1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 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 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Now. 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: I know this message is for somebody because the devil 9 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: was fighting me to be able to deliver it. So 10 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: let's go forward together now into the word of God. 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: Peter has an instruction here. He says, in the same way, 12 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 2: you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. Everybody 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: over fifty say amen. All the parents say amen. This 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 2: is your verse. Peter's a little older now, he's got that. 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: He's got that senior citizen discount swag going on in 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: this letter that he's writing. He's got that aarp swag. Amen, 17 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another. 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: Because God opposes the prow but he shows favor to 19 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 2: the humble. Humble yourselves. Therefore, under God's mighty hand, that 20 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: he may lift you up in due time, cast all 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 22 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Be alert and a sober mind. Your enemy, the devil. 23 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 2: Prows around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. 24 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: But resistant, standing firm in the faith because you know 25 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: that you're not the only one going through something. The 26 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same 27 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: kind of sufferings. Touch somebody, say, you're not a You're 28 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: not alone, You're not the only one. 29 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: You're not the only one. You're not crazy. It's a battle. 30 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 2: We all must fight, some fears, we all must face 31 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 2: some things, we all must go through, and we're. 32 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: In this together. Amen. 33 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: And the God of all grace, who called you to 34 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 2: his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a 35 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 2: little while, will himself restore you, make you strong, firm 36 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 2: and steadfast to Him be the power forever and ever 37 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 2: and ever and ever. 38 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: And ever and ever and ever. 39 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 2: And let the church say, Amen, Amen, I want to 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: speak to you for a few moments today on the 41 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 2: subject when anxiety attacks? What are you going to do 42 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: when anxiety attacks? Amen, you may be seated in the 43 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: presence of God. Thank you, worship team. Then they do good. 44 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: Following my random little Come on, didn't they do good 45 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: following that little. 46 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: We have the best musicians on the planet at Elevation Church, 47 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: the best volunteers on the planet who. 48 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: Do the technical stuff, the. 49 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: Best cameraman on the planet. Watch these cameramen switch back 50 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: and forth real quick. Go from the yeah, just go 51 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: back and forth a bunch of times. Just watch. Just 52 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: watch this. 53 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: That crazy, not cool. 54 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: They do all this stuff that you don't even know 55 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 2: about behind the scenes to bless you so you can 56 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: hear the word of God. I appreciate all our volunteers 57 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 2: back in ekas the parking lot, all of our ushers 58 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: ushing with excellence for the glory of God. Ay Man, 59 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: I just feel grateful today for everybody. Hey, my mom 60 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 2: and I were texting this morning. We were talking about 61 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: my memory and how I remember weird little things from 62 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 2: my childhood, and she says that I remember some of 63 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 2: them incorrectly. But one thing I know I remember was 64 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 2: around age sixteen at Monk's Corner United Methodist Church when 65 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: Aunt Jackie she was really my aunt, but I called 66 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: her Aunt Jackie because when I was a little boys 67 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 2: to go over to their house all the time and 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: she let me watch dukes of hazard and she pulled 69 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: me aside because I had made a commitment to Jesus 70 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: Christ as a sixteen year old boy, and she could 71 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: see the passion and enthusiasm from my eyes, and she 72 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,239 Speaker 2: had changed my diapers. And she was at that age 73 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: where you can say whatever you want to say, kind 74 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 2: of like Peter was when he was telling the church 75 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: there the people of God who were under persecution and 76 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: under attack at the hands of the Emperor Nero. And 77 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: Aunt Jackie pulled me aside and she was telling me 78 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 2: some words of wisdom. 79 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: She said that she believed that. 80 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 2: God had a plan for me and that God was 81 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: going to use me and do something special for me. 82 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: She said, I even told our committee. She was on 83 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 2: the committee. The Methodist Church has a lot of committees. 84 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 2: They have committees on committees. For God so loved the 85 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 2: world that he did not send a committee, but Aunt 86 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 2: Jackie was on all the committees, and the Flower committee 87 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 2: and the Chair committee. She said, I told the committee 88 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 2: that you wouldn't be here much longer, that this was 89 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 2: the church that you were raised in, but that God 90 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 2: was going to use you for other things, and we 91 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: need to let you go when God calls you, because 92 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: he's going to use you, and you're going to speak 93 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 2: and she was saying all these things to me, and 94 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: again I had been only. 95 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: A Christian for a short time, so I was encouraged 96 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: by it. 97 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 2: Then she shifted gears and she went into this real 98 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: serious mode and she was like, but the devil, the 99 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 2: devil doesn't like you, and he wants to use you 100 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 2: as target practice, bring you down. 101 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: As God he's raising you up. So she told me don't. 102 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: This is the Southern way to say. 103 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 2: First Peter five six, which says humble yourself under God's 104 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 2: mighty hands. 105 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: She said, don't get too big for you. It's a 106 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: Charlotte thing. 107 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: You know. We're regional national church now, so I have 108 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: to tell him don't get too big for your breeches 109 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: and keep yourself low so God can raise you up high. 110 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: And she told me that because she said, the devil 111 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: is after you. 112 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 2: He does not like the passion that you have for God, 113 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: and he's after you. 114 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: And I'm glad she. 115 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 2: Told me that second part because I don't know if 116 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 2: a lot of Christians get told that second part. And 117 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: so I thought I would join in with Peter, who 118 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 2: said you're enemy. The devil roars like a lion looking 119 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 2: for someone he can eat. Alive, looking for a family, 120 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 2: he can tear apart. Looking for a future, he can 121 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 2: ruin before it even has a chance to get started. 122 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,679 Speaker 2: Looking for a church, he can divide, looking for a nation, 123 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 2: He can divide looking for an addiction. 124 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: He can plant in. 125 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 2: The heart of a fourteen year old so that they'll 126 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 2: never live a normal adult life. The devil is busy, 127 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 2: The devil is active. 128 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: She told me. 129 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 2: And the interesting thing about it is she was saying 130 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 2: that to me, I think because she thought God was 131 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: calling me to preach. But you don't have to be 132 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 2: a preacher to have a bull's eye on your back. 133 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: In fact, I want you to write. 134 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: Something down for me. 135 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: If you care anything at all about your future, your family, 136 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 2: or your faith, write this down. The birthmark of a 137 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 2: believer is a bulls eye. Peter is here to teach 138 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: us that we are born again into a living hope. 139 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 2: But as you are born into a living hope, you 140 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 2: are also born into an eternal struggle and a very 141 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 2: real battle. 142 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: The day that you become one with Christ the enemy. Now, 143 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: I want to be careful here because this is what 144 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: we do. 145 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: Sometimes we get way too carried away about all the 146 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: stuff that the devil. 147 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: Does you know. 148 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: Someone will say, well, I've just been under it. Let 149 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: me get my white girl boye on. I've just been 150 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 2: under attack lately. So like lately, I see like the 151 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: devil's been attacking me and so much, and it's just 152 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: like so Bad's like my mom and my dad and everybody, 153 00:07:58,120 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 2: like my teachers and everything. 154 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: And like my iPhone. 155 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: I was charging in it the other day and I've 156 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: charged I know, I charged it overnight, but then I. 157 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: Woke up and it was dead, and it's just the 158 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: devil knows your charger. It wasn't the devil. 159 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 2: People on my job, they just hate me because I'm 160 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 2: a Christian. 161 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm just under attack. My boss doesn't like me. I'm 162 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: just under attack. 163 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: Right now, I know you're not under attack, you're underperforming. 164 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 2: Your boss doesn't like you because you're not doing a 165 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: very good job commensurate with the paycheck, that they haven't 166 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 2: trusted to you. But yet there are those times, and 167 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 2: there are those seasons where you just get a sense 168 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 2: that I feel like I'm under attack. 169 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: And it's something only Christians say. It's not something you 170 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: would say if. 171 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 2: You didn't believe in God, because you wouldn't believe in 172 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 2: the devil, so you would just say everything's falling apart 173 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: or whatever. But do you remember when President Bush was 174 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: reading to the elementary school class, and there's a famous 175 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 2: picture of his chief of staff and to go up 176 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: to him while he's reading a book and say to 177 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: the President, the second plane hit the second tower on 178 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: nine to eleven, and he said America is under attack. 179 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 2: And he told the President that, according to his account 180 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 2: and his record after the fact, he said America is underattack. 181 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 2: Peter is walking up to a church under attack and 182 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 2: speaking to them on a personal level. 183 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: I want you to know. 184 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: That you're under attack now, just the preacher, because people 185 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,479 Speaker 2: will come up to me all the time and say. 186 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: I'm praying for your preacher. I know the devil wants 187 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: to take you out. 188 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 2: Well, I look right back at him and say, well, 189 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray for you too. Write your name down, 190 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 2: because he'll take whoever he can get. He's after construction 191 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 2: workers and sophomores in high school and stay at home 192 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: moms and attorneys, prowling around like a roaring lion looking 193 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: for someone to devour. 194 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: And I wonder, is it you? 195 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 2: I wonder is that you he's been after with thoughts 196 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 2: that repeat themselves over and over again in your mind, 197 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 2: thoughts of worklessness or thoughts of anxiety. This seems to 198 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 2: be Peter's primary focus is that the attack of the 199 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: enemy often manifests itself in an overwhelming sense of anxiety. 200 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: I know this is the manifestation of the attack, for 201 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 2: if it were not the manifestation of the attack, Peter 202 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 2: would not singularly lift it in verse seven as the 203 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 2: focal point of his admonition to the church under attack. 204 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: I feel like teaching today. Are you ready to learn? 205 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 2: Give me about thirty minutes, because you're under attack, and 206 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 2: there are some things you need to know about this attack. 207 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 2: The good news is it is not an ambush. Peter 208 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 2: says that the devil is like a roaring lion. That 209 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 2: means he gives you a warning before the warfare begins. 210 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 2: And so sometimes we act really surprised by things that 211 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: we go through and ways that we struggle, and we've 212 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 2: come into situations that are harder than we expected them 213 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 2: to be, and we ask God to do great things 214 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 2: in our lives. But the battle begins and we act 215 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 2: like we weren't warned. No, Peter said, this lion. The 216 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 2: devil is not silent. He's a rule. 217 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: Come on, give me your best roar. I've never done 218 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: this before. 219 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: I've done a lot of touch your neighbors, but somebody 220 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:39,599 Speaker 2: roar at your neighbors. 221 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 1: Saying, devil's all up in your face. 222 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: He'll let you know is coming. 223 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: And what you need to know if you are under attack. 224 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: And I will not have you. 225 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 2: Raise your hand because perhaps the very people who need 226 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 2: this message the most would be the most reluctant to 227 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: admit that this is for me. But he said, when 228 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 2: you find yourself in a season of attack, that roaring 229 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 2: lion is in your face. 230 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: Now, I'm thinking right here, Peter is gonna. 231 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 2: Say run, because to me, that's the only reasonable advice 232 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 2: when you're faced with the roaring lion. Hello, I don't 233 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: even like dogs very much. Holly's scared of rats. Can 234 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: you imagine if she saw a lion. But he doesn't 235 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 2: say rhyme. Instead, he challenges us to resist. And it's 236 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 2: a certain type of resistance because he says, to those 237 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 2: who are under attack, you need to come under the 238 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 2: mighty hand of God. I want you to see that 239 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 2: phrase because it touched me so deeply in my study. 240 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 2: I was hoping to explain it to you for a 241 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 2: moment today. The three things that the hand of God represents. 242 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 2: This is verse six. Humble yourself under the mighty hand 243 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 2: of God, an image that would have been familiar for 244 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: a Jewish audience, for it was with a mighty hand 245 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 2: and an outstretched arm that God brought his people out 246 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 2: of Egyptian slavery. And Peter wants him to know that 247 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 2: same hand of God that has been actively fulfilling his 248 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 2: purpose throughout human history is still reigning over your life. 249 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 2: Humble yourself under that mighty hand. The hand of God 250 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 2: represents his plan. I don't know about you, but I'm 251 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 2: thankful that God's plan for my life has prevailed, even 252 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: against my own plan that I thought was better Sometimes. 253 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 2: How many are grateful for the hand of God. If 254 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 2: you're grateful for the hand of God, just wave your 255 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 2: hand at me. God's hand is not like your hand. 256 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 2: It's an invisible hand. You can't see it, but you 257 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 2: definitely know the effects of it when it moves, because 258 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: after you've lived a little while, Peter said, I saw 259 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 2: what happens in the hand of God, the plan of God. 260 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: I saw what happens. 261 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 2: See, Peter is not writing this as advice unsolicited, And 262 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 2: he's not writing this as advice uninformed. Peter is a 263 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 2: grown man now, a grown Christian man, now getting a 264 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 2: little polder about relaying his advice from his experiences. And 265 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: who better to tell us about the hand of God 266 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 2: than a man who walked with Jesus Christ in the flesh. 267 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 2: Who better to describe to us the function of the 268 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: hand of God than the one who saw his face. 269 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 2: Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. 270 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 2: Peter didn't just trace the hand of God. He saw 271 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 2: the face of God. And now he says, to those 272 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 2: who were under attack, up under depression, up under disappointment, 273 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 2: dealing with failure, hit rock bottom, don't know what's next, 274 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 2: freaking out, crying yourself to sleep at night, feeling all alone, 275 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: he says, to every believer, You've got the upper hand. 276 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 2: The hand of God is mighty, the hand of God 277 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 2: is strong, The hand of God is over your life. 278 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: You will prevail. His purpose will come to pass, for 279 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: I know the plans I have. 280 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 2: For you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you, not 281 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 2: to harm your plans to give you hope in a future. 282 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 2: And if you find yourself under attack today, you need 283 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: to know that the hand of God is guiding you, 284 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 2: leading you that same hand to split the sea open 285 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: so as people could walk right through it. The hand 286 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: of God will make a way where there is no way. 287 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 2: The hand of God will bring a rock a water 288 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 2: out of a rock in. 289 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: A dry place. 290 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: The hand of God is over your life, and he 291 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: has a plan, plan, the plan of God. The hand 292 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 2: of God represents the plan of God. The hand of 293 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 2: God represents the provision of God. These all start with 294 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: the letter P because that's what I do, the provision 295 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: of God. And who better to remind the church that 296 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 2: is under attack or a believer who is under attack 297 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 2: that the hand of God is the place where bread 298 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 2: multiplies than the one who saw five thousand fed with 299 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 2: just a few loads and a few fish. Anytime you 300 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 2: see seeing a skid snackpack from Captain D's multiplied into 301 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 2: a buffet, you know something about the provision in the 302 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 2: hand of God. And Peter was right there, and he 303 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: saw what happened when they put the bread in Jesus' hand, 304 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 2: and so he knew that at times where you feel 305 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 2: like you're in a place of lack, that your provision 306 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 2: is never dependent upon your own ability to provide for 307 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: yourself or your own ability to create resource for yourself. 308 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 2: But anything you put in the hand of God will multiply. 309 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: Anything you put in the hand of God will multiply. 310 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 2: Anything you put in the hand of. 311 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: God, it just keeps coming, It just keeps coming. Don't 312 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: have any witnesses. 313 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 2: You've been through some hard times in your life, but 314 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: hope kept coming. You've been in some tight places, you 315 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 2: felt like you were running out, you didn't feel like 316 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: you could make it to the next day. But somehow, 317 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 2: blakeney strength kept coming, surely kept comming. Tomorrow kept coming 318 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: in spite of your past. Because the hand of God 319 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: is a hand of provision, and it's a hand of protection. 320 00:16:58,680 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: God has me in his grip. 321 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 2: Who better to help me see that the hand of 322 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 2: God will protect me than the one who tried to 323 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 2: walk on water the end of the Bible. Go study 324 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: this story in Matthew chapter fourteen, where Peter got out there. 325 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 2: He's trying to make his way to Jesus. He's coming 326 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 2: toward him, and about the time he gets there. Because 327 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: sometimes it's right when you're on the verge that you 328 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 2: start to sink. I never saw it before. Can I 329 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 2: take a moment? Okay, I'm gonna take a moment. You 330 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 2: said I could in Matthew chapter fourteen, because I was 331 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 2: just gonna mention it. But you act like you came 332 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,239 Speaker 2: to here preaching today. I don't know what's happened at 333 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 2: University City, but there's some hungry people for the bread 334 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 2: of life. 335 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: At Valentine. 336 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 2: It says that Peter in the storm, got out of 337 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 2: the boat, and when he walked out on the water, 338 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:49,959 Speaker 2: he did pretty good. 339 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: Watched this. He came toward Jesus. 340 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 2: Y'all got that scripture of Matthew fourteen. He came toward Jesus, 341 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: but when he saw the wind, he was afraid and 342 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 2: beginning to sink. Cried out, Lord save me. So he 343 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 2: cries out before he goes completely under. So he's sinking, 344 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 2: but he's not sunk. He's going down, but he's not out. 345 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,479 Speaker 2: The lion is prowling, but he has not prevailed. You 346 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 2: follow me, Watch this, says one I never saw. Verse 347 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 2: thirty one says that immediately that's the word, Jesus reached. 348 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: Out his. 349 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 2: Do it again immediately, Jesus reached out his Immediately Jesus 350 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 2: reached out his hand. 351 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: Noticed the construct of the narrative. Jesus is not walking 352 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: toward Peter. Peter is walking toward Jesus. 353 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 2: When Jesus sees Peter falling and hears him crying, he 354 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,959 Speaker 2: reaches out his hand, and Peter is close enough for 355 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 2: Jesus to reach. 356 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: The problem with some of us, isn't. 357 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 2: That we're sinking, is that we won't stay close enough. 358 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 2: Come on for God to get us in his grip. 359 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: But I came to. 360 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 2: Announce to that lion today, that liar the devil, that 361 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 2: I'm in his script, even when I'm going down, even 362 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 2: though the winds and the waves are roaring and raging 363 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 2: in my life, I'm in this script. 364 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 1: Somebody said, I'm in his script. 365 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 2: I'm in his gript. God's got me in his grip. 366 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 2: He's got me in his grip. He's got me in 367 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 2: the hand of his protection. He might let me suffer 368 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 2: a little while, but he won't let me stay there. 369 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: He is my God, and I'm in his hand. Humble 370 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: yourself under the mighty hand of God. 371 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 2: Doesn't matter how well you can walk on water matters 372 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: how close you are to his hand. Doesn't matter about 373 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 2: your intelligence. It matters about your surrender. It doesn't matter 374 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 2: about your ability. It matters about your surrender. Humble yourself. 375 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 2: I'm preaching to somebody. I'm preaching to somebody so straight 376 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 2: you can't even no. You're trying to hold back tears. 377 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 2: But God sent a preacher with a message. You might 378 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 2: as well go ahead and cry out, Lord, save me. 379 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 2: I can't do this on my own. I am not 380 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 2: enough by myself. 381 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: Humble yourself. 382 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 2: Under the mighty hand of God. He'll lift you up 383 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 2: and do time. He'll get you up. He'll lift you 384 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 2: up and do time. He'll let you go down low 385 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 2: enough to know that you need him, and bring you 386 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 2: up high enough to let the. 387 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: World know that he's with you. Come on, come on, 388 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 1: come on. 389 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 2: Verse seven is what I've been trying to practice, that 390 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 2: I can be under attack and not anxious. Cast all 391 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 2: your anxiety on him. He cares for you, and trying 392 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 2: to do that because I felt like after Codorin's revival, 393 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 2: I felt like I went under an emotional attack, and 394 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 2: I don't even know that I'm still out of it yet. 395 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: Part of it is probably because. 396 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 2: Of adrenaline and physiology factors that have to do with 397 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 2: getting up ten nights in a row, and all of 398 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,919 Speaker 2: the hosting of trying to put up with guests for 399 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 2: ten nights make them feel special. 400 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: Part of it, though, had to be spiritual. 401 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 2: And. 402 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:18,880 Speaker 1: It was like for ten nights. 403 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 2: If you weren't here in our church, you know you 404 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 2: basically missed out on life by not coming to Code 405 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 2: Orange survival. But not only did our city go through 406 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 2: a shaking after the revival, I went through a shake 407 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 2: in And I don't want to get up here and 408 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 2: use you for a counseling appointment because I don't want 409 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 2: to have to. 410 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: Pay your hourly fear or anything like that. 411 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 2: And I don't want you to worry about me because 412 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 2: I promise you I'm good and I love my wife 413 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 2: and my kids and we're good and everything like that. 414 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: Don't send me these emails. We're praying for you, pastor. 415 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 2: That's not the reason I'm telling you this, And it'll 416 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 2: make me feel like you missed the point if you 417 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 2: send me an email. 418 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: I don't want a cart or anything like that. 419 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 2: Flowers cookies trying to get me fat on carbohydrates because 420 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 2: you think I'm struggling. 421 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: I don't want anything. I don't need any of that. 422 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: I just want to say something. 423 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 2: While we were in here talking about ten nights, ten years, 424 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 2: celebrating ten years, I felt overwhelmed about do I have 425 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 2: what it takes for the next ten And it's like, 426 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 2: once you've gone real high with God as a leader, 427 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 2: I think you feel a. 428 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: Pressure to go higher. 429 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 2: But then it's kind of hard because you feel like 430 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 2: maybe you've gone as high as you can go. And 431 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 2: maybe you feel that way as a parent, not as 432 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 2: a preacher. Maybe you feel that way in your business. 433 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 2: And I don't know I'm preaching to but I'm gonna 434 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 2: open myself up here a little bit for you today 435 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 2: if it'll be helpful. 436 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 1: Because anxiety attacked me and it hit me kind of hard. 437 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 2: And I wasn't staying in the bed or anything like that, 438 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 2: but I didn't go get addicted to something, some kind 439 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,479 Speaker 2: of pills or anything like that, but it was a 440 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 2: thing in my mind. 441 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: You don't have what it takes. I don't have what 442 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: it takes. I can't do you know, I. 443 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 2: As far as I can take them, I don't know 444 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 2: if I'm the one to do it. 445 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: And all this stuff that was going through my mind. 446 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 2: That's how I got over the first Peter chapter five, 447 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: because I know that scripture. 448 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: I love that scripture. That scripture has helped me before. 449 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 2: And sometimes when you are up against the fight, you 450 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 2: got to go back to a weapon that you know. 451 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 2: I can't fight Goliath in this armor. I got to 452 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: get a slingshot. So it was kind of like just 453 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 2: a well known verse. And I went back in there 454 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 2: and considered the context of Peter who fell asleep in 455 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 2: the garden of Gethsemane while he was supposed to be 456 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 2: watching Jesus back. Jesus came over to him, gave him 457 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 2: two wake up calls. He hit this snooze button three times? 458 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 2: Are you still sleeping? And I looked at how Peter 459 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 2: was telling the church to be alert, which is translated 460 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 2: elsewhere in the New Testament. Be prayerful, the enemy eats 461 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 2: Christians who sleep in times of. 462 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: Battle, be alert to what's going on. 463 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 2: Realize that the birthmark of a believer is a bull's eye. 464 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: The devil doesn't like it one bit. That you're moving 465 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: forward in your relationship with God. 466 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 2: I started taking the verse apart because the word of 467 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 2: God really is while I live by, not just while 468 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 2: I make my living off of So I went into 469 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 2: verse seven real hard, like I needed an answer. When 470 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 2: anxiety attacks, it'll drive you to seek God, to seek 471 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 2: his hand. And I was looking for him because he 472 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 2: said cast all your anxiety. 473 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: While I was reading it. 474 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 2: Since I knew Peter wrote it, and he's a fisherman, 475 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 2: I wondered, was he picturing like casting the nets from 476 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 2: one side of the boat to the other, just because 477 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 2: Jesus told him to Sometimes anxiety in our life. 478 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: As a result of our unwillingness to be obedient. 479 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,360 Speaker 2: And when he casts the net to the other side, 480 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 2: maybe that's a word for somebody. He said, cast all 481 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 2: your anxiety on him. 482 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: Do it his way. Now, we fished all night and 483 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: caught nothing, Peter. 484 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 2: Said, But because you say so, I'm gonna cast my 485 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 2: net on the other side. 486 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: I've been trying to do this my way. 487 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 2: I've been trying to handle it on my own. But 488 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 2: ask my net on the other side. 489 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: However, it was in verse five and six that I 490 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: found my answer. 491 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 2: For In verse five he says, in the same way, 492 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 2: you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. 493 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: All of you clothe Greek word tie on, tie on. 494 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 2: That's not the Greek, that's the translation of the Greek 495 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 2: word tie it on like a towel, like Jesus did 496 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 2: when he took on the role of a servant, and 497 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: he got a towel, a servant's towel, and he put 498 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 2: it around his waist. And when Peter saw him tying 499 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 2: on that towel, he said, no, you don't tie. 500 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: On the towel, Jesus, you sit on the throne. But 501 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 1: Jesus tied on the towel. 502 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 2: And I wonder, as Peter is telling them to clothe 503 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 2: themselves in humility, is he having a flashback of the 504 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 2: Savior who laid his riches and glory aside and made 505 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 2: himself nothing found in the appearance of sinful man, and 506 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 2: became a humbling himself, even to death on the cross. 507 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: As he tied on the towel and washed Peter's feet, 508 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 2: Peter's response, no, Lord, you can't wash my feet, Peter said. 509 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 2: Jesus said, Peter, shut up. That's not the exact conversation, 510 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 2: but it's the essence of it. 511 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: And he did what he came to do. 512 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 2: The son of men came not to be served, but 513 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 2: to serve and to give his life a ransom for men. 514 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: But maybe my biggest problem was the fact that I 515 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: always thought that verse seven put it on the screen 516 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 2: police was the instruction where you say, cast all your 517 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 2: cares on him, because he cares for you. Your anxiety's 518 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 2: on him, because he cares for you. You know, you 519 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 2: go to the word of God sometimes and you try 520 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 2: to pluck up these little promises and try to do 521 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 2: stuff and just by like that verse that verse. But 522 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 2: back up and catch the essence of the text verse six, 523 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 2: Humble yourself therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may 524 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 2: lift you up in due time, cast all your anxiety 525 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 2: on him. 526 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: He cares for you. 527 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 2: To really understand the essence and profundity of the connection, 528 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 2: you need to see a more literal translation of verses 529 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: six and seven, because Peter is writing this letter in 530 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: Cooin a Greek in the Greek language. 531 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: As Peter is writing this letter, as you. 532 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 2: Will see demonstrated in verses six and seven, these are 533 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 2: not two separate sentences. It reads like this, humble yourselves 534 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 2: therefore under the mighty end of God, so that at 535 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 2: the proper time He may exalt you watch his comma. 536 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 2: What happens next is predicated on whether or not what 537 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 2: happens in verse six is applied. 538 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 1: In Greek. It is one sentence, humble. 539 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 2: Yourself therefore under God's mighty hand, that he may exalt 540 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 2: you in due time. Watch this, casting all your anxiety 541 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 2: on him because he cares for you. See. I've been 542 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 2: trying to cast my anxieties and keep my pride. But 543 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 2: the thing about it is you need to know that 544 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 2: the pride and the anxiety come in the same package. 545 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 2: So if you insist on doing it your way, then 546 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 2: expect to feel like. 547 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: The weight of the world is on your shoulders because 548 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: it is. 549 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 2: You can't just do verse seven because you decide to God. 550 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: Take it off me. God, take it off me. Take 551 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: I'm so worried. God, make me not worried anymore. Or 552 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: don't you care if we perish? 553 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 2: That's what Peter said one time in the boat. 554 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: Don't you care that we're drowning? Don't you care? Don't 555 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: you God? Don't you? 556 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: You said, cast all my anxieties on you. 557 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: I'm casting them. I'm casting them. This doesn't work. 558 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 2: See look at the word anxiety, because I'm telling the 559 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 2: Lord in my in my prayers. I don't know if 560 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 2: I can do it, and I don't know if I 561 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: can do it, And I just need you to give 562 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 2: me a sign that I can take the church for 563 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 2: it in the next ten years. 564 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: And I just need to D D take this anxiety. 565 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: I'm casting it on you, Lord. I am casting it 566 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: on you, all of my anxiety. And after I prayed 567 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: this way for a little while, the Lord spoke to 568 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: me in my heart. Now this is not an out 569 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: loud conversation. 570 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 2: I want you to think I'm really, really crazy, but 571 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 2: this is the impression that I got. 572 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: The Lord said, are you done? Now? Shut up, Peter done. 573 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 2: Now look at the word anxiety. Look at how it's 574 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 2: spelled in English. Look at what is in the center 575 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: of the word. 576 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: Do you see it? 577 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 2: Show them on the screen, at the center of your 578 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 2: anxiety if you really trace it. I'm not talking about 579 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 2: a medical condition. 580 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: I'm not a pharmacist. I don't know about all that. 581 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: I am not a neurologist. I'm saying spiritually. 582 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 2: Speaking that the Lord told me, at the center of 583 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: your anxiety is your pride. The reason that you're so 584 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 2: anxious is because you've got you at the center, and 585 00:30:50,520 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 2: you can't sustain it because it's not your throne. I mean, 586 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 2: even listen to your language. The Lord said, I don't 587 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 2: know if I have what it takes. I don't know 588 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: if I can do it. I don't know if I 589 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 2: can make it. If I have, I have, I have, 590 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 2: I have, I have, I have. 591 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: I ah A A I. You can't spell anxiety without eye. 592 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: It's right in the middle. And you know what other 593 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: word I is in the middle of pride. 594 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 2: And maybe the reason that you've been carrying carrying anxiety 595 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 2: that you can't get rid of is because you've been 596 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: bearing weight that you weren't meant to bear. You better 597 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:45,959 Speaker 2: humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, because if 598 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 2: you stay weight down with pride, you're going to be 599 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 2: waved down with anxiety and God can't lift you up. 600 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 2: I don't know if I have what it takes to 601 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 2: make it through the next ten years, God said to me, 602 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 2: did you have what it took to get through the 603 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 2: first ten? 604 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: Boy? 605 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 2: You better cast your net on the other side. You 606 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 2: better call out to me in the time of the 607 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 2: storm and humble yourself, casting all your anxiety on him. 608 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 2: See it's not a command to cast your anxiety on him. 609 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: It's a result. 610 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 2: The command is to humble yourself under His mighty hand, 611 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 2: and when you do, the anxiety. 612 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: Goes with the pride. If you would get. 613 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 2: Yourself out of the center and get God on the 614 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 2: throne and lift your hands to him and say, I 615 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 2: need you, Lord, I'm a sinful man. Can't step without you, 616 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: can't breathe without you, can't eat without you, can't pray 617 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 2: without you, can't parent without you, can't preach without you, 618 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: can't work without you, can't live without you. 619 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: No peace without you, no joy without you. God. 620 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 2: Now I'm ready to lift you up above the wind, 621 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 2: above the waves, above your pride. My mom lost eighty 622 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 2: pounds over the course of two years. 623 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: Eighty pounds. 624 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 2: That's like an Elijah and one fourth of an Abbey. 625 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: Eighty pounds. Eighty pounds. That's about how much you curl 626 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: with one arm. Eighty pounds. But you know what was weird. 627 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: She didn't just lose weight. 628 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 2: See, my mom had bad knees and a bad back. 629 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 2: In fact, I wanted to give my mom the house 630 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 2: that we lived in when we moved into another house, 631 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 2: but she couldn't take it because it had stairs. 632 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 1: She said, I can't. 633 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 2: I would love to live in that house, but the 634 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 2: bedroom is upstairs and I can't climb the stairs. 635 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: You know what's a weird thing, though, Because she would 636 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: go to the doctor. 637 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 2: About her knees and the doctor about her back, and 638 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 2: my back and my knees, I got bad knees and 639 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 2: got a bad back. 640 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: When the weight came off, the pain went with it. 641 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 2: I always shook a see her today, she is like 642 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 2: an Olympic rower. 643 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,359 Speaker 1: Do you remember the social network. 644 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 2: The Winklevoss When she was she's she rose. How much 645 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 2: does she roll? Fifteen thousand meters a day? 646 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm making this up, but. 647 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 2: She rose a lot, and she can climb the stairs, 648 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 2: and she can dance, and she's lively. It wasn't her knees, 649 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 2: it was the weight. Is the reason that you're so 650 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 2: anxious because of your pride? Maybe the anxiety is the 651 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 2: fruit and the pride is the root. If you would 652 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,759 Speaker 2: pluck it up by the root, the fruit couldn't grow. 653 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,720 Speaker 2: Get yourself out the center. Get yourself out the center. 654 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,359 Speaker 2: Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. 655 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,720 Speaker 1: Well what if I look stupid? 656 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 2: Some of you are about to try something right now 657 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,720 Speaker 2: that you never tried before. 658 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: What if I look stupid, I got good news for you. 659 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 2: Everybody else is thinking about themselves, not you, so they 660 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 2: won't even notice. 661 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: But if I ay, ay ay ay. Who better to 662 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: teach us about humility than Peter? Huh. 663 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 2: He was sitting around the table having dinner with Jesus 664 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 2: one time. Jesus said, all of you are going to 665 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 2: fall away. Look what Peter said? What's that other verse 666 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,120 Speaker 2: I gave you Mark fourteen? I think I gave that 667 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 2: to them this morning. Yeah, because the Lord was speaking 668 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 2: to me. I appreciate this message one time before, but 669 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,439 Speaker 2: the Lord was speaking to me about it for this 670 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 2: particular group, and he reminded me what Peter. 671 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: Said when Jesus said, you. 672 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 2: Know, you're all going to hit rock bottle, Because sometimes 673 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 2: the only way for you to find your foundation is 674 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 2: to hit rock bottom. Sometimes that's the best place to 675 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 2: build from. Sometimes that's the best place to lead from. 676 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,800 Speaker 2: Sometimes that's the best place to be a better husband from. 677 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 2: Is the place of Lord save me. Not call me 678 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 2: to come and I'll come, but Lord save me. And 679 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,399 Speaker 2: then the hand of God gets involved. But Peter didn't 680 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 2: know this, and so he sitting around the table. 681 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 3: He says, Uh, even if all fall away, I will not, 682 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 3: I will not. 683 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,839 Speaker 2: I will not, Jesus said, before the rooster even gets 684 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 2: his second crow out of his mouth, You're gonna be 685 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 2: telling people you don't even know me. 686 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened. And Jesus warned Peter of 687 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 1: the attack. 688 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 2: And sometimes we don't listen and we don't hear, so 689 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,440 Speaker 2: we're surprised when it comes and we act like this, 690 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,879 Speaker 2: We act like it's an ambush when it's when it's 691 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 2: really it's really normal. 692 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: It's normal to be attacked. It's normal, Jesus told Peter. 693 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 2: Satan has asked for all of you, and specifically, he's 694 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,319 Speaker 2: asked for you to sift you as we to sort 695 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 2: out what's real from what's not real. But I pray 696 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 2: for you, Peter. I pray for you, Peter. You're gonna fail, Peter, 697 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 2: but I'm not. You are shaky at best, Peter, but 698 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 2: I am a solid rock at the bottom of your failure. 699 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: I pray for you, Peter. 700 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 2: And now, Peter writes decades later, to a church under attack, 701 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 2: humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. 702 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: For your enemy the devil. What's he like. 703 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,160 Speaker 2: He's like a roaring lion. He's looking for somebody to devour. 704 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 2: He's looking for somebody who he can shred to pieces 705 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 2: with doubt and fear and selfishness. 706 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: He's looking for somebody that he can get to walk away. 707 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 2: And as a pastor, I'm just sick of having to 708 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,960 Speaker 2: make phone calls and visits for people every week who 709 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 2: are being devoured by the enemy. So Peter says, this 710 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,879 Speaker 2: is a time for resistance. This is not a time 711 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 2: for you to run. This is a time for you 712 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 2: to resist. Yeah, but he's a lion, Okay. He is 713 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 2: a lion, and he might be licking his lips, and 714 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,360 Speaker 2: his fangs might be sharp, and he might have you 715 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,360 Speaker 2: in his sight, and you might have failed, and you 716 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 2: might have done it, and you might be going down. 717 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: But you need to know. 718 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,800 Speaker 2: One thing about this lion, Peter says, is that after 719 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:58,080 Speaker 2: you have suffered a little while, God himself will step 720 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 2: in and restoy you and make you strong. He's a lion, 721 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,880 Speaker 2: but the lion is on a leash. He can only 722 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 2: go so far, he can only do so much. He 723 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 2: can't keep you down forever. Humble yourself under the hand 724 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,480 Speaker 2: of God. And in due time, come on. 725 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: This is somebody's still tied. This is it. 726 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 2: Anxiety stops here, Depression stops here. 727 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 1: There stops here. 728 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 2: In due time, he will lift you up. Feel the 729 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,359 Speaker 2: hand of God reaching down for somebody today you've been 730 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 2: going down. If it's you, lift your hand. If this 731 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,320 Speaker 2: you lift your hand. If this message was straight to you, 732 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,680 Speaker 2: stand up on your feet. 733 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: Lift both your hands in the air. 734 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 2: If this message was straight to you, straight to you, 735 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,600 Speaker 2: straight to your heart, straight to what you've been dealing with, 736 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,760 Speaker 2: straight to the battle you've been fighting. 737 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 1: Lift your hands. God. 738 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 2: We thank you for your hand of favor, your hand 739 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 2: of provision, your hand of protection, your hand of power, 740 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 2: your hand of purpose. We humble ourselves under your hand today. 741 00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 2: We know that the lion is loud, but we know 742 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,360 Speaker 2: that the suffering won't last long. It is not worthy 743 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 2: to be compared with the glory that will be revealed 744 00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 2: to us. 745 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:25,839 Speaker 1: So we look it in. 746 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 2: The face today and we declare the name of Jesus 747 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 2: is greater. The name of Jesus is higher. You have 748 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,239 Speaker 2: all power in your hand, all authority on heaven and 749 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,439 Speaker 2: an earth has been given to you. Now lift your 750 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 2: people God, Lift your people. Lift your people, as we 751 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 2: lift you up in this place. Lift their heads, God, 752 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:54,880 Speaker 2: lift their heads. Fry their tears, calm their hearts. Speak 753 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 2: to the storm, and the storm will cease. 754 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: We declare in the name of Jesus, this is our 755 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 1: due time. 756 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 2: Trouble won't last always, and the enemies that we're afraid 757 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 2: of today will be our testimonies in our tomorrow. 758 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. The enemies that you fear today. 759 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 2: Will be your testimony of triumph in your tomorrow. God said, 760 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 2: it's just a little while. The God who has called 761 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:46,560 Speaker 2: you into his eternal glory what lasts forever. After you've 762 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 2: suffered a little while, he himself will restore you. 763 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,400 Speaker 1: Peter said, I know about it because I've been there. 764 00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 1: I've had me at the center. Was so bad. I 765 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: didn't know if I could ever bounce back. 766 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,480 Speaker 2: I went back to my fishing business because I figured 767 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,520 Speaker 2: God didn't have any more use for me. 768 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 1: But when I was going down, that's where I found 769 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 1: his hand. When I was going down, that's when he 770 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:16,400 Speaker 1: reached out to me. 771 00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,400 Speaker 2: Just when it looked like the lion had me in 772 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 2: his sights, That's when the God of all Grace, the 773 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,279 Speaker 2: God of all provision, the God of all power. Do 774 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 2: I have a witness that immediately he reached down and 775 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:32,719 Speaker 2: picked you up. 776 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: Come on, Let's. 777 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,359 Speaker 2: Call on his name, Tonate, Let's call on his name, 778 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,359 Speaker 2: Savior of the world. 779 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:56,319 Speaker 1: Call on his name, see Jesus, to thank you for 780 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:57,000 Speaker 1: joining us. 781 00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 782 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,320 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 783 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,239 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 784 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information 785 00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,879 Speaker 2: and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 786 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,600 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 787 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,200 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 788 00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,359 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 789 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,239 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 790 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:27,320 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.