Be Careful What You Copy

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.720 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.200 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.560 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.600 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.480 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.680 Before we get into the word, let me mention that 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.840 we're getting really excited about Elevation Nights. We're going on 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:29.200 tour October twenty sixth through Thursday, November third. Now listen 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.360 out everybody online, put in the comments in the chat 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.320 where you're watching from today, what city, what state? And 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.000 let me tell you where we're coming. It's going to 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.839 be me and I might let Chris Brown come. 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I 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.520 was thinking today, other people will drive two hundred miles 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.360 for what we have right here in our backyard, the 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.200 presence of this amazing community of believers. And I'm excited 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.400 today when lady told me one time that she drove 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.800 twelve hours to come to church, and she said it 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.320 was on my bucket list. And I stood up and 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.600 told the church, you see what's on her bucket list 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.480 is in many of our backyard. So you just have 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.880 to keep that perspective. God is doing an amazing work 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.280 at all of our locations and all around the world. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.760 Give God a praise. Come on, Let everything that has 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:12.799 bread praise the Lord that has a new significance in 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.760 the time of COVID. Right. Let everything that has breath 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.519 that we appreciate more that God gave us another day 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.400 and that we're here to praise him. And we want 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.200 to take full advantage of that. Are you ready for 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:28.440 the word of God? It doesn't matter if you are. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.160 I am, so I'm excited enough for all of us. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.840 I want to share with you from Hebrews chapter eight today, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:44.959 verses three through seven. I think I'm done with Joe. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:03:02.200 Thanks Hebrews chapter eight. Pat had a long decay. Hebrews 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:09.720 chapter eight, verse three through seven. Ready, every high priest 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.960 is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.960 it was necessary for this one, Jesus, to also have 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.400 something to offer. If he were on earth, he would 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.600 not be a priest, for there are already priests who 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.120 offer the gifts prescribed by the law. They serve at 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:36.240 a sanctuary that is a copy and a shadow of 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.800 what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.440 when he was about to build the tabernacle. See to 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.360 it that you make everything according to the pattern shown 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.160 you on the mountain. But in fact, the ministry Jesus 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.119 has received is as superior to theirs, as the covenant 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.200 of which he is mediator is superior to the old one. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.880 Since the new covenant is established on what better promises. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.080 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.040 No place would have been sought for another. Back to 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.160 verse five. They serve the high priest in the levitical 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.919 line from the lineage of Erin. They serve at a 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.040 sanctuary that is a copy and a shadow of what 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.919 is in heaven. So this is why, this is why 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.760 Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.800 They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy. This 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.400 is why Moses was warned. See to it that you 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.560 make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:49.960 The Lord told me to give you the sermon in 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.520 the form of a warning today, and the warning is, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:05:02.599 be careful what you copy. Be careful what you copy. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:11.200 You may be seated. Be careful what you copy. I 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.720 didn't say not the copy. That's dumb. People will tell 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.599 you sometimes don't copy being original. No, you need to 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:23.279 copy a little bit, right. You need to copy through 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:28.880 certain developmental stages. Our kids copy, you know, our kids copy. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.920 That's how they put one foot in front of the other. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.200 Learn to walk. You don't teach your kidnaw. If you 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.760 don't want to walk on your legs, you know you 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.000 might want to try walking around on your hands. They copy, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.640 They copy sounds phonetically. It's a part of the developmental 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.120 process to copy. You copy. If you're learning an instrument, 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.440 you would copy the scales. If you were learning a language, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.320 you would copy the alphabet. You don't make up a 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:58.159 new alphabet, you just you shouldn't stop with the copy. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.360 That's the thing write in anything. You shouldn't just stop 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:07.599 with the copy. So in raising three of my own, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.360 now I'm sitting here thinking like what do I want 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.520 them to copy of me? And what do I want 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:21.160 them to cast out. I feel like, since they have 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:27.240 my genetics, it's my job to help shepherd them through 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:32.359 some of this stuff, and it's really important that I 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:37.680 disciple them. As a dad. I want to disciple my kids, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.840 not through a class. I don't really think they need 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.080 another class for me, especially since I'm a preacher. They 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.680 get to hear my words a lot, but in what 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.279 I do and what I show them, and not just 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.159 about Bible verses. I don't just want to disciple my 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.640 kids and what they think about Greek or Hebrew. In 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.880 a Bible text, the original word is epic. I want 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.600 to talk to him about some other words too, Some 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.920 words that we might not be allowed to say in church, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:11.080 especially now Graham's thirteen and Elijah sixteen. One thing I 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.960 really thank God for is I've had the opportunity to 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.960 work out with Elijah the last couple of years, and 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.240 I'm glad that it's going to be at least two 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.440 more years before he can catch me on bench press. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.200 But I kind of turned the workout room that's in 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.560 our house into a little bit of a seminary study, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.280 like a laboratory, where I'm not only showing him how 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.440 to do certain exercises. But I don't know if I 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.560 told you this way. I've been taking him through the 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:44.440 top one hundred rock albums of all time. Right, strain 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.240 up a child and the way that they should go, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.680 and the way that they should go is led Zeppelin. Right. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.040 We listen to Grades in the gardens to an old 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.320 church basement, but then sometimes sometimes we listen to other albums. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.760 Something funny happened to the other where we were listening 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.240 to Jimmy Hendrix Little Wing, one of the greatest guitar 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.840 intros of all time. I learned it when I was 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.840 fourteen and LJ Elijah says to me, this guy sounds 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:22.120 like Pearl Jam. He thought Jimmy nineteen sixty nine was 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.600 copying Stone Gossard and Mike McCready in nineteen ninety one 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.560 because he didn't know who was coffy a new and 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:35.120 I said, no, boy, you don't have to grow up 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.080 and be a Christian, but you will know that, Jimmy Hendrix, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.440 there are some things that are not negotiable. They're coffy 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.000 and Jimmy, Jimmy's not coffy in them. And give me 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.400 that what I handed you before we walked up. I 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.960 disciple him in so many different ways. I'm pretty proud 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:58.680 of myself. I show him, I show him technological advancements 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.920 that have happened in the field of audio recording. I 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.800 explained to him how like downloading songs or streaming songs 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.839 is a relatively new phenomenon, and that when we wanted 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:15.920 music from our friends, we had to copy. But where 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.079 it was bad, you would put this cassette tape in 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.240 another cassette with it, a blank one with it. That 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.280 wasn't the problem. The problem was when you had to 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:32.080 copy a copy of a copy of a copy, Because 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.120 every time you copy a cassette tape, the quality drops 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:42.080 of the copy in Hebrews, chapter eight, y'all thought this 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.760 was story time. This is a story time I set 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:49.760 up for my servant. The writer of Hebrews is understanding 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.640 that as generations have passed from Moses, the quality of 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.640 faith has dropped within the religious system of his day. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.320 He does something kind of crazy in order to bring 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:07.360 these new believers into an understanding of the process of 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.120 emulating and imitating Christ. He points to somebody that they 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.160 never met Moses to explain about somebody that they never 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.439 personally met Jesus. He talks about a tabernacle. You got 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.880 to remember, these people never saw the tabernacle that they 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.480 carted around the wilderness. It's been many years since they 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.720 were setting up that tabernacle. It's been replaced now, not 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.280 only by Solomon's temple, but that one's been destroyed. There's 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:37.400 been another temple built. So they are generations removed from Jimmy. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.600 I like Pearl Jam. I'm a Pearl Jam fan. But 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:46.240 he realizes that with every generational transference there has been 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.520 a loss in quality, and he says things in Hebrews 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:55.000 like you need to persevere. Y'all give up too quick. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.280 He's gonna fuscin at him. So he brings in examples. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.720 He talks about it in Hebrews chapter eleven, different people 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.120 in the faith who endured, some people who were cut 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.320 in half for their faith. And so he's kind of 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.560 trying to say, like, you think is bad because somebody 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.320 didn't like your comment on Facebook, has been a lot worse, right, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.079 And if I could talk to you today, I would 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:23.120 use this subject, be careful what you copy, because what 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.320 happens to a lot of us is we're not even 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.040 conscious of what we're copying in our behaviors and even 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.520 our faith, and even our concept of God sometimes came 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:37.160 through so many generations who put their own concept of 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.439 God on top of the biblical concept of God. You 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.120 got to think somebody did that to them, who did 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.760 that to them, who did that to them, who did 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.160 that to them? And by the time it gets to them, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.560 they say, I'm not sure I want anything to do 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.080 with God. But it's not God that you want nothing 0:11:53.080 --> 0:12:00.760 to do with. It's the copy of God, the copy 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.600 of the copy of the copy of the copy of 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.839 the copy of God through all these generations. So he's 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.480 pointing to something that they've never personally seen. Get this 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.240 an experience. They never had this tabernacle that God commanded 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:20.080 Moses about to build with very specific dimensions. And when 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.800 God called Moses to build a tabernacle, he did it. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.760 While Moses was on a mountain. He spoke to Moses 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.440 face to face as a man speaks. Well, actually he 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.760 spoke to Moses. But then Moses had to go speak 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.520 to the people. And sometimes when Moses would speak to 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.720 the people what God had said, as he would say 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.880 what God had said, they would twist it and make 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:46.040 it something else. That has now been happening. In Hebrews 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.480 chapter eight for hundreds of years. See he talks about 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.480 the covenant that was given, the old covenant, the covenant 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.679 of Moses, that God promised to be with his people 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.840 if they kept his commands. But he said, how Jesus 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.520 brought a better covenant, so he didn't tell us to 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:09.719 build a tabernacle. He became the tabernacle. He was the 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.960 dwelling place of God. And rather than a high priest 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.280 bringing an offering like an animal or a bull or 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.120 a goat to shed the blood of something else to 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.760 a tone for your sin, Jesus shed his own blood. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.199 He offered himself as a gift. He is a great 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.560 high priest, a better high priest, a better covenant. But 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:30.520 he understands something about the people that they are attempting 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:35.840 to copy a lesser covenant, a covenant that depends on 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:40.920 your behavior, not grace. And let's be honest. They came 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.160 by it honestly because we are all influenced by culture. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.120 If you don't believe me, I'll say this the same 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.640 way that we sometimes can't even get from church to 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.720 Monday morning. You know how church you can sometimes have 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.559 these mountaintop experiences and Lord, I'm gonna serve you, and 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.920 I'm gonna pray with my wife and I and I'm 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.280 gonna wait on you, And then that message doesn't even 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.320 make it through Monday traffic. You don't even get to 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.439 the office right from the mountain to Monday. I could 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.439 preach about that, how do I get God from the 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:17.120 mountaintop of inspiration to Monday morning. So he's understanding that 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:18.960 they're going to need something to help him get there, 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:24.040 and he understands that you have to be careful what 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.080 you copy. Because when Moses went up to get the 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.120 instructions from God on the ten commandments, remember those come 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.880 on you broke all of them. I know you remember them. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.400 You have to understand by the time Moses got back down, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.600 they weren't waiting on the Lord. They were worshiping a 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:50.920 cow that they made out of golden earrings. He was 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.240 only up there forty days. They would wander in the 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.880 wilderness forty years because after they came out of each 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:05.479 they couldn't get Egypt out of them. And I'm concerned 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.680 that sometimes we are so controlled by culture. This is 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.320 what God said, see to it. Pay attention is a warning, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.640 he said. Moses was warned, see to it that you 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.400 make everything according to the patterns shown you on the mountain, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.720 because when you get down off the mountain, the children 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.920 of is Wyo are going to be naked dancing around jewelry. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.240 So you have to sew hear from God and know 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.360 what he showed you, and nobody spoke to you, and 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.920 know what He is doing in your life. Not somebody 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.640 else's know what he's doing in your life, not the 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.560 neighbor next door to know what he's doing in your 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:46.440 life in this moment that you build that so be 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:51.400 careful what you copy from the culture around you. Be 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.760 careful what you copy from the culture around you that 0:15:54.960 --> 0:16:01.000 keeps you from discovering the kingdom within you. It's fasterphernic. 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:07.520 I'm preaching. I'm already doing it now. We copy culture 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:12.000 around us, and what we don't realize, see, we we 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:17.680 don't realize that we're copying crazy. I know this because 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.840 when I tell people that I don't watch the news 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:26.200 very much, they look at me like I'm irresponsible. Well, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.560 just because people want to make money off of twenty 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.680 four to seven news cycle doesn't mean that I have 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.240 to submit my mind to the stress that it cost us. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:44.080 You I don't have to. Well, then then you won't 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:51.520 be informed, but I also won't be insane. Preach to me, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.000 preach to me, freash to me. I need this, I 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:58.280 need this. They call it breaking news because it's breaking 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:05.000 your brain. Breaking news. You can't put out a bird feeder. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.719 Did y'all see that? It was breaking news on my screen? 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.040 The birds are dying now and we got to take 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.560 our bird feeders down. Well, maybe we do, but that's 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.480 not breaking news about a bird bath. That's not a 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.199 pandemic about it. Did you see this? Did you see? This? 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:25.000 Is crazy? But we copied crazy, and so if everybody's 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.760 a zombie on the Walking Dead. If everybody's staring at 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:34.359 stuff and never looking at each other, be careful what 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:44.399 you copy. Come a golden cow from something that watched this, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.280 that you got out of the age, so that God 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.000 delivered you from And by the time Moses got down 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.080 the mountain, this is why God warned him in Exodus 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.520 twenty five, because God's telling him thou shalt not kill, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.320 and thou shalt not commit adultery, and thou shalt not 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.600 cove it. And if you live the way that the 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.719 first come, I tell you too, you won't cover anybody 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.760 else's life, because you'll be so content with your own 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.679 that you won't have to take your neighbor's wife, you 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.600 won't have to take your neighbor's ox, you won't have 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.480 to take matters in your own hands. And by the 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.440 time he gets down talking about contentment, they're dancing around 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:20.640 a calf. And I can relate so much to copying culture. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.639 And then I miss Christ because the Kingdom is within me. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.080 But that's the Old Testament, Pesters, Actually, no, it's not. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.560 It's in Hebrews, in the New Testament. And he said 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.840 in the New Testament that you need to be warned 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.399 sometime that if you don't build when you come down 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.159 the mountain in your everyday life, what God spoke to 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.119 you in those moments where He touched your soul, you 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:57.040 will miss the kingdom. By copying the culture, now people 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.280 can twist anything. So some people will say, like, well, 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.440 then you shouldn't have drums in church because you know 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.360 that's from the devil and from the world. You want 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:12.400 air conditioning in church because that's not in Exodus either, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:20.600 That wasn't It's a way of thinking. It's what the 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.879 Bible calls the patterns of this world that we conform to, 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.280 and the world squeezes you into its mold so that 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.720 you start trying to have conversations with two hundred and 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.520 eighty characters, and then the medium becomes the mold that 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.920 we get squeezed into. So we can't know each other 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.080 as people who are created in the image of God 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.440 because we are conversing with each other on a platform 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.600 that was designed by people to get us to argue 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:53.679 too much too soon. This is point number one. Be 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:59.800 careful what you copy from culture. I'm not saying you 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.160 have to dress like you're out in nineteen thirty three 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.840 to be a Christian. I'm not talking about external stuff. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.960 Neither was the writer of Hebrews. He was saying, the 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.200 external covenant is gone. Is the internal one that matters now. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.080 So our distinction and what makes us different is not 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:21.560 that we look weird, but that we refuse to conform 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.600 to crazy. Put this in the chat. I refuse to 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:31.440 conform to crazy. When I say put it in the chat, 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.040 you say it out loud too. It's kind of an 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:39.639 arrangement we have. I refuse to conform to crazy. Be 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.080 careful what you copy from a culture that has lost 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.879 its ever loving mind and is controlled by the prints 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.720 of the power of the air. Y'all believe in the devil. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.120 If you don't believe in the devil after the last 0:20:52.200 --> 0:21:01.840 two years, so be careful what you copy. Be careful 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:09.800 who you envy. Some of us envy people who are 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:16.359 secretly miserable, but you don't know that. So this is 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:21.040 my second point. Be careful what you copy from other people, 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:27.879 because you don't see the full picture. I remember watching 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.560 the documentary last year, and I got so jealous of 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.239 the person that the documentary was about because he had 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:40.159 won something like sixteen Grammys whole time I'm watching them. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.360 I don't know if you ever do this. I sit 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.439 there and compare my accomplishments to his accomplishments, and it's like, 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:49.719 we have a pastor, you touched souls for the Kingdom. Well, 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.240 I want a Grammy too, all right. So I'm sitting there. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.680 I'm sitting there going I never won one Grammy. He's 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.320 got sixteen or whatever. But then it was like the 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.400 Lord spoke to me in the middle of the documentary 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:07.440 and said, wikiam So I put him in my Wikipedia 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.399 app and I donate to Wikipedia because they've helped me 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:15.280 so much with my research every year. And I put 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:17.800 his name in the thing and I saw, yes, he 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:23.399 has sixteen Grammys, but he also has had five wives. 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.640 So I didn't judge him. I didn't turn off the documentary. 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:30.600 I still admire him, but I realized that what I 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:36.159 had done in the process of admiring his accomplishments, I 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:42.359 had not considered the cost of those accomplishments. So I 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:47.760 want the Grammys, but I also want, you know, less 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:52.480 than four divorce proceedings and no judgment on the guy. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.119 But isn't that what we do? We crop and copy 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:00.879 you know, you crop a picture. You know how when 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:02.639 that person in your life is no longer in your 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.399 life and you crop them out of the picture. We 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.160 do that when we're comparing ourselves to other people, right, 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:12.399 because we're copying something that's cropped. They're showing you what 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:17.080 they want you to see. Now you are copying a picture, 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:22.560 a form, a shadow, a crop picture. So you see 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:24.680 what they did and you go, well, I'm not doing that. 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:26.520 I'm not as good as them. I'm not. I can't 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.360 eve accomplish anything like them. And here's what I noticed. 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:31.560 Some of the people that we want to be like 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:40.879 are burning out influencers. Influencers that we see on social 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:44.520 media and after we have bought all their makeup product 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:47.840 and all their diet product and all their fitness stuff, 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:50.960 and then we see their post about y'all, I just 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.400 wanted to come on here today. People been asking that's 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:56.160 how every influencer post I've ever seen starts. And I'm 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:57.919 not even on social media that much, but I got 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:00.600 that one memorized. I just wanted to come on here, y'all, 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:03.119 and I have people have been asking. Nobody's been asking you. 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:07.480 Two people I ask you. But now they're on a confession. 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:12.040 Now here's what's crazy. I've been copying somebody who comes 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:17.840 on and tells me I'm actually depressed, and I've been 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:22.080 copying you. I actually feel like I'm losing my mind. 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:27.359 I can't eat, I can't sleep. I was so busy 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:33.399 envying your bag that I didn't realize that at the 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.280 bottom of it is a bottle of pills that you 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:44.080 can't function without. Now who I wish I could feel 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:46.119 the energy y'all are putting on me right now? Is 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:48.040 it better a river walk? I might come over there 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:54.520 is not far. Be careful what you copy from another 0:24:54.600 --> 0:25:01.320 person's life, because you don't know what it costs them. 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:04.080 Remember I told you I told my father in law. 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:07.760 He's a cool guy, so I get to tell him 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:15.480 everything I told him. When he said, amen, I'm not 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:17.159 going to copy this humility though, I'll tell you that 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:21.719 right now he said, he said, one time we were 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:23.639 talking about this one pastor, and we were taught different 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:25.720 people that discourage you along the way from ministry and 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:27.440 one guy that I met who had traveled the world, 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:29.680 and when I was like twenty years old, my dad 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:31.320 had me go to promise keepers with him It was 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:33.639 actually in Charlotte, so I was in college and my 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:35.520 dad was still a monk's corner. We met in Charlotte 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.359 for promise keepers, and you had to volunteer behind the scenes, 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:39.920 and I was running the clock and I already knew 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:41.760 I was called to be a preacher. So this very 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.160 famous preacher was back there and I walked up to him. 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:46.200 I said, I don't want to bother you before you preach. 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:49.159 He said, yes, you do. Apparently you do, because you 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:51.399 are right now. I said no, I just wanted to know, 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:55.439 can you give me a piece of advice as somebody 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:58.160 that I admire. You've written so many books and you've 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.359 shared the Gospel with so many people. What advice would 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:03.639 you have for me, for somebody who aspires to do 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:05.800 what you do? He said, you don't want to be me, 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:09.600 and I thought it was rude at first, but he 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:13.119 was trying to tell me something. He was trying to 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:21.240 tell me about the surcharge of sacrifice, that what I 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:23.000 saw in his books that I admired. I don't know 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:28.680 who this is for. You have to be careful that 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:32.760 you don't set the blueprint of your life based on 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:36.359 the part of somebody else's life that you see, because 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:39.800 they might be cropping out stuff that you don't want 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:45.280 to copy. I wish this was inside Elevation because I 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:48.160 would tell all the pastors in this room there's some 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.680 stuff about Elevation Church. I would not advise you to do. 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:54.440 This is a great church. To me, it's the best 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:56.760 church in the world. I love the church I pastor, 0:26:57.119 --> 0:27:02.640 and you can't talk me out of that. But come on, man, 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:05.600 when we call the event inside Elevation, it's not really 0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:12.719 inside elevation. It's barely inside. It's like lobby elevation. It 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:16.280 is not kitchen elevation. You're not going to see the 0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:19.360 real mess of it. See, this is what we do. 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:24.720 We want to copy one part of somebody's life. And 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:29.200 what happens when we do that is we missed the 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:32.359 bigger picture. I wonder, have you been missing the bigger 0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:36.520 picture because you've been trying to copy somebody else and 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:40.320 you saw one part of their life. They got more 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:43.800 followers than you, but their kids aren't following them anymore 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:48.720 because they're never there. That's right. I don't do social media. 0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:53.760 I'm not just talking about the platform. I'm talking about 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:56.760 the thing inside of us. You know what I mean, 0:27:56.800 --> 0:28:00.919 where we we copy somebody who if you could really 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:04.119 give them, They said, don't do it like that. That's crazy. 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:09.120 It costs me too much if I depressed all enough. 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.800 The writer of Hebrews, nobody even knows who wrote Hebrews. 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:18.280 But he's so brilliant because he's showing us Moses. Why 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:21.600 is he showing us Moses and then Jesus, Because he's 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:24.560 showing you that Moses could only take you so far, 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:28.840 even for the children of Israel. I mean, think about it. 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:32.080 Moses led them to the edge of the Promised Land, 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:36.040 but he didn't get to take them in. Joshua did that. 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:39.480 And when God called Joshua, and now Moses was a 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:43.320 great man, no doubt about it. Moses, Moses was really 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:45.760 actually gracious with the people that he led. Because God 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:47.440 said one time, well, I'll just kill him and start 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:49.240 all over with you and give you better people to leave. 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:51.600 He said, Lord, don't do that. It'll make you look bad. 0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:53.080 You said, you put your name on these people, and 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:54.440 your hand was on and bring them out of Egypt. 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:55.920 So if you kill them, it's gonna make you look bad. 0:28:56.080 --> 0:28:58.600 I probably would go. I probably would vote for you. 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:00.280 To kill him too. But if we really take this 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:02.880 into consideration, it's not good for your reputation, God, even 0:29:02.920 --> 0:29:07.840 though it's my preference right now that notwithstanding, Moses was 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:10.360 so controlled by the focus group that he sent into 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:14.600 the Promised Land that he copied the fear of the 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:17.680 ten Spies who said we can't go in, and he 0:29:17.760 --> 0:29:20.560 never got to lead the people. So by the time 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:24.360 that Moses dies in Joshua chapter one, God is giving 0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:26.800 Joshua a talk about what he's called him to do, 0:29:27.360 --> 0:29:31.320 and he says something kind of cool, because remember, Moses 0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:33.760 really knew God. Moses really knew God. But look at 0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:36.080 this in Joshua chapter one, verse five, after he says 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:37.840 I'm going to give you this land that I swore 0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:40.320 to the people Joshua one to five, no one will 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:42.120 be able to stand against you all the days of 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:47.200 your life as I was with So I will be 0:29:47.360 --> 0:29:51.440 with Now what does that mean? That means I'm gonna 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:53.840 be present with you like I was present with him. 0:29:54.280 --> 0:29:58.760 But your process, Joshua, will not be like Moses's process. 0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:05.800 And another, his limitations will not be your limitations. Where 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:10.520 he stopped is where you're starting. Where he stopped is 0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:14.160 where you're starting. You're not gonna be like me. You're 0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:17.440 gonna be better than me. You're gonna be so much 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:20.840 better than me. You're not Stephen Ferdick's son. I'm gonna 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:25.080 be Elijah Verdick's dad, Graham Fredick's dad, Habby Verdick's dad. 0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:29.880 Do you understand when God calls you and he puts 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:33.120 his spirit in you, you are not limited by what 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:36.560 you've seen. That's not the end of your potential. So 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:39.000 he tells Joshua, I'm gonna be with you like I 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:42.880 was with Moses. I will never leave you, nor forsake you. 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:48.360 Verse six. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead 0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:51.440 these people to inherit the land I swore to their 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:57.000 ancestors to give them. Next verse be strong and very courageous. 0:30:57.720 --> 0:31:03.520 Be careful. Aha, what's my sermon called? Be careful what 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:06.720 you copy? So Joshua, listen. I want you to listen 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:10.200 like God's talking to you. Don't be limited by what 0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:14.480 you saw Moses do. Moses is not your model. God is. 0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:19.520 That's what the writer of Hebrews are saying. See, the 0:31:19.640 --> 0:31:23.080 law could only take you so far. That's why Jesus came. 0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:25.680 The law was good, but it could only get you 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:28.560 so far. The law was great, but it was fought 0:31:28.600 --> 0:31:30.840 in that you couldn't keep it. There was nothing wrong 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:33.440 with the law, there was something wrong with me. I'm 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:36.040 the lead that kept me from going further when the 0:31:36.160 --> 0:31:40.160 law was my regulation. So now what the law was 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.080 powerless to do, in that it was weakened by the 0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:47.400 sinful nature. God did by sending his son, the better 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:51.840 high priest in the order of Melchizedek, whose blood wets 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:56.200 more than a million bulls and ghosts and doves. That's 0:31:56.240 --> 0:32:00.680 who Jesus is. He is the arbitrator and the mediator 0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:04.280 of a better covenant. My covenant is not with Moses. 0:32:04.640 --> 0:32:07.640 My covenant is not with my past. My covenant is 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:10.880 not with others. My covenant is not with my genetics. 0:32:11.200 --> 0:32:14.240 My covenant is not with my depression. My covenant is 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:17.360 not with fear. My covenant is not with his spies. 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.840 My covenant is not with this staff. My covenant is 0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:27.880 not with Pharaoh. My covenant is with my father. I 0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:35.040 got a covenant, a better covenant. Somebody shall better better better, better, 0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:41.120 better better better. It's gonna be better, better, be better better, 0:32:41.760 --> 0:32:46.200 So be careful what you copy from before when God 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:58.440 is trying to bring you into something better. Oh, I'm 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:01.440 so glad that I don't have to do it in 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:08.000 this season like I did it in that season. He said, 0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:11.400 you're still okay. You know how we talked about copy 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:13.960 in the world when we started the sermon, all those 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:21.280 drug dealers and tick talkers and all those evils. That's 0:33:21.360 --> 0:33:25.720 not who the writer of Hebrews was talking to. They 0:33:25.760 --> 0:33:32.960 weren't copying the world. They were stuck in a copy 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:34.600 of a copy of a copy of a copy of 0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:42.480 a copy of worship that was external. Wouldn't that be hard? 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:48.240 Like I can't even drive when I go to London 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:50.160 because they drive on the wrong side of the road. 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:54.360 That's right, it's the wrong side of the road. It pounds, 0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:57.560 not kilograms too while we're at it, but uh K, 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:03.640 you know that's hard for me to even drive on 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.960 the other side of the road. They're having to believe 0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:12.719 they never personally saw Jesus. They're having to believe in 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.680 that and let go of what they were always taught 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:19.920 would bring them to God. So if I can make 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:23.959 this practical, because I know that's a little abstract. Most 0:34:24.000 --> 0:34:29.640 of what we copy in relationships is not what we 0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:33.840 were taught, but what we caught from the relational dynamics 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:37.960 that we were around. You know how coronavirus is contagious, 0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:44.319 so is crazy and they don't make a mask for that. 0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:46.520 Yet if they could have been a mask for that, 0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:48.279 how many of y'all will buy at fifty dollars one 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:55.719 hundred dollars. So one of the first things that me 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:58.600 and Holly did when we sat down, and this was 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:00.480 after we had about three or four fights our marriage, 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.040 if we started talking about, well, how did your parents fight? 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:10.040 How did my parents fight? What are we subconsciously copying 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:14.919 from the way that we saw conflict handled? That is good? 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:17.719 And what if we subconsciously copied that needs to go 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:21.520 based on who we are, based on our personalities, based 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:26.000 on our calling. Because I honor where I came from, 0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:30.600 and I honor what I saw, But I don't have 0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:34.600 to copy what I saw when it no longer fits 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:37.399 what I'm called to. I'm gonna give you that again 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:41.880 because you just missed that FILET Mignon what I say again, 0:35:43.800 --> 0:35:48.360 I don't have to copy what I saw, Huh. I 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:50.640 can honor it, but I don't have to copy it. 0:35:51.680 --> 0:35:54.120 I can honor the tradition. Thank you Moses. You built 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:57.560 the tabernacle in the wilderness. Thank you, High Priest, that's 0:35:57.560 --> 0:36:00.279 the lineup area. Thank you for that. There's nothing wrong 0:36:00.360 --> 0:36:02.919 with that. In many ways, it's a continuation of that. 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:06.759 But are you copying something that you're no longer called to? 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:10.040 And another thing, this is what happened with the Pharisees. 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:14.400 You remember the Pharisees and the sad Ducees. They were sad, 0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:18.959 you see, because they esteemed the traditions of men above 0:36:18.960 --> 0:36:21.360 the traditions of God. That's what happened to them. What 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:23.520 does that mean. That means that as the law was 0:36:23.560 --> 0:36:26.120 given from Moses, the law was good, but as it 0:36:26.160 --> 0:36:31.360 got copied a copy of a copy of a copy 0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:33.360 of a copy of a copy. Now here's what had happened. 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:35.680 By the time Jesus showed up on the scene. They 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:41.759 were still preaching God's commandments and copying those, but they 0:36:41.760 --> 0:36:46.200 had lost God's heart to the point where if a 0:36:46.239 --> 0:36:48.000 man got healed on the sabbath, they would say, you 0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:52.120 can't do that. They copied the commandments. Jesus said, sabbath 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:54.200 was made for men, not man. For the sabbath in 0:36:54.360 --> 0:37:00.160 copying it, they lost the quality of it and out 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:02.880 of our life growing up. Everybody over thirty makes some noise. 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:11.000 All right, there's some stuff that isn't bad, but you're 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:14.920 standing in front of something better. And if you copy 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:17.799 the way you did it before, and as God is 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:20.280 trying to bring you better. I'll give you an example 0:37:20.280 --> 0:37:22.520 from Moses's life. He did this one time. The people 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:24.960 were thirsty one time in the wilderness. Moses is like, 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:29.239 why God, why, Like you're running carpool in a couple 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:35.120 of weeks, Okay, why God? Why? Right? And so the 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:37.400 Lord's like, well, take that staff I gave you and 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:39.239 strike the rock and then the water will come out. 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:40.920 And he's like really, He's like, really, I'm gonna show 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:42.799 the people that I'm God. And he's like, all right, 0:37:42.960 --> 0:37:45.640 So the same staff, remember it I appreciate a few 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:47.640 weeks ago, parts to sea with it. Well, now he 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:49.360 strikes the rock with it. Here comes the water, and 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:51.359 the people drink, and God doesn't kill him, and they 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:56.400 go on to complain some more. Now you got to 0:37:56.440 --> 0:37:57.920 go all the way to the end, because here's something 0:37:57.920 --> 0:38:00.520 that says in Hebrews. It says in Hebrews thirteen seven 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:03.080 look at it later. Remember your leaders spoke the word 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:05.920 of God concerning you and considered the outcome of their 0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:10.160 way of life. Now, when we're looking at somebody's Instagram feed, 0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:13.760 we're not seeing the outcome of their way of life. 0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:18.880 We're seeing the snapshot. Even when you interact with people 0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:21.799 in church, they do not always lit their hands like 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:25.240 they were doing thirty five minutes ago. They're not always 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:29.319 so peaceful and so worshipful and so holy. So, so 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:32.440 don't judge yourself according to that. But the scripture says 0:38:32.520 --> 0:38:35.719 considered the outcome of their way of life. And the 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:39.080 reason that Moses couldn't lead the people in is because 0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:43.920 in his frustration about the people's grumbling, this is crazy, 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:47.440 because I think I've done this before. God told him 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:50.760 the second time they were thirsty in the wilderness, speak 0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:54.440 to the rock and the water will flow out. But 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:57.360 Moses didn't want to speak to the rock. He wanted 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:00.319 to do it how he did it before. So in 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:03.480 his frustration, you've been frustrated lately, and so what you've 0:39:03.520 --> 0:39:06.239 been doing what Moses did? It says he struck the 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:10.279 rock power that God told him to speak to. I'm 0:39:10.280 --> 0:39:13.200 gonna do it like I did it before. I don't 0:39:13.239 --> 0:39:17.600 care what you say, God, I'm gonna get my way 0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:23.319 right away. I'm gonna do this the way that it 0:39:23.400 --> 0:39:26.160 benefits me. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna show I'm 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:32.400 a man, I'm Moses. And he didn't get into the 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:39.719 promise because he copied the way God told him to 0:39:39.760 --> 0:39:43.400 do it before. What I was wondering while I was praying, 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:45.600 because I pray for y'all. By the time we get together, 0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:50.399 I've been with you all week. I'm serious, I've been 0:39:50.400 --> 0:39:53.319 with you all week, and I thought about how you 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:55.880 are praying about some things in your life right now. 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:59.200 You need water from a rock, water in the wilderness. 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:01.560 That could be provision, that could be an emotional need 0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:03.680 you have. And if I take it all the way, 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.600 I see some of you trying to do what you 0:40:07.680 --> 0:40:12.200 did ten years ago and it's not working. So you 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:15.840 are stuck because you are copying the way that you 0:40:15.960 --> 0:40:18.879 struck the rock. And now God is giving you a 0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:21.719 new way to do it, but you won't do it 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:27.600 the new way as long as I copy the way 0:40:27.640 --> 0:40:29.160 that I did it back then. I got a text 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.200 from a friend the other day and he said, I 0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:33.000 want you to understand. You're in a new season as 0:40:33.040 --> 0:40:35.279 a preacher. Now, I said, tell me about it. He said, 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:40.200 it's the season of a father. You're no longer a 0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:44.760 twenty six year old church planter, so when you preach, 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:50.600 step into your role as a father. Now, I said, 0:40:50.640 --> 0:40:52.480 I got people in the church that are twenty years 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:56.879 older than me. He said, it's not about chronology, it's 0:40:56.920 --> 0:41:07.000 about calling. So God is giving you permission to do 0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:12.360 it different, to do it different. Say it, do it different. 0:41:12.880 --> 0:41:14.239 Tell the person that to do it different. You got 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:15.840 to do it different. You got to do it different 0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:18.320 if you keep hitting stuff the way you're hitting stuff, 0:41:18.480 --> 0:41:21.160 if you keep doing things out of frustration, if you 0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:25.040 keep trying to copy what you did before, and see, 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:27.560 this is what gets me. I heard a guy one time. 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:30.160 He was standing up to preach to his congregation, and 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:34.920 he said, I wish I could have coffee with everybody 0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:37.359 in this church and share what I'm going to share 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:41.160 with you today. And I sat there and thought, well, 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:48.480 you could. The church had forty people in it, so 0:41:48.560 --> 0:41:51.200 you could knock that out by Thursday. If you're really motivated, 0:41:51.239 --> 0:41:54.279 if you do four a day, I'll go math. But 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:56.880 I think you could do that. He had heard another 0:41:56.960 --> 0:42:01.200 pastor who pastored thirty thousand people say that, and he thought, well, 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.480 that sounds cool. So now he gets up in copies 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:09.160 in his context what he saw somebody else do in 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:12.560 a context that is not his context. This is like, 0:42:12.640 --> 0:42:15.799 remember when David put on the armor of Saul and 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.040 he walked around for a moment and he's got to 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:20.400 fight Goliath, and he's like, I guess he will give 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:22.560 me whatever the guy wears who fights, and Saul's like, 0:42:22.560 --> 0:42:25.080 here you go, you can wear mine. And David walks 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:28.759 around in him a little bit and he's like, this 0:42:28.800 --> 0:42:32.319 is heavy, this is weird, and this is not me. 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:36.399 Right now, I think I would be better off with 0:42:36.520 --> 0:42:40.480 my slingshot, with what God called me to do. I 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:43.520 know this is how you would fight, but I've got 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:48.959 to do it different. Some of you, as teenagers, God 0:42:49.040 --> 0:42:50.960 is going to show you you don't have to go 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:54.600 to every party because at the end of popularity, a 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:57.880 lot of the people who are so popular are going 0:42:57.920 --> 0:43:00.479 home so miserable. I tell you, I'm a dad right now, 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:04.239 I'm preaching like a dad and parents, we don't have 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:08.680 to copy the way everybody else raises their kids. You 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:13.000 have permission to break tradition with whatever does not fit 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:16.200 your calling. You have got to build in the valley 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:23.279 what God showed you on the mountain. In case you 0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:26.560 haven't noticed, we live in a culture that worships our 0:43:26.719 --> 0:43:32.080 kids at the expense of our families. So I had 0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:34.839 moments where when the kids were all playing sports, where 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:37.600 I said, nobody's coming to your game tonight. We're dropping 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:39.200 you off and we're going on a date because I 0:43:39.200 --> 0:43:40.879 haven't been with your mom in two weeks. And after 0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:42.319 you leave me, she's gonna be the only one I 0:43:42.320 --> 0:43:43.920 have left in the house. And I'll pick you up 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:45.720 and you can tell me about it, and maybe somebody 0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:55.759 else to get a video. So what I'm supposed to 0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:58.560 parent them like they're all Serena and Venus like I'm 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:01.880 supposed to be Tiger. It was that I know culturally 0:44:01.880 --> 0:44:05.000 inappropriate reference. A lot of stuff comes along with all 0:44:05.000 --> 0:44:08.120 of this. Everybody has to do it the way God 0:44:08.320 --> 0:44:15.279 shows you to do it. But what happens is we 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:20.120 start building according to somebody else's blueprint, whether it's the world, 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:22.800 whether it's the concept of God that you were handed 0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:24.960 that is not accurate to the scripture. You need to 0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:33.120 read the Bible for yourself. I'm not your professional holy spirit. 0:44:33.160 --> 0:44:36.480 I'm a preacher. You need to get in Hebrews and 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:38.719 say well, Pastor Steven missed this part. Now, this part 0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:40.560 was the best part. He said that, But that made 0:44:40.600 --> 0:44:43.200 me wonder about that, because if it's just a copy 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:48.200 of a copy of a copy of a copy of 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:54.480 a copy, I'm just Pearl Jam I'm not Jimmy. I'm 0:44:54.520 --> 0:45:01.120 not Jesus. Neither is Moses. There are your broke friends 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:04.680 that you're taking financial advice from, or your unmarried friends 0:45:04.680 --> 0:45:06.920 that are giving you marriage advice. Well, I would tell him. 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:14.280 I bet you would your imaginary marriage. Feel the spirit 0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:21.279 of Dave Ramsey coming on me anyway, Be careful to 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:24.879 obey the word that I have given you. Joshua, You're 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:28.040 gonna go somewhere they couldn't go. You're gonna do something 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:30.920 they couldn't do. You're gonna break saints that help them 0:45:30.960 --> 0:45:33.960 all their life. Now you do it and be strong 0:45:34.320 --> 0:45:50.040 and courageous. Stop copying crazy because you don't want to 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:55.360 be weird. I wanna be weird. If what I'm seeing 0:45:55.400 --> 0:45:59.080 in this world right now is normal, God make me weird. 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:08.200 I wanna be the weirdest one there is, y'all. And 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:10.239 not let your kids listen to that rock and roll 0:46:10.360 --> 0:46:12.399 music and that rap music. I'll tell you what right now, 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:16.279 that's bad. They're the devil. I saw all the kids 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:19.439 that went off after their parents didn't experience anything with them. 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:23.440 I got to decide how to raise my kid, y'all. 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:25.040 I put a picture of me on a We might 0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:26.680 take this out before we put it on YouTube. Y'll 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:30.040 check with me. I put a picture of me one 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:32.000 time with the kids. We went to see God's team, 0:46:32.000 --> 0:46:34.439 the Clemson Tigers. Sorry, pal, he's got a game caught 0:46:34.440 --> 0:46:38.399 shirt on and I had on the Guns N' Roses shirt. Now, 0:46:38.560 --> 0:46:42.080 all the comments that on the picture said, uh, why 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:46.920 wearing guns and Roses shirt? That's worldly, not as good. 0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:53.200 You're spending time with your kids like you live in 0:46:53.239 --> 0:47:03.640 a monastery. So be careful what you copy. Be careful 0:47:03.640 --> 0:47:08.279 that you don't copy the condemnation that other people put 0:47:08.320 --> 0:47:10.680 on you. And this is the last thing I'll tell you, 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:12.879 And then I will just be quiet and I will 0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:15.520 go baptized Graham, and I'm gonna have the best time 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:18.160 doing it. And I'm baptizing. I'm not in my name, 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:22.319 in Jesus' name. I want you to do it like 0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:28.520 Jesus did it, because I wanted to tell you one 0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:31.920 more thing that God told Joshua. Be careful what you 0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.160 copy in your heart, for it will set the direction 0:47:34.280 --> 0:47:40.400 of your life. You're what he told Joshua. He said, 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:45.160 meditate on this book of the law that Moses gave you. 0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:47.680 Don't be like Moses. You're different than Moses. But I 0:47:47.719 --> 0:47:49.360 want you to take the same word of God that 0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:55.719 was given to him. What a brilliant thought that what 0:47:55.840 --> 0:47:58.680 I copy in my heart. He said, I want you 0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:01.440 to meditate on what I spoke. Go over you so 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:03.160 that you can lead these people where I called you 0:48:03.239 --> 0:48:08.560 to go. You see how meditation says direction. And a 0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:11.279 lot of us with what we do with different things 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:13.840 that we've thought about ourselves, said about ourselves, agreed with 0:48:13.880 --> 0:48:16.520 about ourselves, condemnation, the enemy's putting us, we do a 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:20.800 copy and paste. So we take something like you know 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.759 that I'm unworthy. We take something like that I'm not 0:48:23.800 --> 0:48:25.640 good enough, that I'll never be that Da da da 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:28.800 da da da, And so then I copy and paste it. 0:48:30.080 --> 0:48:32.160 I almost did an illustration where I wanted to show 0:48:32.160 --> 0:48:34.040 you what would happen to the screen if you copied 0:48:34.080 --> 0:48:36.400 and pasted that over and over again, it would fill up. 0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:42.120 I'm unworthy, I'm and you know what, apart from the 0:48:42.160 --> 0:48:47.200 grace of God, we are. But you know how they 0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:52.120 say sometimes on like on a walkie talkie, they say, 0:48:52.200 --> 0:48:59.279 copy that, copy that, copy that. What God wants you 0:48:59.360 --> 0:49:02.880 to do is start iditating on his words, not the 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:06.839 ones that somebody else spoke, and copy it in your heart. 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:08.480 He said, I'm going to give you a new covenant. 0:49:08.680 --> 0:49:11.400 It's a better covenant, and it's not written on tablets 0:49:11.400 --> 0:49:15.239 of stone because those break. I'm gonna put it on 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:17.800 your heart, and I'm gonna give your heart a flesh. 0:49:18.960 --> 0:49:21.080 And i want you to take your I want you 0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:22.680 to take your Bible, and I want you to take 0:49:22.719 --> 0:49:25.560 what God has spoken over your life, and I want 0:49:25.600 --> 0:49:30.000 you to copy that. I want you to find out 0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:31.719 what he called you, what he gifted you to do, 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:33.719 what he put the seat of potential in for you, 0:49:34.000 --> 0:49:38.000 And copy that, and don't get so caught up in 0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:41.560 trying to copy something you're not that you never find 0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:45.520 out who you are. You will have to be strong 0:49:45.600 --> 0:49:48.600 and courageous because you live in a culture that copies crazy, 0:49:50.360 --> 0:49:56.719 and it'll take faith and it'll take focus. But if 0:49:56.760 --> 0:50:04.759 God said that you are his child, copy that. Copy that, 0:50:06.160 --> 0:50:08.839 And when God speaks that I'm going to take even 0:50:08.880 --> 0:50:11.920 the mistakes that you've made in your life and I'm 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:14.719 gonna whip them up into something that you'll be testifying 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:19.160 about as a miracle three months from now, then copy that. 0:50:22.080 --> 0:50:25.120 I have these moments where God uses somebody to encourage me, 0:50:25.400 --> 0:50:27.480 and my first instinct is to cancel it out. Oh, 0:50:27.520 --> 0:50:29.640 they just said that because they're being nice. Oh, they're 0:50:29.680 --> 0:50:32.359 just complimenting me, because they're sucking up because I'm the boss. Oh, 0:50:32.440 --> 0:50:34.040 she just said that because she has to live with 0:50:34.160 --> 0:50:35.560 me and she doesn't want me in a bad mood. 0:50:35.920 --> 0:50:43.359 I'll cancel it instead of copying it. Then somebody says 0:50:43.400 --> 0:50:45.439 something mean about me, negative about me, or they don't 0:50:45.440 --> 0:50:46.920 even have to say it. I say it to myself, 0:50:47.640 --> 0:50:54.279 and you want to copy that. So anyway, when I 0:50:54.360 --> 0:50:57.800 baptize you in a minute, can you come up. We 0:50:57.880 --> 0:50:59.799 won't wrestle this time. Yeah, just come all the way out. 0:51:00.960 --> 0:51:12.640 Were y'all here? When I wrestled Graham? This is Graham 0:51:15.560 --> 0:51:19.560 he says funny stuff like how am I so ripped 0:51:19.600 --> 0:51:23.200 in every part of my body? Nobody else in our 0:51:23.239 --> 0:51:29.239 family is naturally muscular. That's good, you know, me said, 0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:38.560 that's so good. But when I baptize you in just 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:41.880 a minute, maybe after the cameras are off and all that. 0:51:42.960 --> 0:51:47.640 But I almost asked Mom to get you here early today, 0:51:47.680 --> 0:51:49.600 But then I decided just to do it now because 0:51:49.680 --> 0:51:51.239 the Lord told me to end my sermon this way, 0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:53.080 because he would use it to speak to others. Someone 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:56.839 say it to you. This Bible I started preaching from 0:51:56.880 --> 0:51:59.680 him right after you were born. I had given the 0:52:00.080 --> 0:52:02.759 big One, the Life Application when to Elijah, the one 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:05.399 that sits by his bed, and he's actually been reading 0:52:05.440 --> 0:52:09.279 it a lot lately, so that's good. And every time 0:52:09.320 --> 0:52:12.640 I preached a passage, I highlighted it and I put 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:17.560 what I preached, and I've been saving it for you, 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:22.480 and I want to give it to you today. And 0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:24.160 I wrote you a letter and I told you a 0:52:24.200 --> 0:52:27.360 story and you can read that later. And I marked 0:52:27.400 --> 0:52:35.560 in it where where Jesus was baptized. Even Jesus was baptized, 0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:39.560 you know, he was setting the example, and you're not 0:52:39.680 --> 0:52:44.360 Jesus you're nothing close, and I'm not John the Baptist, 0:52:44.440 --> 0:52:48.400 but when you're going to be baptized as a symbol, 0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:52.240 it's you emulating the depth of Christ and the risen 0:52:53.440 --> 0:52:56.040 the resurrection of Christ and the washing away of your sin. 0:52:57.320 --> 0:52:58.960 It doesn't save you, but it says that you're saved 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:02.080 and that you belong to Christ. And in the note, 0:53:02.080 --> 0:53:04.080 and I highlighted this for you, and I put it 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:06.319 all on the letter, but just in case it helps 0:53:06.320 --> 0:53:11.879 somebody else. When Jesus is baptized, a voice from heaven said, 0:53:11.880 --> 0:53:14.680 this is my son, whom I love. With him, I 0:53:14.719 --> 0:53:18.920 am well pleased. I want you to copy that in 0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:34.440 your heart because I'm concerned that the culture is going 0:53:34.520 --> 0:53:36.359 to copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, 0:53:37.480 --> 0:53:39.359 and the devil will try to tell you all kinds 0:53:39.400 --> 0:53:43.320 of things through your life that you're not called, or 0:53:43.360 --> 0:53:46.799 you're not chosener, it's not worth it, or you're missing 0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:48.640 out by following Christ and all that that's not true. 0:53:48.640 --> 0:53:54.400 I want you to copy that because the craziest thing 0:53:54.560 --> 0:53:57.719 is God said that to Jesus before he opened any 0:53:57.800 --> 0:54:03.400 blind eyes, before he multiplied fish and loaves, before he 0:54:03.520 --> 0:54:06.480 did any of his miracles. God said, I love you, 0:54:07.520 --> 0:54:41.279 I'm pleased with you. Copy that it feels awkward. No, 0:54:42.520 --> 0:54:45.359 it's good though. When you go down in that water, 0:54:46.360 --> 0:54:49.160 I want you to know that you can dive to 0:54:49.280 --> 0:54:52.239 the hole. When you come up out of the water, 0:54:52.440 --> 0:54:55.239 you're raised to walk in the newness of life. Copy that, 0:55:01.840 --> 0:55:11.560 stand up on your feet. The scripture says in Ephesians 0:55:11.600 --> 0:55:16.240 five to one, the imitators of God as dearly loved children. 0:55:18.520 --> 0:55:21.640 When you didn't see the model of love, is hard 0:55:21.719 --> 0:55:24.960 to recreate it. When you didn't see the model of acceptance, 0:55:24.960 --> 0:55:29.160 it's hard to recreate it. But the day there is 0:55:29.200 --> 0:55:36.000 a voice from heaven speaking over YouTube, there is a 0:55:36.760 --> 0:55:43.400 better covenant. This is my child. Do you unwill please 0:55:43.480 --> 0:55:49.759 copy that? Father. I speak your word over every man 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:54.120 and woman today, from the ones that are ten feet 0:55:54.160 --> 0:55:56.480 away from me to the ones who are thousands of 0:55:56.560 --> 0:56:00.879 miles removed. I pray that as your word comes from Heaven, 0:56:01.640 --> 0:56:04.879 like the rain that falls, like the snow that comes 0:56:05.120 --> 0:56:11.280 down and accomplishes its purpose, that your word would replenish 0:56:11.400 --> 0:56:14.680 and multiply the seed that is in our heart. Today. 0:56:16.719 --> 0:56:18.880 We thank you that you are bringing us into something 0:56:18.960 --> 0:56:24.160 better than Egypt, better than the world's customs. We thank 0:56:24.200 --> 0:56:26.720 you that you are bringing us into something better than Moses. 0:56:28.400 --> 0:56:32.759 You're better than we ever thought you could be. When 0:56:32.800 --> 0:56:35.840 your word speaks one thing and our fear speaks another, 0:56:37.200 --> 0:56:40.520 we choose to agree with what you spoke. We will 0:56:42.480 --> 0:56:50.040 copy that in the name of Jesus. I pray Amen. 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:05.360 Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:08.360 you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 0:57:08.480 --> 0:57:11.360 you that this ministry is possible. You can click the 0:57:11.440 --> 0:57:15.120 link in the description to give now, or visit Elevationchurch 0:57:15.320 --> 0:57:18.560 dot org slash podcast for more information and if you 0:57:18.680 --> 0:57:21.840 enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it 0:57:21.920 --> 0:57:24.240 with your friends. You can click the share button, take 0:57:24.240 --> 0:57:26.560 a screenshot and share it on your social stories and 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:29.480 tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks again for listening. God 0:57:29.520 --> 0:57:29.880 bless you.