Instruments Of Victory

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.520 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.600 Church and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.720 so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:21.880 I hope you're blessed today. Isn't that a good thing 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.680 to just know that here today we are in the 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.000 rhythm of the spirit of God. You can feel it. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.239 If you have an ear, you can hear it. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:35.920 And so. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:42.160 God is just doing miracle after miracle, open door after 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.600 open door. It is an amazing time to be alive. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.680 We're leaving for tour here in a couple days, Elevation 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:57.480 Nights twenty twenty three Spring Tour. Somebody asked me the 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:02.040 other day are you ready? 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But today we 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.080 bring you greetings e fam all around the world from Charlotte, 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:41.200 North Carolina. Oh yeah, We've got a triple annoying all 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.320 rolled up into one. Today. We've got the worship of 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.400 Almighty God, We've got the Word of Almighty God, and 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.079 we've got God's people together. And when you get all 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.720 that together, anything can happen. Clap those hands if you 0:02:54.760 --> 0:03:03.480 believe anything can happen in God's presence. Always awkward to 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.280 clap holding the mic like that. You hit it too hard. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.000 One time I hit it too hard. The whole mic 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:14.160 just went out. So now I go tap those fingers, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:20.200 praise the Lord. One more sermon on Gideon, and I 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.760 promise I'll leave Gideon alone. Y'all got one more Gideon sermon, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:30.880 and then open your Bible to Judges chapter seven, or 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.639 pretend to open your Bible as you flip through your 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.360 phone and get that last round of candy crush so 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.960 you can pay attention to me. I want your mind 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:46.560 free and clear today because this message is just so 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:57.360 rich good news. I'm going to read so much scripture 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.200 is going to make up for all the ones you 0:03:59.240 --> 0:03:59.720 didn't read. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:03:59.840 This. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.040 I don't mean to judge you, but I know you've 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.160 been busy, so I'm gonna put them all in on 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:13.040 this one. Judges chapter seven, Verse one. How about that 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:19.480 from the English Standard version of the Bible. Then Jerube 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.280 bel that is, Gideon and all the people who were 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.320 with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harad, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.960 and the camp of Midian was north of them by 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.840 the hill of Moreh In the valley. The Lord said 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.200 to Gideon, somebody say out loud, speak to me. Lord. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.800 Don't just talk to Gideon. Just don't leave it back 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.680 there in the past. Speak to me, Lord, I need 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.320 to hear you too, the Lord said to Gideon. Now 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.479 you asked the Lord to speak. Listen what he said 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.839 to Gideon. The people with you are too many for 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.799 me to give the Midianites into their hand. That's their enemy, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.719 the Midianites. The Lord said, I'm gonna give you the victory, 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.440 but the people with you are too many for me 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.200 to do it. Lest Israel boast over me, saying my 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.000 own hand has saved me. Now therefore proclaim in the 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.800 ears of the people, saying, whoever is fearful and trembling, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.560 let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:25.120 Then twenty two thousand of the people return and ten 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:34.800 thousand remains. Yeah, that's backwards going into a battle, But 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.159 we'll talk about that in a moment. Let's move on. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.880 Verse four. And the Lord said to Gideon, the people 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.160 are still too many. Take them down to the water, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.240 and I will test them for you there. And any 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.440 one of whom I say to you this one shall 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.440 go with you, shall go with you. And any one 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.800 of whom I say this one shall not go with 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.240 you shall not go. Hey it's a good idea to 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.120 let God decide who belongs in your life in every season, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.040 just a little seminar breakout session. That's not my sermon. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.680 But let God do that recruiting for you and the removal. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.720 He's a good He'll balance it out for you in 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.960 the end, all right, verse what vers of mile on 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.600 Tim five? Tim was the last one answer, And he's 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:29.239 the one whose name I call him youth pastors uh five. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.159 So he brought the people down to the water, and 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.240 the Lord said to gid him. Everyone who lapsed the 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.520 water with his tongue as a dog lapse, you shall 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.479 set by himself. Likewise, everyone who kneels down to drink. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.719 So put them on two different sides. God's sortain things 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.680 out now, getting getting ready for the battle. He's got 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.320 a five. And the number of those who lapped, putting 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.160 their hands to their mouth like dogs, was three hundred men. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.560 But all the rest of the people knelt down to 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.840 drink water, had their face down in it, couldn't even look. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.240 I'll seef anybody's coming. And so you know, he got 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.719 ninety seven hundred of the ten thousand that are left 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.520 on one side, three hundred on the other side, and 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.400 if I'm Giddeon, I'm like so I get the ninety 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.920 seven hundred right over here, right And no, no, no, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.400 the Lord said, with the three hundred men, the number 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.720 was three hundred men knelt down to drink like a doll. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.360 And the Lord said to Gideon, with the three hundred 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.960 men who lapped, I will save you and give the 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.720 Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.160 Every man to his home. So the people took provisions 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:40.360 in their hands and their trumpets, and he sent the 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.120 rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.720 the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian was 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.200 below him in the valley. A few more verses. That 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.960 same night, the Lord said to him, arise, go down 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.400 against the camp, for I have given it into your hand. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:05.720 I have given it. Who else but God can speak 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.440 in the past tense about a battle that hasn't even 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.280 happened yet, who else? What? God? Let me keep reading, y'all, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:21.600 stop distracting me. Behave. I have given it into your hand. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.760 But if you are afraid to go down, go down 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.520 to the camp with Pura, your servant, and you shall 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.160 hear what they say. And afterward, your hands shall be 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.240 strengthened to go down against the camp. And then he 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.120 went down with Purer, his servant, to the outpost of 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.079 the armed men who were in the camp, and the 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.120 Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.320 east lay along the valley like locusts in abundance. What 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.360 a contrast. Gideon's got three hundred dogs, and they got 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.920 so many enemies that it looks like locusts, a lot 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.000 of them. And their camels were without number, as the 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.400 sand that is on the seashore in abundance. It's a 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.600 lot of them. It's a lot of them. Say it's 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.360 a lot of them. It's a lot of things I'm 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.520 dealing with right now. It's a lot of people getting 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.560 on my nerves right now. It's a lot of bills 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.560 falling up right now. It's a lot of things I'm 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.080 trying to sort out right now. Now, watch this. When 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.199 Gideon came verse thirteen, Behold, a man was telling a 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.800 dream to his comrade, and he said, behold, I dreamed 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.440 a dream, And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.240 into the camp of Midian and came to the tent 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.520 and struck it so that it fell, and turned it 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.800 upside down, so that the tent lay flat. And his 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:38.760 comrade answered, this is no other than the sword of Gideon, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.520 the son of joe Ash, a man of Israel. God 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.920 has given into his hand Midian and all the camp. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:54.360 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream 0:09:54.800 --> 0:10:01.679 and its interpretation, he worshiped, and he returned to the 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.520 camp of Israel and said, a rise, for the Lord 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:13.360 has given the host of Midian into your hand. Clap 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:18.600 those hands and celebrate God's word. Clap those hands. Today, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.239 I want to preach to you about a very specific 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.800 subject that the Lord told me to mention today. I 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:31.559 want to talk about instruments of victory. Instruments of victory. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.120 And on your way down to your seat, just say, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.960 I've got what it takes to win. You may be seated. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.800 I've got what it takes to win. High five the 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.079 person next to you, say, you've got what it takes 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:52.720 to win this one. You've got what it takes to 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:58.800 win this one. When I say that, do you believe it? 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:06.319 I've got what it takes to win. Gideon didn't for 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.360 a long, long while. It took him a while. It 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:15.280 took him a while to reconcile what he had inside 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.800 of him with what he saw all around him. It 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.000 took him a while to reconcile what God said about 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.839 him with what he saw in himself. It took him 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.400 a while to realize, if I could say it this way, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:40.520 what kind of instrument he was in God's eyes? What 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:45.199 kind of instrument he was in God's eyes? See in 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.520 the Book of Judges, you have this constant cycle of 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.719 God's people getting in trouble and then God stepping in 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.280 and bringing them out of trouble. And he did it 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:03.559 through if I can say it this way, some interesting instruments, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:12.559 like one time you ever heard of Samson, got a haircut, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.040 lost his strength, ate his finish. No, that's another guy, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:21.160 all right. Sorry, I get mixed up sometimes, But Samson Samson. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:26.440 One time he took the jawbone of a donkey. And 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.400 if it was a men's conference, we do the King 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.600 James the jawbone of an ass in the King James 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:38.480 version of the Bible, and beat back a thousand Philistines 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.920 with the jawbone of a donkey. And then he did 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.000 a disc track to the Philistines about it, with the 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.840 jawbone of a donkey. I have slain a thousand men 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.360 with the jawbone of a donkey. I have made donkeys 0:12:52.360 --> 0:13:00.240 of them. Samson interesting guy, interesting instrument for God to us, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.360 you know, because he wasn't very self controlled or anything 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.400 like that, but he was strong and God used him. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.080 One lady in the Book of Judges. I won't go 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.680 through all of them, it's fresh on my mind because 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.280 we were reading through it a few weeks ago. But 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.679 one woman in the Book of Judges, she wanted to 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.240 kill an evil king, and he snuck in her tent 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.440 and she said, oh, poor baby, let me give you 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.240 some milk. And she gave him some milk and he 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.560 got sleepy, and then while he was dozing off, she 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:37.840 got a tent peg. You ever read the Bible, y'all, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.439 don't read the good stuff. I gotta show you where 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.720 the good stuff is, because you're over there rejoicing the Lord. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.880 She took a tent peg because sometimes you fight the devil, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.200 you gotta fight the devil dirty. Sometimes you do, sometimes 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.240 you do, sometimes you do. Sometimes you don't have time 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.000 for all of that transcendence and otherness and God the 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.959 dustness of thine in presence is. Then she grabbed a 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.240 tent peg. I don't think it was meant for this purpose, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.600 but she was multipurposing, and she took the tent peg 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.080 put it through his skull. Look her up in the 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:13.160 Bible J L J A E L. It means uh, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.400 the one God chose. That's what at least that's what 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.120 the girl told me at the restaurant. I met a 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.480 girl at a restaurant in Greensboro Friday, and she said, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.440 mister Verday. I said yes, She said, I watch your servants. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.120 I said great. What's your name? She said Jayl. I 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.520 said that's a great name. Do you know that story 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.600 in the Bible? She said, oh yeah. And so she 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.280 was a server in the restaurant. So every time she 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.320 came close to me with like a instrument of any sort, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.880 I was a little bit nervous, but she was sweet 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:43.600 in Somebody say, interesting instruments that God used to deliver 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.080 his people? Can we agree? Jobbone of a donkey, tent 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.240 peg through the skull of a king, after a nice 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.840 warm glass of milk. It's interesting the things God uses. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:15:00.600 But stranger than the objects that God uses are the 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:05.320 characters that he raises up to us as his instruments. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.440 Look at somebody and say, you are an interesting instrument. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.680 Just just just just tell him, tell him, tell him 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.360 by faith, because you promise you don't know. You don't 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.640 know the half of what you just said to them. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.000 You really have no idea how God put them together. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.360 And you've been married to her for eighteen years and 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.040 you still don't know how to play that instrument just 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.800 exactly right and keep it in tune. It takes a 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:40.360 little while to figure out the instrument, and and and 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:46.480 and and For Gideon it's even more difficult because he 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.400 is seen as I don't know what the coolest instrument is, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:55.000 maybe drums or something like that, maybe electric guitar. Gideon 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.920 is the instrument that nobody wants. Gideon is like the 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:04.920 recorder in his own mind, in his own mind, and 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.880 when God comes to him and calls him out of 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.400 the wine press, he's down there threshing weed in a 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.840 wine press. Because the Bible says that the hand of 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:19.600 the Midianites was against the Israelites. And so when God 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.120 comes to Gideon and he says, get up, go in 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.720 the strength that you have, I'm gonna use you to 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:30.280 bring my people out of the hands of the Midianites. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:36.200 Gideon really doesn't get it at first because it takes 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:41.160 him a while to figure out what kind of instrument 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:48.240 he can be. And here's why he's been in the 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:54.560 wrong hands for so long that he doesn't even realize 0:16:55.240 --> 0:17:03.400 who he is anymore. The whole nation, not just Gideon, 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:08.960 has been in the hands of the Midianites. And let 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.040 me show you what that looks like from the New 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.520 Testament and bring it into our lives. From Romans chapter six, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.440 verse thirteen. Can we go over and see the apostle 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.480 Paul for a moment. Let's go see the Apostle Paul 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.200 for a moment, because this verse will really bring this 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.040 message to a practical place for us where we can 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.800 understand what Jesus has done for us, and where we 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.280 can understand what the Holy Spirit is inside of us, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.040 so that we don't just shout that God has given 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.760 us the battle, but that we actually get to go 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.560 back into the battles that we face in our lives 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.600 with something practical where we can take it and where 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:53.679 we can triumph over the enemy that Jesus has already defeated. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:18:01.960 Somebody shout, I've got what it takes to win all right. Romans, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:07.640 chapter six, verse thirteen. Listen to this. Paul cautions you 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:15.160 do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:21.520 but present yourselves to God as those who have been 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:27.000 brought from death to life. That's what he did for you, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.600 as those who have been brought from death to life. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:39.159 You are a living instrument. And so since you are 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:45.159 a living instrument, you put your life. Watch this in 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.159 the hands of a living God. Put your life in 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.200 the hands Look at the second part of that verse, 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:57.959 your members to God as instruments for righteousness. Present yourselves 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.040 to God as those who have been brought from death 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:06.560 to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:12.560 In other words, take it back. You have been presenting 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:17.760 yourself as an instrument to the enemy for long enough. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.639 You have been presenting your mind to the enemy long enough. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.959 You have been presenting your mouth to the enemy long enough, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.960 just saying whatever comes out, just saying what everybody else says, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.120 just saying whateverything you happen to think of that moment, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:36.560 not checking it to see it. If he's even true, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:37.840 if it's where you want to end up in your life, 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.479 and setting the direction by your tongue, and steering your 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.720 life with the rudder of your tongue and your words 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.040 and your speech. You have let the devil have your 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:57.600 instruments long enough take it back. You may not understand 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:04.560 the value of the instrument that is you yet, And 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:06.920 in case you don't, let me set the record straight. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.240 The way that you were brought from death to life 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.520 is that Jesus went from life to death back to 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:22.000 life again. Somehow the Savior of the universe thought Alex 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:29.159 was an instrument worth dying for. Somehow the creator of 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:35.600 the cosmos thought Charlie was worth bleeding for. Somehow the 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:41.440 maker of heaven and Earth thought Heather was worth setting 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:47.120 his blood for. You are an interesting instrument. But let 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.639 me tell you part two. You are an expensive instrument. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.560 You can't get this in a pawn shop. This is 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.480 not a secondhand instrument. This is not a hand me down. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.440 This isn't the tuba that your brother never played. This 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:12.840 is an expensive instrument, the first guitar that I ever 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:17.240 bought that cost a lot of money. You know what 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.680 I'm gonna say. Do you know what I'm gonna say? 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.280 My mom and my best friend from isaacall Are both 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.520 on the second row. I can't tell any lies about 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:29.240 my childhood or exaggerator embellish any facts about my life 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:34.439 with these two fact checkers right here. But the first 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.639 guitar that I ever bought, my mom bought me some 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.919 and then I wanted this one specific one. It was 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:47.919 a Paul Reid Smith. What if I had it in 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:52.400 the back right now? Bring it out, Jared, bring out 0:21:52.440 --> 0:22:01.840 my Paul Reid Smith. Jared Olson, everybody, Jared, you were 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:03.760 shaken when you brought it out. You a little nervous. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:09.640 Excited me too. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:13.239 excited about this. Paul Readsmith. Oh, I was excited about this. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.479 I worked all summer to buy this Paul Reid Smith. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.480 And if Paul is watching, a sponsorship would be greatly 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.960 appreciated for elevation worship. A lot of people watch these 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:35.000 sermons Paul Reid Smith. Everybody say, Paul Reid Smith, any 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:39.480 guitar players in the house, you sound like you just 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:43.359 started six months ago. The way he said, well, you 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:45.280 don't sound like you toured with Journey. Let me put 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.320 it that way. I told him, bring it out. In 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:54.440 the case and everything. Just bring it out. How many 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.879 memories does this bring back? I saved all summer working 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.879 for pet Rest Cemetery and Cremation service. That was my 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:09.040 first job. I say, all summer, every Saturday, me and Fox. Now, 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.879 Fox was a bass player. I should tell you this. 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.600 When Paul says instruments of righteousness, he's talking about weapons. 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:20.280 But I never fought in the army. So when I 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:25.760 see instruments, I think, I think Paul reads Smith. I 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.359 think about this, Paul reads Smith guitar that me and Fox. 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.040 Now remember, me and him had a band together, but 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:36.600 we didn't Well, Okay, I shall say it. I should 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:39.439 say this, and I'll tell you I've been making up 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.400 bands since I was twelve years old. In my mind, 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:44.760 I would give a band a name, and then I 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:46.760 would tell all my friends they were in my band, 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.720 even though they didn't play an instrument. I'd be like, Lee, 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:55.159 you're my drummer. I don't have drums. It's fine, you're 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:58.560 my drummer. We've got a band, and I would name 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.000 the band, and I would make albums around those bands 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:06.159 that didn't have any instruments or musicians. All that, I 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:07.720 promise I'm gonna gave it to the Bible in a minute. 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.080 It is just to set up. This guitar was about 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:15.560 fourteen hundred dollars when I bought it, which in today's 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:22.600 money is seven point three million. Google it and look 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:26.360 inflation is crazy and watch us. I would go every 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:29.080 Saturday with Fox, and Fox was my first friend who 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:31.000 actually had an instrument. My friend Michelle said, hey, you 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:33.080 should meet Fox. He's got a bass. He's got a bass, 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.359 he plays bass. I play guitar. We start playing together, 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.800 We put bands together. His brother started playing drums. Now 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:48.240 I finally had friends with instruments. Y'all run around talking 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:51.280 about friends with benefits. What you need is some friends 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:56.200 with instruments, huh. Some friends who can help you grow 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:59.000 and go where you need to go and have the 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:03.280 gift of incur man. You need some friends with instruments. 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:06.680 If you can't play, don't play me in this season. 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:11.879 Because I'm looking for somebody who's got something, who's going somewhere. 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.280 I'm not looking for somebody who's gonna turn back when 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:21.399 the battle gets hard. I need some friends. That's what 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:24.400 God said to get in. You got too many men 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:27.919 who don't have any instruments, and in this season of 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:31.120 your life, let me get rid of everything that isn't 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:37.200 serving a purpose. You sit down. This is my party. Smith. 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.600 Every Saturday I went, I looked at it. I drooled 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:42.840 over it, I lust it over it. I prayed for it. 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.120 I did to hell Mary, I've prayed in pentecostal tongues 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.679 until I finally got it. Until I finally got it. 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:54.040 When Mike on the store, we picked this up and 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:58.480 play it. This sounded so good when I got it home. 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:03.960 It didn't sound like Mike when Mike played it. Mike 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:05.560 was a great guitar player. I think he's still there 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:09.480 running that shop. Am I telling the truth? All summer? 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:14.840 I saved up for this instrument. It's expensive. Come here, Eric, 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:18.640 this is my friend I was talking about. Aren't you glad? 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:20.480 He ironed that shirt today before he came to church. 0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:22.960 I didn't plan it this, y'all. Mask you come on 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:24.480 the stage, all the way on the stage, all the 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.080 way on the stage. I texted him five minutes ago. 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:29.919 I said you're here today, right? He said, fron center. 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:34.679 I said good, But I didn't tell him this play something. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:40.440 Come on now, this is a Paul Reed Smith it 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:46.040 should be beautiful. Yees see, we all knew this was 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:50.360 gonna happen. He's trying to play plush by Stone Temple Pilots, 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:53.920 but he can't. He didn't know it. Now I'm gonna 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:55.520 show you something. I'm gonna show you something. This will 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:59.960 be so some stop playing. That's distracting. My best friend 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:02.160 from high school, he would. He would drive me down 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:03.840 there a lot of saturdays to look at the guitar, 0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:05.760 because he had his license before I did. We go 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:07.440 down there to yell music and look at the thing. 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:13.040 All right, watch this, watch this. That guitar is expensive, 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:22.400 but in the wrong hands. Sorry, its potential is limited. 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:31.200 E take that over to E. Come here, y'all give 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:35.680 it up for this. E. Come on, it's E Edwards. 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:40.399 Everybody you know him from albums such as This is 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:47.520 the Gospel. E. See what you can do with the 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:52.760 instrument that that he had. Come here, come here, get 0:27:52.800 --> 0:28:02.240 in the shop. Do you think in his hands it 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:05.359 will be the same as it was in your hands? Yeah? No, 0:28:05.480 --> 0:28:10.119 go sit down. All I needed him for was to 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:13.960 put it in the right hands. I'm done with you. 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:15.600 You can go sit down, you can sleep, you can 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:17.600 take notes, you can shout, you can pray, you can 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:19.879 practice plush on the air guitar. I don't care what 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:23.359 you do. E show him what that instrument is. 0:28:50.120 --> 0:29:05.960 Whoop man, Why didn't it sound like that. 0:29:08.520 --> 0:29:17.200 In his hands? What changed about the instrument? We didn't 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:26.200 give it new strings. The only thing we did was 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:38.720 put it in the right hands. And God says, you 0:29:38.800 --> 0:29:44.960 don't need more strings. You don't need to be smarter 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:48.160 than you are. Shocker. 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:52.240 Oh you need. 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:58.840 Is to put put it in the right hands. I'm 0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:01.800 making this up on the spot, this whole thing, this 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:09.560 is spontaneous. Now that you seem the illustration, let me 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:15.400 make the application. Some of you started playing with sin 0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:22.560 in your life a long time ago. It was fun 0:30:22.600 --> 0:30:26.920 at first, but then it became a sort of cycle. 0:30:28.080 --> 0:30:30.880 The lust of the flesh, just doing what you feel 0:30:30.920 --> 0:30:34.680 like doing. The lust of the eyes, just basing everything 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:38.320 off of your senses in life, the pride of life, 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:43.080 thinking it's all about just what I can accumulate and 0:30:43.120 --> 0:30:48.920 never what I can distribute. And you play with things, 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:56.280 and eventually the things that you play with start playing you, 0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:06.760 and before long you might find yourself like Gideon or 0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:14.360 the Israelites in a season where you are a stringed 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:21.920 instrument in the hands of a skilled enemy. That's what 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:27.719 the Midianites represent him. They were a skillful enemy. They 0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:32.720 knew how to play the Israelites, so that the Israelites 0:31:32.800 --> 0:31:38.840 were pressed in and hard pressed and pressed down and 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:47.920 depressed and anxious and fearful and shrinking and small, so 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:53.280 that by the time God finally said to Gideon, mighty warrior, 0:31:53.720 --> 0:31:58.400 Gideon didn't even believe when the Angel said, I see 0:31:58.440 --> 0:32:04.720 you as mighty, I see you as strong, I see 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:09.800 you as capable. I made you for purpose. I put 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:15.480 an assignment on your life. And Gideon says, who me, 0:32:16.360 --> 0:32:20.600 Are you talking to me? Yeah, Gideon, you are an 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:27.960 interesting instrument. You are an expensive instrument. You have been 0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:32.640 invested with the kind of divine resources that are very 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:37.600 necessary for this exact assignment. Gideon, I feel God coming 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:41.320 into somebody's wine press today. I feel God coming into 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:46.240 somebody's weakness today. I feel God coming into somebody's dysfunction today, 0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:51.280 saying you are an expensive instrument. But you've been played 0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:55.959 by the devil. But today we came to take back 0:32:56.360 --> 0:32:59.400 from the enemy what never should have been. 0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:00.520 In his hands. 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:07.160 To begin with, high five your neighbors say, snatch it back, 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:15.040 snatch it back, snatch what back your instruments you gotta, 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:19.040 Paul reed Smith. No, but I got a sanctified mind. 0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:22.680 I got an imagination that was gived it to me 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:24.720 by Almighty God. 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:34.120 Why would you take something as amazing as your mind, 0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:39.080 an instrument much more than fourteen hundred dollars worth in 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:46.600 your mind, this irreplaceable, indispensable part of you called your soul, 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:50.600 your mind, your will, your emotions. And you're just gonna 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:56.360 give all those gifts over to an enemy, just gonna 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:58.760 give all those gifts over to an instagram. 0:33:58.920 --> 0:34:04.200 I mean an enemy, I mean a Midian night. 0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:07.800 And it's not just social media. The Lord spoke to 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:12.360 me recently saying, I'm gonna help you reclaim your imagination. 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:20.319 I gave you an instrument called imagination to serve the 0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:24.760 purpose of faith, but you use it too many times 0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:30.040 to go down roads of fear. So what the enemy 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:34.600 has done is he has he got my instrument called imagination. 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:39.000 Everybody in here who is really good at worrying could 0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:43.960 be really good at prayer if you get it in 0:34:44.000 --> 0:34:48.319 the right hands, if you get your instrument back, come on, 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:52.359 if you stay in this zestful of lust and say, oh, 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:55.240 it's nothing but the dog and me. A man's gotta 0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:58.080 have what a man's gotta have. Then you are going 0:34:58.120 --> 0:35:02.760 to entrust your mind and your heart to an enemy 0:35:02.800 --> 0:35:05.520 that does not have a good intention for you. But 0:35:05.640 --> 0:35:10.360 if you get that instrument back, it can become true intimacy, 0:35:11.080 --> 0:35:14.000 so that the God, who knows what he put inside 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:17.880 of you, can release everything that was meant to be 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:26.080 sent into the world that he called you to if 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:36.000 you get your life in the right hands. So the 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:37.840 first thing that God had to do for get in 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:41.040 was he had to get him to let go of 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:47.080 some things. In gideon specific case, I guess it was 0:35:47.160 --> 0:35:51.160 kind of like a post twenty twenty world where they 0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:56.040 had the Great resignation. Everybody I know who owns a 0:35:56.040 --> 0:35:58.920 business right now is saying, man, it's hard for me 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:02.320 to find. They don't say good people. They say people. 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:07.160 I got used to the thing that's good. Help is 0:36:07.160 --> 0:36:12.839 hard to find. Now they're like, horrible help is hard 0:36:12.880 --> 0:36:18.360 to find. I'll take some horrible help, Lord, because hell, now, listen, 0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:24.520 I'm not praying that God would downsize anybody's life. I'm 0:36:24.520 --> 0:36:29.600 not praying that, but I am saying, it's not always 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:35.640 the devil. When your life is downsized, there will be 0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:40.000 moments that God, to get you ready for the space 0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:44.680 he's taking you into, will need to thin out some 0:36:44.800 --> 0:36:52.359 things that you were depending on that kept you from 0:36:52.360 --> 0:37:02.560 depending on him. This is Giddy, This is Gideon that 0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:06.200 the Lord said. And I noticed how the Lord gave 0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:12.120 him an instruction. He said, everyone who's trembling, send them home. 0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:18.240 So Gideon's like, everybody who's trembling came and two thirds 0:37:18.280 --> 0:37:21.760 took him up on it, and probably he's like, well, 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:27.280 I mean you could tremble a little bit, little trembles, 0:37:27.280 --> 0:37:31.359 all right, all right, if you're trembling. Oh God, did 0:37:31.360 --> 0:37:33.920 I do it wrong? Ah, you did it right. The 0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:38.799 only problem is you didn't do it enough. So now 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:40.200 I remember when we met Gideon in a couple of 0:37:40.200 --> 0:37:44.400 weeks ago, he was threshing in a wine press, and 0:37:44.440 --> 0:37:49.960 now God is threshing sifting. Not sifting for the purpose 0:37:50.040 --> 0:37:57.080 of subtraction, sifting for the purpose of strategy. Is that 0:37:57.120 --> 0:38:01.000 word for somebody here? Quit giving the devil credit for it. 0:38:03.760 --> 0:38:06.200 Quit giving the devil credit for it. Oh, the devil 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:07.879 took this, and the devil took that and the devil 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:12.840 took the other, and the devil did he? Or is 0:38:13.000 --> 0:38:17.120 God getting room ready for your life? I know I'm 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:19.400 ministering to one person right now, right now, right now, 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:21.920 right now, right now, right now, right now, right now. 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:27.120 There will always be someone who will take this message 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:28.880 out of a context that I mean it in and 0:38:29.040 --> 0:38:31.160 just use this as an excuse to be horrible to 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:33.719 people in relationships and say that you weren't one of 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:39.040 my three hundred. But those of us who are mature 0:38:39.160 --> 0:38:43.200 enough to know understand that this is not permission for 0:38:43.320 --> 0:38:46.760 us to be that at relationships and blame it on faith. 0:38:50.880 --> 0:38:53.280 What it is for me is a promise from God 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:58.480 that what I've got in my hand in this season 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:03.000 is what He meant to give me for where I'm going, 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:13.600 And I've got what it takes to win. I've got 0:39:14.880 --> 0:39:19.480 what I want, not necessarily. I would really like to 0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:23.640 have thirty two thousand more if you ask me, But 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:28.680 God didn't ask you. He's doing the math. You got 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:31.919 to put this in his hands now, and I say, God, 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:35.879 I am going to let go put up Verse seven, 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:39.600 Judges seven. You'll hardly believe how clear it is he said, 0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:49.160 let all the others go, you see that ninety seven 0:39:49.239 --> 0:39:52.560 hundred on one side, three hundred on the other, and 0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:56.359 the three hundred are dogs, And God says, you're gonna 0:39:56.400 --> 0:39:59.279 do You're gonna do this with those three hundred dogs. 0:40:00.280 --> 0:40:04.439 I got that doll. I got that doll. I got 0:40:04.440 --> 0:40:08.160 that dog. The ones that were drinking like this, hand 0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:11.200 them out, I got that dog. And God says, that's 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:14.160 what you want. Now you want? You want the stuff 0:40:14.560 --> 0:40:19.680 in this season that you can actually depend on, not 0:40:19.800 --> 0:40:29.120 the stuff you've been pretending with. Can I go a 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:32.520 little further with this message? I'm gonna have to put 0:40:32.520 --> 0:40:35.200 this the part two on YouTube this week because there's 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:38.560 too much. I've been putting these extra teachings on my 0:40:38.640 --> 0:40:42.160 YouTube channel from the Basin, and you know what I'm 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:45.040 gonna do while I'm on tour. I'm gonna put the 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.280 Basin from the bus. I'm gonna go on the bus 0:40:48.520 --> 0:40:50.360 and I'm gonna put some sermons on there and I 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:54.080 will finish this. But I can't not tell you this 0:40:54.239 --> 0:40:57.520 next part because it's really what led me to the message. 0:40:57.560 --> 0:41:03.799 Somebody say, I've got what it takes to win. God 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:07.399 leads him to the three hundred they have already sent 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:11.919 home over thirty thousand and so the Lord says, let 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:21.040 all the others go, every man to his home verse eight. 0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:28.000 So the people took provisions in their hands and their trumpets. 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:31.600 That's an instrument. Unplug it real quick. I'll bring you back, 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:37.120 I promise now, a trumpet. I never played a trumpet, 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:39.120 so I used the guitar because I thought it was 0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:43.760 more appropriate. But the trumpet is not like an electric 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:48.200 guitar because it doesn't have to be plugged in. A 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:52.560 trumpet is a different kind of instrument. A trumpet. How 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:54.640 many of you played trumpet in the band at one 0:41:54.640 --> 0:41:56.920 point for six months because your mom made you or 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:58.759 something like that, or you love it and you're great 0:41:58.760 --> 0:42:03.879 at it, okay great? A trumpet is a what kind 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:13.320 of instrument? A wind instrument. A trumpet is a wind instrument. 0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:18.719 So a trumpet needs two things. Somebody who knows where 0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:27.000 to put their hands. These musicians are getting excited because 0:42:27.000 --> 0:42:30.799 they know something about instruments. Somebody who knows where to 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:42.120 put their hands, and someone with breath control. So Gideon 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.000 has been let me get this back to you real quick. 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:48.680 Gideon has been in the wrong hands for years, like 0:42:48.760 --> 0:42:51.160 some of you, just like in his mind, go to 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:58.600 this place of misery, predictable misery, enslavement, entanglement, entrapment, and 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:01.800 everything that comes along with the strategy of the enemy. 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:04.680 That might be for you a state of addiction. That 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:07.200 might be for you a state of low self worth 0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:09.560 where you have forgotten who you are some of you. 0:43:09.600 --> 0:43:11.759 If you talk to somebody else the way that you 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:14.160 talk to yourself, they would punch you in the nose. 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:17.640 And you use your self talk to beat the crap 0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:22.239 out of yourself. And I came today with a message 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:27.080 from Almighty God to let you know that you are 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:33.560 a very expensive instrument. And watch this. He paid too 0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:39.600 much for you to stay in a dead place. So 0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:42.720 that when Paul gets ready to say it, he says, 0:43:42.840 --> 0:43:48.080 you have been brought from death to life. Well, what 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:54.320 does it take to go from death to life? Breath? 0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:59.080 So what does God do when he gets ready to 0:43:59.320 --> 0:44:03.600 raise some body up to do something significant for a 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:08.000 purpose that they didn't even see themselves? For? God said, 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:11.799 I brought you to church today. You didn't just go 0:44:11.880 --> 0:44:15.560 to church today. I brought you to church so that 0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:19.760 I could blow into you the wind of the Holy 0:44:19.880 --> 0:44:24.839 Spirit for this second season of your life, because the 0:44:24.880 --> 0:44:26.120 best is still ahead. 0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:35.080 Come on, receive the prophecy, Receive the prophecy, receive the bread. 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:43.480 Oh yeah, it's a wind instrument. Somebody say it's a 0:44:43.520 --> 0:44:47.799 wind instrument. The trumpet can sit there all day and 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:50.960 it won't do anything if somebody doesn't breathe into it. 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:54.359 You know why you hadn't had power. You know why 0:44:54.400 --> 0:44:57.520 you hadn't had joy. You know why you hadn't had peace. 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:02.760 You haven't been letting him breathe in to you. Oh 0:45:02.840 --> 0:45:07.840 but if he breathes casts the bones on the valley floor, 0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:12.480 What happens when God breathes past the bones on the 0:45:12.600 --> 0:45:16.680 valley floor. What happens when He breathes. 0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:19.160 Past the bones on the valley floor? 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:26.720 What happens when God, Great God said, live, Live, Live, Live, Live, 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:32.680 Come on. 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:33.719 Easter isn't over. 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:35.760 He's still alive. 0:45:37.080 --> 0:45:38.799 And slowly. 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:41.799 And so I am. 0:45:45.520 --> 0:45:52.560 You are an expensive instrument, an exquisite instrument in the 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:55.719 hands of the master. There's no telling what might come 0:45:55.760 --> 0:45:56.279 out of you. 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:02.240 Oh oh, oh. 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:06.440 Let everybody who wants to leave for lunch leave for lunch. 0:46:06.680 --> 0:46:10.239 Everybody who wants this word makes some noise, Open your 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:13.840 mouth wide and let God fill it because I believe 0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:21.680 I got something great to do with his name. Hey, 0:46:21.760 --> 0:46:24.800 you know what, we don't have a trumpet, buttil. 0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:38.080 You have a void till you have a ground, do you? 0:46:40.200 --> 0:46:42.399 I can't take it. I can't take it. I can't 0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:45.360 take it. I might have to pick this up in Austin, Texas. 0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:48.440 I might have to pick this up in Minneapolis. I 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:50.080 might have to pick this up and take it to 0:46:50.160 --> 0:46:52.719 Kansas City. We might have to get on the road 0:46:52.719 --> 0:46:55.160 because watch this, watch this, watch us, watch us, watch us, 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:58.400 stop us, us stop up. He said, everybody this trembling, 0:46:58.719 --> 0:47:02.640 Send them home. Every who's trembling, send them home. Everybody. 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.160 You know what's crazy about that? Look at verse nine. 0:47:05.320 --> 0:47:07.600 Then after he sent all of them home and took 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:10.240 their trumpets from him, he said, you go leave your trumpet. 0:47:10.400 --> 0:47:13.280 You go, leave your trumpet. You go, but leave your trumpet. 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:15.600 You go, but leave your trumpet. And all the three 0:47:15.680 --> 0:47:22.360 hundred are going, what are we gonna do with these trumpets? 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:27.640 Can you get them to leave their sword? Because we 0:47:27.719 --> 0:47:31.000 need a sword. Get in. I know you're new to 0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:33.759 this Mighty Warrior thing, but you might have wanted to 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:38.120 read the Mighty Warrior Handbook before you start rounding up supplies. 0:47:38.440 --> 0:47:41.440 But something in Gideon said, we're gonna need some weird 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:45.680 weapons for this battle. If we go about it in 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:48.719 a worldly way, we will be weakened. If we go 0:47:48.800 --> 0:47:51.600 about it in a worldly way, we will be defeated. 0:47:51.960 --> 0:47:55.960 But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but 0:47:56.040 --> 0:48:01.800 they are mighty through God. For the pulling down a strongholds, 0:48:02.320 --> 0:48:05.279 I feel strong holds coming down. 0:48:05.719 --> 0:48:15.319 Right now, right now, right now. 0:48:16.360 --> 0:48:21.080 Yes, Lord, I got some weird weapons, and I am 0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:25.160 a weird weapon. I'm a little bit I'm a little crazy, 0:48:25.560 --> 0:48:29.080 I'm a little traumatized, I'm a little stuck, I'm a 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:32.320 little short, a little toe, I'm a little tea pot. 0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:35.040 But what's what happens when you pour me out? 0:48:37.160 --> 0:48:38.920 I've got it annoyting. 0:48:44.360 --> 0:48:48.560 Something on the inside. See I'm pretching from the inside 0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:51.439 right now. And I don't know who this is for. 0:48:51.920 --> 0:48:54.000 And I don't know who he's calling to. 0:48:54.520 --> 0:48:55.479 And I don't know. 0:48:55.400 --> 0:48:58.399 Why he walked me up at two am. But it's 0:48:58.760 --> 0:49:18.640 me to tell something. Body, you've got what it takes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:21.319 come on, now, come on, come on, let's have a 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:25.360 Code Orange revival on a Sunday morning. Why not let's 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:27.960 have a Code Orange revival on a Sunday morning. 0:49:28.560 --> 0:49:29.080 Why not? 0:49:29.760 --> 0:49:32.759 High five? Somebody say, I got what it takes, and 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:36.320 I know it now. I got confused for a little while. 0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:39.600 I let the devil play me, But I know it now. 0:49:40.200 --> 0:49:43.439 I thought my life was over, but I found out 0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:47.239 as long as I've got breath, as long as there 0:49:47.400 --> 0:49:54.720 is a breathing, there is a reason. So so I promise, 0:49:54.840 --> 0:49:56.560 this is a close. This is the cloth, this is 0:49:56.560 --> 0:49:58.920 the clothes, This is the close. This is the close. 0:49:59.200 --> 0:50:01.360 High five. Somebody else to say, you've got what it 0:50:01.400 --> 0:50:03.879 takes to win. You got what it takes to win. 0:50:04.280 --> 0:50:08.000 He's about to breathe in you so so so so 0:50:08.000 --> 0:50:12.040 so so. The Bible said that same night, the Lord 0:50:12.120 --> 0:50:14.520 verse nine. I'm in verse nine. The Lord said, arise, 0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:17.640 go down against the camp, for I have given it 0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:21.439 into your hand. He removes them. But watch this, if 0:50:21.480 --> 0:50:25.960 you are afraid to go down, first in, if you 0:50:26.000 --> 0:50:37.399 are afraid to go down, go down. Lord. I think 0:50:37.440 --> 0:50:41.400 we need a translator, because you are ways are not 0:50:41.440 --> 0:50:42.600 my ways, and your thoughts and not my thoughts. And 0:50:42.600 --> 0:50:47.480 apparently we speak differ languages. They have an army of locusts. 0:50:47.800 --> 0:50:52.360 I have an army of dogs. You told me to 0:50:52.400 --> 0:50:54.359 send them away because I had too many. Really, they 0:50:54.360 --> 0:50:57.040 have too many. This is you making all the reasons 0:50:57.120 --> 0:50:58.719 up in your brain why you can't do what God 0:50:58.760 --> 0:51:02.160 called you to do. This is you. I just want 0:51:02.200 --> 0:51:04.840 you to see that God is speaking to you. Greg 0:51:04.960 --> 0:51:08.279 not just get in This is you. So you get 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:12.080 in your head. You get in your head and things 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:15.840 die there because you give the instrument of your mind 0:51:16.200 --> 0:51:21.040 to the enemy. The Lord says, if you are afraid, 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:24.440 wait a minute. He just sent all the men away 0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:32.319 who were trembling. But he's trembling too, and God knows it. 0:51:34.480 --> 0:51:40.680 So God says, you can tremble, but you can't turn back. 0:51:44.960 --> 0:51:49.040 It's so okay for you to feel afraid. It's so 0:51:49.080 --> 0:51:52.759 okay for you to feel those feelings of unworthiness, but 0:51:52.920 --> 0:52:02.120 you must not surrender to them. Before. We have a 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:05.759 great high priest who can sympathize with us that he 0:52:05.920 --> 0:52:10.399 was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. 0:52:11.800 --> 0:52:17.520 It's okay to be tempted, don't give into it. It's 0:52:17.560 --> 0:52:24.000 okay to slip up, get up. It's okay that you 0:52:24.160 --> 0:52:29.400 go off, apologize and taper it next time. For God's sake. 0:52:31.840 --> 0:52:36.040 You can tremble, that's the feeling, but you can't turn back. 0:52:36.560 --> 0:52:45.279 That's the commitment. If you want to see the victory, 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:53.200 you will see it whin wh eton when you have 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:58.080 felt the fear, when you have felt the discouragement, and 0:52:58.120 --> 0:53:02.279 you press through it, and you breathe through it, and 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:06.759 you loved through it, and you forgave through it, and 0:53:06.840 --> 0:53:13.960 He brought you through it. Because it's his hand that 0:53:14.000 --> 0:53:20.000 gives the victory. It's his hand. Say it's his hand. 0:53:21.040 --> 0:53:23.600 You think he's running out of mercy, it's his hand. 0:53:24.920 --> 0:53:28.040 You think he gave you somebody else's gift on accident, 0:53:28.120 --> 0:53:33.200 or didn't give you. You got everything that, every little thing 0:53:33.280 --> 0:53:41.400 I'm telling you, I believe in God, sovereign God, a wonderful, 0:53:41.520 --> 0:53:48.480 masterful God who handbuilt this instrument. Made me weird where 0:53:48.520 --> 0:53:55.840 he made me weird. I'm about to get weirder. Warning 0:53:56.160 --> 0:53:58.439 to all of the people who live with me. I'm 0:53:58.480 --> 0:54:02.200 about to get weirder. I did something the other day. 0:54:02.560 --> 0:54:05.000 I did something Holly never saw me do. I backed 0:54:05.040 --> 0:54:11.600 into a parking space. She said, a back in kind 0:54:11.600 --> 0:54:14.719 of guy. All of a sudden, huh, I said, yeah, 0:54:14.960 --> 0:54:20.760 you don't even know me yet, you have it even 0:54:21.480 --> 0:54:25.920 met me. Yeah, I'll back in, I'll back out. I'll 0:54:25.960 --> 0:54:29.520 do this thing now. Watch watch, watch, watch watch. Can 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:36.080 you truly say that you have put your life in 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:41.600 God's hands? Or are you holding on to things that 0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:45.200 you think you need to know and trying to control 0:54:45.320 --> 0:54:49.440 things that are the sole dominion of the King of 0:54:49.520 --> 0:54:53.800 kings and Lord of lords? Because I saw it in 0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:57.200 the message. I saw God said, if you're afraid to 0:54:57.239 --> 0:55:01.040 go down to the camp, go down to the camp 0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:06.600 with Pura, your servant. Verse eleven is so annoying, and 0:55:07.080 --> 0:55:12.160 you shall hear what they say. Remember, God's been talking 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:16.720 to Gideon for an entire chapter. You're a mighty warrior. 0:55:16.920 --> 0:55:19.319 Go in the strength you have. I will use you. 0:55:19.600 --> 0:55:22.279 I will be with you. Okay, I'll light a rock 0:55:22.360 --> 0:55:24.600 on fire. I'll make the goat that you brought out 0:55:24.640 --> 0:55:27.399 catch on fire. I'll help you build an altar. I'll 0:55:27.440 --> 0:55:30.279 help you smash altars. Gideon says, can I lay out 0:55:30.280 --> 0:55:32.000 a fleece and you make the fleece wet and the 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:34.960 ground ground around it dry? This is all in Judges 0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:37.520 chapter six, And God's like, yeah, sure, I'll make the 0:55:37.560 --> 0:55:40.120 fleece wet and the drowned ground around it dry to 0:55:40.160 --> 0:55:42.160 show you that if everything around you dries up, I'll 0:55:42.200 --> 0:55:44.799 still give you a spirit inside of you that'll make 0:55:44.880 --> 0:55:47.080 you ready for what I've called you to do. And 0:55:47.120 --> 0:55:49.400 then he does it. And then Gideon is like, okay, 0:55:49.440 --> 0:55:51.400 how about the other way. Can you make the fleece 0:55:51.480 --> 0:55:53.719 dry and everything around it wet? And God say yeah, 0:55:53.719 --> 0:55:56.400 because when you feel dry, I'm gonna put enough encouragement 0:55:56.480 --> 0:55:58.839 around you in seasons of your life where you can 0:55:58.840 --> 0:56:01.240 get by on somebody else, this his faith. And after 0:56:01.320 --> 0:56:06.600 God does all that, Gideones is still trembling until the 0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:11.960 Lord says, okay, Verse eleven, go there, face what you fear. 0:56:12.440 --> 0:56:18.120 Say it out loud, face what you fear, and you'll 0:56:18.120 --> 0:56:22.440 hear what they say, and afterward the hands your hands 0:56:23.440 --> 0:56:30.120 shall be strengthened after you hear not what God says, 0:56:31.520 --> 0:56:37.160 after you hear what the enemy says. I'm gonna tell 0:56:37.200 --> 0:56:39.400 you something you've never had a preacher tell you before. 0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:47.480 Sometimes you need to listen to your enemy. They're gonna 0:56:47.480 --> 0:56:56.760 come take our Baptist papers away after this sermon. For sure, Pastor, 0:56:56.800 --> 0:56:59.040 I've heard you preach a lot of sermons, but you're 0:56:59.040 --> 0:57:01.160 always telling me not to do that. No, no, no, 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:06.920 he said, go down and hear what the enemy is 0:57:07.000 --> 0:57:11.600 saying about you. And when you hear what the enemy says, 0:57:12.800 --> 0:57:17.160 if you don't believe what God says about you, maybe 0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:22.760 you'll believe what the enemy says about you, Which raises 0:57:22.800 --> 0:57:28.040 a question. If you're worthless, why is the devil fighting 0:57:28.040 --> 0:57:40.120 you so hard? Think about that. The enemy is not infinite. 0:57:40.200 --> 0:57:44.400 Only God is infinite. He only has so much artillery. 0:57:45.440 --> 0:57:48.520 So if it's been coming against your mind lately, and 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:51.280 it's been coming against your marriage lately, and it's been 0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:54.480 coming against your bloodline lately, and it's been coming against 0:57:54.520 --> 0:58:00.000 your heart lately, what does your enemy believe about you 0:58:00.280 --> 0:58:06.360 that you don't believe about you. He must believe that 0:58:06.480 --> 0:58:15.720 you are a very valuable instrument. That's why you've been 0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:19.800 having shortness of breath, panic attacks, barely get through the day, 0:58:20.160 --> 0:58:24.240 because the devil knows if you keep breathing much longer, 0:58:24.720 --> 0:58:29.880 there is a breakthrough with your name on it. You 0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:42.200 are so close and just about the time. Look at God, 0:58:42.400 --> 0:58:44.600 Look how sovereign he is, Look how he puts you 0:58:44.640 --> 0:58:47.040 here at this time for this message. Look how he 0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:49.680 gave you this word for when you needed it, for 0:58:49.800 --> 0:58:53.600 got what it takes to win. How did Gideon know 0:58:54.080 --> 0:58:57.000 because the moment he got to the camp, give me 0:58:57.080 --> 0:58:59.920 Verse twelve. This is so good, we'll stop it. Verse 0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:05.440 I promise. I'm closing. Somebody shout I've got, I've got, 0:59:06.280 --> 0:59:11.160 I've got what it takes to win. Now watch this, 0:59:11.520 --> 0:59:15.200 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:18.880 of the east lay along the valley. They're in abundance. 0:59:18.960 --> 0:59:23.120 The enemy is in abundance, and Gideon's strengths are few. 0:59:23.200 --> 0:59:25.360 And I know you feel that way, but listen to 0:59:25.440 --> 0:59:31.160 the enemy. Verse thirteen, he says, dude, I had a 0:59:31.280 --> 0:59:36.520 dream last night. It was kind of weird. It was 0:59:36.560 --> 0:59:41.640 a you're not gonna believe me, but behold I dreamed 0:59:41.640 --> 0:59:45.080 the dream. And behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled 0:59:45.080 --> 0:59:48.479 into the campa media and it came to the tent 0:59:48.560 --> 0:59:50.400 and it struck it, so it fell and turned it 0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:57.120 upside down, and the tent lay flat? Is that the 0:59:57.160 --> 0:59:59.640 whole dream? You know when people try to tell you 0:59:59.640 --> 1:00:02.480 they d and you're like, I'm sure this was interesting 1:00:02.480 --> 1:00:04.280 when you were asleep, but this is really can you 1:00:04.320 --> 1:00:08.000 speed this along, and then I was wearing glasses, but 1:00:08.000 --> 1:00:10.280 they weren't glasses, they were headphones. But then they were 1:00:10.280 --> 1:00:12.920 air pods. And then the left one died, what do 1:00:13.000 --> 1:00:24.360 you think that means? Bro saw some bread rolled through 1:00:24.360 --> 1:00:31.400 the camp and it smashed everything. Give me verse fourteen. 1:00:31.440 --> 1:00:34.080 Look what his friend says back, this is the weird part. Yeah, 1:00:34.120 --> 1:00:36.360 I ain't heard the weird part. Yeat And the comrade answered, 1:00:36.720 --> 1:00:41.200 this is none other than the sword of Gideon, the 1:00:41.240 --> 1:00:43.160 son of Joe asher Men of Israel. God has given 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:47.160 into his Anmdian all the camp. You got all that 1:00:50.160 --> 1:00:54.160 from a loaf of bread, barley bread, No doubt, that's 1:00:54.200 --> 1:00:59.480 the cheap bread. That's the moldy bread. And something snapped 1:00:59.520 --> 1:01:01.640 in Gideon when he heard that. Look at verse fifteen. 1:01:02.520 --> 1:01:04.560 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream 1:01:04.560 --> 1:01:15.640 and its interpretation, he worshiped. What do you do when 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:19.240 you worship? You throw your hands up? What did God 1:01:19.280 --> 1:01:22.360 say he had given Gideon the victory? Where did he 1:01:22.400 --> 1:01:27.000 tell me put it in his hands? So he put 1:01:27.000 --> 1:01:30.760 those instruments of victory up in there and realized that 1:01:31.520 --> 1:01:35.040 the hand of Midian is strong, but the hand of 1:01:35.080 --> 1:01:45.720 God is greater. And he returned to the camp. Who 1:01:46.000 --> 1:01:49.240 is this word? For? This thing has been burning a 1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:53.800 hole in me. I can't even move right now. I'm 1:01:53.840 --> 1:01:58.280 glued to the floor till I finished this. And Gideon 1:01:58.320 --> 1:02:00.919 went back down, not from what he heard from God, 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:06.680 what he heard from his enemies. He realized, if they 1:02:07.120 --> 1:02:12.439 are that intimidated by me, then God must if they're 1:02:12.680 --> 1:02:16.920 dreaming about me, if the devil is waking me up 1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:20.720 in the middle of the night, it must be a sword. 1:02:23.680 --> 1:02:28.240 And he said to his men, arise, for the Lord 1:02:28.440 --> 1:02:33.360 has given the host of Midian into your hand. And 1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:38.080 I want to ask you something. If a barley bred 1:02:38.200 --> 1:02:45.040 loaf can be a weapon to destroy an army that's 1:02:45.080 --> 1:02:50.320 as abundant as a swarm of locusts, how fast does 1:02:50.400 --> 1:02:54.160 the barley have to be moving to knock down a 1:02:54.160 --> 1:03:00.840 whole camp. So now you get it. It wasn't about 1:03:00.880 --> 1:03:17.280 the weapon. It was about the wind. That's why, a 1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:20.120 child of God, you can hold your head high when 1:03:20.200 --> 1:03:25.640 you leave this church today, because you can know, Oh, 1:03:25.760 --> 1:03:40.600 I'm a weapon. He's the wind. When the angel said 1:03:40.880 --> 1:03:45.560 mighty warrior, Gideon said me. When the enemy said moldy bread, 1:03:45.600 --> 1:03:52.080 Gideon's like, oh, that's me. Sometimes what you need to 1:03:52.120 --> 1:03:56.480 believe is in how much you know. You don't need 1:03:56.480 --> 1:04:07.400 more information, you need more belief in God. It was 1:04:07.400 --> 1:04:12.720 an amazing thing for the enemy to see something as 1:04:12.800 --> 1:04:25.960 common as you rolling at him picking up momentum now, 1:04:30.320 --> 1:04:34.840 and Gideon said, all right, now that I've let go 1:04:36.040 --> 1:04:52.880 of my excuses, let's go. Let go, So let's go. 1:05:01.080 --> 1:05:08.240 That looks like bread coming. Oh no, I just saw 1:05:08.280 --> 1:05:13.680 whose hands were behind it. Oh God, I know what 1:05:13.800 --> 1:05:19.680 happens when you put it in the master's hands. Ask 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:26.160 the five thousand, what happens when you get the bread 1:05:27.800 --> 1:05:39.160 in the right hands. Yeah, but it was broken. You 1:05:39.200 --> 1:05:41.360 know what you didn't know? I didn't show you. 1:05:41.440 --> 1:05:42.080 Give me that back. 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:48.720 Two weeks after I got this guitar, I dropped it. 1:05:52.120 --> 1:05:56.440 Two weeks after I got this guitar, I dropped it. 1:05:59.600 --> 1:06:06.920 And Yeah, isn't it just like God that something so 1:06:07.040 --> 1:06:19.720 broken in the right hands it can still play something 1:06:21.320 --> 1:06:30.160 so beautiful in the right hands. In the right hands, 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:37.160 You've got what it takes. You just need to put 1:06:37.200 --> 1:06:40.560 those burdens. Would you just lift your hands to them 1:06:40.600 --> 1:06:47.080 right now? Put it in the right hands and get in. 1:06:47.160 --> 1:06:52.880 Put a trumpet in every man's right hand and a 1:06:53.080 --> 1:06:57.400 torch in the left hand. Lift your hands. You've got 1:06:58.600 --> 1:07:07.280 what it takes to win, because the wind is behind you, 1:07:09.960 --> 1:07:16.320 the Holy Spirit, who is with you. How could something 1:07:17.480 --> 1:07:25.160 so broken produce something so beautiful? Everyone who has a 1:07:25.200 --> 1:07:28.959 broken praise lift your voice to the Lord right now. 1:07:29.000 --> 1:07:31.360 Tell him, thank you for the bread, Thank you for 1:07:31.440 --> 1:07:34.440 the bread, Thank you for the bread, Thank you for 1:07:34.480 --> 1:07:39.960 a new beginning. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord. Come on, 1:07:40.040 --> 1:07:43.760 open your mouth, that's your trumpet. Use your words, use 1:07:43.800 --> 1:07:46.560 your breath. Tell him. I give you this situation. I 1:07:46.600 --> 1:07:49.560 give you this lawsuit, I give you this custody battle. 1:07:49.760 --> 1:07:52.760 I give you this bill, I give you this diagnosis. 1:07:53.040 --> 1:07:55.480 Come on, I need a worship team. Let's let the 1:07:55.520 --> 1:07:59.840 wind of God sweep through this place. We've eaten the bread, 1:08:00.640 --> 1:08:05.000 we perceived the word. But here comes the wind. Here 1:08:05.080 --> 1:08:11.960 comes the wind. Beautiful sounds from broken instruments, a beautiful 1:08:12.040 --> 1:08:16.800 song from a broken vessel. Lift your hands, lift your hands, 1:08:16.840 --> 1:08:17.320 lift your. 1:08:17.240 --> 1:08:24.760 Hands, spearing comments. 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:29.439 Let him have it, let him happen, let him have it. 1:08:29.479 --> 1:08:33.440 Does it. 1:08:35.320 --> 1:08:46.200 That? Let him sweep through your soul? 1:08:47.120 --> 1:08:48.400 Spell comment? 1:08:48.560 --> 1:08:52.680 Say they didn't wait, Lord, We'll redo their strength and 1:08:52.920 --> 1:09:00.519 up doing well. Here you go, to the b. 1:09:04.880 --> 1:09:07.760 I won't. 1:09:06.280 --> 1:09:13.560 I mean, come on, get yourself understanding the trust, I 1:09:13.960 --> 1:09:15.680 roll my graver. 1:09:16.240 --> 1:09:21.479 Believe me standing, believe so now it's how. 1:09:21.840 --> 1:09:26.080 You should have added bes your weapon. 1:09:27.439 --> 1:09:30.120 With your hand. 1:09:28.640 --> 1:09:35.719 Oh be lean on my own understanding that tat. 1:09:36.520 --> 1:09:41.160 You won't ever believe. He's stray gondy. 1:09:41.240 --> 1:09:43.559 He's week is so big. 1:09:43.640 --> 1:09:45.960 You tie my bad. 1:09:47.200 --> 1:09:50.120 He know what's going on. 1:09:50.320 --> 1:09:51.640 You goin. 1:09:56.360 --> 1:09:59.000 See her, you go take the tools. 1:09:59.280 --> 1:10:22.600 Take Oh God, it jo coming due spirit comments read. 1:10:22.560 --> 1:10:36.880 On us, we breathe, subody into it and. 1:10:40.520 --> 1:10:41.320 Read a. 1:10:44.960 --> 1:10:45.120 Hey. 1:10:45.200 --> 1:10:47.439 I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 1:10:48.080 --> 1:10:50.640 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 1:10:50.720 --> 1:10:53.280 get you all of these new messages as soon as 1:10:53.320 --> 1:10:56.040 they're available. 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