1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 3: Kidness gracious, If I had any estrogen left in my body, 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 3: I would have shot straight out at that point. I'd 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 3: like to take just a moment, a moment of silence 9 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 3: for those of you who are grieving the fact that 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 3: Pastor Holly and Pastor Stephen are not preaching this morning. 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: When I was here last summer, I got to go out. 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 3: Some people were being baptized, and so I was meeting people, 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 3: and I met a saint who had driven thirty hours. 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: It wasn't a Volkswagen bus, but it could have been 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 3: driven thirty hours because their whole family just wanted to 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 3: come here Holly or Steven preach. And I was just like, 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. You have an old 18 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: white woman from Nashville, Tennessee who just I don't know 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 3: what it is about Elevation, but I always feel inclined 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 3: to wear leather here. So there will be a lot 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 3: of perspiration and squeaking going on in the next few moments. 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 3: But they could have anybody, y'all could have anybody from 23 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 3: across the world would be honored to get to be 24 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 3: in this house. And I'm not sure why other than 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 3: your friendship and your grace chunks that I get to 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: come every year. But this is the highlight of my 27 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: daughters and I. We love, we claim you as cousins, 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 3: even though some of you might think differently in a 29 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 3: few moments. So we need to start with prayer. Reach 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 3: out and touch that saint next to you. That's not rhetorical, 31 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 3: touch them, touch them appropriate leap men. If you're sitting 32 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: next to a woman, I've heard it said that it's tea. 33 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 4: Is that right? If she's cool, if she's hot, just be. 34 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: Very very careful. This is a Liviticus kind of prayer. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, 35 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: thank you. I was so reminded last night of what 36 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 3: a gift it is that we still exist under the 37 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: common grace of free worship in this country. 38 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: So Lord, I pray that for all. 39 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 3: Of us, the things that have become just wrote to 40 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 3: us getting to drive to church on Saturday or Sunday 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: and not worried about hiding, not worried about being arrested. 42 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 3: Oh Lord, what a glorious gift it is that you 43 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: allow us to come together to your house to bring 44 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 3: you the first breads of our attention and our affection. Freely, Lord, 45 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 3: forgive us when we are quick to complain and slow 46 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 3: to say. 47 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 48 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 3: For two hundred and fifty years of freedom of worship. 49 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 3: We are so grateful, We are so grateful, We are 50 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 3: so grateful. And Lord, sometimes we are so dumb and 51 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 3: so preoccupied, and so Lord, for those of us who 52 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 3: have come into this house of faith, and our minds 53 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 3: are distracted or tired, and our hearts are numb or 54 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 3: just barely put one foot in front of the other. Lord, 55 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 3: we pray through your spirit that you would give us 56 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 3: eyes to see and ears to hear, and hearts that 57 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 3: would be pliant to understand at an even deeper level 58 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 3: what it means to be your beloved sons and daughters. 59 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 4: Lord, we pray that. 60 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: You would reamaze us this morning, just as Holly said, 61 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: Pastor Stephen is being reamazed as he has time to 62 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 3: just marinate in the truth of who you are, who 63 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 3: you called us to be Lord, Would you quicken us 64 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 3: to Would you quicken. 65 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 4: Us this morning? 66 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: Lord? 67 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 3: Would we would we leave this building more than ever 68 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 3: convinced of who you are as a perfect, holy, transcendent 69 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 3: God who chooses to be close to us, and more 70 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 3: than ever secure in the fact that on our worst 71 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: day you said you. 72 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: Matter to me, You're beautiful to me. 73 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 3: I still can't quite conceive of the fact that I 74 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 3: was the joy set before you as you walk to 75 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 3: the cross. So Lord, I need your spirit to pierce 76 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 3: the places in my heart that I agree with that 77 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: man in March's Gospel. I believe, But O, King Jesus, 78 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 3: help me am unbelief. Do that for all of us 79 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 3: this morning, Jesus, and we'll be careful to give you, 80 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 3: and you alone all the honor and all the glory 81 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: and all the praise for what you do in this 82 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 3: living room this morning. 83 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 4: We love you, Jesus, We need you, Jesus. 84 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 3: We ask these things by the perfect authority of your name. 85 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 4: Amen and Amen. I thought, with. 86 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 3: I fought, with last night being so historic, I would 87 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 3: start with a historic tale of my own, something that's 88 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 3: very rare, and so I'm not going back two hundred 89 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 3: and fifty years. It wasn't quite that long ago, but 90 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you about my last good date, 91 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: and it was quite some time ago. I came to Nashville, Tennessee, 92 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 3: from Florida to work for an athletic ministry called the 93 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 3: Fellowship of Christian Athletes Graham, you know FCA, And so 94 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 3: I ended up being set up with a lot of 95 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: athletes because I had some friends who were the guys 96 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 3: played in the NFL. Didn't have any World Cup guys 97 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 3: friends back then because they have cute legs in those 98 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 3: little shorts. 99 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 4: But anyway, sorry, that was ungodly. 100 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 3: Y'all can strike that from the record, although it is 101 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 3: kind of song of Solomon esk Right, we. 102 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 4: Can leave it. We can leave It's in the Bible. 103 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 3: So anyway, one of my friends who worked for the 104 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: NFL said, Lisa, I have got the perfect guy for you, 105 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 3: all the old dead theologians you love. 106 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 4: He reads C. S. Lewis. It's a really good guy, 107 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,559 Speaker 4: really serious about his faith. He plays on the line. 108 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 3: And when he said he plays on the line for 109 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 3: an NFL team, he just had me it plays on 110 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: the line. Because I'm not a small girl and I 111 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 3: really want to date or possibly Mary, if you know 112 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 3: someone between fifty five, I'll go younger. 113 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 4: I'm sixty two and death somebody who's bigger than me. 114 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 4: You know. 115 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 3: I just sometimes I get set up with really tiny 116 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 3: men and I'm. 117 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: Like, Hi, I'm Lisa from the Large Planet. So I 118 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 4: was like, he plays in the line. I mean, he's 119 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 4: a biggin. So I was really excited. 120 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: And so I'm not going to tell you his name 121 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: because you can google him and spoiler alert, he married 122 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 3: someone else. 123 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 4: But it was a good thing. Just stay with me 124 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 4: on the date. Are you still with me on the date? Okay? 125 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 3: So we start talking on the phone, no zoom, no FaceTime. 126 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 3: All I had seen is him from the distance on ESPN, 127 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 3: and I knew was a biggin. And I won't tell 128 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: you the team he played for, but it's north of here. 129 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 3: We started talking. He had a great voice. You know 130 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 3: how voices are just you go, I can just kind 131 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 3: of sense a little bit of their hearts, their voices 132 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 3: connected to their heart. And then after two weeks of courting, 133 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 3: he called and said, hey, Lisa, our team rhymed with 134 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 3: Hilly is north of here. He said, our team we're 135 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,679 Speaker 3: playing the Falcons, And I know Nashville's about four hours 136 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 3: from Atlanta, but if you would be willing to drive 137 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 3: to Atlanta, we could meet face to face. I'd love 138 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 3: to meet you face to face. And I was like, well, 139 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: that would be great. And so our meeting was a 140 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 3: week away. So I went on a fast and. 141 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 4: Then I bought like a really cute new outfit. 142 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 3: Are any of y'all I'm sixty two, any women over fifty? Okay, 143 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 3: do y'all remember when like giant shoulder pads were in 144 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 3: So anyway, I bought this pink dress for feminine with 145 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 3: like football player shoulder pads because it's so in back then. 146 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 3: And I drive from Nashville to Atlanta and we didn't 147 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 3: have any. 148 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 4: BUCkies back then. 149 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 3: I had to stop at a rest area to fruff 150 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 3: my hair. And I get to the stadium and he said, 151 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,239 Speaker 3: one of the other wives in a NFL player's wife, 152 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 3: she'll meet you at will call to bring you up 153 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 3: to the wives section. I was sitting in the wives section. 154 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 3: Do y'all know any NFL wives? They are tiny, just tiny, 155 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 3: tiny little women. They're beautiful but so petite. And so 156 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 3: this tiny girl came and met me and she takes me. 157 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 4: Up to the wives section. 158 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 3: So we're up, I don't know, we're like on the 159 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 3: fifty yard line, just a few rows up. And I 160 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 3: come up and all the other teeny girls were very 161 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 3: kind to me, and I was the only brunette, and 162 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 3: so I'm meeting all the tiny blonds and then I 163 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 3: look out on the field. The game hadn't started yet. 164 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 3: I look out in the field and there he is, 165 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 3: my date, and he has his back to me. And 166 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 3: I don't know how to say this in church, but 167 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 3: those pants are awesome. And I'd never until that point 168 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 3: like football pants, and suddenly I just love those little 169 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: pants on a big man. And so he turned around, 170 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 3: and you know, I'm like from here to where y'all 171 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: are in the theater seats. I'm about that far away 172 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: he turned around, but y'all, it was like a love stories, 173 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 3: like our eyes met and I was like, I love him. 174 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 3: And the game started and he did really, really well. 175 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 3: He made a couple of key blocks, and the team 176 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 3: that rhymes with Hilly beat the Atlanta Falcons sor if 177 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 3: you're a Falcons fan. And then one of the teeny 178 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 3: girls said, hey, we'll just. 179 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 4: Call him Bill. That's not his name. 180 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 3: She said, hey, Bill would like to see you before 181 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 3: they fly back to Hilly, and so if you'll go 182 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,599 Speaker 3: with us the team that was about. I don't know 183 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 3: if they still do this, but that was back in 184 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 3: the day when all the players would shower and change 185 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 3: into suits, not pajama pants, actually suits, and then they'd 186 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 3: get on a charter bus and then they'd go to 187 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 3: the airport and get on a charter flight and go 188 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 3: back to whatever town they were from. And so she said, 189 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 3: he actually wants to see you because now we've still 190 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 3: been fifty yards separated. She said, he wants to meet 191 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 3: you face to face before he flies home. 192 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 4: And I was like, okay. 193 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 3: So I traped down with all the teen heat tribe 194 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 3: down to it's like in the belly of the arena, 195 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, all the players start coming out, 196 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: and you know, they're just big guys, and they all 197 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: smell like polo and they all start boarding the bus 198 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 3: and then here comes Bill and he comes right and 199 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 3: I can't use you, chunction, you're a good pride. He 200 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 3: comes right up to me, and I mean like right 201 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 3: up to me, and he goes hey, and then he 202 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 3: picks me up. 203 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 5: He picks me off my feet, and I was like, 204 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 5: this is like, this is glory, this is just glory. 205 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 5: I expected Jesus to come through and the white horse 206 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 5: and it was amazing, look to the east. He picked 207 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 5: me up and then I don't remember what he said 208 00:10:59,200 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 5: because I was in a calm. 209 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 3: And then we talked for like three or four more minutes, 210 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 3: and then they made the announcement the bus is about 211 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 3: to leave. 212 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 4: Guys, you got to get on the bus. We're going 213 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 4: to the plane. And he goes just like this, he goes, 214 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 4: wait right here, as if I was going to leave. 215 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 3: I'm like, I'll be here three months from now, just 216 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 3: standing right here. It's all downhill from now. For me, 217 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 3: it was just I was like okay, and he goes, 218 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 3: wait right here. He turns around and the lets the 219 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 3: bus is right here. And then NFL coach and y'all 220 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 3: would know this. In NFL coach, he's dead now, but 221 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 3: he was a big deal, and he said this inn 222 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 3: LFL coach. 223 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 4: He's standing on the stairs. 224 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 3: Bill's right where you are, Chunks, and Bill starts talking 225 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 3: to the coach. Bill has his back to me, and 226 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 3: the coach is facing me from the stairs, and he 227 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 3: keeps kind of looking around Bill's shoulders. He'd be like, 228 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 3: so I knew they were talking about me. They talked 229 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 3: for like, I don't know, three minutes, and then the 230 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 3: doors of the bus shut and Bill comes like this, 231 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 3: I know, I know, And the bus is driving away, 232 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 3: and guys are hanging out the windows just ragging him, 233 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 3: saying things like she's already got you reptuted, and you 234 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 3: can hang on. 235 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 4: To the ball, bru. I mean, they're just ragging him. 236 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 3: He is completely oblivious to the teasing, only has eyes 237 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 3: for me. 238 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 4: Comes up to me. I'll never forget what he said. 239 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 3: He said, Lisa, I hope it's okay if you let 240 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 3: me ride with you back to Nashville. I just told 241 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 3: Coach that I really wanted to spend this time driving 242 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 3: back to Nashville to you, because that would give us 243 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 3: four hours face to face to get to know each other. 244 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 3: And I'll get a hotel in Nashville. Then I'll take 245 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 3: a commercial flight in the morning to go back home 246 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 3: to Hilly, because I told Coach, you're worth the fine. 247 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 4: Your worth the fine. Has anybody ever said that to you? 248 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: Oh? 249 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 4: Yes he did, Oh yes he did. 250 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 3: We've just been singing about it. Oh, yes, he did. 251 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 3: The God who breathed this universe into existence looks at 252 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 3: us on our worst day, when we're not singing elevation songs, 253 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 3: when you're saying something that's not in the Bible in traffic. 254 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 4: He looks at us even in that moment and says, you. 255 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 3: Are worth the fine. That is the gospel. That is 256 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 3: the gospel. When that man who barely knew me ascribed 257 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 3: worth to me, he said, you are worth the merciless 258 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 3: teasing of my teammates. You are worth the lack of 259 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 3: physical rest that I will experience driving with you through 260 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 3: the night back to Nashville. You are worth a hefty 261 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 3: monetary fine from my team in the NFL. Well, you 262 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 3: are worth so it cost him to subscribe worth to me. 263 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 3: I have a definition for the word worth. You probably 264 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 3: know this. Worth tells us the value, the importance, and 265 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 3: or the usefulness of something. 266 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 4: However, when worth. 267 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 3: Is used in a predicative used as a predictive eject 268 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 3: adjective I didn't pay much for my doctorate. When it's 269 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 3: used as a predicative adjective, as in your worth the fine. 270 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 4: It is entirely subjective. 271 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 3: That means worth, as it is proclaimed, is based on 272 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 3: whoever is proclaiming its value. In the context of that 273 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: football player, he decided I was worth the fine. In 274 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 3: the O so oh bias perspective of our creator, redeemer, 275 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 3: he has ascribed worth to us, and he says our 276 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 3: worth is predetermined. 277 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 4: Turn to Psalm one thirty nine. You'll know this. 278 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 3: Many of you, I hope memorize this when you were kids. 279 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 3: So one of my favorite of the songs. All of 280 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 3: the one hundred and fifty psalms. Ps Alms were originally 281 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 3: written as songs sonngs. So this is like God's Spotify list, 282 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 3: these one hundred and fifty songs in the middle of 283 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 3: the Bible. And this is how David starts this song. 284 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 3: You have searched me, oh Lord, and you know me. 285 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 3: You know when I sit and when I rise. You 286 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 3: perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out 287 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 3: and my lying down. You are familiar with all my ways. 288 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 3: Before a word is on my tongue, you, oh Lord, 289 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 3: know it completely. You hem me in behind him before, 290 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 3: and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is 291 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 3: too wonderful for me. It blows my hard drive. It 292 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 3: is too lofty for me to attain Where can I 293 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 3: go from your spirit? Where from your presence? If I 294 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: go up to the heavens, You're there. If I make 295 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 3: my bed in the depths, you're there. If I rise 296 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 3: on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on 297 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 3: the far side of the sea, even there, your hand 298 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 3: will guide me. 299 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 4: Your right hand will hold me fast. 300 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 3: If I say, surely, the darkness will hide me, and 301 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 3: the light become night around me, even the darkness will 302 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 3: not be dark to you. The night will shine like 303 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 3: the day, For darkness is as light to you. Listen 304 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 3: to this, For you created my inmost being. You knit 305 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 3: me together in my Mama's womb. I praise you because 306 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 3: I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. 307 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 4: Your works are wonderful. I know that full well. 308 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 3: My frame was not hidden from you when I was 309 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 3: made in the secret place. When I was woven together 310 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 3: in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my 311 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 3: unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written 312 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 3: in your book before one of them came to be. 313 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 3: In other words, our worth precedes any accomplishment or merit 314 00:16:55,480 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 3: on our behalf. Long before your Daddy wink in his eye, 315 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 3: our creator, redeemer predetermined that he would subscribe priceless value 316 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 3: to you. There's nothing we earn. We just sang that. 317 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 3: But I think for most of us we can sing it, 318 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 3: we can say it. But to grasp in a world 319 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 3: that says you're only as valuable as your last performance, 320 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 3: in a world where we are entirely judged by how 321 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 3: we perform and how much we produce, it is really 322 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 3: hard for us to wrap our dinky human minds around 323 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 3: the concept that this perfect, holy, trinitarian God ascribed invaluable 324 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 3: worth to us. Before anybody would have said we were 325 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 3: worth anything, we hadn't done anything yet to be considered worthy. 326 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 3: And yet David makes it clear before any of us 327 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 3: breathed our first breath, our heavenly father said worse describing 328 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 3: worth to you. Flip forward to the Book of Isaiah. 329 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 3: I love Isaiah's prophecy, and Isaiah underscores this idea of 330 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 3: predetermined worth and priceless. 331 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 4: Value that God ascribes to us Isaiah forty three. 332 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 3: But now this is what the Lord says, he who 333 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 3: created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel, do not fear, 334 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 3: for I've redeemed you, I've summoned you by name. 335 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 4: You are mine. 336 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 3: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. 337 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 3: When you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep 338 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 3: over you. When you walk through the fire, you will 339 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 3: not be burned. The flames will not set you a blaze. 340 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 3: For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One 341 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 3: of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt for your ransom, 342 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 3: Cush and Siba in your stead, since you are precious 343 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 3: and honored in my sight, and because I love you, 344 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 3: I give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange. 345 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 4: For your life. So that's God's scales. 346 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 3: We just got back from two weeks in Europe, and 347 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 3: while we were there, we were at the Tower of London, 348 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 3: where the Jewels of London are kept, and then we 349 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 3: went to where the jewels are kept, the Crown Jewels 350 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 3: in Scotland, in Edinburgh, and of course you've got the 351 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 3: guards with the fuzzy Q tip black hats. We kept 352 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 3: trying to make them laugh and they wouldn't. They're guarding 353 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: those jewels, the crown Jewels of. 354 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 4: The UK. 355 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 3: Those are priceless, estimated by histories to be priceless. But 356 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,959 Speaker 3: that's just the jewels of the country. That's not the land, 357 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 3: that's not the gross national product. That's not everything. That's 358 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 3: Scotland or England or Ireland. That's not everything. And God said, 359 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 3: the entire nation, not just the jewels. I'm not just 360 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 3: exchanging you for a Tiffany bracelet. You are more valuable 361 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 3: to me than entire nation with all their wealth. Right 362 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 3: before I came out here, because I'm always a hot mess, 363 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 3: just looking for bluep of real to begin, I was 364 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,959 Speaker 3: in the restroom trying to make my hair look not 365 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 3: look like roadkill on this humid day, and I thought, oh, 366 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 3: I need some lotion, and I squirted the lotion in 367 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 3: the bathroom and just said, shot straight all over me, 368 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 3: just gobs of white on my pants, on my shirt, 369 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 3: on this, on my arm, and my watch. And I 370 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 3: was like, you just can't take me anywhere. I mean, 371 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 3: you just can't. I'm just a walking yahoo. 372 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 4: And yet the. 373 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 3: God, the only true God, the God of the universe, transcendent, holy, trinitarian, perfect, 374 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 3: perfect in and of himself, he didn't even need. 375 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 4: Relationship with us. He chose for us to be his treasure. 376 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,199 Speaker 3: He's perfectly sustained by fellowship with each other. Augustine one 377 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 3: of my favorite old dead guys. I have a crush 378 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 3: on him too. Augustine said, only the Christian God is 379 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 3: a perfect community unto himself, perfectly sustained, perfectly satisfied. 380 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 4: And yet he chose. 381 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 3: For us to be his treasure. And he said, you're 382 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 3: worth so much to me, I'll give entire nations in 383 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 3: exchange for you. So our worth is, Our worth is predetermined. 384 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:34,479 Speaker 4: It's not. There's no earning on our behalf. Our worth 385 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 4: is priceless. 386 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 3: We are invaluable from God's estimation. And then if he'll 387 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 3: head to the right to Ephesians, one of my favorite 388 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 3: passages in all of the New Testament, our worth. 389 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 4: Is permanent Ephesians one, beginning with verse. 390 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 3: Three, Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord, 391 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms 392 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 3: with every spiritual blessing in Christ, for he chose us 393 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 3: in him before the creation of the world, to be 394 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 3: holy and blameless in his side and love. He predestined 395 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 3: for us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in 396 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 3: accordance with his pleasure. Some translations shake good, pleasure and 397 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 3: will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he 398 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 3: has freely given us in the One He. 399 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 4: Loves, where it reads pleasure or good. 400 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 3: Pleasure in your Bible that comes from the Greek word you, dokia. 401 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 3: You involves good and dokia is thinking. So in other words, 402 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 3: when God set his affection on us, he didn't do 403 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 3: it out of pity. Our salvation is mercy, Our adoption 404 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 3: is affection. So the King of all kings didn't look 405 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 3: at us and go, oh, she's such a yahoo. 406 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 4: She's old as dirt. 407 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 3: She lost a little weight with the help of manjarronounced, 408 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 3: he's all creepy. She ain't got no man, that poor girl. 409 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 3: Just let's love on her a little extra because she 410 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 3: probably doesn't think she's worth it. That is not the 411 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 3: disposition of our creative redeemer. He looks at me when 412 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 3: I've got lotion all over my leather pants, and he says, 413 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 3: isn't she beautiful? 414 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 4: It was my good thinking. 415 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 3: To adopt her, y'all. Even the word adoption in first 416 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 3: century context, it's crazy that Paul uses it in our 417 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 3: relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God 418 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit, because in this era, no parents would 419 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 3: adopt an infant. There's too much risk in that parents 420 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 3: in Greco and Roman culture only adopted an older adolescent 421 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 3: or an adult. Why is that young? Talkback, I'm not 422 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 3: a pastor. Why do you think they would only adopt 423 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 3: somebody who. 424 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 4: Was older. 425 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 3: Exactly because you had proven potential. They could see their GPA, 426 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 3: they could see how hard they worked at Chick fil 427 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 3: A after school. They could see this kid has promise. 428 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 3: And by the way, girls are never adopted in this 429 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 3: era of biblical history. Girls are not adopted because girls 430 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 3: had no financial value other than producing an air and 431 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 3: so baby girls are rejected. But there's a possibility if 432 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: you are a young man who has promise that a couple. 433 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 4: Will adopt you and say. 434 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 3: We'll give him our name, we'll make him an heir. 435 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 3: The most famous older adoptee from this era is Octavian. 436 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 3: And I know most of y'all like me just examine 437 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 3: your eyelids in high school history. But you remember he's 438 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 3: the very first Roman emperor. Do you remember who proceeded Octavian? 439 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 3: I know y'all did, Julius Caesar. So Julius Caesar was 440 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 3: not the first emperor of Rome. He was a military hero, 441 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: he was a dictator. He adopted his nephew he adopted 442 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 3: this kid named Octavian at the it was actually his 443 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 3: great nephew at. 444 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 4: The age of eighteen. 445 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 3: Because Octavian he showed promise, and so Julius Caesar adopted 446 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 3: Octavian and said, I will give you my name. 447 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 4: And so after. 448 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 3: Julius Caesar was assassinated in forty four BC, Octavian fought 449 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 3: and became the very first emperor. He changed Rome from 450 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 3: a republic to an empire. He became the very first 451 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 3: Roman emperor. The senate that's kind of much like our 452 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 3: senate this cent, maybe not as much polarization, but anyway, 453 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 3: their senate said, we're gonna name you Augustine. Augustus means 454 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 3: one who is revered. And he said, I'm gonna take 455 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 3: my adopted dad's last name as my first because I 456 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 3: want to be attached to Julius Caesar's renown. So his 457 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 3: name went from Octavian to Caesar Augustus, first Emperor of Rome. 458 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 4: That we all think Caesar is a title, it was. 459 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 3: It originated as a surname, and then he went a 460 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 3: step further because the Roman senate, because Julius Caesar was 461 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 3: such a great leader, they named him de wee we 462 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 3: would say DV in Latin, but their v's are pronounced 463 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 3: as w's. 464 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 4: If you're a redneck American. 465 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 3: De we Phileus, son of God. So Octavian because they 466 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 3: had named Julius Caesar a god. That's what Octavian called himself. 467 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 3: I am Caesar Augustus, I am de wee phileas, I 468 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 3: am a son of God A little bit arrogant, right, 469 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 3: do y'all remember the Crucifixion account. There's a Roman centurion 470 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 3: and all he did was watch Jesus die. Wasn't a 471 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 3: Bible study, what in a home group didn't follow Jesus 472 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 3: wasn't Jewish, but he was there at the crucifixion. Y'all 473 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 3: remember the story in Marx Gospweall I think is in 474 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 3: chapter fifteen. 475 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 4: He watches Jesus die. That's all he sees. 476 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 3: He doesn't see him raise Lazarus from death back to life. 477 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 3: He doesn't see him walk on water, doesn't see him 478 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,400 Speaker 3: turn water. And when all he watches is Jesus suffer. 479 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 3: And when Jesus dies and says it is finished, that 480 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 3: Roman centurion says, surely, surely he is dewey phileas he. 481 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 4: Is the son of God. 482 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 3: Do you know the coins in his pocket at the 483 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 3: time were inscribed to promote the Roman Caesar is the 484 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 3: son of God. 485 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 4: Y'all. 486 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 3: The context in our Bibles drives me nuts. When people 487 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,199 Speaker 3: says the Bible is boring, I'm like, no, you're a 488 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 3: lazy reader. 489 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 4: This is so much better than Yellowstone. This is like epic. 490 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 4: So it makes sense. 491 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 3: That Caesar Augustus Octavian was adopted because he had promised 492 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 3: he had potential. 493 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 4: That makes sense. That was very uncommon. What was more common. 494 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 3: Was this practice that they still practice. 495 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 4: They just don't call it this. 496 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 3: In My Little Girl's Village in Haiti, it's exposed. This 497 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 3: seo expoio comes from the Latin root exponaire, meaning to expose. 498 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 3: What was most common in the era Paul was riding 499 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 3: is expositzio, which meant if you had a little girl, 500 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 3: and you already had one so you didn't need a spear, 501 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 3: or if you had a son who was born deformed 502 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 3: with something as minor as a cleft palate, you could 503 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 3: take them to the edge of town and leave them 504 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: so that they would die. 505 00:28:58,760 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 4: In the elements. 506 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 3: They still do that in My Baby Girl's Village in Haiti, 507 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 3: that's why you rarely, rarely in a developing nation that 508 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 3: struggles with poverty. It's interesting you usually won't see a 509 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 3: child with cerebral palsy or an extreme deformity because it's 510 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 3: too hard for them to feed their healthy kids, and 511 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 3: so they still practice taking unwanted or deformed or medically 512 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 3: challenged children infants to the edge of town and leaving 513 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 3: them there. 514 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 4: Do you not. 515 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 3: Christians became known for at the latter part of the 516 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 3: first and second century, Christians became known for and actually 517 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 3: vilified for this that we would go and rummage through 518 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 3: trash dumps to find discarded infants, and we would adopt 519 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 3: them as our sons and our daughters. 520 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 4: We became known for that. 521 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 3: Do you know the first brick and mortar churches in 522 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 3: that era, small informal affairs always had a basin outside 523 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 3: the front door of the church so people could go 524 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 3: by and drop off an infant. Because even as early Christians, 525 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 3: we understood. 526 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 4: This isn't okay. 527 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 3: It's not okay to take an innocent, beautiful. 528 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 4: Worthy, valuable baby. 529 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 3: And put them in a trash dump. The Christians would 530 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 3: race the slave traders to try to get the little girls, 531 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 3: so they wouldn't be put into prostitution. 532 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: Do you know? 533 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 4: We were in Italy. 534 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 3: Two summers ago doing a strips of trips of Paul 535 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 3: Tour and I saw this. I think it's called a 536 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 3: Ruato day, Ruato day tritaria. Suddenly I have this craving 537 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 3: for pasta. Let me see what it's called. It's called 538 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 3: Does anybody speak Italian? Ruato day treviatelli, Trevitali, A Ruato 539 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 3: day treviatelli. Y'all were wanting Italian now too, aren't you 540 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 3: all go to North Italia for lunch. I have a 541 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 3: picture of a Ruata day travitlli. This is all throughout 542 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 3: Italian ar Okay, see bottom left. See that little box 543 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 3: that actually is a concrete cubby, and it's on a cylinder. 544 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 3: It rotates so you can come at night to the outside. 545 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 3: That was an ancient church. You could come to the 546 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 3: outside and that little Ruata day traviatelli will be open 547 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 3: and you can put your baby in there anonymously, knowing 548 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 3: that somebody on the other side of that wall, probably 549 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 3: a nun, will take care of your baby. So even 550 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 3: early Christians understanding that oh, people have value, it impacted architecture, 551 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 3: Ruato Day Travitlli. 552 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 4: Here's the deal for Paul to speak. 553 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 3: To this audience of young Christians in Ephesus and say, God, 554 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 3: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit think you are so worth. 555 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 4: It that he didn't just save you. He has actually adopted. 556 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 3: You as firstborns, as co heirs, and you won't sit 557 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 3: at the kiddie table or on the porch. You will 558 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 3: sit to the right of Jesus the Sun in a 559 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 3: position of honor. Y'all, that was so counter cultural in 560 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 3: their understanding. That would be like a you and c 561 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 3: Grad rooting for Duke, or Draking Kendrick Lamar writing a 562 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 3: song together, or Travis and Tay having a tiny wedding. 563 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 3: I mean that just that's not gonna happen. 564 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 4: That doesn't happen. 565 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 3: We read Ephesians and most of us are like, oh, 566 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 3: that's good, that's not I kind of like that. I 567 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 3: like from Pastor Steven preaching that we don't get the 568 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:02,719 Speaker 3: gravitas of the God of the universe saying you are mine. 569 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 3: I didn't just save you. You're my kid. Y'all can 570 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 3: diss me on social media. It hurts my feelings a 571 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 3: little bit, but you dis my baby girl, I'll come 572 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 3: find you and cut you in ribbons. And I know 573 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 3: Holly and Pastor seven feel the same way about Elijah 574 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,719 Speaker 3: and Graham and Abby. 575 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 4: I mean, these are my kids. 576 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 3: For God to say we aren't just people he had 577 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 3: to save because we're train wrecks who couldn't save ourselves, 578 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 3: for God to say, there's so much more than worth 579 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 3: the fine to me, I'm actually adopting. 580 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 4: Them into my family. 581 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 3: And you know, according to rabbinical law, you can disinher 582 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 3: a biological child, but you can't disinherit an adopt a child. 583 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 4: So he saying it's permanent. 584 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 3: He is saying, I have ascribed this value you haven't 585 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 3: earned to you. I've named you as priceless, and it's permanent, honey, 586 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 3: it is absolutely permanent. I used to spend a lot 587 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 3: of my free time volunteering at an organization in Nashville, 588 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 3: a couple of organizations actually, who help women who are 589 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 3: recovery addiction recovery. And I don't do it as much 590 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 3: now because a missy and I just don't have as 591 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 3: much time as a single mom. But if you would 592 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 3: set me up and I could get to the baby daddy, 593 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 3: I'd have more free time, just saying the onus is 594 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 3: on y'all. But I used to spend a lot of 595 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 3: time volunteering. 596 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 4: I still get to do it a little bit. 597 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 3: But I love, love, love, love love getting to spend 598 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 3: time with image bears who are coming out of any 599 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 3: type of addiction. 600 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 4: Because the gratitude is palpable. 601 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,320 Speaker 3: There's just something about being incarcerated that strips your pretense 602 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 3: have to have. Some loud preachers say that God loves 603 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 3: you even though you haven't earned it. 604 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 4: They're like, I get it. 605 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,720 Speaker 3: I mean, I know I didn't do anything to deserve 606 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 3: this unconditional love he has lavish on me. And anyway, 607 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 3: those of y'all who are I know we've got some 608 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 3: elevation campuses, and y'all don't have quite as much physical 609 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 3: freedom as we do. Some of y'all are still incarcerated, 610 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 3: and you didn't know that. This whole team here, They 611 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 3: talk about y'all like y'all are in the room. 612 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 4: You are family, you fit here. We love you. This 613 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 4: is not pity. We honor you. 614 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 3: We can't wait to actually be face to face with you, 615 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 3: to pray into worship. 616 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you. We love y'all. 617 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 3: Y'all are not outside campuses. You are in the house campuses. 618 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening today. The good pastors 619 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 3: will be back next week, so stay tuned. But I 620 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,759 Speaker 3: used to spend a lot of time girls, and one 621 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 3: Thanksgiving they said, miss Lisa, would you spend Thanksgiving with us? 622 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,919 Speaker 3: And I was so honored they asked me to spend 623 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 3: Thanksgiving with them. I was like, oh, I'd be delighted 624 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 3: to you, and they said, we actually have so much extra. 625 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 4: Do you know the best job that my friends could 626 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 4: get out of when. 627 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 3: They stepped out of the halfway house into more freedom 628 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 3: was at Chipolte. I had at Chipolte all the time 629 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 3: because Chipolte will hire women who have. 630 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,239 Speaker 4: Federal offenses on the records who've. 631 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 3: Come out, so that was the best job they could get. 632 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 3: Oftentimes it was cleaning hotel rooms. So for them to 633 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 3: say we have so much extra was countercultural. And they said, 634 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 3: we want to take our extra and we want to 635 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 3: just put together a Thanksgiving feast. And then so many 636 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 3: of our friends are still home insecure, they don't have 637 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 3: a place to live tonight that we want to go 638 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 3: all over Nashville and find our friends who don't have 639 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 3: homes and serve the meals. And I was like, yeah, 640 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 3: I'd love to be part of that, and so I 641 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,320 Speaker 3: helped to make this feast. Somebody had donated one hundred 642 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 3: and fifty of those you know, the styrofoam takeout trays. 643 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 4: We actually had one hundred and seventy five, but our goal. 644 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 3: Was one hundred and fifty, and we had turkeys, We 645 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 3: had stuff from all over, and so we were just humming. 646 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,839 Speaker 4: We're in this kitchen eight hundred. 647 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,240 Speaker 3: Square feet is the size of their government subicize department, 648 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 3: and there were like thirteen of us in there putting 649 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,000 Speaker 3: together these meals. We are singing, we are dancing. I 650 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 3: have no rhythm, but I have a lot of enthusiasm. 651 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 3: We're singing, dancing, getting these meals together. When it was 652 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 3: all said and done, when we ran out of meat, 653 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 3: they said, let's count it. 654 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 4: We had one hundred and seventy two. So I was like, 655 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 4: that is epics. 656 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 3: So I said, let's pray and thank God for the 657 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,360 Speaker 3: extra and then we'll. 658 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 4: Go to distribute these. 659 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,920 Speaker 3: So we had this major Pentecostal prayer and I was like, 660 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 3: no one call me pastor, and for anybody else in 661 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 3: Nashville get avestrated. But they all call me pastor, and 662 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,240 Speaker 3: so we don't call me pastor. That pee is who 663 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:56,040 Speaker 3: that's polarizing. 664 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:01,360 Speaker 4: So anyway, we prayed and then we set amen. 665 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, what's the plan and they were like, well, 666 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 3: we hadn't planned any further. And I was like, well, 667 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 3: y'all and they were like, one, none of us have 668 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 3: our license. Our license haven't been reinstated yet, so we 669 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,440 Speaker 3: don't have cars. I'm like, well, y'all and they're like, 670 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 3: will you help us. I was like, well, yes, so 671 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,799 Speaker 3: I've got an SUV because prophetically, I thought God would 672 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,360 Speaker 3: give me a man and I would fill it with kids. 673 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,839 Speaker 4: And so we piled my car with like one. 674 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 3: Hundred and thirty there's one other car. We had just 675 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 3: boxes of food all throughout my car. One of the 676 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,120 Speaker 3: girls got in my car. Another girl was in the back, 677 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 3: and we started driving around kind of sketchy parts of 678 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,760 Speaker 3: downtown Nashville looking for people who might be hungry. 679 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,760 Speaker 4: And our goal was not. 680 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,319 Speaker 3: Just to give somebody a meal, but was to look 681 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,760 Speaker 3: in their eyes and have a conversation, hopefully sit. 682 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 4: With them while they ate. 683 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 3: And the most memorable of those one hundred and thirty 684 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 3: or so meals we gave away. Was the first and 685 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 3: the last. The first was a train wreck because I 686 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 3: chose them and we're driving down by Vandy and there's 687 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 3: just this kid dressed in rags, so I assume he 688 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,960 Speaker 3: was housing insecure, and so I humped my car up 689 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:07,759 Speaker 3: on the curb and I. 690 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 4: Was like, hey, baby, she probably gram your age. 691 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,160 Speaker 3: I mean just punking, and I was like, hey baby, 692 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 3: we've got some extra food. 693 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 4: He was so offended. And then I saw the prodist shoes, 694 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 4: but it was rags. 695 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 3: The rest of me was rags, so I thought he 696 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 3: was home lesson so he was really offended. 697 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:25,840 Speaker 4: So that was memorable. 698 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,480 Speaker 3: We got an earfull from him because he wasn't hungry, 699 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 3: and then we had all kinds of meals in the middle. 700 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 3: But the very last guy was my favorite. We had 701 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 3: talked with a fella who was living behind this building, 702 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 3: and he said, we'll run up the road and when 703 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,279 Speaker 3: you see a little half concrete wall, the guy who 704 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 3: lives in a cuppy behind that, his name is Cricket. 705 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 3: He's a friend of mine. Go see if you can 706 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 3: find Cricket. And sure enough, we found this man named Cricket, precious, precious, precious, 707 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 3: twenty something year old man, and we had as the 708 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 3: sun was setting on Thanksgiving. 709 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 4: The I mean it was communion. 710 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 3: It was one of the best meals I've ever shared 711 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,040 Speaker 3: with other christ followers. And then you know, we said goodbye, 712 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,760 Speaker 3: and I didn't think i'd ever see him again. 713 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 4: And two weeks later. 714 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 3: I was back in that same area because I'd gotten 715 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,080 Speaker 3: lost and I was trying to figure out how to 716 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 3: get back to the interstate and I recognized the street 717 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 3: sign and I thought, oh my goodness, this is where 718 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 3: we were two weeks ago at Thanksgiving when I got 719 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,839 Speaker 3: to meet Cricket, and I thought, I wonder if he's 720 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 3: still here. So I pretended like I was a ups chuck, 721 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,280 Speaker 3: humped my car back up on the curb again, started 722 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 3: walking around and ran into this young man who looked 723 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 3: like he had been living outside. 724 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,080 Speaker 4: And I said, sir, excuse me. 725 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,319 Speaker 3: My name is Lisa, and I'm looking for a man 726 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 3: who used to live in the serranam Cricket. And he said, Lisa, 727 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 3: I'm Cricket, and living outside for a couple of weeks 728 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,719 Speaker 3: can change your appearance. 729 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,399 Speaker 4: And I said, Cricket, I'm so sorry. I didn't recognize you. 730 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 3: I said, I don't know if you remember two weeks ago, 731 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,759 Speaker 3: and he goes, I remember it was Thanksgiving, And I said, well, 732 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 3: I found myself back in this neighborhood and I just 733 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,759 Speaker 3: felt this strong inclination to stop by and see you 734 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,000 Speaker 3: and to tell you that that God sees you and 735 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,319 Speaker 3: he thinks you're worth it. 736 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 4: And I don't know why I said that. 737 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll say things because of prayer and Holy Spirit, 738 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 3: and sometimes it's insecurity or it's. 739 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,360 Speaker 4: Celsius, you know. Sometimes you go, I think that was 740 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 4: a lord, and it might be and it might not be. 741 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,160 Speaker 3: But I said, I think I think it was the 742 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,399 Speaker 3: Holy Spirit who impressed me to say you're worth it. 743 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,319 Speaker 3: And as soon as I said that, he just beent 744 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:39,440 Speaker 3: over and began to sob like a baby, and he 745 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,360 Speaker 3: kind of pitched himself in my arms. 746 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,480 Speaker 4: And even though I'm not as petite as Holly, he 747 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:47,319 Speaker 4: was a tall guy. 748 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 3: It was hard for me to hold him up. I mean, 749 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,520 Speaker 3: he just put the whole weight of his body in 750 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,680 Speaker 3: my arms, and I mean he was just sobbing, and 751 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,280 Speaker 3: the only thing I could think to do was pray. 752 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 4: And when I'm nervous, offen times. 753 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,680 Speaker 3: I'll pray scripture, I'll pray the word of God, this 754 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,360 Speaker 3: love story we call the Bible. And so I just 755 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,359 Speaker 3: begin to pray. So I'm one thirty nine. Oh Lord, 756 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 3: you have searched me, and you know me. You know 757 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,440 Speaker 3: when I sit and when I rise. You perceive my 758 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,400 Speaker 3: thoughts from afar. Every word you know before it proceeds 759 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,720 Speaker 3: from my mouth. You hen me and behind, and before 760 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 3: you've laid your hand upon me. Where can I go 761 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,720 Speaker 3: from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 762 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 3: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for 763 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,040 Speaker 3: me to attain. Where can I go from your spirit? 764 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,560 Speaker 3: Where can I flee from your presence? If I go 765 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,880 Speaker 3: up to the heavens, you're there. If I make my 766 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,400 Speaker 3: bed and the depth, you're there. If I rise on 767 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,400 Speaker 3: the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the 768 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 3: far side of the sea, even. 769 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,160 Speaker 4: There, your right hand will hold me. 770 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,359 Speaker 3: If I say, surely the darkness will hide me, and 771 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,439 Speaker 3: the light become night around me, even the darkness will not. 772 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:52,960 Speaker 4: Be dark to you. 773 00:42:54,880 --> 00:43:04,360 Speaker 3: For David goes on to say, for I'm wonderfully and 774 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,560 Speaker 3: fearfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full 775 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,759 Speaker 3: well my frame was it hidden from you? When I 776 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 3: was made in the secret place, when I was woven 777 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,960 Speaker 3: together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw 778 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,440 Speaker 3: my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were 779 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 3: written in your book before even one of them came 780 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,839 Speaker 3: to be, long before you met Brett, long before y'all 781 00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 3: had a baby, long before you entered ministry. 782 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,360 Speaker 4: He said, this is my worthy son. He's so amazing. 783 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,280 Speaker 3: And that's all I could think to pray over cricket 784 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,800 Speaker 3: when I got to verse eighteen, Cause after that David 785 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,480 Speaker 3: gets mad, and that's when he says, do I not 786 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:38,440 Speaker 3: hate those who hate you? 787 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 4: And it gets a little crumpy. 788 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,800 Speaker 3: And so I I finished the prayer at verse eighteen. 789 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,560 Speaker 3: And when I did it, it's like it gave Cricket 790 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,319 Speaker 3: just enough where with all the stamd back up. And 791 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 3: he looked me in the eyes and he had no 792 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,760 Speaker 3: olc on his breath, his eyes weren't bloodshot, just completely clear. 793 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,680 Speaker 4: I just think he was he was just in one 794 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 4: of those thin seasons. And he looked me straight in. 795 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,839 Speaker 3: The eyes, and he goes, Lisa, you have no idea 796 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,160 Speaker 3: how much I needed to be reminded that I have 797 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,560 Speaker 3: worth and I said, yes, Sir, I needed that reminder 798 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,960 Speaker 3: today as well. And we hugged and I drove away 799 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,840 Speaker 3: a daughter and a son from completely different stations in life, 800 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:29,000 Speaker 3: different ethnicities. And I stopped at a sudden eleven at 801 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 3: the end of the street because I couldn't drive anymore 802 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,600 Speaker 3: because I was crying so hard, and I just pulled 803 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,120 Speaker 3: my car over and I said, God, forgive me, forgive me, 804 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 3: forgive me, forgive me that because of my station in life, 805 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,640 Speaker 3: sometimes I forget what an extraordinary. 806 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 4: Miracle it has to be your daughter to be. 807 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,440 Speaker 3: Adopted into your family. 808 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:52,800 Speaker 4: You didn't. 809 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,799 Speaker 3: You didn't just rescue me from the trash heap of 810 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,000 Speaker 3: my decisions. You didn't just leave me in a cubby 811 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,280 Speaker 3: to become someone else's responsibility. 812 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,839 Speaker 4: You said, she's my daughter. 813 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 6: And she's worth everything to me, even the sacrifice of 814 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:21,440 Speaker 6: my only son, the worth the worth you and I, Carrie. 815 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:27,520 Speaker 6: If we could walk in just the minutest understanding of 816 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,719 Speaker 6: the miracle that that is, y'all, it would change the 817 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:30,920 Speaker 6: trajectory of our lives. 818 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,520 Speaker 4: Quite possibly, it would change the lives of the people. 819 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,600 Speaker 6: We get to rub shoulders with these precious, precious image 820 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:42,879 Speaker 6: bears around us. So many of them who think I'm 821 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,839 Speaker 6: not worth anything, because that's what. 822 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:50,440 Speaker 4: I've been told my whole life. Would you bow your 823 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,480 Speaker 4: heads and close your eyes. We're gonna close this family 824 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:58,760 Speaker 4: meeting with a prayer. And I know I haven't earned 825 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,080 Speaker 4: the right. I'm so great full, Stephen and Holly allow 826 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:02,719 Speaker 4: me to come. 827 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,560 Speaker 3: I haven't earned the right to ask you a question, 828 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,600 Speaker 3: but I'm going to anyway. 829 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,879 Speaker 4: I'm going to ask all of you to raise your 830 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,040 Speaker 4: right hands. 831 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,760 Speaker 3: I promise I'm not signing you up for a coffee 832 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,960 Speaker 3: club or anything. Just raise your right hands. The reason 833 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 3: I do that is so you won't hear a hand 834 00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,600 Speaker 3: go up next to you. Sometimes we can be a 835 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,120 Speaker 3: little nosy in church, and for those of you who 836 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,360 Speaker 3: maybe have been wounded in church, I want to assure 837 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:40,400 Speaker 3: you that you're safe at elevation. They're serious, serious about 838 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,000 Speaker 3: the love of God here, but you're not going to 839 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,520 Speaker 3: be judged. 840 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,120 Speaker 4: So everybody, right hands up, and. 841 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,400 Speaker 3: Would you just open those beautiful poems that God designed. 842 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,760 Speaker 4: Just spread that hand wide open. 843 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,600 Speaker 3: Now, if you're in a place in your life, a 844 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,040 Speaker 3: season in your life, or this may be the. 845 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,840 Speaker 4: Story of your whole life where. 846 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,120 Speaker 3: The idea of being having value intrinsic value, the idea 847 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,720 Speaker 3: of being loved unconditionally. 848 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:12,920 Speaker 4: By God, the idea that the God who. 849 00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,400 Speaker 3: Breathed our universe into existence looks at you and says, 850 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 3: I am so proud of this one. 851 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:24,040 Speaker 4: This is my son, this is my daughter. They're worth 852 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,440 Speaker 4: the fine to me. 853 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,000 Speaker 3: If that's hard for you to wrap your mind around, 854 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,279 Speaker 3: hard for you to hang on too, maybe you would 855 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,680 Speaker 3: be so honest as to say, I don't really believe that. 856 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,760 Speaker 3: Would you close that beautiful hand into a fist? 857 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:38,600 Speaker 4: Yeah? 858 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, thank you, thank you, thank you 859 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:48,000 Speaker 3: for your honesty. Can I ask you for just a 860 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:51,120 Speaker 3: moment more to keep your hands raised? Don't look around 861 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,480 Speaker 3: out of respect for the saints around you, But there 862 00:47:54,480 --> 00:48:01,480 Speaker 3: are hundreds with fists in the air. Beautiful, not defiant, beautiful, 863 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,960 Speaker 3: tired fist in the air. Kind of reminds me of 864 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,840 Speaker 3: the Statue of Liberty. Give me you're tired, Give me 865 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:13,840 Speaker 3: you're tired. Give me your hopeless, Give me your hurt, 866 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,560 Speaker 3: give me your wounded, give me your abandoned, Give me 867 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,560 Speaker 3: your No one ever looked at you and said. 868 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:25,000 Speaker 4: You are worth the fine. 869 00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:29,280 Speaker 3: I would walk across cut glass to get to you. 870 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:34,000 Speaker 3: You are precious to me all the exchange nations. 871 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:38,160 Speaker 4: For you, those of you with your fist rays. 872 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,160 Speaker 3: We're going to pray, and I'm going to ask you, 873 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:45,759 Speaker 3: if Holy Spirit prompts, would you pray. 874 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 4: This prayer of salvation. 875 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,759 Speaker 3: Pray this prayer of maybe for the first time or 876 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,120 Speaker 3: for the first time in a long time, just leaning 877 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,200 Speaker 3: into the wide open arms of the God who has 878 00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:00,000 Speaker 3: ascribed to value to you. You're not a disappointment to him, 879 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,000 Speaker 3: and you're not an interruption to him. 880 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,239 Speaker 4: He didn't save you because it's in his job description. 881 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:10,680 Speaker 3: He saved you because it was his yudokiah, his good thinking, 882 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,120 Speaker 3: to set his favor on you. 883 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,200 Speaker 4: You're not an afterthought. You were the first thought. One 884 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:23,200 Speaker 4: glance of your eyes, you captured his heart. Pastor, would 885 00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:24,320 Speaker 4: you come and pray. 886 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,799 Speaker 3: For these image bears, some of whom have yet to 887 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:30,720 Speaker 3: believe they're worth. 888 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,760 Speaker 7: Father, We thank you for the word that was spoken 889 00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,120 Speaker 7: over us today, God, to know that we were the 890 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,640 Speaker 7: joy that was set before you. We thank you for 891 00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,640 Speaker 7: the spirit of wisdom and revelation resting in this place today. Lord, 892 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,239 Speaker 7: Would you open up our eyes to see ourselves the 893 00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:52,120 Speaker 7: way you see us. 894 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:52,480 Speaker 4: God. 895 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,760 Speaker 7: For those with their hands up in a fist right now, God, 896 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,360 Speaker 7: or we pray Holy Spirit, that you would just continue 897 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,759 Speaker 7: to minister as your word becomes alive in their hearts. God, Oh, 898 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,320 Speaker 7: what an incredible manner of love that you have lavished 899 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,640 Speaker 7: on us, that we would be called children of God. 900 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,080 Speaker 7: For someone in the room today, you've never made a 901 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,680 Speaker 7: decision to receive the gift of God's grace, I want 902 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,839 Speaker 7: to give you that invitation right now. You can put 903 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,200 Speaker 7: your hands down for just a moment if you've never 904 00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,520 Speaker 7: made a decision to place your faith in Christ. When 905 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,880 Speaker 7: I count to three, I want to give you the 906 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,800 Speaker 7: opportunity to throw your hand up in the air. The 907 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,319 Speaker 7: last one was private, but this one's public because we 908 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,719 Speaker 7: want to celebrate what God has done in your heart. 909 00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,160 Speaker 7: If you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, 910 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,960 Speaker 7: that he died on the cross and rose again so 911 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 7: that you could be forgiven and have new life. If 912 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,760 Speaker 7: you want to receive the gift of His salvation today, 913 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,719 Speaker 7: when I count the three, slide your hand up in 914 00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,000 Speaker 7: the air and do it boldly. Want to celebrate your 915 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:52,239 Speaker 7: new beginning on three, one, two, three, shoot your hand up, 916 00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:53,960 Speaker 7: hold it up, Come on us. See you there, God 917 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 7: bless you, God bless you, and. 918 00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,479 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 919 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,640 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 920 00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,279 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 921 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,080 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 922 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,960 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 923 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,799 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 924 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,879 Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 925 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,839 Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. And if 926 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,359 Speaker 2: you want more information on how to be a part 927 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,319 Speaker 2: of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again 928 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,280 Speaker 2: for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message, 929 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:30,200 Speaker 2: and subscribe. 930 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:39,840 Speaker 1: God bless you.