It's The Motion That Matters

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.840 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 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.080 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.440 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:19.960 Enjoy the message. Come on, clap those hands. If you're thankful, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:27.640 Let's do something real quick. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.160 Let's fill the place with praise with our testimony. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:31.680 We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.479 word of our testimony. Turn around and tell about three 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.760 people something that God has done for you. Just something 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.160 that you're thankful for today. It can be as simple 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.200 as He woke me up. It can be as deep 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.040 as He gave me peace. Put it in the chat. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.800 Just about two or three things to be thankful for. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.160 Two or three things to be thankful for. Two or 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:56.160 three things. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:01.240 Shouldn't be hard breadth in my life. I got two 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:02.800 or three things to be thankful for. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.480 Clothed in my right mind, I've got two or three 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.959 things to be thankful. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.320 For, goodness and mercy. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.279 I got two or three things He forgave my past, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:15.760 and he's already in my future. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.160 I got two or three things. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.120 Allelujah. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:22.480 That's good. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.960 If there's anything that you want to accomplish during this 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.560 multitasking testimony service and you are single and they are too. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.360 Just retrying to say I'm thankful that they seated us 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.959 next to one another today. I'm just grateful that I 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.920 get to be in proximity to your anointing. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.400 How many are grateful to be in the House of 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:41.840 the Lord? 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.800 Yeah, let me see how many of you grew up 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:48.960 with the King James Bible. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.040 I was glad when they. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.920 Said, unto me, let us go to the House of 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.760 the Lord. And you know, it's a beautiful thing when 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.760 you want to be here. And I don't know if 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.000 that's the case for you or not today, but somebody 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.840 wanted to be here and couldn't be here. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:07.720 So I think all of us. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.320 That can be here ought to thank God that he 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:11.840 kept us another day. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.960 Praise the Lord. Hey, Dough, it's so good to have you, y'all. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.080 Thank God for Doe. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:21.040 Here. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.800 Congratulations on your marriage. Hey, listen, this is kind of funny. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.120 I just thought of this. The last time I saw Doe. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.000 Me and her and Josh went over in a writing 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.160 room one afternoon. We wrote that song new Thing Coming. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.040 The next time I heard her name, she was getting married. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.400 So when she said I've got a new thing coming. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:46.320 God, you meant that thing. Hot five your neighbors saying, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.920 I mean that things. Good to have you, God, bless you. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.160 I got a new thing coming, I mean that thing. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.639 Maybe that could be my New Year's sermon. I mean 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:58.160 that day. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:00.120 Oh. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.720 I see so many beautiful love Wheat T shirts. I 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.040 see a Metallica T shirt. I see a Panther's T shirt. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.320 I see a Whitney T shirt. Do you even know 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:19.680 three Whitney songs? Okay, she's shaking her head vociferously. I 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:25.079 believe you. Then, I personally am so grateful to get 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.359 the pastor church where our generosity is legendary in our city. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.640 And I know that a lot of people will say 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.600 different things about me and whether my jeans are too 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.920 tight or too baggy or things like that, and that's fine. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.320 But one thing they can never question about this church 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.440 is your heart for the hurting to help people. And 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:49.040 that's awesome. And I know a lot of people like 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.440 to argue about who believes the right thing and this 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.080 and that, but when we get out there and show 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.320 the love of Jesus. It kind of silences all of 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.760 that and just puts it in action. So tell your 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.520 name where You're gonna look great in green. That's the 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.720 color of the shirt. It's more green, babe, than yellow. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.760 I'm looking at it kind of green. It's like completely green. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.680 It's not even a little yellow. Didn't Holly look pretty 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:20.720 up here in her custom blue lovely shirt? Hu host shirt? Well, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:26.160 you can host me anytime. Y'all did that disgusted laugh thing? 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.160 You're like, get to the scripture. This is gross. I 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.920 bring greetings to all of our locations our Etham around 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:33.200 the world. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.480 Let's welcome our Etham joining us online. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:43.360 Let us know where you're joining from. Now I get 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.200 to serve you the Word of God. I'm excited and 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.120 you will be two. I'm only gonna read one verse 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.839 before I seat you this week, so your feet will 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.799 thank me. I didn't say I'm only going to preach 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.040 one verse. I'm going to read one. Sit you down, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.560 and then we'll talk about two times in the Bible 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.200 that it was illustrated, because I think to see an 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.839 illustration of faith is what we really all want, not 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.440 just to have somebody tell us, hey, you should trust God, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:12.360 or hey, it's. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:12.960 Going to be all right. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.600 And you're like, how do you know that you've never 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.600 been through what I've been through? But the Bible gave 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.839 us all these case studies that we can always find 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.280 somebody in the Bible that went through something worse than 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.160 we're going through and God did something amazing for them, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.440 and we hitch our. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.599 Faith to this. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.400 So that's what we want to do today, is hitch 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.160 our faith to two heroes in the Bible. And I'll 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.080 tell about that in the moment, But first let me 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.400 give you a verse in Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seven. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.880 I'm using the English Standard Version for a little bit 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.920 more literal translation this week, just for accuracy's sake, where 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.719 Paul says parenthetically, and talking about life and death and 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.520 the tent of our mortal body and the immortality of 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.960 the eternity that is in our hearts, he says, parenthetically, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.800 just eight words that are very very sale. Listen to this, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:10.480 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:11.920 It's only eight words. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:19.719 I'll say it again, for we walk by faith, not 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.279 by sight. Now touch your neighbor and give them my title, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:24.839 say neighbor. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:33.800 It's the motion that matters. Yeah, it's the motion that matters. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.760 All right, Well, while I got you warmed up, turn 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:42.400 to your other neighbors, say, other neighbor, it's the motion 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.680 that matters. Do like this when you're telling them with 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.680 your handjuster say it's the motion that matters. Amen, you 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:57.719 may be seated. It's the motion that matters. It's the 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:58.839 motion that matters. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.600 We had a special event at the church Austin where 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:03.280 pastors were. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:04.800 Able to come and bring their teams and there was 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.000 a breakout session just for church planters, people who were 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.880 in the first six to eight months of their church, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.720 and we opened up the microphone for question and answer, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.559 which is always risky, but it was a good group. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.720 And I was feeling annointed and I was feeling a flow. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.080 I said, ask me anything. Well, one guy asked a 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.640 great question. He said, at this stage, he said, I'm 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.560 four months in And I don't remember where he was from, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.920 but I remember he said, at four months in, what 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.000 do you think is the most important skill that you 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.160 need at this stage? And again, this was several years 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.880 into our church. I don't remember how many, but it 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.560 was he thought I was like a professional or something 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.600 like that. He said, at this stage, what do you 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.360 think is the most important skill that you need? 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.560 And I said, four months in most important skill. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.800 And I love these opportunities just to see what the 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.800 Holy Spirit will bring up to help somebody. So I 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.920 try to see who's in front of me and discern 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:01.440 what God wants me to say. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.320 And my first thought was to go technical. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.760 You know, you need good children's ministry and good procedures 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.000 for accountability, and you need to pray. And I thought 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.200 of all the spiritual practical, but then it came to 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.280 me just like this, and it came out of me 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.640 like this. I said, I think the most important skill 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.680 for this stage is learning to step out in faith, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.160 because there are going to be so many things that 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.520 you are going to have to do. And then I 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.280 started giving him examples. When we cleared out our bank 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.080 account in order to give one time, we gave the 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.200 offering away instead of taking the offering, told people to 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.679 go be a blessing in their community. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.199 And so I told him about that. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.840 I told him about the egg drop when we dropped 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.680 all these Easter eggs out of a helicopter two months 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.440 into the church and gave away xboxes and trusted God 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:54.240 that nobody would end up on the news fighting over 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.120 the xbox, and they did it. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.120 So I said, you got to step out in faith. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.440 And I just kept listening like I was going through 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.679 a highlight reil of all the times I stepped out 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.880 in faith. Well, I can't say God stopped me, but 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.880 something stopped me on the inside. And I looked at 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.280 that guy, and something on the inside of me said, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.760 if you want to keep impressing him, keep going, because 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.119 you have stepped out in faith and more than you, 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.439 your your wife, your teen, this church has stepped out 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.880 in faith over and over again. But if you really 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.880 want to help this guy and not just impressing, I 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.320 want you to stop right now listing how you stepped 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.160 out in faith and tell him what the real most 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.280 important skill is. Tell him how to step out in doubt, 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.880 because you keep telling him what you did and then 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.320 what God did, because you did what you did, but 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.920 he needs to know some of what you felt while 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.520 you did what you did, so that God could do 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.600 when only he could do. So I shifted my answer 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.760 in the middle, I said, and all of that is wonderful. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:06.560 He didn't even know that. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.440 I didn't plan this pivot, but I didn't. I just 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 stopped right in the middle, I said. But even more 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.959 importantly than those times where you're going to feel an 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.160 amazing sense of courage and confidence that thus saith the Lord, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.280 and we're taking this mountain, and we're taking this city, 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.320 and we're we're going to serve one hundred thousand hours 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.400 to our community in love week. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.320 I want to tell you about some times where I 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:31.800 had to have. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.520 Love Week but I felt hateful, and I felt hateful 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:36.200 because I had. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.800 Some people saying things about me that weren't true. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.199 And I had to stand up and preach love when 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:41.960 I felt hate. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.120 So maybe the most important. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.400 Skill isn't just stepping out in faith, but to learn 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.000 to step out in doubt. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.839 Now I almost called. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.760 Discermon that step out in doubt? 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.240 How to step out in doubt? 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.360 But I know how religious you are are, and you 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.079 would say unto me. But James one five through seven says, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.920 let him who asks asking faith nothing wavering. For he 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.320 that wavereth is like a double minded man, unstable in 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.480 all of his ways, like a wave tossed. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.240 To and fro let. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.400 Not that man think he should receive anything. Why only talking, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.680 King James, when you're arguing with preachers. By the way, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.120 let not that man think he should receive anything from 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:24.440 the Lord. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.040 He is a double minded man. I love that scripture, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.079 I believe that scripture. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.120 And yet I think that a lot of times when 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.600 we see an example of. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.839 Great faith, it is just as important for us to. 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.440 Realize that wherever there was the demonstration of great faith, 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:54.439 it was on the other side of strong doubt. Anybody 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.560 who stepped out in faith, which by the way, is 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.920 not a term in the Bible, is a concept in 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:01.400 the Bible. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.000 It just said we walk by faith. I just read 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:04.439 it to you. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.840 But it doesn't necessarily negate the flip side of faith 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.880 for you to walk in it. And that is what 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.760 I hope to show you a little bit today, Just 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.560 a skill I want to give you for your life, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.720 because I know that you're trying to figure out what 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.440 is the most important skill for raising a two year old? 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.920 What is the most important skill at this stage of 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.640 my life? And some of you would even say, and 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.160 you don't even know, because I'm sixty. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:33.680 Two and you're not. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.280 But I would suggest that whether sixty two or sixteen, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:38.319 a four month old. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.199 Church or a forty year old church, that. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.280 The most important skill you will build in your life 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:50.200 is the ability to step out not only when the 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:56.720 feeling of faith makes it convenient, but when the conviction 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:02.400 of faith makes it necessary even though the convenience. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.880 Is nowhere to be seen. Now, I am a skeptic. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.960 So my kids will tell you. When they tell me anything, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.319 I always say, what's your source? Because they will just 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.040 tell me the craziest stuff at the dinner table, and 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:18.520 they will tell me the craziest. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.040 Stuff about politics. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.360 They will tell me the craziest thing about my own 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.280 staff that they heard. They will tell me the craziest 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.120 thing about what's going on in. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.600 The larger world of I don't know. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.360 They've told about everything from eyeliner to steroids at my 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.440 dinner table. Did you know steroids are good for you? 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.080 And I'm like, where did you see that? 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:38.600 Graham? The other day? 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.360 He said this most outrageous thing, he said, Dad, and 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.280 he said it like a fact, just a flat fat 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.960 he said, boom, And he just dropped it. And I said, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.400 that is the dumbest thing that I've ever heard. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.120 That's not true. He said, yes it is. I said, no, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.679 it's not. And it wasn't really like a disrespectful thing. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.600 We were kind of playing and he looks back at 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.680 me and he says, yes, it is, it's true. I said, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.319 it can't be true. He said, yes, it is. I 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:13.719 saw a thing. Oh oh, you saw a thing. Oh well, 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.200 now it's definitely true because you saw a thing. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.320 Tell your neighbor you saw a thing. Yeah, so it 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:25.800 must be true because you saw a thing. You saw 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.720 a thing. So so, son, I know you saw a thing. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.000 But before I'm gonna believe a thing, you gotta source 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.960 the thing that you saw if you want me to 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.720 believe it. And I'm gonna give you three points at 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.600 the very beginning of this message. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:45.960 And this is not the message. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.800 This is just the points that will build the message, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.400 that will get to the point of the message. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.480 Write them down. They all start with the letter B. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.440 If you are wavering today and if you are wondering today, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.280 if you can make it to the other side, there 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.680 are three things happening at all times. Number one, you behold. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:12.400 Number two, you believe. Number three you behave. We behold. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.240 Everybody say we behold. Come on, put these in the chat. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:22.080 I need participation. We behold, we believe, we behave. I 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.360 thought you'd like this LJ because it's B three like 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:31.160 that organ. Yeah, we behold, we see a thing, Graham said, 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.440 I saw a thing. We have never lived in a 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.800 time where you see more stuff. And I wouldn't have 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.560 warned my same gray hoodie if I'd have known we 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:41.920 were going to preach to each other like this. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.200 I'm it's all right. I'm happy to match you. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.880 I see a thing, and I believe a thing, and 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:50.840 I behave away. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.840 I see a thing, which. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.880 I don't even know if right now, anything I see 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.360 I used to say I have to see it to 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:58.800 believe it. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.800 Now I have to see it and verify. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.360 I don't even know if the trees that were in 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.400 my backyard this morning are AI right. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.600 Now, I don't know. They look pretty real. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.520 Put my hand through the tree to see if it's real. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.680 Is this a simulation? I don't know. I don't know 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.920 if they really said that. I get these clips. People 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.800 want to show me stuff all the time. Look at 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.960 what this political candidate said, and I google one time 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.440 and find out they didn't say any of that. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.240 They made the voice sound just like the lips move. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.560 It's a weird. I'll just be honest with y'all. It's 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:34.360 a weird. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.000 Time to do this, to talk to y'all, because they 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.800 can show you stuff that I said that I didn't say, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:44.680 or slice what I do say to. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.720 Listen, not what I said. And so people will want 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.400 to come up to me, oh, did you hear what 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.200 they said? Did you see what they did? Did you 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:53.120 hear it? Did you see it? 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.080 And I've learned to tell my kids that I don't 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.640 want to see it unless you can source it. Now, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.400 this is the kind of preaching that I notice nobody 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.080 shouts about. Because we want God to set us free 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:15.760 of everything but our gossip, everything but our slander. We 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.960 want God to give us peace, but we don't want 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.159 him to meddle with any of the processes that are 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:26.360 making us anxious. And I am trying to say that 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.440 sometimes you see a thing. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.040 Graham said, I saw a thing. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.480 I'm not doubting that you saw a thing, But for 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.640 you to just see a thing and believe a thing 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.720 is immature. For you to just see a thing and 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.080 believe it is to put too much confidence in your senses, 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.480 because your senses are not your sin. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.359 Sy When it comes to this fight of faith, the 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:55.200 spirit is. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.760 There is coming a time in your life where you 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.600 are going to have to get to the root in 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.359 this season of your life, for the challenges that you face, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.320 for the responsibilities. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:07.720 That you carry. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.560 I gotta calm down because I get excited because I 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.960 see how it all works now, because I realized that 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.480 some of the things that are a problem in my 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:19.639 behavior are a problem in my belief. But before I 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:24.520 believe the thing, I had to see a thing. If 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.960 I behold a thing and believe a thing, I will 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:33.200 behave away. Some of us hate the way we behave, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:40.080 but we will not change what we behold. We'll be three. 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.560 Lit'll be three. We'll be three, We'll be three. Okay, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.520 So what I behold, I saw a thing. I believe 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.240 the thing, didn't even check it out, seef it's real. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.879 And then I behave away. 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.560 And so now I have seen so many things making 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.480 me think that that person is my enemy because they're 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.040 of a different political persuasion. And I have beheld enough 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.200 of that information and data in my phone that now 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.480 I behave in a way that is completely contrary to 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.480 the character of Christ, who is bigger than either political party. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.760 But I can't believe that because I don't behold that 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.920 y'all know this preaching is much better than this response. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.959 There's an imbalance in the room today. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.560 All right, do you really believe this that we walk 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:37.040 by faith not by sight, because because because that means 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:44.159 faith is not primarily a feeling. That means that faith, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.800 biblical faith. I'm not talking about manifesting. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.440 Your dream job, dream card, dream house, dream beach. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.080 I'm gonna manifest my island. Well, I don't want to 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.320 have to staff an island, so I'm not manifesting that. Okay, 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.440 I can barely keep my bed made in my house. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.320 But biblical faith, whose object is Jesus in the finished 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.880 work that he did on across of his resurrection from 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.520 the deck, kind of faith faith in Jesus and what 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.200 He's done. We walk by faith, the kind of Paul's 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.040 talking about and secret the in chapter five, I'm about 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.520 to show you Moses and Peter, two leaders who both 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.360 needed to step out. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:18.760 In doubt with no feeling of faith. Can you do that? 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.520 Can I do that? Do I still do it? Or 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:24.240 did I just do. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.600 It when the church was young and I was twenty 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.919 six with nothing to lose? These are the things that 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:30.919 have been challenging me. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:41.120 Faith is not a feeling, it's a behavior. 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:49.159 This is the best news I've ever given you, because 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.040 what it means watch this is you can be at 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:58.159 an emotional low and a faith high. So what it 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.640 means is all the people who say, well, you shouldn't 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:03.720 doubt or think that, or ever deal with that or 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.280 struggle with that, if you really knew Jesus, it means 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:08.760 that from now on you get to take them to 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.800 Second Corinthians chapter five, verse seven and say, my faith 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.760 is not about what I feel. It is about the 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.560 way I behave. And I do not mean that if 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.359 you don't behave correctly, you don't have faith. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.920 What I mean is it's the motion that matters. Let 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.680 me show you what I'm talking about. In Exodus chapter fourteen. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.479 There is a Bible story that I have come to really, 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.600 really love. It is called the Parting of the Red Sea. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.439 Of course, that's only what you call it if you 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.560 fast forward to the part where it parted. We love 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.000 the part where it parted. Just a side note, don't 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:51.560 you love. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.479 The part where it parts, the part where God did it? 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.800 I told a songwriting room the other day, I said, y'all, 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.960 I don't know if we could put ocean splitting or 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.720 mountains moving in any more songs. I think we found 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.000 every way to say that we can. But you know 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:08.040 is powerful for a reason, because everybody has. 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:08.560 One of those. 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:12.720 All right, well, this is the part in Exodus chapter 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:14.920 fourteen that I think is kind of funny. And I'm 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:18.359 going to use Exodus fourteen and Matthew fourteen to remind 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:24.000 you today that it's the motion that matters. You did 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.560 the exact right thing by getting in your car, spending 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.919 your expensive gas money to get to this church on 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:35.160 this day at this location, because it's the motion that matters. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:36.320 And listen to me. 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.359 I don't care if y'all fought all the way here 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.399 and you cuss them out in biblical coin a Greek. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.439 You did the right thing to drag your cuss and 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:48.320 tongue in this room so you can have these ears 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:50.920 sanctified by the word of God, so you can cut 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:52.880 your cussing in half by the time. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.280 You get back next week. 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.520 Because it's the motion that matters. 0:22:57.880 --> 0:22:59.160 Don't judge where I am. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:01.800 If you don't know where I started from, you don't 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.119 have a frame of reference for how hard this is 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:04.439 for me. 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:08.320 It's the motion that matters. They've come a long way. 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.639 Moses and the children of Israel, they've been through so 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:19.560 much unimaginable, a four hundred and thirty year cry to 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.760 God that seemed unanswered but not now is not known. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.760 And at the appointed time God sent a deliverer named Moses, 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:35.040 who himself was pretty old, and he taught the most 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:38.760 important skill for this stage of life in old age. 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:41.840 Because Moses said, I can't speak good and I can't. 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:43.080 Do it, and I killed an. 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.320 Egyptian, and how will I go to Pharaoh's an Egyptian 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:46.199 and say, let the people go? 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:47.600 And what they don't believe me? 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.480 And I'm not a motivational speaker. And Moses, the non 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.280 motivational speaker, ends up with the most important message of 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:56.159 all time. 0:23:56.520 --> 0:24:05.000 Because he stepped out in doubt. Prove me otherwise. Quote 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:06.359 every scripture you wanted me. 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.040 One of the greatest leaders God used, told God he 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:14.280 couldn't do it, and then did it. 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:23.520 And then did it, and then did it. Well. He 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:24.479 did all he could do. 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:28.440 He put some plagues on the people, and he even 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:32.240 got the Egyptians to give plunder to the Israelites so 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:33.680 they would not leave empty handed. 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.160 Now with the wealth of an entire nation on their back. 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.560 The children of Israel, two millions strong, are marching boldly. 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:42.600 The Bible says, out of Egypt. 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:45.280 Now Here comes the part that I think is kind 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:47.560 of funny, and I think this happens in our life. 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:54.840 Verse ten, when Pharaoh drew near. Pharaoh's the enemy that 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.600 they just left, that they thought they were free from. 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:00.960 But they weren't quite yet, but they thought they were. 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:05.760 And they're in motion, right, And then all of a sudden, 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:10.040 Pharaoh the Bible gives exact numbers as six hundred chariots 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:13.800 and his best fighting men is now chasing them down 0:25:14.080 --> 0:25:15.160 because not only. 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:16.960 Have they lost their labor, but they've given up their wealth. 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:20.720 And so Pharaoh drew near, and the people of Israel 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:25.800 lifted up their eyes. Is the scripture on the screen, 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:32.840 shout the next word, and they saw something. They saw 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:37.080 a thing. They saw a thing that they thought they 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:40.280 had just left. Touch your neighbors, say, I saw a thing. 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:44.840 I was doing pretty good with my eating plan, but 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:49.800 I was trying to make it practical. 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:53.000 I was doing pretty good. 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.120 I wasn't texting any girls because I was gonna get 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:57.959 this season of my life straight. 0:25:58.080 --> 0:25:59.480 But us. 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.760 Okay, y'all don't like that. David was on the roof 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:05.119 one day and he. 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:09.919 So now look at me all hypocritical and holy sanctimonials, 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:13.480 like you never saw a thing and beheld something and 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:16.680 believed something and behaved away. But in order to really 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:18.879 understand why you're behaving that way, don't you understand why 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:19.720 you're believing that way? 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:22.080 And to understand why you're believing that way. 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:23.479 Don't you have to really think back to what you 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:28.160 beheld that made you believe that. So I completely understand 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:31.720 what comes next for us to judge the Israelites because 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:37.880 spoiler alert, they get scared, they see Pharaoh and they 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:38.600 feel fear. 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:42.320 Well, how could they do that? God turned seas into highways. 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:44.080 They didn't know that song. 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:54.960 They were living it. I'm living this, I'm walking by it. 0:26:56.640 --> 0:27:02.480 I'm having to take uncertain steps. I thought God would 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:05.400 fix me just right before he made me preach to you. 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.040 But the truth is, sometimes I will preach to you 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:12.320 a lesson that I have limped to. 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:15.600 And you can do the same. 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:19.920 Now in this particular instance, it's like you judging an 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:22.000 Olympic athlete, thinking to yourself. 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:23.800 Well, I could probably do that. No, you probably couldn't 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:28.200 Pharaoh drew near you ever watched this? 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:28.520 For it? 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:30.320 You're like, I think I probably could you. No, I 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.320 probably couldn't do that. Not like that. 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:34.680 I could do a version of that, but not exactly that. 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:37.840 They lifted up their eyes. 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:39.760 Now, I want you to really get in this text 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:41.760 with me today, because I told you we put too. 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:43.160 Much confidence in our senses. 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:45.199 And I know we have to use our senses to 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:47.640 keep ourselves from getting our fingers burned on stoves and 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:50.320 walking across crowded highways and things like that. But we 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:53.240 cannot make decisions with our senses when it comes to 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:56.199 this next step of faith in this season of our 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:57.639 life and the way we see ourself and the way 0:27:57.680 --> 0:27:59.240 we see the people that God has given us, the 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:05.960 impact your senses will get you killed. Here's why they 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:10.720 looked up and behold the Egyptians were marching after them, 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:15.960 and they feared greatly. Is this a sin, No, it's 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:26.159 a feeling. The sin is the decision after the feeling. Yeah, 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:30.280 and God forgives that sin too. But if you really 0:28:30.320 --> 0:28:32.600 want to be free from it, you got to ask 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:35.760 the question, what did I lift my eyes up and 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:39.240 see that is dragging me back into a past that 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:44.960 I said I would leave behind. What is making me 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:49.120 so afraid that I keep running back to stuff that. 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:50.120 I know I'm done with. 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:55.560 What do I keep seeing that makes me fight off 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:56.560 people that love me? 0:28:57.680 --> 0:28:59.280 What do I keep remembering? 0:28:59.760 --> 0:29:04.520 Is the the devil controlling your whole future with an 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:14.040 old movie? An old movie I'm talking nineteen eighty eight 0:29:14.160 --> 0:29:15.240 block Buster b. 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:19.760 Kin Rewind, Karate kids stuff, the devil kids showing you 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:23.320 stuff you got kicked in nineteen eighty eight, and he 0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:25.719 doesn't even have to resist you anymore. All he has 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:33.000 to do is get you to rewind. I came to 0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:36.600 find out what are you beholding? Because if you keep 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:40.960 beholding what they want to feed you. Yes, I'm talking 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:43.960 about everything that's on our news right now. Yes, I'm 0:29:44.000 --> 0:29:47.560 talking about everybody that's vying for your attention. Your attention 0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:50.479 is too expensive to keep giving it to things that 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:59.640 do not have your best interest at heart. I know 0:29:59.680 --> 0:30:02.480 what I'm saying. God said this to me. God said 0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:05.440 this to me. Your attention is too expensive. It is 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:11.640 costing you your freedom. 0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:16.600 That pornography isn't really free if you could see how 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:21.400 expensive it was as it affects your intimacy. 0:30:21.560 --> 0:30:26.440 You would run from it, not welcome it. But we 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:30.720 don't see that part. The enemy always hides the expense 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:38.960 illuminates the benefits, the feeling of relief. Now the Israelites, 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:41.720 of course, they're in a physical moment. And I told 0:30:41.720 --> 0:30:43.680 you this was funny, and there's probably nothing funny about 0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:47.080 what I'm saying right now, here's the funny part. Watch 0:30:47.080 --> 0:30:51.240 how Moses wants to deal with this in faith, and 0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:53.800 how God tells Moses to deal with it by faith, 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:56.440 because this will speak directly to that thing that you 0:30:56.480 --> 0:30:59.719 are overthinking in your mind right now. Just for complete honesty, 0:30:59.760 --> 0:31:02.520 so I'm not up here total by myself naked. How 0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:05.760 many of you are dealing with uncertainty right now in 0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:08.360 an area of your life where you are trying to 0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:12.800 figure out whether the doubt that you have is something 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.440 that you should pay attention to as caution or step 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:17.440 forward because God is calling you to have faith. 0:31:18.720 --> 0:31:19.400 This will help you. 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:22.880 I can't tell you exactly right or wrong in this, 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:24.880 but I can give you a picture. And here's the picture. 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:29.280 They cried out to the Lord. Verse number ten. 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:31.120 They cried out to the Lord. This sounds good. 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:33.800 That's what's supposed to do right very emotional, and they 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:37.640 should be. Now I'm not minimizing their situation here, but 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:40.840 watch how quickly they forget what God just did in 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:42.000 delivering them. 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.160 And watch how quickly fear. 0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:50.040 Can cancel out and make you forget how bad it 0:31:50.080 --> 0:31:54.320 really was where you were. In an attempt to go back, 0:31:56.600 --> 0:32:01.280 they said to Moses, it's because or excuse me, is 0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:05.560 it because there are no graves in Egypt that you've 0:32:05.600 --> 0:32:08.320 taken us away to die in the wilderness. What have 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:10.880 you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:13.200 Is this not what we said to you in Egypt? 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:16.520 Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians, For 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:18.680 it would have been better to serve the Egyptians than 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:24.200 to die in the wilderness, would it. Fear will make 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:29.600 you think that, depression will make you think that, pressure 0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:30.400 will make you think that. 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:33.480 And all three of those things are present. So I 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:35.520 get it. And now Moses, the great. 0:32:35.320 --> 0:32:38.920 Motivational speaker, he's going to give the question an answer 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:40.320 at the seminar. 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:42.840 What do we do now? Moses stands up. 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:45.560 He says he's not a very good speaker, but he's 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:48.520 given it his best right now, and Moses said to 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:55.520 the people, fear not, try that again. 0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:58.440 Fear not. Yeah, let's just morek a messy fear not. 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:06.000 Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which 0:33:06.000 --> 0:33:06.440 he will. 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:09.520 Work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you. 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:14.480 See today you shall never see again. And if y'all 0:33:14.480 --> 0:33:16.560 don't shout over verse fourteen, I'm gonna get a new church. 0:33:16.920 --> 0:33:18.240 The Lord will fight for you. 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:26.080 And you have only two Be silent, Oh, be silent. 0:33:29.960 --> 0:33:35.800 Don't shout because he's wrong. Sounds good, but he's wrong 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:39.280 with shit. We're always that way because sometimes it is. 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:42.360 But in this case it's wrong. Because there is a 0:33:42.400 --> 0:33:44.920 body of water called the Red Sea in front of you. 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:45.760 You can't cross it. 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:50.200 There are chariots from Egypt behind you. You can outrun them. 0:33:50.960 --> 0:33:54.480 So Moses's advice right here, one translation says, you need 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:58.680 only be still. We've all heard before. Be still and 0:33:58.840 --> 0:34:02.080 know that he is God. And sometimes this will be 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:08.520 the instruction. But for this moment, for this Moses, for 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:14.840 this nation, for this situation, being still will get you killed. 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:21.600 So watch God. I love God. Then the Lord said 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:27.560 to Moses, why do you cry to me? 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:33.120 Well, that's not very nice. Jehovah Jirah. He's supposed to 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:36.720 be my provider. I'm crying to you because you're Jehovah 0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:40.840 Nissi my banner. I'm crying to you because you're Jehovah 0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:44.600 Shalom my peace. I'm crying to you because I can't 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:49.520 do this, and I'm emotional, and I'm afraid, and Moses 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:52.840 is old, and the people are angry, and the peace 0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:54.000 is very slow. 0:34:54.280 --> 0:34:54.520 Look. 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:59.040 Look, look, if you travel with five kids a lot 0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:02.080 and extra to two hours to get across town, if 0:35:02.120 --> 0:35:07.400 you travel with two million, this isn't going to happen 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:08.120 very fast. 0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:11.960 And the Lord said to Moses, I know. 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:13.040 I got a lot on you, and I know it 0:35:13.040 --> 0:35:17.680 seems impossible, but why do you cry to me? Tell 0:35:17.920 --> 0:35:26.279 the people of Israel to go forward? You are not 0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:36.000 going to fix this with emotions. So, Moses, Mozetta, I 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:38.839 want to appreciate to all genders and people and all that, 0:35:39.960 --> 0:35:43.359 whatever it is that you're looking at right now, I 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:46.520 want you to know something about emotions. They can be 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:51.279 helpful guides to get us to a certain place, but 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:57.319 sometimes sitting with the emotion endlessly just creates more of 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:01.319 what you are asking God to take you out of 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:06.480 and the only way to deal with it is to 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:08.440 go through it. 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:09.279 Is to go through it. 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:13.960 And that's what God told Moses. He said, you can 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:15.759 cry about this all day. We could pray about it. 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:17.479 You can study a verse about it, you can quote 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:18.719 about it, you can do all of that. 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:20.320 But the only way. 0:36:20.120 --> 0:36:22.600 For us to deal with this is for you to 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:25.320 tell the people to go forward. 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:27.160 And then there's one more instruction that he. 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:30.319 Gives Moses, and I thought was significant and really kind 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:32.719 of silly in the face of the challenge at hand. 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:34.839 He said, verse sixteen, lift up. 0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:38.479 Your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:42.200 and divide it that the people of Israel may go 0:36:42.280 --> 0:36:44.640 through the sea on dry ground. 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:50.440 Oh well, that will totally work. How we read the 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:53.040 Bible with these cotton candy eyes, I'll never even know. 0:36:54.280 --> 0:36:56.080 We got this fake filter we put on all the 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:57.640 stories like, yeah, that's the way it works. 0:36:57.680 --> 0:36:58.359 Put the staff and. 0:36:58.360 --> 0:36:58.680 Let them go. 0:36:58.800 --> 0:36:59.960 I saw the thing he did it. 0:37:02.560 --> 0:37:04.040 I saw a thing. I saw a movie about it. 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:07.880 Moses just put up his staff. It's the difference to 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:08.840 read the thing. 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:11.160 And do the thing. 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:19.160 I guarantee you all of my scholarly confidence, low as. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:27.480 It may be that Moses's hand was shaking because he's all. 0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:34.160 And because he's scared, but the fact that his hand 0:37:34.320 --> 0:37:35.240 was shaken. 0:37:36.840 --> 0:37:42.359 Did not stop to see from splitting. And what I'm saying. 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:46.920 Is, you can do it with a shaky hand. You 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:50.440 can do it with knocking knees. You can do it 0:37:50.480 --> 0:37:53.160 with a lump in your throat. Oh yeah, Taylor, I 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:54.960 can do it with a broken heart. 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:58.320 I can prace him with a painful situation. 0:37:59.320 --> 0:38:02.320 I can make progress in a cloudy condition. 0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:09.000 Yeah, just like that. Give God praise, just like that, Cause. 0:38:09.800 --> 0:38:12.920 Some of you today you just lifted your hands freely, 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:14.520 but some of y'all. 0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:15.720 Your hands felt heavy. 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:18.600 And I keep meeting people and they say, well, when 0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:22.200 I really feel like it, then I'll praise God, because 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:24.400 sometimes I don't want to fake it and come to 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:26.960 church and sing God, You've been so good to me, 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.520 because I don't really feel like He's been good to me. 0:38:29.960 --> 0:38:33.200 But I realized something in the spirit that praise is 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:38.440 a pushback. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, praise is a pushback. 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:40.080 Praises. 0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:43.440 How I tell the red sea, you stand here, you 0:38:43.680 --> 0:38:47.840 stand there, praises, How I tell my doubt, you stand here, 0:38:48.160 --> 0:38:51.200 you stand there, and even if I stretch my. 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:56.240 Hand shaky, it's the motion that matters. 0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:03.720 Do you think you need a better staff. The best 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:08.080 staff can't split a c Stop thinking you need an 0:39:08.080 --> 0:39:13.200 external upgrade. All you need is an internal commitment to 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:17.160 God that I will step out, not just when I 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:20.480 feel something, not just when something good happens to me, 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:21.440 not just. 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:23.920 When I have a good idea. I'll step out with 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:26.520 a bad idea and buffet till it shies. 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:35.240 Telling you the most important skill is right here. Because 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:36.480 I don't see anywhere in the text. 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:36.960 Maybe you do. 0:39:37.000 --> 0:39:38.880 You can go study and write me an email about it. 0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:46.959 If their feelings changed, whether their feelings change, they're still 0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:47.800 mad at Moses. 0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:50.680 Moses is certainly. 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:54.000 Mad at them because everything I do for my kids 0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:55.600 that they don't think me for, I get mad at 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:58.600 And this is a pretty big thing he did for. 0:39:58.560 --> 0:39:59.960 Them to get them out. 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:04.640 And I think sometimes we stay stuck in resentment, and 0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:06.560 then we let us called the root of bitterness, keep 0:40:06.640 --> 0:40:11.840 us anchored to situations that we can move through. And 0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:13.919 everything you feel God knows about, and everything you feel 0:40:13.960 --> 0:40:15.319 God cares about, everything. 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:19.600 You feel God is comfortable in the presence of But 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:23.320 you have to let it move through you. By moving 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:23.839 through it. 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:32.160 If you always surrender to it, you never gain strength 0:40:33.160 --> 0:40:36.600 or freedom, whatever it is. 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:41.439 But God, what do you mean? Look at the verse? 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:44.960 One whole word God gave me here that I think 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:46.600 is going to be so powerful for somebody. I don't 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:49.360 want to forget to say it. He said, if you 0:40:49.440 --> 0:40:53.120 be still, you get killed. But that wasn't the word. 0:40:53.160 --> 0:40:53.600 This is the word. 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:57.680 Why you tell me about this problem? Tell the people 0:40:57.880 --> 0:41:00.000 of Israel to go forward? And I thought to myself, 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:05.840 wait a minute. They're on foot, the chariots have wheels, 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:09.920 they have children. All of the people chasing them are 0:41:09.920 --> 0:41:12.279 fighting it. You ever feel like there's nothing you can 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:15.359 do to catch up now, like you are so far 0:41:15.480 --> 0:41:18.239 behind in your life that even if I run as 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:20.080 fast as I can, all this I have to drag 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:20.560 behind me. 0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:28.320 And the Lord said, go forward, watch this, not fast? 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:37.680 Just forward. Isn't that good? Not fast? He said, it 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:38.720 doesn't have to be fast. 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:40.760 I know you're loaded down by a lot of things, 0:41:40.800 --> 0:41:43.160 and I know you're on foot, and I know you 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:45.400 didn't get that kind of training, and I know that 0:41:45.440 --> 0:41:48.520 you've lost some years, and I know that you've wasted 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:50.799 away some opportunities. And I know you killed a few 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:53.280 brain cells, and I know you closed a few doors, 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:55.160 and some people that won't call you back. And I 0:41:55.200 --> 0:41:56.800 know there's gonna be some things you're gonna have to 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:59.480 navigate through. And you feel like what's in front of 0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:01.839 you is too big and what's behind. 0:42:01.520 --> 0:42:05.040 You is too fast. But you don't have to go fast. 0:42:06.120 --> 0:42:14.160 You just have to go forward. Why because after the 0:42:14.200 --> 0:42:19.440 water parts for you, it's gonna close back over your enemies. 0:42:22.480 --> 0:42:27.560 And you're on foot, and Pharaoh has wheels, so it 0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:30.360 would seem like there's no way you can outrun him. 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:33.319 But there's one thing your enemy didn't count on when 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:37.640 he was chasing you with this. Chariots wheels don't work 0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:46.720 in water. If Pharaoh was gonna chase you, he should 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:50.200 have brought a boat. Because what he didn't count on 0:42:50.760 --> 0:42:52.719 is that when you do help me. 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:56.480 Preach before I have a cardiac arrest in front. 0:42:56.280 --> 0:43:01.520 Of two thousand people, God said, I'm not looking for 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:04.080 you to be fast enough. I'm not looking for you 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:06.439 to make up for time that you lost. I don't 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:09.960 make up the time you lost. How redeem the years 0:43:10.320 --> 0:43:11.279 that the kicker. 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:15.759 Worm has He I'll deal with your past. I'll deal 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:19.680 with your credit, I deal with your boss, I'll deal 0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:21.560 with the market, I'll deal with the. 0:43:24.680 --> 0:43:31.080 Hot five seven people say, will still working water, will 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:36.080 still work in water when you get out here in faith, 0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:37.680 there's not a thing. 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:40.200 The devil can do to drag your back. 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:43.360 God's wheels don't work in water. 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:50.480 You hear what I'm saying. I don't have to be fast. 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:55.160 I just gotta move forward because your stuck wheel can't 0:43:55.200 --> 0:44:05.240 catch my slow feet. You will journey with me now 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:12.440 over twelve hundred miles to another sea. In scripture, over, 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:15.640 excuse me, two hundred miles in twelve hundred years. 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:19.120 So we're covering a great distance. I understand that. 0:44:20.120 --> 0:44:22.799 And if I may fast forward for a moment to 0:44:22.920 --> 0:44:26.160 one of your favorite Bible stories, because you want to 0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:27.520 be like this guy so much. 0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:33.720 Old Peter, old. 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:39.319 Fish and empty net, foulmouth gospel preaching, Peter, Oh, you're 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:47.440 hacking Peter Old Pentecost Sunday, Peter, Oh, Simon, Peter, Oh, 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:48.120 crazy Peter. 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:50.560 Old Peter took. 0:44:50.360 --> 0:44:52.040 His boat, let Jesus preach in it, and then took 0:44:52.080 --> 0:44:54.959 his boat and did whatever Jesus told him all around 0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:58.680 the Sea of Galilee, Matthew chapter fourteen says that Jesus 0:44:58.719 --> 0:45:01.480 performed a great miracle fed fi thousand men, women and children. 0:45:01.480 --> 0:45:03.360 I told you last week, don't let the math distract you. 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:06.319 It doesn't matter how many there are, matters how much 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:16.759 he is. Oh, it doesn't matter how many they are. 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:19.600 It matters how much he is, greater as he that 0:45:19.719 --> 0:45:22.840 is in. I gotta teach you all the Bible, so 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:25.920 y'all know this stuff so you can step out in 0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:28.960 doubt and change. 0:45:28.760 --> 0:45:31.360 It to faith. The step is what makes it faith, 0:45:31.800 --> 0:45:36.960 not the feeling. The step is what makes it faith. 0:45:37.160 --> 0:45:41.640 The behavior. You gotta switch this thing. You keep beholding, 0:45:42.600 --> 0:45:48.480 believing and then behaving. But if we can switch it, 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:51.279 if we can switch it, if you. 0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:57.719 Could believe and behave according to what you believe, you 0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:01.160 would behold things that you don't even know where possible. 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:07.680 Then you'll see a thing. Then you'll see a thing. 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:13.440 You'll see a thing, and you'll speak a thing. God says, 0:46:14.080 --> 0:46:16.839 I'm not forsaken. You'll see a thing, you'll feel a thing, 0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:19.439 and you'll speak a thing. God says, no weapon formed 0:46:19.440 --> 0:46:22.719 against me will prosper. You'll see a thing and you'll 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:25.759 speak a thing. It is for his glory, not my 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:27.399 self righteousness. That I have been saved. 0:46:27.440 --> 0:46:28.840 It is the gift of God, not of works, so 0:46:28.920 --> 0:46:29.560 that no one can both. 0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:32.239 You'll see a thing, and you will speak a thing, 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:35.080 and the devil will show you things all the time 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:36.920 in your mind. Oh yeah, he doesn't even have to 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:39.319 do it physically. He showed Jesus all the kingdoms of 0:46:39.360 --> 0:46:42.200 this world right in his own mind during the forty 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:46.719 day fast. But Jesus saw another thing. I want to 0:46:46.760 --> 0:46:49.080 teach you how to see another thing. Matthew Chapter fourteen. 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:51.920 The Bible says that the disciples got in the boat 0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:56.719 why because Jesus told them to go to the other side. 0:46:57.080 --> 0:47:00.759 Tell your neighbor, I want you to see once on 0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:06.640 your other side, so you cannot die in this storm. 0:47:07.719 --> 0:47:10.840 Tell him you can cry. 0:47:09.800 --> 0:47:15.920 You can complain, you can rest, but you can't quit, because. 0:47:15.640 --> 0:47:19.080 It's the motion that matters. Clap your hands if. 0:47:19.000 --> 0:47:21.640 You know it's the motion that matters, now, Matthew fourteen. 0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:27.360 Matthew fourteen. After feeding five. 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:32.040 Thousand, immediately Jesus verse twenty two made the disciples get 0:47:32.080 --> 0:47:35.640 into the boat and go before him to the other side. 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:39.200 While he dismissed the crowd Notice what he didn't give 0:47:39.239 --> 0:47:42.759 them an agenda. Notice what he didn't give them information. 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:47.359 Notice what he didn't give them a timetable. I thought 0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:47.759 about my. 0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:51.640 Dog Bo here. I thought about how I don't know 0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:53.200 if y'all know, we have a Boston terior. 0:47:53.880 --> 0:47:55.319 It was kind of a big deal in the church 0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:57.719 because for years I told the family that they were 0:47:57.760 --> 0:48:00.480 not responsible enough to have a dog. Was right, but 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:03.000 I bought him on anyway, Holly and Abbey, of course, 0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:06.560 have done wonderfully with Bo. Graham has fulfilled every prophecy 0:48:06.640 --> 0:48:09.320 I had of his irresponsibility. 0:48:08.440 --> 0:48:10.200 About the dog, because he saw a thing. 0:48:10.520 --> 0:48:16.800 All right, now, love your body. 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:22.960 Bo is an anxiety dog. Not that he helps us 0:48:23.000 --> 0:48:28.000 with our anxiety. He has so much anxiety, and incrementally 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:28.719 it's getting worse. 0:48:28.719 --> 0:48:30.279 I'll show you a picture of Bow real quick, put 0:48:30.320 --> 0:48:30.760 on screen. 0:48:31.880 --> 0:48:34.880 And that picture was sent to us while we were 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:37.880 away on a trip for elevation nights preaching and ministering, 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:41.360 and one of our wonderful people that are on the 0:48:41.400 --> 0:48:43.400 team was send us a picture to show us Bo. 0:48:43.680 --> 0:48:46.319 And we all said to each other, we can't tell 0:48:46.360 --> 0:48:49.560 from that picture whether he's freaking out, losing his mind, 0:48:49.640 --> 0:48:51.479 or having the time of his life because they both 0:48:51.560 --> 0:48:55.520 make the same face. That's how he looks when he's horrified, 0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:58.840 that's how he looks when he's happy. And so you 0:48:58.880 --> 0:49:01.040 can't really tell what's going on from that picture. Now 0:49:01.040 --> 0:49:03.320 you can take it down. But there are two things 0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:06.440 that bo will be scared of, and both of these. 0:49:06.320 --> 0:49:09.239 Fears are acquired. Acquired. I don't think he had them 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:10.880 when we first got him. We got him very little. 0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:12.640 And please don't send any emails for how to remedy 0:49:12.640 --> 0:49:13.000 any of this. 0:49:13.520 --> 0:49:17.120 He's already under the supervision of a wonderful veterinarian and 0:49:17.120 --> 0:49:20.319 Holly's working on all of that. But anytime that he 0:49:20.520 --> 0:49:30.960 sees everybody say sees these two things a suitcase, or anytime. 0:49:30.440 --> 0:49:32.680 He hears a storm. 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:38.880 So he's afraid of two things, a suitcase and a 0:49:38.920 --> 0:49:43.760 storm because the first one a suitcase. He's seen those before, 0:49:44.800 --> 0:49:48.120 and sometimes when he sees one of those, we're back 0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:51.440 twenty four hours later. He didn't even have time to 0:49:51.440 --> 0:49:55.640 miss us. But we've been gone from him two weeks before, 0:49:55.960 --> 0:49:59.120 and I think he likes us because when the suitcase 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:01.800 comes out, he starts following us everywhere. How many of 0:50:01.840 --> 0:50:04.439 y'all your dog does the same thing, because not because 0:50:04.480 --> 0:50:06.080 you're leaving, but because I don't know how long it's 0:50:06.080 --> 0:50:06.440 gonna be. 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:08.279 Because you don't have a way to communicate this to me. 0:50:10.320 --> 0:50:15.680 Jesus said, I'll see on the other side, here's your suitcase. 0:50:16.800 --> 0:50:21.759 And the disciples are like, yeah, but like we're gonna 0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:22.480 be there a while. 0:50:23.600 --> 0:50:25.680 You come in to night, you come in on, how 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:28.560 much time you need alone, I know you're tired. None 0:50:28.560 --> 0:50:28.719 of that. 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:34.759 Just this is not good. I call it transition. 0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:43.200 With no timestamp, I can't fast forward to know how 0:50:43.239 --> 0:50:46.040 this ends or how we get back. And Jesus certainly 0:50:46.080 --> 0:50:48.200 didn't tell them what happened next, because not only did 0:50:48.200 --> 0:50:50.960 they have a suitcase, but they had a storm. That's 0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:53.560 the second thing both afraid of. And as you know, 0:50:53.600 --> 0:50:56.920 he doesn't have to see anything or even really hear anything. 0:50:58.320 --> 0:51:03.680 This worrisome dog, this prayerless dog, who does not trust 0:51:03.680 --> 0:51:04.160 God at all. 0:51:05.600 --> 0:51:07.160 If I tell. 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:11.920 You he can smell a storm three weeks before it happens, 0:51:12.520 --> 0:51:14.360 he'll know his Thursday two pm, I need to have 0:51:14.400 --> 0:51:16.480 a panic attack, and he will prep for the panic attack. 0:51:17.280 --> 0:51:18.960 Tell you is true? Is it true? Is it true? 0:51:18.960 --> 0:51:19.480 The dog is? 0:51:19.480 --> 0:51:21.600 The dog is losing his mind, and we're working on that. 0:51:22.280 --> 0:51:25.960 But I bring it to you as an illustration to 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:30.920 say that we all deal with suitcases and storms, and 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:35.759 we're really not much different than the dog. Because I 0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:39.080 don't know how long I'm gonna have to be in 0:51:39.120 --> 0:51:44.120 this transitional place, I'll know how long they're gonna like me. 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:46.920 I don't know how long till they decide to leave me, 0:51:47.040 --> 0:51:47.960 like the last. 0:51:47.680 --> 0:51:48.600 Person did too. 0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:52.239 I've seen this before, and I'm not okay with it, 0:51:52.320 --> 0:51:55.240 not because of the transition, but because. 0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:56.600 I don't know the time. 0:51:56.680 --> 0:52:01.200 Dable imagine now you are not only a disciple in 0:52:01.320 --> 0:52:07.160 transition suitcase, but as you are transitioning verse twenty three. 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:09.719 After he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on 0:52:09.719 --> 0:52:12.680 the mountain side by himself to pray, and when evening came, 0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:15.880 he was there alone. But the boat by this time 0:52:16.160 --> 0:52:20.920 was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves, 0:52:21.880 --> 0:52:25.960 for the wind was against them. Now I've got a 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:30.719 suitcase and a storm. I would never pull out a 0:52:30.760 --> 0:52:33.520 suitcase during a storm in front of boat. I think 0:52:33.560 --> 0:52:38.879 it might be his last puppy moment memory, and it's 0:52:38.920 --> 0:52:41.320 happening at the same time in your life. 0:52:41.520 --> 0:52:44.840 And it's a transition, and it's trouble, and I'm. 0:52:44.719 --> 0:52:47.480 Stepping out in doubt, and I've got things validating that 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:50.440 this may not be the best time. And so what 0:52:50.480 --> 0:52:50.880 do I do? 0:52:51.120 --> 0:52:53.120 Well? Watch this as they are rowing. 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:57.480 Visibility is low, timetable, uncertain, their life in the balance, 0:52:57.800 --> 0:53:01.600 their future very very questionable. The Bible says, now you 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:03.680 believe the Bible, right, come on, you believe the Bible. 0:53:03.880 --> 0:53:05.840 I want you to see something in the Bible today. 0:53:05.960 --> 0:53:08.640 The Bible says the wind was against them, and in 0:53:08.680 --> 0:53:12.160 the fourth watch of the Night, verse twenty five, he 0:53:12.239 --> 0:53:16.680 came to them walking on the sea. But when the 0:53:16.760 --> 0:53:24.239 disciples saw a thing walking on the sea, they were terrified. 0:53:25.120 --> 0:53:28.719 But it's Jesus. But they don't know that. They just 0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:32.959 see a thing. They don't know the thing they're looking at. 0:53:33.640 --> 0:53:36.440 And the thing that they're afraid of is the thing 0:53:36.480 --> 0:53:39.600 that they were praying for. Touch somebody, say help is 0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:44.120 on the way. He came out to them walking on 0:53:44.200 --> 0:53:48.320 the sea, and they were terrified and said it's a ghost. 0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:53.239 And they cried out like the Israelites in fear. But 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:56.400 immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, take. 0:53:56.280 --> 0:53:59.560 Heart, it is I do not be afraid. 0:54:00.120 --> 0:54:02.160 Now I need to ask a question, because I am 0:54:02.239 --> 0:54:04.440 not surprised that Jesus can walk on water. 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:06.760 He can do whatever he want with what he's spoke 0:54:06.800 --> 0:54:07.640 into existence. 0:54:07.920 --> 0:54:11.080 Colossian says, all things were created by him, for him, 0:54:11.360 --> 0:54:14.279 through him, and not anything that was made was made, 0:54:14.360 --> 0:54:17.120 but that it was made in him, by him and 0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:20.239 for him. I am not surprised that he can transcend 0:54:20.280 --> 0:54:22.839 what he spoke. I am not surprised that he can 0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:26.360 suspend the laws of buoyancy. I am not surprised that 0:54:26.440 --> 0:54:29.719 he is on water. Look at verse twenty five. I'm surprised. 0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:35.520 Why are you walking? If they're in trouble, shouldn't you run? 0:54:38.960 --> 0:54:40.359 Shouldn't you hurry up to get there? 0:54:41.800 --> 0:54:46.200 Why are you walking? Why are you walking? God? 0:54:47.440 --> 0:54:48.319 Why you tell me not know? 0:54:48.320 --> 0:54:51.360 When my brother Lazarus is sick? Why are you walking? 0:54:52.880 --> 0:54:53.200 Come on? 0:54:53.760 --> 0:55:00.480 Why are you walking? Jesus? And the question is why 0:55:00.520 --> 0:55:09.439 don't you? Because that's what matters in this moment he said, 0:55:09.480 --> 0:55:12.040 it is, I do not be afraid. Next verse. 0:55:13.200 --> 0:55:14.640 This is the guy you want to be like. Right 0:55:15.600 --> 0:55:23.040 next verse, please on my screen. Next verse, the next one, 0:55:23.320 --> 0:55:25.560 the next, next one, now that one, that one, the 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:29.239 one before that twenty eight twenty eight, Hey, there we go, 0:55:29.680 --> 0:55:35.320 and Peter answered him. 0:55:33.920 --> 0:55:40.640 Lord, if it is you, if watch him get delivered 0:55:40.680 --> 0:55:46.879 on an if, well, you. 0:55:46.800 --> 0:55:50.040 Gotta step out on what is pete is the substance 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:52.600 of things helped for? But I can't see it right now, 0:55:53.480 --> 0:55:54.759 so I gotta step out on. 0:55:56.640 --> 0:56:02.239 Doubt. But Hugh does just like a wave of the sea, 0:56:02.320 --> 0:56:04.200 tossed and driven Your quote and diverse wrong. That's about 0:56:04.239 --> 0:56:06.040 your confidence in God, not your confidence in you. 0:56:07.760 --> 0:56:10.000 Peter doesn't question what Jesus can do. He just questions, 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:14.920 is a you? That's the thing nobody tells us. If 0:56:15.680 --> 0:56:18.879 it's you, how many of you are walking on an if? 0:56:18.960 --> 0:56:22.600 Right now? Just if? Just if? If it's you, command 0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:24.280 me to come to you on the water. 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:28.279 Next verse, Jesus talks to Peter like he's bo come. 0:56:30.440 --> 0:56:33.239 Huh. That's like how you talk to a dog. 0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:37.120 Sometimes you need to simplify what you do next in 0:56:37.160 --> 0:56:41.600 your life. Sometimes you are so complicated that you can't 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:46.200 be saved because you over complicated. Sometimes it is as 0:56:46.320 --> 0:56:53.439 simple as one four letter word, come, come, come. 0:56:53.600 --> 0:56:55.880 If it is you, tell me to come, she said, well, 0:56:55.920 --> 0:56:58.239 let me give you seventeen proofs to this me. No no, no, no. Come. 0:57:00.000 --> 0:57:01.840 I'll show you who I am while you walk toward me. 0:57:03.239 --> 0:57:05.680 I'll show you who I am while you walk toward me. 0:57:07.040 --> 0:57:09.479 You meet me tomorrow morning with your Bible. I'll show 0:57:09.520 --> 0:57:12.239 you who I am while you walk toward me. You 0:57:12.360 --> 0:57:14.759 say you're sorry for what you did and own that 0:57:14.840 --> 0:57:17.120 thing and move forward in it, and set up an 0:57:17.120 --> 0:57:19.400 appointment to work through the root issues so it doesn't 0:57:19.400 --> 0:57:20.040 happen again. 0:57:20.360 --> 0:57:22.280 And I'll show you who I am while you walk 0:57:22.320 --> 0:57:22.680 toward me. 0:57:22.760 --> 0:57:31.360 For we walk by faith, not by sight. He told Peter, come, 0:57:32.440 --> 0:57:37.480 and so Peter verse twenty nine, got out the boat 0:57:37.880 --> 0:57:44.600 and walked on the water. Wouldn't you run? Maybe that's 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:47.600 all he could do in that moment, was just walk. 0:57:49.720 --> 0:57:51.400 I don't know how it makes it any safer to 0:57:51.440 --> 0:57:53.160 walk on water than. 0:57:53.040 --> 0:57:53.720 To run on it. 0:57:55.120 --> 0:57:57.840 Or maybe there's a lesson the day that wait on 0:57:57.880 --> 0:57:59.080 the Lord will re knew their strength. 0:58:00.320 --> 0:58:06.600 They will walk and not be weary. They will walk. 0:58:08.320 --> 0:58:11.200 That's what it is is. Walking. 0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:14.800 My faith is stepping out on doubt and finding out 0:58:14.840 --> 0:58:19.160 He's good. You have got to do this thing doubting 0:58:20.720 --> 0:58:24.280 so that God can give you faith when your foot hits. 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:28.120 The next step. That is how I see you. 0:58:28.360 --> 0:58:31.120 I do not see you as a horrible person who 0:58:31.160 --> 0:58:34.280 doesn't really trust God because you're struggling right now to 0:58:34.360 --> 0:58:35.800 even think he hears your prayers. 0:58:35.840 --> 0:58:37.560 I don't see you that way. I see it kind 0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:44.960 of like Peter, like if if if, if. 0:58:46.040 --> 0:58:50.960 And Jesus does not rebuke you for your feelings, because 0:58:50.960 --> 0:58:52.160 it's the motion. 0:58:53.640 --> 0:58:54.320 That matters. 0:58:57.360 --> 0:59:00.919 Stop punishing yourself for having the wrong emotions. 0:59:02.720 --> 0:59:04.960 Keep showing up and see what God does. 0:59:06.440 --> 0:59:11.520 Yeah, keep showing up and keep saying, Okay, God, what 0:59:11.520 --> 0:59:14.760 can I learn from that? This is the discipline of discipleshift. 0:59:14.960 --> 0:59:18.680 It's the motion that matters. Is not how fast you 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:21.560 can get to him. Peter steps out of the boat, 0:59:21.880 --> 0:59:24.840 and it's not about how fast he gets to Jesus, 0:59:25.040 --> 0:59:28.280 because he's walking, and he's walking, and you will notice 0:59:28.320 --> 0:59:31.040 that the Bible says in verse thirty, when he saw 0:59:31.080 --> 0:59:36.560 the wind, he was afraid. He what he saw a thing, 0:59:38.200 --> 0:59:42.200 And when he saw a thing, he lost sight of 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:45.160 someone that was greater than the thing that he saw. 0:59:46.480 --> 0:59:50.840 I'm almost there. It's the motion that matters. The wind 0:59:50.960 --> 0:59:53.840 was blowing the whole time. That's not what knocked you down. 0:59:54.160 --> 0:59:57.480 It was when your eyes shifted to the thing and 0:59:57.520 --> 1:00:00.959 not the one who is greater than all fans. That's 1:00:01.040 --> 1:00:06.880 what happened. And when he saw the wind, he was 1:00:06.960 --> 1:00:11.200 afraid and beginning to sink. He cried out, please let 1:00:11.200 --> 1:00:14.760 me minister this to you today, Lord save me. 1:00:15.520 --> 1:00:24.240 And Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold 1:00:24.280 --> 1:00:27.840 of him. Say unto him, you have little faith. Why'd 1:00:27.840 --> 1:00:33.880 you doubt you'd be like? See what he doubted? Yeah, 1:00:33.880 --> 1:00:40.720 but he didn't drown, did he? You won't drown stepping out. 1:00:43.120 --> 1:00:45.880 You drown if you have a pity party and plan 1:00:46.000 --> 1:00:48.360 your funeral in the place of your last disappointment. 1:00:48.600 --> 1:00:51.400 That's how you drown. But if you move forward, God's 1:00:51.440 --> 1:00:54.960 got something for you. God's got someone for you. God's 1:00:54.960 --> 1:00:58.120 got a fresh word for you. God's got manna everywhere 1:00:58.120 --> 1:01:01.320 in your wilderness. God's got fruit in Canaan waiting the 1:01:01.400 --> 1:01:05.000 right time to come up out of the ground. Why 1:01:05.000 --> 1:01:09.320 did you die? See, it's not how fast Peter could 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:15.920 get to Jesus. Give me Verse thirty one. Immediately Jesus reached. 1:01:16.680 --> 1:01:20.240 It's not how fast you can get to Jesus, is 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:27.800 how fast he can get to you. Because it's the 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:33.080 motion that matters. So let's wage Warren push back on 1:01:33.160 --> 1:01:37.400 anxiety today. It's not how quick the panic attack comes 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:40.400 on you. It's how quickly God can come in the 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:43.800 middle of the attack and deliver you from the fowler's snare. 1:01:44.120 --> 1:01:49.040 It's the motion that matters. It has never hinged on 1:01:49.120 --> 1:01:52.280 your gift. It has never hinged on your goodness. It 1:01:52.360 --> 1:01:54.480 is never hinged on your right stepping. 1:01:54.920 --> 1:01:59.920 It's on his right reaching. This is not the step 1:02:00.000 --> 1:02:05.240 that counts. This has God got. 1:02:05.040 --> 1:02:08.200 You in a season right now that He is teaching 1:02:08.240 --> 1:02:14.080 you to reach for him Because God, I have my doubts. 1:02:15.560 --> 1:02:18.280 If I could tell you one skill that you need 1:02:18.320 --> 1:02:21.400 to learn in your life, it's to reach for. 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:26.080 Him when you sink like a rock, reach for him. 1:02:26.680 --> 1:02:27.560 Don't run from him. 1:02:27.720 --> 1:02:30.040 You keep getting taught that you can't come to God 1:02:30.120 --> 1:02:34.000 unless you perfectly have faith. Tell Peter he got back 1:02:34.040 --> 1:02:36.480 in the boat and set an Olympic. 1:02:36.040 --> 1:02:39.800 World record for water walking. I don't care if it 1:02:39.840 --> 1:02:40.720 was two seconds. 1:02:40.760 --> 1:02:44.080 He beat John, he beat James, he beat barked all 1:02:44.120 --> 1:02:46.840 of you. All they got was a boat ride. Peter 1:02:46.960 --> 1:02:49.720 got a world record. You can have bronze, you can 1:02:49.760 --> 1:02:53.120 have silver. Give me my gold medal because I stepped 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:56.320 out and I slipped, but he reached out, had I 1:02:56.520 --> 1:03:01.600 sun hand. I'm here today worship big help. Does I 1:03:01.680 --> 1:03:05.920 got tho shit? I got bushit, I got a mirror 1:03:05.920 --> 1:03:08.280 a goal because I got moulship. 1:03:13.080 --> 1:03:18.560 It's the motion that matters. 1:03:18.680 --> 1:03:21.160 Just about the time Peter sees a thing the wind, 1:03:21.880 --> 1:03:24.320 he sees another thing, the hand of Jesus. 1:03:24.640 --> 1:03:26.720 I want you to see another thing. I want you 1:03:26.800 --> 1:03:27.680 to see another thing. 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:33.840 I want you to see another thing, maybe, just maybe, 1:03:35.080 --> 1:03:38.480 if you could walk by faith, if you can believe, 1:03:40.280 --> 1:03:41.160 you will behold. 1:03:43.520 --> 1:03:46.160 If you can believe. I'm trying to say, you don't 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:48.920 have to see it to believe it. You have to 1:03:49.000 --> 1:03:51.240 believe it to see it. 1:03:53.000 --> 1:03:57.440 One prophet said, I hear the sound of the abundance 1:03:57.480 --> 1:04:01.240 of rain, and the man said, there's nothing there. 1:04:02.520 --> 1:04:05.600 Six times he said go back wide, because it's the 1:04:06.120 --> 1:04:11.040 motion that matters. And the seventh time, the servants say, 1:04:11.800 --> 1:04:14.040 I can see a cloud. 1:04:15.200 --> 1:04:22.240 Heavy with rain, and it looks like it's tiny, but 1:04:22.400 --> 1:04:24.840 it's headed our way. 1:04:25.600 --> 1:04:30.080 I can see a cloud heavy with rain. 1:04:30.280 --> 1:04:31.919 Yeah, I see the wind, but I see something else. 1:04:32.520 --> 1:04:37.680 It looks like revival head and miles. Yeah, I see 1:04:37.680 --> 1:04:40.400 the bills, but I see something else. I can see 1:04:40.400 --> 1:04:46.120 a cloud heavy with rain. What's it looked like? And 1:04:46.200 --> 1:04:48.480 it looks like freedom? 1:04:48.640 --> 1:04:50.760 Tell pharoh, it's headed. 1:04:50.520 --> 1:05:01.880 All the way. I get see it heavy? 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