1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 2: gives your. 6 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: Perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy 7 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: the message. Lift your name up. Lord. Thank you for 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: meeting us in the secret place. Lord. Thank you for 9 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: speaking to our hearts that it's going to be all 10 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: right and then we're gonna make it, and that you're 11 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: working your purpose out. Thank you for reminding us today 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: how big you are. God. Mountain is nothing to you. 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: That mountain is nothing to you. You're a big God, 14 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: a great God, a worthy God, a holy God, a 15 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: mighty God. I give you praise. Who are you great 16 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: mountain to stand before my God? I give you praise. Lord, 17 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: I worship you today. Not a shame to praise you, 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: not a shame to celebrate you. After everything you've done 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: for me, I owe you the praise. I owe you hollelujahs. 20 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: I owe you ten thousand more hallelujahs. 21 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: If I had ten thousand tomes still, it wouldn't be enough. 22 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: If I had ten thousand comes enough. So Lord, every 23 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: need in this room, every name in this room. You know, 24 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: we know the name that is above every name, the 25 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: name of Jesus in his name. Today we have gathered, 26 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: touching and agreed that it shall be done Your Kingdom, 27 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: come on earth as it is in heaven in our lives. 28 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: Touchdown now, God. I know technically that's not how it works, 29 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: but just bring heaven to earth for a few moments. 30 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for letting us get out of the 31 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: hell of our own heads and our own mines, and 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: just worship you and say Your Holy Lord. For all 33 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: of the people who didn't jump when I said jump, 34 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 1: forgive them, Lord, don't give them a flat tire. They're 35 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: just a little sore and a little tired and a 36 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: little insecure about their rhythm. But it's all right, Lord. 37 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: We came with one purpose, and one purpose only to 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: praise your holy name. Great is your name, greatly to 39 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: be praise in Jesus name. Amen. Hunt ten people. 40 00:02:44,040 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 4: Whoa this is the final week our series. 41 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: That's what I thought. You are sad. You are so 42 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: sad to see this series come to an end. But 43 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: I feel that you have no more need of teaching 44 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: about your mind and your thoughts. I think that we 45 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: have preached all the crazy out of you. If you're 46 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: standing next to your spouse, look at him and say, 47 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: pastor is delusional. Stand a b on your feet. I'm 48 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: gonna read the scripture right now. I'm so glad you're 49 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: here today. A special welcome to two of our locations. 50 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: Our Matthew's location is celebrating a sixteen year anniversary today, 51 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Our Uptown location is celebrating seventeen years 52 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: of ministry today. That's amazing. That's as old as my 53 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: middle son. Y'all. I look at my son and Graham 54 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: sometimes and say, I got campuses older than you. Boy. Yeah, 55 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: it's good. Remember, Officer, when we used to drive around, 56 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: we would do Butler High School uptown, get back over 57 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: to Providence. This is early days of the church, because 58 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: we didn't have all of this sinking up between all 59 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: the campuses and you know, look in the camera and 60 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: welcome to the campuses. We didn't have all of that. 61 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: So if I had to get to the campus, I 62 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: had to get there when they were finishing the last song. 63 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: And they knew to always have a few extra songs ready. 64 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: But Josh is a police officer, so he was driving 65 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: like one hundred and ten miles an hour. Happy birthday 66 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: to Josh van Almen. By the way, those are some 67 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: good memories man, Me and you and that Nissan Maxima 68 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: just doing ministry at the speed of God. I mean, 69 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: just running there, huffing and puffing like I am right now, 70 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: after jumping around and spinning around. By the way, if 71 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: any of you want to be preachers one day, I 72 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: would not advise jumping and spinning before you preach. It 73 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: is very disorienting. But I just got excited about what 74 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: God can do. All of a sudden, I got to thinking, 75 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: what if God answered a prayer that some grandmother has 76 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: been praying for her granddaughter suddenly today. What if God 77 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: gave you clarity on something you've been confused about suddenly today. 78 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: What if you were walking out today and one of 79 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: the greeters was handsome and single suddenly today. So I'm 80 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: excited about Jesus. I want to preach about Jesus today. 81 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: From Matthew chapter fourteen, verses twenty two through thirty five, 82 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: first Bible story that I ever preached for our last 83 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: sermon in the series. That's what I thought, Tell your neighbor, 84 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: that's what I thought. I say, this is the last one. 85 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: I think it's the last one. If the Lord wants 86 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: me to keep going, I will. But my plan is 87 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: today to take some of the things we've been preaching 88 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: about and minister them to your heart. Welcome to all 89 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: of our locations. Put it in the comment on YouTube. 90 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: That's what I thought. This is our final installment. Yeah, 91 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: this is the first Bible story that I ever preached, 92 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: so I always try to preach it at least once 93 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: a year, just to check in and see how dumb 94 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: I was the last time I preached it, or what 95 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: new thing God will show me. Glad you're here today. Welcome, 96 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: Welcome to the presence of God. Welcome to a new beginning. 97 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to a space where Grace reigns supreme and where 98 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord and King. Welcome to a place where 99 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: you can hear his word. Now, the Bible says a word. 100 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: We were just singing about this word in verse twenty two, 101 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: so it's appropriate. Immediately immediately Jesus made the disciples get 102 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: into the boat and go on ahead of him to 103 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: the other side. Well, he dismissed the crowd. After he 104 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 1: had dismissed them, he went up on a mountain side 105 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there 106 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: alone boat with the disciples. The boat was already a 107 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the 108 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: wind was against it. Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out 109 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: to them walking on the lake. When the disciples saw 110 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: him on the lake, they were terrified. It's a ghost, 111 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately 112 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: said to them, take courage it as I don't be afraid. Lord, 113 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: if it's you. Peter replied, tell me to come to 114 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: you on the water. Come, he said. When Peter got 115 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: down out of the boat, walked on the water and 116 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, it 117 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: was blowing the whole dime. But when he focused on 118 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: it what was against him. When he saw the wind, 119 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: he was afraid. Fear comes from focus. So does faith 120 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: change your focus? Increase your faith. That's why you feel 121 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: faith when you're in here, because you are focused in here. 122 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: And when he focused on what was against him, rather 123 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: than the one who was coming toward him, named Jesus, 124 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: he began to sink. He began to sink and cried out, Lord, 125 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: save me. Here it is again. Immediately Jesus reached out 126 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: his hand and caught him. You of little faith, He said, 127 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: why did you doubt? Why did you doubt? And when 128 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: they climbed into the boat, the wind died down, and 129 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, truly, 130 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: this is the son of God. But go back to 131 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: that other verse real quick, in verse thirty. But when 132 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink, 133 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: cried out, Lord, save me, And immediately Jesus reached out 134 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: his hand and caught him. I want to talk to 135 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: you today from this subject because this is how some 136 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: of you have been feeling. I want to talk about 137 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: sinking in the storm. Sinking in the storm. This is 138 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: the way it feels at times in our emotions, and 139 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 1: in our lives, and in our circumstances, sinking in the storm. 140 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: And there is a subtitle that you can give your 141 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: neighbor on the way to your seat, look at them 142 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: and say just that quick. Hit your other neighbor and 143 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: say just that quick, and you may be seated sinking 144 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: in the storm. Please put the title in the comments 145 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: on YouTube. Let's welcome our global EPHAM joining up with 146 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: us right now. Come on, y'all. I know you're getting seated, 147 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: but let's welcome our entire church family all over the world. 148 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: Let us know where you're watching from. I want to 149 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: talk to you today about sinking in the storm. Feeling 150 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: that you get sometimes that you're overwhelmed. The feeling that 151 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: you get sometimes that there's too much month and not 152 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: enough money, too much need and not enough me to 153 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: meet it. All that's spread thin feeling, that feeling that 154 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 1: you get, and it doesn't always announce itself, And all 155 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: of a sudden there is a storm and you find 156 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: yourself sinking in the storm. Any crazy how you can 157 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: be singing in the church and just a few days 158 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: later find yourself sinking in the storm. And this place 159 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: is a place that God has prepared for us, to 160 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: prepare us for the storms of our life. You cannot 161 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: be a student of Jesus without storms as your classroom. 162 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: Anything else would make you arrogant, anything else would make 163 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: you write a parenting book. And your oldest kid is three, 164 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: you're three months pregnant, talking about how to raise teenagers 165 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: God's way. What's wrong? Would you go through a storm 166 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: and then you'll have something to say in this season 167 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: of your life, God is calling you to be a 168 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: student of your storm. What does this have to do 169 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: with thinking? Well, it's amazing to me how quickly I 170 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: can go from stepping on the water, so to speak, 171 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: to sinking. And I can really shift quickly from being 172 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: focused on God to falling down and finding myself in 173 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: emotional states that do not resemble the fruit of the spirit. Okay, 174 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: just me, just me, look at your neighbors. Say. It 175 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: can happen quick. It can happen real quick. And if 176 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: your neighbor is looking like they don't know what I'm 177 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: talking about, cut them off in traffic on the way 178 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: out and see how quick they go from lifting their 179 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: hands to lifting one finger. It can happen just that quick. 180 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: Can it? Just even your phone can buzz in your pocket, 181 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: And it might not even be the person that you 182 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: don't want to hear from, with the news that you 183 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: don't want to hear, But just the buzz itself can 184 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: disrupt your peace. Can it? Even just even the buzz 185 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: in your pocket, it can feel like a shot collar, 186 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: just reminding you that your challenges are out there in 187 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: the world. Sometimes it can happen just that quick. Now. 188 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that Jesus is a savior because I'm 189 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: a sinner, so I need one and I have sinful thoughts. 190 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: All of my thoughts aren't holy thoughts, good thoughts, pure thoughts, 191 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: and so I need Jesus for my sinful thoughts, which 192 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: can become sinful actions, which can become sinful patterns, which 193 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: may not send me to hell, but may make my 194 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: life on earth feel like a living hell. I'm so 195 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: grateful that Jesus is a savior, and I am also 196 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: so thankful that he is not a surface level savior. 197 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: That he doesn't just save me from hell when I die, 198 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 1: but he saves me from the hell in my head 199 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: as he transforms my mind and brings me through life's challenges. 200 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: I need salvation in my soul. That's my mind, my will, 201 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: my emotions. I need Jesus to teach me how to think. 202 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: And in this passage that we just read, there's a 203 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: conversation between the student of Jesus and Jesus the Savior, 204 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,719 Speaker 1: and Jesus is watching him sink in the storm. By 205 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: the way, have you been feeling like you're sinking in 206 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: a storm lately in your life. And it doesn't have 207 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: to even be bankruptcy. It doesn't even have to be 208 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: something so catastrophic that everybody would take up money for 209 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: you if they knew about it. It doesn't have to 210 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: be the worst thing that ever happened in your life. 211 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: I just found that a lot of times I find 212 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: myself in like a funk or maybe even a full 213 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: blown feeling of depression. And in those moments when God 214 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: is watching me sink into those states, I'm grateful that 215 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: He does not give me surface level answers like church 216 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: people do. Because church people will tell you rejoice in 217 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: the Lord always, but they ain't rejoicing in the Lord. 218 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: They only been rejoicing in the Lord because they had 219 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: a good week. Catch them next week and they might 220 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: have a different answer. It can happen that quick. And 221 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: Jesus watching Peter fall in the middle of a storm 222 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: that had been raging all night. Remember he's been going 223 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: through this all night, and he steps out, and he's 224 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: walking and he's sinking, and he cries out, Lord save me. 225 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: I think that's such an important phrase. One great theologian 226 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: who just went to be with the Lord. Doctor John 227 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: MacArthur used to say, a lot of us refuse Jesus 228 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: as Lord, but we want to use Jesus as savior. 229 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: So I think it's important that he called him Lord 230 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: before he called on him to save him. I'm trying 231 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: to say that God wants far more for your life 232 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: than to just save you from stupid stuff that you do. 233 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: He wants far more for your life than to just 234 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: clean up the messes that you make because you never 235 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: spend time with him. God wants far more for your 236 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: life than to have to redeem years that you waste 237 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: because you never get aligned with him. And so now 238 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: Peter calls out, Lord, save me, and the Bible says, 239 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. Now 240 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: we focus a lot, and I really preached this a 241 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: lot at age sixteen. How Peter had the faith to 242 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: step out when Jesus said, come, somebody shall come. That's 243 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: a command. When Jesus gives a command, you can obey 244 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: it with confidence. When Jesus gives a command, you don't 245 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: have to start doing the math on how it's going 246 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: to work out. When Jesus gives a command. He already 247 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: has the details in mind for how he will meet 248 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: that need before you even know about the need. So 249 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: when he says, come, take a step, and then we 250 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: talk so much about the command that we neglect the 251 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: question that I think is just as powerful as the command. 252 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: He said, come, Peter's coming, He said, walk. Peter's walking. 253 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: He gave the word, and Peter is walking, not on water, 254 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 1: but on one word from Jesus. I could preach a 255 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: whole message about walking on one word, just one word 256 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: that God gives you, and you can hang on through 257 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: something that you never would have made it through without 258 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: that word, one word from Jesus, the command to come. 259 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: But then comes the question. After he caught him, he said, 260 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: you of little faith, why did you doubt? Why did 261 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: you doubt? Because if I can get beneath the surface 262 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: of why you're sinking, I can maybe stop it from 263 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: happening so quickly next time. A lot of times we 264 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: sink into things and we don't stop and ask why. 265 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: A lot of times we get triggered by something. And 266 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: after you get triggered, see you get trapped. You don't 267 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 1: even realize how you got triggered until you're already trapped. 268 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: I'll break it down for you. I can see we 269 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: need a little real life example right now. When Holly 270 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: and I first got married, we went on a cruise. 271 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: I saved up for the cruise. It was a Princess cruise, 272 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: which is a little step up from some of the 273 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: other cruises you can buy. I was so proud of 274 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 1: that cruise and so broke after I paid for it. 275 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: Three days on the cruise, she was very quiet one day. 276 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: And when she got quiet on that cruise, it triggered 277 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: something inside of me that I didn't know because I 278 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: equated quiet with board. So when she got quiet, I 279 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: started to get angry because she was quiet. For Holly, 280 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: quiet means relaxed. Quiet means nobody telling me to do anything. 281 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,959 Speaker 1: I don't have to talk. I love you. We're together 282 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: just being This is what she was saying. Your essence 283 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: alone is so captivating. We don't even need a conversation. 284 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: But I interpreted her quiet as boredom, and we would 285 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: fight for years in our marriage. Anytime she would get quiet, 286 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: I would think, you don't like it here, This isn't 287 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: good enough for you. Your dad took you on better vacations. 288 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: What you don't need my vacation. No, I'm relaxed. But see, 289 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: just in such a stupid illustration like that, you see 290 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: how years can go on because I'm reading her mind 291 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: with information that is not true data, and I am 292 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: triggered by something that isn't even true. But by the 293 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: time I recognize what I'm triggered by, I'm already trapped 294 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: in it. And now we're fighting. And so now it's 295 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: not that we never get triggered in our marriage. But 296 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: here's what we do, and I want to teach you 297 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: how to do this. We catch it quicker, We catch 298 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: it quicker. Don't your neighbors say, catch it quicker, Catch 299 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: it quicker before you blow up on them, before you 300 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: go off on them, before you hit sind on the text, 301 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: proofread it, hire yourself as a copy editor, and check 302 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: that thing one more time. Do you really want to 303 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: say you never? Do you really want to say you always? 304 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: Do you really need six exclamation points? Is it really 305 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: worth that emoji? Is that emoji worth the emotional expense 306 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: of what you are going to spend the next week 307 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: cleaning up? And all of that could have been canceled 308 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: if you would have caught it quicker and read the 309 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: text and walk up in the morning with fresh eyes 310 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: and said, I think I'll just have a conversation. But 311 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: we get triggered and then we get trapped. And that's 312 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: why the Lord sent a preacher to you today to 313 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: give you truth, because the truth can keep you out 314 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: of the trap. Preach the word, Larry Stevens Vernick Junior. 315 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 1: I believe I will. So when you start sinking, you 316 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: get beneath the surface. And this is what we need 317 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: to learn to do. 318 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:30,239 Speaker 2: Now. 319 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: They'll tell you that in therapy, if you go to therapy, 320 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: they'll talk about triggers and traps and cognitive distortions. And 321 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: you sound like you've been in therapy. Best or Seed, 322 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: no comment. We need therapy, we also need theology to 323 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: produce real faith and real change in our life. So 324 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,239 Speaker 1: I want to show you something that I couldn't end 325 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: the series without showing you from Isaiah fifty five and 326 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: overlay it for this situation that you're facing in your life. 327 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: The situation Peter faced where he's stepping, stepping, stepping, doing 328 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: pretty good and then sinking and doesn't even really understand why. 329 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: Look at Isaiah chapter fifty five, and I was debating 330 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: where to start, because the whole passage is so rich. 331 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: But for the sake of time, I think i'll start 332 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: around verse six seven. It start six Isaiah fifty five, 333 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: verse six. Yeah, I did on purpose. Isaiah fifty five, 334 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: verse six. Now listen to me. This is an invitation 335 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: to all of you who have been sinking in the storm. 336 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: The Lord offers you an invitation. The wind is the 337 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: trigger and the sinking is the trap, and sometimes you 338 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: feel like you're drowning in it before you even know 339 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: what it is. But this is the word of the Lord, 340 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: and this will be very rich to you for the 341 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 1: trials that you're going through. The Lord says, seek the 342 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: Lord while he may be found, call on him while 343 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: he is near. Let's read that again, Seek the Lord 344 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: while he may be found, Call on him while he 345 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: is near. I'm coming back to that, call on him 346 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: while he's near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and 347 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: the unrighteous their thoughts. So this is interesting language. I'll 348 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: read the whole passage, but that's where I want to 349 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: camp out around verse six or seven. Let the wicked 350 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them 351 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on 352 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: them and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 353 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: For my thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are my 354 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: ways your ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher, 355 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than 356 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: your ways. God says, I know how to do my job. 357 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: God says, I know who to let leave you. God says, 358 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: I know who to bring into your life. That is 359 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: a challenge for you. You keep praying to be a masterpiece, 360 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: and every time I send someone to be the sandpaper, 361 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: you push them away. But I know what tools to 362 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: you to turn you into the disciple that I want 363 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: you to be. He says, my ways are higher than 364 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 1: your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the 365 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do 366 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: not return to it without watering the earth and making 367 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: it butt and flourish, so that it yields seed for 368 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: the sower and bread for the eater. So is my 369 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: word that goes out from my mouth. I hear Jesus 370 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 1: saying come. When I read Isaiah fifty five, I feel 371 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: the echo of this prophecy. In Matthew chapter fourteen, I 372 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: feel the power of one word from God? He says, 373 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: so is my word just one word? So is my 374 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: word the full counsel of the Word of God has value, 375 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: but just one singular word that goes from my mouth. 376 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish 377 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: what I desire and achieve the purpose. Many are the plans, 378 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: but it is the purpose for which I scent it 379 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: that will be accomplished. So why did Jesus send a 380 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: disciple into a storm that he knew was going to happen? 381 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: And why does God allow challenges to our faith instead 382 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: of just bolstering us with the Bible so that we 383 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: avoid them? And Isaiah chapter fifty five gives an interesting strategy. Okay, 384 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: let me teach you what Isaiah is teaching here. He says, 385 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: you can seek the Lord, you can call on him, 386 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 1: but you have to be willing verse seven to forsake 387 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: your ways and your unrighteous thoughts. Now that's interesting language 388 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: to say that I'm going to forsake a thought. That's 389 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: crazy to me me because when you say forsake something, 390 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: it's something that you have become very attached to. You 391 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: don't forsake something that you don't even know, You don't 392 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: even know it. To forsake something is to walk away 393 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: from something that it is assumed you have responsibility for. 394 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: So when God says I will never leave you nor 395 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: forsake you, forsaking has baked into it the idea that 396 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: I am responsible for this. I'm not saying it right. 397 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: I say it. You can drop a thought like this book. 398 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: You can drop a thought he said, forsake your ways 399 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: because My ways are higher, and your thoughts that are 400 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: not from God. And how many times have I been 401 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: drowning in my mind and in my life because of 402 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: the thought that I wouldn't drop about my situation? How 403 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: many times have I clung to an offense while I'm 404 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 1: drowning in my bitterness and I am asking God to 405 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: help me forgive. But if I don't drop, I'm gonna 406 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: do it again. If I don't drop the thought, I drown. 407 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. Now. I said it 408 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: the way I want to say it. Tell your neighbor 409 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: drop it or drown. That's the only two options you 410 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: have right now, because you can't afford to play around 411 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: with this right now, because there's too much at stake 412 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: at this juncture of your life. Right now, it's drop 413 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: it or drown. You've got to stop thinking childishly about 414 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: this and waiting on people to come around and make 415 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: it right. And you just got to get your heart 416 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: right with God. And you've got to let him show 417 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: you what he's going to do from the place that 418 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: you're at, not the place that you want it to be. 419 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: Punch your neighbors say, drop it. Drop it so you 420 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: don't drown. Drop it so you don't keep sinking. Drop 421 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: it so it doesn't weigh you down. Drop it so 422 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: you don't miss the last the next season that God 423 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: wants to give you crying about the season that you lost. 424 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: You better drop this thing. And the thing about dropping 425 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: a thought is it's kind of hard for me to 426 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: drop my thought until I understand that God can also 427 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: drop a thought. This is one thing I'm ready to 428 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: preach today. This is one thing that me and God 429 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: have in common. We can both drop thoughts. I can 430 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: take a thought in my mind. I can take a 431 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: tempting thought. I can take a bitter thought. I could 432 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: take an angry thought. I can take a victimized thought. 433 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: I can take a catastrophizing thought. I can take a 434 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: wicked thought. I can take a thought, and I can 435 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: look at it, and I can separate myself from the thought, 436 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: and by the grace of Jesus, by the grace of God, 437 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: by the power of the Holy Spirit, I can look 438 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: at the thought and realize that just because I think 439 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't mean I have to be it. So I 440 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: can drop a thought. And how dumb would it be 441 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: for you to drown on this sea because of something 442 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: you won't drop. How dumb would it be? The Bible says, 443 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: forsake your thoughts when they're not God's ways. His ways 444 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: are higher. So when He shows you the higher way, 445 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: don't stay down in the way you did it, the 446 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: way they did it, the way you thought you were 447 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: gonna do it. Drop your thoughts so God can drop 448 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: his What you mean, God can drop a thought? I 449 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: mean like airdrop. I mean like how I could take 450 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: my phone and put it next to your phone, and 451 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: if it's near enough, you can choose to share with 452 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,959 Speaker 1: me what's on your phone On my phone. If we 453 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: are close enough to connect, you can drop something to 454 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,959 Speaker 1: me that I didn't come with. And now you know 455 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: why it was important for you to be at church 456 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: today so you could get close to God and close 457 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: to somebody, fist pump your neighbor and say, I'll drop 458 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: you some faith today. Fist bump them real quick and 459 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: say I got something for you. Tell them I'll air 460 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: drop you some peace today. I'll air drop you some 461 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,479 Speaker 1: joy today. The Bible says that if two of you 462 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: will agree, well we got a lot more than two, 463 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: baby boy. And the holy ghost in me is the 464 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: holy ghost in you. And if you came a little 465 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: empty today, there is a word from God. And if 466 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: you don't feel it right now, then grace him by faith. 467 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: Know something clicks in your spirit and you get the 468 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: sense I think I'm gonna be all right. Top five 469 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: your neighbor, like your air dropping something. Oh that's good, 470 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: isn't it? Isn't that good to know that God can 471 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: drop you a thought. Forget about a human They might 472 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: not have it. But if I'm close enough to Jesus, 473 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: what I didn't get from other people, what I didn't 474 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: have in my flesh, God did by sending his son. See, 475 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: so you can drop a thought, and so can God. 476 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: And the moment you drop your low thought, the moment 477 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: you drop your human thought, the moment you drop your 478 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: sinking thought. Notice the Bible says that immediate lee, Jesus 479 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: reached out his hand and caught him. Why did Jesus 480 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: catch him at that moment and instead of keeping him 481 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: from the storm. Good question, because probably wouldn't be a 482 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: good story. Second thing I want to mention to you 483 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: is what Jesus was doing before he joined the disciples 484 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: on the rough sea. When you get in those situations, 485 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: doubt in fear, flooding your heart, drowning in doubt, flooded 486 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: with fear, drowning in doubt, flooded in fear. Oh, it 487 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: came so quick. I don't know what to do. There 488 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: is something that Jesus models for us that is so 489 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: important to remember. And at our Elevation Night's events, if 490 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: you ever come, you'll see a very special moment that 491 00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: we have that we host each night in each city 492 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: where we sing the song the Blessing. And before we 493 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: sing it, I have Abby and Holly join me on stage, 494 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: and Abby, since she was about eleven years old, comes 495 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: up and reads the scripture. She has it my memory 496 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: now of course numbers chapter six, verse twenty two through 497 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: twenty four. She'd say it backwards now, but the first 498 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: time asked her to do it. I was like, would 499 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: you mind coming up and reading the scripture that the 500 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: blessing comes from and sang it over the people. I 501 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: think it'll be really special. And I was expecting her 502 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: to be nervous to do that. I was like, would 503 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: you like to do it? Would it be too scary. 504 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: It's like, let me be scary. I'd love to do it, 505 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: just very confident, very quickly. She got up the first 506 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: night and nailed it, and she has nailed it every 507 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: single night well. On the last tour. On the last tour, 508 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: I made a few changes to how I wanted to 509 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: present it. And when I made a few changes and alterations, 510 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, I saw her start to get a little uncertain. 511 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: She was like, well, no, wait a minute. If Dad 512 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: announces the scripture here and it comes after this song, 513 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: because when things change like that, it could be destabilizing, 514 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: even if you really know what you're doing. I am 515 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: coming for you today, because things can change on you 516 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: and you're like, no, wait, I know how to do this, 517 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: but not like right here, like this right now, not 518 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: with them right here right now. I'm just kind of 519 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: be stabilized. So she was kind of complaining to Holly 520 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: that Dad is changing the schedule, and Dad is changing 521 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: the order of elevation nights, and this is going to 522 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: mess up my flow. And Holly pulled her to the 523 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: side and she said something, and I was very proud 524 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: to hear her tell Abby this. She said, Abby, if 525 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: there is one thing I have learned in over twenty 526 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: years of doing ministry with your dad, it's that if 527 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: you are with Dad on stage, you don't need to 528 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: worry if he is near you. If you're next to Dad, 529 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: he won't let it go bad. Abby. Even if you 530 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: drop the line in the middle, even if you say Halley, 531 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: he'll say Lujah. Even if you say praise the he'll 532 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,839 Speaker 1: say Lord. He is not going to let it go bad. 533 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: If you are next to Dad, he won't let it 534 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,320 Speaker 1: go bad. And you got to think. The Disciples have 535 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: been doing ministry with Jesus for a little while now. 536 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: This is Matthew chapter fourteen, not Matthew chapter one. They've 537 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: seen some things, and they've even been through storms. But 538 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: this one is different because the last storm they went 539 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: through with Jesus, he was on the boat with them. 540 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: This one's a little different because they just got done 541 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: with a spectacular miracle and I want to tell you 542 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: something about spectacular things that God does in your life. 543 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: Just as quickly as you start to celebrate the spectacular, 544 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: a new struggle can show up just that quick. Somebody 545 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: say it just that quit. I mean they just picked 546 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: up the leftovers. They just dismissed the crowds. Jesus says, 547 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 1: I need you boys to go to the next appointment, 548 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: But he conveniently leaves out the detail that you are 549 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 1: going to encounter a violent, furious squall on the open 550 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: sea getting to where I'm sending you. But I'm not 551 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: telling you about that part because, as I taught you 552 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: last week, details follow obedience. So when Jesus gives a command, 553 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: he does not have to give you every single component 554 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,800 Speaker 1: of that command. He wants to put you in school 555 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: to know. Will you be my disciple if I don't 556 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,240 Speaker 1: give you the details, will you do what I told 557 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 1: you to do when you don't know where it's leading? 558 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: And into this atmosphere. The disciples are straining in the 559 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 1: boat all night long. I mean, you really can't see 560 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 1: it from Matthew's account. It says in Mark's account that 561 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,399 Speaker 1: they were straining at the oars. It means that they 562 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 1: were all rowing together all night long, but Jesus was 563 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,240 Speaker 1: not physically with them. What was Jesus doing? In Matthew 564 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen, verse twenty two, the Bible says, immediately after 565 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 1: sending the crowd away, dismissing them and sending them home, 566 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: and the disciples in the boat to go to the 567 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 1: next appointment and go on ahead of him to the 568 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: other side while he dismissed the crowd verse twenty three. 569 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 1: After he had dismissed them, he went up on a 570 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: mountain side by himself to pray. Later that night, he 571 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,840 Speaker 1: was there alone next verse, and the boat was already 572 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,319 Speaker 1: a considerable distance from land. You don't have to be 573 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: nervous when you're next to Dad. But now I'm in 574 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: a season where the boat is out here and Jesus 575 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: is back there. Yet note what Jesus is doing. He 576 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:51,240 Speaker 1: is praying. Watch this. Jesus is getting alone with God 577 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:59,320 Speaker 1: to get aligned with God. And sometimes when you're facing 578 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,279 Speaker 1: all of these crazy thoughts in your life, you've got 579 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: to remember to get alone with God to get aligned 580 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,399 Speaker 1: with God. Alone with God, to get aligned with God. 581 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: He's praying on a mountain. My ways are higher. See 582 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: remember the people wanted to make Jesus an earthly king, 583 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: but he came to die on a criminal's cross, and 584 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: at this moment in his life, it was really important 585 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: that he did not follow the crowd's recommendation for his 586 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,720 Speaker 1: next step, because to follow the crowd at this moment 587 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,440 Speaker 1: would have pulled him off of the path of his 588 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 1: father's purpose. Are you in that moment, pulling at you 589 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: from one side, pulling at you from the other, one 590 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: person telling you that you need to be skinnier, one 591 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: person telling you that you could stand to put a 592 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,360 Speaker 1: little meat on the bones. I went on Holly's Instagram 593 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,800 Speaker 1: feed the other day. I didn't know they were telling 594 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: women to eat protein and creatine to be reserved for 595 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 1: teenage boys. When did the women get to do the 596 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,240 Speaker 1: protein and creatine that's supposed to be our thing? Man? 597 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: Now she's being told. I'm like, what are you doing, Holly? 598 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: You're lifting weights? Used to do cardio. She's like, yeah, 599 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,359 Speaker 1: that's what I'm supposed to do now, And if you're 600 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 1: not careful, you'll be lifting a weight and drinking a 601 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: protein shake and putting on weight and losing weight because 602 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 1: they will change it in three years. We are only 603 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,160 Speaker 1: three years away from them telling us that creatine causes 604 00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: cancer and it makes your mom hates she gives you 605 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,480 Speaker 1: bad breath and make all your babies born to form. 606 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,399 Speaker 1: I mean, they're changing it all the time. So if 607 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: I don't ever get alone with God, I can't be 608 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,959 Speaker 1: aligned with God because it's too much noise, it's too 609 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: much crowd. I'm sinking. Am I sinking because I'm not sitting? 610 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: And if I would sit with God sometimes, or even 611 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,280 Speaker 1: just in a moment where I'm about to walk into something, 612 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: if I was myself and say, oh, Lord, you know 613 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,839 Speaker 1: I'm about to be triggered in here. Well, I don't 614 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 1: want to get trapped. Lord, you know it's about to 615 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: be windy when I walk into this situation. I wonder 616 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 1: what one moment with God could do for you this 617 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:21,319 Speaker 1: week before you go into a windy condition. Just a 618 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,359 Speaker 1: moment with him. Now, Jesus, he's up there praying all night, 619 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 1: and he has to because what He's about to do 620 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 1: is so amazing. When he lands on the other side, 621 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,320 Speaker 1: he is going to heal the sick. But the disciples 622 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 1: don't know that. When he lands on the other side, 623 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,920 Speaker 1: there is a revival waiting. But the disciples don't know that. 624 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: All they know is they're going through a storm. And 625 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,839 Speaker 1: may I remind you you have no idea what God 626 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: has on the other side of your storm. You have 627 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,799 Speaker 1: no idea how He's going to use you. You have no 628 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,399 Speaker 1: idea how He is going to unleash something that could 629 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,400 Speaker 1: have never otherwise been unleashed in your life. See now, 630 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,720 Speaker 1: I see the passage a little bit differently. In Matthew 631 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:09,439 Speaker 1: chapter fourteen, when it says Peter began to sink, put 632 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 1: that back up there for a minute. It says Peter 633 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,960 Speaker 1: began to sink, and he cried out, Lord, save me, 634 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: verse thirty one. Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and 635 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 1: caught him. You have little faith, I realized as I 636 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,759 Speaker 1: read that over and over again, and I thought about 637 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,080 Speaker 1: Jesus spending all night praying alone on the mountain and 638 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 1: making intercession for us and Heaven. Right now I realized 639 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 1: that Peter wasn't the only one sinking. Jesus was too. 640 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: Y'all think I'm a hero itic. Hold on, I got 641 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 1: to explain this the right way. Thinking has two different meanings. 642 00:40:54,920 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: If you spell it si NK, it means going down. 643 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 1: But if you spell it sync. It's more than a 644 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:19,279 Speaker 1: boy band. It means if you've got something on your 645 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: phone that I need on my phone, and we get 646 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: close enough, we can sink. So maybe this passage isn't 647 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:38,120 Speaker 1: about a sinking Peter. Maybe it's about a sinking savior. 648 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:46,600 Speaker 1: Phone drop moment, Phone drop moment, Phone drop moment, Because 649 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,000 Speaker 1: now I realize, no, no, keep celebrating, keep celebrating. I 650 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,120 Speaker 1: need a way to preach this. Now I realize that 651 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,840 Speaker 1: the whole time he was on that mountain, he was 652 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:05,000 Speaker 1: praying for Peter, because while Peter was sinking, Jesus was sinking. 653 00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 1: And my way are higher than your ways, and my 654 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: thought are higher than your thought. So I came to declare, 655 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:24,799 Speaker 1: you're not going down. Jesus is praying for you. He's 656 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 1: praying for you. He's praying for you. He sees you 657 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: in this storm, he sees you in this dilemma. He 658 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:41,760 Speaker 1: sees you, and he's sinking. He's sinking. Sometimes you gotta 659 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: sink in the storm, not go down in the storm, 660 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,520 Speaker 1: but hook up with God and say, if it's you, 661 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,240 Speaker 1: tell me to come, give me a worse, show me away, 662 00:42:52,520 --> 00:43:00,440 Speaker 1: send me a path, make me away. God, Your neighbor, 663 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 1: you look like you're sinking. I'm sinking with a C. 664 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm sinking with a what yo? When I got this phone. 665 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,400 Speaker 1: I remember, I got this new phone, and none of 666 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,279 Speaker 1: the stuff was on it that was supposed to be 667 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,760 Speaker 1: on it for a little while. And if I would 668 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: have assumed that the new phone was worse because all 669 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,000 Speaker 1: of the old pictures, all of the old songs, all 670 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,319 Speaker 1: of the old data, all of the old files was 671 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,799 Speaker 1: not on the new phone, I would have been incorrect. 672 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,680 Speaker 1: Because everything that was on my phone before I got 673 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,319 Speaker 1: the new one was still there. It was just in 674 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,080 Speaker 1: something called the cloud. Now I don't know where the 675 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,360 Speaker 1: cloud technically is. I kind of get it, but I 676 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,800 Speaker 1: thought about Isaiah fifty five. As high as the heavens 677 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:46,760 Speaker 1: are above the herd, so or my ways above your ways. 678 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,720 Speaker 1: I tell your neighbor, I got something in the cloud. 679 00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,680 Speaker 1: I got a promise that's yes, and amen, I got 680 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 1: a sure work for God. He put me here, he 681 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 1: called me here, and so it was sinking. It was sinking. 682 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:13,240 Speaker 1: Jesus didn't leave them. He was sinking. He was sinking. 683 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,000 Speaker 1: He had to let them struggle a little while so 684 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,640 Speaker 1: they could know who he is. As a matter of fact, 685 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,359 Speaker 1: they didn't even call him the son of God till 686 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,879 Speaker 1: the wind died down, So how could they know who 687 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,160 Speaker 1: he was when the wind died down? If the wind 688 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: never blew. I'm telling you you're gonna know God in 689 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,640 Speaker 1: a way that you couldn't have known God had you 690 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:38,879 Speaker 1: not been a student of this storm. How much better 691 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: would you feel about the storm if you knew that 692 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,319 Speaker 1: God was sinking you in the storm, that He was 693 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,520 Speaker 1: bringing things, pictures and sounds that had to come to 694 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,200 Speaker 1: the phone. And how dumb would you be to throw 695 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:58,840 Speaker 1: it away because it hadn't sink yet. Yeah, even Peter 696 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,480 Speaker 1: was sinking. He is still Simon at this moment. He 697 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:08,440 Speaker 1: hadn't sync yet. I said, he hadn't sync yet. Where's 698 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,080 Speaker 1: my real church at I know we always got spectators, 699 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,800 Speaker 1: but I said, don't give up. You hadn't sync yet. 700 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: That's not good grammar. Yeah it is, and it's good theology. 701 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,880 Speaker 1: No eye see, no ear has heard, neither has it 702 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:28,719 Speaker 1: entered into the heart of a man. Okay, Okay. So 703 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,359 Speaker 1: I'm driving to church today, right and I'm like, Lord, 704 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,480 Speaker 1: I'm excited to preach, but I need one more illustration 705 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 1: to tell him how to get in sync, how to 706 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,440 Speaker 1: get in sync, Yeah, exactly, how to get in sync, 707 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: how to get in sync, And so it's so much 708 00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,920 Speaker 1: easier to do it when you've got somebody in the 709 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,799 Speaker 1: boat rowing with you, which is why when I come 710 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,880 Speaker 1: to church on Sunday, I always bring Abbey with me. 711 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,480 Speaker 1: If I can get her to wake up on time, 712 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,560 Speaker 1: I beg her to come with me, because she unlocks 713 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,440 Speaker 1: my love. And I don't want to come up here 714 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,560 Speaker 1: in front of y'all and not have love. And if 715 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,319 Speaker 1: I can ride to church with Abby and unlock my love, 716 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,239 Speaker 1: I can talk to you from the love that I 717 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,319 Speaker 1: have for her, and through that love, hopefully I can 718 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,680 Speaker 1: communicate God's word. And hopefully I will not be like 719 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: playing symbols, just shouting stuff and spelling stuff and saying stuff, 720 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,640 Speaker 1: but hopefully my love will come through. And one of 721 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,400 Speaker 1: the practices that we have in driving to church is 722 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,960 Speaker 1: a playlist that consists of songs that will lift our spirits, 723 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,320 Speaker 1: a playlist of songs that are not Taylor Swift, although 724 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,880 Speaker 1: she's fine, and that are not Gracy Abrams. But Sunday 725 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,919 Speaker 1: mornings are not for Gracy Abrams. Just for the grace 726 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,680 Speaker 1: of God is for the glory of God. So I 727 00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,440 Speaker 1: hand her a phone and she picks out the songs, 728 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,080 Speaker 1: and today she picked out a shout no want, I 729 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,399 Speaker 1: shall not Want, and we start singing the last verse 730 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,960 Speaker 1: of shall not one. I remember when we wrote it 731 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,160 Speaker 1: and we were talking about when this life is over, 732 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna live again, gonna trade this cross for a crown. No, 733 00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: it's not the end. When he calls my name, I 734 00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,200 Speaker 1: will take my wrestlers. I'm mansioning glory and you're gonna 735 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,359 Speaker 1: meet me there and I shall no Want. And I 736 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,640 Speaker 1: told Abby, you know what song inspired me? Because a 737 00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:58,960 Speaker 1: lot of times on Sunday I use it as a 738 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,320 Speaker 1: catch up time to show her songs that I listened 739 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,040 Speaker 1: to when I was her age that made me love 740 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,920 Speaker 1: worship and gospel music like I love it. Oh, I mean, 741 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,239 Speaker 1: I show her some great stuff today, I said, I 742 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,480 Speaker 1: need to show you He'll welcome me by John p 743 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,840 Speaker 1: He and the New Life Community Choir from circ About 744 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,760 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. Because you need to hear He'll welcome 745 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,640 Speaker 1: me to understand shall not Want. Because if I never 746 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,800 Speaker 1: heard He'll welcome me, I went in the road shall 747 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,160 Speaker 1: not Want. So I need to play he'll welcome me. 748 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,239 Speaker 1: And when the song came on, I got dangerous on 749 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,000 Speaker 1: the driving because it's a fast song. It's not a 750 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,400 Speaker 1: slow song. And then all of a sudden, I couldn't 751 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,759 Speaker 1: stop my hands from clapping. I mean, I'm supposed to 752 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,440 Speaker 1: be driving. I don't have a tesla, and I'm just clapping. 753 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,840 Speaker 1: Put my hands off the wheel, and I'm singing every 754 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,799 Speaker 1: ad lib, every single ad lift, every single ad live. 755 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm living this life, just live up dead and with 756 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,920 Speaker 1: a lord. I know that aunts out man. I'm a 757 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 1: tender watchers out shall stray with him? I say, who love? 758 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,279 Speaker 1: This is Junn. I know every adelote in the night, 759 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,880 Speaker 1: I know them all. He to be going, he to 760 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,520 Speaker 1: be going. I'm clapping, I'm praising. I feel like I 761 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,400 Speaker 1: just snorted cocaine or something. I'm so excited and I 762 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,440 Speaker 1: never did that before. For the record, for the record, 763 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: for the record, for the record, But I'm clapping my 764 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:25,399 Speaker 1: head all of a sudden, Abby start just to troll 765 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:34,920 Speaker 1: me started. That's the one in the three, that's the 766 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:46,359 Speaker 1: white people be. She's literally killing my spirit, killing my 767 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:57,480 Speaker 1: spirit if she won't get in se see if we're 768 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,839 Speaker 1: gonna do this ah end up on your feet. If 769 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, if we're gonna do this together, 770 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,080 Speaker 1: we gotta get in this boat and clap. 771 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:18,799 Speaker 3: Our hands like you know that Jesus is praying for you, 772 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,760 Speaker 3: that Jesus is coming. 773 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:32,200 Speaker 1: Few two three fourths, Flap those hairs like you're from 774 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:43,040 Speaker 1: North Carolina, like you're from Pearl, North Carolina. Whoa, whoa. 775 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:51,480 Speaker 1: And when the wind died down. First thirty three says, 776 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:56,480 Speaker 1: when the wind died down, when the wind died down, 777 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:02,960 Speaker 1: they worshiped, They worshiped, They worked them, They works them. 778 00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:28,279 Speaker 1: They works up from sacond the second I know it, so, 779 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:33,560 Speaker 1: God said, as high as the heavens are a buff 780 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:39,920 Speaker 1: e earth, so are my ways above your ways. Stop 781 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:48,080 Speaker 1: doing it your way, and get his sink, get his step, 782 00:50:48,640 --> 00:51:02,920 Speaker 1: get his sink, get his step. That's those hands. And 783 00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:09,360 Speaker 1: just like this room shifted when we got in sinc 784 00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:17,080 Speaker 1: God said, when I send you a word from heaven, 785 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:23,680 Speaker 1: my ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are 786 00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:29,319 Speaker 1: not your thoughts. So do what the disciples did. When 787 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:33,520 Speaker 1: you feel what the disciples felt, and when you feel 788 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,640 Speaker 1: like you're starting to sink in the storm, the Bible says, 789 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,640 Speaker 1: call on the Lord, for he is near, and get 790 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,880 Speaker 1: what he has for you and beg him to save you. 791 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,160 Speaker 1: And do you not realize that Jesus was not late 792 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,040 Speaker 1: to save Peter? Because the Bible says that the moment 793 00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:59,879 Speaker 1: that he called the name of Jesus, immediately he reached 794 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:05,560 Speaker 1: out his hand. Why because while Peter was sinking, Jesus 795 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:15,919 Speaker 1: was sinking. That's what I came to tell you. That's 796 00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:22,080 Speaker 1: why I came to tell you. Wow, That's what I 797 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,320 Speaker 1: came to remind you is that you're not really alone 798 00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:28,120 Speaker 1: in the boat. That's why I came to encourage you 799 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,440 Speaker 1: when your life feels barren and dry, that as the 800 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,680 Speaker 1: rain falls from the heaven and waters the earth. What's 801 00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:43,960 Speaker 1: that synchronization? That's y N means together, cramous means time, synchronize. 802 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,160 Speaker 1: God knows how to bring it together at the right 803 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,239 Speaker 1: time the rainfalls in the season is supposed to. It's 804 00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:54,880 Speaker 1: amazing now Jesus knew just the right moment to step 805 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:59,239 Speaker 1: in that boat. Don't you think that Jesus was at 806 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:04,440 Speaker 1: least trolling them this much to wait until just before 807 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,239 Speaker 1: the dawn to show up. And does it feel like 808 00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,640 Speaker 1: maybe right now he's running a little behind your schedule? 809 00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,239 Speaker 1: As well, that's okay. In fact, Mark's Gospel says that 810 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,080 Speaker 1: Jesus pretended like he was going to pass them by, 811 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:23,040 Speaker 1: and they thought. Everybody say, they thought he was a ghost. 812 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,400 Speaker 1: Maybe this thing isn't a ghost. Maybe it's God coming 813 00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,920 Speaker 1: to get you. Maybe the thing you're afraid of is 814 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,320 Speaker 1: the thing that God is using to answer your prayer. 815 00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:40,919 Speaker 1: Maybe it's him. Let's see, you don't know that when 816 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,160 Speaker 1: you're in the storm. You really don't know. It was 817 00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,839 Speaker 1: God in the storm till the storm is over, and 818 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,239 Speaker 1: then the wind died down, and then they worshiped. But 819 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,360 Speaker 1: if you can be like Jesus and sink before the storm, 820 00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,799 Speaker 1: you won't sink in it. That's what I wanted to 821 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,239 Speaker 1: tell you. That's what I wanted to remind. 822 00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:04,239 Speaker 2: You of. 823 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,520 Speaker 1: The seed and the soil in Isaiah, the rain and 824 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,319 Speaker 1: the earth and the Kingdom of God and the earth. 825 00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:23,520 Speaker 1: It's all about synchronization. Synchronization. Yeah, because I won't let 826 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,760 Speaker 1: you sink. You won't let me sink. That was beautiful 827 00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,920 Speaker 1: what you told. Have you stay next to Dad, He 828 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,359 Speaker 1: won't let it go bad. And watch this Peter only 829 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,880 Speaker 1: started to sink. You're like, well, it didn't turn out 830 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,240 Speaker 1: too good for Peter. The Bible says he started to sink. 831 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:48,040 Speaker 1: But this is not called the drowning disciple. It's just 832 00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,960 Speaker 1: the one who slipped for a minute. Yeah, I don't 833 00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,480 Speaker 1: know where you've been slipping. I don't know where you've 834 00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:57,399 Speaker 1: been sinking. Just that quick, just that quick, just as 835 00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,680 Speaker 1: quick as he called his name. That all you have 836 00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,120 Speaker 1: to do is call on the name of the Lord, 837 00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,319 Speaker 1: and you will be saved. Bow your heads right now, 838 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:09,680 Speaker 1: all over this room, at every location. The Bible says 839 00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,719 Speaker 1: that whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall 840 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,640 Speaker 1: be saved. It is by grace, through faith you are saved, 841 00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,600 Speaker 1: not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. Lest 842 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,799 Speaker 1: anyone should boast means all you got to do is 843 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,200 Speaker 1: reach for him. He's already right there, And just that quick, 844 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,160 Speaker 1: he'll forgive your sins. Just that quick, he'll wash you 845 00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:28,680 Speaker 1: with this blood. As quick as you repent, he'll forgive 846 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:34,040 Speaker 1: turn to the Lord today, forsake your ways and embrace 847 00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,080 Speaker 1: His heads bowed, eyes closed. If you're watching online, maybe 848 00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:38,879 Speaker 1: you didn't even plan to join us today. But God 849 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,000 Speaker 1: had a plan for you, and at this moment He 850 00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,200 Speaker 1: has synchronized this moment, so that this word would hit 851 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,440 Speaker 1: your heart in this moment today, for those of you 852 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,960 Speaker 1: who want to give your life to Jesus Christ for 853 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,120 Speaker 1: the first time or come back to God, I'm going 854 00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,440 Speaker 1: to lead you in a prayer right now. It's a 855 00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,319 Speaker 1: simple prayer like the one that Peter prayed. Lord, save me, 856 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,600 Speaker 1: Save me from my sin, Save me from myself. I 857 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,319 Speaker 1: believe that you died for me, and now I want 858 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,600 Speaker 1: you to live in me. Save me. God. This is 859 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,719 Speaker 1: my new beginning. And right now, if that's your heart, 860 00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,919 Speaker 1: I want you to bow your head, close your eyes, 861 00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,560 Speaker 1: and we're praying out loud together for the benefit of 862 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:18,120 Speaker 1: those who are coming to God. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father. 863 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,879 Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and 864 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:28,720 Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 865 00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:34,359 Speaker 1: and the savior of the world. And today I make 866 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:40,720 Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord and savior of my life. I believe 867 00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:45,200 Speaker 1: he died that I would be forgiven and rose again 868 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:51,680 Speaker 1: to give me life. I receive this new life. This 869 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:56,520 Speaker 1: is my new beginning. I am a child of God. 870 00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:58,960 Speaker 1: On the counter, three shoots your hand up. If you 871 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,840 Speaker 1: prayed that one two, three, put them up together. That's amazing. 872 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:13,280 Speaker 1: That's amazing, incredible God, blessing, incredible, incredible. Praise the Lord. 873 00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:19,840 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. We're bringing you a Bible, praying for you. 874 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,840 Speaker 1: We're here for you, we love you, for all of you. Hey, 875 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,760 Speaker 1: don't leave. I'm about to bless you. Don't leave before 876 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,800 Speaker 1: you get the blessing. Stop stop, stop, stop, stop stufstalk, 877 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:35,680 Speaker 1: thank you. We leave in sync, and then I'll say 878 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:44,120 Speaker 1: bye bye bye. All right, Praise the Lord. Campus fastors. 879 00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,040 Speaker 1: You can give e group instructions. Do I need to 880 00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:54,560 Speaker 1: say anything? JJ talk to talking again some other believers. 881 00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,080 Speaker 1: Just sync down. Ask somebody next to you who you 882 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,960 Speaker 1: got in your boat? Ask them? Are they rowing in 883 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:07,400 Speaker 1: the right direction? Join hands together. We're gonna pray together 884 00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:13,160 Speaker 1: and get out of here. And we're gonna take what 885 00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,600 Speaker 1: we got here on the mountain today, and we're gonna 886 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:20,040 Speaker 1: carry it into the storm that we face tomorrow. And 887 00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,440 Speaker 1: even if we don't see it coming, Jesus does, because 888 00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,200 Speaker 1: the whole time they were in the boat straining, he 889 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,440 Speaker 1: was on the mountain praying. He is a sinking savior. 890 00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,920 Speaker 1: He caught Peter immediately when he fell, because he is 891 00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:37,800 Speaker 1: a sinking savior. And you won't go down. Because now 892 00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:45,560 Speaker 1: unto Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, immeasurably 893 00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,960 Speaker 1: more than you ask or imagine, to him, be gloried 894 00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:54,240 Speaker 1: through Christ Jesus in the Church, now and forever. Amen. 895 00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,680 Speaker 1: If you love him, say amen. If this same thing 896 00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:05,560 Speaker 1: you know is say amen. Now you are business. God blessing. Well. 897 00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,280 Speaker 1: If you enjoyed the series, I sure love preaching it 898 00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,120 Speaker 1: to you. I love you God. Don't sink this week, 899 00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:17,440 Speaker 1: sink sink. Get with God. Man. He's gonna show you, 900 00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,479 Speaker 1: He's gonna use you, He's gonna show you up. We're 901 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:28,600 Speaker 1: praying for you. Thank you for joining us. 902 00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:31,360 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 903 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,160 Speaker 2: this ministry. 904 00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,920 Speaker 1: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 905 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,560 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 906 00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:41,600 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for 907 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:45,600 Speaker 2: more information. 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