1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message, all right, look at this from Acts 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 2: chapter twenty seven. I pretyius message back in twenty thirteen. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: And this is the sequel. Back then, I did a message. 9 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: Called it will happen. Touch somebody say it happens. However 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 2: you want to take that. It's a message about faith 11 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 2: and fear, and I want to get back into it 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: today and share with you another level of it. And 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 2: let me read Acts chapter twenty seven to twenty. Paul 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: is in the middle of a miracle, but he's also 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: in the middle of a mistake. And sometimes the two 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: are the same thing. 17 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: That's about perspective. Sometimes the two are the same thing. 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: Well, the Bible says in verse twenty Acts chapter twenty seven, 19 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 2: the storm continued raging because it was one of those 21 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: things that wouldn't let up. It was not the kind 22 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: of trial that you go through and just. 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: Get through it. 24 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: It's like when you don't see any end in sight. 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: It was that kind of thing. 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: So what happened was they lost all their hope and 27 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: they quit believing that they could be saved, that it 28 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 2: could be different, that they could be delivered. And right 29 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: at the time that they started to let go of 30 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: their hope, God spoke to Paul in a powerful way. 31 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: And of course Paul was that great missionary who took 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: the Gospel to the Gentiles, and so it was a 33 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: good thing for them that he was on board. Touch 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 2: somebody said, you gotta be glad you're sitting next to me, 35 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: because any boat that I'm on is better because I'm 36 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 2: on it. 37 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: Come on, Come on. 38 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 2: So the Bible says, after they had gone a long 39 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 2: time without food, Paul stood up before them and said, men, 40 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 2: you should have taken my advice not to sail from crete, 41 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: and then you would have spared yourselves this damage and lost. 42 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 2: But now I urge you to keep up your courage, 43 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 2: because not one of you will be lost, only the 44 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: ship will be destroyed. 45 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: Here's how I know. 46 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 2: Last night an angel of the God to whom I 47 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: belong and whom I serf, stood beside me and said, 48 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: do not be afraid, Paul, you must stand trial before Caesar. 49 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: In other words, you can't. 50 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: Go down in this battle because I got a bigger 51 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: one ahead of you. And God has graciously given you 52 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: the lives of all who sail with you. So keep 53 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: up your courage, men, for I have faith that it 54 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: will happen, just as He told me. 55 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: Nevertheless, we must run aground on some island. 56 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 2: So three and a half years ago I preached a 57 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 2: message called it will happen, And today I want you 58 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 2: to announce my sermon title. Look at your neighbor and 59 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: tell him, neighbor, tell him, neighbor, it had to happen. 60 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: Father, I thank you for your word. 61 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: I pray that it would go forth in clarity now 62 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: to bless the people that you've brought here to hear it. 63 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: Not only would they hear it God, but I prayed 64 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: that they might apply it so that it can strengthen 65 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: their lives. 66 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. 67 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: Amen, on your way to your seat, touch your other 68 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: neighbor that you hadn't talked to yet, and tell him 69 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: it had to happen. Because Paul as spiritual as he 70 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: is is apparently not above telling someone I told you so, 71 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: because he had warned the sailors who were on this 72 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: ship that was headed to Rome. They were trying to 73 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 2: get to Italy, and Paul was on there for preaching 74 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: the gospel. 75 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: He didn't do anything wrong. 76 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: But sometimes the reason that you go through things isn't 77 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: because of something wrong that you did. You know that right, 78 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: even as a Christian, and sometimes the things you go 79 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 2: through are directly connected to something you did right, and 80 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 2: you can't always know the reason, and that's difficult for me. 81 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: I always want to know. 82 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 2: The reason, and I feel like I'm really good at 83 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: dealing with resistance if I know the reason for it. 84 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 2: And even with people, I'm kind of skeptical. I don't 85 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 2: always take people at face value for what they say 86 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 2: they want in a relationship, and I probably shouldn't be 87 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: so paranoid. Holly tells me I should trust people more, 88 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: but I think she should trust people less, so we 89 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 2: just balance each other out. 90 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: I really do. 91 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: I think you should trust people less because people will 92 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: say that they want to be your friend for this reason, 93 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: and sometimes there's. 94 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: A deeper reason. 95 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: I know he can't go through life living like that 96 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 2: you should assume the best about people and all. 97 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: But I know sometimes sometimes I. 98 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 2: Get in situations where I'm like, hmm, I wonder what 99 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 2: the real reason. Even with my kids, you know, if 100 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: they're too nice to me, you know, if they hugged 101 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: me a little too tight and they come running a 102 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 2: little too fast, Hey, daddy, I know that behind the 103 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: affection is an ask. 104 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: It happened today. I was coming out to preach. 105 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 2: I heard a noise in the bathroom back in my 106 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 2: green room, and I was in another room, and I 107 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: knew it was Elijah, and because I heard the pop 108 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 2: of the the product, my hair product, And I said, 109 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: who's in here? And I knew it was him. I 110 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 2: was messing with him, and he said, uh, is me, Daddy. 111 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: I just came to say I love. 112 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: You, and I said, and to use my hair product. 113 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 2: I know why you're really in here. You want my product? 114 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: And he said and because I love you? And I said, well, 115 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 2: mostly because you want my product. And he said, why 116 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 2: can't it be both? 117 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: Pretty good? Why can't it be both? And for me? 118 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: I hear, Paul, Okay, he's on a ship that he 119 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: doesn't believe he rightfully belongs on, taking this prisoner for 120 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: a crime that he didn't commit, being accused of things 121 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 2: that he didn't do. And I hear when he's talking, 122 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: I kind of hear two things. I hear faith it 123 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 2: will happen, and I hear frustration this didn't have to happen. 124 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 2: And I hear both because watch she says, if you 125 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 2: would have taken my advice, you would have spared yourself 126 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 2: this damage and loss. In other words, the reason we're 127 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 2: about to wreck is because of a decision that you made. 128 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 2: But if we stay too long in the reason, we're 129 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 2: gonna drown. Because what matters at some point you have 130 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: to get past at some point trying to figure out 131 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: why it happened. And this is difficult. This is difficult 132 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 2: for those of us who want to know a reason. 133 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: Even storly, when I call someone and and maybe they've 134 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 2: gone through a loss of tragedy, and I say, I'm 135 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 2: just calling to pray with you, there's a temptation for 136 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: me to try to give them a reason for why 137 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 2: it happened. And when I was, when I was a 138 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: rookie pastor before I became the sage of wisdom that 139 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 2: I am before you today, can you feel me rolling 140 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: my eyes and myself in sarcassm I would always feel 141 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 2: compelled to give them a reason. You know, but God 142 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 2: is going to use this for good, you know. Romans 143 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 2: eight twenty eight, eight twenty eight, Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, 144 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: every little coffee cup verse. I could spit out at 145 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: them just as fast as I could. 146 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: You know, there's a reason from that. 147 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: And I realized at some point during giving people reasons, 148 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: sometimes people don't need a reason when they're in the 149 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 2: middle of a storm. They just need to reassure it, say, 150 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 2: God will not leave you alone in it. So please, 151 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: when someone that you love is suffering, don't be so 152 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: quick to give them a reason. Don't be so quick 153 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 2: to point your finger. Well, the reason your kids are 154 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 2: rebelling is because no, no. 155 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: Now's not the time for that. 156 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: People don't need a reason, And when they're going through 157 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 2: a great time, great trial, what they need is someone 158 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: to reassure them that God is with you, and so 159 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 2: am I. And here's Paul standing in the middle of 160 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 2: a storm, and the reason it's happening is because of 161 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 2: their dumb decision. Have you ever had to go through 162 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: a storm because of somebody else's. 163 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: Dumb decision. This is an. 164 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 2: Awkward moment in my sermon because if you agree too much, 165 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 2: the person. 166 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: Next to you is going to know. 167 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 2: Paul says, if we would have done it this way, 168 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because not everything that happens to you happened 169 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 2: because God wanted it to happen to you, And certainly 170 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 2: not everything that happens to you happens because the devil 171 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 2: did it. Because if the devil did it, then God 172 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 2: had to allow it. Sometimes I think we got the 173 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 2: wrong words sometimes because I think they both start with 174 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 2: the letter D and we get confused. Sometimes it's not 175 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 2: the devil, it's a decision. It's just too crowded in 176 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,599 Speaker 2: church today. I need to free up some seats for 177 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 2: the next week, so I don't want you to have 178 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 2: to sit in parking or anything like that. It is 179 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 2: sometimes it's and so pol says, this didn't have to 180 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: happen like this, And those are the hardest for me, really, really, 181 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 2: the hardest for me is when I feel like this 182 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 2: was avoidable, you know, and when I feel like I 183 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 2: could have avoided it, but yet it's inevitable. 184 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: And that's attention, isn't it. 185 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 2: I was talking to one of my best friends the 186 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: other day and I said, a year from now, we 187 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 2: were going through something and we were talking through it 188 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,599 Speaker 2: and something that we couldn't understand, and I said, a 189 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 2: year from now, we will understand why this had to happen. 190 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: And he said, do you really believe that? I said, yeah, 191 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 2: I believe that in time God will show us. He said, no, no, 192 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 2: not that part. Do you really believe it had to happen? 193 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 2: Because what he was doing, he was reverse engineering all 194 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: the decisions that led to it. 195 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 3: And what I kind of wanted to say to him 196 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 3: that I wasn't smart enough to. 197 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: Say in the moment. 198 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 2: But I've thought about it for a few weeks now, 199 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: and I want to tell you is that I've come 200 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 2: to the place in my belief system where I no 201 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: longer try to figure out whether God did it or 202 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 2: the devil did it, because it has to. 203 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: Pass through the same hands before it gets to me. 204 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: And I've read enough of the Bible to know that 205 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 2: God will use other people's bad decisions to get me 206 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 2: to my destiny. And I've seen enough play out to 207 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 2: know that Joseph, at the end of his life was 208 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 2: only able to look at his brothers and say don't 209 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 2: even worry about it because you meant it for eve, 210 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 2: but God meant it for good. Which one was it 211 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 2: evil or good? It was both? Why can't it be both? 212 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 2: Why can't it be an attack from the devil that 213 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 2: God used and put to good usage and repurpose in 214 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 2: order to accomplish That's what Paul is saying. 215 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: He's saying it. 216 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 2: Didn't have to happen. I don't want you to blame 217 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: this on God. We could have avoided this. You didn't 218 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 2: have to date him. 219 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: Your mom told you he was. 220 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: Crazy, and you wouldn't listen to anybody. But if we 221 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 2: stay stuck in the reason, we'll miss the revelation. Because 222 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 2: Paul says, you know, there's a reason this happened, and 223 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 2: it could have been avoided. But last night, while the 224 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 2: storm was raging, last night, I was all alone, and 225 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 2: God showed up and reminded me that his purpose is 226 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 2: still intact even. 227 00:11:53,040 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: If the ship goes down. It had to happen. It 228 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: had to happen. 229 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 2: Then God doesn't tell Paul a whole series of explanations. 230 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: He doesn't give him a reason. He gives him a revelation. 231 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 2: Revelation is more powerful than reason. So you can't fight 232 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 2: the devil with the reason because sometimes you don't know 233 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: the reason. Sometimes you have. 234 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: To go back to who God showed you that he was. 235 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: And God is very tactical in this. So he will 236 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: create a situation for revelation. 237 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: Can I preach about this for a minute. So he 238 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 2: will let Lazarus die, and he loves Lazarus, and when 239 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 2: they tell him that Lazarus died, he'll say, I'm glad 240 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 2: it happened. Jesus actually said I'm glad he died. Why 241 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 2: because now we've got a situation. And the situation is 242 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 2: what enables the revelation. It's not just true because it rhymes. 243 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 2: It's true because it's true. Up until this point, they 244 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 2: knew him as healer. Now they needed to know him 245 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: as resurrection. And so he said, I'm glad it went wrong. 246 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 2: I'm glad it. When poorly Paul said we must run 247 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 2: aground on some island, somebody say. 248 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: It had to happen. It had to happen. 249 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 2: And sometimes when you ask God for a reason, he 250 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 2: will bypass the reason and give you a revelation. You 251 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: still belong to me, You're still my child. See, I 252 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 2: don't operate by reason. If I operate by reason, sometimes 253 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 2: I'll be up, sometimes i'll be down. I operate by revelation. 254 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: I know he is good and he does good. I 255 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: know he's with me. I know he's for me. I 256 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: know he'll never leave me nor forsake me. That's my 257 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 2: revelation to somebody say I got a revelation. And so 258 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 2: when you get in trouble, you don't need a reason, 259 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 2: you need a revelation. Elijah looked at me the other 260 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 2: day and I was telling him to do something. And 261 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: he's eleven years old, and so he is being visited 262 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 2: by demons of eleven year oldness and he's coming up 263 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 2: to me talking about Dad. I'll do it if you 264 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: tell me the reason, he said. I'm not the kind 265 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 2: of person who can just do something without knowing the reason. 266 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 2: Did you ever see The Simpsons? I know you don't 267 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 2: watch TV. You read the Bible all the time. When 268 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 2: Homer grabs Bart around the neck, and I know I 269 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 2: probably couldn't do that. When he said, he said, I 270 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 2: need a reason, and I look back at him. 271 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: And the only thing that came to me was I 272 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: looked at him. The spirit of Star Wars came on me, 273 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: and I said, I got to be your father. 274 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 2: You don't need a reason to do it, boy, you 275 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: need a revelation of who I am. 276 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: How big say say. 277 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes in your life you won't know why. 278 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: But I know who. Paul said last night an angel? 279 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: What the god who's eying on who I said? 280 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: So look high five, somebody say, I got a revelation. 281 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: Work. 282 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 2: And Paul says, we're gonna make it. But the boat isn't. 283 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: The boat has to break, but we're gonna make it. 284 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: We will suffer loss, but we will not lose what's 285 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 2: most important. That's the promise, all right. So you know 286 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: what's amazing about this story. It happened just like Paul 287 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 2: said it would. And they all got to the shore, 288 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 2: and they got to that island, that island. Look at 289 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 2: this in X twenty eight verse one. Somebody say it 290 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: had to happen. That's the word for you today. It 291 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 2: had to happen. And when they got there, the Bible 292 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: says X twenty eight, verse one. Once safely on shore, 293 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: we found out that the island was called Malta. Malta 294 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 2: means refuge. So the grace of God does not always 295 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: prevent the consequence, but it gives you a place to land. 296 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 2: And so we must run aground on some island. And 297 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 2: when we got there, we found out the island was 298 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: called Malta. And it must be a relief now that 299 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 2: we're no longer on these open seas, because they spent 300 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: weeks thrashing around, wondering if they'd ever see dry land again. 301 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: And then they get to the place, and the Bible 302 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 2: says in verse two that the islanders showed us unusual kindness. 303 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: Now islanders is a kind term. 304 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 2: The actual word that is used here from Luke who 305 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: wrote the Book of Acts, is barbarians, and he called 306 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 2: them that because they didn't speak his language. Malta is 307 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 2: an unfamiliar place, and it's an unfamiliar place. Not only that, 308 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 2: but they built a fire and welcomed. 309 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: Us all because it was raining and cold. Now imagine this. 310 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: Can we empathize with Paul. 311 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 3: For a minute, because he survived a. 312 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 2: Shipwreck only to shiver in the cold of an unfamiliar 313 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: island and an unfamiliar language. And he survived, but now 314 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 2: the place where he is is unfamiliar to him. I 315 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 2: mentioned that because many times in my life I have 316 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 2: found myself on Malta. Have you ever been to Malta? 317 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: Oh sure you have, Sure you have? Is that place 318 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: I'm gonna show it to you. 319 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: Let me show you in the map here in my Bible. Look, 320 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: that's where Paul started. 321 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 2: That's where the wind blew him around for like several weeks. 322 00:17:52,280 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 4: And that's Malta where they landed. Look usual that a 323 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 4: tiny island called Malta. 324 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: A little. 325 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: See how small Malta is. See how tiny it is, 326 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: how small it is, how strength. That's where Paul was going, 327 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: and that's where the wind blew it. That's where Paul 328 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 2: had always wanted to visit Rome, where he would stand 329 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 2: in tribal for Caesar and be used as God's great spokesman, 330 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: the most powerful place in the world in his day. 331 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: And that's Have you ever ended up somewhere you never 332 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: planned on being? That's what I'm trying to say. Have 333 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: you ever been to Malta? 334 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 2: I need somebody over here in this section has been 335 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: to Malta. Now, Malta is the place you didn't plan 336 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 2: on staying. Malta is the season you didn't plan on experiencing. 337 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 2: Malta is the layoff you didn't see coming. Malta is 338 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 2: the relationship you didn't see ending. Malta is the emotional 339 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: place you never thought you'd experience. You saw other people depressed, 340 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 2: you never thought you'd be depressed. 341 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: You saw other people's. 342 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 2: Kids act crazy, you thought yours would act right. Malta 343 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 2: is that place where you're twenty eight in single. Malta 344 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 2: is that place where someone who was there for you 345 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 2: is no longer there for you. 346 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Malta? 347 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 2: Okay, what is somebody as important as Paul doing somewhere 348 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:27,719 Speaker 2: as small as Malta. 349 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,959 Speaker 1: Let's find out. Let's find out. I love the Bible. Man. 350 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 2: Bible says that Paul got to Malta, survived the shipwreck. 351 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: Have you ever survived anything? Have you ever survived anything? 352 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: Have you ever gave up hope? 353 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,959 Speaker 2: And just when you gave up hope, hope didn't give 354 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 2: up on you and grabbed hold. 355 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: Of you in the depths. 356 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 2: I've been preaching this all weekend, but I feel something 357 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 2: special happening right now. 358 00:19:58,720 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: For somebody who is in it. 359 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 2: Unexpected place, a strange place, a small place, a stock place. 360 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 2: And the Bible says that those islanders were so kind 361 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: to the prisoners two hundred and seventy six of them 362 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 2: in all that they built them fire, and Paul was 363 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 2: such a good dude that he decided to help. 364 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: So they're building a fire, and Paul didn't want to stand. 365 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 2: Over there like me at a love Week event, looking 366 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 2: like some lazy preacher who doesn't know how to do anything. 367 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: Paul grabs a pie said wood, look, it's right there. 368 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 2: In verse three, he gathered a pile of brushwood, and 369 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 2: as he put it on the fire trying to help, 370 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 2: a snake came out. So let's let's go back to 371 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 2: everything that's happened to Paul. He's imprisoned for preaching the gospel. 372 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 2: He's shipwrecked because the sailors are too stupid to follow 373 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 2: his advice. Now he's cold on Malta, you're talking about Malta. 374 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: Stuck in strander, shivering and cold, uncertain. 375 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 2: In an unfamiliar place, and just as he thinks he's 376 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 2: made it to safety, he gets struck by a snake. 377 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: This is almost comical unless you've been there, when just 378 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: when you thought the fight was. 379 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 2: Going to be over, here comes something else. 380 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: Have you ever. 381 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 5: And this snake pops up out of the fire that 382 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 5: Paul was simply trying to help them build on an 383 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 5: island called Malta, where he never even planned to go. 384 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 5: And the Bible says it fastened itself to his hand. 385 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 5: So this is not some quick little this is snake 386 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 5: bit down on Paul. And what's what the people did? 387 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: Because you gotta be careful about people. 388 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: Let me tell you got to be careful about people, 389 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 2: because when that happened, people will always assign a reason 390 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 2: to why you're going through what you're going through. Well, 391 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 2: if I were her husband, I would have left to 392 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 2: People will say stuff like that not to you. They 393 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 2: never say it to you. They just think it about you. 394 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 2: They think that the reason bad things happened to you 395 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 2: is because of something that you did. Well, the islanders 396 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 2: are watching this guy who's got a snake on his hand, 397 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 2: who just came crawling out of the sea with some 398 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 2: seaweed around his ears, and he claims to be a preacher, 399 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 2: and he claims to. 400 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: Be a servant of God. 401 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 2: And so if you're a servant of God, why isn't 402 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 2: God protecting you? Has the devil tried to convince you 403 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: lately that if you really had a God, you wouldn't 404 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: be going through what you're going through. And so they 405 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 2: stood back. They stood back and said this, dude. When 406 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 2: they say, well, the snake hanging from his hand, which 407 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 2: means it was there for a minute. When they saw 408 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 2: the snake hanging from his hand, they drew their own conclusions. 409 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 2: He must have done something wrong. He must be a murderer. 410 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 2: He must be out of the will of God. For 411 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 2: though he escaped the sea, the goddess Justice. 412 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: Has not allowed him to live. 413 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 2: I love the next verse because Paul preaches one of 414 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 2: the most powerful sermons in the New Testament. 415 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: Watch this. When Paul saw them all looking, he knew 416 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: he had a captive audience. 417 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 2: And verse five says that when Paul saw him looking, 418 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: he said, and this may not be in your Bible, 419 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: I'm reading from the TSV, the Taylor Swift version. 420 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 1: He said, he said, players. 421 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 2: Gonna play, play, play, play play. 422 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: Come on, y'all, go back to twenty fourteen with me 423 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: for a minute. And haters. 424 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 2: Gonna hate hate, hey, hey, hey five times. That's a 425 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 2: quintuplet in the New Testament Heartbreaker's Gonna break break. We 426 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 2: get the point, pastor you don't have to quote the 427 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: whole chorus and the verse Paul's response, that's the word response. 428 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: Watch this. He didn't say a word. 429 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 2: He didn't try to convince them that God was with him. 430 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 2: He didn't feel sorry for himself. He didn't go on 431 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 2: Facebook and write a response post. What's what he did. 432 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: He did what you've got to learn how to do 433 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 2: when you make it through the storm and all hell 434 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 2: breaks loose on the shore. Come on when they talk about. 435 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 1: You, when it looks like this is the end, when 436 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: you've been through it and it keeps coming. 437 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 2: The Bible said Paul, took it off to what'severn People say, 438 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 2: shake it off, Shake it off, Shake it off right 439 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: now before it gets in your system. Shake it off 440 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 2: right now before it kills you. Shake it off right 441 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 2: now while they're standing around watching you. 442 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: You gotta do it right now, right now. You gotta 443 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: shake it off. 444 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 2: You don't take a vote from the Island committee to 445 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 2: see whether or not they think. 446 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: God is with you. No, Paul said, I got a revelation. 447 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: God already told me I'm going to Rome, so I 448 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: can't die on de sign. 449 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: I already know he'll never leave me or forsake me. 450 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: I already know I'm more than a conqueror. I already know, 451 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 2: so if I'm going to Rome, I can't die on Malta. 452 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: And when the shap fell off of Paul's hand and 453 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 2: died in the fire, it wasn't a surprise to him. 454 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 2: He knew it had to happen. It had to happen. 455 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 2: Somebody said it had to happen. I had to survive. 456 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 2: I had to make it. I had to get through it. 457 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: God had to prove his power. I'll fill your presence, Lord, 458 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: for everybody who's been wondering why you've been stuck on 459 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: the why land. 460 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 461 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 2: You've been so busy trying to figure out a reason, 462 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 2: and God is trying to give you a revelation, not 463 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: just you, but everybody watching you. God wants everybody to 464 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 2: see you shake it off. God wants everybody around you 465 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 2: to see you trust him though he slay you. And 466 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 2: that's why the snake had to bite him. Because faith 467 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 2: doesn't prevent me from getting bid. Faith doesn't prevent me 468 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 2: from washing. 469 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: Up on the shore. 470 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 2: What I love about it is that after Paul shook 471 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 2: the snake off, the people stood back and watched to 472 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 2: see what was gonna happen next, because that's what they do. 473 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 2: They don't bring you an ice pack or an ass 474 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 2: for him talk to me. They will stand there and 475 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: watch you. And the Bible says that they were shocked 476 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 2: because they expected him to swell up. You know, you 477 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 2: got some people that are surprised that you made it 478 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 2: and surprised you're still happy. You know, they thought when 479 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 2: they broke your heart, you were gonna quit. But look 480 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 2: at you in church, worshiping God, serving God, believing God. 481 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 2: Look at you, look at you. So they're like, they're like, oh, 482 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 2: let's see what happens next. That's somebody said, let's see 483 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 2: what happens next. So they waited a long time, and 484 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: then when they saw that he didn't swell up or 485 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 2: turn into a walker, they changed their minds. This is 486 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 2: why you cannot put your confidence in people. They changed 487 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 2: their minds and said, he's a god. One minute, he's 488 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 2: a murderer. Now he's a god one minute, Hosanna. The 489 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 2: next minute, crucify him. That's why your response cannot be 490 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 2: to people. 491 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: Even when I preach, I love you, but I can't 492 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: preach for you. 493 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 2: I can preach to you, but I can't preach for you, 494 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 2: because the thing that I say that you need to 495 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,719 Speaker 2: hear might make you cry us their arms and get 496 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: an attitude. Well, sit back and take it, honey, because 497 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 2: if God sent it, I'm gonna say. 498 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: It all right. Now watch this. 499 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 2: Let's show one more thing so he shakes up the 500 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 2: snake they think he's gonna die, doesn't die. And cool 501 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 2: place to end dis sermon, I think, but I want 502 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 2: to give you something that will maybe help you. Let 503 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 2: me just see from a show of hands, is there 504 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 2: anybody in here who has found yourself in Malta recently? 505 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 2: It could be a season, it could be Malta represents, yeah, 506 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: that stuck place. I think these are the kinds of questions, 507 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 2: generic questions that people ask because we know that it's 508 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,239 Speaker 2: guaranteed to get one hundred percent participation. I mean, who 509 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: doesn't feel stuck from time to time? And that's kind 510 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 2: of the point, isn't it is that we all must 511 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 2: go through Malta. Wow and Paul at this point, and 512 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 2: the story has a decision to make misery or mission. 513 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 2: Misery or mission because we already read that it was 514 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 2: rainy and cold, we already read that it was unfamiliar. 515 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 2: We already read that the man almost died, and now 516 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 2: he has a decision to make, and so do you 517 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 2: about this season of your life. Paul didn't decide to 518 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: go to Malta. Now he has to decide what to 519 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 2: do while he's there. And he can sit and wait 520 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 2: to get off this stupid island, or he can. 521 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: He can do on Malta what he did in Jerusalem, 522 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: all right, So so Paul, they think he's a god. 523 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 2: Now, right, So they're like, they're like, hey, this guy's important, 524 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 2: and apparently the chief of the island hears about. 525 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: It, and he wants to have dinner with this guy 526 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: who can survive a snake bite. 527 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 2: So your opportunities in life will be the byproduct of adversity. 528 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: That you go through. And he gets invited to the 529 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: home of. 530 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 2: The official on the island because he was able to 531 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 2: stand up under the trial. You keep praying for the opportunity, 532 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 2: but you don't want to stand up under the adversity. 533 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 2: So somebody say it had to happen. I had to 534 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: go through something. I had to prove perseverance. That's the 535 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 2: only way my faith could grow to enable the opportunity. 536 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: So there was an estate nearby look at this. In 537 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 2: verse seven, there was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, 538 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 2: which is incidentally a baby name that is available to 539 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 2: any of you who are looking for something to name 540 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 2: your child that will get them beat up. And this 541 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: guy's important, and he wants to see the guy who 542 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 2: was able to stand up after the snake and survived 543 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 2: the shipwreck, and he welcomed all of them into the 544 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 2: home and showed generous hospitality for three days. And I'm 545 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 2: imagining Paul's thinking this is nice. But at some point 546 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 2: during Paul's stay he learns that Publius. 547 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: Has a problem. 548 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 2: Touch somebody say, Publius has a problem, And Publius's problem 549 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 2: is about to become Paul's opportunity because Publius's father was 550 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 2: sick in bed with the Malta fever. 551 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: And it's bad. 552 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 2: He's got temperatures in dysentery, and Paul, when he heard 553 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 2: about it, went in to see him. Now the way 554 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 2: I picture it, and maybe I'm using too much imagination, 555 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 2: but I imagine that they're sitting down to a meal 556 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 2: and Paul sees somebody wheeled into the room and says, 557 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 2: who's that, and Publius says, it's my dad, and Paul says, 558 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 2: what's wrong with him? 559 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: And Publicia says he's sick and there's nothing we can 560 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: do about it. 561 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 2: Imagine about right here is where Paul started smiling, which 562 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 2: seems kind of weird, but maybe this is the moment 563 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 2: that Paul realizes there was a reason I went through 564 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 2: the storm. There was a reason the hurricane hit. There 565 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 2: was a reason the ship had to break apart. There's 566 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 2: a reason we had to run aground on Malta. 567 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: Paul said, can I see you? Can we have a moment? 568 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 1: And the Bible says that when Paul went in to 569 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: see him, he prayed for him. Wow, and watched the 570 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: next part. You can love this. You look kind of military. 571 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: Can I use you for an example? Sit down, everybody, 572 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: sit down. Paul went in. 573 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 2: And prayed for him, and after prayer, somebody say, it 574 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 2: had to happen. Come on, Missouri, it had to happen. 575 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 2: You had to be here at this sermon today. There's 576 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 2: something God wanted. 577 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: To speak to you. 578 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 2: You had to be here with the zz top beard 579 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 2: go to You had to be right. 580 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: There in that section. And Paul put his hand on Publius'. 581 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 2: Dad's head, and when he put his hand on his head, 582 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 2: the Bible says he was healed, which is a miracle 583 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 2: all in its own. But what made it even more 584 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,399 Speaker 2: amazing to me was to realize that the same hand 585 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 2: that the healing came through was the same hand that 586 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 2: had a snake hanging from it just three days ago. 587 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: Oh, come on, you all start praising God right now. 588 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 2: What you went through? That didn't tell you that? So 589 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 2: let me have your check station. Paul says, I can't 590 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 2: keep the snake from biting me. Touch somebody say it 591 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 2: had to happen. The other day, Abby came up to 592 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 2: me and she said, Elijah. 593 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 1: Just bit me. I said, did you bite him back? 594 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: She said no, sir. 595 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 2: I said, go upstairs and tell your brother. You can 596 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 2: bite me again if you want to. But Daddy said 597 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 2: to tell you, if you bite me, I bite back. 598 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: Now that might not be good parenting, but this is 599 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 1: good preaching. Somebody tell the devil I'm bite that, I'm 600 00:35:50,840 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 1: bite back. Same hand that the snake bit became the 601 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,919 Speaker 1: hand that the healing came from. 602 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,760 Speaker 2: What did you go through that you wish you wouldn't 603 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,919 Speaker 2: have gone through? That you never should have gone through 604 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 2: I came to declare over your life. It does not 605 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:17,399 Speaker 2: matter the reason. What matters is your response. You're on Malta. Now, 606 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 2: Malta is what you make of it. The Bible says, 607 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,879 Speaker 2: after he laid his hands on that man's head, word 608 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:25,799 Speaker 2: got around. 609 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: The whole island. 610 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 2: This guy's got something, This guy's got something. 611 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,400 Speaker 1: This guy knows somebody. 612 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 2: When he put his hand on the father's head, the 613 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 2: Bible said, the whole island came and all of a sudden, 614 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 2: now Publius had to turn his house into a certain building, and. 615 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: The whole island got healed. It had to happen. It 616 00:36:48,400 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: had to happen. It had to happen. Island got you. 617 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 1: I'm sorry I messed up your hair, but it had 618 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: to happen. 619 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 3: I feel like I got something on me right now 620 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 3: to tell somebody the release. It's about the release. 621 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 2: When Paul was going through the storm, he said, we 622 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 2: must run aground on some island. Somebody say it had 623 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 2: to happen, and Paul thought he needed Malta. But it 624 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 2: turns out Malta needed Paul. 625 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: There's a purpose for it. I don't need a reason. 626 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: I got a revelation. God is with me. He is good, 627 00:37:54,800 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: he does good. It had to happen. It had to happen. 628 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,359 Speaker 1: I'm not saying God did it. I'm saying he'll use it. Now. 629 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do on Malta? That small place. 630 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 2: You've been changing diaper still and like nobody appreciates you. 631 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: That's your Malta. You've been praying for a ring and 632 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: you can't even get a text back. That's your Malta. 633 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 1: I never wanted to be on Malta, but Paul said, 634 00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: now that I'm here, who can I heal? 635 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,360 Speaker 2: A matter of fact, y'all got any more snakes? I 636 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,799 Speaker 2: wish another snake would bite me because if that much 637 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 2: power could come from the pain, who. 638 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 1: Else can I heal? Who else can I heal? God? Won? 639 00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,200 Speaker 1: Did you bring me desmoss me Malta? 640 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,120 Speaker 2: And while they were getting ready for a wreck, God 641 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 2: was positioning them for a revival. 642 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,320 Speaker 1: This is the mistake that turned into a miracle, that 643 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: turned into a mission. 644 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 6: And I want you to know today, whoever is for 645 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 6: the forty eight percent of you that God sent me 646 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 6: to preach to, who are spending three months on Malta 647 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,319 Speaker 6: right now? 648 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,759 Speaker 2: I want you to know that your supply is in 649 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 2: your assignment. Did you get it over here? Your supply 650 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 2: is in your assignment. He could have sat there on 651 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 2: Malta moping about what he went through on the age 652 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 2: at sea, but he turned it into a mission and 653 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,399 Speaker 2: the whole island got healed. Maybe what you went through 654 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 2: wasn't even about you. Maybe it's generational. And that's what 655 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,239 Speaker 2: I told my dad before he died. I said, I 656 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 2: know your life was hard. I know it was a 657 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,320 Speaker 2: living hell. I know your father abused you. 658 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,920 Speaker 1: I know you had to suffer through many things, but 659 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,880 Speaker 1: you broke it. You broke it. 660 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 2: It had to You had to go through it so 661 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 2: I wouldn't have to, so I could preach, so I 662 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:50,320 Speaker 2: could stand Sometimes it's not about us. And Bull decided 663 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 2: to bite back, with his hand still swollen from the 664 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,239 Speaker 2: snake bite, sucked that. 665 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,200 Speaker 1: Poison out and turn it into power. 666 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 7: I thought, am I calling the sermon? I'm bitter, but 667 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:16,400 Speaker 7: I'm not bitter. I'm a pretreci that in three years. 668 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 7: I'm appreciate that in bars, in battles in two weeks. 669 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,880 Speaker 7: But for now, God wanted you to know that it 670 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:27,640 Speaker 7: had to happen. 671 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 2: It had to happen, even the rejection. My friend said, 672 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,560 Speaker 2: do you really believe that it had to happen? 673 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,880 Speaker 1: And I said, well, I don't know, but you know 674 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:49,000 Speaker 1: what I choose to It made me who I am. 675 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,719 Speaker 1: What I went through, it made me who I am. 676 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: I want to look in the. 677 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,800 Speaker 2: Camera because we have fourteen locations right now, and I 678 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,200 Speaker 2: want you to stand on your feet at every location 679 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:11,919 Speaker 2: and realize that healing is in your hands. That God 680 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 2: brought you to Malta, and when you're in the middle 681 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,600 Speaker 2: of a storm, it seems like there's often no sense 682 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:25,759 Speaker 2: of guidance, and when your boat is being blown around 683 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,640 Speaker 2: and you have no control over it, it's a scary 684 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,160 Speaker 2: thing to be out on the Mediterranean Sea with nothing 685 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 2: to look at for light, and to arrive at a 686 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 2: cold place only to be met by the sting of 687 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 2: a viper. 688 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:41,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 689 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,319 Speaker 2: I've been there before in my own life, but God 690 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 2: sent me with a message for you today. It had 691 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:55,799 Speaker 2: to happen because while the wind was controlling the boat, 692 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:04,600 Speaker 2: God was controlling the wind. I'm not saying he did it, 693 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 2: but if God allowed. 694 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,600 Speaker 1: It, you can accept it. And if you can accept it, 695 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,200 Speaker 1: the very place where you were injured will be the 696 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,160 Speaker 1: very place that your purpose comes forth. 697 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:31,239 Speaker 8: From It had to happen. It had to happen, even 698 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:36,960 Speaker 8: the mistakes. It had to happen because God needed me 699 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,040 Speaker 8: here in Malta. 700 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:45,960 Speaker 2: Right now, Father, I have declared your word to your people, 701 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:55,000 Speaker 2: and you have promised your blessing upon it. Father, I 702 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,239 Speaker 2: pray that today would represent a shift in the perspective 703 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:05,960 Speaker 2: of everyone who has seen themselves as stuck on Malta. Church, 704 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,520 Speaker 2: I want you to repeat this out loud after me. 705 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:12,319 Speaker 2: It's a paradigm. Chief say, I'm not stuck. I'm stationed. Now, 706 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,440 Speaker 2: clap your hands and give God praise that He's got 707 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 2: you right where. Come on, He's got you right where 708 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:21,920 Speaker 2: he wants you. There is an assignment on Malta with 709 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 2: your name on it. Even if they did it, God's 710 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 2: gonna use. 711 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,160 Speaker 1: This is my Malta. 712 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,120 Speaker 2: And the Bible says in verse ten that when they 713 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,000 Speaker 2: were ready, when the assignment was completed, they honored us 714 00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:41,600 Speaker 2: in many. 715 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,360 Speaker 1: Ways, and when we were ready to sail, they furnished 716 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,319 Speaker 1: us with the supplies we needed. God said, if. 717 00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,520 Speaker 2: You'll do what I put you there to do, I 718 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,960 Speaker 2: will give you what you need for where I'm taking you. 719 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,239 Speaker 1: Who is this message for this is my mam, This 720 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 1: is my mall. 721 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:02,560 Speaker 8: Tom. 722 00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 2: I'm done crying, I'm done regretting, I'm done wishing. 723 00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:13,279 Speaker 1: God here, I am lit your asks. God, you brought me. 724 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:18,160 Speaker 5: Here to this season, to this comment dot doll therecle, 725 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:19,279 Speaker 5: this is me. 726 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,560 Speaker 1: This is my thank you for joining us. 727 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,360 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 728 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,920 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 729 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,839 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 730 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,799 Speaker 2: or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more 731 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,480 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 732 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 733 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,800 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 734 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,960 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 735 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:48,839 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 736 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,560 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.