WEBVTT - The Sticking Point 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.639 Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.240 Make sure you listen and follow along with Elevation with 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.600 Stephen Ferdick on Amazon Music and don't forget. You can 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.320 also just ask Alexa, Hey, Alexa, can you play Elevation 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.400 with Stephen Ferdick on Amazon Music. Also with Amazon Music Unlimited, 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.000 you can now listen to all your favorite music, podcasts 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.320 and audiobooks all on the Amazon Music App. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.920 Come on, everybody feels comfortable, just lift your hands. Everybody 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.200 who doesn't feel comfortable, lift your hands. King of King's, 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.320 Lord of lords. Jesus is your name. We bless you, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.680 honor you, respect you, admire you, and adore you. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.320 But really we want you to know that we need you. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:54.200 We know that. 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.680 For the things that we encounter as human beings that 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.920 we can not understand on the level of our existence, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:10.520 we need divinity. Would you direct the paths of each 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:16.240 of the precious people that you assemble together today? See, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.640 I know that we think we decided to come to church, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.600 but really you brought us to this place something that 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.399 you want to remind us of, something that you want 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:27.400 to show us, something. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.119 That you want to reveal, and whatever it is. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.640 Clear out the debris of disappointment that has accumulated in 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.840 our souls. This week a place for your glory and 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:43.440 your presence to dwell. We are your temple, and we 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:49.800 reverence you, and we worship you, and we praise you. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.360 In Jesus' name, and the whole church set together. Amen. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.920 Amen, come on, let's show the Lord that he's important 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:12.360 to us. Well, look at the person next to you 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.400 and tell him I love you so much. Tell him 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.760 I love you. Come on, tell him I love you 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.200 like Homer loves donuts on the Simpsons. Come on, tell 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:34.280 him I love you like Kanye loves Kanye. Tell him 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.880 you're my number one with the lemonade. Tell him right now. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.840 See if they're saved. How many of you are saved, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:50.600 delivered on your way to heaven? Glad about it? God 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.200 is so faithful. We want to welcome all of our campuses. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.400 Let's do that right now, Valentine. Let's welcome all of 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.760 our locations all over. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:58.600 The Charlotte area. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:04.480 Asheville, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, Toronto, Canada, Melbourne, Florida. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:05.519 Come on, let's thank. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.720 God for Raleigh, Morrisville. A man. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.200 Should we see who's. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.959 Watching on our epam our extended family around the world. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.080 There's always many different cities in states and nations watch him. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.560 Somebody pull it up for me. Go ahead and pull 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.240 it up on the Elevation Church YouTube. Make sure you 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.320 go on the Elevation Church one because it'll have the 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.280 most viewers. Go over to Elevation Worship. It's not as popular. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.800 So good, are you all gonna get that new song? 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.040 You never lost a battle? Are you gonna get that 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:48.600 on Friday? Make sure you get that stream that that's 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.880 gonna be so good. You can just get it stuck 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.080 in your head all the time. Now, how many you'll 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.560 have that song stuck in your head? We didn't sing 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.920 it today, but which seems like a strategic misfire that 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.080 we're releasing it Friday. We didn't sing it today, but anyway, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:04.920 it's a good song to get stuck in your head. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.000 But I promise you your wife would rather hear Tiffany 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.960 and Chris sing it than you. You can't sing, So 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.720 download it, stream it. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.160 And play it. Let the professionals do it. You can 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:15.720 sing along. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:25.480 Tell me where you're watching from on the comments of YouTube. Oakland, California, Wisconsin, Seattle, Nigeria, Rockwell, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:26.400 North Carolina. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.480 You have been to Rockwell? Have you heard of it? 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:31.640 I had neither. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:40.640 Indiana, Charlotte supposed to be at church. You better have 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:53.320 the flu, measles, the mumps, the shingles or something. Uganda, Atlanta, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Baltimore. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.080 It's so fast, it's scrolling so fast. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:03.520 Guatemala, Dominican, Indonesia. Ask somebody, where did you come from? 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.680 And what are you cooking for lunch? Cannot come over? 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.800 Ask them that real quick. Hey man, welcome our EPHAM 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.640 around the world. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:11.880 Let's give out. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.240 Let's give out seventeen hugs on our way down. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:40.440 To our seat? Can we do that? Are you ready 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:45.080 for the Word of God? Come on list? 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:53.680 Thank God for the worship team. The reason I said that, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.479 I don't know how else to transition them off the 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.719 stage and I'll have to awkwardly you can be seen. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.560 I want to talk to you about some today that 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.960 came up. In a creative team meeting. I was asked 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.520 a question about songwriting and sermon writing, which one do 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.960 I enjoy more, to which I responded, it depends on 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.839 what part of the process you catch me during, because 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.080 there are certain times where a sermon idea will come 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:25.200 to me and I will feel enlightened and spiritual and confident, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.000 can't wait to preach it, Get me a new nine 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.200 volte battery in my microphone, and gather the people. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.680 I have something to say from heaven. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.159 Then five minutes later, I look at the same idea 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.440 and it just seems so ridiculous and simple and basic. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.360 And I basically tell y'all everything I know every week. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.279 I'm just waiting on you to actually do it one time, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.760 just kidding. You're great, You're growing. I know you're disciple. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:00.400 But it's like the process of creativity. It had certain 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.200 points in it. When I was talking about it, I 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.760 called it the sticking points, And as I talked about 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.080 that creatively, I want to speak about it today. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.400 That's the title of my message. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.640 It's called the sticking point because everything that you love 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.200 in life is going to have a part of the 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.240 process that you don't like, and a part that is 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:23.320 going to tempt you to quit. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.160 And it doesn't mean you don't love it. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.920 I don't know when we started thinking that we have 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.120 to love everything or like everything. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:31.280 All the time. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.120 You know, I quit my job because I wasn't feel 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.720 in it? Well, were you feel in indoor plumbing? Go 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.920 back to work, pay your bills, and not have to 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.400 love everything all the time. You know, because everything that 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.640 you love is going to have a part. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:49.760 I called it the sticking point. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.600 It's going to have a part or parts that you 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.560 don't prefer. Okay, I can't tell if you're with me yet. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.120 Let me take this a level deeper. Every person that 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:10.240 you love looks straight ahead, is gonna have some parts 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.920 that you don't prefer. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:15.240 I'm gonna say it that way. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.960 It's gentler than saying that you don't like or that 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.040 you want to change. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.320 Not me. I love everything about him you're dating. It's 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.600 been two weeks. I can tell. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.800 Because every person and there's a parable about this. Jesus 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.079 said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.840 who found a treasure and was excited, and so he 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.680 liked the treasure so much that he sold everything and 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.559 bought the field that the treasure was in. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:46.640 So if you. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.640 Want the treasure, you've got to buy the field. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:58.400 This isn't going good. We want the treasure, not the 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.680 dirt that comes around it. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.920 We want the treasure or the blessings or sometimes we 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:09.040 want those those joyful moments. But even if you love 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.840 your marriage, there will be sometimes where you just want 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.839 to control the TV without any voting. You know, even 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.560 if you love your kids, there will be times where 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:27.080 you will secretly google adoption agencies to see I've never 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:27.960 actually done that. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:33.080 For the record, I'm getting hate mail. But everything you love. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.320 Even preaching, there's times when when I'm preaching that I 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.160 feel the spirit, and then there's times where I look 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.360 at the wrong person in the. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:48.200 Room and I feel another spirit, the spirit of stress, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.880 the spirit of aland even people will walk out sometimes 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.000 while you're preaching, and I called it when I was 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.520 talking to them, the sticking point. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.120 It's the moment where you start to doubt what you 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.400 were so secure you're in. It's the moment where your 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.640 mood doesn't match your mission, but you've got to push 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:12.200 through anyway because you've got something important to do. It's 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.719 the moment where, oh, I didn't know that about you. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.400 When I said i'd do well, you did, and now 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:25.320 you do. The sticking point. For a scriptural example, I 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.080 thought of no better passage than the classic exodus, where 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.160 God led his people out of Egypt through the Red Sea. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.040 Did you notice what I said? Am I set up 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:44.360 through the Red Sea? Not over it on a boat, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.520 but through it on foot. You are going through something 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.920 right now. You are at a sticking point. I don't 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.960 know if it is a state of mind, because sometimes 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.920 we are stuck, not in our situation, but in our 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.800 state of mind. Even recently, Holly pulled up a picture 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.880 from a few years ago when we were flying home 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.000 from Seattle and we got stuck in Chicago overnight on 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.280 a layover. We were laughing because we were in such 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:21.040 a bad mood. We were just remembering how late it was. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.480 It was probably ten o'clock at night, but let's make 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.040 it two in the morning, just for dramatic effect on 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:27.560 the story. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:28.840 Creative license. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.640 But it was late, and our bags were checked and 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.120 we had no clean underwear, and we checked into this 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.000 horrible hotel that American Airlines had put on and we 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.560 were stuck in Chicago, and we were. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.520 Laughing about that. We weren't laughing when it happened. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.720 We were laughing looking at when it happened, you know, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.840 two or three years ago. And remember that when we 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.520 got stuck in Chicago, Well, why were we stuck in 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:55.200 Chicago technically American Airlines. But if you take it apart 0:11:55.240 --> 0:12:00.320 a little bit more, the city of Chicago is a 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.240 city that we like. We had visited there by choice 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:09.640 before when I preached for Steve Munsey and Jmack. We 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.959 stayed over two extra days just so we could shop 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:14.960 and watch the Cobs. 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.600 We we had a good time too. We ate deep 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.000 dish pizza. This was in my. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.000 Early thirties when I could do it and just plank 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.520 a little bit and it will fall right off. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.240 But we did some. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.240 We had marital enrichment in the hotel room on that trip. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.959 That was a good trip. So there's nothing wrong with Chicago. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.360 It wasn't. It wasn't Chicago. It wasn't like. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:46.000 It was Des Moines. I loved Yll so much. You're 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.040 so triggered my hands from there. When's the last time 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:50.720 you went to see her? 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.720 Huh uh? It wasn't. It wasn't. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.880 The situation that we were stuck in. The reason we 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.040 called it stop is because it wasn't on our schedule. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.120 You better get to the text. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:13.040 Verdict Exodus, chapter fourteen, verse ten. The Israelites are leaving 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.560 Egypt right God heard their cry They were stuck as 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:23.160 slaves for four centuries serving Pharaoh, who had taken away 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.400 their building materials, increasing their requirements while. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.680 Reducing their resources. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.880 So they're stuck, and God hears them, and God breaks through, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.880 and God uses Moses to lead them out, because there 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:42.239 comes a period where God sees you stuck and realizes 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:43.840 that you cannot get. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.319 Yourself out of the situation. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.560 So he said, I've heard the cries of my people, 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.559 and I have come down to visit them. And when 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.480 he chose Moses to do it, he knew all about 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:59.120 Moses's brokenness, and he knew all about Moses' reluctance, and 0:13:59.200 --> 0:13:59.840 he led. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.520 Them out out, and he compelled Pharaoh to let. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.000 Them go, not the first time, not the second time, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.880 but after ten plagues of negotiation. You know, sticking point 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.400 is a negotiation term. They talk about it in business. Well, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.760 we almost had the deal done, but then the asking 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.800 price was a sticking point because they wouldn't let me 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.960 finance it over five years. They wanted me to pay 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.200 it off in three or or they wanted me to 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.320 leave the septic tank, and I wanted to dig it 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.680 out and take it with me. We hit a sticking point. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.960 You know, you hit a sticking point in your faith, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.840 you hit a sticking point in a relationship, you hit 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.320 a sticking point in your life. And you've come as 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.040 far as you can come. And then God comes down 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.120 and he sees you struggling, and he does for you 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.880 what you cannot do for you. And then don't shout. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:55.720 You come to something that wasn't on your schedule. Exitus fourteen, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.080 verse ten, when Pharaoh drew near. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.400 Wait, what's Pharaoh doing in the picture? I thought we 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:01.160 were done with him? 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:02.400 No? 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:04.920 Okay? 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.400 Can I preach on half of a verse? Y'all got 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.440 anything to do after this? Or should we just? Okay? 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.000 Complete the sentence? If you grew up in church, complete 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:23.200 the sentence. Where God guides, he provides. True, let me 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:28.400 add to it. Where God doesn't guide, he still provides 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.840 because He's so good. Have you ever had God bless 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.120 you when you were going backwards and doing the wrong stuff? 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.880 There's angels in this section over here. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.800 Have you ever Elijah in the Bible, he was running 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.920 from Jezebel in the wrong direction from his assignment. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.160 He lay down and wanted to. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.360 Die, even though he had seen God do great things, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.680 and the Angel made him a cake. He was going 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.000 away from his assign and God fed him with an. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:02.840 Angel food cake. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.720 Now, don't look at me like the reason that you 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.400 always ate is because you were always good. Some of 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.240 you know that you didn't deserve it. You didn't earn it, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.000 you didn't pray enough. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.800 To get it. You didn't quote. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.560 Philippians, you didn't always take the right turn or follow 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.360 the north star. But God tracked you down under a 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.760 broom tree and blessed you anyway. I need some people 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.400 who were blessed anyway to shout, just ten seconds, just 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:44.479 shout because he fed you even as you fled from him. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.160 So where God guides, he provides. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.520 But even where God doesn't God he'll still take care 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:49.440 of you because you're his. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.080 And then I wanted to add one more. See if 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.080 you could put this on Pinterest. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:17:00.920 Okay, because they're leaving Egypt, here comes Pharaoh, their enemy 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:06.399 behind them. They hear clickity clack, clickety clack, clickety clack. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.520 That's Pharaoh's Lamborghinis. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.960 These are fast cheriots because they're here Pharaoh's best and 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.560 they're being chased down on their way out. And so 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.399 they turn around and see something that they can't go 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.680 back to look forward and see something that they can't 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:24.160 get over. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:30.760 Now, they got to go through it because where God. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:37.240 Guides now, not that one, this one where God guides 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.000 Pharaoh follows wow. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.000 Wow. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.160 And so in negotiation terms, they've reached a sticking point 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.480 because here's a little business tactic. Okay, I'm gonna do 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.720 a seminar on negotiating right now. I'm not gonna charge you. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:58.160 It's not forty nine dollars. You could just listen. If 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.200 someone is holding onto something in a negotiation, that means 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:08.440 it's valuable. If they don't let it go easy, that 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.399 means it has great worth. I don't know who I'm 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.520 preaching to, but the devil hasn't been letting you go easy. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.040 You've been trying to shake this for a long time. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.480 And the reason, maybe the reason, if the devil is real, 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.720 and if destiny is a fact and not just a 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.600 concept or a fantasy, maybe the reason that it's been 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.439 so difficult for it to let you go is because 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:43.040 what you carry is of such great value. I believe 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.240 this in my core. Some of you are at a 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.960 sticking point right now, and Pharaoh will let you go 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.280 easy because once you get through this. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:19:05.960 There is great glory after this. If you're ever if 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:06.439 you're ever. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.560 Negotiating with someone and they're like, oh, yeah, I'll throw 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.040 it in. It's nothing. Hey, you can have that too, 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.080 It's nothing. But if they ever pull it back. You know, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.639 every time you try to get out of depression and 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.000 addiction and you try to stop with the pills, and 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.800 you try to stop with the porn, and you try 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:29.280 to stop with the complaint, this is a sticking point 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.080 for some of you. You've been flushing it, but then 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.479 you buy it again, and then you've been deleting it, 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.600 but then you put it back, and then you've been 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.280 walking away from it, but then you feel drunk to it. 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.480 And I wanted to tell you that when you get stuck, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.840 that means you're on the verge of something significant. God 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:52.119 has his hand on your line. 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.119 That's the first half of the first verse. 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.679 And Pharaoh drew near where God, God's Pharaoh follows. The 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.119 proof of God's activity in your life will often be 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:15.199 the increase of resistance. Wow, and behold, the Egyptians were 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.480 marching after them, and they fear greatly. Yeah, I bet 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:23.000 they did. This is not stuck in Chicago This is not. 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.280 This is not we're going to have to catch the 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.400 six thirty five am flight out Central Standard Time. This 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:35.159 is pulse's pounding panic triggered by the trauma of a 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:41.560 lifetime of bondage. And so they're standing there, and this 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.720 is one thing that happens. They start arguing with Moses. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.560 Look at says verse eleven. They said to Moses, because 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.560 they're no graves in Egypt, that you've taken us to 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:48.520 die in the wilderness. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:50.320 What have you done to us in bringing us out 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:50.720 of Egypt? 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.240 So now they're fighting the one who's helping them. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.439 Parents. Don't worry about it. They'll thank you one. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:09.480 Day, maybe if you don't kill them. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.560 Hm, is this not what we said to you in Egypt? 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.520 Verse twelve. Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:16.520 I never heard them say that. All they were doing 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.720 before they got out was praying to get out. Well, 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:27.800 let's all admit, Okay, when you get stuck, you get stupid. 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:39.680 I'm not saying you are stupid, But for me, some 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.320 of the dumbest decisions I made was because I got 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:44.240 sick of being stuck. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:50.919 So I'm gonna just do something. Ah, sick of this. 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.040 You know when you hit send. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.159 Oh no unsen nonsend unsaying undersen. 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:08.840 I might invent the unsend button. But when you get stuck. 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.359 Elijah came in our room the other night, this was 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.320 Friday night, and we were both to sleep. 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:18.840 We were we were off duty on parenting. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.840 For the night and our office hours are you know, 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:30.440 seven am to five pm, and it's off duty. And 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.840 he comes in the room laughing and we were both asleep, 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:35.520 and he's like, you're not gonna believe this. 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:39.960 He's laughing, and he had Jim Shorts. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:45.040 Mesh Elevation Youth Champion Jim Shorts, hanging from his braces. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.240 He said, get it off, get it off. And I 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:53.399 was going to write, but I said, first, let me 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:54.280 get a video. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:05.280 Real quick. Let me show us listen stuck on teep. 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.360 Just put my whole burst out, Jez look. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:12.440 Broh. 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:23.359 Because I wish you would look at your neighbor and 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:39.040 tell them when you get stuck, you get stupid. Maybe 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:42.040 don't date anybody for six months until you heal from 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:49.520 the last heartbreak, because when you get I'm in Exodus fourteen. 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:57.440 When you get stuck, you reach for stuff. You reach 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.600 for the stuff that you flushed. When you get stuck, 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.639 when you get lonely, when you get hungry, when you 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:09.240 get tired, when you get stuck, Ah now I got 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.359 the whole thing hanging out my mouth. Ah Now I 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:16.240 got a rainbow vacuum cleaner. Ah Now I got a timeshare. 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:24.840 When you get stuck. I didn't do it because I 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:28.560 didn't love God. I did it because I was stuck. 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:34.080 And when you hit the sticking point, everybody's like, come on, rejoice. 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:39.040 I can't. I'm stuck. I'm stuck in a memory. 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:45.040 You're miss stuck in a memory. I'm stuck in a pattern. 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.480 I'm stuck in a generational thing that started before I 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:51.520 ever came to the planet. 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:52.119 I'm stuck. 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:59.639 I get stuck preparing these sermons. It's horrible. I'm not 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:01.480 playing now. I know I've been showing you, you know, 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:04.920 like illegal footage of my children and everything in church. 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:09.680 Orthodontist is gonna kill me Monday. He's a great orthodonist too, 0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:13.520 doctor doctor hull yoshall look him up. He's great. He's 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:17.520 got to fix that. Tomorrow. I'm gonna have We're gonna 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:19.359 have some business for him. But when I get to 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:23.960 prepare these sermons, I get stuck, and it's horrible because 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.280 the sticking point it makes me want to just like 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:27.760 give up on everything I've worked on. 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.160 Please don't think that I'm preaching to you about preaching. 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:34.160 That's too meta. 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:37.840 I'm preaching to you about preaching because that's where I 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:41.240 get stuck, and I figured you might get stuck sometimes too. 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:43.440 Good. 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:47.879 I mean, when I go to prepare, it'll just be 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:52.920 moments where none of it makes sense for everybody that's 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:53.840 like forty and older. 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:57.680 Like when you had antennas. 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:01.960 On the be and you you could see the station, 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:06.879 but not fully because you were watching your neighbors HBO 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:12.480