Copy That

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.160 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.520 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.559 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.760 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.160 You know what the Lord showed us on our campus 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.600 pastor call this week, that the glory of the latter 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:33.200 house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Well, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.680 what in the world does that mean? I mean, God 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.800 said that through the prophet to some exiles who were 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.120 coming back and rebuilding the temple. And it was so 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.960 small compared to Solomon's temple, and so plain and so simple. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.440 It says that the people who saw Solomon's temple started crying, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.560 and they were crying so much that the people who 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.000 were shouting, because they never had a temple at all before, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.880 they were like, WHOA, this is awesome, this is amazing. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.320 This is a house for God. This is the place 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.480 we can meet with him. They couldn't be heard above 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.720 the weeping of those who could only compare what they 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:18.000 were looking at with what was before it. And so 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.640 God said, I don't want you to look at it 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.839 and compare it to the old Temple. And I believe 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.920 you're saying that to somebody in this room. I don't 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.040 want you to compare what I'm doing in your life 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.800 right now to what I did in your life in 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.680 a previous season when you didn't have a bad knee. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:40.000 I'm preaching to the over forty now. I know you 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.160 used to be the star wide receiver and receiver in Villain, Texas. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.440 But right now, right now, I need you to understand 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.000 it's not what the temple is made of. I told 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.600 our campus pastors. Even as our church is kind of 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.480 coming back, and you know, after the pandemic, it takes 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.240 time for people to come back, and so a lot 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.400 of the buildings they don't look like they did before 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.639 that thing that happened, which I can't say because Indo'll 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.360 take it out the YouTube algorithm. So I'm gonna just 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.200 beep it out, the thing that happened, and then if 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:12.720 you look at what it is right now and try 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.120 to compare it to what it was, you missed the 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:19.240 whole point. Because he said the glory of the Latter House, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.720 what I'm doing right now, He's pointing to Jesus, will 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:27.440 be greater than the glory of the former house. So 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.680 this is what I told them. Don't look for the gold, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.600 look for the glory. The gold is the external, that's 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.880 Solomon's temple. Look for the glory. So what God is 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.400 doing right now, He's trying to get you to attenuate 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:49.320 your mind to what he is filling you with. What 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.320 do you want to be filled with? You want to 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.840 be filled with fear, You want to be filled with depression. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.000 All you have to do if that's what you want 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.919 to do, it's just do everything you see the world doing. Okay, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.919 But if you want to be filled with joy, unspeakable, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:17.440 full of glory in the holy ghulfs, you can't. Oh God, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.960 I'm gonna start my sermon right now. Watch this. You 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.400 can't do what the world does and get what the 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:32.480 word says. So are you ready for the word of God? 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.160 I want you on your feet in the ready position. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.920 I am gonna pick up where I left off last week. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:50.400 Somebody shall copy that, copy that copy that. That was 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.080 the last thing in my sermon last week. So let's 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.600 pick up with the scripture that I mentioned last week. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:02.440 But I didn't get to mine it. Hebrews Chapter thirteen, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:07.760 verse seven, case your feet hurt from standing, only got 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.640 one verse, then you can sit down. Did anybody come 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:15.200 to church from over one hundred miles away today? What? 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:26.560 For real? Where from? Huh? I love that place. That's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.400 one of my favorite places. I didn't hear a word 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.400 they said, anybody come from over five hundred miles? Y'all 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.520 remember the song from the nineties, I would walk five 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:43.640 hundred And we're really gonna get YouTube flags the cite 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:54.400 who comes to Elevation Church. It's a great worship song, right. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.720 How about all the new songs we've been singing. You've 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:05.000 been enjoying that hmm. Lately we've been getting in these 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.240 writing rooms and just wanting to single word of God. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.080 And so you probably didn't hear it if you're watching 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.599 this later, but we just sang a song and it 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.560 goes straight from Matthew five. I'm gonna talk a little 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.200 bit about my dad today in the sermon, and I'm 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.039 gonna talk about him kind of, you know, kind of 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.080 tell you some of the good stuff, but the bad 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.719 stuff or whatever. It's gonna be what it is. But 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.760 one memory of my dad that's really precious to me? 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.400 Is he loved? My mom can tell you the Sermon 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.520 on the Mount Matthew five six and seven. So I 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.080 was thinking, like when we were writing that song where 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.240 we just go through the attitudes blessed to the poor 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.120 and spirit for their kingdom having blessed us and more 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.000 they become, and just singing those scriptures, I was thinking, men, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.960 the el Tring would love this. He'd be running laps. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.279 And so it's just exciting. We're gonna be recording again, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.360 what is it, October sixth, So we're gonna be recording 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.719 some new songs on October sixth, So you're all invited 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:03.479 for that. Also, you're all invited to Elevation Nights. We're 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:09.400 gonna take this glory on the road. That's right, I'm 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:15.120 gonna do it. So if you're in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:20.040 Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, or Jacksonville, come on out. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.599 That's October twenty sixth through November fourth Elevation Nights dot 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.599 com so they don't have to come from five hundred miles. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.600 We'll come to you. Man. It's gonna be so exciting. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Wow, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:39.760 look at you you walking, talking miracle, you live in 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:46.800 breathing miracle. The devil is so confused because you're you're 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.400 praising God after all he puts you through. This week, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.440 he's like flipping out. He's summoning all his little junior demons, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.039 Like I thought, I told you to a tackle, then 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.080 I got dead. But they ain't just take, They just take, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:13.240 They just tame, and they've made it a day. Hebrew's thirteen. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:24.000 Hebrew's thirteen, verse seven. Remember your leaders who spoke the 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.640 word of God to you, consider the outcome of their 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:34.160 way of life, and imitate their faith. Say my title 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.960 one more time to your neighbor. Copy that you may 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:42.920 be seated, You may be seated. How many have you 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:50.920 heard the sermon last week? Y'all? Do know they're free online, right, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.880 so if you ever sleep in or can't be here, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.080 make sure you catch up. A lot of times it's 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.040 on the second listen that you really get what God 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.520 wanted to say to you, because on the first listen 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.960 you're kind of like judging me, like, you know, if 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.720 I agree with this, if you can do it? There? 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.480 What are those shoes? You know? Just looking at stupid stuff. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.440 And then sometimes on the second time, it's not the distractions, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.160 but it goes deeper. It goes deeper. You go, oh, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.440 this is I got it on one level and I 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.960 got it on the second. Listen. So there's a value 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.680 in repetition. There's there's also a danger in repetition. I 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.800 felt like my sermon last week was a little more 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.640 on the negative side. I'm not apologizing for it because 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.160 I took it from the Bible where God warned Moses. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.800 It says he warned him, and I was warning you 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.800 make sure or see to it that you build according 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.000 to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.160 That's where God met with Moses and showed him how 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.880 to build the tabernacle, Holy of Holy's, table of show bread, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.760 all that stuff he showed him on the mountain, because 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.880 then he had to go down to where the people were. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.880 I always had these great ideas about ministry until people 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.880 showed up and messed up my ideas of ministry because 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.400 they don't do it like you tell them to, and 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.400 they don't run the first base, then second based in 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.920 third base. See them over there climbing the fence, playing 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.400 in the dirt and stuff. And that's me too, right, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.600 that's me too, and that's tricky to be a leader. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.520 How many leaders do we actually have here today? Worship leaders? 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:35.640 Let's start their worship leaders? Really cool. I want to 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.800 ask that again, but this time I want every parent 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.240 to raise your hand. How many worship leaders do we 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:48.760 have here today? Whether you want to or not, you 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.400 are teaching your children not only how to worship, and 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.400 some of that, you're teaching them as well. If you're 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.320 kind of a one hand in the pocket hand lifter, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.760 they'll probably do same thing. But it's also true that 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.560 you're teaching them what to worship every time you set 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:14.199 the schedule to say, well, we'll go to church if 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:24.360 we have time. Wow, I just felt an arctic wind. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:30.280 It's true. And I'm so grateful that Christy Collins pulled 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.000 out her iPhone and captured this video that I'm about 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.120 to show you because I feel most of the time 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.440 like i'm failing. As to Dad, I'm wired. I'm hard 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.360 wired to be hard on myself and some of you 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.440 are too easy on yourself, and some of us are 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.160 too hard on ourselves, and then we can help each 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.679 other out. But Holly's really good about it too. She's 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.400 always sending me these time hops do you'll do time 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.160 hop where it shows you this is what you were 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:56.880 doing five years ago, this is what you were doing 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.839 seven years ago, this is what you do nine years ago. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.000 And so it's just showed me it Charlotte Knights game 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.360 with the boys, just to remind me, good dad, You're 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:11.400 good dad, and I need that. But what Christie captured 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.080 we were doing our recording with Elevation Worship in Maverick 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:21.240 City called Old Church Basement. I sat right there with 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.120 my kids on that ledge. Our whole family was on 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.760 that ledge. The building still wasn't fully open. With COVID. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.600 Tested made this album. It's touched the world. It's probably 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.040 it's probably one of my favorite things I ever worked 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.600 on as a songwriter, as a pastor, as a producer, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.559 and I'm so thankful for everyone who's involved. But the 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:46.920 greatest part of the night wasn't on YouTube. The greatest 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:52.640 parts never are. The greatest part was when we were 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.959 recording the song wait on You, I'll trust in your primis. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.840 I'm gone on, wait on you gotta do with a 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.400 little growl, I'm going no, you gotta aggressively wait on 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:12.240 the Lord. Wait when I just couldn't take it anymore. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.760 And we were about thirty seven minutes into the song 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.439 and I shumped off the ledge and I ran down 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.800 and I couldn't take it anymore. And I looked up 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.080 and Abby was standing beside me. Now, my children are 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.760 very competitive. Last week I baptized Gramma called him up 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.280 on stage. I gave him a speech. I gave him 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:33.960 a Bible and Abby said that was a that was good. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.760 When am I going to be in a sermon again? 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.320 So I picked this out because it fit with my 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.679 theme of copy that. Watch this little fifty second video. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:13:27.440 I love this. I like that one. I favorited that 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.240 one on my phone. I could see it in those moments, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:38.199 you know those moments. I will interview your wife this 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.559 week and talk about those moments next week. If you 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.640 don't nod your head at me, do you have those 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:47.480 moments where you need an example, a better example. I 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.120 want to go ahead and beat all the trolls to it. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.079 I'm not going to be on Dancing with the Stars 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.440 with those moves. I know that I understand that my 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.120 moves are unorthodox. My kids tell me this all the time. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:04.280 They keep me humble. But we didn't choreograph that we 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:09.839 didn't practice, that we didn't have to. I didn't tell her, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.320 you know, I think I'm gonna do this like this 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.120 wounded eagle, move like an eagle that was shot but 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.480 not killed. I'm gonna come through, and I need you 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.080 to do it with me, so I don't look stupid. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:29.480 It'd be cute if you don't. I watched her. I 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:36.960 realized that there's what I say and there's what she sees. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:45.000 When people do what people see. Yeah, the challenge for 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.720 a lot of people I'm preaching to is that sometimes 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.800 you have to be something that you've never seen before. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.160 When I read my scripture, remember your leaders who spoke 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.800 the word of God to you. Put it on the 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.680 screen again. Because there's no power in my words. There's 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.520 power in God's words. Remember your leaders who spoke the 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.640 word of God to you, who told you I can 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.840 do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, who told 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.760 you God's hand is on you, who told you that 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.520 there's nothing more important than God, who told you that 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.200 if Christ isn't at the center of your life, the 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.160 whole thing will fall apart. Who told you and taught you, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.000 who preached to you and taught to you that you 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.960 are who God says you are. But in reading this, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.800 I realized that a lot of the people that I 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:45.120 preached to never really had someone to speak this word 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.520 over their life. So then they went with what the 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.800 world told them because they didn't know what the word 0:15:53.080 --> 0:16:00.520 said about them. That's uh, what I was going to 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.160 tell you about my dad because one time my mom. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.960 My mom was so good at this. She would cover 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.520 for his crazy as she'd pulled him to the side, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.360 and she'd say, you know, he's doing real good. I said, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.000 he's not doing real good. He's crazy. He's crazy. I 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.520 can't stand him. And he was doing he's coaching my teams, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.520 he's doing all this stuff. But one day she said, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.240 did you know he didn't have a dad growing up? 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.200 I didn't know that. I knew he didn't have his 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.320 dad long, but I didn't know that his dad had 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.440 killed himself. I didn't know that my dad had found 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:34.200 his dad dad on his own birthday when he was eight. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.320 I didn't know that. I didn't know that he was 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:46.840 making everything up. So even that one time when I 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.600 said I hated him and I wanted to kill him, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.320 when I was a teenager, and he picked me up 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.880 from school early and told me we were going out 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.800 to the National Forest and he had two guns in 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.160 the back of the truck and one of us was 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.360 going to kill the other one. Even though that isn't 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.760 necessarily the best parenting tactic, and it's not doctor Philip Roof. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.920 He didn't have focus on the family growing up. All right. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.240 I did the best I could. I did the best 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:21.120 I could. He's doing real good. If you saw, if 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.360 you saw what he never got to see. So when 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.159 the author of Hebrews is saying, here, remember your leaders 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:33.199 who spoke the word of God concerning you, he's not 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.520 so much talking about their words that they spoke, the 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.120 word of God that they spoke. But then he says 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.600 something really powerful. That's what I want to teach on today. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.760 Somebody shall copy that. Put it in the chat right now. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:49.280 Copy that. That's what they say on a walkie talkie 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.960 right copy that. It means I heard it, I've got it. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.879 I'm on it. You see these security people around our 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:01.040 church keeping you safe. Thank God for them. If you 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.080 knew how crazy some Christians are, you'd be clapping better 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:13.679 than that for the security team. But they say it 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.120 all the time I copy that, go, I assume Row 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:22.800 four copy that. And I wanted to call the sermon 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.919 that because that which you copy is that what you become. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.399 That which you believe is that what you become. And 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.560 so when he says, remember your leaders who spoke the 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.439 word of God to you, there are a lot of 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.639 words that were spoken to you and over you and 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.600 about you that have to be uprooted before the word 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.040 that God spoke about you can be planted. Now, remember 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.919 the Hebrews have not been a part of Christianity for 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.320 too millennium like we have, So they haven't had two 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.760 thousand years to get used to the idea that we 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.640 are justified by faith, not worse, it's all new to them. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.320 They have not had two thousand years to get used 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.359 to the fact that it is by grace you have 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.040 been saved through faith. It's not the blood that a 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.800 high priest takes. And remember I talked about this last week, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.679 that they serve in a tabernacle that is an earthly 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.520 copy of a heavenly reality. But even Moses, as holy 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.160 as he was, as important as he was, as amazing 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.080 as he was, only Moses could only lead them so far, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.560 and In the middle of this, he gives them an instruction. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:40.879 As he concludes his letter, he says, consider the outcome 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:47.240 of their way of life and imitate their faith, or 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:53.280 in other words, copy that can I preach. If y'all 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.520 have had enough, I'll go eat some Keto pancakes and chill. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.399 But the Lord said to me, first of all, consider 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.760 the outcome. And that hard to do when really what 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.800 you're seeing all day long in people's lives is you're 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.720 seeing just what I called it last week, a snapshot. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.040 Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.800 their faith. So question I've been thinking about is the 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.680 way of life that I am choosing producing the outcome 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:32.160 that I desire? Is the way of life that I'm 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:39.080 choosing producing the outcome that I desire? We need more 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:51.480 leaders in the world today, less opinions. We need more leaders, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:59.960 less influencers. Oh yeah, oh yeah. This is the part 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.640 to my sermon where I am a crotchety old man 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.880 telling you that what you are seeing on your real 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.520 r E E L is not real R E A L. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.800 This is the God's honest truth. The writer of Hebrews said, 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.800 imitate their faith. But we live in a time where 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:34.679 we are imitating their faith. So consider the outcome. I 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.679 wonder what happened five minutes after they took that picture. 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.200 I wonder what happened five minutes after they posted that. 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.040 I mean just five minutes, not five years. Let's talk 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:50.119 about five minutes after one day in church. I was 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.320 so sick of like preachers, always trying to be perfect. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.880 Me and my family we wake up every morning quote Ephesians, 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.320 pray and sing the Beatitude. And I said, let me 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.200 show you what this family is really like, and showed 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.200 one of our Christmas videos that was so beautiful and 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:04.240 welcome elevation and made it unto you as a child 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.280 is born and a savior this day in the city 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.240 of David that the Xavier as the country Chrystlier. And 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:14.240 then I showed the outtakes, and Holly Ferdick was one 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.119 step short of having to be bleeped what she was 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:22.639 saying to those kids in those outtakes. So watch this 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:28.480 outcome outtakes. Nobody is showing you their outtakes. You are imitating. 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:30.639 Now I gotta get this across. I don't careful I 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.480 have to say it every week for then I'll be 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.560 up here seventy five years old, dragging my right leg 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:41.800 behind me, talking about what you're copying is cropped. It 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.960 is only showing you so much. And a lot of 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.800 the people that we are emulating and imitating and talking 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.720 like and captioning like. And you know what's the weirdest thing. 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:55.600 I thought we as parents were supposed to set an 0:22:55.640 --> 0:23:00.119 example for our kids. But now I see grown men 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:11.240 and women trying to talk like a kid, and it's cringey, y'all, 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:16.320 it's cringey. It's cringey when you're a dad of three 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:18.679 and you're still trying to show you got it. You 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.920 got game. You know what you got, You got dependence, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.560 you got bills to pay, you got a mortgage. Grow 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:32.639 up man, that's over. When I became a man, I 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.200 put away childish things. Now I'm not talking about not 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.639 having fun. I'm the goofiest dude in the world. But 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.440 what I'm saying is a lot of times like Romans 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.479 twelve to two is my favorite verse to explain this. 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.280 It says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.919 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.520 a lot of people will make the distinction between the 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.600 pattern of this world and the renewing of your mind. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:24:00.840 But really in the text, the juice of it is 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:08.320 intwo different words. It's conform transform. Conform is something you 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.800 can change, just like an attitude or a posture. Transform 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:17.160 is different. Transform is something that has to happen because 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:21.399 of what's on the inside. So since you have Christ 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.080 inside of you, now remember you're not serving that a 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:26.080 tabernacle built with human hands. You don't have a high 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:28.320 priest that was selected from among men. You are not 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.399 serving a shadow or a copy. You have a risen 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:34.679 Savior who set an example for you so that you 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:38.480 can copy that. And since that is in you, the 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.560 spirit of God is in you, not the spirit of 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:45.159 the world, not the spirit of worry, the spirit of 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:49.840 the world. You get to reproduce that because it's on 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:56.000 the inside, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:00.880 So what's in you has to come out. And that's 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:04.320 why the writer of Hebrew says, remember the word of 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:09.959 God that was spoken to you, and copy that in 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:14.280 your heart, and copy that in your life. Oh, I 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.600 forgot to read you the verse after that. I really 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:18.560 truly forgot. This is not a little thing. I'm doing 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:24.000 in my sermon. Verse eight says, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:28.840 and forever. So, he says, remember the leaders who spoke 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.680 the word of God over you, consider the outcome, how 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.400 it worked out for them. And we use all kinds 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:39.639 of excuses for bad examples. And so we'll do the 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:42.560 same dumb things that we saw growing up. And this 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:44.399 is what we'll tag it with at the end. And 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:50.080 look at me. I turned out all right, did you though? 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:57.359 Did you really? Because maybe it just hadn't caught up 0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:59.960 with you yet, Like, well, I don't cost it my kid. 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:02.560 My dad did it too, and it was good for me. 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:08.360 I turned out all right. I don't think. I don't 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.840 think you're all right. I'm watching it right now. I'm 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:13.240 seeing there's a little bit of a wound, just a 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:19.160 little bit of a wound, just a little something. How 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:24.000 do you copy what you never saw? And he said, 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:28.480 Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. So 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:33.760 like the devil isn't very creative, God is a creator. 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:39.880 The devil is not. The devil is so uncreative, everybody, 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:45.000 how uncreative is he? He's so uncreative that he only 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:50.240 has three temptations. That's the only way he can tempt you. First, 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:53.480 John says, the lust of the world, the lust of 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:56.160 the flesh, and the pride of life, lust of the eyes. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:58.520 This is the love of the world. I messed that up. 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.800 I'm gonna do this again. The love of the world 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:05.240 is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:08.840 and the pride of life. Go to Matthew chapter four. 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.320 We said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:16.520 and a lot of time times we think we're facing 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:20.760 a brand new temptation, but we're not. It's just the 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:28.199 same devil in a different disguise. I love helping my 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.840 kids navigate their life the best I can, but it's 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:34.960 tricky sometimes because we didn't have Snapchat, we didn't have TikTok. 0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:39.119 But the same devil that was busy on TikTok was 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:46.160 busy on doss or the rotary phone or fax machine 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:50.159 or whatever you did with your messaging pigeon. It's the 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:54.159 same devil, everybody say. It's the same devil and the 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:58.040 same three things that you're tempted with that derail you 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:00.400 and sabotage you and bring you back down and get 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:02.280 you out of the pattern God, children, noun. It's the 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:05.120 same three things it's in Matthew. For so Jesus goes 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:08.560 to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Last week, 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:10.880 when I finished Graham, you remember this is my son 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:13.560 I love, whom I'm well pleased. Graham is so funny. 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:15.600 I said, do you want a special meal after we 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:18.080 baptize you? He said, Jesus didn't get a special meal. 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:23.360 I'll eat whatever everybody else is eating. Jesuson gets special meal. 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:29.720 He sisted, all right. So he wasn't saying it because 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:33.359 he was holy. He just was making a joke. The 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.840 next thing that happened, Matthew chapter four, I say, copy that. 0:28:37.160 --> 0:28:40.680 So the affirmation of the Father and then the temptation 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:45.600 from the enemy. Okay, this is a pattern that you 0:28:45.640 --> 0:28:49.640 can copy to be affirmed by your Father in heaven, 0:28:50.720 --> 0:28:52.960 so that when you are tempted by your enemy in 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:57.200 the wilderness, you will have at your core your knowing 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:03.520 of who you are. So Jesus was then led by 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:06.320 the spirit in the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:09.840 and after fasting forty days and forty nights, you didn't 0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:15.480 do that grim. He was hungry, and the tempter came 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:17.840 to him and said, if you are the son of God, 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:20.520 tell these stones to become bred. I know you know 0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:22.600 the scripture, but let's just move through, because there's a 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:27.920 lesson here for today. Jesus answered, it is written, man 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:31.200 shall not live on bread alone, but on every word 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:34.560 that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:37.200 took him up to the Holy City and had him 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:41.000 stand on the highest point of the temple. If you 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:44.400 are the son of God, he said, throw yourself down, 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:49.800 prove yourself, show everybody what you can do. If you 0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:54.280 got it flaunted, go ahead and show everybody who you 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:57.080 really are. Go ahead, and you know you got to 0:29:57.160 --> 0:30:00.320 make it happen for yourself, For it is written he 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:03.480 will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift 0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:05.480 you up in their hands, so that you will not 0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:09.480 strike your foot against a stone. And Jesus answered him, 0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:13.240 it is also written, do not put the Lord your 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:16.400 God to the test one more. Now we've already seen 0:30:16.720 --> 0:30:19.760 the lust of the flesh turn the stones into bread. 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:22.080 That's when you try to turn things into things that 0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:24.320 they were not meant to be. That's when you try 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:27.160 to turn sex into an object to gratify a spiritual need, 0:30:27.400 --> 0:30:31.240 so that rather in the context of marriage expressing your sexuality, 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:33.960 you express it in places where it spills over and 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:37.320 contaminates all the places of your life, because it creates 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:40.440 commitments that are not rooted in covenant, but are rather 0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:43.720 rooted in convenience and pleasure. And so then the enemy 0:30:43.760 --> 0:30:47.440 can rip you out because you turned a stone into bread. 0:30:47.920 --> 0:30:51.560 This is when we go seeking for people's validations, when 0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:54.360 our father's voice is not enough, when we didn't have 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:57.360 a leader that spoke the word of God over us. 0:30:57.600 --> 0:31:00.200 Then we are open to what the world thinks about, 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.880 and we will change everything until we get the exact 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:08.760 the exact compliment, the exact affirmation, the exact validation we 0:31:08.800 --> 0:31:12.400 were looking for. That's the lust of the flesh, the 0:31:12.480 --> 0:31:15.480 lust of the eyes, you know, and the pride of life. 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:21.720 This one right here, I've dealt with this a lot 0:31:21.760 --> 0:31:23.320 in my life. Again, the devil took him to a 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:24.840 very high mountain verse eight, and showed him all the 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:26.600 kinds thrown this splunder. All this I will give you, 0:31:26.680 --> 0:31:30.240 he said, if you bow down and worship me. Now, 0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:33.440 I never bowed down and worshiped the devil like that. 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:43.960 But I have worshiped what the world worshiped. I have, 0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:47.320 at periods in my life, thought that a certain level 0:31:47.360 --> 0:31:51.480 of success would make me a real man. I have 0:31:51.520 --> 0:31:54.440 thought that a certain amount of money would make me secure. 0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:58.920 And it really has to do with worship. I don't 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:02.400 want to depend on God to be my provider. That's 0:32:02.400 --> 0:32:08.080 too uncertain. So I start worshiping what's in the world, 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:12.479 plus the fleshless, the eyes, pride of life. All this 0:32:12.640 --> 0:32:15.640 I will give you. If you're about unworship me. And 0:32:15.760 --> 0:32:18.640 Jesus said, away from me, Satan, for it is written, 0:32:19.600 --> 0:32:26.440 worship the Lord, your God, and serve him only. So 0:32:26.480 --> 0:32:33.160 I realize now that I am a leader for these 0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:36.240 three kids, for my wife, and God's made me a 0:32:36.280 --> 0:32:43.360 leader in this church. And now I'm asking myself the question, 0:32:43.680 --> 0:32:48.680 what example do I want to say of what we worship? 0:32:49.440 --> 0:32:51.960 Because I know what the world worships. The world worships talent, 0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:57.080 the world worships sensuality. And here's the weird thing about 0:32:57.080 --> 0:32:59.520 our culture. Okay, I appreciate the United States America shar 0:32:59.640 --> 0:33:01.760 North care Line, wouldn't rather be anywhere else. I'm born 0:33:01.800 --> 0:33:03.720 and raised in the Carolinas, and I'm proud of where 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:05.760 I'm from. But the weirdest thing about our culture right 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:11.640 now is the way we worship youth. We don't remember 0:33:11.680 --> 0:33:13.640 our leaders that spoke the Word of God over us. 0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:19.400 They're irrelevant, they're not trendy. We rather go find somebody 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:22.760 who hasn't even lived long enough that we can even 0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:26.959 know if they make it through their twinies. Huh do 0:33:27.040 --> 0:33:30.000 they even live to be thirty? And we will copy that. 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:35.440 You're ready for a guest freacher or something like that. 0:33:36.680 --> 0:33:39.760 I'm just stirred up about it because I am watching 0:33:39.880 --> 0:33:44.480 us copy the world and slap a Christian vocabulary on it. 0:33:44.720 --> 0:33:47.479 And there are no different values in the House of 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:52.960 God than there are in the world. It's not about 0:33:53.000 --> 0:33:56.280 the external stuff. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking 0:33:56.360 --> 0:34:00.680 about the kingdom within you and the culture around you. 0:34:01.600 --> 0:34:04.720 And he said, you need to spend more time remembering 0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:07.320 those who spoke the Word over you, because that's what 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.279 Jesus did every time he was tempted, and that's what 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:15.640 you copy. You fight the world with the word, you 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:20.000 fight the spirit of the world with the word. So 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:23.960 every time the devil said do it, Jesus said, it 0:34:24.040 --> 0:34:29.000 is written. He wasn't making this stuff up. All three 0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:33.839 things Jesus did to fight temptation, to fight hunger, to 0:34:33.960 --> 0:34:37.920 fight pride, to fight a census, and to agree with 0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:41.920 the spirit, all three things he said were already written 0:34:41.960 --> 0:34:48.239 in scripture. So Jesus said, I know what the word 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.359 of my Father is on this situation, and I'm gonna 0:34:51.400 --> 0:34:56.759 copy that. I will not conform to this world. That's 0:34:56.800 --> 0:35:02.640 why I'm glad. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:06.720 So it doesn't mean that the world stays the same, 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:13.799 but my worship stays the same because I understand that 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:17.480 what God did in my life yesterday it won't look 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:21.200 like what he's doing today. But watch this, David, the 0:35:21.239 --> 0:35:27.799 same God that delivered me from that will deliver me 0:35:27.920 --> 0:35:33.880 from this. So I speak by the spirit of faith, 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:42.200 not fear, imitate their faith, don't copy their flass. The 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.360 world is weird and it's not working, and it's broken, 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.280 and it hasn't been since Eve listened to the serpent 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:54.280 twist the words of her God, and then Adam, instead 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:56.360 of being a good husband and a leader, blame the woman. 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:06.080 So in my family, I gotta go through this whole time. 0:36:06.120 --> 0:36:10.880 I gotta weed out the worldly values daily, daily, transform 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:15.839 your mind. You don't do that one time, you won't 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:20.880 even get out of church good. Today. It'll probably be 0:36:20.920 --> 0:36:23.640 somebody with elevation sticker in the parking lot that'll make 0:36:23.680 --> 0:36:30.120 you so upset. They'll probably be playing worship music too, 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:34.960 probably be playing weight on you like quit flying and 0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:42.839 dry right there, right there. It doesn't take long. I'm 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:49.480 gonna say it again. Stop copying crazy, consider the outcome. 0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:53.680 Where's this taking me? And now I ask that about thoughts? Right, 0:36:55.120 --> 0:36:57.680 some things that are really bad feel really good to 0:36:57.760 --> 0:37:02.839 think really good. And I don't know if you should 0:37:02.880 --> 0:37:09.200 confess this or not. I love judging people. I am 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:14.240 completely addicted to it. It's so fun. Oh, it's so fun. 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:23.480 But how it feels the ooh, the outcome, the outcome 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:27.319 of that thought process. One of my friends asked me 0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:29.200 the other day, how do you want to feel at 0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:31.880 the end of this day? Reverse engineer it with your decisions, 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:42.120 consider the the what outcome, And to consider the outcome, 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:46.200 you got to monitor the inputs. Now, we live in 0:37:46.239 --> 0:37:50.160 a time where everybody wants this product, whether that's millions 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:52.040 of dollars or the kinds of cars or the kind 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:53.640 of success or the kind of marriage, or the kind 0:37:53.640 --> 0:37:56.080 of life. I want that outcome, but I don't want 0:37:56.080 --> 0:38:00.400 to emulate that process, so we get it backwards. The 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:04.160 writer and Hebrews said, imitate their faith and consider their outcome. 0:38:04.480 --> 0:38:09.160 We want to imitate someone's outcome, but we don't want 0:38:09.160 --> 0:38:16.839 to invest our faith. So I want what you have, 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:20.960 but I don't want to do what you did. So 0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:24.600 now I'll put it on a credit card at age 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:27.360 twenty three to have what you had at age thirty 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:29.920 two that I didn't want to wait a decade to achieve. 0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:37.879 We need better examples. And I'm not just talking about 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:40.239 cussing and drinking and chewing and tobacco and all this 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:43.160 stuff we always love to say, the external stuff. I'm 0:38:43.200 --> 0:38:45.439 talking about the internal stuff too, and I'm talking about 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:50.239 the values that we model. I told Elijah the other day, 0:38:50.400 --> 0:38:53.440 we have so much good times. Man. He said, one day, 0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:54.920 I wish we could record all this stuff. Me and 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:56.640 you talk about working out and just put it out 0:38:56.640 --> 0:38:59.560 to be the biggest podcast. I said. I said, well, 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:01.720 we would all so get canceled. Because we talk about 0:39:01.760 --> 0:39:05.520 everything we talk about Hebrew's thirteen. We talk about other 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:08.600 stuff too, and we talk about everything because he's sixteen, 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:11.640 and I don't want him to imitate everything about me. 0:39:11.680 --> 0:39:14.880 I really don't. He started driving recently and I'm like, 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:18.400 every road rage that I ever showed him is coming 0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:20.640 up behind me in the rear view mirror and I 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:23.239 see it coursing through my son, and I'm like, don't 0:39:23.280 --> 0:39:25.560 copy that, don't copy that, don't copy that. You know 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:27.239 how nice to your mom? Copy that? You know, I 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:29.879 study the order God, copy that, not that, not that, 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:33.920 not that. But then my kids get mad at me 0:39:34.360 --> 0:39:36.760 because you know, like me and Holly, we do PDA 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:39.799 stuff all over the house all the time because it's 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:46.600 my house. Because it's my house. And yes, I will 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:50.360 walk up to your mom in my kitchen and I 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:53.839 will kiss her with my whole mouth, right in front 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:56.080 of you. And if you don't like it, you don't 0:39:56.080 --> 0:40:02.280 have to look. Oh, sexy stuff is only allowed on TikTok. 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.239 I forgot not in the marriage because the world told 0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:07.960 us that the place for that is out of battance. 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:12.040 But Devil, I don't coffee. You are technological batters. I'm 0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:16.080 not coffeeing crazy. I kiss my wife, I hold her 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:19.920 hand with taking a nap. We are married. The marriage 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:26.360 bat is under fire Hebrew's thirteen four. Not kiss her again, 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:34.040 you go play outside, build a ford, kick a can. 0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:38.440 I don't care, because I want you to know you 0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:41.040 are supposed to kiss your wife and love her more 0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:44.280 twenty years. I'll tell your marriage is dirty and gross 0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:49.759 and nasty, So save it for your wife. What I 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:55.200 want to emulate something that's where them are dating. I 0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:57.000 don't do it all the time. That's why that video 0:40:57.040 --> 0:41:01.000 meant so much to me because I saw a time 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:05.680 I got it right, a time where I wasn't you 0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:09.120 know how we hit so self conscious, and I saw 0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:12.000 how she did it even better. She was about to 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:13.839 start head banging. I don't know if you'll saw it 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.560 because we watched guns n' Roses videos too. I'm gonna 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:19.279 keep it real with you. So she was about to 0:41:19.280 --> 0:41:26.920 start head banging. Consider the outcome. Where's this headed? Not 0:41:27.040 --> 0:41:28.680 just what does it look like feel like in the moment? 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:33.719 Where is this headed? If you keep, if you keep 0:41:33.760 --> 0:41:37.040 emulating that, if you keep there's two sides of this, Okay. 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:39.360 I think you got to think of yourself in this passage, 0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:43.040 thinking about what were the examples that were set for you. 0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:45.719 Because you copy what you saw and you don't even 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:48.719 realize you're doing it. You don't copy what they told 0:41:48.800 --> 0:41:51.040 you to do. One thing my dad did that was 0:41:51.120 --> 0:41:54.040 so brilliant is he struggled with alcoholism. And he took 0:41:54.120 --> 0:41:56.200 so many times to talk to me about what that 0:41:56.400 --> 0:41:58.719 was like for him, and he said, if you will 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:04.640 commit yourself early, you can break this. This has been generational. 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:07.120 He told me about his dad's death. He told me 0:42:07.160 --> 0:42:08.520 about what it was like to grow up in an 0:42:08.520 --> 0:42:11.080 abusive home like that. He said, but you can break it. 0:42:11.320 --> 0:42:15.960 Even though he couldn't break it, he struggled with it 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:20.640 so long, sometimes victorious, sometimes defeated, but he was determined. 0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:24.240 Watch this to give me permission to break a bad pattern. 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.279 And I don't know who you are, but there's one 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:32.520 person the Lord said to tell it to. You're a 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:38.520 good person. You have bad patterns. Now the enemy condemns you. 0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:41.279 You're worthless, you're this, you're that, you're da dah da 0:42:41.360 --> 0:42:42.799 da dah. And then you start to believe that and 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:45.239 you copy that and you identify yourself with that. You're 0:42:45.280 --> 0:42:48.279 a good person. Christ has made you new. You're a 0:42:48.280 --> 0:42:56.000 new creation in Christ. God made you that way. But 0:42:56.000 --> 0:43:01.879 if you have bad patterns, pattern of their and they're 0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:08.840 new and on your mind. So there are always voices 0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:12.120 speaking over you and to you and about you. What 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:16.080 are you gonna copy? There's the example that was set 0:43:16.239 --> 0:43:19.719 for you. Even in some cases, there's the season of 0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:21.520 life that you were in and the season of life 0:43:21.520 --> 0:43:25.960 that you are in. What are you gonna copy in 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:27.880 this season of your life? Jesus knew what to do. 0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:31.200 He said, it is written. It is also written. It 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:35.120 is written because I am not consulting with my enemy 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:41.160 for my life strategy. I'm not gonna copy it. I'm 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:42.880 not gonna I'm not gonna take these thoughts and just 0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:47.120 think them because I know where they lead. Even recently, 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:49.279 the Lord began to deal with me. He said, I 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:54.360 want you to stop indulging your insecurities. He said, it 0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:58.720 gives you self pity, and you use that to sedate 0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:03.359 the pain of pressure. I wrote all this down as 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:06.239 fast as I could so I could remember what I 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:10.520 was hearing from God's voice. But what it costs you 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:16.680 is much greater than what it offers you. Consider the outcome. 0:44:18.360 --> 0:44:22.160 Because when you tell yourself lies about yourself and limitations 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:24.760 about yourself, that do not. Now you do have limitations. Okay, 0:44:25.440 --> 0:44:27.120 so I'm not one of these. Can be anything you 0:44:27.120 --> 0:44:28.920 want to be. I think sometimes you need somebody to 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:31.799 tell you get a backup career and keep your day job. 0:44:31.840 --> 0:44:34.239 You are not going to make it on Kickstarter. That 0:44:34.400 --> 0:44:39.600 being said, the limitations and the lies that come from 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:43.240 what you have copied in your heart or what you saw. 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:47.200 See a lot of times God, like the people in Hebrews, 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:49.640 He was bringing them. God was bringing them into a 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.640 better covenant. Look at Hebrews eighty seven. I think this 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:55.160 is the last scripture. IM gonna have time to show 0:44:55.200 --> 0:45:01.040 you today. Are you full? You fool? Did you save 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:09.160 room for dessert? It just says this, It says Hebrews said, 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:11.800 for if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:13.600 that's the one Moses got from Sinai. That was the 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:19.920 law that we broke. That we broke if it hadn't 0:45:19.920 --> 0:45:22.520 been for the limitations of that covenant in that insomuch 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:24.640 as we were flawed, God is perfect. We are flawed. 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:28.040 This isn't gonna work. No place would have been sought 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:32.080 for another. And the other one, of course, is the 0:45:32.080 --> 0:45:33.960 covenant that begins not with what we have done, but 0:45:34.000 --> 0:45:37.600 with what God has done and that we're accepted in Him. 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:42.160 So this is our new starting place. But the enemy, 0:45:42.239 --> 0:45:45.799 he will take you back to what you saw all 0:45:45.840 --> 0:45:49.719 your life, and even as God is blessing you with 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:55.520 something better, you will sink back down to the baseline 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:58.520 of what you saw. Because what you copy in your 0:45:58.560 --> 0:46:07.080 heart the direction of your life. It is written. I 0:46:07.160 --> 0:46:13.120 am not copying the world anymore. I did it. It's exhausting, 0:46:14.040 --> 0:46:19.560 it's depleting, it's depressing. I'm not doing it anymore. I'm 0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:21.640 not going to measure myself how I'm told I'm supposed 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:26.000 to measure myself anymore. I did it. I barely lived 0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:28.120 through it. I'm not going to copy the way the 0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:32.000 world spends time anymore. Where the proof that you are 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:35.239 significant is that you are so busy that you have 0:46:35.360 --> 0:46:38.919 no time or margin to consider anything that God might 0:46:38.960 --> 0:46:43.760 invite you to do. So now we're just all running around. 0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:46.759 I asked one guy, when do you take your day off? 0:46:46.840 --> 0:46:49.000 He said, well, I don't take a day off. Devil 0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:51.279 never takes a day off. And in my mind, I'm like, 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:56.160 are you copying the devil or God? Because God took 0:46:56.200 --> 0:47:08.760 a they are It's in our rhythms, it's in our rest, 0:47:10.320 --> 0:47:14.400 it's in what we receive and what we release. And 0:47:14.440 --> 0:47:16.239 the Lord wants you to release some things that were 0:47:16.280 --> 0:47:21.200 spoken over you by those wrong voices so that you 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:27.160 can receive something better. And copy that, and copy that. 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:32.520 Just get it on your mind all week long, and 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:39.040 copy that, the word of God that was spoken over you. Father. 0:47:39.120 --> 0:47:43.920 I thank you what you gave me today. I hear 0:47:43.960 --> 0:47:48.840 you speaking from heaven right now, and I want to 0:47:48.840 --> 0:47:52.319 hear your children say copy that. I hear you, God, 0:47:52.520 --> 0:47:56.440 I hear you talking to me. Pastor Stephen was talking 0:47:56.480 --> 0:47:59.200 to a lot of different people, but you were speaking 0:47:59.239 --> 0:48:04.280 to me. God. You showed me something on the mountain. 0:48:06.480 --> 0:48:11.640 You showed me something in your presence. You invested something 0:48:11.640 --> 0:48:14.719 in me, and the thief comes to kill still and 0:48:14.760 --> 0:48:22.680 destroy it. So Lord, I want to bring the people 0:48:22.719 --> 0:48:26.879 before you today, such a vast group Lord that you've 0:48:26.880 --> 0:48:30.680 called us to. Pastor, some people just starting out in 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:33.080 their faith, some people not even sure if they have faith. 0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:41.720 Yet your word says, imitate their faith. We've been copying 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:46.120 the wrong stuff. Lord, We've been taking fear and just 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:50.040 living in it and rehearsing it and regurgitating it and 0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:53.880 feeding it and living in it and regurgitating and rehearsing that, 0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:57.399 and so we repent of that. We repent. We want 0:48:57.400 --> 0:49:01.440 to do it different. Gots to say that, God, I 0:49:01.480 --> 0:49:04.400 want to do it different. I'm on to stand up 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:07.480 on your feet. We're going to pray this together. It's 0:49:07.520 --> 0:49:11.040 not my job to transform your mind. It's your job 0:49:11.120 --> 0:49:13.439 to cooperate with the Holy Spirit of God. So say Lord, 0:49:14.480 --> 0:49:18.239 I want to do it different. I want to do 0:49:18.280 --> 0:49:23.440 it different. I want to do it different. The way 0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:27.400 I've been doing it hasn't been working, and I'm tired 0:49:27.480 --> 0:49:34.279 of it, and I'm weary and I'm heavy laden. So 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:38.840 I'm taking your yoke today and I'm joining up with Jesus, 0:49:38.920 --> 0:49:44.120 and I'm hooking up with you Holy Spirit, because your 0:49:44.160 --> 0:49:51.400 burden is light. So for all the spirit of heaviness 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:54.279 that we've been under this week, we exchange it now 0:49:54.320 --> 0:49:59.040 for the garment of praise. We thank you for your 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:01.440 word that has been spoken over us. Maybe we didn't 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:05.120 have a person to speak it to us. I pray 0:50:05.160 --> 0:50:11.160 for somebody today who was verbally abused and now the 0:50:11.200 --> 0:50:18.359 trauma of that experience has them trapped. Your word says 0:50:18.400 --> 0:50:23.720 that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:29.640 So it's not too late. It's not too late for 0:50:29.680 --> 0:50:35.240 you to break the pattern. It is not too late 0:50:35.520 --> 0:50:40.200 for you to live. It is not too late for 0:50:40.239 --> 0:50:44.640 you to love. Maybe you weren't loved like you were 0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:47.239 supposed to be loved. Maybe you didn't have leaders, Maybe 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:49.399 you don't even know what to copy. And now here 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.800 you are, and you're grown, and you're trying to raise kids, 0:50:52.880 --> 0:50:56.240 trying to be something that you never had the chance 0:50:56.320 --> 0:51:08.480 to see. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 0:51:11.719 --> 0:51:15.440 And even if Moses couldn't show you, there's something greater 0:51:15.480 --> 0:51:19.239 than Moses that's here. Oh, not only just an example. 0:51:20.680 --> 0:51:25.680 You have the Holy Spirit inside of you. God has 0:51:25.800 --> 0:51:29.960 seen you as you really are, not as you thought 0:51:30.040 --> 0:51:33.200 you were, and not as you were last year, not 0:51:33.400 --> 0:51:36.200 as you were ten years ago, not as you were 0:51:36.320 --> 0:51:41.000 before this sermon. Today you are changing from glory to 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:45.759 glory with ever increasing glory. And what God put in 0:51:45.800 --> 0:51:49.520 you is greater than anything but the world can throw 0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:59.360 against you. Now immitate that you know what. Look at me. 0:52:00.080 --> 0:52:06.799 You haven't even seen the blueprint of the true you. 0:52:06.800 --> 0:52:11.319 You haven't even seen it. You haven't even seen it. 0:52:11.440 --> 0:52:14.240 I saw an interview where a man said Steve Jobs 0:52:14.520 --> 0:52:16.880 was walking him around before he died, and he was 0:52:16.920 --> 0:52:19.080 taking him through and he was showing him all this 0:52:19.160 --> 0:52:22.520 stuff that Apple had already invented, but people wouldn't find 0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:25.680 out about un till three years later. He said, And 0:52:25.719 --> 0:52:27.560 we went through this door in that door, and we 0:52:27.600 --> 0:52:29.480 had to put our eye on the thing and the 0:52:29.640 --> 0:52:31.880 other eye on the other thing. And it was sixteen 0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:34.640 security clearances, and there was a table and he said, 0:52:34.640 --> 0:52:40.759 Steve Jobs said, look, he's walking me through. He was 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:47.040 walking me through, showing me stuff that he had already designed, 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:54.240 stuff that was already prototype. You know, God can walk 0:52:54.320 --> 0:52:57.680 you into your future and show you who you are 0:52:57.719 --> 0:53:06.759 going to be when you get free. Yeah, that's why 0:53:06.800 --> 0:53:09.959 I worship, because I need God to get me past 0:53:10.040 --> 0:53:14.160 all the security clearance and show me what he sees 0:53:14.200 --> 0:53:18.319 that I'm gonna be that hasn't been released yet. Come on. 0:53:18.400 --> 0:53:21.120 I love the scripture. It says it does not yet 0:53:21.160 --> 0:53:25.600 appear what we shall be. That means no eye has seen, 0:53:26.080 --> 0:53:29.680 no gear has heard, neither has it even answered into 0:53:29.800 --> 0:53:34.440 your heart what God has revealed. But God has revealed 0:53:34.440 --> 0:53:39.440 it by his spirit. Show me, by your spirit, God, 0:53:39.719 --> 0:53:42.919 what you see in me. Show me, by your spirit, God, 0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:46.200 what I am stripped of the stuff that was said 0:53:46.239 --> 0:53:53.319 about me, that I repeated in my heart and helped 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:58.279 me to take what you see in heaven, and as 0:53:58.280 --> 0:54:05.080 it is in heaven, our Father, who ard in heaven. Hello, 0:54:05.160 --> 0:54:06.560 of your name, you Kingdom. Come, here will be done 0:54:06.760 --> 0:54:12.759 your kingdom. Come, Let the culture go, your kingdom. Come. 0:54:12.920 --> 0:54:16.760 You will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 0:54:16.960 --> 0:54:21.600 See to it that you build according to the pattern 0:54:23.080 --> 0:54:26.359 that God showed you on the mountain. See to it 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:28.440 that you remember what your father spoke to you and 0:54:28.520 --> 0:54:31.320 the baptism at the Jordan, when you're facing that devil 0:54:31.320 --> 0:54:48.319 in the wilderness, and copy that that that that you 0:54:48.440 --> 0:54:52.520 see that victorious Savior risen from the grave. The Bible 0:54:52.560 --> 0:54:55.440 says that as he has risen, so are we risen. 0:54:55.719 --> 0:54:58.640 So I'm coming up too. If he got up, I'm 0:54:58.719 --> 0:55:02.640 right behind him. I'm not staying down. My Savior didn't 0:55:02.719 --> 0:55:11.319 stay down. Happy that I hear you, Lord, And your 0:55:11.400 --> 0:55:19.200 word never returns. Boy, It accomplishes what you send it 0:55:19.840 --> 0:55:24.279 to do. Heads bowed, eyes closed, We seal this word 0:55:24.360 --> 0:55:28.399 now in the soil of our faith Lord, we make 0:55:28.440 --> 0:55:31.840 a pact with you. We make a pact with you 0:55:31.920 --> 0:55:36.520 concerning our purpose and concerning our peace, that we are 0:55:36.560 --> 0:55:44.319 rejecting the world's patterns and aligning with your promise. Thank 0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:46.759 you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you 0:55:46.800 --> 0:55:49.879 who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you 0:55:49.920 --> 0:55:52.919 that this ministry is possible. You can click the link 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:56.359 in the description to give now or visit Elevation Church 0:55:56.560 --> 0:56:00.040 dot org slash podcast for more information and if you 0:56:00.280 --> 0:56:03.239 the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it with 0:56:03.320 --> 0:56:05.560 your friends. 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