1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,319 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: Joshua Chapter fourteen. Please remain standing for one moment in 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: respect and honor for the word of God. The Lord 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: has given me something today that is so beautiful to me, 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: and I pray that I can show it to you 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 1: accurately today and that you can receive it. I praise 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: God in advance for the way He's going to show 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: you today who He really is in your life and 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: who you really are in his eyes. A man, I'm 14 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: so glad you're here. I prayed you wouldn't miss church today. 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: I was like, Lord, whoever needs to hear it, even 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: if their kids fight them all the way to church 17 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: and they got a flat tire, help them to roll 18 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: down the street on a hubcap to get this message today. 19 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: So if you tuned in, it wasn't by mistake. We 20 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: were praying that everyone who would need this message would 21 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: get it, even if it's two years later and you 22 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: found it on YouTube after watching a cat video or bts. 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: This is gonna be your message, This is gonna be 24 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: the one. The Lord has heard the questions you've been asking, 25 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: He's seen the struggle you've been facing, and he wants 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: to give you something today to see it in a 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: different light. Joshua chapter fourteen a very pivotal scripture for 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: the nation of Israel and for us. As Joshua gives 29 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: the inheritance that God promised so many centuries ago to 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: the people who were walking into the land, and as 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: he's dividing up the different parcels or the lots, casting 32 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: lots to decide which tribe will live on what lot, 33 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: one person takes initiative named Caleb, and I want to 34 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: read you his speech that he made to Joshua, because 35 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: he's trying to convince him that he's supposed to live 36 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: in a certain place, and so he's going to tell 37 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: him some things from his resume, and he's also going 38 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: to tell him some things and reflect on some things 39 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: that have happened. And I want you to eavesdrop on 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: it today Joshua fourteen, verse six. Then the people of 41 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal and Caleb, the son 42 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: of Jeffina. I'm so sorry I got to put this 43 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: in here. I wonder if it's significant that it's Judah 44 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: because that represents praise in the Bible, and I wonder 45 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: if there's something about praise that helps us to take 46 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: possession of the promises of God. I just wonder that 47 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: out loud in your presence today. I'm not sure, but 48 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 1: I wonder if some of the problems that you've been 49 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: focusing on, if you could get in a place of praise, 50 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: you might see the solution clearly Today, We're never going 51 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: to make it through the next state versus if we 52 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: keep interrupting, so start over. Then, the people of Judah 53 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: came to Joshua, Gilgal and Caleb, the son of Jeffuna 54 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: the Kenezite said to him, you know what the Lord 55 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: said to Moses, the man of God in Kate desh Barnea, 56 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: concerning you and me. I was forty years old when Moses, 57 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kate desh Barney. 58 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: I was just a young man, just forty years old. 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: That's very youthful, very youthful age. I was forty years old, 60 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: when Moses sent us to spy out the land, and 61 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,399 Speaker 1: I brought him word again, as it was in my heart. 62 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: But my brothers who went up with me, made the 63 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: heart of the people melt. Yet I wholly followed the Lord, 64 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: my God. I didn't let it get to me. I 65 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: didn't let it get in me what they said. And 66 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land on 67 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for 68 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed 69 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: the Lord, my God. And now behold, behold, the Lord 70 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: has kept me Alione, just as he said. These forty 71 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: five years since the time. That's a long time to 72 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: wait for a promise to come to pass. That's a 73 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: long time to suffer for somebody else's disobedience. Forty five 74 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: years I survived the wilderness. It's been forty five years 75 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: since the time that the Lord spoke this word to 76 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: Moses while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now behold, 77 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: I am this day eighty five years old. I am 78 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: still as strong today. Eighty five that's still flexing. I'm 79 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: still as strong today as I was in the day 80 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: that Moses sent me. My strength now is as my 81 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: strength was then, for war and forgoing and coming. So 82 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: now somebody shout, now there's been a long time coming. 83 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: But now give me this hill country of which the 84 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: Lord spoke on that day. For you heard on that 85 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: day how the Anakin were there, with great fortified cities. 86 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: It may be that the Lord will be with me 87 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: and I shall drive them out, just as the Lord said. 88 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: And then Joshua blessed him, and he gave hebren to Caleb, 89 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: the son of Jafunah for an inheritance. Well, look at 90 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: your neighbor and give them my title. And then I 91 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: want to share a lesson with you. Look at him, 92 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: and first of all, say you look amazing. Tell them 93 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: you've never looked better. And now tell him say I 94 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: appreciate that, but my Maker is my mirror. They didn't 95 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: get it. Look at the next person, say I appreciate it, 96 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: but my Maker is my mirror. Thank you Lord for 97 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: illumination of your word in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, Well 98 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: let's give him one more shout as we take our seat. Amen. 99 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: That wasn't really a shout, It was more of a murmur. 100 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: I can't teach you how to shout one day when 101 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: your kids don't clean up, do that. But for the Lord, Amen, 102 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: it's great that we get to see how God makes 103 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: a nation. He's forming a nation. He said, I want 104 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: a people that can present me to the world. And 105 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 1: he didn't do it the typical way, because if you 106 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: wanted to have a great nation, you would pick a 107 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: rich one, a wealthy one. And yet, instead of making 108 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: a nation that was already great greater, God found a 109 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: man who was too old to have kids with a 110 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: wife who was barren in her womb, and created a 111 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: great nation out of an impossible situation. I am preaching 112 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: so hard already, and I'm trying to throttle down. But 113 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: this is a message in itself. Is that when God 114 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: found Abram, this was before he had a consonant in 115 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: his name, the artist formerly known as Abram. He went 116 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: on to be Abrahm him he was the father of 117 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: many nations. But when God called him, his stuff wasn't 118 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: even working anymore. And the reason I'm telling you that 119 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: is because sometimes God will speak something over your life 120 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: and you will look in the mirror and not see it. 121 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: He'll speak something in your soul and you'll look in 122 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: the mirror and you won't see it, which is so 123 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: important to know that it's not how God sees you 124 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: that determines where your life ends up. If it had 125 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: been Moses wouldn't have died in the wilderness. It's not 126 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: how God sees me. It's how I think God sees 127 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: me that determines where I end up. I'll prove it 128 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: to you all the way from Genesis chapter one. Remember, 129 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: let us make man in our image. God needed someone 130 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: to show the world what he looked like, or else 131 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: he would have just been a concept. God would have 132 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: been an abstract theory. So he made man, and one 133 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: man to reflect who he was. He needed someone to 134 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: show his nature through. So he made me in you. 135 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: And when you insult the product, you insult the manufacturer, 136 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: which is why it's good to know our theology that 137 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: he made me from the dust. That God took something 138 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: that seemed filthy and something that seemed finite and made 139 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: something that would reflect what is eternal. Then, after making 140 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: the man, he began to create not only the world 141 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: the man, but a nation through Abram, through someone who 142 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: seemed unlikely, and the nation of Israel spent a whole 143 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: lot of time trying to figure out what we spent 144 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: our whole lives trying to figure out, or at least 145 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: our teenage years and our twenties is like, what's my identity? 146 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: So what you're really seeing in Joshua be fourteen is 147 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: not just people getting some real estate, but they're coming 148 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: into their identity, their national identity. And it's hard because 149 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: they've been through so much and they started from something 150 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: so small. It's easy for them to see themselves according 151 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: to what they've been through or where they started. And 152 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: now they're breaking up. There's nine and a half tribes 153 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: that get this land, and so Joshua and the priests 154 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: they're shaking this receptacle. This is how they would cast lots. 155 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: They would take the thing and shake it and they 156 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: would have little wood blocks with different codes on them, 157 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: and then they would kind of shake it out and 158 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: what it fell on that meant this tribe gets that land, 159 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: and this tribe gets that land. When Caleb interrupts the process, 160 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: he's like, hold on, you're not going to figure out 161 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: where I live by just rolling some dice. Okay, I 162 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: got a promise, Moses said. Now, remember Moses was the 163 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: one who was supposed to lead the people into the land, 164 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: but he was unable to do it. And here's how 165 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: I would put it if I were a preacher. He 166 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: got them out of Egypt, but he never got Egypt 167 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: out of them because they were oppressed for you know, 168 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty years. And when you've been under 169 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: something for any length of time, when you've been under 170 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: the power of any influence for any length of time, 171 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: that influence becomes your identity. So now your addiction speaks 172 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: more to you about your potential than God's word over you, 173 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: than the prophetic gift that's inside of you. It happens 174 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: to all of us when when you've been suffering from something, 175 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: you can begin to take on the name of your 176 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: disease or your issue. It's writing the name of your creator, 177 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: whose image you were made of. But see, it's how 178 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: you see it, it's how you see yourself. And I 179 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: think I can prove to you if you give me 180 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: like two and a half minutes, that the reason the 181 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: people didn't go into the land under Moses was because 182 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: Moses never really saw himself in the image of his creator. 183 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 1: Abram did. Abram did even though he had a hard 184 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: time getting with it, even though he was like, you 185 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: got any pills for that or anything like that, because 186 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm old now. And even though he had to wait 187 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: for Isaac and he messed up in the process and 188 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: ended up producing something that caused him more trouble by 189 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: sleeping with Hagar. Even though all of that happened, God 190 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: still called him the father of faith, the father of 191 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 1: many nations, and to show him who he was, he 192 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: brought him out of his tent, out of his limitation, 193 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: out of his situation, and he said, Okay, here's your revelation. 194 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: Here's your situation. Get out of your situation, and now 195 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: look up, preach into somebody. Look up. And he said, 196 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: count the stars if you can. I don't know how 197 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: far he got before he was like, what's the point 198 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: of God? I can't you know? Three hundred and forty 199 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: three hundred and forty four. What are you trying to 200 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: show me? And God said, as many as they are, 201 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: so shall your descendants be, so shall your seed be. 202 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: So he gives him an image, an image, not just 203 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: an idea, but an image. Now. Colossians one fifteen look 204 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: it up real quick says that Jesus is the image 205 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 1: of the invisible God. That's very powerful. That Jesus shows 206 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: us what God is like, that the Word became flesh 207 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: and dwelled among us. That's what Jesus is. He is 208 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: the image of the God that we can't see. Did 209 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: I get it right? Colossians one fifteen, That he is 210 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: the image of the invisible God. This is the challenge 211 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: for everybody under the sound of my voice. There is 212 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: a way that God sees you because he formed you. 213 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: There is that you see you. There is a way 214 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: that others see you. And where you go from this 215 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: point forward in your life is going to depend on 216 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: which mirror you believe. I got all these mirrors in 217 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: my house that are messed up, and I know they're 218 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: messed up because they keep showing me. My beard is 219 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: supposed to be black. But I look in those mirrors 220 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: and they're messed up. They're defective. I'm gonna take them 221 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,559 Speaker 1: back to the store because they keep showing me these 222 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: gray patches. Like I'm forty years old and I started 223 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: rebuking mirrors in my house. You know, these lines coming 224 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: up under my eyes, and I'm like, you are a liar, 225 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: like your father the devil. I cast you back to 226 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: the pit of Hell or this it actor. How many 227 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: ever looked in a messed up mirror? How many ever 228 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: have people around you that made you feel a certain 229 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: way about yourself. When Moses was coming into his identity 230 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: and assignment, he had to deal with the fact that 231 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: he was really living with two different images of who 232 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: he was. And remember, God is using Moses to deliver 233 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: the Israelites out of this Egyptian oppression. And when Moses 234 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: first first starts to act on his impulse, he does 235 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: the right thing, but he does it the wrong way. 236 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: He defends his people, but he does it by murdering 237 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: an Egyptian. So he's ahead of his time and he's 238 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: out of his own but he's doing the right thing. 239 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: But he still doesn't know who he is yet, and 240 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: it's difficult for him because he doesn't really fit in 241 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: with either group that he's living with. The Hebrews are 242 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: the people he was born from. The Egyptians are the 243 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: people that he was raised by. But he identifies more 244 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: with the people that he was born from than the 245 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: people he was raised by, so he doesn't really fit in. 246 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: And when you don't really fit into either group, you 247 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: end up running. That's what happened to Moses. He confronted 248 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew one day, and 249 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: he killed him and buried him. But then the next 250 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: day he went out and saw two of his brothers fighting, 251 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: and he was like, break it up, guys. You know 252 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: we're suffering enough from them. We don't have to kill 253 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: each other. And this isn't a this chapter two. I 254 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: want to show it to you real quick. You got 255 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: it Exodus too. The man said back to him, who 256 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: has made you a prince and a judge over us? 257 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: Do you mean to kill me as you have killed 258 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: the Egyptian? And then Moses was afraid and thought, surely 259 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: the thing is known, and he ran. He ran. We 260 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: don't really see him in his next stage of his 261 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: assignment until forty years later. He ran because he was 262 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: to Hebrew to be an Egyptian and to Egyptian to 263 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: be a Hebrew. And when you don't really fit in 264 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: with either, you don't know who you are, and you 265 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: spend years of your life running from who you really are, 266 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: looking in the mirror of your last mistake. He ran, 267 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: and he ran, and he ran. And see the question 268 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: is the right one, he said, who made you. Who 269 00:15:55,200 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: made you? But if you don't know that, you will 270 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: hand other people your mirror to show you who you are. 271 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: And let me tell you something about people. People would 272 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: rather define you by your worst mistake. What's crazy about 273 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: Moses is he killed a man and there's only one 274 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: verse in the Bible about the murder. Now, if you 275 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: let church people write the Bible, they would have had 276 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: a whole book about it. Would be called the Book 277 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: of Moses's murder, the Book of Moses's Mistake, the Book 278 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: of Debbi's divorce, the book of your lowest moment. But 279 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: maybe God doesn't see you through the lens of your mistake. 280 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: Maybe he sees you through the lens of his grace. 281 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: Maybe when he looks at you, he sees the finished 282 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: work of Jesus Christ. Have you ever thought about the 283 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: fact that if they didn't make you, they can't define you. 284 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: My maker is I promise. I'm trying to be as 285 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,199 Speaker 1: calm as I can be. But when God showed me 286 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: that my maker is my mirror. He showed me Moses 287 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: standing in front of the burning bush, and God's like, 288 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna use you. You're gonna be the one to 289 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: do it. You're the one who's had the conflicted identity 290 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: and so many mistakes, and you don't even really believe 291 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: in yourself. And so I was thinking about you and 292 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: how you might be standing in front of something that 293 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: God is speaking to you and is burning on the inside, 294 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: but you can't really locate yourself because honestly, you don't 295 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: fit into either group. You don't really fit in with 296 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 1: really churchy people because they are so perfect and they 297 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: pray so much, and they make Bible verses out of 298 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: their kids sandwiches before they pack them in the lunch 299 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: box numbers thirteen thirty one cut out with scripture stencils 300 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: and pack it in the lunch box like the Fish 301 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 1: and the Loaves and the Little Boy. And you are 302 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: not churchy enough, but you're really not worldly enough, because 303 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: the spirit of God is on the inside of you 304 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: when you try to sin, telling you that you're something 305 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: greater than that. And you're kind of righteous, but you're 306 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: kind of ratchet, and you're you're kind of a worshiper, 307 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: but you're kind of worldly, and you kind of worry, 308 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: but you kind of worship, and you're kind of organized, 309 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: but you're kind of chaotic and you're kind of powerful, 310 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: but you're kind of petty, and you come on, I'm 311 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: preaching to somebody, and you're a little bit of both. 312 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: And your self concept is in development. And this is 313 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 1: when it's very important who holds your mirror, because if 314 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:50,479 Speaker 1: the wrong people show you, you get a distorted image 315 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: of yourself, and then you start matching in your life 316 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: what you see in your mind. That's what That's what 317 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: Moses did. God's like, all right, got a job for 318 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: you to do. I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna give 319 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: you everything you need. Cool. Moses is like, uh but 320 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: uh but uh but see the thing about me. WA's 321 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: what he says. This is Exodus four ten. It's which 322 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,239 Speaker 1: mirror you're looking at, right, So if you look at 323 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: the mirror of what you're missing and you only see 324 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: what's not there, that's what Moses did. He's like, he goes, 325 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: oh my lord, this is an Exodus four ten. O MG. 326 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: He says, oh m L. He's like, I'm not eloquent. 327 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: I am not eloquent. It's funny because I got the 328 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: scripture on the back screen right now, and it's got 329 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: a typo in it. It says, I am eloquent, he 330 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: said the opposite. That's that's what he said, right there, 331 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: I am not eloquent, and you really have both voices. 332 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: That's that's kind of how it feels, right like one 333 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: is saying I am, and one is saying I'm not. 334 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: And I don't know which one. I got this thing 335 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: on the inside of me that feels like I can 336 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: do it and I'm supposed to do it and I'm 337 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: gonna make it. But I got this other thing saying 338 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: and I don't know which way to look. So he said, 339 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 1: I'm not eloquent. And then he says, either in the 340 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: past or in the last five minutes, nothing has changed 341 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: since you started speaking. It's still the same. I got 342 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: saved and my nose is still big. I got saved, 343 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: and I'm still kind of cross eyed, and I read slow. 344 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: I got saved and I still don't feel intelligent enough. 345 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: I got saved and I still got memories. I got saved, 346 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: and I love God, but I still got trauma. I 347 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: got saved, and I love God, but I'm still limited 348 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: by my experience. He said, I'm not. I'm not what 349 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: you think I am. God's answer is so instructive. Next verse, 350 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: the Lord said, who has made who made your mouth? 351 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: Who made your brain? Yeah? But I'm just weird. What 352 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: if the world is weird and we're the normal ones? Yeah, 353 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: I like it. I gotta be careful who I look 354 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: at when I preach, by the way, because you're like 355 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: a mirror. Oh they put this Chris is Chris Brown around? 356 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: If he's around bringing back out Collen comes when the 357 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: worship leaders are leading. They don't know this, but there 358 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: was a choir out here today at Valentine and they 359 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: were standing on these risers and if Chris didn't coming, 360 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: you'll have to do okay, so LJ. They think that 361 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 1: they're just up here singing. Come come tell about y'all. 362 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: We could teach a whole thing on this. Can y'all 363 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: still see me back here, because I want to tell 364 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 1: this to them. One time they discovered that a lot 365 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: of primates and all humans are softwired with mirror neurons, 366 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: so our brains actually experience the same emotion that somebody 367 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: we're watching if we're tuned into them. And they got 368 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: it from a monkey that was watching a man open 369 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: a nut, and they had it hooked up to his 370 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: brain and they saw the same brain activity in the 371 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: monkey's brain, that was in the man's brain who was 372 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: opening the nut. And they realized that all humans are 373 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: wired in such a way with mirror neurons that I 374 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: experience your reality by watching you experience it. So this 375 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: is why when a parent gets mad, kids can feel 376 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,719 Speaker 1: that stuff. They can feel that tension. It's called a 377 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: mirror neuron. Here's what was happening while you were singing. 378 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: This is how I fight my battles. Somebody out there 379 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: was going through a battle, but they've been feeling like 380 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: they were losing. But God puts you out here as 381 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,719 Speaker 1: a mirror. So now all of us. They didn't feel 382 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: victorious this week. But when they saw you worshiping God, 383 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: don't run from me. I got you by this leather coat. 384 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: When they saw you worshiping God, they didn't feel like 385 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: they had the victory. But while you were souting the victory. Now, 386 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: I wonder if you would do that for somebody on 387 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 1: your row right now. I know you had a hard 388 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: week too, But magnify the Lord with me. Let us 389 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 1: exalt his name together. If you don't have faith today, 390 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: borrow mine. You are gonna make it up. Said. So 391 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: it's called mirror neurs. And just as contagious as faith is, 392 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: so is cynicism. So if you got cynical people holding 393 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: up your mirror, you'll always feel small. You'll always feel 394 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: smaller than your challengemaller than your giant, smaller than your addiction, 395 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: because you're not looking at your God. But when your 396 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: maker is your mirror. Three forty four, three forty five, 397 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: three forty six, I'm still counting. God's not done yet. 398 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: His mercies are new with every rising up the sun, 399 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: He who began a good work in me, will be 400 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: faithful to complete it. One thing about a mirror, it 401 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,239 Speaker 1: always shows you the image in reverse. God knows how 402 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: your situation turns out. God knows how your story ends. 403 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: God knows what he put in you. When this message 404 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: flooded into my heart, I was like, it's gonna change 405 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: somebody's life because they've just been looking in the wrong mirror, 406 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: been looking at their mistakes. When your mistakes are your mirror, 407 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: you stay on the out of Canaan, even though you 408 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: have the strength to go in, not because you are small, 409 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: but because you see small. So the spies came back 410 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, Moses, remember Moses has dealt 411 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 1: with rejection his whole life, and so a lot of 412 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: times when when people don't accept you, it's because they 413 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: have rejected themselves. Not all the time, a lot of times. 414 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: And this is a really important point. Everybody's acceptance is 415 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: not a blessing because the majority might be the wrong mirror. 416 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: Ten out of twelve said we can't go in. Ten 417 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: out of twelve said there to be We went in. 418 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: This is what they said. We went to the land Moses, 419 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: and they became the mirror for the millions of people 420 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: who had a promise from God but hadn't possessed it yet. 421 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: This is why it's so important who you're around, what 422 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: you take in, what you look at, you become what 423 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: you behold. So the people are giving a report and 424 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:21,360 Speaker 1: they're like, it's a great place. The valleys are fertile, 425 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: it's a rich land. We brought you back some grapes. 426 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 1: Grapes were so big they had to carry them on poles. 427 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: But then they stopped looking at God, stopped looking at 428 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: grapes and started talking about giants. And when they looked 429 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: too much at the giants as their mirror, they saw 430 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 1: themselves as grasshoppers. That's what they said, Number thirteen thirty three. 431 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: They said, there were the Nephelum, the sons of Anak 432 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: who come from the Nephelum. There were giants in the land, 433 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: big strong adversaries that we would have to dispossess to 434 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: take the lamb. And we seemed to ourself, wow, like grasshoppers. 435 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: Not to God. We seem to ourselves like grasshoppers. Most 436 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: people see God really big. Even those who barely believe 437 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 1: in God see him really big. It's not how big 438 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: you see God, it's how much you believe that God 439 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: is in you. We seemed to ourselves as grasshoppers, and 440 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: so we seemed to them our reflection determined our reality. 441 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: We looked at him. What got me about it is 442 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: that they could have seen the exact same situation in reverse. 443 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: Watch this. They were like, the giants are too big. 444 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: God promised us the victory, but I guess we can't 445 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: go in because of the size of the giants. Reverse it, 446 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: because God always shows you the image and reverse. So 447 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: it's like this, God has already promised us the victory 448 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: and the giants are so big. If the giants are 449 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: that big and God has promised us the victory, If 450 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: what is coming against us is that great, how much 451 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: greater must God be within me? Greater is he come 452 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: on and help me that is within me, then he 453 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: that is in the world. The size of my giant 454 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: is a proof of the size of my God. Thank 455 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: you Lord. If God is letting me experience a challenge 456 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: this big See, God is trying to use your enemies 457 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: to show you how valuable you are in his gigdom. 458 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: And why would you let your enemies hold your mirror? Anyway? 459 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: Who cares what the sons of anac think you look like? 460 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: That's what Caleb said. He was like, shut up, we 461 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: can do it. Hit somebody say shut up, I can 462 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: do it. It's in the Bible too us. In the Bible, 463 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: Caleb said that he says shut up. He silenced the 464 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: people and said, if God is with us, my maker 465 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: is my mirror. And I always thought it was funny 466 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: because he's like, hey, Joshua, I know you're rolling these 467 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: little lots around on the ground to figure out who 468 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: lives there. But remember God gave me a promise that 469 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: I would live in the high place. I want hebron 470 00:29:50,440 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: hebron three thousand feet above sea level above sea level. 471 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take a month off after I 472 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: preci this message. I've given you everything I got. You've 473 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: been living a C level. You've been looking in the 474 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: wrong mirror. You've been consulting the mirror for your flesh. 475 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: You put twenty minutes into your makeup today, but you 476 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: didn't get you didn't get in this mirror right here. 477 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: This is a mirror too. This is a mirror too. 478 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: You've been struggling over external issues, but what about what's 479 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: in you? James said something curious. He said, if you 480 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: listen to the word and don't do it, you're like 481 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: a man who looks at himself in a mirror. In 482 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: the beginning was a word, and the word was with God, 483 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: and the word was God, My maker is my mirror. 484 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: So I can't look. I can't run around the people 485 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: who are struggling with their own sense of self today 486 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: term in mind, and I can't use the situation either. 487 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: That's why I love Caleb because it's almost like he's lying. 488 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: Come on, man, he's eighty five and he's talking. I'm 489 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: talking about I still got it? Now, what mirror are 490 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: you looking at? Look at somebody says, I still got it. 491 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: It'll feel good to say it too. I still got 492 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: it because I'm not talking about the flesh. I'm talking 493 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: about faith. And the wilderness can do one of two 494 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: things to you. It can kill you or it can 495 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: make you stronger. Caleb said, all that I went through, 496 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: I didn't get bitter. I didn't get the wilderness in me, 497 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: even though I went through the wilderness. In fact, everything 498 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: I went through over the last four and a half 499 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: decades only serve to convince me that much more that 500 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: I still got it. I mean, if God promised it 501 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: to be back then and saw me through all this, 502 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to live at the level of feelings. 503 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: You settle too low. You settle for what you see, 504 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: You settle for what people say. You settle for old templates, 505 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: you settle for old scripts, you settle for emotions. When 506 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: you're seated in heavenly places with Jesus, you gotta settle up. 507 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: You gotta get up above what you see, above what 508 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: you feel, and above what you've been through. He said, 509 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: I want to live. I want to live where the 510 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: blessings are. I want to live where the battles are. 511 00:32:54,600 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: You can't have a victory without a battle. God is 512 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: raising you up right now. He's doing it through a process. 513 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: The level you will settle on is the level that 514 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: you see yourself. And it makes me so sad to 515 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: think of how many times that you and I have 516 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: gone to the wrong mirrors. And so we see a 517 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: grasshopper when we're really a giant. When we see a 518 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: failure when really it was a lesson, when we see 519 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: what's missing because we can only see through the filter 520 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: of our fear. God said, let us make man in 521 00:33:54,840 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: our image, in our likeness. You are not my maker. 522 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: You will not be my mirror. When God said I 523 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: Am to Moses, you know my name is I Am, 524 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: he was trying to get him to see you are 525 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:24,760 Speaker 1: as I am. That's what a mirror does. God says, 526 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: I want to see myself in you. When God sees you, 527 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: he sees himself. He sees his son. Christ is the 528 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,919 Speaker 1: image of the invisible God. And if he is in you, 529 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: he is more than the world against you. I want 530 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: to pray for a few hundred people today. You will 531 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: know who you are if the message resonated with you 532 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 1: in a personal way, and it's this. You've been going 533 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: to the wrong mirror. You've been consulting physical, natural, relational elements, 534 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: incomplete fragmented elements, and you don't know who you are 535 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 1: right now, and you're stuck between two realities. The message 536 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 1: God gave me was your Maker is your mirror. And 537 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: you know what's beautiful, You're his. He wants to use 538 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: you to reflect himself to the world, and so he's 539 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 1: gonna give you some stuff. Some of it's gonna be 540 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: giants in front of you, some of it's gonna be 541 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 1: giants inside of you. David was good at killing giants 542 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: as long as they were standing in front of him. 543 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: It was the ones within him that took him out. 544 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,840 Speaker 1: Some of them are gonna be short term, some of 545 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: them are gonna be long term. If you go to 546 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 1: the wrong mirror, you'll always feel small. But if you 547 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,959 Speaker 1: will learn how to worship and get in the word 548 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,319 Speaker 1: of God and believe the promise that He spoke over 549 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: your life and get in this mirror, you are not 550 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: going to win over insecurity. Looking in the mirror of Instagram, 551 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 1: it is only going to show you what you're not, 552 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: what you can, and what you want. But if you 553 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: get in this mirror, I'm telling you the word of 554 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 1: God can do something for your spirit. It can make 555 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: you stronger in your spirit than your enemies are in 556 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: your situation. Now, stand up on your feet. I want 557 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: to pray with you. I want to pray with you. 558 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 1: I want to prophesy over you. I don't want anyone 559 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: moving or leaving. The Lord said that this word would 560 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,399 Speaker 1: hit deep for the ones who needed it. Have been 561 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 1: seeing themselves, according to past experiences, have been looking in 562 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: a rear view mirror at something that happened, and are 563 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,359 Speaker 1: about to wreck in the face of their future. And 564 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: he said that today he wanted to give you a 565 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: different mirror, different mirror. Caleb said, I'm not just settling 566 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,719 Speaker 1: for my lot in life. I'm not just settling for depression. 567 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: I was hesitant to preach the message because I thought 568 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 1: people would hear it like it was some you know, 569 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: God give me my BMW. You know, God make me famous. 570 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 1: That's not what Caleb said. He said, I want the challenge. 571 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 1: I want the altitude. I want the opportunity to prove 572 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: God again. I want to live at the high place. 573 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: I want to be my higher self. I'm still strong, 574 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,440 Speaker 1: I still got it. I still got it. My faith 575 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,440 Speaker 1: went through testing forty five years and I survived. I 576 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: still got it. I'm not ashamed of what I went through. 577 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,359 Speaker 1: It proves that God was with me. I still got it. 578 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: Thank you for your word, Lord, It shows us who 579 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: we are. Thank you for worship where we can reflect you, 580 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:06,800 Speaker 1: where we can be hold your glory. Close your eyes, visualize. 581 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,200 Speaker 1: The king told Elisha that he would strike the ground 582 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: three times. Elisha said, you, you've got to see the victory. 583 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: Before you see the victory, open the east window and shoot. 584 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: It's the first creation. Is you got to be able 585 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 1: to see yourself made of dust but touched with divinity. 586 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 1: You gotta see yourself free, even though you don't feel free, 587 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,280 Speaker 1: even though you still keep running back to lesser stuff. 588 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 1: You gotta know you got a higher purpose and a 589 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,840 Speaker 1: greater name. I wish you would lift your hands in 590 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: His presence, wherever you are. I wish you would lift 591 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: them high and surrender. I wish you would lift them 592 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,840 Speaker 1: like the burden has been rolled away, and begin to sing. 593 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see a victory. I'm gonna see a victory. 594 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: I shall see it. I'm gonna see it in my spirit. 595 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see it in my heart. I'm gonna see it. 596 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see deliverance. I'm gonna see the red Sea part. 597 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see the mountains move. I'm gonna see it 598 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,799 Speaker 1: come to pass in my blood line. I'm gonna see it. 599 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna have the joy of 600 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 1: the Lord. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna fulfill it. 601 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk in it. I'm gonna receive it. I'm 602 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: gonna prove it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make it. 603 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:35,319 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sound it, I'm gonna declare it. Thank you 604 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,839 Speaker 1: for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who 605 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,920 Speaker 1: give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that 606 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: this ministry is possible. You can click the link in 607 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,719 Speaker 1: the description to give now, or visit Elevation Church dot 608 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 1: org slash podcast for more information and if you enjoyed 609 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: the podcast, you can subscribe. 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