1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: see God has moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: Mark chapter two. I kind of want to continue on 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: something that I said on Easter, and I'll explain that 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: in a second. Let me read the scripture. A few 9 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: that he had come home. They gathered in such large 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: numbers that there was no room left, not even outside 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: the door, and he preached the word to them. Some 13 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 1: men came bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by 14 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: four of them, and since they could not get him 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: in the roof above Jesus. That's a strange phrase. You're 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: not going to see it many times in the Bible. 18 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: Above Jesus. You won't see that very much in the Bible. 19 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: You won't see it. About sickness, you won't see you 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: won't see it about shame. You won't see it about anxiety. 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: You won't see it about panic attacks. You won't see 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: it about political parties. So just circle that one because 23 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: you won't see that above Jesus again, you won't. You 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: will only see this one time. So physically speaking, they 25 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: positioned themselves on the roof and watch this. A lot 26 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 1: of y'all know this Bible story, but this is this 27 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: is crazy if you stop and think about it. They 28 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: dug through the roof and lowered the mat that the 29 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: man was lying on, And when Jesus saw their faith, 30 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: he said to the paralyzed man, son, your sins are forgiven. Now, 31 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: some teachers of the law, we're sitting there thinking to themselves, 32 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: why does this fellow talk like that. He's blaspheming it's heresy. 33 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: Who can forgive sins but God alone. Immediately Jesus knew 34 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: in his spirit that this is what they were thinking 35 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: in their hearts. I can't wait to come back to you, 36 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: vers eke. And he said to them, why are you 37 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: thinking these things? Which is easier to say to this 38 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven, or to say get up, 39 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: take your mat and walk, But I want you to 40 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: know that the son of Man has shout the word 41 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: authority on earth to forgive sins. So he said to 42 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: the man, I tell you, get up, take your map, 43 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: go home, get out of here, and tell you you 44 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: don't need a ride home. So he got up, took 45 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: his matt and walked out in full view of them. All. 46 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: This amazed everyone, and they praise God. Say, ready, we 47 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: have never seen anything like this. Put that in the chat. 48 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: We have never seen anything like this. I want to 49 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: speak to you today about unlearning your limitations. I dabbled 50 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: in it on Easter, and I want to dive deeper today. 51 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: So that's my title, Unlearning your Limitations. That's the straightforward title. 52 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: That's the topical title. Here's the saucy title. You need 53 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: a new roof. Now sit down and let's talk about it. 54 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: You need a new roof because really, limitations are learned, right, 55 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: And maybe you haven't had kids. They don't know. Tongues 56 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: don't go in a line, electrical sockets, they don't know. 57 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: They don't know anything about anything until they It's kind 58 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,119 Speaker 1: of like Graham was telling us one time he could 59 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: beat up Mike Tyson. And just the confidence of Graham 60 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: is something I need you all to pray about because 61 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: I kind of think it's like a great gift, and 62 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: then I kind of think it's like a liability, and 63 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: I can't figure out which one yet. I mean, the 64 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: boy walked into church today with a mullet, with his 65 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: head held high and just the confidence the swag of 66 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: Graham to not care what you think about his mullet. 67 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna get off, I promise, I promise. But 68 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: limitations are learned. And interesting thing about this text is 69 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: it seems like the experience of the people who are 70 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: experts in the Word of God works again them, and 71 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: the stupidity of the people who get a miracle seems 72 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: to have a strategic advantage. And I guess that's why 73 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: I've always liked the passage, because in fifteen years of 74 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: building the church, there have been so many times where 75 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: I've had to try unorthodox things in order to do 76 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: something for which I had no frame of reference. Now 77 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: you may not know this. My dad wasn't a pastor. 78 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: My dad was a barber. My grandfather was a pastor, 79 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: but he pastored small churches. When I say small, probably 80 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: like what one hundred people would have been on the 81 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: bigger side, he did seventy churches of seventy fifty. I 82 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: think in Monk's Corner it was the biggest one. That 83 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: was about two hundred on Easter? Wasn't that big? Am 84 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: I wrong? Am I off? Okay? So that to me, 85 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: in my mind was the biggest church that I had seen. 86 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: In fact, where I was a youth pastor, there were 87 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: about about the same about one hundred twenty Santi Circle 88 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: Community Church where Pastor Mickey let me learn to preach. 89 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: When when I went to preach one time with Holly, 90 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: I was I was sharing it a church I can't 91 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: remember where. It was Calpins, South Carolina, Calpin's anybody from 92 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: Calpins on EPAM And there were about there were about 93 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: fifty people in the in the church, and the woman 94 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: turned to Holly when I walked up to the pulpit 95 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: to preach. I was only eighteen and we were in 96 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: college and we had traveled out here for me to preach. 97 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 1: And the woman turned to Holly and said, is this 98 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: Stephen's first time preaching in a big church like ours? 99 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: And we always thought that was so funny, a big 100 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: church like ours, you know, with fifty and it was 101 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: it was for her frame of reference, right, limitations are 102 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: learned by that. I mean, you don't really come into 103 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: the world knowing what you are not supposed to do 104 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: because you're white, or because you're black, or because you're male, 105 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: or because you're female, or because you're Baptist or because 106 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: you're Pentecostal. I'd like to offend everybody before I finished 107 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: this little list. Those things are learned, They are learned. 108 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: Those are those are those are learned limitations. And here's 109 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: what I mean. We wrote this song called Rattle last 110 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: year and I was showing it to my friend and 111 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: they said, well, you can't play that at your church. 112 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: Black people won't like it. I didn't say it. Why 113 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: are y'all looking at me like that? That's what they said. 114 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,679 Speaker 1: They said, black people don't really like rock and roll. 115 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: And just in my head, I'm like, have you ever 116 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: heard of Jimmy Hendrix? Chuck Berry? Like, how did you 117 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: categorize a people group who pioneered a style of music 118 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: and now you think they don't like like it? That's 119 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: your ima. It's not the limitation of a person that 120 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: you can just categorize anyway. You'll look up tight. Let 121 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: me get back to the Bible verses in the Scriptures. 122 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: In the Scriptures, there's a group of people called the 123 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: scribes or the teachers of the law. It says here 124 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: in Mark chapter two. And I have to be honest 125 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: with you, I've been unfear to this group of people 126 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: through the years because in verse six where you see 127 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: them show up the teachers of the law or the scribes, 128 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you what that means in 129 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: a minute. But they were sitting there and they were 130 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: judging Jesus. So I always hated them in the passage. 131 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: It made me hate them that they would criticize Jesus, 132 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: who's the son of God. And at different times in 133 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: my ministry, I've used this passage to preach to different needs. 134 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: Like in some cases, I've used this passage to say 135 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: that we as the church should be like the four 136 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: men and bring our friends to Jesus. And then I'd 137 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: give everybody a life Will Invite card for the next week, 138 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: and I'd say, now, bring your friends back to church, 139 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: and I'd tell him break the roof and send them 140 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: out to go get their friends to Jesus. Bribe them, 141 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do, and that's that's not 142 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: a bad message. I've also used this passage at times 143 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: before to talk to talk about what it would feel 144 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: like to be the man on the mat who is 145 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: getting dropped. Read it again, real quick. Show me where 146 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: he agreed to this idea. Show me where he asked 147 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: them to take him up on the roof and lower him. 148 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: Show me where he signed his consent, his legal release 149 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: that y'all can drop me in the middle of the number, 150 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: you won't find it. And I've related to that man before, 151 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: because sometimes you feel like you're put in situations that 152 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: you didn't exactly sign up for. In the passage that 153 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: I read to you just now, though, I felt some 154 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: sympathy for the scribes this week that I've never felt before, 155 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: because physically the doorway was blocked by the crowd. But 156 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: that's not all that was blocked in the passage. These 157 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: teachers of the law verse six were not the ancient 158 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: equivalent of Internet trolls. These were not unemployed people with 159 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: nothing better to do than to sit in judgment, and 160 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: they showed up for a specific purpose in the house 161 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: that day in Capernaum Kfarnahum, Village of Comfort, where Jesus 162 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: did twenty two of his miracles only fifteen hundred people 163 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: in the town, but he did twenty two of the 164 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 1: biblical miracles happened in Capernaum. The sad part is at 165 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: the end of his ministry, when he went to pronounce 166 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: his woes and judgments. Copernaum, where he did a majority 167 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: of his miracles, was on the list of cities that 168 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: would not repent in spite of all that they had seen. 169 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: The scribes in Mark chapter two were not sitting there 170 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: just as critics that day. They were sitting as a 171 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: how could I put this a correctness committee to make 172 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: sure that this popular rabbi wasn't teaching something that contradicted 173 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: the laws that they had given their life to defend 174 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: and preserve. And I think we need to have a 175 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: little more understanding when we read the Scripture sometimes of 176 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: not just what we've thought about the people that the 177 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: Bible talks about. You know this, this teacher of the 178 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: law group that sitting there has traveled four days to 179 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: be in Capernaum from Jerusalem at their own expense to 180 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: make sure that the people aren't being taught anything that's wrong. 181 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure that this guy wasn't running 182 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: a cult. And I can get with that even back 183 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: in the early days of the church. I would meet 184 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: people who were in their forties, because I was in 185 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: my twenties when I started, and I would ask the 186 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,079 Speaker 1: people in the forties, why were in their forties, which 187 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: I am, now, why did you first come to our church? 188 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: And they would say, my kids came over and I 189 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: had to follow them to make sure you weren't crazy. 190 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: And then I would say, well, was I And they say, yeah, 191 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: but the good guy, you're the kind of crazy. I like, 192 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: I like, you're kind of crazy. And then they say, 193 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: but they came over and I thought they were judging me. No, no, no, 194 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: they were protecting something precious to them. My father in 195 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: law put me through so much to Mary Holly, and 196 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: oh I didn't like him very much for a little while. 197 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: But sometimes I look at a be yeah, and I'm like, 198 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: I bet I will build an emotional mote for any 199 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: squire that would dare to ask her hand. I gotta 200 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: understand it was precious. Reading the scripture this week, I 201 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: understood that there are two roofs. In Mark chapter two. 202 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: The function of a roof, remember, is said that they 203 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: dug through the roof of the house to get the 204 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: man to Jesus, let's take a quick audience vote. Is 205 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: a roof on your house a good thing to have 206 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: in case of inclement weather? Y'all are so used to 207 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: me flipping stuff in my sermons, hesitant about saying is 208 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: a good thing right, because it keeps something out that 209 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: can damage what's on the inside. So when I studied 210 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: about the scribes this week, I was amazed to find 211 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: that the function they served it was originally to preserve 212 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: something that was very important to the people of God. 213 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: Now you've got to know this or you won't understand 214 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: why this is what Jesus said, Why are you thinking 215 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: these things in your heart? Well? Why were they thinking 216 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: these things in their heart? Why were they threatened by 217 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: a prophet who would say, I forgive your sin an 218 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: exclusive right of God alone? Why were they thinking these 219 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: things in their heart? You have to understand what they 220 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: were protecting. And in order to stand understand what they 221 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: were protecting, you have to understand where they had been 222 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:40,239 Speaker 1: in Babylon, where God's people had been taken as captives. 223 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: And see the scribes were specially trained to record the 224 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: pronouncements and the legal decrees and the events and make 225 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: sure to keep a record, But in Babylon. The customs 226 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: of Babylon were different than God's chosen people had ever 227 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: experienced before. And in Babylon is where the ribs begin 228 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: to develop the oral traditions surrounding the Laws of Moses, 229 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: so that God's people would not forget who they were. 230 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: They were specially suited to do it because they were 231 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: trained in recording the tradition. The only reason God's people 232 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: even knew who they were when they came out of 233 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: Babylon was because of the scribes. Now, Jesus, who is 234 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: the Bible, calls the express image of God to show 235 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: us what God is really like, shows up to fulfill 236 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: the Messianic prophecies about him to save his people from 237 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: their sin. And the scribes verse six. The teachers of 238 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: the law were sitting there thinking to themselves, why does 239 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: this fellow talk like that. He's not supposed to do this. 240 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: You can't do that. That's not how this works. At 241 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: the same time that they're thinking this, the debris is 242 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: still falling through the ceiling from wear four rednecks. I'm 243 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: using my imagination about what kind of guys would have 244 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: done this? Have just moved through every excuse now This 245 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: is a truth, This is a true statement. See if 246 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: God's spirit verifies what I'm about to say to you. 247 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: If this man would have been dependent on a lot 248 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: of us, the moment we would have seen the crowd, 249 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: he would have gone back home the exact same way 250 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: he came. I promise you most of us. I don't 251 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: want to say most of us. I don't want to 252 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: talk about you. For me, I'm really quick to give 253 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: up and assume something isn't God's will when I can't 254 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 1: immediately see a way in. And so now we're in 255 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: a passage where the scribes, these teachers of the law, 256 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: who have preserved the identity of God's people. They weren't villains, really, 257 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: they were heroes. But what happened over time was the 258 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: oral tradition became more important than the truth. Did you 259 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: ever play the telephone game? Do you know what I'm 260 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: talking about? Where I tell you something and you tell 261 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: them something and by the time it gets all the 262 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: way around, everybody has rabies and everybody's gonna die. And 263 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 1: it's a crazy thing when it gets passed down. And 264 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: the thing about Jesus that maybe doesn't always get mentioned 265 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: when we preach about him, is that he reveals to 266 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: us that our God is a confrontational God. God is confrontational, 267 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: and first thought about that might be no. God is 268 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: a comforter. He's a good good father. Who he is, Stephen, 269 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: who he is? Who he is and any is one. 270 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: Scripture says that he comforts us with the comfort so 271 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: we can comfort others with the same comfort by which 272 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: we've been comforted. The Bible also says that God comforts 273 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: the downcast, as something that Paul said when he was 274 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: going through a lot of conflicts. He does comfort the downcast. 275 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: He speak words of reassurance to you when everybody else 276 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: is speaking words of condemnation to you. Be sure of it. 277 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: But the same God that comforts the downcast also confronts 278 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: the dysfunctional. And he loves you too much to leave 279 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: you in something that is limiting you. He's a confrontational God. 280 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: I know that thinking of God is confrontational may violate 281 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: our perception of Him as it was handed down to us. 282 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: But God is very confrontational. Right, God will get up 283 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: in the face of anything that will keep you from 284 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: being all that He created you to be. Now, before 285 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: you take this as permission to just like go off 286 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: on somebody and say you're being like Jesus. That's not 287 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: the point of this lesson. The point of the lesson 288 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: is for you to realize that God will break through 289 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: any of the beliefs that you've developed about you, about 290 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: him or about others. He's not scared to do that. 291 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: So if it means going to Pharaoh and saying, let 292 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: my people go, and he has to send frogs and 293 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: turn the nile into blood, and if God has to 294 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: send flies and locusts and plagues, even if God has 295 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: to kill off the firstborn of Egipt, he will see 296 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: to it that his people are really free, because He's 297 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: a confrontational God. If it means he has to put 298 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: you in a lion's den and shut the mouth of 299 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: the lion to Soho never conness her that he is 300 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 1: the great God and there is none above him, he'll 301 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: do that. He's not a conflict avoiding God, and a 302 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 1: lot of us never experience the growth because we will 303 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: never face the conflict. One thing I love about Holly 304 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: is when that switch flips and she turns from sweet 305 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: Holly missus better half Holly, smiling Holly that y'all know 306 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: and love and subscribe to her book club. But Holly, 307 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: let me tell you someth about Holly. Let me know 308 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: sorry about Holley. The other day she was on This 309 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: is right at Christmas time that she was on with 310 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: customer service. She is the most polite person. She's not nasty, 311 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: she's not mean, she's balanced, she's even. She can diffuse, 312 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: but at a certain point, I know you'll have y'all 313 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 1: have a perspective of Holly. Right, She's just so and 314 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: she is usually on this phone call. The lady, the 315 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: customer service rep, wouldn't put her through to a supervisor, right, 316 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: and and so I don't know what Holly said, but 317 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 1: at some point the lady said, ma'am, I'm gonna go 318 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: ahead and transfer you to escalations. And Holly said, that's 319 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: exactly where you need to put me. It is escalations. 320 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: That's the place for me, is escalations, escalate me. Holly 321 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: said that. Holly, I'm like, who are you? I know you, 322 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: but I don't know you. Because when something got in 323 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: her way, now she's gonna try it a nice way 324 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: and everything like that, but there comes the time to listen. 325 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 1: It's okay sometimes for you to have that nice, gentle 326 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: kind of faith about things in your life. Right, it's coming. 327 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: It's a time just to be like nice and Okay, 328 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna wait and see how this turns out. 329 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: But when something really matters to God's heart, in your heart, 330 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: this one, I'm trying to say, there comes a time 331 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: to escalate. There comes a time when people can't do 332 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: it for you. So you have got to go above 333 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: the people and go to the one who has all authority, 334 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: all power. Aren't you glad that God's power doesn't need 335 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 1: people's permission to operate. That if God decides to use 336 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: you in a certain way, you can speak to the supervisor. 337 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: If people aren't treating you good, you can go to 338 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: your father. I say, you see how they're treating me, 339 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: You see how their situation is. You see how I'm trying. 340 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: Would you please get involved before I lose my mind 341 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: and do something I'm gonna regret. God will step in. 342 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: God will confront it. God will tell Pharaoh. God has 343 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: a mighty hand, God has an outstretched gard. God set 344 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: us sat in the misery my people in Aseel, and 345 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: I'm coming down there. Not everybody likes this kind of preaching. 346 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: It's not comfortable, but when you when when when you 347 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: have an addiction that's robbing you of the daylight of 348 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: your life. Yeah, So as the conflict is escalating, this 349 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: is one of five stories in Mark's Gospel that's showing 350 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: us the confrontational nature of God. And it's an interesting 351 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,479 Speaker 1: one because I'll point out a few things to you. 352 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: When Jesus is arguing with the scribes about the Sabbath, 353 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: they ask him, why are you breaking the Sabbath? Right, 354 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: And he's trying to teach them the Sabbath is made 355 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: for man. Man's not made for the Sabbath. You've got 356 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: this completely out of order, right. In other words, you 357 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: have turned a gift into a limitation. When he healed 358 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: this man on a sabbath, all they could say is 359 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: that's the wrong day to do it. Now, the Sabbath 360 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: was given to people as a gift, but they turned 361 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: it into a limit. This is a side note. Don't 362 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: let your gift become your limitation. The more like, don't 363 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: let something that God gave you in one season of 364 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: your life to protect you become something in the next 365 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: season of your life that prevents you. One example, you sure, 366 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: all right, I got a hundred of these or like 367 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: the way that we deal with people. Sometimes we learn 368 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: to deal with people in a certain season of our 369 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: life as a certain way to survive, because we have to, 370 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: all right, And a lot of times I've been like swinging, 371 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 1: like fighting, and I didn't even look up and realize 372 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: my enemy was gone, and I'm still swinging at the air. 373 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: And so my style of doing things, Like the best 374 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: example I can give to you of this from my 375 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: own life is that the way I've seen myself in 376 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: certain seasons doesn't apply in other seasons. And God can 377 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: give you something as a gift in one season. What 378 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: am I thinking of? We wrote this other song that 379 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: we just put out called talking to Jesus? Have you 380 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: heard it? Heard it now? So Chris can tell you 381 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: the whole time we were writing that song. We wrote 382 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: that with our friend Brandon, and the whole time we 383 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: were in the song, it broke all the rules of 384 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: a worship song, because worship songs are supposed to be 385 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: like this. You're supposed to only say about thirty words 386 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: and just scramble them all around. Right, And we're writing 387 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: this song and I'm finding myself saying lyrics like Mama 388 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: used to drag me to church Sunday mornings and Wednesday 389 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 1: night kaki pants and a polo shirt. Boy, I put 390 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: up a fight, and I'm thinking, can you say khaki 391 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: pants in a worship song? Now, there's a reason that 392 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: worship songs are supposed to have a certain focus. The 393 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: reason is when we come in to sing with our church, 394 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: we want everybody to be able to access it. And 395 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: maybe you didn't wear kaki pants to church. So you're 396 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: worshiping God, Lord, I love you. I'm talking to Jesus, 397 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: what a friend I have in Jesus khaki pants? Huh? 398 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: And pulls you out of it. It's just like, Oh, 399 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: I thought that was my song, but I guess that's 400 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: not for me. The crazy thing about it was that 401 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: I found God trying to give us a song about 402 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: generational faith, but my rules for how God moves in worship, 403 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: we're trying to restrict the expression that God wanted us 404 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: to bring. Those rules were there for a reason. The 405 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: scribes were there for a reason, to preserve the identity 406 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: of God's people. But sometimes what was said to preserve 407 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: something begins to prevent something. And I wonder has that 408 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: happened in your life? I wonder do you need new rules? 409 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: And while we're at it, I wonder who built your 410 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: roof to begin with, Like, who set the limit to say, 411 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: this is what God can do through you, and no more. 412 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: This is what you're gifted at, and no more. People 413 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: from your background, your education, your age, this is what 414 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: you can do, and no more. I was talking to 415 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: my friend who's forty three the other day and he 416 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: was talking like his career was over. And then I 417 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: told him about the guy who was fifty nine who 418 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: reinvented and became a millionaire. So who put that roof 419 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: on you? Who put the roof on you that if 420 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: you are married by twenty five, there's something wrong with you? 421 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 1: Who put that roof on you? Who put the roof 422 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: on what we think God can do in church? That 423 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: we think that God has to be confined to a building. 424 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: The irony of my ministry is that everything God has 425 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: done through me was something that I told him he 426 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: couldn't do. I'm stubborn. I need the Holy Spirit. I 427 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: need God's help because I'm so stubborn because I have 428 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: these rules. You know, like to online, church isn't real, 429 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: said me. Now you see why I feel bad for 430 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: these scribes, these guys I've been preaching about all these years, 431 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: These scribes, these you know, these teachers of the law, 432 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: these pharisees, these you know. It was like a Pharisee 433 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: in me. It's what I'm trying to deal with. It's 434 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: not the crowd blocking the door that I have to 435 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: worry about. I told our team, I said, I don't think. 436 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: I don't think the church online can be real church, 437 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: you know, because I've never seen it before. And if 438 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: you never seen it before, you believe it can't be real. 439 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: If you've never seen a healthy marriage, I'll be When 440 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: we said verse twelve, this amazed everyone, and they praised 441 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: God's saying we have never seen anything like this. The 442 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: same thing that they said in praise is also the problem, 443 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: because we've never seen anything like this before. So this 444 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: can't be God. This is not the image I had 445 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: of it. This is not the imagination I had of Though. 446 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: He's not doing the rules we want him to do. 447 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: It's not following the rules. And at the same time 448 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: Jesus is breaking the rules. The men are breaking a roof, 449 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: and I realized there were two roofs being removed in 450 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: Mark chapter two. One was physical. It was Peter's house, 451 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: by the way, No, it really was. It says when 452 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,719 Speaker 1: Jesus came to the house in Capernaium, that's the one 453 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: where they based out of. It was Peter's house. If 454 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: it would have been John, he'd kick those boys off 455 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: off the roof, because John had good sense. But Peter 456 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: was like, I like your style, Sa, That's something I 457 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: would do. We'll get a new roof. Just break the roof. 458 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: Let's get this time. Peter loved a mots fit Peter 459 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: a crowd died. Peter doesn't care and give a crap 460 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: and cut off in the here. Jesus can put it 461 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: back and look. I told Elijah the other day, I said, 462 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: I hope I set a good example for you. I 463 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: hope I show you how to treat a woman. I 464 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: hope I show you how to maneuver through difficult times. 465 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: I hope I show you something about how to seek God. 466 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: Be creative, make friends with your own creativity, don't let 467 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: it turn inward, make sure you use it in service 468 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: of others. I hope I show you a few things 469 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: about Romanian dead lifts and Arnold presses, and some things 470 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: you can take with you. The rest of your life. 471 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: I hope I show you some good music like Nirvana, 472 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: nevermind other classic gospel albums of the nineties. I said, 473 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: y'all have limitations on genres. I'm telling you there's some 474 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: good worship music you haven't heard yet. But I said, 475 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: if you if you discover something, now listen to this. 476 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: This is this is something I would say to anybody, 477 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: but I said it to my oldest son. I said, 478 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: if you see something in me that limits who God 479 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: has made you to be, don't be loyal to my limitations. 480 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: And here's the example I gave him. I had a 481 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: friend who he used to train other preachers how to preach, 482 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: and they would try to copy him. But they would 483 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: copy not only the good things that he did because 484 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: he was an amazing evangelist. They would even copy his 485 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: mannerisms that were just incidental or glitchy. One thing in particular, 486 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: he said, they tried to walk like him when they preached. 487 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: And he said they were trying to walk like him, 488 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 1: not realizing he had a bad back. So they're limping 489 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: across the stage to be like their mentor, right, And 490 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: I thought, that's crazy, man, They're imitating your injury. They're 491 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: seeing you do something and they are thinking that because 492 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: you do it, it must be right. So I told Elijah, 493 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: I said, don't imitate my injury. Imitate me as I 494 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: imitate Christ. But I think this is what I told him. 495 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: I think that my ceiling can be your floor. And 496 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: I don't mean in a pulpit as a preacher. I'm 497 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: not limiting my kids that they need to be in 498 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: the ministry. They are going to be in the ministry. 499 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: It just might not be my style of men. It 500 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: might not be a pulpit or a preaching or an 501 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: acoustic guitar. What if what of them leads worship with 502 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: a trap bet? What if that's what the next wave 503 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: is of God's anointed holy music in the earth. What 504 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 1: if they don't work at a church at all? But 505 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,839 Speaker 1: what if God uses them a great way in the world. 506 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: After all, most of the miracles that Jesus did, we're 507 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: in the marketplace. What are we trying to confine God 508 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: to the places that we're most comfortable in. Why do 509 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 1: we think that the most important stuff God's going to 510 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: do is going to be through a preacher. The only 511 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: point of a pulpit is to empower you for your field, 512 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: for your feel you need a new roof. You keep 513 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: banging up on the things that and here's what happens 514 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 1: through life. You learn lies and become loyal to them, 515 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: and then those lives become limits. You can't put khaki pants, 516 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 1: send a worship song, well I did. You can't come 517 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: in through the roof, Well we did, yeah, yeah, And 518 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: I thought about calling the sermon. It's better to ask 519 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 1: forgiveness than permission in some cases, because a lot of 520 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: times we're waiting on somebody else to give us permission. 521 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: You've got to get certain permission from within. Now I 522 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: don't mean, I don't mean be inappropriate, walk around without 523 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: your mask. Coming about Mark two, I'm not talking about that. 524 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,919 Speaker 1: I just want to I want to put the thought 525 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 1: in your mind about inner permission. It's the inner permission 526 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: that matters. Go to Corinthians. Let me show you. This 527 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: is this good first Corinthians two. Now, this might be 528 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: too much, but I'm going to give it a shot. 529 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: You know, Jesus argued with the scribes about the washing 530 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: of hands. There's so many things he argued with In 531 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: this particular instance, there's one difference. Let me illustrate it. 532 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,320 Speaker 1: From this First Corinthians to go all the way to 533 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,839 Speaker 1: verse six. It's about ten verses. I want to read 534 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: you do y'all have six? Oh? I started later, so 535 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 1: I'll read you six and they can put it in later. Okay. 536 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among them 537 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: a toure, but not the wisdom of this age or 538 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, 539 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: we declare God's wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden 540 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,760 Speaker 1: and that God destined for our glory before time began. 541 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 1: None of the rulers of this age understood it, for 542 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord 543 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: of glory. However, as it is written, watch just what 544 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and 545 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 1: what no human in mind has conceived. The things God 546 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,399 Speaker 1: has prepared for those who love him. Don't stop at 547 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: that verse. Verse ten says something pretty cool. These are 548 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 1: the things, what things, the things that no eye has 549 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 1: seen and no ear has heard. These are the things 550 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: God has revealed to us by his spirit. I'm so 551 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,240 Speaker 1: glad I have my own Bible, because I would always 552 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,400 Speaker 1: thought that. First Corinthians two stopped at verse nine. I 553 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: heard this verse quoted for years, no eye has seen, 554 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 1: no ear has heard, neither has it entered into the 555 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: heart of man, what God has prepared for those who 556 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 1: love him. And they'd stop. Verse ten says, these are 557 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: the things, somebody say, these are the things God has 558 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,320 Speaker 1: revealed to us by his spirit. Put it in the chat. 559 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,919 Speaker 1: These are the things, These are the things, These are 560 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 1: the things, These are the things. Go back to March 561 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,120 Speaker 1: chapter two. Now for a moment. Now, some teachers of 562 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: the law were sitting there thinking to themselves, why does 563 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 1: this fellow talk like that. He's blaming who can forgive 564 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,720 Speaker 1: sins but God alone. Immediately, here's my verse. Jesus knew 565 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,720 Speaker 1: in his spirit that this is what they were thinking 566 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,919 Speaker 1: in their hearts, and he said to them, why are 567 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 1: you thinking these things? The power of the Lord is 568 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 1: present to heal the sick, and all you want to 569 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,680 Speaker 1: think about is the limitations of your senses, what you 570 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 1: can understand, what you can make sense out of. Why 571 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: are you thinking these things? Well, I can tell you 572 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:39,840 Speaker 1: why they thought those things. They were taught those things. 573 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:44,360 Speaker 1: They were taught those things. You were taught how to 574 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,879 Speaker 1: think about who you are in Christ. You were taught 575 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,920 Speaker 1: to think about how to You were taught to think 576 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: about how you function in the world. You were taught 577 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: to think about your definition of power. You were taught 578 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: to think about what you can and can accomplish. And 579 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,720 Speaker 1: if you've never seen it before, it's hard to believe 580 00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 1: that it can be. But here in Mark chapter two, 581 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,240 Speaker 1: we have Jesus, who is number one, able to see 582 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 1: something no one else can see. Did you notice it 583 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 1: in the texts that in verse five, Jesus saw their faith? 584 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: How can you see faith? I didn't know you could 585 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: see faith. I never walked up to somebody and said, 586 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:35,760 Speaker 1: looks like you've been gaining faith. Wow, you've lost some faith? 587 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: Can I pray for you? But he could see faith 588 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: in the form of the roof that was at his 589 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:50,360 Speaker 1: feet because of their action. He saw. Watch this their faith, 590 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: not the man on the mat. Their faith. How many 591 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: praise God that the right people in your life can 592 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,760 Speaker 1: lead you to healing? Come on, I mean the right people, 593 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,919 Speaker 1: the right people who won't give up when they see 594 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: the crowd, the right people that won't give up on 595 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 1: you because you're a little heavy, the right people. And 596 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,239 Speaker 1: I have a question. I have a question. I have 597 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,720 Speaker 1: a question if the right people can get you healed, 598 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 1: can the wrong people keep you paralyzed. Some of the 599 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: greatest limitations we put on ourselves come in the forms 600 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,240 Speaker 1: of the relationships that have no more purpose to serve 601 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 1: in this season of our life. You need a new roof, 602 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: You need some new relationships. You really do. You need 603 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,920 Speaker 1: some new people. I found out that that just like 604 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,839 Speaker 1: the men carried their friend. In fact, I always said 605 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 1: it was his friends that got him to Jesus. But 606 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,279 Speaker 1: the Bible never even calls them his friends. It just 607 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 1: says they were some men. I don't know if they 608 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: were friends or if he hired them for the job. 609 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. They got it done. But I'll tell 610 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: you something, when you circle up with people who are 611 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: stuck in a limitation of what God used to do, 612 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 1: it is very hard for you to believe that all 613 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,720 Speaker 1: things are possible. So I give you a challenge today, 614 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: and you can choose to receive it, or you can 615 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,399 Speaker 1: choose to reject it. That's going to be up to you. 616 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,320 Speaker 1: But I believe I'm speaking to somebody who's been blocked lately. 617 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,919 Speaker 1: You've heard of writer's block. Probably I've experienced that. There's 618 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,279 Speaker 1: even preacher's block. I promise you it's a real thing. 619 00:41:54,080 --> 00:42:02,400 Speaker 1: There's also peace block, joy block. The biggest block in 620 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: the passage was not the crowd at the door. It 621 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: was the limitations in the hearts of the scribes who 622 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:18,360 Speaker 1: were sitting there thinking to themselves. And so Jesus proved 623 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,959 Speaker 1: his power over sin. He's like, hmm, if you don't 624 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: believe that I forgive sin, maybe you'll believe me. If 625 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,160 Speaker 1: this man gets up and walks, it's easier for me 626 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:29,600 Speaker 1: to make him walk than it is for me to 627 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,360 Speaker 1: forgive him, because I'll have to die for him to 628 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:41,200 Speaker 1: be forgiven. What are the limitations that God is calling 629 00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,399 Speaker 1: me to unlearn? I mean, certain limits are good. All right, 630 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,960 Speaker 1: the NBA is over, you're thirty four. You're not going 631 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,319 Speaker 1: to do it now. It's not going to happen now. 632 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,200 Speaker 1: Dunk on your son, but it's not going to the 633 00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,160 Speaker 1: professional level. You're not going to get paid for it. 634 00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,919 Speaker 1: But certain things you said. I said this on Easter, 635 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,080 Speaker 1: and I talked about how we'll even blame it on 636 00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 1: a personality type. Personalities aren't permanent. Temperaments are given, but 637 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,640 Speaker 1: personalities aren't. There's no such thing as I'm just a 638 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:24,520 Speaker 1: negative person. There's just negative patterns. What are the limitations 639 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,520 Speaker 1: that you need to unlearn that you received because of 640 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,359 Speaker 1: lies that you believe your limitations were learned. You didn't 641 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,240 Speaker 1: always just think like that. You didn't just always think, well, 642 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,399 Speaker 1: you know, if I love anybody, I'm just gonna get hurt. 643 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,560 Speaker 1: So I'll just stay here to myself and I'll just isolate. 644 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,640 Speaker 1: And I never really let anybody in because can't trust me. 645 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:47,880 Speaker 1: You learned that. And in Luke chapter five I was reading. 646 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,440 Speaker 1: Because Luke puts it a little different, it's the same story, 647 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,200 Speaker 1: but he said that when Jesus saw the men lower him, 648 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,880 Speaker 1: he looked at the man and said, friend, you're sin 649 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 1: are forgiven. All these years I've been preaching this text, 650 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,000 Speaker 1: and I said, his four friends are the reason he 651 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:12,600 Speaker 1: got here. Put Luke five twenty again, Jesus said to 652 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:19,480 Speaker 1: the man friend, when the man's friends had taken him 653 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,160 Speaker 1: as far as they could, he found a friend that 654 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:30,719 Speaker 1: had no limitations. And the real beauty of it is 655 00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:38,480 Speaker 1: that friend lives in you. So whatever whatever external limitation 656 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: it is, I believe God is going to use in 657 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: your life to reveal to you an internal grace that 658 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:55,000 Speaker 1: is greater than the external limitation. I declare it over 659 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 1: your life. I prophesy it over your life. I don't 660 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,120 Speaker 1: have to scream to prophesy. I'm saying it till you 661 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 1: direct flat footage. Watch me stand here and say it. 662 00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:08,840 Speaker 1: The limitation is a gift. The external thing serves a 663 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: purpose in your life to show the greatness of God. 664 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 1: Jesus knew that the man needed to be forgiven more 665 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,520 Speaker 1: than he needed to be healed. He gave him the 666 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,759 Speaker 1: gift of a limitation to give him the gift that 667 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:28,319 Speaker 1: he didn't know he needed. So we have a Jesus 668 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:33,000 Speaker 1: who can hear thoughts. Isn't that scary? They didn't even 669 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:37,399 Speaker 1: say anything, and he argued with them, a Jesus who 670 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:43,440 Speaker 1: can see faith and a God who can forgive sins. 671 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,680 Speaker 1: Let's take a moment today in our lives and do 672 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:56,399 Speaker 1: what the men did. Let's put the issues of our 673 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:01,280 Speaker 1: life at the feet of Jesus. All he was proving 674 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:05,960 Speaker 1: is I have all authority. There is nothing you can 675 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,200 Speaker 1: bring into my presence. There is nothing you can say 676 00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,000 Speaker 1: about yourself. There is nothing that you can bring into 677 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,160 Speaker 1: into this room, into the presence of God. There is 678 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,200 Speaker 1: no problem that you can name that is greater than 679 00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,520 Speaker 1: the power of God. So right now, Lord, in the 680 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,480 Speaker 1: name of Jesus, in the name of your son Jesus, 681 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,480 Speaker 1: who walked the earth and lived the life that I 682 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,319 Speaker 1: could not live, the one who died to death on 683 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,160 Speaker 1: a sinner's cross, the one who, in the weakness of flesh, 684 00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,840 Speaker 1: demonstrated the strength of God. In that name, in the 685 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,120 Speaker 1: name of Jesus, Christ of Nazareth, I speak to every 686 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,960 Speaker 1: human frailty. I speak to every sickness. I speak to 687 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:48,520 Speaker 1: every disease. I speak to every insecurity. I speak to shame. 688 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,840 Speaker 1: I speak to deep shame. I speak to secret shame. 689 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,840 Speaker 1: I speak to fear. I speak to night terrors. In 690 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, you 691 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 1: will rise up above what was holding you, and you 692 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,759 Speaker 1: will demonstrate the authority of the Word of God in 693 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:11,160 Speaker 1: your life. This day, this week, this moment. You will 694 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,840 Speaker 1: break through every roof. You will break through every tradition. 695 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,439 Speaker 1: You will break through every barrier, you will break through 696 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,160 Speaker 1: every limitation, You will break through every name that has 697 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:27,840 Speaker 1: been placed on you. His name is greater, and I 698 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,239 Speaker 1: speak it over every life. God. We have proof, We 699 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,279 Speaker 1: have evidence that you forgive and heal. But we must 700 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,840 Speaker 1: believe it to be true for us because the greatest 701 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,600 Speaker 1: block in our life will not be something standing outside 702 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,400 Speaker 1: the door. It'll be something that grows up in our hearts. 703 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,759 Speaker 1: So Lord, right now we bring it all before you 704 00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 1: as we minister today. Lord, we said that there are 705 00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,520 Speaker 1: some things that only your spirit can reveal. Eyes can't 706 00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:02,000 Speaker 1: see it, ears can't hear it, but your spirit knows it. 707 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,040 Speaker 1: I pray for your sons and daughters this week that 708 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,719 Speaker 1: they would be visited by revelation of who you are 709 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,759 Speaker 1: and who they are in you, Oh God, If they 710 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:18,439 Speaker 1: find that out, they will never be blocked again. We're 711 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,239 Speaker 1: using this moment to escalate. We want to be transferred 712 00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:26,719 Speaker 1: to another department. We've been down here dealing with some 713 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,000 Speaker 1: stuff and we don't need permission from scribes and people. 714 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,960 Speaker 1: We don't need a pretty interest God, we just need 715 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,000 Speaker 1: a way into your presence. God, you have given us 716 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,239 Speaker 1: a way in through the sacrifice of your son, and 717 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,759 Speaker 1: now we receive your touch in this moment. We thank 718 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,080 Speaker 1: you for your presence. Right now, I want to give 719 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,839 Speaker 1: an invitation for somebody to receive Jesus Christ as you're 720 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,160 Speaker 1: savedor and received the grace of God. The Bible says 721 00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,040 Speaker 1: that it is by grace you are saved through faith. 722 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,320 Speaker 1: It's not of work, so that no one can boast. 723 00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:03,080 Speaker 1: It's the gift of God. You just heard this message 724 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:09,880 Speaker 1: today in your PARI lies not physically. Maybe it's a 725 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:16,239 Speaker 1: spiritual paralysis that sin creates. It's the sense that you 726 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,839 Speaker 1: can never reach God. It's the sense that you can't 727 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,960 Speaker 1: keep the law. It's the sense that you need the 728 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,160 Speaker 1: grace of God, and that grace has been made available. 729 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,800 Speaker 1: There's not seven steps to this to getting right with God. 730 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,680 Speaker 1: There's not all this knowledge that you have to be 731 00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:43,239 Speaker 1: able to quote. It's as simple as the faith of 732 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:49,800 Speaker 1: this man who was positioned at the feet of Jesus 733 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:55,440 Speaker 1: and forgiven of his sin. And if you would like 734 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,880 Speaker 1: to receive that forgiveness of your sin. I want to 735 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,080 Speaker 1: lead you in a prayer right now, and I want 736 00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:06,120 Speaker 1: to just bring you to Jesus and I'm going to 737 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,280 Speaker 1: pray a prayer. I want you to repeat this prayer 738 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,440 Speaker 1: with me. It's going to be a life changing moment. 739 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,400 Speaker 1: And we're praying all together out loud as a church family. 740 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,480 Speaker 1: Pray with me, Heavenly Father. I believe believe that Jesus 741 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,799 Speaker 1: Christ is the Son of God and the savior of 742 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:31,440 Speaker 1: the world. Today, I make Jesus the lord of my life. 743 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:37,200 Speaker 1: I believe he died for me and rose again to 744 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:42,880 Speaker 1: give me life. I receive this new life. This is 745 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:47,920 Speaker 1: my new beginning. I am a child of God. On 746 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,759 Speaker 1: the count of three, if you pray that shoots your 747 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,520 Speaker 1: hand up one, two, three in the chat, say I 748 00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,839 Speaker 1: receive Jesus. Just say it right there in the chap. 749 00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,560 Speaker 1: We want to celebrate with you online. I received Jesus. 750 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:05,720 Speaker 1: Come on, I received Jesus. Not I achieved. I received Jesus. 751 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 1: I received the grace of God. Well, I pray that 752 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,600 Speaker 1: you received exactly what you needed from God today, and 753 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,640 Speaker 1: I pray that this week you'll put your faith into action. 754 00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,040 Speaker 1: Right He told the man, pick up your map and 755 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,640 Speaker 1: go home. And that's what we want to do. We 756 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,080 Speaker 1: want to take the message that God gave us and 757 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,440 Speaker 1: apply it in our lives. And I pray that God 758 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,759 Speaker 1: will give you the faith and the grace to do 759 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,040 Speaker 1: something this week that you've never done before, something that's 760 00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,520 Speaker 1: been in you all along. Heley, and I love you. 761 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,279 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, Thank you for giving to 762 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:47,480 Speaker 1: the ministry. You're amazing. We're always grateful for your partnership 763 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,200 Speaker 1: in the gospel and for your prayers. It means a lot. 764 00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,479 Speaker 1: We're praying for you to see you next time.