Speaker 1: How you feel an Elevation church. I tell you what,
Speaker 1: I counted the highest honor and the privileged, highest privilege
Speaker 1: really to be back here at Elevation. I do not
Speaker 1: take this lightly. Tiffany took the words right out of
Speaker 1: my mouth. I'm not a guest here. I am family.
Speaker 1: I hope you know that I'm your cousin from the
Speaker 1: great country of Texas. And it's an honor to be here,
Speaker 1: especially because of what this house means to me, the
Speaker 1: impact that this house has made on my life, on
Speaker 1: my wife's life, on our church's life, and so it's
Speaker 1: always an honor to come back and to make a
Speaker 1: deposit into this amazing church. Do you know how blessed
Speaker 1: you are to be a part of this church? Come on,
Speaker 1: I hope you know that that deserves more than a
Speaker 1: golf class. You are not just blessed, you're spoiled, absolutely spoiled.
Speaker 1: And I hope you know the grass doesn't get greet
Speaker 1: or anywhere else. You're at the right church at the
Speaker 1: right time, at the right place, and this is just
Speaker 1: evidence of God's hand in his favor. But also because
Speaker 1: you have incredible leaders and incredible pastors. In this month
Speaker 1: that we take a moment to pause and appreciate pastors.
Speaker 1: How many you know we have to pause to appreciate
Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick for who they are. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, the leaders they are and the people they are.
Speaker 1: Come on, would you just let them know how much
Speaker 1: you love and appreciate them? Elevations. You can do better
Speaker 1: than that across every location. Let's give honor to what
Speaker 1: honors do. Please, don't ever take the kid God has
Speaker 1: given you for granted. I fall short of words to
Speaker 1: adequately express what Pastor Stephen and Holly mean to my
Speaker 1: wife and I, but I'll steal something I heard a
Speaker 1: Swifty say. True though I heard a Swifty say recently,
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for Taylor Swift, I said, what, So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift doesn't
Speaker 1: know what it's like to experience a Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1: That's what I heard a Swift he say. So I'll
Speaker 1: say that I feel sorry for Pastor Stephen and Holly
Speaker 1: Ferdy because they don't know what it's like to experience
Speaker 1: their leadership and to be on the other side of
Speaker 1: the incredible songs and the sermons and so I love them.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for all of the pastors that serve here
Speaker 1: at Elevation. Can we just thank God for them? From
Speaker 1: every pastor at every location to the man, the myth,
Speaker 1: the legion chalks, I celebrate you. I'm thankful for who
Speaker 1: you are, and I'm just don't pretend like I'm at
Speaker 1: home because I am. Is that cool? I act like
Speaker 1: I'm at social Dallas, And I want to jump straight
Speaker 1: into the Word of God today. I want you to
Speaker 1: go with me to the Book of Acts, Acts, chapter twenty,
Speaker 1: and I want to look at verses seven through twelve,
Speaker 1: Acts Chapter twenty. We started verse number seven and we'll
Speaker 1: land of verse number twelve. I have to get excused
Speaker 1: absences from my wife to be at any other church,
Speaker 1: and so I'm glad that she gave me this excuse absence.
Speaker 1: But I am families. So can I show you my family.
Speaker 1: It's been a while. This is the Medu crew. Let
Speaker 1: me show you my family. I'll got that picture of
Speaker 1: my family. They are Look at that, y'all. If you
Speaker 1: wonder why I have this glow emanating from my face,
Speaker 1: it's not just because I use exfoliating skin products. It's
Speaker 1: because I am a blessed man. That is the Madou crew,
Speaker 1: and those are our three little humans. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: to preach. Let's let's let's go to work. Go to Acts,
Speaker 1: chapter twenty, and we're gonna start at verse number seven,
Speaker 1: and we'll land at verse number twelve. When you're ready
Speaker 1: to read it, say yeah, yeah. If you need a
Speaker 1: little time to find the book of Acts, say hold up,
Speaker 1: I heard that. Hold up. I'm wait for you. I'ma
Speaker 1: wait for your Acts chapter twenty, and we'll start at
Speaker 1: verse number seven, and it says, on the first day
Speaker 1: of the week, we came together to break bread. Paul
Speaker 1: spoke to the people, and because he intended to leave
Speaker 1: the next day, kept on talking until midnight. How many
Speaker 1: you would stay here if I just kept preaching till midnight?
Speaker 1: Anybody'll y'all lieing? Don't lie? Some of y'all gonna leave
Speaker 1: to catch the brunch, And says there were many lamps
Speaker 1: in the upstairs room where they were meeting, and seated
Speaker 1: in a window was a young man named Udicus, who
Speaker 1: was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on
Speaker 1: and on, And when he was sound asleep, he fell
Speaker 1: to the ground from the third story and was picked
Speaker 1: up dead. And Paul went down, threw himself on the
Speaker 1: young man and put his arms around him. Don't be alarmed,
Speaker 1: he said, he's alive. Then he went upstairs again and
Speaker 1: broke bread and ate. You know, you gangster, when you
Speaker 1: do a resurrection, don't even wash your hands, and go
Speaker 1: right upstairs and break bread. And he he said, the
Speaker 1: people took the young after talking till daylight, he left,
Speaker 1: and the people took the young man home alive and
Speaker 1: were greatly comforted. Can you say a man, thank you
Speaker 1: so much? What a peculiar passage of scripture. I've been
Speaker 1: obsessed with this scripture for a long time, especially about
Speaker 1: this young dude name Uticus, because he made the Bible, y'all,
Speaker 1: not for something he said, but for what he did.
Speaker 1: Homeboy made the Bible from falling asleep in church, falling
Speaker 1: out of a window, and dying. He didn't even say anything.
Speaker 1: But if Uticus could come back today, I think he
Speaker 1: would tell you what my title is today. He would
Speaker 1: say to you, who I didn't know I fell asleep.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I fell asleep. Would you help me
Speaker 1: preach and look at your neighbor whichever one you like
Speaker 1: the best across every location. Just say neighbor, O neighbor.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't know when you're asleep. Come on, find
Speaker 1: another neighbor. In case that neighborhood stuck up, come on,
Speaker 1: find another neighbor. Come on, say other neighbor. You my
Speaker 1: second option. But don't sleep on this message. Give God
Speaker 1: some praise. If you got expectation for him to speak today, Father,
Speaker 1: have your way, speak to our hearts today in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: And man, I didn't know. I fell asleep when I
Speaker 1: read this text. That immediately took me back to a
Speaker 1: moment in church that I will never forget. It's happened
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Actually, during the first year of
Speaker 1: our marriage. Some of you would know that. Before we
Speaker 1: planted our church social Dallas, I traveled for sixteen years
Speaker 1: as an evangelist, had an itinerant ministry, preaching at churches
Speaker 1: all across the nation and preaching from Genesis all the
Speaker 1: way to the maps in the back. And I remember
Speaker 1: we had just gotten we just gotten married, and it
Speaker 1: was a crazy week of traveling. We're new the wads,
Speaker 1: and I was actually trying to show my new it's
Speaker 1: real out here in these ministry streets. It's not vacation.
Speaker 1: I'm living out of the suitcase and going from city
Speaker 1: to city. And it was a crazy week. We're in
Speaker 1: a different city every single night, and then Saturday night
Speaker 1: we get into Middlelothian, Virginia. I'll never forget it. And
Speaker 1: the pastor picked us up and he said, hey, I
Speaker 1: just want to let you know that tomorrow we have
Speaker 1: three Sunday morning services since the first one starts at
Speaker 1: eight a m. So I looked at my bride, my
Speaker 1: new bride, and I said, babe, it's been a crazy week.
Speaker 1: I said, you do not have to go to all
Speaker 1: three of these services. I said, why don't you just
Speaker 1: pick one or come to the last one. You don't
Speaker 1: have to come to all three. Now, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: this is the first year of our marriage. Okay, now
Speaker 1: we got eleven years in. We got double digits on
Speaker 1: the board. If I asked her today, she'd be like,
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on coming to all three. I'll come to
Speaker 1: the last one and catch you at lunch. But when
Speaker 1: you're a newly way that's different. So she's like, Babe, no,
Speaker 1: I'll come to all three. We can't be disconnected so
Speaker 1: all right, it's gonna be early morning, and so we
Speaker 1: get to the church. I'll never forget it. It's the
Speaker 1: first service of the day and I'm preaching and I'm
Speaker 1: getting ready to land the sermon, land the plane. My wife,
Speaker 1: who is on the front row. I look at my
Speaker 1: peripheral and I see her arms are closed. So my
Speaker 1: first thought is my first thought is see I picked
Speaker 1: the right one. She is praying for her man right now.
Speaker 1: She knows that this is the most important part in
Speaker 1: the sermon, that I'm about to land the plane, and
Speaker 1: she is preparing the atmosphere with the gift of Inner session.
Speaker 1: She is praying for me. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I noticed her eyes were all the way in the
Speaker 1: back of her head and her mouth was open. Then
Speaker 1: she started rocking like this and going back and forth,
Speaker 1: and I said, wait, man, we're Pentecosta, but we ain't
Speaker 1: that Pentecosta. Why is she rocking back and forth? And
Speaker 1: before you know it, she is sound asleep on the
Speaker 1: front row of the church. And I'm panicking because I
Speaker 1: notice it. And then I noticed other people noticing her,
Speaker 1: and then I just panicked. I just called the worship
Speaker 1: team back and I said come back, come back out,
Speaker 1: and everybody stand. Everybody's everybody stand to your feet. She
Speaker 1: woke up and stood and I prayed the praying ooh.
Speaker 1: And I went back to the green room. I wasn't
Speaker 1: living at you. I said, babe, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: I told you you didn't have to come. Did you notice?
Speaker 1: Everybody notice? And you fall asleep? And she said, in
Speaker 1: that sweet voice, Babe, I'm sorry. I couldn't help it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know I was falling asleep. But I
Speaker 1: look back, I shouldn't have got mad, because come on,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. This happened to the best of us,
Speaker 1: hasn't it. Oh, come on, I don't care how saved,
Speaker 1: how spiritual you are. You could have floated in here,
Speaker 1: had communion for breakfast. I promise you you have had
Speaker 1: you a sleepy sunday. Come you're honest across every location
Speaker 1: to admit you've had a Sunday where you you were dozing.
Speaker 1: You're like, look, I'm here. At least I made it.
Speaker 1: That's the wind today. I'm not impressed with people that
Speaker 1: tell me they've never fallen to sleep in church. If
Speaker 1: you've never fallen asleep in church, all you telling me
Speaker 1: is you don't come to church consistently. That's all you're
Speaker 1: letting me know. Of course you can stay awake, you
Speaker 1: just come on Eastern Christmas. Those of us who fall
Speaker 1: asleep are faithful. We keep showing up even when we
Speaker 1: worked late last night. So uh, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: In fact, you want to sleep today, it's cool because
Speaker 1: it's happened to the best of us. And I didn't
Speaker 1: come all the way from Dallas to Charlotte to tell
Speaker 1: you that if you fall asleep in church you're gonna die.
Speaker 1: It's not my assignment today, Nor do I think that's
Speaker 1: the reason that this story is in the Bible. But
Speaker 1: the question I have been asking myself is why is
Speaker 1: this story in the Bible? Come on, of all the
Speaker 1: things that doctor Luke could have put pen to paper
Speaker 1: to write about, why do we need to know about
Speaker 1: this young dude named Uticus that fell asleep in church,
Speaker 1: Of all the things to put in the Book of Backs,
Speaker 1: Why do we need to know about this this young
Speaker 1: dude named Eudicus fallen asleep in church, Of all the
Speaker 1: things he could have written about in the Book of Acts.
Speaker 1: You understand that the Book of Acts is giving us
Speaker 1: the first thirty years of the history of the early Church.
Speaker 1: It's not telling us everything that happened. It's just telling
Speaker 1: us snapshots that happened, just a few of the events
Speaker 1: that happen. I love the Book of Acts. Read it
Speaker 1: when you get to the crib, because the Book of
Speaker 1: Acts lets me know that God will always keep his promise.
Speaker 1: Because you understand that He gave those in the upper
Speaker 1: room a promise. He said, and the Holy Spirit will
Speaker 1: come upon you, and you'll receive power to be my
Speaker 1: witnesses to Jerusalem, Judaeus, Samaria, and to the ends of
Speaker 1: the earth. Think about that, that something that started with
Speaker 1: a small group of one twenty in an upper room
Speaker 1: began to spread around the world, and the gospel is
Speaker 1: still being preached today. I'm gonna pause right here and
Speaker 1: tell somebody, don't despise small beginnings. Come you know, you
Speaker 1: can start small, but if the Holy Spirit starts blowing
Speaker 1: on the thing that's you know, it has the power
Speaker 1: to go around the world. Don't despise small beginnings because
Speaker 1: when God starts something small, the Holy Spirit gets on it,
Speaker 1: it can get big. Look at what you sitting in
Speaker 1: here today at Elevation Church, This didn't start with all
Speaker 1: these campuses and packing out arenas. How many are thankful
Speaker 1: that some families and pastor Stephen and Holly were faithful
Speaker 1: to step out and all of a sudden because the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit blew on something to change the game. But
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out why we gotta know about
Speaker 1: Paul and the Unicus. This don't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: I get knowing about Paul and Antonius. Come on, you know,
Speaker 1: Paul is like some of y'all. He went from ratchet
Speaker 1: to righteous. He had a testimony. He actually persecuted the
Speaker 1: church before he started building the church. God knocked him
Speaker 1: off his high horse and a light blinded him. Only
Speaker 1: God could use a light to blind you, and a
Speaker 1: light blinded him. And he needed Antonius because when God
Speaker 1: is taking you from who you were to who you're
Speaker 1: going to be, you need an anonaius to lay their
Speaker 1: hands on you and show you the way. I get
Speaker 1: Paul and Antonius. I get Paul and Barnabas, because come on,
Speaker 1: God didn't just save you for you to come to
Speaker 1: church and sit on your blessed assurance and do nothing.
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta get plugged in. You have a
Speaker 1: purpose He created you on purpose, for a purpose. So
Speaker 1: I get Paul and Barnabas. You need Barnabas. Barnabas is
Speaker 1: the one that got connected to Paul on his first mission.
Speaker 1: Every journey, I get Paul and Silas because I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're in a dark place, you need
Speaker 1: somebody that will praise God with you. I need somebody
Speaker 1: that when I say high Lay, they say Lujah. When
Speaker 1: I say praise, they say Lord. I get Paul inside
Speaker 1: of the But Paul and Unicus, why do I need
Speaker 1: to know Debby fell asleep in church? Surely the message
Speaker 1: is don't sleep in church. Surely that can't be the message.
Speaker 1: Surely the message isn't preach short. I vehementically come against that.
Speaker 1: That can't be the message of this text. I had
Speaker 1: a Bible college professor. He said, you should preach fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes or less fifty minute. He said, yes, the mind
Speaker 1: cannot retain what the seat cannot endure. Preach fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: or less. I'm thinking, were you born, you should preach
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or less. Surely the message is not preach short,
Speaker 1: and surely the message can be that the apostle Paul
Speaker 1: was a boring communicator, because if he was a boring communicator,
Speaker 1: I believe the text would have said everybody fell asleep,
Speaker 1: but everybody didn't fall asleep. Eudicus is the only one
Speaker 1: that started dozing off in the room. That means, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people in the room, but
Speaker 1: Eudicus was the only one that was sleeping. That means
Speaker 1: everybody else in the room must have been leaning in. Going, Paul,
Speaker 1: if you got more to say, we got more to receive.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna pour out, we're ready to receive it.
Speaker 1: I want to pause right here and thank God that,
Speaker 1: first of all, Paul had the depth of content to
Speaker 1: keep preaching past midnight. But I want to shout out
Speaker 1: to other people in the room that have the depth
Speaker 1: of capacity to receive what Paul was pouring out. Oh see,
Speaker 1: sometimes we think that God has doesn't have enough content
Speaker 1: to pour out to us. But sometimes it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with what God wants to pour out, but
Speaker 1: everything to do with your capacity to receive what God
Speaker 1: wants to pour out. Is there anybody in here that
Speaker 1: knows that God has so much more that he wants
Speaker 1: to pour out, but some of us keep coming to
Speaker 1: him with a little saucer. Thank God, I'm ready to receive.
Speaker 1: So I want to shout out the other people in
Speaker 1: the room that had the depth of capacity to receive
Speaker 1: what Paul had. I want to shout out the other
Speaker 1: people in the room that said, Paul, if you got
Speaker 1: something to say, I am ready with anticipation and I'm
Speaker 1: ready to hear it. Is there anybody in here that
Speaker 1: says I came to receive something from God? I actually
Speaker 1: have expectation. Sometimes we think the problem is with the seed,
Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with the seed, but
Speaker 1: everything to do with the soil that receives it. That's
Speaker 1: why when Jesus told the parable of the Sower, the
Speaker 1: thing that was constant was the seed, but the only
Speaker 1: thing that changed was the soil. Because often times the
Speaker 1: problem is not with the person that has the microphone,
Speaker 1: it's with the people that have the capacity to receive it.
Speaker 1: So sometimes I'll preach a message and it'll be terrible,
Speaker 1: and somebody'd be like, oh, that's the best message you
Speaker 1: ever preached, and I'd be like, nah, fam, that's the
Speaker 1: best time you ever listened. I know that wasn't the
Speaker 1: best one. But sometimes when you actually have the capacity
Speaker 1: to receive it, it'll hit the ground better. And I
Speaker 1: know this room had capacity to received. In fact, they
Speaker 1: had something that I call proof of expectation. They had
Speaker 1: proof that they were expecting God to speak to them
Speaker 1: through Paul. Proof of expectation. I don't ask church people
Speaker 1: anymore do you have expectation? Because everybody's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got expectation. I asked them, show me the proof of
Speaker 1: your expectation. Prove to me that you're actually expecting God
Speaker 1: to do something in your life. Is there anybody in
Speaker 1: here that actually has proof of your expectation? Somebody will say,
Speaker 1: I got expectation. I'm believing God for a house. Really?
Speaker 1: Are you actually sewing right now? Are you giving Nah?
Speaker 1: I'm just expecting a house. Really. Okay, have you downloaded Zillow? Nah?
Speaker 1: Not yet, But I'm just expecting a house. Show me, yo,
Speaker 1: you got to have proof of your expectation. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling the people in this room they had proof of
Speaker 1: expectation that God was going to do something. Can you
Speaker 1: prove it in the text? I will verse number eight
Speaker 1: of Acts, chapter twenty. I want you to see something.
Speaker 1: If you read too fast or miss it, it says
Speaker 1: there were many lamps in the upstairs room where they
Speaker 1: were meeting. There were how many lamps? How many many?
Speaker 1: There were so many lamps in that upstairs room. That
Speaker 1: lets me know the people in the room had expectation
Speaker 1: to receive, because it's how we're down. I don't think
Speaker 1: Paul planned to preach law. We never do. I think
Speaker 1: you jarted off and it kept going and kept going
Speaker 1: and kept going all throughout the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: But guess what, the people in the room already knew
Speaker 1: that this meeting might go long, and Paul's gonna pour
Speaker 1: out to us and we might not ever see him again.
Speaker 1: So before they ever got in the room, they set
Speaker 1: the atmosphere of that room and put many lamps in there.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to some of y'all, you gotta start setting
Speaker 1: the atmosphere with some expectation. I'm talking to some of y'all.
Speaker 1: You gotta start praising God on your way to church.
Speaker 1: Don't wait till you get in the building. You want
Speaker 1: to start praising all the way on your way to church.
Speaker 1: The lamps were proof of their expectation. They had many lamps.
Speaker 1: You know how long it took them to set up
Speaker 1: all those lamps. Say, y'all know Paul might get long
Speaker 1: winded tonight, Let's just set them all up. Setting up
Speaker 1: all these lamps as proof that they had expectation for
Speaker 1: something to happen. Then not only that, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: who you have to also have oil in those lamps.
Speaker 1: It's not enough just to have the lamps. You better
Speaker 1: have some oil. You remember when Jesus told the parable
Speaker 1: about the five foolish bridesmaids and the five wise one,
Speaker 1: And remember all of them pulled a you kissing, fell asleep,
Speaker 1: And when the bridegroom came. The only thing that separated
Speaker 1: the wise one from the foolish ones were the ones
Speaker 1: that have enough oil that were in their lamps. Is
Speaker 1: there anybody in here and say, I don't just have
Speaker 1: the lamps. I got some oil, I got some anointing.
Speaker 1: I am expecting God. There's something. Those lamps stood as
Speaker 1: proof that they had expectation for God to speak to
Speaker 1: them in that upper room. Not only does those lamps
Speaker 1: stand as proof of their expectation, it also shows the
Speaker 1: power of illumination. Anytime you see a lamp in the Bible,
Speaker 1: it is a picture of the word of a God.
Speaker 1: How many have realized that life is above your pay
Speaker 1: grade and you need a word from God. You need
Speaker 1: his word for direction. This is what he says. Your
Speaker 1: word is a lamp unto my feet. It's a light
Speaker 1: unto my path. This is the power of the word
Speaker 1: of God. I need his word for direction. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a lamp unto my feet, meaning that oftentimes his word
Speaker 1: will just tell you the next step. Often, when God
Speaker 1: speaks to you, he's not going to give you a
Speaker 1: twenty year plan. I know that messes up you planners.
Speaker 1: He would not giving you a twenty year plan, but
Speaker 1: he will tell you this is what you do next.
Speaker 1: This is what you do next. Take this step. And
Speaker 1: some of you haven't taken that step. You're like, God,
Speaker 1: I need a new word. He's like, dude, the last
Speaker 1: one I told you. The lamps proved that his word
Speaker 1: is illumination in that room, and so all of them
Speaker 1: had tiptoe anticipation that God was going to speak to
Speaker 1: the great Apostle Paul, and I have to be honest
Speaker 1: with you and tell you something. I don't usually like
Speaker 1: to brag about places that I go, but I've been
Speaker 1: to this upper room. I've been to this room I've
Speaker 1: been to this room. I've seen this upper room where
Speaker 1: they gat that I was there. I wasn't there, y'all,
Speaker 1: not in reality, in my exegetically imagination. But I went
Speaker 1: to Troas and I worked all day. I worked long
Speaker 1: and hard all day, and I was filled with excitement
Speaker 1: because everybody was talking about how Paul was going to
Speaker 1: show up at this undisclosed location, and they said he
Speaker 1: was going to be there, the great Apostle Paul. So
Speaker 1: after working all day, I went straight from work to
Speaker 1: this upper room. I remember it, y'all. I remember walking
Speaker 1: up the flight of stairs three stories. I remember walking in.
Speaker 1: The room was packed with people. I remember the smell
Speaker 1: in that room because not everybody took a bass, I
Speaker 1: could tell, and the room was so packed, but nobody
Speaker 1: cared about the smell because they were just actually excited
Speaker 1: to hear Paul preach. I was there in the room
Speaker 1: as we began to take the bread, and we began
Speaker 1: to have communion, and we remembered the sacrifice of what
Speaker 1: Jesus did. I remembered the rooms, and I remember that
Speaker 1: moment when Paul walked in, who the whole room got quiet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever met your heroes. But
Speaker 1: I remember seeing Paul walk in the room. I remember
Speaker 1: seeing the scars that were showing through his tunic, because
Speaker 1: in his body he bore the scars of what he
Speaker 1: had suffered from the Gospel. And there I was listening
Speaker 1: to the Apostle Paul preach, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: take it all in. It was like drinking from a
Speaker 1: fire hydrant. He just had death of wisdom and revelation.
Speaker 1: And there I am listening to the Apostle Paul, and
Speaker 1: I was so leaned in. Nobody ever spoke like him.
Speaker 1: And I was with him for the first forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I was with him for the first hour. But after
Speaker 1: an hour and fifteen minutes, he said, bruh, you gotta
Speaker 1: land this plan. But he kept on preaching, kept on preaching.
Speaker 1: Then my knees got tired, so I said, I'm as
Speaker 1: well sit down, and looks like this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a long message. And I sat down. And I was
Speaker 1: good for the first hour and fifteen minutes. But then
Speaker 1: in an hour and thirty minutes, he's still preaching, y'all.
Speaker 1: In the hour thirty I had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I had too much of the juice. So I got
Speaker 1: up and I left and I went to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: And when I came back from the bathroom, somebody stole
Speaker 1: my seat. I said, ain't that messed up? And Paul
Speaker 1: is still preaching, so watch just stayed in the back
Speaker 1: in two hours in. Now he's taken questions. I'm like, Paul,
Speaker 1: come on, bro, And he keeps going and going. And
Speaker 1: then it was hot because all know the lamps for
Speaker 1: him the room, and I started again light headed, and
Speaker 1: my stomach was full. And he he's two hours and
Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes in, and so finally I was getting
Speaker 1: hot flatchers I went by a window. I went by
Speaker 1: the window to just get a little air from my tunic,
Speaker 1: and I started airing out my tunic just a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then when he's three hours in, I had to
Speaker 1: just sit in the window. And then he got going.
Speaker 1: And now he's three and a half hours in, and
Speaker 1: the lamps in the room kept flickering, and I saw
Speaker 1: it going fow off something pleasp. Now I was trying
Speaker 1: hopping out. I was playing that. I just okay, oh,
Speaker 1: walk in And then I started looking out the window.
Speaker 1: I said, Lord, what's going on out here because this
Speaker 1: is gonna be going on for a long time, finally
Speaker 1: laying her head on the window. L shute h n.
Speaker 1: Do you see how it happens? Do you see nobody
Speaker 1: intends to fall asleep, Nobody plans on going to sleep.
Speaker 1: I went through all that to show you, let's not
Speaker 1: be so quick to throw a stone in Uticus when
Speaker 1: it's happened to the best of us. For my issue
Speaker 1: with Uticus, it's not really his sleeping. My issue is
Speaker 1: with where he chose to sit. Of old places that
Speaker 1: were in that upstairs room. What in the workadure would
Speaker 1: you sit and open went on the ledge of an
Speaker 1: open with My issue is not with his sleep. My
Speaker 1: issue is with his seat. I'm gonna say, Ludacris, because
Speaker 1: it is ludicrous. Why are you sitting on the ledge
Speaker 1: of an open window. That's a dangerous place to set Unicus,
Speaker 1: I think you should have chose another seat of all
Speaker 1: the seats, because when you sit in an open window
Speaker 1: when you're in church, but you're still got open windows
Speaker 1: when you're in church, and yes, you got your attendants,
Speaker 1: but God doesn't have your attention. When you're in church,
Speaker 1: but you still got open windows. It's only a matter
Speaker 1: of time before you go from a window to a fall,
Speaker 1: because you gotta be careful where you sit in the
Speaker 1: House of God. You gotta be careful when you have
Speaker 1: open windows. My issue with Uticus is why would you
Speaker 1: sit in such a dangerous place? And I'm wondering there's
Speaker 1: anybody in here who just like Eudicus And oh, you're
Speaker 1: in church. Oh I understand. Judicus is not in the club.
Speaker 1: Judicus came to a campus. He was there, but he
Speaker 1: picked a dangerous place to sit. Judicus had some open
Speaker 1: windows in his life even though he was in the
Speaker 1: house of God. Here's your intention will get you in
Speaker 1: the room, but it's your attention that will keep you
Speaker 1: and the row. It is not enough just to come
Speaker 1: to church. You gotta be careful words you sit. And
Speaker 1: some of you in here today have some open windows.
Speaker 1: And God just told me to ask you, is that
Speaker 1: the best place for you to sin? Is that the
Speaker 1: best place? You know? You're sitting in an open window
Speaker 1: when you're trying to see how close you can get
Speaker 1: to the edge of sin without a being sin. When
Speaker 1: you're asking questions like well, what is lying really? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, what's cheating really? It's an open window because
Speaker 1: you're trying to see how close you can get to
Speaker 1: the last. And God told me to tell somebody in
Speaker 1: this place today it is a horrible thing to fight
Speaker 1: sleep in a window sea. You need to get off
Speaker 1: of the window sea, get away from the edge. You
Speaker 1: should go to a wall and end up on something
Speaker 1: that's solid. Don't fight sleep in a window seat. That's
Speaker 1: a horrible place to try to fight the war of
Speaker 1: falling asleep. The issue wasn't his sleep, it was where
Speaker 1: he was sitting. Can we be honest? Have you ever
Speaker 1: been fighting sleep? I'm talking about in the natural? You
Speaker 1: ever been fighting it? You ever see how stupid you
Speaker 1: look fighting sleep? Wow? Hitting yourself doing whatever you can't
Speaker 1: I'm the worst. I'm telling you. My wife is scared
Speaker 1: to drive with me. I'm telling for me. All long
Speaker 1: drives and the engine just drone in and if there's
Speaker 1: no scenery, I am dangerous behind the wheel if it
Speaker 1: is more than a two hour drive, because I'll just
Speaker 1: who I see why he went by the window, Because
Speaker 1: that's why I do. I open up the windows when
Speaker 1: I'm about to fall asleep, and I'll stick my head
Speaker 1: out the window, just fighting so you have been fighting.
Speaker 1: See I'm telling I am dangerous on a highway, just
Speaker 1: doing whatever I can to stay away. I like hip hop,
Speaker 1: but when I'm telling you, when i'm driving, I'll listen
Speaker 1: to whatever I gotta listen to. Just stay awake. If
Speaker 1: you ever seen me on the highway with my head
Speaker 1: out the window talking about said you up in the like,
Speaker 1: was that past the robber? Yeah, shout us. Stay awake.
Speaker 1: It's a horrible thing to fight sleep in a window seat.
Speaker 1: And all of us disciples have been there, haven't we.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when the disciples were with Jesus, Peter, James,
Speaker 1: and John in the garden of Guesseimone and he told
Speaker 1: him watch and pray, stay here, just pray with me.
Speaker 1: And what did they start doing? They pulled the unicuts
Speaker 1: fall asleep. But do you remember what Jesus said to him.
Speaker 1: She went up to him, called him out first, y'all
Speaker 1: sleeping you know they did like we do. No, no, man,
Speaker 1: we just praying for you. Yeah sure, he said, uh,
Speaker 1: watch and pray. He says, be careful that you don't
Speaker 1: fall into ten. It's an awkward thing to say for
Speaker 1: somebody that's sleeping. Y'all, got real spiritual with it, like,
Speaker 1: ooh yeah, what what does temptation have to do with sleeping? Say, boys,
Speaker 1: you just said be careful that you do not fall
Speaker 1: into a temperipedic. What does temptation have to do with sleeping?
Speaker 1: He says. More, he says, the spirit is willing, but
Speaker 1: the flesh is weak. He's given us a metaphor, the
Speaker 1: Great Teacher that in the same way in the natural,
Speaker 1: when you're fighting to stay awake, that is the war
Speaker 1: between your flesh and your spirit. He's trying to let
Speaker 1: you know that we live in a culture that is
Speaker 1: always trying to put you to sleep, and you got
Speaker 1: to do whatever you can to fight to stay Oh wake,
Speaker 1: you cannot go to sleep. I don't know who this
Speaker 1: is for, but this is your wake up call today
Speaker 1: because the enemy is trying to get you to fight
Speaker 1: to sleep it. That's what he's given us, the metaphor
Speaker 1: that is hard to stay awake. And I came to
Speaker 1: tell you that the disciples with the best intentions often
Speaker 1: fall the sleep. The disciples with the best hearts often
Speaker 1: fall asleep. Don't forget what happened in that passage when
Speaker 1: the disciples were sleeping. He says that Jesus was sorrowful
Speaker 1: to death, but another translation says even the disciples were sorrowful.
Speaker 1: Sometimes sorrow makes you sleepy because you've been through so
Speaker 1: much and you've been fighting to stay awake. But the
Speaker 1: bain starts lulling you to sleep, and God says, you
Speaker 1: gotta keep on and don't let the culture and the
Speaker 1: things around you put you to sleep. I love the
Speaker 1: Bible because it flows so well together. The Bible is
Speaker 1: replete with examples and scriptures about our need to stay vigilant,
Speaker 1: to stay awake. For Thessalonians five, verses five through six says,
Speaker 1: you are all children of the light and children of
Speaker 1: the day. We do not belong to the night or
Speaker 1: to the darkness. So then let us not be like
Speaker 1: the others who are asleep, but let us be awakened.
Speaker 1: Sober Paul says in Romans thirteen, verse eleven and twelve.
Speaker 1: And do this understanding the present time. The hour has
Speaker 1: already come for you to wake up from your slumber,
Speaker 1: because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believe.
Speaker 1: The night is nearly over, the day is almost here.
Speaker 1: So let us put aside the deeds of the darkness
Speaker 1: and put on the armor of light. One Peter five
Speaker 1: eight says be alert and a sober mind. Your enemy.
Speaker 1: The devil prowls around like a roaring line, looking for
Speaker 1: someone to devour. I'm trying to show you the Bible
Speaker 1: has always been telling us as believers, stay awake because
Speaker 1: it's so easy. Oh a sleep. I know some of
Speaker 1: y'all are super spiritual. You're like, I would never get sleepyre.
Speaker 1: You know how long I've been coming to elevation. I
Speaker 1: have scriptures to memorize. I'm a child at the most
Speaker 1: high God. I'm telling you it's easier to fall asleep
Speaker 1: than you realize. I would never Okay, you remember Luke
Speaker 1: chapter nine when the disciples, three of them, saying three
Speaker 1: that fell asleep, go up to the mount of Transfiguration
Speaker 1: with Jesus and something powerful happens. As Jesus starts praying,
Speaker 1: he starts glowing in the dark. Can you imagine being
Speaker 1: with Jesus on a mountaintop and his clothes get brighter
Speaker 1: than anybody could bleach it. Some of the crazier happens.
Speaker 1: Moses and Elijah show up on the mountain, y'all. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking if I'm on a mountaintop with Jesus and Moses
Speaker 1: and Elijah show up and he is glowing in the dark. Oh,
Speaker 1: I am wide awake. I am not missing this at all.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I'm gonna have my phone recorded the
Speaker 1: whole thing, saying, who wait till they see this when
Speaker 1: I get off this mountain. They ain't gonna believe this.
Speaker 1: But guess what happened to the disciples who are on
Speaker 1: a mountain would glow in the dark. Jesus and Moses
Speaker 1: and Elijah, two people who were dead. Look at what
Speaker 1: happens in Luke chapter nine, verse thirty two. It's his
Speaker 1: peters and his companions were very sleepy, but when they
Speaker 1: became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two
Speaker 1: men standing with him. They fell asleep on a mountain
Speaker 1: top with two people who came back from the dead.
Speaker 1: You don't sit up there and tell me, and you
Speaker 1: don't just sleep, yeah that you don't get weary. Even
Speaker 1: the disciples with the best intentions, the best the hearts
Speaker 1: fall I sleep. I guess the question that I'm asking
Speaker 1: you today is that if I don't know when I'm
Speaker 1: falling asleep in the natural, you realize you don't know
Speaker 1: when you're sleeping. If I don't know when I'm falling
Speaker 1: asleep in the natural until somebody wakes me up, could
Speaker 1: it be possible you don't know when you're falling asleep spiritually.
Speaker 1: You don't even know. You could be asleep spiritually for
Speaker 1: years and it's not until somebody says, wake up you
Speaker 1: realize I've been sleeping. Does somebody say wake up? To
Speaker 1: realize I've just been going through the motions and checking
Speaker 1: the box, thinking the church at just the country club
Speaker 1: that I come to. It can be years till somebody
Speaker 1: says wake up, and you realis I've never even shared
Speaker 1: my faith with somebody at all. I think I'm in
Speaker 1: the witness protection program and I'm just going to work
Speaker 1: as a secret believer. You don't know when you're asleep
Speaker 1: till somebody says wake I want to give you a
Speaker 1: few signs if somebody comes to place softly to let
Speaker 1: you know I'm landing the plane. I wrote down some
Speaker 1: signs that you're getting spiritually sleepy. This is an exhaustive list,
Speaker 1: but some things I just thought about. You know you're
Speaker 1: getting sleepy spiritually when you have little or no desire
Speaker 1: to pray. That's why Jesus told the disciples, watch and pray,
Speaker 1: Watch and pray. Pray is what keeps us vigilants, what
Speaker 1: keeps us awake and attentive to the pose is in
Speaker 1: the plans of God. You know you're getting sleepy spiritually.
Speaker 1: If you have a loss of appetite for the Word
Speaker 1: of God. You're losing your appetite for the word. That
Speaker 1: might be a sign you're getting sleepy. Anybody in there
Speaker 1: ever tried to eat healthy after eating bad, isn't youre crazy?
Speaker 1: How it's nasty at first, But if you stay consistent,
Speaker 1: you start craving what You're like, come on, the first
Speaker 1: time you eat that kill, You're like, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You stay consistent, You're like, you know what you take
Speaker 1: kill all today. I'm feeling that. It's the same with
Speaker 1: the Word of God. You start craving what you eat.
Speaker 1: You know you're getting sleepy spiritually. If you're no longer
Speaker 1: convicted of willful sin, when it doesn't feel anymore like
Speaker 1: a sin and you don't have conviction, that's a sign
Speaker 1: you know you're getting sleepy. When you have a desire
Speaker 1: to be served rather than serving others, you might be
Speaker 1: getting sleepy. If you easily offended, you might be getting sleepy.
Speaker 1: If you're avoiding accountability, you might begin sleepy. If you're
Speaker 1: consistently comparing yourself to other people, you might be getting sleepy.
Speaker 1: If you're spreading or entertaining gossip. That's why someone will
Speaker 1: sleep with my mouth open, I got something to say
Speaker 1: about somebody else. That's a sign getting sleepy. You might
Speaker 1: begetting sleepy, hear me. If you've isolated yourself from the
Speaker 1: community of believers. The enemy wants you to be isolated
Speaker 1: so you can go to sleep. And this is my
Speaker 1: issue with this text. This is my indictment against the
Speaker 1: people that are were in that room that day, because
Speaker 1: if Eudicus is sitting in a window seat, if Eudicus
Speaker 1: is sitting there in that window, see, I just want
Speaker 1: to know, how come nobody in that room walked up
Speaker 1: to Eudicus and said, hey, man, I'll see you dozen
Speaker 1: that's not a good place to sit. How come nobody
Speaker 1: in that room said Eudicus, I wouldn't sit there, stand
Speaker 1: over here by me. How come nobody in that room
Speaker 1: just took a moment to say, Udicus, I've been there before,
Speaker 1: and I worked all day too. Stand right next to me,
Speaker 1: and let's keep each other away. The Bible even says
Speaker 1: he was a young person. How come no older person,
Speaker 1: somebody from another generation should have just gone up to
Speaker 1: Eudicus and said, Eudicus, that's a horrible place to say.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I used to be young.
Speaker 1: You better stand over here by me. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: tell somebody, this is why you need the church, This
Speaker 1: is why you need community. Because we don't know when
Speaker 1: we're getting sleepy, we don't know when we're dozing. All
Speaker 1: so I need somebody around me to say, you got
Speaker 1: some mu's purpose on your life. You can't sit there.
Speaker 1: You got too much a nunhing on your life. You
Speaker 1: can't go there. No, you can't cat them. No, you
Speaker 1: can't lift that low you're calling it. Do I need
Speaker 1: somebody to tell me when I'm falling a thing? Is
Speaker 1: there anybody in that room? And I had enough concern
Speaker 1: to say, Udicus, don't sit there, Eudicus, there's another place.
Speaker 1: How to pick Unicus here and lean home in. Let's
Speaker 1: stay awake. I know you wanted to be here. Uticus.
Speaker 1: The fact that you're in the room shows me how
Speaker 1: much you love God, get just tired. It worked all
Speaker 1: day and Paul's going a long time, So just stand
Speaker 1: by me and don't sit in the window seat. This
Speaker 1: is why when you need the church, because I don't
Speaker 1: know when I'm dozing off, I need somebody to tell
Speaker 1: me wake come. Nobody saw Uticus sitting in the window,
Speaker 1: and I'm even wondering if they knew when he fell
Speaker 1: out the window. I'm curious. Were they enamored by the
Speaker 1: great preaching of the apostle Paul that they didn't even
Speaker 1: notice that Judiku just fell out the window. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed the people that used to be in church that
Speaker 1: aren't here anymore and the reason God puts you in
Speaker 1: their life so you can call them back in the room.
Speaker 1: Are you so concerned with your own life and your
Speaker 1: own blessing and what you need from God that you'd
Speaker 1: know this Eudicus has falling out of the window. I
Speaker 1: wonder if it took the commotion outside to get the
Speaker 1: room to actually notice. Judith kiss is cane and here's
Speaker 1: what hew else. I know something happened in the room
Speaker 1: that breaks my heart. I think the people in the room,
Speaker 1: when they noticed Eudachus was down there, didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: They just looked out the window. I'll tell you how
Speaker 1: I know it in the moment. But isn't that what
Speaker 1: church people do today? I love the church? Crazy? How
Speaker 1: sometimes when somebody who's falling out of the window, we
Speaker 1: will stay in the room, you got the window and
Speaker 1: go home. Can you believe that shouldn't have sat there?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have sat there. I would never do that.
Speaker 1: In fact, let me take somebody just so they can
Speaker 1: be praying for you to get and let them know
Speaker 1: what happened. Isn't it crazy? Now? Some of those people
Speaker 1: who are falling away, we stand at a distance and
Speaker 1: look out the window, talking about how they fell, talking
Speaker 1: about how they shouldn't have sat there. But thank God
Speaker 1: for the apostle Paul. Thank God for Paul, because the
Speaker 1: Bible says perhaps the most powerful words in that passage.
Speaker 1: While everybody else was in the room looking at Uticus
Speaker 1: through the window, the Bible says, what Paul did. The
Speaker 1: Bible says that Paul went down. Paul is showing you
Speaker 1: what a believer it's supposed to do. Paul is showing
Speaker 1: you what ministry really is. That when somebody has falling
Speaker 1: out of the window and gone down and made a
Speaker 1: bad decision. You don't send in judgment from the window.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that Paul Witch down. You want to
Speaker 1: know what ministry looks like. Ministry doesn't start on a
Speaker 1: platform or a stage. Ministry is coming down to where
Speaker 1: people are who have fallen an approaches, and you gotta
Speaker 1: let them know. We save a God who's the resurrection
Speaker 1: and the life. You don't think his life is over,
Speaker 1: but it's not over. You're theist. You can live a
Speaker 1: den And I don't know who this message is for,
Speaker 1: but maybe the other people have told you that the
Speaker 1: marriage is over, the kusiness is over, your child, your
Speaker 1: life is over. But I tend to tell you the
Speaker 1: devil is a liar. God is enough time. Until God
Speaker 1: is time, he can raise anything back to life. Here's
Speaker 1: the resurrection and the life. Tell me, I'm learning more
Speaker 1: and more every day. The industry is not about being
Speaker 1: not damn. It's looking Britian preaching illustrious when you do
Speaker 1: like the apostle Paul who went down, threw himself on
Speaker 1: the young.
Speaker 2: Man and said, he's not dead, there's still life in him.
Speaker 1: Isn't this what our savior did for us? And when
Speaker 1: we were falling, stuck in our sin. She did not
Speaker 1: try to redeem us from heaven. The King of Clarie
Speaker 1: came down, put on human's skin to feel what we feel,
Speaker 1: go through what we go through, and when humanity had
Speaker 1: no hope, we were all unicus. He said, I'll throw
Speaker 1: my life on a cross, and I'll get up from
Speaker 1: the grave. So then when I get up, is proof
Speaker 1: that no matter what has held you down, you can
Speaker 1: get up to It's crazy because this says that this
Speaker 1: gathering was on the first day of the week, Sunday.
Speaker 1: Just like this. This is a change. This is the
Speaker 1: first biblically recorded gathering on a Sunday. Sabbath used to
Speaker 1: be a Saturday. Why is it changing because they changed
Speaker 1: it to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, and then they
Speaker 1: just laid Jesus to give them a resurrection on the
Speaker 1: day they're celebrating the Tower of his resurrection. I say
Speaker 1: nothing to say, Eudicus. All hope is not lost. You
Speaker 1: are not defined by your mistake. Even Eudikis's life became
Speaker 1: a testimony that God steal in the business of horaising
Speaker 1: things that were dead back to life. I didn't know
Speaker 1: I fell asleep. But I also didn't know that even
Speaker 1: after I fail, God could bring me back to life.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask every head be bowed and eyes be
Speaker 1: closed today. Father, I thank you today for your word. Lord.
Speaker 1: I thank you that you don't give up on us,
Speaker 1: that when everybody else says it's over, just like the
Speaker 1: Apostle Paul, you come down to where we are, they say, no,
Speaker 1: there's still life there. Father. Today I'm praying for my brother,
Speaker 1: my sister. I don't know what location. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're Epham, but I do know you're speaking to them,
Speaker 1: and today is not just another sermon. It's their wake
Speaker 1: up God. God. We're so weak, we're made of flesh.
Speaker 1: We don't know when we're dosing off. God. I thank
Speaker 1: you that you always give us wake up calls. God,
Speaker 1: thank you for community that will help us to wake up.
Speaker 1: Don't tell us, don't sit there, it's a dangerous place
Speaker 1: to send. Or let us be attentive to what it
Speaker 1: is you're doing in us and what you want to
Speaker 1: do through us. Heads about ours are closed today, But
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if this is somebody's wake up call, whether
Speaker 1: in this room or watch them online and you need
Speaker 1: to surrender your life to this beautiful savior, hear me.
Speaker 1: Maybe you think you got to get yourself together to
Speaker 1: come to him, but you can't get yourself together. You
Speaker 1: just didn't have time to get himself together. You don't
Speaker 1: clean yourself up to come to a savior. You just
Speaker 1: come to him as you are. And so what heads
Speaker 1: about and ours closed? Across every location? If you've never
Speaker 1: surrendered your life to Jesus, today's your day to come home.
Speaker 1: He's the as arection and the life doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: the enemy is telling you it's dead. He can breathe
Speaker 1: life back into it. And he didn't come just to
Speaker 1: make bad people good. No, he came to make dead
Speaker 1: people come alive. You can have eternal life today. So
Speaker 1: when heads bout on, iyes close. If that's you, he said,
Speaker 1: Pastor Robert, include me in this clothing prayer. I need
Speaker 1: to surrender my life to Jesus. Would you just lift
Speaker 1: up your hand high enough and long enough to where
Speaker 1: I could see it? Thank you? Yeah, hands are going
Speaker 1: up all over this room, wherever you're watching, across every location.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus, Thank you God. Can we just pray
Speaker 1: this prayer as one big family. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: the words, but you just say it from your heart.
Speaker 1: Would you say this, say Jesus, I need you. I
Speaker 1: cannot do life without you because you are my life. Jesus,
Speaker 1: I believe that you are the son of God. You
Speaker 1: live the life that I was supposed to live. You
Speaker 1: died to death that I was supposed to die. You
Speaker 1: took my place. So my response is to give you
Speaker 1: all of me, forgive me of my sin, make me
Speaker 1: brand new from this moment, for I'm walking with you
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Come on, if
Speaker 1: you meant what your praise, can we give King Jesus
Speaker 1: praise today? Oh? Come on, you can do better than
Speaker 1: that to your praise. I'm like you know, you got
Speaker 1: your breath back, you got your life back. Come on,
Speaker 1: give them a real, real resurrection and praise today.
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