Victory (Earl McClellan)

0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.639 Well, we're gonna get to the message in just a moment, 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.840 but I wanted to make sure you knew about Elevation Nights. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.280 It's gonna be amazing eight cities October twenty sixth through 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.080 November fourth. You gotta go to Elevation Nights dot com 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.360 to see if we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.320 It's gonna be me, Elevation Worship, a few friends, and you. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:22.680 I want to see you there. I want to see 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.959 you and everybody that you know there. Go to Elevation 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.639 Nights dot com. I can't wait to see you soon. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:33.159 Here's the message. You're ready for a righty today? Or what? 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.599 Come on? Kart? All you're ready? All you're ready? Are 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.280 you're ready? All you're ready? I think God about to 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.319 meet us in a mighty and a powerful way. I 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.479 am fired up about today. Thank you so much, gentlemen 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.599 for bringing that out. Are you going? I hope you're 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.120 filled with faith at every location, those even sitting at 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.000 home eating eggs. Right now, every single person, I hope 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.160 you are ready for God to touch your heart exactly 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.720 where you need him to touch your heart. I mean, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.520 today is just not a normal Sunday. This is the 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.600 day of resurrection life. This is a day of victory, 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.839 this is a day of hope. It's the day of breakthrough. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.880 So whatever you might be carrying on your shoulders today, no, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.000 the God of Heaven is greater, he's bigger. He's ready. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.800 If you're ready, he's ready, if you're open, he has 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:25.759 more available to you. This could even possibly imagine. So, church, family, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.720 and every location. I want you to have your heart 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.680 wide open today. I don't want you to have minuscule 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.959 fate just thinking this is gonna be a normal, just 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:40.080 another day. Another another ball guy getting up here talking. Now, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.720 this is the day that God knows you by name. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.920 He knows everything that you're walking through, everything that you're 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.840 dealing with, everything that's on your mind and on your heart. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.680 He has not forgotten about you. And today will be 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.600 a day of victory in Jesus' name. Why don't you 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.760 clap your hands one more time? Give God praise at 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.040 all of our locations, even though it was at home 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.640 in the chat. Go ahead and give God thanks and praise, 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.760 and give somebody a kiss on the cheek or a handshake, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:14.680 and you may be seated. I'm excited about today. I 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:20.720 am so excited. Hey, you'll already know this, but I 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.320 just gotta say it. You got the best pastors on 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.560 the planet, right, You know that, right man? I am 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.680 so incredibly honored to be here today. I met the 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.120 Verdex number of years ago. But I remember this one 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.519 interaction I actually had with Pastor Holly. We're actually over 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.720 in another country. We're all at a conference together, and 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.560 I was gonna be speaking the next year, and she said, Hey, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.239 you're gonna speaking next year. I sad yea yeh got'a 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.919 be speaking. She was, let me give you some advice. Yeah, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.000 give me the advice right now. She was so leaned 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.360 and poured so much wisdom into me in that to 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.320 help set me up for the next year. She and 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.679 Pastor Stephen have They have the type of heart that's 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.040 an other's oriented type of heart. It's not about here 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.440 I am, It's about a there you are kind of 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.280 spirit that they have. And I love that about the Verdicts. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.880 They have been a source of inspiration and strength to 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.120 me and my whole church family, my personal family. Our 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.440 churches are nine years old, and I remember reading Sun 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.400 Stands Still right before we're about to start launching our 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:37.280 church I remember seeing the baptisms, I remember hearing the stories. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.320 I remember all that God was doing in and through 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.760 Pastor Steven and the team, and how my heart was 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.200 filled with so much faith. There is a mark on 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.400 my life, and all of you who are a part 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.200 of the EPAM or any of our campuses, you have 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.920 been a part of that. You are impacting people all 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.920 over the world. But I got to say a huge 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.360 thank you to pass Steven and his amazing wife and 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.440 his kids for paving the way, taking the step, not quitting, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.520 not giving up. When people are turning their backs, they 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.280 keep on putting one foot in front of the other. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.920 They could have quit a long time ago, but they 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.880 saw you on the other side of their yes. So 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.279 thank you so much God for the beautiful verdict family. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.960 The songs that have been written in this house. Come on, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:32.480 I'm still singing, come to the altar every opportunity I get. Man, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.360 the atmosphere is changing now. My life has been marked. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.640 My family has been marked. So I'm thrilled to be here. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.039 Speaking of my family, I do have a picture of 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.159 my family. I gotta show you this picture because they're 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.240 amazing and beautiful. The first picture I think I have 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.760 is a formal picture. This is our formal picture. There's 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.920 a formal picture. Yeah, that's why my head looks all 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.360 jacked out. I don't know. You know when you're taking 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.000 those family pictures. No, no, no no, put your head down. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:07.040 It up, okay, now squat, Yeah that's natural. So that's 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.400 what I look like in that picture right there. But 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.760 the rest of my family looks perfect. That's my beautiful wife. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.920 Her name is Onika. We've been married twenty four years now. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:22.360 It has gone by so fast. She's my sexy piece 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.520 of dark chocolate. That's what I call her. You can't 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.200 call her that, but I can call her that. She 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.320 is my best friend. Incredibly gifted and talented. I mean 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.799 everything from leading to speaking. I mean, I'm just riding 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.800 on her coattails. I'm so incredibly thankful for her. We 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.599 have our sixteen year old son. His name is Parker. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.960 His neck is getting really thick, his pockets are still 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.000 kind of empty. So he has a job right now. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.960 He's working at Jesus Chicken Chick fil A and he 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.960 is learning my pleasure and had the first customer that 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.400 was rude to him the other day. I was like, good, son, Now, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:04.440 you know how we feel dealing with y'all. No, he's 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.000 a great young man. He wants to get a car, 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.719 and he was buying a lot during COVID. You know, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.400 we're all locked up for a while, and he was 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.760 using all his money for door dash and I'm like, son, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.560 you need to save your money for your car because 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.160 I'm buying it for you. So we're just doing half 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.280 on his car. But he decided to do get a 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.800 whole lot of subway and a whole lot of Chick 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.040 fil A. But now he's saving his money. He's saving 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.039 his money so he can get that car. So he's sixteen. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.120 Love him so much, incredible young man. Then Grayson is 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.600 our middle he's eleven years old. My wife calls him 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.120 Wonder in a bottle. This guy is so creative, so 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.360 much fun, so full of life, loves Fortnite and all 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:46.000 things creative. He's an engineer. He is an absolute blast. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.680 And then our daughter, who is a star on our 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.720 Christmas tree, as my wife puts it. Her name is 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.039 el Grace. She is six years old and just the 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.680 best little girl on the planet as far as I'm concerned. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.960 I think she knows it. To you. There's not a 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.400 chance that any she's gonna I don't know if she's 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.640 ever gonna work. I don't know when she's got brothers 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.800 and a dad and she's the baby girl. She's not 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.880 being set up for success right now. I don't even 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.600 know if she does not to tie her shoes yet. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.680 We're doing everything for her. But we love her so much. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.640 So that's a stuffy picture. But I think I got 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.560 a fun picture when we dressed up one year too. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.560 Do have a fun picture as well. Yeah, this is 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.000 a family. I guess we were the Harlem Globetrotters or something. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.960 I don't know what we were, but we all threw 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.880 on our afros and had a great, great time going 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.360 to a little costume party. But today we're gonna open 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.880 up God's word together. You already, you're all ready for this. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.200 I know. I'm fired up. I am fired up. I 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.000 am throw if you have your bibles. If you have 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.640 your bibles, turn with me to First Corinthians chapter fifteen. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:58.160 First Corinthians chapter fifteen. Am excited about today. First Corinthians 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.679 chapter fifteen. We're gonna look at verse number fifty seven. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.840 If you did not bring your Bible, we'll put the 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.320 words on the screen so you can follow along with us. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.680 Make sure we're not making anything up. First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:19.120 verse number fifty seven, it says, but thanks be to God, 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:28.640 he gives us the victory. He gives us the victory. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.640 He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.679 The title for today's message is really simple. It's just victory. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.800 And this was just the word that I kept hearing 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.680 wrigging my heart over and over. I wanted something cooler, 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.840 I wanted something a little bit more elaborate, but this 0:08:51.000 --> 0:09:00.840 was just what came to me. Victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.480 This is all I could hear in my heart when 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.480 I knew I was coming to Elevation Church. All I 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.080 could hear was victory. For people in the chat, All 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.400 I could hear was victory from moms and dads. All 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.440 I could hear was victory for teenagers. All I could 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.560 hear was victory. For college students. All I could hear 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.240 was victory. For those that have been divorced. All I 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.560 could hear was victory for those trusting God from miracles. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.360 All I could hear was victory. For artists. All I 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.520 could hear was victory. For those that are facing bills. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.839 All I could hear was victory. For those in the 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.120 hospital rooms right now. All I could hear was victory 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.680 for those that have weights on their shoulders that they're 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.640 not sure how they're gonna get through. All I could 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:44.280 hear was victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory. Not just 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.640 for the person next to you. I'm talking about victory 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.480 for you. Victory for your family, victory over your past, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.439 victory in your future. This is not just for others. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:04.040 It's for you today. Family victory, victory over every hurt, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.200 over every habit, over every hang up, over every bit 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.640 of disease, over every bit of doubt, over every bit 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.480 of discrimination, over every bit of fear, over every bit 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.160 of insecurity. Oh, I need you to know this is 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.760 for you. I'm not just talking to somebody else. God 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:30.760 had an assignment for me today, for you. Victory. Victory. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.559 I'm new to church, victory, I don't know much about 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:44.079 the Bible. Victory, I ain't been on a date in years. Victory, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:55.200 But thanks be to God. But thanks be to God. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.000 There's a lot of people I can think I'm thankful 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.240 for my mother. I'm thankful for my wife. Shoot, I'm 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.800 thankful for Pastor Stephen. I'm thanking for the worship team. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.439 That's a lot of people, I can think. But in 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.240 this moment, right now, when I think about his goodness 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.880 and all He's done for me, I've got to thank 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.920 God in this moment. I never even knew I would 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.200 be in this spot. I should have been paid, I 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.040 should have been parried, I should have been Thanks be 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:36.080 to God. I'm already too fired up. I'm already too 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:43.680 fired up here. Thanks be to God, who gives, who 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:54.199 gives us, it gives us. He gives you, He gives 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:59.800 us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Go with 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.520 me to I gotta add another verse. I gotta this 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.560 is an important verse. Go with me to Colossians. And 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:05.839 as you go in there, you need to know that 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:11.320 this victory, this victory is for, is for the scene 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:18.800 and the unseen. It's for the now and the not yet. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.640 Come on the top of victory, for the scene, in 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:29.160 the scene and the unseen, in the now and in 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.400 the not yet. Your eyes will play games on you, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.640 try to make you think that you lost because of 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.640 what you see. And I'm just telling you this victory 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.000 and what you see and in what you can't see. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:51.800 Oh man, Colossus, chapter two. What verse verse thirteen I 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.480 think is that right? Let me look at my screens. Yeah, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:59.800 verse thirteen it says, when you were dead in your sins? 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.320 I like this, The Bible is really clear. So I'm like, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.920 when you were you know, a halfway decent person. And 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:10.400 I was like, no, you were dead. You're dead. You're 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.320 dead in your sins. I was dead in my sins, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:18.360 and the uncircumcision of your flesh God made you alive. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:25.000 With Christ. He forgave us all our sins. This is 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.480 good news. This is good news. You can't outsind his grace. 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.600 Jesus even died for the things you did on purpose, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.400 not just the accidents. You know, sometimes you stumble into stuff, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:45.000 but sometimes if you're texting somebody at two thirty am, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:52.080 what you're doing, that in an accident. But he even 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.079 died for the things you and I did on purpose. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.520 He forgave us our sins. Having canceled the charge of 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:05.439 our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:12.199 He has taken it away, mailing it to the cross. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.440 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:22.400 public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.680 I love this passage of scripture right here. Can we 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.640 just break it down just a little bit. There's a 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.800 number of different words in here. In Verse number fifteen, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.560 I want us to look at it says and having disarmed. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:41.000 The word disarmed there means to take off and or 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.880 strip off clothing. The powers there the word signifies like 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:53.400 first in rank. The authority here signifies someone that has 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:59.520 like a state of control or authority over something. The 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:06.280 public spectacle is when you would make like a public 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.320 shaming of someone. In our house, I got my two 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.880 boys I was telling you about, and my two boys 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.120 don't do this. If you're looking at other parts of 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.760 the world, you might not do this. In America, we 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.800 do this thing called pantsing. It's not all in America, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.200 but in my house we do it. You're not allowed 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.920 to do this outside the house. With my boys. We 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.840 do this to each other all the time. Okay, So 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.840 if you're just you know, hey, get the dishes done, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.720 all right, and somebody's doing the dishes, you come up 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:36.280 behind them. I'm not saying it's right but we're just 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 keeping our family alive. Right, So our sixteen year old 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.400 to our eleven year old, it's pandemonium all the time. Right. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.080 I'm in another room and I can hear in gracious 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.120 like Parker, I know my son just got pants. I 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.040 know his shorts are down by his ankles in that moment. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.400 So we're getting each other all the time. You're not 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.040 allowed to do this in public. We've made that very 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.040 very clear to our sons a man in the house, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.640 and sometimes it happened with some guests over when you're 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.120 not supposed to do it when guests are over the 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.800 house either. You know, parents, we got all these random 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.560 rules that our kids are supposed to know. But there's 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.320 nothing like. There's nothing like when I walk up behind 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:26.280 my sons at the cross, it's like what Jesus did 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:34.640 to the enemy and all of his imps pants them. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:42.000 This is biblical pants them, public shaming, public disgrace. I'm 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.440 gonna do this in front of everybody. I'm gonna get 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.640 on this old rugged cross in front of everybody. I'm 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.720 gonna take the sin and the shame of the world, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.480 and I'm gonna put it on myself. And when he 0:16:53.560 --> 0:17:02.000 puts it on himself. There's something powerful that happens. Everything 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:09.840 is nailed to this cross. This triumphing word. It carries 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:15.160 with it the idea to like display a triumph openly. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.320 It's like, I'm not keeping this hidden. It was a 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.120 word that they used for for Roman generals when they 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:30.040 came back from a victory, and they have won a battle, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.520 and this Roman general would be on the chariot being 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.119 carried into the city. Maybe he would have his kids 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.120 or his friends in the chariot with him, and they 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.480 would be heading towards the capital, and his arm would 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.919 be behind him, and those he had defeated would be 0:17:51.040 --> 0:18:04.920 chained to the chariot, and his soldiers would be shouting triumph, triumph, triumph, triumph. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.159 Here is the imagery that the writer gives you and 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.640 I when he talks about what happened at the Cross. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:21.440 He says, Jesus at the Cross was this Roman general 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:27.600 on the chariot, and every single bit of disease and 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:33.080 darkness and fear and doubt was chained to that chariot, 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.119 and his sons and his daughters and those who have 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:41.160 been following him are coming behind him shouting. That's the 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.640 man right there. That's the one who got the victory. 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.679 That's the one who's in charge. But you know, what 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:53.520 has happened. It seems as if it seems as if 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:59.800 we've changed the story. It seems as if we're starting 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:06.480 to think that maybe that didn't really happen, that maybe 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.240 what Jesus did on the Cross was just good for 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.280 those two thousand years ago, and we'll just kind of 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.600 walk around in bondage and we'll just wait for a 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:18.720 day when we get to Heppen. I know, we got 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.080 campuses all over the place. But for those who are 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:26.400 in North Carolina, there is a football team in North 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.480 Carolina called the Carolina Panthers. You all know about the team. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.399 You all know about this team. You don't even know. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.879 You don't even know about this team. Y'all don't care 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.600 about the seam. Well, I don't. I can't say I'm 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.000 mad at you. Okay, I can't can't say I'm mad 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:44.480 at you about that, because remember Super Bowl fifty. Sorry 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:48.560 to bring this up, google it. You know, the part 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.359 of the world googled this. In Super Bowl fifty, the 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.480 Carolina Panthers made it to the Super Bowl to play 0:19:52.480 --> 0:20:00.800 against the Denver Broncos. Oh man, WHOA, Well, they didn't win. Okay, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.440 they didn't win. Sorry to spoil it. They didn't win. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.440 But you know what happens is they don't know who's 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.679 gonna win the game before the game starts. So what 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:17.440 they do is they print shirts and hats that will 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.480 say who the champion is. So there are shirts printed 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:29.120 right now that say Super Bowl fifty Champions, Carolina Panthers. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:38.040 There's a hat right now LP that says super Bowl 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:55.720 fifty champions Champions Carolina Panthers. Now, they didn't win, so 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.119 they had to send those shirts somewhere. I don't know 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:06.320 where they win, but somewhere around the world. I don't 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.199 know if it's Europe. I don't know. If it's Africa. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.679 I don't know if it's Australia. Shoot, maybe they sent 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:16.200 them to Antarctica. There might be an Escabo somewhere right now, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:28.760 walking around like Panthers for Life? Has the hat? Has 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.560 the shirt? Maybe got some shoes, I don't know what 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.520 they got, some Air Force ones that are baby blue. 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.440 They are walking around as if the Carolina Panthers won, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.240 But the Carolina Panthers did not win. I feel like 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:48.040 there's too many followers of Jesus walking around with the 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.560 wrong hat and the wrong jersey on. We're walking around 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.720 as if what happened at the Cross is not good 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.920 for us today. We're walking around as if what Jesus 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.520 did back then was only good for back then, but 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.119 not good for my bills, and not good for my kids, 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.480 and not good for my business, and not good for 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.200 my mind, and not good from my body, and not 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.960 good for my community, and not good from my nation. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.520 But I'm letting you know if you've been wearing the 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.400 wrong hat and if you've been wearing the wrong jersey, 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:18.919 the day is the day where your eyes are open, 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.159 where you can know that Jesus Christ is who he 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.880 says he is, he did what he said he did, 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:30.120 and not cross. That cavalry is still working today. I'm 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:41.720 shouting victory. I'm shouting tryumph. Some of y'all still aren't 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:46.600 believing me. You're still not believing me. But what I 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.160 know is if the enemy can distort our view of them, 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:56.760 he can distort the truth of them. If the enemy 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:03.159 can distort our view of what happened, then then he 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:10.360 can distort our truth of now. So if you are 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:15.919 thinking my prayer wasn't answered, so God must not be 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:23.639 all powerful. We had the funeral and we prayed that 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:31.840 they wouldn't die. Maybe God does not work. I asked 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:39.120 for forgiveness, but I'm still feeling shame. Maybe what Jesus 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:45.600 did is not for me. What ends up happening with 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:50.119 all of us at different times is we can start 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:56.119 second guessing what happened back then. I just fellowed a 0:23:56.119 --> 0:24:00.360 little bit of an assignment to open our eyes back 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:06.680 up because COVID has tried to mess with us. Man, 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.040 I know, we got some folks in Florida and COVID 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:12.960 is not down there, you know at all, God bless you, 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:19.600 rolled right through it. It was like I'm from Texas Street. 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:21.480 We were like, oh no, no, you ain't. You ain't. 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:23.720 Don't shut out, you ain't shutting nobody down over here. 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:30.879 Started messing, started messing with, started messing with people, started 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:35.240 messing with us. Locked away in the house, going to 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:39.800 the refrigerator thirty eight times, still feeling that one but 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:46.359 God's good victory. So I started messing with, sort of 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:49.560 messing with our vision, started messing with our understanding of 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:52.399 who God is, started messing with the power of the 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:56.199 Gospel started making us think that maybe maybe science is 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:59.399 what's in charge, maybe governments what's in charge. Maybe my 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:03.240 feeling or what is in charge. Maybe maybe the pundits 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.280 or what's in charge. Maybe all these other individuals. What 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:09.520 they say, what they say, trump's what God's word says. 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:11.080 And I want you to know, whether you listen to 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:15.000 CNN or MSNBC or Fox News or MPR, wherever you go, 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.560 every single one of them, their words will fail. But 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:19.919 the words that will never fail, it's the words that 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:22.440 are in this Book of Life right here. So I'm 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.199 thankful for the Word of God. And I'm thankful for 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:28.720 a church like Elevation that keeps preaching the word of God. 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:33.199 I'm not sure if pastors even of felt this, but 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.800 I know I discovered I thought I was people's pastor. 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:40.080 Then I found out that Tucker Carlson was their pastor. 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.159 I found out that Rachel Maddow was their pastor. I 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:46.080 found out that these other pundits were their pastor. And I, hey, 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:47.520 you can go get your news wherever you want to 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:49.879 get your news, but when when you come to church, 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.320 when you come to the House of God, you're not 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:54.919 trying to get our opinion. We're trying to give you 0:25:54.960 --> 0:26:00.000 the word, the inspired word of God, written by God 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:03.800 through the hands of men. And this word of God 0:26:03.880 --> 0:26:06.840 is alive and active, sharper than any double edged sword. 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.080 And some of us gotta wake up out of our summer. 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.240 We still carrying the residue of the mess of this 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.200 past season. But God is trying to let you know, chirt, 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:20.280 the day is the day of victory for every single 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:29.480 one of us. What God says is still true. It's 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:36.720 still true. Okay, go with me. Let's let's go old 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:41.600 test Let's go old Testament. Let's go old Testament. Isaiah, Isaiah, 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:42.720 I'm not gonna talk to your ear off. I'm not 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:48.280 gonna talk your ear off, Isaiah. I say a Chapter six. Look, 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:50.320 I'm just slipping all these pages. I say it, Chapter six. 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:53.240 Look at this, verse number one. Okay, I say it, 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:55.760 Chapter six, Verse number one. I needed the TD Jakes hanky. 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:58.760 I'm sweating a little bit. Look me out, God, I 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:07.520 need to take you. Okay. In the year look at this, 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:10.720 I say yah, Chapter six, verse number one. In the 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:20.000 year that King Usiah died, I saw the Lord High 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:27.240 and Exalted, seated on a throne and the train of 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:35.199 his robe filled the temple. Okay, so I know some 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:38.120 of y'all still homeschooling your kids. My daughter, my six 0:27:38.200 --> 0:27:41.320 year old, right now, is on about adjectives and nouns 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:44.560 and she don't care because she's like, brothers, do this 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:49.320 homework for me. So but but but but but those 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:51.359 who are English, mador just for a quick second, you know, 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:53.080 the word train can mean a lot of different things. 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:56.400 Can be a verb, okay, be a verb, come on, nerds, 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:58.160 work with me for a second. Can be a verb 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:02.760 to train, like to teach someone to behavior or a skill. 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:06.960 A train can also be a noun, right, okay, person, 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:10.520 place of thing, and this you can be like a 0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:14.280 train like railroad cars. Well this train here, we're not 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:20.480 talking Thomas. Okay, somebody's talking the train. Here's a Thomas 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:23.120 a train reference for those years of people googling right now, 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:30.920 so he's not talking railroad cars. This train that he's 0:28:30.960 --> 0:28:35.240 talking about, this is the train like that's connected to 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:40.320 a garment, like a bride. I know some brides are 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:44.920 still upset about twenty twenty. Right, had this perfect wedding plan, 0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:50.760 couldn't wait, you know, shut it down? Hey, you still 0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:52.360 go ahead and do you all right, you go ahead 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:55.160 and have your wedding. We celebrate every single bride that 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:56.960 feels like their heart was broken, just so you know, 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.520 God has not forgotten about you, and he cares about 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:02.280 all of your dreams. Okay, and he is going to 0:29:02.360 --> 0:29:05.680 cross every t and dot every eye. You'll have that precious, 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.200 beautiful moment that you're looking for. But we're talking now 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:15.000 about the train like that's connected in a wedding. And 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:19.120 he says, here the year the king Uziah died, I 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:22.440 saw the Lord saw I'm high and exalted, seated on 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:24.800 a throne, and I saw the train of his robe 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:31.560 fill the temple. Now, now some of y'all Bible scholars 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:35.800 you already know this. But but like Egyptian and Assyrian 0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:38.680 monarchs back in the day, as one writer puts it, 0:29:38.880 --> 0:29:42.800 they have these really elaborate thrones. Think think Game of Thrones, right, 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:44.600 Game of Thrones, If you watch that, I don't. I 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:48.400 don't watch Game of Thrones. I only watch Jesus things, okay, 0:29:52.640 --> 0:29:59.719 squid games in the name of Jesus. So they've got 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:04.239 these really elaborate thrones. And with these elaborate thrones, they 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:07.560 would have I mean like any elaborate throne should have. 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:14.200 They would have these robes, massive, long, flowing. Whenever they 0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:17.960 had a battle, they would go and they would beat 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:22.480 that king that camp. They would cut off the train 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:29.080 of the defeated king and they would sew it onto 0:30:29.160 --> 0:30:41.040 their train. Okay, this is like weaves for trains. Work 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:44.280 with me, Work with me, Work with me, Work with me, 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:50.000 Work with me, work with me, work with me. They 0:30:50.040 --> 0:30:54.640 would they would attach it. In every battle that they 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:59.120 had that they won, they say, give me that, cut 0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:03.920 it and attach it. It was a sign to everyone 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:08.240 else that what this king and who this king is, 0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:13.080 that's a bad man. Right there, the length of your 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:18.120 train spoke to the number of battles that you had won. 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:24.160 So in this passage of scripture right here in Isaiah 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:28.200 chapter six, let me give you some context how the 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:32.320 Gospel of John tells us what's actually going on here. 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:35.640 In John chapter twelve, verse number forty one. This is 0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:39.000 what it says, John chapter twelve, verse forty one. When 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:54.960 Isaiah saw this, he saw Jesus's glory. When Isaiah saw 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:59.640 this in Isaiah chapter six, and he sees the Lord 0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:04.920 how and lifted up what he sees in that moment 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:11.880 is Jesus his glory, and the train of Jesus' glory 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:19.440 actually filled the entire temple, signifying that our Savior has 0:32:19.680 --> 0:32:26.680 victory after victory after victory after victory after victory after 0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:36.960 victory after victory. That's attached thing. It was such a 0:32:37.080 --> 0:32:45.440 large train that it filled the whole temple. So I's thinking, wait, wait, wait, 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:49.960 wait wait, that's Old Testament. That's Old Testament and New Testament. 0:32:51.240 --> 0:32:58.280 There's a temple and the New Testament. The temple is yes. 0:33:03.920 --> 0:33:09.440 So I saw the Lord high and lifted up seated 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:15.200 on the throne, and the victories that he had filled 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:33.520 filled the temple. So that now means everywhere you walk, 0:33:36.000 --> 0:33:41.120 you've got the train of his glory that has filled you. 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:49.160 Every step you take, victory comes with you. Every meeting 0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:53.480 you walk into, victory walks in there. Every single paddle 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:57.360 you face, victory is there. So that's why, daughter, you 0:33:57.400 --> 0:34:00.560 don't have to have your head held down. I want 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:03.760 to encourage you right now. Remember the victory that's on 0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:06.360 the inside of you. And I know he said this 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:09.640 about you and she said that about you, But living 0:34:09.719 --> 0:34:13.000 on the inside of you is the very victory of 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:16.400 our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So you can lift 0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:21.239 joy head up, put your shoulders back, and remember who 0:34:21.440 --> 0:34:30.839 God called you to be. The train she was rode 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:39.920 phil right fill the temple. I'm not sure what to 0:34:39.960 --> 0:34:42.880 do with my kids, but I'm so thankful that the 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:48.080 train of His glory and victory fills my temple. I'm 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:49.759 not sure what to do with this business, but I 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:54.200 do know that the train of his glory has filled 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:56.719 my temple. I'm not sure what's school to go to, 0:34:56.840 --> 0:35:00.760 but I know the train of his glory has failed 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:03.680 my temple. I've got bills that are stacking up, but 0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:07.919 I do know this, the train of His glory has 0:35:08.000 --> 0:35:10.640 filled my temple. I'm in a hospital room right now. 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:14.120 I got diagnosed with cancer. But I do know this. 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:26.960 The train of His glory fails my temple. In the 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:37.640 year in the year, in the year that King Usiah died, 0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:46.759 in the year he died. In a year of difficulty, 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:53.960 in a year of pain, in a year of confusion, Yeah, 0:35:55.320 --> 0:36:01.440 in a year of why God, I don't understand, cause 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:06.160 anyone else is man. You look through my journal in 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:11.640 twenty twenty, I'm like, Okay, Lord, what the heck is 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:19.080 going on. You might even have cussed a little bit 0:36:19.120 --> 0:36:20.560 in your journal, you know, just a little bit, just 0:36:20.560 --> 0:36:23.120 a little bit like Jesus goussing like darn. But some 0:36:23.160 --> 0:36:27.520 of y'all went all the way m f you got, 0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:29.960 I mean, just going all the way through. If that's 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:31.719 too much for some of you all, I apologize. But 0:36:31.719 --> 0:36:38.200 but but every now and then you're like, man, God, 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:45.719 what is going on here? What's what's happening? What is 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:51.920 taking place right now? I dont has everyone lost the money? 0:36:52.880 --> 0:36:55.920 Does no one have any common sense whatsoever? And like, 0:36:56.040 --> 0:37:01.040 is it all gone? There's nobody? Are people not even 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:09.080 thinking anymore? Lord? Please take me. Let it be peaceful, Lord, 0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:17.200 let it be peaceful for your glory. In the year 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:23.280 that King Usiah died, I like that the Bible doesn't 0:37:23.280 --> 0:37:27.839 try to make everything squeaky clean. My God only does 0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:31.279 good stuff when good things are happening. It's like, no, 0:37:32.440 --> 0:37:37.280 you can see the Lord high and lifted up, seated 0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:42.399 on the throne. In the year that somebody dies, you 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.520 can see the Lord high and lift it up, and 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:49.120 the train of his glory filling the temple. When you're confused, 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:53.239 you can see the Lord high and lift it up 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:56.000 and the train of his glory filling the temple when 0:37:56.040 --> 0:38:00.960 you're not sure which way is up, my friends, is 0:38:01.040 --> 0:38:05.320 why I know. So if you're part of the Epham Beautiful, 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:08.040 you're at one of our campuses, that is so great, 0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:12.759 But don't disconnect yourself from the House of God. Matter 0:38:12.760 --> 0:38:14.200 of fact, some of ya might be watching right now 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:15.799 you're like, I'm not sure if I'm coming back. Come 0:38:15.840 --> 0:38:19.719 on back, Come on back, because you need it. We 0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:21.920 need you, and the victory that Jesus put on the 0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:24.440 inside of you is not just for you. It's for 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:28.080 people around you. So go ahead and get back in 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:30.680 your group, go ahead and get back on the serve team. 0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:33.400 Go ahead and start giving again, because we got a 0:38:33.440 --> 0:38:36.560 world to reach for the cause of Jesus Christ. This 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:39.359 is not about us. This is about him and his 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.719 glory and his name and his fame. And he did 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:45.560 not give us these songs and this victory for us 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:53.280 to keep it to ourselves. In the year King Usiah died, 0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:56.680 Yes he died, but stop thinking that everything is dead 0:38:56.840 --> 0:39:03.400 just because that's dead. Everything's not dead just because that's dead. 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:06.960 Matter of fact, there's still victory on the inside of you. 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:09.759 And I can't tell you how to deal with your pain. 0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.160 I can't tell you how to deal with your divorce. 0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:14.360 I can't tell you how to deal with your shame, 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:17.360 or I can't tell you how fast you need to 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:19.360 get through it. But what I can tell you is 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:22.080 that what Jesus Christ did for you is bigger than 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:24.680 every single thing you and I are facing right now. 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:26.960 And at some point in time, we've got to get 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:29.479 our eyes off of ourselves, and we got to see 0:39:29.520 --> 0:39:33.240 the Lord High and lift it up seated on the throne, 0:39:33.440 --> 0:39:41.799 and the train of his glory fill in the temple. Okay, 0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:44.359 go with me. I'm about done. I'm about done. I'm 0:39:44.360 --> 0:39:47.000 about done. I'm about that. First Corinthians, go back, Go 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:50.680 back to First Corinthians with me. First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, 0:39:51.480 --> 0:39:56.799 verse number twenty six. First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, Verse number 0:39:56.840 --> 0:40:01.480 twenty six says this the last enemy, the last enemy 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:07.960 to be destroyed. The last enemy to be destroyed is 0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:16.720 what is death? Yeah, last enemy to be destroyed. It's death. 0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:27.760 See Death is currently defeated, but it's not yet destroyed. Okay, 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:32.960 follow me here for just a second. It's currently defeated, 0:40:33.800 --> 0:40:37.600 but not yet destroyed. The last enemy to be destroyed 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:43.959 will be death. There will be a day there will 0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:53.000 be no more death. There will be a day. Right now, 0:40:54.360 --> 0:41:01.719 it's defeated, but it's not destroyed. I don't know. You 0:41:01.760 --> 0:41:05.680 go to a football game or soccer for those in 0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:08.279 other parts of the world, soccer to US football, to you, 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:11.840 basketball game, whatever it is like the championship game. And 0:41:11.880 --> 0:41:15.759 at a championship game or a UFC fight, a tennis match, whatever, 0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:20.200 it's a championship match whenever. Whenever there is a battle 0:41:21.080 --> 0:41:25.880 and then someone wins, the match is over, right, it's over. 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:32.319 But then there's always this this next little party, and 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:38.000 the next party is like the official official announcement. We 0:41:38.080 --> 0:41:44.959 all saw the knockout, Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder, we saw 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:48.919 the knockout. But there's going to come a moment when 0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:53.080 there is going to be an announcement, and the announcement 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:58.960 is just confirming what we all already saw. We know 0:41:59.320 --> 0:42:02.480 that the fight is over, but there's an announcement coming. 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:06.399 I need you to understand right now, what we are 0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:10.040 living in is we are living in the time in 0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:17.759 between the knockout blow and the final announcement. Come on, 0:42:17.880 --> 0:42:21.840 follow me here. What Jesus Christ did on the cross, 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:25.400 and when he got up out of that grave, that 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:29.800 was the knockout blow. But there is a time coming 0:42:30.440 --> 0:42:34.000 when the heavens will part and the trumpet will sound, 0:42:34.480 --> 0:42:38.200 and then that in Christ will be raised first. And 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:46.240 when that happens, that's Bruce Buffer. Come on, that's Bruce 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:51.319 Buffer say, I know you already know what happened. It 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:56.600 happened on the third day after Calvary, that the Son 0:42:56.640 --> 0:43:01.360 of God, the King of kings, Lord of lords, the 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:05.279 lover of humanity, the bright in the morning star, the 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:09.799 one who redeemed God with skin on, who became flesh 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:12.360 and made his dwelling among us. He was on that 0:43:12.440 --> 0:43:15.560 old rugged cross, and everyone thought he was down. But 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:18.440 on the third day he got up out of that crave. 0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:21.480 And when he got up out of that crave, he 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:25.880 defeated death, Hell, and the crave and the devil, and 0:43:26.040 --> 0:43:30.240 every single thing that has been broken or will be broken. 0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:35.120 It's now done in his mighty and matchless name, victory 0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:40.480 now and forever. So this is why he says, watch this, 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:42.560 watch us, watch this. This is why he says. This 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:44.360 is why he says the verse fifty four, when the 0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:49.799 perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, Oh Man, and 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:54.160 the mortal with immortality. Then the saying that has written 0:43:54.200 --> 0:44:00.120 will come true. Death has been swallowed up in victory. 0:44:04.440 --> 0:44:08.000 Where old death is your victory. Where old death is 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:10.560 your sting. The sting of death is sin, and the 0:44:10.600 --> 0:44:14.160 power of sin is the Lord. But thanks be to 0:44:14.360 --> 0:44:20.240 God He gives us the victory through our Lord, Jesus Christ. 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:25.440 Can you clap your hands, Elevation Church? Come on, can 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:29.839 you clap your hands, Elevation Church. Can you clap your 0:44:29.920 --> 0:44:35.080 hands and say, thank you God for the victory? No, 0:44:35.320 --> 0:44:43.000 thank Him for the victory. Gotta I gotta be quiet. 0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:45.080 I gotta be quiet. Well, look at this, Look at this, 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:46.640 and I'm done. I'm done, all right, I'm gonna pray 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:53.040 for you. I'm about to be done. Therefore, therefore, my 0:44:53.120 --> 0:45:07.480 dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Stand firm, Stand firm, 0:45:07.800 --> 0:45:13.160 stand firm. Let nothing move you. Let nothing move here, 0:45:13.719 --> 0:45:16.400 Let nothing. I speak this into your heart. I speak 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:20.160 this into your spiritual backbone. Right now. Therefore, dear brothers 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:24.000 and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you, Let nothing 0:45:24.080 --> 0:45:27.200 move you. He always give yourselves fully to the work 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:32.200 of the Lord, because you know your labor and the Lord. 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:41.480 It's not in vain. They the grace and the power 0:45:43.000 --> 0:45:47.000 of our Lord. Jesus be with you always. If you 0:45:47.040 --> 0:45:50.359 wouldn't mind Church family here in this room, online, even 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:52.880 at our other campuses, but just a moment, bow your heads. 0:45:57.840 --> 0:46:00.600 If you're under the sound of my voice, and you 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:05.680 got weights on your shoulders, fear gripping your heart, doubt 0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:12.400 running through your mind, stop shaming yourself. You are in 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:15.360 a place of freedom. You're in a place of vision. 0:46:15.760 --> 0:46:18.080 You're in a place of hope, You're in a place 0:46:18.120 --> 0:46:20.839 of life. I know the verdicts have prayed for you. 0:46:20.920 --> 0:46:23.319 I know your campus pastors have prayed for you. I 0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:26.000 know the team has prayed for you. And more importantly, 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:28.680 Jesus himself is at the right hand of the Father 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:32.360 interceding on your behalf right now. And I speak hope 0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:35.439 and life over you in the Mighty name of Jesus Christ. 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:39.000 And where weights and pressures have been weighing on your shoulders, 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:42.080 where your eyes have been dim, where your heart has 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:45.080 been heavy, I pray for resurrection life to feel you. 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:48.279 In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I pray that 0:46:48.320 --> 0:46:51.879 demonic strongholds would be broken off of you. I pray 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:54.520 that you would see yourself the way God sees you. 0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:56.920 And I pray you would see God for who he 0:46:57.040 --> 0:46:59.719 actually is. That He is the great I am. He 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:02.359 is the lily in the valley. He is the bright 0:47:02.440 --> 0:47:05.200 and the morning star. He is the creator of all things, 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:08.120 and he is for you and on your side. And 0:47:08.239 --> 0:47:10.759 right now, Oh God, I pray that you would pour 0:47:10.840 --> 0:47:14.560 out your spirit on all flesh in the mighty name 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:18.080 of Jesus. Not today be a day of breakthrough. Let 0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:21.399 today be aday of victory. Let today be a day 0:47:21.600 --> 0:47:24.600 where chains are broken, and your sons and your daughters 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:27.960 move fully into who you call them to be. In 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:32.279 Jesus Day, we pray, Amen and Amen, lift our head. 0:47:32.360 --> 0:47:35.879 Let's cop our hands at every location and give God 0:47:36.280 --> 0:47:39.200 some praise for who he is. Well. If you enjoy 0:47:39.280 --> 0:47:41.799 today's podcast, there are a couple things I'd love for 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:45.440 you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review 0:47:45.480 --> 0:47:48.239 this podcast. You can also help us reach others by 0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:52.200 investing today at Elevation Church dot org. Slash give and 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:54.880 thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast.