I’ve Got To Get Up

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.959 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.000 it gives your perspective to see God is moving in 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:14.680 your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.960 The Bible says, sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.600 for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem, 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.440 near the sheep Gate a pool which an aramaic is 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.840 called Bethesda, and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.560 Five is the number of grace symbolically in the Bible 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.680 a lot of times when you see it, and the 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.920 word bethesda means house of mercy. So they're going to 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.800 a place to get mercy, to get a miracle. And 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.479 the Bible says in verse three, here a great number 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.400 of disabled people used to lie, the blind, the lame, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.920 the paralyzed. And you know, when we read that list, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.560 it's easy for us sometimes to think that the physical 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.480 condition are the ones that need the greatest healing. But 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.400 you know, you might be in here tonight and what 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.319 you're dealing with is crippling anxiety. Maybe in here tonight 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.520 and maybe you're dealing with the condition that we can't 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:12.360 see outwardly. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.039 But the Lord still wants to touch that area of 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:15.560 your life. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.080 But notice in verse five, this is the important word 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:24.319 to me, It says one one who was there. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:29.600 That's how personal God is. One who was there had been. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.200 An invalid for thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.080 lying there and learned that he had been in this 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.200 condition for a long time, he asked. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.479 Him, do you want to get well? 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.160 Uh? Oh, the way you answer this question is going 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.000 to mark your life from this moment forward. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.200 I dare somebody to shout. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:55.640 I want it, Lord, Yeah, I want it, Lord. I 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.080 want to get better. I want to grow out of this. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.240 I want these chains to break. I want to be 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.320 set free. I want to move forward. I want this 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:12.480 bitterness gone. Somebody shout, I want it. But the invalid 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.760 replied verse seven, Sir, I have no one to help 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:17.720 me into the pool. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:18.880 When the water is stirred. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.520 While I'm trying to get in, someone else goes down 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.000 ahead of me. In other words, he's got excuses. But 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.640 verse eight is really the power of the passage. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:38.679 Then Jesus said to him, get up, pick up your 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.560 mat and walk. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.760 At Once the man was cured, he picked up his 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.040 mat and walk. Let's clap our hands one more time 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.160 for the word of God. Now, before you take your seat, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.880 I need you to look at your neighbor. Look at 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.799 either one of them. You want to whichever one you 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.880 like the best. Look at your neighbor and give him 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:08.000 my sermon title. Say neighbor, I've got to get up. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.720 High five three people tell him I've got to get up. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.400 I've got to get up. I've got to get up, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:22.680 got to do it. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:33.200 I've got to get up. You may be seated, I've 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.160 got to get up. I haven't preached it like this 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.400 any of the other nights. I just felt like somebody 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.160 in Miami needed to declare that. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.880 I've got to get up. I've got to get up. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.960 Stories like this in the Bible remind me that when 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:56.600 God gets ready to do something, nothing can stop him. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.120 When God gets ready to move in your life, nothing 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.440 can stop him. Don't worry about the people who don't 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.440 like you. God will make the right people like you, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.360 and he'll remove the wrong people from your life. Boy, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:14.160 you shouted over that somebody's going through a breakup, go 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.360 ahead and praise God for the breakup that's going to 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:17.480 lead to the breakthrough. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.560 Yeah. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.120 When God gets ready to move, nothing can stop him. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.040 Nobody can stop him. I found that much to be true. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.520 When we started our church in Charlotte. I told a 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.840 lot of people I wanted our church to be multicultural. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.479 In other words, just because I'm a white pastor, that 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.160 doesn't mean I just want to pastor. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:39.760 All white people. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.680 Just because I grew up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.240 doesn't mean I only want to reach people from South Carolina. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.760 I want to reach everybody God's called me to reach. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.320 And one guy I told this too. He was an 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.640 expert in starting churches, and he said, that won't work 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:58.039 in Charlotte. You can't unify people in Charlotte. Racism is 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.039 too ingrained in the culture of Charlotte to have a 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.440 multicultural church. And you know, every time I look around 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.560 our church on Sunday morning and I see white people 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.279 and black people, and I see people you know that 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.920 maybe don't even share the same background, they only maybe 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.640 share the same religious background worship in side by side. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.240 I am so glad that God did not consult that 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.680 guy to see if. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.839 He could have a multicultural church in Charlotte. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.400 And that's the beautiful thing about God in our lives. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.120 The last time I was in Miami to preach to you, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.720 I shared this story. I'd like to share a little 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.160 bit of it again about my dad. You know, when 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.640 I gave my life to Jesus, I was sixteen years old, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.480 and I mentioned the name of the town I grew 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:39.760 up in. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.760 It's called Monk's Corner, South Carolina. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.960 Now, my wife was growing up in Miami and I 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.239 was growing up in Monk's Corner. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.200 They're very different. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.760 The town I grew up in had six thousand people 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.760 in it, and so this room tonight, if you cut 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.599 it in half, what's the town I grew up in. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.040 It's just crazy that I'm here. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.680 But when God gets ready to do something, nothing can 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.159 stop up him. And to be honest, when I first 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.560 gave my life to Christ, I was so passionate that 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.599 I was a little obnoxious, And when I would share 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.000 the Gospel with people, I would always. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.040 Be very judgmental and condemning. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.040 So basically means I would run around telling everybody they 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.080 were going to hell for everything all the time, not 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.200 just I was telling them Jesus loved them. I'm like, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.440 you are going to hell. You going to hell for 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.760 smoking weed. You go into hell for drinking beer. You're 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.200 going to hell for watching R rated movies. You might 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.360 go to hell for watching a PG thirteen one movie. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.119 I just don't know what scenes are in it yet. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.839 You go into hell for listening to secular music. Just 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.360 everybody's going to hell. But I meant, well, you know, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.080 I'm still passionate, but I've adjusted my technique a little bit. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:46.599 But the first significant person that I was really praying 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:47.520 for was my dad. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.560 Now my dad is in heaven. My dad went to 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.000 be with the Lord in twenty thirteen. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.599 And when I gave my life to Jesus, he was 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.400 not following Christ and he was dealing with several addictions 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.000 in his life. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.880 He had a very traumatic childhood. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.119 He lost his own father at a very young age, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.800 and a lot of the things about his life I 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.840 would not even learn until much later. But at age sixteen, 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.800 I remember telling my dad one morning I was getting 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.200 ready to go to church and he wasn't going, and 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.840 I looked at him on the way out the door 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.080 and I said, you know, because I had to borrow 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.240 his tie and stuff like that, but he wasn't using 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:23.040 it to go to church. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.920 So I'm putting on his tie out. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.680 Of his closet and I said, Dad, before long, you're 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.559 gonna be dressing up to go to church too. God's 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:30.760 about to get a hold of your life. You need 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.160 to get ready because it's gona be amazing. Because I'm 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:33.920 praying for you. It's gonna be awesome. So just get ready, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.240 and I walked out the door. Now I know how 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.600 you want this story to go. You want him to 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.200 jump in the car and follow me that day, but 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.080 that didn't happen. About two years later, I was on 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.320 a traveling ministry team from our little Baptist college, which 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.560 is actually how I got Holly to be my girlfriend. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.040 I put her on my ministry team, which is game. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.640 You gotta admit that is godly game. Hey girl, do 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.840 you want to be on my summer ministry team? And 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.160 I knew if I could expose her to my anointing 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.440 for a whole summer, she would find it irresistible. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.640 Anyway, the last. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.320 Stop of the summer where we were going to all 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.520 these little churches was at my home church. And again 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.920 it's been a couple of years since that conversation with 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.440 my dad, and I preached the sermon that morning, and 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.560 in the Baptist church, you would preach and then give 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.640 an invitation for people to come forward and give their 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.199 life to Christ. And I remember that particular morning feeling 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.920 like I had failed in my sermon. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.600 You know, there's a sense you get as a preacher. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.160 Like I just wasn't clear. I just didn't get the 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.599 job done. I don't think they got it. And I 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.600 went and sat down on the front row and I 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.120 bowed my head, which would have looked like I was praying, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.920 but I was really embarrassed. I didn't want to look 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.200 and see that nobody was going to come to the 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:55.640 altar after that terrible message. But Pastor Mickey, my pastor, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.160 he tapped me on the shoulder and he pointed to 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.960 the altar and there was one person at the altar 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.120 and it was my dad. And he's just crying like 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.160 a baby. I mean, he's a big dude, to like six' 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.520 too two d and eighty. Pounds there's only three times 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.880 THAT i ever saw him cry in my, life and 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:14.520 this was one of. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.200 Them and he gave his life To christ that day. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.559 After the worst SERMON i ever, Preached because When god 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.520 gets ready to do, something nothing can stop, him not 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.480 even a bad, sermon not even a bad neck. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.240 Tie nothing can Stop god when he gets ready to do. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.160 Something and you, KNOW i had a conversation with my 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.440 dad about. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:37.640 THAT a little bit. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.680 LATER i asked, him you, know After god started working 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.600 in his life and, STUFF i, said do you remember 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.559 that day WHEN i looked at you and, Said god's 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.800 about to change your? Life get ready is going to be? 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.079 Amazing and he, goes, YEAH i, REMEMBER i thought you were. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:57.040 CRAZY i fell sorry for. YOU i knew you were 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.600 about to be disappointed because you had no idea how 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:05.080 far GONE i really. WAS i knew that you had 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.880 no idea what was really going on in my. Life 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.920 and if you knew WHAT i was really dealing, with 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.440 you wouldn't have that kind of faith like. That but 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:18.800 When god gets ready to do something in somebody's, LIFE 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.839 i don't care if you're six,' two i don't care 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.559 if you bench press four hundred and. FIVE pounds i 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.840 don't care what kind of creatine protein steroids. You Take 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.920 when god gets ready to, do something all of the 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.920 brute force in the world can't. Withstand him that's why 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.679 some of you big dudes, were crying dearing worship tonight 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.560 and you were trying to try it before she. Saw 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.600 it but let, it, fall man because we All, need 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.800 jesus we All, need god we all. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.560 Need GRACE am i right? 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.240 About it that's why we were lifting our hands because 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.480 we've got some goliaths that. We're fighting we've got some 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.960 giants that, we're facing and We need god to bring. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.920 Them down and all the power in the world can't. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.360 Do it but one Touch, from god one Word, from god, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.320 one MOMENT and i feel. LIKE preaching i need to 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.080 get back behind this pulpit and. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.560 Settle down is. Too early but touch somebody. And say 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.040 nothing Can. Stop god nothing Can. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.160 Stop god not, a diagnosis not a, bad report not. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.880 A rejection nothing Can, stop god NOT an. Iq deficiency 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:26.000 god likes. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.040 To use people who aren't. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.760 That smart, That way he gets all the Glory when 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.600 he shows you what. To do although not, too smart 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.760 but Trust, in god. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.520 People's shall. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.760 And so in, this passage we have a man who 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.040 is too. Far gone he's been in this condition thirty. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:54.559 Eight years he's been unable to move thirty. Eight years 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.240 he has been unable to do what other people do 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.840 effortlessly thirty eight years. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.719 Until, one day. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:13.080 One man speaks one word over, his life And when jesus, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:17.240 showed up the man didn't even get a chance. To 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.760 refuse jesus just, told him you've got to. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:22.520 Get up. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:31.959 Tell, your neighbor you've got to. Get up, that's crazy. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.960 Isn't It because jesus wanted to use. This man he 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.520 wanted his mat where he used to lay to become. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:38.640 His. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.600 Testimony yeah god will use the thing that you're. Struggling 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.960 with he will use the thing that you're asking him. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.000 To take away to teach. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.720 You grace he will use the thing that you struggle 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.880 with so that when he sets you free, from it 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.200 you can go back to other people who struggle, and 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.320 say let me tell You what god did. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.000 For me if he did it, for me he can 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.440 do it. For you that's why you've got to. Get up. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.480 But you don't have to do it. By yourself because 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.400 the hero of this story is not. THE man i 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.520 don't even like the man in. This story he's full. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.600 Of excuses we find out later in verse fourteen that 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.240 he lived a. Sinful life he didn't ask to. Get 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.800 healed he Didn't tell jesus. Thank you he didn't Even 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.920 know jesus's name after, the heal and he just took 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.040 the free gift and was trying to sneak out of 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.920 there before the man changed. HIS mind i don't even 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.920 find this guy particularly charismatic or worthy of, a miracle 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.920 But when god gets ready to, do something nothing can. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:35.840 Stop HIM. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.720 So i want to show you briefly three Things that. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.280 JESUS did i Told you i'm From a. BAPTIST background 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.120 i got to have three POINTS so i won't FEEL 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:44.640 like i did my. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.080 Job tonight there are three Things. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.160 That jesus does in this PASSAGE that i believe he 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.520 wants to do with you and for, you TONIGHT and 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.120 i want you to repeat them. After me, Number one, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:03.280 jesus stops, Say it jesus. Stopped us, Number two, jesus sees, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:09.679 Say it. Jesus sees and, number three this is, My favorite, jesus. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:16.960 Says, Say it, Jesus says. Jesus stops. Jesus sees, Jesus says. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.800 Jesus stops imagine being one of. His disciples you're an 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.760 apprentice to the most important man in. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.680 Human history, and, Remember y'all jesus doesn't. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.960 Have long he only has three years of public ministry 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:33.240 before he goes to. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.200 The cross and so, one day as. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.560 He's headed up for This important, jewish festival he Turns 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.000 To peter andrew or one of those boys, and, Says 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.960 hey i've got A stop i need to make before 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:44.400 we get to. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.000 The temple and, it's, like, okay well if. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.360 We're stopping, You know jesus is a healer and a 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.120 savior and, a redeemer and he's got all these. Important 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.880 things we must be stopping for somebody. Very important so you. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:58.960 Follow him just. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.120 Imagine you're Following, g Jesus and, JESUS says i have 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.400 A stop i need, to make and you pull up 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.560 to this pool where people are lying around waiting for 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.720 the water to be stirred because they are that desperate for. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.840 A miracle And the bible says that. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:20.760 They were blind and laying. And paralyzed now notice none 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.840 of them are mentioned by. Their name they are all 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.360 mentioned by. Their condition and THE reason i point that 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.440 out to you is because sometimes you can go through 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.240 something so long that you forget who. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:32.880 You are. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.800 Sometimes you can go through a season of depression that 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.000 is so deep that you no Longer say i'm dealing. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.680 With depression YOU say i. Am depressed. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.040 You, start, SAYING well i can't do THAT because i. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.400 Have anxiety that's fine for you to. Have anxiety we all, get, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.480 AFRAID right i get NERVOUS before i preach. To you 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.000 i'm over on the same to, the stage Going, oh God, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.200 MY god i need, you NOW how i need? 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.480 You now Oh, Roc oh Rock. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.280 Of ages there's twelve thousand People in miami that came 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.000 for a word, from You and i'm not good enough to. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.880 Do It, so god would you help me tonight because 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:18.720 they need you for. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:20.280 Their situation. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.680 But wouldn't it be TERRIBLE if i let the fear 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.440 of letting you down stop me from preaching. To you 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.320 wouldn't it be TERRIBLE if i let the people who 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.560 criticize me for my style of preaching stop me from 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.880 preaching The way god called me. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.640 To preach god didn't call me to reach. PERFECT people 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.440 i don't need to preach the. Perfect People if i'm preaching. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.240 The, perfect people That means i'm Dead and i'm. In 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.480 heaven that's the Only place whe're preaching the. PERFECT people 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.080 i want to preach to some, messed UP imperfect I 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:53.840 need God and i'm not ashamed to. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.600 Say It people are there any people like that in, The? 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:05.000 House tony so it's all right that you struggle. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.560 With it but the problem becomes when you begin to 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.040 forget your true Nature in christ because you are so 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.840 consumed by the thing that won't let. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.320 You go it could be an addiction for some. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.119 Of you. It is it could be the doubt that 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.360 you feel sometimes you Wonder is god? Even, real sometimes 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.639 even in an environment, like this it can be tricky 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.720 because it seems like everybody else has got their lives 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.040 so much more together, than you because you just look 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.400 at them and they, ARE like i Trust, in god and, you're, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.240 like man that must be awesome to Just trusting. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.800 God like that like. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:43.720 You do. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:46.399 I'ma tell you. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.119 A secret those of us that are lifting our hands, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.000 so high we're not lifting our hands that high because we're. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:58.199 So holy It's because he is. So holy we're not 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.080 lifting our. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.800 Hands so high because we've got it. All together we're 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.520 lifting our hands so high because We need him to hold, 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.920 us together Because without him we'd. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.600 Fall apart clap. Your Hands if i'm right? About it 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:10.840 from the front to. The back. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.199 And doesn't it touch your heart to know that we 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.760 have a savior who stops for one man who can't 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.280 do anything, in return a man who has been stuck 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.360 in the same place for thirty, eight years a man 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.640 who everybody else just walks. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:36.600 Right over, jesus says you do you want to? Get 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.960 well for? One Man thank god that. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.800 HE stops i don't know how to explain this, to 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.560 you But when, I'm preaching i'm able to picture As 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.879 if jesus was walking up and down these aisles in this, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:57.320 arena tonight looking, for one looking, for one one who has, 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.440 been praying one who will, be honest one who will 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.960 open up, their heart just one. AND see i have 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.200 a visual, for This that jesus would stop. For one 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.040 because as MUCH as i love this and love you 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.679 and want to, appreach tonight if one little girl in 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.320 this Room Named abby fredick screamed in, PAIN tonight i 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:16.760 would stop the whole. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.560 Sermon for her and. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.040 Somebody Else rich wilkerson would have to come up here 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.720 and pick up my second and, third point which might 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.640 not be a bad, idea anyway but somebody else would 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.080 have to finish because if one of. My, children now 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:34.920 if It, was graham my eighteen year, OLD boy i 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:36.160 might just let him tough. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:36.480 It out. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.120 I'M kidding i would stop for. Him Too but i'm 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:44.159 trying to get you to See that jesus stops For 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:50.679 one he's a, Wonderful savior he's A. Merciful god and 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.359 not only does he stop for, one man but he 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.479 stops the disease that has robbed this man of. His 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.960 Life and jesus tonight can say stop to, a situation 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.040 and it has, to obey because he has all power and. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:11.520 All authority Jesus the King, Of kings Jesus the Lord. 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:16.360 Of lords Jesus the Prince. Of peace Jesus. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:16.679 The lily Of. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.840 The valley Jesus the Lamb of god slain from the 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.600 foundation of. The earth Jesus the lion of the Tribe. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:31.800 Of judah Jesus the Alpha. And omega Jesus the first And, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.439 The last Jesus the Bride And. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.399 Morning star jesus, who was and is and is. To 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.639 come Jesus. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.400 The man On The, Middle cross jesus The, Stone roller 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.639 Jesus the resurrection And, The life Jesus The, Good shepherd 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:54.600 jesus the, True vibe jesus the, Dead meter jesus the, 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:59.879 Way maker jesus, The shamebreaker jesus who has the name 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:06.280 that is about every name that the Name, of jesus 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:07.920 every name. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:15.960 Will bow and every tone Confess. That jesus. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:27.800 Jesus stops for a man whose name we don't. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:28.280 Even know. 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:34.880 He's, that good he's, that powerful he's, that personal he's. 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.919 That purposeful he has aligned your life in such a 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:39.800 way that. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.439 There is nothing you're going through that. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.720 Surprises him there is nothing you're going through that makes 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.400 him ashamed. Of you there is nothing you can bring 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.639 him that. Is insignificant you're. His child there's nothing you 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:53.879 can bring him. That's intimidating He. Is god there is 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:55.040 nothing in your. 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.320 Life that you can't come to. Him about and. 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:01.040 He stops, one Time the disciples we're in a terrible 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.560 Storm in march, chapter Four and jesus was sleeping in 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.399 the stern of, the Ship and peter thought he, didn't 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.160 care and, he said, Wake, up jesus. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.960 Do something we're about. To Die and jesus, WAS like 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.199 i was just letting you go through the storm for a. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.000 Little while and then he got up and he. Stopped 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:18.960 It because jesus can stop. 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:20.639 A storm jesus can. Stop it. 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:22.919 Touch through if People say jesus can, stop it he can. 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:25.280 Stop it he can stop. A storm he can stop 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.600 a storm in. Your life the next time the panic, 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.840 attack comes just start calling on the Name. Of, Jesus, Jesus, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:35.600 jesus jesus. You're, Enough, jesus jesus still this storm in. 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.680 My life he can stop. A storm, one Time in luke, 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.000 chapter seven they were having a funeral for a. Little 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.440 boy they were going through the streets of a Town, 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.159 called nine and a widow was about to bury her. 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:50.280 Only son he was going through the. Streets Dead but jesus. 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.560 Had compassion on, the woman and he reached out his 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.760 hand and he touched the, little boy and the boy sat. 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.440 Up Straight because jesus can stop. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:04.000 A funeral don't bury, your hope don't bury, your faith 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:08.440 don't bury. Your joy jesus can. Stop it one touch, 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:10.639 from him and all of, a sudden the funeral. Was 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:15.040 canceled jesus can. Stop it, one Time in john, chapter 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.359 eight they were about to stone a woman to death 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.720 because she had done something, very sinful and they caught 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.760 her and maybe you're dealing with shame and condemnation in this. 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:26.480 Place TONIGHT and i want you to Know what jesus 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:28.920 did for. THE woman i believe he'll do. For you 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:31.639 he got down in, the dirt because not only is 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:32.000 he a. 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:34.439 Savior, who stops he's a savior. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.040 Who stoops and he got down in the dirt of the, 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:41.280 woman's situation and he began to write something in. The 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.480 dirt and when the people had their stones ready to throw, 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:48.240 at her which represents the condemnation of the enemy against your, 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.600 life tonight that you've been feeling, so ashamed and you've 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.239 been feeling LIKE maybe i don't have, a future and 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.280 maybe it's over. For Me and, jesus said let he 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.600 who is without sin cast the. 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:00.919 First stone and here's what. 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:04.959 He knew the only one without sin, was him and 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:07.880 he was down in. The dirt and the only one 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.560 who can pronounce over your life what your life can 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:11.960 be is the one who. 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:12.959 Created you and. 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.800 Fashioned You and jesus stopped, the STONING and i came 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:19.680 to Declare over, miami tonight we have a. 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:32.239 Savior who can. Stop IT so i Love that. 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:36.400 JESUS stops i love every time that little hissing sound 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:38.680 comes out of the SCOREBOARD because i feel like it's 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.280 the devil having a panic attack while We're praising god in. 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:45.520 Here tonight the devil is sighing because he knows that 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:48.679 this is the last night that you're gonna believe the 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:49.560 lies he's been. 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:52.160 TELLING you i know he's been lying, to you. 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:56.719 Some. Of you he's had you up at two and 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.240 three in the morning worrying about situations that may never. 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.479 Even happen he's stealing all your strength and all your 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:07.479 joy even in this. Service tonight it's so important that 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:12.800 when we, say amen that you don't. Stop singing it's 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.000 so important that when we, say amen you don't. Stop praising. 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:22.360 You've got to really carry this night with you because. 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:24.760 The giants that you're facing aren't going to be any 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:25.760 different when you, get home but. 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:38.959 You are, he stops and then. VERSE six i. Love 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:39.880 it it's so poetic. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:41.840 To me do y'all just Love the BIBLE like? I, 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:44.639 do man it's fresh. To me i've been preaching IT 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.760 since i was sixteen, years old and it's still fresh. 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:50.040 To me because look what VERSE six sss is coming 0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:53.080 up on. The, screen Plase when jesus saw him. Lying, 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:58.160 there now what's so significant, about That, Pastor steven why 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:00.280 are you stopping to tell? Me that because think this 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:04.639 man was lying on, a mat and most people only 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:08.240 identified him with. His mat they only saw what he, 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:12.359 Couldn't do they only saw what he. Couldn't Be but 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:15.760 jesus didn't see the. Mat first he saw. 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:23.439 The man he sees me say it. Out loud he. 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:27.520 Sees me he sees me in, my storm he sees 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:27.760 me in. 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:31.040 My disappointment he even sees the parts of ME that 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:34.800 i want to hide from. Everybody else he sees the 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:36.920 parts of ME that i won't even admit. To myself 0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:42.320 and one of the most amazing things to Realize. About 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.280 JESUS and i want to say this, just, right okay 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.679 so bear with me for a MOMENT when i realized 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.240 that the one who knows me, the best loves me, 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:57.040 the most is set, me free because if he knows 0:26:57.119 --> 0:27:01.159 me totally and loves, me completely what can others do? 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:01.560 To me. 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:06.840 Jesus saw the man, lying there and he learned that 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:10.760 his condition was so bad that it. Looked hopeless like 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:13.840 my dad, who said you had no idea how FAR gone. 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:17.080 I was And then jesus is, probably thinking but you 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:18.520 have no idea HOW good. 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:21.600 I am you have. No, idea hey you have no 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:22.480 idea HOW. 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:24.720 Good i am at. My, Job see jesus is the Word. 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:26.159 Of god he doesn't speak the Word. Of god he 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.919 is the Word. Of god So when jesus sees, the 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:30.520 man he doesn't see him where. 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:31.800 He is he sees who he. 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:35.639 Really is and sometimes you get confused about who you 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:40.560 really are because all you see is. Your mat all 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:42.320 you see is. Your mat all you see is the 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:48.639 thing you. Struggle with one of the things that really 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:52.000 makes me laugh about. My WIFE now i need you 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:53.399 all to pray for her, about this because this is 0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:54.920 the only issue that she has other. 0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:59.439 Than this she is truly the, perfect woman and she's a. 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:01.359 Great gift but one thing that she does is. 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:04.000 So confusing you Know, how christmas when you give, your 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:06.240 gifts you kind of like stagger them where you start 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:07.840 with the smallest one and then you go to the 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.800 biggest one if you're getting multiple gifts. For, somebody Okay 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:13.680 so holly always gets, great gifts but she does this 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:18.320 weird thing with boxes because she's she's got all these 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:20.639 really nice boxes and she doesn't want them to go. 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:23.159 To waste so what, she'll do and you'll pray for her, 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:24.840 about This the lord can. DELIVER her i have faith that. 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:28.080 He can when she gives you the, cheapest gift a 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:30.399 lot of times it will be in the, nicest box 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:35.679 which is so disappointing when you open the paper and 0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:39.640 the Box, Says nordstrom and then you open the box 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:43.600 and the gift the Box, says nordstrom and the gift Says, 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:44.600 dollar tree. 0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:48.600 And you'll open the, box like what? 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:54.160 Is this this doesn't Match that she will put the 0:28:54.200 --> 0:29:00.400 worst gift in the. Best Box but god will do just. 0:29:00.480 --> 0:29:07.840 The opposite god will package some of his best gifts 0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:13.440 in some of the. Ugliest boxes have any of you 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:15.960 been dealing with an ugly box in your? Life lately, 0:29:17.120 --> 0:29:19.440 come on don't leave me up here, by Myself like 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:23.120 i'm the only One that amazon dropped off a box 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:27.040 that had been beaten and torn and rained on. And 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:30.240 weathered but if you open, the box and if You 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:34.080 trust god and not, the box you might find that 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:37.160 the season you're going through, right now you're gonna look 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:39.920 back at it a year from now, and go Thank 0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:44.360 you lord for that. Ugly box because in that ugly 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:48.160 box was a. Great GIFT and i just came to declare, 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:50.280 right now you cannot give. 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:52.680 Up on this season of your life because you don't like. 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:56.920 The box god does not live inside of. Your box 0:29:57.520 --> 0:30:01.280 god sees things you. Can't see god knows things you. 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:05.040 Can't know god does not see the man on. The 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:09.400 mat he sees the mat on. The man in, Other 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:13.840 words god sees you coming out. OF this i declare 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:16.880 tonight you are not going to die in this. Low 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:19.840 state this is not going to be the end of. 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:23.560 Your story this is just a chapter in. Your life 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:26.160 you've got to. Get up your. 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:29.000 Future children are depending. On it some of you in. 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.960 This room are to be the one in your generation 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:34.680 that breaks the curse that has been over. 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:36.440 Your family There. 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:38.800 Are, OH god i felt chills all up and down 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:41.560 my SPINE when i. SAID that i don't know who, 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:43.680 it is but there are some of you in. 0:30:43.760 --> 0:30:46.240 This room and if it hits YOU when i, said 0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:49.400 it jump up And give god Praise that i'm. The 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:54.640 one god's gonna. Use me i'm gonna have. A testimony 0:30:55.120 --> 0:30:56.160 i'm not dying. 0:30:56.280 --> 0:31:01.400 Down here he stops and he sees. 0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:09.960 Somebody say jesus, Stops say. Jesus sees. 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:14.880 And my favorite part of, the, verse Y'all is, jesus 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:18.840 says because you got two voices, going on you've got 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:19.640 one voice saying. 0:31:20.040 --> 0:31:24.680 Stay down you can't. Stay down you've. Tried before. Stay 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:26.920 down it's. No use this is. 0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:29.600 Not real that dude up there with, the microphone he 0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:30.479 is just hyping. 0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:31.400 You up this is. 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:35.600 Just emotionalism it is not EMOTIONALISM that i am preaching to. 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:36.760 You tonight it's. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:40.880 Called faith it's called the Power. Of god it's the Presence. 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:44.239 Of god it's the Name. Of jesus this is. Not 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:48.160 hype this. Is hope it's been too long that you've been. 0:31:48.200 --> 0:31:52.960 Down there and with one Word from jesus verse, number 0:31:52.960 --> 0:31:59.280 Eight then jesus said, to him you've got to. Get 0:31:59.360 --> 0:32:02.120 up Somebody say i've got to. 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:02.640 Get up. 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:05.640 And. 0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:06.800 It worked. 0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:13.840 He, got up and he took up his net just 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:17.959 because he did what the. MAN said i wonder what 0:32:17.960 --> 0:32:20.960 would happen tonight if you would just do what the. 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:25.840 Man said this guy. Got healed and he didn't Even know. 0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:31.640 Jesus's name you know, A name you know. 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:35.120 A name that can silence. Roaring waves you know a 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:38.320 name that can empty out. A grave you know a 0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:43.680 name that when, it resounds chains have. To break and 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:47.880 the men got up and began. To walk and when 0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:51.960 he did, verse Nine the bible says it Was a, 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:56.800 sabbath day which was not the day that they thought 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.680 he was supposed to, Be healed but it was the 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:03.080 Day that god decided to. Heal him Because when god 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:04.600 gets ready to, do something. 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:07.120 Nothing can. 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:09.120 Stop HIM didn't i say that at the beginning of. 0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:10.720 My sermon so. 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:14.280 Watch this this, Is, crazy miami get ready. For this in, 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:17.560 verse Ten the jewish leader said, to him the man 0:33:17.600 --> 0:33:20.800 who had, been healed it Is. The sabbath the law 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:25.480 forbids you from carrying. Your mat in, other words you can't. Do. 0:33:25.680 --> 0:33:27.120 THAT now i want you. 0:33:27.160 --> 0:33:32.320 To see the coldest verse in The Entire new testament is, 0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:36.000 verse eleven because they're saying you can't, do that you 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:38.560 can't carry. Your mat there will always be a voice 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:40.800 telling you you can't Do what god told you. To 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:44.320 do but his voice is the voice, that matters because 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:47.000 it is the voice that spoke the world into being out. 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:49.680 Of nothing it is the voice. That heals it is 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:51.680 the voice. That saves so. 0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:54.920 You've got one voice saying you can't, Do that and in, 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:58.120 verse eleven the man. Does something this is so powerful, 0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:06.480 to me. He replied the man who made me well said, 0:34:06.520 --> 0:34:14.239 to Me because, Jesus stops, Jesus sees, jesus says so 0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:17.719 it says if, HE'S saying i appreciate your opinion that you're. 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:19.840 TELLING me i can't pick up my mat. And walk 0:34:20.880 --> 0:34:22.760 but y'all have walked by me every. 0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:26.880 Day for thirty, eight years and not one of you 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.399 had the power to get. Me up. 0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:34.080 But that man, over there, come on help Me. Preach 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:36.440 miami that man, over there. 0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:42.359 The man who made, me well said, to me, get 0:34:42.480 --> 0:34:48.239 up pick up, your mat. AND walk i believe this 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:51.680 man was so happy that he was able. TO walk 0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:57.799 i believe he started singing. Goodbye yesterday i'm living in 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:01.520 a lot of a. NEW day i won't waste another 0:35:01.719 --> 0:35:04.560 minute on, The colonnades Praise. 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:06.279 The lord i'll. 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:10.880 Walk again i'm dancing on the GRAY that i. Want 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:16.040 slave i'm dancing on the. Gray dog maybe he couldn't 0:35:16.080 --> 0:35:17.680 dance yet because he's never. 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:19.680 Walked before but maybe he just. 0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:23.279 Starts simple maybe he, Just Says i'm carrie and the 0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:26.759 MAT that I Want Slade i'm carrie and. 0:35:26.800 --> 0:35:30.120 The MAT that i want one. Hundred People i'm carrie 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:33.840 and the MATE that i. Want slave i'm making, this. 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:35.040 Up y'all y'all gotta help me. 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:38.480 With this and then the religious leaders, are like you can't. 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:42.799 Do, that no you're doing. It wrong and, He's Like 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:45.960 i'm carrie and the MAT that. I want come here. 0:35:46.000 --> 0:35:49.280 To Me i'm carrie and the MATE that, I, Want 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:53.279 Slade i'm carrie and the MAT where i used to 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.360 you can't do that on. 0:35:56.200 --> 0:35:58.480 The, seventh day. 0:35:59.600 --> 0:36:05.120 And then points the man over there has the. Final 0:36:05.400 --> 0:36:10.480 say the man over there has the. Final say, the man. 0:36:11.080 --> 0:36:18.000 Are there three thousand People in miami who already. 0:36:19.960 --> 0:36:20.439 To lead? 0:36:20.560 --> 0:36:24.120 This flank different than? 0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:24.920 Your pay. 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:31.719 Will if? Mess YOU when i, say three you's got, tough, 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:40.000 one dude get. Up Breath i'm dad saying on The grass, 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:46.280 i'm dead saying on, the ground take up. Your Knack 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:51.400 i'm dad saying on, the grass, come on, my. 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:56.360 Man you. 0:36:56.440 --> 0:37:00.200 Are right I'm a i'm carrying the MAT and i. 0:37:00.320 --> 0:37:03.560 WANT that i can't. MARRY him, a man where are? 0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:06.800 You sing has a. 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:15.280 Final set there's a final, sat now if You, believe 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:30.239 jesus that's the, final say get out myself Raised. The 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:38.719 lord i've been, born AGAIN and i love me back. 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:44.920 Good yesterday, Hold on i'm being. 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:50.320 Different because i've got to, get off. 0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:56.840 Because he's, calling me because he's done too much, for 0:37:57.040 --> 0:38:03.400 me And the god who never gave up, on you 0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:07.920 even though you were there on that map for thirty. 0:38:08.040 --> 0:38:11.439 Eight years he saw every season of your. 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:14.319 Life and he never lets. You go don't you. See 0:38:14.360 --> 0:38:17.160 it that's why, you're here that's why. You're breathing you've 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:26.200 got to. Get up he brought you here to get. 0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:27.600 You up you're not getting up. 0:38:27.640 --> 0:38:35.520 By yourself, Jesus stops, Jesus sees, jesus says AND if 0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:37.239 i could give you a, fourth point it Would be. 0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:49.920 Jesus saves, RIGHT now i want you to bow your 0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:52.320 head and close. Your eyes nobody moving in. This moment 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:57.440 this is, an, important precious, sacred MOMENT because i want 0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:59.680 to invite everyone in this room who needs to give 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:02.759 your Life to, christ tonight really give your Life, to 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:05.640 jesus really make him the lord of. 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:10.240 YOUR life i want to give you. THAT opportunity i Believe. 0:39:10.040 --> 0:39:13.600 That jesus will stop this whole service for, one person this, 0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:14.920 whole event for. 0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:16.680 One person he loves you. 0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:21.360 That much he, sees you and he can, save you 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:25.880 and he says to you tonight that his grace is sufficient. 0:39:26.320 --> 0:39:29.360 For You the bible says that if you confess with 0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:31.400 your Mouth that Jesus, is lord and believe in Your 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:33.759 heart god raised him from, the dead you will. Be 0:39:33.960 --> 0:39:38.279 saved You will he'll raise. You up The same god 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:40.719 That raised jesus from the grave will raise you. Up 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:44.040 tonight it is by grace you are saved. Through faith 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.160 it's the Gift, of god not. Of works so that 0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:50.520 no one can boast right now with heads bowed in 0:39:50.640 --> 0:39:52.239 this beautiful Moment that god has. 0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:54.520 Brought us Together for i'm going to pray. A prayer 0:39:54.640 --> 0:39:55.120 this prayer is. 0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:58.560 Not magical if you mean it from your, Heart tonight 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:01.120 god will hear, you heaven and he will heal you 0:40:01.520 --> 0:40:04.160 and forgive you of your sin and cleanse you from, 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:08.080 your unrighteousness and this will be your. New beginning we're 0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:10.480 going to pray This together miami for the benefit of 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:13.319 those who are Coming to, jesus TONIGHT and i want 0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:15.560 us all to pray it out loud in faith for. 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:17.880 Those people if you mean it in your heart and You, 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:20.160 say jesus here's. MY life i turn from. MY sin 0:40:20.440 --> 0:40:25.279 i turn. TO you i want your FORGIVENESS and i 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:27.279 want a, new BEGINNING and i trust you as. My 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:32.200 savior then, right now repeat these words, After Me, heavenly 0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:36.200 father as a, church family let's say it, Out Loud. 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:41.440 HEAVENLY father i am a sinner in need of. A 0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:48.319 SAVIOR and i Believe That jesus christ Is the Son 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:51.719 of god And the savior of. The world. 0:40:53.000 --> 0:40:57.120 AND tonight I make Jesus the lord of. 0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:01.800 MY life i believe he DIED that i would be 0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:06.000 forgiven and rose again to give. 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:12.920 ME life i receive this. New life this is my. 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:18.440 NEW beginning i am a Child. Of god if you 0:41:18.640 --> 0:41:20.759 just pray that to give your Life. To JESUS when i, 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:23.600 say three shoot your hand in. The, air, one, two 0:41:24.280 --> 0:41:29.640 three we celebrate new. Beginnings tonight, come on let's Give 0:41:29.680 --> 0:41:30.960 the lord praise for every. 0:41:31.040 --> 0:41:37.920 New beginning, Thank, You jesus thank you for. 0:41:38.040 --> 0:41:40.600 Joining us special thanks to those of you who give 0:41:40.719 --> 0:41:41.360 generously to. 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:44.120 This ministry is because of you that this ministry. 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:47.320 Is possible you can click the link in the description to, 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:51.600 give now Or visit elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:54.600 more information and if you enjoyed, the podcast you. 0:41:54.680 --> 0:41:56.640 Can subscribe you can share it with. 0:41:56.719 --> 0:41:58.920 Your friends you can click the, share button take a 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.960 screenshot shaired on your, social stories and tag Us At. 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:04.560 Elevation church thanks again, For listening god bless you