1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Hey, don't start clicking off. I promise we're going to 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: get to the preaching in just a moment. But I'm 3 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: excited about this. This is a very special tradition at Elevation, 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: and we want to speak to all of you who 5 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: call our church home, especially our extended family, our EPAM 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: around the world, because once a year we have a 7 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: special series. It's really more than a collection of teachings. 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: It's a faith experience for all of the people who 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: are part of our ministry at Elevation, and this year 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: our theme is game Changer. I think one of the 11 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: most exciting things that God is doing in our ministry 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: is to open the doors of our ministry beyond our walls. 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,279 Speaker 1: What I mean by that is we are amazed at 14 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: the thousands and thousands and thousands of you who are 15 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: letting us know that you're impacted by this ministry in 16 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: another zip code, in another state, in another country, maybe 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: eventually on another planet. But what I wanted to mention 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: to you is that you can be a part of 19 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: this beyond just consuming. Many of you have been blessed 20 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: by God to be a blessing. Now I wanted to 21 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: ask today, would you be willing during this special time 22 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: of year to make a one time donation to the 23 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: ministry or maybe partner with us on a monthly basis 24 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: through recurring giving. I believe God could use your gift 25 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: to enable this ministry to continue to reach, to continue 26 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: to break paradigms, to continue to lift up Jesus. And 27 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you personally to go to Elevationchurch 28 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: dot org and you can see the ways to give there. 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: But most importantly, know that we feel a tremendousness of 30 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: responsibility to minister the word of God not only to you, 31 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: but to challenge you to partner with us in reaching 32 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: people for the Gospel. I believe your gift today could 33 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: be a game changer, so don't put it off right now. 34 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: Elevation Church dot org you can find all of the details. 35 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this message and thank you for 36 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: being a part of the family. Excited to start a 37 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: new series with you. The series is called Game Changer. 38 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: The goal of this series is to increase your faith, 39 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: and the way you increase your faith is to stretch 40 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: and to obey God in practical ways. And so we're 41 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 1: going to do that over the next few weeks. It's 42 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: one of my favorite series. I can't ever figure out 43 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: why this is my favorite series because it's a challenging series. 44 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: At the end of the series, on December eighth and ninth, 45 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: our church together and our em online around the world, 46 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: let's thank God for our extended family around the world 47 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 1: joined with us. We bring an offering and we take 48 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: these weeks to pray and consider and ask God what 49 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: he would have each of us to do on the 50 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: level that he's blessed us. Of course, the church is 51 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: able to do ministry on an ongoing basis because of 52 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: thousands of people and families who faithfully tithe and give 53 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: that first ten percent to God, which sounds like a 54 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: lot when you first hear it. It's like ten percent, Bro, 55 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: my gym membership is like forty a month, and you know, 56 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: like that's a whole lot, ten percent of all of it. 57 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: But when you realize that all of it came from God, 58 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: it kind of makes you think about the ninety more 59 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: than the ten, and then it really doesn't seem that 60 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: crazy anymore. That's the game changer. The series is called 61 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: game Changer, and the game changer is when you realize 62 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: that it's all Gods and it all belongs to him, 63 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: makes you grateful and hopefully encourages you to be faithful. 64 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: So we're going to be doing that on December eighth 65 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: and nine of this year and will end the year 66 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: on a note of sacrificial generosity. Each of us and 67 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: thousands of people do it. Last year, the church gave 68 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: over ten million dollars in that offering, which is phenomenal, 69 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: which is what enables us to expand and reach. Ask 70 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: the person next to you, are you a game changer 71 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: or a benchwarmer, because that's what I'm trying to find out, amen, 72 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: And so it's going to be so good and I'm 73 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: going to see God do amazing things. Well, sit down 74 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: for now, drap somebody up on the way to your seat, 75 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: and tell him I'm a game changer. When we say 76 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: game changer, you know, every year I pick a word 77 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: several months in advance and try to really build my teachings. Really, 78 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: rather than pick the word, I try to see what 79 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: God is speaking and then find a word that describes that. 80 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: It works better that way. And I thought it was 81 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: a little corny game changer. You know. You hear that 82 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: like three times a day. ESPN but it sounded like 83 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: a gatorade commercial to me more than a sermon series. 84 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: But it really it'll mean something different when we're done 85 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: with the series than it does going into it, and 86 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: you'll see that. And today I just want to lay 87 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: a foundation from the pulpit from Matthew chapter six. And 88 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: last year's series was called Waymaker, and so apparently I'm 89 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: on this like a Waymaker game Chang. I'm gonna do 90 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: Cake Baker in twenty nineteen, see how if I could 91 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: make a trilogy out of it. But Matthew chapter six 92 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: will be a good place for us to start from 93 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: the Sermon on the Mount. This was my dad's favorite scripture. 94 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: He used to read it every day, and then I 95 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: would use it against him when he went acting right, 96 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: I'd be like, you read it, but are you living it? 97 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: So I've used the Bible against him as a as 98 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: a weapon, all right, Matthew Chapter six, verses one through four, 99 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: And I can't wait to share this with you. Very 100 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: powerful principle. It's practical, but it's also on another level, 101 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: very profound, and I think the best lessons are that way. 102 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: And so here's what Jesus said, be careful not to 103 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen 104 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: by them. So this might mean you have to delete 105 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: some apps on your phone. Do you know what I mean? Well, 106 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: if you do practice your acts of righteousness in front 107 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: of others to be seen by them, you will have 108 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: no reward from your father in heaven. That's scary. So 109 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: when you give to the needy, for instance, do not 110 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: announce it with trumpets as the hypocrites do in the 111 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly, 112 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: I tell you they have received the reward in full. 113 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: But when you give to the needy, do not let 114 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 115 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: so that your giving may be in secret. Then your father, 116 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 117 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: And the title of this message is the Secret Scoreboard. 118 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: When my kids first started playing recreational sports, I went 119 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: out and I turned to the person next to me 120 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: and said, they need to turn on the scoreboard. And 121 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: Elijah was playing t ball at the time for the 122 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: mud Caps of Mint Hill. I said, they need to 123 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: turn on the scoreboard. It was his first game. Brother 124 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: looked back at me. He had several kids that already 125 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: played t boy, he said, they don't keep score at 126 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: this level. And when Elijah got in the car after 127 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: the game, I said, congratulations on your first win. He said, win. 128 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: They didn't keep score. I said, I did the first 129 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: thing I did when that man said they don't keep 130 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: score at this level. I found an app on my 131 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: phone and I decided every game that he played, I 132 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: was going to score it myself. And I told that 133 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: boy this the following I said, when you get in 134 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: this car after the game, you ask me if you won, 135 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: and I will tell you whether or not you won. 136 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: I am your official scorekeeper. I believe God wants to 137 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: look at somebody today, y'all A uncle help me preach 138 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: after three weeks off. And one of the first things 139 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: that God does when he assumes control of your life 140 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: is he becomes your scorekeeper, because by default, we tend 141 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: to let everybody else keep score. And it's hard to know. 142 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: Am I winning? In real life, especially in adulthood, Am 143 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: I winning? I wonder that all the time. I feel 144 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 1: like in some areas it's the weirdest thing I will 145 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: win for a season. And while I'm winning in those 146 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: areas for that season, the other areas that are also 147 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: important to me suffer and I can't keep up because 148 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: it's like I'm playing five sports at once, do you 149 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: know what I mean? It's like the family thing and 150 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: the financial thing. Those don't always work together. Sometimes those 151 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: seem to compete against each other, and it's hard to 152 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: keep score, especially because now we live in a world 153 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: where there are permanent reminders of everybody else's score. And 154 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: even though they're not playing the same sport, they don't 155 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,479 Speaker 1: have the same calling, the same circumstances, the same situation. 156 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: We're all living on the same platforms, being fed the 157 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: same false images and wondering is their life really that 158 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: much better than mine? Or are they just a better photographer. 159 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: The game has changed because back in the day, you 160 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: used to compare yourself to a really small circle of people, 161 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: whoever was around you. And that's why I grew up 162 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: thinking I was a good guitarist, because I didn't have 163 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: any really good guitarists to see on YouTube, and so 164 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, whoever else played guitar, all three of us. 165 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: That was my standard of comparison. But the game has changed. 166 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: Now it's no longer possible to feel really good about 167 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: yourself for any length of time because the standards have 168 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: shifted and the game has changed. Touch somebody say the 169 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: game has changed when Jesus preached this sermon, the Bible 170 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: says at the beginning that he went up on a 171 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: mountain side and sat down, and his disciples came to him, 172 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: and he began to teach them, and began to teach them. 173 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: So like the text speaking physically has Jesus in a 174 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: All right, let's say physically, the text is describing elevation. 175 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: He went up on a mountain side, sat down, and 176 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: began to teach them. That is the physical motif of 177 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: the text. This is the beginning of it. But really 178 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: what he was about to do was more like excavation, 179 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: which is that he was going to dig out beneath 180 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 1: the surface. And I'm not sure change in the name 181 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: of the church, but excavation would be a good church 182 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: name too, because when you have a really good encounter 183 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: with God, when you really really meet Jesus, the first 184 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: thing that he begins to do is challenge your values. 185 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: And we want him to build our life up and 186 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: build us and raise us, and all of these wonderful 187 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: promises that are indeed in his word but if he 188 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: does not first dig out a deep enough place in 189 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: our hearts and a foundation that is steady and stable enough, 190 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,959 Speaker 1: then even what he builds in our life will be 191 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: subject to situations and circumstances. And so the first thing 192 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: that proves the presence of God in your life is 193 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: that he will begin to challenge your values. You know how, 194 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: you can know if you if you met with God, 195 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: were your values challenged? And I'll prove it to you 196 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: when he started preaching, because you look highly skeptical right now, 197 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: I won't lie. I thought you're going to be more 198 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 1: energetic with it, an extra hour of sleep, but apparently not. 199 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: It's all right, It's all right. I'll hustle down a 200 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: little bit when you start teaching. He said. Blessed are 201 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 202 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Well, 203 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: right right off the bat, I'm kind of confused because 204 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: Jesus is telling me that it's not those who look 205 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: like they're winning a lot of times who are really 206 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: the most blessed, blessed or the meek, for they will 207 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: inherit the earth blessed to those who hunger and thirst 208 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: what's a blessing about being hungry and thirsty for righteousness? 209 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: For they'll be filled. And with each of these statements 210 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: is commonly called the beatitudes. Jesus is giving a new 211 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: definition of blessing. And one thing that you'll notice about 212 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: it when he defines it, it's very contrary to the 213 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: cultural values, which are very external. You know, everything is 214 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: about how you look. If God blessed, it is going 215 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: to show up as a physical manifestation in your life. 216 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: But when Jesus showed up, it changed the game because 217 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: in a religious system that was corrupted by the elevation 218 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: of appearances over the real condition of the heart, Jesus 219 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: begins to challenge the values not only of the world, 220 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: but of the religious not only in the streets but 221 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: in the synagogues. I've noticed the Church is really good 222 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: at challenging the values of the world when it comes 223 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: to sexuality and entertainment and Disney. That's twenty years old, 224 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: but some of y'all will remember when the Church was 225 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: really good at challenging the value system of the world. 226 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: But the first thing that Jesus did, it seems to me, 227 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: is to challenge the value of the church, and so 228 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: in order to do that, he begins to dig. And 229 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: it really changes the game because it seems almost like 230 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: an inversion, seems like something is being flipped upside down. 231 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: It's almost as if when Jesus comes on the scene, 232 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: he's less concerned with playing the game right and more 233 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: concerned with playing the right game. And some of us 234 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: are playing the wrong game. And we spend a lot 235 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: of our lives trying to figure out how to play 236 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: the game right. But the question becomes, this is the 237 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: game changer, not are you playing the game right, but 238 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: are you playing the right game? And sometimes it takes 239 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: us half our lives to realize I've learned to play 240 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: the game right, but I wasn't playing the right game. 241 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be tragic to spend your whole life to 242 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: get good at a game that you weren't even supposed 243 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: to play, to win the approval of people who don't 244 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: sit on the throne anyway, to get really good at 245 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: something that is isn't good for you. And I see 246 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: this more and more, more more and more as it 247 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: becomes easier for us to get sucked into systems of 248 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: comparison and analysis that have nothing to do with real value. 249 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: We start, we start getting good at winning, but winning 250 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: at what? Winning at what? And the game has changed. 251 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: It's changed so much for young people, you know, Like 252 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: when I was growing up, it was different in terms 253 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: of social media. Even the games that I played as 254 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: a kid, the video games I played as a kid, 255 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: were much different than the games I see my kids 256 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: playing today. It was an entirely different level of nobility 257 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: involved in When the games I used to play, we 258 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: were doing real things, important things like when I was 259 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: when I grew up playing games, we were we were 260 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: saving princesses. We were training to win heavyweight titles or 261 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: to do that, we had to we had to face 262 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: opponents like Soda Popinski and King Hippo and Don Flamenco 263 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: and the second Don Flamenco and Piston Honda and the 264 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: second Bald Bull. Real stuff, you know, things that that 265 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: transposed into actual life skill. But the other day, I 266 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: was watching my kids play game on their phone and 267 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: all they were doing and it was very it was 268 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: very fascinating to me. I just watched them for like 269 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: five minutes. All they were doing was tapping the screen, 270 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: and I watched for a little while before I realized 271 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: there's absolutely no strategy to what they're doing right now. 272 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: I didn't know the game that they're playing because I 273 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: don't play games on my phone. I read my Bible 274 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: because I'm a pastor. But I walked over said and 275 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: I said, what is that game? What are you doing? 276 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: And they said it was called Cookie Clicker. They said 277 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: it's old, Dad, it's an old game, not as old 278 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: as your games, but it's an old game for us. 279 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: I said, Cookie Clicker, Let me see it. How do 280 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: you play? They said, you click the cookie. I said, 281 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: all right, and then what like up up, downtown, left, right, left, right, 282 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: ba start? Is that the They said, no, you just click. 283 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: You just click a cookie. See, these kids don't have 284 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: to think like we had defended. They said, you clicked 285 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: the cookie. I said, all right. And then what they said, 286 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: then you get more cookies. When you click the cookie, 287 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: you get more cookies. I said, and then after you 288 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 1: get more cookies, what do you do after you get 289 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: more cookies? They said, well, the more cookies you get, 290 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: the more the more cookies you can get each time 291 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: you click. That's what y'all been doing over here for 292 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 1: the last thirty minutes. No Princess Zelda, no Princess Toadstool, 293 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: just clicking cookies to get more cookies, to get more cookies, 294 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: to get more cookies, to give more cookies. I said, 295 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: let me try that. It was addictive. I loved it. 296 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 1: Five millions of cookies and I couldn't need any of them, 297 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: but I had fun clicking. Let me ask you a question. 298 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: Have you been clicking on stuff playing a game without 299 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: asking the question what is the goal of this game? 300 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: Have you ever argued with somebody? And then you realize 301 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: that even if I win the argument, even if I 302 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: win your approval, even if I win your friendship, it's 303 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: not worth winning if I have to win it, even 304 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: if I make you like me. And that's what he 305 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: was doing. He was telling him quick clicking. Jesus was 306 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: saying this. He was saying, quick clicking. Tell somebody quick clicking, 307 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: quick clicking, and ask a different question. It's not am 308 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: I playing the game right? You know? Because you can 309 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 1: get that right and succeed materially relationally. You could get status, 310 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: you could get power, you can get position, you can 311 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: even be a really good preacher. But if you don't 312 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 1: do it for the right reason, you can get all 313 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: the cookies that you want, but you can't dunk any 314 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: of them in milk if it's not real. Am I preaching? Okay? 315 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: Everybody over fifty that ever clicked on worthless stuff and 316 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: found out it wasn't worth clicking on makes some noise. God, 317 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: the church is old. Did you hear that? That was 318 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: a roar? Twelve and a half years ago? If I'd 319 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: asked that, it wouldn't have been. Oh, that made me 320 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: feel weird. But it's good. It's it's multigenerational. Amen, there's 321 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: some wisdom that you get. Jesus gives it on multiple levels. 322 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: And six times he does this thing in the Sermon 323 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: on the Mount. I wish I had time to show 324 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: you all of it. He sets up a construct like this. 325 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: You have heard it said, But I say to you, 326 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: you've heard it said. And then he would quote from 327 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: the Rabbinic tradition that they had been handed through the 328 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: Law of Moses. But I say to you, then he 329 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: would correct the values because he was speaking to people 330 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: who had perfected the appearance of religion. But he understood 331 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: that if the behavior is right, but the belief that 332 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: is beneath the behavior is not right. If your values 333 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: are shallow, your victories will be empty. And why didn't 334 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: you write that down? I worked all week on that, Gaston. 335 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 1: I know you've got your pins out. I have faith 336 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: in you. If your values are shallow, your victories will 337 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 1: be empty. So I'm winning at what. I'm winning at what. 338 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: And Jesus went up on a mountain side and he 339 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: sat down. But then he began to teach them. He's 340 00:21:55,040 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: digging beneath the behaviors to identify the beliefs, like one 341 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: of them that he said, he said, you've heard it said, 342 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: don't murder. But I'm telling you, if you're angry, even 343 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: if you don't murder, you will suffer the consequences of 344 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: that anger and eventually will either lead you toward taking 345 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: action on it, or it will deteriorate your spiritual condition 346 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: to the point that you might as well have gone 347 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: ahead and done it because you're living in a prison 348 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: of hatred. And whether or not you acted out doesn't matter, 349 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: because beneath the behavior is a belief that led to 350 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: the behavior. This is what we mean when we say 351 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: Jesus was the game changer, because he didn't just play 352 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: the game. That's why they killed him. He touched lepers 353 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: that they wouldn't touch. He spoke with women who they devalued. 354 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: He challenged their social values by associating with people who 355 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: ethnically and religiously had nothing in common with the Jewish people. 356 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: And that's what they hated about him. He didn't endorse 357 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: their values to run his campaign. He challenged their values. 358 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: He got beneath their actions and challenged their values. As 359 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: a matter of fact, he did it not only in 360 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: terms of hatred and murder and adultery, but he did 361 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: it in terms of other areas. Like one thing he 362 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: said was you've heard it said love your neighbor. But 363 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: that's easy. I say love your enemy. See that changes 364 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: the game. Grace changes the game. I said. The grace 365 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: of God is a game changer when the grace of 366 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: God really becomes operative in your life. What Jesus is 367 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: saying when he says love your enemy is you can't 368 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: insist on God relating to you one way and then 369 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: you turn around and relate to people another way. So 370 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: if you want God to be gracious to you, that 371 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: grace has to flow not only to you but through you. 372 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 1: And if it's not flowing through you, it didn't really 373 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: flow to you. If you don't give it, you don't 374 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: got it. And I'm sorry for my grammar, but my 375 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: theology is spot on. It's a game changer. And we 376 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten Father, 377 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: of the Father full of grace and truth. So when 378 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: grace shows up, it changes the game. And the Bible 379 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: actually says that when Jesus finished teaching all these things, 380 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: the people were amazed at his teaching, not because he 381 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: was so funny, not because he was so succinct, not 382 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: because of the human wisdom, but he taught as one 383 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: who had authority, and not as one of their teachers 384 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: of the law. Well, what was it that his teacher, 385 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: the teachers of the law were teaching that had no authority. 386 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 1: They were teaching on the basis of appearance. And that's 387 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: what he's correcting in Matthew chapter six. It's not a 388 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:16,160 Speaker 1: giving scripture. It's a scripture about intention. So when you give, 389 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: he assumes that you're going to give, not if when 390 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,239 Speaker 1: he's making the assumption that your actions will align with 391 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: your values. And I've learned that the greatest way for 392 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 1: me to know whether I'm winning in my life is 393 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: not to ask people you know, or not to consult 394 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: certain external scoreboards that can tell me how I'm doing, 395 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: because my bank account is a bad indication of whether 396 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: I'm winning or the car I drive or any of that. 397 00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: But when my actions match my values, I'm winning. And 398 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: it's cool when you can get to that place. Not 399 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: that I live there all the time, but when I'm there, 400 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: I know it and I can feel it. And when 401 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: I'm living from that place, I don't need others to notice. 402 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: Because my father is keeping score right, we need to 403 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: shut down some scoreboards that are visible in our life 404 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,479 Speaker 1: for a little while and get in the car. Like 405 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: Elijah got in the car for me, and he would 406 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: ask me every game did we win? And I never 407 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: lied to him about it. I always told him sometimes 408 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: I said, no, y'all, y'all played terrible today. Honestly it was. 409 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: It was painful to experience. I love you anyway, but 410 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: that was awful. Am I am? I winning? And the 411 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: game has changed now. I mean, it's it's crazy. It's crazy. 412 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: It's crazy because now can somebody please explain to me 413 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: what are v bucks and what do they do? Right? Well, 414 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: that's what I thought, at first, like they buy stuff like, Okay, 415 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: So my kids are playing Fortnite and they asked me 416 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 1: will I will I give them V Bucks? Graham asked me, 417 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: will you buy us some V Bucks? Now, my first 418 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: hurdle was that real world money is now being exchanged 419 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: for I'm telling you, man, these these games have changed 420 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: for money on a game. And so I told Graham 421 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: that I would buy him some V Bucks. And I 422 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: think I bought him like, you know, five billion V 423 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: bucks for ten dollars or something like that. I don't 424 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: know the system, but I bought him some V Bucks. 425 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: And then I went in and I said, let me 426 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: see what those V Bucks do that I just bought you. 427 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: I said, what are you going to do with the 428 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: V Bucks? He said, I'm gonna buy skins because on 429 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: the game I was watching him go around with a 430 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,479 Speaker 1: pick axe killing people with a pick axe and stuff, 431 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 1: you know, great family values. And I said, do you 432 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: get a sharper axe or something with the V bucks? 433 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: He said, no, I'm buying skins. I said, well, what 434 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: do the skins do? Do they protect you from other people? 435 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: He said no, the skins don't give you any in 436 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: game advantage. It's just for people to see. So now 437 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: I'm angry because I just spent my real money for 438 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: you to wear something that doesn't help you at all 439 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: in the reality of a game that is already virtual. 440 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: Now I'm mad because I'm spending real money. God, have 441 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: a counseling session for a moment. I'm sick of spending 442 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: my money on stuff to make me look good that 443 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: doesn't really make a real difference in my soul. V Boss. 444 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm a grown man, and I gotta get to the 445 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: point where I don't need validation from people to do 446 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: what's right because it's according to my values. You don't 447 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: give so people will see you. Jesus isn't saying that 448 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: you have to write your checks in a closet and 449 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: put it in the mail and no one can ever know, 450 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: and don't get your tax exempt status when you give. 451 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,239 Speaker 1: Jesus is saying, if that is your reason, then that 452 00:29:53,280 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: will be your reward. Your reason determines your reward. Well, 453 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: I feel like preaching that, and if the reason I'm 454 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: doing it is to be seen, then that's my reward. 455 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: So if they see me and if they say that 456 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: I did it good, then that's my reward. But if 457 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: I have a deeper reason, then I have a greater reward. 458 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: And here's a game changer for me. I have this 459 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: like Sunday School way that I see the Bible. Sometimes 460 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: that messes me up because like I imagine stuff like 461 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: when it says your reward in heaven or your reward 462 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: from your father. I always used to picture like a 463 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: corner of heaven where there was like pots of gold. 464 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: It was like more like lucky charms and leprechauns than 465 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: the Bible, but it was like it was like these 466 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: big rewards in heaven, treasures in heaven. But you know, 467 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: I'm probably not gonna need gold in heaven because up 468 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: there it's called gravel. You see, I'm saying, like there's 469 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: not a value of monetary. It's like v bucks in heaven. 470 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: So it's not going to really buy anything. But now 471 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm realizing that this is not a passage about hey man, 472 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: give and then when you get to heaven, it's going 473 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: to be like, you know, your uber is going to 474 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: be a mayboch, Like it's not about getting this reward 475 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: in another place, it's about getting it from another place. 476 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: Then your father. This was the key to unlocking the 477 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: scripture for me, it said he sees what is done 478 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: in secret. That used to scare me. Oh God is 479 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: watching me all the time. Ah ah, But now I 480 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: see that it means he's keeping score, and that means 481 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: nobody else gets to And when I live that way, 482 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: there is a certain validation that only comes from Him 483 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: and living according to the values that He's given to me, 484 00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 1: and the world can't give that. And when I'm not 485 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: living in alignment with that, then I get the car, 486 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: and the car is my reward. And when the smell 487 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: of the car is gone, then so is the thrill 488 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: of owning it. If I do it for people, then 489 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: I have to get it from people. One scripture I 490 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: like to think about when I'm having a pity party 491 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: is one time when Paul was talking about preaching the gospel, 492 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: and in certain situations Paul would say, don't pay me. 493 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: I don't want any money from you. I want something 494 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: from God. And he wasn't always doing that, but when 495 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: he explained it to the church at Court and first 496 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: Corinthians nine, he goes, hey, I got nothing to brag about. 497 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: I preach because I'm compelled. In other words, God called 498 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,479 Speaker 1: me to do this, so I almost have to do it, 499 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: But if I do it out of obligation, then it's 500 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: just a discharge. I do it like it's a privilege, 501 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: then it's a reward. So the revelation for me was 502 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: that my reason determines my reward. So if I'm doing 503 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: this for you, then you hold my reward. But if 504 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: I'm doing this for him. It applies in every area 505 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: of life. It applies to giving. Okay, Jesus said this. 506 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: He said, I didn't come to abolish the law. I 507 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: came to fulfill it. That's what he means by the 508 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: game changer. I didn't come to play the game a 509 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: little better, keep the law a little better, like put 510 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: more on top of it. I came to change the 511 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: reason that you do it. So one of those things 512 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: is giving. In the Old Testament, you would see an 513 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: obligatory system of giving, where I bring the tithe because 514 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,479 Speaker 1: I have to, or else I'm under a curse, and 515 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: so I bring God the first fruits of my produce, 516 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: in the first fruits of all of my increase because 517 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: I have to. It is obligation oriented. That's how most 518 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: of us live. But grace changes the game. Jesus said, 519 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: I didn't come to abolish it, but to fulfill it. 520 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 1: In other words, I came to give you a different reason. Now, 521 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: it's not that I'm doing it because I've got to. 522 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,839 Speaker 1: I'm doing it because of the grace of God. Am 523 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: I saying this right? Lord? It is a shift in perspective. 524 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: And sometimes you keep doing the same things, but you 525 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: find a deeper reason to do it, and then you 526 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: find meaning in your life. But if you're not careful, 527 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 1: you run around all your life changing the things that 528 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 1: you do, but you find no meaning in the things 529 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 1: because as long as you have shallow reasons, you get 530 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 1: empty victories. But when your reason gets deeper, when you 531 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,919 Speaker 1: start saying, you know what I'm giving to God. I'm 532 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,240 Speaker 1: serving God, not because I have to, or not because 533 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: people might notice, or not because I'm going to go 534 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,919 Speaker 1: to hell if I don't, but just He's been good 535 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 1: to me, just because I know that my Redeemer lives. 536 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:32,919 Speaker 1: That's why. Then your Father, who sees what is done 537 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 1: in secret, will reward you. Whatever is your reason controls 538 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: your reward. You believe that. You believe that if you 539 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: have a devotion just so you can post on Instagram 540 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: that you had it with a picture of your coffee 541 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 1: mug sitting next to Colossians Chapter three, verse seven. Do 542 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 1: you believe me that if that's why you did it, 543 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 1: that's what you get out of it? And when it 544 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: only gets twelve likes, don't cry Because I preached Matthew 545 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,839 Speaker 1: sixty one through four, and I told you that if 546 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: that is your reason, then that is your reward. I 547 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: see it like a game show in my mind. Tell 548 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: them what they've won. You know, it's like you know 549 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:29,440 Speaker 1: absolutely nothing because you did it for the reason, and 550 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: people will go, I left that church. Why'd you leave 551 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: that church? Because I got burned? Were you in the 552 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: cooking ministry? You see the scar? Is it nasty? I 553 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 1: get it. We get hurt. But sometimes the reason that 554 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: we got hurt is because in our heart, what we 555 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 1: needed from people was too much, and we shouldn't have 556 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: been doing it for people to begin with it. All 557 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 1: the applause died down by seventy three percent. It always 558 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: happens when you challenge the values. And I noticed a 559 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,239 Speaker 1: trend in my preaching a couple of years ago that 560 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: bothered me. So I've been I've been working on it. 561 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: Where I was I was preaching a sort of theology. 562 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,720 Speaker 1: It was a little perverted in this way, not on purpose, 563 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: but you just shift toward it. You say, if you will, 564 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,280 Speaker 1: God will, and God's gonna, and you fill in the blanks, 565 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: you know, like, if you obey God in this area 566 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 1: of your life, it will produce a blessing. So it 567 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 1: was a cause and effect. What I'm coming to understand is, 568 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 1: while that's true on the surface, the real blessing is 569 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 1: built into the process. The real blessing is built in 570 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 1: when he says, don't let your left hand know what 571 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: your right hand is doing when you give. That means 572 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: that it ought to be so automatic because you've operated 573 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:07,240 Speaker 1: out of your values to the point like these guitar players, 574 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: is there a guitar anywhere around here? When they play, 575 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:20,720 Speaker 1: there's got to be one, right LJ. When they play, 576 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:26,239 Speaker 1: they don't have to think about I would play y'all 577 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: talk dirty to me by poison, but that's not appropriate 578 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,480 Speaker 1: for church. That's the first song I learned, though. That's 579 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 1: what I think about when I see electric guitar. They 580 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: do this with the right hand and this with the 581 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 1: left hand, but they don't see these hands, these hands. 582 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 1: If I've done that enough, this hand is going, and 583 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:08,279 Speaker 1: this hand is going, and the left hand. What is 584 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 1: this glycerine? By Bush? I think I'm playing of all 585 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 1: those songs shout of the nineties, and if you've done 586 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 1: it enough, it's not even a thing. And Jesus, I 587 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,839 Speaker 1: would like for you to get to the point where 588 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 1: My grace has changed you enough that you don't have 589 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:44,919 Speaker 1: to you don't have to think about it or pray 590 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,760 Speaker 1: about it. God, should I give to further your gospel 591 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,319 Speaker 1: in the earth. I just need a sign. How about 592 00:39:51,360 --> 00:40:01,960 Speaker 1: your common sense? And so he challenges values. And that's 593 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,800 Speaker 1: what I've always loved about this moment in our church, 594 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,879 Speaker 1: when we are getting ready to give, or when we're 595 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 1: calling people to serve. You know, it changes the game 596 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,759 Speaker 1: because when your intention in coming here is in what 597 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 1: you get, then that's your reward. When your intention in 598 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,880 Speaker 1: coming is to give something that God put inside of you, 599 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 1: you are no longer dependent on people. And that's the blessing. 600 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: The blessing is built in to the process. And I 601 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,719 Speaker 1: think we need to take our scoreboard back. I think 602 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:48,040 Speaker 1: we've adopted the world's values in some ways that have 603 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:54,040 Speaker 1: caused us to win some victories that are empty. Then 604 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,839 Speaker 1: your father who sees what has done in secret, he 605 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,280 Speaker 1: will reward you, not with pots of gold in heaven, 606 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:11,040 Speaker 1: not with v bucks and cookies, digital cookies, cookies made 607 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:17,279 Speaker 1: of pixels, complements from people, and empty status that can 608 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,400 Speaker 1: be here one day and gone the next. When you 609 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:29,680 Speaker 1: have crappy values, you will never have lasting joy. And 610 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:35,320 Speaker 1: popularity is a crappy value. That's in the Greek crappy values. 611 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:42,440 Speaker 1: Socility and position is a crappy value. I'm gonna work 612 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: my way up excavation before elevation. Pleasure is a crappy value. 613 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: It's a great byproduct. It's not bad to feel good 614 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,400 Speaker 1: and enjoy stuff, but when that's the goal of the game, 615 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,920 Speaker 1: it's a terrible value. And when my values are shallow, 616 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:10,359 Speaker 1: my victories are empty. So I want God to run 617 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 1: my scoreboard. How about you. I need that, Come on, 618 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:20,880 Speaker 1: I need that. It's too stressful. It's too stressful. Life 619 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,200 Speaker 1: is too stressful, and too many people have too many 620 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,640 Speaker 1: different opinions, and there's too much to keep up with, 621 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,280 Speaker 1: and I can't do it anymore. So I want my father, 622 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,680 Speaker 1: who sees what has done in secret, to keep score 623 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: for me, and I want him to make the decision 624 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:42,920 Speaker 1: was that good? Am I a good dad today? Because 625 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 1: I certainly can't ask my kids what they think about that. 626 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,719 Speaker 1: I can't because what I will need to do to 627 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,760 Speaker 1: be a good parent in some seasons will mean sometimes 628 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,760 Speaker 1: that I am not popular. But if I'm parenting according 629 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,479 Speaker 1: to purpose, if I'm living according to purpose, I don't 630 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,120 Speaker 1: have to consult all these other sources. Say this out loud. 631 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:11,279 Speaker 1: God is my source and he is my reward. God 632 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: is my source and he is my reward. God is 633 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,799 Speaker 1: my source and he is my reward. Now clap your 634 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:29,640 Speaker 1: hands if you want to live that way. We're going 635 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,279 Speaker 1: to get around these values over the next few weeks. 636 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: I'm not teaching only on giving or tithing or any 637 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,840 Speaker 1: of that. I'm going to be teaching on principles of 638 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,960 Speaker 1: faith and principles of vision and principles of value. That's 639 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,840 Speaker 1: what we've always done at this church. I never stood 640 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:51,000 Speaker 1: up on this stage and preached from an emergency that 641 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 1: we needed people to give, and I won't start now 642 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,960 Speaker 1: because there is none. But now there's an opportunity coming 643 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,200 Speaker 1: up as this year in is for thousands of you 644 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,320 Speaker 1: to begin to operate according to Kingdom values, putting God First, 645 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,520 Speaker 1: what a lot of people begin to do during this 646 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,399 Speaker 1: season that I think is so appropriate is they begin 647 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,960 Speaker 1: that practice of tithing, that's the first ten percent, and 648 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: rather than just giving some one time gift, some spontaneous gift, 649 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,799 Speaker 1: they get systematic and strategic to begin to align your 650 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:26,439 Speaker 1: actions with your values, because otherwise, what is it, it's 651 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:33,160 Speaker 1: just rhetoric. Your actions reflect your values. So thousands of 652 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,560 Speaker 1: people during this season will begin to tie the first 653 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,640 Speaker 1: ten percent to God and go online and set that 654 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,680 Speaker 1: up in a recurring way. And then thousands will bring 655 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,319 Speaker 1: an above and beyond gift, and we'll use that to 656 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,600 Speaker 1: build the church and build the kingdom and preach the gospel, 657 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,040 Speaker 1: and will show you in the weeks to come some 658 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: videos and testimonies of what God is already doing around 659 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,480 Speaker 1: the world. Thousands of you online that just click on 660 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,959 Speaker 1: and click off. Now, God's going to call you off 661 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,320 Speaker 1: the bench to the game. Off the bench in the game, 662 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,799 Speaker 1: because when you get in the game, that's when you 663 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 1: start to discover who God really is, not when you 664 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,480 Speaker 1: sit and spectat, but when you participate and sacrifice. And 665 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: God is calling on us in this season to get 666 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 1: in the game and make a difference in the world 667 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,680 Speaker 1: for the glory of His name, and I feel like 668 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:24,319 Speaker 1: making a difference. I want my life to count for 669 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,520 Speaker 1: something beyond what I can see. So the worship team 670 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,120 Speaker 1: is gonna come now and we're gonna sing again. Would 671 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,120 Speaker 1: you stand to your feet. I'm gonna worship God. Please 672 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,959 Speaker 1: don't leave. It's so stressful. When I say standing, five 673 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,040 Speaker 1: hundred people start heading for the car. And we don't 674 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,480 Speaker 1: need any of that. But I want us to take 675 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,520 Speaker 1: a moment and seal the word that God spoke today. 676 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,840 Speaker 1: Are you excited about this season of faith? Come on, 677 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:59,640 Speaker 1: clap your hands if you're excited. Father, we ask you 678 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,840 Speaker 1: now that that you would align our values with yours. 679 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,280 Speaker 1: Sometimes what you value and what we value are so different, 680 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,799 Speaker 1: and we need your help in those areas. Sometimes we're 681 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,759 Speaker 1: looking at the wrong scoreboard and we feel like we're 682 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:17,480 Speaker 1: failing because we're allowing the wrong people to run our scoreboard. 683 00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes we feel like we're failing because we're considering all 684 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,360 Speaker 1: the wrong columns and not the ones that are inside, 685 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,240 Speaker 1: the ones that matter. So I speak over your people 686 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,799 Speaker 1: today a blessing of affirmation and validation that can only 687 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,319 Speaker 1: come from you. I pray that you would speak even 688 00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,719 Speaker 1: in these moments, the words that we need to hear, 689 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,960 Speaker 1: that we would align our values with your voice, and 690 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:45,120 Speaker 1: your voice alone that rises above every storm, transcends every season. 691 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,799 Speaker 1: To believe and know that your grace is enough for us. 692 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,960 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, I pray and the whole church say amen. 693 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:59,520 Speaker 1: It is so well. I hope you enjoyed the podcast today. 694 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,400 Speaker 1: There are just a couple things I'd love for you 695 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,680 Speaker 1: to do. Number One, subscribe to our show. 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