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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 3: put God's very best in your life. Hell good, bless you. 38 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: Thanks so much letting us come into your homes, and 39 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 3: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and 40 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: be a part of one of our services. I promise 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks 42 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 3: so much for tuning in and thank you again for 43 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 3: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and 44 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 3: I heard about this man that was very stingy with 45 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 3: his money, and just before his death, he made his 46 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 3: wife promise him that she would have him buried with 47 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 3: the fifty thousand dollars he had saved. The wife reluctantly agreed, 48 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 3: and at the funeral, before they closed the casket, she 49 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 3: snuck in this small wooden box. Her friend said, surely 50 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,839 Speaker 3: you didn't just bury the money, did you. The wife said, 51 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 3: of course I did. I'm a Christian. I can't lie. 52 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 3: She said, you mean you just buried fifty thousand dollars. 53 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 3: The wife said, yes, I did. I wrote a check. 54 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 3: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 55 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 56 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 3: I have what it says I have. I can do 57 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 3: what it says I can do. Today I will be 58 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 3: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 59 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 3: is alert, my heart is recepted. I will never be 60 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 3: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 61 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 3: to talk to you today about just do it. Sometimes 62 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 3: God asks us to do things that don't make sense, 63 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 3: doesn't seem logical, doesn't fit into our budget, doesn't line 64 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 3: up with our schedule. God, you want me to go 65 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 3: back to college. I'm forty years old. God, you want 66 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 3: me to give them a gift? I was saving those 67 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 3: funds for my own dreams. Or God, you want me 68 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: to leave this secure position that I've had for years 69 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 3: and start my own business. Too often we overanalyze it, 70 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 3: we debate it, look at it only in the natural. 71 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 3: We end up making excuses, talking ourselves out of it. 72 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 3: That couldn't be God. But if you're going to reach 73 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 3: your highest potential, you have to have bold obedience. That 74 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 3: means you obey even when you don't understand it. You 75 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 3: just do it, even when it doesn't make sense. That's 76 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 3: what faith is all about. If you can understand everything, 77 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 3: you have the time, the money, it's all lined up. 78 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 3: That doesn't really take any faith. God will ask you 79 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: to do things that seem far out, unusual, not practical. 80 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: With every act of obedience, there is a blessing attached 81 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: to it. When you do what you know down and 82 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 3: here God wants you to do, a blessing will follow. 83 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 3: God rewards obedience. One time Jesus made mud put it 84 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: on a blind man's eyes. He told him to go 85 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 3: wash it off in the pool of saloon. Jesus could 86 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 3: have just as easily healed the blind man on the spot. 87 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 3: He could have opened his eyes right then and there 88 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: and sent him on his way. But obedience activates God's power. 89 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 3: He put the ball back in the blind man's court. 90 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 3: He said, in effect, if you want to be healed, 91 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 3: you're going to have to do something that doesn't make sense, 92 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 3: something that's not logical. You're going to have to show 93 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: that you trust me and go wash this off in 94 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 3: the pool. The blind man could have wiped the mud 95 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 3: off with his own hands and thought, I'm not gonna 96 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: do that. That doesn't make sense. That's going to be 97 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 3: a waste of time. He could have thought, I'm blind, 98 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 3: I have these disadvantages. I can't make it down to 99 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 3: the pool. But instead of making excuses, instead of talking 100 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 3: to himself out of it, he decided to just do it, 101 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 3: went to the pool, washed it off Immediately. He could 102 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 3: see here's the key. The healing wasn't in the water. 103 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,799 Speaker 3: The healing was in the obedience. When you obey, dreams 104 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 3: come to pass. When you obey, health is restored. When 105 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 3: you obey, problems turn around. I wonder how many miracles 106 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 3: we would see if we would simply do what we 107 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 3: know we're supposed to do. Are you talking yourself out 108 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 3: of something because it's not practical? Doesn't make sense. I 109 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 3: know I should volunteer, but I'm too busy. I know 110 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 3: I shouldn't hang around these friends, but I don't want 111 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: to be lonely. I know I should get out of 112 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 3: this job where I'm not going any place, but at 113 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 3: least I'm comfortable. No quit putting it off and just 114 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 3: do it. If you'll have bold obedience, you'll see God's 115 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 3: favor in a new way. When Joshua and the Israelites 116 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: needed to get across the Jordan River, God said he 117 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 3: would open it up, but they had to get their 118 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 3: feet wet before the water's parted. They could have sat 119 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 3: back and thought, as soon as God opens it, then 120 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 3: we'll walk toward. It doesn't make sense to go now. 121 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 3: The river's still flowing. Everything's normal, nothing's unusual. They took 122 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 3: a step of faith and started walking toward the water. 123 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 3: I can imagine when water got up to their ankles, 124 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 3: they thought, what are we doing walking into a river? 125 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 3: We could drown. Water got up to their knees and 126 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,239 Speaker 3: thought said you better turn around. You're making a mistake. 127 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: Water up to their waste. They just kept walking. What 128 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 3: is that bold obedience? About that time the river supernaturally parted, 129 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 3: they walked into their promised land in the same way. 130 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 3: If you're going to make it to your promised land, 131 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 3: it's going to take this bold obedience. You're not always 132 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 3: going to understand what God is doing. God is not 133 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: always logical. The scripture says His ways are not our ways. 134 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 3: And take this in the right sense. Sometimes you have 135 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 3: to turn your mind off. If you overanalyze it, look 136 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 3: at it only in the natural. You'll never get off 137 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: a dead sinner. Faith is not in your head. Faith 138 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 3: is in your heart. Down in here. You'll know the 139 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 3: right thing to do up here. You'll have a thousand excuses, 140 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 3: a thousand reasons why it's not going to work out. 141 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 3: You've got to turn your mind off and listen to 142 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 3: your heart. That's what I did in nineteen ninety nine 143 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 3: when my dad died. I knew I was supposed to 144 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 3: step up and pasture the church. I felt it so 145 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: strongly down in here, but in my mind it didn't 146 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 3: make sense. I had never ministered before, never been to seminary. 147 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 3: I said, God, this doesn't make sense to me. But 148 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 3: I'm going to take a step of faith, believing that 149 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 3: you know what's best for my life. As I stepped 150 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 3: into the water, as I got my feet wet, so 151 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 3: to speak, that's when the water's parted. God's taken me 152 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: places I've never dreamed of. But some of you are 153 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 3: waiting for the waters to part. Then you're going to 154 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 3: take a step of faith. But your obedience is what 155 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 3: causes the water to part. You're waiting on God, but 156 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 3: God's waiting on you. If you'll do what you know 157 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 3: God's asking you to do, your obedience will activate the favor, 158 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 3: the increase, the blessing. Much of what happens along the 159 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 3: way are simply tested. God is seeing, do you trust me? 160 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 3: Will you obey even when you don't understand it? Will 161 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: you take a step of faith even when it doesn't 162 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 3: make sense. Back in the nineteen sixties, Lakewood was still 163 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 3: in its original building, a feed store that held two 164 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 3: hundred people. The church was really growing and they needed 165 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 3: a larger auditorium. My father told the congregation that on 166 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 3: a particular Sunday he was going to receive a special 167 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 3: offering for a new building. He asked them to see 168 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 3: what God would have them to give and really pray 169 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 3: about it, and he encouraged them to stretch their faith, 170 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 3: to believe big and to do their very best. He 171 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 3: received the offering and it was a little over six 172 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 3: thousand dollars, and them back then that was like six 173 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars. Daddy was so excited. That was enough 174 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 3: to pour the foundation and get the building started. But 175 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 3: one day, driving home from church, my father passed a 176 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: small Spanish church about six blocks from Lakewood. This Spanish 177 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 3: church had been building on a little auditorium for years. 178 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 3: They would build and take time off, build some more, 179 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 3: and on and on. As my father passed, he heard 180 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: a voice down in hearsay, I want you to give 181 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 3: that special offering to this Spanish church so they can 182 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 3: finish their building. Daddy's first thought was get behind me, Satan. 183 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 3: That could not be gone. He began to reason it out, God, 184 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 3: you mean you want me to give the money. I 185 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 3: just raised the money. We need the money. We've been 186 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 3: dreaming about, money we've been praying for. Do you want 187 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 3: me to give that to a church down the street? 188 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 3: Didn't make sense, didn't seem logical. He needed the funds, 189 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 3: Yet God said sow it as a seed. My father 190 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 3: had this bold obedience. He said, all right, God. He 191 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 3: wrote them a check and they nearly passed out. Over 192 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 3: the next few months, people began to come from nowhere 193 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 3: giving money to the Lakewood New Sanctuary. They not only 194 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 3: had enough for the foundation, but enough for the whole building. 195 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 3: A year later, they moved into a one thousand seat sanctuary, 196 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 3: totally debt free. You can't outgive God. When God asked 197 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 3: you to do something, just do it. If you talk 198 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 3: yourself out of it, not only is the other person 199 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 3: not being blessed, but you're missing the blessing God has 200 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 3: for you. How many times have I taught myself out 201 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 3: of doing what I knew God wanted me to do. 202 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 3: I knew I was supposed to call a friend and 203 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 3: encourage them. I knew I was supposed to help that 204 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 3: family with their rent. But I got busy, thought, God, 205 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 3: they look like they're doing okay. They got as much 206 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 3: as I do. Maybe next time, I wonder what I 207 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: missed out on. I wonder what God couldn't release. When 208 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: you obey, a blessing is always attached to it. Eight 209 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 3: years ago, we moved out of our old sanctuary from 210 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 3: the other location. We'd been at that piece of property 211 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 3: for over forty years before I was born. On the 212 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: last Sunday there after the final service, I was driving 213 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 3: away and just reflecting on all that God had done 214 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 3: out there through the years, and thinking about where God 215 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: was taking us. My heart was filled with gratitude. About 216 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 3: that time I passed the small Spanish church six blocks 217 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 3: down the road. They had written on their little makeshift marquis, 218 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 3: thank you Lakewood for giving us our first sanctuary. They 219 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 3: remembered it forty years later. I thought, how we were 220 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 3: headed to this place, a four hundred million dollar facility. 221 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 3: But it all started over four decades ago when my 222 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 3: father took that bold step of obedience, even when he 223 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 3: didn't understand it, even when Lakewood needed the funds he 224 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 3: was willing to give it away. Now I realize I 225 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 3: am reaping a harvest from seeds that were sown many 226 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 3: years ago. And when you have bold obedience, you don't 227 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 3: know where God is going to take you. You don't 228 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 3: argue with God, you don't reason it out, you don't 229 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 3: make excuses, You just do it. You can't imagine the 230 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 3: doors God is going to open not only for you, 231 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 3: but for your children. I'm sure my father is looking 232 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 3: down from heaven right now, thinking I never dreamed Lakewood 233 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: would be where it is today. That's what happens when 234 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 3: you have bold obedience. All obey when it's easy, when 235 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 3: it makes sense, when it's logical, when it doesn't take 236 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,559 Speaker 3: any extra effort. Yeah, Joel, I'll go to church, I'll 237 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 3: tithe my income, I'll be kind to people. I have 238 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 3: a good attitude that doesn't really take much faith. But 239 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 3: what about when it's out of the ordinary and God 240 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 3: ask you to not only go to church, but swing 241 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 3: by and pick up that couple that's struggling and bring 242 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 3: them to church with you each week. God, wait a minute, 243 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 3: I got a full time job. I'm raising these children. 244 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: I'm very busy. And God, they live twenty minutes out 245 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 3: of the way. I'm gonna have to get up earlier. 246 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 3: That's gonna take extra gas money. And God, they may 247 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 3: want to come eat lunch with me afterwards. God, I'll 248 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 3: pick them up, but I Am not buying their lunch. No, 249 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 3: when God asks you to do something that takes sacrifice, 250 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 3: something that's out of their ordinary, it's because God wants 251 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 3: to release blessings in your life that are out of 252 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 3: the ordinary. When you radically obey, you will be radically blessed. 253 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 3: You know what this building is, It's a radical blessing. 254 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 3: It's because my parents and that first group of Lakewood 255 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 3: members sowed a radical seed. That's what happened to Isaac 256 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 3: in the scripture. There was a great famine in the land. 257 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 3: There had been a drought for many years, hardly any food, 258 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 3: no water. People were struggling to survive. God told Isaac 259 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: to take a step of faith and plant his crops. 260 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 3: That didn't make sense. There was no way to water 261 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 3: the crops. Look like it'd be a waste of time. 262 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 3: Isaac could have said, God, have you seen the conditions lately? 263 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: Have you checked the weather report? Do you realize it 264 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 3: hadn't rained in years? Nothing's going to grow. He could 265 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 3: have looked at it just in the natural logical way 266 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 3: and talked himself out of it. But Isaac had this 267 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 3: bold obedience, says in Genesis twenty. In the midst of 268 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 3: the famine, he sowed a seed in the land. I 269 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 3: can imagine his friend saying, Isaac, what in the world 270 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 3: are you doing? Do you realize nothing is going to grow? 271 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 3: In a drought. He didn't talk himself out of it, 272 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: didn't get discouraged. He just kept planning. What was he doing? 273 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 3: So in a radical seed? What happened? He reaped a 274 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 3: radical harvest. The scripture says in the same year in 275 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 3: the famine, he received a one hundredfold return. He could 276 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 3: have held onto those seeds for years, waiting for the 277 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 3: conditions to be perfect, nothing would have happened. Isaac understood 278 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 3: this principle. The power was not in the seed. The 279 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 3: power is in the obedience. That's when miracles happen. The 280 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 3: conditions don't have to be perfect. The economy doesn't have 281 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 3: to be booming for you to be blessed. You don't 282 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 3: have to have the most education, most talent, live in 283 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 3: a certain neighborhood. All the odds can be against you. 284 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 3: But when God asks you to do something and you 285 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 3: don't argue, you don't make excuses, you just do it, 286 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 3: Like Isaac, God, I don't understand it, but I'm going 287 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 3: to sow a seede anyway like my father. God. We 288 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 3: need the money, but I'm gonna bless that Spanish church 289 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: anyway like I did God. I don't feel qualified, but 290 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 3: I'm going to take a step of faith. That's when 291 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 3: you'll see a horvest in the midst of the famine. 292 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: You'll be blessed even though others are struggling. You'll be 293 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 3: promoted even though you weren't the most qualified. You'll see 294 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 3: dreams come to pass even though the odds were against you. Friends, 295 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 3: God is looking for people who will have this bold obedience. 296 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 3: If God has to talk you into it, send you 297 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 3: seven signs before you decide to believe God. If you'll 298 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 3: just have lightning strike across the sky, spell my name 299 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 3: out in smoke, I believe God. If you'll have Moses 300 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 3: show up at my front door tonight, or God, if 301 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 3: I see a camel walking down the freeway this week, 302 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 3: then I'll believe. Don't make a decision to just do it. Well, Joel, 303 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 3: what if it's not right? What if I miss God? 304 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 3: Like Joyce Meyer says, then God will find you. But 305 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 3: God would rather you take steps of faith and miss 306 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 3: it every once in a while than to play it 307 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 3: safe your whole life and never get off dead. Sinner, 308 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 3: the only way you're ever going to really know is 309 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 3: by taking a step of faith. A couple of years 310 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 3: after Victoria and I were married, we sold our town 311 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 3: home and we found this house that we really wanted 312 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 3: to buy. We made a great offer, we prayed over it, 313 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 3: we believed for it, but unfortunately they sold the property 314 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 3: to someone else. For the next several months, we kept 315 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 3: looking and looking. One day we found this old rundown 316 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 3: house was on a large piece of property in a 317 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 3: nice neighborhood. The house had been abandoned. Doors were missing 318 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 3: in the kitchen for some reason. They had a scarecrow. 319 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 3: There was a big garbage can. Water was dripping from 320 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 3: the ceiling. It had major foundation problems. The floors will 321 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 3: all bode. Nothing about the house was nice. The lot 322 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 3: was very beautiful, but the house in the current condition 323 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 3: wasn't livable. I wasn't there ten minutes when I heard 324 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 3: something down in here saying, Joel, this is it. I 325 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 3: thought to myself, I don't know who you are, but 326 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 3: this is not it. This is a piece of jump. 327 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 3: I couldn't get away from it. That feeling would not leave, 328 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 3: and here we had just moved out of a beautiful 329 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 3: town home. I said, God, we want to move up 330 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 3: and not down. This is the wrong direction. That still 331 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 3: small voice kept saying, Joel, trust me, I know what 332 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 3: I'm doing. About that time, Victoria came up a big smile. 333 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 3: She said, Joel, this is the place for us. Thought, 334 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 3: Dear God, we're both going crazy. Long story short, we 335 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 3: bought the property, fixed up the house. A year later, 336 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 3: a builder knocked on the front door, unexpectedly, unannounced. I 337 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 3: answered it. He said, I'd like to buy this property 338 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 3: and build two new houses here. And I said, well, 339 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 3: thank you, but the property is not for sale. He said, 340 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 3: how about I pay you this much? I said, like 341 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: I said, we'd love to sell it. God did it 342 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 3: exceedingly abundantly, above and beyond. We felt like Isaac that 343 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 3: one hundredfold return. What am I saying? God knows what 344 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 3: he's doing. God has information that you don't have. He 345 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 3: can see what you can't see. He knows the end 346 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 3: from the beginning. Don't argue with God. You'll never win. 347 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 3: God knows how to get his way. Trust him, and 348 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 3: even when it seems far out, to have radical obedience. 349 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 3: Instead of reasoning it out, making excuses, talking yourself out 350 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 3: of it, nor making decision to just do it. The 351 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 3: quicker you obey, the quicker, God can release what he 352 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 3: has for you. In Acts Chapter nine, there's the story 353 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: of Saul. Saul was the greatest enemy of the church. 354 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 3: He hated believers, and he was passionate about it. He 355 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 3: went around having them arrested and put into prison. He 356 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 3: was known for his persecution. The scripture says Saul was 357 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 3: breathing out threatenings and slaughters against the disciples. One day, 358 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 3: Saul was traveling to Damascus on his way to arrest 359 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 3: more believers when a bright light shine down from heaven 360 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 3: knocked him flat on his back. Saul became totally blind, 361 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 3: couldn't see anything. The men with Saul were speechless. They 362 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 3: picked Saul up led him into Damascus totally blind. There 363 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 3: was a man that lived there by the name of Anonius, 364 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 3: a believer. God spoke to him in a dream and 365 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 3: told him to go to the house where Saul was 366 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 3: staying and pray for him so that his sight would 367 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: be restored. You can imagine what Anonius must have fought. 368 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 3: I can hear him say, excuse me, God, you want 369 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 3: me to go pray for the man that's actively trying 370 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 3: to kill us, the one that's hunting us down, the 371 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 3: one that's breathing out threatenings. I don't think, Saul, how 372 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 3: about I send somebody from the prison ministry, or how 373 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 3: about I give him a phone call instead. But God, 374 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 3: that's too dangerous. I'm not going to go. God said, no, Anonius, 375 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 3: do what I say. He is a chosen instrument to 376 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 3: bear my name. Verse seventeen says Anonius went and found Saul. 377 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 3: He laid hand on him and said, brother, Saul. He 378 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 3: not only found him, but he called him brother. He 379 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 3: could have called him a lot of other things. You lousy, 380 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: no good, loser, trying to kill us. I hope you 381 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:07,959 Speaker 3: stay blind. 382 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 5: No. 383 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 3: Antonius prayed for Saul. His sight was restored. He became 384 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 3: the apostle Paul, who went on to write over half 385 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 3: of the New Testament. None of this would have happened 386 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 3: if Anonius had not had this bold obedience. Sometimes God 387 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 3: will ask you to do things that don't make sense. God, 388 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,719 Speaker 3: you want me to do them a favor when they 389 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 3: left me out on purpose. God, you want me to 390 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 3: help them when they wouldn't help me. Like Anonius, your 391 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 3: first thought may be no way, I'm not going to 392 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 3: do that. But if you listen again, you'll hear God saying, 393 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 3: just do it. Sow a radical seed, take a step 394 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 3: of faith when you do. God will do something radical 395 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 3: in your life. And we can all make excuses. Joel 396 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 3: is too hard, it's too big a sacrifice, it's too inconvenient. 397 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 3: But if you keep putting it off, that's causing God 398 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 3: to put off what he has in store for you. 399 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 3: When you obey, a blessing is attached. You may not understand, 400 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 3: it may not make sense. That's okay, be like Antonius 401 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 3: and just do it. My brother Paul was a surgeon 402 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 3: in Little Rock for seventeen years, had a very successful practice. 403 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 3: He was the chief of surgery. He and his partners 404 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 3: owned the new hospital. Life was good. He was helping 405 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,479 Speaker 3: a lot of people. But when my father went to 406 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 3: be with the Lord, Paul was driving home from the 407 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 3: memorial service, going back to Little Rock, Arkansas, when he 408 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 3: heard that still small voice say go back to Houston 409 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 3: and help them pastor the church in the natural. That 410 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 3: didn't make sense. He'd gone to school for twelve years 411 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 3: to become a surgeon, had all this training, all this expertise. 412 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 3: His colleagues thought he was making a big mistake. They 413 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 3: told him he was having a midlife crisis and tried 414 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 3: to talk him out of it. But deep down, Paul 415 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 3: knew that he was supposed to leave his practice. He 416 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 3: had to turn his mind off and listen to his heart, 417 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 3: even though he didn't understand it. It's not what he 418 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 3: had planned for his life. He made a decision to 419 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 3: just do it. That was fourteen years ago. Lakewood wouldn't 420 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 3: be where we are today without my brother Paul. Now, 421 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 3: Paul goes to the remote villages of Africa and spends 422 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 3: months every year operating on people that would normally have 423 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 3: no access to healthcare. He's still using his gifts. He 424 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 3: thought he was walking away from medicine, but God knew 425 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 3: what he was doing. God's plan is better than our plan. 426 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 3: Not only that, now he gets to work with me 427 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: every day. How great is that. But when you have 428 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: bold obedience, God will take you into the fullness of 429 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 3: your destiny. God asked Abraham to do something radical, to 430 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 3: take his son Isaac, the one he had prayed and 431 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 3: believed to have his whole life, the promised child, and 432 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 3: put him on an altar and sacrifice him. Abraham didn't 433 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 3: understand it. It didn't make sense. But Abraham had this 434 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 3: bold obedience. Just as he was about to go through 435 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 3: with it, and Angel said stop. Abraham don't do it. 436 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 3: God just wanted to see if you would be obedient. 437 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 3: The scripture says the Angel called to Abraham a second time. 438 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 3: The blessing is not the first call. The first call 439 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 3: is obedience. If you'll obey, there will be a second call. 440 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 3: Genesis twenty two says the Angel called a second time 441 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 3: and said, I swear by myself, says the Lord Abraham, 442 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 3: I will bless you and make your descendants as numerous 443 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 3: as the stars. You will conquer your enemies. Your offspring 444 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 3: will be blessed in every nation of the earth because 445 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 3: you have obeyed me. Notice when you radically obey, God 446 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 3: promises he will radically bless But here's the key. The 447 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 3: first call is not the blessing. The first call is 448 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 3: the test. Will you obey me? Will you buy that 449 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 3: old house even though it doesn't make sense? Will you 450 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 3: give that Spanish church the money you need? Will you 451 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 3: leave a successful practice and come help your family pastor 452 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 3: the church. If you obey, you'll pass the test, Then 453 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 3: you'll hear the second call. That's when God will say, 454 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 3: all right, now, I'm going to bless you more than 455 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 3: you can imagine. Some of you today, there's something you 456 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 3: know down deep you're supposed to do. You're debating it, 457 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 3: you're analyzing, you're making excuses. God is saying, just do it, 458 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 3: So a radical seed. Answer the first call, be obedient, 459 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 3: and you'll come into the second call, the blessing. You 460 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 3: may not understand it, it may not make sense. That's 461 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 3: all right. Just turn your mind off and listen to 462 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 3: your heart. God knows what he's doing. If you'll make 463 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 3: a decision to just do it, then I believe and declare. 464 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 3: Because you radically obey, You're about to come into radical blessings. 465 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 3: Because you have bold obedience, God's going to do something 466 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 3: amazing in your life. Like Isaac, the seeds you've sown 467 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 3: are going to be multiplied back to you, and like Abraham, 468 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 3: God's going to thrust you into the fullness of your destiny, 469 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 3: taking you further than you ever even dreamed of. 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