Speaker 1: All right, get out your phones real quick. Those of
Speaker 1: you that have an alarm system, put seven pm every
Speaker 1: night for an alarm to go off for the next
Speaker 1: couple weeks, so you can pray for us for elevation nights.
Speaker 1: Because we start our tour of eight cities this Tuesday
Speaker 1: in Chicago. We're going to Indianapolis. We're going to Columbus, Ohio, Washington,
Speaker 1: d C, Boston, Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker 1: Reading Holly's going with me on every stop. I cannot
Speaker 1: be without Holly that long. By night six, I'd be
Speaker 1: so depressed. I'd be talking about all the sad scriptures.
Speaker 1: I'd be preaching from job and the Garden of Death. Semine,
Speaker 1: my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It'd
Speaker 1: be so sad if I didn't have So's. She's going
Speaker 1: to be there, and many of these folks are loading up.
Speaker 1: Rhythm is gonna share in the opening set as well.
Speaker 1: Y'all got twelve minutes to get the praise right. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome, and I'm gonna be preaching. There are
Speaker 1: still some tickets available. They might be sold out by
Speaker 1: the time you see this, but maybe you can find
Speaker 1: a scalp or go to Elevation Nights dot com or
Speaker 1: your official ticket master tickets and we will see you there.
Speaker 1: Oh it's gonna be exciting. So seven pm each night,
Speaker 1: pray that God would give us a fresh annointing seven pm.
Speaker 1: Just put a little alarm when it goes off. Oh yeah, God, tonight,
Speaker 1: may there be breakthroughs, chains broken, people set free, dreams rekindled,
Speaker 1: all of that, people saved, comeing to Christ. We're expecting
Speaker 1: all of that. So I appreciate your prayers. We cannot
Speaker 1: do it without the Holy Spirit. It'll just be a show.
Speaker 1: But if God shows up, Wow, something awesome could happen.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I believe God is here right now.
Speaker 1: How about you? They don't believe it. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to Chicago. Don't believe it in Chicago. I said, God
Speaker 1: is here right now. WHOA I heard you were doing
Speaker 1: a little spring cleaning doctor g the other day. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do some spring cleaning in the word of
Speaker 1: God today. Get all that unbelief out of our spirits.
Speaker 1: And God's been stirring up a faith annoying in me.
Speaker 1: I think he's getting me ready for this for this
Speaker 1: elevation Night's tour, and he's been stirring up my faith,
Speaker 1: so I want to share it with you today, all
Speaker 1: right in Mark chapter five, that's where we want to go,
Speaker 1: Mark chapter five all the first time. Gess like, do
Speaker 1: we have to stand up the whole time? Why they
Speaker 1: give you this seat? If they're not gonna let me
Speaker 1: use it, you get to use it right after I
Speaker 1: read this scripture. Calm down, It's all right. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love preaching the
Speaker 1: word now more than I ever did before. My passion
Speaker 1: for it has never been greater than right now, And
Speaker 1: even in the last few months, God has been recentering
Speaker 1: my passion on it showed me that's the purpose that
Speaker 1: He put me here on earth for is to share
Speaker 1: this word with you so much? Why do you holler
Speaker 1: so much and scream so much? When you preach? It
Speaker 1: gets exciting to me. It gets exciting to me. It
Speaker 1: gets exciting to me. Don't you know you have a microphone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it gets exciting to me. It gets exciting to me. Now,
Speaker 1: if you get excited during my sermon, you can shout
Speaker 1: to all right, I could do permission, Let's look at
Speaker 1: Mark chapter five, verse thirty five. While Jesus was still speaking,
Speaker 1: some people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader.
Speaker 1: Your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore?
Speaker 1: Daughter is dead? They said, why bother the teacher anymore?
Speaker 1: Verse thirty six. Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, just believe he. Jesus did not let
Speaker 1: anyone follow him except Peter James and John who Peter
Speaker 1: James and John, the brother of James. And when they
Speaker 1: came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw
Speaker 1: a commotion with people crying and wailing loudly. He went
Speaker 1: in and said to them, why all this commotion and wailing.
Speaker 1: The child is not dead but asleep. But they laughed
Speaker 1: at him, laughed at him. After he put them all out,
Speaker 1: he took the child's father and mother and the disciples
Speaker 1: who were with him, Peter, James, and John, and went
Speaker 1: in where the child was. He did not avoid the
Speaker 1: desperate situation. He walked right into it. He took her
Speaker 1: by the hand, which is ceremonially unclean for a Jewish
Speaker 1: rabbi to do if she's dead. But maybe she's not dead.
Speaker 1: Maybe Jesus knows something that we don't know about this
Speaker 1: little girl, about your life. He took her by the
Speaker 1: hand and said, listen to this to Alitha koumb, which
Speaker 1: means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately
Speaker 1: the girl stood up started walking around. She was twelve
Speaker 1: years old, Hannah Beth, she was twelve years old Abby
Speaker 1: Faith at this they were completely astonished, and he gave
Speaker 1: strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and
Speaker 1: told them to make her a sandwich. Wow. Let's give
Speaker 1: God praise for his miracle working power. And what I
Speaker 1: want to tell you today as a sermon title is
Speaker 1: an announcement over your life. The facts aren't final. The
Speaker 1: facts aren't final. I don't know who this is for,
Speaker 1: but I have been wrestling with this text all week,
Speaker 1: and at the end of all my wrestling with the text,
Speaker 1: the Lord released me to get up here and tell
Speaker 1: you the facts aren't final. Oh yeah, Now look at
Speaker 1: the person next to you and shout it right in
Speaker 1: their face. The facts aren't fire. Put it in the chat.
Speaker 1: The facts aren't fire. You may be seated. What's going
Speaker 1: on in your life? What's going on in your house.
Speaker 1: What's going on in your mind? Do I really want
Speaker 1: to know? You might be sorry you asked you. Now
Speaker 1: you ask somebody sometimes how you doing, and then you
Speaker 1: wish about five minutes later you would have said something
Speaker 1: different to start a conversation. There's better icebreakers than how
Speaker 1: you're doing. Let me tell you right now. I started
Speaker 1: trying to just tell people good things about themselves rather
Speaker 1: than ask them how they're doing, because I figure I
Speaker 1: can trick them in to thinking they're doing better than
Speaker 1: they are. Man, you look amazing. You've been getting great sleep,
Speaker 1: haven't you. You've been getting massages every day and doing
Speaker 1: dead lifts. Look at you. You look relaxed and focused
Speaker 1: all at the same time. How is that even possible?
Speaker 1: What's going on in your house? You wouldn't have necessarily
Speaker 1: known that Gyrus had a dying daughter if you saw
Speaker 1: him in the synagogue, because he was a leader there,
Speaker 1: not a paid professional. He wasn't the priest that offered
Speaker 1: the sacrifices. The synagogue leader was like in our church
Speaker 1: what we would think of as a campus pastor not
Speaker 1: even really that because they weren't paid all right, So
Speaker 1: JJ's like, please don't make me a sa n agogue
Speaker 1: leader pastor more like a volunteer team leader or something
Speaker 1: like that. But he was in charge of all of
Speaker 1: the practical duties in the synagogue. That was his job.
Speaker 1: She had to keep certain wrecords and uphold certain standards.
Speaker 1: That was Gyrus's job. And the contrast of how I
Speaker 1: jumped right in was probably pretty start. I know. We
Speaker 1: went from singing a minute ago about you are the
Speaker 1: same God, you were a healer then, and all of
Speaker 1: the wonderful things that we started calling God when we
Speaker 1: said waymaker, miracle worker, promise keeper. I'm gonna stop quoting
Speaker 1: that song because I didn't write it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it'll get copyright flag if I keep using the
Speaker 1: lyrics on YouTube. But all of those things that God is.
Speaker 1: And then we jumped right into this passage of scripture
Speaker 1: where it says in verse thirty five, Jesus was still speaking,
Speaker 1: and some people came from the house of Gyrus. It's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy how the son of God is speaking
Speaker 1: and there is an interruption and the interruption results in
Speaker 1: the worst news that any human being can possibly hear.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get worse than this, Your daughter is dead,
Speaker 1: doesn't get worse than that doesn't get worse than that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get worse than this what Gyrus hears. And
Speaker 1: so we are thankful as we journey through this passage
Speaker 1: that it has a happy ending. And yet we know
Speaker 1: that some stories don't. And somebody said to me, actually
Speaker 1: this week, they said your Easter sermon was almost too
Speaker 1: real and too raw for me. Well, I always thought
Speaker 1: that keeping it real was what y'all loved about me
Speaker 1: as a preacher. I thought if y'all wanted fiction, you'd
Speaker 1: turn on the news. Oh yeah, ah yeah, it's to raww.
Speaker 1: It is amazing, isn't it. It represents a shift in
Speaker 1: my thinking where the Lord dealt with me in the
Speaker 1: last few years. Stop preaching your sermons to people like
Speaker 1: they are an audience to be feared, and start speaking
Speaker 1: to them like they are people to be loved, which
Speaker 1: means that we have to keep this conversational and relational.
Speaker 1: And yet I don't really know you. I feel like
Speaker 1: I do some of you. Some of you. I know
Speaker 1: you so well, like your face comes through my mind
Speaker 1: when I'm all alone, listening to my worship music, studying
Speaker 1: my word of God. I will see homeboy on the
Speaker 1: fourth row two seats in that always wears a hoodie. Jerry,
Speaker 1: I told you before, Holly used to watch you worship
Speaker 1: before we even knew who you were, and she was
Speaker 1: watching this guy worship the Lord and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: that's weird, big who are you watching worship the Lord?
Speaker 1: She's like, no, it's just he cries while he worships.
Speaker 1: And I wonder what's behind all of those tears. And
Speaker 1: the more we understood your story, we understood why you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have necessarily known that Jerry was crying because of
Speaker 1: how close he came to losing everything. You wouldn't have
Speaker 1: necessarily known that Gyrus, as he performed his function in
Speaker 1: the synagogue, was dealing with the situation at home that
Speaker 1: is every parent's worst nightmare. And the more we can
Speaker 1: bring the reality of what's happening at home into this
Speaker 1: sanitized space that we call sacred, the more like the
Speaker 1: ministry of Jesus our worship services will be. You know,
Speaker 1: he did most of his ministry in the interruptions between
Speaker 1: places that the disciples thought he should go. Think about
Speaker 1: that for a moment, that much of the ministry of
Speaker 1: Jesus not only happened outside of the church, services, but
Speaker 1: it happened on the way to something else, which makes
Speaker 1: me think that maybe I'm not smarter than God about
Speaker 1: what needs to happen in my life, and that maybe
Speaker 1: even when I'm planning my day, some of the things
Speaker 1: that I don't know to be aware of will become
Speaker 1: the most significant things about that day, the conversations that
Speaker 1: we will have. In fact, I'm trying really hard these
Speaker 1: days that when me and Holly talk, because I love
Speaker 1: talking to Holly, all right, when I say that, there
Speaker 1: are times I tune her out. Okay, there are times
Speaker 1: I don't want to lie to you. I want to
Speaker 1: keep it real, like we said five minutes ago, and
Speaker 1: keep it real. But when we really get in a conversation,
Speaker 1: there aren't like to mes. There aren't to mes. They're
Speaker 1: actually like fifty mes. But when it comes to what
Speaker 1: I care about, we talk about these things that I
Speaker 1: talk to you about. And then sometimes my goal in
Speaker 1: preaching is I want you to overhear a conversation that
Speaker 1: I'm having with God, or that I'm having with my wife,
Speaker 1: or that I'm having with my kids about what God
Speaker 1: is doing, because I think the more relational the word is,
Speaker 1: the greater the revelation can be so that you can
Speaker 1: make it flesh in your life, not just theory in
Speaker 1: your mind or a formula in a history book. God
Speaker 1: did this, and God did that. And I believe that
Speaker 1: it is the personal experience of faith that has the
Speaker 1: most power touch somebody say it's personal to me, it's
Speaker 1: personal to me. I have personal issues, I have a
Speaker 1: personal God. I have personal fears, I have personal phobias.
Speaker 1: I have a personal God. I love the phrase that
Speaker 1: we use in the Baptist Church to make Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: your personal Lord and savior. It's something that we used
Speaker 1: in the Baptist Church to mean he is Lord and Savior,
Speaker 1: whether you say he is or not. But when it
Speaker 1: gets personal to you, that means you go to Him
Speaker 1: to save you, not a pill bottle. That means you
Speaker 1: go to Him to save you. Not a plastic card
Speaker 1: where you spend money. You don't have to buy stuff.
Speaker 1: You don't need to impress people who aren't paying attention
Speaker 1: to you because they're doing the same thing. You go
Speaker 1: to Jesus to save you. You You go to Jesus to
Speaker 1: deliver you. You go to Jesus to speak to you,
Speaker 1: not potato chips. You go to Jesus to speak to you,
Speaker 1: not porn. Help you. Go to Jesus. I thought y'all
Speaker 1: wanted it real. This is a personal word that Jesus
Speaker 1: spoke to Gyros. Go back to verse thirty five. While
Speaker 1: he was still speaking, some people from Gyrus's house came
Speaker 1: to him and gave him a bad report. Don't shy
Speaker 1: away from relating to this story just because you cannot
Speaker 1: sympathize with the specific situation. The principles that are in
Speaker 1: this passage of scripture apply to any situation in your
Speaker 1: life that requires faith where fear is present. And I
Speaker 1: used to shy away from these heavy passages because I thought, well, man,
Speaker 1: I've never lost a child. But this passage isn't so
Speaker 1: much about losing a child as it is keeping faith.
Speaker 1: Keeping faith, and keeping faith means sometimes believing God in
Speaker 1: the face of a bad report. So this word, first
Speaker 1: of all, is about somebody who has received a report
Speaker 1: this week in your life that has caused you to fear, dread,
Speaker 1: or to fall into a place of despondency. As Jesus
Speaker 1: is speaking, some people come from Gyrus's house and say
Speaker 1: it got worse the whole time that you've been standing
Speaker 1: here at the feet of Jesus because I didn't read
Speaker 1: this part, because I can't read the whole Bible to you.
Speaker 1: Every time we get together, I just have to choose
Speaker 1: a frame and start there. I would love to, actually,
Speaker 1: I would love to talk to you about what was
Speaker 1: in Mark four, Mark three, Mark seven, Mark eight, Mark nine,
Speaker 1: Mark Tenka. That's all good, but just for this frame today.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you that Cyrus fell at the feet
Speaker 1: of Jesus, which means he had to come down from
Speaker 1: his high position as a synagogue leader and put himself
Speaker 1: in a low place at the feet of a rabbi
Speaker 1: who wasn't even a part of his religion. Church didn't
Speaker 1: exist yet. Jyrus was Jewish leading a synagogue, and he
Speaker 1: came to Jesus, who was outside the system of what
Speaker 1: he even knew to be true religion. But here's what
Speaker 1: I learned about desperate situations in your life. Desperate situations
Speaker 1: will cause you to do things differently than you did
Speaker 1: them when you thought you had all the answers and
Speaker 1: everything you need and you had it all figured out.
Speaker 1: And now the leader is at the feet of a teacher,
Speaker 1: and he hopes that he can do something for his daughter.
Speaker 1: And every dad of a daughter stand up, every dad
Speaker 1: of a daughter stand up. Wouldn't you do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you do the same thing when you fall at
Speaker 1: his feet? Your daughter is dying, wouldn't you fall at
Speaker 1: his feet? Wouldn't you do the same thing for your daughter? Now?
Speaker 1: I have three kids, two boys, one girl. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I would do it for them, the boys, but
Speaker 1: for Abby. I'm just kid, not doing for any of
Speaker 1: my kids, I said, I said, I'll said out. I
Speaker 1: mean and Holly were talking about this the other night.
Speaker 1: This is the conversation I want to bring you on.
Speaker 1: This is our conversation. We were talking about how really,
Speaker 1: in the end you have to give your kids to God.
Speaker 1: You really do now, I mean, you know, you could
Speaker 1: put them on a sleep schedule when they're too but
Speaker 1: when they're thirty two, when they're when they're transitioning through life,
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a point where God calls you
Speaker 1: to participate in parenting your children. But there's a fine
Speaker 1: line between participating and manipulating. This is not a parenting sermon,
Speaker 1: but that's what the text is talking about. So as
Speaker 1: I relate to this text, I relate as a dad,
Speaker 1: as a dad who would do anything, and I do
Speaker 1: anything I would. I'm almost I'm almost like making my
Speaker 1: kids seft because I would almost do anything so they
Speaker 1: never have to go through anything hard. And I know
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do that, but I'm almost like a Dwight
Speaker 1: Shrewt in the Office when he was going ahead of
Speaker 1: Michael and making sure that he didn't starve. Remember when
Speaker 1: Michael wanted to go out in the woods. Y'allna watch
Speaker 1: The Office. I'm gonna give an altar call for everybody
Speaker 1: who hadn't seen The Office at least twice the whole series.
Speaker 1: And and and I'll admit that I coddled them because
Speaker 1: I care about them. And you would do the same.
Speaker 1: You would do the same. It looks strange to see
Speaker 1: somebody down in the dirt like Gyrus was when he
Speaker 1: came to Jesus, until you have felt that kind of
Speaker 1: desperation yourself. And we were talking, how you know you
Speaker 1: have a baby, right? Well, like I didn't personally, I
Speaker 1: participated and then I thought, oh, that's wonderful. They were
Speaker 1: born healthy, right, and that is the end of worrying
Speaker 1: about your kids. Because we had the baby. Okay, God,
Speaker 1: we're good. Now, we don't need you anymore. From here
Speaker 1: on out, this kid is going to go in the
Speaker 1: way that they should go, do the things they should do,
Speaker 1: say the things they should say. It's all good. God,
Speaker 1: thank you for bringing this baby into the world, because
Speaker 1: we had the baby, and now we have the baby,
Speaker 1: and now that we got it, we're good. God right.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, as ridiculous as it is for you to
Speaker 1: think that trusting Jesus is something you do one time
Speaker 1: when you give him your life and even the language,
Speaker 1: watch the language. To place your faith in Jesus is
Speaker 1: not an event. It is a practice. It is a practice,
Speaker 1: just like raising your kids. Should I step in here,
Speaker 1: Should I step back there? Should I let them bust
Speaker 1: their butt on this one so that they don't end
Speaker 1: up busting their whole head wide open on the next one?
Speaker 1: What do I do right here? Like following Jesus is
Speaker 1: exactly the same way, because you will find yourself in
Speaker 1: moments of weakness and moments of strength, in moments of knowledge,
Speaker 1: and in moments of ignorance, in moments of highs, moments
Speaker 1: of loves. You will find yourself every step of this
Speaker 1: journey like Gyros saying, in one area of my life,
Speaker 1: I'm a leader. In one area of my life, I'm
Speaker 1: the top man on the food chain. In one area
Speaker 1: of my life, I have the answers. I am Gyros,
Speaker 1: the synagogue leader. But on the day we meet Gyros,
Speaker 1: he is not standing at the front of the synagogue,
Speaker 1: issuing the sacraments for the people, or checking the role
Speaker 1: at the back of the room. He is a desperate
Speaker 1: dad at the feet of Jesus, Jesus the teacher. That's
Speaker 1: what the men who came from his house said to him.
Speaker 1: He comes, he says, my daughter is dying. Will you
Speaker 1: come with me to my house and heal her? And
Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, I'll go. Sure, Sure, because you came
Speaker 1: here and asked me. I love Gyrus because he didn't
Speaker 1: just assume that it was all God's job. You understand.
Speaker 1: He didn't just assume that if God wants it to happen,
Speaker 1: it will just naturally happen. He didn't just assume that
Speaker 1: God is like an automatic faucet where you put your
Speaker 1: hands under it and wait. Some of y'all are going
Speaker 1: to be waiting a long time under a facet that
Speaker 1: God has given you the faith to turn on by
Speaker 1: your actions, because faith without works is dead. So he
Speaker 1: did something. He went to Jesus. He did something risky,
Speaker 1: he did something dangerous. He had to cut through a
Speaker 1: crowd to do it, and it worked until the interruption.
Speaker 1: Now I want to speak to you of the interruption,
Speaker 1: the interruption that you're going through in your life, the
Speaker 1: interruption that happened to you from the outside, the interruption
Speaker 1: that happened to you that kept you from your goal.
Speaker 1: Because we all had goals, and we all had dreams,
Speaker 1: and we all had things in between the idea and
Speaker 1: the dream. Call them roadblocks. Just call it a roadblock.
Speaker 1: In this particular instance, the crowd is pressing around Jesus
Speaker 1: so tight. One gospel writer, it's not in Mark says
Speaker 1: that it almost crushed the crowd. It almost crushed the
Speaker 1: crowd in Mark's gospel Evan, the crowd is never seen
Speaker 1: as a good thing, like when we go out to
Speaker 1: elevation nights. Shameless plug number two. I want the crowds
Speaker 1: to be big man, so we can have church. When
Speaker 1: Mark mentions the crowd, a lot of times that's something
Speaker 1: that's standing in the way of what God really wants
Speaker 1: to do. So a lot of what we celebrate in
Speaker 1: life is a lot of what God tries to strip
Speaker 1: away to perform his agenda. Like you know how you
Speaker 1: think it would be so cool to be famous. Most
Speaker 1: famous people wish they could be anonymous, even for five minutes.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I talked to them. They talk about it.
Speaker 1: The thing that I went after actually proved to be
Speaker 1: a great distraction. And in this passage there is a
Speaker 1: woman and if God so leads, I'm going to preach
Speaker 1: about her on tour over the next two weeks, because
Speaker 1: she comes to Jesus through the crowd, gets a miracle
Speaker 1: for her situation, which has been going on for twelve
Speaker 1: years as long as the little girl has been alive.
Speaker 1: And as she is being healed by touching the dirty
Speaker 1: hymn of Jesus's garment in the Palestinian streets, Gyrus's daughter
Speaker 1: is home die and so her healing from a human perspective,
Speaker 1: cost Gyrus's daughter her life. And now this is the
Speaker 1: part of the teaching that I want to become flesh
Speaker 1: in your life, because this is where we find ourselves
Speaker 1: in moments of interruption, in moments of disruption, in moments
Speaker 1: where something that we couldn't control affected something that we
Speaker 1: were moving toward. And the people came from Gyrus's house
Speaker 1: while Jesus was still speaking. I know I've only dealt
Speaker 1: with one verse, but it's a good one. Verse thirty five.
Speaker 1: While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the
Speaker 1: house of Gyrous, the leader who was at the feet
Speaker 1: of Jesus, the one with a lot of prestige in
Speaker 1: the community, who had a problem at home that all
Speaker 1: the prestige in the world couldn't buy him out of
Speaker 1: some stuff. It doesn't matter how much of that you
Speaker 1: have that people celebrate. Something could happen in your life
Speaker 1: right now that would make everything else seem worthless in comparison.
Speaker 1: Often do an exercise where it's like a reverse gratitude
Speaker 1: where I start thinking about everything. I don't have everything,
Speaker 1: I want everything, I could do, everything I should do,
Speaker 1: and the Lord will slow me down. And here's a
Speaker 1: question he gave me. And if it helps you this week, good.
Speaker 1: I hope it helps you this week. But it really
Speaker 1: helps me. The Lord will bring to my mind all
Speaker 1: the people that I love the most. And for me,
Speaker 1: I have a wife, and I have children, and I
Speaker 1: have a mom who's living, and other people that I
Speaker 1: love to In case they watch this, you come into
Speaker 1: the picture as well. And then I put them in
Speaker 1: my mind. And you know, because you feel sometimes like
Speaker 1: all of life is just a focus around what you
Speaker 1: need next, All of life is just a focus on
Speaker 1: going to the next level us and grind. All of
Speaker 1: life can feel that way. And so what I'll do
Speaker 1: often I'll put all those people in my mind, and
Speaker 1: then I'll ask myself the question if you lost them,
Speaker 1: if you could never ever sing Hamilton with Abby again,
Speaker 1: if you could never ever with Graham again, throw that
Speaker 1: ball across the room because me and him play fetch
Speaker 1: like he is the dog. If you could never be
Speaker 1: pressed with the lives again, if you could never see
Speaker 1: him squat two twenty five for reps like he did
Speaker 1: this week again. If you could never walk around with
Speaker 1: Holly and yell at the cars that are driving too
Speaker 1: fast and say, slow down, what's wrong with you? We
Speaker 1: live here? If you could never have it again, what
Speaker 1: would you give to have it back? And I'll say everything,
Speaker 1: And then the Holy Spirit will say, so what do
Speaker 1: you already have everything? Everything? And now sometimes I think
Speaker 1: we need a perspective like Mark chapter five, where we
Speaker 1: realize that somebody as important as Gyrus, with as much
Speaker 1: to do, is losing his little daughter, and nothing else matters,
Speaker 1: And we lift our hands not only in moments of loss,
Speaker 1: but even in moments where we are stressed about stuff
Speaker 1: that isn't as significant as the devil wants us to think.
Speaker 1: It is stuff that isn't that doesn't matter as much.
Speaker 1: You know, your dirty countertops do not matter as much
Speaker 1: as your OCD brain makes them matter to you in
Speaker 1: the moments where you are screaming around the house. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I just gotta stop and go, thank you Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you if you can get here for these messy countertops,
Speaker 1: that these annoying kids that I would do anything for
Speaker 1: messed up. Oh what if I don't have kids, pastor Stevene?
Speaker 1: What if I want kids? What if I'm in a
Speaker 1: situation where I'm not married and I want to be married.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you there is something in your life right
Speaker 1: now that you are taking for granted that if you
Speaker 1: lost it, you would do anything and everything to have
Speaker 1: it back. So what do you already have everything? What
Speaker 1: do you already have if you have salvation? If you
Speaker 1: know that neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in
Speaker 1: all creation shall be able to separate me from the
Speaker 1: love of God in Christ, Jesus, what do you have?
Speaker 1: I got it all. If I got Jesus, I got
Speaker 1: it all. If I've got His blood covering me, and
Speaker 1: wasn't the shame off of my life and the film
Speaker 1: off of my faith. I got it all. I got
Speaker 1: it all. Not all I want, but all I need.
Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd, and I sound not one.
Speaker 1: I got it all. High five five people and tell
Speaker 1: him I got it all. I got more than it
Speaker 1: looks like on the outside. Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah great, yeah yeah yeah. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to be alive. I'm glad to be in that number.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glass he won't beat up. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: next to something right now that if I lost, did
Speaker 1: I do anything to get it back. Don't wait for
Speaker 1: God to take it away, to give him praise for it.
Speaker 1: Give me my flowers now. I don't want them in
Speaker 1: my funeral. If I'm a blessing to you, tell me
Speaker 1: I'm a blessing to you while I can still hear it.
Speaker 1: I won't need you to encourage me in heaven. I'll
Speaker 1: be with Jesus. I'm good up there. Tell me now
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying and where I'm coming from,
Speaker 1: and why I'm telling you this. Because you will be
Speaker 1: attacked by the enemy. Oh that's a fact. That is
Speaker 1: a fact. Somebody put facts in the chat. Facts you
Speaker 1: will be attacked by the enemy. It is a fact.
Speaker 1: Oh No, I will take up the whole armor of God.
Speaker 1: What's the armor for? I'll take up the shield of faith.
Speaker 1: The devil can't the devil can't touch me. I got
Speaker 1: the shield of faith. What's the shield for? It presupposes
Speaker 1: a problem. You don't carry around a shield if you
Speaker 1: don't plan on getting hit by anything. Come on, be real.
Speaker 1: The fact that Jesus was speaking didn't stop his daughter
Speaker 1: from dying the attack. This is another thing we were
Speaker 1: talking about the other day. So we're talking about trusting
Speaker 1: God with your kids and how you really have to.
Speaker 1: It's not a choice. Your fingers will be pride at
Speaker 1: some point, also them they will eat gluten if they
Speaker 1: want to eat gluten. At some point, I love y'all.
Speaker 1: Some point I get too raw fear. Sometimes I feel
Speaker 1: like we're friends. I feel like I know you. I
Speaker 1: feel like I've done with you. The other thing we
Speaker 1: were talking about is, oh, I remember what it was.
Speaker 1: How it's not really the attack that matters, because as
Speaker 1: Christians we seem to be obsessed with this idea of
Speaker 1: I'm under attack, and it really becomes this basket that
Speaker 1: we throw every bad thing into and call it an attack.
Speaker 1: You got a basket at your house, or a drawer
Speaker 1: or something where you put every cable, every cored, you
Speaker 1: got a game Boy in the thing, like you have
Speaker 1: a charger to the game Boy. You got stuff from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six in there. It's kind of our junk
Speaker 1: drawer to say, I'm just under attack. It's not always
Speaker 1: an attack. No it's not. It is. Sometimes it's not
Speaker 1: always an attack, and it's not always the enemy. Because
Speaker 1: I know the devil is a liar, even when I
Speaker 1: believe him. Something in me kind of knows, called the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, this is not true. So the devil's lies
Speaker 1: are one thing. But look at the passage with me
Speaker 1: in verse thirty five. It doesn't say that the devil
Speaker 1: told Gyrus a bad report. It says that while Jesus
Speaker 1: was speaking follow me, some people came from Gyrus's own house,
Speaker 1: people who worked for him, and they told him, your
Speaker 1: daughter is dead, and then they asked him, why bother
Speaker 1: the teacher anymore? Notice what they call Jesus the teacher
Speaker 1: because to them, that's all he was. They didn't believe
Speaker 1: in him yet. He hadn't died yet, he hadn't risen yet.
Speaker 1: These were not believers in Jesus. These were members of
Speaker 1: the synagogue who were still making up their mind about Jesus.
Speaker 1: So when they call him the teacher, they're not lying,
Speaker 1: but they are limiting because if all he is is
Speaker 1: a teacher, then why are you still standing here listening
Speaker 1: to him with this crowd. You need to get home.
Speaker 1: Your daughter's dead, and you are needed for the funeral arrangements,
Speaker 1: because in Jewish custom, there would be mourners that would
Speaker 1: come in two flutes and there would be at least
Speaker 1: four people. If you were poor, imagine how many people
Speaker 1: were filling Jyrus's house at that moment to mourn the
Speaker 1: death of his daughter. And if all he is is
Speaker 1: a teacher, we're wasting time. So when they call him
Speaker 1: a teacher and they say your daughter's notice this. They
Speaker 1: are not the enemy. These are his friends. And this
Speaker 1: is not a lie, but it is a limitation. Now,
Speaker 1: sometimes the devil would just outright lie to you. You
Speaker 1: can feel it when it comes on. You're worthless, your
Speaker 1: piece of crap, you suck. Bad word, bad word, bad word,
Speaker 1: bad word. That's the devil calling you stuff that you know.
Speaker 1: God doesn't see you as that, right, and so then
Speaker 1: you just rebuke the devil. Ah, God, rebuke you, devil.
Speaker 1: You're so crazy. You think I'm gonna listen to this
Speaker 1: trash talk. You think I'm really just gonna drive my
Speaker 1: car into another car right now, feel so bad about myself,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna end my life. Come on, devil, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: I rebuke you, Satan, in the name of the Lord,
Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus against you, Satan, and all of
Speaker 1: these things you can do when it's the enemy and
Speaker 1: when it's an attack. But in this case, it's not
Speaker 1: the enemy, and it's not an attack. It's his friends.
Speaker 1: And it's a fact. Some of the stuff that you're
Speaker 1: fighting with in your faith right now, it's not a lie.
Speaker 1: And that's what makes it so scary. It's a fact.
Speaker 1: It's a fact. It is a fact. Tuck to three
Speaker 1: people in this church last night, one diagnosed with Parkinson's
Speaker 1: this week, one whose son went to jail this week.
Speaker 1: One of them who lost their job this week. Not
Speaker 1: all the same skin color, not all the same age.
Speaker 1: Some new to the church, some have been in the
Speaker 1: church almost since it started. All three of them are
Speaker 1: facing facts, And there wasn't one of them I could say, too,
Speaker 1: the devil is a liar. Rebuke him in Jesus name,
Speaker 1: not in good conscience. I guess I could say someus
Speaker 1: pocus stuff about it, and maybe it would feel good
Speaker 1: for about three seconds. But when my dad was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with ALS, I knew he would die. It was a fact.
Speaker 1: Well didn't you pray for healing? Of course I did.
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't. But when the healing didn't happen, and all
Speaker 1: I was left with was the facts. Now, how can
Speaker 1: I be on the phone with somebody who just got
Speaker 1: a diagnosis like Parkinson's and say it's gonna be all right,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. Just believe I don't say that when
Speaker 1: I call people. I don't feel like I have the
Speaker 1: right to tell you not to be afraid, And I
Speaker 1: don't really feel like I have the right to tell
Speaker 1: you to just believe, because I struggle with believe myself.
Speaker 1: And the Lord gently rebuked me this week and said,
Speaker 1: I I'll tell you what was It was so dumb.
Speaker 1: This is what I would leave out my sermons if
Speaker 1: I had good sense where a lady was coming to
Speaker 1: do my blood. Take my blood right, this is not
Speaker 1: a big deal. And she didn't show up. And I
Speaker 1: had a garden of gethsemine moment because when they draw
Speaker 1: your blood, you can't have any caffeine or food. And
Speaker 1: for me to be a wait for two hours without caffeine, listen,
Speaker 1: we all have our cross to bear. Must Jesus bear
Speaker 1: the cross alone? Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Speaker 1: And just as quick as I could start complaining, this
Speaker 1: lady was wrong with her. She messed up my whole day.
Speaker 1: She interrupted my whole day. Now my old day is
Speaker 1: thrown off. Not everything is wrong. I didn't even get
Speaker 1: to do my gratitude practice this morning because this lady
Speaker 1: messed up my blood drawl. And the Lord said, would
Speaker 1: you rather be going to a chemo appointment? And that
Speaker 1: shut me up because it was so dumb. It was
Speaker 1: so dumb. So the Lord said to me, you get
Speaker 1: up and tell people to believe me for the impossible,
Speaker 1: and you can't even put up with the uncomfortable. When
Speaker 1: Mike was working on me one time he was working
Speaker 1: on my shoulder, he said, how is that pain level
Speaker 1: that you feel when you do that? I said, unbearable.
Speaker 1: He goes unbearable. First time he ever worked on me,
Speaker 1: Mike Dannenberg. Look him up. He does a great job.
Speaker 1: He said, unbearable. Unbearable. I said, okay, uncomfortable, right, because
Speaker 1: this story gives us a great gift of perspective, of
Speaker 1: perspective to know that even when it was that bad.
Speaker 1: Look what Jesus said to Gyrus verse thirty six. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a powerful principle and a dynamic of faith
Speaker 1: that works in your life anytime you choose to apply it.
Speaker 1: He said, don't be afraid. Just believe I can understand
Speaker 1: you saying this. If it's a spider. This is not
Speaker 1: a spider, y'all. And by the way, the spider crawled
Speaker 1: between the mats. When I was working out this week,
Speaker 1: and I was down there doing VPS on the bosuit bowl,
Speaker 1: and I went a whole fifteen steps ahead, and I said,
Speaker 1: this is how I'm gonna die. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: spider bite on the floor doing v ups on the
Speaker 1: bosuit bowl while I'm trying to be healthy, and a
Speaker 1: spider is gonna sneak up and bite me. And I
Speaker 1: can see my skin rotting. I could already see a hole.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you it's crazy how far your mind
Speaker 1: can go. But look, look, look, look, look, I'm making
Speaker 1: it funny because I don't want us to think that
Speaker 1: what Jesus said is only for the most desperate situation.
Speaker 1: What he said has implications in your daily situation. So
Speaker 1: if he can say that to a man who just
Speaker 1: received a report your daughter is dead. And if if
Speaker 1: Jesus this is what we claim to believe about Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's the savior of the world. He's the Great I Am.
Speaker 1: He's the living Water, he's the good Shepherd. He's all
Speaker 1: of these things that we claim him to be. He
Speaker 1: is the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings, the
Speaker 1: alphan Omega, the final Word from Heaven, the great High Priest,
Speaker 1: the Lamb of God, and the lion of the tribe
Speaker 1: of Judah. If we believe all that was said to
Speaker 1: a man who lost what he loved the most by
Speaker 1: the one who sees and knows everything. Don't be afraid,
Speaker 1: just believe. I want Jesus to speak to me about
Speaker 1: my deepest fear. I want Jesus to speak to me
Speaker 1: about what I can't speak to you about. I want
Speaker 1: Jesus to speak to me about what plays over and
Speaker 1: over in my head. You know it's in my head
Speaker 1: and it's in my heart. The devil doesn't speak to
Speaker 1: me out loud. It's louder than that, because when it
Speaker 1: comes from the inside, I can't find the switch for that.
Speaker 1: They came from Gyrus's house and said, why bother. You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen in the scripture because when Jesus says,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, just believe, Jesus does not argue with
Speaker 1: the facts. He calls Gyrus into faith. So this is
Speaker 1: for everybody who thinks, blah blah blah, Candy Canes, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: and Maury Povich, the Bible is just nothing other than
Speaker 1: just all this dynamics and dramatics. No no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. He doesn't deny a single thing they said.
Speaker 1: In fact, in verse thirty six, very powerful, it says,
Speaker 1: overhearing what they said, you see it overhearing what they said,
Speaker 1: and it's interesting. Let's do that thing, abby, Let's do
Speaker 1: that thing overhearing what they said. I wrote it down
Speaker 1: the Greek word for overhere. That mark uses brilliant word.
Speaker 1: It has three different meanings, not one meaning. It has
Speaker 1: three different distinct meanings. Where he says that Jesus overheard
Speaker 1: them saying she's dead. Why bother she's dead? Sorry? Okay, oh,
Speaker 1: three different nations to overhear something not intended for one's ears,
Speaker 1: to refuse to listen or discount the truth of something, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: To to refuse to listen or to discount the truth
Speaker 1: of something, or to pay no attention to listen to this.
Speaker 1: He uses the word paracusas paracusas it means to ignore.
Speaker 1: To ignore, it means give me that real quick. It
Speaker 1: means to know that a message is trying to come through.
Speaker 1: See this was not an interruption. This is an illustration
Speaker 1: because that button says to Cline, and what it means
Speaker 1: is watch this. It means that do it again. Just
Speaker 1: because she wants to talk doesn't mean that I have
Speaker 1: to answer. Ah uhhh uh huh. Now sometimes in my mind,
Speaker 1: do it again. I have to decline the devil like
Speaker 1: five times a second. You thought I was gonna say five,
Speaker 1: but day no, no, no, I'm I'm way worse than that.
Speaker 1: My mind is way way crazier than that. It means, dude, again,
Speaker 1: that she's saying, I want some face time with you,
Speaker 1: and I'm having to make a decision in this moment. Decline, decline, decline,
Speaker 1: decline or accept. You are making this decision every time.
Speaker 1: D du dah, that's the devil. Duh da da da
Speaker 1: da ah. I found the decline button that says paracoup sauce.
Speaker 1: That means I heard what you said. Do it again.
Speaker 1: I heard you tell me it's over. I just choose
Speaker 1: to believe that I don't have to accept this message
Speaker 1: just because it's coming through as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, some of y'all need to
Speaker 1: tell the devil before you even leave this service. I
Speaker 1: heard what you said, but I declined. I heard you
Speaker 1: tell me lay down and die in the valley of
Speaker 1: the center of sense. But I decline, I decline, I decline.
Speaker 1: This is the divine decline. Oh yeah, it's knowing the
Speaker 1: greater is he that is in me, that he that
Speaker 1: is in the world. So so now now, now, get this,
Speaker 1: get this, get this, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's got you already already it in Jesus didn't hear it.
Speaker 1: He just didn't respond to it. It isn't that you
Speaker 1: don't know that you're broke. It's just that you are
Speaker 1: not defined by that because you are too busy moving
Speaker 1: forward in day toward what God called you to be.
Speaker 1: Even about myself, I accept myself because God accepts me.
Speaker 1: I know I'm jacked up. I know I got a
Speaker 1: long way to go. I know I'm selfish sometimes, but
Speaker 1: I'm still preaching these sermons to you because I decline
Speaker 1: to be defined by what I'm not. With the great
Speaker 1: I am lives inside of my spirit and gives me
Speaker 1: lies to my mortal body. They said I can't talk now,
Speaker 1: I can't talk now. I heard what you said. I
Speaker 1: hear you. They're loud talkers, like Holly. Holly is the
Speaker 1: loudest talker in the world. We don't fight about a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but we fight about this because when
Speaker 1: we're all in public, I'm like, keep it down, babe.
Speaker 1: Some people know who we are. I know we're not
Speaker 1: like super super famous, but it's enough where people might
Speaker 1: hear us. I don't want everybody all these tables hearing
Speaker 1: us talk about stuff. Not that we're talking about anything bad,
Speaker 1: but sometimes I don't want them to know about everything
Speaker 1: that happened in our house this week. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: keep it down. She said, why are you telling me
Speaker 1: to keep it down? And I'm like, because I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody to hear what we're talking about. I don't
Speaker 1: want them to overhear what we're saying in this private
Speaker 1: communication between us. That while when Jesus got to the house,
Speaker 1: he sent everybody who was making noise out of the
Speaker 1: room because if they were in their play in their
Speaker 1: funeral flutes, the little girl couldn't hear him say to
Speaker 1: leath the comb, get up. What room are you in
Speaker 1: right now? What report are you facing? And how can
Speaker 1: you preach good news to your situation even as you
Speaker 1: walk toward a bad report? To me, that would be
Speaker 1: the strongest level of faith to know that the worst
Speaker 1: thing happened or could happen most of us. The devil
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to do it. He just has toting
Speaker 1: us with it. And to me, that's weird because shouldn't
Speaker 1: we at least make him work for our faith If
Speaker 1: he wants to take it away, well, I can't share
Speaker 1: that in this setting. I'll share that later. Remind me
Speaker 1: and the staff meeting to share a certain thing about that.
Speaker 1: I'll share it later. I can't do it, y'all, because
Speaker 1: it goes online. If it was just us, I would
Speaker 1: do it, but I would share it another time when
Speaker 1: it's more appropriate. But the Lord, he brought something to
Speaker 1: my mind where I was about to give up. Now
Speaker 1: you got time for one more thing. In the statement
Speaker 1: Jesus makes to Gyros, don't be afraid. Just believe. There
Speaker 1: is no indication that Gyrus has stopped believing, but Jesus
Speaker 1: knows that that's what naturally happens through life. You think
Speaker 1: he gets easier to trust God as you grow older.
Speaker 1: It gets harder to go upstairs and to trust God
Speaker 1: as you get older. That's why we said, you eventually
Speaker 1: have to give your kids to God. You eventually have
Speaker 1: to give your kids to God. You eventually have to
Speaker 1: give your problems to God. You eventually have to give
Speaker 1: the part of yourself that you can't control to God. Eventually,
Speaker 1: And now you've reached that point where he's saying, just believe,
Speaker 1: believe what, believe what. He has no precedence of resurrection
Speaker 1: to believe. Remember, he still thinks Jesus is a teacher
Speaker 1: and may be a healer, but in no way does
Speaker 1: he see enable to reach the dead, raise the dead.
Speaker 1: And so he's going towards something that he's hoping for
Speaker 1: without even knowing if it is possible. To me, that's
Speaker 1: what faith feels like, to put one heavy foot in
Speaker 1: front of the other with your heart broken. Sometimes because
Speaker 1: I can't find in the passage where Jairah said, I believe, Lord,
Speaker 1: can you find it? He just kept going, here's my house,
Speaker 1: here's my daughter's room. Do what you want to do?
Speaker 1: Is faith that simple? It is when you're in this
Speaker 1: kind of fight, it is to send it everything out
Speaker 1: of the room that is telling you to quit. Now
Speaker 1: here's the problem with me saying quit. You don't have
Speaker 1: a Greek New Testament and I don't either, And I
Speaker 1: already showed you one Greek word, but I need to
Speaker 1: tell you about another. It doesn't mean believe in Jesus
Speaker 1: like a one time thing. It means keep on believing.
Speaker 1: It's a continual So it means the thing that made
Speaker 1: you come to the feet of Jesus and ask him
Speaker 1: to do it. You have to keep that kind of faith,
Speaker 1: even though it already seems like it's over now, even
Speaker 1: though the facts say there's no point in your stay
Speaker 1: in the faith to believe that if Jesus is with me.
Speaker 1: The facts are not final. The facts are the facts.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. I did what I did,
Speaker 1: I am where I am. I've got to do what
Speaker 1: I've got to do. I can't just pray everything away
Speaker 1: by denial and close my eyes and wait for the rapture.
Speaker 1: The facts are the facts. But are you feeding more
Speaker 1: facts to your spirit than you are faith to your spirit?
Speaker 1: Do you all remember when COVID started and they put
Speaker 1: a freaking death toll on the screen for us to watch.
Speaker 1: That's diabolical. That was from the pit of hell while
Speaker 1: you were watching the death count on the screen, because
Speaker 1: all it did was feed your fear. It didn't make
Speaker 1: you do one thing different after a certain point. All
Speaker 1: it did was weaken your faith. It didn't strengthen your intellect.
Speaker 1: And every time I tell people I don't watch the news,
Speaker 1: they look at me with that eye roll like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're ignorant. But it'd be better for me to be
Speaker 1: ignorant than to be insane, which is how I feel
Speaker 1: when I feed my fear with every screen that is available,
Speaker 1: with every stream that is available. Because the facts don't
Speaker 1: set you free. The truth does. And He is the truth.
Speaker 1: Even when the facts aren't gets you, there are more
Speaker 1: for me that against me. Open your eyes, the prophet said.
Speaker 1: The facts are not final. The facts are not final.
Speaker 1: The facts are not final. Depressed is not your new
Speaker 1: personality type. The facts are not final. Divorced isn't what's
Speaker 1: going to be written on your tombstone. The facts are
Speaker 1: not final. God is still working on you. He will
Speaker 1: begin a good work. Well, no, I'm preaching for it,
Speaker 1: but I'm calling you out of the facts and into
Speaker 1: your faith to keep believing, to keep believing. I read
Speaker 1: that forty somethings million people, by some result, by some posts,
Speaker 1: quit their jobs since twenty twenty one, which is much higher.
Speaker 1: As we know this term that we've come to say,
Speaker 1: not the great recession, but the great resignation. And that's
Speaker 1: not my department to talk to you about whether to
Speaker 1: keep your job or not. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: your faith, I have noticed that a lot of people
Speaker 1: will do what is now called a quiet quit. Quiet quit.
Speaker 1: It's when you hate your job but you need it,
Speaker 1: so you stay but barely. It's a quiet quit. It's
Speaker 1: a quiet in this moment, Gyros isn't on the verge
Speaker 1: of denying Christ. That's what Peter did later. By the way, Peter,
Speaker 1: James and John, Peter was the loudest one at the table,
Speaker 1: and he was the loudest one at the campfire, denying Christ.
Speaker 1: John was leaned back on Jesus at the table and quiet,
Speaker 1: and then he stood quietly by the cross to take
Speaker 1: care of his mother. Faith is not always something that
Speaker 1: you can see or hear by externals. It's something you
Speaker 1: have to know inside. Gyros didn't say a word, but
Speaker 1: he followed Jesus. He didn't say a word, but he
Speaker 1: followed Jesus. I don't know who that's a word for.
Speaker 1: But you're not on the verge of denying Christ. You're
Speaker 1: not about to walk in God's office and say I quit,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be your child anymore. You're not
Speaker 1: storming into the throne room of heaven saying God, I
Speaker 1: hate you and I'm bitter toward you, and why did
Speaker 1: you take my mom so soon? And why is this
Speaker 1: happening to me? And I thought you promised you would
Speaker 1: see me through and I haven't felt your presence. You're
Speaker 1: not saying it. It's a quiet quit. It happens in
Speaker 1: relationships all the time. I don't block your number, but
Speaker 1: I take out my heart. It happens in marriages all
Speaker 1: the time. I don't stop coming home physically, but nobody's
Speaker 1: home emotionally. And the message of this text is for
Speaker 1: somebody who is quiet quitting on God. It's understandable for
Speaker 1: Gyrus to say, never mind, why bother? After all, that's
Speaker 1: what everybody from his house is telling him, That's what
Speaker 1: the facts would suggest. And yet I thank God for
Speaker 1: the instant replay. How many of you are old enough
Speaker 1: to remember a time and before the NFL had instant
Speaker 1: replay the games where a third is long. And some
Speaker 1: people don't like instant replay because now when a play
Speaker 1: happens on the field, if they call it wrong, or
Speaker 1: if the coach thinks they called it wrong, he could
Speaker 1: throw a challenge flag. This would be handy for me
Speaker 1: to use for this illustration, and he could say, hey,
Speaker 1: I know what you said on the field, but I
Speaker 1: think you need to give it another look. Some people
Speaker 1: don't like instant replay. I love it. In fact, as
Speaker 1: a parent of three kids who have played recreational sports,
Speaker 1: I think we should do instant replay on all recreational
Speaker 1: sports in every community and have volunteer teams appearents with
Speaker 1: their iPhone camera. I'm a fan of it because it
Speaker 1: gives you another chance to look at something that you
Speaker 1: thought you saw to say it looked like they were short.
Speaker 1: And I've seen this happen a few times in games.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite part. It's like, oh, they were just
Speaker 1: short of the goal line, and then here goes the
Speaker 1: challenge flag. I know nothing about football, but I know
Speaker 1: something about faith. And the Lord told me today to
Speaker 1: throw a flag and to tell you that what you
Speaker 1: thought was over, and what you thought was hopeless, and
Speaker 1: what you thought was pointless. See, because if Jesus is
Speaker 1: still with me, oh God, I gotta close this message.
Speaker 1: If Jesus is still with one thing, Jyrus has to know.
Speaker 1: If Jesus was done, he would have left. But if
Speaker 1: he's still here, that means even the interruption and cannot
Speaker 1: stop God from doing what he said he would do,
Speaker 1: and it might not happen how I wanted it to happen.
Speaker 1: But I'm throwing my flag. And when I'm throwing my flag,
Speaker 1: that official has to go back in the boot. Can
Speaker 1: you hear me in the back? Can I see you
Speaker 1: going in the boot and get in your prayer closet
Speaker 1: and ask God to show you from another angle, I
Speaker 1: see Jesus walking into this church today in a striped
Speaker 1: shirt like an official to let the devil know. After
Speaker 1: further review, they came to church today talking about why Father.
Speaker 1: They came to church today with their hearts so low
Speaker 1: they won't even clap right now. But after a further review,
Speaker 1: the ruling on the field is overturned. No, no, y'all
Speaker 1: missed it. It's overturned. She's not dead, she's sleeping. It's
Speaker 1: not dead. It's a new beginning. The facts are final.
Speaker 1: God ask the final word. Come on, come on, get
Speaker 1: in your booth and ask God to show you from
Speaker 1: his perspective. I'm in the booth right now. I'm sorry, y'all,
Speaker 1: I can't talk right now. I'm in the booth right now.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this situation again. Right now, I gotta
Speaker 1: see something I didn't see before. I gotta know something
Speaker 1: I can't know with my eyes. I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 1: hate you, but I'm in the booth right now, and
Speaker 1: one word from Jesus can overturn in the hopeless situation.
Speaker 1: Stop putting more faith in the facts than you're doing God,
Speaker 1: Stand up, y'all. It'll pressure me to finish. I don't
Speaker 1: care what they said. They don't have the final word.
Speaker 1: They didn't write the book. They're not the waymaker. They
Speaker 1: didn't create you. Why are you going to let somebody
Speaker 1: else write the instruction manual on a product that God created?
Speaker 1: If you don't know what you can do, what you
Speaker 1: can be, what you can have, where you can go.
Speaker 1: When we started this church, God told me, you know
Speaker 1: most of those things fail. Facts, statistics. Well, you know
Speaker 1: this generation today, boy, they've got more temptation than ever
Speaker 1: before facts. But they've also got the same guy through
Speaker 1: every generation. The facts aren't final. We are believers. Bow
Speaker 1: your head, close your eyes, don't be afraid, believe, and
Speaker 1: keep believing. I want to give an invitation for people
Speaker 1: who have quiet quit on the promise of God. You're
Speaker 1: still a follower of Christ. You're not denouncing your faith.
Speaker 1: You didn't transition to another religion. You just started clocking
Speaker 1: out at four fifty nine. You just stop believing that
Speaker 1: God can do it for you. You just resign yourself.
Speaker 1: Why bother the teacher anymore. See, God brought you in
Speaker 1: this booth today. He brought you on this stream today.
Speaker 1: He brought you into this service today to show you
Speaker 1: that the ruling on the field can be overturned. Father,
Speaker 1: you gave me a word for your sons and daughters today,
Speaker 1: and now I invite them to reach out to you
Speaker 1: by faith. Everybody who has been in a quiet quit
Speaker 1: season on what you believe God for. I want you
Speaker 1: to throw your hand up in the air right now
Speaker 1: and hold them there. You see them, Lord, they're reaching
Speaker 1: for you. They have something in their life to die.
Speaker 1: They have fears in their heart that they can't rationalize
Speaker 1: their way out of. And that's why we need faith.
Speaker 1: So we're following you right there to the house. We
Speaker 1: don't want to hear the flutes, we don't want to
Speaker 1: hear the opinions. We need a touch from you. You
Speaker 1: took Gyrus's daughter by the hand, Lord, you touched her personally.
Speaker 1: You weren't afraid too, You weren't ashamed to and you
Speaker 1: spoke to her. You ignored the bad report, and you
Speaker 1: spoke to the promise. We ask you to speak to
Speaker 1: our promise today. Jesus, speak to me, Jesus, say it
Speaker 1: out loud. Speak to me, Jesus, Speak to me. Jesus.
Speaker 1: Give me an enduring word, a word that I can
Speaker 1: walk on. Give me a word I can wait with.
Speaker 1: Give me a word for my weeping. Give me a
Speaker 1: come forth, Give me a stone rolling away where God
Speaker 1: I call on your name. Give us a word. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you this and I close. In fact, put
Speaker 1: your hands down. I really want you to hear it.
Speaker 1: When I started this text, it said, while Jesus was
Speaker 1: still speaking, a bad report came. What was he saying?
Speaker 1: What was he saying in that moment when Gyrus received
Speaker 1: the worst news he could have heard? Look at the screens.
Speaker 1: Please the verse before that, Jesus was saying, daughter, your
Speaker 1: faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed
Speaker 1: from your suffering. He wasn't even saying that to Gyros.
Speaker 1: He was saying it to the woman who Gyros thought
Speaker 1: was an interruption. When you don't know what's ahead of you.
Speaker 1: Hold on to the last thing that you heard God say,
Speaker 1: because I think I think when he called that woman daughter,
Speaker 1: it let Gyros know my daughter belongs to God too,
Speaker 1: and I can give God this situation. You have to
Speaker 1: give it to God. What else are you going to do?
Speaker 1: You can't control it anymore. You have to give it
Speaker 1: to God. Give it to him willingly, just lay it
Speaker 1: right down before him today. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,
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