Too Grown To Give Up

0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.720 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.200 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.559 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.640 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.440 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.239 Also want to mention a few things that are going 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.760 on in the church. Let's see our e Fam Reunion Tour. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.680 Our teams have been visiting cities across the United States 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.760 this year, and I wonder if they're coming to you next. Now, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:32.760 put it in the chat where you want our e 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.199 Fam Reunion Tour to come next? Put it in the 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.000 chat and why they should come? Give us a good reason. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.920 Do you have good barbecue? Is there a mighty spirit 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.920 of revival brewing in your city? Is there a really 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.360 cool bowling alley? I don't know, but some reason that 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:53.400 we should come. So far, we've been to Tampa, Houston, Atlanta, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.360 and Philadelphia. Over six hundred volunteers have showed up afterward 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.560 to serve over one thousand hours. Worse, with our outreach partners, 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.400 one hundred and thirty five people have been baptized at 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:14.160 our pop up watch parties. Next week they're headed to Phoenix, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.240 but we don't know where next, so you'll have to 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.360 help us decide. Just put it in the chat where 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:27.480 should we show up next? But I know that whether 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.440 they show up or not, God is right there with 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:35.040 you right now, so we're not waiting for next week. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.000 Somebody say, I need a word from God right now, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:44.080 right now, right now, right now, right now, right now. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.800 I'm excited to share with you today from the scripture 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:54.880 that God has given us in Hebrews chapter eleven. Of 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.120 all of the scriptures that God could have picked for 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.680 us to study, believe he picked this one for us 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:12.239 today in Hebrews eleven twenty three through twenty nine. You 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:20.440 ready by faith. Moses's parents hit him for three months 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.680 after he was born because they saw he was no 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.800 ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:37.080 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.480 be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.360 to be mistreated along with the people of God, rather 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:54.160 than to enjoy check out this curious construction of words, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:03:00.160 the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:07.400 sake of Christ. As of greater value, of higher worth 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.399 than the treasures of Egypt. Because he was looking ahead 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.640 to his reward by faith, he left Egypt. Not fearing 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:22.480 the king's anger. He persevered. He persevered because he saw 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.400 him who is invisible. By faith, he kept the passover 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.160 and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.840 the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.240 the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.520 but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.880 Now let me lift these two verses so we can 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.640 get into our topic for today. This a word from 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.760 the Lord today, it says in verse twenty four, by 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.280 faith Moses, when he had grown up, and then it 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.800 says in verse twenty seven, moved down, he persevered. So 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.160 the message God gave for today. I don't know if 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:04.960 you like it or not. This is a broccoli kind 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.320 of Bible passage today. This is not briars. This is broccoli. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.200 But if you're mature enough to receive this word, and 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.080 you've got all your molers and you could chew it. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.200 The Lord told me to talk about too grown to 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:26.440 give up, too grown to give up. We need your 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.839 help with this message. Lord, so give them the faith 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.400 that they need. The faith comes from you. The faith 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.640 comes from you. Even the faith comes from you, not 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.560 just the grace. Even the faith must come from you. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.400 Impart it right now to every believer in Jesus' name, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:57.960 Amen be seated. Pretty legendary story in our family. Think 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.040 it was about seven years ago. Me and Graham were 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.280 watching some music on TV and I told him, if 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.480 you name that song that that man is singing right now, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.360 I'll give you a thousand dollars. And I was bluffing 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.880 because it was in the middle. It was a Jimmy 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.719 Hendrick song and he was already playing the guitar solo 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.559 and it wasn't on the screen the name of the song, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.880 so I thought it was safe. And he goes fire 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:30.599 and that was correct. It's great an interesting dilemma, my 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.680 integrity as a dad or my money. And then I thought, well, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.280 maybe there's an option, see, and I was shocked he 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:38.839 got it. I was shocked he got it. I was like, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.400 how did you know that the song was called fire? 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:42.840 He said, I just guessed. I still don't know to 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.479 this day how he knew. It's a mystery. But what 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:51.240 happened next is the stuff of legends. I said, what 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:57.360 if I buy you a Clemson jersey instead? And he said, yes, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.640 I bought him a jersey, and I came out about 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:09.880 nine hundred and sixty dollars ahead. It wasn't a real jersey. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.479 He was only six. From time to time he will 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:21.520 still say, just out of nowhere, Ah, it's thirteen now. Ah, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:27.000 I can't believe I took the jersey. I could have 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.280 had ten jerseys. Ugh. And I don't know exactly what 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.799 stirs it up in him, this deep sense of regret, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.760 this bitterness toward me. But he'll sometimes put it in 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.440 my face as in accusation, some kind of like a 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.440 parental judgment of how could you take advantage of a 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.400 six year old like that? But it's pretty common he'll 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.920 bring it up. He'll bring it up all the time 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.000 because then he'll say I was too young to know 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.760 what I was doing, and you took advantage of me. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.880 And I'm like, no, I was just teaching you. It's 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:03.400 a lesson. It was actually teaching you to value something. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:12.520 The problem is sometimes you don't really know what's valuable. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.080 You know, the old son that said, don't know what 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.320 you got until it's gone. I would say, you don't 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:26.760 know what you've got until you're grown. You know, you don't. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.680 In the passage that I read you, what got me 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.320 thinking about it is that it mentions Moses as a baby. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.960 And the reason this scripture is so significant in Hebrews 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.960 chapter eleven that this particular book of the Bible is 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:46.920 because the author is writing to an audience of believers 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.360 who are in many ways babies in their faith. And 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.360 so now he uses the example of baby Moses. I 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.040 don't know if you saw that. In verse twenty three, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.600 let's look at it again. It talks about how when 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.960 he was little, and the Pharaoh had issued an edict 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.160 to kill all the firstborn of Israel because while they 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.760 were living in Egypt, they became very powerful, and he 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.960 knew that if they became too powerful, they would no 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.600 longer serve his purpose. Therefore, he set up a system 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.560 by which the midwives, when they were delivering these Hebrew babies, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:28.000 would kill all the firstborn children. Moses' parents had the 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.280 faith to see the purpose of their child, or the 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.720 potential of their child, when he was still just a baby. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.200 And that's a beautiful thing. If you've ever had someone 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.000 see potential in you before you saw it in yourself. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.199 That's a beautiful thing. How many of you ever had 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.520 somebody that you just borrowed some of their belief in you. Yeah, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.360 it's an awesome thing. People like Aunt Jackie who told 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.360 me God has a very special plan for you. He 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.040 has a really special plan for you. And at the 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.440 time when she was saying that to me, right, because 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.800 that's something that sounds really good, is something that maybe 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.040 you know, if you hear that in your own right, 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.240 you could fill that with your own preferences of what 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.680 that plan is. But she said it to me. But 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.600 the beauty of it was that she saw it in 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.320 its baby form. She saw it in its baby form. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.800 She believed in what was in me in baby form. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.600 And see, Moses's parents had the faith to see the 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:34.000 significance in what was hidden. So I want to spend 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.360 just a moment right now. This is not the whole message, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.440 but it'll set up the context. I want to talk 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:45.800 about hidden significance, hidden significance and how some of the 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.240 things that are most significant are hidden for the very 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.480 reason that they are significant. In Moses's case, he was 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.439 hidden until he was three months old, so that he 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.360 could stay alive and God all and hides the most 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.640 significant things in order to protect the potential of that 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.040 thing until the time is right. Now. We know Moses 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.600 as the red sea parter. We know Moses as the 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.520 prophet who commanded plagues. We know Moses as the one 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.920 who brought water out of the rock. We know Moses 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.200 as the man who saw God face to face. But 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:28.559 his parents saw it his destiny when he was in diapers, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:34.320 and they had the good sense to hide what was 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:39.079 significant so that it wouldn't be killed before it had 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:44.280 the chance to develop into what it was destined to be. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:47.960 One of the things that I teach my son about 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.840 creativity is don't show people things that you're working on 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:57.000 too early while you're working on them. Don't post everything 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.079 that you are creating out of a need for instant validation, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.440 because it will short circuit your creativity to see what 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.880 it could be. I have this rule about sermons. I 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.760 never tell anybody what I'm preaching about ever. The reason 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.840 is because if I show it to them before I 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.560 really know it for myself, the look on their face. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.920 You know, there's this look that people get when you're 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.600 trying to tell them, you know, I was gonna talk 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.800 about Hebrews eleven, and you got to grow up in 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.120 all this stuff and Moses and the Pharaoh and all that. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:28.960 And they look at you kind of like with this 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.200 polite kind of confusion. It's a very specific look they 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.720 get in their eyes, like I'm sure you'll do something 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.880 with this. It's like a look that you give to something. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.920 It's like a house that's just like dilapidated, and it's like, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.040 I'm sure somebody could fix it up. I'm sure the 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:43.800 bones are good, you know, And they look at you 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.960 that way. So I taught my son, I said, never 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:55.560 show your embryos. When God is doing something significant in 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.080 your life, it is good for it to remain hidden 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.840 for a time. How many would agree Moses was a 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.520 significant figure in the history of God's people. Yeah, a 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:13.080 pretty big deal. Maybe the most significant figure in the 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:18.680 history of Israel. Maybe maybe. I mean. Hebrews eleven mentions 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:23.079 a lot of them, mentions Abraham, It mentions Jacob. It 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.160 mentions how you got Enoch who didn't even die. God 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.040 took him up because he was pleasing to God. It says, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.040 without faith, it is impossible to please God because he 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.600 who comes to God must believe that he is. It's like, yeah, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.480 but do you really? And that he rewards those who 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:44.120 diligently seek him. That's an amazing scripture. And the author 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.640 of Hebrews, you have to understand he's giving us a 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:54.280 picture of those who did not quit on what God 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.600 called them to do. And to give us a picture 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.800 of those who didn't quit, he shows us someone who 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:08.040 was almost killed before he even had an opportunity to 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:16.000 be called. The thing that I want you to know 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:22.240 is that everything significant that I ever did in life, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:30.520 I was tempted to quit. I am preaching this message 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:37.199 to somebody today who is tempted to quit on something 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.080 God called you to do. And I understand how people 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.720 love to take a sermon and put their initials on 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.040 it for whatever they want it to mean. Trust me, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.800 I've seen it happen over and over and over again. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.760 So you haven't smoked in three weeks. But then I 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.160 preached on don't quit, and you go get a pack 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.200 right after I've reach because the pastor said don't quit. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.679 I know how y'all are. Y'all are real shifty. Sometimes 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.640 with these scriptures real slippery sometimes with these scriptures, real 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.880 manipulative sometimes with these scriptures. But please let us reason 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.920 together at the mercy seat. I'm talking about quitting on 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.880 what God called you to do. And the picture is 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.680 of a man that God called to deliver a nation, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.480 but he was almost killed before he even had the 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.280 opportunity to be called. And this helps me understand why 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.720 some of the people who have the most significant purpose 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.200 to accomplish for the Kingdom of God go through the 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:56.560 heaviest attacks at the formative stages of their life. So 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:01.680 his parents had had the oh Man the faith. It 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:06.040 says they had faith. Everybody shout faith. Now, I'm concerned 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:12.040 in the church that we have confused childlike faith, which 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.640 is what Jesus told us to have, with childish faith. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.920 And these Hebrew believers, remember, they were just babies. They 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:31.320 were still being weaned off the sacrificial system that Moses instituted. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.320 See in Moses' sacrificial system. You may know a little 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.000 bit about this. I'm not going to go into great 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.560 depth about it. But their sin was atoned for by 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.680 the blood of bulls and goats. Their sin was atoned 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.840 for by the offering that was made by the high 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.640 priest who had to do it every year. And so 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.840 the theme of the Book of Hebrews is that Jesus 0:15:54.960 --> 0:16:00.800 Christ is superior to the Mosaic Covenant, to the Mosaic Commandments, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:06.520 to the Mosaic customs. So we're looking at a group 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.360 of believers who are learning a brand new way to 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:16.280 do things and in their embrace of Jesus Christ. You know, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.320 in order to in order to walk in this new 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.480 way of life that Christ offers, it involves a letting 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.640 go of what they have known now that they have 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.960 a new identity. See, they're transitioning their identity from being 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.760 justified by the law, which doesn't work. It doesn't work. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.880 You can't even keep the speed limit. Please don't look 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.320 at me like you can keep the law. Be holy 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.360 as He is holy. So the law was just designed 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.840 to bring us to the place where we would know 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:52.320 our need for grace and receive it right so that 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.760 you would quit trying to keep the commandments in your 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.080 own strength, so that you could receive the grace of 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.200 God the person of Jesus Christ. And this is the gospel, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.600 and it still works today. And you can be forgiving 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.960 of your sin without a bull without a goat, without 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.160 eternal God. I don't need another high priest. I don't 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.639 need somebody to change their mind about me. Whoever calls 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.679 on the name of the Lord will be saved. You 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:24.159 can be forgiven right now. Not seven steps, not three classes, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.920 not ten years of sobriety, but right now. He can 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:38.720 save you, right now. And yet they are being tempted, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.560 as God is birthing the Church into the world, to 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:48.719 return to the thing that they were set free from. Okay, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.000 we talked about hidden significance. Let's talk about conflicted identities. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.720 It's when you're not used to the new way of 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:05.080 doing things enough so you return to what you knew 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:15.479 knew because what is new in that moment is costing you. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:23.359 It is costing you. The example of Moses is a 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:31.160 perfect illustration of maturing. Enough can I preach about maturity? 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.919 It seems like every sermon people want to click on 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:39.920 these days is you know miracles? But what about maturity? 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.240 What about maturity to know what to do with a 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.080 miracle when God gives it to you, so you don't 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:54.240 mismanage it. And in Hebrews eleven there is a picture 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.200 of a prophet. Moses was a prophet. He's not your 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.560 typical prophet. In fact, I thought the writer Hebrews was 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.359 pretty nice to Moses when he explained his story, And 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.159 I want to show you that now, because there's a 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:11.119 lesson even in this. You know, all I'm deciding to 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.639 do is figure out what not to tell you today, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.480 because there's so much good stuff in his So let 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.639 me give you a contrast. This will be good in 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.919 verse twenty seven by faith Moses when he had grown up. 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:22.440 I read you this, but I'm reading it again. For 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.560 a reason, he refused to be known as the son 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.960 of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.160 the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:39.040 pleasures of sin. I can't stop there. Twenty six. He 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.600 regarded disgrace for the sake of tribes as of greater 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.679 value than the treasures of Egypt because he was looking 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:51.720 ahead to his reward. Okay, this is a description or 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:58.000 a picture of maturity. In Acts chapter seven, it tells 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:02.840 us that Moses this was forty years old when he 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:07.960 made the decision to be identified with God's children, not 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.840 the Egyptians that were oppressing them. Now, there's a lot 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.120 of great stuff in the backstory that won't make time 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.040 to get into the message today about how his parents 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.760 floated him down the Nile River in a basket, the 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.920 same Nile River he would turn into blood eighty years later. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.560 He floated on to survive when he was a baby, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:32.479 And I thought about preaching faith to float, because sometimes 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.119 you feel like you're floating between two things, waiting to 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.000 see what it's going to be. And I thought about 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.040 preaching that, But I have discipline, and I'm only going 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.800 to preach one message today, and this message is about 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:49.360 how one day Moses makes a decision to be identified 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:54.840 not with the Egyptian who raised him, but with the 0:20:54.840 --> 0:21:01.240 parents that birthed them. This is not primarily a racial text. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.600 This is not primarily a nationalistic text. Conclusions could be 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:12.359 drawn in those directions, but what's really happening here is 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:19.600 about Moses choosing what he will be defined by. And 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.520 I want you to realize in your life today that 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:27.200 you have a decision about what you will be defined by. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:33.160 Even though his early life was defined by an assassination attempt, 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:39.200 even through the trauma of floating through a basket, some 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.960 of us end up in therapy because our pampers were 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.160 slightly too tight. This man was floating down a river 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:50.919 in a basket coated with tar. And even though his 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:56.440 life began with trauma, he made a decision in this 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:03.919 moment that I will not be defined by something that 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:08.119 I have become bigger than. And this is where the 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.760 significance of the text is in the detail It says 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:20.560 when he grew up. When he grew up, I wonder, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.960 are there some things that God is waiting for us 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:30.000 to outgrow that we are praying for him to remove. 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.960 And the challenge of Moses's life is, in order to 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:44.320 become what he really was, he had to outgrow everything 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:47.359 that he had ever known. You see it in the text. 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.919 He was raised as an Egyptian, but he was born 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.720 as a Hebrew. And yet there came a moment of decision, 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.640 I will not be defined by my environment. I will 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:04.119 not be limited by my experience. I will not be 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.720 affiliated with the events that brought me to this point. 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.359 There is something that God is calling you to outgrow 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:17.520 in this moment, and I wonder what it is. See, 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:22.160 because until you grow past the point of needing God 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.480 to change things, until you grow past the point some 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.159 of us have to outgrow the need for everybody to 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:35.000 like us or validate us in order to see what 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:42.240 God has really put in us. He chose to be mistreated. 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:50.320 He chose to be lonely. He chose to be a weirdo. 0:23:53.040 --> 0:24:00.360 He chose the uncomfortable space of growth. You know what, 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:09.040 Growth is chosen, not change. Change will slap you right 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.120 in the back of your head. Change will kick you right, 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:14.840 you know how, you know anyway? Change will kick you 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:18.880 in the shin. I'm editing as I go, I'm editing 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:23.119 the sermon for consumption for the mass market. But growth 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:29.119 is chosen. Growth is chosen, And in the moment he 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.719 has a decision to make, and so do you, and 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:38.040 so did the Hebrew Christians. Do we outgrow what we've 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:45.639 known so we can become who we really are? And 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:49.160 Moses didn't even do it the right way. In fact, 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.520 in Acts chapter seven, it tells us that one day, 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:54.960 when he was forty years old, this is Stephen giving 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.920 us this information, he decided to visit his own people, 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:00.280 the Israelites, and he saw one of the and being 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:03.120 mistreated by an Egyptian. So he went to his defense 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:07.200 and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Well, that's one 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:10.919 way to do it. You know, he feels something on 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:13.640 the inside. He knows that he's not what he's around. 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:16.000 He understands that there's something different in him than the 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.320 people of the culture he's surrounded in. So he does 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:21.200 something out of his impulse that is really an indication 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:24.280 of his destiny, and he kills an Egyptian, and verse 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:27.000 twenty five really got my attention. Moses thought that his 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:29.919 own people would realize that God was using him to 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:35.320 rescue them, but they didn't. So now we understand what 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:43.439 it means to say that Moses chose to be misunderstood 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:51.560 rather than to give up who he was. Grow up, 0:25:53.760 --> 0:26:01.679 Grow up? Why are we still in seventh grade and 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:06.159 we are fifty three years old and we still filter 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:09.520 the majority of our decisions through what will other people 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:15.600 think about this? We spend money with that filter, we 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:19.320 say things with that filter. We don't say things with 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:22.320 that filter. Now, I think it's important to consider what 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:24.480 others will think about things I do. I think that's 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:26.680 why you brush your teeth, That's why you make sure 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:28.720 when you go out in the morning, like there's a 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:31.000 smile on your face. That's a good thing to think 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:33.040 how your life is affecting others. But I don't think 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:37.600 you should be controlled by it. Not as grown as 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:43.560 you are. Are you really so grown in your body 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:49.440 but so small in your spirit that one person's opinion 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:54.720 can move you off your purpose. You are much too 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.959 grown at this stage in your life to be taking 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:01.560 your cues from a culture that doesn't even know Christ. 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:07.879 And our growth has been so stunned. And I'm going 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:10.600 to tell you why, because mostly what we have been 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:16.240 taught is sin suppression. We have not been taught transformative thinking. 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:19.720 We have been taught push it down and don't do 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:22.680 that where anybody can see you, and don't tell anyone 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:26.400 how it really is. So we push things down, we 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:28.879 never deal with them. We never really know how to 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.240 bring it to Jesus. And we've heard a lot about 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:38.600 forgiveness of sin, but what about freedom from sin? What 0:27:38.800 --> 0:27:41.040 good is it for God to forgive me of sin 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:44.400 if I'm gonna live running back to the same thing 0:27:44.440 --> 0:27:49.360 that He brought me out of. So now I want 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:51.000 to get into a section of the message. This is 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:53.000 going to go on my YouTube channel as a standalone. 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:55.080 This is a little mini message within the message I've 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:56.439 been promising this for a long time, and I'm an 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:58.000 preach it right now. I want to talk to you 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:01.360 about sins with benefits. Sit down and listen to this. 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:07.480 In verse twenty five, it says he chose the reproach 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:10.800 of God's people, or we could say he chose the 0:28:10.920 --> 0:28:16.320 inconvenience of purpose over the pleasure of sin. Anybody who 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:18.760 says sin doesn't feel good didn't do it right. Amen. 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:22.200 Everybody quotes this verse to talk about how sin runs out. 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:25.200 But here's the thing I've learned about. We could call 0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:27.119 it Egypt. We could call it the place where we 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:32.879 go to have our needs met. If you do not 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:38.000 appreciate and acknowledge the need that a sin is meeting, 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:43.840 you won't know how to get that need met in God. 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.840 And you will come right back to it. Now. I 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:52.240 know how that sounds. Appreciate my sin, My sin killed Jesus. 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:55.640 How can I appreciate my sin? I'm not talking about 0:28:55.720 --> 0:28:59.320 appreciating the consequence of it. I'm not talking about willfully 0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:02.880 rebelling against God. Even the apostles said, where sin increased, 0:29:02.920 --> 0:29:05.440 did grace that much more increase? But shall we continue 0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:07.239 and sin that grace may have bound God forbid? How 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:08.960 should we have died and send live any longer to it? 0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:16.160 But is the message that we're preaching in churches really 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:22.640 helping people get free? Quit sinning? Let's put it on 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:30.960 the church sign. Yeah, quit sinning, Quit cussing. You know what, 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:36.440 I would rather you keep cussing and not quit growing 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:41.640 than thinking that the whole point of the Christian faith 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:52.200 is behavior modification. I would rather you. Now this may 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:54.920 separate some of us, because some of us may be 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:59.840 so addicted to the gospel message of quit sinning, quit, 0:30:00.960 --> 0:30:04.760 quit sinning, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit. But today I 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:07.760 want to talk to you about the sin of quitting, 0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:15.360 The sin of quitting. Did you know that quitting is 0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:18.040 a sin. I'm not telling you not to put your 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:20.000 resume out. Maybe you do need another job. I'm not 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:22.640 telling you stand in an abusive relationship. That's foolish. I 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:26.200 want you to be safe. But to quit on what 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:30.400 God gave you to do and the deposit that He 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:33.040 called you the guard is the greatest sin of all. 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:41.520 And sometimes I've had to keep crying while refusing to quit. 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:48.920 Sometimes I've had to keep wrestling. We have an epidemic 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:53.360 in our world today. It is the epidemic of quitters, 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:59.200 quick quitters. There is no value in what is lasting. 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:03.840 The priority is what is seen. So we will quit 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:08.080 something to appear knowledgeable, rather than staying and becoming wise. 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:19.520 It's an epidemic. We quit everything so quick. If it 0:31:19.560 --> 0:31:21.840 doesn't get ten likes in ten minutes, we delete it. 0:31:26.560 --> 0:31:29.680 I'm too grown to give up that easy. The Bible 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:32.800 said Moses was grown enough to know this is not 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:35.520 who I am, this is not all I am, and 0:31:35.600 --> 0:31:40.440 yes it's nice like He wasn't given up a life 0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:46.200 of poverty and failure. He was known as the grandson 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:52.239 of Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the world, and 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:56.000 he said, I would rather give that up for what 0:31:56.040 --> 0:31:59.960 God has for me. I would rather give that up 0:32:01.640 --> 0:32:09.479 because he was grown enough to discern what's really worth it. 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:15.880 That's what Graanma is saying. You tricked me out of 0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:19.680 my money before I was grown enough to do a 0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:24.120 cost benefit analysis. So there's a contrast. Let's study this 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:26.640 for a moment. The Lord's been dealing with me to 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:28.400 teach a little deeper lately, so I'm gonna try to 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:34.920 do that. Is it twenty five? Give me twenty five? Uh? 0:32:35.040 --> 0:32:39.600 Huh uh huh. That's it. He chose. He didn't chose 0:32:40.000 --> 0:32:44.240 who he was born to. He didn't choose what he 0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:48.920 went through. Chose his response, and he focused on his 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:52.120 reward because he knew that the pleasures of sin were fleeting. 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:59.680 Next verse, disgrace for the sake of Christ was of 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:06.160 greater value than the treasures of Egypt. We really believe 0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:13.280 that the treasures of Egypt. The way that the world 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:18.200 defines your worth. You know all about it is status oriented. 0:33:21.960 --> 0:33:24.479 It's all the visible stuff, it's all the external stuff. 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:31.960 He chose something that he couldn't see because he saw 0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:36.239 something that others didn't. It said, he persevered because he 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:42.240 saw him who is invisible, So his values didn't come 0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:49.480 from something that was visible. Now, the more tempted that 0:33:49.520 --> 0:34:01.880 you are to quit, the greater the significance. Nothing I 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:03.960 ever did in my life of significance that I wasn't 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:08.000 tempted to quit. Now, when I am tempted to quit 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:12.879 on something that God gave me to steward, I realize 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:18.640 that the temptation to quit is an indication of the significance. 0:34:22.520 --> 0:34:24.280 We see A lot of us are addicted to quitting. 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:29.840 You talk about addicted to pills, addicted to porn, addicted 0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:32.480 to the bottle, addicted to this, addicted to that. What 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:37.759 about the addiction that we have to quitting. I'll tell 0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:41.560 you what that looks like. In my twenties. I was 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:45.080 reflecting on this with Holly the other day. I had 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:50.560 this almost like mafia mentality with people in my life, 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:53.960 and the way I operated was and this will sound 0:34:54.040 --> 0:34:55.600 really weird to some of the people who I've been 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:58.680 friends with for almost all my life, because I am 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:03.720 a loyal person. Through a stage where in my immaturity, 0:35:05.200 --> 0:35:08.440 at the first sign of conflict, I would quit a friendship. 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:14.200 That was a protective mechanism. I believe it was something 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:17.600 that I saw modeled many times. I believe that some 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:20.319 of that has to do with just, you know, like 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:23.320 how my dad grew up and you see things, and 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:26.600 I do believe that's part of it. I also believed 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:30.719 that I was immature, and I believe that I was insecure, 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:34.200 and so the moment that a friendship I'm using this 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:38.239 as an example, the moment that a friendship would have 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:42.239 conflict associated with it, it was easier for me to 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:47.320 quit or to flee from the friendship than to face 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:53.360 what I needed to face. Many of us, the moment 0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:58.960 that a relationship starts getting really intimate, we quit getting closer, 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:06.160 and we will even design drama in order to be 0:36:06.200 --> 0:36:10.360 a defense mechanism from us really having to push past 0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:15.400 the surface and really let someone see us. I was 0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:21.080 too insecure and too immature to know that the richness 0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:28.800 of intimacy is worth the willingness to push past the insecurity. 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:35.360 And God is changing me now because I'm growing. I'm growing. 0:36:36.080 --> 0:36:39.000 And you know, the funniest thing about us is we 0:36:39.120 --> 0:36:43.719 celebrate so much when someone quote unquote steps out in 0:36:43.760 --> 0:36:46.640 faith to do something new. But I was thinking the 0:36:46.680 --> 0:36:50.399 other day, sometimes the reason that we're always stepping out 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:53.600 to something new is because we don't want to stay 0:36:53.760 --> 0:36:57.320 and really change. And I know this sounds weird because 0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:01.000 the passage is about Moses leaving each but it is 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:04.640 written to Hebrew Christians who have to stay in their faith. 0:37:05.160 --> 0:37:08.840 He is using the example of someone who left something 0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:12.000 that was not really true to them in order to 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:20.440 encourage us to stay with what's really worthwhile. And when 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:24.120 you're tempted to quit, here's what happens. You only see 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:29.600 the benefit of quitting because the devil knows how to 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:36.319 hide the price tag. That's how temptation operates. And we're 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:39.000 not mature, we're not grown up. We're still look at 0:37:39.000 --> 0:37:41.080 this in Hebrews chapter five. I gotta show this Hebrews 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:44.160 chapter five, Hebrews chapter five. Because you can't quit. You 0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:47.360 can't quit. You can't quit, You can't quit, You can't quit, 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:51.640 you can't quit. You can't quit because of this. Look 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:53.920 what he says in verse eleven. We have much to 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:56.359 say about this, but it's hard to make it clear 0:37:56.400 --> 0:38:00.279 to you. Does you no longer try to understand? You 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:03.280 quit trying to understand the moment. It doesn't make sense. 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:05.520 Sometimes if we are a sermon and it doesn't rhyme, 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:07.239 and they don't tell us exactly what to write down, 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:11.719 we don't even listen anymore. It's frustrated about it. I'm not. 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:18.600 But the writer of Hebrews was you stopped trying to understand? 0:38:19.560 --> 0:38:21.840 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers. 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:23.839 You need someone else to teach you the elementary truths 0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:27.160 of God's word all over again. He said it, I 0:38:27.200 --> 0:38:32.239 didn't you need milk, not solid food? Anyone who lives 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:34.080 on milk? Still being an infant is not acquainted with 0:38:34.120 --> 0:38:37.560 the teaching about righteousness, but solid food is for the mature. 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:42.080 Watch this, who by constant use, have trained themselves to 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:48.719 distinguish good from evil. Constant use, you can't quit every 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:52.319 time it doesn't make sense. And for the love of 0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:56.200 Paul McCartney, you can't quit every time you don't understand something. 0:38:58.080 --> 0:38:59.719 I don't know why I said. Paul McCartney is a 0:38:59.760 --> 0:39:02.800 name in my mind, and that was a deep connection. 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:05.080 I didn't follow it. I didn't either, But listen to me. 0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:14.560 He's talking about Moses, the infant that God protected, and 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:18.439 how God protected certain things in your life in an 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:23.640 infant stage because he saw potential for this moment. Don't 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:32.520 quit before you get to see it, he persevered. Moses 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:37.360 did because he saw something that was not a parent 0:39:38.440 --> 0:39:47.840 to the naked eye, the treasures of Egypt, the benefits 0:39:47.880 --> 0:39:53.040 of sin. I know it sounds bad, but certain sins 0:39:53.120 --> 0:40:01.839 meet certain needs. Don't you love to judge people. I'm 0:40:01.880 --> 0:40:07.440 just being honest with you. I love judging others. It 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:12.840 is the greatest escape from having to reflect on myself. 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:21.279 It is amazing. I do not recommend it because it's 0:40:21.320 --> 0:40:29.200 got a surcharge the search charge is shame. It's the 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:33.200 hidden expense. Now watch what the devil would do. He'll 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:35.439 try to get you. He'll tempt you with something. Right, 0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:37.799 I'm not just talking about tempting you with something that 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:40.239 you heard about in youth group. I'm talking about the 0:40:40.280 --> 0:40:45.520 temptation to quit, the temptation to stop short of all 0:40:45.560 --> 0:40:48.440 that Christ has for you. And in that moment when 0:40:48.440 --> 0:40:54.520 you're tempted to quit, he highlights the benefit and hides 0:40:54.560 --> 0:41:00.880 the expense. Because if you quit showing up, if you 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:04.360 quit trying, here's what you can expect to experience. Relief. 0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:14.040 But relief is not freedom. We don't know the difference. 0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:19.720 We don't know the difference. So we run around quitting 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:23.600 everything that would change us, running from everything that would 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:28.000 revolutionize us, and resisting everything that God sends to grow us. 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:36.640 It feels like freedom, but it's really just temporary relief. 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:44.960 Sexual immorality is temporary relief with the price tag of 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:56.320 permanent bondage. Gossip. Oh that was a quiet one right there. 0:41:57.880 --> 0:42:01.400 Did you hear all of the rhness in the atmosphere, 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:09.719 The flowing of the amen says they see stuff. The 0:42:09.800 --> 0:42:18.560 immediate vacation from having to deal with yourself. What Moses did. 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:21.799 He had the ability, even though he didn't do it perfectly, y'all, 0:42:21.840 --> 0:42:29.360 he murdered a man and God called it faith. God 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:34.120 does not frame our mistakes like we frame our mistakes. 0:42:36.120 --> 0:42:40.719 And the process of maturity is learning to get from 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:46.680 your father what you used to get from Pharaoh. Wow, 0:42:53.920 --> 0:42:59.160 that every need that sin is meeting in your life, 0:43:00.080 --> 0:43:03.840 God can meet it in a better way. That every 0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:08.000 need that manipulation is meeting in your life, God can 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:11.359 meet it in a better way. When we manipulate things, 0:43:11.440 --> 0:43:13.440 do it in our own strength. Do it without praying 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:15.640 about it, Do it without caring about others, Do it 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:17.920 without considering the consequence, do it without being true to 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.840 the integrity of who we are. When we manipulate something, 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:23.160 we are trying to meet in need. The need is 0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:26.719 for us to be certain Faith can meet that same need. 0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:30.839 Faith can be certain that, no matter what the outcome is, 0:43:31.440 --> 0:43:34.920 all things are working together for my good. So I 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:38.640 don't have to control anything. I can trust God in everything. 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:42.040 And Moses chose, and you have a decision to make. 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:46.360 Will I be identified with what I've known? Will I 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:49.920 be known as where I came from? Or will I 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:52.560 in this moment of my life, in this seat. He 0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:54.800 was forty when he got there. But you don't have 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:56.920 to be forty. You can do it when you're fourteen. 0:43:57.280 --> 0:43:59.320 You might be eighty. You can do it if you 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.960 make the decis in this moment, I will not be 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:05.440 defined by my environment. I will not be defined by 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:12.640 the events that happened to me. He persevered because he saw, 0:44:13.320 --> 0:44:18.160 He saw what others couldn't see. Therefore looking unto Jesus, 0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:21.680 who is the author and finisher of our faith, who 0:44:21.719 --> 0:44:25.239 despised the shame of the cross but endured it for 0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:28.920 the joy set before him. And I believe God is 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:32.840 calling us into a season of greater faith than needing 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:36.080 to see the reason. I believe God is calling us 0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:38.960 to deeper faith than giving up the first time it 0:44:38.960 --> 0:44:43.080 doesn't work out. I believe God is calling somebody that 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:46.200 you cannot give up on yourself, because He has not 0:44:46.320 --> 0:44:49.319 given up on you yet. Because even when He had 0:44:49.360 --> 0:44:52.920 to track down Moses in the wilderness forty years later 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.120 and bring him back to Egypt to deliver the people 0:44:56.520 --> 0:45:02.319 before Moses chose God, God jo's Moses. So I don't 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:08.120 think you'll get to quit. You don't get to quit. 0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:12.560 It's not an option. The blood bought you, the grace 0:45:12.680 --> 0:45:15.400 of God called you. There's a hand of God on 0:45:15.520 --> 0:45:25.320 your life. His grip is stronger than yours. Too grown 0:45:25.400 --> 0:45:27.680 to give up, I've seen God do too much to 0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:30.640 give up. I've been too developed. He should have killed 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:33.239 me when I was a little kid, because I know 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:42.320 too much about God to walk away. Now. You know 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:44.960 how many times I've had to fight to get to 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:47.919 this pulpit to say something to you, and it would 0:45:47.960 --> 0:45:54.480 have felt better not to. You know how many times 0:45:55.560 --> 0:45:58.080 Jesus wanted to call a legion of angels to deliver 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:00.359 him from the cross, and it would have felt better 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:05.759 not to. Moses didn't make it all the way to 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:10.120 the Promised Land. So the author of Hebrews wanted you 0:46:10.160 --> 0:46:13.759 to know when you're tempted to quit, and I want 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:17.959 a minister in this moment. Have you been tempted to quit? 0:46:19.200 --> 0:46:25.240 Not necessarily quit like how people see quit, but usually 0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:35.040 you quit inside, and you quit in increments. I took 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:42.880 Greek for two weeks in college. After two weeks, I 0:46:42.920 --> 0:46:49.160 realized God did not call me to speak Greek, and 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:51.760 I went to the registrar and I got a drop slip, 0:46:51.960 --> 0:46:54.480 and I walked to Hal Freeman's office, and the moment 0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:57.560 he saw me walk in the door, he goes furred 0:46:57.640 --> 0:47:01.880 it and he laughed as diabolical laugh. He said that 0:47:01.960 --> 0:47:07.600 didn't take long. He saw the drop slip, and he 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:10.520 tried to convince me to keep taking Greek, but I quit. 0:47:11.560 --> 0:47:13.319 I had to take it again in college, I mean 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:18.840 in a seminary three times, three times. I finally finished. 0:47:20.120 --> 0:47:23.960 He said that didn't take long because I was never 0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:29.319 really committed to it. And I think it's shocking. One 0:47:29.360 --> 0:47:33.240 time Paul told the Galician church, I'm shocked how quickly 0:47:33.239 --> 0:47:38.080 you turn away to another gospel. I'm shocked how quickly 0:47:38.080 --> 0:47:40.360 you'll stop believing what I've spoken over you because of 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:45.680 somebody else saying something different. You feel something different because 0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:48.920 it doesn't happen overnight. It took Moses forty years to 0:47:48.920 --> 0:47:51.520 grow to the point, and then forty more before he said, 0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:56.080 saw it come to pass. Wow, but you're too grown 0:47:56.120 --> 0:48:02.160 to give up. You need faith and patience. Faith without 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:11.760 patience is childish faith. God sent me to tell somebody 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:20.680 you can't quit. There's too much connected to you to quit. 0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:27.360 I know it would be momentary relief. But can you 0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:33.799 see past the expense to see the benefit. The Psalmist said, 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:36.760 praise the Lord O my soul, and forget not all 0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:43.000 his benefits, who forgives all your sins, heals all your diseases, 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:46.120 redeems your life from the pit, and crowns you with 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:49.600 love and compassion. And I would rather go through a 0:48:49.640 --> 0:49:00.480 season of temporary uncertainty than compromise the truth of my identity. 0:49:01.880 --> 0:49:05.359 You're making a decision right now, and you've been really 0:49:05.400 --> 0:49:17.560 tempted to quit. Stand stand. You know what it shows 0:49:17.600 --> 0:49:21.759 me that you've been tempted to quit. It's significant what 0:49:21.840 --> 0:49:30.160 God gave you to do. I know, the stronger the 0:49:30.160 --> 0:49:34.839 temptation to quit, the greater the significance. You know how 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:37.480 many times Moses wanted to quit once he started leading 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:43.280 God's people out of Egypt. You know how many times 0:49:43.320 --> 0:49:46.400 he wanted to One time, I think he was ready 0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:49.040 to ask God to kill him, to kill them or 0:49:49.120 --> 0:49:51.160 kill him. But we can't. I can't keep up with 0:49:51.160 --> 0:49:54.080 this anymore. One time he got so burdened and overwhelmed 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:59.239 because he was trying to do everything himself. He was 0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:00.880 trying to do more than he was made to do. 0:50:04.239 --> 0:50:08.560 A pastor came to visit me three years ago, and 0:50:08.600 --> 0:50:11.120 he came to tell me that he was quitting the ministry. 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:14.680 I thought that he had had sex with somebody that 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:16.560 wasn't his wife, but that wasn't the case. I thought 0:50:16.600 --> 0:50:19.200 he had maybe had a financial impropriety, but that wasn't 0:50:19.200 --> 0:50:25.920 the case. But the temptation to quit was from the 0:50:25.960 --> 0:50:28.840 strain and the burden of maintaining what he had built. 0:50:29.280 --> 0:50:32.440 And I think everybody can relate to that. I really do. 0:50:35.880 --> 0:50:37.600 So I said, why did you come tell me that 0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:41.320 you wanted to quit? He said, because I wanted to 0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:47.719 see if you could convince me not to. So he said, 0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:51.480 how have you done it? Fifteen years or at the time, 0:50:51.520 --> 0:50:54.719 I guess it was twelve, he said, and you didn't quit. 0:50:57.280 --> 0:50:58.840 And I wish I could have told him, because the 0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:00.640 joy of the Lord is my strength, and it is 0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:02.920 a blessing and a privilege to serve the mightiness of 0:51:02.960 --> 0:51:05.120 His splendid for his grace, and I just look unto 0:51:05.200 --> 0:51:07.120 him who is the author and finisher of my faith. 0:51:08.719 --> 0:51:13.839 But I had to be honest, I said every time 0:51:13.880 --> 0:51:16.560 that I was tempted to quit, Not only did I 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:19.160 realized after the fact that it was an indication that 0:51:19.200 --> 0:51:22.000 there was something significant. There is something significant, There is 0:51:22.040 --> 0:51:26.360 something significant. They wanted to kill those Hebrew babies because 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:29.799 of the significance and the strength that they represented. So 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:35.400 after realizing that every time I wanted to quit, I 0:51:35.440 --> 0:51:40.640 realized it was time to shift, and that to keep 0:51:40.880 --> 0:51:44.200 doing what God had called me to do, I needed 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:48.359 to shift how I was doing it. And he didn't quit. 0:51:48.840 --> 0:51:50.919 Not all stories have a happy ending, but the dude 0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:56.000 still went back and did it because he didn't quit, 0:51:57.120 --> 0:52:01.680 he shifted. I don't know what you want to quit today. 0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:04.759 Maybe you just want to quit trying but keep your 0:52:04.760 --> 0:52:08.600 body present. Maybe you want to quit really trying to 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:12.640 love people and just become this bitter, cynical person that 0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:17.520 never tries again because people suck. Could you tell that 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:19.120 was coming from a deep place inside of me. When 0:52:19.120 --> 0:52:24.479 I said I felt possessed for a minute, God said, 0:52:24.719 --> 0:52:30.680 don't quit. Shift. Shift. When Moses was overwhelmed later in 0:52:30.680 --> 0:52:32.560 his life, this was not the last time that he 0:52:32.560 --> 0:52:34.880 would have to make the decision when he was overwhelmed 0:52:34.880 --> 0:52:37.040 because there were too many people and he was running 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:39.440 on empty and they were asking him for everything, and 0:52:39.480 --> 0:52:41.640 his father in law Jethro came to see him with 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.719 his two daughters, and he said, I see what you're doing, 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:45.680 and you're spread tooth in and it's not going to work. 0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:48.160 You've got to shift how you're doing this. You don't 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:50.120 have to quit what God has called you to you 0:52:50.160 --> 0:52:53.839 have to shift how you're doing it. And I sat 0:52:53.880 --> 0:52:57.239 there with that pastor and we listed everything that he 0:52:57.440 --> 0:53:00.839 was doing that somebody else could do everything that he 0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:03.760 was doing. Remember, maturity is first and foremost the ability 0:53:04.080 --> 0:53:07.680 to discern what is worth it. And I bet we 0:53:07.719 --> 0:53:10.000 found seven or eight things that were worthless on his 0:53:10.120 --> 0:53:13.279 list that he needed to be weaned from so that 0:53:13.360 --> 0:53:15.200 he could have the strength to continue in what God 0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:22.520 has called him to do. Don't quit, shift, shift, shift 0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:24.560 into a new way of doing it. And this is 0:53:24.600 --> 0:53:28.360 the challenge to choose to go through a season of 0:53:28.440 --> 0:53:34.920 struggle instead of embracing the relief. He persevered because he 0:53:34.960 --> 0:53:39.320 saw him who is invisible. Do you always need results? 0:53:41.160 --> 0:53:47.000 Do you always need compliments? Do you always need a quicket? 0:53:47.120 --> 0:53:48.880 Or can you get an ugly dub every once in 0:53:48.960 --> 0:53:53.960 a while. I told Elijah, not every win is going 0:53:54.040 --> 0:53:58.640 to be pretty. Sometimes it's an ugly dub. Moses didn't 0:53:58.640 --> 0:54:06.200 do it just right, but he did it. Quit, and 0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:10.600 neither will you. God didn't bring you here to hear 0:54:10.600 --> 0:54:14.440 this so you could just quit in increments, you know, 0:54:14.800 --> 0:54:19.080 slowly withdrawing yourself from your own life until there's really 0:54:19.080 --> 0:54:23.000 nothing of you left, Slowly withdrawing from your relationships until 0:54:23.000 --> 0:54:26.440 there's no real intimacy, just the illusion of it. Slowly 0:54:26.480 --> 0:54:29.480 withdrawing your expectation from the gates of heaven until you 0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:32.160 no longer pray expecting anything to really happen, because you 0:54:32.200 --> 0:54:33.879 don't believe that he is or that he rewards those 0:54:33.880 --> 0:54:39.959 who diligently seek him. We grow in increments, we quit 0:54:39.960 --> 0:54:45.920 inn increments. And today the Lord said to tell you 0:54:44.520 --> 0:54:49.239 you're too groomed to give up. I want to pray 0:54:49.280 --> 0:54:53.640 for you. Now, stand up all over, all over the auditorium, 0:54:53.680 --> 0:54:56.759 all over Lake Norman, all over Matthews, all over Riverwalk, 0:54:57.560 --> 0:55:01.239 all over Winston Salem, all over, all over right there 0:55:01.280 --> 0:55:05.799 in your home. Why don't you stand right now? I 0:55:05.840 --> 0:55:09.799 want the enemy to see you standing. I wanted to 0:55:09.840 --> 0:55:11.920 know that you're still going to be standing tomorrow and 0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:13.680 the next day and the next day, and the next 0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:22.080 day and the next day and the next day. I 0:55:22.120 --> 0:55:24.240 don't know. I just hear the Lord saying, You're too grown, 0:55:24.320 --> 0:55:26.680 and I've done too much, and I've been trusted too much, 0:55:26.719 --> 0:55:29.600 and You've survived too much to give up over this 0:55:34.440 --> 0:55:40.319 father right now by faith, Like Moses, we want to 0:55:40.360 --> 0:55:44.000 see him who is invisible. What a paradox to see 0:55:44.080 --> 0:55:53.000 what we can't see, to believe what we can't understand. Lord, 0:55:53.000 --> 0:55:57.040 your ways are higher than ours. I bring before you 0:55:57.760 --> 0:56:02.160 all of your children, one by one, the ones you 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:03.759 have called by name, the ones you have chosen, the 0:56:03.760 --> 0:56:06.040 ones that you have protected from their birth until this moment. 0:56:06.160 --> 0:56:07.959 And you saw their worth from the moment of their birth. 0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:10.240 You did not see it when the world converted upon them. 0:56:10.560 --> 0:56:13.640 It is not contingent on any behavior or performance, but 0:56:13.680 --> 0:56:16.480 their worth is great in your eyes. And yet they 0:56:16.480 --> 0:56:22.000 are quitting on themselves, giving up on themselves. We choose 0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:25.400 in this moment the riches of Christ over the treasures 0:56:25.400 --> 0:56:30.480 of Egypt. We choose in this moment the uncomfortable growth 0:56:30.520 --> 0:56:37.239 in our lives over the convenience and the relief of sin. 0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:41.000 I thank you Lord today that you have given us 0:56:41.400 --> 0:56:45.280 this message of freedom. We bring it all before you now, 0:56:46.360 --> 0:56:49.920 because we're standing between two identities too, and we need 0:56:49.920 --> 0:56:52.360 your help in these moments. God, that we would not hide, 0:56:52.920 --> 0:56:55.719 that we would not rhyme, that we would not take 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:57.680 discomfort as a sign that it is time for us 0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:04.279 to leave. God, that we stand in this place. You 0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:11.879 have need of perseverance, you have need of faith. So God, 0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:13.880 we're not asking you to take away all of our problems, 0:57:13.920 --> 0:57:15.479 because I don't think that's the prayer you to answer. 0:57:15.480 --> 0:57:18.080 Would be nice, but it's not going to happen. Instead, 0:57:18.160 --> 0:57:23.040 increase our faith. We want to outgrow our insecurities. Until 0:57:23.120 --> 0:57:24.680 greater is He that is in us than he that 0:57:24.800 --> 0:57:27.280 is in the world. We want to outgrow what we've 0:57:27.320 --> 0:57:31.160 worried about. Is we worship you. No created thing, no 0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:35.160 created thing is is, no created thing has control over 0:57:35.200 --> 0:57:37.520 you or your will. And so God, right now we 0:57:37.640 --> 0:57:40.960 just we declare in the name of Jesus, the name 0:57:41.000 --> 0:57:43.480 that is above every name, the one whom we are 0:57:43.520 --> 0:57:46.320 identified with, the one who is seated in heaven. We 0:57:46.360 --> 0:57:49.360 declare that our identity is in Him, It is in you, 0:57:49.600 --> 0:57:51.960 and it is by you, and it is for you. 0:57:56.480 --> 0:57:59.160 We thank you for this word. Right now, I want 0:57:59.160 --> 0:58:02.080 to give an invitation for somebody to receive Jesus Christ 0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:04.959 as the Lord of your life right now. You've never 0:58:05.040 --> 0:58:09.320 trusted him for your salvation. You've never trusted him for 0:58:09.360 --> 0:58:12.520 the forgiveness of your sin. The Bible says that if 0:58:12.560 --> 0:58:15.400 you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and 0:58:15.480 --> 0:58:18.000 believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, 0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:22.320 you will be saved. You will be saved, you will 0:58:22.320 --> 0:58:25.640 be set free, you will be made new. If anyone 0:58:25.680 --> 0:58:28.680 is in Christ, he is a new creation. And I 0:58:28.720 --> 0:58:31.320 believe this is a defining moment in your life. You've 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:34.280 been running from God, You've been running from truth, You've 0:58:34.320 --> 0:58:37.320 been running from yourself. But God brought you to this moment. 0:58:37.520 --> 0:58:40.920 The situations and circumstances of your life have all aligned 0:58:41.120 --> 0:58:43.640 to bring you to this moment to place your faith 0:58:43.640 --> 0:58:46.560 in Jesus Christ, not by a pledge to do better, 0:58:46.880 --> 0:58:50.000 but by an open heart that receives the grace of God. So, 0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:52.880 right now, if that's you, right where you are, I 0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:55.880 want you to repeat this prayer after me out louding. 0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:59.000 God will hear from heaven, and he will forgive your sin, 0:58:59.240 --> 0:59:02.640 and he will cling you of all unrighteousness. Now repeat 0:59:02.640 --> 0:59:05.840 after me all across the church everybody praying out loud 0:59:06.080 --> 0:59:08.000 for the benefit of those who are coming to God 0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:12.880 Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior, 0:59:13.640 --> 0:59:17.720 and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:22.320 God and the savior of the world. And today I 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:27.600 make Jesus the lord of my life. I believe Jesus 0:59:27.640 --> 0:59:32.640 died that I could be forgiven and rose again to 0:59:32.680 --> 0:59:38.320 give me life. I receive this new life. This is 0:59:39.280 --> 0:59:42.160 my new beginning. On the count of three, raise your 0:59:42.200 --> 0:59:44.880 hand if you just prayed that prayer one two three 0:59:45.080 --> 0:59:48.480 in the chat, say I receive Jesus. I receive Jesus. 0:59:49.400 --> 0:59:55.480 I believe that I receive the grace of God. And 0:59:55.520 --> 0:59:59.200 I'm walking in a new beginning. I said, I'm walking 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:04.600 in a new begin Know who my Father is. My 1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:08.440 sins are forgiven, and we decree and declare over your life. 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:12.880 The old has gone the news Colm, Let's give God 1:00:12.920 --> 1:00:16.720 a great sound of praise for all the souls coming 1:00:16.800 --> 1:00:24.840 home to the Father's arms. God, bless you. Thank you 1:00:24.880 --> 1:00:27.400 for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who 1:00:27.440 --> 1:00:30.440 give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that 1:00:30.480 --> 1:00:33.400 this ministry is possible. You can click the link in 1:00:33.440 --> 1:00:37.520 the description to give now or visit Elevationchurch dot org 1:00:37.600 --> 1:00:41.280 slash podcast for more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, 1:00:41.560 --> 1:00:44.280 you can subscribe. 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