Stop Crying, It's Coming!

0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.920 Right now. I don't know what y'all wanna do on 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.800 the instruments, but we're gonna take twenty one seconds for 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.840 the year twenty twenty one, and we're gonna praise God 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:13.640 for his mighty power and his awesome work. And we're 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.320 gonna do it in Gaston and Concord and Lake Norman 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.599 and Valentine. We're gonna do it in our bedrooms and 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.560 kitchens and living rooms and cars. Praise them on the treadmill. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.479 Some of y'all got a podcast going. Just holler in 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:32.120 the gym. They will throw you out bed. I praise 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.400 you Lord. I'm running and not growing weary. I'm walking 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.240 in a will knock fad. I give you a pray. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:53.120 I did you praised? I'm gonna saved the praise. Whoo whooh, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.360 didn't that feel good. Let's get those hands out of 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.880 those pockets and start clapping. You clapping the Devil's hip. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.480 It's back. It's back, it's back, it's back. I'm so 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.800 excited to preach. I broke my mic and I hadn't 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:22.720 even write my scripture, all right, so let me start 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:29.880 the sermon. Now, Welcome everybody to Elevation Church. I'm gonna 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:35.919 share with you today this scripture. I had a substitute 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.040 preacher ready because my voice was tired from preaching on 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.000 this tour. But it was almost like a battle of 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.399 two voices, because the voice of God was speaking to me, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:53.680 and I was like, well, I'll preach this week. Somebody 0:01:53.840 --> 0:02:02.760 needs this word. The Lord brought me here for you. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.680 You believe God loves you that much that he would 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:10.320 make sure you were here to hear this. I totally 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.880 believe that. I want to preach for a moment. From 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.320 Hagi chapter two, Draham said, are you preaching this week? Dad? 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.960 I said, I think so. God's speaking to me And 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:25.360 he said from Luke five, because that's what I've been 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.720 preaching in church and I preached it out there. I said, no, Son, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:34.080 not from Luke five. He said, let's go. He was 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.520 so tired of hearing about Simon and the nets and 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.280 the boats. Chris didn't get tired of it. One time. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.400 Chris got saved. Every night on the Elevation Nights tour, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:49.760 he rededicated sanctified Spiritville. He was walking around speaking in tongues. Backstage, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:55.840 David was eating grapes. Tiffany's about the only pure one 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.760 on the worship team. Don't let their smiles for me. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.160 I love this scripture is such a powerful prophecy and 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.320 a promise for us. Listen to this Hagi too. That's 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.080 three books from the back of the Bible. You'd be 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.640 better off to start or back of the old tip. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.520 So you go to Matthew, go back three books. That's hagi. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.480 Be the easiest way to find it. If you like 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:27.600 to flip or look at the screens lazy booms. In 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.600 the second year of King Darius, on the twenty first 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.480 day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:41.160 came through the prophet Hagi. The word of the Lord 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:47.560 came through the prophet Hagi. Speak to Zarabebel, son of 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.680 Shiel Tiel, Governor of Judah, to Joshua, a son of Joseidac, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.480 the High Priest, and to the remnant of the people. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.920 Ask them, who of you is left? Who saw this 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:08.720 house in its former glory? How does it look to 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.600 you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:22.720 But now, be strong, Sir Rubebel, be strong, Zerubebel, declares 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.200 the Lord, be strong. Joshua, son of joseph Ac, the 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:32.279 High Priest, be strong. Say your name. Say it in 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.080 the chat right now, Be strong, Stephen, say your name. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.480 Be strong, because you have to talk to yourself this way. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.239 All right. God's not always gonna have a Hagie following 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.320 you around telling you you can do it. So say it. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.880 Say be strong and say your name. Say be strong, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:56.559 Be strong, Be strong, all you peoples of the land, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:02.200 declares the Lord, and work for I am with you, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:10.960 declares the Lord Almighty. This is what I covenanted with 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.080 you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:19.000 remains among you. Do not fear. This is what the 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.640 Lord Almighty says. In a little while won't be long. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.599 It might be happening right now. It might happen before 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.799 you get home today. In a little while, I will 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.839 once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.760 and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.440 what is desired by all nations will come, and I 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:52.240 will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:58.440 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.640 the Lord Almighty. And the crypto and the bitcoin, it's 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.320 all mine, declare whatever they make I trade in it. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:14.280 I am the Lord Almighty, and the glory of this 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:22.560 present house will be greater than the glory of the 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:27.520 former house, says the Lord Almighty. And in this place 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:34.919 I will grant peace. This place I will grant peace, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:40.360 declares the Lord Almight, not declares Pastor Stephen. I wouldn't 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.760 give you two dollars for what I say. But when 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.159 God says it. And this is the word God said 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.080 to say to you today, you ready. God said to 0:06:50.120 --> 0:07:01.200 tell you this my title. Stop crying is coming. Who 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:12.680 stop crying is coming? Stop crying is coming. You may 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:23.160 be seated. Wow. Well, so we got to talk about temples. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.920 That's what's happening in Hagai too. They're rebuilding the temple, 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.000 the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. It's been in 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.320 ruins for over fifty years because the people of God 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.000 got carried off to Babylon. He gave the history lesson 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.960 real quick. Just a little one, just a little one, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.120 just a little context. Every blessing has a context. So 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.560 you don't want to just shout over something that you 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.080 don't understand the context that it's set in. All right, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:59.239 very important to understand that they've been in Babylon because 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.720 they were carried off, not of their own choice, but 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.760 they've been in Babylon. When Psalm says that by the 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.520 rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept, they actually 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.280 hung up their their harps and their electric guitars and 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.240 their tailors and their martins hung it all up on 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:23.040 the willow tree, which represents sweeping, and they web for 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.720 seventy years. So what we're stepping into in Hagai chapter 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.320 two is much more than just the rebuilding. All right. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.280 I hesitate to use that word because it's soapop culture 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.240 and it's so buzzy at almost certain words right now 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.280 just make you feel sick to hear them all over again. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.360 We're going to rebuild this nation, and we're going to 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.600 rebuild this economy, and we're going to rebuild We're going 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.440 to build it back better, praise God. And that's not 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.840 the hype right here. This is the hope, the hope, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.800 the hope, the hope, not the height, not the hype, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.679 but the hope is that they are going to rebuild 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.640 the temple. But really, really, they are going to reinvent 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:09.440 their template. Template. And what comes to mind when I 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.880 say template will depend on your background. If you're like 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.360 in a computer background, a template means one thing, if 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.319 you are like in a machine, if you use machinery 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.600 and stuff. They use metal and wood as a template 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.280 for a pattern to build something. Or is even if 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.720 there's really any geniuses in here. Is even in DNA 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.320 and in genetic code, we talk about the template. But 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.640 understanding this will really help us to know what Hagi 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.880 had to do to encourage the people, because this temple 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.000 that they're rebuilding, that was destroyed, which represented the center 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:50.200 of Jewish life in Jerusalem, was completely unfamiliar to one generation. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:56.040 They had only heard about it, they never saw it. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.800 The only people who saw Solomon's Temple, which was awesome, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.600 and I'll tell you a little bit about it in 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.080 about forty five seconds. But the only ones who saw 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:12.120 it are now senior citizens. That's important. But let's talk 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:18.280 about Solomon's temple. It was so grand that one historian 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.080 said half of the gold in the world at the 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:27.880 time of Solomon was used to overlay the temple, half 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.319 of the world's gold. I started studying about it. I said, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.200 what would you need half the gold in the world 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.680 for to build a temple? I mean, can't God meet 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.080 you anywhere? He met the Israelites and the tent in 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.320 the wilderness. He didn't need a bunch of gold to 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.800 meet with the people. I mean, he'll meet with you. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.079 Some of you. You met God, not somewhere in a 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.800 church service, but you met God on the kitchen floor 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.520 trying to crawl to the toilet to throw up, promising God, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.680 I will never do it again. If you will get 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.200 me through this, or if you will let the test 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.200 be negative, I will never do it again. I know 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.440 it's early to be in your business, but you can 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:11.960 meet God anywhere. I mean anywhere meet God throwing up 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.880 in the toilet bowl. But here's this temple that God 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.200 gave his people, and he wanted it built that way 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.000 because he's great and he's glorious. The silver is his, 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.280 the gold is his. He doesn't mind any of that. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.679 Had a guy coming to church one tim, he said, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.080 I would get baptized, but I don't want to stop 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.080 driving my nice car. I said, who told you that? 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.640 He said there was a preacher one time that said 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.080 if I wanted to give it, I had to sell 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.360 everything and follow him. I said, did the preacher that 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.280 told you that? Because the guy was rich, and apparently 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.800 he has some preacher that was trying to build a 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.400 building for the church. So he's trying to work this 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.600 guy saying, well, now, if you really want to be 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.480 a sincere Christian, the proof of your sincerity is poverty. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.720 So you got to sell everything and give it to God. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:12:00.800 Lord said, I'm not stuck in your scarcity. I can 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:06.240 bless you so much with my runover as the disciples. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.720 God blessed them so much off of five loaves of 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.400 bread and two fish that they had to carry home leftovers. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.840 God said, you will break your back trying to carry 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:24.440 home what is left over if you will seek me first, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:29.199 not just money, but peace of mind. Don't you want that? 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.920 But meaning and purpose and significance that goes past this 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.720 present evil age. I feel like preaching and telling somebody 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:44.120 God's got it. God's got it anyway. It's a lot 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.680 of gold, right. The candlesticks were made of gold, five 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.360 on each side of the altar. In Sulomon's temple, the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.160 basins were made of gold. You know, the tongs that 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.000 they would pick up the colds with, those were made 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.920 of gold. This is how crazy God is. Even the 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:06.880 hinges on the doors were made of goal. That's that's extravagant. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:14.920 That was Solomon's temple. That was Solomon's temple. That is 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.320 not the temple that is being built in Hagai too. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.240 It's a different temple, and it requires a different template, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.640 you know, psychologically speaking, Right now, you have a template 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.560 that is formed. They tell me this anyway, by the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.880 neural pathways and associations in our brain. And really our 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:46.640 template is based on familiarity, not always truth. Now what 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.360 feels true to you might not be actually true. It 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:59.240 may just be your template. Everybody say template template. Now 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.000 imagine that the prophet hag guy. We don't know anything 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.679 about this guy. He's he's got some leaders. The Joshua, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.000 who comes from the line of Aaron, who was the 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.840 first high priest, Moses's brother. You might remember here in 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.600 his name. One time Moses was like, I can't speak God. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.640 He's like, here comes Aaron. He'll speak you shut up 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.560 and do what I tell you to do. Here's your staff, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.400 because God always send you what you need. And so 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.160 that's who Joshua, the son of josephak is. He's from 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.480 that priestly line of Erin. And then there's Zorubbabel, who's 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.160 a governor now here here, here's something that will help 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.600 you to know. The king at the time is called Darius. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.160 This is before he start hoody and the blowfish. Darius 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.880 was the I just got to keep you all awake 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.160 during this history lesson because y'are kind of shifting around 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.320 like a I when's he gonna preach? Here a sermon? 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:51.320 This is the sermon, okay, Because every blessing has a context. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:57.160 Every blessing has a context. And so Darius wasn't even 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.240 supposed to be king. But there was a coup when 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.240 the Persians took over Babylon. The Persian king his name 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.000 was Cyrus. He sent the Jews back. He's like, I 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.520 want you all to like me, so y'all can go 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:13.160 rebuild whatever you want. And that's who is back in Jerusalem, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.400 more specifically in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, rebuilding sixty 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:22.240 thousand of them. They come back and they start rebuilding 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:28.600 the temple. Because for the Jewish people, their template, the 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.520 way they saw it, their model was that spirituality should 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.760 be the center of life, not the periphery. We are 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.320 almost in the day where I preach the exact opposite. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.120 For us, spirituality is like the last thing that we 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.240 consider when we're making decisions. We will sooner move to 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.560 a city based on the climate than we will based 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.960 on the church. Lord Jesus, you didn't tell me is 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.320 going to be this quiet? You didn't tell me my 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.680 church turn Presbyterium. When I took one week off to 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.480 go on the road. You know what I noticed on Corona? 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.080 You know what I noticed. I would see people and 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.760 it's not fine. I don't care. You wear a mask, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.120 you don't wear a mask. I'm not here to talk 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.840 to you about that. I'm not a doctor. But what 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.640 I would notice is I would see people everywhere, no mask, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:21.080 mask off, future style, everybody mask off, all everywhere, And 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.320 I come up to them and we would be in 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.280 a ballgame, a restaurant, a movie, a mall, anything, And 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.840 I say, have you been back to church? You all 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.640 in the building ought to help me with this. You're 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.080 here I'm talking to now. That's a chance for you 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:41.800 to be sophisticated and superior. Nah. We hadn't made it 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:47.120 back to church, but you made it to the ball field. Nah, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.440 we haven't made it back to church. Because for us, 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.920 our template, our cultural template, the pattern of this world 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:59.520 is yet God is an add on. God is an 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.240 app and scripture is a salad bar and I pick 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.600 what I want. That's our template. That's our template. It 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.840 doesn't matter what what's true. Oh no, no, you gotta 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:21.680 live your truth. What if your truth is trash. It's 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.520 the fleece, y'all, it's the fleece. I'm burning up. And 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.280 so they know, before we can rebuild the walls, which 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.639 Nea Maya will come along later and start to do 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.119 not without opposition, before we can rebuild the economy, we 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.960 gotta build this temple. But they get discouraged in the work, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:47.920 you know, because it doesn't look like the old one. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.400 It doesn't look like the one we heard about. This 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.000 is the temple. Man, I thought it would be better 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.760 than this. You so make your decision to follow Christ, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:08.200 and then he doesn't give you a raise by next Monday. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:13.720 This is Christianity. I'm sorry. You have a bad template. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.080 If you just think that God exists to deck your 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.199 temple out in gold everywhere, that is not all God is. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.480 You know what Bible verse I love John eleven thirty five. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.480 How many of y'all need to memorize more scriptures, less 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:42.720 football stats chunks, and more scriptures fantasy football. God, if 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.760 I could just take some of y'all's heads and put 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:50.080 three Bible verses, so we'll start. We'll start today. Baby steps, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.960 baby steps, baby steps, all right, because you don't do 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:57.439 it once. John eleven thirty five put it on the 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:04.399 screen and Jesus wept. Now, look, it's not even the 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.520 week hasn't even started yet, and you memorized the whole scripture. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.760 Give yourself a ham. Come on, that's good, that's good, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:20.719 that's good. Jesus wept, and Jesus wept. You're like, well, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.639 what does that have to do over the the temple? 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:29.399 Because it's all about expectation right in John eleven thirty five, 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.240 Jesus is going to see these sisters named Mary and Martha, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.800 and their brother died, and Jesus didn't show up when 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.080 they thought he would, or when they thought he should, 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.919 and he could and they thought he should, but he didn't, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:51.920 and they were crying. They were crying. Now, Jesus did 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.159 not say to the sisters what your dad might have 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:56.800 said to you, that my dad would say to me. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:03.439 If you don't stop cry, finish it, I will give you. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:15.200 Y'all are traumatized. I felt trauma. Your shoulders got tense 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:22.240 when you said, ah, he didn't say that. He wept 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:29.480 with them. He wept with them. He weeps with me. 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.280 He knows my disappointments. They don't have to stay hidden. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.040 I can bring them right out in the light of day, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.879 because he knows the deeper disappointment behind the disappointment that 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.560 created the disappointment. He knows the descendants of my disappointment. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.399 He knows what disappointment led to what disappointment. Jesus did 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.160 an ancestry treat on all the things I'm frustrated about, 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.040 and he sees all of that. He knows the real 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.920 template that's driving my behavior. Knows the same about you. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.040 He knows why watch this, you push people away who 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.560 are trying to love you. You don't even know why 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.840 you do that yet. It's a mystery to you. You 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.240 don't even know why. Yet when things get good in 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.160 your life, you find some way to screw them up. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.119 And he knows why. It's because you figure, rather than 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.080 let somebody else take it away from me like happened 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:28.040 last time, I'll just take it away from myself. I 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.480 will take my ball and go home. I will take 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.680 my blessing and go home. So watch this. If your 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:39.000 template is every relationship ends in pain or betrayal. If 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.320 that is your template, you will start creating the very 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.840 thing that you fear to avoid being surprised by it 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:54.760 ever again. If that's your template, the template of these 0:21:54.800 --> 0:22:00.560 people was a temple that had so much gold that 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.399 they had to start putting gold in weird places like 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.720 the wash basin. They made Solomon's Temple's wash basin gold 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:14.480 just because God is that glorious. So then they start 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.040 building a new one. Ah, we're gonna build a temple. Oh, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.360 we're gonna get our life together. Oh, we're gonna lose 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.760 twenty pounds. You know what. The hard thing about keeping 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.240 weight off is nobody congratulates you from not putting it 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:29.480 back on. Oh you've lost weight. Nobody has ever said 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:34.720 to me, you still look decent. It's been six years 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.280 and you haven't fluctuated. Your jeens look the same size. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.720 That's awesome, good job. Nobody compliments you when the genes 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:46.800 stay the same size. That's what's difficult is they're not 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:53.600 just rebuilding a temple. God is reinventing their template and 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:58.919 their identity. They've been in Babylon so long they have 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:03.760 forgotten the songs of Zion. They've been on pandemic on 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.520 church online so long that they don't even remember how 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.440 to be in a crowd without being scared of catching 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:17.119 their death around people. Do you see why I have 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.920 no patience with people that say the Bible isn't relevant 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:25.560 to our day? Is this not us? Is this not us? 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:29.119 Not only have you been rebuilding what was destroyed in 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:33.439 the last two years, you've had to reinvent. You have 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.960 the same title, but it's a completely different template for 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:40.800 your job. I talked to the campus pastors when they 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:43.120 were calling church members and we couldn't pray for people 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.240 and lay hands on them. I said, this sucks for you, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.359 doesn't it. You signed up to do ministry with people 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:52.720 and now you're basically running a call center because you 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:57.160 can't touch. And touch was your template for ministry. It 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:01.919 was so hard to reinvent. It's been hard for me 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:06.040 to reinvent my identity as a pastor for years. My 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.800 adult identity for my ego was just like in high school, 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:12.480 it was how much do you bench press? But then 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.120 as a pastors, how many people come to your church? 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.320 So I went from bench to attendance. Oh yeah, you 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:26.359 got ten thousand. I remember those days, small beginnings. Sorry, 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:28.560 don't be discouraged. I'm tell you the Lord to give 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:30.359 you twenty. Can I get a thirty? Can I get 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:32.399 a forty? Can I get a fifty? Wait? Man, wait, 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:36.119 wait a minute minute. Now you're talking about I was 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:42.040 coming up in the church wondering would anybody come back? 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:47.520 I mean after training behavior. You know, I'm not fuscinating 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.760 to anybody that comes on online because really, really, really, 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.040 God has given us a template for ministry now that 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.280 we can reach you wherever you are. I praise God 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.080 for it. I mean there's some places we can't put 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:02.840 a building, but I can preach the Bible and we 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:05.159 can watch this. I'm about to say something cool. You'll clap. 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:07.480 God can give you a breakthrough where there is no 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:12.840 church building. So now God is expanding the territory of 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:16.960 the church. I hear from Zimbabwe about this ministry and 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:23.120 South Paulo, Brazil. I hear from everywhere. I hear from Kentucky. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:28.560 Whoa God is good? Sometimes God says your template is 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.679 too small for what I want to do. This is 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:34.840 not a temple built by human hands. This is a 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.840 temple that his name in heaven is unknown to men, 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.000 but it is revealed to us. It is it is 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:48.919 a shadow of Jesus Christ. Wow, all that is in 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:57.159 this text. Yeah, it's a text about reinventing. It's a 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:06.520 text about temples, text about templates. It's a text about trauma. 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:12.240 Is a text about tears, and there's a time for tears. 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.439 If sadness was a sin, Jesus couldn't have died for 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:23.840 yours because he cried. Disappointment doesn't make you wrong. Anger 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:27.680 doesn't make you wrong. There is just as much of 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:31.560 a danger of stuffing it and letting it come out sideways, 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:36.560 then letting it out. That's why I hate to hear 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:40.000 preachers say you don't need therapy and counsel and all 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:43.199 you need is the Holy Ghost. The blood is on 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:46.560 our hands when we talk like that, because God uses 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:49.280 all of that in people's lives. It's all a part 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:53.320 of the process that he uses. Matter of fact, that's 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:55.840 so dumb. Let's take that to the extreme. You don't 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:58.840 need airplanes, all you need is the Holy Ghost. I 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.600 don't see any preachers fly into their preaching engagements with 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:05.520 their own wings. So stupid God uses stuff. And even 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:07.000 in the text I read, it said the word of 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:12.399 the Lord came through hag II. Sometimes the help that 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:14.879 you need, the healing that you need, comes through people. 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:25.600 Sometimes even you know, like I treat my daughter different 0:27:25.640 --> 0:27:27.560 than my sons, and sometimes I have to catch myself 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:29.879 because they'll remind me you are too easy on Abby. 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:34.040 It wasn't like that for us, and they're right for them. 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:38.199 It was dry it up for her. You know, it's like, 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:42.120 I'll buy you one, don't worry about it. What's wrong 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:48.959 with me? Yeah, it's different raising boys and girl. It's 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:54.399 like a different template. It's different. So what God is 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:56.760 trying to get the people to do in Hagi Too 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.280 is not just to build what they had before four, 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:10.720 but to get ready for something better. All right, So 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:16.080 all this time you're spending wishing that it would be 0:28:16.200 --> 0:28:22.240 like it was before is completely wasted because God's not 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:26.439 gonna make it what it was before, because if he 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:30.480 listened to you and made it what it was before, 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:36.840 he couldn't make it better. And the Bible says that 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:41.680 we go from glory to glory as we are being 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:46.640 transformed by the image of God, not your image of 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:49.600 what God is supposed to be like, not your template 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:51.440 of what you were told God was like when you 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:54.840 were seven. Not your template of what men have always been, 0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:58.000 or women have always been, or Church has always been. 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:03.480 God is not consulted your template. It will be according 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:08.360 to His truth. God, what is your truth? That's what 0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:11.000 I want to be, my blue crip. I gotta get 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:14.360 in the word and find out what God said about 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.920 me before what people said about me became a faulty 0:29:18.000 --> 0:29:21.680 template to keep me trapped and buried in the rubble 0:29:21.920 --> 0:29:30.400 of yesterday. It's gonna be better. It's gonna be better. 0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:36.920 It's gonna be better. And sometimes the enemy of better 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:44.520 is not bad. It's before all right, how guy shows up? 0:29:45.480 --> 0:29:48.760 The people have gotten so discouraged building the temple externally 0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:54.000 and internally because there's resistance on the outside and there's 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:57.600 disappointment on the inside. And both are happening to you 0:29:57.720 --> 0:30:02.040 right now. It's almost impossible to live in this world, 0:30:02.520 --> 0:30:07.400 own a smartphone and not be an idiot. Everything is 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:11.480 against us, you know what I'm saying. And it's a 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:12.880 little bit of boath, it's a little bit of you, 0:30:12.960 --> 0:30:14.400 it's a little bit of the world. It's a little 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:18.600 bit of the devil. It's just this perfect storm, all right. 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:24.959 And you're not just rebuilding, you're reinventing. Not just for 0:30:25.000 --> 0:30:30.760 those of us in a midlife crisis, but for everybody. 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:37.320 You are always reinventing. That's the nature of it. Or 0:30:37.360 --> 0:30:42.360 you're dead, or you're reinventing, or you're dead. That's your 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:48.920 two options. So the Lord gave me these things I 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:50.680 want to teach. We don't have time to go through 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:54.480 all of them today. But I heard a rumor y'all 0:30:54.480 --> 0:31:01.600 are coming back next week. I heard that. Go ahead 0:31:01.640 --> 0:31:04.280 and put it on your schedule and tell her I 0:31:04.320 --> 0:31:06.560 can't next week. I got to hear the rest of 0:31:06.600 --> 0:31:08.000 this sermon. But let me give you. Can I give 0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:09.680 you what I can give you today? Can I give 0:31:09.680 --> 0:31:13.480 you what I give you today? Okay? Okay, okay, okay, okay. 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:19.320 It's four urs of reinvention, and I want to call 0:31:19.320 --> 0:31:20.680 your attention to as many of them as I can 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:23.000 in the time we have left. And they're all from 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:26.840 the text. And the first one is a word you 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:31.120 may not hear a lot. It's in verse two where 0:31:31.320 --> 0:31:34.440 God told hat guy speak to Zorrubb a Bell. I 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:36.040 thought it was so cool. Z a rubb a bell. 0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:38.280 Everybody say, it is a rubb a bell. You need 0:31:38.280 --> 0:31:40.920 a baby name, you've been praying for one. There you go. 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:44.200 I've just throw that in your bag for free, all right, 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:46.840 That comes with the happy meal. This is a rubb 0:31:46.840 --> 0:31:48.720 a bell. I thought it was cool how his name 0:31:48.760 --> 0:31:52.560 said rubble in it. Almost if you slitch the letters around, 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:55.720 it sounds like rubble. That's what they were looking at. 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:59.920 The city was still burned. It didn't look like it 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:03.600 used to look. And that's a sad thing to look 0:32:03.640 --> 0:32:08.600 around at your life, on your bank account, or people 0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:11.400 that used to be there for you, all of that, 0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:16.400 and go where did it go? Because we're back from Babylon, 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:21.400 but we're not exactly living in Zion, at least not 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:23.800 how it used to be, at least not how we 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:28.120 heard about it. We're back, we love God, we're here 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:30.320 for it. We're doing what we can. But it's not 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:33.360 exactly what we thought it would be. And so God 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:34.960 tells Hagi has a word for him. He has a 0:32:34.960 --> 0:32:37.800 word from the word of the Lord came through Hagai. 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:42.640 Speak to Zarabebel, son of Shiltiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua, 0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:46.880 son of Joseph the High Priest, and to the remnant. 0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:50.160 That's the first word I want you to write in 0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:59.440 your phone. Remnant, remnant, the remnant. It means what's left. 0:33:00.960 --> 0:33:05.080 It means the small park that stayed. When you find 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:08.360 yourself in a period of reinvention and nothing seems familiar 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:11.760 and nothing seems normal, and nothing makes sense, and nothing 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:14.880 matches your prior map of meaning or knowledge. Nothing looks 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:16.960 like where you've been before, and you're looking at it, 0:33:17.000 --> 0:33:19.920 going where's the gold, where's the temple we heard about? 0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:22.600 Where's all the stuff that used to happen? Or if 0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:24.800 your body's starting to ache in ways that it didn't 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:27.160 ache when you were twenty four, and you're figuring out 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:31.480 how to work around that, God said, speak to the remnant. 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:38.400 The remnant. The remnant can represent a fragment. Remember there 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:43.080 were hundreds of thousands taken to Babylon, only sixty thousand 0:33:43.120 --> 0:33:48.200 came back. That can discourage you, especially if you're a 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:52.000 leader like Zaraba Bel And you know, the hardest thing 0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:54.720 about staying in the ministry has been for me fifteen years, 0:33:55.840 --> 0:34:01.600 having to keep a good spirit even when people and 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:05.320 it breaks your heart, not if they leave to go 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:07.040 on and do something great for God. I'm telling people 0:34:07.040 --> 0:34:11.360 who just flat fall out and you go. This is 0:34:11.360 --> 0:34:13.000 how some of the campus pastors feel about the people 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:16.280 who hadn't even come back to volunteer yet after everything 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:21.920 we did for you, really you, I was praying for 0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:25.040 you for every inbroom toenail. You call me at two 0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:27.200 in the morning because you had heartburn and thought you 0:34:27.239 --> 0:34:29.200 had to go to the hospital and I would pray 0:34:29.239 --> 0:34:32.719 for you. And you can't come back. Let me run 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:34.960 into you and Ruby Tuesday. I will cuss you out. 0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:44.279 But so see, if I'm the devil and I'm not. 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:47.839 If I'm the devil, if I'm the enemy, I'm gonna 0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:56.000 try to get you so focused on who left that 0:34:56.160 --> 0:35:03.399 you don't see what's left. There's still a remnant, even 0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:06.120 if it's a fraction of what it once was, there's 0:35:06.200 --> 0:35:10.399 still a remnant. There is a remnant, Yo, I don't 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:14.239 have anything to be grateful for. There's a remnant. You 0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:20.120 just did it. Did you breathe in? Did you breathe out? Well, 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:27.600 let everything that happ BRep praise the Lord. Even if 0:35:27.600 --> 0:35:31.200 you lost your business, you still got prep. Even if 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:37.120 you lost your port friend, you still got brought Hey, 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:40.400 who's not to say that that dude was rubble. Maybe 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:43.440 God was clearing him out so you could get ready 0:35:43.680 --> 0:35:51.239 for something better, better, better, better, bad happen bad, y'all 0:35:51.239 --> 0:35:54.040 better not let me go on tour. I feel fired up. 0:35:54.320 --> 0:36:00.480 Holy Ghost ripped it, annoys it. I'm not with you 0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:04.680 all today. God said, if you stay so focused on 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:08.480 who didn't come back, who didn't support, who didn't like, 0:36:08.680 --> 0:36:12.479 who didn't endorse, who didn't click through, who didn't do it? 0:36:13.120 --> 0:36:14.560 This is what the Lord said to me one season 0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:17.160 of ministry. He said, if you keep focusing on who 0:36:17.239 --> 0:36:22.880 left and what's lost, you are not going to see 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:36.720 who's lost and what's left. Because I was crying because 0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:39.280 some people left out on me that I thought, what, oh, 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:43.960 we'll never leave. Be careful on those people. That's like 0:36:44.040 --> 0:36:46.960 Peter saying I will never deny you, Lord. She's like 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:49.839 before that rooster says God the doodle. He ain't even 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:51.360 gonna get to the dow and you're gonna say you 0:36:51.360 --> 0:36:54.680 don't know me. You're gonna cut the rooster off, mid 0:36:54.760 --> 0:37:03.800 crow and disown me. But while I'm crying over who left, 0:37:05.120 --> 0:37:07.000 God has given me a mission as a pastor. To 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:11.720 reach people who are lost. That's the mission of Jesus 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:17.719 to seek and save what's lost. So the devil can't 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:19.799 take your No, there is one thing he can't do. 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:24.840 He can't take what God gave you. He can't, he can't, 0:37:25.600 --> 0:37:32.040 he can't, he can't. But if he can get you 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:40.399 so depressed, so distracted, so disappointed, he wants to keep 0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:50.800 you crying, to keep you from seeing what's coming. Stop crying, 0:37:52.040 --> 0:38:01.040 it's coming. Stop crying. It's coming. For everything that your life, 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:05.600 God has made a covenant with you. I am with 0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:09.560 you to this day. And let me finish the sentence. 0:38:10.040 --> 0:38:15.040 If God is for us, who can be against us? 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:20.319 If God is with me, he is more than the 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:24.560 world against me. I know you've been crying. It's all right. 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:28.080 But God sent me with a prophetic word like, ha, God, 0:38:28.480 --> 0:38:31.239 I see him reaching for the centuries to tell you 0:38:31.800 --> 0:38:40.160 stop crying. Is coming. You don't want to miss what's 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:44.160 coming because they're crying over what's gone. What's this, what's this? 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:48.680 What's coming is better than what's going. God has taken 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:54.640 you from glory to glory, to glory, to glory to glory. 0:38:54.840 --> 0:39:01.960 He didn't bring me this love, all right, if you 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:05.120 feel comfortable, touch your neighbors. Say stop crying is coming. 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:08.960 Stop crying is coming. Put it in the chack. Stop 0:39:09.080 --> 0:39:13.719 crying is coming. How long will you born? Oh what 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:19.960 God that's rejecting. Fill your horn with oil. David is 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:27.400 in the field. It's coming, is coming, is coming, is coming, 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:30.400 is coming, is coming. I don't say that by feeling. 0:39:30.640 --> 0:39:33.120 I say it by faith. It is common choice coming, 0:39:33.360 --> 0:39:37.440 piece is coming, Praise is coming, Restoration is coming, is coming, 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:41.799 is coming. In fact, lift them your eyes. The hardness 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:51.959 is here. Stop or more much? Right now? Whoa work? Whoa? 0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:57.280 I'm glad I finished this tour at home. I praiching 0:39:57.360 --> 0:40:03.640 to the right church today. Get the ten second, build 0:40:03.719 --> 0:40:14.960 a temple with prey, with pray. Stop crying. It's coming. 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:28.480 And if the enemy can keep you crying, he can 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:34.799 keep you from seeing what's coming. Hey, guys, said, I 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:38.799 know what you're thinking. I'm thinking it too. This is 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:45.080 nothing compared to that. I saw pictures of Solomon's temple 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:50.560 on Pinterest. It was expensive, not no, no, it was 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:52.600 the same place Solomon's temple was. But what made the 0:40:52.600 --> 0:40:59.520 same stuff? Because God is reforming it. He's reforming, He's 0:40:59.600 --> 0:41:03.279 reforming it. He's reforming your life. He's shaping it like 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:06.400 a potter in the clay. He's reforming it. That's what 0:41:06.440 --> 0:41:16.480 it is. It's his hands, not the devils. And when 0:41:16.480 --> 0:41:20.799 we write songs, they always the worse they suck when 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:25.840 we start them, the better they get when we finish them. 0:41:25.880 --> 0:41:27.840 But then we take it home and we have the demo, 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.759 which is like the rough version. And there's this thing 0:41:31.840 --> 0:41:35.480 called demo witis. And it's when you listen to the 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:37.800 first version so much that you start thinking it's perfect, 0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:41.760 but it really needs a lot of work. The devil 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:47.319 has some of y'all in demo witis. You thought, the 0:41:47.360 --> 0:41:53.160 first version, what's the only version of who you are, 0:41:53.200 --> 0:41:56.680 of what you do, of what your gifts are? But 0:41:56.880 --> 0:42:01.840 the Lord said, I can't make it better if you 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:12.319 keep going back. Stop crying. I know it sounds insensitive. 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.440 Pastor Steve, Jesus wept. Didn't you see that? Yeah, I'm 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:18.160 the one who told you about that. But that's not 0:42:18.200 --> 0:42:24.399 all he did. Look at John chapter eleven, verse thirty eight. 0:42:25.360 --> 0:42:30.279 It says after Jesus cried, which is important. You know, 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:36.200 trauma is Trauma is real. Seventy years in Babylon will 0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:41.279 make you cry. It'll make you forget to sing when 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:43.439 you find out what your kids been doing behind your back. 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:47.399 It'll make you cry when you and your husband don't 0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:49.359 even look at each other except when you're around people, 0:42:49.400 --> 0:42:53.239 so you can fake it real good. It'll make you 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:57.960 cry alone. God doesn't correct the sisters, but I'm glad 0:42:57.960 --> 0:43:01.279 he didn't stop there, and you can't either, because in 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:04.000 verse thirty eight John eleven thirty eight, it says not 0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:11.560 Jesus cried, but Jesus once more deeply moved game. So 0:43:11.600 --> 0:43:21.800 he cried, and then he came. Stop crying is coming. 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:28.440 I don't want the old temple to keep me from 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:35.680 seeing Jesus. Seriously, you know how it's said in the 0:43:35.760 --> 0:43:38.080 verse and Hagai that from the day I brought you 0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:40.839 out of Egypt till now, did you catch that really 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:42.359 small thing in verse five? I didn't make a big 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:43.600 deal out of it, but it is a big deal. 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:47.120 Because they thought that Pharaoh had to let them go 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:50.719 for them believe Egypt. That wasn't their biggest problem. Their 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:56.400 biggest problem was letting go of Moses, because see, Moses 0:43:56.440 --> 0:43:59.319 gave them the law, and they were so committed to 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:02.920 that that when Jesus came, who is the true image 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:05.279 of God, to show them what God is really like, 0:44:06.120 --> 0:44:08.560 not to break the law, but to fulfill it. When 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:14.319 Jesus came, they could not recognize better because they were 0:44:14.360 --> 0:44:20.680 stuck in before. So while we're fighting, like, hey Pharaoh, 0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:22.640 let me go, Hey addiction, let me go, Hey temptation, 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:24.600 let me go, God's like the thing that you're holding 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:30.319 onto is the former glory. I don't know who it 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:32.960 is of his three people as worth saying you gotta 0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:44.319 let go a former glory to receive present help. Now 0:44:44.360 --> 0:44:47.560 that means a lot of things. It means that the 0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:51.959 same Jesus who cried at the gate came to the tomb. 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:55.480 It didn't stop him from doing what he came to do, 0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:58.399 because he didn't come just to cry or give him 0:44:58.400 --> 0:45:01.400 a Hallmark car. He didn't just bake them a roast 0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:04.360 so they could eat it three days later. He came 0:45:04.480 --> 0:45:08.520 to show them who he was. He came to reinvent 0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:12.080 their concept of God and to switch their template of 0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:16.520 truth that not only am I a healer, I am resurrection. 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:19.919 He came to prefigure what he would do he can, 0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:24.640 So he cried everybody say, he cried, Come on, don't 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:26.480 tap out on me. This is the best part of 0:45:26.520 --> 0:45:28.640 the sermon. I know y'all aren't going to listen to 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:31.319 a sermon about the glory of the Latter House and 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:33.680 skip the end of the sermon. This is the part 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:36.600 I wanted to preach us to because he cried, and 0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:39.240 you've been crying, and you have a Christ who crist 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:42.440 So that's fine. He will cry with you. But then 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:45.640 you have a Christ too. After he stopped crying, he 0:45:45.719 --> 0:45:48.800 came to the tomb. So he's coming to the tomb. 0:45:49.200 --> 0:45:51.840 He's coming to the park that's buried. He's coming to 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:54.799 the park that's broken. He's coming to the park that's dead. 0:45:55.080 --> 0:45:57.640 He's coming to the park that stinks. He's coming to 0:45:57.680 --> 0:45:59.920 the park that's rotten. He's coming to the park that 0:46:00.000 --> 0:46:04.000 it's giving up on. He cried, he came. But that's 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:06.880 not the good part. The good part is verse forty three. 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:10.080 Put verse forty three on the screen quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, 0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:14.720 And when Jesus has said this, he called. So he cried, 0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:20.920 he came, and then he called in a loud voice. 0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:25.120 And I hear that voice calling today through the halls. 0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:28.879 Of history from the pages of Hagai to this very 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:36.240 moment in the house of God. Lazarus, come forth, Come, 0:46:36.400 --> 0:46:42.960 for he's speaking to your joy. He's speaking to your peace, 0:46:43.480 --> 0:46:47.840 he's speaking to your strategy, he's speaking to your spirit. 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:55.640 Come far. So you cried a while, It's all right. 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:59.560 I am convinced that the sufferings of this present time 0:46:59.840 --> 0:47:08.920 are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed. Suck. 0:47:09.719 --> 0:47:14.760 Did you catch that whole sermon? He cried? He came, 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:23.279 he called. You got to call some things out today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:28.200 yeah yeah. You ain't not gonna come just automatically. You 0:47:28.239 --> 0:47:32.160 can cry over it as long as you want, But 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:35.200 I believe that something deeper is call him from the inside. 0:47:36.840 --> 0:47:40.480 What the prophet told the people was you got to 0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:47.720 do the work. You gotta do the work. Is wishing 0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:52.720 for something that you don't have keeping you from working 0:47:52.840 --> 0:48:03.040 with what you do have. I don't know, Maybe it's 0:48:03.080 --> 0:48:08.520 just me, but I needed this word that the Lord said. 0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:14.400 You can cry, but eventually you gotta come, and you 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.600 got to call those things that be not as though 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:23.600 they are beneath your feelings. And the promise is it's 0:48:23.640 --> 0:48:29.280 a covenant not a commitment. Commitments can be broken. Yeah, 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:34.400 covenants cannot, especially when one of the parties is the 0:48:34.400 --> 0:48:43.239 one who cannot lie. So it's a lot of pain. 0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:48.760 You know. When they laid the foundation, Ezra showed us something. 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:53.360 Give me Ezra three ten when they got that temple started, 0:48:53.960 --> 0:48:55.600 and I think I'm gonna pick this up next week 0:48:55.600 --> 0:49:00.319 for real, y'all, because y'all got one point. It's your fall. 0:49:01.520 --> 0:49:07.120 You were shouting and receiving and glorifying. Die. I didn't 0:49:07.120 --> 0:49:12.480 come to get through my points. I came to give 0:49:12.520 --> 0:49:21.200 you this work. Stop crying. It's coming. It's coming, because 0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:24.960 the Bible says an Ezra three that when the builders 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:28.440 laid the foundation of this second Temple, the priests and 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:32.600 their vestments, with their trumpets, the Levites, the sons of 0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:35.279 Asaf with their symbols, took their places to praise the 0:49:35.320 --> 0:49:38.200 Lord like Dave had told them to. And with praise 0:49:38.239 --> 0:49:41.320 and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord, he is good 0:49:42.520 --> 0:49:46.560 his love to Israel, and dos forever. Probably better melody 0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:49.040 than that, but that was the worst. They say, he 0:49:49.200 --> 0:49:53.800 is good his love, oh Israel, and do it forever, 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:57.520 and all the people. I want you to do what 0:49:57.560 --> 0:50:21.440 the text says, stand up, gave a great shout, a 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:26.280 great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation 0:50:26.480 --> 0:50:28.600 of the House of the Lord was laid. Now that's 0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:31.080 what I'm gonna pick up next week, because some of 0:50:31.160 --> 0:50:37.080 us are comparing our foundation to somebody else's finish line, 0:50:38.239 --> 0:50:42.480 and that's why we're discouraged. And next week, if you 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:45.080 will give me the opportunity and God gives me the strength, 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:51.480 I'm gonna preach about how to shout about foundations. I'm 0:50:51.480 --> 0:50:55.520 gonna teach you. I'm gonna teach you how I'm gonna 0:50:55.520 --> 0:50:57.760 teach you how to do a dance. When the scale 0:50:57.840 --> 0:51:02.040 drops one pound. I'm gonna teach you how to dance 0:51:02.080 --> 0:51:03.719 on the scale. And I'm gonna teach you how to 0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:05.239 do it because when you lose a pound, you don't 0:51:05.280 --> 0:51:09.000 celebrate by eating a cookie. When you lose a pound, 0:51:09.080 --> 0:51:13.439 you buy some shoes. But if you're getting out of debt, 0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:17.680 you don't go buy shoes. You eat cookies. So I'm 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:19.800 gonna teach you about how to shout over little stuff 0:51:20.560 --> 0:51:23.719 next week and just redistribute the balance of this so 0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:26.200 you could keep your progress going. Oh, I love y'all. 0:51:26.200 --> 0:51:28.879 We're gonna do it next week. But I gotta show 0:51:28.880 --> 0:51:31.520 you this because this is really what started me to 0:51:31.560 --> 0:51:35.280 teach this message. They were shouting about what God was doing, 0:51:36.239 --> 0:51:38.719 the new thing. Wow, we're gonna have a temple. I've 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:42.640 heard about this. One generation was saying, but it's not 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:44.800 like the old one. And watch what the Bible says 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:50.840 in verse twelve. But many of the older priests and 0:51:50.880 --> 0:51:52.920 the Leevites and the family had the ones who should 0:51:52.920 --> 0:51:55.959 have been leading, the ones who should have been known 0:51:56.040 --> 0:51:58.839 that God is with us and we can't fail. He's 0:51:58.840 --> 0:52:00.600 gonna do a new thing. So who he is is 0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:05.640 what he does. He's reforming us. But when they saw 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:13.920 the foundation, they had seen the former temple. They had 0:52:13.920 --> 0:52:17.440 the old template. This is what it has to look like. 0:52:18.840 --> 0:52:21.880 This is what I thought marriage would be. This is 0:52:21.880 --> 0:52:24.719 the city I thought I would live in forever. This 0:52:24.800 --> 0:52:26.439 is how old I thought my mom would be when 0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:29.040 she died. This is how I thought it would be. 0:52:29.840 --> 0:52:32.400 When they saw the temple, it didn't match their template. 0:52:32.719 --> 0:52:40.359 And watch what happened. They wept. They wept, and the 0:52:40.400 --> 0:52:44.439 sounds of celebration, the shouts of joy, while others were 0:52:44.960 --> 0:52:51.799 shouting one generation is weeping over what it was, and 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:55.319 one generation is shouting over what it will be when 0:52:55.360 --> 0:53:03.239 God gets done with it. What I want to know. 0:53:04.840 --> 0:53:06.840 What I want to know is are you going to 0:53:06.960 --> 0:53:13.239 keep weeping or start working? Because you have forgotten who 0:53:13.280 --> 0:53:17.080 you are working with? The Lord Almighty is in you. 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:20.640 It's by His spirit that you're building. You are not 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:23.800 building this by yourself, and you're not going to build 0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:29.440 it like before. He is able to do exceeding abundantly 0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:33.719 above all you ask, above every template. Hey transcends that. 0:53:37.800 --> 0:53:43.440 So within the same body you got shouts of joy 0:53:44.600 --> 0:53:51.560 and weeping. Which one will you listen to? Which one 0:53:51.560 --> 0:53:56.520 will you obey? He will begin a good work in 0:53:56.600 --> 0:54:00.400 you will be faithful to complete it. Got to be 0:54:00.480 --> 0:54:03.640 strong and do the work well. You're not working on 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:07.600 your own. It is God that works in you to 0:54:07.719 --> 0:54:11.880 will and to do according to His good pleasure. So 0:54:12.000 --> 0:54:15.120 maybe God brought you here to remind you what you're 0:54:15.120 --> 0:54:21.160 working with. Ah, that there is a rim net that 0:54:21.200 --> 0:54:23.960 God has left everything in your life that He intends 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:28.919 to use in this next season. And I always read 0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:32.719 how I always read the Ecclesiastes verse there is a 0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:38.359 season for everything, But I live in Charlotte. I don't 0:54:38.400 --> 0:54:39.960 know what the weather is like where you live, but 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:44.760 in Charlotte, we have like two or three different seasons 0:54:44.800 --> 0:54:47.640 in the same day. A lot of times, especially right now, 0:54:47.680 --> 0:54:50.520 we don't know how to dress, do we. We'll be 0:54:50.560 --> 0:54:55.640 wake up in the morning shivering six layers. You'd be 0:54:55.719 --> 0:54:59.560 sweating by three pm, shivering again at night. That surprises 0:54:59.600 --> 0:55:01.480 people who come here from other parts of the country. 0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:04.399 They just can't believe how violent it is. They put 0:55:04.440 --> 0:55:06.880 up all their shorts and the next thing you know 0:55:06.960 --> 0:55:09.000 is Wednesday. I need them again. I put them in 0:55:09.000 --> 0:55:15.040 the attic. I got bad knees, and it's confusing. So 0:55:16.280 --> 0:55:18.879 remember Solomon who built the first temple. This is something 0:55:18.920 --> 0:55:20.319 he said, I'll leave you with this and we'll pick 0:55:20.360 --> 0:55:24.960 it up next week. Received this, he said, okay, I 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:26.640 got it. I know how I know what to type. 0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:29.239 He said, Verse first one Ecclesies, He's three to one. 0:55:29.960 --> 0:55:32.120 There's a time for everything, and a season for every 0:55:32.160 --> 0:55:38.640 activity under the heavens. So new season, new temple, new template. 0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:40.879 That's what's happening in your life. That's why you're uncomfortable. 0:55:41.000 --> 0:55:47.240 God didn't leave you. God didn't leave you. He's showing 0:55:47.280 --> 0:55:49.719 you himself in a different dimension. That's all it is. 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:54.080 That's all it is. But watch this, he said. A 0:55:54.120 --> 0:55:56.200 time to be born, a time to die, a time 0:55:56.280 --> 0:55:59.439 to plant, a time to uproot, a time to kill, 0:55:59.680 --> 0:56:02.040 time to heal, a time to tear down, a time 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:08.719 to build, a time to weep, time to laugh, time 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:12.080 to mourn, and a time to dance. And you know what, 0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:19.480 sometimes you are doing both in the same season. I 0:56:19.520 --> 0:56:21.640 thought those were two different seasons. Oh, I'm waiting for 0:56:21.680 --> 0:56:27.640 that dance and season. Sometimes you are going to have 0:56:27.760 --> 0:56:31.359 to dance while you dry the tears out of your 0:56:31.400 --> 0:56:41.960 eyes and ape dancing anyway. For the glory of this 0:56:42.160 --> 0:56:47.720 present house will be greater. God said, I will fill 0:56:47.760 --> 0:56:52.000 the house with glory. You keep looking for the gold, 0:56:52.600 --> 0:56:55.080 But God said, I'm trying to fill it with glory, 0:56:56.000 --> 0:56:59.239 not what you can see, what you can't see. I 0:57:00.000 --> 0:57:08.520 will phil this house with glory. It is coming. It's coming. 0:57:13.000 --> 0:57:14.600 She might not see it, you might not feel it. 0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:19.720 He said, I want you to keep working even as 0:57:19.760 --> 0:57:27.480 you're weeping. Be strong, Joshua, be strong, sir, rebebel. Speak 0:57:27.520 --> 0:57:34.720 to the remnant. Strengthen what remains, because it's only the foundation. 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:39.479 And I don't care what the devil has been telling you. 0:57:39.480 --> 0:57:43.960 Your best days are not behind you. I rebuke that 0:57:44.160 --> 0:57:48.400 right now, in the name of Jesus, the glory of 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:53.680 the present House will be greater. Everybody who receives it. Shout, 0:57:54.000 --> 0:57:57.120 shout like they did over the temple, sound like South, 0:57:57.160 --> 0:58:02.040 over the foundation pen the glory of the President House. 0:58:02.320 --> 0:58:09.880 What God is doing right now, It's sound big, greater glory, 0:58:09.960 --> 0:58:21.640 to glory, strength to strength, sid it sign Lord, Thank 0:58:21.680 --> 0:58:23.880 you for sending your word through today. We receive it. 0:58:24.960 --> 0:58:28.800 Thank you for laying this foundation, We receive it. Thank 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:33.600 you for Jesus, who is the greater glory. 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