1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today. 5 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: All right, so. 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 3: Sit down and let's get into it today. 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit down with you. 8 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 3: We'll get into the sermon a little differently. I'm gonna 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 3: do it like if it was Jeopardy. Does anybody watch Jeopardy? 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 3: At my mom's house on Wednesday night? She cooks for 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: us and we watch We watch Jeopardy and then Wheel 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: of Fortune. But I'm more on that Wheel of Fortune 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 3: intelligence level. If I'm being honest with you, then the 14 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: Jeopardy intelligence level. That's that's true, and so Wheel of 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 3: Fortune is really our show. It's called Victuals, Vinyls, and Vanna. 16 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 3: I go over to my mom's she cooks victuals for us, 17 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 3: and then she picks out a vinyl. I got a 18 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 3: record player, so we'll listen to something like Creating's Clearwater 19 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 3: Revival or something safe, sanctified, sanctimonious like that. 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: And then and then we'll watch Vana White. Well, anyway, 21 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: that's not the point. 22 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do my sermon illustration like it's Jeopardy, and 23 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 3: not to put you on the spot, but just to 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 3: kind of get into the subject for today. And I 25 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 3: want you to play along if you're at home. Okay, 26 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say a description of like a Bible character. 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: We won't go along with this, and then you just say, 28 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 3: in the form of a question like they do on Jeopardy, 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 3: who is blank? 30 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: If you know? 31 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 3: If you don't know, it's okay, okay, put it online 32 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 3: if you do know it though, He was the one 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 3: who built an arc. 34 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: Who was Noah Good? And put it on that wheel 35 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: of fortune level for a minute? First? Okay? All right? 36 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 3: He was the one who stretched out his staff and 37 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 3: who is Moses? That's right, I'm not going to trick you, 38 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: but I am going to get harder. He was the 39 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 3: one who fought the Battle of Jericho and the walls 40 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 3: came Tom Blendown. 41 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: Who is Joshua Good? All right? 42 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: He was the one who took a rock a big old, 43 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 3: ugly nine foot giants stand in front of him. Hit 44 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 3: the giant with the rock had five, only needed one 45 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 3: because he had good aim. 46 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: Who is David? Okay? Now, the next one. I got 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: to read this one. 48 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 3: He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: to Judah after Amasi arrested with his ancestors. 50 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: You got that chat gpt out, didn't you? For that man? 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: That's right. I didn't know it either. We came across 52 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: it in our Bible reading. 53 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: I'm gonna by reading club with my oldest son and 54 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 3: Kelsey and beautiful Holifredic and we came across this passage. 55 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 3: We're reading through Second Kings, and I am going to 56 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: give you the answer. It's in Second Kings fourteen, twenty 57 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 3: one and twenty two, and it came across this phrase. 58 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: And I'm trying these. 59 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: Days to give you the sermon in the spirit that 60 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: I received it more and more so that means less 61 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 3: distance between how God speaks it to me and how 62 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 3: I speak it to you. And so I don't want 63 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 3: to dress it up too much where it loses its impact. 64 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 3: So for me, I was just reading the Book of 65 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 3: Second Kings can get kind of monotonous. It's got all 66 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 3: these bad kings. In the Northern Kingdom of Israel, there 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: wasn't one good one, and then in Judah the southern 68 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,119 Speaker 3: kingdom because it was a divided kingdom. There are eight 69 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: good kings, but there's like over twenty kings in all, 70 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 3: so it's mostly like going through and saying, this is 71 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 3: the king that reigned during this prophet's tenure as a prophet, 72 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 3: and he was a bad king, and he did some 73 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 3: things right and then he did some things horrible. 74 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: So you just kind of get in this mode reading 75 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: it just. 76 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 3: Day after day, chapter after chapter where you're just hoping, like, 77 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 3: maybe this guy will get it right because they keep 78 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 3: letting the nation worship idols. 79 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: And keep going stop worshiping the idols, worship God. 80 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 3: And then you wonder if, like maybe somebody would say 81 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 3: that about you if they watched your life too, So 82 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 3: you know, stop worshiping money, stop worshiping stuff, stop worshiping acceptance. 83 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: Stop anyway. 84 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 3: Maybe not you just me, okay, okay, okay, just me, 85 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 3: just me, okay, okay, okay. So we come across this 86 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 3: and this phrase stood out to me. I'm going to 87 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 3: give you two verses from Second Kings fourteen twenty one 88 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 3: and twenty two coming up on the screen right now. 89 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: Then all the people of Judah took Azariah. Azariah, who 90 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 3: was sixteen years old, and made him king in place 91 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: of his father Amaziah. He was the one who rebuilt 92 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 3: Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with 93 00:04:59,360 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: his ancestor. 94 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: So Y's play again. He was the one who rebuilt. 95 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 3: Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with 96 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 3: his ancestors. Who is verse twenty one Azarayah the kid 97 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: who became a king at sixteen years old? 98 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: Do any of you have teenagers? Have you been a teenager? 99 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: Can you imagine being a king at age sixteen? 100 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: And yet he was the one to do it. 101 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 3: And that's the title that I want to use for 102 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 3: the message today, a very simple thought. 103 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: He was the one. He was the one say that 104 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: out loud. 105 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,679 Speaker 3: He was the one and put it in the chats 106 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 3: for the comments if you're joining us online. 107 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: He was the one. 108 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 3: They didn't ask him, they didn't let him run for office. 109 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 3: He didn't get to decide if he had a career 110 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 3: in politics. The people, the Bible says, then all the 111 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 3: people of Judah verse twenty one took Azariah, who was 112 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 3: sixteen years old, and made him king in place of 113 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 3: his father Amasiah. 114 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: Amasiah. You know he did some dumb stuff. He did 115 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: some good stuff, he did some dumb stuff. 116 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 3: There's a motivational speaker who likes to say every life 117 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 3: is either a warning or an example. 118 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: Which one do you want your life to be. 119 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: I don't mean to argue with the motivational speaker, but 120 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 3: don't you think every life. 121 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: Is a warning and an example? At some points? It 122 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: depends on which part. 123 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 3: Of my life you're looking at, whether I'm a warning 124 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 3: or an example. It depends on what point in time 125 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 3: you judge it whether it would be a warning or 126 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 3: an example. We've all seen people whose examples that we 127 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: tried to follow until we found out that their example 128 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 3: that was being set was leading toward an end that 129 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 3: we couldn't have seen coming. And yet I'm grateful for 130 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 3: the grace of God because he uses it all. In 131 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 3: the case of Amaziah, the dad that you read about 132 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 3: in this passage, you know, he did some amazing stuff. 133 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 3: The Bible said he was the one who killed these 134 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: ten thousand Edomites and ran them off a cliff. He 135 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 3: did that to take back some land that God had 136 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,239 Speaker 3: given the people. Then he turned around and did something 137 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 3: so dumb. He attacked the king of Israel, who was 138 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 3: stronger than him, and the king of Israel tried to 139 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 3: warn him. He's like, yo, man, you're just a like 140 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: you're a thistle to me, that's what he said. And 141 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: he said, don't come and try to start this with me. 142 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 3: And he's like, I am not the one. You know. 143 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 3: I just said he was the one. He's like, I 144 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 3: am not the one you want to mess with. And 145 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: he was right, and he goes in and punishes him greatly. 146 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 3: So the people take that king Amaziah and they're like, 147 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 3: we're putting your son in your place, and he doesn't 148 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 3: really have a say in the matter. They begin to 149 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 3: rain together when Azariah is sixteen, and then after Amaziah 150 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 3: dies as Ariah takes the throne. 151 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: He was the one the. 152 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 3: Bible says, let's go back to that phrase again, because 153 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: this is where I want to focus. He was the 154 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 3: one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after 155 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: Amaziah his father rested with his ancestors. 156 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: So I was telling. 157 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 3: Holly after we read that chapter that day, I said, 158 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 3: that really spoke to me, how the Bible said he 159 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 3: was the one. And she's like, okay, and she actually 160 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 3: said this to me. She's like, I thought it was 161 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 3: the most boring chapter we've read in weeks. I didn't 162 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 3: get anything out of it, I said, but let me 163 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 3: tell you, and went for a walk, and I said, 164 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 3: it made me realize that when it's all said and done, 165 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 3: the summary of your life usually will be condensed to 166 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 3: a few things the end. And that's one of the 167 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 3: reasons why I really prioritize my family as a pastor, 168 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: because you can get another pastor, but Abby only gets one. 169 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: Dad thought you'd support me in that. I don't know that. 170 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: I don't care about you. 171 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 3: I just know that, either by choice or if it 172 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 3: was by coercion, I know you don't want another pastor. 173 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: You know, like that be a downgrade, right, But no, no, 174 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm kidding about that. 175 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 3: I mean, there's different people God we used to feed 176 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 3: you in different seasons, and I don't have any problem 177 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 3: if God uses somebody else in your life, but she 178 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 3: only gets one. In fact, I was remembering when I 179 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 3: read the phrase he was the one. Somebody say he 180 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 3: was the one. 181 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: He was the one. That's what I want to talk 182 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: to you about. 183 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 3: I was remembering when I went to a wrestling tournament 184 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 3: to watch Graham and he won the whole tournament, and 185 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 3: after the tournament was the first big tournament that he won. 186 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 3: This a few years ago, and he won, and I 187 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 3: almost didn't go to the tournament because I had to 188 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 3: schedule somebody else to preach for me to go. 189 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: To the tournament. And I looked at him after he won. 190 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 3: We're sitting at Pizza Hut where all great bookeet and 191 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 3: athletics celebrations happened, and I said, can you imagine if 192 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 3: you had won the whole tournament and I hadn't been here? 193 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 3: And he goes, but if you hadn't been here, I 194 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 3: probably wouldn't have won it. Remember that, and I miss 195 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 3: stuff that my kids do, just like you do all 196 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 3: the time. But it reminded me of something that even 197 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 3: if I'm stuck in this narrative in my life that 198 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: you know, I'm really no one special, I'm really no 199 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: one and I have no one, it's a lie if 200 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 3: I believe that that I am no one and that 201 00:10:58,760 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 3: I have no one. 202 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: So many of us do. I think that's the thing. 203 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 3: The devil just tries to get you to believe over 204 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 3: and over again in different ways, and he'll put evidence 205 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 3: in front of you. In thoughts inside of you to 206 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 3: try to convince you that I am no one. I 207 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 3: have no one those two things. Write those down because 208 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 3: I want you to be like a detective on the 209 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 3: devil this week. For when he says it to you, 210 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 3: you're like, oh, yeah, that's what the sermon was about, 211 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 3: because we all sometimes feel like I am no one, 212 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 3: nobody compared to that person, no one that really makes 213 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 3: a difference. 214 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, Pastor. 215 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 3: Steve, and you're preaching about a king in the Bible 216 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 3: who restored and rebuilt a city. 217 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: What does this have to do with me. 218 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get my kid to school one 219 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 3: time on time next week, Just one. 220 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: Time on time. That would be my Bible verse. He 221 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 1: was the one who got his kid to school one 222 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: time on time. 223 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 3: And if he can't tell you that y're no I want 224 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 3: to tell you have no one. So I said to Holly, 225 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 3: I said, that really touched me to know that the 226 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 3: Bible said he was the one. In fact, in Second Kings, 227 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: I knew I couldn't stay in that chair very long. 228 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 3: How long did I make it? Five minutes? In Second 229 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 3: Kings it goes three times. It says he was the 230 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 3: one and it talks about one certain king. He was 231 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 3: the one, and it talks about another certain king. He 232 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 3: was the one, and it talks about another certain king. 233 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: And at first you're reading. 234 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 3: This going, well, this has nothing to do with me, 235 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: because I'm not a king, and I'm not in charge 236 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 3: of military resources. Or they won't even trust me to 237 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 3: bring coffee because they know it'll be spilled by the 238 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 3: time I get there. I can't even get the coffee 239 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 3: order right. I'm not the one like that. 240 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: But I read it. 241 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 3: Over and over again, and I thought about Graham, and 242 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 3: I thought about my life, and I thought about the 243 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 3: things that God has called me to do, and I 244 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 3: thought about the people that God has called me a shepherd, 245 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 3: and I realized that we need to talk about He 246 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 3: was the one for all of those times in your 247 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 3: life where you feel like I am no one. 248 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: And I have no one. So what I said to Holly, 249 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: was this guy in the Bible. 250 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 3: There are three of them, I said, They list their accomplishments, 251 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 3: even though all three of them technically failed at turning 252 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 3: the nation around, But it still gives you this little 253 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 3: glimpse in there. He didn't get it all right, but 254 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 3: he was the one who did something right. 255 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: And I think we need to learn how to. 256 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 3: I don't want to say talk back to the devil, 257 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 3: because we probably better to talk to God. But just 258 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 3: can I say we need to defy the devil every 259 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 3: once in a while, to defy the devil when he says, 260 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 3: you know you're no one, because look how many followers 261 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 3: they have, Look how many friends they have, Look how 262 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 3: far along they are in their career. 263 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: Look how much money they have. You don't know how 264 00:13:58,679 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: much money they have. 265 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 3: Every bit of what they're wearing on their body might 266 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 3: be borrowed. You don't know if they paid for that 267 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 3: brand name in cash. 268 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: So you don't even know. 269 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 3: Oh I'm no one and I have no one. And 270 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 3: the Bible steaks up for this king Azariah, and it 271 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:26,359 Speaker 3: says he was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored 272 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: it to Judah. He rebuilt and he restored, He rebuilt 273 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 3: and he restored. He was the one. He didn't get 274 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 3: it all right, he didn't remove the high places where 275 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 3: they were worshiping the Canaanite gods. But he was the 276 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 3: one who rebuilt and restored. And I came to remind 277 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 3: somebody today, you are the one. See I can see 278 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 3: we need to talk about this because you're slow to 279 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: warm up to the idea because you've been in that 280 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 3: I'm no one, and you even think that's humble. 281 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: Right, you even think that's godly. I must decrease that 282 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: he may increase. 283 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: It does not increase God for you to shrink back 284 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 3: from what he called you to do. 285 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: Somebody say he was the one. He was the one. Yeah, yeah, And. 286 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 3: It's important that we know that because if you just 287 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 3: read about this, it's kind of like and his name 288 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: was Azariah. But I even studied about Azariah, and you 289 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 3: know what I found out what I'm playing fennis with 290 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 3: myself up here sometimes. 291 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: I found out that the king named Azariah, who I 292 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: thought I had never heard. 293 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 3: Of before, is the same guy called Yousiah that Isaiah 294 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 3: mentions in the famous throne. 295 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: Room scene in Isaiah chapter six. And I checked this out. 296 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 3: He was the prophet who prophesied to Azariah, whose name 297 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: was also Eusiah. Usiah was his throne name, Azariah was 298 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 3: his personal name. And there's only one consonant different in Hebrew. 299 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: So if we need van a white to come out, 300 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 3: and we just changed one letter, this is the guy 301 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 3: who Isaiah, the prophet. 302 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: Says Isaiah chapter six or one. 303 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 3: In the year King Eusiah died, I saw the Lord 304 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 3: high and lifted up seated on a throne, and the 305 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 3: train of his robe filled the temple. 306 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: In the year that Usiah died. That's the same guy, Usiah. 307 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: That's the same guy that is talking about. 308 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 3: He was the one that died the year Isaiah saw 309 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 3: the Lord and had his lips touched with Cole. Now 310 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 3: that connection doesn't seem too significant to you yet, but 311 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 3: it will when I'm done, because I want you to 312 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 3: understand something right right quick, right off the bat, right 313 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 3: right now, right here, right now, and never doubt it again. 314 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: If you knew what God was doing through you right now. 315 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 3: And what God was going to do through you, the 316 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 3: devil could never discourage you again. 317 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: If you knew. 318 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 3: Ah touch your neighbors say, if you knew what God 319 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 3: was doing through you, put it in the future in case, 320 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 3: in case they have a hard time seeing it right now, 321 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 3: in case they have a low bank balance right now, 322 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: in case their kids aren't speaking to him right now, 323 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 3: in case their mom isn't speaking to him right now, 324 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 3: in case their job sucks right now, in case they're 325 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 3: single right now and wishing that they weren't single. I mean, 326 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with being single unless you wish you 327 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 3: weren't single. But if you look back at them one 328 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 3: more time and tell them for. 329 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: Me, just make the announcements. 330 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 4: Say. 331 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 3: If you knew what God was gonna do, the devil 332 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 3: couldn't discourage you, couldn't pay you enough to quit, couldn't 333 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 3: defeat you, couldn't press you. If you knew he was 334 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 3: the one and they made him king at age sixteen, 335 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 3: you haven't been thrust into something you felt like you 336 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 3: weren't ready for yet. Have you ever just had somebody 337 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 3: put something on you that you didn't even want to wear? 338 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 3: Have you ever had that moment? I think every parent 339 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 3: has this moment. Oh, I am the grown up. 340 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: And this guy he's sixteen years old. 341 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 3: And he has to become a king, and he did 342 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 3: something so amazing that we're talking about it today. He's 343 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 3: the one. I'm sure he wondered, just like you're doing 344 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 3: I do. Why would I be the one? I'm sure 345 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 3: he felt in the shadow of his father, just like 346 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 3: you feel in the shadow of some of your challenges. 347 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 3: I'm sure he felt insufficient, but yet he was the 348 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 3: one who got the other one. 349 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's three of them. I read the role one. 350 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 3: He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it 351 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 3: to Judah after Amaziah. So I'm thinking to myself right 352 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 3: reading this, let me sit back down. I'm going Elith 353 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 3: must be a really big place if the Bible takes 354 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 3: time to say that, of everything that he did, he 355 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 3: rebuilt and restored Elath. And I pulled out this map 356 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 3: in my Bible, y'all, and Elath isn't that big. It 357 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 3: wasn't its size that made it significant. It was where 358 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 3: it was situated. Elath was a port city. E Lath 359 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 3: was at the northern tip of a gulf. Elath was 360 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 3: in the territory of the Edomites. The Edomites had once 361 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 3: been a territory of Israel, but they had broken away. 362 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 3: Usiah's father had brought edom back to a point. Usiah 363 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 3: did something more important. He restored the port city so 364 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 3: that the trade could happen beyond the borders of Judah. Now, 365 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 3: can I preach? Sometimes we have no idea what's really important, 366 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 3: because we judge significance by size, we judge significance by status. 367 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 3: But the thing that God wants you to know that Usiah, 368 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 3: Azariah the artist formerly known as Azariah. The thing that 369 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 3: God wants you to know about him was he was 370 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 3: the one who was remembered for what he reads built 371 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 3: and for what he restored and what he rebuilt and 372 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 3: what he restored didn't seem very big, but it was 373 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 3: very important because it was a port city. Because if 374 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 3: he got the port city working again, the shifts could 375 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 3: come and go. Imagine the hustle and bustle of commerce 376 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 3: and economy and exchange and trade that could happen when 377 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 3: he got the port city back. 378 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: There are some things that the enemy. 379 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 3: Will fight you over in your life that don't seem 380 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 3: very big on the surface, but he knows it is 381 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 3: a port city in your life. 382 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 5: And if you get this one right, and if you 383 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 5: get this one back, and if you get this one fixed, 384 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 5: and if you get this one under control, and if 385 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 5: you get this one flowing, and if you get this 386 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 5: one working, and if you get this one open, and 387 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 5: if you get this one rebuilt. And see, that's why 388 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 5: you can. 389 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 3: Never judge the significance of the seas and that you're 390 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 3: in by the size of the opportunity. According to your 391 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 3: eyes if you only knew, I will prove it to you, 392 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 3: not from the Bible. I'll prove it from my life 393 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 3: because I've never seen E laugh. I've never been there. 394 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 3: But I have had moments in my life where God 395 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 3: was using something that I didn't think it was important, 396 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 3: but it was a port. So when Elijah went to 397 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 3: college a few weeks ago, he said, I got to 398 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 3: get a job. I said probably. He said, how do 399 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 3: I get one? I said, there's many different ways. He said, 400 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 3: how did you get one? I said, well, I never 401 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 3: really had a real job. I mean, I got all 402 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 3: these scholarships to get to college. I applied for every scholarship. 403 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 3: I did work study where you could get some of 404 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 3: your tuition paid. I did everything I could. I mean, 405 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 3: I worked jobs. When I was a kid. I did 406 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 3: a y'all know about my jobs. I cremated animals, I 407 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 3: sold fireworks, I cleaned churches, I sold explosives, burned dogs, 408 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 3: and cleaned the house of God. 409 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: Let me see your resume. All right, But. 410 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 3: When I got to college, I felt like I was 411 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 3: called to preach right. Nobody else shared that opinion at college. 412 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,959 Speaker 3: Back at home, I preached my first sermon when I 413 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 3: was sixteen. I wasn't a king like Usaiah at sixteen, 414 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 3: but I preached my first sermon at Monk's Corner of 415 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 3: United Methodist Church. 416 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: And then Pastor Mickey. 417 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 3: He was the one who sat on my parents' floor 418 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 3: and said God's hand is on your. 419 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: Son, and for my mom and my dad. They were 420 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: the ones who. 421 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 3: Let me go be a youth minister while I was 422 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 3: still a youth. But when I went to college, nobody 423 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 3: was asking me to pre I found a guy on campus. 424 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 1: This is what I told Elijah. I said, you need 425 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: to one day. 426 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 3: If you ever meet him, think j Hardwick. He said, 427 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 3: who's Jay Hardwick? I said he was the one I 428 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 3: talked to him in fifteen years. I would text him, 429 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 3: but I don't have this number, so maybe he'll see 430 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 3: this Jay. 431 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: Reaching out. You were the. 432 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 3: One when I came up to you in the cafeteria 433 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 3: and I said I heard your preacher, and you said, yeah, 434 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 3: I mean I'm trying to be it. I said me too, 435 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 3: I want to preach like you preach. And you said 436 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 3: to me, Okay, when somebody calls me for an invitation 437 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 3: and I can't go, I'll tell him to get you instead. 438 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 3: And I said I'll eat your crumbs. I'm not I'm 439 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 3: not I'm not picky. I'm not picky. 440 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: Once you've run a crematory, you you'll preach anywhere, I said, 441 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 1: I said that would be awesome. 442 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 3: He was the one that told Mason to put me 443 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 3: on the Summer Impact team where I ended up traveling 444 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 3: with Holly. He was the one, and he never sent 445 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:30,239 Speaker 3: me a bill. He never took a commission. Far as 446 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 3: I know, he never took credit. They'd be running all 447 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 3: around the state of wherever he lives now saying yeah, 448 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 3: I gave Ferdiic his start over there over there at elevation, 449 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 3: but he didn't. 450 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: Really care about that. 451 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 3: It's like he was so important in my life and 452 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 3: I never even told my son about him. So just 453 00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 3: the other day, So the next time the devil tells 454 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,959 Speaker 3: you you have no one and he starts hitting you 455 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,719 Speaker 3: with this loneliness that he hits you with. When he 456 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 3: hits you with loneliness, hit him with a list. Somebody 457 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 3: say he was the one, all right, let's get inclusive. 458 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: Say she was the one. I knew y'all were getting offended. 459 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: Reflect this Friday night, and I don't want to start 460 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,959 Speaker 3: anything early. I mean, I've told you a thousand times 461 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 3: that really Hoghy started the church, not me. I was 462 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 3: gonna start it when I was about the age I 463 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 3: am now, and eighteen years ago she turned me and said, 464 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 3: it's time for you to start church, God's colture start. 465 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 3: We got people around us we need, and you got 466 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 3: what you need right now to do it. And we're 467 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 3: gonna do it right now. If she wouldn't have talked 468 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 3: me into doing it, then I would have learned too 469 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 3: much to do it at this point in my life. 470 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: I would have learned too much the one. She was 471 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: the one. And I look around the room like this, 472 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: see and I don't just see a crowd, I see ones. 473 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: I see ones. 474 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 3: He was the one that convinced me we could do 475 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 3: elevation nights. He was the one that was with me 476 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 3: at Green Day when Billy Joe Armstrong called me on 477 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 3: stage to play guitar. Y'all that happened before. 478 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old. 479 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 3: I was at a Green Day concert and I turned 480 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 3: to my other friend that isn't here anymore, and I said, 481 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 3: what if Billy Joe calls me to play his guitar 482 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 3: on stage? He said, shut up? That's stupid. It's never 483 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 3: gonna happen. And in the middle till the Holy Ghost six, 484 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 3: in the middle of the Operation Ivy Song Knowledge, Billy 485 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,719 Speaker 3: Joe Armstrong stops and say, does anybody out there play guitar? 486 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 3: And my friends picked me up, and he was one 487 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,719 Speaker 3: of them and picked me up like I was Mufasa, 488 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 3: like I was the chill. He's the one. And I 489 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 3: played that thing. Oh, I killed it too. I was 490 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:21,479 Speaker 3: ready for my moment. I don't know how many times 491 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 3: I've wanted to find Billy Joe Armstrong. 492 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: I never met him and say, hey, you remember that 493 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: night in Charleston in nineteen ninety four. 494 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 3: Now he did it every night, so for him it 495 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 3: was just another night. 496 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: But to me, it was the one. That's why I 497 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: preach harror, because I preach every six days. 498 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: But for you, this might be the the one. 499 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna preach a lot of messages. But for somebody, 500 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: this is the one. 501 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 3: For someone, this is the one. And I'm not talking 502 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 3: about me just to talk about me. 503 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get you to see. 504 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 3: That for someone, you're the one. 505 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: You're the one. You may not even know it. 506 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 3: You might be like Billy Billy Joe Armstrong go on 507 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 3: to do another city. He went on to Charleston, West Virginia. 508 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 3: He went on to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He never even knew 509 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 3: he left a boy back in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. 510 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 3: He boosted my popularity past the high school. 511 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: Quarterback in one moment. But he just went on. 512 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 3: And So when the devil tells you that you have 513 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 3: no one, that you are no one, and that you 514 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 3: can't see how God is using you, Oh, I got 515 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 3: a tip for you. Ready, Ready, assume that God is 516 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 3: using you. Assume that God is using you. 517 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: You got it? How do I know God is using me? 518 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 3: You won't assume that God is using you. Assume that 519 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 3: God is using you. Usually they say, you know what, 520 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 3: assuming does it makes a you know whatever, whatever. But 521 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 3: in this case, I am actually advocating that you assume 522 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 3: that you are the one that God wanted that person 523 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 3: to come across in their path because you might have 524 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 3: something valuable that they need. And for everybody who's been 525 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: stuck in self pity, there is no quicker way out 526 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 3: of self pity than to fulfill God's purpose. 527 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: So assume. I know y'all don't like this, because sometimes. 528 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 3: We don't want to be the one. I don't want 529 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 3: to encourage anybody. When is somebody gonna encourage me? Sometimes 530 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 3: I don't feel like preaching and I want to hnd 531 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 3: you on the microphone. You'll say something. 532 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. One day. 533 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 3: I'm gonna walk in, I'm gonna take the stage, and 534 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 3: the first person that looks bored, I'm gonna throw. 535 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: My microphone say here, you do it. You're doing it 536 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: just talking. He was the one. 537 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 3: He was the one he rebuilt and restored. 538 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: He was remembered for what he restored. Will you be 539 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: this is the decision. 540 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 3: In this season of your life that you are making 541 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 3: without even knowing that you are making it on behalf 542 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 3: of others you know? Asked Holly, and I began to talk. 543 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 3: We started to realize something about relationships. 544 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna try to talk about this. 545 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 3: If I don't really do a good job with that, 546 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,479 Speaker 3: I'll come on YouTube this week and do a bonus 547 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 3: teaching on it. So pray I do a good job 548 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 3: so I don't have to go back in and do 549 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 3: it again. There's a lot of relational resentment that can 550 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 3: build up in your life. People that disappoint you, And 551 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 3: I'm no different than you. I get disappointed in people. 552 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 3: The men that we're reading about in this scripture, Usiah, 553 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 3: in many ways, he was a disappointment because he didn't 554 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 3: bring the nation back to their rightful place. And I'll 555 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 3: show you in just a moment it even got worse 556 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 3: than that. But before I show you how bad it got, 557 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 3: let me just talk about your disappointments and people. Because 558 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 3: as Holly and I began to talk, I said, you know, 559 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 3: Jay Hardwick was the one that kind of put us 560 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 3: on that team, wasn't he? And we never even thought 561 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 3: about it. Who was someone in your life that you 562 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 3: don't think about it? And now I'm not talking about 563 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 3: like the Hall of Fame like Mom and Dad and 564 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 3: all that stuff. I'm talking about and Billy Graham and 565 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 3: the Apostle, Paul and Jesus. It's going to be in 566 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 3: the comments. 567 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: Jesus is the one, Stephen, Jesus, He's the one, and 568 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it for you. 569 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 3: But you know, moving thus long from there, there's people 570 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 3: that you think they're going to be the one to 571 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 3: be with you forever, but they're not. But just because 572 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 3: they're not the one, that was with you for a 573 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 3: little while, or just because they're not with you forever, 574 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 3: doesn't mean that they didn't serve an important purpose in 575 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 3: your life. Now know this is for but I really 576 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 3: need to say it. Some people in your life are 577 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 3: port people. They move through, you move on, they move on. 578 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 3: Just because they didn't stay planted doesn't mean they weren't important. 579 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: And what this will help you do when the enemy 580 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: says you have nobody. 581 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 3: Look at how they let you down. Look at how 582 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 3: they didn't come through for you. Look at how they 583 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 3: don't get you. Look at what they weren't able to do. 584 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 3: Look at how you believed in them. Look at how 585 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,320 Speaker 3: you thought they were going to be the perfect partner. 586 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 3: Look at how you thought they were. 587 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: Going to be. 588 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 3: I want to revisit this for a moment so that 589 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 3: you stop focusing on the disappointment and start focusing on 590 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 3: the deposit. Because I could tell you somebody right now 591 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,479 Speaker 3: and you could do the same for me. You could say, man, 592 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 3: she was the one that I counted on and she 593 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,720 Speaker 3: let me down. But if we took it a little deeper, 594 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 3: there was something God used that person in your life for. 595 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 3: And even if it was just a port moving through. 596 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 3: You understand what I'm saying about elath. We have elath 597 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 3: relationships and they may not last as long as we 598 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 3: wanted them to, and they may not be everything that 599 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 3: we wanted them to be. 600 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: And if we're not careful, so careful with our soul rules. 601 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 3: The devil will set up camp in that disappointment and say, 602 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,800 Speaker 3: you have no one, but they. 603 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 1: Were the one. 604 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 3: They were the one for a while. Look at what 605 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 3: they added to your life. Yeah, but they betrayed me. 606 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,240 Speaker 3: It was Judas that got Jesus to the cross. 607 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: He was the one. 608 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 3: That God used more than any of the other disciples, 609 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 3: because it was Judas that God used to get Jesus 610 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,799 Speaker 3: to the place where he paid for your sins and mine. 611 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 3: Even the people that hurt you God used. I don't 612 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 3: see that coldly. I don't see that to celebrate abuse 613 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 3: or neglect or abandonment. I just know that someone has 614 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 3: been living in this place for a long time. 615 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,800 Speaker 1: I have no one, and. 616 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 3: You are so good at the disappointments that you're missing 617 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 3: the deposits. And not only those that are gone, not 618 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 3: only the people that planted seeds, not everybody that starts 619 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 3: with you is supposed to stay with you. Not only that, 620 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 3: but there are fresh people that God is bringing into 621 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 3: the part of your life. And if you do not 622 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,719 Speaker 3: do the work in this season of setting free and 623 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 3: forgiving the things that disappointed you, you will not be 624 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 3: open to the deposit. And so you stay poor, and 625 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 3: you stay sad, and you stay alone. But if you 626 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 3: will get your eyes off of who left and put 627 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 3: your eyes on what they left, that God is still 628 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:54,879 Speaker 3: watching over. 629 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 1: In your life to bring you to a new level. 630 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 3: I declare and the creed he will rebuild and restore 631 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 3: everything that the locas said every year that the kicker 632 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 3: worm not up. 633 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 1: After all, it wasn't them that blessed you anyway. He 634 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: was the one. God was the one. His mercy was 635 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: the conduit, His grace was the power. Get ready to shout. 636 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,480 Speaker 1: You've had your eyes on people. Put your eyes on Jesus. 637 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,760 Speaker 1: He what's the. 638 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 4: One got to focus on others got too focused on stuff. 639 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: Forgot that he was the one. 640 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 3: Somebody say he was the one who brought me through depression. 641 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 3: Say he was the one who forgave all my sins 642 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,760 Speaker 3: and healed all my diseases. He was the one whose 643 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 3: blood washed me clean. And he was the one who 644 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 3: knelt in a garden of got seventy with me on. 645 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,799 Speaker 1: His mind and thrust through to La Crosse. He was 646 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: the one. 647 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 3: And that's why I know he's not through with you, 648 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,359 Speaker 3: because it was him all along. 649 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,240 Speaker 1: Usiah rebuilt and restored the port. 650 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,399 Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you a question when we write Your 651 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,239 Speaker 3: Second Kings Chapter fourteen, verse twenty one and twenty two, 652 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:33,800 Speaker 3: what are we gonna say? 653 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 1: He was the one. He was the one. I know 654 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: some of you in here. I want your I want 655 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,359 Speaker 1: your Second King's fourteen twenty two to read like this. 656 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 3: He was the one who battled through the addiction that 657 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 3: his dad couldn't defeat and beat it for his own kids. 658 00:38:54,160 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 1: He was the one. She was the one who. 659 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,280 Speaker 3: Forgave her mom for never telling her that she was loved, 660 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 3: for making her perform. And because she forgave her mom, 661 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 3: she was able to face herself and love herself and 662 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 3: see herself as a daughter of God. She was the one. 663 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,480 Speaker 1: I'll see crowds today. I don't know. 664 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 3: I don't know why God gave me this annoying. I 665 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 3: just see ones. I just see ones. I just see ones. 666 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,240 Speaker 3: One God, one person which one you want to be, 667 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,279 Speaker 3: because this can go the other way too. He was 668 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,879 Speaker 3: the one who gave up on himself because he really 669 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 3: got tired of making excuses, and so eventually he just 670 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 3: brought his lifestyle his belief in God down to the 671 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,400 Speaker 3: level of his lifestyle, rather than bringing his lifestyle up 672 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,879 Speaker 3: to the level of his belief in God. I want 673 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 3: to tell you something about Usaiah, and we might want 674 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 3: to sit down for this. 675 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:06,919 Speaker 1: Yusaiah, they're really good. 676 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,359 Speaker 3: In fact, Second Chronicles twenty six it kind of says 677 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,840 Speaker 3: the same thing about him, but it gives us a 678 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 3: little more detail. And I bring you this in a 679 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 3: spirit of humility, because look, I know when you're a 680 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,440 Speaker 3: strong word from God. And for some of you, this 681 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 3: is a strong word from God. 682 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,360 Speaker 1: And it's not because of me. 683 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 3: It's because of the importance of your life to what 684 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,479 Speaker 3: God wants to do through you. And so this word 685 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 3: is hitting you right now because this is an elath 686 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 3: message for you. This is a a port sermon for you. 687 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,719 Speaker 3: What goes forth from here is important. You don't think 688 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 3: it is yet you don't even know why. 689 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 1: You're the one. 690 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 3: I had a man come up to me after I 691 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 3: preach one time and he said, preacher, when you were preaching, 692 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 3: you said this message is for someone I don't know who, 693 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,239 Speaker 3: and he goes, I just want to let you know 694 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,120 Speaker 3: I was the one, and he said a little bit 695 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,319 Speaker 3: of what he was going through. I said, thank you 696 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 3: for telling me. Then somebody else came up and they 697 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,959 Speaker 3: had overheard, and it was a man and a woman, 698 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:18,960 Speaker 3: and the woman. 699 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,400 Speaker 1: Said she was really funny. 700 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,239 Speaker 3: She said, I didn't mean the eavesdrop, but I heard 701 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 3: that man that came before, and this is my husband, Joe, 702 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 3: and I just want you to know that man that 703 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,160 Speaker 3: was here before he was wrong because he was the 704 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 3: one you were talking to. 705 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,279 Speaker 1: And pointed at her husband. 706 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 3: Somebody say, I'm the one. See, I'm the one that 707 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 3: decides which one I'm going to be. He was the 708 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 3: one who rebuilt and restored. If you're life this is 709 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,399 Speaker 3: in ruins right now. You didn't control that. You may 710 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 3: have contributed to it, but but will you be the 711 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 3: one who rebuilds in restores. I know God wants to 712 00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,279 Speaker 3: be the one who helps you do that. I know 713 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 3: that he'll be the one that will empower you to 714 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:02,440 Speaker 3: do it. 715 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 1: Usiah does amazing things, y'all. He for a guy who 716 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: had to start being a king at age sixteen. Wow. 717 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,120 Speaker 3: He defeats three of the Philistine countries, knocks down their walls. 718 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,319 Speaker 3: He puts these watch towers all around Jerusalem where they 719 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:19,960 Speaker 3: can see where their enemies are coming from. 720 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:20,799 Speaker 1: And then after he. 721 00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,440 Speaker 3: Builds the watch towers, he puts these special military devices 722 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,640 Speaker 3: where they can shoot the arrows and hurl the stones 723 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,840 Speaker 3: and their enemies can't see them. He buys new military 724 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,000 Speaker 3: equipment for every single one of the soldiers. And there 725 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,800 Speaker 3: are three hundred, five thousand and seven hundred of them soldiers. 726 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:39,080 Speaker 3: He gives them all new equipment. He's also a gardener. 727 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 3: He does amazing things with agriculture. This guy is amazing, amazing, 728 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:51,280 Speaker 3: and so are you in some ways. But the Bible 729 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:52,560 Speaker 3: says something really scary to me. 730 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,120 Speaker 1: Let's look at it. Second Chronicles twenty six. 731 00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,799 Speaker 3: Then all the people of Judah took Usaiah, who's sixteen 732 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 3: years old, made him king in place with his father Amasi. 733 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,560 Speaker 1: We already read that. This is a different account of it. 734 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 3: He was the one who rebuilt eleth and restored it 735 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,720 Speaker 3: to Judah after Emasi arrested with his ancestors. We already 736 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,160 Speaker 3: read that, But this is a different account, and I 737 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,399 Speaker 3: watched this. Usaiah was sixteen years old when he became king, 738 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 3: and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty two years. His mother's 739 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,399 Speaker 3: name was Jekaliah, and she was from Jerusalem. He did 740 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 3: what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just 741 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,839 Speaker 3: as his father Amaziah had done. He sought God during 742 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,080 Speaker 3: the days of Zachariah. Zachariah was the one who mentored him, 743 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,240 Speaker 3: who instructed him in the fear of God. 744 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,200 Speaker 1: And listened to this verse, it's going to feel haunting. 745 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 3: As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success. 746 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,440 Speaker 3: The next several verses really break that down. All the 747 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 3: successes God gave him. It says that God strengthened him, 748 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:53,520 Speaker 3: God helped him, God upheld him, God resourced him. If 749 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,880 Speaker 3: you go all the way down to verse sixteen, it says, 750 00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:03,440 Speaker 3: but after Usiah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. 751 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,200 Speaker 3: He was unfaithful to the Lord as God and entered 752 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,840 Speaker 3: the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the 753 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:13,120 Speaker 3: altar of incense. Now listen to this, as Aria the priest, 754 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,440 Speaker 3: this is a different Azariah. As if it wasn't confusing 755 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,799 Speaker 3: enough already, there's got to be two Azariahs and one 756 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,480 Speaker 3: who isn't going by the name Azariah anymore. Thanks a 757 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:27,080 Speaker 3: lot chronicle writer. Azriah the priest with eighty Let listen 758 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,360 Speaker 3: to this. Back into the scene, as Aria the priest 759 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,360 Speaker 3: with eighty other courageous priests. The Lord followed him, and 760 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,640 Speaker 3: they confronted King Usaiah and said, it's not right for you, 761 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,640 Speaker 3: Usiah to burn incense to the Lord. That's for the priests, 762 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,359 Speaker 3: the descendants of Aaron who have been consecrated to burn 763 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,960 Speaker 3: incense lead the sanctuary. You've been unfaithful. You're not be 764 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,480 Speaker 3: honored by the Lord God. The kings weren't allowed to 765 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,600 Speaker 3: burn this incense. It was for the priest to do. 766 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,640 Speaker 3: You know, you always get in trouble when you try 767 00:44:54,680 --> 00:45:00,200 Speaker 3: to do what God called somebody else to do, when 768 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,080 Speaker 3: you start wishing you could be this one or that one. 769 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,719 Speaker 1: And see, Usiah was powerful. God called him. Don't get 770 00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,279 Speaker 1: it twisted. God anointed him. 771 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,160 Speaker 3: God put the crown on his head, no matter whose 772 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,720 Speaker 3: hands he used to position it there. It was God 773 00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,280 Speaker 3: that did it. But then he got out of his place, 774 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,279 Speaker 3: and even when he was corrected, he wouldn't listen. Now, 775 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 3: listen to this verse nineteen because God is bringing you 776 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,439 Speaker 3: to this point today, and I want you to hear 777 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,000 Speaker 3: this as a warning. 778 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:28,080 Speaker 1: For your life. 779 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,239 Speaker 3: Usiah, who had a censor in his hand ready to 780 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 3: burn incense, became angry. And while he was raging at 781 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,880 Speaker 3: the priest in their presence before the incense alter in 782 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,800 Speaker 3: the lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead. 783 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:45,680 Speaker 1: When Azariah, the. 784 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 3: Chief priest, and all the other priests looked at him, 785 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,480 Speaker 3: they saw you at leprosy on his forehead, so they 786 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 3: hurried him out. Indeed, he himself. 787 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 1: Was eager to leave because the Lord had afflicted him. 788 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,319 Speaker 1: Now listen to this. I wish the story ended, but. 789 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,360 Speaker 3: I got to give it to you how it is 790 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,400 Speaker 3: in the Bible, because I don't write the book. 791 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:05,839 Speaker 1: I'm just giving you the mail. 792 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,480 Speaker 3: The Bible says King Usiah had leprosy until the day 793 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:16,080 Speaker 3: he died. He lived in a separate house Lepross, and 794 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,760 Speaker 3: banned from the temple of the Lord. 795 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:19,280 Speaker 1: Jotham. 796 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,120 Speaker 3: His son had charge of the palace and governed the 797 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:22,920 Speaker 3: people of the land. 798 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,200 Speaker 1: Now listen to this. 799 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 3: The other events of Usiah's reign from beginning to end, 800 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 3: are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of amos Usiah 801 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,920 Speaker 3: arrested with his ancestors and was buried near them in 802 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,200 Speaker 3: a cemetery that belonged to the kings. For the people 803 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 3: said he had leprosy, and Jotham, his son succeeded him 804 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:57,399 Speaker 3: as king. All he did, and the people said, give 805 00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:58,479 Speaker 3: me verse twenty three again. 806 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,640 Speaker 1: You see that, I'm gonna wait for you to find it. 807 00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:05,080 Speaker 1: You see it. 808 00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 3: People said he had leprosy, and he died like that. 809 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,719 Speaker 3: And he died like that because he forgot that God 810 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:23,760 Speaker 3: was the one. And you die alone when you forget 811 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,600 Speaker 3: that God is the one, and you live alone when 812 00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,520 Speaker 3: you forget that God is the one, and your worship 813 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,520 Speaker 3: gets weak when you forget that God is the one, 814 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,000 Speaker 3: and you start running from what God has called you to, 815 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 3: when you forget that God is the one, and you 816 00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:46,200 Speaker 3: feel cut off when you forget that God is the one. 817 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,360 Speaker 1: How many are grateful. 818 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:54,840 Speaker 3: That of all the kings that are in second Kings fourteen, 819 00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:01,560 Speaker 3: none of those kings are the one that we came 820 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 3: to worship today. 821 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,799 Speaker 1: Good and too. 822 00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,480 Speaker 3: Because people will disappoint you, but God will carry you. 823 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:24,240 Speaker 3: People will leave you. God never will. And the Bible 824 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,640 Speaker 3: says that King Usiah died with leprosy, a skin condition 825 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:30,399 Speaker 3: that isolated him. 826 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:36,279 Speaker 1: But you don't have to You don't have to stay away. 827 00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:44,719 Speaker 3: You know why because Isaiah prophesied to Usiah, but he 828 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:52,600 Speaker 3: did not prophesy about Usiah. Isaiah prophesied about another king, 829 00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:59,120 Speaker 3: a king that would come at a later date, A 830 00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:04,600 Speaker 3: king that will not come through any human father, but 831 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,080 Speaker 3: a king that would come not in a palace, a 832 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,120 Speaker 3: king that would come in a Palestinian environment that would 833 00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,799 Speaker 3: have been unfit for many animals. See the thing that 834 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 3: I want you to know today, for all of you 835 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,719 Speaker 3: who feel alone. 836 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,960 Speaker 1: I have no one, I am no one. I can't rebuild, 837 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:25,680 Speaker 1: I can't recover. 838 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,319 Speaker 3: I'm down here and I have to stay here, and 839 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:30,640 Speaker 3: there is no more for me. 840 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,319 Speaker 1: And I'm not the one. And this sermon is for. 841 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,920 Speaker 3: Somebody else because I've tried this before and it didn't work. 842 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: I wanted you to know. 843 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,920 Speaker 3: This from the heart of God today for his child. 844 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:49,680 Speaker 3: Your leprosy is not your legacy. 845 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,320 Speaker 1: This leprosy, this issue. 846 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:58,080 Speaker 3: Everybody has something like that, not a skin disease, not 847 00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,040 Speaker 3: something that others can see on your four, but a 848 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:02,440 Speaker 3: label that follows you. 849 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:08,799 Speaker 6: Through life, a condition, an issue, a struggle, a tendency, 850 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,040 Speaker 6: something that has been with you and may even be 851 00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:13,040 Speaker 6: consuming you. 852 00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:14,880 Speaker 1: But somebody shall. 853 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:21,160 Speaker 3: This leprosy will not be my legacy. Say it by faith, 854 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,280 Speaker 3: This leprosy. 855 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,400 Speaker 1: Will not be my legacy. 856 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:31,920 Speaker 3: One more time, say this leprosy, this label, this limitation, 857 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:38,279 Speaker 3: this loneliness will not be my legacy. Now look at 858 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,319 Speaker 3: your neighbor and say, God is not through with you. 859 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:43,960 Speaker 3: Let me tell you how I know God's not. 860 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,360 Speaker 1: Through with you. 861 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,200 Speaker 3: You know how I know He's not through with you 862 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,840 Speaker 3: because it did not end in Second Chronicles twenty six 863 00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:56,359 Speaker 3: with Issiah. Flip on over to Matthew chapter one. 864 00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:57,400 Speaker 1: I feel I. 865 00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,520 Speaker 3: Preach him because the Bible says, no piano, give me 866 00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:07,239 Speaker 3: some organ. Usiah who was Usiah, the father of. 867 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,440 Speaker 1: Jotham, right, and he. 868 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:14,080 Speaker 3: Died of leprosy and people said he had leprosy. Well 869 00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,480 Speaker 3: that's what people said, but that's not what God said. 870 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:23,120 Speaker 3: God said he was the one who rebuilt Eli. So 871 00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,680 Speaker 3: I need everybody to give God praise if you're grateful that. 872 00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:33,799 Speaker 1: People don't have the final word in your life. In 873 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:38,840 Speaker 1: your life, people, people. 874 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,200 Speaker 3: I'll give God praise if you're said, pray for what 875 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:46,040 Speaker 3: the people say. People can say what they want to say. 876 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,640 Speaker 3: People can say what they want to say. I'm not 877 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,480 Speaker 3: listening to people. I'm listening to Prophecy. 878 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:57,279 Speaker 1: What they got say about you? And he said you're 879 00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,920 Speaker 1: the one? Yes what You're the one? 880 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:04,200 Speaker 7: All right? 881 00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,799 Speaker 3: So come with me to Matthew chapter one, verse nine. 882 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,640 Speaker 3: Because you're reading, you're like, that's sad. He died of leprosy. 883 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:16,080 Speaker 3: But somebody say this leprosy is not my legacy. No, 884 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,160 Speaker 3: because Ysiah, who was he? Well, he was the one 885 00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:21,319 Speaker 3: who was the father of. 886 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,160 Speaker 1: Jotham, who was Jontham. Let's play jeopardy. 887 00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,840 Speaker 3: He was the one who was the father of a 888 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:28,799 Speaker 3: Has who is a Has? 889 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:30,359 Speaker 1: He was the one. 890 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,120 Speaker 3: I'm getting happy because I'm thinking about everything God's still 891 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,000 Speaker 3: going to do in your life that you can't see 892 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:39,200 Speaker 3: right now, Everything God's going to bring through you, everything important. 893 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,200 Speaker 7: That God still has in your future. That's why the 894 00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,080 Speaker 7: devil's fighting you so hard. That's why you can't sleep 895 00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,879 Speaker 7: at night. That's why you're tossing and turning. That's why 896 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,640 Speaker 7: you're kind of restless. That's why you're kind of lonely. 897 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,560 Speaker 7: Because God is raising you up, all right. Just preach 898 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,719 Speaker 7: the text. Just preach the text. Let's go back to 899 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:55,840 Speaker 7: the text. Back to the text. 900 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,399 Speaker 3: Somebody say, he was the one, yeah, yeah, yeah, he 901 00:52:59,520 --> 00:52:59,799 Speaker 3: was the. 902 00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,720 Speaker 1: One a has who was he? He was the one who. 903 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,000 Speaker 3: Was the father of Hezekiah verse ten, Hazekiah. He was 904 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,520 Speaker 3: the one who was the father of Manassa. He was 905 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,759 Speaker 3: the one who was the father of Emmin. He was 906 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,400 Speaker 3: the one who was the father of Josiah. He was 907 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,719 Speaker 3: the one that was the father of Jackaniah. Who was Jackaniah? 908 00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:20,360 Speaker 3: Somebody shout he was the one, no shout at. He 909 00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:24,440 Speaker 3: was the one verse twelve who was the father of Shiltiel. 910 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,319 Speaker 3: Who was Shiltiel. He was the one who was the 911 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,840 Speaker 3: father of Zaruba Bel. He was the one who was 912 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,200 Speaker 3: the father of Abitadag. He was the one that was 913 00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,680 Speaker 3: the father of Eliahum. He was the one that was 914 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,920 Speaker 3: the father of Ahor. He was the one who was 915 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,120 Speaker 3: the father of Zadak. He was the one that was 916 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,080 Speaker 3: the father of a king. He was the one that 917 00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,239 Speaker 3: was the father of Ellehunt. I told you I can't 918 00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,640 Speaker 3: pronounce these words. I'm will of fortune. I'm past say 919 00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,640 Speaker 3: jack baby. He was the one that was the father 920 00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,959 Speaker 3: of Methan. He was the one that was the father 921 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:56,200 Speaker 3: of Jacob. Now get ready to celebrate, because who was Jacob? 922 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,880 Speaker 1: He was the one that was the father of Joseph. 923 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,640 Speaker 1: He was the one that was the husband of Mary. 924 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:04,319 Speaker 1: She was the one that was. 925 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:05,040 Speaker 3: The mother of. 926 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:07,960 Speaker 1: Who was. 927 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,520 Speaker 3: The one who is O? Holy God? 928 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:16,360 Speaker 1: Going to the prison prisons? Rise him on the port city, 929 00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:18,759 Speaker 1: rights us for the purpose? Lights up? 930 00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,200 Speaker 3: Oh, he's bringing through rites Us for the purposey right, 931 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:29,160 Speaker 3: just for the sacred. Hey are the water and the leprosy. 932 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:34,440 Speaker 3: It's not your like you say, what's big Jesus. 933 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,120 Speaker 8: Over your life? 934 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,920 Speaker 3: Hot's big Jesus over your business? 935 00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,680 Speaker 1: What big Jesus over your mind? 936 00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:50,280 Speaker 3: Jesus, Jesus sister one, Jesus, Jesus, sister one, Jesus, Jesus 937 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:50,960 Speaker 3: sister one. 938 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,640 Speaker 1: Who's started going Jesus. 939 00:54:53,760 --> 00:55:02,200 Speaker 3: Who's gonna see you through Jesus? 940 00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:06,319 Speaker 1: Always been him, It's always been him, Bro. 941 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,120 Speaker 3: Since you were a little boy, he was watching out 942 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,240 Speaker 3: for you, since you were a little girl. 943 00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:15,920 Speaker 1: He was raising you up. They called you and he 944 00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:16,560 Speaker 1: chose you. 945 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,759 Speaker 3: And you are going to be the one to rebuild 946 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:28,279 Speaker 3: and restore so that Jesus can come forth in your life. 947 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,480 Speaker 1: I declare God is bringing something forth in this moment. 948 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:37,000 Speaker 1: Who receives it, Who receives it? Come on, make your. 949 00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,200 Speaker 7: Heart a port city right now, say God, I receive it, 950 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:40,640 Speaker 7: I receive it, I receive it. 951 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,320 Speaker 1: Now you're going to be the one. 952 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:51,080 Speaker 3: She was the one who went to counseling and worked 953 00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,040 Speaker 3: through her past so that it did not become the 954 00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:54,040 Speaker 3: lid of her future. 955 00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:59,640 Speaker 1: She was the one. He was the one who decided 956 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,759 Speaker 1: to give his gifts to God rather than using them 957 00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,799 Speaker 1: to serve the world. He was the one. 958 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,239 Speaker 3: He was the one who decided to open a door 959 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,600 Speaker 3: for others rather than always trying to make it about himself. 960 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:15,279 Speaker 1: He was the one. What one will you be? 961 00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,800 Speaker 3: I love that story in the Bible where ten lepers 962 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,799 Speaker 3: came up to Jesus. They knew that he was the 963 00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:28,640 Speaker 3: one who could heal them. I don't know if you 964 00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:32,920 Speaker 3: get the richness of this. He was the prophet, the priest, 965 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,319 Speaker 3: and the king, all of those things in one. 966 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,120 Speaker 1: They had been to their priest, their priest couldn't do it. 967 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,520 Speaker 3: They came to Jesus and he told them, go to 968 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,920 Speaker 3: the priest, and you will be healed as you go. 969 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,759 Speaker 3: And in Luke seventeen, verse fifteen, the Bible says that 970 00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:56,120 Speaker 3: one of them, one of the ten, when he saw 971 00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:02,800 Speaker 3: that he was healed, came back praising God man a 972 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:07,880 Speaker 3: whispered thank you, Lord, thank you so much, thank. 973 00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:08,160 Speaker 1: You so much. 974 00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:15,400 Speaker 9: What does the Bible say? In a loud voice? Because 975 00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:22,680 Speaker 9: he realized, dyeleprosy is not my legacy. You don't have 976 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,000 Speaker 9: to stay outside anymore. He is Manuel God with us. 977 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:34,080 Speaker 1: One of them came back. If I preach this sermon. 978 00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,680 Speaker 3: Everything I've said today, for one person to come back, 979 00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,960 Speaker 3: it will be worth it. Because I believe you are 980 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,840 Speaker 3: a port city. I believe things are going to flow 981 00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,280 Speaker 3: through you that are going to change lives. You will 982 00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,760 Speaker 3: never meet who receives it, who receives it, who receives it? 983 00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,520 Speaker 3: Online say I receive it, but I received it. 984 00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,680 Speaker 1: I see it. 985 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:06,720 Speaker 3: Oh God, He was the one, Jesus was the one 986 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:10,080 Speaker 3: with healing, and it is at his feet that we 987 00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:10,800 Speaker 3: fall today. 988 00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,640 Speaker 1: Lord God, this is the part of the sermon. 989 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:20,560 Speaker 3: Where I stop speaking, but you don't, because there are 990 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,680 Speaker 3: things that you want to open up for the people 991 00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,880 Speaker 3: that you brought to hear this word today. They have 992 00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:32,520 Speaker 3: been labeled by life, labeled by lies. But I declare 993 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:36,600 Speaker 3: that label will not be their legacy. Alcoholic will not 994 00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:41,120 Speaker 3: be their legacy. Addict will not be their legacy. Bitter 995 00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:45,360 Speaker 3: will not be their legacy. Failure will not be their legacy. 996 00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:50,440 Speaker 3: Defeat will not be their legacy. The heritage of the 997 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,680 Speaker 3: servants of God is the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, 998 00:58:53,960 --> 00:59:00,320 Speaker 3: and our righteousness comes from you. You are the one loud, 999 00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:04,200 Speaker 3: You are the one, and so Father, I stretch my 1000 00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:08,560 Speaker 3: hands to you today for every time that the devil 1001 00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,320 Speaker 3: has tried to tell me I am no one and 1002 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:11,600 Speaker 3: I have no one. 1003 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,320 Speaker 1: I have someone. 1004 00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:21,680 Speaker 3: His name is Jesus, and he is the one who 1005 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:22,880 Speaker 3: opens blind eyes. 1006 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,280 Speaker 1: He is the one who causes the lame to walk. 1007 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,800 Speaker 3: He is the one who forgives the sinner. He is 1008 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,440 Speaker 3: the one who raises the dead. 1009 00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,160 Speaker 1: He is the one who speaks for the. 1010 00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:42,200 Speaker 3: Word, and we are healed. I wonder who is that 1011 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,640 Speaker 3: one today that God gave me this message? For with 1012 00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,160 Speaker 3: your head bowed and your eyes closed, there's someone in here, 1013 00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,680 Speaker 3: and you need to throw yourself at the feet of Jesus. 1014 00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,600 Speaker 1: Today. 1015 00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,360 Speaker 3: We're going to pray a prayer right now. And this 1016 00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,000 Speaker 3: prayer is not the people. This prayer to Jesus. He's 1017 01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,560 Speaker 3: the one who can save you. I said he's the one. 1018 01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,320 Speaker 3: Somebody say it. He's the one. You've been running to 1019 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,720 Speaker 3: everything else. You've been running to sex, you've been running 1020 01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,640 Speaker 3: too drugs, you've been running too religion. 1021 01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:13,720 Speaker 1: You've been running to others. 1022 01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,600 Speaker 3: You've been running too achievement, you've been running too aspiration. 1023 01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,640 Speaker 1: But he's the one. He's the one who can say. 1024 01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,120 Speaker 3: So. Right now, in the stillness of this moment, I 1025 01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:26,280 Speaker 3: want to lead you in a prayer. 1026 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:28,640 Speaker 1: And if you pray this prayer from your heart. 1027 01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:30,919 Speaker 3: The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth 1028 01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,120 Speaker 3: that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that 1029 01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,480 Speaker 3: God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 1030 01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,040 Speaker 1: It is your faith in Christ that saves You're not 1031 01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,440 Speaker 1: your good works, just your faith in Him. 1032 01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:42,720 Speaker 3: So right now, if you need to come back to God, 1033 01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:44,920 Speaker 3: if you are that one who needs to come back 1034 01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:46,320 Speaker 3: and receive the. 1035 01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Grace of God, I want you to pray this with me. 1036 01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,760 Speaker 3: We're praying it as a church family, everybody all together 1037 01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:55,919 Speaker 3: praying out loud, repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I am 1038 01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,880 Speaker 3: the one. I am a sinner in need of a 1039 01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:06,360 Speaker 3: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the one true God. 1040 01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,760 Speaker 3: I believe he died that I could be forgiven and 1041 01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:17,960 Speaker 3: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life. 1042 01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:22,840 Speaker 3: This is my new beginning. I am a child of God. 1043 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:24,960 Speaker 3: On the counter, three, shoot your hand up if you 1044 01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,120 Speaker 3: prayed that one two, three. 1045 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:32,120 Speaker 8: Hands up online, Hands up online. I celebrate you. I 1046 01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:36,840 Speaker 8: celebrate you. A church, the Bible says, says for rejoicing 1047 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,919 Speaker 8: over one sinner in heaven. All the angels rechoice when 1048 01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:41,840 Speaker 8: one comes back. 1049 01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:46,680 Speaker 1: Let's celebrate the wine. Hold on, Let's celebrate. 1050 01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:50,680 Speaker 3: Somebody's daughter, somebody's son, somebody's brother, somebody's sister. 1051 01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:52,040 Speaker 1: Let's celebrate. 1052 01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,120 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 1053 01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,240 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 1054 01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,880 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 1055 01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,680 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 1056 01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,560 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 1057 01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,400 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 1058 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,400 Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that. 1059 01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,960 Speaker 1: We're able to reach people all around the world. 1060 01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,720 Speaker 2: And if you want more information on how to be 1061 01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,920 Speaker 2: a part of Elevation, click the link in the description. 1062 01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:23,440 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. 1063 01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:26,760 Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review share the message and subscribe. 1064 01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 3: God bless you.