The Second Yes

0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.720 Holly, and I wanted to say a special hello to 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.960 our Etham, our extended family around the world. Hey, before 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.280 we get into the message, let me tell you about available. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.840 This is a special season for our church. It's a 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.960 tradition for the people of Elevation. Every year we gather, 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.919 we appreciate and anticipate, and we also give. This is 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.880 our yearly time for everybody who receives from this ministry 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.319 to give so that the ministry can go forth, and 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.240 this year we've themed it around the word available. Available. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.840 That's all God has ever wanted is for us to say, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.199 here I am, send me, use me. And you have 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.000 the opportunity to do that. So if you've been blessed 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.000 through the ministry, it's good to receive. It's even better 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.839 to give. If you want to make a donation, a 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.360 one time gift or a recurring gift, just be a 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.280 part of what God is doing here. We so appreciate it. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.200 You can get all the details at Elevation Church dot 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.920 org almost sat Elevationworship dot Com. I guess you could 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.480 go there too, but the giving is at Elevation Church. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.000 What you just did, you have Elevation Worship on your sweatshirt. Hey, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.240 Elevation Church dot org and you can select available. And 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.920 we use all of these resources to continue to preach 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.040 the gospel, not only in physical locations like this one, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.360 but through the amazing opportunity God has given us to 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.520 impact the world through technology. And we want to thank 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.600 all of you who are apart. We couldn't do it 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.280 without you. Thank you for being a part of our family. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.600 Thank you for being a part of this move of God. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.880 Go to Elevationchurch dot org dot com if you're not 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.200 already there, and be a part. This is going to 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.360 be an amazing, amazing season. And Holly and I are 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.280 believing that your best is ahead. Somebody asked me the 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.760 other day about my calling to the ministry. The thing 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.440 about it was when God called me to preach for him, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:51.280 I was sixteen, and I guess that's pretty young. It's 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.800 probably better that God calls you while you're dumb. Not 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.760 that I'm much smarter now, but just before your excuses 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.920 start to pile up or you know what I'm saying. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.280 And I want to tell you something before I get 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.799 into the word. In just a moment, I'm going to 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.320 go right into the Word of God. We are in 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.160 week two of a series called Available. Just lift your 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.920 hands and say God, I'm available. Why don't you just 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.880 wave real quick and say God, if you're looking for 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.760 somebody to bless, if you're looking for somebody to help, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.600 if you're looking for somebody to lift, if you're looking 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.280 for somebody to drop a double dose of joy, I'm 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:33.960 available God. If you want to speak, I'm available. Hey, man, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.680 come on, clap your hands if you know. That's all 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:44.840 God wants. But I want to introduce my message in 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.520 kind of a different way today. Normally I would just 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.480 read the scripture, be seated, and start teaching. But I 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.600 want to tell you that when I close my eyes 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.119 sometimes when I come out here to minister to you, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.680 I picture that little church in Monk's Corner Anti Circle 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.280 Baptist Mission, it was called when I first got there. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.920 They had not even chartered as a church chat They 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.800 were a mission of First Baptist Monk's Corner, and it 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.760 met in the woodmen of the world building on the 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.000 outskirts of Monk's Corner. Some of y'all don't even believe 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.960 there are outskirts of Monk's Corner. You thought Monk's Corner 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:25.400 is the outskirts, but this was outside of town and 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.400 people would come out there, not too many. It was 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.760 only about fifty people when I got out there. But 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.560 it was interesting because the way God called me into 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.000 ministry in some parts was practical because Pastor Mickey White 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:45.400 of I guess, Pastor Mickey what is he? Seventy three 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:51.560 seventy four He called me to preach because he couldn't 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.960 afford a real youth minister. And he saw this fired 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.200 up sixteen year old for Jesus Christ, and so he 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.360 asked me, would I come and minister to his youth? 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.280 And I said yes. And I want to tell you 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.720 something as we talk about this series available and as 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.280 we prepare for our big offering on December seventh and eighth, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.680 how many are excited to give in our year end offering? 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.279 And then for expansion and outreach December seventh and eighth, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.400 our EPAM around the world. Let's welcome them. All of 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:31.359 our campuses are nineteen locations. But I told Pastor Mickey 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.039 that I would work with the youth, and then he 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.240 gave me. He said, well, since you're going to be 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.719 here working with the youth, we also need a hymn leader, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.719 a song leader, and I grew up in the Methodist 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.719 church just down the street. Actually, the Baptist Church and 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.240 the Methodist Church were right across the street from each other, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.840 and so it was a contest to see who could 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.480 get out first to go to the restaurant. That was 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.560 kind of the goal, to beat the Baptist to the 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.680 Berkeley restaurant in Monk's Corner. But he said, will you 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.640 leave the songs too? And again not that I'm a 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.560 good singer, I was just available. You see a theme here, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.000 So since he already he kind of is a little 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.400 bit of bait and switch. Will you work with the youth, 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.240 will you lead the songs? Well, the thing was the 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.480 hymns that they had at the Baptist Church were a 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.240 little different than the Methodist Church. In the Baptist Church, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.080 they would sing these choruses and I had to learn 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.880 all of those choruses because I didn't know them. I 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.800 knew all the Green Day and Nirvana and Hoodie and 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.800 the Blowfish choruses. And I was in a conversion process 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.640 from Methodists to Baptists, from flesh to spirit and all 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.200 at the same time. So anyway, it was intimidating because 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:41.920 Pastor Mickey would always stand in the back of the 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.719 room while I was leading the choruses before he would 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.760 come preach, and if he didn't like the way I 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.920 was leading them, he would walk in and stop me 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.040 and take over. So always felt like I was auditioning 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.240 all the time. And one thing he really couldn't stand 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.680 is if you were leading it too slow. So if 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.440 he thought it was dragging, he would just come from 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.679 the back of the room. Big guy too, a six 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.400 foot let's make him real tall, six foot ten. You're 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.320 never going to meet him. But he was a big guy, 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.000 real intimidating guy to me, and he had the shocking 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.600 white hair, and so he would he would come up 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.600 and he would start clapping at the tempo that he 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.760 wanted the song. If you weren't on it, I'm gonna 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.200 start trying that. Just walk up here, start clapping. Y'all 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.599 probably take me to the mental institution if I did it. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.920 But he would start clapping, and it was a small church, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.520 so it would just dominate the whole room. And I 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.040 was leading this him one time called yes, Lord, yes, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.160 don't of you know this chorus? It's a courus, It's 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.919 not him and it says, yes, Lord, Yes to your 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.040 will into your way. Yes Lord, Yes. You got to 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.240 picture me. I'm like sixteen. I got this triple x 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:55.440 L Tommy Hill figure shirt tucked into my into my dockers, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.039 and I'm up there and I'm trying to lead the 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.240 music and I'm just waving my hand like this. I 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.520 had no idea what I was waving to or for, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.760 but I had seen it done. I'm up there, just 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:12.040 leading the and I'm going, yes, Lord, Yes to your will, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:18.360 in to your way. Yes Lord, Yes, I will trust 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.920 you and obey. When your spirit speaks to me with 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:30.160 my whole heart, ah, look and my answer will be 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.120 yes Lord, Yes. Back of the room, I start hearing, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.200 and he walks up and he goes, let's put some 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.680 peppin r Yes, And he started singing it so fast 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.360 it was like speaking in tongues. It turned it turned 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.160 the Baptist church into a Pentecostal campground. He starts singing 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.840 yes Lord, Yes to your willing, and everybody's clapping on 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.640 the one in the three like white people do. So 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.600 here's what I want you to do. Turn to the 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.560 person next to you and tell them tell them this, say, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.480 ask him a question for me. Just say, does God 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:13.239 have your yes? Does God have your yes? Holy Spirit? 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.120 I pray that our time together would be absolutely meaningful 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.520 and that we would never be the same. In Jesus' name, Amen, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:25.360 you may be seated. God bless you. I'm full of 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.360 anticipation about what God might speak in this time together. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.000 How about you come on? It's easier to cook for 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:40.240 people who are hungry. How about you first? Excuse me? 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:49.400 Second Corinthians, Chapter one is our selection for today, and Holly, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.240 I think I finally got it right. This is my 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.480 third time preaching it, and I made a new outline 0:08:53.520 --> 0:09:03.240 each time. So Paul is defending himself to the church 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:09.480 that he started. Ain't that a thing? Having to argue 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.760 with something you made? You don't want to throw your 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:18.199 kids across the room. But they reached a little disagreement. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.800 Now he's coming to collect a special offering for the 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.440 church at Judea, and he doesn't really talk about that 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.600 until chapters eight and nine of Second Corinthians, and I 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:34.040 shared from that scripture last week. But this week we've 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:39.280 seen his introductory comments that Paul, who was called by 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.840 God to be an apostle to the Gentiles, is being 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.240 contested by some people within the church that he started, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.360 and he's explaining to them why he had to change 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:56.360 his plans from what he intended to do to what 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:02.320 God purposed. And the verses that I'm about to read 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.360 are his defense of his change his contingency planned, you 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.520 should say, because he told them I'm going to come 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:15.560 spend eighteen months with you, but then he didn't. The 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.640 plan changed, and some people, because the plan changed, were 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.800 saying that Paul was the fickle apostle. They put a 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.560 definite article on it, He's the fickle one. Now this 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.520 is not his first year of ministry or his apprenticeship. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.000 So he's writing back to them, and there's a little 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.280 bit of sauce on his response, as you will see 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:43.079 in verse fifteen, he says, because I was confident of this, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.800 basically because I thought we had a relationship, basically because 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.880 I thought you knew that I don't just move according 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.440 to what I feel, but I operate according to God's purpose. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.160 Because I was confident of this, I planned or or 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.120 I wanted it first to visit you so that you 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:08.360 might benefit twice. Okay, hold that in your mind for 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.600 a moment. He said, I wanted to visit you on 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.720 my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.520 from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.360 my way to Judea. So here's the question. Was I 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.320 fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:27.200 make my plans in a worldly manner so that excuse me? 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.160 My iPad is trying to give me a wallpaper option, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:31.520 and I don't want that. I just want the verse 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.960 right now. Okay, you version is doing too much at 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.760 the moment. Or do I make my plans in a 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.840 worldly manner so that in the same breath I say 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.760 both yes, yes and no no. But as surely as 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.800 God is faithful, our message to you is not yes 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.080 and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.000 was preached among you by us meaning me in Silas 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.400 and Timothy, all the heavy hitters passed through Corinth. It 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.920 was an influential station for the Gospel to go for. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.360 And I believe that Elevation Church in this season in 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.719 the earth is an influential meeting of people who are 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.560 redeemed by the blood of Christ, who are willing to 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.800 take the Gospel beyond our little walls and our little suburbs, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.559 and our little farms and hamlets, and communities and apartments, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.120 and beyond our hearts, and to give what we have 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.880 been freely given. And he said, the reason that God 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.400 sent all of these people was to demonstrate his faithfulness. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.439 And no matter how many promises God has made Verse twenty, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:35.319 they are yes in Christ, and so through him the 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.360 amen is spoken by us to the glory of God. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.400 Would you mind if I went back for a second 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.520 helping of Verse twenty? He said, no matter how many 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.680 promises God has made, if he said he would bless you, 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.320 if he said he would heal you, if he said 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.600 he would forgive you, if he said he would make 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.000 a way for you, if he said he would carry you, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.520 if he said he would turn it around, if he 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.959 said he would redeem you, if he said he would 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.719 restore the years, if he said he would use you, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.000 it's still a yes. If God said yes, it's yes 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.920 and threw us as the amen to the glory of God. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.760 So I want to speak to you today for a 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:20.320 few moments about the second Yes. Yes, Lord, Yes, the 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.440 second yes. What a revelation it is? Is anyone in 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.600 here engaged to be married? Your hand went up before 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.160 I even asked the question, and somebody shouting over here, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:38.360 but I saw you first engaged to be married? Yes 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:53.160 to him? No, he's back there, he's serving. That's a 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:58.480 good when you find a man that serves God. I 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:05.079 mean on you, because what is sexy? Uh, over time 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:12.520 is steady. A matter of fact, did you notice how 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.960 nobody clapped for you when you said you were engaged? 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:22.640 Nobody clapped. I don't know if you noticed. When you 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:28.320 have your ten year anniversary, will clap, But we're happy 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.440 for you. What's your name? Jordan? You serving e kids? 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.680 How old are you? Twenty seven years old? How old 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.680 is he? Twenty eight? This is a match made in heaven? 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:45.600 So how did he propose? Just the short version in 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:50.720 the apartment? And he said, and you said, but today 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.320 she said yes. I want to talk about the second yes. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:55.640 Did you ever see the show they had? They had 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.520 a show called Say Yes to the Dress? This is 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:04.280 say Yes to the mess? How many know I'm right 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.280 about this already? You don't even know what the scripture 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.040 has to do with the illustration. But it's just a 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.040 second yes, because really you don't even know what you 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:28.600 said yes to yet? So well, y'all are responding a 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:33.720 little overly enthusiastically to that. I'm I'm not sure who 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.240 you're going home with, But you don't know when you 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.840 say yes. You don't know all of the blessings. I 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:45.640 promise you. Holly did not know that she was saying yes. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.520 There is a sense in which she didn't know she 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.600 was saying yes to all of the I guess you 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.760 could say the opportunities that God would open doors for us. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.320 When she said, oh, sure, I'll be your wife and 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.800 we'll serve God together. You know, he kind of say yes, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.760 and then God is I don't want to say he's tricky, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.720 but he's just selective in how much he shows you 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:18.080 when when you say yes, when you say yes to 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.120 a person, some of you, when you said yes to 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.880 come to church here today, you had no idea what 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:29.320 you were getting into. I can see you. I know 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.400 your type. You are looking for the exits at all time, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.080 and it's it's like you don't really know what you 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:42.840 said yes to yet. And so when I said yes, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:48.040 I'll serve at Santi Circle Baptist Mission, I couldn't have known. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.720 You never can know what you're saying yes to yet 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.800 and when we say yes to Christ, when we say 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:02.280 yes to salvation. Yes I want my sense forgiven. Yes 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.159 I want a relationship with God. Yes I want to 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.160 live by faith not by sight. Yes I want reconciliation 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.840 with my Creator. Yes I want to receive the Holy Spirit. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.960 When you say yes to God, there is a respect 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.920 in which you don't really know what you're saying yes 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:26.840 to until much later in the process. And every step 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.920 that you take in following Christ, every step, every every yes, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.719 leads you to a greater understanding. And sometimes what that 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.640 means is that you sign up for one thing and 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:47.680 then you have to experience another, and that requires surrender. Now, y'all, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.280 I'm not a guest preacher at this church. I'm the pastor. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.040 And every once in a while God will put a 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.120 message on my heart that I believe is intended by 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.560 the Holy Spirit to challenge you in an area where 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.840 you have settled. The fact is, many of us have 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.080 said the first yes to Jesus that we want to 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.200 receive the blessing of His forgiveness. But when it comes 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.639 to the second yes, which is the process of sanctification 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.280 by which He makes us more like Christ, many of 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:24.480 us are stuck in the first yes. This is not 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.439 a message about the first yes, because remember Paul was 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.920 called by God to be an apostle. He was called 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.040 by God in a very remarkable way when God knocked 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.800 him off of his horse on the road to Damascus, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.399 where God interrupts him in the middle of his regularly 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.320 scheduled programming to persecute Christians and says, I'm going to 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.280 have you preach to the same people you were going 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.360 to persecute. If you ever want to make God laugh, 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.800 tell him your plans. Ha ha ha ha. You hear 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.639 God laughing at what you thought it was going to be. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.280 And so Paul is having to explain this principle. Write 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:07.920 this down. God's yes is settled. God's yes is settled. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:14.239 So when God says yes, he doesn't say yes like 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.720 you said yes when somebody asked you something and you 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.160 just wanted them to shut up, so you told them 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.080 yes so they would leave you alone so you could 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.760 text them later. Paul said, God is not fickle like people. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.160 He's faithful. God is not a man that he should lie, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.600 nor the son of man that he should repent. God 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.000 is faithful. And before you even make the mistake He 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.000 said yes to forgiving you before you even found yourself 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.919 outside of His will. He said yes to bringing you 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.159 back in. So there is nothing you can bring before 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.359 God today. I feel the Holy Spirit. There is nothing 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.800 you can bring before God today in the name of 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.679 Jesus in agreement with His will, that He will not 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.280 say yes to. For the Scripture says that as many 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.800 promises as God has made, the answer is already yes. 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.760 Some of you are wondering in your heart, God, I 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.160 made a mess, Can you clean it up? Is already yes. 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.280 God already said yes to clean up your mess before 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.159 you ever made it. And here's why God is not 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.960 like people. People are fickle. God is faithful. Have you 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.000 ever had a fickle friend? A friend that made plans 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.840 with you until a better plan came along, a friend 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.080 who was hanging out with you until somebody who was 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.639 cooler called my son. Graham asked me the other day. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.720 He said something interesting. He said, if you did and 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:38.840 he I don't even remember what he said, but he said, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.800 if you said this from the pulpit, would you get canceled? 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.080 And I don't remember what he even the example that 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.800 he brought up, But I just thought the question was funny, 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.159 and I thought for a minute, and I had this realization. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.879 God called me because we live in a cancel cal 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.199 and so the moment that somebody does something that we 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.720 find disagreeable, that does not conform to our image of 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.720 what we thought they should be, we have the nerve 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.520 to talk about that we canceled that celebrity, or we 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.879 canceled that person. And so what I said back to Graham, 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.600 I want to say to some of you, Man can't 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:33.159 cancel what God called. I'm gonna say it again on 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:39.480 behalf of Paul. Man can't cancel what God has called. 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.040 When God called you, he knew exactly what he was 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:49.119 getting with the package. You don't know what you said 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.320 yes to yet, but God knew what he said yes 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.240 to when he accepted you. So here's the question. If 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:03.960 he accepted you unconditionally, then what sin, what shame, what mistake, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.359 what misdirection? Shall be able to separate us from the 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.200 love of God that is in Christ Jesus I came 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:17.600 with an announcement. They didn't create you. They can't cancel you. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:22.240 Man can't cancel what God called. If God called you, 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.840 if God is for you, he's more than the world 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:33.720 against you. Preach Verdick, preach it. Preach it for the 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.440 people who feel like they went too far. If God 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:41.480 for you, called you, raised you, and set his seal 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:48.399 of ownership on you, I'm a preacher follow up sermon 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.960 on that point. But for now, I just need you 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:55.280 to know that when God says yes, he means yes. 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:59.199 He meant it when he said it, he knew it 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:03.560 when he said it, he was able to foresee it 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:10.439 even when he spoke. But people, though, people mean different 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.600 things when they say yes. And so I feel like 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:19.440 the crux of this message comes when when the plan changes, 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:24.040 and then you have to decide am I committed to 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:30.880 the plan or am I committed to the purpose? Paul said, 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:36.840 the plan has changed, but the purpose has not. And 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:38.919 maybe we could talk about this for a minute, because 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:45.320 you're yes will always be tested. I'm talking about the 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:48.560 second yes, not the first one, not the cute one, 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:54.520 not the naive one. The second yes. It's when you know, 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.960 a lot of times we bring God this plan for 0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.720 our life, this blueprint, and then we want him to 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:03.080 sign enough on it and just bless it at the bottom, 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:05.560 like the Lord signing a permission trip for a field trip, 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:07.880 like we're trying to go ice skating with the fifth 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:13.240 grade class. Can you sign here, Heavenly Guardian Father, y'all. 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:15.399 I didn't sign up for a genie. I signed up 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:25.680 for a God change the battery or something, because sometimes 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:32.199 God will cancel the plan to accomplish the purpose. So 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:35.760 the first yes that we say to God is for 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:39.240 how we expected our life to go. The second yes 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:42.800 is not so simple, the second yes. And some of 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:46.840 you are having your yes tested as I speak, because 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:49.000 there was a Plan A that you had for your 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:53.280 life and now you are on Plan lmnop No. We 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.679 passed B a long time ago. I did c D 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:01.119 E F G H. I bought a I. I couldn't 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:05.159 find eye. Come on, somebody, My first plan started with 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:13.879 I and it got canceled. And so Paul said, the 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.480 reason that the plan was canceled is that God had 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:24.120 a better Yes. God God had Oh, this is this 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:27.960 is the part right here. This is this is where 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:30.159 your yes is tested to find out what kind of 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:34.920 yes was it to begin with. I found out everybody 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:40.400 has has a point at which there yes is tested 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:47.640 because it's the second yes, Yes Lord, Yes. I wondered 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:50.160 when I was leading that song. Why does it say 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:54.600 yes twice? He heard you the first time, Yes, Lord, yes, 0:25:55.880 --> 0:26:01.840 and I realized that the second Yes. See, we love 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:05.320 Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven in church. If you knew 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:09.320 to church, you better learn that one quick. Come on, 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:14.200 even the people who only come on Easter will quote 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:17.919 Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven at you, for I know 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:19.439 the plans I have for you. Wait a minute, wit 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:22.600 a minute, minute, I know the plans I have for you. 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:26.600 Say it the Lord. So if he's saying I know 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:28.600 the plans I have for you, what does that imply 0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:38.920 you don't. I'm sorry, y'all, this is the message God 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:41.760 gave me. You're gonna have to talk to the supervisor. 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:46.760 He said, to tell you to make sure if you 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:50.439 quote Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, at least do the 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:55.199 courtesy of reading verses twelve and thirteen. Okay, I know 0:26:55.359 --> 0:27:01.960 the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you. Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, yes, Lord. 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:06.199 You remember that one. That's a youth group anthem. But 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:08.960 he said, and then you will call me, and I 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:11.359 will answer you, and you will seek me, and you 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.800 will find me when you seek me with all your heart. 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:19.040 And what's interesting about that is he said seek me, 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:22.359 But we don't like the verse that's about him. We 0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:27.760 like the verse that's about his plan because I am 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:33.240 addicted to my plans, because I am a control freak 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:39.960 by nature. And the second yes says, do you trust 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:46.200 the person even when you don't like the plan. That's 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:52.639 the second yes. It's easy for Holly to be my 0:27:52.720 --> 0:28:01.679 wife in certain moments, certain moments, certain moments, I promise 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:05.439 you she had no idea everything she was saying yes to. 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:10.200 I am the son of Larry Ferdick. There are some 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:14.440 genetic yeses that she did not know. She was saying, Oh, 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:16.760 I love a newly married person. Well, I'm marrying them, 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:24.480 not their family. All these little cute things you say 0:28:24.720 --> 0:28:29.600 on the first yes, the first yes you say to them, 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:32.840 the second yes you say to Uncle Don. And Uncle 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:37.000 Don is crazy, Uncle Don is a drunk, Uncle Don 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:41.560 is absolutely demon possessed. You have no idea what you're 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:46.760 saying yes to. Now here's the question, do you trust 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:52.120 the person even when you don't like the plan. Because 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:55.240 I did not say yes to my understanding of God's plan, 0:28:55.520 --> 0:29:01.360 I said yes to God and the second yes. The 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:04.400 second yes is not just to the blessing. The second 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:08.120 yes is to believing that God is working even when 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:12.000 his presence is hard to discern. Who is this message 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:16.760 for today? You're on the second yes, You're not on 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:19.520 the first yes. Here's the first yes. The first yes 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:25.000 is immature. The first yes is yes accept or yes 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:31.160 unless okay, you know, yes, God, I will do everything 0:29:31.200 --> 0:29:35.280 you want me to do x X. That turned the 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:39.480 other cheek crap. I'm not soft like that. I was 0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:42.840 at race like that. So yes, Lord, to the to 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.520 the other part or you know where you really see it, 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:49.160 in the areas of greatest conviction and in the areas 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:52.200 that go against the grain of what has been culturally 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:57.360 embedded in us. The first yes is the stuff that 0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:01.200 we want God to change about us. The second yes 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:06.560 the second. The first yes is follow me and I 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.120 will make you fishers of men. The second yes is 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:12.960 I'm going to Jerusalem to die, and this ends on 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:20.960 a cross. The second yes, I don't know if I 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:24.720 don't know if you're ready for the second yes. The 0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:27.560 second yes is not yes except you know how someone 0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:31.080 will say, well, I'm I'm coming to Christna, I'm gonna. 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:34.120 I'm gonna go to church. But but yes, this is 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:40.640 yes unless I'll do it unless m hm, some people 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:43.160 watch my sermon online unless I start talking about something 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.560 they don't want to hear about. That day, now we 0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:52.720 got clique Christianity. It went from across to a clique. 0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:56.560 I can't figure out what happened. Jesus didn't say, take 0:30:56.640 --> 0:31:00.480 up your click and stream me if I'm saying something 0:31:00.520 --> 0:31:04.320 you want to hear. He said, follow me, follow me 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:07.680 when it's hard, follow me. Can I still get a 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:11.760 yes when it's not what you expected and it's not what? 0:31:12.160 --> 0:31:15.440 Do you still love me? Will you still serve me? 0:31:15.960 --> 0:31:19.680 Will you still trust me? Will you still surrender to me? 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:23.440 Will you still follow me when what I speak to 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:26.640 you leads you to a place that you didn't know 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:32.120 to expect. This is the second yes. This is when 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:36.400 Jesus knelt down in the garden of Gethsemine and he said, Father, 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:38.760 I don't want to do it. I don't want to 0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:41.960 go to this cross. I don't want to experience separation. 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:44.960 So if there's any other way, I don't want to 0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:47.800 say yes. But in that moment, in that crux, in 0:31:47.880 --> 0:31:52.920 that crucible of the second yes, Jesus said, nevertheless, see 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:57.520 a real yes will reach past your flesh, past your feelings, 0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:03.880 past your experience, past your logic, past what's popular, past opinions, 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:07.320 and say, God, this is not a yes from my flesh, 0:32:07.480 --> 0:32:12.120 This is a yes from my spirit. Nevertheless, not my will, 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:16.480 but yours be done. So the answer is still yes. Devil, 0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:20.040 come against me is still a yes. Tell me I 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:23.120 have no right is still a yes. And the more 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:26.600 he persecutes me, the more I'm going to praise him, 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:30.280 because it's a yes. It was yes. It was settled 0:32:30.440 --> 0:32:43.560 when he called me. When he sells me, it's a yes. Yes, 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:48.760 and Amen to the glory of God. A man is 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:51.280 not just something you say to help the preacher know 0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:56.440 he's doing a good job. Amen is a is a 0:32:56.480 --> 0:33:01.960 covenant word. Now look, the first yes is about convenience. 0:33:02.440 --> 0:33:07.080 The second yes is about covenant. Anytime you see something 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:10.080 twice in scripture, like when God called Moses and he 0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:14.240 said his name twice, it is symbolic of covenant. It 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:17.480 means that God has already said yes to you, even 0:33:17.520 --> 0:33:20.200 when you say no to him. Some of y'all don't 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:22.240 like that, because you are a real Christian this week. 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:24.720 But I promise you, if you will have a bad week, 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:28.120 you will need a covenant with God. You will start 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:31.760 quoting verses like even if I am faithless, he is faithful, 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:37.160 for he cannot deny himself. That's the second yes. It's 0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:40.680 when you've given God every excuse or reason to exclude you, 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:43.560 and he brings you in and uses you. The second 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:48.840 yes is a covenant. Yes. When I give to God 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:53.240 in an offering, the reason that I give to God 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:56.520 is because I believe that everything that I have comes 0:33:56.520 --> 0:34:01.640 from him. I don't want to take a vote because 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.320 we don't really do a lot of church votes here, 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:07.320 But how many would say everything I have comes from God? 0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:12.799 I worked hard for what I have. Who made it 0:34:12.840 --> 0:34:15.040 so you weren't laying in a hospital bed this morning? 0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:22.439 Or who even made it so you were born into 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:24.239 an opportunity where you could have the ability to work 0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:25.960 hard er. See an example of hard work sets so 0:34:25.960 --> 0:34:30.960 that you could follow in it. I found out a 0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:33.000 long time ago that if he doesn't breathe out, I 0:34:33.000 --> 0:34:39.399 don't breathe in. So everything I have I received from 0:34:39.440 --> 0:34:43.440 the Lord. And you know how, you know how? Malachi 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:48.200 three is a scripture about giving back to God, and 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:52.040 on our offering weekend, it'll be a great chance for 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:55.480 some of you to say the second yes to God. Yeah. 0:34:55.520 --> 0:35:01.960 The first yes is yes, I enjoy this church. The 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:10.239 second yes is I'm invested in it. Praise the Lord, 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:15.960 the yes of investment. And God says in that great scripture, 0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:23.800 he says, test me in this, bring the whole tithe 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:28.279 into the storehouse. That's that first ten percent I give 0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:31.200 to God. Ten percent. That's a lot. No. Ninety that 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:36.239 he lets me keep is a lot. It all comes 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:42.239 from him. Somebody said to me one time, why do 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:46.000 you have such boldness when you preach about giving? I said, 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:48.600 because I believe that our faith is the access point 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:53.719 by which God blesses us. So like a couple of 0:35:53.760 --> 0:35:57.160 years ago, Abby was bringing me her cereal in her bowl. 0:35:57.239 --> 0:35:59.839 She's five years old, and she said, I got you, 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:02.880 she said, he said. She said, look on the bright side, 0:36:03.800 --> 0:36:05.759 here's my bowl and here's my cereal for you to 0:36:05.760 --> 0:36:08.360 make me cereal. But look on the dark side, daddy, 0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:15.560 I can't reach the milk. Look on the dark side 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:18.040 so adorable. I wrote it down in my phone so 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:20.600 I wouldn't forget it. Look on the dark side. I 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:24.040 can't reach the milk because she understood something. Sometimes you 0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:29.640 can see something but you can't reach it, and it 0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:35.319 was available, but it wasn't accessible. Come on and help 0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:39.279 me preach if you know what I'm talking about. And 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:41.960 it is by grace that you are saying that's God's 0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:45.920 yes to you. But it is through faith. Faith is 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:49.799 what makes grace accessible. It is believing that God is 0:36:49.800 --> 0:36:52.319 with you. It is believing that God is for you. 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:55.319 It is believing that God is enough. Because God's yes 0:36:55.480 --> 0:37:00.560 is settled, your yes will be tested. But I need 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:04.560 you to understand this last point. Your yes is connected. 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:10.640 Your yes is connected to God's yes. Not that we 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.520 earn his love or our obedience curries his favor. God 0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:16.200 is not a man like that. But when you put 0:37:16.239 --> 0:37:20.120 yourself in a position where you say yes to God, 0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:24.120 you have no idea what is connected to your yes. 0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:30.759 And sometimes when you're really fighting to trust God, you're 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:33.279 not even actually fighting for you. You're fighting for your 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:40.400 children and your children's children. Hear the word of the Lord. 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:47.359 Some of you are changing bloodlines by your faith. I'm 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:49.440 going to say it for the fifty people who receive it. 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:54.319 Some of you are not just fighting for what's right 0:37:54.360 --> 0:38:03.000 in front of you. See yes isted your yes. When 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:06.680 Jody said yes to Jesus and came through Monk's corner 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:09.880 and led me to Christ sitting at the restaurant, his 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:13.720 yes was connected to me preaching. Now that we started 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:17.840 this ministry, I've seen thousands of people say yes to Jesus. 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:23.040 Without his first yes, the second yes would not have 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:27.479 been possible. The devil is fighting you over your yes 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:31.880 right now because he knows what is connected to your yes. 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:35.320 If you throw your hands up right now, I promise 0:38:35.440 --> 0:38:38.920 you there is a breakthrough in your yes. There is 0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:42.719 deliverance in your yes. There is freedom in your yes. 0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:47.279 There is healing in your yes. Come on, there's salvation 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:51.080 in your yes. Let me ask you a question. Aren't 0:38:51.120 --> 0:38:54.960 you glad Jesus said yes to the growth. That's why 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:58.799 you got saved. That's why you got healed. That's why 0:38:58.840 --> 0:39:07.959 you got redeemed because he said yes. Yes, say it, yes, 0:39:08.840 --> 0:39:13.799 say it with defiance. Yes, I'm hurting, but yes, I'm confused. 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:16.600 But yes, I don't know the way out. But yes, 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:20.399 it doesn't make sense on paper, But yes, I'm still 0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:23.720 in a depression right now. But yes, I still believe 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:26.600 in freedom, even though I'm dealing with the addiction yes, 0:39:27.120 --> 0:39:30.440 say yes, Say yes till the devil has no choice 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:34.760 but to believe. You convince yourself and your spirit. Press 0:39:34.920 --> 0:39:38.920 that's your flesh, and say yes from your spirit. Yes. 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:55.799 Your yes is connected to your purpose. And when you 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:58.040 say yes to God, you have no idea what you're 0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.680 saying yes to. Oh I'm done, you can stay standing. 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:05.560 I said what God gave me to say, Jump up 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:11.319 on your feet. What is your response? This is the 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:17.960 second yes. The first yes is that you came to 0:40:18.000 --> 0:40:22.000 hear the message. The second yes is what will you 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:27.800 do with it? Paul said something so powerful. He said 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:30.440 that the yes comes from God and the amen comes 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:34.080 through us for His glory. The second yes is yours 0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:38.960 to say. So I want us to take a moment 0:40:40.600 --> 0:40:46.120 and sing the Old Country Baptist Him together, and I 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:50.200 want you to close your eyes and just think about 0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:53.960 the yes that God has put in front of you. 0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:58.520 Some of you is a heavy yes for summons to 0:40:58.600 --> 0:41:11.120 get semony yes. For sum it's a nevertheless yes. So 0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:15.880 when I'm on Plan B and I have to accept 0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:19.279 something that God has allowed, well, I still say yes 0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:24.000 when it comes to a challenging point in my life? 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:33.080 Do I trust the plan or the person? With your 0:41:33.120 --> 0:41:35.799 hands lifted to heaven. If you love the Lord and 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:40.439 are called according to his purpose, just try to sing 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:45.640 it if you can say yes, Lord, yes to you 0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:55.080 and to your way. Yes, Love, Yes, I will trust you, 0:41:55.320 --> 0:42:05.440 and when your spirits with my whole heart, I lookree 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:16.759 and my answer You know. I don't mean any disrespect 0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:19.880 to Pastor Mickey that we should put some pep in 0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:21.759 our yes. But I think sometimes we should put some 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:34.000 depth in our yes. It's just so shallow to say 0:42:34.080 --> 0:42:36.759 yes to the blessings of God when it feels good, 0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:41.400 and then only to say no to the burdens in 0:42:41.440 --> 0:42:43.320 our life that He gives us to make us stronger. 0:42:43.440 --> 0:42:47.640 Or I just wonder, would you lift your hands one 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:52.720 more time and say yes, Yes, Lord, Yes, I will 0:42:52.840 --> 0:43:05.280 trust you and will yours its face with my and 0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:13.640 min answer, and my answer will be yes. That means 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:16.040 the answer is yes before I even know the question 0:43:20.280 --> 0:43:34.040 word w yes to your will and to your way. Yes, Lord, Yes, 0:43:35.320 --> 0:43:41.719 I will trust you and open when your spirit speaks 0:43:41.880 --> 0:43:49.719 to me with my whole heart look and my answer 0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:57.000 be LOI heads bowed, eyes closed. What is your next? Yes. 0:43:59.200 --> 0:44:03.080 That doesn't always mean that you relocate cities, change jobs. 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:06.759 Sometimes it could just be a simple place in your 0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:11.200 heart where something that you've been denying God access to 0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:14.920 in your life becomes open before him, knowing that he 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:19.360 is Lord of all. Father, I bring your people before 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:22.719 you today in prayer. You know what they have need 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:27.120 of before they ask of it. I hear you saying 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:31.040 yes to meet every need in this place. I hear 0:44:31.080 --> 0:44:35.000 you saying yes to satisfy every desire with good things, 0:44:35.000 --> 0:44:36.960 so that our youth is renewed like the eagles. I 0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:40.080 hear you saying yes. I thank you for the yes 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:44.040 of Heaven. God, that when people say no, you say yes. 0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:49.960 That when situations and circumstances seem shut down and closed in, 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:53.120 you say yes, and you make a way in the wilderness, 0:44:53.120 --> 0:44:55.480 and you bring forth water from a rock. I hear 0:44:55.520 --> 0:44:58.880 you saying yes today. I hear you saying yes the 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:01.960 second chances, Yes to new beginnings. I hear you saying 0:45:02.040 --> 0:45:07.160 yes today, and we respond with yes. We respond not 0:45:07.280 --> 0:45:09.000 just with a nod of our head, but with the 0:45:09.040 --> 0:45:15.600 posture of our horse. Yes, Lord, Yes to your will 0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:24.280 and to your way, Yes, Lord, Yes I will trust 0:45:24.400 --> 0:45:35.200 you when yes yes fish face see we've all and 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:42.719 my ex will be lordious. So the word amen in 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:46.719 Hebrew is a word of agreement. It means so be 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:52.080 it as I come into alignment with you God. It 0:45:52.200 --> 0:45:56.440 means that my plan B is your plan A. And 0:45:56.520 --> 0:46:00.480 the answer is yes. Thank you for join joining us 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:03.200 special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:06.760 this ministry. 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