Outlast The Opposition

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I like to 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.799 start with something funny, and I heard about this pastor. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.720 He was walking down the street when he came upon 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.720 this group of young boys that were surrounding a small dog. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.080 He asked what they were doing. They explain that they 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.720 were having a contest. Whoever could tell the biggest lie 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.240 would get to keep the dog. The pastor launched into 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.560 a ten minute sermon, starting. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.240 With don't you know lying is a sin? And ending 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.280 with when I was. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.280 Your age, I never told a lie. There was complete silence, 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.519 and just when he thought he'd gotten through to them, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.880 the youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, give 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.160 him the dog. Say it like you mean it. This 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.840 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.799 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.560 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.680 taught to word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.160 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:10.520 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:15.160 to talk to you today about outlast the opposition. We 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.640 all have things that come against us in life, people 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.440 that aren't fair. We're dealing with an illness, our business 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.840 has gone down. We're praying, believing, doing the right thing. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.399 But nothing is changing. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.040 It's easy to get discouraged and think it's never going 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.040 to improve. But The way you win some battles is 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:41.160 not by defeating the opposition, but by outlasting the opposition. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:43.800 You have to have staying power. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.400 You can't be weak and give up because it's not 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.240 happening on your timetable. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.640 Some enemies are stubborn. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.320 You have to outlast the trouble at work, outlast the 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.839 difficulty in your marriage, outlast the slow. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.560 Season in your finances. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.560 We want God to deliver us from the attack, but 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.080 if he's not changing it, it's real simple. You have 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.800 to outlast him. But sometimes we feel like God has 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.839 forgotten about us. We've seen him turn situations around in 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.760 the past, but this problem won't seem to go away. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.960 God is still going to turn it around, but this 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.599 time he's going to do it a different way. You 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.000 have to have a holy determination, a made up mind 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.080 where you dig your heels in and say I am 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.680 in it for the long haul. Quitting is not an option. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.720 I am going to outlast this sickness. I'm going to 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.840 outlast the addiction. I'm going to outlast this injustice. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.240 This is what David did. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.160 He defeated Goliath in five minutes, no big deal. God 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.320 favored him and he quickly took down this huge giant 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.520 overnight came a national hero. But there was another man 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.000 named King Saul that was against David. Saul was on 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.239 the throne of Israel when God promised. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.480 David the throne. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.640 God could have had David defeat Saul like he defeated 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:21.880 Goliath quickly, no problem, But this time was very different. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.360 David had been anointed to be the next king of Israel. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.640 After he defeated Goliath. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.000 He left the Shepherd's fields and went to the palace 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.279 to serve King Saul. But Saul was jealous of David. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.040 He could see the favor on his life. One time, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.080 David was playing the heart for Saul, trying to make 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.200 him feel better. Saul threw a spirit at David and 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:48.880 barely missed him. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.360 David had to run for his life. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:56.400 He spent months in the desert in hiding, living in caves, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.960 with Saul and his men constantly on his trail. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:05.240 Trying to kill David. Wasn't fair. David hadn't done anything wrong. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.040 He was being good to Saul. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.880 You would think that God would stop Saul, vindicate David 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.160 and put him on the throne like he promised, But 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.120 God doesn't always do things the same way. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.080 For some victories. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.120 We have to prove to God that will do the 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.640 right thing when the wrong thing is happening. We have 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.479 to be good to people when they're not being good 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.120 to us. We have to stay in faith when it's unfair, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.240 when it's taking longer than it should, when we don't 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.200 see how it could work out. How bad do you 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.159 want what God promised you? 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.320 If you give up easily, you didn't want it bad enough. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.359 If you let people discourage you bad breaks talk you 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.520 out of it, delays, cause you to quit believing, then 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:54.160 you're going to. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.760 Miss what God has for you. There are two. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:03.560 Kinds of faith, delivering faith and sustaining faith. Delivering faith 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.080 is when God instantly turns it around. That's when we 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.320 defeat our goliath. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.560 We don't have to wait, we don't have to endure. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:16.040 God suddenly shows out in our life. But most of 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.520 the time we're going to need sustaining faith. That's when 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.720 God takes us through the difficulty, through the challenge. He 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.320 could turn it around right now, He could change it instantly. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.160 But if he did that every time, our faith would 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:33.960 never develop. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.080 It wouldn't grow like it should. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.320 Something happens in the struggle when our mind tells us 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.280 it's never going to work out, but in our heart 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.480 we know what God promised is on the way. Our 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.280 mind says you're wasting your time, there's no use even 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.080 believing anymore. But you just keep on keeping on trusting God, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.680 thanking him that it's on the way. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.520 That's sustaining faith. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.120 Now, don't think that everything is going to be easy. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.880 Don't expect every person to be for you. Just because 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.280 it hasn't happened yet doesn't. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.560 Mean it's not going to happen. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.080 The victory is on the other side of the opposition. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:22.480 It takes staying power, a made up mind, someone that's 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:27.240 not moved by the circumstances. At one point, David saw 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.160 Saul and his men sleeping. He snuck up on them, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.160 and he could have easily taken Saul's life. This was 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.920 his big chance to get revenge, to pay him back, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.600 but David wouldn't do it. Saul had been anointed to 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.160 be the king, David knew. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.360 To touch, not God's anointed. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.520 Had David taken matters into his own hands, that would 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.160 have kept. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.040 Him from the throne. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.760 You have to pass the test of honoring those who 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.800 are in authority, not because they're doing what's right, but 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.319 because of their position. It's easy to be disrespectful to 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.680 people when they're being disrespectful to us. It's easy to 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.080 want to vindicate ourselves. Here's my big chance to pay 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.040 them back, to make them look bad after all they 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:19.680 did it to me. 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.199 No, stay on the high road. Let God be your vindicator. 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.559 Let him pay your enemies back. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:31.640 God sees what's happening, He sees every wrong, every injustice. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.120 If you'll leave it up to God, he'll vindicate you. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.280 Better than you can vindicate yourself. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.560 Month after month, David kept doing the right thing. He 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.360 could have been sour God. It was easy to defeat Goliath. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:52.800 Why is this taking so long? David understood some opposition. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:53.920 You have to outlast. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.320 If you get discouraged, worn down, it's never going to happen. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.080 You'll miss what God God has in store. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.400 Thirteen years after David was chosen to be king, after 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.560 all the hiding being mistreated. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.520 Saul was killed in a battle. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.280 He was suddenly taken away and David became the king. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:22.640 What's interesting is David never defeated Saul. He simply outlasted him. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.400 When you let God fight your battles. He'll get you 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.800 to where you're supposed to be. Now, some of the 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.400 challenges that you're facing. You're being your best, but things 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:39.640 aren't improving. Like David, you have to outlast that opposition. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.640 Don't worry about defeating it. If you'll just outlast it, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.200 you'll see the victory. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.080 God will take care of your sauls. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.040 You keep honoring God and you won't even have to fight. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.760 God will move the wrong people out of the way. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.439 He'll open doors that you couldn't open. He'll turn the 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:04.800 situation in your health around. Now, outlast the sickness, outlast 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.240 the loneliness, outlast the trouble at work. You have to 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.120 tap into your staying power. Friend of mine works for 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.640 this big company. For years, his supervisor was against him. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.360 It was always putting him down, making him look bad. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.480 This supervisor even went to the main boss and tried 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.600 to get this man fired, but the boss wouldn't do it. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.960 The boss took all of his other recommendations. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.800 Why wouldn't he take this one? 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.880 Because God is in control of your life, not people, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.240 not the sickness, not the addiction. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.600 God has the final say. 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.520 This supervisor was always spreading rumors about this man trying 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.280 to poison him in front of all the other employees. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.120 But this man just kept doing the right thing, overlooking offenses, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.960 being good to people. One morning, this supervisor was called 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.720 into the main office. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.240 He'd been with the company over twenty years. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.040 Looked like he would retire there, but that day he 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.359 was unexpectedly terminated. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.720 They let him go. A few minutes later, they called 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:13.400 my friend in. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.520 Out of all the people there, they gave him the 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.160 supervisor's job. He said, Joel, I wasn't qualified for the position. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.680 There were others in front of me, but for some reason, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.800 they chose me to head up this department. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:30.880 The scripture says. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.960 The trap the enemy set for you, they will fall 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:38.440 in themselves. You may have people against you trying to 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.400 just treadit. You make you look bad. You don't have 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:46.480 to fight those battles. Just outlast the opposition. Keep doing 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.520 the right thing, keep being faithful each day, and God 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.600 will take care of who's trying to stop you. Are 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.160 you upset over what's not changing? You're praying, believing, but. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.000 It's not proved. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.720 It's because that's not a goliath, that's a saul. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.680 You can't pray it away. You can't make it work out. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.319 You have to outlast it. Now trust God's timing. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.760 God knows what he promised you, he knows what he 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.520 put on the inside, and at the right time. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.079 It will come to pass. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.880 God told Moses in the Book of Exodus to go 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.920 tell the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.720 They had been in slavery for many years. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.360 Moses told God that he didn't want to go, that 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.480 Pharaoh wouldn't listen to him. He finally went, but it 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.720 was just like Moses thought. The Pharaoh basically laughed at him, 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.240 said Moses, who. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.680 Are you to tell me what to do? 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.480 You have no authority here. I don't have to listen 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.640 to you. Moses went back and said, God, I told 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.480 you he wouldn't listen. I told you it wouldn't work out. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.480 What's interesting is the scripture says. 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.280 That God God caused Pharaoh. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.320 To be stubborn so he could show his power in 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:10.360 a greater way. God had Moses go back again and again, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.000 but he already knew Pharaoh would say no. He caused 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.720 him to harden his heart. Moses could have said, God, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.800 I give up. I'm doing what you asked me to do. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.440 But it's not making a difference. No, he just kept 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:30.240 doing the right thing even though nothing was changing. Everything 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.600 in him said, you're wasting your time. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.880 It would have happened by now. This man's never going 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:40.520 to change his mind. He had to outlast Pharaoh's stubbornness. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.960 I wonder if you're frustrated by an enemy that God. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.480 Is causing to be stubborn. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.760 He's not letting it work out yet because He's going 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.920 to use that situation to catapult you to a new level. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.400 All you can see is nothing is improving. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.560 What you can't see is what God is about to do. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.520 The doors he's about. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.239 To open, the healing, the favor, the vindication, the breakthrough. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.680 Now you may have some stubborn enemies, the good news 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.320 they are not too stubborn for our God. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.640 He would not have allowed it if he wasn't going 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.000 to bring you out better. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.040 Now you have to get your fire back, dig your 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.400 heels in a little bit deeper, and show the enemy 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.400 you're more determined than he is. God didn't bring you 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.200 this far to leave you. He didn't let Pharaoh say no. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.080 Because he's more powerful. God is setting you up to 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:42.840 show out. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.320 In your life. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.240 He allowed the opposition not to stop you, but to 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.600 promote you. Now, you need to be more stubborn in 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.120 your faith than the stubborn things that come against you. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.720 That sickness may be stubborn. You can't seem to get well. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.520 That's okay. I'm more stubborn than the sickness. I will 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.000 live and not die. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:06.520 Father. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.600 Think you that you're restoring health back into me. Thank 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.120 you the number of my days you will fulfilled. That 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.200 financial difficulty is stubborn. It's been in my family line 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.680 for generations. But can I tell you I'm more stubborn. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.120 I will lend and not borrow. Father, think you that 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.320 abundance is coming my way. Thank you that what I've 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.880 touched prospers and succeeds. Moses went back and told the 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.480 Pharaoh again and again to let them go. But Pharaoh 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.440 was stubborn. Yet Moses was more stubborn. Every time the 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.480 enemy tells you no, you need to go back and 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.960 tell him yes one more time. Don't let the enemy 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.480 have the last word. Keep speaking faith over your life, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:58.200 keep declaring favor, keep calling yourself blessed, healthy, strong, victorious. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.320 Pharaoh decided to let the Israelites go, and these two 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.240 million people headed toward the Promised Land. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.480 Wasn't long before. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.680 Pharaoh changed his mind and came chasing after them. It 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.040 looked like a setback, but really God was setting them up. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.280 They were at a dead end at the Red Sea. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.120 They had nowhere to go. But just because you've run 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.520 out of options doesn't mean God has run out of options. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:32.040 God told the Israelites, the enemies you see today you 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.560 will see no more. The Red Sea parted, the Israelites 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:37.920 went through on dry ground. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:39.960 When Pharaoh and the army. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.160 Came chasing, the waters closed up. They were all drowned. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:48.280 They saw those enemies no more. You may have situations 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.560 that look like they'll never work out. God is saying 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.440 to you what he said to them. That depression, you're 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.879 about to see it no more. That is not your destiny. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.679 Uggle in your finances you can't get ahead. You're about 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.520 to see the enemy of lack no more. God's about 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.480 to release you into abundance. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.399 The sickness that's been hindering you. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:17.280 The addiction, the loneliness, the anxiety. You might as well 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.840 have a going away party. You're going to see them 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.760 no more. This is a new day. God is doing 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:27.880 a new thing. Now, keep this tenacity down in your spirit. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.960 This is not the time to be tired and weak 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.719 and run down. You've been armed with strength for every battle. 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.080 You are not weak. You are well able to outlast 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.440 what's trying to stop you. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.040 Over these last twenty years that I've been pastoring, I've 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.480 had to learn to outlast some things. When I first 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.480 stepped up to minister, every thought told me that I 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.960 couldn't do it, that I wasn't qualified, that I didn't. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:55.439 Have the talent. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.040 I tried to push those thoughts down, but they came 0:18:59.160 --> 0:18:59.880 right back up. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:01.120 They were stubborn. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.080 I couldn't pray them away. I couldn't believe them away. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:11.280 I had to outlast the insecurity, outlast the fear, outlast 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:12.280 the intimidation. 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:14.280 I wish I could tell. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.960 You, if you had enough faith, you would never have 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.639 to fight fear or anxiety or people being against you. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.160 That's not the case. Some things you just have to outlast. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.520 You have to be more determined than what's trying to 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.040 hold you back. Twenty years later, I don't fight those 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.320 same thoughts. The enemies I saw back then, I don't 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.919 see today. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.320 What am I saying don't get stuck in the middle. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.160 Don't believe the lies that where you are is permanent. 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:51.520 You'll always be that way. Outlast the opposition, keep believing, 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:56.679 keep reprogramming your mind, keep thanking God that He's bigger than. 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:57.400 What you're facing. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.600 A few years after I started pastoring, the church begin 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.000 to really grow and more people started watching them. That's great, 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.399 but with all the exposure comes more critics, people that 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.919 don't understanding, people that don't want you to succeed. At first, 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.240 I didn't know how it was going to work out. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.960 Seemed like every week someone was coming against us, trying 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.080 to discredit us. But I never debated with people. I 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.159 never tried to change their minds. I just kept running 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.800 my race, honoring God, being the best. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:31.119 That I could be. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.240 It was about ten years in that I felt. 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:37.359 Something lift off of me. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.720 It was like God said, all right, Joel, you've outlasted 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:42.560 your critics. 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:44.000 You passed this test. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.320 Now the enemies you see today you won't see anymore. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.520 And yes, sure I still have a few critics, maybe 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.560 a couple, but people. 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.040 Can't stop your destiny. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.360 God being for you is more than the world being 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:04.320 against you. My encouragement don't fight with your critics, just 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:09.400 outlast them. Let your action speak for you. Let your 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:14.520 success do the talking. Paul said in Ephesians having done 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.600 all to stand. He was saying, when you've done everything 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.040 you can, You've done your best to get well, You've 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.840 been good to people that weren't good to you. You've 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:26.840 worked hard and haven't seen increase. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:31.240 What do you do? Get upset? Discourage, give up? No, 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:32.560 just stand. 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:37.400 Standing is trusting God, knowing that He is in control. 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:42.119 When you're standing, you're not frustrated by what's not happening. 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.639 You're not complaining because it's taking so long. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.919 You're at peace, you're at rest. 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.640 You know what God started in your life, He's going 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:58.359 to finish. He amplified says, stand, firm, immovable. That means 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:02.000 you're not moved by the man report. You're not moved 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.840 by how your child is acting. You're not moved by 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:06.720 the contract that didn't go through. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:08.280 You're steadfast. 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.600 You keep believing, you keep thanking God, you keep being 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:16.840 your best. Quitting is not an option. Giving up is 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:20.840 not in your mindset. You know what God promised is 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:24.320 on the way. If it's not happening, no big deal. 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.840 You just keep standing. Somebody asked, are you still believing 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.240 to get well? You've had that sickness a long time. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.160 I saw the medical report. What are you going to do. 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.160 I'm going to stand. I'm going to trust God. I'm 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.880 going to thank him that healing is coming. I'm going 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:46.119 to keep declaring that I'm healthy, whole and strong. Well, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.600 how long are you going to stand? I'm going to 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.760 stand until I see what God promised me come to pass. 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.680 God is looking for people who. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:23:01.720 Have stubborn faith. Anybody can get discovered. Anybody can give 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.840 up and say. Pharaoh said, no, if you're going to 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.800 reach your destiny, you have to make up your mind. 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.120 You're going to stand, no matter what comes against you, 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.879 and no matter how long it takes. The apostle Paul 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:20.560 outlasted betrayals, shipwrecks, beatings, being lied about. 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.240 He had plenty of opportunities to get stuck. 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:27.399 He could have said, God, it's not fair all these 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:28.760 things have come against me. 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:31.600 Instead, he had stubborn faith. 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.840 He said in Acts twenty, none of these things move me. 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.919 He was saying, I'm not moved by the opposition. He 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:43.280 wasn't moved by how unfair it was, by how long. 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:45.760 It was taking. He just kept standing. 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.200 He went on to write over half of the books 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:52.320 in the New Testament. We need to get to the 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.480 place where we can say, like Paul, none of these 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:59.560 things move me. Not moved by the economy, not moved 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:01.000 by what's not working out. 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:03.000 I have a made up mind. 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.680 I'm going to keep standing, keep believing, keep trusting. I'm 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:11.680 going to outlast what's trying to stop me. And this 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.760 is one time where it's good to be stubborn. You 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:17.280 are not going to be talked out of what God 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.320 put in your heart. I was at the beach one 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:24.320 time when our children were small. Alexandra was three and 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:28.159 Jonathan was six. We were having a fun time making 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:32.600 castles in the sand when this little yellow bumblebee came 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:34.400 and landed right beside us. 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:34.960 Well. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.480 Alexandra screamed and took off running, and I just swatted 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.840 him out of the way and we went back to playing. 0:24:41.480 --> 0:24:46.120 Thirty seconds later, he was right back, flying all around us. 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:49.280 The kids started screaming. I got my towel and I 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:52.560 swatted him down to the ground. I thought, I showed 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:56.679 him whose boss. A minute later, there he was again, 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:00.959 man just buzzing all around annoying us. This time, I 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:04.120 not only swatted him to the ground, but I got 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:08.200 my tennis shoe and I squashed him into the sand. 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:09.280 As hard as I could. 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.280 I thought, I'm tired of dealing with him. A couple 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:15.639 of minutes later, I looked over just to make sure 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:19.520 he was still dead. I couldn't believe it. I saw 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:23.800 one wing barely start to move. Then another wing came 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:27.240 up out of the sand. He walked around for a 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:31.040 few seconds like he was in a daze. I was amazed, 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:34.040 not only that he was still alive, but that he 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:37.800 could get back up again. About that time, he took off, 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:41.320 flying in the air away from me, and just when 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:44.120 I thought I was done with him, he turned around 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:47.240 and headed right back toward us. I thought, you've gotta 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:49.920 be kidding. This bee is like the terminator. 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.600 I'll be back. He came and. 0:25:52.480 --> 0:25:54.919 Buzzed by my head like four or five times. I 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.840 had to dodge to get out of the way. Alexander said, Daddy, 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:03.119 get the towel. I said, no, Alexandra, this bee deserves 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:07.480 to live. I'm a thousand times bigger than him, and 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:11.600 I still can't kill him. When life tries to push 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:15.640 you down, step on your dreams, squash your health. You've 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.840 got to do like that little bumblebee and get back 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:24.080 up again, out last what's trying to defeat you. The 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:28.320 power in you is greater than any power that's trying 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.800 to stop you. The scripture says a good person falls 0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:36.119 seven times but gets back up again. You have come 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:40.560 back power. God wouldn't have allowed the adversity if it 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:43.399 was going to finish you off. It's just another step 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:47.360 on the way to your destiny. We see this with Joseph. 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.760 He was betrayed by his brothers, thrown into a pit, 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:55.280 sold into slavery, put in prison, falsely accused. It was 0:26:55.359 --> 0:27:00.800 one bad break after another, thirteen years of injustice disappointments. 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:05.480 Surely he would be bitter, discouraged. No, Joseph understood. He 0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:08.440 just kept standing, kept doing the right thing. 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:12.199 One day, while he was in prison for something that 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:15.760 he didn't do, the guards came and said the Pharaoh 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:16.280 wanted to. 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:18.320 See him, the leader of the country. 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:21.720 Joseph didn't have an appointment with him, he had never 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:25.280 met the man. But when it's your time to be promoted, 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:29.320 all the forces of darkness cannot hold you back. When 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:33.960 you pass the test of outlasting the opposition, the promotion 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:37.400 will come looking for you, the healing will come to you. 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:41.840 The right people will find you. Joseph went and interpreted 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:44.959 the dream for the Pharaoh. He was so impressed he 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:49.240 made Joseph the Prime Minister of Egypt. When we study 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:53.840 Joseph's life, we realized God wasn't asking him to defeat 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:54.600 his brothers. 0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:56.560 He wasn't asking him. 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:59.320 To break out of the pit to escape captivity. 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:04.040 God was simply asking him to outlast the opposition. 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:07.639 That all had to happen for him to become the 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:11.560 prime minister. And some of the challenges that you're facing, 0:28:12.040 --> 0:28:14.720 the things that are bothering you, that are not changing, 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:18.560 God is not asking you to overcome them. He's just 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:22.240 asking you to outlast them. It's all a part of 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.960 his plan. It's necessary to get you to your destiny. 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:30.159 And yes, the Pharaohs can be stubborn. Things may not 0:28:30.320 --> 0:28:34.920 be improving. Yet to stay encouraged. God is still in control. 0:28:35.400 --> 0:28:37.560 He has you in the palm of his hand. What 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:40.920 he promised you is on the way. Now do your 0:28:40.960 --> 0:28:45.240 part and keep standing. Don't be moved by what's not changing. 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:49.560 Have this stubborn faith if you'll do this, I believe 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:53.600 and declare, like with Joseph, things are going to suddenly 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:54.959 change in your favor. 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:56.400 You didn't see it coming. 0:28:56.680 --> 0:29:02.560 Breakthroughs, healing, vindication, promotion, the fullness of your destiny in 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:06.000 Jesus's name, and if you receive it, can you say amen? 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:06.400 Today? 0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:11.400 Well, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:13.240 Jesus the lord of your life. 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:14.920 Would you pray with me? 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:19.920 Just say, Lord, Jesus, come into my heart. 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:22.680 I make you my Lord and savior. 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:26.880 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:30.400 got born again. 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