WEBVTT - Copy That 0:00:00.090 --> 0:00:02.590 Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Furtick. 0:00:02.890 --> 0:00:05.280 Make sure you listen and follow along with Elevation with 0:00:05.300 --> 0:00:08.580 Stephen Furtick on Amazon Music. And don't forget, you can 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.400 also just ask Alexa. Hey, Alexa, can you play Elevation 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.340 with Stephen Furtick on Amazon Music? Also, with Amazon Music Unlimited, 0:00:16.450 --> 0:00:18.970 you can now listen to all your favorite music, podcasts, 0:00:19.010 --> 0:00:21.160 and audiobooks all on the Amazon Music app. 0:00:22.190 --> 0:00:23.970 You know what the Lord showed us on our campus 0:00:24.010 --> 0:00:27.520 pastor call this week? That the glory of the latter 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:37.090 house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Well, 0:00:37.110 --> 0:00:40.559 what in the world does that mean? I mean, God 0:00:40.700 --> 0:00:43.640 said that through the prophet to some exiles who were 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.949 coming back and rebuilding the temple, and it was so 0:00:47.110 --> 0:00:51.810 small compared to Solomon's temple and so plain and so simple. 0:00:52.490 --> 0:00:56.270 It says that the people who saw Solomon's temple started crying. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.960 They were crying so much that the people who were shouting, 0:01:00.980 --> 0:01:04.060 because they never had a temple at all before, were like, 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.640 This is awesome. This is amazing. This is a house 0:01:07.700 --> 0:01:10.050 for God. This is a place we can meet with him. 0:01:11.010 --> 0:01:14.590 They couldn't be heard above the weeping of those who 0:01:14.630 --> 0:01:18.550 could only compare what they were looking at with what. 0:01:18.530 --> 0:01:19.670 Was before it. 0:01:21.819 --> 0:01:23.360 So God said, I don't want you to look at 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.700 it and compare it to the old temple. I believe 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.800 he's saying that to somebody in this room. I don't 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.880 want you to compare what I'm doing in your life 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.680 right now to what I did in your life in 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.670 a previous season when you didn't have a bad knee. 0:01:40.069 --> 0:01:43.920 I'm preaching to the over 40 now. I know you 0:01:43.980 --> 0:01:49.260 used to be the star-wide receiver in Villain, Texas, but 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.520 right now I need you to understand it's not what 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.800 the temple is made of. I told our campus pastors, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.050 even as our church is kind of coming back … 0:01:58.550 --> 0:02:01.050 You know, after the pandemic, it takes time for people 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.910 to come back, so a lot of the buildings don't 0:02:03.930 --> 0:02:07.450 look like they did before that thing that happened, which 0:02:07.490 --> 0:02:08.889 I can't say, because then they'll take it out of 0:02:08.910 --> 0:02:13.639 the YouTube algorithm, so I'm going to just beep it out. Then, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:16.440 if you look at what it is right now and 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:17.880 try to compare it to what it was, you missed 0:02:17.910 --> 0:02:23.090 the whole point. He said, the glory of the latter house, 0:02:23.169 --> 0:02:26.610 what I'm doing right now, he's pointing to Jesus, will 0:02:26.650 --> 0:02:30.010 be greater than the glory of the former house. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:34.560 This is what I told them. 0:02:36.340 --> 0:02:37.600 Don't look for the gold. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:38.820 Look for the glory. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.840 The gold is the external. That's Solomon's temple. Look for 0:02:42.860 --> 0:02:46.120 the glory. What God is doing right now, he's trying 0:02:46.139 --> 0:02:50.440 to get you to attenuate your mind to what he 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:51.520 is filling you with. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.000 What do you want to be filled with? 0:02:55.020 --> 0:02:58.150 Do you want to be filled with fear? 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.730 Do you want to be filled with depression? 0:03:02.669 --> 0:03:04.769 All you have to do, if that's what you want 0:03:04.810 --> 0:03:09.850 to do, is just do everything you see the world doing. Okay? 0:03:11.060 --> 0:03:14.780 But if you want to be filled with joy unspeakable, 0:03:14.860 --> 0:03:17.179 full of glory in the Holy. 0:03:16.980 --> 0:03:21.440 Ghost, you can't… Oh, God! 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.250 I'm going to start my sermon right now. 0:03:23.310 --> 0:03:23.780 Watch this. 0:03:24.690 --> 0:03:28.169 You can't do what the world does and get what 0:03:28.210 --> 0:03:28.950 the Word says. 0:03:33.180 --> 0:03:36.080 So, are you ready for the Word of God? 0:03:36.860 --> 0:03:40.160 I want you on your feet in the ready position. 0:03:43.970 --> 0:03:46.090 I am going to pick up where I left off 0:03:46.130 --> 0:03:46.810 last week. 0:03:47.170 --> 0:03:48.650 Somebody shout, copy that. 0:03:50.390 --> 0:03:55.640 Copy that. That was the last thing in my sermon 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.640 last week. So, let's pick up with the Scripture I 0:04:00.700 --> 0:04:02.660 mentioned last week, but I didn't get to mine it. 0:04:05.050 --> 0:04:06.730 Hebrews 13, verse 7. 0:04:06.730 --> 0:04:11.570 In case your feet hurt from standing, I only have 0:04:11.650 --> 0:04:14.490 one verse, then you can sit down. Did anybody come 0:04:14.530 --> 0:04:19.290 to church from over 100 miles away today? What? 0:04:19.310 --> 0:04:20.409 For real? 0:04:21.710 --> 0:04:30.880 Where from? I love that place. That's one of my 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:31.719 favorite places. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:33.740 I didn't hear a word they said. 0:04:34.020 --> 0:04:39.020 Anybody come from over 500 miles? Y'all remember the song 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:50.030 from the 90s? We're really going to get YouTube flagged. 0:04:51.490 --> 0:04:58.289 It's a great worship song, right? 0:04:59.930 --> 0:05:01.570 How about all the new songs we've been singing? You've 0:05:01.589 --> 0:05:02.250 been enjoying that? 0:05:08.020 --> 0:05:09.760 Lately, we've been getting in these writing rooms and just 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.200 wanting to sing the Word of God. You probably didn't 0:05:13.220 --> 0:05:14.720 hear it if you're watching this later, but we just 0:05:14.740 --> 0:05:16.820 sang a song, and it goes straight from Matthew 5. 0:05:16.820 --> 0:05:18.500 I'm going to talk a little. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.800 Bit about my dad today in the sermon. I'm going 0:05:23.820 --> 0:05:26.760 to tell you some of the good stuff, but the 0:05:26.810 --> 0:05:29.130 bad stuff or whatever is just going to be what 0:05:29.170 --> 0:05:32.390 it is. One memory of my dad that's really precious 0:05:32.410 --> 0:05:35.349 to me is He loved, my mom can tell you, 0:05:35.810 --> 0:05:38.330 the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6, and 7. 0:05:38.330 --> 0:05:40.930 I was thinking, when we were writing that song where 0:05:40.970 --> 0:05:47.210 we just go through the Beatitudes, and just singing those scriptures, 0:05:47.910 --> 0:05:50.710 I was thinking, man, the L train would love this. 0:05:50.750 --> 0:05:52.089 He'd be running laps. 0:05:52.950 --> 0:05:53.710 It's just exciting. 0:05:53.730 --> 0:05:56.180 We're going to be recording some new songs on October 6, 0:05:56.150 --> 0:05:58.640 so you're all invited for that. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.120 Also, you're all invited. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:08.810 To Elevation Nights. We're going to take this glory on 0:06:08.850 --> 0:06:09.550 the road. 0:06:12.170 --> 0:06:14.409 That's right. I'm going to do it. 0:06:14.450 --> 0:06:21.790 If you're in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, 0:06:21.910 --> 0:06:28.760 or Jacksonville, come on out. That's October 26th through November 4th. ElevationNights.com. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.820 They don't have to come from 500 miles will come 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.100 to you. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.290 It's going to be so exciting. 0:06:35.380 --> 0:06:37.289 Welcome, welcome, welcome. Wow. 0:06:38.570 --> 0:06:43.310 Look at you. You walk and talk in miracle. You 0:06:43.390 --> 0:06:44.790 live and breathe in miracle. 0:06:47.630 --> 0:06:52.720 The devil is so confused because you're praising God after 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.410 all he put you through this week. He's like flipping out. 0:06:57.870 --> 0:07:01.150 He's summoning all his little junior demons like, I thought 0:07:01.190 --> 0:07:03.730 I told you to attack them. They're like, I didn't, 0:07:03.970 --> 0:07:05.390 but the angels came. 0:07:05.730 --> 0:07:07.010 The angels came. 0:07:07.330 --> 0:07:09.750 The angels came and they. 0:07:10.930 --> 0:07:13.590 Made it. 0:07:16.090 --> 0:07:27.890 Hebrews 13. Verse 7. Remember your leaders who spoke the 0:07:27.930 --> 0:07:32.530 word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their 0:07:32.570 --> 0:07:38.050 way of life and imitate their faith. Say my title 0:07:38.130 --> 0:07:42.480 one more time to your neighbor. Copy that. You may 0:07:42.500 --> 0:07:48.660 be seated. How many of you heard the sermon last week? 0:07:51.900 --> 0:07:57.380 Y'all do know they're free online, right? So if you 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.490 ever sleep in or can't be here, make sure you 0:07:59.510 --> 0:08:01.470 catch up. A lot of times it's on the second 0:08:01.530 --> 0:08:03.410 listen that you really get what God wanted to say 0:08:03.450 --> 0:08:07.030 to you, because on the first listen you're kind of 0:08:07.090 --> 0:08:11.910 judging me like, if I agree with this, what are 0:08:11.930 --> 0:08:16.060 those shoes? Just looking at stupid stuff. Then sometimes on 0:08:16.100 --> 0:08:18.540 the second time, it's not the distractions, but. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.220 It goes deeper. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:25.320 You go, oh, I got it on one level. I 0:08:25.340 --> 0:08:29.870 got it on the second lesson. There's a value in repetition. 0:08:30.470 --> 0:08:33.130 There's also a danger in repetition. I felt like my 0:08:33.170 --> 0:08:35.630 sermon last week was a little more on the negative side. 0:08:35.870 --> 0:08:38.030 I'm not apologizing for it, because I took it from 0:08:38.070 --> 0:08:40.010 the Bible, where God warned Moses. 0:08:40.050 --> 0:08:41.679 It says he warned him, and I was warning you. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.680 Make sure or see to it that you build according 0:08:45.740 --> 0:08:48.860 to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.960 That's where God met with Moses and showed him. 0:08:51.940 --> 0:08:52.829 How to build the tabernacle. 0:08:53.900 --> 0:08:57.520 Holy of Holies, table of showbread, all that stuff he 0:08:57.540 --> 0:09:00.280 showed them on the mountain. Then he had to go 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.900 down to where the people were. I always had these 0:09:03.940 --> 0:09:07.860 great ideas about ministry until people showed up and messed 0:09:07.940 --> 0:09:12.400 up my ideas of ministry. They don't do it like 0:09:12.420 --> 0:09:15.420 you tell them to. They don't run to first base, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.460 then second base, then third base. You see them over 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.400 there climbing the fence, playing in the dirt and stuff. 0:09:21.420 --> 0:09:25.069 That's me too, right? That's me too. That's tricky to 0:09:25.090 --> 0:09:26.850 be a leader. How many leaders do we actually have 0:09:26.890 --> 0:09:32.270 here today? Worship leaders. Let's start there. Worship leaders. Really? 0:09:33.830 --> 0:09:34.210 Cool. 0:09:39.150 --> 0:09:41.720 I want to ask that again, but this time I 0:09:41.750 --> 0:09:44.260 want every parent to raise your hand. How many worship 0:09:44.300 --> 0:09:50.100 leaders do we have here today? Whether you want to 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:55.719 or not, you are teaching your children Not only how 0:09:55.740 --> 0:09:58.970 to worship, Some of that you're teaching them as well. 0:10:00.050 --> 0:10:03.780 If you're kind of a one-hand-in-the-pocket handlifter, they'll probably do 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:09.420 the same thing. It's also true that you're teaching them 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:16.120 what to worship. Every time you set the schedule to say, well, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.140 we'll go to church if. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:25.060 We have time … I just felt an arctic. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.200 Wind into this place. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.860 It's true. 0:10:31.420 --> 0:10:34.980 I'm so grateful Christy Collins pulled out her iPhone and 0:10:35.340 --> 0:10:39.180 captured this video I'm about to show you. I feel 0:10:39.260 --> 0:10:41.290 most of the time like I'm failing as the dad. 0:10:42.110 --> 0:10:42.830 I'm wired. 0:10:42.870 --> 0:10:46.270 I'm hardwired to be hard on myself. Some of you 0:10:46.290 --> 0:10:48.310 are too easy on yourself, and some of us are 0:10:48.330 --> 0:10:51.470 too hard on ourselves. Then we can help each other out. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.040 Holly is really good about it, too. She's always sending 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.000 me these time hops. Do y'all do time hops where 0:10:58.020 --> 0:10:59.480 it shows you, this is what you were doing five 0:10:59.500 --> 0:11:01.450 years ago, this is what you were doing seven years ago, 0:11:01.490 --> 0:11:02.540 this is what you were doing nine years ago? 0:11:03.090 --> 0:11:03.900 She'll show me at. 0:11:03.870 --> 0:11:06.970 The Charlotte Knights game with the boys just to remind me, 0:11:07.929 --> 0:11:08.770 you're a good dad. 0:11:10.090 --> 0:11:12.790 You're a good dad, and I need that. 0:11:13.990 --> 0:11:16.510 But what Christie captured … We were doing our recording 0:11:16.550 --> 0:11:19.250 with Elevation Worship in Maverick City called Old Church Basement. 0:11:24.110 --> 0:11:26.809 I sat right there with my kids on that ledge. 0:11:27.050 --> 0:11:29.710 Our whole family was on that ledge. The building still 0:11:29.750 --> 0:11:33.750 wasn't fully open. We COVID-tested, made this album. It's touched 0:11:33.790 --> 0:11:38.360 the world. It's probably one of my favorite things I 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.820 ever worked on as a songwriter, as a pastor, as 0:11:40.860 --> 0:11:44.040 a producer, and I'm so thankful for everyone who's involved. 0:11:45.100 --> 0:11:48.500 But the greatest part of the night wasn't on YouTube. 0:11:50.300 --> 0:11:56.170 The greatest parts never are. The greatest part was when 0:11:56.220 --> 0:11:59.960 we were recording the song, Wait on You. I trust 0:12:00.059 --> 0:12:04.059 in your promise. I'm going to wait on you. 0:12:04.100 --> 0:12:06.060 You have to do it with a little growl. I'm 0:12:06.100 --> 0:12:06.900 going to wait. 0:12:06.940 --> 0:12:14.650 You have to aggressively wait on the Lord. When I 0:12:14.690 --> 0:12:18.670 just couldn't take it anymore, and we were about 37 0:12:18.670 --> 0:12:21.650 minutes into the song, and I jumped off the ledge, 0:12:21.690 --> 0:12:23.370 and I ran down, and I couldn't take it anymore. 0:12:25.100 --> 0:12:27.420 I looked up, and Abby was standing beside me. Now, 0:12:27.460 --> 0:12:30.100 my children are very competitive. Last week, I baptized Graham. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.760 I called him up on stage. I gave him a speech. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.689 I gave him a Bible, and Abby said, That. 0:12:37.490 --> 0:12:37.870 Was good. 0:12:37.890 --> 0:12:39.630 When am I going to be in a sermon again? 0:12:42.230 --> 0:12:44.250 So I picked this out because it fit with my 0:12:44.290 --> 0:12:45.420 theme of copy that. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.079 Watch this little 50-second video. I love this. 0:13:01.690 --> 0:13:02.910 I like that one. 0:13:30.580 --> 0:13:34.120 I favorited that one on my phone. I could see 0:13:34.140 --> 0:13:36.110 it in those moments. Do you know those moments? 0:13:40.010 --> 0:13:43.170 I will interview your wife this week and talk about 0:13:43.230 --> 0:13:45.150 those moments next week if you don't nod your head 0:13:45.190 --> 0:13:47.990 at me. Do you have those moments where you need 0:13:48.150 --> 0:13:51.870 an example, a better example? I want to go ahead 0:13:51.890 --> 0:13:54.770 and beat all the trolls to it. I'm not going 0:13:54.790 --> 0:13:57.670 to be dancing with the stars with those moves. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:13:58.780 I know that. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.530 I understand that. I understand that my moves are unorthodox. 0:14:01.590 --> 0:14:03.350 My kids tell me this all the time. They keep 0:14:03.370 --> 0:14:09.130 me humble. But we didn't choreograph that. We didn't practice that. 0:14:10.309 --> 0:14:14.510 We didn't have to. I didn't tell her, you know, 0:14:15.090 --> 0:14:20.720 I think I'm going to do this, like this wounded 0:14:20.820 --> 0:14:23.620 eagle move, like an eagle that was shot but not killed. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.460 I'm going to come through, and I need you to 0:14:26.500 --> 0:14:27.880 do it with me so I don't look stupid. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.400 I watched her. I realized there's what I say and 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:48.330 there's what she sees. People do what people see. The 0:14:48.370 --> 0:14:50.430 challenge for a lot of people I'm preaching to is 0:14:52.750 --> 0:14:56.630 that sometimes you have to be something you've never seen before. 0:15:00.810 --> 0:15:03.990 When I read my Scripture, remember your leaders who spoke 0:15:04.090 --> 0:15:06.710 the word of God to you. Put it on the 0:15:06.730 --> 0:15:08.550 screen again, because there's no power in my words. There's 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.400 power in God's words. Remember your leaders who spoke the 0:15:13.460 --> 0:15:17.540 word of God to you, who told you, I can 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.670 do all things through Christ who strengthens me. who told 0:15:20.710 --> 0:15:22.690 you God's hand is on you, who told you that 0:15:22.710 --> 0:15:25.430 there's nothing more important than God, who told you that 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.120 if Christ isn't at the center of your life, the 0:15:27.150 --> 0:15:30.080 whole thing will fall apart, who told you and taught you, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.900 who preached to you and taught to you that you 0:15:33.940 --> 0:15:37.940 are who God says you are. But in reading this, 0:15:38.220 --> 0:15:42.140 I realized that a lot of the people I preached 0:15:42.180 --> 0:15:48.680 to never really had someone to speak this word to. 0:15:49.770 --> 0:15:50.770 Over their lives. 0:15:51.470 --> 0:15:55.430 They went with what the world told them, because they 0:15:55.450 --> 0:16:03.980 didn't know what the Word said about them. That's what 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.220 I was going to tell you about my dad. One time, 0:16:07.540 --> 0:16:09.890 my mom was so good at this. She would cover 0:16:09.950 --> 0:16:13.530 for his crazy. She'd pull him to the side, and 0:16:13.550 --> 0:16:16.180 she'd say, You know, he's doing real good. I said, 0:16:16.220 --> 0:16:18.840 he's not doing real good. He's crazy. He's crazy. I 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.340 can't stand him. And he was doing, he's coaching my teams. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.360 He's doing all this stuff. But one day she said, 0:16:23.380 --> 0:16:25.000 did you know he didn't have a dad growing up? 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.080 I didn't know that. I knew he didn't have his 0:16:27.100 --> 0:16:29.180 dad long, but I didn't know that his dad had 0:16:29.220 --> 0:16:33.350 killed himself. I didn't know that my dad had found 0:16:33.470 --> 0:16:38.050 his dad dead on his own birthday when he was eight. 0:16:40.230 --> 0:16:40.990 I didn't know that. 0:16:43.210 --> 0:16:45.610 I didn't know that he was making everything up. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.360 So, even that one time when I said I hated 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:52.840 him and I wanted to kill him when I was 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.980 a teenager, and he picked me up from school early 0:16:56.780 --> 0:16:58.370 and told me we were going out to the National 0:16:58.420 --> 0:17:00.050 Forest and he had two guns in the back of 0:17:00.070 --> 0:17:01.450 the truck and one of us was going to kill 0:17:01.490 --> 0:17:04.290 the other one, even though that isn't necessarily the best 0:17:04.350 --> 0:17:06.050 parenting tactic and it's not Dr. 0:17:06.070 --> 0:17:06.720 Philip Ruth …. 0:17:08.990 --> 0:17:11.850 He didn't have focus on the family growing up, all right? 0:17:15.670 --> 0:17:19.070 I did the best I could. I did the best 0:17:19.150 --> 0:17:25.429 I could. He's doing real good if you saw what 0:17:25.470 --> 0:17:30.030 he never got to see. So, when the author of 0:17:30.070 --> 0:17:33.649 Hebrews is saying here, remember your leaders who spoke the 0:17:33.690 --> 0:17:38.010 word of God concerning you, he's not so much talking 0:17:38.070 --> 0:17:40.850 about their words that they spoke, the word of God 0:17:40.869 --> 0:17:42.930 that they spoke, but then he says something really powerful. 0:17:43.250 --> 0:17:44.990 This is what I want to teach on today. Somebody shout, 0:17:45.030 --> 0:17:48.100 copy that. Put it in the chat right now. Copy that. 0:17:49.470 --> 0:17:50.990 That's what they say on. 0:17:51.030 --> 0:17:53.530 A walkie-talkie, right? 0:17:53.970 --> 0:17:56.750 Copy that. It means I heard it. I got it. 0:17:57.190 --> 0:17:59.600 I'm on it. Do you see these security people around 0:17:59.650 --> 0:18:01.660 our church keeping you safe? Thank God for them. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.179 If you knew how crazy some Christians are, you'd be 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:17.260 clapping better than that for the security team. but they 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:26.209 say it all the time. I want to call the 0:18:26.270 --> 0:18:30.250 sermon that, because that which. 0:18:30.090 --> 0:18:35.110 You copy is that which you become. That which you 0:18:35.150 --> 0:18:39.080 believe is that which you become. So when he says, 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:40.140 Remember your leaders. 0:18:39.940 --> 0:18:41.879 Who spoke the word of God to you, there are 0:18:41.900 --> 0:18:44.000 a lot of words that were spoken to you and 0:18:44.140 --> 0:18:46.520 over you and about you that have to be uprooted 0:18:46.820 --> 0:18:49.550 before the word that God spoke about you can be planted. 0:18:51.010 --> 0:18:53.550 Now, remember, the Hebrews have. 0:18:53.470 --> 0:18:58.110 Not been a part of Christianity for two millennia like 0:18:58.230 --> 0:19:03.230 we have. They haven't had 2,000 years to get used 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.680 to the idea that we are justified by faith, not works. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:07.900 It's all new to them. 0:19:08.890 --> 0:19:11.310 They have not had 2,000 years to get used to 0:19:11.330 --> 0:19:13.450 the fact that it is by grace you have been 0:19:13.490 --> 0:19:16.150 saved through faith. It's not the blood that a high 0:19:16.250 --> 0:19:18.990 priest takes. Remember I talked about this last week, that 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.960 they serve in a tabernacle that is an earthly copy 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.639 of a heavenly reality. But even Moses, as holy as 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.240 he was, as important as he was, as amazing as 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:36.669 he was, Moses could only lead them so far. In 0:19:36.710 --> 0:19:39.510 the middle of this … He gives them an instruction 0:19:39.570 --> 0:19:44.800 as he concludes his letter. He says, Consider the outcome 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.650 of their way of life and imitate. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:55.260 Their faith. Or, in other words, copy that. Can I preach? 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.840 If y'all have had enough, I'll go eat some keto 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.700 pancakes and chill. But the Lord said to me, first 0:20:02.740 --> 0:20:06.770 of all, consider the outcome. Isn't that hard to do? 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.070 When really what you're seeing all day long in people's 0:20:11.090 --> 0:20:14.770 lives is you're seeing just what I called last week 0:20:14.810 --> 0:20:20.230 a snapshot, consider the outcome of their way of life 0:20:21.430 --> 0:20:22.340 and imitate their faith. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.240 The question I've been thinking. 0:20:25.020 --> 0:20:28.980 About is, is the way of life I am choosing 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:35.639 producing the outcome I desire? Is the way of life 0:20:35.900 --> 0:20:39.710 I'm choosing producing the outcome I desire. 0:20:42.380 --> 0:20:48.760 We need more leaders in the world today, less opinions. 0:20:54.140 --> 0:21:03.540 We need more leaders, less influencers. Oh, yeah. This is 0:21:03.580 --> 0:21:06.000 the part of my sermon where I am a crotchety 0:21:06.060 --> 0:21:10.199 old man telling you that what you are seeing on 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:22.649 your reels, R-E-E-L, is not real R-E-A-L. This is the 0:21:22.750 --> 0:21:26.730 God's honest truth. The writer of Hebrews said, imitate their faith, 0:21:26.770 --> 0:21:28.470 but we live in a time where we are imitating 0:21:28.490 --> 0:21:28.910 their faith. 0:21:36.020 --> 0:21:37.960 So, consider the outcome. 0:21:38.530 --> 0:21:41.540 I wonder what happened five minutes after they took that picture. 0:21:43.810 --> 0:21:47.350 I wonder what happened five minutes after they posted that. 0:21:47.390 --> 0:21:49.270 I mean, just five minutes. Not five years. 0:21:49.490 --> 0:21:53.690 Let's talk about five minutes after. One day in church, 0:21:53.790 --> 0:21:55.649 I was so sick of, like, preachers always trying to 0:21:55.690 --> 0:21:57.570 be perfect, and me and my family, we wake up 0:21:57.630 --> 0:22:00.810 every morning, quote Ephesians, pray, and sing the Beatitudes. I said, 0:22:00.950 --> 0:22:03.350 let me show you what this family is really like. 0:22:03.770 --> 0:22:06.030 I showed one of our Christmas videos that was so beautiful. 0:22:06.150 --> 0:22:06.930 Welcome to Elevation. 0:22:06.950 --> 0:22:08.510 May it be unto you as a child is born 0:22:08.550 --> 0:22:10.070 and as a Savior this day in the. 0:22:10.010 --> 0:22:12.130 City of David, that the Savior is the Christ Lord. 0:22:12.150 --> 0:22:13.210 Then I showed the outtakes. 0:22:16.930 --> 0:22:19.910 Holly Furtick was one step short of having to be 0:22:19.970 --> 0:22:21.550 bleeped what she was saying. 0:22:21.330 --> 0:22:22.490 To those kids. 0:22:23.810 --> 0:22:24.670 In those outtakes. 0:22:25.950 --> 0:22:28.320 So, watch this. Outcome, outtakes. 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.139 Nobody is showing you their outtakes. 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:32.640 You are imitating. 0:22:32.310 --> 0:22:33.760 … I have to get this across. 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:35.899 I'm careful I have to say it every week. 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.160 I'll be up here, 75 years old, dragging my right 0:22:39.220 --> 0:22:43.990 leg behind me, talking about, what you're copying is cropped. 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:49.359 It is only showing you so much. 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.040 A lot of the people we are emulating and imitating 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.780 and talking like and captioning like … You know what's 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.980 the weirdest thing? I thought we as parents were supposed 0:22:59.050 --> 0:23:01.770 to set an example for our kids, but now I 0:23:01.890 --> 0:23:06.770 see grown men and women trying to talk. 0:23:06.550 --> 0:23:16.119 Like a kid, and it's cringey, y'all. It's cringey. 0:23:17.609 --> 0:23:20.810 It's cringey when you're a dad of three and you're 0:23:20.830 --> 0:23:21.970 still trying to show. 0:23:21.810 --> 0:23:24.330 You got it. You got game. You know what you got? 0:23:24.609 --> 0:23:27.520 You got dependents. You got bills to pay. 0:23:27.780 --> 0:23:28.840 You got a mortgage. 0:23:29.140 --> 0:23:31.880 Grow up, man. That's over. 0:23:35.570 --> 0:23:37.889 When I became a man, I put away childish things. 0:23:39.369 --> 0:23:41.470 I'm not talking about not having fun. I'm the goofiest 0:23:41.510 --> 0:23:44.080 dude in the world. But what I'm saying is, a 0:23:44.140 --> 0:23:46.620 lot of times, like Romans 12.2 is my favorite verse 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:49.459 to explain this. It says, Do not conform to the 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.800 pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.010 of your mind. A lot of people will make the 0:23:57.050 --> 0:23:59.969 distinction between the pattern of this world and the renewing 0:23:59.990 --> 0:24:03.550 of your mind, but really, in the text, the juice 0:24:03.630 --> 0:24:09.710 of it is in two different words. It's conformed Transform. 0:24:11.150 --> 0:24:13.670 Conform is something you can change. It's like an attitude 0:24:14.090 --> 0:24:19.770 or a posture. Transform is different. Transform is something that 0:24:19.850 --> 0:24:24.260 has to happen because of what's on the inside. So, 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.060 since you have Christ inside of you now … Remember, 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:29.120 you're not serving at a tabernacle built with human hands. 0:24:29.420 --> 0:24:30.980 You don't have a high priest that was selected from 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:33.520 among men. You are not serving a shadow or a copy. 0:24:33.540 --> 0:24:36.800 You have a risen Savior who set an example for you. 0:24:38.150 --> 0:24:42.150 so that you can copy that. Since that is in you, 0:24:42.250 --> 0:24:44.310 the Spirit of God is in you, not the spirit 0:24:44.350 --> 0:24:48.910 of the world, not the spirit of worry, the spirit 0:24:48.950 --> 0:24:50.870 of the world, you get. 0:24:50.810 --> 0:24:55.250 To reproduce that, because it's on the inside. 0:24:57.040 --> 0:25:01.540 Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So, what's 0:25:01.780 --> 0:25:05.400