1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Let's look at John chapter seven together. I feel God's 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: presence in this place. 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 2: Now. Even if I didn't feel it, I would know 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: that it was real. 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: But it's good to feel it, and I feel God's 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: presence in this place. 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: Amen. 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: John chapter seven is a very interesting scenario, or more accurately, 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: episode in the life of Jesus. And I think you 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: probably will say I never really heard a sermon on 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: that story before, and then you won't be able to 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: say that after today. 13 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 2: But it's a. 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: Really human moment in the life of Jesus, and it's 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: a great example to us today. So as we look 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: at this, we hope that we will see the example 17 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: of Jesus and how it applies. 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: To our lives. 19 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: In John chapter seven, the Bible says after this, Jesus 20 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: the Jews there were waiting to take his life. But 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: when the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus's brother 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: said to him, you ought to leave here. How many know, 24 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: there's always somebody to tell you what you ought to do, always, 25 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: and usually as people with your same last name, you 26 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: know you oughta well, you ought to leave here and 27 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: miracles you do. No one who wants to become a 29 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: public figure action secret. Since you are doing these things 30 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: post them on Instagram. For even his own brothers did 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: not believe him, and therefore Jesus told them, the right 32 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: time for me has not yet come for you. Anytime 33 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: is right, salty Jesus. The world cannot hate you, but 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: it hates me because I testify that what it does 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: is evil. If you haven't had a head on collision 36 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: with the devil lately, it means you might be headed 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: in the same direction. That's what Pastor Mickey used to say. 38 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: Of course, I'm in conflict. I am a contradiction of 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: the world's values, and so it's not easy for me 40 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: to live on this earth according to Kingdom principles. But 41 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: Jesus said, verse eight, you go to the feast. I'm 42 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: not going to control you, but you do what you 43 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: need to do. You go ahead and go. I am 44 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: not yet going up to this feast because for me, 45 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: the right time has not yet come. I wonder how 46 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: different our lives would be if we would learn the 47 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: power of those two words, not yet not yet. And 48 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: having said this, he stayed in Galilee. However, after his 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: brothers had left for the feast, he went also, not publicly, 50 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: but in secret. 51 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 2: Not publicly, but in secret. 52 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: Now at the feast, the Jews were watching for him 53 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: and asking where is that man the crowds. There was 54 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: widespread whispering, widespread whispering about him. 55 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: Some said he is a good man. Others replied, no, 56 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: he deceives the people. 57 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: But no one would say anything publicly about him for 58 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: fear of the Jews. The key for this message today 59 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: is in verse ten. However, after his brothers had left 60 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: for the feast, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. 61 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: And what I want to talk to you about today 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: is the pressure to perform, the pressure to perform. 63 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: And let's pray one more time. 64 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: Spirit of God, I thank you for the accuracy with 65 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: which you register in the hearts and the minds of 66 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: people who are open. Give us this openness that we 67 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: may receive whatever you wish to speak, and we give 68 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: you praise. 69 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: In advance in Jesus name. 70 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: Amen, would you touch somebody on your way to your 71 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: seat and say, I don't have to post it to prove. 72 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: It's so great to. 73 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: Have the opportunity now to apologize to my mom. For 74 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: my teenage years, I just didn't have an appreciation at 75 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: the time for the pressure of parenting. You really can't 76 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: until you are blessed with the same pressure of parental 77 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: responsibility for yourself, because like, really, my mom and dad 78 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: stretched their resources in order for me as a as 79 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: a I guess, like a spoiled, entitled brat of a 80 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: kid to not appreciate the sacrifices and really the pressure 81 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: that they were under to buy me those rebock pumps. 82 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: And since my dad was a barber and he started 83 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: out just five dollars a haircut six dollars, by the 84 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: time he quit cutting hair, he was up to thirteen 85 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,239 Speaker 1: dollars a haircut, I believe. 86 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: And my mom had been. 87 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: In education, teaching special education and then as an early interventionist, 88 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: which wasn't exactly a high paying job, but they provided 89 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: for me so competently that I never really thought about 90 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: the pressure that it must have been to try to 91 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: make sure that I. 92 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: Never really felt their pressure. 93 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: I remember going to this telephone office, the Berkeley Telephone Company, 94 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,799 Speaker 1: and my parents would clean the office at night after 95 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: they would get off their other job, and all I 96 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: could do was complain, and I thought that it was 97 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: child abuse that they made me empty the trash. But 98 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: I just didn't understand when she was making me run 99 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: the vacuum cleaner while she was cleaning the toilets on Saturday, 100 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: just like I didn't appreciate the pressure, even emotionally. I 101 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: remember when my dad kind of quit coming home. I 102 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: didn't realize that the reason he was doing that was 103 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: because of not having a father example for himself when 104 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: I hit the teenage stage, he had no frame of 105 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: reference for how to deal with what he felt, and 106 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: I thought. 107 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 2: He was lazy, so he went to go drink with 108 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 2: my uncle. 109 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: But it wasn't so much laziness, I now have come 110 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: to believe, as it was the fact that he was 111 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: under a weight that he hadn't felt like he had 112 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: been built for. And there is a sense in which 113 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: his pressure in his own life paralyzed him, like pressure 114 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,679 Speaker 1: often can. When you find yourself in a situation where 115 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: you have not been exposed to that particular responsibility and 116 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: now you are responsible or something that you've never been 117 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: exposed to, it can create a lot of pressure, not 118 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: only on the financial side with with with kids, but 119 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: just emotionally and how by the time you come home 120 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: from work where you're providing materially, you don't have anything 121 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: left to give emotionally, and even if you do. There 122 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: was this dude that came up to me Friday night 123 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: at the baseball game and he just looked. He had 124 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: the look on his face like all parents get from 125 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: time to time, like if you shoot me, I'll give 126 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: you half the insurance money. It was just a parent look, 127 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: and you only know it if you've been there. But 128 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: I just said to him, kind of randomly, I said, 129 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: you're such a good man, because I could tell he 130 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: was having one of those days and he was running 131 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: back and forth and it kind of stopped him in 132 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:45,119 Speaker 1: his tracks. 133 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 2: And he's like, really, I don't feel like a good 134 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 2: man today, you know. I was. I was. 135 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: I was at work and then I left work at 136 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: four because I'm supposed to get off it for But 137 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: then the idiot who took my next shift, he didn't 138 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: show up in time for a shift. So who does 139 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: the manager call Not the person who didn't show up, 140 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: but me, because they know they can count on me. 141 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: Because the people we treat the worst are usually the 142 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,559 Speaker 1: people that we know, we can count on the most, 143 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: and we expect the most out of them. But by 144 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: the time he had got off work, he was throwing 145 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: the ball with his daughter to get it ready for 146 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: the game. And by the time he finished throwing with 147 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: his daughter, he said, this is what he's telling me. 148 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: By the time I finished throwing my daughter, my manager 149 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: been blowing up my phone. Now my manager is mad 150 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: at me, and I'm walking in the house talking to 151 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: my manager who's yelling at me, and my wife's got 152 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: dinner ready, but I can't eat dinner because I'm talking 153 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: to my manager, and so my wife is mad because 154 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: the food is cold. But I can't help it that 155 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: the food is cold, because if I lose his job, 156 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: we're not going to have any food to cook. So 157 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: coal food is better. 158 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 2: Than no food. And all I'm matter on the baseball 159 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: team and I want to die. 160 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: And funny thing is he doesn't come to the church. 161 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: He doesn't come to the church. He's only been one 162 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: time that I know of, And when he came that 163 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: one time, he told me it was a good sermon, 164 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: so I knew that he didn't have like a Christian vocabulary. 165 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: The word that he put in there. But he didn't 166 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: know that I was preaching on pressure today. He didn't 167 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: know that he was giving me, he was helping me 168 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: that it's not just as a preacher, or it's not 169 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: just those of us who stand on a stage who 170 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: feel this pressure. Because it used to be enough if 171 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: you just provide for your kids. It used to be 172 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: enough if you just protect your kids. It used to 173 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: be enough if you would just prepare your kids. And 174 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: sometimes all of those things seem to be in conflict, 175 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: that while you want to protect your kids, you also 176 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: have to prepare your kids. And so sometimes I don't 177 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: know should I catch you or should I let you 178 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: fall a little bit so you don't fall a lot? 179 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 2: Should I? 180 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: Should I let you skin your knee now so that 181 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: you don't break your neck later? Should I let you 182 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: peter sink down into the water and let you sink 183 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: and not let you drown. Sometimes even Jesus, if you 184 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: read the scripture, he did not prevent the failure. He 185 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: allowed the failure so that the person could learn the 186 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: lesson and that would enable them later. Sometimes there's so 187 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: much pressure coming from so many different directions, and if 188 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: you stop to think about the life of Jesus. He 189 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: was he was under pressure from the Pharisees who wanted 190 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: to kill him because he threatened their political power, And 191 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: so they were watching everything that he did, and they 192 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: were watching him with very, very scrutinizing eyes, even to 193 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: the point that if he healed somebody, not only would 194 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: they watch him heal the person, but they would they 195 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: would find him healing on the wrong day, and if 196 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: he healed on the Sabbath, they would stand up and 197 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: accuse him for doing something good. How would you like 198 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: to get accused not only for doing the wrong thing, 199 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: but for doing the right thing at the wrong time. 200 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 2: This is Jesus. 201 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: He shows up and they follow him to see if 202 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: he's gonna wash his hands before he eats. How creepy 203 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: is it when you have people following you in the 204 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: bathroom to see One time I was at PF. Chanin's 205 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: and there was a man that was standing there watching me. 206 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 2: While I was and it was threatening to me. It 207 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 2: was threatening to me. 208 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: So I kind of looked at my fishes in the 209 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: bathroom and I washed my hands. I walked over to 210 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: him and he said, I was waiting to see if 211 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: you do wash your hands after you went I go 212 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: to your church. I'm like, bro, there's a lot of 213 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: other great churches I would like to tell you about 214 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: right now. But for Jesus, it was ceremonial. It wasn't 215 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: a hygienic thing. They were watching to see what he 216 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: breaked the law and not wash his hands. 217 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:54,719 Speaker 2: They weren't worried about the. 218 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: Fact that he was trying to eat with people that 219 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: they considered unclean, because he was righteousness and grace and truth. 220 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: They were so focused on the cosmetics, and so everything 221 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: that he did was under scrutiny. Who he's talking with 222 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: a woman, Oh, he's touching a leper. He's not supposed 223 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: to act like that. He's not supposed to speak like that. 224 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: And then sometimes for Jesus, he would perform a miracle 225 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: for the crowd, but they would miss the deeper meaning, 226 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: which is what has just happened when we read on 227 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: chapter seven. Because he just fed five thousand men and 228 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: women and children, and he provided for their needs in 229 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: such a great way that they. 230 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 2: All ate and had their fill. 231 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 1: But after he filled them up physically, he turned to 232 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: fill them spiritually. And it turns out that they were 233 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: following him, not for the spiritual dynamics of who he was, 234 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: but for the physical benefits of what he could provide. 235 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: And when he began to speak at a deeper level, 236 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: the Bible says that many of them didn't want to 237 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: hear it. 238 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 2: After he fed them the. 239 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: Bread, he turned around and said, now that you've had bread, 240 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: recognize that I am bread. The miracle that I just 241 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: performed was not about what I did. It was to 242 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: point to who I am. I am the bread of life, 243 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: and if you eat my flesh and drink my blood, 244 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: you can remain in me. Well, they didn't like that 245 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: very much. It's like he had the crowd and then 246 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: he lost them. He had the following, and then he 247 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: lost it. And the Bible says in John six sixty six, 248 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: sixty sixty six, I always remember that like it's a 249 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: bad number, sixty sixty six. I always remember it because 250 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: it said many then deserted him and followed him no more. 251 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: Many then went away because this is a hard saying, 252 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: and followed him no more. And as they're walking away, 253 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,959 Speaker 1: Jesus turns to his disciples and says, do you want 254 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: to walk away too? 255 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 2: And Peter said, we don't have no options. 256 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: I already gave my boat away for a little while, 257 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: and I already put my investment you and I got 258 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: to see where this ends, even if it ends at 259 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: a cross. That's the context of John chapter seven. 260 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 2: And it's one thing. 261 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: To kind of have to deal with opposition from the devil. 262 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: It's another thing to kind of have to deal with 263 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: it from inside your own house. 264 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 2: And Jesus had seven siblings. 265 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: Some traditions infer these are his human brothers, And whether 266 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: or not Jesus had any sisters, it's interesting to me 267 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: that it was his brothers who pulled him aside with 268 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: the strategy watch this for how to get his followers back. 269 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: And they've got it all figured out, and they've got 270 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: it all calculated, and they say, Jesus, do more of 271 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: the stuff like where you're feeding people, and less of 272 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: the cannibal stuff that you say in your speeches. Take 273 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: out the cannibalism. And why don't you go to Judea 274 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: because the Feast of Tabernacles is about to start and 275 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: you can come with us and you can do the 276 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: kinds of things that you've been doing here in Galilee, 277 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: which was in the northern part of Palestine, which was 278 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: not as densely populated as Jerusalem and Judea. You can 279 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: do publicly what you've been doing privately. You can take 280 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: this show on the road. We can get you a 281 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: headlining spot at the Coachella. Of the Old Testament, this 282 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: was the feast where they would come and build booths. 283 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: It was actually called the Festival of booths or tabernacles. 284 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: And they would build the booth when they got there, 285 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: and they would stay for a week, and they would 286 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: thank God for the water that he gave them, and 287 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: they would thank God for the sustenance that he gave them. 288 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: They would remember in the wilderness how God saw his 289 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: people through even though they didn't have quail or grain. 290 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,040 Speaker 1: But he made manna, which literally means what is it, 291 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: and it means what it is? So God meets what 292 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: is it with what it is and it shows that 293 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: He can show up in any situation and take what 294 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: it is, and when He fills what it is with 295 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: who he is, it will become what you need it 296 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: to be for the season that you're in. 297 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 2: Two people recognize good preaching when. 298 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: They hear it, and they say, come on and do 299 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: some of the flashy stuff that. 300 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: You've been doing. Here in Nazareth and. 301 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: Take this show fifty five miles south to Judea. And 302 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: if you can do these public things in front of people, 303 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: you can become a public figure. In fact, that's the 304 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: phrase that drew me to the text. It said, no 305 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: one who wants to become a public. 306 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 2: Figure acts in secret. 307 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: We live in a time where everybody wants to be 308 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: a public figure. We live in a time and please 309 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: don't get mad at me for saying this where even 310 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: people who have a private account spend their whole LIFs 311 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: posting stuff and commenting on stuff to create an image 312 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: and a projection of a reality that may bear no resemblance. 313 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: The awkward golf collaps really help me. I appreciate that 314 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: to the reality of their situation. And Jesus's brothers pull 315 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: him aside and say, we've got a great idea. Why 316 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: don't you show the world who you really are. The 317 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 1: interesting thing about the text, and I'm gonna give this 318 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: to you quick, because the nexus of this text is 319 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: in verse five. It says that even Jesus' brothers did 320 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: not believe in him, and since they didn't believe, they 321 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: were trying to get him to perform any time you 322 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: have unbelief in your heart, it will cause you to 323 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: try to perform to prove something that you don't really believe. 324 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: In psychological terms, it's called the fraudulence complex, or some 325 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: call it the impostor syndrome, and it speaks about how 326 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: many of us have an inability to internalize our strengths. 327 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 2: And our accomplishments. 328 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: Psychologists call it the impostor syndrome because they say that 329 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: many of us secretly, deep down feel like we're a fraud. 330 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: Many of us, secretly, deep down feel like we have 331 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: so much less to offer than what people expect, and 332 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: that even when people compliment us, we figure that the 333 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: reason that they're complimenting us is because they don't really 334 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: see us for who we are. And if they ever 335 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: saw us for who we are, if they ever saw 336 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: how stupid we feel, if they ever saw how inexperienced 337 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: we feel, if they really saw how nervous. 338 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 2: We really feel, they would kick us out thereat room. 339 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: It happens to fathers, It happens to mothers, It happens to. 340 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 2: Leaders, it happens to teenagers. It is the. 341 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: Fear of being found out to be less than they 342 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: thought you were. It is the fear that keeps you 343 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: in a performance mode. It is the fear that keeps 344 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: you spending money to look like something important, because deep 345 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: down you're afraid that you're really not. It is the 346 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: fear that keeps you overcompensating, and you get in situations 347 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: and rather than letting other people be the center of attention, 348 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: you feel the need to overcompensate to show how intelligent 349 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: you are because deep down you don't feel intelligent enough, 350 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: so people think you're cocky. 351 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 2: But you're really not cocky. 352 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 1: You're scared with the conflict between who they think you're 353 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,199 Speaker 1: supposed to be and who you feel like you really are. 354 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 2: It's called the imposter syndrome. 355 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: It means that sometimes, even as I'm trying to fulfill. 356 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 2: My purpose, I feel like a fake. 357 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: It's not that I'm a hypocrite, it's not that I'm insincere. 358 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: It's just that, deep down inside, I'm a man who 359 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: sometimes feels like a little boy. I'm a preacher who 360 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: sometimes feels like a sinner. I want to be wise, 361 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: but sometimes I feel like a fool. And I'm wondering, 362 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: is there anybody here who lately has been up under 363 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: the pressure of an expectation, and when you feel that, 364 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 1: the temptation and the tendency is to prove it. 365 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 3: I gotta prove I'm a good dad. I gotta prove 366 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 3: I'm a good mom. I gotta prove I'm a good preacher. 367 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 3: I gotta prove it. When you do it to prove it, 368 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 3: it takes the joy. 369 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 2: Out of it. See Jesus, Jesus didn't. 370 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 1: Mind performing miracles, he just wasn't going to do it 371 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 1: for the wrong motives. Jesus was going to Judea. He 372 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: just wasn't going. 373 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 2: To make a public spectacle out of his power. 374 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: Jesus was ultimately determined to show the world who he was, 375 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: but he wasn't going to do it for the gram. 376 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: I think the key thing that he says in the 377 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: text is not now, I'm going to Judea, which is 378 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: the region where he would ultimately give his life, but 379 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: not now. And it's such a weird world we live in, 380 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean, I'm so scared for my kids. Honestly, 381 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: I don't even know what to tell him about growing 382 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: up in a time where we've always had the. 383 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 2: Pressure the performance. 384 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: Now everybody gets to experience performance anxiety. Because we all 385 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: perform our lives for one another all the time, just constantly. 386 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you cook a good meal 387 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,479 Speaker 1: for your family, it does not count unless you make 388 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: an Instagram story out of the meal. This is a 389 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: very common thing to preach about. It is common because 390 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: it's killing us. Jesus said, if I go to Judea 391 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: for the wrong reasons, and if I show up with 392 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: the wrong motives, and if I live my life to 393 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: perform for others rather than to glorify my father, it'll 394 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: kill me. The religious leaders were waiting to literally kill Jesus. 395 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: But I wonder, what are the things that are killing you? 396 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: It says that he purposely stayed away from Judea. What 397 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: do you need to purposely stay away from in this season. 398 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 2: Of your life? 399 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: What do you need to purposely stop thinking about in 400 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: this season of your life? Who do you need to 401 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,959 Speaker 1: purposely stop comparing yourself to in this season of your life? 402 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 2: For me, it's buck. 403 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:29,959 Speaker 1: I was doing squats the other day and Chunks Chunks 404 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: was watching me do these squats and I was doing 405 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: them deep deep squats. I only do leg day once 406 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: every six weeks, so I got to make it count 407 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: when I do it, and I don't know if I 408 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: can do it in these genes. 409 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: I should have tested this. 410 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: I hadn't done this illustration yet, but I mean, I 411 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: was down deep. 412 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 2: On the squad now. Buck wasn't there that day. 413 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: Chunks was there, and Chunks was spotting me and he said, 414 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: what are you doing? And I said, I'm doing I'm 415 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: doing my squats like Buck. But he said something so important, 416 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: He said, don't do them like Buck. Buck is built 417 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: different than you. You're gonna break your back trying to 418 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: be like Buck. And I wonder how we look to 419 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:28,719 Speaker 1: God trying to. You are gonna snap your hamstring. You 420 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: are gonna pop your quads, trying to trying to be Buck, 421 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: getting getting trying to try, trying to. I went on 422 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: Instagram the other day and I saw I saw Kevin Hart, 423 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: and I felt like a failure in my whole life. 424 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 2: I felt like, what am I doing with my whole life? What? 425 00:24:55,040 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 1: What is the point of my existence? Within fifteen seconds? 426 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: Here I am with a burden on me that I 427 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: wasn't built for by comparing myself to someone with a 428 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:17,199 Speaker 1: different calling, and please don't judge me while I am 429 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 1: in this vulnerable position because the truth of the matter 430 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: is some of you are hurting in ways that you 431 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: don't have to hurt, because you are putting yourself in 432 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: a position that you were not built to live in. 433 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: Jesus said, I'm not going to Judea because you want 434 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: me to go to Judea. I don't have to post 435 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: it to prove it. I don't have to turn stones 436 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 1: into bread to show that I'm the son of God. 437 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: I live out of purpose, not for popularity. I live 438 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 1: out of purpose, not for the praises of men, but 439 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: for the praise that can only come from God. And 440 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: I wonder if there's somebody today who is content to 441 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: stay in Galilee to know that it's my season to 442 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: be obedient. 443 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: And that's all I have to do. All I have to. 444 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 4: Do is be obedient in this season of my life. 445 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 4: And Jesus said, you'll go. I'm not going. Not now, 446 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:29,199 Speaker 4: you'll go. 447 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay. 448 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: I'm purposely staying away because if I go here to 449 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: impress people with that motive, it'll kill me. And trying 450 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: to impress people and trying to measure up to arbitrary 451 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: standards that are changing so fast it'll kill your contentment. 452 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: It'll kill your joy, it'll kill your marriage, it'll kill 453 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: your ministry, it'll kill your family. And now even Jesus 454 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: couldn't please everybody, and he was sinless and spotless. Jesus, 455 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, couldn't please everybody, and 456 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: we expect that we can. Even Jesus had to say, 457 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: y'all are my family. I love you, but it's not 458 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: for me, and just those words, it's not for me. 459 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 2: You ought to go down there to Judea, show them 460 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 2: what you've made of because I think. 461 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: They were under pressure too. Honestly, I think probably it 462 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 1: was a lot of pressure to be a sibling of 463 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 1: Jesus and you're bringing home sees in chemistry, you know, 464 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 1: and he's turning water into wine, like affecting molecular structures 465 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: in real time. 466 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 2: A lot of pressure. 467 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: You got that weird brother, you know, the one who 468 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 1: stays at the temple teaching people at age twelve. 469 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 2: It's a pressure to feel special. 470 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: And sometimes the pressure that we feel to be special. 471 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 2: Does not come from God. It comes from culture, who tells. 472 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: You that you've got to be so special, so different, 473 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: so unique, so set apart. 474 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 5: But you already are you already are you already? Are already? 475 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 2: Am set apart? Jesus? 476 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: If you go down to Judea, you could, you could, really, 477 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: you could show them who you are. 478 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 2: You could, you could show them who you are. I 479 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 2: don't need to show them. 480 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: I know. When you live out of that place, it 481 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: affects you to be able to do it for purpose 482 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: and not for proof, because really, who are you trying 483 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: to prove it to. I mean, whoever you're trying to 484 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: prove something to isn't paying attention because they're trying to 485 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: prove it to somebody who's not paying attention. And they're 486 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: proving it to someone who's not paying attention. And so 487 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: while we're busy posting to each other our results to 488 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: prove to one another what we're worth, our purpose is 489 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: dying in the place of our insecurity. When you know 490 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: it's real, when you know it's authentic, it enables you 491 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: to do it from a place of purpose. 492 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 2: I'm going to Judea. I'm going to go. I'm just 493 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 2: not gonna go because you pushed me into it. 494 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: Be careful what you let people or cultural norms push 495 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: you into. You'll never be pushed into purpose. You will 496 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: be pulled from within. If it's pushing, it's not purpose. 497 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: God does not drive, he leads. They are very different. 498 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 1: Jesus said, I'm going when it's time for me to go. 499 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm not going for clout, I'm going for cairos. That's 500 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: the Greek word that means the timing of God. In 501 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: Greek philosophy, fate determined timing. In Kingdom philosophy, God determines timing. 502 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: It means I'm where I need to be right now, 503 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: and I'm good in Galilee. I'm good in Galilee. I'm 504 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: good if nobody knows my name. I'm good being anonymous. 505 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: I was listening to a podcast the other day with 506 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: a former First Lady of the United States, and she 507 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: said the number one sacrifice that she gave to serve 508 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: the country was the loss of anonymity. That isn't it 509 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: crazy that everybody else is trying to climb out of. 510 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 2: The thing that she wishes she could have back. 511 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: And now we've got a whole generation that's just trying 512 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: to be a public figure. I went on somebody's Instagram 513 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: account the other day. They had seventy followers, and it 514 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: said public figure under the name. 515 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 2: Why do you need a label so bad. 516 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: Why do you so badly need to be perceived by others? 517 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: It's the pressure to be special, So it's the pressure 518 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: to be important. But when you belong to God and 519 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: you are living on assignment, and you know your anointing 520 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: and you know your gift, it. 521 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 2: Takes the pressure off. 522 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: Because I'm good in Galilee. 523 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 2: I'll walk on. 524 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: Water in Galilee. I'll heal blind eyes in Galilee. I'll 525 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: teach in Galilee, I'll pray in Galilee. 526 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 2: I'm good in Galilee. I see it even seep into 527 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 2: our ministry. 528 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: In very subtle ways when we sit down to measure 529 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: our ministry. If I'm not careful, I will become so 530 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: performance oriented in the way I pastor this church that 531 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: I will get my priorities more on. 532 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 2: The statistics than the substance. 533 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: And I felt it happening the other day because we're 534 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: looking at all of these Instagram that we put out 535 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: and we use it all. I promise you Jesus would 536 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: have had an Instagram account. It would have been the 537 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: dopest Instagram account that you've ever seen in your life. 538 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: You would have swiped up and got healed. You wouldn't 539 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: even had to click on anything after that, it would 540 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: have been but swipe up and lose your leprosy, it 541 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: would have been an amazing Instagram account. But what I'm 542 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: saying about it is I was in this moment where 543 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: we were showing how this. 544 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 2: Post perform, perform, perform, perform. 545 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: Now, for me, that's a dangerous word, because I am 546 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: performance oriented by nature. 547 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 2: I don't know why I would ask for your prayers 548 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 2: for that. 549 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: I sometimes feel like I'm just showing up to regular 550 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: conversations and oh God, I hope I say the right thing. 551 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: I had a friend who got in trouble the other day, 552 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: and it took me a week to call him, not 553 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: because I didn't care about him, but because I didn't 554 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: think I would have anything valid to say, so rather 555 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: than call him and say what I had, I waited 556 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: and hurt him by not calling him because I didn't 557 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: think i'd have something to say. And when I finally 558 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: called him, I realized he didn't need my performance. 559 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 6: He just needed my presence. He didn't need me to 560 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 6: say anything. He didn't need me to say anything, He 561 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 6: just needed me to be there. And when you don't 562 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 6: believe that, it kills you. Unbelief always leads to performance. 563 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 6: They didn't believe in him. They thought he was a fraud. 564 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: When you think you're a fraud, when you get unbelief 565 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: in your heart, when you go to those those places 566 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: in your mind, you kill yourself trying to prove something. 567 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:44,959 Speaker 1: You know, we're we're analyzing and and and you can 568 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: look at it. You can look at how many how 569 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: many people like this post. And here's a sermon clip 570 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: we put out in here's a here's a song that 571 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: we put out, and here's another sermon clip. And this 572 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: one performed better than that one. And that's good to know. 573 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: I think you should look. 574 00:33:58,440 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 2: At all that. 575 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely want the person who's managing my 576 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: retirement account to look at the performance of the retirement account. 577 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 2: I don't just want them to pray about it. Amen. 578 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 2: Now it's losing money, but it's a great company. 579 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: We believe in their values, and I want to make 580 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: some money. But with ministry, you can't always measure that, 581 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: can you. And I don't really know if the one 582 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: that got the most likes was the one that God used, 583 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: because who am I to say that the one that 584 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: didn't get as many likes. Maybe it came across somebody's 585 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: feed when their hands were shaken too bad to click 586 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: like or to comment because they had a bottle of 587 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: pills in their hand, and something that was spoken through 588 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: that screen just really hit their situation. 589 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 2: And you can't measure that. 590 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,240 Speaker 1: When you do it for the wrong audience, when people 591 00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: don't clap, you quit and they don't say thank you, 592 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: or when you get the feeling like they don't even 593 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,440 Speaker 1: appreciate me, they don't even notice, they wouldn't even miss me, 594 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: they don't even they don't even know what I bring 595 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 1: to this. They don't really Jesus wasn't doing it for 596 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: the people, and he certainly wasn't doing it for their praise. 597 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 1: He was doing it for a purpose, and the people 598 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: were not his audience. 599 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:31,760 Speaker 2: And when the brother said. 600 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: You need to do it so they'll see, you need 601 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: to do it, so they'll know you need to do 602 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 1: it to prove it, Jesus said, I believe. Twenty nineteen version. 603 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: Jesus said, I don't have to post it to prove it. 604 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: I don't have to do it because they're clapping. I 605 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: do it because I'm called. I'm not doing it for clout, 606 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: I'm doing it for calling I am not chasing their approval. 607 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 1: I am fulfilling my assignment. Now this message is for 608 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,880 Speaker 1: our generation. And I do not mean people that are 609 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: my age. I mean the time that we live in 610 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: is consumed and obsessed with chasing clout, approval and publicity. 611 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: But some things ought to stay private. Some things that 612 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: God does in your life are not for ppa. Some 613 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 1: things are not for a public display of ability or 614 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:35,720 Speaker 1: a public. 615 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 2: Display of affection. 616 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: You know, back in my day, if you were making 617 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: out with somebody in public, they. 618 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,279 Speaker 2: Would holler at you. Get a room. And I heard 619 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,879 Speaker 2: Jesus say, when you pray. 620 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: Don't do it out in public like the Pagans do 621 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,799 Speaker 1: trying to impress somebody or the Pharisees do. But get 622 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: in a secret place, Get in your closet, get a 623 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,319 Speaker 1: room where you get alone with God. Ask God, what 624 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: am I called to do? What am I called to be? 625 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,719 Speaker 1: I can't take my cues from culture or the crowd 626 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 1: is killing me. God, what do you want me to 627 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: do in this season? It's too much pressure to please people. God. 628 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 2: I just want to please you. I do it for 629 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 2: you God. 630 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 1: I show up for you, I stay late for you, 631 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: I forgive for you. I love for you, I serve 632 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 1: for you, I breathe for you, I live for you, 633 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: I worship for you. It's not for an audience of film. 634 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 2: God is my audience. 635 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:54,160 Speaker 1: And when God is your audience, the opinions of people 636 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: are no longer your sustenance. 637 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 2: I don't turn stones into bread. 638 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,799 Speaker 1: We so need this word from the Lord because we're 639 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: sure not going to get it from the world. 640 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 2: It's getting weirder and weirder and weirder. 641 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,840 Speaker 1: How we're all performing for each other all the time. 642 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:26,439 Speaker 1: It's exhausting and it sucks, and it's worthless and it 643 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. 644 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 2: And God sent me today watch this with a word 645 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 2: of sanity. The crowd will kill you. I love the 646 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 2: phrase that he put. 647 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 1: Jod said, there was widespread whispering about Jesus. Everybody had 648 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 1: a comment to make, but nobody had the courage to 649 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 1: say it out loud to his face. Everybody was whispering. 650 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,880 Speaker 1: And this is the world that we live in. And 651 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 1: when we give too much weight to the whispers of 652 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,800 Speaker 1: people and not enough weight to the word of God, 653 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:16,839 Speaker 1: it will kill us on the inside. So the impostor 654 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: syndrome was coined as a phrase several decades ago in 655 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,480 Speaker 1: psychological terms, but it's as old as Moses, who stood 656 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: up one day just to see a burning bush that 657 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,440 Speaker 1: wasn't consumed talking about who am I that I should 658 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,359 Speaker 1: go stand before Pharaoh. No matter how many miracles God 659 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: did through Moses, he still had trouble believing that he 660 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 1: was enough to lead the people. That's why he struck 661 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,560 Speaker 1: the rock insteadus speaking to it. That's why he was 662 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 1: still trying to prove at the end of his ministry, 663 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,399 Speaker 1: I am something, I am somebody I can't do it. 664 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: And now I'm spending too much money over here, and 665 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,839 Speaker 1: now I'm spending too much energy over here, and now 666 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 1: I'm becoming something that I don't even like to prove 667 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:04,040 Speaker 1: it to. 668 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,400 Speaker 2: Who to who? 669 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 1: Jesus said, I'm going to Judea when it's right for me, 670 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: and God give us the clarity to know what's right 671 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:26,720 Speaker 1: for us, what we're built for, so we stop finding 672 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: ourselves and compromising positions that do not even fit our 673 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:37,280 Speaker 1: build God give us the wisdom to know when people 674 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: are pushing us. Just because it's normal doesn't mean it's wise. 675 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 1: God give us the wisdom to know our timing. Give 676 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 1: us the wisdom to know when we need to put 677 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: something in a journal not on Facebook. Give us the 678 00:40:54,120 --> 00:41:00,759 Speaker 1: wisdom to know when it's your voice. Father, I thank 679 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,520 Speaker 1: you for what you've spoken today, and I believe that 680 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,319 Speaker 1: I will be hearing for a long time how it 681 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: was applied in individual lives. With everyone standing, I want 682 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: to pray a prayer or a blessing over you today 683 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: that if you can receive it with your spirit, it 684 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,120 Speaker 1: will save you so much pain and consternation and agony. 685 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:29,600 Speaker 2: To be able to receive that. 686 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,640 Speaker 1: You don't have to live on bread alone, but every 687 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,840 Speaker 1: word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 688 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 2: And just to know in this moment. 689 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:47,719 Speaker 1: That it's okay to stay in Galilee, it's okay to 690 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,000 Speaker 1: operate in your gift. It's okay to do it the 691 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,360 Speaker 1: way you need to do it. And that proving stuff 692 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,000 Speaker 1: to people never produce the power of God. 693 00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:58,520 Speaker 2: Never. 694 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: Even when Jesus hung on the cross, they were still 695 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,239 Speaker 1: trying to get him to prove it, if you are 696 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: the son of God, come down from that cross. But 697 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: he couldn't come down. He wasn't up there to prove it. 698 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,480 Speaker 1: He was up there to do it for you and 699 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,600 Speaker 1: for me. To despise the shame and to endure the cross. 700 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: The presence of the Lord is here to remind you 701 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:35,040 Speaker 1: of your righteousness and to remind you that you don't 702 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 1: have to perform a religious act or a behavior modification 703 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,839 Speaker 1: program to be accepted by your heavenly Father. With your 704 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,240 Speaker 1: head's bowed and your eyes closed, there's somebody here who's 705 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 1: been feeling like you're not enough, and it has caused 706 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:55,120 Speaker 1: you to enter into modes of communication and methods of 707 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,759 Speaker 1: life and paces of lifestyle that do not even fit 708 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,360 Speaker 1: your assignment or your And there are some places that 709 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,759 Speaker 1: you're going to purposely need to stay away from in 710 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,960 Speaker 1: the coming days, places in your mind and places in 711 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,520 Speaker 1: your imagination. There are places that you will need to 712 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,160 Speaker 1: stay away from on. 713 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,600 Speaker 2: Purpose in order to live in peace. 714 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,279 Speaker 1: And you've been under a pressure that did not come 715 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,640 Speaker 1: from God to live up to something that was not 716 00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:29,000 Speaker 1: even originated in his heart. Today, I pray that the 717 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: peace of God would be your portion as you enter 718 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,600 Speaker 1: this next season of your life, and that whatever you do, 719 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 1: you would not do it for popularity or for praise, 720 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: but that you would do it on purpose, That you 721 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:46,240 Speaker 1: would do it on purpose, with an intentionality like Jesus 722 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,200 Speaker 1: had as he set his face toward the future with 723 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,799 Speaker 1: destiny in his heart, praying, even under pressure in the 724 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,560 Speaker 1: garden of gethsemone, nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. 725 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,040 Speaker 1: May God give you this spirit of and determination to 726 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,319 Speaker 1: raise your family and to run your race, and to 727 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,839 Speaker 1: live your life, and to ignore the whispers to come 728 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,879 Speaker 1: out of unbelief. Stop trying to prove it. You don't 729 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: have to prove it. It's already spoken. It's already settled, 730 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,720 Speaker 1: with heads bout and eyes closed. This is the moment 731 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,840 Speaker 1: of our service where we give you the opportunity to 732 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,560 Speaker 1: begin a relationship with God. If you are here today 733 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: and you are far away from God, you don't have 734 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,760 Speaker 1: to leave that way, and you don't have to perform 735 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,200 Speaker 1: up to a standard. That's what they tried to do 736 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,359 Speaker 1: through the law, but nobody could keep it. 737 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,399 Speaker 2: There is none righteous, no not one. 738 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 1: And you can make plans to change your life, and 739 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,319 Speaker 1: you can have better priorities, and you could try to 740 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,520 Speaker 1: be a better person, but none of it will get 741 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,240 Speaker 1: you there. It all comes down to the grace of God. 742 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,680 Speaker 1: It all comes down to believing and surrendering your life 743 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 1: to Him. 744 00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:58,760 Speaker 2: And I believe there are. 745 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,400 Speaker 1: A special few today, that God brought you here for 746 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,360 Speaker 1: this moment, for this moment, that He can make you 747 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,800 Speaker 1: his child, that He can give you a new beginning 748 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,520 Speaker 1: in your life, that you can begin to walk with Him, 749 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,400 Speaker 1: that you can give your life to Jesus Christ. And 750 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,000 Speaker 1: with our heads bowed and our eyes closed, we pray 751 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,759 Speaker 1: together as a church family, out loud on every campus 752 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,120 Speaker 1: for the benefit of those who are coming to God 753 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,319 Speaker 1: or coming back to God. The Bible says, if you 754 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,359 Speaker 1: confess with your mouth Jesus's Lord and believe in your 755 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,320 Speaker 1: heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 756 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,080 Speaker 1: It is by grace. You are saved through faith. It 757 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,520 Speaker 1: is the gift of God, not of work. So no 758 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,080 Speaker 1: one can boast. It's not about what you can do. 759 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,160 Speaker 1: It's about what has already been done. He died for you, 760 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,560 Speaker 1: He rose for you. You can rise today. This can 761 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,480 Speaker 1: be your moment with head's bout and eyes closed. If 762 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,000 Speaker 1: you want to give your life to Jesus Christ, repeat 763 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 1: this prayer after me. Church family pray along. Heavenly Father. 764 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,840 Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 765 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,160 Speaker 1: and the savior of the world. And today I make 766 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,040 Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord of my life. I believe he died 767 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,279 Speaker 1: that I could be forgiven and rose again to give 768 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:15,600 Speaker 1: me life. I receive this new life. This is my 769 00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,160 Speaker 1: new beginning. On the count of three. If you prayed 770 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,879 Speaker 1: that prayer, shuit your hand up high, one, two, three. 771 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,960 Speaker 2: I want to celebrate with you. Bless your gods, Bless him, 772 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,680 Speaker 2: bless him. I think we can celebrate better than that. 773 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 2: Let's do it like a family. Let's do it like 774 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:33,239 Speaker 2: the angels. 775 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,720 Speaker 1: Let's throw a little party, a little birthday party. 776 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,160 Speaker 2: Come on, let's throw a little birthday party. Welcome to 777 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:45,359 Speaker 2: the Family of God. Thank you for joining us. 778 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,120 Speaker 1: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 779 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:48,920 Speaker 1: this ministry. 780 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 2: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 781 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: You can click the link in the description to give now, 782 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,560 Speaker 1: or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more 783 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,239 Speaker 1: information and enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 784 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,000 Speaker 2: You can share it with your friends. 785 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 1: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 786 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,719 Speaker 1: share it on your social stories and tag us at 787 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:09,600 Speaker 1: Elevation Church. 788 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:16,319 Speaker 2: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.