The Facts Aren't Final

0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.760 All right, get out your phones real quick. Those of 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:09.080 you that have an alarm system, put seven pm every 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.600 night for an alarm to go off for the next 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.880 couple weeks, so you can pray for us for elevation nights. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.560 Because we start our tour of eight cities this Tuesday 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:26.560 in Chicago. We're going to Indianapolis. We're going to Columbus, Ohio, Washington, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:32.839 d C, Boston, Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.680 Reading Holly's going with me on every stop. I cannot 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.400 be without Holly that long. By night six, I'd be 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.839 so depressed. I'd be talking about all the sad scriptures. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.960 I'd be preaching from job and the Garden of Death. Semine, 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.000 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It'd 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.200 be so sad if I didn't have So's. She's going 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:59.240 to be there, and many of these folks are loading up. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.280 Rhythm is gonna share in the opening set as well. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.880 Y'all got twelve minutes to get the praise right. It's 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.080 gonna be awesome, and I'm gonna be preaching. There are 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.720 still some tickets available. They might be sold out by 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.520 the time you see this, but maybe you can find 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.920 a scalp or go to Elevation Nights dot com or 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.360 your official ticket master tickets and we will see you there. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.320 Oh it's gonna be exciting. So seven pm each night, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.360 pray that God would give us a fresh annointing seven pm. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.120 Just put a little alarm when it goes off. Oh yeah, God, tonight, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.840 may there be breakthroughs, chains broken, people set free, dreams rekindled, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.720 all of that, people saved, comeing to Christ. We're expecting 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.960 all of that. So I appreciate your prayers. We cannot 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 do it without the Holy Spirit. It'll just be a show. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.160 But if God shows up, Wow, something awesome could happen. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.640 And you know what, I believe God is here right now. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.160 How about you? They don't believe it. I'm gonna go 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.960 to Chicago. Don't believe it in Chicago. I said, God 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:12.040 is here right now. WHOA I heard you were doing 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.000 a little spring cleaning doctor g the other day. All right, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.120 we're gonna do some spring cleaning in the word of 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.560 God today. Get all that unbelief out of our spirits. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.400 And God's been stirring up a faith annoying in me. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.520 I think he's getting me ready for this for this 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.200 elevation Night's tour, and he's been stirring up my faith, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.480 so I want to share it with you today, all 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:36.440 right in Mark chapter five, that's where we want to go, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:41.560 Mark chapter five all the first time. Gess like, do 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.960 we have to stand up the whole time? Why they 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.400 give you this seat? If they're not gonna let me 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.000 use it, you get to use it right after I 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:54.200 read this scripture. Calm down, It's all right. I love it. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.200 I love it. I love it. I love preaching the 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.440 word now more than I ever did before. My passion 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.520 for it has never been greater than right now, And 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.160 even in the last few months, God has been recentering 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.720 my passion on it showed me that's the purpose that 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.959 He put me here on earth for is to share 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:17.280 this word with you so much? Why do you holler 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.280 so much and scream so much? When you preach? It 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.360 gets exciting to me. It gets exciting to me. It 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.840 gets exciting to me. Don't you know you have a microphone. Yeah, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.720 but it gets exciting to me. It gets exciting to me. Now, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.840 if you get excited during my sermon, you can shout 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.600 to all right, I could do permission, Let's look at 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:46.400 Mark chapter five, verse thirty five. While Jesus was still speaking, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:53.080 some people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:04:04.040 Your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore? 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:14.720 Daughter is dead? They said, why bother the teacher anymore? 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:22.480 Verse thirty six. Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:31.880 don't be afraid, just believe he. Jesus did not let 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:38.599 anyone follow him except Peter James and John who Peter 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.320 James and John, the brother of James. And when they 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.320 came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.839 a commotion with people crying and wailing loudly. He went 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.719 in and said to them, why all this commotion and wailing. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:03.640 The child is not dead but asleep. But they laughed 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:11.000 at him, laughed at him. After he put them all out, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:16.160 he took the child's father and mother and the disciples 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.680 who were with him, Peter, James, and John, and went 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.800 in where the child was. He did not avoid the 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:30.560 desperate situation. He walked right into it. He took her 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:36.000 by the hand, which is ceremonially unclean for a Jewish 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.320 rabbi to do if she's dead. But maybe she's not dead. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.280 Maybe Jesus knows something that we don't know about this 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.039 little girl, about your life. He took her by the 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:56.240 hand and said, listen to this to Alitha koumb, which 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:03.200 means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:09.200 the girl stood up started walking around. She was twelve 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:15.400 years old, Hannah Beth, she was twelve years old Abby 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.159 Faith at this they were completely astonished, and he gave 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.640 strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:31.600 told them to make her a sandwich. Wow. Let's give 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:40.839 God praise for his miracle working power. And what I 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.520 want to tell you today as a sermon title is 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:55.920 an announcement over your life. The facts aren't final. The 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:03.039 facts aren't final. I don't know who this is for, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.080 but I have been wrestling with this text all week, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.720 and at the end of all my wrestling with the text, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.280 the Lord released me to get up here and tell 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:26.800 you the facts aren't final. Oh yeah, Now look at 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.840 the person next to you and shout it right in 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:35.240 their face. The facts aren't fire. Put it in the chat. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:44.760 The facts aren't fire. You may be seated. What's going 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:50.120 on in your life? What's going on in your house. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.200 What's going on in your mind? Do I really want 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.640 to know? You might be sorry you asked you. Now 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.080 you ask somebody sometimes how you doing, and then you 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.240 wish about five minutes later you would have said something 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.720 different to start a conversation. There's better icebreakers than how 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.320 you're doing. Let me tell you right now. I started 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.880 trying to just tell people good things about themselves rather 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.720 than ask them how they're doing, because I figure I 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.880 can trick them in to thinking they're doing better than 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.240 they are. Man, you look amazing. You've been getting great sleep, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.000 haven't you. You've been getting massages every day and doing 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.400 dead lifts. Look at you. You look relaxed and focused 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.120 all at the same time. How is that even possible? 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.599 What's going on in your house? You wouldn't have necessarily 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.600 known that Gyrus had a dying daughter if you saw 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.280 him in the synagogue, because he was a leader there, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.240 not a paid professional. He wasn't the priest that offered 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.480 the sacrifices. The synagogue leader was like in our church 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.599 what we would think of as a campus pastor not 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.520 even really that because they weren't paid all right, So 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.400 JJ's like, please don't make me a sa n agogue 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.400 leader pastor more like a volunteer team leader or something 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.480 like that. But he was in charge of all of 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.720 the practical duties in the synagogue. That was his job. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.760 She had to keep certain wrecords and uphold certain standards. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.440 That was Gyrus's job. And the contrast of how I 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.920 jumped right in was probably pretty start. I know. We 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.720 went from singing a minute ago about you are the 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.760 same God, you were a healer then, and all of 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.400 the wonderful things that we started calling God when we 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:37.319 said waymaker, miracle worker, promise keeper. I'm gonna stop quoting 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.520 that song because I didn't write it. I don't know 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.280 if it'll get copyright flag if I keep using the 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.280 lyrics on YouTube. But all of those things that God is. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.600 And then we jumped right into this passage of scripture 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.280 where it says in verse thirty five, Jesus was still speaking, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.920 and some people came from the house of Gyrus. It's 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.880 kind of crazy how the son of God is speaking 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:06.680 and there is an interruption and the interruption results in 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.560 the worst news that any human being can possibly hear. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:16.679 It doesn't get worse than this, Your daughter is dead, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.760 doesn't get worse than that doesn't get worse than that. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.280 It doesn't get worse than this what Gyrus hears. And 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.040 so we are thankful as we journey through this passage 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.880 that it has a happy ending. And yet we know 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:37.040 that some stories don't. And somebody said to me, actually 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:42.199 this week, they said your Easter sermon was almost too 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:49.000 real and too raw for me. Well, I always thought 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.520 that keeping it real was what y'all loved about me 0:10:51.840 --> 0:11:01.640 as a preacher. I thought if y'all wanted fiction, you'd 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:14.480 turn on the news. Oh yeah, ah yeah, it's to raww. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.320 It is amazing, isn't it. It represents a shift in 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.480 my thinking where the Lord dealt with me in the 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:28.080 last few years. Stop preaching your sermons to people like 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.680 they are an audience to be feared, and start speaking 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:39.240 to them like they are people to be loved, which 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:44.000 means that we have to keep this conversational and relational. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.200 And yet I don't really know you. I feel like 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.600 I do some of you. Some of you. I know 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.920 you so well, like your face comes through my mind 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.520 when I'm all alone, listening to my worship music, studying 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.040 my word of God. I will see homeboy on the 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:08.360 fourth row two seats in that always wears a hoodie. Jerry, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.040 I told you before, Holly used to watch you worship 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.719 before we even knew who you were, and she was 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.080 watching this guy worship the Lord and I was like, well, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.439 that's weird, big who are you watching worship the Lord? 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.880 She's like, no, it's just he cries while he worships. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.079 And I wonder what's behind all of those tears. And 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.079 the more we understood your story, we understood why you 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:34.680 wouldn't have necessarily known that Jerry was crying because of 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.280 how close he came to losing everything. You wouldn't have 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.040 necessarily known that Gyrus, as he performed his function in 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:47.000 the synagogue, was dealing with the situation at home that 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:52.079 is every parent's worst nightmare. And the more we can 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.440 bring the reality of what's happening at home into this 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:01.559 sanitized space that we call sacred, the more like the 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:06.640 ministry of Jesus our worship services will be. You know, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.000 he did most of his ministry in the interruptions between 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:16.200 places that the disciples thought he should go. Think about 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.520 that for a moment, that much of the ministry of 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:26.080 Jesus not only happened outside of the church, services, but 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.640 it happened on the way to something else, which makes 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:34.280 me think that maybe I'm not smarter than God about 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.680 what needs to happen in my life, and that maybe 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.760 even when I'm planning my day, some of the things 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.840 that I don't know to be aware of will become 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.760 the most significant things about that day, the conversations that 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.400 we will have. In fact, I'm trying really hard these 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.760 days that when me and Holly talk, because I love 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.160 talking to Holly, all right, when I say that, there 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.240 are times I tune her out. Okay, there are times 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:03.679 I don't want to lie to you. I want to 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.440 keep it real, like we said five minutes ago, and 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.840 keep it real. But when we really get in a conversation, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.320 there aren't like to mes. There aren't to mes. They're 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.760 actually like fifty mes. But when it comes to what 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.800 I care about, we talk about these things that I 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.680 talk to you about. And then sometimes my goal in 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.320 preaching is I want you to overhear a conversation that 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.600 I'm having with God, or that I'm having with my wife, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.560 or that I'm having with my kids about what God 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.560 is doing, because I think the more relational the word is, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.600 the greater the revelation can be so that you can 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.400 make it flesh in your life, not just theory in 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.720 your mind or a formula in a history book. God 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.000 did this, and God did that. And I believe that 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.560 it is the personal experience of faith that has the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.600 most power touch somebody say it's personal to me, it's 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.080 personal to me. I have personal issues, I have a 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.360 personal God. I have personal fears, I have personal phobias. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.400 I have a personal God. I love the phrase that 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.240 we use in the Baptist Church to make Jesus Christ 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.360 your personal Lord and savior. It's something that we used 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.360 in the Baptist Church to mean he is Lord and Savior, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.680 whether you say he is or not. But when it 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.040 gets personal to you, that means you go to Him 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.120 to save you, not a pill bottle. That means you 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.960 go to Him to save you. Not a plastic card 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.800 where you spend money. You don't have to buy stuff. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.720 You don't need to impress people who aren't paying attention 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.120 to you because they're doing the same thing. You go 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.560 to Jesus to save you. You You go to Jesus to 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.000 deliver you. You go to Jesus to speak to you, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.280 not potato chips. You go to Jesus to speak to you, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:57.320 not porn. Help you. Go to Jesus. I thought y'all 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:10.640 wanted it real. This is a personal word that Jesus 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.760 spoke to Gyros. Go back to verse thirty five. While 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:20.840 he was still speaking, some people from Gyrus's house came 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:26.880 to him and gave him a bad report. Don't shy 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.480 away from relating to this story just because you cannot 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:36.520 sympathize with the specific situation. The principles that are in 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.440 this passage of scripture apply to any situation in your 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.440 life that requires faith where fear is present. And I 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.720 used to shy away from these heavy passages because I thought, well, man, 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.640 I've never lost a child. But this passage isn't so 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:58.520 much about losing a child as it is keeping faith. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:07.520 Keeping faith, and keeping faith means sometimes believing God in 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:13.240 the face of a bad report. So this word, first 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.760 of all, is about somebody who has received a report 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.800 this week in your life that has caused you to fear, dread, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.200 or to fall into a place of despondency. As Jesus 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:31.640 is speaking, some people come from Gyrus's house and say 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:37.280 it got worse the whole time that you've been standing 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.200 here at the feet of Jesus because I didn't read 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.000 this part, because I can't read the whole Bible to you. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.000 Every time we get together, I just have to choose 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.439 a frame and start there. I would love to, actually, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.919 I would love to talk to you about what was 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.720 in Mark four, Mark three, Mark seven, Mark eight, Mark nine, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.320 Mark Tenka. That's all good, but just for this frame today. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.480 I didn't tell you that Cyrus fell at the feet 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.280 of Jesus, which means he had to come down from 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:07.200 his high position as a synagogue leader and put himself 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.640 in a low place at the feet of a rabbi 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.440 who wasn't even a part of his religion. Church didn't 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:22.359 exist yet. Jyrus was Jewish leading a synagogue, and he 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.840 came to Jesus, who was outside the system of what 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.199 he even knew to be true religion. But here's what 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:35.040 I learned about desperate situations in your life. Desperate situations 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.960 will cause you to do things differently than you did 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.919 them when you thought you had all the answers and 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.080 everything you need and you had it all figured out. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.040 And now the leader is at the feet of a teacher, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.560 and he hopes that he can do something for his daughter. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.600 And every dad of a daughter stand up, every dad 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.240 of a daughter stand up. Wouldn't you do the same thing. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.119 Wouldn't you do the same thing when you fall at 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.200 his feet? Your daughter is dying, wouldn't you fall at 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.400 his feet? Wouldn't you do the same thing for your daughter? Now? 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.520 I have three kids, two boys, one girl. I'm not 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.879 sure I would do it for them, the boys, but 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.600 for Abby. I'm just kid, not doing for any of 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.320 my kids, I said, I said, I'll said out. I 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:22.879 mean and Holly were talking about this the other night. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.240 This is the conversation I want to bring you on. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.879 This is our conversation. We were talking about how really, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.280 in the end you have to give your kids to God. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.080 You really do now, I mean, you know, you could 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.119 put them on a sleep schedule when they're too but 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:50.800 when they're thirty two, when they're when they're transitioning through life, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.879 there's there's a there's a point where God calls you 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:02.600 to participate in parenting your children. But there's a fine 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:09.959 line between participating and manipulating. This is not a parenting sermon, 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.640 but that's what the text is talking about. So as 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.280 I relate to this text, I relate as a dad, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.840 as a dad who would do anything, and I do 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.200 anything I would. I'm almost I'm almost like making my 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.880 kids seft because I would almost do anything so they 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.399 never have to go through anything hard. And I know 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.720 I shouldn't do that, but I'm almost like a Dwight 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.560 Shrewt in the Office when he was going ahead of 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.360 Michael and making sure that he didn't starve. Remember when 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.520 Michael wanted to go out in the woods. Y'allna watch 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.320 The Office. I'm gonna give an altar call for everybody 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.480 who hadn't seen The Office at least twice the whole series. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:53.520 And and and I'll admit that I coddled them because 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.160 I care about them. And you would do the same. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:04.600 You would do the same. It looks strange to see 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:09.000 somebody down in the dirt like Gyrus was when he 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.679 came to Jesus, until you have felt that kind of 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:20.480 desperation yourself. And we were talking, how you know you 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:25.359 have a baby, right? Well, like I didn't personally, I 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:35.480 participated and then I thought, oh, that's wonderful. They were 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:40.600 born healthy, right, and that is the end of worrying 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:52.360 about your kids. Because we had the baby. Okay, God, 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.680 we're good. Now, we don't need you anymore. From here 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.520 on out, this kid is going to go in the 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.240 way that they should go, do the things they should do, 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.600 say the things they should say. It's all good. God, 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:12.040 thank you for bringing this baby into the world, because 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.520 we had the baby, and now we have the baby, 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.720 and now that we got it, we're good. God right. 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.119 It's ridiculous, as ridiculous as it is for you to 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.600 think that trusting Jesus is something you do one time 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.680 when you give him your life and even the language, 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:38.080 watch the language. To place your faith in Jesus is 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:45.440 not an event. It is a practice. It is a practice, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.680 just like raising your kids. Should I step in here, 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.800 Should I step back there? Should I let them bust 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.000 their butt on this one so that they don't end 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.719 up busting their whole head wide open on the next one? 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.320 What do I do right here? Like following Jesus is 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:05.240 exactly the same way, because you will find yourself in 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:09.240 moments of weakness and moments of strength, in moments of knowledge, 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.520 and in moments of ignorance, in moments of highs, moments 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.399 of loves. You will find yourself every step of this 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:19.440 journey like Gyros saying, in one area of my life, 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.480 I'm a leader. In one area of my life, I'm 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.960 the top man on the food chain. In one area 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:28.000 of my life, I have the answers. I am Gyros, 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.280 the synagogue leader. But on the day we meet Gyros, 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.920 he is not standing at the front of the synagogue, 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.920 issuing the sacraments for the people, or checking the role 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.400 at the back of the room. He is a desperate 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:51.600 dad at the feet of Jesus, Jesus the teacher. That's 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.240 what the men who came from his house said to him. 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.399 He comes, he says, my daughter is dying. Will you 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.080 come with me to my house and heal her? And 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:07.160 she's like, yeah, I'll go. Sure, Sure, because you came 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.560 here and asked me. I love Gyrus because he didn't 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:15.840 just assume that it was all God's job. You understand. 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.040 He didn't just assume that if God wants it to happen, 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:23.119 it will just naturally happen. He didn't just assume that 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:26.479 God is like an automatic faucet where you put your 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.159 hands under it and wait. Some of y'all are going 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:33.800 to be waiting a long time under a facet that 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.320 God has given you the faith to turn on by 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:47.160 your actions, because faith without works is dead. So he 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:51.560 did something. He went to Jesus. He did something risky, 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.480 he did something dangerous. He had to cut through a 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:58.440 crowd to do it, and it worked until the interruption. 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:01.159 Now I want to speak to you of the interruption, 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.080 the interruption that you're going through in your life, the 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:09.520 interruption that happened to you from the outside, the interruption 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:11.920 that happened to you that kept you from your goal. 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.880 Because we all had goals, and we all had dreams, 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:23.879 and we all had things in between the idea and 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:30.840 the dream. Call them roadblocks. Just call it a roadblock. 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:36.720 In this particular instance, the crowd is pressing around Jesus 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:40.560 so tight. One gospel writer, it's not in Mark says 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:45.480 that it almost crushed the crowd. It almost crushed the 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:48.720 crowd in Mark's gospel Evan, the crowd is never seen 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:50.840 as a good thing, like when we go out to 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:55.200 elevation nights. Shameless plug number two. I want the crowds 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:59.000 to be big man, so we can have church. When 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:01.760 Mark mentions the crowd, a lot of times that's something 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:03.960 that's standing in the way of what God really wants 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:07.840 to do. So a lot of what we celebrate in 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.679 life is a lot of what God tries to strip 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:15.439 away to perform his agenda. Like you know how you 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:18.359 think it would be so cool to be famous. Most 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.520 famous people wish they could be anonymous, even for five minutes. 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:25.080 Trust me, I talked to them. They talk about it. 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:27.440 The thing that I went after actually proved to be 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.960 a great distraction. And in this passage there is a 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:35.000 woman and if God so leads, I'm going to preach 0:26:35.000 --> 0:26:38.880 about her on tour over the next two weeks, because 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:42.280 she comes to Jesus through the crowd, gets a miracle 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:45.280 for her situation, which has been going on for twelve 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:48.800 years as long as the little girl has been alive. 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:53.000 And as she is being healed by touching the dirty 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:58.400 hymn of Jesus's garment in the Palestinian streets, Gyrus's daughter 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:03.080 is home die and so her healing from a human perspective, 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:08.359 cost Gyrus's daughter her life. And now this is the 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:11.080 part of the teaching that I want to become flesh 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:13.800 in your life, because this is where we find ourselves 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:20.560 in moments of interruption, in moments of disruption, in moments 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:25.320 where something that we couldn't control affected something that we 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:31.160 were moving toward. And the people came from Gyrus's house 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:34.760 while Jesus was still speaking. I know I've only dealt 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:36.840 with one verse, but it's a good one. Verse thirty five. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:41.679 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:46.840 house of Gyrous, the leader who was at the feet 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:51.159 of Jesus, the one with a lot of prestige in 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.919 the community, who had a problem at home that all 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.639 the prestige in the world couldn't buy him out of 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:01.560 some stuff. It doesn't matter how much of that you 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:06.359 have that people celebrate. Something could happen in your life 0:28:06.520 --> 0:28:10.280 right now that would make everything else seem worthless in comparison. 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:15.040 Often do an exercise where it's like a reverse gratitude 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:18.520 where I start thinking about everything. I don't have everything, 0:28:18.560 --> 0:28:21.360 I want everything, I could do, everything I should do, 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:23.439 and the Lord will slow me down. And here's a 0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:26.000 question he gave me. And if it helps you this week, good. 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:27.920 I hope it helps you this week. But it really 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:31.720 helps me. The Lord will bring to my mind all 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.840 the people that I love the most. And for me, 0:28:34.920 --> 0:28:37.639 I have a wife, and I have children, and I 0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:40.400 have a mom who's living, and other people that I 0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:42.280 love to In case they watch this, you come into 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:45.640 the picture as well. And then I put them in 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:50.240 my mind. And you know, because you feel sometimes like 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:53.080 all of life is just a focus around what you 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:56.600 need next, All of life is just a focus on 0:28:57.280 --> 0:29:02.480 going to the next level us and grind. All of 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:04.880 life can feel that way. And so what I'll do 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:07.680 often I'll put all those people in my mind, and 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:13.680 then I'll ask myself the question if you lost them, 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:17.360 if you could never ever sing Hamilton with Abby again, 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:22.440 if you could never ever with Graham again, throw that 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.960 ball across the room because me and him play fetch 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:31.240 like he is the dog. If you could never be 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:33.400 pressed with the lives again, if you could never see 0:29:33.440 --> 0:29:35.520 him squat two twenty five for reps like he did 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:40.920 this week again. If you could never walk around with 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:42.880 Holly and yell at the cars that are driving too 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:44.640 fast and say, slow down, what's wrong with you? We 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:49.240 live here? If you could never have it again, what 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:56.360 would you give to have it back? And I'll say everything, 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.760 And then the Holy Spirit will say, so what do 0:30:02.880 --> 0:30:21.200 you already have everything? Everything? And now sometimes I think 0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:24.840 we need a perspective like Mark chapter five, where we 0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:27.920 realize that somebody as important as Gyrus, with as much 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:34.440 to do, is losing his little daughter, and nothing else matters, 0:30:35.280 --> 0:30:37.720 And we lift our hands not only in moments of loss, 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:43.280 but even in moments where we are stressed about stuff 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:47.600 that isn't as significant as the devil wants us to think. 0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:51.920 It is stuff that isn't that doesn't matter as much. 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:56.080 You know, your dirty countertops do not matter as much 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:59.640 as your OCD brain makes them matter to you in 0:30:59.680 --> 0:31:02.880 the moments where you are screaming around the house. And 0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:07.480 sometimes I just gotta stop and go, thank you Lord, 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:13.160 thank you if you can get here for these messy countertops, 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:18.600 that these annoying kids that I would do anything for 0:31:19.440 --> 0:31:21.920 messed up. Oh what if I don't have kids, pastor Stevene? 0:31:22.000 --> 0:31:23.400 What if I want kids? What if I'm in a 0:31:23.440 --> 0:31:25.560 situation where I'm not married and I want to be married. 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:28.760 I guarantee you there is something in your life right 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.960 now that you are taking for granted that if you 0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:36.320 lost it, you would do anything and everything to have 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:44.280 it back. So what do you already have everything? What 0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:49.800 do you already have if you have salvation? If you 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:56.240 know that neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in 0:31:56.320 --> 0:32:00.600 all creation shall be able to separate me from the 0:32:00.640 --> 0:32:05.920 love of God in Christ, Jesus, what do you have? 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:11.920 I got it all. If I got Jesus, I got 0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:16.120 it all. If I've got His blood covering me, and 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:19.360 wasn't the shame off of my life and the film 0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:22.840 off of my faith. I got it all. I got 0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:25.880 it all. Not all I want, but all I need. 0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:30.560 The Lord is my shepherd, and I sound not one. 0:32:31.560 --> 0:32:38.040 I got it all. High five five people and tell 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:40.400 him I got it all. I got more than it 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:56.600 looks like on the outside. Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:32:56.680 --> 0:32:59.800 yeah yeah yeah yeah great, yeah yeah yeah. I'm glad 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:04.280 to be alive. I'm glad to be in that number. 0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:15.959 I'm glad. I'm glass he won't beat up. I'm sitting 0:33:16.000 --> 0:33:19.320 next to something right now that if I lost, did 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:24.720 I do anything to get it back. Don't wait for 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:28.200 God to take it away, to give him praise for it. 0:33:33.880 --> 0:33:36.920 Give me my flowers now. I don't want them in 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:40.040 my funeral. If I'm a blessing to you, tell me 0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:42.000 I'm a blessing to you while I can still hear it. 0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:45.080 I won't need you to encourage me in heaven. I'll 0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:50.320 be with Jesus. I'm good up there. Tell me now 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:55.160 you understand what I'm saying and where I'm coming from, 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:59.480 and why I'm telling you this. Because you will be 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:04.200 attacked by the enemy. Oh that's a fact. That is 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:09.000 a fact. Somebody put facts in the chat. Facts you 0:34:09.160 --> 0:34:13.160 will be attacked by the enemy. It is a fact. 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:17.040 Oh No, I will take up the whole armor of God. 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:23.000 What's the armor for? I'll take up the shield of faith. 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:25.160 The devil can't the devil can't touch me. I got 0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:29.760 the shield of faith. What's the shield for? It presupposes 0:34:29.800 --> 0:34:32.680 a problem. You don't carry around a shield if you 0:34:32.680 --> 0:34:36.440 don't plan on getting hit by anything. Come on, be real. 0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:44.120 The fact that Jesus was speaking didn't stop his daughter 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:51.839 from dying the attack. This is another thing we were 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.000 talking about the other day. So we're talking about trusting 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:56.319 God with your kids and how you really have to. 0:34:56.360 --> 0:35:00.480 It's not a choice. Your fingers will be pride at 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.239 some point, also them they will eat gluten if they 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:10.640 want to eat gluten. At some point, I love y'all. 0:35:10.680 --> 0:35:15.080 Some point I get too raw fear. Sometimes I feel 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:16.799 like we're friends. I feel like I know you. I 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:21.040 feel like I've done with you. The other thing we 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:23.360 were talking about is, oh, I remember what it was. 0:35:24.160 --> 0:35:30.200 How it's not really the attack that matters, because as 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:33.000 Christians we seem to be obsessed with this idea of 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:38.680 I'm under attack, and it really becomes this basket that 0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:41.240 we throw every bad thing into and call it an attack. 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:43.439 You got a basket at your house, or a drawer 0:35:43.480 --> 0:35:45.719 or something where you put every cable, every cored, you 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:47.960 got a game Boy in the thing, like you have 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:50.279 a charger to the game Boy. You got stuff from 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:54.439 nineteen eighty six in there. It's kind of our junk 0:35:54.560 --> 0:36:01.720 drawer to say, I'm just under attack. It's not always 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:07.759 an attack. No it's not. It is. Sometimes it's not 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:14.640 always an attack, and it's not always the enemy. Because 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:19.120 I know the devil is a liar, even when I 0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:22.239 believe him. Something in me kind of knows, called the 0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:26.520 Holy Spirit, this is not true. So the devil's lies 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:29.319 are one thing. But look at the passage with me 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:34.720 in verse thirty five. It doesn't say that the devil 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:40.120 told Gyrus a bad report. It says that while Jesus 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:46.600 was speaking follow me, some people came from Gyrus's own house, 0:36:46.680 --> 0:36:50.719 people who worked for him, and they told him, your 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:55.520 daughter is dead, and then they asked him, why bother 0:36:55.880 --> 0:36:59.960 the teacher anymore? Notice what they call Jesus the teacher 0:37:01.840 --> 0:37:06.280 because to them, that's all he was. They didn't believe 0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:09.280 in him yet. He hadn't died yet, he hadn't risen yet. 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:13.440 These were not believers in Jesus. These were members of 0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:16.760 the synagogue who were still making up their mind about Jesus. 0:37:18.640 --> 0:37:21.800 So when they call him the teacher, they're not lying, 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:30.160 but they are limiting because if all he is is 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:33.560 a teacher, then why are you still standing here listening 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:35.799 to him with this crowd. You need to get home. 0:37:35.880 --> 0:37:38.840 Your daughter's dead, and you are needed for the funeral arrangements, 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:41.560 because in Jewish custom, there would be mourners that would 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:43.839 come in two flutes and there would be at least 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:46.920 four people. If you were poor, imagine how many people 0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:50.360 were filling Jyrus's house at that moment to mourn the 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:53.759 death of his daughter. And if all he is is 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:58.600 a teacher, we're wasting time. So when they call him 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:01.759 a teacher and they say your daughter's notice this. They 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:06.799 are not the enemy. These are his friends. And this 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:13.279 is not a lie, but it is a limitation. Now, 0:38:13.360 --> 0:38:15.759 sometimes the devil would just outright lie to you. You 0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:17.920 can feel it when it comes on. You're worthless, your 0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:21.600 piece of crap, you suck. Bad word, bad word, bad word, 0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:23.960 bad word. That's the devil calling you stuff that you know. 0:38:24.040 --> 0:38:26.480 God doesn't see you as that, right, and so then 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:29.200 you just rebuke the devil. Ah, God, rebuke you, devil. 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:30.880 You're so crazy. You think I'm gonna listen to this 0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:32.960 trash talk. You think I'm really just gonna drive my 0:38:33.120 --> 0:38:36.239 car into another car right now, feel so bad about myself, 0:38:36.280 --> 0:38:38.320 I'm gonna end my life. Come on, devil, you're crazy. 0:38:38.400 --> 0:38:40.120 I rebuke you, Satan, in the name of the Lord, 0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:42.239 the blood of Jesus against you, Satan, and all of 0:38:42.280 --> 0:38:45.600 these things you can do when it's the enemy and 0:38:45.640 --> 0:38:51.759 when it's an attack. But in this case, it's not 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:56.480 the enemy, and it's not an attack. It's his friends. 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:02.759 And it's a fact. Some of the stuff that you're 0:39:02.760 --> 0:39:06.280 fighting with in your faith right now, it's not a lie. 0:39:07.520 --> 0:39:10.880 And that's what makes it so scary. It's a fact. 0:39:12.440 --> 0:39:19.319 It's a fact. It is a fact. Tuck to three 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:23.799 people in this church last night, one diagnosed with Parkinson's 0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:27.280 this week, one whose son went to jail this week. 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:31.080 One of them who lost their job this week. Not 0:39:31.200 --> 0:39:34.120 all the same skin color, not all the same age. 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:36.640 Some new to the church, some have been in the 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:40.080 church almost since it started. All three of them are 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:45.120 facing facts, And there wasn't one of them I could say, too, 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.319 the devil is a liar. Rebuke him in Jesus name, 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:51.800 not in good conscience. I guess I could say someus 0:39:51.800 --> 0:39:54.279 pocus stuff about it, and maybe it would feel good 0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:58.200 for about three seconds. But when my dad was diagnosed 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:01.720 with ALS, I knew he would die. It was a fact. 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:04.799 Well didn't you pray for healing? Of course I did. 0:40:05.480 --> 0:40:09.799 Who wouldn't. But when the healing didn't happen, and all 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:13.080 I was left with was the facts. Now, how can 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:15.560 I be on the phone with somebody who just got 0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:19.680 a diagnosis like Parkinson's and say it's gonna be all right, 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:26.560 don't be afraid. Just believe I don't say that when 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:29.160 I call people. I don't feel like I have the 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:32.640 right to tell you not to be afraid, And I 0:40:32.640 --> 0:40:34.680 don't really feel like I have the right to tell 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:40.880 you to just believe, because I struggle with believe myself. 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:45.359 And the Lord gently rebuked me this week and said, 0:40:45.440 --> 0:40:48.600 I I'll tell you what was It was so dumb. 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:52.200 This is what I would leave out my sermons if 0:40:52.239 --> 0:40:57.840 I had good sense where a lady was coming to 0:40:58.000 --> 0:41:02.520 do my blood. Take my blood right, this is not 0:41:02.600 --> 0:41:07.040 a big deal. And she didn't show up. And I 0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:11.279 had a garden of gethsemine moment because when they draw 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:16.239 your blood, you can't have any caffeine or food. And 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:22.680 for me to be a wait for two hours without caffeine, listen, 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.399 we all have our cross to bear. Must Jesus bear 0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:31.680 the cross alone? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:38.640 And just as quick as I could start complaining, this 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:41.480 lady was wrong with her. She messed up my whole day. 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:44.120 She interrupted my whole day. Now my old day is 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:46.719 thrown off. Not everything is wrong. I didn't even get 0:41:46.719 --> 0:41:49.280 to do my gratitude practice this morning because this lady 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:53.520 messed up my blood drawl. And the Lord said, would 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:59.720 you rather be going to a chemo appointment? And that 0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:12.279 shut me up because it was so dumb. It was 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:15.399 so dumb. So the Lord said to me, you get 0:42:15.480 --> 0:42:18.120 up and tell people to believe me for the impossible, 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:25.239 and you can't even put up with the uncomfortable. When 0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:27.160 Mike was working on me one time he was working 0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:29.880 on my shoulder, he said, how is that pain level 0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:32.600 that you feel when you do that? I said, unbearable. 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:37.279 He goes unbearable. First time he ever worked on me, 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:40.680 Mike Dannenberg. Look him up. He does a great job. 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:51.400 He said, unbearable. Unbearable. I said, okay, uncomfortable, right, because 0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:56.040 this story gives us a great gift of perspective, of 0:42:56.160 --> 0:42:59.800 perspective to know that even when it was that bad. 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:03.799 Look what Jesus said to Gyrus verse thirty six. Now, 0:43:03.800 --> 0:43:06.160 this is a powerful principle and a dynamic of faith 0:43:06.160 --> 0:43:08.799 that works in your life anytime you choose to apply it. 0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:17.080 He said, don't be afraid. Just believe I can understand 0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:23.200 you saying this. If it's a spider. This is not 0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:26.400 a spider, y'all. And by the way, the spider crawled 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:28.239 between the mats. When I was working out this week, 0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:30.279 and I was down there doing VPS on the bosuit bowl, 0:43:30.480 --> 0:43:34.160 and I went a whole fifteen steps ahead, and I said, 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:35.759 this is how I'm gonna die. It's gonna be a 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:38.600 spider bite on the floor doing v ups on the 0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:41.080 bosuit bowl while I'm trying to be healthy, and a 0:43:41.120 --> 0:43:43.239 spider is gonna sneak up and bite me. And I 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:46.000 can see my skin rotting. I could already see a hole. 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:49.040 And I'll tell you it's crazy how far your mind 0:43:49.080 --> 0:43:51.479 can go. But look, look, look, look, look, I'm making 0:43:51.520 --> 0:43:53.840 it funny because I don't want us to think that 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:58.200 what Jesus said is only for the most desperate situation. 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:05.000 What he said has implications in your daily situation. So 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:09.359 if he can say that to a man who just 0:44:09.840 --> 0:44:14.719 received a report your daughter is dead. And if if 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.200 Jesus this is what we claim to believe about Jesus. 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:19.919 He's the savior of the world. He's the Great I Am. 0:44:20.200 --> 0:44:23.600 He's the living Water, he's the good Shepherd. He's all 0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:25.920 of these things that we claim him to be. He 0:44:26.080 --> 0:44:28.440 is the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings, the 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:31.800 alphan Omega, the final Word from Heaven, the great High Priest, 0:44:32.040 --> 0:44:34.600 the Lamb of God, and the lion of the tribe 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:39.279 of Judah. If we believe all that was said to 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:42.600 a man who lost what he loved the most by 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:47.080 the one who sees and knows everything. Don't be afraid, 0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:59.160 just believe. I want Jesus to speak to me about 0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:03.960 my deepest fear. I want Jesus to speak to me 0:45:05.320 --> 0:45:10.080 about what I can't speak to you about. I want 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:15.160 Jesus to speak to me about what plays over and 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:17.520 over in my head. You know it's in my head 0:45:18.080 --> 0:45:21.239 and it's in my heart. The devil doesn't speak to 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:26.080 me out loud. It's louder than that, because when it 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:31.560 comes from the inside, I can't find the switch for that. 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:39.440 They came from Gyrus's house and said, why bother. You know, 0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:43.280 it doesn't happen in the scripture because when Jesus says, 0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:49.440 don't be afraid, just believe, Jesus does not argue with 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:57.239 the facts. He calls Gyrus into faith. So this is 0:45:57.239 --> 0:46:02.120 for everybody who thinks, blah blah blah, Candy Canes, Jesus Christ, 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:04.759 and Maury Povich, the Bible is just nothing other than 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:07.359 just all this dynamics and dramatics. No no no, no, no, 0:46:07.360 --> 0:46:10.320 no no. He doesn't deny a single thing they said. 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:16.880 In fact, in verse thirty six, very powerful, it says, 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:22.239 overhearing what they said, you see it overhearing what they said, 0:46:23.200 --> 0:46:25.880 and it's interesting. Let's do that thing, abby, Let's do 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:29.760 that thing overhearing what they said. I wrote it down 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:33.000 the Greek word for overhere. That mark uses brilliant word. 0:46:33.160 --> 0:46:35.759 It has three different meanings, not one meaning. It has 0:46:35.800 --> 0:46:39.400 three different distinct meanings. Where he says that Jesus overheard 0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:52.520 them saying she's dead. Why bother she's dead? Sorry? Okay, oh, 0:46:52.640 --> 0:46:56.880 three different nations to overhear something not intended for one's ears, 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:07.359 to refuse to listen or discount the truth of something, okay, okay, 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:12.000 To to refuse to listen or to discount the truth 0:47:12.040 --> 0:47:17.040 of something, or to pay no attention to listen to this. 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:23.320 He uses the word paracusas paracusas it means to ignore. 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:32.960 To ignore, it means give me that real quick. It 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:40.759 means to know that a message is trying to come through. 0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:47.480 See this was not an interruption. This is an illustration 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:55.040 because that button says to Cline, and what it means 0:47:55.160 --> 0:47:59.840 is watch this. It means that do it again. Just 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:05.759 because she wants to talk doesn't mean that I have 0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:14.040 to answer. Ah uhhh uh huh. Now sometimes in my mind, 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:19.440 do it again. I have to decline the devil like 0:48:19.640 --> 0:48:25.640 five times a second. You thought I was gonna say five, 0:48:25.680 --> 0:48:28.560 but day no, no, no, I'm I'm way worse than that. 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:34.600 My mind is way way crazier than that. It means, dude, again, 0:48:34.960 --> 0:48:38.000 that she's saying, I want some face time with you, 0:48:38.680 --> 0:48:44.759 and I'm having to make a decision in this moment. Decline, decline, decline, 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:51.920 decline or accept. You are making this decision every time. 0:48:53.200 --> 0:49:00.799 D du dah, that's the devil. Duh da da da 0:49:00.920 --> 0:49:07.360 da ah. I found the decline button that says paracoup sauce. 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:10.560 That means I heard what you said. Do it again. 0:49:10.960 --> 0:49:14.560 I heard you tell me it's over. I just choose 0:49:14.840 --> 0:49:18.760 to believe that I don't have to accept this message 0:49:19.080 --> 0:49:22.960 just because it's coming through as a matter of fact. 0:49:24.480 --> 0:49:28.239 As a matter of fact, some of y'all need to 0:49:28.320 --> 0:49:32.840 tell the devil before you even leave this service. I 0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:38.120 heard what you said, but I declined. I heard you 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:41.719 tell me lay down and die in the valley of 0:49:41.920 --> 0:49:51.680 the center of sense. But I decline, I decline, I decline. 0:49:52.360 --> 0:49:59.120 This is the divine decline. Oh yeah, it's knowing the 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:02.920 greater is he that is in me, that he that 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:09.759 is in the world. So so now now, now, get this, 0:50:09.800 --> 0:50:11.239 get this, get this, let's go, let's go, let's go. 0:50:11.320 --> 0:50:14.040 Let's got you already already it in Jesus didn't hear it. 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:23.759 He just didn't respond to it. It isn't that you 0:50:23.800 --> 0:50:28.440 don't know that you're broke. It's just that you are 0:50:28.480 --> 0:50:33.160 not defined by that because you are too busy moving 0:50:33.320 --> 0:50:38.279 forward in day toward what God called you to be. 0:50:42.200 --> 0:50:47.560 Even about myself, I accept myself because God accepts me. 0:50:49.080 --> 0:50:52.279 I know I'm jacked up. I know I got a 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:56.160 long way to go. I know I'm selfish sometimes, but 0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:59.960 I'm still preaching these sermons to you because I decline 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:03.840 to be defined by what I'm not. With the great 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:08.920 I am lives inside of my spirit and gives me 0:51:09.840 --> 0:51:15.719 lies to my mortal body. They said I can't talk now, 0:51:15.719 --> 0:51:17.640 I can't talk now. I heard what you said. I 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:20.239 hear you. They're loud talkers, like Holly. Holly is the 0:51:20.360 --> 0:51:23.560 loudest talker in the world. We don't fight about a 0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:25.719 lot of things, but we fight about this because when 0:51:25.719 --> 0:51:28.120 we're all in public, I'm like, keep it down, babe. 0:51:28.120 --> 0:51:30.160 Some people know who we are. I know we're not 0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:33.000 like super super famous, but it's enough where people might 0:51:33.040 --> 0:51:35.479 hear us. I don't want everybody all these tables hearing 0:51:35.560 --> 0:51:38.359 us talk about stuff. Not that we're talking about anything bad, 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:40.560 but sometimes I don't want them to know about everything 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:42.400 that happened in our house this week. So I'm like, 0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:43.960 keep it down. She said, why are you telling me 0:51:44.000 --> 0:51:45.600 to keep it down? And I'm like, because I don't 0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:48.399 want anybody to hear what we're talking about. I don't 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:55.200 want them to overhear what we're saying in this private 0:51:56.200 --> 0:52:02.600 communication between us. That while when Jesus got to the house, 0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:06.759 he sent everybody who was making noise out of the 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:14.879 room because if they were in their play in their 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:20.440 funeral flutes, the little girl couldn't hear him say to 0:52:20.560 --> 0:52:32.640 leath the comb, get up. What room are you in 0:52:32.719 --> 0:52:38.439 right now? What report are you facing? And how can 0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:45.759 you preach good news to your situation even as you 0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:49.560 walk toward a bad report? To me, that would be 0:52:49.600 --> 0:52:54.440 the strongest level of faith to know that the worst 0:52:54.480 --> 0:52:57.520 thing happened or could happen most of us. The devil 0:52:57.560 --> 0:53:00.280 doesn't even have to do it. He just has toting 0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:06.000 us with it. And to me, that's weird because shouldn't 0:53:06.000 --> 0:53:08.200 we at least make him work for our faith If 0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:12.919 he wants to take it away, well, I can't share 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:15.000 that in this setting. I'll share that later. Remind me 0:53:15.000 --> 0:53:16.799 and the staff meeting to share a certain thing about that. 0:53:16.800 --> 0:53:18.919 I'll share it later. I can't do it, y'all, because 0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:20.719 it goes online. If it was just us, I would 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:22.640 do it, but I would share it another time when 0:53:22.680 --> 0:53:24.920 it's more appropriate. But the Lord, he brought something to 0:53:25.000 --> 0:53:27.640 my mind where I was about to give up. Now 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:33.720 you got time for one more thing. In the statement 0:53:33.840 --> 0:53:38.120 Jesus makes to Gyros, don't be afraid. Just believe. There 0:53:38.200 --> 0:53:44.440 is no indication that Gyrus has stopped believing, but Jesus 0:53:44.480 --> 0:53:48.440 knows that that's what naturally happens through life. You think 0:53:48.480 --> 0:53:50.680 he gets easier to trust God as you grow older. 0:53:52.160 --> 0:53:55.000 It gets harder to go upstairs and to trust God 0:53:55.040 --> 0:54:02.680 as you get older. That's why we said, you eventually 0:54:02.719 --> 0:54:06.239 have to give your kids to God. You eventually have 0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:09.400 to give your kids to God. You eventually have to 0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:11.600 give your problems to God. You eventually have to give 0:54:11.640 --> 0:54:14.600 the part of yourself that you can't control to God. Eventually, 0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:18.040 And now you've reached that point where he's saying, just believe, 0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:23.560 believe what, believe what. He has no precedence of resurrection 0:54:23.680 --> 0:54:27.320 to believe. Remember, he still thinks Jesus is a teacher 0:54:27.400 --> 0:54:30.319 and may be a healer, but in no way does 0:54:30.360 --> 0:54:32.520 he see enable to reach the dead, raise the dead. 0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:36.239 And so he's going towards something that he's hoping for 0:54:36.280 --> 0:54:39.799 without even knowing if it is possible. To me, that's 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:44.040 what faith feels like, to put one heavy foot in 0:54:44.120 --> 0:54:47.560 front of the other with your heart broken. Sometimes because 0:54:47.600 --> 0:54:50.960 I can't find in the passage where Jairah said, I believe, Lord, 0:54:52.080 --> 0:54:56.960 can you find it? He just kept going, here's my house, 0:54:58.000 --> 0:55:02.160 here's my daughter's room. Do what you want to do? 0:55:04.920 --> 0:55:07.920 Is faith that simple? It is when you're in this 0:55:08.040 --> 0:55:12.200 kind of fight, it is to send it everything out 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:14.600 of the room that is telling you to quit. Now 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:17.840 here's the problem with me saying quit. You don't have 0:55:17.880 --> 0:55:20.080 a Greek New Testament and I don't either, And I 0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:22.360 already showed you one Greek word, but I need to 0:55:22.400 --> 0:55:25.600 tell you about another. It doesn't mean believe in Jesus 0:55:25.719 --> 0:55:28.720 like a one time thing. It means keep on believing. 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:34.919 It's a continual So it means the thing that made 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:36.960 you come to the feet of Jesus and ask him 0:55:37.000 --> 0:55:40.360 to do it. You have to keep that kind of faith, 0:55:40.840 --> 0:55:45.479 even though it already seems like it's over now, even 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:48.279 though the facts say there's no point in your stay 0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:52.680 in the faith to believe that if Jesus is with me. 0:55:53.560 --> 0:56:03.760 The facts are not final. The facts are the facts. 0:56:03.920 --> 0:56:06.200 It is what it is. I did what I did, 0:56:06.400 --> 0:56:08.200 I am where I am. I've got to do what 0:56:08.239 --> 0:56:10.720 I've got to do. I can't just pray everything away 0:56:10.760 --> 0:56:13.640 by denial and close my eyes and wait for the rapture. 0:56:13.840 --> 0:56:17.840 The facts are the facts. But are you feeding more 0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:21.000 facts to your spirit than you are faith to your spirit? 0:56:22.480 --> 0:56:24.839 Do you all remember when COVID started and they put 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.960 a freaking death toll on the screen for us to watch. 0:56:29.000 --> 0:56:32.600 That's diabolical. That was from the pit of hell while 0:56:32.640 --> 0:56:36.080 you were watching the death count on the screen, because 0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:39.640 all it did was feed your fear. It didn't make 0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:42.560 you do one thing different after a certain point. All 0:56:42.560 --> 0:56:45.760 it did was weaken your faith. It didn't strengthen your intellect. 0:56:45.880 --> 0:56:48.160 And every time I tell people I don't watch the news, 0:56:48.239 --> 0:56:50.239 they look at me with that eye roll like, oh, 0:56:50.320 --> 0:56:53.080 you're ignorant. But it'd be better for me to be 0:56:53.200 --> 0:56:56.480 ignorant than to be insane, which is how I feel 0:56:56.760 --> 0:57:00.920 when I feed my fear with every screen that is available, 0:57:01.080 --> 0:57:09.200 with every stream that is available. Because the facts don't 0:57:09.280 --> 0:57:13.240 set you free. The truth does. And He is the truth. 0:57:13.600 --> 0:57:16.560 Even when the facts aren't gets you, there are more 0:57:16.720 --> 0:57:25.640 for me that against me. Open your eyes, the prophet said. 0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:32.680 The facts are not final. The facts are not final. 0:57:33.760 --> 0:57:38.000 The facts are not final. Depressed is not your new 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:45.000 personality type. The facts are not final. Divorced isn't what's 0:57:45.040 --> 0:57:48.520 going to be written on your tombstone. The facts are 0:57:48.600 --> 0:57:52.520 not final. God is still working on you. He will 0:57:52.520 --> 0:57:57.600 begin a good work. Well, no, I'm preaching for it, 0:57:59.240 --> 0:58:02.800 but I'm calling you out of the facts and into 0:58:02.840 --> 0:58:12.080 your faith to keep believing, to keep believing. I read 0:58:12.080 --> 0:58:16.720 that forty somethings million people, by some result, by some posts, 0:58:17.200 --> 0:58:22.800 quit their jobs since twenty twenty one, which is much higher. 0:58:23.400 --> 0:58:25.959 As we know this term that we've come to say, 0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:31.800 not the great recession, but the great resignation. And that's 0:58:31.800 --> 0:58:33.640 not my department to talk to you about whether to 0:58:33.720 --> 0:58:36.360 keep your job or not. But when it comes to 0:58:36.440 --> 0:58:40.080 your faith, I have noticed that a lot of people 0:58:41.160 --> 0:58:48.080 will do what is now called a quiet quit. Quiet quit. 0:58:49.120 --> 0:58:53.480 It's when you hate your job but you need it, 0:58:54.720 --> 0:59:01.600 so you stay but barely. It's a quiet quit. It's 0:59:01.640 --> 0:59:06.640 a quiet in this moment, Gyros isn't on the verge 0:59:06.680 --> 0:59:11.280 of denying Christ. That's what Peter did later. By the way, Peter, 0:59:11.400 --> 0:59:14.360 James and John, Peter was the loudest one at the table, 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:17.240 and he was the loudest one at the campfire, denying Christ. 0:59:18.600 --> 0:59:21.680 John was leaned back on Jesus at the table and quiet, 0:59:21.800 --> 0:59:23.800 and then he stood quietly by the cross to take 0:59:23.840 --> 0:59:27.080 care of his mother. Faith is not always something that 0:59:27.120 --> 0:59:30.640 you can see or hear by externals. It's something you 0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:33.080 have to know inside. Gyros didn't say a word, but 0:59:33.120 --> 0:59:36.240 he followed Jesus. He didn't say a word, but he 0:59:36.280 --> 0:59:39.280 followed Jesus. I don't know who that's a word for. 0:59:39.920 --> 0:59:43.160 But you're not on the verge of denying Christ. You're 0:59:43.160 --> 0:59:46.680 not about to walk in God's office and say I quit, 0:59:48.040 --> 0:59:51.360 I don't want to be your child anymore. You're not 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:54.480 storming into the throne room of heaven saying God, I 0:59:54.640 --> 0:59:56.920 hate you and I'm bitter toward you, and why did 0:59:56.960 --> 0:59:58.960 you take my mom so soon? And why is this 0:59:59.040 --> 1:00:01.280 happening to me? And I thought you promised you would 1:00:01.280 --> 1:00:03.800 see me through and I haven't felt your presence. You're 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:09.520 not saying it. It's a quiet quit. It happens in 1:00:09.960 --> 1:00:14.520 relationships all the time. I don't block your number, but 1:00:14.640 --> 1:00:18.160 I take out my heart. It happens in marriages all 1:00:18.200 --> 1:00:23.280 the time. I don't stop coming home physically, but nobody's 1:00:23.280 --> 1:00:28.880 home emotionally. And the message of this text is for 1:00:29.000 --> 1:00:37.840 somebody who is quiet quitting on God. It's understandable for 1:00:38.000 --> 1:00:44.240 Gyrus to say, never mind, why bother? After all, that's 1:00:44.240 --> 1:00:46.920 what everybody from his house is telling him, That's what 1:00:47.280 --> 1:00:54.680 the facts would suggest. And yet I thank God for 1:00:54.760 --> 1:00:59.280 the instant replay. How many of you are old enough 1:00:59.320 --> 1:01:02.680 to remember a time and before the NFL had instant 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:12.480 replay the games where a third is long. And some 1:01:12.520 --> 1:01:16.800 people don't like instant replay because now when a play 1:01:16.800 --> 1:01:20.800 happens on the field, if they call it wrong, or 1:01:20.840 --> 1:01:23.480 if the coach thinks they called it wrong, he could 1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:26.440 throw a challenge flag. This would be handy for me 1:01:26.480 --> 1:01:28.760 to use for this illustration, and he could say, hey, 1:01:30.000 --> 1:01:34.320 I know what you said on the field, but I 1:01:34.360 --> 1:01:37.800 think you need to give it another look. Some people 1:01:37.840 --> 1:01:43.200 don't like instant replay. I love it. In fact, as 1:01:43.240 --> 1:01:46.960 a parent of three kids who have played recreational sports, 1:01:47.600 --> 1:01:50.960 I think we should do instant replay on all recreational 1:01:51.000 --> 1:01:54.480 sports in every community and have volunteer teams appearents with 1:01:54.520 --> 1:02:02.520 their iPhone camera. I'm a fan of it because it 1:02:02.560 --> 1:02:07.400 gives you another chance to look at something that you 1:02:07.520 --> 1:02:12.640 thought you saw to say it looked like they were short. 1:02:12.760 --> 1:02:15.400 And I've seen this happen a few times in games. 1:02:15.400 --> 1:02:18.560 It's my favorite part. It's like, oh, they were just 1:02:18.680 --> 1:02:21.760 short of the goal line, and then here goes the 1:02:21.920 --> 1:02:26.640 challenge flag. I know nothing about football, but I know 1:02:26.760 --> 1:02:31.560 something about faith. And the Lord told me today to 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:36.600 throw a flag and to tell you that what you 1:02:36.880 --> 1:02:42.080 thought was over, and what you thought was hopeless, and 1:02:42.200 --> 1:02:48.000 what you thought was pointless. See, because if Jesus is 1:02:48.040 --> 1:02:50.320 still with me, oh God, I gotta close this message. 1:02:50.480 --> 1:02:53.360 If Jesus is still with one thing, Jyrus has to know. 1:02:53.680 --> 1:02:56.720 If Jesus was done, he would have left. But if 1:02:56.760 --> 1:03:00.920 he's still here, that means even the interruption and cannot 1:03:01.080 --> 1:03:04.120 stop God from doing what he said he would do, 1:03:04.760 --> 1:03:08.320 and it might not happen how I wanted it to happen. 1:03:08.920 --> 1:03:12.760 But I'm throwing my flag. And when I'm throwing my flag, 1:03:13.320 --> 1:03:16.280 that official has to go back in the boot. Can 1:03:16.320 --> 1:03:18.760 you hear me in the back? Can I see you 1:03:18.920 --> 1:03:22.080 going in the boot and get in your prayer closet 1:03:22.400 --> 1:03:30.360 and ask God to show you from another angle, I 1:03:30.440 --> 1:03:34.080 see Jesus walking into this church today in a striped 1:03:34.080 --> 1:03:38.320 shirt like an official to let the devil know. After 1:03:38.520 --> 1:03:42.840 further review, they came to church today talking about why Father. 1:03:43.400 --> 1:03:46.200 They came to church today with their hearts so low 1:03:46.560 --> 1:03:50.880 they won't even clap right now. But after a further review, 1:03:53.920 --> 1:04:01.720 the ruling on the field is overturned. No, no, y'all 1:04:01.760 --> 1:04:08.560 missed it. It's overturned. She's not dead, she's sleeping. It's 1:04:08.640 --> 1:04:14.040 not dead. It's a new beginning. The facts are final. 1:04:14.880 --> 1:04:21.360 God ask the final word. Come on, come on, get 1:04:21.360 --> 1:04:24.720 in your booth and ask God to show you from 1:04:24.760 --> 1:04:27.520 his perspective. I'm in the booth right now. I'm sorry, y'all, 1:04:27.520 --> 1:04:29.520 I can't talk right now. I'm in the booth right now. 1:04:29.600 --> 1:04:32.000 I'm looking at this situation again. Right now, I gotta 1:04:32.040 --> 1:04:34.760 see something I didn't see before. I gotta know something 1:04:34.920 --> 1:04:37.000 I can't know with my eyes. I'm sorry. I don't 1:04:37.000 --> 1:04:41.080 hate you, but I'm in the booth right now, and 1:04:41.240 --> 1:04:50.720 one word from Jesus can overturn in the hopeless situation. 1:04:52.800 --> 1:04:55.439 Stop putting more faith in the facts than you're doing God, 1:05:01.120 --> 1:05:07.760 Stand up, y'all. It'll pressure me to finish. I don't 1:05:07.800 --> 1:05:10.960 care what they said. They don't have the final word. 1:05:11.440 --> 1:05:15.200 They didn't write the book. They're not the waymaker. They 1:05:15.200 --> 1:05:17.920 didn't create you. Why are you going to let somebody 1:05:17.920 --> 1:05:20.880 else write the instruction manual on a product that God created? 1:05:20.920 --> 1:05:22.560 If you don't know what you can do, what you 1:05:22.640 --> 1:05:24.560 can be, what you can have, where you can go. 1:05:28.360 --> 1:05:30.720 When we started this church, God told me, you know 1:05:30.800 --> 1:05:36.840 most of those things fail. Facts, statistics. Well, you know 1:05:36.920 --> 1:05:39.680 this generation today, boy, they've got more temptation than ever 1:05:39.720 --> 1:05:45.520 before facts. But they've also got the same guy through 1:05:45.560 --> 1:05:54.240 every generation. The facts aren't final. We are believers. Bow 1:05:54.360 --> 1:05:59.600 your head, close your eyes, don't be afraid, believe, and 1:06:00.120 --> 1:06:04.520 keep believing. I want to give an invitation for people 1:06:04.520 --> 1:06:08.640 who have quiet quit on the promise of God. You're 1:06:08.680 --> 1:06:12.040 still a follower of Christ. You're not denouncing your faith. 1:06:12.720 --> 1:06:16.520 You didn't transition to another religion. You just started clocking 1:06:16.520 --> 1:06:20.440 out at four fifty nine. You just stop believing that 1:06:20.480 --> 1:06:25.000 God can do it for you. You just resign yourself. 1:06:25.800 --> 1:06:30.440 Why bother the teacher anymore. See, God brought you in 1:06:30.440 --> 1:06:32.480 this booth today. He brought you on this stream today. 1:06:32.640 --> 1:06:36.200 He brought you into this service today to show you 1:06:36.240 --> 1:06:45.760 that the ruling on the field can be overturned. Father, 1:06:45.800 --> 1:06:47.760 you gave me a word for your sons and daughters today, 1:06:47.760 --> 1:06:50.920 and now I invite them to reach out to you 1:06:51.000 --> 1:06:56.800 by faith. Everybody who has been in a quiet quit 1:06:56.880 --> 1:06:59.440 season on what you believe God for. I want you 1:06:59.480 --> 1:07:01.120 to throw your hand up in the air right now 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:07.720 and hold them there. You see them, Lord, they're reaching 1:07:07.800 --> 1:07:11.720 for you. They have something in their life to die. 1:07:12.880 --> 1:07:15.280 They have fears in their heart that they can't rationalize 1:07:15.320 --> 1:07:18.240 their way out of. And that's why we need faith. 1:07:19.880 --> 1:07:25.520 So we're following you right there to the house. We 1:07:25.520 --> 1:07:28.520 don't want to hear the flutes, we don't want to 1:07:28.560 --> 1:07:34.720 hear the opinions. We need a touch from you. You 1:07:34.800 --> 1:07:38.840 took Gyrus's daughter by the hand, Lord, you touched her personally. 1:07:38.880 --> 1:07:41.680 You weren't afraid too, You weren't ashamed to and you 1:07:41.800 --> 1:07:45.760 spoke to her. You ignored the bad report, and you 1:07:45.960 --> 1:07:50.800 spoke to the promise. We ask you to speak to 1:07:50.840 --> 1:07:54.120 our promise today. Jesus, speak to me, Jesus, say it 1:07:54.120 --> 1:07:57.200 out loud. Speak to me, Jesus, Speak to me. Jesus. 1:07:57.240 --> 1:08:00.880 Give me an enduring word, a word that I can 1:08:00.920 --> 1:08:03.720 walk on. Give me a word I can wait with. 1:08:04.680 --> 1:08:07.600 Give me a word for my weeping. Give me a 1:08:07.640 --> 1:08:10.600 come forth, Give me a stone rolling away where God 1:08:10.640 --> 1:08:17.720 I call on your name. Give us a word. Let 1:08:17.800 --> 1:08:22.160 me tell you this and I close. In fact, put 1:08:22.160 --> 1:08:23.720 your hands down. I really want you to hear it. 1:08:25.080 --> 1:08:30.640 When I started this text, it said, while Jesus was 1:08:30.720 --> 1:08:35.840 still speaking, a bad report came. What was he saying? 1:08:37.920 --> 1:08:40.519 What was he saying in that moment when Gyrus received 1:08:41.200 --> 1:08:44.320 the worst news he could have heard? Look at the screens. 1:08:44.360 --> 1:08:51.679 Please the verse before that, Jesus was saying, daughter, your 1:08:51.760 --> 1:08:58.439 faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed 1:08:59.720 --> 1:09:04.600 from your suffering. He wasn't even saying that to Gyros. 1:09:05.120 --> 1:09:08.760 He was saying it to the woman who Gyros thought 1:09:09.280 --> 1:09:15.200 was an interruption. When you don't know what's ahead of you. 1:09:15.280 --> 1:09:24.479 Hold on to the last thing that you heard God say, 1:09:25.400 --> 1:09:30.160 because I think I think when he called that woman daughter, 1:09:30.760 --> 1:09:34.760 it let Gyros know my daughter belongs to God too, 1:09:35.960 --> 1:09:38.600 and I can give God this situation. You have to 1:09:38.600 --> 1:09:41.240 give it to God. What else are you going to do? 1:09:41.320 --> 1:09:44.760 You can't control it anymore. You have to give it 1:09:44.760 --> 1:09:48.559 to God. 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