1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: I thought we'd study in Luke chapter five today. This 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: is one of my favorite action passages. Gives us a 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: real picture of three different elements of faith that I 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: want to bring out today. And one of my friends, 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: who is really astute, actually happens to be my barber 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: as well. What's up? Fly Tie? Fly Tie ran a 12 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: marathon yesterday. He said, pray for me, Pastor. I have 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: a marathon. I have not trained. And I said, do 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: you never listen to anything I preach. You can't come on, 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: you can't skip training and then blame it on prayer 16 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: when you throw up on mile six. But he finished, 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: He finished, and he was telling me the other day 18 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: he said, you tricked us. I thought this was a 19 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: giving series at the end of the year, and in 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: a way it is because we're giving an off like 21 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: was given to build Elevation Blakeney, like was given to 22 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: build the campus that you sit in today, and we're 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: doing that at the end of the series six weeks series, 24 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: I believe six weeks, and that'll be very special and 25 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: very important because we use that offering to build the church, 26 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: but God uses the offering to build your faith. And 27 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: so he said, I thought it was a giving series. 28 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: It's really a faith series, isn't it. And I said, absolutely, 29 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: you got it. That's what way maker is. And now 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: faith is the way God blesses you. Grace is the means. 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: Faith is the way. Write it down. Grace is the means. 32 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: So we are saved by grace through faith. That's Ephesians 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: chapter two. And so the way that God blesses you, 34 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: the way that God delivers peace to your nervous system, 35 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: is through your faith. And so if we can build 36 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: your faith ending this year and going into the next year, 37 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: you will see God do what Ephesians three twenty calls 38 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: immeasurably more than you could ask her. Imagine today, my 39 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: passage may be familiar to you if you have some 40 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: Sunday school, vacation, Bible school experience, this will probably not 41 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: be strange waters for you. In Luke chapter five, verses 42 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: one through eleven, but I really like it, so I 43 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: was excited when God led me to preach it. One day, 44 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: as Jesus was standing by the lake of Genessaret, the 45 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 1: people were crowding around him and listening to the word 46 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: of God. He saw at the water's edge two boats 47 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: left there by the fishermen who were washing their nets. 48 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: Got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon. 49 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: Later his name was Peter, same guy, but Jesus so 50 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: changed his identity that what people called him changed. And 51 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: do you know God can do such a deep work 52 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: in your life that people don't even recognize you as 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: the same person anymore. And people who used to call 54 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: you a failure will have to step back and rethink 55 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: how they assessed you and labeled you when God gets 56 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: a hold of your life. So he got into one 57 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 1: of the boats. There's two boats. He gets into the 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: one belonging to Simon and asked him to put out 59 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught 60 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: the people from the boat. When he had finished speaking, 61 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: he said to Simon, put out into deep water and 62 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: let down the nets for a catch. And Simon answered 63 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: with an attitude, Master, we've worked hard all night and 64 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: haven't caught anything. Your little talk was really good, But 65 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: we are professionals. You're a preacher. You do the preacher. 66 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: We'll do the fishing. But you got to give him 67 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: credit because even with a bad attitude, he obeyed. God 68 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: can bless obedience even if you do it with a 69 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: bad attitude. I mean, you don't really have to feel 70 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: the mood for a workout for your muscles to receive 71 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: the benefit. I mean you have to feel like coming 72 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: to church for God to get a word through to you. 73 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: How many of you didn't feel like coming to church today? 74 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna get the biggest blessing of everybody, 75 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: because that's called the sacrifice of praise. Is when you 76 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: don't consult your feelings, because the foundation of your decisions 77 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: is your faith. Would y'all calm down and let me 78 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: read my scratch out, Master. We've worked hard all night 79 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: and haven't caught anything, But because you say so, I 80 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: will let down the nets. When they had done so, 81 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: they caught such a large number a fish that their 82 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: nets began to break. That's probably enough for us to 83 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: work from for now. Verse two says he saw at 84 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: the water's edge two boats. Verse six says when they 85 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: had done so, they caught such a large number of 86 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: fish that their nets begin to break. So look at 87 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: your neighbor and give them my subject for it today, 88 00:04:51,880 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: say neighbor, Say, favorite neighbor, we are on the edge 89 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: of a blessing. Now look at him, look at him, 90 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: real serious now, and tell them my titles. Say, but 91 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: there's a catch. There's a catch, because central premise, the 92 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: edge of my next blessing will often be the place 93 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: of my greatest frustration. And certainly the scene in Luke 94 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: chapter five seems to be that Peter has decided to 95 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: try it again tomorrow, And just at that moment when 96 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: he has all the nets cleaned and ready to be 97 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: stored away, just at the moment where he has the 98 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: boat's positioned to be dry docked, here comes this radical 99 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:56,119 Speaker 1: rabbi with the big crowd standing room only. Everywhere Jesus 100 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: Christ went to preach, people who don't like big churches 101 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: wouldn't like Heaven, just a side note. Everywhere he shows up, 102 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: the crowd comes, and the first element I want to 103 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: mention in this sermon, I want to talk about conditional miracles. 104 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: Three of these points I like you to write them down. 105 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: That way you can preach them back to your wife 106 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: when she's acting crazy this week. You get it. You 107 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: are your husband, are your mother in law. By conditional miracles, 108 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: I mean that there are certain conditions in which God 109 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: is most likely to perform miracles. There are certain conditions 110 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: in which you are most likely to see the power 111 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: of God. Now, God can do what he wants to, 112 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: But it seems to be a pattern in scripture that 113 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: over and over again God reserves his greatest glory for 114 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: our lowest points. Seems to be over and over again 115 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: that it is after we have fished all night caught nothing, 116 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: that He now, after all this frustration, will give us 117 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: the blessing that we could not achieve in our own strength. 118 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: I think is so well know who blessed us when 119 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: he does. That's the best thing that I can figure. 120 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: I was at this location a few weeks ago, actually 121 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: was there at the Sea of Galilee. The NIV calls 122 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: it the Lake of Ganessaret. It's more accurate to call 123 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: it a lake. When you call it the Sea of Galilee, 124 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: it sounds major, but it isn't necessarily a major body 125 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: of water. It's the largest in Israel for fresh water. 126 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: But it's also the lowest, it's the lowest, it's the lowest. 127 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: This place would become the base of Jesus earthly ministry. 128 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: Eighteen of thirty three miracles that the Son of God 129 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: performed on the earth. What happened around the Sea of Galilee. 130 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: This is the region where he revealed his glory. And 131 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: so is there any significance I believe there is to 132 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: the fact that Jesus Christ picked the lowest point. This 133 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: is the lowest lake, freshwater lake in all of the earth. 134 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: Did he choose the lowest lake to do his ministry 135 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: because it was the closest? Or does it say something 136 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: about a God who often chooses our lowest moments and 137 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: our weakest places to do his greatest work. Now that's 138 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: not for everybody. Some people are doing just fine without God. 139 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: And you got money, and you got women, and you 140 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: got stuff, and you got a full schedule and you 141 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: don't have time for this God thing. But just in 142 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: case there is anybody in here who has been in 143 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: a little bit of a low place, the conditions touch 144 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: somebody say the conditions are right for a miracle? Is 145 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 1: conditions for a miracle? Because Not only is Peter frustrated 146 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: having fished all night and caught nothing, but the people 147 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: are frustrated because they can't get in to hear Jesus. 148 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: And the Bible uses a phrase you see it over 149 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: and over again in reference to Jesus. You even see 150 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: it a little later in Luke five. We don't have 151 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: time to tell you about one time Jesus preaching in 152 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: the house and the bouncers wouldn't let this poor man in, 153 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: but his friends wouldn't take no for an answer, so 154 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: they go to ripping off the roof. Do not try 155 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: this in overflow. I promise you We've got armed guards 156 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: that will do something about it if you try. But 157 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: they rip that roof off and got that man down. 158 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: Because the Bible says there was such a crowd to 159 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: hear Jesus that they couldn't get in. And so then 160 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: you have excuse makers who would turn around and go home. 161 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: And then you have way makers who decide, I'll do 162 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: what I have to do and leave what I have 163 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: to lead in order to experience a touch from God. 164 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: So it's crowded and Peter is fishing, So we got 165 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: a we got a full crowd and empty nets, and 166 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: in this condition God performs miracle. They were listening to 167 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: verse one, the Word of God. What were they doing. 168 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: They were listening to the Word of God. Not like 169 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: you're listening to the Word of God today. What you 170 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: are doing today is listening to someone attempt to preach 171 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: the word of God. That's not the case here, because 172 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: you got to understand John chapter one. In the beginning 173 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: was the Word, and the Word was with God, and 174 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. 175 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: Through him, all things were made. Without him, nothing has 176 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: been made that has been made. In the beginning was 177 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: the Word, and the Word was with God, and the 178 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: Word was God. Who is this Word, This Word that 179 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: was made flesh and dwelled among us, so that we 180 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: could behold his glory, the glory as of the only 181 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. They 182 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: were not listening to a man preach about the Word 183 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: of God. They were listening to the Word of God. 184 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: Preach the Word of God and encounter with the Word 185 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: rapped in flesh. They were listening to the Word of God. 186 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: Heaven had a committee meeting, needed to find a way 187 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: to get the Word into the earth. How shall we 188 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: do it? How shall we get the word into the earth. 189 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: Perhaps we could find a Palestinian teenager, a virgin womb. 190 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: Perhaps he could be born into a crowded stall. Perhaps 191 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: he could be born into a place that no one 192 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: would have imagined, nor would they have sought him there. 193 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: God likes unlikely conditions to perform great miracles. I'm just 194 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: pointing out a pattern. I'm just pointing out a pattern 195 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: that it is often at the place of your greatest 196 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: frustration that God will reveal his greatest glory. I've seen 197 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: this so many ways, so many ways in my ministry. 198 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: Even in creativity. Sometimes it's when you're just about to 199 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: give up on an idea. How many creative people do 200 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: we have, just when you're about to throw it away, 201 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: that you'll see what it was meant to be all along? 202 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: And we write songs for our church all the time, 203 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: and some of them are better than others. Some of 204 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: them you never hear, and you ought to thank God 205 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: that you never hear them. We don't want to inflict 206 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: that kind of pain on you. Some of them are 207 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: just private songs. But sometimes you work and work on 208 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: a song. I remember back in twenty fourteen, and I 209 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: sent this screenshot to Holly on Thursday because I wanted 210 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: her to see something, just a contrast of how something 211 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: starts and how something finishes. And I sent her a 212 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: voice memo because I walk around mumbling all the time, 213 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: little voice memos, little melodies. I have been known to 214 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 1: slip away from the table at a restaurant, go in 215 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: the bathroom stall and sing a song idea into And 216 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: so if we ever share a restroom spacemen and you 217 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: hear some weirdo, that might be me, That might be me. 218 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: And I sent her a memo of this this old 219 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: song that I tried to write, weird little idea called 220 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: my Life be an Altar. And it was a really 221 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 1: really bad idea that it was a very complicated thought 222 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: that I had for the song. So I gave it 223 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: to Wade and I was like, do something with this. 224 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: This is twenty fourteen, and he went over to try 225 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: to write something with it. We were on a songwriting retreat. 226 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: He came back into the room five hours later. I said, 227 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: you got something, You got something that you just on 228 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: the way. This good idea, right, He said, yeah, Well, 229 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: you know, we we fished all night and we caught nothing, 230 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: basically is what he said. He said, we tried, we 231 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: just can't find anything going on. I said, yeah, it's 232 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: kind of dumb idea. He said, no, it's not dumb. 233 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: We just can't you know, I just don't think it. 234 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: I don't know. I just know. And this little thing 235 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: had been sitting around Alex for six I should come 236 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: over to School of Worship and play it for him. 237 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: I'm not going to play it for the whole church. 238 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: It's way too humiliating. But it sat around for six months. 239 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: And and Wade said he couldn't make anything out of it, 240 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 1: and and Chris said that he didn't ever really get 241 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: it either. And they all said it real politely, but 242 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: they were basically saying the same thing. And I said, well, 243 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: we should probably just throw it away, unless, hang on, 244 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: what if it wasn't my life be an altar? Well, 245 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: it was just like it was just like six ' 246 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: eight time, and it was like not that moody vibe 247 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: that I had down there, but just like what I 248 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: it was just oh, come to the altar, we'll do 249 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, oh, come to the altar. Am 250 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: I exaggerating the story. Chris, the father's arms are oh 251 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: ben wide what if it was just that? And Chris goes, oh, 252 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 1: if you're going to do that, I got this thing 253 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: that I've been mumbling into my phone that I thought 254 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: was stupid too, and he plays it and it's oh, 255 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: you hurting and broken with me? I said, Chris, did 256 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: you just say are you hurting in Brooken with it? 257 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: He said, no, all you're hurting in Brooklyn with And 258 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: I said, no, it's our You're hurting and brooken within. 259 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: It's a question. It's going to open the whole song. 260 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: It's going to be an invitation. And four hours later 261 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: we had the song, and three and a half years later, 262 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: this week it was the number one song on all 263 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: Christian streaming songs. But I was telling you that because 264 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: you got some things in your life that you're just 265 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: about to throw away. I mean I was just about 266 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: to quit. Just when I thought it was nothing. God said, 267 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: give me that back, just when I was putting up 268 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: the boats on the shore, just when you were walking 269 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: away from the marriage, just when you were about to 270 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: quit praying for your kid. God says it's not over. 271 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: High five three people and say not yet, not yet. 272 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: The temple thought he had him on Saturday. But there's 273 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: a catch. It's a setup. Sunday's coming. It's not over. 274 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: Don't your neighbors say there's a catch because it's conditional. 275 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: What's a conditional upon your obedience, your perseverance, your willingness 276 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: to do something you don't understand to watch this? This 277 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: is This is funny, possibly illegal. What Jesus does next? 278 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: I think so, because Jesus, who is the Word of God, 279 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: who spoke the world into existence Colossians one sixteen, needs 280 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: a way to get out into the world that he 281 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: made the message that he is. He needs a way. 282 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: This is crazy because the Maker in the beginning was 283 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: a word, and the word was with God. In the 284 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. 285 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: Through him all things were made that were made, And 286 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: without him nothing has been made that has been made. 287 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: That one. The Maker needs a way to get the word. 288 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: The Word needs a way. The Maker needs a way 289 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: to get the word into the world that he's so 290 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 1: loved that he came wrapped in flesh. He needs a way. 291 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 1: And it says that he saw two boats at the shore, 292 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: and one of them was belonging to Simon. WA's what 293 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 1: he does Verse three he got into one of the boats. Okay, 294 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: you're looking like that's normal. No conversation, no lease agreement. 295 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: You don't think that. If you don't think, if you 296 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: don't think this is weird, try it when you leave 297 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: church today. No, I'm serious. If you don't think this 298 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: is weird, just find the nicest car that you like 299 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: in the parking lot. Just the nicest one. Don't do 300 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,239 Speaker 1: a Camray. There's nothing wrong with Camri's. But if you're 301 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: gonna steal a car, pick the nicest one in the 302 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: parking lot and just do what Jesus did. Just get 303 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: in it. And when they come up to the window 304 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: and ask you, what are you doing in my car? 305 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: Say I noticed your elevation sticker. I figured you're a Christian. 306 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: I need to use it. Can I have your keys? 307 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: Because it's essentially what Jesus does. He sits down in 308 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: the boat, the one belonging to Simon Peter. Okay, why 309 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: did Jesus pick Peter? You ever thought about that? I have, 310 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: because I can think of a lot of reasons why 311 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: he wouldn't pick Peter. A lot of reasons why he 312 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: wouldn't pick Peter. Peter was impulsive, Peter was a know 313 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: it all. Peter was violent. You don't cut off people's 314 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: ears if you had a normal upbringing. That's not something 315 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: that Peter had. A filthy mouth. Peter, Peter, Peter. I 316 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: heard one preacher. He said, because Peter was bold, that's 317 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: why Jesus liked him. He was bold. I don't think so, 318 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 1: because remember the the Bible was written pre uber and 319 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: Jesus had a lot to accomplish in three years. The 320 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: word had to get out touch. Somebody said, we got 321 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: to get the word out. How are we going to 322 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: get it out? No Facebook, no YouTube, no Instagram. You 323 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: know why? I have come to believe that the reason 324 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: Jesus picked Peter is because he got boat. How how else? Okay, 325 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: let me preach point number two. I want to talk 326 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: about creative collaboration because now here is the creator partnering 327 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: with his creation. Here is the Word of God, who 328 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: has the ability to walk on water. Don't forget that 329 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: if Jesus had wanted to just get away from the 330 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: crowd and preach and create a little distance. We know 331 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: from Matthew chapter fourteen that if a storm comes up 332 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: and the boat is not available and Jesus needs to 333 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: get somewhere he will just suspend the laws of buoyancy 334 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: that he himself created. In the beginning was the word, 335 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: and the word was with God. If Jesus can't find 336 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 1: a boat to ride on, he'll speak a word and 337 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: walk on the word that he is to the place 338 00:20:54,560 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: that he But yeah, and I want to do it 339 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: like that. And I would have done it like that, 340 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: because this is early in this ministry. And if you 341 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: moonwalk back on the water and then preach to the crowd, 342 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: they'll pay more attention. Don't you think he said? No, 343 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: I want to boat. I want to boat. I want 344 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: his boat, I want her boat. I want to use 345 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: their life. I want to Yeah, I want to use 346 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: their weakness. Yeah. I want to build a church. I 347 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: want to call people together from all different nations around 348 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: the world, will be a part of the e fam. 349 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: I want to I want to call people from different backgrounds. 350 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: I want to call people of different kinds, different types. 351 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: I want I want I want some people who own 352 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: their own businesses. I want some people who are unemployed. 353 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: I want some people who suffered great abuse in their childhood. 354 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: I want to bring them together. I want to I 355 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: want to use your boat it's the hardest thing for 356 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: us to understand sometimes. Why would the one who can 357 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: walk on water have any use for our boat? And 358 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: I think the devil uses it to give us excuses 359 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: why we don't offer God what we have. Because my 360 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: boat's not as big as his. My boat, my boat, 361 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: My boat's thirty my boat, my boat. I fished all night, 362 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: I caught nothing. What would you want with me, Jesus? 363 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: So I went from thinking Jesus needed Peter's boat to 364 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: realizing that Jesus didn't need Peter's boat. Peter needed jesus 365 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: blessing on his boat, because that same thing happened to 366 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: me in the area of giving. When we give the offering. 367 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: I thought that giving was the way that we supported 368 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: the church, to keep the lights on, to keep the 369 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: salaries paid Forgive me for being so naive. I thought 370 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: God needed my boat. I thought he needed my gift. 371 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: A little bit of life rolled by, and I realized 372 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: that God was God before I ever showed up. And 373 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: I'll put this out to you. There were two boats 374 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: on the shore, so I believe if Peter had said no, 375 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: Jesus would have gotten the other one. Means he doesn't 376 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: have to use us. He chooses to use us. So 377 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: we get up here this time of year, and I 378 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: got to say, I'm pretty impressed because usually in a church, 379 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: when you go to a series where you challenge people 380 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: to give, like, we're challenging every person in the church, 381 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: young and old, to give a gift to God at 382 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: this year in to begin to tie the you're not 383 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: doing that, to begin to give the first ten percent 384 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: of your increase to God, to set it up online 385 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: so that you're not praying about something that God has 386 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: already clearly commanded, and then to give above and beyond that. 387 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 1: When we challenge you to do that, we are not 388 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: speaking the language of obligation. We're speaking the language of opportunity. 389 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: You know the difference. You know the difference. It's in 390 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: verse three. It says that he got into the boat 391 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: belonging to Simon, and I love the phrase. It says, 392 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:39,959 Speaker 1: and he asked him, you want to do this? I mean, 393 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: you don't have to. I can totally do this without you. 394 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: But I like your boat, bro your I like your boldness. 395 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: I like your brokenness. Can I borrow your boat? Can 396 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: God borrow your boat? The gifts that He gave you? 397 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: Can he use them for his glory. Or did you 398 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: get so confused about who made the trees that you 399 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: lost sight of the fact that everything that God gave 400 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: you is on loan. You can't take it with you. 401 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: Giving releases me to remember that it was his boat 402 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: to begin with. In the beginning was the Word, and 403 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 404 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: He was with God in the beginning. Through him all 405 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: things were made. Peter had a boat, but the boat 406 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: had to be made of something. Peter had a boat, 407 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: but the boat had to come from somewhere. And now 408 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: the one who spoke the cedars, and who spoke the 409 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: cypress into existence, the one who spoke the ocean and 410 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: the chemical balance of the old that would create and 411 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: sustain the life of the fish, the one who put 412 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: the gills on the fish that Peter was looking for 413 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the ocean unsuccessfully, said, can I 414 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: get on your boat? Because it's a cool thing when 415 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: God becomes your partner. He knows the best spots to fish. 416 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: It's a great thing to have the Son of God 417 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: on your boat. It's a great thing when you don't 418 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,199 Speaker 1: have to fish alone. It's a great thing when you 419 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: say God, all I have is yours. It's a freedom 420 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: to it. I can't explain it if you've never experienced it, 421 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: but it's a freedom to it. When you come to 422 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 1: the end of yourself and your boats are pulled up 423 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: on the shore, and Jesus says, now that you've done 424 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: all you can do, will you give me a push? 425 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: And all Peter had to do watch this, no tenure plan. 426 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: All he had to do was obey and give Jesus 427 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: a push. Now, when he pushed that boat out into 428 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: the water, he thought he was loaning Jesus the boat 429 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: for an hour. He did not know, because God will 430 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: trick you into stuff touch somebody said, there's a catch. 431 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: There's always a catch. He did not know that he 432 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: would spend the next three years taking this crazy miracle working. 433 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 1: He didn't know that the death ears would be opened 434 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 1: after they got off this boat. He didn't know that 435 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 1: blind eyes would see because Jesus got a ride on 436 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: his boat. You never know what God will do until 437 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: you let him on your boat. You don't know. You 438 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: can't know. And that's what faith is, is pushing out 439 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: into the deep when you don't know the result. Wow, 440 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: and it's letting down the nets for a catch. Touch 441 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: somebody say, there's a catch, there's a catch, there's a 442 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: catch all Jesus said, I know you can't see it, 443 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: but I can see it because I stocked these waters 444 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: you're fishing in. There is a catch. See. I think 445 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: Tom Lahman was telling me this. He said, fishing is 446 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: like the Holy Spirit. You can't see the fish, but 447 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 1: they're there. And the more you learn about it, the 448 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: more you will know how to fish in the right places. 449 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: The more you follow him, the more you hear him, 450 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: the more you get acquainted with his voice. And say, 451 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: I don't see it, I don't feel it. But God, 452 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 1: if you speak it, I'll do it. Not because I 453 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: feel it, not because I see it, not because I 454 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: understand it, and not because it makes sense. But if 455 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: you say so, I will. If you say do it, 456 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: I'll do it. I want the obedience of God to 457 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: be the guarantee of my inheritance. And this brings me 458 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: to my final point. Can't believe it's over already, ken you. 459 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: I don't think I'll be able to preach it this 460 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: way again. This is a special moment. God is doing 461 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: something in this moment. I want to talk to you 462 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: about connected blessings. The biggest problem that Peter and his 463 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: boys had before Jesus occupied their boat was no fish. 464 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:17,479 Speaker 1: One word from Jesus, and their biggest problem was breaking nets. 465 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: That's the way I really see the church that God 466 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: is building here, and he's building it, but we get 467 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: to let him use our boat. You see the volunteers 468 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: out there, that's people who brought their boat to church. Oh, 469 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: in every church there's there's two different groups. There's the crowd, 470 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: and they get the message. They come, they get the message. 471 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: If they feel like coming, they come if they don't facebook. 472 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: But then within every crowd there's a crew. And when 473 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: Jesus spoke to Peter, he said, I see you out 474 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: there in the crowd. Would you be interested in stepping 475 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: out of the crowd and be a part of the crew. 476 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: Can I use your boat now? The crowd is not bad. 477 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: It's a great place to start. The crowd gets the message. 478 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: The crowd gets the message, but the crew gets the miracle. 479 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: When they had done so, they took in such a 480 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: large number of fish that the next thing they had 481 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: to do was call their partners. I believe this is 482 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: verse seven. So they signaled their partners in the other boat. 483 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: See here's what God will do. He will bless you 484 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: so much that other people will get blessed just because 485 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: they were next to you. Touch somebody and say, you 486 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: want to be glad you're sitting next to me today 487 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: because I am so blessed with the presence of God, 488 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: everything next to me is gonna get blessed too. Good measure, 489 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: press down, shake it together, come on, play me for 490 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: seven years? You want to shower and run it over. 491 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: That's why I come to church. I want to be 492 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: connected to the head so I could get the blessing 493 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: of the oil and lumps down through the pier. I 494 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: sat the boys down. I sat the boys down. Tell 495 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: somebody say there's a catch. Okay, don't say I didn't 496 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: warn you there is a catch to this message. I 497 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: sat my boys down yesterday to write my check for 498 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: this offering. I always hate these series until I write 499 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: my offering, because it's a process of going through inventorying 500 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: my nets and my boats and seeing how much of 501 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: it I still think is mine, and asking God, do 502 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: you want to use any that you gave me? Now? 503 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: When people do it, they do different amounts. Some people 504 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,479 Speaker 1: their amount may look big to somebody, but it might 505 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: be a million dollars. People have done that, but for 506 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: them it was something they could do alongside somebody who 507 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: could do fifty dollars. Then you get to see everybody 508 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: do something together. The rich men's gift, the widow's might 509 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: now blended in these walls. So we get to do 510 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: something bigger together when we partner together, when we connect together, 511 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: we can do something that none of us could do alone, 512 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: because we got to get the word out. And the 513 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: crowd just takes the word in, but the crew gets 514 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: the word out. And every blessing that God has given 515 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: me in my life has been connected to my obedience 516 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: to His word. And every blessing that God has given 517 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: me in my life, I can I can prove to 518 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: you if I had time from the first campaign that 519 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 1: we did in the church in two thousands and make 520 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,479 Speaker 1: some noise, if you are really really elevation old school 521 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: and you were here for the dominate campaign when I 522 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: stood up and I said, we're taking an offering, but 523 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: we're not going to do it today. In fact, we're 524 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: not taking an offering today at all. We're giving the 525 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: offering away. And I told everybody to look under their chairs. 526 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: True story. Look under your chairs and there is money 527 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: under your chairs. Reach under your chairs. Half the people 528 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: didn't move because they thought I was pulling something on them. 529 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: But there was really money under every chair at the church. 530 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: Don't go feeling right now. I don't do that anymore. 531 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: The church is too big. That was a one time thing, 532 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,959 Speaker 1: but it was something. The lawyer spoke to us and 533 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: I had them pull out the money, different amounts, somewhere 534 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: a dollar, most were dollar, there were some five dollars, 535 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: ten dollars, one hundred dollars, even one thousand dollars in 536 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. But I said, that money is yours. 537 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: We're not taking an offering. We're giving away the offering 538 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: this week, the amount that would normally be the offering. 539 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: It's under your chairs. We divided it up. It's under 540 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: you chairs. But there's a catch. There's a catch. Don't 541 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: spend it, use it to bless somebody. Put it online. 542 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: What you did. We'll see what God can do through 543 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,879 Speaker 1: us and everybody. I think everybody did it. I prayed 544 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: that everybody who spent the money will get diarrhea. So 545 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: but here's the point, I said, it's a blessing under 546 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: your seat. You're sitting on a blessing. But there's a catch. 547 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: You don't get to sit on it. You don't get 548 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 1: to spend it, use it. And the next week they 549 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,839 Speaker 1: came back and we had we had high attendance next week, 550 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, did you all enjoy that last week? 551 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: We're going to do it again. And everybody looked at 552 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: me like you're kidding, right, And I said, yeah, We're 553 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: going to do it again. I said, but this time 554 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: we call it the blessed Back project. God has blessed you, 555 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: He gave you your boat to be a blessing. I said, so, 556 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,399 Speaker 1: so here's the deal. We're going to do it again, 557 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: but this week the money is not under your chair, 558 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 1: it's in your bank account. There's a catch. There's a catch. 559 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: It's a mentality. What happens next in the passage proves 560 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: that the greatest blessing that God gave Peter was never 561 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: the fish in his boat, because when they saw what 562 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: Jesus was able to do only after they had obeyed. 563 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 1: Can I say that again? They only got the blessing 564 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: after they obeyed the way we would have liked for 565 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: Jesus to do it if we had been loaning him. 566 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: Our boat is to fill the boat with fish, and 567 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: then you can use it to preach. Right, God, you 568 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: bless me, and then I'll bless others. But the scripture 569 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: says something very interesting. Give and it will be given 570 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: to you. Whatever it is, encouragement, finances, time, give and 571 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 1: it will be given to you. So it is only 572 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 1: after study the construct me out. See if I'm right. 573 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: It is only after, not before, only after obedience that 574 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: evidence is manifest only after. Yes, I'll do it only after. Okay, 575 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: God has you right now on the edge of a blessing. 576 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: But there's a catch. There's a catch. The blessing will 577 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,320 Speaker 1: follow obedience. It will not proceed it. It wouldn't take faith. 578 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,120 Speaker 1: God's greatest goal for your life is not fish, it's faith. 579 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: So God wants to know, do you have the faith 580 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 1: to fish in the midst of your frustration? Do you 581 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,759 Speaker 1: have the faith to push the word of God out 582 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 1: and to trust Me to fill your boat? And when 583 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,919 Speaker 1: he does, Simon, let down the nets. The boats are full. 584 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: Hey get over here, Hey, come on over, boys, come 585 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,279 Speaker 1: on over, Come on over, James, come on over, help 586 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,800 Speaker 1: me out. And the boats come over and it's amazing. 587 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,240 Speaker 1: And the boats look at over seven got so full 588 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 1: that they began to sing. Both boats got full, Peter's 589 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: boat and his boys, everything connected to Jesus got blessed. 590 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 1: I want my life connected to the one who is 591 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: the creator. I want to stay connected to my source 592 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: and not dependent on my stuff. And when Simon Peter 593 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 1: saw this verse A, he said, boys, get the scales ready, 594 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:48,920 Speaker 1: we're about to be millionaires. When Simon Peter saw this, 595 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 1: that wasn't the real scripture. He fell at Jesus needs 596 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:05,720 Speaker 1: and say, I don't deserve this. That's a good posture. 597 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: I know I don't deserve it. I told the boys 598 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: the other day when I sat him down, sat them down, 599 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: I know. I brought it up here. Yeah, this checkbook 600 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,920 Speaker 1: I had to teach them what to check was No, 601 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 1: I've done this before. I said, we're getting ready for 602 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,920 Speaker 1: the offering. I took them back to two thousand and seven, 603 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 1: when the people gave toward a building that we hadn't 604 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: even identified yet. We didn't even know what we were 605 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: raising money for, just raising it by faith, and they 606 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 1: did it. They did it and over and over again. 607 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 1: You can see it now. Seventeen campuses, all the millions 608 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 1: of dollars of outreach all around the world, the online community, 609 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,839 Speaker 1: getting the word out, just getting the word out, get 610 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: in the word out, thousands of people, get in the 611 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:53,360 Speaker 1: word out, Get in the word out, Get in the 612 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 1: word out, get in the word out, get in the 613 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: word out. And so I explained the story behind this 614 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 1: offering to them. This is one of those that I 615 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,800 Speaker 1: did not ask colleagues permission before I wrote the number, 616 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: because it's significant to me, because this amount of money 617 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 1: of something that was a dream of mine that came 618 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: true this year. And I don't have one stream of income. 619 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: I have different streams of income, and this is the 620 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 1: stream of income that I've been praying for, not the income, 621 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: but the influence that created the income, and I've been 622 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,799 Speaker 1: praying for it for many years now. In fact, without 623 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,839 Speaker 1: going into great detail about it, I prayed about this 624 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,560 Speaker 1: before I prayed about starting the church, and it happened 625 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,920 Speaker 1: for me at a new level this year. Without boring 626 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: you on the details of that, I went and looked 627 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: up the exact amount of the increase that came that 628 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 1: from that dream that came true in my life, and 629 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 1: I made the check to the exact amount to the 630 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 1: penny of that. Here's why. Here's why I did it. 631 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,760 Speaker 1: Because I was studying about this passage, and I noticed 632 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 1: how Peter the moment of this great miracle in verse eleven, Well, 633 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,920 Speaker 1: we should probably read verse ten when Jesus looked at 634 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:18,799 Speaker 1: him and said, don't be afraid. From now on you 635 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 1: will fish for people. And then I read what Peter 636 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 1: did next. It said that Peter pulled his boat up 637 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,960 Speaker 1: on the shore, and not just Peter, but they, because 638 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 1: the people connected to you will follow your example, fathers, mothers. 639 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,840 Speaker 1: So they pulled their boats up on the shore, left everything, 640 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,960 Speaker 1: They left what they had just been blessed with for 641 00:40:52,000 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: a greater blessing that was ahead. So I heard an 642 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,840 Speaker 1: impression in my heart. God speaks to all of us 643 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,919 Speaker 1: in different ways. He said, do you want the fish 644 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,200 Speaker 1: or the favor? Wow, do you want to keep the 645 00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,160 Speaker 1: fish or do you want to flow in the favor 646 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 1: that told the fish where to swim to begin with? 647 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 1: Ain't it it's expensive too? But I imagine on the day 648 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,759 Speaker 1: of Pentecost, and this is what I told the boys. 649 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: I said, look around at all this that God has 650 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,440 Speaker 1: given us. And I don't just mean the house. The 651 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:44,319 Speaker 1: house is nice. The house is nice. I don't just 652 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:49,400 Speaker 1: mean your switch. Is that what it's called. I don't 653 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:54,680 Speaker 1: just mean your clothes. I mean this, the ability to 654 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,840 Speaker 1: touch people's lives. I mean this just us being together. 655 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:05,080 Speaker 1: I said, everything we have is a result of God's 656 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:09,680 Speaker 1: favor following our obedience, and I don't want it to 657 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 1: ever stop. So you can have the fish. I want 658 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: the favor. You can have the fish. I want to 659 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 1: walk in the favor of God, and surely goodness and 660 00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: mercy will follow me all the days of my life. 661 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 1: If I follow Jesus favor follows me. You can have 662 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 1: my booth, you can have my heart, you can have 663 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 1: it all. Stand up, God is moving in this place. 664 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,840 Speaker 1: You never miss the fish that you leave behind to 665 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 1: follow God in faith. You think Peter stood up on 666 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost and preached and three thousand people 667 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,680 Speaker 1: got saved in Revival was unleashed in Jerusalem. That led 668 00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,560 Speaker 1: to revival in Judea, that led to revival in Samaria 669 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,800 Speaker 1: that led to revival to the ends of the earth. 670 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 1: You think Peter was standing up there in the pulpit 671 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,560 Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecost, thinking, man, I miss those fish, 672 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 1: because long after the fish stink, the favor of God 673 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,480 Speaker 1: will still be long after the stuff is out of style. 674 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:32,880 Speaker 1: Only what's done for Christ will last only one life. 675 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 1: It soon south passed. Only what's done for Christ will last. 676 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 1: Can I get a push the word of God needed 677 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: away into the earth. Can I get a push? That's 678 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,000 Speaker 1: what God is asking his church today, as so many 679 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: times before. You want to go deeper, you want to 680 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,360 Speaker 1: go farther, You want to flow, You want to flow 681 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: in the favor of God. Let me use your boat. 682 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,479 Speaker 1: If you don't want to, it's fine because there's another boat. 683 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,879 Speaker 1: There's always another boat. I sure would like to get 684 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: in yours because I made you, and I gifted you, 685 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,800 Speaker 1: and I graced you, and I blessed you, and I 686 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 1: kept you, and I put you where I put you. 687 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:31,880 Speaker 1: Can I use your boat? We pray another prayer of surrender, 688 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,279 Speaker 1: not my will, but yours be done. Because you say so, 689 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: I'll let down. Then that's no negotiation, no justification. We 690 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,960 Speaker 1: don't need an explanation, We just need a word speak, 691 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:57,759 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to 692 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,680 Speaker 1: those of you who give generously to this minute. Is 693 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,719 Speaker 1: because of you that this ministry is possible. You can 694 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: click the link in the description to give now or 695 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:11,040 Speaker 1: visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information and 696 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,279 Speaker 1: if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 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