WEBVTT - Flip It 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.640 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.120 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.480 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.520 it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:19.760 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Amen. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.639 The Bible says that when Moses had crossed over the 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.360 Red Sea with the Nation, he stretched his staff back 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.560 over the sea, the same sea that the nation had 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.479 just passed through, and that sea collapsed on their enemies, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.879 killing every last Egyptian horse, killing every last one of 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.920 Pharaoh's chariots, rusting the wheels right off of Pharaoh's chariots. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.839 And we believe that we are in a season today 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.080 where God has the ability, if we have the faith 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.040 to believe that He is about to flip the flow. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.920 And that's my new series for the New Year. Touch 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.640 somebody say, God's about to flip it. God's about to 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:05.959 flip it. Amen. Amen. Amen, you know that sermon series 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.120 is from God because He gave it to me and TGI. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.760 Fridays in the Miami Airport, I was reading from my 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.679 New Year's Eve sermon called Come Through dripping, and the 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.240 Lord told me to tell you to flip the flow 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.440 and to focus on different things this year. And so 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.920 we will work through these challenges together. We'll sit down, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.240 we should get started. It's going to be a great 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.679 year in God's house. How many believe that. Welcome to 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.800 all of our locations and our epham around the world. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.039 We thank God for you this year. From this house, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:40.440 we declare that healing will flow, that restoration will flow, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.720 that wisdom will flow, that the treasures of the Lord 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.600 will flow, that friendship will flow. We believe great things 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.440 are coming your way in twenty nineteen. This is the 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.560 year where you stop coming to church for what can 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.560 I get out of it? But what can I bring 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.120 to it? I brought God a praise today, a sacrifice 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.920 of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.560 I brought it to Blakeney. I brought it to Matthews. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.320 I brought it to Riverwalk. I brought it to my kitchen. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.320 I brought it to my living room. I brought it 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.720 into the hospital. I brought a break touch. Somebody tell 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:17.760 him bring it this year. Nay, hey man, we are 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:23.160 so excited. Please be seated. Front three rows we are 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.400 so excited to flip the flow. Amen, And so we 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.760 want to go over to the New Testament Book of Matthew, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.160 which parallels so nicely the Ministry of Moses and gives 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.480 us great continuity. Did you get a chance to listen 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.799 to the New Year's Eve sermon? If you did make 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:47.000 some noise? That thing is online for free. You don't 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.280 even have to buy a VHS tape. You can stream 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.280 it at Elevation Church dot org. And I keep on 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.400 rewriting my sermons, so I've got a lot of different 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.359 notes up here. And you'll bear with me for a 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.480 moment while I'm doing this. You go to Matthew fifteen 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:08.280 in your Bible, please, whether by digital device or the 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.360 old school. This Bible I call fat Cat. See how 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.480 big this Bible is. Abby gave it that name. She said, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.600 I love fat Cat. I said, what's fat Cat? She said, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.360 it's that big bible you preach from. And what I 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.920 do for my kids every seven years, I retire a 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.560 Bible from preaching, and then I saved it for them, 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.440 and so Elijah got the first one. And Abby knows 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.600 that this is her Bible, so she named it fat Cat. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.160 And what I'm going to do. She's not in here. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.959 She was in here for the worship today. She wanted 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.200 to hear that new song that was saying, your love 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.120 won't give up on me. And she wanted to come 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.640 in and hear that song because she heard us working 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.200 on it, and she wanted to hear how it turned out. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:43.640 But I'm gonna put a cat on the front of 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.320 the Bible before I give it to her. I don't 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.160 know if that's unholy or anything like that, but I'm 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.360 gonna put a cat on it for my daughter. But 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.200 right now, take your Bible and turn to Matthew chapter fifteen, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.320 and we're going to see Jesus and how he found 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.520 himself in an encounter not with the Red Sea, but 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:09.360 with the Pharisees. Yeah, that's really premium preacher humor right there, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:17.880 new year, same old corny jokes. In Matthew chapter fifteen, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.840 verse ten, Jesus is going to show us how to 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:25.800 flip it. You're ready? Are you ready? Jesus called the 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.520 crowd to him and said, listen and understand, what goes 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.400 into someone's mouth does not defile them, but what comes 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.240 out of their mouth that is what defiles them. Then 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.200 the disciples came to him and asked, do you know 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:43.080 that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this. Did 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.160 you look at the comments section of that post, Jesus, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.120 where you said, what goes into someone's mouth does not 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.000 defile them, but what comes out of the mouth, that's 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:55.480 what defiles them. And Jesus replied verse thirteen, every plant 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.360 that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:05.320 out or plocked by the roots. Leave them, you know, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:06.920 you need to do this year with some of the 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.599 stuff that you argued with last year and fought against 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.800 last year. Touch somebody say, leave it alone because they 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:20.239 are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.240 will fall into a pit unless they have a bird box. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:32.000 And Peter said, explain, settle down, explain the parable to us. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.559 You're still so dull, Jesus asked him. Don't you see, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.000 key phraise, don't you see? And the issue is that 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.920 they don't. They see only the surface. And Jesus now 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:50.000 reveals what cannot be understood with naturalize that whatever enters 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.880 the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:01.000 the body. What a vivid illustration. But the things that 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.559 come out of a person's mouth, come from the heart, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.279 and these defile them. For out of the heart come 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:17.480 evil thoughts, murder, adultrey, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.360 I think he got all of us by the time 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.200 he finished that list. These are what defile a person. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:30.560 Eating with unwashed hands. It's gross, it's disgusting, it's unsanitary. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.479 It's against the law if you work in a restaurant. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.560 But eating with unwashed hands does not defile them. Touch 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.640 the person next you tell them flip it. Don't fix 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.000 things this year at the surface level. Don't fix things 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.360 this year at the level that you see the problem. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.599 Seek the Lord and ask him to show you where 0:06:55.600 --> 0:07:00.839 the sewage starts. Instead of just cleaning up crap all year, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.360 ask God to show you where it starts. And here's 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.320 the interesting thing. And I won't preach long for this 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.840 opening sermon because we're going to be on this topic 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.800 for the whole month. So we'll just move in the 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.840 right direction today, and I pray that you'll make attendance 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:21.280 a priority this year. Is that where something comes out 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:28.920 is not usually where it comes from. That's what Jesus 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.560 was getting at with the Pharisees because they were offended, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.760 and so he took their offense as an opportunity to 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.560 talk about the origin, and then he shared a little 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.440 bit about the outcome. And those are my three points 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.160 for today. Just in case you have to leave early 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.920 to watch a playoff game. I'll give you all three 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:53.000 up top offense, origin, outcome, and may this year be 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.800 the year that you take notes in church with the 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:01.240 elevation pen that our Tith's generously provided for you. Three 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:07.520 points the offense, the origin, and the outcome the offenses 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:14.040 this the Pharisees have caught Jesus disciples eating without any 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:19.920 hand sanitizer, eating without any purel eating without obeying their 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.240 oral tradition that before you eat the meal, you've got 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.960 to wash your hands. And I want you to watch 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.040 how Jesus flips it, because what we tend to do, 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.440 like the Pharisees, who were religious separatists, who felt the 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:39.320 need to identify their righteousness by appearance, because it's much 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.680 easier to do that than to cultivate righteousness through love 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:50.280 and compassion and selflessness. I'm saying something today, y'all, and 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.199 in fixing it at the level that it can be seen, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.320 they fix it in a way that does not produce 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.959 or sustain real change. But Jesus is about to flip it, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.760 and he does this every time the Pharisees challenge him. Now, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.200 these Pharisees came to him, and they came all the 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.319 way from Jerusalem. Look back at verse one, it says 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.720 that some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.839 Jesus from Jerusalem. These are the major leaguers. These are 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:22.160 not the double a Pharisees. This is not the farm team. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.200 This is the big boys. And they come to Jesus 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.520 and they ask, why do your disciples break the tradition 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.400 of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.840 What's the question, why do your disciples break the tradition 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.800 of the elders? If you came to church last year, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.640 you learned that Jesus is not only a savior, but 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.680 he also has the ability to be a savage. So 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.400 watch what he does. He takes their question why do 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:54.440 your disciples break tradition? And in verse three, Jesus replied, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.000 why do you break the command of God for the 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.320 sake of your tradition? And God wants to know which 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.640 one is more important, the traditions of men or the 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.840 truth of God. And it's about time for some of 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.560 us to decide, are we going to spend this whole 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.320 year living out of tradition or living according to truth? 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.880 A challenger this year to flip it. It is so 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:26.359 easy to live with an invisible belief system that regulates 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.280 your responses in situations and even your ideas of what 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.640 is possible in your life. An unquestioned belief system is 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:39.800 a dangerous thing. The phrases are significant because the Pharisees 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.240 are talking about the traditions of the elders, and Jesus 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.280 is talking about the command of God. One is tradition, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.080 one is truth. And a lot of times we don't 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.160 know the difference, because for some of us we give 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.920 more attention to our traditions than we do to God's truth. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:05.880 Now give you an example, may I Sometimes people would 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:11.120 rather I've noticed this, They would rather argue about things 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.600 that they don't agree about than work together on things 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.760 that they do agree about. Can I get you another example. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.800 Sometimes in my life, ways of thinking have been handed 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.920 down to me, not necessarily by my parents I love you, mom, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.560 but just by the culture that I live in, and 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.680 I never stopped the question where did this come from? 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.439 I want you to write that phrase down, if you're 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.360 the writing type, Where did this come from? Is this 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:48.440 really from God? What an excellent question to start our 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.880 year with? Where did this come from? Because where it 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.680 comes out is not usually where it comes from. And 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.640 sometimes we are living out scripts that we have not 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:05.800 even identified the author of. To wonder, why do I 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.679 think it has to be done this way? Why do 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.800 I assume that this is all I can be? Why 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.920 have I told myself the story that everyone in my 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.600 family was this way and I'm going to be this 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.360 way too, and it's just a generational curse or a 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.680 genetic defect. Why have I believed that up until this 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.599 point it can't change, so it never will. This is 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.680 when I live according to tradition rather than truth. But 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.800 this is the year to flip it. Somebody shout, this 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.640 is the year to flip it. And this year I'm 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.240 not letting my truth flow from my tradition. I want 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.440 my tradition to flow from truth. That is, I want 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:47.319 my life to reflect my values, not necessarily my habits 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.160 up until this point in time, and Jesus is so 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.840 brilliant in the way that he flips their tradition and 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.040 says that you are actually using God as a cover 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:05.240 up for your dysfunctional behavior. But he has the ability 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.560 to flip it because he is truth. See, they're talking 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:15.840 about truth. He embodies truth. They think they know the truth. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.839 He is the truth, the Way, the truth, and the life. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.680 They study the Word of God. He is the Word 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.240 of God. They live in creation. He is the creator. See, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.960 where he's coming from is different than where they're coming from. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.600 So what he knows is different than what they think. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.000 And his insight is greater than their opinion. And that's 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.400 why I want to know God's heart this year. God's thoughts, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.199 his ways are higher than my ways. His thoughts are hot, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.920 you can shout in the back of the room. His 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.000 thoughts are higher than my thoughts. So this is my 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.240 year to ask the question about what I believe and 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:01.120 the behaviors I've embraced. Where is this come from? That's 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.120 the origin the offense is this, they're not washing their hands. Well, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.440 God never told the people you have to wash your 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.320 hands every time you eat. That's great for Osha, but 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.800 from God, it's great for your health, your well being. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.840 But it's not in the Bible. It's in the tradition 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.240 because the elders would take the Law of Moses, and 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.520 then they would put layers on the law and layers 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.280 on the law, and so they passed it around by 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.840 word of mouth, and so they kind of started thinking 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.640 what they thought God meant by stuff, and they started 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.400 interpreting it according to their religious vantage point. And by 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.040 the time that Jesus showed up on the scene, there 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.840 were so many layers on top of the truth nobody 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.160 could get to it. That's why he had to come 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.600 to show us that the word became flesh and dwelt 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:58.040 among us full of grace and truth. Am I talking 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:04.360 all right this year? Flip the flowe and start with 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:09.520 what God says, what you see, because if I spend 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.640 this whole year fixing stuff at the level where I 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.960 can see it, Jesus said, it doesn't even work that 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.480 way in the human body. It doesn't. You put it 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.240 in your mouth. And I don't mean to be offensive here. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.040 I mean Jesus was offensive, but I don't want to be. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.160 But Jesus said, you put it in your mouth, but 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.920 it doesn't come out of your mouth. Do you get 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.360 the picture or shaw I continue. I mean, occasionally it 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.360 comes back out of your mouth, but typically, unless something 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.040 is really wrong, it doesn't come out where it went in. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.320 It doesn't come out in the same place that it 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:54.520 came from. I've noticed this is true in so many 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.600 of the areas of my life where I'm trying to 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:04.240 see change and improvement, even in the area of my anger. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:10.640 I wonder sometimes when I'm driving down the road and 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:16.560 something comes over me, a demon called legion comes over me, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.920 and I will think to myself, there is no way 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.560 that that woman, that seventy three year old woman's turn 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.560 signal could have made me as mad as I just got. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.600 I mean, if she were in my church, I would 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:42.400 hug that woman. And here I am thinking thoughts about 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.800 this woman, maybe saying some words about this woman, in 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:51.880 the safety of the sanctuary of my vehicle, and I've 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.320 been wondering, where does this come from? You know, that's 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.560 a great question to ask about the stuff in your life, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.360 if we can it that way. Jesus said, it goes 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.879 in your mouth one way, but it comes out in 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.040 a different form. And a good question to ask about 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.440 that stuff in your life is where did it come from. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.080 How did I How did I take that out on 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.760 somebody who didn't even do anything to me? See, because 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.240 usually where it comes out is not where it comes from. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.720 We don't usually get angry and lose our temper with 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.720 people who were actually mad at We lose our temper 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:42.120 with people who we know will forgive us. And now 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.880 you're taking out something on the people that you love 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.760 the most. But where it's coming out is different than 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.600 where it's coming from. And if we don't get honest 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.120 about what we need from God this year, we will 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:00.360 spend yet another year mopping up the floor without finding 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.120 the pipe that was busted that was causing the leak 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:08.320 to begin with. Come on, you know, this is the truth. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.439 A lot of times, when I'm angry, it's not really 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:18.840 even that I'm angry, It's that I'm afraid. And rather 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.679 than be vulnerable in my fear, I'd rather express my 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:28.720 fear through anger as a protective mechanism. And so I'm 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.560 trying to work on my temper. But really what I 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.199 need to work on is my trust, because if I 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.639 trusted God more, I wouldn't be afraid, And if I 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:44.000 wasn't afraid, I wouldn't find an expression of anger. Where's 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.119 this coming from. It's great to make a list at 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.840 the beginning of the year of the things that you'd 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:54.440 like to do differently, but it's better to find out 0:18:55.760 --> 0:19:03.560 where it's coming from. Just recreate a different issue that 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.400 was caused by the same disease, because you only learn 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.160 to take ibuprofen for the symptoms, but you never underwent 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:21.160 the surgery to understand some of the beliefs beneath the behavior. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.880 Even in relating to people, I have to remember that 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.040 even the way they're treating me might not be a 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.879 reflection of how they feel about me. It might be 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.560 a reflection of how they feel about themselves. It might 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.320 be a reflection of what they're dealing with in their 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.040 own time alone in the way that they push me away. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.199 And that's why you really got to be careful not 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.800 to let rejection take root in your heart, because sometimes 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.000 people are pushing you away not because of anything that 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.760 is undesirable about you, but it's actually that the person 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.640 finds themselves so on desirable that they don't know how 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.439 to let anyone get close, Because to let anybody close 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.320 carries a risk with it that they will be seen 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.680 and found out to be less than which they already 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.560 believe that they are. And you are spending all of 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.760 your time trying to love someone who is unable to 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.199 receive your love, and the rejection is not proof of 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.480 your defection. It is proof of something in their own life. 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:32.080 But where it shows up is not necessarily where it starts. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.080 And Jesus knew that. He knew that, which is why 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:43.159 he didn't go back and forth with these pharisees. He 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.639 knew better. He knew where he came from, and he 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.639 knew that every plant that my father does not plant 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.679 will be plucked up. So he knew that where it 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:00.800 comes from determines how it comes out. Reach a little 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.400 bit today. I know you've got a lot on your minds, 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:06.840 and you've got to pack lunches for the kids and 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.200 get back to school, and I know all of that, 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.200 but I want to stop and ask the question today, 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.719 where did it come from? And in my life, so 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.119 often I have been dealing with things at the level 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.760 of visibility. And because I'm dealing with things at the 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.240 level of Jesus takes us inside. He says, when food 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.879 goes into the stomach and comes out the body. It 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.280 is like a thought that goes in the heart and 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.520 comes out the mouth. He's making an analogy, and there's 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.320 not a lot of scientific, you know, explanation. It's not 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.920 a biology lesson necessarily. He's not going into the small 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.520 intestine and the secretion of the fluids of the kidney 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:50.560 and the pancreas. Did that make any sense? But he's 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:54.320 giving us something to understand about how we metabolize our 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.879 thoughts and our lives and even our disappointments and our failures. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:21:59.879 And I think it's so valuable because a lot of 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:06.680 started this year counting calories, counting carbs. Some of y'all 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:11.720 are on paleo and keto and counting macros. I still 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:13.880 don't know what macros are, but I heard a lot 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.119 of people have been counting them. And I wish you 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.080 the best with that, because we all got to count something. 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.320 We've all got to count something, or we're gonna keep 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:25.840 counting our waistline as it expands, like the prayer of 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:30.000 Jabez and God enlarges your territory. I gotta count something 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.800 at some point. Like when I first married Holly, she 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.679 started the demon of fried Rice came into our house 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:41.359 like how everything's a demon today. The demon of Dorito's 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.000 got in our house. And when I got to size 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:46.600 thirty eight and it was bulging. I mean I had 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:50.040 a graded belt stretched across those size thirty eights and 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.439 I started size thirty eighteen months later, I said, I 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:57.080 gotta start counting carbs. I gotta start eating bacon. I 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:59.960 gotta get a healthy alternative. I gotta get the act 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.480 His diet. I gotta have a low carb lifestyle. And 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:05.840 you know what the Lord told me last year, because 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.159 I was letting all this toxic talk and toxic thoughts 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.640 just get all in my spirit, and it had got 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:14.320 me to a real dark place. And God said, if 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:19.600 you would count your complaints like you count your carbs. 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.600 And it's funny because the majority of things we think 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:29.240 we need to do better this year have to do 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.359 with putting stuff in our mouth. What we put in 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.720 our mouth, and maybe you do need to stop putting 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:40.840 some stuff in your mouth, but maybe the priority, flip 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:47.119 the flow, is what you put in your heart, because 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:52.280 where it comes from determines where it comes out. Now, 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.480 I'm not telling you what movies to watch or what 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:57.760 music to listen to this year I'm not that kind 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.919 of preacher. In fact, I think sometimes some of the 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:04.080 stuff that we put in our heart that hurts us 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:08.200 the most has nothing to do with bad words. Man, 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.840 I've heard I've heard Pagans speak a word of God 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:16.399 with bad language in it, and Christians curse without saying 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:21.040 a single four letter word. I've heard Christians say some 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:27.640 of the most hateful, judgmental, fear inducing condemnation you've ever 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:33.080 heard in your life. And listen, this year, I'm guarding 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:37.080 my heart. And I don't mean that. I'm not watching Netflix, 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:39.480 and I don't mean That's not what I'm talking about. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:42.920 I'm not talking about reading the Old Testament before next Sunday. 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:47.760 I'm talking about really paying attention to the types of 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:52.359 a pattern of thought that you allow your heart to digest, 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:59.680 because your spirit has a digestive system. Jesus said, his 0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:02.159 out your heart. That's causing you the real problem. You know, 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:06.199 Pharisees are like offended Jesus because you said that they 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.199 don't have to wash their hands before they eat. Well 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:10.280 they don't. Only Aaron and the priests had to wash 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:12.960 their hands. But they put traditions on top of truth 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:14.960 and made it something that was never supposed to be. 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:18.120 You can wash your hands all you want. You can 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:22.480 break out your hands sanitizer every time pastor says touch 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.359 your neighbor and squirt it on. You know. I was 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:27.840 so offended the other day somebody came up to meet 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:31.280 me and they introduced themselves and they shook my hand. 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.080 I watched them walk away squirting stuff all over their hands. 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:36.760 I'm like, well, hey, I didn't even want to talk 0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:49.320 to you. Don't you wish they made heart sanitizer for 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:51.600 some of these people that we have to deal with, 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:55.359 for some of these these thoughts, some of these memories, 0:25:55.400 --> 0:26:01.000