1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Two Corinthians, chapter ten, verse seven through twelve. 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: The apostle Paul wants to tell you something. He has 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: some expert advice for you on how to deal with 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: this question. 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: And here's the question. You're ready. 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: This the question every man, woman, boy, and girl in 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: the room is asking. And you've been asking it your 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 2: whole life in different ways, with different amounts of money 14 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: in your bank account, and different color hair on your head, 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 2: and different numbers on the scale when you step on it, 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: and different places that you've lived, and different jobs you've had. 17 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 2: You've been asking this question your whole life. Do I 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: have what it takes? Do I have what it takes? 19 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: Well? Paul has. 20 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: A way of dealing with this question that I thought 21 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: would be helpful for us today, and. 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 1: Let's read together. 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: Two Corinthians, chapter ten, verse seven. He says, your first 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: problem is this, you are judging by appearances. He said, 25 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: if anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they 26 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 2: should consider again that we belong to Christ just as 27 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 2: much as they do. 28 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: Touch somebody say, you're not better than me. 29 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: So even if I both, what are y'all arguing about it? 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,919 Speaker 2: It was just one line? Get back on the scriptures. 31 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 2: So even if I both somewhat freely about the authority 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: the Lord gave us from building you up rather than 33 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 2: tearing you down, motives are important. 34 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: I will not be ashamed of it. 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: I do not want to seem to be trying to 36 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: frighten you with my letters. For some say his letters 37 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 2: are way and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive 38 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 2: and his speaking amounts to nothing. Such people should realize 39 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: that what we are in our letters when we are absent, 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: we will be in our actions when we are present. 41 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: In other words, Paul says, I'm about to back it up. 42 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: I don't just. 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 2: Talk big because verse twelve, we'll stop here. We do 44 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 2: not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who 45 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 2: commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare 46 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: themselves with themselves, they are not wise. Wait, I'm confused, 47 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 2: I thought we were reading the Bible. This sounds like 48 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: it could be a relevant Facebook post. 49 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: People say the Bible is outdated. 50 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: That sounds like a pretty good word for twenty sixteen 51 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: to me. Comparison and competition, self commendation. 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: He said, it's not wise. 53 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: Well, where I really want to focus is verse ten, 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 2: So let me read that again. And Paul says, there 55 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: are some who are saying that my letters are weighty 56 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 2: and forceful, but in person I'm unimpressive and that my 57 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 2: speaking amounts to nothing. So I want to speak to 58 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 2: you today from this subject. I want to talk about 59 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: the glitch that keeps on giving, the glitch that keeps 60 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: on giving, And let's pray one more time. Father opened 61 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 2: our hearts, our ears, our minds, and most importantly, what 62 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: we learned today, we're going to need the courage to 63 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: put it into practice and the application to know what 64 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: that means to do it in Jesus' name, Amen, touch 65 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: your neighbors. Say you got a glitch on your way 66 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 2: down to your seat. 67 00:03:51,520 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: You got a glitch? Amen, thank you? Spec Yeah, anything 68 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: right now, but just in case. 69 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I feel like I might get to preach 70 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: it in a minute. 71 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. So it's just stay 72 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: right there. 73 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: Well, I want to give you a list of all 74 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 2: the movies that have made me cry. I went back 75 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: through my life and I thought about the first movie 76 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 2: that made me cry was called Follow that Bird, very 77 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: emotional experience to me to see big bird ostracized and 78 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 2: alienated trying to find his way back home. Second movie 79 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: that made me cry, and I maybe should have reconciled 80 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 2: this list with my mom's memory, but I remember crying 81 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: for this movie called Harry and the Henderson's Harry and 82 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 2: the Henderson's when they were slapping Harry, and I know 83 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 2: its for his own good, but it. 84 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: Just couldn't take that. 85 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 2: Then you know, you've ben tour a little bit in life, 86 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 2: and it takes more, you know, you develop emotionally and stuff, 87 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 2: So that kind of stuff doesn't make you cry anymore. 88 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 2: Then the movies that make you cry change. And so 89 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: the next movie that made me cry, of course, was 90 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: Rocky two, followed by Rocky three and Rocky four while 91 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 2: we're at it, and a movie that still. 92 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: Makes me cry every time I watch it to this day. 93 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: And if this movie does not make you cry, I 94 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 2: question your compassion and your Christianity. In fact, I question 95 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: your humanity and your ability to feel at all. I 96 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,559 Speaker 2: think you might be a sociopath if you can watch 97 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 2: the movie Rudy and not cry or at least have 98 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 2: a lip quiver. 99 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any passion. 100 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any reason for God to 101 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 2: leave you on this earth. 102 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: And I think you're probably going to go to Hell 103 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: when you leave this place. So it gets me every time. 104 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 2: It was a sunny afternoon, Saturday afternoon when normally I 105 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: would be heading in to prepare for church, but I 106 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 2: had a guest speaker, and it afforded me the rare 107 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: privilege and opportunity to take my two sons to see 108 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: a movie. 109 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: And I was not. 110 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 2: Expecting that day to be wrecked by the movie Wreck 111 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 2: at Ralph, but it happened. When they put that girl 112 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 2: on the screen called Vanelope, and she was stuck in 113 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: a video game where they were supposed to race, but 114 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 2: she couldn't race, and they called her glitch Girl because 115 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 2: there was something wrong with her programming and pixelation, and 116 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: so she wanted to race, but she couldn't race, and 117 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: it was because of her glitch, and the movie. 118 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: Kind of takes a few turns. 119 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 2: And at one point in the movie, I was watching 120 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: Glitch girl glitch and she wanted to race, and I 121 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 2: started crying in the movie and I told Grim shut 122 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: up when he asked me, are you crying, Daddy? 123 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: And it just got me thinking about thinking. 124 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 2: About all the ways that my glitches have caused me 125 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 2: to miss God in. 126 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: My life, and thinking about how many. 127 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 2: People would go further faster if they knew how to 128 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 2: deal with their glitch. Just reminds your neighbor again, They're 129 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: not going to be offended because I made you say it. 130 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: Just remind them one more time you got a glitch. 131 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 2: Just make sure that they're well aware of that fact. 132 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: And well, I didn't say give him a whole paragraph 133 00:06:51,640 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 2: of evidence. We preach things sometimes that are easy to 134 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 2: accept but a little bit harder to apply. And I 135 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: understand that writing this book How God Uses Broken People 136 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: to Do Big Things is two parts. One is just 137 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: convincing you that God uses broken people to do big things. 138 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 2: I bet you don't believe that to the level that 139 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 2: you should. And all the efforts that we've made to 140 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 2: convince you, well, sometimes they fall short. And we can 141 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: tell you all the Bible characters. I'm trying to pull 142 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: this thing up. Just one that I found online, how 143 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 2: God doesn't pick the ideal candidates. 144 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: For the offices that he appoints him to. 145 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 2: And one guy put it online. I've seen this before, 146 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 2: maybe you have. But he went through a list. He said, 147 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 2: you know, Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, 148 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 2: Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar. Leah wasn't 149 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 2: very good looking. Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem. 150 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: Gideon was afraid. Samson had long hair. We all know, 151 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: God kid use you with long hair tattoos. Rahab was 152 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: a prostitute. Jeremiah and Timothy were too young. David had 153 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 2: an affair and was a murderer. Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah 154 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 2: preached naked. You know, I've done a lot of things 155 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 2: to get attention. 156 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip that point at the stage. 157 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 2: Somebody and say, miss me with that, Pastor, Stephen, I don't. 158 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: Let's say God told him to. 159 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: Jonah ran from God. Naomi was a widow, Job went 160 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 2: through bankruptcy. Peter denied Christ. The Disciples fell asleep while 161 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: praying Martha worried about everything. The Samaritan woman was divorced 162 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 2: more than once, Zachius was too short, Timothy had an ulcer, 163 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: and Lazarus was dead. Now touch your other neighbor and say, 164 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 2: what's your excuse? The question is can God use broken 165 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 2: people to do big things? I wonder what you put 166 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 2: my book title up, not my sermon title. My book 167 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 2: title up one more time, just so you can see. 168 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 2: I want to focus for week one on this one 169 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 2: where how God uses, how God uses, and I want 170 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: to talk about how he does that. And of course 171 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 2: we could have no better consultant than Paul. I didn't 172 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 2: put him in the. 173 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: List that I read because Paul is more known for 174 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: his gifts. He was very gifted. Paul was very gifted. 175 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 2: We know he was gifted because God chose him, of 176 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 2: all people to take the Gospel to the Gentiles, and 177 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 2: he was the first one to take it beyond the 178 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 2: original Jewish converts, along with Barnabas. 179 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: He was very gifted. 180 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 2: Paul was very gifted in debate and in reasoning as 181 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 2: well as philosophy, because he had studied under Gamaliel Gamaleo 182 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: was a part of the Jewish Sanhedron, and he was 183 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 2: known as a guru. So Paul had that kind of degree, 184 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: added to the fact that he was a Roman citizen, 185 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 2: which gave him entree and prestige into places that common 186 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 2: people could not go. Makes sense God would choose him 187 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: then to preach in Europe and in northern Africa and 188 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 2: parts of Asia, and to establish churches in the most 189 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 2: strategic cities of his day. So we see him in Rome, 190 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 2: and we see him in Athens, and we see him 191 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 2: establishing churches in Philippi and Galatia and Ephesus and Corinth, 192 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 2: just to name a few. But in Second Corinthians we 193 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 2: watch him writing back to the church at Corinth, and 194 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 2: he's having to do something that you would never imagine 195 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 2: Paul would have to do at this stage of his 196 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 2: life and ministry, considering his accomplishments. 197 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: He's having to defend his credentials. 198 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 2: How could a man that learned, How can a man 199 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 2: whose life had meant so much to so many find 200 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,239 Speaker 2: himself in a spot where he's having to defend his credentials. 201 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: In fact, I don't take it as. 202 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 2: As much of a dilemma as I do as an 203 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 2: encouragement to know that even Paul, at this point in 204 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 2: his ministry, was still answering the question do you have 205 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 2: what it takes? I put that out there because if 206 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 2: you thought that question was going to go away when 207 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 2: you hit forty, and it didn't. If you thought that 208 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 2: question was going to go when you. 209 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: Graduated high school and it did it. 210 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 2: If you thought that question was going to go away 211 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 2: when you got married and it didn't. If you thought 212 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: that question was going to go away when you first 213 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 2: started making six figures and it did it. If you 214 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 2: thought that question was going to go away, you know, 215 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 2: when you finally prove to your ex that you could 216 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: get somebody to and it did it. Paul is at 217 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 2: the pinnacle of his ministry effectiveness, and he's still dealing 218 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 2: with people who are calling him unqualified, and so he 219 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 2: deals with this question and he confronts challenge because what 220 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 2: he has to do in his life is too important 221 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 2: for him to leave these issues unconfronted. Now, I want 222 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 2: to say that over your life today, whether you believe 223 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 2: it or not, that what God has purposed for you 224 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 2: to accomplish is too important for you to leave your 225 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 2: issues unconfronted. Touch somebody say confront it. Sometimes You've got 226 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: to take a stand for what you know God has 227 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 2: called you to do. And sometimes that means standing against 228 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 2: what others say, and sometimes that means taking a stand 229 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 2: within yourself, against yourself. Paul said, you can't strip me 230 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 2: of my credentials. You can't take away from me what 231 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 2: I know God is placed on me. 232 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: I'm confident of it, he said. 233 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 2: And the reason that you're getting into trouble, and the 234 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 2: reason that you come to the conclusion that you don't 235 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 2: have what it takes, and the reason that you are 236 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 2: spending so much time trying to impress people, is because 237 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 2: you are judging by appearances. 238 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: There it is. That's the number one problem with our 239 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: world today. 240 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 2: I think that's the number one reason we get ourselves 241 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 2: in trouble, and that's. 242 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: The number one reason that potential is. 243 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 2: Unfulfilled because we judge by appearances. But touch your neighbor 244 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: and say there's more to me than what you see. 245 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 2: Turn to her and tell her there's more to me 246 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: than what you see. So don't judge me by what 247 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 2: you see on the surface. Don't judge me by what. 248 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: I look like. 249 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 2: Right now, That's what Paul was saying to these super apostles. 250 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: They had permeated and pervaded the Corinthian Church that he 251 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 2: had established, and now they were claiming superiority over him 252 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 2: and threatening to undermine the work that he had established. 253 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 2: He wrote back to the church, and he said, you 254 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,079 Speaker 2: need to take another look. 255 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: Another look. 256 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 2: I wonder how many things in our lives would look 257 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: differently if we look beneath the surface. That's it, beneath 258 00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: the surface, if you got past your first impressions. I 259 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: want to preach a sermon one day, and I may 260 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 2: preach it next week, and I may preach it in 261 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: three years. I want to call it the estimation game. 262 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 2: And I hadn't quite figured out everything I'll put in 263 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 2: it yet, But it's just this idea that most of 264 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 2: us vacillate between wildly overestimating what we can do without 265 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 2: God and underestimating what we could do with Him. 266 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: Because we look at it at the surface. 267 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 2: And just in honor of the sermon that I may 268 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 2: preach one day, I just want to give a little 269 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 2: illustration or something like that. I want to play a 270 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: little game with somebody right over here and. 271 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: Play it with him. I like his hat. Yeah, come 272 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: on over, man, Why not just a little game. You know. 273 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: I like to do stuff like this to keep people 274 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: from fall asleep during the sermon. But I got some money. 275 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 2: You like money, A little money. 276 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: I'm short right here for everybody to see. Got a 277 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: little role, golla something, not much, but if you can guess. 278 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: How much it is, I give it to you. You 279 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 2: want to feel it, you wanna hold it? He said something. 280 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 2: He said something. I've done this in all the other 281 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 2: worship experiences, but for Adorable, he's the first one that 282 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 2: did what he was supposed to do. He did what 283 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 2: he was supposed to do. He said, I see blue 284 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 2: under there, so I know there are some hundreds in 285 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 2: the role. I don't know what you do recreationally to 286 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 2: make money, but touch somebody and say, look beneath the surface. 287 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: See he got it right. 288 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: If you judge this stack by what you see on 289 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: the surface, you are going to underrest to me. But 290 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 2: if you peel back and look, come on, I'm preaching 291 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 2: and you don't even realize that. 292 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: If you peel it back. 293 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: You're gonna see that there's more to the stack than 294 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 2: you can see. 295 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: On the surface. That's my message. I wanted to let 296 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,119 Speaker 1: you know your video and I preach to your iPhone. 297 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: I don't mind. 298 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 2: There's more to the stack than you can see on 299 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 2: the surface. Touch somebody and say I got layers. I 300 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: got layers, And what you see is not all there 301 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 2: is to me. And what I see in the mirror 302 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: is not indicative. Up my ministry, up my life, up 303 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 2: my potential. 304 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: Take another look at me, tiger, Look at me now. 305 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 2: Something's happening beneath the surface. I'm kind of struggling right 306 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 2: now and trying to get some stuff in order. But 307 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 2: there's something inside of me. Then it is greater. What 308 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: I'm rapped with is not indicative of what I'm made of. 309 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: There's more inside of me. 310 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: And if you know this, I walked away away from 311 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: him before he could guess the amount because I was 312 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,479 Speaker 2: scared he was onto something. That's why the devil's been 313 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 2: fighting you, because he knows you're onto something. You're starting 314 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 2: to see yourself in a new life. You're starting to 315 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: see yourself in a divine to fit. 316 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 3: I've seen them, so so look beneath the surface, and 317 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 3: it would give you confidence when you do. 318 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: Confidence. 319 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 2: That's what we're all trying to project into the world, 320 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 2: but often we're trying to project something that we don't possess. 321 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 2: Talk to me. Often we're trying to project a confidence 322 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 2: that we don't possess because we. 323 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: See our cracks. 324 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 2: But Paul said that if you're confident that you belong 325 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 2: to Christ, you should consider that I belong just as 326 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 2: much as anybody. Now, I want to make an announcement, 327 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 2: and this is in the book, and I'm gonna say 328 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 2: it right now, and I'm gonna. 329 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 1: Say it to everybody whoever felt like. 330 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 2: You couldn't come to church because of your conflicts. I 331 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 2: want to say it to everybody who ever felt like 332 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 2: you didn't fit in a church because everybody was so pretty. 333 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 2: And so I want to say it to everybody who 334 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 2: has ever felt like that that the presence of God 335 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 2: is the last place you should be because of what 336 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: your clothes smell like, because of who you've been hanging 337 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 2: out with, or I want to say it to everybody 338 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 2: who came into church with a religious pretense that is 339 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 2: much more impressive than your actual performance. I want to 340 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 2: say to everybody who feels like there's too there are 341 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: no second class citizens in the Kingdom of God. It 342 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 2: took the same blood and the same beating of the 343 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,959 Speaker 2: same savior to get me in that it took to 344 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:42,879 Speaker 2: get you in. So I'm confident. It's believing that I 345 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 2: belong watch this. True confidence is a byproduct of belonging. 346 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: True confidence is a byproduct of belonging. True confidence that 347 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 2: will just run up in my room between the nine 348 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 2: thirty and eleven thirty and barge. 349 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: In and say, Daddy, can I get us? BRT zero. 350 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 2: The only person bold enough to run up in my 351 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 2: room and ask a question like that is my ten 352 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 2: year old who knows. 353 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: That he belongs to me. 354 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,239 Speaker 2: Do you know that the Bible says that you can 355 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 2: come to the throne room boldly and look for grace 356 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 2: in your time of need? 357 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: But you don't pray like this. 358 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: You keep associating your confidence with your conflicts, and so 359 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 2: because you're conflicted, and because you're cracked, and because you're 360 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: screwed up beneath the surface and you know it, you 361 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 2: don't come. 362 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: To God boldly. 363 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 2: You don't run up and get in his face and 364 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 2: tell him that you need him on the level that 365 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 2: you really need him. You don't walk with your headheld 366 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 2: high like somebody who has been redeemed. But the moment 367 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 2: that you realize, you know what, I belong here. 368 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: I belong here. I belong here, not. 369 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 2: Not necessarily because of my behavior, but my admission price 370 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: was purchased. This does not speak well in a self 371 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 2: help oriented culture, because I believe in helping yourself, but 372 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 2: I also believe that there are sometimes when you can't, 373 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: and so the essence of church needs. 374 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: To be restated. 375 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 2: You know, we've made the church so much like a 376 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 2: country club that it's a wonder they let us. 377 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: Keep our tax exempt status. Do you know what I mean? 378 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 2: We've made the church so exclusive. We've made the church 379 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 2: such a place that you have to become something in 380 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 2: order to belong somewhere. 381 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: That might be church, but that's not the gospel. 382 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 2: The gospel is not you can belong when you become. 383 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 2: The gospel is you belong so you can become because 384 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 2: nothing will change you. Like realizing that I have a father, 385 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 2: nothing will change you, Like realizing before I ever take 386 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 2: my first breath he loves me, Nothing will change you, 387 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 2: Like realizing I belong here. 388 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: Say three people tell him, I belong here. I belong here. 389 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: I belong here. He purchased my right to be here. 390 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 2: He gave me access into his throne room, and nobody 391 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 2: can strip my credentials because nobody gave them to me. 392 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: But Christ, I belong here. I belong here. 393 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 2: That's the greatest sensation I feel. You know, everywhere that 394 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 2: God puts me, He's giving me opportunities. But I never 395 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: feel like I belong I never feel every week. Every 396 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 2: week when I walk up on the stage, I wonder, 397 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: when are they gonna stop handing the mic to the 398 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 2: wrong guy. Where are they gonna find the real qualified preacher. 399 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 2: I'm looking around for him because I know there's somebody 400 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 2: out here with superior qualifications to me. I know I 401 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 2: because I know me, I know my cracks, I know 402 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 2: my glitches, and in case I don't, there's people always. 403 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: To remind me. 404 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 2: Do you know how I came up with the title 405 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 2: for this book? If you do, just pretend like you don't, 406 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 2: because I'm gonna. 407 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: Tell you again now. 408 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: I wish I could say I went on a prairie 409 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 2: retreat to the smoky mountains, and the clouds formed the 410 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: shape of the parentheses, And but what actually happened. 411 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: I was on YouTube. 412 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 2: Right, I was getting ready to preach on a Saturday, and. 413 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: I put on YouTube. 414 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 2: Because I like that background noise, so I don't have 415 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 2: to be alone with myself. 416 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: That that was honest, that was raw. 417 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 2: It's kind of slipped out, and I had it on 418 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 2: a preacher, right. And you know how YouTube will take 419 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: an algorithm and recommend something for you to watch next, 420 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 2: the little sidebar thing, you know. I figured, hey, I 421 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 2: may as well trust in the sovereignty of YouTube, so 422 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: I went. 423 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: They recommended this video up to me next. 424 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 2: These people are professionals, These people know my habits, these 425 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 2: people are acquainted with my desires. So it said that 426 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 2: there was one I should watch next. So I watched 427 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: it next, and it was a theologian. This theologian is 428 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: very well known, very well respected, and he was doing 429 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 2: like a pastor's conference and he was doing some question 430 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: and answer. So I put it on the theologian and 431 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 2: I kind of walked out of the room and then. 432 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: I heard him call my name. 433 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: They were doing a lightning round where the interviewer was 434 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 2: asking the theologian. 435 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: Now, this guy is famous. I didn't know he knew 436 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:44,239 Speaker 1: who I was. 437 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 2: When they said my name and asked him what he 438 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 2: thought about me. I thought he would say who That's 439 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 2: what I was expecting because I read this guy's book, 440 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 2: or I should say I was assigned this guy's book. 441 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 1: To read in seminary, and I told you I wouldn't qualify. 442 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: Come take the mic. 443 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 2: Anybody, well, they said, Stephen Ferdick. They were going through names. 444 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 2: What do you think about this? And what do you 445 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 2: think about that? Stephen Ford, You know how kind of 446 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: when you hear some overhear somebody talking about. 447 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: You makes you feel important, you know, so I ran 448 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: back in. He said my name, said my name. 449 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 2: I made it now, and he said, Stephen Ferdick, well 450 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 2: the theologian. 451 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: I should show you the clip, but I don't. 452 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 2: Want you to see who he is because some of you, 453 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 2: when you hear what he said about me, if I 454 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 2: told you who he was, you're not saved enough. 455 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: I'm serious. 456 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 2: What my mom has thought about cutting his brake cables 457 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: in his car, but I told her not to do that. 458 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: She's not as Christian as me, they said, Stephen Ferdick. 459 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 2: And he goes. His body language said it all. He goes, 460 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 2: He drops his head, he slumps his shoulder, and he exhales, 461 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 2: as if the mere consideration of my name was so 462 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 2: weirisome to the great man's theological brain that he could 463 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 2: not bear the burden. It was like he was flushing 464 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 2: out the toxins of hearing my name just. 465 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: And the crowd chuckled. 466 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 2: And he summarized my whole minister, which is interesting because 467 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 2: I never met him. 468 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: You are judging by appearances. 469 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 2: Summarize my whole minister with one word, and I guess 470 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,679 Speaker 2: by now I don't need to tell you what that 471 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 2: word was, because it became the title of my. 472 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: Book, Stephen Fernick, Stephen Fernick. 473 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 4: And he said it so serious too, He said, it's 474 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 4: so serious. He said, unqualified sound like a gaffle in Texas, 475 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 4: a death penalty case. Unqualified. 476 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: Now, there would have been a time. 477 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 2: Where that word would have triggered some words in my 478 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 2: mind that would make unqualified sound like a Valentine's stakeharde But. 479 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: I was surprised at my reaction. I started laughing. You 480 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: know what I've thought. If you only knew, you know 481 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: what I thought. 482 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,959 Speaker 2: Thank you doctor, Thank you sir for horm a slip. 483 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: I thought, thank you. Oh, by the way, you know 484 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: what I did this week? 485 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 2: You'd I signed him a copy of the book and 486 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 2: sent it to him with a skinny red tie. I 487 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 2: just wanted to thank him for the reminder, for saying 488 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 2: what I felt my whole life. And now that we've 489 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 2: got that out of the way. 490 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: Let's have church. See. You just gotta own it? Does 491 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 1: somebody say own it? Own it? 492 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 3: Yeah? 493 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 2: I'm unqualified. Yeah I feel stupid sometimes. Yeah, I feel 494 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 2: inadequate from time to time. 495 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,679 Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not where I'm gonna be, but I'm not 496 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 1: where I used to be. 497 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got some cracks, but I'm also called Yeah. 498 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: I got some weakness, but I also got some strength. 499 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 2: I'm as a matter of fact, call me unqualified. 500 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: It puts me in some pretty good company. Abraham Moses, Jacob, Joseph. 501 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 2: Reha, David, Paul, Peter. Reach over to your neighbor and 502 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: tell him join the club. Club, unqualified club, dysfunctional club, 503 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 2: screwed up club, I lose my mind sometimes. Club, tempted club, 504 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 2: unsure club, insecure club. 505 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 1: I'm not quite there yet. Club. Please be patient. I'm 506 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: gonna work in progress. 507 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 2: Join the club where is my unqualified club? 508 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: Membership is free. All you gotta do is come in 509 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: on your knees. 510 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: Paul had Paul had a great gift, but he still 511 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 2: had to defend his credentials, and the way he defends 512 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 2: them is funny to me, because if you want to 513 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 2: defend yourself, you know, you put up a front. But 514 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 2: he gets real honest and real raw, real honest and 515 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 2: real raw, and he's hurt. And I can tell that 516 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 2: he's hurt because he starts talking. 517 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: About his letters versus his speaking. 518 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 2: He said that some of you verse ten are saying 519 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 2: that my letters are better than my preaching. Did you 520 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 2: read the verse? Look at it with me. For some say, 521 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 2: you're always going to have those voices. They're never gonna 522 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 2: go away. If Paul had people saying it, you're gonna 523 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 2: have people saying it. And by the way, most of 524 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 2: us don't need YouTube to inform us that we're unqualified. 525 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 2: We have a little tatterbox that's alive and well reminding 526 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 2: us of the fact. So he said, I know that 527 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 2: some of you are comparing my letters to my speech. 528 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 2: For some say his letters are weighty and forceful, but 529 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 2: in person. 530 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 3: He is. 531 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 2: Unimpressive, unworthy, unskilled, untrained. I know he wrestled with it, 532 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 2: because he mentions it again in the next chapter. In 533 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 2: Second Corinthians, Chapter eleven, verses five and six, he starts 534 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 2: talking about I may not be trained as a speaker. 535 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 2: I know I'm not trained as a speaker, but. 536 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: I have knowledge. Now, you don't talk like this unless 537 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: you're wrestling with it. If you're a Christian for. 538 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 2: Very long, you're eventually going to have somebody ask you 539 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 2: this question. And it's kind of a funny question, but 540 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 2: they'll ask us something we do as Christians. We say, 541 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 2: when you get to Heaven, who do you want to see? 542 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: First? 543 00:30:58,600 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 2: Now, when I ask you that, the first thing you 544 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 2: got to say, I don't want to see Jesus. But 545 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 2: then after you say that, I've asked people that before, 546 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 2: and you usually hear a. 547 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: Lot of people say they want to see Paul. But 548 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if they do. 549 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 2: I don't know if Paul's the first person you want 550 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 2: to see, because we know Paul according to his gift. 551 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: But apparently Paul had a glitch. 552 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 2: Is that this man who wrote twenty three percent of 553 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 2: the New Testament. You total up the number of words 554 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 2: of coin a Greek, which is the type of Greek 555 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: that the New Testament was written in, and you look 556 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 2: at how many are attributed to Paul. It was up 557 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 2: to twenty three percent. Makes him the second biggest human 558 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 2: contributor to what we have as our New Testament canon 559 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 2: of Scripture, second only to Luke who wrote Luke. 560 00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: And Acts. That guy who. 561 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 2: We could argue was the most effective preacher of the 562 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 2: last twenty centuries, who took the Gospel to new frontiers. 563 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 2: That gifted guy had a glitch and apparently the way 564 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 2: he preached, this preacher, because you know, when you picture Paul, 565 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 2: I bet you picture him with a big, booming voice, 566 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: funny illustrations B three or again. But Paul stood up 567 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 2: to preach, and some people said he ain't nothing. 568 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: He can't preach like a Polos. 569 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 2: Apollos was another preacher during his day, and people always 570 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 2: wanted to compare Paul in a Polus, and they say, 571 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 2: I follow Apolus because Apollos was an orator. 572 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: He was spellbinding. He had a vocabulary like a thesaurus. 573 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: He had metaphors and. 574 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 2: Analogies and synonyms and antonyms, other grammar tools, and boy. 575 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: He could preach. So he preach. He's just spellbinding. He preached, 576 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: and people will leave. Paul said, I know I'm not 577 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: a very good preacher. I know him. 578 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 2: That gets me because he's talking about confidence, but then 579 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 2: he talks about the conflict he fulfilled a great destiny, 580 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 2: but he illuminates his deficiency. One of the great things 581 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 2: about pastoring a large church now is that I get 582 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 2: to know some of the people who have always been 583 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 2: my heroes from a distance personally, and sometimes you wish 584 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 2: that you had kept them at a distance. But sometimes 585 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 2: you get to know them and you realize that the 586 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,959 Speaker 2: secret of their strength isn't what you thought it was. 587 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 2: So there are three pastors that I consider the best, 588 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 2: just my personal ranking for whatever it's worth. 589 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: I've seen certain things that they do. 590 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 2: And I respect them all on different levels for different reasons, 591 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 2: but they all in some way represent something that I 592 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 2: would love to emulate. And I've asked them over the 593 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 2: last I would say, eight months, the same question across 594 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 2: three different areas. So the first one, he's really great 595 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 2: with money, and his church reflects this. He has millions 596 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 2: in assets and zero in debt, both in his. 597 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:29,879 Speaker 1: Personal life and his church life. 598 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 2: And I see how he orders his life and how 599 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 2: strategic and efficient it is. 600 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,439 Speaker 1: And I asked him, what made you that way? What 601 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,919 Speaker 1: do you think made you that way? 602 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 2: He answered quickly, I was so broke growing up, I 603 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 2: was so poor. 604 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: I had nothing. 605 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 2: So when I finally got something, it was the poverty 606 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 2: that I experienced growing up that gave me the discipline 607 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 2: to handle what I had when I got it. Okay, 608 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 2: the second guy, he's the best empower Is that a word? 609 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 2: He is the best at empowering other leaders that I've 610 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 2: ever seen, and now, at around age sixty, he's got 611 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 2: leaders that he raised up and sent out all over 612 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 2: the world who are doing more than he could ever 613 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 2: do through the power of his life multiplied. So I 614 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 2: asked him, how have you always had the virtue or 615 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 2: the humility to be able to empower other leaders in 616 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 2: the way that you have, you know he said? He said, 617 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 2: I don't think it was humility as much as it 618 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 2: was my insecurity. I never saw myself as a great leader, 619 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 2: so I had no other choice but to lean on 620 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:43,800 Speaker 2: other people. 621 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 1: That's the second one. 622 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 2: I want you to look for the common thread in 623 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 2: the three of these, because the third one he's the 624 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 2: best preacher I've ever heard, the best, the best, and 625 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 2: I'll fight you over that. 626 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: He's the best. 627 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 2: I heard him say twice in the last couple of weeks, 628 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 2: something that shocked me because I see his gift. 629 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: I see his gift, but I never saw his glitch. 630 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: I see his. 631 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 2: Gift, and it surprised me when he said, when I 632 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 2: first started preaching, my hand would shake so bad I 633 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 2: could hardly hold the microphone. 634 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,240 Speaker 1: I had to get a microphone. 635 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 2: That would clip on me because if I held one, 636 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 2: my hand would shake too bad and I couldn't hold 637 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 2: it still. 638 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: And he said, when. 639 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 2: I first started preaching, he said, I preached harder than 640 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:29,760 Speaker 2: anybody else. 641 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 1: I preach for two hours, three hours. 642 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 2: He said, I would preach so hard that not only 643 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 2: would I sweat through my suit, I would sweat through 644 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 2: my shoes. You could ring sweat out of my shoelaces. 645 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 2: When I got done preaching, and he said, watch this. 646 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 2: This made me cry like Vanilope on record Ralph when 647 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 2: he said it. He said, the reason I preached so 648 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,280 Speaker 2: hard is because I never thought I preached that good. 649 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 2: In each of those cases, it was their glitch that 650 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 2: made them great. It was the thing that they would 651 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 2: have asked God to take away, or it was the 652 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 2: thing that they would have asked God to put in 653 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 2: that he didn't, that fed their strength through their weakness. 654 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 2: This is such a powerful revelation when you consider that 655 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 2: Paul wrote twenty three percent of the New Testament, and 656 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 2: I found myself wondering, if Paul had been a better speaker, 657 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 2: would he have picked up his pen and written all 658 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 2: those letters? I wonder if Paul could have preached like 659 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 2: a PAULA, would we have Second Corinthians? 660 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: Would we have Romans? Would we have Ephesians three? Twenty now? 661 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 2: And him, he was able to do a measure a 662 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 2: little bit more than all we ask himage Accordey's. 663 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,479 Speaker 1: Powerhich words mightily en us. He picked up. 664 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 2: His pen, perhaps because he couldn't preach like a Polus. 665 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: It was. 666 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,319 Speaker 2: I gotta be careful because I'll get choked up thinking 667 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,520 Speaker 2: about it, because I've spent so much time feeling like 668 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 2: my glitch was gonna keep me from being used by God. 669 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 2: But it was his glitch that became his gift. The 670 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 2: words that you read today that Paul wrote may not 671 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 2: even be on the page if he could have preached better. 672 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 2: It was because he couldn't preach like a Polus that 673 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,040 Speaker 2: he wrote like Paul. 674 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:07,240 Speaker 1: His glitch was the gift that keeps on giving. 675 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:15,799 Speaker 2: How many Bible verses can you quote that a Polus wrote, but. 676 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 1: A Polus could preach. 677 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 2: A Polus was impressive, no doubt what he said was profound. 678 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: But he said it, and it died. 679 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 2: Paul couldn't preach like a Polus, so it forced him 680 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,440 Speaker 2: to sit down. He said, I gotta take my glitch 681 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 2: and find a way to turn it into a gift. 682 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 2: And because he had a glitch, you gotta get this 683 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 2: in your heart. Because he had a glitch. His words 684 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,880 Speaker 2: are still reverberating today. 685 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,880 Speaker 1: I thought you might want to take fifteen seconds. 686 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,279 Speaker 2: And praise God for your glitch, and praise God for 687 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,759 Speaker 2: your weakness, and. 688 00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: Praise God for your struggle. 689 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,360 Speaker 2: You might as well put your weakness to work, because 690 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:19,359 Speaker 2: it's not going away. I'm not saying don't improve. I'm 691 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,319 Speaker 2: not saying don't get more intelligent. I'm not saying don't 692 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,720 Speaker 2: take the class. I'm saying that there is a glitch 693 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:24,399 Speaker 2: in all of us. 694 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,480 Speaker 1: That's a lie. There are multiple glitches in all of us. 695 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 2: When Vanelope found out, I'm gonna tie it all together, 696 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 2: wreck it. 697 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,360 Speaker 1: Ralph, Apostle, Paul, here they come. They're meeting up. Watch this. 698 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: Vanelope is stuck. 699 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 2: In a game and she can't race because she's a glitch. 700 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: But guess what. 701 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 2: The reason that they unplugged the machine to try to 702 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 2: turn her into a glitch to begin with is because 703 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 2: she was royalty. 704 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 1: She was a hero. 705 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,440 Speaker 2: You gotta watch the movie to get the full revelation 706 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,400 Speaker 2: of this sermon. I want you to sit down and 707 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,839 Speaker 2: watch it for your quiet time this week, because when 708 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 2: you watch her, you'll find out that the way she 709 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,560 Speaker 2: ended up saving the game was that she glitched to 710 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,839 Speaker 2: the finish line. It was her glitch. God, don don't 711 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,160 Speaker 2: hear me, Y, don't hear me. You keep thinking that 712 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 2: your glitch is getting in the way. I'm trying to 713 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,640 Speaker 2: tell you that Paul's clinch became the gift that we're 714 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 2: reading today. 715 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:20,400 Speaker 1: And if you. 716 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 2: Got a glitch, and if you got a weakness, and 717 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 2: you got a broken spot in your life, and you'll 718 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,839 Speaker 2: bring it to godnedge. 719 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:35,919 Speaker 1: Humility and sincerity. Your weakness is about to become your 720 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: secret weapon. Your weakness is about to the come your 721 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,000 Speaker 1: portal to God's power. 722 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:53,600 Speaker 2: Not givin praise if you believe it, given praise if 723 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:54,399 Speaker 2: you believe it. 724 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 1: Givin praise if you're receiving. 725 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 2: So the reason I'm so smart with money is I 726 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,360 Speaker 2: was so broke. My glitch became my gift. The reason 727 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,759 Speaker 2: I empowered so many leaders is because I didn't think 728 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 2: I was a very good one. My glitch became my gift. 729 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,080 Speaker 2: The reason I can preach and connect with people is 730 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,160 Speaker 2: because I was convinced I never could see. People who 731 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 2: have a great gift often find that the gift stunts 732 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:32,600 Speaker 2: their growth. But when you know you have a glitch, 733 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,960 Speaker 2: when you know that you have a deficiency, and you 734 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:51,360 Speaker 2: begin to believe that my deficiency is connected to my destiny. 735 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:56,800 Speaker 1: That's how God uses broken people to do big things. 736 00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:58,560 Speaker 1: Jump up on your feet. 737 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,440 Speaker 2: If you receive this word on any level, will clap 738 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,720 Speaker 2: your hands and give God praise. 739 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:08,640 Speaker 1: I want, I want, I want, I want you. 740 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 2: To summarize my message, hug at least six people and 741 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 2: tell him your glitches, your gift, your glitches, your gift, 742 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:14,959 Speaker 2: your glitches. 743 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 1: Your gift. If if, if, if. 744 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,239 Speaker 2: He could have preached better, maybe he wouldn't have written it. 745 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:36,360 Speaker 1: Down if he. 746 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 2: Sometimes what God leaves out is just as important as 747 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:53,640 Speaker 2: what he puts in. If Paul had spoken Second Corinthians 748 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 2: twelve to ten, we wouldn't be able to throw. 749 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,440 Speaker 1: It up on the screen. They didn't have a tape recorder. 750 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:08,480 Speaker 2: I ain't have pro tools, reason logic ableton, I'm just 751 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:15,920 Speaker 2: saying stuff now. He would have said it, but because 752 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 2: of his glitch, oh God, because of what he couldn't do. 753 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,160 Speaker 1: I would have liked to have been a better athlete. 754 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,080 Speaker 2: I would love to be able to run the forty 755 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 2: faster than over five seconds. 756 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:31,279 Speaker 1: I would love that. 757 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,400 Speaker 2: Well, maybe if I had been a better athlete, I 758 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,239 Speaker 2: wouldn't have been a youth minister. I know some of 759 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,400 Speaker 2: you would have loved to have had a dad that 760 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:46,839 Speaker 2: raised you, and you should have. But maybe your deficiency, 761 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,879 Speaker 2: maybe the fact that you didn't have a great dad, 762 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,480 Speaker 2: is going to be the thing that drives you to 763 00:44:50,520 --> 00:45:03,040 Speaker 2: become one h I don't think it's coincidence that the 764 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:08,960 Speaker 2: nerdy kids become the most successful ones, because since they 765 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,840 Speaker 2: don't have a whole lot of people around, they have 766 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 2: to get. 767 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 1: To know themselves and they have to develop themselves. 768 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:20,400 Speaker 2: And so then what in high school is loneliness becomes 769 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 2: later in life success. 770 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:28,760 Speaker 1: It's the glitch that keeps giving. 771 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:30,560 Speaker 2: You know, the thing that didn't happen for you that 772 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:31,880 Speaker 2: you prayed it would happen, and you felt like a 773 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,200 Speaker 2: failure when it didn't happen, the thing you didn't get, 774 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600 Speaker 2: the opportunity that you screwed up. Hey, maybe you screwed 775 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,840 Speaker 2: it up. Maybe God didn't do it. But Paul said, 776 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 2: when I am weak, then. 777 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,080 Speaker 1: I am strong. Joint hands with the person next to You. 778 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,880 Speaker 2: Think God doesn't see your glitch, you think he's limited 779 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 2: by it. You think the manufacturer doesn't know your defect. 780 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,320 Speaker 1: Of course he does chose you anyway. 781 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:17,960 Speaker 2: And I know a lot of preachings says, you know, 782 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,759 Speaker 2: God's going to use you in spite of that thing. 783 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,759 Speaker 1: Uhh, that's not my message. 784 00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:28,279 Speaker 2: I'm saying He's gonna use you because of it. It 785 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,040 Speaker 2: is going to be your weakness that feeds your strength. Father, 786 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:36,320 Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus, I declare over every glitchy 787 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:41,080 Speaker 2: person that the broken places in their lives, in the 788 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,759 Speaker 2: cracks in their heart, are about to become the spaces 789 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,360 Speaker 2: through which your glory most freely flows. We thank you 790 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,279 Speaker 2: that we are broken vessels, and we thank you that 791 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,680 Speaker 2: what is broken is full of oil. And we thank 792 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,520 Speaker 2: you that in our lives that you are not limited 793 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 2: by our liabilities, but rather you specialize in turning weakness 794 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,319 Speaker 2: into strength. Now lift your hands in the air. I 795 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 2: want you to reach for God today. God, empower these 796 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:14,279 Speaker 2: people by your grace. Empower these people to realize a 797 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,840 Speaker 2: great calling. Empower your sons and daughters with the kind 798 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,399 Speaker 2: of blessing, with the kind of anointing, with the kind 799 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,160 Speaker 2: of glory that can only. 800 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,839 Speaker 1: Enter through broken spaces. 801 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,720 Speaker 2: Now clap those same hands and give God graise. 802 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,040 Speaker 1: If you'll know your glas it's your gift. If you'll 803 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:39,839 Speaker 1: know your weakness is your strength, the clear victory over 804 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:46,120 Speaker 1: your mind. 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