1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message you know. God amazes me. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 3: God has so many ways to confirm what He wants 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: us to know. I'm thankful that God is consistent and 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: patient in my life and in your life. And the 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 3: truth of the matter is that God wants to speak 11 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 3: to us more than we want to hear him. God 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 3: wants us to know His will more than we want 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 3: to know it. And so you haven't come here today 14 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 3: by accident. You didn't come here today because you heard 15 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 3: their recute girls at Elevation. Even if you came here 16 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 3: today because you heard their recute girls at Elevation, you 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 3: came here today because God has something to say to you. 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: And in fact, as. 19 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: I was writing in my journal on Sadday, I realized 20 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 3: that today would be a defining moment that we'll see 21 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 3: a testimony on a screen maybe a year from now, 22 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 3: maybe five years from now, of somebody saying It was 23 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 3: that day for me when the Lord fed me, when 24 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 3: the Lord led me, when the Lord lifted me, when 25 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 3: the Lord gave me a new life. 26 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: So I'm just excited. 27 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: Don't you feel good to be here for somebody's big day. 28 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: Tell your neighbor it could be yours. Tell them this 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 3: could be your big day. Now, ask your neighbor. Can 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 3: I get your autograph? 31 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: Just in case? 32 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: Come on, ask your neighbor. Can we take a selfie together? 33 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: Just in case? 34 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: I want to get a selfie with you? Just in 35 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 3: case I need to prove a year from now that 36 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: you're not the person you used to be. You're not 37 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: leaving like you came. 38 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: God can change anybody. God can change anybody. God can 39 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: do anything. 40 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 3: Speak today for the fifth installment of my series called called. 41 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: You heard me right? 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 3: You're like pastor you glitched a little bit, you said, 43 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 3: a series called called what's it called? It's called called 44 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 3: That's what it's called. We've been taking a look at 45 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 3: several people. I don't call them characters in the Bible. 46 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 3: I do say that accidentally sometime I don't mean to. 47 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 3: That makes them sound fictional. But faith is not for 48 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 3: fictional situations or hypotheticals. It's for humanity, people, flesh and 49 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 3: blood and bone and sweat and tears and lies. 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: In truth, all of that is found in the scriptures. 51 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 3: Today we're going to look at a passage of scripture 52 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: from the Book of Galatians, chapter one, Galatians chapter one. 53 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 3: And I'm so glad that time ran out, because every 54 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: five minutes I was waiting for church to start, I 55 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 3: kept adding scriptures to this sermon, and so it's good 56 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 3: that the clock ran out so we can preach. I 57 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: like to preach real quick. I won't go over three hours. 58 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: It doesn't take the Lord long to say what he 59 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: wants to say. But I wanted to give a proper 60 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 3: context for this message today. We talked last week about 61 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: a man named Jacob. Jacob, God called his name twice. 62 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 3: That's kind of what I'm looking for in this series. 63 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: There are seven seven people that God called their name 64 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: back to back two times in a row in the scripture. 65 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 3: So you got Moses, Moses, Martha, Martha, Jacob, Jacob, Simon 66 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: Simon who later became Peter, Abraham, Abraham, Samuel, Samuel. 67 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: Any guesses who we're going to preach about. 68 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: Today, Okay, Galatians, Chapter one, verse eleven. I want you 69 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 3: to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached 70 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 3: is not of human origin. I did not receive it 71 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 3: from any man, nor was I taught it. Rather, I 72 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 3: received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. For you have 73 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: heard of my previous way of life in Judaism. Any 74 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 3: guesses who we're talking about today, getting there? You're getting there, okay, 75 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 3: I'll tell you in a minute, just give some clues. 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 3: For you've heard of my previous way of life in Judaism. 77 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 3: How intensely I persecuted the Church of God and tried 78 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 3: to destroy it. That word tried would preach itself whoever 79 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: this is to say. And I tried to stand against God, 80 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 3: and God stood against me. I tried to persecute the 81 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 3: Church of God and destroy it. I was advancing in 82 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 3: Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, 83 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 3: and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my father's. 84 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: But when God, who set me apart from my mother's. 85 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: Womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to 86 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: reveal his son in me so that I might preach 87 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 3: him among the gentiles. My immediate Resis response was not 88 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 3: to consult any human being. 89 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: Wow. I did not go up. 90 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 3: To Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was. 91 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 3: But I went into Arabia, that's the desert. I had 92 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 3: to get prepared. I had to get ready, and later 93 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 3: I returned to Damascus. Then, after three years, I went 94 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 3: up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephis and stayed 95 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: with him fifteen days. I saw none of the other apostles, 96 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: only James, the Lord's brother. I assure you before God 97 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 3: that what I am writing you is no lie. 98 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: Whoever he is, he's not lying. 99 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 3: Now go over to Acts chapter nine, and I'll show 100 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 3: you who we're talking about. 101 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: Acts chapter nine, verse three. 102 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 3: As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly alike from 103 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 3: heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and 104 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: heard a voice say to him, Saul, Saul, why do 105 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 3: you persecute me? 106 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: Who are you? Lord? Saul? 107 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 3: Last I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting. 108 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 3: Now listen to this. Now get up and go into 109 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 3: the city, and you will be told what you must do. 110 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 3: Hit me again with verse four. He heard a voice 111 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 3: when he fell to the ground, Saul Saw. But justin, 112 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 3: if you can real quick, circle that Saw, Saul. And 113 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: today I want to tell you what my subject is. 114 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 3: I want to talk to you about when God gets ready, 115 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 3: when God gets ready. And I also have a subtitle 116 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 3: to help it stick so you can remember it. Here's 117 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: the subtitle, Callings have commas. I'll explain it in fifteen minutes, 118 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 3: but say it by faith. Callings have commas. Put a 119 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 3: comma in chat. Tell your neighbor. Callings have commas. So 120 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 3: when he says Saul Saul verse four, Saul, now circle 121 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 3: what comes between comma Saul, Just circle the comma. 122 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: For me, justin, let's preach about that. Father. 123 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: I thank you for the little things that give us revelation. 124 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 3: Do a big work through it in Jesus' name. Amen, 125 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 3: you may be seated something as little as a comma 126 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 3: such a big calling Saul Saul. This moment is unique, 127 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 3: as Saul is going to kill Christians, and he becomes 128 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 3: one coming to kill Christians, and he meets Christ called 129 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 3: by the one that he's trying to kill. Bless you 130 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 3: and you say, he wasn't trying to kill Christ. He 131 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 3: was trying to kill Christians. But we found out in 132 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 3: this text, didn't we that Jesus takes it personally? 133 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: How you treat as people? 134 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 3: Tell your neighbor be nice to me, Tell him you 135 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 3: better be real nice to me. The Lord hangs my 136 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: drawings on his refrigerator. You better be nice to me. 137 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 3: The Lord likes me a whole lot. You better be 138 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: nice to me. He likes my chubby cheeks. You better 139 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 3: be nice to me. Don't call me short. The Lord 140 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 3: made me five foot eight and a half. You better 141 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 3: be nice to me. Be nice to me. When I 142 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 3: was thinking about preaching on Saul Saul, of course, the 143 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 3: comma isn't in the Hebrew or the Greek text. 144 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: It's just they're in the English for us. 145 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 3: But it caused me to pause, because that's what a 146 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 3: comma is designed to do. In a sentence, right, a 147 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 3: comma says, pause, let's insert something here. 148 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: That's one thing that ecmma does. 149 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: Another thing that acamma does is it can introduce additional information. 150 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 3: That is called and a positive thank you mss Cratic 151 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 3: fifth grade English. It's called an a. A coma can let 152 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 3: you know, here's some additional information. Comma, comma and additional information. 153 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 3: And yes, I may have had some assistance from a 154 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 3: research tool called chat GPT to bring you this current 155 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 3: information today. But another thing that a comma can do 156 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 3: is to set into effect a different event, or to 157 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 3: introduce it, so to set off an element. 158 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: And I'll explain that in a minute. 159 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 3: But one of the things that a comma can do 160 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 3: that we're most familiar with is to separate items into 161 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 3: a list. 162 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: So if you see a list of the Apostles. 163 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 4: You'll see Simon, Peter, and Bartholomew and James and John, 164 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 4: and there's commas between each of them to distinguish that 165 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 4: although they were twelve disciples, they were twelve distinctive people 166 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 4: with twelve distinctive personalities, and God used each of those 167 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 4: personalities and a unique way that only he. 168 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: Could use them to fulfill a purpose and only he 169 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: could fulfill. 170 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 3: And the thing I'm beginning to realize about my life 171 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 3: is that not only do I have to exist within 172 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 3: teams and frameworks of organizations and societies, not only do 173 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 3: I have to learn to interact and play and get 174 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 3: along with others, but I have to learn to get 175 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 3: along with myself. 176 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:14,079 Speaker 1: I have to learn to. 177 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 3: Get along with myself because even within this one person 178 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 3: named Stephen. 179 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: I have commas. 180 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 3: Usually I don't come down to the floor until about 181 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 3: thirty minutes into my sermon, but I'm coming early today. 182 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 3: I'm heading up walking a little slow because I did 183 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: some squats yesterday, a little heavier than I intended. 184 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get there though. Now in this section. 185 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 3: I was visualizing this before I preached it, and I 186 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 3: thought it would really help us set up for the 187 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 3: message is that I have multiple callings represented just in 188 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 3: this section of the room, and I'll prove it to 189 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 3: you because I have one name, Larry Stevens Ferdick Junior. 190 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: Legally I go by Stephen, but to. 191 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 3: Multiple people here, they all call me something different. She 192 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 3: calls me son. That's my mom. They're not putting her 193 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 3: on camera. She's too pre there, she goes, she's too 194 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 3: pretty to miss her camera shot. 195 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: Can you see her? Not at all? That's definitely not her. 196 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: Came down a little earlier than they were ready for me. 197 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 3: Back there in the back, somebody in the back smoking 198 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 3: a cigarette instead of working the camera. I'm gonna check 199 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 3: into that because back there in the back they call 200 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 3: me boss. Not that I'm a dictator or anything like that, 201 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 3: but I'm the boss. She calls me boss. Mom calls 202 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 3: me son. She gave me a name Larry Stevens Ferdick Junior, 203 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 3: and she knows me in a role. She calls me pastor. 204 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 3: This is cherish. She works on our team. Give it 205 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 3: up for cherish. 206 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: Everybody. 207 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 3: She calls me pastor. She calls me son. He calls 208 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 3: me dad. He used to call me daddy. The saddest 209 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 3: day of my life is when he dropped the d Y. 210 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: I was like, Dad, just dad. Now He's like, yeah, 211 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: just dad. 212 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 2: Now. 213 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, this is the first step of this 214 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 3: is the next thing. You know, he's going to be 215 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 3: on drugs like I started spiraling out of control. This 216 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 3: whole process of adulthood. So son, pastor Dad. My best 217 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 3: friend from high school is over here. His name is Eric. 218 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: He calls me Bo. It's a South Carolina thing. Don't 219 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 3: worry about it. It's kind of like in Australia, mate, 220 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 3: or like you might say dude, or you might say bro, 221 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 3: but in South Carolina we say bo. And its incidentally 222 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 3: what I call my dog, but there's no correlation. He 223 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 3: was calling me bou long before I had a Boston 224 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 3: interior named Bo. 225 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: So I'm illustrating to you. Stay with me for a moment. 226 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 3: I'm illustrating to you that I am called all that, 227 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 3: I am called son, i am called dad, Daddy, I'll 228 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 3: always be daddy. 229 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: I am called I am called bo. She calls me babe. 230 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Now we got a problem if he calls 231 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 3: me babe. But I am babe while I'm still boy. 232 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 3: It's not like I am babe one day in bo 233 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 3: the next. I might be Bo one day and babe 234 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 3: the next I might. I might be dad one moment 235 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 3: and son the next, because i was a son before 236 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 3: I was a dad, and I'm still a son while 237 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 3: I'm a dad, and I'm still a boss while I'm 238 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 3: a babe. And sometimes she calls me babe, and sometimes 239 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 3: she calls me boss. But the message I'll get off this, 240 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 3: the message that I'm trying to give to you today, 241 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 3: is a simple one. Callings have commas. The process of 242 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 3: your development isn't that you stop being something and become 243 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 3: something else. If it was, it'd be easy if you 244 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: stop being son when you became dad, you would know 245 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 3: what to do and you'd be a good one. Wow. 246 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 3: But the truth is you have to learn to become 247 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 3: a dad while you're still a son and a little 248 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 3: boy in some ways yourself. I'm preaching so good you 249 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 3: can't say amen. You had to write that down. I'm 250 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 3: called all of that. Tell somebody next to you, I'm 251 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 3: all that. Don't be too impressed by me. 252 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: But I'm all that. 253 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: I'm not saying I'm doing it all well, but I'm 254 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 3: all that. I'm boss, I'm babe, I'm bo, I'm dad, 255 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 3: I'm daddy. 256 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: I'm all that. I'm all that. And I'm trying to 257 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: figure out from the passage that we read. And I 258 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: may not even go out on the stage today. I 259 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: might just preach it all the way from down here. 260 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 3: Because I want to look in your eyes today and 261 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 3: try to figure out, even through that. 262 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: Camera, what all are you? What all are you? Let's 263 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: take it a little deeper than we did before. 264 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 3: I was looking at comments the other day of a 265 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 3: sermon that I preached, trying to figure out if I 266 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 3: did a good job. Well, that's a dangerous place to 267 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: go to get an assessment of your performances, the comments section. 268 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: Of you two. 269 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 3: Because I scrolled a little bit and someone said this 270 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 3: man is so anointed. I felt kind of good. I 271 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 3: know it's prideful. I know I shouldn't care, but I 272 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 3: felt kind of good. I thought, yeah, I am kind 273 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 3: of willy, I am kind of annoyed to I am 274 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 3: kind of greasy. 275 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: That was a good sermon. 276 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 3: I scrolled a little more, didn't have to scroll very far. 277 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 3: Someone else said, this man is so annoying. So all 278 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 3: it took was a little bit of scrolling, and I 279 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 3: went from anointed to one person and annoying to another. 280 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 3: Tell somebody you're all that you're anointed. You know what's 281 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 3: coming next, don't you, and you're annoying. Paul was pretty anointed, 282 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 3: would you agree. I know in the text we called 283 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 3: him Saul Saul, but of course he went on to 284 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 3: become the great missionary to the Gentiles named Paul. He 285 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 3: became Paul after Jesus got a hold of his life, 286 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 3: so we say, but he could be kind of anointed. 287 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: I think anytime that someone falls asleep when you're preaching 288 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 3: out of a window and you raise them from the dead, 289 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 3: that counts as anointed. I think anytime you turn to 290 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: a sorcerer and say, in the name of Jesus, shut 291 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 3: up and the demon had to leave, you're anointed. I 292 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 3: think anytime God can do miracles not just from your hands, 293 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 3: but from your handkerchiefs, you're pretty anointed. I think that 294 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 3: if your shadow is enough to bring healing, you're pretty anointed. 295 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 3: At the same time that Paul is anointed, I'm sure 296 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 3: that if we were in his close proximity, we might 297 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 3: say that he's a little annoying. I know you don't 298 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 3: like to call your Bible characters annoying, but these are 299 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 3: not characters. These are conflicted human beings. These are people 300 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 3: with pasts. These are people with preferences. These are people 301 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 3: with proclivities. These are people with weaknesses. These are people 302 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 3: with limps like Jacob. These are people with distracted minds 303 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 3: like Martha. These are people with stutters and stammers and 304 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 3: excuses like Moses. 305 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: These are people with shaky faith like Abraham. 306 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 3: And yet what we're learning in this series is that 307 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 3: you are called all of that. I recently released a 308 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 3: song in the verses I'm a sinner, Grace is still healing, 309 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 3: I'm a story time is revealing. 310 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: I'm all of. 311 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 3: These things, but mostly I'm thankful. Could that be true? 312 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 3: I'm a sinner, Grace is still healing. I'm a story 313 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 3: time is revealing, And just in case you're looking at 314 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 3: one chapter in my life, don't forget I'm all of 315 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 3: these things. I am all of these things. Can be kind, 316 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 3: can be cruel, all of these things. And the sooner 317 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 3: we admit that we have the capacity to be called 318 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 3: all of these things accurately in any given situation, the 319 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 3: more we will learn to rely on the Lord who 320 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 3: never changes. 321 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: The more we will learn to rely on the Lord. 322 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 3: Whose character is consistent, and the more that we will 323 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 3: learn that it is important that although I'm Dad and 324 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 3: I'm son, and I'm pastor, and I'm boss and I'm 325 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 3: bo and I'm babe, I'm all of these things, but 326 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 3: I cannot go to people to figure out who I 327 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 3: am too soon, because people don't see me how I am. 328 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 3: They see me how they need me to be. He 329 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 3: doesn't need a friend, He's got friends. He needs gas money. 330 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 3: So I'm Dad. I'm not an ATM. But he might 331 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 3: see me that way, and I can get frustrated seeing 332 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 3: him as what do I look like to you? 333 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: Do I just look like a cash after you? Do 334 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,719 Speaker 1: I look like a living, breathing cash after you? 335 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 3: Is that what I look like to you, But I'm 336 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 3: all of these things. 337 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm all of these things. 338 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 3: Paul was a Hebrew of Hebrews, of the tribe of Benjamin, 339 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 3: circumcised on the eighth Day, studied under Gamaliel, which would 340 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 3: be the equivalent of the highest degree of internship. 341 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: You could imagine all that Paul. Saul was all that. 342 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 3: And yet when the moment came for God to call 343 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 3: him as important as he was. 344 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: God didn't set up an appointment. 345 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 3: Jesus did not ask Saul's administrative assistant, can I get 346 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 3: some time on the books with my man Saul. 347 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: It'd be nice if he could squeeze me in. You know, 348 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: sometimes I think. 349 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 3: That we forget how sovereign God really is when we're 350 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 3: making our schedules, and then something just comes along and 351 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 3: knocks your whole plan apart, and you realize that it's 352 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 3: so important for all the different roles that you have 353 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 3: in your life, to realize that for all of the 354 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 3: roles that you have, there is only one resource that 355 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 3: will never run out, and his name is Jesus. So 356 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,479 Speaker 3: Paul said in Galatians chapter one that when God called 357 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 3: me by his grace, I did not immediate confer with 358 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 3: human beings. Why is that because they are not the 359 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 3: source of what I am. I'm trying to say it 360 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 3: another way that will be better. Okay, people label, but 361 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 3: God names. People label, but God names. And people label 362 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 3: through their lens of what they see. But God names 363 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 3: through his lens of what He gave you. Paul said 364 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 3: from even before the womb. And so the moment when 365 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 3: we see Paul being knocked down by the glorious light 366 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ, I mean, it's a pretty dramatic moment. 367 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 3: In Acts chapter nine, the Bible says that as he 368 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 3: neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven 369 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 3: flashed around him. Now this is somebody that you know, 370 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 3: the Christians were praying about because the faith of the 371 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 3: Christians was flourishing. But there will never be flourishing faith 372 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 3: without a fight. Please get that in your head. There 373 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 3: will never be flourishing faith will never flourish without a fight. 374 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 3: Let me say that again. Faith will never flourish without 375 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: a fight. 376 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: It can't. 377 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 3: The enemy will leave you alone if you are not 378 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 3: walking in faith. But the moment that you walk in faith, 379 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 3: he fights you. So that's why he's been fighting you. 380 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:40,360 Speaker 3: Why God I'll tell you why God, God, God is working. 381 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: In your life. And we see. 382 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 3: Saul in Acts chapter nine, can I preach a little 383 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 3: bit with an outline? We see him go from fighting 384 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 3: to falling to following. From fighting, everybody say fighting to 385 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 3: falling to following. 386 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: He said, I was locking. 387 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 3: Up Christians and consenting to the stoning of Stephen. 388 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: And I thought I was doing good. 389 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 3: And it wasn't like I It wasn't like I knew 390 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 3: I was wrong. But one of the most beautiful moments 391 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 3: of your life comes when you encounter the utter relief 392 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 3: of realizing. 393 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: You were wrong. We're doing the moment when you realize. 394 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 3: That I was say the word, well, you had a 395 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 3: hard time getting that out your mouth. You sound like 396 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 3: you went to the dentist and got some novacane before 397 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 3: you said that. Did you hear how hard it was 398 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 3: for you to say I was wrong. I was wrong 399 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 3: to put that pressure on you. I was wrong when 400 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 3: I got angry with you and. 401 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: I said you made me mad. You didn't make me mad. 402 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 3: You just revealed what was already in my heart as 403 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 3: anger at somebody else. I was wrong to yell at you. 404 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 3: I was wrong to believe that you knew God less 405 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 3: than I did, because you struggled with something that my 406 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 3: exposure did not enable. 407 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: I was wrong to judge you like that. 408 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 3: I was wrong to think that I was right to 409 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 3: the exclusion of others having the right to know God 410 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 3: in their own relationship. 411 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: I was wrong. 412 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a series sometime in the twentieth year 413 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 3: of ministry called All the Things I Was Wrong About, 414 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 3: and it's gonna be a twenty year series, because that 415 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 3: should be the process of your Christian life is realizing 416 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 3: that you are wrong and repenting. And you said, well, 417 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 3: Pastor Stephen, that's not what I came to church for. 418 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 3: I believe in the blood of Jesus, and I'm right 419 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 3: about it. I believe in the resurrection and I'm right 420 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 3: about it. I believe that He saves and he's coming 421 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 3: again on the clouds on a horse, and he's gonna 422 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 3: kick his enemies, and he's gonna have his blood dipped 423 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 3: in robe, and he's the Lion and he's the Lamb. 424 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: And I believe all of that, and I know I'm 425 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 1: right about it, and they're wrong. You know, you can 426 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: be right in the wrong way. 427 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 3: To have an arrogant disposition that thinks that you know 428 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 3: everything to be the kind of parent that punishes your 429 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 3: kids for stuff that you know that you did ten 430 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 3: times worse and look at them like, what in the 431 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: world is wrong with you? You know exactly what's wrong 432 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 3: with them. It's called your DNA. That's what's wrong with them. 433 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: What's wrong with them is you. 434 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 3: I was spanking one of the kids one time, Please 435 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 3: don't take me to court, and the Lord said, what, 436 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 3: You're going to spank the you out of them? 437 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:34,719 Speaker 1: Wow? 438 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 3: That helped me because I realized that sometimes the most 439 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 3: righteous thing I can be is wrong. How open are 440 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 3: you coming to church today hearing something that you might 441 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 3: be wrong about? Or do you just want to say 442 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 3: amen to all the stuff that you already say you 443 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 3: believe but don't live anyway? 444 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: Now. 445 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 3: Now, Saul is an interesting character because other people in 446 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 3: scripture we see and Jesus is rescuing them from a 447 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 3: life of sin. That was not Saul's testimony. Saul was 448 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 3: not a horrible sinner. Saul wasn't rescued from some gross sin. 449 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 3: Saul was rescued from self righteousness. He says, I was advancing, 450 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 3: I was going, I thought I was right, and I 451 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 3: found out I was wrong, and watch this the whole 452 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 3: word that God wants to give you today. Hinges on this. 453 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to be wrong before you're ready. Sometimes 454 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 3: you are not ready for what God wants to do 455 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 3: next in your life because you are not willing to 456 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 3: be wrong. Are you willing to be wrong for a 457 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 3: moment to humble yourself in the sight of the Lord 458 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 3: so that He will lift you up to be able 459 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 3: to say, maybe there is another way to do that. 460 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 3: Maybe there was a better way to approach that. Maybe 461 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 3: I don't know every style of worship. Maybe I don't 462 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 3: know every way that God can move into church. Maybe 463 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 3: I don't know every way that God can Maybe I 464 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 3: shouldn't keep putting periods in places where God puts a comma. 465 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 3: Maybe I shouldn't write people off so quick. Maybe I 466 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 3: shouldn't just throw people out so quick, like their milk 467 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 3: that went bad. Maybe I shouldn't just make up my 468 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 3: mind that they can't change, because the truth is, I'm 469 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 3: still changing. I'm still changing, I'm still learning, I'm still growing. 470 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor. 471 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 3: Give me space to change. I need a little room 472 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 3: to change. I got a little cocoon, and I'm changing 473 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 3: in here, and I might break out and I might 474 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 3: get wings. But I'm struggling against this right now. Why 475 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 3: would you put a period in a place where God 476 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 3: puts somebody else in a cocoon to transform them into 477 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 3: something that you've never seen before? Or why would you 478 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 3: do it to yourself? Why would you do it to yourself? 479 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 3: Why would you put a period on your purpose? When 480 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 3: God put a comma, I'm trying to say He's not 481 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 3: done with you yet. I'm trying to say nothing is 482 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 3: over till God says this over. I'm trying to say 483 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 3: everything that the enemy meant for evil, God has a 484 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 3: way of turning it for good. I'm trying to say 485 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 3: that the weapon may be formed, but it won't prosper. 486 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 3: I'm trying to say that your latter will be greater 487 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 3: than your past. I'm trying to say that if you're 488 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 3: still breathing, there's a reason that you're breathing. I'm trying 489 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 3: to say that I don't care what they said about you. 490 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 3: I care what God knows about you. Because people label, 491 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 3: but God names. And you might be addicted, but you 492 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 3: might not say that way, and you might be bankrupt 493 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 3: and broke, but you might not stay that way. 494 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: And you might be mean and bitter, but you might 495 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: not stay that. 496 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 3: Way because the blood of Jesus has a way of 497 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 3: breaking you out of the prisons of your previous life. 498 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: There are some people in this room who. 499 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 3: Have been in the prison of your past so long. 500 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 3: But I want you to realize that callings have commas. 501 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 3: Comma com The next time the devil starts telling you 502 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 3: is over, just do one of these and keep walking. 503 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 3: The next time people say your best is behind you, 504 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 3: just do one of these and keep walking. The next 505 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 3: time somebody's saying something about you and you know it's 506 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 3: not true, don't even say anything back. Just go boom 507 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 3: and keep walking. Because God does commas. Because God looks 508 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 3: at dry bones and seize armies, because God looks at 509 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 3: red seas and sees highways. 510 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: Because God looks at Sol and sees Paul. 511 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 3: Because God looks as Simon sees Peter. 512 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: Looks at Jacob sees Israel. 513 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 3: I'm so glad God does commas, and it's just a 514 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 3: quick thing he can do to get you to see 515 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 3: something in. 516 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: Yourself that you never saw before. Watch this. 517 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 3: It is so important that you realize that big doors 518 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 3: swing on little hinges and something as small as a comma. 519 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 3: Saul saw something as ordinary as light when binged into 520 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 3: his eyes turned the world upside down. At this point 521 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 3: in his life, Paul thought I've arrived. At this point 522 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 3: in his life, Paul thought I knew at all. At 523 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 3: this point in his life, Paul thought he was everything 524 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 3: but wrong. 525 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: At this point in his life, Paul was ranked at 526 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: the top. But just when he got there, God orchestrated 527 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: a falling into a new calling. 528 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 5: Wow. 529 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 3: The Bible says in Acts chapter nine, verse four, that 530 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 3: as Paul was riding along, he fell to the ground 531 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 3: and heard a voice saying, Saul sauw. It's very interesting 532 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 3: to me that he couldn't hear that voice until he 533 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 3: was falling. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak for you to 534 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 3: be able to hear God. Sometimes it takes an interruption 535 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 3: to get your attention. And Saul fell off. That's what 536 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 3: the young people say, man, he fell off. Jereabay saw 537 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 3: he was doing good man, but I heard he's around 538 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 3: there with that cult called Christians. 539 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: Saul fell off. 540 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 3: In fact, I don't know if you noticed it when 541 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 3: I read in Galatians chapter one, because I get this, 542 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 3: this is very important. You have to live it now 543 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 3: and explain it later. You have to live it now, 544 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 3: survive it now, explain it later. When I read you 545 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 3: Galatians Chapter one, verses eleven through twenty, I read that 546 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 3: on purpose first. But it's not what Paul said while 547 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 3: he was going through his conversion. 548 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: It's what he said fourteen years after the fact. And Saul, 549 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: excuse me. 550 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 3: Paul the artist formerly known as Saul saw his Hebrew name. 551 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 3: He was named after the first king of Israel. He 552 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 3: was from the same tribe of Benjamin. The name Saul 553 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 3: means to hear or to ask, excuse me, not to hear, 554 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 3: to ask is Isn't that crazy that in the beginning 555 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 3: of the passage he's asking for letters to persecute the church, 556 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 3: and after God gets done with him, he's asking Jesus, 557 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 3: who are you? 558 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: And God is changing his questions? Is that crazy? And 559 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: as he's explaining to the. 560 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 3: Church at Galatian, now, this is a group of Christians 561 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 3: who didn't grow up Jewish. It's a group of Christians 562 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 3: who we would call gentiles, who Paul was called to reach. 563 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 3: And he says in verse thirteen, I know you heard 564 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 3: of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely 565 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 3: I persecuted the Church of God. You heard about my 566 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 3: previous way of life. Now stop right there. Have you 567 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 3: been imprisoned in your previous This is the scary thing 568 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,479 Speaker 3: about consulting with people. People will put you in the 569 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 3: prison of your previous. In Saul's case, it wasn't a 570 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 3: life of sin. It was a life of self righteousness. 571 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 3: But see, to them, he was a Christian killer, and 572 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 3: so they could never forget what he represented to them, 573 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 3: And that's why it was important that he went straight 574 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 3: to God. I heard a story one time about three 575 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 3: baseball umpires and they were talking about their philosophy of 576 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 3: calling balls and strikes. 577 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: Well, one of the. 578 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 3: Baseball umpires said, I call it like it is, and 579 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 3: the next umpire said, I call it like I see it. 580 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: And the third umpire said, it ain't nothing till I 581 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: call it. 582 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 3: I believe God is saying today, it ain't nothing till 583 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 3: I call it. You might think you're really something your resume. 584 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 3: It ain't nothing till I call it. 585 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: Paul, who was. 586 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 3: So credentialed, Paul who was so capable, Paul who was 587 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 3: so incredibly charismatic, said you heard about my previous way 588 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 3: of life. Now get ready, because this is a really 589 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,440 Speaker 3: powerful reflection from the apostle. He said, you heard how 590 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 3: intensely I persecuted the Church of God and tried to 591 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 3: destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of 592 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 3: my own age, among my own people, and was extremely. 593 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,800 Speaker 1: Zealous for the traditions of my father's. 594 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 3: Now I want to show you verse fifteen because it's 595 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 3: what really lit my spirit on fire for somebody in 596 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 3: the room today, Paul says, after all of that that 597 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 3: you've heard about me, after all of that that I 598 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,839 Speaker 3: did against Jesus, I was fighting against him. Now I'm 599 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,919 Speaker 3: following him. I was fighting against him. Now I am 600 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 3: filling the world with his teaching. I am filling the 601 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 3: world with the message that I used to fight against. 602 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 3: This is how big God can do it. This is 603 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 3: how drastic of a change God can make. It is 604 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 3: too soon for you to give up on anybody. It 605 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 3: is too soon for you to give up on you. 606 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 3: It is too soon for you to give up on freedom. 607 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,279 Speaker 3: I was telling somebody the other day this is the 608 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 3: way I am and it will never change, and they said, 609 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 3: it's too soon for you. 610 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: To say that you've got too many experiences. 611 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 3: You've got too many valleys, you've got too many mountains, 612 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 3: you've got too many tomorrows, you've got too many next months, 613 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 3: you've got too many next years. It is too soon 614 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,319 Speaker 3: for you to say that. It is too soon for 615 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 3: you to say I'll never. It is too soon for 616 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,839 Speaker 3: you to say I'm not. It is too soon for 617 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 3: you to assume that what you've seen so far is 618 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 3: all there is to you. Because Paul, who was called Saul, 619 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 3: thought I've done it, This is it. And God laughed 620 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:30,520 Speaker 3: because where he put a period, God put a comma. 621 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 3: He said, you heard about my previous way of life. 622 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,360 Speaker 3: You heard how I advanced. You heard how zealous and 623 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 3: passionate I was. And then verse fifteen says something very powerful. 624 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: But when God comma, I know. 625 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,399 Speaker 3: It's gonna take a minute, but you're gonna get it. 626 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 3: But when God comma, take those three words and get 627 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,760 Speaker 3: them in your spirit. Now, put them in your mouth 628 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 3: and say them. But when God, I want to see 629 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,880 Speaker 3: the chat light up right now with that three words. 630 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,720 Speaker 1: But when God. 631 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 3: One of the favorite phrases for us to shout about 632 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 3: in church is but God, this is a little different. 633 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 3: But God means it seemed to be going one way, 634 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 3: now it's going another. 635 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: It looked like this. 636 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 3: It was really that I was dead in my sins 637 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,319 Speaker 3: and transgressions. 638 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,239 Speaker 1: But God made me alive. Paul wrote that, by the way, 639 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: Paul wrote that after. 640 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 3: He'd spent his whole life fighting against the thing he 641 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 3: was now following in, Paul wrote that, by the way, 642 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,840 Speaker 3: don't you dare tell me that you're done. Don't you 643 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 3: dare tell me that nothing good is gonna come from you. 644 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 3: Don't you dare tell me that it's over. Paul wrote that, 645 00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 3: but when God comma, you could see this on the screen. 646 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to this on a podcast. If you are 647 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 3: listening to this sermon and not watching it, pull the 648 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 3: car over and look at the screen right now, or 649 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 3: pull up this verse in your U version app pull 650 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 3: up Galatians one point fifteen, because I want you to see. 651 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 3: But when God, which means what that it's on his schedule, 652 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:30,359 Speaker 3: not mine. But when God, I was sinking deep in sin, 653 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 3: far from the peaceful shore. But when God, they wrote 654 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,040 Speaker 3: me off, talked about me like a dog, said I 655 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,840 Speaker 3: was annoying. But when God, I was up to my 656 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 3: neck in it. I didn't think I could take another 657 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,359 Speaker 3: phone call or a text message with bad news. But 658 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,319 Speaker 3: then a light shone from heaven and knock me off 659 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 3: my horse and knock me off my rightness. But when 660 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 3: God people said he'll never get up. People started playing 661 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 3: my funeral, people started writing my old bits aweary, people 662 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,719 Speaker 3: started talking. 663 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: About me behind my back. 664 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:20,919 Speaker 3: But when God comma, I'll say about this. So when 665 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,799 Speaker 3: did Saul's name change to Paul? I know when Abraham's 666 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 3: name changed. I know when Abraham's name changed. Genesis chapter seventeen, 667 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,360 Speaker 3: checked his out. The Lord took this man named Abram, 668 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,359 Speaker 3: and he said, I like to buy a consonant consonant vinna. 669 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:39,560 Speaker 1: I like the car. 670 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:45,040 Speaker 3: Abraham, look at this Justice seventeen. Abraham fell face down. 671 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 3: Abraham what. 672 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:53,640 Speaker 1: Somebody else felt that we were just talking about? 673 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 3: Oh, so sometimes the fall signifies that there's a call coming. 674 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,759 Speaker 1: There's a call coming, there's a call coming. I don't 675 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,040 Speaker 1: know what you fell into this week. 676 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 3: Some of you fell back into something this week that 677 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,280 Speaker 3: you thought you walked away from. 678 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: But after the fall, there is a calling. 679 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,759 Speaker 3: You're gonna help somebody get set free from him. I know, 680 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,920 Speaker 3: y'all don't like this, but sometimes it takes wrong to 681 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 3: get you ready. It takes wrong to get you ready. 682 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 3: Stop beating up on yourself. Paul said, by the grace 683 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,600 Speaker 3: of God, I was called it's time for you to 684 00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,439 Speaker 3: fall into calling. Now Abraham fell face down. He wasn't 685 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,959 Speaker 3: called Abraham yet, he was called Abram. Abram means exalted Father. 686 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 3: That's freaking name called Abram. Why do you need an upgrade? Well, 687 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 3: when he fell face down, God said to him, that's 688 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,080 Speaker 3: the call. After the fall asked for me, this is 689 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,400 Speaker 3: my coming with you. You be the father of many nations 690 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,439 Speaker 3: because Abram means exalted father. 691 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,240 Speaker 1: Abraham means father of many. 692 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 3: So now we see that God is exchanging a name 693 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 3: as a setup for expansion. I want you to just 694 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:58,320 Speaker 3: be a father. I wants to be a father of 695 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 3: many nations. Who else you don't see? Jacob Jenu is 696 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 3: thirty two. He's wrestling with God all night. He don't 697 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,759 Speaker 3: know it's God. He's fighting, and then he falls and 698 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,400 Speaker 3: he says, I'm not letting go to your blessing. When 699 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 3: he falls, God said, I see you struggling with God humans, 700 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 3: and you have overcome, so you're no longer going to 701 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,719 Speaker 3: be called Jacob, which means heal, grabber. But now your 702 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,120 Speaker 3: name is Israel, which means overcomer, because you struggled with 703 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 3: God and with humans and have overcome. Wow, he got 704 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 3: a new name because he was not just carrying himself. 705 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: He was carrying a nation. 706 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,960 Speaker 3: He was all that, all that was coming forth out 707 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 3: of him, All of that was meant to be from him, 708 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,280 Speaker 3: all of that. Abram, Abraham, Jacob, Israel. Who else? Simon 709 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,080 Speaker 3: Peter Well, he makes a confession. Jesus says, who do 710 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,360 Speaker 3: you say that I am? Matthew, Chapter sixteen, verse fifteen. 711 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,960 Speaker 3: He said, I know who you are. You're the Christ, 712 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,759 Speaker 3: the son of the Living God. He said, blessed you, 713 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 3: Simon bar son of Jonah. Because flesh and blood is 714 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,080 Speaker 3: not revealed this to you. You can't figure this out by 715 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,120 Speaker 3: thinking it. You can't figure this out by studying it. 716 00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,520 Speaker 3: You can't figure this out by doing a DNA test. 717 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 3: What is it called twenty three and me? You can't 718 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 3: do twenty four to twenty five to me. The only 719 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 3: way you can know me is the Father in Heaven reveal. 720 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,640 Speaker 3: And now I'm gonna reveal who you are. Now that you 721 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 3: see clearly who I am. I say you you are 722 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 3: Peter Petrol Cephis Rock. And upon this rock of the 723 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,279 Speaker 3: revelation that you have of who I am, I'm going 724 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,239 Speaker 3: to show you who you are. 725 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,640 Speaker 1: I will build my church. Wow. 726 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,959 Speaker 3: So every time that God gave someone a new name, 727 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,400 Speaker 3: he was building something. Every time that God gave them 728 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,120 Speaker 3: a new name, he was enlarging something. Every time that 729 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:33,840 Speaker 3: God gave their new name represented a new assignment, a 730 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,800 Speaker 3: new sphere, a new domain, a new level of weight. 731 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: So when did Paul become Paul? Saul? Saul? Now I 732 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,719 Speaker 1: have to confess to you here. 733 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 3: I would like to tell you that I learned that 734 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 3: in Bible school, and I never forgot it. But my 735 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:03,200 Speaker 3: limited mind just all thought that when God touched him 736 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 3: on the road to Damascus, because he went blind, and 737 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,879 Speaker 3: then he met him man named Annius, and he got 738 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,600 Speaker 3: his site back and he was able to see, and 739 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 3: then he went into the desert to prepare for three years. 740 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,279 Speaker 3: I always thought that somewhere in that Acts chapter nine, 741 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:22,000 Speaker 3: somebody God or Antonius or somebody said, and verily, verily, 742 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 3: I say, unto thee Saul, you will no longer be 743 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:33,200 Speaker 3: called Saul. You will now be called Paul so I 744 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,759 Speaker 3: read all through Acts chapter nine, and I was like, wait, 745 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,279 Speaker 3: I missed it. 746 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,840 Speaker 1: Where is it? Maybe maybe as I'm reading the wrong version. 747 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,759 Speaker 1: It took me about two hours. I just kept reading. 748 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,239 Speaker 3: I read Acts chapter nine, where Saul got knocked down 749 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,480 Speaker 3: and fell and God told him I'm going to call 750 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,439 Speaker 3: you to be a chosen vest. I read Acts chapter ten, 751 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,120 Speaker 3: Acts chapter eleven, Acts chapter twelve. I read the whole 752 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,400 Speaker 3: rest of the Book of Acts, and God never changed 753 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:03,440 Speaker 3: his name. And I was shocked because I thought, just surely, 754 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,680 Speaker 3: if he's going to be representing Jesus now as the 755 00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:13,040 Speaker 3: apostle Paul, that God must have given him that new name. Well, 756 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 3: it's not until Acts chapter thirteen, verse nine that we 757 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,640 Speaker 3: see when Saul became Paul. Pause real quick, kama kamakama, 758 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:27,480 Speaker 3: comma paus paus Pause. I'm telling you this because sometimes 759 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:35,799 Speaker 3: we don't know when we're changing. Sometimes it's fourteen years later, 760 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,359 Speaker 3: when you're writing the Book of Galatians that you realize, oh, 761 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,400 Speaker 3: it wasn't a fall, it was a calling. 762 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 1: What looked like falling was actually calling. 763 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:51,720 Speaker 3: What looked like a disability was actually my unique gift. 764 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 3: What looked like a learning disorder was actually, my brilliant 765 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,320 Speaker 3: mind just firing a little. 766 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 1: Different than everybody else's. 767 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,799 Speaker 3: What looked like a rejection from people was God's redirection 768 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,839 Speaker 3: for something that he called me uniquely to do. 769 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,520 Speaker 1: Why aren't you helping me preach? 770 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 3: I'm trying to help you recategorize, reclassify some stuff, because 771 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,480 Speaker 3: it ain't nothing until God calls it. You can't call 772 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,879 Speaker 3: it good, you can't call it bad. You can't call 773 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:21,280 Speaker 3: it success, you can't. 774 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,400 Speaker 1: Call it failure. It's nothing until He calls it. 775 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,600 Speaker 3: And here is the mighty apostle, Paul, saying, God who 776 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,839 Speaker 3: called me from my mother's womb. And then I realized 777 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,880 Speaker 3: In Acts chapter thirteen, verse nine, Oh. 778 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,040 Speaker 1: This is the most annointed verse I've read all year. 779 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 3: Ah. This will change your life. Ah, this will set 780 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,080 Speaker 3: you free, because everybody's waiting for this change to come. 781 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,200 Speaker 3: You know when I'm gonna feel better and be better 782 00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,719 Speaker 3: and do better and get taller and get richer, and 783 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,719 Speaker 3: everything's gonna be going my way, and everybody's gonna be 784 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,960 Speaker 3: nice to me and smiling me, and I'm not gonna 785 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:55,160 Speaker 3: struggle with this anymore. 786 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,520 Speaker 1: Acts, chapter thirteen, verse nine. 787 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:03,960 Speaker 3: Here it is Vin Saul Comma, who was also called Paul. 788 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:15,040 Speaker 3: What you mean God didn't change his name. Nope, Saul 789 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:23,760 Speaker 3: was his Hebrew name. Paul was his Roman name because 790 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,120 Speaker 3: he was all that. I said, he was all that. 791 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,880 Speaker 3: To be born in Tarsus of Sicily, where Paul was born, 792 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:39,000 Speaker 3: gave you a unique advantage that although I am Jewish 793 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:44,120 Speaker 3: by heritage, I am Roman by citizenship. So it means 794 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:51,120 Speaker 3: that I'm Saul and I'm also Paul. Saul isn't bad, 795 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 3: Paul isn't bad. 796 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:54,520 Speaker 1: I'm just both. 797 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,960 Speaker 3: Saul is the life I built until I met Jesus. 798 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 1: All is my name. 799 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,640 Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Gospel to the gentile world with. 800 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,000 Speaker 1: So God is saying to. 801 00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,799 Speaker 3: Somebody, I don't know your given name, I don't know 802 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:10,680 Speaker 3: your legal name. 803 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what. 804 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 3: God has you're standing on the precipice of I don't 805 00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 3: know what you're shaking about. I don't know what you're 806 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,160 Speaker 3: dealing with. I don't know who's talking to you about it. 807 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,279 Speaker 3: I don't know who's counsel you're keeping. But God has 808 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,879 Speaker 3: somebody here so you can hear today you already? Are 809 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:34,520 Speaker 3: you all ready? Are you all ready? Are stop trying 810 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:39,440 Speaker 3: to be that you all ready are? Stop trying to 811 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,560 Speaker 3: give sex to get love. You already are loved. Stop 812 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,960 Speaker 3: trying to give yourself away to people who do not 813 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:53,160 Speaker 3: have the capacity to receive it. Because the Bible says, 814 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:59,200 Speaker 3: when it came time for the gentiles to hear the Gospel, Saul, 815 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:05,799 Speaker 3: who was also called Paul, step forth, and the Book 816 00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:11,120 Speaker 3: of Acts never calls him Saul again because listen to this, 817 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,680 Speaker 3: listen to this. It's time for you to use your 818 00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:20,680 Speaker 3: other name. It's time for you to step into what 819 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,399 Speaker 3: God already called you. And didn't it just bless your 820 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,880 Speaker 3: socks off to realize that there was not a moment 821 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,960 Speaker 3: where he said you shall no longer be Saul, you 822 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:32,880 Speaker 3: shall be Paul. 823 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,560 Speaker 1: He said, simply, I just want you to use what 824 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:38,360 Speaker 1: I already gave you. 825 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,200 Speaker 3: And maybe that's the calling in this season of your 826 00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:48,000 Speaker 3: life to start using what He already gave you, to 827 00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:53,240 Speaker 3: start using the resources that your heavenly Father has already 828 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,799 Speaker 3: placed in your spirit through a deposit. Because I'll tell 829 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,319 Speaker 3: you one thing about it. Everything I've got that's worth having, 830 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:07,480 Speaker 3: I got it by grace, Paul said, when God was pleased, 831 00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,800 Speaker 3: give me galicians one fifteen one more time. When God 832 00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:17,439 Speaker 3: was pleased when God was pleased, and then what comes 833 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,320 Speaker 3: between those commas who set me apart from my mother's 834 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,799 Speaker 3: womb and called me by his grace. So I just 835 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,600 Speaker 3: want to say to you today that the grace was 836 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:36,759 Speaker 3: there before the mistake was ever made. Oh oh, I 837 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,000 Speaker 3: can hardly preach this to you because God is putting 838 00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:43,640 Speaker 3: it inside of me. I make mistakes, but the grace 839 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:52,960 Speaker 3: outran the mistake. The grace outran the mistake. So when 840 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,040 Speaker 3: you get done feeling sorry for yourself and get done 841 00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,400 Speaker 3: groveling and thinking God won't forgive you and God won't 842 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:04,960 Speaker 3: use you, you'll realize callings have commas. But when God, 843 00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,560 Speaker 3: who set me apart from my mother's womb, my name 844 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,600 Speaker 3: has always been Paul. I don't know who this is for, 845 00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,120 Speaker 3: but you've always been Paul. Some pain happened to you, 846 00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,440 Speaker 3: but you've always been Paul. You've always had a purpose, 847 00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,520 Speaker 3: You've always had a unique gift. You've always had that 848 00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,040 Speaker 3: smile that can light up a room. You've always been 849 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,360 Speaker 3: able to listen to people. You've always been able to 850 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,440 Speaker 3: unlock things. It just got buried for a little while. 851 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,719 Speaker 3: But I'd rather be wrong for a little while. I said, 852 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,719 Speaker 3: I'd rather be wrong for a little while. I'd rather 853 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,000 Speaker 3: go blind for a little while than spend my whole 854 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,920 Speaker 3: life fighting when God has called me to follow. 855 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:49,440 Speaker 1: So maybe we. 856 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,440 Speaker 3: Didn't come today asking God to change us into something 857 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,920 Speaker 3: that we're not. Maybe we came to allow God to 858 00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,000 Speaker 3: remind us. 859 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,520 Speaker 1: And he got it, already, got it, already, got it, 860 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:04,719 Speaker 1: already got it. 861 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:10,879 Speaker 3: The grace came before the mistake was made. High five 862 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 3: Greek people say. 863 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:12,799 Speaker 1: Already got it. 864 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,920 Speaker 3: Before I pray, he hears me, before I cry. 865 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:27,520 Speaker 1: He's got a kleenex. I already got it. May this 866 00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,120 Speaker 1: be the day. May this be the. 867 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:34,040 Speaker 3: Day that you stop running to people and letting them 868 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:40,160 Speaker 3: put periods where God would call us because calleingues have commers. 869 00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:46,080 Speaker 3: I'm annoying and annoyted. I'm Saul, I'm Paul. 870 00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm messed up. 871 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,960 Speaker 3: Had I got up? Had I got a message for 872 00:51:51,080 --> 00:52:04,799 Speaker 3: the world. You a shepherd or a singer? David, My 873 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:10,000 Speaker 3: calling has commas. You a sinner or a saint, Stephen, 874 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,200 Speaker 3: My calling has commas. And before I was born, Oh, 875 00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:18,440 Speaker 3: I hear Jeremiah being echoed right now. He set me apart. 876 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,759 Speaker 3: Because another thing a comma can do. Watch this, it 877 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:28,840 Speaker 3: can set something up to set something off Acts thirteen, 878 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:37,520 Speaker 3: verse nine. Then Saul, who was also called Paul filled 879 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:43,600 Speaker 3: with the Holy Spirit. Oh he fell, Now he's filled? 880 00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:49,720 Speaker 6: Why because callings have commas. God's not done with you, dude. 881 00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,839 Speaker 6: God's not done with you, bro. God's not done with you, mate. 882 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,440 Speaker 6: God's not done with you, bau. God's not done with you. 883 00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:55,799 Speaker 1: Mom. 884 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,359 Speaker 3: God's not done with your babe. God's not done with 885 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,120 Speaker 3: your son. God's not done with you, cherish. God wants 886 00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:14,240 Speaker 3: all of you, all that. I've come a long way. 887 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:22,960 Speaker 3: I've seen how you work. There's so much goodness and grace? 888 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:23,879 Speaker 1: How much? 889 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:29,000 Speaker 3: All right, sir? 890 00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,800 Speaker 1: Because I know who I am? Saw? 891 00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:39,040 Speaker 3: But I can't stay where I'm at. Paul, Yes, a 892 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:45,120 Speaker 3: new assignment. What's the next line? Y'all got a singer. 893 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:47,879 Speaker 1: Now? 894 00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,200 Speaker 3: You gotta declared put it in a Doll's nice. 895 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:58,600 Speaker 7: You're not tied with me. You're not chime with men. 896 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:05,880 Speaker 7: PAULA yay, so got so loyal? Got something fresh for you. 897 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:13,719 Speaker 7: You're not You're harm with oil. You're not ungrpeat, not yet, 898 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,000 Speaker 7: not ever, not yet. 899 00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:16,360 Speaker 1: You're not tong. 900 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,880 Speaker 7: Repe granther that they. 901 00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,200 Speaker 1: Are so much to this story. Just go a little 902 00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:29,680 Speaker 1: deep talk with, but you left your hands. 903 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,480 Speaker 3: Stay at the fake time, he said, not about that. 904 00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:40,640 Speaker 7: Cra worse, I said, will be to the wr. 905 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,080 Speaker 3: I'm a storys Highness, the dealing. 906 00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:50,719 Speaker 1: Time or not with your hand on your hearts. Take 907 00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:51,520 Speaker 1: you're not. 908 00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:59,360 Speaker 7: Talking it that something I don't play grid will people 909 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:06,600 Speaker 7: you're not done with. 910 00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:21,839 Speaker 5: When God gets ready, When God gets ready, When God 911 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:23,600 Speaker 5: gets ready. 912 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:26,960 Speaker 3: I brought you to this moment in the sermon to 913 00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,640 Speaker 3: let you know that you might have been wrong. But 914 00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:35,520 Speaker 3: while you were getting it wrong, God was getting you ready, 915 00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:43,040 Speaker 3: and you're ready. Now you're ready to use the name 916 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:44,840 Speaker 3: he gave you. You're ready to use the gifts he 917 00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,239 Speaker 3: gave you. You're ready to use the experiences he's given you, 918 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,680 Speaker 3: the sweet ones and the bitter ones. While you were 919 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:54,480 Speaker 3: getting it wrong. Paul says, I did all that stuff. Man, 920 00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,960 Speaker 3: I thought I was ready, But when God got ready, 921 00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,879 Speaker 3: I tried it in my own strength and I fell. 922 00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,800 Speaker 1: But when God got ready, I went completely. 923 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,400 Speaker 3: The wrong way. I was making good time, but I 924 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,240 Speaker 3: was on the wrong road. But when God got ready 925 00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,080 Speaker 3: to reveal his son, now watch this. There's one more 926 00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,520 Speaker 3: thing I've got to give you, he says. When God 927 00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,560 Speaker 3: was pleased to reveal his son and me. Watch this 928 00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:24,560 Speaker 3: reveal doesn't mean that it started to exist. Reveal means 929 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:36,480 Speaker 3: I let you see what was already there. So, my sister, 930 00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:42,879 Speaker 3: my brother, my friend, my son, my wife, my mom, 931 00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:48,840 Speaker 3: get ready to see what God will reveal now that 932 00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:54,440 Speaker 3: you fell into his arms. Get ready to see what 933 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:59,840 Speaker 3: God will reveal now that you've stopped fighting and started following. 934 00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:01,799 Speaker 1: Get ready to. 935 00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:05,160 Speaker 3: Cease Saul, become Paul, and confess it. For everybody who 936 00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,439 Speaker 3: has somebody in your life that you love. Man, we've 937 00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,719 Speaker 3: all been there, somebody who's going the complete wrong way. 938 00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,319 Speaker 3: Maybe you even brought him to church this morning. Don't 939 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:19,040 Speaker 3: look at him right now, be awkward. But I remember 940 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,640 Speaker 3: looking at my dad when he was skipping church, and 941 00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:22,560 Speaker 3: I said, I'm praying for you. 942 00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,040 Speaker 1: God's going to get a hold of your life, he said. 943 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,160 Speaker 3: But you didn't know at the time is that I 944 00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:27,920 Speaker 3: had a drinking problem and I was so low and 945 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,200 Speaker 3: I didn't know what I was going to do. And 946 00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,640 Speaker 3: I felt sorry for you because you believed that God 947 00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,920 Speaker 3: was going to do something in me. But neither of 948 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,040 Speaker 3: us was laughing when he came to the altar two 949 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,360 Speaker 3: years later and surrendered. 950 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,880 Speaker 1: His life to Jesus. So I've seen this. I've seen 951 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:49,160 Speaker 1: it in our church. God is so strategic in his preparation. 952 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,400 Speaker 3: When God gets ready, it's different than when people get ready. 953 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:52,960 Speaker 1: I used to. 954 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,640 Speaker 3: Always get frustrated in church. They say God's getting ready 955 00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:59,120 Speaker 3: to bless you. God's getting ready to move, God's getting 956 00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,960 Speaker 3: ready to show up. God's getting ready to turn it around. 957 00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:03,280 Speaker 3: And I would think, he's God. 958 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:07,400 Speaker 1: Why does he have to get ready? That's something we 959 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,040 Speaker 1: have to do before we leave the house. 960 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,240 Speaker 3: What's God doing putting on his coat because it's a 961 00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:16,480 Speaker 3: little cold. What's God doing putting some makeup on? What's 962 00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:20,320 Speaker 3: God doing? God's getting ready. He's not preparing. 963 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:26,280 Speaker 1: He's God. He's already prepared. He's not preparing. He's positioning. 964 00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,480 Speaker 3: So that when it's time for Paul to write the 965 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,240 Speaker 3: letter to the Galatian Church, he can do it with 966 00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:38,000 Speaker 3: his name Paul. When God gets ready, no person can 967 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,120 Speaker 3: stop it. When God gets ready, no devil can stop it. 968 00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:50,920 Speaker 3: When God gets ready. When God gets ready, he'll take 969 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,040 Speaker 3: where people put a period and make it a comma. 970 00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:56,000 Speaker 3: Now right now, right now, there's somebody who needs to 971 00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,120 Speaker 3: give their life to Jesus in this room, bow your 972 00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:06,520 Speaker 3: head and close your eyes. Please don't fight this off. 973 00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:08,360 Speaker 3: Jesus told Paul, go to the city and you'll be 974 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,160 Speaker 3: told what you must do. And in the obedience to 975 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,720 Speaker 3: follow that instruction, he received his assignment. Right now, I 976 00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,160 Speaker 3: want to lead you in a prayer that the light 977 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,800 Speaker 3: of the gospel that you've received today would not just 978 00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,520 Speaker 3: bring you light in this room, but it would transform 979 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:24,400 Speaker 3: your life. 980 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:27,280 Speaker 1: For the rest of your life. 981 00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,080 Speaker 3: And if there's somebody here who's never put your faith 982 00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,640 Speaker 3: in Jesus, or you did and then you went the. 983 00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:36,800 Speaker 1: Wrong way, He's not done with you yet. He brought 984 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:37,160 Speaker 1: you here. 985 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,480 Speaker 3: Don't you understand He loves you so much that he 986 00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:40,720 Speaker 3: called you by name. 987 00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,400 Speaker 1: Today he's speaking to you. I'm not speaking to you. 988 00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:44,720 Speaker 1: I don't know you like that. 989 00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,640 Speaker 3: That's Jesus speaking to you, telling you that if you 990 00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,840 Speaker 3: will call on his name, you will be saved. Right now, 991 00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:54,440 Speaker 3: heads bowed, eyes closed, all over the room. I'm going 992 00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,800 Speaker 3: to lead you in a prayer. And if this prayer 993 00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,200 Speaker 3: expresses your heart. The Bible says that if you confess 994 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,360 Speaker 3: with your mouth Jesus's Lord and believe in your heart 995 01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,240 Speaker 3: God raised him from the dead, you will be saved 996 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:09,760 Speaker 3: right here right now. This is your moment. Repeat after me, 997 01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:17,280 Speaker 3: Heavenly Father. Today is my day of salvation. I am 998 01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:21,640 Speaker 3: a sinner in need of a savior. And I believe 999 01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:27,000 Speaker 3: that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the 1000 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:32,400 Speaker 3: savior of the world. And today I make Jesus the 1001 01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,640 Speaker 3: Lord of my life. I believe he died that I 1002 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:41,120 Speaker 3: would be forgiven and rose again to give me life. 1003 01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:47,720 Speaker 3: I receive this new life. This is my new beginning. 1004 01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:52,360 Speaker 3: I am a child of God. On the count of three, 1005 01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,480 Speaker 3: shoot your hand up. If you prayed that, one, two, three, 1006 01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:59,200 Speaker 3: all over the room, hands going up, hands going up, 1007 01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:05,800 Speaker 3: Angels starting to party in heaven. Come on, Shane's breaking off, 1008 01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:09,680 Speaker 3: hands going up, New life's beginning. 1009 01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:17,560 Speaker 2: Thank you, Jesus, Thank you for joining us. Special thanks 1010 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:20,200 Speaker 2: to those of you who give generously to this ministry. 1011 01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,480 Speaker 2: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 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