King Me (Chet Pete)

0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:05.240 If we haven't met before. My name's Chet I'm the 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:13.720 pastor at our university city campus. You see, it's no 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.880 place like it eighty one oh five. I VM job 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.880 in the North side of Charlotte. I love you, I 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.240 love you. I love you. And it's such an honor 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.520 to be able to open up God's Word with you today. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.040 And I'm excited about it. I'm really really excited about it. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.960 God's been dealing with me over the last Really, I 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.640 feel like God's been showing me this message over the 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.480 last year, and to be able to have a moment 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.840 to release it today, I'm full. I'm really, really, really full. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.080 And before I jump into God's Word, I just got 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:48.520 to tell you I love my church. Do you love 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.960 your church? Do you love your church? I love my church. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.520 I love my church. You know, in a week like 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.200 this week, when you've all been scrolling on Instagram and 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.640 watching the news seeing the devastation of Hurricane Ian this week, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.479 I got to see God move in such a powerful way. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.880 But I love the vision of our church. See what 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.800 God can do through you. And so we've been praying 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.319 this week as a church. We've been praying for families 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.399 and praying for everybody that's been affected, but not only praying. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.840 We've been showing up. Your church has been showing up. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.280 I wanted to just share a couple of things with you. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.640 I mean, we're partnering with over nine partners across the 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.759 Melbourne and Orlando area with our campus is there. Matter 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:39.319 of fact, today is Coop's birthday our Melverne campus pastor 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.640 Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday book. But when I was thinking 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.920 about all that's going on, like I mean, Convoy of Hope, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.560 Samaritan's Person Mission and Hope are on the ground providing 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.400 relief efforts right now. Earlier this year, maybe you packed 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.480 some of these hygiene kits. I'm talking about fifty thousand 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:01.279 hygien kits that are being distributed right now. We've given 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.760 Convoy a Hope over five hundred thousand dollars in supplies 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.800 in two hundred and fifty thousand to go towards disaster 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.400 relief efforts. Tell your neighbors say I love, I love 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.840 I love, I love my church. We don't just talk 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.720 about making a difference. We are making a difference. Sit 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.200 and at the beginning of October, I could not stand 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.400 on this stage and not honor my pastors, Pastor Stephen 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:36.280 and Holly and Holly Burdenson. Tell your neighbors say, I 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.920 love my pastors. I love my pastors. I got to 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.959 sneak in to reflect and I snuck in at U 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.200 see and Hollywood was just so surgical in the way 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.200 that she ministered to the women of our church. And 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.120 I can't wait. I can't wait to see God continue 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.760 to give her fresh revelation and continue to inspire through 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.120 our Creus ministry. All that Holly's doing, it's amazing. What 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.200 about Pastor Steven. It would be easy to sit and 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.440 talk about the messages, the sermons, and the songs that 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.440 God has used him to released into the world. You know, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.280 maybe you know like me, I sometimes here these messages 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.400 like is he bugging my Phone's it been following me? 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.680 But I really wanted to tell you guys about a 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.200 moment that we had in a staff meeting. I was 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.280 leading this staff meeting. It was a whole staff, all 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.240 of our campuses, all of our central teams, the Digital team, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.480 HR team, everybody was together. Everybody was together in the room. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.080 All of our campus inside Charlotte, outside Charlotte were all 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.520 together in one room. We were worshiping, We were praying, 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.280 we had some updates and things to share, and I'm 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.120 leading this meeting and we had some prayer time and 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.960 I'm up leading and I look down and I make 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.480 eye contact with pastor and he just waits for me 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.800 to come off the stage. So I was like, oh, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.800 what did I do? What did I do? I walked 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.760 downstage and I got next to him and he says, 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.560 give LB the microphone. I said, what did I mess up? 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.640 I thought I was doing a good job. He said, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.680 bow your head, and he put his hands on my 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.600 shoulders and he began to pray for me. And the 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.760 first thing that he said, the first thing that he 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.080 said was the worder of the Lord is is rest. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.800 God says, sleep well tonight. Custer didn't know. I didn't 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.200 call him and tell him that there were a few 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.719 nights that I was just up laid and I couldn't sleep. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.839 Because who knows that life be life in sometimes things, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.719 things be happening sometimes, and life doesn't stop. Because I'm 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.160 struggling and I'm going through something. I stepped the show up, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.919 and in that moment, he prayed for me, spoke life 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.880 into me, and in that moment, I knew that he 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.720 cared more about me as a man. He cared more 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.599 about me as the husband that he's called me to be, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.640 the father that he's called me to be, than anything 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.440 that I could ever do on a stage or in 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.880 a pulpit. And for that, I'm so forever grateful. I 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.520 love I love, I love my pastors. And he asked 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.240 me to preach today, and that's what I'm gonna do. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.479 That's what I'm gonna do. So we're gonna go to 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.919 Genesis chapter forty one. We can go to Genesis chapter 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.760 forty one and read a few scriptures, and I'm believing 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.960 that God's gonna show up in a powerful, powerful way. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.960 We're gonna start at verse thirty eight. We're gonna start 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.359 at verse thirty eight. I'm gonna spend some time with 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.520 Joseph today, and this is what it says. It says, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.960 so Pharaoh asked them, can we find anyone like this man, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.440 one in whom is the spirit of God? Then Pharaoh 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.480 said to Joseph, since God has made all things known 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.160 to you, there is no one so discerning and wise 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.680 as you. I gotta pause right there and give the 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.320 wives of little heads up. This would be a good 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.039 verse for you to send to your husband. Just send 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.000 it from time to time. Add some hearts and some 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.320 kissy faces in it. Just listen to They said, can 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.080 we find anyone like this man, one in whom is 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.040 the spirit of God? Then Pharaoh said it, so the 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.240 six God has made all of this known to you. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.680 There is no one so discerning, And so whyts sinnate senate? 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.520 This week? You might get a you might get a blessing. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.680 Verse forty it says you shall be in charge of 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.440 my palace, and all my people are to submit to 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:34.440 your orders. Only with respect to the throne. Will I 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.320 be greater than you? So Pharaoh said to Joseph, I 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.279 hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.080 Then Pharaoh took his senate ring from his finger, and 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.440 he put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.440 robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain around 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.080 his neck. If I was talking to my boys or 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.360 to the youth, they would say, he's Joseph's getting drippy. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.600 His drip goes hard. That's what they would have said. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.480 That's what they would have said. Verse forty three says 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.400 he had him ride in a chariot, a second in command, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.720 and all the people shouted before him make way. Does 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.560 he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:22.360 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh. But without 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.000 your word, no one will lift a hand or foot 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:31.520 in Egypt. Let's pray God, we love you, We thank you. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.800 Give us ears to hear what you have to say. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.720 Open our hearts to receive whatever it is you want 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.440 to speak to us. Have your way in this place. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.200 We love you, We thank you. And this in Jesus' name, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.600 I pray a man. Amen. Amen. Before you take your seat, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.000 I need you to look at your neighbor to the left, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.760 look your neighbor to the right, and I need you 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.239 to give them both a compliment, Now, a real compliment. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.840 Give them a compliment. If you smell their cologne, tell 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.680 them you smell good. You like their heads that make up? 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:12.920 Say who did it? Yeah? You can be seated. You 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.320 can be seated. You can be seated. It's something about 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.520 encouragement that just made you smile, didn't it. You know 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.320 when you released that compliment. It just does something. It 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.040 just does something. It just does something. But hey, I 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.040 want to start with this. You know, many of you 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.200 we haven't got to meet before. And one of the 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.000 things you want to know about me is I am 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:38.400 very competitive. I'm extremely competitive. I don't care what it is. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.839 As matter of fact, we got a spades tournament coming 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.080 up for the stat Do I have any real space player, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.400 any real space player in it? We'll find out this week. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.080 Now I won't say his name, but I've been getting 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:58.880 some text that talking a little smack and and you know, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.599 you see hear me and my partner. We got some chemistry. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.360 We've been doing this for a little bit. We won 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.680 some some competition, some tournaments in the past, and you know, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:15.000 but uh, but Chump's been texting me talking about I'm 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.120 gonna go down this week and just pray, just pray. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.280 I don't get let go or anything after after I 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.400 handle some business. I'm extremely competitive. I don't care what 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.160 it is, even if I'm playing checkers. Like, even if 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.720 I'm playing Checkers, I mean, I mean, smoke before fire. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.640 Who knows how to play flying kings, Flying kings, Flying Kings. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.960 I'm real, I'm real, I'm real. But that's a there's 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.000 a moment in the game of checkers for the tables turn. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.319 You know, when you're making your way from one side 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.120 of the board all the way to the other side 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.280 of the board, you don't jump some pieces, some of 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.240 your pieces have gotten jumped. And then you make it 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.400 into that spot. You make it into that spot. And now, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.640 if you're like me, you're real competitive. When you get 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.880 to that spot, you say it with swagger. You know, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.720 you say it with your chest. You step into it, 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.640 and what do you say, king me? Hey? The title 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.719 of my message today is king me, king me, king me, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.040 king me, because I believe that some of you are 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.280 waiting until you get to a certain position, You get 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.960 to a certain spot, and when you get there, you'll 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.840 be able to have so much authority, so much power. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.800 The thing about the game of checkers, I love it. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.280 I love it. I love it because when I get 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.160 to that spot, the other player, my opponent has to 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.800 take a piece that they took from me. They have 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.319 to take a piece that they took from me, place 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.719 it on my piece, and say, king me, maybe you 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.120 would take a moment and praise God because there's some 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.800 things that's been taken from you and you're like, I 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:58.120 need my piece back, I need my joy back. I 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.720 need to be happy again. I feel like I'm losing energy. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.560 Give it back, Give it back, give it back. There's 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.080 something about when you get to that spot. From that 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.199 moment on, I'm talking junk the rest of the game. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.120 I'm talking junk the rest of the game. But this 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.319 is where, this is where we are in Joseph's life. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.640 You say he's at this moment where you know he's 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:24.000 given charge over all of Egypt. Then, and I don't 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:28.160 know about you. Actually, I dreamed. I dreamed of being 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.920 the man like I dreamed of it. I dreamed of 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.400 being the captain on my basketball team. I dreamed, I 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.320 dreamed of it. You know, I dreamed. I dreamed of 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.040 having a beautiful wife in perfect Kids. I did hear 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.120 the picture of my family, they have it up on 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.360 the screens. I dreamed of this. I really did of 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.640 a beautiful wife. I got a beautiful wife. She's God. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.200 God did that. He did that. I'm still praying for 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.800 perfect kids. I love my boys. I love them. I 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.080 love them. They are amazing. They're amazing. They're amazing. I 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.640 love them. I love and I love them. You know, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.640 I dreamed, I dreamed of having, you know, a big 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.319 house with a white picket fence and all that I 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:17.960 dreamed of it I dreamed of happening one day. But 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.800 here's the thing I didn't dream of. I didn't dream 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:24.480 of painting that fence. I didn't dream of painting it. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.920 You see, sometimes sometimes what you dream of you don't 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.960 picture the demand that comes with it or the responsibility 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.199 that comes with it. Or sometimes sometimes you don't see 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.200 that you see, sometimes what you pictured isn't even what 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.600 God promised you see, I'm trying to get you to 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.120 understand that sometimes we've been having a picture or dreaming 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.360 of what this would be like when you got to 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.640 that spot. And so God's been dealing with me about 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.040 this idea of being in charge, of being in charge. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.679 You see, Joseph's story was less about him going from 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.240 the pit to the palace. It was more about him 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.240 going from having a respective of being in charge to 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.280 being a servant. And so I want to take some 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.960 time today because sometimes the way that God deals with 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.560 me to show me what something is, he'll show me 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.680 what it isn't first, like He'll omit some thing so 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.200 then I could figure it out. And so here's what 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.160 I want to do, because I do believe that you're 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.320 in charge, your son, daughter of God. I believe that 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.760 he puts you in positions. You have authority, you have influence, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.600 and I believe that. But we got to understand what 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.880 this means. And so here's the first thing I want 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.880 you to write down. Being in charge isn't a choice. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.040 Being in charge isn't a choice. Joseph's story goes from 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.240 Genesis chapter thirty seven all the way to Genesis fifty. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.160 You gotta go back in your own time and read 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.280 this story. There's so much in it. But when you 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.800 go and you read Joseph's story, what's powerful to me 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:01.000 is this idea that everywhere Joseph went received a promotion, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.840 but he never asked to be promoted. Going read to 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.760 go and read to yourself. Fact check me, fact check me. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.920 Everywhere Joseph went, he was promoted, and he didn't ask 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.880 for a promotion. I can't see in scripture where he 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.760 asked his father to be his favorite son. I can't 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.920 see that he asked his father. I can't see when 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.160 he was at Potiphar's house, he never said make me headmaster. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.760 When he went to prison, he never went to the 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.960 prison ward and said hey, I could run this side 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:33.560 of the week, and he never went to federalh and said, please, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:38.560 please please make me second in command. Being in charge 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.800 isn't a choice. Now, there's two ways we can look 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.560 at this. One way gets me excited. I start shouting, 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.160 because who knows that God will answer prayers that you 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.480 don't even have the faith to pray sometimes that sometimes 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.920 God will just show up in ways. He'll put you 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.440 in positions, he'll work some things out, and you didn't 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.440 even ask for us. Some of you are in a 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.480 position right now. You got promoted for it, and you 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.120 know you're not qualified for it. Some of you are 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.400 in rooms that you know you shouldn't be in. Here, 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:09.360 You're like, how did I get here? How did I 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:15.440 find myself in this spot? Moses didn't ask to lead 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.000 the children of Israel out of slavery. Peter did not 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.920 ask Jesus to get into his boat. You see, being 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.440 in charge isn't a choice. The Lord will make you 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.200 the head and not the tell who's above and not beneath, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.440 who's a lender, not a bar? You see, God will 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.440 make you make you now now this scripture, right here, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.720 the Lord will make you the head that's something normal 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.280 we shot about. But when I was studying this time 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.840 put it up. This is dude, und chapter chapter twenty eight. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.560 Look at this. It says, the Lord will make you 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:57.080 the head God. What if I don't want all that responsibility? 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.480 Cause what if I don't want all that that comes 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.240 with being the head. What if I don't want that 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.120 and you just gonna make me? You just gonna make me. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.480 The more that I thought about this, I realized, you know, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.000 I have twin boys, Carson and Carter. They are eight. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:19.920 They're not eight. There are eleven, there are eleven. There 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.640 are eleven. There are eleven. There are eleven, there are eleven. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.840 And I love these boys. The reason I said eight 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.720 because all they do is eat, and like over it's 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.200 all they're doing. They're just eating everything. I'm gonna tell 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.120 you a story about my boys. I drive home, drive home, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:39.960 and I wouldn't notice Carson and Carter. They love to 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.480 play basketball, and they're pretty good. They're pretty good. They 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.920 love playing ball. And I would drive home. I would 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.920 drive home and I would notice basketballs all over all 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.640 over the neighborhood. I'm talking like, so this is basketball 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.360 go that all the kids come to and I drive 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.800 home and I see basketballs in the yards. I see 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.360 basketballs in the street. I just see basketballs all over 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.320 the place. So I came into the house that day 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.359 and I said, hey, hey, listen, boys, I need you 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.880 to make sure when you're done playing basketball, I need 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.720 you to make sure that all of the balls are 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.720 put up. Put them, put them by, put them by 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.960 the garage, put them next to the goal. I don't 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.439 want them all in the street. I don't want them 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.119 all out in the yard. Now. I want you to 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.000 do this for me too. Sometimes you won't be out 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.880 there playing and you'll come out there and you'll see 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.880 all the balls out there, and you'll be like, hey, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.480 I didn't do it. You're responsible for picking up the basketballs, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.160 even if our neighbor doesn't, even if the boy down 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.479 down the street doesn't. You're responsible for making sure the 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.600 basketballs get put up. You got my back on this. Boy, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:45.680 Say yeah, Dad, I got you. Well. A couple days later, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.399 I'm driving home and I see basketballs in the street, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.119 in the yard, and I see basketballs all over the place. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.800 I said, hey, boys, come outside, what is this. I 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.720 see basketballs in the street, I see basketballs in the yard. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.400 I told you to be responsible for making sure these 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.840 basketballs get put up. The first thing out of their 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:14.359 mouth it was Noah. It was Noah next door Dad, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:23.240 it was Noah Son. Do I feed Noah Son? Do 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:31.600 I buy Noah's men's shoes that they're wearing. Now. The 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.919 reason why this is so so important because some of 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.480 you be like, why are you so passionate about making 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.520 them pick up the basketballs? Why are you so passionate? 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.399 Because I'm not so passionate about the basketballs and making 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:49.240 them do something. I'm passionate about making them into something. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.480 You see, God's called me to raise these boys to 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:58.199 be strong, confident, responsible men of God. Some of you 0:18:58.240 --> 0:18:59.840 have been in a season where you're like, God, why 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.439 are you making me do this? Why are you making 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.879 me go through this? God? Why are you making me? 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.879 Why are you making me? Why are you making me? 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:12.480 And God is like, I'm making you, I'm forming you. 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.600 My hands are owing you. And so sometimes I'm gonna 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.040 ask you to do some things you don't like. Sometimes 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.600 I'm gonna put you in positions that you're struggling with. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.720 You gotta understand that being in charge, it isn't a 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.399 choice and some of you are here today because God's 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.439 been making you for a long time. Some of you, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.760 some of you don't act pride forel now, don't act 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.480 pride for now. If it wasn't for the hand of 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.200 God making you, forming you, that no way you'd be 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.880 able to take care of your family. There's no way 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.520 you'd be able to keep that job. There's no way 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.239 you'd be able to stay off that substance. There's no 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:54.440 way God's been making you. Tell your neighbors, say, he's 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.280 making me, He's making me, He's making me, He's making 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:03.480 me in charge. Isn't about you, It isn't about you. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:09.600 Tell your neighbors say, it isn't about you. Now, when 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:16.560 you start walking in confidence, you start walking in boldness, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.000 you start making sure that you live this thing out, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.240 you can walk out this shoe. That being in charge 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:30.000 isn't about you. Now we're gonna pick up at a 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.520 moment in Joseph's life, because Joseph has gone through some things, 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.080 some ups and downs, and we find ourselves where he 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.400 has been sold into slavery by his brothers, and he's 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:44.400 now in Potiphar's house. He's now in Potiphar's house, and remember, 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.359 being in charge isn't about you. And so you gotta 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:52.520 understand that wherever Joseph went, he made an impact. Wherever 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.440 Joseph went, he made a difference. And I want to 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.760 show you a picture of this. In Genesis chapter thirty nine, 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.520 we're gonna go to verse two. This is what it says. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:05.240 It says the Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.879 and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.720 when his master saw him the Lord, and that the 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.240 Lord was with him, and that the Lord gave him 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:20.199 success in everything he did. Joseph found favor in his 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:26.120 eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.359 of his whole household, and he entrusted everything that he 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.240 owned to his care. From the time he put him 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:38.360 in charge of his household and all that he owned, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:43.080 the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because Joseph 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:47.560 was there. The blessing of the Lord was on everything 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:52.280 Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:56.000 The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:02.840 because Joseph was there. Can the same be said about you? 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.840 Is your family better because you're in it. Is your 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.679 organization better because you're a part of it. Is the 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:21.440 team that you're on better because you're on that team? 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.840 Is your school better because you're a student at that 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.040 high school? You See. The thing that you got to 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.960 understand is that being in charge, being in high places, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:38.400 it's not about you. Wherever Joseph went it was better 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.280 because of him. Why. That's why I told you I 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.200 love my church. But you want ano the real reason 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.840 I love my church is because this is a generous church, 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.240 because this is a selfless church. I want to take 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:51.520 a moment and celebrate all of the men and women 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.880 that give faithfully at Elevation Church. I want to thank 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.720 the men and women that serve faithfully at Elevation Church. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.239 I'm talking about our ee, the kids volunteers that are 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:05.000 taking care of your crazy kids right now, that are 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.400 teaching them about Jesus right now. I want to think 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.720 are parking volunteers that park your car. I want to 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.040 thank our users that pray for your seat so that 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.600 you can come in and step into an atmosphere and 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:23.520 feel the presence of God. When our volunteers walked in today, 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:25.480 you know what they said, How can I make this 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:29.880 place better? How can I make this place better? How 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.240 can I make a difference. There's some people that walk 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:35.160 in and they're just like, Hey, I want to hear 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:39.960 a word. Where's my word? I want to hear my song. Hey. 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:42.240 Regardless if you never do anything, this will be a 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.199 place where God will show up and he'll speak to 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:46.440 you and you can get what you need. But there's 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.560 something different. There's a double blessing that happens when you 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.800 walk in and say, God, use me, God, show up 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:56.280 in my life. God, I'll help here. I'll show up 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:02.800 there because being in charge is it about you. When 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:05.040 you really get this and you start walking it out, 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.080 there's a different kind of anointing that starts to come up. 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:11.960 I want to let you know that anointing. Anointing is attractive. 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.760 Anointing is attractive, and some of you is like you 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:18.679 thought about the good attraction. But here's the thing that 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:20.840 I've come to find out is that it's light that 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:26.240 attracts bugs, not darkness. You turn a light on, books 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:29.239 start coming from everywhere at nighttime, and so when you're 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.400 starting to walk in this confidence, you're starting to walk 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:34.520 with this swagger. Sometimes some books starts showing up and 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.560 you're like, get out in my face. Something. I'm trying 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.680 to do what God called me to do. Sometimes anointing 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:45.760 gets attractive, and we got a moment where Joseph actually 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:51.040 experiences the attraction. Now, some of you Bible scholars, you 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.840 know where I'm going with this. You've read this time 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.800 and time again. But there's maybe something that God hadn't 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:58.840 showed you before. Because he really spoke to me when 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:00.679 I went back and I read it. Because being in 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:03.399 charge isn't about you. You find this in Genesis chapter 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:06.600 thirty nine, verses six through nine, and I want to 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:07.960 break this down a little bit. This is what it 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:10.640 says in verse six. So Potiphar left everything he had 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:14.560 in Joseph's care. With Joseph in charge, he did not 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:19.720 concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now, 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:24.600 Joseph was well built and handsome. You know what. I think. 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:28.159 It was hot, it was July, and Joseph was walking 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:32.520 around the palace in houchie daddy shorts. And I think, 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:36.560 I think, because if he was wearing baggy clothes, how 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:49.800 would they know he was well built? I think verse 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:56.520 seven And after a while, his master's wife took notice 0:25:56.560 --> 0:26:00.680 of Joseph, and she said, come to bed with me. Now, listen, 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:02.920 if you hadn't had this conversation with your child that's 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:07.399 in here, I'll let you explain that later. But in 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:12.960 verse eight it says, but he refused. With me in charge, 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.480 he told her, my master does not concern himself with 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:21.400 anything in the house. Everything he owns he has entrusted 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:25.520 to my care. No one is greater in this house 0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:29.480 than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:34.360 except you, because you are his wife. How then could 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:38.520 I do such a wicked thing in sin against God? 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:42.720 I love? I love. We can learn from Joseph's heart 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:46.240 right here is because the more that I thought about it, 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:50.000 even though Joseph was in charge, he was still a slave. 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:55.000 Even though Joseph was in charge, he still was a slave. 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:58.240 So that tells me that it was his duty to 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:01.880 do whatever his master told him to do. I am 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:05.080 sure Potifar's wife had told him before, hey can you 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:09.000 go and pick up this trash. I'm sure Potifar's wife 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:11.080 at some point said, hey, can you come here? This 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:14.760 is broken? Can you fix it? I'm sure Potifar's wife 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:17.080 at some point said, hey, can you come and bring 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:19.960 me a meal. But at the moment when he said, 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:23.360 when she says, come and sleep with me, he said, no, 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:27.520 I can't do that. You've gone too far. You see, 0:27:27.640 --> 0:27:30.600 it was his duty to be obedient, but she asked 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:35.920 him to do something contrary to his beliefs. What I'm 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:38.080 trying to say is is I don't want you operating 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.439 out of culture standards. I want you operating out of 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.840 God's standers. What I'm trying to get you to understand 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:47.159 is God has a higher way, a different way, and 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:50.040 sometimes you get isolated and you feel alone, but you 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:53.879 gotta say no, Are you willing to offend God so 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:59.200 you won't offend another man? Are you willing? I'm talking 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:00.840 Let me talk to the student for a second. When 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:03.119 you're walking in school and your friends are telling you 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:04.840 to do this or do that, and some of you 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:06.600 there's something inside of you that says, I just need 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:08.959 to do it because I don't want to offend them. 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.240 I want you to hear my voice. How about you 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:14.320 make a decision today and say I would rather not 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:18.520 offend God. I'd rather hurt your feelings. I'd rather not 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.440 be in the room. I'd rather not be in a circle. 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:25.040 I'd rather be let go. I'd rather lose it all 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:32.600 than to defend God. This is so so important because 0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:36.199 being in charge it's not about you. You gotta understand this. 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.040 Maybe you're running a business right now, or maybe you're 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.720 a part of an organization and you're starting to notice 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:45.160 that there's some shady things going on. You're starting to understand, 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:47.040 and it's wrestling when it's messing with you, because it's 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:50.600 just like, this is going against my morals. I feel 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:54.760 conflicted inside if I'm struggling with this. You see, you 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:57.600 gotta understand being in charge. It's not about you. Your 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:02.000 kids are watching you. Your kids are watching there's some 0:29:02.040 --> 0:29:04.720 people in the organization watching you because you claim to 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:10.040 be a follower Jesus, it's not about you. You gotta 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:12.480 make a decision today, say I'll get past this, I'll 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:15.040 get over this, but I will not offend my God. 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:19.400 I will not go against him. So here's the last 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:20.880 one that I want you to write down. I want 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:25.239 you to write this down. Being in charge isn't the 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:33.160 same as being in control. Being in charge isn't the 0:29:33.240 --> 0:29:37.520 same as being in control. You see, when you look 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:40.360 at Joseph's life, you see this thread that there's some 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:43.760 things that happened to Joseph that if he was in control, 0:29:43.800 --> 0:29:46.560 he would have stopped it. If he was in control, 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:50.000 it would have never happened. He would have stopped his 0:29:50.040 --> 0:29:53.600 brothers from selling him into slavery. He would have been 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:56.600 able to stop Potiphar's wife from lying on him, because 0:29:56.640 --> 0:29:59.560 you know what happened after he had that encounter Potiphar White. 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:02.120 She goes and she lies and says that that Joseph 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:05.720 came and tried to rape her. He would have stopped 0:30:05.720 --> 0:30:08.840 that lie and would have never been thrown into prison. 0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:12.400 And as I was thinking about you, so I was 0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:14.680 thinking about this moment, I wonder what you were dealing with. 0:30:15.800 --> 0:30:18.560 I wonder what you were going through. I wonder what 0:30:18.640 --> 0:30:22.640 challenges you face, what diagnosis is that the doctors have 0:30:22.720 --> 0:30:25.000 given to you. And you're like, hey, if I was 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:29.000 in control, this would have never happened. Now, remember earlier 0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:30.720 I told you I dreamed of having the house, but 0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:33.000 I didn't dream of painting the fence. The reason why 0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:38.680 I said that is because I'm not handy. Listen, like, seriously, 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:41.720 I am pretty I'm pretty awful when it comes to 0:30:41.760 --> 0:30:45.200 you put a hammer in my hand. I'm just ignorant, 0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:47.760 Like I just I don't know what to do. But 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:50.480 we got a house a few years ago and we've 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:51.960 been trying to add some things, and there was this 0:30:52.000 --> 0:30:54.640 one moment where I was like, hey, I think in 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.080 the jury way, it'd be good if we had a 0:30:57.120 --> 0:30:58.840 coat rack like that. We can hang some coats right 0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:01.080 in the entryway. Thought it was a good idea, and 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:07.240 so we went to Ikea and stops laughing at me, 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:10.479 stop laughing at me. We went to Ikea. We went 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:14.200 to Ikea and it was a simple, simple ship of rock. 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:17.080 It was white pieces, just fucked in. Looked at it. 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:19.760 I was like, I can do this. I can do this. 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.760 So I got home, I downloaded the leveler app on 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:29.200 my iPhone. It was gonna be straight. I'm telling you, 0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:31.680 I got it. And so I went in. I grabbed 0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:35.400 two nails, grab two nails, laid it out. I marked 0:31:35.400 --> 0:31:37.400 out where the holes would go. I took my hammer 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:38.840 and I put the nail and put the nail in 0:31:38.840 --> 0:31:40.400 and nodded it up, put it on and I pushed 0:31:40.440 --> 0:31:43.240 it in. It was looking good. I'm saying it was 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:45.680 looking good. It was looking so good. Remember I told you, 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:47.360 I'm competitive. I start talking to it. To my wife, 0:31:47.400 --> 0:31:50.480 I said, hey, may look at that. Check that out. 0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:53.520 Matter of fact, hey, may you go get your coat first? 0:31:54.400 --> 0:31:58.160 Put your put your coat on first. Baby, put it 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:01.920 on first. She went and got her coat. She put 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:08.280 that thing on. That thing said whoop. So I called. 0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:09.880 I called a guy from the church. I called a 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:11.600 god from church. I was like, hey, I tried to 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:15.280 put up this coat rack. I even downloaded the level 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.760 app on my phone. It was straight. But right when 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.720 my wife put the coat on, it fell off. He said, hey, Chad. 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:23.440 He asked me one question, did you find the stud? 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:29.360 What is a stud? What? What did? What are you 0:32:29.480 --> 0:32:33.080 talking about? What a stud? My my wife calls me 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:37.080 a stud sometimes, but I have no idea what you're 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:42.400 talking about. So so so God forbid something bad actually 0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:45.560 happens that I need to fix it. And it happened. 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:48.680 It happened, It happened, It happened, It happened. So I 0:32:48.760 --> 0:32:51.120 want to tell you a quick story about for something 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:53.560 that happened in in our in our in our bathroom, 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:56.200 there was this, there was this leak. This there was 0:32:56.240 --> 0:32:58.400 this leak in in our in our master bath tub. 0:32:59.160 --> 0:33:03.840 It was real, real, and I noticed it, and uh, 0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:05.640 I ain't. I ain't do nothing for a little bit. 0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:12.560 And so you know, it was a slow drip. I 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:17.760 was like, all right, like you know, just I was 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:21.600 cool with that. Let's go down, I was like, but 0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:24.640 then it started going a little faster. And I started 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:26.160 noticing it going a little faster, and I was like, 0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:29.320 oh wow, that that water bill. Let me let me 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:32.360 go check it out. So I went down and I 0:33:32.360 --> 0:33:34.560 got I got right there by the by the tub 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:36.880 and this handles right here, and I was looking at 0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:38.479 U seeing the drip, and I said, maybe it just 0:33:38.480 --> 0:33:41.200 needs a little bit of elbow grease. Maybe it needs 0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:44.320 a little bit elbow grease. So I got enough sense 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:47.000 to know that it's supposed to go forward and backwards, 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:49.720 forward and backwards. So I was like, okay, let me 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:52.720 just turn it on. So I turned it on. Let 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:54.760 the water start running, and I was like, I'm gonna 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:56.200 put some elbow grease on it to try to get 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:59.400 this thing tight. So I take it and it did 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:03.120 something funny. It didn't go forward and backwards. That thing 0:34:03.200 --> 0:34:10.640 said WHOA. I knew. I know it's not supposed to 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:14.160 do that. I know now the water is flowing out. 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:16.600 So I said, okay, maybe let me just see if 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:18.600 I can get it back in place. So I took it. 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:22.040 I turned it back in place, and it pops off. 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:26.960 Now I'm a little claustrophobic, so I'm filling it right now. 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:30.920 Water was everywhere. It was in my face, it was 0:34:31.080 --> 0:34:35.200 I was drowning. I said, help me, God, within me, 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:39.080 cross the carter, help me. The boys come into the room. 0:34:39.120 --> 0:34:41.759 They got their arms crossed like this, just looking at me. 0:34:41.800 --> 0:34:45.160 I'm like, help me, I'm about to die. I finally, 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:47.480 I finally grab a towel and I cover it up. 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:49.239 And I cover it up. I'm like, what am I 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.560 gonna do? What am I gonna do? And I remembered 0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:57.799 my neighbor. His name's Mike. So Mike, Mike's retired. His 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:01.520 garage is always open, He's always working on something. So 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:04.040 I was like, I know, I know, I know, I know, 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:06.839 I know Mike can fixed this. Mike confixed this. God 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:09.279 told me to tell you something right here, because some 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:11.560 of you are still praying to God for something. He 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:15.560 told you to go to a neighbor for I got 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:17.239 a pause right here. I got a pause right here. 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:20.719 Some of you you're struggling in your marriage, and you're like, hey, hey, 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:22.840 we talk about e groups all the time, and you 0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:25.680 won't take that step to get some married couples around 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:29.759 you to help you, to support you. Some of you 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:32.239 still struggling in your finances and there's somebody that knows 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:35.680 how to do a budget, and you're like, God, le's 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:42.600 my finances. God's like, go to Mike. So that's what 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:46.160 I did. That's what I did. Now, mind you, I'm 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:50.600 soaking wet. I'm looking crazy. You know when you get 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:54.000 water in your shoes and it starts quishing. I'm running 0:35:54.000 --> 0:35:56.520 across the street and I get to Mike. I get 0:35:56.560 --> 0:35:59.480 to Mike. I'm out of breath and I'm like, hey, Mike, Hey, Mike, 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:01.840 Hey Mike. I'm like, hey, listen, listen, I broke this 0:36:01.960 --> 0:36:04.760 knob off, my off, my fox. I need you to come. 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:06.719 I need you to come. I'm like, I'm thinking that 0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:09.319 water's gonna be coming through the ceiling. I'm thinking. I'm 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:10.680 like my mind is going down. And said, Mike, come 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:14.360 help me. He asked me one question. What he asked, 0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:19.600 how do you do that? Mike? I don't know how 0:36:19.600 --> 0:36:25.000 to turn the water out. Just come help me. So Mike, 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.719 someboke comes out. Mike comes up, We go in to 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:30.360 the garage. He shoed to be coming to the garage. 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:37.000 Mike's amazing. Mike ran across the street barefoot, barefoot, barefoot, barefoot. 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:39.960 And we get into the garage and he shows me this. 0:36:40.520 --> 0:36:43.080 He shows me this. This is the main water valve 0:36:44.920 --> 0:36:48.879 that's connected to the water main. You see, Mike taught 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:54.799 me some things. And so so I'm in the I'm 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:57.359 in the garage and I'm seeing this white the water main, 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:00.719 and he says, check, this is the main valve controls 0:37:00.800 --> 0:37:03.600 the water to the whole house. And so he turns 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:04.959 and he turns it a few times, and he turns 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:07.279 it off, and he says, now there's no water that's 0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:09.839 flowing anywhere in the house, and so you can go 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:11.799 upstairs and we can go ahead and we can fix that. 0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:14.759 NOD for you. God really spoke to me in that 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:19.000 moment about our relationship with him, because being in charge 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:23.479 isn't the same thing as being in control. I saw 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:27.439 that God is in control. If he opens the door, 0:37:27.560 --> 0:37:30.640 nobody can shut it. If he's on it's flowing to me. 0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:34.960 But here's the thing. Some of us we get stuck there. 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:38.160 God's in control, but we forget that we're in charge. 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:40.719 You see, He's in charge. He turns it on. But 0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:47.920 my job is to release it. My job is to 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:50.680 release it. I don't know what you're going through. I 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:52.960 don't know what happened. But I'm telling you God still 0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:56.160 in his seat, He's still on the throne. He's still 0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:59.520 sending peace, he's still sending joy. But what are you 0:37:59.600 --> 0:38:04.000 released today? What are you releasing today? Trying to get 0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:07.320 you to understand this because this was so so pivotal 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:10.600 to me, and I wanted to tell you guys something 0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:13.080 about this last year and a half in my life. 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:16.000 It's been it's been a hard year for me and 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:20.000 my family. My mother was in an accident about a 0:38:20.080 --> 0:38:22.520 year and a half ago and she's still in the 0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:25.719 hospital today. We are still praying and believing that God 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:30.960 will just show up in a mighty way. But I'd 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:32.640 be lying to you if I say my faith my 0:38:32.680 --> 0:38:38.680 face wasn't tested. I'd be lying to you if I 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:40.479 if I didn't tell you that I've struggled. I've cried 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:42.400 a lot of tears, more tears than I could count 0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:46.960 thinking about this, and I was like, God, if you've 0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:49.239 given me all of this authority, I'm leading all of 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:53.719 this and I couldn't stop that. I couldn't stop that 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.640 from happening. I don't I don't know what that is 0:38:56.680 --> 0:38:58.360 for you, that you're like, I wish I could stop it, 0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:03.320 but you couldn't. I'm not saying God forced it to happen, 0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:06.880 but here's what I'm understanding. That God is still in 0:39:07.040 --> 0:39:09.279 control in the midst of whatever it is that I'm 0:39:09.320 --> 0:39:12.840 dealing with, whatever it is that I'm going through. And 0:39:12.920 --> 0:39:15.520 when I saw this picture of my relationship with God, 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:21.200 the idea that he's still flowing his presence, he's still 0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:25.200 flowing his peace, he's still showing up, He's still there. 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:31.120 You see, here's the thing right now, He's in control. 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:34.200 Right so at your house, the water main it's on, 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:42.000 but nothing's flowing out. But it made me realize, is 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:44.360 that maybe in the midst of what I'm dealing with, 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:46.680 I gotta I gotta remember because here's the thing, the 0:39:46.760 --> 0:39:48.759 water main. It's in the garage. I don't see that 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:53.399 a lot. I don't, so I forget that it's there. 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:58.960 I have to walk from my room downstairs into the 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:03.760 garage to notice that it's on. And there was times 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:05.480 in this last year where I was just shrug I 0:40:05.480 --> 0:40:09.160 felt empty, I felt dry, and my mom, from a 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:12.120 hospital bed, started to minister to me because I started 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.319 to remember some of the darkest moments in our home, 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:20.280 and my mom, in the middle of chaos, would start singing. 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:28.640 She would start singing praises to God. She showed me 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:34.239 what it fit. She showed me what what it meant 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:40.000 to release, because when I release praise, I get to 0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:48.000 experience his presence. Wherever you are today. I want to 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:50.120 give you a second to release a praise into the 0:40:50.120 --> 0:41:09.239 atmosphere wherever you at right now. Let it out. He's 0:41:09.239 --> 0:41:14.280 still in control. He's still in control. He's still in control, 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:21.719 he's still in his seat. When you're released surpraise, you 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:28.160 get enter into his presence. Everybody's standing. There's one thing, 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:30.799 one more thing I need to show you. There's one 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:33.840 more thing I need to show you. I want to 0:41:33.880 --> 0:41:38.439 go back to where we started. Genes is chapter forty one. 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:43.040 I wanna go back to where we started. Everyone's standing, 0:41:43.080 --> 0:41:46.960 every campus on line, wherever you are, everyone's standing. Genesis 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:50.160 is forty one. Remember this is the moment where Joseph. 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:53.880 Where Joseph, He stepped into his seat. He's now in charge. 0:41:53.880 --> 0:41:57.680 And this is what it says. You shall be in 0:41:57.800 --> 0:42:02.040 charge of my palace, and all my people are to 0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:06.240 submit to your orders only with respect to the throne. 0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:10.680 Will I be greater than you? So Pharaoh said to Joseph, 0:42:11.719 --> 0:42:14.680 I hereby put you in charge of the whole land 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:19.480 of Egypt. Watch this, so Pharaoh. He took his senate ring, 0:42:20.480 --> 0:42:24.000 he put it on his finger. He dressed him in 0:42:24.080 --> 0:42:27.440 fine robes of linen, and put a gold chain around 0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:31.400 his neck. He had him ride in chariots a second 0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:34.759 in command, and all the people shouted around him. Make way. 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:38.319 He put him in charge of everything. He put a 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:42.240 ring on his finger. He gave him a new robe, 0:42:42.560 --> 0:42:46.200 gold chain, even a new car. Well, when you play 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:48.680 in the game Checkers and you get all the way 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:51.239 to the other side of the board, what do you say, 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:55.120 he said, King me, there's a piece that goes on 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:59.439 another piece that's a crown, and it's crowning that piece. 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:04.799 King Joseph got a ring, he got a rope, he 0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:07.880 got a new car, got a gold chain, but he 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:12.359 didn't get a crown. Maybe the message is to get 0:43:12.400 --> 0:43:15.640 you to stop telling the world to king you, and 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:19.200 that Jesus is speaking to you right now saying, make 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:26.439 me king, King me, King, king me, Make me king 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:29.600 of your heart, Make me king of your family, Make 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.439 me king of your life. Put me in charge, Put 0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:35.920 me in control of your finances, king me, put me 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:41.320 in my seat. When Jesus was going to the cross 0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:44.400 to die for me and you, the enemy took a 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:47.239 crown of thorns and he placed it on his head, 0:43:47.360 --> 0:43:55.280 and they wrote King of the Jews. Jesus said, King me. Everyone, 0:43:55.360 --> 0:44:01.360 bow your head, close your eyes. Maybe you're here today 0:44:02.400 --> 0:44:04.480 and you've been trying to operate in your own strength, 0:44:04.520 --> 0:44:09.080 trying to operate in your own control. And tell you 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:11.560 today that you just need to submit to God. You 0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:12.839 just need to give it over to him. You need 0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:17.080 to release it to him. And for some of you, 0:44:17.080 --> 0:44:20.440 you're here today and you don't have a relationship with Jesus. 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:23.520 You used to talk with God, You used to speak 0:44:23.560 --> 0:44:26.160 with God, spend time with them, but you walked away 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:30.480 because of the pressures of life. What we're gonna do 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:34.440 right now, We're gonna say a prayer of salvation. We're 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:38.000 gonna say a prayer of surrender. We're gonna give you 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:41.879 a chance to give your life to Christ, to King Him, 0:44:41.920 --> 0:44:45.880 to make him Lord and savior of your life. And 0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:48.960 we say a prayer together as a church family for 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:52.239 the benefit of those that are coming to him. So 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:57.080 every room, bow your head, close your eyes online. God's 0:44:57.120 --> 0:44:59.239 been whispering to you this whole experience, and King be 0:44:59.400 --> 0:45:02.919 make me lord your life. Here's your chance. Repeat after me, say, 0:45:02.960 --> 0:45:07.400 I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:11.279 and that he died on the cross and rose from 0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:15.399 the grave to forgive me of my sins. So I'll 0:45:15.400 --> 0:45:19.560 give you my sins. I give you my shame, and 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:24.200 from this day forward I'll follow you now with all 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:27.200 heads bowed and all I was closed. If you just 0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:29.800 said that prayer and you meant to making good decision 0:45:29.800 --> 0:45:32.040 to put your faith in Jesus, I'm gonna count the three, 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:33.480 and when I get to three, I want you to 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:36.120 shoot your hand up boldly so we can celebrate this 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:39.200 moment with you. Here we go, one, two, three, shoots 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:44.640 your hand up. You're making decisions to put your faith. Hey, Jesus, 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:49.000 tomorrow to lift up a set of praise. Let's get 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:56.359 god BD, hallelujah, thank you Jesus, cut you down well. 0:45:56.400 --> 0:45:58.480 If you enjoy today's podcast, there are a couple of 0:45:58.520 --> 0:46:02.200 things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, 0:46:02.480 --> 0:46:05.480 and review this podcast. You can also help us reach 0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:09.399 others by investing today at Elevationchurch dot org. Slash GiB 0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:12.600 and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.