WEBVTT - Peace In My Pocket 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.560 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.040 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.399 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.480 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.960 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.799 Pastor Carl Lyntz is in the house to preach God's word. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.400 I'm excited that our friend would come and be with 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.960 us today. For many years I would preach on my 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.920 anniversary and it seemed unfitting for me to have to 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.680 bring a gift to my own birthday party. And there 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.680 was only one person that I wanted to preach this weekend. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.200 And if he would have said no, then I would 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.680 have quit returning his text messages for at least three months. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.600 But Pastor Carl Lynz is really one of the most 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.040 christ Like people that I know. He is not afraid 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.840 to be inconvenienced or controversial if it means bringing Jesus 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.040 into the lives and hearts of people. I want to 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.640 be more like that. I've noticed him being willing to 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.120 associate with anyone and everyone on the same level, and 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.200 I want to be more like that. I noticed that 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.720 he is relentless in his drive to connect with people, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.440 and at times that means sometimes at great expense to himself. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.480 And I want to be more like that. So I 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.600 thank God for having a brother who can also be 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.560 an example. We love you and Laura. It's been a 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.560 joy to ride with you, just even in the very 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.880 back of the bus on the journey of Hillsong, New York, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.319 since the very beginning. And we have been friends for 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.399 a long time now, and I love you more every 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.520 day that I know you. In this last year, we've 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.840 grown closer than ever before. So for the next you know, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.240 three or four hours, we don't have a team in 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.920 the game tonight. For the next few moments, don't get 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.600 nervous hyperbole. For the next few minutes, treat this like 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.880 this as your elevation church. We certainly consider you family. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.120 Welcome to the stage at every location EPHAM around the world. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:02:01.920 Pastor Carl Z. Before we sit down, I just want 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.960 to say it never gets old to me being a 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.920 part of your church. And when your pastor says that 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.200 they've been a part of this for a long time, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.000 and I should have asked if I could tell this story, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.400 if I'm just gonna do it and you could just 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.760 delete it from the record. But when we first started 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.600 Hillsong New York City, we didn't really know each other 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.639 that way. I knew him from a forest, even in Holly. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:22.600 But he came to hang out in New York for 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.639 something else and we had dinner and it was there 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.359 was a catastrophic storm coming. This is like year one 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.560 of Hillsong New York City, and we had to cancel 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.760 our services, and I think he could see it. It 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.680 was really heavy on my heart. I didn't know what 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.200 to do. And when you started early church, every weekend 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.560 really matters. And I don't know what the myth is 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.040 of church plants, but sometimes if you've got to shut 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.799 it down for a week, it could really hurt you. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.200 And he looked at me and he just goes, you know, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.800 God's gonna come through. He's gonna come through. Just keep 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.880 your head up. And I was like, it's easy for 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.560 you to say. You know, you have your own planet 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.919 at elevation and everything you do is incredible, like we're 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.840 brand new. And he came back later that night at 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.359 dinner and he said, hey, you know, I feel like 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.359 God's gonna answer your prayer and I'm like, that's great. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.680 He's like, you told me how much money it would 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.760 cost to run your church for that that weekend, and 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.400 he's like, our Elevation Church believes in church plants, and 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.680 we're going to sew this into your church. And I 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.919 remember calling my pastor. I said, you know this, these 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.959 Verdict people. Do you know anything about this? Elevation Church 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.679 have a fund that helps churches like ours, and we 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.640 were able to keep it going. I don't know what 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.359 would have happened had God not sent y'all in the 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.440 form of your leadership in that moment. And so, whether 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.400 you like it or not, you're with Hillsaw, New York 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.120 City forever. Over two hundred thousand people have gotten saved. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.840 Who knows how many lives have been transformed, And we 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.960 don't even know what we're doing yet, but thank you. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.080 And it's one day one year. It's like a one 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:49.960 birthday party we get to have. So I'm gonna take 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.600 an extra second here because it is true. We always 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.800 talk about how some cultures are really weird with honor. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.920 For whatever reason, people get freaked out. It's okay to 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.120 honor people who God loves and who he's touched. And 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.560 I tell Steven and Holly this, who are so much fun. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.480 By the way, Laura and Holly are fast friends because 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.320 me and Steven are relatively serious at times, and both 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.360 of our wives are really much cooler than both of us. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.960 But Lebron James, I don't know if you guys know 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.440 who that is. This guy is so good that what 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.360 it used to be exceptional has just become normal. So 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.400 if you look at what Lebron James does on any 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.119 given night, you're like, oh, what do you have? Thirty 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.080 seven seventeen, sixteen, fourteen and three steals and he gave 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.520 them nine people water, and you expect you just expect 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.359 Lebron to do that. The first couple of times he 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.479 did it, people are like, Wow, that's amazing. Then you 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.880 start expecting Lebron to do that, and what used to 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.520 be special is no longer special. I think that we 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.880 got to do a great job just in general, of 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.880 honoring the amazing things that God puts in our lives 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.919 and keeping them special, and that includes your pastor. Let 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.360 me tell you something, this is not normal. It's not 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.960 normal to walk into a church that is incredible. It's excellent. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.440 They work hard. All they do is exist to bring 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.120 people to and just the preaching alone. Most pastors preach 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.479 two good messages in their whole life. He just wrote 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.479 a new one for next week right now. That'll be 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.720 better than anything else somebody else could construct. All that 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:18.080 to say, when you walk into this church, don't take 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.640 the ushers for granted. Don't take these musicians for granted. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.560 Don't take the fact that you have lights on for granted. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.440 Don't take the fact that people are getting saved for granted. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.400 And don't take your pastors who are supernaturally special for granted. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.200 Can we show them some love on this thirteen year celebration? 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:45.039 Need you give somebody a quick high five and a 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.360 hug and you take your seat, and we're gonna get 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.040 to this word And it was worth it. However time, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.680 however much time you got to take off that clock, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.359 do it. But it's an honor to be able to 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.359 be here on a special day. And LJ you're sticking 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.520 with me, my brother, Thank you phenomenal. Do you like 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.240 who you're sitting next to. I wouldn't have been mad 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:12.479 if we just kept singing that powerful? How good is 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.200 worship in church? It's cool? Everywhere, but there's something special 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.600 about it. I had a friend of mine who just 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.560 doesn't get charismatic worship at all, and he was like, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.479 it just seems so weird to me, and I'm like, yeah, 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.200 but have you ever seen yourself in the clubs you 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.120 go to. You're weird too. But I explained to him. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.360 I said, we don't lift our hands because it's charismatic. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.200 We don't lift our hands and do stuff because a 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.320 worship leader says stuff. It's just a desperation thing. When 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.440 I first started coming to church, I would barely muster 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.920 a worship frisbee. And then the more desperate I got, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.559 the less I cared about what anybody else thought. And 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.800 I'll sing if I can't sing, lift my hands if 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.320 I have to. There are some weeks where I don't 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.680 do that. But the point is this, it's pretty incredible 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.039 to be able to just come and do a place 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.120 like this and worship free. I don't take it for 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.360 granted to you, hope not. Do you like career sitting 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.280 next to right now, look at them deeply in their 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.000 eyes and tell them I prayed all day that I 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:14.120 would sit right next to you and then look at 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.440 them and say, God loves Tom Brady board than everybody else. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.280 These are facts. I'm just kidding. I have no dog 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.800 in that fight. I don't care at all. Plus, it's 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.920 not really gonna be a game because of Tom Brady. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.400 Only two types of people in this world Tom Brady 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.360 fans and I'm kidding. Okay, let me stop with the 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.000 football believe them. For Cam to have a breakthrough year, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:43.360 can I get a Carolina panther? Amen? Anybody need more 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:51.480 peace in your life? Anybody ever struggled with fear, anxiety, worry, pressure, nobody? Wow, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.080 this place is really put together. Pastor, I think Jesus 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.600 had a lot to say about it. And I'm gonna 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.600 read you a scripture that really brings peace to my soul. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:07.080 And a huge shout out to Columbia Uptown, Morrisville, Concord, Blakeney, Raleigh. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.320 I am an NC state alone. Shout out to the 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:15.760 NC state well fact, Winston, Salem Riverwalk, you see Asheville, Matthew, Toronto, Gaston, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.040 laken I know this is the top of my head. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:28.160 Roanoke Online, Melbourne Valentine. Jesus said this, and he's talking 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.520 to guys that are headed into pretty uncertain futures, and 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.400 he's letting them know what they can expect, how to 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.640 live what's gonna be coming their way. And I love 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.840 what he says because they can. This scripture alone can 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.480 get you through this week and get you through your 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.400 whole life when you realize what you have in you 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.400 who are God is? And he says this, Now you 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.560 finally believe in me. And the time has come when 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.600 you will be scattered, and each one of you will 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.520 go your own way, leaving me alone. Yet I am 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.080 never alone, for the Father is always with me. And 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.560 everything I've told WW ought you is so that the 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:07.400 peace which is in me will be in you and 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.400 will give you great confidence as you rest in me. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.240 For in this unbelieving world, you will experience trouble, and 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.520 you will experience sorrows. But you must be courageous, for 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:28.000 I have conquered the world. The world called this message 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:34.240 with the twenty minutes I of remaining peace in my pocket. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.679 Look at somebody who say I got peace in my pocket. 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.360 You find it funny how when you are under pressure 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.000 or under stress or dealing with anxiety, you're just not yourself. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.680 You don't say the things you normally say. You don't 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.400 act right. It just kind of makes you different than normal. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.520 Who knows what I'm talking about, Like, if you're under pressure, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.400 anxiety is hitting you. For me, the way that outworks 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.400 itself stress is that I just forget stuff. You have 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.439 any friends here know what I'm talking about. Like, when 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.960 you're under pressure, you forget stuff and you're looking for 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.600 things that you don't even know if you really ever 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.199 lost them in the first place. Recently, I was under 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.800 some pressure, regular life stuff like all of us, and 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.640 I was trying to find what I needed to just 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.280 get going with the rest of my day, and my 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.559 wife was not in the house or right away. I'm 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.560 in trouble, and I am searching everywhere for two things 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.559 that I needed, my phone and my keys. And after 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.200 uprooting the whole house, losing my faith a few times, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.880 getting saved again, and sitting there just depleted after I 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.920 couldn't find it, my wife walks in. She goes, what 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.160 you're looking for? I said, I'm looking for my keys 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.840 and I'm looking for my phone. Have you seen them? 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.440 Because I know you moved them? You know, to start 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.000 blaming people when you under pressure? Was you? And she 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.240 goes mate, because she's Australian mate, did you check your pocket? Smack? 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.120 And I looked at her and I'm like, yeah, sure enough, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.559 phone here, keys here. And I looked at her and 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.000 I was like, that's just making sure you knew where 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.200 they were. And I left and shame, and I thought 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.840 about how interesting it is that if we're not careful, 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.679 we can forget the fact that Jesus actually said in 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:13.800 John sixteen that we have peace because of him, and 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.160 if he is with us, that also means that peace 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.120 is with us. And we have people who don't understand that. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:25.280 During anxious times and pressure and fear, sometimes we end 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.520 up looking for stuff we never lost. We start wandering 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.199 in the areas we have been freed from. We start 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.719 going to other sources, trying to find things that are 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.400 clearly already in our possession. If there is somebody in 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.960 here who feels like you've lost your peace or you 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.920 can't find your peace and you're desperate for more of it, 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.839 I would tell you today you have more peace in 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.800 your pocket in your life than you think you do. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.040 Maybe you just need to start asking the Holy Spirit 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.720 to open up your eyes and show you just how 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.120 much He has put inside you. Maybe you forgot about it, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.240 maybe you haven't learn how to pull it out yet. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.360 But if you lost your peace, that would have to 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.600 mean that Jesus has abandoned you. And I got good news. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.800 He doesn't leave us, he doesn't forsake us, he doesn't 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.080 leave us high and dry. So therefore your peace is 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:20.200 in you, because Jesus is with out. If you thought 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.240 you lost your peace, you did not. If you thought 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.480 that somebody had access to more peace than you, they 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.040 do not. Some of us are just quicker to remember 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.920 the fact that Jesus told us he's with me. Therefore 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.920 peace is in my soul. Take a deep breath that 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.240 it feels good to know that you're a Christian. Therefore 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.520 peace is with you. I'll break it down in two 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.120 quick ways. It helps me. It's one thing when we 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.600 talk about peace. It's one thing to understand that making 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.800 your peace with God important step. But it's a whole 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.960 nother ballgame to be able to find your peace in Jesus' 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.680 daily Can I break this down for you? We got 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.360 four hours, so get comfy. It's one thing to make 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.720 your peace with God. I don't love that term, but 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.760 it's a term that people kind of understand, because I 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.280 feel like God made his peace with us by giving 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.160 us a chance to get saved through Jesus. But making 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.240 your peace with God is typically the only part of 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.320 peace people really understand. We call this salvation. So if 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.840 you're new to this church and you have yet to 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.920 make your peace with God, that's going to change in 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.960 approximately seventeen minutes. But this is when we bow our 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.280 knee and we realize that God has saved us and 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.640 he has set us free. We can have peace today 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.600 knowing if our lives ended now, we would be with 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.520 Him someday in heaven, not because of what we've done, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.920 but because of the beautiful thing Jesus did on the 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.320 cross and his grace set us free. In fact, it's 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.120 the case if you need to hear it, Romans five 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.839 says this. This is mind blowing. It says our faith 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.959 in Jesus transfers God's righteousness to us, and he now 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:56.640 declares us flawless in his eyes. Anybody wake up today 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:01.760 Elevation Church and go, oh, that's how good God is, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.720 flawless in his eyes. This means we can now enjoy 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.280 true and lasting peace with God, all because of what 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.400 our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, has done for us. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.880 Our faith guarantees us permanent access into this marvelous kindness, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.840 and it's given us a perfect relationship with God. So 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.040 now we've made our peace here, right, There's a lot 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.040 of people who still don't get this. And even though 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.320 you're sitting in church, I'm not doubting your faith, but 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.120 I know people who have yet to understand. You need 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.520 to make your peace with the fact that God has 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.960 made his peace with you because of Jesus. You can't 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.760 outsin this grace. You can't out backslide the love of God. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.440 I know people who get saved in church every week. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.800 I have a friend who's the first hand to go 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.920 up every altar call we do. And I finally was like, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.320 my man, just so you know, you can get saved 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.040 all you want, but you have bowed your knee, you 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.600 have confessed your sin. You are rejecting your old sinful ways. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.520 You are saved. God loves you. He goes, yeah, but 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.800 I had a really rough week. I said, Mama, Yeah, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.560 thank God, it's not about our Our peace comes from Jesus. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.640 So some of y'all might need to make your peace 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.800 with that today. But There's this other thing called finding 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.200 your peace in Jesus daily that we probably need to 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.880 talk about, because this is where you walk with it, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.760 and you talk with Jesus and you know his voice 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.680 and you know his tempo, and you know what it 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.920 feels like to be surrounded by him. This is when 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.840 you have so much peace you can give it away. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.840 This is when you have so much peace you can 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.320 access it at any time. There are so many people 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.800 who only know the peace of God eternally, maybe, but 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.280 they don't know anything about the fact that God did 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.040 not just save us so we can have some weird 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.080 eternal security. God saved us and Jesus gave us peace 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.840 so we could live differently while we're here. I don't 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.320 want to just get saved and just exists, knowing someday 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.360 I'll be in heaven. But while I'm here on earth, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.680 I got to go through what everybody else is going through. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.400 No way, I need to know what I have access to. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.640 Come on, I'm preaching to you, so at least seven 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.520 people in here, mainly in this area right here, this 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.840 is the faith filled people. How I just don't want 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.000 to be a victim of not knowing what I had 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.560 access to when it comes to the things of God 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.360 means I got to work at It means I got 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.720 to go explore this. It means I have to outside 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.760 of my church experience, get on my own knees, sing 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.240 my own songs, pray my own prayer, try to know 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.560 who Jesus is for me so I don't get lost 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.000 in all this stuff. Yeah, three hallelujahs. That's what I 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.880 always say when I'm preaching this. I mean, I have 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:35.760 a phone like everybody in here, and I don't know 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.680 about you, if you're tech savvy or not. I'm not 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.720 very tech savvy. My daughters make fun of me all 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.440 the time. But I recently had a iPhone breakdown and 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.240 that frustrates me because they're far too expensive to not 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.000 work all the time. And so I was like, you 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.360 know what, I want to actually talk to the maker. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.080 I want to talk to the people who are taking 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.160 my money. So I went into Apple and I went 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.920 up to this guy and I'm like, Sir, my new 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.960 iPhone that you forced me to get by giving me 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.000 updates that have bugs in it in my text freeze, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.400 you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, that one it's 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.200 not working, and I needed to work. He goes, oh, 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.840 great to have you at Apple today, Sir. We're glad 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.560 so you have problems with your phone. Okay, cool, If 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.399 you can just go back there to that line and 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.320 make your appointment at the Genius bar, one of our 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.400 geniuses will be with you very soon. I'm like, nah, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.680 I didn't come here talk to a genius. I came 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.080 here to get what I'm owed. Okay, I don't want 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.440 to talk to a genius. I want you to fix 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.480 my phoney. He's like, it's great to have you. That's 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.000 what we do. We go to the line and I 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.840 just thought, you know what, I will see this thing through. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.520 And I sat in the line and I made friends 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.679 with people in the line who were also frustrated. And 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.760 I finally got there and the guy starts breaking down 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.879 my phone for me. He's like, man, you have a 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.160 lot to learn about this phone, sir. And I'm like, really, 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.600 I don't want to learn about my phone. I just 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.560 wanted to work. And he goes, I said, what are 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.560 my options? Like, well, you could leave here now and 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.520 just have a phone that doesn't work right, or you 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.879 can let me explain it to him like you. And 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.760 I sat there not for that long, and he just 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.479 lit broke down stuff I didn't know, and I started 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.720 taking a little bit of enjoyment, started to have a 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.720 little bit of faith rise up in me because I'm like, wow, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.480 I didn't know this. I left there and I FaceTime 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.479 multiple people. I was like, using features, I didn't know 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.520 we're there, and I thought, Wow, fifteen minutes with the 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.119 guy who knows more than me, and I'm more productive 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.399 just like that. But yet, we're gonna put it on 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.480 our pastors to teach us how God's gonna do this. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.920 We're gonna try to get on some conference to make 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.120 sure we know who God is for us. I came 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.359 to tell somebody right now, you have as much access 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.280 to the peace of God as anybody else does. But 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.280 it's gonna take your work. It's gonna take your passion 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.439 to say. I don't want to look back on my 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.119 life and find out that I had peace that I 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.200 didn't use, confidence that I didn't use. All I had 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.720 to do was go to the maker and say, Lord, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.440 teach me your what come on, somebody? I got peace 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.080 in my pocket and I don't want to leave it. Oh, 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.000 somebody's gonna leave here today. Accessing more of the peace 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.040 of God than you ever have before in your life 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.520 is gonna change because of it. You believe that you 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.639 believe God is that good. Here's why we need it. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.080 I'm gonna fly through this because I asked your pastor, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:11.960 I said, can we go old school Pentecostal. At the 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:17.000 end of this, we're gonna bring out the animals, really 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:23.000 get the blogs going, pray for people, push them over 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:34.040 modesty blanket. The paramount reason why I think we need 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:40.239 more peace is because uncertainty is not going anywhere. And 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.320 I get to talk about this on your thirteen year 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:49.560 birthday celebration. Guess what the future holds more uncertainty. As 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.639 awesome as these thirteen years have been, I came to 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.000 tell you if you're thinking stuff's gonna smooth out now, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.199 Pastor Stephen, and how they gonna chill out a little bit, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.080 we get to have some I hate to break it 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.040 to you, doesn't work like that. The grace of God 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.840 doesn't work like that. Part of the foundation of our 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.479 faith is the ability to not understand where we're going, 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:15.520 but go anyway. So if we cannot have a gift 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.879 of being able to find our peace in uncertain waters. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:23.720 We're gonna have a very boring nominal American Christianity where 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.439 you show up and you don't look any different, you 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.840 don't sound any different, year after year after year, and 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.000 your only Christian involvement is your one time of week 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.400 at church. Visit Now, I feel like God has called 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.080 us to so much more in our lives, and we 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:37.760