The God Of Also

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:21.760 I hope you're blessed today. When we were out on 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.680 Elevation Nights this week, every night, I wanted to preach 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.000 off of that song, same God and really share something 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.960 from that. And the Lord kind of spoke to me 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.640 on the last night. I said, duel when you get home. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.440 So I'm home. So we're going to do it today, 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:39.839 and I. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.080 Think it's really going to be special for you. I 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:42.680 believe that. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.000 Hey, on your way down to your seat, just high 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.479 five or. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:01:16.160 Hug five people and tell them I'm glad you're here today. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:24.080 I'll be sharing. Thank you, team, Just sound fresh, never 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:29.240 get tired. Those who wait on the Lord will renew 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.920 their strength, mount up on wings like eagles. Thank you 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.400 so much, thank you. I'm going to share from two 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.400 scriptures today. The first one is from the New Testament. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.320 These just happened to be two of my favorite scriptures 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:52.800 in Romans chapter eight. I really love this passage Romans 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:59.720 eight twenty eight through thirty two, and then Exodus three 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.200 thirteen through fifteen. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:09.120 These two scriptures go together really well. You'll see that. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:16.720 Romans chapter eight, verse twenty eight through thirty two and 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:24.000 Exodus three thirteen through fifteen. And we know that in 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.280 all things God works for the good of those who 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.200 love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.080 For those God fore knew. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.640 He also predestined to be conformed to the image of 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.560 his son, that he might be the first born among 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:46.480 many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined he also called. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:51.840 Those he called, he also justified. Those he justified, he 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:58.680 also glorified. What then, shall we say in response to 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:09.880 these things? If God is for us? Yeah, trying to 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.000 give me wound up early, not gonna work. I'm pacing 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:21.560 myself today. Who can be against us? He who did 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.840 not spare his own son, but gave him up for 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.760 us all, how will he not also, along with him 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:37.280 graciously give us all things. And as if that weren't enough, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.280 God gave us another scripture to consider. From Exodus three 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:46.560 thirteen through fifteen. Moses said to God, suppose I go 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.440 to the Israelites and say to them, the God of 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.440 your fathers has sent me to you. And they asked 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.360 me what is his name, Then what shall I tell them? 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.160 God said to Moses, I am who I am. This 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.560 is what you are to say to the Israelites. I 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:07.160 am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.520 God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord, 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.960 the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.039 God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. I'm calling 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.160 on the God of Jacob. This is where we get 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:24.559 it from. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:25.799 Is it the Bible? 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:36.600 The God of Jacob has sent me to you. This 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.640 is my name forever, the name you shall call me 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:46.080 from generation to generation. And since today we sang to 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.120 the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, the God 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.600 of David, the God of Mary. I kind of want 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.839 to take it one step further today, and I want 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:56.919 to talk to you about. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:02.760 The God of Also, the God of Also. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.320 I never heard of that guy? 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:06.480 Is he in Exodus four? 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:14.080 No? No, I want to talk about the God of Also, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.520 the God who also said to Moses. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.080 Look at this in verse fifteen. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.120 The God who also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.640 the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.560 the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:35.200 sent me to you. Now, God and Moses are having 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.760 a conversation, and it's going back and forth. Moses is 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.760 stuck on his own limitations, and God is trying to 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.200 speak to Moses. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.680 About his power and his purpose. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:50.360 And this back and forth happens all throughout the third 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.480 chapter of Exodus. I didn't give you all of it today, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.040 just for time's sake, but you can read it on 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:02.440 your own time. You'll find Moses, really this is something 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:07.240 I can't believe. I never saw this before. Moses didn't 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:13.719 call on God. God called on Moses. So the song 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.040 we were singing, if you weren't watching the worship said 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.719 earlier we said, I'm calling on the God of Moses. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.320 But even that is powerful. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.400 If you get inside this thought with me for just 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:28.119 a moment today, that before Moses ever called on God, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:35.279 God called on Moses. I believe God has called us all. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.479 I don't believe God just selects a special few to 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.919 work for him and serve him. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.400 I believe that God calls us all. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.800 In particular ways at certain times, in accordance with his purpose. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.960 That's kind of why I read your romans eight, because 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:54.920 I wanted you to get a picture that you don't 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.440 have to lead a whole nation out of captivity to 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.080 be called by God. You certainly don't have to be 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:05.200 some preacher or some kind of amazing billionaire mogul to 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.160 be called by God, or a singer to be called 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:13.840 by God. You can be called by God and nobody 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.800 else really know the calling He's put inside of you. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:17.880 He knows. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.360 The biggest comfort in my life is that God knew 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.200 it all when he called me. I'm grateful for that. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.680 Even as I sent my oldest son off to college 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.520 in a few weeks, I try to tell him that, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.520 you know, God knows it all. And so this next 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.800 step that you're going to take in your life as 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:46.000 you turn eighteen on Tuesday, it's going to involve things 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.520 that you never saw coming. But God saw it all 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.480 when he called you. Not just called you to do something, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.000 but when he called you into the earth, he fore knew. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.600 Go back to Roumins eight for a minute. Can we 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.880 study that so good? Everybody always reads Romans eight twenty 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.760 eight All things work together for the God. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.320 The other stuff is really good too. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:08.880 What comes after. I want to show you this too, 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:10.720 is that all things work together for the good of 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.280 those that love God and call according to His purpose. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.120 Not go to verse twenty nine for those God for 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:26.200 new He also predestined to be conformed to the image 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:31.960 of his son Ah. So God's calling is really about character. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.400 God's calling is less about what college you go to 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.120 and more about who you're going to be when you 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:43.600 get there. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.840 So tell somebody, God is calling you to be nicer. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.920 I know a lot of people like I don't know 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.080 what God's calling me to do. That's fine if you 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.839 know what God's calling you to do. I don't know 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.280 what God's called. He's calling you to be kind. He's 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:10.160 calling you to apologize when you're wrong. He's calling you 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.400 to be generous. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:18.839 Miamans are dying. Lord, He's calling you to be. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.800 More submitted and surrendered to the moment he's placed you in, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.600 and not so anxious about the future that you can't control. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.560 He's calling out. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.480 There's somebody's shout, I'm called I'm called to be like Christ. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.840 So this whole sequence that the apostle Paul gives us, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.480 which is kind of demonstrated in the Life of Moses. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.680 Not kind of demonstrated, it's totally demonstrated in the Life 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.880 of Moses. It tells me verse twenty nine that God 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:57.120 knew you when he called you, and he called all 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:04.079 of you. God knew you when he called you, and 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:09.280 he called all of you away with a half hearted 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.199 commitment to a God who called all of me and 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.079 gave all of himself so that I could be saved 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.480 and redeemed and conformed to the image of his son. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.880 For those God fore knew, he also predestined to be 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.480 conformed to the image of his son, that he might 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.400 be the firstborn among many brothers. That's talking about Jesus 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.680 brothers and sisters. I said brothers because the King James says, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.679 the firstborn among many brethren. I got kind of hung 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.360 up there. Forgive me when my vouse house. But it 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:49.680 says that those he predestined. He also called it's about 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:50.320 to get good. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.080 So I'm telling you, man, your neighbor. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.280 Better watch out because you might start praising God when 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:55.880 I show you this. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.040 Somebody watching this in your apartment. They're about to call 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.160 the cops when they was happening. I think it is 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.080 a crime scene. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.920 Ah, but it's an amazing chain of events, it says 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:12.480 those he predestined. He also called and here's where I 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.959 want to spend a moment with you that those he 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:24.040 called he also justify because here's what happens. Right, Like 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.480 God called you to do something. God called you to 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.400 be something. God called you to move into a certain, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.800 I don't know, a certain new position that he put 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:33.000 you in. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.120 God called you. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:34.920 To raise a family. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.800 God called you to glorify Him in a difficult situation. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.080 No matter what the situation we would name, God gives 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.640 a revelation in every situation of who he is, and 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.800 it is changeless, but it is ever expanding in our 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.040 consciousness because we will never know all there is to 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.160 know of God. So the first thing we have to 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.679 understand when we come to God is we must not 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.839 box him in with our broken understanding of who he 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:11.400 is or our limited language. That's why when Moses said, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.480 who do I tell them has called me? 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.160 He said, I am well. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:22.120 That leaves a lot of room, right, because you are 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.640 going to need God to be a lot of different 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.120 things in your life at a lot of different times. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.240 Sometimes you might find yourself in a wilderness and you 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.120 might need water for your soul. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.640 He will be what he will be, living water. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.400 Sometimes you might need guidance from God, and it might 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.479 be dark, so you need a pillar. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.160 Of fire to guide you. And God will light up 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.319 the sky to show you your next step. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.679 No, he won't show you the next ten years, because 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.280 then you would think you didn't need him, and you 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.120 would dismiss him from his role in your life, and 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.800 you would start living by reason rather than revelation. So 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.240 he'll show you by fire at night enough to take 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.319 your next step. And that's really all you ever need. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.000 As a matter of fact, if it gets too hot 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.240 in the day, he'll take the fire down, and he'll 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.160 put the cloud out on the day shift, and he'll 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.199 guide you by a cloud cover in the daytime, so 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.040 that the sun will not harm you by day, nor 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.560 the moon at night. He will preserve your soul forevermore. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.040 He is God, and he'll go with you into every 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:38.840 season of your life. That's why he said, I am God. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.680 Does not have many identities. He only has one identity, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:49.199 but he has infinite expressions. So you will never exhaust 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:55.120 God by your own human knowledge that not only includes 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.959 the nature of God, but it includes the nature of you. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.920 What I love about God's conversation with Moses, by the 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.040 way it is so good to be preaching here today. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.040 I love preaching God's word to you. I mean that 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:10.920 I love it. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.520 I love it, and you know I love I love 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.880 being able to talk through things with you that seem 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.040 simple on the surface, but really if you dig down deep, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.160 they're very complex. Because when Moses is called by God, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.760 he doesn't immediately agree with what God says about him. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.320 It takes time for that to happen. One of the 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.920 things that I'm realizing about each and every human being 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:40.080 that I speak to is that your potential is a mystery, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.960 not to God but to you and to all of 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.880 us who are watching you. Your potential is a mystery. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.000 It is a mystery that will be revealed. With maturity 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 or that you decide to grow into and go forward 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.120 in what God speaks to you, the more we will 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.280 see what was there all along. This is why it's 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:16.520 very important that you never limit God by speaking about 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.960 your potential from the point of view of your past. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.120 Moses was a great man of God. He went on 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.360 to be one of the greatest leaders that the nation 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:30.960 ever knew. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.440 But he was also. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.480 Everybody say, also, JJ, you're so quick, I should put 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:46.880 you on my staff. He was also a murderer. Moses 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.840 had a great passion to lead God's people, but he 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.040 also had a past, and that's why I thought he 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.640 was a good example for us to talk about the 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.160 God of Also because Moses was born as a Hebrew, 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.600 but he was also raised. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:11.560 As an Egyptian. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.280 He was called to lead people forward, but he was 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:22.960 living in Midian in the mistakes of his past. Have 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:27.200 you ever been called to something but caught in something 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:34.720 at the same time, Like, I know God is calling 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.360 me forward, I know God is speaking to me about 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.880 my future, but I'm also caught in something. So I 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.520 believe all of that that all things work together for 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.240 the good. I believe all of that that God has 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.640 a purpose for me. I believe all of that that 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.400 God is great and he can be anything. I'm called 0:16:54.640 --> 0:17:00.960 to this, but I'm caught in that. Beautiful thing about 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.760 it is God knows exactly what he called you to, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:12.280 and he knows exactly what you're caught in. And God 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.200 knew what you would be caught in when he called 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:21.439 you to what he called you to. All the people 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.040 that have some funky stuff in your life right now, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.080 make some noise and praise God. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.960 That he knew what I'd be caught up in. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.359 He called you up even as he saw you caught 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.320 up in the things that you're walking. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:41.360 Through in your life right now. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.320 So the truth of it is, you're here today and 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:50.600 you're praising God because I am forgiven and you are forgiven. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.960 But it is also true that you may be frustrated 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.320 that although you are forgiven of certain things, you are 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.960 not free of those things yet. So I'm forgiven, but 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:09.760 I'm also I'll preach to you, lady, I'm forgiven. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:11.080 She's real. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:11.600 I like her. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.600 I'm forgiven, but. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:19.040 I'm also frustrated because although I'm forgiven completely by Christ, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.320 and I know that's done, and he knows that i'm his, 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.440 and he knows what he's called me to, he knows 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.800 what he's called me to, but I don't. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.679 So I'm frustrated because I'm forgiven, but I'm not. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.480 Completely free yet. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.080 So God says Moses, I'm sending you to do a 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.200 big work, and I'm sending you in my name, and 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.760 I'm sending you because I've. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.560 Called you and I chose you. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.960 And Moses says, suppose I go and they say, what 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.920 is his name? What do I tell him? And God said, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:57.000 won't you tell him? 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:57.239 I am? 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.600 And then in verse five teen comes to thing that 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.520 touched me the most, where as Moses is going back 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.439 and forth with God about what he's not, I mean, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.840 he gives God a whole list, a whole list of 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.080 his limitations. I'm not a good speaker, and you want 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.960 me to talk. I'm a murderer and you want me 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.800 to go back. I'm a fugitive and you want me 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.879 to go back to the place where I'm wanted. He 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.080 gives him a whole list of what he can't do, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:34.240 like we all do. I wish I could read your 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.600 list out loud right now, just to see how you'd 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.920 feel about it. If we read your list, list of 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.439 limitations and list of labels, and Moses says it all. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.320 What got me was the beginning of verse fifteen, where 0:19:53.359 --> 0:20:01.399 it said that God also said to Moses, who do 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:02.080 I tell them? 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.879 Sent me God? And God also said. 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:12.080 To Moses, now that in his self is powerful because 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.320 he gives his name the God of your fathers, the 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.280 God of Read him out. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:22.160 Loud with me, please, Abraham, Isaac Israel. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:27.800 Read them again, y'all. Get it right, Get it right 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:28.240 this time. 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:29.399 It's on the screen. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.280 The God of your father's the God of Abraham Isaac. 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.040 And is why y'all keep saying Jacob. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.800 Jacob was his old name. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.560 In the Old Testament, there was a man named Jacob, 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:54.480 and his name meant deceiver because he was tricky, and 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.080 so they named him after his behavior. 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:58.080 He was tricky. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:03.200 But God changed his name and he called him Israel. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.639 That's what the whole nation that Moses is being called. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.560 This is hundreds of years later. Now Moses is being 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:15.720 called as a continuation of what God started hundreds of 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.080 years earlier. And God says, go back and tell him 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.639 and remind him. This is a continuation. This is a 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:22.600 generational thing. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:23.840 God didn't just. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:28.320 Get started when you got born. You're calling is a 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.160 continuation of something much greater. I need you to believe 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.840 that it's not just about you. It's not just about you. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:39.399 So he said, I love it, the. 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.560 God of Let's try more time, the God of Abraham. 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:43.880 Isaac. 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:57.560 And no, he said, Jacob, that's the revelation, because you 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:03.760 would expect for God when he was identifying himself, to 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.240 identify with Israel, which. 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:13.400 Doesn't mean deceiver, it means prince. So if God who 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:19.480 is all powerful, is identifying himself with someone he should 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:25.080 identify himself with, Israel the prince, but he didn't. 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:31.040 Why would God, who is mighty? Why would God, who 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:32.320 is high and lifted up? 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.880 Why would God who is all encompassing? 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:38.520 Why is God, who is perfect? 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:42.800 Why is God who is holy stooping down to. 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:49.240 Call himself the God of Jacob? Maybe he wants you 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:50.520 to know that he. 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.760 Doesn't just want to be your God when you're living 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:54.600 like a prince. 0:22:55.520 --> 0:23:01.760 Maybe he wants you to know that he is also, 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:09.679 be brief, that he is also somebody's out also. 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.040 Yes, So he is God when I've got it together, 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:15.760 but he is. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:18.560 God when I don't. 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.119 He is God when I feel his presence, but he 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:27.000 is God when I don't feel a goose mump at all. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.080 So I will brace him when I feel his presence, 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:36.760 but I will brace him when I don't feel his presence. 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:41.080 I'll do it when I feel it, but I will 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:44.160 also do it when I don't. 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:49.639 Because he's no less worthy, he's still surely, he's no 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:50.960 less capable. 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:53.160 He's no God. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:56.879 He's all God. 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:07.800 He's water, he's fire, He's cloud by day and fire 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:08.480 by night. 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.800 Hot fight as many people as you can read and say, He's. 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:17.560 All that, He's all that. The Great I Am is 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:18.040 all that. 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:22.440 He's all that, He's all that. 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:26.200 Goot see for you. 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:29.240 He also predestined. 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:32.119 Can I tell you a secret? 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:34.720 You really didn't choose to come to church today, You 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:36.520 were predestined to be here. 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:40.840 Can I tell you a secret? 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.040 Your YouTube algorithm did not recommend this video. The Holy 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.560 Spirit of God served it in your feed because he 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:50.879 needed it. Because where you're going, God is calling you 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:52.320 out of something you're caught in. 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:54.960 And I don't care what it is you're being caught in. 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.720 You're still called, You're still chosen, You're still annoyed it. 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:03.720 George still glad, George still favors. Nothing in the world 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:16.320 can stop it. Come about the God of Abraham, the. 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:23.680 God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Also. 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:32.160 He said, come here, Moses, I'm your god too. Say 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:36.080 your name out loud and we'll put it in the song. 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:46.320 I'm calling on the God of I'll make some right. Now, 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:46.920 give me a name. 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:49.000 I'm gonna need. 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:49.440 Just one. 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:52.800 Sounds like the Tower of Babbel in. 0:25:52.840 --> 0:26:00.399 Here, Hugo, we gotta do you go. 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:06.480 So I'm calling on the God of you go. 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.639 Give be with you wherever. 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:16.879 I do on my best. 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:23.520 See, I'm not just a preacher. I'm also a songwriter. 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:29.280 I tell you some funny about God. Now listened. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:33.680 God is so God is so creative. God is so kind. 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:34.760 God is so wise. 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:38.040 God is so creative. God is so kind, God is 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:39.159 so wise. Which one is he? 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:44.359 He's creative, He's also kind, He's also wise. All of 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:45.400 those things work. 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:50.200 Together. Remember my first scripture for the good of those 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:50.760 who love Him. 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:54.199 I remember sitting in that airport in Charlotte, flying out 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:58.000 to Nashville eighteen nineteen years ago. At the time, I 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:01.159 wanted to write songs, and then God called us to 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:02.879 start the church way earlier than I thought we were 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:04.360 gonna start it. I thought I would start this church 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:06.960 when I was about forty five, So that would be 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.119 two years from now we'd be having our launch service. 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:15.560 Oh by the way, just like it says God for new, 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:27.280 you don't for new. You don't even know how long 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:28.960 it's gonna take you to get to work, and you 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:30.399 drive in the same. 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:33.600 Traffic every day and you're still late. Okay, So that's 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:34.040 how much. 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:34.359 We don't know. 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.240 So I remember sitting in the airport, flying out the 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:42.000 Nashville for at songwriting employment, and I was gonna give 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:46.920 God my songwriting dreams and lay them on the altar 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:49.960 like Isaac, Like Abraham, late Isaac, I was. I remember 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:52.960 praying's really dramatic prayer about it too. I'm like, Lord, 0:27:54.800 --> 0:27:57.080 you know the dreams that I have, but you know 0:27:57.200 --> 0:27:58.800 the plans that you have for me in the course 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:01.240 with Jeremiah twenty nine eleven implance forst me, not the harmony, 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:03.080 give me open a future. So I just lay my 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:05.520 Eaac on the altar like Abraham late Ice. 0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:06.399 It was. 0:28:06.840 --> 0:28:11.080 It was so deep, right, because sometimes we want to 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:14.520 use these epic stories. Abraham was about to kill his kid, 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.200 and all I was doing was saying, all right, I'm 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:22.400 gonna put the songwriting thing aside and be a pastor 0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:24.359 and start a church, because I believe this is what 0:28:24.400 --> 0:28:28.320 God is calling me to do. And I did think 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:36.360 he was calling me, so I remember telling him, telling God, 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:40.520 flying out from Charlotte to Nashville, all right, I'll giving 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:44.160 it to you, God, I guess I'll just give you 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:51.600 this dream of writing songs, worship songs. When we were 0:28:51.680 --> 0:29:00.560 standing in Nashville for Elevation Nights Friday, singing songs that 0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:08.520 came out of our church, this church. I literally laughed 0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:13.160 at how I thought I was giving something to God. 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:16.480 You gotta get the picture. 0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:18.440 I can't tell if you're getting what I'm trying to say. 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:23.920 I thought I was giving God something. Okay, I won't 0:29:23.960 --> 0:29:29.560 be a songwriter. I'll just be a pastor. Here's Isaac, 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:36.120 and God's like cool. Go preach my word. Go reach 0:29:36.200 --> 0:29:39.840 the city. I've called you to reach for Jesus, and 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:43.280 when you do that, I will. 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:55.600 Here's your word. Here's the word for the week. Watch 0:29:55.720 --> 0:30:01.440 for the also, watch for the also. 0:30:03.040 --> 0:30:07.360 Sometimes the also that God will give you what he'll 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:11.320 throw in for free will be bigger than the thing 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:15.800 that you came seeking. I love Matthew six thirty three. 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:16.360 I love it. 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:19.280 I love it in my bones. I love how it says, 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:23.040 seek first the Kingdom, and all these things will be 0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:28.240 given to you. Like God is rich, so he could 0:30:28.360 --> 0:30:31.440 just give you stuff thrown in if you seek him. 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:35.840 But if you seek stuff, you miss him and you're 0:30:35.880 --> 0:30:36.680 left with nothing. 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:42.160 So we call on God. We don't call on things. 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:46.120 We call on God. He's our source. We depend on God. 0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:53.240 We trust in God. And he also also also, you. 0:30:53.400 --> 0:30:56.560 Can't get so worried about the way you thought things 0:30:56.640 --> 0:31:01.200 were supposed to happen, because all things. 0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:03.520 Work together. 0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:06.680 For the good. 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:13.080 Of those who are called according to His purpose. 0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:16.640 It's about the purpose of God, not just your preferences 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:19.720 in any given moment. It's about the purpose of God, 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:23.240 not just your plan according to your limited knowledge. And 0:31:23.440 --> 0:31:26.479 God said that someone needed to hear this message today 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:30.040 because you are so caught up. 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:34.000 In what you thought your life would. 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:37.680 Be at this moment, like Moses, that you need to 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:44.320 meet the God of also this morning. He knows what 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:48.000 you're not. But the thing about God, who knows what 0:31:48.120 --> 0:31:50.960 you're not? Because you can't put in what God left out? 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:55.280 How many times I've told God's stuff I needed to 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:58.360 do the assignment that he gave me, and He didn't 0:31:58.400 --> 0:32:02.240 add any additional equipment to it. It like He just 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:04.360 loved me to strengthen what I do have. Well, God 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:07.200 knows all of that. But not only does he know 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:13.760 what you're not, he knows what you are also that 0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:17.440 you haven't discovered yet. Now this is kind of deep. 0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:18.640 Can I give you a seminar point? 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:19.840 All right? 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:32.760 All self development is really self discovery. I don't believe 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:36.280 in self development. I believe I believe in the Holy 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:38.600 Spirit's development in my life. 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:41.600 Well, the Holy Spirit wants you to work on your self. 0:32:42.640 --> 0:32:45.640 One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self control. 0:32:46.160 --> 0:32:54.880 That's ingulations. I love the way we justify stuff, you 0:32:54.920 --> 0:32:55.400 know what I mean. 0:32:56.160 --> 0:33:00.120 So we want to find out not only what have 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:02.480 I known myself to be at this stage in my life, 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:06.360 but what am I also that God knows that I 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:11.040 don't remember? It says those he for knew, he also predestined. 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:16.360 Those he predestined he also called, and those he called 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:19.800 he also justified. Y'all need to see it again on 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:21.760 the screen. I can tell put it back up on 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:24.720 Romans eight. I am not gonna skim over this. It's 0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:28.760 too life changing, it's too rich. Sometimes I just skim 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:30.920 over stuff and it doesn't get down deep. And I'm 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:32.800 not going to do it today. Because the Holy Spirit 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:36.240 wants you to hear this, he said Verse thirty. Those 0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:43.400 he predestined, he also called, those he called he also justified. 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:44.960 So here's what it is. 0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:50.800 He predestined you according to his purpose for you. He 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:56.280 created you before he called you it stands the reason 0:33:57.120 --> 0:34:00.280 that he would have created you to be exactly factly 0:34:00.360 --> 0:34:03.080 what he needed you to be for what he would 0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:07.160 call you to do. So all of the arguments that 0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:10.279 you give yourself about how you're not what you need 0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:15.279 to be are wrong because you are called by a 0:34:15.400 --> 0:34:20.200 God who created you. He would not have created you 0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:24.439 to be less than or different than what he would 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:26.520 call you to be in another. 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.000 Season of your life. So come up, Abby. 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:32.640 So I'm calling Abby to the stage right now. I 0:34:32.800 --> 0:34:37.080 am calling Abby, my daughter, to the stage for a purpose. 0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:41.120 I wanted to call her to the stage because I 0:34:41.239 --> 0:34:45.160 wanted to use her for a purpose. She is wearing 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:47.760 a shirt that if you zoom in on the camera, 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:55.400 it says I'm calling on the God of Jacob, Moses, Mary, 0:34:55.960 --> 0:35:00.480 your Verse, and David. All of that is on her shirt. 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:09.600 What a coincidence. Nope, that must be God. She was 0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:13.520 at the right place on the front row. Look how 0:35:13.680 --> 0:35:17.319 great that worked out. It's almost like I told her 0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:25.360 to wear it. It's almost like I had a purpose 0:35:27.160 --> 0:35:27.800 for preaching. 0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:31.920 And so when I told her, I need you to 0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:34.279 wear that purple shirt. 0:35:34.120 --> 0:35:37.880 That says I'm calling on the God of Jacob and 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:44.640 Moses and Mary and David. It's almost like I predestined 0:35:44.719 --> 0:35:48.800 her for this purpose, for this moment. 0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:52.360 So watch this. 0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:55.959 Of all the people in this room, there are only 0:35:56.120 --> 0:36:01.719 three that I had a part in creating, a small part, 0:36:04.040 --> 0:36:12.600 the fun part. So let's follow the secrets. Don't put 0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:12.920 that do. 0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:31.560 Created? Called created? Called predestined purpose? So what is God 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:33.719 calling you into right now? 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:36.000 Wouldn't it make. 0:36:36.000 --> 0:36:40.080 Sense for you to stop being so doubtful and stop 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:46.400 second guessing his sovereignty and stop telling him excuses. 0:36:47.120 --> 0:36:51.200 And just come on up and do and be what 0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:56.160 you were created to be, believing that if he called me, 0:36:57.960 --> 0:36:59.200 that he created me. 0:37:00.800 --> 0:37:06.640 And position me for the purpose that he predestined me for. 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:12.920 All I'm trying to say is that the God who 0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:15.759 called you also created you. 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:19.279 So if you don't have it, take it up with him. 0:37:19.719 --> 0:37:21.520 He must not want it from you. 0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:26.200 That's why he created other people. That's why comparison is 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:27.000 a thief. 0:37:27.239 --> 0:37:30.960 And a liar and a drug that we take to 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:34.160 talk ourselves down from our heart calling. 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:38.400 Because I didn't call Graham for this illustration, I didn't 0:37:38.520 --> 0:37:43.280 call Elijah for this illustration. They are bigger in stature, 0:37:43.840 --> 0:37:47.560 but she was better for this purpose because I put 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:51.239 her in what she needed for this moment, and I 0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:55.000 want to preach and prophesy to somebody. God knew what 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:58.239 he would need you to do before you ever got 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:02.640 to this people planet. Why you screaming, preacher, Because God 0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:05.800 gave me breadth for this message for somebody to know, 0:38:06.200 --> 0:38:07.879 to get as breadth. 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:10.239 In your loves or this assignment. 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:24.920 The God of Jacob, that deceiver, the God of Moses, 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:30.800 that murderer, the God of Mary, a virgin to have 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:35.880 the baby Jesus, a peasant to give birth to the 0:38:36.040 --> 0:38:37.800 pre eminent word. 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:50.799 Of God, the God of David, the eighth Son. Oh, 0:38:50.920 --> 0:38:52.320 God just gave me this as it is. 0:38:54.320 --> 0:38:58.960 When the prophet came to anoint the next king, Jesse 0:38:59.160 --> 0:39:02.920 lined up sons. 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:03.600 That he thought were the right choice. 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:08.120 Samuel said, none of these are the right ones. 0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:13.600 Don't you have any more? And Jesse said, well there 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:15.400 is also. 0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:28.680 So yeah he's the God of Jacob, and yeah he's 0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:32.200 the God of Moses, and yeah he's the God of Mary, 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:35.800 and yeah he's the God of David. But he's also 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:36.880 the God of Abbey. 0:39:37.480 --> 0:39:42.080 I find somebody says, my God too, he's my king too, 0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:44.160 He's my savior too. 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:49.160 He's my shepherd too. The Lord is my shepherd. I 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:53.200 shall not watch. He's the God of the mountains, but 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:55.800 he's also the shade of the valley. 0:39:56.239 --> 0:39:56.439 God. 0:39:56.520 --> 0:40:09.320 Don't care where you find your some lately he feel this, 0:40:11.040 --> 0:40:11.600 I feel this. 0:40:15.520 --> 0:40:18.359 And what if everything you've gone through, thank you, baby, 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:19.359 You'll give her a hand. 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:27.520 What if everything that God has allowed. 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:30.920 Your life to be up until this point is preparation 0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:37.000 for what you are predestined for. What if your name 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:43.640 belongs on that shirt too? What if we put your 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:47.200 name on that shirt to just believing what Romans eight 0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:53.759 twenty eight says that all things, all things. 0:40:54.920 --> 0:41:04.040 Good things, bad things, everything in between, all things work together, 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:14.640 all things work together, good things, bad things, everything in between. 0:41:15.120 --> 0:41:18.399 All right, work on later. I'll try it out. 0:41:19.120 --> 0:41:19.560 What if. 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:24.040 What if the things in your life that are happening 0:41:24.120 --> 0:41:25.160 are not random? 0:41:30.480 --> 0:41:38.200 You ever wonder so when they say you're sending your 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:40.479 kid to college, is in college a waste of money? 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:45.560 I'm like, not not really, Because you can go to 0:41:45.680 --> 0:41:48.600 college and God can use you. You can also not 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:52.239 go to college and God can use you. He's the 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:58.880 god of also open doors, closed doors, PhDs and. 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:07.600 Post hold diggers PhD post hold Digger. 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.719 So I'm asking you something, and I'm really wanting to 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:17.000 know what you think about it, because I don't thinking 0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:20.680 about a lot. All right, Let's say you made a 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:22.920 mistake and you went down the wrong path. Can God 0:42:22.960 --> 0:42:24.279 stop not be down the wrong path? 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:24.720 Also? 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:31.520 If the answer to that is note, then what was 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:34.640 he doing looking for Peter after his resurrection? When Peter 0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:38.520 went back fishing after denying him, he was right there. 0:42:41.120 --> 0:42:43.200 He appeared to the disciples who waited for him. But 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:48.200 he also appeared to Thomas, who didn't believe. I think 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:52.120 we shouldn't box got in to think that He's only 0:42:52.200 --> 0:42:55.759 as big as our good decisions? Who did that? 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:56.480 Just set free? 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:04.440 Now? When I went to college, I was paralyzed by 0:43:04.440 --> 0:43:05.759 the idea, what if I'm at the wrong college. What 0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:07.160 if I'm at the wrong college. What if I'm at 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:10.520 the wrong college. Well, I did my four years. I 0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:14.400 got my degree. Let me tell you what else I 0:43:14.520 --> 0:43:20.759 got in college. You ever heard of Holly? You ever 0:43:20.800 --> 0:43:27.200 heard of Holly? I got her in college? Which one 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:30.279 you think I enjoy more? 0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:31.040 The degree? 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:40.080 The thing that I came to achieve and accomplish, or 0:43:40.160 --> 0:43:42.560 what I got also. 0:43:46.280 --> 0:43:47.080 And that's what I'm saying. 0:43:49.960 --> 0:43:53.080 Watch for God in the also, almost like you know 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:55.400 when your kids come and they're being real nice to you, 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:59.440 How was your day? Can I do anything for you? Dad? 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:01.759 I'm praying for you as you approach this sermon. I 0:44:01.880 --> 0:44:03.320 just know that the Lord is going to move in 0:44:03.480 --> 0:44:06.279 power like he does. That's what he does. 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:08.480 He's a waymaker God, and I'm just like, get to it. 0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:13.279 I'm not saying you didn't come to tell me these things, 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:16.279 but what did you also come in this room for 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:18.919 to ask me about? Yeah? 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:20.480 I just want to know can I have your old phone? 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:20.719 Ah? 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:25.120 That's it, that's what you came in here for. He 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.839 came in so excited about the wrestling yesterday. I said, 0:44:27.840 --> 0:44:29.360 tell me that, Oh it is great. It was great, 0:44:29.640 --> 0:44:31.279 I said, And what else he said? Well, I was 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:34.400 just wondering that old phone. That. Yeah, that's to Also, 0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:39.279 God is kind of like that too. You got to 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:43.800 watch him for the also, for we know that in 0:44:43.880 --> 0:44:45.319 all things God works for the good of those who 0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:47.160 love him and are called according to his purpose. But 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:51.320 Roman's eight twenty nine also says that those he for 0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:56.800 knew me also predestined to be conformed to the image 0:44:56.880 --> 0:45:00.239 of his son. What are the things that you're going through? 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:02.680 Are all so that you can be more like Jesus? 0:45:05.719 --> 0:45:07.480 And we don't say that it's good when you go 0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:09.960 through suffering, But what if you adopted a view of 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:17.920 your life that said, this is all so that God 0:45:18.000 --> 0:45:20.799 can make me more like his son Jesus. You would 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:25.360 be undefeedable by the devil because what is he going 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:29.480 to bring against you? If it's all so that you 0:45:29.560 --> 0:45:31.080 can be more like God who is for you? 0:45:32.440 --> 0:45:33.120 So what can he do? 0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:33.359 Now? 0:45:34.520 --> 0:45:35.239 That's what I. 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:37.440 Think Paul got to because he goes down this chain 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:42.200 twenty nine again. Please, he also predestined to be conformed 0:45:42.239 --> 0:45:44.840 to the image of his son, so he knew that 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:46.640 Moses would have this hesitation. 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:51.520 But he shows Moses because he knows Moses. He knows 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:56.000 what Moses is not. He knows what Moses was. He 0:45:56.200 --> 0:45:59.759 knows what Moses will be. He knows what I'm not. 0:46:00.600 --> 0:46:03.759 He knows what I was, he knows what I will be. 0:46:03.880 --> 0:46:04.400 Say all of that. 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.040 He knows what I'm not. 0:46:06.840 --> 0:46:10.239 He knows what I was, he knows what I will be. 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:12.520 God is the only one who knows all three of those. 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:15.879 Because some of us we don't even know what we're 0:46:15.960 --> 0:46:19.120 not yet, So we are trying so hard to be 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:22.200 something in somebody we were not created to be. 0:46:22.719 --> 0:46:23.880 That it is killing us. 0:46:24.480 --> 0:46:27.120 But we could get content if we just go, God, 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:30.239 you know what I'm not, Show me what i'm not. 0:46:30.920 --> 0:46:34.279 You know what I was, So you see where I've been. 0:46:34.719 --> 0:46:38.600 You've marked out my steps, and you are the only 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:44.040 one who knows what I will be. So those he predestined, 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:46.719 he also was to say that he might be the 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:50.560 firstborn among many brothers and sisters next verse, and those 0:46:50.680 --> 0:46:53.520 he predestined he also called. 0:46:54.600 --> 0:47:02.200 Those he called he also justified. That's talking about the cross. 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:08.480 That means he made you right, So you can't be 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:12.360 the wrong one for it, because he made. 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:16.320 You right for it. He can't. 0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:20.600 He would not call you to. He cannot call you 0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:24.239 to something that he did not create you for. So 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:28.880 those he called he also justified. That's how I know 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:32.320 I have what it takes. And those he justified he 0:47:32.640 --> 0:47:36.840 also glorified. Look at all these alsos in the Bible. 0:47:37.200 --> 0:47:39.800 Look at the God of Also, Look how he doesn't 0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:42.200 just set you on your path and say, well, I've 0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:43.880 saved you and I'm forgiven you now It's up to 0:47:43.920 --> 0:47:44.719 you to work it out. 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:45.120 In your life. 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:45.840 No, no, no, no no. 0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:51.680 The God who saves will also sustain. I hear you, Lord, 0:47:52.040 --> 0:47:55.000 he who began a good work. 0:47:54.840 --> 0:47:58.719 In you will also be faithful to complete it. 0:48:02.320 --> 0:48:03.080 Verse thirty one. 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:07.000 What then shall we say in response to these things? 0:48:07.080 --> 0:48:10.520 We all stand like Moses, trying to respond to the 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:12.839 revelation of what God is calling us to do next. 0:48:14.200 --> 0:48:17.840 But here is our power. If God. 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:24.719 Is for us, who can be against us? And here's 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:26.640 my verse I'm hanging on to in this season of 0:48:26.719 --> 0:48:28.320 my life, and you can feel free to borrow it. 0:48:29.120 --> 0:48:31.280 It's my verse, but you can hold it for a minute. 0:48:32.400 --> 0:48:35.279 I'm a lone you my verse, he who did not 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:46.520 spare his own son, but gave him up for us. Oh, oh, oh, 0:48:46.840 --> 0:48:51.520 you get the same grace that Jacob God. You get 0:48:51.560 --> 0:48:54.960 the same grace that marry God. Y'all leave my scripture. 0:48:55.000 --> 0:48:56.480 Y'all keep taking it down, and I love it. 0:48:56.760 --> 0:49:00.279 Leave it. Oh, I like the server to come tries 0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:01.360 to grab your plate while. 0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:03.440 You're still eating your chicken fingers, like I will eat 0:49:03.480 --> 0:49:05.080 your fingers if you don't put my chicken back on 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:11.239 this table. Leave my scripture up. He who did all that. 0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:15.960 If he did all of that for me, died for me, 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:22.640 gave the son for me, how will he not also, 0:49:24.280 --> 0:49:27.799 along with him, graciously give us all things? Now? 0:49:27.840 --> 0:49:28.759 I read this first wrong. 0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:31.920 All week studying it, I thought it meant that he 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:37.040 will also give me the blessings of life along with Jesus, 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:39.040 who is the greatest blessing. I thought that meant like, 0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:43.000 I get Jesus and I get other things too. But 0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:46.000 that's not what the verse means. The verse actually means 0:49:47.320 --> 0:49:51.759 that he who gave us his son will give us 0:49:52.840 --> 0:50:00.319 freely also along with him all things. Was I mean? 0:50:01.440 --> 0:50:06.560 It means that God has decided to give me everything 0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:13.200 that Jesus rightfully earned through his life. 0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:15.640 Along with him. 0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:24.840 So if Jesus is loved by his father perfectly, I 0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:34.480 am also loved by my father perfectly. If Jesus can 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:38.200 pray and his father hears him, I also can pray 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:39.880 and my father hears me. 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:45.239 If Jesus could break chains of oppression and he is. 0:50:45.280 --> 0:50:51.440 In me, then I also can expect chains to be broken. 0:50:53.239 --> 0:50:55.359 And I wanted to remind you, thank you. I'm done 0:50:55.400 --> 0:51:00.720 with the scripture. Now what God you're calling on today? 0:51:02.120 --> 0:51:11.720 The God of Jacob the trickster, the deceiver. Stop hiding 0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:17.800 from God when you're going through hard times. Stop hiding 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:21.360 from God when you're feeling ashamed. Come to Him and 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:24.040 thank him that there's no shame on Jesus, so there's 0:51:24.080 --> 0:51:28.600 no shame on me. I can see I need to 0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:30.919 teach this stuff a little more because I'm watching your eyes. 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:33.719 You're going like, Wow, that's really true. Yeah, that's really true. 0:51:34.160 --> 0:51:39.320 You are also loved by God just like Jesus was. 0:51:40.880 --> 0:51:42.840 The Lord doesn't see any difference. He says he's the 0:51:42.920 --> 0:51:47.160 firstborn among many brothers and sisters. That means God accepts 0:51:47.239 --> 0:51:50.919 Jesus because Jesus paid the price, and because Jesus paid 0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:53.279 the price, he also accepts you. 0:51:54.719 --> 0:51:58.000 That's the craziest thing in the world to me, y'all. 0:51:58.040 --> 0:52:02.040 I just got a Jeep auple months ago, and I'm 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:05.880 enjoying my Jeep. I had a Jeep when I was 0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:10.640 twenty three, twenty four around there, and I figured it 0:52:10.800 --> 0:52:13.400 was time, in this midlife crisis to revisit that youthful 0:52:13.480 --> 0:52:18.759 stallion energy. Get a Jeep. And I'm enjoying that jeep. 0:52:19.120 --> 0:52:20.920 But one of my friends said to me when I 0:52:20.960 --> 0:52:23.040 got it, they said, we need to teach you about 0:52:23.040 --> 0:52:25.959 the jeep wave. How many of y'all have heard about 0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:27.000 the jeep wave? Oh? 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:27.960 I had never heard of it. 0:52:28.160 --> 0:52:30.520 Do you have a jeep? Well, if you ever passed me, 0:52:30.600 --> 0:52:34.840 I'll I'll try my best to wave at you. Do 0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:38.320 you do the jeep wave? It's just am I allowed 0:52:38.360 --> 0:52:40.040 to tell it? Or is it like Illuminati? If somebody 0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:45.200 gonna come get me Elon Zuckerberg? Who's coming to give me? 0:52:45.200 --> 0:52:45.680 If I say this? 0:52:49.880 --> 0:52:54.239 Go holl in On the god of e Ela yip. 0:52:56.120 --> 0:52:59.000 Anyway, they said, they said you gotta do the jeep wave, 0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:02.520 and I said, well, what is the jeep wave? And 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:04.520 they said, it's very simple, but you really need to 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:06.120 do it because it's a lot of fun. And at 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:08.120 first I was kind of contrary into it because I 0:53:08.160 --> 0:53:10.839 didn't like somebody telling me how I had to wave 0:53:10.920 --> 0:53:12.799 at anybody else and said, if you pass another jeep, 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:14.680 you do like just like that. 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:24.040 That's all it is like that. So so I'm like, 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:24.880 that's so stupid. 0:53:27.400 --> 0:53:31.279 Well, eventually it's it's it's kind of compelling, you know 0:53:31.360 --> 0:53:34.200 that you kind of just get into it and then 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:35.920 you start to feel judgmental of everybody. 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:36.640 Who's not in a. 0:53:36.719 --> 0:53:41.640 Jeep because they don't have a wave right, And so 0:53:41.760 --> 0:53:43.759 now I'm riding around and I do it every chance 0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:48.920 I get the jeep wave. And even now I've come 0:53:48.960 --> 0:53:54.120 to the point where if if you don't give me 0:53:54.200 --> 0:53:59.160 the jeep wave back, it kind of offends me, and 0:53:59.320 --> 0:54:01.680 it kind of makes me attempted to do another, a 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:04.480 different kind of wave, a different kind of handmotion, just 0:54:04.520 --> 0:54:08.200 because now I'm into it, because I'm like, we're in 0:54:08.280 --> 0:54:14.840 this together, we the jeep people. We're supposed to stick together. 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:18.440 And you know, I was thinking about that driving home 0:54:18.480 --> 0:54:20.319 with Abby. I said last week, I said, I got 0:54:20.400 --> 0:54:23.000 to put that in my sermon. But I don't want 0:54:23.000 --> 0:54:25.560 to talk about a jeep. I want to talk about 0:54:25.600 --> 0:54:27.200 how Jesus. 0:54:28.360 --> 0:54:34.440 Has given us all a gift that is common to us, 0:54:35.120 --> 0:54:40.880 but it is so specific to us, and our identity 0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:45.680 in Him is the most important thing about us. So 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:49.920 anything you can say about yourself that is negative, you 0:54:50.040 --> 0:54:53.719 can also say something about yourself that will let the 0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:56.760 enemy know that the God who. 0:54:56.840 --> 0:55:03.120 Knows me the most loves me the most, and that's 0:55:03.200 --> 0:55:06.880 who I am, and that's. 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:07.279 Who I am. 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:10.680 So for those of you who walked in today, and 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:15.000 you're like, why do they lift their hands in worship. 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:20.719 That's kind of weird. No, that's our Jesus wave. That's 0:55:20.800 --> 0:55:28.719 our wave. That's our wave. That's us telling God, Oh God, 0:55:28.880 --> 0:55:33.280 my God, I need you. I can't make it without 0:55:33.320 --> 0:55:39.320 your grace. Now, I belong to Jesus, and Jesus belongs 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:42.560 to me, and I am his. 0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:45.520 And he is mine. 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:50.560 So stand up on your feet and just lift your hands. 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:53.600 Right now, Let's do our Let's do our Jesus thing 0:55:53.680 --> 0:55:57.080 for a moment, and let's let the Lord know in 0:55:57.160 --> 0:55:59.640 his presence today that we. 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:00.680 Are calling. 0:56:02.040 --> 0:56:08.480 On his name, the name of Jesus, his name through 0:56:08.520 --> 0:56:10.439 all generations, the Great. I am. 0:56:12.560 --> 0:56:12.799 Lord. 0:56:12.840 --> 0:56:18.480 I'm asking you today for everybody who has been caught up, 0:56:20.520 --> 0:56:24.600 that you would call them back into the reality of 0:56:24.920 --> 0:56:28.719 who you are, what you've spoken. Father, I thank you 0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:36.719 today that Jesus is our big brother, our savior, our 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:40.239 true vine. I thank you that he is our bread 0:56:40.280 --> 0:56:43.880 of life. Today, as we stand in your presence, we 0:56:44.040 --> 0:56:47.279 receive all that you are more than enough for us. 0:56:49.280 --> 0:56:50.960 Can put your hands down for a moment. I want 0:56:50.960 --> 0:56:54.399 to pray a special prayer. There's someone in here who 0:56:54.440 --> 0:56:58.480 has never joined your life. To Jesus Christ. You have 0:56:58.719 --> 0:57:02.600 never given your life over to God. Maybe you've done 0:57:02.640 --> 0:57:05.160 it and you've wandered away, and God brought you back 0:57:05.200 --> 0:57:09.839 here today because he's calling you, he's drawing you, He's 0:57:09.920 --> 0:57:11.840 using everything in your life to bring you to this 0:57:12.040 --> 0:57:13.919 point so that you could reach for him. And he's 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:16.840 not far. He'll be found. And if you call on 0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:21.040 his name today, the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, 0:57:21.240 --> 0:57:25.720 the God of Mary, the God of David, the God 0:57:25.800 --> 0:57:30.640 of Jesus, he will be your God too. All you 0:57:30.720 --> 0:57:32.280 have to do is call on his name. The Bible 0:57:32.320 --> 0:57:34.400 says that if we call on him, he will save us, 0:57:35.080 --> 0:57:37.960 that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord 0:57:38.720 --> 0:57:41.400 will be saved. So right now we're all going to 0:57:41.440 --> 0:57:43.400 pray this prayer together as a church family for the 0:57:43.440 --> 0:57:45.000 benefit of those who. 0:57:44.960 --> 0:57:46.280 Are coming to God. 0:57:47.600 --> 0:57:49.400 I won't you repeat this prayer after me if you 0:57:49.480 --> 0:57:52.520 desire to place your faith in Jesus today, be saved 0:57:52.520 --> 0:57:54.200 from your sin and have a new beginning in him. 0:57:54.240 --> 0:57:58.320 Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I come to you. I 0:57:58.440 --> 0:58:02.400 am a sinner in need of a savior, and I 0:58:02.600 --> 0:58:08.280 believe that Jesus Christ is your son and the savior 0:58:08.360 --> 0:58:12.600 of the world. I believe he died to forgive my 0:58:12.720 --> 0:58:18.040 sin and rose again to give me life. I receive 0:58:18.960 --> 0:58:24.040 this new life. This is my new beginning. On the counter. 0:58:24.120 --> 0:58:26.240 Three raise your hand if you prayed that one, two, 0:58:26.760 --> 0:58:33.280 three must celebrate together. Bless you, Bless you absolutely amazing. God. 0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:38.280 Bless the third in the bast God. Bless you, God, 0:58:38.320 --> 0:58:38.760 Bless you. 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:45.560 Best decision you'll ever made, the best decision. 0:58:46.400 --> 0:58:50.960 You'll ever make, the best decision you'll ever make. To 0:58:51.080 --> 0:58:54.920 call on his name. And you know what, never stopped 0:58:54.960 --> 0:58:58.800 calling his name. You don't just call him one time. 0:59:00.080 --> 0:59:01.760 You call him in your high moments. You call him 0:59:01.800 --> 0:59:04.400 in your low moments. You call on the God of 0:59:05.520 --> 0:59:12.840 also also Also. You give him praise when you're doing well, 0:59:14.440 --> 0:59:16.600 and you cry out to him with petitions when you're not. 0:59:17.640 --> 0:59:20.120 He is the God of Also. 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:23.360 You trust him when you can see the next step. 0:59:24.160 --> 0:59:26.880 You trust him when you've stumbled down the whole staircase. 0:59:26.960 --> 0:59:29.360 He is the God of Also. 0:59:30.120 --> 0:59:32.600 Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:59:33.240 --> 0:59:35.800 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:59:35.880 --> 0:59:38.440 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:59:38.480 --> 0:59:41.200 they're available. I also want to take a moment and 0:59:41.360 --> 0:59:43.120 thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 0:59:43.680 --> 0:59:46.920 Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 0:59:47.400 --> 0:59:50.080 just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 0:59:50.120 --> 0:59:53.040 able to reach people all around the world. And if 0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:55.560 you want more information on how to be a part 0:59:55.600 --> 0:59:59.480 of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again 0:59:59.560 --> 1:00:02.480 for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message, 1:00:02.560 --> 1:00:04.280 and subscribe. God bless you.