Stretch The Truth (Tim Somers)

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Let me know where you're 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.599 joining us from. I want to see it in the comments. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.840 Let's go to the word of God. I love the 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.080 flow that our pastors are in right now. There's so 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:01.279 much more to the story. And and obviously you can 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.840 tell I am not Pastor Steven, just in case you 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:09.320 didn't know, I'm not him. What you got to understand 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.840 about our pastor is you know that there are only 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.880 two people in this world that were ever given the 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:19.360 vision of this church, the weight of this church, the 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:25.080 weight of this vision, and I will I'd be remiss 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.280 to think that I would ever understand what that means 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.760 at all. And so the opportunity to be able to 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.920 get on this stage and talk for the next two 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.960 and a half hours, it's not that oh I thought 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.959 that was a deal, okay, thirty nine minutes. Thirty nine minutes. Man, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:50.800 I don't take it lightly. And we have some incredible pastors. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.400 I don't just say that because I work for him. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.640 I want you to know that that man is a 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.440 hero of my life and a hero of the faith, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.559 and he's the real deal. He really is the real deal, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.960 and the little that I do get to know about him, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.320 he is the real deal. And it's incredible. We need 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.160 people like that. We need people like that, Like, here's 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.400 the faith that we can actually look to. You know 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.919 what I'm saying. Top shelf leaders, right, top shelf leaders 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.880 the ones that who last, who go the whole way right, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.080 who don't just like call it quits twenty years in, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.679 but who keeps going. And so I'm so grateful for 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:37.160 this house and the pastors of this house, and I 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.079 really believe that this series is one of the series 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.720 that will really never forget. But I'm gonna be honest 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.160 with you. Three weeks in, you know, he's in the 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.120 Book of Joshua. And I told chunks about a month ago, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.359 I said, yeah, I think I want to be in 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.440 Joshua with them. And after about those three weeks he preached, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.639 I said, Okay, he's getting every nook and cranny of Joshua. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.240 I'm gonna stay away from it, but I'm must stay 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.760 in the same vein. There's so much more to this story. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.960 So here's what I want you to do. How many 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.679 of you brought your bibles? You believe in the Word 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.440 of God. Anybody believe in the Word of God. He 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.080 brought your bibles with you. Okay. No, you must be 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.160 familiar with this place because we put it on the 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.120 screens for you. No worries. Go to Second King's chapter 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:35.000 four Sega King's chapter four, verse eight. Second King's Chapter four, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.880 verse eight. I'm gonna give you a second you found it. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:45.320 If you need time, say hold up, okay, hurry up. Okay, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.320 this is what it says. Sega Kings Chapter four, verse 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:55.880 eight says one day, everyone say one day. Elisha passed 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.240 through Shunam, a leading lady of the town talked him 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.520 into stopping for a meal, and then it became his 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.360 custom whenever he passed through he stopped by for a meal. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.720 I'm certain, said the woman. Said the woman to her 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.400 husband that this man who stops by with us all 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.680 the time, as a holy man of God, why don't 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.200 we add a small room upstairs, furnish it with the 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.159 bed and the desk, a chair and a lamb, so 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.800 that when he comes by he can stay with us. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.640 This is the first airbnb of the Bible, okay. And 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.120 so what happened at the next time Elisha came by. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.520 He went to the room, laid down for a nap, 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.080 and then he said to his servant Gehese, tell that 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.240 shit to white woman. I want to see her. He 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.239 called her, and she came to him through Gehesei. Elisha said, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.400 you've gone far beyond the call of duty and taken 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.360 care of us. What can we do for you? Do 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.039 you have a request we can bring to the king 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.560 or to the command of the army. And she replied, no, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:59.120 I'm good. I don't need anything. I'm secure, satisfied in 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.240 my family. Elisha conferred with gaze, and there's got to 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.280 be something we can do for her. But what gayes 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.280 I said, Well, look, she ain't got no children, and 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.520 her husband's an old man. Don't look to your left, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.800 don't look to you right. Okay, it might be old. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.040 It's all right. Call her in, said Elisha. He called her, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.479 and she stood at the open door, and Elisha said 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.560 to her, this time next year, you're gonna be nursing 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.559 an infant son. Oh my master, holy man, she said, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.040 don't play games with me, teasing me with such fantasies. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.719 And the woman conceived a year later, just as Elisha 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.320 had said, she had a son. The child grew up. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.800 One day he went to his father, just like a 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:51.480 teenager working with the harvest hands, complaining, my head, my head. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.279 You see how there were no laughs. He's because y'all 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:59.600 ain't y'all ain't parents the teenagers. Yet, my head, my head, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.520 His father ordered. A servant did just what a wise 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.840 man would do, he said, take him to his mother. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.240 The servant took him in his arms and carried him 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.680 to his mother. He laid on her lap until noon 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.359 and died, and she took him up, laid him on 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.679 the bed the Man of God shut him in alone 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.479 and left. She then called to her husband said, get 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.159 me a servant and a donkey so I can go 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.920 to the Holy Man. I'll be back as soon as 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.000 I can. He's like, yo, why today, this ain't a 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.880 holy day, this ain't new moon, this ain't Sabbath. She said, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.360 don't ask questions, man, I need to go right now, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.000 trust me. She went ahead, saddled the donkey, ordering her 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.560 servant take the lead and go as fast as you can. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.240 I'll tell you if you're going too fast. And so 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.120 off she went, and she came to the Holy Man 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.520 in Mount Carmel, and the Holy Man, spotting her while 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.839 she was still a long way off, said to a servant, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.680 ga haes I, look out there. Why is the shoon 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.599 of my woman? Quickly now ask her? Is something wrong? 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.680 Is she all right? Okay it sir child? All right? 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:15.960 And she said everything's fine. When she reached the Holy 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.840 Man at the mouth, she threw herself at the feet 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.960 and held tightly to him and gaze. I came up 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.000 to pull her away, but the Holy Man said leave 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.840 her alone. Can't you see she's upset? God hasn't let 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.800 me in on Why I'm completely in the dark. And 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.440 then she spoke up. Did I ask for a sunmaster, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.280 didn't I tell you? Don't tease me with false hope. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.040 Let's go down to verse thirty two. Elisha entered the 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.880 house and found the boy stretched out on the bed dead. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.720 He went into the room and locked the door, just 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.400 the two of them in the room and prayed to God. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.320 He then got into the bed with the boy and 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:56.440 covered him with his body. Mouthed on mouth, eyes on eyes, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.160 hands on hands. Everyone say mouth on mouth, eyes on eyes, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.640 hands on hands. You're gonna need that for later. As 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.720 he was stretched out over him like that, the boy's 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.960 body became warm, and Elisa got up and paced back 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.280 and forth in the room. Then he went back and 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.920 stretched himself upon the boy again. The boy started sneezing. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.960 He called Gehesei and said, get the shoe to white 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.200 woman in here. He called her, and she came in, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:27.600 and Elisha said, embrace your son. She fell at Alicia's feet, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.080 face to the ground. In reverend All. She embraced her 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.280 son and went out with him. I know that's a 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.920 long passage, but you needed that whole story because I 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.120 wanted to get to verse twenty six. Quickly, now ask 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.720 her is something wrong? Are you all right? It's your 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:51.480 husband okay? Is your child okay? And she said everything's fine. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:59.040 I want to title my message today stretch the truth. Now. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.080 Some of y'all, Oh, my mama told me different. Boy. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.000 I know your mama be saying, do not, do not, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.079 do not, stretch the truth. Look at you, Daven, say 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.040 you know what? Come on, look at you, Dave, say 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:21.400 you know what. Maybe mama was wrong. Some of y'all 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.640 got nervous when you said that maybe mama was wrong. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.120 LEAs y'all. The name is say stretch the truth. Stretch 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.600 the truth. You can find your way to you see. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:38.360 Think it seem stretch the truth? You know. I think 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.680 the world has given this phrase and negative connotations, Stretch 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.160 the truth. How many of you got teenagers? Man? You 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.280 know I come up on this. I appreciate here four 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.640 times on a Sunday. This is crazy my full time. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.319 And each time I realized I've always talked about Genesis, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.560 and so I say, you know what, I ain't doing 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.360 it this time. I'm gonna talk about my old older son, Brody. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.000 I got a sixteen year old and and this this 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.120 man wild because six weeks ago, I'm not gonna lie 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.200 to you. This is this is I'm not stressing the 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.560 truth at all here, Okay, this is serious. Uh six 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.760 weeks ago, my son, my son, he's really good at 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.240 at basketball, he really is. He's got the hight, he's 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.320 got a frame that's way different than mine. Like he 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.800 can take a hit I can't. And he eats a lot, okay, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.719 And he's really good at at basketball. And so we 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.840 got him into AAU and you know, we're like those 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.400 we're like like church is the first priority, but you 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.160 can still play sports, you know, but we're not like 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.840 a two sport family. That's too much. Okay, you know, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.040 you do you, but we're gonna do us, okay. And 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.040 so two sports like yeah, you know, you got to pick. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.280 And so he's always been like like good at basketball, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:48.679 and so we're like, yeah, let's do that. So we 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.720 got him into AAU. Well this year, at the end 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.280 of February tryouts to coming up for AU. You know, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.520 he made it last year, so we're excited, we're pumped, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:02.760 you know, And about four weeks for tryouts, my son 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.400 comes to me. He's like, hey, Dad, I want to 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.719 get in shape. I'm like, you already are, but okay, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.120 so yeah, I want to. I want to get in shape, 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.200 want to stay in shape. I want to just you know, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.880 do some of the workouts with the football team. And 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.920 I was like, okay, cool, you know, just like a father, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.880 don't ask any more questions, right, you know. And so 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.080 I was like, yeah, you want to, that's that's cool. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.199 See yeah, you know, everyone's invited to come and work 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.680 out with the football team. And I was like, okay, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.840 sounds good, feel free to do it. So he does it, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.840 and it happens every day after school. Well two weeks 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.440 go by and I'm heading to Ohio and like, son, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.720 you're coming with me to Ohio. You're gonna miss school 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:51.400 on Thursday. He's like what. And I was like, now 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.880 that's weird. Sixteen year old. Yeah, I'm saying, hey, I'm 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.800 taking you out of school. You know, we're gonna we're 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.040 gonna play a little hooky, you know, like let's go, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.280 We're going to Ohio. I thought he would be excited, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.319 you know, and not like there's anything in Ohio, but 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.000 who cares. You know, it is what it is. It's 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.960 still a trip, Okay, I know, it's not Barbados, but 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:15.199 still it's Ohio okay. And he's like with that, I 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.199 I can't miss, I can't, I can't miss. I said, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.040 why you can't miss? What was he He's like, I got, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:30.280 I got, I got practice. I said, hold up, practice? 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:36.280 What do you mean practice? Say? Yeah, yeah, you know, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.400 like the thing I'm telling you about, like with football, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.120 you know, like I got practice. I said no, no no, no, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.600 no no no no no no, no, no no no no. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.959 What you told me was you were going to work 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.320 out with the football team. Now you're saying it's practice. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.920 He said, yea, yeah yeah. And if I miss, I 0:12:54.960 --> 0:13:04.960 can't be on the team. I said team, what team? 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.160 What you mean? Are you on the football team? And 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:13.840 he's like, I think so, I think I am, dad, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.120 I think I am. I said, they don't have tryouts. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.480 He's like no, I said, just like this generation, I 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.080 ain't even got to try out. You know, that's a 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:27.559 whole other thing. But I said, wait, you really are 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.240 on the team. He said, yeah, I am. I'm on 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.600 the team. And now he starts like getting confident. He's 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.559 like he's gonna want a man out. He's like, I'm grown, man, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.120 I'm sixteen here we go. He's like, yeah, I'm on 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.120 the team. I said, see, you're not doing basketball. He's like, nah, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.360 I'm not. I'm not doing basketball. I said, when were 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.360 you going to let me in on that decision. He's like, well, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.240 I thought I did when I said I was gonna 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.000 play football. I said, you didn't say you were going 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.360 to play football. I said, in that a little bit 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:05.120 of a stretch, my guy. So apparently not with a 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:10.480 football family. I don't really care for it, but you 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:19.960 know is what it is. I'm excited. No, literally, my 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.760 heart sunk. I'm like, man, I remember when I played football. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.840 The first time I got hit. I said, never again. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.800 I said, I had seven people blocking from me and 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.440 I got hit. Heck No said all right, man, good luck. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.680 How fun. I love you, believe in you, proud of you. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.920 But I say, man, that's a little bit of a 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.080 stretch here. Once they stretch, that's a little bit of 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.880 a stretch. And I want you to go with me here, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.760 because if I'm honest with you, I like to think 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.160 that there is a lot of power in stretching the 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:55.760 truth over your entire life, and not just parts of 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.600 your life. In fact, the way that I would like 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.840 to say it is that if you are not stretching 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.480 the truth over your entire life, you might be living 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.560 a lie. You might be living a lie. So I 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.480 want to talk about stretching real quick. How many of 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.520 you have ever felt like you have been in a 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.240 season of stretching? Anyone ever been there? Maybe you're in 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.400 there right now, right now. Here's what you gotta understand 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.160 that I'm not talking about just like negative stretching. Okay, like, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.200 oh my gosh, it's just like it's crazy, the bills 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.680 are just piling up. There is that kind of stretching, right, 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.280 But there's also that positive stretching, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:34.360 some of y'all are being stretched into success some of you, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.240 some of you this year alone, you're being stretched into 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.360 your destiny. For some of you, you're like, you know what, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.240 I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.160 do it. God's been telling me. God's been telling me 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.560 to quit my job and start this, start this business. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:54.320 And you're being stretched right into your full purpose. Right. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.360 And so when I talk about stretching, don't just negate 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.120 that to being just negative thing, right, But how many 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.760 of you know that that that the stretching can be 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:11.200 a blessing, the stretching can also be a burden. Right, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.040 this is this is, this is a real thing. The 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.960 phrase that I love to say all the time is 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:22.400 that oftentimes the most anointed people are the most attacked people. Right, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.120 this is this is If you've lived any kind of life, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.360 you understand that this is very, very true, because you 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.960 know something's working when you got some tension. Right. How 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.600 many of you ever worked out before? I'm gonna put 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.240 my hands down. You ever done this? I own it. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.680 I'm okay, I know, I know I need to work out. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.600 Passing Key's telling us all this stuff you need. You've 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.560 got to be disciplined. I'm like mm hmm, I'm gonna 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.760 do it, and I'm gonna do it one of these days. Right. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.400 But when you work out, when you work out, what's 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.440 coming your way tension? Right, Like we all want to 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.480 be ripped. Like y'all thinking about it right now? It's smart. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.120 You're like spring breaks coming up and the summer's happening. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:03.960 Am I going to go to the pool with my 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.359 shirt on or with my shirt off? Right? I'm like okay, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:24.200 as a man, obviously, so right, this is this is uh, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.240 like we all want to be ripped, but do we 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:33.679 want the resistance? Right? Like I've always thought like, man, people, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.399 let me be honest with you. Like you can't spell 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.560 diet without die. That's why I don't do it. I 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.800 don't want to live like you want to diet. No, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:51.720 I don't want to die? Oh hell so gross? Why 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:57.040 do I want to eat that? Talking? No? Absolutely not right? Okay, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.560 this this y'all are felt this before. I just need 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.040 a little counseling session, you know. I'm just this is 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.840 helpful for me, right, Like, like we want to be 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.080 rip we don't want the resistance, and then we know 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.679 like ah, tensions like tensions like oh do I want that? 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.560 Do I not want that? Like you got to understand 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.600 you you're gonna need that. Like people be asking for 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.639 miracles all the time, but they don't want problems. Like 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.600 if you ask for a miracle, then you're gonna have 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.160 some issues, right right, Like like the bigger the problem, 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.280 the bigger the opportunity for a miracle. Am I right? 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.720 Pastor talked about this idea where you have a problem, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.080 Heaven has a plan. Let me tell you something. Everybody 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:41.800 wants to plan, but nobody wants the problems. Right. This 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.040 is very very interesting because we got to stop asking 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:50.679 for miracles if we don't want some issues. Okay, And 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.200 when you talk about miracles, like, you got to understand 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:58.800 the greatest miracle like ever is resurrection. Did you notice 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.480 this in the passage? Right, Like you can't have resurrection 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:13.480 without ah ah, So do you want resurrection? Ah? Right, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.040 there's this stretching that begins to happen. Now let's talk 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.159 about the truth. Okay, Resurrection is in the forefront of 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.080 this text. Right, Elcia is the prophet, Right, God uses 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.720 them powerfully to bring this boy back from the dead. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.879 This is pretty amazing, Okay. In fact, this is the 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.840 first resurrection. Okay, there's but you gotta understand there's lots 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.600 of miracles in the Bible, right, Like if you hopefully 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.320 you've read the Bible a little bit and you you 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.000 quickly realize that there are a lot of miracles. Right. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:48.159 Blind people can see death, people can hear lame people 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:54.840 can walk. But resurrection, that's at the top of the list. Right. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.800 None of these are like resurrection, Right, there's a whole 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:04.480 other level. Why because it's final like death has a finality. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.920 You know what I'm saying, like like you can't undo death, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.560 you know, like like like let me say like this, 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.919 like you like have you ever tried to unbake a 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:21.960 burnt brownie? You ever try? Mean? Neither you ever like 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:26.320 trying to unstub your toe, like once you stubbed that thing, 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.200 you're just holding your toe like, oh my gosh, right, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:37.680 you ever tried that? Like unrun a red light? Yeah, 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.280 the officer. Let me just uh, let me just take 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.760 a loop back around one more time. Please. This is 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.240 what death is. This final. Ivery want to stay final. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:55.080 You've got the resurrection power in Elisha. And this is 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.520 Elijah's ride or die with you heart and soul BFF 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.640 for ever. And what you got to understand is Elisha 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:07.960 was a farmer. He gets the call to roll with Elijah, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.400 leaves his equipment, burns it right. And what you got 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:16.119 to understand about Elisha is that Elisha is not easily offended. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:25.000 That's a word for someone in this room. Elisha is 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:34.360 not easily offended. Right, Elisha has a fortitude. Okay, Elisha 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.199 is the guy that you could not get rid of 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.760 all right, Elisha was the one that stuck it out 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.720 through absolutely everything. He had a work ethic that just 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.320 topped everyone's okay, and he was with Elijah all the 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.840 way up until Elijah was taken up to heaven. And 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.760 then he prayed this prayer that we all are very 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.959 familiar with, where he's saying, give me a double portion, 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.399 who give me a double portion of what Elijah and 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:06.440 Elisha got it? Right now, Elisha Elishah was the first 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.720 one to do a resurrection. Well, then you got Elisha 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.119 who resurrects this little boy that we just read in 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:16.040 this passage. Okay, pretty impressive, but remember he gets a 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:22.639 double portion. Okay. So many years go by and Elisha dies, 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:28.840 is put into a tomb, okay, and there's a man 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:33.520 that's thrown into that tomb. And when that man hit 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:41.040 the grave, he came back to life. You know, your 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.640 bad to the bone when your bones have resurrection power, right, 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:50.480 that's that double portion resurrection, right, double portion resurrection. Okay, 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.600 Now that's some context because you're gonna really need to 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.720 understand that when we start talking about this. She to 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:59.920 myite woman's little boy, the shit of my woman says 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:08.119 everything is fine. Her baby had just died, gone no breath, 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:15.920 no life, and she's saying everything's fine. This is interesting 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.639 for me, and I want to I want to speak 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:24.119 on this for the majority of the time because if 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.960 I'm honest with you, the generosity of her hospitality is 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:32.000 what actually started this miracle. So we're gonna we talked 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.600 about resurrection, but I need you to know what came 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.280 before the resurrection. Okay, I need you to know what 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.040 came before the resurrection. The first thing that happened was 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.720 with their mouth Verse eight. A leading lady of the 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:56.080 town talked him into stopping for a meal. She's sending 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.000 text to election like, Yo, I love for you to 0:23:58.040 --> 0:23:59.879 come over. Come on, I love you to eat. Let's go, 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:05.520 let's rock this. Oftentimes we won't even ask anyone of 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:09.600 anything because it's easier to say no for them. And 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:12.400 we gotta be careful about this, Like we're like, nah, 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:15.440 they got too much going on. They don't care that 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.280 much about me. I they would never go to that church, 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.560 like I you know what, I'm good, I'm fine, They're fine. 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:26.240 We're all fine, like right, Like, we gotta stop fabricating 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:30.880 responses in our mind before we start asking with our mouths. 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.640 This is something that I watch people do all the time. Well, yeah, 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.600 I'm not gonna even I'm not even gonna try. I'm 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:40.480 not even gonna But you want to know how she 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:45.280 got her miracle. It started with their mouth. It started 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:46.919 with their mouth. And so you got to like, she 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.120 coming to dinner, and you know she was a good 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:53.880 cook because it said he kept coming back. She ain't. 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:59.920 He ain't coming back for tato talk Kessero, real deal. 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:01.600 So I don't know if this is the fifth time, 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:04.880 the sixth time, I don't know. But you watch her 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:10.000 now stretch from her mouth to her eyes. She realizes 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:14.080 this wasn't just a meal that I'm having with Elisha. 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.960 This is a moment. She starts to see it a 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:21.040 little bit differently than the way she saw it. She 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.879 starts to see it the way that God has seen it. Right, 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:26.879 She's like, yeah, yeah, this ain't about us eating. I 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:29.440 don't think I think this is about our I think 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:31.640 this is about some kind of purpose, some kind of destiny. 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:33.160 Let me tell you something. Some of you are too 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:39.080 worried about getting fed here at church when your whole 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:46.239 purpose is to be led by the Holy Spirit. What 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.800 am I saying? Don't they just looking at this like 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:54.160 a meal. You gotta look at this in a different way. 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:56.200 You gotta look at this the way that God see this, 0:25:56.520 --> 0:26:00.160 in this moment, right now, your whole life can change. 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:04.679 Church is not just what culture just says it is. 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.280 Come into a building, it's just church. Cool, make it 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:10.600 feel good. Check the box now. It could change your 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:16.080 future right now. It could change your kids right now. 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.560 It could change your attitude right now. It could change 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:22.119 his attitude right now. It could change her out, It 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:25.119 could change you. This is the real thing. I mean. 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:28.200 We don't just say church. I mean this is This 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:33.320 is a lifeblood. This is the whole reason why Jesus 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:38.760 gave his life was for the church. So I can't 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:40.560 have you missed in moments because you think this is 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:44.399 just a meal. But you got to be connected to 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:47.280 God to see that. You know that God can be 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:49.199 doing something new in your life and you not see it. 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:53.840 I say forty three nineteen for I am about to 0:26:53.880 --> 0:26:56.800 do something new. See I have already begun. Do you 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:01.040 not see it? The question this year isn't about whether 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:03.120 or not God is going to do it in your life. 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:06.120 It's about whether or not you are going to see it. 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:13.439 She had stretched from her mouth, asking now to her eyes, 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:18.200 and now because she saw more, she could do more. 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:24.480 So so now she's stretching from her mouth to her 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:30.880 eyes and now to her hands. Because she saw more, 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:35.359 because she saw that meal differently, she could now do more. 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:39.880 She begins to build this other level on this house. Right, 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:43.240 I was telling you, it's the first Airbnb of the Bible. Right, 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:48.520 like she went to home depot. You know what I'm saying, 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:50.640 Like some of y'all just sitting waiting on a blessing. 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:56.480 I know we wrote the song wait on You. I'm 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.480 going on wait on you. I got a new song. 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:08.600 I'm gonna move for you. You can't you can't just 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:13.280 sit waiting for an open door. You can't just sit 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:18.040 waiting for more answers. You can't just sit waiting for 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.320 a miracle. You gotta show me your faith in action. 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:23.440 You gotta show me your faith in motion. Scripture says 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:28.600 the faith without works is dead. She didn't call on 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:32.280 Jehovah Jirah in that moment, Chunks. She called on Joanna 0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:39.240 and Chip Gaines. You know what I'm saying, Some of 0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:40.880 y'all walking in here and y'all want shun da da 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:42.840 ba Kunda door. But some of y'all need to go 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:54.280 to home depot. You know what I'm saying, it's both, 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.160 And I'm not saying one is greater than the other. 0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:59.120 I'm just saying it's both and and you will never 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:03.440 get the blessing of well if you don't stretch ow. 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.480 So she builds another level. In fact, you could say 0:29:06.480 --> 0:29:11.680 it she builds a new story. What story are you 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:17.120 focusing on? What story are you focusing on? She had 0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:20.560 an opportunity to just focus on the wrong story, right, 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:25.760 no baby, no nursery, no new life, but she stretches 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:31.560 into a new story. You know what's interesting is Elisha 0:29:31.640 --> 0:29:34.360 had never asked for this room, but she did it anyways. 0:29:35.440 --> 0:29:38.040 I think that's very interesting because does God always have 0:29:38.080 --> 0:29:46.800 to ask you to do something? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, so 0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:52.280 you passed a cane? Does God always have to be like, 0:29:52.400 --> 0:29:56.080 always have to give you a sign? Yeah? If she 0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:59.200 wearing pink shoes and a blue shirt, that's your moment. 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:05.360 This way, if your kid comes to you and talks 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:08.040 to you about signing up for you techts, then you 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:10.960 can start talking to you about signing up for you techs. Sorry, 0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:13.120 you know it's interesting about this you know, shameless plug 0:30:13.120 --> 0:30:15.680 because I'm the youth pastor and talk about you text 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:19.440 every single time. I know summer camp. Also, okay, she 0:30:19.720 --> 0:30:27.840 made space for Elisha. We have to do the same 0:30:27.920 --> 0:30:32.480 thing with our teenagers. We have to make space for 0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:35.920 them to encounter Jesus. So when we talk about like 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:39.560 signing up registering for youth X and like, like do 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:46.360 that's very very important, that's very very important. Like we 0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:50.720 are creating, you're creating four days with their life could 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:58.680 be radically changed, radically changed because you made space. Let's 0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:04.880 go to youth X twenty three dot common register. So 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:08.640 Lysha comes because she made space for him, and and 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:12.640 he goes, what can I do for you? And she says, 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:15.400 I'm good. I don't need anything. I'm secure, I'm with 0:31:15.440 --> 0:31:17.680 my family. In fact, she says I'm good, probably for 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:20.880 the same reasons we say we're good. You know, when 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.440 people ask how you doing, like, yeah, I'm good, it's 0:31:23.480 --> 0:31:27.760 all good, right. Maybe she been believing for so long 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:30.440 that she knew that it was going to actually hurt 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:34.560 to believe again. She's like, yeah, no, I'm good, everything 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:38.280 is fine. Don't don't dig. Have you ever gotten to 0:31:38.280 --> 0:31:41.440 a place where you're just content, like like, but not 0:31:41.480 --> 0:31:43.719 the good content where you're just like, yeah, it is 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:49.560 what it is. So I'm fine, I'm comfortable. I've taken 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:52.920 a deep breath, I've gotten over it and everything is good. 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:56.680 But I love Alyisha because Elisha didn't quit. He says, 0:31:56.880 --> 0:31:59.840 Hayes that come here. He said, Yo, we got to 0:31:59.840 --> 0:32:01.479 talk talk about this. She said, yeah, man, I saw 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:04.440 her Instagram. I saw her Facebook. Here's the deal. I'ma 0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:07.200 be honest with you. She ain't got no kids. Her 0:32:07.280 --> 0:32:10.520 husband real old. By the way, it says real old. 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:17.440 Doesn't just say husband old husband, real old. Like she posting, 0:32:17.520 --> 0:32:20.240 but she ain't living what she posting. She's saying everything 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:24.640 is fine, But I don't think everything is fine. And 0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:27.200 the life show is like you know what, Come here, 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:31.120 talk to the shooting. My woman says, this time next year, 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:40.200 you will be holding a baby boy. Look look at 0:32:40.200 --> 0:32:43.200 that scripture. This time next year you will be holding 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:46.520 a baby boy. Notice he didn't say this time you 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:51.360 will be pregnant. He didn't say this time next year 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:54.080 you will be pregnant. Why because pregnancy does not guarantee 0:32:54.080 --> 0:33:01.920 a child. He says, I know your faith has been 0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:05.200 so fractured. I'm not just gonna say a thing about 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:09.680 pregnancy so that you'll be stressed the entire time wondering 0:33:09.680 --> 0:33:11.760 about whether or not if this is actually going to 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:15.200 come to pass. I'm gonna speak to you about your future, 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:18.320 and I want you to know exactly what is on 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:23.040 is sway. I asked how you were mouth right, I 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:26.520 saw you add no baby eyes, and I'm gonna prophesy 0:33:26.600 --> 0:33:28.600 to you that you will hold a baby boy in 0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:33.280 your hands. You are painting that room. Blue girl is happening, 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:35.960 And you know what I love about this is Elisha 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:44.760 spoke to her imagination. Elisha spoke to her imagination. Some 0:33:44.840 --> 0:33:49.920 of you have lost your imagination. Some of you have 0:33:50.080 --> 0:33:54.800 lost your ability to dream again. Some of you have 0:33:54.920 --> 0:34:01.720 lost that comprehension to dream and imagine and to have 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:05.920 that belief in what God wants to do in your life. 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:09.319 You gotta get your imagination back. The same energy that 0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:12.720 it takes to worry is the same energy it would 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:18.840 take to imagine. What would be the reason that she 0:34:18.960 --> 0:34:23.520 didn't ask for a miracle was because she had lost 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:29.240 her imagination. She didn't ask for this miracle. Right. Here's 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:37.200 what you have to understand asking and imagining are both connected. Okay, 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:39.080 you don't believe me. If fatures three twenty, Now to 0:34:39.120 --> 0:34:40.600 him who is able to do a measure more than 0:34:40.600 --> 0:34:45.440 all we ask or imagine. We celebrate a measurement more 0:34:45.480 --> 0:34:49.239 all the time. And forget that asking and imagining are 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:54.319 completely connected. I can tell what you are imagining for 0:34:54.719 --> 0:35:00.239 based off of what you're asking, and you could else. 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.480 She had lost her imagination because she wasn't asking for 0:35:03.560 --> 0:35:09.160 a miracle, and now she's holding her baby. And then 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:14.640 it says, one day he grew up. He began to complain, 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:17.439 my head, my head, and this headache turned into her 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:22.800 holding a dead baby. Boy, it went small too serious 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:26.839 in seconds. Have you ever been there before? Small too 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:29.480 serious in seconds? You live in life, and all of 0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:35.800 a sudden you get that text small too serious in seconds, 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:40.759 No life in his body. But did you know that 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:44.200 it is possible to have disappointment and hope at the 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:50.440 same time. Pastor spoke last week that Got's up to 0:35:50.520 --> 0:35:57.880 something upstream, and he talked about downstream disappointments. She was 0:35:57.920 --> 0:36:04.120 experiencing a downstream I mean disappointment, But God was up 0:36:04.160 --> 0:36:08.919 to something upstream. She didn't know resurrection was on the way, 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:13.719 but God did, and she carries her dead boy to 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:17.840 the room, shuts the door and tells her husband everything's fine. 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:21.560 Disappointment and hope right there living in the same space. 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.680 Carried the dead boy into the room, shut the door, 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:28.120 tells her husband everything's fine, gets to the assistant Geese 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:30.799 and says everything as well with my soul, and then 0:36:31.280 --> 0:36:39.000 runs to Elisha and the resurrection begins to happen. It 0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:44.200 says that Elisha gets on top of this dead boy, 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:53.959 mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. Johns, 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:58.920 I don't think they're getting it. Let's illustrate it real quick. No, 0:37:04.760 --> 0:37:08.000 it's okay. I'm not gonna make it. Got real nervous 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:22.360 mouth and mouth, eyes, dives, hands, dance. You want to 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:24.880 know why I believe this resurrection happens is because she 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:28.440 goes back to the one who made all of this happen. 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:36.120 She said, moved to the side, husband, moved to the side. Assistant. 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:39.120 I need to go back to the one. For some 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:41.719 of you in this room, everything that I had just 0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:45.760 said prior to this you didn't need, but you needed 0:37:45.760 --> 0:37:48.239 this moment right here. For some of you, you need 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:51.600 to come back to the one you need to come 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:55.640 back to the one who anointed you. You need to 0:37:55.640 --> 0:37:58.040 come back to the one who strengthened you in that season. 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:00.360 You need to come back to the one who pulled 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:02.879 you out of that deep dark hole that you never 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:04.799 thought you could get out of, but then, by the 0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:10.040 grace of God, he got you out. You need to 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:12.200 go back to the one that loves you, that promised you, 0:38:12.239 --> 0:38:18.160 that anointed you, that appointed you. For every season, you 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:22.759 need to go back to the one, and for a 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:24.560 lot of us, I believe that this is going to 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:30.400 be a year of resurrection. It matters what story you tell. 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:36.120 She could have been telling the story about no baby, 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:44.680 no nursery, no life. Let me tell you something, It 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:47.719 matters what story you tell. God did not fail you. 0:38:49.120 --> 0:38:52.880 God has not forgot about you. He loves you, He 0:38:53.000 --> 0:38:57.920 is not mad at you, He has not misplaced you. 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:02.600 In fact, God has uniquely set you apart for everything 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:08.200 that is coming your way. He already knows what's happening upstream, 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:14.960 and when it comes down stream, He's got you covered. Well. 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:17.040 Let me tell you something. If all you focus on 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:23.080 is death, death will be honest way, and death will 0:39:23.120 --> 0:39:29.439 be here to stay. She had a dead baby boy. 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:35.960 She didn't focus on that. No move away husband, get 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:41.240 my donkey move away assistant. I need Elisha. He spoke 0:39:41.360 --> 0:39:54.879 this into existence. He can make something happen now this year, 0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:59.000 I want us to choose to stretch the truth over 0:39:59.080 --> 0:40:04.720 our end entire life, over our mouths, over our eyes, 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:07.920 over our hands. I'm not saying to be naive. I'm 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:12.200 saying to stop being negative. I'm not saying to be fake. 0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:15.560 I'm saying to stop forcing death into every situation of 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:21.400 your life. Listen to me. We can't keep teaching the 0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:25.680 next generation that resurretion exists if we don't know how 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:30.719 to get there. We can't keep doing it. We're coming 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:35.680 to churches and we're like, yeah, my faith, I believe, 0:40:36.360 --> 0:40:40.000 I believe in the resurrection power. This is the greatest 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:44.200 miracle that could ever happen. But we go home and 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:48.560 we're worried about the littlest things that have no eternal 0:40:48.680 --> 0:40:56.239 value whatsoever. Why we ain't stretching the truth over our 0:40:56.400 --> 0:40:58.520 entire life. We stretch it over church and that's it. 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:04.000 One and a half hours and we're done. It's gotta 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:07.520 be over our entire life. This is what God wants, 0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:09.840 This is what the Holy Spirit arns for every single 0:41:09.840 --> 0:41:12.200 one of us, and some of us have been standing 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:17.000 for too long. Some of us have been standing for 0:41:17.120 --> 0:41:20.160 too long in our own rights, in our own strength, 0:41:20.200 --> 0:41:22.920 and in our own minds. Are here to tell you leaders, 0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:27.040 burnout does not exist. Burnout means you ran out, and 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:30.480 that's exactly where God wants you. Where. You have run 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:35.359 out and you have got to need Jesus. So what 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:44.320 am I saying? Mountain mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. 0:41:49.080 --> 0:41:53.680 This is what he did. The dead boy gets on 0:41:56.080 --> 0:42:06.160 mountain mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands, mouth to mouth. 0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:11.520 What life are you speaking? Or what death? Are you speaking? 0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:20.320 Over your life? Eyes to eyes? What example do people 0:42:20.400 --> 0:42:26.719 have to see the working miracles of Jesus other than yourself? 0:42:27.200 --> 0:42:33.279 Hands to hands, what are you doing? Just like the 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:40.120 Shunamite woman, this miracle started with her mouth stretched to 0:42:40.200 --> 0:42:50.080 her eyes stretched to her hands. Resurrection is not just 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:55.200 a fairy tale. You know what I think is interesting? 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:02.399 If I asked every single one of you to stand 0:43:02.480 --> 0:43:09.520 up and do that, you wouldn't ah to think the 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:14.480 place God that s embarrassy? Why would I do that? 0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:27.480 Why would you not? Because you'd rather stand and just 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:36.360 fake it until you made it. You'd rather just stretch 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:42.600 the truth over this hour and a half rather than 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:50.440 be honest with yourself and understand, this is what I need. 0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:54.360 There are many people who are living their lives with 0:43:54.480 --> 0:43:59.280 dead parts. So let me ask you, are you really alive? 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:07.399 Are you just the walking dead? That's not the life 0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:12.000 that God had intended for you. He wants you to 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:17.600 live a full life, a blessed life, a strong life, 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:24.240 a full breath life. I'll end with this second King's 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:27.520 thirteen twenty two. You don't have to bring it up, guys, 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:30.160 but I told you a little earlier about the story 0:44:30.320 --> 0:44:37.480 of Elciaan, how he had the double portion resurrection, how 0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:40.880 he raises this boy, this shot white woman's boy, then 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:46.520 he lives a long life, then he dies. Elciaus sent 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:53.600 into a tomb, and these men pick up this man 0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:57.719 and they throw him on a licious tomb, on a 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:05.040 licious grave. And told you earlier that man raised from 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:08.160 the dead just because of the power that was in 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:17.200 Elisha's bones. You know whose body that was. It is 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:21.359 said to believe that that is the Shoonomite woman's son. 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:30.560 So the double portion that Elisha had prayed was not 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:36.759 just for himself, but it was also for that shotemite 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:46.520 woman's boy. What am I saying? When you come into 0:45:46.520 --> 0:45:49.520 a right relationship with Jesus Christ, your life is no 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:55.400 longer about you. One life on another, just like Elisha 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:58.280 and that little boy, and just like Jesus, one life 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:01.720 for another, and just it's like your life, one life 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:06.279 so that someone else can experience the true life of 0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:13.520 Jesus Christ. One life for another, one life for another, 0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:20.120 one life for another, one life for another, one life. 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:23.120 We're here to give it all for someone else to know, 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:28.600 believing breathing miracle of Jesus Christ, so that people can 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:31.879 know that the world of God, it is alive, it 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:45.040 is well, and it is true. Passes said, it's not death, 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:48.800 it's just a shadow. I'm here to encourage you and 0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:51.439 let you know the thing that you think has been dead, 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:56.880 it might have just been a shadow. It said today 0:46:56.960 --> 0:47:01.920 with every hand open like this, God, I pray for 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:05.360 people right now that have been living with dead parts, 0:47:06.400 --> 0:47:09.520 that have been living with dead dreams, that have been 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:14.560 living with with dead, dead moments. God, I pray that 0:47:14.600 --> 0:47:17.319 you would resurrect that. God. We believe in resurrection. God, 0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:20.359 we believe that resurrection still exists. It is not a 0:47:20.360 --> 0:47:24.840 fairy tale. So we believe that you can resurrect the 0:47:24.920 --> 0:47:29.600 dead parts of our life. God, stretch the truth of 0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:32.920 your Holy Spirit over every single part, even the parts 0:47:32.920 --> 0:47:35.000 that we hide from you, even the parts that we 0:47:35.040 --> 0:47:37.359 don't want to talk about, even the parts that we 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:41.359 try and put into a corner and we're content with 0:47:41.440 --> 0:47:47.319 it never happening again, even those parts. God stretch us, 0:47:48.160 --> 0:47:51.719 move us. God. I pray that people would go into 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:55.000 lunches today and they're talking about dreams that they haven't 0:47:55.040 --> 0:48:00.520 talked about in ten years. Got I pray people in 0:48:00.600 --> 0:48:03.560 here right now. There's some people online right now that 0:48:03.680 --> 0:48:08.120 need to text their dad, that need to make that 0:48:08.239 --> 0:48:12.279 phone call to their mother, that need to have that 0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:19.239 conversation with their sister, who with their son, because they 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:21.360 have believed the lie of the enemy, that it is 0:48:21.400 --> 0:48:24.000 dead and it will no longer happen anymore. And I 0:48:24.080 --> 0:48:28.560 rebuke that. In the name of Jesus Christ, you can 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:34.399 be allies, You can be alive. God is fighting for us, 0:48:35.120 --> 0:48:37.840 He is in it with us, and he is working 0:48:37.880 --> 0:48:42.239 through us. He is not against us. He is in 0:48:42.280 --> 0:48:45.600 it with us. He is fighting for us, and he 0:48:45.719 --> 0:48:49.680 is working through us, He is not against us, and 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:52.040 God we believe it. We don't just come in here 0:48:54.360 --> 0:49:13.760 check off a box. We say, right now, Lord, right now, life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life, 0:49:13.800 --> 0:49:18.640 over dead things life life. Some of you need to 0:49:18.680 --> 0:49:23.200 stretch out over a debt cult thing right now life. Well, 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:25.320 if you enjoy today's podcast, there are a couple of 0:49:25.360 --> 0:49:29.040 things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, 0:49:29.320 --> 0:49:32.319 and review this podcast. You can also help us reach 0:49:32.360 --> 0:49:36.200 others by investing today at Elevationchurch dot org, slash give 0:49:36.640 --> 0:49:39.440 and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast