What Comes After

0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.640 we wanted to let you know about our upcoming tour, 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.520 the starting end just a few days. We're heading out 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.240 in the month of August with our friends Carry Joe 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.680 and Codycarnes, and we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.400 We're going to have an amazing time in the presence 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.040 of God. Every single time we gather, he's faithful to 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.080 meet with us and do something new and fresh in 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.440 our hearts. So we hope you'll join us. Yes, we're 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.160 going to be in Dallas, San Antonio, Omaha. We're going 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.840 to be in Toledo, Dayton. We're coming to you Knoxville, Huntsville. Yes, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.400 we're also going to be in Louisville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.040 and New York. So come out join us, bring your friends, 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.440 bring your family. Everything you need tickets and information is 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.680 at Elevation Worship dot Com. We'll see you and it's 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.040 an honored to minister to you right now wherever you are, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.400 whether you're in your home or your car. Some people 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.800 listen to me while they work out, so that's good. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.640 Get another rep. That's your sign. You were praying for 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.600 a sign that you should work out today. This is it. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.720 Go work out to say it. The Lord and I 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.760 want to share with you today. Let's go to Acts 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.720 chapter three. Stay standing for one moment, Acts chapter three. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.440 As you're turning there, just to give a moment for 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:20.920 everybody to turn. Put in the chat right now. Where 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.640 you're joining us from? All right? YouTube or Facebook or 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.600 wherever you're joining us from. Where are you joining us from? 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.040 We want to know, and what's your name? And uh, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.760 what's your favorite what's your favorite band? And what's your 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.000 favorite flavor ice cream? Or whatever you want to say 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.399 in the chat. Don't let the chat distract you, all right, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.319 because God has a word for you today. Tell your 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.440 neighbor real quick, say, don't distract me today. God's going 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.840 to speak to me today. Look at them and say, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.480 you look so good. You're distracting me right now, but 0:01:52.600 --> 0:02:01.760 stop distracting me. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:07.040 God is going to speak to us today. Acts Chapter three, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:12.360 Verse thirteen, Verse thirteen, And I really want to go 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:18.920 to verse nineteen. So I will. I said that like 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.560 it was something I really wanted. But we can do it. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.480 We can do it. Let's just do it. The God 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:29.840 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob starting off strong. The God 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.480 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:39.160 has glorified his servant, Jesus. You handed him over to 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.800 be killed and disowned him before Pilot, though he had 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.920 decided to let him go. You disowned the Holy and 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.400 Righteous when and asked that a murderer be released to you. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.120 You killed the author of life. Wow, but God raised 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.600 him from the dead. We are witnesses of this by 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:05.160 faith in name of Jesus. By what faith in the 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.520 name of Jesus, Love it, love it, love it. This man, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.600 whom you see and know, was made strong. It is 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.400 Jesus's name and the faith that comes through him that 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.120 has completely healed him. As you can all see now. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:26.480 Fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:33.400 did your leaders. But this, this, this what you did 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:39.840 in ignorance. This is how God fulfilled what he what 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.880 he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:51.280 Messiah would suffer. Repent. Then repent, then change your mind, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:58.760 change your direction, turn to God, so that your sins 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.760 may be wiped out. The times of refreshing may come 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.840 from the Lord go back to verse fifteen. It's the 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.200 nucleus of this message. You killed the author of life, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:16.120 but God raised them from the dead. We are witnesses 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.960 of this today. I want to talk to you about 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:26.400 what comes after. What comes after, That's what the Lord 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.400 wants me to talk to you about. You know how 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.839 you've been stressing out about stuff that's out there somewhere. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.159 The Lord said, let's talk about what comes after. You 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.640 know how you've been stuck in some things that happened 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.200 and you can't quite You keep tripping on stuff that's 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.839 behind you. How to even trip on something that's behind you? 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.159 But the Lord said, let's talk today for just a 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:52.720 few moments about what comes after. Thank you for your word, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:59.479 God in Jesus, nay Amen. You may be seated while 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.760 you're getting situated. Quick plug. Holly has a book club. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.440 You got two fans, baby, I'm like, you need a 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.359 new marketing department. No, it's awesome. She has a book 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.120 club and it is called the Holly Verdict book Club. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.360 Very creative title. I love it because when I asked 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.359 her why she was doing it, she said, because I 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.440 want to nothing deep about it. They don't always study 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.520 books about seven ways to pray your way into a 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.720 greater day. But they just study books that she likes, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.039 and they don't really even study. And why am I 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.560 saying study? They just talk about them. And it's cool 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.480 because she'll often get the author on. She's so excited 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.000 when she gets the author. She'll call me into the 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.560 room or come runn an inchick. I got the author. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.000 That's great. And then I pick on her and I'm like, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:56.200 but you know, I have a book club too, because 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.960 she's always trying to get me to read the books. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.640 I'm like, no, baby, I'm sorry. I have a book 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:07.520 club and the author lives in my heart. You have 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.040 to feel so sorry for my family. They get dad 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.280 jokes and preacher jokes, and both of them combined. It's unbearable, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.200 let me tell you right now. But I joke with her, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.560 and so I don't know. It's probably not because I'm 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.839 studying the Bible. I'm probably just lazy. I always intend 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.760 to read the books that she does, and I never 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.800 get around to it. So she'll usually take me to 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.520 go see the movie if there is a movie, and 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.479 I will do that, and she took me to see 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.440 one recently. I won't take what the movie is, so 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.640 it won't be like a spoiler alert if you want 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.400 to go see that movie. I hated it. I thought 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.880 the movie was terrible. It's kind of a last minute decision. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.200 We snuck some low carb candy into the movie theater 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.919 and I sat there and watched that movie. Within five minutes, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.360 she turns to me in and she goes, I'm so sorry, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.920 and then you know what she's gonna say next, I 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.480 promise the book was so much better. It was better. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.080 Every five minutes she would turn to me and say, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.159 I promised the book was better, and I didn't read 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.240 the book. So I'm like, yeah, right, how would I 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.560 know if you're telling me the drums? One day, I'm 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.640 gonna preach a scripture that says you are living epistles 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.680 and talk about how we are actually God wants to 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.440 put his word through our lives living. And then I'm 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.400 gonna ask, what's the book better? Are you living out anyway? 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.120 So I'm gonna do that one day. But she said 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.560 I promised the book was better. After two hours of 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.360 me thinking I really love you to sit through this movie. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:44.920 I didn't like it at all. It did something that 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.080 I didn't expect it to do. The last scene of 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.600 the movie. I was literally getting my keys, getting my wallet, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.800 literally thinking let's just go ahead and go I don't 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.520 need this long last scene. And what happened in the 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:03.080 last two minutes. I looked at her and said, that 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:09.960 was a pretty good movie. I was pretty good. I 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:18.000 didn't I did not see that coming. The last two 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:23.600 minutes changed the whole movie from me wanting a refund 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.520 to be wanting to rewatch it. I'm like, maybe we 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.560 should come back and see that again, because I need 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.000 to watch everything that I thought was stupid and slow 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.320 and corny through the lens of the last thing that happened. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.160 So what I saw in the last two minutes made 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:49.160 me rethink the whole last two hours because of what 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.880 I saw at the end that I didn't know in 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.680 the beginning, and I didn't know in the middle. But 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.440 then when I saw the end, it changed the middle, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.120 It changed the beginning, and it made me think, maybe 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.800 you are a good book picker. Maybe this movie wasn't 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:10.520 so bad after all. In life, wouldn't it be nice 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.880 if we could see the last two minutes, the last 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.440 two months, the last two years, just to know how 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:25.080 to watch everything that is happening in real time. Something 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.520 can happen at the end that makes you go back 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.640 and rethink the entire thing that went before it. You know, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.200 I'm right. You can have experiences in life that make 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.080 you go from thank you, Lord for bringing this person 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.040 into my life, for this relationship, to Lord, why didn't 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.640 you protect me from this relationship? Why didn't I listen 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.080 to all the people who told me. You know, I'm right, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.680 there are things that can happen later and here's what 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.120 it is. Here's what it is. I was thinking, did 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.400 the last two minutes change the first two hours? Can 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:03.440 you change the past? Before you say no? Reconsider my 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.280 illustration in light of this book club that we've chosen 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.800 to attend today, because we're in a book club, right 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.400 and we read something that happened now. We read something 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.880 that happened not at the beginning of the Ministry of 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.360 Peter and John, not at the end. We read something 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.840 that happened right there in the middle that was so powerful, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.840 this miracle that was so powerful. I love it because 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.960 I've been studying this all week. I know what comes before, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.200 I know what comes after, and right in the middle 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.160 of it, Peter is preaching, and he says something and 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.160 there's a word from God, and it actually there's two 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.880 words from God. You should I get up to give 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.080 you a word from God. But you picked double portions 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.559 Sunday today because there are two words from God in 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.199 this text. Now, before we get there, let's back out 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.240 one more time and consider the premise. Can you change 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:02.000 the past? Certainly, we can't do the events. That's a 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.000 waste of time. I think that all regret is a 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:12.280 misappropriation of imagination. Is you taking the wisdom God wants 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.960 you to use for your future and applying it toward 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:21.160 a situation that is already behind you. So can you 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:26.440 change the past? Apparently Peter thinks that you can not 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.040 change the events. And by the way, we're always changing 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:36.640 the past when we tell somebody else what happened. You 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.840 are the senior editor of your story, and you make 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.920 all GUIDs of changes and alterations. You switch stuff around, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.079 You add dialogue, internal dialogue, external dialogue. You are an 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.560 unreliable narrator. To put it in book terms, because this 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.320 is a book club right now. The Bible is not 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 a book like we say. It's a book. The Bible 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.439 it has six these two separate books, different types of literature, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.400 everything from poetry to historical narrative to letters that were 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.920 written to the church to instruct them how to live. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.920 And then you got the Gospels, which give the record 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.520 of the account of what Jesus did while he was here. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.760 The Book of Acts is awesome because it tells us 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:26.840 what happened after Jesus left. Now we know that this 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.720 movement that was beginning here in Acts chapter three is 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.760 something that will still occupy a space in time in 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.800 twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three if you watch it later, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.880 or twenty twenty five if you watch it later. But 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.480 God knows all of that. God knows when you're going 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.400 to watch this message. And what Peter didn't know is 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.400 that I was going to be bringing his words that 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.680 he had to say on the spot to you today 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.440 for your situation, and that you would be in a 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.560 situation today where you don't know us next and you 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.080 can't figure out what's happening. And the challenge of it is, see, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.079 we don't get to see the last scene. The disciples 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.480 didn't get to see the last scene. They didn't get 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.360 to see that this would work, that the Gospel would 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.920 indeed go from Jerusalem that's where they started, to Judea 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.280 the surrounding area, to Samaria, where they tended to avoid, 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:28.520 and to the ends of the earth. Valentine Gaston, Riverwalk, Columbia, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.280 all the ends of the earth, Kentucky. Peter didn't know 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.160 about Kentucky when he reaches for I guarantee there's somebody 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.160 right now who's watching this from Kentucky, and they weren't 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.360 paying attention, and all of a sudden they just got 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.160 their attention because I said Kentucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.920 Lord want me say Kentucky because he knew you'd need 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:48.679 this word right now. God is like that. My challenge 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:54.560 is how do I live through this story when I 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.360 don't know the last scene that may make it all 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.240 make sense. That's why I have to live. Say these 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.320 two words by faith, say it again by faith, put 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.120 it in the chat by faith, by faith, by faith, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.319 Come on elon by faith, by faith, by faith, by faith, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.680 by faith, by faith, by faith. We walk by faith, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.680 not by sight. So it means that even though I 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.520 haven't seen the last scene, is my kid gonna come 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.480 back home? I haven't seen the last scene? Is my 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.520 marriage gonna make it. I haven't seen the last scene. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.120 Am I ever gonna get through this? I haven't seen 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.840 the last scene. Am I gonna get another job while 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.560 I keep getting all these other bills? Because I keep 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.600 getting other bills, but I haven't got another job. And 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.160 even know if I get the other job, Am I 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:42.880 gonna make enough in the other job to pay all 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.720 the other bills because all the other bills didn't stop 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.680 coming while I'm waiting on the other job. Even though 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:52.200 I haven't seen that scene. By faith, I can believe 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.480 that if God said that he was with me, You're ready, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:03.880 You're ready. He knows what's next, and I can trust him. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.000 Say lah, pause and think about it that in this 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.000 scene of your life, you can believe that what God 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.560 is working in your life, in your family, in your career, 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.320 in my ministry, in my heart, in my character. Even 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.240 though I don't get to see the last scene, I 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.160 could turn to Holly and say, this is gonna be 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:38.160 good because I trust who wrote the screenplay. Yeah, beautiful, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.920 Peter's coming on kind of strong in this sermon, you 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.160 gotta admit, but he's fired up. You know how you 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.800 get fired up, You get on a spiritual high. Have 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.680 you ever been on a spiritual high. No, certainly, it's 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.200 a lot different than what you just demonstrated. If you have, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.000 maybe today is not the day. But Peter had just 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.640 he had done something pretty amazing because Jesus used to 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.000 help them do miracles, but now he's no longer here 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.800 in human form, and he sent his spirit. He was 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.200 always telling them while he walked the earth, I'm going 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.840 to leave. After I do, I'll send something that will 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.240 give you a power I can't give you while I'm here. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.960 So wait for that. Don't get discouraged. I'm going to die. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.840 I'll be there three days, but don't give up in 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.480 three days, don't give up in don't give up in 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.400 ten days, twenty days, thirty days, fifty days. When they're 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.000 persecuting you know that they persecuted me. And I'm giving 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.520 you a spirit, the spirit of God. On the day 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.200 of Pentecost, the spirit came. They were all together in 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.760 one place and the spirit came. And that's where your 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.520 strength comes from. From the spirit of God. That doesn't 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.120 come from you, that doesn't come from situations, that doesn't 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.560 come from earthly things, that doesn't come from creatine. I 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.720 got some strength that comes from Jesus Christ, who set 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.439 the spirit in his name, from the Father and lives 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:14.080 forever to make intercession. I got his spirit seeing, so 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.040 this is Peter. Watch I divide Peter's life into two 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.919 separate things. Okay, I call him before Spirit Peter or 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:27.440 BS Peter, and then after spirit Peter. All right, this 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.320 is as Peter, not BS Peter, BS Peter. Before the 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.399 spirit came in and he was saying all kind of 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.000 stuff he couldn't back up. I got you, Jesus, I 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.280 don't care about anything. Give me that sword, give me 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.560 that ear. Ay I do, mister potato head preaching before 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.840 he got filled with the spirit. But now Jesus is gone. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.159 But the spirit came and he's bold. This must be 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.240 a different dude. This can't be the same dude that 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.040 sat down at the fire and when a little servant 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.760 girl asked where you, one of them said, I don't 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.920 know him and started cussing. Because now he's preaching. That's 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.080 who spoke these words. I didn't tell you that. I 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.640 wanted to save it because I wanted you to see 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.440 the words, and then I wanted you to think about 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.080 who said them, and when he said them, and why 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.600 he said them, look at it again. He goes all 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:16.240 the way back the God of Abraham. He hits rewind 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.240 all the way back to the beginning of the book, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.119 to the beginning of the movie, because something happened in 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.440 this moment that made him rethink the whole thing. He's 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.560 speaking to the Jewish people. They're familiar with this God. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.000 But as he rewinds to that first frame it says 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.800 the God of Abraham. He reminds you and me that 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:48.960 it starts with God. That it starts with God. It 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:53.600 didn't start when your mom and dad decided it's time 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:58.400 to try and succeeded. It didn't start when the fastest 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.560 swimmer made it all the way. It's like waking y'all up. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:08.840 It didn't start with any of that. It starts with God. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.720 Because everybody's running because here's what happened. Here's what happening. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.040 I cannot preach this whole text. Just read it this week. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.040 Just promise me you'll try to read it this week. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.520 Where they're going to the temple at the hour of prayer, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.160 there's three times of prayer there at this particular time 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.919 of prayer, the hour. The word hour literally means the 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.000 divine appointment. They didn't know that they're going to the temple. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.000 This man is at the gate and he can't walk, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.480 and he asks for money, and Peter's like, don't have 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.359 what you asked for, But I got what you need 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.600 that you wouldn't even know to ask for, because it's 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.680 a name. Silver and gold have I none, But such 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.160 as I have I give you. This is what Peter 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.560 said to the man, in the name of Jesus, get 0:19:55.680 --> 0:20:00.760 up and walk, reaches down his hand becomes a jumper cable. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.320 The man jumps up to his feet starts going to church, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.639 but not like everybody else. He's high stepping to church. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:12.280 He's walking, jumping, praising God. Everybody, how many of y'all 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:17.720 came in this morning jumping and praising God? You know 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.720 you're lying. You came in dragging and fighting and cussing 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.240 and fussing, and then when you saw the greets, he said, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:31.600 raise the Lord. How are you unblessed and highly favored? Anyway, 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.440 there's so much we can say about this miracle, as 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.600 that he didn't leave the way he came and all 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.480 of that. Today, I want to do what Peter did, 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.240 and I want to go back because this man gets healed, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.360 and all the people don't know what to think about it, 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.560 and so Peter takes the opportunity. You know, a lot 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.600 of times God does something in our life on a 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.480 physical level, but we don't stop to reflect on it 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.840 and break it down on a spiritual level, so we 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.600 don't get the full benefit of what he did. Peter 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.800 sees this man who gets healed, and he sees this 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.720 would make an excellent opportunity to preach. There's a man 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.400 whose name is not known or mentioned, who is healed 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:18.199 by a name that is above every name, and the 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.800 vessel for it is a man who really was an 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.959 unlikely candidate. I would call the Book of Acts. If 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.280 I gave it a subtitle, I would call it the 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:34.480 unfolding Plan of an unstoppable God through unlikely people like Peter, 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:39.840 like me, like you. The unfolding plan. They didn't know 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.800 it when they were in it. You don't know it 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.080 when you're in it. You can't see it. When you're 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.520 in it. You'll be grabbing your keys and grabbing your 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.560 wallet and getting up to leave and starting to give up, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.800 and thinking about quitting and thinking about walking away, and 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:54.600 turning to the person next to you and saying this 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.639 is ridiculous. I wasted my money, I wasted my time, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.520 I wasted my prayers, I wasted my faith. I'm wasting 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.280 my life. What was it all for? It keeps hurting 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.399 and it won't go away. I keep trying and I 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.199 can't get up. But in this moment, see Peter is 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:16.320 taking the opportunity to remind you of Jesus, who is 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:23.159 Hebrews twelve, who says the author and the finisher of 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.320 my faith. Everybody say faith. So here's the challenge. Philip 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:33.120 Yancy said that faith is believing in advance what will 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:38.040 only make sense and reverse. Faith for what you can't 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:42.199 figure out. Faith for what frustrates you. Faith for what 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.399 has you tied up in knots. Faith for what wakes 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.560 you up in the middle of the night. Faith for 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.200 what makes you think you're losing your mind. Faith for 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.000 what makes you wonder, am I going crazy? Faith for 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.520 what you've given up on the possibility of change. For 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.240 that kind of faith, he says, we've got to go 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:03.520 all the way back. So watch this, this man who 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.640 has just been healed, and Peter starts talking about history. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.960 What does this man's healing have to do with the 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:19.359 Jewish people's history. What does healing have to do with history? Everything? 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:26.800 Everything you understand, because if you are in the history only, 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:31.679 then you want to experience your destiny. But if you 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.280 are only focused on your destiny and have no frame 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:41.320 of your history, you will give up too soon and 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.840 miss the point of what God is doing in your life. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:48.680 The God of Abraham. We're going all the way back 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:51.840 to Abraham, Peter. Peter's like, yeah, I'm going all the 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.040 way back. This is like when you ask somebody how 0:23:54.080 --> 0:24:00.280 you're doing, and they're like, when I was three, You're like, whaa, 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.520 how you doing? Right now? All they want to see 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:06.320 is is this for you? Did that mean? That's let's 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:10.879 give him a name. That's Rob. Rob not supposed to 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.040 be walking. Rob's not Let's call him Jimmy. Jimmy's not 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:18.000 supposed to be jumping. It's Jimmy jumping. Jimmy was out 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:20.640 here jumping. Jimmy. We can't be jumping. We walked right 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:22.639 over him. Now now, no, no, this is Some'm awesome. 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.800 God can shifting so quick. The one that everybody stepped 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:30.160 over is now the center of the story. He's God 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.639 can shift it like that. So don't worry when people 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:36.760 say something about you, or don't worry when people don't 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:39.440 give you an opportunity, or don't worry when they don't 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:42.960 text you back. You needed that space on your phone 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:56.040 for what's coming. The man. I love the Word of God. 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:58.800 The man is heel, and Peter's like the God of 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:07.000 Abraham because it starts with God. Your story, whatever scene 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:11.600 you're in right now, divorice, heartbreak, victory, success, promotion, termination, 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:17.960 any of it. Your story is a story in a story, 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:25.000 in a story, in a story, in a story. I 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:28.280 should do this forty one times in a story, in 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:30.480 a story. Put it in the chat, in a story, 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:32.760 in a story, put it say out loud in a 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:37.840 story in a story. Because that's how many generations back. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.000 Peter goes to explain what happened the God of Abraham. 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:45.760 That's forty one generations before Jesus. Peter, can you kind 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:48.040 of tell us what's just going on right now? Give 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:50.480 me the cliffs knows, Peter, I'm not sure I want 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:52.720 a whole history lesson. No, no, no, you got to 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:58.840 understand history, or you'll look at this man and you'll 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:07.120 think it's his story. But Peter has to show him 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:13.120 it's not just his story, and it's not just your story. 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:20.520 It's history. The God of Abraham, y'all know, I woke 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:24.399 up ready to appreciate to you today I'm living in 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:28.440 the middle of his story. That encourages me. I don't 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:30.639 know why, because when it's all my story, it's all 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:34.560 my drama. When it's all my story, it's all on 0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:38.560 my budget. If he's the director, he's gonna pay the bills. 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:42.240 If he's the director, he's gotta figure out the script. 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:45.520 If it's his story, he's gotta figure out how to 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:49.000 make all this chaos and all this crazy and all 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:52.199 these world events and all these hurts and all of 0:26:52.240 --> 0:26:55.640 these mistakes work together to serve the purpose of the 0:26:55.720 --> 0:27:05.760 author who created me from my mother's womb. So stepping 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:08.600 right into the middle of his story, this man at 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:15.280 the gate, Peter recalls his story. It's a story with 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:18.280 then a story, with then a story. You hang around 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:22.720 here long enough, I'm gonna teach of the Bible. Abraham 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:26.119 is seventy five. Story is coming to a close at 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:31.800 seventy five. Right, you hadn't talked to the author yet, Abraham, 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:35.320 You had talked to the author yet, Abraham. The author 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:37.680 showed up to Abraham. He didn't even have an H 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:40.080 in his name. Vanna didn't even put an H in 0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:44.120 his name yet. I watched with Wheel of Fortune every 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:47.160 Wednesday night when my mom, y'all, I'm wow, they're crazy. 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:52.320 Every Wednesday night it's called Wednesdays for the Wheel, and 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:55.200 I pray for Pat say Jack every Wednesday. And Pat, 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:56.879 if you ever watched this, I would love to have 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.720 you in elevation. I think you're amazing. Now I'll just 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:01.800 put it out there in case God wants answer a 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:09.439 dumb prayer. Abram, Abram, start counting stars. That's what the 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:13.200 author told him. Start talking to the stars. Lord, Yeah, 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.000 you did good on those stars. That's cool man. Now 0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:17.159 he's an herb the Kaldeans, and God says, go to 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:19.119 the land. I will show you and count the stars. 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:20.959 And if you can count them, that's how numerous your 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:26.400 descendants are going to be. That's what comes after, after 0:28:27.280 --> 0:28:29.359 count the sand of the seashore. Now this is a 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:32.000 collision of history and destiny, because there's what God did 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:35.600 the stars long before Abram got here, and there's what 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:42.560 God is doing through Abram history destiny. You stay stuck 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:46.280 in one. Don't focus on the other. You're done. You 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:48.760 stay just focused on the history. You're walking around, talk 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:51.360 about how much you bench pressed in nineteen forty seven. 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:54.800 I was the man back then, y'all. I see these 0:28:54.880 --> 0:28:56.640 kids these days. They don't know how we used to 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:58.720 do it back in the day. Now you're stuck in 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:02.600 your history. You start talking about what you're going to 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:05.040 do one day when nobody is bothering you and there's 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:07.400 no traffic and they make flying teslas and you don't 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:10.200 have to wait to get the work. Well, that's just 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:17.320 you hypothetically avoiding this present moment. Wow. Wow, Thank you God, 0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:20.280 Thank you God that I'm not stuck where I started. 0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:31.120 And but I thank you for that scripture that says 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:35.239 no eye has seen, no ear has heard, neither has 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:37.960 it entered in the heart of a man what God 0:29:38.040 --> 0:29:43.640 has prepared for those who love him. But God has 0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:48.520 revealed them to us by his spirit. See nobody ever, 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:51.200 says the next verse, everybody, I always heard the first verse, 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:58.280 no eye has seen and no ear is heard what 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.240 is entered in the hearts of man? Next says but God. 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:07.280 Abraham was seventy five years old and his wife's womb 0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:10.720 was as good as dead. But God wanted a baby 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:14.000 named Isaac, and Abraham even got in the way and 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:17.400 messed it up by having Ishmael with Hagar. But God 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:22.960 had a plan for Isaac and Ishmael. But God, but God, 0:30:23.200 --> 0:30:26.040 but God has revealed them by his spirit. So that's 0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:28.600 what his spirit does. That's what time with God does. 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:31.680 That's why coming to church is a better investment than 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:34.400 the stock market. That's why coming to church is a 0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:38.000 better investment than washing your raggedy car, which is gonna 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:41.080 be dirty again in three days. That's why coming to 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:43.840 church and listening to the Word of God, because that 0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:46.320 word gets in you, and when it mixes with the 0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:48.959 spirit that was in you, and the soil of the 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:54.040 spirit and the seed of the word get together. God said, 0:30:54.160 --> 0:31:00.160 so shall your seed be. At the same time he's 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:05.200 speaking to old Labe Holab Holy plug, you sure about that? 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:08.320 And the Lord's like, I'm sure about that because I'm 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:12.400 the author. I'm the author. Holly got one author on 0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:14.560 the on the on the phone one time on the 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:16.280 Instagram on her book club, and she goes Holly Ford 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:17.680 dot com. You can look it up, and she said, 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:20.160 she said, she told me to plug the website. So 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:21.600 I forgot to do that. So I'm gonna do that. 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:26.080 Maybe she'll pay me back in a sponsorship. You could 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:28.000 sponsor me when we get home. All right, that has 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:31.560 to be a sponsor. Dad, y'all quit looking at me. 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:35.400 I'm uncomfortable. Shouldn't have said it, shouldn't have sent him. 0:31:35.600 --> 0:31:38.080 What comes after? That's a whole other sermon. That's a 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:42.520 marriage seminar. Yeah, do the dishes, you might get a kiss, 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:46.040 all right, what comes after? And she was interviewing this 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:48.080 author who wrote a true story about her life, and 0:31:48.120 --> 0:31:51.400 she was she gave up a baby for adoption, teenage pregnancy. 0:31:51.600 --> 0:31:53.720 And when she got the author on the interview, she said, 0:31:54.480 --> 0:31:57.640 you left the story off right there at the inn, 0:31:57.680 --> 0:31:59.280 and you never told us did you meet the kid? 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:02.240 And she goes, oh, yeah, that's what my next book 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:09.240 is about. Always said good. I can't wait to read it. Y'all. 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:12.800 When we read the Book of Acts, we're reading the sequel. 0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:17.080 It was written by Luke, who was a doctor who 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:19.480 traveled with Paul, and he wrote it while Paul was 0:32:19.520 --> 0:32:22.360 imprisoned in Rome, and he wrote it to a man 0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:29.200 named Theophilous. He calls him the most excellent Theophilous. I 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:31.040 want y'all start calling me that, by the way, most 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:37.640 excellent Pastor Stephen, All right, get on it. Twenty six 0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:40.800 percent of the New Testament was written by Luke to Theophilos. 0:32:41.520 --> 0:32:46.160 Who was Theophilus? I mean, Luke is writing to him. 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:49.040 Luke isn't even one of the original twelve Disciples. He's 0:32:49.080 --> 0:32:52.640 a gentile who came later. And he writes his first book, 0:32:52.920 --> 0:33:00.040 self titled Debut ep Luke. Then he puts out the 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:05.920 Book of Acts as a follow up the sequel, and 0:33:05.960 --> 0:33:09.840 the disciples I never saw it this way before. They're 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:14.520 living in the sequel. Jesus has gone in bodily form. 0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:17.920 What they knew is no longer available. What was normal 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:20.000 for them for three years has been up into the 0:33:20.080 --> 0:33:24.360 cross has happened, the resurrection has happened, the Spirit has come. 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:28.200 There's persecution ahead, but there's progress ahead. And there is 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:32.600 always persecution with progress. If it's not from the outside, 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:34.440 it's going to be from your lower nature and your 0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:39.040 flesh on the inside. There's always persecution with progress. The devil, 0:33:39.080 --> 0:33:40.960 I told you all last week. The devil will step 0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:42.720 right out of your way if you're headed in the 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:46.160 wrong direction. Try any football players in here. I heard 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:49.960 there were basketball players in here today. Is that right? Oh? 0:33:50.000 --> 0:33:52.200 I thought all over here? All right, do it when 0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:55.040 you get back when the season starts, turn around and 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:58.720 run toward the other goal and see if anybody stops you. 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:04.200 I let you do it all day long. They'll hand 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:07.160 you a gatorade. Yeah, do that again. You're putting points 0:34:07.200 --> 0:34:10.160 on the board for the devil. He'll assist you. He'll 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:13.080 ally oop you. Buck you ever make up your mind. 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:18.160 I'm following Jesus, No, pardon back, I'm going forward to 0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:21.840 the future. I got a father, Nay Abraham. Wow, some 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:28.239 names Wow, some name Jacob, And now his servant Jesus 0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:37.200 is being glorified. The unfolding Plan. Corey Ton Boom said, 0:34:37.400 --> 0:34:42.560 Heaven has no panic only plans. Heaven has no panic 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:46.560 only plans. Think about what she went through. And she 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:51.040 still said that, not before it happened, but after. She's 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:55.240 still standing there saying stuff like, Heaven has no panic 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:59.799 only plans. But it's an unfolding plan. It's an unfolding plan. 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:03.279 At the picture, you don't see the scene. So by 0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:08.240 faith had to find out what God can do you're ready. 0:35:08.280 --> 0:35:13.400 You're ready, You're ready, And I have to apply that 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:17.000 to the area where I'm the most anxious right now 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:25.920 and believe by faith going forward based on the foundation 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:30.879 of who God is, the God of Abraham, the God 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:35.319 of Isaac, the God of Jacob. Isaac was tied up 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:38.040 on an altar, and just as the moment where he 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.840 thought he was going to be sacrificed, he heard a 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:44.440 rustling of a ram in a bush. Because God never 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:48.640 intended to kill Isaac. God always had a ram. The 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:51.439 Bible says that Jesus is the Lamb of God who 0:35:51.560 --> 0:35:55.959 was slain from the foundation of the earth. When Peter 0:35:56.040 --> 0:35:59.040 stood at the cross, I got news for y'all. He 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:03.440 didn't call it good friend Day. He didn't call it 0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:07.000 good Friday. We call it that because we know what 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:23.799 came m question. What if it's good? What if it's good? 0:36:26.200 --> 0:36:31.400 What if it's good? We all know from broccoli that 0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:37.880 it can be good and not taste good. We know 0:36:38.000 --> 0:36:45.680 that what if it's good? What if it's good? Flip side, 0:36:46.160 --> 0:36:49.560 well if it's not, what if it makes you feel 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:55.520 good but it's not good. Not calling anybody out to 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:57.520 put you on the spot, but is there anybody watching 0:36:57.600 --> 0:36:59.560 online or at one of our campuses right now that 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:01.200 raise your hand, And if you want to raise your hand, 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:03.799 you don't have to that struggled with addiction and went 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:07.200 through recovery at some point in your life. Thank you 0:37:07.239 --> 0:37:10.080 for raising your hand. And we're proud of you. We're 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:18.480 proud of you, proud of you. Do you want to 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:20.600 snatch people back now when you see them going down 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:25.000 that path? Don't you? Because you know that after the 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:30.399 high comes the lowest low. You know what it takes 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:33.120 to break free from those chains, and you know how 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:34.960 hard it still is for you every day, and you 0:37:35.120 --> 0:37:37.799 just want to scream. Don't don't like like you all 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:41.440 want to scream for me. Don't keep walking pastor because 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:47.040 you see what comes after. That's why Peter said repent. 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:50.560 Did you notice that word in the text? He said, repent? 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:54.719 Turn around. You're going the wrong way. You got your 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.440 faith in the law. You listen to the prophets, but 0:37:57.520 --> 0:38:01.440 you missed the Messiah. Repent. You're trusting in your works, 0:38:01.440 --> 0:38:06.080 but you gotta receive discussable by grace. Repent. You're living 0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:08.799 your life for sinful pleasures, and sin is fun for 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:13.000 a season. I said, sin is fun for a season, 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:19.360 emphasis on season. But after that season comes another season, 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:22.719 and some people that are trying to warn you right now, 0:38:22.880 --> 0:38:25.080 you turn them off, You tune them out, You tell them, no, 0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:27.279 you don't want to repent, you don't want to hear that. 0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:32.880 But how can the refreshing come if the repentance doesn't repent? 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:38.640 Turn around? You got time, You're not dead, you're still breathing. 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:41.000 You're not in this forever. Let me show you how 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:42.560 I know. Can I show you how I know it's 0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:44.440 not forever? Can I show you how I know you 0:38:44.520 --> 0:38:46.480 still got time? Can I show you how I know 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:48.440 it's not too late? Can I show you how I 0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:50.680 know it's gonna turn around? Can I show you why 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:54.760 I faith to preach this work to you today? Because 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:59.880 of what Peter said in verse fifteen. Verse fifteen is 0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:03.520 he's so annoying. If you need to share Jesus with somebody, 0:39:03.800 --> 0:39:07.719 but you only have five seconds, read them Acts three fifteen. 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:10.319 Don't start with Abraham. You'll mess it up. You'll be 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:13.600 putting Abraham on the arc and Moses and all that. 0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:16.279 But don't do that. Just say Acts three fifteen and 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:17.759 show him this put on the big screen. We need 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:19.440 this on the big screen, on the big screen, the 0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:23.520 big screen. This is a big verse. He said, you 0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:28.359 kill the author of life. Remember this is as Peter, 0:39:28.480 --> 0:39:33.360 not BS Peter, because Peter was cussing while Jesus was dying. 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:36.759 But now he's been forgiven and he's repented, and he 0:39:36.840 --> 0:39:41.000 knows that that wasn't the end. Eh. And he's looking 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:42.839 right at these people and saying, when you handed him 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.799 over to the Romans, you killed him when you wanted 0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:47.920 to give up rabbits as was the custom, instead of 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:54.840 the author of life. You kill the author. You're like pastor. 0:39:55.000 --> 0:39:57.319 I really want to go here with you, but this 0:39:57.400 --> 0:39:59.239 does not feel like to me the best verse I 0:39:59.239 --> 0:40:03.920 should share with my friends. Like you just said, huh, 0:40:04.080 --> 0:40:10.000 why are you stopping at the comma? Why are you 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:15.080 stopping at the comma? Any English teachers in the room. 0:40:15.320 --> 0:40:22.560 English teachers make some noise. Y'all don't get shouted out much, 0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:27.960 do you. I shouted out the basketball players. Everybody was happy. 0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:31.960 English teachers. I need both of y'all to preach this message. 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:35.520 This is an all inclusive gospel. I need everybody's health, heer, 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:40.840 I need everybody's help. Tell me what a comma means stop, 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:46.320 it means stop, hold on. I'm confused because it sounds 0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:49.600 like you're saying pause. But what I see people do 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:53.279 all the time is get a divorce and stop. What 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:56.480 I see people do all the time is fail and stop. 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:58.520 What I see people all do all the time is 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:01.640 come up short. And what I see people do all 0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:04.440 the time is try to change and stop. What I 0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:06.319 see people do all the time is give it three 0:41:06.400 --> 0:41:13.799 days and stop. But don't ever let that devil put 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:19.240 a period where God put a Tama does that karma 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:23.960 doesn't mean it's over, and he's think of breath. I 0:41:24.040 --> 0:41:29.799 keep going does whatever he's on the other side, I'm 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:36.560 that Tama feeling in my spirit. I'm not preaching from 0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:47.040 my head. I'm preaching from my heart. This is emotionalism. No, 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:53.880 it's grammar. It is grammar. Is grammar. Professor Fernick is 0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:57.799 in the house. Put it back off. I'm not done 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:00.360 with it yet. This sin is the soul and annoying. 0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:04.359 This sentence is so annoying. No, not that diverse. The verse, 0:42:04.400 --> 0:42:07.320 the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse, 0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:09.920 the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse, the verse, 0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:12.239 the verse, the same verse. Y'all put it out, put 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:16.600 it on the screen. Please please please this like us 0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:18.960 waiting on God. You know what I'm saying? This like 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:21.800 Abraham twenty five years between when God gave him the 0:42:21.840 --> 0:42:24.640 promise and he saw it come to path. But just 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:28.520 because I have to pause doesn't mean I stopped freaking. 0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:36.520 I'm gonna stay right here till that word come. Whoa 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:44.759 spirit of the nature boys, Charlotte, North Carolina, where we 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:53.360 speak English, Southern English. I failed Greek. I never passed Hebrew. 0:42:53.360 --> 0:42:55.160 They just sent me the degree to get me off 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:59.480 the books. That's true. I made friends with the professor. 0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:02.320 I said, do you really want me to keep taking 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:04.959 your class? And I had a degree a couple weeks later. 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:07.360 I don't know what happened in between, but I know 0:43:07.480 --> 0:43:10.759 what came after I got that cemetery degree. I got 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:20.439 that ce degree. You kill the author. I normally give 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:23.359 you one word from God. Today I give you two. 0:43:24.080 --> 0:43:26.080 And you don't need to know Hebrew. You'll need to 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:29.600 know Greek. You'll need to remember Theophilus. You have to 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:31.560 go back to Abraham. You have to do any of that. 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:39.560 Those two words that come after the comma, that's what 0:43:39.600 --> 0:43:42.799 I want you to remember, for every battle in your 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:48.200 life in this season, for every cross in your life 0:43:48.200 --> 0:43:50.840 in this season, for every struggle in your life in 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:53.160 this season, for every setback in your life, for every 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:55.759 question in your life, for every unanswered prayer in your 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:58.560 life in this season, for every thorn in your flesh 0:43:58.840 --> 0:44:01.800 in this season, for every in your hip this season, 0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:06.839 I want you to remember what comes after the come. 0:44:09.239 --> 0:44:18.600 But God only two words. You need to whip the 0:44:18.640 --> 0:44:27.319 devil's butt. Tell him, but stop being so reactive to 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:30.680 the enemy's attack. I told you last week, closed your doors. 0:44:31.160 --> 0:44:38.239 Now I'm telling you this week, cover your butt. Can 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:40.440 y'all believe I think about stuff like this, that's why 0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:47.360 you're at work. But God, you could do a whole 0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:52.040 study on every time that it says but God in 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:55.399 the Bible, and you'd be blessed. You'd find out that 0:44:56.640 --> 0:44:59.160 very rarely when dive for even a righteous person. But 0:44:59.320 --> 0:45:03.000 God demonstrates his own love for us in this that 0:45:03.080 --> 0:45:06.360 while we were still sinners, not at the end of 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:08.560 the movie, when we get our act together, when we 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:10.279 get to heaven one day and we are given our 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:16.000 wings and our trumpets. But while I'm still in my sin, 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:19.040 I need somebody to hear that it is in the 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:23.040 midst of the sin that the love is revealed. Now, 0:45:23.040 --> 0:45:25.719 don't keep sinning just because of that. But don't you 0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:28.760 stop because you're caught up in a comma. That's a comma. 0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:31.640 That is a comma. It does not mean stop, and 0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:34.120 it means what's coming next? You need to pay attention to. 0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:39.399 But tell me if I'm right English teacher. But can 0:45:39.440 --> 0:45:44.799 be an adjective, but can be a preposition. No, it 0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:47.200 can be an adverb. See what I'm saying. I failed 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:53.719 my language class in this particular instance. But is not 0:45:53.800 --> 0:45:57.400 a noun. So you don't have to get off. But 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:00.640 not in this instance. That's a different thing. This but now, 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:04.800 this is important. It is a conjunction, and I remember 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:11.000 it because of the song conjunction junction. What's your right? Right? So? 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:18.080 What what y'all know? The Bible? What's under that? I 0:46:18.120 --> 0:46:19.319 love it? I love it. I love it. I love 0:46:19.360 --> 0:46:21.640 it because right there in that butt, right there in 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:23.760 that butt, right there in that but is your breakthrough 0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:25.879 right there in that but? Is your freedom right there 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:27.920 in that butt? Is you knowing how to calm yourself 0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:31.239 down when you feel like you're going crazy. But it 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.200 means watch this. It is a conjunction. It is an 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:40.120 adversative conjunction, an adversative conjunction. What that means is whatever 0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:47.120 comes after this butt, whatever comes after this butt. I'm 0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:51.960 preaching you to you today about what comes and a 0:46:52.040 --> 0:46:57.200 conjunction that is that is after this comma means that 0:46:57.239 --> 0:47:03.680 whatever comes after this butt is going to make whatever 0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:10.880 came before it wish that it had never even happened. 0:47:12.000 --> 0:47:16.120 Let me say it again, this is where the deep 0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:19.680 Christians are. Let me say it on this side, or 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:22.000 maybe I should say it to this side, or maybe 0:47:22.080 --> 0:47:24.200 I should say it to this side, or maybe I 0:47:24.200 --> 0:47:26.239 should say it, or maybe I should say it to 0:47:26.280 --> 0:47:28.520 the people who got here early and got a seat 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:31.120 right there on the plot. Okay, maybe it's over here. 0:47:31.360 --> 0:47:36.719 Watch this, watch this. Whatever comes after this but is 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:41.880 gonna cancel out whatever happened before it. You didn't hear me. 0:47:43.640 --> 0:47:47.319 It's not gonna make it that it never happened. It's 0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:51.040 gonna make it that even though it happened, something greater 0:47:51.280 --> 0:47:56.960 happened after that made what happened before the butt. My 0:47:57.239 --> 0:48:01.720 preaching on my punctuation from March today, I'm preaching humbuck 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:12.680 punctuation marks today whatever. Now, when people say to you 0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:21.600 stuff like this, they say, no offense. But whatever they're 0:48:21.600 --> 0:48:25.360 getting ready to say on the other side of that butt, 0:48:26.960 --> 0:48:31.600 it's gonna make you forget and disbelieve whatever they said 0:48:31.600 --> 0:48:36.160 before it no offense. But you can't dance, and your 0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:39.160 tattoo is crooked, and I don't like your jewelry, and 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:42.120 you smell weird around your neck. You know, whatever they 0:48:42.160 --> 0:48:46.719 tell you, it's gonna be so crazy. No offense, but 0:48:47.120 --> 0:48:49.399 you get it, you get it, you get it. Don't 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:54.040 take this personally. But a lady told Holly one time, 0:48:54.600 --> 0:48:57.600 don't take this personally. But we're leaving the church. We 0:48:57.640 --> 0:49:00.640 don't think Pastor Steven preaches sound doctrine, the Gospel of 0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:02.960 Jesus Christ. And we're just tired of seeing people come 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:05.200 into church that are coming in high from the night before. 0:49:05.400 --> 0:49:07.680 And I couldn't understand. If they can't come to church 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:09.960 high from the night before, how are we gonna lead 0:49:10.000 --> 0:49:12.000 them to the most high God that they don't even 0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:14.239 know about. If I can't preach to them, how they're 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:22.600 gonna preach if they don't hear? And she had the 0:49:22.880 --> 0:49:26.640 unmitigated nerve gull and audacity to say, don't take it personal. 0:49:27.640 --> 0:49:31.400 Nothing personal. But your church sucks and you're leading people 0:49:31.400 --> 0:49:34.439 to hell. But it's not personal. And no, of course 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:40.480 not what you said after. But you killed the author. 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:45.360 But you can't do that, can you, Because the author 0:49:45.600 --> 0:49:48.479 is the one who gets to decide when it's over. 0:49:51.440 --> 0:49:54.319 You can't really kill the author, can you, Because if 0:49:54.320 --> 0:49:57.440 you kill the author, they can write a sequel. If 0:49:57.480 --> 0:50:00.319 you kill the author, they can put a comma. If 0:50:00.360 --> 0:50:05.680 you kill the author, they can write another chapter. I 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:09.760 wasn't shouting over the comma. I wasn't shouting over the butt. 0:50:10.800 --> 0:50:17.480 I was shouting over what came after. I wasn't shouting 0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:20.759 over the pain. I wasn't shouting over the shame. I 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:26.960 was shouting over what came after. And if whatever comes 0:50:27.040 --> 0:50:29.239 after that comma and that butt is bigger than what 0:50:29.320 --> 0:50:32.640 came before it. And what came after that butt was God. 0:50:33.080 --> 0:50:35.959 And we're talking about the God of Abraham, the God 0:50:36.000 --> 0:50:39.239 of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And I wish Peter 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:41.279 would have kept going. I wish you would have started 0:50:41.280 --> 0:50:46.719 talking about Joseph, because Joseph talked just like this. This 0:50:46.760 --> 0:50:50.400 is how Joseph talked. Remember, sold into slavery, left in 0:50:50.480 --> 0:50:54.080 a pit, taken to a prison, but falsely accused, for 0:50:54.160 --> 0:50:58.440 gotten in a prison, standing before his brothers thirty nine 0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:02.480 years laid, forty years of interval. That's what you live in. 0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:06.239 You live in the interval, the interval between what God 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:08.440 spoke and what you see. You have to believe it 0:51:08.640 --> 0:51:13.480 in the interval. And Joseph, after all that time, I 0:51:13.520 --> 0:51:16.520 gotta show you what he said because Peter stopped one 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:19.840 character short. He should have talked about Joseph, who said, 0:51:20.320 --> 0:51:27.360 asked for you you intended to harm me? Can you 0:51:27.400 --> 0:51:30.080 please give me Genesis fifty twenty. I've got to show 0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:34.680 to people this verse because you'll hear Joseph as Peter 0:51:34.800 --> 0:51:38.680 is preaching about Jesus. Remember what Peter just said. You 0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:47.600 killed him, but the grave couldn't keep him. Let me 0:51:47.680 --> 0:51:51.120 be explicit. Your faith can't be in the miracle. It 0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:53.680 has to be in the man. It has to be 0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:55.960 in Jesus. It has to be in what he did. 0:51:56.080 --> 0:51:58.560 I'm talking about the fact that he got up out 0:51:58.560 --> 0:52:01.440 of the grave. That's the basis of our faith. His 0:52:01.520 --> 0:52:04.759 name is Jesus. His name will still be Jesus if 0:52:04.800 --> 0:52:07.080 I have a job, his name will still be Jesus. 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:09.200 If I don't have a job, his name will still 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:12.000 be Jesus. If I'm crying, his name will still be Jesus. 0:52:12.000 --> 0:52:14.080 If I lose twenty, if I gain twenty, his name 0:52:14.160 --> 0:52:16.080 will still be Jesus. If you like me, his name 0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:18.840 will still be Jesus. That's not changing, So neither is 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:29.880 my faith. He got up. It was cross versus creator, 0:52:30.360 --> 0:52:35.320 and guess who won it was? It was God versus grave. 0:52:35.680 --> 0:52:41.320 And guess who gave up. Guess who tapped out? Not God? 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:46.840 So why would you? Joseph, looking at all of his 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:49.920 pain and all of his trauma, he says something so powerful, 0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:52.879 and you will recognize it. You will reckon. You will 0:52:52.920 --> 0:52:56.160 wonder if Peter was plagiarizing Joseph when he said, you 0:52:56.239 --> 0:52:58.440 killed the author. But God, look at this scripture. This 0:52:58.520 --> 0:53:06.719 is amazing. You intended to harm me. But God, you 0:53:06.800 --> 0:53:13.160 recognize those two words. You recognize that conjunction, the same 0:53:13.200 --> 0:53:15.480 one that Jesus was doing on the cross. Joseph was 0:53:15.480 --> 0:53:19.080 doing in his relationships, And that's what you gotta do. 0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:27.480 He said, you intended to harm me, harm me. I 0:53:27.480 --> 0:53:31.520 can't change that, But God intended it for what is 0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:37.600 now being done. And he lived fifty five more years 0:53:39.280 --> 0:53:43.040 to see his children's children's children brought to his knees. 0:53:43.560 --> 0:53:48.760 That's amazing, all because of what happened after the comma. 0:53:49.400 --> 0:53:52.400 The Lord sent me prophetically to speak to somebody who's 0:53:52.400 --> 0:53:54.719 at the comma right now? What am I going to 0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:57.239 do next? How am I going to handle this? Can 0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.120 I get up from the fall? Are we going to 0:53:59.200 --> 0:54:01.759 try it again? Are we gonna believe again? Am I 0:54:01.800 --> 0:54:04.239 gonna get out of the bed before eleven am this week? 0:54:04.480 --> 0:54:08.799 What am I gonna do next? And Joseph shows us 0:54:10.160 --> 0:54:13.719 that you don't need a deep revelation, You just need 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:20.279 to disrupt the devil with a button because what comes 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:25.920 after that butt It doesn't change the past, No, you 0:54:25.960 --> 0:54:36.880 can't change it. But what comes after, what comes after 0:54:37.880 --> 0:54:41.200 can change the very nature of the whole first two 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:44.439 hours of the movie, of the whole first twenty years 0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:47.320 of your life, of the last twenty years of your life. 0:54:47.719 --> 0:54:50.560 What comes after You'll be turned around saying, now, wait 0:54:50.600 --> 0:54:55.200 a minute, Maybe God allowed some of that. Maybe it 0:54:55.239 --> 0:54:58.840 wasn't bad. Maybe God put me through that test so 0:54:58.880 --> 0:55:03.759 I would have a testimony. Maybe God let Joseph be 0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:05.440 in that pit, so he could be standing in that 0:55:05.480 --> 0:55:08.840 position to be a provider. You have to believe that 0:55:08.920 --> 0:55:16.800 by faith. But God, everybody say it, But God, don't 0:55:16.800 --> 0:55:18.640 tell me you don't know how to fight the devil 0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:21.200 this week. And don't tell me you don't have any weapons. 0:55:21.400 --> 0:55:25.160 You don't need a big one if it's loaded. And 0:55:25.200 --> 0:55:31.879 that is a loaded statement because that but God anything. Loneliness. 0:55:31.920 --> 0:55:34.480 You know I feel alone. I know you do. But 0:55:34.680 --> 0:55:38.680 God is with me. But God is with me, okay. 0:55:38.719 --> 0:55:40.439 And if God is with me, He's going to bring 0:55:40.480 --> 0:55:43.319 everything I need. I can't do it, but God is 0:55:43.360 --> 0:55:48.440 in me. But God's spirit. Peter couldn't preach till the 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:53.560 spirit came. It was what came after. I declare a 0:55:53.600 --> 0:55:56.040 shift in your life. I declare a shift in your 0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:59.279 self image. I declare a shift in your insecurities. I 0:55:59.320 --> 0:56:02.400 declare a shift in your adversity. I declare a shift 0:56:02.440 --> 0:56:06.359 in your perspective. You cannot change the past, but God 0:56:06.400 --> 0:56:13.920 can change your perspective. Harm me, You tried to harm me. 0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:16.759 It came to harm me. I even harmed myself. The 0:56:17.160 --> 0:56:19.200 word harm. I told them to put it on the board. 0:56:19.200 --> 0:56:21.080 Hopefully they can do it for me. Now it says 0:56:21.440 --> 0:56:26.800 harm harm wide shot. Can I change it? Can I 0:56:26.920 --> 0:56:31.560 change it? Cannot change it. I don't want to erase it, 0:56:31.600 --> 0:56:33.360 but can I change it? I can erase it is 0:56:33.520 --> 0:56:37.600 up there. Cannot change it. Of course you can by 0:56:37.680 --> 0:56:56.560 what comes after? Do it? I feel like David Blaine 0:56:56.640 --> 0:57:05.319 up here, y'all, how we took something so ugly and 0:57:05.320 --> 0:57:09.960 what came after three letters, three days. You killed the author, 0:57:10.320 --> 0:57:15.920 you killed the composer, but it didn't stop the symphony. 0:57:16.200 --> 0:57:20.560 God is the one who brings it all into harmony. 0:57:22.080 --> 0:57:26.320 Harmony that's a musical term. Holly's got a book club, 0:57:26.360 --> 0:57:31.800 but I got songwriting team. Harmony, the author, the composer, 0:57:32.480 --> 0:57:35.080 they get to write the notes. See and y'all, I 0:57:35.080 --> 0:57:40.160 don't play piano. I play guitar pretty good, not as 0:57:40.200 --> 0:57:44.440 good as Joey who does play guitar as good as Joey. 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:47.640 But I'll tell you right now, I know how to 0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:54.680 find middle C on this piano. And I wanted to 0:57:54.960 --> 0:57:58.160 show you what Joseph meant when he said you meant 0:57:58.200 --> 0:58:01.560 to harm me. But God use all of it to 0:58:01.600 --> 0:58:05.040 bring us to this moment. And I will not let 0:58:05.360 --> 0:58:11.440 what happened before regulate what I believe God for going forward. 0:58:16.600 --> 0:58:21.720 I use that as an illustration Church, just to talk 0:58:21.760 --> 0:58:26.480 to you about the fact that this note, this single 0:58:26.600 --> 0:58:33.000 note in isolation. Is it a good note? Anybody who 0:58:33.000 --> 0:58:35.080 thinks it's a good note makes some noise from middle C. 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:42.200 Or is it a bad note? Everybody who thinks it's 0:58:42.200 --> 0:58:48.320 a bad note makes some noise boo middle see. Come on, 0:58:49.200 --> 0:58:53.280 you know intuitively what I'm trying to teach you. You 0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:57.760 know intuitively what Miles Davis said. He said, it is 0:58:57.960 --> 0:59:05.520 not the note you play that is wrong. It is 0:59:05.600 --> 0:59:11.840 the next note you play that makes it wrong or right. 0:59:14.560 --> 0:59:18.320 There's nothing wrong with that note. There's nothing right with 0:59:18.400 --> 0:59:24.160 that note. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it neither? 0:59:25.280 --> 0:59:40.360 It's neither until I hear what comes after bad note, 0:59:41.320 --> 0:59:49.160 same note, next note. Not a bad note, but it's 0:59:49.200 --> 0:59:54.280 a dissonant note because the interval is dissonant. There's nothing 0:59:54.320 --> 0:59:56.600 wrong with this note. Don't start running around all your 0:59:56.640 --> 0:59:59.280 pianos in your house and taking out middle seat. Ah, 0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:01.280 it's a bad note. This is what we want to do. 1:00:01.360 --> 1:00:02.960 Something happens in our lives. I gotta get rid of 1:00:03.000 --> 1:00:04.480 that stress. I got to get rid of that child's 1:00:04.480 --> 1:00:05.919 I gotta get rid of that thing. This is bad, 1:00:05.960 --> 1:00:07.560 this is horrible. No no no, no, no, no, no, no, 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:22.240 no no, you don't know yet until you hear all right, 1:00:22.320 --> 1:00:31.840 sound like jaws in here right now? Ah, God brought 1:00:31.920 --> 1:00:36.960 us here to talk about your next No, because you 1:00:37.000 --> 1:00:41.760 can't control so much of what happens. You can't erase 1:00:41.800 --> 1:00:52.560 what you did. Peter said, you killed the author. But God, now, 1:00:52.600 --> 1:00:57.360 do you really think that anything that you've done is 1:00:57.400 --> 1:01:04.240 greater than who God is? You really think any mistake 1:01:04.920 --> 1:01:11.160 that you've made is greater than who God is? Joseph said, 1:01:11.160 --> 1:01:14.400 you meant to harm me. But God, who works all 1:01:14.520 --> 1:01:20.080 things together for his good, will take what was meant 1:01:20.640 --> 1:01:29.200 to harm me and bring it into harmony. Next note, 1:01:30.400 --> 1:01:32.560 it's your next note that God wants to speak about. 1:01:35.160 --> 1:01:40.680 That sounds good. Middle C has been redeemed. All I 1:01:40.760 --> 1:01:43.600 had to do was put it with F. That interval 1:01:43.680 --> 1:01:49.360 is called a perfect fourth. A perfect fourth English music 1:01:49.440 --> 1:01:55.480 theory therapy. Y'all ought to start paying me. And when 1:01:55.480 --> 1:02:03.200 I put that together, mm hmmm, we could do a 1:02:03.200 --> 1:02:06.120 lot with that. Come on, we could do a lot 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:15.160 with that. No, Abby, thirty years, thirty years till you 1:02:15.160 --> 1:02:27.280 will hear that. Yeah, it was it, Ah, this is 1:02:27.320 --> 1:02:33.400 my store, same note I started with and did this 1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:39.920 to you, but where I took it? Next? What is 1:02:40.920 --> 1:02:46.680 your next note? Are you going to stay stuck on 1:02:46.720 --> 1:02:54.760 middle cea forever? Now we need a next note? This 1:02:55.120 --> 1:03:03.720 is my story with in a story within a story. 1:03:04.480 --> 1:03:09.760 God is the athor. The devil's a lie. He is 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:16.200 defeat He killed the othor. But God is rais devil. 1:03:16.880 --> 1:03:24.040 What's your next note? Gonna be? This is my story. 1:03:25.680 --> 1:03:30.080 The Devil's not the author. You're not the author. God 1:03:30.160 --> 1:03:34.120 is the author. Don't you want to see what's on 1:03:34.160 --> 1:03:37.960 the other side of this butt or You're gonna die 1:03:38.000 --> 1:03:42.280 at the comma. You're gonna die at the gate. You're 1:03:42.280 --> 1:03:45.160 gonna die in the disappointment. Yes, people broke your heart. 1:03:45.240 --> 1:03:47.480 That's what broke in people. Hardly do they meant to 1:03:47.480 --> 1:03:53.040 harm you? But God, but God, but God, but God, 1:03:54.160 --> 1:04:06.080 but God, but God, but God? What is your next No, 1:04:06.280 --> 1:04:09.920 God says you get to choose. You're gonna play the 1:04:09.960 --> 1:04:13.880 one I wrote for you. You're gonna play the one 1:04:13.880 --> 1:04:17.000 that I destined for you. You're gonna play the one 1:04:17.000 --> 1:04:23.200 I created you for so that you have a story. 1:04:23.880 --> 1:04:26.240 You could be telling a different story. This time, next year. 1:04:27.400 --> 1:04:33.640 It's about the next note. Come off that cross, come 1:04:33.640 --> 1:04:37.760 out of that grave, come out of that failure, repent 1:04:38.160 --> 1:04:41.200 and turn to the Lord. He brought you here for 1:04:41.320 --> 1:04:45.680 this moment to tell you He is the author and 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:51.800 the finisher. And the next note is yours to sing 1:04:55.120 --> 1:05:14.400 uh may uh may uh may see grace see how sweet? 1:05:15.040 --> 1:05:26.400 No no, uh may say Chris, it's your no, how sweet? 1:05:28.440 --> 1:05:45.680 The the next note, uh like me? I want was 1:05:46.440 --> 1:05:57.000 long watches bod Now next note a fault? What was blood? 1:05:57.720 --> 1:06:08.360 Next note? Bad? Ah? I see? Oh, come on, let's 1:06:08.440 --> 1:06:12.880 keep going, Let's keep going. What's your next note? I 1:06:12.960 --> 1:06:21.720 know mine? Praise God, Praise God. You know it. Praise God, 1:06:23.640 --> 1:06:35.560 Praise God, Praise God. Please pee. I can't sing it 1:06:35.680 --> 1:06:37.560 for you. You got to open your mouth and let 1:06:37.600 --> 1:06:45.640 everything that has breath praise the Lord God. Praise pea 1:06:48.520 --> 1:07:03.040 pe pease ye. It's the next snow. It's the next snow. 1:07:04.040 --> 1:07:05.960 It's the next note. You shall live and not die. 1:07:06.040 --> 1:07:09.120 God kept you alive for a reason. It's the next note. 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:12.080 That's what the devil is fighting you over. What comes 1:07:12.120 --> 1:07:16.720 after the comma? It is your next note? What will 1:07:16.800 --> 1:07:21.760 it be? I know what mine is? I thought about 1:07:21.800 --> 1:07:24.200 giving up. I thought about quitting. I thought about throwing 1:07:24.280 --> 1:07:26.080 in the towel. I thought I wouldn't make it. I 1:07:26.160 --> 1:07:28.760 thought I wasn't worthy. I thought that he couldn't forgive me. 1:07:28.840 --> 1:07:30.840 I thought I couldn't do it. I thought i'd bout. 1:07:30.840 --> 1:07:34.480 The best was behind me until I found out what 1:07:34.640 --> 1:07:43.400 my next note needed to be. But God b h 1:07:45.440 --> 1:08:01.440 but God bu bu bu. But I need you to 1:08:01.480 --> 1:08:03.520 sing it like they sang it in the prison this week, 1:08:03.600 --> 1:08:11.800 like in the DUP's nest. Bade God bye, God bye, 1:08:12.480 --> 1:08:25.400 God bade God bye God. Let's sing it again. Let's 1:08:25.439 --> 1:08:28.280 sing it again. Let's sing it again. Lift those hands. 1:08:28.360 --> 1:08:37.800 Come on, come on God, I'm here today because he 1:08:38.040 --> 1:08:53.800 stepped it. Next note, next th next raak through the 1:08:54.000 --> 1:09:09.519 next down, next ray God, come on, no God, No, 1:09:10.040 --> 1:09:16.639 say it loud, put aways, time out hot that taggle 1:09:16.760 --> 1:09:30.479 down God by God, God, God for a hand gone 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:36.360 a say come tell you go ahead. His name is Jesus, 1:09:37.320 --> 1:09:56.479 Stay out, Stay out God God. Well, if you enjoyed 1:09:56.520 --> 1:09:58.880 today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love 1:09:58.960 --> 1:10:02.080 for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and 1:10:02.280 --> 1:10:05.320 review this podcast. You can also help us reach others 1:10:05.360 --> 1:10:09.360 by investing today at elevationchurch dot org. Slash GiB and 1:10:09.439 --> 1:10:12.080 thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast