1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: As you can tell, I am not Pastor Stephen. I'm 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 1: a little taller. If we haven't had the privilege of meeting, 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: my name is Tim Summers, and I get the honor 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: and privilege of being the youth pastor here at elevation. 5 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: I love saying that chunks because you can see like 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: thirty percent of the room timid like, Oh, here's this guy, 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: the youth pastor. Look at that blonde hair. Is he 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: forcing it? No, I've had it for years. Okay, but 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't honor this house 10 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: and honor our pastors. How many of you have ever 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: heard the parable of the sewer? Anyone ever heard this? Right? 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: When the farmer throws the seed, he throws it on 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: like four different areas. Right, You've got the rocky place, 14 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: the thorny place, the shallow place. But then there's that 15 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: good soil where that sea takes root and then it 16 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: multiplies one hundredfold. How many you know that you've got 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: a good soil church and a good soil pastor. Hey, 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: you can find a leader anywhere. You can find a 19 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 1: leader anywhere. There's millions of leaders. But you know what's 20 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: incredible about our pastors? Is they are incredible stewards. Incredible stewards, 21 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: and so can we give it up for our pastors, 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: Pastor Steven, Pastor Holly, the entire family, Grandma life Abby, 23 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: we love you. I believe that this is the greatest 24 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: move of God in our generation. I wholeheartedly believe that. 25 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: I say that without a doubt. Okay, so look at 26 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: your neighbor and say I believe that too. Even if 27 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: you don't, you're gonna say it. Even if you don't, 28 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna say it. You could take a seat. I 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: wanted to show you my family real quick because I 30 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: know a lot of you haven't been backed since COVID, 31 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: so you don't even know who I am. And so 32 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: that's totally fine. I want you to put my beautiful 33 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: family out there real quick. Okay, let's look at this. 34 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: You see the big the big man, No, not me, 35 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: the other one. That's my fifteen year old son. Yeah. 36 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. Wow, he has a fifteen 37 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: year old son. He does not look that old, thank you. 38 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: That's Brodie. And he is bigger than me. Like he's 39 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: not as tall as me, but he's got more muscle 40 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: mass than me. And so pray for me because my 41 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: ego has been shot for two years. And then you 42 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: see the one with the smoke face. That's Genesis, our 43 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: five year old. And imagine everyone's energy combined in this room. 44 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: He has more than that and he's not saved. I'm serious, 45 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: like Journey, I'm for real. Thank you God for you kids, volunteers. 46 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: I'm just praying one day to get that text. And 47 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: then my littlest one, Laney Dior Klein. I tell you 48 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: his full name because it means small golden servant and 49 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: he's the only one with blonde hair. I didn't even 50 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: know it. I didn't even know that's what it meant, 51 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: but that's exactly what it means, small gold And so 52 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: that's my that's my little guy. And then my beautiful wife, Rebecca, 53 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: and she really is so beautiful, and she she's our 54 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: online campus pastor. She she works here as well, so 55 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: we carry that mantle together. But you know what's really amazing. 56 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: You know, she does a lot of cool stuff. She 57 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: really does. She's she's brilliant, she's bright, she's phenomenal. She 58 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: does she goes above and beyond. But just put that 59 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: picture up there real quick. Nice, there goes the most 60 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: incredible thing is how she has brought to life those 61 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: three boys right there, and she said, let's do it again. 62 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: And so we're having our first girl in September. Are 63 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: you seriousss? I gotta go. I don't know how, but 64 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: it worked. I was like, Oh my goodness, it's just 65 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: gonna be boys. Just a bunch of deodorant and that's it. 66 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: That's all we need. We got our first girl, and 67 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: she's due September fifteenth. And so people keep asking me, 68 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: are you done? And I keep saying, we'll pray about it. 69 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: So praying about it, we'll see what happens. We'll see 70 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: what happens. How many of you ready for the word? 71 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: All right, you're ready for the word. Good, You're ready, 72 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: You're ready. I'm ready for the word. Really believe that 73 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: God wants to speak to you today, Acts twelve, Acts twelve. 74 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: And if you brought your bibles, make sure you open 75 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: it up. If not, we were thinking about you all week. 76 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: We were praying for you. We love you. We got 77 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: it prepared ready for you on the screens. Acts twelve, 78 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: Verse one. This is what it says. It says it 79 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: was about this time the King Herod arrested some who 80 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, 81 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: the brother of John, put to death with the sword, 82 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: and when he saw that this met with approval among 83 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,799 Speaker 1: the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter. Also, they reminds 84 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: you something real quick, everyone. Most times the need of 85 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: approval for men proceeds bad intentions. We only two verses 86 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: in homies and we learning something. Okay. This happened during 87 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: the Festival of unlevin Brannon. After arresting it, he put 88 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: him in prison, handing him over to the garden by 89 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: four squads of four soldiers. If you know how to 90 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: do math four times four, it is And Herod intended 91 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: to bring him out for public trial after the passover. 92 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: So Peter was kept in prison. But the church, everyone say, 93 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: but the church, remember when Pastor preached on but God. 94 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: I'll tell your neighbors, say, you gotta roll to play 95 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: in this too. You gotta roll to play in this too. 96 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: But the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 97 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: And the night before Herod was to bring in the trial, 98 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two chains, 99 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: and centuries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly, the Angel 100 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. 101 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: He struck Peter on the side and woke him up, 102 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: and he said, quick, get up. Look at that. A light, 103 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: an alarm clock, and a swift kick to the kidneys. 104 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: That's how you wake up a teenager. The Bible's got everything. Okay, 105 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: I saw it in the Bible, sweetheart, this is what 106 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. He said, quick, get up, and 107 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: the chains fell off of Peter's wrist. Then the angel 108 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: said to him, put on your clothing sandals, and Peter 109 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: did so. Wrap your cloak around you and follow me, 110 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: the angel told him, and Peter followed him out of 111 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: the prison. But he had no idea that what the 112 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: angel was doing was really happening. He thought he was 113 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: seeing a vision. Let me stop right there, because sometimes 114 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: you are free before you even know it. He was freed. 115 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: He went through a prep season. He went through the journey. 116 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: And some of you might be looking at the situation 117 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: that you're in right now and you're thinking, ah, God's 118 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: got me in a prep season. I'm here to remind 119 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: you he's also got you in a free season. You're 120 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: in a free season. So they passed the first of 121 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: second guards and came to the iron gate leading to 122 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: the city had opened for them by hisself, and they 123 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: went through it. And when they had walked the length 124 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Then Peter 125 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: came to himself and said, now I know without a 126 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued 127 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: me from Herod's clutches and from everything the Jewish people 128 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: were hoping would happen verse twelve. When this had dawned 129 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: on him, he went to the house of Mary, the 130 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had 131 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: gathered and were praying. Peter knocked at the outer entrance, 132 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 1: and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door, 133 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: and when she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed 134 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, Peter is 135 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: at the door last two verses. You're out of your mind, 136 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, 137 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: they said it must be his angel. But Peter kept 138 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, 139 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: they were astonished. I've heard so many preachers preach on 140 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: that verse right there. Verse sixteen, and I'm not going 141 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: to do that today. I want to focus on verse eleven. 142 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: This is what it says in verse eleven, Then Peter 143 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: came to himself. I love the New Living translation. It says, 144 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: then Peter came to his senses. He came to his senses. 145 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: If I were to title this, I would title it 146 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: come to your senses, Come to your senses, Come to 147 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: your senses. I was showing you my family earlier because 148 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: I really wanted to kind of set up this story here, 149 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: and I wanted you to be able to see the 150 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: difference between my fifteen year old and my five year old. 151 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: It's kind of self explanatory, but he is bigger than 152 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: most fifteen year olds. And here's the deal. I don't 153 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: know if you have boys, how many parents we have 154 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: in the house today. Okay, fantastic, you're going to relate 155 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: to this. If you have always you understand that wrestling 156 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: is an event in our in our home. Okay, it 157 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: always happens, but it has to be an event. It 158 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: has to be a big deal. So we move the 159 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: ottomans out of the way, we put pillows on everything, 160 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: we lay down four blankets. I mean, it's a whole 161 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: ordeal even in fact, uh, Genesis had learned has learned 162 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: about Alexa, and he's like, Alexa play rock music and 163 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: literally it's like the rock music, you know what I mean, 164 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: Like it's just like his theme song to come out 165 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: to wrestle. Now, here's the deal about Genesis. Genesis thinks 166 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: that he can be brody every single time. No, I'm serious, 167 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: every time he thinks he can be brody. He's got 168 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: more confidence than Lebron. I don't know, I don't know. 169 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: I don't think about that beforehand. But he he's got 170 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. Okay, he's very arrogant, but it's 171 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: cute right now. You know, like when does that grow? 172 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: When you grow out of that? I don't know, but 173 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: he's cute. And here's they He's got a lot of 174 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: comments and he thinks he could be brody every single time. 175 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: And we have a rule in the house that if 176 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: you hurt Genesis, you then have to wrestle Dad. That's 177 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: just a rule. It's just a rule. Okay, just a rule. 178 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: But they wrestle all the time. Well after every time 179 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: they wrestle, tell me if I'm lying. After every time 180 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 1: and the wrestle Brody never lets him win ever. I mean, 181 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He will always take the win. Okay, 182 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: it's okay. He's fifteen, right, he's going through his you know, 183 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: hormones and egos and all that kind of stuff. He's 184 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: learning about pride. It's fine, but he would never let 185 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: him win. He ain't gonna let him get a win whatsoever. 186 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: And and and one day my Genesis came up to me. 187 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 1: He's like, Dad, Prunin never lets you win. He not 188 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: relaxing you. And I can never get a win Dad. 189 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm like teaching my son. I'm like, 190 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: look he's got long hair pull it. I'm like, look 191 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: he's so proud of his leg. Hair pull it. You 192 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: do whatever you gotta do to win. I'm not kidding 193 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: you do I do this, baby, I swear I do. 194 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, on this guy's side, I just want him 195 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: to win, you know. But I like when they wrestle 196 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: because it toughens him up. Okay, it toughens him up. 197 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: It's it's fine, uh to me. And and and in 198 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: one day Genesis comes down his dad Brody hurt my elbow, 199 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: and I went, well, we know we have a rule 200 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: for that. Don't we. He goes, yeah, what's the rule 201 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: Dad that I guess it's time for me to wrestle Brody. 202 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: He's like, Browdy, you gotta wrestle Dad. Brody comes down, 203 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: you know, like he's like, all right, let's do this. 204 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: You know, he's like, I've been waiting for this. I'm like, yo, okay. 205 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: Twenty seconds later had him tapping out. Now I'm not 206 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: here to boast about any of that. I'm thirty two, 207 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: he's fifteen. You know. It's not like he's bigger than 208 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: me or anything like that. We'll move on past that. 209 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: But it was funny because afterwards it kind of hit 210 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: his pride a little bit. You know what I'm saying, 211 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: like hit his pride. He like, I look tall, but 212 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: I'm look scrawny. Okay, I know I'm lanky, all right. 213 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: I know I'm like KD okay, And I get it. 214 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: I get it, and it's and it's fine. But you see, 215 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: Brody underestimates this thing. And I like to call it 216 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: the sixth sense. It's that dad's strength, you know what 217 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, when you become a dad, it's like, yeah, 218 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: nothing can stop me. Like watch boy, Well, I don't care. 219 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: Twenty seconds, I have your boom. How do you like that? 220 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: He's like, Dad, I got it. Okay, okay, I'm tapping. 221 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: I'm tapping. I said, no, you're not. You're talking. You 222 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: ain't tapping. Tapping down, I tapping. And I looked at 223 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: him and and something that Brody always says to Genesis. 224 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, Bud, you can't win them all. So man, 225 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: I was ready. You thought that getting him the top 226 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: out was a big deal for me. I was like, no, hey, Brody. 227 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: He's like what Dad. He wasn't crying, but he's like, yeah, 228 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: was up. I said, hey, you can't win them all, 229 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: big dog. I thought that was a great moment. And 230 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: then Genesis comes up. He's like, hey, Brody, I guess 231 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: you just gotta roll with the punches. I was like, 232 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: what row with the Like? I thought to myself, man, 233 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: that's so true. You never know what life's gonna hand you, right, 234 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: and sometimes you just got to learn how to roll 235 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: with the punches. Have you ever heard this phrase before? 236 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: Your parents? Ever tell you this? But like, yeah, I 237 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: didn't make the team, Like, yeah, man, I know, just 238 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: gotta roll with the punches, right, You just gotta roll 239 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: with the punches. Have you ever been in a season, Well, 240 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: you feel like all you're doing is rolling with the punches. 241 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm done getting punched. I'm not floyme Weather, 242 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: i ain't illt for this, you know what I'm saying? Right, 243 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: Or maybe you feel like you're in the season that 244 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: you just can never get a win at all. You 245 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: feel like Genesis, I just can't get a win? Can 246 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: I just get a win today? I feel for my 247 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: guy Peter in this passage, in fact, in every passage 248 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: when I read about Peter, Peter is I mean he 249 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: is learning something every single time. Like literally the passages 250 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: are littered with teaching moments. Right, You've got him learning 251 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: how to walk on water from the place of drowning. Right, 252 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: he denies Christ not once, not twice, but three times. Right, 253 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: and now in this passage you see him seized, you 254 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: see him arrested, You see his friend James die, you 255 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: see him put it be put into prison, you see 256 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: him guarded by sixteen soldiers, and now you see him 257 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: about to be put on trial. This is a big 258 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: This is a this is a big deal. And you're saying, 259 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: how does this relate to me, Well, I don't know. 260 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: Maybe you're going through your second divorce. Maybe for you, 261 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: you're dealing with this addiction for the last ten years 262 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: that you thought you would never still be dealing with. 263 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: Maybe you're walking in every Friday and you'll have been 264 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, and you thought, man, 265 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: I thought this was gonna be over. When when are 266 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: we When are we gonna get to the other side? 267 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: When is it gonna get better? Have you ever been 268 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: there before? Have you ever asked questions like this, like, God, 269 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: what's happening? I feel like I can't win at all? 270 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: And I'm just rolling with the punches and I'm looking 271 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,479 Speaker 1: at Peter and I'm like, man, there's some things that 272 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: we can learn from Peter. Because Peter had a lot 273 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: of teaching moments. He went through a lot of stuff. 274 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: But you know what, you know how good this man 275 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: was at rolling with the punches. This is a this 276 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: is a this is a big deal. Because Peter's got doubts, 277 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: he's got questions, he's got confusion. Have you ever had doubts? 278 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 1: Have you ever had questions? Have you ever been confused? 279 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: But Peter's so good at rolling with the punches. So 280 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: how do I begin to roll with the punches? Do 281 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: I have what it takes? Can I go through this? Again? 282 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: Is what I need? Actually inside me? Here's what I 283 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: believe that Verse five. Everyone'll say five. Verse five is 284 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: a great starting point and it would be considered my 285 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: first point. Okay, if you want to be able to 286 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: roll with the punches, you have to remember the church. 287 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: Remember the church. Verse five. So Peter was kept in prison, 288 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 289 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: This is important because he's he's intensely seeking after God's 290 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: the last time that you intensely sought after God? Was 291 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: it two minutes ago? Or did you miss it? When's 292 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: the last time that you intensely sought after God? This 293 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: is why I got into youth ministry, and this is 294 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 1: why I love youth ministry because we are teaching teenagers 295 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: how to earnestly seek after God at a young age, right, 296 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: so that when life goes and punches, they can go 297 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: back to the positive influences, the positive experiences that have 298 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: happened in their life and go, you know what, I'm 299 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: prepared for this. I'm ready for this. So we're creating 300 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: those moments and shameless plug right here for real, Like, 301 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: if your kid is not going to youth X, what 302 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,479 Speaker 1: are you doing? Right? Like youth X this is our 303 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: summer camp. If you don't know anything about a July 304 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: thirteenth through the fifteenth, it's two hundred dollars. But we 305 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: got financial aid available and literally this entire room we 306 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:48,239 Speaker 1: will have two thousand teenagers earnestly seeking after God. So 307 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: go to youth X twenty two our common register. But 308 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: here's the deal. For real, I will I will have 309 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: parents come up to me and they're like, well, I'm 310 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: gonna let my kid decide if they want to go. 311 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, would you let your kid walk 312 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: in the highway with the blindfold on? No? So why 313 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: do we keep our kids till eighteen but we stop 314 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: parenting them at fifteen? Why do we do this? Now? Look? Look, look, 315 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 1: I'm fairly new at the parenting thing, so so I 316 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: want you to understand, like I'm learning even right now 317 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: on how to help them make their decisions right. But 318 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: here's what I'm gonna let you know. I'm gonna make 319 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: it easy for you. Just say it's my fault, Just 320 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: say it's my fault. Well, youth pastor Tim told me 321 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: to sign you up for camp. He's your youth pastor, 322 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: he's my youth pastor, So I gotta do it. Just 323 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: do it. We're on the same team. Let's rocket take 324 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: them over, tag team. We know how to do this. 325 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: We make it so hard, right, I think it's I 326 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: think it's a maz A couple thousand teenagers will earnestly 327 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: seek God and we'll be able to watch it right 328 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: there in July, and and and and and you know 329 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: what's wild? Why do we do it because it's important? 330 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: Why Why do we do it because it's vital? Why 331 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: do we do it? Because the church is the bride 332 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: of Christ. And if you say you love Jesus, you 333 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: can't hate the church. The church is the community. Everyone 334 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: say we are the church. Ultimately, my shameless pup plug 335 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: is reminding you that you have to remember the church. 336 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is we will forget the 337 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: importance of the church and try to use it like 338 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: jewelry and not like oxygen, only just to enhance our life, 339 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,199 Speaker 1: when the reality is that the Church was meant to 340 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: be life. It was meant to be life. Man can 341 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: I be honest with you. For some of you, church 342 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: used to be a lifestyle and then the punch of 343 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 1: COVID can and you've ventured your way out of serving, 344 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: You've walked your way out of groups, and you roll 345 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: yourself out of bed maybe one time a month instead 346 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: of four times in a month. Let me tell you something. 347 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: If we forget the power of the church, woo. You 348 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: think we in trouble now, oh we're gonna be a 349 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 1: big trouble. Then this is this is important because we 350 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: gotta be careful. That's the opposite of earnestly seeking after God. 351 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: And you can't get upset with me because this is 352 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: what I believe. You know what I mean, like like 353 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: look like like like if you're not vocal about it 354 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: and it ain't visible, then it ain't a value. Then 355 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: it ain't a value. You're saying our kids, Yeah, church 356 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: is a value. Well, mam, why we only go once 357 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: every six weeks? I'm just saying, right, And here's the deal. 358 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: I get it. I understand. Like if I said, Joe, 359 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 1: you know you are on staff, I'm like, yeah. But 360 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: there's sometimes where Epham just feels like, yes, this is 361 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: what I want to be today, right, And I lived 362 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: ten minutes away, and I'm like, well, maybe right. I'm 363 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: not here to shame you. I'm here to let you 364 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 1: know that. Look, I'm very new at this trying to 365 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: make decisions where he's trying to make help your teenagers 366 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: make decisions for them. But what you've got to understand 367 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: is you cannot forget the power of the church. That's 368 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 1: why it says remember the church. Because when you look 369 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,479 Speaker 1: at verse twelve, after Peter gets out of prison, but 370 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: where's the first place that he goes? He goes to 371 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: Mary's house. It is said that the church was meeting 372 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: at Mary's house and it was midnight. That means it 373 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: was like eagre time or summer camp. You know, I 374 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: don't know if any he grews meet at midnight, I'd 375 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: be weird. Right, Like he remembered, he knew the church 376 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: was praying for me. And the first thing that he 377 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: does goes to the church. He had remembered the church, 378 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: which leads me to my second point. If you want 379 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: to roll with the punches, you got to remember the church. 380 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: And number two, you got to remember your humanity. So 381 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: if we all need the first point the church, we 382 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: all have the second point, our humanity, right, our humanity, 383 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: It says in verse seven, Suddenly an angel of the 384 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: Lord appeared in a light shone in the cell, and 385 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: he struck Peter on the side and woke him up, quick, 386 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: get up, and the chains fell off of his wrist. 387 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: What would you be thinking in that moment? That's wild? Right? 388 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: Then the angel said to him, put on your clothing sandals, 389 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: and Peter did so, wrap your cloak around you and 390 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 1: follow me. And Peter followed him out of the prison. 391 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: That's crazy, right, I'd have some questions. But he had 392 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening. See, 393 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: he's confused. Then it goes on to say he thought 394 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: he was seeing a vision. Nope, wasn't a vision. He's confused, 395 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: he's got some doubt. They passed the first and second 396 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: guards and came to the iron gate leading to the 397 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: city open for them by itself myself. He's confused, he's wondering, 398 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: how is this all happening? And when they had walked 399 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Right, 400 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: do you have some questions at this point if you 401 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: are Peter in this story, right, like the amount of questions, 402 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: the amount of anxiety, the amount of doubt, the amount 403 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: of worry, and maybe even the amount of pause had 404 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: to feel make Peter feel that he was out of control. 405 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: And I look at this passage and I'm like, why 406 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: can't I get a step by step playbook on life? 407 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm like, what the heck? 408 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: It's like Pastor Holly talked about last week, but the 409 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: whole you know, heaven out, you know what I mean? 410 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: Why can't I get a step by step playbook on what? 411 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: This looks like? I can't get out of a parking violation, 412 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: but this homie's getting a first class ride out of prison. 413 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: You know, like, this is wild to me, right, But 414 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: he's got questions, He's got questions. You know what's interesting 415 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: is that angels will do things for people that people 416 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: can't do for themselves. Okay, you don't believe me based 417 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: off of that clap, all right? The angel made Peter's 418 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: chains fall off, but he told Peter to put his 419 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: clothes and sandals on all by himself. The angel led 420 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: Peter through the locked doors, past the vigil and guards, 421 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: and through an iron gate, but he still expected Peter 422 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: to walk on his own two feet. The angel took 423 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: Peter down one street only and then let them alone 424 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: to use his own wits. Don't expect angels to do 425 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: for you what you can do for yourself. You can't, right, 426 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: Jesus raised Lazarus for only he could do that, and 427 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: then he said, all you other people, you got loose 428 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: him and let him go. Jesus gave life to Gyrus's daughter, 429 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: and then he said, now give her something to eat. Right, 430 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: this is very very important for us to understand this passage. 431 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: And I want you to see yourself in Peter. He 432 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: had all the same questions, all the same doubts, all 433 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: the same worries, all the same confusion. And Peter got 434 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: it wrong. He got it wrong, he got it wrong. 435 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: If the Bible was written now, it might be saying 436 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: that Peter failed, he got it wrong. This is interesting 437 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: to me because in the Christian life, a lot of 438 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: times we think we can't fail, we can't get it wrong. Well, 439 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 1: when I read about Peter, homie got it wrong. He 440 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: thought he was seeing a vision. No, it's a miracle, right, 441 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: it's a miracle. And then verse eleven comes around and says, 442 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: then Peter came to himself and said, now I know 443 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: without a doubt. And we'll say without a doubt. Can 444 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: you think of a time when you experience without a doubt? 445 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: Think about it without a doubt? Right, that's a different 446 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: kind of statement. And this is what you have to remember. 447 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: Reflection discovers more of Heaven and of God and the 448 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: great moments of our lives than what was visible to 449 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: us while we were actually living through them. I'm gonna 450 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: say it again. Reflection discovers more of Heaven and of 451 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: God and the great moments of our lives than what 452 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: was visible to us while we were actually living through them. 453 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: You know what without a doubt can mean with faith, 454 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: with faith, or with full assurance of faith if you 455 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: don't believe me Hebrews eleven one. Faith is the confidence 456 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: in what we hope for and the assurance of things unseen, 457 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: aka without a doubt, Because doubt deals with you. That's 458 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: why the letter used in the middle of it. Faith 459 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: deals with the great I am right. This is interesting 460 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: because the question isn't can you live without a doubt? No, 461 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: we already know that because Peter said so. He said, 462 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: now I know without a doubt. So you can live 463 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: like that now, I know without a doubt. The question 464 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: is do you know how to identify without a doubt? Huh? 465 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: Do you not identify it without a doubt? Okay, let's 466 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: try this. If everyone in the room, everyone watching online, 467 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: if you can and if it's safe, and if you're 468 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: capable and you're comfortable, can can you just stand up? 469 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: It's crazy how long it takes y'all to do that. Like, 470 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm not just getting crazy, Like wow, okay, okay, 471 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: you ready? Are you ready? Okay? Take a seat? Did 472 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:22,719 Speaker 1: you feel it? Did you? Did you? Did you feel it? 473 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: Did you? Did you? Did you see it? Not for 474 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: one second? Did you think that that chair wasn't going 475 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: to hold you up? Not for one second? Did you 476 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: think I don't know if I should sit here? Uh? 477 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna hold me up here? 478 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: Now you're like, take a seat. What is this youth 479 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: pastor doing? And you took a seat. Not for one 480 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: second did you worry about it? If that chair is 481 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: gonna hold you and you believe that without a doubt 482 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: and with full assurance of faith, yep, this chair gonna 483 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: howe me? Well, then why don't we look at the 484 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: creator of the universe in the middle of our dark times, 485 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: in the middle of our valley, and we start questioning him, 486 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: like God, why am I here? Why did you choose me? 487 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: Why did I have to go through this? What the 488 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: how is this gonna happen? Look, it's not about strong 489 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: faith or weak faith. It's not about which one's better 490 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: than the other. You all have faith, you just might 491 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: be putting it in the wrong things. Because the reality 492 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: chunks is that look at me without a doubt only 493 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: happens in hindsight. No, that's good, that's from the Lord, 494 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: not me without a doubt only happens in hindsight. Look 495 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: at the passage. Look at the passage. Right. This is 496 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: interesting because it says in verse twelve, he goes to 497 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: the house of Mary. And this only happens because he 498 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: came to himself, because he came to his senses, right, 499 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: because he had looked back at all the things that 500 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: had happened. Right, he looked at the moment that had 501 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: already passed, all the doubt in the confusion, and all 502 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: that because he then him looking back, he knew now 503 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: without a doubt, after all the confusion, right, Like Hindsight's 504 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I'm sorry, I scared all its twenty twenty two. 505 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: Don't worry, It's okay. Woh, whiplast just happened. He's like, 506 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 1: twenty tony, what do you say? What? I don't want 507 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: to go back. I don't want to go back. God, 508 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: why can I get away? Right? But when you look 509 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: back at COVID, there's so many things that you can 510 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: look back and go. Man, if God can get me 511 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: out of that, he gonna take care of me no 512 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: matter what happens. Now, Hindsight is twenty twenty. I title 513 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: this message come to your senses, and I want you 514 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: to put that title real quick, and I want you to. 515 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: I want to let you know that I didn't they 516 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: got they got it. They misspelled it. Do you see 517 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: the misspelling? Do you see it? Do you see what 518 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: I see? No? No, okay, it's supposed to be come 519 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: to your senses. There it is. Since the angel came 520 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: to prison, Peter knew, since the chains fell off my wrists, 521 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: Peter Peter knew, since everyone say, since since he brought 522 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: me out of prison. Now God can do. Since God 523 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: healed my sickness, Since God resurrected my marriage. Since God 524 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,479 Speaker 1: protected me during COVID, since God healed me, since God 525 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: graced me for this, I know that no matter what 526 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: comes my way, God pass me under his hand. Wooh, 527 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: you gotta come to your senses. You gotta look back. Woo, 528 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: you gotta come to your senses. I want to remind 529 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: you your doubts are not a disqualification of your faith. 530 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: They're not. Verse sixteen. It says, but Peter kept on knocking, 531 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: and when they opened the door and saw him, they 532 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: were astonished. I'll end with this and the band can 533 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: start to come out. This leads me to my final point. 534 00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: If you want to learn how to roll with the 535 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: punches like Peter did, you got to remember the church. 536 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,719 Speaker 1: You got to remember your humanity, and the final one 537 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 1: you have to remember to keep going. It says, but 538 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 1: Peter kept on knocking, Right, Peter kept on knocking on 539 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: the door even after Rhoda had answered and then left him. 540 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: Loki dipped on this dude, Right, He kept on knocking 541 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: when she was getting told she was out of her mind. 542 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: He kept on knocking when they insisted he was dead 543 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: and had it had to have been an angel, right, 544 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 1: This was easy compared to everything else that Peter had 545 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,360 Speaker 1: been going through. What was a little more knocking at 546 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: midnight and praying and hoping that there was church people 547 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 1: in that one house you just so happened to go 548 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,479 Speaker 1: to side. Note everything starts aligning with the Holy Spirit 549 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: when you operate in full assurance and without a doubt, 550 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 1: it starts to make a lo more sense. I didn't 551 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: think it was going to happen this way exactly. Let's 552 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: call without a doubt. That's called with full assurance of faith. 553 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: Let me give you a disclaimer here. Several times the 554 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: Bible says that belief is an essential step in receiving 555 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,879 Speaker 1: a positive answer to prayer. It says in Matthew twenty 556 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 1: one to twenty two Jesus told the disciples, and whatever 557 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: you ask in prayer, you will receive if you have faith. Now, 558 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,120 Speaker 1: this doesn't mean that we can receive anything we want 559 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: if we were only to have enough faith, because first 560 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: John five point fourteen also says we also must pray 561 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:36,800 Speaker 1: according to God's will. So in this case, in this passage, 562 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: Peter's release is in God's plan. That new Tesla might 563 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 1: not be in your new plan. Private school might not 564 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 1: be the new plan. It might not be in God's 565 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:57,920 Speaker 1: plan for your life. That promotion might not be. It 566 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 1: might not be for you. But I think it's interesting 567 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,279 Speaker 1: because even the church who was in Mary's house had 568 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: doubts until they kept going to the gate. Remember to 569 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: keep going, just like Peter kept knocking. The church had 570 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,839 Speaker 1: to keep going while they were praying in Mary's house 571 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: to the gate. This wasn't like the front door, it 572 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 1: says the outer entrance. So they walking outside in Camel's stuff. 573 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,760 Speaker 1: That's do do Cam? Well? Do? Okay, it's nasty, right. 574 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 1: They had to keep going. Look at your neighbor and say, 575 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:40,799 Speaker 1: keep going, keep going, because your doubts ensure that God 576 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: gets the credit and glory in the end. Isn't it 577 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: crazy that the church thought it was Peter's angel that 578 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,399 Speaker 1: was knocking on the door. They thought he had died 579 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: and thought it was Peter's angel that was knocking on 580 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: the door. If we're not careful, we'll believe stuffdn't even 581 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: crazier just to not give God the glory? Do what 582 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,360 Speaker 1: I find A lot of people do. I do it. 583 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, this has happened. My wife's like, no, 584 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: that's that's not right, that's not it. I'm so grateful 585 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:22,799 Speaker 1: for my wife because six years ago we were living 586 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,680 Speaker 1: in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and we had just been married 587 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: for four months, and we loved the church that we 588 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,720 Speaker 1: were at. We loved the pastors there, loved the city, 589 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: loved the people. We thought we'd be there for a 590 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 1: whole decade, no joke, seriously. And then Elevation Church opened 591 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 1: up their doors for their very first time, and the 592 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 1: thing called inside Elevation and this is the first time 593 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: that as like ministry, you could like go there and 594 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,719 Speaker 1: like learn about all the amazingness of Elevation Church, right, 595 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: And I remember, I'm getting eight tickets. Little did I 596 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: know that eight means new beginnings. But I got eight tickets. 597 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: I don't even know why. We didn't have a team 598 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: like eight tickets, don't get them. And we get the 599 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,359 Speaker 1: eight tickets. We drive up. The moment we stepped foot 600 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:11,239 Speaker 1: on the Lake Norman campus, I knew, oh gosh, this 601 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 1: is where we're supposed to plan our family. This is 602 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: where we're supposed to be. And I might never do 603 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 1: full time ministry again. If I work at Lows, I'll 604 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,960 Speaker 1: be a manager, not like lower level. I'll be a manager. 605 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be a manager. And I'm okay with that. 606 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:31,919 Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. I don't 607 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: know what mo wife thinks, you know, like, oh my goodness. 608 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,759 Speaker 1: We drive home. I get We get home, and it's 609 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 1: a twenty six hour drive by the way for a 610 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: twenty four hour event. And I'm not saying it was smart. 611 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: I'm just saying senior airline prices. Oh my god. I 612 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: remember getting I remember getting home and I said, Babe, 613 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 1: I got to tell you something, but don't say anything 614 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,359 Speaker 1: until I'm done. For the next ninety minutes. I began 615 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,839 Speaker 1: to download everything that God had downloaded to me. After 616 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 1: the ninety minutes was done, it's dark in our room, 617 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,239 Speaker 1: you know, We're just laying in the bed, and she goes, 618 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,320 Speaker 1: I said, woman, I'm sorry, let me start over. Babe. 619 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: Why are you giggling? Why are you giggling? I just 620 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: shared my whole heart. She goes, That's exactly what God 621 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:39,640 Speaker 1: told me, is it really? She's like, yeah, So we 622 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 1: started just continue to pray. We start telling people about it, 623 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,440 Speaker 1: just like our close friends and family, and I remember, 624 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 1: I think this is very interesting. I remember that, without 625 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 1: a doubt, we knew this is where we were supposed 626 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:55,640 Speaker 1: to be. Without a doubt. And after telling some family 627 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,920 Speaker 1: members and some friends, I had one other person in 628 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,720 Speaker 1: my life that said this was a good idea. Everyone 629 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 1: else told me I was stupid. Everyone else told me 630 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:12,560 Speaker 1: I was crazy. Every single person except one outside of 631 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: my wife, looked at me and said, you're obliterating the 632 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,600 Speaker 1: ministry you're building. Now. I remember looking at my wife 633 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,799 Speaker 1: and said, well, I'm glad I'm not trying to build 634 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,959 Speaker 1: my own ministry. I want to do what God wants 635 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,840 Speaker 1: to do in my life. I tell you this because 636 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,439 Speaker 1: the day we're about to resign, I wake up that morning, 637 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: I'm alay a little nervous about to resign. It's two 638 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:41,080 Speaker 1: weeks after that moment. I reacted immediately. Okay, some of y'all, 639 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,680 Speaker 1: wait in two years, two weeks boom, something of y'all 640 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,480 Speaker 1: do with two days. Y'all need to pray a little longer. 641 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,719 Speaker 1: I don't know if you should do that. Yeah, the 642 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,960 Speaker 1: day we were resigning, my wife comes to me right 643 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,719 Speaker 1: before we leave, and she goes, Babe, I need to 644 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:07,239 Speaker 1: tell you something. We're pregnant. And I did, what the 645 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,640 Speaker 1: worst thing that you could ever do with your life 646 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,520 Speaker 1: When your wife tells you that you're pregnant. I lean 647 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,640 Speaker 1: back on the on the tell me online, I lean 648 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:22,400 Speaker 1: back on the wall. I fell to the ground, hands 649 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,759 Speaker 1: on my face, and I said this, So does that 650 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:35,600 Speaker 1: mean we're not going to North Carolina. That's why I 651 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,560 Speaker 1: keep having so many babies so I can make up 652 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:45,719 Speaker 1: for that. I remember telling our pastors. Two weeks later, 653 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 1: we picked up. We moved. No job, no place to stay, 654 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,200 Speaker 1: no nothing, no friends, no family. We had forty three 655 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:58,359 Speaker 1: dollars in the account. I remember getting a tweet from LB. 656 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,080 Speaker 1: He said, hey, I heard your moving to Charlotte. Loved 657 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: to take out for lunch. I said, free lunch, Okay, 658 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,160 Speaker 1: I'm in Loew's hasn't accepted. Don't know why, but Low's 659 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:15,719 Speaker 1: hasn't accepted. He started to tell me everything about the church. 660 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 1: She's like, I think you might be interested in doing 661 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,480 Speaker 1: this thing. And anyways, it gets to the place where 662 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 1: I can interview and be a part of Elevation Church. 663 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 1: And now the rest is history. I've been a part 664 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,800 Speaker 1: of this staff for six years and I plan to 665 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:35,000 Speaker 1: be here for the rest of my life. I tell 666 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:39,279 Speaker 1: you that story to let you know that even though 667 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,400 Speaker 1: without a doubt, we knew we were supposed to be 668 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: there everything afterwards, I was like, did God really say, 669 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,160 Speaker 1: because Walmart says I can't live off of forty three dollars? 670 00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:02,759 Speaker 1: Did God really say? She just kept me back to 671 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:07,399 Speaker 1: that ninety minutes where I just downloaded everything, and she says, hey, 672 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,400 Speaker 1: since he told you this, we know he's going to 673 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,000 Speaker 1: take care of this. And since he did this, we 674 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:22,200 Speaker 1: know he's going to take care of this. With everybody 675 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:28,239 Speaker 1: standing for these last few moments, I want you to 676 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,320 Speaker 1: know that some of you might be in a situation 677 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,400 Speaker 1: that seems bleak. It seems like you're never going to 678 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:35,880 Speaker 1: be able to get out of it. You feel like 679 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,600 Speaker 1: it's one hit after another. Others of you need to 680 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 1: be like the church and go to the gate and 681 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:47,440 Speaker 1: look because something's been knocking and they're just waiting for 682 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,160 Speaker 1: you to open the door, so you can be astonished, 683 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,600 Speaker 1: so that you can be amazed, so that you can 684 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:59,600 Speaker 1: know without a doubt that God is with you. My 685 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,120 Speaker 1: favorite statement of all time the pastors ever said, while 686 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: I've been here for the last six years and being 687 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,680 Speaker 1: under his leadership, is the only way to truly fail 688 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:18,840 Speaker 1: is to quit. That's the story of Peter. He never failed. 689 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:27,239 Speaker 1: He never quit. Every single one of you in this room, congratulations. 690 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 1: You're still here, in the midst of a doubt, in 691 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: the midst of a confusion, the questions, the worry, the pause, 692 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 1: you are still here. What does that mean that? Since 693 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,279 Speaker 1: God took care of everything before, even while in the 694 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,400 Speaker 1: middle of it it didn't feel like it, He's going 695 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:56,080 Speaker 1: to continue to hold you up now with every head 696 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 1: bow and every eye clothes. I want to give people 697 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 1: the opportunity to come into a right relationship with you Christ. 698 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,120 Speaker 1: You are saying in this moment that without a doubt, 699 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,520 Speaker 1: now I know God is with me, and I want 700 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,040 Speaker 1: to make him the center of my life, not just 701 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 1: a priority, but the center of my life. We're going 702 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,440 Speaker 1: to ask you to pray this prayer because I believe 703 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,720 Speaker 1: that there are people all over the world watching online 704 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,799 Speaker 1: right now and in this room that are saying, you 705 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,800 Speaker 1: know what, I've questioned, I've worried, I've doubted, But today 706 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: I remember the Church. Today I remember my humanity. I 707 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,799 Speaker 1: am not God, I am just human, and today I'm 708 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,880 Speaker 1: going to remember to keep going. I want you to 709 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,040 Speaker 1: pray this prayer along with me. Say, dear Jesus, I 710 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,320 Speaker 1: thank you for who you are. Come into my life, 711 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,640 Speaker 1: make me a new creation, and I will follow you 712 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,560 Speaker 1: all the days of my life. I believe that you 713 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:54,560 Speaker 1: died on the cross, you rose from the grave, defeating 714 00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:03,120 Speaker 1: all sin, feeding all shame, and defeating all doubt in Jesus' name. 715 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,520 Speaker 1: If you just pray that prayer for the very first time, 716 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,320 Speaker 1: or now you're saying, you know what, Nope, I'm coming 717 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,840 Speaker 1: back to the gate. I'm remembering right now why I 718 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,040 Speaker 1: gave my life to Christ years ago, and you're saying, 719 00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,759 Speaker 1: I'm rededicating my life. On the count of three. We 720 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,800 Speaker 1: want you to raise your hand and we're gonna celebrate 721 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,840 Speaker 1: with you. We believe it's the best decision that you 722 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,480 Speaker 1: could ever make with your life. One, two, three, hands 723 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,080 Speaker 1: going up all over the place. Come on, can you shout? 724 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,600 Speaker 1: Can you get excited? Come on, keep your hand up. 725 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,919 Speaker 1: If you just gave your life to Christ, you're saying, 726 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,319 Speaker 1: I make it in the sense of everything that I do. Hey, man, 727 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:48,839 Speaker 1: come on, church, let's earnestly begin to praise God who 728 00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:53,360 Speaker 1: he is. Well. 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