Not Dead Yet

0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.240 Hey, we're starting a season today also that I wanted 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.080 to make you aware of all over the world for 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:14.040 our year end offering. That is exciting. When someone is 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.239 new to our church, they're often surprised that we don't 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.560 put a lot of pressure on people to give, and 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.599 yet God has blessed us so much. The reason for 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.200 that is because we have built into this church people who, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.880 because of their love for God and because of their 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.520 commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they give consistently. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.400 Not to build buildings, we build buildings, not to make videos. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.480 We make videos, but so that people who are far 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.960 from God can be raised to life in Christ, and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.760 so the Kingdom of God can come on earth as 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.879 it is in heaven. It is an exciting time. I 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.600 always get a chance during this year end offering where 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.160 many will begin to tithe give that first ten percent 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.760 to God. And that's not what I'm going to talk 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.080 about in my sermon today yet, So don't make up 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.120 an excuse to leave, all right, I have a very 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:10.440 important meeting that is so important that ten percent belongs 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.399 to God, that tide belongs to God. Thousands of families 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.400 in this church used this time in the year to say, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.800 you know what, I haven't been honoring God with the 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.080 first fruits of what He gave to me. And I 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.919 don't want to spend the rest of my life acting 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.600 like I did this by my own hands. I need 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.120 God and I honor God. And that's been a practice 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.399 in my life since age eighteen. And I'll tell you 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.520 the story one of these weeks about how that happened 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.679 for me, not this week, but I'll share it with you. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.679 And then there's the above and beyond, where you say 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.200 God has been good to me out of all that 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.400 He's given me, I want to bring him an offering, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.880 a gift above and beyond. And we set aside this 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.880 time of the year, on December the eleventh, would do 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:51.560 a big offering as a church. You like that day? 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.160 Is that your birthday? Happy birthday? So on your birthday 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.640 December eleventh, we're going to be bringing our offering. We're 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.800 going to be bringing it online throughout now in the 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.280 end of the year. But you can go to Elevationchurch 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.160 Dot or a click you're in offer and find out 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.320 about that. It'll be amazing. And we use that offering, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.280 that expansion offering, that above and beyond in order to 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.680 do the outreach ministries that we do in this church. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.040 This church is incredibly active in all the communities that 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:24.639 we serve. This is not some performance based church. We 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.600 have hundreds and hundreds of outreach partners meeting the needs 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.160 of people who need medical assistance, people who need food, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.120 people who have never had the Bible translated in their language. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.640 We'll show you some of that over the next few 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.880 weeks so you can see what you're given to. But 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.840 I'm expecting by faith for thousands of you to join 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.240 Holly and I in what we've done through the entire 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.720 existence of this church. Give till it hurts a little bit, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.000 and then expect God to move in your life, because 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.720 I refuse to just let you in this year just 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.160 putting on ten pounds and running up credit card debt 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:59.120 and not focus on Jesus. We've got to end strong, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.320 no matter how we started. So we will do that, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.600 and I know that I can count on you in 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:12.160 that way to pray and ask God. Now, let's go 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.000 to the Word of God. Remain standing for a moment 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.760 and turn to your favorite book of the Bible, Leviticus, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:27.160 the one you have memorized. I have been seeking God 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.080 this week, like walking in the woods, praying out loud, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.440 wondering if the neighbors think I've lost it, Finally seeking God, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.360 like reading Leviticus and finding a sermon in it. That's 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.120 how crazy I've been seeking God this week. And he 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.120 spoke to me. Everything he teaches me, I want to 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.760 try to teach to you, and he taught me something 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:58.400 amazing here. Leviticus chapter eleven. Leviticus chapter eleven, Full disclosure. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.840 I'm reading through the Bible with Elijah, my oldest, and Kelsey, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.640 and we started coming up to Leviticus, and I was like, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.320 uh oh. Usually when people started by reading plan at 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.960 the beginning of the year, they get through Genesis, they 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.080 get through Exodus, and then when they get to Leviticus, 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.080 it's a lot of lists and dietary restrictions, which you'll 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.400 see in a moment. So when they get to Leviticus, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:25.120 they leave it and cuss Leviticus. I gotta get y'all 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.760 back tuned into my humor frequency. You know, I got 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.000 to bring your expectations now, all right, But I got 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.760 to that. I said, okay, we're going to do this different. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.920 We're gonna love Leviticus. When we get done with it. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.360 So I got us some different books and things, and 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.839 as we were studying, we came upon this, and the 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:47.360 Lord spoke Leviticus, chapter eleven, verse twenty nine. Of the 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.960 animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:59.560 The weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:08.240 the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon. Pastor, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.200 we are sending you back out on the west coast. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.159 If you're going to come back with scriptures like this, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.560 this is weird. Trust me, do he'll trust me? Trust me? 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.600 Trust me. This is the scripture we need today. Now 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.320 look at verse thirty one. Of all those that move 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.080 along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.799 them when they are dead will become unclean until evening. 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.000 Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.880 till evening. When one of them dies and falls on something, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.680 that article, whatever its use, will be unclean. Whether it's 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.239 made of wood, cloth, hide, or sackcloth, put it in water. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.800 It will be unclean till evening, and then it will 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.680 be clean. If one of them falls into a clay pot, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.040 everything in it will be unclean, and you must break 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.080 the pot. Any food you are allowed to eat that 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.960 has come into contact with water from any such pot 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.280 is unclean, and any liquid that is drunk from such 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:08.360 a pot is unclean. Anything that one of their carcasses 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.920 falls on becomes unclean. An oven or cooking pot must 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.719 be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.600 regard them as unclean. A spring, however, or a cistern 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.320 for collecting water remains clean. But anyone who touches one 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:30.320 of these carcasses is unclean. Verse thirty seven. If a 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:36.200 carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:45.520 they remain clean. Good. You got a new favorite passage 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:50.640 of scripture. Now drop down real quick to verse forty four. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.440 I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves and be 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.560 holy because I'm holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.760 any creature that moves along the grid. I am the 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.479 Lord who brought you up out of Egypt to be 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:13.320 your God. Therefore be holy because I am holy. This 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:19.520 message today is called not dead Yet. Shout it out. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:26.280 Say not dead yet one more time, say not dead yet. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.320 Now look at somebody next to you and say, God 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:36.720 is not finished with me. I'm not dead yet. Let's 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.040 clap our hands for the Book of Leviticus, for the 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.200 living Word of God. You may be seated, Be seated, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:49.600 Be seated, be seated, be seated. Of all of the 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:54.920 times to preach a text with dietary restrictions, it seems 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.000 strange that the spirit would illuminate for me and for 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.840 your edification a dietary restriction chapter of the Bible at 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.720 a time of the year where everybody is starting their 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:13.200 diet next year. Of course, people are very arrogant about 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.280 their diets at times. You know, I do paleo, I 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.520 do keto, i'd do vega, and i'd do macros, I 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:26.320 do micros. I eat clean. One guy said that to 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.240 me the other day, he said, I eat clean. I said, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.120 what does that mean, because I hear all kinds of 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.960 people say I'm trying to eat clean, and I don't 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.920 know what that means. Because, you know, one guy told 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.920 me one time, I only eat brown rice when I 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.319 go to the Chinese restaurant, I eat clean. But he 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:49.240 was talking about the fried rice. He heard brown rice 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.440 was better for you than white rice. So he ate 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.319 the brown rice and thought he was eating clean. Wow, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.040 we need to learn. They brought a nutritionist over to 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.560 me the other day because my cholesterol was and we 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.600 got it down so you could take me off your 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.920 prayer list for now. But the lady started fussing at 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.600 me the moment she walked in the door. She was 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.760 fussing about my diet cox, she was fussing about my 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.880 quest cookies. And I'm like, hey, lady, this is the 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:21.439 wrong approach for you to take. You need to teach 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.560 me what I need to do. Don't just lecture me. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.600 And how can you start lecturing me? She started dropping 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.720 f bombs in the meeting, cussing at me. Didn't even 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.199 take time to think, this is a preacher that I'm 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.520 talking to, and if he says the effort, he certainly 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:44.280 doesn't say it much or admitted faith. Faith faith. I'm 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:49.840 talking about faith. That word now, Well, we're seeing in 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.040 Leviticus eleven. You got to come at it a little 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.440 bit differently to understand the distinctions that God is making 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.840 for his people. He is not really teaching them to 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:06.480 eat clean. He is teaching them to be clean, holy 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.560 like he is. He's teaching them to be like he is, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.600 and he has to take them through stages and doing 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.040 that because of where they've been. Let me give you 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.640 a quick review of this, because I believe God wants 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.560 to teach us to be clean, not perfect, but clean. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.320 Not that we just go around showing off how many 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.440 Bible verses we can quote. But to be clean and 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.320 to be clean is really not about eating clean. Jesus said, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.040 it's what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:42.440 but what comes out. So we're not really here today 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:46.560 to talk about eating clean. We're here to talk about 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:52.080 thinking clean, thinking clean. He's teaching his people. God is 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.800 teaching these Israelites to think clean. In other words, he's 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.360 purging them from the past that they've been through so 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.280 that he can bring them into the land that he's 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.640 promised them. He has promised them a place, but they're 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:12.640 not there yet. And yet they're not in Egypt anymore. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.520 But they're not there yet. And a part of him 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.600 teaching them what to do in the process of their 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:26.880 transformation starts with these laws or regulations about eat this, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.480 don't eat that. You can't eat the animal that moves 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.800 along the ground unless it has a divided hoof and 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.840 it choose the cud. So no rabbits because they don't 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.840 have a divided hoof and chew the cud. You can't 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.600 eat the rabbit. You can't eat the pig. You can't 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.840 eat these birds. You can't eat these birds. You can't 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.720 eat these insects. You can't eat these insects. So apparently 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.360 there are some insects that were on the menu. Thanks 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.000 a lot, God, I'm really glad about those insects. But 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.640 you can't eat shrimp because you can't eat any animals 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:01.800 that move along the sea that don't have fins and scales. Y'all, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.920 I don't want to live in that world where there 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.080 are no shrimp. Lord, why did you save me? If 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.800 you weren't gonna let me eat shrimp? Just take me 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.200 to heaven. Now. Of course, these dietary restrictions change, and 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:14.920 we see in the New Testament that God tells Peter 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.160 Rise killing and it was never really about the food. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:23.720 It was about their faith. It was about their minds, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.400 not their menus. It was never about these exact things. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.439 But he needed to use these things. Why because they 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:38.520 are his people walking into his promise. But they are 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.160 in between where. Let me show it to you in 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.200 four different stages. I put this together where I think 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.160 we can all get it. How God is guiding his 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.800 people to teach them who they have been all along. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.600 These people that he's speaking to who are in the wilderness, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.840 they are people who have been brought from a place. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.240 Put that up on the screen and maybe write that 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.640 down if you would. They are brought from a place. Everybody, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.040 under the sound of my voice say, I'm brought from 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.880 a place. I don't know where God brought you from, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.280 but I know that all of us who have the 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.600 hope of Heaven and the Holy Spirit inside of us, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.880 we have been rescued from the dominion of darkness and sin. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.600 That God reached into the pit of our sin and 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.000 the pit of our past and brought us from a place. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.800 Now you may have prayed a prayer to receive Jesus 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.920 Christ as your Lord and savior when you were seven 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.160 months old, but you were still brought from a place. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.880 Because even in sin and iniquity did my mother conceive me. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.400 Because there is none righteous, no not one. So for 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.240 God to bring me into his kingdom, he had to 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.000 transfer me out of another kingdom. In the text, there's 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.880 this group of millions of people who have been brought 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.240 from Egypt where they were slaves under Pharaoh. But we 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.920 have been brought from a place too, not necessarily a 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.320 physical place of slavery, but we were slaves to sin, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.480 we were slaves to shame, and we were brought when 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.160 we accepted Christ. If we have accepted Christ from a place, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:16.720 say it again, now that you know what it means. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.640 I'm brought from a place. So if I asked you, 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.640 where did you come from? You say Brazil, But it's 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.240 really not Brazil. You came from You came from sin, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.480 You came from shame, you came from mistakes, You came 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.760 from the ground, you came from the dirt, you came 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.400 from a mess, you came from a pit. Where you 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.040 came from Today it's not so much of a physical 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.920 issue as it is a spiritual issue. And they are 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.600 brought from a place. Say it again, I'm brought from 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.160 a place. And they got out of there quick. They 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.600 had to get out of Egypt quick. Do you remember 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.160 the Red Sea, how they're running through the Red Sea 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.800 and Pharaoh's chariots are coming up close behind them, and 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.600 they're running from the chariots in the waters, and God 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.080 does this big, huge thing where he parts the waters 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.840 and kills the Egyptians. And he said, the Egyptians that 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.160 you see today, you will see no more. The thing 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.320 that was tormenting you the night before is gonna be 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.840 dead tomorrow morning. The thing that cracked its cruel whip 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.400 across your back and said, get back here. I'm bringing 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.880 you out of that. I'm snatching you out of that. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.960 I'm taking you out of that. I'm delivering you out 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.400 of that. I am rescued because the hand of God, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.440 when he heard my cry, reached into my situation and 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.320 gave me a new heart and a new mind, and 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 a new attitude and a new possibility. And He is 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.480 making me what He created me to be. I'm not 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.800 staying in the image of what I came out of. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.280 I am brought from a place. I've come a mighty 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.720 long way. I'm not what I'm gonna be, but thank God, 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.520 I'm not what I used to be. You should see 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.600 what God delivered me from. You should see what God 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.480 snatched me out of. You should see what the blood 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.680 of Jesus covert, which brings me to point number two. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.160 Not only am I brought from a place, but I'm 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.880 bought with the price. It's not the blood of a lamb. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.240 It's the blood of the lamb who was slain from 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.880 the foundation of the world, the pure, spotless lamb of God, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.680 the only one who is able and worthy to open 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.480 up the skull. I've bought with the price, not five dollars, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.480 not ten dollars, not a million dollars. One drop of 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:35.200 his blood cost him his perfect life. I'm bought, I'm brought. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:41.240 I'm bought. Let's shout twenty two seconds about that. I'm 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:49.160 not worthless, not nothing. I'm not prish, I'm not done. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:59.800 I'm bought because the lamb that was slain for my sin. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.720 So it's perfect and eternal. Now, these people, they when 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.560 they were leaving Egypt, God had to kill every firstborn 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.040 in Egypt to get them out. When God wanted to 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:14.200 bring you out, he allowed his firstborn son. You see 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.000 the parallels. So we think, like Leviticus, this has nothing 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:21.480 to do with me. I'm eating shrimp. I don't even 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.000 want to eat insects. Why are you telling me? I 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.120 never in my life thought I want to eat a weasel? 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.760 Why did you preach me a scripture when I got 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.760 real bills and real health issues and real challenges and 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:43.119 real side chicks. I want to bring this text into 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.439 our time so we don't see this as a list, 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:53.680 but a lens of the God who brought me from 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:58.119 a place and bought me with the price. Because the 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.959 truth is, as much as I love to shout out 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.480 about that I'm brought from a place and bought with 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:11.880 the price, but I am caught in a pattern. Can 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.200 you tell I've missed you. I've been studying ever since 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.040 the last time I saw you, just to give you 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.280 something of value, because I know that sometimes you feel 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.399 trapped in that past that you were shouting like you 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:28.440 got out of it, that you know the blood of 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:34.240 Jesus bought you, but you still feel worthless sometimes that 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.160 you know He brought you out of sin and shame, 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.920 but you still do things that make you a shame. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.040 I always like to give a moment where even if 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.880 you yelled at your kids on the way to church, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.320 God can still speak to you today. Some of you, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.399 something that happened on the way to church is keeping 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.520 you from even hearing what I'm saying. Right now, you 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.239 see that exit sign. Tell the devil to point his 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.359 big long Pinocchio and Lion knows in the direction of 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.800 that exit and get out of here, because we are 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:09.880 all caught and conflicted in something. Even though we are 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:15.400 in Christ, we are in conflict the patterns of this world. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.280 Romans will call it the New Testament, Scripture will say, 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.840 or first Peter's even better one. He calls it the 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.040 empty way of life that was handed to you. Wow, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.960 we have hand me down habits, we have hand me 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.040 down hang ups things that we learned. And God is 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.560 teaching his people in Leviticus eleven, They're in the wilderness, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:44.080 not the promised land, not Egypt, the wilderness. And God 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:52.119 works in your wilderness. He does. God works in your weakness, 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.560 God works in your waiting. It's not the promise, it's 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:02.480 not the past. It's the wilderness. The Lord sent me 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.400 to somebody today who has been in a wilderness, not physical, 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.240 because he brought me from a place Egypt. But I'm 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.480 not already all the way to the place heaven, and 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.520 I'm still here. And I think this might be the 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:23.919 best way to say it. I'm out of Egypt, but 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:32.399 I'm not sure Egypt is out of me. I'm in 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.679 the world, I'm not of it. But there are some 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.960 patterns because one day I'm gonna be with Jesus said 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.639 I'm gonna sing around his throne and said to his 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.520 feet forevermore, and I'm gonna play harp. But I'm not 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:51.160 there yet, because I'm not dead yet. And the only 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.240 time I'm gonna be free from this conflict is for 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.920 me to be free from this body. But as long 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.679 as I'm in this body, yeah, I'm brought from a place. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:09.320 I'm rescued, I'm bought with a price, I'm redeemed. But 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:15.000 I'm caught in a pattern. I'm wrestling. I'm wrestling between 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.800 this is where I came from, this is where I'm going, 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.480 this is what I've done, this is what he's doing, 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.919 and I'm caught in a pattern. So this is what 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.280 I needed to tell the nutritionist. Okay, stop cussing at me, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.320 stop criticizing me, Stop acting like I don't exercise six 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.040 days a week. I work really hard at this. I 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:42.960 need to be taught through a process. Flap your hands 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:49.359 and brace God for his process. That God doesn't drop 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.800 an F bomb on you just because you messed up again. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.760 That he could, but he didn't. He is taking his 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.960 people through, and he is taking you through a wildern, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:04.560 this experience where there's not much water and there's same 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.200 old scenery and it's not exactly my home. And here 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:12.200 I am living this life and he's teaching me. He 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.480 brings them, Okay, the book Leviticus is actually amazing, y'all. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.640 That's why it's love Itacus. I love it. I love 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.639 it now. I love this book of the Bible. He 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.200 gives them the offerings that they need to make. Whether 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.359 it's a thanks offering, whether it's a fellowship offering, whether 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.399 it's a peace offering, whether it's a sin offering, whether 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.320 it's a guilt offering, any of those five offerings. He 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:35.719 shows them how to do it. Hey, here's how you 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.160 do it. Hey, here's how you cut it up. Hey, 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:40.560 here's where you offer it. Here's how you offer it. 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:44.000 Here's who offers it. Here's the priest. Here's what they wear, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.800 Here's what they do, here's when they do it. All 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:53.199 of this is not to limit them, but to liberate them. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:57.440 He's a liberator. He brings me into places, he brings 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.919 me into spaces, he brings me into challenge, he brings 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:05.640 me into dilemmas to set me free from my flesh, 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:10.000 to set me free from my feelings, to show me 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.840 this is how you do it. And I need him 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:19.080 to teach me. I need God to teach me a 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:22.639 different way to do it, because honestly, the ways that 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:26.560 I tried without him do not work for very long. 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:29.879 Oh they can get me what I want right now, 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.720 but they actually leave me in greater bondage than I 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:39.920 was before. And I love the Lord because he's a teacher. 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:47.639 He's been teaching me lately. Not about shellfish, definitely, not 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:53.719 about monitor lizards and wall lizards. And what did it say? 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:58.199 You can't eat the skink? What is a skink? I 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:00.280 heard of the Get Go. I see his commercial during 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:06.600 football every single Saturday while I'm studying, And uh, but 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.200 the skink he said, Nah, don't eat that? And what 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:13.240 if you see it now? Not about eating clean because 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:17.439 we know those dietary restrictions were for that time. But 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:22.639 the way that you think about you, the way that 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:26.879 you think about God, and the way that you think 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:32.440 about your life, isn't this What God is always teaching 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:37.320 me is how to think like He thinks about what 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.800 I'm going through, about how to think like He thinks 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:45.399 about what is best for me? One of my favorite 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:49.240 scriptures says, my thoughts are not your thoughts, says the Lord. 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:53.240 That means there's a big gap between great, big God 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.280 and little bitty Stevie. That means what he thinks and 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.399 what I think are not automatically aligned. Every morning, I 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:04.320 got to get in sync with God so I can 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:10.000 think like he thinks. And he says, don't eat the skink. 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:16.080 Don't eat the skink. Why because I want to teach 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:20.000 you to discern, so that when you go into these 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:23.760 neighboring nations in Canaan, you won't do what they do. 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:27.119 You won't think like they think. You won't try to 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:30.080 win like they win. You won't fight like they fight. 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:33.600 You won't worry like they worry. You won't respond like 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:37.359 they respond. You won't react like they react. God is 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:40.879 teaching me to think. And if I don't, let him 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:43.320 teach me how to think. But I just quote the 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:47.040 promises of the Bible verse watch this. To have confidence 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:53.280 in God's promises but not commitment to his process is delusional. 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:59.200 I'm gonna say it to the safe side of the room. 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:02.359 If I got caught confidence in God's promise, oh he 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:05.240 can do it. But I don't have a commitment to 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:09.800 his process that is not depending on God. That's called 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:13.800 denial because we just want to believe over top of 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.320 all of our behaviors that don't line up with the 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.360 word of God. But yet he loves me and he's 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:21.720 not waiting on me to act better for him to 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:25.120 love me. But I don't love him like I should 0:26:25.760 --> 0:26:30.640 if I don't get taught the process of figuring out 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:36.280 is this what God wants for me? I don't have 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.719 to do that with fish anymore, but I do have 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:42.080 to do it with feelings. I don't have to do 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:44.479 this with shrimp, but I do have to do it 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:49.919 with contacts in my cell phone. Is this good for me? 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.640 When is the last time that we really let God speak? 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:58.600 Is this best for me? And if he tells you 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.520 that's not best for you, I don't want that for you. 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:04.040 I didn't bring you out of Egypt for you to 0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:07.280 bring Egypt into your future. I want that out of 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:09.919 your life. I want that out of your heart. I 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:17.800 want that out of your mouth. Now. God keeps telling 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:20.480 me I'm too negative, and I keep telling him no, 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:26.399 I'm just realistic. And God keeps saying stuff like, okay, 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:30.040 that'd be great, since you want to do my job 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.840 and tell me what's good and what's bad. And I'm like, well, God, 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:36.399 you know, this is kind of the way I think. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:39.119 And He's like, but it's not the way that I think, 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:45.119 because I can face the facts but speaking faith. So 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:48.840 the Lord has been interrupting me a lot lately, telling 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:54.159 me this is unclean for you. This is hurting you. 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:58.360 This is hurting you. And you're not getting to heaven 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:00.320 because you're holy. You're getting to heaven because I'm holy, 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:01.679 and because of what I did for you, because I 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:07.320 brought you, bought you. But the devil has caught you. 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:15.800 So now it's time that somebody taught you. I feel 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:18.720 bad for Moses. He's the one who had to teach 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:23.879 these people these things, y'all. I find it hard to 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:27.280 stick to my diet for myself. Now, you got to 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:33.600 get two million people to study insects in order to 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:35.960 eat in a place where there's already not much water. 0:28:37.960 --> 0:28:40.560 It's harder than we make it sound, isn't it. You know, 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:42.520 it's not hard to say certain things, okay, the Lord said, 0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:47.720 don't commit adultery. It's harder to discern sometimes in your Actune. 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:50.960 Is this really how God wants me to think about this? 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:54.760 Is this really what God wants me to say about this? 0:28:55.600 --> 0:29:00.360 Is this clean or unclean? Is this God's will for me? 0:29:01.200 --> 0:29:03.360 Or is this the way that I've known that feels 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:06.520 familiar to me? So am I going back to Egypt 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:13.440 instead of following Jesus forward? They were out of Egypt. 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.360 The Egyptians were dead, but guess what the things they 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:22.960 learned in Egypt were still alive. Yeah, yeah, I'm dead 0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:26.200 to say I'm alive to Christ. Great, but we still 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:31.120 have to deal with these little things. I love the 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:35.400 contrast because God did a big thing for him. He 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:38.600 parted the Red Sea. That's a big thing. How many 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:42.400 agree that watching a major body of water part is 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:46.320 a miracle? How many agree that's big? Oh? Come on, 0:29:46.400 --> 0:29:48.680 you clap better than that over your parking space this 0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:51.960 week at the gym? Oh the Lord de me a 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:57.200 parking space. He parted the waters. That's big. Somebody say 0:29:57.240 --> 0:30:01.360 it's big. God has done big things for me. If 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:03.880 there are three people that God did something big for 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.760 you since last Sunday, give him a big praise right 0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:10.720 now on the level he blessed you on I mean 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:13.360 he did a big thing for me. He did a 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.800 big thing for me. Just what it was. He woke 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:19.840 me up. That's not big if you didn't, and it is. 0:30:20.200 --> 0:30:23.040 He woke me up. He started me on my way, 0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:25.680 and he watched so from me so I could be 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:30.240 in the number one more time raising. He did it big. 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.600 He did it big. He put it in the set. 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:37.400 He did it big. He didn't do as small. He 0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:41.600 did it big so that everybody would know it was 0:30:41.840 --> 0:30:49.840 the Lord. He made away high five like we won something, 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:52.400 and tell your neighbor. He did it big. He did 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:55.760 it big. He did it big. God is a show off. 0:30:56.040 --> 0:30:58.600 He doesn't give you a boat. He parts the water. 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.640 He said, I want you to know this one's on me, 0:31:02.200 --> 0:31:05.040 so you'll give me the glory. So you'll give me 0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:08.760 the praise. Pharaoh's not gonna let you go unless a 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:12.800 mighty hand compels him. So guess who has a mighty hand. 0:31:13.360 --> 0:31:18.040 My God's got a great, big hand and a long arm, 0:31:18.480 --> 0:31:27.640 and he can do big things. Big things. Don't ever 0:31:27.720 --> 0:31:30.840 let people make you feel bad. If you're an exuberant praiser. 0:31:31.200 --> 0:31:35.400 A big God gets a big praise on the level 0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:38.040 that he did it. That's how loud. I want to 0:31:38.160 --> 0:31:50.560 let him know. I apprecid big things, big things. He 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:54.400 opened a living way. You understand how much I survive. 0:31:54.880 --> 0:31:58.080 You understand how many times I almost gave up. You 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:01.920 understand what I went through. It's a miracle. I'm sober. 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:05.800 It's a miracle. I'm safe. It's a miracle. I'm preaching. 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:10.680 It's a miracle. You're crazing. It's a miracle. We survived 0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:17.480 here because he brought me, and he bought me with 0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:29.760 his redeeming blood. Go Ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:33.040 go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Big things, big things. 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:36.200 Big things might not be big to you. Maybe you 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.840 grew up in a different household. Maybe it's no big 0:32:38.840 --> 0:32:41.000 deal to you. But it's a big thing to me. 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:43.720 It's a big thing. The breath is a big thing 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:51.320 to me. It's a big thing to me. Don't you 0:32:51.360 --> 0:33:00.000 love him? Don't you love him? Don't you love him? 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:04.240 That after he did a big thing and kept them alive, 0:33:05.960 --> 0:33:09.720 he has to teach them about the little things so 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:15.640 that they can live. Now, let's praise him for the 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:31.959 little things, the little levitical things like geckos, chameleons, little things. 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:35.800 He said, I'm gonna do a big thing the Red Sea. 0:33:36.120 --> 0:33:38.440 I'm gonna do a big thing, bring you out of Egypt, 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:41.560 big things, and then I'm gonna get you in the 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:46.040 wilderness because I'm bringing you into something even bigger. Don't 0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:47.840 just think about money, don't just think about houses, don't 0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:50.760 just think about cars. That's great. I'm gonna use you 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:53.800 to be a blessing to the whole world. That's what 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.200 he's preparing. These are the people of God. These are 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:00.280 the people of God. We are the people of God. 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:03.360 We are brought out of the kingdom of darkness and 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:08.719 into the marvelous light. That's who you are. So he said, 0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:12.800 I gotta teach you what to do with the little 0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:16.359 things so you can know as you go in your 0:34:16.360 --> 0:34:20.640 life who you really are and what I called you to. Yeah, 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:22.319 you're gonna get to heaven one day and you're gonna 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:27.640 be perfectly awesomely perfect or perfect and perfect ful. But 0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:31.279 here I need to be taught in a process because 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:34.560 I'm not dead yet, and neither are the things I 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:39.520 struggle with, and neither is the devil. Now one day. 0:34:39.760 --> 0:34:44.840 Spoiler alert that Weasel is gonna be cast down into 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:49.000 the Lake of Fire. No, no, I saw it. You 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.640 were like, wait, no, the devil isn't a weasel. The 0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:54.960 devil is a lion. He's a roaring lion. He is 0:34:55.480 --> 0:35:01.280 like a roaring lion. He's loud, but compare to the 0:35:01.320 --> 0:35:07.080 God that I serve, he's little. He's loud. You're not 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:10.799 gonna make it, but he's little. If God drowns him 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:13.520 in the Red Sea, I bet you will make it. 0:35:13.760 --> 0:35:16.560 I bet I can make it. I bet I'm gonna 0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:23.279 do it. I'm not dead yet. So now we are 0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:26.960 in this mortal playing dealing with little miracles and mechanics 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:29.600 of trying to figure out should my kids go here? 0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:31.960 And should my parents do that? And could I put 0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:34.000 them in a nursing home or should they come live 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:36.600 with me? And I need God to teach me in 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:41.480 the process of my life, just like you taught them. 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:45.680 I was comforted that the god of the dramatic Red 0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:50.600 Sea ten plagues is also the god of the details. 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:58.240 The god of the dramatic is the god of the details. 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:04.640 Say it out loud, teach me, Laura, teach me what 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:11.080 to do with the weasels. I can't pick on all 0:36:11.120 --> 0:36:14.160 of these animals. I'm not trying to turn this into 0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:19.960 a science class. I hate science. Delete that out of 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:23.160 the tape. That's gonna skill viral somehow. Look at all 0:36:23.200 --> 0:36:26.480 these little vermin in the text those verse twenty nine, 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:30.040 back where I started. Of the animals that move along 0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:34.640 the ground. Now this word is sarros. It means they 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:37.759 move and they multiply. These animals that he lists, he 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:39.759 already talked about the hoofs. He already talked about the 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:41.799 cut He already talked about the fish, He already talked 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:44.279 about the insects, He already talked about the birds. Now 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:48.080 he says about these sorrows, the animals that move along 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:50.120 the ground. Now, listen what this means. This is awesome. 0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:54.160 This is awesome. Leviticus is so good. It means that 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:59.959 they're commonly found, and they multiply rapidly. If not, don't 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:07.279 with my hand to heaven. While I was trying to decide, God, 0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:12.000 is this sermon stupid or should I appreciate it? A 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:16.160 little frog started hopping across the room I was studying it. 0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:20.359 I said, all right, God, I appreciate I got you. 0:37:20.440 --> 0:37:22.479 I don't need a whole plague of frogs. I saw 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:25.880 that happen in Exodus. Nah, God, you don't have to 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.600 send anymore. It was a confirmation. It was a confirming 0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:32.320 word for me that like that, like that little frog, 0:37:32.440 --> 0:37:34.880 it's true, right, Abby, it's true. The frog jump. I 0:37:34.920 --> 0:37:36.120 called her down and I said, I just need a 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:40.279 witness to this that I got a Littleviticus eleven. It's saying, 0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:41.919 don't eat the get go and don't eat the comming. 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:45.040 And here comes a little frog and we got him 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:48.120 out safely, and we didn't eat him, and we didn't 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:52.840 kill him, and he's off somewhere repopulating and replenishing my backyard. 0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:56.600 No no, no, no, no, no no, no. What's the point. 0:37:56.640 --> 0:38:01.680 What's the point. It's the little things. It's the little things. 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:07.000 It's the little things in your life that you remember 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:10.959 as great moments. It's the little things in your life 0:38:11.640 --> 0:38:15.080 that lead you down dark paths. It's the little things. 0:38:16.239 --> 0:38:22.400 God does big things and little things, and the little 0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:30.200 things you can do all things. You can do small 0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:39.560 things as well. What about it of the animals that 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:41.520 move along the ground, you know, the ones that multiply, 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:44.200 the ones that run around, reproduce. There's little animals on 0:38:44.200 --> 0:38:45.440 the ground. God said, I'm gonna show you what to 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:47.839 do with these? Don't these are unclean for you? Verse 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:52.200 twenty nine. Verse twenty nine. The weasel, that's the one 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:56.879 I want to use. That weasel. God said, don't eat 0:38:56.920 --> 0:39:00.640 the weasel. You can't eat the weasel. It's like, okay, 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:03.560 I'm good God. I mean, look at this guy. I 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.680 don't want to eat this. You got him. We picked 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:11.480 out a picture of the weasel. Yeah, man, I'm not 0:39:11.520 --> 0:39:17.840 trying to eat him. Is that awful? I put that 0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:19.279 up because I thought you might be gett hungry, and 0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:20.680 I wanted to spoil your appetise, so you listen to 0:39:20.760 --> 0:39:25.759 the rest of the sermon. Look at that weasel. Lit sneaky. 0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:29.239 That guy is a serial killer. I just looked him up. 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:35.360 He could get in a small place and then, oh, 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:38.960 look at it. He's got those eggs. Look what he's 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:40.680 trying to do to those eggs. Look what he's trying 0:39:40.680 --> 0:39:42.440 to do to that thing that hasn't been born yet. 0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:51.120 Look at that weasel. Y'all are on board with Leviticus, now, 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.279 are you? Because you do need to know how to 0:39:54.320 --> 0:39:57.800 deal with the weasel, don't you. You do need to 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:00.640 learn how to deal with the weasel, because you got 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:09.400 a weasel called worry that while God is speaking his 0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:12.480 word to you, say amen in Portuguese when it gets 0:40:12.520 --> 0:40:15.360 through on this interpretation, because I need to hear an amen. 0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:18.280 I need to hear an amen. That weasel, that weasel, 0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:22.000 that weasel. No, he's not just leaving you alone. He's 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:26.520 trying to steal what God spoke. Now I know you 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:29.440 think I'm out of context. It's not talking about that 0:40:29.520 --> 0:40:33.200 kind of weasel. It's talking about everything in your life 0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:36.600 to try to distinguish, like the enemy will plant a 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:39.560 seed in your mind. Right you say, okay, well this 0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:41.400 is gonna go wrong. And have you thought about this? 0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:43.040 And did you hear what they said about that? And 0:40:43.080 --> 0:40:45.000 it's a recession of recession of recession or recession of 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:47.200 recession of recession of recession of recession. You have thought 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:50.319 about resurrection in about three months because all you've been 0:40:50.320 --> 0:40:54.399 reading about is recession. So now that weasel got right 0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:59.120 in there in your space, your little space where God 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:03.120 does great things, and he eats through the potential of 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:06.600 what God speaks. So what do you do with the weasel? 0:41:06.680 --> 0:41:09.239 God said, don't eat it? What do you do with 0:41:09.280 --> 0:41:12.239 the weasel God said, put it off limits? What do 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:14.400 you do with those little thoughts that come up a 0:41:14.440 --> 0:41:20.640 million miles an hour? And you know that's a good 0:41:20.719 --> 0:41:25.080 question to be asking. Enemy will weasel his way into 0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:34.799 your marriage. He'll weasel his way into your business, gets 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:37.960 you to start cutting corners and stuff like that. Yeah, 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:43.600 I know how he works. I'm a I'm a weasel expert. 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:53.280 Weasel'll try and keep you from worshiping God. No weasel. 0:41:54.640 --> 0:41:56.279 The Lord some a list a lot of things that 0:41:56.320 --> 0:42:00.800 will multiply rapidly in your life, small things, moving sorrows, 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:03.120 and I'm gonna show you what to do with them 0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:08.960 so I can keep doing big things. God still has 0:42:09.000 --> 0:42:13.320 big things for me. I felt chills on my body 0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:19.440 when I said it. God still has big things for me, 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:23.000 Things that are bigger than my intellect, things that are 0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:29.080 bigger than my imagination, exceedingly abundantly above all I ask, 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:35.319 or imagine, the seed of God's potential lives inside of me. 0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:39.440 I say it again for the people who who really 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:42.520 believe what the Word of God says. The seed of 0:42:42.719 --> 0:42:46.560 God's potential lives in me. I mean, think about it. 0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:50.240 Here are people in Leviticus who have been through Egypt, 0:42:50.520 --> 0:42:53.359 have been through the Red sea, who started with a 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:57.680 man named Abraham. All out of one man came millions 0:42:57.719 --> 0:43:00.960 of people because God said, I will bless you and 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:04.399 multiply you. And Abram was waiting. We preached about him 0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:06.719 for two weeks a while back. We preached about him 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.879 for two weeks. How he was ninety nine, and God 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:12.120 gave him the promise when he was a hundred. And 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.400 I preached on keep it a hundred. But can I 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:17.400 keep it a hundred with you? Abraham said, my wife's 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:21.000 womb is as good as dead, and so is my body. 0:43:21.200 --> 0:43:23.600 And my body is as good as dead, because I'm 0:43:23.680 --> 0:43:27.080 ninety nine. But then something got inside of Abraham and 0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:30.239 kicked inside of Abraham, because see the seed that was 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:33.360 inside of him was greater than the limitation that was 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:36.920 on him. So something got inside of Abraham, and he 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:39.759 looked in the mirror. But then he looked at the stars, 0:43:40.040 --> 0:43:43.279 and he talked to himself and his situation. But then 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:46.480 he talked to God, and God reminded him of the promise. 0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:49.720 And Apram said, I'm old, but I'm not dead yet. 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:52.239 I think he said it with no teeth all right 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:55.920 there yet I'm not tedy yet, I'm not dead yet. 0:43:56.120 --> 0:43:59.600 I'm not done yet. I'm not tedy yet. It's not 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:04.719 over yet. I'm not dead. God's not done. If I'm 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:09.320 not dead, God's not done. Greater things are still a 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:18.520 come dealing it. Thank you God, Thank you God. Think 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:22.360 about everything that the seed survived. That's what he said. 0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:26.239 The Seed of Abraham became the nation of Israel. I 0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.080 feel like preaching. We've been through the Red Sea, we've 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:32.040 been through the wilderness. We're going to the Promised Land. 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:34.919 But watch this whistle, he said, he said, he said 0:44:35.000 --> 0:44:37.120 verse now, now, I'm ready form a key verse. Ready 0:44:37.120 --> 0:44:41.840 for the key verse, verse thirty seven. If you see 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:51.880 a carcass a dead thing. Now, the rule of thumb 0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:55.120 is don't touch dead stuff. And that's a good idea 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:57.880 just in general. Why do you seek the living amongst 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:01.920 the dead? And you go to send that text to 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:04.440 that relationship that you know God has brought you out of. 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:11.680 Don't touch dead stuff. Because I worked for a pet 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:15.120 cemetery when I was sixteen, A lady called and said, 0:45:15.160 --> 0:45:17.080 can you come get my cat? My cat is dead. 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:19.759 We said we'll be there in thirty minutes. She said, no, 0:45:20.040 --> 0:45:21.839 I want you to get him tomorrow morning. I want 0:45:21.880 --> 0:45:24.720 to spend one more night with my cat in the bed. 0:45:29.160 --> 0:45:33.560 Why y'all acting shock? You're in the bed with some 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:41.080 dead stuff too. Don't make me pull up your search history. 0:45:41.080 --> 0:45:43.399 Don't make me do it. Don't make me do it. 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:49.600 I'll come down there and setch a phone. What do 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:52.239 I do with the dead thing? Now? Watch this? I'm 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:55.640 almost done. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:57.239 I'm almost done. But I'm not done yet. I'm not 0:45:57.239 --> 0:45:58.640 done yet. I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:00.640 I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet yet. I'm 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:05.239 not done yet. If a dead thing's a carcass, a 0:46:05.280 --> 0:46:09.160 carcass of a saurus, a thing that moves and multiplies. 0:46:09.400 --> 0:46:14.239 If a dead thing, if it falls, well I don't 0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:17.880 have it memorized. Y'll put it back up. If it 0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:32.160 falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they 0:46:33.160 --> 0:46:42.600 the seeds are still clean. So God said, have you 0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:46.560 ever had something die on you? Have you ever had 0:46:46.600 --> 0:46:49.440 a dream die on you? Have you ever had an 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:52.160 idea to die on you? Have you ever had an 0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:55.320 opportunity die on you? Have you ever had your body 0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:58.000 start to fail on you? Have you ever had your 0:46:58.040 --> 0:47:00.399 hopes start to die on you. Have have you ever 0:47:00.480 --> 0:47:03.600 had something you idealized for your future die on you? 0:47:04.160 --> 0:47:06.959 Have you ever had a plan die on you? If 0:47:07.040 --> 0:47:10.839 something has died on you, God wants you to know 0:47:11.280 --> 0:47:15.520 that what dies on you is nothing compared to what 0:47:15.719 --> 0:47:19.440 God put in you. So the seed, you'll help meself. 0:47:19.840 --> 0:47:24.480 So the seed still has what it needs to go 0:47:24.680 --> 0:47:28.799 into the ground and come up better. God said, you're 0:47:28.880 --> 0:47:32.359 coming up better. I know what you've been through. But 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:37.080 you're not done cause you're not dead yet. It's still 0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:41.000 a seed, is still a gift, is still a breath, 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:48.040 is still a praise is still gonna happen. Just the 0:47:48.280 --> 0:47:56.919 seed is bigger then the way sol is not dead yet. 0:47:57.400 --> 0:48:03.080 Shout it that dead. Yeah, my dream not dead yet. 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:09.439 My vision not dead yet. The church not dead dead. 0:48:09.760 --> 0:48:21.120 Your children not said good, get the praise. You are 0:48:21.160 --> 0:48:26.800 a thousand people. You are a royal Pray soon God 0:48:26.960 --> 0:48:32.080 to declare the praises of him who brought me from 0:48:32.120 --> 0:48:38.200 a place, bought me with a price. Oh, I was 0:48:38.360 --> 0:48:44.120 seeking Deepen said, I was caught in a pattern. Buddy 0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:53.799 taught me, said the same will, sir, He's gonna do it. 0:48:54.880 --> 0:49:01.800 He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. Seven people 0:49:01.840 --> 0:49:03.919 say he's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's 0:49:03.960 --> 0:49:06.680 gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. 0:49:06.840 --> 0:49:09.680 He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's God, 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:16.800 He's God. He's been gone a long time. He's been 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:21.160 gone since Abraham started wobbling. He's been gone before you 0:49:21.360 --> 0:49:29.880 started walking. Man, you're not said, yeah, let everything that 0:49:30.080 --> 0:49:36.960 has brown. You know what to do. And he brought you, 0:49:38.440 --> 0:49:43.480 and he brought you, and he let you, and he 0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:52.840 ven you. The best me is yet to be because 0:49:52.920 --> 0:50:08.600 the seed is incorruptible. Thank you, Jesus. You couldn't die 0:50:09.640 --> 0:50:18.560 because God's not dying. COVID couldn't kill this church because 0:50:18.560 --> 0:50:25.960 we're still called to be His people. And no weasel, 0:50:26.360 --> 0:50:32.759 no devil, no rejection, no anxiety shall be able to 0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:42.680 stop what God starting. So tell that weasel, tell that weasel, 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:48.840 tell that weasel, get off my word. The seed, Jesus 0:50:48.840 --> 0:50:54.200 said in Luke chapter eight. The seed is the word 0:50:54.520 --> 0:51:01.200 of God. So if the weasel touches the seed, it 0:51:01.200 --> 0:51:06.640 doesn't spoil the seed. No dead thing. We've all had 0:51:06.680 --> 0:51:10.640 something die on us, all of us We've all had 0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:14.399 something die on us. But will you let what died 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:17.960 on you keep you from believing and moving forward of 0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:22.680 what God put in you. If the weasel touches the seed, 0:51:23.719 --> 0:51:27.600 get the seed, Snatch that seed back from that dead weasel, 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:30.600 and go forward and sew it, and go forward and 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:33.080 build it, and go forward and believe it, and go 0:51:33.160 --> 0:51:35.680 forward and achieve it, and go forward and do it 0:51:35.840 --> 0:51:43.640 in My name. Not dead yet, The weasel's dead, not 0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:46.600 the seed. As a matter of fact, the seed hasn't 0:51:46.640 --> 0:51:50.040 even been planted yet. That's why it's still clean. Because 0:51:50.080 --> 0:51:54.880 God has been saving you. That's why he brought you, 0:51:56.200 --> 0:52:02.480 brought you, and I don't care what what little thing 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:05.959 in your life. As a matter of fact, I don't 0:52:05.960 --> 0:52:08.600 mean this to be corny. I want to wage war 0:52:08.640 --> 0:52:12.279 against whatever it is, that dead thing, that weasel, that 0:52:12.320 --> 0:52:17.960 dead thing. The living word of God is greater than 0:52:18.000 --> 0:52:28.839 that dead thing. You don't believe me. Ask Glazarus. When 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:32.919 Jesus said the word come forth, the dead thing got 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:38.440 up again. Ask Ezekiel. Can these bones live you alone? Lord? 0:52:38.560 --> 0:52:42.719 No drive alls hear the word of the Lord. You're 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:47.360 not dead yet. God is raising an army. Dude, God 0:52:47.440 --> 0:52:52.239 is building up believers. God is breaking generational curtsys. God 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:55.960 is moving his covenant forward in the ark. We are 0:52:56.040 --> 0:53:03.480 the church and the James of Hell will not prevailing. Singing, singing, singing, 0:53:06.960 --> 0:53:22.880 go I said yeah, But I said, yeah, We're not. 0:53:23.120 --> 0:53:39.920 Say let's know it, this is funny, said drop drops 0:53:39.920 --> 0:53:50.680 here the word now, drop as here the word there. Listen. Well, 0:53:50.680 --> 0:53:53.120 thanks for joining us today for the message, and we 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:55.759 trust that God spoke to you right where you are 0:53:56.280 --> 0:53:58.800 as we're in this year end season. If God is 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:01.480 speaking to your life and you'd like to begin tithing 0:54:01.760 --> 0:54:04.279 or give above and beyond, we would invite you to 0:54:04.320 --> 0:54:07.680 head over to Elevationchurch dot org. 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