WEBVTT - Unschedulable Blessings 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.480 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.960 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.320 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.360 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.160 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.159 How great is this just to have another opportunity. We 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.240 don't take it for granted, the opportunity to worship God, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.320 to give him glory and to receive from him. Come on, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.000 somebody just say right there in the chat, I'm here 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.800 for it. Whatever you want to do, Lord, I'm here 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.159 for it. I'm here for it. You just fill in 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.080 the blank. I'm here for I'm here for healing. I'm 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.879 here for restoration. I'm here for instruction. I'm here for direction. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.879 But above all of that, God, if you want to 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.720 correct me, that's fine. If you want to comfort me, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.639 that's fine. But I'm here to worship you. Are there 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.440 any worshipers in the chat? Are there any words a 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:07.880 verse on YouTube? Facebook? From whop? Yeah, I'm here for 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.640 I'm here for it. And be more specific, where are 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.880 you here from? Please in the chat right now if 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.720 you haven't had the opportunity yet to just identify yourself 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:24.520 on a basis of first name, city, state, township, hamlet, village. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.960 We've got them all represented today. Praise the Lord. Everybody 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.920 in the room, shout your name and your location. Do 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.679 it on the chat name and location. Whether you're watching 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.560 it right now, whether you've been you know, slacking and 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.520 you have to catch up later in the week. Whatever, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.600 God's word is not found by time, I believe that 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:49.400 He is going to customize this word to the exact 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.440 continuity of the circumstance that you are facing, to remind 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.560 you that you are not going anywhere that He is 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.640 not already there. You have not been anywhere that He 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:05.040 did not bring you through. If it's behind you, it's covered. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.560 If it's ahead of you, it's covered. All you gotta 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.400 do is be here right now. Somebody say I'm here 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:17.840 for it, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.880 Who's here for him? Wave at wave at wave, act 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:28.160 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. I want to get 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.040 right into the Word of God. Get your Bible, paper, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:39.600 digital apyrus, doesn't matter the format. What really matters today 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.400 is that you clear out a little bit of space 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:49.799 in your very distracted, busy heart, fearful heart, uncertain heart. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.239 How are you saying all those things about me? You 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.280 don't even know me. Maybe I'm just autobiographical right now 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:01.040 I have a fearful heart, anxious heart, distracted heart. So 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.839 we just make this space for God. We welcome them 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.200 into this in every moment. And I want to read 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.400 you a scripture. Play while I read the scripture, and 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.040 then let's just see where it goes from there. All right. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.280 Somebody asked me one time, do y'all plan when when 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.240 you're preaching sometimes and the music comes in, it scares me. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.959 It comes out of nowhere. You got a guy back 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.960 there and he starts playing and he scares me. It 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.920 comes out of nowhere. But we don't plan it doing 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.920 we don't plan it. The best parts are not planned. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.040 I've noticed that the best parts are not planned. So anyway, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.040 I don't know if you were planning to watch today 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.920 or if you accidentally got clickbaited into this sermon. We 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.400 ought to start doing that with our YouTube videos to 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.800 lead people to Jesus. Amen. We'll put a thumbnail that 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.720 says seven seven ways to get a girl, and then 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.080 you click on it and it's me preaching about holiness 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:02.240 or something like that on people to Christ. I'm kidding 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:13.240 kind of Acts Chapter one is really cool and really confusing, 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.640 not for us, but certainly would have been for the disciples. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.720 On one occasion, while Jesus was eating with them. This 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.000 is Acts one, verse four. By the way, I should 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.880 have said that, sorry, Act chapter one, verse four in IV. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.120 Twenty eleven. On one occasion, while he was eating with them. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.279 He I'm sorry, I can't skip over that phrase, but 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.240 I didn't plan to say. On one occasion, not a 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:44.280 special occasion, just any old Sunday morning, any old Monday afternoon, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.279 you know. On one occasion, he would give them the 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.680 instructions that would really explain to them his kingdom in 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.599 a way they'd never seen. And he gave them the 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.479 greatest promise of the greatest gift that they would ever 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.200 that they would ever know. Okay, on one occasion, we'll 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.720 have to go a little faster than this if we're 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.080 going to get through it. On one occasion, while he 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.000 was eating with them, this is Jesus eating with his disciples. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.200 He gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.720 wait for the gift. Wait for the gift. My Father promised, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.920 which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.279 with water. But in a few days, you will be 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.840 baptized with the Holy Spirit. In a few days, you 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.960 will receive the greatest gift. And it's not going to 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.640 come in the form of a car or house, or 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.240 bonus or something like that. It's going to be the 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:46.359 Holy Spirit. The greatest gifts come from within. Waiting on 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.640 an amen. I'm waiting on an amen like they were 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.480 waiting on the Holy Spirit. But then watch this. This 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.200 is this is the part I want us to jump 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.080 from today. And we have a lot of ground to cover, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.680 but let's jump from here. Then they gathered around him, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.479 and here's what they wanted to know. He's speaking about 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.320 the gift that he wants to give them, the Holy Spirit. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.520 He's already died on the cross, risen from the dead, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.280 he's about to send to heaven. But he said, I'm 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.080 gonna give you a gift, and you have to wait. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.320 And then they gathered around and asked him, Lord, are 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:17.080 you at this time, at this time going to restore 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.920 the kingdom to Israel? At this time, somebody say, at 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.960 this time, at this time? He said to them, it 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.840 is not for you to know the times or dates 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.520 the Father has set by his own authority. But you 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:40.240 will receive power. Here's the guarantee. You will receive power 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.440 when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.280 and to the ends of the earth. It's the word 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.760 of the Lord. Be seated. Somebody, lift your hands in 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.920 the chat. Just say I'm ready to receive it. I'm 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.960 ready to receive it, both hands, both hands. I'm ready 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.880 to receive it. Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:08.479 Shout out to my fifteen year old son, Elijah B. Verdict. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.680 The bee stands for beats. He's a beat maker, he's 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.840 a producer. Do the Dash is his YouTube and I'm 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.360 sure he would appreciate a subscribe. Happy fifteenth birthday to 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.200 my oldest son, the one who changed my name to 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.560 Daddy and then changed it again to dad. I'll never 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.920 forget the day he dropped the d y off the end. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.360 It was a horrifying moment. And just even saying my 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.520 fifteen year old son, do you know how how archaic 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.240 that makes my bones feel? My knees started hurting. I 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.360 just felt like automatically old. When I said it, I 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.720 was feeling sprightly, and then all of a sudden, I 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.200 started feeling saggy. Just sat of saying I have a 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.040 fifteen year old son. But his birthday was yesterday, and 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.480 I love him so much, and he's watching right now. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.280 He'd better be if he wants to use his phone 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.000 this week, and I'm going to quiz him on the sermon. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.560 He's my number one conversationalist. He's my workout partner now 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.920 he's getting strong. The Beast stands for beasts too down 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.280 there when we're working out together and we have a 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.280 good time, and I love talking to him about my sermons. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.920 He is a great blessing. Children are a blessing, Chris, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.600 you didn't say amen, And you have a couple, so 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.520 I'm worried, what's going on at the house. Do you need? 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.520 Children are a blessing? Amen? Amen. And when you're getting 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.440 ready to have kids, they give you all kinds of advice. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.040 We were talking about the birth of the church, and 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.800 I was talking about the birth of my firstborn son. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:37.240 But when you're having your first one, right, since you 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.240 don't know what to expect, all the experts come out 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.559 of the woodworks telling you how they raised their kids. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.440 They don't tell you that the one they're telling you 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.040 how they raised and giving you advice based of when 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.480 the rehab three times. But they just start telling you 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.440 all this advice and they'll tell you, oh, and they'll 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.280 tell you it perfectly. They will prescribe for you perfectly. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.920 Like kids are blenders, you know, and like you can 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.640 put them together and plug them in. And they were 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.800 telling us with Elijah the whole time, put him on 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.719 a schedule, Put him on a schedule. What you want 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.760 to do, what you want to do. What we did 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.480 with our kids when we were your age and now 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.559 our kids are grown. But what was really helpful for us, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:23.760 that just really helped us establish just order, and it's 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.559 very good for the child and it's good for you. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:32.920 It's just put them on a schedule. First schedule, Elijah 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:42.560 was unschedulable. Is that a word unschedulable? If it's not 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.040 a word, it's it needs to be Come on, how 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.240 many agreed after the year we've been having. I don't 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.680 know how you do this, but if anybody knows, wester 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.280 and we can get a word added to the dictionary. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.719 I looked it up before I came out. I don't 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.400 know how we're going to spell it, but I want 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.480 to suggest that we get after the year we've been having. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.240 I want to add after being a parent of three kids. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.840 I want to suggest we get this word in the 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:14.000 dictionary as soon as possible. Unschedulable. Everybody say it unschedulable. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.920 My firstborn son was unschedulable. I mean, you can set 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.720 the schedule, but he don't care. But he doesn't give 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.000 a crap about your skate. He does not care for sleeping, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.040 for eating. And my kids still don't. They do not 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.360 check my schedule. Y'all are looking at me like your 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.479 kids do. You're looking at me like you can schedule 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.920 my children. Oh you know what else? My sermon preparation 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.760 process is unschedulable. I don't know how to spell it, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.880 but that's what it is. I was thinking of a 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.520 way to explain it to you. It's like it's you know, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.240 I set aside time to study, right, and then I'll 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.000 just sit there and look at the Bible. I'll get 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.600 five Bibles and spread them out, and none of them 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.880 make any since. And then while I'm trying to go 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.959 do something else and I got something else going on. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.240 Then the sermon will just come, you know, walking through 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.079 the door, like hey here, I am. I don't care 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.280 that you're on a date night. How many movie theaters 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.040 have we been in trying to have a date on 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.480 a Thursday night? And I'm like, I'm sorry, babe, you're 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.360 gonna have to tell me what happens to Tanya Harding 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.640 on the ice skating movie. I gotta write this down 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:29.120 real quick because the sermon doesn't check my schedule. I 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.600 wish it did. That's why I sent you all these 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.280 scriptures five minutes before I walked out, and I just 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.120 sent you all of them because I had ten. I've 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.240 been working on ten of them ten and I sent 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:44.480 them all to you, and I said, I don't know 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.520 where we'll start. I'm not the one setting the schedule here. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.320 I went to seminary. They taught me how to prepare sermons. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.200 You know, you should have from seven to nine, just 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.079 like people telling you how to be a parent, tell 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.640 you how to be a pastor. Shoid it from seven 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.400 to nine and you're gonna study. That's great, I do 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.640 I have study time. I believe you ought to prioritize 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.080 what's important to you, and if it's not on your schedule, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.080 it might not be your priority. And that's good for 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.440 working out, that's good for dating your wife, that's good 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.480 for taking time to be alone. We talked about this 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:17.599 last week as well. But some things don't check your schedule. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.559 Saw my friend from London says it says schedule. I 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.800 don't care how you say it, but certain things in 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:33.040 life do not consult your calendar. And in seminary they 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:39.200 taught me that God was immutable. These are big words. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.800 Write this down, pee Wegg. What's wrong with you? Man? 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.840 This is like eighty thousand dollars education I'm giving you. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.000 You get paid, I pay you. Write this down, immutable. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.440 You can't change God. How many are glad? You can't 0:12:53.520 --> 0:13:00.160 change him? If he called you, he called you. You 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.280 know why you're not clopping. You don't have anything wrong 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.600 with you. So for me, sometimes I think God might 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.400 have changed his mind about me when he sees what 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.600 he got when he drafted me. He knew all my injuries, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.800 he knew all of my susceptibilities, he knew all of 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.000 my vulnerabilities. In fact, some of the stuff he picked 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.360 me for is stuff that I'm trying to get out 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.840 of my life. But he wants to take that weakness 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.200 and fill it and turn it into something that can 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:33.360 be called strength. He's immutable, he's Another word they taught 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:38.720 me in seminary is that he is. He is impeccable. Holy, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:45.720 it's perfect. He's perfect. That's another thing I'm not. He's impeccable, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:53.000 he's he's others separate, he's set apart. He's holy, he's peckable. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.360 Another one, Philip, this is a good one too. You 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.400 got this one. Write all this down because there's a 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.360 lot of these attributes of God that you learn. You 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:08.560 learned that he's you learned. He's immutable, impectable, incomprehensible. You 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:13.360 can know God, but you can't totally know God. He 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.680 doesn't change, but the way that you see him better 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:21.960 change or you're not growing. You're not growing. He is, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.800 like we say, mysterious, faith is mystery, not mechanics. When 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.120 people say the Bible's an instruction manual for life, what 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.920 a horrible analogy to boil the living word of the 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.360 living God down to something that can help you put 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.440 together a scooter. An instruction manual for life. No, it's 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:45.280 an invitation to mystery because he's incomprehensible. And I don't 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.440 want to add anything to the theology book, but might 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.160 I add that not only is he immutable, impeccable, and 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:58.360 what's the other one? I said incomprehensible, he's unschedulable. God 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.040 is unschedulable. And what I have to say to you 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.360 over the next twenty thirty forty fifty sixty minutes today 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.880 may mess with a category or two that you have 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.280 about God. But I want you to stay with me 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.520 because some of you are off schedule, but you're right 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.240 on time. Some of you your life is off schedule, 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.120 but you're right on time. And the reason I chose 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.840 to start with Acts chapter one is because the disciples 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.560 have been through a lot with Jesus that they didn't understand, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.040 have you. Have you been through some seasons with God 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.560 that made no sense to you? Right? So they want 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.440 to know, Okay, now that the Cross is over, and 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.240 now that you did that thing on the third Day 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.840 that we'll still be singing about in two thousand years, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:56.280 Now that that's over, are you at this time going 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:02.000 to restore the kingdom to Israel? Jesus spent three and 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.560 a half years teaching these boys about the Kingdom of God, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.960 but they were still thinking about the kingdom of Israel. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.760 And that's important. But what drew my attention today is 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.680 the idea that Jesus said, it's not for you to 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.120 know the times. Now, let's notice a few things that 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.200 God does to get them. Because God does speak, Amen, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.400 he speaks specifically. God will show you things that you 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.840 don't even know how you know it. He never did 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.560 it out loud. For me, I never had that experience. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.760 I have friends who say they have. Honestly, they're the 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.960 kind that are a little bit you know, you know, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:42.240 just different personality than mine. With me, it's a wisdom within. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.640 It's like how Elijah the prophet heard a whisper in 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.480 a cave and at his weakest moment, God spoke. And 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.080 so the Lord speaks to us in ways. I mean, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:52.960 we have a lot of specifics to go off of. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.840 By the way, well, I don't know what God's will 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.760 is for my life. I mean everything's crazy. Love your neighbor, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:06.160 as you forgive us, Christ also forgave you. Do everything 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.560 with albinterness. Sarah complaining for this will of God, Christ, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.280 he's concerning you. And when you master that, come back 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.840 and I'll give you the extra credit work all right. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.320 I wonder if God sometimes is laughing, you know, while 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.600 we make our plans in our schedule, Don't you know 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.760 God was just laughing his head off in Heaven. I 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.920 looked to see if there was a time when Jesus 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.280 laughed in the scripture, and there's not one where it 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.600 says that he laughed. But you know, he was laughing 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.120 while he was watching Peter try to fish all night. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.520 You know, he was laughing while you watched him, like, Ah, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.520 I'm about to mess with his whole theology of fishing. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.560 I'm about to mess with his whole concept, his whole system. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.679 I'm about to blow wide open his whole idea of 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.840 how the water works. Because I'm the one who walks 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.879 some water, So I don't need the laws of water, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.880 or the laws of economics, or the laws of politics, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.800 or the laws of medicine to regular late what I'm 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.560 going to do. Can I just tell you something, God 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.880 is laughing at some of the stuff that we're stressed 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.720 out about because while we can't figure it out and 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.199 we don't see a way he's just about ready to 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:17.280 walk up watch this behind schedule and show us something 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:25.800 that we could not see in our own strength. Somebody 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.600 told me the other day, you're gonna look back and 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.680 laugh at this. One day, I said, you know you're 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.000 gonna I didn't say this. I just thought you're gonna look. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.280 You're gonna look back and cry when I punch you 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.560 in your nose for telling me I'm gonna look because 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.960 it's not funny. Right now. What I was going through 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.240 was pample the heal. You look back and laugh. You 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:53.560 look back and laugh. Abraham, That's who the nation of 0:18:53.640 --> 0:19:01.480 Israel started through Abraham. He didn't have fancy seminary words 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.040 for God to go off of. He came from er 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.159 of the Chaldeans, and he was called out of everything 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.159 that was familiar to him to follow a God that 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.159 he could not see visibly or predict. It's kind of 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:20.040 similar to Acts chapter one, but instead of starting the church, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.000 it was when God was starting the nation. And there's 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.560 a lot of parallels, and I'll show it to you 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.880 real quick. In Genesis chapter twelve, verses one through four, 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.159 it's very similar to Acts one, four through eight, And 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.600 I'll show you how give me the scripture. The Lord 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.679 had said to Abram, go from your country, your people, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.720 and your father's household to the land I will show you. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.000 Keep going. Next verse, I will make you into a 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:52.280 great nation, which implies what process. So there's a promise, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:57.639 and then I will make you is a process That 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.560 means just because I spoke it to you doesn't mean 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.080 you will automatically see it. But just because you don't 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.200 automatically see it doesn't mean I didn't speak it. Who 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.680 am I preaching to today? That you're waiting for something 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:17.119 to be revealed and manifested that God, that God showed 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:23.080 you he said, I'm gonna make you a great nation, Okay, Abraham, 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:28.080 Isaac Jacob. And then, of course you note about how 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:32.520 the nation of Israel came through Jacob, his generational promise 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.320 that God was making to Abraham. I got so much 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.080 to share with you. Can you check your schedule real 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.520 quick and see if you have anything after this. You're good. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.600 You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.600 You good, You're good, You're good. Good. Okay, you're good, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.359 you're good. You got ant you gotta Okay, So I said, 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.360 I'm gonna make you a great nation, and I will 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:57.000 bless you. I will bless you, I will bless you. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.399 I might use your job to pay you, but I 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.480 will bless you. I might use somebody else to encourage you, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.800 but I will bless you. I did not thank the 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.359 pan that she cooked in last night for the food. 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.760 I think the one who used the pan to cook 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:24.040 the food. And it's important, especially in this season of 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.680 your life, that you remember the source of your blessing. 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.960 The source of your blessing. He is immutable, He doesn't change. 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.719 He is also impeccable, he doesn't make mistakes. At the 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.840 same time that he is immutable and impeccable, he is 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:45.400 also incomprehensible, which means that you don't always know how, 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:53.080 even though you know who. But he said I will 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.520 bless you, and then he says something really crazy. I 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.679 will make your name great and you will be a 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:04.720 blessed You will be a blessing. Blessing is not something 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.439 that I get. Blessed is who I am, and so 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.199 blessing is what I do. I can bless and not 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.160 curse because I know the source of my blessings. This 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:19.640 is an anointed word. Share it with your aunt, Share 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:22.080 it with your uncle, Share it with your friend, Share 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.480 it with your brother, Share it with your cousin. Right now, 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.360 hit the share button on this word and be a blessing. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.480 You know the best way to be blessed. Be a blessing. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.440 You know the best way to be happy. Encourage somebody else. 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.240 You know the best way to receive the word of God. 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.320 Share the word of God. You know. The best way 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.960 to reap is to sew. Even in a famine, even 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:48.040 in a drought. God is my source, He is my supply, 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:52.720 He is my shield and my exceeding great reward. Come on, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.600 give him praise. If you know your blessings come from above, 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:05.240 your blessings come from beyond. They said, I'll bless those 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:07.639 who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse, 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.280 and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:17.000 See what God can do. And then it said Abram 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:21.159 went as the Lord told him, and Lot went with him. 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.199 Could stop there, but it probably would do justice to 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:30.159 the text. Abram was seventy five years old. And you know, Isaac, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.119 that we were talking about Abraham, Isaac Jacob, He's not 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:40.720 even born yet. So God makes an appointment with Abram 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:45.359 to make him the father of many nations. A little 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:52.080 bit behind schedule, a little late. The devil's been telling 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.200 somebody under the sound of my voice, it's too late. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:59.600 It's too late. It's too late. Back in February, you 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:03.080 could pray for that, but it's too late now, back 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.560 before you started, you know, year over here now, and 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:09.080 you're wrapped in the chains of this addiction. If you 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:11.280 wouldn't have done that, then you could have been used. 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.959 It is too late. And I wonder if God showed 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:22.240 us that he does not need a human schedule to 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:27.080 accomplish a divine purpose. And you're like, that's fine, faster, 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:33.160 I'm nineteen. When Timothy was getting ready to minister in Ephesis, 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:36.159 which was a hard place, Paul told him, let no 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.240 one look down on you because you were too young. 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:43.399