Not Here

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.680 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.520 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.000 I want you to give out ten hugs all around you. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.080 Make everybody in your section feel so welcome. Tell them 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.160 I'm so glad you're in church today. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.360 Roll call who made it online? Right now? 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.599 Let us know your name, your country. I'm pulling out 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:41.360 my phone. I'm checking the role. Hey, Rai's in the 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:42.520 house front row. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.159 Good to see you, a ray man. What are you 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.600 doing over there? That's not your seat? He never sits there. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.520 What are you doing? 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.920 Yeah? How'd you get over there? 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.360 It is gonna throw off the entire cosmic balance of 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.240 my preaching if you are sitting there instead of there. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.399 I'm not telling the person down there to trade seats 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:08.720 with you. 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.320 But you got big shoes to fill right there. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:19.759 Yeah, in the jersey in the Washington Commander's jersey. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.280 Big shoes to fill. That's my guy right there. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.280 But apparently he's holding a town on this side today. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.559 So who do I have over here on this side 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.759 of the road. Come on, who came to worship God? 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.480 Get a word from him, hear from him, Worship him, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.800 glorify him, put our attention on him. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.600 Feels good to give God all the glory, doesn't it. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.600 I have a tattoo on my back that says cavad. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.080 It's the Hebrew word for weight w e i g ht, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.880 and it also means glory. And I found out when 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.960 I try to take the glory for myself, I have 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:01.120 to carry the weight myself. But when I give God 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.360 the glory, I feel like I can move better. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.720 I feel like I can stand longer. I feel like 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.080 I can make him all right. A few shout outs 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.680 for online, y'all remain standing. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.440 Forgive us if we're a little loopy. Kind of goes 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.000 along with my series. We're talking about same lies, new loops. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.080 We're a little loopy because we just recorded thirteen songs 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:29.639 of brand new worship melodies and anthems. I'm so excited 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:35.760 that's one of them. Call God, Jesus be the Name. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.040 Just so much good stuff we're gonna be putting in 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.240 your ears, in your heart, in your life, in your car, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.200 gonna be playing these songs in your kids nursery. Some 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.800 of y'all got a kid on the way in twenty 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.359 twenty six. I got some anthems coming for your baby. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.040 Some of y'all gonna be pushing that baby out to 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.920 one of these new songs. Not prophesia right now gonna 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:57.919 be good too. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.960 I'm gonna be calling God and call him on. Everything 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.720 is going to be really good, all right. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:09.400 Shout outs from Adam from Oklahoma, Priscilla from Texas, Someone's joint. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.800 Someone came to church from Kenya today. Praise the Lord. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:22.880 Kenya, Cape Town, Palestine, Madagascar, Cape Co, Chicago. Of all 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.960 the places I've said, which one would you most like 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.400 to go to if you could be transported? 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:32.320 Right now? I read a few more where else. Somebody said, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.800 just not here, that's horrible out here. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.119 Lewis, Hello, Lewis, Hello from Maryland. Anyway, you get the point. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:43.760 Let's welcome our Epham all. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:44.240 Over the world. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.240 Post watching it a later time, I want to get 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:49.400 right into the word. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.720 If it's all right with you, Raise the Lord. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.480 The Lord spoke something to my heart for our next 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.040 installment on same lies, New Loops. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.360 Soh on my graphic real quick. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.000 It kind of looks like an infinity loop and zoom 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.040 out so everybody can see it at the campuses. Please, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.920 I'm trying to get you out of these things that 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.320 go on in your mind that keep you from meeting 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.320 with God and keep you from believing what He says 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.080 about you. And to do that, we got to get 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.040 you out of the thought patterns. The renewal of your 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.200 mind is not a one time event. Salvation is Jesus 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.640 saves you as done, is paid for, it's finished. But 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.200 the renewal of your mind is not a one time event. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.200 It is a moment by moment decision. So when we 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.520 get into God's word, when we worship God like you've 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.240 done today, go ahead and give yourself a hand, because 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.719 you made a new loop today. As you were worshiping God, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.400 you were joining the angels around the throne of God, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:54.000 singing Holy, Holy, Holy. And today for this installment, the 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.000 Lord led me to Psalm one hundred and twenty. We've 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.919 been sharing from a lot of the Psalms because the 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:58.760 psalms speak to. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.960 The heart such a unique way. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.800 This is one of fifteen songs that is categorized as 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.360 a song of a sent a sent meaning going up, 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.200 because literally they would be sung as the people were 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.440 going up to Jerusalem for their pilgrimage to worship the 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.320 Lord for all of the different feasts that they would celebrate. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.680 Some were written by David, some by his son Solomon, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.159 and some by an unknown author. They were designed to 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.520 be sung not only along the way, but on those 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.840 fifteen steps going up to the temple, and there were 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.320 fifteen of them. So it's really beautiful sometimes to understand 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.520 that God has given us a song for every season, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.440 and this is a song of a sin. And go 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.839 ahead and tell your neighbor, just go ahead and prophesy 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.159 over them, say you're going up today. Put it in 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.600 the chat, say I'm going up today. Yeah, A song 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.760 of a sense. How many of you have your Bible? 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.400 And it says that over the heading, it says a 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.239 song of a sense. Right, So here's what he says. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.919 In my distress, I called to the Lord and he 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.800 answered me, y'all, don't have anything you're happy that God 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:15.000 answered you about, not one thing, not even just you 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.039 had peanut butter in the pantry this week and you 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.599 wanted it and you put it on that cracker and 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.800 it tasted real good, and it didn't get stuck on 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.800 the roof of your mouth. Come on, how many have 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.480 at least one thing that God. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:29.920 Did for you? Praise the Lord, he said. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.919 In my distress, I called to the Lord, and he 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.120 answered me, I'm going to read the full psalm for context. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.080 He says, deliver me, o Lord, from lying lips from 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:44.560 a deceitful tongue. Same lies new loops. Verse three, What 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.359 shall be given to you, and what more shall be 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:46.880 done to you? 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.240 You deceitful tongue. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.840 A warrior's sharp arrows with glowing coals of the broom tree. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.560 Woe to me that I sojourn in meshek, that I 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.640 dwell among the tints of Kdar. Too long have I 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.679 had my dwelling among those who hate peace? 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.760 Wow? Does that, Firse mean you should delete Instagram? I 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:09.200 don't know. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.040 Too long have I had my dwelling among those who 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.600 hate peace? I am for peace, but when I speak, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.760 they are for war. Now go back to verse one. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.200 Now that you've heard the whole thing, and let's make 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:28.000 a loop. In my distress, I called to the Lord 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.920 and he answered me. Today I'm going to talk about 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.080 the lie that the devil has been telling you. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.400 This message is called not here, not here. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.560 Just reach around and tell seven people on your way 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.200 to your seat not here, not here. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:50.200 You may be seated not here. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.600 Oh, I want to tell you why I'm here today, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:57.880 Why I'm in the pulpit today. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.000 You like, isn't it? You're well? Not every single Sunday. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.920 I would have scheduled this Sunday off because of all 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.480 of the intensive labor around our songwriting. But number one, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.000 I thought, if the team's gonna be here, I'm going 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.120 to be here. But number two, I thought you needed 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.480 this next word in the series. And I didn't want 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.520 the devil to disrupt the flow of what we're doing 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.920 because I really feel like we've got some momentum, and 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.480 I'm really here in testimonies, and I really feel like 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.640 there's something special that he's doing in some of our 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.120 minds and delivering us from the devil that keeps us 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.360 from making decisions and keeps us from rejoicing and keeps 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:32.080 us depressed. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.400 So I wanted to keep that going. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:38.040 But thirdly, I'm here because it's my son Graham's eighteenth 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:49.240 birthday today. Occasionally I tell a little bit about our 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.079 family because of a scripture that Paul said, we were 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.480 delighted not only to share the Gospel of God with you, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.319 but our lives as well. And in this pulpit a 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.120 lot of times I get things wrong, but will and 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.439 to do that sometimes because if I never get it wrong, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.600 I can never get it real. So I also share 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.360 from my own heart and my own life of the 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.480 things that I'm processing, as well as what the Bible 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.200 says about other people's process. And Graham found out that 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.760 I was going to take this week off because of 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.120 the scheduling of our recording so I could focus on that. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.680 And he said, wait a minute. Sunday the twenty eighth 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.079 is my birthday. And Mom said we can get a guest, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.520 and Graham said, no, guest, it's my birthday. And we 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.800 started naming some of his favorite preachers and said, well 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:37.480 we could have. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.960 And we named him and he said no, no, no, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:39.360 no no. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.960 And Holly even said, how about if I preach and 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.360 Graham goes, it's my eighteenth birthday? 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.800 I want Dad. I want Dad. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:56.240 So Graham, you got me. Whatever happens, we're in this together. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.960 If the ship goes down, come help me bail them. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.120 He wanted me and he got me. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.480 And there was a moment a few years ago in 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.320 Graham's life, where as every parent does, I was teetering 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.480 on the edge of not trusting God because as he 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.160 was starting to move into manhood, I started to worry 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.440 about the temptations. And it's one thing to protect your kids. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.640 It's one thing to pray for your kids. It's another 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.080 thing to become so possessive about your kids that you 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:38.720 don't realize that they were gods before they were yours. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.720 And we all can relate to that, either as a 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.360 child or a parent. All the kids are like, did 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:45.880 you hear that? 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.760 Mom? I am God's God said I could come home 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.480 at twelve thirty, not eleven thirty. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.560 Don't use my sermon like a weapon later. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.960 But I was sitting down one Saturday to prepare a 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.120 sermon for our church, and I was so worried about Graham, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.360 and not because he had done anything wrong. It was 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.240 just that transitional season. Remember I taught you last week, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.160 When you vent about a situation without God in it, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.520 you start to invent scenarios in your head. And so 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.440 nothing was really even wrong. Yet there was just the 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.480 possibility of him getting on a bad path, and it 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:28.240 started to possess my mind. Right now, the Lord spoke 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:29.640 to me, what do you mean when you say that? 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.880 It was an impression that was louder than a conversation. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:41.719 It was an impression that was deeper than a text message. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.760 And all I felt from God was that he said, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.760 I've got Graham. It was a short sentence, but I 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:57.160 knew I heard it. I've got Graham. Immediately a flood 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:01.000 of peace filled my heart, my soul. I got back 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.440 to work, and since that day he has not sinned. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.880 I can't say that, but it's funny. You said, I 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.160 get Dad on my birthday and God told me I 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.880 got Graham. And you know, he's doing pretty good, y'all. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.920 He's doing pretty good. Started a little Bible study. He's 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.880 doing pretty good. Now I'm getting emotional on I'm for 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.040 getting the outline of my message. Will y'all pray for 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.960 me please that I could just preach this from. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:37.800 Some one twenty. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.480 He started a Bible study in the house, and about 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.120 six to eight of y'all would come over, right, and 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.360 he started recruiting me on Sunday nights to come teach 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.640 you a little bit and you talk about loopy after 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.640 I've preached on Sunday. I definitely don't know Hebrew and 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.960 Greek words. I can barely speak English. And so I 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.960 go up there and try to help the boys. And 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.720 you know, when you're talking to the high school boys, it 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.160 really revolves around a few struggles over and over again 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:13.680 what they're dealing with. And one of those conversations that 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.680 comes up is how do I deal with the times 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:23.000 when I have a spiritual high but then it goes away? 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.880 And how do I keep the spiritual high? 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.400 Well, of course I told this person who asked this question, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.599 I'm not interested in teaching you to keep the high. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.959 I want to teach you how to look for God 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:46.640 in the lows, because if you can look for Him 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.280 in the lows, you can only go so low. Because 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.040 one psalm says, if I make my bed in shield, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.760 you are there. If I make my bed in hell, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.920 you are there. Where shall I go from your prey? 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.400 Where shall I ascend? If I ascend to the heavens, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.640 you are there. If I descend to the hell, you 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.199 are there. If I say, surely the darkness will cover thee, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.960 surely light will become a night, to thee, for you 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.720 are there. Your presence is everywhere, so I want you 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.640 to look for God in the lows. Now, the contrast 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.520 we have in someone twenty. Why I thought it would 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.120 be so great for us to study together today is 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.200 because on one hand, this Psawmist is going up. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.040 He's going up to Jerusalem. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.280 Jerusalem is in the mountain region, so to go to Jerusalem, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.000 you go up every. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.720 Time a song of ascent. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.400 He's singing a song of a scent as he's going up, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.960 but it's also a song of lament, which is grief. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:52.200 So he's on his way, headed up to worship, but 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.680 there is something that is weighing him down as he walks. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.120 Every single person who is you're in this room today, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:06.000 on your way up to worship, on your way up 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.880 to lift your hands in praise God, on your way 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.800 over here, there was. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.840 Something that was weighing you down. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.400 It's surprising you don't have a flat tire from all 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.360 the weight that was in the car, with the tension 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.240 that is in your family and the tension that is 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.200 in your heart, and the tension of your faith and 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.800 your frustration. And I got this picture that we all, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.760 like the Psalmist, while we are on our way up. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.800 We are weighed down, and I want to tell you, Graham, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.080 and I want to tell you, my friend, that's normal. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.080 And learning to live with this. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:53.080 It's the ascent and the lament, all in the same song, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.760 all in the same room, all. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.080 On the same row, in the same mind. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.480 I could get you to think about something right now 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.640 that would make you so happy. You would start dancing. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.480 You would even forget that you don't know how to dance. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.960 You would forget you don't have any rhythm, and you 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.440 would I saw some of y'all doing it, Dearian alelujah, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:17.320 I saw it. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:18.360 It got you so happy. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.240 We start thinking about God and how he deserves the praise, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:22.440 and so happy. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.960 And then I could mention something else. If I really 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.640 knew you, if I could really. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.080 Get in your life for five minutes, I could say 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.480 something else, and you would be so heavy. Your hands 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.720 would drop, your head would drop, your heart would fall out. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.160 Because as I'm on the way up, it doesn't mean 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:43.080 I'm not wagh down. I never praise God because my 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.680 situation is perfect. And to wait for a perfect situation 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.200 to praise God, to wait for a perfect situation to 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.480 have peace that's a setup for the enemy. If you 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:59.000 procrastinate your praise or your peace until your situation is perfect, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:00.560 you'll never get the piece. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.080 Because I'm on my way up and I'm way down. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:07.760 And it was. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.720 Different in his time because listen to some of the 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.720 things he was dealing with. Verse two, he said, deliver me, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.200 oh Lord, from lying lips. Back in the Bible times, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:25.280 they had liars. And you know, we've evolved as a species, 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.080 but in those days there were rampant lies. You couldn't 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.000 even tell what was truth and what was a lie. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.840 You couldn't even tell if it was their real voice 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.040 or not, or if it was really their lips moving. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.480 Or Graham showed me a picture the other day or 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.920 a video of some lion jumping to the sky snatching 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.840 a baby lion from a bird of prey, and he's like, Dad, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.359 why are you crying? It was like about praying moms 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.879 jumping up and grabbing their young from the talons of 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.280 the enemy. And he saw tear in my eyes that Dad, 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.240 that's Ai. You are crying at Ai. It's not real, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.000 but it was powerful and it was good. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:01.879 You should look it up when I'm gone preaching. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.880 I don't even know what's real anymore, the man said, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:09.240 because on one hand, watch this, I'm going up. On 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.720 one hand, there are good things happening in my life. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.439 On one hand, I'm kind of excited about this new relationship. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.159 On one hand, I'm kind of excited about what I 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.160 sensed that God might be moving around. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.280 But on the other hand, there is something heavy. I'm 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.960 on the way up, and I'm way down. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.320 And I'm on my way to the House of God. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.639 But there's something waiting for me at home that I 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:34.480 have to deal with. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:36.440 So let me. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.639 Illustrate this with a picture. Okay, I thought of how 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.080 do I break this down? Not only for Graham's Bible study. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.240 Who's wondering, how do I stay in the youth camp 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.439 energy year round? Well, you know, kind of all of 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.440 us wish we could live in that youth camp energy 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.680 all year round, or at the very least at the 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.520 Sunday Morning energy year round. If we would all be 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.240 as nice to each other in our vehicles as we 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:02.160 are in. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.280 This church, what the world be like. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.760 It doesn't take much to get you acting like you 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.879 are not a Christian, does it? All I got to 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.840 do is put you in four doors with some glass 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.280 and aluminum, and you forget all about the presence. The 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:21.480 Lord is everywhere except your car, and in that space 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.800 all is forgiven. I thought about it like this. I 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.200 thought about the song we were singing earlier. We've got 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.960 this song that says, I call God on the mountain, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.560 I call God in the valley, I call God. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.280 On the good days. Don't forget those. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.800 Sometimes the moments of our victory make us more vulnerable 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.960 than the moments of our defeat, because sometimes in the 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.760 moment of defeat you're dependent on God. Sometimes in the 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.879 moments of your victory you pretend like He wasn't the 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:03.880 one who gave it to you. So it's a great song. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.720 Are y'all enjoying singing it? I call God on the mountain, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.080 I call God in the And then we name everything 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.159 where you could call God, because you could call him anywhere, 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:15.919 and you can put anything in there with two syllables. 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:18.040 It'll sing good. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.439 I call God in the kitchen, I call God in 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.440 the bathroom. You can't say that, yes, you can say 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.320 that the Lord can go where he wants to, and 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.040 he can do what he wants. He gave me a 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.160 lot of sermons in the bathroom. I call God everywhere. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.040 I call God in the shower. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.119 Some of us that's the only place we sound good singing, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.120 so we might as well call him in there, right. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.040 But here's what I wanted to show you. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.080 I wanted to show you that the mountain in the 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.639 valleys look like this, and if you ever go, just 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.760 put the first graphic please that if you go into 0:20:54.800 --> 0:21:04.000 a hospital and they check your heartbeat and it looks 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.919 like that, the good news is you're not going to 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.720 be in the hospital very long. You going somewhere else. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.280 But that's EKG. This is the one I wanted them 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.520 to put up first, because this is normal. This is 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.560 a normal heartbeat. I am going to say as little 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.919 about this as possible because there are nurses and doctors 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:27.199 that go to my church, and I don't want you 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:32.960 to judge me. Basically is telling me about the heartbeat, 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.040 and it's EKG. And those waves that you see, those 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:49.480 peaks and those valleys, that's what life looks like. Yeah, 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:54.920 y'all see point R. I call God on the mountain, 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.600 But do you see point S. 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:04.199 I call God in the Come on be. 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:11.399 The choir, y'all, And both of them are necessary for 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:19.600 life to be present, the ussent and the limit. I 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.640 had one just the other day. Man, you know how 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.000 it happens. You're feeling so good and you're feeling so 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:31.560 much God, and it takes one text message. One This 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:36.520 is how strong my faith is. One text message, and 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:40.200 I can go from trusting God to wanting to tear 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:42.879 into some Okay, Okay, I'm gonna come back behind the pulpit. 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.320 I can go from everything is so wonderful and I 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:51.200 love my neighbor and I love you Jesus. In fact, 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:53.800 I think I was singing and working on a worship 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:55.720 lyric when the text came through. 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:57.919 And as I'm looking for the lyric, here. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:01.960 Comes a text, a mean text text and unnecessary text, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.280 and all of a sudden, I felt the bottom drop out, 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:06.560 just like that, and I'm like, where did you go? 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.360 God? For the next hour, it got in my head. 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:11.159 Has this ever happened to you? 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.440 Y'all are looking at me so confused, just so quick, 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.120 just so offended. I was so offended that I just 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.159 I was having this moment with God and then boom 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:21.880 dropped down. 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:23.639 I went from put it back up there real quick, y'all. 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:28.040 I went from R to s, just like that. You 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:32.439 ever gone from R to S? Just like that. I 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:36.040 used to think God was R and the devil was S. 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:41.720 But I found out. 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:48.159 That in between the prayer and the answer is faith, 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:53.119 and faith is the substance of things hoped for and 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:56.160 the evidence of things not seen. You don't see your 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:59.479 heart beating, That's what the readout is showing you that 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:03.200 you were still here. Your heart is beating while I'm talking, 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.760 and you're still here. There are peaks and valleys in 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:10.719 your life while you are journeying and sojourning through this 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:12.760 pilgrim experience. 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:13.720 Of being a human. 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:16.640 Being a person, and you keep thinking it's not normal, 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:19.480 and you keep thinking that you're broken because you think 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:23.439 that Christianity is always riding the high. But the moment 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:26.160 that you learn that the God who is the God 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.800 of this is the God of that, and this is 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.560 what life looks like. It looks like I'm headed up 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:37.600 in one area and I'm way down in another. And 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:40.639 I'm headed up in one area and I'm way down 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.600 in another. And I got one foot up and I 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:46.879 got one foot down. And I'm doing better with my health, 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.800 but I'm doing worse in my mind and I'm doing 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.639 better with my money, but I'm doing worse with my time. 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.960 And here I am thinking that there's something wrong with me, 0:24:56.440 --> 0:25:00.159 when God wanted me to know that both steps are 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.919 ordered by the Lord, the one here the one there. 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:06.800 They are both ordered by the Lord. 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:08.880 Bring me my teaching, scream. 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:13.280 I gotta teach you about this because the enemy wants 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:17.000 you to think that God is here but not here. 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.679 But without here here does not happen. 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:27.600 So this message is designed to help you with your 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:31.040 mind today because you keep thinking, what's wrong with me 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:34.000 that it keeps dropping out? What's wrong with me that 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:36.639 I keep having to fight for this? What's wrong with 0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:39.359 me that I keep having to relearn the same lessons. 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.159 The transformation and renewal of your mind is not a 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:42.960 one time event. 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:46.560 You have to walk this out. You have to walk 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.639 this out. You have to walk this out one moment 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:50.280 at a time. 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:56.640 Because another thing I found out put the chart back up, yeah, 0:25:57.240 --> 0:26:02.679 is that not only are both of those important for 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:04.640 my heart to be Not only are both of those 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.080 important for me to know God as my shepherd in 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.280 the valley so I can praise Him as my provider 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:15.840 on the mountain, But all of those things are happening 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:22.000 at the same time. We used to talk about seasons 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:25.640 of blessing and seasons of burdens, right like, praise God 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:27.520 on the mountain and call God on the mountain, and 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.600 then when God's blessing you in season, and then when 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:32.399 you're in the valley season. If I went around the 0:26:32.440 --> 0:26:34.320 room today and asked, are you in a mountain season 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:35.119 or a valley season? 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:41.240 The only answer that would be appropriate is yes. So 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:42.159 let's try it. Class. 0:26:42.240 --> 0:26:44.280 Are you in a mountain season or a valley season? 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:49.560 You mean you can go from the valley to the 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:55.000 mountain in a moment with a text, with a thought, 0:26:56.680 --> 0:27:00.600 Because there is something to be said for seas where 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:05.640 God answers your prayers and you're looking at it. There's 0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:09.040 something to be said for seasons when you see no 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:10.600 proof that He heard your prayer. 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:14.000 And you're going by faith not sight. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:18.679 But what I realized looking at that heartbeat is that 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:21.840 those events are not months apart. 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:28.400 Those are moments apart. 0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:31.639 See, I thought, God will bless you real good for 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:33.320 about a month, and you'll be on the mountain for 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:37.239 a month. But God doesn't bless you a month at 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:41.080 a time. He blesses you a moment at a time. 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:44.160 And it is not. 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:48.520 Only the seasons that we need to celebrate, and not 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:50.159 only the seasons. 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:50.760 That we need to be strategic. 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:56.879 The Lord said to tell you think seconds, not seasons, seconds, 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:57.720 not seasons. 0:27:58.640 --> 0:27:59.120 Seconds. 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:02.000 As a matter of fact, this chart that is on 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:05.320 the screen right now, this chart is showing you what 0:28:05.440 --> 0:28:09.600 happens not in one second in your heart, but in 0:28:09.640 --> 0:28:10.840 a millisecond. 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:15.560 I had to study that. I know some certain things. 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:19.280 I know that a season is made up of about 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:22.680 three months. I know that a month is made up 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:25.960 of about four weeks. I know that a week is 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:28.840 made up of about seven days. I know that a 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:31.480 day is made up of well not about seven days, 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:34.880 exactly seven days, let's be clear about it. And those 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:37.320 days are made up of twenty four hours, and an 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:41.120 hour is made up of sixty minutes, and a minute 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:43.320 is made up of sixty seconds. But to get to 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:46.360 a millisecond, I had to find out that is one 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:50.400 one thousandth of a second that makes up a minute, 0:28:50.720 --> 0:28:53.920 that makes up an hour, that makes up a day, 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:56.480 that makes up a week, that makes up a month, 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.400 that makes up a season. And you keep trying to 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:03.520 handle things a season at a time. When God says 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:08.520 I am a God who beats insight of your heart, 0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:10.360 not every second. 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:13.280 Take that second and slice. 0:29:12.880 --> 0:29:18.040 It down to a thousand, and I am in every millisecond. 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:20.400 So the reason I praise. 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:23.880 Him isn't because I'm on the mountain non stop, but 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:27.520 it's that God can do a miracle in a millisecond. 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:32.880 Yeah, said it. I got a millisecond miracle working way. 0:29:32.760 --> 0:29:35.800 Making, coming in, keeping, never. 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:39.560 Leaving, never forsaking God. 0:29:41.720 --> 0:29:44.600 Give your neighbor five high fives and tell him he 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:46.120 could do it in a millisecond. 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:55.200 Doesn't this make sense to us? Don't we know now? 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:55.280 What? 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:57.880 Wow? I could go from the mountain. 0:29:57.560 --> 0:30:01.080 Up here to the valley, and for everybody who's self righteous, 0:30:01.080 --> 0:30:02.720 I bliss the Lord at all times. 0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:07.080 His phrase shall continually be on my mouth. Okay, Moses, when. 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:09.240 You come off the mountain, make sure you cover your 0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:10.040 face because. 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:11.120 You're not always shining. 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:14.000 And I can interview your family members and find out 0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:17.720 more details if I need to, But please be honest. 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:21.080 I'm on the mountain for a minute, but most of 0:30:21.160 --> 0:30:24.719 us are one spilled cup of coffee on our khaki 0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:27.920 breeches away from saying the name of the Lord in 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:29.520 a different way, because it. 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:32.360 Is not a one time event. 0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:37.520 And if you can go from the mountain to the 0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:41.600 valley in a millisecond, I wonder, can God bring you 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:46.280 from the valley. Come on, let's turn this thing around. 0:30:46.640 --> 0:30:50.040 Let's turn this thing around. Think of the goodness of 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:57.600 Jesus and oh that He's done for you, and command 0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:06.040 your soul cry out Hollah, thank you God for saving me. 0:31:07.760 --> 0:31:10.840 Yeah, come on, baseball team, praise God with me. 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:13.800 I'm glad you are in the house. You had to 0:31:13.920 --> 0:31:22.560 be here. God wanted you to get this word. So 0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:25.760 what it is? When you're here, you're like, oh, that's God. 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:30.200 The psalm is back to some I am not going 0:31:30.280 --> 0:31:32.520 to get to all this all week unless. 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:33.200 Y'all would like to. 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:35.000 Stay until about three pm. 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:40.440 That did not sound convincing. I'll plan on wrapping. 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:45.640 Up, he said. First one. In my distress, I called 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:53.719 to the Lord and he answered me past tense circle, 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:54.760 answered justin. 0:31:57.120 --> 0:31:57.840 How did he do that? 0:31:58.960 --> 0:32:03.520 He not even here in this room, but he hears 0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:08.080 what I said, and even though I can't see him, 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:12.760 he can do what I asked him to do from 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:15.200 a room where I cannot see him. 0:32:15.440 --> 0:32:17.240 With my eyes, he said. 0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:20.120 I called to the Lord and I couldn't see him, 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:25.920 but he answered me, tastings. Well, if he answered you, 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:29.120 then what is verse two all about? Deliver me, o Lord, 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:33.480 from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. Why does he 0:32:33.600 --> 0:32:37.200 say in verse one he answered me, and go on 0:32:37.280 --> 0:32:40.200 through the next six verses to describe a problem that 0:32:40.320 --> 0:32:41.400 is still waiting. 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:42.000 For him at home. 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:52.520 I tell you next week, y'all want it today, all right. 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:54.960 I'm not like the Lord. I won't make you wait, 0:33:00.360 --> 0:33:05.680 all right. The lie is this. You know, God is 0:33:05.720 --> 0:33:08.440 with you, but the devil wants you in this loop. 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:14.760 Not here now. 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:18.360 In the Old Testament, the temple was in Jerusalem, right, 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:20.080 we are the temple of the Spirit of God. Now, 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:24.680 God is not in this room until you show up. 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:26.520 Yes he is. 0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:28.840 He's in the empty room. You know what I mean. 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:36.480 God does not fill buildings, He feels people. But in 0:33:36.520 --> 0:33:38.760 the Old Testament, construct the glory of the Lord would 0:33:38.760 --> 0:33:40.200 fill the temple, so they had to go to a. 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:42.720 Location to worship. So now get the contrast with me. 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:47.960 He's going, I'm headed here to worship, but I'm holding 0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:51.040 some stuff as I do, and I'm in between. 0:33:52.320 --> 0:33:55.640 I'm in between a battle and a blessing all in 0:33:55.680 --> 0:33:59.480 one heart beat. You keep thinking the season is going 0:33:59.560 --> 0:34:01.000 to change, It's going to be all mountains. 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:09.440 I hope not, because then you're dad right, then your 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:15.080 faith will flat line. And God's going to give you 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:17.480 some of these and He's gonna give you some of 0:34:17.520 --> 0:34:20.799 these and you will have to learn to praise him 0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:23.560 and worship him in the same heartbeat that your heart 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:28.239 is broken, and praise him and call him holy anyway. 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:29.920 And the enemy will say, not here. 0:34:29.960 --> 0:34:31.759 You can't praise him here, not in this hospital, not 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:33.719 in this prison, No, this rehab. When you get out, yeah, 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:35.520 when you get out, you can give a testimony. You 0:34:35.520 --> 0:34:40.800 can give a testimony right now. Because he's the master 0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:44.480 of the millisecond. When I put it online, I might 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:47.560 call it the master of the millisecond. He doesn't just 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:50.560 command the times and the seasons and creation from eternity. 0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:53.160 Not only is call and response built into the cadence 0:34:53.160 --> 0:34:54.600 of creation, but. 0:34:54.640 --> 0:34:56.960 In this moment, in this heart, he's showing. 0:34:56.800 --> 0:35:01.480 Me gooka gooker, I'm all of ita, go goa. I 0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:04.720 reveal myself in the rhythms of the ups, the downs, 0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:08.120 the ebbs, the flows, the yes, the nose, the leavings, 0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:09.880 the comings. I'm in all of it. 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:10.360 It's all me. 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:12.560 I'm in all of it. And the devil will say, well, 0:35:12.600 --> 0:35:18.200 God is not in this, not here, not here. And 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.600 when he says not here, have your confidence like the 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:24.960 Psalmist did, because it's so beautiful about the psalm is 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:27.840 that he says, God answered my prayer. But he doesn't 0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:33.840 even see the proof yet. The answer is in past tense, 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:36.560 but the trouble is in present tents. 0:35:39.440 --> 0:35:40.040 But he knows. 0:35:40.560 --> 0:35:44.480 Watch, just here's your new loop. The devil is telling 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:48.080 me God is not here. But I tell the devil, 0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:57.520 he heard last week I preached on he answered, And 0:35:57.560 --> 0:36:01.359 in that wonderful when the Lord answers, when you see 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:04.680 your kid leading the Bible study, it's a beautiful thing. 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:10.320 But between the prayer and the Bible study is a 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:15.799 stage called he heard. And I don't have the answer yet. 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:20.040 It's not here. The answer isn't here. I'm speaking to 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:23.840 somebody today and the answer isn't here. The healing isn't here, 0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:27.800 the result isn't here, the reconciliation isn't here, the proof 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.040 isn't here, and the enemy keeps trying to tell you 0:36:30.080 --> 0:36:32.759 what's not here. But in this moment it is so 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:36.839 vital and important for the health of your heart and 0:36:36.880 --> 0:36:40.400 the life of your faith that every time the enemy 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:43.000 points to an area and says God didn't do that yet, 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:44.120 how can you trust him? 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:46.880 That hasn't happened yet. And you are not whole. 0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:50.000 This is not complete yet, and so you cannot call 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:51.320 yourself a real Christian. 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:54.880 Every time he says not here, you remind yourself. 0:36:55.160 --> 0:36:58.480 But he hears me. When I pray, he heard me. 0:36:58.840 --> 0:37:02.200 When I prayed, he heard me. He's not hard of hearing. 0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:06.360 God hears me. He heard me. There is a space 0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:09.200 between prayed and answered, called heard. 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:13.200 And when you know God hears you, you have confidence. 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:17.640 First John chapter four, verse fourteen and fifteen says something 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:23.080 very interesting that if we know Verse John chapter five, 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:27.480 verse fourteen says something very interesting. This is the confidence 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:31.080 that we have in approaching God. If we ask anything 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:32.759 according to his will, shout it. 0:37:33.320 --> 0:37:35.480 He hears us. Let's read it again. 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:38.799 And if we have confidence in approaching God, we ask 0:37:38.920 --> 0:37:42.759 anything according to his will, he hears us. I can't 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:45.680 hear you up here. Say it again. He hears us. 0:37:45.760 --> 0:37:49.200 Better than Siri. He hears us better than the people 0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:51.640 advertising to you on your phone. When you're talking about 0:37:51.719 --> 0:37:54.040 lawnmowers and all of a sudden, a weed eater shows 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:58.040 up on your phone, he hears us. That's why God 0:37:58.120 --> 0:38:00.279 spoke to me when I was praying. He said, I've 0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:03.520 got Braham. But he did not tell me the timeline, 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:05.960 and he did not tell me that there wouldn't be lows. 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:09.959 And nobody knows what the future holds, and nobody knows 0:38:10.040 --> 0:38:12.399 what there will be in the next season. But I'm 0:38:12.440 --> 0:38:16.160 not serving God's season by season. I'm serving him step 0:38:16.239 --> 0:38:20.440 by step, second by second. And since he's the master 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:24.120 of the millisecond, I can trust him right now and 0:38:24.239 --> 0:38:25.360 know that he heard me. 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:29.759 Tell three people he heard you. Tell him he. 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:33.280 Heard you the first time. I'm gonna say that again, 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:36.560 he heard you the first time. Sometimes you keep asking 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:39.520 him to take things away, and he leaves them he 0:38:39.520 --> 0:38:42.040 heard you. He just isn't gonna take it away right 0:38:42.120 --> 0:38:44.680 now because he's gonna teach you something with it, and 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:47.319 after he gets done teaching you with it, you will 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:49.640 thank him for it. But that does not mean that 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:53.880 it's fun to go through the season called heard have 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:56.400 you ever left somebody on red on a text message? 0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:01.920 Have you ever left somebody unheard? In a common My 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:03.480 family picks on Holly all the time. 0:39:03.520 --> 0:39:07.520 They'll say, Mom will leave you unheard, meaning that they're 0:39:07.600 --> 0:39:10.160 just asking her what they want, telling her what they 0:39:10.239 --> 0:39:13.479 want like she's an uber driver, telling her what they want, 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:16.280 like she's some kind of servant to their every desire. 0:39:16.600 --> 0:39:19.000 And she's just looking right back at him. And they'll say, 0:39:19.000 --> 0:39:23.239 Mom will leave you unheard. And I'm thinking to myself, 0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:26.920 it's not that she didn't hear you, it's just that 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:31.280 she doesn't have to. She doesn't have to do everything 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:34.200 you ask. Look at first John five, verse fifteen. 0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:36.840 This is powerful. The Bible says, if we know that 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:38.759 he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:39.919 have what we ask of him. 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:43.560 But verse fourteen gives a condition. It says, if we 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:51.520 ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:55.759 this is the part we don't know because we think 0:39:55.800 --> 0:39:59.640 this is always his will. What if this is too. 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:06.400 Thank you so much. You don't know how much I 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:09.239 needed that encouragement. I'm gonna get your. 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:13.520 Seat on the front road next week, all right, He 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:16.120 says he heard me and I can't really describe it 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:17.120 to you like I want to. 0:40:17.440 --> 0:40:20.120 But another one of our songs says I sought the Lord. 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:25.560 And he answered. But there is a part that says 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:32.160 I sought the Lord and he heard, and he heard, 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:39.520 serve me so hot. I'm dropping stuff over here. And 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:42.000 I realized that when he hears my prayer, when he 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:44.319 hears my needs, when he hears my do you know 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:48.680 the Bible says that God even speaks the language called groaning. 0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:56.400 One scripture says that God can interpret your groans in 0:40:56.440 --> 0:41:01.080 the Holy spirit, will turn them into a prayer. God 0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:04.440 hears all those sounds you make. One Psalmis said, I 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:08.840 love the Lord. He heard my cry. Did you know 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:15.239 that God speaks grief, God speaks grown, God speaks pain 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:17.000 that you can't express in a word. 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:19.800 God gets in that stuff too. And the devil will say. 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:23.240 Not here, And God will say, right here, in your tears, 0:41:23.520 --> 0:41:26.840 in your fears, in your sorrow, in your worry, in 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:28.320 your anxiety, right there. 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:30.479 I'm coming right here, right here, right here, new loud, 0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:34.680 because he hears. 0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.480 And what I learned while I'm waiting for the answer 0:41:39.280 --> 0:41:45.960 is to trust that what he hasn't answered, he's holding. 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.600 He's holding the Bible says the Lord to keep your 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:57.960 tears in a jar. He's holding the Bible says that 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:01.120 he will keep your prayers in a like incense, like 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:05.600 a fragress. He's holding it, and he heard you. And 0:42:05.680 --> 0:42:11.120 sometimes he's holding it because he's got two hands. And 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:13.160 sometimes he needs to do this for you, and he will. 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:15.719 And sometimes he needs to do this for you, and 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:19.920 he will. And he's the same whether the hand is 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:27.160 like this or like this, that's all. And we don't 0:42:27.239 --> 0:42:30.799 like to be left unheard. We definitely don't like to 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:34.240 be left on hold? How long will you give somebody 0:42:34.280 --> 0:42:35.480 before you hang up on hold? 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:40.279 But you don't really have that option with God, do you. 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:43.399 You can't press star one three to speak to a supervisor. 0:42:43.440 --> 0:42:46.440 He ain't gotten a supervisor. You ask for God's supervisor. 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:50.359 You're gonna get God beside him, there is no other. 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:52.640 So what are you gonna do? I'm trusting that he's 0:42:52.640 --> 0:42:56.160 holding I got Graham. What else are you gonna do 0:42:56.200 --> 0:42:57.920 with your kid? But give him back to God? What 0:42:57.920 --> 0:42:59.360 else are you going to do with this thing? You 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:00.080 can't control it. 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:00.520 In any way? 0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:04.040 You might as well give it to him. I promise 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:08.399 you can walk up better if you let him hold 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:12.959 it at the bottom. You can go to work better, 0:43:13.000 --> 0:43:14.960 even if you don't like the job, if you let. 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:16.360 Him hold the part you can't control. 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:20.680 So I realize everybody say he heard Do you believe that? 0:43:20.800 --> 0:43:23.120 Do you believe he heard you? He heard you? 0:43:23.440 --> 0:43:25.839 And I don't profess to know why God does what 0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:28.759 he does. He's my supervisor. I can't speak to that. 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:31.560 But what I can see is times in my life 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:36.000 that he was holding a problem for me. And I 0:43:36.040 --> 0:43:38.760 cannot only see times where he was holding a problem, 0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:41.279 but I can look back. If I look back, I 0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:43.120 can't always see it when I'm in it, because it's 0:43:43.120 --> 0:43:45.720 this and it's that. But if I look back over 0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:49.800 my life, sometimes I see how he used a problem 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:51.279 to answer a prayer. 0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:56.400 Because he's holding both. He's holding both. 0:43:57.640 --> 0:44:00.400 Sometimes the stuff I was asking him to take away, Hey, 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:02.680 it's the stuff that he used to give me grace 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:04.759 for the thing that I didn't know what I was 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:05.600 gonna do about. 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:07.960 Am I right about it? 0:44:08.080 --> 0:44:11.120 Sometimes God sends a problem to answer a prayer. 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:12.120 But if you can. 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:15.160 Realize that he is big enough to hold both and 0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:16.279 you're not, and. 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:18.759 You don't have to be. But I called to. 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:22.680 The Lord and he answered my prayer. And the proof 0:44:22.719 --> 0:44:24.480 that he answered it isn't that. 0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:25.760 The problem went away. 0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:29.040 The proof that he answered it is that he came. 0:44:30.040 --> 0:44:33.560 He came. He didn't just give the answer. Get ready 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:35.840 to shout. He is the answer. 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:47.600 So not only am I saying, listen to me, Not 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:50.840 only am I saying to every person who's praying about 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:52.160 a situation that. 0:44:52.080 --> 0:44:53.760 He heard everybody's shout he heard. 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:57.680 And not only am I saying that he's holding everybody 0:44:57.719 --> 0:45:01.040 say he's holding Yeah, he's whole, he's holding it. 0:45:01.200 --> 0:45:02.240 He holds it all together. 0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:04.719 Not you. When Chad was up here earlier, I know 0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:06.600 you didn't get to see it online, but he said 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:09.279 those exact words to you. I was like, thank you 0:45:09.320 --> 0:45:12.720 for the confirmation. God, this is the word somebody needs. 0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:14.360 You're not holding it together. 0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:18.560 He is. And all things work together for the good 0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:20.200 of them that loved the Lord. 0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:24.279 So it's this and it's this, and it's this, and 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:27.120 it's this and it's this and it's this. And they're 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:29.760 not a season apart, and they're not a month apart, 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:30.480 and they're not. 0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:31.280 A minute apart. 0:45:31.480 --> 0:45:34.239 It is second by second bless the Lord. It is 0:45:34.360 --> 0:45:36.600 second by second the Lord has been good to you. 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:39.960 It is second by second his mercy endures forever. 0:45:42.239 --> 0:45:44.640 That's why I couldn't believe when I told you after 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:47.200 your dad's death. I didn't know what to say to you, 0:45:47.520 --> 0:45:49.680 and all I could think of to say was you 0:45:49.760 --> 0:45:54.400 have one job breathe next breath. 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:56.800 When your son. 0:45:56.680 --> 0:45:58.960 Died and I cried on the porch, and I felt 0:45:59.000 --> 0:46:01.880 so incompetent to advise you at that moment because what 0:46:01.920 --> 0:46:05.480 would I do, And through my tears, I told you 0:46:05.640 --> 0:46:07.480 one job, next breath. 0:46:08.840 --> 0:46:10.560 I got off the phone. 0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:12.759 With him, and I left your house feeling like such 0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:16.919 a failure because that's all I could think of to say. 0:46:17.800 --> 0:46:21.400 But he told me, and he told me that that 0:46:21.560 --> 0:46:24.320 simple thing next breath. 0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:27.480 Was enough to get them through. 0:46:29.320 --> 0:46:35.600 The hardest season of their life, one millisecond at a time. 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:40.279 I thought I failed when I told him that. 0:46:40.840 --> 0:46:49.440 But he heard, he heard, he heard, he heard, he 0:46:49.440 --> 0:46:53.480 heard what you didn't say, he heard what you don't. 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:53.839 Know how to say. 0:46:53.880 --> 0:46:57.879 Still, he heard how disappointed you were and how they 0:46:57.920 --> 0:47:00.719 responded to you and didn't reciprocate after all you did 0:47:00.760 --> 0:47:03.319 for them. He heard what they said about you that 0:47:03.480 --> 0:47:07.200 wasn't true. He heard, he heard what they said about 0:47:07.239 --> 0:47:10.759 you that was true that you wish wasn't. He heard, 0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:13.799 he heard what you said about yourself that wasn't so. 0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:17.560 He heard, he heard what you said about yourself that 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:20.440 was so. But he speaks a better word. He heard. 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:24.440 I'm here to remind somebody today that he heard, and 0:47:24.520 --> 0:47:28.200 he's holding. The God of seasons is the god of 0:47:28.239 --> 0:47:34.680 seconds and milliseconds. And I realize why I'm alive now 0:47:35.600 --> 0:47:37.680 because my first point is he heard, and my second 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:52.719 point is he's holding, and my third point is it's him. 0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:55.000 Y'all can't decide whether to write that down or clap 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:56.880 your hands. I see a lot of conflict in the 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:03.759 and the crowd is him, and sometimes you don't recognize 0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:05.160 as him. 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:06.239 Because it feels like this. 0:48:07.960 --> 0:48:09.960 The Salmist said, man, I got some stuff waiting for 0:48:10.000 --> 0:48:14.640 me back home, don't we all? I hate when y'all 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:17.400 go fake on me. Don't we have some stuff waiting 0:48:17.440 --> 0:48:20.840 for us at home? Every bed is not going to 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.160 be made up in your house when you go home, 0:48:23.239 --> 0:48:25.880 just because you made up your mind to worship God today, 0:48:27.600 --> 0:48:29.840 and everybody that's around you didn't hear this message. 0:48:29.880 --> 0:48:31.560 Like you did, and they are not going to encourage 0:48:31.560 --> 0:48:35.120 you in your dream. Go for it. The Lord is 0:48:35.160 --> 0:48:35.640 with you. 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:38.399 He said, I got some lyon tongues, and if God 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:43.400 doesn't step in, but see he did. Now I realized 0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:47.680 why he said answered in past tense, because the answer 0:48:48.120 --> 0:49:01.120 to his prayer wasn't it The answer was him. Remember 0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:05.600 what Graham said, He said, I want Dad on my birthday. 0:49:06.320 --> 0:49:09.359 He didn't ask for a cake, but he's gonna get 0:49:09.360 --> 0:49:14.080 a cake. He didn't ask for any of those things 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:16.360 that I've got wrapped back there. Let's be honest that 0:49:16.440 --> 0:49:20.920 Holly's got wrapped back there. See, I am the gift today. 0:49:20.960 --> 0:49:22.759 I don't have to wrap anything. Just put on a 0:49:22.800 --> 0:49:26.480 black hoodie and preach. But since you called for me, 0:49:27.800 --> 0:49:34.719 if you need something, I got it. And since I'm here, 0:49:35.760 --> 0:49:39.359 and since you're here, what do you need, you can 0:49:39.400 --> 0:49:46.960 have it. Oh I'm not saying God to give you 0:49:47.040 --> 0:49:48.680 everything that you greed. 0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:49.600 I'm saying He. 0:49:49.560 --> 0:49:53.640 Will meet all your needs according So if you need 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:56.759 another one, I got you because I'm here. 0:49:57.880 --> 0:49:59.200 Because when you said I. 0:49:59.120 --> 0:50:04.480 Want Dad, you got everything that Dad has with Dad. 0:50:04.640 --> 0:50:10.439 This is the confidence, not that the answer came, but 0:50:10.520 --> 0:50:13.560 the one who is the answer. 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:15.600 Pastor Mickey used to. 0:50:15.560 --> 0:50:19.440 Say, I went to school, and when you know the answer, 0:50:19.760 --> 0:50:23.920 you raise your hand. I wonder, is there anybody in 0:50:24.000 --> 0:50:25.239 here who. 0:50:25.040 --> 0:50:29.880 Knows the answer. And his name is God. His name 0:50:30.000 --> 0:50:32.680 is el Sha died, his name. 0:50:32.520 --> 0:50:38.120 Is Ellllyd, his dame is Jehovah Shirah, and your father 0:50:38.480 --> 0:50:48.239 has what you ask for. It's him that is the 0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:52.600 answer to this. It is not when it goes away 0:50:52.719 --> 0:50:55.799 that you can say he answered me. It's when he 0:50:56.080 --> 0:51:00.120 shows up to remind you that if you make your 0:51:00.120 --> 0:51:04.120 bet in hell, I will be your bunk mate. If 0:51:04.160 --> 0:51:07.360 you make your bet in a bad decision, I'll start 0:51:07.400 --> 0:51:08.960 breaking prison doors to. 0:51:08.920 --> 0:51:09.600 Get you out. 0:51:10.160 --> 0:51:13.399 If you make your bet in depression, I'll give you. 0:51:13.400 --> 0:51:15.239 A birth deploy. 0:51:16.480 --> 0:51:23.120 In this moment, and as long as you're breathing, I 0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:30.320 want you to know that God's got Graham, God, Scott, you. 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:33.239 God's got this. 0:51:35.680 --> 0:51:39.399 Oh. I thought, chills on my what do you call 0:51:39.440 --> 0:51:48.080 these traps? When I said it Gods, God, this no 0:51:48.280 --> 0:51:52.040 pastor not here. I made too many mistakes. Yeah, it's 0:51:52.520 --> 0:51:58.520 Him that shows up in this and in this it's 0:51:58.640 --> 0:52:02.799 Him that's what life looks like. How can I ride 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:03.760 the spiritual high. 0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:04.440 I don't know. 0:52:04.680 --> 0:52:07.439 When you figure it out, write a book, we'll all 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:09.920 buy it. We will make you a New York Times 0:52:09.960 --> 0:52:13.480 bestselling author every day for the rest of our life. 0:52:13.640 --> 0:52:16.440 But in the meantime, most of us have to look for. 0:52:16.440 --> 0:52:20.239 God in the lows, wow and to praise Him with 0:52:21.280 --> 0:52:28.680 the next breath. Yes, he said, I'm going to worship, 0:52:28.719 --> 0:52:31.479 but I'm dealing with some things back home. 0:52:31.640 --> 0:52:34.359 I wonder is that you today? It's to your feet. 0:52:34.600 --> 0:52:38.440 I'm here to worship. I'm here to worship. 0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:41.480 How many of you are here to worship today? 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:42.879 Hey, don't raise your hand. 0:52:42.920 --> 0:52:44.920 If you didn't come to worship, if somebody made you come, 0:52:44.960 --> 0:52:45.680 don't raise your hand. 0:52:45.680 --> 0:52:47.680 It's all right. But even in the chat say I'm 0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:48.400 here to worship. 0:52:49.800 --> 0:52:57.000 Okay, what you have to do is get this work 0:52:57.080 --> 0:53:02.759 to go, because what good is it for you to 0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:07.279 go to Jerusalem for a minute if you're not going 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:12.600 to invite God into the low places too. I remember 0:53:12.640 --> 0:53:15.880 a Bible story. It's normally for Easter, but it doesn't 0:53:15.880 --> 0:53:21.279 have to be where this woman named Mary Magdalene who 0:53:21.320 --> 0:53:24.640 had had seven demons and Jesus had cast them out 0:53:25.360 --> 0:53:28.920 of her mind. Tradition says she was a prostitute. There's 0:53:28.960 --> 0:53:32.520 no textual evidence for that. The tradition will label a 0:53:32.520 --> 0:53:39.319 lot of things wrong on it. Bible says that she 0:53:40.000 --> 0:53:42.120 went to the tomb of Jesus early in the morning 0:53:42.160 --> 0:53:44.480 while it was still dark and Peter and John were 0:53:44.480 --> 0:53:46.399 having his arm wrestling match to see who could see 0:53:46.440 --> 0:53:50.799 him first, and he wasn't there. What would be like 0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:52.319 to get to the tomb and an angel tell you 0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:58.399 not here? And what do you do when you look 0:53:58.440 --> 0:54:01.960 for Jesus in the last place you saw and you 0:54:02.000 --> 0:54:04.920 feel like he's not here? What do you do when 0:54:04.960 --> 0:54:06.960 you experienced God in one season of your life and 0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:11.720 it was so high and now he's got you down here. 0:54:13.880 --> 0:54:15.640 I love the Word of God because it helps me 0:54:15.719 --> 0:54:18.120 get a new way of thinking about those moments for myself. 0:54:18.160 --> 0:54:19.080 Hey, I go through them too. 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:25.560 I got flipped off on Friday on the road. 0:54:26.200 --> 0:54:30.680 In my jeep within the roof. Doown you know what 0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:37.680 the roofdown means? That means easy access for reciprocation. Man, 0:54:37.719 --> 0:54:39.920 the Lord helped me so much. Holly said, don't look 0:54:39.920 --> 0:54:41.040 at this guy, because here what happened. 0:54:42.920 --> 0:54:44.880 But that was such a tender moment and I feel 0:54:44.880 --> 0:54:46.040 like I need to tell you. 0:54:45.960 --> 0:54:47.200 This real quick, to make it practical. 0:54:50.000 --> 0:54:53.320 He's driving this big pickup truck right, and I already 0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:55.120 let two people out ahead of him, and it's a 0:54:55.120 --> 0:54:57.000 busy intersection. Now. I don't know how you feel about 0:54:57.040 --> 0:54:59.640 good Samaritan rules on the road, but I think if 0:54:59.680 --> 0:55:02.160 you more than two people go out and I have 0:55:02.239 --> 0:55:04.200 to stop behind you and the light is green, you 0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:05.719 are no longer a good Samaritan. 0:55:07.200 --> 0:55:08.120 You are overdoing it. 0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:10.960 Okay, you just do what the light says and let 0:55:10.960 --> 0:55:12.680 the Lord work out when they get out. You can 0:55:12.760 --> 0:55:15.080 let one, maybe two out, but two is the max. Okay, 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:17.319 you're not helping anymore. You're overdoing it. 0:55:17.480 --> 0:55:21.920 That's the loudest show shout it all day. So now listen. 0:55:22.239 --> 0:55:24.440 I let not one, but two people out, but he 0:55:24.480 --> 0:55:26.120 thought he should get out too, But no, I can't 0:55:26.160 --> 0:55:26.440 do that. 0:55:26.440 --> 0:55:26.920 We got to go. 0:55:27.000 --> 0:55:29.799 The light's green, is busy, so I go, and Holly said, ooh, 0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:30.920 don't look over there at him. 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:33.239 He is mad at you. I said, don't look over 0:55:33.280 --> 0:55:33.600 at who. 0:55:33.840 --> 0:55:37.320 And he had that middle finger up in his truck 0:55:38.160 --> 0:55:44.080 and the Lord. I called on the Lord and he answered, 0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:45.719 and he told me what to do. 0:55:46.480 --> 0:55:49.239 I stuck my finger back up at him this arm 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:53.279 right out my top of my roof. You know how 0:55:53.320 --> 0:55:54.000 good that fell? 0:55:54.320 --> 0:56:01.680 I said, hey, yeah, praise the Lord, and I drove 0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:04.160 on to my house and I checked to make sure 0:56:04.160 --> 0:56:08.640 he wasn't following me, because sometimes the Lord will call 0:56:08.680 --> 0:56:12.280 you to answer something a little different than you normally 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:16.120 would have and take but a milliseconds just to go 0:56:16.200 --> 0:56:20.920 from what you wanted to do to hey, boy, I 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:23.239 even can see you walking around this week just doing 0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:25.080 this to situations. 0:56:25.120 --> 0:56:26.839 I can see it. I can see it in my mind, 0:56:27.080 --> 0:56:31.520 putting up, turned to three people say hey, hey buddy. 0:56:32.120 --> 0:56:38.000 Yeah, the renewal of your mind is moment by moment. 0:56:38.280 --> 0:56:40.840 It is not on this row on Sunday. It is 0:56:40.880 --> 0:56:43.000 on the road on Monday that it will be tested. 0:56:43.040 --> 0:56:48.759 Did you get this message? And it is sometimes in 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:50.960 the place where you expected God to be that he 0:56:51.040 --> 0:56:55.279 is not, that he shows you the greatest revelation of 0:56:55.320 --> 0:56:58.239 who he is. So the Bible says in John chapter twenty, 0:56:58.360 --> 0:57:02.400 verse eleven that if she's there at the tomb crying, 0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:05.759 and as she wept, she bent over to look into 0:57:05.800 --> 0:57:09.320 the tomb and saw two angels in white seated where Jesus' 0:57:09.360 --> 0:57:15.680 body had been past tense. He's not here, he's not here. 0:57:17.760 --> 0:57:19.440 There was one at the head, the other at the foot. 0:57:21.200 --> 0:57:23.680 They asked her, woman, why are you crying? She said, 0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:27.840 they're taking my Lord away, and I don't I don't 0:57:27.880 --> 0:57:31.760 know where he is. I don't know where's God in this. 0:57:33.240 --> 0:57:35.280 I don't know where the answer is. I don't know 0:57:35.280 --> 0:57:36.800 what the right thing to do is. I don't know 0:57:36.800 --> 0:57:38.040 what doctor to talk to next. 0:57:38.080 --> 0:57:40.560 I don't know what to do about it. I don't 0:57:40.600 --> 0:57:41.760 know if I should call him. I don't know if 0:57:41.760 --> 0:57:43.080 I should block him. I don't know what to do. 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:44.360 I don't know what God wants me to do. 0:57:44.400 --> 0:57:47.560 I'm just kind of like, honestly, I thought faith was 0:57:47.640 --> 0:57:50.240 like this all of my life, trying to get God 0:57:50.320 --> 0:57:51.520 to do what I want him to do, and now 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:52.520 realize it's more like this. 0:57:54.360 --> 0:57:56.920 Yeah, thank you. 0:57:57.360 --> 0:57:59.640 And in the dark outside the tomb ass she's weeping. 0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:05.520 She turned around and saw Jesus standing there. Oh wait, 0:58:07.200 --> 0:58:12.600 it's him, but she doesn't realize that it was Jesus, 0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:20.440 and he asked her, woman, why are you crying? Not 0:58:20.560 --> 0:58:23.800 only a savior who speaks the language of tears can 0:58:23.840 --> 0:58:27.240 ask a question like that, who is it you are 0:58:27.240 --> 0:58:32.040 looking for Jesus, is so funny who you're looking for? 0:58:34.800 --> 0:58:37.840 Thinking he was the gardener, and he kind of is. 0:58:40.880 --> 0:58:43.000 She said, sir, if you have carried him away, tell 0:58:43.080 --> 0:58:46.360 me where you have put him, and I will get him. 0:58:46.760 --> 0:58:49.560 And Jesus said to her Mary, and she turned toward 0:58:49.640 --> 0:58:53.520 him and cried out in air meg rabb o'e eye, 0:58:53.840 --> 0:58:59.520 which means teacher. And Jesus said, do not hold on 0:59:00.280 --> 0:59:06.240 to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. 0:59:08.120 --> 0:59:10.520 Go instead to my brothers and tell them I am 0:59:10.560 --> 0:59:14.800 ascending to my Father and your father, to my God 0:59:15.360 --> 0:59:18.960 and your God. This is the gospel that God in 0:59:19.120 --> 0:59:23.160 human form died for your sin, descended to the grave, 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:28.200 defeated death, and Hell awoke, holding the keys to death, 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:31.720 Hell and the grave. And he heard when you called 0:59:31.720 --> 0:59:35.760 to him for salvation. And he's holding the keys of death, hell. 0:59:35.720 --> 0:59:36.240 And the grave. 0:59:36.760 --> 0:59:40.560 And it is him in life, in death, on the mountain, 0:59:40.880 --> 0:59:42.479 in the valley, it's him. 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:46.520 It's him. Yes, it's God. You're called on him. He's here. 0:59:46.800 --> 0:59:48.600 That's God making your heart beat. 0:59:48.920 --> 0:59:50.920 That's God giving you the next breath. 0:59:51.200 --> 0:59:53.000 That's God holding your tomorrow. 0:59:53.440 --> 0:59:55.480 That's God taking care of your knees. 0:59:55.880 --> 0:59:59.280 That's God, that's him. Give him a praise like. 0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:01.840 You would give him if you knew he was here, 1:00:02.440 --> 1:00:05.000 if you knew he was worthy, if you knew he 1:00:05.160 --> 1:00:14.360 was holy, if you knew he was holding your life. 1:00:15.000 --> 1:00:18.120 So now you know why it says I call God 1:00:18.480 --> 1:00:23.520 on the mountain, I call God in the valley. 1:00:25.000 --> 1:00:26.040 I call God. 1:00:31.680 --> 1:00:36.720 It's all God, Oh God, don't even need anything. 1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:42.120 Lord. I just love you because you love me first. 1:00:43.800 --> 1:00:47.160 And I'm so thankful that you're here with me, that 1:00:47.280 --> 1:00:49.680 you got up out of that grave. God. 1:00:51.080 --> 1:00:52.880 So I call you when it's gone. 1:00:53.840 --> 1:00:56.840 I call y'all here, I call you down there. 1:00:58.560 --> 1:01:02.080 You're God with is gone her god. 1:01:01.920 --> 1:01:03.000 Win is hard. 1:01:03.800 --> 1:01:08.800 So I'm calling today has to say I love you, concerned, 1:01:09.680 --> 1:01:11.840 I just to say I love. 1:01:11.720 --> 1:01:13.760 You, O God. 1:01:14.640 --> 1:01:17.240 Now listen, I don't know to got a frocking heart, 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:22.400 but he's a healer, poor God's and I know what 1:01:22.480 --> 1:01:25.960 you need. But he's a provider. And I don't know 1:01:26.040 --> 1:01:28.600 what to fight, but he's a defender. 1:01:31.360 --> 1:01:43.360 I need every hit the name fuck God. 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