1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,439 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in 6 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 3: This amazing, this amazing. 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: This amazed. 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: I just wanted to give you a chance, in case 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: you're still amazed by the grace of God, to celebrate him. 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: It's amazing. 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,599 Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor if you only knew, tell him, if 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: you only knew what I've been through and the wrong 14 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: things I've done, you'd be amazed that I'm still singing. 15 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: Tell them what I am. I am what I am 16 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: by the grace of God. I know that much. 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 3: It's amazing. 18 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: Come on, shout out loud. 19 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 3: It's amazed. It's amazed. 20 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 4: It's Amazay's amazed where he brought me from. 21 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 3: It's amazed. 22 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 5: It's amazed. 23 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 4: Why the same messy easy, it's amazed. 24 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: Glory to God. Well, let's lift up a praise like 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: amazed people. How do amaze people praise God? Glory to God? 26 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely amazing. 27 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: I thank God that I get the opportunity to shepherd 28 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: you and to serve you. 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: As a minister of the Word of God. 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: My job is to put God's word in your heart 31 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: in every way that I possibly can. If it needs 32 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 2: a song, if it needs a sermon, if it needs 33 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: a book, If God has it and he gives it 34 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 2: to me, I won't even wrap it. 35 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: I'll just give it to you unwrapped, out the box. 36 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: How many love those out of the box words from God? Well, 37 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: I've got one today. Yeah, I got one today. Oh, 38 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: I'm excited what he shared with me to share with you. 39 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: Be in prayer for us. 40 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: We're due to be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, about sixty hours 41 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 2: from now or so, maybe a little less than that. 42 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 2: We're gonna be ministering to people all over the northeastern 43 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: United States, and we're gonna be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Chicago, Illinois, Columbus, Ohio, 44 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: Grand Rapids, Michigan, and three other places Boston and Philly. 45 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: And Long Island. Now listen. 46 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: If you can't come, you can stream it. You can 47 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,119 Speaker 2: stream the last night. This is the first time we've 48 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: ever streamed an elevation night. So if you can't get there, 49 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: if you can get there, go to Elevation Nights dot 50 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: com and sled or ski or whatever that you need 51 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 2: to do to get there. Elevation Nights dot com. Many 52 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: of the nights are sold out. We're trying to add 53 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: seats where we can, so go there and see if 54 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: there's availability. If you can't get there, then you can 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 2: find the information at Elevation Nights dot com and get 56 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: a ticket to stream online. 57 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: When you do, you will get the audiobook of. 58 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: Do the New You for free, and that'll be great. 59 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: So I'm excited those of you that will be seeing 60 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 2: in the next few days. We're gonna sing and worship 61 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 2: and pray. God is gonna move and break chains and 62 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: part seas and lift the spirit of heaviness, and he's 63 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: gonna save people and heal people and deliver people. And 64 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 2: we're counting on our church family to pray for us 65 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: and to lift us up before the throne and ask 66 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 2: that God would use our entire teams, a whole army 67 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 2: to go out there and do it. 68 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: And thank you for having our back. Do you have 69 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: our back? Do you have our back? 70 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 3: All right? 71 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: Then well I'm good. If you got my back, I'm good. 72 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: Also I want to thank every single one of you 73 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: who have supported the new book this week. Thank you 74 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: if you bought it, if you shared about it, if 75 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: you left a positive review, thank you. I believe the 76 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: message is important. We're taking our time over the next 77 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 2: few weeks because we're on a journey together, a journey 78 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: to be more like Jesus, a journey to follow him 79 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 2: into our future. And this journey of following Jesus cannot. 80 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: Be done alone. 81 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 2: And that's why I'm so grateful that we don't have 82 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 2: to today. I want to pray one more time before 83 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 2: we take our seat, that the Holy Spirit would be 84 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 2: our guide. 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: I also want to encourage you. 86 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: Every single one of you, whether online or at a camp, 87 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 2: has an opportunity to join what we call our E 88 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: groups today. The E stands for empowerment. I bet you 89 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: didn't know that. You thought it stood for elevation. Nope, 90 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: it stands for empowerment because getting the instructions from God 91 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: without having the empowerment to live them out. 92 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: Will frustrate you. 93 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 2: So these groups are our way of putting some very 94 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 2: wonderful people in front of you who voluntarily have given 95 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: their time, their homes, their caprice sons and their fudge 96 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 2: rounds to feed you physically and spiritually. So please click 97 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 2: on the link, stop by at the location. You cannot 98 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: do the new you without the right y'all. You know 99 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: that the Bible says you are a chosen people, people plural, 100 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 2: you singular. 101 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: You got to get around the right people. 102 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: And this year, I'm looking for some people who are 103 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 2: headed where I'm headed, and are hearing what I'm hearing, 104 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: and who want to be like. 105 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: Jesus with me. So let's follow Jesus together. 106 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 2: Are you ready for mindset one? 107 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 3: All right? 108 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 2: Somebody shouted, and after you shout this, you can take 109 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,239 Speaker 2: your seat. 110 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: Say I'm not stuck unless I stop now. High five 111 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: six people say, don't stop now. The ain't mad. You 112 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: may be seated. 113 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 2: Bring the screen, let's teach, let's preach. Put it in 114 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 2: the comments. I'm not stuck unless I stop. I'm not 115 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: stuck unless I stop. 116 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: Pray for my handwriting. I'm gonna put some words on 117 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: that screen. 118 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 2: First, I want to read this word to you from 119 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twenty. 120 00:06:52,960 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: There's some water, this sweater is in my mouth. Pomeranian anointing. 121 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 6: Ah, thank you, Congratulations to Graham Ferdick State Champion. Congratulations 122 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 6: to Elijah Ferdick, who released my most personal interview ever 123 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 6: on the Youth Nation podcast. This league, we'll put it 124 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 6: out together, and y'all have had some amazing guests, but 125 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 6: I checked in mindus the highest of you y'all ever 126 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 6: put out. 127 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: It's congratulations. More so, congratulations to Abby who's taking pictures 128 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: on the photography team somewhere. I asked her when I 129 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 2: woke her up this morning, I said, how many smiles 130 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 2: do you want during the sermon today because they have 131 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: to get pictures of me smiling? 132 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: And she says, sometimes I don't smile at them. She 133 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: said ten, so we'll try to get there. 134 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: She said, I need you to smile ten times, but 135 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: not all in a row. Matthew Chapter twenty, Matthew Chapter twenty, 136 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 2: verse twenty nine through thirty four. 137 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: You know what, Let's do it on screen. Yeah, let's 138 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: do it on the screen. 139 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: I asked, Brody, can you put the whole Bible on 140 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 2: the screen for me and I can just pull it 141 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 2: up at will? 142 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: And he did that for me. You'll give it up 143 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: for Brody. Thank you, Brodie. 144 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: Matthew Chapter twenty. What am I doing? I got a 145 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 2: stylist back here. Aha, all the way down to verse 146 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 2: twenty nine. Two blind men receive side. As Jesus and 147 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 2: his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. 148 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 2: Two blind men, we're sitting by the roadside, and when 149 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 2: they heard that Jesus was going by. I think y'all 150 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: need to get the whole thing on the screen, don't you. Yeah, 151 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 2: there it is. You got to see all this. And 152 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: those of you that are adjusting to the font size, 153 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 2: you're old like me. This is like size five hundred 154 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: font and some of us are still struggling. 155 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: Happy birth, all right. 156 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 2: Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when 157 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 2: they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, Lord, 158 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 2: Son of David. I'm not going to use my whole 159 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 2: full shouting right now, not this early in the sermon. 160 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 2: When they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, 161 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: Lord Love, Lord son of David, have mercy on us. 162 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:03,359 Speaker 2: The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet. 163 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 5: But they. 164 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: Shouted all the louder. 165 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: I like these guys, I said, I like these guys. 166 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 2: The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted 167 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 2: all the louder, Lord. 168 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: Son of David, have mercy on us. 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: Let's shout that, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us. 170 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: Now. If you don't need mercy, keep your mouth shut. 171 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: But if you need mercy in your life because you're 172 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 2: not always perfect, shout with me. 173 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: Lord son of David, have mercy on us. Yeah. 174 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 2: And Jesus stopped and called them, what do you want 175 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: me to do for you? 176 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: He asked Lord. 177 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 2: They answered, we want our sight, and Jesus had compassion 178 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their 179 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: sight and followed him. So say it again. I'm not 180 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 2: stuck unless I stop. I want to make a connection. 181 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: As we study this today where it says they received 182 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: their sight and followed him, I want to draw your 183 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: attention to something. Is that, if you go back to 184 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: the beginning of the passage, these men have experienced an 185 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 2: amazing change. How many believe that God can still change 186 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: your life in an amazing way at any moment, at 187 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 2: any age, at any stage, And it can come from 188 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 2: a direction that you never see it coming. And it 189 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 2: can happen at a time when you had convinced yourself 190 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: that it was over, and when you feel the stuckest. 191 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: That's when God does some of his best stuff. 192 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 2: I had a friend in high school who had a 193 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 2: big truck, and he just lived for when somebody got 194 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 2: stuck so he could show off his truck. 195 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: I got a God who has a big truck. 196 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 2: He lives for the moments when somebody gets stuck so 197 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: he can show what he's got. The stuck word is 198 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 2: kind of a nice word to use to describe how 199 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 2: we feel. Sometimes we could use a lot of other 200 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 2: words as well, depression and anxiety, and states that we 201 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 2: get stuck in situations and circumstances that seem insurmountable. Relational 202 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 2: profiles that never seem to change though everyone else seems 203 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: to change theirs, Monthly habits that seem unbreakable, in patterns 204 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 2: of thought that seem to be embedded into the very 205 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 2: way that you are. 206 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: That's what we're challenging in this series. Do the new You. 207 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 2: That's why I wrote the book. I don't just want 208 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 2: to be your life coach. I want to be your 209 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 2: holy ghost life coach. Can I be your holy ghost 210 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 2: life coach for a few minutes today and talk about 211 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 2: the way that discipleship, which is really what we're talking 212 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 2: about following Jesus' discipleship. Put that word in the comments, please, discipleship. 213 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: Discipleship is always about redefinition. And I'll explain in the 214 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 2: passage we just read. These two men had a physical problem. 215 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 2: They were blind. This blindness is not only limited to 216 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: the physical realm. The disciples who followed Jesus were blind 217 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 2: not because they couldn't use their eyes, but because they 218 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 2: could not see what he was doing even as he 219 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 2: did it. They would fight over position. As he was 220 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 2: speaking about purpose, and even as he was moving toward 221 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 2: the cross to save the world from its sins, they 222 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 2: were arguing about status and who gets the best seats 223 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 2: in heaven? Can you believe that the disciples were blind? 224 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 2: The men were blind? The Bible says that there were 225 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 2: two blind men sitting by the roadside, probably begging, because 226 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,599 Speaker 2: the procession called Passover was happen. And now Passover was 227 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: an annual feast for the Jews. This one was different. 228 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 2: This one was different because Jesus was going not to 229 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 2: see the lamb that was sacrificed in the Passover, but 230 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 2: to be the lamb. He wasn't going just to commemorate 231 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 2: an event in history. He was coming to redefine history 232 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 2: as we knew it. It's a significant moment in Jesus's life, 233 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 2: and yet everything in the passage screams of limitation. For 234 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 2: although Jesus is fully God and able to do whatever 235 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 2: he wants, he doesn't have much time left to walk 236 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 2: the earth as a man. He's one week away from 237 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 2: hanging on a cross, just a little bit over a 238 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 2: week away from rising from the dead. 239 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: He's headed to Jerusalem. 240 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: He's headed to Jerusalem to face the cheers of the 241 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: crowd when he arrives, riding on a donkey as they 242 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 2: spread their palm branches on the road, saying Hosanna, Hosanna, which. 243 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: Means save now. 244 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 2: Yet days later, many of the same crowds that shouted Hosannah. 245 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: Will be shouting crucify him. 246 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 2: Don't ever commit your view of yourself to a crowd. 247 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: If they like you, wonderful. 248 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: If they don't like you, and God still loves you, 249 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 2: you'll still have something to eat and somewhere to live 250 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 2: in His presence. I don't know what I'm talking about, 251 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: and therefore Jesus never committed his identity to the opinion 252 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: of a crowd, and you can't either. I wish I 253 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 2: was preaching just to the youth right now. I would 254 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 2: talk to you about your crowd, and I would tell 255 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 2: you that you are becoming too much like your crowd 256 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: and too little like your Christ. Your Christ can help 257 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 2: you stand out from the crowd. Your Christ can help 258 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: you go the right way, even if the whole crowd 259 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: goes the wrong way. But I'm getting ahead of myself, 260 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 2: because I want to talk about the two men who 261 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 2: were blind. And notice it says two things happened to 262 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 2: them because they shouted. Everybody shouts, say whoo, everybody say, Lord, 263 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 2: have mercy on me. That's what they shouted. And when 264 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 2: they shouted, he called them. And when he called them, 265 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 2: he touched them. And when he touched them, he healed them. 266 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 2: And when he healed them, this is what I thought 267 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 2: was the best part of the text. In verse thirty four, 268 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 2: it said they received their site and followed him. Now 269 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: all the way back to the beginning of the passage, 270 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 2: you see this little chapter heading right here. 271 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: That is not originally in the Bible. 272 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 2: Okay, this is the part that is the word of 273 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: God that was translated from the original language. 274 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: This is something somebody put. 275 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 2: In a study Bible to tell you this is a 276 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 2: new section. But the Bible isn't like Netflix with chapter titles, 277 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: and you know, the Bible doesn't have track ID. 278 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: The Bible is just written. 279 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 2: There's no chapter in verse divisions, and there are certainly 280 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 2: no subject headings. So what was written here I want 281 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 2: to talk about for a moment, and I want us 282 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 2: to think about for a moment. And the reason that 283 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 2: I wanted it to be on the screen is so 284 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 2: that you can see it for yourself. And I have 285 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 2: a question. It says two blind men receive site. And 286 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 2: here's my question. If this happened, why are they still 287 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 2: called that? If they received their site, it stands. 288 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: The reason that they are no longer blind. 289 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 2: I would like to suggest that we retitle this passage. 290 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: Don't change the passage. Just call it what actually happened. 291 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,479 Speaker 2: Call it what actually happened. Maybe instead of calling this 292 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 2: chapter two blind men received their sight, because if they see, 293 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 2: they're no longer blind. But people will memorize how they 294 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 2: met you and call you that for the rest of 295 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 2: your natural days. 296 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: I would suggest that God is the author of your story. 297 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 2: I would suggest that he is the Alpha and Omega. 298 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: I would suggest that it's him holding the pen. I'm smiling, Abby, 299 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 2: Do you see me smiling. I'm smiling because I know 300 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 2: he turned it around for me. I'm smiling because I 301 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 2: know it doesn't matter what they called me. I'm smiling 302 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 2: because I know he did some things for me. And 303 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: it's amazing grace. How sweet the sound that saved a 304 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 2: wretch like me? Hot once was lost, but now I'm found? 305 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: Was blind West line? West line? 306 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 2: Somebody shoutst line, I'm waiting. 307 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: For this section. Y'all are sleeping touch. 308 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: Somebody say I was line, but I'm not now now 309 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 2: I see. 310 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: How about we. 311 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 2: Call this passage not two blind men received sidewatch this? 312 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 2: Can I do this? Am I gonna get in trouble? 313 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 2: In trouble? No, I don't think I'm gonna get in 314 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 2: trouble because I think we need to. 315 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: Call it too bold men. How you like that devil. 316 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call them what their condition said they were. 317 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call them what their past had them 318 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 2: trapped in. I'm not gonna call them what they had 319 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 2: known up to that point before they met the Savior 320 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: who knew them from before they were born. How about 321 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: we call this passage two, bold men become disciples because 322 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 2: in verse twenty nine three people like it. 323 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: You don't have to like it. 324 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 7: God did it anyway. You don't have to love for it. 325 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 7: God does what he wants to do. The whole crowd 326 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 7: was telling them stop shouting. Stop that, that's ridiculous. Would 327 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 7: you stomp that? Look at your never say stomp that? 328 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: Do it like I did it with that whatever voice that. 329 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 2: Was, stomp that na stomp that. The whole crowd told 330 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 2: them to be quiet. The whole crowd told them to 331 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 2: be quiet. I circled the phrase I'm looking for you 332 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 2: there it is, told them, told them, let's circle it again. 333 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 2: The whole crowd told them this is pointless. Don't you 334 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 2: see you're blind. No making jokes. I'm just bringing the 335 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 2: irony of it to the surface. But I love their boldness. Now, 336 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 2: I just want to speculate that maybe their blindness contributed 337 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 2: to their boldness. The Bible says that we walk by faith, 338 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 2: not by sight, and maybe if they had seen how 339 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 2: big the crowd was around Jesus, they wouldn't have had 340 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 2: the faith to say anything about their own condition. For 341 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 2: all of you who think that we shouldn't preach about 342 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 2: personal growth from the pulpit. When Jesus asked them in 343 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 2: and what do you want? They didn't pray about environmental 344 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 2: pollution or carbon footprint or world hunger. They asked for 345 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 2: something that they needed. And Jesus did not turn them 346 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: away as selfish, but he enabled them to experience what 347 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,360 Speaker 2: their previous tradition had indicated was not possible. There are 348 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 2: some of you here, and there is a whole crowd 349 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 2: telling you just keep it down, don't even bother, don't 350 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 2: even worry about it. But the interesting thing is not 351 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 2: all crowds are outside. 352 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: Some of the crowds that tell us to keep it down. 353 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 2: Are the crowds you carry inside from. 354 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: The voices of fear that you've accumulated in your life. 355 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 2: I mean, you don't even really understand sometimes how the 356 00:22:54,800 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 2: trauma of what you went through became your template for 357 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 2: where you think God. 358 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: Can take you. 359 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 2: And here's the problem that I have when people say 360 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:13,959 Speaker 2: I'm finding myself. If I'm finding myself, it means I'm lost. 361 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 2: If I'm lost, I need a guide. I have come 362 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 2: to the point in my life that the only way 363 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 2: I'm going to find me is to follow Jesus, because 364 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 2: the only one who really knows what my life is 365 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: supposed to be, or mean or produce is the manufacturer 366 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 2: or the Bible calls the gardener who planted the potential 367 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: in me to begin with, let's talk for a moment 368 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 2: about this crowd that told them to be quiet. And 369 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 2: I don't know what your insecurities are trying to tell 370 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: you today. I don't know what your regrets are trying 371 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 2: to tell you today. 372 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: For some of you, it's this constant voice that. 373 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 2: Says, you missed it, you blew it. It's over, you 374 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 2: wasted it. It's gone, and you can't now if it 375 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: was going to it would have by now. 376 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: It's stronger than you and you can't go back now. 377 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 2: And you shouldn't have done it, but you did do it, 378 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 2: and now you have to. 379 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: Keep doing it. It is the voice of the crowd 380 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: telling you stop it. 381 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 2: Even being at church today was a struggle for some 382 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 2: of us, because while you want to hear God's voice, 383 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 2: there's another voice telling you you really need to stop 384 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 2: going to church. It's not changing your life anyway. Why 385 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 2: do you keep serving God? Why do you keep trying 386 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 2: to be a person of integrity? Don't you notice that 387 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 2: the nice guy's finished last anyway? 388 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: Why are you trying to be pure? 389 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 2: Didn't you notice that all your friends who have no 390 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 2: sexual morals are getting the girls and you're not. Why 391 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: are you even trying to reclaim this part of your 392 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 2: life when every time you try it only gets harder. 393 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 2: Why are you even going back to rehab right now? 394 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 2: Why would you even try again? Just stop, Just give 395 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 2: up on yourself. Everybody else has given up on you. 396 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 2: The voice of the crowd on the inside is louder 397 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 2: than the voice of the crowd on the outside. There 398 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: is no noise cancelation for the voice of the crowd 399 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 2: on the outside. There is no numbing of the things 400 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 2: that you say inside of yourself that keep you down. 401 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 2: So I know that while the voice of God is 402 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 2: going forth today, calling you forward into some things, calling 403 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 2: you out of some things and into some others, calling 404 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 2: you above some things, so that the things that are 405 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 2: under your feet can stay there where they belong, and 406 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 2: you can walk on ahead into your future, I know 407 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 2: there is another voice telling you just stop. But I 408 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: love these gold blind, these bold men. If you get 409 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 2: to heaven and you want to meet these two men 410 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 2: from Matthew twenty. Make sure you ask for them by 411 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 2: the right name, because if you ask for the blind 412 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 2: men in Matthew chapter twenty, nobody will come. 413 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: To meet you and sign your book. 414 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 2: So say, I want to meet those bold brothers from 415 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twenty. 416 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: I want to meet those bold brothers who. 417 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 2: Decided I'm leaving the life I knew and following into 418 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 2: the new, I'm going forward. They shouted, and the crowd 419 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 2: said stop. They shouted, Lord, have mercy on us. 420 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: They shouted. Everybody say they shouted. Nobody shouted saying they shouted, 421 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: And I love that they shouted. 422 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: Don't you everybody shout some kind of way, Just shout 423 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:03,479 Speaker 2: some kind of way. What is amazing about their shout. 424 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 2: What is amazing about their shout is that it indicates 425 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 2: a principle that I think will be very important to 426 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 2: you in this season of your life. Don't ever let 427 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 2: what you don't have keep you from using what you do. Remember, Saints, 428 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 2: they couldn't see, but you don't have to see the shout. 429 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:40,479 Speaker 2: I said, you don't have to see to shout. Not 430 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: only did they shout, but watch this when Jesus called, 431 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 2: they came because you don't have to see to step. 432 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 2: It's harder, but you can still do it. I came 433 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: to preach to somebody today who feels stuck. And the 434 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: issue is not that you're stuck. The issue is that 435 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 2: you've stopped. The issue is not. 436 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: That God has done with you, not by a long shot. 437 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 2: The issue is that you have allowed what you don't have, 438 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,959 Speaker 2: your sight, to keep you from using what you do have, 439 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 2: your shout and your steps. Because even if I have 440 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:34,719 Speaker 2: to shout and stumble and shout and stumble and shout 441 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 2: and stumble, I can still get there, even if I 442 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: have to proclaim I am the righteousness of God, and 443 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: stumble and sin and proclaim that I am the righteousness 444 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 2: of God, and stumble and sin and proclaim that I 445 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 2: am the righteousness of God because Jesus died for me, 446 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 2: and stumble and sin and carry the heavy burden of 447 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 2: my habits. But know that every day He's transforming me. 448 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 2: And if I have to stumble, a stumble is still 449 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 2: a step. Put it in the chat right now while 450 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 2: it's fresh. 451 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 8: A stumble is still a step, and a shout is 452 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 8: still a shout. Even if I shout with my eyes closed, 453 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 8: Watch this, Lord, I close my eyes, I couldn't see, 454 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 8: but I could shout. Right now, I'm in the season 455 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 8: of my life where there are some things. 456 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 2: I can't see clearly. I don't know which one God 457 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 2: wants me to do next. I don't know how God's 458 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 2: gonna make away on this. 459 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: I don't know how he's gonna help me pay it off. 460 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm gonna bounce back from it. 461 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 2: I really don't know who's gonna be with me in 462 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 2: this season. But the fact that I can't see it 463 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 2: will not stop me from shouting about it. 464 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: That's my decision. Come on, tell somebody you're not stuck. 465 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: You just stopped. You just stopped. You just stopped. 466 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 2: You Stop being optimistic because you didn't see any evidence. 467 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 2: You stop believing you could rise above it because nobody 468 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: in your family ever had. You'll stop believing that it 469 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 2: could really be true for you, even though God spoke it. 470 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 3: Now. 471 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be ignorant about the challenges that 472 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 2: you face. I'm just trying to issue a higher point 473 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 2: of view than the one you've been living with. They 474 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 2: heard that Jesus was coming and they shouted, I'm gonna 475 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: take this message to a Pentecostal church and preach it 476 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 2: like it needs to be preached. This bapt Episcopalian community 477 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 2: fellowship don't know how to preach for the Word of 478 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 2: God because we would have shouted. We would have shouted 479 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 2: seven times by now have we really been listening? Yeah, 480 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 2: I'm getting warmed up. I need you to know something. 481 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 2: I need you to know something. There is nothing that 482 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 2: you're not that God will require to do what He 483 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 2: intends to do through your life. You know how many 484 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 2: people give up and stop on something that God spoke 485 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 2: to them just because they don't see I talked to one. 486 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: Guy who told me I would have started at church. 487 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: He's seventy. 488 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 2: He said I would have started at church, but I 489 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: didn't know how to do children's ministry. 490 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: It would surprise you what stops people. 491 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 2: He was anointed to preach, he was anointed to teach, 492 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 2: he was anointed to lead, and yet he couldn't see 493 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 2: that in leading someone else to do what they were 494 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 2: gifted to do children's ministry, he could have moved past 495 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 2: the limitation. The key premise of my message is this 496 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: and the mindset that I'm. 497 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: Not stuck unless I stop. It's very simple but I 498 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: feel like I should break it down for you. 499 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 2: And so. 500 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: What what what? What? What? What? Why? Well, maybe that's 501 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: the word God wanted you to get to today. You're 502 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: telling me, and I'm. 503 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 5: Telling you, I'm ded knowing, get go ahead. 504 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 2: Through the valley, through the storm. I'm the worship it 505 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 2: all the more. Raise is a weapon. It's more than 506 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 2: a sound. 507 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: Raise this the water my enemy's drout is I'm not 508 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: dying in this red sea. Pharaoh is, I'm not dying 509 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: in this red seat. Fear is, I'm not dying in 510 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: this red sea. See it is. 511 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 2: Shame is just races getting praise. 512 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: If you know how to shout, do it now? How 513 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: abom now? 514 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 5: How of them? 515 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 3: Now? 516 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 2: Would be a very good time the show. No, no, 517 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 2: don't shout now. Save it for a football game. No no, 518 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 2: don't shout now, Save it for a baseball game. 519 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: No, don't shout now, say that for march madness. It's 520 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: not like God brought through this far. 521 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 2: It's not like hey, mad way after a way. 522 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,399 Speaker 1: It's not like he's for a com miracol sh after miracle. 523 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 5: It's not like he open no after floor watch this 524 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 5: dun for many. 525 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: Southing. 526 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 2: I'm like those two bold men. I'm shouting before I 527 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 2: can see it. Oh, I saw something, y'all. I saw something, y'all. 528 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 2: I saw something in my Bible. I brought this Bible 529 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,080 Speaker 2: up here on this screen to show you something. I 530 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 2: want to show it to you right now. I've been 531 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 2: saving this. I'm excited about it. I'm excited about what 532 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 2: God did. I'm excited about who he did it for. 533 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 2: He did it for the ones that no one else 534 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 2: was paying attention to. He did it for the ones 535 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 2: who are in the most desperate situation. He's gonna do 536 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 2: it for the one here today who's hurting the most. 537 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 2: He's gonna do it for the one here today who 538 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,839 Speaker 2: is confused. He's gonna do it here for the one 539 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 2: today who is reaching out to him. He's gonna do 540 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,359 Speaker 2: it for the one today who doesn't have much time left. 541 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,840 Speaker 2: He's gonna do it for the one today who wasted 542 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,319 Speaker 2: some of the good seasons. He's gonna do it here 543 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 2: today for somebody who's weak in your body. He's gonna 544 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 2: do it for somebody who's stuck. Because he's got a 545 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 2: really big truck and he likes to show you what 546 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 2: he can pull you out off. 547 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,840 Speaker 1: So, if you've been in something, the. 548 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,719 Speaker 2: Bible says that Jesus did it for the blind men, 549 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 2: and he did it instantly, and he did it compassionately, 550 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 2: and he touched them. And when he touched them, did 551 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 2: you see that he touched them? He didn't need to 552 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 2: shout anymore because God doesn't have. 553 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: To shout when he's close to you. 554 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 2: So if you can't hear him right now, if you 555 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 2: can't feel him right now, if you can't see him 556 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 2: right now, maybe you will hear the still small voice 557 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 2: and feel a touch and of a sudden what the 558 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,359 Speaker 2: crowd told them had no power over the Savior who 559 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,720 Speaker 2: touched them. When God touches you, no matter what fear 560 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 2: tells you, no matter what the enemy tells you, tim 561 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 2: no matter what he told you, when God touches you, 562 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 2: did you wear those sunglasses to help me illustrate this 563 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 2: sermon today? When God touches you, and he says, I 564 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 2: don't care what they've told you. I don't care what 565 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 2: they've called you. I don't care how they've labeled you. 566 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 2: I don't care if they said it's a learning disability. 567 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,080 Speaker 1: Knock. When this ability meets the disability, God. 568 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:06,879 Speaker 2: Will raise up something that is absolutely race compounding amazing. 569 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 1: It's amazing grace. 570 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 2: And he did it for people who couldn't see it, 571 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 2: and he didn't for people who couldn't do it for themself. 572 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 2: And he called them and they followed. And I was 573 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 2: reading this passage over and over again, and I realized 574 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,759 Speaker 2: that he did not come to them. 575 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:38,440 Speaker 1: He called them because when he found them, they were sitting. 576 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 2: But he didn't want to leave them sitting in Jericho. 577 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:53,600 Speaker 2: He wanted to get them stepping toward Jerusalem. This is 578 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,360 Speaker 2: why God doesn't always make it easy for you. This 579 00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 2: is why even in the moments where he has compassion, 580 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,359 Speaker 2: sometimes in his compassion, he'll tell you come. It does 581 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,879 Speaker 2: not say Jesus went to them. As a matter of fact, 582 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:14,120 Speaker 2: what it says is absolutely amazing. Everybody say amazing. I 583 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 2: want y'all to love this Bible. I want y'all to 584 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 2: get a highlight or a blue one and a yellow one, 585 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 2: and a pink one, and a raspberry one and a 586 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 2: scented one. 587 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: Then I want you to sniff that raspberry in the morning. 588 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,800 Speaker 2: And start looking for the righteousness of God in the 589 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 2: Word of God and the revelation of God with your 590 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 2: raspberry highlighter and start circling stuff that God speaks to 591 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,320 Speaker 2: you so you can get a better word over your family. 592 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, got ge go, got got go, get y'all. 593 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,560 Speaker 1: I'm shutting upbout what I'll see. 594 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 2: Everybody shout Lord, say Lord, and now be the crowd 595 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,760 Speaker 2: say stop, say Lord, not be the crowd say stop. 596 00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: Desides say Lord, say loud, loud. By the way, I'm 597 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: gonna say something. I love these guys, it says. When 598 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,759 Speaker 1: the crowd told them to be quiet, they shouted all 599 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,359 Speaker 1: the louder. So let's practice. Everybody say stop on this side. 600 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: Now say Lord. Now say stop louder, louder, louder, say stop. 601 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 1: Now watch this stop. Crowd says stop. Fear says stop. 602 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,799 Speaker 2: Insecurity says stop past that stop did she says stop? 603 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,279 Speaker 9: The pressure say stop. Anxiety says stop. And because they 604 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:51,799 Speaker 9: didn't stop, because put it back on the screen, tech team. 605 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 9: I gotta show this to my Epham. I gotta show 606 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 9: this to somebody who has made. 607 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 1: Up your mind. 608 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,719 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna stop following Jesus. I'm not gonna stop 609 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 2: praying about it. I'm not gonna stop seeking him. I'm 610 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,640 Speaker 2: not gonna stop encouraging. I'm not gonna stop using my gift. 611 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna stop using this annoying thing. I'm not 612 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,359 Speaker 2: gonna stop speaking life. I'm not gonna stop praising him. 613 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,880 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna stop trusting him. I'm not gonna stop. 614 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna stop. And because they didn't stop, Jesus did. 615 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:31,839 Speaker 1: He did. 616 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 2: Because they didn't stop, they just shouted, louder I love him. 617 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,320 Speaker 2: Not only did they not stop, they took it to 618 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:47,279 Speaker 2: another level. Not only did they not stop, they took 619 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,920 Speaker 2: it to another level. And not only did they get here, 620 00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:58,880 Speaker 2: they followed Jesus and they didn't go back to Jericho. 621 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:08,960 Speaker 1: All of this started with a shout. I'm not going 622 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:15,839 Speaker 1: back to Jericho. And it started with a shout. Now, 623 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 1: I seem to remember something in the Bible. I don't 624 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,960 Speaker 1: know if you can help me pull it on about 625 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: a shout in Jericho. 626 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,640 Speaker 2: I seem to remember something. Can we find it in 627 00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 2: the Bible? Come on, everybody who wants this good part 628 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:44,879 Speaker 2: of the words, shout right now, shout lader. Everybody who 629 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,759 Speaker 2: wants God to give you an update and make you 630 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,839 Speaker 2: a disciple, and purge you, and purify you and get 631 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,040 Speaker 2: your mind right and bring his spirit to break change, 632 00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:06,360 Speaker 2: make some noose. This is not the first shout in Jericho. 633 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 2: The Bible says in Joshua, chapter six, verse number. 634 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:23,840 Speaker 1: One, somebody shout. Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred. 635 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:29,040 Speaker 2: You remember Jericho. You remember Jericho. It was the first 636 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,399 Speaker 2: city that God called his people to take over. After 637 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 2: forty years of stuck in the wilderness, after forty years 638 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,400 Speaker 2: of going in circles, after forty years of saying. 639 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 1: Those giants are bigger. 640 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 2: Than us, after a whole generation complained and wasted away 641 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,399 Speaker 2: and waged not a war against. 642 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,279 Speaker 1: Their enemies, but a war against their own destiny. Now 643 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: Jericho was securely barred up. 644 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,880 Speaker 2: Talk about stuck. You're standing at the edge of something. 645 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:00,880 Speaker 2: How many feel like this. I'm at the edge of 646 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,200 Speaker 2: something and I can't get in. I'm at the edge 647 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,239 Speaker 2: of joy, but I can't keep it. I'm at the 648 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 2: edge of a blessing, but I keep messing it up. 649 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,600 Speaker 2: And I get a little bit, and I spend more, 650 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,640 Speaker 2: and I get a little bit, and I eat more, 651 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,200 Speaker 2: and I stuff in a numb and I don't understand why. 652 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,880 Speaker 1: Now Jericho was securely barred because. 653 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 2: Of the Israelites. Remember, the enemy is intimidated by you 654 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 2: because he knows who's fighting for you. 655 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,320 Speaker 1: No one went in, no one came out. They are stuck. 656 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 1: But where the previous generation stopped, they didn't, The Bible 657 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:35,879 Speaker 1: says in verse two. 658 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,200 Speaker 2: Then the Lord said to Joshua, see, I have delivered 659 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,799 Speaker 2: past tense Jericho into your hands, along with its king 660 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:51,640 Speaker 2: and it's fighting men. March around the city once. Oh cool, Okay, 661 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,400 Speaker 2: I could do that. Yeah, I'll march around the city once. 662 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,719 Speaker 2: You're gonna give me the victory. If I just march 663 00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:58,359 Speaker 2: around the city once. 664 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,759 Speaker 1: That sign me. I'm doing to do it. Absolutely do. 665 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,759 Speaker 2: I'm join Jim and I'm gonna meditation app on my 666 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,799 Speaker 2: phone as well in a Bible blam, the Bible blam. 667 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna reading the message Bible. I really like the 668 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:15,359 Speaker 1: message Bible. That's great. But nothing happened once. March around 669 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,840 Speaker 1: the city once. Is what I told Josha. What this 670 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 1: is what I told you. March aro on once with 671 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:18,960 Speaker 1: all the arm men. 672 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 3: Do this for. 673 00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:21,920 Speaker 1: Six days. 674 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 2: Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams horns in front 675 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:31,640 Speaker 2: of the art. Now on the seventh day, take a 676 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,359 Speaker 2: few deep breaks because you're about to shot again. 677 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,279 Speaker 1: Tell the people in your apartment. Don't get nervous. I'm 678 00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,400 Speaker 1: about to shot again, though. Just tell them, Just tell them, Hey, 679 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: you're gonna hear me holler. But don't call nine one one. 680 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,439 Speaker 1: Don't call nine one one, Just call Joshua was six. 681 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,160 Speaker 2: Because I'm shouting about something that I can't see right now, because. 682 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,479 Speaker 1: I'm shouting about something I can't feel. 683 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,960 Speaker 2: I'm shouting about something I don't have the factual backing 684 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:54,719 Speaker 2: for right now. 685 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,600 Speaker 1: Eh, I'm shouting about something you can't see right now. 686 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,560 Speaker 2: Have them march around seven times with the priest blowing 687 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,280 Speaker 2: the trumpets. Remember every day they marched and nothing happened. 688 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:07,279 Speaker 1: Took faith. 689 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,799 Speaker 2: Every day you pray and believe and nothing comes back 690 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,560 Speaker 2: in the form of love toward your life. 691 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:20,320 Speaker 1: Is a day that takes faith. Every day that the desire. 692 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,000 Speaker 2: Doesn't leave you, but you commit to get back up 693 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:23,799 Speaker 2: even though. 694 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,120 Speaker 1: You slip, takes faith. 695 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,600 Speaker 2: And so you're waiting for the walls to fall, and 696 00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:35,160 Speaker 2: so you're waiting for the pain to go away, and 697 00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,960 Speaker 2: so you're waiting for it to get easier, and so 698 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,040 Speaker 2: you're waiting for the right pill to fix it. And 699 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,320 Speaker 2: so you're waiting for the right key to break it 700 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 2: and unlock it forever. But the Bible says that it 701 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 2: took six days of stuck, and on the seventh day, 702 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,839 Speaker 2: I appreached a message one time called don't stop on six. 703 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,439 Speaker 2: I preached that message when I was going through hell. 704 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 2: I preached that message when the media was saying that 705 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,360 Speaker 2: I was a liar and a hypocrite and that I 706 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 2: was buying my way onto a bestseller list with my 707 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,359 Speaker 2: book that I never did, and that we were faking baptisms, 708 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,799 Speaker 2: and that I preached that message don't stop on six. 709 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,440 Speaker 1: And I walked around the podium and I got down 710 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 1: on my face. 711 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:19,960 Speaker 2: And I'm forty four now, so I'm not going to 712 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 2: do that part anymore because getting up is different. But 713 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,160 Speaker 2: I got down on my face and I talked about 714 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,439 Speaker 2: the lapse where you have to crawl, and I talked 715 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,440 Speaker 2: about the nights where you have to fake it, and 716 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,200 Speaker 2: I talked about the days where you have to go 717 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,600 Speaker 2: in the bathroom at work and cry and go I 718 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:34,879 Speaker 2: can't even get through the day. 719 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,480 Speaker 1: And it's nine forty five in the morning, and the 720 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:38,760 Speaker 1: Bible seems it's. 721 00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,560 Speaker 2: Just hieroglyphics to me right now, and the impulse is 722 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,200 Speaker 2: stronger than my integrity right now. 723 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,400 Speaker 1: And I preached and I. 724 00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,799 Speaker 2: Said, don't stop on six because on the seventh day, 725 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:48,840 Speaker 2: you never. 726 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,120 Speaker 1: Know, this might be the one. 727 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,440 Speaker 2: I mean, this might be the time, and this might 728 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,279 Speaker 2: be the day, and this might be the seed, and 729 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,480 Speaker 2: this might be the season, and this might be the moment, 730 00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,319 Speaker 2: and you might be the one to break it off 731 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 2: of everybody with your last. 732 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,960 Speaker 1: Name who is yet to be born. So don't stop. 733 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:16,000 Speaker 2: And the Bible says when you march around the city 734 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,400 Speaker 2: seven times, everybody shouts seven. 735 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,000 Speaker 1: That's the number of completion. 736 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,240 Speaker 2: Now high five to seven people and say, I'm getting 737 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:25,759 Speaker 2: this done. 738 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 1: I'm getting this done. I'm getting this done. I'm getting 739 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:31,680 Speaker 1: this done. 740 00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 2: What you say, kid going, keep going, keep going, kid going? 741 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, stumble yeah, slip, Yeah, I did it. Yeah. I 742 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:45,840 Speaker 1: struggle with it, but I'm done it. 743 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:47,400 Speaker 3: No, I'm not it. 744 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,319 Speaker 1: No, I'm not in. I got a new man. I'm 745 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,000 Speaker 1: not a blond man. I'm a bold man. 746 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:55,480 Speaker 3: I'm not the old man. 747 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,440 Speaker 1: I'm a new man. I'm a new man. I'm a 748 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,680 Speaker 1: new man. Yeah, I'm an man. 749 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:02,200 Speaker 2: Watch this. 750 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,399 Speaker 1: Verse five is my verse. Verse five is my verse. 751 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,920 Speaker 1: Put it on the lower thirds, so I can preach it. 752 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:14,760 Speaker 1: Somebody shout, don't stop. 753 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,840 Speaker 2: They didn't stop shouting, and Jesus stopped in the middle 754 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,080 Speaker 2: of the street on the way to the cross to 755 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,200 Speaker 2: save the world, and he's calling you right now. 756 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,680 Speaker 1: He stopped this moment in time. 757 00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,560 Speaker 2: Some of you, God stopped the relationship that you were 758 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,759 Speaker 2: addicted to so he could open your eyes to who 759 00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:40,799 Speaker 2: you really are. Some of you, God stopped the job 760 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,080 Speaker 2: that you were greater than, so that you would develop 761 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,520 Speaker 2: your skill and humility to go to the next level 762 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 2: and learn from the mistake. 763 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,279 Speaker 1: When you don't stop, God does. 764 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,719 Speaker 2: A silence, accusation, A silence condemnation. 765 00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:57,840 Speaker 1: I silence. 766 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,560 Speaker 2: What the crowd says, I what your instagram feed says 767 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:02,520 Speaker 2: I silence? 768 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,920 Speaker 1: What your negative result says? Silence. 769 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,320 Speaker 2: Now that the crowd has to be quiet, and the 770 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:16,200 Speaker 2: Christ has called you, let's look at this Jericho shout. 771 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,120 Speaker 2: I didn't realize when I read about the blind Man 772 00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,799 Speaker 2: that the shout that they released in Jericho was an echo. 773 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,160 Speaker 1: It was the echo in Jericho. 774 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,239 Speaker 2: And if you know anything about what happens next in 775 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:43,319 Speaker 2: this passage in chapter six, verse five of Joshua, now 776 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:48,200 Speaker 2: we're ready. The Bible says, when you hear them, sound 777 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:55,000 Speaker 2: a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army 778 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:56,400 Speaker 2: give a. 779 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:08,640 Speaker 1: What you're gonna do? You mean I preached an hour 780 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,400 Speaker 1: in this heavy sweater and you still don't know what 781 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,239 Speaker 1: to do? Are you kidding me? 782 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,040 Speaker 10: You mean I wrote a whole book, I've been pastor 783 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:25,680 Speaker 10: a whole trip, and you still eighteen years and we 784 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,000 Speaker 10: still don't know what to do with the wall. 785 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:29,359 Speaker 1: What's this thing? 786 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,480 Speaker 3: What's a wall? To away? Megger? 787 00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,600 Speaker 1: What's a wall to away? Meger? 788 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:37,480 Speaker 3: What's a day? 789 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,960 Speaker 1: Joza Bregger? What's a day? Joazagleger? 790 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:47,560 Speaker 3: Shut down? What's a wall? What's a wa way? 791 00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:48,040 Speaker 1: Mega? 792 00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:50,800 Speaker 3: And here it is? 793 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,959 Speaker 2: The Bible says, when you hear them, sound a long 794 00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:02,040 Speaker 2: blast on the trumpets, have the whole army gives. 795 00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:03,640 Speaker 3: A loud. 796 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:13,520 Speaker 1: Shout. Watch this wats this? No, no, no, stop stop. 797 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,560 Speaker 1: If you shout, you might get joy. If you shout, 798 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:17,880 Speaker 1: you might get an answer. 799 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,520 Speaker 2: If you shout, can I get out of your self 800 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 2: consciousness and get Christ's conscious? 801 00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:24,440 Speaker 3: Go shout loud. 802 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,880 Speaker 2: Have the whole army give a loud shout, And it says, 803 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:43,080 Speaker 2: then the wall will collapse. 804 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:53,040 Speaker 1: Watch this, not shout? Win? Can you read that well, look, 805 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,719 Speaker 1: I think it's got an eraser. I'll do it again. 806 00:51:55,680 --> 00:52:11,520 Speaker 1: Not shout win the wall collapses, shout, shout what you're 807 00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:17,600 Speaker 1: showing about? What your showing about? Something I can't see. 808 00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,759 Speaker 2: But they stop at and it's gotta cook down. 809 00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:28,160 Speaker 4: It's gotta clok down, saying it's gotta come down. 810 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,280 Speaker 1: I said this gotta cook down. 811 00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,760 Speaker 4: Stop this gotta pump down. Tell your neighbor it's kinda 812 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:43,880 Speaker 4: come down. It's gotta come down. It's gotta colm down. 813 00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:50,160 Speaker 4: It's gotta come down. When we show this, gotta come down. 814 00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:55,600 Speaker 4: When your sad gotta come down. I said this gotta 815 00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:59,399 Speaker 4: bump down, it's gotta come down, gotta come down. 816 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:02,799 Speaker 1: I praise when outnumbered. 817 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:12,200 Speaker 2: I praise when surrounded, because praises the waters my enemy's drowning. 818 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,160 Speaker 2: I praise when I feel it. I praise when I go. 819 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:24,600 Speaker 2: I praise because I know what. You're still in control. 820 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:25,520 Speaker 3: I'm on this. 821 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:31,000 Speaker 1: I praise because you're faithful. I praise because you're true 822 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,760 Speaker 1: what you're shouting about. I praise gous. 823 00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,719 Speaker 2: Sais nobody come here, Chris greater than you? 824 00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,360 Speaker 1: Not give him the good purse. My praise is a weapon. 825 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's lolling in a sound Why Why. 826 00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:52,200 Speaker 5: My praise is a show down that breaks caer coo down. Yeah, Chios, 827 00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,400 Speaker 5: cool down, that breaks carriers? 828 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,480 Speaker 1: Cool down. Yeah, my praise is a show. 829 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,600 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 830 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 831 00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,600 Speaker 2: you that this ministry is possible. 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