Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope
Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in
Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem
Speaker 2: for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem,
Speaker 2: near the sheep Gate a pool which an aramaic is
Speaker 2: called Bethesda, and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
Speaker 2: Five is the number of grace symbolically in the Bible
Speaker 2: a lot of times when you see it, and the
Speaker 2: word bethesda means house of mercy. So they're going to
Speaker 2: a place to get mercy, to get a miracle. And
Speaker 2: the Bible says in verse three, here a great number
Speaker 2: of disabled people used to lie, the blind, the lame,
Speaker 2: the paralyzed. And you know, when we read that list,
Speaker 2: it's easy for us sometimes to think that the physical
Speaker 2: condition are the ones that need the greatest healing. But
Speaker 2: you know, you might be in here tonight and what
Speaker 2: you're dealing with is crippling anxiety. Maybe in here tonight
Speaker 2: and maybe you're dealing with the condition that we can't
Speaker 2: see outwardly.
Speaker 1: But the Lord still wants to touch that area of
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: But notice in verse five, this is the important word
Speaker 2: to me, It says one one who was there.
Speaker 1: That's how personal God is. One who was there had been.
Speaker 2: An invalid for thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him
Speaker 2: lying there and learned that he had been in this
Speaker 2: condition for a long time, he asked.
Speaker 1: Him, do you want to get well?
Speaker 2: Uh? Oh, the way you answer this question is going
Speaker 2: to mark your life from this moment forward.
Speaker 1: I dare somebody to shout.
Speaker 2: I want it, Lord, Yeah, I want it, Lord. I
Speaker 2: want to get better. I want to grow out of this.
Speaker 2: I want these chains to break. I want to be
Speaker 2: set free. I want to move forward. I want this
Speaker 2: bitterness gone. Somebody shout, I want it. But the invalid
Speaker 2: replied verse seven, Sir, I have no one to help
Speaker 2: me into the pool.
Speaker 1: When the water is stirred.
Speaker 2: While I'm trying to get in, someone else goes down
Speaker 2: ahead of me. In other words, he's got excuses. But
Speaker 2: verse eight is really the power of the passage.
Speaker 3: Then Jesus said to him, get up, pick up your
Speaker 3: mat and walk.
Speaker 2: At Once the man was cured, he picked up his
Speaker 2: mat and walk. Let's clap our hands one more time
Speaker 2: for the word of God. Now, before you take your seat,
Speaker 2: I need you to look at your neighbor. Look at
Speaker 2: either one of them. You want to whichever one you
Speaker 2: like the best. Look at your neighbor and give him
Speaker 2: my sermon title. Say neighbor, I've got to get up.
Speaker 2: High five three people tell him I've got to get up.
Speaker 1: I've got to get up. I've got to get up,
Speaker 1: got to do it.
Speaker 2: I've got to get up. You may be seated, I've
Speaker 2: got to get up. I haven't preached it like this
Speaker 2: any of the other nights. I just felt like somebody
Speaker 2: in Miami needed to declare that.
Speaker 1: I've got to get up. I've got to get up.
Speaker 2: Stories like this in the Bible remind me that when
Speaker 2: God gets ready to do something, nothing can stop him.
Speaker 2: When God gets ready to move in your life, nothing
Speaker 2: can stop him. Don't worry about the people who don't
Speaker 2: like you. God will make the right people like you,
Speaker 2: and he'll remove the wrong people from your life. Boy,
Speaker 2: you shouted over that somebody's going through a breakup, go
Speaker 2: ahead and praise God for the breakup that's going to
Speaker 2: lead to the breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When God gets ready to move, nothing can stop him.
Speaker 2: Nobody can stop him. I found that much to be true.
Speaker 2: When we started our church in Charlotte. I told a
Speaker 2: lot of people I wanted our church to be multicultural.
Speaker 2: In other words, just because I'm a white pastor, that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean I just want to pastor.
Speaker 1: All white people.
Speaker 2: Just because I grew up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina
Speaker 2: doesn't mean I only want to reach people from South Carolina.
Speaker 2: I want to reach everybody God's called me to reach.
Speaker 2: And one guy I told this too. He was an
Speaker 2: expert in starting churches, and he said, that won't work
Speaker 2: in Charlotte. You can't unify people in Charlotte. Racism is
Speaker 2: too ingrained in the culture of Charlotte to have a
Speaker 2: multicultural church. And you know, every time I look around
Speaker 2: our church on Sunday morning and I see white people
Speaker 2: and black people, and I see people you know that
Speaker 2: maybe don't even share the same background, they only maybe
Speaker 2: share the same religious background worship in side by side.
Speaker 2: I am so glad that God did not consult that
Speaker 2: guy to see if.
Speaker 1: He could have a multicultural church in Charlotte.
Speaker 2: And that's the beautiful thing about God in our lives.
Speaker 2: The last time I was in Miami to preach to you,
Speaker 2: I shared this story. I'd like to share a little
Speaker 2: bit of it again about my dad. You know, when
Speaker 2: I gave my life to Jesus, I was sixteen years old,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned the name of the town I grew
Speaker 2: up in.
Speaker 1: It's called Monk's Corner, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Now, my wife was growing up in Miami and I
Speaker 2: was growing up in Monk's Corner.
Speaker 1: They're very different.
Speaker 2: The town I grew up in had six thousand people
Speaker 2: in it, and so this room tonight, if you cut
Speaker 2: it in half, what's the town I grew up in.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy that I'm here.
Speaker 2: But when God gets ready to do something, nothing can
Speaker 2: stop up him. And to be honest, when I first
Speaker 2: gave my life to Christ, I was so passionate that
Speaker 2: I was a little obnoxious, And when I would share
Speaker 2: the Gospel with people, I would always.
Speaker 1: Be very judgmental and condemning.
Speaker 2: So basically means I would run around telling everybody they
Speaker 2: were going to hell for everything all the time, not
Speaker 2: just I was telling them Jesus loved them. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you are going to hell. You going to hell for
Speaker 2: smoking weed. You go into hell for drinking beer. You're
Speaker 2: going to hell for watching R rated movies. You might
Speaker 2: go to hell for watching a PG thirteen one movie.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what scenes are in it yet.
Speaker 2: You go into hell for listening to secular music. Just
Speaker 2: everybody's going to hell. But I meant, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm still passionate, but I've adjusted my technique a little bit.
Speaker 2: But the first significant person that I was really praying
Speaker 2: for was my dad.
Speaker 1: Now my dad is in heaven. My dad went to
Speaker 1: be with the Lord in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: And when I gave my life to Jesus, he was
Speaker 2: not following Christ and he was dealing with several addictions
Speaker 2: in his life.
Speaker 1: He had a very traumatic childhood.
Speaker 2: He lost his own father at a very young age,
Speaker 2: and a lot of the things about his life I
Speaker 2: would not even learn until much later. But at age sixteen,
Speaker 2: I remember telling my dad one morning I was getting
Speaker 2: ready to go to church and he wasn't going, and
Speaker 2: I looked at him on the way out the door
Speaker 2: and I said, you know, because I had to borrow
Speaker 2: his tie and stuff like that, but he wasn't using
Speaker 2: it to go to church.
Speaker 1: So I'm putting on his tie out.
Speaker 2: Of his closet and I said, Dad, before long, you're
Speaker 2: gonna be dressing up to go to church too. God's
Speaker 2: about to get a hold of your life. You need
Speaker 2: to get ready because it's gona be amazing. Because I'm
Speaker 2: praying for you. It's gonna be awesome. So just get ready,
Speaker 2: and I walked out the door. Now I know how
Speaker 2: you want this story to go. You want him to
Speaker 2: jump in the car and follow me that day, but
Speaker 2: that didn't happen. About two years later, I was on
Speaker 2: a traveling ministry team from our little Baptist college, which
Speaker 2: is actually how I got Holly to be my girlfriend.
Speaker 2: I put her on my ministry team, which is game.
Speaker 2: You gotta admit that is godly game. Hey girl, do
Speaker 2: you want to be on my summer ministry team? And
Speaker 2: I knew if I could expose her to my anointing
Speaker 2: for a whole summer, she would find it irresistible.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the last.
Speaker 2: Stop of the summer where we were going to all
Speaker 2: these little churches was at my home church. And again
Speaker 2: it's been a couple of years since that conversation with
Speaker 2: my dad, and I preached the sermon that morning, and
Speaker 2: in the Baptist church, you would preach and then give
Speaker 2: an invitation for people to come forward and give their
Speaker 2: life to Christ. And I remember that particular morning feeling
Speaker 2: like I had failed in my sermon.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a sense you get as a preacher.
Speaker 2: Like I just wasn't clear. I just didn't get the
Speaker 2: job done. I don't think they got it. And I
Speaker 2: went and sat down on the front row and I
Speaker 2: bowed my head, which would have looked like I was praying,
Speaker 2: but I was really embarrassed. I didn't want to look
Speaker 2: and see that nobody was going to come to the
Speaker 2: altar after that terrible message. But Pastor Mickey, my pastor,
Speaker 2: he tapped me on the shoulder and he pointed to
Speaker 2: the altar and there was one person at the altar
Speaker 2: and it was my dad. And he's just crying like
Speaker 2: a baby. I mean, he's a big dude, to like six'
Speaker 2: too two d and eighty. Pounds there's only three times
Speaker 2: THAT i ever saw him cry in my, life and
Speaker 2: this was one of.
Speaker 1: Them and he gave his life To christ that day.
Speaker 4: After the worst SERMON i ever, Preached because When god
Speaker 4: gets ready to do, something nothing can stop, him not
Speaker 4: even a bad, sermon not even a bad neck.
Speaker 2: Tie nothing can Stop god when he gets ready to do.
Speaker 2: Something and you, KNOW i had a conversation with my
Speaker 2: dad about.
Speaker 1: THAT a little bit.
Speaker 2: LATER i asked, him you, know After god started working
Speaker 2: in his life and, STUFF i, said do you remember
Speaker 2: that day WHEN i looked at you and, Said god's
Speaker 2: about to change your? Life get ready is going to be?
Speaker 2: Amazing and he, goes, YEAH i, REMEMBER i thought you were.
Speaker 2: CRAZY i fell sorry for. YOU i knew you were
Speaker 2: about to be disappointed because you had no idea how
Speaker 2: far GONE i really. WAS i knew that you had
Speaker 2: no idea what was really going on in my. Life
Speaker 2: and if you knew WHAT i was really dealing, with
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have that kind of faith like. That but
Speaker 2: When god gets ready to do something in somebody's, LIFE
Speaker 2: i don't care if you're six,' two i don't care
Speaker 2: if you bench press four hundred and. FIVE pounds i
Speaker 2: don't care what kind of creatine protein steroids. You Take
Speaker 2: when god gets ready to, do something all of the
Speaker 2: brute force in the world can't. Withstand him that's why
Speaker 2: some of you big dudes, were crying dearing worship tonight
Speaker 2: and you were trying to try it before she. Saw
Speaker 2: it but let, it, fall man because we All, need
Speaker 2: jesus we All, need god we all.
Speaker 1: Need GRACE am i right?
Speaker 2: About it that's why we were lifting our hands because
Speaker 2: we've got some goliaths that. We're fighting we've got some
Speaker 2: giants that, we're facing and We need god to bring.
Speaker 1: Them down and all the power in the world can't.
Speaker 2: Do it but one Touch, from god one Word, from god,
Speaker 2: one MOMENT and i feel. LIKE preaching i need to
Speaker 2: get back behind this pulpit and.
Speaker 1: Settle down is. Too early but touch somebody. And say
Speaker 1: nothing Can. Stop god nothing Can.
Speaker 2: Stop god not, a diagnosis not a, bad report not.
Speaker 2: A rejection nothing Can, stop god NOT an. Iq deficiency
Speaker 2: god likes.
Speaker 1: To use people who aren't.
Speaker 2: That smart, That way he gets all the Glory when
Speaker 2: he shows you what. To do although not, too smart
Speaker 2: but Trust, in god.
Speaker 1: People's shall.
Speaker 2: And so in, this passage we have a man who
Speaker 2: is too. Far gone he's been in this condition thirty.
Speaker 2: Eight years he's been unable to move thirty. Eight years
Speaker 2: he has been unable to do what other people do
Speaker 2: effortlessly thirty eight years.
Speaker 1: Until, one day.
Speaker 2: One man speaks one word over, his life And when jesus,
Speaker 2: showed up the man didn't even get a chance. To
Speaker 2: refuse jesus just, told him you've got to.
Speaker 1: Get up.
Speaker 2: Tell, your neighbor you've got to. Get up, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Isn't It because jesus wanted to use. This man he
Speaker 2: wanted his mat where he used to lay to become.
Speaker 1: His.
Speaker 2: Testimony yeah god will use the thing that you're. Struggling
Speaker 2: with he will use the thing that you're asking him.
Speaker 1: To take away to teach.
Speaker 2: You grace he will use the thing that you struggle
Speaker 2: with so that when he sets you free, from it
Speaker 2: you can go back to other people who struggle, and
Speaker 2: say let me tell You what god did.
Speaker 1: For me if he did it, for me he can
Speaker 1: do it. For you that's why you've got to. Get up.
Speaker 2: But you don't have to do it. By yourself because
Speaker 2: the hero of this story is not. THE man i
Speaker 2: don't even like the man in. This story he's full.
Speaker 2: Of excuses we find out later in verse fourteen that
Speaker 2: he lived a. Sinful life he didn't ask to. Get
Speaker 2: healed he Didn't tell jesus. Thank you he didn't Even
Speaker 2: know jesus's name after, the heal and he just took
Speaker 2: the free gift and was trying to sneak out of
Speaker 2: there before the man changed. HIS mind i don't even
Speaker 2: find this guy particularly charismatic or worthy of, a miracle
Speaker 2: But when god gets ready to, do something nothing can.
Speaker 1: Stop HIM.
Speaker 2: So i want to show you briefly three Things that.
Speaker 2: JESUS did i Told you i'm From a. BAPTIST background
Speaker 2: i got to have three POINTS so i won't FEEL
Speaker 2: like i did my.
Speaker 1: Job tonight there are three Things.
Speaker 2: That jesus does in this PASSAGE that i believe he
Speaker 2: wants to do with you and for, you TONIGHT and
Speaker 2: i want you to repeat them. After me, Number one,
Speaker 2: jesus stops, Say it jesus. Stopped us, Number two, jesus sees,
Speaker 2: Say it. Jesus sees and, number three this is, My favorite, jesus.
Speaker 5: Says, Say it, Jesus says. Jesus stops. Jesus sees, Jesus says.
Speaker 5: Jesus stops imagine being one of. His disciples you're an
Speaker 5: apprentice to the most important man in.
Speaker 1: Human history, and, Remember y'all jesus doesn't.
Speaker 2: Have long he only has three years of public ministry
Speaker 2: before he goes to.
Speaker 1: The cross and so, one day as.
Speaker 2: He's headed up for This important, jewish festival he Turns
Speaker 2: To peter andrew or one of those boys, and, Says
Speaker 2: hey i've got A stop i need to make before
Speaker 2: we get to.
Speaker 1: The temple and, it's, like, okay well if.
Speaker 2: We're stopping, You know jesus is a healer and a
Speaker 2: savior and, a redeemer and he's got all these. Important
Speaker 2: things we must be stopping for somebody. Very important so you.
Speaker 1: Follow him just.
Speaker 2: Imagine you're Following, g Jesus and, JESUS says i have
Speaker 2: A stop i need, to make and you pull up
Speaker 2: to this pool where people are lying around waiting for
Speaker 2: the water to be stirred because they are that desperate for.
Speaker 1: A miracle And the bible says that.
Speaker 2: They were blind and laying. And paralyzed now notice none
Speaker 2: of them are mentioned by. Their name they are all
Speaker 2: mentioned by. Their condition and THE reason i point that
Speaker 2: out to you is because sometimes you can go through
Speaker 2: something so long that you forget who.
Speaker 1: You are.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can go through a season of depression that
Speaker 2: is so deep that you no Longer say i'm dealing.
Speaker 1: With depression YOU say i. Am depressed.
Speaker 2: You, start, SAYING well i can't do THAT because i.
Speaker 2: Have anxiety that's fine for you to. Have anxiety we all, get,
Speaker 2: AFRAID right i get NERVOUS before i preach. To you
Speaker 2: i'm over on the same to, the stage Going, oh God,
Speaker 2: MY god i need, you NOW how i need?
Speaker 1: You now Oh, Roc oh Rock.
Speaker 2: Of ages there's twelve thousand People in miami that came
Speaker 2: for a word, from You and i'm not good enough to.
Speaker 2: Do It, so god would you help me tonight because
Speaker 2: they need you for.
Speaker 1: Their situation.
Speaker 2: But wouldn't it be TERRIBLE if i let the fear
Speaker 2: of letting you down stop me from preaching. To you
Speaker 2: wouldn't it be TERRIBLE if i let the people who
Speaker 2: criticize me for my style of preaching stop me from
Speaker 2: preaching The way god called me.
Speaker 1: To preach god didn't call me to reach. PERFECT people
Speaker 1: i don't need to preach the. Perfect People if i'm preaching.
Speaker 2: The, perfect people That means i'm Dead and i'm. In
Speaker 2: heaven that's the Only place whe're preaching the. PERFECT people
Speaker 2: i want to preach to some, messed UP imperfect I
Speaker 2: need God and i'm not ashamed to.
Speaker 1: Say It people are there any people like that in, The?
Speaker 1: House tony so it's all right that you struggle.
Speaker 2: With it but the problem becomes when you begin to
Speaker 2: forget your true Nature in christ because you are so
Speaker 2: consumed by the thing that won't let.
Speaker 1: You go it could be an addiction for some.
Speaker 2: Of you. It is it could be the doubt that
Speaker 2: you feel sometimes you Wonder is god? Even, real sometimes
Speaker 2: even in an environment, like this it can be tricky
Speaker 2: because it seems like everybody else has got their lives
Speaker 2: so much more together, than you because you just look
Speaker 2: at them and they, ARE like i Trust, in god and, you're,
Speaker 2: like man that must be awesome to Just trusting.
Speaker 1: God like that like.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 1: I'ma tell you.
Speaker 2: A secret those of us that are lifting our hands,
Speaker 2: so high we're not lifting our hands that high because we're.
Speaker 1: So holy It's because he is. So holy we're not
Speaker 1: lifting our.
Speaker 2: Hands so high because we've got it. All together we're
Speaker 2: lifting our hands so high because We need him to hold,
Speaker 2: us together Because without him we'd.
Speaker 1: Fall apart clap. Your Hands if i'm right? About it
Speaker 1: from the front to. The back.
Speaker 2: And doesn't it touch your heart to know that we
Speaker 2: have a savior who stops for one man who can't
Speaker 2: do anything, in return a man who has been stuck
Speaker 2: in the same place for thirty, eight years a man
Speaker 2: who everybody else just walks.
Speaker 1: Right over, jesus says you do you want to? Get
Speaker 1: well for? One Man thank god that.
Speaker 2: HE stops i don't know how to explain this, to
Speaker 2: you But when, I'm preaching i'm able to picture As
Speaker 2: if jesus was walking up and down these aisles in this,
Speaker 2: arena tonight looking, for one looking, for one one who has,
Speaker 2: been praying one who will, be honest one who will
Speaker 2: open up, their heart just one. AND see i have
Speaker 2: a visual, for This that jesus would stop. For one
Speaker 2: because as MUCH as i love this and love you
Speaker 2: and want to, appreach tonight if one little girl in
Speaker 2: this Room Named abby fredick screamed in, PAIN tonight i
Speaker 2: would stop the whole.
Speaker 1: Sermon for her and.
Speaker 2: Somebody Else rich wilkerson would have to come up here
Speaker 2: and pick up my second and, third point which might
Speaker 2: not be a bad, idea anyway but somebody else would
Speaker 2: have to finish because if one of. My, children now
Speaker 2: if It, was graham my eighteen year, OLD boy i
Speaker 2: might just let him tough.
Speaker 1: It out.
Speaker 2: I'M kidding i would stop for. Him Too but i'm
Speaker 2: trying to get you to See that jesus stops For
Speaker 2: one he's a, Wonderful savior he's A. Merciful god and
Speaker 2: not only does he stop for, one man but he
Speaker 2: stops the disease that has robbed this man of. His
Speaker 2: Life and jesus tonight can say stop to, a situation
Speaker 2: and it has, to obey because he has all power and.
Speaker 2: All authority Jesus the King, Of kings Jesus the Lord.
Speaker 2: Of lords Jesus the Prince. Of peace Jesus.
Speaker 1: The lily Of.
Speaker 2: The valley Jesus the Lamb of god slain from the
Speaker 2: foundation of. The earth Jesus the lion of the Tribe.
Speaker 2: Of judah Jesus the Alpha. And omega Jesus the first And,
Speaker 2: The last Jesus the Bride And.
Speaker 1: Morning star jesus, who was and is and is. To
Speaker 1: come Jesus.
Speaker 2: The man On The, Middle cross jesus The, Stone roller
Speaker 2: Jesus the resurrection And, The life Jesus The, Good shepherd
Speaker 2: jesus the, True vibe jesus the, Dead meter jesus the,
Speaker 2: Way maker jesus, The shamebreaker jesus who has the name
Speaker 2: that is about every name that the Name, of jesus
Speaker 2: every name.
Speaker 1: Will bow and every tone Confess. That jesus.
Speaker 2: Jesus stops for a man whose name we don't.
Speaker 1: Even know.
Speaker 2: He's, that good he's, that powerful he's, that personal he's.
Speaker 2: That purposeful he has aligned your life in such a
Speaker 2: way that.
Speaker 1: There is nothing you're going through that.
Speaker 2: Surprises him there is nothing you're going through that makes
Speaker 2: him ashamed. Of you there is nothing you can bring
Speaker 2: him that. Is insignificant you're. His child there's nothing you
Speaker 2: can bring him. That's intimidating He. Is god there is
Speaker 2: nothing in your.
Speaker 1: Life that you can't come to. Him about and.
Speaker 2: He stops, one Time the disciples we're in a terrible
Speaker 2: Storm in march, chapter Four and jesus was sleeping in
Speaker 2: the stern of, the Ship and peter thought he, didn't
Speaker 2: care and, he said, Wake, up jesus.
Speaker 1: Do something we're about. To Die and jesus, WAS like
Speaker 1: i was just letting you go through the storm for a.
Speaker 2: Little while and then he got up and he. Stopped
Speaker 2: It because jesus can stop.
Speaker 1: A storm jesus can. Stop it.
Speaker 2: Touch through if People say jesus can, stop it he can.
Speaker 2: Stop it he can stop. A storm he can stop
Speaker 2: a storm in. Your life the next time the panic,
Speaker 2: attack comes just start calling on the Name. Of, Jesus, Jesus,
Speaker 2: jesus jesus. You're, Enough, jesus jesus still this storm in.
Speaker 2: My life he can stop. A storm, one Time in luke,
Speaker 2: chapter seven they were having a funeral for a. Little
Speaker 2: boy they were going through the streets of a Town,
Speaker 2: called nine and a widow was about to bury her.
Speaker 1: Only son he was going through the. Streets Dead but jesus.
Speaker 2: Had compassion on, the woman and he reached out his
Speaker 2: hand and he touched the, little boy and the boy sat.
Speaker 1: Up Straight because jesus can stop.
Speaker 2: A funeral don't bury, your hope don't bury, your faith
Speaker 2: don't bury. Your joy jesus can. Stop it one touch,
Speaker 2: from him and all of, a sudden the funeral. Was
Speaker 2: canceled jesus can. Stop it, one Time in john, chapter
Speaker 2: eight they were about to stone a woman to death
Speaker 2: because she had done something, very sinful and they caught
Speaker 2: her and maybe you're dealing with shame and condemnation in this.
Speaker 2: Place TONIGHT and i want you to Know what jesus
Speaker 2: did for. THE woman i believe he'll do. For you
Speaker 2: he got down in, the dirt because not only is
Speaker 2: he a.
Speaker 1: Savior, who stops he's a savior.
Speaker 2: Who stoops and he got down in the dirt of the,
Speaker 2: woman's situation and he began to write something in. The
Speaker 2: dirt and when the people had their stones ready to throw,
Speaker 2: at her which represents the condemnation of the enemy against your,
Speaker 2: life tonight that you've been feeling, so ashamed and you've
Speaker 2: been feeling LIKE maybe i don't have, a future and
Speaker 2: maybe it's over. For Me and, jesus said let he
Speaker 2: who is without sin cast the.
Speaker 1: First stone and here's what.
Speaker 2: He knew the only one without sin, was him and
Speaker 2: he was down in. The dirt and the only one
Speaker 2: who can pronounce over your life what your life can
Speaker 2: be is the one who.
Speaker 1: Created you and.
Speaker 2: Fashioned You and jesus stopped, the STONING and i came
Speaker 2: to Declare over, miami tonight we have a.
Speaker 1: Savior who can. Stop IT so i Love that.
Speaker 2: JESUS stops i love every time that little hissing sound
Speaker 2: comes out of the SCOREBOARD because i feel like it's
Speaker 2: the devil having a panic attack while We're praising god in.
Speaker 2: Here tonight the devil is sighing because he knows that
Speaker 2: this is the last night that you're gonna believe the
Speaker 2: lies he's been.
Speaker 1: TELLING you i know he's been lying, to you.
Speaker 2: Some. Of you he's had you up at two and
Speaker 2: three in the morning worrying about situations that may never.
Speaker 2: Even happen he's stealing all your strength and all your
Speaker 2: joy even in this. Service tonight it's so important that
Speaker 2: when we, say amen that you don't. Stop singing it's
Speaker 2: so important that when we, say amen you don't. Stop praising.
Speaker 1: You've got to really carry this night with you because.
Speaker 2: The giants that you're facing aren't going to be any
Speaker 2: different when you, get home but.
Speaker 1: You are, he stops and then. VERSE six i. Love
Speaker 1: it it's so poetic.
Speaker 2: To me do y'all just Love the BIBLE like? I,
Speaker 2: do man it's fresh. To me i've been preaching IT
Speaker 2: since i was sixteen, years old and it's still fresh.
Speaker 2: To me because look what VERSE six sss is coming
Speaker 2: up on. The, screen Plase when jesus saw him. Lying,
Speaker 2: there now what's so significant, about That, Pastor steven why
Speaker 2: are you stopping to tell? Me that because think this
Speaker 2: man was lying on, a mat and most people only
Speaker 2: identified him with. His mat they only saw what he,
Speaker 2: Couldn't do they only saw what he. Couldn't Be but
Speaker 2: jesus didn't see the. Mat first he saw.
Speaker 1: The man he sees me say it. Out loud he.
Speaker 1: Sees me he sees me in, my storm he sees
Speaker 1: me in.
Speaker 2: My disappointment he even sees the parts of ME that
Speaker 2: i want to hide from. Everybody else he sees the
Speaker 2: parts of ME that i won't even admit. To myself
Speaker 2: and one of the most amazing things to Realize. About
Speaker 2: JESUS and i want to say this, just, right okay
Speaker 2: so bear with me for a MOMENT when i realized
Speaker 2: that the one who knows me, the best loves me,
Speaker 2: the most is set, me free because if he knows
Speaker 2: me totally and loves, me completely what can others do?
Speaker 1: To me.
Speaker 2: Jesus saw the man, lying there and he learned that
Speaker 2: his condition was so bad that it. Looked hopeless like
Speaker 2: my dad, who said you had no idea how FAR gone.
Speaker 2: I was And then jesus is, probably thinking but you
Speaker 2: have no idea HOW good.
Speaker 1: I am you have. No, idea hey you have no
Speaker 1: idea HOW.
Speaker 2: Good i am at. My, Job see jesus is the Word.
Speaker 2: Of god he doesn't speak the Word. Of god he
Speaker 2: is the Word. Of god So when jesus sees, the
Speaker 2: man he doesn't see him where.
Speaker 1: He is he sees who he.
Speaker 2: Really is and sometimes you get confused about who you
Speaker 2: really are because all you see is. Your mat all
Speaker 2: you see is. Your mat all you see is the
Speaker 2: thing you. Struggle with one of the things that really
Speaker 2: makes me laugh about. My WIFE now i need you
Speaker 2: all to pray for her, about this because this is
Speaker 2: the only issue that she has other.
Speaker 1: Than this she is truly the, perfect woman and she's a.
Speaker 1: Great gift but one thing that she does is.
Speaker 2: So confusing you Know, how christmas when you give, your
Speaker 2: gifts you kind of like stagger them where you start
Speaker 2: with the smallest one and then you go to the
Speaker 2: biggest one if you're getting multiple gifts. For, somebody Okay
Speaker 2: so holly always gets, great gifts but she does this
Speaker 2: weird thing with boxes because she's she's got all these
Speaker 2: really nice boxes and she doesn't want them to go.
Speaker 2: To waste so what, she'll do and you'll pray for her,
Speaker 2: about This the lord can. DELIVER her i have faith that.
Speaker 2: He can when she gives you the, cheapest gift a
Speaker 2: lot of times it will be in the, nicest box
Speaker 2: which is so disappointing when you open the paper and
Speaker 2: the Box, Says nordstrom and then you open the box
Speaker 2: and the gift the Box, says nordstrom and the gift Says,
Speaker 2: dollar tree.
Speaker 1: And you'll open the, box like what?
Speaker 2: Is this this doesn't Match that she will put the
Speaker 2: worst gift in the. Best Box but god will do just.
Speaker 2: The opposite god will package some of his best gifts
Speaker 2: in some of the. Ugliest boxes have any of you
Speaker 2: been dealing with an ugly box in your? Life lately,
Speaker 2: come on don't leave me up here, by Myself like
Speaker 2: i'm the only One that amazon dropped off a box
Speaker 2: that had been beaten and torn and rained on. And
Speaker 2: weathered but if you open, the box and if You
Speaker 2: trust god and not, the box you might find that
Speaker 2: the season you're going through, right now you're gonna look
Speaker 2: back at it a year from now, and go Thank
Speaker 2: you lord for that. Ugly box because in that ugly
Speaker 2: box was a. Great GIFT and i just came to declare,
Speaker 2: right now you cannot give.
Speaker 1: Up on this season of your life because you don't like.
Speaker 2: The box god does not live inside of. Your box
Speaker 2: god sees things you. Can't see god knows things you.
Speaker 2: Can't know god does not see the man on. The
Speaker 2: mat he sees the mat on. The man in, Other
Speaker 2: words god sees you coming out. OF this i declare
Speaker 2: tonight you are not going to die in this. Low
Speaker 2: state this is not going to be the end of.
Speaker 2: Your story this is just a chapter in. Your life
Speaker 2: you've got to. Get up your.
Speaker 1: Future children are depending. On it some of you in.
Speaker 2: This room are to be the one in your generation
Speaker 2: that breaks the curse that has been over.
Speaker 1: Your family There.
Speaker 2: Are, OH god i felt chills all up and down
Speaker 2: my SPINE when i. SAID that i don't know who,
Speaker 2: it is but there are some of you in.
Speaker 1: This room and if it hits YOU when i, said
Speaker 1: it jump up And give god Praise that i'm. The
Speaker 1: one god's gonna. Use me i'm gonna have. A testimony
Speaker 1: i'm not dying.
Speaker 2: Down here he stops and he sees.
Speaker 1: Somebody say jesus, Stops say. Jesus sees.
Speaker 2: And my favorite part of, the, verse Y'all is, jesus
Speaker 2: says because you got two voices, going on you've got
Speaker 2: one voice saying.
Speaker 1: Stay down you can't. Stay down you've. Tried before. Stay
Speaker 1: down it's. No use this is.
Speaker 2: Not real that dude up there with, the microphone he
Speaker 2: is just hyping.
Speaker 1: You up this is.
Speaker 2: Just emotionalism it is not EMOTIONALISM that i am preaching to.
Speaker 1: You tonight it's.
Speaker 2: Called faith it's called the Power. Of god it's the Presence.
Speaker 2: Of god it's the Name. Of jesus this is. Not
Speaker 2: hype this. Is hope it's been too long that you've been.
Speaker 2: Down there and with one Word from jesus verse, number
Speaker 2: Eight then jesus said, to him you've got to. Get
Speaker 2: up Somebody say i've got to.
Speaker 1: Get up.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: It worked.
Speaker 2: He, got up and he took up his net just
Speaker 2: because he did what the. MAN said i wonder what
Speaker 2: would happen tonight if you would just do what the.
Speaker 1: Man said this guy. Got healed and he didn't Even know.
Speaker 1: Jesus's name you know, A name you know.
Speaker 2: A name that can silence. Roaring waves you know a
Speaker 2: name that can empty out. A grave you know a
Speaker 2: name that when, it resounds chains have. To break and
Speaker 2: the men got up and began. To walk and when
Speaker 2: he did, verse Nine the bible says it Was a,
Speaker 2: sabbath day which was not the day that they thought
Speaker 2: he was supposed to, Be healed but it was the
Speaker 2: Day that god decided to. Heal him Because when god
Speaker 2: gets ready to, do something.
Speaker 1: Nothing can.
Speaker 2: Stop HIM didn't i say that at the beginning of.
Speaker 1: My sermon so.
Speaker 2: Watch this this, Is, crazy miami get ready. For this in,
Speaker 2: verse Ten the jewish leader said, to him the man
Speaker 2: who had, been healed it Is. The sabbath the law
Speaker 2: forbids you from carrying. Your mat in, other words you can't. Do.
Speaker 1: THAT now i want you.
Speaker 2: To see the coldest verse in The Entire new testament is,
Speaker 2: verse eleven because they're saying you can't, do that you
Speaker 2: can't carry. Your mat there will always be a voice
Speaker 2: telling you you can't Do what god told you. To
Speaker 2: do but his voice is the voice, that matters because
Speaker 2: it is the voice that spoke the world into being out.
Speaker 1: Of nothing it is the voice. That heals it is
Speaker 1: the voice. That saves so.
Speaker 2: You've got one voice saying you can't, Do that and in,
Speaker 2: verse eleven the man. Does something this is so powerful,
Speaker 2: to me. He replied the man who made me well said,
Speaker 2: to Me because, Jesus stops, Jesus sees, jesus says so
Speaker 2: it says if, HE'S saying i appreciate your opinion that you're.
Speaker 1: TELLING me i can't pick up my mat. And walk
Speaker 1: but y'all have walked by me every.
Speaker 2: Day for thirty, eight years and not one of you
Speaker 2: had the power to get. Me up.
Speaker 1: But that man, over there, come on help Me. Preach
Speaker 1: miami that man, over there.
Speaker 2: The man who made, me well said, to me, get
Speaker 2: up pick up, your mat. AND walk i believe this
Speaker 2: man was so happy that he was able. TO walk
Speaker 2: i believe he started singing. Goodbye yesterday i'm living in
Speaker 2: a lot of a. NEW day i won't waste another
Speaker 2: minute on, The colonnades Praise.
Speaker 1: The lord i'll.
Speaker 2: Walk again i'm dancing on the GRAY that i. Want
Speaker 2: slave i'm dancing on the. Gray dog maybe he couldn't
Speaker 2: dance yet because he's never.
Speaker 1: Walked before but maybe he just.
Speaker 2: Starts simple maybe he, Just Says i'm carrie and the
Speaker 2: MAT that I Want Slade i'm carrie and.
Speaker 1: The MAT that i want one. Hundred People i'm carrie
Speaker 1: and the MATE that i. Want slave i'm making, this.
Speaker 1: Up y'all y'all gotta help me.
Speaker 2: With this and then the religious leaders, are like you can't.
Speaker 1: Do, that no you're doing. It wrong and, He's Like
Speaker 1: i'm carrie and the MAT that. I want come here.
Speaker 2: To Me i'm carrie and the MATE that, I, Want
Speaker 2: Slade i'm carrie and the MAT where i used to
Speaker 2: you can't do that on.
Speaker 1: The, seventh day.
Speaker 2: And then points the man over there has the. Final
Speaker 2: say the man over there has the. Final say, the man.
Speaker 1: Are there three thousand People in miami who already.
Speaker 2: To lead?
Speaker 1: This flank different than?
Speaker 2: Your pay.
Speaker 1: Will if? Mess YOU when i, say three you's got, tough,
Speaker 1: one dude get. Up Breath i'm dad saying on The grass,
Speaker 1: i'm dead saying on, the ground take up. Your Knack
Speaker 1: i'm dad saying on, the grass, come on, my.
Speaker 2: Man you.
Speaker 1: Are right I'm a i'm carrying the MAT and i.
Speaker 1: WANT that i can't. MARRY him, a man where are?
Speaker 2: You sing has a.
Speaker 1: Final set there's a final, sat now if You, believe
Speaker 1: jesus that's the, final say get out myself Raised. The
Speaker 1: lord i've been, born AGAIN and i love me back.
Speaker 2: Good yesterday, Hold on i'm being.
Speaker 1: Different because i've got to, get off.
Speaker 2: Because he's, calling me because he's done too much, for
Speaker 2: me And the god who never gave up, on you
Speaker 2: even though you were there on that map for thirty.
Speaker 2: Eight years he saw every season of your.
Speaker 1: Life and he never lets. You go don't you. See
Speaker 1: it that's why, you're here that's why. You're breathing you've
Speaker 1: got to. Get up he brought you here to get.
Speaker 1: You up you're not getting up.
Speaker 2: By yourself, Jesus stops, Jesus sees, jesus says AND if
Speaker 2: i could give you a, fourth point it Would be.
Speaker 2: Jesus saves, RIGHT now i want you to bow your
Speaker 2: head and close. Your eyes nobody moving in. This moment
Speaker 2: this is, an, important precious, sacred MOMENT because i want
Speaker 2: to invite everyone in this room who needs to give
Speaker 2: your Life to, christ tonight really give your Life, to
Speaker 2: jesus really make him the lord of.
Speaker 1: YOUR life i want to give you. THAT opportunity i Believe.
Speaker 2: That jesus will stop this whole service for, one person this,
Speaker 2: whole event for.
Speaker 1: One person he loves you.
Speaker 2: That much he, sees you and he can, save you
Speaker 2: and he says to you tonight that his grace is sufficient.
Speaker 2: For You the bible says that if you confess with
Speaker 2: your Mouth that Jesus, is lord and believe in Your
Speaker 2: heart god raised him from, the dead you will. Be
Speaker 2: saved You will he'll raise. You up The same god
Speaker 2: That raised jesus from the grave will raise you. Up
Speaker 2: tonight it is by grace you are saved. Through faith
Speaker 2: it's the Gift, of god not. Of works so that
Speaker 2: no one can boast right now with heads bowed in
Speaker 2: this beautiful Moment that god has.
Speaker 1: Brought us Together for i'm going to pray. A prayer
Speaker 1: this prayer is.
Speaker 2: Not magical if you mean it from your, Heart tonight
Speaker 2: god will hear, you heaven and he will heal you
Speaker 2: and forgive you of your sin and cleanse you from,
Speaker 2: your unrighteousness and this will be your. New beginning we're
Speaker 2: going to pray This together miami for the benefit of
Speaker 2: those who are Coming to, jesus TONIGHT and i want
Speaker 2: us all to pray it out loud in faith for.
Speaker 2: Those people if you mean it in your heart and You,
Speaker 2: say jesus here's. MY life i turn from. MY sin
Speaker 2: i turn. TO you i want your FORGIVENESS and i
Speaker 2: want a, new BEGINNING and i trust you as. My
Speaker 2: savior then, right now repeat these words, After Me, heavenly
Speaker 2: father as a, church family let's say it, Out Loud.
Speaker 2: HEAVENLY father i am a sinner in need of. A
Speaker 2: SAVIOR and i Believe That jesus christ Is the Son
Speaker 2: of god And the savior of. The world.
Speaker 1: AND tonight I make Jesus the lord of.
Speaker 2: MY life i believe he DIED that i would be
Speaker 2: forgiven and rose again to give.
Speaker 1: ME life i receive this. New life this is my.
Speaker 2: NEW beginning i am a Child. Of god if you
Speaker 2: just pray that to give your Life. To JESUS when i,
Speaker 2: say three shoot your hand in. The, air, one, two
Speaker 2: three we celebrate new. Beginnings tonight, come on let's Give
Speaker 2: the lord praise for every.
Speaker 1: New beginning, Thank, You jesus thank you for.
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