Do The New You

0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 Hey haul, Yes, let's do it again. Let's do it, 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.160 Let's run it back. I can't wait. Elevation Nights. It's 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.639 gonna be amazing. Been to the East Coast, West Coast, YEP. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.319 Now I think we need to come to Austin, Texas. Yes, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.880 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. About Minneapolis, Yes, Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.560 Saint Louis, Missouri, for Wayne, Indiana, Toronto, Ontario. We got 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:28.840 to see you there April eighteenth. April eighteenth through twenty seven. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.320 It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, we coordinated that awesome. But 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.000 make sure you go get your tickets right now. Elevation 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.879 Nights dot Com. These nights are seriously like the best, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.720 the best. Can't explain it. I wouldn't keep doing it 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.400 if it wasn't amazing. You have to experience it. It'll 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.559 be me you Elevation Worship and you we'll see at 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.000 Elevation Nights. Elevation Nights dot Com. Get your tickets today, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.840 let me know if you're gonna be there. You all 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:07.039 ready for the word sit down. I'm teaching today from 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:15.800 Ephesians chapter four, fourteen through twenty four. I really will 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.200 only talk about one verse but you got to hear 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.200 all of them, or else it will sound like some 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:26.440 kind of Pinterest thing or like some little cute little quote. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.960 But I'm not trying to do that today. I want 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:35.280 to teach a little bit. I am excited when you 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.960 come to church. You know you get here. I know 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.360 you leave the house and have to fight and all that. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.400 I'm already here for five hours. So the main thing 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.360 I have to do when I start my sermons is 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:55.160 tell myself, ferdict, slow down, let the people wake up. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.320 So that's why I had Zeke sing a little bit 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.560 so I could slow down and just get ready to 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.800 preach to you what I have been studying for the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:13.080 last several months. Ephesians chapter four. This new series is 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:23.079 called Do the New You. Ephesians chapter four. Do the 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.840 New You. Oh, We're going to talk about that a 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.120 whole lot in the month of January. Ephesians chapter four. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.040 I'm happy to see you. I'm happy you're here. Look 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.360 at you getting in a good church rhythm at the 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.920 beginning of the year. You have perfect church attendance so 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.480 far this year. Tell the devil that put a gold 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.680 star in the devil's face and tell him I showed 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:56.960 up for church. Ephesians, Chapter four, verse fourteen. The apostle 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.920 Paul says, then we will no longer be infants, to 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.679 lost back and forth by the waves and blown here 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.840 and there by every wind of teaching, and by the 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.560 cunning and craftiness of people. You got to watch out 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.480 for people. Wouldn't life be wonderful if it wasn't for 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.520 the people that get in the way. You could do 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.040 everything God spoke to you. If it wasn't for people. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.000 It's really easy for me to obey God in church, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.600 and then I have to get out there and run 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.639 what He showed me in the playbook. So Paul says 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.200 here that we need to get to a point that 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.240 we are grown past the opinions of people in their 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.520 deceitful scheming, whether it's a marketer or a newscast, or 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.400 a political group or any of that. Whether it's something 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.000 you've been taught in church that's wrong, Paul says, I 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.520 want you to grow past that into this watch verse fifteen, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.400 speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.880 in every respect the mature body of Him who is 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.360 the head that is Christ, from him, the whole body, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.240 joined and held together by every supporting ligament grows and 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:12.680 builds itself up in love as each part does its work. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.400 So I tell you this and insist on it in 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.040 the Lord, that you must no longer live as the 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.600 gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:28.279 darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.120 God because of the ignorance that is in them, due 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.919 to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.719 they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.400 indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.200 of greed. Boy Pastor Stephen, you picked a cheerful scripture 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.919 for the new Year's sermon. Listen to this. It's about 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:55.920 to turn that, however, is not the way of life 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.599 you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.440 in Him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.279 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.680 to put off your old self, which is being corrupted 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:19.839 by its deceitful desires, and to be made new in 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.479 the attitude of your minds, and to put on last 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.919 verse the new self created to be like God in 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.120 true righteousness and holiness. Clap your hands for the word 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:42.040 of God. When people give you advice that isn't helpful, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.640 what do you do? Smile at him? Yeah, I pray 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.400 about that. A dude was telling me the other day, 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.479 I need to preach a series on bitcoin. I said, 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.720 I pray about that. Thank you for the input, and 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.479 then I went on about my business. But when somebody 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.719 you respect, then it's different, even if you don't like 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:07.440 what they say. And when my dad was diagnosed with 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.160 ALS about ten years ago. He was diagnosed about twelve 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.240 years ago, and he went to heaven about ten years ago. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.840 We went through a horrible period as a family, and 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.720 some of it I can laugh about now, But man, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.599 we would get on the phone and try to talk 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.560 to each other and we couldn't even speak. It would 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.960 turn into a shouting match. And then I'd get up 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.520 and preach Sunday and then getting a shouting match on 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.280 the phone with my dad Tuesday, and feel like a 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.160 hypocrite about it. But I couldn't figure out a way 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.000 past it. I try and do all this and that 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.320 and the other. But the point of the story is 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.640 this pastor calls me and somebody that I really loved 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:46.440 and respected and said, I heard about what you're going 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.960 through with your dad, and I've been praying about it now. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:51.360 He only talked to my dad about it. He didn't 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.240 talked to me about it. So he heard what he 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.720 heard from who he heard it from. He said, I 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.880 heard what happened with your dad, and I just called 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.359 to ask you one question, Stephen, what would Jesus do? 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.120 And you know what, I thought, Jesus would heal him. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.480 And I'm not Jesus. I might lay hands on him 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:20.360 before it's all said and done, so you could take 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:25.480 your little WWJD wisdom. I had the bracelet to when 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.520 I was sixteen. But it's not that I don't know 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.280 what I want in this relationship. I want reconciliation. I 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.920 want to be by my dad's side. I want us 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.640 to be able to take care of him. I mean, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.720 that's the reason why we moved them to Charlotte is 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.560 I wanted to be a part of that in any 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:47.080 way I could. But it wasn't really knowing what to do. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.880 It was doing what I knew in the face of 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:55.520 something in real time that was complicated. In the passage 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.520 I just read you. I don't know how much the apostle. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.080 Paul sounds like that pastor that called me to you 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.760 because he's telling you things to do. Then on the 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.400 surface sounds so simple, and in the way he starts it, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.800 it's so Paul, is so Paul. Paul's like in verse seventeen, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.200 He's like, so I tell you this, give me verse 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:18.240 seventeen and insist on it in the Lord. Well, now, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.000 what can I say back to you? Right? So I 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.240 tell you this, Okay, tell me and I insist on it. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:32.280 Okay in the Lord, just say it. He says that 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.400 the way that you have been living that has been 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.640 limiting you is not a product of the person that 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.360 God has called you to be. It is a product 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.960 of the patterns of the world that you have copied 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:56.520 unconsciously until now. But Paul says, I give you, in 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.400 this moment of your life, to the Ephesian Church, and 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.120 I believe he he says it to Elevation Church as well, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.760 at the beginning of a new year. A command, not 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.120 a suggestion, on the authority of God's word, not the 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.640 advice of somebody that you follow. This is not TikTok truth, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.440 This is not a tip. This is not nineteen ways 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.200 to get it. This is something that God says from 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.920 his own heart to you through the apostle, echoing through 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.920 the eons, and right now this word stands in front 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.480 of you. There comes a point in your life when 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:40.360 doing you isn't working, and there becomes there comes a 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.640 challenge to become what you've really been all along that 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:50.800 has been buried. I believe this year is my year, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.760 in your year to see some things manifest in our 0:09:54.840 --> 0:10:00.360 lives that we don't even have the faith to for 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.520 anymore because it's been one way so long. I believe 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.120 this is your year in your life to see character 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.640 development at a level like you thought was only possible 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 for other people before. You're gonna become the kind of 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.840 person that you've admired. This year, you're gonna become someone 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.920 that you can trust in this year, You're gonna become 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.319 someone who keeps commitments that they make in secret in 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.600 public under pressure. This year. How do I know is possible? 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.920 Because God would not command it, if he would not 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.480 resource it. If God told me to do it, He'll 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:42.679 show me how. All right, Feel good? Now I got 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.760 my preach back. Now I've been a couple of weeks 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.560 just in here by myself and hanging out with the 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.920 family and been thinking about this. This thing that people say, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:57.880 do you It usually is a phrase that gives us 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.680 permission to be different, even if what we're doing like this, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:07.400 like this, like oh you're gonna wear that? Well? Do 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.600 you you like those? Oh? Yeah? Do you? It means 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:18.839 I wouldn't Hey man, do you you wanna you wanna 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.400 buy it? Buy it? Yeah? Man? Do you? Or or 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.240 or or it could be kind of like, man, don't 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:30.160 listen to them. Do you you have to do that 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.680 what they're they're doing over there? Do you? And I 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:41.440 wonder like, is that advice helpful? And when this is 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.440 what we're gonna consider for the next four weeks, So 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.680 I'm giving you fair warning should you decide to skip, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.680 we are going to evaluate the point at which check this. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:12:06.880 We use authenticity as an excuse for immay. Nobody in 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.240 here wore a diaper to church unless they were carried 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.800 and unless it's covered. I hope yet, at one time 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.040 that's what you ran around the house in should you 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.720 do you? Nobody in here that I'm aware of over 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.160 the age of eighteen is going to eat their meal 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.200 only with their hands today unless it's a sandwich and 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.920 a bag of chips, But at one time you did 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.600 should you do you? Nobody in here today over the 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.360 age of twenty one is going to go home today 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.400 unless there's a physical ailment. And I understand that. And 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.160 there's exceptions to everything I say. Nobody is going to 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.240 go in their lunch today and expect to be spoon 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.160 fed something that's mashed up. But at one time you 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:58.360 needed that should you do you? Should you? Because that's 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.320 what I hear a lot now it's like, do you 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:09.760 We almost have elevated authenticity to the level of ultimate 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:15.840 authority in our lives to give ourselves permission not to 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.720 make progress in areas of our life. I just went 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.200 through several physical examples that were awkward on purpose that 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.920 at one time you wore a diaper, at one time 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.520 you couldn't chew your food. But yet people still come 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.520 to church and they say, I want to be fed 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.040 when I come to church. And that's fine because Jesus 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.440 did tell Peter feed my sheep. But guess what you 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:50.400 have to chew? I insist on it in the Lord. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.800 It's so funny how many people don't get strong from sermons. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.440 They hear because you get fed. I left that church 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.760 because I wasn't getting fed. Maybe or maybe you didn't 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:07.000 chew it. Maybe you didn't do it. The Bible says 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.640 that he who comes to me and here's my words 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.960 and doesn't put them into practice. It's like a foolish 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.840 man who built his house on the sand. Wait a minute, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.600 he heard the word. Shouldn't he be stronger from the 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.520 word that he heard, not if he didn't do it. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.840 One country preacher said, the word of God is like 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.080 a can of paint. The value is in the application. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.160 So I hear Paul all in Ephesians one through three, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.440 and Holly and Britain. The team did a study that 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.240 you're gonna get January twenty second for the e groups 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.600 where they go into Ephesians. And I didn't even tell 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.680 her that the Lord gave me a sermon from Ephesians 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.080 because I wanted to surprise her. So surprise here, I 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.080 am all the way in Ephesians chapter four, wherein one 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.840 through three Paul is telling them what God did through 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.240 the Gospel, and then he makes a turn in chapter 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.120 four where he starts talking about now that God did that, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.440 you do this because you can one of the things 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.680 that he says in this passage were interesting to me. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.440 Look at verse fourteen. He says that when we grow 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.240 up through the unity in our faith by committing ourselves 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.160 to God's community in his process, that we will no 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.400 longer be there it is infants. We will no longer 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.960 expect to be fed without doing any chewing of our own. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.600 We will no longer be immature. But when I saw 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.240 this connection, it kind of surprised me. He said that 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.640 when you are stuck in spiritual infancy, check this out. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.560 You are tossed back and forth by the waves, and 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.920 blown here and there by every wind of teaching, and 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.320 by the cunniness, cunning, and craftiness of people in their 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.160 deceitful excusing. So isn't that true? Haven't you found that 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:55.200 to be true? That immaturity always manifests as instability. Can 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.560 you notice that, like in your own life, when there 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.600 is an area in your life where God is trying 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.480 to grow you, or life is trying to grow you, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.720 or challenges are trying to move you, and you refuse 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:13.080 to move past what God is trying to teach you 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.440 to do, it will always result in instability. Now, notice 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.280 that he talks about the waves and the wind, which 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.200 are both external metaphors for the things that happen to 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.240 us in our life. But what he says in the 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.880 passage is not that our spiritual maturity guarantees the elimination 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:38.080 of wind and waves. He says that your spiritual growth 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:43.960 and maturity will guarantee that, because God is your strength, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:49.560 your source, and your firm foundation, that you will have 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:54.840 a stable place in any storm. When I prophesy over 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.000 your life that God is going to do great things 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.680 this year, I am not prophesying the appsence of any 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.520 external challenge, for that is above and beyond my pay grade. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.359 What I am prophesying in the name of Jesus is 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.119 that there is a seed of the Word of God 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.480 inside of you trying to come up out of the 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.040 soil that will enable you to see life everywhere you 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.719 look this year, and you will not be moved anymore 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.560 by all of the happenings of life like you were 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:32.639 in the past. So I want to ask a question 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:37.800 for you to consider. How has your instability in life 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:46.200 been caused by an area of immaturity in your life? 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.399 What waves are you blaming for the way you are 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:57.040 right now? When the real problem is within what wind? 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:03.159 Are you cursing because you avoid dealing with the storms inside? 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.119 And this is how the Lord led me to start 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:12.880 the year to tell you that you get to choose 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.040 this year whether to grow into what God has called 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:23.440 you or continue to be stuck in the rut of 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:28.120 what was because of what you saw, because of what 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:34.080 you've been through, and because of what you've known. One 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.320 reason I don't believe in the saying do you as 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.480 a general piece of advice is because it assumes that 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:48.880 you know you and you don't. Why are y'all making 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:53.080 me break this down so much? Find one of these 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.920 church people that's in here today lifting their hands praising God, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:04.800 follow them to their kids sporting event, and see if 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:10.040 they are the same that they were on Sunday, Because see, 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.080 I met some of y'all in other locations than church, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.840 and I was surprised what I saw. You were lifting 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.399 your hands, your whole hands in here, and then you 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.919 were lifting individual fingers when I saw you at your 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.080 kids basketball game. So I can't figure out. So if 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.840 I tell you do you, I don't know which one 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.880 it's going to show up for the audition for the role. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.440 And maybe clear the room. That's bad advice. One time 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.720 a preacher told me, hey, man, come preach for us. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.960 And I said, okay, and he said, and just be you. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.280 I said, oh no, that's the last thing you want 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.720 to tell me. I need to get with God. If 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.159 I show up me without God, your church will split. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:59.320 Now I'm not saying I got multiple personalities, but I'm 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.040 saying I'm a fan by things I'm affected by. I'm 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:07.840 affected by moos oh for me in the morning. It's 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.320 not to me I want to send into my week. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.240 Let me talk a little bit about this topic, how 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.720 to defy your default setting. I'm just setting you all 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.800 up this week. I hope you're gonna stick with me 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:27.200 for January because a lot of us accept our default 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:35.080 setting in a situation as our destiny. When I wake 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.760 up in the morning, my first thought isn't great as 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:42.480 I've hit from this o God. My father. One man said, 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.040 I don't wake up in the morning and say good 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.119 what he said, good morning Lord? I wake up and 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:53.679 say good Lord, it's morning. That's me. That's mourning me. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.600 Not only is my breath bad in the morning, my 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.359 beliefs are bad too. Y'all brush your teeth. I have 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.879 to brush my beliefs in the morning. I have to. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.080 I promise you, I have to. If I don't do 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.040 that in the morning, it's going to be a meltdown 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:15.440 by ten am, maybe two in the best case scenario. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:20.000 But what I'm learning not only from my life, but 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:25.000 from this passage as I study it, is that the 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:30.760 awareness of how I start doesn't have to become indicative 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:35.359 of where I end. And watch this. I cannot use 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:45.360 authenticity as permission to sin. So I can't just wake 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.760 up and think a certain way and act a certain 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.520 way if I belong to God and just call it 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:58.120 being real. He didn't say be real, he said be righteous. 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.600 Oh no, Well, I'm just saying what I feel. Who 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.920 told you to do that? I'm just speaking my mind. 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.160 What a horrible book to be speaking from the book 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.320 of your mind, the book of your brain, which has been, 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:23.320 what the Scripture says, corrupted by deceitful desires. That's the problem. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:27.040 Do you which me, the me that wants to be 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:31.000 happy right now at all costs, or the me that 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.800 will thank me in ten years for the decisions I 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:40.679 made right now? Which while? Do you which one the 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.320 one that's gonna kick my butt if I keep acting 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.800 like this for the next five years. The me that 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.359 I don't want to see reproduced in my kids. That one. 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:54.199 Just do that. Yeah, just do you? Just do me, 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.520 just like my dad did him and he did him. No, 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.480 I believe that there is a power in for you 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.520 to decide that. I don't want to be like what 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:08.800 I came from. I want to be like I was 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:19.879 creative for saw. I wake up in the morning, I 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.840 gotta get some of God's word. I can't start responding 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:24.960 to the text first thing in the morning. I can't 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.800 touch the screen and start telling people what I think 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.000 and what I feel first thing in the morning. I 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:33.199 gotta get to Douteronomy chapter seven and see what God says. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:37.200 Then maybe I can say something. I got a little 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.719 gratitude journal. I gotta write some things down I'm thankful 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.840 for in the morning, so I'll just start thinking about 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.440 what I need today, because I'll start the whole day 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:47.479 in the deaficit, all day down around, run around, thing 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:48.840 like I don't have enough strength. I don't have enough 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:52.520 energy unless I start somewhere else. Now, just do you. 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.719 I'm not doing that anymore. I did mean it almost 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:02.320 killed me. I didn't me, but I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.320 I live. I didn't me. That's too small of an 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.360 apartment for me to live in. That apartment has roaches, 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:13.119 that apartment doesn't have any electricity. That thing is corrupted, corroded, 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:20.560 and deceived by sin. So I came with the New 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:26.359 Year series to tell you, not me, but in the Lord, 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:32.600 that you are being called this year to do the 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:39.520 new you. And you are not supposed to like new 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:46.320 when you first start doing it, and you don't have 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:50.120 to like it at first to do it. I went 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:54.560 up bucking counted two thousand, one hundred and something workouts 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:56.920 I did since we boot the Pound. That's the little 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:02.560 workout room at my house. Two thousand, one hundred something workouts. 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:06.240 When we met, I was so inconsistent in working out. 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.240 I was like, you know, man, I'm just really not 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.040 one of these guys that comes in and works out consistently. 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:13.639 I do it when I can get around to it. 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:19.360 I told him that I was doing me. I told 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:22.439 him how I would and wouldn't exercise. But you know what, 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:23.960 they got in there and helped me, and it kept 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.240 me accountable. And then I counted It's been eight years now, 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:32.040 eight years that I've done my workouts like five times 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:38.480 a week, and y'all don't even care. I'm not bragging. No, 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:40.919 You're like, why are you bragging? If you work out, workout, 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:42.800 don't come up here bragging about it. Preach the word. Man, 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:45.560 i't need to hear all this. I'm telling you. I 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.040 saw myself as a certain kind of person for all 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.520 my life, And even the other day I was telling 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.040 somebody I'm not one of these people who just likes 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:59.280 to work out. I thought, yes, you are. I did 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:02.320 the math. If I've been doing that for like eight years, 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.520 and you're not supposed to really start working out until 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:08.560 you're how old, Matt fourteen probably is about the earliest 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:11.080 you want to lift weights. That is a good like 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:14.840 thirty percent of my life that I've been doing it. 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.960 So I am a person who likes to work out. 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:25.000 Imagine that my default wasn't to do that. But my 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:31.280 default is not my destiny. My decisions are. How about that? 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.640 Paul says, to put off the old way of seeing 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:42.960 yourself and put on what he calls the attitude of Christ. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:46.159 What does that mean? To put on the new self? 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:48.960 I can't see it like a jacket. I can't see 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:51.919 it like a hat. I can't see it like a raincoat. 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:55.200 I can't see it like new balances. I can't see 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:58.199 it like it's in my wardrobe. It lives within me. 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:02.720 But I have the decision to make every day of 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:11.080 my life which one I will choose? Every day, every hour, 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:18.000 every moment. I am deciding, and you are deciding, which 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:25.360 you will you do this year? Do you the one 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:30.240 that was made new in the attitude of your mind? 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:32.800 Put on the new self. Now we're going to do 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:37.000 some study in the text here. In verse twenty four, 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:42.520 he says that the new self was created to be 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:47.119 like God, and then in verse twenty three he says 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:52.760 that the old self is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:57.560 Let's really look at both of those verses. This is 0:27:57.600 --> 0:28:01.760 the nexus of Chris and practice in order to see 0:28:01.760 --> 0:28:04.520 ourselves as God sees us is not a matter of 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:10.400 abstract ethereal and philosophical debate, as a matter of practice. 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:14.280 So watch this. He said that the old self is 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:18.280 being corrupted verse twenty three. Please give me that is 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:25.720 being corrupted. Everybody say, corrupted by the deceitful desires. What 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:30.000 you think you want, what you want right now, what 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:33.840 the world tells you you should want. What people spend 0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:36.679 millions of dollars on ad campaigns to get you to think, 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:39.200 if you had it, you would be happy. All of 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.120 the images that you see of the life that you 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:43.480 imagined that would actually make you happy. That is really 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:45.200 empty at the bottom of it, if it doesn't have 0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:50.120 God in the middle of it. Right, So he says 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:54.840 that that self is being corrupted. Everybody say corrupted, and 0:28:54.880 --> 0:28:59.640 to put on verse twenty four the new self which 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:05.200 was created. Everybody say created. Oh, I like that They 0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:07.440 both start with the same letter. I can preach this 0:29:08.440 --> 0:29:14.600 one is being corrupted and one was created. So when 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:18.280 you have an outburst of anger, or for when you 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:20.640 reach for the pills because that's the only way you 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:23.360 know how to escape your pain, or for when you 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:26.600 manipulate situations, or for when you spend till three point 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:29.000 thirty am looking at porn and then you can't connect 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:31.800 in real life, or for when you find yourself holding 0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:34.120 on to grudges and trying to pay people back, or 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:37.000 for when you do those things which are very common 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:41.040 in the world, and you say that's just how I am. 0:29:42.360 --> 0:29:46.640 And then Paul says in Ephesians four twenty four that 0:29:46.680 --> 0:29:49.200 at the heart of the New Testament is the fact 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:55.480 that you were created to be like God. And then 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:59.000 verse twenty three that you are being excuse me, verse 0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:03.760 twenty two. Yeah, verse twenty two, that the old self, 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:08.600 the former way of life, is being corrupted. That means 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:15.800 my daily decision is corrupted me or created me. You 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:23.040 got it. Now. Why this blesses me so much is 0:30:23.080 --> 0:30:26.280 that it lets me know that at my core I'm 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.520 a child of God, that at my core, I'm a 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:33.920 new creation at Christ, in Christ. If you cut me open, 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:37.800 Christ would be there. If you ripped open this frame, 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:40.440 if you ripped open this body, if you ripped open 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:44.040 this physical appearance that you see at the core of 0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:49.160 that would be Christ. Because I was created twenty four, 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:53.880 I was created, a new self, recreated. Give me twenty four. Please, 0:30:54.000 --> 0:30:55.840 y'all stay with me. These are my verses right here. 0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:59.120 Stay with me. Verse twenty four, Verse twenty four. Created 0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:07.240 to do what be like God in true righteousness, not 0:31:07.440 --> 0:31:14.160 self righteousness, not the appearance of righteousness. Created to be 0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:18.720 like God, not to be God. That's a whole different thing. 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:22.800 That's what some of us have been trying to do 0:31:22.840 --> 0:31:25.600 that keeps us so stressed out. We keep trying to 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:30.480 be God over our lives. We keep trying to decide 0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:33.160 what can I do, what should I do? And then 0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:35.520 when it doesn't work, and then when we're weary, we 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:38.840 come running. But God said, you weren't created to be God. 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:43.240 You were created to be conformed to the image of 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:48.440 God who made you. You were created to be new. 0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:55.400 But you are being corrupted by the patterns of the world. 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:59.520 And when your mind has been corrupted long enough with 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:02.640 patterns of thinking and patterns of speaking, which Ephesians four 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:07.480 addresses very clearly, you begin to identify with the issues 0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:11.040 you struggle with more than the image of the God 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:18.880 that you were made in. So now when you act 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:22.120 up in sin and miss it, you think that's just me. 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:27.480 Now you are using self awareness as a permission slip 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:33.200 to stay stuck in sin. And Paul gets right up 0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:34.960 in the middle of it, and he's like, I got 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:39.360 one question, what would Jesus do? And I'm like, Paul, 0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:42.280 i am not Jesus. Jesus is the pure, spoltless lamb 0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:44.440 of God, alpha and Omega, the first and the last. 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:46.760 I'm not even a letter in the alphabet. He's the 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:49.200 first one, the last one, the Omnikron, He's all of it. 0:32:49.360 --> 0:32:52.120 I can't do it without Jesus. And He's like, exactly. 0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:57.600 So that's where I want you to go to get 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:03.600 your truth, the truth that is in Jesus. I am 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:06.800 sending it back to the pit of Hell. This phrase 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.160 that got popular in our culture a few years ago. 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:16.280 Live your truth to Hell with your truth, your truth, 0:33:17.120 --> 0:33:21.440 it said. The truth is in Jesus. He is the way, 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:24.040 the truth, and the life. You can't come to the 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:27.440 Father without him. You can't be right with God without him. 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.640 You can't be clingsed without him. You can't make it 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:33.920 without him. It is his breath in your lungs. It 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:37.280 is his hand on your life. It is his grace 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:41.520 that justifies. It is he that raises up one that 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:45.520 brings down another. The truth is in Jesus. Stop me. 0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:51.560 I don't speak my mind. I speak Jesus. I'll speak 0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:55.800 my dear. I speak Jesus what I see. I live 0:33:55.920 --> 0:33:59.520 by faith in the Son of God. I am crucified 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:04.400 with Christ. Nevertheless I live. So I'm doing me but 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.240 it's not the me you see. It's to me that's 0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:10.960 kicking on the inside. It's to me that's coming up alive. 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:14.360 It's to me that trauma couldn't kill. It's to me 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:18.040 that drama can't distric It's to me that this world 0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:29.840 can corrupt. So do you the new you? Yeah? The 0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:33.879 new you, the one that apologizes when you're wrong. That one, 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:37.560 not the one that takes three weeks to come around 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:39.560 and see it either, the one that says in the 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.479 middle of my sentence, Oh, I'm sorry. I don't talk 0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:45.560 like this. I'm sorry, y'all. That's not me. That's not 0:34:45.680 --> 0:34:47.960 to me I want to be. That's not what God's 0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:51.239 calling me into in twenty twenty three. It's a new 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:55.200 me twenty twenty three. Yeah, rhymes, it's good. I'm a preaching, 0:34:55.400 --> 0:34:58.040 I'm flowing in it. This is your year to break 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:04.360 away with everything you told her. What self? What's true? Guys? 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:14.919 There is I knew you and guess what. The new 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:23.360 you is the one that God knows. Imagine yourself free. 0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:30.839 God knows that you imagine yourself whole. God knows that 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:36.600 you imagine yourself able to wait and be patient and 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:39.800 not respond to every feeling that passes through your central 0:35:39.800 --> 0:35:47.120 nervous system. God knows that you. When I see myself 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:52.279 how God sees me and come into alignment with the 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:56.520 word that He spoke over me. It's new to me, 0:35:57.560 --> 0:36:04.719 but not to God. It's new to me, but not 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:11.200 to him. One time he was calling this prophet named Jeremiah, 0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:15.840 and the prophet Jeremiah was full of excuses, just like you, 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:21.640 just like me. I met this fellow last year on 0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:26.560 Elevation Nights named Brendan Burchard. He does a great group 0:36:26.640 --> 0:36:29.799 for growth online. Look him up, and he was saying 0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:32.320 these three things that we say to ourselves all the time, 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:34.840 and I identified with every single one of them. You ready, 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:39.640 this is the excuse that you use to do you 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:47.200 at the lower level. One you say, I don't know how, Two, 0:36:48.360 --> 0:36:54.879 I don't have it. Three I'm not like them. Let's 0:36:54.920 --> 0:37:02.200 break it down. Number one, don't know how. How many 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:04.239 of you had a challenge in twenty twenty two and 0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:07.239 you excused yourself from embracing it that God was calling 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:09.239 you hire, but you didn't go because you didn't know how. 0:37:09.360 --> 0:37:12.640 Raise your hand. My hand was the first one up, 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:17.080 and the rest of y'all are hypocrites because you either 0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:19.000 didn't listen or you just want to lie about it. 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:23.120 I don't know how to do that. I don't know how. 0:37:23.840 --> 0:37:27.839 Second one, I don't have that. Raise your hand. If 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:32.680 you made that last year, I'll have that. Yeah, you 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:40.479 could say that about money, time, energy, health, education, what else? 0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:44.120 Y'all probably got something that I hadn't thought of. Y'all 0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:48.840 are way more dysfunctional than me. Give me some material here, No, 0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:51.759 I promise you that's not true. That's a very sarcastic 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:55.440 what is it? All? Right? So I don't know how 0:37:55.480 --> 0:38:03.960 to I don't know how to to resist it. I'll 0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:07.919 be consistent. I like to resist it better because that's 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:09.840 what I think, right, Like greater is he that is 0:38:09.880 --> 0:38:12.560 in you than he that is in the world. I 0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:15.719 don't know how to fight this. When you've been given 0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:17.600 into something and you can just you can just nod 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:19.440 like you don't know what I'm talking about. When you've 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:24.719 been given into something since you were ten, it's really 0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:26.840 hard for you to really believe that you can overcome that. 0:38:27.200 --> 0:38:29.560 And listen. You don't have to admit that that struck 0:38:29.560 --> 0:38:32.840 a chord what I just said. Just do you pretend 0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:36.200 like you do. You don't struggle with that. You're such 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.840 an angel, and I respect you and admire you. I 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:40.279 don't know how to resist. I don't know how to 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:43.520 be consistent. I don't know how well for me. When 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:46.280 I started my workouts, I put a this is so corny. 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:48.520 I put a chart on my wall where I could 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:52.160 put stars every time I worked out, because I thought 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:56.440 that would reinforce the behavior. I looked like I was 0:38:56.480 --> 0:38:58.560 seven years old down there. I'm a grown man with 0:38:58.640 --> 0:39:01.600 a beard putting stars on a chart, and I still 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:05.200 do it. And I filled that sucker up this year. 0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:08.759 I ran out of blue stars and had to start 0:39:08.840 --> 0:39:11.200 using the gold ones this year. That's how good I 0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:14.440 did it. Because I'm changing. I'm changing. I'm changing. Oh 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:16.919 I'm not one of these workout people. Well maybe I am. 0:39:17.200 --> 0:39:19.520 Maybe I can be one, Maybe I can get a chart. 0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:22.960 Maybe I am consistent. I'm consistent in this area. Why 0:39:22.960 --> 0:39:25.560 can't I be consistent in that area? I'm growing up 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:28.520 in every respect. I control my tongue in this situation. 0:39:28.800 --> 0:39:31.480 Why can't I control it in that situation? I made 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:34.680 a good decision Monday. Why can't I do it again Tuesday? 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:37.160 Why can't I do it again Wednesday. Looks like you 0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:39.680 know how to be consistent. You're here at charts on 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:42.319 the first Sunday of the year. How you do it? 0:39:42.520 --> 0:39:45.279 Not do it again? And do it again, and do it. 0:39:45.320 --> 0:39:54.000 I just talked to you a whole sevenar consistency. That 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:57.080 wasn't true. You know how to be consistent, you know 0:39:57.160 --> 0:40:00.319 how to do it. It is not knowing what to do. 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:03.120 It is doing what you knew that you didn't do 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:09.680 last time. Not fussing at you, I'm just saying I 0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:11.520 don't know how to be consistent in some areas of 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:16.239 my life either. I struggle with it, but by showing up, 0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:20.240 God's strength is released. I don't know how. I don't 0:40:20.280 --> 0:40:24.120 have it. I don't have that intellectual ability. I can't 0:40:24.160 --> 0:40:26.560 do that like that. Don't you think I felt like 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:28.960 that trying to teach each of my kids about sports. 0:40:30.200 --> 0:40:31.640 I don't know how to teach you how to do this. 0:40:32.719 --> 0:40:35.560 I got to like the basic level in all the 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:38.480 sports that I played, and nothing beyond that. So if 0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:45.319 you get good, I'm done. All right. Well, I don't 0:40:45.320 --> 0:40:49.400 know how. Why know how to support you? Why not 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:52.359 show up? I know how to demonstrate in my area 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:54.920 of competency, what you need to demonstrate, the discipline you 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:57.440 need to demonstrate in your area of competency and giftedness 0:40:57.440 --> 0:40:59.480 and calling. So I do know how, And if I 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:01.560 don't know how and I need to do it, I'll learn. 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:07.160 I'll look it up on YouTube. I could look up anything. 0:41:07.880 --> 0:41:09.760 I'll ask a friend. I've got a lot of smart friends. 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:13.200 And then the biggest one of all, the biggest live 0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:18.200 of all. I'm not like them. Man. They have a 0:41:18.200 --> 0:41:20.600 good marriage because their parents had a good marriage. I 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.359 can't do that my parents, my dad wasn't around. I'm 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:25.640 not like those people who grew up there. They know 0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:27.560 how to deal with money because they grew up around money. 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:29.200 I don't know how to deal with money. They know 0:41:29.239 --> 0:41:30.759 how to pray because they grew up in church. I 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:32.680 don't know all these Bible stories. Some of you were 0:41:32.680 --> 0:41:34.400 here for the first Sunday of this year, and the 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:36.520 whole time you've been feeling here, you've been feeling like 0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:38.640 I don't fit in. I don't know these words, I 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:41.560 don't know these songs. Why are people standing up and 0:41:41.640 --> 0:41:45.120 sitting down and standing up and sitting down and standing 0:41:45.200 --> 0:41:48.080 up and sitting down, And how long does this sermon 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:57.000 last anyway, I like these church people. Oh, we are 0:41:57.200 --> 0:42:03.799 all corrupted. Go with them in the parking lot. You 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:06.120 might catch them cussing before they even get off the 0:42:06.200 --> 0:42:09.200 church property if I preached long enough and let the 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:14.759 traffic get backed up. Don't let anybody intimidate you, make 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:18.080 you insecure, because you just got to grow into what 0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:27.920 God gave you. We're all struggling. We'll talk about it 0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:30.480 sometime one time. I'll tell you all my stuff, and 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:32.960 you can tell me all yours, and then we'll cry 0:42:33.040 --> 0:42:36.680 and get all over it, and then we will say, Okay, 0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:47.520 that's where we're starting. That's not where we're staying. So 0:42:47.640 --> 0:42:52.360 God wanted Jeremiah to go preach. And the Bible says 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:57.239 in Jeremiah chapter one, verse four, that the word of 0:42:57.360 --> 0:43:02.560 the Lord came to me. The word of the Lord 0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:10.800 existed before the world existed. In the beginning, was the word, 0:43:12.640 --> 0:43:14.919 you know. The book of Genesis says, in the beginning God. 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:17.560 The book of John says, in the beginning was the Word, 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:23.320 and the word was with God, and the Word was God. 0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:27.520 So when Jeremiah says the Word of the Lord came 0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:31.160 to me, it wasn't just advice that he got. It 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:34.080 wasn't just an instruction that he got. It wasn't just 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:36.719 something he thought he would try for his new year's goal. 0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:41.600 It was God himself showing up and saying, Jeremiah, I've 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:45.440 given you an assignment. There are invaders coming from the north, 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:47.880 and I want you to preach to my people and 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:51.320 warn them and instruct them, and do it through your tears. 0:43:51.520 --> 0:43:54.000 And there's going to be crying involved, and there's going 0:43:54.080 --> 0:43:56.680 to be challenges involved, and there's going to be self 0:43:56.719 --> 0:44:02.120 doubt involved. But he said, before you were born, before 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:12.040 I formed you in the womb, I I knew you 0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:22.480 before this world got a hold of you, before depression 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:27.600 set in and put you in the bed, before you 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:32.680 got in this state, this emergency situation that you don't 0:44:32.719 --> 0:44:35.440 know how you're going to get out of. Before you 0:44:35.520 --> 0:44:40.080 were molested, before you were abused, before you were left, 0:44:40.320 --> 0:44:43.840 before any of that happened to you, before the mistake, 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:48.920 before the failure, before the dumb idea, before the addiction 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:54.200 gripped you. Put it back up. God said, I knew you, 0:44:55.400 --> 0:45:01.040 he knew you, he knew you'd be in trouble, he 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:04.479 knew you'd be thirty six in single. He knew you'd 0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:08.000 be struggling. He knew you'd be sad, he knew you'd 0:45:08.040 --> 0:45:11.400 be melancholy. He knew you'd need a job. He know 0:45:11.600 --> 0:45:15.960 you'd be behind financially. He knew they'd walk away. He 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:20.480 knew you. You didn't know it. God knew it. You 0:45:20.520 --> 0:45:23.719 didn't see it coming. He saw it coming. He said, 0:45:23.760 --> 0:45:34.279 I know the lands I have for you. Before any 0:45:34.320 --> 0:45:37.560 of the crap happened. God said, I had intimate knowledge 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:41.320 of your intellect. I see your integrity, even when it falters. 0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:44.080 I see the man you're gonna be if you don't 0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:46.960 leave and walk away. I see if you submit to 0:45:47.040 --> 0:45:50.279 the process, how strong you're gonna be. I see the 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:54.040 testimony you're gonna be telling your kids ten years from now, 0:45:54.320 --> 0:45:58.400 talking about here's what God did in our home, Here's 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:02.000 what I almost did. A cod brought me back in 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:05.759 twenty twenty three, and he brought me inserts to tell 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:18.000 me do it. To do you. I knew you. I 0:46:18.239 --> 0:46:24.319 created you before you were corrupted. So I want you 0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:26.759 to take off what happened to you. Take off the 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:29.120 way you've been thinking about it. Take off the story 0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:32.319 you've been telling yourself. Take off that guilt, Take off 0:46:32.360 --> 0:46:34.840 that shame, put it all at the foot of the cross, 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:37.080 and cast it all on the back of the Christ 0:46:37.280 --> 0:46:40.000 who paid the price for your sins to be forgiven. 0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:43.279 It's under the blood. Now we're going forward. Now we're 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:45.439 not talking about that for the rest of your life. 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:49.040 We're turning it into something miraculous. It's time to bring 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:52.320 it out. The oven. Baby, it's ready. The eyes that 0:46:52.480 --> 0:47:00.960 flying rupts you. The elevation. I bring you up. Come up, 0:47:02.160 --> 0:47:08.160 Come up, Come up, Come up, Come up to do it. 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:13.399 Come up in establish this, Come up and start it. 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:17.040 Come up there, say say, come up, they break here, 0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:25.359 come up. Do it? Do it? Do it? Do it? 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:29.600 Do it? Do it till us second nature. Do it. 0:47:29.600 --> 0:47:32.120 Tell us how you think. Do it till it naturally 0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:34.360 colomes out of your mouth. Do it till it's not 0:47:34.480 --> 0:47:41.920 so hard anymore. Do it awkward? Do it clumsy? Do 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:43.920 it over? Do it over? Sorry I messed that up. 0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:50.400 Let me try again. Do it? Do it? Do the 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:58.120 knew you, the one God knew, the one that people 0:47:58.120 --> 0:48:03.080 don't always see. You're a good person. You got a 0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:08.239 better heart than you've got habits, And what you've been 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:12.640 calling your personality is just your patterns. If we change 0:48:12.640 --> 0:48:16.480 your patterns, God is about to release potential in your 0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:20.080 life this year that you didn't even think was possible. 0:48:22.920 --> 0:48:30.680 This is what the Lord said before you were born. 0:48:31.320 --> 0:48:36.799 Play softly helped me close before I formed you in 0:48:36.880 --> 0:48:41.680 the womb. I knew you. You think you know you. You 0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:45.719 You don't know you. God knows you. You know what 0:48:45.760 --> 0:48:49.200 you've experienced, You don't know you. How many of you 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:52.040 don't know the person you're sitting next to. Raise your hand, 0:48:53.480 --> 0:48:59.480 every hand, better go up. You don't know what they 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:02.880 would do. They don't know what they would do in 0:49:02.880 --> 0:49:06.920 a situation they haven't been through yet. You don't know 0:49:06.960 --> 0:49:10.160 what they could be. You've only ever seen them in 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:14.879 the shackles of their past. You don't know them. God 0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:18.560 knows them. That's the one I want to do this year, 0:49:18.680 --> 0:49:21.000 and it's going to be hard for me because I'm 0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:27.040 not gonna lie. I'm pretty opinionated about myself now. This 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:29.160 is how I am. I don't do that. Somebody asked 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:31.840 me for a meeting the other day. It was important, 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:34.320 and they said I can only meet at six fifteen am. 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:41.799 I said, I'm not a morning But I never read 0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:44.040 in the Book of Ephesians about the morning people and 0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:48.160 the night people. All they read about the old self 0:49:48.160 --> 0:49:51.560 and the news south And I cut myself off mid sentence. 0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:54.840 I said, I'm not a more. I see it's six fifteen, 0:49:55.840 --> 0:50:01.879 because it's important to me. I got up forty five 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:08.000 minutes early, did a lot of coffee, and I did it. 0:50:08.920 --> 0:50:12.960 Imagine that you could just do that. You could just 0:50:13.000 --> 0:50:16.720 do that. It would be amazing, It would shock you. Now. 0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:19.080 The thing I got to get you to see is 0:50:19.200 --> 0:50:22.719 we're going to have to really work on this and 0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:27.799 work through this, because your first instinct is going to 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:31.440 be always to hold tight to what feels the most familiar. 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:37.279 So if that's anger, if that's complaining, if that's blaming, 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:41.600 if that's diminishing yourself, if that's criticizing others, if that's 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:45.040 how you always bond, then that's what you're gonna naturally 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:49.759 think you should do. But what feels the most natural 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:56.520 isn't the truest thing about you, what God has put 0:50:56.760 --> 0:51:00.200 within you and spoken over you, the truth that is 0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:06.840 in Jesus. That's you. And then when you find yourself 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:10.919 outside of that, you go, oh, that's not me. That's 0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:13.360 not how I want to respond. Oh, I'm just a 0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:17.720 late person. No, you're not. You're a person who doesn't 0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:20.120 know how to calculate how long a task will actually 0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:22.879 take and tries to get too much done before you leave. 0:51:23.160 --> 0:51:26.160 You are actually a very efficient person who just hasn't 0:51:26.239 --> 0:51:29.360 learned to be realistic in their efficiency. Give God a 0:51:29.440 --> 0:51:33.799 praise all of the formerly laid people. That's all that is. 0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:41.040 So I'm going to break it down. But watch what 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:43.839 Jeremiah said when the Lord said, I've called you, I've 0:51:43.880 --> 0:51:45.640 chosen you, I created you to do it. I got 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:49.400 a job for you. Now watch Jeremiah's response. This is 0:51:49.440 --> 0:51:52.240 what we must move past. In verse six, he says, 0:51:52.640 --> 0:52:00.960 a last sovereign Lord, I do not know how to speak. 0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:07.200 I am too young. He did all three of the 0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:11.680 things in one sentence. I don't know how. I don't 0:52:11.719 --> 0:52:15.799 have the experience, and I'm not like these people who 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:18.719 have wisdom and can speak. And that's what's been going 0:52:18.760 --> 0:52:21.480 through your mind all of last year that kept your stuck. 0:52:22.880 --> 0:52:28.640 So his answer was in his excuse if he had 0:52:28.640 --> 0:52:39.600 stopped talking. Verse six, A las sovereign Lord. That word 0:52:39.680 --> 0:52:46.640 means he's in charge, not you. That word means he 0:52:46.800 --> 0:52:51.000 knows what's in you, you don't. That word means that 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:56.080 his assignment is always accompanied by his enablement. Sovereign Lord, 0:52:57.000 --> 0:53:02.960 his plan, his purpose, Sovereign Lord. And then the Lord 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:10.880 told Jeremiah verse seven, don't say I'm too young. You 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:15.880 must go to everyone I send you and say whatever 0:53:15.920 --> 0:53:21.840 I command you for say. Do not be afraid of them. 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:24.200 This is the word of the Lord. Receive it, for 0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:28.920 I am with you. That's what you need to know. 0:53:28.920 --> 0:53:31.440 At the beginning of this year. The truest thing about 0:53:31.520 --> 0:53:36.840 you is that God is with you. I am with you. 0:53:38.280 --> 0:53:40.680 And look at this. After he gave him the promise, 0:53:40.680 --> 0:53:43.200 he gave him the provision. This is so beautiful. Thank 0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:45.960 you Holy Spirit for showing me this. I am with you. 0:53:46.239 --> 0:53:50.279 I will rescue you, declares the Lord. Verse nine. Then 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:53.120 the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth 0:53:53.160 --> 0:53:58.240 and said, I have put my words in your mouth. 0:53:59.239 --> 0:54:05.320 Now speak it it now to create. Now do it. Now, 0:54:05.360 --> 0:54:11.959 go for it, Now begin it. And God is going 0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:16.480 to give it to you as you go. He's going 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:18.480 to show you how to do this. I know you 0:54:18.520 --> 0:54:20.640 don't know how. I know you don't have it. He 0:54:20.760 --> 0:54:25.200 touches your mouth after he gives you the command. It 0:54:25.280 --> 0:54:31.200 is in obedience that potential is realized. Right now, all 0:54:31.239 --> 0:54:34.960 over this room there are new beginnings trying to crack 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:39.600 through the cement of layers and layers of corruption. What 0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:41.759 we want to do right now is set the atmosphere 0:54:41.760 --> 0:54:43.879 in our hearts and our homes for whatever God wants 0:54:43.960 --> 0:54:46.480 to do this year. I want you to join hands 0:54:46.520 --> 0:54:48.560 or make contact on the shoulder of the person on 0:54:48.640 --> 0:54:51.320 either side of you. I want you to spend the aisles. 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:54.160 I don't want anybody untouched on either side unless you're 0:54:54.160 --> 0:54:56.680 at the end of the row. I want everybody joining up. 0:54:57.360 --> 0:55:03.680 Everybody joining up at every location. Now, look at me. 0:55:05.040 --> 0:55:14.560 Every location. Elevation, Matthews Elevation, Uptown, Blakeney, Riverwalk, University City, Gaston, Toronto, 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:30.720 Concord Lake, Norman, Raleigh, Roanoke, Melbourne, so Random, Winston, Salem, Ashville, Morrisville, Columbia, Greenville, Durham, Orlando. 0:55:32.719 --> 0:55:41.439 Watch just Valentine Etham online all over the world where 0:55:41.480 --> 0:55:46.600 you're from. Look at that. Can I tell you something 0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:48.799 real quick? I want to close my sermon this way. 0:55:49.040 --> 0:55:50.799 I was going to open it this way, but for 0:55:50.840 --> 0:55:52.520 some reason the Lord wouldn't let me. And it must 0:55:52.600 --> 0:55:54.480 be because of now. I hope you like their hand 0:55:54.480 --> 0:55:55.920 because you're going to be holding it for about two 0:55:55.960 --> 0:56:00.759 more minutes. Hope their palms aren't too sweaty. Look at me, 0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:05.080 Look at me. Yesterday I went to watch Graham Russell 0:56:05.239 --> 0:56:08.160 at porter Ridge High School. That was our first second 0:56:08.160 --> 0:56:11.280 campus of Elevation Church. So we were meeting at Providence 0:56:11.320 --> 0:56:13.960 High School. It got full. A man came to meet 0:56:13.960 --> 0:56:17.440 with me named John Butler. John Butler was a Baptist minister, 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:19.400 so I always called him John the Baptist and he 0:56:19.400 --> 0:56:21.759 thought that was funny. But he comes to me and 0:56:21.800 --> 0:56:24.400 says he was attending the church at the time. He 0:56:24.440 --> 0:56:27.120 was also employed by the Baptist Convention. He said, the 0:56:27.200 --> 0:56:29.640 church is full, that's amazing. And he said, but you 0:56:29.680 --> 0:56:32.719 need to keep growing. He said, you can't just contain it. 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:34.680 And if you tell people invite their friends, but there's 0:56:34.680 --> 0:56:37.480 nowhere for their friends to sit, that's a problem. So 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:40.439 you need to open another campus. I said, cool. He said, 0:56:40.480 --> 0:56:42.880 I've got three hundred thousand dollars in the Baptist Convention 0:56:42.920 --> 0:56:45.520 account that I will give you to start the campus. 0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:47.960 I said, great. I got a friend named Travis. I'll 0:56:47.960 --> 0:56:49.759 call him and tell him that you're looking for a 0:56:49.840 --> 0:56:54.040 church planter. He said, no you, I said, but I can't. 0:56:54.080 --> 0:56:56.399 Do you know I'm preaching at one, I can't preach 0:56:56.440 --> 0:56:59.759 at the other. He goes, I'm talking about you on 0:57:00.080 --> 0:57:12.560 video appreaching. I looked at him and said, that's not me. Elevation, 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:20.160 Matthews Elevation, Uptown Elevation, Blatant Elevation, Riverwalk Elevation, University City Elevation, 0:57:20.320 --> 0:57:27.000 Gaston Elevation, Toronto Elevation, Concord Elevation, Lake Norman, Raleigh, Melbourne Elevation, Weston, 0:57:27.080 --> 0:57:35.160 Salem Elevation, Ashville Elevation, Morrisville, Columbia, Greenville, Durham, Orlando, Valentine. 0:57:35.800 --> 0:57:46.960 He found Argentina, Seattle, Arizona. I didn't know we could 0:57:47.000 --> 0:57:54.760 reach this many people. He knew, and then looked at 0:57:54.760 --> 0:57:58.160 me and said, Pastor, you can do this two ways. 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:00.800 If you try to follow God and get ahead of him, 0:58:00.920 --> 0:58:04.080 he'll shut the door. If God says follow me and 0:58:04.120 --> 0:58:08.480 you won't, he'll pick somebody else. Do you want to 0:58:08.480 --> 0:58:13.400 do it? Do you want to break the curse in 0:58:13.480 --> 0:58:17.520 your family line? Do you want to be in a 0:58:17.560 --> 0:58:19.880 position five years from now where you can help somebody 0:58:19.920 --> 0:58:22.720 else through the same dang thing that's been torment in you. 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:28.120 Let's do it. Then, let's do it every week. God 0:58:28.120 --> 0:58:31.160 gives me strength. I'll be up here helping you drag 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:33.440 your tired button here and slippers if you have to, 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:37.600 and I'll preach to you log on when you're not here. Father, 0:58:37.720 --> 0:58:41.480 in the name of Jesus, I release the potential of 0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:44.520 your children in Jesus' name to become everything they were 0:58:44.560 --> 0:58:48.720 called to be, until we grow up, until we grow 0:58:48.760 --> 0:58:51.240 out of our guilt, till we grow out of our grief, 0:58:51.360 --> 0:58:54.480 till we grow past it and become vessels of honor 0:58:55.080 --> 0:58:58.640 fit for the Master's use. I thank you that addictions 0:58:58.680 --> 0:59:01.400 will be broken under the path of your word this year. 0:59:02.000 --> 0:59:04.560 I thank you that poverty will be eliminated from the 0:59:04.600 --> 0:59:07.800 cycle of families this year by your word. I think 0:59:07.880 --> 0:59:11.440 you've had lost children who aren't living for Jesus are 0:59:11.520 --> 0:59:15.919 coming home quote in scripture this Christmas in Jesus' name, 0:59:16.280 --> 0:59:19.640 I thank you no when no way will be possible 0:59:19.920 --> 0:59:24.560 to unstabilize and destabilize your children. I think you are 0:59:24.720 --> 0:59:30.640 churches growing into new communities, your kingdom expanding recession. You 0:59:30.760 --> 0:59:33.280 can do what you gotta do but to all the 0:59:33.480 --> 0:59:37.720 Shiah is looking over his children. We trusted in God, 0:59:38.200 --> 0:59:41.840 We trust in the Almighty. He is able to do 0:59:42.600 --> 0:59:47.920 im miserably more that we ask, or think or imagine. 0:59:48.360 --> 0:59:53.720 Get God. Twenty three seconds of great pray. Come on, 0:59:53.840 --> 0:59:59.280 that's not good enough, that's not good enough, lived up, 0:59:59.320 --> 1:00:04.560 a shout of He's right. Let's sign up right, let's 1:00:04.600 --> 1:00:09.680 sign up right. Well. If you enjoyed today's podcast, there 1:00:09.680 --> 1:00:11.640 are a couple of things I'd love for you to do. 1:00:11.760 --> 1:00:16.120 Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:18.560 can also help us reach others by investing today at 1:00:18.600 --> 1:00:22.560 Elevationchurch dot org, slash give and thanks again for joining 1:00:22.680 --> 1:00:24.240 us on the Elevation Podcast