The X Factor

0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:06.880 This week. God gave me something just for the stuck ones, 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:15.240 just for the stuck ones. So if you've been freely 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:20.360 roaming about with no obstructions, there's nothing in your life 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.240 that's holding you down, chaining you to something that has 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.919 been in your life for the last eight years, you 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.160 can probably more valuably use this time than to listen 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.320 to me preach. But for the people that God gave 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.919 me this message for today, I'm excited to share it 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:40.479 with you. In John chapter five, there is a story 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.800 about a man who was stuck, and I want you 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.160 to stand on your feet for just a moment. Welcome 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.680 to our evam all over the world. Please let me 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.839 know before before I read my scripture, where are you 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.840 joining from? And if you why don't if you're in 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.640 the room, so that this is less awkward, just tell 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.480 the person next to you what brought you here today? 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.960 Why did you come today? What's the what was the 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:16.560 reason for your being here? Mom made you. Tiffany gets 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.880 paid to be here. She doesn't want to get fired. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.880 But look all over the world, y'all, I just want 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.200 to point out to you this ministry is reaching way, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.000 way beyond what we can see. I mean all the 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:39.480 way from Fayetteville, North Carolina, right next to India, just 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:49.400 side by side on my comments California, Mississippi, Kenya, Tampa, Florida. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.080 Happy anniversary, Orlando as well to your anniversary for Orlando today. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:02:02.480 Make some noise, lake Worth, Florida. Chunks you know that, 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:21.280 Central Florida, Czech Republic, South Africa, Cosamel, Indonesia, Lebanon, Philippines, London, Brazil, Mexico. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:30.680 What I miss, Sheller laughing? What oh, you came from Jersey. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:37.840 Good to have you. We hope, we hope, we hope, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.640 we hope. We're praying that we can be in Jersey 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.800 for our Elevation Night's tour coming up that we're going 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.440 to announce in the next So you didn't even have 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.280 to come. We were coming for you, but you couldn't wait, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.760 could you. You had to get here to the house. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.919 All right? Are you visiting somebody or you just came 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:04.640 for this, Then it doesn't count. We're just like a 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.799 little layover. Okay, Okay, God's gonna bless you anyway. Let's 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:17.000 give it up for Jersey somebody. I am not stalling. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.280 I'm just trying to slow my brain down for a 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.280 minute because the Lord has me fired up, and I 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.519 don't want to unload on you too much too soon, 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:35.080 So I'm just trying to acclimate John chapter five. Sometime later, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.760 Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.440 Now there is in Jerusalem, near the Sheepgate, a pool 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.760 which in Aramaic is called Bethesda, and which is surrounded 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:56.800 by five covered colonnades porches. Here a great number of 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:03.400 disabled people used to lie. Now used to lie? Is 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.440 putting it in past tense that the situation is going 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.680 to change, is putting it in past tense that the 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:16.440 situation is going to change. Here, a great number of 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.760 disabled people used to lie. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.400 One was there who had been an invalid for thirty 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:31.080 eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.920 that he had been in this condition for a long time, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.479 he asked him, do you want to get well? Hey? Man? 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:45.840 You want some of this? Hey? You want to get well? Sir? 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.880 The invalid replied, I have no one to help me 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:53.200 into the pool. When the water is stirred. While I'm 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.720 trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:04.240 Then Jesus said to him, get up, pick up your mat, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:13.360 and walk. At once, thirty eight years of paralysis was reversed. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:21.960 At once the man was secured, he picked up his 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.680 mat and walked. The day on which this took place 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.159 was a sabbath, and so the Jewish leader said to 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.080 the man who had been healed, it is the sabbath. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:39.040 The law forbids you to carry your mat. But he replied, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.200 the man who made me well told me pick up 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.000 your mat and walk. I hear what you're telling me. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.039 But I've been hanging out here thirty eight years and 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:58.040 you never made me walk. He fixed me in one sentence. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.320 I'm gonna do what he said. Do. I appreciate the advice. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:08.600 I appreciate your regulation. I appreciate your custom. But the 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.600 man who made me well said to me, pick up 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.440 your mat and walk. So they asked him, who is 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.120 this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.920 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.440 for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.200 Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:40.839 see you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:47.160 May happen to you. Now. The man went away and 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:53.000 told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus. I'm gonna 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.760 need you to say that out loud. It was Jesus 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.080 put that in the chat. Say it out loud. It 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.800 was Jesus who had made him well. Today. The Lord 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.480 told me to talk to you about the X factor, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:14.280 the X factor. Bless your word, Father in Jesus' name, Amen, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.480 touch somebody on your way down and say you got 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:24.400 it the X factor. You know what I mean, X factor. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:33.760 Simon Cowell is in here. Don't worry a noteworthy special 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.480 talent or quality. That's what the X factor means. They 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:43.400 just got it. They just got something or a variable 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.640 in a given situation that could have the most significant 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.960 impact on the outcome. That's what I talked about today, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:08:01.320 the X factor. It's what Holly saw in me. They 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:11.360 standing across that college cafeteria with a triple X Superman shirt. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.080 She saw beneath that Superman shirt, she saw the super 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:25.080 She saw super Steve. Yo. Really are tough to talk 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.400 to sometimes and trying to introduce the topic of the 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.000 X factor. You know what I'm talking about, like, and 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:38.040 there's just something that they have and you've been around 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.720 someone like that. If the first person you think of 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.360 when I say someone who's just got it like that 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:53.679 is you. Most of people that I know that really 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.320 have something special, it is the most difficult for them 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:04.040 to see the distinctives that make them uniquely powerful. I 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.679 was coaching Tim the other day. He did a sermon 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.679 for our youth and it was really good. And I 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.360 gave him this thing. I said, you did this, and 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.080 you did that and you did that and that was good. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:20.160 And that's stuff I can't even teach. So what you 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.720 were so good at is stuff that I couldn't teach 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.439 you if I tried. So that's not what I want 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.520 to talk to you about because you already got that. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.040 So I want to talk to you about what I 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:38.040 saw where there is potential. Tim is this growth. He's 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:44.320 a growth minded individual. He is he's driven. So he 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.280 was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear what you're saying. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.880 I did good? What can I do better? And I 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:55.360 was like that that right there, that thing in you 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.040 that makes you want to know what did you see 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.680 that I could do better? And not just keep telling 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.080 me the stuff that I did really good? That right 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:10.640 there makes me think that you have only just begun 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.880 to see what God is going to do through you, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.840 because you've got it. You got it, You got it, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.920 you got it, you got it. Especially how God looks 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.439 for people to bless, he looks for need, He looks 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.520 for need. It's proven in the scripture that I just 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.080 read you. But you may not have noticed because the 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.120 exciting part of the text is where the man gets 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.680 up and is cured. The part of the text that's 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.040 really explicit about what made this man a candidate for 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.640 a miracle is the part that, to be honest with you, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.400 it's it's a list that the writer starts where he 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.199 says that Jesus was at the pool where the blind, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.880 the lane, and the paralyzed used to lie. The blind, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.240 the lane, the paralyzed. Now the list could go on 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.760 and on, because we're going to push the scripture today 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.199 not just to talk about physical conditions that God can heal, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.040 although God has the ability to do that. I want 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.880 to extend this list to say that Jesus is on 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.280 the porch for any problem that you have that is 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.520 paralyzing you in this season of your life. I set 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.240 it five minutes ago, and I'll say it five minutes 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.200 from now. This is for the stuck ones, the lane, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.920 the blind. You're stuck without your side, You're dependent on 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.120 somebody else without your sight. You're stuck without the function 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.600 of your limbs. You're dependent on where someone can carry you. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:50.280 You are stuck without your emotional capacity, where anxiety wrestles 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.200 you into a ball and pins you to the mat 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.680 and dares you to move. I've had seasons of my 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.160 life where resent me resentment put me in a rear 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.520 naked choke. Do you ever watch Mma? Sometimes I watch 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.800 this violent stuff just get it out of my system 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.520 so I don't swing on anybody in real life. And 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.160 I'll watch him choke somebody out, and I'm like, I've 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.000 been in that position before, not with somebody else choking me, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:21.360 choking myself, cutting off my own air supply, cutting off 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.600 my own ability to receive the oxygen of the word 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:38.000 that God is speaking. Jesus looks for need, even in 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.640 picking his disciples. He did it in a really weird way, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.000 because to change the world you need somebody. You need 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.280 to pick somebody who's got it. Because Jesus had it, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.800 but he wasn't going to be here to finish it. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.880 So when he was recruiting his disciples, he probably should 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:05.800 have picked somebody better than ex fisherman, an ex tax collector. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.800 You're with me now, he started walking around to pick 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:18.160 people and his ex factor, Heaven's X factor is not 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:27.360 dependent on talent, height, ability, charisma. That's not how that's 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.760 not how God chooses who to use. I'll prove it 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.440 to you. There is a very small chance that anybody 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.840 by the pool that day was in worse shape for 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:44.520 longer than this man. Jesus said that one. So you're 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.000 advising Jesus, right, you tell him something like this, we 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.199 probably should start if you want to heal people out 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.960 here with somebody who's only been this way a little while. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.880 And Jesus is like, the problem with that is if 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.880 they've only been that way a little while, they will 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:06.840 think that they got over it. Okay, Jesus, let's pick 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.000 somebody to heal if you want to heal somebody. Because 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.120 John's gospel is not really about healing, It's about belief. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.920 That's what he said at the end of his gospel. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.920 Matthew Mark Luke and John John tells you why he 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.120 wrote his gospel. In John twenty thirty, he said these 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.400 things were written that you may believe that Jesus is 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.600 the Messiah, and by believing, have life in his name. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.040 So the healing in this chapter is not the meaning 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.600 of this chapter. The healing is a means to an 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:45.240 end so that Jesus can confront unbelief. In fact that 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.080 it even says in the passage that it was one 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.120 of the festivals for Jesus, and in the original language, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.720 all it says the festival, the definite article, the festival. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.440 That makes me think it was passover, which makes me 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.840 think it was a year after Jesus heals the royal 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.400 centurion Son in John chapter four, which is amazing because 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.440 John is skipping a whole year because he's not trying 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.360 to show us chronologically what Jesus did. There's a theme 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.800 that he's taking, and the theme is this, anywhere there 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:22.400 is unbelief, Jesus stands to confront it. That is true 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.440 in your life. So where will God show up the 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.240 most in your life? The area where you have the 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:37.720 hardest time believing? That place, that place, the porch, the 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:43.160 porch by the sheep gate with the people who are paralyzed. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.000 Why wouldn't you hurry to the temple to the pulpit 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.040 to preach the word of God and redeem the world. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:57.520 But Jesus is on the porch. Jesus is on your 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:03.120 porch today. Jesus doesn't stand in this pulpit waiting for 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.160 you to get to church. You think God is waiting 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.520 for you to get here to speak to you. He's 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.800 been talking to you all week through your trouble. He's 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:17.880 been talking to you all week through traffic. And y'all, 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.440 Holly preach so good last week. I got to brag 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.960 on my wife for a minute. She has got it, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.600 you got it. She told me I'm not a preacher. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.480 Don't put me out there. I'll support you. She told 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:37.480 me that years and years ago. Ha ha ha ha. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:46.120 But I learned how to tricker into preacher. I really 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.040 think the reason she preached so good last week was 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.640 because of me. I do not only did I see 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.320 that gift in her long ago and nurtured it in her, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.360 which I want to take the credit right now. Okay, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.600 so y'all let me do this. I have this, can 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.880 I have this one? But before she came up to 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.679 preach jail last week, she was so nervous and I 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.520 could sense it. She said, I need you to pray 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.879 for me, and I said okay, and I prayed for it. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.040 And she was still nervous, and I thought of an idea. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:23.879 I started criticizing myself to her. I start saying bad 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.040 stuff about myself, not crazy bad stuff, just a little bad. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:34.320 And this woman defends me. So she went into a 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:42.119 different gear. That wasn't nervous, little Holly she went into. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:50.440 She went into another mode. Oh no, if you ever 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.639 saw Spider Man, I don't know if you ever saw Clark. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.520 Can't go into a phone book. But when Holly heard 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:02.040 me saying bad things about myself, she grew seven inches taller. 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.920 I watched it happen right before me, and she looked 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.760 in my eyes and she said, don't you say that 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.600 about yourself. I will not. I said, let's go. You're 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:17.800 ready to preach now, true story, true story. I say, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:22.760 you're ready, Now, you're ready. Now. I needed to switch 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.960 her energy. I said, you need to be a little 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.000 you need to be a little feisty when you go 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.360 out there to preach faith to the people. You need 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.159 to have a little bit of Don't you let the 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.040 devil tell you that stuff. Don't you let the enemy 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.680 talk you out of what God gave you. You need 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.880 a little bit of that to do what you've got 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:47.679 to do. So I awakened her inner preacher, and I 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:55.920 think the results speak for themselves good. It's a principle 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:02.800 of provocation. I had to provoke what was inside of 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:07.000 her so she wouldn't be so focused on what was 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:14.240 around her X factor. I had to get her to 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.439 start accessing what she had on the inside so she 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.640 wasn't thinking about what she was going to be facing 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:26.200 on the outside. If you still think I'm talking about 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.760 Holly preaching, you are not paying attention. I am talking 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:35.240 about you. And when I said the blind lame, the paralyzed. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.120 I could have kept going listing things that exist in 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.960 this room and all around the world through our ethm. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.480 I could have started listing mental conditions. I could have 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.439 started listing emotional conditions, financial, relational I could have started 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:55.240 listing tensions that you didn't even know that were mentionable 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.840 in church, but they are. And the prerequisite that Jesus 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:03.600 had for who he wanted to heal was who had 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:11.520 given up on ever getting better. So I'm thinking he's 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.880 walking around this room right now and he's looking for 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:22.720 who has the X factor, Who is the one who 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:30.800 knows that I need God in this place, on the porch, 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:38.639 on the porch where the disabled used to lie. We 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:40.760 don't have time to stop by the porch, Jesus. We've 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.840 got to get to the Passover feast. No, no, no, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.280 Jesus wasn't going to pass over the porch to get 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.960 to the Passover festival. And he listen to me, Listen 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.320 to me. He is not going to walk past you 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.240 to bless somebody who is better than you today either. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.040 He is not going to pass by you to bless 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.760 somebody who said their prayers every day this week. He 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.160 is not going to pass by you to bless somebody 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.679 who never did what you did. He is not gonna 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.440 walk by you to bless somebody who has Philippians memorized. 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.320 He is not going to walk by you to pass 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.720 somebody that wore a Christian T shirt to church. He 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:25.440 is not going to pass by you. He is not 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:31.240 going to pass by you. Bye. This is where you 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.040 know the sermon is going to take a turn. The 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.960 devil will do everything in his power to keep you 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.879 from realizing the resource that is right in front of you. 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.560 We talked at the beginning of the year about this 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:55.800 popular phrase my truth, your truth, my truth, and your truth. 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:01.920 Because we live in a world that worshiped personal experience. 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:08.080 Y'all like to take notes, put down experience in your notes. 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:13.200 While we're talking about the X factor, I was laughing 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.840 how Jesus gave this man a true or false question 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:24.959 and the man answered with an essay. Jesus said, do 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.199 you want to get well? That's just yes or no. 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.919 Just check the box. Want to get well, yes or no, 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.240 that's all he asked. The man starts doing a fill 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.359 in the blank exercise. Sir, I have no one to 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.960 help me into the pool. When the water is stirred. 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.800 While I'm trying to get in, someone else goes down 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:49.040 ahead of me. He's practiced this crap, y'all. He's practiced this. 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:56.199 To explain, write that down, explain, to explain, and what 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.040 I want you to realize about your life and where 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.160 you're at and that you're stuck in and what you're 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:07.760 stuck with and who you're stuck with. Okay, it would 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:09.840 be a horrible time to look at the person you 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.600 came to church with that time. He don't do it. 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:13.800 Don't do it. Don't do it, don't do it, don't 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:16.879 do what I want you to realize about that is 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:20.479 one of the most important things about your life is 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:27.160 not what you experience, but how you explain what you experience, 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:39.400 not to others but to your self. How many optimists 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:43.080 do we have in the room? Optimist, raise your hand, Optimist, 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:45.960 raise your hand. I want to raise my hand with you, 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.280 but I fall into a different category. I'm not a pessimist. 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:52.840 I'm not a pessimist. I'm not a pessimist because I 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:57.400 refuse to label myself as a pessimist. I refuse to 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:01.159 stand up here and identify myself with people who know 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.639 nothing more than to say how Tom Brady could play better, 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:07.159 but they can't throw a football. I will not be 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:11.000 that fat guy eating popcorn talking to somebody in good 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:13.240 shape about you should have caught that. I will not 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.320 be Pessimism is easy, that's easy, that's natural. I used 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:20.520 to say, Oh, I'm a pessimist. I'm hard on myself. No, actually, 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.359 I was easy on myself because it was natural for 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:26.160 me to be negative. So when I was hard on myself, 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.080 beating up on myself, that was just me obeying the 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:32.439 law of the south, vound gravitational pull of my sticking 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.720 rotten flesh, and not being renewed by the pattern of 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:48.840 my mind. All the ex pessimists make some noise, y'all 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.520 feel me. I'm an ex pest I am a recovering pessimist. 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:02.960 I'm I'm a recovering fessimist. I'm an ex pessimist. That's 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:07.080 what I am. I found out. They even wrote a 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:13.040 book about it, called Learned Optimism. I'm like, I didn't 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:19.639 know that was a skill. I thought that was a personality. Well, 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:26.919 I found out that the way I explain my life 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:34.919 to myself is the X factor that determines whether I 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:44.320 stay stuck or move forward. Jesus, in our terms, is 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:49.320 called a wonderful counselor mighty God, everlasting father. Yet he 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:53.320 breaks every rule of counseling that I've ever heard in 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:57.600 my life. He asked a man who can't move, do 0:25:57.640 --> 0:26:01.040 you want to get well? Which, at the very least, 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:06.359 at the very least is awkward. At the worst, it's cruel. 0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:09.520 You think I'm down here because I want to be 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:13.359 down here. You think I wanted to grow up in 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:15.680 that home environment. You think I'm here because I want 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:20.520 to be here. You think I chose this role. And 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:27.080 immediately he begins to explain, sir, the reason I'm here 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:32.719 is because somebody gets in the way. Every time I 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:35.400 try to get to the water where the healing is, 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:40.920 somebody gets in the way. That's why I can't get there. 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:47.399 So the Lord said to tell you your why is 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:56.360 getting in your way every time I try. Every time 0:26:56.359 --> 0:27:00.719 I try, I do it for a little while and 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:04.280 someone stops me. I do it for a little while, 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.919 I get triggered. I do it for a little while, 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:12.120 life happens. I do it for any progress you make 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.200 can feel like this right, And so then they call 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:19.600 it learned helplessness. That's a psychological term. It means that 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:22.280 you come to this point where you're like, why even try? 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:26.639 Why even try? If every time I'm going to try, 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:30.959 I'm gonna end up just getting blocked. I believe I'm 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:35.320 preaching somebody today who got blocked so many times, got 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:39.639 blocked so many times, got blocked by people, got blocked 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:43.680 by problems, got blocked by diagnosises, got blocked by things 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:45.720 that were beyond your control. And the thing about the 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:49.040 time we're living in we all have a universal snow 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:52.959 day that we keep referring to called the pandemic, that 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:56.080 has become a blanket excuse for why none of us 0:27:56.080 --> 0:28:05.080 are ever going to accomplish anything. Again, y'all don't like 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:09.959 me today. The Lord likes this message. He told me 0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:12.560 to tell you that he thought this was a good one, 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:17.000 and that you're wrong if you don't, because now I know. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:21.320 I know it's a reason, it's an experience, but I 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:25.040 have learned that at the same time that I am 0:28:25.119 --> 0:28:29.680 explaining my situation as a reason why I can't, somebody 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:32.320 else is explaining that situation as a gift from God. 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:40.440 Somebody else is taking the very same situation that I'm 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:44.440 using to say, well, I can't do it because and 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:47.920 someone else is using the very same situation. I can 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:52.200 do it because and I watched it happen, not only 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:54.600 through the pandemic, but I've watched it happen as people 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:57.320 have gone through difficult seasons. You know, I'm coming up 0:28:57.360 --> 0:29:00.240 on sixteen years of being a pastor, so I'm I'm 0:29:00.240 --> 0:29:03.200 not some little traveling preacher anymore who just goes around 0:29:03.240 --> 0:29:06.480 and tells you you can do it. That's not this message. 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:09.320 You can done. You can get on, Just get On'm 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:12.600 just walk was gone, just trying. I'm not talking about 0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:15.880 that stupid little stuff anymore that I mighty used to 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:18.080 preach when I didn't know what the Bible said. Now 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:20.520 I know what the Bible said. Now I know what 0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:23.280 the Word of God said. Now I've seen it made 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:28.080 flesh in the lives of thousands of people. And the 0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:31.959 way that you explain your life and the way that 0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:35.600 you explain this pain and the way that you explain 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:39.800 what's going on inside of yourself will either leave you 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:45.520 stuck or move you forward. Will either leave you on 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:49.920 your mat or move you. And the best thing about 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:55.000 the passage all is his mat became his message. His 0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:59.200 mat became his message. His mat became his message. And 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:01.600 they're like, you don't carrying your mat on the sabath. 0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.200 He's like, let me explain the dude who said it 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:06.840 up and it worked. He told me to do it, 0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:15.280 So that's what I'm doing. That's my explanation. Stop trying 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:18.800 to explain to people what God told you to do. 0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:22.000 You don't have to explain it to anybody. How you 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.600 want to be pure, why you want to be pure, 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:26.680 why you want to let go you don't have to 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:33.640 explain it to anybody. Hey, I got a doctor's excuse. 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:37.840 My doctor Jesus said I could do it. My doctor 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:42.240 Jesus said I can move on. My doctor Jesus said 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:46.040 I could forgive. My doctor Jesus said I could hold 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:49.520 my head up. My doctor Jesus said I can enter 0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:56.360 the most holy place. I got it. The X factor. 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:01.840 Did you ever have a doctor's excuse? Do you ever 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:05.240 have a doctor's excuse? You got one right now. You 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:10.280 got one right now. God Jesus, our great physician, is 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:15.440 trying to give you permission to move past all the 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:23.479 reasons that you shouldn't be able to move forward, and 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:33.480 to stop limiting the truth to your past experience. I 0:31:33.520 --> 0:31:36.920 gotta get Holly mad before she preaches, so she can 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:42.800 see you're not trying out. This is not an audition. 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:49.920 I love y'all, but y'all can't cancel her. You can't. 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:55.000 All right, one of y'all might not come back next week, 0:31:55.080 --> 0:32:01.040 and it's not her. So I had to get her 0:32:01.080 --> 0:32:03.400 fired up, you know. I had to get her in 0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:05.840 that kind of thing, like, man, stand up and give 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:09.160 us what God gave you. The Lord told Jeremiah don't 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:12.400 be afraid of their faces. I did not know what 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:15.800 that meant until I started preaching. I know what that 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.920 means now, because there's a part when you're preaching people 0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:21.440 look at you and be like, back up, back up, no, no, no, baby, 0:32:21.640 --> 0:32:26.120 go forward. That's the word they need. That's the word 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:34.200 they need. That's the word you need, the one that 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:50.720 challenges what you knew? Question, was this man lying not physically? Yes, 0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:54.520 he was lying on the mat. Come on, Stephen, give 0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:59.360 us a hard one. Let me ask him more clearly. 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:07.040 Was he telling the truth? Let's read it. I love 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:09.400 your word, Lord, thank you for your word, because he 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:11.680 showed me something. He showed me something. He showed me something. 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:13.160 And this is what I want to teach you how 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:15.440 to do today, because this is really powerful in your life. 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:17.640 It's not just a history lesson about a man. John 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:20.520 chapter five is not just about physical infirmity. It's certainly 0:33:20.520 --> 0:33:23.080 not about a pool called bethesta, which means house of mercy. 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:25.160 Is certainly not about a physical porch. It's about our 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:27.600 emotional condition, which keeps us from obeing God and receiving 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.240 his word by faith instead of walking in doubts. So 0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:33.040 when he said when he said, when he said, sir, 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:36.760 verse seven, I have no one to help me into 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:44.040 the pool when the water is stirred. Now, what does 0:33:44.200 --> 0:33:52.240 water have to do with walking? There was conventional wisdom 0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:59.200 around this porch truth. There was a truth that when 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:04.000 the angel troubled the waters from time to time, whoever 0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:06.720 got to the water first could be healed of whatever 0:34:07.160 --> 0:34:11.279 had happened to them, whatever was hurting them. Everybody else 0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:19.560 got left out. So he's giving his truth, which is 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:27.880 not really true anymore. I have no one to help 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:32.200 me into the pool when the water is stirred. While 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:35.560 I'm trying to get in, someone else goes ahead of me. 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:40.759 Like I say, we need to take this slow. I 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:44.840 need somebody, a volunteer who has a Bible, paper, bible, 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:52.840 a pen, a notebook. You got all three, and you 0:34:52.880 --> 0:34:54.800 don't mind coming on stage with me for a minute 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:58.560 and final criteria. I'm looking for somebody. This is the 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:03.879 X factor I'm looking for, all right, I'm choosing a volunteer, Bible, pen, 0:35:04.640 --> 0:35:06.960 a little notepad, and you don't mind me marking in 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:20.120 your Bible? Who wants to Okay? All right, Oh it's 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:25.840 a big Bible too. I like big Bibles. Let's go, 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:31.880 big Bible, big traps, big biceps, big Bible, big smile. 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:34.719 What's your name? Yeah, I'm kind of big too, right, 0:35:37.800 --> 0:35:41.560 but what's your name? I was hoping it would be Matt. 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:47.000 I know what version of the Bible I got, King James, 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:56.439 King James, you said, Darrell Tyrell Tyrell, King James. Old, 0:35:56.480 --> 0:36:00.920 this is perfect. This is perfect, and I need to 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:02.359 show them. You don't mind if I write in it? 0:36:03.480 --> 0:36:08.279 Are you sure? Okay? This is so perfect. You don't 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:10.239 know how perfect this is. I'm not playing around. We 0:36:10.280 --> 0:36:12.080 didn't work this out. This is not planned. This is 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:16.400 just so perfect. I see I gave you this pen originally. 0:36:16.480 --> 0:36:25.400 So look look at this. Let's read it together. You 0:36:25.480 --> 0:36:28.239 love the Bible, right, Nobody brings a Bible this size 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:36.960 to urch of. They don't like impotent folk, blind haul withered, 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:40.319 waiting for the moving of the water. And you see 0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:44.800 how in your King James Bible, this massive, jumbo size 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:50.040 King James Bible. Verse four, for an angel went down 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:52.239 at a certain season into the pool in trouble the water. 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:55.440 Whoever then first after the troubling of the water, stepped 0:36:55.480 --> 0:36:59.440 in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had in 0:36:59.840 --> 0:37:11.200 the This is the Bible that I preached out to. 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:13.600 I'm getting the old time. I can't see it. It's 0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:17.040 good anymore. I need this one. Can I keep this one? 0:37:17.120 --> 0:37:20.959 This one? Oh man? How old are you? By the way, 0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:23.319 what if he was thirty eight? Like the man thirty 0:37:23.360 --> 0:37:29.319 eight years now? But I wanted to show you, and 0:37:29.600 --> 0:37:31.399 I've talked this before, and I've shown it different ways 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:34.239 because I think it's so powerful. It's so powerful in 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:37.680 the version that I have, the new International version, it's 0:37:37.680 --> 0:37:41.239 a great translation. It goes from three to five. And 0:37:41.320 --> 0:37:45.000 see how number verse four is mentioned down here at 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:49.359 the footnotes where it explains how the waters would move 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:52.919 and people would get healed. That verse four. They took 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:56.160 it out the ESV and n IV and a lot 0:37:56.200 --> 0:37:59.759 of the more modern translations because it wasn't in the 0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:03.399 Earth manuscripts. So the manuscripts that we see that are 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:06.600 the earliest, the closest to the original, the most accurate, 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:10.279 it wasn't in there, so it's not in these translations. 0:38:10.560 --> 0:38:14.319 In King James, there's a verse four in the n 0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:16.560 I V and most of the translations that you'll see 0:38:16.560 --> 0:38:18.399 if you're looking at it on your phone. You're like, wait, 0:38:18.400 --> 0:38:21.000 there is no verse four? Did Steve Jobs come back 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:23.240 from the dead and delete my verse four? Is Apple 0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:26.080 listening to me right now? Are you spying or the 0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:29.399 Russians here? But it's not any of that. There's there's 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:37.120 no there's there's no conspiracy. There's no conspiracy. There's there's 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:42.839 there's no conspiracy. It's just a verse that was never there, 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:47.600 that was added later by scribes to explain the situation. 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:52.040 Why why are you taking time to show me this? 0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:59.440 Because we add things that God didn't really say to 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:09.399 expel situations that we can't understand. That's a y. I 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:11.719 can't believe you had the King James Bible because if 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.359 you had had any other translation, I wouldn't have been 0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:16.799 able to share this part. And I was just like, 0:39:16.840 --> 0:39:18.760 I'm going to go in the moment and call somebody. 0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:20.239 And I almost picked her because she has an E 0:39:20.320 --> 0:39:21.760 Kids shirt. No, I don't even know if you're volunteer. 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:28.799 Are you volunteer? Am? Okay? Good security, security, good fit. 0:39:31.640 --> 0:39:35.080 You got it, man, it's that X factor. You got it, 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:39.239 You got it. I'm serious, man, God is on your life. 0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:43.279 I feel it, but I don't want you to put 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:53.200 in versus about what you believe about God, to explain situations, 0:39:54.760 --> 0:40:03.920 or to here's another ex excuse disabilit This man is 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:08.719 taking notes while he's helping me preach. You see him 0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:12.400 reached for the notebook. So what I want to do? 0:40:12.520 --> 0:40:14.719 You told me I could write in your Bible. You 0:40:14.800 --> 0:40:17.759 told me bring me the camera, come here, follow me, 0:40:21.640 --> 0:40:26.080 tell me when it's in focus. You hold it. Put 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:34.680 that one down, Let's use yours. Hold it. Told me 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:38.080 I could write zoom in on the verse shaw, so 0:40:38.280 --> 0:41:02.920 we could do this. We gotta do this that one. 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:08.719 I'm not sure I can clap for this. I thought 0:41:08.880 --> 0:41:12.400 you were gonna highlight this Bible with a nice slime 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:25.200 green elevation orange. The ex factor means that you and I, 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:29.600 brothers and sisters need to go through and make sure 0:41:30.560 --> 0:41:35.000 that what we believe about God is really revealed in 0:41:35.080 --> 0:41:42.960 the person of Jesus, not just the traditions of men. Now, 0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:47.360 in case they put this on one of those YouTube 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:50.720 channels that talks about what I'm preaching and what shoes 0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:53.839 I'm wearing or something like that, I want to make 0:41:53.880 --> 0:41:57.000 sure you're not going through crossing out the parts of 0:41:57.040 --> 0:42:02.440 the Bible that you don't like because they're hard. Like 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:05.680 love your neighbor as yourself. I'm not sure about the neighbor. 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:13.280 I like that love yourself part. Oh yeah, I love myself. 0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:14.839 I like that part. No no no, no, no, no, no, 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:19.520 no no no. It wasn't there. It got added later. 0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:23.839 It's not what God said. It got added later. I 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:27.360 want you to know some of the things you believe 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:36.799 God didn't speak, It got added later. Somebody told you 0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:41.680 something that made you feel small, and you settled into 0:42:41.760 --> 0:42:46.440 the small that they made you feel, not realizing greater 0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:50.360 is He that is in me. So I can't be 0:42:50.520 --> 0:43:00.319 that small. I can't be that insignificant. In fact, y'all 0:43:00.360 --> 0:43:02.319 still with me? Or you already shopping for another church 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:07.080 on Google. Well, I'm preaching. Click off, click off, click off, 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.319 click off. This guy's crossing out the Bible. No no, no, 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:13.399 I'm crossing out what's not the Bible. I'm crossing out 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:16.600 what God didn't speak over me. So if he corrects me, 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:19.160 I want to hear it. If he challenges me, I 0:43:19.200 --> 0:43:21.560 want to hear it. If he thinks I'm wrong, I 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:24.560 want to know it. But we don't stay right there, 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:28.440 We don't bridge this anymore. We used to have a 0:43:28.680 --> 0:43:34.160 thing check yourself before you, but now I see it everywhere. 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:40.200 Treat yourself. First of all, it's just annoying. That's an 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:45.160 annoying thing to say anyway. But secondly, yes, I'm all 0:43:45.200 --> 0:43:54.759 for self care. What about self confrontation. I'm gonna come 0:43:54.800 --> 0:44:02.920 behind my security over here. One of the hardest things, though, 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:07.799 is what he said when he explained experience. Every time 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:11.239 I try, I get stopped. Every time I try, I 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:14.480 get blocked. Every time I try, I smile, they don't 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:17.160 smile back. I asked her out. She said, no, well, 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.760 how you explain that to yourself. We used to ride around. 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:24.120 My best friend from all through high school is right 0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:26.719 there on that second row. And when a girl would 0:44:26.760 --> 0:44:30.239 it be interested in us, we would like be the 0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:32.640 Holy Spirit interpretation for each other. So he'd be like, 0:44:33.520 --> 0:44:37.680 he'd be like, she's just not on your level. I 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:47.800 needed that right around hyphen each other all day. You know, 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:50.520 Deep calls to deep man, She's just not deep enough, 0:44:50.600 --> 0:44:57.200 that's all. It is, cold Bible versus handle rejection. And 0:44:57.239 --> 0:45:03.920 then the man's the man's explanation. This is this is 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:09.280 where I see you today. You caught between an experience 0:45:10.560 --> 0:45:16.520 and an explanation, and his explanation is keeping him stuck, 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:21.400 and some of us have fallen in love with our stuckness. 0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:29.000 We love stuck because we learned we can get our 0:45:29.040 --> 0:45:32.919 way if we get angry. So do we really want 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:37.680 to be made well from our anger? We've learned that 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:40.520 we can get our way by doing the silent treatment, 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:43.480 So do we really want to get better at communicating? 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:50.000 We've learned that we can get our way and seek 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:55.120 attention by misbehaving. Some of us subconsciously create failure in 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:57.840 our life so that it will call people to our rescue, 0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:04.719 so we will feel wanted. Now, I see why the 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:09.279 genius of Jesus when that make a cool series. The 0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:14.040 genius of Jesus made him a wonderful counselor, even though 0:46:14.080 --> 0:46:17.520 it seems like he has a terrible bedside manner, He's 0:46:17.560 --> 0:46:22.279 like the X factor here is not the externals, externals, 0:46:24.280 --> 0:46:28.280 the economy and your mom's mom's mom's mom's mom's goldfish 0:46:28.320 --> 0:46:35.920 that made you like you are, or who won't do 0:46:36.000 --> 0:46:41.920 what for you? Because that's not true anymore? Now is 0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:48.400 the man lying? Sir? I have no man When the 0:46:48.440 --> 0:46:54.000 water is troubled to put me into the pool. I 0:46:54.040 --> 0:47:01.240 have no man, I have no help. It's not true anymore. 0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:08.399 It's not true anymore. It was true five minutes before 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:15.920 Jesus got there. It was true. Let's use my Bible 0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:18.839 for this part. I don't want to cross anything else 0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:23.279 out of yours. What he said pulled it for me. 0:47:27.239 --> 0:47:31.560 Where it said, sir, I have no one to help me. 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:45.279 I have Can you see it closer? I have no one. 0:47:48.760 --> 0:47:52.359 That used to be true, but Jesus is here now. 0:47:56.320 --> 0:48:00.520 That was true. No, no, it wasn't an excuse. It 0:48:00.600 --> 0:48:10.960 was true until the truth showed up. That's the X 0:48:11.080 --> 0:48:14.000 vector that I wanted to preach to you about today 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:17.719 is that you are still operating in your life as 0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:23.239 if Jesus were not risen. But he is risen, and 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:27.279 you are carrying watch this the shame, as if your 0:48:27.360 --> 0:48:32.600 sin were not forgiven. But it is forgiven. But I'm 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:37.239 a sinner. You were a sinner, and you still sin. 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:42.560 But now you have help that you didn't have when 0:48:42.560 --> 0:48:47.279 you were trying to fulfill the law in your own flesh. 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:50.960 For what the law was powerless to do in that 0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:54.120 it was weakean. I feel my help now in that 0:48:54.280 --> 0:48:59.640 it was weakean that's what I was. It's not what 0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:04.000 I am. I am now he used to be true. 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:11.000 But Jesus is on your fORCH. Jesus is on your 0:49:12.640 --> 0:49:19.640 porch where that's the X factor. Not your might, not 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:27.919 your power, but by his spirit, he's here, he's here. 0:49:28.040 --> 0:49:31.799 Make the announcement, Make the announcement, Make the announcement, make 0:49:31.840 --> 0:49:35.319 the announcement. So five people tell him he's here on 0:49:35.360 --> 0:49:40.840 your porch. He's here, on your fORCH. He's here, he's here, 0:49:41.239 --> 0:49:50.120 he's here. He it's so good, it's so good. God 0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:55.799 wants to change your explanation to where you start explaining 0:49:55.960 --> 0:50:04.400 things different. Let your faith explain. Maybe we could do 0:50:04.440 --> 0:50:06.319 that for a part two message, if you'll like it. 0:50:07.120 --> 0:50:10.960 How to let faith explain, because fear will start explaining. 0:50:11.719 --> 0:50:13.800 See the reason that happened to you because you suck, 0:50:16.160 --> 0:50:20.960 and you always sucked. And let's put it in King James, 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:26.280 thou shouts suck forever more. The devil speak King James 0:50:26.400 --> 0:50:28.720 language to get you to believe a lie. And here's 0:50:28.760 --> 0:50:30.239 what we said. We said, we said few weeks ago, 0:50:30.239 --> 0:50:32.280 we said few weeks ago, we said he's the father 0:50:32.360 --> 0:50:39.279 of lies. That's his native language. He speaks lie like 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:43.319 like you speak tennis. Robert's a tennis coach. He'll come 0:50:43.360 --> 0:50:45.520 up to me, he'll be like, man that was like 0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:47.759 a servant, a volley or something like that. Today on 0:50:47.800 --> 0:50:49.520 the sermon, I'm like, Robert, what does that mean? That 0:50:49.560 --> 0:50:53.880 doesn't apply. That's his language. The devil's language is lie. 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:56.600 You think this man on the on the porch, You 0:50:56.600 --> 0:50:58.279 think the man on the porch was trying to lie 0:50:58.320 --> 0:51:03.759 to Jesus. But he was speaking something that used to 0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:08.200 be true. There were three things I said you needed. 0:51:08.200 --> 0:51:11.759 One was a Bible and you had to. One was 0:51:11.800 --> 0:51:13.920 a pen and you had to. I said a notebook, 0:51:14.520 --> 0:51:17.600 and he had that too, and he had a pin. 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:23.520 Then I gave him and then that just like the 0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:26.320 grace of God, he gives us what he asked for. Anyway, 0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:31.000 okay 's that is I'm having fun today. I'm having 0:51:31.000 --> 0:51:38.160 fun today because I feel the spirit of unstuckness as 0:51:38.280 --> 0:51:41.920 God begins to show you how to change the way 0:51:42.000 --> 0:51:47.200 you explained. The way that you explain the experience either 0:51:47.320 --> 0:51:55.279 keeps you stuck or sets you free. So she could 0:51:55.320 --> 0:51:57.440 sit here and say, well, I'm just a little girl. 0:51:57.520 --> 0:51:59.360 Nobody can I tell him what that lady said to 0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:01.920 you the other day. People say the weirdest stuff to 0:52:02.000 --> 0:52:03.719 you in it. They don't know you, but they think 0:52:03.760 --> 0:52:06.160 they do. Some lady came up to her say, girl, 0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:09.360 we go to church. You're so you've gotten so good. 0:52:09.880 --> 0:52:14.680 It's already a backhanded compliment because you've gotten so good, 0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:17.799 implies what. But then she didn't just imply it, she 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:29.360 said it. I mean you were rough when you started security, 0:52:32.400 --> 0:52:34.640 all right, So I can't do this for you, but 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:37.080 maybe I could teach you the X factor. It's when 0:52:37.120 --> 0:52:41.560 you take something that you used to be and that 0:52:41.680 --> 0:52:52.160 you still feel like this. What was I saying? Yeah, 0:52:52.160 --> 0:52:57.280 you were? You weren't worth the blood of Jesus Christ, 0:52:57.280 --> 0:53:02.200 the precious, eternal Lamb of God. Weren't that good. You 0:53:02.239 --> 0:53:06.320 weren't worth that much, God's only son, the sinless, spotless 0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:16.480 Lamb of God. But he decided you were. So that's 0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:24.000 what I am. That's what I am. All I'm doing. 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:30.920 All I'm doing is Colossians Too fourteen, where it said 0:53:31.120 --> 0:53:36.760 that Jesus having canceled, you want to talk about cancel culture. 0:53:37.760 --> 0:53:43.120 Jesus is the cancel culture king. He look what he canceled. 0:53:43.160 --> 0:53:47.319 I can't wait to show you this. He canceled the 0:53:47.480 --> 0:53:51.960 charge of our legal indebtedness. The Greek word is the 0:53:52.080 --> 0:53:55.319 handwritten indebtedness. They would make you write your debt by 0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:59.520 your own hand, as to say that this is my 0:53:59.719 --> 0:54:01.959 debt and you have to write it in your own hand. 0:54:02.360 --> 0:54:07.600 So Jesus took his hand y'all to love the gospel. 0:54:08.480 --> 0:54:10.919 This is about as good as it gets. Klatchin's two 0:54:10.960 --> 0:54:13.840 fourteen is about as good as it gets. I know 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:18.239 Frestam's taking together running over some menborn. I'm excited about 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:20.839 everything God wants to add to my life. I am 0:54:20.960 --> 0:54:24.600 more excited about what he took away when he died 0:54:24.920 --> 0:54:29.640 for me on the cross. That's a real sounding thing 0:54:30.040 --> 0:54:39.680 for me. He took our indebtedness and he paid the 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:43.839 price for it, which stood against us and condemned us. 0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:48.239 He has taken it away and he nailed it to 0:54:48.320 --> 0:54:56.319 his cross. That is why I can take up my 0:54:56.400 --> 0:55:04.920 mat and walk cauzuh that you ready. That's the ex 0:55:04.960 --> 0:55:13.000 factor for me. For me, grace makes the difference for me. 0:55:14.120 --> 0:55:17.439 I know you were a good person, and that's why 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:22.520 you deserve to be blessed, not me, not me. I 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:25.799 know you always get it right, and that's why you're 0:55:25.800 --> 0:55:30.919 so successful, not me. I know you are always full 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:34.000 of joy, and that is why the Lord is lucky 0:55:34.080 --> 0:55:38.680 to have you on his squad, not me. Not me. 0:55:39.239 --> 0:55:43.719 I know what I was without him, and that's why 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:48.400 I'm so excited that I've got him. And that's why 0:55:48.719 --> 0:55:56.680 I don't mind praising God. That's what I expect the supernatural. 0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:03.279 I want you to take every page of this thing 0:56:04.040 --> 0:56:08.000 and write stuff that used to be true before Christ 0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:11.400 came along. I want you to practice this week. I 0:56:11.440 --> 0:56:13.400 wish some of you parents would be a leader for 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:17.359 your family and take this message and say, before we 0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:21.839 sit down today, everybody's gonna x something before I even 0:56:21.960 --> 0:56:27.359 feed you all lunch. You don't want paying, don't take 0:56:27.360 --> 0:56:30.879 a bite until we x something that the enemy has 0:56:31.000 --> 0:56:36.680 set over your life. That used to be true. That's 0:56:36.719 --> 0:56:41.600 the key. It used to be true. It used to 0:56:41.680 --> 0:56:46.319 be true. It used to be that. The only way 0:56:46.320 --> 0:56:49.360 to be right with God is for you to be perfect, 0:56:50.520 --> 0:56:53.680 for you to keep the law, including the Sabbath. That's 0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:57.400 what the Passover was all about. That's what the festival 0:56:57.400 --> 0:57:00.319 that John five mentions was. They put a X on 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:04.040 the door in blood of all of God's people, so 0:57:04.160 --> 0:57:06.200 that the angel of Death would pass over on the 0:57:06.239 --> 0:57:08.280 top of the doorframe, on the sides of the doorframe 0:57:08.440 --> 0:57:14.680 in Exodus twelve. And God said, not this house, not 0:57:14.800 --> 0:57:18.960 this house. So this is a passover day for us 0:57:19.000 --> 0:57:23.000 in Jesus that he's walking up to the person on 0:57:23.040 --> 0:57:25.800 the porch who can't move, can't function, can't get over it, 0:57:25.920 --> 0:57:30.400 can't recover, can't get it together. And the truth stands 0:57:30.400 --> 0:57:34.640 in front of the experience, and he doesn't tell him 0:57:34.680 --> 0:57:40.880 something to understand. He tells him something to do. I 0:57:40.960 --> 0:57:46.439 want you to take what was holding you and hold it. 0:57:50.840 --> 0:57:53.439 I have no one to help, but you do now. 0:57:54.920 --> 0:57:59.280 But you do now. Don't let the explanation become an excuse. 0:58:00.600 --> 0:58:03.640 You've got it now, You've got the word of God, 0:58:04.520 --> 0:58:07.960 You've got the spirit of God. Please don't just come 0:58:07.960 --> 0:58:11.520 in here every week expecting for somebody to lug you 0:58:11.600 --> 0:58:16.400 to the pool, because you're always gonna get blocked. You're 0:58:16.440 --> 0:58:20.920 always gonna get blocked. This is the X factor. The 0:58:21.000 --> 0:58:24.880 man said, I don't know who healed me, Well go 0:58:25.000 --> 0:58:32.160 find out. It was Jesus. Say it again, it was Jesus. 0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:35.440 You said it at the beginning of the sermon, But 0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:38.360 now I want you to hear it. He's the X factor. 0:58:40.120 --> 0:58:44.880 He changed everything, Grace changes everything. You're here today. You're 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:47.200 saying I can't be saved, I can't be a Christian, 0:58:47.400 --> 0:58:51.520 I can't get on the right path. God knew that. 0:58:51.520 --> 0:58:53.280 That's why he didn't make you get to the water. 0:58:54.480 --> 0:59:07.920 He brought the water to you. It's not how smart 0:59:07.960 --> 0:59:12.200 you are. That's not the X factor. That's not what's 0:59:12.240 --> 0:59:14.040 going to attract the power of God to your life. 0:59:15.000 --> 0:59:16.760 It's not how manipulative you can be, how you can 0:59:16.800 --> 0:59:20.400 work everything out according to your plan. It said it 0:59:20.440 --> 0:59:24.160 was Jesus that made me walk, it was Jesus that 0:59:24.240 --> 0:59:29.720 made me whole. And it starts with this question, do 0:59:29.760 --> 0:59:33.440 you want to get well? Because you've been like this 0:59:33.560 --> 0:59:37.360 a long time? Stand up. I'm gonna pray for you. 0:59:39.320 --> 0:59:45.160 Thank you, my friend, thank you. It'sod Bible back. I'm 0:59:45.160 --> 0:59:53.760 gonna pray for you. Yeah. I want you to fill 0:59:53.800 --> 0:59:55.840 every blank page in that notebook with that all that 0:59:56.000 --> 0:59:58.680 junk the enemy's been telling you, keeping you stuck too. Okay, 0:59:59.360 --> 1:00:05.440 I want to see is all through that notebook. Father. 1:00:05.480 --> 1:00:10.480 We want to take a moment and reflect on the 1:00:10.680 --> 1:00:16.880 X factor. Really awesome to see Jesus in Jerusalem, to 1:00:16.960 --> 1:00:19.840 know he would head back there and die just a 1:00:19.840 --> 1:00:23.960 little while later, and that what was initiated in the 1:00:24.000 --> 1:00:27.240 man's life through healing would be completed for us on 1:00:27.280 --> 1:00:32.240 the cross so that we could be set free. I 1:00:32.280 --> 1:00:35.200 believe in my spirit God, that there are thousands who 1:00:35.200 --> 1:00:37.960 are hearing this message right now, who this is their 1:00:38.040 --> 1:00:42.480 moment to be saved, to receive the grace of God, 1:00:43.560 --> 1:00:51.400 not by works, but by grace through faith. Right now, 1:00:51.440 --> 1:00:55.880 if you're like that man spiritually, not physically, but spiritually, 1:00:55.880 --> 1:00:58.840 you say, you know what, I'm dead in my sin 1:01:01.000 --> 1:01:03.480 and I want to receive Jesus Christ as my savior 1:01:04.520 --> 1:01:07.120 so that the written requirement in my handwriting, the things 1:01:07.160 --> 1:01:11.200 I've done that separated me in my heart from God 1:01:12.360 --> 1:01:14.200 can be nailed to his cross and so that I 1:01:14.240 --> 1:01:16.840 can move forward into a new future. I'm gonna pray 1:01:16.880 --> 1:01:19.240 with you right now. You know the Bible says that 1:01:19.320 --> 1:01:24.360 it is by grace you are saved. That man would 1:01:24.400 --> 1:01:26.640 have never gotten into the water if he would have 1:01:26.680 --> 1:01:28.800 kept trying to get there on his own. He had 1:01:29.080 --> 1:01:32.280 to let the water come to him, and you are 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:36.520 at that moment right now. God brought you here online 1:01:36.520 --> 1:01:41.600 in the physical building. God brought you here, and Jesus 1:01:41.720 --> 1:01:46.240 is standing in front of you. I'm going to pray 1:01:46.280 --> 1:01:48.960 a prayer right now. We're going to pray it out 1:01:48.960 --> 1:01:51.240 loud as a church family for the benefit of those 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:55.640 who are coming to Jesus to be saved, repenting of 1:01:55.680 --> 1:01:59.320 their sin, receiving his new life for the first time, 1:01:59.440 --> 1:02:05.160 or coming back to God. And as I pray, if 1:02:05.200 --> 1:02:07.680 you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is able 1:02:07.760 --> 1:02:12.760 to save you, you confess with your mouth that Jesus's Lord. 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:15.880 The Bible says you will be saved. Every head bow, 1:02:16.360 --> 1:02:21.720 every eye closed, repeat after me this prayer, Lord Jesus. 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:27.000 I am a sinner in need of a savior, and 1:02:27.080 --> 1:02:31.640 I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. 1:02:32.720 --> 1:02:37.480 And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life. 1:02:38.040 --> 1:02:42.320 I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 1:02:42.440 --> 1:02:48.280 rose again to give me life. I receive this new life. 1:02:48.840 --> 1:02:52.520 This is my new beginning. Raise your hand on account 1:02:52.520 --> 1:02:54.840 of three. If you prayed that one, two, three and 1:02:54.880 --> 1:02:59.760 all in the chat, raise hands. Can't go on up everywhere? Yeah, yeah, 1:02:59.800 --> 1:03:02.240 that's it. No shame in it, No shame in it. 1:03:02.600 --> 1:03:05.880 Take up your madden walk. Take up the Man who 1:03:06.040 --> 1:03:08.480 saved you told you to do it. Jesus said you 1:03:08.520 --> 1:03:13.360 can do it. Raise your hand up high. Let's clap 1:03:13.440 --> 1:03:18.720 our hands for everybody who got that living water today. 1:03:20.240 --> 1:03:26.960 Take up your maden walk. Thank you Jesus. We're bringing 1:03:27.000 --> 1:03:30.320 you a Bible right now where the Word of God is, 1:03:30.360 --> 1:03:32.520 where it can instruct you how to walk. Hey, thank 1:03:32.560 --> 1:03:34.640 you for not leaving. I appreciate your attention to the 1:03:34.640 --> 1:03:37.800 word of God. This is a very important moment for somebody. 1:03:38.240 --> 1:03:40.880 I want us to seal it. I want us to 1:03:40.920 --> 1:03:44.840 seal this moment of what God just did by giving 1:03:44.920 --> 1:03:50.200 God the most amazing thirty seconds of praise. Can we 1:03:50.240 --> 1:03:58.800 do that right now? Thank you? Lord, Come, I'm on. 1:03:58.960 --> 1:04:05.200 Open your mouth. It was Jesus. And what's the lord? Hey, 1:04:05.320 --> 1:04:12.400 man away, it was him. It was Jesus. It was Jesus. 1:04:12.840 --> 1:04:19.400 Hey saved you. Hey, riise you head, what's Jesus? He's Jesus. 1:04:20.240 --> 1:04:23.680 Come on, give them money, celebrad Well. If you enjoyed 1:04:23.680 --> 1:04:26.080 today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love 1:04:26.120 --> 1:04:29.280 for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:32.520 review this podcast. You can also help us reach others 1:04:32.560 --> 1:04:36.040 by investing today at Elevation church dot org, slash give 1:04:36.480 --> 1:04:39.880 and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast