1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: And I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God has moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. You may be seated. 8 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 2: Welcome to week one of a brand new sermons series 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: called Triggered, and we're going to be discussing some things, 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: some different teachings to help you take your mind back 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: and not just give territory over to the devil in 12 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: the area of your imagination and so that he fills 13 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 2: you with all of these hypothetical scenarios that may or 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 2: may not ever happen, keeping you from enjoying the life 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 2: God has given you, more importantly, stewarding the life that 16 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 2: God has. 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: Given you for His glory. 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: And we're so excited to get it started today, and 19 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: I want to make the best use of our time possible. 20 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: I know here at Valentine they were saying it was 21 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: kind of difficult to get in, probably not at all 22 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 2: the campuses, but there was more traffic than usual, and 23 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: so you should thank God for that because Not only 24 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: is that more people hearing the message of Jesus Christ, 25 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: but it's also a good preparation for a sermon about anxiety. 26 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 2: And so we're just looking out for you and helping 27 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 2: you get in the right mind frame. But let's go 28 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: to the word of God now. And obviously I'm no psychologists. 29 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: I'm just a Bible preacher from Monks Corner, South Carolina, 30 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 2: And with a little bit of knowledge that I have 31 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 2: about the scriptures and life experience, I want to show 32 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 2: you something today that I think will be so helpful 33 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 2: from on Peter chapter five, verses five through nine. And 34 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 2: I'm going to go and tell you there's only one 35 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 2: verse in this whole passage that I actually like. I 36 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: believe all of it, and I know that I'm supposed 37 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: to do all of it. But from the natural standpoint 38 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: of my mind, there's only one verse that appeals to me. 39 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: And you'll see what I'm saying when I read it. 40 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: Of course, we can't talk about triggered without paying a 41 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: visit to Peter. Easily the most triggered disciple that Jesus 42 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: called cussing and cutting off people's ears and stuff. 43 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: But he's calmed down by the time. 44 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: He writes this letter to the gentiles who are assimilating 45 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 2: into the Greco Roman world, and he has some great 46 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: advice for us concerning our anxiety and our cares. Not 47 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: that you have any, but someone on your row worries 48 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: too much. Not that you do, but they think about stuff. 49 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 2: They make little movies in their minds, and they edit 50 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 2: together things that didn't actually happen, and then they tell 51 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: themselves that that's how it really is. 52 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: So that's what I'm helping today. 53 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: I'm sorry you had to come here a sermon design 54 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: for someone else, But Peter was actually talking to a 55 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: church that was undergoing a great deal of persecution, and 56 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 2: he has some experience from wisdom, and I want to 57 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: share his words with you today and pray that God 58 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 2: will speak to you personally. 59 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: He says, first Peter ter five, verse five, I humble yourselves? 60 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: What did I say? Verse five? 61 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: In the same way, you who are younger submit yourselves 62 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 2: to your elders. Almost skip that verse, but it's great 63 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 2: verse that I like as a parent. All of you 64 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 2: clothe yourselves with humility toward one another. 65 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: Because God opposes the prow. 66 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 2: But shows favor to the humble, humble, yourselves, therefore, under 67 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: God's mighty hand. 68 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: I like how he says that. 69 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 2: He says God lines up on the other side of 70 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 2: human pride. So if you want to be on the 71 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: same side of the ball as God, you got to 72 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: make sure that you come in at the right level 73 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 2: and realize that you are not him, that you are 74 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: the creation, not the Creator. Humble yourselves therefore under God's 75 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 76 00:03:53,440 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 2: Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. 77 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: If ever there was a verse to cross stitch and 78 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: to put on a coffee mug, it's one Peter five seven. 79 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: That's the one I like, in case you're wondering. 80 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 81 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: Really enjoy that verse feels good? Be alert. Verse eight 82 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: I don't like so much. And of sober mind. 83 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 2: Your enemy, the devil brows around like a roaring lion 84 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 2: looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in 85 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: the faith because you know that the family of believers 86 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. 87 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: And I want to stop right there and talk to 88 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 2: you for a few moments today in this opening foundational 89 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: session in our study called Triggered on this subject, I 90 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 2: want to talk about lions and lizards and lies. Lions 91 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: and lizards and lies. And before you say, oh my, 92 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: let me put you in the frame of mind of 93 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: me five or six years ago when I called a 94 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 2: pastor who. 95 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: Is older and wiser than me. 96 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 2: And I wasn't having like a nervous breakdown from a 97 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 2: clinical standpoint, or a panic attack as I understand a 98 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 2: panic attack. 99 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: But just feeling overwhelmed. 100 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: Not in the clinical sense was I experiencing anxiety, but 101 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 2: in the everyday sense of adulthood. And I think sometimes 102 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: we say we're suffering anxiety when we're really just suffering adulthood. 103 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 2: And I called him in my driveway in the house 104 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 2: we lived in at the time in mint Hill, and 105 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 2: I was doing this thing that I was doing a 106 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 2: lot during that period where I would sit in the 107 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 2: driveway between work and home because my kids were really small, 108 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 2: and I couldn't figure out which one was more work 109 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 2: or home because at work I'm the boss, and at 110 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 2: home my kids weren't calling me pastor at that stage. 111 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 2: And so I was sitting in the driveway and I thought, 112 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 2: you know, I'm just gonna call him and I'm gonna 113 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 2: ask him, and I don't care what he thinks, because 114 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: you get to a certain point of being overwhelmed, it. 115 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: Just all spills out. 116 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 2: And when I started talking to him, I started, you 117 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 2: know how when you're trying to tell somebody you're struggling. 118 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: And you share with them in little slivers. 119 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: And you try to see if anything you say shocks them, 120 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: and if it feels like it shocks them, you back 121 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: up and you go, well, I'm not struggling with that, 122 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: but I'm saying like some people do. 123 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 1: And you kind of feel your way into a conversation, 124 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: at least I do. 125 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 2: And it's like I was telling him I'm kind of overwhelmed, 126 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 2: and he didn't judge me, and I said, and this 127 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: is how I feel, and he didn't judge me. And 128 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 2: so every time he didn't judge me and I didn't 129 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: feel like he was surprised, I would share a little more, 130 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,559 Speaker 2: and share a little more, and share a little more. 131 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: And by the end of it, I'm in my driveway 132 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 2: crying on the phone to him, telling him how overwhelmed 133 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: I feel being you know, just in my early thirties 134 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: past during a church that was larger than the town 135 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: I grew up in. Imagine that and then with kids, 136 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: and he actually laughed in the middle of me crying 137 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: to him. He laughed, and I can't explain why, but 138 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 2: it was the most comforting thing he could have done 139 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: in that moment. And what he said next is just 140 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: what I needed to hear, and I know God put 141 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: it in his mouth so I could hear it. And 142 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 2: he said, I'm not surprised that you called me and 143 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: said this. I'm not surprised that you're melting down. I'm 144 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 2: surprised you didn't call me sooner. And partially he was 145 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: saying that because, you know, as our church grew, obviously 146 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: the pressure's mount with it. And he was also saying 147 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 2: it from a stage of life standpoint that look, every 148 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: father feels relatively worthless at some point in the early 149 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: stages of their children's visit to planet Earth, and it 150 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: takes time to learn how to interact with aliens. And 151 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 2: by the end of the call, I just felt better, 152 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 2: just because he. 153 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: Said it's supposed to be this way. 154 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 2: You're supposed to struggle. And when he said I was 155 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 2: supposed to struggle, the struggle didn't go away, but the 156 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 2: fact that I was no longer surprised by it made. 157 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: Me more able to deal with it. 158 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 2: And God has been speaking to me recently that I 159 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: am too surprised by my struggles, and part of the 160 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 2: reason that I struggle so much is because I'm surprised 161 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 2: when I do. It's as if we've set an expectation 162 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 2: of salvation that if we come to Jesus and lay 163 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 2: all our burdens at the foot of the cross, that 164 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 2: none of them will climb back in the car. 165 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: With us and go home. 166 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: But how many have ever laid your burdens down in 167 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 2: church and found out that they followed you home. 168 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: With the few friends you never met before. 169 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 2: And it's like I came to Jesus to get rid 170 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 2: of my struggles, But. 171 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: My struggle didn't even start. 172 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: Until I came to Jesus, Because before I came to Jesus, 173 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 2: if I wanted to cuss you out, I just cussed 174 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 2: you out and I felt better. Didn't care how you 175 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 2: felt or what God thought. I felt better and that's 176 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: all that mattered. But now I got this Holy ghost 177 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 2: on the inside of me, and when I cuss he 178 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 2: makes me feel bad about it. Now I can't sleep 179 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: till I apologize to you. And it got harder, So 180 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 2: Peter says. Peter says, everybody's struggling. Everybody around the world 181 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: is suffering. You have to take the two together. You 182 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 2: can't come to a cross for salvation where the Savior 183 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: suffered for you and never expect to suffer in your 184 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 2: desire to follow him and be like him. Tell the 185 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 2: person next to you, You're supposed to suffer some. 186 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: That's what Jesus said, That's that's that's what the. 187 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 2: CEO said, CEO of the Galaxies, the Sea, the Man 188 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 2: said that. 189 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: The Master of the Milky Way said that. He said, 190 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: if they hated me, what makes you think you're always. 191 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 2: Going to be popular and liked and accepted. So I 192 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 2: pray that's inspirational for you to know that you are 193 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 2: supposed to suffer. 194 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: But it helps us. It helps us because. 195 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 2: The enemy often operates in our lives in the secrecy, 196 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: and and you know it's very sneaky. 197 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: The enemy's sneaky, and so he wants to sneak up 198 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: on you. 199 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 2: And you think life is supposed to be easy because 200 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 2: life looks easy for everyone else, but. 201 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: You don't know, you have no idea. It is easy 202 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: for you. It's easy for you, preacher, when you get 203 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: up here and preach. 204 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: You know, you don't know, and I don't know your struggle, 205 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 2: but I know I know that there are some struggles 206 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: and some sufferings that come with the package. And so 207 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: the call to follow Christ comes with a cross. We 208 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 2: get that, and especially in this time, Peter is like, look, 209 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 2: you want to be a part of this movement, The 210 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 2: only way to really see the glory of God revealed 211 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 2: is to suffer, sometimes, to suffer, to sit with your 212 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 2: suffering and even with your sadness. Now we're setting the 213 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 2: wrong expected. We're teaching people they can get swollen without 214 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 2: getting sore. Supposed to hurt, sometimes, supposed to strain. Sometimes 215 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 2: that's the spiritual muscle fibers breaking down so they can 216 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 2: grow back together stronger, or something like that. 217 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. 218 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: And so what surprises me is that knowing that we 219 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 2: must suffer sometimes because our saviors suffered. And let's be honest, 220 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 2: some of our suffering is not because of our Christian faith. 221 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: It's because of our You said it, he said, because 222 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: we're stupid. I didn't say that. I wasn't going to 223 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: talk to the guests like that. 224 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 2: There's a lot of first timers here today. 225 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: I was going to say, sometimes we suffer. 226 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 2: Because of poor decisions and we were ill equipped to fit, 227 00:12:58,920 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 2: but you said stupid. 228 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: I'll go with it. Sometimes we suffer because we're stupid. 229 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 2: And it surprises me that with all the suffering that 230 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 2: we already have to deal with, that we somehow as 231 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 2: a species will invent new ways for ourselves to suffer 232 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 2: and experience pain and call it progress. 233 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: As if it's not enough to. 234 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 2: Worry about in the world, we invent, you know, torture device. 235 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 2: I mean communication devices that keep us constantly connected to 236 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 2: everyone's opinion, everyone's offenses, and we feed on stuff. The 237 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 2: enemy is looking for someone to devour. We feed on stuff, 238 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 2: and we feed our minds with things that eat our 239 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 2: peace alive. 240 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: And then we pray for. 241 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 2: God to give us peace after we open the front 242 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: door and let the enemy show his fangs and stood 243 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 2: right there. 244 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: So I'm really praying. 245 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 2: I'm really praying that God would show us a strategy 246 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: for this, because it seems to me that some suffering 247 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: is inevitable, but certain suffering, like the suffering of our 248 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: shame and the suffering of our sin that Jesus already 249 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 2: paid for is dealt with, And so wouldn't it be 250 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 2: unthinkable for us, as God's children to suffer under pressure 251 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 2: that He never intended for us. We live in a 252 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: culture of performance. The interesting thing about First Peter five 253 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: point seven is that it preaches so well as a 254 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: singular verse. Even when I was a little boy, my 255 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 2: mom used to play me this tape of salty the 256 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 2: Singing Songbook, Salty like psalms, ps salt see, not like 257 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: your teenagers salty, but like salt. Yeah, not like that 258 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 2: girl work, but salty the Singing song Book. And he 259 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 2: had one song on there, and I used to fall 260 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 2: asleep to this song. If I can remember, I will 261 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 2: cast it was on this verse all my cares upon you. 262 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: I ley all of my burdens down at your feet. 263 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: And any time I don't know what to do, salty 264 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: falsetto uh, I will. 265 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 3: Cast all my cares upon you. 266 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: Boom boom, walk down. 267 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 3: I will cast all my cares upon you. 268 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: Could you play it? 269 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 3: I lay all of my burdens down at your feet. 270 00:15:54,720 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 3: In any time I don't know what to do, I 271 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 3: will cast oh my cares. 272 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: So I start saying that it's so sweet. 273 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 2: I like verse seven. I like verse seven. I wish 274 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 2: I didn't have to be bothered with six and eight. 275 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: You know, these Bible. 276 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 2: Verses were not in there when Peter wrote the letter. 277 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: It was just a letter. It was one thing. 278 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: In fact, let me show you something, and I showed 279 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 2: this a few years ago to the church, but you 280 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 2: weren't here yet when I was teaching this, and we 281 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: need to catch up because this is one of the craziest, 282 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 2: most mind blowing things God ever showed me. 283 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: And I actually I brought two Bibles to church today. Yeah, 284 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: that's right. 285 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 2: I'm gonna preach twice as long. No, I'm gonna get 286 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: you out on time. But this is a double barrel 287 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 2: revelation that God gave me. And one translation of it, 288 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: it breaks it up the one that we read from. 289 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: Put that one up there again from the new International version. 290 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 2: He says, cast all your anxiety on him because He 291 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 2: cares for you. And it's a capital C, and it's 292 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 2: a new sentence and a new thought, and it's a 293 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,120 Speaker 2: promise that we can claim, or rather it's a command 294 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 2: that we can obey. 295 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: And I like it. 296 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 4: I like casting all this stuff I like casting all 297 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 4: these cares, like Salty said in the King James version, 298 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: I like casting all of that on him. 299 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 2: All the stuff that I don't want to deal with, 300 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 2: and all the stuff that I can't control anyway. 301 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: I like to just give that over to the Lord. 302 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: I like to just lay it all at his feet. 303 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: But in the. 304 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 2: Original language of the Bible, and this is what God 305 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 2: showed me a few years ago, is that verse seven 306 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 2: was not a new sentence. It was a continuation of 307 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 2: verse six. And when you read it as a continuation, 308 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 2: it helps you to understand why sometimes we're trying to 309 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: cast our anxiety on God and they keep coming back 310 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 2: like a boomerang with extra velocity, because we are trying 311 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 2: to skip to seven, which we want, without six, which 312 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 2: we resist. 313 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: Now, Verse six. 314 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 2: Starts by saying, humble yourselves. See, I don't like that. 315 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 2: I want to be the star of the production. I 316 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 2: want to be the MVP of the game. I want 317 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 2: everybody to accommodate my preferences. I want people to read 318 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: my mind. I want to be the center of other 319 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 2: people's affection. I don't want to humble myself. I'm not 320 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 2: even sure I really know what it means, because all 321 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 2: I ever see humble is a hashtag where people are 322 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 2: bragging about something and then hashtagging it humbled, like that 323 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 2: makes it humble when you follow your bragging with a hashtag. 324 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 2: But for Peter, humble was not a hashtag. Peter said, 325 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 2: humble is a way of seeing the hand of God 326 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 2: in history that knows, I'm just a small part of this. 327 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: I'm just a little dot, I'm just a little I'm 328 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: a little tiny, I'm a little. 329 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 2: Bitty, little bitty, little bitty, little bitty child of God 330 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: in his Stronghand so humble yourselves therefore under the mighty 331 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: hand of God, so that at the proper time He 332 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 2: may exalt you. 333 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: What a relevant verse. 334 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 2: I feel like Peter must have been able to see 335 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 2: into the year twenty eighteen and see that we would 336 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 2: be living in an age of self promotion, See that 337 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 2: we'd be living in an age where, rather than praying 338 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 2: for opportunities, we would post before we prayed, Rather than 339 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 2: sitting back and listening and learning from people who have 340 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 2: something to teach us, we would be so intoxicated on 341 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 2: our own opinions and our own point of view, and 342 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 2: we would be so sucked into algorithms and echo chambers 343 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 2: of people who think just like us and speak just 344 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 2: like us, and before long we would be inebriated our 345 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 2: own vantage point, inebriated by images. He says, humble yourself 346 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 2: under the mighty hand of God, so that at the 347 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 2: proper time he may exalt you. And then if you're 348 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 2: willing to go through six, you get to seven. And 349 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 2: they're not separated by a period, just a comma lowercase. 350 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: See, if you will humble yourself, this is the foundational 351 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: message for this series. To take back your mind. You 352 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: got to humble your heart. 353 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 2: And when you do that, when you humble yourself under 354 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 2: the mighty hand of God. 355 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 356 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 2: What kind of image is Peter trying to vote well 357 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 2: for a Jewish person? The hand of God recalls the 358 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: sovereign act of God when he rescued his children from 359 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 2: Egyptian slavery. 360 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: And there when God spoke. 361 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 2: To Moses, he said, you know, Pharaoh is not going 362 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 2: to let the people go unless a mighty hand compels him. 363 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 2: This is Exodus chapter three, unless a mighty hand, there's 364 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: the phrase, compels him. And so the hand of God 365 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 2: for us is mostly a comforting image sentimental, but symbolically 366 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 2: for the people reading this who had a little bit 367 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: of background, they would know that the hand of God 368 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 2: is confrontational, that God opposes the proud but gives grace 369 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 2: to the humble, and they come from the same hand. See, 370 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,959 Speaker 2: God will use the same hand to oppose the proud 371 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 2: that he will use to distribute grace to the humble. 372 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 2: And my question is what do you want to be 373 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 2: on the receiving end of the posture of your heart 374 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 2: determines that. And yet there's a little bit of confusion 375 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 2: because you know, it seems like we want God's hand 376 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 2: to do certain things for us. Like I like the 377 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 2: hand of God when it is filled with his provision, 378 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 2: you know, like I want what is in God's hand 379 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: that I can't give myself. Just a show of hands 380 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 2: while we're ting my hands. How many have seen God 381 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 2: provide for you in a special way and you were 382 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: suspecting this had to be God, This could not be me, 383 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 2: This could not be people. Wave your hand if you've 384 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 2: ever seen God provide for you, and I don't just 385 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 2: mean money to make a car payment or to you know, 386 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 2: make the deposit on the apartment. When you first got married, 387 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 2: It could be God gave you energy when you were 388 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 2: so exhausted and you didn't even know how you were 389 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 2: still going and people would ask you how, and you 390 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 2: would make something up. But deep down you knew if 391 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 2: I really told him how, they wouldn't understand it, because 392 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 2: there's an invisible hand of God that is making things 393 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 2: happen that I can't even explain. 394 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: So I like the provision. You know how he broke 395 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: the bread in his hands, and Peter was there when 396 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: Jesus broke the bread and with his hands, So he 397 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: might have been flashing back to that incident when he said, 398 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: the mighty hand of God that can provide for you, 399 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: or maybe he was thinking about the hand of God 400 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: in terms of God's protection. How God drove back the. 401 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 2: Sea with his hand so as people could cross through 402 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 2: till they got safely through. Now, if you've ever had 403 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: God protect you from you. 404 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: You're grateful for the hand of God. 405 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 2: If you've ever had God protect you from people that 406 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 2: were in your life. In fact, sometimes the way that 407 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 2: God will protect you is to. 408 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: Reach down and remove you from situation that you like. 409 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 2: That you are actually praying for God to leave you in, 410 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 2: and God will sometimes reach down and say. 411 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 3: I know more than you. 412 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 2: I'm big, you're little, I'm wise, you're limited, I'm infinite, 413 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 2: your finite. So come with me. 414 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put. 415 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 2: You over here because I know if you stay with them, 416 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 2: I know where. 417 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna lead. And Peter says, you. 418 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 2: Can either fight that or you can go with it 419 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 2: because it's the hand of God. 420 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 1: It's the hand how many have ever had God protect you? 421 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 2: And I want him to provide for me, and I 422 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 2: want him to protect, protection and provision. But there's a 423 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 2: third dimension of God's hand and that is his plan. 424 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 2: And that's the. 425 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: Part that I have a harder time with because I 426 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: like my plan. 427 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 2: Why are you looking at me like you totally trust 428 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 2: God that his way is better than yours. You know, 429 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 2: half of our prayer life is trying to convince God 430 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 2: to get on the same page we're on so he 431 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 2: can do what we want him to do that he 432 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 2: should have already done, and he's running a little behind schedule. 433 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 2: But we'll forgive you for that. Lord, if you just 434 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 2: come on and do it right now, it's okay. You 435 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 2: got a lots you're taken care of. I get confused, honestly, 436 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 2: I get confused because sometimes I don't know what part 437 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 2: is God's job and what part. 438 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: Is my job. 439 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 2: And it's not always so simple humble yourself under the 440 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 2: mighty hand of God. But then you know, God told Moses, 441 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to bring you out with a mighty hand. 442 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 2: It's going to be my hand that brings you out. 443 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 2: And then he asks him, what's that in your hand? 444 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 2: And so it seems to be like two hands at 445 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,719 Speaker 2: work here. And the issue is the issue is always 446 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 2: who is in control. A lot of my anxiety comes 447 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 2: because I get confused about who is in control, and 448 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 2: I get responsibility confused with sovereignty. So I start thinking 449 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 2: that because God has given me responsibility, that God has 450 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: also given me control. 451 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: And that's where I get stressed out. 452 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 2: And a lot of my anxiety comes from making it 453 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 2: about me when it's not about me, making it about 454 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 2: my strength, when it's not about my strength. It's not 455 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 2: by Mike nor by power, but by his spirit. But 456 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 2: I know God's given me a job, like I know 457 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 2: that when I stand before you like this and people 458 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 2: in the room are suicidal, and people in the room 459 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 2: are addicted not only to illegal drugs, but some are 460 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 2: dependent on. 461 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: On drugs that at first they were. 462 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 2: Taking the recommended dosage, but now it's gone far beyond that. 463 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 2: And when I know that there are some of you 464 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 2: who have not slept in three nights except for a 465 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 2: few minutes here and they're hearing this message, I know 466 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 2: that I can't say the words that you need. I 467 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 2: need God to speak through me to you. 468 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: And I always pray for. 469 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: That because I know how disappointing it's going to be 470 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 2: if I speak. 471 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: I know that I need to move my mouth, and. 472 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 2: I know that I need my vocal cords need to 473 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 2: rub together, and I know that I need to produce 474 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 2: a sound. But I know that I need the substance 475 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 2: of God behind the sound that I make. I need 476 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 2: God to speak. I know you did not load up 477 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 2: those demons. I mean, precious children, blessings, quiver full of 478 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 2: arrows from the Lord, and get to this house of 479 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 2: worship today in Gaston or you see, or Lake Norman. 480 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 2: You did not log on to hear me speak. You 481 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 2: need God to speak, and I believe that God will. 482 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 2: I believe he is speaking. I believe he wants to speak. 483 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 2: I believe he still speaks. I don't believe he spoke 484 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 2: one time in the past, and now we got this 485 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 2: dusty book full of principles that applied at one time 486 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 2: but don't make sense in a modern age. I don't 487 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 2: believe God is outdated or irrelevant. I don't believe I 488 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 2: need busfeed to tell me what's. 489 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: Going on in the world. 490 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 2: I got my Bible, and it's living and it's active, 491 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,719 Speaker 2: and it can penetrate. 492 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: Through all the noise. 493 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 2: So I know we need God to speak in his 494 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 2: word doesn't return boy, and God will speak, but God 495 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 2: won't study. 496 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: I gotta study. 497 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 2: God won't show me whether the sentence was one sentence 498 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 2: or two sentences. 499 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: He gave me books for that. 500 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 2: He inspired me, So I cant figure out sometimes and 501 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 2: sometimes I feel like I'm a control free and sometimes 502 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 2: I feel it gets in a way I really do. I 503 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 2: feel gets in a way. I feel like I want to 504 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 2: control things. I want to control people. I'm manipulative and 505 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 2: I see it and I hate it, but I do. 506 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 2: It is a habit. And I know that God's hand 507 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: is the hand that has is really moving things around. 508 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 2: But you know, I want to put my hand on 509 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 2: God's hand and just kind of nuts. 510 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: I so holy. 511 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 2: Sometimes you know sometimes God needs a little help because 512 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 2: he's just. 513 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: Peter is writing from experience. He didn't come by humility easy. 514 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: That's why I like to listen to him, because he 515 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 2: didn't always think this way. 516 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: Like when Jesus was getting ready to go to the cross. 517 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 2: He told his disciples, He's like, hey, come here, this 518 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 2: is Matthew sixteen twenty one. 519 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: Give it to us on the screen. 520 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 2: Jesus said, I have to go to Jerusalem and suffer 521 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 2: many things at the hands of the elders. At this point, 522 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 2: Peter didn't think that the Savior was supposed to suffer. 523 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 2: It did not Jesus mission did not that his mindset. 524 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 2: He was still confused about whose hand was writing the schedule, 525 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 2: and so Peter, in a younger version of himself, did 526 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 2: not know how to humble himself under the hand of 527 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 2: God or the plan of God. 528 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: He liked the provision. Hey, Jesus, don't go die, Let's 529 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: go feed some more people. That was awesome when you 530 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: did it. 531 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 2: That little boy, he was so happy, Jesus, it was amazing, 532 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 2: and we got his stare. 533 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 1: Everybody got it in the bag of leftover. So it's crazy. 534 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: You don't have to die. Watch what Peter did. Jesus said, 535 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: I gotta go. I gotta suffer. It's a part of 536 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: the plan. I gotta fulfill the plan. I can't get 537 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: caught up in my preferences. 538 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 2: I can't get caught up in my ideas, my expectations, 539 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 2: or the expectations of others. 540 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: I didn't come to be an earthly king. 541 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 2: I came to inaugurate a reign and a rule that 542 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 2: is not the result. 543 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: Of human hands. 544 00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 2: And Peter verse twenty two took Jesus aside, put Jesus 545 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 2: in time out. The same dude that was saying, you know, 546 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 2: humble yourself. This is like you telling your kids not 547 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 2: to do exactly what you did when you were their age. 548 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 2: Peter said to Jesus, younger Peter, first half of life. 549 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 2: Peter says, Lord, never, this shall never happen to you. 550 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: I won't let it if they try. I got a sword, 551 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: and they got an ear, and watch what I can do. 552 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: I got a plan. Let's go work my plan. 553 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 2: And verse twenty three says Jesus turned and said to Peter, 554 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 2: get behind me. 555 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: Satan. Oh that's a downgrade. He went from Simon to Peter. 556 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: That was his first name. Simon is kind of like shifty, 557 00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: and Peter is the row. 558 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 5: So he goes from Duayanne Johnson in one verse to 559 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 5: Satan in the next verse, and he says, you are 560 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 5: a stumbling block. 561 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: To me. 562 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 2: You do not have in mind in mind the concerns 563 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 2: of God, but merely human concerns. You still think you're 564 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: in control, and that's why your mind is a mess, 565 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 2: because you are still trying to control things that are 566 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 2: beyond your pay grade. 567 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: Peter, You're confused. We get confused. Sometimes I don't know 568 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: when to let go. I don't when Sometimes I don't 569 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: do this very much. 570 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 2: Because I've seen some really, really really horrific things happen 571 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 2: on church stages. 572 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: But sometimes I'll call somebody. 573 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 2: Up on stage and have them share, and I don't 574 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 2: know them, and I feelind of like my responsibility is 575 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 2: to control whatever happens on the stage as the pastor. 576 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 2: And so when they come up, uh, usually I'll call 577 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 2: them up and I'll ask them to share something. And 578 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 2: I do this even with our staff. I'll call them 579 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 2: and ask them to share. But one thing I learned 580 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 2: to do, I always keep keep the mic in my hands. 581 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: When they come up. 582 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 2: They think they're gonna take the mic, and but they're not. 583 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 2: I'm the MIC's fan, and I'm gonna hold this mic. 584 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 2: In case you decide that now would be a good 585 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 2: time to say something weird, I can snatch a bat 586 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 2: and I just like the feeling that it gives me 587 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 2: of being in control. In case you decide, you know, 588 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 2: I might ask you something. You say, well, when I 589 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 2: was three, we don't have time for when you were three, 590 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 2: and ask you all that, And I got the mic, 591 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 2: give it back now. So gives me a good feeling. 592 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 2: But thing is because there's crazy Christians and sometimes when 593 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 2: I call them up, I can't see their eyes. And 594 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 2: when they get closer, I'm like, oh God, I picked 595 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 2: one of those and you don't see it from a distance. 596 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 2: So I like to keep the mic and hold I 597 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 2: like to hold the mic. And but now the interesting 598 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 2: thing is I'm holding the mic. 599 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: But there's a guy that you. 600 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 2: Don't see named Neil, and Neil this week, among many 601 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 2: others that are different locations, happens to be in the 602 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 2: back of the room, sitting behind a console. And you 603 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,320 Speaker 2: know what's interesting, I'm up here talking and I'm I'm 604 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 2: I'm holding the mic. But at any moment, Neil can decide. 605 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 2: At any moment, he can decide, you know, maybe I 606 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 2: fuss at him or something like that, and he doesn't 607 00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 2: like it any. 608 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 1: Moment. Here's the principle. 609 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 2: I'm holding it, but I'm not controlling it. 610 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: They got it last night. 611 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 2: That's what I know about in my life. That's what 612 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 2: I know about my time. That's what I'm learning about 613 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 2: my money, That's what I'm learning about my children, my responsibility. 614 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 2: I'm holding it, but somebody I can't see is controlling it. 615 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 2: He's in control. He speaks in Win's obeyed, he speaks 616 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 2: in waves side down, he speaks in sea split because 617 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 2: what I can see is controlled by that hand that 618 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 2: I can't see. And now I want to humble myself 619 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,800 Speaker 2: under that mighty hand. And I'm coming to the place 620 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 2: in my life where I say, God, I don't even 621 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 2: know what I need anymore. So I trust you and 622 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 2: your timing, and I trust you and your heart, and 623 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 2: I trust you and your wisdom. 624 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: And I humble myself. 625 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 2: And as I humble myself, my anxiety goes out the 626 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 2: door with my pride and my arrogance and my plan, 627 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 2: and I become what Peter says is the goal of 628 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 2: the Christian life in verse eight, which I don't like 629 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,400 Speaker 2: any more than I like verse six. But it's on 630 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,400 Speaker 2: the other side of seven, and I want the result 631 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 2: of seven because I don't want to live with the 632 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:54,359 Speaker 2: weight of the world on my scrawny shoulders. So I 633 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 2: got to be what Peter says strange phrase. He says, 634 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 2: be alert and of ober mind. I didn't even know 635 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 2: I was drunk. 636 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: But I am. 637 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 2: Peter didn't know he was stumbling telling Jesus what Jesus 638 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:13,520 Speaker 2: needed to do. 639 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 1: He was drunk on his own. 640 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,880 Speaker 2: You see how we get intoxicated in the age we 641 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 2: live in. 642 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: Is so much information coming at us. 643 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 2: We're drunk and we don't even know it, and we 644 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:31,919 Speaker 2: can't defend ourselves, and we're getting eaten alive. God gives 645 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,479 Speaker 2: us peace, and the enemy eats right through it. Because 646 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,959 Speaker 2: he's a lion. At least that's what I always thought. 647 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 2: I thought I thought he was a lion. And this 648 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 2: week I slowed down and read the verse, and I 649 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 2: realized that the Bible never says the devil is a lion. 650 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: He's a liar. I know he's a liar. 651 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can know when the devil's lion when he's talking, 652 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 2: he's a liar, but he's. 653 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 1: Not a liar. Give me the verse. Peter says watch out. 654 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,480 Speaker 2: One translation says pay attention, wake up, or be alert 655 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:13,280 Speaker 2: and of sober mind. Here's why your enemy, the devil 656 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 2: your enemy. God's enemy is pride. Your enemy is the 657 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 2: devil who wants to fill your mind, as if we 658 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 2: don't already suffer enough, as if we don't already have 659 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 2: enough to deal with today. He wants to put you 660 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:39,720 Speaker 2: in a hypothetical tomorrow where things may or may not happen, 661 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,800 Speaker 2: or put you in a past replaying what you wish 662 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 2: you would have said to the person who offended you, 663 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,480 Speaker 2: and how many come up with great comebacks about three 664 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,439 Speaker 2: weeks too late. 665 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,320 Speaker 1: God, let me see them again. 666 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 2: Please let me see them again, and let them say 667 00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 2: it just like they said it. 668 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: I'm ready now. Ah. The devil's a lion, but he. 669 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:08,280 Speaker 2: Does not say watch out for the lion. The devil 670 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,880 Speaker 2: is not a lion. Was to say, your enemy prows 671 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 2: around like he's not a lion. He's loud like a lion, 672 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,480 Speaker 2: but he's not as powerful as a lion unless you 673 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 2: let him be And This is what I'm gonna teach 674 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,360 Speaker 2: you in the series. Are you coming back after this week? 675 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 2: Because I really want to get into this and I 676 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 2: want to look at some of the lies that we 677 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 2: have believed. In the realm of our mind. That's where 678 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,520 Speaker 2: the attack happens. We've been looking for a lion, but 679 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,480 Speaker 2: it's not a lion coming to attack us. 680 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: It's our minds. 681 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,280 Speaker 2: It's in our minds, and we've been calling the wrong 682 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,240 Speaker 2: stuff the devil. 683 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: I got a flat tire as the devil. It was 684 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 1: a nail. 685 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 2: It was a construction site. They're building houses across the street. 686 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 2: Hate a donut it was the devil. No, it was delicious. 687 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 2: It's a temple. It's the Devil's a devil. I'm under attack, 688 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 2: a spiritual warfare. I need some devil's attacking me. I mean, 689 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 2: devil's attacking you. My mother in law is coming to visit. 690 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,799 Speaker 2: That's not the devil. That's your prayer request. Remember when 691 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 2: you asked those women to pray that you would have 692 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 2: more patience. 693 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,640 Speaker 1: Well, God wrap patience in a package that. 694 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 2: Looked like your mother in law and she's about to 695 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:29,760 Speaker 2: get FedEx. 696 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 1: To your dorsetewn. God delivers that's not the devil. So 697 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:45,719 Speaker 1: now he's loud, but he's not a lion. What is he? 698 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,160 Speaker 1: I remember hearing years ago about the part of our brain. 699 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,840 Speaker 2: Again, bear with me. I know there's like neurologists in 700 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 2: the crowd. You don't make me feel bad about that. 701 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,560 Speaker 2: I won't make you feel bad about the Bible. We 702 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 2: just agree together that everybody's say in their own lane. 703 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 2: But I did hear something about in the phrase got 704 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,760 Speaker 2: my attention, called the lizard brain. 705 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,800 Speaker 1: And I wrote a book. 706 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,560 Speaker 2: One time about the chatterbox, and I think I was 707 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,080 Speaker 2: trying to talk about what they call the lizard brain. 708 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,759 Speaker 1: And I just. 709 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 2: Remembered it the other day because Abby wanted to show 710 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,920 Speaker 2: her brothers. She's our youngest child and our only daughter, 711 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 2: our smartest child. I'm just getting my sons in here. 712 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 2: But she does have a little advantage over the boys 713 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,279 Speaker 2: because she's always had to stuff it up to keep up, 714 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 2: you know, And she's superior by virtue of being female. 715 00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:59,360 Speaker 1: So she work in my pulpit when in some points. 716 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,560 Speaker 2: She wanted to go all the way across the pool 717 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,319 Speaker 2: and hold her breath, which your brothers couldn't do till 718 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:05,839 Speaker 2: they were ten. 719 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,480 Speaker 1: She's seven, so she's like, I could do it, I 720 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,160 Speaker 1: could do it. I can do it. All right, let's 721 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: do it. And she wanted everybody to see her. And 722 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:13,440 Speaker 1: I said, you could do it. 723 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 2: But just know that the lizard, the lizard brain, is 724 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,279 Speaker 2: going to be telling you that you can't do it. 725 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 2: But the lizard is lying. She said, there's a lizard 726 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,920 Speaker 2: in my brain. I said, no, baby, and I you 727 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,760 Speaker 2: know she's seven. So I just pretended to be an expert. 728 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,440 Speaker 2: I said, the human brain, the human brain, and I 729 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 2: gave her some outdated theory on the tryune brain that 730 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,239 Speaker 2: probably isn't even accepted anymore. But I was talking about 731 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,200 Speaker 2: that thing that is real in our brain that doesn't 732 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,839 Speaker 2: process at the level of wisdom, and doesn't process at 733 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 2: the level even of emotion, but processes at the level 734 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,719 Speaker 2: of fear. And they call it lizard brain, or they 735 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:01,239 Speaker 2: called it lizard brain because it's no different than a reptile, 736 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:07,239 Speaker 2: a snake, or a lizard. And so when I told her, 737 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,120 Speaker 2: don't listen to the lizard, I was explaining, you're gonna 738 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,560 Speaker 2: go down, and you're gonna think that you're gonna die, 739 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,400 Speaker 2: but you're not gonna die. Just don't listen to the lizard, 740 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,840 Speaker 2: and she went down under that water and she swam 741 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 2: clear to the other end. 742 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,160 Speaker 1: And she came up. 743 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,719 Speaker 2: She took the biggest gasp, the biggest gulp of air, 744 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,359 Speaker 2: and she was so proud, and she said, man, that 745 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,240 Speaker 2: lizard is loud. 746 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,960 Speaker 1: I said, well, what did you say back to him? 747 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,200 Speaker 2: She said, I told him, shut up, lizard. 748 00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:54,880 Speaker 1: I'm doing this now. Hold on. I know the enemy 749 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,160 Speaker 1: has been telling you some stuff. I know he has because. 750 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,040 Speaker 2: That lizard has been talking to me too. 751 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,080 Speaker 1: But I came to tell. 752 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,120 Speaker 2: You today that lizard. 753 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 1: Has no power over you. He might gru sore. 754 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,719 Speaker 2: Heel, but you're gonna crush his head. In the name 755 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:16,280 Speaker 2: of Jesus, I am gonna make it hot sall living, 756 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:17,000 Speaker 2: not time. 757 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna raise my kids. 758 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,359 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a difference in the world. 759 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:31,200 Speaker 1: Taking my mind back and over. 760 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,360 Speaker 2: Over the next seven weeks, we're gonna learn how to 761 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:41,520 Speaker 2: do what Abby did, what Peter said, be of a 762 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:48,880 Speaker 2: sober mind. Tell that lizard. You can talk, you can scream, 763 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 2: but I'm swimming to the other side. Now, everything in 764 00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,360 Speaker 2: you has been telling you you're drowning, you're going down. 765 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,759 Speaker 1: But the lizard is a liar. Your own mind is 766 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:05,560 Speaker 1: lying to you. 767 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,040 Speaker 2: And that's why God put it on my heart to 768 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:15,640 Speaker 2: do a whole series on triggered the things to the 769 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:20,120 Speaker 2: trauma that you went through that transports you back to 770 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,680 Speaker 2: a lesser version of yourself, and then you start reacting 771 00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,400 Speaker 2: and responding out of anger because of rejection at the 772 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:26,480 Speaker 2: hands of people who aren't. 773 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,560 Speaker 1: Even in your life anymore. I want to talk about that, and. 774 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,960 Speaker 2: I respectfully request your presence and as many of these 775 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,920 Speaker 2: sessions as possible, But right now I want you to 776 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,759 Speaker 2: stand and no one leaving, because I just want to 777 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,920 Speaker 2: pray for open and humble hearts. We can't receive what 778 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,760 Speaker 2: God has in his hands when we're holding too tightly 779 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:49,440 Speaker 2: to what's. 780 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:50,960 Speaker 1: In our hands. 781 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,719 Speaker 2: And when you're drunk on your own opinions and inebriated 782 00:45:57,760 --> 00:45:59,680 Speaker 2: on your own ideas and ways of seeing the world, 783 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,359 Speaker 2: you are not open to the wisdom of God. 784 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:08,040 Speaker 1: And you're stumbling. Jesus said, get that behind me. You're stumbling. 785 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,200 Speaker 1: You're tripping. 786 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 2: Be of a sober mind because your enemy is trying 787 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:17,240 Speaker 2: to steal your attention. 788 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:19,759 Speaker 1: That's where the fight is, that's where the attack is. 789 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:20,560 Speaker 1: This is not out here. 790 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,000 Speaker 2: The attacks in our life are actually used by God. 791 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,960 Speaker 2: The trials are used to make us stronger. That's here, 792 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:34,080 Speaker 2: and that's what we want to pray over. And for 793 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,080 Speaker 2: too long the people of God have been equipped with 794 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,959 Speaker 2: a few cliches to make it until about Sunday at four, 795 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,680 Speaker 2: and we're being eaten alive in our minds. 796 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,320 Speaker 1: And now we can't focus anymore. 797 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,799 Speaker 2: We live in the age of what one psychologist called 798 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 2: constant partial attention, and we can't give ourselves holy to anything. 799 00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,640 Speaker 1: But God has a word for us. 800 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,240 Speaker 2: And through this series we will meet several Bible characters 801 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,480 Speaker 2: who struggled with the same things we struggle with today 802 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 2: and suffered in many ways like us. 803 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,320 Speaker 1: And I know this is no substitute for doctors and counseling. 804 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,480 Speaker 1: That's not my goal in this series. 805 00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,759 Speaker 2: But I think it would be good for us to 806 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:21,200 Speaker 2: begin this journey together just in a posture of surrender. 807 00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,080 Speaker 2: And I want to ask you to do something that 808 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:27,200 Speaker 2: Christians have done historically, worshippers have done through the millennia, 809 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,920 Speaker 2: and just lift your hands to God in his presence 810 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,239 Speaker 2: because it's too much for you to carry, it really is, 811 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,880 Speaker 2: and you humble yourself under His hand and release what 812 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,400 Speaker 2: you're holding too tightly to and he is able to 813 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:44,280 Speaker 2: release his peace. 814 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:49,600 Speaker 1: And so we just speak peace over your life today. 815 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,640 Speaker 2: More than speaking it, Father, I pray that we would 816 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,319 Speaker 2: position ourselves so that we can receive your peace. And 817 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,399 Speaker 2: we repent of all the ways that we think things 818 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:05,239 Speaker 2: are supposed to be and exhausting ourselves endlessly trying to 819 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,480 Speaker 2: align our agendas with. 820 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,440 Speaker 1: The reality of our lives rather than submitting to yours. 821 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,399 Speaker 2: So we stand here before you today, as humble as 822 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,200 Speaker 2: we know how. 823 00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,600 Speaker 1: We resk you to fill our hearts with your peace. 824 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:27,239 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 825 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,000 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 826 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,560 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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