1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: In the final week of our series, there is a cloud. 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: God led me to a scripture in Numbers, chapter nine. 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 2: I want to read this for you. 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: It may be unfamiliar, but hopefully it will build your faith. 10 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: And that is my prayer every time I stand in 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: the pulpit to preach, that God would use me to 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: build your faith, because it is your faith that enables 13 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: you to experience God's presence in your life. And so 14 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: as we read this scripture, I want you to just 15 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: kind of like get a flow for it. 16 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 2: It's unusual scripture. 17 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: I don't know that I ever heard a sermon on 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,639 Speaker 1: it before, but I was looking at how God gave 19 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: his people this cloud. They were coming out of Egyptian 20 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: slavery and they were trying to get to the Promised Land, 21 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: but they were experiencing a delay. 22 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: You ever had one of those? 23 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: Huh? You ever been stuck somewhere, stuck in something. So 24 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: that's where they were and it was mostly their fault. 25 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 2: But you can't really blame them. 26 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: They were trying to figure out who is this God 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: and who are we? And all they had ever known 28 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: was all they had ever known. And so God gives 29 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: them a gift in the midst of this. And that's 30 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: what I want to share with you about today. Numbers 31 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: chapter nine, verse fifteen. I'm calling this sermon. All systems go, 32 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: All systems go, you know, like when they launch a 33 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: rocket ship. Y'all saw hidden figures, and so we're getting 34 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: ready for what God is doing in our lives. 35 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 2: Everybody say, there is a cloud on. 36 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: The day the tabernacle, the tent of the Covenant Law 37 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: was set up. 38 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: I need to say something right here. 39 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: Every situation is a setup if God is in it. 40 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: Here they are in the wilderness, but God is still 41 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: establishing his presence. Just want to point that out. So 42 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: they set up this tabernacle, which was a portable house 43 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: or the presence and the glory of God. And it 44 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: says that there was a cloud that covered it from 45 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: evening till morning. The cloud above the tabernacle looked like 46 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: fire That's how it continued to be. The cloud covered it, 47 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: and at night it looked like fire. Whenever the cloud 48 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out. Wherever 49 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped. At the Lord's command, 50 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. 51 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: As long as the clouds stayed over the tabernacle, they 52 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: remained in camp. When the cloud remained over the tabernacle 53 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and 54 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: did not set out. Sometimes, I say sometimes sometimes the 55 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days. At 56 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: the Lord's command, they would in camp. Then at his 57 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: command they would set out. Now, what's the common denominator, 58 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: whether they're coming or going. 59 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 2: They are doing it at the Lord's command. 60 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: And the whole reason they're in this wilderness is because 61 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: they would not go into a place that God said 62 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: he had promised to them. So now they've got to 63 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: learn some lessons, and God is using this cloud as 64 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: a personal trainer. 65 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 2: Amen. 66 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: Well, I'm excited to appreciate about this today because it 67 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: means that God is developing their faith even though they 68 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: were disobedient. But he doesn't give up on them. Instead, 69 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: he uses the opportunity to guide them in a place 70 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: where he didn't want them to wander. But even in 71 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: their wandering, he was teaching them how to walk with him. 72 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. So they were walking cloud to go 73 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: and listen to this verse twenty one. Sometimes the cloud 74 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted 75 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: in the morning, they set out, whether by day or 76 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: by night, whether by day or by night, whether in 77 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: the good times are the bad times, whether I'm clear 78 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: or whether I'm confused, whether I did it right or 79 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: whether I did it wrong. God was right there night morning, 80 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: wilderness promised land. Wherever you find yourself, there he is. 81 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: And so when the cloud would go, they would go, 82 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: whether by day or by night. Whenever the cloud lifted, 83 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: they set out. Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. 84 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: For two days or a month or a year, the. 85 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: Israelites would remain in the camp and not set out. 86 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: But when it lifted, they would not set out. And 87 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: by this point in the passage, you're thinking. 88 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 2: We got it. 89 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: They followed the cloud, But we don't got it. You know, 90 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: we need things to be reiterated. 91 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 2: For us. 92 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: I mean, how many times have you done the same 93 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: dumb thing expecting a different result in your life thus far? 94 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: And you're only twelve. Let me read one more verse, 95 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: verse twenty three. At the lord's command, they encamped, and 96 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: at the lord's command. 97 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 2: They set out. 98 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: They obeyed the Lord's order in accordance with his command 99 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: through Moses, all systems go, Holly, and I just celebrate. 100 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: Get ready to applug big. This's a big one. We 101 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: just celebrated fifteen years of marriage. Some of y'all look 102 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: like you're too good to clap for my fifteen years. 103 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: Maybe you've been doing it thirty years, thirty five years, 104 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: but to me, fifteen it's above the average, already beat 105 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: the odds. 106 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: Feels kind of good. 107 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: And I attribute our marital success to a couple of 108 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: different factors. 109 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 2: I will list them for you in this order. 110 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: God, Holly, that's neck and neck too, they're right there together. 111 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: And the third one is not me. The third one 112 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: is this is going to sound strange when I say it, 113 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: the invention of the GPS system, the Global Positioning system. 114 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: If it had not been for the GPS system, because 115 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: some of our worst fire somebody over here must be 116 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: like me. Some of our worst fights are in the 117 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: car because I have no sense of direction and she 118 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: is supposed to have one. It was part of an 119 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: unspoken prenuptial agreement. I grew up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. 120 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: She grew up in Miami, Florida. She's supposed to know 121 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: her way around places. I told her I was country 122 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: when I married her, I told we talked about this, 123 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: and so we used to travel. And I know this 124 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: is prehistoric and primitive, and I'm not relating to the 125 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: young people anymore when I. 126 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: Say stuff like this. 127 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: But when we used to print our directions off a 128 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: map quest, what what our marriage? Our marriage was in 129 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: trouble on those map Quest directions, because now we got 130 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: it down. I mean, one Christmas, she brought me a 131 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: Tom Tom. Y'all don't remember nothing about a Tom Tom. 132 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: Now you got it on your phone when you got 133 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: Siri and everything like that. But we used to boy, 134 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,799 Speaker 1: we used to talk about things in the car because 135 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: she would tell me win the term, but not win anyway. 136 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is we made it. Somebody shot they 137 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: made it, and we made it because of the GPS. 138 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: That's because for me. 139 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: It's a real thing I cannot overemphasize to you. And 140 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay here for a minute because I do 141 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: have a point to all of this, and it really 142 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: has nothing to. 143 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: Do with GPS. 144 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: It's really a spiritual point. I have found out in 145 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: my life, both as a driver and as a person 146 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: that I am not really good at finding my way 147 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: around by myself, even as a pastor. I probably shouldn't 148 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: tell you this, but I've never done this before. I 149 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: told Elijah that the other day. He was arguing with 150 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: me about something. He wanted to listen to something lo 151 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: yochty or something, and I said, you can't because I 152 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: don't know his clean versions. And he said, well, you 153 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: listen to worse stuff when you were growing up. And 154 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: I said, but I have a parental right of hypocrisy. 155 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: Shut up and do this because I've never done this before. 156 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna do it the way I want to do it. 157 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: He did. He said Snoop was just as bad. His 158 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: album was called, and he said the name of the 159 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: album from nineteen ninety three. So we had a discussion. 160 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: Some of y'all are too safe to come to this 161 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: worship experience. 162 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, but thank you for coming. 163 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: And so we were talking. 164 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 2: I was like, I never did this before, and it. 165 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: Kind of gave me compassion, even for my dad. You know, 166 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: he didn't have a dad. 167 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 2: I had a dad. 168 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: My dad's dad ended his own life and my dad 169 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: was nine. So one day I was going off about 170 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: my dad to my mom. 171 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 2: You know, he doesn't get it, and he and this, 172 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 2: he and that, and. 173 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: Probably some of my gripes were legitimate, but she said 174 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: back to me something. 175 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 2: She said, he never saw it done. 176 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: He's trying to stay, but he never saw it. It's 177 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: like being a tour guide you've never been to and really, 178 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: raising teenagers in today's world is like being a tour 179 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: guide in a town that changes every ten minutes. Huh. 180 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:14,719 Speaker 1: These have to go to the gas station to buy 181 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: a magazine with pornographic material. Now they can get it 182 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: on the same device they can read their Bible on, 183 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: So like, how do you navigate that? So I've come 184 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: to the conclusion in life that I need a leader. 185 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: I need a leader. God knows that about me. He 186 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: knew that about his children. He knew they were frustrated, 187 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: he knew they were confused, and he knew that they 188 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: were following a man, Moses. 189 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 2: Moses had. 190 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: Moses had had tried to talk God out of Jusey, 191 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 1: and yet he's the one God wanted. And so. 192 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 2: God gave them a gift. He gave I'm kind of. 193 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: Like it's a primitive GPS system. 194 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 2: Did you see it? In number chapter nine? 195 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: God was doing the cloud way before Google. Okay, and 196 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: so this cloud. Ever say there is a cloud. He 197 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: put this cloud in the wilderness for three purposes. Please 198 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: take notes, because I believe there are three things that 199 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: God wants to do in your life right now. 200 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 2: And I'm speaking to. 201 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: The person who has been in a state of confusion. 202 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: I wanted you to know that there is a cloud 203 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: over your life, whatever wilderness you find yourself in today, 204 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: whether as a parent or whether as a pre pubescent. 205 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 2: You know, I could be speaking. 206 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: To a pastor listening to this on a podcast, but 207 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: I want you to know that there is a cloud, 208 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: and God sent the cloud to guide you, to guide you. 209 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: It's actually be better than that because God. 210 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 2: Did not just say he would guide you. 211 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: He said in Psalm number forty six that he would 212 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: be our guide. That's better because if God gave me guidance. 213 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: I know something about myself. I'm not good at following it. 214 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: So when Holly and I talk about directions, she'll say, 215 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: you know, you take a left and then there's a 216 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: fruit stand, and then there's a cow, and then there's 217 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: a thing, and then there's a building, and then there's 218 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: a store, and then there's. 219 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 2: A porch swing. 220 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: It's a red porch swing, got American flag draped over. 221 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: She knows all these details and stuff that I don't recognize. 222 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: And then she'll look at me and she see my 223 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: eyes glazing over, and she said, you know what, I'll 224 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: just give you the address, and that saved our marriage. 225 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: I'm serious, I have no This is how bad it is. 226 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: When I was a teenager, I would not go get 227 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: my driver's license. Not because I didn't want to drive. 228 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: I could not find my way around Monk's Corner. What 229 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: is there to find in Monk's Corner? There's a walmart 230 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: and there's a high school. I couldn't fight. It was 231 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: so about my dad. My dad had to make me 232 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: go get my driver's license. He walked in the house 233 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: one Wednesday. It was his day off. It was summertime. 234 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: I had turned fifteen months ago, but I wouldn't get 235 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: every time he would ask me, you want to go 236 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 1: get your license? Because I'm sickadrete in your own. Every 237 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: time he would ask me, do I want to go 238 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: get my license? I would tell him no. It wasn't 239 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 1: that I was scared of driving. I was so embarrassed 240 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: that I couldn't find my way around, so I just 241 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: kept putting it off. In one Wednesday, he walked in. 242 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: It was his day off, it was my day off. 243 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: I worked at. I had a summer job at. My 244 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: first job was at Petrest Crematory and Cremation Service. Okay, 245 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: I started from the bottom for real. Don't look at 246 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: me like I was glamorous. And I was in my 247 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: guitar my room, playing my guitar. He walked in and said, 248 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: today's the day we're going to get your license. 249 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 2: I'm sick of this. 250 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: And I wasn't scared of the driving test. I should 251 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: have been the woman that was sitting next to me 252 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: for the driving test. 253 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: She was so mean. 254 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: The car kept cutting off every time I try to start. 255 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: My dad's jimmy. Y'all remember the jimmy. Every time I 256 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: would try to start every time my dad's car was 257 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: such a piece of crap. When you try to start 258 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: the car and put it in reverse, it would cut off. 259 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: And so I was trying to back out of the 260 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: parking lot of the DMV. I couldn't get the car 261 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: out of the parking lot. And every time I put 262 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: in a reverse that would cut off. And the woman 263 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: let me do it three times, and she says, Sir, 264 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: in the history of my experience of one hundred and 265 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: thirty five years administering these tests, I've never done this. 266 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: But get out the car. Your test is over. You 267 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: failed in the parking lot. My dad came running across 268 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: the parking lot. He's sweating. My dad's a big old guy, sweating, 269 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: waving his arms. Give him another chance, ma'am, give him 270 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: another chance. I forgot to tell him this car's got 271 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: some issues. You can't have the air conditioning on when 272 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: you have it in reverse. Y'all didn't grow up driving 273 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 1: these kind of cars. I know you got to BMW 274 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 1: on your sixteenth think that I. 275 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 2: Had to naked. 276 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: Where's he going with this? I think a lot of 277 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: believers have been given license to live in the fullness 278 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: of the promise of God. But I don't trust my 279 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: sense of direction, and so God said, I see you. 280 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: You look like a sheep. 281 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: I see you. 282 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 2: Turning left instead of right. So I'm going to guide you. 283 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd, the Lord. That's a good thing. 284 00:14:53,920 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: He's my shepherd because I am bad. I mean, I 285 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: am bad at finding my way. So he said that 286 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: he would make me lie down in green pastures. Wait, man, 287 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: I don't want anybody make me do anything. Live a 288 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: little while, and you will want someone bigger than you, 289 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: wiser than you, stronger than you. You'll stop trying to 290 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: shrink God down to a formula that you can manipulate, 291 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: and you will come to the point where you'll say, God, 292 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: have your way in my life. Make me lie down 293 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: in green pastors. David said, he leads me beside still waters, 294 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: in that cool He restores my soul. He leadeth me 295 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: in paths. 296 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 2: Of righteousness for his name's sake. 297 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: Yeave, though I walked through the valley of the shadow 298 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: of death. Wait a minute, we were just talking about 299 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: still waters and paths of righteousness. 300 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 2: How did we end up in this valley of the 301 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 2: shadow of death? 302 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: But sometimes the paths of righteousness must pass through the 303 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: valley of the shadow of death so that you can 304 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: go through situations that look like seem like and feel 305 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: like they are going to kill you. But you get 306 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: to the other side and you see a table that 307 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: has spread of provision in the presence of your enemies. 308 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: If there is one thing I believe, it's that goodness 309 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: and mercy happened following me all the days of my life. 310 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: I'm loud. That is one thing that keeps me from 311 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: going crazy. I know God is guiding my life. I 312 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: really have come to the point where I believe that 313 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: I can't always tell you where, but I know who 314 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd, and I found out that 315 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: he will use circumstances that he did not create. He 316 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: will even use confusion to guide me to confidence. So 317 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: the children of I'll prove this to you. Okay, they 318 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: come to the Red Sea. They're confused, but God put 319 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 1: a cloud here. 320 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 2: It is before them. This is Exitus thirteen twenty one. 321 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: They're not in the wilderness yet, they're not out of 322 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: Egypt yet. 323 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 2: They're in between. They're fifteen years old, they're about to 324 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 2: get their driver's license. 325 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: They don't know where to go. So look what God does. 326 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 1: By day, the Lord said a pillar, and it went 327 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: ahead of them, and it is a pillar of cloud 328 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: by day and a pillar of fire by night. Because 329 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: God will not always look the same way in every situation, 330 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: and sometimes you miss him because you are looking for 331 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: Him to appear in the form of a method. And 332 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 1: so you come to something, I'm gonna turn my back. 333 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: So this just can between you and God. Wave your hand. 334 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: If you're going through something right now that you do 335 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: not fully understand. Right, it's called being alive. So now 336 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: they're coming to this transition point and they don't know 337 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: where to go because they can't go back to Egypt, 338 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: but they don't know how to get across the sea. 339 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: So God gives them a cloud. And watch what the 340 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: scripture says, go back to twenty one. I want to 341 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,239 Speaker 1: make sure you don't miss this. Sometimes I go too 342 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: fast on it and we miss stuff. He sent them 343 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: to cloud. He went before them to guide them. God's 344 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: positioning system. So wherever I go, God went before me. 345 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: That sounds so simple, but thousands of you don't believe 346 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: that yet. You believe that the good things that are 347 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: happening to you are the result of the guidance of God. 348 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you that God was using the chariots 349 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: of Egypt and the whip of Pharaoh to make sure. 350 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 2: That they kept moving. 351 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: So God is driving them from behind and leading them 352 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: as he goes before them, say out loud, God is 353 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: my guide. Say it like the devil might have been 354 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: pushing you around lately. 355 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 2: Let him know. 356 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: God is my guide. And even if it's the devil pushing, 357 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: God is the one who is pulling me into the purpose. 358 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: All things work together for the good. 359 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 2: So I need a guide. 360 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: And so the cloud went before them and it showed 361 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: them the next step to take. 362 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 2: In the cloud, it led them. 363 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: I need the Lord to lead me. I need him 364 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: to lead me to speak these sermons. We're all in 365 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: trouble if he doesn't lead me to sermons. I heard 366 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: somebody say something in church one time. They were talking 367 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: about being led by the Holy Spirit. Okay, and you've 368 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: probably heard that before that God led me sometimes Christians, 369 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: you said, to say the craziest stuff all religions do. 370 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: Some religions will commit acts of terror and say that 371 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: they were led by God to do that. One thing 372 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: I heard early they were taking an offering in church. 373 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: I grew up in church, but it wasn't personal for 374 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: me then, you know, like it was a religion, It 375 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: wasn't a relationship. But when my relationship with God became real, 376 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: because only you can decide that. They were taking an 377 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:54,479 Speaker 1: offering one day and the person taken the offering, they 378 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: said this phrase. They said, just give today as you 379 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: feel led. And I was only like seventeen years old, 380 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: but I knew, well, that's not going to work as 381 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: I feel led, because I mean, let's just apply that 382 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: feel led to other areas of life. Okay, if I 383 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: ate what I feel led to eat, there would not 384 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: be enough denim in these United States of America to 385 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 1: circumvent my waistline. If I exercised when I feel led 386 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: to exercise, it would be once in January, in once 387 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: in May when I thought about looking good in a 388 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: bathing suit, and then I would decide I already got 389 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: my wife who cares, and I would never hit the 390 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: jem if I did it when I fell. Okay, try this. 391 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: Tell your kids when you feel led to go to school. 392 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: Try that with your employee. I wasn't feeling led to 393 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: What if you went to work when you felt led 394 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: to work? But we will subjugate our relationship with God 395 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: to our feelings. Now, notice this, The cloud didn't ask 396 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: the children of Israel do you feel like moving today? 397 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: Would this be a good time? And did I catch 398 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: you at a bad time? And God doesn't consult their 399 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: mood see if they feel like moving. I don't have 400 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: to feel it. Not being led by my feelings. I'm 401 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: led by my priorities. You missed a whole lot just now. 402 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't a real shouty statement, but it is the 403 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: difference between mature faith that will get you through the 404 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: wilderness and the kind of faith that goes up and 405 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: down and flows like this. And as you going all 406 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: around to all different people all time, God sent them 407 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: the cloud to teach them to prioritize. 408 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 2: Everybody say prioritize. 409 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: Some people came to church today because they felt like it. 410 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: Other people came to church today because this is the 411 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: day the Lord has made. I set this time aside. 412 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: And the less I felt like it, the more I 413 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: knew I needed to do it, because I am not 414 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: watch just sakh first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. 415 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: That is a statement of priority, not a statement of feeling, 416 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: not a statement of preference. If I did everything I 417 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: felt like doing. I would have a prison ministry from 418 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: inside the prison. If I preached when I felt like preaching, 419 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: you would hear three sermons a year from me. I 420 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: didn't preach because I felt like it, although I did today. 421 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: I feel like preaching today. I can't explain it. A 422 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: little extra caffeine or work a wonder in your soul. 423 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: But even if I didn't feel it, it's eleven thirty 424 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: and here come the people, and the Word of God 425 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 1: is here, and somebody needs it. It's preaching to it's 426 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: praise in time. I don't lift my hands because I 427 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: feel like lifting my hands. I did it because he's worthy, 428 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: He's worth. How many worship then because he's worthy? To 429 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: seven people say, I do it because he's worthy, because 430 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: he's worthy, Because he's worthy. That's why I seek him, 431 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: because he's worthy. That's why I offer him the honor, 432 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: because he's worthy. That's why I'm staying where he told 433 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: me to stay, because he's worthy. Stay married fifteen years 434 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: being nice when you feel led to be nice, just 435 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: stay married fifteen minutes. If it's your priority, God is 436 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: my priority. One way of saying this, He's at the 437 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: center of my life. Now, think about that. The tabernacle 438 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: is in the wilderness. It's a portable tabernacle. Many of 439 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: our locations at Elevation Church still meet in rented facilities. 440 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: Means we have awesome volunteers come early, stay, lay, set up, 441 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: tear down. 442 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 2: Some of y'all didn't come to Elevation during. 443 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: That season, and those of you who did are thanking 444 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: God that those days are over. But that's where you 445 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: find out who you're really faithful. People are hauling those 446 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: trailers in Winston Salem and in and out, and we 447 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: have portable locations. 448 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 2: Well, we didn't start that. God started that. 449 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: And he not only told them how to build the 450 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: tabernacle when Moses went up and sought them for six 451 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: days in the cloud. And after seven days in the cloud, 452 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: God spoken, some of you leave too soon before God speaks. 453 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: When it's cloudy, you quit listening. But that's where God 454 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: speaks in the valley in the cloud. I feel God's 455 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: presence in this place. So he told him how to 456 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: build the tabernacle. But he also told him where to 457 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: put it. He told him, make sure you set it 458 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: up in the middle of the camp so that everybody 459 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: has to face it. So that all of the tribes 460 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: standing under their different banners have to face the same center. 461 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 2: Right, So when I. 462 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: Look at my life, I realized that not only is 463 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: God leading me, but he is leading me from the center. 464 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: The cloud would hover above the tabernacle, and the tabernacle 465 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: would stay in the middle. So watch this. This is 466 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: so powerful I should demonstrate it. Come here, Jordan, come here, Buck, 467 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: Come here, JJ. Wherever they went, you can be the 468 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 1: tabernacle and you can be the cloud. I am making 469 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: this up as I go. All right, but wherever they went, 470 00:26:55,359 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: this had to stay in the middle. We are so 471 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: paralyzed about where God is positioning us, and so we 472 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: go does God want me to take this job or 473 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: that job? And we become really flaky, really flaky. We 474 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: won't commit that this, or we're moving all around. Oh look, 475 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: did God want me to marry him? You married him 476 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: twenty seven years ago. That is a done deal. Now, 477 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: what you got to do is keep the presence of 478 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: God in the middle yet, and so when God moves 479 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: move you. 480 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: Just gotta come on. 481 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: Buck. You're helping me with this, doing a terrible job 482 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: at it right now. But so think about that now, listen, 483 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 1: listen of all the ways God could have led them. 484 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: This is a strange scenario. Strange how many would agree 485 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: this is strange because if you want the people to 486 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: get up and go, put them on a schedule. That's 487 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: just some parenting advice. By the way, you decide to 488 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: have a baby, LJ. Put them on a schedule. Yet 489 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: God does the exact opposite of what every parenting book 490 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: tells you to do. 491 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 2: He wants to teach his children something. 492 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: So the Bible says that sometimes the cloud would stay 493 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: for like two days, and then it would move, so 494 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 1: they had to move because they had to keep thinking 495 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: in the middle. And then it would stop and they 496 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: would stop. Sometimes the cloud would stay for a year. 497 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: I want you to think about this. Just stay right there, 498 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: so somebody has to stay. 499 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: Up all night. It's millions of. 500 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: People because we just read the Bible and we think, oh, 501 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't it be cool if God would give me you 502 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: a cloud to show me which job to take or 503 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: which school to put my kids. No, it wouldn't be cool. 504 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: It would be horribly inconvenient because you'd always be thinking 505 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: we're gonna remove in today and then just about the 506 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: time you would unpack in the spot you were in it, 507 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: start moving again. 508 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 2: Stop and the. 509 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: Craze's the hist thing about this whole scenario that is 510 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: not mentioned in the text, but is implied in the text. 511 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: They weren't really going anywhere. If you know your Bible, 512 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: come on, you know your Bible, John, and then at 513 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: least you should you're an ordained minister of the Gospel 514 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. Buck's just a security guy. No, he's 515 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: actually a great example because I met him in college. 516 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: I liked him because he was a wrestler, a successful wrestler. 517 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: He won a stag championship. He fought in MMA tournaments. 518 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: Yeah he did, Yeah he did. They were illegal, unsanctioned 519 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: tournaments with interns at Elevation Church. But listen to me, now, 520 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: that's not my point. 521 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 2: I met him on an internship. 522 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: The whole time I was at the internship, I was 523 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: complaining I didn't see Buck until eight years later. 524 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 2: Was it eight years later? Something like that? 525 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: He said, seven seven years later. I appreciate you correcting 526 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: the story just that much, which really didn't make a 527 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: difference at all other than the slow down. 528 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 2: The momentum of my point. 529 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: I appreciate that Buck, I didn't know when I was 530 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: doing the internship that he and I would travel. 531 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 2: We've been to six continents together preaching the gospel. 532 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: Now. 533 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 2: Sometimes he's an illustration. 534 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: Sometimes he's making sure that everything is set so I 535 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: can minister. But God had to take me all the 536 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 1: way through an internship that I didn't even want to 537 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: be at. We went to who HOAt China together, We 538 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: got chased through Chinese nightclubs together, sketchy stuff before social media, 539 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: thank God. But God was guiding us for where he 540 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: knew he was taking us. But he had to take 541 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: us the long way for something that he wanted us 542 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: to pick up along the way. Because if I hadn't 543 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: done that intern if I had gone to Charleston Southern University, 544 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: there would not have been a Holly boy knot. Oh yeah, 545 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: her last name was worse than Ferdick. When I met her, 546 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: she got an upgrade on Ferdick, and that is no 547 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: small feet. But I couldn't go to Charleston Southern. They 548 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: had to take my scholarship away because I had to 549 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: go to Tigerville, South Carolina, in the mountains, in the woods, 550 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: where boys and girls are not even allowed to look 551 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: at each other. Across the street because it's a Baptist school. 552 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: I had to go to the Baptist school to get 553 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: a point, not girl, because God knew he was calling 554 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: us just I'm trying to say, then, if you keep 555 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: God in the center, you don't happen no where you're going. 556 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: Just keep them, keep the God in the middle. Sit 557 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: down before I. He's guiding me, and he is teaching 558 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: me to prioritize His presence, and he will not do 559 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: it in a way that I can predict, because my 560 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: tendency is to turn God into a formula. And you 561 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: know as well as I do that if God had 562 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: moved that cloud at seven pm every Friday, they would 563 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: have become more dependent on the system than the source. 564 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: And He loves you too much to let your faith 565 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: become a formula. So he's gonna can I say this, 566 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: I need permission, even though you don't know what I'm 567 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: gonna say. I need you to trust my integrity. God 568 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: is using your confusion and I can hear it right 569 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: now because on First Corinthians fourteen on Facebook, they're gonna 570 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: put First Corinthians fourteen on There's people that sit around 571 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: on Facebook and they have nothing better to do. They're 572 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: gonna say on this clip, they're going to say, but 573 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: God is not the author of confusion. 574 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 2: I read the same verse. 575 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: It's talking about having an orderly worship experience, and so 576 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 1: it says God is. 577 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 2: Not the author of confusion. 578 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: In other words, don't everybody try to talk at one time, 579 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: or nobody's going to hear what anybody's saying. That is 580 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: the context of that verse. He's not the author of confusion. 581 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he won't use confusion. 582 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 2: You know what, I believe the only path to true confidence. 583 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: Is through confusion, because only after you've been through the confusion, 584 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: and after you've been through the valley, can you say 585 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: the Lord is my shepherd. He told them, I'm gonna 586 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: put you in that wilderness for forty years, but while 587 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: you're there, I'm going to train you to trust me. 588 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to train you. See, we are so destination minded. 589 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: But the cloud didn't move because they needed a new 590 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: destination study. This sometime they got man of wherever they 591 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,359 Speaker 1: set up camp. The only reason that God moved them 592 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,800 Speaker 1: around was so that they wouldn't get stuck in one system. 593 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 1: God said, I don't want you to get stuck in 594 00:34:54,840 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: a system that will short circuit your faith. So I'm 595 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 1: going to allow life to throw you off balance from 596 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: time to time, and I'm gonna put you in some 597 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: situations where you don't feel certain because you can't have 598 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,320 Speaker 1: your certainty and God's confidence. 599 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 2: So I sent the cloud to guide you. 600 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: I sent the cloud to teach you to prioritize my presence. 601 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 1: The cloud was above the tabernacle. How many No, not 602 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: only is he central, but he is above. God has 603 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: exalted Jesus and given him the name that is above. 604 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: Every name that at the name of Jesus. Every knee, 605 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: every sickness, every disease, every worry, every attack, every fear, 606 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 1: every knee will pow, every tone will confess. I feel 607 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: God guiding me right now. I feel these words going 608 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: right into your heart. Jesus Christ. It's just Lord, to 609 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 1: the glory of God the Father. And notice the scripture 610 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 1: says it was a pillar of cloud. A pillar is 611 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: an image of stability. How can you have stability if 612 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 1: what you're following keeps moving great? So, so Jesus is 613 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,839 Speaker 1: getting ready to be taken up. Okay, he's resurrected from 614 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 1: the dead. I'm fast forwarding like a couple thousand years. 615 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: And he looks at his disciples and he knows, like 616 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: the children of Israel, they have never been this way before. 617 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 1: He's got a mission for them. He said, you will 618 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: receive power. Somebody shall power, because God's presence is God's power. 619 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: It's not an accessory, it's not a bonus feature. God's 620 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: presence is God's power. Up until this time, they have 621 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 1: been relying on God's presence in the visible form of 622 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,760 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. But you got to watch this. Something shifts 623 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: and just before Jesus leaves the earth, he's already taken 624 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: the keys to death, hell and the grave. He's already 625 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: paid the price for the sin that stood and kept 626 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: record against us. He's already nailed your condemnation to the cross. 627 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 1: He's already carried your shame. He's already born your burden. 628 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: He's already taken your sorrow. And now he's standing and 629 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 1: he's resurrected, and he's about to ascend into heaven to 630 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,720 Speaker 1: be seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. 631 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: From whence he shall come to judge to quicken the dead. 632 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,640 Speaker 1: And he looks at his disciples and says, you shall 633 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and 634 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 1: you will be my witnesses. Watch this in Jerusalem, in Judea, 635 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,399 Speaker 1: in Samaria, to the ends. I am sending you into 636 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:06,919 Speaker 1: an unstable world with a sore foundation, and you will 637 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,080 Speaker 1: be my witnesses. 638 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 2: In Jerus Summari at the ends of the earth and 639 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 2: watched this. 640 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,279 Speaker 1: And when he had said this, he was taken up 641 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: before their very eyes, and the cloud hid him from 642 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: their sight, and they couldn't see him anymore. But they 643 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 1: didn't need to see him anymore, because when he sent 644 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: his spirit they got a GPS. Somebody shot, I got 645 00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: a GPS. I don't have to stay lost and lonely 646 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: and confused and uncertain any more. Jesus said, today is 647 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: the day all systems go. Today's the day you get 648 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 1: your driver's license. And you will receive power when the 649 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 1: Spirit comes on you. Stabilize, stabilize. The cloud kept going 650 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 1: to show them that wherever they would go, God would 651 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: be in their midst. I'm declearing this over your life today, 652 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: that there is a cloud in every wilderness. There is 653 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 1: a cloud. It's not an external thing. You keep asking 654 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,880 Speaker 1: for God to give you a sign on a text 655 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 1: messager a sign to show up in the sky or something. 656 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,680 Speaker 1: But the sign is within you. On the endside, he 657 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 1: will not leave you or forsake you. Who am I 658 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:13,839 Speaker 1: preaching to today? I really need to know because God said, 659 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,360 Speaker 1: I want to guide you, I want to teach you 660 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: to prioritize, and I want to stabilize you. So I'm 661 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,440 Speaker 1: bringing you into some unfamiliar terrain because I don't want 662 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: you to depend on your circumstance. I want you to 663 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: depend on my spirit. So I gave you a GPS guide, prioritize, stabilize. 664 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: Somebody's shot. I got a GPS. Come on, this is 665 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: this is better. This is better than knowing where you're going, 666 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: to know who is with you as you go. If 667 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: you believe God is with you, end up on your 668 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 1: feet right now. If you believe he's guiding you, if 669 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,120 Speaker 1: you believe He's taking you somewhere, Come on. I need 670 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: you to praise God in this moment like you've got 671 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:16,400 Speaker 1: Holy spirit power. Come on, praise Him in this moment. 672 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 1: God inhabits the praises of his people. He dwells in 673 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:27,080 Speaker 1: the midst of praise. He dwells in the midst of hollelujah, 674 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: he dwells stuff. 675 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:36,799 Speaker 2: It's our God. 676 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,800 Speaker 1: This will be the last day of your life that 677 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,800 Speaker 1: you will live without a guide. I didn't say you 678 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,240 Speaker 1: wouldn't go through another valley. 679 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,960 Speaker 2: But today, today we make a declaration. God is guiding 680 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:54,439 Speaker 2: my life. 681 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,840 Speaker 1: You know what that means that everything that comes against 682 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,719 Speaker 1: me has to work for me before it's all said 683 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,800 Speaker 1: and done. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is 684 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. Come on, touch 685 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 1: twelve people tell him. The Lord is my shepherd. The 686 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,400 Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd. He's guiding me, providing for me. 687 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,400 Speaker 2: The spirit of the Lord is in this place. And 688 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,839 Speaker 2: where the spirit is there is freedom. You have been 689 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,719 Speaker 2: so scared, so. 690 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 1: Nervous because I don't know where to go. And the 691 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,200 Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd, and there is a cloud. 692 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,440 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we need to do. We need 693 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,279 Speaker 2: to establish a connection with Heaven. 694 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,040 Speaker 1: You know, the Bible says his divine power has given 695 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,759 Speaker 1: us everything we need for life and godliness through him. 696 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,720 Speaker 2: So everything you need, God. 697 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,920 Speaker 1: Chris, that's a thought of this is in the cloud, 698 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: you know. And to get what's in the cloud, I 699 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,360 Speaker 1: need a connection with the source. Lift your hands, come on, 700 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,600 Speaker 1: lift your hands. Father, We honor you, We glorify you, 701 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,800 Speaker 1: We bless your name, We honor your presence. Come on, 702 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,040 Speaker 1: open your mouth, give and praise, We magnify, exult and 703 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 1: extol God of all. We exult to now. High up 704 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:22,919 Speaker 1: mom uncertainty, high about fear, Come high about depression, high 705 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,320 Speaker 1: about the spat. We'll lift our hands in your press, 706 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,839 Speaker 1: re steal your people. 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