Don't Fight Your Future

0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.560 Welcome also to all of our locations. Put let's see 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.560 how can we do it? I don't have time to 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:13.240 wait in YouTube. Put where you're watching from EPAM, and 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.520 we're gonna pick ten of y'all out and send you 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.119 what do we send them? What hoodies do we have 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.000 the most of that are overstocked, that nobody buys anymore, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:31.920 and we'll send you one of those. We'll send you 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.639 a see a Victory hoodie. That one's kind of old now. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.800 But if you live near any of these cities, listen, 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.240 this is where we're coming for Elevation Night Spring twenty 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:49.120 twenty three. Austin, Texas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:57.480 Not in Kansas Abbey, Missouri, Inside Joke, Denver, Colorado, Saint Louis, Missouri, 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.800 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Toronto. Welcome to our Toronto campus 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.360 as well. God bless you. We're coming Elevation Nights dot 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:11.520 Com April eighteen through twenty seven. Tickets are available right now. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.759 Next weekend, we'll be celebrating our seventeen year anniversary here 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.800 at Elevation Church. I hope to see you for that. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:27.600 It's it's time right now, though, for the word that 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.520 God has for you today. And I do believe He 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.840 gave me one a certain word for an uncertain situation 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:41.240 in somebody's life, a certain word for an uncertain situation. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.120 Go back in your Bible. Stand up, everybody, if you 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.839 took a moment to sit down on your couch, stand 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:53.360 up your calves arrested. Now in Ephesians four, I think 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.800 this is our last week in Ephesians four. We'll celebrate 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.040 the anniversary next week and then see what the Lord 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:04.520 says after that. But I have just been so transformed 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.680 while I was teaching this passage, and I pray that 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:14.400 you have been receiving as well. And this week, Holly 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.320 can tell you I have been nicer, more patient. I've 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.440 been helping with the dishes, like all the time around 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.480 the house, taking out the trash before it even gets full. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.040 She's telling me, stop, we need to use the bags 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.680 full of you taking out the trash too much. But 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.600 in all honesty, I sence the Lord doing a new 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.520 work in me and in our church, and this week 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.200 is going to speak directly to that. So in Ephesians 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.480 chapter four, let's just do verses twenty two through twenty four. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.239 This week. All the messages are online that I've preached 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.320 so far this year and last year and a year 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.400 before that. But all the messages are online if you 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.480 want to catch up sometime this week. But this week 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.200 I'm going to focus on these verses Ephesians four twenty two. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.360 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:14.240 to put off your old self, which is being corrupted 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.680 by its deceitful desires, to be made new in the 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.359 attitude of your minds, and to put on the new self, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:30.440 created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.080 Aren't you glad to know that the new you is 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.800 the true you? All that other nasty crap you're struggling with, 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.280 that's not the core of who you are. Who God 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.080 says you are is who you are, and all the 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.920 other stuff is subject to change in the presence of 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.960 God by the power of the Holy Spirit. I declare it, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.400 I decree it, I believe it. So the word God 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.760 gave me for this week. He told me to tell you, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:06.400 don't fight your future. Don't fight your future, and let's 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.120 pray before we're seated. God speak it, we need it, 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:18.080 and give us the strength to do it. In Jesus' name. Amen, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.640 high five somebody on your way to your seat, and 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.719 say God's not through with you. God's not through with you. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:33.000 I mean that God's not through with you yet. Say it, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.920 God's not through with me yet. Put it in the 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.480 chat real quick and say it out loud again. God's 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:45.280 not through with me yet. You keep saying you so, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.920 say it to the person next to you. Apparently you 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.640 want somebody to hear this. Tell them God's not through 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.200 with you yet. That means He's got a lot of 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.960 work to do on you. Tell him you got a 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:03.760 lot of rough edges. You really, really do you need 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:10.120 that spiritual sandpaper? Uh huh, You got a lot of 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.560 pieces floating around in that box. You are not a 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:18.440 finished product yet, So don't do you do the you 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.240 that God knew before you ever got here on the earth. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.760 What a horrible piece of cultural advice. I get it. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.719 Be yourself. I'm all for that. Find your gifts, play 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.760 to your strengths. I do that all the time. All 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.240 I do is talk and write stuff. I don't even 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.800 sing the songs I write. I just write them and 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.600 let somebody else sing them. That's how much I believe 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.240 in play to your strengths. But at the same time, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.919 I do believe that there are manifestations of who you 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.719 really are that you haven't met yet, and so to 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.320 sell yourself short is really to insult God if you 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.360 just say this is how I am, this is how 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.839 my mom was, this is where I come from, this 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.800 is just how we do it. And that has been 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.760 the challenge of this series that radical self acceptance because 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:13.320 of the grace of Jesus Christ, should not lead to complacency. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:20.320 Radical grace leads to change the more you accept all 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.480 that stuff about you that only the people who live 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.400 with you know, and they only know affraction. Don't make 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.760 me prophesy. I'll speak in tongues, interpret my own tongues. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:37.960 Intil your business. Is very true that we need to 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.200 be okay with who we are and where we are. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.880 It's very true that we need to celebrate our strengths 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.040 and celebrate in each stage of our development, not waiting 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.880 for a future day for us to give God praise 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.000 for all that He's done. In fact, on the way 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.960 to church today, I just went through several things in 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.760 my mind that I was worried about through the last 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.000 few years that God worked out. I was driving eighty 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.800 miles an hour by the time I got to thinking 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.040 about it, because I'm like, let's go, Jesus, what are 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.800 you going to do in this season? I remember that 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.840 rear view mirror. What seems so big, y'all? Remember meat 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.880 love Objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:27.040 they are. And I would do anything for God a 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.120 mash up, a meat love mash up. Let's get back 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.360 to the message from the apostle Paul writing to the 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:38.559 church at Ephesus and writing to us to tell us, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.880 and this phrasing is really cool. You were taught, with 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.000 regard to your former way of life to put off 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.600 your old self. Ah, that doesn't mean you stop texting 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.720 people back when you blow up. That's not what he's saying. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.160 That doesn't mean a bigger house necessarily, although it could. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.760 It has to do with the inside things that are 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.720 keeping me from being what God created me to be. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.680 And we know what He created us to be. I'm 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.000 gonna tell you what God created you to be. Look 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:16.680 at verse twenty four like him. Did they put the 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.320 verse up on the screen or yeah, that's what He 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.320 created you to be. Did God want me to be 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.120 a singer, or does God want me to go over 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.000 here and study abroad? Or does God want me to 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.800 go to Penn State? Or does God want me to 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.920 be an athlete? Or does God want me to double major? 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.160 Or does God want me to move my mom in 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.680 with me? I don't know. He wants you to be 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.880 like him, whoever's living with you, wherever you're going to school, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.800 whatever you're majoring, And that's what he's doing in my life, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.600 in your life. And yet I had an interesting picture. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.679 I'm gonna give you a picture from my life, really, really, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.000 from every Saturday in my life. When I go watch 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.200 Graham wrestle, takes me back to when I wrestled. I 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.720 wasn't nearly as good as him, not even close, not 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.080 even close. And be told he could beat me now, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.880 right now, he could beat me, and I outweigh him 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.880 by twenty five pounds. But don't tell him that because 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.320 he might try it. If we had to play according 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:10.599 to the rules, I mean, I hit him in a 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 shovel if he really comes at me. But if we 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:14.600 had to do the rules, then there was a ref 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.599 and a whistle and a mat and all that, then 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.520 I'm going to give you an Old Testament picture, and 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.680 we're gonna try to tie up this idea, not the 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.960 idea of you becoming what God made you to be, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:34.280 because when you stop doing that, that's when God has 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:42.520 done changing you. That's when you're done. We made a 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.640 song one time that said, if I'm not dead, he's 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:52.040 not done. Greater things are still to come. I believe that. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.200 I believe it for you. Whether you want to believe 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.640 it for you or not, you can't stop me from 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.400 believing for you. What you're gonna do about it, Believe 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.280 that God is not through with you. Tell your neighbor 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.040 one more time. God is not through with you. And 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:12.760 here's the proof. Here's the proof. You're still doing this. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:20.280 He's still making ways. If you're still doing this, he 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.280 still has a plan for you. One prophet set on 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:28.360 behalf of God, for I know the plans I have 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.840 for you, Plans to pross for you and not to 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:37.280 harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:42.440 That's Jeremiah chapter twenty nine, eleventh. Your grandma had that 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.800 on a quilt somewhere, and you ought to get it 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.560 in your heart and in your consciousness, because he knows 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.839 the plans he has for you. I want to preach 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.840 a little bit of faith before our seventeen year anniversary. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:11:04.680 God is not through with us yet, not yet. Stop 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.800 doing this and he'll quit doing what he does. But 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.880 as long as you have breath, you have a reason 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:18.160 to believe that all things are possible. You know, when 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.280 I started the series, I mentioned Jeremiah. I mentioned Jeremih 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.160 twenty nine to eleven to day. That's the most popular 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:28.319 verse that he did, his greatest hit. But then he's 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.280 writing to captives in Babylon who are going to be 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:36.360 taken away. And when he was spoken to by God 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.520 check this out, he didn't really believe that God could 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.560 do it through him because he had the three excuses 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.600 that we mentioned earlier, where he said, I don't have it. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.000 I don't know how. I'm not like them. I'm too young. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.679 I'm not like them those who are seasoned who can prophesy. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.560 I don't have it. I don't have the words that 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.120 I need. And for us, it's not always worse. It's resources, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:07.560 it's money, it's time, it's energy, it's good knees. I 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.000 got all ages in the church, so we just hit everything. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.239 Too young, too old, you got Moses too old, Jeremiah 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.679 too young. So all of that is an excuse. But 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.400 remember what the Lord said. I want to show you 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.319 the scripture again. I wasn't going to show this one, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.880 but I think it's we need the whole sandwich. Verse five, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.640 chapter one. The Lord said, before you were born, I 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:34.839 knew you, k n e W The me that I'm 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.800 going to be as I grow into what God called 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.480 me to be is the meed that God has already 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.920 seen that sets you free from trying to become something 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.599 I thought. Oh man, I wish I was. That. You 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.520 don't have to wish you was. You was long before 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.160 life did what life did, and you did what you did. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:01.240 God knew you. So when he said I knew you 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.600 before you were born, that means that God knows my potential. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:13.240 It also means I don't I know my past, I 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:18.480 know my preferences, I know my problems. God knows my 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:23.120 potential only he does only he really knows what he 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.120 put in you. Only he knows what he sees in 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.160 two years that he's training you for. Right now, you 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.040 got to believe this as I appreach it. You got 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.679 to put a little bit of faith on this word 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:40.760 a little bit of faith. God knew, knew, And what 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:45.079 is new to me is known to God. What is 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.960 foreign to me is familiar to him. That's Jeremiah one 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.280 to five. He knows my potential. In the chat right now, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:58.760 God knows my potential. Say it. God knows my potential. Riverwalk, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.120 y'all aren't saying anything today. I feel your empathy. Say 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:06.520 it right now. God knows my potential. But then in 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.319 Jeremiah twenty nine, he says, for I know the plans 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.680 I have for you, and the plans I have for 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.880 your older sister, and the plans I have for your 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.760 best friend who's getting married this spring but you're not yet. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.000 And the plans that I have for your your friend 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.200 who's getting on your last nerve and you keep trying 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.400 to fix them but you can't. And the plans that 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.040 I have for your boss, who you think is in control, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.160 but really I'm gonna move him to Minnesota in six months. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.400 So don't get impatient. Just stay right there because I 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:47.960 know the plans. My confidence is in God's knowledge. He said, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.360 I knew you before I formed you. You were spirit, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.920 before you were skeletal, before you had a birth certificate 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.600 you had a purpose. I knew you win. Now when 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.520 people say that they want to keep you stuck in 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.680 something that they're comfortable with, I knew you in. But 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.480 when God says that He's calling you forward into something 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.960 that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.560 neither hasn't entered into the heart of man, what God 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:24.800 has planned. I know the plans I have for you. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:29.480 Spoiler alert. You don't know the plans. You know the 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.080 plans you have for you, and you know the plans 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:38.800 you have for your daughter. And God knows. God knows 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.840 the plans he has for you and for her and 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:48.160 for them and for this and for that. Okay, He's 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.680 not through with me. He still has things he's doing 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.680 in me. So I can't do the me that I 0:15:53.800 --> 0:16:00.720 memorized from last year. When God knows the me that 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.880 is going to manifest as I'm a tour in him 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:07.400 and grow in him so I can surprise myself. Wow, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.280 Look how I responded to that so well. Wow, look 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.000 at me giving money away. When I used to be stingy. Wow. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.000 I used to wait for other people to pay for 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.840 my meal. Now I'm paying for somebody else's. Wow. I 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.040 used to need somebody to put tires on my car, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:27.240 and now I'm paying for the tires the good ones. Wow. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.880 Look at you in church. Wow, look at you in 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.840 an e group. Wow. Look at you not even texting 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:42.280 or scrolling during my sermon. Wow. Look at God doing 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.160 a new thing in you. Give him praise for what 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:50.040 he's already done. Give him praise for what he's gonna do. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.280 I knew you, and I know the plans I have 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:01.960 for you, So Paul does. It's this annoying thing that 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.639 we preachers do often, which is to make something that 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.920 is such a struggle sounds so simple. I don't know 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.359 if it's been irritating you the last few weeks. It 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.000 really gets under my skin. Where he said in verse 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.080 twenty two, you were taught with regard to what you 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.040 used to do and what you still struggle with, both 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:26.199 secretly and openly, the rude things that you do, the 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.399 rude things that you think. How many people would be 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.760 impressed with how nice you are if they knew how 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.800 nasty you wanted to be and didn't be in certain situations. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:41.080 So all of that that's on the inside, Paul says, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.560 you were taught with regard to your formwhere life to 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:51.640 put off your old self. Thanks Paul, because he said 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:57.880 you were taught. And here in the Greek, I spent 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.720 five and a half years on a seminary degree, so 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.159 I have to use that sometimes. In the Greek the 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.040 phrase means that it follows from the teaching you received. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.520 So when God teaches you, it's to transform you, not 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.359 to puff you up. You don't get these messages so 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.600 you can look down on other people who aren't enlightened 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.040 because you know more of the Bible than they do. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.680 Is so that you can grow by it. That's why 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.000 God feeds you the Word of God, so that you 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.000 can grow. And in this passage, he said, you were 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.600 taught give me verse twenty two, with regard to your 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.880 former way of life, to put off your old self. Now, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.600 the way you read that is you were taught to 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.120 put off your old self. Somebody taught you to put 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.160 off your old self. But that's not what it means. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:45.160 It means you were taught Jesus in order that to 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.880 put off your old self. So it's an infinitive imperative. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.720 It follows from the first one. It means you were taught. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:54.760 The reason God taught you the reason he brought you 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.000 here was so that you could put off That's the 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.520 reason God has him and you're teaching. That's the reason 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.200 that God gives you a word. That's the reason God 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.439 gives you an experience. That's the reason he leads you 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.800 through the valley so you can get to know the Shepherd, 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:17.240 so that when you face that situation again, you'll be stronger, wiser, better, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:23.360 and ready. Stronger, wiser, better, and ready. I'm stronger, wiser, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:28.000 better and ready. I'm stronger, I'm wiser, I'm better, and 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.320 I'm ready. I was taught to put off my old 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:37.280 way of life. Wouldn't it be nice if it were 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:45.720 only that simple? Yeah? Man, just put it off like this, 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.960 like everybody, everybody in the room. Do what I say 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:54.080 when I say it. Ready, stand up? I love the 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.440 contrarian's like, no, I am seated in heavenly places with Christ. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.040 I know where this is going. Stand up, illustration, help 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:07.080 me now, sit down. That's kind of how I read it. 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:15.040 Put off the old self and put on Jesus. That's simple. Right. Well, 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:19.000 so yesterday we're at Graham's wrestling right, and this lady 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.159 was sitting up at the top of the bleachers, and 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.800 she kept yelling for her team, not just her kids, 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.080 the whole team, and that's great. I yelled for our 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.040 team too, and it's great to do that and be supportive. 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.680 Only know, these kids can't hear you while they're out 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.199 there wrestling, so all you're really doing is getting it 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.199 out of your own system. They can't hear any of that. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.280 And besides, what is this lady going to coach that 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:46.960 kid to do from up there? I mean, maybe she 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.720 was a former NCAA Division One champion her in her heyday. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.480 Didn't get that feeling though, didn't get that impression. Just 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:58.520 seemed like she was loud and so so this was 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.240 the moment of moments, and I was already praying about 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.239 how to end this series, and I was like, I 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.199 was out there praying about it, and she gave me 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.880 my answer. Because I'm thinking of Paul saying, just put 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:11.680 off your old way of life. Just stop being negative, 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:20.520 be positive, right ready, just do that, Just stand up. 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:27.320 Just just trust God, just trust him, trust him, like 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:33.560 the Bible says, with how with all your heart and 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.520 and and so. All right, so it's a heavyweight match, 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.960 right and her team was the Spiders. She was cheering for. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.200 She was cheering for. The spiders. Had a big spider 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.920 on the back of the uniform, the single lead, the tights, 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.000 the spandex that they make wrestlers wear. You gotta be 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:49.919 tough to wear those tights out there. I'm telling you 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.960 right now, that's that's that's tough. So so it's a 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.720 heavyweight match that goes up to two hundred and seventy 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:02.600 five two hundred and eight eight five pounds, and the 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:06.120 boy who was winning was every bit of two eighty five, 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.960 and the boy who was losing was not. Because it's 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.480 a it's a Broadway class. The boy who was winning 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:15.879 was on top of the boy who was not winning. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:22.080 I think I'm gonna do this as an illustration. I 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.120 put it in my notes if you feel they need 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.160 it acted out. So I'm gonna act it out because 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.520 I feel like you need it. I feel like you 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.720 need it because I feel like all this is good. 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:39.000 Put off the old self. But what I wore in 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:46.240 here is heavier than a jacket. What I wore in here, 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.439 and what I'm worried about is heavier than just a 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:57.280 bad day. Remember, he said, the old self. Old means 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.480 that's been going on a long time, and a lot 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:03.800 of the things we preach about real quick have been 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.639 have been things you've been carrying for a long time. 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.560 So it doesn't feel like, you know, just just put 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:19.600 it off. Just stop being you know, manipulative, dude. I 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:24.560 struggle with manipulation because I was abandoned young and so 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:27.560 I had to make things happen. So that's the only 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.240 way I know how to do stuff, is to make 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:32.879 things happen because I had to make things happen. And 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:37.040 now you're telling me just take that manipulative. Trust God. 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:40.920 So I'm going to be the guy that was down 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:44.960 on the bottom, and I'm gonna show you how you 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:49.320 feel and what this lady was screaming, Graham, come up here. 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:56.520 Graham's going to be the big guy. Remember this is 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:01.000 an illustration. Had this been an actual reality, I would 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.879 kick his butt right up here. But just get on 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:08.080 top of me like you're two eighty five. And so 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:15.359 it's something like this, don't hurt me. And then and 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:18.800 then all right, so maybe he has the bigger guy 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:20.879 has his forearm in the back of his neck, so 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:24.800 do that. Yeah, And then the lady at the top 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:31.840 of the bleachers is yelling stand up to the spider 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:39.960 on the bottom. And I'm sure he thought she knew 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:41.560 his name. I don't remember. Let's say his name was 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:45.720 Timmy stand up. Let's just call him Stephen. Stand up, Stephen. 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:52.639 And I'm sure Stephen was thinking on the bottom. Oh yeah, 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:57.760 that's what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to stand up. 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:02.520 Thank you lady at the top of the bleachers who 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:06.560 had an act exercised in five years for reminding me 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:16.720 what I'm supposed to be doing down here. And I 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:23.000 think you feel like this when I preach sometimes, but 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:25.359 you don't want to hurt my feelings, so you won't 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:35.280 admit it that I'm saying trust God, and you are like, thanks, Ah, 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:40.040 I didn't think of that. Yeah, I should just trust God. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.600 Already had to fire fourteen employees my small business, but 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:45.959 I just trust God. That'll be great. That'll really mean 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.000 a lot to their pregnant wives who are expecting their 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:49.520 fourth child, and now I had to lay them off. 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:57.080 I appreciate it. I'll trust God. You know whom the 0:25:57.119 --> 0:26:02.879 sun sets free? Is Frandy be free? Oh yeah, I'm 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:06.920 supposed to be free. Never mind that this dependency is 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:10.200 chemical and psychological, and societal all at the same time. 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:15.720 That's why when Barbara King Saliver was on Holly's book 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:18.879 Club and she was talking about the opioid crisis in Appalachia, 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:20.680 I was so enlightened for her to talk about how 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.199 we judge people as being bad by their behaviors, but 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:25.640 we don't understand the brokenness that came from their background 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:33.240 to create the behaviors. To begin with, Yeah, stand up, 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:45.879 she said, stand up. Be a spider. I don't have 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:52.720 a legs, I don't spin webs. I'm not a faith giant. 0:26:52.720 --> 0:26:56.040 I'm not the apostle, Paul. I'm not Jesus Christ. I'm 0:26:56.080 --> 0:27:01.320 just down here trying not to get pinned, trying not 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:05.320 to be on my back. And what I realized when 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:08.960 I preach more and more is like I still need 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:13.280 to tell you to stand up, But being told to 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:16.600 do it and being taught to do it, Paul, say 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:22.199 you were taught Jesus. I can't see all right now? 0:27:22.240 --> 0:27:26.280 Am I doing good? Makes them noise? I need the encouragement. 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:30.280 This is very, very embarrassing. I did not want to 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:33.480 do this illustration. But if will help us get on 0:27:33.520 --> 0:27:36.399 the same page, do the new you I'm like, do 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:39.840 the new me. I'm just trying to breathe, eat, feed people, 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:47.200 not end up in prison. There's pressure because I said 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.680 stand up. You know what I want to say when 0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:52.080 somebody says stand up and you got to shut up? 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.720 You know, hey, just go make it work and trust 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.600 the word and step out on face and all this. 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:05.240 And there's something inside of you that says, you tell 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:09.560 me to do it, but teach me to do it. 0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:12.960 You all right, Graham, you got the good part of 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:14.800 this illustration. Why did I do it this way? I 0:28:14.800 --> 0:28:18.600 could have flipped this. Watch what happened when Paul said 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:23.040 in verse twenty, he said that you got verse twenty ready, 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:28.919 I'm running out of running out of blood of your That, however, 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:31.240 is not the way of life you learned next verse 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:35.280 when you heard about Christ, and we're taught in him 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:39.680 in accordance with the truth. So watch this, everybody say 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:46.120 stand up. Shut that say stand up quit. I don't 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:53.040 want to be a Christian. I think I'm gonna dry Buddhism. Ah, 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:56.720 this is too hard. I can't do this. But if 0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:02.719 truth comes, If truth comes, what I've been trying to 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.000 do what I know I need to do what I 0:29:05.040 --> 0:29:07.080 wish I could do what you keep telling me to do. 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:13.040 Watch this buck, come buck, come bu bub bub bub. 0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:15.800 You see what happened when I called buck. You see 0:29:15.800 --> 0:29:19.560 what happened when I called buck? Oh you see what grit? 0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:24.000 You see what that devil did when I called the name, 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:33.520 when I said, I got somebody greater, greater is he 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:42.800 that isn't me? That he that was all not back? Nah? 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:46.160 I got it off me. Nah, I got it off me. 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:50.440 You see what I just did. I caught somebody bigger. 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:56.200 I caught somebody stronger. I called a state champion. And 0:29:56.240 --> 0:30:01.240 you knew it too. And see, the devil knows your 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:04.959 weak spots, but he also knows that there's something in 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:11.240 you that is so much greater, that what is in 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:15.920 you is so much greater than whatever is on you. 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:21.320 So that's why I declare, and I prophesy, and I 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:26.000 preach and I proclaim. In the name of Jesus Christ 0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:34.840 of Nazareth. Stand up, Stand up, stand up. I know 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:37.600 the money is real bad right now in the car 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:42.640 at new but stand up. I know it doesn't look 0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:45.560 good right now and you can't figure it out. But 0:30:45.800 --> 0:30:51.320 in the name of Jesus christs a nathism, Get up, 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:55.760 been walked, Get up being worse. I've been moved forward. 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:01.560 I know the plans I have for you, plans for 0:31:01.680 --> 0:31:05.280 a hope and a future, a new beginning, had a 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:08.320 different ending, a gift that is in you that I 0:31:08.640 --> 0:31:12.640 has not seen, and here has not heard, and neither 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:15.480 has it entered into your heart. But when you call 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:18.560 the name of Jesus, when you say, the one that 0:31:18.680 --> 0:31:22.000 created me is greater than the one that is fighting me. 0:31:22.520 --> 0:31:25.440 When you say the one that created me gave his 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:28.960 life to redeem me from the shame that is on me. 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.720 Now I can stand up like a spider. I can 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:37.840 stand up like a saint. I can stand up like 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:41.040 a new creation. I can stand up like a child 0:31:41.080 --> 0:31:44.200 of God. I can stand up like a spirit. Film 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:50.080 blood bought Devil Chasen send to Facon overcoming style. What 0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:58.720 the most time, God, Jesus, I need to try it again. 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:02.880 I'll call Buck, tell the devil try it again. I'll 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:07.160 call Jesus, try it again. He'll send the angels fright again. 0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:10.040 He'll frown you in the red sea of my trouble. 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:20.440 So so so what you do every time Buck comes, 0:32:20.480 --> 0:32:22.200 come on back? No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:28.240 I'm good. What you do every time that God keeps 0:32:28.240 --> 0:32:32.000 sending come on back, come on back, God keep sending, 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:34.240 come on, come on, come on. God keep sending things 0:32:34.280 --> 0:32:37.560 in your life to get you up. You say, no, no no, no, 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:39.160 I'm good. I got this. I got this. I got this. 0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:41.760 I don't want anybody think I'm weak. Now, I'm good. 0:32:41.760 --> 0:32:43.200 I'm good. God, God, God got this. I got this. 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:44.800 I got this. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll 0:32:44.800 --> 0:32:48.480 do it, I'll do it. I'll do it. You even 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:53.320 whisper the name of Jesus Ques, just fuck fuck. You're 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:54.840 supposed to come when I whisper to show them how 0:32:54.840 --> 0:33:00.600 the Lord death. But then it's something I'm about us 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:06.400 that can be comfortable being down to the point where 0:33:06.440 --> 0:33:12.760 when help comes we fight it. Like that corny old joke. 0:33:12.800 --> 0:33:15.400 The man was drowning. He said, Lord, save me. Here 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:18.440 comes a helicopter. He said, no, I'm waiting on the Lord. 0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:27.120 Here comes a carrier, a vessel, a boat, and word choice. 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:29.960 He said, no, no, I'm good. I'm waiting on the Lord. 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:34.560 And then he drowned, and he went to heaven and 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:37.479 he said, Lord, you didn't come. He said, I sent 0:33:37.600 --> 0:33:45.480 you a helicopter and a boat. You big dummy, send 0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:56.600 your buck you wanted stuck. So here's what I say. 0:33:56.640 --> 0:34:00.880 Thank you. I might call you again, so be ready. Listen. 0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:06.640 There is a future that God knows for you. That 0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:09.600 He is not bringing it to you. He is bringing 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:14.560 you to it. And for the future that God has 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:17.840 for you, you are the perfect fit for it because 0:34:18.200 --> 0:34:23.120 He knew you before he knit you together in your 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:28.839 mother's womb. That's how long God has known you, and 0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:32.680 that is for you. God is loyal to and he 0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:36.120 will do what it takes to bring you into the 0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:38.879 life that He's called you to live, not only for you, 0:34:39.400 --> 0:34:44.120 but for his glory and for others. God's not through 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:49.120 with you. You don't get to stay down there talking 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:51.600 about if it were that I would have done it 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:56.520 by now. No, you just haven't walked in what you 0:34:56.600 --> 0:35:02.279 were taught long enough yet to see the fruit of 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:08.600 your faith, and you never will if you keep fighting 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:13.800 your future because you are in love with your familiar. 0:35:19.320 --> 0:35:27.279 Don't fight your future. When God sends you correction, get 0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:33.680 quicker to accept it. Don't be so defensive to the 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:38.759 point that you stay dysfunctional because you are so defensive, 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:43.960 because you get humiliated when somebody sees something. So instead 0:35:44.000 --> 0:35:46.759 of humbling yourself and saying all right, I thought about 0:35:46.800 --> 0:35:49.279 that for about three last three days, and I think, 0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:52.560 I think I do need to go and apologize you. 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:57.120 Just do you and go off and don't speak for 0:35:57.200 --> 0:36:03.920 eight months and stay that. I know that we all 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:08.600 struggle with different forms of bondage in captivity. I know 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:14.200 that I am not a judgmental dude, not at all. 0:36:15.040 --> 0:36:18.040 I would be if the Lord had done a better 0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:21.560 job getting me past the point where I'm at right now. 0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:25.160 But he works on me slow so I won't get 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:29.640 all upity and think I'm there, so he has left. 0:36:30.400 --> 0:36:33.040 Remember when they used to say in sports that somebody 0:36:33.080 --> 0:36:35.880 would have a loser's limp. It means you pretend to 0:36:35.920 --> 0:36:38.440 be hurt so that you have an excuse for losing. 0:36:39.280 --> 0:36:42.480 In the Kingdom of God, he gives you a winner's limp, 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:49.560 like Jacob who wrestled with his angel won and limped 0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:54.480 away to remind him for the rest of his life 0:36:56.080 --> 0:37:02.200 that he needs Buck. I mean, God and tricks are 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:07.560 for kids, and deceitful desires have to go. In this season, 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:12.400 so that I can step into what I was designed 0:37:12.440 --> 0:37:16.120 by God to be and accomplish what I was called 0:37:16.160 --> 0:37:20.759 by God to accomplish. For he knows the plans he 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:24.000 has for me, and I know the problems I have, 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:28.319 and he knows the plans. He knew me before I 0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:30.600 had the problems, and he knows the plans before I 0:37:30.680 --> 0:37:36.000 have them. So remember I said I would give you 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:38.480 the teaching and then an illustration from Graham. And you 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:40.239 didn't know you were going to get all that action today, 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:45.080 I'll tell you right now. But I said, I want 0:37:45.120 --> 0:37:47.239 to give you a picture, and it is indeed a 0:37:47.480 --> 0:37:52.200 very unusual one. But when the people of God were 0:37:52.239 --> 0:37:54.920 coming into the Promised Land, they needed to be taught 0:37:56.040 --> 0:38:00.839 how to transition. We all do, and when we are 0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:02.960 not taught what to do with our former way of life, 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:07.120 we just repeat what nobody was there to teach us. 0:38:08.640 --> 0:38:11.239 To admit that you weren't taught, or that you might 0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:16.640 have been taught wrong requires humility. So I'm really proud. 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:19.560 I shouldn't say I'm proud of Moses, because what does 0:38:19.600 --> 0:38:22.560 he care if I'm proud of him? But I think 0:38:23.000 --> 0:38:26.000 I want to be like Moses, who had learned so 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:30.239 many lessons in the wilderness from his own mistakes that 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:32.959 when he was getting the generation that went after him 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.919 ready to follow Joshua into the land, God was giving 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:39.479 them which they would subdue and conquer just town by town, 0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:43.439 battle by battle, fight by fight. He gave them such 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:47.640 specific instructions to not worship the gods of the people 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:50.319 all around them. Most of us weren't taught that we 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:53.200 were just handed idols, but because they didn't sit as 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:57.880 statues in our living room, we didn't know it was idolatry. 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:00.839 It's an empty way of life that was handed down 0:39:01.080 --> 0:39:03.120 to us in a lot of ways. Not saying your 0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:05.279 parents were bad, I'm not saying they were good. We 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:08.279 all caught a lot of things, and if we're never 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:12.320 taught anything different than what we caught, we just stay down. 0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:16.279 We just stay down, and every time God comes to 0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:19.320 help us, we reject him because he doesn't feel comfortable 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:24.960 to us. So Moses is like, we made some big mistakes, 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:27.600 and those of you who were twenty and under before 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:31.520 those mistakes get to go in. We don't. You're going in, 0:39:32.400 --> 0:39:34.759 And he tells them festivals to hold to remember the 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:36.920 goodness of God. I'm going to do a teaching on 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:39.520 that one day too, about making an entrance when you 0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:41.480 go into a new season. There are certain things you 0:39:41.560 --> 0:39:43.680 always need to do when you go into a new week, 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:45.239 when you go into a new day. I'm going to 0:39:45.320 --> 0:39:49.200 teach that about entrance. Making an entrance teaches them that. 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:52.160 He teaches them how to treat one another, how to 0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:56.600 deal with matters of justice. It's really amazing. But there's 0:39:56.640 --> 0:40:00.600 one verse that seems unusual. He says, you're coming into 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:05.759 a new land, your relatively new nation. You've never had 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:10.360 this type of experience before. You're going to go from 0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:13.919 living out of the hand of Pharaoh forty years ago 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:17.320 and from the manna that fell into having to cultivate 0:40:17.320 --> 0:40:19.560 the land that the Lord is leading you into. So 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:24.120 you need to be taught. You need the Lord to 0:40:24.160 --> 0:40:27.440 teach you in this season of your life. Teenagers, you 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:30.200 need the Lord to teach you. You need him to 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:33.200 show you so you don't end up with two hundred 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:38.399 and eighty five pounds of addiction on your back when 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:42.160 you're twenty five, when you're forty five, when you're sixty five, 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.600 Just real quick, who wants to say, Lord, teach me, 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:52.000 teach me? The preacher can tell me to do it, 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:54.400 but only the Holy Spirit can teach me to do it. 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:59.080 In the moment I can tell you stand up. Only 0:40:59.120 --> 0:41:01.520 God can strength than you enough that you can do it. 0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:07.880 So Moses says, when you go take a city, now 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:11.200 watch this Deuteronomy twenty nineteen, the most anointed verse I've 0:41:11.239 --> 0:41:16.600 read all year, and that includes Ephesians four. He said, 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:22.080 when you lay siege to a city for a long time. 0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:26.759 Somebody say a long time. That means this is a 0:41:26.960 --> 0:41:32.120 protracted battle. It's dragged out. You go in to take 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.759 the city and they hunker down and they won't come 0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:37.040 out and fight you. So you have to block them in, 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:39.839 cut off their supply, and wait for them to fight you. 0:41:40.080 --> 0:41:42.040 When you get in that kind of situation, because you're 0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:44.600 going to attack these people, they're bigger than you. But 0:41:44.680 --> 0:41:46.880 God is with you. But when you go to a 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:49.040 place to take the land that I've promised to you 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.960 on oath through your ancestors, and there's a siege, you 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:56.840 lay siege to the city for a long time, fighting 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:59.000 against it to capture it. Now, hold on, hold on. 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:02.040 This is not a picture of you fighting a city. 0:42:02.239 --> 0:42:06.440 It's a picture of you fighting your old self, and 0:42:06.480 --> 0:42:11.480 it goes on a long time, to the point where 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:14.359 you wish you could just fight somebody else because you're 0:42:14.360 --> 0:42:17.680 so sick of you. How many have ever prayed that before? 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:22.239 Just Lord, give me somebody else's problems, because I'm so 0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:24.359 sick of getting knocked out by the same right hook. 0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:26.160 And I see it coming, but I just lean right 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:28.719 into it every time. If you don't, if you don't 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:31.799 relate to this, there's another church for you. This is 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:37.320 for people who struggle, and it's not always so easy 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:41.040 to stand. So he said, when you get in that 0:42:41.120 --> 0:42:44.360 battle and you're trying to attack a city, but you 0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:45.879 have to lay a siege to it because it goes 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:51.680 on a long time. Look at this. Do not destroy 0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:57.799 it's trees by putting an axe to them, because you 0:42:57.880 --> 0:43:06.080 can eat their fruit. What wisdom, the wisdom of Moses, 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:09.760 He said, When you go in and start fighting the city, 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:15.680 don't start chopping down the trees that bear fruit. Don't 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:21.239 cut them down. Watch this are the trees people that 0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:26.080 you should besieged them. In other words, don't start fighting 0:43:26.200 --> 0:43:30.040 the thing that God wants to feed you with in 0:43:30.120 --> 0:43:39.960 your future. About to throw this microphone, don't take the thing, 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:43.200 because see, we need trees. Right. It's a siege, right, 0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:44.960 we got to build a wall keep the people in. 0:43:44.960 --> 0:43:46.239 We got to build a ramp so we can get 0:43:46.280 --> 0:43:47.920 up on top of their wall and see the enemy 0:43:47.920 --> 0:43:51.840 and attack them. So the natural tendency is when you're 0:43:51.880 --> 0:43:54.480 in a season where it's a battle, and it's been 0:43:54.520 --> 0:43:56.719 that way a long time. He said, you're gonna want 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:59.680 to go in and just start fighting everything. Just start 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:03.600 shopping at everything, just start chopping down trees. But before 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:07.560 you cut those trees down to use them for battle. 0:44:07.760 --> 0:44:09.879 Before you take a tree and say, but I could 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:12.600 use that as a battering ram and get through, Before 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:14.799 you cut a tree down and say we could build 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:18.000 up a defense there against the enemy. Before you cut 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:21.839 it down, check it and see is there something on 0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:28.439 that tree that I'm gonna need in my future so 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:33.359 that I don't do something now that is going to 0:44:33.520 --> 0:44:39.120 fight against what God has intended for my future. And 0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:41.200 I see a lot of us. We're in a battle 0:44:41.280 --> 0:44:43.759 right now. We're in a battle with depression. We're in 0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:46.640 a battle with anxiety. We're in a battle for our sanity. 0:44:46.760 --> 0:44:48.600 We're in a battle for our money, We're in a 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.560 battle for our families. We're in a battle for our relationships. 0:44:51.640 --> 0:44:53.480 We're in a battle for our peace. We're in a 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:56.680 battle right now. But when you are in a battle, 0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:02.200 be careful not to attack. Because of the battle. The 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:05.640 thing that God wants to bless you with in the future, 0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:13.120 so that the very help God sends to you becomes 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:17.120 the thing that you reject, So that the very lesson 0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:20.400 that God teaches you becomes the thing that you resent. 0:45:21.600 --> 0:45:31.319 Buck buck buck buck buck buck buck bob buck buck 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:35.440 buck buck Man, go back to your seat. You're in 0:45:35.480 --> 0:45:40.520 my way. That's what you've been doing with God. He 0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:44.319 was my fruit tree. He was coming to help me. 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:48.879 The Lord said, you go in this land and you're 0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:52.720 going to be chopping at stuff sometimes that you really 0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:58.440 are going to need in the future. Wasn't that interesting thing? 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:02.720 He said? Are the trees the soldiers look at Eugene 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:04.520 Peterson how he put it in the message? Give me 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:07.919 the message. The message translation makes it so clear. When 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:09.920 you mount an attack on a town and the siege 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:12.080 goes on a long time, how many have been struggling 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:14.759 with something for a long time, praying for something for 0:46:14.800 --> 0:46:16.959 a long time, Believe in for some Okay, three people 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:19.680 in this whole section, everybody else. Just go to heaven. 0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:23.200 Why do you come to church here, Just go to heaven. 0:46:23.719 --> 0:46:26.680 Struggle with something for a long time, long time, long time. 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:31.319 All right, don't start cutting down the trees, swinging your 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:39.399 axes against them. These trees are your future food. Don't 0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:45.319 cut them down. The battle you're facing today is your 0:46:45.360 --> 0:46:51.000 future strength. Don't run from it. The thing God is 0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:53.640 doing in your life to draw you closer to him, 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:57.320 that is teaching you. You said, God, teach me. Okay, 0:46:57.680 --> 0:47:00.520 God said, this is your fruit tree. But if you 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:05.840 keep chopping down everything God sends to strengthen you, you 0:47:05.840 --> 0:47:08.839 will live the rest of your life down when you 0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:13.320 had the power to get up. So I came today 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:20.080 with the prophetic word, stop fighting your future. Those trees 0:47:20.160 --> 0:47:24.239 that are bearing right now, they have the potential in them, 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:27.880 just like you have the potential in you to bear 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:33.320 much fruit. In fact, Jesus said that when something is fruitful, 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:37.759 he prunes it so it can be more fruitful. Let 0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:40.680 me speak a word about not fighting your future. Some 0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:44.560 people God keeps trying to remove from your inner circle, 0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:47.520 and you keep chasing them down so that you can 0:47:47.600 --> 0:47:51.040 have friends. But God is leading you into a future 0:47:51.320 --> 0:47:54.359 with some different friends. God needs you to reach out 0:47:54.440 --> 0:47:57.359 to some different people. It doesn't mean you hate them, 0:47:57.560 --> 0:48:00.759 but you just can't hang on to the relationship just 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:04.280 because you liked it. God might be moving them. God 0:48:04.400 --> 0:48:07.239 might be moving you, but he's not through with you. 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:15.360 He's just moving you into a new season of effectiveness, productivity, 0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:21.439 purpose and growth. Stop fighting your future. Stop every time 0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:24.239 something comes your way that you don't agree with getting offended. 0:48:25.600 --> 0:48:29.440 This current offense is your future wisdom. How will you 0:48:29.520 --> 0:48:31.320 learn a new point of view if you don't listen 0:48:31.320 --> 0:48:37.920 to anybody. Stop fighting your future by being trapped in 0:48:37.960 --> 0:48:41.520 your past. Stop fighting your future by wishing it was 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:45.520 how it was. It's not and it never will be again. 0:48:47.800 --> 0:48:52.399 So I commend you to the Lord today to put 0:48:52.440 --> 0:49:01.680 on the new self, new fruit, new opportunities. I've lost 0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:07.680 an awful lot, new fruit, new opportunities. I got two 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:11.760 hundred and eighty five pounds of pressure on me. New fruit, 0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:19.319 new opportunities, new strength. His mercies are new with every 0:49:19.440 --> 0:49:24.000 rising of the sun. The fact that you did this 0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:28.040 a couple hundred times while I've been talking, and you 0:49:28.080 --> 0:49:30.840 didn't even have to think about it. It's proof to 0:49:30.880 --> 0:49:36.120 me of what I started my sermons saying God is 0:49:36.160 --> 0:49:53.720 not through with you. Stop expecting angels to look cute 0:49:53.719 --> 0:49:56.000 when they come. You ever read about an angel in 0:49:56.000 --> 0:49:57.960 a Bible and seen somebody draw what they would look 0:49:58.040 --> 0:49:59.440 like and scared to crap out of you when an 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:03.000 angel come? Why did the angel have to say, don't 0:50:03.000 --> 0:50:06.359 be afraid when it came? If it wasn't scary. It's 0:50:06.480 --> 0:50:09.640 scary to step into a new season. It's scary to 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:11.719 do it a new way. It's scary to let your 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:13.759 guard down and say I'm struggling and I need to 0:50:13.760 --> 0:50:16.920 talk about it. It's scary to apologize. If I apologize, 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:19.960 they might walk all over me, or God might come 0:50:20.000 --> 0:50:27.439 help you and defend you. So what do I keep 0:50:27.480 --> 0:50:30.840 cutting down that God wants me to continue in? What 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:33.200 do I every time I get uncomfortable, I go run 0:50:33.239 --> 0:50:37.319 for something that's going to ruin me later. And Moses said, 0:50:37.360 --> 0:50:40.120 I got to prepare you for this, or you'll start 0:50:40.160 --> 0:50:43.960 cutting down stuff now that you'll need later. And I 0:50:44.000 --> 0:50:47.000 mean in every area of your life, you need to 0:50:47.040 --> 0:50:54.480 be nurturing now so that what you need later will 0:50:54.480 --> 0:50:58.080 be waiting when you get there. If you're a parent, 0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:01.400 and you've got kids that arerunning around doing all the sports, 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:04.080 and y'all never get to know each other because you're 0:51:04.080 --> 0:51:06.080 so busy trying to champion them all the way to 0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:11.840 their glory of the high school whatever sport, high school swimming. 0:51:12.800 --> 0:51:16.520 They're gonna leave you. They're leaving your house. If you 0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:19.160 do the job right, they will leave one day and 0:51:19.200 --> 0:51:20.920 they might boomerang back, but you try and get them 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:24.839 out of there, and you just keep throwing that thing. Ah. 0:51:24.880 --> 0:51:26.680 And I told the kids one time we were going. 0:51:26.719 --> 0:51:28.640 They said, are you coming to this thing tonight? I said, no, 0:51:28.680 --> 0:51:29.799 me and I'm going on to date i've been at. 0:51:29.800 --> 0:51:31.839 This was a couple years ago. I said, we're going out, y'all. 0:51:31.840 --> 0:51:33.239 I'm going out of town next week and we haven't 0:51:33.280 --> 0:51:34.880 any time together. So you're gonna go do the thing 0:51:34.880 --> 0:51:36.239 and then we're gonna go out and then I'll see 0:51:36.239 --> 0:51:39.400 you after. And I was like, Oh, you're a bad parent. No, 0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:44.880 I'm nurturing now. She's Holly's going to be in the 0:51:44.880 --> 0:51:47.359 house after they decide to go leave and they can 0:51:47.400 --> 0:51:49.640 come back when they want. So I need to know 0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:53.040 her in the next season. So I need to nurture 0:51:53.040 --> 0:51:57.560 it now. I just set somebody free to not go 0:51:57.600 --> 0:52:04.880 to the basketball game Thursday, go to Bonefish. And I 0:52:04.920 --> 0:52:07.719 know it's balanced, but don't you see that you are 0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:12.000 fighting your future when you don't nurture you're now, because 0:52:12.040 --> 0:52:14.640 you're gonna have to deal with that. And I have 0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:18.480 to accept where God has me now. I am so 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:22.120 tired of people saying, Oh, he's just an old head, 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:29.760 an old head, an old head is full of wisdom. 0:52:30.840 --> 0:52:34.560 Oh yeah, I'm an old head. I'm an old head. 0:52:35.239 --> 0:52:37.239 I know I know things now I didn't know then. 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:39.400 And I'm gonna make a T shirt of this that 0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:41.160 probably already is one I'm gonna make. I'm gonna make 0:52:41.200 --> 0:52:44.399 one too, and it's gonna say old is the goal. 0:52:49.000 --> 0:52:51.839 Make fun of me because I'm old? What did you do? 0:52:52.600 --> 0:52:54.759 I didn't die yet, and I've been not dying for 0:52:54.800 --> 0:52:56.880 thirty years, longer than you. You can make fun of me. 0:52:57.480 --> 0:52:59.640 I've been doing it a long time, like the Lord. 0:53:00.960 --> 0:53:04.400 So I'm not apologizing for the fact that I'm getting 0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:07.400 a little older, and I've got to embrace that. But see, 0:53:07.560 --> 0:53:11.319 when you won't embrace where God has you because you 0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:14.640 wish you were where you were, you fight the future. 0:53:14.680 --> 0:53:20.239 He's bringing you into I think they're getting it. I 0:53:20.280 --> 0:53:22.200 think you've been getting it ever since I was down 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:25.240 here on the ground. I think you like Graham choking 0:53:25.320 --> 0:53:29.239 me out. And I think you liked it when I 0:53:29.280 --> 0:53:32.719 called somebody's name who came to help me? Because they'll 0:53:32.760 --> 0:53:36.560 let you know. You've got a name that is above 0:53:37.320 --> 0:53:41.919 every name. You've got a name that is above your 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:49.640 old nature. And God is not through with you. Touch 0:53:49.680 --> 0:53:51.360 three people say God's not through with you. It's not 0:53:51.360 --> 0:53:53.360 through with you. It's not through with you. God is 0:53:53.400 --> 0:53:55.600 not through with you. God is not through with you. 0:53:55.880 --> 0:53:58.160 What you've been through won't be wasted. God is not 0:53:58.239 --> 0:54:02.000 through with you. People throw you away, but God is 0:54:02.040 --> 0:54:05.120 not through. People talk about you like a dog, but 0:54:05.200 --> 0:54:07.120 God is not through with you. I want to speak 0:54:07.120 --> 0:54:10.120 to a pastor right now. You've been canceled, you lost 0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:13.040 your church. God is not through with you. You You get 0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:16.000 down to a rescue mission and you open your Bible 0:54:16.160 --> 0:54:19.080 and you talk about God in the wilderness and water 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:21.920 from a rock. Because God is not through with you. 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:26.239 He brings new things from dry places. God is not 0:54:26.480 --> 0:54:30.600 through with you. They might be, they might be, they 0:54:30.719 --> 0:54:34.600 might be, but look up and stand up and put 0:54:34.640 --> 0:54:38.799 on the armor of God. Now UN's at him who 0:54:38.880 --> 0:54:46.520 is able to do immeasurably more than you ask or imagine. 0:54:47.320 --> 0:54:58.160 For now the plans I have for you don't fight 0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:02.359 it well, thank from the battle, so you missed the 0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:09.080 blessing it's here is now you are more than you've become. 0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:13.000 Yet God is not through with you yet yet and 0:55:13.080 --> 0:55:14.880 made it through the waters yet to even see the 0:55:14.920 --> 0:55:18.839 Egyptians drown. Oh, get to the other side. God is 0:55:19.239 --> 0:55:26.759 not through. Stop making excuses and exchange it for the 0:55:26.920 --> 0:55:33.720 expectation of greater grace. Father, we have been taught today 0:55:34.600 --> 0:55:40.360 by your spirit. What good is it to be taught? 0:55:41.719 --> 0:55:47.160 What we will not walk in? I bring each and 0:55:47.200 --> 0:55:51.479 every man, woman, boy and girl that you put under 0:55:51.480 --> 0:55:55.359 the sound of my voice for this hour. I bring 0:55:55.400 --> 0:56:00.359 them and place them in your capable hands. We are 0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:04.080 the bread you desire to multiply. We are like the 0:56:04.120 --> 0:56:06.719 staff that parts waters when the master touches it. So 0:56:09.040 --> 0:56:13.719 we want to ask you, first of all, Lord, that 0:56:13.800 --> 0:56:17.920 you would help us to see where we've been so 0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:22.680 comfortable being stuck, that we have cut down what you 0:56:22.760 --> 0:56:26.200 were trying to use to grow us. And we admit 0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:29.799 we've done it. From time to time. We keep on 0:56:29.880 --> 0:56:33.960 doing things in the short term that long term hurt us. Well, 0:56:33.960 --> 0:56:38.520 that's what your grace is for, because we're learning now 0:56:39.600 --> 0:56:44.239 and we're changing now, and it's different now because this 0:56:44.360 --> 0:56:47.960 time we're not doing it in the strength that we 0:56:48.040 --> 0:56:53.800 have apart from you. We're leaning into your strength, your power, 0:56:53.960 --> 0:56:56.680 your supply. We're going to call the name of Jesus 0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:59.440 this week. We're going to do it right now. Get 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:04.480 some practice, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me deal with this. Jesus, 0:57:04.760 --> 0:57:07.759 help me. I got this meeting tuesday. Jesus, I got 0:57:07.760 --> 0:57:10.600 this all. Ser Jesus, I keep on going back to 0:57:10.640 --> 0:57:13.240 the doctor. They don't even know what's wrong. Jesus, Jesus. 0:57:13.520 --> 0:57:15.359 Help me get out of worry. Help me not play 0:57:15.360 --> 0:57:16.920 it out again and again in my mind and make 0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:21.919 it worse. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me resist that temptation. God. 0:57:21.960 --> 0:57:23.920 I can't do it in my own strength. I keep 0:57:24.000 --> 0:57:26.240 on giving in to it. But I believe you're calling 0:57:26.280 --> 0:57:31.080 me to stand up. Stand up in the name of Jesus, 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:34.680 stand up in the name of Jesus. Throw it off, 0:57:34.720 --> 0:57:41.040 put it off. Lord, We've been some of us. We've 0:57:41.080 --> 0:57:45.680 been in a certain struggle a long time. But before 0:57:45.720 --> 0:57:51.400 the struggle ever was, you knew who we were. I 0:57:51.480 --> 0:57:54.040 speak to the spirit of every man and woman today. 0:57:55.040 --> 0:57:58.919 I speak to the truest part of them, the part 0:57:58.920 --> 0:58:01.560 of them that is wrapped in love and called by God. 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:08.320 And I admonish you in. I lift you up to 0:58:08.360 --> 0:58:12.880 the Father, and I remind you that he knew the 0:58:12.920 --> 0:58:19.160 plants he had for you before you did. He knew 0:58:19.200 --> 0:58:22.640 the pain would be bad, and he promised that the 0:58:22.720 --> 0:58:29.520 power would be greater. He knew you'd be here. Listen 0:58:29.560 --> 0:58:31.800 to me, Listen to me. He knew you'd be here. 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:35.240 He knew you were going to screw that thing up, 0:58:35.440 --> 0:58:39.120 and he loved you, and he called you anyway. He 0:58:39.200 --> 0:58:42.040 knew you would feel abandoned and let down. He called 0:58:42.080 --> 0:58:44.840 you anyway. That's why he said, even if your father 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:48.160 and mother closest friend forsake you, the Lord will take 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:50.680 you up. He is able to sympathize with our weaknesses. 0:58:50.960 --> 0:58:52.760 He is able to be touched by the feeling of 0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:56.200 your infirmity. He really knows you, he really sees you. 0:58:56.560 --> 0:59:00.280 He really called you, he really chose you, and he's 0:59:01.040 --> 0:59:07.800 not through with you yet. Don't fight it. Welcome it. 0:59:08.880 --> 0:59:12.320 Welcome it. Holy Spirit doing new work in my life. 0:59:12.400 --> 0:59:16.680 I welcome it. Don't reject it. Don't stop repeating the 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:20.000 mistakes because you refuse to believe you deserve a blessing. 0:59:20.320 --> 0:59:24.560 Welcome it. God wants to bless you, He wants to 0:59:24.640 --> 0:59:29.800 heal you, he wants to keep you. Receive it. Don't 0:59:29.840 --> 0:59:32.960 call on him and then resist him. He's coming right now. 0:59:33.280 --> 0:59:38.480 Stop thinking about lunch. God is here. You prayed, you 0:59:38.520 --> 0:59:40.880 asked him give me a sign it's gonna be all right, 0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:43.080 and he sent me to tell you I know the 0:59:43.120 --> 0:59:51.680 plans I have for you is not through with you yet. Well. 0:59:51.680 --> 0:59:53.760 If you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of 0:59:53.840 --> 0:59:57.479 things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, 0:59:57.800 --> 1:00:01.280 and review this podcast. Also help us reach others by 1:00:01.320 --> 1:00:05.160 investing today at Elevation Church dot org. Slash give and 1:00:05.240 --> 1:00:07.880 thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.