1
00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840
Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

2
00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

3
00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,800
Speaker 3: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

4
00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:09,280
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you.

5
00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,920
Speaker 3: Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective

6
00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,600
Speaker 3: to see God has moving in your life.

7
00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,880
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

8
00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,040
Speaker 4: We're about to jump into the message, but before we do,

9
00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,759
Speaker 4: I wanted to let you know that Elevation Nights is

10
00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,200
Speaker 4: back September twenty fourth through October third, and if you

11
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,280
Speaker 4: live on the West Coast, we might be coming to

12
00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,320
Speaker 4: a city near you. We're going to be in Seattle, Vancouver, Sacramento,

13
00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,839
Speaker 4: La Anaheim, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Denver. It's going

14
00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,640
Speaker 4: to be an amazing night with Elevation worship and a

15
00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,080
Speaker 4: message from Pastor Stephen. So go to Elevation Nights dot

16
00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,040
Speaker 4: com to get your tickets. We cannot wait to see

17
00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,440
Speaker 4: you there. Now let's go to the message.

18
00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,640
Speaker 5: How many came for a word from God today?

19
00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:53,600
Speaker 2: God's doctor.

20
00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:56,600
Speaker 1: Your main standing.

21
00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,840
Speaker 2: For one moment, I'm going to be sharing today from

22
00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,319
Speaker 2: Romans chapter five, verses one through nine, and then I'm

23
00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,800
Speaker 2: going to go to one other scripture as well.

24
00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:13,160
Speaker 5: Fair warning, I overstudied this week better than the alternative.

25
00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,000
Speaker 1: Right, y'all, it was real busy.

26
00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,720
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna see what the Lord says.

27
00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,920
Speaker 2: I actually am nervous to try to get this all

28
00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,280
Speaker 2: out today, but I have you home by Sunday.

29
00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,640
Speaker 1: Night football nervous chuckles.

30
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:36,680
Speaker 2: Romans Chapter five, Verse one, Ready say Ready. Therefore, since

31
00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,760
Speaker 2: we have been justified through faith, we have peace with

32
00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,760
Speaker 2: God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have

33
00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,960
Speaker 2: gained access by faith into this grace in which we

34
00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:54,640
Speaker 2: now stand, and we boast in the hope of the

35
00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,760
Speaker 2: glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory

36
00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:05,600
Speaker 2: in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces this perseverance, perseverance,

37
00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:12,160
Speaker 2: character and character, hope, and hope does not put us

38
00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,800
Speaker 2: to shame, because God's love has been poured out into

39
00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,440
Speaker 2: our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

40
00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:19,640
Speaker 1: Who has been given to us.

41
00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,560
Speaker 2: You see, at just the right time, when we were

42
00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:30,960
Speaker 2: still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Tell somebody that's you.

43
00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,480
Speaker 2: I know you smell good today, but that's you the ungodly.

44
00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,600
Speaker 2: I know you brush your teeth today, but that's you

45
00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,960
Speaker 2: the ungodly. I know you've got a Christian t shirt

46
00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,680
Speaker 2: on today. But that's you, the ungodly. And verse seven

47
00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,720
Speaker 2: goes very theological. He says, very rarely will anyone die

48
00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,200
Speaker 2: for a righteous person, though for a good person someone

49
00:02:53,320 --> 00:03:00,600
Speaker 2: might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own

50
00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:07,080
Speaker 2: love for us in this. While we were still sinners, Christ.

51
00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,919
Speaker 5: Died for us.

52
00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,240
Speaker 2: Since we have now been justified by his blood, how

53
00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,119
Speaker 2: much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him?

54
00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,760
Speaker 5: One more scripture from Joshua chapter four, and we're going

55
00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:23,320
Speaker 5: to get to work.

56
00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:34,960
Speaker 2: Joshua chapter four and verse number nine, please, And Joshua

57
00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,400
Speaker 2: was set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan,

58
00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,720
Speaker 2: in the place where the feet of the priests bearing

59
00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,120
Speaker 2: the ark of the Covenant had stood. And they are

60
00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,600
Speaker 2: there to this day, and they are there to this day.

61
00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,720
Speaker 2: And the Lord said that we were on a rescue

62
00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,880
Speaker 2: mission today in this service. And so I'm going to

63
00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,560
Speaker 2: use as a title what the Lord wants to do today.

64
00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:08,120
Speaker 2: God said, we're going to rescue your testimony. Rescue your testimony.

65
00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,320
Speaker 2: And you know, I like to give little subtitles, sometimes

66
00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,600
Speaker 2: little weird subtitles. The subtitle tell your neighbor, say the

67
00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:21,040
Speaker 2: proof is in the puddles. The proof is in the puzzles.

68
00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:27,080
Speaker 2: You may be seated. We're on a rescue mission today,

69
00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,719
Speaker 2: and go ahead and bring out my teaching screen. I

70
00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,040
Speaker 2: want to break this all the way down from Romans

71
00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,279
Speaker 2: chapter five. My favorite word that I read you in

72
00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,800
Speaker 2: Romans chapter five was the very first one. And put

73
00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,000
Speaker 2: it back on the screen again, Romans chapter five, verse one. Therefore,

74
00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,719
Speaker 2: everybody say, therefore.

75
00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:48,120
Speaker 3: You know.

76
00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,760
Speaker 1: One of the most beautiful things that.

77
00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,400
Speaker 2: Holly does for me on a regular basis is to

78
00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,760
Speaker 2: help me remember what my true values are when I'm

79
00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,159
Speaker 2: in a vulnerable place personally. And she does this in

80
00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,400
Speaker 2: the most tactful ways. She says things to me that

81
00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:08,760
Speaker 2: sounds so sweet, but beneath that layer of sweetness, she's

82
00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,200
Speaker 2: actually challenging me, come on, like step it up. And

83
00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,560
Speaker 2: she says something the other day which sounds like a

84
00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,359
Speaker 2: compliment until I put it in context. She said, wow,

85
00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,880
Speaker 2: you really do think of everything. Sounds nice, right, It

86
00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,159
Speaker 2: sounds like she's given me extra credit for being a

87
00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,839
Speaker 2: good planner. The context of the statement, she was definitely

88
00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,440
Speaker 2: saying it out of kindness, but it wasn't compliment. We're

89
00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,480
Speaker 2: talking about going to do something and I have a gift.

90
00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:40,960
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have this gift too, Just

91
00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,960
Speaker 2: make some noise if you share the same gift.

92
00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,000
Speaker 1: I have a gift for.

93
00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,400
Speaker 5: Hypothetical.

94
00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,400
Speaker 2: I actually would say I am the high priest of

95
00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:02,799
Speaker 2: the hypothetical scenario, you know, plays out in many different ways.

96
00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,760
Speaker 2: On this particular day, I was saying, you know, if

97
00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,760
Speaker 2: we go here to see this person, we were going

98
00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,560
Speaker 2: to make a trip, and I.

99
00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,560
Speaker 5: Said, well, we go, if we go.

100
00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,520
Speaker 1: If we go, he.

101
00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,320
Speaker 2: Might have to work and I hadn't even checked into

102
00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,560
Speaker 2: his work schedule yet, and we might we might get

103
00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,560
Speaker 2: sick because he was hanging out with this other person

104
00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,359
Speaker 2: that was sick the other day and I heard they

105
00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,000
Speaker 2: might have COVID and I don't even know what that

106
00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,080
Speaker 2: is anymore, but I heard that they might have had it.

107
00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,760
Speaker 2: And so, but then, what if we're going, and what

108
00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,839
Speaker 2: if we And she looks at me and goes, wow,

109
00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,039
Speaker 2: you really do think of everything, And I said, well,

110
00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,520
Speaker 2: it's just it could be kind of stressful, you know,

111
00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,000
Speaker 2: And she said yeah, but you can make anything stressful.

112
00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:50,680
Speaker 5: And it didn't offend me at all. I needed to

113
00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,080
Speaker 5: hear it.

114
00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,039
Speaker 2: Because she knows that actually what I want to experience

115
00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,800
Speaker 2: is on the other side of something that I may

116
00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:58,359
Speaker 2: not want to do.

117
00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:00,960
Speaker 5: And she knew that if I'm.

118
00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,320
Speaker 2: Always getting hung up on the hypothetical, there's a sense

119
00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,080
Speaker 2: in which I would just always stay home. If I

120
00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,880
Speaker 2: was just left to my own devices, I would just

121
00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,920
Speaker 2: become a complete hermit, and I would be a hermit

122
00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,760
Speaker 2: because when I leave the house, this involves other humans

123
00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,440
Speaker 2: at this point. And so there was a song by

124
00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,280
Speaker 2: Paramore a few years ago where she said, this is.

125
00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:23,360
Speaker 5: Why I don't leave the house.

126
00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,160
Speaker 2: And I look at Holly sometimes when we get in traffic,

127
00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,240
Speaker 2: or when I can't find a bathroom, or you know,

128
00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,240
Speaker 2: something kind of crazy is happening, and I go, this

129
00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,320
Speaker 2: is why I don't leave the house. And she, on

130
00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,840
Speaker 2: the other hand, now I'm very hypothetical. I made up

131
00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,280
Speaker 2: a word to describe her spiritual gift. Okay, I made

132
00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,080
Speaker 2: this word up. You won't find it in the dictionary.

133
00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:48,920
Speaker 2: I am hypothetical. Holly is hypothetical. You like that I

134
00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,160
Speaker 2: made that up. Let me see if I can write

135
00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,840
Speaker 2: it on the screen. Hopathetical, everybody say, hypothetical not a

136
00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,320
Speaker 2: real word, just a word to use for our purposes

137
00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:00,480
Speaker 2: in studying today.

138
00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,720
Speaker 5: She is hope othetical.

139
00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:12,560
Speaker 2: So while I'm stuck in the hypothetical of you know what,

140
00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,679
Speaker 2: if my phone dies, it's only seventy two percent.

141
00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,240
Speaker 1: You never know what kind of situation.

142
00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:17,760
Speaker 5: You're going to run into. Give me a charger.

143
00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,720
Speaker 2: While I'm in this situation, because then it spends out

144
00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:21,880
Speaker 2: of control even past that.

145
00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,600
Speaker 5: Like the phone dies and then we're out in the

146
00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,320
Speaker 5: middle of nowhere. And since we're out in the middle

147
00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,240
Speaker 5: of nowhere, one.

148
00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,280
Speaker 2: Of our kids needs us, and because they couldn't get us,

149
00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,080
Speaker 2: it scars them deeply and it traumatizes them, which is

150
00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,360
Speaker 2: why they end up on methamphetamines and why we end

151
00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,880
Speaker 2: up having to go to rehab.

152
00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:35,800
Speaker 1: To visit them.

153
00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,559
Speaker 2: Hypothetical Holly is hopathetical, and she's teaching me the art

154
00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,080
Speaker 2: of hopathetical living, and so she tends to go more

155
00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,680
Speaker 2: like this, where I'm focused on everything that we have

156
00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,440
Speaker 2: to go through to get there. She'll say something like, yeah,

157
00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,480
Speaker 2: but it could be fun, and I'm like, well, what

158
00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,920
Speaker 2: does fun have to do with the fact that we

159
00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,320
Speaker 2: might get there and I can't find a bathroom? Have

160
00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,280
Speaker 2: you noticed I mentioned that twice? That's something I'm thinking

161
00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,640
Speaker 2: about more than now. At forty four but hypothetically. Let's

162
00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:08,640
Speaker 2: say I get there and she's hypothetical. You know, She's like,

163
00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,079
Speaker 2: you're a man, you could you know.

164
00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,920
Speaker 1: So she's just like, we'll figure it out.

165
00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,760
Speaker 2: Let's be all right, And I'm thankful for her hypotheticalness.

166
00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,199
Speaker 2: How many you have a hypothetical person in your life

167
00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,160
Speaker 2: for when you tend to get to hypothetical?

168
00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,640
Speaker 5: You need one, You need one.

169
00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,760
Speaker 2: You can't have Holly, she's taken, she's mine.

170
00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,040
Speaker 5: Everybody says you need a hype man.

171
00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,800
Speaker 2: Well, you need a hope man, somebody who can remind

172
00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,240
Speaker 2: you that, Yes, you might go through some things to

173
00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,360
Speaker 2: get there. Yes, it may be inconvenient. Yes they may

174
00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,040
Speaker 2: laugh at you. Yes you may put it out and

175
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,360
Speaker 2: then nobody sees it. Yes you may do it and

176
00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,400
Speaker 2: nobody thanks you. Yes you may spend the energy and

177
00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,720
Speaker 2: it will all be worthless, but it.

178
00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,280
Speaker 1: Might also be kind of cool. If you don't have

179
00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,959
Speaker 1: a hope man, you'll never leave the house.

180
00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,480
Speaker 2: Take it from a hypothetical I mean, even even going

181
00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,360
Speaker 2: through the scenarios in my mind leaves me with what

182
00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:10,760
Speaker 2: I call a hypothetical hangover, not involving alcohol, but involving

183
00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,800
Speaker 2: all the scenarios that I run in my mind.

184
00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,600
Speaker 5: Thank you Jesus, all the scenarios.

185
00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:20,600
Speaker 2: They're coming to fix it right now, hypothetically, I hope.

186
00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,959
Speaker 2: See we're thinking about this different. She's like, they're coming.

187
00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,120
Speaker 2: This is gonna be great. The tech team is awesome.

188
00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:28,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, if they don't get out here right now,

189
00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,680
Speaker 2: this whole sermon is gonna be wrong. You can't fix

190
00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,160
Speaker 2: this one, all right, We'll see check one too. That

191
00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,120
Speaker 2: must mean the Lord wants me to holler and scream

192
00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,480
Speaker 2: and yell. I said, that must mean the Lord wants

193
00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:43,880
Speaker 2: me to scream and holler and yell.

194
00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,120
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. I'll just hold this.

195
00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:55,320
Speaker 2: Now, hypothetically speaking, when things happen that you didn't plan

196
00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:08,839
Speaker 2: on happening, how do you handle it? Hypothetically? Paul has

197
00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,720
Speaker 2: a strategy for that. In Romans chapter five, verse three,

198
00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,920
Speaker 2: he says, we glory in our sufferings. If you back

199
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000
Speaker 2: up one verse before that, he says, we boast. Everybody,

200
00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,400
Speaker 2: say boast in the hope of the glory of God.

201
00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,640
Speaker 2: If you needed an object lesson in boasting in the

202
00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,720
Speaker 2: hope of something, think of your favorite college football fan

203
00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,679
Speaker 2: who cheers for a team that this year is going

204
00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,880
Speaker 2: to be the year that we win at all.

205
00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,880
Speaker 1: First of all, who is we? Paul said, we.

206
00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,560
Speaker 2: Boast in the hope of the glory of God, So

207
00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:53,320
Speaker 2: I am already celebrating something that someone else is accomplishing. Secondly,

208
00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,640
Speaker 2: boasting in the hope is very different than boasting in

209
00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,680
Speaker 2: the reality. The Bible says, who hopes in what he

210
00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:06,800
Speaker 2: has already seen, what he already possesses. Since Holly is hypothetical,

211
00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,520
Speaker 2: and since Paul in this passage is teaching us something

212
00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:15,240
Speaker 2: about hopathetical Christianity, I want to break down for the

213
00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,439
Speaker 2: next few minutes how to deal with situations in your

214
00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:23,400
Speaker 2: life where you are right there in the middle of

215
00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,680
Speaker 2: a I guess I could call this a flood moment,

216
00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,560
Speaker 2: and you need faith to move forward in it. And

217
00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use three points for this outline today. Write

218
00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,080
Speaker 2: them up on the screen for you. I want you

219
00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,120
Speaker 2: to write these down, and I want you to take

220
00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,880
Speaker 2: notes on this sermon so that the next time that

221
00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,760
Speaker 2: the devil tries to make you hysterical, you can get hopathetical.

222
00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach you a lesson on how to be hypothetical.

223
00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,080
Speaker 1: And it's really three parts to this.

224
00:12:52,600 --> 00:13:00,240
Speaker 2: Number one, we want to talk about anticipation. Everybody say anticipation.

225
00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,720
Speaker 2: Put it in the chat anticipation. And number two, we

226
00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:11,240
Speaker 2: want to talk about justification, say justification and everybody in

227
00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,040
Speaker 2: the e FM online put these right there in the chat.

228
00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:19,320
Speaker 2: Number three, I want to talk about demonstration and God

229
00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,280
Speaker 2: helping us over the next twenty eight minutes.

230
00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:28,160
Speaker 1: Oh you didn't see that, y'all? Pray the Lord will

231
00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,640
Speaker 1: heal my handwriting? All right? That would be a miracle demonstration.

232
00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,120
Speaker 1: Did I get them? All right? Can you read that?

233
00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,120
Speaker 1: Is that distracting to you or does that help you out?

234
00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:38,600
Speaker 1: Put three points on it.

235
00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:45,679
Speaker 2: Anticipation, the anticipation that Paul mentions in Romans chapter five.

236
00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,560
Speaker 2: He talks about the hope of the glory of God.

237
00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,520
Speaker 2: And this thing about anticipation works both ways, doesn't it?

238
00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,360
Speaker 2: Because I realized a long time ago that what the

239
00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,680
Speaker 2: devil is actually attacking when he comes to me with

240
00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,720
Speaker 2: words is my ability to anticipate what God might do,

241
00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,559
Speaker 2: and that every time I worry, it's a.

242
00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:16,920
Speaker 1: Perversion of worship. Worship and worry operate from the same energy.

243
00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,920
Speaker 2: They both attach to something that I can't see to

244
00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,520
Speaker 2: deal with something that I'm going through. Worship attaches to

245
00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,080
Speaker 2: a God who I can't see now. Faith is the

246
00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,800
Speaker 2: substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things

247
00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,680
Speaker 2: not seen. Worry attaches to something that hasn't even happened

248
00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,920
Speaker 2: yet and gives more power to the problem than it

249
00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,280
Speaker 2: does the promise of God who said he would be

250
00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,160
Speaker 2: with you through every problem. So now we're beginning to

251
00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:52,400
Speaker 2: see that the devil is after your anticipation. If he

252
00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,760
Speaker 2: cannot get you to fear the worst possible scenario, he

253
00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,040
Speaker 2: will hurt you so many times when you get your

254
00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,240
Speaker 2: hopes up that you learn to manage your sense of

255
00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,920
Speaker 2: disappointment by bringing down your level of expectation.

256
00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,640
Speaker 1: And this is the truth about a lot of us.

257
00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,800
Speaker 2: Is that really the reason we go through life with

258
00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,000
Speaker 2: a kind of bad attitude, with a pessimistic attitude not

259
00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,840
Speaker 2: leaving the house, is because we left the house one time.

260
00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,120
Speaker 1: And it didn't work out very well.

261
00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,440
Speaker 2: And so now every time that God calls us out

262
00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,280
Speaker 2: to do something, and it could be anything, God could

263
00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,360
Speaker 2: just call you to do anything, speak a kind word.

264
00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,280
Speaker 2: Last time you spoke a kind word, they thought you

265
00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,360
Speaker 2: were weak and then they took advantage of you. So

266
00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,520
Speaker 2: now I'm not going to speak any kind words to

267
00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,080
Speaker 2: anybody anymore, because you know how it is. You just

268
00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:39,960
Speaker 2: say think nice things to people and they don't do

269
00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,400
Speaker 2: anything back. See what the enemy is doing there is

270
00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,800
Speaker 2: He is trying to inform your anticipation of the future

271
00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,480
Speaker 2: based on the thing that happened to you in the

272
00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:56,560
Speaker 2: past that was poorly processed. The way that we anticipate

273
00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,680
Speaker 2: our life is a process. Even some times when I'm

274
00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,600
Speaker 2: talking to Holly about something that could happen bad or

275
00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,360
Speaker 2: something that did happen bad, or what might happen bad,

276
00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,760
Speaker 2: or I was going to backfire, I'll tell myself as

277
00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,280
Speaker 2: an excuse if you ever said this, I'm just processing.

278
00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,840
Speaker 2: And really, while I say that I'm processing, i am,

279
00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,160
Speaker 2: But write this down in your notes. Not all processing

280
00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:28,520
Speaker 2: is productive. It's not always productive for you to just

281
00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:33,640
Speaker 2: process because if you just process but there is no.

282
00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,600
Speaker 1: God in your processing, you will end up.

283
00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,440
Speaker 2: With a godless thought because you started with the godless process.

284
00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,720
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's important that when.

285
00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,400
Speaker 2: You process things in your mind for a little while,

286
00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,760
Speaker 2: you come outside of your head every once in a

287
00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,200
Speaker 2: while and verbalize.

288
00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,400
Speaker 1: It in prayer to God.

289
00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,920
Speaker 2: The verbal process of praying out loud will actually help

290
00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,040
Speaker 2: you with the internal struggle of a hyperactive mind. So

291
00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,440
Speaker 2: for everybody who struggles with an overactive imagination. You can

292
00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,560
Speaker 2: think more than one thing at a time, you can't

293
00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,280
Speaker 2: speak more than one thing at a time.

294
00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,879
Speaker 1: And there comes a time where you have to start.

295
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:21,040
Speaker 2: Speaking things of faith to fight against the spaghetti noodles

296
00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:26,280
Speaker 2: of fear. I'm telling you that Satan will spaghetti your

297
00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,600
Speaker 2: emotional state and get you so tangled up in the

298
00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,520
Speaker 2: things that you've been through, so tangled up in the

299
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:36,400
Speaker 2: things that you're suffering. I found it interesting that Paul

300
00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:41,400
Speaker 2: said we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

301
00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,320
Speaker 2: I thought that boasting was bad until I read Romans

302
00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,520
Speaker 2: chapter five, verse two, and Paul said that there is

303
00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,000
Speaker 2: a type of boasting that is totally appropriate for the

304
00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,800
Speaker 2: child of God. This boasting, however, does not come from

305
00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,600
Speaker 2: an anticipation that things will always look the way.

306
00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,040
Speaker 1: That you wanted them to look. This type of boasting does.

307
00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,160
Speaker 2: Not come, for example, from your anticipation that you will

308
00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:13,840
Speaker 2: never suffer. Jesus did not die to save us from suffering.

309
00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:21,680
Speaker 2: He suffered and died to save us from sin, so

310
00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,960
Speaker 2: that when we suffer, we're not surprised. He suffered to

311
00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,320
Speaker 2: save us. Now, he did not save us from suffering.

312
00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,760
Speaker 2: He saved us by his suffering, and in his suffering,

313
00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:36,560
Speaker 2: we have hope.

314
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,960
Speaker 1: High five your neighbors say I have hope.

315
00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,320
Speaker 2: I have hope not because I think I'll never go

316
00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:44,040
Speaker 2: through anything.

317
00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,280
Speaker 1: But I'm one of these hope pathetical Christians.

318
00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,560
Speaker 2: I don't have hope based on the fact that I

319
00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,199
Speaker 2: will never go through it. So this is not a

320
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,879
Speaker 2: naive sense in which I go through life knowing that

321
00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,080
Speaker 2: it will always be okay. This is not a hope

322
00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,720
Speaker 2: based on how I know it's going to go. I'm

323
00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,720
Speaker 2: leaving the house, and I'm leaving my complacency, and I'm

324
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,800
Speaker 2: leaving my shell, and I'm leaving this relationship, and I'm

325
00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,960
Speaker 2: leaving this thought pattern not based on the hope that

326
00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 2: is going to be so easy when I leave, but

327
00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,840
Speaker 2: that he won't be with me as I go.

328
00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:30,520
Speaker 1: I have a hope. So do you process with God

329
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,280
Speaker 1: what you go through? Or are you processing without God?

330
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,119
Speaker 2: And if you are, you do not have what the

331
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,080
Speaker 2: Bible says here in verse one.

332
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,960
Speaker 1: Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have

333
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:52,320
Speaker 1: peace with God. He didn't say I don't have fears

334
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:58,080
Speaker 1: about my future. He said we have peace with God.

335
00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,200
Speaker 1: He didn't say I don't have regrets about my past.

336
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,920
Speaker 2: He said we have peace with God. He didn't say

337
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,919
Speaker 2: I don't have conflict in my home. He said I

338
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,639
Speaker 2: have peace with God. I'm gonna go a little deeper.

339
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,600
Speaker 2: He didn't say I don't have temptations that are dragging

340
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 2: me back to the Egypt I thought I left. He

341
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:24,879
Speaker 2: said we have peace with God. He didn't say I

342
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,240
Speaker 2: don't have bills that I don't know how I'm gonna pay.

343
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 2: He said I have peace with God. He didn't say

344
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,159
Speaker 2: I don't have pain in my body. He said I

345
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,879
Speaker 2: have peace with God. He didn't say I don't have

346
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 2: issues that I'm going to counseling for.

347
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: He said I have peace with God.

348
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 2: He didn't say I don't have anger that I don't

349
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,199
Speaker 2: even always know where it's coming from. He said I

350
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:55,399
Speaker 2: have peace with God. So my peace with God is

351
00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 2: not in the absence of the problem. My peace with

352
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 2: God is not in the absence of the anxiety. My

353
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 2: peace with God is not in the absence of my

354
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 2: shaking hands.

355
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 1: My peace with God is not in the absence of

356
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 1: enemies who don't like me. My peace with God.

357
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 2: Comes from somebody who won a game.

358
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 1: I didn't even play it. Now you yawning, Am I

359
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: being born? All right?

360
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 2: What I think is good for us to remember when

361
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 2: we have something that we have hoped for and it

362
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 2: didn't happen for us, is that before we can move

363
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:55,200
Speaker 2: forward in pure faith, God often has to heal your hope.

364
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 2: And the first step of healing your hope is changing

365
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 2: what you boast in the Book of Romans was not

366
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 2: written as a pep talk to tell you do better.

367
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,919
Speaker 1: Get out there, go get them. You got this.

368
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 2: Nobody's slapping anybody on the bottom of Romans except Paul

369
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 2: saying the way you used.

370
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 1: To boast in was your relationship to the law. Remember

371
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 1: they kept the law.

372
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 2: They did that through circumcision, which was an external sign

373
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 2: of their faith, and they were trying to go back

374
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 2: to that.

375
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: But Paul says in this passage that what you.

376
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: Used to boast in is insufficient to hold your hope

377
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: in this season of your life. One reason you can

378
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 2: praise God after you've been through something, tell somebody I've

379
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 2: been through something. Okay, after you've been through something, but

380
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,479
Speaker 2: you found that God was still with you after you

381
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 2: went through it. Now you have something to boast about

382
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 2: that you didn't have before. And I saw somebody in

383
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 2: this room You've been like, why am I going through

384
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 2: everything I'm going through? Why does this all keep happening

385
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 2: to me? Why has this been so hard the last

386
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 2: three months? Why did I think I was so far along?

387
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 2: And then I just snapped right back to the previous

388
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 2: place that I was. It seems like nothing has moved forward.

389
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: But instead of you seeing yourself as going through something,

390
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 2: I want you to see yourself as getting something from

391
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 2: going through something, getting something from two completely different paradigms.

392
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 2: The focus on what I'm going through is me hypothetical,

393
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 2: the focus on what I'm going to have to go through.

394
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy that.

395
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 2: The devil can beat you with something that may never

396
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 2: even happen. Ask the prophet Elijah who ran from Jezebel

397
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 2: and wasted days that he could have spent in revival

398
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: from somebody who already proved she didn't.

399
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: Have the power to kill him.

400
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 2: You know, when you're going through something, or when you

401
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 2: might have to go through something, your focus becomes only

402
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 2: the pain that it will cost you. And so now

403
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 2: your story revolves around your suffering. How could Paul say

404
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 2: in verse three Romans, Chapter five that we glory in

405
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: our suffering.

406
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: We glory in our suffering. Maybe he doesn't mean that

407
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: we like it. Maybe he doesn't mean that we ask

408
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: for more of it.

409
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: Maybe he means that while we're going through it, we

410
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 2: get something from it.

411
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: And so recently I was telling a friend a story.

412
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 2: You know, we all have these pity party stories that

413
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 2: we tell, and I was sharing it under the pretense

414
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 2: like it was a testimony of something God brought me through.

415
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 2: But in the middle of telling the story, it was

416
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 2: as if the Holy Spirit said to me, and I'm

417
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 2: gonna do a whole sermon one day.

418
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know how I'm.

419
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 2: Gonna do it yet, but it's gonna be called when

420
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 2: you say, God said, because a lot of times when

421
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 2: I'm preaching, I'll say God said this, and God said that.

422
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 2: And a sweet middle school kid came up to me

423
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: one time and said, when you say God said, what

424
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 2: does that mean?

425
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: Did you hear out loud voice? Did you read a

426
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: Bible verse?

427
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 2: What do you mean when you say God said, I'm

428
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 2: gonna do a sermon on that one day?

429
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: But in this particular case.

430
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 2: It was an impression, and I was in the middle

431
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 2: of the story, telling the story, and mid sentence I

432
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: stopped telling the story because was this The Holy Spirit

433
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 2: said to me, I'm sick of this side of the

434
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: story because you're telling him like it's something you went through,

435
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 2: but you're talking like you're still in it.

436
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: And if you really believe what you're.

437
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 2: Saying, you believe this is something that I brought you through,

438
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 2: So why are you not through with it.

439
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: Now? I'm not saying this always works.

440
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 2: Please don't take me out of context.

441
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: I hate I hate.

442
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 2: The thought that we can just cut short trauma by

443
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: putting on a happy face.

444
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 1: That is not my point.

445
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 2: This was not a situation where there was unresolved trauma.

446
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 2: This was a case where there was unreleased bitterness. And

447
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 2: the Lord showed me as I was speaking, I'm telling you,

448
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: it was like it was almost like my mouth got

449
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: zipped by the Holy Spirit, and the Lord said, I'm

450
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 2: sick of this.

451
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: Side of it because all you keep.

452
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: Talking about is the story from the standpoint of how

453
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 2: hurtful it was to you. But you know good and

454
00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 2: well that what I did through that was something that

455
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 2: I absolutely had to do and you know good and well,

456
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: then if it hadn't hurt you like that, you wouldn't.

457
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: Be here today. So stop telling that story from that side.

458
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: Start saying things like, yeah, it hurt, but God healed

459
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: me from it.

460
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: Yeah it was hard, but I got stronger from it.

461
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 2: Yeah I was waiting, but I felt some spiritual muscles

462
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 2: and I got a miracle from it.

463
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: High five.

464
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 2: Somebody say, there's two sides to this story. There's two

465
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 2: sides to this story. There's what you went through, and

466
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: there's what you got from what you went through. And

467
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 2: while you're still worried about what you might go through,

468
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,719
Speaker 2: you need to pick up something.

469
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: Just sit right in front of you. You're about Christian

470
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 1: glad my mic went out.

471
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: I needed a big boy mike today. I said I

472
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: needed a big boy mike today. I'm glad the mike

473
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 2: went out. Some of y'all need to say I'm glad

474
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: about stuff.

475
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: That goes wrong. I'm glad that went wrong.

476
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 2: That was a redirection because I would have stayed in

477
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: this wilderness.

478
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: If the man didn't go away. I would have stayed

479
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: in that place.

480
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 2: If they didn't push me out, how would have stayed?

481
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: Stuff is something that I'm so much greater than.

482
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 6: I am. Because a wind threw it, threw it, threw it,

483
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 6: threw it through it.

484
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: That's what the Bible says. That's what the Bible says.

485
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, that's what the Bible says.

486
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he didn't say, watch this.

487
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: We have hope because of what might happen. We have

488
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: hope because of what could happen. We have hope because

489
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 2: of what probably will happen.

490
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: Now the apostle pause says something so much greater than that.

491
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 2: He says, Therefore, I'm about to blow your mind for

492
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: everything you're going through, for everything you might go through,

493
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: for every hypothetical in your life. Let's get hole pathetical

494
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 2: for a moment. He said, since we have been, you

495
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 2: missed it. He said, we have been. Everybody say I

496
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: have been. Now clarify for your neighbors say in English,

497
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: have been means past tense.

498
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: That's behind me, that's behind me, that's behind me, that's

499
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: behind me.

500
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 2: That's why it's my testimony.

501
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: Because I passed. Because it was a test, but I

502
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: passed it. That's what put the money on it.

503
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: I have.

504
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: Because it happen. It happened. But I'm here it happened,

505
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: But hallelujah, it happened. But I have this hope.

506
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: I have this hope because I have been justified. Some

507
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: of you are waiting for other people to celebrate how

508
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: far you've come. But I got news, baby, They don't

509
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: live on the inside of you. Jesus does, the Holy

510
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: theory does.

511
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: The righteousness of.

512
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 2: God has been impaled.

513
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: To you by faith.

514
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: So that's my second point of discermon is justification justification.

515
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 2: This is for all of your justified. I'll be further

516
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: along justified. You know all those regrets. You know I

517
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 2: wouldn't be in this mess justified.

518
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: Along comes Jesus.

519
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: Talking about you keep going back in your past, but

520
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: not far enough. You keep going back in your past,

521
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: but you're not going back there far enough. Because before

522
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: you even called on me, before you even looked to me.

523
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 2: Jimmy Romans, Chapter five, verse eight, this is the verse

524
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: you wanted to shout about a minute ago. Because the

525
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: Bible says that we were not good people, we were

526
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: not godly people, we were not righteous people. We did

527
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: not earned this spot. We did not make the team.

528
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 2: We did not make the cut, we did not live

529
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 2: up to it.

530
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: But God but God. So when we go back to

531
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: the past, you need to learn a phrase, say I

532
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: was but God, sit right there, Sit it right there, because.

533
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 2: Just to show you real clear what the Bible says,

534
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: I don't care what I say.

535
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: I don't care what you say. I don't care what

536
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: your grandmother says. I'm sorry. I'm sure she's beautiful.

537
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: I'll give her a hug if we ever meet, and

538
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, and I respect her and I'll

539
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 2: call her whatever you told me to call her. But

540
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: I don't care what you were taught about this, the

541
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 2: Bible says. The Bible says that I have.

542
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: That sass. Access is an interesting thing.

543
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: It kind of suggests that something can be there and

544
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: you have it, but you can't get to it.

545
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: Because of what's blocking it. And that's why you died.

546
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 7: And that's why I have hope, because He gave me

547
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 7: access by faith into disgrace, in which I now stand

548
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 7: and we boast in the hope.

549
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: Of the glory of God.

550
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:52,719
Speaker 2: Now, the more you understand this that you have, the

551
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: more you will have of this.

552
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: And the way that you access this peace.

553
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: I need more peace, you need more awareness, you need

554
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 2: more hoypathetical Christianity, you need more. I don't know if

555
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 2: you're gonna like this character, which is an interesting word.

556
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: I was studying that word because I thought, well, this

557
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 2: is how it works. This is how God matures us,

558
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: matures our lives, and this is how God brings forth

559
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 2: his fruit in our lives.

560
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: He gives us hope through the suffering.

561
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: That produces perseverance, and the perseverance the not quitting, produces character,

562
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 2: and then character hope. So in order to get to

563
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: the hope, you got to go through some hell and

564
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: what it produces. Y'all, I feel annoyed to help somebody today.

565
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 2: I don't even care about anything, but said who I'm

566
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 2: supposed to help today? Because the word character in Greek

567
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 2: is actually a word that Paul made up. It's not

568
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: a word that's anywhere else in the New Testament except

569
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 2: when Paul uses it.

570
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: And it doesn't just mean character in the sense of, well,

571
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: that's just who I am.

572
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: See, that's why some of you have the wrong testimony

573
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 2: right now. You keep testifying about that's just who I am,

574
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: that's just the way I am, that's just the way

575
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: it is.

576
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: And all of that might be true.

577
00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: But this character that God is producing in you is

578
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: a certain type of character from a certain word that

579
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: Paul made up to describe what happens when you go

580
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 2: through something and get something from what you go through

581
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: that you couldn't get any other way. And the word

582
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 2: actually means proven worth, proven worth. And it started not

583
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: with the amazing things that happened, but with the pain

584
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: that you experienced. So the pain that you experienced produced

585
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 2: the proof of the worth of your faith.

586
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: What good is a hope that can't be disappointed?

587
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 2: What good is a faith that can't be shaken and

588
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 2: not broken? What good is it for me to just

589
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 2: hope that things turn out well and then when they don't,

590
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 2: stay home. What good is it for me to listen

591
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: to Pastor Stephen preach for an hour and then go

592
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 2: home and resist the very things that God brings into

593
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: my life that will produce the word that he preached about.

594
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 2: What good is it for me to keep just going

595
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: through things and never stopping. God said today we are

596
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 2: going to rescue your testimony because you have stopped talking

597
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: about what God is going to do. You have stopped

598
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: talking about.

599
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: How it can be different.

600
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 2: You have been disappointed, you have been hurt, you have

601
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 2: been hemorrhaging from what you went through.

602
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: But God wants to heal that.

603
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 2: Place and rescue your testimony, to rescue it.

604
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: That's what Holly does for me. She rescues me from

605
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: my hypothetical situations.

606
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 2: I say, well, if we go, something bad might happen,

607
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 2: and she says, but if you don't go, you might

608
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 2: look back the rest of your life and wonder what

609
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: would have happened if you did.

610
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: And so Paul says, it is the suffering.

611
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 2: It is the pain that proved that proves the character.

612
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: The proof starts with suffering, the proof, do you see it?

613
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 2: The proof starts with suffering, and that's what leads to

614
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: the hope, because you know, I can go back to

615
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: that and I can remember that God did that for me.

616
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: And so every once in a while.

617
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 2: I screenshot something on my phone just to remind me

618
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 2: in my low moments that at the lowest moments, God

619
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 2: is doing the most. A few years ago, I preached

620
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 2: a sermon to where I left and thought, well, that

621
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 2: didn't go very good. And I don't always blame myself.

622
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 2: Sometimes y'all are just lazy listeners. But I like to

623
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 2: take responsibility, Like, well, come on, I could have done

624
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 2: that better and clearer, and I beat.

625
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: Myself up every which way.

626
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: And that same week, my friend sent me a text

627
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: of their notes from the sermon, and they said, just

628
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 2: wanted you to be encouraged.

629
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: Well I needed to be, so I was thankful for

630
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: the text.

631
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: They took six pages of notes on that sermon that

632
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: I thought sucked. Okay, so I'm looking at it. I'm like,

633
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 2: this is great, Okay, thank you Lord. Maybe it wasn't

634
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: that bad. They wrote six pages of notes. But then

635
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 2: I looked at it again and I saw why they

636
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 2: sent it to me, because I thought, that's kind of weird.

637
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 2: Why did you send me your notes? I preached it,

638
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 2: don't you think I know what I said? But next

639
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 2: to the notes was this little puddle of tears that

640
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 2: they were showing me. And when the text came through

641
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 2: next after the photo, it said, I cried so hard

642
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 2: through your message. I left a puddle of tears next

643
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 2: to my notes before I dried it up. I wanted

644
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 2: to show you. And and that's something that while I'm sitting

645
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 2: there thinking, well, that wasn't any good, and then I

646
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 2: get a picture a proof in the puddle of tears

647
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 2: that they cry because I understand that sometimes suffering is

648
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 2: the starting place for something amazing. Sometimes the absence of

649
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 2: your emotional validation when you are doing the thing that

650
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 2: God has called you to do, maybe not preaching a sermon,

651
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 2: maybe just being a good man, maybe not preaching a sermon,

652
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 2: maybe just keeping your purity as a teenager, maybe not

653
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 2: preaching a sermon, Maybe just showing up to the next

654
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: thing that you know you can do. And the proof

655
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: I didn't feel it when I preached it. I didn't

656
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 2: see it when I preached it. I didn't know it

657
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 2: when I preached it. But to get that text, that

658
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 2: puddle of tears, to say that sermon that you preached,

659
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 2: that you felt nothing, that word you spoke, that you

660
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: felt nothing, that you pray, that you saw nothing.

661
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: Here's something, here's something days later that you didn't even see.

662
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: You weren't even there for it. But it's proof. This

663
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: is the proof that I'm after.

664
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: Not the proof of what you feel when you do it,

665
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 2: not the proof of what you see when you do it.

666
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 2: Not the proof of what you know right now, not

667
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: the proof of what you think you need to be validated,

668
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 2: not the proof of what you think would make it successful.

669
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: It is the proof in that puddle of tears that

670
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 2: you cried while you suffered. But I bet you got

671
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 2: up after you cried and did something, didn't you.

672
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: I bet you got up.

673
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 2: When you cried. I bet you got up after your

674
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 2: heart was broken and you kept going. So now you

675
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: have a testimony, and let's stop talking about all that

676
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: it costs you, and let's start talking about how God.

677
00:41:52,440 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 8: Has called you proven, character, proven, prove I.

678
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 2: Have hope, say not loud, I have hope. I can

679
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 2: prove it. I have hope, and I can prove it.

680
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 2: So Holly said to me, you really do think of everything.

681
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, so does God. And she didn't

682
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: really accept that as an analogy, but I told her

683
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: how God has taken into account. You see, at just

684
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 2: the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died

685
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 2: for the ungodly. So now I want to talk about, finally,

686
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 2: the demonstration. The demonstration.

687
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: The proof.

688
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 2: That you have hope, and the proof that you have

689
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: hope is not that you don't suffer or will never suffer.

690
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 2: And the proof that you have hope is not that

691
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 2: you don't go through. Let me break that down a

692
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 2: little bit more. It is not that you won't ever

693
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 2: feel that way again. It is not that you will

694
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 2: never be let down again. It is not that you

695
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 2: will never experience a betrayal again. It is not that

696
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 2: you will never wrestle with this again. It is not

697
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: that it will completely leave your life. That is not

698
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 2: what Christ died to save us from. And the good

699
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 2: thing is, if you feel weak in this moment, that's

700
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 2: the very point He saved you at and he's still

701
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 2: saving so you have proof demonstration. But God demonstrates his

702
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 2: own love for us in this that while we were

703
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: still ciners, Christ died for us.

704
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: I read you a.

705
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 2: Scripture from the Old Testament earlier, and you may have

706
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 2: wondered if I forgot about it, but I didn't, because

707
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 2: I want to give you a picture of how God

708
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 2: demonstrates his power in your weakness.

709
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: The children of Israel are headed out of the.

710
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 2: Land that they've known as the place of their captivity

711
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 2: for over four hundred years. They've been wandering in the

712
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 2: wilderness for forty of those years because of the regrets

713
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 2: of their past. I gotta be thinking at this point

714
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 2: something is going.

715
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: Through their head.

716
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 2: Justified believe God and gone through the Promised land. Just

717
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: if we'd gone through and faced the giants in our

718
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 2: faith and believe the minority report of Caleb and Joshua,

719
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 2: just if we had not brought a complaint to Moses

720
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: in the place of where our faith should have been.

721
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 2: But now God is bringing a new generation led by Joshua,

722
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 2: into the Promised Land, and the Bible says that on

723
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: the way to where they're going, because you're going somewhere,

724
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 2: I don't know.

725
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: If you feel stuck where you are, you're gonna die.

726
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: Where you are is.

727
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: Gonna be like it is, But you are transitioning out

728
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 2: of this.

729
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: Before they transition out.

730
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 2: Of the land that they've been in, the wilderness that

731
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: they've wandered in, the what ifs that they've wasted away in.

732
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: Before they transition out of this, God gives a very

733
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 2: strange instruction to Joshua. He says, before you completely cross

734
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 2: and by the way, I think you should commemorate every

735
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 2: crossing in your life, every crossing over. Just start celebrating

736
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 2: stuff when you cross over. So that could be as

737
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: simple ass thank you God for a new day. I

738
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 2: lay down to sleep and I woke up again, and

739
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 2: somebody didn't, So thank you for it. Lord, thank you

740
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: for another week. Thank you for bringing me to the

741
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 2: Lord's house another day. Thank you for a new season.

742
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 2: Thank you God for a new opportunity. Thank you for

743
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 2: my next breath. Thank You for my next opportunity. And

744
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: as they are crossing over watch this, God calls Joshua,

745
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: I want you to commemorate and demonstrate what I did.

746
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: And here's why four verse number five. I'm ready to

747
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: preach now.

748
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 2: Chapter number four, Verse five, and Joshua said to them,

749
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 2: pass on before the ark of the Lord, your God,

750
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 2: that represents God's presence, into the midst of the Jordan,

751
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 2: and take each of you a stone upon his shoulder.

752
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 2: According to the number of the tribes of the people

753
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 2: of Israel. How many tribes were there twelve? How many stones? Twelve,

754
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 2: one for every tribe, one for every trial, one for

755
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 2: every tribe, one for every trial. You ought to get

756
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 2: something out of everything you go through that makes you

757
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 2: stronger in God. I'm not going to cry like that

758
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 2: and not get stronger from it. I'm not going to

759
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 2: suffer like that and not get stronger from it. So

760
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: make sure you take something from this. But then verse success,

761
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 2: very importantly, why you're doing this, that this, this may

762
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 2: be a sign among you. So when your children ask

763
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 2: in time to come, what do these stones mean?

764
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: You stop?

765
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 2: How do you want to answer that question for your

766
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 2: kids one day?

767
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: This is important because.

768
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 2: He said, I want you to rescue your testimony.

769
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: I want you to stop.

770
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 2: Right now and redefine everything you've been through. And instead

771
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 2: of remembering this as the river that was so hard

772
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 2: to cross, I.

773
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: Want you to take something out of it that you

774
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: can commemorate how great God was to bring you through it.

775
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 2: So when your children ask, what was it like to

776
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 2: deal with that? When your children ask, tell me about

777
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 2: that time when your children ask did you ever deal

778
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 2: with loneliness? And how did you handle it? When your

779
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 2: children ask, did you ever wonder if you were good enough?

780
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 2: When your children ask did you ever feel depressed? I

781
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 2: want you to have some proof to point through to

782
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: let them know God does miracles and I have a testimony.

783
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 2: Whatever you're standing next to exhibit A. So verse six,

784
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 2: verse six, Verse six. When your children ask what do

785
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 2: these stones mean to you?

786
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: It's personal to me. I can't speak for you.

787
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 2: I can't prophesy for you, I can't praise for you.

788
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 2: You can't praise for me, there are some things that

789
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 2: I went through. This showed me who God was to me.

790
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 2: And verse seven says, when they ask you what do

791
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 2: these stones mean, then you shall tell them that the

792
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 2: waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark

793
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: of the Covenant of the Lord. Do you want us

794
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 2: to tell them how hard the wilderness was for forty

795
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: years for something that we didn't do.

796
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: No, I just want you to tell them that.

797
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 2: When I got to that Jordan, oh, there was a demonstration.

798
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: And we didn't know how it was going to happen.

799
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: But watch this.

800
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 2: My faith is not in a how. My faith is

801
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 2: in a who. So tell them the Lord. Somebody say

802
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 2: the Lord. Now say but God, Now ask your neighbor.

803
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: Was it hard? Tell him it was? But God? Ask him?

804
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: Were you a mess? Tell him I was? But God?

805
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 2: Ask him?

806
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: Were you tempted to quit? Tell him I was? But God?

807
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 2: Were you a little nervous about how it was going

808
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 2: to turn out? Back there in twenty twenty four? Were

809
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 2: you sitting in church one Sunday morning in September? Were

810
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 2: you thinking about a football game in lunch?

811
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: But God had a word for you. Tell him, I was,

812
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: But God?

813
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 2: See when that man grabbed that microphone and he started

814
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 2: preaching about the flow of the Jordan being cut off.

815
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 2: It reminded me of Calvary. It reminded me of Jesus.

816
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 2: It reminded me of a cross. It reminded me of

817
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 2: my crossing over. It reminded me of death to life.

818
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 1: It reminded me.

819
00:49:58,400 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 2: Of the blood.

820
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: It reminds to me, a broken says.

821
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 2: It reminded me I was. And I'm gonna show you something, Holly,

822
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 2: that I never saw before, because he said, I want

823
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: you to take the stones from what you went through

824
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 2: and tell your children what.

825
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: God did, but I want you to take the stones

826
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: to be a memorial forever. And the people of.

827
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 2: Israel did just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve

828
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 2: stones out of the midst of the Jordan.

829
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: Go back to verse eight.

830
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 2: I wasn't done with it yet, out of the midst

831
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 2: of the Jordan. According to the number of the tribes.

832
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: They try to see if I got this thing memorized,

833
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 2: and I don't. The people of Israel, just as the

834
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 2: Lord told Joshua, Just as the Lord told Joshua, just

835
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 2: if I do what God told me to do, I

836
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 2: don't have to justify it any other way than God spoken.

837
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 2: First number nine and I'm closing, And Joshua set up

838
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 2: twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the

839
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 2: place where the feet of the priest stood. Wait a minute,

840
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 2: I thought he brought them out of the Jordan and

841
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 2: put them in the camp where they stayed when they

842
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 2: got through.

843
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,240
Speaker 1: He did. But there was a second set of stones.

844
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 2: That Joshua was set up, not where they were going.

845
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: I know I love it too. I know it makes

846
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: me excited.

847
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 2: Too, because God said, I want you to set up

848
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 2: something right here, right here, not when you get through,

849
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 2: but right here and in the middle of the Jordan.

850
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 2: God told Joshua, I want you to make a pile

851
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 2: of the stones in the middle of the Jordan, so

852
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 2: that when your children asked what was it like when

853
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 2: you were crossing the Jordan, you'll have something to point

854
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 2: to that you went through that they can understand how

855
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: powerful God is.

856
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: So now you understand what I'm saying.

857
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 2: Right because the stones were in the middle of the Jordan. Now,

858
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 2: if the Jordan is at high tide, then the stones

859
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 2: can't be seen. If the Jordan is overflowing, the stones

860
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 2: can't be seen. And the only way they're gonna see

861
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 2: the stones is if the tide is low. The only

862
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 2: time they're gonna see the stones is if the tide

863
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 2: is low. The only way they're gonna see the stones

864
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 2: is in a dry season. I'm preaching to somebody Austin

865
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 2: who's been in.

866
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: A dry season.

867
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: But I got news. Fa God dries up Jordan rivers

868
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 2: and you got some stones, Messy, you got some stone.

869
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 2: You got some stones at the bottom of what you

870
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 2: fit through. Oh God, I'm closing, but high five by

871
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 2: five to five your.

872
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 1: Neighborhood and say I got stones. Don't think I'm a whelm.

873
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: Don't think I'm weak, don't think.

874
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 2: I'm without power, don't think I'm without health, don't think

875
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,919
Speaker 2: I don't have a testimony. I'm gonna tell this thing

876
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 2: from the other side. I'm gonna tell the truth from

877
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:09,240
Speaker 2: a higher plane. So I tend to rescue your testimony.

878
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: Does it in a testimony? Tell us been tested?

879
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 2: And before you get baptized today, I want you to

880
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 2: look forward to the low.

881
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: Tide times when the Jordan River gets lower, so you

882
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: can see where you stood that you thought you would die.

883
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 2: Get that stone out of there, that thing you suffered,

884
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 2: and get that hope out of therese.

885
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: The proof is in the bottle.

886
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 2: Some things, oh God, some things you won't see if

887
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: it's not a dry season.

888
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: That is my hope.

889
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 9: Stones in dry seasons, strength in weak places, for you

890
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 9: see it. Just the right time, while we were still powerless,

891
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 9: Christ died for me.

892
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: And if he justified me justification, and if he did.

893
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 2: That for me demonstration, then guess what I got back anticipation.

894
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 1: So now.

895
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 2: We gotta do something about this. The proof is in

896
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 2: the puddles. God didn't save you because you were on

897
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 2: such a high place. God demonstrates his own love for

898
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 2: us in this while we were still sinners. He got

899
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 2: down in the dirt of my situation. That's how I

900
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 2: know he's not gonna leave me.

901
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: Now.

902
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 2: He started this thing in the mud. He started this

903
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: thing in the puddle, and the proof is in the puddles.

904
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 2: So don't be so freaked out with the hypothetical situations

905
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 2: of what's gonna dry up. If it dries up, the

906
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 2: stones will still be there. You will still have a testimony.

907
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 2: Now take it back, take back your testimony. Today wouldn't

908
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 2: be too soon. I need a hundred of y'all that

909
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 2: weren't planning on getting baptized today, Get baptized today. Take

910
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 2: back your testimony, give me my camera. Declare to the devil,

911
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 2: I won't die in this dry season. I won't die

912
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 2: in this dry season. God brought me to church today

913
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 2: to repent, to turn from my sin, buy his blood.

914
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 2: If I'm justified by his blood, shall he not much

915
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: more save me from.

916
00:55:55,280 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 1: His rat So I really don't even want to talk

917
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: about Joshua. I want to talk about Jesus.

918
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 2: Jesus who said I thirst is present and stretching in.

919
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: Dry places today.

920
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 2: And you thought I was going to preach this message

921
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 2: about hope in a shallow way.

922
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 9: N I'm talking about a God who is so deeply

923
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 9: committed to you.

924
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 2: And now you're wondering, what if it does happen, Well,

925
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: God will be with me.

926
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: As hopothetical Hollywood.

927
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 2: Say, even if it does, we'll be all right.

928
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: So the last season of your life was designed to

929
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: show you that. Are you getting that lesson out of it?

930
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 2: Or did you just run through it and say, oh again,

931
00:56:54,400 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: you know I'm just gonna live this way now I am.

932
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 2: You remember how the philosopher said, I think therefore I am.

933
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 2: Let's put a twist on that. Who said that? Deskhartes, Well,

934
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 2: if you don't know, then I can say it with confidence.

935
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 2: I wish I could preach back in the day where

936
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 2: nobody had chet gpt to fact check the preacher. I

937
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 2: can make up all kinds of good stuff, he said,

938
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 2: I think. Therefore I am. He was trying to see

939
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 2: what can I be certain of? And he realized that

940
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 2: even the fact that I can doubt means that I'm thinking,

941
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 2: and even the fact that I'm doubting proves that I exist.

942
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 2: I think. Therefore I am. Don't you understand That's the

943
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 2: way it works in your life. You think about all

944
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 2: of the things that are going to go wrong. Therefore

945
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 2: you are a nervous ball of stress. I think, therefore

946
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 2: I am. So let's do this, say I have, Therefore

947
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 2: I hope.

948
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: I have.

949
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 2: Therefore, So I'm coming to a Jordan right now. And

950
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 2: here's what I'm coming with Romans five to one on

951
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 2: the screen. Police is it up there? Therefore? What are

952
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 2: the stones? Therefore? That's the question? What is the suffering? Therefore?

953
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 2: What are you there for? Why did God keep you

954
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 2: alive this long? I see you every week? When I

955
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 2: preach you never miss you. Probably wouldn't even know that

956
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 2: I saw you. I watch you so much. I'm a stalker.

957
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 2: You ought to get a restraining order on me, and

958
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 2: it blesses me. And you would never know that. You

959
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 2: never know that. But the proof is in the puddle.

960
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 2: It's the times you don't see, the times you don't

961
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 2: feel coming up to a Jordan river, it.

962
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: Looks like it's overflowing.

963
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 2: But God brought that thing down to a puddle for you,

964
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 2: didn't He didn't he You saw no way to be

965
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 2: right with him.

966
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 9: You saw no way to put it back together. You

967
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 9: saw no way. But the proof is in the bottle.

968
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 9: What do he already dried up? What are you standing

969
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 9: in front of today? When your children ask you, I

970
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 9: want you to have a testimony, and when they say

971
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 9: did you ever doubt it? Tell them yeah. And there's

972
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 9: some things I doubt that are in front of me now.

973
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 9: And I want to be honest with you.

974
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: The truth is I can't do it, but.

975
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: The grade can't. That's what I'm pointing out. That's all

976
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: the proof we need. I can't do it, but the grade.

977
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: How about this? You can dry this short?

978
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 2: And if I will just step in. I can't do it,

979
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 2: but the Great.

980
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 3: I can't do it.

981
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hands, thank so God, to get

982
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: up on the feet and worship Him.

983
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 5: Where you are.

984
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 2: It may be in your home, it may be in

985
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 2: your sick band dude, it may be in.

986
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: The middle of a panic attack. But you're saying, I

987
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: can't do it. That's my testimony the Great. I am kid,

988
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: and I know he can't because.

989
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 2: I know he did.

990
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: I've been here before. I've been through dry season, I've

991
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:45,439
Speaker 1: been through identity crisis. I've been through nervous nights. I've

992
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: been through dark waters. He can split an iceing me.

993
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: Ask me how. I don't know, but I know. Sing

994
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: it again, I can't do it. That's the truth to

995
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: by the while, Where were your center?

996
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 6: This is my testimony? Then you cast plead.

997
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: I can't do it.

998
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

999
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

1000
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 2: this ministry.

1001
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 3: Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

1002
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

1003
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for

1004
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 2: more information, and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

1005
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 3: You can share it with your friends.

1006
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and

1007
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at

1008
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 2: Elevation Church.

1009
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.

1010
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 1: M