This Is Not Your Final Chapter (Jentezen Franklin)

0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.720 Before we get to the message, let me know right 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.560 now where are you watching from, where you're joining from 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.040 our EPAM around the world. Welcome. I'm excited to bring 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:15.760 God's word to you today. Also April eighteenth through twenty seven, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.439 Elevationnights dot Com Our Elevation Nights Spring Tour. If me Holly, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.680 Elevation Worship a word from God, the Spirit of God, 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.240 your favorite songs? All right, here's where we're coming. Austin, Texas, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:37.040 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri. I'm there, Denver, Colorado. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.440 That altitude got me. Saint Louis, Missouri, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:45.239 and Toronto, Ontario. We will see you. Elevationnights dot Com. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.599 Get your tickets right now. Let me know where you're 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.599 joining us from. I want to see it in the comments. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.040 Let's go to the Word of God. It is a 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.360 tremendous honor to be here today and to be with 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.440 this amazing team. How about the new song I had? 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:05.080 Maybe they're not new to anybody but me, but could Lord. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.039 That's why I would say sing it again. When you 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.360 have a team like this ministry has you are you? 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.080 People are spoiled writing and you don't even know it. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.680 You act like that's normal music and that's normal worship. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.640 What is wrong with you? And then you know to 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.880 see Stephen and see Holly and see their beautiful family 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:40.880 fulfilling that dream. He does not just get up and preach. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.160 There is a tremendous price that is paid to bring 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.880 a fresh word from the Lord. He is not a 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.520 robot kind of preacher. Deal. He can't just get up 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:58.080 and say it. He does so much more than that 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.120 when he preaches. And you know that's the especially you 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.520 who are sitting here and at all the campuses every week, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:13.400 and people have no idea, They have no idea. The battles, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.120 the mental battles, the spiritual battles. Not just He, but 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:27.680 Holly and the family carry a tremendous, tremendous load. And 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.560 I get emotional about it because I've watched God do 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.600 it at my place, and I've been there for thirty 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:41.919 something years, and when I see in my mind kids 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:47.680 doing what they're doing so quick, so fast, God is 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:52.760 up to something that we can't even imagine with this ministry. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.080 And if you'll be faithful, and I know you will, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.400 it includes every one of you and your gift and 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.240 what God has planned for you. And I want to 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.359 just preach a few moments this morning, but I want 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.799 to go to the Book of John chapter twenty one. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.840 I don't preach long. They usually have me on a 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:19.120 clock for thirty minutes starting right now, and I'll preach 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.079 about thirty minutes and then the keyboard guy can come 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:27.320 out and I'll know my thirty minutes is up. But 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.880 I want to read something. I do believe the Lord 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.880 gave me a message for this place. I do, especially 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.520 after hearing the last song. It freaked me out. The 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.360 last song freaked me out because one of the lines 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:45.240 that it was write another story. Actually, I gave them 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.200 five titles for one sermon, and one of them was 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:53.840 write another story. And I honestly, I'm kind of blown 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.080 away at that. But that's how God does it. John 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:02.600 chapter twenty one. I'll begin reading with verse Let's go 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:08.960 to verse John twenty one. Let's go to verse twenty four. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.800 This is the disciple who testifies of these things and 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:22.240 wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:27.440 And there are so many other things that Jesus did 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:32.640 listen to this which if they were written one by one. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:39.160 I suppose that even the world itself could not contain 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:47.400 the books that would be written. Amen, while you have 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.680 your Bible open, flip over to the Old Testament. Just 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:56.039 one quick scripture in Jeremiah chapter thirty. Let's go to 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:02.400 Jeremiah chapter thirty six, Jeremiah thirty and I'll make reference 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.720 to this in that way. We won't do it. I'll 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.320 just keep moving verse twenty two. Now, the king was 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.200 sitting in the winterhouse in the ninth month, with a 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:17.640 fire burning on the heath before him, or the fireplace. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.839 And it happened when Jehordah had read three or four columns, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.880 that the king cut it with the scribes knife some 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.520 translations say the pen knife. We would call it a 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.960 pocket knife, and cast it into the fire that was 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.880 on the heath, until all the scroll was consumed in 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.480 the fire that was in the fireplace. I want to 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.560 talk to you for just a few moments, and I'll 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.640 give you my title as I go along. But I 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.040 do believe the story is still being written over elevation Church. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.240 I really do believe that churches, when you reach where 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.359 you are as a ministry, will do one of two things. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.200 You will become a peruser of history. You just live 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.400 in the greatness of what God has done in the past, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.760 or you continue to write history, and you have to 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.719 choose by your faith and your belief and what God 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.520 is going to do as a foundation off of what 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.679 He's already done. The best days, I declare today are ahead. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:31.000 The best years are not behind you. The most creative, powerful, open, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.640 incredible opportunities are not behind you. It's yet to be 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:42.839 written over you. There is a group of people in 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.360 the Scriptures that I want to talk about this morning, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.320 and you read, write over it and think it doesn't 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:53.480 mean anything, but it does. They're known as scribes. Scribes 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:58.200 in the Bible came from the tribe of Zebelin. Ezra 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.000 was a priest, but he was all so in the 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.720 Old Testament, a scribe. The job definition of a scribe 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:12.040 would be to have access into throne rooms and into courtrooms, 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.480 have access into places that most people will never get 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:22.280 access in the throne room like a scribe would get 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.520 every day, and his one purpose was to take a 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.440 pen and a piece of paper and hear the conversation 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.120 in the throne room where the king was and write 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:38.160 it down and then present it to people. That's what 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:43.560 a scribe did. He had a pen and paper scroll, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.480 and he would write. He had a very special role 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.640 to record history, to write it, and in doing so 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.120 he was making history. It would be history that was 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.600 being made at that very moment that it was being written. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.400 I think about the story of Esther in the sixth 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.040 chapter of the Book of Esther, and how that the 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.000 Bible said, on a certain night, this involved a scribe. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.600 This whole miracle of Esther, in a whole group, of 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.640 a whole Jewish nation was on death row, and the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.320 only thing that saved him was a scribe, the Bible said. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:28.000 The king couldn't sleep, and in order to get drowsy, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.400 he called for the scribe to bring the books that 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.360 had been chronicled and read them. And he just so 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.160 happened this scribe to open up and start reading. And 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.640 he said, on such and such a day, there was 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.600 an assassination attempt that was going to happen. But a man, 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.600 a Jew by the name of Mordecai, sat outside the 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.319 gate and he overheard the assassin saying what they were 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.320 going to do, and he reported it to someone in 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.520 the palace. And because of that, we stopped the assassination attempt, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.640 and the king was not killed, and the kingdom stayed strong. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.840 And the king woke up and he said, say that again, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.680 Read that again. What did you say. I didn't know that. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.080 I didn't know that was in the records. You mean, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.760 what did I do to reward this man? He was 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.800 not aware. And when he heard it, he said, bring 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.160 more to kay to the jew And I don't have 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:18.880 time to read the whole and preach the whole story. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.840 You have to read the rest of the story for yourself. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.560 That's not what I'm preaching about. But what I want 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:29.240 you to see is he reminded the king of his obligations. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.679 That something had been done, and the king had an 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:37.040 obligation to do something. Take good notes when the king talks. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.280 When you hear words from the Lord like you hear 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.680 on a regular basis, that the man's probably walked through 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.160 something that we can't even imagine. Pull a pin and 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.720 a piece of put your phone out and write down. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.720 When you hear the king make you a promise, write 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:03.120 it down. Remind the king of his obligations. So powerful 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.560 where scribes think of this that when Nebuconza invaded with 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.080 his Babylonian army, the nation of Israel and took the 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.640 city of Jerusalem and leveled it. The scripture said he 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:19.600 gave in Second Kings, chapter twenty five special instructions. He said, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.239 you are to arrest. He said this to his military. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.800 Arrest their generals, arrest their military leaders. Arrest the royal 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:32.000 seed or the royal family. The family's a threat. Everybody 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.080 he's talking about is a threat. And then he makes 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.600 this profound statement, and make sure that you arrest the 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:43.960 principal Scribe. I'm scared Nebukanezzar in his mighty Babylonian army. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.840 I'm scared to death of the Principal Scribe. The guy 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.640 who gets in the throne room and hears conversations and 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.240 writes them down and communicates it to the people is 0:10:55.320 --> 0:11:00.240 one of the most dangerous individuals to my Babylonian culture. Sure, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.040 because if he hears, he has the capacity to go 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.800 back and remind the people of where they have been 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.720 before and whow that they didn't see a way back then. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.959 And if God could do it, then he can do 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:21.200 it again. And that's why he's dangerous. When they were 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.160 taken into captivity and Jeremiah twenty three, Jeremiah asked the question, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.040 will we ever be assembled again. We're so scattered, we're 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.600 so defeated, we're so humiliated. Will we ever be a 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.319 people again? And God gave him a message, and he said, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:42.040 remember what I did for Egypt and how I brought 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.520 Moses out. But then God said, but I've got news 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:51.080 for you. That for them was that for them? For you, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:58.040 the story of Moses and the Israelites coming out of Egypt, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:06.360 that for you is a story, But for them it 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:12.200 was a miracle. And somehow we have to go from 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.200 doing more than reading this book and it being stories 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.480 about David against Goliath and stories of Hezekiah having a 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.880 death sentence and being given fifteen more years. We have 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.400 to go beyond reciting, and then we need to pull 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.880 out our pen and start writing and say, if he 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.000 ever did it before, All the stories that are written 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.599 are just to let us know he's the same God today. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.200 What he did for seventeen years, He'll do it again 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.959 and again and again, from faith under faith, from glory 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.439 under glory. Take a praise break if you believe he'll 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:59.520 do it again. Godfid Jeremiah. I don't want you to 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.360 just read about Moses and how he brought them out. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.920 But I'm telling you, I have a remnant that is 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.080 going to come from the north, southeast, and west, and 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.839 you're going to write a new chapter, and you're gonna 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.640 see my faithfulness in your life, in your family, in 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:19.440 your generation against your giant. I'm not playing games. If 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.319 I ever did it before, if he ever healed cancer before, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.040 he can do it again. If he ever redeemed and 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.320 restored a family and a marriage, he can do it 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:39.680 again to them. When I think about and I don't 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.360 even know all the stories, when I think about Chunks 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.200 and his wife, and I think about Stephen, and I 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.320 think about his family coming here with nothing but a dream. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.800 And you've done so much, so fast, so incredibly, so well. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.440 Sure have impacted my life life. In my ministry, we 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:09.480 sing your songs every week, and I travel all over 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.920 the world, and I'm telling you people do all over 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:16.280 the world. What happens in this room. It can't stay 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.840 in this room because you, for whatever reason, have been 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.640 given access to the throne room. And God says, Stephen, 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.440 come in here, and God says to the team of 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.840 musicians and singers, come in here. Now. Don't take this 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.400 like it's normal. Don't act like you're just another ministry. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.840 Don't go around, stay humble, stay obedience, stay pure, stay clean, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:46.200 because I'm trusting you with throne room stuff, and write 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:52.560 it down. Give me all the glory. It'll never stop. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.720 As a matter of fact, I'll give more instructions. I'll 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:00.560 give more words, I'll give more ascribing the the greatness 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.080 of God through song. I'll give it more and more 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:08.640 and more. But what we need in this hour when 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.760 I'm fighting Hell, I don't need somebody to give me 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.720 a story. I need somebody to give me a pen. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.680 God wants to change the period to a comma. He's 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:26.240 still doing miracles. And the most dangerous place that a 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.120 church can get is when they do more reading than writing. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.000 The most dangerous place that a person in their walk 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.680 with God can get is when all they can do 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.560 is recite history of how God used to move in 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.360 your life, and how you used to have devotion, and 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.840 how you used to really be on fire and couldn't 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.160 wait to get here. The most dangerous season in your 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.320 life is when you're focused more on where you have 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.800 been instead of where you're going and where you are. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:04.440 This is why in the New Testament were extremely unpopular 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:09.200 with Jesus. I cannot find anywhere in the Bible where 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:14.240 Jesus ever complimented scribes. He was always saying, like in 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:22.840 Matthew twenty three, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees. They 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.720 followed Jesus around, and every time he was trying to 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:34.280 give him a fresh page of new miracles, all they 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.480 could do is compare it to the old Book of 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:43.400 Moses and say, you can't do that because we're living 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:51.160 over here in what used to be. Stop reading your 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:57.800 history and get your pen out. I appreciate the seventeen years, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.440 but your best chapter have yet to be written. I 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.920 don't know who I'm preaching to accept this church, and 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.560 you are the church, not buildings. It's the people God. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.040 When I'm saying church, I'm saying, if you're affiliated with 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.680 this thing, he is about to give you your best chapters. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:25.840 I believe this one of the great stories. I'm going 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.879 somewhere and I'll get there. Just relax, Just go with 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:35.679 me a minute. In Judges chapter five, Deborah is a singer, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.320 but nobody would fight, so she jumps on the horse 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.840 and a singer goes out on the front line and 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.960 starts leading the charge. And when she looked behind her, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.320 all the twelve tribes of Israel were there, but only 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.280 one of them followed her into battle. The name of 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:59.080 that tribe was Zebbelin. And when the battle was over 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.879 and the victory was one, she turned around, and the 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.960 spirit of prophecy came upon her, and she said, because 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.720 of your courage, and because of your fearlessness, and because 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.320 of your willingness to go out and fight and do 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.760 what you could do on the battlefield, when I led 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.120 you with nothing but a song and went into the battle, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.520 and you followed the tribe of Zebelin. This prophecy is 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:28.080 spoken over the tribe of Zebelin in Judges chapter five, 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:33.919 in verse fourteen. Out of you Zebelin will come those 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:42.120 of people who know how to handle the pen. Out 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:47.600 of Zebelin, they that handle the pen of the writer 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:53.160 will come. In other words, your weapon will be your pen. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.640 I'm gonna give you things, and I'm going to give 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.320 you songs, and I'm going to give you whords, and 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.119 i'm gonna give you books, and i'm gonna give you 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.399 dreams and i'm gonna give you visions. And it's gonna 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.960 get in your fingers and it's gonna get in your 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.359 chord structures, and it's gonna get in your lyrics, and 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.320 it's gonna get in your sermons. And I'm gonna give 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:22.720 you the hand of the writer, because if I'm gonna 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.400 do something, I can't have a church that's living in 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.159 what I used to do and how I used to sound, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.560 and the new music and the new flow and the 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.600 new annoying. I need somebody who will start with a 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.560 fresh page and say, God, we don't have to be 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.480 like every other church. We don't have to sound like 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.000 every other sound, we don't have to act like everybody else. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:54.440 We want a fresh instruction from the throne room. Now 0:19:54.520 --> 0:20:00.560 watch this. It's interesting that in Second Chronicles, the Bible 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:06.320 said that the tribe of Zebelin was paired with the 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:12.200 tribe of Isacar for forty years. They camped out together, 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:19.320 those two tribes Isecar. The Bible says of Isecar, it 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.560 says that they had understanding of the times and knew 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.800 what Israel ought to do. But the one that God 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.000 trusted to stay with them and pair up with them 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.400 was a little tribe called Zebelin that had the anointing 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.560 to write down what gods they had the understanding of 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.520 what was going on. They understood what the devil was 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.800 up to, They understood what God was up to, and 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:51.040 they knew what Israel the Church ought to do. And 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:56.320 he said, you write it down. They were not intimidated 0:20:56.359 --> 0:21:03.080 by transition. But what is amazing? And I can't make 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.320 this up. You just go study it for yourself. The 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:11.480 people with the hand of the ready writer. The people 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:19.440 became a place because the Bible said in the Book 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.720 of Matthew and in the Book of Isaiah chapter nine, 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:28.520 a great light shall come to the people of zebeliny 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.960 messionic prophecies. And then in Matthew chapter one, it talks 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:38.040 about the genealogy of Jesus. And here's what's amazing. Do 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:43.399 you know where the tribe of Zebelin settled on the 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:51.159 Sea of Galilee, in an area called Capernaum, where Jesus 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:56.480 did more miracles in that region than any other spot 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:03.200 on planet Earth. Old everything that got around him broken, 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.119 and he wanted to do it where there would be 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:12.320 pens and paper. It ought to have been ascribes. Heyday, 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.520 let's see what he's gonna do today. Let's hear what 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:24.240 he's gonna preach. But instead they follow him around and 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.920 he heals somebody, and they come up and say Moses, 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.560 and the law said, you can't heal on the Sabbath. 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.760 How dare you do that, my God? I can instead 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:40.480 of writing down and proclaiming revelation and truth. They're living 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:48.719 in yesterday. And Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights, 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:51.760 came out of the wilderness. And I want to preach 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.080 right there, but I gotta keep moving. But can I 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:55.879 throw you one little thing? The Lord spoke to me. 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.560 He said, if the devil comes against you like he 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:06.440 did me in the desert of your life, with unusual opposition, 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:13.960 with an unusual satanic temptation, trying to destroy you from 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.560 what I've called you to do. There are seasons you 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.639 don't live like this, but there are seasons where you 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:25.120 need to. You need to match his level of aggression. 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.760 That's what Jesus said. If you're coming at me with 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:34.280 extreme temptation and extreme demonic opposition, I'll match that. I'll 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:39.520 come at you with extreme fasting, extreme prayer, extreme dedication, 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:43.480 extreme worship now short worship the Lord, my God ever now, 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:45.880 and then we need to break out of our little thing. 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:50.040 When God's about to do something new We need to 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:52.960 get to a point that we tap into the level 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:57.119 of the extreme. Every once in a while. I'm so 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:01.040 tired of little cookie cutter churches and services. Every once 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:03.399 in a while we need to break out of a 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.640 routine and say, God, I want to see the extreme 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:11.160 move of God for a few days around here. Tap 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.320 your hands and praise him. I don't know, I don't know. 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:20.320 I gotta hurd all right, all right, now, watch Jesus 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:25.440 comes out of the desert and walks into the synagogue 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:31.439 in the region of Zebelin, and he opens up the 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:36.159 book and he begins to read from Isaiah. The spirit 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:38.119 of the Lord is upon me. He's annoying me to 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:40.280 heal the broken hearted, to open the eyes of the bond, 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:43.280 said at liberty them that are bound, and to preach 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.840 acceptable year of the Lord. And then the Bible said 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:48.480 in every eye was fastened on him. You gotta understand. 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:52.240 They had heard that over it was a young fata 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.800 yon fast They were just sitting out there, Oh we've 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:58.320 heard this sermon blah blah blah blah blah. But this 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:01.320 time when he walked in and open that book, the 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:06.280 Bible said, every eye was fastened on him, and then 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:11.199 he walked over. He said, this day this scripture is 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.679 fulfilled in your ears, and he had closed the book 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:20.320 closed it said, I'm done with that chapter. Now get 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.240 your pen out. Boys yard supposed to be the writers, 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:31.640 let's go do this, but they wouldn't do it. This day. 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:37.840 It's fulfilled this day. I don't want you just reciting 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.800 the history stories. I want you writing what I'm doing 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:47.680 in this day. Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever. 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.399 You would think that every one of those scribes would 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:57.399 have been so happy, but they were so locked into 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:03.000 what God had done that they would not receive what 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:13.479 he wanted to do. Listen to me carefully. God says, 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:24.760 I'm giving this ministry a weapon, and your weapon will 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:31.840 be the weapon of the pen. Songwriters, praise team, worship leaders. 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:37.080 God's given you the weapon of the pen. I've been 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:40.800 doing this a long time. I started going over to 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:44.080 Australia and preaching at Hillsong when it was a church 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:47.640 smaller than what I'm looking at in this room. They 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.720 had no campuses, they were not worldwide. They had one 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:53.040 hit song. When I went over there the first time, 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:59.600 and I watched God do things that would astound you, 0:27:02.960 --> 0:27:09.200 because when God trusts the church with throng room conversations, 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:15.439 it's so serious that you cannot take it, likely because 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:19.399 it becomes so familiar. But just as easy as it's given, 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:24.000 it can be taken. And I'm not here to create. 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:29.080 But we've all seen things happen that that that will 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:35.240 not happen to this ministry. Because when God gives the 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:38.800 pen and he gives the revelation, if you'll follow it, 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:44.160 he'll fight the battle. The pen is your weapon. What's 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:48.040 this right where I've been trying to get Now I'm 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:56.840 ready to preach. They're following and around criticizing. The scribes 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.880 are supposed to be writing the miracles. Instead they're picking 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:04.520 to death the miracles. I can't believe your disciples ate 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:07.159 on the sabbath. They plucked corn on the sabbath, and 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:13.119 he was going to heal somebody. That's all they could see. 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:18.840 But in John chapter eight, the Bible said they brought 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:22.560 the woman taken in the act of adultery, and notice 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:26.560 who brought them. According to John eight, the scribes and 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:31.000 the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of 0:28:31.080 --> 0:28:35.480 adultery and threw her at the feet of Jesus, and 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:42.600 they said Jesus Moses. And the Law says she's finished. 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:50.800 The Law says it's over. The Law says that her 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:56.080 book is written and concluded, and we're going to stone 0:28:56.360 --> 0:29:01.560 her to death. What do you say, Jesus, I can't 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:03.440 prove it, but I'm gonna preach it like I want to. 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:05.080 This is my sermon. I'm gonna preach it like I 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:11.800 want to. The same finger that wrote the commandments on 0:29:11.920 --> 0:29:16.760 the stone with a finger of fire. Now he kneels 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:20.280 down in the dirt and he says, I've been waiting 0:29:20.320 --> 0:29:23.840 on this for three thousand years. You want to know 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:26.959 what I got to say about this woman who's messed 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:30.360 up her life. And everybody says the book is finished. 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:34.520 She's in a mess, she's filthy, she's dirty, and nobody 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:43.000 can help her. He says, and he took that finger. 0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:48.440 That was the same God that wrote the commandments. Now 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:55.320 the finger is skin, God in skin. And he starts 0:29:55.400 --> 0:30:01.360 writing in dirt. Stone is permanent, but dirt. He's writing 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.480 in dirt. What was he writing? He was saying, I 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:07.400 know that you messed up, woman, but let me give 0:30:07.400 --> 0:30:09.960 you some advice. If you ever found a dirty, rotten 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:12.360 center that's really messed up, and you want to see 0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:15.320 them get get in bad trouble, don't throw them at 0:30:15.400 --> 0:30:18.560 the feet of Jesus. Throw them at the feet of 0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:21.400 a denominational board, throw them at the feet of a 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:23.960 bunch of mean preachers, throw them at the feet of 0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:27.040 a bunch of self righteous Christians. But if you ever 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:30.600 want to see somebody get set free, throw them at 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:34.680 the feet of Jesus. Why. I can't prove it. I 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:36.920 can't prove it, but I got a feeling when he 0:30:37.040 --> 0:30:41.640 started writing. He said, I know they think I touched dirt. 0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:47.520 I touched dirty, dirty people, and dirty families, and dirty 0:30:47.520 --> 0:30:51.920 marriages and dirty ministries. I'm not afraid to touch the dirt. 0:30:52.080 --> 0:30:56.960 But I'm going to write another story. I know Moses 0:30:57.040 --> 0:31:00.440 and the Law said you're finished, But I'm going to 0:31:00.520 --> 0:31:03.840 write a new story. I don't know about you, but 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:06.479 I'm glad he can write you out of your miss 0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:10.280 he can write you out of alcoholism, he can write 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:13.120 you out of drug addiction. I don't care how long 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:16.000 you've wrestled with it. I don't care how messed up 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:20.880 your life is. If you'll let Jesus he'll write another story. 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:25.760 Give him a praise if you believe. Praise him just 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:30.760 a minute. Praise him at every campus. He's writing another story. 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:34.360 It's not over. You don't have to live in the past. 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:37.320 You don't have to live in shame. You don't have 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:41.240 to live in disgrace, you don't have to live in condemnation. 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:50.040 He's writing another story. Sit down, I'm almost done. I 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:53.240 have seven more minutes. Nine tend to preach all seven. 0:32:00.680 --> 0:32:03.280 Tell somebody sitting besides you, I don't know what you're 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:06.720 going through. Come on, do it. I deputize you. Turn 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:08.640 to somebody beside you and say, I don't know what 0:32:08.680 --> 0:32:12.000 you're going through, but he's gonna write you out of that. 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:15.960 Miss it's not over. It's just a comma. It's not 0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:19.960 a period. There's another chapter coming to your broken heart. 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:24.360 There's another chapter coming to your divorce. There's another chapter 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:41.360 coming to your addiction. There's another chapter coming to your abuse. Now, now, now, 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:43.480 how many of you glad he wrote you out of 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:45.800 the book of Moses and into the book of Jesus. 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:48.280 How many of you glad he wrote you out of 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:51.160 death and out of defeat and into victory and to 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:55.480 eternal life. Everybody who knows your name is written in 0:32:55.520 --> 0:32:58.760 the Lamb's Book of life. Shout just for a minute, 0:32:58.880 --> 0:33:02.600 we're gonna preaching them in the shell and praise him. 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:06.520 The enemy set you were finished. The enemy set your 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:10.160 family would never come up. I had a generational terses, 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:22.120 but he rode another story. She now see. I'm an 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:25.440 organ generation preacher. That's why you That's why I can't 0:33:25.480 --> 0:33:29.800 go on. You shouldn't have touched that B three. Y'all know, 0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:32.840 y'all grew up with all these little Corg keyboards and 0:33:33.440 --> 0:33:36.240 all that. But I'm a preacher that came up in 0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:40.520 old tents and double white trailers. I preached all in 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:42.440 North Carolina. They called it a church. It was a 0:33:42.480 --> 0:33:47.320 double white trailer, and all we had was a poolpit, 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:51.040 a microphone, and an organ. But when the Holy Ghost 0:33:51.120 --> 0:33:55.480 started moving, that place started shaking. He needs to leave 0:33:55.520 --> 0:33:59.360 me alone. He needs to leave me alone. I don't 0:33:59.360 --> 0:34:07.400 want him there on your seventeenth anniverse. You got to 0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:17.600 stop for a minute, all right, then let me finish. 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:25.719 He's getting me off timing. Listen, the reason that I 0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:29.080 brought that story up about Jeremiah thirty six. I want 0:34:29.120 --> 0:34:34.400 to show you. I want to show you something, the 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:36.799 Bible said, God, if you read the whole chapter, God 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:41.120 gave Jeremiah a powerful word for his generation. And the 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:45.640 Scripture said, he got He got canceled by the culture 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:51.439 and banned from the temple. They would not let him 0:34:51.440 --> 0:34:54.440 come to the temple and threatened him with his life. 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:58.120 And God said, that's all right. It ain't about you preaching. 0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:01.400 I just need you to called a scribe. And the 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:04.080 Bible said, in that chapter he called a scribe, and 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:07.640 he said, tell him the sermon God gave you. And 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:10.160 as long as you don't care who gets the credit, 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:15.000 just let him write it down word for word. And 0:35:15.040 --> 0:35:17.440 the Bible said, he wrote it down word for word. 0:35:19.640 --> 0:35:22.440 And even though Jeremiah was banned from the temple, on 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.000 the Sabbath, as the people were gathering, the Bible said, 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:30.040 this scribe, his notes probably looked like that he took. 0:35:30.360 --> 0:35:34.520 He took what God told him through the prophet and 0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:39.040 stood on a rock. And as they were going in 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:43.360 to get their latte at the coffee bar, he stood 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:48.359 outside and started preaching the word of the Lord. And 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:51.480 it was like a you remember what Jeremiah said, It's 0:35:51.560 --> 0:35:55.200 like a fire shut up in my bones. And when 0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:57.600 you get a song that came from the throne room, 0:35:58.120 --> 0:36:01.120 every my sheep, know my, when you sung two of 0:36:01.200 --> 0:36:03.880 those several of those songs, might that first one about 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:06.640 all the names of God? My holy ghost said, whoo, 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:12.279 that's one of ours. I'll be singing that one in 0:36:12.320 --> 0:36:15.440 my place. I'll be shouting on that one, and that 0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:17.960 last one I'll be shouting on that one, and the 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:22.359 middle one too. I might as well take them all. 0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:26.320 Wat's this? And the man just stands up and starts 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:30.759 reading what came as he wrote it down. And the 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:35.160 Bible said that even the false prophets read that chapter 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:39.040 when you get home. The false prophets stuck their ear out. 0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:42.040 And when they heard the word of the Lord, they 0:36:42.120 --> 0:36:44.239 knew this little thing that we're about to teach on 0:36:44.680 --> 0:36:48.200 seven ways to enjoy your winter vacation, that it just 0:36:48.239 --> 0:36:56.640 ain't gonna quiet get it. And the Bible said, they 0:36:56.800 --> 0:37:00.239 grab pens, read it, and they wrote down word word 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:03.680 for word what the man was saying, and took off 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:07.840 left the church and took off to the king's winter palace. 0:37:10.000 --> 0:37:14.560 And the king was setting by his fireplace, and they 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:17.400 come in and they said, sir, this is so important. 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:23.359 We need to tell you. Jeremiah has another hit. It's 0:37:23.440 --> 0:37:26.799 on fire, and we can pretend like we don't like it, 0:37:26.840 --> 0:37:29.640 but we like it. And we had to come interrupt 0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:33.640 your vacation, sir, at your winter palace, because the word 0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:36.600 of the Lord is crazy and it's messing up the 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:43.200 whole congregation. And the king said, let me hear it. Now, 0:37:43.200 --> 0:37:46.960 this is where the story gets unbelievable. And they start 0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:51.879 reading word for word everything, and the king pulled out 0:37:52.000 --> 0:37:57.200 his pocket knife, your Bible said, and when he heard it, 0:37:57.280 --> 0:38:00.480 he said, I like that part. Leave it alone. That's 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:04.600 the good part. I'm highly favored. I'm blessed. I'm oh, 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:07.880 I'm gonna do good. God is with me. I like that. 0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:11.240 But then they get to some of that stuff about 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:15.600 but straighten up and live right, be hol in, be clean, 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:19.080 stand before me and love me with all of your heart, mind, 0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:21.680 soul and strength. And if I don't like that, and 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:25.160 he'd start cutting, cutting that out and ball it up 0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:29.080 and throw it into the fire cutting. I hate the preest. 0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:30.879 Just say I had you all happy a minute ago, 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:38.560 but please don't become that ministry. We're not gonna cut 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:43.040 and paste the word of God. We still need the 0:38:43.040 --> 0:38:47.680 blood of Jesus. We still need the name of Jesus. 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:52.400 There's no other name. I still believe that the Bible 0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:55.760 says that marriage is between a man and a woman, 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:58.800 and we're not gonna cut that part out. I still 0:38:58.960 --> 0:39:03.879 believe the Bible says holiness is right and separation and 0:39:03.960 --> 0:39:09.120 coming out from the world and being different. Oh, come on, 0:39:09.320 --> 0:39:12.719 it's in the book. It's a Let's don't throw out 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:25.200 everything because culture says it's too controversial. I'm afraid, and 0:39:25.320 --> 0:39:27.680 I'm old. I'm an old preacher, so I got to 0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:31.279 write to talk like this, And I just say to 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:39.120 the young preachers, don't be a cutting edge preacher. Preach 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.839 the eternal word of God. Let's don't cut hell out. 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:45.560 Hell's in the book. Hell is real and ever now 0:39:45.600 --> 0:39:49.480 and then somebody needs to Hell is So where'd that 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:53.200 come from? Somebody needs It needs to be more than 0:39:53.239 --> 0:39:56.240 a cuss word. It needs to be a conviction word. 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:59.440 It needs to be something that somebody hears and says, 0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:03.839 Oh my God, God, that's the word of God. Let's 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:08.560 not cut out the judgment. Let's not cut out I'm 0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:12.759 preaching better than you're letting home. Let's not cut out 0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:21.200 the safetity of life. Jeremiah, when you were in your 0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:24.360 mother's wound, before you ever got there, I called you, 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:26.960 let's not cut that out. I'm not gonna cut it out. 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:31.040 I'm not gonna cut out the rapture. I'm not gonna 0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:34.920 cut out He's coming back again. The trumpet's gonna sound, 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:38.239 the dead in Christ are gonna rise, and we're going 0:40:38.360 --> 0:40:43.040 home to meet the Lord in there. Read the word 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:56.840 sit down. I'm almost done. You know, if you're not 0:40:57.000 --> 0:41:00.759 careful in a great church like this, the Lord will 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:04.560 give you a word. Because this man spends time in 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:08.520 the throne room, and you know, and you know when 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.879 he speaks to you, because it rocks you to your 0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:15.000 core and people all around. You may not be that 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.560 big of a deal into it, but when it's yours, 0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:26.080 write it down. Here's the point. The Lord spoke to me, 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:29.920 and he said to tell people at Elevation Church, I 0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:35.319 spoke to you. I made you a prophetic promise. And 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:39.000 just because it has not happened, there is a tendency 0:41:39.040 --> 0:41:43.879 to pull out your little pocket knife and start whittling down. Well, 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:46.560 maybe he really didn't say it, and you get it 0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:50.920 trimmed down to just what you can do, just what 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:55.280 you think you're capable of, just what your mind can conceive. 0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:59.120 But if God said nations, then nations it shall be. 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:03.319 If God God says world wide, then worldwide. It's help me. 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:06.879 Get your knife off the promise. Get your knife off 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:10.960 what God's telling you, music team. If God says you 0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:15.560 can feel colosseums better than the rolling stones beyond, say 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:19.759 why don't we get that mentality? And say, God, I'm 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:23.200 gonna take my knife off of it. I'm tired of 0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:28.440 trimming down the promise to what I can do. Maybe 0:42:28.520 --> 0:42:34.919 the first seventeen years was just a test. Maybe where 0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:37.879 you're going is gonna require more faith, and you're gonna 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:46.880 look back in seventeen years and say, turn to somebody 0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:49.520 right now and say, the lords gave you that promise, 0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:56.920 Get your knife off of it. The Lord told you 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:03.200 that there was life beyond your day, and just because 0:43:03.239 --> 0:43:08.239 you hadn't met them yet, get your knife off that 0:43:08.320 --> 0:43:14.200 promise and learn how to praise heal until the answer comes. 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:17.200 Let me finish play and they'll know I'm almost done. 0:43:18.080 --> 0:43:20.040 So here's where I've been trying to get to. This 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:24.400 whole little sermon a back of two and verse two. 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:31.319 Write the vision, make it plain. But here's what got 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:36.320 me Psalms forty five in verse one. You're not gonna 0:43:36.360 --> 0:43:39.520 believe what God's pen is. Throw it up for me, 0:43:40.440 --> 0:43:46.440 Psalms forty five and verse one. And the Lord answered me, 0:43:46.760 --> 0:43:50.520 there it is. Everybody, watch this. My heart is indicting 0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:53.120 a good matter. I speak of things which I've touched 0:43:55.080 --> 0:44:01.319 and made touching the King my tongue. Everybody shouting. My 0:44:01.400 --> 0:44:09.160 tongue is the pen whatever I start praising him for, 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:14.840 whatever I start prophesying, whatever I keep praying and praying 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:18.880 and praying about, and preaching and preaching and preaching about 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:23.360 and praising and praising and praising about and prophesying to 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:27.160 a new generation, a new generation. My children will be 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:31.560 used of God. They will do mighty things. My tongue 0:44:31.760 --> 0:44:40.640 is the pen of the ready rib. Do you believe that? 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:48.560 Do you believe that there's power in what you continually praise, pray, 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:54.480 preach and prophesy. The Lord said, this is not the 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:59.919 final chapter of elevation. But tell the people to lift 0:45:00.120 --> 0:45:05.640 their voice and ascribe the greatness of their God. Tell 0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:10.040 the people that the pen is in this house, and 0:45:10.080 --> 0:45:14.280 that means miracles are ready to be written. That means 0:45:14.400 --> 0:45:18.120 stories and books are ready to come forward. That means 0:45:18.200 --> 0:45:22.080 businesses are about to be started. That did not start 0:45:22.120 --> 0:45:26.440 in the flesh. They were born in the sanctuary under 0:45:26.480 --> 0:45:30.120 the anointed word of God. You're a vout to write 0:45:30.200 --> 0:45:34.520 new chapters of your family. The first few were addiction 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:39.160 and brokenness and curses. But the next generation, the next 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:43.600 chapter will be blessed, will be annoyed, will be favor 0:45:43.920 --> 0:45:46.839 Get up on your feet at every campus and give 0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:52.239 the Lord the money. Please. 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