He Was The One

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.639 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.640 new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:21.840 All right, so. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.400 Sit down and let's get into it today. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.159 I'm gonna sit down with you. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.440 We'll get into the sermon a little differently. I'm gonna 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:43.680 do it like if it was Jeopardy. Does anybody watch Jeopardy? 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.879 At my mom's house on Wednesday night? She cooks for 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.040 us and we watch We watch Jeopardy and then Wheel 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.640 of Fortune. But I'm more on that Wheel of Fortune 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.120 intelligence level. If I'm being honest with you, then the 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:02.520 Jeopardy intelligence level. That's that's true, and so Wheel of 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.560 Fortune is really our show. It's called Victuals, Vinyls, and Vanna. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.319 I go over to my mom's she cooks victuals for us, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.560 and then she picks out a vinyl. I got a 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.120 record player, so we'll listen to something like Creating's Clearwater 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.560 Revival or something safe, sanctified, sanctimonious like that. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.800 And then and then we'll watch Vana White. Well, anyway, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:21.360 that's not the point. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.280 I'm gonna do my sermon illustration like it's Jeopardy, and 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:26.640 not to put you on the spot, but just to 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.400 kind of get into the subject for today. And I 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.399 want you to play along if you're at home. Okay, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.120 So I'm gonna say a description of like a Bible character. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.600 We won't go along with this, and then you just say, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.759 in the form of a question like they do on Jeopardy, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:38.640 who is blank? 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:39.039 If you know? 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.040 If you don't know, it's okay, okay, put it online 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.679 if you do know it though, He was the one 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.880 who built an arc. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.120 Who was Noah Good? And put it on that wheel 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.600 of fortune level for a minute? First? Okay? All right? 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.400 He was the one who stretched out his staff and 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:07.760 who is Moses? That's right, I'm not going to trick you, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.320 but I am going to get harder. He was the 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.160 one who fought the Battle of Jericho and the walls 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.600 came Tom Blendown. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:19.120 Who is Joshua Good? All right? 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.320 He was the one who took a rock a big old, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.079 ugly nine foot giants stand in front of him. Hit 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.200 the giant with the rock had five, only needed one 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:28.079 because he had good aim. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:34.200 Who is David? Okay? Now, the next one. I got 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:34.880 to read this one. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.240 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.040 to Judah after Amasi arrested with his ancestors. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.760 You got that chat gpt out, didn't you? For that man? 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.400 That's right. I didn't know it either. We came across 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:58.200 it in our Bible reading. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.280 I'm gonna by reading club with my oldest son and 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:07.040 Kelsey and beautiful Holifredic and we came across this passage. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.000 We're reading through Second Kings, and I am going to 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.400 give you the answer. It's in Second Kings fourteen, twenty 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.080 one and twenty two, and it came across this phrase. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:18.680 And I'm trying these. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.840 Days to give you the sermon in the spirit that 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.280 I received it more and more so that means less 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.160 distance between how God speaks it to me and how 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.720 I speak it to you. And so I don't want 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.799 to dress it up too much where it loses its impact. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.359 So for me, I was just reading the Book of 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.960 Second Kings can get kind of monotonous. It's got all 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.040 these bad kings. In the Northern Kingdom of Israel, there 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.080 wasn't one good one, and then in Judah the southern 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.119 kingdom because it was a divided kingdom. There are eight 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.880 good kings, but there's like over twenty kings in all, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.880 so it's mostly like going through and saying, this is 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.560 the king that reigned during this prophet's tenure as a prophet, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.440 and he was a bad king, and he did some 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.360 things right and then he did some things horrible. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.440 So you just kind of get in this mode reading 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:02.920 it just. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.000 Day after day, chapter after chapter where you're just hoping, like, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.680 maybe this guy will get it right because they keep 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.080 letting the nation worship idols. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.800 And keep going stop worshiping the idols, worship God. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.640 And then you wonder if, like maybe somebody would say 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.320 that about you if they watched your life too, So 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.240 you know, stop worshiping money, stop worshiping stuff, stop worshiping acceptance. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:24.120 Stop anyway. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.200 Maybe not you just me, okay, okay, okay, just me, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.320 just me, okay, okay, okay. So we come across this 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.880 and this phrase stood out to me. I'm going to 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.320 give you two verses from Second Kings fourteen twenty one 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.200 and twenty two coming up on the screen right now. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:43.680 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah. Azariah, who 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:48.080 was sixteen years old, and made him king in place 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:54.240 of his father Amaziah. He was the one who rebuilt 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.240 Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with 0:04:59.360 --> 0:04:59.960 his ancestor. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.080 So Y's play again. He was the one who rebuilt. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.040 Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:14.760 his ancestors. Who is verse twenty one Azarayah the kid 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.400 who became a king at sixteen years old? 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:23.320 Do any of you have teenagers? Have you been a teenager? 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.400 Can you imagine being a king at age sixteen? 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.359 And yet he was the one to do it. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.000 And that's the title that I want to use for 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.839 the message today, a very simple thought. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:41.159 He was the one. He was the one say that 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:41.760 out loud. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.679 He was the one and put it in the chats 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.839 for the comments if you're joining us online. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.000 He was the one. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.520 They didn't ask him, they didn't let him run for office. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.600 He didn't get to decide if he had a career 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.560 in politics. The people, the Bible says, then all the 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.880 people of Judah verse twenty one took Azariah, who was 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.240 sixteen years old, and made him king in place of 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.520 his father Amasiah. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.920 Amasiah. You know he did some dumb stuff. He did 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.560 some good stuff, he did some dumb stuff. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.279 There's a motivational speaker who likes to say every life 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.919 is either a warning or an example. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:26.960 Which one do you want your life to be. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.760 I don't mean to argue with the motivational speaker, but 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.440 don't you think every life. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:39.400 Is a warning and an example? At some points? It 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:40.920 depends on which part. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.920 Of my life you're looking at, whether I'm a warning 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.200 or an example. It depends on what point in time 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.800 you judge it whether it would be a warning or 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.479 an example. We've all seen people whose examples that we 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.000 tried to follow until we found out that their example 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.400 that was being set was leading toward an end that 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.919 we couldn't have seen coming. And yet I'm grateful for 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.160 the grace of God because he uses it all. In 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.040 the case of Amaziah, the dad that you read about 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.920 in this passage, you know, he did some amazing stuff. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.000 The Bible said he was the one who killed these 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.680 ten thousand Edomites and ran them off a cliff. He 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.520 did that to take back some land that God had 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.239 given the people. Then he turned around and did something 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.800 so dumb. He attacked the king of Israel, who was 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.480 stronger than him, and the king of Israel tried to 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.280 warn him. He's like, yo, man, you're just a like 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.960 you're a thistle to me, that's what he said. And 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.960 he said, don't come and try to start this with me. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.120 And he's like, I am not the one. You know. 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.120 I just said he was the one. He's like, I 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.000 am not the one you want to mess with. And 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.320 he was right, and he goes in and punishes him greatly. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.080 So the people take that king Amaziah and they're like, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.200 we're putting your son in your place, and he doesn't 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.520 really have a say in the matter. They begin to 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:09.760 rain together when Azariah is sixteen, and then after Amaziah 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.160 dies as Ariah takes the throne. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:13.680 He was the one the. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.960 Bible says, let's go back to that phrase again, because 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.520 this is where I want to focus. He was the 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:24.440 one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.840 Amaziah his father rested with his ancestors. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:30.480 So I was telling. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.080 Holly after we read that chapter that day, I said, 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.760 that really spoke to me, how the Bible said he 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.679 was the one. And she's like, okay, and she actually 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.000 said this to me. She's like, I thought it was 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.000 the most boring chapter we've read in weeks. I didn't 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.240 get anything out of it, I said, but let me 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:48.880 tell you, and went for a walk, and I said, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.319 it made me realize that when it's all said and done, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.920 the summary of your life usually will be condensed to 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.560 a few things the end. And that's one of the 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.520 reasons why I really prioritize my family as a pastor, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.400 because you can get another pastor, but Abby only gets one. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:20.560 Dad thought you'd support me in that. I don't know that. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:21.520 I don't care about you. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.120 I just know that, either by choice or if it 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:28.960 was by coercion, I know you don't want another pastor. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.240 You know, like that be a downgrade, right, But no, no, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:34.240 I'm kidding about that. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:35.679 I mean, there's different people God we used to feed 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.760 you in different seasons, and I don't have any problem 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.960 if God uses somebody else in your life, but she 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.200 only gets one. In fact, I was remembering when I 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.240 read the phrase he was the one. Somebody say he 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.360 was the one. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.760 He was the one. That's what I want to talk 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:47.080 to you about. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.680 I was remembering when I went to a wrestling tournament 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.000 to watch Graham and he won the whole tournament, and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.440 after the tournament was the first big tournament that he won. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.600 This a few years ago, and he won, and I 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.080 almost didn't go to the tournament because I had to 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.720 schedule somebody else to preach for me to go. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.040 To the tournament. And I looked at him after he won. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.680 We're sitting at Pizza Hut where all great bookeet and 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.679 athletics celebrations happened, and I said, can you imagine if 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.679 you had won the whole tournament and I hadn't been here? 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.160 And he goes, but if you hadn't been here, I 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:32.280 probably wouldn't have won it. Remember that, and I miss 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.240 stuff that my kids do, just like you do all 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.079 the time. But it reminded me of something that even 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.080 if I'm stuck in this narrative in my life that 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.480 you know, I'm really no one special, I'm really no 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:54.520 one and I have no one, it's a lie if 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.680 I believe that that I am no one and that 0:10:58.760 --> 0:10:59.520 I have no one. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.400 So many of us do. I think that's the thing. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.680 The devil just tries to get you to believe over 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.920 and over again in different ways, and he'll put evidence 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.600 in front of you. In thoughts inside of you to 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.280 try to convince you that I am no one. I 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.880 have no one those two things. Write those down because 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.840 I want you to be like a detective on the 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.400 devil this week. For when he says it to you, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.360 you're like, oh, yeah, that's what the sermon was about, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:31.640 because we all sometimes feel like I am no one, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:36.000 nobody compared to that person, no one that really makes 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:36.480 a difference. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.160 I mean, come on, Pastor. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.120 Steve, and you're preaching about a king in the Bible 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.559 who restored and rebuilt a city. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.280 What does this have to do with me. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.440 I'm just trying to get my kid to school one 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.400 time on time next week, Just one. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.520 Time on time. That would be my Bible verse. He 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.439 was the one who got his kid to school one 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:58.320 time on time. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.640 And if he can't tell you that y're no I want 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.600 to tell you have no one. So I said to Holly, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.680 I said, that really touched me to know that the 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.320 Bible said he was the one. In fact, in Second Kings, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:13.920 I knew I couldn't stay in that chair very long. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.840 How long did I make it? Five minutes? In Second 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.560 Kings it goes three times. It says he was the 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.840 one and it talks about one certain king. He was 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.000 the one, and it talks about another certain king. He 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.240 was the one, and it talks about another certain king. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:29.920 And at first you're reading. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.400 This going, well, this has nothing to do with me, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.000 because I'm not a king, and I'm not in charge 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:38.160 of military resources. Or they won't even trust me to 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.480 bring coffee because they know it'll be spilled by the 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.040 time I get there. I can't even get the coffee 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.160 order right. I'm not the one like that. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.160 But I read it. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.360 Over and over again, and I thought about Graham, and 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.720 I thought about my life, and I thought about the 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.040 things that God has called me to do, and I 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.760 thought about the people that God has called me a shepherd, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.040 and I realized that we need to talk about He 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.400 was the one for all of those times in your 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.760 life where you feel like I am no one. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.600 And I have no one. So what I said to Holly, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.400 was this guy in the Bible. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.600 There are three of them, I said, They list their accomplishments, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:22.360 even though all three of them technically failed at turning 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.160 the nation around, But it still gives you this little 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.280 glimpse in there. He didn't get it all right, but 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.360 he was the one who did something right. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.280 And I think we need to learn how to. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.080 I don't want to say talk back to the devil, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.080 because we probably better to talk to God. But just 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.600 can I say we need to defy the devil every 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:49.640 once in a while, to defy the devil when he says, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.560 you know you're no one, because look how many followers 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.560 they have, Look how many friends they have, Look how 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:56.920 far along they are in their career. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.600 Look how much money they have. You don't know how 0:13:58.679 --> 0:13:59.600 much money they have. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.120 Every bit of what they're wearing on their body might 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.200 be borrowed. You don't know if they paid for that 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.120 brand name in cash. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.040 So you don't even know. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.440 Oh I'm no one and I have no one. And 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:21.680 the Bible steaks up for this king Azariah, and it 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:26.359 says he was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:33.600 it to Judah. He rebuilt and he restored, He rebuilt 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.720 and he restored. He was the one. He didn't get 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.920 it all right, he didn't remove the high places where 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.280 they were worshiping the Canaanite gods. But he was the 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:52.200 one who rebuilt and restored. And I came to remind 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:58.960 somebody today, you are the one. See I can see 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.920 we need to talk about this because you're slow to 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.000 warm up to the idea because you've been in that 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.760 I'm no one, and you even think that's humble. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.680 Right, you even think that's godly. I must decrease that 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.320 he may increase. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.280 It does not increase God for you to shrink back 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:17.480 from what he called you to do. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:28.440 Somebody say he was the one. He was the one. Yeah, yeah, And. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.280 It's important that we know that because if you just 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.840 read about this, it's kind of like and his name 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.080 was Azariah. But I even studied about Azariah, and you 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:42.160 know what I found out what I'm playing fennis with 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:43.440 myself up here sometimes. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.640 I found out that the king named Azariah, who I 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:49.720 thought I had never heard. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:56.560 Of before, is the same guy called Yousiah that Isaiah 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.000 mentions in the famous throne. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.480 Room scene in Isaiah chapter six. And I checked this out. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:07.800 He was the prophet who prophesied to Azariah, whose name 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.440 was also Eusiah. Usiah was his throne name, Azariah was 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:17.360 his personal name. And there's only one consonant different in Hebrew. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.960 So if we need van a white to come out, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.960 and we just changed one letter, this is the guy 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.000 who Isaiah, the prophet. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.600 Says Isaiah chapter six or one. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.760 In the year King Eusiah died, I saw the Lord 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.080 high and lifted up seated on a throne, and the 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:36.600 train of his robe filled the temple. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.440 In the year that Usiah died. That's the same guy, Usiah. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.840 That's the same guy that is talking about. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.800 He was the one that died the year Isaiah saw 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:52.200 the Lord and had his lips touched with Cole. Now 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.840 that connection doesn't seem too significant to you yet, but 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.120 it will when I'm done, because I want you to 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.840 understand something right right quick, right off the bat, right 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.320 right now, right here, right now, and never doubt it again. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.879 If you knew what God was doing through you right now. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.679 And what God was going to do through you, the 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.359 devil could never discourage you again. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.080 If you knew. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:24.399 Ah touch your neighbors say, if you knew what God 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.280 was doing through you, put it in the future in case, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.320 in case they have a hard time seeing it right now, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.720 in case they have a low bank balance right now, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.040 in case their kids aren't speaking to him right now, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.399 in case their mom isn't speaking to him right now, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.320 in case their job sucks right now, in case they're 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.679 single right now and wishing that they weren't single. I mean, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.919 there's nothing wrong with being single unless you wish you 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.919 weren't single. But if you look back at them one 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:47.920 more time and tell them for. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.119 Me, just make the announcements. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:49.360 Say. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:54.960 If you knew what God was gonna do, the devil 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.840 couldn't discourage you, couldn't pay you enough to quit, couldn't 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.960 defeat you, couldn't press you. If you knew he was 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:10.840 the one and they made him king at age sixteen, 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.639 you haven't been thrust into something you felt like you 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.840 weren't ready for yet. Have you ever just had somebody 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.000 put something on you that you didn't even want to wear? 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.200 Have you ever had that moment? I think every parent 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.720 has this moment. Oh, I am the grown up. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.920 And this guy he's sixteen years old. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.400 And he has to become a king, and he did 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.680 something so amazing that we're talking about it today. He's 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.920 the one. I'm sure he wondered, just like you're doing 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:49.720 I do. Why would I be the one? I'm sure 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.359 he felt in the shadow of his father, just like 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.960 you feel in the shadow of some of your challenges. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:01.359 I'm sure he felt insufficient, but yet he was the 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.600 one who got the other one. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.439 Yeah, there's three of them. I read the role one. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.720 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:14.560 to Judah after Amaziah. So I'm thinking to myself right 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:19.920 reading this, let me sit back down. I'm going Elith 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.720 must be a really big place if the Bible takes 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.679 time to say that, of everything that he did, he 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.640 rebuilt and restored Elath. And I pulled out this map 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:41.760 in my Bible, y'all, and Elath isn't that big. It 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:48.960 wasn't its size that made it significant. It was where 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:58.760 it was situated. Elath was a port city. E Lath 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.919 was at the northern tip of a gulf. Elath was 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.200 in the territory of the Edomites. The Edomites had once 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.520 been a territory of Israel, but they had broken away. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:18.280 Usiah's father had brought edom back to a point. Usiah 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:23.320 did something more important. He restored the port city so 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:29.600 that the trade could happen beyond the borders of Judah. Now, 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:34.480 can I preach? Sometimes we have no idea what's really important, 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:44.240 because we judge significance by size, we judge significance by status. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.760 But the thing that God wants you to know that Usiah, 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:53.359 Azariah the artist formerly known as Azariah. The thing that 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.080 God wants you to know about him was he was 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:01.080 the one who was remembered for what he reads built 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.080 and for what he restored and what he rebuilt and 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.919 what he restored didn't seem very big, but it was 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.320 very important because it was a port city. Because if 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.240 he got the port city working again, the shifts could 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:20.159 come and go. Imagine the hustle and bustle of commerce 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.520 and economy and exchange and trade that could happen when 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:26.280 he got the port city back. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:28.760 There are some things that the enemy. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.359 Will fight you over in your life that don't seem 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.919 very big on the surface, but he knows it is 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.000 a port city in your life. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.800 And if you get this one right, and if you 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.320 get this one back, and if you get this one fixed, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.560 and if you get this one under control, and if 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.119 you get this one flowing, and if you get this 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.080 one working, and if you get this one open, and 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.960 if you get this one rebuilt. And see, that's why 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:57.520 you can. 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.640 Never judge the significance of the seas and that you're 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.280 in by the size of the opportunity. According to your 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:10.160 eyes if you only knew, I will prove it to you, 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.040 not from the Bible. I'll prove it from my life 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:16.359 because I've never seen E laugh. I've never been there. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.480 But I have had moments in my life where God 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.560 was using something that I didn't think it was important, 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:30.560 but it was a port. So when Elijah went to 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.560 college a few weeks ago, he said, I got to 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:37.280 get a job. I said probably. He said, how do 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:41.880 I get one? I said, there's many different ways. He said, 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.320 how did you get one? I said, well, I never 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.480 really had a real job. I mean, I got all 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:50.240 these scholarships to get to college. I applied for every scholarship. 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:52.840 I did work study where you could get some of 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.119 your tuition paid. I did everything I could. I mean, 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:57.720 I worked jobs. When I was a kid. I did 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:02.600 a y'all know about my jobs. I cremated animals, I 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:08.840 sold fireworks, I cleaned churches, I sold explosives, burned dogs, 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.440 and cleaned the house of God. 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:14.000 Let me see your resume. All right, But. 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:22.439 When I got to college, I felt like I was 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:27.840 called to preach right. Nobody else shared that opinion at college. 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.959 Back at home, I preached my first sermon when I 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:35.879 was sixteen. I wasn't a king like Usaiah at sixteen, 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:38.440 but I preached my first sermon at Monk's Corner of 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:39.600 United Methodist Church. 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:40.639 And then Pastor Mickey. 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:44.399 He was the one who sat on my parents' floor 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.359 and said God's hand is on your. 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:51.360 Son, and for my mom and my dad. They were 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:52.240 the ones who. 0:23:52.200 --> 0:23:54.199 Let me go be a youth minister while I was 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:59.000 still a youth. But when I went to college, nobody 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:02.760 was asking me to pre I found a guy on campus. 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.360 This is what I told Elijah. I said, you need 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:05.840 to one day. 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:09.960 If you ever meet him, think j Hardwick. He said, 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:15.119 who's Jay Hardwick? I said he was the one I 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:19.920 talked to him in fifteen years. I would text him, 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:22.359 but I don't have this number, so maybe he'll see 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:23.720 this Jay. 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:27.720 Reaching out. You were the. 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:31.640 One when I came up to you in the cafeteria 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:38.160 and I said I heard your preacher, and you said, yeah, 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:40.160 I mean I'm trying to be it. I said me too, 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:46.639 I want to preach like you preach. And you said 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:50.040 to me, Okay, when somebody calls me for an invitation 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:54.840 and I can't go, I'll tell him to get you instead. 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:02.360 And I said I'll eat your crumbs. I'm not I'm 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:05.199 not I'm not picky. I'm not picky. 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:11.760 Once you've run a crematory, you you'll preach anywhere, I said, 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:13.360 I said that would be awesome. 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:16.560 He was the one that told Mason to put me 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.560 on the Summer Impact team where I ended up traveling 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:25.760 with Holly. He was the one, and he never sent 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:30.239 me a bill. He never took a commission. Far as 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:33.439 I know, he never took credit. They'd be running all 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:39.720 around the state of wherever he lives now saying yeah, 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:43.440 I gave Ferdiic his start over there over there at elevation, 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:46.240 but he didn't. 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:46.600 Really care about that. 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:53.080 It's like he was so important in my life and 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:54.800 I never even told my son about him. So just 0:25:54.840 --> 0:26:00.560 the other day, So the next time the devil tells 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:05.959 you you have no one and he starts hitting you 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:10.719 with this loneliness that he hits you with. When he 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:20.080 hits you with loneliness, hit him with a list. Somebody 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:23.640 say he was the one, all right, let's get inclusive. 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:26.760 Say she was the one. I knew y'all were getting offended. 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:29.040 Reflect this Friday night, and I don't want to start 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.959 anything early. I mean, I've told you a thousand times 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:36.280 that really Hoghy started the church, not me. I was 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:38.199 gonna start it when I was about the age I 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:44.200 am now, and eighteen years ago she turned me and said, 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.240 it's time for you to start church, God's colture start. 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:47.640 We got people around us we need, and you got 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:48.879 what you need right now to do it. And we're 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:52.080 gonna do it right now. If she wouldn't have talked 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:54.400 me into doing it, then I would have learned too 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:57.640 much to do it at this point in my life. 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:03.520 I would have learned too much the one. She was 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:08.840 the one. And I look around the room like this, 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:13.600 see and I don't just see a crowd, I see ones. 0:27:16.480 --> 0:27:17.280 I see ones. 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:23.240 He was the one that convinced me we could do 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:27.520 elevation nights. He was the one that was with me 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:30.399 at Green Day when Billy Joe Armstrong called me on 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:35.000 stage to play guitar. Y'all that happened before. 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.080 I was sixteen years old. 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.480 I was at a Green Day concert and I turned 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:42.200 to my other friend that isn't here anymore, and I said, 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:44.679 what if Billy Joe calls me to play his guitar 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:46.680 on stage? He said, shut up? That's stupid. It's never 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.880 gonna happen. And in the middle till the Holy Ghost six, 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:55.600 in the middle of the Operation Ivy Song Knowledge, Billy 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:59.719 Joe Armstrong stops and say, does anybody out there play guitar? 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:02.600 And my friends picked me up, and he was one 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.719 of them and picked me up like I was Mufasa, 0:28:06.520 --> 0:28:09.919 like I was the chill. He's the one. And I 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:13.040 played that thing. Oh, I killed it too. I was 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:21.479 ready for my moment. I don't know how many times 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:23.720 I've wanted to find Billy Joe Armstrong. 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:27.040 I never met him and say, hey, you remember that 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:28.680 night in Charleston in nineteen ninety four. 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:32.760 Now he did it every night, so for him it 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:36.960 was just another night. 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:45.640 But to me, it was the one. That's why I 0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:49.080 preach harror, because I preach every six days. 0:28:50.680 --> 0:28:56.440 But for you, this might be the the one. 0:28:56.880 --> 0:29:01.600 I'm gonna preach a lot of messages. But for somebody, 0:29:02.440 --> 0:29:03.280 this is the one. 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:08.800 For someone, this is the one. And I'm not talking 0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:10.680 about me just to talk about me. 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:13.760 I'm trying to get you to see. 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:17.760 That for someone, you're the one. 0:29:18.640 --> 0:29:22.480 You're the one. You may not even know it. 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:26.120 You might be like Billy Billy Joe Armstrong go on 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:30.040 to do another city. He went on to Charleston, West Virginia. 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:33.680 He went on to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He never even knew 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.360 he left a boy back in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. 0:29:36.680 --> 0:29:39.920 He boosted my popularity past the high school. 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:43.400 Quarterback in one moment. But he just went on. 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:48.040 And So when the devil tells you that you have 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:52.200 no one, that you are no one, and that you 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:54.920 can't see how God is using you, Oh, I got 0:29:54.920 --> 0:29:58.920 a tip for you. Ready, Ready, assume that God is 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:04.240 using you. Assume that God is using you. 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:06.200 You got it? How do I know God is using me? 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:14.560 You won't assume that God is using you. Assume that 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.760 God is using you. Usually they say, you know what, 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:21.720 assuming does it makes a you know whatever, whatever. But 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:25.680 in this case, I am actually advocating that you assume 0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:30.959 that you are the one that God wanted that person 0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:34.280 to come across in their path because you might have 0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:37.800 something valuable that they need. And for everybody who's been 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:41.200 stuck in self pity, there is no quicker way out 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:44.320 of self pity than to fulfill God's purpose. 0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:50.440 So assume. I know y'all don't like this, because sometimes. 0:30:50.000 --> 0:30:52.480 We don't want to be the one. I don't want 0:30:52.520 --> 0:30:56.920 to encourage anybody. When is somebody gonna encourage me? Sometimes 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:58.880 I don't feel like preaching and I want to hnd 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.120 you on the microphone. You'll say something. 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:04.640 I'm gonna do it. One day. 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:08.120 I'm gonna walk in, I'm gonna take the stage, and 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:10.160 the first person that looks bored, I'm gonna throw. 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:14.480 My microphone say here, you do it. You're doing it 0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:23.440 just talking. He was the one. 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:29.440 He was the one he rebuilt and restored. 0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:35.160 He was remembered for what he restored. Will you be 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:41.640 this is the decision. 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:45.960 In this season of your life that you are making 0:31:46.000 --> 0:31:50.000 without even knowing that you are making it on behalf 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:52.600 of others you know? Asked Holly, and I began to talk. 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:55.720 We started to realize something about relationships. 0:31:57.440 --> 0:31:59.160 Now I'm gonna try to talk about this. 0:31:59.840 --> 0:32:01.680 If I don't really do a good job with that, 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:04.479 I'll come on YouTube this week and do a bonus 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:07.280 teaching on it. So pray I do a good job 0:32:07.320 --> 0:32:08.400 so I don't have to go back in and do 0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:12.760 it again. There's a lot of relational resentment that can 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:19.400 build up in your life. People that disappoint you, And 0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:23.000 I'm no different than you. I get disappointed in people. 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:29.400 The men that we're reading about in this scripture, Usiah, 0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:33.080 in many ways, he was a disappointment because he didn't 0:32:33.080 --> 0:32:34.880 bring the nation back to their rightful place. And I'll 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:36.640 show you in just a moment it even got worse 0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:39.520 than that. But before I show you how bad it got, 0:32:39.600 --> 0:32:43.480 let me just talk about your disappointments and people. Because 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:46.000 as Holly and I began to talk, I said, you know, 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:48.440 Jay Hardwick was the one that kind of put us 0:32:48.440 --> 0:32:50.040 on that team, wasn't he? And we never even thought 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:53.360 about it. Who was someone in your life that you 0:32:53.400 --> 0:32:55.000 don't think about it? And now I'm not talking about 0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:56.720 like the Hall of Fame like Mom and Dad and 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:59.240 all that stuff. I'm talking about and Billy Graham and 0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:02.600 the Apostle, Paul and Jesus. It's going to be in 0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:03.120 the comments. 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:06.560 Jesus is the one, Stephen, Jesus, He's the one, and 0:33:06.600 --> 0:33:07.480 I'm gonna say it for you. 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:18.760 But you know, moving thus long from there, there's people 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:19.960 that you think they're going to be the one to 0:33:19.960 --> 0:33:24.440 be with you forever, but they're not. But just because 0:33:24.440 --> 0:33:26.320 they're not the one, that was with you for a 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:29.360 little while, or just because they're not with you forever, 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:32.720 doesn't mean that they didn't serve an important purpose in 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:35.360 your life. Now know this is for but I really 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:37.160 need to say it. Some people in your life are 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:47.400 port people. They move through, you move on, they move on. 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:54.240 Just because they didn't stay planted doesn't mean they weren't important. 0:33:57.160 --> 0:34:00.840 And what this will help you do when the enemy 0:34:00.880 --> 0:34:02.600 says you have nobody. 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:05.120 Look at how they let you down. Look at how 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:07.360 they didn't come through for you. Look at how they 0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:09.719 don't get you. Look at what they weren't able to do. 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:11.440 Look at how you believed in them. Look at how 0:34:11.440 --> 0:34:13.320 you thought they were going to be the perfect partner. 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:14.359 Look at how you thought they were. 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:14.600 Going to be. 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:18.440 I want to revisit this for a moment so that 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:24.480 you stop focusing on the disappointment and start focusing on 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:31.480 the deposit. Because I could tell you somebody right now 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:33.479 and you could do the same for me. You could say, man, 0:34:33.640 --> 0:34:35.440 she was the one that I counted on and she 0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:37.720 let me down. But if we took it a little deeper, 0:34:38.600 --> 0:34:41.680 there was something God used that person in your life for. 0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:46.359 And even if it was just a port moving through. 0:34:47.160 --> 0:34:50.920 You understand what I'm saying about elath. We have elath 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:53.480 relationships and they may not last as long as we 0:34:53.480 --> 0:34:55.040 wanted them to, and they may not be everything that 0:34:55.080 --> 0:34:55.799 we wanted them to be. 0:34:56.040 --> 0:35:00.600 And if we're not careful, so careful with our soul rules. 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.600 The devil will set up camp in that disappointment and say, 0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:08.800 you have no one, but they. 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:10.279 Were the one. 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:13.920 They were the one for a while. Look at what 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:17.719 they added to your life. Yeah, but they betrayed me. 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:24.240 It was Judas that got Jesus to the cross. 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:28.640 He was the one. 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:31.440 That God used more than any of the other disciples, 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:34.880 because it was Judas that God used to get Jesus 0:35:34.880 --> 0:35:38.799 to the place where he paid for your sins and mine. 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:44.600 Even the people that hurt you God used. I don't 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:48.000 see that coldly. I don't see that to celebrate abuse 0:35:48.080 --> 0:35:52.560 or neglect or abandonment. I just know that someone has 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:55.600 been living in this place for a long time. 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:57.800 I have no one, and. 0:35:57.680 --> 0:36:03.120 You are so good at the disappointments that you're missing 0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:12.680 the deposits. And not only those that are gone, not 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:16.960 only the people that planted seeds, not everybody that starts 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:19.600 with you is supposed to stay with you. Not only that, 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:24.160 but there are fresh people that God is bringing into 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:27.279 the part of your life. And if you do not 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:31.719 do the work in this season of setting free and 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:36.400 forgiving the things that disappointed you, you will not be 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:40.920 open to the deposit. And so you stay poor, and 0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:45.239 you stay sad, and you stay alone. But if you 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:49.600 will get your eyes off of who left and put 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:53.440 your eyes on what they left, that God is still 0:36:53.560 --> 0:36:54.879 watching over. 0:36:55.120 --> 0:36:59.000 In your life to bring you to a new level. 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:05.640 I declare and the creed he will rebuild and restore 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:11.560 everything that the locas said every year that the kicker 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:12.440 worm not up. 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:20.080 After all, it wasn't them that blessed you anyway. He 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:24.960 was the one. God was the one. His mercy was 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:29.560 the conduit, His grace was the power. Get ready to shout. 0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:33.480 You've had your eyes on people. Put your eyes on Jesus. 0:37:33.840 --> 0:37:34.760 He what's the. 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:45.160 One got to focus on others got too focused on stuff. 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:46.520 Forgot that he was the one. 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:51.320 Somebody say he was the one who brought me through depression. 0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:54.880 Say he was the one who forgave all my sins 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:58.760 and healed all my diseases. He was the one whose 0:37:58.840 --> 0:38:02.120 blood washed me clean. And he was the one who 0:38:02.160 --> 0:38:04.560 knelt in a garden of got seventy with me on. 0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:07.799 His mind and thrust through to La Crosse. He was 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:11.120 the one. 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:16.719 And that's why I know he's not through with you, 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:19.359 because it was him all along. 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:24.240 Usiah rebuilt and restored the port. 0:38:24.480 --> 0:38:27.399 I'm gonna ask you a question when we write Your 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:32.239 Second Kings Chapter fourteen, verse twenty one and twenty two, 0:38:32.719 --> 0:38:33.800 what are we gonna say? 0:38:35.200 --> 0:38:41.160 He was the one. He was the one. I know 0:38:41.239 --> 0:38:43.960 some of you in here. I want your I want 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:46.359 your Second King's fourteen twenty two to read like this. 0:38:46.840 --> 0:38:50.400 He was the one who battled through the addiction that 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:54.120 his dad couldn't defeat and beat it for his own kids. 0:38:54.160 --> 0:39:02.160 He was the one. She was the one who. 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:05.280 Forgave her mom for never telling her that she was loved, 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:09.200 for making her perform. And because she forgave her mom, 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:12.759 she was able to face herself and love herself and 0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:18.040 see herself as a daughter of God. She was the one. 0:39:19.120 --> 0:39:20.480 I'll see crowds today. I don't know. 0:39:20.800 --> 0:39:22.560 I don't know why God gave me this annoying. I 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:28.640 just see ones. I just see ones. I just see ones. 0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:35.240 One God, one person which one you want to be, 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:39.279 because this can go the other way too. He was 0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:43.879 the one who gave up on himself because he really 0:39:43.960 --> 0:39:49.160 got tired of making excuses, and so eventually he just 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:52.160 brought his lifestyle his belief in God down to the 0:39:52.200 --> 0:39:54.400 level of his lifestyle, rather than bringing his lifestyle up 0:39:54.400 --> 0:39:58.879 to the level of his belief in God. I want 0:39:58.880 --> 0:40:01.440 to tell you something about Usaiah, and we might want 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:02.200 to sit down for this. 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:06.919 Yusaiah, they're really good. 0:40:08.280 --> 0:40:11.359 In fact, Second Chronicles twenty six it kind of says 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:12.840 the same thing about him, but it gives us a 0:40:12.840 --> 0:40:16.160 little more detail. And I bring you this in a 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:21.560 spirit of humility, because look, I know when you're a 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:23.440 strong word from God. And for some of you, this 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:24.520 is a strong word from God. 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:26.360 And it's not because of me. 0:40:27.320 --> 0:40:31.480 It's because of the importance of your life to what 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:35.479 God wants to do through you. And so this word 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:41.400 is hitting you right now because this is an elath 0:40:42.080 --> 0:40:47.520 message for you. This is a a port sermon for you. 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:52.719 What goes forth from here is important. You don't think 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:55.600 it is yet you don't even know why. 0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:56.040 You're the one. 0:40:56.120 --> 0:40:59.600 I had a man come up to me after I 0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:02.680 preach one time and he said, preacher, when you were preaching, 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:05.680 you said this message is for someone I don't know who, 0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:07.239 and he goes, I just want to let you know 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:10.120 I was the one, and he said a little bit 0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:12.319 of what he was going through. I said, thank you 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:14.839 for telling me. Then somebody else came up and they 0:41:14.840 --> 0:41:17.959 had overheard, and it was a man and a woman, 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:18.960 and the woman. 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:20.400 Said she was really funny. 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:24.239 She said, I didn't mean the eavesdrop, but I heard 0:41:24.280 --> 0:41:27.799 that man that came before, and this is my husband, Joe, 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:28.880 and I just want you to know that man that 0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:31.160 was here before he was wrong because he was the 0:41:31.160 --> 0:41:31.960 one you were talking to. 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:33.279 And pointed at her husband. 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:41.239 Somebody say, I'm the one. See, I'm the one that 0:41:41.280 --> 0:41:46.960 decides which one I'm going to be. He was the 0:41:46.960 --> 0:41:49.040 one who rebuilt and restored. If you're life this is 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:51.399 in ruins right now. You didn't control that. You may 0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:54.600 have contributed to it, but but will you be the 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:57.440 one who rebuilds in restores. I know God wants to 0:41:57.440 --> 0:41:59.279 be the one who helps you do that. I know 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:02.120 that he'll be the one that will empower you to 0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:02.440 do it. 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:09.160 Usiah does amazing things, y'all. He for a guy who 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:11.640 had to start being a king at age sixteen. Wow. 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:15.120 He defeats three of the Philistine countries, knocks down their walls. 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:18.319 He puts these watch towers all around Jerusalem where they 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:19.960 can see where their enemies are coming from. 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:20.799 And then after he. 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:23.440 Builds the watch towers, he puts these special military devices 0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:25.640 where they can shoot the arrows and hurl the stones 0:42:25.640 --> 0:42:28.840 and their enemies can't see them. He buys new military 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:31.000 equipment for every single one of the soldiers. And there 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:34.800 are three hundred, five thousand and seven hundred of them soldiers. 0:42:35.719 --> 0:42:39.080 He gives them all new equipment. He's also a gardener. 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:44.080 He does amazing things with agriculture. This guy is amazing, amazing, 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:51.280 and so are you in some ways. But the Bible 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:52.560 says something really scary to me. 0:42:53.680 --> 0:42:56.120 Let's look at it. Second Chronicles twenty six. 0:42:56.760 --> 0:42:58.799 Then all the people of Judah took Usaiah, who's sixteen 0:42:58.840 --> 0:43:00.680 years old, made him king in place with his father Amasi. 0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:03.560 We already read that. This is a different account of it. 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:06.279 He was the one who rebuilt eleth and restored it 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:08.720 to Judah after Emasi arrested with his ancestors. We already 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:10.160 read that, But this is a different account, and I 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:14.399 watched this. Usaiah was sixteen years old when he became king, 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:16.520 and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty two years. His mother's 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:20.399 name was Jekaliah, and she was from Jerusalem. He did 0:43:20.400 --> 0:43:21.719 what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:23.839 as his father Amaziah had done. He sought God during 0:43:23.840 --> 0:43:28.080 the days of Zachariah. Zachariah was the one who mentored him, 0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:30.240 who instructed him in the fear of God. 0:43:30.960 --> 0:43:33.200 And listened to this verse, it's going to feel haunting. 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:39.600 As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success. 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:44.440 The next several verses really break that down. All the 0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:48.680 successes God gave him. It says that God strengthened him, 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:53.520 God helped him, God upheld him, God resourced him. If 0:43:53.560 --> 0:43:56.880 you go all the way down to verse sixteen, it says, 0:43:56.920 --> 0:44:03.440 but after Usiah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:07.200 He was unfaithful to the Lord as God and entered 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:08.840 the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the 0:44:08.880 --> 0:44:13.120 altar of incense. Now listen to this, as Aria the priest, 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:16.440 this is a different Azariah. As if it wasn't confusing 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:18.799 enough already, there's got to be two Azariahs and one 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:22.480 who isn't going by the name Azariah anymore. Thanks a 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:27.080 lot chronicle writer. Azriah the priest with eighty Let listen 0:44:27.120 --> 0:44:30.360 to this. Back into the scene, as Aria the priest 0:44:30.400 --> 0:44:32.360 with eighty other courageous priests. The Lord followed him, and 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:34.640 they confronted King Usaiah and said, it's not right for you, 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:37.640 Usiah to burn incense to the Lord. That's for the priests, 0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:41.359 the descendants of Aaron who have been consecrated to burn 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:44.960 incense lead the sanctuary. You've been unfaithful. You're not be 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:47.480 honored by the Lord God. The kings weren't allowed to 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:49.600 burn this incense. It was for the priest to do. 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:54.640 You know, you always get in trouble when you try 0:44:54.680 --> 0:45:00.200 to do what God called somebody else to do, when 0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:04.080 you start wishing you could be this one or that one. 0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:07.719 And see, Usiah was powerful. God called him. Don't get 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:09.279 it twisted. God anointed him. 0:45:09.320 --> 0:45:11.160 God put the crown on his head, no matter whose 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:13.720 hands he used to position it there. It was God 0:45:13.719 --> 0:45:17.280 that did it. But then he got out of his place, 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:20.279 and even when he was corrected, he wouldn't listen. Now, 0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:23.040 listen to this verse nineteen because God is bringing you 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:25.439 to this point today, and I want you to hear 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:27.000 this as a warning. 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:28.080 For your life. 0:45:28.800 --> 0:45:32.239 Usiah, who had a censor in his hand ready to 0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:36.520 burn incense, became angry. And while he was raging at 0:45:36.560 --> 0:45:39.880 the priest in their presence before the incense alter in 0:45:39.880 --> 0:45:43.800 the lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead. 0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:45.680 When Azariah, the. 0:45:45.719 --> 0:45:47.640 Chief priest, and all the other priests looked at him, 0:45:47.880 --> 0:45:51.480 they saw you at leprosy on his forehead, so they 0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:55.080 hurried him out. Indeed, he himself. 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.680 Was eager to leave because the Lord had afflicted him. 0:45:58.080 --> 0:46:00.319 Now listen to this. I wish the story ended, but. 0:46:00.280 --> 0:46:01.360 I got to give it to you how it is 0:46:01.360 --> 0:46:03.400 in the Bible, because I don't write the book. 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:05.839 I'm just giving you the mail. 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:10.480 The Bible says King Usiah had leprosy until the day 0:46:10.480 --> 0:46:16.080 he died. He lived in a separate house Lepross, and 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:17.760 banned from the temple of the Lord. 0:46:18.840 --> 0:46:19.280 Jotham. 0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:22.120 His son had charge of the palace and governed the 0:46:22.120 --> 0:46:22.920 people of the land. 0:46:23.640 --> 0:46:24.200 Now listen to this. 0:46:24.760 --> 0:46:29.080 The other events of Usiah's reign from beginning to end, 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:35.080 are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of amos Usiah 0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:39.920 arrested with his ancestors and was buried near them in 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:43.200 a cemetery that belonged to the kings. For the people 0:46:43.400 --> 0:46:49.560 said he had leprosy, and Jotham, his son succeeded him 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:57.399 as king. All he did, and the people said, give 0:46:57.440 --> 0:46:58.479 me verse twenty three again. 0:47:01.880 --> 0:47:04.640 You see that, I'm gonna wait for you to find it. 0:47:04.719 --> 0:47:05.080 You see it. 0:47:05.719 --> 0:47:12.080 People said he had leprosy, and he died like that. 0:47:14.040 --> 0:47:17.719 And he died like that because he forgot that God 0:47:17.840 --> 0:47:23.760 was the one. And you die alone when you forget 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.600 that God is the one, and you live alone when 0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:30.520 you forget that God is the one, and your worship 0:47:30.560 --> 0:47:32.520 gets weak when you forget that God is the one, 0:47:34.920 --> 0:47:37.000 and you start running from what God has called you to, 0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:41.000 when you forget that God is the one, and you 0:47:41.040 --> 0:47:46.200 feel cut off when you forget that God is the one. 0:47:46.360 --> 0:47:48.360 How many are grateful. 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:54.840 That of all the kings that are in second Kings fourteen, 0:47:56.400 --> 0:48:01.560 none of those kings are the one that we came 0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:05.960 to worship today. 0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:08.799 Good and too. 0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:16.480 Because people will disappoint you, but God will carry you. 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:24.240 People will leave you. God never will. And the Bible 0:48:24.280 --> 0:48:28.640 says that King Usiah died with leprosy, a skin condition 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:30.399 that isolated him. 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:36.279 But you don't have to You don't have to stay away. 0:48:36.800 --> 0:48:44.719 You know why because Isaiah prophesied to Usiah, but he 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:52.600 did not prophesy about Usiah. Isaiah prophesied about another king, 0:48:54.160 --> 0:48:59.120 a king that would come at a later date, A 0:48:59.239 --> 0:49:04.600 king that will not come through any human father, but 0:49:04.680 --> 0:49:08.080 a king that would come not in a palace, a 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:12.120 king that would come in a Palestinian environment that would 0:49:12.160 --> 0:49:15.799 have been unfit for many animals. See the thing that 0:49:15.840 --> 0:49:17.640 I want you to know today, for all of you 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.719 who feel alone. 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:23.960 I have no one, I am no one. I can't rebuild, 0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:25.680 I can't recover. 0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:29.319 I'm down here and I have to stay here, and 0:49:29.400 --> 0:49:30.640 there is no more for me. 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:33.319 And I'm not the one. And this sermon is for. 0:49:33.320 --> 0:49:36.920 Somebody else because I've tried this before and it didn't work. 0:49:37.200 --> 0:49:38.200 I wanted you to know. 0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:40.920 This from the heart of God today for his child. 0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:49.680 Your leprosy is not your legacy. 0:49:50.520 --> 0:49:53.320 This leprosy, this issue. 0:49:53.400 --> 0:49:58.080 Everybody has something like that, not a skin disease, not 0:49:58.239 --> 0:50:01.040 something that others can see on your four, but a 0:50:01.160 --> 0:50:02.440 label that follows you. 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:08.799 Through life, a condition, an issue, a struggle, a tendency, 0:50:09.360 --> 0:50:12.040 something that has been with you and may even be 0:50:12.239 --> 0:50:13.040 consuming you. 0:50:13.719 --> 0:50:14.880 But somebody shall. 0:50:14.920 --> 0:50:21.160 This leprosy will not be my legacy. Say it by faith, 0:50:21.480 --> 0:50:24.280 This leprosy. 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:25.400 Will not be my legacy. 0:50:26.440 --> 0:50:31.920 One more time, say this leprosy, this label, this limitation, 0:50:33.000 --> 0:50:38.279 this loneliness will not be my legacy. Now look at 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:40.319 your neighbor and say, God is not through with you. 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:43.960 Let me tell you how I know God's not. 0:50:44.000 --> 0:50:45.360 Through with you. 0:50:45.360 --> 0:50:47.200 You know how I know He's not through with you 0:50:48.120 --> 0:50:51.840 because it did not end in Second Chronicles twenty six 0:50:52.560 --> 0:50:56.359 with Issiah. Flip on over to Matthew chapter one. 0:50:56.880 --> 0:50:57.400 I feel I. 0:50:57.480 --> 0:51:01.520 Preach him because the Bible says, no piano, give me 0:51:01.560 --> 0:51:07.239 some organ. Usiah who was Usiah, the father of. 0:51:07.400 --> 0:51:09.440 Jotham, right, and he. 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:14.080 Died of leprosy and people said he had leprosy. Well 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.480 that's what people said, but that's not what God said. 0:51:18.760 --> 0:51:23.120 God said he was the one who rebuilt Eli. So 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:26.680 I need everybody to give God praise if you're grateful that. 0:51:26.920 --> 0:51:33.799 People don't have the final word in your life. In 0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:38.840 your life, people, people. 0:51:39.920 --> 0:51:42.200 I'll give God praise if you're said, pray for what 0:51:42.360 --> 0:51:46.040 the people say. People can say what they want to say. 0:51:47.160 --> 0:51:49.640 People can say what they want to say. I'm not 0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:52.480 listening to people. I'm listening to Prophecy. 0:51:52.920 --> 0:51:57.279 What they got say about you? And he said you're 0:51:57.360 --> 0:52:01.920 the one? Yes what You're the one? 0:52:03.840 --> 0:52:04.200 All right? 0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:06.799 So come with me to Matthew chapter one, verse nine. 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:10.640 Because you're reading, you're like, that's sad. He died of leprosy. 0:52:10.680 --> 0:52:16.080 But somebody say this leprosy is not my legacy. No, 0:52:16.239 --> 0:52:20.160 because Ysiah, who was he? Well, he was the one 0:52:20.239 --> 0:52:21.319 who was the father of. 0:52:21.320 --> 0:52:24.160 Jotham, who was Jontham. Let's play jeopardy. 0:52:24.480 --> 0:52:26.840 He was the one who was the father of a 0:52:27.000 --> 0:52:28.799 Has who is a Has? 0:52:29.480 --> 0:52:30.359 He was the one. 0:52:30.640 --> 0:52:33.120 I'm getting happy because I'm thinking about everything God's still 0:52:33.160 --> 0:52:35.000 going to do in your life that you can't see 0:52:35.080 --> 0:52:39.200 right now, Everything God's going to bring through you, everything important. 0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:41.200 That God still has in your future. That's why the 0:52:41.239 --> 0:52:44.080 devil's fighting you so hard. That's why you can't sleep 0:52:44.080 --> 0:52:46.879 at night. That's why you're tossing and turning. That's why 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:49.640 you're kind of restless. That's why you're kind of lonely. 0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:52.560 Because God is raising you up, all right. Just preach 0:52:52.600 --> 0:52:54.719 the text. Just preach the text. Let's go back to 0:52:54.760 --> 0:52:55.840 the text. Back to the text. 0:52:56.000 --> 0:52:59.399 Somebody say, he was the one, yeah, yeah, yeah, he 0:52:59.520 --> 0:52:59.799 was the. 0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:02.720 One a has who was he? He was the one who. 0:53:02.560 --> 0:53:06.000 Was the father of Hezekiah verse ten, Hazekiah. He was 0:53:06.040 --> 0:53:08.520 the one who was the father of Manassa. He was 0:53:08.560 --> 0:53:10.759 the one who was the father of Emmin. He was 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:13.400 the one who was the father of Josiah. He was 0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:16.719 the one that was the father of Jackaniah. Who was Jackaniah? 0:53:16.719 --> 0:53:20.360 Somebody shout he was the one, no shout at. He 0:53:20.560 --> 0:53:24.440 was the one verse twelve who was the father of Shiltiel. 0:53:24.800 --> 0:53:27.319 Who was Shiltiel. He was the one who was the 0:53:27.400 --> 0:53:29.840 father of Zaruba Bel. He was the one who was 0:53:29.840 --> 0:53:32.200 the father of Abitadag. He was the one that was 0:53:32.239 --> 0:53:34.680 the father of Eliahum. He was the one that was 0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:36.920 the father of Ahor. He was the one who was 0:53:36.960 --> 0:53:39.120 the father of Zadak. He was the one that was 0:53:39.160 --> 0:53:41.080 the father of a king. He was the one that 0:53:41.239 --> 0:53:43.239 was the father of Ellehunt. I told you I can't 0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:45.640 pronounce these words. I'm will of fortune. I'm past say 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:49.640 jack baby. He was the one that was the father 0:53:49.719 --> 0:53:51.959 of Methan. He was the one that was the father 0:53:52.080 --> 0:53:56.200 of Jacob. Now get ready to celebrate, because who was Jacob? 0:53:56.600 --> 0:53:59.880 He was the one that was the father of Joseph. 0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:02.640 He was the one that was the husband of Mary. 0:54:03.040 --> 0:54:04.319 She was the one that was. 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:05.040 The mother of. 0:54:07.560 --> 0:54:07.960 Who was. 0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:12.520 The one who is O? Holy God? 0:54:12.600 --> 0:54:16.360 Going to the prison prisons? Rise him on the port city, 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:18.759 rights us for the purpose? Lights up? 0:54:18.760 --> 0:54:22.200 Oh, he's bringing through rites Us for the purposey right, 0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:29.160 just for the sacred. Hey are the water and the leprosy. 0:54:30.160 --> 0:54:34.440 It's not your like you say, what's big Jesus. 0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:35.120 Over your life? 0:54:35.320 --> 0:54:37.920 Hot's big Jesus over your business? 0:54:38.280 --> 0:54:40.680 What big Jesus over your mind? 0:54:43.080 --> 0:54:50.280 Jesus, Jesus sister one, Jesus, Jesus, sister one, Jesus, Jesus 0:54:50.280 --> 0:54:50.960 sister one. 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:53.640 Who's started going Jesus. 0:54:53.760 --> 0:55:02.200 Who's gonna see you through Jesus? 0:55:02.239 --> 0:55:06.319 Always been him, It's always been him, Bro. 0:55:06.800 --> 0:55:09.120 Since you were a little boy, he was watching out 0:55:09.160 --> 0:55:11.240 for you, since you were a little girl. 0:55:11.280 --> 0:55:15.920 He was raising you up. They called you and he 0:55:16.080 --> 0:55:16.560 chose you. 0:55:17.680 --> 0:55:19.759 And you are going to be the one to rebuild 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:28.279 and restore so that Jesus can come forth in your life. 0:55:29.040 --> 0:55:31.480 I declare God is bringing something forth in this moment. 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:37.000 Who receives it, Who receives it? Come on, make your. 0:55:36.960 --> 0:55:39.200 Heart a port city right now, say God, I receive it, 0:55:39.320 --> 0:55:40.640 I receive it, I receive it. 0:55:44.160 --> 0:55:45.320 Now you're going to be the one. 0:55:47.480 --> 0:55:51.080 She was the one who went to counseling and worked 0:55:51.080 --> 0:55:53.040 through her past so that it did not become the 0:55:53.120 --> 0:55:54.040 lid of her future. 0:55:54.360 --> 0:55:59.640 She was the one. He was the one who decided 0:55:59.680 --> 0:56:01.759 to give his gifts to God rather than using them 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:03.799 to serve the world. He was the one. 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:07.239 He was the one who decided to open a door 0:56:07.280 --> 0:56:09.600 for others rather than always trying to make it about himself. 0:56:09.960 --> 0:56:15.279 He was the one. What one will you be? 0:56:17.320 --> 0:56:20.800 I love that story in the Bible where ten lepers 0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:24.799 came up to Jesus. They knew that he was the 0:56:24.800 --> 0:56:28.640 one who could heal them. I don't know if you 0:56:28.680 --> 0:56:32.920 get the richness of this. He was the prophet, the priest, 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:36.319 and the king, all of those things in one. 0:56:37.400 --> 0:56:40.120 They had been to their priest, their priest couldn't do it. 0:56:41.120 --> 0:56:43.520 They came to Jesus and he told them, go to 0:56:43.560 --> 0:56:45.920 the priest, and you will be healed as you go. 0:56:47.000 --> 0:56:50.759 And in Luke seventeen, verse fifteen, the Bible says that 0:56:51.400 --> 0:56:56.120 one of them, one of the ten, when he saw 0:56:56.360 --> 0:57:02.800 that he was healed, came back praising God man a 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:07.880 whispered thank you, Lord, thank you so much, thank. 0:57:07.719 --> 0:57:08.160 You so much. 0:57:08.760 --> 0:57:15.400 What does the Bible say? In a loud voice? Because 0:57:15.480 --> 0:57:22.680 he realized, dyeleprosy is not my legacy. You don't have 0:57:22.760 --> 0:57:27.000 to stay outside anymore. He is Manuel God with us. 0:57:29.040 --> 0:57:34.080 One of them came back. If I preach this sermon. 0:57:35.320 --> 0:57:39.680 Everything I've said today, for one person to come back, 0:57:40.640 --> 0:57:43.960 it will be worth it. Because I believe you are 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:47.840 a port city. I believe things are going to flow 0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:50.280 through you that are going to change lives. You will 0:57:50.280 --> 0:57:52.760 never meet who receives it, who receives it, who receives it? 0:57:52.760 --> 0:57:54.520 Online say I receive it, but I received it. 0:57:54.760 --> 0:57:56.680 I see it. 0:57:58.560 --> 0:58:06.720 Oh God, He was the one, Jesus was the one 0:58:06.760 --> 0:58:10.080 with healing, and it is at his feet that we 0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:10.800 fall today. 0:58:11.440 --> 0:58:14.640 Lord God, this is the part of the sermon. 0:58:15.840 --> 0:58:20.560 Where I stop speaking, but you don't, because there are 0:58:20.560 --> 0:58:23.680 things that you want to open up for the people 0:58:23.720 --> 0:58:26.880 that you brought to hear this word today. They have 0:58:26.960 --> 0:58:32.520 been labeled by life, labeled by lies. But I declare 0:58:32.560 --> 0:58:36.600 that label will not be their legacy. Alcoholic will not 0:58:36.720 --> 0:58:41.120 be their legacy. Addict will not be their legacy. Bitter 0:58:41.320 --> 0:58:45.360 will not be their legacy. Failure will not be their legacy. 0:58:45.960 --> 0:58:50.440 Defeat will not be their legacy. The heritage of the 0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:53.680 servants of God is the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, 0:58:53.960 --> 0:59:00.320 and our righteousness comes from you. You are the one loud, 0:59:00.440 --> 0:59:04.200 You are the one, and so Father, I stretch my 0:59:04.280 --> 0:59:08.560 hands to you today for every time that the devil 0:59:08.560 --> 0:59:10.320 has tried to tell me I am no one and 0:59:10.400 --> 0:59:11.600 I have no one. 0:59:13.640 --> 0:59:16.320 I have someone. 0:59:17.120 --> 0:59:21.680 His name is Jesus, and he is the one who 0:59:21.760 --> 0:59:22.880 opens blind eyes. 0:59:23.880 --> 0:59:27.280 He is the one who causes the lame to walk. 0:59:27.920 --> 0:59:31.800 He is the one who forgives the sinner. He is 0:59:31.840 --> 0:59:34.440 the one who raises the dead. 0:59:34.680 --> 0:59:37.160 He is the one who speaks for the. 0:59:37.120 --> 0:59:42.200 Word, and we are healed. I wonder who is that 0:59:42.280 --> 0:59:45.640 one today that God gave me this message? For with 0:59:45.680 --> 0:59:49.160 your head bowed and your eyes closed, there's someone in here, 0:59:49.160 --> 0:59:51.680 and you need to throw yourself at the feet of Jesus. 0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:53.600 Today. 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:57.360 We're going to pray a prayer right now. And this 0:59:57.440 --> 1:00:01.000 prayer is not the people. This prayer to Jesus. He's 1:00:01.040 --> 1:00:04.560 the one who can save you. I said he's the one. 1:00:05.240 --> 1:00:08.320 Somebody say it. He's the one. You've been running to 1:00:08.400 --> 1:00:10.720 everything else. You've been running to sex, you've been running 1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:12.640 too drugs, you've been running too religion. 1:00:12.640 --> 1:00:13.720 You've been running to others. 1:00:13.880 --> 1:00:16.600 You've been running too achievement, you've been running too aspiration. 1:00:16.920 --> 1:00:20.640 But he's the one. He's the one who can say. 1:00:21.480 --> 1:00:25.120 So. Right now, in the stillness of this moment, I 1:00:25.160 --> 1:00:26.280 want to lead you in a prayer. 1:00:27.200 --> 1:00:28.640 And if you pray this prayer from your heart. 1:00:28.680 --> 1:00:30.919 The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth 1:00:30.920 --> 1:00:33.120 that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that 1:00:33.160 --> 1:00:35.480 God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:38.040 It is your faith in Christ that saves You're not 1:00:38.080 --> 1:00:40.440 your good works, just your faith in Him. 1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:42.720 So right now, if you need to come back to God, 1:00:42.960 --> 1:00:44.920 if you are that one who needs to come back 1:00:45.560 --> 1:00:46.320 and receive the. 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:48.560 Grace of God, I want you to pray this with me. 1:00:48.600 --> 1:00:51.760 We're praying it as a church family, everybody all together 1:00:51.800 --> 1:00:55.919 praying out loud, repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I am 1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:59.880 the one. I am a sinner in need of a 1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:06.360 and I believe that Jesus Christ is the one true God. 1:01:07.760 --> 1:01:11.760 I believe he died that I could be forgiven and 1:01:11.880 --> 1:01:17.960 rose again to give me life. I receive this new life. 1:01:18.120 --> 1:01:22.840 This is my new beginning. I am a child of God. 1:01:23.280 --> 1:01:24.960 On the counter, three, shoot your hand up if you 1:01:25.040 --> 1:01:27.120 prayed that one two, three. 1:01:27.000 --> 1:01:32.120 Hands up online, Hands up online. I celebrate you. I 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:36.840 celebrate you. A church, the Bible says, says for rejoicing 1:01:36.920 --> 1:01:40.919 over one sinner in heaven. All the angels rechoice when 1:01:40.960 --> 1:01:41.840 one comes back. 1:01:42.600 --> 1:01:46.680 Let's celebrate the wine. Hold on, Let's celebrate. 1:01:46.320 --> 1:01:50.680 Somebody's daughter, somebody's son, somebody's brother, somebody's sister. 1:01:51.200 --> 1:01:52.040 Let's celebrate. 1:01:53.560 --> 1:01:56.120 Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 1:01:56.640 --> 1:01:59.240 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 1:01:59.280 --> 1:02:01.880 get you all of these new messages as soon as 1:02:01.880 --> 1:02:04.680 they're available. 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