1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to class. We're starting a We're starting a brand 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: new school. I know a lot of kids aren't going 8 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: back to the classroom in August here where we live. 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: So I thought today, since I have the opportunity to 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: teach the word, go ahead and bring my materials please, 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to teach you a lesson today. This is 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,319 Speaker 1: more than a sermon. This is a class and the 13 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: title of the class. Are you ready? Are you ready? 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Are you ready? I don't think you are. Come on 15 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: in the chat ready now. I can't teach you how 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: to cook. I can't teach you how to speak Spanish. 17 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,199 Speaker 1: I can't teach you any of that. I can't teach 18 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: you CrossFit. I can't teach you hot yoga. I can't 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: teach you any of that. But today I want to 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: teach a class. I want to teach a class, and 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: I need to know who's Who's present. Let's have a 22 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: roll call. Puts your name and your city, and the 23 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: chat say present, present, present, present, Get your number two pencils. 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to water Walking one oh what are you ready? Amen? 25 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: Those of you in the room remain standing water Walking 26 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: one on one. I thought we would get a jump 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: on the school year and see what God would teach 28 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: us today about the situations in our life that He 29 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: has placed us over. And I just declare over your 30 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,839 Speaker 1: life today. Give me my camera. I'm looking at You're 31 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: not going under. You're not going under. You are not 32 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: going under. I declar it not going under. And so 33 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: consider this your introductory class water Walking one oh one. 34 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: Our syllabus is from Matthew Chapter fourteen, verses twenty two 35 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: through thirty three. I want you to find that in 36 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: your Bible. This scripture is the first scripture that I 37 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: ever preached on Yesterday I showed some of our staff. 38 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: Or it was earlier this week actually that I showed 39 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: some of our staff. Not yesterday, it was earlier this week. 40 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: I showed some of our staff. The second sermon that 41 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: I ever preached in the Woodmen of the World building Wow, Wow, 42 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: walk on water. And this is the first sermon I 43 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: ever preached at Monk's Corner United Methodist Church for Youth Sunday. 44 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: Shout out to my mom who brought me up in church. 45 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: Shout out to the poor people who endured my first sermon. Now, 46 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: the beauty of the Methodist Church is the sermon is 47 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: only twelve minutes, so if it sucks, it's mercifully short. 48 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: It's not like it is now where I don't even 49 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: have a time clock because there's nobody coming in later. 50 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm just recording the message with a few staff in 51 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: the room who are socially distanced. But the horrible thing 52 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: was I did not know the basics of preaching. Maybe 53 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: you'd say, well that hasn't changed. Well, you may be 54 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: right about that, but back then I didn't even know 55 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: that you should practice or sermon before you preach it. 56 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: And I got up there with like twelve note cards 57 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: and I thought each note card would take a minute. 58 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: My whole sermon was done in two minutes. And I 59 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: cycled back through the cards and said the same stuff again, 60 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: and that that polite home crowd love got me through it. 61 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: It's a wonder I ever did it again. But this 62 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: is the passage that I preached my first sermon from. 63 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: And so sometimes it's good to go back to basics. Okay, 64 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: everybody wants to use basic as a slang term these days, 65 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: you know, and she's basic. It's basic. Well, what's so 66 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: bad about basic? Sometimes I need to go back to 67 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: the basics of faith, and this passage really helps me 68 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: do that for all those who are needing God to 69 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: get you over a situation that you feel like has 70 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: overwhelmed you. The Bible says, immediately Jesus made the disciples 71 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: get into the boat and go on ahead of him 72 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: to the other side while he dismissed the crowd. After 73 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountain 74 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: side by himself to pray, and later that night he 75 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: was there alone. We talked about that a few weeks ago, 76 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: didn't we We talked about lonely places, and Jesus chose 77 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: the lonely place so that you and I could experience 78 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: him in the loneliest seasons of our life. Now, Jesus 79 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: sent the disciples out into the boat. The Bible says 80 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: it was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by 81 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: the waves because the wind was against it, and shortly 82 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: before dawn, Jesus went out to them walking on the lake. 83 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,119 Speaker 1: So here's our instructor for the class. Here comes walking 84 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: on water, just right into your situation. The Bible says 85 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they 86 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,559 Speaker 1: were terrified. Ghosts, they said, and cried out in fear. 87 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: But Jesus immediately said to them, take courage it is I. 88 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: Don't be afraid. And then Teeter, Jesus star pupil, that 89 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: one kid in the class who always wants to ask 90 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: another question, says Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell 91 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: me to come to you on the water. Come, he said, 92 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: And Peter got down out of the boat walked on 93 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: the water. Wow. Everybody say wow in the chat. Wow. Wow. 94 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: He walked on water and came toward Jesus. But when 95 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink. 96 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: He cried out, Lord, save me. Immediately Jesus reached out 97 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: his hand and caught him, You of little faith, He said, 98 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: why did you doubt? And they climbed into the boat. 99 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: The wind died down, and then those who were in 100 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: the boat worshiped him, saying, truly you are the son 101 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: of God. Lord. We thank you for your word today, 102 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: and we thank you that it transcends time, space and geography. 103 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: We ask you, now, Lord, that in this moment in 104 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: our life, that our hearts would be still in your 105 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: presence so that we can hear your word and move 106 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: toward your purpose. I thank you for each person that 107 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: you brought to this sermon today. I believe they're here 108 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: for a reason. I believe you're calling and drawing. I 109 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: thank you that you are on the scene and help 110 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: us on the way. Bring forth your word in our hearts. 111 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: May it bud and flourish, prosper and do what you 112 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: sent it to do in Jesus' name. Hey man, come on, 113 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: let's clap our hands and thank God for his word. 114 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: Those of you in the room be seated. I worked 115 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: up a thirst. Can you thank you? Holli holiferdic everybody, Chris. 116 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: But this is about the only way I know how 117 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: to walk on water that works. The simple stuff works. 118 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: Simple stuff works in my life. I've read this text 119 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: so many times, but I fear that sometimes we skim 120 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: what God wants us to plunge into. And in our 121 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: syllabus today there are a few details, you're not going 122 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: to believe this. I actually have real points to dis sermon. 123 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 1: So every note taker who has ever been frustrated by 124 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: my abstract mode of teaching is going to be in 125 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: heaven today because I at least have six thoughts from 126 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: this passage water walk one oh one, and I might 127 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: put in a seventh for extra credit if God blesses 128 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: us with the time. But I noticed that a lot 129 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: of times, when we get in a situation like these 130 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: disciples were in, and maybe like you're in right now 131 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 1: with your job, or maybe like you're in right now 132 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to do with your family, 133 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: those kids, your quiver is full right now, how many 134 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: of y'all? Your quiver is full, and your quiver is 135 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: of to be quite honest, your quiver is quivering, little 136 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: Bible humor there quivering. And when we find ourselves in 137 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: these situations, there is a tendency to blame. You know. 138 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: The disciples like to fight and like to argue with 139 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 1: one another any chance they got. But yet the storm 140 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: brought them together in a unique way. In Matthew chapter fourteen, 141 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: trials sometimes tighten our focus, and so one thing we 142 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: I don't see in this storm is Peter and John 143 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: going back and forth, or Andrew and Bartholomew talking about 144 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: who's rowing the hardest. They just need to make it 145 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: through the storm. But what really got my attention was 146 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: a detail that I must have skimmed over. Like I mentioned, 147 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: and today since we're in class, I want to study 148 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: it a little more deeply, is that blame doesn't get 149 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: you through a storm. And the detail I noticed in 150 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: verse twenty two presented on the screen for me again, 151 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: it said that Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. 152 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. You know 153 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: how people say the devil made me do it. Jesus 154 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: made the disciples get into the boat. He didn't ask them, 155 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: he didn't recommend, he didn't suggest, And now it would 156 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: be one thing if he didn't know. But he's of 157 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: God with all wisdom. So how did the one with 158 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: all wisdom send them into something that threatened their life? 159 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: I want you to write down point number one in 160 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: the class and put it in the chat. Certain storms 161 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: are unavoidable. I just need you to know that certain storms. 162 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: You know what I mean by storm, right, It's not 163 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: always physical. Sometimes there can be an emotional storm. Sometimes 164 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: there can be a psychological storm. Sometimes there can be 165 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: a relational storm. You know, these storms we get into 166 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: sometimes we are so busy trying to figure out how 167 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: to get out of them that we expend all the 168 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: energy that we could have spent trying to learn what 169 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: God wants us to learn through the storm. There's two 170 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: ways to get through the storm, and one is as 171 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: a survivor. And how many know iss good? Just to 172 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: celebrate that you're still here in case you had a 173 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: bad week, I'm gonna give you fifteen unscripted seconds to 174 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: praise God for the storms that you have survived. And 175 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: you can sit there cute if it's been sunny in 176 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: your neighborhood. But if you survived some depression, and if 177 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: you thought you were going down but you made it, 178 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: say given praise. To survive the storm is a miracle. 179 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,599 Speaker 1: To survive abuse is a miracle. To survive an economy 180 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: that is falling apart, but God provided is a miracle. 181 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: But then God God says you can be a survivor. 182 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: But then if you want to, there are certain people 183 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: that they decide I'm not just gonna be a survivor. 184 00:12:54,760 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a student of the storm. I am 185 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: learning to learn from the storm. I am learning to 186 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: learn from the storm. The thing about it is there 187 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: are certain things that I can only learn in storms. 188 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 1: And the second thing that I want to point out 189 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: to you in the text is that God's timing is 190 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: designed to teach you to trust. When Jesus, who made 191 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: the disciples, get into the boat, the Bible says that 192 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: when he decided to reveal himself to them was just 193 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: before dawn. If the goal that God has is to 194 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: comfort us, then this is a late appearance. But if 195 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: God's goal is sometimes to change us, then it makes 196 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: sense that he would show up late. Once one a time, 197 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: I taught a sermon called Trusting God's Timing, and the 198 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: idea behind it is that when we're experiencing something and 199 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: it's very intense, we just want relief. And I get that. 200 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be lying if I didn't tell you 201 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: that there were times that I just wanted God to 202 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: make stuff stop. And I just want to check with 203 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: you real quick. Have you ever just wanted God to 204 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: make it stop? Just make it stop. Just make it stop, God. 205 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: I'll do anything, Just make it stop. God, I'm sorry 206 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: about that thing I did when I was in seventh grade. 207 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: Just make it stop. And I mean, it can be 208 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: a heartbreak, it can be a lot of times a 209 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: loss in your life and you just feel like you're 210 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: hemorrhaging and hurting God. Just make it stop. In the 211 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: King James version of Matthew chapter fourteen, it says that 212 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: it was the fourth watch of the night when Jesus 213 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: came to them. That's the very last one. That's three 214 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: am to six am, the fourth watch. And yet, interestingly enough, 215 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: the Bible says he went on a mountain to pray. 216 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: I've actually been to this site. And when our guide 217 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: took us to show us the mountain that Jesus might 218 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: have prayed on, do you remember how he left us 219 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: up there for a moment. And he really tricked us 220 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: because when he left us up there, he was designing 221 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: to show us that the seed that the disciples were 222 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: straining in was visible to Jesus from his prayer station 223 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: the whole time. And he said, just because they didn't 224 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: see Jesus didn't mean Jesus didn't see them. Zero point two, 225 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: Part B. This won't be on the test just because 226 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: I don't see him doesn't mean he's not watching me. 227 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: And he left us up there on the mountain. He 228 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: left us up there for an hour. The guy we 229 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: went to Israel, and I cried about the times of 230 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: my life where I thought he had left me. The 231 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: Fourth Watch, the fourth Watch. The first Watch isn't so bad, 232 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: Second Watch, third Watch. I feel like we're in a 233 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: moment right now, at least in our nation. I don't 234 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: know exactly what it's like in your country. It feels 235 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: kind of like the Fourth Watch right now for a 236 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: lot of us, not for all of us. The novelty 237 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: has worn off of everything. Oh when we first started 238 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: going into quarantine, I was like, well, this is kind 239 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: of cool. You know, life's slowing down a little bit. 240 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: We have a little more family time. Yeah, my quiver 241 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: is full now. I've had enough family time to last 242 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: me till my daughter is forty and she's nine right now, 243 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: and I love my kids. Well, how about fourth watch? Faith? See, 244 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of people with first Watch faith, 245 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: second Watch faith, Third Watch faith. But God's timing is 246 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: not designed to give us relief. So if it's not 247 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: designed to give you relief, what's it designed to give you? 248 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: Revelation curse. I'm a run a lad. I'll be right back. Hey, 249 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: I know y'all can't see me, but if you can 250 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: hear me, shout that just because you can't see him 251 00:17:55,119 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: doesn't mean he left you. Come on, I what's on 252 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: the book? The whole time, he's watching you. He's watching you, 253 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: he's watching you, He's guiding me, he's leading me. So 254 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: it's interesting that God's timing. You know, our timing is 255 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: usually allocated around when we think God should do things, 256 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: and then we start. The longer it goes, this is 257 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: just in my life. Okay, So you know, please send 258 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: me a critical email if you found God to be 259 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: different in your experience contradicts what I'm saying. I found 260 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: that the longer I wait, the louder my what ifs get. 261 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: But the third thing I wanted to tell you in 262 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: water Walking one O one? Are you enjoying the class 263 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: so far? Now? This is the point in the semester 264 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: where you need to cancel if you want to drop 265 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: the class. This is the last point to cancel. Okay, 266 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 1: if you're still in, say i'm in, I'm in, I'm in, 267 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: I'm in. I want to teach you something very powerful. 268 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: And this is what I really want to teach you about. 269 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: What if works both ways. The wind was against them, 270 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: the word was for them, and what if works both ways. 271 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: So when we get into hypothetical situations, the longer that 272 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: we wait on God to change certain situations. And once again, 273 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: how many are there right now? And maybe you even 274 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,479 Speaker 1: feel like you're drowning in what you don't know and 275 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 1: you've analyzed it and there's a certain element of it 276 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: you can't control. Because the devil didn't start this storm. 277 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: Jesus sent them directly into it. So a lot of 278 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: us we would turn around at this point and say, well, 279 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: maybe we didn't hear him right, But they pressed to 280 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: the other side because watch this are you are you awake? 281 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,479 Speaker 1: What if there's something on the other side that is 282 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: worth going through the storm for it? Ah, I feel 283 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: the spirit of God. Is it just me? Or or 284 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: or or? Or? Is it harder sometimes for us to 285 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: give faith to the what if than it is to 286 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: give fear to the what if? And just like the 287 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: wind blows, you know, the wind can blow in either direction, 288 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: so can the what ifs. And a lot of times 289 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: in my life I've learned that fear is just faith 290 00:20:51,280 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: in the wrong. What if so watch this? What if 291 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: we fail? What if we don't. We're here with a 292 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: lot of our staff. We had some training, and I 293 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: asked them to stay around and help me preach to you. 294 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: And we told some of the stories, but we didn't 295 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: tell all the stories about when we started the church. 296 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: Hollywood was reminding me of one the other day where 297 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: just as soon as we went to start the church, 298 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: the resources that were supposed to be given for our 299 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: salary were pulled back. And then somebody else was going 300 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: to pay our insurance and that got pulled back. Now, 301 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: if my faith in God was contingent upon the conditions, 302 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: I would have taken that as a sign that God 303 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: didn't speak to me to start the church. But if 304 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: the wind is proof that what's on the other side 305 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: is so significant that you have to push through to 306 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: get there, a lot of us we interpret the wind 307 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: as an indication that we should turn back around and 308 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: head home. But in this particular situation, Jesus said, I 309 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: want you to go to the other side. Now Here 310 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: comes the wind. That represents resistance for you, That may 311 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: represent depression for you, that might represent anxiety. We all 312 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: go through different storms, and as I've talked from this 313 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: pulpit before, comparing the size of your storm to my storm, 314 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: and the significance of my storm to your storm, storm 315 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: serves no purpose. The greatest thing about the passage is 316 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: that Peter didn't even really express faith. He just considered possibility. 317 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: And I'm going to show you this. He didn't say, Lord, 318 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: I know it's you tell me to come. He said, Lord, 319 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: if if, if? If? What if? What if works both ways? 320 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: What if can make you give up? What if can 321 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: make you freak out? Or what if can make you 322 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: step forward? And yet I want you to notice something 323 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: Jesus did. Are you ready? This is where it gets good. 324 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: This is where it gets good. He said, if this, 325 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: you give me a word. And Jesus took him really literally. 326 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: He gave him one word, one word, one word, one word. 327 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: Did you see it in the text? Come? Yo? I 328 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: had at chihuahua. That's how we talk to the dog. 329 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: Jesus talked to Peter like I talked to yo yo. 330 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: That that was the dog's name, Yo Yo. This is 331 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: a confession. I had a chihuahua named Yoga yo Yo 332 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: Yogo yo yo Yo Yo yo we would say, come, stay, 333 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: stuff like that. Jesus talked to Peter like I talked 334 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: to yo yo. And here's why I think, all right, 335 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: you don't know what this makes me think that sometimes 336 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: the deepest things that God speaks will also be the simplest, 337 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: because sometimes we can we can confuse deep with confusing. 338 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: And I noticed a lot of times I would rather 339 00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: learn something new than practice something old. Some of the 340 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,959 Speaker 1: deepest things that God will speak will be so simple, 341 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: like come, okay, Well, Jesus, I was expecting a little more. 342 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: I never walked on water before. You're gonna give me 343 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: any pointers? Yeah, anymore, like a little bit of coaching, 344 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: like should I go? Should I put all my weight 345 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: on one foot? And you gotta remember, we read these 346 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: Bible stories and we just compare walking on water to 347 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: pay in our bills. He was walking on water. We 348 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: making mean whenever we want changing a tire, walking on water, right, 349 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: Peter is transcending the laws of buoyancy. And yet Jesus 350 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: does not give him details, just direction. So if God 351 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: hasn't given you details right now, ask him for direction instead. 352 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: Some of the biggest words God ever spoke to me 353 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: in my life were just directions impressions in my spirit. 354 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: Can I share one with you? Here's one. Sometimes God 355 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: will speak to me and they tell me go say 356 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Like, well, Lord, I I would rather do 357 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: a Bible study on forgiveness. You see how sometimes we 358 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: want something deep so we don't have to do anything 359 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: with it. I've been guilty in seasons of my life 360 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: at highlighting my Bible right, But at the same time 361 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: I was highlighting my Bible, I wasn't even willing to 362 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: embrace the simplest habits like gratitude. I know in my 363 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: life that being grateful is the greatest way for me 364 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 1: to have joy. So why is it the hardest thing 365 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: to do? Because it's so simple? See right now in 366 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: this season, maybe we need to simplify what God is 367 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: speaking to us to understand everything. Some of us have 368 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: so complicated what we need from God to move forward 369 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: in faith. But all he said was come. Sometimes all 370 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: he'll say to you is is peace. Sometimes all he'll 371 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: say to you is law. Sometimes all he'll say to 372 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: you is forgive. And I found out that sometimes God 373 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: will not give the details, He'll simply set the direction. Wow, 374 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: all right, come, Wow, you really took me literally there 375 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: if this youth tell me to come, come. Oh man, 376 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: God was speaking to me studying this. He said, you 377 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: know how you want confirmation to obey me sometimes? You know, 378 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: like God, I'll do it if you give me a sign, 379 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: give me a sign that I'm supposed to do it. Yeah, 380 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: and you know you're supposed to do it to something 381 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: you know you're supposed to do anyway, God, give me 382 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,199 Speaker 1: a sign and i'll tie. Give me a sign, and 383 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: you know you're always supposed to do it. You know 384 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: you're to do it. God said, the command is the confirmation. Well, God, 385 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: I don't know if I can. I wouldn't have told 386 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: you to come if you couldn't let me bring this home. 387 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have made you his father if I wouldn't 388 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 1: enable you to raise him. So, when I don't feel 389 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: like i'm enough, I realize if God gave it to me, 390 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: he put it in me. He put it in me. 391 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: So when he said come, when he gave the command, 392 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: he also supplied the strength for me to step on 393 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: step out. Yes, Lord, I can do it, Yes Lord, 394 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: I can make it. You wouldn't have told me to 395 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,479 Speaker 1: preach if you wouldn't enable me to preach. You wouldn't 396 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: have told me. The same voice that told him to 397 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: come would be the same word that would enable him 398 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: to do it. So I don't need any more confirmation 399 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: but that he told me to Wow. But Lord, are 400 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: there any sub points like come? Come? Is the Roman 401 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: numeral one? Right, there's a class, right, all right? So 402 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: come left foot first, right, Well, show me how to 403 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: do it. Come, and Peter did, which is what makes 404 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: the next part really weird. I mean really weird. I'm 405 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: gonna lose some of y'all here because it's really weird. 406 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: How many disciples y'all answered so slow, like it was 407 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: a trick, like I was gonna go deep on you. Well, actually, 408 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: we're all disciples of the Lord, so as actually are 409 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: more than twelve. It's twelve in the boat that day. 410 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: How many disciples? Twelve disciples? Let's don't put Judas in 411 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: eleven disciples that didn't suck. Eleven sincere disciples and Judas 412 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: all going to the other side. Now there's an assignment 413 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: on the other side. Everybody say, there's an assignment on 414 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: the other side. Come on, say it right now. In 415 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: the chat, there's an assignment on the other side. There's 416 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: an assignment on the other side. There's an assignment on 417 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: the other side. But God is weird because he gives 418 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: the test before the lesson. They don't even know what's 419 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: on the other side, and neither do you. Neither to you, 420 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 1: none of us do what's on the other side of 421 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: what we're currently going through. I told our staff today 422 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: our new church logo. It used to be one of these. 423 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: Now it's a question mark. That's our new church logo, 424 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: were we're gonna open all the buildings a question mark. 425 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: And yet at the same time, I love how Peter 426 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: of all the eleven and Judice Peter was on I 427 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: had the faith to step out, and I get with 428 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: that because you know, do it big, you know, do 429 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: it big. You're gonna do it? Do you know? Go big? 430 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: Peter this year, tell me come come. So he makes 431 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: this big move and the Bible doesn't say how long 432 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: he walked on the water. He must have made it 433 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: pretty far. And I'm gonna tell you why I think 434 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: this consider with me. They couldn't see Jesus up close 435 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: enough to know whether it was a ghost or really Jesus. 436 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: He needed to hear him to know. The only way 437 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: that they heard the word was the wind carried it. 438 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: The wind that was against the disciples carried the voice 439 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: of Jesus. Some of the things that are against you 440 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: will enable you to hear God more clearly. But the 441 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: other thing is when Peter fell. The Bible says a 442 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: word that started the passage as well, and you can 443 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: look this up. In verse twenty two. It says immediately 444 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: Jesus made them get in the boat to the other side. 445 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: And then it says that when Peter got out of 446 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: the boat, everybody say, big move Immediately when he started 447 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: to sink, Jesus grabbed me. It doesn't say he fell immediately. 448 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: It says that as soon as he started to fall, 449 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: Jesus called him. Now, when Peter fell, and Jesus called 450 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: him immediately. The next thing Jesus said is something that 451 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,479 Speaker 1: he said a few times in scripture. He said, you 452 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: of little faith. That offended me. If anybody deserves to 453 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: be called little faith, it's Judas. You're going to single 454 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: out Peter. And that bothered me that he called that 455 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: little faith. I mean, if you think it's little faith, 456 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: you go do it. When someone says, ah, that sermon's 457 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: pretty good, it wasn't your best. I'm like, will you 458 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 1: preach one, I'll go listen to yours. I'll go listen 459 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: to your best one. Preach your best one. You do it, 460 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: you know. I just think you need to be more 461 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: patient with your kids. Good. I'll send them over to 462 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: you and you can give them the patience I haven't 463 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: been giving them lately. You do it, That's what I 464 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: was thinking. So I sat with it because last week 465 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: I preached about little did you hear that sermon? Take 466 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: the lid off a little? And the whole phrase got me, 467 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: You of little faith, and I thought, well, we're all 468 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: doomed if he thinks that's little I mean, it's all 469 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: I can do to get in a five minute prayer 470 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: time right now and not get distracted and start checking 471 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: my phone. So if that's what he thinks is little faith, 472 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm definitely not making it to heaven if that's little faith. 473 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: But the phrase you of little faith doesn't necessarily refer 474 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 1: to quantity. It refers to quality. So it's not how 475 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: much faith, it's how far faith. Little faith it doesn't 476 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: mean that it wasn't strong. It means that it wasn't sustained. 477 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: So I want to show you something now, and I 478 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: want you to lean into this because I thought, well, Jesus, 479 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 1: if that's little faith, then what is big faith? And boom, 480 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: it hit me a scripture that I read about one 481 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: of the two times that Jesus was actual amazed. There 482 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: are only two times in the New Testament that the 483 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: Bible says Jesus was amazed. One time was in his 484 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: hometown where they had no faith in him because they 485 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 1: were too familiar with him. That's a whole sermon that 486 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,720 Speaker 1: we don't have time for in this class. That's familiarity 487 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 1: one oh one, and we'll do that class on another day. 488 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 1: How familiarity can be the enemy of faith, how you 489 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: can start just getting so comfortable in your life that 490 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: you're afraid to do anything else. So that's one time 491 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: that he was amazed that they're lack of faith. But 492 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: what I want to show you is in Matthew chapter eight. 493 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: And if you go with me to Matthew chapter eight, 494 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,359 Speaker 1: we're going to see one of the times that Jesus 495 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: was amazed. The Bible says that there was a centurion, 496 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,399 Speaker 1: a military official who had a sick servant. He had 497 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: an issue. His storm was not a hurricane, or wasn't 498 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: rain and thunder and lightning. His particular need revolved around 499 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: the sickness of someone that he cared about. And when 500 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 1: Jesus Matthew chapter eight, verse five, had entered Capernaum, a 501 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 1: centurion came to him. Now listen, this word is right 502 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,240 Speaker 1: for you. The spirit of God gave me this passage 503 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: because I couldn't figure out if that's little faith, then 504 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: what's great faith? And he asked Jesus. This centurion he 505 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: asked Jesus for help. Lord. He said, my servant lies 506 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: at home paralyzed, suffering terribly. And Jesus said to him, 507 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: shall I come and heal him? Now, let's contrast. Peter said, 508 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 1: if it's you, tell me to come. Jesus asked the centurion, 509 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: well should I come? And what I saw next blew 510 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,840 Speaker 1: my mind. I never saw it before. I've been preaching 511 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 1: since sixteen I never saw this before in the scripture. 512 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,960 Speaker 1: I never saw it. The centurion reply, Lord, I do 513 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,400 Speaker 1: not deserve to have you come under my roof, but 514 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: just say the word and my servant will be healed. 515 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,240 Speaker 1: For I myself am a man under authority with soldiers 516 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,720 Speaker 1: under me. I tell this one go and he goes, 517 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: and that one come and he comes. I say to 518 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 1: my servant, do this, and he does it. And when 519 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:30,720 Speaker 1: Jesus heard this, he was amazed. He was blown away. 520 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:40,959 Speaker 1: He was poor Emoji. He was amazed. And he said 521 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: to those following him, truly, I tell you, I have 522 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. And 523 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to me this. One disciple said, Lord, 524 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: if it's you tell me to come, Jesus said, that's 525 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 1: little faith. One man said, Jesus, I know who you are. 526 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 1: You can stay. And the Lord said, sometimes it takes 527 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:26,799 Speaker 1: greater faith to stay. Stay you will keep him in 528 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:33,279 Speaker 1: perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on me. I hear 529 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,359 Speaker 1: the Lord saying you can come, And that's fine. That's 530 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 1: little faith. But sometimes the greatest faith is when you 531 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: stay because you trust that the one who spoke the 532 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:58,080 Speaker 1: word has authority over every situation. And see, right now 533 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: we're in a storm where we don't really have anywhere 534 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: to go, and there's really only so much we can do, 535 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: and I don't really have a whole lot of options. 536 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,160 Speaker 1: And God said, when I see you staying in praise 537 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 1: and staying grateful and staying encouraged, and staying on the job, 538 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 1: and staying in the ministry and just staying staying. That's 539 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,720 Speaker 1: great faith. It's great when you say you can come 540 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 1: if you want to. But Jesus said, great faith, it's 541 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,360 Speaker 1: when you know that if I said, let's go to 542 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,200 Speaker 1: the other side, there's no storm in Galilee, there's so 543 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: defin in Hell. They's so virus in the world. So 544 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: number five is big moves don't always prove great faith. 545 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,560 Speaker 1: I'm preaching to somebody right now who you're walking on water, 546 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,759 Speaker 1: but you're doing it in little steps. I mean, some 547 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,319 Speaker 1: of these people they walk on water fancy, but you're 548 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 1: just like, uh. God said, that's great, that's great, that's great, 549 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 1: that's great, great faith, he said. He said, I don't 550 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 1: even need you to come. I don't need you to come. 551 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: Peter said, if it's you tell me to come, come, 552 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: he said, I don't even need you to come. I 553 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: don't even need all that. I don't even need a film. 554 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: I don't even need a confirmation. The command is a confirmation. 555 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: If you said you never leave me or forsake me, 556 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,839 Speaker 1: you made that promise, you gave the guarantee. That's good 557 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: with me. I know what authority looks like because Jesus said, 558 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,279 Speaker 1: that's great faith. It's great faith. Sometimes we think people 559 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,719 Speaker 1: have faith when they're really just freaking out, really just 560 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:48,560 Speaker 1: doing stuff. Oh wow, man, that SuDS great faith. This 561 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 1: man said, I don't even need a dramatic sign for 562 00:40:53,560 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 1: you to do it. God doesn't always need drama to 563 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:07,360 Speaker 1: do it. Such a simple word, such a deep expression 564 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 1: of faith. And yet that's really not the message, is it. 565 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:18,840 Speaker 1: Because he still fell. No, this encouraged me. He failed 566 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:25,320 Speaker 1: the test, but he still got the lesson. I said, 567 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,960 Speaker 1: everybody who wasn't a real good student, this is your 568 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 1: part to shout on. He failed the test. Everybody who's 569 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,359 Speaker 1: nervous about home school and your kid, this is your 570 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: point to shout on. He failed the test, but he 571 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: got the lesson because it really wasn't a lesson about water. 572 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:50,839 Speaker 1: It was a lesson about worship. Truly, you're the son 573 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,480 Speaker 1: of God. And they begin to worship him, and the 574 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,200 Speaker 1: wind died down when he got in the boat. Now, Holly, 575 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 1: will you come. The essence of salvation is this, by grace, 576 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,360 Speaker 1: through faith, you are saved. Everybody say, by grace, through 577 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,400 Speaker 1: faith you are saved. This not of yourselves is the 578 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,920 Speaker 1: gift of God out of work, so that no one 579 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,839 Speaker 1: can boast Ephesians to eight and nine. So I never 580 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,759 Speaker 1: saw this as a picture of salvation because I was 581 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,880 Speaker 1: so focused on the storm. And you know, sometimes we 582 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 1: go through things that we get so consumed by the 583 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:33,319 Speaker 1: test that we don't even get the lesson. But I 584 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,800 Speaker 1: want to show you in the text that Peter beginning 585 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,360 Speaker 1: to sink, I don't know who this is for. It 586 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,920 Speaker 1: might not even be for anybody who's in this room. 587 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,839 Speaker 1: But Peter's faith was not in his ability to make 588 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: it to Jesus. The Bible says that when he started 589 00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:03,279 Speaker 1: to go down, immediately he reached out his hand and 590 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:08,000 Speaker 1: caught him. Reach out and catch my hand. You can't 591 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 1: unless I'm close. So my faith isn't in how far 592 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: I can walk. Do you remember when Graham started playing 593 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:31,160 Speaker 1: at catcher and he got pretty good at catcher. I 594 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 1: was so proud that my kid was good at a 595 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:39,520 Speaker 1: position on baseball, just like me. I was a catcher 596 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,560 Speaker 1: when I was a kid. I was proud. And the 597 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,960 Speaker 1: league that they were in, usually they wouldn't even try 598 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,360 Speaker 1: to make a play at home because all the catchers 599 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,239 Speaker 1: sucked except ours. Oka our kid was the only good catcher, 600 00:43:54,239 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: and the coach trying to get the third baseman to 601 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:04,399 Speaker 1: make the throw at home, but he wouldn't do it. 602 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,840 Speaker 1: And I remember one time that the coach was yelling 603 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,800 Speaker 1: at the kid playing thirty, was like, make the throw 604 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,719 Speaker 1: at home when he's when he's going home, you throw 605 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 1: him out. He said, I can't make the throw. The 606 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,200 Speaker 1: coach said, that's all right, you got a good catcher. 607 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:35,400 Speaker 1: That's something in my mind brought me back to remind 608 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,040 Speaker 1: you today in waterwalk in one oh one that you 609 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:45,520 Speaker 1: got a good catcher. You got a good catcher. Put 610 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,840 Speaker 1: it in the chat right now. I got a good catcher. 611 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,160 Speaker 1: I don't know if I can make the throw. I 612 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:56,320 Speaker 1: got little faith, but I'm gonna go ahead and throw 613 00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,799 Speaker 1: it out there because not because I'm gonna make it 614 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,400 Speaker 1: all the way, not because i can predict the past, 615 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,160 Speaker 1: not because I know how this ends, not because I 616 00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:10,000 Speaker 1: Winsteyn down, not because I'm so good at walking on water. 617 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,640 Speaker 1: I'm trembling in. My legs are weak, and I don't 618 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:17,600 Speaker 1: really know, but he's close enough for child point number six. 619 00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:27,080 Speaker 1: Grace and faith go hand in hand. They go hand 620 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:33,000 Speaker 1: in hand when you don't really believe in the grace 621 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,680 Speaker 1: of God. You don't have faith in God because until 622 00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:41,920 Speaker 1: you really believe he's close enough to catch you, you 623 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 1: will always stumble. Peter's faith was not in his feet. 624 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:54,320 Speaker 1: It was in Jesus' hand. And it is by grace 625 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,239 Speaker 1: through faith that God is going to get you through 626 00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: this storm. And I need you to praise him right 627 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:10,480 Speaker 1: now for little faith. Watch this. I got little faith, 628 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:17,319 Speaker 1: but I got great grace. Oh God, great grace. AH 629 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 1: got a big God. I gotta good God. He's gotten 630 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,840 Speaker 1: me and he won't let go. Come on, throw up 631 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:32,080 Speaker 1: your hands and give him worship. Give it worship, Give 632 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:41,759 Speaker 1: it worship, given worship. So I found out how to 633 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,560 Speaker 1: walk on water. I don't walk on water with my feet. 634 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:52,720 Speaker 1: I walk on water with a word. He said, Lord, 635 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,399 Speaker 1: any crazy that when Peter's legs failed in his mouth 636 00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:01,719 Speaker 1: saved him. He cried out, Lord, save me. And immediately 637 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:08,320 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you reach for grace right now now, 638 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,359 Speaker 1: my confidence is not in the fact that I'm able 639 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,160 Speaker 1: to walk so perfectly. My confidence is in the fact 640 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:19,040 Speaker 1: that He's close enough to catch me. And so my 641 00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:27,399 Speaker 1: message today, my message today is that sometimes the way 642 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:32,840 Speaker 1: you go to deeper faith is to just fall in 643 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:52,000 Speaker 1: the right place. This concludes water walking. If you know 644 00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,680 Speaker 1: that he's the one who can make the wind die 645 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,400 Speaker 1: down with one word from his mouth, give him praise 646 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:08,520 Speaker 1: right where you are. Give him praise and honor. Come on, 647 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:14,480 Speaker 1: I got a good catcher. I'm a lobbly walker, but 648 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:20,759 Speaker 1: I got a good catcher, So I'm going farmer. I'm 649 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:31,440 Speaker 1: not going under. And you know what. That wind is tricky. 650 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,960 Speaker 1: You know Peter came toward Jesus, but he looked at 651 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,480 Speaker 1: the wind, and right now in your life, listen to me. 652 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,440 Speaker 1: Listen to me. I want to say this like I 653 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,680 Speaker 1: would say it to one of my kids. What you 654 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,080 Speaker 1: have to learn to ignore is just as important as 655 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,040 Speaker 1: what you have to learn to walk toward. Some of 656 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,239 Speaker 1: us are walking toward the right thing, but we are 657 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,719 Speaker 1: not ignoring the others. You gotta get your eyes on 658 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,279 Speaker 1: the grace of God. You gotta get your mind on 659 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,440 Speaker 1: the goodness of God. You gotta get your thoughts on 660 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:10,719 Speaker 1: the possibility. I mean, what if he doesn't What if 661 00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,120 Speaker 1: he's guiding you? I know you even thinking what if 662 00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 1: I fall? What if he catches you? What if you worship? 663 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,200 Speaker 1: What if you put your worry in reverse. Oh Lord, 664 00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,480 Speaker 1: I believe that all things are working together for my good. 665 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:32,440 Speaker 1: And I don't know who this class is for, but 666 00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:37,360 Speaker 1: it's just basic faith. Man, that my faith is not 667 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,880 Speaker 1: in my faith, it's in the grace of God. So listen. 668 00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:50,799 Speaker 1: I hear him saying, come, the same thing he told Peter. 669 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,919 Speaker 1: I hear him saying to me. I hear him saying 670 00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:00,640 Speaker 1: to you in this season, and that means something different 671 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,520 Speaker 1: right now for each of us. For you, maybe that 672 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,800 Speaker 1: means to draw near to God in this season because 673 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,320 Speaker 1: you haven't been hearing his word. You've just been blown 674 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,960 Speaker 1: by the wind. For some of you, that may mean 675 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,160 Speaker 1: that you stopped walking toward what God gave you to 676 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,480 Speaker 1: do because of what was against you. But remember, the 677 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:31,040 Speaker 1: wind can carry his word into your heart. And for 678 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,800 Speaker 1: a lot of us, it means that in this moment, 679 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,560 Speaker 1: I just need to stop and say, Lord, I'm drowning. 680 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:45,320 Speaker 1: Oh God, I can't. I can't stay out here by myself. 681 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:51,680 Speaker 1: Would you save me? Would you help me out? Would 682 00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,200 Speaker 1: you show me how to do it? Just say the word, 683 00:50:55,239 --> 00:51:00,920 Speaker 1: the centurion said, my servant will be healed. Lord. I 684 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,440 Speaker 1: thank you for the privileged to minister your word today. 685 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,680 Speaker 1: Your word is powerful, Your word is eternal, Your word 686 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,879 Speaker 1: is living. We put our hand in your hand right now. 687 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:19,080 Speaker 1: We put our faith in your grace. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. 688 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:26,719 Speaker 1: We open our mouths to say that truly you are 689 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,200 Speaker 1: the son of God. It's the fourth watch of the 690 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:36,799 Speaker 1: night for somebody, and literally they've been wondering, am I 691 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,480 Speaker 1: going down? And is this? It? Is there even another side? 692 00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:44,239 Speaker 1: I don't know it anymore. I thank you that your 693 00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:48,759 Speaker 1: eye is upon them now. You sent your word today 694 00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:53,640 Speaker 1: to speak right to that situation. After all, we can't 695 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,480 Speaker 1: really walk on water, but we can walk on your word. 696 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,479 Speaker 1: Say the word, speak it to their heart right now. 697 00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:07,200 Speaker 1: You know what they need to hear, calling them closer 698 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,840 Speaker 1: and telling them to come, upholding them with your righteous 699 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:17,360 Speaker 1: right hand. I speak your word today over every city, 700 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,480 Speaker 1: over every country, over every child of God who's joined 701 00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:27,520 Speaker 1: up with this ministry in this moment, Send your word 702 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,839 Speaker 1: and heal them. The centurion said, I don't even need 703 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,400 Speaker 1: you to come, if you'll just send the word to 704 00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:39,439 Speaker 1: my house. Send your word to their house. God, send 705 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,280 Speaker 1: your word to their house. Send your word to their house. 706 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,000 Speaker 1: Send it with power and authority and glory and break 707 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:53,240 Speaker 1: strongholds and speak peace by the power of your word 708 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,640 Speaker 1: in Jesus's name. In Jesus' name, Come on, let's clap 709 00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:03,160 Speaker 1: our hands and thank God for us. Come on, clap 710 00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:09,440 Speaker 1: those pass This is how this is how you are. 711 00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,400 Speaker 1: This is how you watch him. This is how you 712 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:20,799 Speaker 1: watch him. Thank you Lord, come on, give him great 713 00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:36,440 Speaker 1: praise on a thank you Lord. I wish I had 714 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,919 Speaker 1: a certificate to give you for water walking one oh one. 715 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,960 Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the class? Hey, you know, even beyond 716 00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,680 Speaker 1: just enjoying it. You know, the word doesn't work until 717 00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,840 Speaker 1: we work it. And so I'm just praying that you 718 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,000 Speaker 1: would act on something simple from God this week. And 719 00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,480 Speaker 1: it can be the littlest things that make the biggest difference. 720 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,240 Speaker 1: We talked about that last week. It's kind of a theme, 721 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,920 Speaker 1: and I believe God's going to give you the strength 722 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,960 Speaker 1: to get through the storm, and not only to survive it, 723 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,880 Speaker 1: to be stronger because of it. I know that sounds 724 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,439 Speaker 1: like a cliche, but I'm believing it for your life 725 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,120 Speaker 1: by faith. Hey, thank you for being a part of 726 00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,799 Speaker 1: our ministry. We don't take it for granted, Holly, and 727 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,200 Speaker 1: I love you. Our team is so grateful for the 728 00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,040 Speaker 1: privileged to minister to you. Don't forget to subscribe, but 729 00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,680 Speaker 1: also share. Get the word to somebody. If you know 730 00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:28,080 Speaker 1: somebody who's going through a storm right now, maybe this 731 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,600 Speaker 1: message will help them to get their eyes on Jesus 732 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,520 Speaker 1: and keep moving toward God's purpose. You're going to walk 733 00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,560 Speaker 1: on water, one foot in front of the other. I'll 734 00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:45,879 Speaker 1: see you next time. I love you.