1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: How many of you are glad to be in the 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: House of God? Hey, how many of you are glad 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: to be connected to the anointing. I'm a holy girl online, 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: say I'm connected, Help me in. I'm connected. Every campus, 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: every location are e fam all over the world. And 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: those of you on the West Coast, get your uh, 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 1: get your really comfortable shoots, lace them up because Elevation 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: Nights West Coast Fall twenty twenty two is only a 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: few days away. Get your tickets please at Elevation Nights 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: dot com. 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Elevation Nights dot Com starts October twenty fifth. Right, 20 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: but touch somebody in and say right now, it starts 21 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: in here. How many came asking God to speak to 22 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: you today. But we've worshiped him, We've opened our hearts, 23 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: We've sang about his goodness, and now it is time 24 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: for us to receive from him what He has prepared 25 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: for us. And I'm excited to share it with you. 26 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: I love this scripture Romans chapter four. Just stand up 27 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: wherever you are for the word of God. Jump up 28 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: on your feet, put the devil right under your left 29 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: heeled in your right heel, and stand up for the 30 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: Word of God and be ready to receive this blessing. 31 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: Thank you for your kindness and your expression of love 32 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: shown for Pastor Appreciation Month. I'm going to have a 33 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: Congregation appreciation month in return. I don't know what I'm 34 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: gonna do yet, but I got a heart to do it. 35 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: It's gonna be Congregation Appreciation Month. I got to meet 36 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: with the Committee on Committees and figure out when, but 37 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: make sure you come back because I think of our 38 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: relationship as a partnership in the gospel. I think of 39 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: it for all of you who give, serve and pray 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: for us. You will never know what that means. And 41 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: even just you coming after I had to preach with 42 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: nobody in the room for a couple months, even those 43 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: of you who I used to fuss at because all 44 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: you did is come and you don't serve and you 45 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: don't give. Now I'm like, well, that's something. Thanks for coming. 46 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: You know, my whole frame of reverence got reset during 47 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: the pandemic. But thank you, thank you, Thank you for 48 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: allowing me and Holly to be your imperfect pastors. We 49 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: appreciate the privilege to do ministry with you. You hear me, 50 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: And to all of our campus pastors at every location, 51 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: I appreciate you standing in the gap praying for people, 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: visiting people, enlisting people, enrolling people. Let's thank God for 53 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: all the leaders at all of our locations linking arms 54 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: together for the cause of Christ. Oh yeah, you can't 55 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: do it alone and you don't have to. And everything 56 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: God gives me that I filter and find helpful, I 57 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: will share it with you as long as He gives 58 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: me strength. Do we have a deal, shake on it? 59 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: And then what you got to do, You gotta take it, 60 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: multiply it, teach it to others, put it into practice, 61 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: share it. Evangeliza, Come get strong in the Lord. Do 62 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: what he's called you to do. Go out and be 63 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: a witness for him. Go out and do your ministry, 64 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: because that's my ministry, to get you ready for your ministry. 65 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: I'm not in the ministry. Oh yeah, you are. You 66 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: remember this, God uses people. Remember the little boy at 67 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: the Feeding of the five thousand. He wasn't in the ministry. 68 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: Peter was, and Peter wanted to send the crowds away 69 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: because he didn't have anything to give. It was somebody 70 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: who wasn't in the ministry who created the ministry and 71 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: the miracle. So don't ever ever underestimate how God can 72 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: use you, okay, Romans Chapter four, You ready, Verse thirteen. 73 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: It was not through the law that Abraham and his 74 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: offspring received the promise. It was not through the law 75 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that would 76 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: that he would be heir of the world. That's a 77 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: big promise. But through the righteousness that comes by faith. 78 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 1: For if those who depend on the law are heerrs. 79 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: Faith means nothing, and the promise is worthless because the 80 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there 81 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: is no transgression. Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so 82 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed 83 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: to all Abraham's offspring, not only to those who are 84 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: of the law, but also to those who have the 85 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all 86 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: as it is written, I have made you a father 87 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: of many nations. He is our father and the sight 88 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: of God in whom he believed, the God who gives 89 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: life to the dead and calls into being things that 90 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: were not. Oh, fellow, vibration, just allo shiver just went 91 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: through you, and we start talking about what God can 92 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: do against all hope. Abraham in hope believed and so 93 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 1: became the father of many nations, just as it had 94 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: been said to him, so shall your offspring be. Without 95 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: wavering in his faith. He faced the fact that his 96 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: body was as good as dead since he was about 97 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: one hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was also dead. 98 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise 99 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave 100 00:06:54,040 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: glory to God, being last verse fully persuaded that God 101 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: had power to do what he had promised. I'm gonna 102 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: read that again before I ap preach this thing like 103 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: I feel it, being fully persuaded that God had power 104 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: to do what he had promised. Now shift up back 105 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: to verse sixteen, key verse not only to those who 106 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: are of the law, but also to those who have 107 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: the faith of Abraham. I always have two titles for message, 108 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: the one that I start with to study by it, 109 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: and the one that I give you when I figure 110 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: out what it's about. After I studied everything I thought 111 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: it was about and found out it was about something 112 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: different because God had to show me. I usually only 113 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: give you the second one. I'm gonna give you both today, 114 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: title number one the Faith of Abraham. The Faith of Abraham. Wow, 115 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: that sounds like a whole book Sunday School lesson at 116 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: least the Faith of Abraham. But then I want to 117 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: give it a second title in case that's a little 118 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: too academic, and I want to call this message keep 119 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: it a hundred. Keep it a hundred, and just pick 120 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: the title you like, But at least look at your 121 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: neighbor for a moment. On your way to your seat 122 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: and say please keep it a hundred. You may be 123 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: seated needs you to keep it a hundred. Yah. When 124 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to preach and my mind starts getting 125 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: all conceptual, I don't remind myself why I'm preaching who 126 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: I'm preaching to. Every once in a while, I remember 127 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: one specific conversation that I had with the lady in 128 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: our church who was a part of our Toronto campus. 129 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: This was about five years ago. Her husband had died suddenly. 130 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: I didn't know her, but I called her just to 131 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: say I'm sorry that you lost your husband, and I'm 132 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: praying for you and i'd like to pray for you 133 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: right now. And I did, and she was emotional. The 134 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: conversation was appropriately awkward, but I said, you don't need 135 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: to say anything. I just want to pray for you. 136 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: And right when I finished the prayer, before we hung up, 137 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: she said, I need to tell you one thing. Now. 138 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: English wasn't her first language. I'm not saying she spoke 139 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: Canadian she was, because, but she goes, I need to 140 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: tell you one thing. While I got you, my husband 141 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: didn't consider himself a good person. He was abused as 142 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: a boy and he struggled a lot as an adult. 143 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: It took me two years to get him to come 144 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: here you preach. But when I finally brought him, you 145 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: told a story that Sunday a story about And then 146 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: she reminded me of the story. I remember telling it. 147 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. It was a story about me losing 148 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: my temper, she said. When you told that story, he 149 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: began to cry because he saw somebody who loved God 150 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: but still had struggles. I want to thank you, she said, 151 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: for keeping it real. I'm like, oh, I thought you 152 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: were saying thank you for being deep, that you recognizing 153 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: my preaching for its intelligence. You know, when you did 154 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: that thing with Romans chapter four, and then you went 155 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: over to the Book of Revelations after you went to 156 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: Walmarts call back. But she said, she didn't say thank 157 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: you for being funny. See, you could tell just right then, 158 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: my humor is not that good. That was polite laughter. 159 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,599 Speaker 1: That was church laughter. That was an offering of like 160 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: you've heard about, sacrifice of praise. That was the sacrifice 161 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: of laugh that you gave me Because it wasn't funny, 162 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: and I appreciate it, but I think about it often 163 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: because when I hung up the phone. I was glad 164 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: that God could use a broken vessel. But you know 165 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: what else, deep down I hated it that that was 166 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: the thing that she thanked me for, because that is 167 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: the most costly thing to be is real. If she 168 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,359 Speaker 1: had said, thank you so much for your alliterated outlines, 169 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: thank you so much for all your tweetable moments, thank 170 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: you so much for the way that you dissect and 171 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: parse Greek and Hebrew, I could go back to school 172 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: and for the price of a few thousand dollars, I 173 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: could brush up on the original languages of the Bible. 174 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: The books don't cost that much. But when she said 175 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: thank you for sharing the stuff that makes you embarrassed, 176 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: I felt like she was saying, we need to see 177 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: you struggle, and I rebuke you, devil. You know. It 178 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: was a very tender moment for her, in a very 179 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: revelatory moment for me. That we all need those moments 180 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: if we if we really will admit it, where someone 181 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: that we respect, someone that we think, hey, they're really 182 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: trying to someone that we may even feel like men 183 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: they're a little further along in this than me, but 184 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: they still struggle. It was power for me for me 185 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: to realize and at the same time terrifying for me 186 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: to realize that the thing that connected with her husband, 187 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: who was taken from this life without a warning, the 188 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: thing that connected with him and brought him to a 189 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: place where he eventually put his faith in Jesus was 190 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: not my impressive side, but my imperfect side, which, to 191 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: be honest with you, is the part that I want 192 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: to hide from you the most, But it is the 193 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: part that God uses in the greatest way. I think 194 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: about that conversation a lot, you know, how I get 195 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: in there and think, Ah, what could I say this 196 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: week that would be really really, you know, profound, And 197 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: what could I say this week that would be really 198 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: memorable and sticky and all that's great. You know, you 199 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: got to bring everything you got to it, and people 200 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: are gonna come out to you preach. They deserve that 201 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: you study. But it was that moment I told that 202 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: story about the packing peanuts when they blew all over 203 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: the yard and I was out there cussing, and Graham 204 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: was listening, and I didn't know it and he was little, 205 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: and I'm cussing its styrofoam packing peanuts. After preaching for 206 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: thirteen Christmas services telling people about the incarnate Babe in 207 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: the Manger who came down from heaven to show us 208 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: a gentler kinder way, kinder way right. That dumb story. Yeah, 209 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: that dumb story. I bring it up because as much 210 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: as I hate the feeling of being exposed, I'm recently 211 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: learning some terms for this. One thing it can be 212 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: called is recoil. When I share a lot with you 213 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: and see, you don't have to tell me anything about you. 214 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: You don't tell me anything about you. I meet, I meet, 215 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: I meet your church version every week, and that's the 216 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: only version of you that I really get close enough to. 217 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: And uh, maybe it's better we keep it that way, Okay. 218 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: But at the same time that I hate the expense 219 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: of exposure, because after I share something with you, I 220 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: go back home and I'm like, did I say that 221 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: out loud? That's typically what I do for twelve hours 222 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: after I preach. Did I say that? And that and that? Holly? 223 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: I only thought that, right, I didn't say it. Hell, 224 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: you said it. I said that. You said that. Can 225 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: we still edit it out of the video? No, it's 226 00:14:55,040 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: already online. Oh as much as I I hate the 227 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: expense of exposure, there's something I hate much more, and 228 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. I hate fake. Hated hated. 229 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: Maybe it's because a guy made me a custom suit 230 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: one time and I found out it was fake, a 231 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: custom suit off the rack. The way I found out 232 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: was I looked at the belt and it said Kenneth 233 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: Colch with a K. So if the belt is fake, 234 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: I looked into the suit, what were you doing all 235 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: that measuring for it was off the rack? I hate fake. 236 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: That watch I bought in New York City. That thing 237 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: broke in two weeks. I bought ten of them. I 238 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: was gonna give them out that's Christmas gifts. Mine broke. 239 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: I threw them all away. I hate fake, I hate you. 240 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: Hate fake. I don't even really like small talk. Holly 241 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: said to me the other day. You are so bad 242 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: at small talk. You have got to get better at 243 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: small talk. I'm like, teach me. I want to know 244 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: how to do it. I want to know ID just 245 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: something about me. I just want to connect with the 246 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: deepest part of you. I want to know what you 247 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: struggle with. I want to know what you dream about. 248 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: I want to know what you're drifted by. I want 249 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: to know what you think about when there's nobody but 250 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: you and God and a pantry full of food. Let 251 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: me in. I hate fake I hate fake friends. Just 252 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: tell me you're my enemy, because the Bible says love 253 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: your enemies. At least I know what to do with 254 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: you if we could get the relationship established. I hate 255 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: that you don't smile at me to flip me off. 256 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: I turned the other cheek. Just slap me. Hate fake. 257 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: In fact, my life can be divided. I'm getting the 258 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 1: romans for I promise my life can be divided into 259 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: the years before and after I found this out. I 260 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: remember the day one of my family members told me, 261 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: you know, professional wrestling is fake? Right? That ruined my childhood, 262 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: That took my innocence. They ought to put people in 263 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 1: jail who tell you stuff like that, too young. You mean, 264 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan is fake, The Ultimate Warrior is fake, the 265 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: Big Boss Man is fake. Dusty Rhoads dust, the American Dreams, 266 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: Polka Dots feak too. She said, you know it's fake. 267 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: And Gene Haynes took us to a wrestling match and 268 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: he walked us up. I said, man, how are you 269 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,959 Speaker 1: ruining to go anymore? I found out it's fake, and 270 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: He walked me up to the mat and he goes, 271 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: stomp your foot on that and it was hard. And 272 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: then he said, when you see them slamming each other 273 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: on that hard floor, does that feel fake? Now? I 274 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,479 Speaker 1: don't know how I remember this, but he said something 275 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: like this, and I've probably changed it a little bit. 276 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it a hundred. I don't know if 277 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: you say exactly like this or I'm just morphing it 278 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: to be the perfect sermon quote. Got that keep it real? 279 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: He says something like, just because the ending is scripted 280 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 1: doesn't mean the impact isn't real. So I took this 281 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: from it. It's fixed, but it's not fake. You still 282 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: got to pick up two hundred and eighty pounds over 283 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: your shoulder. You still got to do the Boston Crab. 284 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: You remember the Boston Crab book? You still have. Boston 285 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: Crab still feels funny. But just because the ending is predetermined. 286 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: I remember the day I found out it was fake. 287 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: Do you remember the day that you found out that 288 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: a lot of what happens in churches and faith circles 289 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: is as fake as big men on steroids covered in oil, 290 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: wearing spandex underwear and I'm just trying to make sure 291 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: you're not hungry so you can listen to me. That's 292 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: why I went into so much detail. I saw you 293 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: get a little disgusted when I said that, because it is. 294 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: It's something about finding out that a lot of the 295 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 1: people who were telling you, oh, we've been happily married 296 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: thirty five years, you don't know they've been married forty 297 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: five years, happily married for thirty through to math. And 298 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: I don't tell you about those ten, those hidden ten. Oh, 299 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: we just trust God. And I never set out to 300 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: be this real preacher telling embarrassing stories on myself, but 301 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: I couldn't stand the fakeness that I sometimes experienced. I mean, 302 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: come on, we all have moments where we aspire to 303 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: one thing, we live another. That's not called hypocrisy, by 304 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 1: the way, that's called humanity. Oh. I thought that preacher 305 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: was a man of God. Then I found out they 306 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: were a fake. Not necessarily they might have been really 307 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: sincere in their faith, just weak in their humanity and flesh, 308 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: just like you are. Let's keep it a hundred. We 309 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: all need the grace of God. None of us want 310 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: all of our business on the front page of anything. Ever, 311 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: so part of me in reading Romans four was realizing 312 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: that we are hearing about a hero of the Jewish 313 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: faith and the Christian faith. He's an interesting guy and 314 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: his name is Abraham. You've heard of him. You've heard 315 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: of him. He is nicknamed if you had a WWF 316 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: the Worldwide Worship Federation. This stuff just comes to me. 317 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit gives it to me on the spot. 318 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: I just say it. I put that on the list 319 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: for Did I say that out loud? That was so corny. 320 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: In the thing is said that Abraham is the father 321 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: of many nations. Some call him the father of faith, 322 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: not just for Jews speaking from a diasporic or a 323 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: genetic or even a religious position, but everyone who believes 324 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: in this God Yahweh revealed in the person of Jeshua 325 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: Jesus can trace it back to Abraham's faith. That's what 326 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: the passage is about. And one thing I want to 327 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: show you in verse six, please write some of this 328 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 1: down so you can revisit it later. He says that 329 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: the promise, speaking of the promise that God gave to Abraham, 330 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: what was the promise? The promise was, I'm gonna bless 331 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: the whole earth through you. I'm gonna give you a boy. 332 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: Your boy is gonna have boys. Those boys are gonna 333 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: have boys. There's gonna be women that give birth to 334 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: the boys, and it's all gonna result in a nation 335 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: called Israel that will bless the earth. Right now, we 336 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: find ourselves in Romans chapter four, where the apostle Paul 337 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: is basically having to challenge these believers who want to 338 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: be circumcised. You know what that is. I'm not gonna 339 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: keep it that reel to break that down all the way, 340 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: you can google stuff, okay, and saying, all right, since 341 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: God told Abraham when he was a hunter that he 342 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: had to be circumcised as a sign of the Covenant, 343 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: if you put your faith in Christ, you gotta go 344 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: back and be so circumcized right now, keep it one hundred. 345 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: If that was the membership protocol for this church and 346 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: you weren't yet circumcised, all the men who would join 347 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: the church at this stage in your life stand up. 348 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: No anesthetics, right right, right, right, right right. But that's 349 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: what was happening to the gentile believers. They're being told 350 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: you have to do this to belong you have to 351 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: look like this, It's a contrast you'll see over and 352 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: over again in the scriptures, maybe the main contrast in 353 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: the New Testament, of the external signs of salvation and 354 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: the internal reality of the Kingdom of God. One comes 355 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: from the works of the law or the works of 356 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: the flesh. They're used interchangeably. One comes from the grace 357 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: of God. And I love that. It says it so clearly. 358 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: Follow me in verse sixteen, is so good? Is so good? 359 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: Therefore the promise comes by faith? Repeat that the promise 360 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: comes y'all gonna have to show y'all how to do 361 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 1: call and response. Why so many dang white people in 362 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: this church? I wouldn't have to teach this part? Repeat 363 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: after me. The promise comes by faith. Who did I 364 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: really say that out loud? The promise comes by faith? Shouted? 365 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: The promise comes by faith? Oh, thank God. Because if 366 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: it came by works, if it came by effort, if 367 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: it came by gold star behavior, I don't think God 368 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: get it. But the promise comes by faith. Settle down. 369 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: That's not the good part. The promise comes by faith. 370 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: Why so that you got it verse sixteen, So that 371 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:04,719 Speaker 1: it may be by grace? Ah gets better. It comes 372 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: by faith. That's the vehicle, so that it may be 373 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 1: by grace. That's the basis. Faith is the box that 374 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: it comes in. Grace is the basis that it is 375 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: built on in order. This is the part that got 376 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: me that it may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring, 377 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: not only to those who are of the law, the 378 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: religious system for being right with God, but also those 379 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: who have the faith of Abraham. So it comes through faith. 380 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: What does the promise? I should clarify here. God keeps 381 00:25:54,400 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of his promises. Let me stand right 382 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: here and say it. Even though people die too early, 383 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: even though people get sick in their bodies, even though 384 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: abuse that should never happen happens. I'm saying it like 385 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: the Bible said it. God keeps one hundred percent of 386 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: his promises. But God does not keep one hundred percent 387 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: of our preferences, our plans, or our desired positive outcomes. 388 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: I gotta keep it real. I gotta keep it real 389 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: because I could make you shout over that first part. 390 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: God keeps one hundred percent of his promises, and all 391 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 1: you got to do to get the whole room to 392 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: shout is substitute positive outcomes for promises, and people will 393 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: shout because they'll be shouting over stuff that they think 394 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: God is going to magically do because I said a 395 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: word that hit a button called promise. And we don't 396 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: know any better than to think that God promised us 397 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: that everything in our life would be positive as it happens. 398 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: So we start shouting about stuff that we want to 399 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,959 Speaker 1: happen without ever consulting whether God ever said it would happen. 400 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: And then we blame God and walk out of his 401 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: house and walk away from our faith, and walk away 402 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: from the family of believers and stop praying and stop 403 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: praising when we're asking God to keep a promise he 404 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: never made. Y'all told me to keep it real. I'm 405 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: keeping it real. God did not promise, you know, bumps 406 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: and bruises. God did not promise you no beast things 407 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: or break ups or broken hearts. It almost been too 408 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: long here because I want to bring it down to negative. 409 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: Let me keep it positive. This is a faith message, 410 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: after all, But I want to point it out that 411 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:17,360 Speaker 1: the basis of Abraham's faith should be the basis of 412 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: our faith, because he is the father of faith. And 413 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: this is so profound that the basis of true faith 414 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 1: is grace, and in order that it may be guaranteed. 415 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: I love that it takes the same grace to save 416 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: everybody in this room. You think grace is like a 417 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: custom suit. No, no, no, Grace is one size fits all. 418 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: You need God to cover all of you. Let me 419 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: tell you how. I know that the Bible says that 420 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: even our righteousness is as filthy rags to him, all 421 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 422 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: The faith of Abraham is enough to know that this 423 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 1: has to be by grace, by faith, by grace, in 424 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: order that it may be guaranteed. Because if the promise 425 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: depends on me. Now this is what I believe. You 426 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: have to come to your own conclusion. If the promise 427 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: of what God wants to do through my life depends 428 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: on me, we'll see maybe maybe not maybe Monday, maybe 429 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: not Wednesday, if it depends on me. But if it's 430 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: by grace, if it's by grace, if this whole thing 431 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: called Stephen Ferdick started in the mind of God, if 432 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: this whole thing called your life started in the heart 433 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,959 Speaker 1: of a father, if this whole thing was part of 434 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: the blueprint that God created before the foundations of the earth. 435 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: To be a blessing to the world, not just to 436 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: be blessed yourself, but to be a blessing if it 437 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: starts with grace is guaranteed. And that's why I praise 438 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: God for the guaranteed that wherever I go, Grace will 439 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: beat me back home. Wherever I go, Grace will beat 440 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: me to the boardroom. Wherever I go, Grace will beat me. 441 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: Grace will meet me in the mistake. We'll be out 442 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: of the mistake, turn it around and make it a miracle. 443 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: I've got a guarantee. If it's up to me, there's 444 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: no guarantee. I want to caution you about this. A 445 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: lot of people are out there trying to get you 446 00:30:55,200 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: to put faith in faith, and a lot of people 447 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: go broken, starving in la and Nashville because they were 448 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: told you could be anything you want to be. Help me, God, 449 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: because nobody's gonna like this part of the sermon. You 450 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: can be what he calls you to be. I'm confused, now, Preacher, 451 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: hold on now. It said that he is our father 452 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: Abraham in the sight of God, and whom he believed, 453 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: the God who gives life to the dead and calls 454 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: into being for seventeen things that were not sound like 455 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: on the surface of that, if we don't take this 456 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: and keep it a one hundred, like really read it, 457 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: it sounds like that God's job is to be your genie. 458 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: It sounds like, you know, it sounds like in this 459 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: verse that we could just get anything in our mind 460 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: that we want to that we want God to do, 461 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: and God's like, oh, dang it, I'm gonna be up 462 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: all night working on this because I wasn't planning to 463 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: do that, but they asked for it, and I'm gonna 464 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: do it now. This is where I gotta keep it 465 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: real with you. A lot of times in my life 466 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: I was trying to get God's blessing on my blueprint. 467 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:44,959 Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. He doesn't feel what he didn't build. I 468 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: love this stuff because right now we get to enter 469 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: into the tension of the faith of Abraham. It's not 470 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: as simple as it sounds. It never is. You read this, 471 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: and Paul's like, and Abraham believe God. And Abraham had 472 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: faith and he didn't waver, and he stayed strong, and 473 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: he was persuaded, and he didn't doubt. And a part 474 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: of me, y'all respectfully. I'm just saying this respectfully. Part 475 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: of me wants to be like, come on, Paul, keep 476 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: it a hundred. Because Abraham didn't always follow God in 477 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 1: a straight line. That was confusing to me as I studied. 478 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,959 Speaker 1: The only reason it was confusing to me is because 479 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 1: after Abraham was called by God to be the father 480 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: of many nations, and God took him outside and showed 481 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: him the stars the sky and sands the seashore and said, 482 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: as many as you can count those, count those. That's 483 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: how many your descendants are gonna be. You're gonna be 484 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: the father of many nations. Because he's calling things that 485 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: be not as though they are according to his purpose. 486 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: It dawns on Abraham. I'm seventy five years old and 487 00:33:53,600 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: I don't have a son. So God comes back to Abrahm. 488 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: Not on his seventy sixth birthday, you ready, Not on 489 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 1: seventy seven, not on seventy eight, not on seventy nine, 490 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: not on eighty. Let's count by tens for the sake 491 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 1: of time, not by ninety. When Abraham is ninety nine 492 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: years old, I'll getting ready to preach. The Lord visits 493 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: Abraham and he tells him I am God Almighty, I 494 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: have given you this covenant, and this shall be the 495 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: sign of the covenant, which a circumcision which we mentioned. 496 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: But now look at this with Genesis chapter seventeen. Because 497 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: in all of Paul's eloquence and all of his brilliance, 498 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: the Book of Romans is the most logically organized, I 499 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: believe document that has been written by human hands under 500 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. That's my opinion. Maybe 501 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: you could argue for something else, but Romans is a masterpiece. 502 00:34:55,080 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: When he brings forward the example the exhibit of Abraham 503 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,479 Speaker 1: exhibit a exhibit Abraham for faith, he says he didn't 504 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: waiver in his faith, but watch this when he was 505 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: a hundred still waiting for a son. Now listen, he 506 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: didn't just wait patiently. He waited impatiently. He got so 507 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: impatient his wife was like, sleep with my maid and 508 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,240 Speaker 1: she'll give us a son, and maybe that'll be close enough. 509 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to follow God close enough? Like, 510 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,839 Speaker 1: all right, God, I'm not gonna tithe exactly, but here's 511 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: a twenty just just close enough. Right. You know, God, 512 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give it all to you. I'm not 513 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: gonna give everything to you. But I'm gonna just come 514 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: over here and like I'm gonna wship you. I'm I'm 515 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:35,759 Speaker 1: gona go to church this Sunday. I'm not gonna make 516 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: it a priority or anything. Abraham did all of that too, 517 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,280 Speaker 1: trying to produce in human power what had been promised 518 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: by God's purpose. I do it too. I try to 519 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: write sermons with human ingenuity. I try to solve problems 520 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:02,399 Speaker 1: with human logic. I try to figure out situations by 521 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: manipulating them. That's the faith of Abraham. Abraham slept with Hagar, 522 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: had a baby called Ishmael. God said, uh, that's not 523 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: what I want to give you. There's gonna be your son. 524 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: Now watch the conversation because this is so enlightening. Genesis 525 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: chapter seventeen. We're gonna cross reference to the apostle Paul 526 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,720 Speaker 1: and what he said. The Lord said. Go to verse fifteen. 527 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,279 Speaker 1: God said to Abraham, as for Sarah, your wife, you 528 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,799 Speaker 1: are no longer to call her SARAHI her name will 529 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give 530 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 1: you a son by her, not Hagar, by her, not Hagar, 531 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 1: by her not Hagar. God said, I'm gonna bless you 532 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: the way that I'm supposed to bless you at the 533 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 1: time I'm gonna suppose to bless you. Stop trying to 534 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 1: help God do what he's already doing in his perfect time, 535 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 1: and leave it to him. I didn't even print planned 536 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: to preach that part, but that just stood out to me. 537 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,359 Speaker 1: By her, not Hagar, I'm aa bless her, and we'll 538 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: give you some by her. I'll bless her so that 539 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: she'll be the mother of nations, and kings of people 540 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 1: will come from her. Now, get ready for Father Abraham. 541 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,839 Speaker 1: He had many sons, and many sons had Father Abraham. 542 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 1: I am one of them, and so are you so 543 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: less just vacation, Bible school, make some noise. Get ready 544 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,879 Speaker 1: for Father Abraham. Right foot Father. Get ready for right 545 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: foot Father Abraham. You're ready for Father Abraham. Watch his faith, 546 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 1: Watch his faith. The faith of Abraham Abraham fell face down. 547 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: He laughed and said to himself, will a son be 548 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: born to a man one hundred years old? And even 549 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: if I can, will Sarah at age ninety huh. He 550 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: didn't waver in his faith. He just laughed in God's face. 551 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: Can I keep it a hundred? Can I keep it 552 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 1: a hundred? When Paul gets ready to share. He doesn't 553 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:39,000 Speaker 1: put this part in why I already told you like 554 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes ago. It's not based on Abraham's works. It's 555 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: based on God's grace. You keep trying to build on 556 00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: the wrong foundation. Oh God, I'm fearful. Oh God, I'm anxious. 557 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm depressed. Oh God, I'm messed up. Oh God, 558 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,279 Speaker 1: I'm not that smart. Oh God, I'm not prepared. Oh God, 559 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,400 Speaker 1: I'm not experienced. Oh God, I'm crazy. Oh God, I'm addicted. 560 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 1: That is not the basis. I'm the faith of Abraham. 561 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,880 Speaker 1: God said, it's all bye grace. I brought you in 562 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,800 Speaker 1: this world by grace. I spoke you into existence by grace. 563 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: I made you born in the time you were born, 564 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 1: so that the promise would be by grace. Let's take 565 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:43,279 Speaker 1: twenty seconds in praise him for amazing grace. God, sweet 566 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:56,720 Speaker 1: the selms, grace, grace, God's grace, God's grace, and listen 567 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:02,279 Speaker 1: to me. If it's started with God's so now touch 568 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: three people say, I gotta guarantee, I gotta guarantee, I 569 00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 1: gotta guarantee from the manufacturer that everything he intends to 570 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,120 Speaker 1: bring forth from my life shall come the past, and 571 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: no mistake, no hay yard, no doubt. They'll laugh, can't stop. 572 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: This is only good news if you need some grace. 573 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 1: If you got it all right, see ya, go on home, 574 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 1: keep getting it right. But for everybody who is here, 575 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: by five, by grace. If you gave me a enough time, 576 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 1: I can hit everybody in this room and show you 577 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaker 1: why you need grace. Oh no, I don't drink, I 578 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: don't do do drugs. I don't do any of that. 579 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 1: But you know what you do, you control and what 580 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,720 Speaker 1: else you do. You judge just like I'm judging you 581 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 1: for judging me. So don't stand there like you don't 582 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,799 Speaker 1: need grace. The ground is level at the foot of 583 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,879 Speaker 1: the cross. I'm not the one on the middle. I'm 584 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 1: not these saying, remember me, Jesus, give me that grace, 585 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 1: Give me that good news, gospel grace. The promise comes 586 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,640 Speaker 1: by faith. Faith in what not by faith? Cause I 587 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:42,360 Speaker 1: might fall face down and laugh. But God still say 588 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 1: you gotta have the faith of Abraham. What's that the 589 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:53,919 Speaker 1: faith to fall down and get back up? I feel 590 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: somebody getting up today, getting up in your spirit, getting up. 591 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,480 Speaker 1: You didn't just get up, get in your car, you 592 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,280 Speaker 1: got up and you walked into the promise of God. 593 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: You're right smacked in the middle of the fulfillment of 594 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:14,160 Speaker 1: God's promise on your life. And the danger is you 595 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,960 Speaker 1: have got to stay in faith so God can do 596 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:22,680 Speaker 1: everything he wants to do through you. Abraham turns eighty three. 597 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 1: It's a bad thing when you're having your eighty fifth 598 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:29,960 Speaker 1: birthday still talking about you know, I got potential that's 599 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,960 Speaker 1: supposed to be when you're eighteen, y'all, not eighty. You know, 600 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 1: I still got more I'm gonna do. I don't think 601 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: you do. And I love this verse. I love this verse. 602 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,919 Speaker 1: Did you ever hear me preach this back in the day, 603 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: I did a whole thing on this verse nineteen? It 604 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:52,560 Speaker 1: said that he Romans four nineteen. Be more specific, that 605 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,680 Speaker 1: without weakening in his faith, all the pragmatic people are 606 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:01,960 Speaker 1: gonna love this. He faced the fact. I always love 607 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 1: that because it gives room for the skeptic to get 608 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:10,920 Speaker 1: some grace too. I can almost see it when I 609 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,759 Speaker 1: preach some people, you say Romans, and they jump up 610 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:20,480 Speaker 1: and shout about Romans. I love Romans. Give me Romans. 611 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,839 Speaker 1: Some people. It doesn't matter how much faith you feel 612 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 1: in the room. You could kind of see it. They 613 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:32,760 Speaker 1: sit back there like, that's good. But bills that's good. 614 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:38,600 Speaker 1: But Bresidas in my knee, that's good. But custody battle 615 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,240 Speaker 1: that's good. But I got some pills in the bathroom, 616 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:48,719 Speaker 1: I having flush. Yet he faced the fact. You think 617 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 1: God gave you the faith of Abraham to escape reality. 618 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:05,439 Speaker 1: He gave you grace to empower you for reality. You're 619 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 1: listen my spirit, so you could look at the scoreboard. 620 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,800 Speaker 1: Graham had a game the other night. They were down 621 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:16,439 Speaker 1: twenty football game, down twenty at halftime, came back won 622 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:23,799 Speaker 1: the game by two. I said, that must have been 623 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,279 Speaker 1: one heck of a halftime speech coach gave. I'm in 624 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: the motivation business. So I asked him when he got home. 625 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,439 Speaker 1: I said, what did he say at halftime? He said, 626 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:39,560 Speaker 1: he only told us one thing, stay in it whoo whoo. 627 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:45,000 Speaker 1: Because you don't know yet. You don't know yet, You 628 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:49,200 Speaker 1: don't know yet, you don't know yet. You say, oh wow, 629 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm just keeping it real. I'm just being me, which 630 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:58,800 Speaker 1: me to me you see, or the me that God's 631 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:04,640 Speaker 1: folk from eternity path that is uncorrupted by this mortal body. 632 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:10,400 Speaker 1: W's me God speaks to the me that's gonna be 633 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 1: if I stay in it. Come on, channel, you're in 634 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,640 Speaker 1: a football coach. You know you want to pretend like 635 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,960 Speaker 1: your coach Taylor. Come on, tell Tim Ricks staying it, 636 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,640 Speaker 1: stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay 637 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,120 Speaker 1: in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, 638 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,440 Speaker 1: stay in it, stay in it. I'm gonna preach this 639 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,439 Speaker 1: until it breaks through that artifice at your heart and heart, 640 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:40,759 Speaker 1: stay in it. Abraham was given a promise when he 641 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: was seventy five. How old was Abraham when God made 642 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:57,080 Speaker 1: the promise? Seventy five? Well, I just said try again 643 00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,520 Speaker 1: do this online in the comments. How old was Abraham 644 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 1: when God made the promise? How old was he when 645 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,240 Speaker 1: he saw God? Keep it? What is my message called 646 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:23,600 Speaker 1: keep it? Oh? You thought all I was talking about 647 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,240 Speaker 1: when I said keep it one hundred was just be real. 648 00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,760 Speaker 1: Now I'm telling you what's real to you right now? 649 00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:37,440 Speaker 1: Maybe a ceiling that God is trying to break you through. 650 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:45,560 Speaker 1: If you can believe by faith for the grace for 651 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,920 Speaker 1: the gaps in your life that caused you to laugh 652 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,360 Speaker 1: in the face of God when he shows you what's possible. 653 00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,799 Speaker 1: I'm concerned that this phrase in our vernacular, keep it 654 00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,879 Speaker 1: one hundred has become an excuse for us to never 655 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,560 Speaker 1: improve and to never grow. And so if all I 656 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,279 Speaker 1: do in church and say, hey, you're a drunk, I'm 657 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,799 Speaker 1: a drunk. Let's drink. Everybody gets a twenty house communion beer, 658 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,560 Speaker 1: let's go, then I have not appropriated the grace of 659 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,440 Speaker 1: God in your life as a preacher of the Gospel 660 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,279 Speaker 1: to show you that the me that you see right 661 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,239 Speaker 1: now is not the core of who you are. And 662 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:31,759 Speaker 1: God is not through with you yet. Some of the 663 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,680 Speaker 1: promises that He made you is gonna take you your 664 00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,520 Speaker 1: whole life to seal them. But give it a hundred. 665 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,480 Speaker 1: If it texts me all night, if it takes me 666 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,759 Speaker 1: my thirties, if it texts me my forties, if it 667 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,680 Speaker 1: texts me going to meetings, if it takes me going 668 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,080 Speaker 1: to therapy, if it takes me changing my friends, if 669 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,520 Speaker 1: it takes me staying up late, reading my Bible, playing 670 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,799 Speaker 1: on the edge of the bed, if it takes it, 671 00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:01,600 Speaker 1: I'm coming. I'm a kid at a hundred that I 672 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:08,320 Speaker 1: believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord. 673 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,080 Speaker 1: Come on, five ninety nine people, hot five. I'm gonna 674 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,840 Speaker 1: tell them keep it a hundred, give it a hundred. 675 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,680 Speaker 1: He's looking for you. God's looking for you. Gotta leave 676 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:28,239 Speaker 1: the ninety nine to buy the wood. Good That kid, 677 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 1: that kid, that kid, that kid that you got a 678 00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:42,359 Speaker 1: promise from God. Kid, that kid that that's word. He kid, 679 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:48,400 Speaker 1: that kid that you'll got Christ. You got said so 680 00:48:48,960 --> 00:49:00,279 Speaker 1: on the outside working Ah, they outside God that oh 681 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:09,600 Speaker 1: go borry go nor. Abraham believed and so became. It 682 00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:14,360 Speaker 1: didn't happen overnight. It didn't happen first year, it didn't 683 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,239 Speaker 1: happen second year. It's not going to happen as quick 684 00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,239 Speaker 1: as you want to. But this is not a five 685 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:24,960 Speaker 1: minute faith. That's that hagar hook up, that five minute 686 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:34,399 Speaker 1: faith where you try something. This is the faith. Thank 687 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:41,240 Speaker 1: you Jesus of Abraham, and you already got the grace 688 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: of God. Stay in it, Stay in it, stay in it, 689 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:56,879 Speaker 1: stay in it. For the three hundred of you who 690 00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,319 Speaker 1: are receiving this message. At a deep level, you feel 691 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,760 Speaker 1: that faith, you feel right now in your heart, Stay 692 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,000 Speaker 1: in it, staying in when you don't feel it. Stay 693 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,719 Speaker 1: in faith when you can't prove it. Stay in faith 694 00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:12,319 Speaker 1: when you look at your body. Like Abraham did, he 695 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:17,200 Speaker 1: faced the fact that his body wasn't doing too good, 696 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,319 Speaker 1: not as good as he once was. Can't do it 697 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:28,000 Speaker 1: like I used to do it. But he was fully 698 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:36,160 Speaker 1: persuaded because he had faith in God. What God? You know? 699 00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:41,040 Speaker 1: You're so good at listing problems. But when I ask 700 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,960 Speaker 1: you what problems are you fighting? Why are you so 701 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,399 Speaker 1: much better at that than when I say what God? 702 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:52,640 Speaker 1: Or do you believe in? Now? Lord told me. When 703 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,160 Speaker 1: you preach this, make sure that the message they get 704 00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:02,880 Speaker 1: is not what faith they have, but what God they have. 705 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:10,160 Speaker 1: And make sure that your faith isn't in what promise 706 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,879 Speaker 1: you think he made you, because you might have heard 707 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:17,600 Speaker 1: him wrong. I love what he said. Give me seventeen. 708 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,720 Speaker 1: I close with this. I know I could preach another 709 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,239 Speaker 1: two hours, but I know you want to go to 710 00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,680 Speaker 1: a cracker barrel. Come on, keep it a hundred. Y'all 711 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,840 Speaker 1: are ready to leave. I keep it a hundred, You 712 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,680 Speaker 1: keep it one hundred. So give me my last verse. 713 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,759 Speaker 1: Stand up, Saints. I have made you stand up. I 714 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:41,960 Speaker 1: have made you a father of many nations, and he 715 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,760 Speaker 1: is our father. Preaching about the faith of Abraham today, 716 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:52,560 Speaker 1: preaching about the faith of Abraham, not whole Cogan, not Brutus, 717 00:51:52,560 --> 00:52:02,120 Speaker 1: the barber, beefcake, Abraham, it's the father many nations. Isn't 718 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,719 Speaker 1: it crazy that it took him one hundred years to 719 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:14,640 Speaker 1: actually become what God called him All along? He said, 720 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,319 Speaker 1: I made you the Father. I gave you the seed. 721 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,520 Speaker 1: Nobody can do it but you. What God called you 722 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 1: to bring into the earth. Nobody can bring it but you. Yeah, 723 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,600 Speaker 1: stop thinking. If you screw it up bad enough, God 724 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,279 Speaker 1: will let you off the hook. You know, you're just 725 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,320 Speaker 1: gonna have to go to summer school. Give me the 726 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,640 Speaker 1: verse again. I'm not done with it. He is our 727 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,360 Speaker 1: father in the side of God, in whom he believed. 728 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:48,720 Speaker 1: What God? Somebody say, what God? You know, you say, Oh, 729 00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,640 Speaker 1: what problem? What Bill? What this? What that? What? God? 730 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:59,120 Speaker 1: The God who gives life to the dead. What God? 731 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:04,400 Speaker 1: The God who calls into being things that were not. 732 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,959 Speaker 1: So here's what happens, my beloved friend, my beloved brother, 733 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,799 Speaker 1: my beloved sister. Sometimes we are hooked up in a 734 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:18,480 Speaker 1: season where God is giving us a download. And do 735 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,160 Speaker 1: you remember when you used to hook your phone up 736 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,880 Speaker 1: to the computer and you'd be downloading something, but you 737 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,520 Speaker 1: didn't have time to wait for the whole thing, so 738 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:29,040 Speaker 1: you unplug it early guess what. You lost everything that 739 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:34,080 Speaker 1: got downloaded before it because you disconnected before the download 740 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:41,760 Speaker 1: was done. But God said, I want you to stay 741 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:46,719 Speaker 1: in it and believe it till you become it. If 742 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,160 Speaker 1: God says you're righteous and free, then believe that I'm 743 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:58,520 Speaker 1: free until you feel free. Believe until you become That's 744 00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:03,839 Speaker 1: what Abraham did. The God who calls things that are 745 00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:05,799 Speaker 1: not and so they are. The God who says to 746 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,719 Speaker 1: a valley of dry bones, get up, come together and 747 00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,000 Speaker 1: start fighting like an army. The God who says to 748 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,640 Speaker 1: a sea, turn into a four eighty five. The God 749 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:20,439 Speaker 1: who does that has given you his promise. He ain't 750 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,520 Speaker 1: call you the father of many nations. Come on, I 751 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,279 Speaker 1: don't even want to have a fourth kid. I'm not 752 00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,360 Speaker 1: trying to be the father of many nations. But I 753 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,080 Speaker 1: do want to be everything he called me to be. 754 00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,560 Speaker 1: How about you? How about you? I want to be that. 755 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,080 Speaker 1: I want to be what you want me to be, God, 756 00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,360 Speaker 1: not what my best friend is, not what this person 757 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,840 Speaker 1: I admire on Instagram is. I want to be what 758 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:47,040 Speaker 1: God calls me. I want to grow in his grace. 759 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,080 Speaker 1: I want to grow in the gifts He's given me. 760 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,960 Speaker 1: I want to bring him glory through my life. That's 761 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,239 Speaker 1: what I want. That's what I really want. That's what 762 00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:59,520 Speaker 1: I really want. But you got to keep it one hundred. 763 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:05,080 Speaker 1: You gotta be honest about where you are and refuse 764 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:13,440 Speaker 1: to stay there. I will go, I shall go. I 765 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,399 Speaker 1: want to see what the end is gonna be. May 766 00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,640 Speaker 1: take me my whole life to find out. I may 767 00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,200 Speaker 1: not even live to see it, but I want to 768 00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,880 Speaker 1: keep it. A hundred. God made a covenant with Abraham, 769 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:31,320 Speaker 1: and he said, I'll keep this covenant if you laugh, 770 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,880 Speaker 1: if you lie and say that Sarah is your sister 771 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,879 Speaker 1: and she's really your wife, y'all know about that. Paul 772 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:40,920 Speaker 1: didn't keep it one hundred diddy. He didn't put that 773 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,800 Speaker 1: in romans for it, but it happened, and yet he became. 774 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,320 Speaker 1: Nothing can stop you from becoming. Nothing can stop it. Nothing, 775 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,520 Speaker 1: no power of hell, no scheme of man, no devil, 776 00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:58,280 Speaker 1: no death, no divorce, no debt, nothing nothing nothing. Because 777 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:08,160 Speaker 1: it did comes by grace is guarantee. Lift your hands 778 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:13,960 Speaker 1: receive the download from heaven Father right now. We're going 779 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,640 Speaker 1: to take just a minute, and as we worship you, 780 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,160 Speaker 1: we are going to refresh our minds with the promises 781 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:28,120 Speaker 1: of God. Hey, it's been a little while since I've 782 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,320 Speaker 1: done one of these little homemade videos after the message, 783 00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:37,120 Speaker 1: but it felt like we needed one today, very very 784 00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:41,080 Speaker 1: vocally tired. As you could tell, my hair is all 785 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,960 Speaker 1: over the place. In fact, keeping it one hundred. I 786 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,919 Speaker 1: had to make this video three times because my hair 787 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,640 Speaker 1: looks so bad in the first two. Just keeping it real. 788 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,600 Speaker 1: But I want to take a minute and pray with you, 789 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,160 Speaker 1: because the message that I spoke today, it needs to 790 00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,680 Speaker 1: end with you coming into agreement with what God has 791 00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:04,480 Speaker 1: spoken over your life. What God are you believing it? 792 00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,200 Speaker 1: The one who raises the dead to life and calls 793 00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:11,799 Speaker 1: things that are not into existence. Yeah, that God. He 794 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,040 Speaker 1: calls you his child. He calls you righteous, He calls 795 00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,440 Speaker 1: you holy. Now, it calls you more than a conqueror. 796 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,680 Speaker 1: But you have to believe it by faith. And when 797 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,600 Speaker 1: you believe it by faith, you can receive the grace 798 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,920 Speaker 1: of God. I want you to put that right now 799 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,200 Speaker 1: in the chat say I believe it, I receive it. 800 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,720 Speaker 1: Put it in the chap I believe it, I receive it, 801 00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:34,760 Speaker 1: And I want to pray with you right now. Father, 802 00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:38,120 Speaker 1: Thank you for each person who heard this message today. 803 00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,840 Speaker 1: I pray that it would be mixed with their faith, 804 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,840 Speaker 1: and that they would carry it with them, that it 805 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,400 Speaker 1: would go into good soil and produce one hundredfold return, 806 00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,240 Speaker 1: that they would keep it a hundred Come in to 807 00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,960 Speaker 1: you just as they are refusing to stay that way. 808 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,600 Speaker 1: As you change us by your spirit from grace to 809 00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,360 Speaker 1: grace and glory to glory. I believe your promise will 810 00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:04,120 Speaker 1: come to pass over their life in Jesus name. Amen. 811 00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,960 Speaker 1: I love you, See you next time. Thank you so 812 00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,480 Speaker 1: much for being a part of this world wide ministry. 813 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:11,600 Speaker 1: God bless