1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 2: I have one verse of scripture that I want to 9 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: preach on today. 10 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: I did not choose the scripture. It chows me. 11 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: In fact, I would say it jumped up and bit 12 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 2: me on, bit me on my neck and told me 13 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: preach me or I'll kill you. It's just that fierce 14 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: the way that this verse came to me. It's in 15 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, verse ten. You know what, though, 16 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: if we preach on just one verse today, if we 17 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 2: preach on verse Corinthians fifteen ten, how's that going to 18 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 2: make verse nine feel? And if we skip by verse 19 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: eight to get to verse nine. So I only want 20 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: to preach one verse, but I think I should start 21 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: at verse one so that we do not offend any 22 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: of the other verses. Support we need contextually in order 23 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 2: to give the full illumination of the meaning of the verse. 24 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,559 Speaker 2: So listen to these words now from the apostle Paul, 25 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 2: and I don't make you stand the whole time. If 26 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: you're new here, you get a little nervous. At this 27 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: point we do sit down, and then some people stand 28 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 2: back up, just the ones who love Jesus. 29 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: They jump up while I'm preaching and stuff. I'm kidding. 30 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: I'm kidding. 31 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 2: You can love Jesus and sit down to It's just 32 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 2: you love him more if you stand up. But you 33 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: can love him a little bit and sit to a sermon. Now, 34 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the 35 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 2: gospel I preach to you, which you received and on 36 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: which you have taken your stand. By this gospel, you 37 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 2: are saved if you hold firmly to the word I 38 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: preach to you. Otherwise you have believed in vain. Would 39 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: you touch your neighbor and tell them, don't waste it. 40 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 2: Don't waste it. For what I received, I passed on 41 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: to you as a first importance, that Christ died for 42 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, 43 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 2: and that he was raised on the third day according 44 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 2: to the scriptures, and that he appeared to Seethus and 45 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: then to the twelve after that he appeared to more 46 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the 47 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: same time, most of whom are still living, though some 48 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, and then 49 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: to all the apostles, and last of all, he appeared 50 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: to me, also as to one abnormally born. For I 51 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: am the least of the apostles, and do not even 52 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: deserve to be called an apostle because I persecuted the 53 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: Church of God. 54 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: But everybody shot. But that's one of the biggest. 55 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 2: Words in the Bible, by the way, I mean, it's 56 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: a big word, three letters, but it's a big word. 57 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: Everybody shall butt. I was going down. I thought it 58 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: was over. They laid him in the ground, and Hell 59 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: had a party on Friday night. Ask somebody next to you, say, 60 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: how big is yours? 61 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. 62 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 3: But by the grace of God, I am what I am. 63 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 3: And His grace to me was not without effect. No, 64 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 3: I worked harder than all of. 65 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: Them, yet not I but the grace of God that 66 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: was with me. I want to speak to you for 67 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 2: a few moments today on this subject. The gift in 68 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 2: the grind, the gift in the grind on your way 69 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: to your seat, touch somebody and say I'm on my grind. 70 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: You've seen that hashtag on Instagram. Right on my grind 71 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: hashtag Jim flow hashtag, humbled hashtag, filter free hashtag, paleo hashtag, CrossFit, 72 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: bro hashtag, it's every day brostag hashtag. 73 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: Oh my grind. No, you're not on your grind, you're 74 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: on your phone. Put down your phone and just go 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: to the gym. 76 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: If you go to the gym enough, you won't have 77 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: to post about it. 78 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: We'll all notice the results. Unless you want to show 79 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: off your shoes. 80 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: Then take a selfie. I mentioned it because Paul is 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 2: it's coming across a little bit humble braggy in First Corinthians. 82 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 2: I know, I know he's the Apostle Paul and everything 83 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: he says is supposed to be so wonderful. But I 84 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: will be honest with you. I like the Bible, Like 85 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 2: I really like the Bible. 86 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: What a relief. It wouldn't matter if I liked it 87 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: or not, it would be true. 88 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: But I happen to like the Bible now more than 89 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: when I first started reading it. It's just that now 90 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: I don't like everybody in the Bible all the time 91 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: like Jonah, because God went through so much trouble to 92 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 2: get Jonah to preach a message in Nineveh, and then 93 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: by the time he preached the message after God had 94 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 2: to track him down and dispatch a whale and send 95 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: a storm and all of this nonsense. That Jonah couldn't 96 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: just go where he was supposed to preach and say 97 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: what he was supposed to say. When he did preach, 98 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: it wasn't even that great of a sermon. This was 99 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 2: his whole sermon. Forty days an interval will be destroyed. Well, 100 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: anybody could have done that. And I don't want to 101 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: offend you so early in the sermon. I usually save 102 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 2: that until about the twenty two minute mark. 103 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: Right here, Paul is annoying me a little bit, a 104 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: little bit, just a little bit. 105 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: I'm sure he doesn't care that I'm annoyed with this 106 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 2: passage that he wrote to the church at Corinth. He's 107 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: not writing it as a letter to me or to 108 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 2: you as his primary audience. He's trying to get the 109 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 2: church in Corinth to live out what God has invested 110 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 2: put in. That's really the challenge of life is to 111 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: live out what God has put in. What makes that 112 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: difficult is the grind. The grind the glory of God 113 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: is such a wonderful, mesmerizing and peace inducing concept when 114 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 2: we're together like this, I wonder if I would be 115 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: able to preach as well if I had to follow 116 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 2: you onto your job and see the people that you 117 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 2: deal with. I wonder if my sermons would be well, 118 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 2: you're saying amen a little too loud right now, we offended. 119 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 2: But there is a sense in which every time I 120 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: stand up to preach, I am aware that the Gospel 121 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 2: has to be lived out not in the confines of 122 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 2: a cathedral, but in the grind of everyday life. And 123 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 2: life is a grind, and marriage is a grind. 124 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: I know their vows were beautiful. 125 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 2: But there's some stuff they didn't put in those valves 126 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,679 Speaker 2: because they didn't know about them yet. But four years 127 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 2: into marriage, if they could say the vowels the way 128 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: they really go, it wouldn't be big broad concepts like. 129 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: Sickness and health and life. 130 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 2: And death, because there's a lot of stuff in between 131 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: life and death called grime. It's called do I really 132 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 2: have to remind you to put. 133 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: Gas in the car? 134 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 2: You're forty seven years old, and we've been talking about 135 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 2: this for twenty one years. Did you really leave the 136 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: van on empty account? That's why people get divorced. It's 137 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: not big things. It's seven hundred and ninety three dirty 138 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: socks left in the room after I told you forty 139 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 2: three times. I'm not sure, mom, pick up after yourself. 140 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: It's just a grind. And I was confused because I 141 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: thought people working. 142 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: I thought people quit their jobs because big, horrible things happen. 143 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: And I thought people gave up on themselves because of catastrophic, 144 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 2: cataclysmic events. I found out that it's the grind. The 145 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: grind makes ministers put down their microphone. I think I 146 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 2: think they put down their microphone, not because they quit 147 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 2: loving Jesus or left their first love. I think the 148 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: grind makes volunteers quit showing. 149 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: Up to serve because it's kind of our fault. 150 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 2: When we sign you up to volunteer, we show you 151 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 2: the glory, but we hide the grind. 152 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: You see these beautiful. 153 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: Women with the welcome team t shirts on there, I 154 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 2: guarantee you some people on their team didn't show up 155 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 2: to serve that we're supposed to serve today. Now that 156 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: happens to you enough Sunday mornings when you put aside 157 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 2: your Sunday morning to serve and somebody didn't even have 158 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 2: the stuff ready that you needed to serve. After a while, 159 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 2: you rip your name tag off and you say, I 160 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 2: love Jesus, but this sucks, and I can serve God 161 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 2: in my own way. I think I'll serve him on 162 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 2: the boat. I have a boat ministry. 163 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: Jesus. This stuff on the boat. I'm gonna go on 164 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: the boat too. Lake Norman. 165 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 2: They had seventy volunteers sign up for Lake Norman to 166 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: volunteer at Lake Norman this weekend. I'm just gonna be 167 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 2: upfront with you and tell you what they may not have. 168 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: Told you at the campus. 169 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 2: It's a grind. It's a grime. I mean it's a 170 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 2: good grind, and God's gonna do great things, but it's 171 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 2: a grime. How uninspiring could the introduction to. 172 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: My sermon possibly be? 173 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 2: But to tell you that, after you've picked out the 174 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 2: baby names, and after they throw you a gender reveal 175 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 2: party and a gender reveal reveal party, and a gender 176 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 2: reveal reveal reveal reveal party, here comes to grind. The 177 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 2: grind of diapers, the grind of long nights, the grind 178 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 2: of Red Eyes and Red Bull. But the good news 179 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 2: is if you make it through the infancy stage, the 180 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 2: grind stops. 181 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: After that. 182 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 2: Raising children is easy, no more grind. Just sitting next 183 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: to your child, tell them you're a grind. I love you. 184 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 2: I'm grateful for you. See that's the thing. I'm not 185 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 2: ungrateful for what God has given me. That's not why 186 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 2: I get a bad attitude. That's not why sometimes don't 187 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: want to show up. 188 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: I appreciate. 189 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: I know there are people who would love to have 190 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: my life, and it makes me feel bad and guilty 191 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 2: when you compare my life to somebody else, and I think, well, 192 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 2: it could be worse. 193 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: And people will say things like when you know. 194 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: You could be in the hospital room, if you know 195 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 2: somebody in the hospital room would love. 196 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: To go to your job Monday, but they're not going. 197 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:35,679 Speaker 1: And I am, and I'm in the grind, and I 198 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: am grateful I have a job. But there's just sometimes 199 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: that the grind. 200 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 2: Well, Paul is talking to a church that would have 201 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 2: been very familiar with the grind. 202 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: It's not some little town. 203 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 2: Core is a major city, not exactly a port city, 204 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 2: but connected to one that meant they had all the 205 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 2: infrastructure of an urban city. That meant that the transportation 206 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 2: systems were complicated, so they knew what it was to 207 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: have a traffic jam. Just the grind, just the grind 208 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 2: of trying to figure out how to worship Christ in 209 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 2: a culture that is counter christ. Just the grind, trying 210 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: to figure out how to serve Christ and a culture 211 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 2: that is counter Christ from what is culturally normative is 212 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 2: counter Christian. It's a grind, just a grind. And Paul 213 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: reminds them of the importance of the Gospel. He said, 214 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 2: I want to remind you not of the information that 215 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 2: the Gospel contains, but the importance of it, because the 216 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: grind can. 217 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: Make you forget what's really important. You know this. 218 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 2: The grind can make you lose a sense of priority 219 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: that start giving your best energy to your lowest priorities. 220 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 2: It's just the grime. Paul writes to them that he 221 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 2: understands it. He does it in a strange way, though, 222 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 2: And this is where he started to get on my 223 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 2: nerves a little bit, because when he said, I want 224 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 2: to remind you of the Gospel and the resurrection, which 225 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: is your hope. 226 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: I was with him when he said, if you don't. 227 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 2: Hold on to it, and you don't really believe in it, 228 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 2: it's like. 229 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: It never happened. 230 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 2: I understand what he's saying, not that God is going 231 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 2: to take his grace away, but that sometimes if I 232 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 2: don't walk in, at what good is it. I understand 233 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 2: why he's saying. This gospel did not originate with me. 234 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 2: It just came through me because a lot of people 235 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 2: probably worship Paul and saw him as some indispensable gift 236 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 2: to the body of Christ. But he realized that really 237 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 2: all he was doing was regifting what God had given 238 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 2: to him. I understand his sequence. How he said that 239 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 2: he was the last one in to this og apostle group, 240 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 2: How he said that almost everybody seemed to be picked 241 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 2: before him. And then, in a blinding light on the 242 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 2: road to Damascus, as he was on his way to 243 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 2: persecute Christians, the very Christ who he was persecuting by 244 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 2: coming against those who stood for his name, knocked him 245 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: off of his horse. Oh yes, God will closeline you 246 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: if you are headed in the wrong direction, because He 247 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: loves you too much to let you waste your whole 248 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: life headed for a destination that will ultimately disappoint you. 249 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: Can I preach a little bit. 250 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: So I get it when Paul says that I don't 251 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 2: have anything that I didn't receive, and I'm with him 252 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: when he says that. 253 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 1: It's all Gospel all the time. 254 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 2: When he gets to this part though, verse nine, we 255 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 2: should look at it again. For I am the least 256 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: of the Apostles. I'm not buying it, partially because his 257 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 2: very name is almost synonymous with apostle. 258 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: If I said the Apostle, and. 259 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 2: Then let you fill in the blank, you know who 260 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 2: wrote thirteen of the twenty seven New Testament books, the Apostle. See, 261 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 2: you didn't say Bartholomew, and he was one two. 262 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: But you didn't name your kid that the Apostle, Paul. 263 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 2: And so for him to be saying, oh, oh, and 264 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 2: this is not his rookie year, I get it. In 265 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 2: your first year, you've been killing Christians, or at least 266 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 2: consenting to their murder. They laid the garments at your 267 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 2: feet when Stephen was stone, when Jesus Christ gave a 268 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 2: standing ovation to Stephen because of his boldness, and you 269 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 2: stood there watching it, and not only watching it, but 270 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: endorsing it and supporting it. 271 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: I understand how at. 272 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 2: That point it could take you a little while. But 273 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 2: you've been in the game thirty years, planting churches all 274 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 2: throughout the Roman Empire, taking it where didn't dare to 275 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 2: take it. 276 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: And in fact, Peter had. 277 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 2: A sort of prejudice that didn't show itself except when 278 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 2: he was around people who he thought were as prejudice 279 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 2: as he was. 280 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: Paul wasn't that way. Paul didn't talk. 281 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 2: One way in front of one group or one race, 282 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: and then talk another way when he got around his 283 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 2: friends or his boys. 284 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: He was just determined to take the gospel to all people. 285 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 2: I just said something right there, one person, all the time. 286 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: But Paul said, you know, really, I don't feel worthy 287 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 2: of this. 288 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: I've been in it so long, and I know I'm 289 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: a legend. 290 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: But I don't even really feel like what you think 291 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 2: I am. I don't even really feel like I deserve 292 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 2: this title. And I'm doing the job and I'm filling 293 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 2: the position. But can I be honest with you, Sometimes 294 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 2: I feel more like a little boy than I do 295 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 2: like a dad. It's the difference between the title. 296 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: Others give me and the truth I tell myself. 297 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 2: And Paul knew a truth about himself that caused him to. 298 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: Always feel a little unworthy of his title. He said, 299 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: I'm the least of the. 300 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 2: Apostles, and I don't deserve to be calling apostle. 301 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 302 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 2: That's like the singers who just sing so good and 303 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: then you're like, oh, you know, that was so good, 304 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: and try to shut up. You know you can sing, 305 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 2: And then there's some other ones who think they can 306 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: sing and need a friend. I remember the first compliment 307 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 2: I was ever given as a preacher, and there was 308 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 2: a lesson in it because I preached this little sermon 309 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 2: about the time that Peter was walking on the water 310 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 2: and he saw the wind in the waves and he 311 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 2: began to sing. I was sixteen years old preaching amongst 312 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: corny n I Methodist Church. Because at age sixteen, you 313 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 2: know all about the wind and waves of life qualifies 314 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 2: you to bring a word to the people. And I 315 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 2: got done preaching my sermon. And when you first start preaching, 316 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: people are very kind. They see it as their responsibility 317 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 2: to help bridge. 318 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,719 Speaker 1: The gap between your attention and your performance. So they 319 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: say sweet things, especially in the South. 320 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: They might not mean them, but Southerners will say it anyway, 321 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 2: and George Altman came up to me after my first 322 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 2: sermon and said, you did a good job today. George 323 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: Altman was a legend at the church. He'd been in 324 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 2: the church longer than the church had been in the church. 325 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: He said, you did a good job today. And when 326 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 2: he said it, I felt like that I shouldn't just 327 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 2: say thank you, because that felt kind of arrogant that 328 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 2: I should say something spiritual back. So mister George said 329 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 2: that was a good job today. I said thank you, 330 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 2: But it wasn't me. It was all God. And George 331 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 2: Aupman said, it wasn't that good. You know, it's a 332 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 2: little bit of you in it. If it would have 333 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 2: been all God, touch somebody say you're not that good, 334 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 2: and I feel pope. Not only does it feel a 335 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 2: little bit like a humble brag. 336 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: I'm not even deserve to be an apostle. It's all God. 337 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 2: And he knows he's smart, and he knows he's of 338 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 2: the tribe of Benjamin, and he knows he's a Pharisee 339 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 2: of Pharisees, and he knows that he studied under the Meleel, 340 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 2: who was the Jedi spiritual teacher of Judaic tradition, and 341 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 2: he knows all of this. 342 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: But he said, you know, I really don't even feel 343 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: like an apostle. But then he confused me because in 344 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: verse ten he can't make up his mind watch this. 345 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: But by the. 346 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 2: Grace of God, I am what I am, and his 347 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 2: grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked 348 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,719 Speaker 2: harder than all of them, than Cephists, than the twelve, 349 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 2: than the five hundred. I outworked everybody that God picked. 350 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: Before me, yet not I. But it was the grace 351 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: of God that was with me. So which one was it? Paul? 352 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: I worked harder than all of them. I took the 353 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: gustel where none of them. 354 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 2: Would dare to go, shipwrecks and lashings and accusations. I 355 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 2: was on my grind, but it wasn't me, it was 356 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 2: Oh God, was it? 357 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: Was it your grind? Or was it God's grace? 358 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: I don't believe in talking to dead people, but I 359 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 2: saw I feel like Paul answered me this week. Maybe 360 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 2: it was a holy spirit and said, why do you 361 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 2: always try to keep two things apart? Then in the 362 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 2: mind of God go together? And I realized that I 363 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 2: was doing with the text what often happens even in 364 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 2: our own nation. 365 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: Is that two things that are really. 366 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 2: Meant to go together get so divided, and now we 367 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 2: see as opposites two things that actually cannot operate unless 368 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 2: they operate in tandem. So one person will say I 369 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 2: want justice and another person will say, but I'm a patriot. 370 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 2: But those two are not opposites, because you can't be 371 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 2: a patriot if. 372 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: There is not justice. It's got to work together. Do 373 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: you hear me? What God has joined together? Let not 374 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: man separate. 375 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 2: That's not just a Mariage scripture. 376 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: We do it all the time. 377 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 2: So we got some people who want to read the 378 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 2: Bible on their couch and say, I'm all about grace. 379 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 2: You know you really preciously with your girlfriend. 380 00:20:58,119 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: You should make a commitment to her marriage. 381 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 2: And you probably anybody wou say about something Sharley, No, 382 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 2: I am what I am? Got the spirit of Popeye 383 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: comes over you when somebody starts saying something, Amn, what 384 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 2: I am? 385 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: I wan what I want? God knows what I want. 386 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: He even't want me to want it. He should have 387 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 1: made me different. Well, he should have made me, should 388 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: have made me want like all these women. And should 389 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: you know it's his fault. He made him look good. 390 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: I like your awkward laughter where you feel like we 391 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 2: got out of church and got into real real life. 392 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,239 Speaker 1: The grind, the grind, the grind, the grind, all had 393 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: the grace of God. You know, I don't go to church, 394 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: but you know, me and God, we got our thing. 395 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: We chill over in the game. 396 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 2: See fantasy football is how I connect with God. That's 397 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 2: my connection with God because I feel like he's my 398 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 2: quarterback and God speaks to. 399 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 1: Me over the game. It's a great thing. You wouldn't 400 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 1: understand those of you. 401 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 2: Who like commit yourself to church and discipline you, you 402 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 2: just don't get the grace of God. Paul said, no, no, no, no, no, 403 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 2: no no, you don't get the grind. Paul said, I 404 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: got grace and I got grind. Those two are not opposites. 405 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 2: I've got grace and I've got truth. Those two are 406 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 2: not opposites. I've got grace. But it's not this fake grace, 407 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 2: this cheap grace, this phony grace that finds you and 408 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: just covers you. This is a grace that changes you. 409 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 2: Paul said. When you've been where I've been, and you've 410 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 2: done what I've done, and God. 411 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: Picks you up off of a thirty Damascus. 412 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 2: Road and gives you a mission, and forgives your sins 413 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 2: and cleanses you from your unrighteousness and sets your feet 414 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 2: on a rock. When you get this kind of grace, 415 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 2: you don't stay on the couch. You walk into your 416 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 2: calling determined and committed to be what he calls you 417 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 2: to be. 418 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 1: I am what I am because of his grace. 419 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 2: And I will not stay what I was. 420 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: I'm becoming what I shall be by the grace of God. 421 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: Give him a shout of praise. If you got grace, 422 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: come on. 423 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 2: All the way to the top. Praise Him for his grace. 424 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 2: Grace will make you praise him. Grace will make you persevere. 425 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 2: Race we'll make you get up and go again. Grace 426 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 2: will make you change your ways. Grace will make you 427 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 2: say I'm sorry. Grace will make you stick it out. 428 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: Did anybody make it by the grace of God? So 429 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: Paul said, there's two ways to look at this. 430 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 2: I'm on my I'm on my grind. I'm serving God 431 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 2: more than all of them. And the reason I serve 432 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 2: God more than all of them is because I needed 433 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: more grace than any of them. This is the part 434 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 2: of the sermon where the people who aren't perfect should shout, 435 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: because when you know that you don't deserve what God 436 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 2: has given you, nobody has to make you serve God. 437 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 2: You know, every breakfast a gift, every step is grace, 438 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 2: every day is grace. 439 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: His mercies are new with every rising up the sun. 440 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 2: I want all the unworthy people to shout, all the 441 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 2: undeserving people to shout. Come on rock Hill, come on Gaston, 442 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 2: come on Lake Norman, come on you see, come on Blakeney. 443 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: You might want to jump up on your feet for 444 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: seventeen seconds and second for his unmars. 445 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 3: And then I got grind. 446 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I'm not grinding to get God's favor. 447 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 2: I'm grinding because I've already got God's favor. 448 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 4: I got grace in the grind. So I want to 449 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 4: make a new hashtag. I want to make a new hashtag. 450 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: I want you to post this week hashtag on my grind, 451 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: but change it a little bit. Sit down, I'll show you. 452 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 2: It says I worked harder than them all. I'll work 453 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 2: them all because I'll send them all. I worked them 454 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: all because of what I knew about me, Not so 455 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 2: God would love me, but because he did so much 456 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: I didn't bust through the front door and annoying his 457 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 2: feet with perfume to earn his acceptance. It was because 458 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 2: he had already given me his acceptance. It meant so 459 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 2: much to me. 460 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: So I'm on my grime. But it's not really me, 461 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: it's his grace to me. 462 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 2: And perhaps here a distinction would be helpful between the 463 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 2: common grace of God that is given to all men, 464 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 2: the saving grace of God which brings us into right 465 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 2: relationship with Him, and then that particular grace of God 466 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 2: that God has given you and no one else, Elijah. 467 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 2: God gave me a grace to raise you. Any other 468 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: Dad in this room would fail at it. But I 469 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 2: can do this because I got grace for it, not 470 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 2: that I need it. I got grace for it. God 471 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 2: doesn't just give you a grace to save you. He 472 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 2: gives you a special grace for your grind. God does 473 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 2: not just give grace to a preacher when he stands 474 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 2: in a pulpit. He gives grace for negotiation in a boardroom. 475 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: If that's your place, that's your grace. God has given 476 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 2: you a particular grace. It is custom design to fit 477 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 2: in the space where God has assigned you. 478 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: Paul said, it was his grace to me, his grace 479 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: to me. Verse three. I passed on to you that 480 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: which was given to me, the grace that God gave me. 481 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: I regifted it to you. That's all I did. 482 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 2: I get weary when I try to pass on to 483 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 2: others what God did not give to me. But when 484 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 2: I stay on my grind, hashtag in my grace, that's 485 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 2: the new hashtag. 486 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: I'm on my grind. Tell somebody say I'm on my grind, 487 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: but I'm in my grace. Hashtag in my grace. That's how. 488 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: Give me that bag. Follow me around you follow me 489 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: with that bag. I want you to go into situations 490 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: this week. Can I use you? You don't look so sure. 491 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 2: Is those situations in your life that require extra grace 492 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: those people in your life. One author called it e 493 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 2: g R people Extra grace acquired people. Do not make 494 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 2: eye contact with the person you came to church with 495 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 2: right now. That would be the worst thing you could do. 496 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: And I want you to take the situation in your 497 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: life this week that the grind and in your mind. 498 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: I want you to see it as a gift. So 499 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: I got a whole bag of bows and I want 500 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: you to take the situation this week. 501 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: That you've been asking God to take away anymont and 502 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 2: when that person comes your way, then tries your soul 503 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: to the marrow of its essence. 504 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: Oh god, how many of you just had a flash 505 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: image of who they are? Put a bowl on them 506 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: in your mind. Now, don't do it? 507 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 2: Really? 508 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: Then you know I might but that person that you 509 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: got to deal with and you can't make them go away. 510 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: But I want to find here. 511 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 2: It is the gift in the grind. Oh, thank you, 512 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 2: annoying person. Thank you long drive to work. I've been 513 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 2: needing to listen to my audio Bible that is on 514 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 2: my iPhone app and you just gave me thirty seven 515 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 2: extra minutes to do it. 516 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: What a gift. It's the gift in the grind. Oh, 517 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: thank you dentist office. Just a little stuff, you know, 518 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: just a little stuff forgiving me the opportunity to meditate. 519 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: And even though this dntal hygienesi is trying to talk 520 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: to me while she has an instrument of death in 521 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: my mouth, why do they do that. I'll take this 522 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: as a gift. You look better with that. It's a gift. 523 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: It's a gift. It's a gift. Everybody shot it's a gift. 524 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: It's a gift. 525 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 2: It didn't look like a gift at first, but you 526 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 2: know that person that doesn't like you, that God is 527 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 2: using to set you free from the need to have 528 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: people like you. It's a gift. It's a gift. Shout 529 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 2: it out, love by faith, it's a gift. Doesn't have 530 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 2: to feel good to be good. All things work together. 531 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: Of them. 532 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 2: They loved God and are called according to his purpose. 533 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 2: So I'm looking for the gift in the grind. I'm 534 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 2: looking for the gift in the discouragement. Imagine how much 535 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 2: fun is gonna be to go through the boring. 536 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 5: Parts of your week with a back full of bothes, 537 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 5: just looking for the grace of God, just looking for 538 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 5: the mercy of God, just looking for the gift of God. 539 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 2: Because if I seek, I will find, and if I knock, 540 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 2: the door will be open. And if I embrace the grid, 541 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 2: I can receive the gift. 542 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: Because the Word became flesh. 543 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 2: And dwelt a loove us, and we beheld his glory, 544 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 2: the glory, yes, of the only begotten, of the Father, full. 545 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: Of grace and truth. Does somebody say, I gotta give. 546 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: It's a guilt. It's a guilt. That's how I do it. 547 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: I'm out of boze. You take the bag. I got 548 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: a gift. I five everybody in your vicinity. 549 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 2: A second. 550 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: What a gumft, what a gamp? 551 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 6: My weakness is a gift. My struggle is against God 552 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 6: could have knocked Paul off of his horse. 553 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 2: Before he ever consented to the killing of a Christian. 554 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 2: But if he had done it too early, Paul would 555 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 2: have valued it too little. 556 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: I have a feeling. 557 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 2: That when God really wants to use somebody in a 558 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 2: great way, just like they took the olives to make 559 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 2: the oil that went in the lamps that went in 560 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 2: the tabernacle so that they could burn in the presence 561 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 2: of the Lord, had to be hand pressed so that 562 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 2: there would be no pulp in the lamp that would 563 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 2: cause the light not to burn as brightly or as long. 564 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 2: I have a feeling that God does to the life, 565 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 2: that he really wants to handpick what they would do 566 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 2: to those olives, and he hand presses the life to 567 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 2: get the oil to flow from the purest place. That's 568 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,760 Speaker 2: what the grind is for. To get out my pride. 569 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 2: That's what the grind is for to get out myself reliance. 570 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: That's what the grind is for, to get out my superiority. 571 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 2: If God would have given it to me too early, 572 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 2: I would have thought I was better. But now I 573 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 2: can say I don't even deserve to be what you're 574 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:45,400 Speaker 2: calling me. 575 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: But I'm in. But it's not me, but it's in me, 576 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: and I want my grind when. 577 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 2: I'm in my grace. Here's the challenge. The enemy can't 578 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 2: stop God from giving you grace, so he wants to 579 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 2: stop you from using it. And I want to ask 580 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 2: a question of everyone who made the choice to come 581 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 2: to church today, have you been wasting your grace? 582 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: Paul said, God gave me so much grace. 583 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 2: And when Eugene Peterson tried to translate his version of 584 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 2: First Corinthiums fifteen ten in the Message Bible, he had 585 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 2: to say it like this, God has been so very 586 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 2: good to me, and I don't intend to waste a 587 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 2: drop of it. I won't waste it because it costs 588 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 2: too much. Waste is relative to value. When you've had 589 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 2: so much of something for so long, you lose the 590 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,239 Speaker 2: value of it, and so you use it and you 591 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 2: abuse it because you have lost your sense, I want 592 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 2: to remind you of the gospel. 593 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 1: I preach to you, the gospel that God gave to 594 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: me and I gave to you. 595 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 2: And now you're in this gospel and you're in disgrace, 596 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 2: but you're wasting it. 597 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: The church at Corinth had. 598 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 2: A lot of problems, not only idolatry, not only sexism, 599 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,760 Speaker 2: not only divisions in the church, not only sexual problems. 600 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: But they had gift envy. 601 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 2: It was a church full of gifted people that were 602 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 2: walking around with other people's gift on their wish list. 603 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:40,400 Speaker 2: And when you envy someone else's gift, you waste your grace. 604 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 2: When you wish that you had what they had, you 605 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 2: missed the gift that God has given you. Don't waste 606 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 2: your grace because you're wishing for someone else's. Well, if 607 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,879 Speaker 2: I could be like her, I guess I would. Paul said, 608 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 2: I am what I am, and guess what that means. 609 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: I'm not what I'm not. 610 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 2: But it's okay because I got my own grace. I 611 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,719 Speaker 2: got my own grace. I don't need yours. I got 612 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 2: my own. How many times have we wasted the grace 613 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 2: that God has given us because we have envied the 614 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 2: gifts that he gave another. I see people miss the 615 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 2: season that they're in because they're waiting on the one 616 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 2: that's to come. You will waste the grace of this 617 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:45,279 Speaker 2: season if your focus is on the next one. And 618 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 2: now you're weary, and now you're burden. Now you want 619 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 2: to give up because you've wait, not that you don't 620 00:37:54,440 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 2: have the grace, you're wasting it. It's right there be 621 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 2: sad to get to heaven. And there's a big pile 622 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 2: of all the grace that God gave you each day 623 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 2: that you didn't appropriate because you were. 624 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,720 Speaker 1: Waiting until you felt worthy. 625 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 7: Paul said, I know what I did, but if I 626 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 7: stay in my shame, I will waste my grace. And 627 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 7: the price that was paid for me to stand in 628 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 7: this grace was too great for me to waste it. 629 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 7: I will not waste my grace. The pastes behind me, 630 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,239 Speaker 7: the crosses before. 631 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 2: Me, and I. 632 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:53,360 Speaker 1: Will not waste the grace of this day. This is 633 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice 634 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,880 Speaker 1: and be glad in it. I refuse to leave any 635 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: grace misappropriated. 636 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 2: So I'm done wishing that I was someone else, because 637 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,439 Speaker 2: I am what I am by the grace of God, 638 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 2: I'm done wishing that I was in a season or 639 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,880 Speaker 2: a situation that you know what. I am done wasting 640 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,680 Speaker 2: the grace that God has given me worrying about situations 641 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 2: that I can't control. 642 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,239 Speaker 1: That's it. I'm done. 643 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 2: I have wasted enough time crying over stuff that was 644 00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 2: over and missing stuff that I was living in. 645 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: I will not waste the grace of this day. The 646 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,800 Speaker 1: Spirit of God helped me minister this message to someone. 647 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 2: You have been wasting your grace, the great grace of God, greater, 648 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 2: greater than all of our sin, greater than all of 649 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,600 Speaker 2: our sin. Great grace, somebody shall great grace, great grace 650 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 2: when you don't value it, you don't get it. And 651 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:29,600 Speaker 2: you know that grind that we talked about earlier, the 652 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,360 Speaker 2: stuff that you wish would stop in your life. I 653 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,200 Speaker 2: didn't want to close the sermon this way, but God 654 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,960 Speaker 2: told me too, because he said that it didn't matter 655 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 2: how I wanted to close the sermon, It mattered what 656 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 2: was true. 657 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: That grind is what produces the grace. 658 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,399 Speaker 8: That's where the grace comes right into that place, right 659 00:40:55,480 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 8: into that insecurity, right into that revolving joys. 660 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,279 Speaker 1: Stand up so I can pray for you. 661 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:10,440 Speaker 2: You've been wasting your grace, Paul said, I didn't ever 662 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,560 Speaker 2: feel worthy, but I was made worthy, and I will 663 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 2: not waste the grace of God waiting for a feeling 664 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 2: to accompany the truth. 665 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,400 Speaker 1: I won't waste ants. 666 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 2: You just lift your hands to heaven if you want 667 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,439 Speaker 2: to receive a fresh empowering of the grace of God, 668 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 2: because I know you need it. Man, I know the 669 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:36,759 Speaker 2: grind is real. I know sometimes it just grinds the 670 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 2: joy right out of you. Father, And your presence is 671 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:48,440 Speaker 2: the fullness of joy at your right hand, pleasures forevermore. 672 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:49,520 Speaker 1: It never runs out. 673 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:56,520 Speaker 2: We thank you today for common grace that's given to 674 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:01,600 Speaker 2: all men, your loving kindness, your disposition in favor of 675 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,760 Speaker 2: the human race that you created. Well, thank you today 676 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,200 Speaker 2: for saving grace that took away the penalty of our sin, 677 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,800 Speaker 2: the effects of our shame, and set us free to 678 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:19,000 Speaker 2: know you. I also thank you today for that special grace, 679 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 2: that special grace for special struggles, that grace that comes 680 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 2: in hospital rooms, that grace that comes in layoffs, that 681 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,839 Speaker 2: grace that comes in financial crisis, that grace that comes 682 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,520 Speaker 2: in the kind of success that seems unsustainable. I thank 683 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:47,400 Speaker 2: you for disgrace this gift in Jesus' name, look at 684 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,960 Speaker 2: me for a moment. Sometimes you're waiting for God to 685 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,840 Speaker 2: give you something that He already gave you, and you 686 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 2: don't know you have it. One time, we were about 687 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 2: to write a song and I was opening us up 688 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 2: in prayer. It seemed the pastoral thing to do, and 689 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:12,040 Speaker 2: my prayer to me sounded very spiritual. I prayed out loud, God, 690 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,480 Speaker 2: we're here before you today, and we asked that you 691 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,879 Speaker 2: would give us a song. I prayed that out loud. 692 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,879 Speaker 2: I felt God speak back to me, not out loud, 693 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,200 Speaker 2: but inside. I say, God, give us a song. I 694 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:31,920 Speaker 2: felt God say, you give me one. Because I have 695 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 2: given you your mouth, your mind, your ears, your spirit, 696 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,280 Speaker 2: your vocabulary, my word, your experiences. 697 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,600 Speaker 9: I have given you the grace, Now give me a song. 698 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,960 Speaker 9: I believe God wants you to give him a song today. 699 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,399 Speaker 9: I believe if you would open your mouth right now, 700 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 9: in this moment, the grace of God would invade situation, 701 00:43:59,120 --> 00:43:59,760 Speaker 9: the grace. 702 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:04,600 Speaker 1: Of God that would invade shame. Thank you for joining us. 703 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 704 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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