WEBVTT - When God Says Stop! 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:04.560 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.040 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.399 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.480 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.440 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.960 Say amen, somebody, y'all are going to have to say 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.680 it real loud today because you know, it's normally pretty 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.520 quiet at the nine thirty at Valentine anyway, usually at 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.199 nine thirty. I don't know about our Gaston campus or 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.720 University City or Roanoke, but at this building usually they 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.640 are not caffeinated. The Holy Spirit doesn't kick in until 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.240 about ten to fifteen Eastern Standard time. But it's real 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.480 quiet today, and so we're gonna need to We're gonna 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.720 need to make a connection. And the team here is 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.519 so smart. Le'm to smart. They are. Everybody say how 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.320 smart are they? Okay, here's how smart. They put up 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.760 a big screen where it's just and scrolling and scrolling, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.200 where I can see your names. But it's going so fast. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.280 Stop it for a second, just stop it can stop 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.800 it scrolling so fast? Can y'all see that this is 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.600 on YouTube, so I know Facebook and the Elevation app 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:17.360 and Roku and MySpace and no not MySpace. Okay, we're 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.200 using everything right now to reach people. Instagram, using all 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.319 of it, Dropbox, Napster. Can we put this sermon on Napster. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.160 We're just trying to get the word out. But anyway, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.920 I can see Travis P. Jackson, I can see rob 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.280 I can see Colin Lowe. I can just see your amends. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.880 Let it go again, let it scroll. This is amazing. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.520 Just go ahead and say I'm in in the chat, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.320 say I'm in. If you're watching this later on the archive, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.520 just put I'm in. I'm in, and do this for me. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.400 Tell me where your amen is coming from. I'm in 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:55.040 from from you know, Sweden. I'm in from Cowpins, South Carolina. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.200 From Sweden to South Carolina. Say I'm in, because I 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.400 notice different people say I'm indifferently. I got one dude 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.880 that sits in the back at nine point thirty. You 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.200 know who I'm talking about. You can't miss him when 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.520 he's here. He shouts at the weirdest times, and I 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.760 love him, but he shouts. He's country. He's a country Christian. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.200 Sounds like he grew up in the Baptist church or something. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.400 So when he says, somebody, do it real quick, how 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.280 does he do it? Almost sounds like you got hit 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.560 right there in the solar plexus hid in the spirit. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.280 But and then I remember when I first realized some 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.480 people say amen, Amen. And of course in every language, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.120 every tongue, the goal is for us to come into 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.680 agreement with God by faith. Faith is a language. And 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.440 so what we want to do together today is realize 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.280 that God is cross cultural, and God can reach from 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.480 heaven to earth. He can certainly reach through a screen. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.840 And I'm so thankful for the privilege to minister to 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.160 you today. Go ahead right now, and don't just say amen, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.800 but share with somebody the link to this sermon. We're 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.280 gonna we're gonna be here with you for the next 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.880 I might preach three or four hours. I haven't decided yet. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.000 And yeah, they're bringing out my table and my stool. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.200 I guess y'all can go sit down? I asked the 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.400 worship team. I was like, can y'all please stay on 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.360 the stage with me because it's going to be so 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.880 awkward if I'm just preaching by myself. So I said 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.240 I'll have them bring you a stool and maybe y'all 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:39.960 can just stay with me so it won't be so 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.120 lonely up here preaching. And I thought today you could 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.000 just populate, you could. You could come in and sit 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.200 right here. We're gonna we're gonna bring you into the auditorium. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.720 We're bringing church to you, and then you're gonna come. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.320 So tell me where you're coming from. We got India, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:02.800 South Africa, Philippine's Lakeland, Florida. Yeah, go a little slower, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.120 it's just so much. This one's going so fast. Let 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.560 me try to see it on my phone real quick. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.560 Where are y'all watching from? Because God is in the house. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.680 Somebody say God is in the house. God is in 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.159 the house. He is in this place. That's what Jacob 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.680 woke up and he said the Lord was in this 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.080 place and I was not aware. And sometimes we're looking 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.920 for God's presence and really all we need is more awareness. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.800 And so I pray that this can just be a 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.520 reminder to you today. I've got the YouTube app open 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.440 on my phone. I'm just trying to see who's watching, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.640 because I want to put you in the front row. Okay, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.960 Sometimes people come to church and they come late and 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.240 they get in overflow. Well, today you all get to 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.400 be in the front row. So this is kind of 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.440 cool because normally it would be Rick Parker and Sissy 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.840 right there, and then Holly and Amy and on down. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.279 Eric would be in the second row. Tom Layman would 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.840 be six rows back. So today let's see who's in 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:07.200 the house. From South Korea, China, Japan. Yeah, this is cool. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.440 So since we can't travel to be with one another 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.039 right now, we can just be with one another in 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.240 God's presence. There's no restrictions in his presence. I'm so 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.560 thankful to be with you today. Connecticut, tell me your 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.560 name too. It's kind of weird just calling you by 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.919 a state, Connecticut, you know, tell me your name and 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:33.640 where you're watching from. Okay, Danny from Jersey. There you go, Nepal, Ukraine, Jakarta, Texas, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.400 that's the whole country, from the nation of Texas. And 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.400 then where you're from, johnsl from the Promise. I'm going 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.279 to preach about the Promised Land in a minute. So 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.200 you like this one. This is good. And somebody was 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.880 saying to me, you know, this is not a time 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.240 to joke around the joy of The Lord is our strength. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.320 If we lose our joy, we've lost everything. That's our 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.839 immune system. That's how we that's how we fight against 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.560 what intimidates us. We keep our joy. So don't lose 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.400 your joy whatever you do. I know my jokes aren't 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.400 very good today, but I'm just gonna try my best. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.480 I told the Lord that our church would be here 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.400 to be used by him in this season, whatever that 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.640 looks like. And so even this week, the team was 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.120 over setting up some cameras in the basement of my house. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.920 I think they set up right in your living room, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.520 which freaked me out because your son, Joah is crazy. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.720 So they set up like an expensive camera and then 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.800 Joah is just running around around that camera. So let's 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.719 all pray right now, Jesus keep Joah from breaking elevation 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:44.640 Church's camera. Amen. It's already a bad economy. We don't 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.320 need to be replacing cameras right now. But the idea was, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.479 let's get in position. Somebody say, get in position. And 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.520 when I say somebody say, that means somebody tight. Somebody chat, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.560 somebody comment, get in position. And the Lord reveal to 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.680 me this week that we are positioned for a miracle 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.320 I know the world is a mess right now, and 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.480 I'm not trying to minimize that, and I certainly am 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:16.840 not trying to minimize the misery that many people are experiencing. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.520 But one of my professors, when I first went to cemetery, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:26.000 I mean seminary, that's an old joke. He wrote up 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.239 on the board inm and it stood for no Mess, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.520 no ministry, and he was trying to get us to 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.120 see that God does his greatest miracles in our biggest mess. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.720 And if that's true, then we're about to experience a 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.760 really big miracle. And in order to illustrate this today, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.680 I'm so excited to preach God's word. I have more 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.720 notes than I could ever get to today because I've 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.560 been trapped all week, just like you, and I've had 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.680 nothing to do but think about what I could speak 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.760 to help God's people, because there's only so much we 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.040 can do, you know, and we're all kind of at 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.920 a standstill and waiting to understand more. But while we wait, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.920 we can always worship, We can always stand on God's word, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.800 and we can always receive God's wisdom. And I wrote 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:20.360 those three ws down this week, Worship, Word, and Wisdom, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.920 the three things that will get us through any storm, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.840 and they'll start with the letter w www how appropriate 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.320 for an online streaming sermon. Www. Al Gore didn't invent it, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:37.640 God did, all right? Anyway, the miracle that I spent 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.640 significant time because I was going through this idea, your 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:46.240 position for a miracle, your position for a miracle. And 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.959 it seems to me that a lot of times what 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:55.120 we want is the miracle without the mess. Like that 0:08:55.280 --> 0:09:00.800 dude that needed his eyes open, he was blind, and 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.120 so Jesus' response to that was to spit in the 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:07.240 ground and make mud. I bet most of us would 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.840 have been like, no, thanks, I can manage. I mean, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.520 it'd be great to see. But if you're going to 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.480 have to, if you're going to have to spit in 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:20.000 order to accomplish this, would I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.840 Probably if I was in his same situation, I wouldn't 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.120 be willing to endure the spit to gain my sight. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.439 But a lot of times it's the things that we 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.240 want to avoid in our lives. And I'm going to 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.360 show you this from Joshua chapter three in a moment, 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.240 So go ahead and get that scripture locate it, Joshua, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.160 chapter three. I'm going to be in the new International 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.280 Version twenty eleven, the new version, And again, maybe you 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.559 want to share this message with somebody, because I believe 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:50.120 God has positioned us for a miracle. Your position for 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:56.320 a miracle. I know that's hard to believe, but desperation 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:04.320 is the setup for revle. Whenever we're familiar and we 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.080 kind of know what to do and we know what's 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.520 going on, faith can't grow. And so when we feel 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.960 fear in our lives, like I think every single one 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.520 of us does right now, it's not something to be rejected. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.160 It's something to be worked through. Okay. I know people say, well, 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.680 God has not given us a spirit of fear and 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.200 perfect love castel fear. I know those Bible verses too, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.760 but you have to understand that in God's gymnasium, like 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.960 fear is to our spirit what weights are to our muscles. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.840 And so when we feel fear, it gives us an 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.840 opportunity to exercise faith. And so God has brought us 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.000 into this moment together so we can share today, and 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.440 we're doing it online and all of that. But the 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.360 important thing about it is that we understand that we 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:57.360 are positioned for a miracle, and so I want to 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.400 share with you kind of one of my favorite miracles 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.080 that I tend to go to when things around me 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:08.200 are not feeling stable. You need a few staple scriptures, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.880 like some go to Bible verses that you can just 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.760 pull out when you don't have time to really think, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.400 just things you can pull out. I wonder, do you 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.360 have any of those staple scriptures just once they get 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.560 you through. Romans eight twenty eight has always been one 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.840 for me because it says all things work together for 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.439 the good of those who love God, and I used 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.440 to read it wrong for years. I thought it meant 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.360 everything was good, and so I preached a sermon when 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.720 I was really young called It's all Good for Romans 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.319 eight twenty eight. The Bible didn't say is all good. 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.000 What we're going through right now is not good. Disease 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.120 is not good. Somebody getting laid off from their job 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.479 is not good. It's said that all things work together 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.120 for the good when God gets involved. And so when 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.199 God gets involved, when when God steps into hopeless situations, 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.760 he positions us for miracles in the middle of a mess. Now, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.440 what I love about this miracle is that at the 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.760 same time that the nation of Israel was coming into 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.720 what we might say is their destiny, the Promised Land, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.880 like you mentioned a minute ago, John South, They're coming 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.080 into their destiny, but they experience it as a disruption. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.840 And I just want you to write those two words down. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.520 And if you still got the kids running around, you 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:26.960 need to send them out the room right now and 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.480 put it on e kid's YouTube because we've got something 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.480 to distract them. God knows that you do not need 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.800 another distraction right now. You need just forty five focused 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.960 minutes in the word of God. Can I get an 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.720 amen on the YouTube chat? And even if the chat 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.200 is distracting, you close it out because there is too 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.280 much distraction right now in some of our minds and 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.400 we can't even hear from God. So you know, the 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.680 other day I was preparing the sermon and the kids 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.920 were going back and forth, back and forth, and it 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.559 got louder louder, louder louder, and before I knew it, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.280 I heard him screaming at each other to shut up. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:06.880 You know, I'm a great man of God. I have 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.719 my house in order, my children obey the ways of 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.520 the Lord, and all that, But my kids don't walk 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.080 around quote Philippians four thirteen. My kids run around telling 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.360 each other to shut up. And so when it got 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.320 to a certain point, there is a certain point that 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.960 your kids can get to. And I'm gonna need a 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.679 real amen from a real parent on this one, not 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.440 some little halo polishen parent filter and stuff on Instagram 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.560 cropping stuff out and pretending like your house always looks 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.040 like that, but a real parent. All right, there comes 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.520 a moment where you've had enough. And I heard myself 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.319 scream this, even though it was very ironic. I said, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:44.480 stop screaming. Take a moment. Let that set in. I 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:49.280 screamed at the top of my lungs, stop screaming. And 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.000 it inspired me, honestly, because I was studying the text 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.960 and God showed me what to call this sermon today. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.600 Are you ready? I have a word from the Lord 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.000 for you. This message is called when God says stop, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.600 When God says stop, And that's what I want to 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.680 look at today. Somebody put in the chat say stop stop, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.400 stop stop. I mean, like you've had enough, Like you've 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:18.120 watched enough CNN, Fox News, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, every NBC 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.040 and so there comes a point where God says stop. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.120 And I thought it was interesting that although we see 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.840 this chapter in Scripture Joshua chapter three as the beginning 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.120 of the nation of Israel's entrance into their promise, the 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.360 promised land that God called them to occupy, it also 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.520 represented an ending of what they knew as normal. And 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.760 that's really profound if you think about it, because in 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.000 order for God to bring something new, he has to 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:55.520 disrupt something normal. When I was saying position for a miracle, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.040 I could almost feel you shouting through the screen. You're like, yes, Lord, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.080 pay it off, off, take it away, do it God. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.440 But this passage is going to show us a different 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.440 way to look at it, that as we're coming into 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.520 one new thing, we're leaving another. And I want to 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.080 read the scripture to you. Starting in verse one, it says, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.520 early in the morning, Joshua and all the Israelites set 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:24.360 out from Shitham. That's a long eye. Stop playing pastor 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.160 appreci the worth. Let me start over. Y'all know I 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.280 love you. Right early in the morning, Joshua and all 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.680 the Israelites set out from Shitam. So they're going somewhere. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.120 Somebody say, I'm going somewhere. I'm going somewhere. Say it 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.800 in the chat, say it in the comments. I'm going somewhere. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.120 I'm going somewhere. I'm going somewhere. I'm going somewhere. God's 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.760 hand is on me. I'm going somewhere. God is taking 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.480 me somewhere. God has not left me. God will not 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.760 forsake me. God will not abandon me. God will not 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.360 let me see the kay. He will never leave the 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.400 righteous forsaken, nor see begging for bread. God will feed 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.200 me and lead me and guide me and protect me. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.160 He said he would, He promised he would. That's what 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.920 he does. Okay. This God is our God, forever and ever. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.720 He will be our guide, even to the end. Hollywoods 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.160 preaching the other day on Facebook, she said, we want 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.040 God to be our ride, but God said he would 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.600 be our guide. And I was like, girl, that doctor 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.960 Susanoni looks sexy on you. That is so good, because 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.520 we want God to be like an uber, like hey, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.040 I'm gonna get back here and I don't want to 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.960 talk to you. I just want you to take me here. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.280 Now Here's where I want to go. I want to 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.680 I want a new job, I want I want my 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.480 wife to start respecting me. I want my kids to 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.920 get straight a's A plus. Why not just go for it? God, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.320 get him into Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard undergrad and Yale 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.800 for the doctorate God, and we want God to just 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.720 get us there. But we're going to see something today 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.440 about when God says, stop okay. And one thing we 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.960 need to stop doing is looking at God as a 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.760 means and start seeing that He is the end his presence, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:56.720 to know him, to be strengthened by him. And even 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.920 though I'm going somewhere, it's not so important. Just about 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.080 where God takes me is what he shows me along 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.480 the way. And this is a pivotal moment in my 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.760 life in your life, because we're not really sure about 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:16.120 the destination or how long, you know, how long is 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.840 the coronavirus going to dominate our headlines? And then even 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.600 after that, how long is it going to terrorize our economy? 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.160 And we don't know. And it's interesting because the Bible says, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.000 let me just read the scripture. I'm so excited. Can 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.960 you tell? The Lord has really been speaking to me? 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.920 And God's word never stops, it never returns void. So 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.879 it's almost like the more trouble we get in, the 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.280 more of God's presence and more of God's grace and 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.920 more of God's work, He just makes it available to us. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.120 And so the Lord has really been overflowing in my heart. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.919 It said early in the morning, Joshua, and all the Israelites. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.960 Somebody say, all the Israelites. Put a couple extra a's 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.120 in the chat. Just say, all the Israelites, I'm gonna 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.800 check on y'all and make sure y'all are doing it. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.480 Say all the israel lives. Come on. It doesn't cost 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.760 you nothing for an extra vowel on YouTube. Just say, oh, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.719 this is really Oh man, this is good. Because the 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.720 first thing that God said stopped to me. He said, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:15.560 stop acting like you're the only one, like I'm the 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.160 only one, like I'm the only one scared right now, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.080 like I'm the only one struggling right now, or even 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.480 for America, like we've got a global fam. We call 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.800 it epham. It used to stand for extended. Now it 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.960 stands for everywhere, because we're all etham. Even our local 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.840 congregation is having to experience God's word kind of from 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.600 a distance. But one thing that people keep saying that 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.200 bothers me is like, well, we're all in the same boat. No, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.080 we're not. We're not all in the same boat. This 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.960 storm that we're going through, if I can use that analogy, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.679 it affects all of us in different ways. So while 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.480 one man in my church right now might be kind 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.160 of thinking, well, this is good for me. I get 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.200 a break, you know, get a break from the stress 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.360 of life, and maybe the shutdown of commerce and industry 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.959 to that man represents a break or sense of relief 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.200 or a welcome interruption of the rhythm. About the time 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.040 he's feeling relief, somebody else in my church just laid 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.440 off one hundred and fifty employees. And that happened this week. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.600 This is not theoretical hypothetical. As a pastor, I get 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:28.520 to see how something affects all the people, okay, And 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.719 I think it's really arrogant when we put ourselves at 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.159 the center of a struggle. And another thing that it 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.879 does is it increases our anxiety because we start thinking 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.959 we are the first ones to ever go through anything. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.040 And then if you get that self centered, you get 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.919 short sighted. So then you start thinking like this is 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.000 the only thing that I've ever been through, Like this, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.040 I heard someone say that the other day. They said, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.200 we've never been through anything like this before. Hello, oh, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:06.359 nineteen eighteen the influenza that killed Look somebody from nineteen 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.920 eighteen is watching us from heaven right now go through 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.560 this and not understanding our frame of reference can be 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.080 detrimental to our revelation of God's power, because when we 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.800 think we're the first ones who ever went through anything before, 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.600 long we start thinking that this is unlike anything else 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.320 that we've ever been through. And so I want to 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:31.080 remind you today that you are not the only one. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.520 I'm not the only one scared. I'm not the only 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.600 one uncertain. I'm not the only one with questions. And 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.560 we are going through this together. Now. Here's what's interesting. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.960 We are all always going through something, but right now 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:48.680 it kind of feels like we're going through the same thing. 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.320 And yet although we're going through the same storm, we're 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:58.200 not all in the same boat. Some people are going 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.080 through this current crisis in like a I don't know, 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:08.320 like a battleship, barely feeling it. It's like, oh man, 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.520 you know there. You can almost see them on Instagram 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.240 all the time. They make you sick. They're like, I'm 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.480 all out of Cheetos, got to move to Doritos now, 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.560 quarantine problems. You know what I'm saying, Like WHOA Somebody 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.800 else is in a kayak going through the storm, and 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.720 they're like, I'm thinking about feeding my family on minimum 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.040 wage and what this opportunity. When I said we're positioned 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.000 for a miracle, I think that God is positioning us 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:39.760 for the miracle of empathy to really be able to 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:45.040 stop for a moment disagreeing about petty stuff, stupid stuff, 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.000 stop arguing for a minute about stupid stuff. Because they 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.000 all had to go through together. Now, this is the 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.880 passage to the promised land, right, and we're not going 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:56.760 into like a geographical land here. We're doing about the 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.639 promises of God, everything that he's promised you, peace and protection, 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.440 all this stuff we want, right, But they all had 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:07.520 to go through together. That really touched me. Man, It 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.920 touched me because I have three kids. This is two 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:16.040 million people. I can't even get my three kids to 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.439 get in the car to get across South Charlotte to 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.160 get to school before seven thirty am. Together, and now 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:29.440 Joshua has to lead. It says in the scripture, all 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:34.200 the people, Well, this is a miracle. I can't even 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.840 get my kids to agree on what show to watch, 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:42.160 and Joshua has to get all the people across. This 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.280 is a miracle. And you know, Graham asked me the 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.920 other day this is funny. Actually this was several months ago. 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:52.600 He came up to me. He was in a Bible class. 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:56.200 He goes to this Christian school, and he was asking 0:22:56.200 --> 0:23:00.480 me a theological question. He goes, Dad, why do you 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.920 think God stopped doing so many miracles like he did 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:07.359 in Bible times? And I don't know. Why do you think? 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.320 He said, maybe because he was younger back then and 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:15.840 had more energy. I love it. This is the Old 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:18.840 Testament right, And we're all like, oh, God, I know 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.439 this story, Joshua three, God parted the waters and all 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.680 the people went through. Why doesn't God still do miracles 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.280 like that? And yet you are holding a phone in 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:33.160 your hand right now, or you are watching on Roku 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:37.800 or Apple TV or some new fangled technological device. Thank you, 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:41.239 Steve Jobs for making this moment possible. But yet we 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:44.880 will sit in a miracle and not recognize it as 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:49.159 a miracle, because see, we have a very difficult time 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:53.000 appreciating a miracle when we're in it. We have a 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.520 very difficult time appreciating a good moment when we're in it. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:59.440 So then we start looking back at old times. Oh, 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:02.680 those are the good old days, you know, flashback Friday 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.439 and throw back Thursday. And it's like, we want to 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:08.280 be anywhere but here. And then so God gives us 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.520 a moment where we have to stop and be here. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:19.320 Because March Madness was canceled. The whole NBA just stopped. 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:22.600 That's when I knew this was bad. When the NBA stopped, 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:28.560 I was like, Oh God, this is real. Somebody put 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:31.159 in the comments it just got real and put it 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.359 like that too. It just got real. It just got real. 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:38.159 And there's a moment in this scripture I was. I 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:43.119 was reading it just word for word. It's amazing how 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:45.200 the little things in scripture come alive when you stop 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:47.160 and think about them, you know, just go through them. 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:50.879 And since this message is called when God says, stop, 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:53.760 I want to stop on something that's significant. Early in 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:57.600 the morning, Joshua and all the Israelites there you go. 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:01.359 All the Israelites set out from Shidam and went to 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:05.760 the Jordan, which is the place where God always reveals identity. 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.320 You remember, that's where Jesus went to be baptized the Jordan. 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.800 This is my son. That's where God always shows you 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:14.040 who you really are by what he brings you through. 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:22.159 That spoke to me. When we're going through something, the 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:26.440 goal isn't just to get through it. The goal is 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:30.040 for God to show us something in it that will 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:32.960 make us better on the other side. I'm going to 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.239 be better on the other side. I'm going to be 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:38.600 better on the other side. It may look different. It's 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:42.080 not going to be normal. It's not we're not going 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:45.520 back to normal, but but I'm going to be better 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:47.840 on the other side of this. You got to go 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:50.960 in with that assurance or else you're gonna stand like 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:56.000 like the Israelites stayed for forty years on the wrong 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:58.960 side of the Jordan. And I'm gonna tell you something else. 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:03.400 God didn't stop from going into the Promised Land. God 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:07.000 didn't stop them. I used to preach that they got 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:09.440 stuck in the wilderness, and how some of us get 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:13.199 stuck in temptation, or we get stuck in unbelief, or 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.159 we get stuck in fear. And one day I was 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.119 preaching that, and the Lord slowed me down and said, 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:26.600 they didn't get stuck. They stopped. There was nothing keeping 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:30.879 them in. There's nothing keeping us right now from being grateful. Well, well, 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:32.600 you hadn't seen my bank acount. I'm talk about you 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:35.320 bank account. I talk about your belief system. I'm talking 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:38.240 about you believe that God is good at the bottom, 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:41.560 and you have this hope as an anchor for your soul. 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.720 That's a rock, that's a foundation. They can't be shaken 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:48.000 by a storm. The winds can come, the streams can rise, 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:51.119 beat against the house, and it didn't fall. It only 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.760 showed the foundation for what it was. And so when 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:57.960 they crossed the Jordan, they were doing what the previous 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:04.359 generation could have done. But they stopped. They stopped. They stop. 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:09.120 Sometimes we tell ourselves that we're stuck, when the fact 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:14.520 is we just stopped. Oh man, I've just been depressed lately, 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:20.320 like just like everywhere I look as bad news, stop 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:26.359 watching it. I feel an annointing on one word, because 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:29.359 I preached so many sermons on go go. You know, 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:32.280 God told Abraham go to the land. I will show you. 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:36.440 He said, go and make disciples. That was the great commission, 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:42.160 go go, go. But what about when God says, stop stop. 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:46.280 I believe God is issuing. Like I yelled at the 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:51.399 top of my lungs the other day, stop stop scrolling. 0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:56.520 Oh I wonder why I don't have any peace. God 0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:59.679 give me peace. But you got a leaky bucket that 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:02.520 you're asking God to put peace in because you won't 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:05.560 turn off your phone. It needs to charge, it's getting hot, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:09.440 it's burning your hand. So you're gonna feed yourself fear 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:17.160 and then pray for more faith. God says stop stop. Yeah, 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:21.600 will it need to be informed? Hey, nobody knows right now. 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:27.600 Nobody knows. I mean you know everything. Everybody knows right now. 0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:30.840 You know enough, you know enough, You know enough, and 0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.080 I'm wanna tell you something else. You know enough about 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:36.080 God to get you through this valley we talk about 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:40.800 going through. I know I'm gonna get through this. And 0:28:40.840 --> 0:28:43.760 I don't say that in a callous way or a 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:48.000 cliche way or a hashtag kind of faith. I'm saying, 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:51.880 the Lord is my shepherd. I know that he's my guy. 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:57.560 I know that I shall not want. Hang on a second, 0:28:57.560 --> 0:29:00.520 there's a weird part of this passage. The Lord's my 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:06.320 not want. He maketh me lie down in green pastors. 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:12.200 It's like you're saying, God will guide you, guide you, 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:16.440 and sometimes in order to get you to green pastors, 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:20.680 he has to give you a red light. He makes 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:26.720 me lie down, he makes me lie down, And it's 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:29.640 right there in Joshua three. It's right there. How God 0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:32.200 is leading his people. He's led them forty years in 0:29:32.240 --> 0:29:35.280 a wilderness. They've been through things before, but now they're 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:38.040 standing at something new, just like we are. Some of you. 0:29:38.080 --> 0:29:40.600 God has seen you through divorce. He's seen you through 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:45.600 a miscarriage. He's seen you through a suicidal impulse that 0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:48.040 you almost took your own life and then you didn't. 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:51.000 He saw you through the worst decision of your life. 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:54.200 He saw you through financial mistakes. He saw you through 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:56.680 all of that. And now you are standing at this 0:29:56.840 --> 0:30:01.320 and you're like, I've never been here before. And it's like, 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:03.800 but in that moment, what you know has to take 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:06.920 over what you feel. And that's what I want to 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:11.440 illustrate in the text. When God says stop living by 0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:17.640 feelings and start living by faith, stop living by sight, 0:30:19.000 --> 0:30:23.760 I feel the Holy Spirit when God says stop is 0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:26.720 so important that we listen to the Holy Spirit. When 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:31.240 he says stop, stop, stop playing out all the worst 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:34.760 what if scenarios in your brain. You've gone way past planning. 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.600 I'm just getting a plan. Is that what you call 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:43.600 it a plan? When you're projecting every possible scenario trying 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:46.080 to predict, you think you're miss Cleo or something like that. 0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:49.600 You ain't a prophet and give yourself an ulcir I 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:52.280 prophecy peptobismal in your future every night before you go 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:55.280 to bed if you don't stop it. And I love 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:58.400 what God gave him and how the presence of God 0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:00.440 sometimes will tell you to stop. Give me verse one again, 0:31:00.480 --> 0:31:03.160 all this in verse one, and don't y'all get scared. 0:31:03.200 --> 0:31:06.680 But I got like seventeen verses. Okay, but I will 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:10.320 stop at some point so the next service can run. 0:31:11.120 --> 0:31:12.560 But it says early in the morning, Josh, when all 0:31:12.560 --> 0:31:15.200 the Israelites set out from Shitham and went to the Jordan, 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:20.040 the place of identity, and the instruction was camp before 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:25.320 crossing over. Isn't that cool? How God was bringing them 0:31:25.360 --> 0:31:29.680 into something new, and before he could bring them into 0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:34.840 this new space, he told him to stop and camp. 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.200 And what he tells them to do next, I want 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:40.200 to give you as a prophetic word for what God 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:43.000 might be saying to you for this season of your life. 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:45.360 We're all going through this at the same time, but 0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:48.040 we're not all going through the same thing. Some people 0:31:48.080 --> 0:31:51.200 are making real decisions right now, Like our church. All week, 0:31:51.240 --> 0:31:55.480 it was just decision after decision after decision. And the 0:31:55.560 --> 0:31:59.920 problem is, you know we're all trying to Okay, go ahead, 0:32:00.000 --> 0:32:05.680 give you the next point. You're ready. Stop wasting today's 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:19.240 strength fighting tomorrow's battles. Stop stop stop trying to stop 0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:22.840 trying to defend yourself against doomsday that may or may 0:32:22.840 --> 0:32:28.120 not happen. Make decisions, Make decisions. God will give you 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.440 the wisdom for the decisions you need to make right now. 0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:32.920 I believe that he will. I'm believing that for every 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:36.560 healthcare worker. I'm believing that for our leaders. I'm believing 0:32:36.560 --> 0:32:38.840 that God is gonna bring our country together in a 0:32:38.880 --> 0:32:41.440 way right now that we're gonna figure out some stuff 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:44.120 that we needed to fix for a long time, and 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:48.480 your nation and God's gonna bring us together. We're positioned 0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:50.959 for a miracle, but we got to go through together. 0:32:52.120 --> 0:32:55.000 We got to get through this together. If the church 0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:57.200 stops giving right now and we start acting like we 0:32:57.240 --> 0:32:59.680 need a building to be blessed. We're gonna miss it. 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:02.800 We got to come together like never before. That's why 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:05.040 we were given out over two hundred thousand meals this 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:08.480 week as a church, because this is a time for 0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:14.760 us to stop, pause before we go into what's next. 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:17.320 Look what the scripture says in verse two, I love 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:20.440 my big Bible up here on the screen. After three days. 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:24.000 Oh that's a good number when it's in the Bible. 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:27.960 After three days. Now we're living through something right now 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:31.920 that's going to take longer than three days. The economic 0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:35.600 impact of the coronavirus, this global pandemic is going to 0:33:35.600 --> 0:33:38.520 take longer than three days. But notice this that they 0:33:38.680 --> 0:33:43.520 camped before crossing over, and yet God didn't call it quarantine. 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:47.400 He called it something else. Okay, so watch this. After 0:33:47.440 --> 0:33:50.200 three days, the officers went throughout the camp. These are 0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:55.240 the leaders, first three giving orders to the people. So 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:57.680 God has teaching us how to follow instructions. God is 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:00.000 teaching us how to come together. God is teaching us 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:01.960 how to put our preferences in our pride to side. 0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:05.320 And he said, when you see the arc of the 0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:08.640 covenant of the Lord, your God and the levitical priests 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:11.080 carrying it. You are to move out from your positions 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:14.799 and follow it. When you see the art, follow it 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:18.040 verse four. Then you will know which way to go 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:23.960 since you have never been this way before. Is that 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:28.360 not a word for twenty twenty? Was the Bible written yesterday? 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:30.279 I feel like this just got an update, and it 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:33.560 just spoke right to our situation. We've never been this 0:34:33.640 --> 0:34:38.200 way before, and that gives us an amazing opportunity to 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:42.680 rely on God like never before. We are positioned for 0:34:42.800 --> 0:34:46.520 a miracle. We are a candidate for the presence of 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:50.600 God to show up and do something awesome in our crisis. 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:54.760 But yet it requires us in this moment to stop 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:58.440 and to pause, and the Bible says something very interesting. 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:01.000 Then you will know it way to go since you 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:03.359 have never been this way before. It doesn't mean it's 0:35:03.400 --> 0:35:06.000 never been this way before. It doesn't mean bad things 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:08.680 have never happened before. Someone said to me, this could 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:11.359 be the end of the church as we know it. 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:15.600 I was like, huh, the churches you know it. The 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.160 churches they knew it in the Bible. I hate to 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:22.080 break this to y'all. They didn't have YouTube live, they 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:25.120 didn't have campuses, they did not have and I know 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:26.920 this is gonna break some of your hearts. They did 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:29.480 not have a vest of you. They did not have 0:35:29.560 --> 0:35:32.279 points set us, they did not have a pipe board. Again, 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:36.439 so this is nothing new for God. It's nothing new. 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:38.640 It's new to you. It's not new to God. God 0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:43.160 saw it coming. God is already in your tomorrow. God 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:46.360 put it in the chat. God is already in my tomorrow. 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:48.839 I know you'd shouted if you could, if you were here. 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:52.799 But somebody's saying the chat. God is already in my tomorrow. 0:35:53.160 --> 0:35:57.440 God is already in my tomorrow. And God says, give 0:35:57.480 --> 0:36:02.399 me my job back. God's job is tomorrow. Your job 0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:06.680 is today. Give us this day our daily bread. I'm 0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:09.600 gonna do today. I'm gonna keep from killing my kids. 0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:11.439 That's what I'm gonna do today. All right, good, that's 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:13.920 your job. I'm gonna pray today. Give me that camera. 0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:16.279 I'm gonna do today. I'm gonna sit set aside some 0:36:16.400 --> 0:36:19.399 time and listen to the word of God this day. 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:26.560 And we get so confused because we get well, we 0:36:27.719 --> 0:36:29.560 get to the point where we think we can help 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:32.560 God with this job a little bit. So in a 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:35.200 moment like this, We're like, well, maybe if I'll just 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:41.040 freak out and call it prayer, then God will do something, okay, 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:44.440 because some of y'all know, the only thing you're doing 0:36:44.640 --> 0:36:50.160 when you're praying is you are applying a spiritual dialect 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:53.600 to a fearful position. And by the time we get 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:55.480 done with all of that, we're worse off than if 0:36:55.480 --> 0:36:57.560 we had, you know, just gone for a walk. So 0:36:57.600 --> 0:37:01.040 here's all I show you today. It said they before crossing, 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:03.959 And this was weird to me too, because I'm used 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.680 to God saying go and he told them to stop, 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:11.640 So that was weird. And the second thing was I'm 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:19.080 used to God coming close, and the relevance of the text. 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:22.560 It's almost scary, it's almost spooky. It's a little freaky 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:25.840 to me. How God said, since you've never been this 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:29.239 way before, since you're not God, how many are glad 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:33.600 you're not God? Right now? I was watching the President 0:37:33.600 --> 0:37:35.719 and the Vice President and the task Force the other 0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:37.839 day press conference. I was like, I'm so glad I'm 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.719 not the President. I'm so glad I'm not God. I'm 0:37:40.760 --> 0:37:44.319 so glad that I don't have to I don't have 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:46.520 to figure it all out. I'm so glad I've got 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:50.120 a God who has gone before me. I'm so glad 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:52.319 I have a father. If I did not have to 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:54.319 run around like the pagans. What am I gonna eat? 0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:55.920 What am I gonna drink? What am I gonna wear? 0:37:56.160 --> 0:38:02.080 Jesus says, stop worrying about what God is already working on. 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.480 So he says, I'm going to lead you. I'm not 0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:08.520 going to take my presence from you. It's going to 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:11.560 be different this time. It's not going to feel familiar. 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:15.640 Your faith grows in unfamiliar places when you don't know 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:18.120 where to go. That's when you get to know who 0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:21.520 God really is. I feel that for somebody right now. 0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:27.759 What about my business? What about my boat? How's my 0:38:27.760 --> 0:38:31.640 boat going to be in this storm? Let me tell 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:40.759 you something. When God says stop, the storm has to listen. Yeah. 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:45.040 One time Jesus was in a storm and the disciples 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:47.960 felt like some of us feel right now, you don't care. 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:50.719 This is weird. I thought you were like the son 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:52.600 of God and stuff. You know what Jesus was doing. 0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:57.240 I know you know, Anna, he was doing the most 0:38:57.280 --> 0:39:01.759 inappropriate thing you can do in a storm. He was 0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:06.719 a he was sleeping That's why I gave y'all these 0:39:06.760 --> 0:39:08.560 hard stools to sit on, because I didn't want you 0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:11.879 to fall asleep during my servant I was like, give 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:14.200 him an uncomfortable stool. I don't want them to sleep 0:39:14.239 --> 0:39:17.120 through my sermon. But Jesus was sleeping through a storm. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:20.360 Here's what I want you to know. After the disciples 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:24.839 had stressed out and scrambled. So you got the disciples scrambling, 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:29.520 and Jesus is sleeping because he knows something that they 0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:32.240 don't know. And I want you to do me a favor. 0:39:32.680 --> 0:39:36.040 Ask that storm. What happened when Jesus told it to stop. 0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:41.200 When God says stop, the elements have no choice but 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:45.640 to obey him. When God says stop, the red sea 0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:48.399 has no choice but to stop standing in my way. 0:39:49.080 --> 0:39:52.680 When God says stop, any weapon that is formed against 0:39:52.680 --> 0:39:56.000 me has to bow its name to the name of Jesus. 0:39:56.880 --> 0:40:00.600 So I want you to insert God's name over and 0:40:00.640 --> 0:40:04.399 against whatever need you have. His name is I am, 0:40:05.040 --> 0:40:08.160 not I was, and not I will be. God is 0:40:08.200 --> 0:40:11.120 with you in this moment, not just when I get 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:15.480 to the other side, but when God says stop, every 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:19.560 storm has to stop raging. I wish I had an organ. 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:22.080 I wish I had a beat. Three. We can still 0:40:22.120 --> 0:40:27.200 have church. When God says stop, Ask Lazarus what happens. 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:31.320 When God says stop, the worms had already started eating 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:36.319 his body. The process of decomposition was already in progress. 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:40.719 But when God says stop, When God says stop, the 0:40:40.840 --> 0:40:44.719 consequences have to be reversed. When God says stop. When 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:48.359 God says stop, God speaks peace to every anxious heart. 0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:51.400 When God says stop, I want you to tell the 0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:55.080 terror right now, God says stop. Put your hand out 0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:57.160 like this, put your hands up like this on an 0:40:57.200 --> 0:41:00.239 emoji and fight the devil with an emoji God. God 0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:04.919 says stop. Fear stops here. You can have my finances, 0:41:05.239 --> 0:41:09.040 but you can't have my faith. It stops here. Here's 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:13.480 a lot. God says, stop. Don't give him space, don't 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:20.000 give him your gon down ferdig it's an empty room. 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:24.720 Stop stop stop, stop, stop stop stop. Get some sleep 0:41:24.760 --> 0:41:27.759 in the stern of the ship. Because if Jesus is 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:29.560 in the boat, we're all in the same storm. But 0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:31.480 we're not all in the same boat. And here's what 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.360 I found out. Faith doesn't keep me from having to 0:41:34.400 --> 0:41:37.320 go through a storm. It doesn't exempt me from the challenges. 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:41.120 We're all in this together. I got somebody in the 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:48.680 stern and when he says stop, God says stop. I 0:41:48.800 --> 0:41:52.879 wonder what God is saying stop right now, patterns of pessimism. 0:41:53.880 --> 0:41:59.200 God said to tell some of y'all stop talking. I 0:41:59.280 --> 0:42:02.120 know they didn't tell you to take a bow of silence. 0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:03.520 They just told you not to come out the house. 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.600 I'm saying, shut up now. You don't have to put 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:09.680 this in the comments. But do you remember we're talking 0:42:09.680 --> 0:42:13.640 about Joshua right. Do you remember what Joshua told them 0:42:13.680 --> 0:42:16.200 to do when they marched around the walls of Jericho. 0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:18.399 Because they did get through it. And we will get 0:42:18.400 --> 0:42:23.319 through this. We will get through this. We will put 0:42:23.360 --> 0:42:25.120 it in the chat, put it in the comments. We 0:42:25.160 --> 0:42:28.160 will get through this, and tag somebody and say you 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:31.480 will get through this. Yeah. The question is that will 0:42:31.520 --> 0:42:35.479 we get through? The question is will we go through 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:38.160 in a way that makes us better when we do. 0:42:40.640 --> 0:42:44.040 Just like Jesus interrupted the storm cycle from the boat, 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:47.120 there are some cycles that he wants to interrupt in 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:49.480 our lives right now. And he wants to do a 0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:54.719 miracle in your home. I see marriages coming together while 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:57.799 y'all are stuck in the house together. Y'all are going 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:00.160 to stop living two separate lives and come together and 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:04.279 figure out how do we all get through this. I 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:06.360 believe God's position in us from miracle. I see our 0:43:06.440 --> 0:43:10.640 church getting stronger. I see people watching this sermon right now. 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:12.680 And you know you normally would not be watching a 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:14.719 sermon on Sunday morning, but you didn't have a club 0:43:14.760 --> 0:43:16.920 to go to last night, so you woke up and 0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:20.360 you were bored. And here I am. God stopped you 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.440 right in your tracks to speak his word to you. 0:43:23.560 --> 0:43:28.920 When God says stop, and they can't before crossing, and 0:43:29.239 --> 0:43:31.879 it says that they saw the arc. Look at verse 0:43:31.880 --> 0:43:35.520 four again. Put it off on the big led bible 0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:38.759 back behind me, zoom out and get the shot. Are 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:42.879 all the worship leaders smiling behind me? Big smiles here? 0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:48.120 When God says stop? Now, you see this phrase where 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:50.560 it says in verse four, then you want know which 0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:52.080 way to go since you've never been this way before. 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:57.680 But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits that's 0:43:57.719 --> 0:44:01.560 three thousand feet one thousand yards ten football fields nine 0:44:01.640 --> 0:44:05.200 hundred meters. It's a worldwide audience. I got to get 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:12.960 everybody in here, and it said that God, who normally 0:44:12.960 --> 0:44:17.960 comes closer, told them that the arc needed to be 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:21.080 kept at a distance. And that's a big distance, that's 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:25.080 way more than six feet. I heard of social distancing, 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.480 I never heard of spiritual distancing until I read this text. 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:34.760 And I was wondering, why would God, when he's leading 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:37.000 his people tell them that the arc put it back 0:44:37.040 --> 0:44:40.160 up the ark of the testimony. It's also called the 0:44:40.280 --> 0:44:44.320 arc of Yahweh. I am God's name. God has a 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:47.080 name for every need in your life. God says, I am. 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:51.400 He's a present help. So it's the ark of the testimony. 0:44:51.480 --> 0:44:56.200 How many have a testimony? So why do we keep 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:58.319 thinking we're going to get a testimony without having a 0:44:58.360 --> 0:45:02.920 test God said He's using the season to show us 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:08.480 stop expecting to have a testimony with no test That's 0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:11.320 how we want it now. We want the pecks without 0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:16.000 the push ups. I'm just trying to modernize it. I 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:18.040 got nobody else to preach to, I might as well 0:45:18.080 --> 0:45:21.560 preach to myself. We want to try SEPs without the try? 0:45:22.280 --> 0:45:24.799 Can I get a witness from the drum riser hit 0:45:24.840 --> 0:45:32.680 the symbol dom fill lonely in here? Testimony starts with 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:36.640 test I know it's corny, but it's true. And it 0:45:36.719 --> 0:45:39.160 said that the arc. We haven't seen the art in 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:42.120 a long time. And God said, you're going to bring 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:44.279 some things out of storage, like Joshua three. This is 0:45:44.280 --> 0:45:46.800 the first time we've seen it. Remember, it's not very big. 0:45:47.560 --> 0:45:52.640 It's like twenty seven inches high, twenty seven inches wide, 0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:59.160 and then it's like fifty inches long approximately. And yet 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:01.400 God was going to guide them by something that was small, 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:05.960 a cacial wood overlaid with gold. The wood represents humanity, 0:46:05.960 --> 0:46:09.720 the gold represents s divinity. God's got you cover. God's 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:13.160 got you covered. God's got you covered. God's got you covered. 0:46:13.600 --> 0:46:16.440 God's got you cover. God's got you cover. God's got 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:18.719 you cover. Tax somebody and let them know God's got 0:46:18.760 --> 0:46:21.480 you cover. God's got you cover. And you're coming out 0:46:21.520 --> 0:46:23.680 as gold. You're coming out of this fire. You're going 0:46:23.760 --> 0:46:25.719 to get through this, and God is going to purify 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:28.600 us in He said, I want you to follow the 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:30.480 arc now, but don't follow it too close. And I 0:46:30.560 --> 0:46:34.880 was so confused. In God's supposed to come close in 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:38.640 a crisis. This is a traumatic moment. They've been in 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:42.120 the wilderness for forty years most of the people that 0:46:42.160 --> 0:46:45.799 they've relied on are dead. Now they have to go through, 0:46:45.840 --> 0:46:50.520 and I have to go through together. Not three kids, 0:46:51.160 --> 0:46:55.360 two million people and twelve of them couldn't even agree 0:46:55.360 --> 0:46:57.399 on the church vote forty years ago, and that's why 0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.400 they didn't go in. Now they have to get through together. 0:47:01.560 --> 0:47:03.920 God said, I'm going to give you something to guide you. 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:09.560 But in the season of your life, I'm gonna give 0:47:09.600 --> 0:47:16.600 you the gift of distance. And I pondered that for 0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:20.279 a long time because I was like, that's that's not 0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:23.360 what I want when I'm going through something. Come on, 0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:25.240 I got to go through the Jordan River and trust 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:30.960 you to bring me through it. But you're gonna be distant. No. 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:35.680 God is teaching us that when he feels distant, he 0:47:35.840 --> 0:47:41.160 isn't okay. So if God feels distant to you right now, 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:45.320 you're not alone. All of us, even in our strongest moments, 0:47:45.480 --> 0:47:48.040 have this place in us where it's like, God, I 0:47:48.080 --> 0:47:50.520 wish I had a sign right now. I just feel uneasy, 0:47:50.560 --> 0:47:52.879 I don't feel at rest. I just feel that's all 0:47:53.000 --> 0:48:00.239 completely human and completely normal. Sometimes God uses distance in 0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:07.480 our feelings to call us deeper in our faith. And 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:09.359 I thought it was important to say that right now, 0:48:09.440 --> 0:48:14.480 because while we're having to keep physical distance, I believe 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:18.560 that God is calling us to spiritual death. See. I 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:21.200 don't want to just get through it. I'm tired of 0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:23.000 just getting through it. What's the point. Let's just all 0:48:23.000 --> 0:48:24.440 go to heaven right now. If all we're going to 0:48:24.480 --> 0:48:26.680 do is get through it, they gotta harp with my 0:48:26.760 --> 0:48:29.680 name on it up there. Come on, I sing like 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:31.480 zeke in heaven. Just let me get to heaven and 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:35.920 get my glorified vocal chords. Let me get my eternal 0:48:36.000 --> 0:48:39.080 larynx in heaven, and just go ahead and glorify the 0:48:39.120 --> 0:48:44.080 Lord with the No, no, no, God, don't just get 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:49.319 me through it. Teach me. There's something about distance. Graham said, 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:52.400 why did God do all the miracles back then? But 0:48:52.440 --> 0:48:55.920 he doesn't now. It's not that God does less miracles. 0:48:55.960 --> 0:49:00.239 It's just we see him better in the distance, see 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:05.000 it better in the distance. It's like, God, why won't 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:07.440 you do a miracle while you're watching me preach on 0:49:07.480 --> 0:49:11.640 your phone? This is a miracle, you see, Like right now, 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:15.759 in this moment, take a breath is a miracle. Think 0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:18.160 about all the sin that he canceled. We're talking about 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:21.000 everything that was canceled. I'll tell you what was canceled. 0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:23.400 The record of wrong that stood against me, that he 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:26.000 nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:29.719 So it is well with my soul. I looked at 0:49:29.760 --> 0:49:33.360 my portfolio for finances, it wasn't well. But then I 0:49:33.360 --> 0:49:35.960 looked at my soul and I found out He's still 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:38.799 with me, and he's in me. And there's some kind 0:49:38.840 --> 0:49:42.640 of hope that comes rising up to the surface. When 0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:47.560 God feels distant, He isn't. He's positioning you for a miracle. 0:49:49.160 --> 0:49:51.719 You know what's really cool about the ark. It was 0:49:51.760 --> 0:49:54.879 called the Ark of the Testimony, the Ark of Yahweh, 0:49:54.920 --> 0:49:58.280 and the Ark of the Covenant. And that's really cool 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:01.880 because in a time when they were going through something 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:03.759 they'd never been through before. You hear me, you're going 0:50:03.760 --> 0:50:05.440 through something you've never been through before. We all are. 0:50:05.600 --> 0:50:10.280 We're all going through it. Be nice. We're all going 0:50:10.320 --> 0:50:13.200 through it. Think about it before you post. We're all 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:15.839 going through it. We are all going through it in 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:19.239 different ways. And maybe God is going to make you 0:50:19.280 --> 0:50:25.040 a miracle for somebody else. You thought about that, See, 0:50:25.080 --> 0:50:27.560 because in moments where we're going through places we've never 0:50:27.600 --> 0:50:32.560 been through before. It feels like God is distant. He isn't. 0:50:34.160 --> 0:50:41.160 He's showing us what can't be canceled, shutting down everything 0:50:41.239 --> 0:50:46.799 right now. They are shutting down everything right now. I'm 0:50:46.840 --> 0:50:50.279 waiting on Holly to close the kitchen. I hope she 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:53.400 doesn't cancel the kitchen, but I don't know. Everything is 0:50:53.400 --> 0:50:55.640 shut every time I turn around. I'm waiting to turn 0:50:55.680 --> 0:50:57.960 on my phone and its canceled. Instagram told me to 0:50:58.000 --> 0:51:00.719 stay home. Everything is being canceled. So it is so 0:51:00.840 --> 0:51:04.040 cool that as God is bringing them across the Jordan, 0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:07.520 the ark of the Covenant, that's what it's called the Covenant. 0:51:07.520 --> 0:51:11.279 That's not your agreement with God, that's God's agreement with you. 0:51:12.040 --> 0:51:15.480 Let's be honest. If it was dependent on the first one, 0:51:15.960 --> 0:51:19.040 if it was dependent on you, you wouldn't make it through. 0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:22.040 If it was dependent on me to have perfect faith, 0:51:22.120 --> 0:51:25.520 I wouldn't make it through. But I'm so grateful that 0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:28.080 when I'm going through what I can't understand, what I've 0:51:28.080 --> 0:51:31.040 never been through before, God gives me something to look 0:51:31.040 --> 0:51:35.080 at that represents what cannot be taken away, His oath, 0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:39.239 his covenant, his blood, watch this support me in the 0:51:39.280 --> 0:51:42.520 whelming flood. That's the old hymn from the Methodist Church. 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:44.600 You know what I found myself doing the other day. 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:48.320 I found myself breaking out the arc the old stuff, 0:51:49.120 --> 0:51:52.479 the old hymns. I started quoting hymns around my house 0:51:52.520 --> 0:51:55.279 the other day. Some of us we're going through a 0:51:55.360 --> 0:51:58.280 new thing, so we need to break out the old stuff. 0:51:58.800 --> 0:52:01.560 You have not prayed in three months. You might want 0:52:01.600 --> 0:52:03.799 to pray a little bit right now. You have not 0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:07.000 been very grateful lately. Now would be a good time 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:09.560 to bless the Lord. Now be a good time for 0:52:09.600 --> 0:52:13.440 Martin Luther to come to Elevation Church. A mighty fortress 0:52:13.600 --> 0:52:17.080 is our God. A bullwark? What a bullwark? You hadn't 0:52:17.080 --> 0:52:19.359 talked about bullwarks in a long time. Well, I need 0:52:19.400 --> 0:52:22.600 a bullwark right now I'm finding a big devil. I 0:52:22.680 --> 0:52:25.880 need a mighty fortress. I need a safe place. I 0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:30.920 need a shelter. God is with me. Joshua told the 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:37.600 people verse five, consecrate yourselves. Watch this first. This is 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:39.680 the whole thing. All right, y'all thought I was preaching. 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:43.839 I wasn't preaching yet. This is the sermon. Consecrate yourselves. 0:52:44.719 --> 0:52:50.840 That's your part. Not isolation, consecration. It's just all in 0:52:50.880 --> 0:52:54.480 how you look at it. I wonder what God is 0:52:54.520 --> 0:52:58.560 preparing us for right now. I wonder what He is mending. 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:05.040 He mended Peter's nets after he stopped fishing in those 0:53:05.040 --> 0:53:08.600 moments God is mending. I wonder what He's mending in 0:53:08.640 --> 0:53:11.080 our hearts in this moment when we just stopped for 0:53:11.080 --> 0:53:13.319 a minute to be still and know he is God, 0:53:13.320 --> 0:53:15.080 and he'll be exalted above the heavens. The horse and 0:53:15.080 --> 0:53:17.719 his rider, he's thrown into the sea. All the old 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:20.799 stuff comes back, and see here it comes. It is 0:53:20.880 --> 0:53:24.600 the convergence of what God has done, what he will do. 0:53:26.200 --> 0:53:30.880 But it's all found in his presence. Presence, presence, presence. 0:53:31.360 --> 0:53:36.560 Consecrate yourselves. Give me the verse for tomorrow the Lord 0:53:36.600 --> 0:53:41.120 will do amazing things among you. You see how clear 0:53:41.160 --> 0:53:46.920 that is In that verse. God's got a job and 0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:52.759 you've got a job. You see that word tomorrow that's 0:53:52.840 --> 0:53:56.200 on God's job description. You see it in the scripture, 0:53:57.960 --> 0:54:00.680 put it in the chat. I need you to say this, 0:54:01.120 --> 0:54:03.279 I need you to say it. Tomorrow is God's job. 0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:06.799 Tomorrow is God's job. So here's what we have to do. 0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:11.280 We have to trust God with tomorrow's problems and embrace 0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:18.040 today's process. Consecrate yourself. That's today's process. That's cleansing, that's 0:54:18.040 --> 0:54:23.160 setting apart. That's knowing He is God. That's devotion. That's this. 0:54:23.320 --> 0:54:26.279 That's like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop coming 0:54:26.320 --> 0:54:30.640 to church just because I can't physically get there. In fact, 0:54:30.640 --> 0:54:33.080 I'm gonna use this time. I'm gonna start sharing the 0:54:33.080 --> 0:54:35.000 gospel war with people. I'm gonna make the devil so mad, 0:54:35.040 --> 0:54:36.759 he's gonna he's gonna have to let me out the house. 0:54:37.320 --> 0:54:40.360 I'm gonna start forwarding every cliff, every sermon, every song. 0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:43.480 We put this song out the other day called the Blessing, 0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:47.160 And the reason we put it out is because you know, 0:54:47.280 --> 0:54:49.839 God gave us this song. And I don't know how 0:54:49.840 --> 0:54:51.640 to stop the virus, but I know how to spread 0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:55.440 the blessing. And so I have a job. God has 0:54:55.480 --> 0:54:58.880 a job. What is God's job? God's job is tomorrow. 0:55:00.120 --> 0:55:02.160 That's like when I went to Australia the first time. 0:55:02.239 --> 0:55:04.960 Is anybody watching from Australia right now? Yeah, I see 0:55:04.960 --> 0:55:07.840 you lighten up the comments. I see Cheryl Eric Brandon, 0:55:08.600 --> 0:55:11.000 I see from the Ukraine, tomorrow is God's job. But 0:55:11.040 --> 0:55:14.880 here's what's awesome. Somebody watching in Australia and it's already tomorrow. 0:55:17.400 --> 0:55:20.000 It's already tomorrow. The first time I went to Australia 0:55:20.000 --> 0:55:23.239 to preach, I got off the plane because I was 0:55:23.280 --> 0:55:25.759 stupid and went straight to the stage to preach. But 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:28.400 before I went to the stage, I landed at like 0:55:28.800 --> 0:55:32.200 ten am, and then I was preaching at twelve pm, 0:55:32.480 --> 0:55:34.560 so I just had time to take a shower. And 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:38.680 just before I started to head over to the arena 0:55:38.719 --> 0:55:41.359 where I was preaching in Sydney, I facetimed the kids. 0:55:41.360 --> 0:55:43.720 This was years ago, so the kids were real little, 0:55:43.880 --> 0:55:46.839 and I facetimed them because my room had this beautiful view. 0:55:46.960 --> 0:55:49.279 Pastor Phil Pringle put me up in this beautiful room 0:55:49.440 --> 0:55:52.160 and I could see the I could see the Sydney Harbor, 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:54.680 and I wanted the kids to see it. And so 0:55:54.800 --> 0:55:58.840 the sun was shining so pretty over over the harbor, 0:55:58.920 --> 0:56:01.360 and I took a FaceTime and I say, hey, kids, 0:56:01.400 --> 0:56:03.680 I just wanted to say hey to you from tomorrow. 0:56:04.160 --> 0:56:07.000 And I was telling them how we're across the international 0:56:07.120 --> 0:56:10.160 date line. I was telling them how we we uh, well, 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:12.880 it's tomorrow. In Australia. But it's nighttime there. And remember 0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:14.880 they were real little, and so Holly was tucking them 0:56:14.920 --> 0:56:17.719 into bed and they're all gathered around the FaceTime and 0:56:17.760 --> 0:56:19.759 everything like that. I think Abby was already asleep, she 0:56:19.880 --> 0:56:22.400 was real little. And then Graham and Elijah and we 0:56:22.480 --> 0:56:24.160 talked for a minute. Said I gotta go preach now, 0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:26.359 and Elijah interrupted me, says, hey, Dad, before you go, 0:56:26.520 --> 0:56:31.400 will you tell us what happens tomorrow. It was like 0:56:31.480 --> 0:56:39.720 he had this moment, You're already there. You're my father. See. 0:56:39.280 --> 0:56:43.200 I gotta let I let, I gotta let God be 0:56:43.360 --> 0:56:47.840 in my tomorrow and consecrate myself today. That's all I 0:56:47.880 --> 0:56:51.239 can do. I cannot predict the path. All I can 0:56:51.280 --> 0:56:54.120 do is walk in it. And yet the beauty of 0:56:54.160 --> 0:56:58.320 the passage is this, If you will consecrate yourself today, 0:56:58.320 --> 0:57:03.919 God is already in your tomorrow. So all this, how 0:57:03.960 --> 0:57:05.920 long is it going to last? That's God's job. And 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:09.359 you know what I think. God, for everybody who is 0:57:09.440 --> 0:57:13.359 helping in a practical way around the clock to bring 0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:17.040 remedies and solutions to our nation for this virus. We 0:57:17.080 --> 0:57:20.240 are praying for you, We celebrate you, we love you. 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:21.720 One of the good things that's going to come out 0:57:21.720 --> 0:57:24.560 of this is we are going to appreciate people that 0:57:24.600 --> 0:57:27.160 we used to think we're unimportant. Who are going to 0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:29.840 be the very people that God uses to stop the 0:57:29.920 --> 0:57:32.440 virus are the people. It's not going to be just 0:57:32.560 --> 0:57:35.960 celebrities who we've always been used to celebrating. It's going 0:57:36.000 --> 0:57:38.400 to be people who are standing on the front lines 0:57:39.320 --> 0:57:43.440 like those priests did. God told the priest, you go 0:57:43.600 --> 0:57:47.400 stand in the middle of the Jordan. That must have 0:57:47.440 --> 0:57:51.760 been scary. They had to go stand. God was bringing 0:57:51.800 --> 0:57:56.160 them through. God's going to bring us through. We see. 0:57:56.160 --> 0:57:58.240 It's so important that we don't just get so focused 0:57:58.280 --> 0:58:01.320 on getting through it. We don't get what God wants 0:58:01.400 --> 0:58:04.800 us to get out of it. When God says stop, 0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:09.040 he makes me lie down. God is my God. He 0:58:09.040 --> 0:58:12.560 he told him to camp before crossing over. And then 0:58:12.600 --> 0:58:14.360 if you can go all the way to verse fifteen, 0:58:14.400 --> 0:58:16.240 I want to show you one more thing I'm closing. 0:58:16.480 --> 0:58:18.160 Is this worth helping you? If this is helping you, 0:58:18.200 --> 0:58:20.600 just put something on the screen right now. Put a heart, 0:58:20.720 --> 0:58:22.760 put a purple heart, put an orange heart, put a 0:58:22.800 --> 0:58:27.080 red heart, put three pink hearts. I'll take anything right now. Holly, 0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:30.520 is this good? This is the message God gave me. 0:58:30.560 --> 0:58:32.400 And I was gonna approach it the other way. I 0:58:32.440 --> 0:58:33.840 was gonna approach it the other way. I was going 0:58:33.920 --> 0:58:36.160 to say, we're positioned for a miracle. But I thought, 0:58:36.200 --> 0:58:38.600 you know what if I call it that, people are 0:58:38.600 --> 0:58:41.680 gonna think it has to be something big. You know, 0:58:41.720 --> 0:58:45.160 they're gonna think, oh, when this virus is gone, that's 0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:48.880 a miracle. What about the miracle in the middle of it? 0:58:50.720 --> 0:58:52.600 And that's what my attention was drawn to him. And 0:58:52.640 --> 0:58:54.160 before I go, I want to show you Joshua with 0:58:54.160 --> 0:59:00.000 three fifteen. When God says stop because the Bible says 0:59:00.160 --> 0:59:03.080 that the Jordan is at flood stage, all deering harvest, 0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:07.680 Well that's a sermon right there. God didn't bring him 0:59:07.680 --> 0:59:11.760 through some shallow water, some little problem. The size of 0:59:11.800 --> 0:59:16.920 the problem creates the opportunity. So when I say we're 0:59:16.960 --> 0:59:20.720 positioned for a miracle, it doesn't mean the problem gets smaller. 0:59:21.720 --> 0:59:23.840 And when I say we're positioned for a miracle, it 0:59:23.880 --> 0:59:25.760 doesn't always mean that God is going to do something 0:59:25.760 --> 0:59:28.880 we see as really big. Sometimes we have to see 0:59:28.880 --> 0:59:30.840 it from a distance. Can you imagine happened to follow 0:59:30.880 --> 0:59:34.920 that little arc the arc of the Covenant, The Covenant, 0:59:35.680 --> 0:59:39.160 the Covenant. God keeps his covenant, and I have to 0:59:39.160 --> 0:59:42.320 remember that right now. If he said it is sure, 0:59:43.600 --> 0:59:47.720 if he promised it, it's rock solid. God promised me 0:59:47.800 --> 0:59:51.360 the grace for today and the hope for tomorrow. So 0:59:51.360 --> 0:59:53.720 I gotta let him do his job. And what that 0:59:53.760 --> 0:59:55.959 means is I can't wait for something to be over 0:59:56.040 --> 0:59:58.480 in my life. I need to know what are they 0:59:58.480 --> 1:00:00.080 going to do. I need to know what we I 1:00:00.240 --> 1:00:03.720 want to know. But we've never been here before. How 1:00:03.720 --> 1:00:06.440 many weeks still we're coming back together? Pastor I don't know, 1:00:08.000 --> 1:00:09.720 But if God give me the strength, I'm gonna keep 1:00:09.720 --> 1:00:12.680 preaching to you through it, and we're gonna get better together. 1:00:13.400 --> 1:00:16.200 I promise you we are. In fact, when I finished preaching, 1:00:16.240 --> 1:00:18.040 in a minute, y'all are all going over to a 1:00:18.080 --> 1:00:20.840 Facebook group and instead of going out to try to 1:00:20.840 --> 1:00:24.320 eat Mexican and get a speedy Gonzales for lunch after 1:00:24.400 --> 1:00:27.120 the preacher's sermon and not even think about what I said, 1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:29.440 or turn on some game, all the games are off. 1:00:29.480 --> 1:00:31.440 Now you got to talk about God for fifteen minutes 1:00:31.440 --> 1:00:35.600 after I get done preaching, and you know you're too 1:00:35.600 --> 1:00:37.959 scared to go shopping on Amazon. So just talk about 1:00:37.960 --> 1:00:43.320 the sermon because God is with me, not just to 1:00:43.360 --> 1:00:47.760 get me through it. He's my guy. He's with me 1:00:47.800 --> 1:00:54.480 in it. That's the message. That's why it's called the 1:00:54.640 --> 1:01:01.000 Arc of His Presence. Consecrate yourself today, be present. God's 1:01:01.040 --> 1:01:04.800 calling us the greater presence, not less. Be careful that 1:01:04.840 --> 1:01:07.600 you don't sit there and go like, oh, I'm so connected, 1:01:07.920 --> 1:01:13.800 I'm so connected. I'm so connected. Connection is about depth, 1:01:14.440 --> 1:01:17.640 not about bread, And in this moment, I believe God 1:01:17.680 --> 1:01:20.000 wants to connect with us in a deep way, deep 1:01:20.000 --> 1:01:23.680 way and do a deep work in our lives. People 1:01:23.760 --> 1:01:27.120 do amazing things among you, things you don't even know 1:01:27.200 --> 1:01:29.960 to ask for. Ephesians three twenty. God give them a miracle. 1:01:30.880 --> 1:01:32.800 There's a mom right now that needs a miracle. There's 1:01:32.840 --> 1:01:38.760 someone who can't get to their mom or dad. They're 1:01:38.800 --> 1:01:40.400 not able to be with them physically. They need a 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:43.040 miracle from you. Give it to them. But not when 1:01:43.040 --> 1:01:48.120 it's over. While I'm in it. There's a miracle in it. 1:01:50.240 --> 1:01:53.200 Because the Bible says that the Jordan is at flood 1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:55.480 stage all during harvest. There was no way that they 1:01:55.520 --> 1:01:58.480 could have crossed it on their own go ahead and 1:01:58.560 --> 1:02:01.160 begin to minister lj. As soon as the priests who 1:02:01.160 --> 1:02:04.960 carried the art reached the Jordan and their feet touched 1:02:04.960 --> 1:02:13.120 the water's edge, the water upstream stopped flowing. When God 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:18.000 said stop, the water was cut off when God said stop. 1:02:18.040 --> 1:02:21.680 You see it. When God says stop, the Jordan river 1:02:21.760 --> 1:02:25.480 had to obey him. When Jesus said stop, the storm 1:02:25.520 --> 1:02:29.120 had to cease. But before he stopped what was happening 1:02:29.160 --> 1:02:32.040 outside the boat, he had to stop what was happening 1:02:32.120 --> 1:02:36.840 inside their heart. I believe God is saying stop today 1:02:37.680 --> 1:02:41.680 to the terrorist of anxiety that had been ruining your 1:02:41.720 --> 1:02:46.040 imagination and interrupting your rest. It said. As soon as 1:02:46.080 --> 1:02:51.640 their feet touched, the water from upstream stopped flowing. And 1:02:51.680 --> 1:02:54.600 when God said stop, the water that was in front 1:02:54.640 --> 1:02:58.160 of them, the thing that was keeping them separated, stopped 1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:02.160 flowing and piled up in a keep a great distance away. 1:03:02.720 --> 1:03:04.920 I love the word of God. It's in the distance. 1:03:04.960 --> 1:03:07.439 See God's going to keep it at a distance. God 1:03:07.520 --> 1:03:09.600 is going to get you through this, and He is 1:03:09.720 --> 1:03:12.480 using distance right now as a gift to call us 1:03:12.480 --> 1:03:15.280 closer to himself. Do you see it. It's the revelation 1:03:15.520 --> 1:03:19.880 right there in the text, and it stopped flowing opposite Jericho, 1:03:20.000 --> 1:03:24.880 verse seventeen, thank you for your word, Lord, and the 1:03:24.920 --> 1:03:27.520 priest who carried the ark of the Covenant of the Lord. 1:03:27.560 --> 1:03:31.360 What did they do? Stopped in the middle of the 1:03:31.440 --> 1:03:35.200 Jordan and stood on dry ground. Get sick, because we're 1:03:35.200 --> 1:03:36.840 going to worship in a minute. We don't worship when 1:03:36.880 --> 1:03:38.960 we get through hard things. We worship while we're in them. 1:03:39.800 --> 1:03:45.000 And stood on dry ground while all Israel passed by 1:03:45.080 --> 1:03:49.200 until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground. 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:53.480 Oh yeah, we're going to get through this. We're going 1:03:53.560 --> 1:03:58.440 to get through this. That's not the question. The question 1:03:58.600 --> 1:04:02.959 is why did the pri stop in the middle. See, 1:04:02.960 --> 1:04:05.600 God had told Joshua was something very important that he's 1:04:05.640 --> 1:04:08.600 been speaking to me. It's not just that you get 1:04:08.640 --> 1:04:13.560 through it, it's that you take something from it. When 1:04:13.600 --> 1:04:16.520 the priest stopped, God said, stop right in the middle, 1:04:17.280 --> 1:04:19.400 stop right now, and say, this is the day the 1:04:19.400 --> 1:04:22.840 Lord has made. We can't take things for granted anymore, y'all. 1:04:23.040 --> 1:04:26.520 This morning is a miracle, His mercies are a miracle. 1:04:26.960 --> 1:04:29.960 We can't take it for granted anymore. More. So God says, 1:04:30.000 --> 1:04:33.320 stop in the middle of it and stop projecting, and 1:04:33.880 --> 1:04:36.080 stop living in what it was and worrying about what 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:40.600 it will be. Stop right here in the middle. And 1:04:40.640 --> 1:04:44.560 they each took out a stone and they carried it 1:04:44.600 --> 1:04:48.800 to the other side. So I declare over your life today. Now. 1:04:48.800 --> 1:04:51.640 I want you to receive this right now. I don't 1:04:51.640 --> 1:04:54.360 care if you're watching this with five other people and 1:04:54.400 --> 1:04:57.680 three of them are eating pancakes. One of them's on 1:04:57.720 --> 1:05:00.960 their phone. This word is for you. For you, God 1:05:01.000 --> 1:05:04.320 is saying, stop. There has been a spirit of fear 1:05:04.600 --> 1:05:07.520 that has been washing over you, has been keeping you 1:05:07.560 --> 1:05:09.840 from your piece, has been robbing you of your joy. 1:05:10.120 --> 1:05:12.680 You've been living in a fictional tomorrow. And right now 1:05:12.720 --> 1:05:16.400 God says, stop and make the decision. I'm going to 1:05:16.480 --> 1:05:20.560 trust God in it, and I'm not going to miss 1:05:20.600 --> 1:05:27.680 the miracle of today because I'm living in tomorrow. God. 1:05:27.720 --> 1:05:33.400 We thank you for miracles in your presence. We thank 1:05:33.440 --> 1:05:37.880 you that even right now, connections are being repaired, homes 1:05:37.920 --> 1:05:41.440 are being rebuilt. I thank you that in the months 1:05:41.440 --> 1:05:47.360 to come, you're going to give strategies, innovation, ideas, creativity, wisdom, 1:05:47.520 --> 1:05:51.360 unity to your people. Do it, God, do it. God. 1:05:52.360 --> 1:05:56.480 We are positioned for a miracle. Your presence is with us. 1:05:56.560 --> 1:06:01.680 You are not far away, you are within us. You 1:06:01.760 --> 1:06:07.760 made a covenant. You keep your word. You never break 1:06:07.800 --> 1:06:12.000 your promise, and we believe you right now, not when 1:06:12.000 --> 1:06:16.160 it's over, right now, not when we get through it. 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:20.480 Right now, somebody saying in the chat, right now, a 1:06:20.600 --> 1:06:25.840 miracle can happen right now. Grace is available right now, 1:06:25.960 --> 1:06:28.840 just like your next breath is here. God's presence is here. 1:06:29.080 --> 1:06:31.200 Not only is he gonna get me through this, but 1:06:31.320 --> 1:06:33.560 I declare in the name of the Lord, I'm gonna 1:06:33.600 --> 1:06:37.600 have better priorities. I'm gonna have more peace. I'm going 1:06:37.680 --> 1:06:41.080 deeper in my walk with God. I'm gonna get through this. 1:06:41.560 --> 1:06:44.479 I'm not waiting till I'm on the other side to sing. 1:06:45.000 --> 1:06:48.760 I know my Redeemer lives. He is with me, He 1:06:48.960 --> 1:06:52.320 is for me. He is more than enough. And we 1:06:52.480 --> 1:06:58.840 declare Miracles over your house, miracles over your children, miracles 1:06:59.080 --> 1:07:08.800 in your body, miracles in your minds, miracles, provision, peace, joy, love, perspective. 1:07:08.920 --> 1:07:14.320 He do it, God, U do it. God. We see 1:07:14.360 --> 1:07:17.320 the arc of your cousins, the speering in the name 1:07:17.480 --> 1:07:23.560 of blood. Come on, lift your hair right in that room. Here, 1:07:24.480 --> 1:07:29.600 His cousins is here. He has enough. He is enough 1:07:29.760 --> 1:07:34.720 for the se He is enough. Here is enough by 1:07:34.840 --> 1:07:41.760 Gods toe Hopedzion, the habit Shamah. The Lord is pressive. 1:07:42.720 --> 1:07:46.600 It is here the s Lift your hairs. There's an 1:07:46.680 --> 1:07:50.560 annoyed things. There's an annoyed thing that breaks say anxiety. 1:07:51.320 --> 1:07:53.840 This an annoyed thing that breaks the fact of saying, 1:07:54.840 --> 1:08:01.560 had declaring his presence for the seer. Come on, words 1:08:01.600 --> 1:08:06.840 of them, not Homie, words of them London, see worse 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:10.880 of them, words of them, words of l God, lift 1:08:11.000 --> 1:08:15.320 your hands, sleep up there come what there It comes 1:08:15.560 --> 1:08:18.080 right in the middle of the dr write, in the 1:08:18.120 --> 1:08:21.240 middle of the crisis, right in the middle of the start. 1:08:22.080 --> 1:08:26.080 Pace to your mind. They see your heart. Pease see 1:08:26.120 --> 1:08:30.720 your mind, pea, stee your heart for right now no 1:08:30.960 --> 1:08:34.920 ci ask for you, and they cannot sease at be 1:08:35.240 --> 1:08:39.320 a pencil. 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