This Is That Day

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.439 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.280 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.440 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:14.160 in your life. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:22.120 Enjoy the message. Happy New Year, Elevation Church. You made 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:22.800 a good. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:27.400 Decision to get in the house today. I'm telling you, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.320 I'm believing this year that God is going to open 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.519 the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.280 we will not have room enough to receive. Of course, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.560 as we stand on the precipice of a new year, God, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.920 we thank you for what you've already brought us through. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:51.560 It's amazing, mind blowing, absolutely incredible what you've done for us. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.160 That we stand before you a new creation in Jesus Christ. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.880 The old is gone and the newest come. As I 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.200 stand behind this pulpit today, God, I thank you for 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.680 all of the messages that you're going to preach this 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.880 year through this ministry. I thank you in advance that 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.120 these your children will have enough bread for every battle 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.720 they face. I thank you for new songs from this 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.400 house this year. That will minister to people and become 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.360 anthems for every day of their life. I thank you 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.640 for all of the people who will be saved through 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.960 this ministry this year, for all of the people who 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.880 will be redeemed from their sin. I thank you for 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.880 all of the addictions that will be broken this year because. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:39.800 Of your powerful word. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.360 I thank you for new opportunities for your people this year, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.640 new connections, fresh perspectus. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.440 I thank you for new relationships in their life this year. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.680 I thank you for the restoration of things that were 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.440 given up on. I declare it, I believe it, and 0:01:59.520 --> 0:01:59.960 I give. 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.320 You thanks in advance. You're a mighty God. Do whatever 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.600 you want to do. We give this year to you 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.240 in Jesus' name. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:16.080 Amen. Somebody shouts headed my way. Put it in the comment, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.399 say it's headed my way. Put your name in the comment. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.280 So God knows where to put your DoorDash delivery. Wouldn't 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.840 it be cool if God was like door dash, if 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.320 you could track him and see where it was. But 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.760 somebody says headed my way, give me five on that 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.239 it's headed my way. High five five more people say 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.799 you got a new thing coming this year. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.240 It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be incredible, it's gonna 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.799 be powerful. New thing, new thing, new thing. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.840 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.880 Glory to God. I got a new thing. Comment. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.200 Yes, Lord, we wrote that last year, but I saved 0:02:58.200 --> 0:02:58.920 it for new years. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:00.520 I thought you needed it today. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.800 All right, we are upon the first sermon of twenty 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:11.359 twenty four. You can't imagine the agony that goes into figuring, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.760 out of all the different texts that the Lord would 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.360 speak on this day, what would it be. Because I 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.280 know that your heart is in a receptive place today 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.480 and that there is a fresh faith stiring. So I 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.520 want to share with you from a prophetic scripture in 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:36.400 Isaiah chapter twenty seven. Isaiah chapter twenty seven very meaningful 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.240 to me, and I hope you will feel the same way. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.040 A word that the Lord gave to his people long ago, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.680 but it speaks to us today. Somebody shout today today, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:58.520 Isaiah twenty seven, verses one through six. By the way, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.000 I want to say a huge thank you to our 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.920 our church who gave so generously in our year end 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.320 offering that you gave over eleven million. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.280 Dollars to share the. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:14.640 Gospel, to heal the sick, to clothe the poor. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.000 That's absolutely amazing. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.719 I cry come into church today just thinking how thankful 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.880 I am for you, how expectant I am for God 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.400 to move in your life. And I want to start 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.279 this year with the prophetic word that God gave me 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:32.440 for you. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.279 Isaiah twenty seven, Verse one. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.120 In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:46.080 his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.240 Leviathan the coiling serpent. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.560 He will slay the monster of the sea. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.800 Anybody got some stuff you need God to kill this 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.800 year in your life that's been dragging you down. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:01.839 That's what Leviathan was. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.760 Leviathan was a chaos monster, a mythological figure, and many 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.440 believe it represented Babylon and Assyria in Egypt, the enemies 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.560 of Israel. But the truth is we all live with 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.080 our own Leviathan, don't we. And the Lord promises that 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.080 in that day that whatever has you wrapped up, whatever 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:24.839 has you stuck down in yourself, he will punish with 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:30.000 his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.400 gliding Serpent. I look at verse two. In that day 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.680 sing about a fruitful vineyard. I the Lord watch over it. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.560 I water it continually. I guard it day and night, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.560 so that no one may harm it. I am not angry. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.680 If only there were briars and thorns confronting me, I 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.000 would march against them in battle. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.800 I would set them all on fire. Or else. Let 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.640 them come to me for refuge. Let them make. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.479 Peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.480 Let me give you verse six, and then I'll tell 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.240 you our topic for today. In days to come, Jacob 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:19.640 will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:25.200 all the world with fruit. In days to come, Jacob 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.000 will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:35.320 all the world with fruit in days to come. I 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:41.680 want to appreciate you today a message. This is that day. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:48.080 This is somebody shout. This is shout like you're at 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.920 a football game. This is that day. Tell your neighbor 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:58.680 this is that day. Other neighbor, this is that day. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.440 Say it again, put it in the chat. This is 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:07.599 that day. I'm breaking out. I'm going forward, I'm growing up, 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.320 I'm moving into it. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.600 I'm walking tall because this is. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:15.480 That day. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:22.840 In Jesus' name, you may be seated this is that day. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:30.320 The perspective of Isaiah twenty seven is the perspective of 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:37.000 an integrated faith. An integrated faith not a fragmented faith. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.120 A fragmented faith is when you believe in God when 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.040 things are good and doubt him when things are down. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:51.880 This is an integrated faith. Everybody say integrated. It means 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.920 that in the process of moving forward in what God 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.080 has for you in the days to come, you will 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:04.920 have to make the decision to remain hopeful. When I 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:10.640 say remain hopeful, that also includes leaving room for disappointment. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:17.160 So for grown ups, believing in God means remaining in 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.400 hope while leaving room for disappointment. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.640 That goes to every area of our life. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.200 Hopeful that you might have a good week with your 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.600 family or a good meal with your kids. But leaving 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.320 some room. Everybody say leave room. That's what I tell 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.000 the tailor when he takes my pants in. I say, 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.480 leave some room. In case Holly Cook's really good over 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.520 the holidays, Just leave me a little growing room. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.000 And I think that leaving room. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.679 For disappointment, that's what I mean by integrated faith. It's 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.719 really how our faith is sustained so that we see 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:58.200 disappointments as doorways to greater faith, not dead ends. In case, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.480 the first few years of your walk with God have 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.880 been confusing to you because at first things seemed to 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.160 go up when you walked with God, and then things 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.120 went down and you thought that following God was always 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.160 going to lead you up. God wants to give you 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.600 an integrated faith. In case, the first few days of 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.960 your new year have sucked, and I thought about saying 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.680 have been spiritually challenging. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.600 But when it sucks, it sucks, you know. I just 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.600 put it how you put it. This is like this 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:30.960 is the same old, same old. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.760 What we want to talk about today is a little 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.440 bit different because we understand that it is our responsibility 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.840 as Christian people to manage our expectation. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.920 Meaning I've got to make. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.760 Sure that I don't let my experiences in life regulate 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.080 my expectations of God. Write this down I will not, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.920 or say it out loud, whatever you want to do 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.040 to reinforce it, Auditory learner, Okay, just say I will 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:08.319 not allow my experience in life to regulate my expectation 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:08.920 of God. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.160 That is a daily decision you've got to make. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.400 And I think that a lot of the damaged relationships 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.520 in our life are because of unmanaged expectations that we 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.240 really started depending on somebody to do things for us 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.920 that only God could do for us. We really started 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.440 expecting things to be like the perfect little movies we 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.160 make up in our mind of how things are supposed 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.479 to go when we show up. And so the integrated 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.280 faith that Isaiah describes really beautiful because he says that 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:50.400 there's two things happening. There is a fight. Everybody say fight. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.319 That's verse one of Isaiah twenty seven. In that day, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.360 the Lord will punish with his sword. Now you have 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.000 the sword if you're just going through life, strolling through 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.440 your day. So there's a fight happening. And then in 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.320 verse two it says, in that day sing about a 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.439 fruitful vineyard. So let me point something out to you. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.240 There's a sword in verse one, and there's a song 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.800 in verse two. But the sword and the song are 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:24.760 happening on the same day. Okay, This integrated faith will 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.920 make me get up in the morning and never say 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.920 again it's gonna be one of those days, because it's 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:32.959 always going to be. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:35.280 One of those days. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.080 Almost got discouraged before I came out today because my 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.880 hair right, there was flat and I couldn't get it up, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.400 and I was going, Oh God, how am I going 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:43.480 to preach if my hair is flat? 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:43.679 Right? 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:43.839 There? 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:44.600 Are you serious? 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.520 You have the word of God and the spirit of God, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.920 and you're gonna have a bad hair day and get 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.080 up in the pulpit without confidence. And I think I 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.120 fixed it, but I'm still not really sure. So I'm 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.880 kind of insecure as I stand before you. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.600 It's amazing. It doesn't it doesn't take. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.120 Much to remove us from a hopeful expectation. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.640 My expectation is my responsibility. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:21.200 Nobody can ruin my day. I got a verse for that, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.880 Psalm one eighteen, verse twenty four. It's the year twenty 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.600 twenty four, right, all right, this is a verse twenty 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.240 four for you. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:30.280 This is the. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:38.680 Day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:44.760 glad in it. So if God made this day, nobody 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.520 else gets to mess it up. I used to say 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:48.840 to people, when they send me a nice text, you 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.360 made my day. I quit saying that because I figure 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.080 if they can make my day by sending me a 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.559 nice text, they can mess up my day if they 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.880 send me another type of text. Now we want to 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.880 get up every day this year and say, this is 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.760 the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.640 and be glad in it. So it's the challenge watch 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:18.280 this to remain in hope while leaving room for disappointment. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.480 I think our expectations this time of year could use 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:28.199 a little HGH holy ghost hormone. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.040 To get us on an expecting path. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.680 That God has given me, a hope in the future 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.040 and an expected end. No matter what they did or 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.440 didn't do for you, no matter who left or who stayed, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.280 or who called back or who blocked your number, I 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.840 have an expected end. And yet as I walk through 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.800 these days, I understand that my challenge is to remain. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.040 Do you want to take notes on my message today? 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.560 My first word is remain because I want to challenge 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:02.160 you to remain in hope this year and leave room 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.080 for disappointment. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.880 And you're like, which one is it? I want you 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.439 to do both. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:13.280 I want you to expect the blessing and accept the mess. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.400 In that day there will be a sword because everybody 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.080 in here is fighting something. Everybody in here has a Leviathan. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.080 I might preach about Leviathan next week, a whole sermon 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:31.960 on Leviathan I might do it next week. Would you 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.920 come back if I did? Would you make a hat 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:40.960 about it if I did? Yeah? Then, But notice that 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.600 while the sword is fighting Leviathan, because everybody has a Leviathan, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.720 and everybody knows how to hide it. It's a coiling serpent, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.040 it's a gliding serpent. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.200 You hide your Leviathan behind a smile. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.600 You hide your Leviathan behind new clothes to the disguise 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.840 the fact that I dragged old habits underneath new clothes. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.440 Some of us have new hair. Talked about a bad 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.240 hair day. Some of us actually have new hair on 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.880 our head in a new year. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.720 Yet notice this in the text. Notice this in the text. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.640 At the same time that God is dealing with the enemy, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.560 he commands you to sing about the fruit that is 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:31.680 coming forth in your life. I love the Bible because 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:36.520 this gives me an integrated expectation of God, that there 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.080 will always be a fight in my life, but there 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.040 will always be fruit in my life. As a matter 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.160 of fact, I learned, the bigger the fight, the bigger 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.760 the fruit is going to be. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.120 And the size. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.360 Of the fight is a preview of. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:55.840 The size of the fruit. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:01.280 I find somebody say it's gonna be big baby. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.720 I'm appreciate today. I don't know what y'all are gonna do. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:07.600 Shall remain. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.440 He talks about Jacob, He talks about Israel being planted 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:18.240 and bearing fruit, having root and bearing fruit, And I 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.600 wonder are you rooted in the right thing? 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:21.960 As this year begins? 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.480 And I came to ask one question of our global 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.600 EFM and our local campuses all around the world, what 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:29.960 will you do with. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.400 Your twenty four. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.160 I think we're all a little humbler about our new 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:41.680 year's resolutions. After the year formerly known as twenty twenty, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.160 every preacher I know was up preaching about Vision twenty 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.280 twenty Vision, and then. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.280 Just completely blindsided by the. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.440 Fact that the Lord didn't give us a prophetic word, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.520 that we would be looking at empty seats all year, 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:56.840 preaching in our empty buildings. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.240 So all the sermons are humbler. In the new year, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.280 all the plans are a. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:09.040 Little bit moderated, mitigated, modulated. I found a verse for 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.159 that too, Proverbs twenty seven to one. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.520 I put this one in the King James. Check it out. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:20.520 Both not thyself up tomorrow, for thou knowest not what 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:26.159 a day may bring forth. So when I had you 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.119 shout this is that day. Shout it again, this is 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:29.560 that day. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:36.520 Some of y'all said that in lowercase letters, no exclamation point, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.560 this is that day. You're You're very deep, so you're like, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.080 what do you mean by that day? 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.239 I was just reading the Bible because Isaiah said, in 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:52.120 that day, the Lord's gonna fight your enemies, and in 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.560 that day you will sing of a fruitful vineyard. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:57.920 That day. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.359 You know that day you dream of. There are many 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.360 of you today who are dreaming of a day. Say 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.440 I'm dreaming of a day. If you don't talk back 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:08.880 to me during the sermon, you get a flat tire 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.200 when you leave to go in the parking lot. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:11.480 We've got some guests. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:17.800 I need to explain the rules, say that day, that day. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.600 And so we have an expectation that God is going 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.240 to free us from certain things this year, that God 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.240 is going to deliver us from certain dilemmas this year, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.840 that God is going to provide for us. And expectation 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:37.280 is great as long as it's integrated, because I think 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.959 the danger of having expectations about what God is going 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.320 to do. You know, twenty twenty four, God's going to 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.760 do more in twenty four, I'm leaving the shore in 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.960 twenty four. I'm going to get a stronger core in 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:58.480 twenty four. You want another one something I've never seen before. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.240 In twenty twenty four. My ceiling is going to be 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:07.720 my floor. In twenty twenty four not going to be poor. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.359 Why we say that, And while it's good to envision that, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.080 and I'll be honest with you, some of the things 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:24.879 that I'm seeing today in my life are the result 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.000 of a vision that God gave me at a time 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.600 when I couldn't see anything like what I'm seeing today. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.000 I believe in that expectation. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.600 I think the danger we should talk about as you 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.679 move into your new year and what God wants to 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:42.000 do through you, is that sometimes your expectation. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.359 Of the future can become your excuse. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:51.640 Right now, and I'll break it down to a phrase 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.119 that I heard, and I'll use Elijah to give it 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.800 to you. When he was very little, we were taking 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.560 Easter pictures as a family, and of course our kids 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:00.840 just love taking Easter. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.440 Pictures because they're the pastor's kids. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:10.239 They were fighting, they were angry, they were despondent, and 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.280 Elijah finally like after having to change outfits a few times. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.080 This is a legendary line that he said in our family. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:25.240 He said, I hate Easter when I'm the pastor. So 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.240 let's break this down. He said, one day when I'm 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:35.359 the pastor, We're not even gonna have Easter. I'm canceling Easter. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.480 He was like five, So don't judge him like that. 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.320 Oh my god, he was five. But check this out 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.520 a five year old's perspective. One day when I'm the pastor. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:56.600 One day when one day when have you ever been 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:02.280 a victim of? One day when syndrome. Yeah, I'm not 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:07.159 doing too good right now, but one day, one day 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.919 when I get these kids. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:14.600 Out the house. The problem I have with that plan one. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.159 Day when I get the kids out the house, is 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.880 that twenty years ago you were saying one day when 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:26.119 I have kids of my own, and now it's shifted 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.280 to a future stage where you think you'll have more 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:35.520 space and less stress. Let's do another one. I'm going 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.359 to start a business one day when I have the 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.879 right partner. I used to laugh when teams would come 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:45.879 to see our church and they were starting their own church, 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.680 and the pastor would pull me aside and say, hey, 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:50.399 I got a gift that I got an annoying got 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.200 a call star church when we reach people far from God. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.280 But I don't have a team. Where do you get 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.800 your team? And I would always make something up. Oh, well, 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.000 you know to build a bear store. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.000 Well they got to build a ministry team store. 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.000 And I went down there and I found the right 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.399 amount of achiever and doer and the right amount of dreamer, 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:05.439 and I put a team together. 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:07.840 What do you think the team came from the same 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:09.680 place Jesus got his team. 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.520 You find the people that God has placed in your 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.720 life that are imperfect, and you make it happen with. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:16.440 Who you've got. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:21.439 Now, if you are expecting a stage in your life 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.080 when the perfect people will come into your life to 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:30.719 help you figure out your imperfect life, if God sends 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.359 perfect people in your life, you should send them away 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:38.040 so they stay perfect, because the moment they get tangled 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:39.040 up with you and me, they. 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:40.359 Won't be perfect anymore. 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.720 Did you ever do the one day when thing, Well, 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:47.720 I'm gonna get in shape one day, when one day 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:52.119 win what I'm gonna do the diet one day when 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.919 one day when what I'll tell you what happened to me? 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:01.480 It is so embarrassing. One day I saw in the mirror. 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.359 I don't know how you see forty five pounds that 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.800 you've gained all at once, but it. 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:08.840 Was like a flash of revelation. It was like a 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:12.119 road to Damascus to me. I walked by the mirror 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.480 after being married to Holly for eighteen months, with my 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.440 shirt off, and I said, why didn't you. 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:23.560 Tell me this was happening to me? And why did 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:28.040 you contribute to it with your cooking? I said, I'm 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:32.680 going on Atkins. That's the diet I knew, and it 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:38.080 involved bacon, and I like bacon, so I gotta. 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:38.480 Lose this belly. 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.560 But I got to use bacon to do it because 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:43.480 I'm not going to be counting macros anytime soon. 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.960 And Holly said, great, that's great. We could go on 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:48.359 to diet next week. 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.160 I said, no, I'm not eating another car starting right now, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:52.640 and I didn't. 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:57.919 We went the Windy's that night. I donated back the 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:01.280 bun to the homeless Ministry and just state the patty 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:06.600 and I did that over and over and over and over, 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.200 and she thought that was so strange. She said, you 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:10.960 could have gave me time. We could have shopped. 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:15.080 We could have hired a nutritionist, but I knew too 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.040 much to have to give a nutritionist money to start 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:22.080 doing what I could do today. Now I'm telling you, 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:25.160 one day, one day, when I have more time, I'm 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:30.879 gonna write a book. One day when my wife starts 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:35.840 acting right, I could really I could really be a 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.080 great businessman if my wife would believe in me one 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:40.600 day when she gets the vision. 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:43.639 What if she doesn't need to get the vision. 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:49.800 What if you need to show the discipline? Somebody say 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:55.159 one day, one day when one day I'm tell you, 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:57.040 Pastor Steven, I'm gonna start giving to the church. 0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:57.800 One day when. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:03.359 I one day when I'm man all of the riches. 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:05.840 I know that, I know that the day is coming. 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:09.199 God has told me I will be a millionaire. I 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:12.800 will fund the kingdom. I will send apostles into the earth. 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:16.080 And one day, when I get this business right, if 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:18.600 you won't do it with ten dollars, I promise you 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:19.840 won't do it with millions. 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.960 I promise, because it's gonna be more zeros. 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:26.920 This is gonna make you throw up even that much 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:27.880 more when you give it. 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:32.600 One day when and I have found myself. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.000 Now I know this new Year's message is not the 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.200 shutiest New Year's message, but I think it could be 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:42.680 a sustaining one for you if you make a subtle shift. 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:46.320 And if the first point of this sermon is remain 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.640 in hope, but leave room for disappointment, because there will 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:52.919 always be a fight, and there will always be fruit, 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:56.480 and sometimes you have to really allow the fight to 0:25:56.520 --> 0:25:58.920 take its course to see the fruit come forth. If 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.080 the first word is remain, the second thing I want 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:04.080 you to do this year is reduce. 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:11.800 Reduce, And again this is not a weight loss seminar. 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:15.560 And I know that reduce is not a juicy New 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:19.000 Year's word. And I know that we want God to 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:21.879 add to our lives, and you should. I want you 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.800 to have more influence. I want you to have more 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:28.439 happy moments. I want you to have more laughter. I 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.440 want you to have more peaceful sleep at night, more 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:33.520 hours of sleep. I want you to be able to 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:38.240 see more places and create more opportunities for others and yourself. 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:42.639 But at the same time, I want you to experience more. 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:46.879 I want to point out to you that in the 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:51.880 text I read, God did not say anything to Israel 0:26:52.240 --> 0:27:00.679 about years. In Isaiah chapter twenty seven, verse one, he 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:09.760 says in that day, verse two, in that day, verse. 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:16.040 Six, in days to come, And I wonder are. 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:22.639 We stressed, discouraged, defeated, and lacking momentum and victory in 0:27:22.720 --> 0:27:26.040 our life? Because when I said what are you going 0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:27.600 to do with your twenty four? 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:30.320 You thought years. 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:34.240 The real answer to the question what will you do 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:38.200 with your twenty four is not about a year called 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:43.560 twenty four. It's about this is the day the Lord 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:47.840 has made. When I woke up this morning, I had 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:54.199 twenty four hours of opportunity deposited into my account. And 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.640 I can sit here with you and dream about all 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.160 of the amazing things I'm going to accomplish for God 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.360 this year. I could sit here and advertise to you 0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:06.000 all of the amazing possibilities that could happen. 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:06.960 In your life this year. 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.280 More in twenty four, leave the shore in twenty four, 0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:13.760 strengthen your core in twenty four. And all of that 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:17.600 that I say about twenty four is wonderful and abstract, 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:18.320 but it. 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:21.359 Falls into the category of one day. 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:26.840 When so round about June, I'm gonna have my beach body. 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:30.000 So round about December, I'm gonna have some of these 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:33.200 debts paid off, so round about three years from now, 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:36.240 my family's gonna be back together. Round about ten years 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:37.960 from now, my kids are going to college. 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:39.680 I believe in long term vision. 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.680 I think it's all amazing, But I think this one 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:49.600 day win can be a trap to keep you focused 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:54.120 so much on the years that you don't do with 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:57.160 the days what you can do with the days. 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:01.880 Isn't this what Jesus said, Why do. 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:07.560 You worry about tomorrow? Tomorrow has enough trouble of its own. 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:10.480 Let me ask you a question. If you're anxious, are 0:29:10.520 --> 0:29:14.160 you anxious about today? Or are you anxious about Wednesday? 0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:17.240 Or are you anxious about Wednesday three weeks from now? 0:29:17.560 --> 0:29:19.520 Or are you anxious about when you retire? 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:23.560 When you're seventy five, you're seventeen, You've got time. 0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:27.000 There's days between here and there. 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:32.600 You know how much peace it'll bring you to recognize 0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:35.080 the revelation of a day. Here's the revelation of a day, 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.400 that the grace for the. 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:43.400 Day is in the day. 0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:50.240 The grace for tomorrow is not in today. The only 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:52.480 thing that is in today for tomorrow for you is 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:56.000 anxiety if you don't put it in God's hands. And 0:29:56.120 --> 0:30:00.840 Jesus said, sufficient is the day. Give us this day 0:30:01.080 --> 0:30:06.640 our fifteen year bread. He doesn't even pray for twelve 0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:10.680 months of bread. I'm saying, have a plan, I'm saying, 0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:14.840 have a strategy. I'm saying, have a financial advisor. But 0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:19.120 you got to do that today and waiting. 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:19.240 On a time. 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:20.800 You remember when we thought there was no need to 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:22.760 set up online giving back in two thousand and six 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:25.120 because nobody was giving online. 0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:28.040 But we had to set it up that day for 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:29.480 this day. 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.920 Now, I think ninety three percent of giving is online, 0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:37.360 ninety eight ninety eight percent from nothing to ninety eight percent. 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:41.280 But there's something in your life like that right now, 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:45.400 and you go one day when I get more money, 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:49.719 I'll learn to manage it. That is a syndrome that 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:53.080 affects people of faith even more than it affects atheists, 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:58.680 because we will blame God for that. We'll say I'm 0:30:58.680 --> 0:31:01.440 not doing it, God's going to do it. We'll say 0:31:01.480 --> 0:31:03.440 I don't need to take care of that. God's got 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:07.200 me in his hands, and he does. In that day 0:31:07.240 --> 0:31:10.400 the Lord, we'll fight, Leviathan, but you and I have 0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:15.080 a responsibility too, So I want us to make a shift. 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:17.520 Are you open to a shift? This year. 0:31:18.480 --> 0:31:20.120 If you're open to a shift, just nod your head 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:22.360 at me a little bit, wiggle your pinky wiggle your 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:24.880 pinky toe, just do something to get in agreement with me. 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:28.640 Somebody shall shift. Come on, pronounce it well with the 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.320 FN and say shift. Because I want your year this 0:31:32.400 --> 0:31:35.000 year to be full of fruit. I want your year 0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:37.479 this year to be full of abundance. I want your 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:41.040 year this year to have heavy branches. I want rain 0:31:41.120 --> 0:31:44.480 to fall on your relationships, your resources. 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:48.920 So we're gonna shift this. That's what we're gonna do. 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:50.560 Touch somebody say I'm gonna shift this. 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:54.920 I've been stressed out about the next week. I'm gonna 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:57.960 break it down and reduce it because really what I'm 0:31:58.000 --> 0:32:00.520 worried about has nothing to do with where I am. 0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:02.880 It has to do with where I think I'm going 0:32:02.960 --> 0:32:05.720 to be. And I don't know what tomorrow holds. 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:09.920 So God has not given me a promise concerning this year. 0:32:11.240 --> 0:32:18.000 He gave me a promise for this day. And the 0:32:18.040 --> 0:32:22.000 promise is not for tomorrow because you don't know what 0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:26.960 tomorrow holds. So I want you to go from one 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:30.480 day when that thinking, how many have done that before? 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:31.760 By the way, one day win put it in the 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:35.760 chat one day when, one day when, one day when, 0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:38.440 this most powerful thing I could teach you to help 0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:40.400 you set up for this year for what God wants 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:42.200 to speak, for the disciplines you want to pass on, 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:44.120 for the things that you want to see set straight 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:44.800 in your life. 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:49.040 I want you to go from one day when to 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:55.040 one day when, from one day when. 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:09.880 Because Isaiah didn't say anything about years, he said in that. 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:20.200 Day, in that day, this is your year to win 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:25.720 one day at a time. 0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:34.840 And if we get a one day win on top 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:38.040 of a one day win on top of a one 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:42.640 day win, on top of a one day win on 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:45.800 top of a one day win on top of a 0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:49.200 one day win, one day we'll be telling our kids 0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:53.800 one day when I made a decision to get a 0:33:53.800 --> 0:33:57.640 one day win. Now, see, you don't get it. You're 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:01.080 going to be telling somebody the story one day and 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:01.920 they're gonna. 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.959 Say, how did you get out of the depression? 0:34:04.360 --> 0:34:08.200 And you say, well, one day when I decided to 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:12.719 call a counselor and have a conversation and begin to 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.360 open myself up to the fact that the Holy Spirit 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:18.480 can use people, and I need to admit some of 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:21.360 the things that I'm struggling with, and I need to 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:25.080 fight this Leviathan and get some leverage on this addiction 0:34:25.520 --> 0:34:28.680 and start to open this window so the light of 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:30.919 God can come streaming in. 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:34.560 I got a one day win. 0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:39.400 Hey, everybody, get ready to celebrate because you came to 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:40.320 church today. 0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:41.040 Guess what. 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:43.600 I don't know if you'll be here at Easter, but 0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:44.840 you're here today. 0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:54.440 I won this one devil. Let's go ahead and celebrate 0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:56.040 the baby's step. 0:34:56.040 --> 0:35:01.200 SHO made it today. 0:35:02.440 --> 0:35:06.960 I got that one day. When I got that one day. 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:09.600 When I've been living in one day, When oh, I 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:11.880 give more resources, then I can do it. When I 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:13.920 have more clarity, then I can do it. When I 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:16.239 know enough. Then I'll share the gospel with somebody. When 0:35:16.239 --> 0:35:17.759 my kids start acting right again, then will be a 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:21.879 peaceful family. Not one day when just get a one 0:35:22.000 --> 0:35:27.080 day win. Just don't cuss them out today? 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:29.120 How many can do that? 0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:40.359 Make some noise if you cannot cust them out today, But. 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:45.640 We should dream big, pastor Stephen, my kids will be missionaries. 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:49.719 Great one day when you haven't cussed them out enough 0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:55.680 days or killed them, they might be a missionary. But 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.440 it's gonna take do you see the power of a 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:04.520 one day. When to get to a one day, when 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:08.840 glory to God. I feel happy preaching my own notes. 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:11.960 I wrote this in my own notes. 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:12.680 And I'm receiving it. 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:17.080 I got that fresh bread for twenty four elevation charts. 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:20.360 I'm gonna feed you this word from. 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:22.840 God till you're strong enough to fight. 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:25.320 Every Leviathan in your life. 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:30.160 And God said, when you sing about a fruitful vineyard, 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:33.879 I'll slay every wicked. 0:36:33.560 --> 0:36:35.000 Thing in your life. 0:36:36.560 --> 0:36:39.280 How many know while you were singing today, you were winning. 0:36:40.560 --> 0:36:44.439 While you were worshiping today, you were winning. Because this 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:47.400 is how I fight my battles. 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:52.200 This is how I get my mind right. This is 0:36:52.320 --> 0:36:56.000 how I set my mind on things about. 0:36:56.480 --> 0:37:00.000 This is how I overcome my darkness. 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:03.880 This is how I cut my gliding serpent. This is 0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:08.200 how I walked in favor. This is how my there 0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:16.840 my shruit. This is what I'm doing with my twenty four. 0:37:18.400 --> 0:37:22.680 I was watching basketball one time ten years ago, and 0:37:22.719 --> 0:37:25.040 the commentator gave me a whole sermon. 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:28.080 The man shot the ball. 0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:30.760 There was like one second left on the shot clock, 0:37:31.680 --> 0:37:35.080 and the guy who shot he missed. Everybody say he missed, 0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:39.440 But then it hit the backboard, and ten years ago 0:37:39.800 --> 0:37:43.040 in the NBA, if you got the offensive rebound after 0:37:43.080 --> 0:37:47.320 missing a shot, the shot clock would reset to twenty 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:51.120 four seconds. You don't get it, so it means you 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:57.239 missed that one. But if you get that ball back 0:37:57.280 --> 0:38:01.560 in your hands, I believe God brought somebody to church 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:05.840 today so you could get this ball back in your hands. 0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.919 I know you missed some in twenty three, but this 0:38:10.000 --> 0:38:16.919 is twenty four. Somebody shout, this is twenty four. Put 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:20.200 it in my YouTube comments. This is twenty four. Announced 0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:23.560 to your neighbor. This is twenty four. This is twenty four. 0:38:25.880 --> 0:38:28.480 And when he got the ball back, the announcer said, 0:38:29.960 --> 0:38:34.719 he gets a new twenty four. I thought I would 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:38.600 announce to somebody who came to church on the first 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:42.440 Sunday of the new year, which happens. 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:47.320 To be twenty twenty four. He walked you up this morning, 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:51.839 He started you on your way, He closed you in 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:55.560 your right mind. He gave you the breadth of life. 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:57.520 You got a new twenty four. 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:03.160 You got a new arm. You've got a little twenty far, 0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:06.719 wenty far, whenny far? 0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:11.880 What's it warm? Wheny far? I'm gonna do this thing. 0:39:19.880 --> 0:39:24.600 In days to come, You mean, I gotta break this 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:30.399 thing down. I'm not drinking today, I'm not looking at 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:36.640 it today, I'm not hooking up with them today. I'm 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:40.960 not complaining about it today, because this. 0:39:40.840 --> 0:39:44.359 Is today the Lord has made. 0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:51.560 Maybe you can't even face the day with confidence. So 0:39:51.640 --> 0:39:54.080 let's break it down a little more. Say I got 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:57.600 a new twenty four. What if you open your mouth 0:39:57.760 --> 0:40:00.279 on when you wake up tomorrow and say, thank you 0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:04.560 Lord for a new twenty four, And you know what, 0:40:04.480 --> 0:40:06.879 it really frustrates the devil if you miss the last 0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:10.600 shot the last day, if you really screwed it up 0:40:11.040 --> 0:40:14.040 the day before and you wake up and you see 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:17.120 that shot clock in your life. Oh, God must not 0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:25.120 be done with me because I got a new twenty four. Yeah, 0:40:25.640 --> 0:40:28.480 I got a new twenty four. So I'm taking the 0:40:28.520 --> 0:40:32.160 shot today. Everything that I did that wasn't like God 0:40:32.239 --> 0:40:33.600 is covered by the blood of Jesus. 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:34.680 I got a new twenty four. 0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:39.080 When he said in that day, listen when he said 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:42.560 in that day, in that day, and then in verse 0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:45.920 six he said, in days to come, I realized the 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:47.440 way we're going to be where we want to be. 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:51.160 At the end of twenty four, it's twenty four at 0:40:51.160 --> 0:41:03.879 a time. I feel God on this message. I don't 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:05.680 even want to do my second two points because I 0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:06.640 feel God right here. 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:17.880 He left you here because there is fruit still to 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:21.400 come forth from your life. That's why you got a 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:22.160 new twenty four. 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:28.080 Once in a while this year, you're gonna have one 0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:31.520 of those days. Not a bad hair day, but all 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:36.120 hell breaks loose day and at seven thirty am. So 0:41:36.160 --> 0:41:37.839 if you can't just break it down to the day, 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:46.000 break it down to the breath, next breath, next breath, 0:41:47.960 --> 0:41:50.400 he said, Israel will butt and blossom and bring forth fruit. 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:52.239 You know how you bring forth fruit and but and 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:56.040 blossom one breath at a time. You can take the 0:41:56.080 --> 0:42:01.680 next breath and the next. I googled before I came 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:04.319 how many breaths does the average person take in one day? 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:09.920 It said between seventeen thousand and thirty thousand. I figured 0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:15.279 somewhere in the average, it's twenty four thousand. So look 0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:18.640 at me, children of Zion. If twenty four hours is 0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:21.680 too much for you to face, you got twenty four 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:26.960 thousand breaths to reset you. 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:31.600 I was praying. I was praying one time before I preached, 0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:36.359 I prayed that that moment would be a reset for 0:42:36.400 --> 0:42:39.160 everybody who came in the room that day all week 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:42.640 long has just felt like I can't. I can't breathe, 0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:47.120 I can't I can't move, I can't do it. And 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:51.360 the Lord says in that day, it's amazing how we 0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:54.239 can be in a day that God gave us and 0:42:54.280 --> 0:42:56.720 not recognize it as a gift. 0:42:58.160 --> 0:43:04.440 You ever notice that, I guess that's my third r. Recognize. 0:43:05.560 --> 0:43:09.840 You better recognize. If you don't recognize that, you regret it. 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:14.240 We went to Atlanta to watch Graham wrestle last weekend 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:17.600 and it was so crowded in that gym, and as 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:19.839 a matter of fact, it was so wonderful to watch 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:21.759 them wrestle that I just looked at Holly and I said, 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:26.240 one day we'll look at these crowded gems with dirty, 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:30.600 sweaty wrestling boys filling the air with the fragrance of 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:38.560 athleticism and knee pads and wrestling shoes. 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:40.279 And looking all around. I said, we're going to look 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:43.600 back and say, those were the days. 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.320 So why not just shift it, buck and say it 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:53.399 right when you're in it, these are the days, somebody say, 0:43:53.480 --> 0:43:58.319 this is that day God brought you here. Don't you 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.640 ever let the pain or the pressure make you forfeit 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:05.480 the grace of the day. That's why I stand here. 0:44:05.520 --> 0:44:07.320 Sometimes I'm not pausing right now because I don't know 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:08.080 what to say next. 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:11.319 I'm taking it in. This is the. 0:44:11.400 --> 0:44:15.760 Day, this is that day, you understand. 0:44:15.840 --> 0:44:19.400 I prayed that this church would happen. God built this 0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:21.319 church to see this. 0:44:21.400 --> 0:44:24.280 Many people gather to have this level of ministry influence, 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:26.880 to be able to preach to your life is something 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:28.480 that I saw from age sixteen. 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:34.120 One day when and then you're in it and you 0:44:34.160 --> 0:44:35.040 don't recognize it. 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:38.440 What I want you to understand about every day you 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:40.399 will have this year and just twenty four at a time. 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:42.919 I'm going deeper next week. I'm going deeper next week 0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:46.560 because the Lord is really using this to penetrate somebody's worry. 0:44:47.000 --> 0:44:49.680 Somebody's just out of balance, and God is bringing you 0:44:49.760 --> 0:44:52.120 back to it right now. And by the way, this 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:56.279 word will not last you till next January. 0:44:56.920 --> 0:45:01.880 You need daily time in the presence of God. Clap 0:45:01.880 --> 0:45:11.640 your hands about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.759 So we recognize these moments when we're in them, and 0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:17.399 we say, wait, this is that day. 0:45:17.560 --> 0:45:19.560 Now, it's hard to know it when you're in it. 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:21.239 So that's why the fourth thing I want to give 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:24.080 you is to get you to reframe it. 0:45:26.800 --> 0:45:29.680 Look at verse six. I think this one was the 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:33.080 one that spoke to me the most of all of them, 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:35.840 because it sounds like God is talking about two different 0:45:35.880 --> 0:45:39.800 people and two different processes. Thank you Jesus. 0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:43.080 It sounds like he's talking about two different people and 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:44.319 two different processes. 0:45:44.960 --> 0:45:47.240 He says, in days. 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:51.040 To come, Now we've gone from one day to multiple days, 0:45:52.000 --> 0:45:56.800 from the present circumstance to the future. Promise in days 0:45:56.840 --> 0:46:02.279 to come, Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:03.839 blossom and fill all the world with fruit. 0:46:03.840 --> 0:46:06.560 Now he's talking about the nation of Israel, from whom. 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:09.080 The Messiah came, that blessed the whole world and took 0:46:09.120 --> 0:46:10.759 the gospel even to the gentiles. 0:46:10.800 --> 0:46:14.640 That's what he's talking about. He's talking about, Jesus. But 0:46:14.800 --> 0:46:15.719 watch the application. 0:46:15.840 --> 0:46:23.480 He says, Jacob will take ruth, Israel will bud and blossom. 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:25.760 And you know what I'm learning more and more about 0:46:26.840 --> 0:46:29.960 these years and seasons and paths that God gives us 0:46:32.280 --> 0:46:35.280 is that you're going to have both of those kinds 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:38.520 of days and you are going to feel like both 0:46:38.520 --> 0:46:42.600 of those people. See, Jacob and Israel are not two 0:46:42.600 --> 0:46:48.240 different people. In the Bible, a man named Jacob became 0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:50.560 the father of the tribes that would be the nation 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:55.839 of Israel. And when God changed Jacob, he changed his name. 0:46:57.120 --> 0:47:00.560 He said, you used to be called Jacob, but now 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:06.759 your name is Israel. Jacob means deceiver, that's who Jacob was. 0:47:07.960 --> 0:47:13.160 Israel means prince with God, because he struggled with God 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:18.240 and with men and overcame. Is that not a picture 0:47:19.200 --> 0:47:21.800 of what it feels like to be you in any 0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:27.040 one given day. Doesn't it depend what somebody thinks of 0:47:27.080 --> 0:47:31.040 you on what day they meet you on how many 0:47:31.080 --> 0:47:35.439 of you have Jacob days that still happen in your life? 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:38.600 Is there one honest person in the whole truth? I 0:47:38.640 --> 0:47:41.040 need to zip up my jacket. I feel exposed with 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:44.120 all of you fake people. Have you ever had an 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:50.080 Israel calling but a Jacob day where it just feels 0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:55.520 like a total flashback, a total relapse. A new name 0:47:55.920 --> 0:47:58.960 and a new nature do not automatically give way to 0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:02.400 new habits. I want you to notice that he says, 0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:09.520 Jacob will take root verse six, Israel will bud and 0:48:09.640 --> 0:48:14.399 blossom and fill the world with fruit. One of them 0:48:14.960 --> 0:48:19.920 is going down, one of them is going up. 0:48:21.840 --> 0:48:24.200 I will have some down days this year. 0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:28.360 I expect that, just like I expect to be blessed, 0:48:29.200 --> 0:48:31.600 I will have some days where I can barely get 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:32.239 out of the bed. 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:35.520 In fact, some of us might have already had one 0:48:35.880 --> 0:48:40.600 and we're just getting this wonderful year started. I will 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:41.120 have some. 0:48:41.239 --> 0:48:44.279 Down days where I can't find one thing to feel 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:44.759 good about. 0:48:46.200 --> 0:48:47.719 But I will not allow. 0:48:47.440 --> 0:48:53.040 The down days to define me anymore past this point. 0:48:53.440 --> 0:48:57.360 Let it be written, let it be done forever and ever. 0:48:57.600 --> 0:48:58.000 Amen. 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:03.800 Because I have a Jacob day doesn't mean I don't 0:49:03.800 --> 0:49:08.080 have an Israel purpose. What are you trying to say, Erdick, 0:49:08.440 --> 0:49:12.200 don't let the down days fool you. The down days 0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:16.040 are the days where God is getting you grounded so 0:49:16.080 --> 0:49:17.399 that when He brings. 0:49:17.080 --> 0:49:20.560 You up, y'all aren't here to give him glory. 0:49:21.080 --> 0:49:25.600 The down days exist so you appreciate the great days. 0:49:30.080 --> 0:49:33.600 So do not let the devil tell you for one minute, 0:49:34.560 --> 0:49:37.040 oh it's just gonna be one of those years. Oh 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:38.800 it's just gonna be one of those days. 0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:41.799 I want you to reclaim your day and let the 0:49:42.000 --> 0:49:46.200 enemy know that even the down days, somebody shout, even 0:49:46.239 --> 0:49:51.440 the down days are working my root system so that 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:54.239 I will be ready for the fruit God wants me 0:49:54.320 --> 0:49:59.520 to bear. Do you believe that you gotta reframe it 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:03.080 where you say, oh, it's one of those days. It's 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:07.239 always one of those days. It's a growing day, and 0:50:07.280 --> 0:50:10.680 it's a gross day. The roots are in the soil, 0:50:11.000 --> 0:50:13.719 in the dirt. That's the gross day. And then the 0:50:13.760 --> 0:50:17.080 fruit is coming forth and it's growing. Which one will 0:50:17.120 --> 0:50:19.920 you focus on this day? 0:50:20.600 --> 0:50:26.040 I promise you that this is that day. 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:31.520 Don't be surprised when the biggest fights come at the 0:50:31.560 --> 0:50:38.280 moments of the greatest fruit. They come in the same day. 0:50:40.040 --> 0:50:43.239 You are in a great day. Somebody shout, I'm in 0:50:43.280 --> 0:50:49.520 a great day. And in days to come, my roots 0:50:49.520 --> 0:50:53.200 are gonna grow deeper, My fruit is gonna stretch farther. 0:50:54.400 --> 0:50:56.279 I believe that whatever you're going through right now that 0:50:56.320 --> 0:50:58.560 you would not choose, God will use in your life 0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:01.000 to produce fruit that you can not even imagine with 0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:06.680 your mind. In accordance with Ephesians three twenty, I believe 0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:09.759 that on the days where you choose to believe, oh, 0:51:10.160 --> 0:51:15.839 this is a root day, this is not a fruit day. 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:21.440 I can't feel God today, but he's with me today. 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:25.839 This is the great integration of your life. Quis saying 0:51:25.880 --> 0:51:27.480 it was a good day, a bad day, a good week, 0:51:27.480 --> 0:51:29.080 a bad week, a good year, a bad year. 0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:34.120 As for me in my house, we will serve the Lord. 0:51:35.000 --> 0:51:43.719 Choose ye this day whom you will serve. You got 0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:49.520 a new twenty four baby, and y'all are clapping like 0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:51.359 y'all are in a golf course and I'm talking about 0:51:51.360 --> 0:51:53.120 a basketball analogy. 0:51:54.320 --> 0:51:57.879 You got a new twenty four. 0:52:00.239 --> 0:52:05.560 You got twenty four thousand breasts today. Doesn't God deserve 0:52:05.640 --> 0:52:06.680 at least a few. 0:52:06.480 --> 0:52:07.520 Of them to praise him? 0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:07.680 Win? 0:52:08.320 --> 0:52:11.480 You didn't open your mouth all year to praise God? 0:52:11.920 --> 0:52:22.520 Do it now? Thank you, lid, and I'm gonna get 0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:28.439 this one day. Win. You won today. You won. 0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:31.759 If even if you kick the cat when you get home, 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:34.239 you won. You came to church today, I mean, don't 0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:34.480 do it. 0:52:34.520 --> 0:52:40.080 But if you did, you got this word today. Every 0:52:40.120 --> 0:52:41.960 time you hear the word of God, it's like seed 0:52:42.000 --> 0:52:47.760 being sown into your heart. Are you good ground? God 0:52:47.800 --> 0:52:49.960 gave you a new twenty four. God gave you another 0:52:50.040 --> 0:52:52.280 year to glorify him. Are you good ground? 0:52:56.760 --> 0:52:59.600 And while we're waiting for one day, when God's saying, no, 0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:07.960 just win one day, one breath, we can all do that. 0:53:09.440 --> 0:53:11.239 I didn't tell you to run a marathon this year. 0:53:12.760 --> 0:53:17.120 I said one day when walk around the block tonight, 0:53:18.520 --> 0:53:22.200 one day, when read one chapter. 0:53:21.920 --> 0:53:24.680 Of scripture today before you go to bed, I say, 0:53:24.719 --> 0:53:28.040 at twenty seven, I already did it. I'm ahead of you. Preacher. 0:53:28.080 --> 0:53:29.840 I read it to you, you read it by yourself. 0:53:30.160 --> 0:53:33.279 One This is your year. You know how preachers say 0:53:33.520 --> 0:53:37.960 this is your year. I want to say, this is 0:53:38.520 --> 0:53:40.640 that day. 0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:45.839 Now what year you're gonna be in. I'm gonna do it. 0:53:47.480 --> 0:53:49.680 I'm gonna go on my YouTube this week and finish 0:53:49.719 --> 0:53:52.319 this message for you from the basin. Okay, I got 0:53:52.360 --> 0:53:53.280 more I want to say. 0:53:53.480 --> 0:53:56.719 I can't get it out right now, but more than that, 0:53:57.719 --> 0:54:00.560 can we build some consistency in our lives, in our 0:54:00.560 --> 0:54:04.920 patterns this year, so that we don't put God's house 0:54:06.160 --> 0:54:08.880 like if everything else gets done, I'll show up to 0:54:09.000 --> 0:54:10.399 church type item on our list. 0:54:14.160 --> 0:54:16.640 Trees don't fill the world with fruit. 0:54:16.440 --> 0:54:19.000 That way, and you won't be filled with peace that way, 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:21.040 and you won't be able to make your mark that 0:54:21.080 --> 0:54:25.000 way either. The Bible says that God will guard you 0:54:25.080 --> 0:54:27.680 day and night, and he will water you consistently so 0:54:27.800 --> 0:54:29.799 that you but in blossom. 0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:32.120 But you've got to be planted in the right place. 0:54:33.760 --> 0:54:36.040 To all of you who are planted in this ministry, 0:54:36.760 --> 0:54:39.719 I stand in agreement with you this year that this 0:54:39.920 --> 0:54:43.960 is that day. I don't know what job you're going 0:54:44.000 --> 0:54:45.360 to be working at the end of the year. I 0:54:45.360 --> 0:54:47.400 don't know who is or who isn't going to be 0:54:47.440 --> 0:54:50.680 on your favorites list in your phone. I don't know 0:54:50.680 --> 0:54:52.920 what will or won't be hurting in your body this year. 0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:57.359 But one thing we know. We got a new twenty four. 0:54:59.120 --> 0:55:04.080 And Jeremiah twenty one says this I recall to my mind. 0:55:04.560 --> 0:55:07.680 Therefore I have hope it is of the Lord's mercies 0:55:07.719 --> 0:55:10.879 that we are not consumed. Give me verse twenty three 0:55:11.680 --> 0:55:20.440 because lamentations three, because lamentations three, because I promise this 0:55:20.560 --> 0:55:26.120 in the Bible, that compassions fail not they are new 0:55:27.080 --> 0:55:32.400 every morning. Put your hands like this to God so 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:34.480 he could give you the ball. Stand up on your feet, 0:55:34.640 --> 0:55:37.160 get ready to take this shot. You got a new 0:55:37.200 --> 0:55:41.520 twenty four. This is a bounce back moment for you. 0:55:42.760 --> 0:55:47.000 This is a rebound Sunday for you. We don't need 0:55:47.000 --> 0:55:49.480 a new Year's resolution till we get a rebound to 0:55:49.560 --> 0:55:53.640 realize He gave us this day. Thank you for this 0:55:53.760 --> 0:55:57.879 twenty four God, Thank you for this fruit that will 0:55:57.880 --> 0:56:01.200 come forth. Thank you for these roots that have grown 0:56:01.239 --> 0:56:05.120 down deep. Thank you that our roots have weathered the storm. 0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:10.640 Our relationship with you is still intact. Our hope is 0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:14.719 still built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. 0:56:16.160 --> 0:56:20.040 Say, I got a new twenty four and I offer 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:20.680 you this day. 0:56:20.760 --> 0:56:27.319 Lord, This is the day you have made with your 0:56:27.360 --> 0:56:31.040 head's bowed and your eyes closed. The Lord is saying 0:56:31.080 --> 0:56:36.520 that for somebody, this is the day of your salvation. 0:56:38.120 --> 0:56:41.600 This is that day for you to place your faith 0:56:41.640 --> 0:56:45.359 in Jesus. This is that day for you to make 0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:48.920 a commitment to be a follower of Christ and receive 0:56:49.000 --> 0:56:51.960 his grace in your life. 0:56:52.200 --> 0:56:53.440 Right now, I want to lead you in a prayer. 0:56:54.560 --> 0:56:56.520 And wherever you're watching from, if you're in a building 0:56:56.600 --> 0:57:00.160 or you're watching online, doesn't matter. The Bible says as 0:57:00.200 --> 0:57:04.720 that a man named Zachius heard that Jesus was passing 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:08.520 his way, and he climbed up in a tree. 0:57:08.280 --> 0:57:09.600 To see Jesus. 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:14.080 And Jesus said to Zachias, who was a tax collector 0:57:14.760 --> 0:57:18.000 and a short man, who was at a disadvantage and 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:24.600 an ill repute. Zachias, come down out of that tree. 0:57:24.800 --> 0:57:25.200 Today. 0:57:26.160 --> 0:57:31.480 I'm coming to your house. I believe Jesus is passing 0:57:31.560 --> 0:57:32.800 your way right now. 0:57:33.360 --> 0:57:34.840 This is that day. 0:57:35.360 --> 0:57:40.120 He wants to come into your house, your heart, your habits, 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:44.040 your life, and give you a new hope and a 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:49.240 future and forgiveness of your sin. Right now, we're going 0:57:49.280 --> 0:57:51.240 to pray a prayer out loud as a church family 0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:53.320 for the benefit of those who are coming to God 0:57:54.160 --> 0:57:56.760 or coming back to God as a rededication. And if 0:57:56.800 --> 0:57:59.240 you pray this by faith, the Bible says that by 0:57:59.560 --> 0:58:00.640 grace we are saved. 0:58:00.720 --> 0:58:04.400 Through faith, God will hear you and He will save you. 0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:07.840 This day today is today. 0:58:08.200 --> 0:58:14.800 Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, Today is my day of salvation. 0:58:16.000 --> 0:58:18.160 Today. I give you my heart. 0:58:19.160 --> 0:58:24.880 I believe you sent your son, Jesus Christ to die 0:58:24.920 --> 0:58:30.400 for my sin. I believe he rose again to give 0:58:30.440 --> 0:58:36.640 me life. I receive this new life. This is my 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:39.640 new beginning. On the counter of three shoots your hand up. 0:58:39.640 --> 0:58:43.040 If you prayed that one, two, three online, let us 0:58:43.080 --> 0:58:45.480 know right now I'm receiving Jesus. 0:58:46.640 --> 0:58:51.920 I'm receiving Jesus. This is my day, this is my moment, 0:58:52.400 --> 0:58:53.960 this is my turnaround. 0:58:54.320 --> 0:58:58.080 This is my moment, this is my day. This is 0:58:58.160 --> 0:59:07.760 my turnaround. If God great praise in the house, why. 0:59:10.600 --> 0:59:16.240 All he look this is that day and look back 0:59:16.320 --> 0:59:19.400 on that day and say that was the day I 0:59:19.600 --> 0:59:21.760 decided make some noise. 0:59:21.800 --> 0:59:26.520 If you're glad you came to church today, this is. 0:59:28.120 --> 0:59:28.560 That day. 0:59:31.040 --> 0:59:33.640 I will put part two on my YouTube for you. 0:59:33.880 --> 0:59:34.280 This week. 0:59:35.040 --> 0:59:37.439 I will plan God willing in the creek. Don't rise 0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:41.360 to be back here next Sunday with part three. It's 0:59:41.440 --> 0:59:45.520 gonna be an amazing year. And all you gotta do 0:59:46.240 --> 0:59:48.760 is win one day. 0:59:50.800 --> 0:59:57.360 Thank you Jesus. Y'all let me know in the comments 0:59:58.280 --> 1:00:01.480 what you're gonna win one day, not one day. When 1:00:02.120 --> 1:00:03.280 what you're going to win one day? 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:05.919 I want to hear about it. We want to pray 1:00:06.000 --> 1:00:08.240 for you. Believe with you, grab hands with the person 1:00:08.320 --> 1:00:11.880 next to you. That way nobody can leave during my 1:00:11.960 --> 1:00:19.480 clothes and prayer. Red Rover Red Rover send twenty twenty 1:00:19.520 --> 1:00:27.760 four right over one day when well, Father, I thank you, 1:00:29.480 --> 1:00:34.120 I bless you because you flowed to us today, in 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:35.360 power and in strength. 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:37.400 You nourished us today. 1:00:38.280 --> 1:00:40.280 You gave us something on Sunday that we can do 1:00:40.400 --> 1:00:43.120 on Monday. We don't have to leave our faith in 1:00:43.200 --> 1:00:47.440 this place. We're taking it with us into the battles 1:00:47.440 --> 1:00:50.920 against Leviathan. We're taking our faith, We're taking your word. 1:00:51.200 --> 1:00:55.200 We're taking a sword into our tomorrow. We're taking a song. 1:00:55.680 --> 1:00:59.520 We're singing about a fruitful vineyard. We're taking root, and 1:00:59.640 --> 1:01:01.080 we are bearing much fruit. 1:01:02.160 --> 1:01:06.880 In Jesus' name, I pray and now, unto him who 1:01:07.000 --> 1:01:10.760 is able to do immeasurably more than you ask or imagine, 1:01:11.440 --> 1:01:14.120 to him, be glory through Christ Jesus in the Church, 1:01:14.920 --> 1:01:19.400 now and forever more, in the name of Jesus. 1:01:19.920 --> 1:01:24.480 Amen, clap those hands like your plaid for the day. 1:01:24.560 --> 1:01:24.760 God. 1:01:24.920 --> 1:01:30.200 May I'll see you next time. Thank you for joining us. 1:01:30.560 --> 1:01:32.960 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 1:01:33.080 --> 1:01:36.520 this ministry. 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