God Chose You… Will You?

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.439 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.640 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.000 gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:21.480 Enjoy the message. Blessings upon you today. Grace and mercy 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.680 to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.520 who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.400 May the God of all Comfort comfort you today. May 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.240 the God of all Peace guard your heart and your mind. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:36.680 I'm glad you're here. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.279 If you're watching online, I'm glad you chose. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:39.880 To watch this video. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.360 God knows, there's a lot of other stuff you could 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.720 have watched on the internet. Here you are listening to 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.280 a holy ghost preacher. Today, God might just speak to you. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:49.520 This word might just make you chump. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.720 Your phone might heat up with this word today. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.040 The presence of the Lord is in this place. I 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.920 got five people that agree with me at Valentine. How 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.040 about Universities City, Matthews, how about. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.360 Y'all up here in the top section. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:10.960 Do you believe that con can does something amazing today. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.399 Glory to God. I'm fired up. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.520 I got the Holy ghosts. I'm burning up. Tell your 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.080 neighbor if you brought cold water, don't pour your water 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:31.039 on me. Tell him I got the Holy ghosts and 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.720 I'm burning up. Anybody burning up today? 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:41.880 Yeah, yeah, I don't need a son of the burn up. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.880 I got the spirit of the Lord. I feel it 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.200 heating up right now. This is an amazing day in 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.920 your life. And I need you to know that if 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.680 you need to get a record of who you were 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.640 before this series, you need to take a selfie right now, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:01:59.960 because you will be. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.120 Unrecognizable seven weeks from now. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.640 What God is about to do in your life. No, 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:10.240 I declare it, I decree it, and I choose to 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:16.840 believe that. Today I'm releasing to my church my first 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.320 new book in eight years, Do the New You. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:29.400 Can you get it first? That's right. This is written 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.240 so I can come home with you. Sound kind of weird. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.040 This is where I get to coach you. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.720 This is where I get to be a voice in 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.640 your life that reminds you that you are the righteousness 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.799 of God in Jesus Christ, the voice in your life 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.280 that helps you realize that you are more than the 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.119 math of what is against you, that you are more 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.560 than the mistakes that you have made, that the great 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.720 I am lives in you, and whatever he is, you 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:05.760 are too who. I feel a flow coming, Give me 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.080 an acoustic guitar ready for when I finished reaching. I 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.760 feel fresh oil, I feel fresh songs. I feel a 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:19.120 fresh word. Come into your house today. I'm excited and 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.280 we've been going absolutely crazy. I'm gonna read you the 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.560 scripture in a moment. So stay standing if you are standing, 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.160 and stand up if you're not, because I want you ready. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.600 We've been really overdoing it. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.080 I think I told Holly, we've got so much content 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.720 coming your way. Next week you'll get to hear about 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.880 our e group study your very own Holly Ferdic has created. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:38.400 For you with our team. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:45.920 Let's thank God for her. Yeah, to walk you through 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.080 each week what we're doing. Take it further so you 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:49.840 can get the book, you can get the audiobook. The 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:56.720 audiobook is that's the one. Yeah, that's the one. And 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.520 then I've also put together a masterclass for you with 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.360 a friend of mine who is a personal development and 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.640 also performance coach, and we get into it from the 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.760 Biblical side. But then how many know if you have 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.040 the truth but you don't have the tools to put 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.640 the truth into practice. Sometimes it's like a seed that 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.120 doesn't take root and bear fruit in your life. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:18.640 So that's going to be available. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.119 I sat down with my oldest son, Elijah and JT 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.880 and recorded for the Youth Nation podcast a special conversation 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.000 that's been eighteen years in the making, ever since Elijah 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.320 was born, and that will be dropping later this week, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.600 and the book is available. But today I want to 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.719 put this thing in three D for you, and I 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.640 want to go to the scripture that started it all, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.919 for Jeremiah and for me as this concept do the 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.479 new You comes to life. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.719 Oh, I'm excited. Jeremiah Chapter one. Jeremiah Chapter one. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.880 I got some surprises for you over the next seven weeks, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:08.800 and this will be a foundation today for us to 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:15.280 build on. One more page, Okay, Jeremiah chapter one, Verse four, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:22.039 let's go. The word of the Lord came to me saying, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:24.720 I'm not going to do it, y'all. But I could 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.880 preach the entire message off of that verse. I'm not 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:28.440 going to do it. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.680 I got more verses, but I could stop right there 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:32.120 and preach. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:38.039 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, First 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.839 of all, the word is perpetual. It came to me, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.440 doesn't just come once. When God said let there be light, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.679 there can still be light because he's still speaking. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.360 Not only is it perpetual, but it is personal. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.760 The word of the Lord came to me. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.080 Somebody say, speak to me. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:55.479 Lord. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.960 Now turn to your neighbor and say you need it, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.480 And I hope he does speak to you. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:06.680 It's perpetual, it's personal. But watch this, it is also predestined. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.960 And this is where we want to get today. Verse five. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:14.360 Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.839 before you were born. I set you apart, I appointed 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:25.520 you as a prophet to the nations. All that sounds good, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:30.000 Sovereign Lord, I said, I don't know how to speak. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.719 I am too young. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:39.880 But the Lord, this sounds like an interruption of your insecurities. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.000 Would you let God interrupt your security in your insecurities 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:45.640 if he wanted to? 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.279 Today? 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.560 But the Lord, somebody say, but the Lord said to me, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:59.080 do not say I am too young. Y'all, whatever you 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.640 put behind the world words I am is a direct 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:02.839 reflection on your maker. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:03.800 Because that's his name. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.880 So the Lord said to me, do not say I 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.960 am too young. You must go to everyone I send you. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.680 Say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.440 for I am with you, and we'll rescue you, declares 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:28.880 the Lord. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.400 And let's camp on verse nine today. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.560 Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:41.400 mouth and said to me, I have put my words 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:46.680 in your mouth. The title of our first message for 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.440 our brand new series, Do the New You. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.480 Is God chose you. Will you. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.600 Put that in the comments right now? God shows you now, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.160 will you? That's what we're going to decide and speared 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.760 of God, I declare over each and every life who 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.160 connected with this message that you have already decided and 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.600 destined who they will become. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.640 Now, God, I come into. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.640 Partnership with you to speak your words over your people, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.800 and I expect a great success from it because. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:28.280 You're with me in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you may 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.239 be seated. Wow. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.760 You feel like we could go home on that, but 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:44.559 we won't. It's good to go over this material. I've 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.640 spent a year writing this book. Do the New You 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.480 do thenew you dot Com. That's do thenew you dot 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.559 com Yeah, I'm promoting it because I believe in it, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:59.520 and I believe in it because I need it. And 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.240 from what I see as a pastor, you do too. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.160 You do too, seeing all the people that we get 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.560 to meet and all of the precious people that we 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.600 get to partner with in ministry who are silently asking 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.440 the same question but may be afraid to say it because. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.720 It makes them sound like rookies or complainers. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.000 And the question is how do I change? 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.920 How do I make changes to stay? How do I change? 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:33.920 And the first step to this, I would contend, does 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.880 not start with you at all. It starts with the 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.120 God who changes you. And the God that changes you 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.679 is the God that created you. Start taking notes at 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.040 any time. None of this is in the book. I'm 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.760 flowing in the Holy Ghost right now. It reminded me 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.839 go ahead and bring that screen out. I got a 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.040 bunch of toys coming to day because I think I 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.840 want this message to be special. So I got all 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.800 the stuff that I'm planning to bring up here on stage, but. 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:01.719 That screen out. Now. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:06.400 I'm not the most technological person, and I'm going to 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.280 bring up my scriptures, some of my scriptures on the 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.560 screen and draw on the screen just for visual learners. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.120 How many of you are visual learners? Uh huh? 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.040 And how many of you are what's the other auditory learners? 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.920 And how many of you are still trying to figure 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.560 out what style you are because you're fifty and you 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.560 still haven't learned everything that you think you need to know. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.480 Good Anyway, it just reminded me from when they were 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.960 bringing this out, when the iPad first came out, before 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.480 you were born, when the iPad was was just an 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.040 arrow in the quiver of Steve Jobs. I remember how 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.599 excited I was to have my first iPad. I was 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.440 flying somewhere to preach and I had the iPad out 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.160 because I wanted to preach for my iPad for the 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.240 first time, and I was excited. And this's got next 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.000 to me on the plane. I'm not judging him, but 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:51.360 he looked kind of nerdy. He looked like a guy 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.040 who knew a lot about technology. Is that a better 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.480 way to say it. He looked very techy. He looked 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.040 like a nerd. And he looked at my iPad and 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.880 he started the lust and he was like, how do 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.880 you like it? Because at that time it was relatively 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.640 new technology. And I said, I love it. I just 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.040 got it as great, and he goes, what do you 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:18.880 do on it? I said, well, like I said, I 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.840 just got it, but I mean so far. I'm a preacher, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.480 so I'm putting my Bible notes on here for my sermon, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:30.160 and play Angry Birds on it with my five year 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.440 old fruit and ninja. So all of a sudden his 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.560 facial expression changed. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:35.040 I watched it. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:40.000 He went from excited to disgust. It shook his head 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.000 and he looks back at me. I'll never forget what 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.520 he said. This has been over a decade ago, and 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:45.479 I remember exactly. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:45.640 What he said. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:51.400 You are using that device far beneath its full potential. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.360 And he didn't want to talk the rest of the flight. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:03.000 It was absolutely anathema to him, the curse of Lucifer himself, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.440 to be sitting next to somebody on a plane who 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.880 had something so powerful, who had something with so much potential, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.280 And here I am putting a slingshot. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.040 At some birds and a sword on some watermelons. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.040 And he looked at it and said, I wish I 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.360 could get my hands on that iPad. You got more 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.360 money than you do. Good sense, If that's all you're 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.920 doing with that iPad? Do you know what I could 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:36.240 do with that iPad? I could sure cancer with that iPad, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.839 and I guess he could. We didn't speak the rest 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.199 of the time. I should have asked him, I should 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.360 ask him what will it do? 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:47.200 I should have. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.640 Asked him, But I felt kind of embarrassed at that 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.360 point to be sitting with something that was so amazing, 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.200 and I knew it was amazing, but to be so 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.600 limited in my ability to access the potential of something 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.560 that was so powerful, and to not know how I 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.040 should ask him. He said, you are using He lectured 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.960 me the class I didn't ask for. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.640 You are using that device. I wonder if God ever 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.840 looks at. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.400 What he made YU can help me preach anytime. Don't 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.840 go Episcopalian on me. My first Sunday of my new 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.800 book series. I wonder if God ever looks at what 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.280 is in your spirit, if God ever looks at the 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.120 gifts that are in seed. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.280 Form in the soil of you. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.840 I wonder if God ever looks at the hand you've 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.480 been dealt, and the skillful hands you've been given, and 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.000 the opportunities and the open doors and the amazing ways 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.200 that he has made for you, and the amazing personality 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.520 that He has endowed you on that you apologize for 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.000 because it wasn't. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.040 Just like your brother's growing up. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.160 I wonder if God ever looks at what he gave 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:04.959 you and says you are using what you're holding far 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:11.439 beneath its full potential. Now, of course, the phrase you 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:12.160 do you. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.720 Is a controversial phrase, and. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.000 That's obviously I don't want to assume that you know 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.000 what I'm trying to say. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.560 Here's when people usually they're. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.400 Trying to say, I would never in my lifetime wear those, but. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.960 You do you? Like I think you look ridiculous. They 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.520 don't say that part. They go, hey, you do you? 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.400 Or in a more positive sense. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.280 It's what I told Holly when she was first trying 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.120 to figure out how to preach. She was like, but 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.280 I'm not preachy. I'm like, you don't need to scream. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.320 We got microphones. I just screamed because I got issues. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.240 Be calm, do you? People will actually be thankful that 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.200 they don't have to listen to me scream that week 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.520 when you get up and sell them very softly and 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:04.640 you can their butts in a whisper. Do you do 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.960 you look? At somebody say do you? And it's good, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.360 And I know it's a little bit old, it's a 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.080 little cliche. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.000 Do you. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.560 The only problem I have with the advice do you 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.320 is that would be good advice if you knew you. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.000 But do you? 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.800 I'm gonna have fun all by myself this week. Come on, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.480 I turn for forty four next Monday. I'm too old 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:33.360 and not enjoy this. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.000 Yeah, do you? 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.520 And you know, I think that's a wonderful piece of 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.960 advice that you're talking to somebody who's going to do 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:44.800 a new hairstyle. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:45.080 Right. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.520 If you ever watch an anniversary sermon from the church, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:52.440 you will notice the number of hair expressions that I 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.920 have gone through in the years, and I apologize for 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.120 none of them, every single one of them. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.160 I did. Every hairdo that I did at the time 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:02.040 was good. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.040 And then a woman got online the other week and said, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.000 I'm very disappointed that you're dying your beard. I thought 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.520 you were going to grow gray gracefully and show that 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.800 the age of the Lord is a blessing. And I'm 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.400 very disappointed to see that you begin to color your beard. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.520 So now you can't even die you and do you 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:23.520 without somebody telling you come on, I'm a diet for 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.520 a little while. The Bible says die to the old, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:27.880 So that's what I'm trying to do. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.920 Yeah, do you. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.800 And if it goes gray, you'll know I'm ready to 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:41.320 try new me. Very helpful advice if you're saying, hey, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.560 don't feel the pressure to perform like you saw somebody 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:44.200 else perform. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.040 Do you singing your range. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.520 Use your gift, say it how you say it, that's great, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.000 or you know, get it. Get the mohawk. Everybody should 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.360 do it once in their life. Get a mullet. I'm 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.200 halfway there right now thinking about it. And if that's 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.119 what I want to do, I should do it. But listen, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:05.600 I don't really come here to talk to you about 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.000 mohawks and mullets, did I. I came to talk about mindsets. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.560 I came to talk about your mindset. What I am 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.280 concerned about for the people that I pastor, And this 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.720 doesn't have to be every pastor's burden, but I am 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:28.000 concerned that the way we read Jeremiah chapter one, verse 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.560 four through nine is different than how it happened. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.120 And I'm going to read it again, and I'm going. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.880 To read it as if it were written with our 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:41.240 just do you mentality that we bring to a lot 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.880 of the situations in our life. Here's how it goes, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.320 Jeremiah one, verse four, Please put it on the screen. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.320 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, before 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.520 I formed you in the womb, I knew you before 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.600 you were born. I set you apart. I appointed you 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.880 as a prophet to the nations, a last sovereign Lord. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.640 I said, I do not know how to speak. I 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.879 am too young. And the Lord said to me, just 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:13.320 do you. You'll know how to speak. Don't speak now, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:19.439 that's cool. I thought I made you, but no, you 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:26.560 do you. I thought I was the sovereign god who 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.960 put you together. I thought I was the one who 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.240 spoke you out of nothing before you were formed in 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:40.160 your mother's room. That doesn't tell Jeremiah, upon his excuse, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.560 just do you look what he says. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:44.119 Verse seven. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.040 Read it how it actually says. But the Lord said 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:52.320 to me, do not say I am too young. You 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.280 must go to everyone I send you to and say 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.080 whatever I command you. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.800 So this verse tells me, do you. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:06.480 Do? 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:09.119 Let me show you on the screen. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.560 I think this is very powerful, because here we are. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.320 I got the whole Bible on the screen. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:14.640 Y'all. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.320 That guy on the plane would be so proud of 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:18.479 me if he could see me today. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.000 Come on, some people. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.240 Are just watching this looking for Taylor at the super Bowl, 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.800 and I'm preaching the whole prophecy of God on a 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:37.800 flip sideways TV screen. I'mu do me. Hey, hey, y'all 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.600 think she's gonna make it back from Japan in time. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.840 I'm praying for Taylor. I like seeing her out there. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.080 I think she's great. Now, look at this when we 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.520 get to Jeremiah. Here we go Jeremiah chapter one all 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.720 the way to the verse, and I thought the little pin, Yeah, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.040 where'd I put it back? 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:57.280 Here? 0:19:57.960 --> 0:19:59.359 This is gonna take a second for me to get 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:06.879 used to this. At the hunt at the top is 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:12.760 by the book, the other book. I only got one book. Graham, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.640 come get it for me, y'all, give Graham a hand 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:16.280 as he comes. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.560 Where'd it go? Oh? 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:29.359 Hey, it was hidden underneath the word of God. No, no, 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.240 you didn't hear me. It was hidden beneath the Word 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.800 of God. That means that I thought it wasn't there, 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.199 And it wasn't that it was gone, but it was 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.880 hidden underneath the word of God. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:45.920 I wonder what word. 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.560 God has spoken over you that is hiding something that 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.040 you need in this season. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.120 Now, y'all give it up for Graham one more time here. 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:05.520 I love how the Lord corrected Jeremiah's very brilliant how 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:06.119 God does it? 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.720 The Lord said, do not say I am too young. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:17.760 You must go to everyone I send you to and 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:19.160 say whatever I command you. 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.920 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you. 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:31.880 Do you takes on a little different significance when I 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:39.120 am it's with me, stylus drop. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:47.440 Now, why I really called him up here wasn't to 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:48.720 help me with the stylus. 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.000 We had an agreement before he came up here that 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.760 he would help me with this sermon. You may recognize 0:21:54.760 --> 0:22:01.160 Graham from such sermons as God's Got your Back Part one. 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.040 And don't Fight your future. 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.239 Last time we were on the stage together, I let 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:07.280 him get down on top of me and hold me 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.760 down to represent all the things that hold us down 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.560 in our life, and he enjoyed that. 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:14.800 Today. I'm gonna do a different illustration. 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.439 Turn the tables a little bit today because what we 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:22.960 talked about is, you know this idea that you just 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:29.840 do you assuming that you've met you, factors out what 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.240 God knows that you don't, and so I want to 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.399 share with you something that he did when he was 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.240 real little. I was telling them the story of Jacob 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.080 and Esau, and I was telling them how Esau was 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.879 grabbing Jacob's heel trying to get the birth or Jacob 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.680 was grabbing Esau's heel rather trying to get the birthright 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.399 and the blessing. Y'all know this story. Okay, I'll tell 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:51.600 you the whole story one time, but I can't tell 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:53.359 you the whole thing right now. I was telling him 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.520 about the part where Esau was coming in from hunting 0:22:57.560 --> 0:22:59.760 and he was very hungry, and Jacob, his brother, was 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.840 a good cook, and so Esau came in hungry from 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.880 hunting because apparently wasn't very good hunter because he didn't 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:06.520 kill anything, or if he did kill something, he still 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.320 wasn't cooked yet. So he's hungry, and Jacob's like, hey, 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.520 I got a bowl of beans. Bring me the bowl. 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.959 I got a bowl of beans that you can have. 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.360 All you have to do is sell me your birthright. 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:23.040 So they're bringing me a bowl right now. Y'all got it? 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:28.840 Thank you, Thank you, let's give it up for the 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:34.640 brother with the bull. Yeah, so I brought this from home. 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:37.400 Many Ramen noodles have been cooked in this very bowl. 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:40.080 If you only knew. One time we destroyed a microwave 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:41.080 cooking Ramen noodles. 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:42.199 In a bowl. I don't know how Elijah did that, 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:49.760 but in exchange for a bowl of. 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:55.600 Beans, Esau, who was the firstborn, sold his birthright to 0:23:55.720 --> 0:24:00.120 his brother and forfeited a blessing that God intended. 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:03.360 For him to have, all for a bowl of beings. 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.520 My contention with a lot of us, not just young people, 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.040 but a lot of us who have been Christians for 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:15.639 a long time, is that we sell birthrights for bolls. 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:25.000 Now we call it things that sound really good. You 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:30.600 might have heard this called living your truth. I personally 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.439 do not say that phrase. Although I have nothing against 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:35.920 the phrase. I just want to qualify it. Where do 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:40.840 you get your truth from? Because if living your truth 0:24:40.920 --> 0:24:44.840 means repeating your experience, you are not a candidate for wisdom. 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:51.560 Wisdom will always interrupt your experience to show you that 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.760 what you always thought you were you actually were not. 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:57.200 But God had put a put a seed. 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:01.800 Inside of you that had not reached maturity yet your life, 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:06.520 and Esau, out of his immaturity as a grown man, 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:08.840 sold what he. 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:13.040 Could have been for a bowl. Now by the time you. 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.479 Get into the New Testament, Paul calls it something different 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:21.239 in Ephesians chapter four, verse I believe about number twenty two, 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:22.879 give me that on the lower thirds police. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.200 Ephesians chapter four twenty. 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:29.640 Two says you were taught, with regard to your former 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.680 way of life, to put off. 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:33.679 Your old self. 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:38.520 That doesn't mean don't go down memory lane. That doesn't 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:41.000 mean don't be who you were uniquely created to be. 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.679 That doesn't mean don't enjoy the things that make you 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:48.080 uniquely you. Here's what it means, that part of you 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:55.280 that is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. And the 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:59.600 problem with you being you is that sometimes what you 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:03.280 think you want is in conflict with who you really are. 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:10.640 You will find yourself in many different states throughout any 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:15.760 given day. And I'm not calling you schizophrenic. I am saying, 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:19.680 by nature of the fact that you are a spirit 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:23.720 that lives in a body, sometimes your body will try 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.160 to get you to sell your birthright for a bowl. 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:33.800 Help me preach, would you please? Graham heard the story 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:35.040 about Jacob and Esault. 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:36.160 I shared with him. 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:38.640 How Jacob all of his life was trying to get 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:42.040 a blessing that wasn't his by pretending to be something 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:44.359 that he was not. And he didn't have to because 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:47.080 God wanted to bless Jacob. But I even shared the 0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:51.080 part where Jacob was blessing and he grabbed his father's 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:52.840 right hand and put it on his head because the 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:54.440 right hand was the right hand of blessing. 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:57.040 And he crossed his father's right hand and received the. 0:26:57.040 --> 0:27:00.399 Blessing that was reserved for the firstborn. And I stole 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:03.199 it from Esau and I told him that story. And 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:05.840 that night I was praying with Graham and Elijah before 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.840 they went to bed, and I thought Graham's hand grabbed 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:10.960 my right hand and he put it on his head 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:16.040 and he said, just call me Jacob Sucker. And he 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:22.720 was five, and I started praying for him. And he's 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:27.480 an amazing boy, and I see good things in his life, 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:31.840 and I believe he has a birthright. And I coach 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:35.480 my boys, and I coach my daughter, and I have 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:40.960 to coach myself. And I coach you this way that 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:45.240 when you give up what you want most for what 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:51.840 you want. Now you're not doing you You're being deceived. 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:00.640 And I can tell you're being deceived. When people say like, well, 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:04.480 that's just how I am, I just go off, that's 0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:08.199 just how I am. I just say what I think. 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:15.000 That is a bad strategy. Have you ever cataloged your thoughts? 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:21.240 Not all of them are FDA approved. And I believe 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:27.320 this message is important to a generation that is running 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:32.840 around saying things like live your truth, because if he 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:37.000 lives his truth, he's gonna find himself in moments where 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:40.120 it will feel true to him that this temptation. 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:43.600 Is stronger than my faith, but it's not. There will 0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:44.560 be moments where. 0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:48.080 It'll feel to him like popularity is more important than calling, 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:52.400 but it's not. There will be moments where he will 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:54.080 feel that something is true. 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:56.320 But what if what you feel. 0:28:56.080 --> 0:29:02.240 Is true is actually a trap. Warn your neighbor real quick, 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:05.080 touch him and say it's a trap. It's a trap 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:09.080 to act outside of the character that God has placed 0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:12.000 inside of you and call that you. It's a trap. 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.080 The enemy has some of you trapped and you don't 0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:17.719 know it. He has you trapped in the prison of 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:22.080 what you call your personality. So now you run around 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:24.760 saying things like, well, that's just the kind of person 0:29:24.840 --> 0:29:27.360 that I am. Well, if the kind of person that 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:30.440 I am doesn't match the kind of God that he is, 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:33.120 I've got to change some things and. 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:34.200 Choose some things. 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:46.280 Come on, God didn't tell Jeremiah, do you? God said, 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:54.280 I knew you. Steve Jobs has nothing on God. Steve 0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:59.440 Jobs made an iPad. God made watch this a resurrection. 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:05.080 And the Bible says that the same power that raised 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:05.920 Christ from the. 0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:07.440 Dead lives in you. 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:13.400 Touch your neighbors say he's talking about you. And so 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.520 one time I remember being in high school. I don't 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:18.040 know if I told you this story before. Maybe I 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:21.400 told you ten times. And everybody was getting high and 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:23.480 I had never been high in my life, and I 0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:25.960 was that night planning to get high. And I remember 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:27.800 feeling like, I'm sick of being a good kid. I'm 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:29.400 sick of being alone on Saturday nights. 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:31.560 I'm sick of this. I'm going to actually do it tonight. 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:33.800 And I remember when I grabbed it and I went 0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:36.840 to smoke it, and my friend slapped it out of 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:40.000 my hand and he looked at me and said. 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:45.400 This isn't you. And I came. 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:53.080 I came to Valentine, North Carolina today to tell you. 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:55.400 That's not you. 0:30:56.720 --> 0:30:58.560 Everything that's sabotaging you. 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.720 I slap it out hand and I declare, that's not you. 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:06.560 Henry Habit, that's not you. 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:10.200 Look at your neighbors, say that's not you. 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:10.880 Go slap them. 0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:13.280 I don't want to start anything, but when I feel 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:15.520 it rising up in me to take me down, I 0:31:15.680 --> 0:31:16.239 slap it. 0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:21.240 I demolish strongholds. The weapons of my warfare are not carnal, 0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:22.960 but they're mighty through God. 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:24.920 Because this isn't you. 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:29.760 Nothing new you. 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:35.320 But see we're confused because we think that if it's automatic, 0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:47.400 that makes it authentic. I am not what I feel. 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:55.760 I am not what I do. I am what God's 0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:57.240 word says. 0:31:57.000 --> 0:32:00.320 I am, and he is the great I am. This 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:04.560 changed my life because I wrote down the phrase do you, 0:32:04.640 --> 0:32:09.040 and then I said, no, the new you. Jeremiah one 0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:11.680 to five, give it to me the you that God 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:14.320 says he knew. 0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:21.120 So maybe we should spell it different. Maybe doing the 0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:34.360 new you man's doing the new you. 0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:42.760 Thank you Jesus, you make all things new. Because let's 0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:44.440 say I preach this to him and I'm like, okay, 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:46.760 so don't just do what you want to do, do 0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:47.320 what God. 0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:48.960 Tells you to do. So then you get out of 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:49.240 the trap. 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.720 Right, everybody say trap, because I really think it's a 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:54.080 trap to have an experience, form it into a belief 0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:57.520 and then call it your truth. That's a trap. That's 0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:01.960 a trap. That's the track. But then let's say you 0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:04.600 get out of the do you trap? Only to not 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:08.800 bring my next illustration out? And this if the bull 0:33:08.880 --> 0:33:10.960 took a while, so this might really take a while. 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:15.520 Bring it on out. And now you're about to find 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:22.080 out why I brought Graham up for the illustration. Because 0:33:22.160 --> 0:33:24.080 let's say you get out of the do you trap? 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:26.120 I'm just doing me. I'm just being me. That's just 0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:30.160 how I am. Then you get out of the trap, 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:34.080 the do you trap? Just do you? Boo boo? Do you? 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:36.600 Just do you? You get out of that trap, You're like, 0:33:36.600 --> 0:33:39.680 all right, I'm gonna change. And now that the devil 0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:40.920 sees you're out of the trap. 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:42.080 And you want to change and you want to get 0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:44.080 better and you're not happy with it exactly what like 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:47.200 it is? You get out of the do you trap 0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:54.920 and you get onto the future? You treadmill? How many 0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:56.480 didn't know this was a treadmill. You thought it was 0:33:56.480 --> 0:34:01.959 a code rap. That's all how you use And this 0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:06.040 is why I brought Graham on the stage. Now he's 0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:10.040 out of the trap. But now let's say that self 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:18.520 discipline and religion puts them on a treadmill where he 0:34:18.600 --> 0:34:20.120 starts looking at Okay. 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:20.920 I'm gonna do the new me. 0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:25.520 I'm gonna wake up at five am. My friend wakes 0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:29.360 up at six am. I'm gonna get up at five am. 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:33.560 I'm gonna read five books of the Bible today, five alive. 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:37.640 How many of y'all started with a real new year's 0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:40.880 energy going into a new twenty four and we realize 0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:44.360 we just take it a day at a time. I 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:46.120 think the crazy thing is and I would do this 0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:47.000 illustration myself. 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:52.479 But I'm wearing these boots. They're new. 0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:55.880 I can't increase these. These are my new book boots. 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:58.920 I'm not messing these up. They're heavy, and I'm not 0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:00.800 called to the cardio man anyway. 0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:05.560 I've told you all that before. So now here we go, 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:08.680 do the new you and go. 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:12.720 And so now the devil's got some of us out there, 0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:14.080 not settling. 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:21.600 But striving, because to do you. 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:25.000 Just do? You? And not let God have his say, 0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:27.400 and to commit and put yourself in concrete for what 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:29.279 you've been up to this point is a trap. I 0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.000 know it looks like a bull is a trap, and 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:33.640 I know this looks like walking, but. 0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:34.719 He's not going anywhere. 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:44.520 To just do you is to live your life cheated. 0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:49.319 Everybody say cheated, But to get this idea in your 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:53.279 mind that there is a future you that God would 0:35:53.280 --> 0:35:56.919 love more, or there is a future you that God 0:35:56.960 --> 0:36:00.719 could use, or that there is a future you that 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:03.919 would be worthy of love in a relationship, or there 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.560 is a future you that could feel good about yourself 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:07.480 and your life. 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:11.480 And is just one accomplishment away. 0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:16.520 Is to get out of the trap and onto the treadmill. 0:36:17.880 --> 0:36:21.440 And as good as long as it's good, and it works, 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:22.520 as long as it works. 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.040 And I wonder are there some people here who. 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:29.799 Have been cheated because you've settled for what you thought 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:33.120 you were? But I also wonder are there some people 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:38.279 here who are chasing chasing something that you think you 0:36:38.360 --> 0:36:41.120 need to be because you saw somebody else be it, 0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:47.200 chasing something that you scrolled past and thought it was 0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:50.160 the full story of what a happy family looked like. 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:55.959 Chasing after future you so goes like this, like, yeah, boy, 0:36:56.440 --> 0:36:57.879 you're gonna be great one day. 0:36:58.320 --> 0:37:01.440 All you gotta do is get through high school and 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.520 then you go to college. Now all you got to 0:37:03.560 --> 0:37:06.480 do is get this degree. Now all you got to 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:10.280 do is find somebody who's actually hiring with that expensive 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:12.560 degree that you're going to be paying off for the 0:37:12.600 --> 0:37:17.240 next fifty years. Come on, and so now I'm chasing, 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:20.319 and I'm coughing and I'm running, and I'm so glad 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:22.400 I had kids so they could do this part of 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.600 my illustrations. Now that my beard needs to be dyed. 0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:29.040 Come on, and so now I'm chasing, and it's great. 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:32.960 But not only is it getting faster and faster and harder, 0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:35.560 but I look around and I realize I don't think 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:39.319 I'm ever going to be anything but me. And here 0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:42.000 I am thinking. 0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:43.040 That somehow. 0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:46.239 This collage watch, because here's what we do. We get 0:37:46.239 --> 0:37:48.600 a collage, right, and then we get the person with 0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.280 all the money, We get the person with all the girls, 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.919 We get the person with all the success, with all 0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:54.680 the followers. 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.040 Oh, if I had a thousand followers, now you need 0:37:57.080 --> 0:38:00.480 ten thousand. Just went up, just went up. Here comes 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:02.920 to incline. Now we got social media. 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:05.799 I didn't even have Twitter when I was a teenager, and. 0:38:05.680 --> 0:38:08.640 It's not even called Twitter anymore. And my beard is 0:38:08.680 --> 0:38:10.919 gray and I'm still chasing going. 0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:13.759 Well, maybe if I turn fifty, I'll have wisdom, and 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.239 maybe if I get through this, I'll be happy and 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:18.520 I'm gonna wrest win and I'm gonna feel good about 0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:20.400 myself when and before you know it. 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:22.200 No, I'm going up. I'm going up. I'm going up. 0:38:22.320 --> 0:38:24.319 I'm going up. I'm going up. You're holding on. 0:38:25.400 --> 0:38:30.280 But the bindeple says, give me Jeremiah one to five. 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:33.680 The word of the Lord came to me and said, 0:38:33.800 --> 0:38:35.560 before you were farmed. 0:38:37.120 --> 0:38:39.800 I noon. 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:41.920 You. 0:38:44.880 --> 0:38:48.680 The word of the Lord came to me. The word 0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:50.000 of the Lord came to me. 0:38:50.960 --> 0:38:53.720 The word of the Lord is coming to you right now. 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:59.800 Out of the trap, off of the treadmill, and into 0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:00.640 the truth. 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:02.759 Until the truth. 0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:08.160 Gets it to you and you recognize, I've been running 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:14.959 after something that's already mine. I've just been living when 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:21.440 me that potential. I'm already clean bias flood. I'm already 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:26.120 saved by his grace. I'm already redeemed by his liberty. 0:39:26.760 --> 0:39:31.520 I'm already to the praise of His glorious grace. Why 0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:35.520 because I refuse to live cheated and I refuse to 0:39:35.600 --> 0:39:36.560 live chasing. 0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:44.880 Because I'm chosen, chosen. Say it. Get that word in 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:49.600 your mouth. Chosen, chosen, chosen, chosen. 0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:51.640 I love you, Holly, but I didn't pick you for 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:55.520 that illustration. I didn't pick you for that illustration because 0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:57.480 I didn't know if you could last long enough on 0:39:57.600 --> 0:39:59.680 twelve for me to get the scripture of And I'm 0:39:59.719 --> 0:40:01.800 not pick on you. You do a lot of amazing things. 0:40:01.960 --> 0:40:06.200 I didn't pick you for it. I picked somebody. I 0:40:06.440 --> 0:40:10.800 chose him. 0:40:08.840 --> 0:40:13.799 Because I knew that if he had to, he could 0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:17.759 beat me up. He's in wrestling shape. 0:40:17.880 --> 0:40:21.759 I'm telling you, God shows you. I'm telling you God 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:27.359 shows you, and I'm saying he knew you. See. 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:29.040 I want you to see the difference. Close your eyes. 0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:32.120 You know you've been chasing after something that you think 0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:33.719 when you get it, when you get there, I'm gonna 0:40:33.719 --> 0:40:36.319 do the new me, new year, new me, No new year, 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:44.400 same nose. Yeah, But what if you've been running after 0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:52.680 something that is already yours. Perhaps perhaps the addiction is 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:56.879 something that the enemy planted in your life because there 0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:02.560 is something so amazing inside of you that he wants 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:06.040 your birthright and you gave it away for a bowl. 0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:11.719 Perhaps God really is Now I'm a minister this because 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:12.160 this is me. 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:14.000 This is me right here, watch it, because I sit 0:41:14.040 --> 0:41:14.319 there and. 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:17.080 Go, well, I'm somebody who goes for it. 0:41:17.160 --> 0:41:18.680 I'm somebody who doesn't settle. 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:21.120 I'm somebody who really demands the best out of myself. 0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:22.960 I'm somebody who wants to improve. That's fine, It's called 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:27.040 self righteousness. Because when I talk like that and I 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:32.319 don't receive by grace, I end up like grandmamost was 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:33.360 he still breathing heavy up here. 0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:35.440 Don't let him fool you with this close mouth. I 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:37.879 hear him breathe in running. 0:41:37.600 --> 0:41:39.879 After something that How long can I keep this up? 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:49.080 And I'm chasing, but I'm chosen. You don't have to 0:41:49.160 --> 0:42:02.080 chase it. When you're chosen, you can walk in it. 0:42:02.960 --> 0:42:04.840 And I mean really walk, not on a treadmill of 0:42:05.520 --> 0:42:08.120 boy God. You can walk with God, walk through your day, 0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:11.000 walk through your life. Your father will speak to you, 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:17.319 your father will slap stuff out of your hands. Your 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:19.879 father will look at you going so hard because oh, 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:20.880 and I wrote this book. 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:21.280 I thought. 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:23.360 I don't want people to just see the title go 0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:26.279 another one of those do the new me? What's so 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:29.120 wrong with the O me? No, no, no, you're just 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:39.959 not going back far enough. God told Jeremiah, I'm gonna 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:41.600 call you to do a new thing. How many cents? 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:44.520 God is calling you to stretch your faith in new 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:47.279 and unique ways that are nuanced to you. 0:42:47.520 --> 0:42:50.640 And this message just put in the chat a new thing, 0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:55.360 A new thing, all right? But but see, but see, 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:58.320 God says, before I called you to do the new thing. 0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:07.160 Before you were bull, I knew you, which takes the 0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:10.839 pressure off of me because it lets me know that 0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:15.840 God is very, very comfortable with my process. 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:20.720 And that he is partnering with me in the process. 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:24.960 And I am not chasing after a God who might 0:43:25.080 --> 0:43:28.399 love me when I kick this habit. And I am 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:31.480 not chasing after an achievement that might make me feel 0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:34.760 like my life is worthy. And I am not listen 0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:37.399 to me everybody who's not married right now. I am 0:43:37.440 --> 0:43:40.560 not chasing another person thinking they will make me whole 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:48.040 and fulfilled. I am not chasing an opportunity to collaborate 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:51.200 in my business thinking that that will somehow then set 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:59.360 me free. I'm already free, and I'm choosing. I'm choosing 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:04.080 to walk away from the ball. I'm choosing because God. 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:11.640 Chose you. I believe God chose me to do this. 0:44:13.280 --> 0:44:14.080 I struggle with it. 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:16.960 I doubt it sometimes, y'all. I was reading Jeremia last 0:44:17.040 --> 0:44:19.719 night for our Bible Club. Shout out Elijen Kelsey. We're 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:23.800 there in Lynchburg watching right now, and we're in Jeremiah 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:25.880 right now over about the fourteen fifteen. 0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:26.960 By the way, if you read. 0:44:26.880 --> 0:44:29.520 Jeremiah, chapter one, verse six is about the high point, 0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:32.200 it gets really dark for the next ten chapters. And 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:34.080 that crazy God was calling him to do something hard. 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:35.920 He said, I know it's gonna be hard. I know 0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:37.520 you're gonna get up to speak sometimes and we're not 0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:38.160 all called to speak. 0:44:38.200 --> 0:44:44.480 But watch this, we're all chosen. You need proof. Ephesians 0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:45.120 one four. 0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:50.160 Put it on the screen, for He chose us in 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:56.120 him before the creation of the world. Whoa He told Jeremiah, 0:44:56.160 --> 0:44:59.719 you were chosen before you were born. Paul takes it 0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:03.360 from he said, you were chosen before the world was born, 0:45:05.320 --> 0:45:08.359 before God made what I see, He had a plan 0:45:08.440 --> 0:45:08.719 for me. 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:11.640 Go to verse eleven. They don't believe me. Yet takes 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:13.520 a lot of scripture to convince these people. They're kind 0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:18.160 of stubborn. Gram In Him, we also were chosen. That's 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:20.919 fine for Jeremiah, I'm not called to speak in him. 0:45:21.160 --> 0:45:26.200 In Jesus, we were also chosen, having been predestined according 0:45:26.239 --> 0:45:30.200 to the plan of Him who works out everything in 0:45:30.320 --> 0:45:32.240 conformity to the purpose. 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:33.160 Of his will. 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:37.080 I'm worried that some of you are walking and running 0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:39.480 on a treadmill after things that aren't even in. 0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:52.000 God's will for you. Wow, so say I'm chosen. God 0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:59.640 chose you. Now comes to question, will you which you? 0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:00.600 Will you choose? 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:03.480 Because I have to decide this every day I wake 0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:06.440 up in my life. Am I going to choose to 0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.840 me that I've seen so far? Am I going to 0:46:09.880 --> 0:46:12.080 be open to the surprise of the Holy Spirit of God? 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:13.440 You can probably sit down now. Didn't he do a 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.279 great job? I don't want to make him say all day, 0:46:16.719 --> 0:46:18.160 come on, he did a great job. 0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:22.880 A sixteen year old helping his dad preach. 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:27.840 I was sixteen when I really got serious about my faith. 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:29.520 That my mom raised me and made my commitment to 0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:31.600 cry sixteen years old. So when I look at him, 0:46:31.640 --> 0:46:33.440 I think about that makes me want to cry. All 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:36.400 the things God could do through them. But don't ever 0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:41.520 chase what they say you can be. If we did, 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:48.120 I probably wouldn't be standing here today. Because when I 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:51.280 was sixteen, Chris Dixon invited me to join the Voices 0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:54.279 of Unity Choir at Berkeley High School, where his mom, 0:46:54.280 --> 0:46:58.080 Martha Dixon, was the director and his cousin Arturo, was 0:46:58.120 --> 0:47:01.600 the lead soprano. And Arturo was a boy had the 0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:03.880 highest voice of any boy that I've ever heard in 0:47:03.920 --> 0:47:07.240 my life. But here's the interesting thing about being invited 0:47:07.280 --> 0:47:09.719 to join the Voices of Unity Choir is that when 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:12.120 I went to join the Voices of Unity Choir, y'all 0:47:12.160 --> 0:47:13.440 might remember the old show that said one of these 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:14.799 things is not like the other. One of these things 0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:17.560 just doesn't belong. The only white guy in the Voices 0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:22.520 of Unity Choir was me, And I turned to Chris 0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:26.880 and said, you sure you want me in the choir? 0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:30.120 Because I noticed when everybody would start to rock one way, 0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:35.319 I would naturally rock the wrong way, and I'm like. 0:47:35.400 --> 0:47:36.000 Are you sure? 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:40.160 I loved it, but I wanted to do it, but 0:47:40.200 --> 0:47:43.239 a few of my white friends were like, hey, what 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.960 are you doing over there with them. 0:47:46.840 --> 0:47:48.360 See this is the problem with live in your truth. 0:47:50.640 --> 0:47:52.600 Racists think they're right. 0:48:01.040 --> 0:48:02.759 And the people were telling me you don't belong in 0:48:02.800 --> 0:48:06.360 the choir thought they were right. The white people, the 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:08.080 black people were glad to have me in the choir. 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:15.840 They actually simplified the march into the spring concert so 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:16.800 that I could be a part. 0:48:17.480 --> 0:48:19.000 They were very happy to have me. 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:29.560 Now when they asked me, how do you have a 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.080 multi cultural church? 0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:43.600 I'm glad. Chris said, we want you. We want you 0:48:43.760 --> 0:48:48.920 to sing with us. Calm, sing with us. No, not 0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:50.719 the one in the three, the two in the four. 0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:54.840 Calm clap within us. And if you would ever. 0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:58.239 Get with God and get in agreement with God and 0:48:58.400 --> 0:49:02.200 stop listening to what everybody else thinks can be, you 0:49:02.280 --> 0:49:03.239 might find. 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:07.640 Out that God put something in you that eyes have 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:11.080 not seen, that ears have not heard, that has not 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:12.640 it and into the heart of a man. 0:49:18.560 --> 0:49:25.400 I wonder what's in you? You? You? 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:25.480 You? 0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:27.520 And the white people mess up the clap. We couldn't 0:49:27.560 --> 0:49:28.920 even keep it going five seconds. 0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:35.200 But I love how this church is filled with uniqueness. 0:49:35.560 --> 0:49:38.480 And some of us praise loud, and. 0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:40.600 Some of us prays quiet. 0:49:40.560 --> 0:49:43.600 And some of us pray in tongues, and some of 0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:46.800 us pray in a journal, and some of us sing 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:49.799 fast songs, and some of us worship the Lord to 0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:54.040 contut us, and some of us are fluid in the scriptures, 0:49:54.239 --> 0:49:55.600 and some of us are new. 0:49:55.480 --> 0:49:58.560 To the scriptures. But I know one thing about this church. 0:49:58.960 --> 0:50:03.719 You are a chosen people. You are a royal priesthood. 0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:09.160 You are a holy nation, a people belonging to God. 0:50:09.640 --> 0:50:13.920 To declare the praises. Come on to declare the praises. 0:50:16.080 --> 0:50:20.439 Let's take ten seconds and declare the praises. My God 0:50:20.560 --> 0:50:21.240 is awesome. 0:50:22.760 --> 0:50:24.240 He rules in power. 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:28.920 He makes the seas fall, he makes. 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:31.319 The wave rules, he makes. 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.760 The breakers nash, he makes the storm cease. 0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:38.320 He's making my enemies like a footstool. 0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:49.440 It makes me like now in great pastures. 0:50:49.880 --> 0:50:52.759 Look at you acting crazy. I thought I knew you. 0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:59.279 Maybe there's more in you than you knew. So now 0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:00.000 we got work today. 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:06.480 We gotta do Jeremiah one, Chapter one, Chapter one, verse nine. 0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:10.960 Put it on the screen because after Jeremiah got done 0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:12.640 doing his excuses, and I'm gonna give a preview of 0:51:12.680 --> 0:51:14.279 next week's message, you better be back here next week 0:51:14.320 --> 0:51:16.120 because I'm not even into it yet I'm not even 0:51:16.200 --> 0:51:19.360 into you are shouting over the syllabus right now. Imagine 0:51:19.400 --> 0:51:21.680 what the class is gonna be when we really get 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:26.040 into this and get your mindset on things above. Y'all, 0:51:26.080 --> 0:51:28.080 remember how I was up here with the guitar two 0:51:28.120 --> 0:51:30.760 weeks ago talking about tuning to truth. 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:33.319 That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get practical. I 0:51:33.360 --> 0:51:34.919 took six mindsets. 0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:37.840 I didn't even realize God was setting this up, but 0:51:37.960 --> 0:51:42.960 he knew. And there are six strings on an acoustic guitar. 0:51:43.320 --> 0:51:46.040 And there are six mindsets that I will be sharing 0:51:46.080 --> 0:51:47.200 with you over. 0:51:47.000 --> 0:51:49.040 The next six weeks. 0:51:49.280 --> 0:51:51.280 And I'm gonna give them to you, and I'm gonna 0:51:51.280 --> 0:51:52.000 preach them to you. 0:51:52.200 --> 0:51:54.040 And next week I'm gonna talk to you about. 0:51:53.840 --> 0:51:58.520 How to agree with God, how to agree with him 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:01.680 about who he says you are, how to agree with 0:52:01.800 --> 0:52:04.400 Him about what He says is still possible for you 0:52:04.440 --> 0:52:05.080 at this point. 0:52:04.920 --> 0:52:05.600 In your life. 0:52:05.680 --> 0:52:09.520 How to agree with God about his priorities, how to 0:52:09.560 --> 0:52:15.600 agree with God about his values, stop agreeing with your limitations, 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:23.279 and stop arguing for your past. And to do it, 0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:26.680 we got to get these six mindsets not only in 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:32.080 your heart, but watch this verse nine, the Lord said. 0:52:32.400 --> 0:52:37.080 I am putting my words in your mouth. 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:42.440 I sat down last year as I was teaching Do 0:52:42.520 --> 0:52:47.200 the New You Beta version to the church, and I 0:52:47.200 --> 0:52:49.920 realized God was doing something and I'm closing. So y'all 0:52:49.920 --> 0:52:51.759 don't have to sit down. And if you stand it 0:52:51.760 --> 0:52:55.120 and make me close quicker. So you decide, And everybody's 0:52:55.120 --> 0:52:59.239 doing it because I begin to write what are the 0:52:59.280 --> 0:53:03.520 things that God says are true? And I was basing it. 0:53:03.600 --> 0:53:09.319 Ye stand up. That's enough for one way, But over 0:53:09.360 --> 0:53:15.400 the next six I want to take these six sayings 0:53:16.800 --> 0:53:20.600 Jeremy one four again. Please, the word of the Lord 0:53:20.640 --> 0:53:28.680 came to me saying, what are you saying? Better question? 0:53:29.840 --> 0:53:32.120 Are you saying what God sees when you look in 0:53:32.120 --> 0:53:37.080 the mirror or what you see? What? Don't want to 0:53:37.080 --> 0:53:40.960 walk you through in this message as we gather together 0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:42.000 as an online community. 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:43.959 I mean, we got resources, but I want to give you. 0:53:45.480 --> 0:53:48.839 The six declarations to make over your life so that 0:53:48.920 --> 0:53:52.400 not only do we get your mind right, but we 0:53:52.480 --> 0:53:57.160 get your mouth right, so that you begin to say 0:53:57.200 --> 0:54:01.120 what God sees until you see it too, the New You. 0:54:02.640 --> 0:54:07.440 I'm bursting to share this with you. Do you feel like. 0:54:07.400 --> 0:54:10.800 I'm about to blow up and be on little pieces 0:54:10.840 --> 0:54:11.920 all over the fourth row. 0:54:11.760 --> 0:54:12.280 Of the church. 0:54:12.320 --> 0:54:16.839 I am because this is in me, because I need this, 0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:25.520 because I hold bulls sometimes, and I'm cheated, cheated out 0:54:25.560 --> 0:54:26.799 of what I could be, cheated out of what I 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:28.880 could see, cheated at the example I could set, cheated 0:54:28.880 --> 0:54:30.800 of the freedom I could experience, cheat them of the chain. 0:54:30.640 --> 0:54:31.240 That could break. 0:54:32.560 --> 0:54:34.160 But then I put that ball down and boy, and 0:54:34.160 --> 0:54:39.600 then I start Jason until I fall out and realized 0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:41.640 that it is by the grace of. 0:54:41.600 --> 0:54:43.640 God that I am what I am. Did you know 0:54:43.719 --> 0:54:45.919 Paul said that by the grace of God, I am 0:54:46.840 --> 0:54:53.759 what I am. So I'm choosing to live chosen God 0:54:53.840 --> 0:55:01.640 chose you, will you will you will? You choose you 0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:05.560 even though you know you. I'll be honest. 0:55:05.560 --> 0:55:07.960 If I was picking somebody to make a difference in 0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:09.160 the world, I probably wouldn't pick me. 0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:09.759 But God did. 0:55:11.360 --> 0:55:14.640 I wonder what he knows about my brokenness that he 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:18.600 can use to bring a ball. And I'm looking at 0:55:18.640 --> 0:55:23.720 lives today that looked like iPads brand new out the box, 0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:29.600 and I'm wondering what could it be if it got 0:55:29.600 --> 0:55:34.719 in the right hands. The six mindsets go like this 0:55:35.320 --> 0:55:37.560 and shout out to my man Dave Ulrich, who've got 0:55:37.560 --> 0:55:39.759 an early copy of the book, and he put them 0:55:39.800 --> 0:55:41.560 on his mirror, and he sent me a picture and said, 0:55:41.600 --> 0:55:47.160 this book is gonna change lives. Pastor, let's go put 0:55:47.160 --> 0:55:50.200 that picture up that Dave sent me. He wrote each 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:52.640 of them out on a post It note. He didn't 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:55.040 even know. We have a stack of post it notes 0:55:55.080 --> 0:55:57.600 for all of you today with these six mindsets on them. 0:55:58.360 --> 0:56:01.040 You're gonna get it. If you're here, if. 0:56:00.880 --> 0:56:02.799 You're online, you better write them down right now and 0:56:02.800 --> 0:56:04.640 make your own post It note. 0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:11.080 Repeat after me. Mindset one. I'm not stuck unless I stop. 0:56:13.400 --> 0:56:15.040 We're gonna talk about that next week. 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:17.680 What's blocked you from becoming, what's blocked you from believing? 0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:19.680 We're going to talk about that from the scriptures, and 0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:22.600 the Holy Spirit will minister it to you. The second 0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:25.520 one says, oh you've heard this if you've been around 0:56:25.520 --> 0:56:26.400 my church for a while. 0:56:27.280 --> 0:56:28.160 Christ is in me. 0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:32.799 I am enough. I hope you're repeating these in the 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:35.000 comments right now. I want you to say it out loud. 0:56:35.040 --> 0:56:36.320 I want you to type it. I want you to 0:56:36.360 --> 0:56:38.480 write it. I want you to receive it. Christ is 0:56:38.520 --> 0:56:44.080 in me. I am enough. Here's one you've heard before. 0:56:45.320 --> 0:56:45.840 With God. 0:56:47.040 --> 0:56:52.040 Come on, with God, there's always a way, and by faith, 0:56:53.000 --> 0:56:57.000 I will find it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna 0:56:57.040 --> 0:56:59.120 find it. You're gonna find it. You think there is 0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:01.319 no way, you just have seen it. Yet the word 0:57:01.320 --> 0:57:04.759 of the Lord is coming to you. This is what 0:57:04.840 --> 0:57:07.080 I tell myself before I preach to you. Number four. 0:57:09.080 --> 0:57:12.880 God is not against me, but he's in it with me, 0:57:14.320 --> 0:57:17.160 working through me, fighting for me. 0:57:18.280 --> 0:57:22.480 We might write a song about that already. Dude. 0:57:22.960 --> 0:57:26.240 Number five say my joy is my job. 0:57:28.680 --> 0:57:30.120 You might not like that week, you might want to 0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:33.840 skip that week. Put the responsibility on you next week, 0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:37.480 that week and then this is really. 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:46.840 Really important to believe that God has given me everything 0:57:46.920 --> 0:57:49.880 I need for the season I'm in. 0:57:52.240 --> 0:57:52.400 Now. 0:57:52.400 --> 0:57:57.720 If we get you tuned to this. 0:57:55.920 --> 0:57:59.720 This truth, you will never be the same. 0:58:02.800 --> 0:58:08.960 I want to pray for you right now. The word 0:58:08.960 --> 0:58:12.800 of the Lord came to you today, isn't it. 0:58:11.640 --> 0:58:12.320 Came to me too? 0:58:13.880 --> 0:58:18.880 Saying before I formed you, I knew you. I feel 0:58:18.880 --> 0:58:20.720 like we need to connect. Would you just either grab 0:58:21.000 --> 0:58:22.640 the hand or put your hand on the shoulder of 0:58:22.680 --> 0:58:32.560 the person next to you. First of all, Lord, we 0:58:32.600 --> 0:58:37.280 thank you that we're not chasing your love, acceptance, or grace. 0:58:37.840 --> 0:58:40.240 It has been given to us by your son, Jesus Christ. 0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:43.760 We thank you, Lord that this is the last day 0:58:44.600 --> 0:58:48.080 that we will believe the deceitful desires. We may still 0:58:48.080 --> 0:58:50.320 struggle with them, but from this day forward we are 0:58:50.360 --> 0:58:57.320 oriented toward truth. Your truth will make us free and God. Today, 0:58:57.320 --> 0:59:01.280 we thank you that we are chosen by you, and 0:59:01.320 --> 0:59:06.480 now we chose. We chose to put ourselves in the 0:59:06.520 --> 0:59:08.040 path of your power. 0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:12.040 Today. Because we did, you spoke a word, and this 0:59:12.120 --> 0:59:15.080 word is now received in our hearts. 0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:18.840 I declare rain for the seed that was sowed today 0:59:19.560 --> 0:59:20.880 for the words that were spoken. 0:59:21.680 --> 0:59:23.280 I decree and declare. 0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:29.800 An increase of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. 0:59:30.320 --> 0:59:32.400 And I thank you that our eyes have not seen, 0:59:33.400 --> 0:59:35.959 nor have our ears heard, nor has it entered into 0:59:35.960 --> 0:59:37.720 the heart of a man what you have prepared for 0:59:37.720 --> 0:59:40.720 those who love you, but you have revealed it by 0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:45.640 your spirit. I thank you for revelation, and I thank 0:59:45.680 --> 0:59:48.440 you for grace to change. And I thank you that 0:59:48.520 --> 0:59:51.680 you are making all things. 0:59:51.840 --> 0:59:53.600 New in Jesus' name. 0:59:54.120 --> 0:59:57.480 Amen, would you clap your hands at every location. 0:59:58.440 --> 1:00:06.320 Let's go thank you for joining us. 1:00:06.640 --> 1:00:09.080 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 1:00:09.160 --> 1:00:09.880 this ministry. 1:00:10.240 --> 1:00:12.640 Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:15.280 You can click the link in the description to give 1:00:15.360 --> 1:00:19.520 now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 1:00:19.520 --> 1:00:23.360 information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 1:00:23.640 --> 1:00:24.960 You can share it with your friends. 1:00:25.240 --> 1:00:27.520 You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 1:00:27.560 --> 1:00:29.680 share it on your social stories and tag us at 1:00:29.720 --> 1:00:30.560 Elevation Church. 1:00:30.640 --> 1:00:37.280 Thanks again for listening. 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