1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to see 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Welcome 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: to the praise party, I said, welcome to the praise 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: party all over the world. We'd like to welcome you 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: into our home. This is our family. I pray that 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: whatever campus you're watching on the presence of God is 10 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: permeating that atmosphere like it's permeating this one. There is 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: a sense of hope, eagerness, and really a purity of 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: faith that is in this room tonight. It's the kind 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: of atmosphere that makes it easy for God to move 14 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: because He doesn't have to try to get our attention. 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 1: He already has it. And so now that we're here 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: and we made it, let's really seize this opportunity to 17 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: go into the Word of God and to see what 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: He would speak to us on this occasion. I might 19 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: as well let you know upfront, because I believe in 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: being honest and direct that I am absolutely ready and 21 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: prepared for you tonight. I heard that you were coming, 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: and I cooked something. I feel like that I know 23 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: exactly what God wants me to say, what he wants 24 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: us to do, and what he has said that he 25 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: will do for us if we will do what He's 26 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: going to tell us to do. That he already told 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: me that I'm going to tell you over the next 28 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: few moments. To me, this is a very precious night. 29 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: I started having the praise party in twenty thirteen, right 30 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: around the time that Holly and I got so old 31 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: that we were having trouble staying up and in the 32 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: ball drop, I said, this is pitiful. What we need 33 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: to do is start our year with some other people 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,119 Speaker 1: that are having trouble, stay in a wake, and maybe 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: if we all caffeate together and come together and seek 36 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: God together, we can start the year with a disposition, 37 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:27,399 Speaker 1: a belief, and an expectation of greater things. I want 38 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: to say thank you to the church family that I pastor. 39 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: I know there are many guests here and our evam 40 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: around the world, but I wanted everybody to hear this 41 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. I am really really becoming 42 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: more and more aware of what a privilege it is 43 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: and a sacred trust. It is that you would allow me, 44 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: as a leader in Holly, as a leader in our family, 45 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: to have this part in your life, to be able 46 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: to minister to you in those moments of your life 47 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 1: where you don't know if you can go on, or 48 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: where you're seeking direction from above, to be able to 49 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: stand in this spot week in and week out for 50 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: another year and declare the word of the Lord has 51 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: nothing to take for granted. And I want to thank 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: you for allowing me to be on the journey with you. 53 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: That's a real privilege wherever you are in the world. 54 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: Just I know our church feels this way. It is 55 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: an honor to minister God's word to you. It's really 56 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: a great privilege and a joy. And so stand up, 57 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: just in case, love you to just in case you're 58 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 1: starting to nod off. Stand up, and I want to 59 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: read you the scripture. And it is a familiar scripture 60 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: and it is an epic scenario. It's found in Exodus 61 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: chapter fourteen. You like that one. I feel so good 62 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:52,839 Speaker 1: up here right now. Anything could happen tonight. I mean, 63 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the thirteen cups of 64 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: coffee or the Holy Ghost work in tandem. But I 65 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: just feel good because normally on a weekend, I have 66 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: to behave and there's a lot of constraints, and I 67 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: just feel like tonight should be our night, you know 68 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: what I mean. Like usually we have to kind of 69 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: just tone it down in case there's guests and visitors 70 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: and all that. But I don't want to do that tonight. 71 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that night. No, no, no, 72 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: I didn't put on my best jean jacket just to 73 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: come in here. But this scripture in Exodus fourteen is 74 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: of course all about transition and victory, so it's appropriate 75 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: for tonight. But let me read it to you. Verse 76 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: twenty six Exodus fourteen. Then the Lord said to Moses, 77 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the 78 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their cherry 79 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: and horsemen. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, 80 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. 81 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept 82 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: them into the sea. The water flowed back and covered 83 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: the chariots and horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh that 84 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of 85 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: them survived. But the Israelites went through the sea on 86 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: dry ground with a wall of water. On their right 87 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: looked to your right, and on their left looked to 88 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: your left. Okay, while you'll turn in two different directions, 89 00:05:52,440 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: it's a universal kind of thing. But the Israelites went 90 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: through the sea on try ground. But the Israelites. This 91 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: is how you can tell I belong to God because 92 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: I went through the sea on try ground. Do me 93 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: a favor. Since this is a party, everybody participate and 94 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: look at your neighbor on your right or your left. 95 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: You choose. I'm gonna leave that much up to you. 96 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: But now let me tell you what to tell them. 97 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: You're gonna give them my title. Tell them this, say 98 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: I don't know what you went through in twenty eighteen, 99 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: but you made it. And tell them hold on, no, 100 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: that's not it. That's not it. We're not done. Tell them, 101 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: since you came through, you might as well come through 102 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:39,679 Speaker 1: trip it. Please be seated. How many of you twenty 103 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: eighteen didn't go like you planned for it to go. 104 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: Messed up your workout plan when your knees started hurting, 105 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: you were paying off some stuff, and then you're transmission 106 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: and plan for that, which is why, of course I 107 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: don't come up here and do the predictable preaching maneuver 108 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: where I challenge you to make New Year's resolutions, because 109 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: resolutions are cheap, resilience is priceless. I want to lay 110 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: a foundation for what I want to say from the 111 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: text from a study that was done. The article was 112 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: printed in The New Yorker several years ago, and I 113 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: saved it because I thought it would be helpful for 114 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: us to look at it at some point in the future, 115 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: and that point is now. And the writer of the article, 116 00:08:51,280 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: George Banano Banano, if you're watching, George I tried, was 117 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: talking about how the central element of resilience is perception 118 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: and that there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as 119 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: a traumatic event. The reason he came to this conclusion 120 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: was because he interviewed children, over six hundred of them, 121 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: who had gone through the worst possible situations imaginable, and 122 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: found out that many of the children who went through 123 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: the worst situations came out with the greatest emotional stability 124 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: and sense of connectivity. And so from that he concluded, listen, 125 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: that events are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic. 126 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: And he wasn't necessarily negating the post traumatic stress of 127 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: growing up in a broken home or going to war 128 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: and then coming back to a situation that is so 129 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: foreign to the experience of the battle that you thought 130 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: that you cannot find your own equilibrium. But what he 131 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: was saying is much deeper than that. He said that 132 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: to call something a traumatic event belies the fact, and 133 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: so he coined a term PTE, not PTSD, which is 134 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: a very real thing, no doubt, But his term was 135 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: potentially traumatic event, which he argues is a more accurate 136 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: way to look at the things that we go through 137 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: in our lives. The theory is straightforward, every frightening event, 138 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: or you might insert painful event, no matter how negative 139 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: it might seem from the sideline, has the potential to 140 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: be traumatic or not to the person experiencing it. I 141 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: don't know if you agree with that, or if it 142 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: was a little bit boring and you didn't pay much attention, 143 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: but wake up now. He's making a distinction between what 144 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: we went through and what we do with what we 145 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: went through. I couldn't think of a more appropriate group 146 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: of people to come and share this evening with us 147 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: than the Israelites in this the birth of their nation 148 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: as such, and their escape from Egypt, where they had 149 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: been slaves for over four hundred years, as God told 150 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: Abram that his people would be in Genesis chapter fifteen, 151 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: many years earlier. But now as they are coming out 152 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: of that season of their life, they are carrying with 153 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: them much of the trauma from what they experienced in Egypt, 154 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: and they're escaping this place that had become so painful 155 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: for them because of the unrealistic and inhumane pressure that 156 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: they were under as slaves or servants in Egypt under 157 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,719 Speaker 1: a taskmaster who did not know Joseph and did not 158 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: remember or regard the people of God as special. The 159 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: trauma of what they had been through in that four 160 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: hundred years would be impossible to cover in forty minutes tonight. 161 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: And I hope you'll give me a little grace as 162 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: I kind of brush past some things that probably for 163 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: them would be much more, much more traumatic than my 164 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: summary would lead you to believe. But you understand that 165 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: they were so oppressed in this period of being in Egypt. 166 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: Not only were they forced to do a job that 167 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: they weren't paid for, but they were forced to do 168 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,719 Speaker 1: it with not enough materials. By the way, have you 169 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: ever felt that way like trying to raise kids and 170 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: get through life and do what you need to do 171 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: in the world. And I'm not comparing us to them, 172 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: but many of the things that they went through, while 173 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: not similar situationally, might have a similar psychological effect in 174 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: that what they went through had left them traumatized in 175 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: a sense. And tonight I have to believe that the 176 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: reason you came here, whether you thought you came here 177 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 1: for this reason or not, is that there are some traumas, 178 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: even if they're micro traumas, that God wanted to deal with, 179 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: some tears in the tissue of the muscle fiber that 180 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,599 Speaker 1: God wanted to deal with specifically and surgically in the 181 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: way that only his spirit can. And he brought you 182 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: here tonight, maybe under the pretense of just having nothing 183 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: else to do, or maybe there was a girl who 184 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: asked you to come, And maybe you're more excited about 185 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: after church than during church. You're stuck with me for 186 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: a few minutes. I'm gonna talk to you for a 187 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: few minutes while I can with this microphone and talk 188 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: to you about some of the things that you went through. 189 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: And also I would add to that that you probably 190 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: came to celebrate a little bit. I mean, it's not 191 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: like everybody here tonight had the worst year of their life. 192 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: I can never understand that why we're so why we're 193 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: so hasty to want to leave this year. One of 194 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: the ways I can tell when my life is out 195 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: of alignment is when I'm in a hurry for no 196 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: good reason. Like it's one thing to be in a hurry, 197 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: and there's a reason that I'm in a hurry, and 198 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: I can point to the next thing on my schedule 199 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: that I'm trying to get to. But when I'm in 200 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: too much of a hurry and there's nowhere that I'm going, 201 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: it's a sign that something is wrong in my life. 202 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: It's a sign that something is not working right. And 203 00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: so now we find the Israelites not serving Pharaoh in 204 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: building the different construction projects that he has ordered to 205 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: be built, but they are escaping Egypt, which is interesting 206 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: in itself because originally they escaped to Egypt because there 207 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: was a famine at home, But over a period of 208 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: many years and a transition of leadership, what they escaped 209 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: to they became enslaved by Sometimes this happens in all 210 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: of our lives, is that we're so tired of being 211 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: alone that we escape to a relationship that in the 212 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: end produces a worse loneliness than being alone ever could. 213 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: Sometimes we cry tears because we escape to something that 214 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: we ultimately become enslaved by. Sometimes the thing that we 215 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: run too is more dangerous than the thing that we're 216 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: running from, and it wasn't their fault. Sometimes we make 217 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: decisions to run to certain things. But really they had 218 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: to go to Egypt, not only to fulfill the prophecy 219 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: which extended into the New Testament, which we know at 220 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: Christmas time that out of Egypt I've called my Son, 221 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: which ultimately projects into the very life of Jesus Christ himself. 222 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: It's an arc of a narrative that God was creating 223 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: for deliverance for his people before they were ever born. 224 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: But now they're in transition, and transition is dramatic, even 225 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: the good kind. Even when God blesses you in the 226 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: way that you asked him to, a lot of times 227 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: you find out that what you ask God for way 228 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: more than you were prepared to carry. Ever had your 229 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: prayer request turn into your praise report and then turned 230 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: back into your prayer request. And so transition is traumatic, 231 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: whether I'm devolving into a dire circumstance or whether God 232 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: is elevating me and developing me into something greater. Transition 233 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: is always traumatic. And so perhaps tonight you're not bringing 234 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: your traumas to church. Maybe you're bringing some trophies to church. Hey, 235 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: I had a pretty good year. You know. Some things 236 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: happened for me this year that I never thought could happen. 237 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: And some things happened for me this year that I 238 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: really had looked forward to for a long time. But 239 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: I had some things happened for me this year, Like 240 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: I had a breakthrough in an area that I'd been 241 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: running up against the same thing over and over again. 242 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: I had a breakthrough somebody that I was praying for. 243 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: They got better this year. Something that I've been struggling 244 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: with for a long time. I don't struggle with it 245 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: as much anymore. I mean, still there, but it's not 246 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: overwhelming me. It's not overcoming me. It hadn't been as 247 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: dark this year. I've experienced some of the goodness of 248 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: the Lord that at once I only forecasted this year 249 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: came into my life, and it reigned over my life. 250 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: And I'm here tonight not only to bring before the 251 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: Lord my traumas, but my trophies, because I want to acknowledge, 252 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: before my blessings turn into pride, that I want to 253 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: turn back to praise God for every victory that he 254 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: gave me this year. And make no mistake about it, 255 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: every mountain that I stood on this year, I did 256 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: not get there alone, not at all. I'm not smart enough, 257 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: I'm not sharp enough, I'm not connected enough. And so 258 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: whatever state of transition we find ourselves in any given 259 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,919 Speaker 1: moment of our life, it can be traumatic. Yet the 260 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: men said that the experience is not inherent in the event. Rather, 261 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: it is your perception of the event and how much 262 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: resilience you have. The children of Israel were nothing if 263 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: not resilient. They were resilient even when they didn't have 264 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: a lot of resources. They were resilient, even when they 265 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: were complaining. They were resilient, even when they had a 266 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: bad attitude. They were resilient. In fact, the Bible says 267 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: something kind of weird, says that the more that Pharaoh 268 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: oppressed them, the more they multiplied. And I don't know 269 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: if I'm looking at anybody tonight that just turned stuff 270 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: into this year, that transformed and converted stuff this year 271 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: that happened in your life that might have caused other 272 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 1: people to quit. But look at you in church after 273 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: all that. Come on, nudge somebody next year say after 274 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: all that, look at me, after all that, I'm still cute, 275 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: after all that, I'm not petty or bitter after all that. 276 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I have a reason to be 277 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: and I could be in a in a sour state 278 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: of mind tonight, but I decided to do it differently. 279 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: This year. I decided to bring all my trauma and 280 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: all my trophies into the presence of God. Come on, 281 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: here's somebody say, I came through Now. One difference between 282 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: us and the Israelites is that they came through something 283 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: physical that you could see. Did you see it in 284 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: the text? It's really beautiful how the text paints the picture. 285 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: And it's not only the event that it describes, but 286 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: it's the entire trajectory of deliverance that is depicted in 287 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: the whole Book of Exodus, which is one of the 288 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: major themes of the Bible from beginning to end. For 289 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 1: many years, I thought salvation was just what we were 290 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: saved from. But the big picture of God's purpose for 291 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: your life and my life is what we're saved too. 292 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: And so on this journey to freedom, not just from sin, 293 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: but freedom too, they're going, this is the crazy thing 294 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: about God. When he brings you out of something, he 295 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: does not let you choose your escape route. Because I 296 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: should probably talk about this, because there is a Bible 297 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: verse that says God will not allow you to be 298 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: tempted beyond what you are able. That with the temptation, 299 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: he will provide the way of a us escape. But 300 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: it promises he will provide the way of escape. It 301 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: does not promise that he will let you pick the 302 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: way of escape. It is not a multiple choice. It 303 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: is not a choose your own adventure escape route. So 304 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: God's way of escape is not up for debate. When 305 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 1: God calls you out, he leads you sometimes strange ways, 306 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: Which is why they must have been so disappointed when 307 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 1: Moses took them on those backcountry roads to camp out 308 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: right in front of the Red Sea, because it would 309 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: have been shorter. Even the Bible says it would have 310 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: been shorter. It wasn't just their opinion. The Bible says 311 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: It would have been shorter if they would have gone 312 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: through Philistine country, but they weren't ready for war yet. 313 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: A lot of times, when God brings you from point 314 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,719 Speaker 1: A to point B, he takes you on a zigzag 315 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: because he knows, and I don't mean to hurt your 316 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: feelings how fragile your faith is, even if you don't, 317 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: so he brings them out on a way of escape. 318 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: That to them must have seemed long, but they could 319 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: deal with it. They didn't complain about that. What must 320 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: have seemed really weird to them was when they heard 321 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: the wheels of the chariots, the horsepower of the engines 322 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: of Pharaoh's six hundred chosen chariots, coming up behind them, 323 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: when they thought they had left Egypt and they were 324 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: done with that. Now we're at the text in verse 325 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: twenty six where the Lord said to Moses, stretch out 326 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: your hand. I'm so excited to share this with you. 327 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: God showed me something this week that was so cool, 328 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: because the first time Moses stretched out his hand, which 329 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: had a staff in it, the sea parted so that 330 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: the Israelites could go through, so that they could walk 331 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 1: through what they shouldn't have been able to walk through. Now, 332 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: there are some things that God did in your life 333 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: this year with a strong east wind that if He 334 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: didn't do those things, you wouldn't have been able to 335 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: go through. Within yourself, come on a minute, within your 336 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 1: own strength, with your DNA and with your dad and 337 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: your mom and their genes still kicking around in a 338 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: cage fight inside of you, you would not have gone 339 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: through it. You would have stopped in the middle of it, 340 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 1: and you would have drowned. But one thing about God 341 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: is he is only known by the evidence of what 342 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: he does. He has not experienced directly. The Bible says 343 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: that the reason they went through is because a wind 344 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: blew from the east and made the waters stand at 345 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: a so that the people could go through. Now, you 346 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: can't see wind, You can only see the effects of 347 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: the wind. You ask me how I know God is real. 348 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: I can't point to his nose or his ears. I've 349 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: never heard his audible voice. But there are just some 350 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: things in my life that don't make sense unless there 351 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: was a wind blowing. There are just some things, how 352 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: about you. There are just some things that I went 353 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,719 Speaker 1: through that I know me and I would not have 354 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: had the grace to go through it if there hadn't 355 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: been something working with me. Now let's get into the text. 356 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: There's a good part. Does somebody say, come through? So 357 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: Moses is stretching out his staff so the people can 358 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: trying to get you tonight. I'm trying to get you 359 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: tonight to come through. I think it would be a 360 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,479 Speaker 1: shame for you to be stuck in an inferior version 361 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: of yourself, clutching onto a beta blessing when there is 362 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,360 Speaker 1: an update available in this house tonight by the spirit 363 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: of God. So I'm trying to get you to come through. 364 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: But by the time verse twenty six hits, they've already 365 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: done that. They're already on the other side. I mean 366 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: you already, you already made it through twenty eighteen. You 367 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: don't have to come to church for that. The odds 368 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: are good. You wouldn't have died over these three hours 369 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: that you're going to be in church. You were good. 370 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: That's not why you came. That is not why you came. 371 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 1: And sometimes we get so focused on whatever we went through, 372 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: and it makes sense because it's traumatic. I get it, well, 373 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: I really don't. I shouldn't say that. That's not fair 374 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: for me to say because I don't know what you 375 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: went through, So how dare me stand up here and 376 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: say I know what I don't know? I know what 377 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: I went through this year, and it wasn't all stuff 378 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: that you could see, like this water that was on 379 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 1: either side of the Israelites. To me, it'd be easier 380 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: if everybody could watch you go through what you went through, 381 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,199 Speaker 1: so they could have some pity on you and be 382 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: extra nice to you, give you extra sprinkles on your cupcakes, 383 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: because after all, if I went through what you went through, 384 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: I'd be in a bad mood too. Wouldn't be cool 385 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: if everybody could see what you went through and they 386 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: could experience, you know, be nice. But every storm that 387 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: we survived this year wasn't something that other people could see. 388 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: It's one thing when you walk through something physical, like 389 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: certain things you go through, people see you going through it. 390 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: It's like, man, I heard your husband has cancer. We 391 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,360 Speaker 1: got you and pray for you. We're gonna get through 392 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: this together. You're gonna come through this. We're gonna do it. 393 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: When when you lose your job, you know, people hear 394 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: about that. Maybe you don't even want them to, but 395 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: they hear about it. And then it's kind of embarrassing 396 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: on one hand, because everybody's coming up to you and 397 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: we're praying for you. If you need anything, let us know. 398 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: I know you're going through right now. And although that's 399 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: a little humiliating on one hand, is helpful on the 400 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: other because then you get to be the beneficiary of 401 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: other people's empathy and maybe even their materials support. What's 402 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: a little different is when the thing that you went 403 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: through isn't something that you can point to and directly name. 404 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: Times I find myself going through things that that aren't 405 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: like the Red Sea. It's not something I can exactly 406 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: describe to you. Did you ever go through something and 407 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: while you were going through it, you didn't even know 408 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: what it was? Just a phone, just a thing, just 409 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: some stuff I'm going through. I even tell some people 410 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: that from time to time that pray for me. I'm like, 411 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: I'm just going through I can't say what. I don't 412 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: even know. It's like it's like a It's like the 413 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: Bible describes the arrow by day or the terror at night, 414 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: And sometimes the thing about what you go through in 415 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: the night is you can't exactly see it, to name 416 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: it or to know what it is. And in the 417 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: passage that I'm preaching from tonight. They were going through. 418 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: What they went through was able to be seen visibly. 419 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: But maybe what you through this year wasn't. Maybe it 420 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: was a divorce, maybe it was just a loveless home. 421 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: But you're so good at faking other people out that 422 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: they're all praying they could have a marriage like yours. Meanwhile, 423 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: yours is falling apart. Some of the things that you 424 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: go through. What happened to the praise party. Some of 425 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: the things you go through aren't so simple now, although 426 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: this is dramatic, one advantage that they had is they 427 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: went through it together. By this time, the Israelites are 428 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: millions strong, and to go through something with others who 429 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: were going through the same thing that you're going through 430 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: is one thing. When the stock market sucks, it sucks 431 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: for all of us. We get to go through that together. 432 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: When the government is out of control, we all go 433 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: through that together. But there's something about the things that 434 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: you go through that nobody is going through with you 435 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: that makes it difficult for you to know. Is there 436 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: something wrong with me? Am I the only one who 437 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: feels this way? Am I the only one who wants 438 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: to quit? Am I the only one who wonders God, 439 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: or are you really even there? Or is this thing 440 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: I've been believing my whole life just a fairy tale 441 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: that my parents told me. Like Santa Claus, some of 442 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: the things that we went through this year were invisible. 443 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: Some of the things we went through this year were 444 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: emotional states, and there wasn't even always something to cause it. 445 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: It would be nice if there was. It would be 446 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: better if I did lose my job, I'd have a 447 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: reason to be pissed off. Come back next week, and 448 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: I won't say pissed off. It's just late and I'm 449 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: unfiltered and unhinged and unplugged. But watch me. The miracle 450 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: is in what they went through. The proof that you 451 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: belonged to God is not that you did go through, 452 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: but that what you went through didn't kill you. I'm 453 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: gonna need you to shout right here on this point, 454 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: whether you feel it or not, on every location, come on, 455 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: tell somebody I went through. I went through. I figured, 456 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: if I stand here in front of this red sea, 457 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna die at the hands of the same Egyptians 458 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: that have been terrorizing me. But I'm not gonna stand 459 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: here and die if I'm gonna die, I want to drown. 460 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm going through. I'm going through. If I'm gonna die, 461 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna die on my feet. I'm going through now 462 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: Now Now, I love the word of God. I love 463 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: the fact that they went through. But the point of tonight, 464 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: right is not what you went through. It's not what 465 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: you went through as much as what you went through 466 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: as important and as much as what you went through 467 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 1: as is indicative of some of the things that you 468 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: might need to deal with. I'm not saying that it's 469 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: not important what you went through. I'm saying that that's 470 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: not what God told me to talk to you about tonight. 471 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: On this auspicious occasion at Elevation Church Praise Party twenty 472 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: eighteen slash twenty nineteen, as we are thirty one minutes 473 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: away from a New Year Eastern Center Time, United States 474 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: of America, God said, don't you spend this whole sermon 475 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: talking about what they went through. He said, right in 476 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: the middle of the sermon, I want you to shift 477 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: it from what they went through to why they went through. 478 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: And now we need to go back to the text 479 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: because remember, there's water on their right side, water on 480 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 1: their left side. For their enemies, it was a trap, 481 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 1: but for them it was a path. And now they're 482 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: on the other side. And so it seems strange that 483 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,799 Speaker 1: God would tell them to do anything other than run. 484 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,479 Speaker 1: But he tells Moses to do something that God wants 485 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 1: you to do tonight, and he says, I want you 486 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: to take the instrument in your hand that is a 487 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: symbol of your past, that is a symbol of the 488 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,240 Speaker 1: mistakes that you made when you killed the Egyptian Moses 489 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: and ran and hid him in the sand and then 490 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 1: hid yourself. The staff that is the symbol of your potential, 491 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: the same one that you used to turn the Nile 492 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: River to blood in those ten plagues of Egypt. I 493 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,280 Speaker 1: want you to take the that same instrument, and before 494 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: you leave Egypt, stretch it back over what you just 495 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: went through. And when you do, you will understand the 496 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: purpose of what you went through. God brought you here tonight. 497 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: If I can be so bold as to say that, 498 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: I believe this applies to everyone in the room who 499 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 1: will have the faith to receive it, because He wants 500 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 1: to use what you went through. That's the good news, 501 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: God tell you. The whole thing. God wants to use 502 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: what you went through, and so does the devil. And 503 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:55,799 Speaker 1: the question in this moment is will you allow God 504 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: to use what you went through? This? And when he 505 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: had finished leading an entire nation all night long in 506 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: the dark with water that could collapse on them at 507 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 1: any moment, don't you think they moved fast through this 508 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: tunnel of supernatural, miraculous potential death that at any moment 509 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 1: could sweep them away. And they make it to the 510 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,240 Speaker 1: other side, and God says, stop, before you take another step, 511 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: I need you to stretch your hand back over what 512 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 1: you just went through. The water that you just went 513 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 1: through was not sent to destroy you. Can I tell 514 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 1: you something. Everything that made you afraid this year was 515 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 1: not the devil. Everything that made you cry this year 516 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: was not the devil. Everything that broke your heart this 517 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: year was not the devil. Everything that you lost this 518 00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: year was not the devil. Everything that didn't go according 519 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,520 Speaker 1: to plan this year was not the devil. Some of 520 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,399 Speaker 1: the stuff that was sent against you was not sent 521 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: to destroy you. At the time it felt like it would. 522 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 1: At the time you felt like you would never be 523 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: happy again. At the time you felt like you would 524 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 1: just drive away and never come back. At the time, 525 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 1: you felt like you would never find that love, that passion, 526 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: that feeling again. At the time it felt like it 527 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,360 Speaker 1: would kill you. But the thing that you went through 528 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: was not meant to destroy you. And when you stretch 529 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,160 Speaker 1: your hand over what you went through, what you went 530 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 1: through is going to deliver you from what you just 531 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: came out of. Let me see if I got this right, 532 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: what I went through could have killed me, but it 533 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:58,759 Speaker 1: didn't hit Somebody say, but it didn't. It didn't. I 534 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,839 Speaker 1: could have laid down and died in what I went through. 535 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,839 Speaker 1: Doesn't them say, but I didn't tell him. I could 536 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:11,200 Speaker 1: have lost my mind, but I I don't know. Maybe 537 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,480 Speaker 1: you did. But here's the point of the message. Here's 538 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 1: the point of the message. Whatever you went through that 539 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:23,160 Speaker 1: did not destroy you, God is now going to use 540 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: to deliver you from the decide to see. If you 541 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 1: believe the word of God, it's in the bi bl e. 542 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 1: He said, what you just went through. If you will 543 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 1: stop at this moment, at this juncture, in this time, 544 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 1: in this season and stretch your hand over what you 545 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:50,840 Speaker 1: went through, it's not meant to kill you. It's meant 546 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:57,080 Speaker 1: to kill your enemies. It was never gonna kill you. 547 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:09,120 Speaker 1: The weapon thought against you South. Now I know why 548 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: I went through. There were some things that God had 549 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: to kill so they would kill me. That's why I 550 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: went through. That's why God had to deal with some 551 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:36,360 Speaker 1: things in me, in me, inemy. God had to drown 552 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: some of my enemy. That's why I went through. So 553 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,360 Speaker 1: when I look back over at what I thought I 554 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: wouldn't get through, and I see, look at verse thirty, 555 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: I didn't give you that, dude, I forgot to give 556 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: you Verse thirty. I'm so sorry. And so when they 557 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 1: look back that the Lord saved Israel from the hands 558 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,359 Speaker 1: of the Egyptians and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead 559 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,359 Speaker 1: on the shore. Now, what do you want to look 560 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 1: at this year? What you went through or what God 561 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: did in you through what you went through. God deliver me. 562 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 1: You know He's not going to do that in acute, comfortable, 563 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: convenient place. Some stuff that you went through this year. Now, 564 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,839 Speaker 1: if you don't process it correctly, if you just am 565 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,719 Speaker 1: in a hurry to get out of twenty eighteen, don't 566 00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 1: be surprised when you hear the chariot wheels in twenty nineteen. 567 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: We'll be right back here in three hundred and sixty 568 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:12,239 Speaker 1: five days shouting over nothing all over again. And the 569 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,520 Speaker 1: Lord gave me this word. It's more like an image 570 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:20,719 Speaker 1: from the text. It said that Moses. The way I 571 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,080 Speaker 1: saw it in my mind was that the water had 572 00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,279 Speaker 1: done something supernatural all night long so the Israelites could 573 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: get through. God kept stuff away from you this year 574 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,640 Speaker 1: so you could get through. But when the time came 575 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: for them to leave, God said, stop, you got twenty 576 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,879 Speaker 1: two minutes. Let the knee year. And before you're in 577 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:50,280 Speaker 1: such a hurry to get out, turn around and stretch 578 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,960 Speaker 1: what's the verse verse twenty eight. Stretch your staff, and 579 00:41:55,040 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: the water flowed back and covered the cherries. Water flowed back. 580 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,399 Speaker 1: So it had been like this, and then it went 581 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 1: like that, and then the enemies went like that, and 582 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,520 Speaker 1: the people of God went like that. So God said 583 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,280 Speaker 1: to tell you, it's time for you to flip the flow. 584 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 1: Touch the person on either side of you and see 585 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,640 Speaker 1: if they can get us. Say, flip the flow. It's 586 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 1: been going this way. It's been going this way all 587 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,200 Speaker 1: year long. It's been going this way. But tonight we 588 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 1: came to flip the flow. And everything that was against 589 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: me this year now Romans eight twenty eight says, oh 590 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,800 Speaker 1: I got a new Testament Verse two. Then all things 591 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:46,560 Speaker 1: work together for the good of them that love the 592 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,239 Speaker 1: Lord is that you. Do you still love him? If 593 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,840 Speaker 1: he's still your friend? Do you still trust him after 594 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:57,480 Speaker 1: what you went through? If that's you, then all thing 595 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: work together High five eighteen. People say, flip the flow. 596 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:14,400 Speaker 1: Flip the flow. Flip the flow, instead of concentrating on 597 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 1: all the moments that it didn't go your way this year, 598 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,799 Speaker 1: Flip the flow. What way right? What did work out? 599 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 1: Who did stay? Who did give you a hug? How 600 00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,919 Speaker 1: did he meets your knees? How did he come through? 601 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:36,400 Speaker 1: Did he come through for you? Flip the flow. Stop 602 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: focusing so much on what your dinner didn't get. Maybe 603 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,920 Speaker 1: it isn't about what God wanted to do for you 604 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,440 Speaker 1: this year as much as it is about what He 605 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:53,799 Speaker 1: wants to do through you in the future. Because I 606 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,800 Speaker 1: sense a little bit of confusion, I'm gonna be honest 607 00:43:55,800 --> 00:44:02,280 Speaker 1: with you. It's like, all right, all right, all right, pastor, 608 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:13,360 Speaker 1: Pastor Steve, this is inspirational. Don't get me wrong. My 609 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:26,319 Speaker 1: your enthusiasm, But you said come through dripping and the 610 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:32,120 Speaker 1: text said verse twenty nine and the text said, I'm 611 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 1: saying his voice. The text said, they came through on 612 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:48,279 Speaker 1: dry ground, seeing it's right there in the And that's 613 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,479 Speaker 1: all the people who don't know the definition of drip. 614 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:59,879 Speaker 1: It's something in the technical sense. And I didn't either. 615 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:07,000 Speaker 1: I didn't either. No, I was clueless that I didn't 616 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:11,920 Speaker 1: know either until Graham came in my closet one day 617 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,759 Speaker 1: this summer. He was going through my drawers where I 618 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,120 Speaker 1: keep my watches, got a couple of watches in there, 619 00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:27,080 Speaker 1: got a few chains in there, and that boy had 620 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:32,360 Speaker 1: gone in my drawer, my jewelry drawers, and put every 621 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:37,279 Speaker 1: chain in my jewelry drawer, eleven years old, every chain 622 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: around his neck, all at the same time. And when 623 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:47,160 Speaker 1: I said, you know, what are you doing my drawers? 624 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,759 Speaker 1: He said, Dad, what if I what if I went 625 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,320 Speaker 1: to school the first day of school this year dripping? 626 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,960 Speaker 1: And I'm so coolless. Now I'm really not as cool 627 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:08,680 Speaker 1: as some of y'all want to give me credit for. 628 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,120 Speaker 1: You just project your own coolness under me. I am 629 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: not cool. I'm a little Bible preacher from Monks Corner, 630 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,480 Speaker 1: South Carolina, to which I said, is it going to 631 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:23,759 Speaker 1: be raining? Probably better dry off you probably not better 632 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:29,479 Speaker 1: go to school. Dripping, he said, no, Dad, dripping like drip, drip, 633 00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:46,040 Speaker 1: like CARDI b like offset, like flexing, like dripping. I said, oh, 634 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:52,600 Speaker 1: you mean dripping drip drip? He played me in the 635 00:46:52,640 --> 00:47:11,239 Speaker 1: song ice real quick. That's nice. Can I have it? 636 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,200 Speaker 1: Can I have it? Yeah? Thank you? Appreciate it? Thank you? 637 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:20,719 Speaker 1: That's nice. Can I have it? Appreciate it? That's nice? 638 00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:26,080 Speaker 1: Can I have it? Appreciate it, appreciate it. I'll buy 639 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,879 Speaker 1: you another one, and God's going onto your faith. Can 640 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,960 Speaker 1: I have it? Everything you got? Can I have it? 641 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,080 Speaker 1: Can I have it? Not the wedding one that sketchy 642 00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:49,120 Speaker 1: on every level? Can you have it? Because I still 643 00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 1: didn't tell you what dripping has to do with the 644 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,799 Speaker 1: children of Israel. And I understand that it's a little 645 00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: confusing because typically when this passages preached, all that we 646 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:05,799 Speaker 1: ever really talk about is what they went through for 647 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:11,880 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty years of oppression and after that, the 648 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,640 Speaker 1: plagues that they endured, and the time at midnight when 649 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,440 Speaker 1: the Angel came through and struck down the firstborn of Egypt. 650 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,000 Speaker 1: But if they had the blood on the door post 651 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:26,359 Speaker 1: at midnight when the angel came by if they had 652 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,200 Speaker 1: the blood on the door posts when the angel came 653 00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:38,239 Speaker 1: by at midnight, if they distinguished themselves at midnight the 654 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:42,960 Speaker 1: angel passed by them, and when Pharaoh finally let the 655 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:49,120 Speaker 1: people go. There is one thing that I've seldom heard 656 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,200 Speaker 1: mentioned in messages that I always found I and to 657 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:57,759 Speaker 1: really understand how the people of God not only went 658 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,280 Speaker 1: through the Red Sea, but how they came out of Egypt, 659 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:06,839 Speaker 1: you need to see something in Exodus chapter three, when 660 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,719 Speaker 1: God first spoke to Moses that I think is so 661 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:13,680 Speaker 1: important for us to understand tonight before we leave twenty eighteen, 662 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,040 Speaker 1: before we leave the pain of it, the trauma of it, 663 00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,120 Speaker 1: the successes of it, the victories of it. There's one 664 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,640 Speaker 1: thing that I think we need to do tonight before 665 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:36,000 Speaker 1: we leave. Whatever Egypt, whatever suffering, psychological or physical, whatever bondage, 666 00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 1: whatever has forced itself on us in this year, in 667 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,520 Speaker 1: whatever way, before we leave it, Let's not be too 668 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,520 Speaker 1: quick to leave and just expect that because the calendar changes, 669 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:53,960 Speaker 1: our lives will. And it's really interesting what God said 670 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,560 Speaker 1: to Moses. He said, go to Pharaoh and tell him 671 00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,800 Speaker 1: let my people go, And tell him that you're taking 672 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,440 Speaker 1: all the livestock to sacrifice to me in the wilderness 673 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,560 Speaker 1: and tell him, tell him that you're going for a 674 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,640 Speaker 1: three day journey to sacrifice to the Lord, your God, 675 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:10,759 Speaker 1: and he's not going to let you do it. But 676 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: you've got to be resilient. He's not going to let 677 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,239 Speaker 1: you go easily because you're valuable. Freedom isn't going to 678 00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:22,160 Speaker 1: come with a good feeling. Freedom is going to come 679 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:28,640 Speaker 1: by force and focus and frequency, by force and focus 680 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:35,040 Speaker 1: and frequency. By force and focus and frequency, deliverance isn't 681 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,040 Speaker 1: going to be a magic trick in your life or 682 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,680 Speaker 1: my life, no more than it was for the nation 683 00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,879 Speaker 1: of Israel. There will be a discipline of sustainable deliverance 684 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,040 Speaker 1: in each of our lives, because God will give us 685 00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,160 Speaker 1: the way of escape, but he will not let us 686 00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,800 Speaker 1: choose the way of escape down the road of ease 687 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:57,200 Speaker 1: that we might select in our most comfortable moments. And 688 00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,360 Speaker 1: yet God said, I want to show you the reason 689 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,760 Speaker 1: for what you went through. Not only did the water 690 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,480 Speaker 1: come to cover the enemies of the Israelites, not only 691 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,520 Speaker 1: I love God for what he does. He uses what 692 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,839 Speaker 1: I went through to set me free from where I 693 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:19,400 Speaker 1: came from. He knows if he doesn't kill certain things 694 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,400 Speaker 1: in my life, I will operate by the same template 695 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,239 Speaker 1: from my childhood. I'll operate in the same patterns. I'll 696 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,440 Speaker 1: stay locked in the same prisons if he doesn't kill it. 697 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,640 Speaker 1: So he brings me through deep waters to drown my enemies. 698 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:40,879 Speaker 1: But watch this, he said, before you go, I will 699 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,839 Speaker 1: make the Egyptians favorably disposed towards this people, so that 700 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,360 Speaker 1: when you leave. I wonder, is this true in twenty eighteen, 701 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:57,200 Speaker 1: So that when you leave, so that before we count 702 00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,960 Speaker 1: down to midnight all over the world, so that when 703 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,160 Speaker 1: you leave, and you put this one in the books, 704 00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,800 Speaker 1: so that when you leave, I prophesied this over you, 705 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:16,239 Speaker 1: you will not leave empty hand. So watch what I 706 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:21,320 Speaker 1: want you to do, every woman, God told Moses. Every 707 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:25,160 Speaker 1: woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living 708 00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:30,359 Speaker 1: in her house for articles of silver and gold, and 709 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:35,520 Speaker 1: for clothing which you will put on your sons and daughters, 710 00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:40,200 Speaker 1: so that when you cross out of Egypt on dry ground, 711 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:48,320 Speaker 1: you come through dripping. I feel God on this sermon, 712 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,320 Speaker 1: I said, I feel God on this sermon. I don't 713 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,319 Speaker 1: just want you to come out, I want you to 714 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:11,320 Speaker 1: come through driven, And so you will plunder the Egyptians 715 00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,040 Speaker 1: by the way, y'all. We call this a praise party, 716 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,440 Speaker 1: but it's not. It's a praise plunder. We got to 717 00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:23,319 Speaker 1: make sure before we leave twenty eighteen we did everything 718 00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,920 Speaker 1: that God has for us in the form of a blessing, 719 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:37,960 Speaker 1: in the form of a lesson, and so you will 720 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,879 Speaker 1: plunder the Egyptians. So when you come through, you make 721 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,919 Speaker 1: sure you don't come through like you went in. God. 722 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,160 Speaker 1: That's why I wanted us here tonight, because why would 723 00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,399 Speaker 1: we want to come through all of this and come 724 00:53:55,400 --> 00:54:01,719 Speaker 1: out empty hand. I didn't go through twenty eighteen just 725 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,960 Speaker 1: to wave goodbye to it. I didn't work this hard 726 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 1: in Egypt and suffer this much in Egypt and push 727 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,480 Speaker 1: through the things I pushed through, not to receive the 728 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,640 Speaker 1: benefit of it. No. I came here on this night, 729 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,920 Speaker 1: on midnight of the last night, on the last stop, 730 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:35,840 Speaker 1: because I want to come through saturated the presence of God, 731 00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:42,280 Speaker 1: saturated with the glory of God, overflowing with the glory 732 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,080 Speaker 1: of God. Come on, I don't want to leave this 733 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:49,399 Speaker 1: year empty. I don't want to come into this priest party. Yeah. 734 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,160 Speaker 1: I've been through some things. Yeah, there were some things 735 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,399 Speaker 1: that tried to take me out, and there are some 736 00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,880 Speaker 1: things that I still got to deal with. But I 737 00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,359 Speaker 1: didn't come to church to come through dragon. I come 738 00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:10,000 Speaker 1: it through dripping. And watch this, It doesn't mean I 739 00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:17,480 Speaker 1: wasn't disappointed. It doesn't mean I wasn't disappointed. You can 740 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:25,279 Speaker 1: be disappointed and still come through dripping. You can be 741 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:30,360 Speaker 1: like Samuel, the prophet who prayed for Saul and coached 742 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:35,040 Speaker 1: Sau and mentords Saul. And there came a time where 743 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:40,880 Speaker 1: God rejected Saul, which the people had chosen, and Samuel 744 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,400 Speaker 1: was so hurt about it that he wasn't even sure 745 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,880 Speaker 1: if he wanted to go on when he saw how 746 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:54,160 Speaker 1: little his investment had yielded. But God told Samuel something 747 00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:57,719 Speaker 1: that it was in my heart to say to you 748 00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:04,040 Speaker 1: before we had midnight. He said, I need you to 749 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:09,040 Speaker 1: stop mourning over what I have rejected. That I have 750 00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,960 Speaker 1: already made a plan to replace in your life. And 751 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:22,040 Speaker 1: so here's your instruction. Here's your instruction. Fill your horn 752 00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:27,880 Speaker 1: with oil and be on your way. And when you 753 00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,839 Speaker 1: get to Jesse's house, he's gonna line up all of 754 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,160 Speaker 1: his sons that he thinks should be the next in 755 00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:38,080 Speaker 1: line to be a possible king. But don't look at 756 00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,359 Speaker 1: it like people look at it. Don't look to see 757 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,480 Speaker 1: who's the tallest or who's the strongest. I need you 758 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,720 Speaker 1: to stop judging your life by what you can see, 759 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,319 Speaker 1: and take that oil, and take that joy, and take 760 00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,440 Speaker 1: that strength that you've got left, and take those lessons 761 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:57,440 Speaker 1: that you learned this year. And when I tell you 762 00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,959 Speaker 1: it's the one, I want you to empty that crew 763 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,640 Speaker 1: of oil on his head. Now, David wasn't even in 764 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,279 Speaker 1: the room when they started lining up suns. He was overlooked. 765 00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,840 Speaker 1: But by the time God spoke, he went back to 766 00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,440 Speaker 1: the sheep field dripping. Why it's not what people do 767 00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,600 Speaker 1: to you, it's not what people see in you, it's 768 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,840 Speaker 1: not what people have said about you. If the oil 769 00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:29,520 Speaker 1: of God is on your life, I'm dripping. I'm dripping. 770 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,640 Speaker 1: I'm dripping. My feet are dry, but I'm dripping on 771 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,680 Speaker 1: the inside. God brought me through. But I've got a 772 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:45,400 Speaker 1: power that is not of this world. So tonight we 773 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,600 Speaker 1: flip the flow. We flip the floe. Stand up to 774 00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,160 Speaker 1: your feet. We're gonna flip this. We're gonna flip this. 775 00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:58,120 Speaker 1: We're not going into twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen or 776 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:04,360 Speaker 1: whatever comes next. It all runs together. We're not going 777 00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:13,160 Speaker 1: in dry. We could have done that at home. We 778 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:17,280 Speaker 1: didn't need a praise party for that, a praise plunder 779 00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:23,160 Speaker 1: for that. We came to get everything that God wanted 780 00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:28,840 Speaker 1: us to have and leave everything that he did, so 781 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:38,360 Speaker 1: we do not go away empty handle. This is not 782 00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:42,120 Speaker 1: a gimmick. I don't preach for gimmicks. The Lord showed 783 00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,480 Speaker 1: me that Moses was not the only one who stretched 784 00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:51,440 Speaker 1: over something that had threatened to kill the people. And 785 00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:55,040 Speaker 1: he took me to John chapter nineteen, where the Bible 786 00:58:55,120 --> 00:59:04,280 Speaker 1: records that when Jesus stretched his arms and they drove 787 00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:09,360 Speaker 1: nails into his wrists and into his feet, and the 788 00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,560 Speaker 1: soldier took a six foot spear with an iron tip 789 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,440 Speaker 1: and plunged it into his side as he hung on 790 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:19,800 Speaker 1: the cross. The Bible says that from his side began 791 00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:24,960 Speaker 1: to flow the blood and the water. When blood flows 792 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,560 Speaker 1: from someone, usually it is a sign of the loss 793 00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:34,760 Speaker 1: of life. But Jesus flipped the flow and win his blood. 794 00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,880 Speaker 1: I feel the spirit of God so strong on me 795 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,640 Speaker 1: right now. Please receive this wherever you are, whatever you've 796 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:45,640 Speaker 1: been through, God said, I'm about to flip everything that 797 00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,320 Speaker 1: you have been through, and it is going to now 798 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:53,560 Speaker 1: be to your advantage. Come on, every rejection was setting 799 00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:57,440 Speaker 1: you free from the need for people. I wanted you 800 00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:02,560 Speaker 1: to depend on me. Every failure was setting you free 801 01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,720 Speaker 1: from the need to keep up an image. I want 802 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:10,840 Speaker 1: you to depend on me. Come on, let's slip it. 803 01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Let's slip it. Let's slip it from what we went 804 01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:20,720 Speaker 1: through to why we went through. I need a new 805 01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:24,000 Speaker 1: definition of drip. For too long I thought that it 806 01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,440 Speaker 1: was what I wore, or it was what I earned, 807 01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:29,800 Speaker 1: or it was what I had. But I found out 808 01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:33,000 Speaker 1: that's not what it means. I'm talking about a different 809 01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,680 Speaker 1: kind of drip. I'm talking about when the spirit of 810 01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:39,120 Speaker 1: God is an abundant supply in your life to anoint 811 01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:42,360 Speaker 1: you for every assignment that God has prepared for you 812 01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:46,760 Speaker 1: to do in advance this year. You're not coming in dry, 813 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:52,880 Speaker 1: You're coming in driven. God what it takes. I am 814 01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:57,080 Speaker 1: exactly who I need to be. High five. Somebody say 815 01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,120 Speaker 1: I'm dripping. I'm dripping. The press of God is so 816 01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,680 Speaker 1: strong on me. The purpose of God has prevailed for me. 817 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:09,120 Speaker 1: God has anointed me for this season, for this city, 818 01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,520 Speaker 1: for these children, for this time, for this moment, for 819 01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:18,400 Speaker 1: my generation, for my battles, for my challenges. I'm not 820 01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:24,400 Speaker 1: just coming out. I'm coming through with the South on 821 01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:43,360 Speaker 1: my lens, the mountains. I believe I'll see you do aka. 822 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,160 Speaker 1: This is how we come into twenty nineteen. This is 823 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,760 Speaker 1: how we plunder the enemy. This is how we plunder 824 01:01:52,800 --> 01:02:00,240 Speaker 1: the enemy. He thought he drained you. He didn't drain you. No, 825 01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:07,240 Speaker 1: he didn't drain you. I see you. All he did 826 01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,320 Speaker 1: was put you in a position where he could drown 827 01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,760 Speaker 1: behind you. I'm telling you you're not going in dry. 828 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:18,200 Speaker 1: I see it too. Come on, let's declare the faithful 829 01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,840 Speaker 1: less of God over a new year. Just moved the 830 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:28,840 Speaker 1: mountains and I I see it too, and I've seen 831 01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:36,439 Speaker 1: him John moved the mountains and toppingly come on through. 832 01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:40,000 Speaker 1: I see it too, and made it a lie, made 833 01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:45,040 Speaker 1: you made it alive with the corse still intact and 834 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,040 Speaker 1: I and nothing is missing. I see it too. And 835 01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:53,040 Speaker 1: his shock up the plant and you well see it. 836 01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:58,360 Speaker 1: To move to mountain and you will anxiety and you 837 01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:04,720 Speaker 1: will serious. He is sounding night you went there. It 838 01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:09,680 Speaker 1: was Stoway. Come on, let's run this house. See I 839 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:18,360 Speaker 1: see Sue can see it your most mountains, and I 840 01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:24,080 Speaker 1: believe I'll see it. Took oh we got one man. 841 01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:29,040 Speaker 1: We got one man down. Les go come onna snatch 842 01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:33,800 Speaker 1: yourself and snatch the ball. Snatch the wisdom, Snatch the heiling, 843 01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:39,840 Speaker 1: snash the wistom, stash it. You love the mountains through 844 01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:48,520 Speaker 1: Green I your man has me to you f with 845 01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:57,560 Speaker 1: Hanstollway and I get those handsome let's getting We're going, 846 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:08,680 Speaker 1: We're going in let's go again scene, Let's go together. 847 01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:26,200 Speaker 1: I see, I'll see you, No, Jill, save until it's fine. 848 01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:45,160 Speaker 1: Jo see what way I see it? I see well. 849 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:47,520 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the podcast today. If you did, 850 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,480 Speaker 1: there are just a couple of things I'd love for 851 01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:53,040 Speaker 1: you to do. Number one, subscribe to our show. That way, 852 01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,160 Speaker 1: the most recent episode will always be in your feed, 853 01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,880 Speaker 1: waiting for you ready when you are. And Secondly, if 854 01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:02,240 Speaker 1: the this ministry has impacted you and you'd like to 855 01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,640 Speaker 1: help us continue to reach others, you can click the 856 01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,080 Speaker 1: link in the description and you can give now and 857 01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,640 Speaker 1: I'll see you next time on the Elevation Podcast