God Will Work It In!

0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.120 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.640 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:07.800 you for joining us today. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.320 Hope this inspires you. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:11.959 Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.200 to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.720 Today. I have a word from the Lord for somebody. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.279 I said today, I have a work. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.320 Remember a way, he said, external processing. When the Lord 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:31.760 has a gift for you, get excited, remain standing for 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.080 just a moment. I only have two verses this week. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.720 I was meditating on where to go after we talked 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.280 last week about God can use this too, and this 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.560 is a little bit of a sequel to that message. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.400 But you know, I love to preach Bible stories and 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.040 kind of use the different elements to use different things. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.800 But sometimes I feel like it's good to just come 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.960 to something that's a simple instruction in the Word of God, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.680 and hopefully this will help us to apply what God 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.640 has planted in our hearts. We're going to go to 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.880 Philippians chapter two, Versus twelve and thirteen for a moment. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.960 I'm preaching from my daughter's Bible today, so you will 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:16.440 notice an extra anointing, gentleness, vivaciousness. I've given all three 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.399 of my kid's bibles that from I preached five years 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:20.840 from the Bible. Than give it to a kid, give 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.160 it to another. And so we'll see if Abby's is 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.280 more annointed than Elijah's and Graham's. Today I cycle through them, 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.319 see which one of them has been praying for me 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.360 the most. All right, listen to this verse. Just because 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.320 I said it shorter, just because I said it simple, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.160 don't disengage your brain, because I really want you to 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.760 pay attention to what the Lord is saying here through. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.720 The Apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul in this Epistle to 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.560 the Church at Philippi. Through the Apostle Paul in this 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.080 Epistle to the Church at Philippi, the Word. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.080 Of the Lord says, Therefore, my dear friends, as you 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:57.920 have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:03.400 much more in my absence, continue to work out your 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:09.440 salvation with fear and trembling Verse thirteen. For it is 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.640 God who works in you to will and to act 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.800 in order to fulfill his good purpose. Now that's all 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.120 the verses I want to read today. But I want 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.799 to give you my sermon title. It's a common saying, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.560 so I'll say it and then you fill in the 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.079 blank when I stop and point out you ready, you 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.000 could play along online too the title of this message. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.040 And after I say the title, I'll read the scripture 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.799 again for you, just so we can get it down deep. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.160 God will work it. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:45.440 Right. I set you up, though, because that is amazing. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.000 God will work it out. It's something that everybody wants 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.240 to believe about the situation they're facing, whether it's a 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.720 custody battle, or whether it's a medical situation, or whether 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.639 it's a relational tension. But the message God gave me 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.359 today is just one word different. I'm going to just 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.320 change one word and I'm not changing the word God. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.960 And I'm not going to change the word will. I'm 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.040 not going to say he might, he could, he can, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.400 But instead of God will work it out, I want 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:16.560 to preach on God will work it in. God will 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.600 work it in. And I'll read the verses again and 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.920 you'll see where I'm coming from. This is not just wordplay. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.280 I don't just think of a clever thing that I 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.359 can call a sermon that sounds good. So you could 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.400 just feel good for a minute. The text says in 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.799 Philippians chapter two, verse twelve. Therefore, my dear friends, as 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.840 you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.520 now much more in my absence, continue to work out 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.880 your salvation with fear and trembling. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:48.280 For it is God who works in you. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.640 To will and to act in order to fulfill his 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.240 good purpose. So now as you take your seat prayerfully, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.440 reach around and tell seven people. God will work it in. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.160 God will work it in. Six more, tell them God 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:05.880 will work it in. Put it in the chat. God 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.160 will work it in. God will work it in. Praise 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.440 the Lord for what he's working out. Praise the Lord 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.360 for what he's working in. And I'll make that make 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.360 sense if I do my job. I'm gonna have fun 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.480 preaching this today. I already decided. I was thinking today, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.560 like when you were eating that tomato soup. Holly was 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.760 eating this tomato soup she made for herself. None of 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.839 us like tomato soup, but her. She just made it 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.359 for her and she was having so much fun eating 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.520 that tomato soup. I was like, what else is in there? 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.640 She's like, no, I'm just excited. I've been growing tomatoes, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.080 and I finally used my tomatoes in the soup. That's 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.919 how I feel about my sermons when I get to 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.160 eat it with you. And I hope you like tomatoes too. Tomato, Tomato, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:49.000 Here we go. In Philippians chapter two, verse twelve and thirteen, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.200 the apostle Paul is writing an epistle to the church 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.200 in PHILIPI, and both of those are miracles. Both of 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.880 those are miracles. The fact that Paul is an apostle 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.920 is miracle number one. Paul the Artist formerly known as 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:14.000 Saul of Tarsus, When the Lord wanted to reach the Gentiles, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.240 he found somebody who was persecuting the church, And now 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.040 the persecutor of the church is now one of the 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.440 lead preachers in the church. You never know how God 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.320 is working in somebody's life. Don't write people off, don't 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.880 count people out, don't slap a label on them, because 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.760 this is the way they always are. Well, the way 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.440 God always is means more than the way they always are, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.160 least of all yourself. Don't ever underestimate how God can 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.320 work in somebody's life. Thing about that He took him 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:48.080 from the persecutor of the church to a preacher, and 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.880 I guess he needed someone who understood the system from 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.280 the inside in order to overturn it. That's why God 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.760 will often call you into something that you struggle with, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.599 because the thing that you struggle with, the mother is 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.440 the thing you're most qualified to help somebody else step through. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.080 So when the Lord needed to reach the gentiles, he said, 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.599 I can't call Peter for this, I better call Saul 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:17.320 and change his name to Paul with a P. So 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.159 it's a miracle that he's an apostle. His whole title apostle, 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.440 the apostle Paul. He had been something completely different and 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.600 God changed him. And that's one reason that we were 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.000 praising him today while we were singing in church. I 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.560 wish you could have heard the worship. You're watching this 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.599 online later, and I wish you could have been in 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.760 here with us because we were praising him because he 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:42.120 didn't leave us like we were. And that just causes 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.159 something to explode inside of you when you realize that 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.599 he takes persecutors and turns them into preachers. But the 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.880 second miracle I mentioned that there were two in the 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.080 text is not implicit, So you got to go beneath 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.760 the surface to get this one. Is that he is 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.600 writing the letter the epistle, which somebody is that like 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:05.000 an apostle's wife. No epistle just means letter, it's just 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.120 addressed up. It's a letter that ended up being in 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.160 the Bible. It was written to a specific audience, the 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.320 church at Philippi. It was not written from where it 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.600 was written to. And it's a miracle that this scripture 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.640 exists because of the conditions Paul wrote it in, not 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.680 a writer's cottage by the sea, not a retreat situation 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.400 in the mountains, but rather he wrote this from prison. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.600 I wanted to point that out to you because sometimes 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:40.240 you get more focused on where you are than what 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.200 God has called you to do and be, and you 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.680 start acting like your environment rather than changing it. This 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.600 feels like this could have been a Rhythm Night sermon 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.160 on Wednesday. You know, walk into school and start talking 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.920 like a foolish You know you're actually a great, faithful 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.480 child of God. But you know, you get in an 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.400 environment and you start changing. But Paul would get in 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.920 an environment and change it, and that's what made him different. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.280 And he was also a great multitasker. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.120 Y'all say that men can't multitask ah I beg to 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.560 differ the apostle. Paul, while serving a prison sentence, is 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:25.960 writing sentences that we now call scriptures. I told you 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.240 this is a good tomato suit. I grew these tomatoes myself. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.800 And the beautiful thing. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.280 About this miracle is that you may not be an apostle, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:39.959 and you might not write an epistol. But let me 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.680 break it right down to where you live. Is that 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:49.920 any situation in your life that isn't getting better? And 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.840 now I want you to think of that situation right now, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.080 any situation in your life that isn't getting better, You 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.120 can do what Paul did, and you can get busy 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.600 while you wait on it to get better. So while 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:10.520 while you're waiting for it to change, change, while you're 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:16.160 waiting for a better opportunity. Obey, y'all don't like this message. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.720 Y'all don't like tomatoes. The Bible says that Paul was 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.640 a great man of faith, But yet his faith did 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.800 not keep a snake from biding him last week, did it? 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.760 But his faith enabled him to shake the snake off 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.040 of his hand and use the incident touch somebody, say 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.240 use it, use it, use it. Everything that happens in 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.720 your life good or bad. Use it. You know. Sometimes 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.960 I will feel like the moment that God is working 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.680 with me on a specific area, that area will be attacked. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.640 And I used to think that meant that God wasn't 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.640 really working there. But if you read the scripture, it's 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.000 very interesting how it's worded, isn't it. Paul writes to 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:03.240 the church and says verse twelve, my dear friends, as 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.560 you have always obeyed, And then this scripture definitely is 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.440 not about me always obeyed. No, no, no. But I 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.160 think he's like, I think this is some kind of 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:12.920 reverse psychology Paul is putting on him. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:14.400 He's like, as. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.040 Because they're fighting and they're arguing. And later in the 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.520 Book of Philippians he name checks two women and tells him, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:24.600 y'all stop fighting. And that's that's in chapter four. I'm 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.720 not going to preach that this week. But he says, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.080 if you were able to obey not only in my 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.960 presence watch this, but now much more in my absence. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:40.079 So now think about the sadness of Paul. The apostle 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.200 is in prison, he's in a shipwreck. He gets on 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.960 another boat. Three months later, he goes to Rome. He's 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.280 under house arrest, for two years, and he writes four 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:59.240 epistles Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, and Filemen. The prison epistles. They 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.720 called him that, but they were written in prison, but 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.880 we quote them in church. So where you are right now, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:15.119 help me. Holy spirit has tremendous potential. Even your darkness 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.719 has tremendous potential to be harvested to bring somebody else's light. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.199 For the Bible says that God, who caused his light 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.440 to shine out of darkness, gives his Holy Spirit into 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.400 our hearts, and we have this treasure in earth and vessels, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.360 that the excellency. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.720 Of the power might be of God and not of us. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.880 He's your neighbors say, it's God doing it. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.240 It's God doing it. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.719 It wasn't God throwing Paul in the cell, but it 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.480 was God on the inside of Paul that caused him 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.400 to pick up a pen while he was in there. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.520 And because he picked up a pin while he was 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.240 in there, you and I are shouting over stuff, he 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.800 said today. Somebody else needs to be shouting in five 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:58.640 years because. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.240 You didn't give up. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.480 Somebody else needs to be praising God in ten years 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:03.040 because you. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.000 Stayed the course. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.600 Because what you need to keep going is in you, baby, 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:10.359 say it by faith. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:10.559 It is in me. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.120 He said, you have an opportunity now, and listen. The 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:26.679 opportunity is this, Paul says, absence is an opportunity for application. Absence, Well, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.560 are You're just not gonna write down anything? That's the 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:33.520 best thing I am gonna say all day. Absence is 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.200 an opportunity for application. One of our staff members, Decks, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.120 sent me a stack of different things she had written 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.440 down from the sermons that I preached, and she said, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.280 I just want you to see that we hear you. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.480 And in the notes that she put she would work 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.680 through the word that she heard. Now, I'm just asking, 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.080 and I'm not gonna ask you to raise your hand. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.240 Do you work through the word that you've heard? Word? 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.520 Or does it go in one ear and out in 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.160 the parking lot when you get stuck in traffic and 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.120 you start lifting up your hands, but only one finger 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:18.200 on the hand because that single finger praise No. But seriously, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.679 I'm using it as a joke because I don't want 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.320 it to feel condemning, because that's not really my style, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.080 because I don't really have room to do that, because 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.160 how many words has God given me? That I did 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.679 not work through. And I don't mean that you have 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.439 to take notes to be saved. God knows he's not 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.760 going to check your highlight highlight or colors. When you 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.360 get to heaven only pink, you're going to pink only heaven. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.760 Oh pink, green, yellow, red, Yeah, you're going to multicolor heaven. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.200 But the process by which you mix the word with 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:51.040 faith is when you take what I say and ask God, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:56.720 what are you saying to me about my situation through 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.840 what he said? And that's the process where you filter, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.680 and that's the process where your faith is strengthened. And 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.920 so I used to go to a therapy session where 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.280 I would work on an issue in my life, and 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.160 after the therapy session, I would have just like a 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.600 major I don't want to call it a relapse, but 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.760 just in whatever area. And I don't mean drugs or 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.680 alcohol in these cases, but just like whatever I just 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.200 talked through would be very challenged in my life in 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.160 the next twenty four hours. So I brought that to 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.080 the therapist. I'm like, I might have to fire you 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.880 because every time we get off the phone, my life 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:43.200 gets worse. Therapist said, So you can get better because 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:49.920 sometimes when it isn't getting better, you are you are. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.720 You don't get patience by praying for it. You get 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.120 patience by being annoyed. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.480 Yeah, no idea. There are people who are helping you 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.120 get patient that you are complaining about, and you need 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.880 to be paying them. They are your personal trainers for patients. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.320 And I'm not saying we want it, but I'm just 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:16.320 saying God can use that too. And while you're waiting 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.920 on God to work some things out, whatever that area is. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.720 Because if you need a breakthrough in your business, I 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.720 believe with you for a breakthrough in your business. If 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.840 you believe for a breakthrough in your marriage, I believe 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.960 for a breakthrough in your marriage. If you are believing 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.640 for a husband or a wife to come into your 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.200 life because you don't want to be alone, I believe 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.680 with you and stand with you for that. But just 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.920 know that some people are praying for a breakthrough in 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.760 the marriage that they prayed for yesterday that is struggling 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.520 now because they believe the lie that the situation would 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:53.240 fix them. So when we say God will work it in, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.400 I'm not just trying to be clever. I thought about 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.960 how we're wanting God to affect situation, and that's great. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:07.480 But Paul said, my absence in this prison is actually 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.000 a gift for you in Philippi because when you're hearing 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:16.160 the word or when you're learning something, you know you're 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.040 getting it at a mental level, Okay, And that's wonderful. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.240 Instruction is wonderful. Instruction is wonderful. There's a man in 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.800 the church right now who taught me a lot about tennis, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.680 a great tennis pro out here. That's wonderful. But the 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.440 thing about instruction is it is limited until you have 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.840 an opportunity for big word integration. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.120 And integration happens when what you. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.080 Were taught is challenged or tested and you have to 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:53.200 remember under pressure what you learned in peace. So be 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:59.080 careful coming to church because in this peaceful environment God 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.120 is going to prove after the peaceful. For Paul, he 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.720 provided a prison where he wrote four epistles for the 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:06.760 church at Philippi. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.360 He did not leave. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.920 Paul's physical presence with them, but he gave his presence 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.639 within them, so that when Paul's presence was taken away 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:21.879 from them, his presence within them intensified. What I'm trying 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.639 to say is anything in your life that goes away 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.800 and you think you need it. God is going to 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.040 release something greater in your life that you didn't even 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.000 know you had until you got in this situation where 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:40.040 you needed it. So eventually Paul says, give me the 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.639 first verse again. He says, continue in it. Touch your 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.840 neighbor and say keep going, continue to work out. Now 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.439 that's not a literal workout thing, y'all. I remember the 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.080 first time that somebody called me, and I guess it 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.320 was like to my ego or whatever. They were like, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:03.680 uh so, as a lifter, what are your splits? I thought, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.119 in case you need me to interpret it. As a weightlifter, 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.600 what body parts do you work out on which day? 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.320 Nobody ever asked me that before, and I figured, oh, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.240 I must be giving evidence that what I've been doing 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.359 is actually improving my physical frame to the point where 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.600 I'm a lifter. Yah. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.480 How good that felt to be called a lifter. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:28.400 Now. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.879 I lifted a lot, but I've never been called a lifter. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.760 I was walking around the house. I didn't tell anybody, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.600 but I was looking at the kids. They were like, Daddy, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.720 I'm like lifter. You could call me lift or mister lifter. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:45.800 I was so proud for three days because what I did. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:52.600 Was integrated in my life in such a way. If 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.560 you would look at your neighbor and say, as a praiser, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.960 when do you praise God? Ask him one of your splits. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.960 Tell them, well, I praise when I feel it. I 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:12.080 praise when I don't. I praise on the mountain, I 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:17.119 praise in the valley. I praise when I'm sure y'all 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.719 gonna catch on in twelve seconds. I praise when I'm doubting. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.680 I praise when I've got it. I praise when it's gone. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.800 I praise when I feel it. I praise when I 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.960 faith it. I'm not faking it. I'm faith in it 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:37.920 because if I faith it. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.880 It will form me. So let's break it down. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:45.560 The absence is an opportunity for application. Like when I 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.600 used to work out, I needed somebody to be there 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.040 to make me work out, and I found out that 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.560 they were really good partners when I heard their voice 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:58.200 even when they weren't there. What I love about God 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:04.480 and a good good instructor is not satisfied simply with 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:10.760 your assimilation of information. But a good instructor will sometimes 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.720 create absence and life will you're in the season right now, 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.240 and the Lord was speaking to me about it. I 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:17.920 don't know who is for. I don't even know who 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.520 is for. You know if it's for you. You're in 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.399 a season right now where it is very important that 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.600 you integrate what God has given you. And it is 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.040 feeling intense right now because of the absence of something 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.240 that you think you need to have. Paul said, in 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:38.840 my absence, much more than my presence, you got to 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:44.720 remember what you know about God in the absence of joy. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:49.600 You've got to remember how to rejoice in the absence 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.840 of harmony. You have to remember to be a peacemaker 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.360 in the absence of money. You got to stay creative. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.120 So God will some times take resources away from you 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:07.800 to remind you of something that you're not using. One 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.800 of the worst things God can give some people is 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.879 too much money, because they will start stuffing themselves with 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.920 stuff and forget the substance of who they were that 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.200 led them to the point that they had the wealth 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.840 to begin with. That's why the Word says, when you 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.080 have become great, do not forget the Lord your God, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:26.359 for it is he that gives you the power to 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.960 get wealth. And I think that as much as God's 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:36.360 presence provides comfort, absence creates opportunity. I want to really 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.280 get this home to you. Okay, so just bear with 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.880 me for a minute, then put another tomato in this soup. 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.280 We had a great conversation, me and Elijah, my oldest, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:51.080 and I'm working all my kids into the illustration today. Okay, Okay, 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.640 So I'm just working my kids in because they're expensive. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:59.000 Get the most out of this relationship. When he left 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.800 for college, enough for a couple of years after Buck 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:03.840 and Chunks stopped coming over to help me work out. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:05.760 He was my workout partner. When he left for college, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.119 he went three hours away. I was so depressed. I 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.600 would still go lift weights, but I wouldn't even put 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:12.680 my shoes on or turn the lights on. And I 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.960 wouldn't even turn Metallica on. I mean Maverick City, Kurt 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:24.399 Franklin on forgot where I was for a minute. I 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.080 sit out there in the silence, just cranking out the reps. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:29.639 And I would sometimes just send him just to make 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:31.600 him feel bad about leaving me, send him a picture 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:33.880 of me sitting there in the dark. That's hard without 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.600 your partner. Then I felt better because about a month 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:37.840 or two after he'd been gone. We were having this 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.639 deep conversation one night and he opened up to me. 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.520 He's like, college is great, but it's hard. I'm grateful 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:44.280 to be here, but it's hard, he said. And it's 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:46.400 hard because I have to be both of us here. 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.400 I have to be both of us. I'm so used 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:57.159 to having you say you know, son, and sometimes you 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.400 got on my nerves. But I needed that. I needed 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:04.800 you to get on my nurse. Y'all. I've had a 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.520 grammy of New York Times, all that stuff. I felt 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.280 like I got the greatest reward of my life when 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.480 he said this. He said, now I have to be 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.240 both of us because it let me know we've gone 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:20.919 from instruction to integration. And then let me know my 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:25.600 voice is still speaking, and let me know that I'm 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:32.680 still talking three hours away. I'm still talking to you 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:36.040 three hours away. And Paul wanted the church at Philip 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:39.440 Fi to know I'm still talking to you even though 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.520 I'm in this prison cell. God wants you to know 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.600 I'm still talking to you even though you lost your 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:47.640 mother last year. And God wants you to know I'm 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.600 still talking to you even though you don't know how 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:52.680 you're going to make payroll next month. And God wants 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.360 you to know I'm still talking to you. Even though 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:57.720 you haven't felt goosebumps in a while, and while everybody 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.439 else seems to be rejoicing, you feel kind of empty. 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:07.120 God says, this is not absence, it's integration, because. 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:08.600 My sheep know my voice. 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.040 And the most powerful moment of your life to work 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:14.879 a word from God is not just when you're putting 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.880 it in a journal to write it down, but when 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:20.800 you are putting it into practice, to live it out. 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:26.679 This is a practice season for you, this absence that 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:30.480 you feel, this thing that has changed. And I wish 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:32.280 I could sit down and get to know your conversation, 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:35.520 your exact situation, so we could have an exact conversation. 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:37.840 But Paul wrote one letter to the whole church, and 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:41.440 he said, it's good that I'm gone. That's what Jesus 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.560 said to the disciples. If I leave you, I'll send 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.960 you the Holy Spirit. I can send you something greater 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:50.520 than just my words. I can give you my spirit, 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:57.040 greater integration. God is doing something greater in your life. 0:24:57.160 --> 0:25:00.520 So something goes away, something greater come. This is the 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:04.719 rhythm of God. Give him praise. Come on, giveing praise, 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:10.160 not PGA praise, give him a God praise, big God, 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:13.040 big praise. Okay, Okay, God. 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:16.280 Will work it in. So I want to study. I 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:18.040 want to study this a little bit more. 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:21.359 And I'm relatively about halfway through my message right now, 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:24.239 and we will see if I get to continue it 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:26.639 all the way. I got some other parts that I 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:28.560 want to put but I don't know if they But anyway, 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.879 therefore my difference, as you have always obeyed, not only 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:34.840 in my presence, but now much more in my I 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:37.520 can't get off of this. God said, the absence of 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.120 what you think you need in this season is an 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:41.320 opportunity for. 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:42.960 You to get a tuned to what you really have. 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:47.040 The best thing that happened to me to be able 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:49.560 to effectively minister to you was when we couldn't have 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:52.959 people in church in twenty twenty. Because it taught me 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.960 not to need your energy to be effective to minister 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.919 God's word. And when I couldn't ride on the waves 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:02.880 your energy, I had to let God make a wave 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:05.440 inside of me with this word. So I came out 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:08.560 of it never more alive and in love with the 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:12.359 word of God. Because of something that was taken away. 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.840 Now I'm not using this to talk about me or 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:17.720 tomato soup or weight lifting, although I am proud to 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.320 be a lifter. But but I want you to see 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:27.760 that the absence creates an opportunity for application. And this 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:29.200 was weird. I don't know if you thought it was 0:26:29.240 --> 0:26:31.800 weird when I read it. He said, work out verse 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:35.400 twelve again, please on the screen, work out your salvation 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:40.560 with fear and trembling. So I thought that might mean 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:42.920 when we give the invitation every week for you to 0:26:42.920 --> 0:26:45.439 get saved, raise your hand just in case, you know, 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:47.520 Like I don't know. I thought I did this when 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:51.159 I was eight, but I'm scared and i'm trembling that 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:53.320 maybe what I did last week canceled it out. So 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:55.280 just in case, Lord, I'll put my hand up right there. Yeah, 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:58.880 you give me another one of those Bibles. I hadn't 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:00.840 read any of them. I got seven of them stacked 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:05.600 up at home, but yeah, give me another one. And 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:07.480 then I realized what he didn't say. Now watch this. 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:11.760 He didn't say work for your salvation. Put it back up. 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:20.760 He said work out your salvation. He's not saying earn it. 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:23.720 That's contrary to everything else that God gave Paul to 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:26.879 teach us. That's contrary to the very essence of the 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:29.480 Cross of Christ. How are you going to earn a 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:31.520 grace that was given from across You didn't die on 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:40.600 So what he's saying is not only to integrate what 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:44.000 you've been taught, what you've been instructed, and apply it. 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:47.359 Like Van Saevner said, never forget in the darkness what 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:52.560 God showed you in the light. He's saying, the reason 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:55.119 that you're so worried now, fear and trembling is a 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:58.000 saying that they had, Like I don't know, we might 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:03.560 say lock stock and barrel means everything you know. They 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:05.720 would say fear and trembling like a saying. It was 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:09.880 a colloquialism. He says, work out your salvation with fear 0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:13.960 and trembling. He does not mean be afraid that God 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:17.080 didn't give you what he promised to give you. He said, 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:19.200 you're forgiven. You're forgiven. He said, there's no condemnation. There's 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:23.919 no condemnation. It is being afraid to live your life 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:27.440 without the awareness of that. Because you know that if 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:29.800 you ever lose awareness of who God is to you 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:35.240 and in you, you will make the stupidest mistakes. So 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:38.400 I want you to work out. You're about to see 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:43.520 it what God has already worked in. And God is 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:45.920 working on you, and you are a work in progress. 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:51.000 But your salvation is not. It's finished, so there's nothing 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:56.080 more to be done. That's why Jesus said it is finished. 0:28:56.400 --> 0:28:57.760 God already worked that out. 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.000 If you placed your faith in him, you are all right. 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:03.600 He's saved. Now you are taking what God gave you 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:07.600 and working it out. And that's what I told Elijah. 0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:10.959 I said, this is your season to grow. Every conversation 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:14.479 we've had down here lifting weights together, every time I've 0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:16.600 ever corrected you that you wanted to kill me, but 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.120 you knew I would kill you if you tried to 0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:21.719 kill me, every single one of those things. Now that 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:24.239 we're not together, now that it's not like it was, 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:28.120 it gets to go deeper inside of you. God is 0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:32.000 taking you deeper in this season. He did not depart 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:36.480 from you. He's taking you deeper. But the reason you 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:40.680 keep worrying about stuff that God has already worked out. 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:44.840 I got to say that better. You are worried about 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:46.480 something God has already worked out. 0:29:49.520 --> 0:29:50.480 Now, why do you do that. 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:57.720 Because you stop at verse twelve and never reverse thirteen. 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:01.160 You know, I mean people would take verse twelve and 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:05.800 stop right there again. Please, therefore, since you were obeying 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:09.000 when I was there, you know, keep that same energy, 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:12.120 Paul is saying. When I was preaching, y'all were saying, Amen, 0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:15.400 Now keep that same touch. Your neighbors say, keep that 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:19.440 same energy a couple tuesdays from now, no matter who 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:22.800 wins the election, no matter who's acting crazy, keep that 0:30:23.000 --> 0:30:28.440 same energy because we had Republicans, Democrats, black, white, Hispanic, male, female, 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:30.960 all in the same church, and we were all unified. 0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:33.560 And we will not let a culture that divides us 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:34.640 speak greater than a. 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:35.960 King that defines us. 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:38.680 Y'all, keep that same energy out there in the world, 0:30:39.080 --> 0:30:41.920 all right over the next two weeks. Don't you get 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:51.120 Facebook crazy and be church saying. I don't know where 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:54.040 that came from. They just came to me. I decided 0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:58.840 to work it in, work it in, work it in. 0:30:59.680 --> 0:31:01.320 Work I don't know where that came from. I just 0:31:01.360 --> 0:31:04.120 decided to work it in. I don't know where this 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:07.240 snake came from. I just decided to shake it off 0:31:07.280 --> 0:31:07.920 and work it in. 0:31:08.800 --> 0:31:10.800 I don't know where that feeling came from. I just 0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:13.360 decided to work it in. I don't know where that 0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:16.200 temptation came from. I just decided to pray extra this. 0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:18.720 Week because if I'm gonna get extra temptation, I'm gonna 0:31:18.760 --> 0:31:20.840 need extra grace. So I'm gonna pray extra prayers. 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:28.200 I'm gonna work this in. I like it. 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:31.640 I like it so so the reason you're worrying about 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:35.240 stuff God has already worked out. The reason you keep 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:41.760 worrying is because of the way you keep thinking verse twelve. 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:44.880 It is God that works in you. Uh No, not 0:31:44.920 --> 0:31:46.440 only my presence, now, I was from I just continue 0:31:46.480 --> 0:31:47.800 to work out your salvage my fear and tremble. And 0:31:47.840 --> 0:31:49.680 you're like, okay, okay, no, go back, go back to 0:31:49.760 --> 0:32:00.240 verse twelve. You stopped there. Church. That's a comma. 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:02.480 I feel like I'm a multitasking preacher. 0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:09.760 I talk about fitness, English grammar, theology, parenting recipes, tomatoes, 0:32:11.200 --> 0:32:15.800 work it all in, work out your salvation with fear 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.400 and trembling. Now, if you read that, you will be 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:29.200 worried because you are trying to work out something without God. Okay. 0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:33.600 What gets me tripped up every time that I get overwhelmed. 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:34.080 And I'm not. 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:37.400 Talking about just having butterflies or getting nervous. I think 0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:40.120 all that is good, but when I get overwhelmed to 0:32:40.120 --> 0:32:41.600 the point where it really shuts me down. You know how, 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:45.400 there's that line between when you're working on something and 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:50.480 it's wearing you out, and you realize, huh, this feels 0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:54.920 kind of cyclical because it's making me sick. If that's 0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:57.400 where you are in the field, and read what comes 0:32:57.440 --> 0:33:01.080 after the comma work out yourself with fear and trembling, 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:06.320 For it is God who works in you. So that's 0:33:06.360 --> 0:33:09.440 a very interesting thought, isn't it. It is God who 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:12.720 works in you. Don't forget that while you work it out. 0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:17.920 Don't forget that. So don't get so good at trying 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:21.560 to figure stuff out on paper that you forget to 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:25.520 work stuff out according to purpose, because the Bible said 0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:27.000 it is God that works in you, too, willing to 0:33:27.040 --> 0:33:30.520 do according to his good purpose. So God starts with 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:34.160 the purpose, not the person, and then he finds the 0:33:34.200 --> 0:33:38.000 person that will accomplish that purpose, and he shapes the 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:41.320 person that will accomplish that purpose. And that's why you 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:44.320 can know God is working on you right now and 0:33:44.760 --> 0:33:48.880 working in you, and so when you sit down, I 0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:52.000 will never forget sitting down to work on something one time, 0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:54.160 and I'll tell you exactly what it was, because I 0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:58.280 think it's a great illustration. I had the opportunity several 0:33:58.360 --> 0:34:01.200 years ago to interview Bishop ts right here on this 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:04.120 stage at Elevation Church, and I was so honored to 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:08.640 do it. He is my preaching hero, and he's my 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:11.759 friend now too. But you know, if someone is your hero, 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:14.320 even if they're your friend, you still get really nervous, 0:34:15.080 --> 0:34:18.640 even if it's not their fault. I was so nervous 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:21.680 to interview that man because I wanted to do a 0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:24.439 good job for it. I wanted to do a good job. 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:29.160 He was promoting a book called Sore Soar, not like 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:33.759 lift or sore like sore like an eagle anyway, And 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:38.960 I sat down for weeks beforehand and I would work, 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:42.759 but mostly I would worry. It wasn't like I was 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.400 getting anything done by the time I got done, just 0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:49.640 being a complete stress ball for several weeks. I think 0:34:49.680 --> 0:34:54.680 I counted seventy five note cards of questions to ask 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:55.080 the man. 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:57.920 About the book, And everybody. 0:34:57.480 --> 0:35:00.080 Would say, aren't you excited to interview Bishop Jake's and 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:05.880 I'd be like, yeah, excitement and anxiety can kind of 0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:10.440 feel the same sometimes, and what you call it depends 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:14.919 on what you're focused about. And when I look back 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:18.920 on it, I regret all of the stress that I 0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:23.080 felt from the pressure that wasn't even real. The fact 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:25.280 of the matter is he could have had anybody interview 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:27.480 him for the book. He wanted me to do it. 0:35:28.400 --> 0:35:30.120 He could have gone anywhere he wanted. 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:36.080 He didn't go to Oprah, he came to Ferdick, he 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:38.920 didn't come to doctor Phil. He came to doctor Ferdi. 0:35:40.040 --> 0:35:42.040 But I couldn't feel that way about it, because. 0:35:41.840 --> 0:35:44.200 I'd be like, what do you am? I gonna ask him? 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:45.040 He's so smart. 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.880 The very reason I was stressed was the very reason 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:48.880 I should have relaxed. 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:51.440 Not five minutes after. 0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:52.920 We got on this stage, and he sat in his 0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:55.160 chair and I sat in mind, and I had my 0:35:55.239 --> 0:36:00.160 whole stack right, and I said my first question to him. 0:36:00.200 --> 0:36:04.840 Twenty minutes later, I still had seventy four questions left 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:10.239 and the interview is only ninety minutes. And I remember, 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:20.799 in that moment, Oh, it's bishop. He's good at talking. Oh, 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:23.480 all this time I've been thinking about this like I 0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:24.880 gotta carry it? And what am I gonna do if 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:26.560 my questions are stupid? And what if the people look 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:28.200 at me funny? And what if I mispronounced the word? 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:29.400 And what if he doesn't sell any books? And what 0:36:29.480 --> 0:36:30.640 if he never wants to talk to me again? And 0:36:30.680 --> 0:36:32.560 what if I accidentally say something that wasn't intended to 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:33.919 be offended? But I was just trying to be casual 0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:35.799 when it came across a disrespectful. 0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:36.359 And all of this. 0:36:38.360 --> 0:36:41.360 To interview one of the greatest talkers in the world. 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:47.040 The only thing I had to do to be successful 0:36:47.120 --> 0:36:58.840 in the interview was this, you know, just a reverse 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:04.240 nod for variety and effect, but between those two nods. 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:12.720 And he had it covered. I see it stressing. 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:15.719 About something in your life today. Don't know what it is, 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:19.239 don't need to God knows. I see you playing out 0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:20.960 the situation over and over again. 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:25.319 You call it preparation, but it's not preparation because it 0:37:25.400 --> 0:37:29.200 is eating through your peace. And here you are. 0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:31.120 Thinking, well, and I get to that in three weeks. 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:35.360 It's gonna be terrible. Oh when my kids become teenagers. 0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:38.000 They are yet toddlers. You got twelve years. 0:37:37.760 --> 0:37:40.120 To read books about this crap you're gonna be dealing with, 0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:42.280 and by then all the books will be saying different 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:45.120 stuff than they say today. I see you looking at 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:47.960 a situation in the future of your life, and you 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:50.320 are afraid. And I'll tell you why you are afraid. 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:53.040 You forgot God is going to be there when you 0:37:53.040 --> 0:38:02.839 get there. I remember, Oh, Bishop's gonna be there. 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:07.320 He's a good talker. I wish you would remember. 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:10.000 With all the scenarios you're playing out in your mind, 0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:13.080 and all the ways it could go wrong, and all 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:15.399 of the stuff that you're scrolling through starting to talk 0:38:15.400 --> 0:38:17.279 about is it another world war? 0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:18.719 Well, what you're gonna do about it? If it is, 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:25.960 you're gonna go fight it. In whatever happens, you're. 0:38:25.840 --> 0:38:29.640 Gonna have God. You're gonna have God. 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.279 If it's a prison, he'll be your cell mate. 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:35.720 You're gonna have God. 0:38:37.960 --> 0:38:42.520 Oh yeah, I forgot. Tell your neighbor, I forgot. I'm 0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:46.160 gonna have God in it with me. That's why I'm. 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:48.800 Not stressed about retirement, because I've never. 0:38:48.640 --> 0:38:52.799 Seen the righteous forsaken. I was young and now I'm old. 0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:55.400 I'd never seen the righteous forsaken. 0:38:55.840 --> 0:38:59.319 Nor is see begging for bread God is gonna be 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:01.759 in this with me. God is going to be in 0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:04.320 the challenge with me. God is going to be in 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:07.799 the uncertainty. God's gonna walk in that doctor's office with me. 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:10.560 God's gonna be on the other side of this pain 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:13.360 will break up with me. God's gonna be with me 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:16.680 when I make my first appointment with the counselor. God's 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:18.799 gonna be with me when I show up back first 0:39:18.880 --> 0:39:22.040 day to school and I'm twenty seven. God's gonna be 0:39:22.080 --> 0:39:24.759 with me when I open up my finances and begin 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:27.120 to get it in order and humble myself. 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:30.719 I forgot about God. That's why I was shaken. That's 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:35.080 why I was trembling. But I'm not trembling anymore because I'm. 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:41.000 Trusting that when I get there. Oh yeah, thank you Jesus. 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:47.840 Yeah, I'll get a bay a bracelet fell off. But 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:49.600 let me work it in real quick. Let me work 0:39:49.600 --> 0:39:52.319 it in real quick. There's some stuff that needs to 0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:55.440 come off of you in this season. It happens, so 0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:58.319 I might as well work it in. It happens, so 0:39:58.400 --> 0:40:01.120 I might as well work it in. There are some 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:01.919 things in. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:06.560 Your life that you need to stop stressing about. 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:10.120 At a level that assumes that you're going to have 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:16.560 to do it alone. I never get stressed about a 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:19.839 sermon if I remember, oh, yeah, God's going to be there, 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:23.400 and just like bishops is pretty good at talking, God's 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:25.000 pretty good at godding. 0:40:26.760 --> 0:40:30.439 How about that. I'm so tired to hear people say 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:32.720 in life be life and God be godding. 0:40:37.000 --> 0:40:41.799 Don't quote me on that. That's so corny. But I 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:43.920 think sometimes we take the journey in our mind as 0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:45.880 if God's not going to be there. That was so 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:49.239 profound for me when I realized it. It's like, have 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:50.880 you ever been going in a situation and you are 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:53.799 so stressed and then you remembered, oh yeah, they're going 0:40:53.880 --> 0:40:56.319 to be there and the person that you thought of. Now, 0:40:56.480 --> 0:40:58.240 there are some times where you're going into a situation 0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:01.919 and you remember they are going to be there, and boy, 0:41:01.960 --> 0:41:06.560 then you really are reaching for the prescription pills because well, 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:10.680 but uh, there's other people like I know, for Holly, 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:13.280 when Amy is going to be there when you're preaching 0:41:13.320 --> 0:41:15.359 or recording, there's certain things you don't have to worry about. 0:41:16.960 --> 0:41:18.600 And she's going over to get ready and I can 0:41:18.640 --> 0:41:20.799 see she's stressed. She's like I'm good Amy's gonna be there, 0:41:22.200 --> 0:41:24.600 and she just realizes there's things that I don't even 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:26.719 have to think about because she's good at we've been 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:29.920 together so long. She's gonna take care of some stuff 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:31.440 so I can just focus on what I need to do. 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:35.359 I hear the Lord saying, I'm going to be there 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:44.600 even if Paul can't, even if nobody else does, even 0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:48.960 if you've never been there before. I only needed three 0:41:49.000 --> 0:41:55.680 note cards and two nods, and that, just like the devil. 0:41:55.760 --> 0:41:58.200 Joyce Smeier said, worry is down payment on the problem 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:01.440 you may never even have. And I'd just like the 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:05.879 devil charging you for stuff that you don't even need, 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:11.080 that you didn't even order. So he said, work this 0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:14.760 thing out, but you gonna need seventy five note cards. 0:42:16.440 --> 0:42:18.080 Just make sure the mic is on nod your head. 0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:23.960 I think, as simple as this sounds, sometimes to just 0:42:24.560 --> 0:42:26.280 assume that God is going to be there, we should 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:29.160 just sit in it for a minute. What would it 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:34.319 change about the situation that you're afraid of facing if 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:40.680 you knew God was going to be there. One time, 0:42:40.680 --> 0:42:42.719 when they got so big on cancel culture, I thought, well, 0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:46.239 what did they just cancel me? And then God said, how 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:49.520 many people were you preaching to when I called you? 0:42:50.320 --> 0:42:53.839 And the answer was five. And the Lord said, well, 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:56.040 surely you can find at least five that'll come listen 0:42:56.040 --> 0:43:01.000 to if they can swer the whole earth. You can 0:43:01.040 --> 0:43:06.320 find five. You can find five. And the fact is 0:43:06.400 --> 0:43:08.960 that whatever happens in your life, before it even happens 0:43:09.000 --> 0:43:16.400 to you, God already has a way to work it in. Now. 0:43:16.440 --> 0:43:19.160 I didn't make this bracelet fall off, It just happened. 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:23.279 I worked it in. I worked it in. Remember when 0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:29.200 we were at Elevation Nights in Oakland. Now the reason 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:32.120 they're laughing when I said Oakland, they're not like West 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:34.239 Coast present prejudice or anything like that. I don't want 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:39.359 you to think when we got to Oakland for Elevation Knights. 0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:42.319 This is twenty twenty two. I will never forget this night. Now, 0:43:42.320 --> 0:43:44.879 when you preach at Elevation Knights, we're going into these 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:49.759 big arenas like basketball arenas and stuff, right, and they're 0:43:49.760 --> 0:43:51.759 always telling me this is the NBA team that plays here. 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:53.480 I don't care about basketball. I don't care about any 0:43:53.480 --> 0:43:55.359 of that. I just care about serving him. 0:43:56.120 --> 0:43:57.920 No, Actually, i'm looking what bands came here? 0:43:57.960 --> 0:43:59.480 Oh, the Rolling Stones were here. That's cool to me. 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:02.520 I don't care if played basketball here. But when we 0:44:02.520 --> 0:44:05.480 were in Oakland, I don't know what made me wear 0:44:05.480 --> 0:44:07.360 that big heavy jacket that night. I remember wearing this 0:44:07.400 --> 0:44:10.359 big heavy jacket. I'm up preaching and there's a lot 0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:13.080 of distractions because it's not like a church service where 0:44:13.120 --> 0:44:15.360 y'all are so attentive even watching online right now. You 0:44:15.520 --> 0:44:19.080 just at Elevation nights, it's like a concert and then 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:20.520 a sermon. And some of the people that got there, 0:44:20.520 --> 0:44:23.040 they got totally like bait and switched. They had no 0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:24.439 idea they were gonna have to sit through a sermon. 0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:26.480 They thought it was just music. So I am like 0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:33.280 a total buzzkill for the whole room. But in Oakland 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:35.759 it was going pretty good. And you know, you have 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:38.000 to work around the distractions. This guy's over here eating 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:40.400 popcorn and chicken fingers? Did she get did she have 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:43.560 a beer? Hovering? And trust in God, you know, uses 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:45.239 all kinds of things going through your mind, just all 0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:47.920 the distraction stuff, and you have to learn just to 0:44:48.000 --> 0:44:50.959 kind of like work around it, right, But a couple 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:53.759 times on these nights, something happens that you can't work 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:57.480 around and in Oakland, something happened. I was in the 0:44:57.480 --> 0:44:59.359 middle of my sermon. I was preaching on Acts, Chapter three, 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:04.480 verses one through ten. The message was called Surprise, and 0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:06.160 I was talking about Peter and John at the gate 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:08.120 called beautiful, and the man showed up and he wasn't 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:10.280 expecting to get healed, and they weren't expecting to be healers, 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:13.640 but surprise. Right when I'm reving up, you know, I've 0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:16.759 gotten my background cover. All the lights in the whole 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:22.480 arena go out, not gradually, not dimmed out, and so 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:25.799 I'm thinking, oh, that's weird. They'll come back on in 0:45:25.840 --> 0:45:26.720 a minute. 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:29.120 Six minutes and forty five seconds. 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:34.280 No, I'm not exaggerating six It felt like six years. 0:45:35.480 --> 0:45:38.480 It felt like six years because all the lights go out. 0:45:38.600 --> 0:45:42.680 And the first thing I think the whole audience thought was, oh, 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:46.520 this is a part of his sermon. And so I 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:48.160 tell them real quickly. I'm like, this is not a 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:52.759 part of my sermon. And I'm standing up there. You know, 0:45:53.840 --> 0:45:56.920 ten seconds goes by, twenty seconds goes by. I'm a 0:45:56.960 --> 0:45:59.280 professional man. I've been doing this since I was sixty. 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:01.160 I've been doing this since I was in Monks corner, 0:46:01.200 --> 0:46:03.440 South Carolina. I can do this. I can hold this 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:05.319 crowd for a minute. I can preach through this. But 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:07.879 then it's thirty seconds, it's a minute, and you kind 0:46:07.880 --> 0:46:11.719 of run out of steam to stall, you know how 0:46:11.719 --> 0:46:18.960 about those lights? And then it hit me, you don't 0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:20.759 know how long it's going to take for them to 0:46:20.800 --> 0:46:24.719 work this out, so work it in. 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:31.080 I'm telling you, I'm telling you the truth. 0:46:32.239 --> 0:46:36.440 With the lights off, I started preaching about when you're 0:46:36.480 --> 0:46:40.440 in a dark season. I started preaching about how Peter 0:46:40.560 --> 0:46:43.880 and John weren't always at the gate called beautiful, but 0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:47.719 they had once been in a garden called Getsemone, where 0:46:47.760 --> 0:46:50.719 the savior of the world was facing the darkness of 0:46:50.760 --> 0:46:53.239 our sin. And what do you do when you're in 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:56.600 the darkness of the garden of Gethsemone and the lights 0:46:56.640 --> 0:46:59.759 are out all around you and you are uncertainty because 0:46:59.760 --> 0:47:02.839 I don't know how long it's going to take them 0:47:02.840 --> 0:47:04.000 to put the lights back on. 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:08.880 So while I'm waiting for them. 0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:14.120 To work it out, I'm trying. 0:47:13.840 --> 0:47:17.200 To close this message, I really am. But there is 0:47:17.280 --> 0:47:20.600 somebody listening to me who's waiting for God to work 0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:24.400 it out, and God is saying back while you're waiting 0:47:25.160 --> 0:47:28.319 in this dark season for me to work it out, 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:30.160 for me to show you the next step, for me 0:47:30.239 --> 0:47:32.040 to give you the next crumb, for me to give 0:47:32.040 --> 0:47:33.680 you the next notice, for me to give you the 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:36.400 next relationship, for me to turn this thing around, for 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:37.840 the report to be positive. 0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:41.120 While you're waiting for me to work it out. Work 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:44.040 it in, work it in, work it in. 0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:47.239 I hear God saying, work it in, for it is 0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:51.680 God that works in you. It is God that works 0:47:51.719 --> 0:47:54.960 in you. And show them the video. About five minutes 0:47:55.000 --> 0:47:59.040 in the people did something. The people had their phones. 0:47:58.680 --> 0:48:02.040 Out, which you could put me down in the pit. Yeah, 0:48:02.080 --> 0:48:03.279 you could take me out. 0:48:03.480 --> 0:48:04.840 I didn't tell him to me. 0:48:05.239 --> 0:48:07.399 He thought they just did it. He thought he could 0:48:07.440 --> 0:48:11.600 pete me here with six thousand six. 0:48:11.560 --> 0:48:20.440 Uh huh sup surprise surprise, Yeah, breaks verdict. 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:28.439 No course, get your likes out. Give him a seal 0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:34.080 of praise, I said, give him a shout of praise. 0:48:38.480 --> 0:48:39.600 Are you a praiser? 0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:41.960 Are you a lift? 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:49.960 I think it's great because maybe that's the message God 0:48:50.080 --> 0:48:50.480 want me. 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:53.560 Maybe that's the message God wanted me to breach you. 0:48:54.400 --> 0:48:58.480 Look at all those lights, look at all that evidence, 0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:05.239 Look all that phrase, hollylo out. 0:49:05.719 --> 0:49:09.040 Look at all of that strength, Look at all of 0:49:09.080 --> 0:49:10.200 that glory. 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:17.960 From something we didn't sick coming surprise. It's not the 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:23.719 lie ordered, but it's what gone ordered. Done is suffering. 0:49:24.239 --> 0:49:25.840 God ordered my steps. 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:27.920 God is in this with me. 0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:32.919 Get your light out, get your light out, Get your 0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:33.480 light out. 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:41.080 You had that light in your pocket the whole time, 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:44.960 but you didn't need to work that light out until 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:53.279 the light was absent. The absence became the opportunity for 0:49:53.440 --> 0:49:54.279 the illustration. 0:49:55.480 --> 0:49:56.480 Because while I'm. 0:49:56.360 --> 0:50:00.560 Waiting for God to work this out, might as well 0:50:00.640 --> 0:50:03.200 work it in. God, what do you want to teach 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:05.680 me through this? God? How do you want to prepare 0:50:05.719 --> 0:50:08.919 me for this? I was complaining about something that wasn't 0:50:08.960 --> 0:50:12.239 succeeding in this season of my life lately, and God said, exactly, 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:14.960 because you got cocky about what you could do, and 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:17.360 I needed to teach you to pay attention. So I 0:50:17.400 --> 0:50:19.879 took your success away for a minute so you would 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:27.200 pay attention to the source of your strength. Jesus, I 0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:30.799 didn't even plan for us to do this altogether. We 0:50:30.840 --> 0:50:33.960 didn't work any of that out, but we worked it in. 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:39.399 I'm gonna give you twenty four seconds come on, turn 0:50:39.440 --> 0:50:40.160 the lights back on. 0:50:40.239 --> 0:50:43.520 It feels kind of dangerous. I'm gonna give you twenty four. 0:50:43.400 --> 0:50:47.160 Seconds to give God the greatest praise. 0:50:46.920 --> 0:50:52.279 You gave him, because he gave me one more day. 0:50:53.400 --> 0:50:59.080 Nineteen seconds, Hey, key seconds, except you're running out of time. 0:51:00.160 --> 0:51:04.879 You're running out of time and that and midnight pull 0:51:05.000 --> 0:51:06.960 in silas, don't. 0:51:06.760 --> 0:51:08.680 Know what to do? 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:08.920 Do it? 0:51:09.440 --> 0:51:13.520 Didn Hey seven six fut. 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:24.719 Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 0:51:24.760 --> 0:51:27.759 you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 0:51:27.800 --> 0:51:30.719 you that this ministry is possible. 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