket for your therapist today. 679 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,320 Speaker 2: I want you to see the power of your yet, 680 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 2: and to believe in the God of already is to 681 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 2: trust the God of Yet with every step to take, 682 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,080 Speaker 2: with every habit that you implement. A lady told me 683 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 2: at elevation nights. She was standing there, and I did 684 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,120 Speaker 2: the thing that y'all hate when I do. And I said, 685 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,759 Speaker 2: turn to your neighbor and say And she said, I 686 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,640 Speaker 2: rolled my eyes, and you made me say something to 687 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,760 Speaker 2: my neighbor and he was tall, and I was single, 688 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:24,640 Speaker 2: and he was sending. 689 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,239 Speaker 1: And she wrote me a letter and said, today he 690 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,200 Speaker 1: is my husband. 691 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,719 Speaker 2: I'm not making it up. I'm not making it up. 692 00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 2: I'll print the email. I'll put it on Twitter's faces 693 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:37,560 Speaker 2: and my Space. 694 00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,720 Speaker 1: I mean because something as simple as turned to your neighbor. 695 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 1: Turn to your neighbor real quick and tell him not yet, 696 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:04,360 Speaker 1: not yet yet, not yet. I thought he was finished. 697 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:04,719 Speaker 3: Not yet. 698 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,520 Speaker 11: Hey, hey, so so imagine. 699 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, you could stay and softly LJ. 700 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:13,880 Speaker 2: I'm done teaching, but I want to give you the 701 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 2: picture from Luke fifteen, because I would hate not to 702 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,080 Speaker 2: give you this. You remember how I told you there 703 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 2: are two stories here, and Jesus taught one and then 704 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,879 Speaker 2: the other one he actually acted out, and they're both 705 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,319 Speaker 2: saying the same thing, that you're not as far as 706 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:35,040 Speaker 2: you think you are. There were two sons and one 707 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:36,320 Speaker 2: son to his father. I want my share of the 708 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,960 Speaker 2: inheritance now, Luke fifteen. So he set up to a 709 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,279 Speaker 2: distant country. What kind of country? Say it again? A 710 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 2: distant country. While he was there, he spent all that 711 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,839 Speaker 2: he had on riotous living. For a little while went good, 712 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,120 Speaker 2: but then eventually he came to a point where nobody 713 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,959 Speaker 2: knew how bad it was, and he longed to fill 714 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,279 Speaker 2: his stomach with the husk that the swine ate. He 715 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:02,280 Speaker 2: was that low. Finally, Bubble says, he came to himself. 716 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 2: He came to himself. I believe somebody's coming to yourself today. 717 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,480 Speaker 2: And God is already there. God already sees you like 718 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,680 Speaker 2: you really are. You just don't yet. Came to himself 719 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,520 Speaker 2: and he said, how many of my father's hired servants 720 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,399 Speaker 2: have food to spair, and here I am starving to death. 721 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,600 Speaker 2: I will arise and go to my father, and perhaps 722 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,680 Speaker 2: he will make me like one of his hired servants. 723 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,040 Speaker 2: So verse twenty is where it really picks up for 724 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:30,360 Speaker 2: our purpose as we close today. 725 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:39,520 Speaker 1: It said that he got up and went to his father, but. 726 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,839 Speaker 2: While he was still a long way off, his father 727 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:51,920 Speaker 2: saw him. How many times did I read this story 728 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:58,880 Speaker 2: and never really notice what was happening, Because just before this. 729 00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,160 Speaker 1: This boy is making a story that he's going to 730 00:46:59,200 --> 00:46:59,800 Speaker 1: tell his dad. 731 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,880 Speaker 2: He's making his plan to get back in good graces 732 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,520 Speaker 2: with his dad, to reconcile, to get back where he belongs. 733 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:05,880 Speaker 2: And a lot of you are like that. You're like, OK, 734 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,160 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get my life together. I'm gonna do this. 735 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,360 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna join a gym, and 736 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,759 Speaker 2: then I'm gonna drink smoothie and then I'm gonna I 737 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:12,680 Speaker 2: don't want to smooth. 738 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:12,879 Speaker 1: Want milk shake. 739 00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,560 Speaker 2: I'm gonna drink a milkshake. And then I'm gonna join 740 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,680 Speaker 2: a gym and I'm gonna join that gym where they 741 00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,320 Speaker 2: have milkshakes at the gym and pizza. 742 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,760 Speaker 1: I like that gem. 743 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,120 Speaker 2: So he's playing it all out, but he's tired, he's exhausted, 744 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,839 Speaker 2: he's a shame. And not to make light of the story, 745 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,399 Speaker 2: I mean, he really doesn't know. Am I even gonna 746 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,319 Speaker 2: be welcome back? Is this even gonna work? And I 747 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,600 Speaker 2: don't just mean this for people y'all who are I mean, 748 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,520 Speaker 2: I certainly mean this for people who don't know God, 749 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,120 Speaker 2: but for those of us who do. There are times 750 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:45,440 Speaker 2: in our life where we think, I feel sorry for you, preacher. 751 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,239 Speaker 1: You're telling me all this, but you don't know how 752 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:49,560 Speaker 1: far I am. 753 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,560 Speaker 2: You don't know what's going on with me and my wife. 754 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,719 Speaker 2: One guy finally told me the other day, he said, 755 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 2: I've been faking you out for five months. I keep 756 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,080 Speaker 2: telling you everything's good, but because I don't want you 757 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:05,400 Speaker 2: to think bad of me, because you're a preacher. 758 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,359 Speaker 1: But I hain't had a job for five months. 759 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,280 Speaker 2: I've been leaving the house every day just going to Panera, 760 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:10,600 Speaker 2: so my kids would think I had a job. 761 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:11,440 Speaker 1: And I don't know what I'm gonna do. 762 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,719 Speaker 2: I'm running out of money, and all over the room 763 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:20,759 Speaker 2: there are not yet empty nets. 764 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,040 Speaker 1: All over the world. 765 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:27,320 Speaker 2: So you get this strategy in your mind and you think, Okay, 766 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 2: here's how I'm gonna get it together. 767 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,360 Speaker 1: Here's sow I'm gonna fix it. And you know that 768 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:33,320 Speaker 1: could be exhausting. 769 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,480 Speaker 2: It can stop you from even taking the first step. Really, 770 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,080 Speaker 2: I gotta imagine with every step that the boy is taking, 771 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,960 Speaker 2: he's thinking, God, I hope, I hope Dad will have 772 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,279 Speaker 2: me back, even if he'll just let me sleep outside. 773 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,920 Speaker 2: I'll prove myself. I'll work my way back. I'll get there. 774 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,640 Speaker 2: I'll get there. It may take me years, I'll get there. 775 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,759 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna make a each to him. Remember it's 776 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,040 Speaker 2: a distant country. So he's got a long walk. 777 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,399 Speaker 1: Ahead of him. 778 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,000 Speaker 2: And at some point along this long walk, as he's 779 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,680 Speaker 2: rehearsing his speech, father, I'm no longer worthy making me 780 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:12,440 Speaker 2: a hired servant. 781 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:13,960 Speaker 1: I've disgraced you, I've shamed you. 782 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,120 Speaker 2: I've sinned, and I'm sorry. Maybe I should put the 783 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,600 Speaker 2: first part first. So I'm sorry, I have sinned. 784 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:21,440 Speaker 1: I sinned. I'm sorry. 785 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,600 Speaker 2: And every step he's working this out and rehearsing it 786 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:24,120 Speaker 2: in his mind. 787 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,160 Speaker 1: Here's how many get back, here's how many to do it. 788 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,720 Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna say to my father. I'm gonna 789 00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,360 Speaker 2: say to my father. I'm gonna say to my father. 790 00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:39,600 Speaker 2: And while he's rehearsing his speech, somehow, someway, his father 791 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,320 Speaker 2: is already running toward. 792 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:54,759 Speaker 11: Them, and you look up and you realize, oh, he's 793 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:55,439 Speaker 11: already here. 794 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:03,680 Speaker 2: While he was still a long way off, well, he 795 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,000 Speaker 2: still thought I have so far to go. 796 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,200 Speaker 1: And the one that he was planning to gravel to. 797 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,680 Speaker 11: Grabs him with grace. 798 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,840 Speaker 1: And pulls him in. You're not as far as you 799 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:21,400 Speaker 1: think you are. 800 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,440 Speaker 2: It takes a while to put your life back together, 801 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,279 Speaker 2: but it only takes a moment to be right with God. 802 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:32,680 Speaker 1: That's all it is. 803 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:41,319 Speaker 2: He already decided it, he already paid for it. 804 00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:50,560 Speaker 1: You were always his, you always will be his, always 805 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,640 Speaker 1: have been welcomed in his presence, always will be loved. 806 00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:04,359 Speaker 2: The God have already is the God of every Not yet. 807 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,560 Speaker 1: We stand in the middle today, and I want to 808 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,480 Speaker 1: tell you save your speech. 809 00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,800 Speaker 2: God doesn't need you to tell them twenty five reasons 810 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,000 Speaker 2: you're sorry. Just come to them and say, Father, I'm yours, 811 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:28,080 Speaker 2: and I trust that everything I'm worried about. And tomorrow 812 00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:36,080 Speaker 2: you're already there. You're already on the shore. You're not far, 813 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:47,120 Speaker 2: so I'm not far. I'm already loved. I'm already Choseph. 814 00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:51,360 Speaker 2: I know who I am. I'm a child of God. 815 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:57,480 Speaker 2: Nothing can change that. I know what you've spoken. I'm 816 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:02,680 Speaker 2: already loved more than I could imagine. 817 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:12,840 Speaker 1: That is enough, mon. 818 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:27,239 Speaker 12: Moy, I know who lied, I know what's useful. I'm moready, 819 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:39,680 Speaker 12: more than doggety Marger, the bloody isinglady. 820 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:53,400 Speaker 10: I'm bracial, and though who lied, I know what's useful 821 00:52:53,440 --> 00:53:00,160 Speaker 10: locking more already, boy the dog be. 822 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,160 Speaker 1: Mad body. 823 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:21,360 Speaker 3: Seem already. I'm already Jos, I know who. I know 824 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,239 Speaker 3: what you say? 825 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:26,640 Speaker 11: One thing? 826 00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:41,880 Speaker 13: Pay is he not? Ham already already. 827 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:46,680 Speaker 2: Joe, Joe, who. 828 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:55,480 Speaker 1: I know what you come more than I paid? 829 00:53:58,440 --> 00:53:59,440 Speaker 3: Hurdy is he. 830 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:07,000 Speaker 1: Hey? 831 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,319 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 832 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,520 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 833 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,160 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 834 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,920 Speaker 2: they're available. 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