Cutting Room

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.439 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 --> 0:00:13.240 gives your perspective to see God is. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.280 Moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.000 Welcome to our family all over the world, our efam, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.720 our extended family. Let's take a moment at Valentine. Clap 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.720 our hands. Welcome, every location, every person watching, every family. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.040 Hey, how you going? 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.239 Tell the kids to be quiet, Tell them you need 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.519 some peace and undistracted space for God to speak. For 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.199 all of you who made it out today in person, Welcome, Welcome, is. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.000 So good to see you. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.960 Oh big hat, A big hat to each and every 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:47.479 one of you. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:50.360 I am excited. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.160 I would ask that you remain standing for just about 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.800 ninety more seconds because I want to read my scripture 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.920 and I want you alert and ready for what the 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.840 Lord is going to speak from his word to you today. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:08.840 How many are excited? Oh boy? 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.959 I used to when I was a rookie pastor get 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.640 depressed if it was raining outside when we were coming 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.360 to church, or rainy because we are kind of fair 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.640 weather sometimes, and it doesn't take much to convince us 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.600 not to come to church. And I used to think, oh, no, well, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.560 the people won't be there today, and then one day 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.920 a switch flip for me. On the days where it's 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.720 a little rainy, the people who really want to be 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.760 there come and you can have some amazing, amazing experiences. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.680 So just look at your neighbor and say extra credit 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:47.039 for real. It's probably beautiful somewhere where you are, but 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.760 here we are together. Week five of a series called Ghostwriter. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.320 I'm talking about the holy ghosts. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.600 When the Holy ghost gets a hold of you, there's 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.000 no telling what you're liable to do. So don't be 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.120 surprised today if you feel like shouting when I start preaching, 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.160 or if a tear hits your eye and God speaks 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.959 to you, we welcome the spirit of the Lord. I'm 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.520 going to be sharing from Acts chapter four, verses twenty 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:23.519 three through thirty one. This is a very practical message. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:31.440 I pray that God would surgically remove, rebuild, and insert 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:36.120 whatever it is that He sees fit in your life today. Amen, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.160 Acts chapter four, verse twenty. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.639 Three through twenty one. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.840 And if you were here last week, you have a 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.160 head start, because this is the very next thing that 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.680 happens after the great miracle that we preached about last week, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.359 where I told you places everyone places everyone, And now 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.359 we continue in a different place. In Acts, chapter four, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.440 verse twenty three, the Bible says, on their release, Peter 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.960 and John went back to their own people and reported 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.720 all that the chief priests and the elders had said 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.520 to them. And when they heard this, they raised their 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.079 voices together in prayer to God. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.960 Sovereign Lord. They said, you made. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:30.200 The heavens and the earth, and the sea and everything 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.240 in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.800 mouth of your servant, our Father David. Why do the 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:42.560 nation's rage and the people's plot in vain the kings 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.960 of the earth do rise up the rulers band together 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:51.600 against the Lord and against his anointed one. Indeed, Herod 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.480 and Ponscious Pilot met together with the gentiles and the 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.480 people of Israel in this city to conspire against your 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:06.040 Holy Sols, Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.120 power and will had. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.720 Decided beforehand should happen. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:16.839 Now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable your servants to 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.919 speak your word with great boldness, stretch out your hand 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:27.240 and heal and perform signs and wonders through the name 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:33.880 of your Holy servant Jesus. And after they prayed, Verse 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.040 thirty one says the place where they were meeting was 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.560 shaken and they were all filled with the Holy ghost 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.240 and spoke the word of God boldly. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.880 Let's clap our hands and thank God for his word. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.880 I want to talk to you about something today, very important. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:03.719 The name of this message is this cutting room. Yeah. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.520 I want to talk to you about the place called 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.440 the cutting room. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:09.400 The cutting room. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.640 Some stuff that needs to be taken out, some stuff 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.600 that needs to be added back in, and it all 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.320 happens in the cutting room. That's where God has had 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.760 you lately. In the cutting room. You were confused about it. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.599 You thought the story was over. It's not over. You're 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.599 just in the cutting room. And Father, I pray that 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.719 you would enable me like you enabled them in Acts 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.400 chapter four, to speak your word boldly, no fear or nerves, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.600 only a desire to serve your people so that they 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.360 may be built up for the very thing you've called 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:40.880 them to do. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.240 I claim it now in Jesus' name, and I thank 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:43.680 you for it. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:52.200 In advance. Amen, Amen, you may be seated. The cutting room. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.680 They took that term from back in the day when 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.880 they were making a movie. They used to actually use 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.719 razor blades and surgical instruments when they were taking the 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:08.440 film and making it shorter, or if they were moving 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.520 the order of the scenes around, and of course the 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.800 director would go into the cutting room. It had to 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.960 be a certain physical place. Now it's all digital. Now 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:21.120 they've got software on the computer, like final Cut Pro. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.039 Isn't that what's called? Yeah, Final cut Pro, And you 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.240 can do it all on your computer. But of course 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.400 when you would do it physically and snipet and get 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.719 the scissors or the razor blades or whatever they would use, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.240 you would go in a special room that was for it. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.000 And they even say this needs to hit the cutting 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.200 room floor. And of course they didn't leave it on 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.520 the floor. Actually, if it was an important movie, they'd 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.960 pick those scenes up, put them in a canister and 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.960 save them. Anyway, it's just a phrase, the cutting room. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.719 And as I thought about that, I thought about how 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.240 I probably need to go to the cutting room more 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.440 before I preach my sermons to you, Like, yeah, they're 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:02.040 a little. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.960 Long, brother, you could, you could, definitely. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.800 I never have a hard time figuring out something to 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.480 say to you on Sundays. I just don't. The Bible 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.240 is awesome. God is awesome, and he wants to help you, 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.360 so he gives me stuff. Is what the cut that 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.120 really kills me? After I preach, I don't go back 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.280 usually and regret things I said. I regret things. Ah, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.080 I should have said that. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.000 And so the. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.480 Cutting room, it can bring clarity to a story. It 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.520 can make a story move along. It can keep a 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.239 character consistent. You know, you might go in the cutting 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.239 room and say, you know, this is a good scene, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.640 but it really doesn't fit with the character, so we 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.680 got to get it out of there the cutting room. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.120 And I think one of the most stressful things in 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.160 the world would have been if you were writing a 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.600 book of the Bible as a human being God's word 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.640 and you had to decide what to leave in and 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.640 what to take out. Because like the Book of Acts 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.520 where we've been studying, it's about the birth of the church. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.600 Very important story. How many agreed this is a very 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:05.120 important story. This is how the Gospel got out of 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.560 one little place in the world and came to us. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.360 Today, So what do you put in? What do you 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:11.800 leave out? 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.080 And Luke, who wrote this book is a doctor, so 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.400 he's surgical, so he has to get his scissors out, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:24.360 you know, and make decisions about what to include, what 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.680 to remove. And you could almost see him arguing with himself. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.880 And you know, I got to put that part in 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.880 about when they brought Paul the handkerchiefs and people were 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.360 getting healed off of Paul's handkerchiefs. That part is awesome. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.560 I am totally putting that in. And they put in 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.160 a lot of the miracles, and the Holy Spirit had 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:49.040 certain miracles included in the Bible, the Holy Bible, so 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:54.720 that you and I could increase our own faith. I 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.520 don't believe the miracles in the Bible are simply a 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:04.240 history lesson. They are meant to inspire your faith for 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.120 your life and your walk with God today. I believe 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:12.080 God is still moving and I believe that this story 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.480 is still being written, so. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.520 The miracles are important. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.080 I'm glad for the miracle that we read about last week. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.840 Last week we read about a man who was sitting 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.520 at a gate called beautiful, and his situation was anything 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.520 but He's sitting at a gate called beautiful not because 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.040 he's resting, but because he's restricted, And it. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.120 Gave us hope because he got up. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.840 From that gate and became in himself a message that 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.640 God used to teach people what. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:42.480 Jesus can do. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.160 Did you know God wants to turn your life into 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.920 a message to show those who are looking at your life, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:56.720 how miraculous, how awesome and magnificent, how all encompassing the 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.240 grace of God is. So I'm thankful that he left miracles. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.040 In the Bible. But I'm also grateful that. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.960 He left some mistakes in there too, the times where 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.520 they didn't get it right, because the miracles give me faith, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.760 but the mistakes helped me understand grace. So if you 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.440 read the whole Book of Acts, you got Peter and 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.720 Paul are fighting over circumcision. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.920 What a great church fight. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.000 I get criticized over a lot of things, but I 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.640 never saw a YouTube comment about circumcision at elevation ministries. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.160 And I will probably get one now, and that's all right, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:44.240 we'll block it, but YouTube might block it automatically. I 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.800 got to stay on my prompt here today. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.000 I'm glad that they left some of that stuff in. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.559 You know, the times where I don't know. One man 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:53.440 he lied. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.320 To the Holy Spirit and he died from it. Because 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.800 that encourages me to know, like, oh, thank God that 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.000 I don't have to lie to God. I can be honest, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:06.400 and my honest living brings more life. I'm grateful for 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.920 the mistakes being left in there, because even the main 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.480 characters that I read about in the Book of Acts 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.560 messed up pretty bad in their past. Also, you'll see 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.520 where the writer of Acts includes the message itself that 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.160 was preached. So you've got miracles, you got mistakes, you 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.160 got the message. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.640 And that's where I get the gospel of Jesus Christ. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.040 That the gospel of Jesus Christ is not come to 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.040 him and buy a lottery ticket because you'll for sure 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.600 win after you've received favor with God. That the message 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.160 of the Gospel isn't come to him and go to 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.800 heaven one day when you die. It is that by 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.840 repenting and believing in Him, we can have life in 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:50.320 His name right now. So I'm grateful that it includes, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.880 like you'll see many times in the Book of Acts, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.800 they say and Peter preached this, and Peter preached that, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:01.319 and he preached about repentance, and change and believe and resurrection, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.160 and I'm glad for that. But today we come to 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.600 something that I'm very glad that was left in and 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.880 I know you are too, because not only do we 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.720 need to see miracles, not only do we need to 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.760 see mistakes. Not only do we need to hear the message, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.640 but we need to know the method, and that is this, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:26.679 when I'm under attack, whether it's an emotional attack, a 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:31.400 physical attack, whether it is a social attack, whether I 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.360 feel it in my finances or in my body or 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.400 just in my mind, how do I respond to that 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.120 rather than react to that when I feel the pressure 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.520 of the world on me, it helps me to read 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.080 things like we just read from Acts, chapter four, verse 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:56.959 twenty three thirty one, because these believers are under attack, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.320 not the kind of thing we call an attack either, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.680 not where somebody cut us off in traffic. Did you 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.079 see what the devil just did to me? That wasn't 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.520 the devil, That was just a Honda Civic. And the 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.960 devil has the devil has much better vehicles to mess 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.080 with you than a Honda Civic. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.920 That's not a temptation. That's called traffic. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.200 It happens to everybody, good, bad, saved tense, Skinny Tall. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.720 All of us deal with it at various stages of 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.680 our life. But what we're really talking about here is, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.480 remember they did something good. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.160 Peter and John Wright. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.960 They see this man, they help him up, They helped him, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:42.079 and then, in trying to do good, trying to be helpful, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.640 instead of being rewarded for their helpfulness, they are hit 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.120 for being helpful. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:56.480 Have you ever felt like you got hit for trying 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.080 to be helpful? You ever felt like you stepped in. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.880 To try to say something helpful to somebody and then 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.280 they just attacked you for saying it and you just thought, well, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.960 I was just trying to help and they says something 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.560 back like, well, why don't you help yourself and get 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.120 your own kids straight before you start telling. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.839 Me how to parent. Mind now, maybe you needed to 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:14.200 hear that. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.880 I don't know, maybe that's exactly what they should have 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:18.400 said back. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.560 But in this case, watch this. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.160 They are trying their best to just be helpful and 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.960 they end up in jail, and not only in jail, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.080 kept overnight, but they are. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.880 Ragged out, publicly humiliated. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.320 In front of everybody, told that they are not allowed 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.360 to speak anymore in the name of Jesus, and the 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.240 Bible says they responded by saying, we must obey God 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.360 rather than men. That's a good word for somebody all 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.800 by itself, and it's not even my scripture for today. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:52.920 But Peter and. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.920 John said, I've got to do what God said do. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.480 I've got to do what the one who has the 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.160 power to judge said to do, not the one who 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.240 thinks they're a judge telling me what they think I 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.680 should do. And then the Bible says that they went back, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.880 and we pick up in verse twenty three. They went 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.960 back on their release to their own people and reported 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.880 all that the chief priests and the elders had said. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.720 To them. Now I wonder what they share. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.280 Because it's a little vague right here, and so Luke 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.280 doesn't take the time to say and they told him this, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.240 and they told him that, and then Peter said, and 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.600 I told him we must obey God rather than men. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.000 And John was like, no, I had that line. That 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.720 was my line. I said we must obey God rather 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.760 than men. And Peter's like, well, I'm the one who 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.480 told you to say it, and I just let you 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.440 say it so you could have a speaking part. Who 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.720 knows They don't talk about all of that, but they 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.360 tell them what the chief priest have said to them, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.920 and they said, they told us we can't preach anymore 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.560 in the name of Jesus. So now I want to 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.360 take what they did, and I want to teach it 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.400 from the subject of the cutting room, because they have 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.960 a decision to make right now, and so do you. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.120 Am I going to allow my life to be led 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:16.440 and limited by what the enemy told me? Or am 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.000 I going to allow the director of this film to 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:26.680 decide which scene happens next. For everybody who is in 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.480 a transition, for everybody who is in a season of 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:35.479 your life that feels uncertain, you can relate to these disciples. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.440 They are shaking with fear. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.680 They are certainly, in their own way, a little bit 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.240 confused because I thought God wanted us to preach, but 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.840 he let us get thrown in jail. I thought we 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.960 were doing what we're supposed to do, but it went 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.160 backwards instead of forwards. There are great results from what 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.760 we're doing, but there is also great resistance. So if 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.560 you are confused, join me and Peter and John and 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.240 these levers in the cutting room where we can see 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.720 what God wants you to keep in where we can 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.520 see what God wants you to integrate, where we can 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.640 see what God wants you to emphasize, where we can 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.560 see what God wants you to eliminate, Where we can 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.879 see which numbers in your phone are. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:17.919 Keeping you numb. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.600 Because those people are no longer supposed to be your support. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.520 System, but you keep running back to them. After one am, we're. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.240 Going to delete some stuff today. We are going to 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:34.040 delete some scenes so you can see the good things 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.119 God has prepared for you. Join me in the cutting 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.040 room and we'll use three points, and I have a 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.920 bonus point, but we probably won't get to it, and 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.680 you'll be frustrated because I shouldn't even have told you 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:45.600 about it if I was just going. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.399 To cut it. The points go like this, Number one. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.240 The review, the review, the review, write it down, the review, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:53.840 put it in the chat, put it in the comments, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.560 the review, the review, the review, the review, write it down. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.159 We gave you a free pin. Don't steal it, not 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.480 use it. Write it down the review, the review. Number two, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.880 the reframe. That's the one I'm excited about. So don't 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.880 shout much about the review, because we need to get 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:08.680 to the. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.560 Reframe, the reframe, the reframe. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.240 Zoom the camera out, Zoom the why the reframe, zoom 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.639 it in the reframe, Zoom the camera out, the reframe, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.440 the reframe, the reframe, not the reframe, not like refeeding 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.520 it over and over again, but the reframe. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.520 And number three is the release. The release. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:33.919 It seems strange that I put that last, because the 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.680 scripture started with these words verse twenty three. On their release, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.679 Peter and John went back to their own people. But 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.600 that was the first release, and I'm going to explain 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.320 that to you in just a moment. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.119 First, we talk about the review. The review. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.920 Is so amazing that we get to see these characters 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.920 go through horrible things because we get to bend a 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.080 from their experience and glean wisdom from it. I told 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.880 my wife the other day, one of my favorite things 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.240 about being only slightly young. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.000 I don't call myself. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.080 Oh one of the one of my favorite things about 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.880 this sweet spot of life that we are in right 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.399 now in terms of our age. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:20.560 That's how I choose to see. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:26.199 It, is that I get the privilege now to go 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.919 back and revisit experiences that I've had, not only for 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:31.720 the sake of feeling the memories of them. 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.880 But one of my favorite things about my. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.480 Forties so far is getting to go back to myself 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:44.639 in my twenties my thirties and relive those experiences with 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:52.120 a better perspective, with a better perspective. Say it better perspective, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.040 and now nudge your neighbor and you might make them mad, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:56.160 but say you need a better. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:01.520 Perspective, because if you go go back, watch this to. 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:06.560 A previous experience with a better perspective, you can get 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:12.600 a fresh lesson. That is a formula for spiritual growth, 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.560 is that if you revisit a previous experience with a 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.439 better perspective, you can glean from it, to use an 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:26.119 agricultural term, a fresh lesson. And the fresh lesson that 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:31.640 came from the better perspective through a revisited experience can 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.600 be used going forward in your life. And in this way, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:43.720 every regret you have is redeemable because revisiting that experience 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.439 with a better perspective will give you a fresh lesson 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.920 and you will see that it was something seven years 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:55.240 ago that you blamed on the other person. But what 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.080 you blamed on the other person might have only been 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.199 fifteen percent them. It might have been eighty five percent 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.120 what they tapped into that reminded you of somebody who's 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:07.360 not even in your life anymore. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.560 Once you begin this process of. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.480 Going back over your life with God, you will never 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.600 be the same. And that's what happened in Acts four 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.159 twenty three. Watch this on their release? Am I not 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.080 preaching good already? On my first point? I feel like 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.760 I am on their release. Peter and John they got 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.080 out of jail. But here's what matters. When you go 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.520 to the cutting room of your life to evaluate why 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.280 did that happen, what needs to happen next? What am 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:38.840 I going to do about it? Did you hear what 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.000 they said? How am I going to respond to this? 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.520 When you are released from a situation, when you are 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:49.600 between situations, when you are reevaluating situations, when you go 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.679 in the cutting room, who is in there with you? 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.199 The Bible says that Peter and John went back to 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:02.680 their own people. This is not an ethnic statement, this 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.280 is not a gender statement. This is a statement about 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:08.560 the belief of the people that they needed to be 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.120 around at that moment. And I don't know about you, 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:16.040 but when I process my life, I need to be 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:25.040 around believers. I had enough done conversations with doubters, skeptics, 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.040 cynics that told me to tell them off, and I 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.800 told them off, and I lost my job and you 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:36.840 still got yours. So the cutting room as we see 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.600 it today is not only about a place, but it 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:44.240 is about the people that influence you. And isn't it 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.200 amazing that they took the raw footage of what had 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.440 just happened to them and converted it into a revelation? 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:53.280 Did you know the Holy Spirit will help you do 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:58.080 that to take the raw footage. One of my favorite 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:02.240 documentaries of all time, My favorite movie of all time 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:04.720 is a documentary about a band. I will not say 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:06.560 the name of the band because some of you would 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.080 criticize me for being worldly, and you would be right. 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:11.440 And I love the band and I love the documentary. 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.399 It's two hours long. I got so obsessed about the documentary, 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:21.080 which is already a movie about a process. Okay, clarify 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:25.119 that that I read a book about the documentary. So 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:29.320 now I'm reading something about how something got made that 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.040 was made to tell how something else got made. 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:32.280 That's how much I like it. 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:37.520 In my reading, I discovered that for this two hour documentary, 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:44.720 there were over sixteen hundred hours of footage captured over 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:46.280 the course of two years. 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:48.159 So get this, they. 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:51.280 Had to take two years of footage and make it 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:56.640 fit in two hours. That's when I realized the importance 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:02.000 of a cutting room. Nobody he's gonna watch sixteen hundred hours. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.879 I don't care, I don't care how much of a 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:07.960 binger you are. Nobody is going to sort through that. 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:12.680 And if that same raw footage watch this were given 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:16.440 to me or I dare say to you, we probably 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.119 could not have produced an award winning film out of it. 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:25.119 But the person who went in the cutting room and decided. 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:30.520 This scene here, this scene there, this has to set. 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:34.800 Up that that person, the director, the one who employed 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:37.840 the people who technically edited it, was able to take 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:42.480 sixteen hundred hours over the course of two years of footage, 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:45.920 put it in one movie and edit it down to. 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:47.960 Tell a story that was compelling. 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:50.760 And while you are looking at me like, yeah, that 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:57.200 sounds challenging, please realize you do this every day. 0:24:57.920 --> 0:24:59.919 Every day you have twenty four hours. 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:04.760 Twenty four hours is one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes. 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:06.240 So says chat GPT. 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:12.040 In those fourteen one hundred and forty minutes, you experience 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:16.520 some highs, don't you. You experience some good things, don't you. 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:20.400 You experience some blessings, don't you. You have some bursts 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:22.800 of insight, You feel kind of clear, you feel kind 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:24.920 of smart, you feel kind of loving, you feel kind 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:29.080 of joyful some minutes. But some of those remaining fourteen 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:32.119 hundred and thirty nine minutes left over might be a 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:35.120 little effy, and some of them might be downright horrible. 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.159 But yet, when it comes down to you coming home. 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:40.800 Especially if you're a teenager, and they ask you how 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:44.240 was your day, you are able to take one thousand, 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:51.879 four hundred and forty minutes of highs, lows, goods, bads, yeses, no's, 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:57.720 and condense it into one barely audible word good bad, 0:25:58.560 --> 0:25:58.960 all right. 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:04.120 But it was much more than good bad or al right. 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:07.480 It was some good, It was some bad. It was 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:08.200 some alright. 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:11.040 And I found out that what kind of day you 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.679 think you have depends on who you had helping you 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:15.840 edit when you. 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:16.640 Reflect on it. 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.960 That's why the Psalmas said, this is the day the 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:22.879 Lord has made. 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:26.439 I will rejoice and be glad in it. 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:30.240 Now, wait a minute, will is a decision about something 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:33.960 that hasn't happened yet. So he is deciding in the 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:37.040 Psalm that the story I want to tell at the 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:40.800 end of this day is that God made it. Everybody 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.840 say God made it. That means he's the director of it. 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:47.520 And that means there will be some scenes in this 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.600 day that I wish I could cut, and He'll say, no, 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:53.719 leave that one in because that's the mistake that's going 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:56.560 to teach you the grace. And there are some seeds 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:58.800 in this day that you won't even. 0:26:58.600 --> 0:27:01.159 Know to look for. But God will just give you 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:01.920 a miracle. 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:05.320 You'll just be sitting at the gate begging for change, 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:08.399 and God will send somebody to give you something you 0:27:08.440 --> 0:27:11.240 didn't even have the faith to ask for. And God 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:14.520 will put that in your script in the day that 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:16.920 you were waking up wondering, I don't know if it's 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:18.439 gonna be a good day or a bad day. Well, 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:20.280 I'm gonna tell you right now, it's not gonna be 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:23.919 either kind of day. But you have some scissors. See, 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:28.159 you have some scissors. Your scissors. I'm talking about editing. Now, 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.479 I'm talking about your scissors. I'm talking about your mind. 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:34.920 I'm talking about your soul. I'm talking about your emotions. 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.320 I'm talking about who you process with. I'm talking about 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.600 you making a decision in your life. I will not 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:47.800 process in my head any longer, because every time I 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:51.960 edit in my head, every time I try to make 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:55.600 sense out of my life in my head, it ends 0:27:55.640 --> 0:28:01.480 in the death of something that I love, kill relationships 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:07.080 because you make edits in your head. They didn't do 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:10.720 anything for me for Mother's Day. I'm getting out ahead 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:11.480 of this one, everybody. 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:19.680 I'm doing a little, a little prepaid tuition here. 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:24.520 Yeah, they didn't do anything for me for Mother's Day, 0:28:24.800 --> 0:28:26.639 or the other way around, you know, like, well my 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:30.359 mom wasn't this and that. And I want you to 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:35.679 understand about editing from the Disciples, that you are. 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:39.480 Always editing and you need help. 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:48.760 One person, like one tenth clapped when I said that. 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:50.960 That was not even like a quarter clap. It was 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:55.280 a ten percent clap from one person. But the truth 0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:59.800 of the matter is you need help editing because every 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:02.520 time time you make an overgeneralized statement. And imagine the 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:05.920 statement that the Disciples could have made here. They could 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:09.840 have said this is unfair, and they would have been right. 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:14.200 They could have said, we have God's favor and they 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:17.600 would have been right. And what was important about this 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:24.240 moment was not the event, but the intention of the author. 0:29:25.520 --> 0:29:26.640 The author is God. 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:30.400 So they understand in this moment, we have got to 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:33.400 get into a place where we can process. Everybody say, 0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:37.360 process your process a lot of times, and how you 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:40.120 deal with the thing that just happened to you is 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:44.120 more important than the thing that happened to you. You 0:29:44.200 --> 0:29:47.360 can have the best thing happened to you, but it 0:29:47.400 --> 0:29:48.400 can become a. 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:53.160 Backfire if you process it without God. Because if you 0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:56.160 get a promotion and it turns into. 0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:59.200 Pride, the pride comes before a fall. 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.720 So you'll go back and say, if I had given 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:06.160 God more glory for what he did and leaned into 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.680 him more than he could have sustained what he started, 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:14.480 but I got high and thought I got there without God, 0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:16.320 and then life had. 0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:18.200 To pull me down because I got pride for what. 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:22.760 I got high. Because any process that does not start 0:30:22.840 --> 0:30:28.760 with God is doomed. Any process that does not start 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:33.920 with God is dead in the water. And that is 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:37.760 why that is why they came together in this place 0:30:37.800 --> 0:30:39.120 to pray, and. 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:41.480 That is why they reported they told us not to 0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:43.720 preach anymore. What's the enemy been telling you. 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:45.800 He's been telling you you're not good enough to do this. 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:46.920 He's been telling. 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:48.680 You you've run out of time and it's too late 0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:50.959 for you in your life. He's been telling you you 0:30:51.000 --> 0:30:53.640 will never be free of this thing. Maybe that thing, 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:56.200 not this thing. It's just what you're gonna pass down 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:58.160 to your kids. You did the best you could, but 0:30:58.200 --> 0:30:58.840 give up now. 0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:01.680 There's no need even try. What has your enemy been 0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:02.239 telling you? 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:08.680 I think we need to take the enemies words over 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:21.400 your life to the cutting room. Stop saying I'm in 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:26.239 a bad season. You are in a season, and some 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:31.240 days are good and some days are bad. Sixteen hundred 0:31:31.240 --> 0:31:33.600 hours a footage into two. 0:31:33.400 --> 0:31:36.600 Hours, eleven hundred and eighty nine. 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:40.360 Chapters in the Bible, and we get this entire prayer 0:31:40.400 --> 0:31:42.200 that they prayed, and we're going to look at it 0:31:42.280 --> 0:31:45.440 right now because it is going to help you edit now. 0:31:45.560 --> 0:31:49.040 There will always be somebody to help you edit what happens. 0:31:48.760 --> 0:31:52.760 To you in your life. When you start going through. 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:57.280 Your life and say, okay, what am I going to 0:31:57.360 --> 0:31:58.120 do in this decision? 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:00.440 How am I going to respond to this? You will 0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:01.240 always have help. 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.680 The devil will always be there to help you, because 0:32:05.680 --> 0:32:07.360 he has scissors too. 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:11.480 The devil will be there to take out. 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:15.040 Every kind thing, every good thing, every lovely thing, every 0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:18.440 generous thing. He might even cut away some of the 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:20.280 good stuff that you did to make you feel like 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:23.720 you never do anything right, you ever had a good 0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:27.640 day with your kids, And then the last thirty minutes. 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:34.120 The cutting room. I'm not talking about film editing right now. 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:36.320 I'm talking about knives and violence and cutting room and 0:32:36.360 --> 0:32:40.520 blood and shouting and cursing a whole good vacation and 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:44.800 then thirty minutes from the house, and then you start thinking. 0:32:44.800 --> 0:32:45.960 All the things I did for you. 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:48.000 Maybe this is just parental therapy right now, and maybe 0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:50.200 I should be paying somebody for this time. 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:53.880 But I noticed how sometimes the whole thing can go 0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:55.040 so good. 0:32:56.400 --> 0:32:58.920 And then something happens so bad, And when I lay 0:32:59.000 --> 0:33:02.160 me down to sleep, it's like the devil. 0:33:01.840 --> 0:33:04.120 Wants to turn my bed into a. 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:09.080 Cutting room and just start slicing me with all the 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:11.680 stuff that went wrong today, and just start slicing me 0:33:12.240 --> 0:33:13.960 with all of the ways that I failed, and start 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:17.440 slicing me. And somewhere along the line, I have to 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.280 stop the slicing and tell the devil. 0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:24.240 You are not here to help me edit. 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:28.400 Get under my feet, I said, get under my feet. 0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:33.880 You're not the director, you're not the author. You are 0:33:33.920 --> 0:33:35.680 not financing this screenplay. 0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:40.240 You didn't make me, you didn't create me, you didn't 0:33:40.400 --> 0:33:41.720 die for me, and. 0:33:41.880 --> 0:33:43.800 You don't get to drive me crazy. 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:47.760 Get your scissors out my spirits, Get your scissors out 0:33:47.800 --> 0:33:50.400 this room, Get your scissors out my mind. 0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:58.680 Oh I am so so so. 0:33:58.920 --> 0:34:02.360 I need help. Somebody's yeah, I need help. So much 0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:04.360 is coming at me. I can't figure out what to 0:34:04.400 --> 0:34:07.280 focus on. I need help. So much is coming and going. 0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:10.040 I'm confused so much. As being said, I don't know 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:13.560 what's important. So many priorities are pulling at me. I 0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:17.879 need help. And just like the devil wants to help 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:25.040 you at it, so does heaven. So does Heaven. So 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:29.560 does the Holy Spirit. You thought the Holy Spirit was 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:32.840 just a goose bump. You thought the Holy Spirit was 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:35.880 just a good feeling. You thought the Holy Spirit was 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:37.480 just a shot a mohanda kaaba. 0:34:38.080 --> 0:34:40.320 He could say the hell on a bozuka and abdo 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:43.279 hold on. That's all good too, And we get all 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:45.319 of it, and we do all of it, and we 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:46.160 want all of it. 0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:56.239 But what about when the Holy Spirit brings some scissors? Yeah, 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:58.400 is surgical with the enemy. 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:02.760 Now, I can't I can't cut out what happened. 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:07.600 But I can refuse to make it the definition of 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:09.080 my identity. 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:12.400 Hear me, I must. 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:14.640 Say it again, because I don't think you heard it, 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:16.520 or you would to shout it. 0:35:16.520 --> 0:35:21.040 It is not the definition of your identity. It is not. 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:28.120 So so so so we talked about the review, and 0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:30.759 the fact of the matter is some of the things 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:33.200 that we say about experience are just not true. We 0:35:33.239 --> 0:35:35.480 will say to people, oh, well, I'm sorry you're going 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:37.719 through something right now, but don't you know. 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:40.880 We grow through what we go through. No, we don't, 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:44.879 not automatically. Not automatically. 0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:47.279 If that were true, why did you go through it 0:35:47.400 --> 0:35:50.760 fifteen nine and sixty three times last month? 0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:53.360 Grow through what you go through? 0:35:54.000 --> 0:35:56.439 Sometimes you go through something and then you create something 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:58.440 else to go through to keep you distracted from what 0:35:58.480 --> 0:35:59.800 you went through that you've been going through for the 0:35:59.880 --> 0:36:00.960 left last thirty seven years. 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:05.560 Don't lie to me you grew through it, you'd be 0:36:05.560 --> 0:36:10.560 through with it. Here is what is true. 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:13.880 While we do not automatically grow through what we go through, 0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:21.439 we grow through what we go over with God. That's 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:26.920 the process of review of review. 0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:28.040 I sit down. 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:31.080 All the time, y'all, and I asked the question, God, 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:32.200 what am I missing in this? 0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:35.080 God? How did I focus? 0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:37.120 Holl you remember the insult that somebody said to me 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:39.960 the other day in a professional setting and we kept 0:36:40.000 --> 0:36:42.560 talking about it and they said one hundred thousand things 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:44.200 nice to me in the same session and one thing 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:49.239 that I was like. And then if you could see 0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:52.840 my cutting room, it's like I took this scene and 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:58.360 zoomed all the way in and I framed it. Just 0:36:58.360 --> 0:37:02.200 push in on me real quick, because look, how now, 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:04.200 why are you gonna be stuck in. 0:37:04.239 --> 0:37:07.319 Something like that? How was I doing it? 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:10.200 All? Right? 0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:11.280 Back to normal shock. 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:17.920 Because after the review comes what they're reframing, and this 0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:22.080 is what they prayed because they made a great decision, right. 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:24.120 Peter and John are like, we don't know what to 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:25.520 do next. How many feel like I don't know what 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:27.000 to do next in the area of my life? Raise 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:29.200 your hand, Okay, you need to go to the cutting room. 0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:30.759 How many of you feel like it wasn't fair what. 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:32.880 Happened to you? Raise your hand? Yeah, do you need 0:37:32.880 --> 0:37:33.560 to go to the cutting room. 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:37.080 How many of you feel like there's something in your 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.520 life that you can't decide if it needs to be 0:37:39.520 --> 0:37:41.080 there any longer. But it served you in a season, 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:42.239 but it feel like it's getting in the way now 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:43.920 and you don't know what to do about it coming. 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:45.920 How many of you need to prune some things that 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:48.319 you said yes to yesterday that are making you pop 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:51.000 pills today because you said yes to them yesterday. You 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:52.600 need to go to the cutting room now. When you 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:54.400 go to the cutting room, listen to me. Listen to 0:37:54.440 --> 0:37:56.239 me closely and carefully. Church, I got a word for 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:59.279 you today. It is important that you review, and it 0:37:59.320 --> 0:38:02.920 is important who you review with, mostly with God. Reviewing 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:05.279 it with God doesn't look like asking God to write 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:07.600 something in the clouds check yes or no. Lord, that's 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:09.759 what the girl did in fifth grade, not God. God 0:38:09.800 --> 0:38:12.600 is not your fifth grade hopeful girlfriend. God doesn't do 0:38:12.680 --> 0:38:14.719 that kind of stuff all the time. He does it sometimes, 0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:19.160 But typically what we do wrong is when we sit 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:22.280 down to process the problem, we process the problem. 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:26.759 And we start with the problem. And when we start 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:27.799 with the problem. 0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:30.759 We never really get to God because by the time 0:38:30.840 --> 0:38:35.080 we've been through the problem, we're so exhausted, we don't 0:38:35.080 --> 0:38:38.280 even see God. We are so confused, we are so blinded, 0:38:38.360 --> 0:38:40.840 we are so taken, we are so sins driven, we 0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:44.000 don't even see God anymore. And we start saying, well, 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:45.680 I don't see any way this can work. I guess 0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:50.319 you don't. Now you wasted all your vision looking at it. 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:58.640 On their release, Peter and John went back to the 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:01.600 room and they reported all that the chief priests and elders. 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:03.960 Had said to them. Now, how long did that take? 0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:06.000 They told us not to speak anymore in the name 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:07.440 of Jesus, and we told them we have to obey 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:08.680 God rather than the men, and they let us go. 0:39:09.800 --> 0:39:12.000 They could have spent three hours talking about how much 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:15.439 it saw, they could have spent They could have spent 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:18.719 days talking about how it didn't seem right. 0:39:20.880 --> 0:39:23.080 And if you take your complaining into the cutting. 0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:26.680 Room, what kind of movie you think this is gonna be. 0:39:28.239 --> 0:39:31.760 I think it's going to be a horror movie. 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:34.080 I think it's going to be a slasher film. 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:35.480 I think it's going to scare you to death and 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:37.360 keep you up at night if you start with that. 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:41.440 But watch now, I need every person who's ever. 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:44.360 Been pentecostal or wanted to be Pentecostal for fifteen seconds 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:46.000 to get ready to shout when I show you this. 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:49.080 On their release, Peter and John went back to their 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:52.200 own people and reported all that the chief priest and elders. 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:53.759 Had said to them. Do you think anybody in this 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:56.319 room knows what they should? Do? You think anybody else 0:39:56.320 --> 0:39:57.920 in this room has had training for this? 0:39:58.200 --> 0:40:01.480 Do you think anybody in this room has the political 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:03.680 power to stand down the. 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:07.359 Entire Sanhedron, the religious ruling body of the day. 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:11.040 No, but watch this in verse twenty four. When they 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:16.480 heard this the attack. When they heard this the threat, 0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:20.360 when they heard this the message of the enemy. When 0:40:20.400 --> 0:40:26.880 they heard this verse twenty four, they raised their voices together. 0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:32.279 Don't leave the three hundred Pentecostal people alone. 0:40:32.840 --> 0:40:37.480 They raise their voice is together. 0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:44.680 I'm not done yet in prayer to God. That's the 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:48.960 part to God, because right now, if you just attacked 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:52.000 me for helping somebody, I want to attack you back. 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:54.560 But I can't talk to you right now because I 0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:54.960 need to. 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:57.560 Go above your pay grade to talk to the one 0:40:57.560 --> 0:40:58.200 who made you. 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:04.880 I can't solve this on the level as started on. 0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:11.040 I gotta go higher. I want to give you. I 0:41:11.080 --> 0:41:12.520 gotta teach you. I want to give you. 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:14.920 Two things that you need to do when you find 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:18.200 yourself under attack, when you can't breathe because of it, 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.839 when you can't see straight because of it, when you're 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:23.080 so angry you want to do some stuff that you 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:25.239 hadn't thought about doing in a long time, but. 0:41:25.239 --> 0:41:28.040 You feel it kind of coming back. When you're so sad. 0:41:27.880 --> 0:41:29.560 That you can't figure out how to get out of 0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:29.879 the bed. 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:33.080 I want to teach you the reframe. Two things. One 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:39.520 go wide, Go wide, Go wide. Did you see how 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:40.720 they started their prayer. 0:41:41.640 --> 0:41:43.520 They didn't start praying about God that. 0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:47.360 One Sadducee, he was so mean to me. 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:50.000 I pray he'll have hemorrhoids tonight so you can show 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:53.319 him your judgment. None of that and not starting with 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:54.960 hemorrhoids or the problem or any of that. 0:41:55.960 --> 0:41:58.839 He said, He said, sovereign. 0:42:01.520 --> 0:42:04.239 Sovereign doesn't mean a lot to us because we. 0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:05.240 Think we run stuff. 0:42:06.120 --> 0:42:09.680 Sovereign doesn't mean too much to us because you thought 0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:14.440 it was your story. But it's his story, and he's sovereign, 0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:17.160 and he made you, and he gave gifts. 0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:18.840 To men, and he stirred. 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:21.640 Them, and he seated them, and he watered them, and 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:25.279 he runs them, and he cuts back, and he cuts. 0:42:24.960 --> 0:42:28.360 Offt and he raises up and he brings south. He 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:30.200 is the sovereign God. 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:48.680 Oh here, yes, here, that's it. 0:42:48.800 --> 0:42:53.560 So start with sovereign. How find somebody say, start with sovereign. 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:57.799 Needs some new words in your vocabulary. Needs some big 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:02.280 words in your vocabulary, some king words in your vocabulary. 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.080 Need some Goddess in charge. You're not words in your vocabulary. 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:11.920 Leeds some big God words in your vocabulary. So for 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:14.080 everybody who needs to, go why, give me a wide 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:16.880 shot on the screen. Go why, and realize, I'm going 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:18.839 to give you the statement that really helped me this week. 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:21.600 I was processing some things and I was processing them 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:24.200 without God, and it was really punishing me, and it 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:26.120 was really beating me up, and I was really having 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:28.680 a pity party. And it really felt good for about 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:33.520 thirty minutes. And then you get sick of it because 0:43:33.560 --> 0:43:37.520 you realize you're really just cutting yourself when you complain. 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:42.600 You realize that you're really just cutting yourself when you condemn, 0:43:44.080 --> 0:43:46.440 whether it's you or others, you're really just cutting yourself. 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:52.920 So the Lord dropped this and I started saying this 0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:53.680 is bigger than me. 0:43:56.360 --> 0:43:59.600 Give me a white shot. This is bigger than me. 0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:03.040 See what all we saw that we didn't see before 0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:06.320 they did what they did. That's what prayer' is supposed 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:11.160 to be. You have too narrow of a definition of prayer. 0:44:12.520 --> 0:44:15.080 You think prayer is God is great, God is good. 0:44:15.160 --> 0:44:16.160 Let us thinking for our food. 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:20.480 God is not inextricably linked to your digestive process of 0:44:20.520 --> 0:44:25.720 turning French fries into protein plus us through to our bodies. 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:29.160 That's too narrow for prayer. It's too narrow for prayer 0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:30.719 to pray before you have a big match. Oh God, 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:32.279 help me win this. What if the other kid prayed 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:35.720 that more, and what if he's better than you? 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:37.800 You can pray that. But prayer is much more than that. 0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:40.760 Prayer is an awareness to say it, this is bigger 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:44.239 than me. That's why they say, Sovereign Lord, and watch 0:44:44.239 --> 0:44:46.120 what they prayed next. Tell me this doesn't feel out 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:50.600 of focus. Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens. WHOA, We're 0:44:50.600 --> 0:44:54.239 going all the way back, yeap, going all the way 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:58.200 back to remember who the director is. We're going all 0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:00.680 the way back so we can rem remember the source 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:05.239 material in the beginning was the and the word was 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:06.600 with God. 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:08.239 In the word was God. 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:11.040 So I'm going back to the one who spoke the word, 0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:13.880 so I can fight the word that the enemy spoke 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:16.799 with the word that was here before my enemy was 0:45:16.840 --> 0:45:25.919 a thought. So go why tell somebody? Go why this 0:45:25.960 --> 0:45:29.719 is bigger than me? Sometimes that means I'm just selfish. 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:32.000 Just because I don't like it, doesn't mean it's. 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:37.400 Not the Lord. I told you. 0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:40.520 It's a cutting room. Some of what we have to 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:42.879 cut is some of the stuff that we. 0:45:42.840 --> 0:45:43.319 Cling to. 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:48.560 That God wants us to grow out of to help 0:45:48.640 --> 0:45:53.080 somebody else. Waking up praying, God, just give me a 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:56.480 blessing today. God, make me a blessing today. I've been 0:45:56.560 --> 0:46:01.000 blessed so much. You mean, all this he gave you, 0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.319 the devil will cut all that out, make you think 0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:07.279 you have nothing to give. Yes, you do, Yes, you 0:46:07.320 --> 0:46:10.920 do well. No, you do, Pastor Stephen, you preach these words. Yeah, 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:14.000 but you live the Gospel, and you can cook good 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:17.080 corn bread. And sometimes corn bread is better than a 0:46:17.080 --> 0:46:19.800 Bible verse. If somebody's going through something, make some cornbread. 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:22.200 Take it over to somebody. W's what happens. Because God 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:25.720 has given you gifts, and the enemy wants to eliminate 0:46:25.760 --> 0:46:27.879 your gift consciousness. 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:32.640 To keep you stuck in selfishness. Go why go Why? 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:35.680 Holy Spirit, give me a wide shot, A wide shot, 0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:38.040 A wide shot, so I don't get all zoomed in, 0:46:38.200 --> 0:46:39.960 zoomed in, zoom in, zoom in, zoom in, zoom and 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:40.640 zoom and zoom in. 0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:44.919 Em No, no wide shot. Give me a wide shot. 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:46.279 That's the reframe, you see it. 0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:50.799 And even if you find yourself in a situation right 0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:53.600 now where you feel like you are Peter and John 0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:56.480 up against the whole Sanhedrin, where you feel like you 0:46:56.480 --> 0:47:00.920 were up against an entire system, a boss that definitely 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:05.880 is not going to watch this message online, a medical 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:10.439 diagnosis that they don't even have, experimental stuff for things 0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:12.600 that go on inside of you that you can't label, 0:47:14.120 --> 0:47:16.200 much less learn from. 0:47:16.280 --> 0:47:18.520 Yet, even if that's. 0:47:18.320 --> 0:47:22.040 You today and you say this is bigger than me, 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:26.520 say this is bigger than me, Remember how your prayer started. 0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:37.879 Sovereign Lauren, don't just go wide, go hi, Go high. 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:40.160 Go high. 0:47:41.760 --> 0:47:46.000 To the most high, whose name is holy, forever and ever, 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:51.200 go high until you are one with Jesus and joined 0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:55.239 with him who died for you, go high until you 0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:58.520 are so far above the situation with him that it 0:47:58.560 --> 0:48:02.319 starts to look small the next time you stand in 0:48:02.360 --> 0:48:05.440 front of it. This is bigger than me. I'm small 0:48:05.520 --> 0:48:08.560 compared to this. I'm too weak for this. I don't 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:11.720 have what it takes for this. These bills are bigger 0:48:11.760 --> 0:48:15.560 than my check. Don't you understand this situation is bigger 0:48:15.600 --> 0:48:19.840 than my experience, or or my training, or my knowledge 0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:21.040 or my wisdom. 0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:22.719 Say this is. 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:26.400 Bigger than me, but God is bigger than this. 0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:34.239 That's the Holy ghost to let you know. 0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:39.560 This is bigger than me, but God is bigger than this. 0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:43.520 You want a demonstration, I'll give you a demonstration. Abby, 0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:50.800 stand up, Abby, stand up next to mom. Abby standing 0:48:50.880 --> 0:48:53.160 next to mom. Now, Abby, say this is bigger than me. 0:48:54.480 --> 0:48:56.880 Say it again, this is bigger than me. 0:48:57.080 --> 0:48:59.160 Truth to power, this is bigger than me. This is 0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:01.279 bigger than me. But now let's say we do this. 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:09.640 Now there's something bigger than bigger like, Oh, she's gonna 0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:10.920 tell you when they get home. 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:16.680 She's not because I'm only talking about height. She's a 0:49:16.719 --> 0:49:19.840 way better person than me, and and more convincing. 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:24.400 But if I give you a physical demonstration, maybe you 0:49:24.440 --> 0:49:27.560 can see something with your spirit that you do not 0:49:27.760 --> 0:49:30.040 understand with your mental facilities. 0:49:31.160 --> 0:49:33.000 Because to reframe. 0:49:32.480 --> 0:49:37.160 My situation is to acknowledge this is bigger than me. 0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:42.160 But God is bigger. 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:52.440 Than this, than this, than this, I don't care what 0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:53.080 the this is. 0:49:54.120 --> 0:49:55.239 God is bigger than this. 0:49:56.600 --> 0:50:00.200 We need to re edit this movie and remember for 0:50:00.239 --> 0:50:01.560 a moment who the real. 0:50:01.400 --> 0:50:06.360 Director is, who really backed your life, who really started 0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:10.480 your life, who really gave you those experiences, who really 0:50:10.560 --> 0:50:13.680 gave you those skills. So I see you staring at 0:50:13.719 --> 0:50:17.279 a mountain, and I know the mountain looks immovable, But 0:50:17.360 --> 0:50:19.920 when you praise Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and 0:50:19.960 --> 0:50:23.440 the earth, you realize that while you've been staring at 0:50:23.440 --> 0:50:25.839 the mountain, you could have been talking to the one 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:26.400 who made it. 0:50:28.880 --> 0:50:32.560 Because this is bigger than me. I'm not gonna pretend 0:50:32.600 --> 0:50:33.759 like I know what to do. 0:50:34.200 --> 0:50:35.319 This is bigger than me. 0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:41.480 But God on a rainy Sunday morning, But God in 0:50:41.520 --> 0:50:42.799 a hopeless situation. 0:50:43.080 --> 0:50:48.359 But God in the middle of my loneliness. But God in. 0:50:48.360 --> 0:50:52.720 The middle of the process, is bigger than this. Somebody 0:50:52.840 --> 0:50:57.000 say he's bigger man this serve notice he's bigger. 0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:02.359 He's bigger than this. 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:06.960 That's how I know I'm coming out because God. 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:10.800 Is bigger than this, and I'm coming out with a testimony. 0:51:11.239 --> 0:51:12.439 Gous die. 0:51:14.640 --> 0:51:18.600 What high? Five six people tell him. 0:51:18.600 --> 0:51:21.920 God's bigger than this, He's bigger than this. 0:51:24.160 --> 0:51:26.239 You don't know what my this is. I don't have to. 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:30.600 God's bigger than this. God's bigger than what they said. 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:34.000 God's bigger than what they didn't do. God's bigger than 0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:38.720 God's bigger than bipolar. God's bigger than depression. God's bigger 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:48.319 than this. God's bigger than twitter. God's bigger than this. 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:51.200 God's bigger than Ai. Not gonna wipe us out unless 0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:53.359 God wants us wiped out, And then if he wanted 0:51:53.440 --> 0:51:54.760 us wiped out, he just sent. 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:56.840 Another flood knock. Tell us to put the giraffes on 0:51:56.880 --> 0:52:01.920 the boat. God is bigger than this. Stuff. Stressing about stuff, 0:52:02.040 --> 0:52:06.320 stupid stuff. Save your strength for stuff that God called 0:52:06.360 --> 0:52:09.480 you to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Reframe it. 0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:12.160 I'm going wide. 0:52:12.360 --> 0:52:15.759 I'm going high because this is bigger than me. 0:52:16.200 --> 0:52:19.080 But my God is bigger than this. 0:52:21.719 --> 0:52:22.480 Hallelujah. 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:30.759 I gotta get in the cutting room because Jesus said, 0:52:30.840 --> 0:52:34.760 every branch in me that bears fruit my father prunes 0:52:34.800 --> 0:52:39.600 so that it will be even more fruitful. Oh, it 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:42.160 is unpleasant at times to be in the cutting room, 0:52:43.200 --> 0:52:46.799 but if you stay there long enough and really give 0:52:46.840 --> 0:52:48.800 it to God, watch what happens. 0:52:50.040 --> 0:53:00.200 They lifted their voices together in prayer to God, Sovereign Lord, 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:05.880 you made the heavens, you made the earth. 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:11.840 Thank you Jesus, and the sea and everything in them. 0:53:12.760 --> 0:53:17.280 Stuff I can't see. God can stuff I can't fix. 0:53:17.920 --> 0:53:23.040 God can stuff I can't fish out. God can stuff 0:53:23.040 --> 0:53:25.920 that I would drown in. God can save me from. 0:53:26.200 --> 0:53:29.280 That's what I mean when I say the reframe. Stop 0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:31.960 praying so much about the problem that you never get 0:53:32.000 --> 0:53:35.920 to the God of the problem. 0:53:36.080 --> 0:53:39.560 Go to the cutting room. God is the main character 0:53:39.680 --> 0:53:42.520 of this story. Not you, not me, not. 0:53:42.600 --> 0:53:45.560 Your ex, not the person who walked out, not even 0:53:45.560 --> 0:53:48.480 the people who stayed. God will support you. God will 0:53:48.480 --> 0:53:52.000 sustain you. God's hand is on you. God has anointed you, 0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:55.040 God has called you. God is with you. God is 0:53:55.080 --> 0:53:59.600 bigger than this. Even when you get a blessing, don't 0:53:59.600 --> 0:54:03.280 worship a blessing because God is bigger than this blessing. 0:54:04.239 --> 0:54:06.720 Ask the children of Israel who were fed with manna. 0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:09.640 They thought this is what God has given us. But 0:54:09.680 --> 0:54:12.640 when this disappeared, God had something else. Because God is 0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:16.160 bigger than this. If God cuts it out, he already 0:54:16.200 --> 0:54:19.040 knows what he's going to put in his place. God 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:21.640 is bigger than this. He has a thousand ways to 0:54:21.719 --> 0:54:24.480 provide for you. He has one hundred ways to help you. 0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:26.960 He has a million ways to see you through it. 0:54:27.080 --> 0:54:29.680 Don't get picky about it right now. Let him prune 0:54:29.760 --> 0:54:32.480 what he needs to prune so you can be fruitful. 0:54:34.239 --> 0:54:35.880 This is a productive cut. 0:54:36.880 --> 0:54:39.719 The instrument of scissors is surgical in the hands of 0:54:39.760 --> 0:54:42.600 the Savior. It's masterful what he's doing in your life 0:54:42.680 --> 0:54:46.560 right now. And if you stay there long enough, and 0:54:46.600 --> 0:54:49.200 if you pray there high enough, and if you pray 0:54:49.200 --> 0:54:51.959 there wide enough, and say, God, I'm in this right now, 0:54:52.040 --> 0:54:53.840 but I know You're bigger than this, and this is 0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:56.080 bigger than me. When they heard this, they raised their 0:54:56.160 --> 0:54:58.239 voices and said, Sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and 0:54:58.280 --> 0:55:02.200 the earth and everything in them. You spoke by the 0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:05.120 Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David. 0:55:05.480 --> 0:55:07.719 What are we doing talking about David. He's been dead 0:55:07.719 --> 0:55:11.920 over a thousand years. Because I'm going wide I'm remembering 0:55:11.920 --> 0:55:14.760 this in the first time that this happened to somebody. 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:16.520 As a matter of fact, Church. 0:55:16.880 --> 0:55:20.040 What blessed me the most about the text was that 0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:22.600 after they quoted Psalm Too from David, Why do the 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:25.840 nation's rage and the people's plot in vain? The kings 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:29.000 of the earth rise up and the rulers spend together 0:55:29.080 --> 0:55:33.200 against the Lord and his anointed one. They revisit, See 0:55:33.200 --> 0:55:35.160 the power of it. Please see the power of it. 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:36.600 I know I preached too long, and I know I 0:55:36.640 --> 0:55:38.480 should cut some stuff, but I just want to give 0:55:38.520 --> 0:55:40.680 it to you so you have something when you go 0:55:40.800 --> 0:55:42.360 back into your mind tonight. 0:55:44.280 --> 0:55:48.239 Indeed, verse twenty seven. Verse twenty seven, Herod. 0:55:47.920 --> 0:55:50.400 And Pontius Pilot met together with the gentiles. 0:55:50.680 --> 0:55:56.000 The gentiles didn't even know God. They met together with 0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:57.279 people who didn't even know. 0:55:57.280 --> 0:56:00.360 God, and the people of Israel in this city to 0:56:00.440 --> 0:56:05.160 conspire against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed. They 0:56:05.200 --> 0:56:11.719 did the enemy, they did the opponent. They did the 0:56:11.840 --> 0:56:16.120 ruler what your power and will had decided. 0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:21.120 They did what God decided. 0:56:23.120 --> 0:56:28.680 The devil can't do anything to you without going through 0:56:29.120 --> 0:56:30.280 God first. 0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:39.920 And this is the release. 0:56:41.040 --> 0:56:45.120 When you let go of control, when you let go 0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:47.520 of what you've been trying to keep in the story 0:56:47.680 --> 0:56:50.200 and focus on and this one scene you get stuck in, 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:52.359 and this one thing you can't get over, and this 0:56:52.480 --> 0:56:53.880 one thing you won't let God remove. 0:56:54.040 --> 0:56:56.200 When you let go, Watch what happens when you release? 0:56:57.360 --> 0:57:05.600 God releases, when we release, he releases, what does he release? 0:57:05.960 --> 0:57:06.480 Watch this? 0:57:07.120 --> 0:57:11.439 They did what you had decided beforehand should happen. Verse 0:57:11.440 --> 0:57:16.000 twenty nine. Please, now Lord, everybody say now Lord, say 0:57:16.000 --> 0:57:17.440 it with some gusto, say. 0:57:17.320 --> 0:57:20.160 Now Lord, that's what happened back then. 0:57:20.600 --> 0:57:24.680 Now Lord, take me into the cutting room and consider 0:57:24.720 --> 0:57:27.920 their threats. And God, don't let this overwhelm me to 0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:30.880 the point that I become paralyzed by it. And don't 0:57:30.960 --> 0:57:35.160 let me keep repeating this same mistake for ten more years. Now, Lord, 0:57:35.200 --> 0:57:37.280 don't let me back down just because it's scary. 0:57:37.960 --> 0:57:40.360 Don't let me give up what I worked so hard. 0:57:40.160 --> 0:57:43.480 To get just because there's pressure with it. Don't let 0:57:43.520 --> 0:57:46.760 me faint along the way and be disqualified. Somebody shout, 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:52.160 now Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to 0:57:52.320 --> 0:57:57.720 speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand 0:57:58.360 --> 0:58:03.800 to heal and perform signs and wonders. They're not playing defense, 0:58:04.280 --> 0:58:05.360 they're playing offense. 0:58:06.280 --> 0:58:09.080 It's a release. Now they're giving up what they thought 0:58:09.120 --> 0:58:09.880 should have happened. 0:58:10.080 --> 0:58:12.280 They're giving up what should have been done for them. 0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:14.439 They're giving up on the way they might have wanted 0:58:14.480 --> 0:58:18.080 it to go. Now, Lord, heal and perform signs and 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:19.520 wonders through the name of your. 0:58:19.400 --> 0:58:20.680 Holy servant Jesus. 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:25.640 And verse thirty one says after they prayed, the place 0:58:25.920 --> 0:58:29.760 where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all. 0:58:30.120 --> 0:58:34.840 Filled filled, filled. 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:39.640 With the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God boldly. Wait, 0:58:39.880 --> 0:58:42.480 I thought they were already filled with the Holy Spirit. 0:58:42.720 --> 0:58:45.560 In chapter two they were. But you need a fresh 0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:48.920 refill for a fresh battle. And God set out give 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:51.160 you a refill when you release it. 0:58:53.640 --> 0:58:57.240 And the place come on, where they were meeting, was 0:58:57.280 --> 0:58:58.760 what shaken. 0:58:59.160 --> 0:59:01.320 It was what shake him. 0:59:01.440 --> 0:59:04.880 The place started shaking, The place started shaking. When they 0:59:04.880 --> 0:59:07.800 went into the place, they were shaken. They had just 0:59:07.840 --> 0:59:10.800 been threatened, They had just been scared. They had just 0:59:10.840 --> 0:59:14.560 been intimidated. But after that they prayed, and after that 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:17.600 they remembered who their God was. And after that they 0:59:17.640 --> 0:59:19.160 got their eyes on the. 0:59:19.200 --> 0:59:22.600 Sovereign Most High. And after they remembered what he did 0:59:22.640 --> 0:59:23.200 for Daithan. 0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:27.520 And after they called the name of Jesus, they weren't shaken. 0:59:28.360 --> 0:59:29.680 The place was shaken. 0:59:30.440 --> 0:59:32.680 And I think we ought to go into the cutting 0:59:32.760 --> 0:59:37.320 room and give God at least twenty four second. 0:59:37.720 --> 0:59:50.200 A place, second place today, Shake the place, Shake the place, 0:59:51.920 --> 0:59:52.880 Shake the place. 0:59:59.320 --> 1:00:02.160 This is your cutting room. 1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:03.360 This is your cutting. 1:00:03.200 --> 1:00:10.560 Room, and God is holding the scissors. This is your 1:00:10.560 --> 1:00:16.400 cutting room, and God is directing the film. When a 1:00:16.480 --> 1:00:20.520 director is really good, they give the director a privilege 1:00:20.560 --> 1:00:25.600 called final cut that means they can shoot whatever they 1:00:25.640 --> 1:00:26.000 want to. 1:00:27.000 --> 1:00:30.480 But by the time this film is released, the one. 1:00:30.320 --> 1:00:35.200 Who directed it gets to decide what goes in it. 1:00:35.880 --> 1:00:43.000 Your God. I know y'all are tired, but I came 1:00:43.080 --> 1:00:48.520 for three people. You've been cut off, you've been cut down. 1:00:49.520 --> 1:00:56.520 But God said, I'm gonna make you fruitful because your 1:00:56.560 --> 1:01:00.720 father has final cut. Heads baled, eyes close, Grab the 1:01:00.720 --> 1:01:02.000 hand of the person next to you. 1:01:02.120 --> 1:01:03.640 They're in the cutting room right now. 1:01:05.120 --> 1:01:10.600 It's not convenient in the cutting room. It's confusing in 1:01:10.680 --> 1:01:13.800 the cutting room. But God is with you in the 1:01:13.840 --> 1:01:17.160 cutting room. The reason I wanted to preach this series, 1:01:17.200 --> 1:01:19.760 the reason I wanted to preach this sermon, is you 1:01:19.840 --> 1:01:24.560 need some help with your edit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you 1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:27.040 are leaving out some things that God put in. 1:01:28.360 --> 1:01:30.400 This week, He's going to fill you with his spirit 1:01:31.360 --> 1:01:33.680 and flood you with the realization. 1:01:34.640 --> 1:01:39.200 Of how beautiful He made you, how wonderfully crafted you are. 1:01:39.600 --> 1:01:42.400 Is masterful. He's got final cut. 1:01:43.640 --> 1:01:45.479 He's going to show you that the people who left 1:01:45.520 --> 1:01:50.320 your life were not meant for the next season of 1:01:50.360 --> 1:01:51.520 your life. 1:01:51.920 --> 1:01:53.840 And he's going to show you where David is on 1:01:53.920 --> 1:01:57.240 the way. For every saw that has been rejected, this 1:01:57.360 --> 1:01:58.320 says your cutting. 1:01:58.160 --> 1:02:03.440 Room for everything you don't like about yourself that you 1:02:03.520 --> 1:02:08.040 thought was a bug. What if it's a feature. What 1:02:08.120 --> 1:02:10.080 if God wants to show you to put something back 1:02:10.080 --> 1:02:13.600 in something you haven't done in years that used to 1:02:13.640 --> 1:02:14.640 bring God glorious. 1:02:14.680 --> 1:02:15.320 Time is time. 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:18.840 This is the cutting room. This is the cutting room. 1:02:18.880 --> 1:02:23.240 You came in shaking. I know I come to this 1:02:23.280 --> 1:02:26.960 pulpit shaken every week. But I asked God, God, would 1:02:27.000 --> 1:02:28.680 you take my nerves, would you take my fear? Would 1:02:28.680 --> 1:02:33.120 you take my uncertainty? And shake this place? And in 1:02:33.200 --> 1:02:36.880 the place where you're shaken, May God shake the place. 1:02:38.400 --> 1:02:43.320 And use you and use you. He's using He's using 1:02:43.520 --> 1:02:45.160 he's using you. He's using. 1:02:46.480 --> 1:02:49.800 Gotta cut some stuff back now so he can use you. 1:02:49.800 --> 1:02:54.080 Gotta cut some stuff out now so he can use you. 1:02:54.080 --> 1:02:56.000 Got to get some new disciplines in there so he 1:02:56.040 --> 1:03:00.800 can use you. But it's his scissors, it's his garden, 1:03:00.800 --> 1:03:05.800 it's his hand. You are his planting for his renown. 1:03:06.160 --> 1:03:09.480 He is the sovereign God. He made the earth and 1:03:09.520 --> 1:03:11.440 the sea and everything in it, and he made everything 1:03:11.480 --> 1:03:14.680 in you. Now I call it forth in Jesus' name. 1:03:15.800 --> 1:03:19.720 I call forth miracles from your spirit. In Jesus' name, I. 1:03:19.720 --> 1:03:22.240 Call forth freedom from your spirit. 1:03:22.280 --> 1:03:28.320 In Jesus' name, I call forth abundance of compassion, abundance 1:03:28.680 --> 1:03:32.920 of joy, wisdom from avolved, first, feasible, then pure. I 1:03:33.000 --> 1:03:37.200 call wisdom by the Holy Spirit of God. I release 1:03:37.240 --> 1:03:39.680 it in your life right now. I release it in 1:03:39.720 --> 1:03:42.800 your life right now, a fresh feeling of the spirit 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:46.040 of God. I release it in your life right now, 1:03:46.280 --> 1:03:49.920 in the name of Jesus. And everybody who's been set free. 1:03:50.080 --> 1:03:52.320 Clap your hands and give God praise. 1:03:54.520 --> 1:03:55.080 Ah. 1:03:55.080 --> 1:03:59.720 Thank you Lord for final fight. You got the final 1:04:01.280 --> 1:04:02.600 you got the final. 1:04:02.360 --> 1:04:13.280 Say in my life. Head's about eyes closed, They crucified Jesus. 1:04:14.960 --> 1:04:17.320 They hung him on the cross and stretched him wide 1:04:18.160 --> 1:04:21.920 and hung him high. From that place of his death 1:04:22.920 --> 1:04:24.560 came the possibility of new life for you. 1:04:24.680 --> 1:04:25.760 There is someone here today. 1:04:26.880 --> 1:04:30.520 And lately in your life you've been realizing I need God. 1:04:31.560 --> 1:04:36.000 I cannot do this by myself. I need Jesus. I 1:04:36.080 --> 1:04:39.120 believe God brought you to this stream today. God brought 1:04:39.120 --> 1:04:41.560 you to this sanctuary today, this building. 1:04:41.240 --> 1:04:44.440 Today so that you could be saved. Right now. 1:04:45.200 --> 1:04:47.720 I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now, 1:04:48.160 --> 1:04:50.480 if you're ready to give your heart to God, ready 1:04:50.520 --> 1:04:53.720 to receive the forgiveness of your sin and repent of 1:04:53.760 --> 1:04:55.320 your sin, and trust. 1:04:55.040 --> 1:04:57.880 Jesus, I believe that He will hear you from heaven. 1:04:58.440 --> 1:05:03.920 And heal you, give you a brand new nature. Praying 1:05:03.920 --> 1:05:06.600 this together as a church family for the benefit of 1:05:06.640 --> 1:05:09.240 those who are coming to God or back to God. 1:05:09.960 --> 1:05:16.680 Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation. 1:05:18.000 --> 1:05:20.760 I am a sinner in need of a savior. 1:05:21.560 --> 1:05:25.880 And I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of 1:05:25.920 --> 1:05:28.680 God and the savior of the world. 1:05:29.520 --> 1:05:34.800 And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life. 1:05:34.880 --> 1:05:39.040 I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 1:05:39.160 --> 1:05:41.920 rose again to give me life. 1:05:42.160 --> 1:05:47.240 I receive this new life. This is my new beginning. 1:05:47.920 --> 1:05:51.440 I am a child of God. On the count of three, 1:05:51.520 --> 1:05:54.000 raise your hand if you prayed that one, two, three, 1:05:54.040 --> 1:05:55.360 shoot them up all over the room. 1:05:55.720 --> 1:05:58.600 I see you, God sees you. God bless it. 1:06:00.360 --> 1:06:06.200 Congratulations, amazing you too, amazing online. 1:06:06.280 --> 1:06:07.280 Just say it in the chat. 1:06:07.400 --> 1:06:11.480 I receive Jesus, I receive Jesus. 1:06:12.280 --> 1:06:15.160 Come on, let's shake this place with praise for the salvation. 1:06:16.320 --> 1:06:24.280 Oh my God, hall elud. Did you receive anything from 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:26.240 the Lord today? Clap your hands. 1:06:32.160 --> 1:06:35.000 Well, join hands with your neighbor one more time. If 1:06:35.000 --> 1:06:37.560 you haven't caught something from him by this point, you won't. 1:06:37.560 --> 1:06:43.720 Now praise the Lord. Tell your neighbor I'm contagious. Tell 1:06:43.760 --> 1:06:45.560 them you hang around me, you might catch faith. You 1:06:45.640 --> 1:06:50.280 hang around me, you might catch praise. My father said, 1:06:50.320 --> 1:06:54.280 I'm blessed, and I am, and now I bless you 1:06:54.320 --> 1:06:55.120 in Jesus' name. 1:06:56.080 --> 1:06:57.160 Amen, I'm gonna. 1:06:56.960 --> 1:07:02.240 Bless everybody who stays till I'm done. You want this blessing, 1:07:03.320 --> 1:07:05.080 this one's worth waiting for it, because I'm gonna tell 1:07:05.080 --> 1:07:06.560 you how blessed you're gonna be this week. 1:07:07.360 --> 1:07:08.440 You're gonna be so. 1:07:08.600 --> 1:07:12.720 Blessed this week that every weapon that the devil forms 1:07:12.720 --> 1:07:16.640 against you, it might fly by, but it won't work. 1:07:18.000 --> 1:07:19.960 It'll only make your faith stronger. 1:07:20.880 --> 1:07:22.720 Somebody say, how blessed am I gonna be? 1:07:22.760 --> 1:07:26.840 This week? So blessed? At any time you want to 1:07:26.840 --> 1:07:29.120 talk to God, you can talk to him wherever you are. 1:07:30.000 --> 1:07:33.200 How blessed am I gonna be this week? I'm gonna 1:07:33.200 --> 1:07:37.560 be the head and not the tale above and. 1:07:37.640 --> 1:07:41.280 Not beneath running over a Linda. 1:07:41.000 --> 1:07:44.560 And Ola bar or a child of the Most hi God, 1:07:45.240 --> 1:07:46.760 the righteousness of God. 1:07:47.480 --> 1:07:50.800 I am who God says I am. 1:07:50.840 --> 1:07:53.400 You love this this, I. 1:07:53.360 --> 1:07:54.320 Love you so much. 1:07:59.760 --> 1:08:00.920 Thank you for joining us. 1:08:01.200 --> 1:08:03.680 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 1:08:03.720 --> 1:08:07.240 this ministry. 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