Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 1: All right, so.
Speaker 3: Sit down and let's get into it today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit down with you.
Speaker 3: We'll get into the sermon a little differently. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do it like if it was Jeopardy. Does anybody watch Jeopardy?
Speaker 3: At my mom's house on Wednesday night? She cooks for
Speaker 3: us and we watch We watch Jeopardy and then Wheel
Speaker 3: of Fortune. But I'm more on that Wheel of Fortune
Speaker 3: intelligence level. If I'm being honest with you, then the
Speaker 3: Jeopardy intelligence level. That's that's true, and so Wheel of
Speaker 3: Fortune is really our show. It's called Victuals, Vinyls, and Vanna.
Speaker 3: I go over to my mom's she cooks victuals for us,
Speaker 3: and then she picks out a vinyl. I got a
Speaker 3: record player, so we'll listen to something like Creating's Clearwater
Speaker 3: Revival or something safe, sanctified, sanctimonious like that.
Speaker 1: And then and then we'll watch Vana White. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: that's not the point.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do my sermon illustration like it's Jeopardy, and
Speaker 3: not to put you on the spot, but just to
Speaker 3: kind of get into the subject for today. And I
Speaker 3: want you to play along if you're at home. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say a description of like a Bible character.
Speaker 3: We won't go along with this, and then you just say,
Speaker 3: in the form of a question like they do on Jeopardy,
Speaker 3: who is blank?
Speaker 1: If you know?
Speaker 3: If you don't know, it's okay, okay, put it online
Speaker 3: if you do know it though, He was the one
Speaker 3: who built an arc.
Speaker 1: Who was Noah Good? And put it on that wheel
Speaker 1: of fortune level for a minute? First? Okay? All right?
Speaker 3: He was the one who stretched out his staff and
Speaker 3: who is Moses? That's right, I'm not going to trick you,
Speaker 3: but I am going to get harder. He was the
Speaker 3: one who fought the Battle of Jericho and the walls
Speaker 3: came Tom Blendown.
Speaker 1: Who is Joshua Good? All right?
Speaker 3: He was the one who took a rock a big old,
Speaker 3: ugly nine foot giants stand in front of him. Hit
Speaker 3: the giant with the rock had five, only needed one
Speaker 3: because he had good aim.
Speaker 1: Who is David? Okay? Now, the next one. I got
Speaker 1: to read this one.
Speaker 3: He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it
Speaker 3: to Judah after Amasi arrested with his ancestors.
Speaker 1: You got that chat gpt out, didn't you? For that man?
Speaker 1: That's right. I didn't know it either. We came across
Speaker 1: it in our Bible reading.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna by reading club with my oldest son and
Speaker 3: Kelsey and beautiful Holifredic and we came across this passage.
Speaker 3: We're reading through Second Kings, and I am going to
Speaker 3: give you the answer. It's in Second Kings fourteen, twenty
Speaker 3: one and twenty two, and it came across this phrase.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying these.
Speaker 3: Days to give you the sermon in the spirit that
Speaker 3: I received it more and more so that means less
Speaker 3: distance between how God speaks it to me and how
Speaker 3: I speak it to you. And so I don't want
Speaker 3: to dress it up too much where it loses its impact.
Speaker 3: So for me, I was just reading the Book of
Speaker 3: Second Kings can get kind of monotonous. It's got all
Speaker 3: these bad kings. In the Northern Kingdom of Israel, there
Speaker 3: wasn't one good one, and then in Judah the southern
Speaker 3: kingdom because it was a divided kingdom. There are eight
Speaker 3: good kings, but there's like over twenty kings in all,
Speaker 3: so it's mostly like going through and saying, this is
Speaker 3: the king that reigned during this prophet's tenure as a prophet,
Speaker 3: and he was a bad king, and he did some
Speaker 3: things right and then he did some things horrible.
Speaker 1: So you just kind of get in this mode reading
Speaker 1: it just.
Speaker 3: Day after day, chapter after chapter where you're just hoping, like,
Speaker 3: maybe this guy will get it right because they keep
Speaker 3: letting the nation worship idols.
Speaker 1: And keep going stop worshiping the idols, worship God.
Speaker 3: And then you wonder if, like maybe somebody would say
Speaker 3: that about you if they watched your life too, So
Speaker 3: you know, stop worshiping money, stop worshiping stuff, stop worshiping acceptance.
Speaker 1: Stop anyway.
Speaker 3: Maybe not you just me, okay, okay, okay, just me,
Speaker 3: just me, okay, okay, okay. So we come across this
Speaker 3: and this phrase stood out to me. I'm going to
Speaker 3: give you two verses from Second Kings fourteen twenty one
Speaker 3: and twenty two coming up on the screen right now.
Speaker 3: Then all the people of Judah took Azariah. Azariah, who
Speaker 3: was sixteen years old, and made him king in place
Speaker 3: of his father Amaziah. He was the one who rebuilt
Speaker 3: Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with
Speaker 3: his ancestor.
Speaker 1: So Y's play again. He was the one who rebuilt.
Speaker 3: Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with
Speaker 3: his ancestors. Who is verse twenty one Azarayah the kid
Speaker 3: who became a king at sixteen years old?
Speaker 1: Do any of you have teenagers? Have you been a teenager?
Speaker 3: Can you imagine being a king at age sixteen?
Speaker 1: And yet he was the one to do it.
Speaker 3: And that's the title that I want to use for
Speaker 3: the message today, a very simple thought.
Speaker 1: He was the one. He was the one say that
Speaker 1: out loud.
Speaker 3: He was the one and put it in the chats
Speaker 3: for the comments if you're joining us online.
Speaker 1: He was the one.
Speaker 3: They didn't ask him, they didn't let him run for office.
Speaker 3: He didn't get to decide if he had a career
Speaker 3: in politics. The people, the Bible says, then all the
Speaker 3: people of Judah verse twenty one took Azariah, who was
Speaker 3: sixteen years old, and made him king in place of
Speaker 3: his father Amasiah.
Speaker 1: Amasiah. You know he did some dumb stuff. He did
Speaker 1: some good stuff, he did some dumb stuff.
Speaker 3: There's a motivational speaker who likes to say every life
Speaker 3: is either a warning or an example.
Speaker 1: Which one do you want your life to be.
Speaker 3: I don't mean to argue with the motivational speaker, but
Speaker 3: don't you think every life.
Speaker 1: Is a warning and an example? At some points? It
Speaker 1: depends on which part.
Speaker 3: Of my life you're looking at, whether I'm a warning
Speaker 3: or an example. It depends on what point in time
Speaker 3: you judge it whether it would be a warning or
Speaker 3: an example. We've all seen people whose examples that we
Speaker 3: tried to follow until we found out that their example
Speaker 3: that was being set was leading toward an end that
Speaker 3: we couldn't have seen coming. And yet I'm grateful for
Speaker 3: the grace of God because he uses it all. In
Speaker 3: the case of Amaziah, the dad that you read about
Speaker 3: in this passage, you know, he did some amazing stuff.
Speaker 3: The Bible said he was the one who killed these
Speaker 3: ten thousand Edomites and ran them off a cliff. He
Speaker 3: did that to take back some land that God had
Speaker 3: given the people. Then he turned around and did something
Speaker 3: so dumb. He attacked the king of Israel, who was
Speaker 3: stronger than him, and the king of Israel tried to
Speaker 3: warn him. He's like, yo, man, you're just a like
Speaker 3: you're a thistle to me, that's what he said. And
Speaker 3: he said, don't come and try to start this with me.
Speaker 3: And he's like, I am not the one. You know.
Speaker 3: I just said he was the one. He's like, I
Speaker 3: am not the one you want to mess with. And
Speaker 3: he was right, and he goes in and punishes him greatly.
Speaker 3: So the people take that king Amaziah and they're like,
Speaker 3: we're putting your son in your place, and he doesn't
Speaker 3: really have a say in the matter. They begin to
Speaker 3: rain together when Azariah is sixteen, and then after Amaziah
Speaker 3: dies as Ariah takes the throne.
Speaker 1: He was the one the.
Speaker 3: Bible says, let's go back to that phrase again, because
Speaker 3: this is where I want to focus. He was the
Speaker 3: one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after
Speaker 3: Amaziah his father rested with his ancestors.
Speaker 1: So I was telling.
Speaker 3: Holly after we read that chapter that day, I said,
Speaker 3: that really spoke to me, how the Bible said he
Speaker 3: was the one. And she's like, okay, and she actually
Speaker 3: said this to me. She's like, I thought it was
Speaker 3: the most boring chapter we've read in weeks. I didn't
Speaker 3: get anything out of it, I said, but let me
Speaker 3: tell you, and went for a walk, and I said,
Speaker 3: it made me realize that when it's all said and done,
Speaker 3: the summary of your life usually will be condensed to
Speaker 3: a few things the end. And that's one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why I really prioritize my family as a pastor,
Speaker 3: because you can get another pastor, but Abby only gets one.
Speaker 1: Dad thought you'd support me in that. I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I don't care about you.
Speaker 3: I just know that, either by choice or if it
Speaker 3: was by coercion, I know you don't want another pastor.
Speaker 1: You know, like that be a downgrade, right, But no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's different people God we used to feed
Speaker 3: you in different seasons, and I don't have any problem
Speaker 3: if God uses somebody else in your life, but she
Speaker 3: only gets one. In fact, I was remembering when I
Speaker 3: read the phrase he was the one. Somebody say he
Speaker 3: was the one.
Speaker 1: He was the one. That's what I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about.
Speaker 3: I was remembering when I went to a wrestling tournament
Speaker 3: to watch Graham and he won the whole tournament, and
Speaker 3: after the tournament was the first big tournament that he won.
Speaker 3: This a few years ago, and he won, and I
Speaker 3: almost didn't go to the tournament because I had to
Speaker 3: schedule somebody else to preach for me to go.
Speaker 1: To the tournament. And I looked at him after he won.
Speaker 3: We're sitting at Pizza Hut where all great bookeet and
Speaker 3: athletics celebrations happened, and I said, can you imagine if
Speaker 3: you had won the whole tournament and I hadn't been here?
Speaker 3: And he goes, but if you hadn't been here, I
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't have won it. Remember that, and I miss
Speaker 3: stuff that my kids do, just like you do all
Speaker 3: the time. But it reminded me of something that even
Speaker 3: if I'm stuck in this narrative in my life that
Speaker 3: you know, I'm really no one special, I'm really no
Speaker 3: one and I have no one, it's a lie if
Speaker 3: I believe that that I am no one and that
Speaker 3: I have no one.
Speaker 1: So many of us do. I think that's the thing.
Speaker 3: The devil just tries to get you to believe over
Speaker 3: and over again in different ways, and he'll put evidence
Speaker 3: in front of you. In thoughts inside of you to
Speaker 3: try to convince you that I am no one. I
Speaker 3: have no one those two things. Write those down because
Speaker 3: I want you to be like a detective on the
Speaker 3: devil this week. For when he says it to you,
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, yeah, that's what the sermon was about,
Speaker 3: because we all sometimes feel like I am no one,
Speaker 3: nobody compared to that person, no one that really makes
Speaker 3: a difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, Pastor.
Speaker 3: Steve, and you're preaching about a king in the Bible
Speaker 3: who restored and rebuilt a city.
Speaker 1: What does this have to do with me.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get my kid to school one
Speaker 3: time on time next week, Just one.
Speaker 1: Time on time. That would be my Bible verse. He
Speaker 1: was the one who got his kid to school one
Speaker 1: time on time.
Speaker 3: And if he can't tell you that y're no I want
Speaker 3: to tell you have no one. So I said to Holly,
Speaker 3: I said, that really touched me to know that the
Speaker 3: Bible said he was the one. In fact, in Second Kings,
Speaker 3: I knew I couldn't stay in that chair very long.
Speaker 3: How long did I make it? Five minutes? In Second
Speaker 3: Kings it goes three times. It says he was the
Speaker 3: one and it talks about one certain king. He was
Speaker 3: the one, and it talks about another certain king. He
Speaker 3: was the one, and it talks about another certain king.
Speaker 1: And at first you're reading.
Speaker 3: This going, well, this has nothing to do with me,
Speaker 3: because I'm not a king, and I'm not in charge
Speaker 3: of military resources. Or they won't even trust me to
Speaker 3: bring coffee because they know it'll be spilled by the
Speaker 3: time I get there. I can't even get the coffee
Speaker 3: order right. I'm not the one like that.
Speaker 1: But I read it.
Speaker 3: Over and over again, and I thought about Graham, and
Speaker 3: I thought about my life, and I thought about the
Speaker 3: things that God has called me to do, and I
Speaker 3: thought about the people that God has called me a shepherd,
Speaker 3: and I realized that we need to talk about He
Speaker 3: was the one for all of those times in your
Speaker 3: life where you feel like I am no one.
Speaker 1: And I have no one. So what I said to Holly,
Speaker 1: was this guy in the Bible.
Speaker 3: There are three of them, I said, They list their accomplishments,
Speaker 3: even though all three of them technically failed at turning
Speaker 3: the nation around, But it still gives you this little
Speaker 3: glimpse in there. He didn't get it all right, but
Speaker 3: he was the one who did something right.
Speaker 1: And I think we need to learn how to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say talk back to the devil,
Speaker 3: because we probably better to talk to God. But just
Speaker 3: can I say we need to defy the devil every
Speaker 3: once in a while, to defy the devil when he says,
Speaker 3: you know you're no one, because look how many followers
Speaker 3: they have, Look how many friends they have, Look how
Speaker 3: far along they are in their career.
Speaker 1: Look how much money they have. You don't know how
Speaker 1: much money they have.
Speaker 3: Every bit of what they're wearing on their body might
Speaker 3: be borrowed. You don't know if they paid for that
Speaker 3: brand name in cash.
Speaker 1: So you don't even know.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm no one and I have no one. And
Speaker 3: the Bible steaks up for this king Azariah, and it
Speaker 3: says he was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored
Speaker 3: it to Judah. He rebuilt and he restored, He rebuilt
Speaker 3: and he restored. He was the one. He didn't get
Speaker 3: it all right, he didn't remove the high places where
Speaker 3: they were worshiping the Canaanite gods. But he was the
Speaker 3: one who rebuilt and restored. And I came to remind
Speaker 3: somebody today, you are the one. See I can see
Speaker 3: we need to talk about this because you're slow to
Speaker 3: warm up to the idea because you've been in that
Speaker 3: I'm no one, and you even think that's humble.
Speaker 1: Right, you even think that's godly. I must decrease that
Speaker 1: he may increase.
Speaker 3: It does not increase God for you to shrink back
Speaker 3: from what he called you to do.
Speaker 1: Somebody say he was the one. He was the one. Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 3: It's important that we know that because if you just
Speaker 3: read about this, it's kind of like and his name
Speaker 3: was Azariah. But I even studied about Azariah, and you
Speaker 3: know what I found out what I'm playing fennis with
Speaker 3: myself up here sometimes.
Speaker 1: I found out that the king named Azariah, who I
Speaker 1: thought I had never heard.
Speaker 3: Of before, is the same guy called Yousiah that Isaiah
Speaker 3: mentions in the famous throne.
Speaker 1: Room scene in Isaiah chapter six. And I checked this out.
Speaker 3: He was the prophet who prophesied to Azariah, whose name
Speaker 3: was also Eusiah. Usiah was his throne name, Azariah was
Speaker 3: his personal name. And there's only one consonant different in Hebrew.
Speaker 3: So if we need van a white to come out,
Speaker 3: and we just changed one letter, this is the guy
Speaker 3: who Isaiah, the prophet.
Speaker 1: Says Isaiah chapter six or one.
Speaker 3: In the year King Eusiah died, I saw the Lord
Speaker 3: high and lifted up seated on a throne, and the
Speaker 3: train of his robe filled the temple.
Speaker 1: In the year that Usiah died. That's the same guy, Usiah.
Speaker 1: That's the same guy that is talking about.
Speaker 3: He was the one that died the year Isaiah saw
Speaker 3: the Lord and had his lips touched with Cole. Now
Speaker 3: that connection doesn't seem too significant to you yet, but
Speaker 3: it will when I'm done, because I want you to
Speaker 3: understand something right right quick, right off the bat, right
Speaker 3: right now, right here, right now, and never doubt it again.
Speaker 1: If you knew what God was doing through you right now.
Speaker 3: And what God was going to do through you, the
Speaker 3: devil could never discourage you again.
Speaker 1: If you knew.
Speaker 3: Ah touch your neighbors say, if you knew what God
Speaker 3: was doing through you, put it in the future in case,
Speaker 3: in case they have a hard time seeing it right now,
Speaker 3: in case they have a low bank balance right now,
Speaker 3: in case their kids aren't speaking to him right now,
Speaker 3: in case their mom isn't speaking to him right now,
Speaker 3: in case their job sucks right now, in case they're
Speaker 3: single right now and wishing that they weren't single. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with being single unless you wish you
Speaker 3: weren't single. But if you look back at them one
Speaker 3: more time and tell them for.
Speaker 1: Me, just make the announcements.
Speaker 4: Say.
Speaker 3: If you knew what God was gonna do, the devil
Speaker 3: couldn't discourage you, couldn't pay you enough to quit, couldn't
Speaker 3: defeat you, couldn't press you. If you knew he was
Speaker 3: the one and they made him king at age sixteen,
Speaker 3: you haven't been thrust into something you felt like you
Speaker 3: weren't ready for yet. Have you ever just had somebody
Speaker 3: put something on you that you didn't even want to wear?
Speaker 3: Have you ever had that moment? I think every parent
Speaker 3: has this moment. Oh, I am the grown up.
Speaker 1: And this guy he's sixteen years old.
Speaker 3: And he has to become a king, and he did
Speaker 3: something so amazing that we're talking about it today. He's
Speaker 3: the one. I'm sure he wondered, just like you're doing
Speaker 3: I do. Why would I be the one? I'm sure
Speaker 3: he felt in the shadow of his father, just like
Speaker 3: you feel in the shadow of some of your challenges.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he felt insufficient, but yet he was the
Speaker 3: one who got the other one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's three of them. I read the role one.
Speaker 3: He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it
Speaker 3: to Judah after Amaziah. So I'm thinking to myself right
Speaker 3: reading this, let me sit back down. I'm going Elith
Speaker 3: must be a really big place if the Bible takes
Speaker 3: time to say that, of everything that he did, he
Speaker 3: rebuilt and restored Elath. And I pulled out this map
Speaker 3: in my Bible, y'all, and Elath isn't that big. It
Speaker 3: wasn't its size that made it significant. It was where
Speaker 3: it was situated. Elath was a port city. E Lath
Speaker 3: was at the northern tip of a gulf. Elath was
Speaker 3: in the territory of the Edomites. The Edomites had once
Speaker 3: been a territory of Israel, but they had broken away.
Speaker 3: Usiah's father had brought edom back to a point. Usiah
Speaker 3: did something more important. He restored the port city so
Speaker 3: that the trade could happen beyond the borders of Judah. Now,
Speaker 3: can I preach? Sometimes we have no idea what's really important,
Speaker 3: because we judge significance by size, we judge significance by status.
Speaker 3: But the thing that God wants you to know that Usiah,
Speaker 3: Azariah the artist formerly known as Azariah. The thing that
Speaker 3: God wants you to know about him was he was
Speaker 3: the one who was remembered for what he reads built
Speaker 3: and for what he restored and what he rebuilt and
Speaker 3: what he restored didn't seem very big, but it was
Speaker 3: very important because it was a port city. Because if
Speaker 3: he got the port city working again, the shifts could
Speaker 3: come and go. Imagine the hustle and bustle of commerce
Speaker 3: and economy and exchange and trade that could happen when
Speaker 3: he got the port city back.
Speaker 1: There are some things that the enemy.
Speaker 3: Will fight you over in your life that don't seem
Speaker 3: very big on the surface, but he knows it is
Speaker 3: a port city in your life.
Speaker 5: And if you get this one right, and if you
Speaker 5: get this one back, and if you get this one fixed,
Speaker 5: and if you get this one under control, and if
Speaker 5: you get this one flowing, and if you get this
Speaker 5: one working, and if you get this one open, and
Speaker 5: if you get this one rebuilt. And see, that's why
Speaker 5: you can.
Speaker 3: Never judge the significance of the seas and that you're
Speaker 3: in by the size of the opportunity. According to your
Speaker 3: eyes if you only knew, I will prove it to you,
Speaker 3: not from the Bible. I'll prove it from my life
Speaker 3: because I've never seen E laugh. I've never been there.
Speaker 3: But I have had moments in my life where God
Speaker 3: was using something that I didn't think it was important,
Speaker 3: but it was a port. So when Elijah went to
Speaker 3: college a few weeks ago, he said, I got to
Speaker 3: get a job. I said probably. He said, how do
Speaker 3: I get one? I said, there's many different ways. He said,
Speaker 3: how did you get one? I said, well, I never
Speaker 3: really had a real job. I mean, I got all
Speaker 3: these scholarships to get to college. I applied for every scholarship.
Speaker 3: I did work study where you could get some of
Speaker 3: your tuition paid. I did everything I could. I mean,
Speaker 3: I worked jobs. When I was a kid. I did
Speaker 3: a y'all know about my jobs. I cremated animals, I
Speaker 3: sold fireworks, I cleaned churches, I sold explosives, burned dogs,
Speaker 3: and cleaned the house of God.
Speaker 1: Let me see your resume. All right, But.
Speaker 3: When I got to college, I felt like I was
Speaker 3: called to preach right. Nobody else shared that opinion at college.
Speaker 3: Back at home, I preached my first sermon when I
Speaker 3: was sixteen. I wasn't a king like Usaiah at sixteen,
Speaker 3: but I preached my first sermon at Monk's Corner of
Speaker 3: United Methodist Church.
Speaker 1: And then Pastor Mickey.
Speaker 3: He was the one who sat on my parents' floor
Speaker 3: and said God's hand is on your.
Speaker 1: Son, and for my mom and my dad. They were
Speaker 1: the ones who.
Speaker 3: Let me go be a youth minister while I was
Speaker 3: still a youth. But when I went to college, nobody
Speaker 3: was asking me to pre I found a guy on campus.
Speaker 1: This is what I told Elijah. I said, you need
Speaker 1: to one day.
Speaker 3: If you ever meet him, think j Hardwick. He said,
Speaker 3: who's Jay Hardwick? I said he was the one I
Speaker 3: talked to him in fifteen years. I would text him,
Speaker 3: but I don't have this number, so maybe he'll see
Speaker 3: this Jay.
Speaker 1: Reaching out. You were the.
Speaker 3: One when I came up to you in the cafeteria
Speaker 3: and I said I heard your preacher, and you said, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I'm trying to be it. I said me too,
Speaker 3: I want to preach like you preach. And you said
Speaker 3: to me, Okay, when somebody calls me for an invitation
Speaker 3: and I can't go, I'll tell him to get you instead.
Speaker 3: And I said I'll eat your crumbs. I'm not I'm
Speaker 3: not I'm not picky. I'm not picky.
Speaker 1: Once you've run a crematory, you you'll preach anywhere, I said,
Speaker 1: I said that would be awesome.
Speaker 3: He was the one that told Mason to put me
Speaker 3: on the Summer Impact team where I ended up traveling
Speaker 3: with Holly. He was the one, and he never sent
Speaker 3: me a bill. He never took a commission. Far as
Speaker 3: I know, he never took credit. They'd be running all
Speaker 3: around the state of wherever he lives now saying yeah,
Speaker 3: I gave Ferdiic his start over there over there at elevation,
Speaker 3: but he didn't.
Speaker 1: Really care about that.
Speaker 3: It's like he was so important in my life and
Speaker 3: I never even told my son about him. So just
Speaker 3: the other day, So the next time the devil tells
Speaker 3: you you have no one and he starts hitting you
Speaker 3: with this loneliness that he hits you with. When he
Speaker 3: hits you with loneliness, hit him with a list. Somebody
Speaker 3: say he was the one, all right, let's get inclusive.
Speaker 1: Say she was the one. I knew y'all were getting offended.
Speaker 3: Reflect this Friday night, and I don't want to start
Speaker 3: anything early. I mean, I've told you a thousand times
Speaker 3: that really Hoghy started the church, not me. I was
Speaker 3: gonna start it when I was about the age I
Speaker 3: am now, and eighteen years ago she turned me and said,
Speaker 3: it's time for you to start church, God's colture start.
Speaker 3: We got people around us we need, and you got
Speaker 3: what you need right now to do it. And we're
Speaker 3: gonna do it right now. If she wouldn't have talked
Speaker 3: me into doing it, then I would have learned too
Speaker 3: much to do it at this point in my life.
Speaker 1: I would have learned too much the one. She was
Speaker 1: the one. And I look around the room like this,
Speaker 1: see and I don't just see a crowd, I see ones.
Speaker 1: I see ones.
Speaker 3: He was the one that convinced me we could do
Speaker 3: elevation nights. He was the one that was with me
Speaker 3: at Green Day when Billy Joe Armstrong called me on
Speaker 3: stage to play guitar. Y'all that happened before.
Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old.
Speaker 3: I was at a Green Day concert and I turned
Speaker 3: to my other friend that isn't here anymore, and I said,
Speaker 3: what if Billy Joe calls me to play his guitar
Speaker 3: on stage? He said, shut up? That's stupid. It's never
Speaker 3: gonna happen. And in the middle till the Holy Ghost six,
Speaker 3: in the middle of the Operation Ivy Song Knowledge, Billy
Speaker 3: Joe Armstrong stops and say, does anybody out there play guitar?
Speaker 3: And my friends picked me up, and he was one
Speaker 3: of them and picked me up like I was Mufasa,
Speaker 3: like I was the chill. He's the one. And I
Speaker 3: played that thing. Oh, I killed it too. I was
Speaker 3: ready for my moment. I don't know how many times
Speaker 3: I've wanted to find Billy Joe Armstrong.
Speaker 1: I never met him and say, hey, you remember that
Speaker 1: night in Charleston in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3: Now he did it every night, so for him it
Speaker 3: was just another night.
Speaker 1: But to me, it was the one. That's why I
Speaker 1: preach harror, because I preach every six days.
Speaker 3: But for you, this might be the the one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna preach a lot of messages. But for somebody,
Speaker 1: this is the one.
Speaker 3: For someone, this is the one. And I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about me just to talk about me.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get you to see.
Speaker 3: That for someone, you're the one.
Speaker 1: You're the one. You may not even know it.
Speaker 3: You might be like Billy Billy Joe Armstrong go on
Speaker 3: to do another city. He went on to Charleston, West Virginia.
Speaker 3: He went on to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He never even knew
Speaker 3: he left a boy back in Monk's Corner, South Carolina.
Speaker 3: He boosted my popularity past the high school.
Speaker 1: Quarterback in one moment. But he just went on.
Speaker 3: And So when the devil tells you that you have
Speaker 3: no one, that you are no one, and that you
Speaker 3: can't see how God is using you, Oh, I got
Speaker 3: a tip for you. Ready, Ready, assume that God is
Speaker 3: using you. Assume that God is using you.
Speaker 1: You got it? How do I know God is using me?
Speaker 3: You won't assume that God is using you. Assume that
Speaker 3: God is using you. Usually they say, you know what,
Speaker 3: assuming does it makes a you know whatever, whatever. But
Speaker 3: in this case, I am actually advocating that you assume
Speaker 3: that you are the one that God wanted that person
Speaker 3: to come across in their path because you might have
Speaker 3: something valuable that they need. And for everybody who's been
Speaker 3: stuck in self pity, there is no quicker way out
Speaker 3: of self pity than to fulfill God's purpose.
Speaker 1: So assume. I know y'all don't like this, because sometimes.
Speaker 3: We don't want to be the one. I don't want
Speaker 3: to encourage anybody. When is somebody gonna encourage me? Sometimes
Speaker 3: I don't feel like preaching and I want to hnd
Speaker 3: you on the microphone. You'll say something.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. One day.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna walk in, I'm gonna take the stage, and
Speaker 3: the first person that looks bored, I'm gonna throw.
Speaker 1: My microphone say here, you do it. You're doing it
Speaker 1: just talking. He was the one.
Speaker 3: He was the one he rebuilt and restored.
Speaker 1: He was remembered for what he restored. Will you be
Speaker 1: this is the decision.
Speaker 3: In this season of your life that you are making
Speaker 3: without even knowing that you are making it on behalf
Speaker 3: of others you know? Asked Holly, and I began to talk.
Speaker 3: We started to realize something about relationships.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna try to talk about this.
Speaker 3: If I don't really do a good job with that,
Speaker 3: I'll come on YouTube this week and do a bonus
Speaker 3: teaching on it. So pray I do a good job
Speaker 3: so I don't have to go back in and do
Speaker 3: it again. There's a lot of relational resentment that can
Speaker 3: build up in your life. People that disappoint you, And
Speaker 3: I'm no different than you. I get disappointed in people.
Speaker 3: The men that we're reading about in this scripture, Usiah,
Speaker 3: in many ways, he was a disappointment because he didn't
Speaker 3: bring the nation back to their rightful place. And I'll
Speaker 3: show you in just a moment it even got worse
Speaker 3: than that. But before I show you how bad it got,
Speaker 3: let me just talk about your disappointments and people. Because
Speaker 3: as Holly and I began to talk, I said, you know,
Speaker 3: Jay Hardwick was the one that kind of put us
Speaker 3: on that team, wasn't he? And we never even thought
Speaker 3: about it. Who was someone in your life that you
Speaker 3: don't think about it? And now I'm not talking about
Speaker 3: like the Hall of Fame like Mom and Dad and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. I'm talking about and Billy Graham and
Speaker 3: the Apostle, Paul and Jesus. It's going to be in
Speaker 3: the comments.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the one, Stephen, Jesus, He's the one, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it for you.
Speaker 3: But you know, moving thus long from there, there's people
Speaker 3: that you think they're going to be the one to
Speaker 3: be with you forever, but they're not. But just because
Speaker 3: they're not the one, that was with you for a
Speaker 3: little while, or just because they're not with you forever,
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that they didn't serve an important purpose in
Speaker 3: your life. Now know this is for but I really
Speaker 3: need to say it. Some people in your life are
Speaker 3: port people. They move through, you move on, they move on.
Speaker 3: Just because they didn't stay planted doesn't mean they weren't important.
Speaker 1: And what this will help you do when the enemy
Speaker 1: says you have nobody.
Speaker 3: Look at how they let you down. Look at how
Speaker 3: they didn't come through for you. Look at how they
Speaker 3: don't get you. Look at what they weren't able to do.
Speaker 3: Look at how you believed in them. Look at how
Speaker 3: you thought they were going to be the perfect partner.
Speaker 3: Look at how you thought they were.
Speaker 1: Going to be.
Speaker 3: I want to revisit this for a moment so that
Speaker 3: you stop focusing on the disappointment and start focusing on
Speaker 3: the deposit. Because I could tell you somebody right now
Speaker 3: and you could do the same for me. You could say, man,
Speaker 3: she was the one that I counted on and she
Speaker 3: let me down. But if we took it a little deeper,
Speaker 3: there was something God used that person in your life for.
Speaker 3: And even if it was just a port moving through.
Speaker 3: You understand what I'm saying about elath. We have elath
Speaker 3: relationships and they may not last as long as we
Speaker 3: wanted them to, and they may not be everything that
Speaker 3: we wanted them to be.
Speaker 1: And if we're not careful, so careful with our soul rules.
Speaker 3: The devil will set up camp in that disappointment and say,
Speaker 3: you have no one, but they.
Speaker 1: Were the one.
Speaker 3: They were the one for a while. Look at what
Speaker 3: they added to your life. Yeah, but they betrayed me.
Speaker 3: It was Judas that got Jesus to the cross.
Speaker 1: He was the one.
Speaker 3: That God used more than any of the other disciples,
Speaker 3: because it was Judas that God used to get Jesus
Speaker 3: to the place where he paid for your sins and mine.
Speaker 3: Even the people that hurt you God used. I don't
Speaker 3: see that coldly. I don't see that to celebrate abuse
Speaker 3: or neglect or abandonment. I just know that someone has
Speaker 3: been living in this place for a long time.
Speaker 1: I have no one, and.
Speaker 3: You are so good at the disappointments that you're missing
Speaker 3: the deposits. And not only those that are gone, not
Speaker 3: only the people that planted seeds, not everybody that starts
Speaker 3: with you is supposed to stay with you. Not only that,
Speaker 3: but there are fresh people that God is bringing into
Speaker 3: the part of your life. And if you do not
Speaker 3: do the work in this season of setting free and
Speaker 3: forgiving the things that disappointed you, you will not be
Speaker 3: open to the deposit. And so you stay poor, and
Speaker 3: you stay sad, and you stay alone. But if you
Speaker 3: will get your eyes off of who left and put
Speaker 3: your eyes on what they left, that God is still
Speaker 3: watching over.
Speaker 1: In your life to bring you to a new level.
Speaker 3: I declare and the creed he will rebuild and restore
Speaker 3: everything that the locas said every year that the kicker
Speaker 3: worm not up.
Speaker 1: After all, it wasn't them that blessed you anyway. He
Speaker 1: was the one. God was the one. His mercy was
Speaker 1: the conduit, His grace was the power. Get ready to shout.
Speaker 1: You've had your eyes on people. Put your eyes on Jesus.
Speaker 1: He what's the.
Speaker 4: One got to focus on others got too focused on stuff.
Speaker 1: Forgot that he was the one.
Speaker 3: Somebody say he was the one who brought me through depression.
Speaker 3: Say he was the one who forgave all my sins
Speaker 3: and healed all my diseases. He was the one whose
Speaker 3: blood washed me clean. And he was the one who
Speaker 3: knelt in a garden of got seventy with me on.
Speaker 1: His mind and thrust through to La Crosse. He was
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 3: And that's why I know he's not through with you,
Speaker 3: because it was him all along.
Speaker 1: Usiah rebuilt and restored the port.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you a question when we write Your
Speaker 3: Second Kings Chapter fourteen, verse twenty one and twenty two,
Speaker 3: what are we gonna say?
Speaker 1: He was the one. He was the one. I know
Speaker 1: some of you in here. I want your I want
Speaker 1: your Second King's fourteen twenty two to read like this.
Speaker 3: He was the one who battled through the addiction that
Speaker 3: his dad couldn't defeat and beat it for his own kids.
Speaker 1: He was the one. She was the one who.
Speaker 3: Forgave her mom for never telling her that she was loved,
Speaker 3: for making her perform. And because she forgave her mom,
Speaker 3: she was able to face herself and love herself and
Speaker 3: see herself as a daughter of God. She was the one.
Speaker 1: I'll see crowds today. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know why God gave me this annoying. I
Speaker 3: just see ones. I just see ones. I just see ones.
Speaker 3: One God, one person which one you want to be,
Speaker 3: because this can go the other way too. He was
Speaker 3: the one who gave up on himself because he really
Speaker 3: got tired of making excuses, and so eventually he just
Speaker 3: brought his lifestyle his belief in God down to the
Speaker 3: level of his lifestyle, rather than bringing his lifestyle up
Speaker 3: to the level of his belief in God. I want
Speaker 3: to tell you something about Usaiah, and we might want
Speaker 3: to sit down for this.
Speaker 1: Yusaiah, they're really good.
Speaker 3: In fact, Second Chronicles twenty six it kind of says
Speaker 3: the same thing about him, but it gives us a
Speaker 3: little more detail. And I bring you this in a
Speaker 3: spirit of humility, because look, I know when you're a
Speaker 3: strong word from God. And for some of you, this
Speaker 3: is a strong word from God.
Speaker 1: And it's not because of me.
Speaker 3: It's because of the importance of your life to what
Speaker 3: God wants to do through you. And so this word
Speaker 3: is hitting you right now because this is an elath
Speaker 3: message for you. This is a a port sermon for you.
Speaker 3: What goes forth from here is important. You don't think
Speaker 3: it is yet you don't even know why.
Speaker 1: You're the one.
Speaker 3: I had a man come up to me after I
Speaker 3: preach one time and he said, preacher, when you were preaching,
Speaker 3: you said this message is for someone I don't know who,
Speaker 3: and he goes, I just want to let you know
Speaker 3: I was the one, and he said a little bit
Speaker 3: of what he was going through. I said, thank you
Speaker 3: for telling me. Then somebody else came up and they
Speaker 3: had overheard, and it was a man and a woman,
Speaker 3: and the woman.
Speaker 1: Said she was really funny.
Speaker 3: She said, I didn't mean the eavesdrop, but I heard
Speaker 3: that man that came before, and this is my husband, Joe,
Speaker 3: and I just want you to know that man that
Speaker 3: was here before he was wrong because he was the
Speaker 3: one you were talking to.
Speaker 1: And pointed at her husband.
Speaker 3: Somebody say, I'm the one. See, I'm the one that
Speaker 3: decides which one I'm going to be. He was the
Speaker 3: one who rebuilt and restored. If you're life this is
Speaker 3: in ruins right now. You didn't control that. You may
Speaker 3: have contributed to it, but but will you be the
Speaker 3: one who rebuilds in restores. I know God wants to
Speaker 3: be the one who helps you do that. I know
Speaker 3: that he'll be the one that will empower you to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: Usiah does amazing things, y'all. He for a guy who
Speaker 1: had to start being a king at age sixteen. Wow.
Speaker 3: He defeats three of the Philistine countries, knocks down their walls.
Speaker 3: He puts these watch towers all around Jerusalem where they
Speaker 3: can see where their enemies are coming from.
Speaker 1: And then after he.
Speaker 3: Builds the watch towers, he puts these special military devices
Speaker 3: where they can shoot the arrows and hurl the stones
Speaker 3: and their enemies can't see them. He buys new military
Speaker 3: equipment for every single one of the soldiers. And there
Speaker 3: are three hundred, five thousand and seven hundred of them soldiers.
Speaker 3: He gives them all new equipment. He's also a gardener.
Speaker 3: He does amazing things with agriculture. This guy is amazing, amazing,
Speaker 3: and so are you in some ways. But the Bible
Speaker 3: says something really scary to me.
Speaker 1: Let's look at it. Second Chronicles twenty six.
Speaker 3: Then all the people of Judah took Usaiah, who's sixteen
Speaker 3: years old, made him king in place with his father Amasi.
Speaker 1: We already read that. This is a different account of it.
Speaker 3: He was the one who rebuilt eleth and restored it
Speaker 3: to Judah after Emasi arrested with his ancestors. We already
Speaker 3: read that, But this is a different account, and I
Speaker 3: watched this. Usaiah was sixteen years old when he became king,
Speaker 3: and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty two years. His mother's
Speaker 3: name was Jekaliah, and she was from Jerusalem. He did
Speaker 3: what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just
Speaker 3: as his father Amaziah had done. He sought God during
Speaker 3: the days of Zachariah. Zachariah was the one who mentored him,
Speaker 3: who instructed him in the fear of God.
Speaker 1: And listened to this verse, it's going to feel haunting.
Speaker 3: As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.
Speaker 3: The next several verses really break that down. All the
Speaker 3: successes God gave him. It says that God strengthened him,
Speaker 3: God helped him, God upheld him, God resourced him. If
Speaker 3: you go all the way down to verse sixteen, it says,
Speaker 3: but after Usiah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall.
Speaker 3: He was unfaithful to the Lord as God and entered
Speaker 3: the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the
Speaker 3: altar of incense. Now listen to this, as Aria the priest,
Speaker 3: this is a different Azariah. As if it wasn't confusing
Speaker 3: enough already, there's got to be two Azariahs and one
Speaker 3: who isn't going by the name Azariah anymore. Thanks a
Speaker 3: lot chronicle writer. Azriah the priest with eighty Let listen
Speaker 3: to this. Back into the scene, as Aria the priest
Speaker 3: with eighty other courageous priests. The Lord followed him, and
Speaker 3: they confronted King Usaiah and said, it's not right for you,
Speaker 3: Usiah to burn incense to the Lord. That's for the priests,
Speaker 3: the descendants of Aaron who have been consecrated to burn
Speaker 3: incense lead the sanctuary. You've been unfaithful. You're not be
Speaker 3: honored by the Lord God. The kings weren't allowed to
Speaker 3: burn this incense. It was for the priest to do.
Speaker 3: You know, you always get in trouble when you try
Speaker 3: to do what God called somebody else to do, when
Speaker 3: you start wishing you could be this one or that one.
Speaker 1: And see, Usiah was powerful. God called him. Don't get
Speaker 1: it twisted. God anointed him.
Speaker 3: God put the crown on his head, no matter whose
Speaker 3: hands he used to position it there. It was God
Speaker 3: that did it. But then he got out of his place,
Speaker 3: and even when he was corrected, he wouldn't listen. Now,
Speaker 3: listen to this verse nineteen because God is bringing you
Speaker 3: to this point today, and I want you to hear
Speaker 3: this as a warning.
Speaker 1: For your life.
Speaker 3: Usiah, who had a censor in his hand ready to
Speaker 3: burn incense, became angry. And while he was raging at
Speaker 3: the priest in their presence before the incense alter in
Speaker 3: the lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
Speaker 1: When Azariah, the.
Speaker 3: Chief priest, and all the other priests looked at him,
Speaker 3: they saw you at leprosy on his forehead, so they
Speaker 3: hurried him out. Indeed, he himself.
Speaker 1: Was eager to leave because the Lord had afflicted him.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this. I wish the story ended, but.
Speaker 3: I got to give it to you how it is
Speaker 3: in the Bible, because I don't write the book.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you the mail.
Speaker 3: The Bible says King Usiah had leprosy until the day
Speaker 3: he died. He lived in a separate house Lepross, and
Speaker 3: banned from the temple of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Jotham.
Speaker 3: His son had charge of the palace and governed the
Speaker 3: people of the land.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this.
Speaker 3: The other events of Usiah's reign from beginning to end,
Speaker 3: are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of amos Usiah
Speaker 3: arrested with his ancestors and was buried near them in
Speaker 3: a cemetery that belonged to the kings. For the people
Speaker 3: said he had leprosy, and Jotham, his son succeeded him
Speaker 3: as king. All he did, and the people said, give
Speaker 3: me verse twenty three again.
Speaker 1: You see that, I'm gonna wait for you to find it.
Speaker 1: You see it.
Speaker 3: People said he had leprosy, and he died like that.
Speaker 3: And he died like that because he forgot that God
Speaker 3: was the one. And you die alone when you forget
Speaker 3: that God is the one, and you live alone when
Speaker 3: you forget that God is the one, and your worship
Speaker 3: gets weak when you forget that God is the one,
Speaker 3: and you start running from what God has called you to,
Speaker 3: when you forget that God is the one, and you
Speaker 3: feel cut off when you forget that God is the one.
Speaker 1: How many are grateful.
Speaker 3: That of all the kings that are in second Kings fourteen,
Speaker 3: none of those kings are the one that we came
Speaker 3: to worship today.
Speaker 1: Good and too.
Speaker 3: Because people will disappoint you, but God will carry you.
Speaker 3: People will leave you. God never will. And the Bible
Speaker 3: says that King Usiah died with leprosy, a skin condition
Speaker 3: that isolated him.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to You don't have to stay away.
Speaker 3: You know why because Isaiah prophesied to Usiah, but he
Speaker 3: did not prophesy about Usiah. Isaiah prophesied about another king,
Speaker 3: a king that would come at a later date, A
Speaker 3: king that will not come through any human father, but
Speaker 3: a king that would come not in a palace, a
Speaker 3: king that would come in a Palestinian environment that would
Speaker 3: have been unfit for many animals. See the thing that
Speaker 3: I want you to know today, for all of you
Speaker 3: who feel alone.
Speaker 1: I have no one, I am no one. I can't rebuild,
Speaker 1: I can't recover.
Speaker 3: I'm down here and I have to stay here, and
Speaker 3: there is no more for me.
Speaker 1: And I'm not the one. And this sermon is for.
Speaker 3: Somebody else because I've tried this before and it didn't work.
Speaker 1: I wanted you to know.
Speaker 3: This from the heart of God today for his child.
Speaker 3: Your leprosy is not your legacy.
Speaker 1: This leprosy, this issue.
Speaker 3: Everybody has something like that, not a skin disease, not
Speaker 3: something that others can see on your four, but a
Speaker 3: label that follows you.
Speaker 6: Through life, a condition, an issue, a struggle, a tendency,
Speaker 6: something that has been with you and may even be
Speaker 6: consuming you.
Speaker 1: But somebody shall.
Speaker 3: This leprosy will not be my legacy. Say it by faith,
Speaker 3: This leprosy.
Speaker 1: Will not be my legacy.
Speaker 3: One more time, say this leprosy, this label, this limitation,
Speaker 3: this loneliness will not be my legacy. Now look at
Speaker 3: your neighbor and say, God is not through with you.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you how I know God's not.
Speaker 1: Through with you.
Speaker 3: You know how I know He's not through with you
Speaker 3: because it did not end in Second Chronicles twenty six
Speaker 3: with Issiah. Flip on over to Matthew chapter one.
Speaker 1: I feel I.
Speaker 3: Preach him because the Bible says, no piano, give me
Speaker 3: some organ. Usiah who was Usiah, the father of.
Speaker 1: Jotham, right, and he.
Speaker 3: Died of leprosy and people said he had leprosy. Well
Speaker 3: that's what people said, but that's not what God said.
Speaker 3: God said he was the one who rebuilt Eli. So
Speaker 3: I need everybody to give God praise if you're grateful that.
Speaker 1: People don't have the final word in your life. In
Speaker 1: your life, people, people.
Speaker 3: I'll give God praise if you're said, pray for what
Speaker 3: the people say. People can say what they want to say.
Speaker 3: People can say what they want to say. I'm not
Speaker 3: listening to people. I'm listening to Prophecy.
Speaker 1: What they got say about you? And he said you're
Speaker 1: the one? Yes what You're the one?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 3: So come with me to Matthew chapter one, verse nine.
Speaker 3: Because you're reading, you're like, that's sad. He died of leprosy.
Speaker 3: But somebody say this leprosy is not my legacy. No,
Speaker 3: because Ysiah, who was he? Well, he was the one
Speaker 3: who was the father of.
Speaker 1: Jotham, who was Jontham. Let's play jeopardy.
Speaker 3: He was the one who was the father of a
Speaker 3: Has who is a Has?
Speaker 1: He was the one.
Speaker 3: I'm getting happy because I'm thinking about everything God's still
Speaker 3: going to do in your life that you can't see
Speaker 3: right now, Everything God's going to bring through you, everything important.
Speaker 7: That God still has in your future. That's why the
Speaker 7: devil's fighting you so hard. That's why you can't sleep
Speaker 7: at night. That's why you're tossing and turning. That's why
Speaker 7: you're kind of restless. That's why you're kind of lonely.
Speaker 7: Because God is raising you up, all right. Just preach
Speaker 7: the text. Just preach the text. Let's go back to
Speaker 7: the text. Back to the text.
Speaker 3: Somebody say, he was the one, yeah, yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 3: was the.
Speaker 1: One a has who was he? He was the one who.
Speaker 3: Was the father of Hezekiah verse ten, Hazekiah. He was
Speaker 3: the one who was the father of Manassa. He was
Speaker 3: the one who was the father of Emmin. He was
Speaker 3: the one who was the father of Josiah. He was
Speaker 3: the one that was the father of Jackaniah. Who was Jackaniah?
Speaker 3: Somebody shout he was the one, no shout at. He
Speaker 3: was the one verse twelve who was the father of Shiltiel.
Speaker 3: Who was Shiltiel. He was the one who was the
Speaker 3: father of Zaruba Bel. He was the one who was
Speaker 3: the father of Abitadag. He was the one that was
Speaker 3: the father of Eliahum. He was the one that was
Speaker 3: the father of Ahor. He was the one who was
Speaker 3: the father of Zadak. He was the one that was
Speaker 3: the father of a king. He was the one that
Speaker 3: was the father of Ellehunt. I told you I can't
Speaker 3: pronounce these words. I'm will of fortune. I'm past say
Speaker 3: jack baby. He was the one that was the father
Speaker 3: of Methan. He was the one that was the father
Speaker 3: of Jacob. Now get ready to celebrate, because who was Jacob?
Speaker 1: He was the one that was the father of Joseph.
Speaker 1: He was the one that was the husband of Mary.
Speaker 1: She was the one that was.
Speaker 3: The mother of.
Speaker 1: Who was.
Speaker 3: The one who is O? Holy God?
Speaker 1: Going to the prison prisons? Rise him on the port city,
Speaker 1: rights us for the purpose? Lights up?
Speaker 3: Oh, he's bringing through rites Us for the purposey right,
Speaker 3: just for the sacred. Hey are the water and the leprosy.
Speaker 3: It's not your like you say, what's big Jesus.
Speaker 8: Over your life?
Speaker 3: Hot's big Jesus over your business?
Speaker 1: What big Jesus over your mind?
Speaker 3: Jesus, Jesus sister one, Jesus, Jesus, sister one, Jesus, Jesus
Speaker 3: sister one.
Speaker 1: Who's started going Jesus.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna see you through Jesus?
Speaker 1: Always been him, It's always been him, Bro.
Speaker 3: Since you were a little boy, he was watching out
Speaker 3: for you, since you were a little girl.
Speaker 1: He was raising you up. They called you and he
Speaker 1: chose you.
Speaker 3: And you are going to be the one to rebuild
Speaker 3: and restore so that Jesus can come forth in your life.
Speaker 1: I declare God is bringing something forth in this moment.
Speaker 1: Who receives it, Who receives it? Come on, make your.
Speaker 7: Heart a port city right now, say God, I receive it,
Speaker 7: I receive it, I receive it.
Speaker 1: Now you're going to be the one.
Speaker 3: She was the one who went to counseling and worked
Speaker 3: through her past so that it did not become the
Speaker 3: lid of her future.
Speaker 1: She was the one. He was the one who decided
Speaker 1: to give his gifts to God rather than using them
Speaker 1: to serve the world. He was the one.
Speaker 3: He was the one who decided to open a door
Speaker 3: for others rather than always trying to make it about himself.
Speaker 1: He was the one. What one will you be?
Speaker 3: I love that story in the Bible where ten lepers
Speaker 3: came up to Jesus. They knew that he was the
Speaker 3: one who could heal them. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: get the richness of this. He was the prophet, the priest,
Speaker 3: and the king, all of those things in one.
Speaker 1: They had been to their priest, their priest couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: They came to Jesus and he told them, go to
Speaker 3: the priest, and you will be healed as you go.
Speaker 3: And in Luke seventeen, verse fifteen, the Bible says that
Speaker 3: one of them, one of the ten, when he saw
Speaker 3: that he was healed, came back praising God man a
Speaker 3: whispered thank you, Lord, thank you so much, thank.
Speaker 1: You so much.
Speaker 9: What does the Bible say? In a loud voice? Because
Speaker 9: he realized, dyeleprosy is not my legacy. You don't have
Speaker 9: to stay outside anymore. He is Manuel God with us.
Speaker 1: One of them came back. If I preach this sermon.
Speaker 3: Everything I've said today, for one person to come back,
Speaker 3: it will be worth it. Because I believe you are
Speaker 3: a port city. I believe things are going to flow
Speaker 3: through you that are going to change lives. You will
Speaker 3: never meet who receives it, who receives it, who receives it?
Speaker 3: Online say I receive it, but I received it.
Speaker 1: I see it.
Speaker 3: Oh God, He was the one, Jesus was the one
Speaker 3: with healing, and it is at his feet that we
Speaker 3: fall today.
Speaker 1: Lord God, this is the part of the sermon.
Speaker 3: Where I stop speaking, but you don't, because there are
Speaker 3: things that you want to open up for the people
Speaker 3: that you brought to hear this word today. They have
Speaker 3: been labeled by life, labeled by lies. But I declare
Speaker 3: that label will not be their legacy. Alcoholic will not
Speaker 3: be their legacy. Addict will not be their legacy. Bitter
Speaker 3: will not be their legacy. Failure will not be their legacy.
Speaker 3: Defeat will not be their legacy. The heritage of the
Speaker 3: servants of God is the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Speaker 3: and our righteousness comes from you. You are the one loud,
Speaker 3: You are the one, and so Father, I stretch my
Speaker 3: hands to you today for every time that the devil
Speaker 3: has tried to tell me I am no one and
Speaker 3: I have no one.
Speaker 1: I have someone.
Speaker 3: His name is Jesus, and he is the one who
Speaker 3: opens blind eyes.
Speaker 1: He is the one who causes the lame to walk.
Speaker 3: He is the one who forgives the sinner. He is
Speaker 3: the one who raises the dead.
Speaker 1: He is the one who speaks for the.
Speaker 3: Word, and we are healed. I wonder who is that
Speaker 3: one today that God gave me this message? For with
Speaker 3: your head bowed and your eyes closed, there's someone in here,
Speaker 3: and you need to throw yourself at the feet of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: We're going to pray a prayer right now. And this
Speaker 3: prayer is not the people. This prayer to Jesus. He's
Speaker 3: the one who can save you. I said he's the one.
Speaker 3: Somebody say it. He's the one. You've been running to
Speaker 3: everything else. You've been running to sex, you've been running
Speaker 3: too drugs, you've been running too religion.
Speaker 1: You've been running to others.
Speaker 3: You've been running too achievement, you've been running too aspiration.
Speaker 1: But he's the one. He's the one who can say.
Speaker 3: So. Right now, in the stillness of this moment, I
Speaker 3: want to lead you in a prayer.
Speaker 1: And if you pray this prayer from your heart.
Speaker 3: The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth
Speaker 3: that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that
Speaker 3: God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Speaker 1: It is your faith in Christ that saves You're not
Speaker 1: your good works, just your faith in Him.
Speaker 3: So right now, if you need to come back to God,
Speaker 3: if you are that one who needs to come back
Speaker 3: and receive the.
Speaker 1: Grace of God, I want you to pray this with me.
Speaker 3: We're praying it as a church family, everybody all together
Speaker 3: praying out loud, repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I am
Speaker 3: the one. I am a sinner in need of a
Speaker 3: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the one true God.
Speaker 3: I believe he died that I could be forgiven and
Speaker 3: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.
Speaker 3: This is my new beginning. I am a child of God.
Speaker 3: On the counter, three, shoot your hand up if you
Speaker 3: prayed that one two, three.
Speaker 8: Hands up online, Hands up online. I celebrate you. I
Speaker 8: celebrate you. A church, the Bible says, says for rejoicing
Speaker 8: over one sinner in heaven. All the angels rechoice when
Speaker 8: one comes back.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate the wine. Hold on, Let's celebrate.
Speaker 3: Somebody's daughter, somebody's son, somebody's brother, somebody's sister.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate.
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