He Answered

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.680 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.599 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.040 There have been so many times where God gave our 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.360 church a song and two years later, five years later, 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.040 ten years later, somebody will come up to me and say, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.680 that song got me through my cancer treatments, that song. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.400 Got me through my prison sentence. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.280 When they send us videos of those prisoners singing trust 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:46.960 in God, and even people who aren't in a physical prison, 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.479 people will say that thing got me through some sleepless nights. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.800 I listened to the Blessing when I was dealing with 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.200 incredible anxiety and fear. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.160 And all of these songs. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.840 And this Thursday, you have a opera tunity to be 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.080 a part of that. So I'm not telling you that 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:04.800 because we need people to attend. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.680 It's always pretty full. I just didn't want you to 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.200 miss it and not know what was happening. Now. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.040 I take my job seriously, and my job is to 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.199 put God's words in people's heart. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.039 That's my job. That's my job. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.360 Whenever I'm not preaching to you or studying to preach 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.360 to you, I'm usually humming a melody into a song, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.200 changing a lyric for the fifteenth time, so the team 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.240 has to learn it at nine to thirteen before we 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:38.360 try it the first time. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:41.360 And it's all the same thing. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.000 I want you to have watched this a new loop 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:49.040 in your life. That's what I'm preaching about today. That's 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.400 what I preached about last week. Our series shown the graphic. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:02:00.360 It's called same lies, new loops and meditating on word 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.400 of God is hard when we have so much noise 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:03.240 in our world. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:03.360 Isn't it. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.280 Y'all got sit there and act like it's not noisy 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.840 in your in your mind. So a noisy mind needs 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.920 a new loot, something else to latch onto, so you 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.560 don't go absolutely crazy with temptation and with anger or 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.640 with shame. And one thing that I love to do 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.000 is when we can get a meditation from God's word 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.680 and then God gives us a melody to go with it, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.840 it helps us to remember it in the hard times. Today, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.880 I want to share with you from a psalm Psalm 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.240 one hundred and fourteen. We read it in our family 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.880 Bible club. We don't stand the whole time in our church. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.400 In case you're wondering, did you wear the wrong shoes? 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.640 I'll let you use that seat to its fullest in 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.600 just a moment. But please stand for the reading of 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.800 God's word. And if you're watching this somewhere else, you 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.640 may want to stand too. There's something about respecting and 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.600 reverencing God's words because his words are eternal. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.400 Everything else. Everybody says it, and. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:06.000 It goes God's were last forever Psalm fourteen. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.320 I pick up in verse five. You're gonna like this one. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:23.320 Wow, Why was it s that you fled? Why Shordan 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:29.600 did you turn back? Why mountains did you leap like rams? 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.840 You hills like lambs? To us, that's kind of strange imagery. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.200 First of all, he's talking about the things that God 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.920 did in Israel's past. This is a passover psalm that 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.320 they would use to remember how God brought them out 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.480 of Egypt. How many of you remember when God brought 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.120 you out of something in your own life? So now 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:55.800 he's taunting their trauma. Why is it c that you fled? 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.280 Why Jordan did you turn back. I gotta say something 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.040 about that verse. Did you know you have a god 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.080 who when he speaks to the sea, it sprints to 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:11.000 obey him. If God says to the red sea right left, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.920 the sea doesn't dawdle, The sea doesn't walk, The seed 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.719 doesn't crawl, the sea doesn't think about it. When God says, 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.760 see split, the sea sprints to obey his word. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.279 That's how powerful he is. I gotta go faster. That's 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:27.000 only one verse. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.480 Verse six, Why mountains did you leap like rams? Did 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.560 you know you have a god who when he speaks, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:39.719 mountains leap. I know we're used to talking about mountains moving, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.400 but this is a different picture. He said, Not only 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.400 do they move, the mountains leap when he speaks. The 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.840 obstacle moves when he speaks. It can happen quickly and 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:56.240 suddenly and irreversibly and dramatically when he speaks mountains leap 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.839 when he speaks sea split. And I'm trying to read 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:04.640 my but I'm excited about He's been doing it for 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:09.159 a long time. Verse seven, tremble earth at the presence 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.800 of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.240 who turned the rock into a pool the hard rock 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.680 into springs of water. One verse from Matthew chapter four, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:29.560 verse four. Matthew Chapter four, verse four, the Bible says, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.839 Jesus answered, it is written man shall not live on 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:39.039 bread alone, but on every word that comes from the 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.360 mouth of God. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:42.800 Say amen to that. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:47.400 Somebody, Yeah, I want to take those two words from 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.560 verse four. Put it up again, please, Jesus answered. The 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.520 title I'd like to preach to you from today. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:06:00.880 Is two words. He answered. He answered, yeah, He answered, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.279 turn around and hug five people on your way to 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:03.680 your seat. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.960 Say I'm so glad, he answered, I'm glad he picked 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.719 up my call, my collect call. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.839 I'm glad he paid the price for me. He answered. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.760 I'm grateful because he answered, I'm standing here today because 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.920 he answered, He answered, I asked him for another day, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.680 and he gave it. He answered, I. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.520 Asked him to help me keep my mind together. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.960 Somebody put it in the chat, say, he answered, Say 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.640 it out loud at every location. He answered, aren't you 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.120 glad you have a God who answers prayers. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.080 Come on, it's not a rhetorical question. Aren't you glad 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.599 you have a god? Put it in the chat? 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:50.839 Say I'm glad, he answers yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.919 Sometimes other people don't, he answered, Sometimes other people turned away, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:02.719 he answered, now king of rhetorical questions, I love the 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.040 way psalmone fourteen puts the truth across. It was fresh 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.920 to me. And again, we have a family Bible Club, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.000 and we landed in this just at the time that 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.080 my message was coming together. Thank you Lord for speaking 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.880 to me in my personal life so I could share 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.640 it with others. I want to give it to you 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.720 like he gave it to me. It's a rhetorical question. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.040 Why was it sea that you fled? Why Jordan did 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.840 you turn back? Why mountains did you leap like rams? 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.200 You hills like lambs. We know the answer because God 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.480 told it too, But in framing it rhetorically, it invites 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.880 us into the story, and it invites this truth into 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.640 our story as well, the story of your wives and 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.160 what ifs, the loops and lies that the enemy has 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.760 you in imagining worst case scenarios and replaying past hers 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.280 to the point that you cannot see God, who is 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.960 your present help? Into this the mis speaks and I 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.000 wonder what melody was attached to this meditation? Why was 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.760 it c that you fled. It's a rhetorical question. Now 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.640 you know the phrase rhetorical question, right. A rhetorical question 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.640 is a question that you ask but you really don't 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:20.040 expect an answer, right, Like somebody says, what were you thinking? 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.640 All they're saying is you're stupid, but they're framing it 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.920 with a question, but don't answer. It's rhetorical. It means 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.360 you weren't right. Or there's other ones too. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.640 I don't know. I'm just thinking of a few before 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.760 I came out. Oh, here's one. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.160 One time Elijah did something that Holly kept telling him 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.160 not to do, and she kept. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.280 Telling them, kept telling them, and she finally goes, how. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.240 Many times do I have to tell you? And he 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:52.000 goes three times? There was a rhetorical question. It wasn't 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:58.000 a literal question. It was a rhetorical question. And by 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:03.160 framing this question and as rhetorical about the Red Sea 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.240 or the mountains that God moved for his people, God 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.040 is not only asking a rhetorical question, but he's asking 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.440 a historical question. What did God do for you in 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.680 your past that when you remember it, it reveals to 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:25.000 you how powerful He is in your Now, go ahead 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.640 and get ready to write down some notes. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.679 I'm going to give you three points today. Somebody say, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:30.760 he answered. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.360 Put the title of my sermon right there in the comments. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.400 Please just put he answered in all caps. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.880 And of course when he answers in Psalm one fourteen, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.839 he says, tremble earth at the presence of the Lord. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.720 Now that's how it happened, the presence of the Lord. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.199 Let me put all this together really quickly. Why did 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.520 the sea sprint when God's people were passing through? That's 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.720 a historical event, a rhetorical question. Why did the mountain 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.720 move when God told it to? What about those impossible 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.880 things that he did in your life? 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.160 It's rhetorical, it's also historical. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.199 And if you look back over your life, you'll see 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:15.040 that his presence was everywhere. You didn't always recognize it 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.160 because you were hurting too bad, but his presence was 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.800 there with you. You couldn't quite see it because there 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.480 were enemies surrounding your table, but he prepared a table 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.960 for you in the presence of your enemies. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.080 Who was it that told the sea to split, the 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.640 mountain to move? It was God. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.360 It's a rhetorical question. It's a historical question. I like 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.600 them to bring my teaching screen out please. Everybody clapped 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:44.920 to give me the courage to draw a. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:50.480 Little bit today. See how supportive the ladies are When. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:56.880 I I think I'm going to reflect myself next year. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:01.880 It looked so fun, looks so fun. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.320 Okay, I heard you, I heard you. I am not 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.960 going to answer that. You hear what they said. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.240 No, we want Holly, we want Holly. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:14.040 I know me too. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.720 Just to get you back in the mindset of this message, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.640 I drew a loop and I talked about how the 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.880 enemy is always speaking and so is God. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.840 Same lies. Let's abbreviate new loops. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.040 This is the process of transformation. Does that kind of 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:41.720 look like a brain? 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.800 A little bit like? Not really? 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.400 The renewal of your mind to stop repeating the same 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.120 stuff over and over again that leads you to defeat 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:57.680 and start repeating what leads you to victory. Victory and 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.280 defeat are both found in the repeat. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:09.280 That doesn't only rhyme. That's really good. The victories you. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.199 Experience in your life or even in your physical body, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.880 the victories of losing weight, the victories of building strength. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.960 It's found in the repeat. So are the defeats you 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.840 lift weight weight one time every four months. And you 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.280 only lift one weight four times every one time every 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.160 four months, we will see that result. If you lift 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.520 it every day forty times, we will see that if 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.080 you get the right thing on repeat. Oh God, I 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.080 feel like somebody's about to get set free. If you 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.120 get the right thing on repeat in your life, You're 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.880 gonna get stronger. You're gonna say, like the prophet Isaiah 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:53.520 said day that weight on the lore will renew their strength. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.480 I'm renewing my strength by what I do every day. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.240 I am renewing my strength every time I come to church. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.880 Give yourself a hand for coming to your class today, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.000 for tuning into this message today, because this, for me 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.040 is not just a church service, This is a new loop. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.480 This for me is retraining my brain to move away 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.520 from the lies and believe what God says about me. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.319 Not only is. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.760 Your victory found in your repeats, though, but your defeat 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.240 is often found in your repeats. What you say to 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.760 yourself over and over again that disagrees with what God 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.080 already spoke about you before you were ever born will 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.280 leave you feeling weak. You're not really weak, you just 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.480 are repeating the wrong thing. Repeat the right thing you'll 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.439 be stronger. This is not to say that our praise 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.400 and pursuit of God will preclude all of our proclivities 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:50.880 towards sin. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.280 In other words, I'm not saying it's going to be easy. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:54.920 And think about this way. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.640 I read to you what seemed to be a random 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:03.240 verse from Matthew chapter four, where Jesus answered and said, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.880 it is written man will not live on bread alone, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.480 but every word that comes from the mouth of God. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.319 You know where Jesus was when he said that the 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.640 wilderness the wilderness. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:19.880 I want to show this to you. You're not going 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.200 to believe. This is in the Bible in Matthew four, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.560 verse one. Turn there if you'd like, or just will 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.840 put it up on the screen for you. Matthew chapter four, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:36.640 verse one. The Bible says this, Then Jesus was led 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:41.280 by the spirit into the wilderness. That's the part I 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:46.200 thought would shock you, because I thought the spirit would. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:50.320 Lead Jesus to an easy place. But it gets worse. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.640 Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.040 to be tempted by the devil. I have got all 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.040 kinds of questions about that verse, and none of them 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:02.720 are rhetorical. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.920 I really need to know. Why would the spirit lead 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.240 him into the wilderness. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.400 And I thought about that over and over again, and 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.120 I realized the more I read it that it was 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:22.480 a repeat, because I remembered how Israel in the Old 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:28.360 Testament went through the wilderness too, not for forty days 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.880 and forty nights, but for forty years. And here's what 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.160 the enemy did to them when they were coming out 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:40.240 of Egypt. God was bringing them out of Egypt to 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:41.880 the Promised Land. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.760 And on their way out of Egypt into the. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.400 Promised Land, the devil told them a lie that they 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:51.840 could not. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.560 Do what God had called them to do. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.360 The devil has been telling you that same lie, has 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.800 any that you are not enough, and that you are 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.360 you are not enough, you are not loved. I said 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.400 this last week. But victory is found in the repeat. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:09.720 And when you. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.760 Begin to understand that's all the devil ever says to you, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.640 You're not enough. It's not enough, they're not enough, You're 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.640 not loved. It's not enough, you're not loved. Unless you 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.880 do this, you can't be that. They won't love you 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.680 if they only love you because you're not enough, You're 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.840 not loved, You're not even enough for God to love 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.280 you unless you act a certain way. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:28.760 You're not enough for God to. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.120 Hear you unless you reach a certain level of spirituality 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.520 and scale yourself up to the highest heide of the 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.960 best Christian. It's not enough. You tried, but it's not enough, 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.960 and you're not loved. Now, those two lies play on 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.040 the loop in our mind. But in the case of 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.040 Israel going through the wilderness, I want to tell you something. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.920 It was actually true. They were not enough for their 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.320 enemies without. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:54.440 God, but they were not without God. And that's what 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.400 you forget. You forget that he's with you in the wilderness. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.520 He's with you in the wilderness. He's with you in 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.160 your weakness. He's with you as you fight through this addiction. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.600 He's with you as you resist temptation. He's with you 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.160 for that hard conversation you need to have. He's with 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.840 you as you care for somebody who doesn't appreciate you. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.479 He is with you as you work through those bills 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.760 and try to get yourself back on some financial stable ground. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.680 He's with you as you try to consider how am I. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.440 Going to mention this so I can begin to deal 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.919 with it? Because I'm tired of caring. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.399 He is with you in the dry place where you 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.080 haven't felt him for a really long time, and you're 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.520 starting to feel like, well, maybe something's wrong with me, 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.399 Maybe God has left me. But the Bible says that 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.359 Jesus was led into the wilderness by the spirit. It 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.240 says that the spirit led him, but it doesn't say 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:58.280 the spirit left him. The spirit led him to a 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.520 hard place, but the spirit, it did not leave him 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.520 in the hard place. The same spirit that led him 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:10.679 in the wilderness was there all forty days and forty nights. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.000 And I know you need some things in your life 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.480 to get better. And I know you need some chains 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.960 and shackles to fall off your feet. And I know 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.159 you need God to turn some stones into rivers of water. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.600 And I know you need God to do some things, 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.800 and he can and he will. But even until he does, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.440 he's with you in this wilderness. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.560 He's with you in this in between. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.120 He didn't drop you off in the middle of your adversity. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.360 He didn't leave you to figure this out by yourself. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.520 He did not abandon you when you got attacked. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.560 He's not waiting for you to get it together, to 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.480 come down and rescue you. He picks up. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.679 The phone, and if you call him, he'll come. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.960 If you call him, he'll come. If you say. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.400 Jesus, he'll say, yes, I've done. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.880 It a thousand times. I didn't feel like. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.080 Calling on him, but I lifted my hands by faith, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.879 not sight, bye, faith not feeling, and I called on 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.080 the Lord, and I stuck the Lord and he wards 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:16.560 and he answered. So I want to give you three 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.680 truths today to remember for new loops in your life. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:21.720 And the first one is this. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.520 I want you to shout it out everybody, say he's here. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.560 Say that again. He's here. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.040 Now in the verse I read you. He's not the 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:47.440 only one here. It's the devil talking. I'm not even 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:48.440 gonna write out his whole name. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.080 I'm gonna just put that D right there and you'll 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.680 know who I'm talking about. And then there's Jesus. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:05.080 Hold up, I'm gonna do that in all caps. I 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.199 can't draw, but I can do that. Now, listen to me, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.840 and listen to me. Close about this. It's a conversation 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.960 going back and forth in the wilderness. And the spirit 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.960 is with Jesus to defeat the enemy. The spirit is 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.520 with you to defeat the enemy. 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:29.520 Yeah, Yeah, I love how we make it seem like 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:34.800 Jesus as our perfect risen savior, and he is never 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.239 experienced difficulty, or at least you know, we may not 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.080 say that about Jesus because we know we went to 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:40.640 the cross. 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.399 Sometimes we act like that was the only time that 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.320 Jesus's life was hard. Jesus's life was hard the whole 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.720 time it was hard. This is the brink of his ministry. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.760 He's thirty years old, and the spirit leads him in 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.199 the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. That's his 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.840 ministry apprenticeship. That's what the Lord gave him. That's what 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.520 his father gave him to prepare him. And so I 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.760 have recognized every time in my life that God was 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.680 about to do something huge. I had to go through 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.760 hell before I got there every time, and I passed 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.480 that along to you. In case you're going through hell, 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:21.119 you might be on the brink of something huge, and 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.920 the devil might know that, and he might be deploying 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.480 extra resources to try to get you to choke before 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:29.200 you arrive. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:30.600 At your destiny. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.480 Everything I ever released for God faced tremendous resistance. I 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.960 just say that in case it's been difficult for you 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.080 now With that note made, then Jesus was led by 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.199 the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:50.439 devil after fasting forty days and forty nights. This has 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.040 to be the most obvious verse in the Bible. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:56.119 He was hungry, and. 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.119 Yet it's not because Jesus is saying stuff that his 0:21:58.160 --> 0:21:59.800 disciples like, I have food to eat that you know not. 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.679 But he still had a stomach and it was still empty. 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.440 I fasted forty days one time when we started the church. 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:09.840 Those were the hardest things I ever did. And people 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:11.159 told me before I did it, don't worry about it. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.240 Once you get through the first three days, you don't 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.119 even think about food anymore. And they said it's not 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:18.120 hard after like day three. Let me tell you something, 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.200 every one of them, I rebuke your lying. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:27.080 Spirit, talk about same lies, new loops. It was hard 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:28.520 the whole time. 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:32.800 I started dreaming about foods I don't even eat in 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.879 my normal life. I would be I would see brussels 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.119 sprouts and salivate. Now I don't even need bacon in them. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.879 I just need the Brussels sprout. I'll eat it without oil, 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.159 without salt. The whole forty days. It was hard the 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.920 whole time. And you know, we think that the only 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.040 time that it was hard for Jesus was when he 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.200 went to the cross, because we read about him healing 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.280 blind eyes the highlight reel, and people who couldn't speak 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:58.360 spoke when he spoke for them to speak. Because whatever 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.119 he speaks to does whatever he says. If he speaks 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:02.840 to a sea, it's prints, if he speaks to a 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.439 mountain that leaps, whatever he speaks to does what it says, 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.119 except for us. Sometimes I'll come back to that in 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:12.679 a future series. But it was hard the whole time. 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:15.919 It was hard for him when he was tempted by 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:19.520 the devil in the wilderness. His life was hard ever 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.960 since he was a baby. Not only was he born 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:27.880 in a barn, but Harry tried to kill him from 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:32.240 the day he was little. He was on the rhine, 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.320 not from the devil, toward the purpose of God for 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:42.119 his life. So if it's been hard for you, that's okay. 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:45.240 And the devil will just get you stuck in that 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:51.160 get you stuck in how hard it is. So I'm 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:56.360 go ahead and put it there. It's hard, it's hard, 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:58.840 and you're like that's not a lie. 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:00.800 I don't know if you about to say that that's 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:03.320 not true. No, it's true. It's true. 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:05.800 It's just that if the enemy can get you to 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:10.960 go from a line to a loop, that instead of 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:17.119 going through the hard thing, you get stuck in the 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:22.400 hard thing. That instead of God delivering you through this season, 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:26.760 you get in this season and you dig down deeper, 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:31.080 and you actually define yourself by the difficulty of the season. 0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:33.720 Let me speak to that for a moment. Do not 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:38.200 define yourself by the difficulty of the season. Define yourself 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.840 by the size of your God. Because greater is he 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:44.600 that is in you than he that's in the world. 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:47.920 So I'm not saying it's not hard. I'm just saying 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:51.200 he's bigger than it is. And I am also saying 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:54.480 that you don't only have a God who stands high 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.280 above the hard things in your life. You have a 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.960 God who became a human and the hard thing. 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:02.720 The Book of. 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:07.399 Hebrews, Chapter four, verse thirteen, about verse thirteen says something 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:11.399 very interesting. He says that that's not the right verse. 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:13.280 I don't know what the verse is there. It is 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:16.000 verse fourteen that I gave you earlier. Since we have 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:22.600 a great high priest. Everybody say, Jesus is high. 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:22.639 Who has ascended into heaven. 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:26.119 This is after his resurrection, Jesus the son of God. 0:25:26.440 --> 0:25:29.439 Let us hold firmly to the faith we profess, for 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:33.000 we do not have a high priest who is unable 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:37.680 to empathize with our weaknesses. But we have one who 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:43.000 has been tempted in every way just as we are. 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:46.639 Yet he did not sin. Here's your shouting verse. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:51.600 Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence. 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:56.840 Somebody shout, He's here, so that we may receive mercy 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:00.840 and find grace to help us in our time of success, 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:05.600 our time of blessing, our time of wholeness, our time 0:26:05.680 --> 0:26:06.840 of completeness. 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:08.080 All of that is true too. 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:11.639 But if you are in the hour of need right now, 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.120 I know a name that is. 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:17.520 Greater than your need. 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:21.800 I don't care what need you name name cancer, named bankruptcy, 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:25.560 name divorce, name hatred, name evil. 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:30.280 I know a name that is straight. And when on 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:34.320 bush he answers. 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:40.159 High five at least five people say, he answered, I 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:45.960 turned to the throne and he answered, he answered, He answered, 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:51.080 God saw humanity striving in our sin, trying to keep 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:53.880 the law and couldn't do it. Trying to be perfect 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.679 and couldn't do it, trying to keep the commandments and 0:26:56.720 --> 0:27:02.280 couldn't do it. So he handled it himself. He's not 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:06.640 only a high priest, he became a human. Why he 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:10.960 came down to handle what you couldn't. Point number one says, 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:15.399 he's here. Somebody's shout, he's here. Point number two says, 0:27:15.640 --> 0:27:26.960 it's handled. Somebody shout, its handled. I'm trying. If I 0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:33.120 could get three people to agree with me, we could 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:37.879 get you out of this loop that the people of 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:40.439 God were in all the way from numbers thirteen. We 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:43.040 can't attack him. It's too hard for us. It's too 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:43.600 hard for us. 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:46.879 It's too hard for us. You know, sometimes we vent 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:48.359 about our problems to people. 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:57.000 Be careful who you vent to, because sometimes when you 0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:11.600 start venting, start inventing. I studied, I study, I thought 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:14.640 about what I wanted to say. I wanted to tell 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:16.880 you how the Israelites looked at the land that God 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:19.719 wanted to give them. And remember, they turned something that 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:24.479 should have been as straight through into a forty year loop. 0:28:25.119 --> 0:28:27.680 And it all started because they were venting. Numbers Chapter 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.760 thirteen out verse number thirty. Then Caleb's silence to people 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:33.359 before most said we should go up and take possession 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.919 of the land. For we can do it. I know 0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:37.359 we've been slaves for a long time, but we can 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.000 do it. We're sons and daughters of God. 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:40.080 We can do this. 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:43.960 God is with uss. Somebody shout, he's here. 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:45.720 He's here. 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:48.640 Anything's possible if he's here. Did you see what he 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:51.680 just did to the sea we came through. When the 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:55.320 devil gets rhetorical, you get historical, start pointing to stuff 0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:59.960 that God already did and remind him how big your God, 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:03.880 God is. I got a word for somebody. He already 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:17.480 handled it. So it's hard, but but that's how you 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:20.040 break that spiral. That's how you break out of that loop. 0:29:20.240 --> 0:29:23.080 That's how you break out of this stupid, crazy stuff 0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:25.160 that the devil's been feeding you, just like he tried 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.720 to feed Jesus. You break it with a butt. 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:43.240 Where is y'all's mind? It's hard, but he's here. 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:47.000 I want everybody that puts that on a post it 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:47.800 note somewhere around your. 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:51.480 House this week to tag me. But I don't have 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:54.560 social media, so I won't see it. But somebody will 0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:55.480 print it. Out and give it to me. 0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:57.600 And one of the reasons I don't have social media 0:29:57.920 --> 0:29:59.600 is because if I had social media on my phone 0:29:59.680 --> 0:30:02.080 right up now, I wouldn't be able to preach discermon 0:30:02.160 --> 0:30:04.920 to you. Because in this season of my life, I 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:08.800 have got to be very, very careful about the voices. 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:14.440 That I allow to have weight in my life, because 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:17.400 I refuse to let the voice of a human keep 0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:19.080 me from hearing from Heaven. 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:24.920 I must speak what God says is written. 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:36.640 But tag tag me anyway somebody will somebody will print 0:30:36.680 --> 0:30:37.120 it out for me. 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:44.080 Hashtag new loops, hashtag less news, new loops. 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:56.560 Hashtag more word less news. I am saying nothing, but 0:30:56.720 --> 0:31:00.280 what God says is more important than what do you 0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:07.200 think what any human opinion says. So be careful because 0:31:07.240 --> 0:31:10.520 if you keep venting, you might start inventing. You might 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:13.200 make an enemy out of somebody who is actually your 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:23.280 brother or sister in Christ. Okay, nw loops is hard, 0:31:23.280 --> 0:31:26.880 But he's here. He's right in the middle of all 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:30.960 of it. His name is Jesus, and he's here, and 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:44.640 also is handled Who told the sea? The sprint rhetorical question. 0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:49.000 It says, historical question, God did, who told the mountain 0:31:49.040 --> 0:31:52.320 to move. God did, And I know it is hard, 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:54.680 but can you believe it is handled? Here's what Caleb said. 0:31:54.680 --> 0:31:57.560 He said, we can certainly do this. God's got us. 0:31:58.720 --> 0:32:03.680 There is a Caleb inside you. There is a Caleb 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.440 inside of you to tell you that you got it, 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:08.480 to tell you that you don't. 0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:09.280 But he does. 0:32:11.600 --> 0:32:13.600 To tell you that you don't have to respond to 0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:18.040 temporary pressure by making decisions that are going to set 0:32:18.080 --> 0:32:20.560 you back for your destiny. 0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:22.600 The Lord wants you to know its handle. 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:28.560 And in verse thirty one, the people start responding. The 0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:30.600 men who have gone up said, we can't attack those people. 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:34.360 They are stronger than we are. It's too hard. It's 0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:37.320 too hard. Verse thirty two, And they spread among the 0:32:37.360 --> 0:32:40.320 Israelites bad report about the land they explored. And they said, 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:42.920 the land we explored devours those living in it. All 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:45.960 the people we saw there are of great size. That's true, 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.720 and they're venting. But what's for thirty thirty three We 0:32:48.760 --> 0:32:50.280 saw the Nephilm that the sins of the Nact come 0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:52.800 from the Nephlum. We seem like grasshoppers in our own eyes, 0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:56.200 and we look the same to them. Well, now you're 0:32:56.200 --> 0:33:02.240 inventing because you don't know how you look to them. 0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:05.880 But if you look like that in your eyes, you 0:33:06.000 --> 0:33:06.760 start inventing. 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:09.479 There have been times in my marriage where I started 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:14.520 treating Holly like my enemy because of my own insecurity. 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:19.040 I start pushing her away because of something in me 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:22.800 that I don't want her to see. So now I'm 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.120 treating the person that God gave me as my help, 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:26.600 and I am treating them like they are. 0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:29.120 The person that I'm assigned to fight. 0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:34.000 Is your insecurity, leading you to believe your enemy, to 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:37.640 create new enemies, to join with the words of the enemy. 0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:39.160 Jesus would have none of it. 0:33:40.800 --> 0:33:46.400 When the devil spoke to Jesus, Jesus talked back. Jesus 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:50.440 talked back, and it was hard, and he was hungry, 0:33:51.520 --> 0:33:54.640 but he understood that the spirit led him to the wilderness. 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:57.360 But the spirit did not leave him in the wilderness, 0:33:58.040 --> 0:34:00.680 and he understood that his father already had a plan. Now, 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:02.400 the devil has a plan and God has a plan. 0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:03.440 Which one are you going to go with? 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:08.359 One plan is to satisfy you temporarily in short term, 0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:10.040 and the other is for you to trust God with 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:11.240 your tomorrow. 0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:12.359 Because he's the one who's already there. 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:20.279 The tempter came to him. He was hungry because he 0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:23.080 was human. He's high and holy, but he was born 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:25.799 as a human to pay the price for our sin. 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:30.720 And the tempter came to him and said and said, 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:37.520 if you are the son of God, tell these stones. 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:44.920 This is gonna be a stone. 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:50.560 If you are the son of God, tell the stone 0:34:50.840 --> 0:34:51.680 to become bred. 0:34:53.160 --> 0:35:00.000 If you are the son of God, do something. 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.360 To take something that's not supposed to be something and 0:35:03.400 --> 0:35:07.240 make it something that it can't be. Now we already 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:09.720 know that if Jesus tells the stone to be bread, 0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:14.840 it'll be pumpernickel in a minute. It'll be rye bread 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:18.560 in a minute before he says the first syllable, it 0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:22.480 will be the softest, warmest loaf of bread. Jesus could 0:35:22.520 --> 0:35:25.080 not only speak to the stone and make it bread. 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:27.680 He could speak to heaven and rain down butter on 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:29.040 the bread. 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:29.879 He could speak to. 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:32.000 The sun and the sun would toast the slice of 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:35.600 bread that wasn't there before that was a stone. 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:36.400 He could do that. 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:39.279 But watch what he said in verse four. I think 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:48.160 this is powerful for our lives, Jesus answered. Jesus answered, 0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:51.320 he's fully human, and he's fully God. 0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:53.399 That means he's able to be. 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:57.360 Tempted, but he's also able to overcome. So when the 0:35:57.480 --> 0:35:59.480 tempter spoke, watch this. 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:01.719 Answered. 0:36:02.520 --> 0:36:09.960 It is written, man shall not live on bread alone, 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:14.720 but on every word that comes from the mouth of God, 0:36:19.560 --> 0:36:21.680 the God who spoke to the sea, and it split, 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:24.280 the God who spoke to the mountain, and it left 0:36:24.360 --> 0:36:27.000 the God who spoke you into existence. 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:31.279 That's what I live off of. That's what I go by. 0:36:32.760 --> 0:36:36.120 That's my new loop, what God spoke. 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:41.359 And any time that I get stuck, anytime that I'm 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:44.120 going around and around this is. 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:46.160 So messy, I shall probably just start all over. 0:36:47.680 --> 0:36:50.400 Anytime that I feel like what is against me is 0:36:50.440 --> 0:36:52.040 greater than what is for me. 0:36:52.840 --> 0:37:00.640 Here we go, same lies loop. Watch the lie. It's 0:37:00.680 --> 0:37:01.240 not enough. 0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:05.279 You've got to turn the stone into bread because God 0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:06.160 won't provide for you. 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:10.160 It's not enough. 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:14.840 But at the heart of this chunk something very interesting 0:37:15.600 --> 0:37:18.800 if you are the son of God, because not only 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:23.640 it's not enough, but you're not loved, and that there's 0:37:23.680 --> 0:37:26.680 something that you have to do to get God to 0:37:26.760 --> 0:37:32.320 love you. But Jesus knew better. Jesus knew not only 0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:39.320 he's here not only it's handled, but Jesus knew. 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:48.880 I'm his. 0:37:58.080 --> 0:38:02.120 Think about the absurdity of the devil's impision turn a 0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:12.480 stone into bread. Jesus already is both of those things. 0:38:17.560 --> 0:38:18.759 Peter said it this way. 0:38:19.640 --> 0:38:26.600 The stone that the builders rejecting has become the chief 0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:33.600 corner stone, the rock that Moses drank from in the wilderness, 0:38:33.640 --> 0:38:38.120 the one that God pulled into a pool. Jesus is 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:41.439 what the devil is trying to tempt him to turn 0:38:41.480 --> 0:38:45.440 something into. And don't even get me started about bread, 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:54.400 because Jesus is the vibe. Jesus is the bread. Jesus 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:55.879 is the resurrection. 0:38:56.520 --> 0:39:02.359 Jesus is the way, the truth, the Jesus is the 0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:03.200 good shepherd. 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:09.920 Jesus is the Gate, and Jesus is the bread. So devil, 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:13.879 you can't get me what's already mine. 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:15.600 I belove to God. 0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:24.440 I'm his and he's got me. I'm his, and he 0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:28.400 knows me. I'm his, and he chose me. I'm his, 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:32.040 and no man can put me from his hand. I'm his, 0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:34.560 I'm called, I'm his, I'm. 0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:36.000 Sustained, I'm his. 0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:37.440 I'm got grace for. 0:39:37.600 --> 0:39:40.359 This season because I am his. 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:48.640 And he's here, and it's handled because I'm his, because 0:39:48.640 --> 0:39:52.880 he's here, and it's handle because I'm his. 0:39:54.040 --> 0:39:55.680 Till your neighbor be nice to me. 0:39:57.200 --> 0:40:01.680 My father is a great God, tell him be good 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:03.839 to me because my. 0:40:03.880 --> 0:40:09.960 God is a great king, and he's here in this handle. 0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:16.920 When I do this, receive the word of the Lord. 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:19.480 My friend, receive the word of the Lord. My brother, 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.759 receive the word of the Lord. Says, receive the word 0:40:22.800 --> 0:40:25.360 of the Lord. Man of God, receive the word of 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:28.040 the Lord. You pastor receive the word of the Lord. 0:40:28.160 --> 0:40:30.880 Single mom receive the word of the Lord. High school 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:34.680 student receive the word of the Lord. Recovery Program day 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:35.399 thirty three. 0:40:35.840 --> 0:40:37.960 Receive the word of the Lord. 0:40:38.360 --> 0:40:43.000 The bread is already here. The song that the builders rechecked. 0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:45.160 It shall become the sheep. 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:55.799 Warner stone sus you belong to God. Come on, let's 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:59.719 sit in that for a moment. For every devil this's 0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:04.879 been lieing to you. The devil came at Jesus three 0:41:04.880 --> 0:41:08.640 different ways. He told him, if you're the son of God, 0:41:08.680 --> 0:41:14.680 what you mean if I'm the son of God. Y'all 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:19.719 never read Matthew chapter three, verse sixteen when you're about to, 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:23.560 because the Bible says that before Jesus was led into 0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:28.279 the wilderness, he went through the water, and as soon 0:41:28.320 --> 0:41:31.760 as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. 0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:36.439 At that moment, heaven was opened, and he saw the 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:41.720 spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 0:41:42.120 --> 0:41:49.160 He's here, He's here, And a voice from heaven. Ain't 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:51.160 it crazy? One verse before he had to deal with 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:53.920 the voice from hell, God gave him the voice from heaven. 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:56.960 You need a fresh encounter with Jesus. You need a 0:41:57.000 --> 0:42:00.479 fresh revelation of Jesus. You need a fresh word from God, 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:03.480 a meditation in your heart. If you don't meditate on 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:07.640 his word, you're gonna medicate on other stuff, and you 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:11.040 are gonna choke on stones because you don't have any brand. 0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:16.520 And a voice from heaven said, this is my son 0:42:17.239 --> 0:42:18.080 whom I love. 0:42:18.840 --> 0:42:21.440 With him, I am well pleased. 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:26.280 So when the devil Matthew four verse one, started tempting 0:42:26.400 --> 0:42:30.040 Jesus in the wilderness, and in verse two, the Bible says, 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:33.480 after fasting forty days and forty nights, not forty years, 0:42:33.840 --> 0:42:36.840 because Jesus was doing for them what they could not 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:39.719 do for themselves. Don't you get it? He was in 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:43.439 the wilderness for you. He was handling it for you. 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:46.440 He was achieving a righteousness that you and I could 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:50.320 never achieve. He was paying the price for you. That's 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:53.480 why the spirit led Jesus into the wilderness, so that 0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:56.880 you would never be there alone again. And when the 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.919 devil said, if you are the son of God turned 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:03.520 something into something, Jesus said, I'm not turning anything into anything. 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:06.280 I already know who I am because I'm still dripping 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:09.680 with the water of the affirmation of my Father in 0:43:09.719 --> 0:43:10.800 this dry place. 0:43:11.960 --> 0:43:17.920 So I don't think so. I don't think so devil. 0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:19.760 I don't think so devil. 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.600 I don't think I'm just gonna be depressed Devil. I 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:24.239 don't think I'm just gonna live the rest of my 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:27.840 life reliving and rerunning this and repeating this and dredging 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:28.440 this back up. 0:43:28.560 --> 0:43:29.560 I don't think so devil. 0:43:29.640 --> 0:43:31.239 I don't think I'm gonna let the world make me 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:32.920 mad and angry and cynical devil. 0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.600 I don't think so devil. I know I'm his. 0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:40.160 I'm a royal people, I'm a chosen priesthood. 0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:49.040 I'm a holy nation. I belong to God. And he 0:43:49.120 --> 0:43:51.879 came at him three ways I'm almost done. 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:55.680 I know y'all want me to preach for four more hours. 0:43:55.719 --> 0:44:00.640 Come on, four more hours, Come on, four more If 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:03.680 Jesus could fast forty days, y'all can say five more minutes. 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:10.320 In this message, he's here say it. 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:12.719 It's hard, but. 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:29.640 He's how you get the point. And it's hard, but 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:38.400 it's handled. Uhh D definitely comes before L in the 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:43.920 word handle. I do know that, but I was confused 0:44:43.960 --> 0:44:48.040 when it said I'm his, because that's what the Lord 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:50.160 gave me. That he said was more important than anything else, 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:54.600 because if you don't believe that you're loved by him, 0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:56.600 you will be trying to turn everything else in your 0:44:56.640 --> 0:44:57.600 life into loaves. 0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:05.080 And he is my favorite verse. 0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:09.800 After the devil tempts Jesus three times because remember defeat 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.480 in victory or in the repeat, so he's not just 0:45:12.520 --> 0:45:16.000 gonna do it once, not just twice, not just three times. 0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:18.600 But after he told him, hey, throw yourself off the 0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:21.200 building and the angels will catch you. Jesus like I 0:45:21.239 --> 0:45:23.239 know the angels on a first name basis, and I 0:45:23.280 --> 0:45:24.319 do not need to do. 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:25.799 Something to get the angels to come. 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:31.000 If I ask my father to send angels, they're already 0:45:31.040 --> 0:45:31.480 on the way. 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:33.799 Ooh, touch three. 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:37.040 People say they're already on the way. The help you 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:39.839 need is already on the way. The support you need 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:42.279 is already on the way. The book you need is 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:45.239 already in your mailbox. Check your mailbox, the book you 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:48.279 ordered last week. It's got the answer. It's already on 0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.960 the way. And after being tempted, ooh, I feel this 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:54.040 in my spirit. After he had tempted him as hard 0:45:54.040 --> 0:45:56.640 as he could, tempt him, as hungry as Jesus was, 0:45:57.040 --> 0:45:59.400 tried to get him to step outside of who he was, 0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:02.080 to do something thing that he already did, something that 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:05.120 he didn't even need from the enemy, because watch this, 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:09.239 the Bible says in Matthew chapter four, verse number eleven. 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:18.080 Then the devil left him. 0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:20.840 Oh, come on, get happy. I don't need no music. 0:46:20.920 --> 0:46:28.440 Just get happy. Come on, get happy. Then keep clapping 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:32.480 so I can erase. Then, come on, come on. 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:35.720 You want the devil to get up out of your mind. 0:46:36.520 --> 0:46:39.200 You want the devil to get up out of your psychology. 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:42.200 You want the devil to get out of your kids. 0:46:43.000 --> 0:46:45.240 You want the devil to get out of your feed. 0:46:45.960 --> 0:46:49.080 You want the devil to get out of your all right, 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:50.880 get happy. 0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:55.280 Then the devil left. 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:58.280 I'm gonna just start all over, And the Bible says 0:46:58.400 --> 0:46:59.840 verse eleven, isn't on the screen? 0:47:01.239 --> 0:47:04.600 Is verse eleven on the screen? I saw a picture. 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:08.600 Then the devil left, and. 0:47:13.280 --> 0:47:20.640 Oh, thank you Jesus, that're supposed to be an angel. 0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:24.839 The age Us came. They a'te us came. They ain't 0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:27.120 us came with to hell. 0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:31.359 Just slam the asus. 0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:36.720 Pay touch seven. 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:40.680 People say, wait for the angel, Wait for the angel. 0:47:41.520 --> 0:47:45.920 Wait for the angel. Wait for the angel. Don't be 0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:50.680 too anxious, it's already on the way. Don't talk yourself 0:47:50.719 --> 0:47:55.040 out of standing strong for Christ. Wait for the angels. 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:59.399 The angels are on the way. The angels are in room. 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:02.400 You don't have to throw yourself up a building. 0:48:02.920 --> 0:48:07.240 The Ageus are coming, The angels are coming. 0:48:07.400 --> 0:48:08.600 The angels are coming. 0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:18.400 Somewhere in those forty days, I know Jesus prayed, because 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:20.719 I don't believe that the devil was the only one 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:25.400 Jesus was talking to in Matthew chapter four. I believe 0:48:25.440 --> 0:48:28.560 that Jesus, as human and as hungry as he was, 0:48:29.120 --> 0:48:33.200 prayed to his father and said, father, I need you. 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:42.520 And when he called his father he answered and just 0:48:42.719 --> 0:48:44.520 because the answer. 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:50.640 Hasn't arrived yet does not mean God didn't send it. 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:59.799 But in this season, if you start trying to turn 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:05.160 stones into bread and substitute other human relationships for your 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:11.279 relationship with God, you will miss your angel because you 0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:13.640 ate something that was never meant to be eaten. 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:21.320 Stand on your feet. The angels are waiting. 0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:29.840 I believe there's angels come into your house this way. 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.280 I believe angels are coming to somebody's central nervous system 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:38.400 right now to calm you down. Freaking out swinging at 0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:41.879 stuff that isn't even swinging at you. Stop it, wait 0:49:41.920 --> 0:49:50.360 for the angel. He's here, is handled, You're his. Speak 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:58.960 those things quietly say, he's here, is handling. I'm his. 0:50:01.239 --> 0:50:11.920 Come here, Abbe, come here, I called, she answered, because 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:12.440 she's mine. 0:50:14.120 --> 0:50:21.800 Come on up my way up. We love you, Abby answer, 0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:24.880 I'm saying, I love you too. Person I don't know. 0:50:29.080 --> 0:50:31.400 And before we came out, I was showing her my angel. 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:33.759 I says, it look like an angel. I said, give 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:35.920 me your hand, put it up. Can y'all get this 0:50:35.960 --> 0:50:40.919 on the screen. I drew those two loops on her hand. 0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:45.040 Now this is my daughter, so I'm saying to her 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:46.920 and I know fourteen year old can't get a tattoo, 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:48.319 but if she could, I would probably have her get 0:50:48.400 --> 0:50:51.279 something like this. But I have somebody draw more professionally, 0:50:53.600 --> 0:50:59.919 just to remind her that he's here, that his hand. 0:51:00.520 --> 0:51:01.959 You don't have to keep it all in your hands 0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:03.120 and handle all the way yourself. 0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:07.200 And I'm his, and I'm his. 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:11.160 Angels are on the way, Angels are on the way, 0:51:11.200 --> 0:51:12.120 angels are on the web. 0:51:12.280 --> 0:51:13.920 He said, what do you mean by that? What do 0:51:13.920 --> 0:51:15.080 you mean by that, Pastor Stephen? 0:51:15.760 --> 0:51:18.640 I mean that God is going to send you the 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:22.560 help that you need as you call onto him. 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:24.440 And yesterday, why are we on our knees like this? 0:51:24.520 --> 0:51:26.759 I'll stand up. It's very uncomfortable. 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:32.040 She had a soccer game yesterday afternoon. Yesterday morning, ten 0:51:32.080 --> 0:51:35.080 am soccer. I want to say, for somebody who's about 0:51:35.080 --> 0:51:38.520 to preach in twenty four hours, I'm always stressed out 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:40.200 trying to find the soccer field. 0:51:40.440 --> 0:51:42.320 That's my hardest part. I have no sense of direction. 0:51:42.880 --> 0:51:44.399 Holly got there. She sent me a pen. 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:48.880 I left with plenty of time to part and I 0:51:49.000 --> 0:51:54.080 arrived exactly on time, five minutes to spare to an 0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:58.920 empty church parking lot with no soccer field. I mean, 0:51:58.960 --> 0:52:01.480 I'm just driving talking my friend on the phone talking 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:02.880 about my sermon to me. I think I'm gon talk 0:52:02.920 --> 0:52:04.759 about the angels and the bread and the stones. This 0:52:04.840 --> 0:52:07.040 is make an offense. He's like, yeah, I'm sure it'll 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:11.640 get there. But the angels are on the way. The 0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:14.160 angels are on the way. And as I'm on my 0:52:14.160 --> 0:52:15.799 way to the thing, I'm not paying attention, and all 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:18.600 of a sudden I realize, oh, I'm here, but I'm 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:25.360 not there. I didn't disobey the GPS. Every turn that 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:29.160 told me to take I took. I didn't rebel against 0:52:29.160 --> 0:52:37.719 the GPS. Turn right, I don't think so, and listen 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:40.000 to me. I want to give you this one because 0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:41.840 I need to use it because if something bad happens 0:52:41.840 --> 0:52:42.799 to me, I want to redeem it. 0:52:43.960 --> 0:52:45.959 And there's no really bad part of this story because 0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:46.399 all I did. 0:52:46.440 --> 0:52:51.759 I called Holly, I said, hey, this is weird. I 0:52:51.840 --> 0:52:55.120 went where you sent me to go before you left. 0:52:56.400 --> 0:52:59.160 But I need you to resend it to me now 0:52:59.200 --> 0:53:04.279 that you're there. Because the address that we had, I 0:53:04.320 --> 0:53:04.759 got to. 0:53:04.760 --> 0:53:07.360 The destination that it was taking me to. 0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:10.160 But the destination that was taking me to was not 0:53:10.239 --> 0:53:11.400 the destination. 0:53:10.960 --> 0:53:11.480 Where you are? 0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:15.839 I said, so what do I do? She said, I'm 0:53:15.840 --> 0:53:19.080 gonna drop you a new pin because she's here. Now, 0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:21.600 everybody say he's here. 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:23.719 Because she's here now. 0:53:24.840 --> 0:53:26.440 I said, all right, and then I put it in 0:53:26.440 --> 0:53:28.480 and it was fifteen minutes away. 0:53:28.640 --> 0:53:32.880 I fifteen minutes off and then I drove somewhere and 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:37.719 then the GPS took me down this very strange dirt road. Yeah, 0:53:37.760 --> 0:53:40.479 it was the weirdest thing. The sign said keep out, 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:42.759 and I went through anyway because the GPS told me to. 0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:47.160 I'm just obeying the GPS, you know. And of course 0:53:47.200 --> 0:53:50.080 it's a dead end. It's some weird looking government building. 0:53:50.120 --> 0:53:52.200 I don't even know where I was or what was 0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:54.040 about to happen to me. I don't know what got 0:53:54.040 --> 0:53:56.680 in my GPS. So I called her again. I said, okay, 0:53:56.719 --> 0:54:01.640 let's try it different this time. You're already there. Tell 0:54:01.680 --> 0:54:05.160 me how to get there from where I am. And 0:54:05.200 --> 0:54:06.719 she said, okay, well you it's the road, and she's 0:54:06.719 --> 0:54:08.640 pretty good with directions. So she started describing it to 0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:13.440 me because she was there, and she said, he just 0:54:13.440 --> 0:54:15.400 stay on the phone with me for a minute. She said, 0:54:15.640 --> 0:54:17.440 all right, turn here. There's a long road. There's a 0:54:17.440 --> 0:54:20.439 classic car show. Don't turn into that, keep driving, because 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:24.360 she'd already seen all that, because she was there, because 0:54:24.400 --> 0:54:27.440 we have not a high priest who is unable to 0:54:27.520 --> 0:54:31.319 sympathize or empathize with our weaknesses, because he was tempted. 0:54:31.040 --> 0:54:31.759 In the wilderness. 0:54:31.840 --> 0:54:32.080 And so. 0:54:35.640 --> 0:54:38.080 Then she really really put the cherry on top. 0:54:38.200 --> 0:54:42.359 She said, I'm wearing my bright yellow hat, and you 0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:45.640 can see me, and I'll wave you in, and i 0:54:45.680 --> 0:54:47.680 will block this pickup truck that's. 0:54:47.560 --> 0:54:50.879 Trying to take this parking space until you get here. 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:55.480 And I saw that yellow hat, and I saw my 0:54:55.719 --> 0:55:01.560 woman standing there waiting for me, and I realized what 0:55:01.800 --> 0:55:02.600 was wrong. 0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:06.840 In that moment. I didn't need a pen. I needed 0:55:06.880 --> 0:55:13.960 a person. I needed somebody who was already there to 0:55:14.040 --> 0:55:14.600 guide me in. 0:55:15.360 --> 0:55:18.160 Now, you keep trying to fight temptation in your own strength, 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:21.799 you're gonna stay lost. You're gonna think you're taking the 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:22.919 right turns, you're gonna think. 0:55:22.840 --> 0:55:23.840 You're doing the right things. 0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:29.440 But Jesus said, hey, I'll be standing in your next 0:55:29.480 --> 0:55:30.120 five minutes. 0:55:30.200 --> 0:55:33.800 I'll be standing in your Tuesday. I will be waving 0:55:33.840 --> 0:55:38.160 you in. You look for me, you stay with me, 0:55:40.920 --> 0:55:43.720 and I'll answer. He answered. 0:55:45.160 --> 0:55:48.720 He answered, Jesus, answered the devil, because the Father already 0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:49.640 answered him. 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:52.440 And the angels are. 0:55:52.320 --> 0:55:53.120 On the way. 0:55:54.040 --> 0:55:59.680 I call God on the mountain. I call God in 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:00.600 the valley. 0:56:02.040 --> 0:56:08.799 I call God on the good days, and I call God. 0:56:07.440 --> 0:56:14.120 In he surrounds me. Call God just to tell him, 0:56:14.160 --> 0:56:14.759 just to say. 0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:18.200 Call. 0:56:18.400 --> 0:56:22.840 God's saying. So one thing you could do. 0:56:22.880 --> 0:56:24.960 You could just lift your hands to your father right now. 0:56:25.239 --> 0:56:27.600 I call God on the mountain. 0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:35.880 I call God, he answered, Oh God, he answered Jesus, 0:56:35.960 --> 0:56:40.200 he'll answer you. And the Lord is in this place 0:56:40.239 --> 0:56:46.360 with your God. Angels in your wilderness man. 0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:50.680 Angels in your try place. He turned stones into pools 0:56:50.680 --> 0:56:59.400 of waters. I call God. I call God. I call God. 0:57:00.880 --> 0:57:04.200 Let's have a little grace party of God. Let's get 0:57:04.200 --> 0:57:08.600 it warmed up. Baby. I call God where you ask 0:57:08.680 --> 0:57:10.320 you SECTION call God. 0:57:10.760 --> 0:57:17.439 Just a thank you, Susan said, See my new friend God, 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:18.600 my new briend. 0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:23.880 I sold the honey I think I had man. I 0:57:24.080 --> 0:57:24.840 called God. 0:57:25.200 --> 0:57:26.200 He's a healer. 0:57:27.440 --> 0:57:30.720 I call God, new bread. 0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:34.400 I call God bread. 0:57:34.760 --> 0:57:38.800 I call God. It's just all aroun me. I call 0:57:39.080 --> 0:57:47.240 God andie I call God. He say again, I call God. 0:57:47.440 --> 0:57:51.440 As I sold that heady as he. 0:57:52.920 --> 0:57:54.360 I call God, he. 0:57:56.560 --> 0:58:01.160 I call God, heisp oh God. 0:58:19.240 --> 0:58:20.360 Thank you for joining us. 0:58:20.680 --> 0:58:23.120 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:26.680 this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:29.320 You can click the link in the description to give 0:58:29.400 --> 0:58:33.360 now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:37.240 more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:38.960 You can share it with your friends. 0:58:39.280 --> 0:58:41.560 You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 0:58:41.600 --> 0:58:43.720 share it on your social stories and tag us at 0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:44.600 Elevation Church. 0:58:44.680 --> 0:58:46.320 Thanks again for listening. 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