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God bless you now. 12 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 2: John Chapter five, verse seven, Sir, the invalid reply, I 13 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 2: have no one to help me into the pool. 14 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: When the water is stirred. 15 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 2: While I am trying to get in, someone else goes 16 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: down ahead of me. You're gonna love this because you've 17 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: been wanting to say this anyway on my title, and 18 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you say it right now. And because 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: I'm telling you to say it, you will have permission 20 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 2: to say it. Look at the per sit next to 21 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: you and tell them this, and tell them in a convincing. 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: Way, say trust me, I'm trying. 23 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 2: I'm trying. You may be seated, I promise I am. 24 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: I really am trying. I know I don't always hit 25 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: the mark, but I really am trying because for me, 26 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: I have a rule, especially as a boss the people 27 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 2: that work for me, is that I always try to 28 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: make it a point never to punish somebody who's trying 29 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 2: to be proactive. 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: I feel like if somebody makes a. 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: Mistake because they took it a little too far, that's 32 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 2: a little Jesus. 33 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: Jesus. 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: Let Peter cut Malcus's ear off in the garden and 35 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 2: put it back on like mister Potato had. But I 36 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: think he liked Peter because Peter wouldn't just sit around. 37 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: Peter was like, all right, I can do something about this. 38 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: The spirit is willing, the flesh is week and I'm 39 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: about to use my flesh to cut off. 40 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: And that's a really interesting thing, isn't it. Now. The 41 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: kids will call somebody a try hard. 42 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: It's like a way of saying, you know, if it 43 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 2: looks like you you try too hard on your outfit. 44 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: And I get that, but I like people who will 45 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: give it a level of effort and even if they miss, 46 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: they swing so big. 47 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: I've always liked people like that. I thought I should tell. 48 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: You this if I ever come up here to preach, 49 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 2: and I don't do good, which I'm sure happens, it 50 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: won't be because I didn't try. 51 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: So if you ever see me up here struggling in 52 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: this pulpit. 53 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 2: And you're like, I don't really understand this one, I. 54 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: Think I see what he was trying to do. Did 55 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: you catch that? 56 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: Number one is probably your faultcause you didn't pray enough 57 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: before you came to church. 58 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 1: That's kidding. 59 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: But trust me, I'm trying, and I think sometimes it 60 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: can be frustrating when you are giving your. 61 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: Best effort, but what is required of. 62 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: You is beyond your ability. And I'm gonna try to 63 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: ignore this fly buzzon around my head. But touch somebody 64 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 2: and say I'm trying. I'm really trying. You must have 65 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 2: had to really trust Jesus to follow him when he 66 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 2: walked the earth. People say, oh, I wish I could 67 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: have followed Jesus and walked with him. You know now 68 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: it's harder because God is not visible like that, and 69 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: it would have been so cool. 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: No, wouldn't. 71 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: It would have been so difficult to trust Jesus and 72 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: he was always getting in so much trouble. He was 73 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: always explaining his actions and his intentions after the fact, 74 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: and what that required from his disciples was just this 75 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: crazy amount of trust. 76 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm really trying. I mean, yeah, whatever you do, 77 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: just pray for me. Do them all, do them all. 78 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 2: Let's back up and see why he's feeling so feisty today. 79 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 2: Sometime later, verse one John chapter five, Jesus went up 80 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 2: to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. Now there's 81 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 2: in Jerusalem, near the Sheepgate a pool, which in Aramaic 82 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 2: is called bethesda means house of mercy, and it's surrounded 83 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 2: by five covered colonnades or porches. Here a great number 84 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 2: of disabled people used to lie, the blind, the lame, 85 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 2: and the paralyzed. It's important to note before I go 86 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,119 Speaker 2: on that this is a specific dwelling place for people 87 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: with physical infirmities. And the reason I point that out 88 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: is because I'm going to make some spiritual parallels to 89 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 2: the physical infirmities that are mentioned in this passage. But 90 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 2: I don't want us to miss the histericity for the 91 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 2: sake of application. I think that would be irresponsible Bible teaching. 92 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 2: The people who were at this particular hospital, if we 93 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: can even call it that, it was more like a 94 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: public service. 95 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: This pool was not a resort pool. Nobody who is 96 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: bringing you little umbrellas in your drink at this pool. 97 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: This is a crowded pool and is pushing and shoving. 98 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 2: And word has it that if you can get in 99 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 2: the pool when the angel stirs the water intermittently, you 100 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 2: can get healed. 101 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: And this puts certain. 102 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: People who have certain disabilities and an advantage over others. 103 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 2: For instance, it said there were the blind, the lane, 104 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 2: and the paralyzed. And so if you're a blind man 105 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 2: by this pool, you can probably feel your way to 106 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: the edge of the pool, so that when there's an 107 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: opportunity to get in and be healed, you'll be the 108 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: first one there. But if it puts you at a disadvantage, 109 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 2: because even if you get yourself to the edge of 110 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: the pool, there's. 111 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: A chance that someone else can pull you back. You 112 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: are powerless. And that's an interesting thing about life. 113 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: I was out at the ballfield last baseball season and 114 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 2: I saw this really good dad with a fanny pack. 115 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: He didn't look happy, he. 116 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 2: Didn't look like you know, these are the days making memories. 117 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: He didn't look selfie ready, But you know, I liked 118 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:33,559 Speaker 2: about him. 119 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:35,679 Speaker 1: He was carting this wagon. 120 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 2: He looked like he had some snacks first kids, and 121 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 2: maybe he was on snack duty that day. And I 122 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 2: just admired him because he was trying. I watched him 123 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: pull that wagon up the hill. I thought about it, 124 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 2: how he was trying. He was sweating all through his shirt. 125 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 2: You could tell he came straight from work. It wasn't 126 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 2: a baseball shirt. He must have had the wagon that 127 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 2: he packed the night before because he didn't have time 128 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: to change. 129 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: But he just came out there. 130 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 2: Shirt was untucked on one side, looked like he spilled 131 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 2: a little something on the collar, and he was sweating 132 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 2: through it. 133 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: But he was trying. And I've always loved the. 134 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: Scripture that says that Jesus looked at one man and 135 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 2: he loved him. I thought about that a lot lately, 136 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 2: how Jesus would show up to a place and look 137 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 2: for somebody who was at a disadvantage. I kind of 138 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 2: imagine him walking around the pull at Bethesda, and I'm 139 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: sure his disciples were shocked that he would waste time 140 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 2: with a bunch of people who they would call crippled. 141 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 2: That's not a PC term, but that's how they would 142 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 2: have put it. Sickness was connected to spiritual disorder in 143 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 2: this time. Judaism in the first century made a strong 144 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: connection between your spiritual condition and your physical condition, so 145 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 2: like if you had money, that was a proof that 146 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 2: you were living right. 147 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: That's how they thought about it. We know that's not 148 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: always the case. 149 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 2: We know a lot of times some of the greatest 150 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: people who are the most faithful to God, they might 151 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 2: not live in a big house on earth, but we'll 152 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 2: probably be cleaning their toilets in heaven for the treasure 153 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 2: that they're storing up after this life. And yet there's 154 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 2: this tendency to just judge things by the physical always 155 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: for all of us. So I kind of picture him 156 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: Jesus walking around and asking questions. One interesting thing that's 157 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: in the text. Let me show you this real quick. 158 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 2: It's too cool for me, just a reference. I want 159 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 2: to make sure it's very vivid. Yeah, it is that one 160 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 2: who was there verse five had been an invalid for 161 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 2: thirty eight years and when Jesus saw him lying there 162 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 2: and learned. Now, what stood out to me about that 163 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 2: text wasn't that Jesus saw him. What stood out to 164 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 2: me about this text wasn't that the man had issues. 165 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: We all have issues and frankly, we all have areas 166 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 2: of paralysis, and I'm gonna talk about yours in seven minutes, 167 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 2: So buckle in and get that judgmental look off your face, 168 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 2: because I'm coming for you. 169 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: On this particular occasion, what stood out to me is 170 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: Jesus learned. 171 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: I didn't think he could do that because he's the 172 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: image of God, He's the wisdom of God. 173 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: How can the wisdom of God learn information? 174 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 2: I figured that he must have been walking around asking 175 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: how about her? How long has she been here? Somebody said, well, 176 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 2: she just got here last week. She said, Nah, not her. 177 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 2: How about him? How long has he been like that? 178 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 2: That blind guy right there? Yeah, is recent, it's recent. 179 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 2: It's been it's been two months, I think two months, 180 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: two months, Jimmy two months, yeah, two months, two months 181 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: in three days, yeah, two months in three days. 182 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: No, No, no, not him? How about that one? Three years? 183 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: We'll see put him on standby, because he's looking for 184 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 2: somebody to heal. He's looking for somebody who can experience 185 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: a miracle. He's looking for a platform to demonstrate his power. 186 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: How about him? Five years? How about her? Seven? 187 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 2: How about that guy? How long's he been like that? 188 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: Nine years, eh, getting closer? How about him? And finally 189 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: somebody figures out how like, well, if you want somebody 190 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 2: who's been here a while, I see what you're doing 191 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: thirty eight years, long enough that he has given up 192 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 2: hope that anything can ever be different. And Jesus learned 193 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: that there was one. I'm gonna try so hard not 194 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 2: to cry when I say this to you, But verse 195 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 2: five says one who was there had been an invalid 196 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: for thirty eight years. What does it mean that Jesus, 197 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 2: who only had three years to do ministry and was 198 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 2: on his way to a feast, would come by for one? 199 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 1: Does it mean? 200 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 2: Could it mean that out of everybody that I'm preaching 201 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: to today, out of everybody that. 202 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: Made a decision to show up at a campus. 203 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: That God might want the one in the back who 204 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 2: got here twelve minutes late, pulling a wagon, just trying 205 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 2: to get through the week. Could it be that God 206 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 2: is looking for the one who had the worst week, 207 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: the worst upbringing me, the one that other people said 208 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 2: could never be anything, the one who has gotten so 209 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 2: used to how it is this is really what happens 210 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 2: in life. You get so used to how it is 211 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 2: that you cannot recognize that how it used to be 212 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: is no longer what's in front of you, all right, 213 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 2: So let's work on this a little bit. 214 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: Bring him here, Jesus says. 215 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: Now, when you get to heaven, you'll probably be shocked 216 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 2: who's there and who's not. How many agreed, there's gonna 217 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 2: be some people in heaven that. 218 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: Are gonna shock us, like WHOA she made it? 219 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 2: That must have been like a thief on the cross 220 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 2: deathbed kind of she got in right under the wire. 221 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: WHOA they made it? 222 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: I thought they believed weird stuff. They were new age, 223 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 2: and they made it. I think we're gonna be surprised 224 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: who's there and who's not, because I think we're always 225 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 2: surprised who God picks and who he uses and who 226 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 2: he doesn't. One was there who had been lying there 227 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: for so long that you can even tell in his 228 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 2: response and the questions, Jesus asked him that he. 229 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: Had gotten tired of trying. 230 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 2: My message today is for anybody who's tired of trying 231 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: in an area of your life, Tired of trying to 232 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: repair a significant relationship, tired of trying to be opened 233 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: so that you can experience relationships, Tired of trying to 234 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 2: overcome the thing that you keep going back to, and 235 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 2: it's been since you were even in your teens, and now. 236 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: You're a grown man. 237 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 2: I edited it for YouTube, and now I'm tired of 238 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 2: trying because there was a time where I tried to 239 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 2: get people to help me to get into the pool, 240 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 2: but now I found out that there's no one to 241 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 2: help me. 242 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: Now. What's mind blowing about. 243 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: The situation at the pool at Bethesda is how many 244 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 2: different ways I have heard this preach that completely contradict 245 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: the heart of God. For instance, when Jesus comes up 246 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 2: to the man and learn that he had been lying 247 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 2: there and he had been in this condition for. 248 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: A long time. 249 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 2: Pause, how many of y'all have been in a certain 250 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: condition for. 251 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: A long time. Jesus, I need help. There's three honest 252 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: people in the church. 253 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 2: And I forgot I was coming out to speak to 254 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 2: the perfect saints, the ten out of ten eight plus saints. 255 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: I forgot I was talking to the all stars today. 256 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 2: I thought I was coming to elevation where they're not 257 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 2: afraid to be real in your name, Amen, how many 258 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: of y'all have had certain patterns of thinking that have 259 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 2: been negative for. 260 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: A long time. I mean a long time. 261 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 2: I don't know how old the man was, but thirty 262 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 2: eight years trust me, I'm thirty. 263 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Nine is a long time. 264 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: This is the entire span of my natural life. And 265 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: for so long he's been unable to move that now 266 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 2: he cannot recognize the help that. 267 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: Is standing right in front of him. 268 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 2: And Jesus asks a question that I have often heard 269 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 2: misinterpreted when he says, do you want to get well? 270 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: Tone is everything. That's why you can't text every conversation 271 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 2: because tone is everything. 272 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to pick up the. 273 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: Phone and call people because completely depending on the tone 274 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: is how you see the heart of Jesus. I always 275 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: read it for a long time. Like Jesus said, do 276 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 2: you want to get well? I almost see him now 277 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 2: like he's got something in his back pocket and he's 278 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 2: sneaking around the pool looking for somebody. 279 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: They say God helps those who help themselves, but I 280 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: almost see. 281 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 2: Jesus looking for somebody who can't. And he's like, I 282 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 2: see you caught in the situation. You want to get well, 283 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 2: and the man has every reason to be suspicious. Can 284 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 2: you imagine how many people have taken advantage of him. 285 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: In almost forty year years of suffering. 286 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 2: How many hustlers have come through the pool at bethesta 287 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 2: trying to sell a magic potion or some bubbling water? Hey, 288 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 2: I got some cream men, put it on your legs. 289 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: I promise it's blessed. Hey man, I promise you. I'll 290 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 2: bring you to the pool. I'll push you in when 291 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: the water starts bubbling. Just give me half now and 292 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: half after the move. I promise you I can carry 293 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 2: you in. 294 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: I got you. How many times did somebody make him 295 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: a promise? 296 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 2: Because it seems cruel to Christ the expression of the 297 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 2: love of God would stand over a man who couldn't 298 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 2: move and ask him such a ridiculous question. Do you 299 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: want to lose weight? Well yeah? Do you want to 300 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: be happy? Well yeah? 301 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: Do you want to be able to live at peace 302 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: without anxiety? 303 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 2: Well yeah, what you're selling? I heard this spiel before 304 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 2: I tried that diet. How many y'all tried that diet 305 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 2: before I put a meditation app on my phone? Y'all, 306 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I got four meditation apps 307 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 2: on my phone. I tried all of them. I either 308 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 2: fall asleep or my leg starts doing like that. 309 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: I can't do it. Everybody tells me to meditate. 310 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 2: The Bible says meditate, Russell Brand says meditate. Joe Rogan says, meditate. 311 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 2: Everybody's telling me to meditate. I tried it. I really 312 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 2: did try it. They also taught me about portion control. 313 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 2: I tried portion control? How many y'all tried? Somebody told 314 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 2: me one time, they said, here's how you stay at 315 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 2: an ideal weight when you're full stop eating. 316 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: My only problem I never found full. 317 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 2: That gauge got broken somewhere in my childhood. 318 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: I never felt full, so I kept eating. I tried that. Oh. 319 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 2: They say, if you don't complain, you will feel more 320 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: connected to God. I tried it, but I found out 321 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 2: sometimes if you don't complain. 322 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 1: Nothing changes. 323 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 2: I tried so hard not to complain. At one time, 324 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 2: I was gonna go seven days without complaining, and I thought, 325 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 2: if I could do it, I could make a sermon 326 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,919 Speaker 2: out of it. I thought I could call it, you know, 327 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 2: seven days a week of worship or something like that. 328 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 2: I tried so hard not to complain for seven days. 329 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 2: What happened was, and this is so embarrassing to admit 330 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 2: to you. The more I tried not to complain, externally, 331 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 2: because sometimes you. 332 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: Can fix the symptom. Now I'm in the text. 333 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: You can fix the symptom and stop trying to complain. 334 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 2: But the root of it what happened to me was 335 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 2: I went five good days without complaining, but on day 336 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 2: six the walls of Jericho came tumbling down. A day early, 337 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 2: everything in my path was, Oh, it was a tornado, 338 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 2: it was a downpour. Because when you fixed the symptom 339 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 2: but don't address the system that created the symptom, the 340 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 2: end is worse than the beginning. You want to get well, well, yeah, 341 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 2: I'm trying. When you get to heaven, you'd be surprised 342 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,640 Speaker 2: who's there and who's not. But one thing you write 343 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 2: might really be shocked about this dude, whoever he is 344 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: in John five, is going to have a long line 345 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: of freatures waiting to apologize to him for how we 346 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 2: misinterpreted his story in John chapter five. 347 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: Oh, I've heard everything. I've heard. 348 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 2: It said that in thirty eight years the men should 349 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 2: have been able to crawl or roll his way to 350 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 2: the edge of the pool. Yeah, like that will work, 351 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 2: because now somebody stronger than you is just going to 352 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: pull you back at the moment you're still powerless to 353 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 2: fall in at the right time. And besides, when has 354 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 2: Jesus ever taunted someone into transformation? 355 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: You really think that's the spirit of the Savior some 356 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: of us do. 357 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 2: We really picture God like standing over us in our minds, 358 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 2: our concept of God like. 359 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: You don't want it bad enough. 360 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 2: If you would have done it different when they were eight, 361 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: they wouldn't have been in so much trouble when they 362 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 2: were eighteen. 363 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: See, you screwed them up. That's what God sounds like 364 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: to a lot of us. 365 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 2: So it's no surprise that when we hear Jesus say 366 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 2: do you want to get well? He says it with 367 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 2: a snarl. You know, do you even want to get well? 368 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 2: Do you even lift? Are you even serious? I mean, 369 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 2: prove it if you do, if you want to get well, 370 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 2: say I want to get well? So why did he 371 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 2: ask you? Why did he ask the man do you 372 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 2: want to get well? Before he helped him get up 373 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 2: and walk? And as I prayed through that this week, 374 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 2: I realize that before Jesus. 375 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: Could help him walk, he had to help him want. 376 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but God is 377 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 2: dealing with your desires in this season of your life. 378 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 2: You have been disappointed over and over and over again, 379 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 2: and every time you try, nobody notices, and every time 380 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 2: you'd try, you come up short. 381 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 1: Sickness is cyclical. 382 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 2: It comes around, it goes around, you're well for a 383 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 2: little while. 384 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: And then it's the same thing all over again. 385 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 2: But this time it's only worse because now not only 386 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 2: are you back where you started, but you have less 387 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 2: hope that it is ever going to be different, because 388 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 2: you've cycled through it one more time just to realize. Well, 389 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 2: I guess I'm just a cynical person. Well, I guess 390 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 2: I'm just a negative person. I guess nobody in my 391 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 2: family was meant to go to college. 392 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: I guess. See. 393 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 2: When you hang around the colonnades with people who are sick, 394 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 2: sickness becomes normal to you, and it starts to be 395 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 2: easier for you to just accept the condition than to 396 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 2: challenge it, because to challenge the condition means to risk disappointment. 397 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: And some of us have. 398 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 2: Tried, got blocked, tried, got blocked, tried, got blocked. And 399 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 2: now people see you and they assume that you don't care. 400 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: No I care. I cared, and I cared so much, 401 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 2: but they didn't care back, and I tried so hard 402 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 2: and I still got looked over. 403 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: And don't you know it's hard when. 404 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 2: Your expectation has been damaged by disappointment. 405 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: It's a slow damage. It's a slow tearing of the 406 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: muscle fibers. 407 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 2: It is a slow deterioration of your hope by disappointment. 408 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 2: It is not one event that creates it. It's over 409 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 2: and over. I tried, and I tried, and I smiled, 410 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 2: and I stayed, and I cooked, and I parented and 411 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 2: I disciplined and I showed up and I didn't care. 412 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 2: And the man has finally gotten to a place, I 413 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 2: believe where he is tired. 414 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: Of trying? Are you. 415 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: It's supposed to be the Sabbath. It's supposed to be 416 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 2: a day of rest. Why did Jesus stop by the 417 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 2: pool on the day of rest to reform a miracle? 418 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 2: You're not supposed to work on the Sabbath. This may 419 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 2: offend you, but it won't be the first time. If 420 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 2: this offends you, your metal detector has turned up to 421 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 2: level ten anyway, and you need to just turn it down. 422 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: Y'all. 423 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: Notice we live in a gotcha culture, outrage culture. Just 424 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 2: nobody can say anything. You can't say anything anymore. And 425 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 2: the more the people try to help us, the more 426 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 2: we crucify him if they say the wrong thing. 427 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: Have you noticed that? This is how they treat Jesus. 428 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: He heals the man on the Sabbath, and. 429 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: All that anyone can talk about is that he did 430 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 2: it on the wrong day. 431 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: So this is what I don't want to say. 432 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: It was gonna offend you. 433 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: You thought that was what was gonna offend you. No, no, no, no, 434 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: no no. 435 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 2: Jesus walks up on the sabbath and when he tells 436 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:58,959 Speaker 2: the man in verse eight, get up, pick up your mat, 437 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 2: and walk, he. 438 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: Is trying to get the man to break sabbath. 439 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: So Jesus walks up to the pool, looks around and 440 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 2: asks the man, what's going on in your heart right now? 441 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 2: Because before I can help you walk, I have to. 442 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: Heal your will. 443 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: So here's what Jesus does that we don't like. He 444 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: calls BS, he calls watch this, he calls BS, and 445 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 2: I don't know what you're thinking about right now, but 446 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 2: I'm talking about broken system. See, now, there's one thing 447 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 2: in the verse. There's one thing in the verse that 448 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 2: doesn't make sense unless you understand the historical context when 449 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 2: the man says, I keep trying. I keep trying to 450 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 2: get down there, but I can never be first. I'm 451 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 2: not fast enough. In fact, I can't move at all. 452 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 2: I keep trying, but every time am I try, something 453 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: blocks me. And Jesus says, that's because the system is broken. 454 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 2: If you'll notice, give me verse four of the scripture. 455 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 2: I forgot to read it. John five four. 456 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: Jared. 457 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: It's been a long week. You know, staff advanced Jared. 458 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: Where's Jared? Can you get him? 459 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 1: Yeah? I need him. 460 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 2: Verse four unlocks the whole thing. We can wait. This 461 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: man waited thirty eight years. We can wait three minutes. 462 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: Uh, the manuscript, you don't have it. It's not in 463 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: the manuscript. It's not available. 464 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 2: Oh. They they added that verse later. It's not even 465 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 2: in the original manuscript. They added a scripture later. They 466 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 2: added a verse to explain the situation. It didn't make sense, 467 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 2: so they had to add, you. 468 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: Can go back to your job now. They had but 469 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 1: come here real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick. 470 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 2: So a lot of times when a situation in my 471 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 2: life doesn't make sense to me, I add averse. 472 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: I add averse. You know how we do, it's like, okay. 473 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 2: Rather than deal with it, I would rather explain it 474 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 2: in a way that excuses me from having to deal 475 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: with it. There's a reason verse four isn't in there, 476 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 2: because it's. 477 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: Not in there. 478 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 2: There's some stuff that you're putting in your story that 479 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 2: doesn't belong there because God didn't speak it, and it's 480 00:27:54,240 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 2: not true anymore. You see, what the man said reflects 481 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 2: a broken system, and it reflects a bad story. That's 482 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 2: another bs. The devil has got some of us telling 483 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 2: ourselves some really bad stories, and this man has been 484 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 2: telling himself a story thirty eight years. 485 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 1: No one wants to help me. 486 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 2: Everybody's out to get me every time I try. No 487 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 2: one wants to help me. Everybody's out to get me 488 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 2: every time I try. So here comes Jesus. He doesn't 489 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: know Jesus. He's never met Jesus. Jesus is new to 490 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 2: the scene. Jesus hasn't even done the Captain D's miracle yet. 491 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 2: That's in John chapter six. He hasn't even gotten familiar 492 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 2: with this guy yet. He hasn't even had an opportunity 493 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 2: to unpack the whole historicity of his situation. So he's 494 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 2: standing in front of Jesus, and he's rightfully skeptical because 495 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: he's in a broken system where the religious leaders are 496 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 2: trying to let the first ones in and keep the 497 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 2: rest back. 498 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: And unless you. 499 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 2: Keep the law this good, you can't be healed. 500 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: Of course, he's stuck. 501 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 2: He's stuck in a broken system. 502 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: So are some of us. 503 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 2: He's stuck in a bad story, and so are some 504 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 2: of us. And we've inserted versus that aren't even there 505 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 2: to explain why we are the way we are. We 506 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 2: think is our job to suffer. You know, suffering for 507 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 2: Christ and for the good of others is one thing, 508 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 2: and sacrifice this. But to suffer the shame that He 509 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: already took away from you is to snatch back what 510 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 2: he nailed to the cross. It is not your job 511 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 2: to suffer like that. 512 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: That's a broken system. 513 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, men and women of the Most High God. 514 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 2: Religion is a broken system. That's why Jesus went for 515 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 2: one to show you this is a relationship. 516 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: I want to deal with you one on one. I 517 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: want to speak to you like. 518 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 2: A person, not like you're some kind of project, not 519 00:29:58,560 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: like you're some kind of defect. 520 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: I don't have anybody to help me. Trust me, I'm trying. 521 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: I really try it. 522 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 2: If you knew how hard I was trying, you wouldn't 523 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 2: make fun of me like that and ask me do. 524 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 1: I want to get well? I don't have any help. 525 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 2: And see that was true five minutes ago, but the 526 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 2: situation has changed. 527 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: What he said used to be true. It was true 528 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: for a long time. 529 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 2: And then Grace shows up at the pool at Bethesda 530 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: five porchas five is the number of Grace, always symbolism. 531 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: There's levels to this text. We could preach a series 532 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 2: on this text. Now Grace is here in what used 533 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 2: to be true isn't true anymore. Are you still stuck 534 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 2: in something that used to be true but it isn't 535 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 2: true anymore? 536 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: I bet he would be tired. 537 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: Thirty eight years of fighting off the vultures and thirty 538 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 2: eight years of looking out for yourself, and you kind 539 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 2: of have to live that way until Grace becomes the 540 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 2: dominant reality in your life and then Jesus comes into 541 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 2: your life and everything changes. But sometimes we keep living 542 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: off of. 543 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: The old story, the bad story. 544 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 2: No one will help me and Jesus like I'm someone. Now, 545 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 2: the question is this, how did Jesus commem the man 546 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 2: to get up. If the man couldn't walk in the 547 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 2: first place. A careful reading of the text. 548 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: Will reward us in this moment. 549 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 2: One interpretation is that his healing was his reward for obedience. 550 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: That's religion. It's a bad story. 551 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 2: Because the fact of the matter is, if trying harder 552 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 2: could have made me better, I'd be better by now. 553 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: I tried that diet, I tried that. 554 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: I wasn't going to do this, and I wasn't going 555 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 2: to do that, and I wasn't going to do the other. 556 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 2: You've tried that already, and if it could work, it 557 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 2: would have. 558 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: Worked by now. 559 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 2: So the man said, I'm trying, and Jesus said, trust me. 560 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: Get up, take up your mat and walk. I'm trying, 561 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 2: Jesus said. 562 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: Trust me. I'm trying. Trust me. 563 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 2: That's the real task is to trust. That's always been 564 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 2: the real work. John Chapter five is in a text 565 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 2: about being lazy. Come on, get up, make up your bed, 566 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 2: get on the treadmill, go get. 567 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: Them tiger, this is your day. This is not a 568 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: pep talk. This is a complete reversal of the systems 569 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: of this world. 570 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 2: It is a contrast of works and grace. That's why 571 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 2: it had to happen on the Sabbath. The moment that 572 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 2: he picked up his mat, he was doing work. And 573 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 2: the moment that he was doing work, it made everybody 574 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 2: who was in power. 575 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: Mad because he wasn't supposed to do work. 576 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 2: The reason that Jesus showed up for one person was 577 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 2: that he wanted to overturn an entire system. There is 578 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 2: one situation in your life right now that God is 579 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 2: trying to use. And by addressing this situation, I promise 580 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 2: you it's gonna change the whole system because up until 581 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 2: this point, you've been trying trying. I'm trying to love God. 582 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,240 Speaker 2: I'm trying to bring more. I'm trying to read my Bible. 583 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 2: I'm trying to eat my broccoli. I'm trying to be 584 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 2: a nice person. I'm trying to be kinder. I'm trying 585 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 2: to do better. And God said, I see you trying. 586 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 2: Will you trust me? Will you trust me enough to 587 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 2: get up when you feel like you can't get up 588 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 2: to praise me when you don't feel like you want 589 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 2: to praise me? Do you trust me enough? I know 590 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 2: you've been trying, but do you trust me? This is 591 00:34:53,440 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 2: a trust moment. This is a trust decision. Sometimes my 592 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:08,280 Speaker 2: trying gets in the way of my trusting. And this 593 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 2: man got up because he had been healed. And you 594 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 2: keep thinking that you will be healed if you can 595 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 2: get up, but you can't, and you're trying, and you're trying. 596 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 2: And here's what's so funny about the text to me. 597 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,879 Speaker 2: The man said, I'm trying, and Jesus said, so am. 598 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: I I'm trying to help you. I knew you couldn't 599 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: reach that water. 600 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 2: I knew you grew up in a really, really hard 601 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 2: environment and there was some abuse. And I know you're 602 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 2: trying to be a better man than your dad was, 603 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 2: or I know that you're trying to be a better 604 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,359 Speaker 2: mom than your mom was, or I know you're trying 605 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 2: to figure things out when the complexities are greater than 606 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 2: anything you've ever seen. I see you trying, trying, since 607 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,320 Speaker 2: you can't get to the water. I brought water to you. 608 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 2: And what it does when you get up and you 609 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 2: do what you didn't think you could do. 610 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,839 Speaker 1: It shocks the system. 611 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 2: God said, some of you who have been lying in 612 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 2: your condition for thirty eight years, I brought you to 613 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,479 Speaker 2: church today, not so you could just sing a few 614 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 2: songs or hear a few words. 615 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: But I want to shock the system. I want to 616 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,120 Speaker 1: stir up the waters. I want to heal. Watch this 617 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:44,400 Speaker 1: your will. You've lost your will. 618 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 2: You've lost your will to be sweet, You've lost your 619 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 2: will to be forgiving, You've lost your will. 620 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: To be whole. 621 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 2: You don't even want that anymore because you tried to 622 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,879 Speaker 2: want it. And it hurts to have hope, especially when 623 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 2: you're disappointed, especially when something gets in your way, especially 624 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 2: when you keep pumping up against your own brokenness, especially 625 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 2: when it's rigged against you. And I want to help 626 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 2: you walk first. I need to help you want and 627 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 2: to want the right things again, for the right reasons, 628 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 2: to heal your desires. By the pool of Bodesda here 629 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 2: comes walk in living water. That's what he told the 630 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 2: Samaritan in John four. He said, within you will be 631 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 2: rivers of living water. So I know you can't get 632 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:46,759 Speaker 2: to the water. Let the water come to you. You 633 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,480 Speaker 2: will not receive certain things in your life from trying, 634 00:37:51,480 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 2: but only by trusting. Then we were at a pool 635 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,880 Speaker 2: seven or eight years ago, and Elijah wanted to swim, 636 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 2: and we went down there as a hotel pool and 637 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 2: it had that. 638 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: Pool smell, but we went in anyway. 639 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 2: We just he was, I guess at that point seven 640 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 2: years old, so I had to get some energy out. 641 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,960 Speaker 2: So we got into pool. As soon as we got in, 642 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 2: the doors busted open. The hotel manager said, hey, sir, 643 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 2: I advise you to get out of that pool. I said, why, 644 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 2: it's like the middle of the day. I'm like, stupid 645 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 2: hotel rules. You know, I'm not one to really like 646 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 2: stupid rules. I'm like, it's the middle of the day, 647 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 2: there's nobody here. I am a registered guest, and about 648 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 2: time I'm in the middle of my imaginary speech. I'm 649 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 2: usually nice externally. It's just what happens on the inside 650 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 2: that makes me go to hell. 651 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 1: But I said, I said. 652 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 2: About the time I was about to say what I 653 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 2: was about to say, He said, we just shocked it. 654 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,879 Speaker 2: I said, well, next time, we'll give you notice. 655 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,040 Speaker 1: Before we come. I don't want to shock your pool. 656 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 2: He said, no, he said, sometimes the water, you know, 657 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 2: once a week or something, has to have a treatment. 658 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 2: We call it shocking the pool because when the chlorine 659 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 2: combines with the I really don't want to tell you 660 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 2: all this that's in this pool. This is an hotel pool, 661 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 2: sir bacteria, sweat other fluids, pool fluids, hotel pool fluids. 662 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 1: So once a week we got to shock it. Once 663 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 1: a week. I come to church because sometimes my heart. 664 00:39:55,239 --> 00:40:03,040 Speaker 2: Gets mixed up with some substances, some contaminants, some disappointments. 665 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes this world pollutes me. 666 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,360 Speaker 2: So when I come to church, please understand, I'm coming 667 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:16,120 Speaker 2: to treat my disappointments because I need living water and 668 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 2: I don't want to die by the pool. So I 669 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 2: came to church. And I don't know if you came 670 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 2: to church for this reason. I don't really know why 671 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,359 Speaker 2: you came. But tell somebody, shock the waters. Jesus said, 672 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 2: I came down to the pool of Bethesta, not just 673 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,240 Speaker 2: to look around and go home and pray a nice prayer. 674 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,440 Speaker 2: But I came to this pool, this house of mercy, 675 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,640 Speaker 2: to shock the waters. And it just might be that 676 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,960 Speaker 2: God brought you here this week because you've been in 677 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 2: a state of disappointment. 678 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,399 Speaker 1: But God said, I'm about to shock the waters. I'm 679 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 1: about to stir it up. You don't have to wait 680 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:54,120 Speaker 1: for an angel. 681 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 2: You don't have to wait for somebody to get out 682 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 2: of your way. You don't have to wait for a 683 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:04,160 Speaker 2: situational proven and we beheld his glory, the fullness of. 684 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,400 Speaker 1: The Father, full of grace and truth. Living water is 685 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 1: in the house. Trust me, I'm trying to bless you. 686 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,759 Speaker 1: I hear the voice of the Lord. Trust me. 687 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 2: I'm trying to help you raise those kids. Trust me, 688 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,000 Speaker 2: I'm trying. You say, well, well, God doesn't try to 689 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 2: do anything. He either does or he doesn't. Then why 690 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,400 Speaker 2: did Jesus go to Nazareth? And it says he couldn't 691 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:41,760 Speaker 2: do many miracles there? He tried to but they tripped. 692 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,080 Speaker 2: I believe there are many for whom this message is 693 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:52,279 Speaker 2: just another Bible message. I believe there are some and 694 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,920 Speaker 2: maybe even few, that this is a definitive word for 695 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,239 Speaker 2: your life. 696 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 1: You have been like that man. 697 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,480 Speaker 2: You have been paralyzed in an area of your life 698 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 2: for a long time. 699 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:05,480 Speaker 1: And you've been trying. 700 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,360 Speaker 2: But you've been bitter for eight years over what the 701 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,280 Speaker 2: business partner did, and you keep trying. 702 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,400 Speaker 1: This is not about trying. This is about trust. 703 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,400 Speaker 2: You've been going back and forth and back and forth 704 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 2: and back and forth for so long, and today God 705 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,440 Speaker 2: is saying, let the water. 706 00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:35,280 Speaker 1: Come to you. Father. 707 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:41,120 Speaker 2: We declare this our sabbath where we rest from our 708 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:47,719 Speaker 2: labor and enter into your grace, with everyone standing and 709 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:52,879 Speaker 2: no one moving at every location. If this has been 710 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:57,960 Speaker 2: a season for you of frustration, a season of you 711 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 2: going to the pool over and over, and you've been 712 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:06,919 Speaker 2: blocked so many times now that quite honestly, you don't 713 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,120 Speaker 2: need just God to heal your legs, or to heal 714 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:15,480 Speaker 2: your bank account, or to just heal that one compulsive. 715 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,759 Speaker 1: Area in your life. 716 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,040 Speaker 2: But you need Jesus to do what he did for 717 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,439 Speaker 2: that unnamed man in John chapter five and heal your 718 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:28,840 Speaker 2: will and help you to want him again. The place 719 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:33,480 Speaker 2: to start is not pretending the man was healed partially 720 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:38,680 Speaker 2: because he was honest. I keep trying every time I 721 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:45,840 Speaker 2: try something someone, but there's a greater someone. 722 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:46,480 Speaker 1: There is a. 723 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,399 Speaker 2: Greater power than anything that you are struggling with that's 724 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 2: pulling against you. This takes faith to trust him, to 725 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,719 Speaker 2: really believe that He made you like he wants to 726 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,600 Speaker 2: make you as short as he wanted to make you. 727 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,520 Speaker 2: You grew up in as small or as big of 728 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,120 Speaker 2: a town as He wanted you to grow up in. 729 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 2: It takes trust, and all your life, God has been 730 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 2: trying to position. 731 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,080 Speaker 1: You all your life. 732 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,080 Speaker 2: God has been bringing things into alignment so that you 733 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 2: can serve his purpose. And now he's saying, trust me. 734 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,440 Speaker 2: If this has been your word today and there is 735 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,960 Speaker 2: an area of paralysis in your life, I want you 736 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,040 Speaker 2: with your head bowed, your eyes closed, and not looking around. 737 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:35,960 Speaker 2: You know, this man could have spent the rest of 738 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,360 Speaker 2: his life thirty eight more years talking about somebody else, 739 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,880 Speaker 2: somebody else, everybody else, somebody else. And sometimes that's what 740 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,799 Speaker 2: keeps us from getting what we need from God. Is 741 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,719 Speaker 2: somebody else. What will somebody else think? But when you 742 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,919 Speaker 2: come to the point where you've been trying long enough 743 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,440 Speaker 2: and you really just want to surrender to the mystery 744 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,799 Speaker 2: and give God everything that you are and everything that 745 00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,280 Speaker 2: you're not, you don't mind lifting up your hands. 746 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: So if this is your word, just lift up. 747 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 2: Your hands for living water in this moment and shock 748 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:04,840 Speaker 2: the waters. 749 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,920 Speaker 1: Shock the waters. Worship shocks the waters. 750 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 2: Worship stirs up the complacent heart. Worship realigns your affections 751 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,840 Speaker 2: and reconfigures your desires so that what you want is 752 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:19,279 Speaker 2: what God wants for you. 753 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:20,480 Speaker 1: Shock the waters. 754 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,920 Speaker 2: Today, you've gotten stagnant, you've gotten complacent. You started blaming 755 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,040 Speaker 2: everybody and everything, and this. 756 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,919 Speaker 1: Is not a time to try harder. It's a time 757 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:36,839 Speaker 1: to trust more to you and to say yes, I'll 758 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:43,600 Speaker 1: get up if you help me. I'm trying. Trust me. 759 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,720 Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to trust God, but I can't 760 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:51,160 Speaker 1: see him. 761 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,720 Speaker 2: I'm trying to trust God, but sometimes he feels far away. 762 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,120 Speaker 1: Why won't he speak to me? Why won't he help me? 763 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:04,240 Speaker 2: He says, I'm trying. I'm trying to show you my presence. 764 00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,520 Speaker 2: I'm trying to put people around you. I'm trying to 765 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,879 Speaker 2: help you. I'm here. You just are used to it. 766 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,200 Speaker 2: You're used to doing it alone, so you keep doing 767 00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,279 Speaker 2: it alone. You keep telling yourself this story. You keep 768 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,280 Speaker 2: living in this system. 769 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:26,080 Speaker 1: But trust me. 770 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,160 Speaker 3: Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Ferdick. 771 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,719 Speaker 3: Make sure you listen and follow along with Elevation with 772 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 3: Steven Ferdick on Amazon Music and don't forget. You can 773 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,800 Speaker 3: also just ask Alexa, Hey, Alexa, can you play Elevation 774 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 3: with Steven Ferdick on Amazon Music. Also with Amazon Music Unlimited, 775 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,480 Speaker 3: you can now listen to all your favorite music podcasts 776 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,800 Speaker 3: and audiobooks all on the Amazon Music app.