Plot Hole

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.439 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:09.840 this inspires you. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:11.280 Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.440 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:14.000 in your life. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:26.759 Enjoy the message. Time. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:50.320 Oh, he's on time, and I better start my sermon 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.160 because you won't be leaving on time. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.560 If we keep singing, we could sing it all day long. Wow, 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:58.800 Praise the Lord. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.160 Let's give him an other hand of praise for his 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.000 faithfulness to us. Hey, welcome to all of our locations 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:12.600 today around we bless you in Jesus. May this word 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.959 find you well and blessed, prospering good health even as 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.240 your soul prospers. Speak the blessing of Almighty God over 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.560 your family, your business, your house, your endeavors. If you're 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.399 in school, I pray the blessing of God over your 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.399 end of the semester. I just pray that God will 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.880 meet you today. We are in the middle of a teaching. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.400 Called ghost writer. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.360 Put my graphic on the screen, would you please. I'm 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.240 so proud of this graphic they made for me. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.640 You see how that book. Can you see it? 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.520 How there's something blowing on those pages and it looks. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:52.240 Like they're about to turn. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.760 That's the Holy Spirit that is blowing on the story 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.960 of your life, getting ready to take you into a 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:05.360 new chapter where there will be faith and challenges, where 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:09.920 there will be blessings and burdens, where there will be uncertainty, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.160 but there will also be the unshakable presence of Almighty God. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.000 This series was inspired to me just reading through the 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:23.000 Book of Acts with my family Bible Club, and I 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.239 asked them for permission to invite and include our whole 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.520 church on our journey through the Book of Acts. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:29.800 That's what we're doing today. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.440 Please stand on your feet wherever you are, if you 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.400 are physically able, and I want to share with you 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.839 the scripture for today the lesson. Go ahead and bring 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.079 the screen too while I'm sharing, would you? And maybe, maybe, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.880 just maybe God will speak something to you so incredible 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.440 today that you'll be talking about it years from now. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:57.880 In Acts Chapter one, Acts Chapter one, I thought that 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.000 we would be an Acts chapter two this week because 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.000 we were in Acts chapter one last week. But the 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.880 Lord had unfinished business, and so in Acts chapter one 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.920 we see the disciples, you know, walked into a middle 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.720 of a movie and try to ask somebody to explain it, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:13.959 and they were like, shut up, you're annoying. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.600 You should have been there. Just sit down and catch up. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:17.959 That's kind of how the people feel who come to 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.120 church every week and they're like, you know, get onto 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:20.680 the next one. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.560 They didn't come last week. It's their fault. But be nice. Okay, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.320 all right, be nice, Let's catch the whole class up. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.400 We're talking about the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.840 and how a lot of times when somebody sits down, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.400 if they're say maybe an athlete or musician, and they 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.640 want to write the story of their life a memoir 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.000 or an autobiography, they'll get a ghostwriter, and the ghostwriter 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.120 will take the events that happened to the person and 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.320 translate them to the written page. Now, I think we 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.640 need somebody in our life to help us translate some 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.560 of the trauma that we've been through, some of the 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.040 tests that we're going through, and especially to help us 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.880 when there's a long period of time between what we're 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:09.720 believing for and where we are currently being stationed. So 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.520 this is the situation for the disciples. They're waiting for 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.719 the Holy Spirit to come. Jesus has risen from the grave. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.200 He's going to send this wonderful Holy Spirit. He has 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.640 sent the Holy Spirit to us to live in all 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.279 of us who call on the name of Jesus. But 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.760 they are waiting in a space of ten days for 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.680 this to happen, and they're praying, and they need to 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:36.720 do something about Judas, who betrayed Jesus and then hanged himself. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.599 But they have to replace him before they can go 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.240 forward with the mission. And I'll pick up there and 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.719 acts chapter one, verse twenty for said Peter. It is 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.919 written in the Book of Psalms, may his place be deserted, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.599 let there be no one to dwell in it, and 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.960 may another take his place of leadership. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.280 Therefore, or it is necessary to choose. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.520 One of the men who have been with us the 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.000 whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, beginning 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.159 from John's baptism to the time when Jesus was taken 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.120 up from us, up all the things to be taken 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.240 from you. Imagine the Savior was walking with you, giving 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.320 you step by step instructions, turn by turn. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.239 Navigation, and suddenly he's gone. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.480 Do you all remember when the AT and T network 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.800 shut down a couple of months ago for like three hours, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.080 and we all thought the rapture was next, and we 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.200 were all looking for white horses, because for me, my 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.040 sense of direction is so poor. I don't even know 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.960 if I can make it to the bathroom without my GPS. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.360 So I wasn't worried about text messages not coming through. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.240 I was worried about my GPS. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.800 Well, Jesus was the GPS of the disciples, and he 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.280 is taken from them. But Peter stands up and says, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.360 we've got to move forward, even though we are missing 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.000 what matters the most to us. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.239 It's difficult place to be, and we'll talk about it today. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.400 But look at this, he said, We've got to take 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.280 somebody who's been with us the whole time, and they 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.200 must become Verse twenty two, a witness with us of 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:16.880 his resurrection. So they nominated two men Joseph called Barsabas, also. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.320 Known as Justice and Matthias. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.440 Then they prayed, very good idea, when you've got a 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.320 mission to change the world and you're a fisherman, you 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.240 better pray. Tell somebody you better pray. Look at him 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.000 again and say I'm serious. You look like you need 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.320 to pray. You look like you didn't pray enough this week. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:42.040 You better pray more this week. Then they prayed. Lord, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.960 you know everyone's heart. Show us which of these two 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.599 you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry. Which 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.160 Judas left to go where he belongs? So Jesus left 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.880 to go where he belongs, the right hand of the father. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.000 Judas left to go where he belus, not the right 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:01.719 hand to the father. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:02.920 And look at this. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.680 They cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias, so 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.280 he was added to the eleven Apostles. Just two verses 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.440 from chapter two. And then I'll see you and preach 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.120 a little bit. When the day of Pentecost came, they 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:22.880 were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:27.680 the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:33.200 filled the whole house where they were sitting, and filled 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:38.840 the whole house. Now, last week I talked about page turner. Huh, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.200 how there's more to your story and God is the 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.600 page turner. This week I want to talk to you 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.240 about something different. I want to talk to you about 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:52.360 the plot hole. The plot hole, and that doesn't sound 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.840 as exciting, but it is so essential. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.960 Father helped me to do it in Jesus' name. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.840 Amen, you may be seen it a plot hole. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:09.680 Plot hole. Are you familiar with the term plot hole? Yes? No, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.600 a little bit? Maybe? 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:17.560 All right, Well, I don't know if this screen is helpful. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.200 I've been drawing and writing things on the screen the 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.320 last few weeks just to give you more of a visual. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.720 My handwriting might be more distracting than the visual is helpful. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.800 Just trying to teach the Bible with the handwriting of 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:41.200 a serial killer is as challenge. Now plot hole, Now 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.520 hold on, let me clarify this. You might be thinking, well, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:50.560 I've heard of a plot twist, but that's different than 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.520 a plot hole. Some kind of building on this theme 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.000 of story, right, The Holy Spirit wants to help you 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.760 tell your story. The story you tell to yourself, the 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.079 story that your life tells to the world. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.480 What you tell yourself about why your. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.760 Dad didn't stay to raise you might determine whether or 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.080 not you go on to be the dad that you 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:11.680 never had. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.320 The story that you tell yourself. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.200 About why you're a little bit behind in this area 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.360 might determine whether you get motivated to see if you 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.800 can catch up. Or maybe to know that I'm not 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.680 even supposed to be running their race and I'm not 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.480 behind at all. Whether you give up and just sit 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.040 on the sidelines, or whether you stay in it and 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.000 keep moving. So, since the disciples have the story, the 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.559 most important story to tell to the world, the story 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:42.120 of the Gospel, the life, the death, the resurrection, and 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.720 the coming again of Jesus Christ, they need help and 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:50.120 the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the ghost writer, is 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.559 going to help them tell the story. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.000 And with every story, you need something to happen. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.640 Like, it's no good to watch a movie if there 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.360 isn't a plot twist. One of my friends, uh, wanted 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.600 to buy a car, and he bought it and drove 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:07.000 it home. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.520 So we're not gonna make a movie about that, right, 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:12.800 something needs to happen. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.840 He wants to buy a car, he buys the car, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.839 only it's not a car at all. It's a steal 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.800 death trap. Yeah, there's you know, there's a bomb underneath 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.160 it or something like that. Now now we're listening. That's 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.480 a plot twist. A plot twist is something in a story, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:46.920 is an element that is unexpected but it's intentional. That's 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.520 a plot twist. I think about the people that are 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.040 listening to this on a podcast and they don't see 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.240 me riding on the board, and all they hear is 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:53.440 kick kick. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.720 Kick K kick kick kick k kick kick kick kick. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.520 That must be really annoying. But let just wrote the 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:06.760 words unexpected and intentional. Everybody say unexpected but intentional, okay. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.360 An example of a plot twist that probably everybody would 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.400 be familiar. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:18.800 With, No, I am your father. That's a plot twist. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.760 Spoiler alert if you hadn't seen Star Wars from nineteen. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:30.760 Eighty, that's a plot twist. It's where the person telling 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.000 the story was always taking it. You just didn't know, okay, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.200 And those are fun. Plot twists are fun. That's why 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.320 we buy the ticket to go see it. A plot 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.800 hole is a different thing. A plot hole is something 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:51.440 in a story that doesn't make sense, but instead of 0:11:51.440 --> 0:12:07.760 being unexpected and intentional, it feels unresolved and illogical. It 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:12.199 feels like, wait a minute, that that doesn't make sense, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.480 and I don't think they meant for it not to 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.679 make sense. You ever been watching a show and all 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.640 of a sudden, like the main character does something that 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.280 that main character totally would not. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.319 Do, but it's not a character arc. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.679 It's not a you know, a chemistry teacher starting to 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.839 make meths so he can pay for his son's medical bills. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.520 Because that's interesting and intentional. That's where the story was 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.200 always going. That's why they called it Breaking Bad, and 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.960 so they told you in the title where it was going. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:44.000 That's a plot twist. A plot hole is different. A 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.760 plot hole is this. I'll give you an example of 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:52.160 a plot hole. Now, it's Daniel's son. Hold on, y'all, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.439 all right, that's as far as I'm gonna go with it. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:56.440 Felt something in my hip. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.440 It's Daniel son and the Karate Kid, and he wins 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:07.439 the tournament by kicking Johnny in the face. But earlier 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.280 in the movie The Karate Kid, we learned that kicks 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.000 to the face were illegal. So how did he win 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.880 the tournament if he did the thing that was illegal. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.680 The answer is somebody just screwed up. Huh. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.400 Somebody in the scriptor in the editing room. They didn't 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.800 think the whole thing through. That's called a plot hole, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.440 not a twist. The twist is Daniel's son gets beats up, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.640 paints fences, and wax his cars, and then kicks the guy. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:35.959 In the face. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.760 The plot hole is he was supposed to get disqualified 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:39.839 for kicking him in the face. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.640 This is a very deep church, by the way. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.280 Okay, we talk about deep things all the time here. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.440 That's a plot hole. See the difference. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.280 My favorite plot hole of all time is from the 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.000 TV show Friday Night Lights. There's a character in Friday 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.040 Night Lights named Buddy Garretty who has a daughter named 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.200 Lilah Garritty. And in one of the episodes of Friday 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.920 Night Lights, Buddy and Lila are having a fight and 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.800 Lilah Garretty, Buddy Garretty's daughter, takes her car. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.160 And I forgot to tell you this. Buddy Garritty owns a. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.360 Car dealership and he's a booster for the Dylan Panthers. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.600 And so Lilah is so mad at her dad, Buddy Garrity, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.680 she drives her car through the front window of his 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:27.920 showroom and the episode ends. Next episode, the window is back. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:35.160 She doesn't get beat, she doesn't get grounded. They're completely fine. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.080 We were watching that. We looked at each other and wait, 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.640 wait a minute, did we miss an episode? Did we 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.280 skip an episode? No, it's a plot hole, And in 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.000 that particular instance, our family loved it so much we 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.240 created a rule in our family called watch this the garrity, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.720 named after Buddy and Lila Garritty. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.320 It's when you do something. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.880 Dumb in our family, like the equivalent of driving a 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.320 car through a window, and you want to to be 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.520 as if it never happened, you can call a family verdict, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.400 family counsel and. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.720 Ask for a garrity. And here's here's the rule. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.760 Though, everybody in the family has to unanimously agree. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.800 To give you a garrity. And if everybody agrees to. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.600 Give you a garrity, we can never mention it. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.480 But everybody has to agree. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.960 And many garrityes have been given in our family, and 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.080 many garrityes have been with hell, there's even a subworld 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.280 to this world. There's there's a lot to this little game. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.440 You can get Elilah. Alilah is when the family can 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.840 talk about it and not around others. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:41.400 It's a whole thing. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.440 I'm gonna teach my parenting class once all of my 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.040 kids are fifty years old and older. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.440 But that's what we're working on now. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.040 Let me bring this all together, hopefully, and there's hopefully 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.400 a twist, but not a hole. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:55.680 In it. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:04.400 When I finish with it, okay, is unresolved and illogical. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.200 It doesn't match the rules of the world that have 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.800 been created. It makes no sense, and it wasn't intentional. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:18.160 Plot twist is it doesn't make sense right now, but 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:25.760 it will because the author intended it. In Acts Chapter one, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.960 we are in the midst of the greatest plot twist 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:35.720 in human history, where death became defeated, and where the 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:41.400 grave became a trophy of the grace of God, who 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.240 is greater than the violence of men and the sins 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.360 of your heart, and who has overthrown everything that stands 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.800 between you and Him forever and ever. For the disciples, 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.920 though what now is clearly to us through the lens 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:04.960 of history a plot twist felt like a plot hole 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.320 because they didn't know when he went to the cross 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.520 that he would get up, even though he told them 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.199 he would. Because would you believe your friend if he 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.639 said that. Would you believe your boss if he said that? 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.399 Neither did they really they were shot by the cross 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.880 because what for us has become the jewelry that we 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.399 wear to remember the plot twist. Here's the plot twist. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.400 We were sinners, enemies of. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.200 God, but God, that's a plot twist. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.640 But God, somebody say, but God put it in the comments, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.960 but God. Yeah, But God, who is rich in mercy, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.280 demonstrated his own love for us in this that while 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.960 we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So we 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.439 shout about that, but they couldn't. Because when you're living 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.840 in it, it doesn't feel like a twist. 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.639 It feels like a hole. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.600 It doesn't feel like a twist when you don't know 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.720 how it ends. I'm speaking to somebody today who feels 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:17.040 like I'm in a plot hole right now, not knowing 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.760 how this will make sense, and pretty sure that it 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:21.399 never will. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:23.840 He just walked out on me. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.520 He did not explain it, and I did not deserve 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.600 to be abandoned like that. To be in that kind 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.800 of moment in your life, it does not satisfy to 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.480 give spiritual superlose to say to you in those moments, smile, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:39.880 Everything's gonna be okay. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:41.359 God's got your back. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.760 Because while it may be a plot twist, I experience 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.719 it as a whole. When you're living in it, it 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.400 doesn't feel like a twist because it hasn't turned around 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:55.120 just yet. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.960 Who am I preaching to today? 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:05.440 Added to the trauma that they are still recovering from 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:06.919 of watching watch this. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.960 The innocent one be treated as a criminal. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:14.040 To us, that's a plot twist, because we understand that 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.840 we were criminals treated as innocent ones. He was an 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.120 innocent one treated as a criminal to us. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.480 That's a twist. To them, it was a whole to them, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:26.280 it was the end. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.439 To them, the cross meant the end of his mission, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.919 and yet what they saw as the end of the 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:41.400 mission from his perspective, was really its fulfillment. I wonder 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.080 could that be true of some of the things that 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.480 you're going through in your life right now too, That 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.640 these apostles who are waiting for the Holy Spirit. Let's 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.639 talk about waiting for the Holy Spirit. You don't have 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:57.800 to do that. He already came. Now imagine this, Jesus 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.040 is not here anymore, and either is the Spirit that 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.119 he said is coming. Put yourself in that position. And 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.119 this is what's real crazy about it. You're going to 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.280 talk about a plot hole. A plot hole when something 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.480 happens is just completely random and ridiculous. A plot hole 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.280 when something happens that you completely. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.480 Don't expect and it doesn't make sense. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.359 All right, Let me show you how little sense this makes, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.320 and maybe this will encourage you for your own situation today. 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.439 In Acts chapter one that I just read you, the 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.240 Bible says something that if you don't trust the author 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.600 of this story, you might even think this is a 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.440 plot hole. You might stop reading the Bible because it says, 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.240 for said Peter, it is written. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:41.640 In a book of Psalms. 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.960 If you've been reading your Bible up to this point, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:49.280 we have seen Peter. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.840 I don't mean to bring up his lowest moment when. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:58.760 Jesus was being crucified. He was cussing. So we have 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.520 seen Peter cussing while Christ. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.960 Was being crucified. Now this guy who. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.760 Was cussing while Christ was being crucified is quoting not 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.360 only the Bible, but the most. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.920 Beautiful book of the Bible, the Book of Songs. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.400 That's almost a plot hole that somebody could be cussing 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.720 one moment and quoting Psalms the next moment. 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.000 But won't God do it? I said, won't God do it? 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:31.720 Because it can go the other way too. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.639 Some of you who are singing real beautiful songs in 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.360 church today, let's see when the traffic hits tomorrow. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.520 Are you still quoting the Lord is good. I sought 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.399 the Lord high up. 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:56.400 That's a plot hole right there. Christians that don't act 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:05.520 like Christians and sinner that start acting like saints. Yeah, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:10.679 you could change. You could change. You can change, you 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.000 can change. That's what I heard when I said, for 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.240 it is written in the book of Psalms, said Peter. 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.320 I was like, Oh, if the one who was cussing 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:24.639 can start quoting the scriptures, then there is hope for 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.640 everybody I'm going to preach to today. Then I don't 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.239 care if you're watching this in prison. I don't care 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.200 if you're watching this addicted. I don't care if you're 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.240 trying to reach for a pill while I'm preaching. This 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.360 powerful grace of Almighty God. 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:44.800 Can twist the plot. Ah, lift you up out of 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.920 your pit. That's what I'm talking about. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.560 That's who I'm praising, the plot twister, the page turner. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:56.480 Who I can be cussing one minute and preaching the next. 0:22:56.920 --> 0:22:57.720 Get ready for. 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:03.960 A revolution in your life. 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:09.199 Your kids might shock you. Yet, your kid might not 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.199 even have graduated high school and they might end up 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.920 doing a ted talk that people who are professors at 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:15.640 Harvard end. 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:19.880 Up watching on YouTube. 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:24.040 This is a twist. Tell somebody, it's a twist. It's 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:29.440 a twist from cussing to quoting. It's a twist from 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:34.840 sorrow and mourning to the oil of gladness and joy. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:36.840 It's the twist. 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.800 Now, some people twist the truth, but sometimes the truth 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:45.440 will twist you. And that's why Jesus said to Peter 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:47.360 before he left the earth, to send the precious Holy 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:51.480 Spirit after you have turned back, after you have turned back. 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:53.600 He hadn't even messed up yet. 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:57.720 The Lord was predicting the comeback before the fall even occurred. 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.520 How does that make you feel? How does that make 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:02.880 you feel about your failure? 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.359 Now, y'aught to feel a little bit better about. 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:07.280 Your future. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:13.720 Because God saw your failure from the future and he's still. 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.880 With you in it. We got to go quicker than this, y'all. 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:18.920 We're on the first verse of the same passage I'd 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:24.560 freached last week. But I think that if I can 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:28.239 show you this, you really understand the heart of it 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.920 for the moments in your life that. 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:32.880 Feel like a plot hole. 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:35.440 Now, seeing about several categories, I was thinking about how 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.119 a plot hole is not only when somebody drives the 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:40.439 car through the glass and they act like it never happened. 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:44.320 It's not only the event, it's when the individual does 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:47.480 something that's completely out of character, like this in the text. 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:51.040 And so that could mean for you that you were 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:56.680 doing so good and then hit a setback, you were 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:01.879 sober so long, and then one night, one business trip. 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:05.960 That could mean for you that you thought that people 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:10.959 who treated people with kindness received kindness in return, and 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.160 you did it, And you really should have known better, 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:18.920 because Christians follow Christ, and he gave nothing but good 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:24.000 and received evil in return and returned kindness and grace 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:24.639 for evil. 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:27.439 But even though it's easy for us to see that 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.000 in the story of Jesus, it is so art to 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:34.439 see that in the story of You. Please tell your 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:39.160 neighbors so they're not confused. I'm not Jesus, so it's 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:43.640 not easy for me to believe this stuff when I'm 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:47.720 living in it. You're living in a. 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:52.159 Twist, but it feels like a hole. You're living in 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:55.720 a new beginning, but it feels like the ending. Every 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.159 new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. I think 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:01.159 that was a song from the nineties. I'm not sure who. 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:02.800 I just ripped off with that quote, but it felt 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:04.439 annoyed when I said it. So I said it and 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:09.639 I let it fly. Yeah, it's closing time. That's what 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:09.919 it is. 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:12.480 That's what it is. I remember it. Don't copyright strike me. 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.800 And he said, watch this, he said, two scriptures from 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:17.680 the book of Psalms. 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:20.280 Now he's reaching back to go forward. I want you 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:21.280 to understand. 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:24.080 That sometimes I have to reach back to go forward. 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:28.919 He reaches all the way back to David and he 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:33.800 quotes something that David said in Psalms sixty nine. That's 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:37.639 the first thing Psalm sixty nine to twenty five. David 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:41.240 is talking about someone who took over the throne, but 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:44.280 they didn't have the rightful place. And David said, may 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.320 his place be deserted, let there be no one to 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:50.359 dwell in it. So, in other words, he's saying, get 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:54.560 the wrong people out of the right places. And how 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:57.840 many want God to do that in your life. I 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:00.560 don't want the wrong best friends. I don't want the 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:04.600 wrong boyfriend. I don't want the wrong confidence. I don't 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:06.840 want the wrong enemies in my mind, I don't want 0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:08.960 to be pushing people away from me that God is 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:12.240 trying to send to me to help me. So now 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:17.280 Peter has a plot hole. I'm waiting for the Holy Spirit. 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:18.600 I am a. 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:24.160 Failure because of my lack of courage at the moment 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:30.040 of his crucifixion. But he he starts quoting scripture and 0:27:30.119 --> 0:27:31.359 applying it to his life. 0:27:31.400 --> 0:27:33.160 Watch not just one scripture, look at. 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:37.399 The second one, and may another take his place of leadership. 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:42.120 They're talking about Judas, but see David wasn't talking about Judas. 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:44.760 David was talking about something totally different. 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:50.359 This is from Psalm Oh shoot, is it one oh nine, 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:56.800 verse eight, something like that. Please pray for me that 0:27:56.800 --> 0:28:00.640 that's the right Psalm. Up, Dard, it's round there writing 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:02.960 about some one oh something other right there on the 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:05.760 ing him verse. He is in there somewhere. How many 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:07.000 y'all use that approach. 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:09.080 To the Bible? He is in there somewhere. I know 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:12.440 he's in there somewhere. Well, Peter didn't have to say 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:17.239 is in there somewhere? He had read some things. This 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:18.960 is not It's on the surface it kind of looks 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:19.720 like Peter is doing. 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:22.159 Did you'll ever hear the old preacher story about the 0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:24.439 guy who he needed God to help him make a decision? 0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:26.520 So he said all right, Lord, I'm just gonna flip 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:29.159 my Bible open and the first thing it lands on, 0:28:29.200 --> 0:28:31.840 I'm a point and I'm gonna do it. So he 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:35.600 flipped his Bible open and pointed, and the scripture that 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:38.440 his finger landed on said Judas went and hanged himself. 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.680 He said, oh Lord, let me turn the page. Try 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:45.080 another one. And he did it again, and it said, uh, 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:46.640 go thow and do likewise. 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:50.520 And he said, well, I'm gonna try one more time. 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:54.640 Whatever thou doest, do it quickly. And so he closed 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:57.080 the Bible. He said that don't work. And it seemed 0:28:57.080 --> 0:29:01.720 like Peter. It seemed like Peter is just trying scriptures 0:29:01.800 --> 0:29:03.080 like a well. 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:04.360 This one song says that he's left it is early. 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:06.400 Let another ticket of leadership. 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:11.720 No, no, this is a very systematic student you're watching here. 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:13.360 Don't get it twisted about Peter. 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:18.920 These psalms were actually known as psalms that referred to 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:23.240 the righteous sufferer Jesus Christ. So not only were they 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:27.520 pointing to Jesus, but they were pointing to Peter's situation too. 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:29.640 And I need you to know. 0:29:29.960 --> 0:29:33.960 That God has a back then word for whatever is 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:41.640 your right now situation. Yeah, and and may another take 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:45.280 his place of leadership. So he's saying, Lord, I need 0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:47.960 you to not only move the wrong stuff out, how 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:50.320 many need God to move some clutter out of your 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:54.320 life in this season, some wrong thoughts, some wrong paradigms, 0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:58.400 some dirty habits, some nasty thoughts, some things that are 0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:01.000 keeping you bound and in chain. And you smell like 0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:03.640 what you've been through and you need a change of clothes. 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.920 So not only is Peter saying take all of that away, 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:11.480 but he's also saying, put in what needs to be 0:30:11.600 --> 0:30:17.240 put in, put in what needs to be put in. 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:24.640 Let another take his place of leadership, put in what 0:30:24.800 --> 0:30:28.200 needs to be put in. And that's exactly what's about 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:31.520 to happen on the day of Pentecost. God is about 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:36.240 to put in exactly what needs to be put in. 0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:41.520 And what they need is not human resources. And what 0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:44.400 they need is not just to have a nice, pleasant 0:30:44.400 --> 0:30:47.640 time about it. And what they need is not for 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:51.000 Judas to have never betrayed Jesus. Stop revising the way 0:30:51.000 --> 0:30:52.320 you wish it would have went in your mind. It 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:56.280 didn't go that way. What they need is the power 0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:58.040 of the Holy Spirit. 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:02.560 What I needed, say it out loud, What I need 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.400 is the power of the Holy Spirit. 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:12.120 What I need is the presence of the Holy Spirit. 0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:18.080 What I need is the plan I felt God on 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:21.760 that one. I need the plan of the Holy Spirit. 0:31:23.280 --> 0:31:26.080 And this is where it gets very interesting in your life, 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:34.680 because it is amazing that Peter knew what was necessary. 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:39.960 I'm going to spend a few minutes on this word necessary. 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:43.720 I need God to show me in this season of 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:48.320 my life, what is necessary where it is necessary for 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:51.440 me to spend my time, where it is necessary for 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:54.800 me to put my money, where it is necessary, necessary 0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:57.680 for me to invest in relationships that will be fruitful. 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:00.440 And I don't just mean that people are supposed to 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:03.560 always be helping me. Show me who I'm supposed to help. 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:07.600 Y'all don't like that one as much. Show me who 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:10.680 to be a blessing. To show me who to convert 0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:13.720 the bitterness of my regret into the wisdom of experience 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:16.160 so that somebody else never has to hurt like I 0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:20.560 had to hurt. I need to know what's necessary. 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:23.959 And my question is this okay? 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:27.000 Because we know the twist the Holy Spirit is coming. 0:32:27.200 --> 0:32:29.840 We know the twist, the sound of a mighty rushing wind. 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:30.640 We know the twist. 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:32.520 They all speak in other tongues, and they all hear 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:35.160 it in their own languages. And the Gospel goes forth 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:39.000 and fills the earth. But remember before the Gospel filled 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:42.960 the earth, God had to fill them. 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:44.160 I'm gonna say it again. 0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:49.080 Before the Gospel could fill the earth, God had to 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:53.880 fill them. Before the mission can go forward, I need 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:58.880 God to fill me. Somebody say, fill me, Lord with 0:32:59.040 --> 0:33:05.080 your wisdom, fill me, Lord with your ways, fill me, 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:09.920 Lord with your will. Now you've heard of the Sinner's prayer, 0:33:09.960 --> 0:33:15.120 before the sinner's prayer, Lord, be merciful to me a sinner. 0:33:16.640 --> 0:33:18.160 Or maybe you've been through recovery and you heard of 0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:23.320 the serenity prayer. God grant me the It's good, but 0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:23.760 I can't. 0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.360 Remember it at the moment. Something about the. 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:32.840 Courage to the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:35.280 the courage to change the things I can, and the 0:33:35.320 --> 0:33:35.920 wisdom to. 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:41.640 Know the difference about like that. Well, this is different 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:43.720 prayer I want to give you today. Those are beautiful. 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:46.560 I cannot add to those, and I never would subtract 0:33:46.560 --> 0:33:49.440 from them. But I won't teach you a prayer called 0:33:51.200 --> 0:33:56.360 the plot hole prayer. For you to pray when it 0:33:56.400 --> 0:34:01.440 makes no sense. I'm gonna give this to you, and 0:34:01.480 --> 0:34:03.480 I only pray. The only thing I ask in return 0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:08.120 is use this sucker. Now you're like, but I don't 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:10.080 know if it went to yet. It's from the Bible. 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:12.840 I'm about to show you. It's only in the Bible. 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:16.600 I'm not I didn't make it up. It's when Peter 0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:19.560 is trying to figure out what to do next. Are 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:22.040 you trying to figure out what to do next? Okay, 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:24.640 then you need this prayer. It's when Peter is in 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:26.640 a position that is new for him. Are you in 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:29.600 a season of life that is new for you? Come on, 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:39.840 everybody over fifty five, it's new to be old. And 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:41.520 I'm going to show you two things. I'll come back 0:34:41.520 --> 0:34:43.240 here in a moment, but let. 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:45.200 Me get to it. They nominate two men, and they know. 0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:48.040 For a fact that they are nowhere near smart enough 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:49.160 to know what to do next. 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:52.120 And they're probably smart enough to know. 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:54.400 That they would have picked Judas if they had been 0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:56.279 given the choice, and that didn't turn out too good. 0:34:57.360 --> 0:35:03.080 So they pray. Okay, they prayed. 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:11.200 Lord, you know everyone's heart, Show us which of these 0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:12.680 two you have chosen. 0:35:13.320 --> 0:35:13.520 Now. 0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:16.960 The essence of the prayer is this, God, help me 0:35:17.160 --> 0:35:22.120 choose what you've chosen. To believe that you have a 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:24.799 path for me, that you have a plot for me, 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:27.840 that you have a purpose for me, that you have 0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:30.719 a calling on my life, that you have an anointing 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:33.600 on my life. That you gave me your spirit for 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:38.440 an assignment, not just for leisure. I believe that, Lord, 0:35:39.000 --> 0:35:43.239 so believing that you have given me an assignment, and 0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:46.000 believing that you are writing a story that. 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:48.960 Is unfolding with time in my life. 0:35:49.080 --> 0:35:52.240 I want to pray this prayer like Peter prayed. Lord, 0:35:53.840 --> 0:36:02.880 you know, show us that's the plot hole prayer people, 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:08.439 when you don't know why it happened, when you don't 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:12.120 know how it will, when you don't know what would 0:36:12.160 --> 0:36:15.560 possess somebody to act like that, and why didn't God 0:36:15.719 --> 0:36:16.200 stop it? 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:24.280 Pray this Lord, you know, show us. 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:30.319 Now, whatever you need to put in that blank, fill 0:36:30.320 --> 0:36:35.439 it in, because they prayed. Lord, you know everyone's heart. 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:38.200 And by the way, this is how I would show 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:40.000 you in the Bible if we were just hanging out. 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.520 And that's why I've been trying to circle in highlight, 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:44.160 because when I want to show my kids something in 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:46.359 the Bible. I pull them over and I say, here's this, 0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:48.439 and here's that, and I start writing and I start 0:36:48.440 --> 0:36:49.920 showing because I get so excited. 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:51.240 And I saw this in the Bible. 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:52.799 And I thought about us, and I thought about you, 0:36:52.840 --> 0:36:54.360 and I thought about the hole that you're in, and 0:36:54.400 --> 0:36:55.960 I thought about the deficit, and I thought about the 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:57.680 thing that you feel behind it, and I thought about 0:36:57.719 --> 0:36:58.560 the thing that you can't figure out. 0:36:58.600 --> 0:36:59.959 And I thought about that thing that can make sense. 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:02.520 And I figured, if we could just get you to pray. 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:11.920 This, Lord, you know, show us whatever needs to go 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:16.839 in that blank. You can bet this is true about it? 0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:20.760 Shall I hit it again? 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:24.359 Whatever is in this blank? Oh, I wish you could 0:37:24.400 --> 0:37:26.680 see this right now. I wish you could see it 0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:27.359 like I see it. 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:30.440 Because whatever you put in this blank, they said, Lord, 0:37:30.600 --> 0:37:35.560 you know everyone's heart. Show us whatever you can put 0:37:35.560 --> 0:37:39.319 in that blank. Lord, you know how long it's going 0:37:39.400 --> 0:37:45.200 to take. Show me how to stay strong while I wait. Lord, 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:49.440 you know who was supposed to go into the next 0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:53.319 decade of my life with me, So show me who 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:56.000 to pick up along the way, to make up for 0:37:56.080 --> 0:37:59.160 the people that I thought would still be here. Right 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:04.239 now Lord, you know what I'm gonna go through for 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.399 the next few years. So here you can start even 0:38:06.440 --> 0:38:10.080 praying bold like this. This is a pothole, not a pothole, 0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:11.080 a plot hole prayer. 0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:14.480 What I would preach to, wasn't it pothole prayer? 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:17.520 You might pray another prayer, hit the pothole too hard, 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:21.759 might be cussing like Peter, But this is this is 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:24.680 what This is what you can pray. Watch this. This 0:38:24.840 --> 0:38:27.960 scripture that Peter is quoting was written centuries before he 0:38:28.000 --> 0:38:32.839 needed it, and he did not wait until he needed 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:34.200 it to know it. 0:38:40.680 --> 0:38:44.160 So I read it again, and I read it. 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:47.799 Again, and I asked the question, how did Peter know 0:38:49.120 --> 0:38:51.200 therefore it is necessary? 0:38:51.640 --> 0:38:52.319 How did he know? 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:56.040 How do I know what's necessary at this point in 0:38:56.080 --> 0:38:56.560 my life? 0:38:56.840 --> 0:39:00.480 How did he know what was necessary? It's because he 0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:07.879 knew what was written. And the more you know this, 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:15.319 the better you can figure out this. Ah shout like. 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:19.320 You're recovering Episcopalion that wants to be a Pentecostal. 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:23.120 Try it out right now, because the more I know, 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:28.440 somebody say, the more I know about what he spoke, 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:30.799 the more. 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:35.680 I can see what he's showing me to do. So 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:38.600 you come up on a situation right, and you come 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:41.479 up on a red sea, right, but you read about 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:44.719 a red sea somewhere, so you don't stop. 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.400 And die at the red sea. You read about. 0:39:47.200 --> 0:39:51.840 Moses who stretched out his staff, and you say to 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:54.279 yourself self, I. 0:39:54.200 --> 0:39:57.960 Don't have a staff, but I got a praise. I 0:39:57.960 --> 0:40:00.919 don't have a staff, but I got a hallelujah. 0:40:01.680 --> 0:40:04.640 I don't have a college degree, but I got a 0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:09.040 calculator and zero plus God equals in for that. 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:19.320 Hey, he's lit there. I know something, I know something. 0:40:20.920 --> 0:40:21.800 I know something. 0:40:22.120 --> 0:40:25.360 I know enough scripture to pull the scripture out like 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:28.319 the sword. And some people will say, well, you know, 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:33.919 well that's what they did in the Bible days. Huh, 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:35.960 they didn't even have the Holy Spirit. 0:40:36.000 --> 0:40:39.960 At this point. You have something they didn't even have. 0:40:41.280 --> 0:40:43.640 So when you get in your Bible, you better have 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:47.120 your ribbon ready. Huh, your ribbon ready, so you can 0:40:47.120 --> 0:40:49.720 go all right, devil, I don't even need this scripture 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:52.440 right now, But the next time you show up on 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:55.680 my door boom, I'm gonna hit you with that scripture 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.799 that I ran when I didn't need it, because I 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:01.719 remember red when I didn't. 0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:04.640 Need it, and I put a ribbon in it. Oh yeah, Beyonce, 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:08.160 say put a ribbon in it. Put a ribbon in it, 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.000 not a ring on it. Put a ribbon in it. 0:41:11.440 --> 0:41:15.320 When you come across something that God gave you for Manna, 0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:18.759 put a ribbon in it. So the next time the 0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:20.680 enemy starts from minding. 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:24.319 You up, you're saying, you say, very sad for. 0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:28.600 Miss come up Brazila. 0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:31.120 They miss that for now. 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:33.440 No, God, damn Nason. 0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:43.040 I'm rendedant for people. Five five four people say put 0:41:43.040 --> 0:41:43.839 a ribbon in it. 0:41:46.719 --> 0:41:48.960 I don't really feel like this sermon is for me. 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:52.479 Today nobody left me. I'm doing pretty good. You better 0:41:52.520 --> 0:41:55.640 put a ribbon on this. You better remember I was 0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:58.239 up here telling you so. When you find yourself in 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:00.759 a plothole, and I'm not really in a plot hole, 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:05.239 I make careful whines decisions. I have avoided the calamity 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:07.320 that comes with living a foolish life. 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:09.360 I don't really need it. You're gonna need. 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:12.240 This plot whole prayer. When you raise your kids exactly 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.200 right and they still act a little crazy. It only 0:42:15.239 --> 0:42:17.520 takes one fool friend to mess the whole plan of it, 0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:20.000 and then you better pray. 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:23.399 Lord, you know show us. 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:29.480 Yeah, somebody explained something to you, and then after they 0:42:29.520 --> 0:42:31.880 explained it, you felt so stupid that you acted how 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:36.759 you did before you had that piece of information. I 0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:38.520 was mad at this guy the other day because he 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:42.160 didn't do his job, and I was speaking to a supervisor, 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.680 and a supervisor said, I understand your frustration. 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:45.800 Let me fill you in a little. 0:42:47.520 --> 0:42:49.080 And he told me that the man had a terminal 0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:52.359 disease and he hadn't even told his whole family yet, 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:56.319 and that's why he had been distracted at Were you 0:42:56.360 --> 0:42:57.720 think I listened different? 0:42:59.120 --> 0:43:01.319 Do you think that gave me a different lens. 0:43:03.160 --> 0:43:08.520 All because somebody in a superior position filled me in. 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:15.080 What do you do. 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:22.200 When your story hits a plot hole? You say, Holy Spirit, 0:43:23.600 --> 0:43:32.880 fill me in. I got this plot hole and I 0:43:32.920 --> 0:43:36.880 need something to fill in. And if the Holy Spirit 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:43.440 doesn't fill in the enemy will, You're gonna let him 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:46.960 keep tormenting you like that because he keeps feeling in. 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:53.520 The devil will fill in details that aren't real. He 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:56.160 will make you block people that could have blessed you 0:43:56.520 --> 0:44:00.960 because you had a bad temper, because you got offended. 0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:04.240 Maybe they needed you. 0:44:04.320 --> 0:44:06.279 One of the biggest revelations I ever had about people 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:07.759 when I'm preaching in church, and I just share this 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:09.680 with you in case it ever happens in your life. 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:11.200 Some of the people that look like they're getting the 0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:14.640 least out of the sermon need it the most. So 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:17.160 what I used to think, like, oh, that person looks 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:17.760 very bored. 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:18.279 They hate me. 0:44:19.560 --> 0:44:25.200 Now I think they're hungry change everything. Now that's something 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.240 that I say, Lord, you know what they're going through. 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:35.520 Show me you know, fill me in, fill me in, 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:37.359 fill me in. 0:44:39.680 --> 0:44:41.800 It's like when you had Kristin Hannah on the book Club, 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:44.680 and this is Holly's favorite author. 0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:47.120 She's read a lot of her books. 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:48.239 I was going to say all of them, but I 0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:51.200 think she's written about thirty books, and I bet Holly's 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:54.920 read about ten of them. And when she got her 0:44:54.960 --> 0:44:57.919 on the book Club, she was so excited. Always wanted 0:44:57.920 --> 0:45:01.000 to talk to Kristin Hannah, and I watched her do 0:45:01.080 --> 0:45:03.759 the interview, and Holly did such a great job, and 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:07.400 I could tell I could tell Kristin Hannah was like, 0:45:07.440 --> 0:45:09.560 I would talk to you for hours, because Holly's so 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:12.279 good at drawing stuff out and when she's just talking, 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:13.400 when she's listening, and talking. 0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:15.759 It's just she has a real gift for that. And 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:19.120 that's why I call her the Holly Spirit, by the way. 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:23.560 And and then at the end of the interview they 0:45:23.600 --> 0:45:25.120 talked about the book and what happened, and they did 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:27.080 all the spoilers and all that, and everybody listened and 0:45:27.080 --> 0:45:28.560 asked questions, how'd you write it? 0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:29.040 Would you do? 0:45:29.560 --> 0:45:31.440 Then at the very end, this was a move I 0:45:31.480 --> 0:45:35.120 never saw before. Holly said, so do. And let's say 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:38.480 the characters' names are Jim and Nancy. She said, so 0:45:38.560 --> 0:45:40.560 do Jim and Nancy get together in the end, because 0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:44.680 the book ends without revealing then and Kristin Hannah said, 0:45:44.960 --> 0:45:49.759 oh yeah, absolutely, of course, not because it was in 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:52.480 the book, but because it was. 0:45:52.480 --> 0:45:53.000 In the author. 0:45:57.080 --> 0:46:03.040 See, when we talk about the Holy Spirit, some people 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:07.560 get scared, Right, are you going to be talking in tongues? 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:10.200 Maybe I sure will. 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:13.600 I will talk in tongues in a minute, I will. 0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:15.960 But that's not really what I wanted to talk to 0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:17.000 you about today. 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:23.480 Was like goosebumps and excitement. Because a UFC fight can 0:46:23.520 --> 0:46:28.640 give you goosebumps. What only the Holy Ghost can do 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:33.920 is show me what he knows that I don't. 0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:36.920 And it's a very. 0:46:36.760 --> 0:46:39.799 Natural starting place to just say, Lord, you know, if 0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:42.759 you would reinstate that core belief in your life, it 0:46:42.760 --> 0:46:46.479 would help you so much with your stress. To see 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:51.360 from his perspective, it's a twist, even though from yours 0:46:51.360 --> 0:46:55.640 it's a hole. The cross was always where Jesus was going. 0:46:56.640 --> 0:46:59.520 Peter was always meant to be the one to preach 0:46:59.560 --> 0:47:03.640 on the day of Pentecost. Even when he failed, his 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:09.960 future was secure. So when Holly asked Kristin Hannah, do 0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:13.040 they get together in the end, she did it because 0:47:13.040 --> 0:47:16.719 she was in a unique position that she had an 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:22.440 audience with the author. I came to tell you today, 0:47:23.280 --> 0:47:29.120 my brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, Peter and Matthew 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:33.360 and Bartholomew, I came to announce to you today, you 0:47:33.440 --> 0:47:36.640 don't only have a savior who died for you. You do 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:39.320 have a savior who died for you, but that's not all. 0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:42.880 You don't only have a savior who defeated death and 0:47:43.000 --> 0:47:44.280 held the keys of death. 0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:44.880 Hell and the grave. 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:48.360 Although you have that, and he's seated in heavenly places 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:51.479 beside the Father. Make an intercession for you right now 0:47:51.520 --> 0:47:56.239 as I preach. But you also have an audience with 0:47:56.400 --> 0:48:00.799 the author. And that means if you want to, you 0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:03.720 can get in the presence of God anytime you want, 0:48:04.080 --> 0:48:09.560 starting right now, and say, Lord, you know you know 0:48:10.320 --> 0:48:14.160 the plans you have for me. You know the plans 0:48:14.200 --> 0:48:17.480 you have for me. Plans to press for me and 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:20.759 not to harm me, plans to give me hope and 0:48:20.920 --> 0:48:25.600 the future. You not only know how my story ends, 0:48:26.160 --> 0:48:28.440 you know what's not going to be written in the 0:48:28.480 --> 0:48:35.440 book that time will reveal through the corridors of eternity. 0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:41.719 You know, why do you keep taking opinions from the 0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:49.919 crowd when you have an audience with the author. Why 0:48:50.040 --> 0:48:53.240 you keep living in the shadow of a critics insecurity 0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:58.200 when you have an audience with the author. Why do 0:48:58.320 --> 0:49:01.960 you keep staying up worry about stuff that the author 0:49:02.080 --> 0:49:02.839 is working on. 0:49:03.440 --> 0:49:05.560 I told you last week there's. 0:49:05.320 --> 0:49:08.319 Gonna be a sequel, and in this sequel we win. 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:10.600 And if you flip to the end of the back 0:49:10.640 --> 0:49:15.239 of the book, I spoke to the author and he said, everything's. 0:49:14.560 --> 0:49:20.839 Gonna be all right. I gotta feeling. I got more 0:49:20.920 --> 0:49:33.000 than a feeling. I got that. And suddenly somebody shouts. 0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:36.800 Suddenly because they prayed the prayer the plot hole prayer, 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:37.760 the Lord. 0:49:37.600 --> 0:49:38.120 You know prayer. 0:49:38.200 --> 0:49:38.640 Watch us. 0:49:38.760 --> 0:49:41.080 They didn't even do all the right stuff. Neither do we. 0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:49.280 The Bible says, they cast lots. That's like rolling dice, 0:49:50.680 --> 0:49:56.680 that's like flipping coins. That's like shaking a magic eight ball. Y'all, no, no, 0:50:01.760 --> 0:50:05.799 And yet even though they didn't do it exactly right, 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:08.560 watch this. They didn't even get the right process. But 0:50:08.600 --> 0:50:15.040 they prayed the right prayer. How deep can I go? 0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:16.960 How deep can I go? How deep can I go? 0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:21.600 Because you keep thinking, Oh, I gotta do it exactly right, 0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:24.719 You're never gonna do it exactly right. Oh I made 0:50:24.719 --> 0:50:26.480 the wrong choice. What's that got to do with it? 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:30.680 God has already chosen. God is already sovereign. Even if 0:50:30.719 --> 0:50:37.239 Matthias was the wrong disciple, Paul was on the way. 0:50:38.239 --> 0:50:39.960 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come with me. 0:50:40.080 --> 0:50:43.080 Let's don't just splash around on Sunday morning. Let's get 0:50:43.120 --> 0:50:44.480 you something you can pray. 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:46.680 In your real life. When you don't know how. 0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:49.120 It's gonna be, when you don't understand why they did it, 0:50:49.239 --> 0:50:52.279 when you don't feel the empathy inside of you, you pray, Lord. 0:50:53.480 --> 0:50:56.040 You know, fill me. 0:50:56.120 --> 0:51:04.080 In Acts Chapter two, Verse one, Acts. 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:05.040 Chapter two, Verse one. 0:51:06.040 --> 0:51:09.399 The Bible says, they were all together Acts Chapter two, 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:13.560 Verse one, the Bible says, when the day of Pentecost came, 0:51:14.400 --> 0:51:17.160 come on, I'm waiting for something from God. 0:51:17.520 --> 0:51:24.040 Well, when it came, they were all together in one place. 0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:28.480 And look what the Lord did. Verse two. 0:51:30.000 --> 0:51:37.080 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind. 0:51:38.080 --> 0:51:42.200 It sounds like trouble, but it's really transformation. 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:49.360 I'm almost done, I promise when you hear when that 0:51:49.520 --> 0:51:52.640 sounds like trouble, but it wasn't trouble. 0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:57.040 It was transformation. Something's blowing through your life right now. 0:51:57.200 --> 0:52:00.320 Something's changing in your life right now, Things rearrange, ancient 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:01.879 pages flying everywhere. 0:52:02.040 --> 0:52:03.160 You feel like it's a plot. 0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:03.359 Hole. 0:52:03.400 --> 0:52:06.560 No, no, no, it's a twist. It's a twist. It's 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:10.560 a twist. It's a twist. It's a twist. It's a turnaround. 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:13.640 And suddenly came a sound like the blowing of a 0:52:13.760 --> 0:52:19.239 violent wind. And it came from heaven. And what did 0:52:19.280 --> 0:52:21.839 the spirit do? Read the words with me. It came 0:52:21.840 --> 0:52:25.240 from heaven and filled the hole. 0:52:31.920 --> 0:52:35.640 Come get me, Mama, come give me, Come. 0:52:35.440 --> 0:52:38.520 Give me like they get James Brown. Give me off 0:52:38.520 --> 0:52:41.640 this stage because I hear. 0:52:41.520 --> 0:52:45.920 God saying, I'm a tame to fill the hole, the 0:52:46.040 --> 0:52:51.279 whole thing, the rest of your life. It's gonna be 0:52:51.360 --> 0:52:52.680 the rest of your life. 0:52:53.760 --> 0:52:55.360 How about to fill the hole? 0:52:56.480 --> 0:53:01.800 Say it the Lord who does see it from the beginning, 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:08.920 I say, God, felling your home your home. There's the 0:53:09.000 --> 0:53:14.040 whole church, there's the horror and the horor this fill 0:53:14.760 --> 0:53:21.040 with this flory, will way, filling with this. 0:53:24.000 --> 0:53:31.759 With your glory, Law glory. Fill in with your glory. 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:37.680 Filling with your glory, Lord, with your fill it with 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:38.480 your glory. 0:53:39.160 --> 0:53:41.279 Every story filling. 0:53:41.040 --> 0:53:46.040 With your glory when you ory, filling with your glory, 0:53:46.080 --> 0:53:57.760 with your So this story is not ending in death, 0:54:00.440 --> 0:54:05.759 because he said, Peter said, we have to choose what 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:08.000 God has chosen that he already knows. 0:54:08.320 --> 0:54:09.120 Now, I need you to. 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:11.080 Get it firm in your heart that there is a 0:54:11.120 --> 0:54:15.640 God and he knows. He knows what you're crying about. 0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:20.600 He knows what's behind what you're crying about. He knows 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:23.279 what you're crying about that happened last week, that's really 0:54:23.320 --> 0:54:31.040 about what happened eight years ago. Lord, you know, show me, 0:54:33.040 --> 0:54:35.080 show me what's really going on with my wife. So 0:54:35.120 --> 0:54:36.880 I can be a support like she needs show me 0:54:36.920 --> 0:54:39.120 what's really going on with my husband so I can 0:54:39.160 --> 0:54:40.360 step in with the right words. 0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:41.960 Show me what I'm supposed to be. 0:54:41.960 --> 0:54:44.279 Doing with the experience I have, even though I don't 0:54:44.320 --> 0:54:46.200 have the youth I had. Show me what I'm supposed 0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:47.480 to be doing with the youth I have, even though 0:54:47.520 --> 0:54:49.920 I don't have the experience I need. Lord, you know, 0:54:52.080 --> 0:54:56.239 fill me in. I hear Heaven saying, let me fill 0:54:56.280 --> 0:55:02.120 you in. He filled the whole house. Let me fill 0:55:02.120 --> 0:55:07.959 you in. Let me witness to you today. He said, 0:55:08.000 --> 0:55:15.880 they have to be witnesses of the resurrection, because the 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:17.720 resurrection of Jesus. 0:55:19.200 --> 0:55:26.600 Is the greatest plot twist in human history. That if 0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:26.880 you go. 0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:37.040 To that empty grave, you'll see a hole, a hole 0:55:38.280 --> 0:55:41.000 where power came from, a. 0:55:41.000 --> 0:55:44.319 Hole where purpose came from. 0:55:44.840 --> 0:55:50.000 We might even call it a plot hole, for while 0:55:50.000 --> 0:55:55.520 the enemy was conspiring and plotting to wipe Jesus out, 0:55:56.920 --> 0:56:00.520 Jesus was planning to bring us. 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:06.719 Now shall now shout now? Shout now, shout now, shout now? 0:56:06.800 --> 0:56:13.480 Shall oh? 0:56:18.760 --> 0:56:22.440 I learned the most important thing about plot holes is 0:56:22.480 --> 0:56:26.839 what do you fill it with? H You're gonna fill 0:56:26.880 --> 0:56:30.200 it with fear, You're gonna fill it with faith. 0:56:31.600 --> 0:56:34.759 You're gonna fill it with junk. You're gonna fill it 0:56:34.800 --> 0:56:35.440 with Jesus. 0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:41.600 What you fill it with will determine what comes forth 0:56:42.080 --> 0:56:51.480 from it. And suddenly, No, you won't see wind, you 0:56:51.600 --> 0:56:57.359 won't see rain, to drown with. Everything can change all 0:56:57.440 --> 0:57:02.280 of a Suddeny, that's a plot twist, all of a sudden. 0:57:03.520 --> 0:57:06.600 Get ready and he will come. 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:13.720 Cooky's name, Holy, Oh, that's the Holy Yall street up Sunday. 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:18.160 That's the Holy Spirit filling that hole. I want you 0:57:18.320 --> 0:57:19.680 to sing it like you know him. 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:23.680 No, you won't see when and you won't see it, 0:57:24.040 --> 0:57:30.439 mister travel and everything can say, Mama. 0:57:30.160 --> 0:57:34.520 Side on your own healing, Mama sade, where your name is, 0:57:35.160 --> 0:57:42.920 Mamma Sats'll call your street. 0:57:46.000 --> 0:57:47.400 I'm dealing coming. 0:57:47.640 --> 0:57:48.880 The son of the Sun. 0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:51.360 He's gonna come on the. 0:57:51.520 --> 0:57:55.520 Sat It's gonna come on on facade. 0:57:56.680 --> 0:57:59.320 Fill the fact. 0:57:59.720 --> 0:58:06.439 He's the sagay thing. Marks got any comment? Oh my god, 0:58:08.880 --> 0:58:09.520 it's gone out. 0:58:15.040 --> 0:58:16.400 That will be class break. 0:58:16.480 --> 0:58:17.520 It's gonna come on. 0:58:18.200 --> 0:58:20.600 Well, be good, pray not feeling comments. 0:58:33.000 --> 0:58:35.440 Will I'm filling a milling. 0:58:41.000 --> 0:58:41.280 Listen. 0:58:43.480 --> 0:58:47.120 Thank you for someone you all, thank you for. 0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:54.440 Thank you for joining us. 0:58:54.800 --> 0:58:57.200 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:58:57.320 --> 0:59:00.760 this ministry is because of you that this ministry is possible. 0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:03.440 You can click the link in the description to give 0:59:03.560 --> 0:59:07.680 now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 0:59:07.720 --> 0:59:11.320 information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 0:59:11.800 --> 0:59:13.840 You can share it with your friends. 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