1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: I want to hit you with a scripture from Acts 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: chapter three for a moment. And who knows where we'll 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: go from there, but Acts chapter three would definitely be 9 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: our starting place. It's exciting to think about the potential 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: that exists in a moment like this, where the God 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: who knows you by name and knows not only the 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: struggles that you have right now, but whatever you're going 13 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: to face this week, could give you the instruction to 14 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: comfort and the serenity that you need for whatever is 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: going on in your life, and to prepare you for 16 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: opportunities and oppositional lie just from one word, one word 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: that he could speak, and I want to share with 18 00:00:53,600 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: you from Acts chapter three eleven. While he clung to 19 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: Peter and John, all the people ran together to them 20 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: in the portico called Solomon's astounded, And when Peter saw it, 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: he addressed the people men of Israel. Why do you 22 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: wonder at this or why do you stare at us, 23 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: as though by our own power or piety we have 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: made him walk. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, 26 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied 27 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: in the presence of Pilate when he had decided to 28 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One 29 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 30 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: and you killed the author of life, whom God raised 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: from the dead. To this we are witnesses and his name, 32 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: by faith in his name has made this man strong, 33 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: whom you see and know. And the faith that is 34 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: through Jesus has given the man this perfect health. In 35 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: the presence of you all, I want to speak to 36 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: you today for a few moments on this subject. Trapped 37 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: in transition, trapped in transition, and I want to pray 38 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: before we get into it one more time. Let's pray. Father. 39 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: Now I call on you to do the thing that 40 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: only you can do. I can study, I can prepare, 41 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: but I can only preach to a certain level unless 42 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: you inhabit this holy moment, Holy Spirit, there is a design, 43 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: custom tailored message that each person needs. I ask now 44 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: that you would measure that out to each heart. Help 45 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: us to get past all of the distractions that would 46 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: keep us from understanding the things that you desire to say. 47 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: And we give you all the glory in Jesus' name. 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: Somebody shout, a man on your way to your seat. 49 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: Touch somebody and say I am in transition. I was 50 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: standing up and now I'm sitting down. You know, it's 51 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: really interesting when we travel. Holly likes to do stuff. 52 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: That's where we're different. I like to get in and 53 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: get out. If I'm preaching somewhere, I don't need to 54 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: see the sites. Just show me the stage where I 55 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: need to do my job. Get me back home where 56 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: my refrigerator is stocked with diet Coke. I'm not very adventurous. 57 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,119 Speaker 1: She's the opposite. She wants to go and see all 58 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: the touristy stuff. And God helped that woman in a 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: gift shop. I'm serious. When we go through the gift shop, 60 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: I just know every time that it's going to be 61 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: a piece of my kid's college education fund that's going 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: to be left. Is this a true story. Those of 63 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: you who have traveled, Holly Fredick is a good forty 64 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: five minutes in any gift shop, and I understood it 65 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: till we went to Alcatraz. I couldn't understand why you 66 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: want to buy something. You know, the prison. It's not 67 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: a prison anymore. Now it's a national park, but until 68 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two was a prison, and I honestly enjoyed 69 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: that one. Now she's taken me to some really boring places. 70 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you. One time we learned 71 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: about Australian military history and I just don't need to 72 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: know it, do you know what I mean? I appreciate 73 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: their continent, but it is not a part of my 74 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: history or my destiny. So I usually last about thirty minutes, 75 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: and then I start feeling trapped. I mean I really do. 76 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: I start feeling like I would do anything to get 77 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: out of this situation. But she's taken me all over 78 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: and at Alcatraz it was different because not only was 79 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: my wife not only was my wife interested to visit Alcatraz, 80 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: but she was interested for me to hear the stories 81 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: on the headset that they gave you for the guided 82 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: tour and I don't know it because I love seaw 83 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: Shank Redemption and it's my favorite movie. But something about 84 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: that just it connected with me. Okay, maybe it's all 85 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: the prison stories in the Bible. I don't know why, 86 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: but at Alcatraz it was different, and I wasn't born. 87 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 1: I was actually really fascinated, especially at this one part. 88 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: I brought you a picture from when I visited prison 89 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: as a tourist. This is me and Chunk standing at 90 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: the part of the tour where they would show you 91 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: how the prison Alcatraz. Because it's an island, it was 92 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: directly positioned where you could see one and one quarter 93 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: miles across the ocean. You could see San Francisco. And 94 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: what they said on the headphones and I didn't forget 95 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: this is that what made it so agonizing for a 96 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: prisoner was that you could see just a little over 97 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: a mile everything that you wanted in life, but you 98 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: couldn't get to it. When I heard that, I paused 99 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: my headphones, and then I started making a sermon illustration 100 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: about how many people, how many people today can see 101 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: in your mind's eye the person that you could be, 102 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: if you could ever be free from an addiction. A habit, 103 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: depression or panic. The ability to see it but I 104 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: can't swim to it. The ability to see it, visualize it, 105 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: and maybe even taste it, but not experience it. It 106 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: is a certain type of torture that is only known 107 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: in transition. When we read the scriptures, we would do 108 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: well to pay attention to the transitions. And this is 109 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: for Jason and Tim and Brad and Chad and all 110 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: of my campus pastors who preach from time to time. 111 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: It'll make you a better preacher if you pay attention 112 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: to the transitions. Just when you're reading the Bible, look 113 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: out for the transitional phrases and even words like therefore 114 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: and wherefore, and whither and hither, and the transitional words 115 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: that take you from place to place. Pay attention to 116 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: the transition. As a matter of fact, it's not only 117 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: good for preaching in life. You will be so much 118 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: more effective if you learn to pay attention to the transitions. 119 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: And the scripture that I read to you today is 120 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: a transitional miracle in the Book of Acts. I call 121 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: it a transitional miracle because it gives us a picture 122 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: of what the author Luke is our explaining as he 123 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: chronicles the birth of the Church. Not only is the 124 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: Church in a transitional period, going from being considered a 125 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: cult with very little political capital to going into influential 126 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: spaces and beginning to turn the world upside down. For 127 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ the carpenter who was crucified. But the Position 128 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: of Acts chapter three is transitional in that it is 129 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 1: the first miracle that is recorded other than the Pentecostal 130 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: miracle of those being filled with the spirit. It is 131 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: the first miracle of healing that is recorded in the 132 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: Book of Acts. It will not be the last. It 133 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: is the first. And that's why I call it a 134 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: transitional miracle, because it is giving us a picture of 135 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: what Jesus meant when he said to his followers, don't 136 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: leave Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city of peace. Don't leave this 137 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: place of peace, but wait until you have received the 138 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. It is difficult to sit still in transition 139 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: while you are threatened by opposition from the outside. And 140 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: they didn't like Jesus, and that's why they killed him. 141 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: But Jesus told him to do something very difficult. To 142 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: sit still in transition and wait for him to do 143 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: it his way. It's the hardest thing in the world. 144 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: And yet every time Holly goes through the gift shop. 145 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: They get her every time because they position that gift 146 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: shop after she's seen all the history. I mean, I 147 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: understand a mug, but this woman, she'll buy a journal, 148 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: a mug, a memoir, a baseball cap, a beanie, a sticker. 149 00:09:55,520 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: This woman, she's a sucker. They get her every time. No, 150 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: I want you all to pray for the woman of 151 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: God that leads us church because she doesn't get it. 152 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: You are so vulnerable on your way out. She doesn't 153 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: get it. One time, I was doing an assessment with 154 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: someone who was looking at our security in the church, 155 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: and they said, the most important place to make sure 156 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: that there's plenty of security is anywhere there is transition, 157 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: because where there is transition, there is distraction, and where 158 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: there is distraction, there is opportunity for someone who means 159 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: harm to capitalize on the lap of focus and create instability. 160 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: That's what I've been thinking about in regards to Acts 161 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: chapter three this week, how that the enemy will often 162 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: set up a gift shop to take your stuff at 163 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: points of transition, on the way out, on the way in. 164 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: That's the only two times it costs me money. When 165 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: she takes me to a museum, they charge me for 166 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: a ticket to get in, and then my wife empties 167 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: our retirement fund on the way out. But it is 168 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: at those points of transition I'm preaching today to somebody 169 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: who is in a transition in your life that is significant, 170 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: and it is the most significant place of opportunity, and 171 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: it is the most vulnerable place of insecurity at those 172 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: points of transition. And maybe I should show you in 173 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: the text. Yeah, maybe before Holly gets mad at me 174 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: for this illustration, I should show you in the text. 175 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: Go all the way back up to Acts, chapter three, 176 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: Verse one. Y'all feel like studying the Bible a little 177 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: bit today. Let's look at it now. Peter and John, 178 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: We're going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, 179 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: the ninth hour, and a man who was laying from 180 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: birth was being cared, whom they laid daily at the 181 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: gate of the temple, called beautiful to ask alms from 182 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: those entering the temple. Everything I just said is transitional. 183 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: Every single component of the verses I just read has 184 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: a transitional element. And when I saw that in the text, 185 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: I was like, this is perfect for what we're trying 186 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: to understand in our lives, because our lives are constantly changing, 187 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: and they're changing so fast that by the time we 188 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: recognize the change, we don't have time to make the adjustment. 189 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: By the time we know how to be a good parent, 190 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: they are fifty three years old. By the time we 191 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: know what we should have saved money for is too late, 192 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: and the bill is already overdue. By the time we 193 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: get the wisdom, we don't have to strength to implement 194 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: it because we're tired from all of our dumb mistakes. 195 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: So when I read it and I realized everything is transitional, 196 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 1: put it up again, Acts three, verse one. Now it's 197 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: a transitional word. Peter and John, we're going up to 198 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: the temple. They were on the way somewhere at the 199 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: hour of prayer. It was a transitional time. So they're 200 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: going about their day and now it's time to pray. 201 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: Ding ding, ding, everybody to the temple. Peter and John 202 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: are transitioning to the temple. They are transitioning in their 203 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: ministry because up until this point they've always had Jesus 204 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: in human form to supervise their miracle working attempts and efforts, 205 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: and sometimes they didn't get it right. And he was 206 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: there to correct them, but he's not here in human 207 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: form anymore. And they are in transition, and so now 208 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: here they're going to church at three in the afternoon. 209 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 1: That's what the ninth hour means. It's a transitional period 210 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: where all good Jewish men and women would go to 211 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: the synagogue for prayer. Peter and John are are moving 212 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: toward the temple, transitional period for the church, transitional moment 213 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: in their day in between two activities. Then it says 214 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 1: that verse two, there was a man who was being carried, 215 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: whom they laid daily at the gate of the Temple 216 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: that is called the Beautiful Gate. So now the Church 217 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: as a whole is in transition, as the Spirit of 218 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: God is beginning to manifest himself through signs, miracles, and 219 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: wonders through the hands of the apostles. Peter and John 220 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: are in transition, on their way to the Temple, which 221 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: is their daily routine, and there's a man who the 222 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: Bible says is being carried. I don't know how I 223 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: missed this. For so many years, I always pictured this 224 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: miracle with the man already laying beside the gate, but 225 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: he wasn't at the gate yet. The Bible says he 226 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: was in transition. He wasn't even in the spot yet, 227 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: because see, like if you were gonna make it and 228 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: you can and walk, you had to have a racket. 229 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: And so the best place you could go pick a 230 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: spot while people are going to church, and they would 231 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: do it different. They wouldn't get you on the way 232 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: out because you already gave an offering in church, so 233 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: they would get you on the way in, right, And 234 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: if you can catch them on the way in, maybe 235 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: they'll drop you some change and maybe they'll you know, 236 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: it was considered piety to give alms, and so they're 237 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: catching people with a gift shop at the gate by 238 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: the temple. He wouldn't have been the only one. This 239 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: was a very commonplace to set up. But I was 240 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: blessed by this, and I thought you maybe too. He 241 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: wasn't even in his spot yet when God decided to 242 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: give him a miracle. I think a lot of times 243 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: that if I could get here, or if I could 244 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: if I could if I could arrive there, or if 245 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: I could accomplish this, or if I could do that, 246 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: or if I could fix it, or if I could 247 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: establish it, or if I could move through it, but 248 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: I want you to notice this is a transitional miracle. 249 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: It means that Church hasn't even started yet, but God 250 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: is already on the scene. It means that God does 251 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: not need for your life to be at a certain 252 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: point where people say it should be in order to 253 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: bless you. So this is for everybody who is in transition. 254 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: And I don't know if you're switching jobs. I don't 255 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: know if you're switching girlfriends. I don't know if you're 256 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: switching schools. I don't know if you're switching ways of living. 257 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're switching from You used to 258 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: get high on a substance, but now you're trying to 259 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: connect to Christ. I don't know what the switch is. 260 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: But I love the fact that God was waiting to 261 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: bless the person before he even got to the spot. 262 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: It is a transitional miracle. And here's what I wanted 263 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: to say. God is gonna bless you on the way. 264 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: God is gonna bless you. He's gonna meet you and 265 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: cut you off on your way to your spot and 266 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: bless you anyway how many No God can cut you 267 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: off and bless you. So he was about to go 268 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: into the gate and what is a gate. It's a 269 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: symbol of transition. Everything in the text is pointing me 270 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: to the fact that God is most active in moments 271 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: of what I perceive to be instability and transition. Now 272 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: feel the Holy Spirit just all up in your stuff 273 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: because there's something you're trying to get through. But you 274 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: don't have to wait to get through it. You can 275 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: believe God right smack dab in the middle of it. 276 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: It sounds good, preaches good, doesn't feel good. I mean, 277 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 1: it's so weird how we ask God to change our 278 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: lives and when he really does. Because now he changed 279 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 1: your life. Now it's going to change your friends. Now 280 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: he changed your life. Now it's gonna affect how you 281 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 1: spend your time. Now he changed your life, and now 282 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: it's gonna destabilize everything that you've come to depend on. 283 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: It's a transitional text. It's a transitional moment for the 284 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: author Luke, as he's compiling a history of the church. 285 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: He's going from an explanation to a demonstration. That's when 286 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: it gets good, when you go from theoretically believing something 287 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 1: to practically acting it out in your life. The miracle 288 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: is in the transition. That's how we walk right, I 289 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: transition the weight of my body. And until I transition 290 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: the weight, I cannot move. The center of gravity must 291 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: change in the same way. Every time God is moving 292 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: you forward in your life, there will be a period 293 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 1: of transitional instability. In this passage, the man has never 294 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: walked before in his life. He's being carried to the gate. 295 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: Peter and John are going to church, and in transition 296 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: God sets up a moment for transformation. And when it 297 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:39,239 Speaker 1: happens is so shocking, not only to the onlookers and 298 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: not only to Peter and John who are just trying 299 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,959 Speaker 1: to get to Sunday school. Now this is important too. 300 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: Can I throw this in? This is for free. I 301 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: won't say it in the next service. I will just 302 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: say it for you, all right, Yellow first to the trough, 303 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: you know, the early bird in the worm and all that. 304 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: Right now, now look at me. The first miracle that 305 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: is recorded in the Book of Acts was waiting in 306 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 1: something that everybody else was stepping over to get to 307 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:18,239 Speaker 1: something they deemed more important. That's just for y'all. Now 308 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: let's look at it. And Peter. Now they saw Peter 309 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: and John. This man is on his way to his spot. 310 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: Peter and John are on the way to church. Study 311 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,640 Speaker 1: in the Bible. How many things that happen on the way, 312 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: How active God is in the journey in transition. How 313 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: many things that God uses to change our life happen 314 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: in between two fixed points that we deem important. Just 315 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: all the little places Jesus would stop and do a miracle, 316 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: because you know that the feeding of the five thousand 317 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: was not on jesus itinerary. He was just trying to 318 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: get somewhere else, and there happened to be twenty thousand 319 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: people that wanted to hear him teak. Some of the 320 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: greatest stuff that God will do in your day will 321 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: not be on your calendar. Some of the greatest stuff 322 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: that God will do in your life will not be 323 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: in your five year plan. Come on, some of the 324 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: greatest stuff that God will reveal in your life will 325 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: not be on your dream board. And they're just trying 326 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: to get to church, and the man is just trying 327 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: to get something to eat, and they meet in transition, 328 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: and God is in position, and the man is in transition, 329 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: and Peter and John are in transition, and God is 330 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: positioning all of it, just like He is in your 331 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: life today. Just like he is in your family, just 332 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: like he is in your situation, just like he is 333 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,719 Speaker 1: in our church. And he's arranging a meeting. And the 334 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: man sees Peter and John and he asked to receive alms, 335 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 1: and Peter verse four directed his gaze at him, as 336 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: did John, and said, look at us. And he fixed 337 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 338 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: I always like to say that he was expecting the 339 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: wrong kind of change. He wanted to know, do you 340 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: have a few quarters? Do you have a few dimes? 341 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: And Jesus like, the one thing I've learned about him 342 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: is sometimes he doesn't meet your expectation because he wants 343 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: to exceed it. Don't be too disappointed if God didn't 344 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: give you what you wanted. This man, in this moment 345 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: is about to receive a change that he didn't even 346 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:53,239 Speaker 1: have the faith to ask for. And God sets up 347 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: at his spot, you know, the spot where he was 348 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: just going to beg and get through another day and 349 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: some change, some spare change. And Peter's like, oh I 350 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: got changed for you. See this is a transitional moment. 351 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: Remember that Jesus said that if you ask anything in 352 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: my name, I'll give it to you. His name represents 353 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: his authority and his power. And so when Peter said 354 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: what he said next in the next verse, I have 355 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: no silver in gold, but what I do have I 356 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: give to you. At first, this man is thinking, oh, 357 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: another one of those Christians that leaves you a track 358 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: and doesn't leave you a tip at the restaurant. That'll 359 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: send you straight to hell. By the way, if you 360 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: don't tip your server twenty percent, don't come to Elevation 361 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: church twenty percent, if they spit in your drink twenty percent. 362 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: But Peter is saying, now, look, let's get past what 363 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: you expected. Let's get past this temporary change that you desire. 364 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 1: I have no silver and gold, but what I do 365 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: have I have a name. It's not my name, because 366 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: in my name you get nothing. In my ability, there 367 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: is limited strength, power and resource. But I know a name, 368 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 1: and the one who has this name gave it to me. 369 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: So I'm not operating in my own authority. But watch, 370 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: this is the transition of power. Jesus said, if you 371 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: wait for my spirit, you can receive my power. So 372 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: if you don't get out and move the way that 373 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: you think you ought to move, but wait for me 374 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: to direct your path. If you will be in position, 375 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: you can receive my power. Who in the name of 376 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk? And he 377 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: took him by the right hand, right hand. That's the 378 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: hand of authority. Why the right hand, because all power 379 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: and authority was given to Jesus. Come on, get happy 380 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: with me. I don't care if it's fifty of y'all. 381 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: But God said, I'm standing over your situation, presiding and prevailing. 382 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forgot some sit back now. In psychology, 383 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: they make a distinction between change and transition. Okay, the 384 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: two are not the same, and we'll see it in 385 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: this man's life because in this transitional miracle, what is 386 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: often unstated is that just because the man received a miracle, 387 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: it didn't immediately fix his mindset. Okay, And I want 388 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: to spend a moment here because I believe many people 389 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: are frustrated in their inability to change, and I think 390 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: in the text is a clue as to why. But 391 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: we're going to have to pay attention to the transitions 392 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: in this text. And if you will lean into this 393 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: text for just a moment, it's going to show you 394 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: something about why some of the changes in your life 395 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: don't stick. Why some of the changes in your life 396 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: as soon as they are introduced. It seems like, you know, 397 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: everybody wants change in a certain area. And it's often 398 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: been said that change is the only constant in life, 399 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: and I agree with that. But change is traumatic, even 400 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: if it's positive. Right, So there's desirable changes, there's undesirable changes. 401 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: And while we're running around thinking that we control our lives, 402 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: you know, the thing that really changes everything is the 403 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: text message that you never expected. I'm telling you, I 404 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 1: I used to think that our church could avoid criticism, 405 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: right because I would think, well, if we do this right, 406 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: and we do that right, and we have integrity over here, 407 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: it's never going to be the things that you expect 408 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: that people are going to attack you about. It's going 409 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: to be something that you never even thought possible. It's 410 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: just going to be something that you didn't you didn't 411 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: have the foreknowledge to expect. Like this man. Okay, he 412 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,919 Speaker 1: never knew that he was about to get healed. But 413 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: healing creates a new set of problems that if you 414 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: don't understand this dimension, and it is a distinction. Change 415 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: and transition are two different things. So the man says, 416 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: I want some change. Peter's like, cool, I'm about to 417 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: change your life. He's like, nah, man, three dollars is fine. 418 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just looking for a burger right now. 419 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: But Peter's like, no, no, I don't want to give you. 420 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: I don't want you to buy a whopper. I want 421 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: you to walk. Take my hand. This authority boom and 422 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 1: like a current, it shoots through his body. And what's 423 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: what happens to him? This is a beautiful thing when 424 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: God blesses you in a moment. And immediately he took 425 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: him by the right hand verse seven and raised him up. 426 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: And immediately there is no duration, there is no progression. 427 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: Immediately the man's feet and ankles were made strong, and 428 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: leaping up, he stood and began to walk. Before you 429 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: shout about that verse, pay attention to the transitional words, 430 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: because it says that he began to walk, and all 431 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: he knew how to do beg because he was born 432 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: unable to walk. This is part two of last week 433 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: when I told you that sometimes better feels backwards. And 434 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: it's wonderful that he could walk, But where's he gonna go? 435 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: Every day? He was carried to this spot Now what 436 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: cool man, you you didn't want to buy me a sandwich? 437 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: I would have took pop Eyes or Chick fil A. 438 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: But now now I'm standing here and I'm leaping, and 439 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm happy, and I'm changed. But it represents a transition. 440 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: Now change. Let me read this to you so I 441 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: don't mess it up. This is outside of my realm. 442 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: I do theology, the psychology part. I want to read 443 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: it and make sure I get it right. I don't 444 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: want to get sued from malpractice up here. Change is 445 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: external is something that happens to you. Okay, the man 446 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: didn't do physical therapy and learn to walk. It was 447 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: an unexpected change, good or bad. Change is external. Change 448 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: could be traffic. Change can be weather. Change can be 449 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: something that happens in your body. Change can be something 450 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: that happens globally. Change happens externally, and it is a 451 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: situation that is imposed by outside circumstances or unforeseen conditions. 452 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: That's change. Follow me. Transition is always an internal or 453 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: a psychological event. You see the contrast. He jumped up immediately, 454 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: that's change. He began to walk, that's transition. Some of 455 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 1: us are fronted by change because we are unwilling to 456 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: endure the process of transition. I need God's help to 457 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: preach this now. So we jump up, and we jump 458 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: up happy. You know how you get happy when God 459 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: does something awesome in your life. That's a change. But 460 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: transition is where transformation happens, not by something external, but 461 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: by something internal. I'll prove it to you, David said, 462 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew 463 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: a right spirit in me. What does that mean? David 464 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: wasn't praying about his situation. He was praying about his 465 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: spirit because he understood that if God changes your situation 466 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: but the spiritual process is left underdeveloped, it will cause 467 00:31:50,000 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: an implosion. Now the change happened, it was not illegitimate. 468 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: He jumped up, he walked His feet and ankles could 469 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: do it. But it wasn't his feet at this park 470 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: point that was the problem. Just because your feet are strong, 471 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: and just because your legs were and just because you 472 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: now have the strength to stand, doesn't mean you have 473 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: the understanding to walk. And you're in transition, and it 474 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: doesn't make much sense to you when you're in transition, 475 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: and it's unstable when you're in transition. In fact, when 476 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: you're in transition. You can feel trapped. Here's why I 477 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: left Egypt. I'm not in Canaan. I'm trapped in transition. 478 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: I'm saved enough not to go to Hell, but I'm 479 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: not saved enough to not want to go to the club. 480 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: I'm trying. We got the Angel choir over here in 481 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: this section. The reality of it is, this transition takes time, 482 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: and change happens suddenly, and to be trapped in transition 483 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: is to be waiting for your mind to catch up 484 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: with the transformation that has already happened in your life. 485 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: So I was praying about it, and I was asking 486 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: God to give me a picture of what this looks like. 487 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: I went back over to Hebrews chapter five, and I 488 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: looked for background on that particular situation where you see 489 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: a Christian community struggling to come into the fullness of 490 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: what God has for them. And in one of the 491 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: most middle school teacher pass just a scripture of all time, 492 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: because he's really really frustrated with his pupils. This anonymous 493 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 1: author begins to rant in Hebrews chapter five, verse eleven 494 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: because he's trying to get something out, and it's frustrating 495 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: when you have something valuable, but you have nowhere to 496 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: put it. Is frustrating when you feel like you have 497 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: something to give but nobody to receive it, especially in 498 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: a relationship when you want to give more, but when 499 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: you look to give what you have in you, you 500 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 1: don't find anywhere to pour it into. That's frustrating. And 501 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: as he's building up and building up and he's describing maturity, 502 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: he's describing not just the miraculous salvation event, but the 503 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: maturity of following Christ into deeper things and better motivations 504 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: and new ways of doing things that rely on grace 505 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: rather than legalism or the law. As he teaches them 506 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 1: this switch, he becomes frustrated, and somewhere in his letter 507 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,879 Speaker 1: he senses that he's losing their attention. So he goes 508 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: about this, We have much to say, eleven. And it 509 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: is hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing. 510 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: I love this. This means it's your fault for not 511 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: getting it. It's not the preacher's fault for not saying 512 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: it right. I'm gonna put this verse on my pulpit. 513 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 1: You have become dull of hearing. It's not that I'm confusing, 514 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 1: it's just that you're slow, okay Verse twelve. For though 515 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 1: by this time, that's what he said, for though, by 516 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: this time, you ought to be teachers. You hear, you 517 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: ought to be teaching somebody, but you didn't transition. You 518 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,799 Speaker 1: didn't transition. You got up and learned to walk, but 519 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: you didn't reach back your hand to anybody else. You've 520 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 1: been a Christian for fourteen years and you're still not 521 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: asking any better questions of life. You're still simplifying it. 522 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: You've been you've been walking with God this long, and 523 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: you should be further. But I'm frustrated because you're not 524 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: farther along. And as he's I don't know, he's frustrated. 525 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: As a halftime talk to you know, he's in the 526 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:15,320 Speaker 1: locker room. We're better than this team. We're better than this. Yeah, 527 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,320 Speaker 1: cried Tom. You're better than this. That's what he's saying. 528 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,399 Speaker 1: He said, you have need of someone to teach you again, 529 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, 530 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,359 Speaker 1: not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is 531 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 1: unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 532 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: But solid food is for the mature, for those who 533 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:45,160 Speaker 1: have their powers of discernment trained, Oh is a skill. 534 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: Transition is a skill. Change is a gift. Transition is 535 00:36:54,920 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 1: a skill. And he said this skill requires use and 536 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: practice to distinguish good from evil. The only way to 537 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: know the difference between God's will for your life and 538 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 1: your will for your life is you've got to go 539 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 1: to gainst semone. You've got to go to the place 540 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,720 Speaker 1: that Jesus went to where he learned the separation between 541 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 1: what I want based on comfort and convenience and human 542 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 1: preference and feelings, and what God wants based on the 543 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: position that He has put me in. Now understand this. 544 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 1: When Jesus finally got to the cross, he had no 545 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 1: trouble giving up his life. It was only in gathtseemine 546 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: transition where he had to pray God if there's any 547 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: other way. The greatest test is in transition, So get 548 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,759 Speaker 1: ready for this. If you are being tested, you are 549 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 1: in transition. And what that means is the greatest oil 550 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: of anointing comes in the place of greatest transition. So 551 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: God is growing you up. That's what he's doing. He's 552 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: growing you up. He's teaching you to stand. Therefore, to 553 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: stand when it's uncertain to stand when it doesn't feel good, 554 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: to stand when it's controversial, to stand when it doesn't 555 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,799 Speaker 1: seem to be happening, To stand on what you know 556 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 1: when you can't trust what you see or what you feel. 557 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: And you're in transition, and transition takes a little time. 558 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,120 Speaker 1: And now the decision is this, Do I hold on 559 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 1: to the old or do I lean into the new? 560 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: That's what the man had to decide, and so do you, 561 00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: and so do I. Because I had my spot, I 562 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: had my system, I had my support. But now I'm 563 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 1: in transition and I can't do what I used to 564 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:17,760 Speaker 1: do anymore. So I had this I had this cup 565 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,440 Speaker 1: where people would come by and they would drop change 566 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: in my cup, and I had to drop my cup 567 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 1: to grab hold of Peter's hand so I could stand 568 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: up and begin to walk. But that's not the part 569 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 1: of the text that got my attention, because after the 570 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 1: man stands up, everybody is shocked to see this man 571 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 1: who they were used to ignoring, who used to be 572 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:58,720 Speaker 1: kept on the outside. And they were like, that's Joe. 573 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,839 Speaker 1: I gave him a name, but as a scripture didn't 574 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem right that I would spend fifty 575 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,480 Speaker 1: minutes talking about him and not even give him the 576 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:10,799 Speaker 1: courtesy of a name. That's Joe. No, it can't be 577 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,720 Speaker 1: dudes walk in, jump in, dancing. No, it's time telling 578 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,560 Speaker 1: you that's him. How you know it's him? Cause I 579 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: know I walked by him every day. I used to 580 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: walk by him every day. I walked by him every day. 581 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 1: I walked by I walked by him every day, and 582 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,279 Speaker 1: he'd come in and we would transition past each other 583 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,319 Speaker 1: every day, and then we would say and see when 584 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:36,239 Speaker 1: he started to change. They couldn't understand it, and they 585 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 1: didn't like it. Transition is traumatic, you know. And the 586 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:48,440 Speaker 1: way I know it's traumatic is because he dances, he walks, 587 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,240 Speaker 1: He goes past the gate and goes into Solomon's portico. 588 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: This was a big, long porch, man. It would take 589 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,359 Speaker 1: the whole that whole side of the temple was one 590 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: big porch. And I never forgot this verse when I 591 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,719 Speaker 1: read it, because it said that in verse eleven that 592 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: the man clung to Peter and John. I never forgot that. 593 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,840 Speaker 1: That just gripped me when I read it, because I 594 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,000 Speaker 1: realized that it matters in these moments of transition what 595 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,960 Speaker 1: you cling to. And I hear the Spirit saying to 596 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: somebody today that you are going to have to choose 597 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,400 Speaker 1: to cling to something that is new and uncomfortable to 598 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,919 Speaker 1: you to move forward in this transitional season of your life. 599 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,760 Speaker 1: For many of us, this means that we are having 600 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 1: to let go of something old that exists in the 601 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,439 Speaker 1: paradigm of our mind in order to embrace something new. 602 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 1: I mean, just because the man can walk doesn't mean 603 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 1: that he can stand by himself. So now when we 604 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: met him in the text, he's being carried, and when 605 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,800 Speaker 1: we say goodbye to him in the text, he's clinging. 606 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,880 Speaker 1: What makes that significant for our lives is you cannot 607 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,680 Speaker 1: take hold of what's new while you have a death 608 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,840 Speaker 1: grip on what's old, and God is saying you have 609 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 1: gone as far as you can go holding on to 610 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:29,800 Speaker 1: what you used to be. This requires that the excuses 611 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,360 Speaker 1: that have become so embedded in your life have to 612 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,720 Speaker 1: be left behind at the spot of your transformation. Because 613 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: you're in transition now, God is giving birth to a 614 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,759 Speaker 1: new thing in your life. It is going to require 615 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: letting go of old habits. Look, man, if you are 616 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 1: a husband now, you can't be single in your mindset anymore. 617 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: You've got to consider a new responsibility. What happens a 618 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 1: lot of times is we go into new situations holding 619 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,520 Speaker 1: on to old habits. You can't have a husband situation 620 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: and have bachelor habits. Before long, it will tear you 621 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,960 Speaker 1: apart trying to hold on to two things. So I 622 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 1: hear God saying, today, let it go. It is not 623 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,680 Speaker 1: serving you in this season anymore. Why would you hold 624 00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: on to something that taught you how to beg that 625 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,239 Speaker 1: taught you how to blame. It can't heal you anymore. 626 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: Something greater is here. There is a name that is 627 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,919 Speaker 1: greater than any other name, higher than any other name, 628 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:40,760 Speaker 1: stronger than any other name. But you got to cling 629 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,520 Speaker 1: to it. And cling doesn't mean that you kind of 630 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:50,320 Speaker 1: swat at it. Cling means that you grab for Jesus 631 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 1: with all you've got, because you know, like Jacob, that 632 00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:00,839 Speaker 1: if he doesn't bless you, you won't be blessed. Said 633 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,840 Speaker 1: he clung to Peter and John. And what you cling 634 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:11,919 Speaker 1: to in this season of transition in your life will 635 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 1: determine whether you go forward or stay at the gate. 636 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,759 Speaker 1: You know what the first thing that Peter did when 637 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,359 Speaker 1: he saw the man grabbing onto him, was he used 638 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,600 Speaker 1: him for a sermon illustration. God wants to use you. 639 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 1: God wants to use you. God set it up so 640 00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,600 Speaker 1: that he could use you. God set it up just 641 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:44,239 Speaker 1: so he could use you for his purpose and his glory. 642 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:49,880 Speaker 1: But you're in transition right now, and by holding on 643 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:55,080 Speaker 1: to the old, you forfeit the future. I came to say, 644 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,919 Speaker 1: let go of that thing that keeps you paralyzed, let 645 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,480 Speaker 1: go of that thing that keeps you fearful, and let 646 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: go of that thing that keeps you stuck. This is 647 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 1: a metamorphosis, and to be stuck at one stage of 648 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:18,240 Speaker 1: your spiritual growth when opportunity, power, and authority is standing 649 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 1: in front of you is a terrible thing. With everyone 650 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,279 Speaker 1: standing at every location, I would like to pray for 651 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:34,399 Speaker 1: you concerning this transitional moment in your life. It would 652 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,520 Speaker 1: be awesome if I knew all the details, but I 653 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:45,319 Speaker 1: don't have to. God does. And you've been on the 654 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 1: way somewhere and frustrated because change is taking longer than 655 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,399 Speaker 1: you thought it would. Now, what I'm speaking to right 656 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,560 Speaker 1: now is not you waited three days on something. I 657 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,440 Speaker 1: mean when you have been frustrated that you are not changing. Now, 658 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: here's what God is saying what do you need to 659 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,440 Speaker 1: let go of? And what do you need to take 660 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:12,520 Speaker 1: hold of? The word that he uses that they translate 661 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 1: cling is also used to mean put under arrest. In't 662 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,560 Speaker 1: that cool? This man was like, Oh no, y'all, ain't 663 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:27,640 Speaker 1: leaving me here. He grabbed Peter and John and refused 664 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:32,920 Speaker 1: to let go. I think that's what it takes to 665 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,360 Speaker 1: see change in our life, to grab hold of it 666 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,080 Speaker 1: and say, oh no, no, no no, no no, You're not 667 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,560 Speaker 1: going to leave me like you found me. No no, 668 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,879 Speaker 1: no, no no, no no no. I'm not gonna try this 669 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,359 Speaker 1: once and then go back to misery. I'm not going 670 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,279 Speaker 1: to suffocate in despair when hope is in front of 671 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:56,959 Speaker 1: me in the form of the spirit of God. No. So, Lord, 672 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,239 Speaker 1: I ask you now, because I know that somebody has 673 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:06,320 Speaker 1: been trapped in between old and new, trapped in between 674 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,800 Speaker 1: a past and a future. I ask you right now 675 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,640 Speaker 1: to give them the grace not only to stand up, 676 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,920 Speaker 1: but give them the direction to walk. I pray right 677 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,720 Speaker 1: now in Jesus' name that nobody would leave this place 678 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:30,640 Speaker 1: holding on to something that is keeping them stuck. In 679 00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:34,359 Speaker 1: the name of the Lord, I command you to rise 680 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:38,160 Speaker 1: up and walk, not just to jump up and shout, 681 00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 1: but to walk in a new direction, to walk toward 682 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,560 Speaker 1: what God has called you, to walk toward what He 683 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: sees in you, to walk toward what He created you 684 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:55,080 Speaker 1: to be spirit of the Living God in this moment 685 00:47:55,120 --> 00:48:01,720 Speaker 1: of transition. Whether it's circumstantial or whether it's motional, doesn't matter. 686 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:07,320 Speaker 1: I pray that you, being the constant God who never changes, 687 00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,920 Speaker 1: the constant God who does not move, who is not 688 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,279 Speaker 1: bound by time, that you would touch every situation by 689 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,839 Speaker 1: your grace and glory today and enable feet that we're 690 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,120 Speaker 1: never able to stand before, to jump upright and to 691 00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:29,880 Speaker 1: walk in a new direction. Home, Lord, you know what 692 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,319 Speaker 1: they're dealing with, and you know what is beneath what 693 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,840 Speaker 1: they're dealing with on the surface. I pray for patience. 694 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:44,719 Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes that. I pray for new partnerships. Give 695 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 1: every person in this room a Peter and John that 696 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,960 Speaker 1: they can walk with on the way to where you're 697 00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,920 Speaker 1: leading them. It is so uncertain. We don't know what 698 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,920 Speaker 1: one moment to the next holds. We just know that 699 00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:03,160 Speaker 1: change is inevitable, but we choose transformation through every change 700 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:07,440 Speaker 1: in our life, good or bad. 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