Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. When we were out on
Speaker 2: Elevation Nights this week, every night, I wanted to preach
Speaker 2: off of that song, same God and really share something
Speaker 2: from that. And the Lord kind of spoke to me
Speaker 2: on the last night. I said, duel when you get home.
Speaker 2: So I'm home. So we're going to do it today,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Think it's really going to be special for you. I
Speaker 1: believe that.
Speaker 2: Hey, on your way down to your seat, just high
Speaker 2: five or.
Speaker 3: Hug five people and tell them I'm glad you're here today.
Speaker 2: I'll be sharing. Thank you, team, Just sound fresh, never
Speaker 2: get tired. Those who wait on the Lord will renew
Speaker 2: their strength, mount up on wings like eagles. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much, thank you. I'm going to share from two
Speaker 2: scriptures today. The first one is from the New Testament.
Speaker 2: These just happened to be two of my favorite scriptures
Speaker 2: in Romans chapter eight. I really love this passage Romans
Speaker 2: eight twenty eight through thirty two, and then Exodus three
Speaker 2: thirteen through fifteen.
Speaker 1: These two scriptures go together really well. You'll see that.
Speaker 2: Romans chapter eight, verse twenty eight through thirty two and
Speaker 2: Exodus three thirteen through fifteen. And we know that in
Speaker 2: all things God works for the good of those who
Speaker 2: love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.
Speaker 1: For those God fore knew.
Speaker 2: He also predestined to be conformed to the image of
Speaker 2: his son, that he might be the first born among
Speaker 2: many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined he also called.
Speaker 2: Those he called, he also justified. Those he justified, he
Speaker 2: also glorified. What then, shall we say in response to
Speaker 2: these things? If God is for us? Yeah, trying to
Speaker 2: give me wound up early, not gonna work. I'm pacing
Speaker 2: myself today. Who can be against us? He who did
Speaker 2: not spare his own son, but gave him up for
Speaker 2: us all, how will he not also, along with him
Speaker 2: graciously give us all things. And as if that weren't enough,
Speaker 2: God gave us another scripture to consider. From Exodus three
Speaker 2: thirteen through fifteen. Moses said to God, suppose I go
Speaker 2: to the Israelites and say to them, the God of
Speaker 2: your fathers has sent me to you. And they asked
Speaker 2: me what is his name, Then what shall I tell them?
Speaker 2: God said to Moses, I am who I am. This
Speaker 2: is what you are to say to the Israelites. I
Speaker 2: am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses.
Speaker 2: God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord,
Speaker 2: the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
Speaker 2: God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. I'm calling
Speaker 2: on the God of Jacob. This is where we get
Speaker 2: it from.
Speaker 4: Is it the Bible?
Speaker 2: The God of Jacob has sent me to you. This
Speaker 2: is my name forever, the name you shall call me
Speaker 2: from generation to generation. And since today we sang to
Speaker 2: the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, the God
Speaker 2: of David, the God of Mary. I kind of want
Speaker 2: to take it one step further today, and I want
Speaker 2: to talk to you about.
Speaker 1: The God of Also, the God of Also.
Speaker 2: I never heard of that guy?
Speaker 1: Is he in Exodus four?
Speaker 2: No? No, I want to talk about the God of Also,
Speaker 2: the God who also said to Moses.
Speaker 1: Look at this in verse fifteen.
Speaker 2: The God who also said to Moses, say to the Israelites,
Speaker 2: the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
Speaker 2: the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has
Speaker 2: sent me to you. Now, God and Moses are having
Speaker 2: a conversation, and it's going back and forth. Moses is
Speaker 2: stuck on his own limitations, and God is trying to
Speaker 2: speak to Moses.
Speaker 1: About his power and his purpose.
Speaker 2: And this back and forth happens all throughout the third
Speaker 2: chapter of Exodus. I didn't give you all of it today,
Speaker 2: just for time's sake, but you can read it on
Speaker 2: your own time. You'll find Moses, really this is something
Speaker 2: I can't believe. I never saw this before. Moses didn't
Speaker 2: call on God. God called on Moses. So the song
Speaker 2: we were singing, if you weren't watching the worship said
Speaker 2: earlier we said, I'm calling on the God of Moses.
Speaker 1: But even that is powerful.
Speaker 2: If you get inside this thought with me for just
Speaker 2: a moment today, that before Moses ever called on God,
Speaker 2: God called on Moses. I believe God has called us all.
Speaker 2: I don't believe God just selects a special few to
Speaker 2: work for him and serve him.
Speaker 1: I believe that God calls us all.
Speaker 2: In particular ways at certain times, in accordance with his purpose.
Speaker 2: That's kind of why I read your romans eight, because
Speaker 2: I wanted you to get a picture that you don't
Speaker 2: have to lead a whole nation out of captivity to
Speaker 2: be called by God. You certainly don't have to be
Speaker 2: some preacher or some kind of amazing billionaire mogul to
Speaker 2: be called by God, or a singer to be called
Speaker 2: by God. You can be called by God and nobody
Speaker 2: else really know the calling He's put inside of you.
Speaker 1: He knows.
Speaker 2: The biggest comfort in my life is that God knew
Speaker 2: it all when he called me. I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 2: Even as I sent my oldest son off to college
Speaker 2: in a few weeks, I try to tell him that,
Speaker 2: you know, God knows it all. And so this next
Speaker 2: step that you're going to take in your life as
Speaker 2: you turn eighteen on Tuesday, it's going to involve things
Speaker 2: that you never saw coming. But God saw it all
Speaker 2: when he called you. Not just called you to do something,
Speaker 2: but when he called you into the earth, he fore knew.
Speaker 2: Go back to Roumins eight for a minute. Can we
Speaker 2: study that so good? Everybody always reads Romans eight twenty
Speaker 2: eight All things work together for the God.
Speaker 4: The other stuff is really good too.
Speaker 2: What comes after. I want to show you this too,
Speaker 2: is that all things work together for the good of
Speaker 2: those that love God and call according to His purpose.
Speaker 2: Not go to verse twenty nine for those God for
Speaker 2: new He also predestined to be conformed to the image
Speaker 2: of his son Ah. So God's calling is really about character.
Speaker 2: God's calling is less about what college you go to
Speaker 2: and more about who you're going to be when you
Speaker 2: get there.
Speaker 1: So tell somebody, God is calling you to be nicer.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people like I don't know
Speaker 2: what God's calling me to do. That's fine if you
Speaker 2: know what God's calling you to do. I don't know
Speaker 2: what God's called. He's calling you to be kind. He's
Speaker 2: calling you to apologize when you're wrong. He's calling you
Speaker 2: to be generous.
Speaker 4: Miamans are dying. Lord, He's calling you to be.
Speaker 2: More submitted and surrendered to the moment he's placed you in,
Speaker 2: and not so anxious about the future that you can't control.
Speaker 4: He's calling out.
Speaker 2: There's somebody's shout, I'm called I'm called to be like Christ.
Speaker 2: So this whole sequence that the apostle Paul gives us,
Speaker 2: which is kind of demonstrated in the Life of Moses.
Speaker 2: Not kind of demonstrated, it's totally demonstrated in the Life
Speaker 2: of Moses. It tells me verse twenty nine that God
Speaker 2: knew you when he called you, and he called all
Speaker 2: of you. God knew you when he called you, and
Speaker 2: he called all of you away with a half hearted
Speaker 2: commitment to a God who called all of me and
Speaker 2: gave all of himself so that I could be saved
Speaker 2: and redeemed and conformed to the image of his son.
Speaker 2: For those God fore knew, he also predestined to be
Speaker 2: conformed to the image of his son, that he might
Speaker 2: be the firstborn among many brothers. That's talking about Jesus
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. I said brothers because the King James says,
Speaker 2: the firstborn among many brethren. I got kind of hung
Speaker 2: up there. Forgive me when my vouse house. But it
Speaker 2: says that those he predestined. He also called it's about
Speaker 2: to get good.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling you, man, your neighbor.
Speaker 2: Better watch out because you might start praising God when
Speaker 2: I show you this.
Speaker 1: Somebody watching this in your apartment. They're about to call
Speaker 1: the cops when they was happening. I think it is
Speaker 1: a crime scene.
Speaker 2: Ah, but it's an amazing chain of events, it says
Speaker 2: those he predestined. He also called and here's where I
Speaker 2: want to spend a moment with you that those he
Speaker 2: called he also justify because here's what happens. Right, Like
Speaker 2: God called you to do something. God called you to
Speaker 2: be something. God called you to move into a certain,
Speaker 2: I don't know, a certain new position that he put
Speaker 2: you in.
Speaker 4: God called you.
Speaker 1: To raise a family.
Speaker 2: God called you to glorify Him in a difficult situation.
Speaker 2: No matter what the situation we would name, God gives
Speaker 2: a revelation in every situation of who he is, and
Speaker 2: it is changeless, but it is ever expanding in our
Speaker 2: consciousness because we will never know all there is to
Speaker 2: know of God. So the first thing we have to
Speaker 2: understand when we come to God is we must not
Speaker 2: box him in with our broken understanding of who he
Speaker 2: is or our limited language. That's why when Moses said,
Speaker 2: who do I tell them has called me?
Speaker 1: He said, I am well.
Speaker 2: That leaves a lot of room, right, because you are
Speaker 2: going to need God to be a lot of different
Speaker 2: things in your life at a lot of different times.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you might find yourself in a wilderness and you
Speaker 2: might need water for your soul.
Speaker 1: He will be what he will be, living water.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you might need guidance from God, and it might
Speaker 2: be dark, so you need a pillar.
Speaker 1: Of fire to guide you. And God will light up
Speaker 1: the sky to show you your next step.
Speaker 2: No, he won't show you the next ten years, because
Speaker 2: then you would think you didn't need him, and you
Speaker 2: would dismiss him from his role in your life, and
Speaker 2: you would start living by reason rather than revelation. So
Speaker 2: he'll show you by fire at night enough to take
Speaker 2: your next step. And that's really all you ever need.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if it gets too hot
Speaker 2: in the day, he'll take the fire down, and he'll
Speaker 2: put the cloud out on the day shift, and he'll
Speaker 2: guide you by a cloud cover in the daytime, so
Speaker 2: that the sun will not harm you by day, nor
Speaker 2: the moon at night. He will preserve your soul forevermore.
Speaker 2: He is God, and he'll go with you into every
Speaker 2: season of your life. That's why he said, I am God.
Speaker 2: Does not have many identities. He only has one identity,
Speaker 2: but he has infinite expressions. So you will never exhaust
Speaker 2: God by your own human knowledge that not only includes
Speaker 2: the nature of God, but it includes the nature of you.
Speaker 2: What I love about God's conversation with Moses, by the
Speaker 2: way it is so good to be preaching here today.
Speaker 1: I love preaching God's word to you. I mean that
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it, and you know I love I love
Speaker 2: being able to talk through things with you that seem
Speaker 2: simple on the surface, but really if you dig down deep,
Speaker 2: they're very complex. Because when Moses is called by God,
Speaker 2: he doesn't immediately agree with what God says about him.
Speaker 2: It takes time for that to happen. One of the
Speaker 2: things that I'm realizing about each and every human being
Speaker 2: that I speak to is that your potential is a mystery,
Speaker 2: not to God but to you and to all of
Speaker 2: us who are watching you. Your potential is a mystery.
Speaker 2: It is a mystery that will be revealed. With maturity
Speaker 2: or that you decide to grow into and go forward
Speaker 2: in what God speaks to you, the more we will
Speaker 2: see what was there all along. This is why it's
Speaker 2: very important that you never limit God by speaking about
Speaker 2: your potential from the point of view of your past.
Speaker 2: Moses was a great man of God. He went on
Speaker 2: to be one of the greatest leaders that the nation
Speaker 2: ever knew.
Speaker 1: But he was also.
Speaker 2: Everybody say, also, JJ, you're so quick, I should put
Speaker 2: you on my staff. He was also a murderer. Moses
Speaker 2: had a great passion to lead God's people, but he
Speaker 2: also had a past, and that's why I thought he
Speaker 2: was a good example for us to talk about the
Speaker 2: God of Also because Moses was born as a Hebrew,
Speaker 2: but he was also raised.
Speaker 1: As an Egyptian.
Speaker 2: He was called to lead people forward, but he was
Speaker 2: living in Midian in the mistakes of his past. Have
Speaker 2: you ever been called to something but caught in something
Speaker 2: at the same time, Like, I know God is calling
Speaker 2: me forward, I know God is speaking to me about
Speaker 2: my future, but I'm also caught in something. So I
Speaker 2: believe all of that that all things work together for
Speaker 2: the good. I believe all of that that God has
Speaker 2: a purpose for me. I believe all of that that
Speaker 2: God is great and he can be anything. I'm called
Speaker 2: to this, but I'm caught in that. Beautiful thing about
Speaker 2: it is God knows exactly what he called you to,
Speaker 2: and he knows exactly what you're caught in. And God
Speaker 2: knew what you would be caught in when he called
Speaker 2: you to what he called you to. All the people
Speaker 2: that have some funky stuff in your life right now,
Speaker 2: make some noise and praise God.
Speaker 4: That he knew what I'd be caught up in.
Speaker 2: He called you up even as he saw you caught
Speaker 2: up in the things that you're walking.
Speaker 4: Through in your life right now.
Speaker 2: So the truth of it is, you're here today and
Speaker 2: you're praising God because I am forgiven and you are forgiven.
Speaker 2: But it is also true that you may be frustrated
Speaker 2: that although you are forgiven of certain things, you are
Speaker 2: not free of those things yet. So I'm forgiven, but
Speaker 2: I'm also I'll preach to you, lady, I'm forgiven.
Speaker 1: She's real.
Speaker 2: I like her.
Speaker 4: I'm forgiven, but.
Speaker 2: I'm also frustrated because although I'm forgiven completely by Christ,
Speaker 2: and I know that's done, and he knows that i'm his,
Speaker 2: and he knows what he's called me to, he knows
Speaker 2: what he's called me to, but I don't.
Speaker 4: So I'm frustrated because I'm forgiven, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: Completely free yet.
Speaker 2: So God says Moses, I'm sending you to do a
Speaker 2: big work, and I'm sending you in my name, and
Speaker 2: I'm sending you because I've.
Speaker 1: Called you and I chose you.
Speaker 2: And Moses says, suppose I go and they say, what
Speaker 2: is his name? What do I tell him? And God said,
Speaker 2: won't you tell him?
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 2: And then in verse five teen comes to thing that
Speaker 2: touched me the most, where as Moses is going back
Speaker 2: and forth with God about what he's not, I mean,
Speaker 2: he gives God a whole list, a whole list of
Speaker 2: his limitations. I'm not a good speaker, and you want
Speaker 2: me to talk. I'm a murderer and you want me
Speaker 2: to go back. I'm a fugitive and you want me
Speaker 2: to go back to the place where I'm wanted. He
Speaker 2: gives him a whole list of what he can't do,
Speaker 2: like we all do. I wish I could read your
Speaker 2: list out loud right now, just to see how you'd
Speaker 2: feel about it. If we read your list, list of
Speaker 2: limitations and list of labels, and Moses says it all.
Speaker 2: What got me was the beginning of verse fifteen, where
Speaker 2: it said that God also said to Moses, who do
Speaker 2: I tell them?
Speaker 1: Sent me God? And God also said.
Speaker 2: To Moses, now that in his self is powerful because
Speaker 2: he gives his name the God of your fathers, the
Speaker 2: God of Read him out.
Speaker 1: Loud with me, please, Abraham, Isaac Israel.
Speaker 2: Read them again, y'all. Get it right, Get it right
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 1: It's on the screen.
Speaker 4: The God of your father's the God of Abraham Isaac.
Speaker 1: And is why y'all keep saying Jacob.
Speaker 4: Jacob was his old name.
Speaker 2: In the Old Testament, there was a man named Jacob,
Speaker 2: and his name meant deceiver because he was tricky, and
Speaker 2: so they named him after his behavior.
Speaker 1: He was tricky.
Speaker 2: But God changed his name and he called him Israel.
Speaker 2: That's what the whole nation that Moses is being called.
Speaker 2: This is hundreds of years later. Now Moses is being
Speaker 2: called as a continuation of what God started hundreds of
Speaker 2: years earlier. And God says, go back and tell him
Speaker 2: and remind him. This is a continuation. This is a
Speaker 2: generational thing.
Speaker 4: God didn't just.
Speaker 2: Get started when you got born. You're calling is a
Speaker 2: continuation of something much greater. I need you to believe
Speaker 2: that it's not just about you. It's not just about you.
Speaker 1: So he said, I love it, the.
Speaker 2: God of Let's try more time, the God of Abraham.
Speaker 4: Isaac.
Speaker 5: And no, he said, Jacob, that's the revelation, because you
Speaker 5: would expect for God when he was identifying himself, to
Speaker 5: identify with Israel, which.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean deceiver, it means prince. So if God who
Speaker 2: is all powerful, is identifying himself with someone he should
Speaker 2: identify himself with, Israel the prince, but he didn't.
Speaker 4: Why would God, who is mighty? Why would God, who
Speaker 4: is high and lifted up?
Speaker 2: Why would God who is all encompassing?
Speaker 4: Why is God, who is perfect?
Speaker 2: Why is God who is holy stooping down to.
Speaker 4: Call himself the God of Jacob? Maybe he wants you
Speaker 4: to know that he.
Speaker 2: Doesn't just want to be your God when you're living
Speaker 2: like a prince.
Speaker 4: Maybe he wants you to know that he is also,
Speaker 4: be brief, that he is also somebody's out also.
Speaker 5: Yes, So he is God when I've got it together,
Speaker 5: but he is.
Speaker 4: God when I don't.
Speaker 2: He is God when I feel his presence, but he
Speaker 2: is God when I don't feel a goose mump at all.
Speaker 2: So I will brace him when I feel his presence,
Speaker 2: but I will brace him when I don't feel his presence.
Speaker 4: I'll do it when I feel it, but I will
Speaker 4: also do it when I don't.
Speaker 5: Because he's no less worthy, he's still surely, he's no
Speaker 5: less capable.
Speaker 4: He's no God.
Speaker 2: He's all God.
Speaker 4: He's water, he's fire, He's cloud by day and fire
Speaker 4: by night.
Speaker 6: Hot fight as many people as you can read and say, He's.
Speaker 4: All that, He's all that. The Great I Am is
Speaker 4: all that.
Speaker 2: He's all that, He's all that.
Speaker 4: Goot see for you.
Speaker 1: He also predestined.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you a secret?
Speaker 2: You really didn't choose to come to church today, You
Speaker 2: were predestined to be here.
Speaker 4: Can I tell you a secret?
Speaker 2: Your YouTube algorithm did not recommend this video. The Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit of God served it in your feed because he
Speaker 2: needed it. Because where you're going, God is calling you
Speaker 2: out of something you're caught in.
Speaker 4: And I don't care what it is you're being caught in.
Speaker 5: You're still called, You're still chosen, You're still annoyed it.
Speaker 4: George still glad, George still favors. Nothing in the world
Speaker 4: can stop it. Come about the God of Abraham, the.
Speaker 2: God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Also.
Speaker 2: He said, come here, Moses, I'm your god too. Say
Speaker 2: your name out loud and we'll put it in the song.
Speaker 2: I'm calling on the God of I'll make some right. Now,
Speaker 2: give me a name.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need.
Speaker 2: Just one.
Speaker 1: Sounds like the Tower of Babbel in.
Speaker 4: Here, Hugo, we gotta do you go.
Speaker 2: So I'm calling on the God of you go.
Speaker 4: Give be with you wherever.
Speaker 2: I do on my best.
Speaker 4: See, I'm not just a preacher. I'm also a songwriter.
Speaker 1: I tell you some funny about God. Now listened.
Speaker 2: God is so God is so creative. God is so kind.
Speaker 2: God is so wise.
Speaker 1: God is so creative. God is so kind, God is
Speaker 1: so wise. Which one is he?
Speaker 2: He's creative, He's also kind, He's also wise. All of
Speaker 2: those things work.
Speaker 1: Together. Remember my first scripture for the good of those
Speaker 1: who love Him.
Speaker 2: I remember sitting in that airport in Charlotte, flying out
Speaker 2: to Nashville eighteen nineteen years ago. At the time, I
Speaker 2: wanted to write songs, and then God called us to
Speaker 2: start the church way earlier than I thought we were
Speaker 2: gonna start it. I thought I would start this church
Speaker 2: when I was about forty five, So that would be
Speaker 2: two years from now we'd be having our launch service.
Speaker 2: Oh by the way, just like it says God for new,
Speaker 2: you don't for new. You don't even know how long
Speaker 2: it's gonna take you to get to work, and you
Speaker 2: drive in the same.
Speaker 1: Traffic every day and you're still late. Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: how much.
Speaker 5: We don't know.
Speaker 2: So I remember sitting in the airport, flying out the
Speaker 2: Nashville for at songwriting employment, and I was gonna give
Speaker 2: God my songwriting dreams and lay them on the altar
Speaker 2: like Isaac, Like Abraham, late Isaac, I was. I remember
Speaker 2: praying's really dramatic prayer about it too. I'm like, Lord,
Speaker 2: you know the dreams that I have, but you know
Speaker 2: the plans that you have for me in the course
Speaker 2: with Jeremiah twenty nine eleven implance forst me, not the harmony,
Speaker 2: give me open a future. So I just lay my
Speaker 2: Eaac on the altar like Abraham late Ice.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 2: It was so deep, right, because sometimes we want to
Speaker 2: use these epic stories. Abraham was about to kill his kid,
Speaker 2: and all I was doing was saying, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put the songwriting thing aside and be a pastor
Speaker 2: and start a church, because I believe this is what
Speaker 2: God is calling me to do. And I did think
Speaker 2: he was calling me, so I remember telling him, telling God,
Speaker 2: flying out from Charlotte to Nashville, all right, I'll giving
Speaker 2: it to you, God, I guess I'll just give you
Speaker 2: this dream of writing songs, worship songs. When we were
Speaker 2: standing in Nashville for Elevation Nights Friday, singing songs that
Speaker 2: came out of our church, this church. I literally laughed
Speaker 2: at how I thought I was giving something to God.
Speaker 4: You gotta get the picture.
Speaker 2: I can't tell if you're getting what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: I thought I was giving God something. Okay, I won't
Speaker 2: be a songwriter. I'll just be a pastor. Here's Isaac,
Speaker 2: and God's like cool. Go preach my word. Go reach
Speaker 2: the city. I've called you to reach for Jesus, and
Speaker 2: when you do that, I will.
Speaker 1: Here's your word. Here's the word for the week. Watch
Speaker 1: for the also, watch for the also.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the also that God will give you what he'll
Speaker 2: throw in for free will be bigger than the thing
Speaker 2: that you came seeking. I love Matthew six thirty three.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it in my bones. I love how it says,
Speaker 2: seek first the Kingdom, and all these things will be
Speaker 2: given to you. Like God is rich, so he could
Speaker 2: just give you stuff thrown in if you seek him.
Speaker 2: But if you seek stuff, you miss him and you're
Speaker 2: left with nothing.
Speaker 1: So we call on God. We don't call on things.
Speaker 1: We call on God. He's our source. We depend on God.
Speaker 1: We trust in God. And he also also also, you.
Speaker 2: Can't get so worried about the way you thought things
Speaker 2: were supposed to happen, because all things.
Speaker 1: Work together.
Speaker 2: For the good.
Speaker 1: Of those who are called according to His purpose.
Speaker 2: It's about the purpose of God, not just your preferences
Speaker 2: in any given moment. It's about the purpose of God,
Speaker 2: not just your plan according to your limited knowledge. And
Speaker 2: God said that someone needed to hear this message today
Speaker 2: because you are so caught up.
Speaker 1: In what you thought your life would.
Speaker 2: Be at this moment, like Moses, that you need to
Speaker 2: meet the God of also this morning. He knows what
Speaker 2: you're not. But the thing about God, who knows what
Speaker 2: you're not? Because you can't put in what God left out?
Speaker 2: How many times I've told God's stuff I needed to
Speaker 2: do the assignment that he gave me, and He didn't
Speaker 2: add any additional equipment to it. It like He just
Speaker 2: loved me to strengthen what I do have. Well, God
Speaker 2: knows all of that. But not only does he know
Speaker 2: what you're not, he knows what you are also that
Speaker 2: you haven't discovered yet. Now this is kind of deep.
Speaker 2: Can I give you a seminar point?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: All self development is really self discovery. I don't believe
Speaker 2: in self development. I believe I believe in the Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit's development in my life.
Speaker 1: Well, the Holy Spirit wants you to work on your self.
Speaker 2: One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self control.
Speaker 1: That's ingulations. I love the way we justify stuff, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So we want to find out not only what have
Speaker 2: I known myself to be at this stage in my life,
Speaker 2: but what am I also that God knows that I
Speaker 2: don't remember? It says those he for knew, he also predestined.
Speaker 2: Those he predestined he also called, and those he called
Speaker 2: he also justified. Y'all need to see it again on
Speaker 2: the screen. I can tell put it back up on
Speaker 2: Romans eight. I am not gonna skim over this. It's
Speaker 2: too life changing, it's too rich. Sometimes I just skim
Speaker 2: over stuff and it doesn't get down deep. And I'm
Speaker 2: not going to do it today. Because the Holy Spirit
Speaker 2: wants you to hear this, he said Verse thirty. Those
Speaker 2: he predestined, he also called, those he called he also justified.
Speaker 1: So here's what it is.
Speaker 2: He predestined you according to his purpose for you. He
Speaker 2: created you before he called you it stands the reason
Speaker 2: that he would have created you to be exactly factly
Speaker 2: what he needed you to be for what he would
Speaker 2: call you to do. So all of the arguments that
Speaker 2: you give yourself about how you're not what you need
Speaker 2: to be are wrong because you are called by a
Speaker 2: God who created you. He would not have created you
Speaker 2: to be less than or different than what he would
Speaker 2: call you to be in another.
Speaker 1: Season of your life. So come up, Abby.
Speaker 2: So I'm calling Abby to the stage right now. I
Speaker 2: am calling Abby, my daughter, to the stage for a purpose.
Speaker 2: I wanted to call her to the stage because I
Speaker 2: wanted to use her for a purpose. She is wearing
Speaker 2: a shirt that if you zoom in on the camera,
Speaker 2: it says I'm calling on the God of Jacob, Moses, Mary,
Speaker 2: your Verse, and David. All of that is on her shirt.
Speaker 2: What a coincidence. Nope, that must be God. She was
Speaker 2: at the right place on the front row. Look how
Speaker 2: great that worked out. It's almost like I told her
Speaker 2: to wear it. It's almost like I had a purpose
Speaker 2: for preaching.
Speaker 4: And so when I told her, I need you to
Speaker 4: wear that purple shirt.
Speaker 2: That says I'm calling on the God of Jacob and
Speaker 2: Moses and Mary and David. It's almost like I predestined
Speaker 2: her for this purpose, for this moment.
Speaker 4: So watch this.
Speaker 2: Of all the people in this room, there are only
Speaker 2: three that I had a part in creating, a small part,
Speaker 2: the fun part. So let's follow the secrets. Don't put
Speaker 2: that do.
Speaker 8: Created? Called created? Called predestined purpose? So what is God
Speaker 8: calling you into right now?
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it make.
Speaker 2: Sense for you to stop being so doubtful and stop
Speaker 2: second guessing his sovereignty and stop telling him excuses.
Speaker 9: And just come on up and do and be what
Speaker 9: you were created to be, believing that if he called me,
Speaker 9: that he created me.
Speaker 4: And position me for the purpose that he predestined me for.
Speaker 2: All I'm trying to say is that the God who
Speaker 2: called you also created you.
Speaker 4: So if you don't have it, take it up with him.
Speaker 4: He must not want it from you.
Speaker 2: That's why he created other people. That's why comparison is
Speaker 2: a thief.
Speaker 4: And a liar and a drug that we take to
Speaker 4: talk ourselves down from our heart calling.
Speaker 2: Because I didn't call Graham for this illustration, I didn't
Speaker 2: call Elijah for this illustration. They are bigger in stature,
Speaker 2: but she was better for this purpose because I put
Speaker 2: her in what she needed for this moment, and I
Speaker 2: want to preach and prophesy to somebody. God knew what
Speaker 2: he would need you to do before you ever got
Speaker 2: to this people planet. Why you screaming, preacher, Because God
Speaker 2: gave me breadth for this message for somebody to know,
Speaker 2: to get as breadth.
Speaker 4: In your loves or this assignment.
Speaker 2: The God of Jacob, that deceiver, the God of Moses,
Speaker 2: that murderer, the God of Mary, a virgin to have
Speaker 2: the baby Jesus, a peasant to give birth to the
Speaker 2: pre eminent word.
Speaker 4: Of God, the God of David, the eighth Son. Oh,
Speaker 4: God just gave me this as it is.
Speaker 2: When the prophet came to anoint the next king, Jesse
Speaker 2: lined up sons.
Speaker 1: That he thought were the right choice.
Speaker 2: Samuel said, none of these are the right ones.
Speaker 1: Don't you have any more? And Jesse said, well there
Speaker 1: is also.
Speaker 6: So yeah he's the God of Jacob, and yeah he's
Speaker 6: the God of Moses, and yeah he's the God of Mary,
Speaker 6: and yeah he's the God of David. But he's also
Speaker 6: the God of Abbey.
Speaker 2: I find somebody says, my God too, he's my king too,
Speaker 2: He's my savior too.
Speaker 4: He's my shepherd too. The Lord is my shepherd. I
Speaker 4: shall not watch. He's the God of the mountains, but
Speaker 4: he's also the shade of the valley.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 4: Don't care where you find your some lately he feel this,
Speaker 4: I feel this.
Speaker 2: And what if everything you've gone through, thank you, baby,
Speaker 2: You'll give her a hand.
Speaker 4: What if everything that God has allowed.
Speaker 2: Your life to be up until this point is preparation
Speaker 2: for what you are predestined for. What if your name
Speaker 2: belongs on that shirt too? What if we put your
Speaker 2: name on that shirt to just believing what Romans eight
Speaker 2: twenty eight says that all things, all things.
Speaker 10: Good things, bad things, everything in between, all things work together,
Speaker 10: all things work together, good things, bad things, everything in between.
Speaker 1: All right, work on later. I'll try it out.
Speaker 2: What if.
Speaker 4: What if the things in your life that are happening
Speaker 4: are not random?
Speaker 2: You ever wonder so when they say you're sending your
Speaker 2: kid to college, is in college a waste of money?
Speaker 2: I'm like, not not really, Because you can go to
Speaker 2: college and God can use you. You can also not
Speaker 2: go to college and God can use you. He's the
Speaker 2: god of also open doors, closed doors, PhDs and.
Speaker 1: Post hold diggers PhD post hold Digger.
Speaker 2: So I'm asking you something, and I'm really wanting to
Speaker 2: know what you think about it, because I don't thinking
Speaker 2: about a lot. All right, Let's say you made a
Speaker 2: mistake and you went down the wrong path. Can God
Speaker 2: stop not be down the wrong path?
Speaker 1: Also?
Speaker 2: If the answer to that is note, then what was
Speaker 2: he doing looking for Peter after his resurrection? When Peter
Speaker 2: went back fishing after denying him, he was right there.
Speaker 2: He appeared to the disciples who waited for him. But
Speaker 2: he also appeared to Thomas, who didn't believe. I think
Speaker 2: we shouldn't box got in to think that He's only
Speaker 2: as big as our good decisions? Who did that?
Speaker 1: Just set free?
Speaker 2: Now? When I went to college, I was paralyzed by
Speaker 2: the idea, what if I'm at the wrong college. What
Speaker 2: if I'm at the wrong college. What if I'm at
Speaker 2: the wrong college. Well, I did my four years. I
Speaker 2: got my degree. Let me tell you what else I
Speaker 2: got in college. You ever heard of Holly? You ever
Speaker 2: heard of Holly? I got her in college? Which one
Speaker 2: you think I enjoy more?
Speaker 1: The degree?
Speaker 2: The thing that I came to achieve and accomplish, or
Speaker 2: what I got also.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Watch for God in the also, almost like you know
Speaker 2: when your kids come and they're being real nice to you,
Speaker 2: How was your day? Can I do anything for you? Dad?
Speaker 2: I'm praying for you as you approach this sermon. I
Speaker 2: just know that the Lord is going to move in
Speaker 2: power like he does. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: He's a waymaker God, and I'm just like, get to it.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you didn't come to tell me these things,
Speaker 2: but what did you also come in this room for
Speaker 2: to ask me about? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just want to know can I have your old phone?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 2: That's it, that's what you came in here for. He
Speaker 2: came in so excited about the wrestling yesterday. I said,
Speaker 2: tell me that, Oh it is great. It was great,
Speaker 2: I said, And what else he said? Well, I was
Speaker 2: just wondering that old phone. That. Yeah, that's to Also,
Speaker 2: God is kind of like that too. You got to
Speaker 2: watch him for the also, for we know that in
Speaker 2: all things God works for the good of those who
Speaker 2: love him and are called according to his purpose. But
Speaker 2: Roman's eight twenty nine also says that those he for
Speaker 2: knew me also predestined to be conformed to the image
Speaker 2: of his son. What are the things that you're going through?
Speaker 1: Are all so that you can be more like Jesus?
Speaker 2: And we don't say that it's good when you go
Speaker 2: through suffering, But what if you adopted a view of
Speaker 2: your life that said, this is all so that God
Speaker 2: can make me more like his son Jesus. You would
Speaker 2: be undefeedable by the devil because what is he going
Speaker 2: to bring against you? If it's all so that you
Speaker 2: can be more like God who is for you?
Speaker 4: So what can he do?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: That's what I.
Speaker 2: Think Paul got to because he goes down this chain
Speaker 2: twenty nine again. Please, he also predestined to be conformed
Speaker 2: to the image of his son, so he knew that
Speaker 2: Moses would have this hesitation.
Speaker 7: But he shows Moses because he knows Moses. He knows
Speaker 7: what Moses is not. He knows what Moses was. He
Speaker 7: knows what Moses will be. He knows what I'm not.
Speaker 7: He knows what I was, he knows what I will be.
Speaker 1: Say all of that.
Speaker 4: He knows what I'm not.
Speaker 2: He knows what I was, he knows what I will be.
Speaker 2: God is the only one who knows all three of those.
Speaker 2: Because some of us we don't even know what we're
Speaker 2: not yet, So we are trying so hard to be
Speaker 2: something in somebody we were not created to be.
Speaker 1: That it is killing us.
Speaker 2: But we could get content if we just go, God,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm not, Show me what i'm not.
Speaker 2: You know what I was, So you see where I've been.
Speaker 2: You've marked out my steps, and you are the only
Speaker 2: one who knows what I will be. So those he predestined,
Speaker 2: he also was to say that he might be the
Speaker 2: firstborn among many brothers and sisters next verse, and those
Speaker 2: he predestined he also called.
Speaker 4: Those he called he also justified. That's talking about the cross.
Speaker 2: That means he made you right, So you can't be
Speaker 2: the wrong one for it, because he made.
Speaker 4: You right for it. He can't.
Speaker 2: He would not call you to. He cannot call you
Speaker 2: to something that he did not create you for. So
Speaker 2: those he called he also justified. That's how I know
Speaker 2: I have what it takes. And those he justified he
Speaker 2: also glorified. Look at all these alsos in the Bible.
Speaker 2: Look at the God of Also, Look how he doesn't
Speaker 2: just set you on your path and say, well, I've
Speaker 2: saved you and I'm forgiven you now It's up to
Speaker 2: you to work it out.
Speaker 1: In your life.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: The God who saves will also sustain. I hear you, Lord,
Speaker 4: he who began a good work.
Speaker 2: In you will also be faithful to complete it.
Speaker 1: Verse thirty one.
Speaker 2: What then shall we say in response to these things?
Speaker 2: We all stand like Moses, trying to respond to the
Speaker 2: revelation of what God is calling us to do next.
Speaker 1: But here is our power. If God.
Speaker 2: Is for us, who can be against us? And here's
Speaker 2: my verse I'm hanging on to in this season of
Speaker 2: my life, and you can feel free to borrow it.
Speaker 1: It's my verse, but you can hold it for a minute.
Speaker 2: I'm a lone you my verse, he who did not
Speaker 2: spare his own son, but gave him up for us. Oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: you get the same grace that Jacob God. You get
Speaker 2: the same grace that marry God. Y'all leave my scripture.
Speaker 2: Y'all keep taking it down, and I love it.
Speaker 1: Leave it. Oh, I like the server to come tries
Speaker 1: to grab your plate while.
Speaker 2: You're still eating your chicken fingers, like I will eat
Speaker 2: your fingers if you don't put my chicken back on
Speaker 2: this table. Leave my scripture up. He who did all that.
Speaker 2: If he did all of that for me, died for me,
Speaker 2: gave the son for me, how will he not also,
Speaker 2: along with him, graciously give us all things? Now?
Speaker 1: I read this first wrong.
Speaker 2: All week studying it, I thought it meant that he
Speaker 2: will also give me the blessings of life along with Jesus,
Speaker 2: who is the greatest blessing. I thought that meant like,
Speaker 2: I get Jesus and I get other things too. But
Speaker 2: that's not what the verse means. The verse actually means
Speaker 2: that he who gave us his son will give us
Speaker 2: freely also along with him all things. Was I mean?
Speaker 2: It means that God has decided to give me everything
Speaker 2: that Jesus rightfully earned through his life.
Speaker 1: Along with him.
Speaker 2: So if Jesus is loved by his father perfectly, I
Speaker 2: am also loved by my father perfectly. If Jesus can
Speaker 2: pray and his father hears him, I also can pray
Speaker 2: and my father hears me.
Speaker 1: If Jesus could break chains of oppression and he is.
Speaker 2: In me, then I also can expect chains to be broken.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to remind you, thank you. I'm done
Speaker 2: with the scripture. Now what God you're calling on today?
Speaker 2: The God of Jacob the trickster, the deceiver. Stop hiding
Speaker 2: from God when you're going through hard times. Stop hiding
Speaker 2: from God when you're feeling ashamed. Come to Him and
Speaker 2: thank him that there's no shame on Jesus, so there's
Speaker 2: no shame on me. I can see I need to
Speaker 2: teach this stuff a little more because I'm watching your eyes.
Speaker 2: You're going like, Wow, that's really true. Yeah, that's really true.
Speaker 2: You are also loved by God just like Jesus was.
Speaker 2: The Lord doesn't see any difference. He says he's the
Speaker 2: firstborn among many brothers and sisters. That means God accepts
Speaker 2: Jesus because Jesus paid the price, and because Jesus paid
Speaker 2: the price, he also accepts you.
Speaker 1: That's the craziest thing in the world to me, y'all.
Speaker 2: I just got a Jeep auple months ago, and I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying my Jeep. I had a Jeep when I was
Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty four around there, and I figured it
Speaker 2: was time, in this midlife crisis to revisit that youthful
Speaker 2: stallion energy. Get a Jeep. And I'm enjoying that jeep.
Speaker 2: But one of my friends said to me when I
Speaker 2: got it, they said, we need to teach you about
Speaker 2: the jeep wave. How many of y'all have heard about
Speaker 2: the jeep wave? Oh?
Speaker 1: I had never heard of it.
Speaker 2: Do you have a jeep? Well, if you ever passed me,
Speaker 2: I'll I'll try my best to wave at you. Do
Speaker 2: you do the jeep wave? It's just am I allowed
Speaker 2: to tell it? Or is it like Illuminati? If somebody
Speaker 2: gonna come get me Elon Zuckerberg? Who's coming to give me?
Speaker 2: If I say this?
Speaker 1: Go holl in On the god of e Ela yip.
Speaker 2: Anyway, they said, they said you gotta do the jeep wave,
Speaker 2: and I said, well, what is the jeep wave? And
Speaker 2: they said, it's very simple, but you really need to
Speaker 2: do it because it's a lot of fun. And at
Speaker 2: first I was kind of contrary into it because I
Speaker 2: didn't like somebody telling me how I had to wave
Speaker 2: at anybody else and said, if you pass another jeep,
Speaker 2: you do like just like that.
Speaker 1: That's all it is like that. So so I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's so stupid.
Speaker 2: Well, eventually it's it's it's kind of compelling, you know
Speaker 2: that you kind of just get into it and then
Speaker 2: you start to feel judgmental of everybody.
Speaker 1: Who's not in a.
Speaker 2: Jeep because they don't have a wave right, And so
Speaker 2: now I'm riding around and I do it every chance
Speaker 2: I get the jeep wave. And even now I've come
Speaker 2: to the point where if if you don't give me
Speaker 2: the jeep wave back, it kind of offends me, and
Speaker 2: it kind of makes me attempted to do another, a
Speaker 2: different kind of wave, a different kind of handmotion, just
Speaker 2: because now I'm into it, because I'm like, we're in
Speaker 2: this together, we the jeep people. We're supposed to stick together.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was thinking about that driving home
Speaker 2: with Abby. I said last week, I said, I got
Speaker 2: to put that in my sermon. But I don't want
Speaker 2: to talk about a jeep. I want to talk about
Speaker 2: how Jesus.
Speaker 11: Has given us all a gift that is common to us,
Speaker 11: but it is so specific to us, and our identity
Speaker 11: in Him is the most important thing about us. So
Speaker 11: anything you can say about yourself that is negative, you
Speaker 11: can also say something about yourself that will let the
Speaker 11: enemy know that the God who.
Speaker 2: Knows me the most loves me the most, and that's
Speaker 2: who I am, and that's.
Speaker 4: Who I am.
Speaker 2: So for those of you who walked in today, and
Speaker 2: you're like, why do they lift their hands in worship.
Speaker 2: That's kind of weird. No, that's our Jesus wave. That's
Speaker 2: our wave. That's our wave. That's us telling God, Oh God,
Speaker 2: my God, I need you. I can't make it without
Speaker 2: your grace. Now, I belong to Jesus, and Jesus belongs
Speaker 2: to me, and I am his.
Speaker 4: And he is mine.
Speaker 1: So stand up on your feet and just lift your hands.
Speaker 2: Right now, Let's do our Let's do our Jesus thing
Speaker 2: for a moment, and let's let the Lord know in
Speaker 2: his presence today that we.
Speaker 1: Are calling.
Speaker 2: On his name, the name of Jesus, his name through
Speaker 2: all generations, the Great. I am.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 2: I'm asking you today for everybody who has been caught up,
Speaker 2: that you would call them back into the reality of
Speaker 2: who you are, what you've spoken. Father, I thank you
Speaker 2: today that Jesus is our big brother, our savior, our
Speaker 2: true vine. I thank you that he is our bread
Speaker 2: of life. Today, as we stand in your presence, we
Speaker 2: receive all that you are more than enough for us.
Speaker 2: Can put your hands down for a moment. I want
Speaker 2: to pray a special prayer. There's someone in here who
Speaker 2: has never joined your life. To Jesus Christ. You have
Speaker 2: never given your life over to God. Maybe you've done
Speaker 2: it and you've wandered away, and God brought you back
Speaker 2: here today because he's calling you, he's drawing you, He's
Speaker 2: using everything in your life to bring you to this
Speaker 2: point so that you could reach for him. And he's
Speaker 2: not far. He'll be found. And if you call on
Speaker 2: his name today, the God of Jacob, the God of Moses,
Speaker 2: the God of Mary, the God of David, the God
Speaker 2: of Jesus, he will be your God too. All you
Speaker 2: have to do is call on his name. The Bible
Speaker 2: says that if we call on him, he will save us,
Speaker 2: that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
Speaker 2: will be saved. So right now we're all going to
Speaker 2: pray this prayer together as a church family for the
Speaker 2: benefit of those who.
Speaker 1: Are coming to God.
Speaker 2: I won't you repeat this prayer after me if you
Speaker 2: desire to place your faith in Jesus today, be saved
Speaker 2: from your sin and have a new beginning in him.
Speaker 2: Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I come to you. I
Speaker 2: am a sinner in need of a savior, and I
Speaker 2: believe that Jesus Christ is your son and the savior
Speaker 2: of the world. I believe he died to forgive my
Speaker 2: sin and rose again to give me life. I receive
Speaker 2: this new life. This is my new beginning. On the counter.
Speaker 2: Three raise your hand if you prayed that one, two,
Speaker 2: three must celebrate together. Bless you, Bless you absolutely amazing. God.
Speaker 2: Bless the third in the bast God. Bless you, God,
Speaker 2: Bless you.
Speaker 1: Best decision you'll ever made, the best decision.
Speaker 2: You'll ever make, the best decision you'll ever make. To
Speaker 2: call on his name. And you know what, never stopped
Speaker 2: calling his name. You don't just call him one time.
Speaker 2: You call him in your high moments. You call him
Speaker 2: in your low moments. You call on the God of
Speaker 2: also also Also. You give him praise when you're doing well,
Speaker 2: and you cry out to him with petitions when you're not.
Speaker 1: He is the God of Also.
Speaker 2: You trust him when you can see the next step.
Speaker 2: You trust him when you've stumbled down the whole staircase.
Speaker 1: He is the God of Also.
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