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Elevation Nights dot Com. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.599 Get your tickets right now. Let me know where you're 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.599 joining us from. I want to see it in the comments. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:01:02.880 Let's go to the word of God. You that there's 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:09.880 the way they come through. There's so much smart until 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:17.680 the decorory shot said, tell more time. I'll pray there's 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.240 the way they come through. Wherever you are, whatever you 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:28.000 have the way man, could you can do exity. There's 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:45.920 so much so de sory got that do come can 0:01:46.000 --> 0:02:07.040 give me Thanks to police fay. That's flood glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:29.320 I can see you're not done. Is not done with 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.120 me yet, is not done with me. The Lord told 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.440 me to preach this today. There's so much more to 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.919 the story. That's my sermon. There's so much more to 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.679 the story. That's it. There's there's so much more to 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:54.720 the story. There's get this in your spirit. I'm gonna 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.720 be preaching it through Easter. There's so much more. It 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.200 starts today. You can't on the right day. God send 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.919 you here all the right say. God puts you on 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:17.200 side at the lifetime. There's so much more. Yes, yes, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:27.320 so much. You're not done. Let's go to the word 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:32.440 of God. The word of God is powerful. The Word 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.680 of God is eternal. The grass withers in the flower fades, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.760 but the word of the lore, it's the story that 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.120 will forever be told, and it will forever be true, 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.760 and it will forever be real, and it will forever 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:57.240 be powerful. The Lord gave me seven sermons this week. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.160 My next seven sermons are going to come from my 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.800 personal time with Him. That he gave me, and I 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.400 asked him could I share it publicly? And he gave 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.920 me permission, and I could not be more excited. I 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.120 don't put on a card again for just any occasion. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:18.679 I'm pumped up about it. And if you were wondering 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.159 if God is finished with you today, well this should 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.000 be more than a confirmation. I've never had a sermon 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.000 that the Lord confirmed more than this one ever, and 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.280 I've been doing this since I was sixteen, never had 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.200 one that God showed me so many different ways what 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.440 he wanted me to preach. And what I think is 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.200 there must be something that you've been going through or 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.960 needing from him, and he wants to get it to you. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.760 So he just put it through my thick skull that 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.360 I need to preach it starting today, and I'm gonna 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.719 do it like he gave it to me. Deuteronomy, chapter 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:58.520 thirty four. Deuteronomy, y'all didn't shout when I said Deuteronomy. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:07.120 Y'all wanted he Ephesians, but we got Deuteronomy today. Deuteronomy 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.120 thirty four, verse five. Welcome to our epham around the world. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.560 I want everybody to make this affirmation real quick. Just 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.599 make it with your mouth or type it if you're online. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:30.960 Say with God, there's always a way. The Lord gave 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.960 me that. Yesterday I was talking to somebody about what 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.080 they were going through, and I don't know if she 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.000 thought it was weird, but I was like, repeat after me. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.159 I went into pastor Steve mode real quick. I said, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.640 repeat after me. Now you do it too. With God, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.960 there's always a way. Now finish this because this is 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.000 the best part of it, and by faith I will 0:05:53.080 --> 0:06:01.480 find it. You feel that it's my spine tinkle. Say 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.880 it again. With God, There's always a way, and by 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.520 faith I will find it. I hope you're putting that 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.560 in the chat. Let the devil know. You might not 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.400 be in the building, but you're in the spirit and 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:19.640 God is here and anything is possible. Who am I 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.080 to deny what the Lord can do. If he wants 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.200 to heal you, let him through. If he wants to 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.160 redeem what you've given up on, let him through. If 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.080 he wants to give you wisdom for stuff that you 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.680 think you're too stupid to know, let him through. If 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.480 he wants to give you a job or a position 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.039 that you're not qualified for on paper, let him through. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.640 If he wants to make the next ten years of 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.240 your life better than the last ten. Let him through. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.640 Who are you to tell him no? Thank you Jesus 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:55.000 read the scripture Stephen, verse thirty four, Chapter thirty four, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:07:00.680 verse five. And Moses, the servant of the Lord, there 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.800 in Moab, as the Lord had said, He buried him 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:11.040 in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Piure. But to 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:17.080 this day no one knows where his grave is. Moses 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:23.119 was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.200 I know, I said, old is the goal, but I 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.760 don't want to be here around. I don't care what 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.200 artificial legs they make. Elon Musk might put an artificial 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.880 knees or something like that on me, but I don't 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.000 want it, not that long. But watch what the Bible says. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.080 And this is kind of sad. He was one hundred 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.720 and twenty when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.920 nor his strength gone. And see, we kind of want 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.840 to shout on that, but think about it. It's really sad. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.560 It's not something to shout about. It's something to cry 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.239 about because it means there was still more in him. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.560 Somebody say, there's more in me? Tell your neighbor. They 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.160 don't believe it. When they hear themselves say it, maybe 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.800 they'll believe you. Say there's more in you. There's yeah, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.520 there's more in you. There's more in you. There's more 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.080 in you. There's more in you. Now say it again, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:22.000 there's more in me. Praise to the Lord. So Moses 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.440 died there and he still could see, and he was 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.800 still strong. But see, he stopped trusting God, so he 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.040 couldn't go into the Promised Land. And the Lord takes 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.160 him up on this high mountain called Nebo, and he says, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.160 you see all that you see past the Mediterranean. You 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.280 see Jericho. Joshua was going to fight that battle, not you. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.559 I could have used you, But because you broke faith 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.080 with me and didn't honor me enough, the Lord said 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.280 you're done. And that's a bad thing, because when God 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.199 says it's done, you can sing you're not done with 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.800 me yet. If the Lord says, oh, yes I am, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:03.760 you're done. I was going through criticism one time in 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.160 ministry and Joyce Meyer told me, well, Stephen, if Lord's 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.360 done with it, you ain't nothing you can do about it. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.000 Might as well trust him and go forward. I was 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:17.400 like yes, ma'am. Now watch this. The Israelites grieved for Moses. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.360 They didn't know where his grave was, but they grieved 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.040 for him because God took him and hid the body somewhere. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.800 I'm telling you the Bible is so much of a 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.240 better story than you think. The Bible is better than 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.120 Breaking Bad and the Walking Dead. The Bible has all 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.880 that stuff in it, dead people walking around and all 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.079 of that hiding bodies. Who needs gus fring when you 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:47.360 got God. I'm having fun. I'm fired up. This is 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.800 my first sermon of my eighteenth year of pastor in 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:57.000 this church. I'm ready to fru They grieved for Moses 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.920 in the planes of Moab thirty days month until the 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:07.920 time of weeping and mourning was over. Somebody say over 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.560 the series I'm starting today is called There's so much 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.640 more to the story. But the message today and the 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:20.080 word of the Lord for you is forward, not finished. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.640 I gotta be careful because I'll have y'all hear past kickoff. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.679 You won't be home till Rihanna's on the stage. If 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:37.720 I preach it like I'm feeling forward, somebody shot forward? 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.679 Where you going forward? You gotta figure it out. No 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.959 but I'm going Do you know what it's going to 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.280 be like when you get there? No, but I'm going forward, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:56.439 not finished. In Jesus' name, Sit down, and I dedicate 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.199 these next seven sermons to my oldest son Elijah. Were 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.240 not for him, I would not be inspired to preach this. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:04.760 And I'll explain that to you in a few moments. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.839 But I've never dedicated a series, but I dedicate this 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:15.760 to my oldest boy. Thank you. You know what, I 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:20.320 think that sad scenes sometimes are necessary for the best 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:26.760 stories to be told and unfold. And I read that chapter. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.400 It's actually what I read last Sunday before I came 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.360 over to our anniversary. I had a note. I thought, well, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.400 I preached Ephesians for whoever wanted to leave the church 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.720 because they don't want to be challenged is already gone. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.199 Because I was saying stuff the last few weeks that 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.440 I was like, they are they going to throw something 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.719 at me telling you come on, man, live like you 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.480 know God, Stop just rolling around in your sin and 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.199 calling that grace, get up and do something with it 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:59.360 for the Lord. I mean, we all suck sometimes, but 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.920 you know, you've been in a suck season for four years. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:09.920 Let's go for where moving into it, walking on with 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.440 what I've got. I have to move on as a pastor, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.880 with the church that I have after a pandemic. You 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.080 have to move on in the season of your life 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.400 that you're in with the strength that you have, Gideon, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.240 with the instruments that you have, Moses, Staff, with the 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:32.400 rock that you have, David, with the disciples you have, Jesus, Judas, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.880 Can I get another one? Peter? Can I get another one? 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.280 All them might fail you, but you've got to do 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.000 it if the Lord called you to do it. And 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.959 when I read this last Sunday before I came over, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.559 I had a little note that my next teachings should 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:52.839 be There's so much more to the story. You know, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:59.520 there always is. If I could teach you anything, don't 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.800 believe if anything you hear and only about half of 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:09.400 what you see. Isn't it true when you when you 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.439 hear stuff about people, especially now, I mean, we used 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.679 to have to say stuff to somebody, but now we 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.880 can just say something about somebody instead of to somebody, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.520 So it's never been harder. This is not my message 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.000 and this is my soapbox, so I need to be 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.439 very careful that I don't waste time on this, but 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:31.280 there's more to the story. Well, that little line that 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.400 we were singing from Ephesians three twenty you are more 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.480 than able and just confessing there's so much more to 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:44.000 the story is certainly true of this Bible. I think 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.920 it's like eleven hundred and eighty nine chapters. I'm not 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.440 exactly sure, but in this Bible that we read as Christians, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.680 it's got the first five books called the Pentatuke. Penta 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.720 is the five so it's like pentatonic scale in music 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.559 is notes, so penta too. So that's that's what I 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:08.199 was reading last week when I came to church and 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.439 I had a preacher in. And now remember this is 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.439 my daily Bible reading. And let me just tell you personally, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:16.599 I was gonna save it to the end, but I 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.679 think it'll be good to help you see why this 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:25.200 is important to me. Last year, Elijah, my oldest, says 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.680 to me that the Book of Genesis is really weird. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.520 He had been reading through a chapter a day with 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.000 Kelsey and they were going through the Bible chapter a 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.440 day and he's like every day he comes to me, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:46.080 he's like, it's getting weirder, crazy, stuff is happening. You're like, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.880 that's a sacrilegious. The Bible isn't weird, it's holy. You 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.320 haven't read it. You just pluck little verses out. I 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.160 can tell what you are. You got a little verse 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.040 of the day app thing. You just read the ones 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.880 you want to read. You really read it in sas frap. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.160 The Bible's not Pg. Thirteen. I think it's always funny 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.360 when people are like, oh, I don't think that was 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.200 appropriate to put into a sermon that was very adult. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.240 I need a grown up God because I'm fighting grown 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:19.240 up challenges in a hell bent world. And the devil's 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.560 been running stuff long enough, because the devil will talk 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.200 about it, but we won't. I feel people pucker up 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.000 every time I say weird stuff in church, like, hey, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.040 you know the Lord can't accept you and can use you, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.280 even if you were up till three point thirty last 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.240 night looking at stuff online. And I feel people go, no, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.280 we can't. Don't say it, but I can feel it anyway. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.400 Elijah said the Book of Genesis is getting weird, and 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.280 I said, well, what chapter are you on? And he 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.520 said the chapter? And I looked it up that night 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.160 and it was a very difficult chapter. And so I 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.120 sent a text to him and Kelsey. I said, hey, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.880 so I read that chapter that y'all are on, and 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:00.680 this is just one thought out of the chapter. And 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.560 I sent him a little sentence and said, here's a 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.480 key verse from that chapter that kind of makes the 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.200 whole rest of it make a little bit of sense, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.640 something we can practice in our life. And then I 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.720 did it the next day because they texted me back. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.200 They made me feel like I was saying Augustine. They 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.520 made me feel like Billy Graham. They were like, oh 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.000 my god, there were like seven mind blow emodes he's 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.680 and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do that again. I 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.760 feel affirmed by this. Send it back the next night 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.240 another one. Oh my god, this is even better, this 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.080 is incredible. This helps us so much. Thank you. And 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.120 so the next night I actually officialized it and I 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.960 changed the name of the group thread text thing. And 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.040 it took me an hour to figure out how to 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.960 do that, because I'm old. Old is the goal. That's 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.360 my whole goal in life. I want to be old 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.000 enough where I don't know how to work this text 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:54.320 message machine like Moses. And so I changed the name 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.520 and I called it. I called our text to read 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.760 the Bible in four years club. I did a little 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.800 bit of the math, and if we only read a 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.800 chapter a day, it'd be like four years to read 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.840 the whole Bible that way. And I Totalijah, I'm like, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.840 we got to go faster, man, I got to get 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.040 to Matthew. I cannot be stuck over here in Leviticus 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.479 for this long. It's too long. He's like, no, Dad, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.840 I really want to see what the Bible's all about. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.119 That's why I started the club. I'm like, all right, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.440 you're the president. I'm just a secretary treasurer. You do 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.359 the key Verse this week. So he did the one 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.640 the next night and it was good. Not as good 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.280 as mine. I've been doing this a long time, but 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.200 he did pretty good. And then Kelsey did one pretty good, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.320 and then I was back to me him Kelsey boom 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.360 boom boom. So we're moving. We're moving through Exodus, we're 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.920 moving through Leviticus. About halfway through Leviticus, Elijah goes, this 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.800 is crazy. The Bible is so much better when you 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:56.040 actually read it as a story instead of just selections 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.119 that you take like a little shot, like a be 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.159 twelve shot to get you through the day. I got 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.800 to be three shot. They gets you through the week 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.960 if you need it. If I preach good, that's what 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.439 that organ is called, the B three Show them how 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.840 sounds lja. Yeah, we could do it. We can do 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.160 it in a minute. We can do it in a minute. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.440 We could do it in a minute. We could do 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.200 it in a minute. Stop. So he said, it's so 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.159 much better. And there's he said, I've got so much 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.800 invested in the Israelites. Now I want to see what happens. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.919 And I'm like, uh, oh, this is not the winning 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.879 team that you want to cheer for because I know 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.880 they screw it up at every turn. At every turn, 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.080 even when they get in the Promised Land, they just 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.199 gotta be like the Canaanites. They just gotta Intermary. They 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.439 just gotta go worship these other gods. So now they 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.640 go go and get to captivity two different times, even 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.280 when Jesus came. So I'm like, oh, oh, there's this 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.120 is a roller coaster, man, hang in there. But we've 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:07.040 been doing it. And guess what. This year, at the 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.919 beginning of the year, we accepted our first new member 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.199 on a trial basis to the Book of Deuteronomy. Holly 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.920 is now a part of the Read the Bible in 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:25.080 four Years club, and last Sunday we finished Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.960 chapter thirty four was the last one, and I read 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.640 it and I'm like, this is so sad. Dude. Moses 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.840 is up on a mountain. He had a horrible thing 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.480 that you can see, something that God wants to give you, 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:42.399 but you can't bring it into reality. I'd rather not 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.840 even know that God promised it to me than to 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.720 hear people talk about it and to see people walk 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.560 in it. And man, their marriage seems happy, and their 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.600 kids are in church with them, and I can't get 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.399 my kid to come to church. And there's old Pastor 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.000 Steve up there telling about the Bible club with his boy, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.640 and that must be nice. You know, you can see things, 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:16.680 but you only see scenes. You don't know stories. You 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.240 don't know the story. There's so much more to the story. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.280 Elijah says. Somebody told him the other day Justin Bieber 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.639 was at our house for the weekend. I said, it 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.240 would have been nice to know. I'd have made him 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.439 sing on Sunday how to put him up on Gyra 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.640 talk to Justin Bieber. I don't know Justin Bieber, who 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:42.960 makes this stuff up? Where's this stuff come from? God 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:44.520 really say you must not eat of any tree in 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:49.000 the garden. Matter of fact, he didn't serpent devil. He 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.240 said we can eat any tree, just not one. But 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.360 you see how the spin gets you in a story, 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:02.960 and there's so much more to the story. I always 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.280 listen to people these days, kind of imagining what the 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.680 other person might say if they were there to defend themselves. 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:14.119 I know there's more to the story now in defense 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:20.879 of Moses, come on, I did good. I led these rebellious, 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.520 stiff necked people for forty years. You think you would 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.400 have done better. You're only forty days into the new year, 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.680 and you've broken every New Year's resolution that you've got, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:36.879 and three from your neighbors. There's more to the story, 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.880 you know, just to read it as hey. Moses died 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.119 because he struck the rock instead of speaking to it, 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:44.560 and he couldn't go into the Promised Land because he 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.000 didn't have faith. That is a summary, but it's not 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:51.920 the story. That's a summary. That's not the story. Little 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:57.399 side note, don't trust the summary. Parenting note when your 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.879 kid comes home and says that teacher just told me 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.440 to sit down and shut up, and I didn't do anything. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.200 You believe that from your kid. You believe that that's 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.320 my baby. Yeah, that's your baby, and your baby is 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:21.879 full of Your baby is got some bs blanket statements. Now, 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:26.119 So to say that Moses still died with more in 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.720 him is a little bit of a blanket statement, because 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:32.280 he did a lot. In fact, the writer of Deuteronomy, 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.280 who some belief was Moses, said and nobody ever did 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:40.320 more for God than Moses. And it also says that 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.919 he was the humblest man who ever lived. So if 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:49.960 he wrote that, then that's very paradoxical, ironic and funny 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:54.119 to me. And so the Lord takes him up on 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.119 a mountain and he spent the whole book of Deuteronomy 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.320 giving a speech. You know, make sure that when God 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.240 brings you into the land, that you are the kind 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:06.760 of person that can sustain the blessing that He wants 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.720 to give you, so that you don't receive the blessing 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:16.120 and sabotage it because of selfishness, because of a lack 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.399 of focus, and because of a lack of gratitude. And 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.200 the Lord takes Moses up on a mountain. We've seen 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.840 Moses go on mountains before, you know, and when he 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:32.040 went up, he always came down with something important. God 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:33.960 calls him up on a mountain. He's up there forty 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:38.000 days and comes down with the Ten Commandments to find 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:42.200 the children of Israel dancing around a golden calf. And 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:45.480 when he confronted them about it, the leader said, oh, yeah, 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:47.760 I threw some stuff in the fire and the cow 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:52.280 came out. I think there's probably more to the story. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:55.520 Do you know what I'm saying, Aaron, Come on, man, 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.240 I was born on the day, but it wasn't yesterday. 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:01.320 Come on, man, this is crazy. Breaks the tablets, has 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:04.040 to go back and get him. When Moses goes on 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:11.600 the mountain, he always comes back down. So Moses goes 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.000 up on the mountain this time. He already knows that 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:18.600 God is not going to let him go into the 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.200 next level of leadership. That's going to be Joshua's job. 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:25.280 Joshuall be In one of the twelve spies, one of 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:27.680 the only two spies of the twelve who believed that 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.840 God could do what he said he could do. So 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:32.840 that's why he gets to go in, and that's why 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:36.800 he gets to lead. And the people are all waiting, 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:40.200 no doubt, for Moses to come down, even though he's 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.239 told them, I'm not coming back because God's not going 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:45.160 to let me do it. Don't you think they probably 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.960 had a hard time believing that. Don't you think that 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:53.159 when he didn't come down at first, they've experienced so 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:58.520 much grace from God that they think, surely, if anybody 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:02.000 can get God to change his mind, it's Moses. He 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:04.520 did that one time. God told Moses, I'm gonna kill 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:06.200 all of them and give you a new nation. We'll 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:07.760 start all over me and you and do it better 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.080 this time. Moses said, but then you won't get the 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:15.639 glory if you destroy your people. What will happen to 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:19.480 your name? Everybody will hear about that. And God said, 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:23.679 all right, all right, I'll forgive them because you asked 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:29.400 this time. Listen to me, He's not coming back down. 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:32.879 How long would it take to accept that if you 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:35.840 were one of them? How long does it take us, 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:38.480 in seasons of transition in our own life to accept 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:42.520 it's not going to be like it was. I can 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:45.399 keep trying to make it like it was. I can 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:47.640 keep wishing that it had gone different than it did. 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:50.680 I can keep on talking about when I was in 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:55.960 high school. You should have seen me on Friday Night. Man, 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:58.920 I was the man back then. You can buy the 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:04.000 same car that you had back then, but some of 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:09.080 the stuff won't work under the hood. I'm gonna stop 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.000 right there, because this is one of those pucker up 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:15.240 moments that y'all give me. There is a moment in 0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:20.920 your life where you must realize Moses is not coming 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:25.119 back down this time. And have you been there? Because 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:29.160 I have. In the last few years, I have been 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:33.960 reckoning with some realities in my own life that I 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:38.800 have to change because things are changing and God is 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:43.560 moving and the world is changing. And if I stay 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:49.280 where I am, I will miss what God wants to 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:53.240 do in the place that He's already prepared for me. 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:58.440 It's not so much about changing situations, you know, I 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:00.879 haven't really thought about you want a new job. I 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:02.840 don't want to start a new church. I love this one. 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:04.880 I don't know how you could ever have a better 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:07.760 church to pastor than Elevation Church. I mean, come home, man, 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:10.960 where in the world would I go after this? When 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:12.840 I finish this, I want God to do for me 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:14.840 what he did for Moses, and just kill me and 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:17.840 hide me somewhere whenever he wants me to be done 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:23.560 with this, because this is amazing. But sometimes in order 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:26.160 to change your story, God has to change your point 0:27:26.200 --> 0:27:30.879 of view. Now, have you ever had something that happened 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:32.840 in your life, let's get real practical, where you saw 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:36.080 it one way while it was going down, and you 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:38.600 saw it a completely different way when you look back 0:27:38.640 --> 0:27:41.240 on it. Raise your hand. I need to make sure 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:44.040 y'all are awake. I'm doing some heavy Old Testament teaching today. 0:27:44.880 --> 0:27:47.880 You ever had that happen before where you look back 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:51.920 on it later and said, oh, that was actually not 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:57.440 a blessing, that was a trap. Or could go the 0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:02.280 other way too, Oh that wasn't actually a tragedy, that 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:07.440 was a blessing. And it can happen both ways. And 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:11.960 two things change the story, and one is time. Time 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:14.480 changes the way you see the story. That's why I 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:17.760 always like to encourage you don't give your testimony too soon. 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.119 I mean, you can tell people Jesus died for me 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:23.200 and I accepted him in my heart, that part of it. 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:28.280 But don't tell your testimony too soon because you might 0:28:28.440 --> 0:28:31.680 leave out the part that God is getting to that 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.920 you don't know about yet. He's the author and the 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:39.960 finisher of your faith. Don't close the Bible in Leviticus 0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:43.080 and say this book is weird. Ah ah, There's so 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:50.320 much more to the story. Don't close your heart, don't 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.800 close your mind. Don't come out of the prayer closet, 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:56.800 don't come out of faith, don't come out of the waters. 0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:03.680 Have changed because God is writing your story. Say it. 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:09.880 God is still writing my story. You got it. God 0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:17.440 is still writing my story. But Moses is gone. Some 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:21.800 of the characters are gonna exit, some of the realities 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:26.200 are going to change. And that's why I'm thankful that 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:34.000 we serve a generational God. We tend to have situational faith. 0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:40.040 When everything feels a certain way, we can really move 0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:43.360 in it. Oh, when everything's just like this. How many 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:46.000 people have I heard I'm gonna start being more generous 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:49.120 when I get a better job with better pay. That 0:29:49.280 --> 0:29:53.440 is situational faith. How many people have I heard say, well, 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.280 I'm gonna be nice to her when she starts respecting 0:29:56.400 --> 0:30:01.120 me more. That is situational faith. That is not the 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:04.320 love of God. That is not the spirit of God. 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:09.400 The spirit of God calls things that be not as 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:15.640 though they were, because he's a generational God. He was 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:17.720 God of a nation when he only had one man 0:30:17.840 --> 0:30:21.520 named Abraham, and I promise you everything under Abraham's hood 0:30:21.600 --> 0:30:24.360 was not working right. And even if it was, Sarah's 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:26.600 womb was dead, so he had no chance. But God 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:30.680 did it because he's a generational God. He's a generational 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:33.640 god in the sense that what he started in the 0:30:33.720 --> 0:30:38.800 beginning with Adam, he recreated in Christ, who is the 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:43.160 second Adam. Because we could not do it by the 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:46.480 works of the law. So God took that book that 0:30:46.600 --> 0:30:50.600 stood against us, put it on Jesus, who knew no sin. 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:54.000 Can I preach the gospel for ten seconds? And he 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:56.160 made him who knew no sin to be sin that 0:30:56.280 --> 0:31:00.800 we might become the righteousness of God. So don't ever 0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:03.960 say this little church phrase, I'm just a sinner saved 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:10.720 by grace. You ain't just nothing but somebody that Jesus 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:16.600 thought was worth dying for. You ain't just nothing but 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:26.360 a new creation, a masterpiece. He's still writing your story. 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:32.400 Moses died, but God didn't. They walked out, but God didn't. 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:37.680 You got fired, but God didn't. He's still got the 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:41.720 same job he had before you ever got to Earth. 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:46.600 He runs stuff. I need us to praise God that 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:53.920 he runs stuff. Hey man, I promise. I tried to 0:31:54.040 --> 0:31:56.920 run stuff, and I ran out of strength to do it. 0:31:57.360 --> 0:32:01.160 So then I had to lift my eyes kills, and 0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:06.200 remember where my help comes from. I got a God 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:10.080 who runs stuff. God doesn't check forecast to see if 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:12.080 it's a good time for him to do it or 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:16.280 to move. God runs stuff. God doesn't consult human agendas 0:32:16.600 --> 0:32:19.200 or political offices to see if it would be a 0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:22.800 good time to demonstrate his power. He doesn't check your age, 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:26.840 or your height, or your weight or your experience. God 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:35.560 runs stuff. He is God. He's generational in the sense 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:40.920 that his faithfulness continues through generations, and in the sense 0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:47.880 that he generates he starts. He's the source of your life. 0:32:49.920 --> 0:32:56.760 And Moses, my servant is dead. I'm almost ready to preach. Now. 0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:01.040 Wasn't that a good introduction? Y'all? Clap for my introduction? 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:04.920 In a book they have in a book, they have 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:08.960 the foreword. The foreword, but it's not spelled like going 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:12.480 forward is spelled with wo r D. Because it's the 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:20.640 word that comes before the book in the beginning was 0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:23.720 the word y'all need to read y'all's Bible more because 0:33:23.760 --> 0:33:26.320 y'all should be preaching this with me. And the word 0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:31.800 was with God. And the word was God. And what 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:36.400 does he do? He runs stuff. So the Lord said, 0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:40.760 I'm closing down Moses Incorporated, and I'm establishing a new 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:50.160 enterprise called Joshua Incorporated. I thought something would come. You 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:52.520 have no idea how many things I start to say 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:54.000 and hope something comes to me while I'm in the 0:33:54.040 --> 0:33:55.680 middle of saying it. Usually it does, but that time 0:33:55.720 --> 0:34:00.840 it didn't. And you know what, I'm actually gonna use 0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:03.800 that to preach this. What I'm telling you is that 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:12.719 I have to go forward not finished. After I have 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:18.800 studied everything I can study, after I have written everything 0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:22.520 that I can write, I have to stand up here. Now. 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:25.280 I'm not preaching about preaching. I'm preaching about life and purpose. 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:27.719 After I have done all that I can, I have 0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:32.480 to stand there for and trust that God is enough. 0:34:33.840 --> 0:34:38.279 And so do you, Oh man, When I get my 0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:42.240 act together, I wonder how many of y'all were thinking 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:47.799 about leading an e group this last semester, and you thought, well, man, 0:34:47.960 --> 0:34:49.480 I don't know if I'm going to lead an e group. 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:51.960 It's not like I really know the Bible that good. Well, 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:56.680 that's how you're going to learn it. You need something 0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:58.279 to study for and if people are coming over to 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:00.480 your house Tuesday a six point thirty, have to pick 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:04.719 it up. I don't like to admit this, but I 0:35:04.760 --> 0:35:06.439 don't even know if i'd live right if I didn't 0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:10.719 have to preach every Sunday. That's a horrible thing to admit. 0:35:10.800 --> 0:35:12.440 I want to do it just because I love Jesus 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:14.239 and he loves me, and great is his love and 0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:16.200 his mercy and all the little children of the world. 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:19.360 But there's a part of me that knows, like I 0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:22.120 got to look at y'all, and it's a lot of y'all. 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:27.839 Every seven days, I gotta say something, and it keeps 0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:31.359 me close to God or keeps me from going too 0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:35.880 far before He yanks me back. And I think you 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:39.839 need the same thing in your life, something that you're 0:35:39.920 --> 0:35:46.120 moving toward forward. I know you got a lot of money, now, 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.239 aren't you cute? You got four oh one k's and 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:51.040 all of that stuff and two houses and you think 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:56.759 you're done. How dumb are you? Dude? You need to 0:35:56.840 --> 0:36:00.200 read Luke twelve. The man had so much grain. It's like, 0:36:00.200 --> 0:36:02.000 what do I do now? Well, let me help you 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:04.359 figure it out. You got too much money. I can 0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:06.680 help you with that money. I can help you. I 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:09.200 can alleviate that problem. He said, I think I'll build 0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:12.480 bigger Barnes store more up for myself. And he was 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:16.160 never conscious of God. And the Lord said, you fool. 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:25.279 You think you're done just because you have stuff. If 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:28.319 your goal is to be done, you need to die. 0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:33.680 You know, we do goal setting in the new year. 0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:35.799 I'm gonna run a goal setting workshop. I just want 0:36:35.840 --> 0:36:37.440 to be done. I want to be finished. I just 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:39.719 want to be done with all of this. Okay, here 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:45.040 is your task list. Die, you be done. But until then, 0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:52.680 there's more, there's more to your story. I like to 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:57.719 listen to these motivational speakers because motivation preachers need motivation too. 0:36:58.160 --> 0:37:00.360 And one guy was saying, you know, the most defensive 0:37:00.400 --> 0:37:02.240 piece of real estate. Have you ever heard this before? 0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:04.760 The most valuable piece of real estate in the world 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:10.360 is not in Manhattan, not in Singapore, not in Dubai. 0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:13.919 The most valuable piece of real estate in the world 0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:19.440 is the cemetery. Because there you will find buried symphonies 0:37:19.520 --> 0:37:28.399 that were unfinished works, that were undone cures that were undiscovered. 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:36.680 Because Moses died still seeing, still strong, and God said, 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:39.360 if you don't trust me enough to go forward, I 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:41.960 can't bring you into what you won't believe me for. 0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:46.640 Let me say that again. That was annointed. God can't 0:37:46.719 --> 0:37:49.600 bring you into what you won't believe him for. If 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:52.640 he did, what good would it do you? You wouldn't 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:55.239 believe him for it, so you'd give it up, so 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:58.720 you'd mess it up, so you'd walk away. And Moses 0:38:00.160 --> 0:38:04.080 is dead and he's not He always comes back. I'm 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:06.840 sure he'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:09.120 wearing the veil over his face, but he'll come back. 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:12.799 He always comes back. It's gonna turn around any day now. 0:38:13.080 --> 0:38:18.640 And they wait and they wait and they wait. The 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:22.720 Bible says thirty days they waited for Moses. The typical 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:28.200 waiting period was one week. But this is Moses. Moses 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:31.520 gets at least a month. Right. How many agreed? Let's 0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:34.080 put it to a church vote. How many think that Moses, 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:37.400 the one who led the nation forty years, should get 0:38:37.440 --> 0:38:39.560 at least a month of morning before they move on, 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:46.400 and they greed thirty days. Now, I'm gonna speculate that 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:51.239 while they were crying over Moses, they were also looking 0:38:51.360 --> 0:38:55.960 for him. Don't you think reason with me, Reason with me. 0:38:56.560 --> 0:39:00.160 Millions of people in the wilderness. Only one person that's 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:02.160 ever been able to call on food and feed them, 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:05.000 Only one person that's ever been able to show them 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:07.520 how to atone for their sin. There's only one Moses, 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:16.560 one Moses one month, one Moses one month. And I 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:20.000 think they probably send out search parties. I do use 0:39:20.080 --> 0:39:22.879 my sanctified imagination to break this Bible verse down real quick. 0:39:23.480 --> 0:39:25.879 I think they were like, all right, you go look 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.359 for him over there, and you go look for him 0:39:28.360 --> 0:39:32.080 over there. Because see, we don't typically have as much 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:36.720 of a ritualistic culture about these these these moments of transition. 0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:41.799 But to these people, the burial ceremony was tightly prescribed. 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.480 I mean the way that they did it was central 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:48.520 to their need for closure and their processing of grief. 0:39:51.480 --> 0:39:53.439 How do you grieve a body that you can't find 0:39:53.480 --> 0:40:02.040 the grave for? How do you gree the loss of 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:06.120 a hope that you can't really articulate. I just feel 0:40:06.160 --> 0:40:13.800 like something's missing. How do you grieve the fact that 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:17.319 I don't know where the grave is. But somewhere along 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:19.880 the way, I start talking myself out of seeing miracles 0:40:21.920 --> 0:40:25.279 and I can't find the grave. I don't know what 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:27.279 day had happened. I can't tell you it was nine 0:40:27.440 --> 0:40:29.680 thirty seven, Am. I can't tell you any of that, 0:40:32.520 --> 0:40:37.279 and I'm grieving over something that I can't find the 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:41.160 grave for. I don't know why I don't trust people anymore, 0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:44.279 but I just don't. I don't know why I won't 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:46.319 let anybody new in my life, but I just won't. 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:49.880 I don't know why I don't even talk back to 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:51.960 the devil when he starts telling me I'm workless, But 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:54.040 now I just agree with him to get him to quit. 0:40:56.600 --> 0:40:58.480 I don't know when I stopped thinking. You know, at 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:01.480 some point I am going to get through this, because 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:03.279 maybe it was the third time or the fourth time 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:07.080 I went to rehab. But there's something I'm grieving and 0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:14.359 I can't show you the grave. I want to tell 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:19.560 you God knows where the grave is, and only God 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:23.320 knows where the grave is. And that's why in this season, 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:27.200 people can only help you so much. I'm telling you, 0:41:27.520 --> 0:41:30.359 in this season, you can read books, but books can 0:41:30.440 --> 0:41:33.920 only do so much. This is a season where you 0:41:34.040 --> 0:41:38.680 need the author. This is a season where you need 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:42.759 the generator. This is a season where you need the 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:49.279 God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Who knows where 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:53.400 you laid your hope? Who knows where you lost your faith? 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:57.160 Who knows where you gave up your edge, Who knows 0:41:57.320 --> 0:42:01.000 where you surrendered to the addiction? Who knows where you 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:08.759 gave up the glory because of the grief. It's over now. 0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:12.160 He's not coming back. We've looked everywhere for him. It's 0:42:12.200 --> 0:42:15.120 over now. We got to move on. It's over now. 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:18.080 What will we do without him? I don't know, but 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:23.040 it's over now. We send everybody everywhere we could. Apparently 0:42:23.080 --> 0:42:25.320 God is just as good at hiding as he is seeking, 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:30.560 because we got millions of people in one Moses, and 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:34.840 we've been looking one month. Now know this as for 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:39.239 but the Lord said, it's been a month. It's been 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:43.520 a month. And the oh, the architecture of this verse 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:46.680 is just as important as the application. So please bear 0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:48.640 with me as I try to get it to you 0:42:49.200 --> 0:42:51.840 like God gave it to me, because it was so important. 0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.239 How they said it. It said in verse eight. The 0:42:54.400 --> 0:43:01.440 Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab. Moses 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:08.719 Moab month, Moses Moab month to leave Moab and to 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:13.400 go forward into Canaan. They had to accept the death 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:21.960 of Moses, and they mourned him one month until watch this. 0:43:22.719 --> 0:43:24.439 Oh yeah, they got it up there. I'm so glad 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:27.000 they got it up there. Yeah. I don't bring y'all's Bibles. 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:30.760 And I don't want you on your phone while I'm preaching. 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:33.440 I don't want you having that distraction factory right there 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:35.760 in front of your face while I'm preaching, because somebody's 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:37.840 gonna text you that's gonna tear you out of this message, 0:43:37.960 --> 0:43:39.719 and the Lord's trying to preach, and it's going to 0:43:39.760 --> 0:43:42.120 distract you. And you can't multitask as good as you 0:43:42.160 --> 0:43:44.000 think you can. I don't care if you are a woman, 0:43:48.280 --> 0:43:51.600 So put your eyes on the screen. They grieved in 0:43:51.680 --> 0:43:56.520 the planes of Moab one month, one Moses, one month 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:08.480 until the time who of we've been and mourning is over. 0:44:11.160 --> 0:44:16.800 He didn't say the feeling of mourning was over, but 0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:25.719 he said his time to move forward. But I don't 0:44:25.719 --> 0:44:30.440 feel like moving forward. I'm not preaching about feelings. Today, 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:36.520 I'm preaching about faith, to move forward when you're not finished, 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:39.719 to move forward when it still doesn't make sense, to 0:44:39.880 --> 0:44:43.360 move forward when you still have questions and the questions 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.560 are now not only unanswered, but the questions have had 0:44:46.600 --> 0:44:49.359 baby questions, and you can't thinkure any of it out. 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:54.759 And the Lord says, the feeling wasn't over, but the 0:44:54.960 --> 0:44:58.040 period of mourning was over. You've got to move now. 0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:02.479 If it's for three people, God sent me to preach 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:05.040 this too. I'm preaching to you right now. If you're 0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:07.239 not even in the room with me, I'm preaching it 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:12.279 to you right now. It's over. No, no, no, you 0:45:12.440 --> 0:45:14.680 heard that like cruel. I don't mean it cruel. You 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:17.200 heard it like stop crying, or don't go to therapy 0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:19.839 or don't tell anybody, or just act like it didn't happen. 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:23.560 I did not say any of that. I'm just saying 0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:32.200 that the time for you staying in Moab looking for 0:45:32.320 --> 0:45:38.000 a Moses who isn't coming back, looking for a season 0:45:38.080 --> 0:45:41.720 of your life that was awesome, but it's over. Looking 0:45:41.800 --> 0:45:45.480 for somebody to apologize, say, already moved to Cancun. It's over. 0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:49.680 Scrolling through Facebook wondering what are they up to? Now 0:45:50.000 --> 0:45:59.080 it's over, Delete the app and live your life. You 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:05.839 did what too? You waited a month. You've been down 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:08.719 there thinking, Oh, I'm so holy, I'm mourning over this. 0:46:09.239 --> 0:46:11.360 You are going to stand? Oh? I love the Bible 0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:17.200 verse It says that weeping may endure for a night, 0:46:18.239 --> 0:46:24.279 but I came with an announcement that joy comes in 0:46:25.320 --> 0:46:33.200 the morning. Is over. We're going forward, forward with our 0:46:33.320 --> 0:46:38.280 shirt tails out, forward with our tear state faces, forward 0:46:38.360 --> 0:46:52.760 with our unanswered questions, Forward with our own finish thing. Follower, Forward, Forward, Forward. 0:46:54.360 --> 0:46:58.520 I find at people say forward, that's where I'm going forward. 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:02.400 Don't know how. I don't know who's gonna be there. Forward. 0:47:02.400 --> 0:47:05.520 I'll send you a blup scar Forward. I'm gonna make 0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:09.000 something up this next season. I'm forward this year. I'm 0:47:09.040 --> 0:47:21.080 growing thahs missed over. We been by this full thirty 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:24.799 eight years. I rickt up, ready to get up here. 0:47:28.400 --> 0:47:32.960 Who I got somebody to help me? Now y'all are like, 0:47:33.080 --> 0:47:35.719 that's not in the text. Oh, I left one thing 0:47:35.800 --> 0:47:43.359 out verse nine. Now, Joshua, I need that be three 0:47:43.440 --> 0:47:49.000 shots now, Joshua, no more Moses. Did you look for 0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:50.520 him up there? Yeah? I looked him in no Mo. 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:55.200 I looked for him over here. No more. I went back. 0:47:55.280 --> 0:47:58.720 I texted him, no more. I went back. I tried 0:47:58.760 --> 0:48:01.880 to ask him to have me back. No mo. But 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:04.960 for every no moment in your life, there is a 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:21.239 now Joshua, the coass developing. Why y y hey? I 0:48:21.360 --> 0:48:28.680 took my Doudoronomy pill this morning, y'all? Whoa now, Joshua, 0:48:29.960 --> 0:48:34.160 look at this versus is annoyted. Now, Joshuvah, son of none, 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:41.359 I gotta do what I gotta do. Where you see none, 0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:48.200 God says, Now, I'm gonna give you five seconds, because 0:48:48.239 --> 0:48:50.319 when it hits you, you're not gonna be looking at 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:54.560 me like that. Where you see no way, God says, now, 0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:59.360 watch me make away, let me through, fake some space, 0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:06.160 some room. Lifts up your head. Well, ye guys, where's 0:49:06.200 --> 0:49:17.440 some praisers and let the way ain't go? Do no Moses, 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:21.239 what there is more? No Moses, what there is more? 0:49:22.120 --> 0:49:24.040 Neville told you no more, no more, no more. He 0:49:24.239 --> 0:49:29.839 was wrong, because you're moving forward. You're not finished. You're 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:34.520 moving forward, You're not finished. It's not a midlife crisis. 0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:40.040 It's a midlife cuckoo. You're changing in there you're transforming 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:43.399 in there. You're coming out with wooms, You're coming out 0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:46.440 with wisdom, You're coming out with the room of God. 0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:53.719 I'm coming forward with the whip. Its a praise and 0:49:53.960 --> 0:49:59.040 a double edgen stored in my mouth, letting my kilter 0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:12.360 gold devil now says so what I'm almost ready to preach. 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:17.080 I saw this one time before. I saw one time 0:50:17.160 --> 0:50:20.400 before where they thought it was over. I saw this 0:50:20.560 --> 0:50:23.319 one time before. You you heard it like this when 0:50:23.360 --> 0:50:26.120 I said it it's over. Now you heard it like this. 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:29.000 It's over now. It's all it's been telling you. It's 0:50:29.080 --> 0:50:31.000 over now. You're not gonna change. If you change your 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:32.440 seed by now. If you'renna what you do by now. 0:50:32.520 --> 0:50:34.759 If there everything, you don't have anyone to have my now, 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:37.080 everybody does over now. But the Lord said it, but 0:50:37.160 --> 0:50:42.680 he said it different. He said it's over. Period. Now 0:50:47.560 --> 0:50:57.560 it's over. The period of morning is over now. Joshua, hey, hey, Sis, 0:50:57.600 --> 0:51:01.560 Send for Jesus, Send for Jesus. Lazarus sick. Lazarus is sick. 0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:05.400 Jesus loves Lazarus. Jesus will come for us. We hosted 0:51:05.440 --> 0:51:07.640 him in our home. He'll come for us. I cook 0:51:07.760 --> 0:51:10.840 chicken for Jesus. He'll come help Lazarus. Send for Jesus, 0:51:11.080 --> 0:51:13.520 Send for Jesus. And the Bible says something really crazy. 0:51:13.560 --> 0:51:16.040 And John chapter eleven, verse four. It says that when 0:51:16.080 --> 0:51:18.600 Mary and Martha sent for Jesus, watched this, he said, 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:23.320 this sickness will not end in death. It is for 0:51:26.000 --> 0:51:27.880 you want to know the plot of your story, I 0:51:28.080 --> 0:51:31.960 just gave it to you right there. God's glory. He's 0:51:32.040 --> 0:51:35.719 getting ready to get some glory out of this so 0:51:35.920 --> 0:51:43.879 he can show its generations. What a shapebreaker is that? Lord? Oh, 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:46.759 some sermons you just want to stay in them all day. 0:51:47.480 --> 0:51:49.520 I just want to stay in this one for a moment. 0:51:49.920 --> 0:51:53.640 They said, go get Jesus. We need Jesus. We tried 0:51:53.680 --> 0:51:57.520 the doctors. The doctors can't do it. We prayed about it. 0:51:57.880 --> 0:52:02.000 Prayer didn't fix it. We met him. Medication wouldn't do it. 0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:05.520 Sin for Jesus. And the Bible says something that's kind 0:52:05.560 --> 0:52:08.680 of like what is said in Deuteronomy thirty four, verse nine, 0:52:09.120 --> 0:52:11.960 Now Joshua, But look at verse five of John and Lendon, 0:52:12.239 --> 0:52:15.160 for what is said in Joshua is that going in John? 0:52:15.400 --> 0:52:23.360 He said, now Jesus, now Jesus, fist bumps somebody in 0:52:23.440 --> 0:52:27.400 case they're a German folks, say, now Jesus. Now, Jesus 0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:32.560 loved Lazarus and her sisters. He loved Mary even though 0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:36.040 she was lazy, and Martha even though she was falsy, 0:52:36.400 --> 0:52:39.719 And Lazarus even though he was sick. Now, Jesus, you 0:52:39.800 --> 0:52:42.120 think you did something he can't fix. You think you 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:44.680 have something he hadn't seen. You think you're going through 0:52:44.760 --> 0:52:47.040 something he doesn't know the way through. Do you think 0:52:47.080 --> 0:52:49.920 you're working through something that God can't heal that he 0:52:50.040 --> 0:52:57.440 hasn't already worked out? Now, Jesus loved Lazarus even to 0:52:57.600 --> 0:53:01.080 the point of death, even when his body was thinking, 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:04.760 even when the maggots made their home and his eye sockets. 0:53:04.840 --> 0:53:08.200 I know it's gross. That's how God is. That's how 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:11.480 far his love reaches. That's how far he'll dip down 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:15.880 to get you. Now, Jesus loved them very much. Sober 0:53:16.160 --> 0:53:23.279 six when he heard about lazarus sickness, he stayed where 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:28.919 he was. I tell it a been four days is over. 0:53:29.960 --> 0:53:36.080 It's over. He's dead. Now, Tell Jesus, don't bother about 0:53:36.120 --> 0:53:39.120 the time they told Jesus Lasarus was dead, He told Peter, 0:53:39.400 --> 0:53:44.200 all right, now I'm going. Peter was the one who 0:53:44.239 --> 0:53:47.239 would get in Jesus's face and contradict his logic as God. 0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:54.800 Peter said, now, Jesus, Now, Jesus, you know it's not 0:53:54.880 --> 0:53:56.520 good for you to go back there. They're trying to 0:53:56.600 --> 0:53:58.880 kill you in the region, and Martha might kill you 0:53:58.960 --> 0:54:05.600 if the scribes don't because you're late. Now, Jesus, Martha 0:54:05.680 --> 0:54:09.200 comes running out to meet Jesus, doesn't even let him 0:54:09.200 --> 0:54:13.799 get inside the town. She got there real quick. She said, 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:16.520 if you've been here, my brother wouldn't have died. God. 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:19.440 If you would have done it. Maybe I wouldn't have 0:54:19.480 --> 0:54:22.399 lost my son if you would have done it. Maybe 0:54:22.440 --> 0:54:24.239 I wouldn't have turned to the pills if you would 0:54:24.239 --> 0:54:27.520 have done it. Maybe I wouldn't have if you had 0:54:27.600 --> 0:54:30.440 rescued me from that abuse. Maybe I wouldn't struggle with this. No, 0:54:30.560 --> 0:54:34.560 if you've done it. But through her tears of grieving, 0:54:36.440 --> 0:54:43.399 she says something powerful. Even now, I know that God 0:54:43.480 --> 0:54:49.399 will give you whatever you askap. But but there's more 0:54:49.440 --> 0:54:51.279 to the story. There's more to the store. There's more 0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:53.080 to the story. There's somebody said, there's more to the store. 0:54:53.239 --> 0:54:55.280 There's more to the store. There's more to the store. 0:54:55.560 --> 0:54:58.600 Look at verse twenty twenty. What is it twenty twenty nine, 0:54:58.680 --> 0:55:00.560 twenty nine. I think it's twenty nine. I think he's 0:55:00.560 --> 0:55:03.000 ting I junch apter number twenty nine. When Mary heard 0:55:03.280 --> 0:55:06.080 that Jesus was there, When she heard that he was asking, 0:55:06.440 --> 0:55:12.280 she got up quickly. You don't have time to figure 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:15.960 everything out before you walk in faith. You need to 0:55:16.000 --> 0:55:19.200 put the appointment on the calendar for this week, you 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:21.719 hear me. You need to take a step toward it 0:55:22.080 --> 0:55:25.360 this week. You need to flush it before the halftime 0:55:25.520 --> 0:55:29.319 show today. You don't have time to be in your 0:55:29.440 --> 0:55:33.680 tears talking about what God can't transform because he's out 0:55:33.760 --> 0:55:38.000 of time. He is fashionably late, he is faithfully late. 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:40.840 He may not have come when you wanted him, but 0:55:41.000 --> 0:55:46.320 that doesn't mean it's over. Somebody shall now, So she 0:55:46.480 --> 0:55:49.400 gets up quick and get ready for this. Verse thirty 0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:54.640 lit me up, He said, now, Jesus, somebody shall now. Jesus. 0:55:55.640 --> 0:55:59.480 I need you now, Jesus. I need you in this moment. 0:56:00.000 --> 0:56:02.200 I need you in this moment. I need you in 0:56:02.280 --> 0:56:07.880 this moment. I need you in this moment. Now, Jesus, 0:56:09.280 --> 0:56:13.800 you got a dead situation. But you gotta now, Jesus. 0:56:17.000 --> 0:56:20.880 You've got a sick heart, but you've got to now, Jesus, 0:56:22.200 --> 0:56:26.280 you've got a weary soul. But you've got to now Jesus, 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:30.919 say not loud. I got an now, Jesus. I want 0:56:30.960 --> 0:56:33.280 everybody in the chat to put it in. I gotta 0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:38.200 now Jesus, and now Jesus, and now Jesus. I got 0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:43.440 a third day Jesus, a fourth day Jesus, a generational Jesus, 0:56:43.880 --> 0:56:46.960 a Jesus who's the word in the beginning, and he 0:56:47.080 --> 0:56:51.200 won't fail me. Now, I gotta now, Jesus. And when 0:56:51.320 --> 0:56:56.040 he says, take me to the place where you laid 0:56:56.120 --> 0:57:06.839 the body, he already knows where the grave is. He's 0:57:07.000 --> 0:57:12.000 just been waiting on you to take him there. He knows, 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:23.120 he knows you don't. But I'm going forward not knowing. 0:57:24.680 --> 0:57:27.920 He said, if you believe, you see God's glory. And 0:57:28.040 --> 0:57:29.600 then he said, Lestra's come out and they all sing 0:57:29.720 --> 0:57:37.560 rattle in my version, I don't have that version. And 0:57:37.720 --> 0:57:46.880 you know what church I was reading, Oh God, I 0:57:47.080 --> 0:57:50.280 was reading the last chapter of Deuteronomy before I came 0:57:50.360 --> 0:57:58.480 over here to do our anniversary service. Seventeen years and 0:57:58.520 --> 0:58:00.040 I didn't even think about it. But the guy I 0:58:00.040 --> 0:58:02.800 had to come preach was seventeen years older than me, 0:58:05.920 --> 0:58:10.120 and my oldest son, who I'm dedicating the series, it's seventeen. 0:58:11.600 --> 0:58:13.440 When I want to understand why y'all is a church 0:58:13.520 --> 0:58:15.440 are acting wild, I just look at him and remember, 0:58:15.440 --> 0:58:18.800 and that's the stage we're at, and I'm gonna try 0:58:18.840 --> 0:58:22.680 not to kill you. I love him so much, man, 0:58:22.760 --> 0:58:27.080 because he started me in this club. And if he 0:58:27.160 --> 0:58:30.520 started on any other day, I wouldn't have read Deuteronomy 0:58:30.600 --> 0:58:34.600 thirty four. And I read it and I closed it 0:58:36.400 --> 0:58:38.040 because I thought, that's sad. I want to have an 0:58:38.040 --> 0:58:41.160 anniversary and I'm reading about Moses looking on the mountain 0:58:41.200 --> 0:58:43.480 and dieing, and God, are you telling me I'm not 0:58:43.560 --> 0:58:46.280 going to see the things that you promised me? Because 0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:51.680 I want faith. I came to church. I was back 0:58:51.720 --> 0:58:56.080 there talking to my guest and they came over, and 0:58:56.160 --> 0:58:58.120 I would felt bad because they were bugging him. They said, 0:58:58.600 --> 0:59:00.920 you send us a bunch of different titles. Which one 0:59:00.920 --> 0:59:04.720 are you going to do? And he said, I think 0:59:04.760 --> 0:59:06.520 I'm leaning toward the one who says this is not 0:59:06.640 --> 0:59:13.880 your final chapter. And y'all, look what the next book 0:59:13.920 --> 0:59:23.720 of my Bible was when I hold on is coming 0:59:23.760 --> 0:59:32.640 into focus, just like your purpose is right now seventeen 0:59:33.600 --> 0:59:38.680 and seventeen and his Deuteronomy thirty four. And I wrote 0:59:38.720 --> 0:59:40.680 a song that says there's so much more to the 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:43.480 story with Chandler and Ben and Naomi, and we sang 0:59:43.560 --> 0:59:45.120 it and called it more than able, and did an 0:59:45.160 --> 0:59:49.919 Ephesian's Bible study called immeasurably more. And you think God 0:59:49.960 --> 0:59:55.840 has done with you because Moses is gone now Joshua now, 0:59:56.000 --> 1:00:19.600 Jesus now, Jesus now unto him who is able to do? Yeah, 1:00:20.840 --> 1:00:23.439 I hope y'all like this song. There is so much 1:00:23.640 --> 1:00:27.080 more to the song because I'm gonna be preaching Joshua. 1:00:27.200 --> 1:00:32.440 We're gonna be singing this with me. You say it, 1:00:32.760 --> 1:00:36.800 you're not done. Close your eyes for a moment and 1:00:36.960 --> 1:00:47.280 receive it. You're not done with me. I declare a 1:00:47.400 --> 1:00:53.840 chapter one in your life today, God of new beginnings, 1:00:57.040 --> 1:01:04.480 the God of new endings. It's a god a second chances. Yes, 1:01:07.320 --> 1:01:11.200 with God, there's always a way. See the way, and 1:01:11.360 --> 1:01:16.560 by faith, we're gonna find him. Deal with me. We 1:01:16.680 --> 1:01:20.320 got a missing Moses. Come on you. We's a living 1:01:20.480 --> 1:01:24.959 move We have a living home. We have a living God. 1:01:25.240 --> 1:01:31.480 So much fun. Jesus dreams for now, Jesus my all 1:01:31.640 --> 1:01:39.200 freedom for now. Jesus's clearing conress far now. Jesus, I 1:01:39.400 --> 1:01:46.160 got healing with me. You are for It's as now. 1:01:46.400 --> 1:01:52.200 Jesus story is a funny. 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