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Speaker 1: But if you live near any of these cities, listen,
Speaker 1: this is where we're coming for Elevation Night Spring twenty
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Speaker 1: Not in Kansas Abbey, Missouri, Inside Joke, Denver, Colorado, Saint Louis, Missouri,
Speaker 1: Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Toronto. Welcome to our Toronto campus
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Speaker 1: Com April eighteen through twenty seven. Tickets are available right now.
Speaker 1: Next weekend, we'll be celebrating our seventeen year anniversary here
Speaker 1: at Elevation Church. I hope to see you for that.
Speaker 1: It's it's time right now, though, for the word that
Speaker 1: God has for you today. And I do believe He
Speaker 1: gave me one a certain word for an uncertain situation
Speaker 1: in somebody's life, a certain word for an uncertain situation.
Speaker 1: Go back in your Bible. Stand up, everybody, if you
Speaker 1: took a moment to sit down on your couch, stand
Speaker 1: up your calves arrested. Now in Ephesians four, I think
Speaker 1: this is our last week in Ephesians four. We'll celebrate
Speaker 1: the anniversary next week and then see what the Lord
Speaker 1: says after that. But I have just been so transformed
Speaker 1: while I was teaching this passage, and I pray that
Speaker 1: you have been receiving as well. And this week, Holly
Speaker 1: can tell you I have been nicer, more patient. I've
Speaker 1: been helping with the dishes, like all the time around
Speaker 1: the house, taking out the trash before it even gets full.
Speaker 1: She's telling me, stop, we need to use the bags
Speaker 1: full of you taking out the trash too much. But
Speaker 1: in all honesty, I sence the Lord doing a new
Speaker 1: work in me and in our church, and this week
Speaker 1: is going to speak directly to that. So in Ephesians
Speaker 1: chapter four, let's just do verses twenty two through twenty four.
Speaker 1: This week. All the messages are online that I've preached
Speaker 1: so far this year and last year and a year
Speaker 1: before that. But all the messages are online if you
Speaker 1: want to catch up sometime this week. But this week
Speaker 1: I'm going to focus on these verses Ephesians four twenty two.
Speaker 1: You were taught, with regard to your former way of life,
Speaker 1: to put off your old self, which is being corrupted
Speaker 1: by its deceitful desires, to be made new in the
Speaker 1: attitude of your minds, and to put on the new self,
Speaker 1: created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Speaker 1: Aren't you glad to know that the new you is
Speaker 1: the true you? All that other nasty crap you're struggling with,
Speaker 1: that's not the core of who you are. Who God
Speaker 1: says you are is who you are, and all the
Speaker 1: other stuff is subject to change in the presence of
Speaker 1: God by the power of the Holy Spirit. I declare it,
Speaker 1: I decree it, I believe it. So the word God
Speaker 1: gave me for this week. He told me to tell you,
Speaker 1: don't fight your future. Don't fight your future, and let's
Speaker 1: pray before we're seated. God speak it, we need it,
Speaker 1: and give us the strength to do it. In Jesus' name. Amen,
Speaker 1: high five somebody on your way to your seat, and
Speaker 1: say God's not through with you. God's not through with you.
Speaker 1: I mean that God's not through with you yet. Say it,
Speaker 1: God's not through with me yet. Put it in the
Speaker 1: chat real quick and say it out loud again. God's
Speaker 1: not through with me yet. You keep saying you so,
Speaker 1: say it to the person next to you. Apparently you
Speaker 1: want somebody to hear this. Tell them God's not through
Speaker 1: with you yet. That means He's got a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do on you. Tell him you got a
Speaker 1: lot of rough edges. You really, really do you need
Speaker 1: that spiritual sandpaper? Uh huh, You got a lot of
Speaker 1: pieces floating around in that box. You are not a
Speaker 1: finished product yet, So don't do you do the you
Speaker 1: that God knew before you ever got here on the earth.
Speaker 1: What a horrible piece of cultural advice. I get it.
Speaker 1: Be yourself. I'm all for that. Find your gifts, play
Speaker 1: to your strengths. I do that all the time. All
Speaker 1: I do is talk and write stuff. I don't even
Speaker 1: sing the songs I write. I just write them and
Speaker 1: let somebody else sing them. That's how much I believe
Speaker 1: in play to your strengths. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I do believe that there are manifestations of who you
Speaker 1: really are that you haven't met yet, and so to
Speaker 1: sell yourself short is really to insult God if you
Speaker 1: just say this is how I am, this is how
Speaker 1: my mom was, this is where I come from, this
Speaker 1: is just how we do it. And that has been
Speaker 1: the challenge of this series that radical self acceptance because
Speaker 1: of the grace of Jesus Christ, should not lead to complacency.
Speaker 1: Radical grace leads to change the more you accept all
Speaker 1: that stuff about you that only the people who live
Speaker 1: with you know, and they only know affraction. Don't make
Speaker 1: me prophesy. I'll speak in tongues, interpret my own tongues.
Speaker 1: Intil your business. Is very true that we need to
Speaker 1: be okay with who we are and where we are.
Speaker 1: It's very true that we need to celebrate our strengths
Speaker 1: and celebrate in each stage of our development, not waiting
Speaker 1: for a future day for us to give God praise
Speaker 1: for all that He's done. In fact, on the way
Speaker 1: to church today, I just went through several things in
Speaker 1: my mind that I was worried about through the last
Speaker 1: few years that God worked out. I was driving eighty
Speaker 1: miles an hour by the time I got to thinking
Speaker 1: about it, because I'm like, let's go, Jesus, what are
Speaker 1: you going to do in this season? I remember that
Speaker 1: rear view mirror. What seems so big, y'all? Remember meat
Speaker 1: love Objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than
Speaker 1: they are. And I would do anything for God a
Speaker 1: mash up, a meat love mash up. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to the message from the apostle Paul writing to the
Speaker 1: church at Ephesus and writing to us to tell us,
Speaker 1: and this phrasing is really cool. You were taught, with
Speaker 1: regard to your former way of life to put off
Speaker 1: your old self. Ah, that doesn't mean you stop texting
Speaker 1: people back when you blow up. That's not what he's saying.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean a bigger house necessarily, although it could.
Speaker 1: It has to do with the inside things that are
Speaker 1: keeping me from being what God created me to be.
Speaker 1: And we know what He created us to be. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what God created you to be. Look
Speaker 1: at verse twenty four like him. Did they put the
Speaker 1: verse up on the screen or yeah, that's what He
Speaker 1: created you to be. Did God want me to be
Speaker 1: a singer, or does God want me to go over
Speaker 1: here and study abroad? Or does God want me to
Speaker 1: go to Penn State? Or does God want me to
Speaker 1: be an athlete? Or does God want me to double major?
Speaker 1: Or does God want me to move my mom in
Speaker 1: with me? I don't know. He wants you to be
Speaker 1: like him, whoever's living with you, wherever you're going to school,
Speaker 1: whatever you're majoring, And that's what he's doing in my life,
Speaker 1: in your life. And yet I had an interesting picture.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a picture from my life, really, really,
Speaker 1: from every Saturday in my life. When I go watch
Speaker 1: Graham wrestle, takes me back to when I wrestled. I
Speaker 1: wasn't nearly as good as him, not even close, not
Speaker 1: even close. And be told he could beat me now,
Speaker 1: right now, he could beat me, and I outweigh him
Speaker 1: by twenty five pounds. But don't tell him that because
Speaker 1: he might try it. If we had to play according
Speaker 1: to the rules, I mean, I hit him in a
Speaker 1: shovel if he really comes at me. But if we
Speaker 1: had to do the rules, then there was a ref
Speaker 1: and a whistle and a mat and all that, then
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an Old Testament picture, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to tie up this idea, not the
Speaker 1: idea of you becoming what God made you to be,
Speaker 1: because when you stop doing that, that's when God has
Speaker 1: done changing you. That's when you're done. We made a
Speaker 1: song one time that said, if I'm not dead, he's
Speaker 1: not done. Greater things are still to come. I believe that.
Speaker 1: I believe it for you. Whether you want to believe
Speaker 1: it for you or not, you can't stop me from
Speaker 1: believing for you. What you're gonna do about it, Believe
Speaker 1: that God is not through with you. Tell your neighbor
Speaker 1: one more time. God is not through with you. And
Speaker 1: here's the proof. Here's the proof. You're still doing this.
Speaker 1: He's still making ways. If you're still doing this, he
Speaker 1: still has a plan for you. One prophet set on
Speaker 1: behalf of God, for I know the plans I have
Speaker 1: for you, Plans to pross for you and not to
Speaker 1: harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Speaker 1: That's Jeremiah chapter twenty nine, eleventh. Your grandma had that
Speaker 1: on a quilt somewhere, and you ought to get it
Speaker 1: in your heart and in your consciousness, because he knows
Speaker 1: the plans he has for you. I want to preach
Speaker 1: a little bit of faith before our seventeen year anniversary.
Speaker 1: God is not through with us yet, not yet. Stop
Speaker 1: doing this and he'll quit doing what he does. But
Speaker 1: as long as you have breath, you have a reason
Speaker 1: to believe that all things are possible. You know, when
Speaker 1: I started the series, I mentioned Jeremiah. I mentioned Jeremih
Speaker 1: twenty nine to eleven to day. That's the most popular
Speaker 1: verse that he did, his greatest hit. But then he's
Speaker 1: writing to captives in Babylon who are going to be
Speaker 1: taken away. And when he was spoken to by God
Speaker 1: check this out, he didn't really believe that God could
Speaker 1: do it through him because he had the three excuses
Speaker 1: that we mentioned earlier, where he said, I don't have it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I'm not like them. I'm too young.
Speaker 1: I'm not like them those who are seasoned who can prophesy.
Speaker 1: I don't have it. I don't have the words that
Speaker 1: I need. And for us, it's not always worse. It's resources,
Speaker 1: it's money, it's time, it's energy, it's good knees. I
Speaker 1: got all ages in the church, so we just hit everything.
Speaker 1: Too young, too old, you got Moses too old, Jeremiah
Speaker 1: too young. So all of that is an excuse. But
Speaker 1: remember what the Lord said. I want to show you
Speaker 1: the scripture again. I wasn't going to show this one,
Speaker 1: but I think it's we need the whole sandwich. Verse five,
Speaker 1: chapter one. The Lord said, before you were born, I
Speaker 1: knew you, k n e W The me that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be as I grow into what God called
Speaker 1: me to be is the meed that God has already
Speaker 1: seen that sets you free from trying to become something
Speaker 1: I thought. Oh man, I wish I was. That. You
Speaker 1: don't have to wish you was. You was long before
Speaker 1: life did what life did, and you did what you did.
Speaker 1: God knew you. So when he said I knew you
Speaker 1: before you were born, that means that God knows my potential.
Speaker 1: It also means I don't I know my past, I
Speaker 1: know my preferences, I know my problems. God knows my
Speaker 1: potential only he does only he really knows what he
Speaker 1: put in you. Only he knows what he sees in
Speaker 1: two years that he's training you for. Right now, you
Speaker 1: got to believe this as I appreach it. You got
Speaker 1: to put a little bit of faith on this word
Speaker 1: a little bit of faith. God knew, knew, And what
Speaker 1: is new to me is known to God. What is
Speaker 1: foreign to me is familiar to him. That's Jeremiah one
Speaker 1: to five. He knows my potential. In the chat right now,
Speaker 1: God knows my potential. Say it. God knows my potential. Riverwalk,
Speaker 1: y'all aren't saying anything today. I feel your empathy. Say
Speaker 1: it right now. God knows my potential. But then in
Speaker 1: Jeremiah twenty nine, he says, for I know the plans
Speaker 1: I have for you, and the plans I have for
Speaker 1: your older sister, and the plans I have for your
Speaker 1: best friend who's getting married this spring but you're not yet.
Speaker 1: And the plans that I have for your your friend
Speaker 1: who's getting on your last nerve and you keep trying
Speaker 1: to fix them but you can't. And the plans that
Speaker 1: I have for your boss, who you think is in control,
Speaker 1: but really I'm gonna move him to Minnesota in six months.
Speaker 1: So don't get impatient. Just stay right there because I
Speaker 1: know the plans. My confidence is in God's knowledge. He said,
Speaker 1: I knew you before I formed you. You were spirit,
Speaker 1: before you were skeletal, before you had a birth certificate
Speaker 1: you had a purpose. I knew you win. Now when
Speaker 1: people say that they want to keep you stuck in
Speaker 1: something that they're comfortable with, I knew you in. But
Speaker 1: when God says that He's calling you forward into something
Speaker 1: that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and
Speaker 1: neither hasn't entered into the heart of man, what God
Speaker 1: has planned. I know the plans I have for you.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. You don't know the plans. You know the
Speaker 1: plans you have for you, and you know the plans
Speaker 1: you have for your daughter. And God knows. God knows
Speaker 1: the plans he has for you and for her and
Speaker 1: for them and for this and for that. Okay, He's
Speaker 1: not through with me. He still has things he's doing
Speaker 1: in me. So I can't do the me that I
Speaker 1: memorized from last year. When God knows the me that
Speaker 1: is going to manifest as I'm a tour in him
Speaker 1: and grow in him so I can surprise myself. Wow,
Speaker 1: Look how I responded to that so well. Wow, look
Speaker 1: at me giving money away. When I used to be stingy. Wow.
Speaker 1: I used to wait for other people to pay for
Speaker 1: my meal. Now I'm paying for somebody else's. Wow. I
Speaker 1: used to need somebody to put tires on my car,
Speaker 1: and now I'm paying for the tires the good ones. Wow.
Speaker 1: Look at you in church. Wow, look at you in
Speaker 1: an e group. Wow. Look at you not even texting
Speaker 1: or scrolling during my sermon. Wow. Look at God doing
Speaker 1: a new thing in you. Give him praise for what
Speaker 1: he's already done. Give him praise for what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: I knew you, and I know the plans I have
Speaker 1: for you, So Paul does. It's this annoying thing that
Speaker 1: we preachers do often, which is to make something that
Speaker 1: is such a struggle sounds so simple. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's been irritating you the last few weeks. It
Speaker 1: really gets under my skin. Where he said in verse
Speaker 1: twenty two, you were taught with regard to what you
Speaker 1: used to do and what you still struggle with, both
Speaker 1: secretly and openly, the rude things that you do, the
Speaker 1: rude things that you think. How many people would be
Speaker 1: impressed with how nice you are if they knew how
Speaker 1: nasty you wanted to be and didn't be in certain situations.
Speaker 1: So all of that that's on the inside, Paul says,
Speaker 1: you were taught with regard to your formwhere life to
Speaker 1: put off your old self. Thanks Paul, because he said
Speaker 1: you were taught. And here in the Greek, I spent
Speaker 1: five and a half years on a seminary degree, so
Speaker 1: I have to use that sometimes. In the Greek the
Speaker 1: phrase means that it follows from the teaching you received.
Speaker 1: So when God teaches you, it's to transform you, not
Speaker 1: to puff you up. You don't get these messages so
Speaker 1: you can look down on other people who aren't enlightened
Speaker 1: because you know more of the Bible than they do.
Speaker 1: Is so that you can grow by it. That's why
Speaker 1: God feeds you the Word of God, so that you
Speaker 1: can grow. And in this passage, he said, you were
Speaker 1: taught give me verse twenty two, with regard to your
Speaker 1: former way of life, to put off your old self. Now,
Speaker 1: the way you read that is you were taught to
Speaker 1: put off your old self. Somebody taught you to put
Speaker 1: off your old self. But that's not what it means.
Speaker 1: It means you were taught Jesus in order that to
Speaker 1: put off your old self. So it's an infinitive imperative.
Speaker 1: It follows from the first one. It means you were taught.
Speaker 1: The reason God taught you the reason he brought you
Speaker 1: here was so that you could put off That's the
Speaker 1: reason God has him and you're teaching. That's the reason
Speaker 1: that God gives you a word. That's the reason God
Speaker 1: gives you an experience. That's the reason he leads you
Speaker 1: through the valley so you can get to know the Shepherd,
Speaker 1: so that when you face that situation again, you'll be stronger, wiser, better,
Speaker 1: and ready. Stronger, wiser, better, and ready. I'm stronger, wiser,
Speaker 1: better and ready. I'm stronger, I'm wiser, I'm better, and
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I was taught to put off my old
Speaker 1: way of life. Wouldn't it be nice if it were
Speaker 1: only that simple? Yeah? Man, just put it off like this,
Speaker 1: like everybody, everybody in the room. Do what I say
Speaker 1: when I say it. Ready, stand up? I love the
Speaker 1: contrarian's like, no, I am seated in heavenly places with Christ.
Speaker 1: I know where this is going. Stand up, illustration, help
Speaker 1: me now, sit down. That's kind of how I read it.
Speaker 1: Put off the old self and put on Jesus. That's simple. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: so yesterday we're at Graham's wrestling right, and this lady
Speaker 1: was sitting up at the top of the bleachers, and
Speaker 1: she kept yelling for her team, not just her kids,
Speaker 1: the whole team, and that's great. I yelled for our
Speaker 1: team too, and it's great to do that and be supportive.
Speaker 1: Only know, these kids can't hear you while they're out
Speaker 1: there wrestling, so all you're really doing is getting it
Speaker 1: out of your own system. They can't hear any of that.
Speaker 1: And besides, what is this lady going to coach that
Speaker 1: kid to do from up there? I mean, maybe she
Speaker 1: was a former NCAA Division One champion her in her heyday.
Speaker 1: Didn't get that feeling though, didn't get that impression. Just
Speaker 1: seemed like she was loud and so so this was
Speaker 1: the moment of moments, and I was already praying about
Speaker 1: how to end this series, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: was out there praying about it, and she gave me
Speaker 1: my answer. Because I'm thinking of Paul saying, just put
Speaker 1: off your old way of life. Just stop being negative,
Speaker 1: be positive, right ready, just do that, Just stand up.
Speaker 1: Just just trust God, just trust him, trust him, like
Speaker 1: the Bible says, with how with all your heart and
Speaker 1: and and so. All right, so it's a heavyweight match,
Speaker 1: right and her team was the Spiders. She was cheering for.
Speaker 1: She was cheering for. The spiders. Had a big spider
Speaker 1: on the back of the uniform, the single lead, the tights,
Speaker 1: the spandex that they make wrestlers wear. You gotta be
Speaker 1: tough to wear those tights out there. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, that's that's that's tough. So so it's a
Speaker 1: heavyweight match that goes up to two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five two hundred and eight eight five pounds, and the
Speaker 1: boy who was winning was every bit of two eighty five,
Speaker 1: and the boy who was losing was not. Because it's
Speaker 1: a it's a Broadway class. The boy who was winning
Speaker 1: was on top of the boy who was not winning.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna do this as an illustration. I
Speaker 1: put it in my notes if you feel they need
Speaker 1: it acted out. So I'm gonna act it out because
Speaker 1: I feel like you need it. I feel like you
Speaker 1: need it because I feel like all this is good.
Speaker 1: Put off the old self. But what I wore in
Speaker 1: here is heavier than a jacket. What I wore in here,
Speaker 1: and what I'm worried about is heavier than just a
Speaker 1: bad day. Remember, he said, the old self. Old means
Speaker 1: that's been going on a long time, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the things we preach about real quick have been
Speaker 1: have been things you've been carrying for a long time.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't feel like, you know, just just put
Speaker 1: it off. Just stop being you know, manipulative, dude. I
Speaker 1: struggle with manipulation because I was abandoned young and so
Speaker 1: I had to make things happen. So that's the only
Speaker 1: way I know how to do stuff, is to make
Speaker 1: things happen because I had to make things happen. And
Speaker 1: now you're telling me just take that manipulative. Trust God.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be the guy that was down
Speaker 1: on the bottom, and I'm gonna show you how you
Speaker 1: feel and what this lady was screaming, Graham, come up here.
Speaker 1: Graham's going to be the big guy. Remember this is
Speaker 1: an illustration. Had this been an actual reality, I would
Speaker 1: kick his butt right up here. But just get on
Speaker 1: top of me like you're two eighty five. And so
Speaker 1: it's something like this, don't hurt me. And then and
Speaker 1: then all right, so maybe he has the bigger guy
Speaker 1: has his forearm in the back of his neck, so
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, And then the lady at the top
Speaker 1: of the bleachers is yelling stand up to the spider
Speaker 1: on the bottom. And I'm sure he thought she knew
Speaker 1: his name. I don't remember. Let's say his name was
Speaker 1: Timmy stand up. Let's just call him Stephen. Stand up, Stephen.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Stephen was thinking on the bottom. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to stand up.
Speaker 1: Thank you lady at the top of the bleachers who
Speaker 1: had an act exercised in five years for reminding me
Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to be doing down here. And I
Speaker 1: think you feel like this when I preach sometimes, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to hurt my feelings, so you won't
Speaker 1: admit it that I'm saying trust God, and you are like, thanks, Ah,
Speaker 1: I didn't think of that. Yeah, I should just trust God.
Speaker 1: Already had to fire fourteen employees my small business, but
Speaker 1: I just trust God. That'll be great. That'll really mean
Speaker 1: a lot to their pregnant wives who are expecting their
Speaker 1: fourth child, and now I had to lay them off.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I'll trust God. You know whom the
Speaker 1: sun sets free? Is Frandy be free? Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be free. Never mind that this dependency is
Speaker 1: chemical and psychological, and societal all at the same time.
Speaker 1: That's why when Barbara King Saliver was on Holly's book
Speaker 1: Club and she was talking about the opioid crisis in Appalachia,
Speaker 1: I was so enlightened for her to talk about how
Speaker 1: we judge people as being bad by their behaviors, but
Speaker 1: we don't understand the brokenness that came from their background
Speaker 1: to create the behaviors. To begin with, Yeah, stand up,
Speaker 1: she said, stand up. Be a spider. I don't have
Speaker 1: a legs, I don't spin webs. I'm not a faith giant.
Speaker 1: I'm not the apostle, Paul. I'm not Jesus Christ. I'm
Speaker 1: just down here trying not to get pinned, trying not
Speaker 1: to be on my back. And what I realized when
Speaker 1: I preach more and more is like I still need
Speaker 1: to tell you to stand up, But being told to
Speaker 1: do it and being taught to do it, Paul, say
Speaker 1: you were taught Jesus. I can't see all right now?
Speaker 1: Am I doing good? Makes them noise? I need the encouragement.
Speaker 1: This is very, very embarrassing. I did not want to
Speaker 1: do this illustration. But if will help us get on
Speaker 1: the same page, do the new you I'm like, do
Speaker 1: the new me. I'm just trying to breathe, eat, feed people,
Speaker 1: not end up in prison. There's pressure because I said
Speaker 1: stand up. You know what I want to say when
Speaker 1: somebody says stand up and you got to shut up?
Speaker 1: You know, hey, just go make it work and trust
Speaker 1: the word and step out on face and all this.
Speaker 1: And there's something inside of you that says, you tell
Speaker 1: me to do it, but teach me to do it.
Speaker 1: You all right, Graham, you got the good part of
Speaker 1: this illustration. Why did I do it this way? I
Speaker 1: could have flipped this. Watch what happened when Paul said
Speaker 1: in verse twenty, he said that you got verse twenty ready,
Speaker 1: I'm running out of running out of blood of your That, however,
Speaker 1: is not the way of life you learned next verse
Speaker 1: when you heard about Christ, and we're taught in him
Speaker 1: in accordance with the truth. So watch this, everybody say
Speaker 1: stand up. Shut that say stand up quit. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be a Christian. I think I'm gonna dry Buddhism. Ah,
Speaker 1: this is too hard. I can't do this. But if
Speaker 1: truth comes, If truth comes, what I've been trying to
Speaker 1: do what I know I need to do what I
Speaker 1: wish I could do what you keep telling me to do.
Speaker 1: Watch this buck, come buck, come bu bub bub bub.
Speaker 1: You see what happened when I called buck. You see
Speaker 1: what happened when I called buck? Oh you see what grit?
Speaker 1: You see what that devil did when I called the name,
Speaker 1: when I said, I got somebody greater, greater is he
Speaker 1: that isn't me? That he that was all not back? Nah?
Speaker 1: I got it off me. Nah, I got it off me.
Speaker 1: You see what I just did. I caught somebody bigger.
Speaker 1: I caught somebody stronger. I called a state champion. And
Speaker 1: you knew it too. And see, the devil knows your
Speaker 1: weak spots, but he also knows that there's something in
Speaker 1: you that is so much greater, that what is in
Speaker 1: you is so much greater than whatever is on you.
Speaker 1: So that's why I declare, and I prophesy, and I
Speaker 1: preach and I proclaim. In the name of Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: of Nazareth. Stand up, Stand up, stand up. I know
Speaker 1: the money is real bad right now in the car
Speaker 1: at new but stand up. I know it doesn't look
Speaker 1: good right now and you can't figure it out. But
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus christs a nathism, Get up,
Speaker 1: been walked, Get up being worse. I've been moved forward.
Speaker 1: I know the plans I have for you, plans for
Speaker 1: a hope and a future, a new beginning, had a
Speaker 1: different ending, a gift that is in you that I
Speaker 1: has not seen, and here has not heard, and neither
Speaker 1: has it entered into your heart. But when you call
Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, when you say, the one that
Speaker 1: created me is greater than the one that is fighting me.
Speaker 1: When you say the one that created me gave his
Speaker 1: life to redeem me from the shame that is on me.
Speaker 1: Now I can stand up like a spider. I can
Speaker 1: stand up like a saint. I can stand up like
Speaker 1: a new creation. I can stand up like a child
Speaker 1: of God. I can stand up like a spirit. Film
Speaker 1: blood bought Devil Chasen send to Facon overcoming style. What
Speaker 1: the most time, God, Jesus, I need to try it again.
Speaker 1: I'll call Buck, tell the devil try it again. I'll
Speaker 1: call Jesus, try it again. He'll send the angels fright again.
Speaker 1: He'll frown you in the red sea of my trouble.
Speaker 1: So so so what you do every time Buck comes,
Speaker 1: come on back? No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good. What you do every time that God keeps
Speaker 1: sending come on back, come on back, God keep sending,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on. God keep sending things
Speaker 1: in your life to get you up. You say, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I got this. I got this. I got this.
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody think I'm weak. Now, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good. God, God, God got this. I got this.
Speaker 1: I got this. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll
Speaker 1: do it, I'll do it. I'll do it. You even
Speaker 1: whisper the name of Jesus Ques, just fuck fuck. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to come when I whisper to show them how
Speaker 1: the Lord death. But then it's something I'm about us
Speaker 1: that can be comfortable being down to the point where
Speaker 1: when help comes we fight it. Like that corny old joke.
Speaker 1: The man was drowning. He said, Lord, save me. Here
Speaker 1: comes a helicopter. He said, no, I'm waiting on the Lord.
Speaker 1: Here comes a carrier, a vessel, a boat, and word choice.
Speaker 1: He said, no, no, I'm good. I'm waiting on the Lord.
Speaker 1: And then he drowned, and he went to heaven and
Speaker 1: he said, Lord, you didn't come. He said, I sent
Speaker 1: you a helicopter and a boat. You big dummy, send
Speaker 1: your buck you wanted stuck. So here's what I say.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I might call you again, so be ready. Listen.
Speaker 1: There is a future that God knows for you. That
Speaker 1: He is not bringing it to you. He is bringing
Speaker 1: you to it. And for the future that God has
Speaker 1: for you, you are the perfect fit for it because
Speaker 1: He knew you before he knit you together in your
Speaker 1: mother's womb. That's how long God has known you, and
Speaker 1: that is for you. God is loyal to and he
Speaker 1: will do what it takes to bring you into the
Speaker 1: life that He's called you to live, not only for you,
Speaker 1: but for his glory and for others. God's not through
Speaker 1: with you. You don't get to stay down there talking
Speaker 1: about if it were that I would have done it
Speaker 1: by now. No, you just haven't walked in what you
Speaker 1: were taught long enough yet to see the fruit of
Speaker 1: your faith, and you never will if you keep fighting
Speaker 1: your future because you are in love with your familiar.
Speaker 1: Don't fight your future. When God sends you correction, get
Speaker 1: quicker to accept it. Don't be so defensive to the
Speaker 1: point that you stay dysfunctional because you are so defensive,
Speaker 1: because you get humiliated when somebody sees something. So instead
Speaker 1: of humbling yourself and saying all right, I thought about
Speaker 1: that for about three last three days, and I think,
Speaker 1: I think I do need to go and apologize you.
Speaker 1: Just do you and go off and don't speak for
Speaker 1: eight months and stay that. I know that we all
Speaker 1: struggle with different forms of bondage in captivity. I know
Speaker 1: that I am not a judgmental dude, not at all.
Speaker 1: I would be if the Lord had done a better
Speaker 1: job getting me past the point where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1: But he works on me slow so I won't get
Speaker 1: all upity and think I'm there, so he has left.
Speaker 1: Remember when they used to say in sports that somebody
Speaker 1: would have a loser's limp. It means you pretend to
Speaker 1: be hurt so that you have an excuse for losing.
Speaker 1: In the Kingdom of God, he gives you a winner's limp,
Speaker 1: like Jacob who wrestled with his angel won and limped
Speaker 1: away to remind him for the rest of his life
Speaker 1: that he needs Buck. I mean, God and tricks are
Speaker 1: for kids, and deceitful desires have to go. In this season,
Speaker 1: so that I can step into what I was designed
Speaker 1: by God to be and accomplish what I was called
Speaker 1: by God to accomplish. For he knows the plans he
Speaker 1: has for me, and I know the problems I have,
Speaker 1: and he knows the plans. He knew me before I
Speaker 1: had the problems, and he knows the plans before I
Speaker 1: have them. So remember I said I would give you
Speaker 1: the teaching and then an illustration from Graham. And you
Speaker 1: didn't know you were going to get all that action today,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. But I said, I want
Speaker 1: to give you a picture, and it is indeed a
Speaker 1: very unusual one. But when the people of God were
Speaker 1: coming into the Promised Land, they needed to be taught
Speaker 1: how to transition. We all do, and when we are
Speaker 1: not taught what to do with our former way of life,
Speaker 1: we just repeat what nobody was there to teach us.
Speaker 1: To admit that you weren't taught, or that you might
Speaker 1: have been taught wrong requires humility. So I'm really proud.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say I'm proud of Moses, because what does
Speaker 1: he care if I'm proud of him? But I think
Speaker 1: I want to be like Moses, who had learned so
Speaker 1: many lessons in the wilderness from his own mistakes that
Speaker 1: when he was getting the generation that went after him
Speaker 1: ready to follow Joshua into the land, God was giving
Speaker 1: them which they would subdue and conquer just town by town,
Speaker 1: battle by battle, fight by fight. He gave them such
Speaker 1: specific instructions to not worship the gods of the people
Speaker 1: all around them. Most of us weren't taught that we
Speaker 1: were just handed idols, but because they didn't sit as
Speaker 1: statues in our living room, we didn't know it was idolatry.
Speaker 1: It's an empty way of life that was handed down
Speaker 1: to us in a lot of ways. Not saying your
Speaker 1: parents were bad, I'm not saying they were good. We
Speaker 1: all caught a lot of things, and if we're never
Speaker 1: taught anything different than what we caught, we just stay down.
Speaker 1: We just stay down, and every time God comes to
Speaker 1: help us, we reject him because he doesn't feel comfortable
Speaker 1: to us. So Moses is like, we made some big mistakes,
Speaker 1: and those of you who were twenty and under before
Speaker 1: those mistakes get to go in. We don't. You're going in,
Speaker 1: And he tells them festivals to hold to remember the
Speaker 1: goodness of God. I'm going to do a teaching on
Speaker 1: that one day too, about making an entrance when you
Speaker 1: go into a new season. There are certain things you
Speaker 1: always need to do when you go into a new week,
Speaker 1: when you go into a new day. I'm going to
Speaker 1: teach that about entrance. Making an entrance teaches them that.
Speaker 1: He teaches them how to treat one another, how to
Speaker 1: deal with matters of justice. It's really amazing. But there's
Speaker 1: one verse that seems unusual. He says, you're coming into
Speaker 1: a new land, your relatively new nation. You've never had
Speaker 1: this type of experience before. You're going to go from
Speaker 1: living out of the hand of Pharaoh forty years ago
Speaker 1: and from the manna that fell into having to cultivate
Speaker 1: the land that the Lord is leading you into. So
Speaker 1: you need to be taught. You need the Lord to
Speaker 1: teach you in this season of your life. Teenagers, you
Speaker 1: need the Lord to teach you. You need him to
Speaker 1: show you so you don't end up with two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty five pounds of addiction on your back when
Speaker 1: you're twenty five, when you're forty five, when you're sixty five,
Speaker 1: Just real quick, who wants to say, Lord, teach me,
Speaker 1: teach me? The preacher can tell me to do it,
Speaker 1: but only the Holy Spirit can teach me to do it.
Speaker 1: In the moment I can tell you stand up. Only
Speaker 1: God can strength than you enough that you can do it.
Speaker 1: So Moses says, when you go take a city, now
Speaker 1: watch this Deuteronomy twenty nineteen, the most anointed verse I've
Speaker 1: read all year, and that includes Ephesians four. He said,
Speaker 1: when you lay siege to a city for a long time.
Speaker 1: Somebody say a long time. That means this is a
Speaker 1: protracted battle. It's dragged out. You go in to take
Speaker 1: the city and they hunker down and they won't come
Speaker 1: out and fight you. So you have to block them in,
Speaker 1: cut off their supply, and wait for them to fight you.
Speaker 1: When you get in that kind of situation, because you're
Speaker 1: going to attack these people, they're bigger than you. But
Speaker 1: God is with you. But when you go to a
Speaker 1: place to take the land that I've promised to you
Speaker 1: on oath through your ancestors, and there's a siege, you
Speaker 1: lay siege to the city for a long time, fighting
Speaker 1: against it to capture it. Now, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1: This is not a picture of you fighting a city.
Speaker 1: It's a picture of you fighting your old self, and
Speaker 1: it goes on a long time, to the point where
Speaker 1: you wish you could just fight somebody else because you're
Speaker 1: so sick of you. How many have ever prayed that before?
Speaker 1: Just Lord, give me somebody else's problems, because I'm so
Speaker 1: sick of getting knocked out by the same right hook.
Speaker 1: And I see it coming, but I just lean right
Speaker 1: into it every time. If you don't, if you don't
Speaker 1: relate to this, there's another church for you. This is
Speaker 1: for people who struggle, and it's not always so easy
Speaker 1: to stand. So he said, when you get in that
Speaker 1: battle and you're trying to attack a city, but you
Speaker 1: have to lay a siege to it because it goes
Speaker 1: on a long time. Look at this. Do not destroy
Speaker 1: it's trees by putting an axe to them, because you
Speaker 1: can eat their fruit. What wisdom, the wisdom of Moses,
Speaker 1: He said, When you go in and start fighting the city,
Speaker 1: don't start chopping down the trees that bear fruit. Don't
Speaker 1: cut them down. Watch this are the trees people that
Speaker 1: you should besieged them. In other words, don't start fighting
Speaker 1: the thing that God wants to feed you with in
Speaker 1: your future. About to throw this microphone, don't take the thing,
Speaker 1: because see, we need trees. Right. It's a siege, right,
Speaker 1: we got to build a wall keep the people in.
Speaker 1: We got to build a ramp so we can get
Speaker 1: up on top of their wall and see the enemy
Speaker 1: and attack them. So the natural tendency is when you're
Speaker 1: in a season where it's a battle, and it's been
Speaker 1: that way a long time. He said, you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to go in and just start fighting everything. Just start
Speaker 1: shopping at everything, just start chopping down trees. But before
Speaker 1: you cut those trees down to use them for battle.
Speaker 1: Before you take a tree and say, but I could
Speaker 1: use that as a battering ram and get through, Before
Speaker 1: you cut a tree down and say we could build
Speaker 1: up a defense there against the enemy. Before you cut
Speaker 1: it down, check it and see is there something on
Speaker 1: that tree that I'm gonna need in my future so
Speaker 1: that I don't do something now that is going to
Speaker 1: fight against what God has intended for my future. And
Speaker 1: I see a lot of us. We're in a battle
Speaker 1: right now. We're in a battle with depression. We're in
Speaker 1: a battle with anxiety. We're in a battle for our sanity.
Speaker 1: We're in a battle for our money, We're in a
Speaker 1: battle for our families. We're in a battle for our relationships.
Speaker 1: We're in a battle for our peace. We're in a
Speaker 1: battle right now. But when you are in a battle,
Speaker 1: be careful not to attack. Because of the battle. The
Speaker 1: thing that God wants to bless you with in the future,
Speaker 1: so that the very help God sends to you becomes
Speaker 1: the thing that you reject, So that the very lesson
Speaker 1: that God teaches you becomes the thing that you resent.
Speaker 1: Buck buck buck buck buck buck buck bob buck buck
Speaker 1: buck buck Man, go back to your seat. You're in
Speaker 1: my way. That's what you've been doing with God. He
Speaker 1: was my fruit tree. He was coming to help me.
Speaker 1: The Lord said, you go in this land and you're
Speaker 1: going to be chopping at stuff sometimes that you really
Speaker 1: are going to need in the future. Wasn't that interesting thing?
Speaker 1: He said? Are the trees the soldiers look at Eugene
Speaker 1: Peterson how he put it in the message? Give me
Speaker 1: the message. The message translation makes it so clear. When
Speaker 1: you mount an attack on a town and the siege
Speaker 1: goes on a long time, how many have been struggling
Speaker 1: with something for a long time, praying for something for
Speaker 1: a long time, Believe in for some Okay, three people
Speaker 1: in this whole section, everybody else. Just go to heaven.
Speaker 1: Why do you come to church here, Just go to heaven.
Speaker 1: Struggle with something for a long time, long time, long time.
Speaker 1: All right, don't start cutting down the trees, swinging your
Speaker 1: axes against them. These trees are your future food. Don't
Speaker 1: cut them down. The battle you're facing today is your
Speaker 1: future strength. Don't run from it. The thing God is
Speaker 1: doing in your life to draw you closer to him,
Speaker 1: that is teaching you. You said, God, teach me. Okay,
Speaker 1: God said, this is your fruit tree. But if you
Speaker 1: keep chopping down everything God sends to strengthen you, you
Speaker 1: will live the rest of your life down when you
Speaker 1: had the power to get up. So I came today
Speaker 1: with the prophetic word, stop fighting your future. Those trees
Speaker 1: that are bearing right now, they have the potential in them,
Speaker 1: just like you have the potential in you to bear
Speaker 1: much fruit. In fact, Jesus said that when something is fruitful,
Speaker 1: he prunes it so it can be more fruitful. Let
Speaker 1: me speak a word about not fighting your future. Some
Speaker 1: people God keeps trying to remove from your inner circle,
Speaker 1: and you keep chasing them down so that you can
Speaker 1: have friends. But God is leading you into a future
Speaker 1: with some different friends. God needs you to reach out
Speaker 1: to some different people. It doesn't mean you hate them,
Speaker 1: but you just can't hang on to the relationship just
Speaker 1: because you liked it. God might be moving them. God
Speaker 1: might be moving you, but he's not through with you.
Speaker 1: He's just moving you into a new season of effectiveness, productivity,
Speaker 1: purpose and growth. Stop fighting your future. Stop every time
Speaker 1: something comes your way that you don't agree with getting offended.
Speaker 1: This current offense is your future wisdom. How will you
Speaker 1: learn a new point of view if you don't listen
Speaker 1: to anybody. Stop fighting your future by being trapped in
Speaker 1: your past. Stop fighting your future by wishing it was
Speaker 1: how it was. It's not and it never will be again.
Speaker 1: So I commend you to the Lord today to put
Speaker 1: on the new self, new fruit, new opportunities. I've lost
Speaker 1: an awful lot, new fruit, new opportunities. I got two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds of pressure on me. New fruit,
Speaker 1: new opportunities, new strength. His mercies are new with every
Speaker 1: rising of the sun. The fact that you did this
Speaker 1: a couple hundred times while I've been talking, and you
Speaker 1: didn't even have to think about it. It's proof to
Speaker 1: me of what I started my sermons saying God is
Speaker 1: not through with you. Stop expecting angels to look cute
Speaker 1: when they come. You ever read about an angel in
Speaker 1: a Bible and seen somebody draw what they would look
Speaker 1: like and scared to crap out of you when an
Speaker 1: angel come? Why did the angel have to say, don't
Speaker 1: be afraid when it came? If it wasn't scary. It's
Speaker 1: scary to step into a new season. It's scary to
Speaker 1: do it a new way. It's scary to let your
Speaker 1: guard down and say I'm struggling and I need to
Speaker 1: talk about it. It's scary to apologize. If I apologize,
Speaker 1: they might walk all over me, or God might come
Speaker 1: help you and defend you. So what do I keep
Speaker 1: cutting down that God wants me to continue in? What
Speaker 1: do I every time I get uncomfortable, I go run
Speaker 1: for something that's going to ruin me later. And Moses said,
Speaker 1: I got to prepare you for this, or you'll start
Speaker 1: cutting down stuff now that you'll need later. And I
Speaker 1: mean in every area of your life, you need to
Speaker 1: be nurturing now so that what you need later will
Speaker 1: be waiting when you get there. If you're a parent,
Speaker 1: and you've got kids that arerunning around doing all the sports,
Speaker 1: and y'all never get to know each other because you're
Speaker 1: so busy trying to champion them all the way to
Speaker 1: their glory of the high school whatever sport, high school swimming.
Speaker 1: They're gonna leave you. They're leaving your house. If you
Speaker 1: do the job right, they will leave one day and
Speaker 1: they might boomerang back, but you try and get them
Speaker 1: out of there, and you just keep throwing that thing. Ah.
Speaker 1: And I told the kids one time we were going.
Speaker 1: They said, are you coming to this thing tonight? I said, no,
Speaker 1: me and I'm going on to date i've been at.
Speaker 1: This was a couple years ago. I said, we're going out, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm going out of town next week and we haven't
Speaker 1: any time together. So you're gonna go do the thing
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go out and then I'll see
Speaker 1: you after. And I was like, Oh, you're a bad parent. No,
Speaker 1: I'm nurturing now. She's Holly's going to be in the
Speaker 1: house after they decide to go leave and they can
Speaker 1: come back when they want. So I need to know
Speaker 1: her in the next season. So I need to nurture
Speaker 1: it now. I just set somebody free to not go
Speaker 1: to the basketball game Thursday, go to Bonefish. And I
Speaker 1: know it's balanced, but don't you see that you are
Speaker 1: fighting your future when you don't nurture you're now, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to deal with that. And I have
Speaker 1: to accept where God has me now. I am so
Speaker 1: tired of people saying, Oh, he's just an old head,
Speaker 1: an old head, an old head is full of wisdom.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm an old head. I'm an old head.
Speaker 1: I know I know things now I didn't know then.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make a T shirt of this that
Speaker 1: probably already is one I'm gonna make. I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: one too, and it's gonna say old is the goal.
Speaker 1: Make fun of me because I'm old? What did you do?
Speaker 1: I didn't die yet, and I've been not dying for
Speaker 1: thirty years, longer than you. You can make fun of me.
Speaker 1: I've been doing it a long time, like the Lord.
Speaker 1: So I'm not apologizing for the fact that I'm getting
Speaker 1: a little older, and I've got to embrace that. But see,
Speaker 1: when you won't embrace where God has you because you
Speaker 1: wish you were where you were, you fight the future.
Speaker 1: He's bringing you into I think they're getting it. I
Speaker 1: think you've been getting it ever since I was down
Speaker 1: here on the ground. I think you like Graham choking
Speaker 1: me out. And I think you liked it when I
Speaker 1: called somebody's name who came to help me? Because they'll
Speaker 1: let you know. You've got a name that is above
Speaker 1: every name. You've got a name that is above your
Speaker 1: old nature. And God is not through with you. Touch
Speaker 1: three people say God's not through with you. It's not
Speaker 1: through with you. It's not through with you. God is
Speaker 1: not through with you. God is not through with you.
Speaker 1: What you've been through won't be wasted. God is not
Speaker 1: through with you. People throw you away, but God is
Speaker 1: not through. People talk about you like a dog, but
Speaker 1: God is not through with you. I want to speak
Speaker 1: to a pastor right now. You've been canceled, you lost
Speaker 1: your church. God is not through with you. You You get
Speaker 1: down to a rescue mission and you open your Bible
Speaker 1: and you talk about God in the wilderness and water
Speaker 1: from a rock. Because God is not through with you.
Speaker 1: He brings new things from dry places. God is not
Speaker 1: through with you. They might be, they might be, they
Speaker 1: might be, but look up and stand up and put
Speaker 1: on the armor of God. Now UN's at him who
Speaker 1: is able to do immeasurably more than you ask or imagine.
Speaker 1: For now the plans I have for you don't fight
Speaker 1: it well, thank from the battle, so you missed the
Speaker 1: blessing it's here is now you are more than you've become.
Speaker 1: Yet God is not through with you yet yet and
Speaker 1: made it through the waters yet to even see the
Speaker 1: Egyptians drown. Oh, get to the other side. God is
Speaker 1: not through. Stop making excuses and exchange it for the
Speaker 1: expectation of greater grace. Father, we have been taught today
Speaker 1: by your spirit. What good is it to be taught?
Speaker 1: What we will not walk in? I bring each and
Speaker 1: every man, woman, boy and girl that you put under
Speaker 1: the sound of my voice for this hour. I bring
Speaker 1: them and place them in your capable hands. We are
Speaker 1: the bread you desire to multiply. We are like the
Speaker 1: staff that parts waters when the master touches it. So
Speaker 1: we want to ask you, first of all, Lord, that
Speaker 1: you would help us to see where we've been so
Speaker 1: comfortable being stuck, that we have cut down what you
Speaker 1: were trying to use to grow us. And we admit
Speaker 1: we've done it. From time to time. We keep on
Speaker 1: doing things in the short term that long term hurt us. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what your grace is for, because we're learning now
Speaker 1: and we're changing now, and it's different now because this
Speaker 1: time we're not doing it in the strength that we
Speaker 1: have apart from you. We're leaning into your strength, your power,
Speaker 1: your supply. We're going to call the name of Jesus
Speaker 1: this week. We're going to do it right now. Get
Speaker 1: some practice, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me deal with this. Jesus,
Speaker 1: help me. I got this meeting tuesday. Jesus, I got
Speaker 1: this all. Ser Jesus, I keep on going back to
Speaker 1: the doctor. They don't even know what's wrong. Jesus, Jesus.
Speaker 1: Help me get out of worry. Help me not play
Speaker 1: it out again and again in my mind and make
Speaker 1: it worse. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me resist that temptation. God.
Speaker 1: I can't do it in my own strength. I keep
Speaker 1: on giving in to it. But I believe you're calling
Speaker 1: me to stand up. Stand up in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: stand up in the name of Jesus. Throw it off,
Speaker 1: put it off. Lord, We've been some of us. We've
Speaker 1: been in a certain struggle a long time. But before
Speaker 1: the struggle ever was, you knew who we were. I
Speaker 1: speak to the spirit of every man and woman today.
Speaker 1: I speak to the truest part of them, the part
Speaker 1: of them that is wrapped in love and called by God.
Speaker 1: And I admonish you in. I lift you up to
Speaker 1: the Father, and I remind you that he knew the
Speaker 1: plants he had for you before you did. He knew
Speaker 1: the pain would be bad, and he promised that the
Speaker 1: power would be greater. He knew you'd be here. Listen
Speaker 1: to me, Listen to me. He knew you'd be here.
Speaker 1: He knew you were going to screw that thing up,
Speaker 1: and he loved you, and he called you anyway. He
Speaker 1: knew you would feel abandoned and let down. He called
Speaker 1: you anyway. That's why he said, even if your father
Speaker 1: and mother closest friend forsake you, the Lord will take
Speaker 1: you up. He is able to sympathize with our weaknesses.
Speaker 1: He is able to be touched by the feeling of
Speaker 1: your infirmity. He really knows you, he really sees you.
Speaker 1: He really called you, he really chose you, and he's
Speaker 1: not through with you yet. Don't fight it. Welcome it.
Speaker 1: Welcome it. Holy Spirit doing new work in my life.
Speaker 1: I welcome it. Don't reject it. Don't stop repeating the
Speaker 1: mistakes because you refuse to believe you deserve a blessing.
Speaker 1: Welcome it. God wants to bless you, He wants to
Speaker 1: heal you, he wants to keep you. Receive it. Don't
Speaker 1: call on him and then resist him. He's coming right now.
Speaker 1: Stop thinking about lunch. God is here. You prayed, you
Speaker 1: asked him give me a sign it's gonna be all right,
Speaker 1: and he sent me to tell you I know the
Speaker 1: plans I have for you is not through with you yet. Well.
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