Christ Is In Me. I Am Enough.

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.400 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.640 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.040 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:19.919 Enjoy the message in just a moment. If you're standing 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.160 at one of our campuses, stay standing for a moment, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.320 because we got a very special message today. You may 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.240 be wondering, yes, is Holly gonna preach? 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:36.479 Kind of? And so am I? So today this message? 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.800 Did you ever used to watch not wrestling, but wrestling? 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.400 Did you ever used to see tag team wrestling like 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.959 the Legion of Doom, the Steiner Brothers, stuff like that, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.640 And then when you would when you would be tired, 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.280 you tag your partner in the corner. Today, Holly and 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:56.960 I are going to tag team a message as we 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.880 continue our series called Do the New You would you 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:03.280 look at your neighbor and say, I. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.959 Barely recognize you. You've been changing so much? 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:07.520 Is that now? 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.920 Put it in the comments, say is oh man? 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.679 God has been doing an amazing work through this book, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.960 through this message series, through these mindsets, and today we're 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:22.839 gonna we're. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:23.319 Gonna change it up. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.560 You may be wondering, why is there furniture behind you? 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:33.000 Good question, Uh Holly, We're gonna have a little chat. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:33.759 And we're gonna chat. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:34.240 That's right. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.440 We're gonna talk about some stuff. I've been wanting to 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:38.639 talk to you about some stuff. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.759 Okay, but you said you said we were gonna tag team, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.560 and in my mind it was less wrestling and more 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:51.040 like volleyball, you know, like where I don't know my 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.480 you know, like the person and then you yeah, so 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.720 I'm spiking or your spiking, your spiking. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.120 OK maybe I'm a setter, you know, you go like that, 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.240 that's what it is, and then you spike it. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:11.320 Yeah, I'll say, knew more about sports. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.639 But I have been wanting to interview you for really. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.120 I have been begging him, babe, please let me interview you. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.760 Let's sit down on a Sunday morning. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.840 And because there's nobody I would rather talk to than you, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:30.679 thank you. And sometimes our conversations are so I mean, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.400 they're so good and they go I just love the 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.679 way you think, and so I'm really excited. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:37.840 I've got questions. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.200 I'm ready, and y'all y'all pray for me, because she's prepared. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:42.919 I'm not. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.919 I made a deal that I wouldn't look at her questions. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.880 She left her notebook on the kitchen table, and I 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.720 was very tempted because I like to prepare. But in 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.880 this mindset we're going to share about Christ is in me. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.200 Everybody say Christ is in me. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:02:59.160 Christ is in me? 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.320 I am enough. I am enough, And. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.960 I thought, what better way to put that to the 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.840 test than let her ask me whatever she wants in 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.680 front of We've got about a thousand E Group leaders 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:13.000 here helping us share this message. And these are the 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:19.079 real MVPs of Elevation Church, along with our volunteers, our givers, 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:24.280 our staff, and you know this is what they do 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 every week as they open their homes and opened their computers. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.760 And whether it's in the room where. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.160 It happens or the zoom where it happens, so many 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.000 great discussions happen. And one of my passions in this 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.120 year is to get God's word deeper and deeper and 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.640 deeper into your heart so the enemy can't snatch it. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.640 So if you're ready for. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.640 A conversation, but I could go anywhere and make some 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.760 noise all right, y'all be seated as we are seated. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.320 Let's go Holly. When they were playing, it made me 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.640 remember how we used to sing. When I think of. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.280 That, out the Lord, you can't make me sing. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:08.480 How he saves me, how he raised me, how. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:14.760 He filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:24.440 Judie termost when I think about the Lord, how he 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:30.840 picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:40.560 Feet from side brown, it makes me na shout. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.479 Thank you, jeez, I know it. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:53.599 Lord, You're worthy of all the glory and and. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:15.480 Olua, thank you Jesus, Oh, thank you, thank you. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:20.560 That was our song in college. I think I think 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.560 that's part of the reason you married me. Not because 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.320 of my singing, but she was scholarship. We met before college, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.400 Hollie and I met before college. I promise this won't 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.120 just be story time. I'm gonna preach your minister to 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.760 work out. But I want to tell them this because 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.920 when people see you like later in your journey, it's 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.640 like walking into the middle of a movie and they 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.880 can be really confused. And one time somebody said to me, 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.960 I don't really like megachurch pastors. As if I came 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:57.520 out of the womb with a megachurch like push, there's 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.760 a there's a there's a mega church inside of you faith. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.600 But as far as our relationship and our ministry, we've 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.159 been doing this together since we were kids, since the 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.680 church just turned eighteen. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.640 We started doing ministry when we were eighteen, and. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.440 Then the summer we were nineteen, we traveled together and 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.600 she was on scholarship to this singing group called Joyful Sound. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.080 But she was the sound person. But I knew she 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.000 really wanted to sing. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.000 You didn't know I was had a background in Yes, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.000 she has a background in running JBL eons. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.839 She can set up a tent revival anywhere if you 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.120 need her to. I'm good with the snake and you 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:35.680 should start it. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.040 You should start a sound company for worship events called 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.960 holly Lujah. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.040 That'd be good anyway. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:45.840 I'll turn it over to you in a minute because 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.120 I know your interview and we're gonna preach and teach today, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.480 not just tell stories. But so I made a choir 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.480 and guess who I recruited to be my alto section 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.640 leader holle Lujah. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.000 Okay, wait, I have to interject, because you he was 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:09.440 casting this vision like he does we were nineteen years old, 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:10.600 and he. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.960 Was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna start a choir. We're 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.280 gonna have a choir and a band. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.760 There's be just we're just gonna sing gospel songs. And 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.600 I was like, I don't okay, and he was like, 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.880 and I want you to help, and I was like, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.640 I don't know. And there was this other girl, I 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:36.400 tell the truth, there was this other girl and she 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.760 was like that sounds awesome. I mean, how can I help? 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.840 And I was like, I didn't say it wasn't gonna help. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:51.440 That's true, that's true. Hold on a second, the healthy competition. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.280 So what are we talking about? Ali? What are we doing? 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:05.360 You called this meeting? 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.200 I did? I called this meeting. First of all, I 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:11.160 am so. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.760 I love this book so much and it's very special 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:23.200 to me. I matched my jacket to the book today. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.720 It's so special to me because. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.840 You haven't released a book in eight years. And what 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.800 a lot of people don't know is about a year 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:42.760 ago we had to fight. Well a conversation, yea, a 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:48.040 rather heated conversation, and I was saying, because we don't fight. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.120 Yeah, it was, as the Baptist say, intense fellowship, intense fellowship. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.559 So we have this intense conversation where I am saying 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.880 like there's I just feel like there's more inside of you. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:06.880 I feel like there is a huge group of people 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.760 who need your words in written form. And he was 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:17.199 telling me how his sermons don't translate into books. He said, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.640 my sermons, my idea is, Holly. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:20.400 I've tried. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.199 He actually, you actually wrote a book in twenty twenty 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.360 that we never released. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.160 And he said, I tried to wrote a book in 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.560 twenty twenty. I'm done. I don't want to write. My 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:32.640 sermons don't translate. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.960 And we went back and forth, and I felt like 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.840 I had pushed too hard, you know, like that wife pushing, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.679 and I was like, okay, okay. So I decided I 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.079 was going to let it go and I was. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:51.000 Going to push the Lord. It's so much more effective, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.120 And this is the answer to my prayers. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:56.559 Right here. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:01.559 She finds starting. She finds y'all think she's sweet. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.640 So we're talking about mindset too today. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.080 But before we get to it, okay, I. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.280 Have just like I just want to keep you loose 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.719 and keep you on your toes, and so I have 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.119 a little fun lightning round situation. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.040 Okay, So here's what I'm gonna do. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.200 I'm gonna play ten seconds of a song of an 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.200 artist that we. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.440 Love, and it's gonna get copyrighted. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.760 Ten seconds. We checked ten ten seconds. I think you 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:35.800 have up to twenty. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.200 Okay, So I'm gonna play a little clip of a 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:43.880 song and you're going to pretend like that song title 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.080 is your sermon title for this series, do the new you, 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.679 and I want you to tell people how you would 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.440 preach that title. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.000 Okay, got it, all right? Roll the first song. First song, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.280 it's just again. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:08.000 Got stuck again. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.280 I see the Israelites standing on the shore of the 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:22.480 Red Sea. I see Moses telling the Israelites, why are 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.520 you crying? God's about to deliver us. Stand still, you'll 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.880 see the salvation of the Lord. And I hear God 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.240 saying back to Moses in Exodus fourteen, why are you 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.200 crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.600 And since the song is called stuck in a moment, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.520 I hear God saying to Moses and to you, you're 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:49.400 not stuck because that stick in your hand, if you 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:54.280 stretch it over the red sea that you're so afraid of, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:12:00.000 and get your eyes off of the water and begin 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.440 to walk in faith. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:06.880 I promise you. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.320 I did not give him a heads up about this. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.559 Okay, all right, you righty for the next one. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.800 The last time a game like this was played on 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.440 this stage, Bishop td Jakes was doing the answering, this 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.840 is really really wrong of you to do this to me. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.600 No, it's not, no, it's not all right. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:23.000 Here we go. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.880 You're the next one. Okay, you can't think so. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.560 In a world keep side pushing me around, got up, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:37.960 spam back down. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.600 There was a king who made a treaty with an 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.320 enemy king in the Old Testament, And after he made 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.880 the treaty, the enemy said, well, I actually want your 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.160 children too. He said, all right, and then he said 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.680 actually I want all your livestock too. And at some 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.199 point the king had to say, that's it. I'm drawing 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.880 a line the deal off. I know I said you 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.560 could have my children, and I know I said you 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.000 could have our treasury, and I know I said you 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:12.200 could have the lamb. But I met with God and 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:17.960 I realized that if I give you an inch, you'll 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.840 take a mile. And if I give you a corner 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.800 of my life, you want to take the whole room. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.040 And if I give you my thoughts, you want to 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.000 take my behaviors. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.920 And if I give you my behaviors, you're going to 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.040 want to take my patterns. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.640 And if you take my patterns, you can have my life. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.679 So I see somebody like that Old Testament king going 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.840 back to the enemy and saying that deal's off. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:44.800 I changed my mind. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.120 I remember what King David said to a giant, the 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.640 Philistine that stood nine feet tall. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.840 And all of the other Israelites. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.920 Said he's too big to fight, but David said he's 0:13:58.960 --> 0:13:59.920 too big to miss. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.640 Who is this uncircumcised for listening? Send him a message? 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.040 Tell them I won't Somebody shout, I won't want back down, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.000 back down, high five three. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.880 People say, don't back down now. You come too far 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.000 to back down now. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.440 Yeah, yeah, I hear Tom Petty say, don't do it. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.760 Don't be petty, don't come around here. No more? 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.840 Can we do another one, Holly, We gotta get to 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:34.280 the book. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.480 When the book all right, one more, one more, one more. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:48.760 So I can see you. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.880 New life so viby. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.240 I feel like we need a vibe Bible character for 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.960 New life love the Angel the Lord showing up the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.600 glory of the Lord shown around about them, and they 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.560 were terrified. And Angel said, and them fear not, for 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.320 be old. I'll bring you good news of great joye 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.040 beat all people from the youth born in stan City. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:09.480 David say, which is Christ the Lord? 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:15.200 So the new light appear in the valley of the shadow. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.200 And sometimes we want God to remove us from valley 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.320 situations where the shadow has made us unable to see 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.000 the provision that He's given us. We look around and 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.480 always see his shadow, always see his darkness, always see 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.400 his uncertainty, always see his fear. But God sometimes doesn't 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.000 take you out of the place. Sometimes he gives you 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.920 his presence in the place in. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:42.880 A new way. So maybe God's got you right where 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.320 he wants you. Maybe the greenest grass is in the valley. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.920 Maybe the growth opportunities happen in the low places, in 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.000 the uncertain places, in the strange places. And maybe sometimes 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.080 when we're asking God to give us a new life, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.680 instead he wants to shine a new light come. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.240 And the life that He's already given us. Do you 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:02.960 want to bring a podium out? 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.560 In the beginning, God said, let there be light, and 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.080 light was And when the light shines, you begin to 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:12.920 see what was there all along. And I'm praying that 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.040 today God would shine his light on your life to 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.160 show you everything He's given you, and that you may 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.160 have a fuller understanding of every good thing that we 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.560 have in Christ Jesus, and you would see your inheritance 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.040 and Jesus in a new light. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.160 Sometimes you think that there's something wrong with you. There's 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.160 nothing wrong with you, there's just something wrong with your 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.120 view of you. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.480 So today, as we discussed this mindset, Christ is in me, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.200 I am enough. I hope that you see yourself who 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.640 you are in the light of who He is. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:51.920 I think we should bring the podium out instead. Okay, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.040 I love you so much. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.640 Please don't send that to Bishop Jakes. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.160 Oh I am okay. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.320 So we're talking about out this mindset Christ is in me. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.520 I am enough. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.240 We opened up by talking about how you said I'm 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.960 not a writer, basically, I'm not enough. I don't have enough. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.800 So how did you Where did this come from? How 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.280 did you get from I'm not enough to I have 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:22.720 enough to give. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:31.760 One word at a time, followed by some commas periods. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.240 Other words, somebody told me you never have to write 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:36.520 a book. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.960 You just have to write a word, then a word, 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.480 then a word, then a word, and then when you 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.960 said enough of those, you put a. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.640 Period exclamation point. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.639 If the point is weak, put an exclamation point to 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.040 compensate for the weakness of the point, and then move on. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.480 In all seriousness, though, you know how we say that 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.359 God's word is a lamp into our our feet, a 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.000 light into our path. I guess I'm still thinking about 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.000 light because everything that God used me to do up 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.200 to this point in my life, he never gave me. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.120 A floodlight that I could see one hundred yards away. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.159 He never even gave me headlights where I could see farther. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.960 Down the road. In Bible times, they had. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.520 A light that you would wear that would just light 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.360 your feet. And so when the Bible says your word 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.240 is a limpun to my feet, a light into my path, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.399 it means that God will give me enough light to 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:38.680 take the next step by. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:41.840 And to see that there's a hole and I should 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:42.480 step around it. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.800 But he won't show me everything that's down the road, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.919 because then I would trust the path, not the person. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.280 And this book was like that. You know, this church 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:55.720 is like that. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.040 Every sermon that I preach every time I write a 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.520 song and everything that that you're doing, because I don't 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.439 really want this conversation today to be about how I 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.600 wrote a book or how I'm enough. I really want 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.439 to get inside of your soul if we're able to 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.480 do that through a conversation and just begin to think 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:21.280 about what are the ways that not enoughness keeps you 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.800 from showing up? What are the ways that not enoughness 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.720 keeps you from even finding out? One thing about not 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:36.040 enough is it's partially true. It's partially true. If you 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.800 were just starting to work out and you said, I 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:43.240 want big quads like Sam Sulik, and I said, all right, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.000 let's put four five on the squad rack. You would 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.840 not have enough muscle for four h five on the 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.120 squat rack if you haven't been in the gym this year. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.040 But however, if I put you under the bar, which 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.400 is forty five pounds, and we got you to ten reps, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.760 twenty reps, got you comfortable with the motions, and we 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.800 built and built and built and built and built and built, and. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.440 Got you some steroids, got your little gear. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.120 Kidding about the steroids, but not kidding about the growth process, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.679 is that you have to start with the bar in 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.040 your spiritual life. You know, I really want to be 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.080 a person of prayer. Don't book a three week prayer 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.520 retreat in Ireland and say I'm going to do that 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.440 in ten years when the kids are out of the house. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:35.840 I found some of my best prayers. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.000 I have a little chair right next to where I 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.119 get dressed, and just plopping down in that chair for 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:48.440 thirty seconds sometimes and saying Ooh God, Ooh God, yep, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:55.119 Ooh God, Jesus, Holy Ghost, Mother, Mary, Tom Petty. You know, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.199 because every prayer doesn't start pretty. Yeah, and this project 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.639 didn't start pretty. I mean it was me with voice, 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.520 memos and kind of not having much confidence in myself. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.720 I remember one day in particular where my conversation with 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.280 Holly was like ringing in my ears and I had 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.879 the whole afternoon free, I'd finished everything for the morning, 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:22.439 and it was like her voice and God's voice were 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.040 singing in harmony. When we call her the Holly Spirit, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.280 we're obviously just kidding around. She doesn't think that she's 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.600 God's voice, but God's really used her as an instrument 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:30.359 in my life. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.160 And by the way, sometimes. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.560 God will speak to you through the people who are 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.919 right in front of you. So all of us who 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:39.840 want to know, well, how do I hear from God? 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.200 Sometimes is through something that sounds annoying to you, from 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:48.000 somebody who loves you. Oh and so I'm not saying 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:54.600 I was annoyed with you. Wait a minute, Well, anointed 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.119 and annoying can sometimes feel the same. So sometimes the 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.119 most annoying things that you've said to me I have 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.440 been the most annoying on the surface because it challenges 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:03.920 this thing. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:06.239 Well, she doesn't get it, and she doesn't know. 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.000 But one day in particular, I had this feeling like, 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.800 if you're going to start this book, you need to start, 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:14.359 and you feel that it's time for you to give 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.760 another book, And these are a lot of the things 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.119 when when you get this book, and if you're in 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:20.480 this book, I wrote it. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.680 To myself, Yeah, that's what I was going to say. 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:26.680 Yeah, I wrote it to myself to challenge myself from 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.280 the old mindset, and then I wrote it for you. 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:30.040 Yeah. 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:31.560 But before I wrote it for you, I wrote it 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:32.800 to myself. Yeah. 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.840 You just I want to verify that all of the 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:40.040 mindsets are things that I saw scribbled on legal pads 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:45.000 next to your bedside table next to your desk. These 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:49.639 are all things that you wrote for yourself to coach yourself. 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.320 This mindset, Christ is in me, I Am Enough was 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.640 like a breathing exercise I started doing ten years ago. 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:56.760 Yeah, Christ is in me. 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:59.600 Will feel like the breathing in remind me that I'm 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.600 filled with His spirit. Yeah, And that Jesus isn't just 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:05.960 a historical figure who died a long time ago. He 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:09.359 is a historical figure who died a long time ago, 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.240 but he's a very present help in the time of trouble. 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.280 And the power of Him that raised Jesus from the 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:18.040 dead lives in me. 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:18.600 Yeah. 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.000 So when I say Christ is in me, I'm saying 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.600 resurrection power is in me. When I'm saying Christ is 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.159 in me, I'm saying healing is in me. When I'm 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.080 saying Christ is in me, anybody on this side realize 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:34.640 that when you say Christ is in me, somebody shall 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:35.600 Christ is in me. 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.359 Christ is in me. I am enough. 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:39.560 I am enough. 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:44.159 It's a truth and a consequence because He's in me. 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.679 I am enough. And so one. 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.440 Day I'm sitting there going like, you can't write this book. 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:52.800 You tried in twenty twenty you wasted time, you wasted money, 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:55.800 you hold yourself up doing it, and I just got 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.240 overwhelmed by this idea. You need to do something now 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:01.359 the first mindset, do the new us. I'm not stuck 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:05.119 unless I stop. And sometimes God will give you something 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:09.560 stupid to do seems stupid to you to get you unstuck. 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:14.080 Raising a staff over the Red Sea looks stupid. 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:16.040 But I saw a. 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.359 Commercial one time that says it's only weird until it works. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:23.600 I know a lot of people think we're weird as 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:28.120 Christians because we praise God, we lift our hands, and well, 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:33.000 I'm not one of those hand lifting, out loud singing Christians. 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.560 But you know what, I found It works for me. 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:40.800 Worship works for me when nothing else can help me. 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:45.359 So on this particular day, I did something that felt 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:49.439 so stupid. I set up an appointment with my literary agent, 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:51.160 who hadn't heard from me in quite a while because 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.120 I was duck in her because I want to write 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:57.639 a book. I put on a suit, went to the 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:00.600 office in a suit, y'all. I don't even suits on 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:04.240 Easter most times in church. And I went to the 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:09.080 office to let the devil know I meant business now 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:11.480 I know what you're thinking. You just wanted to impress 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.439 your agent. No, she wasn't on a zoom call. It 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:20.119 was a phone call. She didn't even see me. She 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:23.400 didn't even see me. I wasn't dressing so she would 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:25.960 see me in a suit. I wanted the devil to 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:31.960 see me in a suit, to let him know. Just 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:33.960 look at the person next to you and say, I'm 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:36.280 doing it this time, doing it this time. 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:38.880 Put it in the chat, I'm doing it this time. 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:42.919 And that was a day that I sat down and 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:44.360 wrote the whole book in that day. 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:48.760 No, that's the story we want. 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:53.080 And God healed my marriage that day, and my kid 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:56.400 got off drugs that day, and the business was out 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:59.600 of the red that day, and the breakthrough. 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:02.720 Concept went to and we had an IPO that day. 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.920 And I never struggled with wanting to drink alcohol again 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:07.000 that day. 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:12.920 But it was my one day when for that day. 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:18.159 So I'm gonna give you my favorite phrase that I 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:21.280 learned in therapy. Okay, yes, I go to therapy because 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:25.480 I'm crazy. No you're not, and I want to help 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:28.520 you with your crazy in case you don't get to 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:34.000 the therapist. All right, all right, So I'm not going 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.879 to charge you for this, but we worked through a 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:37.760 phrase in therapy. 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:39.280 This was a game changer for me. 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:43.000 When you talk about enough, everybody shout enough enough, put 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:46.720 it in the comments, enough enough, sit again, enough enough 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:53.440 for now, for now who. That was big to me, babe, 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:57.720 because you know how I am. I'm projecting so much 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:02.040 into the future, and and I operate sometimes from a 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:06.120 fear of running out. But then I remember Jesus taught 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:11.480 his disciples to pray this, give us this day our 0:27:11.600 --> 0:27:16.320 daily bread. Don't you wish he would have said, this 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:21.040 day our monthly bread, so you could have the whole 0:27:21.080 --> 0:27:25.040 closet full of paper towels that you need. But God's 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.359 not like Costco like that and not giving it to 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:29.720 you in a pack of forty eight. 0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:33.359 He's going to give you the strength when you. 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:37.800 Need it, one word at a time, one apology at 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:42.480 a time, one day of sobriety at a time, one 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.440 day of coming to church at a time, one day 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:53.520 of going to E group at a time. And so 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.560 I don't want you to think that now that I've 0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:59.120 written a book, I live in a place of perpetual enoughness. 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:01.600 We're in the abundance of God never leaves the forefront 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:04.520 of my imagination, causing me to triumph over every doubt 0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:07.800 an obstacle. I just trust that He's going to give 0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:12.240 me enough for now and when I need the next step. 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:14.879 This is for somebody who's making a decision and you 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:16.840 feel like you're not intelligent enough to make it, or 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:19.119 you don't have enough facts to make it. You have 0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:31.520 enough for now, Suit up and see it. Okay, did 0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:32.240 I talk too long? 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:36.600 No, I'm talking. I do. I have plenty of questions, 0:28:36.600 --> 0:28:38.640 But you say it comes out. 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:40.760 If we run out of time, we'll put a bonus session. 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:42.680 I'm running back, walk it out. 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:45.600 I love it all right. This is. 0:28:47.240 --> 0:28:49.640 My top one of my top two quotes in the 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:54.560 entire book, and I'm going to just read it for you. 0:28:54.560 --> 0:28:56.800 You say this, what's been a lot harder for me 0:28:56.920 --> 0:29:03.400 than accepting Jesus is accepting Even accepting Jesus took a moment. 0:29:03.600 --> 0:29:07.760 Accepting me is taking a lifetime to accept. 0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:10.080 Then you go on to say to accept. 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:14.840 Jesus but not accept Stephen is to miss the gift 0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:17.080 of salvation where it matters most. 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.400 You can't just accept Jesus by faith. You have to 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:25.520 accept yourself by faith too. This quote like. 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:30.480 Let off the page for me because I grew up 0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:37.400 Southern Baptist and Baptists, we love the phrase accept Jesus 0:29:37.400 --> 0:29:39.920 into your heart. I mean that is like a core 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:43.800 belief of mine. Yeah, you have to accept Jesus into 0:29:43.800 --> 0:29:44.240 your heart. 0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:46.600 It's a it's a moment, it's a it's a it's 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:50.760 a it's a it's a monumental decision in your life. 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:56.920 But when I read this, I was like, oh, I 0:29:56.960 --> 0:29:58.360 think I missed half of it. 0:30:01.080 --> 0:30:04.960 Where did this? How do you do this? 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:10.400 How do you practically grow in accepting Stephen? 0:30:11.840 --> 0:30:12.920 Give us some how. 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:17.160 You help you do? 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:20.000 You know, I don't know if you remember saying this, 0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:21.920 but you've heard me say that. You said it a lot, 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.320 and so trust me you said this. We're sitting at 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:31.040 Firebirds on a date night. This is maybe twelve years ago, 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:34.280 maybe even longer than that. But the church was growing. 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:36.880 I remember the day that the church got bigger than 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:38.440 Monk's corner of the town I grew up in. 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:41.480 That was kind of a scary thought for. 0:30:41.480 --> 0:30:44.160 Me, like, wait a minute, talk about I'm not enough 0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:46.640 the town I grew up in. It was wonderful, but 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:48.720 there were less people that lived in that town when 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:50.760 I grew up in it than are coming to church now. 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:55.080 So not only have I never seen anything. 0:30:54.320 --> 0:30:57.800 This big and let it, but I lived in a 0:30:57.840 --> 0:31:01.280 town that was smaller than what I'm responsible to lead. 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:05.520 And one day I wanted to fire everybody, and most 0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:07.720 of all, wanted to fire myself, because I'm like, wait 0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:11.520 a minute, if the whole team is messing up, they 0:31:11.520 --> 0:31:16.080 fire the coach, right, So you don't just trade players. 0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:19.000 If every player is bad, you get a new coach. 0:31:19.320 --> 0:31:21.120 So I'm telling her this, I'm like, if the oh, 0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:23.560 the team is bad, then you thaw the new coach. 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:26.360 I just don't feel like I'm the leader that our 0:31:26.440 --> 0:31:30.520 church needs. Without hesitation, she leans across the bread at Firebirds. 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:34.000 You'll know that bread at Firebirds. She leans across the bread. 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:35.800 She's got the butter knife in her hand. It's a 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:38.240 big old knife. So maybe what she said more powerful 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:38.920 she said. 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:39.440 I said, I. 0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:41.880 Don't feel like I'm the leader we need. She said, well, 0:31:41.880 --> 0:31:43.440 you're the one we've got. 0:31:48.960 --> 0:32:00.200 With a knife. The firebirds knives are big. That helps. 0:32:00.000 --> 0:32:00.520 You tell me. 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:02.080 When I was walking out the door when the kids 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:05.200 were little, you've got what it takes, and again, almost 0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:07.920 hearing that would make me angry, I didn't go but 0:32:08.120 --> 0:32:09.200 her there buckeroo. 0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:12.160 I would be like, hey, yeah, you don't know how 0:32:12.160 --> 0:32:12.760 heavy it is. 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:16.320 And then you were carrying your own pressures of trying 0:32:16.320 --> 0:32:18.320 to figure out who am I And I think we've 0:32:18.360 --> 0:32:22.840 worked through this together, yeah, because we started in ministry 0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:25.160 as kids together. And the part of the story that 0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:27.960 I didn't tell earlier is that before we went to college, 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:32.360 Holly was traveling with a ministry team through Monk's Corner 0:32:33.040 --> 0:32:35.440 and I grew up in a Methodist church with a 0:32:35.480 --> 0:32:38.760 heritage from that church because my grandfather was a Methodist pastor, 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:41.840 and so we went every week. But then when I 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:46.200 was in high school, the Baptist church revival, when I 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:49.160 went over there, I met this guy named Jody, who 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:50.160 ended up being my. 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:52.320 Brother in law. So it's a whole story. 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:55.320 Right, like God is always working everything together in. 0:32:55.240 --> 0:32:56.520 Our lives for his glory. 0:32:57.000 --> 0:33:01.440 But at that revival, I went down to the altar 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:02.600 and I was like, yeah, I'm ready. 0:33:02.600 --> 0:33:04.880 I'm ready to accept Jesus into my life. 0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:10.840 And it was transformative, Like what an amazing deal that is? 0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:15.880 I give him my sin, I get his grace. I 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:21.320 give him my shame, I get his justification. I give 0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:24.880 him my broken pieces. He begins to build my life 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:27.640 into a bigger picture story that he's telling. 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:30.680 For his glory. Who wouldn't want to accept that? 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:35.560 It'd be like giving away the Apple Goggles thing today, 0:33:35.600 --> 0:33:38.480 the thing that's going to make us all robots and 0:33:38.760 --> 0:33:40.520 send us all to the mark of the beast, the 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:44.440 new thing that just came out, the End Times Goggles. 0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:49.640 I get, Apple's going to take this sermon down if 0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:50.160 I keep going. 0:33:51.800 --> 0:33:54.960 But yeah, it'd be like giving something away Like here 0:33:55.000 --> 0:33:58.480 you go, and and God is a giver and so 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:02.000 there's no strings attached. You leave your sin, you leave 0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:05.000 your shame, but you don't leave yourself. 0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:07.560 I need to get this. 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:11.200 I need to get this through because one of the 0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:15.799 ways that we are taught salvation is actually destructive to 0:34:15.880 --> 0:34:17.040 our sense of self worth. 0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:21.279 And it's this God doesn't like you. 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:26.359 God, in fact, is so angry with you that the 0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:29.120 only way he could deal with it was sending his 0:34:29.200 --> 0:34:33.840 son to die for you. Now, did God send Jesus 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:35.120 to die for us. 0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:37.360 Because we couldn't pay the penalty? 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:41.800 Yes, because sin demands a price, and the price is perfection, 0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:45.480 and you couldn't pay it. So Jesus did. How many 0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:46.520 are grateful that he did. 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:49.960 Come on, all of my. 0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:54.040 Fellow perfectionists, that you don't have to get it right 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:59.920 all the time. That he got it right. He lived 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:03.920 as if he had sinned, so I can live as 0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:07.560 if I never did, so I can hold my head 0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:10.280 up so I can belong to Jesus. 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:11.640 But here's the part that got me. 0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:15.799 I started hearing it described in certain classes that I 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.920 took for Bible College, and all of that almost like 0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:20.520 a group insurance policy. 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:26.080 Jesus died for you. God really doesn't like you. He 0:35:26.120 --> 0:35:27.239 really can't stand you. 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:31.719 Because he knows all about you, and he sees you 0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:34.760 at three in the morning, and he knows where. 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:36.920 You were last night, and he knows what you did 0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:39.840 last summer and last fall. 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:47.719 You're so funny, thank you. And because he can't stand you, 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:51.200 he sinned his son. And now when he sees you, 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.160 he doesn't see you. He sees his son. And because 0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:57.879 he doesn't have to look at your terrible, worthless self, 0:35:59.040 --> 0:35:59.640 he loves you. 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:02.200 Cool. 0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:05.600 It's like I have a pre existing condition called sucking. 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:10.520 But I pray to prayer accepted Jesus. 0:36:10.600 --> 0:36:12.719 I got in on the policy and I'm good and 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:14.520 God has to forgive me. But he really doesn't want 0:36:14.520 --> 0:36:19.680 to remember this whenever you are tempted to think that way. Yes, 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:23.040 we're all sinners in need of a savior. No, there's 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.799 nothing in me that can save myself. And yes, I 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:27.879 need Jesus in order to be right with God. 0:36:28.080 --> 0:36:29.960 Yeah no, but just that. 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:30.759 Yeah? 0:36:31.320 --> 0:36:35.880 Now from that? Did the Bible start in Genesis three? 0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:36.399 No? 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:43.040 Come on, when we sinned and became separated from God? 0:36:43.360 --> 0:36:43.560 No? 0:36:44.719 --> 0:36:47.800 Or did the Bible start with let us make man 0:36:48.040 --> 0:36:54.840 in our image? And when God made snakes, he said 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:59.480 it's good. Everything he made he said it's good. 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:03.680 When he made you, he said very good. 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:08.920 So I know you got some very bad things you 0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:13.160 struggle with and some y ugly parts of you that 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:16.400 you're working on, and I know you have some very 0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:21.840 deep issues that go really deep, but remember that it 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:25.399 started out with a God who made you. 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:32.080 Very good, very good. 0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:37.440 And God is trying to get me back as Steven 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:40.240 Larry Stevens Fredick Jr. 0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:46.480 He's trying to get me back to very good. 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:50.319 He's trying to give me a vision of his very 0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:53.600 good for my life. He's trying to get me back 0:37:54.600 --> 0:38:00.600 to the seed of Stephen. He's trying to shine light, 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:04.520 give water and yes, even fertilizer to your life to 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:06.200 bring you back to what you put inside of you. 0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:08.080 So holly for me. 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:11.279 The whole way that this message do the New Youth 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:14.160 starts and I won't review it long because we've already 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:19.600 covered it, but it talks about do you do you 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.239 as possibly being the worst advice that anyone could ever 0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:25.480 give you, because. 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:31.000 If I just do me, but I don't develop me, I'm. 0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:35.160 Going to be a perpetual, emotional two year old if 0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:36.160 I just do me, if I. 0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:38.160 Don't grow into who God made me. 0:38:39.280 --> 0:38:41.880 On the other hand, if you're one of these people 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:44.640 who's very driven in you're like, I'm not going to 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:50.000 just do me, I'm going to do future me. Future me, Well, 0:38:51.440 --> 0:38:55.080 that's a treadmill that will leave you exhausted and you'll 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:58.520 collapse trying to chase something that you think you're supposed 0:38:58.560 --> 0:38:58.799 to be. 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:01.840 Usually what we're chasing when we say. 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:06.000 Oh, my future self that's patient and ripped and rich, 0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:09.960 and patient and ripped and rich but can still enjoy 0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:13.080 a nice dessert. But I'm ripped and I'm not uptight, 0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:16.799 but I am driven and focused. Stop that, because you 0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:21.200 are comparing your behind the scenes to everybody else's highlight reel. 0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:24.839 Come on, and what you're chasing is. 0:39:24.800 --> 0:39:27.880 A compilation of what other people have shown you of 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:31.560 their life that you've cobbled together and think you need 0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:33.279 to be that for God to bless you. 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:35.360 And you don't wow. 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:36.719 Wow. 0:39:37.920 --> 0:39:42.239 So accepting Stephen means that when I show up to 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:45.400 preach to you, or when I show up in a 0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:48.080 tough moment with one of our kids, or when I 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:50.200 show up to try to be the husband that she needs, 0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:53.560 and I know that I'm still under development, that I 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:57.000 believe that if God would have needed somebody else to 0:39:57.080 --> 0:40:01.000 do it, he would choose someone else to do it. 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:04.759 And the fundamental component of my belief. 0:40:04.480 --> 0:40:07.760 System about this is that if there are eight billion 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:14.120 people in the world, God had options. Yeah, and He 0:40:14.200 --> 0:40:18.040 put you in that house, He put you in that business, 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:21.680 he put you in that ministry, he put you with 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:28.400 that woman, he put you with those kids. God chows 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.240 you say it to your neighbor. 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.000 God shows you. 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:36.240 Now look right back at him and ask him a question, 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:42.279 Will you come on, come on? Will you choose you, 0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:47.120 that's the decision you're making every day, yep. Or are 0:40:47.120 --> 0:40:50.320 you going to feel the need so much to measure 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:54.160 up to something called perfection that God knew you were 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:57.440 never going to be? Or can you be cool in 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:02.720 the process when you say to yourself, well, I did cuss, 0:41:02.760 --> 0:41:06.160 but I didn't say the real bad words this day, 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:09.040 next week, I'm a dial it all the way down 0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:14.920 to heck. And every step you make towards heck, you 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:16.279 got to be like, that's pretty good. 0:41:17.320 --> 0:41:19.520 You saw where I came from. It wasn't heck. 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:26.040 And I'm passionate about this because I am a perfectionist. 0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:29.520 I don't know what version I think God is looking 0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:32.759 for when I come through the door. But sometimes I 0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:36.600 just have to sit myself down and be like, dude, 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:39.919 you grew up in a small town, you stepped out, 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:41.239 you met this woman. 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:44.680 God's me good to you. You're doing all right. 0:41:46.200 --> 0:41:48.160 I always wondered, though, Holly, I want to read you 0:41:48.160 --> 0:41:55.640 think about this. Where's the line between being content and 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:56.480 being complacent? 0:41:56.680 --> 0:42:00.600 Yeah? It's tough because. 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:05.799 I want to be content, yeah, in every circumstance, but 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:10.160 I don't want contentment to turn into an excuse. 0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:11.600 Yeah. 0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:13.959 Whereby I can just accept immaturity in my life. 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:14.239 Yep. 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:20.719 The first step of growing into who God knows you 0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:29.880 are is to accept who you are. Accept it, accept it, accept. 0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:31.239 It, and step into it. 0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:35.080 Yeah, and we'll get you from this bar, and we'll 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:37.879 put some plates on it, and some more plates on it, 0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:42.120 and some more plates on it, and you'll barely recognize yourself. 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:44.560 This is the process of transformation. 0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:44.919 Yep. 0:42:53.520 --> 0:42:58.200 Okay, you open up this section, this mindset crisis in me. 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:02.760 I'm enough with this story that you tell about dropping 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:06.320 a class in college and the professors say to you 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:11.000 it's something they imply that they knew you weren't a 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:14.920 serious enough student. And then you say this later in 0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:18.600 that chapter, you say, I'm constantly fighting a voice that 0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:21.840 tells me I'm not deep enough as a preacher, or 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:24.640 that I'm not serious enough, or I'm not a hard worker. 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:28.360 And then all that defensiveness is going to come out 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:32.160 in how I preach and teach. I'll subconsciously think, oh, 0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:33.240 this needs to be deep. 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:35.200 I need to be deep. I can't get on that 0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:36.400 platform and be shallow. 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:41.240 I've got to prove to the people wrong who said 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:45.239 I'm not deep. And then you talk about you go 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:49.200 on to talk about performing. 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:51.160 For the wrong voices in our lives. 0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:57.040 So how do you catch yourself when you find yourself 0:43:58.120 --> 0:43:59.959 living for the wrong voice? 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:02.760 Says? And how do you get yourself back? 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:04.520 Can we do it in stages? 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:07.960 The answer to that, yeah, if it's a sermon, I'll 0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:10.320 put Eric on the front row while I'm studying. 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:12.440 Eric's been my best friends since we were fourteen. 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:16.800 We did Green Day shows together, Pearl Jim shows together, 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:21.319 and now we spread the gospel together. And then when 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.160 I put him on the front row, I realized, wait 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:27.240 a minute, ericting thinking about me like a seminary professor 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:31.640 judging if I said I'm aphibischev right. And then I say, 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:33.880 and nobody's going to know in your church if you 0:44:33.920 --> 0:44:36.160 mispronounced my aphibichev either, because they can't say. 0:44:36.000 --> 0:44:36.480 It right either. 0:44:39.520 --> 0:44:42.320 And once I lock in through a lens of love 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:46.239 somebody that I love and somebody that loves me, it 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:46.960 frees me up. 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:49.400 That's good. Lock into the lens of love. 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:52.880 Yeah, lock into the lens of love. Even in your 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:58.200 Bible reading. When you're reading the Bible, start explaining it 0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:00.480 after you read it to somebody you love. 0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:02.480 Wow, Try any group. 0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:07.640 It's not too late. 0:45:08.719 --> 0:45:09.640 It's not too late. 0:45:12.120 --> 0:45:15.399 And I wish it were that easy in our lives, 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:20.919 because when you're performing for somebody else's approval. There's one 0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:23.279 story about Jesus that I want you to go back to. 0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:27.600 I want you to go down to the Jordan and 0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:31.160 almost like picture if you can put yourself there. Jesus 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:36.920 is being baptized. Why to be cleansed from his sin? No, 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:42.240 he had no sin, to be obedient to his father. 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:46.600 And as he's coming up from the water, I'm about 0:45:46.600 --> 0:45:48.360 to blow your mind. If you've never heard this before, 0:45:48.920 --> 0:45:51.200 this changed my life. As he's coming up out of 0:45:51.200 --> 0:45:53.920 the water, a voice, everybody say, a voice, A voice, 0:45:54.080 --> 0:45:57.920 a voice from heaven said, this is my son, whom 0:45:57.920 --> 0:45:58.319 I love. 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:05.000 Well, he was proud of his son. Okay, now I 0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:06.440 haven't blown your mind yet. 0:46:07.040 --> 0:46:12.280 I you're like, that's nice, it's nice, and it's cool 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.640 until you put it in context, and then it becomes 0:46:14.640 --> 0:46:18.440 a game changer. What if I told you that, at 0:46:18.480 --> 0:46:21.600 the moment that the voice from heaven said, this is 0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:24.719 my son whom I love, I am well pleased with him. 0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:28.880 What if I told you that at that moment Jesus 0:46:28.920 --> 0:46:35.480 had not yet performed a single public miracle, right wow, 0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:41.719 And God said, already love him. Had not opened a 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:46.520 single blind eye. God said, I'm proud of him. That's 0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:51.920 my boy, that's my girl. He had not fed the 0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:55.160 crowds a golden corral buffet from a happy meal. 0:46:57.000 --> 0:47:02.040 And God said he's enough. Right. So, when Jesus went. 0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:06.279 To do all of those things, Lazarus come forth. When 0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:09.640 he went to do all of those things, Pharisees shut up. 0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:14.799 He wasn't trying to prove anything to the Pharisees. He 0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:19.600 wasn't trying to prove anything to Lazarus because his starting 0:47:19.680 --> 0:47:20.960 place was the. 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:24.160 Love of his father. 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:30.400 Now, every day, I need you to find a way 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:35.080 to be baptized in that lovey. I don't mean you 0:47:35.160 --> 0:47:38.719 have to go get into jacuzzi, get slipped, get over 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.120 the fence and your neighbor's jacuzi. 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:41.720 I'm not talking about physically. 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:48.040 I'm talking about spiritually, letting God baptize you in the 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:54.680 enoughness that is Him incredible, so you can come from abundance. Yeah, 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:59.319 I don't mean just material abundance. There will be times 0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:02.399 where you'll say, Paul, I've learned to be content in 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:06.000 every circumstance, whether with plenty or with little, but one 0:48:06.000 --> 0:48:08.160 thing you will never lack a day in your life 0:48:08.920 --> 0:48:12.080 is his love and his guidance. How many of you 0:48:12.320 --> 0:48:17.560 struggle with a scarcity mindset? I tell one little embarrassing 0:48:17.600 --> 0:48:18.719 story in the book. I wan to share it with 0:48:18.760 --> 0:48:22.719 you right now. Elijah, when he was about nine or ten, 0:48:23.440 --> 0:48:25.720 was grabbing napkins at dinner one day, and he grabbed 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:27.280 like twenty napkins. 0:48:27.400 --> 0:48:29.120 It's probably five, but let's call it twenty. 0:48:30.120 --> 0:48:32.840 It makes it a little more justified what I did, 0:48:32.920 --> 0:48:35.920 because when he grabbed the napkins, I start freaking. 0:48:35.640 --> 0:48:39.080 Out, like, you don't need that many napkins. 0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:45.319 And I gave him the greatest lesson on napkin conservation 0:48:46.520 --> 0:48:49.040 in the history of parenting. And I don't think he 0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:51.200 should have wasted the napkins. And I think it's good. 0:48:51.520 --> 0:48:55.280 But I remembered, Mom. Do you remember how how Dad 0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:58.440 when he was growing up, he was very poor, and 0:48:58.480 --> 0:49:00.160 so when he had his own house and his on 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:04.800 napkins and paper towels. Sometimes he'd walk around and he 0:49:04.840 --> 0:49:07.839 would tear the paper towels in half, and. 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:12.680 He'd go, you don't need a whole paper towel. You 0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:14.439 think you' some kind of prints. 0:49:14.200 --> 0:49:17.000 Coming in here taking a full paper towel. 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:22.640 Now I'm bringing this up. 0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:26.800 It sounds so small because when we make it too big, 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:28.680 and we think like when. 0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:32.600 You stand before the Red Sea, stretch out your staff. 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:33.959 You're probably not going. 0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:37.919 To lead a nation of millions Monday, but you will 0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:42.600 walk around your house and ask the question is it enough? 0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:46.680 And the way you answer that question is not just 0:49:46.760 --> 0:49:51.040 tied to is God enough? But it's how you answer 0:49:51.120 --> 0:49:55.719 the question did He make me enough? And here's where 0:49:55.760 --> 0:49:57.319 I think the gap is. I'm fired off. 0:49:57.400 --> 0:50:02.399 Now I'm glad they got a bounc chair. You can 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:06.360 swivel while I preached this. Get a little kinetic motion. 0:50:06.239 --> 0:50:10.920 As I preached this, because what you're talking about, in 0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:16.399 the process of those professors telling me we knew you 0:50:17.040 --> 0:50:22.160 weren't a serious student, That's how I saw myself. What 0:50:22.400 --> 0:50:28.000 they say about you only has the power you give 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:34.640 it by the way you see yourself. I want to 0:50:34.680 --> 0:50:38.640 break this victim mentality off of Christians, like that if 0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:40.120 somebody spoke something. 0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:42.520 Over you, you just have to believe it like it's your birthright. 0:50:43.080 --> 0:50:48.480 No, your father spoke over you, and whoever spoke over you. 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:53.600 What wasn't true. Your father is over them. So watch this. 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:56.320 I have a better word over my life. 0:50:57.080 --> 0:51:00.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have a second opinion for God. 0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:03.759 I have a truth from him. I have a revelation 0:51:03.960 --> 0:51:07.080 from him. I know the truth of the Gospel. Come on, 0:51:07.239 --> 0:51:09.920 He's not against me. I am enough. 0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:15.000 He is with me. I can't do all things through Christ. 0:51:17.440 --> 0:51:20.000 High five. Your neighbors say you got what it takes. 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:26.120 What it takes, so. 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:28.680 We gotta listen to that voice. 0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:30.600 I know a lot of people speak a lot of 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:31.319 things over us. 0:51:31.360 --> 0:51:34.000 It happens to all of us. They say stuff about 0:51:34.040 --> 0:51:34.840 me all the time. 0:51:36.600 --> 0:51:38.879 But I got somebody else I can go to and say, Father, 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:43.480 is what they said true? And if it's not, and 0:51:43.520 --> 0:51:47.720 if what they spoke contradicts what he is saying, go with. 0:51:47.680 --> 0:51:49.760 What your father spoke. 0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:51.759 God. 0:51:51.840 --> 0:51:53.240 I love this stuff. 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:57.759 Because I see you breaking free from this idea of 0:51:57.800 --> 0:51:59.279 what they told you you couldn't be. 0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:00.719 They didn't make you. 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.480 If they didn't make you, and they don't own you, 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:06.399 they don't get to label you. 0:52:08.040 --> 0:52:12.359 God is my label maker. I'm mating his image. 0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:18.600 I'm redeemed by the blood of his son, and it's precious, 0:52:18.440 --> 0:52:29.080 and so am I. 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:28.239 Got time for one morning just talking. No, you're not, 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:33.120 you're preaching, Okay. 0:52:37.080 --> 0:52:39.120 I hope y'all are getting this at Riverwalk. 0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:42.239 I hope y'all are getting this at University City. I 0:52:42.280 --> 0:52:45.000 hope y'all are getting this at Ballad Hide. I hope 0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:47.880 you're getting this in Greenville. I hope you're getting this 0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:51.200 in Raleigh. I hope you're getting this Epham. 0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:54.160 All over the world. I hope you're receiving this word in. 0:52:54.120 --> 0:52:59.080 Your college norm me receiving the calling I've been almighty God. 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:08.200 Yeah, people can't cancel what God calls. 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:08.840 That's right. 0:53:09.160 --> 0:53:19.680 Come on, Christ is in me. I am enough. Now, 0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:24.520 don't leave that first part out. You just run around. 0:53:24.560 --> 0:53:28.040 I'm enough. I'm enough. It's kind, I'm as smart, I 0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:28.880 as important. 0:53:28.920 --> 0:53:32.879 Like that's great for a movie, but you get into 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:36.360 real life on Monday, you're gonna need something hire to 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:41.160 point too. And so that's where it comes from from me, babe, 0:53:41.200 --> 0:53:43.920 because if I did the self acceptance thing without. 0:53:43.719 --> 0:53:47.920 Jesus, I'll hit it dead end. I've got to know 0:53:47.960 --> 0:53:49.320 that he's with me, and I got. 0:53:49.200 --> 0:53:51.839 To know that he didn't make mistakes when he made 0:53:51.840 --> 0:53:53.799 me and I'm gonna tell you one more thing before 0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:56.160 we get to your final question, and we got to 0:53:56.200 --> 0:53:56.760 do a part. 0:53:56.560 --> 0:54:03.239 Two of this, Yes, two, three, four or five. 0:54:04.680 --> 0:54:05.840 I like to tell you the's a little behind the 0:54:05.840 --> 0:54:06.360 scenes stories. 0:54:06.480 --> 0:54:09.640 By the way, I don't holler when we talk about 0:54:10.080 --> 0:54:11.720 these things when it's just me and her. 0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:14.400 Wouldn't that be weird? Holly touch your neighbor. 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:20.200 It's like high five in bo. 0:54:23.120 --> 0:54:24.839 But we do this. This is what we do. 0:54:25.320 --> 0:54:29.440 Some of the best sermons I ever preached were our 0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:32.359 three point two mile walk after Sunday when we start 0:54:32.400 --> 0:54:35.360 talking and then you start sharing, and I think you 0:54:35.440 --> 0:54:38.120 really need somebody that you love in your life, whether 0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:39.799 in the E group or whether it's somebody that you 0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:42.480 love where you can unpack the word of God. Because 0:54:42.600 --> 0:54:44.440 if God speaks a word over you, but then you 0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:48.080 don't water it, yep, it'll die and you'll think it 0:54:48.120 --> 0:54:48.879 didn't work. 0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:50.640 But it just needs water. 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:53.920 And I think what we're trying to model today, and 0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:55.480 I know it's a little different way to do it, 0:54:56.120 --> 0:55:03.480 but that God is a conversationalist. And when I say 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:06.040 do the new you, sometimes the only way for you 0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:10.160 to do the new you singular is to do the 0:55:10.200 --> 0:55:14.879 new you plural in the South. We don't say you all, 0:55:14.920 --> 0:55:19.360 We say yeah yeah. So one day I'm gonna do 0:55:19.360 --> 0:55:25.520 a group study called do the New y'all y'all. And 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:27.120 the reason I'm gonna do it is because I want 0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:31.520 you to see that if you keep hearing at the 0:55:31.600 --> 0:55:35.960 level of what God says, but you keep relating to 0:55:36.040 --> 0:55:38.720 people who are at the level of what they feel, 0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:45.640 you will come down to them time after time. And 0:55:45.719 --> 0:55:50.080 so this this core belief for me. We were in 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:53.360 a songwriting session a few years ago. You know a 0:55:53.400 --> 0:55:56.120 lot of people will ask me sometimes, what's the best 0:55:56.120 --> 0:55:58.960 song you ever wrote that was underrated in your mind? 0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:02.399 I think one that I really like and I don't 0:56:02.400 --> 0:56:05.040 know if it's underrated, but nobody ever talks about it. 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:05.560 Makes me mad. 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:11.520 It's called the one you Love. When we were writing 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:15.080 that song, well, why aren't y'all streaming it? There's no 0:56:15.120 --> 0:56:17.719 streams on Spotify for that song? Y'all clap them and 0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:22.160 stuff of it. The song was a journey with some 0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:24.480 other great writers, and I don't say this to insult 0:56:24.560 --> 0:56:27.080 any of them, but at one point during the writing 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:29.799 session there were several writers and we're working on the 0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:32.480 song and the second verse began to come out in 0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:35.600 a way where it said, I know you're proud of me, 0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:38.239 even though I don't deserve it. 0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:38.880 Sometimes. 0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:43.440 No, I'm not a perfect child, but I still make 0:56:43.480 --> 0:56:45.799 my father smile. I know you're proud of me. And 0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:48.399 then the chorus said, you take me just as I am. 0:56:49.280 --> 0:56:52.680 You would choose me all over again. I am the 0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:57.000 one you love. You know that's what John called himself 0:56:57.000 --> 0:56:57.560 in the Bible. 0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:04.120 Yeah, he loves the one he loves. 0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:09.279 And somebody in the room said, I don't know if 0:57:09.280 --> 0:57:11.839 theologically I can really vibe with the fact that God 0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:17.120 is proud of me. And I said, then you don't 0:57:17.120 --> 0:57:21.160 have to sing it, but I've got to because I 0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:25.640 deal with so much self critical internal dialogue. And maybe 0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:28.640 you don't. And if you don't, I'm happy for you, 0:57:28.680 --> 0:57:31.240 and I hope you never do. But God sent me 0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:34.880 to reach a few people that you don't know how 0:57:34.920 --> 0:57:39.560 to hear that voice saying, this is my child. I 0:57:39.600 --> 0:57:41.280 saw you go out of your way for that person, 0:57:41.280 --> 0:57:42.280 even though they didn't thank you. 0:57:42.320 --> 0:57:42.840 I saw that. 0:57:44.480 --> 0:57:46.680 I see you giving what you have even though you 0:57:46.720 --> 0:57:48.400 feel like you blew it. And you yelled at the 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:52.720 kids six times today. The reason you're yelling with them 0:57:52.800 --> 0:58:00.680 is because you're with them. 0:57:57.240 --> 0:57:58.160 To say that again. 0:58:03.320 --> 0:58:05.400 Yeah, Sometimes the Lord will say I'm proud of you 0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:07.680 that you were so caring to your kids today. 0:58:07.720 --> 0:58:09.400 And sometimes it'll say I'm so proud of you that 0:58:09.440 --> 0:58:12.760 you didn't kill your kids today. 0:58:14.600 --> 0:58:17.560 Now I realize that people will take this to the 0:58:17.600 --> 0:58:22.959 extremes sometimes and just justify behavior that frankly, God wants 0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:26.040 to rescue you from. But even if you're going to 0:58:26.120 --> 0:58:28.960 grow out of that, you're going to do it by 0:58:29.080 --> 0:58:35.280 accepting that you make your father smile even though you're 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:39.040 not a perfect child, and you've accepted Jesus. 0:58:39.080 --> 0:58:41.640 If you haven't, you ought to do it today. But 0:58:42.640 --> 0:58:47.360 you also ought to accept you. Yeah, because he did. 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:52.480 Wait a minute, Wait a minute, he accepted you, and 0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:56.680 you don't you have a higher standard than God. 0:58:58.800 --> 0:59:01.360 Well, WHOA. 0:59:03.480 --> 0:59:10.120 So I just want you breathing in this thought. Christ 0:59:10.200 --> 0:59:15.600 is in me. I am enough. Say it again, Christ 0:59:15.680 --> 0:59:18.520 is in me. Christ in me, I am enough. 0:59:18.800 --> 0:59:19.480 I am enough. 0:59:20.280 --> 0:59:24.400 That's the most powerful revelation I think in the whole book. 0:59:24.680 --> 0:59:26.520 Yep, not, I'm going to be enough? 0:59:27.400 --> 0:59:29.440 Ye boy, God's really going to want to hang out 0:59:29.480 --> 0:59:33.600 with me when I'm no longer dealing with this man. 0:59:33.640 --> 0:59:36.440 He's really gonna use me when I get smart. No, no, no, 0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:38.520 he's going to use you, stupid. 0:59:41.960 --> 0:59:48.240 Ask Peter all these Bible characters we read about. 0:59:49.840 --> 0:59:51.840 I don't know how you wanted to close, Holly, but 0:59:52.400 --> 0:59:54.240 I have one more thing I wanted to share in 0:59:54.320 --> 0:59:57.520 order to solidify this. Is there any question that if 0:59:57.720 --> 0:59:59.840 you didn't get to ask it, you're gonna fuss at me, 0:59:59.880 --> 1:00:04.000 like because I didn't let you ask the question? Okay, Okay, 1:00:05.680 --> 1:00:08.880 I'll talk about one more song line and we're going 1:00:08.960 --> 1:00:12.240 to sing and worship and just close this time by 1:00:12.720 --> 1:00:14.520 reflecting and responding on what God has spoken. 1:00:14.560 --> 1:00:16.600 How many feel that God has spoken something to you today? 1:00:17.280 --> 1:00:17.320 No? 1:00:18.240 --> 1:00:22.040 I think yeah, I think this is one of those 1:00:22.080 --> 1:00:23.960 messages that you do need to get in with your 1:00:23.960 --> 1:00:29.840 E group or sit down with your notebook and your coffee. 1:00:27.680 --> 1:00:30.400 And watch it back and listen to it again. 1:00:30.640 --> 1:00:33.760 Yeah, because we talked about so many things, but there 1:00:33.840 --> 1:00:36.320 was something specific that God wanted to speak to you. 1:00:36.400 --> 1:00:39.760 So let me just bring it back to the entire 1:00:39.800 --> 1:00:42.120 revelation that Christ is in me. I am enough in 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:43.720 a way that you can hold it in your heart 1:00:44.360 --> 1:00:45.680 because I don't want you going well, there was a 1:00:45.720 --> 1:00:47.240 lot of good stuff. Now I want you to remember 1:00:47.280 --> 1:00:54.240 one thing today. The song Gyra, which literally Jira means 1:00:54.720 --> 1:00:56.160 will see see. 1:00:56.320 --> 1:00:58.240 It means that God will see to it. 1:00:58.360 --> 1:01:02.680 So when he called the place Jehovah Jira, he was 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:06.360 calling the place Jehovah Jirah where God provided. This is 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:09.320 from the Abraham and Isaac story. Anyway, that's not important. 1:01:09.680 --> 1:01:11.960 I don't even know why I said that, probably just 1:01:11.960 --> 1:01:14.240 to show that seminary professor, I know what I'm talking about. 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:19.040 Here's the point again, in a songwriting room, is that 1:01:19.040 --> 1:01:21.600 song began to take shape. It was very beautiful song 1:01:21.680 --> 1:01:23.840 with our friends Chandler and Naomi and Chris and we 1:01:23.880 --> 1:01:26.920 sat there and we'd never all written together. And I 1:01:26.960 --> 1:01:29.000 threw out a line that said, I'll never be more 1:01:29.000 --> 1:01:33.040 loved than I am right now. And as Chandler began 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:34.680 to sing that, and then we begin to sing, I 1:01:34.720 --> 1:01:36.600 wasn't holding you up, So there's nothing I could do 1:01:36.640 --> 1:01:38.360 to let you down. It doesn't take a trophy to 1:01:38.400 --> 1:01:40.920 make you proud, because I'll never be more loved than 1:01:40.960 --> 1:01:45.600 I am right now. Jira, you are enough. And as 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:48.439 the song begin to flow with different verses. It came 1:01:48.480 --> 1:01:52.000 to a point that crescendoed in saying, I'm already loved, 1:01:52.000 --> 1:01:55.000 I'm already chosen, I know who I am, I know 1:01:55.040 --> 1:01:58.560 what you've spoken, I'm already loved more than I could imagine, 1:01:58.720 --> 1:02:04.560 and that is enough. We sang it over and over. 1:02:04.080 --> 1:02:07.320 Again, that is enough, that is enough. 1:02:07.560 --> 1:02:09.640 But as we sat in that writing room that day, 1:02:10.520 --> 1:02:12.479 it went to a different place. We begin to say, 1:02:12.840 --> 1:02:17.800 you are enough, You are enough, because my sufficiency is 1:02:17.800 --> 1:02:18.440 in Him. 1:02:18.240 --> 1:02:22.600 Not in myself. You are enough, You are enough. 1:02:23.520 --> 1:02:25.800 But what happened next is a life message that I 1:02:25.840 --> 1:02:29.440 want to give to you, because immediately after we sang 1:02:29.520 --> 1:02:33.120 that is enough, the truth and you are enough, the 1:02:33.160 --> 1:02:36.520 God that speaks truth and is truth, we begin to sang, 1:02:37.360 --> 1:02:42.000 you are enough, So I am enough. 1:02:42.040 --> 1:02:44.240 Come on, so good. 1:02:44.480 --> 1:02:48.240 When we recorded the song, it was eighteen minutes long 1:02:49.680 --> 1:02:52.200 right in this empty room, back when we couldn't have 1:02:52.240 --> 1:02:53.480 everybody together for church. 1:02:54.880 --> 1:02:57.560 And in that collaboration, some of the songs. 1:02:57.240 --> 1:02:59.760 Had to be edited way down because the Holy Spirit 1:02:59.760 --> 1:03:02.720 bro out in such a powerful way. We had to 1:03:02.720 --> 1:03:06.440 get Gyra to under ten minutes because we couldn't put 1:03:06.480 --> 1:03:09.520 it out on the digital streaming platforms if it was 1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:12.720 one second more than nine point fifty nine. They sent 1:03:12.800 --> 1:03:15.040 me back several options. We could edit this, we could 1:03:15.160 --> 1:03:18.320 edit that. But one option they sent was unacceptable because 1:03:18.320 --> 1:03:22.760 it said that is enough, the truth, and it said 1:03:23.560 --> 1:03:26.880 you are enough to God. But in order to save time, 1:03:27.160 --> 1:03:29.480 they had cut out so I am enough. 1:03:31.240 --> 1:03:34.240 I said, whatever we have to cut out to put 1:03:34.240 --> 1:03:37.000 that back in. I need that back. 1:03:36.800 --> 1:03:40.720 In because if you just say that is enough, the 1:03:40.760 --> 1:03:43.640 truth is enough, you are enough. God is enough, it 1:03:43.720 --> 1:03:47.400 hasn't become personal to you yet. 1:03:50.240 --> 1:03:54.800 I want it to be personal for you that He 1:03:55.000 --> 1:03:55.520 is enough. 1:03:56.840 --> 1:04:02.240 So I am enough, and you'll never be more loved 1:04:03.480 --> 1:04:08.840 than you are right now, right now, clap your hands about. 1:04:10.080 --> 1:04:15.840 We'll do that just right here where you are. 1:04:18.920 --> 1:04:23.439 So beatison, i can't hear what key we're in. I'm 1:04:23.440 --> 1:04:28.080 waiting to hear a piano so we can sing together. 1:04:31.360 --> 1:04:38.160 Thank you God that you are enough. So I am enough. 1:04:38.280 --> 1:04:44.680 Thank you, Lord, you are enough. Thank you Si. 1:04:48.080 --> 1:04:48.880 You are. 1:04:51.720 --> 1:04:56.520 Shy, thank you you are. 1:04:59.280 --> 1:04:59.400 S. 1:05:03.240 --> 1:05:17.760 You know so he. 1:05:16.120 --> 1:05:19.960 Now sing Gira, think about how He's provided for you. 1:05:22.200 --> 1:05:26.960 You Yes, Lord h. 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:40.040 C S will be consent, Sun said. 1:05:41.760 --> 1:05:43.040 Jia. 1:05:44.360 --> 1:05:50.720 Cure, No, clap those hands like you love it. Let 1:05:50.800 --> 1:05:51.600 you know he loves you. 1:05:55.560 --> 1:05:56.600 Well, Jo. 1:05:58.920 --> 1:06:02.400 You singing out church. 1:06:02.960 --> 1:06:03.040 So. 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:22.400 Every son said, shop you right choice, say. 1:06:23.000 --> 1:06:23.520 I love that. 1:06:27.320 --> 1:06:31.840 I'm don't want you to say thank you. I'm lay. 1:06:34.040 --> 1:06:38.080 Hold if that. 1:06:49.080 --> 1:06:51.560 Jo said, I. 1:06:54.880 --> 1:06:56.600 I know you walk. 1:07:29.400 --> 1:07:32.880 You a you know, take you that you. 1:07:35.880 --> 1:07:36.280 It's you. 1:07:39.640 --> 1:07:54.800 Quee yan. Now we're singing that to the father. You 1:07:54.920 --> 1:07:55.400 are enough. 1:07:57.000 --> 1:08:01.439 What if he's singing it right back over us? Thank 1:08:01.480 --> 1:08:05.000 you Jesus, who you are, how you were made. 1:08:06.280 --> 1:08:06.480 Father. 1:08:06.600 --> 1:08:09.880 I pray for each person who will hear this message. 1:08:10.880 --> 1:08:12.840 May they receive it in the place where they doubt 1:08:13.320 --> 1:08:19.200 the most deeply, where they need it the most. May 1:08:19.240 --> 1:08:26.400 every insecurity meet the presence of Jehovah Jirah. Every past trauma, 1:08:26.439 --> 1:08:29.920 every failure, every mistake be overwhelmed. 1:08:30.360 --> 1:08:32.719 Yes, by the presence of El Shadai. 1:08:34.160 --> 1:08:36.240 I thank you for your presence with us today, Lord, 1:08:37.080 --> 1:08:39.240 and thank you for how this ministry will go forth 1:08:40.080 --> 1:08:42.000 and touch those all over the world who need. 1:08:41.960 --> 1:08:45.320 To hear it at just the right time. 1:08:45.479 --> 1:08:49.560 Yes, in Jesus' name, would you hug eight people and 1:08:49.640 --> 1:08:50.920 tell them you've got what it takes. 1:08:53.439 --> 1:09:02.880 Got what it takes, and men, thank you for joining us. 1:09:03.240 --> 1:09:05.680 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 1:09:05.760 --> 1:09:09.240 this ministry, is because of you that this ministry is possible. 1:09:09.720 --> 1:09:11.880 You can click the link in the description to give 1:09:12.000 --> 1:09:16.120 now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 1:09:16.160 --> 1:09:19.760 information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 1:09:20.240 --> 1:09:21.519 You can share it with your friends. 1:09:21.840 --> 1:09:24.120 You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 1:09:24.200 --> 1:09:26.240 share it on your social stories and tag us at 1:09:26.320 --> 1:09:27.160 Elevation Church. 1:09:27.240 --> 1:09:28.840 Thanks again for listening. 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