More Ready Than You Recognize

0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.240 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.600 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.640 new sermons every week. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:19.720 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.439 Right now, join hands with the person next to you. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.400 If you're watching this in your home, grab somebody and 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.920 snatch them and say, pray with me and speak this 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:30.680 out loud. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.479 Say in the name of Jesus, the Savior of. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:41.880 The world, all things are possible, every need is met, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.120 every sin can be forgiven. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.160 His blood is enough. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.640 Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Glory to God. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:53.520 Bless your name. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:53.960 Lord. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.000 I believe in you, Lord. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.720 I've seen you move in my life. I've seen you 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:19.520 change in possible situations. I've seen you in the fire. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.400 I've felt your hand and heard your voice on raging waters. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.440 I come to you. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.080 Now because there may be somebody today who needs a 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.200 word from you, something that only you know about, something 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.520 that only you can fix, something that only your grace 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.880 can cover. And maybe, just maybe, Lord, that you would 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.440 use this time in your presence, whether they're in the 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.320 building or whether they're watching online. It really doesn't matter 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.120 to you. You can reach anywhere, and you can touch anyone. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.040 You can do anything. There's nothing too hard for you. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:08.240 And it may just be God of all creation, our redeemer, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.320 that you would reach through eternity into time and snatch 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.280 somebody off. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:14.800 The bad path. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.240 It may just be that you would reach from eternity 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.679 into time and turn somebody back toward home. It may 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.720 just be that you would call their name. Today, you 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.520 called Lazarus name, and by all accounts, he had no 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.360 business getting up and running, because he had been dead 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.960 four days. But when you said his name, his legs 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.200 started pumping, his. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.480 Heart started working, and he started running. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.680 Father, today, would you do that kind of thing in 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:53.440 this place? Physically, emotionally, spiritually. We surrender this time to you, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:54.960 and I thank you. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:55.520 For your word. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:01.920 Isaiah fifty five says that it never returns. It accomplishes 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.360 the purpose that you sent it to do. I believe 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.120 your word is going to work today. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.480 And I give you praise because it's already done. In 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:11.200 Jesus name. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.440 I pray and we love you, Lord, and we're not 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.600 ashamed to be seen praising you. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.560 You did it all for us. Come on, let's give 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.400 God a great praise. Hey, everybody, on life. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.920 I told them to give God a great praise, but 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.560 they gave them a halfway praise. So I'm gonna give 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.840 you a chance give your God a. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:42.720 Great praise. It's a great day to be alive. I 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:43.920 was glad when. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.920 They said, unto me, let us go to the House 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.920 of the Lord. I was sad when they said, unto me, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.600 we're having snow again, and I thought, we gotta find 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.200 a way to get the word out to the people 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.640 once again. And so for the second week in a row, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.440 we got here a little early. We rounded up all 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.400 of the people who are gonna be the first ones 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.040 taken in the rapture, and we're here today to minister 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.280 the word of God to you. Somebody put it in 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.600 the chest, say this one's for me, high five twelve 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:19.440 people say. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:26.320 It's for you too. Praise the Lord. God is good. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.920 Everybody who's grateful to be here, makes some noise and 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:44.000 thank the Lord. If you are watching online and you 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.800 regularly attend one of our campuses, I expect your butt 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.200 back in church next week. We're celebrating two decades of 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.880 dividing miracles sent. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.239 The faithfulness of Almighty God. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.920 You're not gonna take me back twenty twenty and put 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.599 me in an empty room for six months. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.720 I'm not doing it. I'm excited about that. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.960 Also, we'll have the best opportunity to gather with those 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.240 around the country who are part of our EFAM for 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.360 Elevation Night's tour is coming quickly. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.000 I want you to get your tickets right now. Go 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.080 to Elevation Nights dot com. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:25.360 Hershey, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, New York, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:26.560 It'd be nice and warm there. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.960 Knoxville, Tennessee, Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.160 February twenty four through. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:38.760 March fifth, Elevation Nights dot com. We also want to 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:43.480 celebrate our Orlando campus. We envy your weather, and we 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:44.880 celebrate your ministry. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:55.560 Six years. Let's give it up for Elevation Orlando. I 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.960 believe I'll preach now. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.520 That's the part where y'all are supposed to get so 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:10.160 excited that it's just like electrum. Last week, my message 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:16.919 was it's worth the dirt, and it is. It's in 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.240 the unseen places of our life that God does the 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.720 greatest work. And sometimes the messiest moments are the most 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.640 magnificent and the most miraculous. Today, I want to share 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.880 with you from a foundational scripture in Matthew chapter seven. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.800 You'll see why I call it a foundational scripture in 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.320 just a moment Matthew Chapter seven, verses twenty four through 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:42.159 twenty nine. To be specific, full disclosure. I was not 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:47.560 ready to preach yet. I got a phone call from 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.080 our chief of staff here at the church, who said, 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:51.680 if we want to preach, it's going to need to 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:52.360 be tomorrow. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.719 It might not be safe, or we might not be 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:55.760 able to do it after that. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:03.839 And so I told the Lord already to preach. You 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.960 and I both know that I had. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.520 Set aside the next few days to study. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:14.360 And Lord, since you do rule the universe, could you 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.000 move the weather that's going to be bad to the 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.080 days where we're not gathering in your name? Are we 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.040 not on the same theme here? Of course, I understand 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.240 that there are far more pressing issues to the Lord 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.600 than when my study day is. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:29.640 But I was praying like. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:35.480 That, and he gave me my message title while I 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.800 was praying about my message and the title that I 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.320 want to use for this message, and I actually want 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:42.160 you to say it to your neighbor. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.240 Look at them and say you are more. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.080 Ready than you recognize. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.280 You're more ready than you recognize. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.160 And then the Lord said, you've already got your scripture. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:58.720 I said I do. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.360 He said, yeah, you member, because you've been preaching it 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:02.440 since you were sixteen. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.120 Matthew, Chapter seven, verse twenty four. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.480 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mind and puts 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.840 them into practice like a wise man who. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:10.920 Built his house on the rock. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.559 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:14.680 blew and beat against that house. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:15.360 Yet it did not. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:23.760 Fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.680 everyone who hears these words of mind and does not 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.640 put them into practice is like a foolish man who 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.640 built his house on the sand. The rain came down, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.760 the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.720 House, and it fell with a great crash. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.120 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:44.320 amazed at his teaching, because he taught as. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.160 One who had authority, and not as one of their 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.240 teachers of the law. Verse twenty five is my assignment. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.760 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:56.199 blew and. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.640 Beat against that house, yet. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.079 Did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.520 So now tell your other neighbor. Tell me you're more 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:14.360 ready than you recognize. You may be seated in the 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:24.080 presence of the Lord. You're more ready than you recognize. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.640 As I consider the memories of ministry that I've experienced 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.040 from my vantage point over the last twenty years, one 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.920 stands out that surprises me the most. Everywhere that I 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.120 go to minister God's Word, when I meet people, they 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.760 tell me a different report of how this ministry has 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.480 touched their life. I live for those moments. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:45.720 You know. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.720 It's one thing to write a book, write a song, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.480 or preach a sermon. It's another thing to get to 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.240 speak with someone that that word touched personally. That's a 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:02.120 beautiful thing. Sometimes people start crying. Sometimes people apologize. They say, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.120 I hadn't been to church in three years, but I 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.120 used to really like it over there at Elevation. And 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:08.840 I always tell them you know where to find me 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.400 when you need me. There's one thing that I've heard 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.040 over and over again over the past five years that 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.520 may surprise you as well. And I'm still hearing it, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.360 although I thought it would be over by now, Just 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.080 over and over again. People will say thank you for 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.000 your ministry. Your church got us through COVID as a family. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.240 Your church got us through the pandemic as a family. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.760 Your church got us through a very dark time in 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.880 that season as a family. The reason that surprises me 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.720 is because I've never felt less ready or prepared to 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.720 pastor than I did in that season. And the time 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.160 that represented the greatest test for me has resulted in 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.120 the most testimonies. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.520 In this way. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.800 So I remember the first sermon that we did, not 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.480 to bring you back into that timeframe, but just for 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.880 a minute, let's go there a little bit of a flashback, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.280 perhaps to help us set the foundation for the message. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.400 When we came in here in an empty room, you 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.200 were there. You were there. I love you so much. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.480 You weren't there. Where were you? And you were there. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.880 And I remember putting them on the stools and I 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.400 just said, I need to have some people that love 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.080 me behind me. And they did that, and we did that, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.240 and LJ did that, and some of you did that. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.920 But what's so amazing about it, and this is kind 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.280 of what I want to get across for your life, 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.600 is that just because I wasn't prepared doesn't mean that 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.280 God had not already provided. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.520 And that's a very important principle that I want you 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:47.200 to get today. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:53.760 Just because I'm not prepared doesn't mean God hasn't provided. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.160 God can provide in a place. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.600 Where you don't feel prepared. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.240 I'm not telling you to apply that logic to your 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.600 ape chemistry test, but I am saying that when you 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.000 run up on the situations of your life that you 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.880 did not see coming, the storms that you didn't see coming, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.600 or the storms that they say are coming that never 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:16.360 seemed to come. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:18.959 And this would be a good. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.280 Thing for us to preach about because Jesus said there 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.640 were storms that came upon these two different houses. Now understand, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.800 when Jesus is teaching, he's teaching people who live in 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.480 a very dry, arid climate, and so when a storm 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.040 would come, it would come upon them suddenly. It could 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:40.240 change so quickly from a nice, warm day to an. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.360 Absolute gully washer. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.319 How you like that for a monk's corner South Carolina 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:50.280 vocabulary word, And it could happen so fast to a 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.800 crowd who was familiar with flash floods without the convenience 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.320 of a weather app or maybe we could say the 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.920 demon of a weather app because have you noticed that 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.600 sometimes all of the stuff that we do to get 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.240 ready for the storm is worse than the actual storm 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:13.400 is help me preach Southerners. Somehow we ended up with 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.720 seven dozen eggs in our house. And now what are 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.320 we going to do with this generator but to sit 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.480 on it and watch TV. Because there are two types 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.959 of people in the world, those who believe weathermen and 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.520 those who have intelligence. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.840 Now I want to move on to my text. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.160 Jesus said there were two men, one built on the rock, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.160 one built on the sand, but both had storms. Repeat it, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.160 both had storms, Thank you very much. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.400 Put it in the chat. Both had storms. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.280 Away from this Christianity that teaches you that to accept 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.760 Jesus Christ makes every element of your life better in 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.640 a temporal sense. It makes you stronger, It makes your 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.160 spirit bigger, it makes your lens wider. It may it's 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.480 your perseverance a little bit more dogged, but it does 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.520 not necessarily cause the rain to stop falling. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.520 The Bible says that his sun rises and his. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.000 Rainfalls on the wicked and the righteous. I came to 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.520 preach today. I didn't think I was ready, but the 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:20.560 Lord said, you're more ready than you recognize when I 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.560 preached this text at age sixteen. I remember after I 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.480 got done preaching it, Jody Pastor Mickey was out there 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.480 and he's about sixty five and I was sixteen, and 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.480 I got up and preached a message. Can you believe 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.760 this as a sixteen year old about the. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:39.200 Storms of life? What storms? At sixteen? 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.840 Could I possibly have felt so confident to minister about 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.200 I remember Pastor Mickey got up afterwards and he goes, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:53.400 thanks Stephen for that message on storms, and he said 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.560 it like almost like it had air quotes around it, 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.440 like ironic air quotes around it. Thank you for that 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:07.400 perspective on the trials of life from the rugged experience 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.560 of a sixteen year old. And yet I believe that 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.920 regardless of the level that you experience, your storm on 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:31.600 your storm, your trial, your situation, mental health battle, your 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:42.360 relational drama, storm is on assignment in your life. Jesus 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.520 was teaching the crowds, and the Bible says that they 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.720 were amazed at his teaching. But remember he was also 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.440 teaching his disciples. And while he was teaching the crowds, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.280 he was also training the disciples. There is a difference 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:06.160 between teaching and training. Teaching you get notes about storms. Training, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.720 you get in the boat and go through one. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:12.320 You see what I'm saying. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.080 Teaching is we talk about the Greek word for patience. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:24.920 Training is your family is coming to town next week. Teaching, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.360 I'm gonna keep going till we hit the spot, because 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:35.680 teaching is you praying, Lord, make me more loving. Training 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.720 is God letting you have a hater so you can 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.880 practice turning the other cheek. Did you notice the word 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:48.320 Jesus said? He said, everyone who puts my words into practice. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:49.680 Now, y'all, I wouldn't change a. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.000 Bible verse, but if I could, I would say, therefore, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.240 everyone who hears these words of mine and writes them 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.360 down in a notebook, Therefore, everyone who hears these words 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.440 of mine and posts them on. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:02.680 Their social media account. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.360 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and quotes 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.639 them on a post it note in their mirror. But 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.040 Jesus didn't say that power comes from posting. Jesus didn't 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.160 even say that power comes from quoting. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.520 Jesus said, the power is in the practice. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:26.000 Everybody say practice, So in a sense, that's all this is. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:26.399 Today. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.679 When you lift your hands, you're practicing, You're practicing for 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.080 when you. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.440 Need to give a situation to God this week. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.159 You're practicing for when the sudden storms, the floods of life, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.040 for when the rains come down, and the streams rise, 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.800 and the winds blow and beat against the house of. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.560 Your heart and your life and your sanity. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.240 You are practicing so that you will have muscle memory 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.080 and miracle memory to remember. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.520 That God, who is above all, is able to hold 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.760 whatever is weighing you down. I want us to take 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:05.639 just about thirteen fourteen, fifteen seconds to practice praising God 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.439 in case we get in a storm this week that 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:09.840 we didn't see coming. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:12.679 There you go. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.879 You got ten seconds to practice. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.680 You got eight seconds. Can I get some water? 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:25.360 Five seconds, four seconds, three seconds. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.520 It's gonna be three long seconds while I drink. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:38.879 So in the rain comes, just lift your hands like 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:44.000 an umbrella and saying, my fall, but I won't in 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:49.399 my come, but it can't stay. I'm practicing my praise. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.359 In the presence of the Lord. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.200 High five your neighbors say, I'm getting. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.919 My practice here, my practice praise. 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.960 You never can't tell when the streams are gonna rise. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.440 You're never gonna tell when. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.680 The big bad wolf might puff and puff and try 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.400 to blow my house in. But this is not a 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:16.200 straw hut, baby, This is not a temporary trailer. This 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.440 is not a tin filled with human hands. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:26.480 I talked, practice for that, praise the Lord. 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:31.240 So he said, everyone who hears these words of mine 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.200 and puts them into. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.200 Practice, you got it. It's like a wise man who 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.680 built his house on the rock. 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:47.399 Okay, I want to say something to all of us 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:52.719 who constantly feel like the devil is attacking us, messing 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:57.560 with us, and sabotaging our lives. And I'm gonna prove 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.440 it to you from the scripture that I just read, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:00.520 you will not. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.520 Be arguing with me. You will be arguing with this 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.920 scripture if you read the scripture. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.760 And this is Jesus's final summary of a sermon called 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.920 the Sermon on the Mountain. The reason that I memorized 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.000 parts of this is because it was my dad's favorite scripture. 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:20.959 And when he would sit around reading it, my mom 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.000 would you'd be mad at him. She'd say, it ain't 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:28.800 no good to read it if you don't practice at larry, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.000 And then he'd say, you'll be judged for every idle 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:33.040 word faith. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.119 Telling all my family business. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:40.840 I told Yah, I didn't have enough time to edit 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:41.320 the sermon. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.080 What do you want me to do? I would have. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:45.680 Took that out if I would have had a little 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:53.120 more time. Now, this sermon talks about things that are countercultural. 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.240 Blessed to the poor and spirit for their kingdom of Heaven. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.159 Blessed those who mourn, for they'll be comforted. Blessed to 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:58.520 meet for their in here the Areth. Bless to those 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.480 who hunger in thirsty writs, for they'll be felled. Bless 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.440 their peacemakers that be called sons of God. Blessed pure 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.120 and heart, they will see God. All of these things 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:10.080 that Jesus says. He talks about lust, He talks about adultery, 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.680 He talks about greed, he talks about worry, He talks 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:13.639 about everything. 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:15.560 He covers the entire. 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:19.719 Gamut of the human experience, with authority and accuracy. 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:21.520 All in these three chapters of Scripture. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.000 At the end of it all, and an attempt to 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:25.760 sum it all up, he says, Therefore, everyone who hears 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.560 these words of mine and puts them into practice, like 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.240 a wise man who built his house on the rock, 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.160 The rain came down streams, rose, winds blue, and beat 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:45.240 against that house. I read all three of those trials, 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:46.879 and I didn't see anything about the devil. 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.359 What I saw was life. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.840 So I know there are intense periods where the enemy 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:01.600 comes against us. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:02.639 I've had some of those. 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.560 But there are also seasons where you are just empty 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.080 because you are exhausted and you have run out of energy. 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.040 There are times where the devil blocks your way, and 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:20.280 there are sometimes where you're just stuck in traffic. There 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.600 are sometimes where the devil has visited you with a 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.439 spirit of weariness, and there are sometimes where you just 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:29.800 didn't put your phone on the nightstand in time to 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.119 get enough sleep. There are times where the devil attacks 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.199 you with sickness, and there are times where you have 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:38.119 not exercised in three months and you are not giving 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:39.640 your body the proper. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.639 I'll come back to the pulpit. I felt exposed standing 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:46.520 out there. Maybe if I stand behind here. So so 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:47.240 I'm trying. 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.480 To say, it's not always warfare. 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.520 Sometimes it's just weather. It's just weather. 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:01.520 Don't take everything so seriously, because if everything that we 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.359 ever perceive in our life that is a little bit 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:08.200 adversarial we attribute to the accuser of the brethren, then 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.639 we give the devil as much power as God. 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:13.040 We assume that the. 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.600 Devil has infinite ammunition to fire at his enemy, and 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:21.959 he doesn't. The devil only has so much ammunition, so 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.440 he doesn't have enough ammunition. 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:26.920 To give you a flat tire. You just drove through 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:33.000 a construction site. That's just weather. That's just life, that's 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:34.960 just building materials. 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:38.000 Some of the things that we are praying about at 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:43.040 a warfare level, it's really just weather. Sometimes you don't 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.560 need a three hour exorcism to get the spirit of 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.159 depression out of your life. You need a walk. You 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.119 need a walk. You need to get up and walk. 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.480 Put your face up towards the sun. Let it beat 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:56.720 on your face a little bit. 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.760 Just get outside a little bit. Play a Bottom Harley song. 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:04.280 I don't know what it is, but sometimes it's just weather. 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:07.399 Sometimes it's just the fact I told Holly it had 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.280 been five days since I left the house, y'all. I 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:13.120 love when it snows. I like to be by myself. 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.320 It gives me an excuse I can say I'm doing 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:16.200 it out of safety. 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.040 I'm really just doing it because I don't like to 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:20.280 be around people. I really enjoy it. 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.240 But you know, sometimes I'll get in this shutdown situation 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:25.600 where I'll start. 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.159 Thinking I'm under attack. I'm not under attack. I'm in isolation. 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:35.359 And when I confuse what is warfare with what is weather, 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.360 I'm trying to fight against everything in my life and 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:42.399 not everything is about a fight. Some things are just 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:46.600 about a forecast. There are going to be good moods, 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:50.040 There are going to be bad moods. There are going 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:51.600 to be times that you come. 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:53.600 To church and you feel God. 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:56.480 There are going to be sometimes when you come to 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.800 church and you don't get anything resembling a goosebump. 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.240 God is no less God when you. 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.960 Didn't get a goose bump. God is not proven by 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:07.880 goose bumps. 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:11.399 Let you see what I'm saying. 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:14.520 I feel like I can just break this down today 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:18.840 a little bit. Because we think that naming the name 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:22.680 of Jesus will cancel out the consequences of everyday life, 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:25.199 or that it's somehow going to make us float from 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:26.400 one appointment to the other. 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:28.760 Please don't believe this. 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.000 One of the things that the Savior does so well 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:36.359 in his teaching is that he prepares his disciples. 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.919 For the storm. I wish I would have told them 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:41.040 to put one more scripture up there. 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:44.320 I didn't think about using it, but I've been so 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:59.560 good to see it. Mark Chapter eight twenty two. If they, oh, 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:01.840 y'all are ready? 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:03.120 They were more. 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.560 Ready than I gave them credit for now. 0:26:06.600 --> 0:26:07.800 I really didn't tell them to put the. 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:11.240 Scripture up, but they were ready when they came to 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:13.080 be say to Actually, I want to go back a 0:26:13.119 --> 0:26:13.920 few verses before that. 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:15.440 I want to go back to verse fourteen. Can y'all 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:15.719 do that? 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:20.119 When the disciples were in the boat with Jesus and 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.640 they had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:25.480 they had with them in the boat, be careful, Jesus 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:27.560 warned them, watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:30.200 and that of Herod. They discussed this with one another 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.639 and said this because we have no bread. Aware of 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:34.760 their discussion, Jesus asked them, why are you talking about 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:35.399 having no bread? 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:37.919 Do you still not see. 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:44.880 Or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:50.360 but fail to see? And ears but failed to hear? 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:55.520 And don't you remember when I broke the five loaves 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:58.000 for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:01.840 you pick up? Twelve were applied, And when I broke 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.159 the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:07.919 of pieces did you pick up? They answered seven, he 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:09.960 said to them. And this is what I want to 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:14.439 ask myself sometimes. Do you still not understand? Do you 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:18.639 still not understand that just because you're not prepared doesn't 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:23.320 mean God didn't provide? Do you not understand that just 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:27.320 because the storm was sudden to you doesn't mean God 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:34.800 stop being sovereign over the storm. Don't you recognize that God, 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:39.760 who has called you by name, will keep you through 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:43.680 every season of your life. Now I don't know who 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:45.280 this is for, but I want to minister to you 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:47.240 because something has taken you by surprise. 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:51.720 You did not expect that medical report. You did not 0:27:51.880 --> 0:27:52.560 expect to have. 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:55.560 To be in the principal's office keeping your kid in school. 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:56.000 Every other week. 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.480 You did not expect to still be doing fertility treatments 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.439 three years into this journey. You did not expect to 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.000 still be single in this season of your life. You 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.280 did not expect for your marriage to be coming to 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.840 an end at this young of a place in its inception. 0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:13.320 You did not expect to be this far behind in 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:16.560 your finances. At this age and stage. You did not 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.680 expect to be this many years away from being able 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:22.800 to retire. You did not expect to still be struggling 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:25.359 with this issue that you have laid on the altar 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:29.040 over and over again. You did not expect for the 0:28:29.080 --> 0:28:30.560 panic attacks to start again. 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:33.520 They've been gone for three years. You did not expect 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:35.040 for yourself to be reaching. 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:37.240 For the pills again because you thought you had moved 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:40.400 on from that dependency. You did not expect that person 0:28:40.440 --> 0:28:41.640 to walk out of your life. 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:42.920 In fact, they told you. 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:46.400 I'll never leave you, even if everybody else does. You 0:28:46.480 --> 0:28:48.760 did not expect in this season of your life to 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:51.720 be feeling distant from God. You did not expect, in 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:55.240 this season of your life to feel so confused. 0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:56.200 About what your next step is. 0:28:56.600 --> 0:28:58.880 I just want to remind you that you can be 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:08.520 confidently confused. Confidently confused, that is. I did not expect this, 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:12.360 But just because I wasn't prepared for this does not 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:15.280 mean God hasn't provided for this. 0:29:16.000 --> 0:29:17.800 So now I'm just looking for. 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:20.120 The loaf that's in the boat that I did not 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:25.080 see with my human eyes, because I'm more ready than 0:29:25.120 --> 0:29:26.080 I recognize. 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:27.960 Because if God. 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:30.120 Put the crowd in front of me to feed, He 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:33.400 will give me the bread to pass out in their hands. 0:29:33.920 --> 0:29:35.400 You understand what I'm saying. 0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:39.360 If God gave me the challenge to meet, God will 0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:42.600 give me the resource to meet it. Somebody say i've 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:46.400 got resource. I dare you to shout that again. I've 0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:50.760 got resource. Even if your bank account number says a 0:29:50.760 --> 0:29:51.480 different story. 0:29:51.600 --> 0:29:53.920 Say I've got resource. 0:29:54.440 --> 0:29:57.520 Even if your cars in the shop say i've got resource, 0:29:58.680 --> 0:30:01.240 I've got resource number two, shout this. 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:03.000 I've got relationship. 0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:09.480 Now, anytime you've got relationship with somebody who's got resource, 0:30:10.000 --> 0:30:15.160 you've got resource. Anytime you've got relationship with somebody who 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:19.280 is the source, you don't have to worry about the 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:22.760 bread you forgot, or the mistake that you made, or 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:25.760 the wrong turn that you took, or the stall out 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:28.800 that you've encountered, or the wisdom that you lack. 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:31.760 If anyone lacks wisdom, let him. 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:34.600 Ask to God, who gives to all. 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:36.440 Men liberally, and upbraid it. 0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:40.880 Not so somebody say I've got it. I don't feel it, 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:43.440 but i've got it. I can't prove it, but i've 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:46.120 got it. You can't see it, but I've got it. 0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:48.720 I'm not wearing it yet, but I've got it. I 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:51.480 don't even feel it, but I've got it. And I'm 0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:56.280 practicing for where God is taking me because he's not 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:57.600 done with me yet. 0:31:02.240 --> 0:31:04.640 A fellow outline starting to form there. 0:31:05.080 --> 0:31:08.760 I've got resource, I've got relationship. 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:10.960 Do you know what David did. 0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:13.440 For his son Solomon when he was called to build 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:17.200 the temple in First Chronicles, chapter twenty nine. He got 0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:20.880 all the people together, right, the great King David got 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:22.720 up in front of all the people and he said, 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:25.360 my son is going to build a house for the Lord. 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:28.160 It's going to be magnificent because God is. 0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:30.800 It's going to be great because God is. 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:33.960 It's going to be spectacular because God is. 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:36.720 It's going to be made of the best stuff because 0:31:36.840 --> 0:31:39.280 God is. And watch what he said. 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:42.959 He said, my son, Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:44.320 is young and inexperienced. 0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:47.680 You're not ready. 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.479 The task is great because this palatial structure is not 0:31:51.520 --> 0:31:52.840 for men, but for the Lord God. 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:54.920 With all my. 0:31:56.440 --> 0:32:00.400 Resources, I'm gonna just preach this like I feel it. 0:32:02.040 --> 0:32:04.480 I saw a weird connection in the text. I did 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:05.800 not expect this connection. 0:32:06.800 --> 0:32:10.840 But he said, with all my resource, I have provided 0:32:10.880 --> 0:32:13.320 for the temple of my God, gold for the gold work, 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:17.720 silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:19.840 the iron, and wood for the work. 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:23.680 Wood. So he said, I'm gonna give my son something 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:24.200 to work with. 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:29.600 Is going to be gold for the gold work, silver 0:32:29.680 --> 0:32:32.080 for the silver work, bronze for the bronze work, iron 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:35.680 for the iron work, and wood for the woodwork, as 0:32:35.720 --> 0:32:42.080 well as onyx for the settings, turquoise stones of various colors, 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:45.760 and all kinds of fine stone and marble, all of 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:50.680 these in large quantities. He said, I'm going to give 0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:54.760 you everything you need to build because I know you 0:32:54.800 --> 0:32:58.000 don't feel ready yet, and you will have to work 0:32:58.000 --> 0:32:59.360 with it, and you will have to form it, and 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:01.400 you will have to develop it. I hear the Lord 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:08.560 saying to somebody, build with it. Build with it. Stop 0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:10.800 saying I'm not ready, Stop saying I don't have it, 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:17.120 and build with it. You have resource because you have relationships, 0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:20.760 And David said, I have given it to my son. 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:24.040 How much more will your father in heaven not give 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:26.520 you everything you need for the season that you're in. 0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:31.680 Somebody receive that word right now online. 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:31.400 Repeat after me. 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:38.040 I have everything I need for the season i'm in. 0:33:38.840 --> 0:33:40.000 Tell your neighbor you have. 0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:47.440 Everything you need for the season you're in. Tell them 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:51.120 you have resource, Tell them you have relationship. 0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:53.360 Now, somebody say. 0:33:53.240 --> 0:33:59.880 I've got resource, I've got relationship, I've got rocks. 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:07.800 Yes, David said, I. 0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:12.160 Have stored up for my son Solomon everything he needs 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:16.359 to build what God has called him to build. And 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:20.000 one of the things he mentioned at the very end 0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:27.280 was precious stones or rocks. Now, if you remember anything 0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:34.319 about David, you know that a significant season of his 0:34:34.480 --> 0:34:42.120 life involved a rock. It wasn't precious stones, it was 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:46.319 just a rock. As a matter of fact, I want 0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:49.480 to call Graham up to the stage right now. Give 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:53.080 this boy a microphone. I did not prepare him for this, 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.960 But give this boy a microphone in his hand. 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:01.040 I didn't talk to him about this, but he's Graham. 0:35:01.360 --> 0:35:05.839 Take them all the way up to First Samuel sixteen 0:35:06.200 --> 0:35:09.920 and tell them in thirty seconds the background of First 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:13.520 Samuel sixteen, even though you weren't prepared to do this. 0:35:14.080 --> 0:35:16.960 I did not tell you to wear a sweater over 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:19.080 a collared shirt. Watch God. 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:22.200 I did not tell you to wear your best fit 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:26.120 that you have worn in your entire teenage life, looking 0:35:26.200 --> 0:35:29.759 like a high school senior chosen by God. I just 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:32.640 called you up here and I gave you an assignment. 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:36.600 Give us quickly the background of the man David, from 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:39.000 first Samuel sixteen, all. 0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:40.799 The way up until he met Deliath. 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:44.320 Please in thirty seconds, go for Samuel sixteen. 0:35:44.400 --> 0:35:47.080 We got David, and he's just a shepherd boy. He's 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:47.920 out in the field. 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.759 His brothers are out working in the military, and he's 0:35:50.800 --> 0:35:53.320 out there in the field taking care of the sheep. 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:55.719 But one day this dude named what was his name, 0:35:55.960 --> 0:35:56.680 the prophet came. 0:35:56.960 --> 0:35:57.560 He pulled up. 0:35:57.680 --> 0:36:00.960 He was like, yo, Samuel. Samuel pulled he was like, yo, 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:03.279 God wants a king. It's gonna be one of y'all. 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:05.440 They lined them up. It was none of the older brothers. 0:36:05.600 --> 0:36:06.799 They're like, we got that older We got the. 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:09.680 Younger brother, David. David pulled up. He was like, yo, 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:11.320 you're gonna be the king, David. 0:36:11.400 --> 0:36:11.600 King. 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:13.080 David was the king. But he had to go back 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:14.840 out to the field. So he's a king. He's in 0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:16.600 the field. He's got oil, but he's in the field. 0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:20.920 And then one day, one day, one day, this giant 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:23.920 name Goliath pulled up to the front lines of the military, 0:36:24.239 --> 0:36:25.200 and he was taunting them. 0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:27.640 He was saying, where's your God? You guys are weak? 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:29.480 What the heck's when he send them? Someone? 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:31.919 Come one v one me. We're gonna run it. If 0:36:31.920 --> 0:36:33.799 you win, then your God's real. 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:34.160 Whatever. 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:36.880 They're like, I don't know who it's gonna be. But 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:40.640 then David, his dad told him, Yo, go deliver these 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:42.240 cheese pizzas to your brothers. 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:45.120 They're in the military. They need the cheese pizzas. 0:36:45.280 --> 0:36:48.200 So David with a good attitude, he woke up early 0:36:48.520 --> 0:36:51.120 and he ran to his brothers in the field and 0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:53.880 he pulled up and he saw the giant standing on 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:56.040 the front lines, and he was like, who is this 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:59.040 guy to be taunting and making fun of my God? 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.480 And why are you guys stinning back? They're not doing 0:37:01.520 --> 0:37:02.279 anything about it. 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:06.640 And his brother's gotten out of him. They're like, bro, 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:07.839 who are you pulling up? 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:14.919 Which brings me to first Samuel seventeen thirty. 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:20.080 Three, And David said, I'll kill him, and Saul replied, 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:23.240 you are not able to go out against this philistine 0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:27.040 and fight him. You are only a young man, and 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:29.920 he has been a warrior from his youth. 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:36.400 So Saul said, you're not ready for Goliath. And David said, Nah, 0:37:36.880 --> 0:37:45.200 Goliath isn't ready for me. But David said to Saul, 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:48.920 your servant has been. 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:53.239 Keeping his father's seat. When a lion or a. 0:37:53.160 --> 0:37:55.920 Bear came and carried off a sheep from the flot, 0:37:56.440 --> 0:37:57.640 I was practicing. 0:37:58.040 --> 0:38:03.160 I went after it. I've been practicing. I've been working. 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:06.000 I've been praying, I've been praising. 0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:08.840 I've been studying. I've been seeking. 0:38:09.160 --> 0:38:12.400 I've been on my spot, I've been on my post. 0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:15.880 I've been in my back I've been in my field. 0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:17.640 I've been in my annointing. 0:38:18.040 --> 0:38:19.279 I've been in my role. 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:20.920 I've been doing that. 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:26.520 Give me the verse. I went after it. 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:30.200 I struck it, and I rescued the sheep from its mouth. 0:38:30.239 --> 0:38:32.799 And when it turned on me, I seized it by 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:35.759 its hair, and I struck it and I killed it. 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:39.080 And your servant has killed both the lion. 0:38:39.040 --> 0:38:39.720 And the bear. 0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:46.880 This uncircumcised philistine, this fear, this insecurity, this addiction, this 0:38:47.040 --> 0:38:49.480 generational curse, this storm. 0:38:50.040 --> 0:38:51.920 This philistine will be. 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:55.000 Like one of them, because he has defied the armies 0:38:55.200 --> 0:38:59.080 of the Living God, the Lord who rescued me from 0:38:59.080 --> 0:39:01.440 the paw of the law, and the paw of the 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:05.200 bear will rescue me from the hand of this philistine. 0:39:05.280 --> 0:39:09.360 I've been practicing. Saul said to David, go and the 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:12.920 Lord be with you. And David said, that's right. I'm 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:16.400 more ready than you recognize, because I look. 0:39:16.360 --> 0:39:18.600 Like a shepherd, but I'm really a king. 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:23.919 I look like a boy, but I'm really a bad man. 0:39:25.040 --> 0:39:27.240 I'm a bad dude. 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:31.720 Next verse then saw dressed David in his own tunic. 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:34.279 He put a coat of armor on him and a 0:39:34.320 --> 0:39:37.960 bronze helmet on his head, and David fastened his sword 0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:41.040 over the tunic and tried walking around because he. 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:42.160 Was not used to them. 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:44.879 I cannot go in these, he said to Sault, because 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:47.839 I'm not used to them. So he took them off. 0:39:47.920 --> 0:39:52.000 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five 0:39:52.400 --> 0:40:02.880 smooth stones stones from the stream, put them in the 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:07.719 pouch of his shepherd bag, and with his sling in 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:10.880 his hand, approached the Philistines. The only thing wrong with 0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:17.600 David is he was wasteful. Four of those stones were unnecessary. 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:21.560 So what I'm trying to say to you today, in 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:24.600 a way that maybe you can apply to your life, 0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:35.399 is you've got a rock and You're more ready than 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:40.239 you recognize. I would not have called him up here 0:40:40.800 --> 0:40:42.879 if I were not confident. 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:48.480 He could do it. The calling proves my confidence. 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:53.040 God would not call you to do it if he 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:55.200 was not confident that you could. 0:40:57.400 --> 0:41:00.359 Why am I confident that he can do it? 0:41:00.880 --> 0:41:05.200 Because he's been practicing this sermon, because he was going 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:08.840 to preach it this Sunday night to his Bible study. 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:13.360 But it's going to get canceled because of the storm. 0:41:13.840 --> 0:41:17.359 But God knew before the storm was announced on the 0:41:17.400 --> 0:41:21.840 weather channel that I would need an illustration in this moment. 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:25.759 So God gave him the word to bring into. 0:41:25.600 --> 0:41:29.839 This situation for your life today, so I can let 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:30.239 you know. 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:31.880 You've got a rock. 0:41:33.000 --> 0:41:34.040 You've got a rock. 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:39.520 What did Jesus say? Everyone who hears these words of mine. 0:41:39.840 --> 0:41:44.840 Is like a wise man who built his house on 0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:48.040 the rock. I got a rock when the wind blows, 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:51.120 I got a rock when the rain comes. I got 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:54.279 a rock when the flood rises. I got a rock 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:56.319 when the doctor says I won't live. 0:41:56.840 --> 0:41:57.440 I got a. 0:41:57.480 --> 0:42:00.759 Rock with a learning disability. I got a rock when 0:42:00.760 --> 0:42:01.520 they fire me. 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:02.560 I got a. 0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:04.480 Rock when the storm comes. 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:11.200 Because I've got a God who is not only above 0:42:11.320 --> 0:42:15.399 my storm, but he is the crown beneath my feet. 0:42:15.560 --> 0:42:25.759 On Christ, the solid rock I stand. All other ground 0:42:28.560 --> 0:42:29.640 is sinking. 0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:31.320 Sand. 0:42:33.360 --> 0:42:38.680 How you been building your house? You're good, You preached 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:41.000 better than me. Get off the stage, just making me intimidating. 0:42:43.440 --> 0:42:52.480 He was ready, He was ready, and so are you. 0:42:55.040 --> 0:42:55.720 So are you. 0:42:55.719 --> 0:43:02.560 You're more ready than you realize. You're more ready than 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.680 you recognize. You're more ready than you feel like you are. 0:43:07.320 --> 0:43:11.960 Have you been building your house on the sand of 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:16.600 situations and circumstances? Have you been running around, Oh, the 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:20.760 devil's attacking me, trying to do warfare, whereas really just weather. 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:25.319 This is not some proof that you're not in the 0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:28.160 will of God. It's just proof that you are on 0:43:28.320 --> 0:43:35.120 planet Earth. It's weather. It's weather. Have a lot of 0:43:35.160 --> 0:43:36.759 our staff in the room, and I wanted to share 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:42.719 this because we are coming to our twenty year anniversary. 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:47.319 Many times in the work of the ministry, I've heard 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:51.960 people complain and say, wow, ministry is just so draining, 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:52.719 And it can be. 0:43:53.640 --> 0:44:04.359 But you know what else can be? Adulthood? Huh. Don't 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:05.040 blame it on the. 0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:08.560 Lord Jesus Christ, your savior, that is draining you know 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:12.880 what else can be draining being a school teacher. You 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:18.759 know what else can be draining? Being unemployed? You know 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:21.759 what else can be draining? Wishing that your job did 0:44:21.800 --> 0:44:22.840 make a difference. 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:23.560 But you feel like it didn't. 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:27.920 And so I always say, let's not complain about what 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:32.759 God gave us. And for twenty years I've seen time 0:44:32.800 --> 0:44:37.239 and time again that whatever winds blew against this ministry, 0:44:38.360 --> 0:44:41.200 whatever storm came, whether it was an attack from the 0:44:41.280 --> 0:44:48.000 enemy or whether it was just weather, that God uses 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:51.080 these moments in your life to reveal. 0:44:54.239 --> 0:44:55.920 And that's what I want you to realize about the 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:57.520 house that was built on the rock. 0:44:59.080 --> 0:45:10.960 It wasn't ruined, Its foundation was revealed. Here's what I 0:45:11.080 --> 0:45:15.040 learned about building my life on the rock of Jesus Christ. 0:45:16.080 --> 0:45:18.080 I learned that things will come and I won't feel ready. 0:45:18.080 --> 0:45:19.759 Things will come that I didn't pray for it. Things 0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:23.160 will come that I would not wish for. Right, that's 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:26.759 the wind, and it will challenge the word. 0:45:26.600 --> 0:45:28.439 That I believe Jesus said. Everyone who hears these. 0:45:28.320 --> 0:45:29.839 Words, why I put them into practice, be like wise 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:32.839 man who build his house on the rock. Rands came, winds, rose, 0:45:32.880 --> 0:45:35.279 streams bleuw, getting us the house. Streams don't blow winds 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:36.440 to But you know what I'm trying. 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:39.719 To say, all that happened all at once, And now 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:42.680 I think about that, that's three separate things happening at 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:45.759 once that you have to deal with and only one 0:45:45.840 --> 0:45:47.440 rock you have to stand on to get through it. 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:53.400 So what happens, please remember this for the rest of 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:54.839 your life, for the rest of your life. 0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:57.799 And maybe God just sent a snowstorm so that I 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:01.680 would be led to this passage about storms to remind 0:46:01.680 --> 0:46:06.000 you that you're ready, to remind you that the house 0:46:06.120 --> 0:46:11.879 was built before the storm came. God put you there 0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:12.919 before the storm came. 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:16.600 They won't leave you now. 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:18.840 But the second thing I've learned that God does in 0:46:18.880 --> 0:46:24.879 my life is that the Lord reveals his truth, and 0:46:24.920 --> 0:46:38.440 the storm reveals my trust. The Lord reveals the truth. 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:43.680 He's your provider. The Lord reveals his truth. He's your healer. 0:46:44.000 --> 0:46:45.520 The Lord reveals. 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:47.000 His truth. 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:50.640 He is your righteousness. The Lord reveals his truth. He 0:46:50.800 --> 0:46:54.200 is more than enough for you. The Lord reveals his truth. 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:57.360 He is holy. The Lord reveals his truth. He's worth 0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.440 living for. He is the treasure in the field. He 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:05.720 is the bright and morning star. He is he reveals 0:47:06.000 --> 0:47:14.319 the truth, and then the storm reveals your trust. Some 0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:16.640 of the things that we have been going through were 0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:21.200 not attacks from the enemy to destroy us. They were 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:25.719 storms that the Lord allowed to show us what we're 0:47:25.719 --> 0:47:26.239 building on. 0:47:31.120 --> 0:47:31.319 Now. 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:34.040 The important thing about a storm is not that you 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:37.600 figure out who scent it. It's that you decide what 0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:39.160 you're going to stand. 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:40.319 On in the middle of it. 0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:44.960 Because God knows, you could spend the rest of your 0:47:45.000 --> 0:47:48.160 life beating yourself up over decisions that you could have 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:51.200 made differently and things that maybe you could do differently. 0:47:52.040 --> 0:47:52.959 But you've got a rock. 0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:56.880 The house didn't stand because the walls were painted the 0:47:56.960 --> 0:48:00.759 right color. The house didn't stand because the tops were 0:48:00.760 --> 0:48:04.360 picked out perfectly. The house did not stand even because 0:48:04.360 --> 0:48:06.680 of the plumbing. The house did not stand because of 0:48:06.760 --> 0:48:07.399 anything that. 0:48:07.320 --> 0:48:11.120 You could see. It stood because of something that you 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:16.759 could not see. The rocket was built on And I 0:48:16.920 --> 0:48:19.759 want this church, I want my life. I want your 0:48:19.840 --> 0:48:24.200 life to be built on a solid rock. So you 0:48:24.239 --> 0:48:27.120 can know I'm ready for whatever comes to know. 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:32.279 I've got resource and I've got relationship because. 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:38.759 I've got a rock, and you're ready for this. You're 0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:39.440 ready for this. 0:48:42.520 --> 0:48:46.680 Everyone standing who's physically present, and everyone bow your head 0:48:46.680 --> 0:48:47.200 in prayer. 0:48:47.560 --> 0:48:48.720 Who's watching online? 0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:52.120 Doesn't God deserve just a few moments of your unbroken focus. 0:48:53.320 --> 0:48:57.239 Haven't you paid enough attention to the wind? Isn't it 0:48:57.239 --> 0:49:00.479 time for you to give attention to the word. You've 0:49:00.480 --> 0:49:03.200 heard the word of the Lord today, and everybody got 0:49:03.200 --> 0:49:07.000 something different out of it. Some people just simply heard, Hey, 0:49:07.000 --> 0:49:09.000 for that giant that's in my life, I've got a 0:49:09.080 --> 0:49:12.000 rock to take him down. I don't need more experience. 0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:14.200 God gave me what I need. And maybe that'll be 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:16.040 your word, just to get you to go back in 0:49:16.120 --> 0:49:17.040 the strength of the Lord. 0:49:17.320 --> 0:49:20.480 But for some people, the Word was saying something much deeper. 0:49:20.520 --> 0:49:24.120 It was saying, hey, dude, you are building on stuff 0:49:24.160 --> 0:49:31.239 that is not stable. You are building on stuff that 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:34.000 will not withstand the storm. 0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:38.000 But it's not too late for you. It's not too 0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:40.399 late for you. I'm going to tell you how. 0:49:40.440 --> 0:49:43.920 I know that one of the disciples that Jesus was 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:48.760 training was named Peter. One time Jesus asked the disciples, 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:51.120 who do you say that I am? And Peter said, 0:49:51.320 --> 0:49:53.120 you are the Christ, the son of the Living God. 0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:56.560 And Jesus said, blessed her. You Simon, son of Jonah. 0:49:56.960 --> 0:49:59.319 For flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you, 0:49:59.360 --> 0:50:02.040 but by my f in heaven. And Jesus said, I 0:50:02.160 --> 0:50:07.520 tell you you are Peter, and on this rock I 0:50:07.600 --> 0:50:14.239 will build my church, and the gates of Hades, the 0:50:14.360 --> 0:50:19.960 gates of Hell. The storms of life will not overcome it. 0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:25.319 He said that to Peter, knowing that Peter would go 0:50:25.400 --> 0:50:25.879 on to. 0:50:25.960 --> 0:50:31.200 Deny him at the fire on the eve of his crucifixion. 0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:36.319 But see, Jesus knew that sometimes the best place to 0:50:36.360 --> 0:50:50.160 build from is rock bottom. I told the Lord, I'm 0:50:50.200 --> 0:50:53.200 not ready to preach it. He said, you're more ready 0:50:54.280 --> 0:50:57.360 than you realize. And you've been telling the Lord I 0:50:57.360 --> 0:50:59.360 can't handle this. I'm not ready for this. I can't 0:50:59.360 --> 0:51:03.200 do it. He said, I wouldn't have called you if 0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:07.120 I wasn't confident that you could. And not only this, 0:51:08.320 --> 0:51:10.000 he said, I wouldn't have called you if I wasn't 0:51:10.000 --> 0:51:10.840 going to do it with you. 0:51:13.440 --> 0:51:15.319 Bow your head and close your eyes. The Lord is 0:51:15.320 --> 0:51:17.880 in this place. Father. 0:51:17.920 --> 0:51:20.160 I thank you for the word that you have given today. 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:22.840 It is greater than the wind that blows, the streams 0:51:22.840 --> 0:51:25.800 that rise, or the rains that fall. It is greater 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:27.920 than our emotions and. 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:30.719 Our fears and our failures. You are our rock. 0:51:31.880 --> 0:51:36.480 Now Lord, I commit to your hands the ministry of 0:51:36.520 --> 0:51:39.520 this word for those today God who needed to hear 0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:43.520 a message because they are in a secret storm. Can't 0:51:43.520 --> 0:51:47.080 tell anybody about it, can't point to a pattern on 0:51:47.120 --> 0:51:51.200 a map, can't even really sometimes describe the effects of it, 0:51:51.360 --> 0:51:53.319 don't even really know where it's coming from or when 0:51:53.360 --> 0:51:54.200 it's going to end. 0:51:55.040 --> 0:51:58.000 I wanted you to remind them today that they have 0:51:58.040 --> 0:51:58.399 a rock. 0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:02.520 After all that you've done for them, after all that 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:06.080 they have survived, the reason that they're here today is 0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:10.160 because they have a rock. That rock cannot be moved, 0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:12.520 that rock cannot be altered. 0:52:12.880 --> 0:52:16.560 That rock is you, God, Today. 0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:21.880 In your presence, I want to commit each person who, 0:52:21.960 --> 0:52:27.000 maybe in this season of their life, has been hearing 0:52:27.040 --> 0:52:31.480 the taunt you're not ready for this. I prayed that 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:35.359 they would reach into their life and grab something out 0:52:35.360 --> 0:52:40.120 of their bag that You've given and trust in the 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:46.040 one who put them in the position to begin with. Now, God, 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:50.880 in agreement with the great hymn writer who said, my 0:52:50.960 --> 0:52:52.240 hope is built. 0:52:52.800 --> 0:52:54.880 On nothing less than. 0:52:54.800 --> 0:52:59.480 Jesus' blood in righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest frame, 0:52:59.560 --> 0:53:03.160 but holy lean on Jesus' name. When darkness seems to 0:53:03.239 --> 0:53:06.319 hide his face. I rest on his unchanging grace. In 0:53:06.440 --> 0:53:10.600 every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:14.360 When he shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I 0:53:14.520 --> 0:53:20.040 then in him be found dressed in his righteousness, alone 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:28.719 faultless to stand before the throne. 0:53:27.520 --> 0:53:32.280 On Christ, the solid rock. 0:53:32.200 --> 0:53:42.920 Guy stand all lother ground is sinking, saying other ground 0:53:43.920 --> 0:53:58.560 is sinking, saying if you know it, sing it on Christness. 0:53:55.880 --> 0:54:08.640 All is say es Ah on the ground seeking said. 0:54:10.840 --> 0:54:13.200 Everything else will let you down, everything else will let 0:54:13.239 --> 0:54:16.800 you go, but Jesus never will. 0:54:16.920 --> 0:54:18.959 Right now, there's somebody hearing this message who. 0:54:18.880 --> 0:54:22.360 Needs to give your life to Jesus. I'm telling you 0:54:22.400 --> 0:54:25.080 storms are gonna come. I'm telling you winds are gonna hit. 0:54:25.320 --> 0:54:27.719 I'm telling you that the Savior is greater than all 0:54:27.760 --> 0:54:29.839 of those things, and he is able to keep you 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:32.719 from falling and present you faultless before the presence of 0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:33.440 his glory. 0:54:33.560 --> 0:54:35.680 But you've got to trust him. 0:54:35.920 --> 0:54:38.239 And maybe God allowed a storm in your life so 0:54:38.280 --> 0:54:40.319 that you could see that He needs to be your 0:54:40.360 --> 0:54:43.719 firm foundation. Right now, I want to pray with you, 0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:48.000 every single person who's watching this online, who has an 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:52.200 appointment today to receive the grace of Jesus Christ for 0:54:52.239 --> 0:54:55.120 the salvation of your soul. I want you to repeat 0:54:55.120 --> 0:54:57.840 this prayer after me. The Bible says that if you 0:54:57.920 --> 0:55:01.040 confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe 0:55:01.080 --> 0:55:03.440 in your heart God raised him from the dead, you 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:07.080 will be saved. And it is by grace that. 0:55:07.040 --> 0:55:08.640 You are saved through faith. 0:55:08.880 --> 0:55:11.160 It is the gift of God, not of work, so 0:55:11.200 --> 0:55:14.319 that no one can boast. You come to Jesus like 0:55:14.400 --> 0:55:17.319 you are. You build your life on his love. You 0:55:17.360 --> 0:55:19.880 build your life on what He did for you on Calvary. 0:55:20.120 --> 0:55:23.239 You build it on his acceptance of youth. And you 0:55:23.280 --> 0:55:26.520 do it now before it's too late. You do it now, 0:55:26.560 --> 0:55:29.759 before your house falls down. You do it now while 0:55:29.760 --> 0:55:32.200 the blood is still running warm in your veins. You 0:55:32.239 --> 0:55:34.640 do it now, while there's still breadth in your lungs. 0:55:34.920 --> 0:55:36.280 You do it now. 0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:39.759 He is here Now, Today is your day of salvation. 0:55:40.320 --> 0:55:43.640 Repeat after me out loud, everybody in the church. Heavenly Father, 0:55:44.920 --> 0:55:48.880 I am a sinner in need of a savior, and 0:55:48.960 --> 0:55:53.360 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 0:55:54.239 --> 0:55:58.480 and the savior of the world. And today I make 0:55:58.600 --> 0:56:02.520 Jesus the life lord of my life. I believe he 0:56:02.640 --> 0:56:07.840 died that I would be forgiven and rose again to 0:56:07.880 --> 0:56:13.200 give me life. I receive this new life. This is 0:56:14.040 --> 0:56:19.000 my new beginning. I am a child of God. If 0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:21.080 you just prayed that on the count of three, shoot 0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:24.400 your hand up in the air one, two, three and 0:56:24.480 --> 0:56:27.520 put it in the comments right now, just say I'm 0:56:27.560 --> 0:56:28.760 receiving Jesus. 0:56:29.680 --> 0:56:32.560 Just say that in the comments right now. Come on, 0:56:32.760 --> 0:56:35.240 just type it in right now. We're here to break 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:37.480 for you. I'm receiving Jesus. 0:56:38.560 --> 0:56:42.799 The best decision you'll ever make, and you will have 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:45.480 an anchor in the storm, and you will have a 0:56:45.560 --> 0:56:48.239 help in the time of trouble, and you will be 0:56:48.280 --> 0:56:51.879 able to confidently say I've got a rock. 0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:53.279 Hey. 0:56:53.360 --> 0:56:55.719 I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:56:56.239 --> 0:56:58.839 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:56:58.880 --> 0:57:01.480 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:04.279 they're available. I also want to take a moment and 0:57:04.400 --> 0:57:06.160 thank all of you who are a part of Elevation, 0:57:06.680 --> 0:57:10.000 whether you support us financially or serve with us, or 0:57:10.400 --> 0:57:13.120 just share these messages. 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