Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
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Speaker 2: From Ecclesiastes, chapter eleven, I want to continue a conversation
Speaker 2: that I began with our Matthew's campus on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: This message is called the Mystery of potential. How many
Speaker 2: no God has put things inside of you that your
Speaker 2: eyes haven't seen yet. God put things inside of you
Speaker 2: that your parents didn't even know about, and so I
Speaker 2: want to speak on those things today. From Ecclesiastes eleven,
Speaker 2: verse five and six. As you do not know the
Speaker 2: way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb
Speaker 2: of a woman with child, So you do not know
Speaker 2: the work of God who makes everything. In the morning,
Speaker 2: sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand,
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Do not know. He said that in both verses it
Speaker 1: must be important.
Speaker 2: Solomon, the wisest man in the world, speaking about human ignorance,
Speaker 2: that even after all he learned, accomplished, and.
Speaker 1: Every success that he achieved.
Speaker 2: His common theme in this book is you do not
Speaker 2: know is a mystery. And he said that one might
Speaker 2: prosper that you count out. And so since you don't know,
Speaker 2: keep sowing. Since you don't know, keep sowing, for you
Speaker 2: do not know which will prosper this or that, or
Speaker 2: whether both. Somebody say both, whether both alike will be good. Lord,
Speaker 2: this is your word, and so we do not ask
Speaker 2: you to make it true.
Speaker 1: It already is.
Speaker 2: Get it in our hearts, past all the falsehood distractions
Speaker 2: and deceit, so it can become flesh in our lives.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated in using
Speaker 2: these two different analogies for the revelation of potential. The
Speaker 2: commonality is that there is a process by which anything
Speaker 2: must be fertilized. Whether it's human life or whether it's
Speaker 2: a seed that will become sustenance, it must undergo a
Speaker 2: process of fertilization. And I don't think I need to
Speaker 2: have the birds and the bees talk. If your parents
Speaker 2: didn't do that by now, it's not my job. But
Speaker 2: he talks about how in the womb of a woman
Speaker 2: there is a process and a part of human pregnancy
Speaker 2: that can be explained or that can be anatomically identified.
Speaker 2: And then there is another part which he calls the
Speaker 2: spirit entering the bones or the breath the Rua and Hebrew,
Speaker 2: it's the same word. When you hear spirit of God,
Speaker 2: you can also think breath of God. Both are correct,
Speaker 2: and it's the same word because it's the same process.
Speaker 2: Anything God breathes on comes to life. And if there's
Speaker 2: anything you need God to breathe on today you are
Speaker 2: in His presence and anything is possible. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, the way this whole project called you got started.
Speaker 2: Was God breathed on something dirty. He took the dust
Speaker 2: of the earth, and when he breathed on it, he
Speaker 2: breathed into man the breath of life.
Speaker 1: So there is the bones and there is the breath.
Speaker 2: One of those can be explained and perceived with human eyes.
Speaker 1: And if there's anybody in overflow, I don't know if
Speaker 1: there is.
Speaker 2: We got two premium seats on the landing at Valentine.
Speaker 2: So bring in two people who traveled and had to
Speaker 2: sit and overflow and give them those seats. If it's
Speaker 2: a husband and a wife, or if it's two single
Speaker 2: people that look like they like each other out there
Speaker 2: in overflow, put them in those two seats.
Speaker 1: Let's see what God can do.
Speaker 2: Because when God brings things together and breaths into things,
Speaker 2: the limit of God's potential is only your belief, because
Speaker 2: God is so big and so great, and the only
Speaker 2: thing that ever limits him is what you believe he
Speaker 2: can do. And you know a lot of people will say, well,
Speaker 2: nothing limits God. He's God, and of course he is God.
Speaker 2: But God breathes into things. And when God breathes into things,
Speaker 2: it's so important that we receive it.
Speaker 1: When he breathes. Amen.
Speaker 2: How many of you are firstborn children? Firstborn children? Come on,
Speaker 2: let's give it up for ourselves. Come on, give it
Speaker 2: up for me and you because we were our parents' experiment.
Speaker 2: I think when you're having a child, and I don't
Speaker 2: have a lot of parenting advice, but this is one
Speaker 2: thing I do think is pretty good, and I may
Speaker 2: write a book about this. When you have your first child,
Speaker 2: you know, you create a college fund for your Yeah,
Speaker 2: you create a college fund for your kids, but for
Speaker 2: your firstborn, you need to also create a therapy fund.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and start it.
Speaker 2: Put it in a put it in an index fund
Speaker 2: or something, because you are learning things on them that
Speaker 2: the other ones. I mean, it's kind of rough with
Speaker 2: your firstborn because you put all your hopes and dreams
Speaker 2: and fantasies and projections of parenthood on that poor child.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget when Elijah, you know, he's coming home
Speaker 2: from the hospital, I'm driving seventeen miles an hour on
Speaker 2: four eighty five, just you know. And by the time
Speaker 2: I became who was the third, you know, I just
Speaker 2: center home in an uber It's.
Speaker 1: Just because I got this now.
Speaker 2: But on the first one, you're learning everything, so you're
Speaker 2: like totally overprotective, and sometimes they're overly ambitious, and so
Speaker 2: anything the kid does, you're like, oh, my god, did
Speaker 2: you He just played the piano like walks by and
Speaker 2: bangs it, and you think he's Mozart because you see potential.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not there.
Speaker 2: When Elijah first started playing baseball, I remember when he
Speaker 2: was on this coach pitch team, and the coach pitch
Speaker 2: league is kind of deceptive because the pitcher is working
Speaker 2: with you, which is the opposite of real baseball, but
Speaker 2: the pitcher wants you to hit it. And I was
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to help Elijah with baseball
Speaker 2: because I played baseball a little bit my dad coached me,
Speaker 2: but I don't know a lot about it. And I
Speaker 2: found out one of the grandparents there was a former
Speaker 2: scout for minor league baseball, and he walked over to
Speaker 2: me one game in the middle of the season and goes, hey,
Speaker 2: that's your boy out there. I said yeah, he said,
Speaker 2: he's pretty good. It's got potential, and I was like,
Speaker 2: for real, like how much potential? You know, Like you
Speaker 2: think he's like like a future And I couldn't even
Speaker 2: get the whole sentence out, and he interrupted me and
Speaker 2: said something to me, I believe God wants to say.
Speaker 1: To some of you. He said, it's too soon to tell.
Speaker 2: In other words, I was just trying to be polite
Speaker 2: and say that your kid has a good swing and
Speaker 2: encourage you to keep it up as a dad.
Speaker 1: It's way too soon to tell.
Speaker 2: You know whether or not you should start looking for
Speaker 2: an agent. Okay, he's just got good swing, But don't
Speaker 2: we always want to know so soon. How we post
Speaker 2: stuff and if people don't like it in two minutes,
Speaker 2: we feel the pressure to delete it because maybe the
Speaker 2: picture wasn't as good as I thought it was, you know,
Speaker 2: like it's the worst thing in the world. How we
Speaker 2: live in this age of instant validation where we just
Speaker 2: expect every opinion to be accepted just quickly. And if
Speaker 2: it doesn't happen quickly, if it doesn't happen just like that,
Speaker 2: if it doesn't just turn around by Friday, if within
Speaker 2: our first week back at the gym in January it
Speaker 2: doesn't melt off, we will cancel the gym membership and
Speaker 2: talk about the fact.
Speaker 1: That the machines weren't right. But it wasn't the machines.
Speaker 2: It was our consistency and our deep down need to
Speaker 2: see it happen so quick. The man said, it's too
Speaker 2: soon to tell, and Solomon said the same thing. He said,
Speaker 2: there are some things in your life that are like
Speaker 2: the bones that are waiting on the breath, and you
Speaker 2: don't know the way God is going to work in situation.
Speaker 1: And it is always too soon for.
Speaker 2: You to quit on something that God put on the
Speaker 2: inside of you.
Speaker 1: If He gave you a dream, is too soon to
Speaker 1: walk away.
Speaker 2: From it just because it doesn't manifest in three dimensions
Speaker 2: by the time you get done praying about it. So
Speaker 2: that's what we talked about today, the mystery of potential
Speaker 2: and how it's too soon to tell, and how the
Speaker 2: only way that potential can be revealed is for process
Speaker 2: to be embraced.
Speaker 1: Y'all with me today. I never know. I never know
Speaker 1: how a sermon.
Speaker 2: Is going to affect people, and even after I preach it,
Speaker 2: it's difficult for me to discern the impact of it.
Speaker 2: I guess I could go off of a reaction base.
Speaker 2: But I went to a Panthers game one time and
Speaker 2: a lady was in front of me yelling the whole
Speaker 2: time but she left in the fourth quarter, because sometimes
Speaker 2: the loudest are the first to leave. So I don't
Speaker 2: know how hard a sermon hit by how loud somebody
Speaker 2: gets about it. Feel free to be loud. I mean
Speaker 2: I like it loud. I really do like it loud.
Speaker 2: I'm a punk rocker at heart. But I don't know
Speaker 2: by how loud is, how deep it goes, is whether
Speaker 2: or not you get nicer to your wife after I preach.
Speaker 1: That shows how good my message got on love.
Speaker 2: I thought I would have a few amens from the
Speaker 2: higher register of the octave range.
Speaker 1: But you don't know. You really don't know.
Speaker 2: And the idea of human potential and a limitless God
Speaker 2: comes together in this text in a way that you
Speaker 2: can see several times throughout scripture in several examples. And
Speaker 2: whether we would talk about Peter who had to cast
Speaker 2: his net on the other side of the boat after
Speaker 2: he's spent all night catching nothing. The potential was there,
Speaker 2: but until the command was given from Jesus at the
Speaker 2: place of his frustration. I called this message the Mystery
Speaker 2: of potential because I thought it sounded good. I could
Speaker 2: have just as easily called it the misery of potential.
Speaker 2: And we could preach about that too, because when you're
Speaker 2: young and people tell you have potential, it's a compliment
Speaker 2: and it makes you feel hopeful. By the time you're
Speaker 2: sixty five and people are saying, you know, you have
Speaker 2: a lot of potential, it's depressing because by the time
Speaker 2: I'm sixty five, I don't need potential. I need kinetic.
Speaker 2: Potential doesn't pay the bills. Potential doesn't put a ring
Speaker 2: on my finger. Oh, you're going to be a good wife. Well,
Speaker 2: I'd like to be a good wife three years ago.
Speaker 2: If I'm a good wife, where's my good man? I
Speaker 2: come to church and I walk past all these men,
Speaker 2: but they're all past.
Speaker 1: A bunch of Christian men.
Speaker 2: Won'll never give anybody a hug praying for a wife
Speaker 2: instead of asking out to Starbucks.
Speaker 1: I can't do anything in potential that seemed like that
Speaker 1: one hit.
Speaker 2: You know, you can never know the potential of a
Speaker 2: seed by looking at it, Hey, little seed. You know,
Speaker 2: you pray over a seed, you still won't know its potential.
Speaker 1: You can study the history of seeds.
Speaker 2: And although you might intellectually grasp its potential or comprehend
Speaker 2: what it contains. The only way to really know the
Speaker 2: potential is to plant it, and could it be that
Speaker 2: in your life and in my life right now there
Speaker 2: is potential that has not been planted. And so while
Speaker 2: we are frustrated about what our lives are missing, it's
Speaker 2: already in us and an immature form, and until we
Speaker 2: sow it, we will never know what it could have been. Now,
Speaker 2: I believe all over this house today there are starving seeds.
Speaker 2: There are things, gifts, abilities, thoughts, ideas wisdom that God
Speaker 2: has put in us, but it will not be shown
Speaker 2: until it is sown.
Speaker 1: Can I preach like I'm Doctor Seuss.
Speaker 2: My rhymes are on points so far you will never
Speaker 2: see it until you sow it.
Speaker 1: And so while we're praying.
Speaker 2: God show me my potential, and we're taking personality test
Speaker 2: which are fine. God bless Myers Briggs, whoever he is.
Speaker 2: God bless the enneagram. Holly reads all that stuff to me.
Speaker 2: She tells me, I'm a one and she's a nine,
Speaker 2: and the one in the nine go together, and my
Speaker 2: one and her nine make a perfect five or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. I like all of it,
Speaker 1: but the.
Speaker 2: Truth of the matter is you can't bubble in a
Speaker 2: test and find out what's in you. You can't go
Speaker 2: on a journey of self discovery and find out what's
Speaker 2: in you, because watch this. Until the seed is sacrificed,
Speaker 2: until it goes into something bigger called the ground, until
Speaker 2: it breaks open to accomplish something, you'll never know.
Speaker 1: What was in it.
Speaker 2: And when you live a selfish life, a safe life,
Speaker 2: and you don't sew it, you will never know. The
Speaker 2: enemy has got some of us so selfish, so discouraged,
Speaker 2: that our seeds are starving, not for the lack of potential,
Speaker 2: but for the lack of process. So like think about
Speaker 2: Elisha plowing in a field in One Kings nineteen, just
Speaker 2: as an illustration, and he's plowing verse nineteen. He's plowing
Speaker 2: in a field with a yoke of oxen. There it is.
Speaker 2: He's plowing with twelve yokoboccin in front of him. He's
Speaker 2: not posing in front of the plow. He's not posting.
Speaker 1: On my plow. He's just plowing. He's just plowing.
Speaker 2: And a lot of times we will confuse the fact
Speaker 2: that we don't have good ground in our life, that
Speaker 2: is good opportunities. But maybe it's good ground and it's
Speaker 2: just unplowed. And I wonder sometimes the things that we
Speaker 2: go through that are hard for us is not the
Speaker 2: enemy attacking us, but it is God plowing us to
Speaker 2: make the ground ready, to make our hearts ready, to
Speaker 2: make our wills ready.
Speaker 1: So we won't be arrogant and.
Speaker 2: Prideful, but we will have a plowed heart. And I
Speaker 2: don't know who this is for, but a lot of
Speaker 2: the things that you've been praying away, God is plowing
Speaker 2: into and it's God's plowing process, just like Elisha had
Speaker 2: been plowing the crown. I believe God had been plowing Elisha,
Speaker 2: and I believe he's been plowing some of us and
Speaker 2: getting our ground ready and getting our hearts ready. Because
Speaker 2: sometimes if God visits us too soon with an opportunity
Speaker 2: that life has not prepared us for, we will not
Speaker 2: only ruin the opportunity, but we will hurt others in
Speaker 2: the process.
Speaker 1: So I don't want my heart to be unplowed ground.
Speaker 2: But I'm getting ahead of myself here, because this message
Speaker 2: is not just about plowing, it's about planting. And really,
Speaker 2: what I wanted to say is you have no idea
Speaker 2: what your encouragement can be until you plant it. What
Speaker 2: your smile can be until you plant it, and planted.
Speaker 2: For me, it's theoretical. For a farmer, it's practical. I
Speaker 2: read it as a metaphor planted. But really, this process
Speaker 2: Solomon is describing in an agricultural society would hit home
Speaker 2: like it would be like saying, like an iPad because
Speaker 2: there were so many more. You got to understand. The
Speaker 2: Bible was written in the context of its culture, and
Speaker 2: so it'd be like Sam'd be like this, I would
Speaker 2: sit next to a man on an airplane and this
Speaker 2: actually happened, Okay, true story.
Speaker 1: And I just got my iPad.
Speaker 2: This was years ago, and I was so proud to
Speaker 2: be one of the first people with an iPad and
Speaker 2: it had just come out, and we sent an intern
Speaker 2: to the Apple store to get one of the first iPads, okay,
Speaker 2: and I let them buy themselves something too, Okay, so
Speaker 2: I hooked them up. But the thing is I wanted
Speaker 2: to have one of the first iPads because Levi Lusscow
Speaker 2: was telling me, you got to get an iPad.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: He's like, totally, you know, my friend Levi, he's been
Speaker 2: here to preach. You got to try, Sacha, Bro, you
Speaker 2: got to get this new bracelet for your workout, Bro,
Speaker 2: you got to get an iPad. He's always telling me
Speaker 2: to get something I'll already have. Always make me feel
Speaker 2: like my life is missing something. He's some kind of
Speaker 2: marketer from the pit of hell, but I love him.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta get an iPad, bro, It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's just the technology is beautiful. So I have my
Speaker 2: iPad and the guy next to me had an iPad too,
Speaker 2: and so we felt like a connection. And he goes,
Speaker 2: how you like your iPad. I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just got it.
Speaker 2: He goes, I've had mine a week. I was like,
Speaker 2: they just came out yesterday. He said, I got Connections
Speaker 2: and Apple. I was like, oh, I got an intern
Speaker 2: send him to the Apple store. He goes, so, what
Speaker 2: are you planning to use it for. I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm a preacher, so I'm a preach my sermons from it.
Speaker 1: He goes, what else. I was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what else. That's it, really, I guess.
Speaker 2: And he got this look on his face like disgusted,
Speaker 2: like disappointment in somebody that a minute ago he felt
Speaker 2: an affinity for, but now he just felt nothing but
Speaker 2: deep total sadness and loss at what could have been
Speaker 2: a great relationship.
Speaker 1: He goes, you are using that device so far beneath
Speaker 1: its potential, and we didn't speak the rest of the flight.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to say back. I'm so sorry, man,
Speaker 1: I just don't you know.
Speaker 2: Every time I open the iPad, I think about what
Speaker 2: it could do, and I think about what's on it
Speaker 2: and what it could connect to through the Wi Fi connection.
Speaker 2: I think about everything that it could do that it's
Speaker 2: not doing.
Speaker 1: I think about the potential of it.
Speaker 2: I think about everything that's in some of the people
Speaker 2: that I get to preach to, everything that is in
Speaker 2: you that you haven't accessed, and everything that's in you.
Speaker 1: That got buried, that got covered up.
Speaker 2: But the thing about dirt is it can also bring
Speaker 2: out potential. The thing about a seed when it goes
Speaker 2: into the ground, Remember it doesn't go into the ground
Speaker 2: to die. It goes into the ground to multiply. Some
Speaker 2: of y'all know what I'm talking about. Because you had
Speaker 2: a failure in your life and people wrote you off,
Speaker 2: and people walked away, and it seemed like it was over.
Speaker 2: But you gave it a little time, and you gave
Speaker 2: it a little water, and you gave it a little trust,
Speaker 2: and you kept coming to church, and somehow, some way,
Speaker 2: God turned pain into potential. Now, if you ever fished
Speaker 2: all night and caught nothing, but you cast your nets
Speaker 2: on the other side and haul in a bucket full,
Speaker 2: I need you to shout right now that there's so
Speaker 2: much more.
Speaker 1: It's the mystery.
Speaker 2: Elisha is flowing and Elijah says something to him. He says, well,
Speaker 2: actually he says it with an action, not with words.
Speaker 2: He throws his cloak on Elisha, which represents the potential
Speaker 2: for miracles. And when Elijah's cloak, remember he's the great
Speaker 2: miracle worker who stood before Ahab, who ran from Jezebel,
Speaker 2: and who found Elisha plowing in a field.
Speaker 1: And he throws his mantle, the symbol of potential.
Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but God is
Speaker 2: throwing something your way today. I wish I could throw
Speaker 2: this microphone right at your forehead so you would just
Speaker 2: get it. But it's expensive, and he doesn't say much
Speaker 2: about it. It's very mysterious. It's very mysterious. And when
Speaker 2: Elisha receives that mantle, he doesn't immediately perform a miracle.
Speaker 1: In fact, let me tell you how mysterious potential is.
Speaker 2: We don't hear Elisha's name again until Second King's Chapter two,
Speaker 2: which many tell us was thirteen years after his potential
Speaker 2: was first suggested. But his potential was not revealed until
Speaker 2: he would take that same cloak and strike the water
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: After a long season of obedience, y'all got to know
Speaker 1: where to shout.
Speaker 2: That's where to shout, because that's where potential is proven.
Speaker 1: When it is planted.
Speaker 2: Planted, it's on the device, but it can only be
Speaker 2: retrieved from the device through.
Speaker 1: A process of connection.
Speaker 2: And this process of connection in seed speak, revolves around planting,
Speaker 2: which makes me think first of all, of the sower,
Speaker 2: because when the sower plants a seed, Remember, farmers don't
Speaker 2: have funeral.
Speaker 1: Over seed that they scatter.
Speaker 2: Instead, they have expectation to see it again in a
Speaker 2: greater form later. So you're never really saying goodbye to
Speaker 2: anything that you give to God. You're really just opening
Speaker 2: your hands, which means that before you can receive anything,
Speaker 2: you have to release something. For those of you who
Speaker 2: like to take notes, you can write down the word
Speaker 2: release because process is revealed in potential, and potential is
Speaker 2: revealed in process, and it comes a little bit along
Speaker 2: and along the first step is to release.
Speaker 1: The sower. Must release the seed to see what it
Speaker 1: could be.
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, is there something that you need to
Speaker 2: release in your life today? And could it be possible
Speaker 2: that you are looking at something, praying about something and
Speaker 2: trying to manipulate something that God wants you to release
Speaker 2: so that it.
Speaker 1: Can mature and manifest.
Speaker 2: And this is for all of us who are control freaks,
Speaker 2: because until we release it, it can't grow. Look at
Speaker 2: your neighbors, say let it go, tell them watch it grow.
Speaker 2: Let it go and watch it grow. But it can't
Speaker 2: grow if you're trying to control it. Right is starving
Speaker 2: seeds and then is strangled seeds holding on so tight.
Speaker 2: Oh it's my time, is my money? I feel so
Speaker 2: sorry for people who aren't generous. I feel so bad
Speaker 2: for you because all stinginess does is strangle to see
Speaker 2: that God has given you And if you could.
Speaker 1: Let it go, who knows what it could be.
Speaker 2: What if I just preach that sermon in the mirror,
Speaker 2: it would bounce right back. But if I put it
Speaker 2: out through that camera, it might hit Botswana and help
Speaker 2: somebody in their life or Bamberg, South Carolina. I don't care.
Speaker 2: It's God's business where it goes. It's my job to
Speaker 2: sew it. And you got to sew it in the morning,
Speaker 2: sow it in the evening. So it when you feel it.
Speaker 2: Sow it when you don't. So when they cheer for you,
Speaker 2: So when they criticize you, sow it when they hold Zanna,
Speaker 2: and sow it when they want to string you up.
Speaker 2: So when they notice, sow it. When they don't, sow it,
Speaker 2: sew it.
Speaker 1: Sew it.
Speaker 2: But just like you can't live your life not accessing
Speaker 2: everything that's on the device and expect to be a
Speaker 2: reflection of the image of God.
Speaker 1: You also, and I want to say this is.
Speaker 2: So important because when we talk about potential, a lot
Speaker 2: of people start trying to produce something that God did not.
Speaker 1: Put inside of them.
Speaker 2: We got oranges wanting to be apples, apples wanting to
Speaker 2: be kumquats, not a kumquat. You are a delicious red apple.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be a big, juicy red apple, but you want.
Speaker 1: To be a kumquat. Yo.
Speaker 2: My barber told me a story the other day. His
Speaker 2: name is fly Ty. That's who you want to cut
Speaker 2: your hair. He put fly in his name. I trust
Speaker 2: him with my faith because he's fly tie and he's
Speaker 2: been cutting my hair now he attends our University City location.
Speaker 2: I asked his permission to tell you this because I
Speaker 2: didn't want to embarrass him. But y'all, he told me
Speaker 2: the dumbest story ever the other day. And he was
Speaker 2: cutting my hair. And he has this bad habit of
Speaker 2: stopping cutting my hair while he tells me a fifteen
Speaker 2: minute story. And he needs to go to multitask school
Speaker 2: because I got things to do. He's cutting the clippers
Speaker 2: off and talking. But it's fine because I usually like
Speaker 2: his stories and his anecdotes, but this one was dumb. Listeners,
Speaker 2: he told me a story and I don't remember exactly
Speaker 2: what the year was, but years ago he was hosting
Speaker 2: because he's not only a barber, he's a host, a
Speaker 2: radio personality. He works for the Hornets. He's very involved
Speaker 2: in the community. He speaks to little kids, like every
Speaker 2: time he comes to cut my hair. He's recently spoken
Speaker 2: to a group of kids. That same day, Anti DJ
Speaker 2: at a wedding, Anti cured cancer, and he fought a
Speaker 2: fire on Providence Row and he's just every where all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: But he's sitting there telling me the story.
Speaker 2: Because we're talking about potential and what God has put
Speaker 2: in you, and we talk about this a lot.
Speaker 1: We talk about God.
Speaker 2: And I guess because my dad was a barber, I
Speaker 2: had just have a love for barber's and so the
Speaker 2: clippers start going, we start talking and we're talking about it,
Speaker 2: and he told me a story that jay Z came
Speaker 2: to a concert. I guess it was like in the nineties,
Speaker 2: before he was as popular as he is now, and
Speaker 2: the concert was half full, and fly Tie was one
Speaker 2: of the hosts for the concerts, and he said he
Speaker 2: observed jay Z during the concert talking to one of
Speaker 2: the members of a female group who was also on
Speaker 2: the concert bill called Destiny's Child, and he said that
Speaker 2: the concert was half full because jay Z was just
Speaker 2: on the come up, which would lead him to be
Speaker 2: some would say the greatest rapper of all time, depending
Speaker 2: on how you quantify that, it's a very strong case.
Speaker 2: But he said, I've since thought back to that day
Speaker 2: because jay Z and Beyonce were back there and I
Speaker 2: was watching their relationship develop before my eyes. And he's
Speaker 2: my same age, and I think often to myself. Look
Speaker 2: what he's done with his life and what have I
Speaker 2: done with mine? Now, of all the people in the
Speaker 2: Milky Way, for you to choose to use as a
Speaker 2: standard of how successful your life is, you just had
Speaker 2: to go get jay Z.
Speaker 1: Jay Z, not even not even Lil Wayne jay Z.
Speaker 2: You had to pick the most influential rapper of our lifetime.
Speaker 1: So here's what he did.
Speaker 2: He just wanted to feel small so bad that rather
Speaker 2: than focusing on Look how gracious.
Speaker 1: God has been to me.
Speaker 2: I asked his permission to say this, and he said
Speaker 2: I could, Instead of I'm gonna preach to them through
Speaker 2: the camera.
Speaker 1: He's listening right now.
Speaker 2: Instead of picking Look where I could have been if
Speaker 2: it hadn't been for the grace of God. Look how
Speaker 2: he raised me up. Look how he kept me alive.
Speaker 2: Look how I wasn't a statistic. Look how he's using
Speaker 2: me in ways I never could have imagined. Look how
Speaker 2: he would have gifted me.
Speaker 1: Look how he's been good to me.
Speaker 2: You are not jay Z. You are not supposed to be.
Speaker 2: So tell your neighbor you are not beyond saying. Tell
Speaker 2: him what I am Destiny's child and what God could
Speaker 2: inside of me? Said, He said, what God put inside
Speaker 2: of me is looking for a place to grow. I'm
Speaker 2: going back to my school like a seed ready to grow.
Speaker 2: And don't judge the significance by the size of the seed.
Speaker 2: I'm fly freaking tie clippers in one hand and microphone
Speaker 2: in the other.
Speaker 1: I got potential, but I gotta let go.
Speaker 2: Of what I think I'm supposed to be to become
Speaker 2: what I am. You know how sometimes you get this
Speaker 2: parental guilt, this feeling of like I watched a football
Speaker 2: game with the boys last night and I came to
Speaker 2: tears because there was a commercial of a man taking
Speaker 2: his sun fishing.
Speaker 1: I was choked up.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm so sorry, boys, I never took you
Speaker 2: fishing because I'm thinking that's where the lessons of life
Speaker 2: need to happen.
Speaker 1: On the boat. You were like, it's okay, dad, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Swets football, but it can just always make you feel
Speaker 2: like I need to be a dad like that. You know.
Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is, Holly was telling me
Speaker 2: how her dad used to take her out on the
Speaker 2: boat all the time. I was like, do you ever
Speaker 2: feel like you've married the wrong guy that I've never
Speaker 2: taken our family out on a boat once. I don't
Speaker 2: even know how to drive a boat. She said, No,
Speaker 2: I hated it on the boat. My dad liked the boat.
Speaker 2: See how I did it though, I got to take
Speaker 2: my kids out on a boat to be a good dad.
Speaker 2: It's just a small thing, I understand. It could be
Speaker 2: much deeper than that. You can start thinking when you
Speaker 2: are supposed to have a family, buy anything. I am
Speaker 2: supposed to be further along in my career. But when
Speaker 2: you let go of what is supposed to be in
Speaker 2: your mind, when you let that go, and the sower
Speaker 2: has to release the seed. I feel God calling some
Speaker 2: of us to release some things, even to release bitterness.
Speaker 1: Some of us.
Speaker 2: If we would release that root of bitterness, we would
Speaker 2: reap a harvest of peace. It has to be released.
Speaker 2: God is calling me to release some things, release some expectations,
Speaker 2: and released my white knuckle ane agram. One perfectionist ideas.
Speaker 2: Did I get it right?
Speaker 1: One? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 2: All I do know is this, Sometimes I cut off
Speaker 2: my circulation and strangle the seed of opportunities because of
Speaker 2: my need to control it. So when you throw your
Speaker 2: net on the other side, what I love about sewing,
Speaker 2: you don't have to be in a good mood to
Speaker 2: do it. The seed doesn't care if you've carefully dropped
Speaker 2: it or threw it and walked off.
Speaker 1: Is still where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Peter said, we've worked hard all night and caught nothing,
Speaker 2: but because you say so, And he got blessed while
Speaker 2: he was rolling his eyes, because he had the faith
Speaker 2: to do what Jesus said. You got to sew it
Speaker 2: when you feel it, and sew it when you don't. Now,
Speaker 2: from the seed's perspective, being planted as a different experience,
Speaker 2: because the sower has to release, but the seed has
Speaker 2: to remain, and both are so important, so important.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do that. I promise so important
Speaker 1: to remain.
Speaker 2: Thirteen years before he knew what that mental meant, thirteen
Speaker 2: years of being planted correctively speaking, Why does Peter get
Speaker 2: so much airtime in pulpits for stepping out of a boat.
Speaker 2: That same thing that made him step out of the
Speaker 2: boat made him run when Jesus went to the cross.
Speaker 1: How about John.
Speaker 2: Who stayed in the boat and when Jesus was on
Speaker 2: the cross, stayed by his side to take care of
Speaker 2: his mom. But we don't celebrate those who stay we
Speaker 2: don't celebrate those who who just do it. We make
Speaker 2: a tag line out of it for a shoe company,
Speaker 2: but we don't celebrate it.
Speaker 1: In other words, the seed has to remain in order
Speaker 1: to reproduce.
Speaker 2: Now, I wonder why we think that God can grow
Speaker 2: what he wants to grow in our life when we
Speaker 2: keep uprooting what he's doing every time it gets uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: And the soil is so important to the growth of
Speaker 2: the seed that you can have a really good seed
Speaker 2: and it can become nothing, not because it was nothing
Speaker 2: because it was surrounded by something that wasn't worthy of
Speaker 2: its presence.
Speaker 1: You can put a really good seed. This is the
Speaker 1: power of environment.
Speaker 2: That what is around the seed determines whether what is within.
Speaker 1: The seed comes out of the seed.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if this is pertinent to anyone
Speaker 2: in the area of who you spend the dominant amount
Speaker 2: of your time hanging out with, but what's around it
Speaker 2: eventually determined whether what is within it comes out of it.
Speaker 2: You can have really good stuff in you, but if
Speaker 2: everything around you is just dark and noise, and everything
Speaker 2: around you, if there's no light to it, if there's
Speaker 2: no hydration to it, it won't take root, and so
Speaker 2: if it doesn't take root, it can't come out. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, God sent me to speak to
Speaker 2: some people saying, there's nothing wrong with the seed. There's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with who you are. It's just what you've
Speaker 2: surrounded yourself with in your mind, in your heart, on
Speaker 2: your feed, in your time, on your schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for plow ground.
Speaker 2: I want other people in my life who can help
Speaker 2: bring out. I want to join an eGroup. Oh watch
Speaker 2: that plug. This dude's a professional. I want to get
Speaker 2: around some good soil because I want the good stuff
Speaker 2: that is in me to come forth out of me.
Speaker 2: How many of y'all if you could put your kids
Speaker 2: around the right people, you just know your kid would
Speaker 2: be a doctor.
Speaker 1: I know they would. It's the environment.
Speaker 2: But watch this, Why do we think God can bless
Speaker 2: us to grow when every time the soil gets uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: we go to another church.
Speaker 1: You feel that tension shift. I did when I see
Speaker 1: people in this church who have been here ten years.
Speaker 2: When I see people in this church who would be planted,
Speaker 2: I realized that the potential of what is in someone
Speaker 2: can only really manifest when it has time to mature
Speaker 2: and when we walk around, you know, Oh, I don't
Speaker 2: like that. You know, I'm going over here to a
Speaker 2: new church. I don't like the way they talk to me.
Speaker 2: I'm going over here. I'm gonna make some new friends.
Speaker 2: You know what, you are taking the old you to
Speaker 2: the new friendships.
Speaker 1: And so whatever, y'all like this, y'all like this at all,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna solve this set anyway. I'm gonna hit some
Speaker 1: good ground with this seed. Is so important that you stay.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, and I know sometimes you gotta find better ground.
Speaker 2: But sometimes it's our inability to just let what God
Speaker 2: is doing in our life work. He uses some uncomfortable things.
Speaker 2: But if you never stay, you'll never see it. If
Speaker 2: you just keep moving to a new city every time
Speaker 2: you make a mess out of your relationships so you
Speaker 2: can start over with the same seed that you carried
Speaker 2: in the last relationship, you will never see the potential
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: So I gotta I gotta stay. I gotta stay in faith.
Speaker 2: I gotta remain in the vine so I can bear
Speaker 2: my shrewe, so I can become what I already am
Speaker 2: in potential form. And only God knows how long it's
Speaker 2: going to take for me to become all that I am.
Speaker 2: When John was writing about it in his epistle, he said,
Speaker 2: see what great love the Father is lavished on us,
Speaker 2: that we should be called the children of God. And
Speaker 2: now watch this in verse two, beloved, we are God's children.
Speaker 1: Now. Now when.
Speaker 2: I am forgiven, I'm full of the Holy Spirit, I
Speaker 2: am well abeled, I am strong and courageous.
Speaker 1: That's in me now. But what we shall be.
Speaker 2: Has not yet appeared, and it can only appear if
Speaker 2: it remains. It will be revealed if you remain thirteen
Speaker 2: years for potential to be reviewed. Most of us won't
Speaker 2: do it for thirteen days, thirteen.
Speaker 1: Years to see what it is, thirteen years of being planted.
Speaker 1: And then he did.
Speaker 2: Watch this, Elisha did twice as many miracles as Elijah did.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's in you yet.
Speaker 2: You don't know what the broken bread of your disappointed
Speaker 2: expectations is going to multiply into if you leave it
Speaker 2: in God's hands a little while.
Speaker 1: You don't know yet.
Speaker 2: The enemy can't remove anything that God put in you,
Speaker 2: But if he can keep you from sewing it, you
Speaker 2: will never know what it would have been.
Speaker 1: Can get you to quit give up in your life?
Speaker 1: Stop hoping, turn into a cynic. If he can get
Speaker 1: you to stop sewing.
Speaker 2: I'm preaching to people who have stopped sewing because of
Speaker 2: what you didn't know. Because you didn't know, they quit
Speaker 2: too soon. It's too soon to tell what is going
Speaker 2: to be. It's too soon to tell if it made
Speaker 2: a difference. Is too soon to tell whether or not
Speaker 2: it was worth It is too soon for you to start.
Speaker 1: Every time you take.
Speaker 2: The seed and pluck it out, to look at it
Speaker 2: and judge it, you interrupt the process by which it grows.
Speaker 2: So stop judging it, and keep watering it, and keep sewing,
Speaker 2: and keep trusting. Because Elisha goes on not only to
Speaker 2: part the waters of the Jordan River, which was his
Speaker 2: first miracle, but then he gets to Jericho and they
Speaker 2: need a healing in the water, and so he heals
Speaker 2: the poisonous waters his second mirror. And then he calls
Speaker 2: she beers out of the woods to kill some little
Speaker 2: boys because he was still working this thing out. Because
Speaker 2: potential can be tricky at first, and so you can
Speaker 2: misuse your power in an earlier stage of your life.
Speaker 2: Never forget that the thing that makes you powerful makes
Speaker 2: you vulnerable and unguarded strength as a double weakness. It's
Speaker 2: all about potential. But everything he did was about potential.
Speaker 2: From the moment he was plowing. It was about potential,
Speaker 2: from the moment that he told the kings, hey, dig
Speaker 2: the ditches in preparation for the rain that is not
Speaker 2: coming from a natural source, but God is going to
Speaker 2: send it. When you do a natural thing, it was
Speaker 2: preparation for the potential of the power of God.
Speaker 1: Like the woman's oil. See, you never.
Speaker 2: Judge what can be in the resource by the size
Speaker 2: of the current supply. So the woman's like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: not much. Oh I'm not very good. Oh I'm not
Speaker 2: very much. Oh I'm not very known. Oh I don't
Speaker 2: have many followers. Oh I'm not Jus jay Z. Oh
Speaker 2: I'm not beyoncey. Oh I don't have that. I can't
Speaker 2: sing like that, I can't move like that little bit
Speaker 2: of oil flowed into a lot of jars. Wasn't about
Speaker 2: the amount of oil.
Speaker 1: It was about the amount of jars.
Speaker 2: When the Shunamite woman made him a guest room, he
Speaker 2: prophesied she would have a baby.
Speaker 1: She had given up on that.
Speaker 2: She didn't even believe that was possible.
Speaker 1: She didn't even.
Speaker 2: Know that was in her until the Word of God
Speaker 2: spoke it over her. You don't know what's in you.
Speaker 2: You don't know what's in your kids. Don't judge it
Speaker 2: too soon. They might turn out better than all the
Speaker 2: straight A students. The straight A students might be working
Speaker 2: for them. You don't know yet. It's too soon to tell.
Speaker 2: My God, who is this for? God has just all
Speaker 2: over me for somebody today. I know when He sticks
Speaker 2: through me like this, that is for one person. I
Speaker 2: don't know who I'm so this into, but it'll come back.
Speaker 2: I'll hear about it. I release this word over your
Speaker 2: life today. I release it over your life like Elijah
Speaker 2: released a mantle on Elisha's shoulders that when this word
Speaker 2: hits you, the potential of what God has put in you,
Speaker 2: every gift, skill, experience, plan, everything that God has brought
Speaker 2: you through, even all the pain, that's a potential miracle.
Speaker 1: That's a seed of the Word of God. A seed
Speaker 1: seeds a small thing.
Speaker 2: Elisha told a name and go down to the Jordan
Speaker 2: dip seven times. You know when he was healed, Not
Speaker 2: on the first time, not on the second time, not
Speaker 2: on the third time, on the seventh time, potential is
Speaker 2: revealed in process. One day, a young prophet was chopping
Speaker 2: some wood to build a school for the prophets, and
Speaker 2: the axe had fell in the water.
Speaker 1: Elisha showed him where.
Speaker 2: When the young man showed him where it had fallen,
Speaker 2: something came on the.
Speaker 1: Axe hed it floated to the surface.
Speaker 2: The potential for God to speak to a small thing
Speaker 2: in your life is just as easy as it is
Speaker 2: for him to speak to a big thing. See all
Speaker 2: that was on Elisha in potential form, and all of
Speaker 2: it manifested when he planted himself in the purpose of God.
Speaker 1: So good to me.
Speaker 2: There's so much still in you, man, there's so much
Speaker 2: still in you, but you won't know if you stop sowing.
Speaker 2: So now follow Elisha all the way to the last
Speaker 2: miracle he performs. The Bible records, depending on how you
Speaker 2: divide it, like fifteen miracles that Elisha performs, Elijah performed eight,
Speaker 2: so it's roughly doubled the amount of miracles. The double
Speaker 2: portion that Elisha asked for, he got it. And the
Speaker 2: last thing we see him do, he's with this king
Speaker 2: who's being attacked him. He tells the king to take
Speaker 2: these arrows in his hand.
Speaker 1: And start striking the ground with the arrows.
Speaker 2: Every time he struck the ground with an arrow as
Speaker 2: an act of faith that represented a potential victory that
Speaker 2: God would give him. And when he struck the ground
Speaker 2: three times and stopped, it upset Elisha.
Speaker 1: And Elisha said, you were using this device so far
Speaker 1: beneath its potential.
Speaker 2: And he was angry because he saw the victories that
Speaker 2: could have been if the king had believed in his potential.
Speaker 1: And you know what's really weird.
Speaker 2: After everything that Elisha did one miracle short of exactly
Speaker 2: twice as many miracles as his mentor, Elijah did eight,
Speaker 2: Elisha did fifteen.
Speaker 1: The king strikes the ground and stops and.
Speaker 2: Forfeits his potential, and Elisha is angry. And the next
Speaker 2: verse says, in one Kings thirteen twenty, Elisha died and
Speaker 2: they buried him. Only this he wasn't buried, He was
Speaker 2: planted because there was still one more miracle left in
Speaker 2: him that hadn't been tapped yet. There is someone who
Speaker 2: still has a miracle in your bones. And something that
Speaker 2: you have buried is trying to come alive.
Speaker 1: While I'm preaching today.
Speaker 2: Something that you have buried, a hope or a character,
Speaker 2: element of your character, or something that you have believed
Speaker 2: God for and is still in your bones. So they
Speaker 2: buried Elisha and one day, the Bible says, as they
Speaker 2: were conducting a funeral, Oh, so much potential in this room.
Speaker 2: There is so much potential in this room. You have
Speaker 2: no idea the potential that is in this room. As
Speaker 2: they were conducting a funeral, the Bible says that every
Speaker 2: springtime the Moabite raiders would come in and they would
Speaker 2: invade the land during harvest time. Isn't that interesting that
Speaker 2: the attack always happens when the harvest is coming.
Speaker 1: Y'all sleeping on the preacher. Now, I know I'll wear
Speaker 1: you out.
Speaker 2: But stay with me three minutes, and I promise you
Speaker 2: I'm ann close this. The attack always happens the enemy.
Speaker 2: If he can't keep you from sewing, he wants you
Speaker 2: to walk away when you're about to reap it. He
Speaker 2: wants you to walk away just at the moment. And
Speaker 2: if you stop now, you won't know what could have been.
Speaker 2: So the Bible says that there was a man that
Speaker 2: was being buried.
Speaker 1: There was a funeral in progress.
Speaker 2: Verse twenty one says that when the band was coming
Speaker 2: they got in a hurry and they threw the man
Speaker 2: watched this on the grave of Elisha. Now, when they
Speaker 2: did that, it messed up the funeral because when they
Speaker 2: buried Elisha, he still had one more miracle.
Speaker 1: In his bones.
Speaker 2: So now when the dead thing hit the bones of Elisha.
Speaker 1: Watch what God's about to do in your life. As
Speaker 1: soon as.
Speaker 2: The man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and
Speaker 2: stood up on his feet. What are you saying, preacher,
Speaker 2: I'm saying it. You'll throw it on the bones. If
Speaker 2: you will believe in the power of God, if you
Speaker 2: will declare resurrection over everything you saw, nothing is wasted,
Speaker 2: nothing is over, nothing is finished.
Speaker 3: If God is in it, it's.
Speaker 2: Shaft home thought.
Speaker 3: Come on, give him a great pray.
Speaker 2: I believe in resurrection. I believe God is a grave ropper.
Speaker 2: I believe that the bones of eli shall still have power.
Speaker 2: I believe that the word of the Lord can still
Speaker 2: hit a baron wound. I believe that the seed that
Speaker 2: you have sown, it was not buried. It was planted
Speaker 2: in the soil of God's faithfulness.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's touch the bones today.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's touch the bones.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the empty grave where they bury Jesus.
Speaker 1: But God was planting him.
Speaker 2: He will the firstborn, come on Mini preprin.
Speaker 1: And when he went down, it to the earth.
Speaker 2: When he went down it to the earth, how many
Speaker 2: do early one sundays?
Speaker 1: He didn't stay there.
Speaker 3: But he got up, and I ships up to.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 3: Come on, these are.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: If you receive this word, gets your hands up.
Speaker 2: Come on, every location, get him up. I need us
Speaker 2: to keep our hands lifted. Because we believe in resurrection.
Speaker 2: We willieve in second chances, We believe in new.
Speaker 1: We believe.
Speaker 2: Does anybody believe this? Does anybody believe what this verse says?
Speaker 2: The tomb where soldiers watch in Van.
Speaker 1: Was borrowed for me days. Stay down right there his body? Man,
Speaker 1: Oh God is God.
Speaker 2: I was praying. I was praying last night about this
Speaker 2: gospel message. And I had to tell you what God
Speaker 2: showed me that It wasn't a grave, it was a garden.
Speaker 2: The tub where soldiers watched in Van.
Speaker 4: Thesparsday and after three days what happens? By how many
Speaker 4: of you believe in resurrection? I need every hand lift
Speaker 4: and every voice raise is rock.
Speaker 3: The oh God is wrong? The fra.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's coming up. It's coming up, Julie. He's get to.
Speaker 2: All praise.
Speaker 3: We rise to consul Juli He's be all prace.
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