What God Left Out: Flatbread Faith

0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.160 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.520 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.559 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.480 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.360 How many want to receive the Word of God today? 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:27.800 How many want a fresh, big Bible lesson today? All right, 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.080 if you're not standing, stand up for a moment. If 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.280 you are standing, remain that way in the upright position, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.240 and we're about to take off. Look at Exodus chapter 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:45.960 twelve with me. Thank you for your spirit Lord. Put 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.960 that in the chat. Thank you for your spirit Lord. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.120 Welcome all over the world. We welcome you. Let us 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.920 know where you're joining from right now, where you're worshiping from, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.520 not watching worshiping. I'm a participator. I'm not a spectator. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.560 I want to get in on it, what God is 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.120 doing in the season. I don't want to be left out. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.319 Look at this scripture. I mentioned it last week. I 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.840 told you that last week when I preached on comfort food, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.800 I had a tupperwaar anointing. And so hopefully your fridge 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.600 has been stocked this week, and you've been able to 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:18.720 nibble on what you need. That's a goal anyway, then, 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:20.520 and I want to go back into one of the 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:25.800 passages that I mentioned and really really see what God 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.520 is saying to me. Please help me, Lord, as you 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.560 lavished your word on me, helped me to access it 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:38.200 now for your people who needed. Exodus twelve thirty seven, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:43.440 the Israelites journeyed from Ramses to Suckott. There are about 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:48.440 six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.040 and many other people went up with them, and also 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.680 large droves of livestock, both flocks and herts. With the 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:00.000 dough the Israelites had brought. With the dough the Israelite 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.240 had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unloven bread. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.960 They baked loaves of unloven bread with the dough that 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.440 they brought from Egypt. All right, lean into this, it's 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.680 getting good. You smell the bread, all right, here it comes. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.800 The dough was without yeast because they had been driven 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.200 out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:33.160 food for themselves. Now, the length of time the Israelite 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.600 people lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.720 and at the end of four hundred and thirty years 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:44.280 to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.760 because the Lord kept vigil. Somebody say, God is looking 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.000 out for me. That's not my sermon, but I needed 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.560 to underscore it real quick in case you've been wondering lately. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.120 The Lord kept vigil. That means you don't have to 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.040 watch all the things all the time Lord kept vigil. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.760 The Bible said, he doesn't slumber or sleep, so that 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.760 means you ought to get some rest. Tell somebody take 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.920 a nap. Take a nap. The storm will still be 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:16.320 there when you wake up. Because the Lord kept vigil 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.640 that night to bring them out of Egypt. On this night, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.760 all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.520 Lord for generations to come. I wanted you to get 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.079 the full context, but really I want to go off 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.040 of verse thirty nine, where it says the dough was 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.160 without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.760 and did not have time to prepare food for themselves. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.600 And I want to give you two titles that you 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.600 can choose from. The first is more descriptive. It says 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:51.600 on this title, we could say what God left out? 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:58.000 What God left out? If you like your titles a 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.040 little on the spicy side, we're gonna call this little 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:11.360 sermon flat bread faith, Flat bread faith. Serve your word 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.200 to the people, and use me as a waiter God 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:22.680 in Jesus' name, Amen, Amen, what God left out? You 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:31.279 never really tell anybody everything, not even yourself, not even God. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.120 Self awareness is an ongoing process. You tell yourself the 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.680 story that you can live with, the version of events 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.880 you can live with. But in our own little way, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:50.520 we're all revisionist historians. So when we compile how certain 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.120 things went down in our life, we do it in 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.400 a way that will accommodate our pain or our fear 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.960 too fast. Back up, Lord said, slow down, slow down. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:09.880 Revisionist history. It's like you leave certain things out, you 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.200 say a certain part, leave a certain part out, and 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.000 you kind of stack it in a way that makes 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.760 you feel better about it. Everybody does this. I do it, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.040 you do it. I've done it before. Oh that's staff 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.640 member left because you know they were this and that 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.520 and underperforming. Well, I'm still salty about it. So what 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.520 you are getting is me seasoning with the details that 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.480 I like, and then they will say a different well 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.600 my season was over, and I'm like, no, you were 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.760 just lazy and quit and didn't want to stick it out. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.400 And then there and then they're going back and they're like, well, no, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.120 this was going in my life and that was going, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.000 and we're all working off of our point of view. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.200 And that's that's that's very important to realize, is that 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.839 we are all when it comes to how we understand 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:56.520 our life doing a revisionist history. And another thing, if 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.520 you like to write down things that the preacher says 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:09.520 not mandatory, it's recommended, we're all reductionists. Wow. And that's 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:15.040 when we take something that's incredibly complicated and make it 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:20.680 sound so simple. So, you know, taking something that's so 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.799 big and difficult to understand and just trying to boil 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.080 it down to something that especially preaching, Like I'm going 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.200 to talk a little bit about preaching today because hey, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.160 you know that's that's something I care about, aren't you glad? Yeah, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.680 it'd be bad if I didn't. But you want to 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.640 boil it down, make it rhyme, you know, make it 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.560 start with the same letters and all that. I do that. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.360 I like that, but sometimes I have noticed that I 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:52.480 oversimplify what is actually very complicated. I'm preaching to you today. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.159 I came over, I came over. I brought a big 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.960 old casserole over your hunger. So so, so that's one thing. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:03.880 But then I also sometimes overcomplicate what is really pretty simple, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.880 and both of those can get me in trouble. When 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.680 you read the Bible, the biggest mistake that you can 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.200 make is to think you already know what you're reading. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.280 You miss all kinds of stuff when you take out 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.120 the parts revisionists, you take out the parts that make 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.280 you feel uncomfortable, take out the parts that you don't 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.280 initially understand, or when you try to boil it down 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.440 to something that is palatable. You can't take all of 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.760 the tension out of the truth. You can't. Well, you can, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.640 but you're not going to have a strong faith that way. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.960 You'll be weak. Then anytime something happens that doesn't clearly 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.480 fit your version of the truth, then you won't have 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:57.040 any shield to protect you from the attacks of the enemy. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.160 I need a little help online. This room's kind of 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.120 sleepy today. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we all 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.600 do it. We all do it. I tell people sometimes 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.080 how our church started. But I don't tell him everything 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.080 because you can't tell everything, you know. It's first of all, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.320 it would take forever. You can't go all the way back. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.880 And secondly, there are some things I don't even remember. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.720 It's like I blocked him out. I had this memory 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.680 come back to me when I was preparing the sermon 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.480 of how me and Holly went to this place one 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.440 time and Nicole went with us. Nicole went with us. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.520 We were we drove about eight hours and we drove 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.280 to preach at at camp and Adrian de Prey asked 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.480 me to go tag team. He dicipled you in college, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.120 didn't He made you memorize scripture. If you missed a word, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.880 what'd you punch you in the jar or something like that. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.240 Adrian's this big intimidating god. This He used to throw 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.080 chairs around on his sermon illustrations. You had to wear 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.400 a motorcycle helmet to go to Adrian to pray sermon. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.920 Great man of God, great passion. I looked up to him. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.920 You ever hear Adrian do the four chairs? He had 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.240 this one sermon he would put sticks down his pants. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.280 I still don't know what the thing was about. But 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.040 he would. He would he would go gather sticks and 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.839 shove them down anyway. He is a very powerful man 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.200 of God. He told me. I blocked some of this 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.040 stuff out, but it came back to me. He told me, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.120 I want you to meet me at such and such 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.839 and tag team preached this camp with me. That was 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.800 a dream come true for me. Tim. I thought, well, that's, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.800 you know, like getting to play with you know, Lebron 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.320 or something like that. For me. At the time, I 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.240 thought preaching with Adrian. And so we drove out there 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.200 eight hours and when we got there, y'all, it was 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.120 the weirdest situation. They said. When we got there, they said, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:43.680 welcome to hobo camp. I said, hobo camp. They said, yeah, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.040 tomorrow is the hobo parade. I don't know if it's 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.000 politically correct to say hobo anymore. I might get shut down. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.400 He canceled and all over this or not. But I 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:53.920 didn't make it up. I didn't know it was a 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.880 hobo camp. I just knew. Adrian asked me to go. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.400 He said, meet me out there. I drove out there 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.320 and he would even there and I asked the lady. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.680 The lady running the camp was ninety years old and 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.840 legally blind, and it was inner house, and there's one 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.040 hundred and fifty. Am I making this up. It's a 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.880 whole campground. But then the meeting was in the house 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.440 and the lady was so nice. There was nothing. I 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.320 just didn't I didn't know that it was a hobo camp, right, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.120 I didn't know that they were divided. We went to 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.440 eat in the cafeteria the first day and the kids 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.400 all start banging their glasses on the table in Unison, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.719 because they all come back to the same camp every year. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.560 Is my first time they start banging their their glasses 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 on the table and they start singing. I remember the song. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.560 How do I remember this? Hatfield's, Yoakums and McCoy's and 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.640 kettles have gathered together for some fun, fun, fun fun. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.040 Some have come by box car, some have come from walking. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.120 Oh there's a travel by their thumb thumb, thumb, thumb. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.520 Though we roam a thousand miles away, we will return 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.120 here for convention data. I don't remember the rest, but 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.280 I remember that much. And I was so freaked out 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.520 and Adrian wasn't even there. That's why I went to 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.199 the lady run. I said, where's Adrew say, don't get 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.600 here til Sunday. So he gets here Sunday, I'm waiting 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:18.640 for him, like, Man of God. You didn't You left 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:25.480 out the part where it was a hobo camp and 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.080 a hobo pray. You left out the part where I 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.319 had to do the first two sessions by myself. I 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:37.480 didn't have a sermon ready. You left Oh come on, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:46.240 he said, Yeah, I left that part out because I 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.600 thought if I didn't leave it out, you wouldn't show up. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.280 Y'all thought I was just having a random flashback, like 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.640 pray for pastor he's over caffeinated. No, no, no, no no, no, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.920 it came back to me for a reason he left 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.319 it out. Today, I don't want to talk to you 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.080 about what God brought the Israelites through the Red Sea, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.960 because I figure you've heard that part before. I don't 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.880 want to talk to you about who he struck down, 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.000 the firstborn of Egypt to cause Pharaoh to let his 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.080 people go with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, because 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.360 I figure you've heard about that and it's really scary too. Instead, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.280 I wanted to mention something that happened when they were 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:38.120 leaving that you can skip over. You can skip over 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.920 it so easily, but it really speaks to me. It 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.439 said that when they left Egypt, where they had been 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.720 four hundred and thirty years, and by way of review, 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.560 they were not in Egypt because of something they did wrong. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.640 They were in Egypt because that was the place God 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:05.120 provided for them when God finally brought them out as 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:10.400 their situation had changed from one of provision to imprisonment. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.440 The Bible records an important detail that says they left 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.600 with bread. One verse says it was wrapped in their 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:27.000 clothes on their shoulders, and the bread was unleavined. It 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:33.400 says specifically the dough was without yeast because they had 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.360 to leave so fast, they didn't have time to prepare 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:42.920 food for themselves. And I was thinking, if God had 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:47.080 the foresight and the planning ability to get them ready, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.600 to get all of the clothes of the Egyptians, all 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.080 of the jewelry, all of the things they took, if 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.840 God could plan out all ten plagues to get his 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.040 people out, surely he could have had them bake the 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:04.120 bread the night before. So the only thing I can 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:09.000 think is that God didn't want them to take yeast 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:19.640 from Egypt into the place of their promise when we're 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.720 praying over a new year, I told you I was 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.080 going to focus on room to receive. Everybody, say room 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.480 to receive, say it out loud, like with your mouth 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.560 and your vocal cords and your larynx and stuff. Room 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.560 to receive, room to receive. Put as many o's as 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.280 you want in the word. Room, room to receive. That's 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.080 why I give God a great, big praise. I want 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.320 him to have a whole lot of room to run 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.240 around and do what he wants to do. And I 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.560 found out sometimes you can have a big room that's cluttered. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.920 You can have a big gift that's cluttered. You can 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.240 have a smart mind that's cluttered. You can have a 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:03.520 good relationship that's cluttered. But God is doing something in 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.640 this text that I wonder has He been doing in 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:14.120 your life, my life, this church, this ministry, is that 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:22.560 rather than God demonstrating his power through what he adds, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:31.080 he gives his people a lesson in leaving it out, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.520 taking a deep breath and shout, leave it out. One 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.920 two three. You weren't ready, I'll do it again. One 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:45.480 two three, leave it out, leave it out, he said, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.720 get up in a hurry, out of Egypt, and they 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.200 didn't even have time to let the bread rise. That's 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.680 what the yeast does, It makes the bread rise. And 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.000 before the bread could even rise, they had to get out. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.960 They didn't even have time to prepare for a global pandemic, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.440 I mean for the exodus. Sometimes my mind goes back 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.840 and forth, like a do ad on TikTok or something. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:17.400 It's going back and forth. So I want you to 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.360 ask a question today, and this could be very good homework, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:22.520 or we could just do it right now. Let's do 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.160 it right now. Let's do right now. We've got time, right, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.160 we got time. You got anything better to do than 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:27.800 hear the word of the eternal God who sits on 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.320 the throne and having above all principle, these and authorities. Sorry, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:36.200 so let's do it right now. What is God leaving 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:41.280 out in my life right now to lead me to 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.320 where he called me all along? And I want to 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.720 do it over under a couple of different headings. I 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.600 want to talk about it from disappointments, that's number one. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.480 I want to talk about it through deficiency, and then 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.440 I want to talk about it through deletions. Feed them 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.720 back to me real quick. Disappointments put it in the 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:12.080 chat next one deficiency and three deletions. They left Egypt 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.800 with bread with no yeast, and they went into a 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.560 place where they had no knowledge of how to survive. Remember, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.760 they went into the wilderness. God gave amana. All of 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.439 that is awesome. You know, when I read the Bible 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.920 sometimes I think the more important things that we learn 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.800 are in the spaces where nothing is written. And I 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.119 want to give you a few examples of that, because 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:36.919 in your life, a lot of times it will not 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.600 be the obvious things that will leave the greatest clues 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.320 to what God has called you to do. One example 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.400 that I thought of that was when God told Moses 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.600 his name, he said I am And I figured out 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.439 over time that God didn't get tongue tied about what 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.400 came next. He wanted to leave it open. We want 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.320 to limit God right. We want a picture of God 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.560 that we can hang in our kitchen. We want a 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.800 picture of Jesus that looks just like somebody with our 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:15.000 same last name. But when God left that blank, he 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.720 wanted you to know that He will not be confined 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.919 to something that you can call him with human language, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.879 or a picture that your eyes can perceive. Let me 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.520 show you this. In the New Testament, Acts chapter one 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.040 is kind of like Numbers twelve or Exodus twelve, because 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.800 it's a picture of a nation in transition. It's the 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.040 same thing in Acts one, it's the same thing in 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.560 the New Testament. Jesus is leaving, the Holy Spirit is coming, 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.399 and life is happening in that transition. Life happens in 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.679 the transitions, Life happens in the car, Life happens on 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.560 the way to stuff, Life happens with something that came 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.040 up on your caller idea and you don't even know 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.280 what number that was. Life happens good and bad in 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.560 places you didn't know to look. And so this is 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.760 a This is a parallel that God gave me. They 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.000 were coming out of Egypt. God was bringing his church 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.480 out of a religious system in Acts chapter one. So 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.760 they're standing there talking to Jesus, who they've walked with 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.240 in Acts one, and look at verse six. They gathered 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.680 around and asked him, Lord, are you x one six 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.360 at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.080 But God was not going to restore what they had before. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.639 He was going to replace it with something much better. 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:40.720 I gotta get this through to somebody. God. God, God, 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:46.320 God is not going to restore the earlier version of 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.680 your life. God is not going to make things back 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:55.359 like they were. He doesn't do that. That's not his thing. Jesus. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.440 I'm not saying that Jesus was like eight d or 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.439 anything like that, but he couldn't do the same miracle 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.160 the same way. He's spitting and touching and speaking, and 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.760 it's it's not gonna be like it was now now. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.679 When they asked him this, they said, Lord, are you 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:11.840 at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.760 I want you to notice what he said back to them, 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.480 It's not for you to know the times of the 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:22.480 dates Father set by his own authorny. He reveals his 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.960 power not by the details that he puts in, but 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:32.240 by the details that he left out. He could have 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.440 told him the answer to that. You think he didn't 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.840 know and you didn't have a plan for it. You 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.000 think God is like, oh, I didn't see this thing 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.520 happening over there in China. This is a real game changer. 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.600 What are we gonna do? Gabriel, Hey, Michael, get your 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.560 war clothes on. There's a really got caught off guard. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.399 Goodness of sam Bush on the no no, no no, no, no, no. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:01.600 That blank space right there, that's the place where we 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:06.800 learn to believe. See, if we know something, we don't 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:11.560 have the opportunity to believe it. I don't have to 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:16.520 believe what I know. I have to believe what God spoke. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.040 You want another one. God is often revealed by what 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.159 he leaves out more than what he puts in. You 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.280 really want another one? I got about three hundred of these, 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.320 all right, let me give you another one. When they 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.720 talk about Abraham in the Bible, he's known as the 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.159 father of faith, the father of many nations, right, and 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:41.879 it gives this little reductionist verse, revisionist history. It says 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:48.400 Abraham believed God and it was credited to him for righteousness. Now, 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:52.080 for someone who's been studying the Bible like I have 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:57.560 these twenty and some years, twenty and some you like 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.160 that leaving it open, let you know exactly how long 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.240 he said. He did a lot more than believe God. 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:10.639 He lied about who his wife was, He has sex 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.000 with Hagar, who was supposed to be cleaning the house. 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.879 He did a lot more than You don't like the 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.639 real Bible, do you? Oh? You like that airbrush. You 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.880 want me to leave this stuff out that you don't 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:26.360 like about your Bible heroes. No, here's the thing about it. 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:29.879 All that was left out when Paul wrote Romans, and 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.400 I was going, why why did God leave that out? 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:39.840 And I figured out that Abraham's life was not defined 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:44.320 by his failures, not by God. It was defined by 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:49.080 his faith. You got it? Are you getting it? So 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.360 when Paul gets ready to describe Abraham, he doesn't mention 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.040 the things we might mention. Oh, then they went bankrupt, 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.480 and then and then they're kind of over there. He 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.320 mentions none of that. He said he believed God. That's 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.959 what counts. That's what matters. That's what will be said 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:10.880 after the fact, even with the ups and downs. Leave 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.359 it out. Leave it out. Last week I was preaching 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:16.879 about the prodigal son, and I was mad at the 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:21.120 dad and the story right because the younger one took 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.360 his money and wasted it. Let's go to that passage 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.680 real quick, Luke fifteen. I love the Word of God, Skinner, 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:30.760 I love it. I love it. I love it. My 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:34.840 hardest parted in finding out something to preach. My hardest 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:37.239 part is figuring out what to leave out because this 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.560 thing is so good to me. I told Abby last night. 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.040 She came in, she said, you got your sermon ready? 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:47.040 I said, no, I got three. She said, you'll find 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.399 one verse to bring them all together. You always do. 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:54.560 Did you say that? Or am I making it up? 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.560 She was a prophet because I didn't know. I didn't 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:01.520 know what it had to do with Yeaston bred and 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:03.760 the prodigal son. I'm like, I guess they both have 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:06.600 food in them, but what else? Watch this? You ready? 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:12.480 Whoa luke fifteen? Luke fifteen? So the younger brother he 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:16.520 goes out and he's doing his you know, younger brother stuff. 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.760 And he's out there, you know, spending everything he had, 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:22.840 trying to be independent from the father. You know, I 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:28.919 want my freedom. It's not really free, It's not really free. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:30.840 When the devil tempts you, he leaves a lot of 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:37.679 stuff out about what it's going to cost you. You 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:42.080 think God's the only one who leaves stuff out. The 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:47.719 devil has the same strategy. He will tell you all 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:54.040 about the feeling. I gotta go back real quick. I 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:56.159 gotta go back real quick. When they were saying we 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:58.920 wish we were back in Egypt, remember from last week. Remember, 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:03.479 and they said we had in Egypt. You also had 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.040 an unreasonable quota of bricks that you had to make 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:10.919 with not enough straw. You left that out out. You 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.359 left that out. And there's a way our memory gets selective, 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:19.920 all the good old days. I should probably leave this out. 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:22.639 We could take that out later. I don't know what 0:25:22.680 --> 0:25:26.160 that was. But look at me, I'm printing the Bible. Now. 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:32.040 You remember how the fish tasted, but you forgot how 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:40.600 the Pharaoh treated you. You're leaving something out. You're leaving 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:45.520 something out. You're leaving the wrong stuff out, all right. 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:49.240 So the younger brother, he's like, oh god, I'm hungry. 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.640 I'm hungry. I remember my father. We used to eat 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:54.600 around there, We ate good around there. I'm going back 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.760 to my father. I'm not gonna beg like this anymore. 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:58.639 And you get there, right, You're like, I'm gonna do 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.159 this different. I'm gonna set some prime. I'm sick of this. 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.040 I don't want to live this way. Right Like when 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:04.960 we say go back to your father, what does that mean? 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:06.800 I don't want that to be abstract for you. It 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:10.320 means going back to who you truly are, being known 0:26:10.359 --> 0:26:13.840 by your identity, not seeking after it by trying to 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:19.040 add status and stuff and layers and personas and busyness 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:21.440 and think that that's somehow going to fulfill your life 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:24.359 is not gained the world and lose your soul. So 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:26.040 that's what it meant. When he came to his senses 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.000 and came back to his father, and he had a 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:34.439 speech ready, he wrote a whole speech, father, I have 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:41.080 sinned against Heaven, against you. I'm no longer worthy to 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:44.560 be called your son. Make me like one of your 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:47.919 hired servants. Verse twenty Luke fifteen. He got up and 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:51.240 went to his father, And what's what happened? While he 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:52.959 was still a long way off his father's sa him 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:57.120 was filled with compassion. He ran to his son. Can 0:26:57.160 --> 0:27:01.040 you believe this undignified decision of a great wealthy man 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:04.040 who has hired servants to run toward his son who 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:07.960 wasted his money. I see the son getting his speech 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.120 ready because he didn't expect to see his father until 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:13.720 he rounded the corner. But before he could get all 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:17.000 these things out of his mouth, I'm not worthy, Make 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:22.320 me a servant. I'm so horrible. Before he could get 0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:27.520 to any of that, the father said to his servants. Quick, 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:35.320 bring the best road, put it on him, put a 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:39.159 ring on his finger, sandals on his feet. Way to 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:40.720 have a speech to give you where I'm going to 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:48.440 relist all the bad things I did. Huh. I hear 0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:58.399 God saying leave that out. That's not what this moment 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:02.159 is about. That's not why I'm convicting you so I 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:05.040 can just so that I can just crush you under 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.960 the weight to bad decisions. I know you got a 0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:11.600 lot of those thoughts too, But if I'm hearing God right, 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:17.439 he's saying, lead that out. Wow, I don't know you 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:19.920 by those things that you identify yourself by. Lead that out. 0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:25.119 Stop introducing yourself to the next season of your life 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:29.600 with the resume of your regrets from the last one. 0:28:30.520 --> 0:28:37.080 Leave that out. Leave it out, leave it out, leave 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:40.560 it out, leave it out, leave it out. You know 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:42.040 when you go in your mind and you're like, I 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:44.120 think God is calling me to do but da da 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:47.920 da leave that out. Go back to the first thing 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:50.560 you said and make a little sandwich with the last 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.560 thing God has said, and leave out whatever you put 0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:57.200 in between, because that's the space for you to believe. Right. 0:28:58.560 --> 0:29:00.320 I thought you were going to talk about this ointment. 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:04.240 I am talking about disappointment. The Father had every right 0:29:04.320 --> 0:29:07.560 to be disappointed in the sun, but he left that out. 0:29:09.680 --> 0:29:12.440 He left that out. And I wonder why are we 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:18.360 so quick to put stuff back on people that God 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:20.880 is leaving out. God doesn't talk to them like that. 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:24.120 God doesn't see them like that. God doesn't judge them 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:29.360 like that. And we do leave it out next time 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:30.880 this week, you get a little something in you. It 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:32.920 feels real good. Right, you're gonna say something bad about 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.520 somebody you know, Oh, well, they're good, you know. And 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:39.720 I heard shine to leave it out. I hope y'all 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:41.000 make a meme out of me. I hope y'all make 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:43.480 a meme out of me. Leave it out, leave it out, 0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:47.600 leave it out, leave it out, put your little speech off, 0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:50.600 put your little self righteous thing. And so we don't 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:54.600 know what to leave out. And God's trying to send 0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:59.320 us right the Holy Spirit, but we need too many details. 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:03.640 And because we will not leave the details in the 0:30:03.720 --> 0:30:07.520 hands of God, we cannot receive what He has given 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:11.920 us for this moment. So there come moments in your life, 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:14.040 And I wonder are you in one right now, right 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:17.400 now where God is saying I'm calling you out of Egypt. 0:30:17.840 --> 0:30:21.440 But you can't wait for the red to rize. You 0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:24.960 can't wait for everything to be perfect. You can't wait 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:28.560 for everything to be convenient. You can't wait for everybody 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:31.400 to cheer you on. You can't wait till it makes 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:34.760 total sense. You can't wait till it comes on paper. 0:30:35.120 --> 0:30:38.040 You can't wait till you have the facts. You can't 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:41.240 wait until you have more strength. You can't wait until 0:30:41.280 --> 0:30:44.040 you have more wisdom. You can't wait till you have 0:30:44.200 --> 0:30:49.600 the trophy. You gotta celebrate right now. You gotta go 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:58.080 right now. You gotta have faith, flat bed, flat bread faith. 0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:01.440 Almost have flat bed like a big truck backing up 0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:05.520 beat beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, with the blessings of God. 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:13.120 But does he have anywhere to put him? Flatbred faith, 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:15.640 flatbread faith. I don't know what to call the sermon, 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:20.120 But do you have anywhere for it? Or are you scrolling? 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:22.920 At the same time I'm preaching and you don't even 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:25.880 have a place in your heart? The thorns are growing 0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:28.360 at the same time the seed is hidden the soil. 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:35.120 Jesus of Nazareth, come and preach to these people. I 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:42.920 need you, Lord, It's amazing. Well God sends to your life, 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:46.000 and you know he does. For he sends, he takes 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:51.280 something away, and in between. Your job is to believe 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:56.440 that something better is coming. She said, I'm leaving you 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:59.320 in the body. I'm sending my spirit. I want you 0:31:59.360 --> 0:32:04.000 to go. What verses it? Star? What versues it? Give me? 0:32:04.040 --> 0:32:11.000 Acts one? Fourteen? Is it? Maybe fourteen? He said, wait 0:32:11.040 --> 0:32:14.160 for the Holy Spirit. Leave a blank for the part 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:17.840 that you don't know about right now. Oh God, how's 0:32:17.880 --> 0:32:20.080 my kid going to turn out? And what college are 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:24.200 they going to go into? They're three? Your baby is three. 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:27.720 You can put Duke Jammy's on them all you want, 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:29.560 but they might go to you. N see, you can't 0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:36.400 control that. It's a regional joke. But on fourteen fourteen? 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:39.840 Acts one fourteen? What is it? Star? A bunch of names? 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:43.760 They together joined together. They all join together constantly in prayer, 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:47.200 along with with the woman and Mary. No, because that's 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:48.959 who was there, Mary and the mother and all that 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:55.280 other people. Go back to the thirteen maybe when ye 0:32:55.480 --> 0:33:00.520 when they arrived they went upstairs to the the room. 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:06.360 Why did they go to the room to what? He said? 0:33:06.400 --> 0:33:11.440 They went to the room to receive. Do you have 0:33:11.520 --> 0:33:17.040 room to receive. Do you have the right people in place? 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:19.720 Because I do want to preach a sermon one of 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:23.320 these weeks here early in the year about seasonal people, 0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:30.960 and I will, God permitting, I will, God permitting, I will. 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:37.600 But let's start with the place. You know, you're the temple. 0:33:39.560 --> 0:33:42.280 Crazy to me, however many times I read the scripture, 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:44.880 I just miss it until I make more room in 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:50.040 my heart to receive it. You know, It's like I 0:33:50.080 --> 0:33:52.560 read this verse a million times where it said you 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:54.160 are always with me. All that I have is yours. 0:33:55.280 --> 0:33:57.200 And I love that verse. You're always with me, all 0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:59.040 that I have is yours. It's like a great thing 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.680 to pray. Right, God, you are always with me. All 0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:05.360 that I have is yours. And just when JJ and 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:08.640 gregging them, they had their campus pastor meeting the other day, 0:34:09.280 --> 0:34:12.240 and I zoomed on in the h I was thinking, 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:13.839 in the room where it happens, in the zoom where 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:18.920 it happens, well, lin Manuel, annoying the apostle lin Manuel. 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:21.040 Miranda once said, I want to be in the zoom 0:34:21.080 --> 0:34:27.400 where it happens. Well. When I was talking to y'all, 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:30.120 the verse came to me, you were always with me 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:34.640 all I have is yours. When I told you that verse, 0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:36.640 I left something out. I left out who said it, 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:39.120 because it sounds like something we say to God. I 0:34:39.160 --> 0:34:42.239 wrote a song with some friends, but I started it 0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:44.480 in my basement one night. I don't like the way 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:47.239 my voice sounds that much, Like sometimes it sounds good 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:49.600 in a certain range, but in other parts. I just 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:51.200 don't like to hear it that much. But it's okay 0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:53.520 in a certain range, you know. And I said that 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:56.120 that way on purpose because one time I said on 0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:58.440 stage I'm not a singer, and Holly said, next time 0:34:58.440 --> 0:35:02.279 you talk about that, leave that out. Did you ever 0:35:02.360 --> 0:35:05.759 say you're not a singer again? I got scared, like 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.080 God might give me nodules or throat cancer or something 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:10.279 if I said it. I was like, okay, I'm to 0:35:10.360 --> 0:35:12.239 leave that out. But the fact is I have to 0:35:12.280 --> 0:35:15.040 go in this big echoe room to sing, and then 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:17.239 I'll send these memos to Chris. He can tell you 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:21.000 and and different people. And I wrote the thing that 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:24.640 said I am available. I hear you call I am available. 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:27.239 Wasn't many notes, but it was just a thought. And 0:35:27.520 --> 0:35:29.760 a little while later we got together with some friends 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:32.200 and some different things came together and the song is 0:35:32.239 --> 0:35:34.319 something that we recorded. We sang it earlier in the 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:37.400 in the service that I was in the part of 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:40.359 the song that really touches me says, here I am 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:44.240 you can have it all. And that's a great prayer. 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:45.839 In fact, right now where you are, just put your 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:47.480 pen down and take in notes, your phone, all that, 0:35:47.600 --> 0:35:50.120 and just lift your hands like like like like this, 0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:52.719 like lift it, lift it up and say, here I 0:35:52.760 --> 0:36:00.520 am you can have it all, as a song of render. 0:36:03.160 --> 0:36:06.239 Now put your hands down. I love something out in 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:13.080 the text that wasn't something that someone said to God. 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:17.759 It was something that the father said to the son. 0:36:18.760 --> 0:36:20.560 And when I show you this, it's going to flip 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:24.000 how you're going to be living this week. In Luke 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:29.520 fifteen thirty one, the father said to the son, the 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:32.120 older brother, the one who wouldn't celebrate, not the one 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:38.160 who wasted money, but the one who was wasting his life. 0:36:39.280 --> 0:36:43.439 He said, my son, you are always with me, and 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:47.440 everything I have is yours. So I was thinking, the 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:51.040 next time we sing available, we can sing the same words, 0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:54.000 but we can sing them instead of with our hands 0:36:54.040 --> 0:36:55.799 like this, Here I am you can have it all. 0:36:57.560 --> 0:37:00.080 Now I want you to do this with me. We 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:02.319 can sing them with our hands like this, because that's 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:07.360 what the Father is saying to you. You are always 0:37:07.400 --> 0:37:16.839 with me, and all I have is yours. All I 0:37:16.880 --> 0:37:24.839 have is yours. Some of the clothes Elijah wears are 0:37:25.040 --> 0:37:27.480 from my closet. That's all right. All I have is yours. 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:30.440 The ones in your closet are mine too, if you 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:33.080 want to get technical about it. All I have is yours. 0:37:33.080 --> 0:37:37.960 And have it changed my thing? Because I always thought 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:40.640 it was this this, this, this, you know, like you 0:37:40.680 --> 0:37:42.640 can have it God, And God's like, yeah, that's a 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:48.439 real good deal for me. You can have it. Oh God. 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:54.400 God's like, thanks, well, I'll bargain my blood for your broken. 0:37:55.920 --> 0:38:01.080 But if you flip it and you say here I am, 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:05.200 here I am, you can have it all. What if 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:11.320 God is saying that to you while you're saying it 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:16.080 to him. The power of that point was in what 0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:19.279 I left out. I didn't tell you that the Father 0:38:19.360 --> 0:38:20.759 said it to the son, so you thought you were 0:38:20.760 --> 0:38:22.480 supposed to say it to the father. No, no, no, 0:38:22.960 --> 0:38:28.320 it's by grace. God's bringing you into a grace space. 0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:38.120 Everything that's being removed is making room for you to receive. 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:43.719 There was no yeast in the loaf. God didn't want 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:48.920 Egypt's yeast in your life for this next season, and 0:38:48.920 --> 0:38:50.840 he wanted them to eat it, to eat the Passover 0:38:50.920 --> 0:38:55.040 meal every year right to remember not only what God 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:59.840 brought them out of, but it was to remind them 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:04.560 to have flat bread faith that if you don't have enough, 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:10.440 that's all right, you can still eat flat bread. Y'all 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:13.759 are too luxurious. I'm telling you right now, y'all need 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:17.440 a bubble bath blessing. Look at me, some people need 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:20.400 a yeast roll. Word of God. It's got to be 0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:23.040 buttered like you wanted. You ever go to Quincy's with 0:39:23.080 --> 0:39:26.000 a big fat yeast roll, wasn't it. Quincy's was a Quincy's. 0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:28.560 Some of y'all need the yeast roll blessing. Some of 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:31.160 y'all need the Christy kream blessing. But how many of 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:34.520 y'all got flat bread faith and that kind of faith? 0:39:34.560 --> 0:39:38.160 Watch this, somebody somewhere is didn't this cause that's like 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:42.760 I didn't have enough. But somehow this is the fish 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:45.600 and the loaves in the New Testament. This is David 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:48.720 with one I see David showing up to the battle lives. 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:53.120 I see you showing up to your life with one stone, 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:58.400 five foot seven, looking small next to a nine foot philistine. 0:39:58.520 --> 0:40:02.480 But I got flat bread. I got cheese and bread 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.920 for my brothers, and I got a rock, gotta knockout 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:09.880 a bear, and I gotta praise that will stut depressing. 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:15.680 Flat bread faith, flat bed for flat bed, flat bread. 0:40:15.960 --> 0:40:19.360 You know what I'm talking about. Get God to praise. 0:40:23.719 --> 0:40:28.359 No no, no, no, no, no stop. You think we're 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:31.560 praising him because of what God gave us. We're praising 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.920 God because of what he took out, what he removed, 0:40:35.360 --> 0:40:39.600 what he proomed from Lord Room. We got flat bread faith. 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:44.239 We're going into Canaan, Egypt. This is not our emotional home, 0:40:49.360 --> 0:40:53.280 and the wilderness is not our destination. Flat bread faith. 0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:59.560 What God leaves out is what makes you a masterpiece. 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:08.760 They said six hundred thousand left Egypt, and they didn't 0:41:08.760 --> 0:41:12.480 count the women and children or the rabble. But it 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:15.960 was the rabble. They didn't count what they left out 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:20.960 of the number that cost them in the wilderness. You 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:26.279 see how it works. That's what God leaves out. I'm 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:29.080 not a great singer, you know that's awesome. I'm not 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:32.680 a great singer. It made me surround myself with great singers. 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:37.800 See how it goes. I told we had a board 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:40.320 meeting the other day where we oversee the direction of 0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:42.120 the future of the church, and it was amazing to 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:45.000 celebrate what God has done. In a global pandemic, with 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:48.440 the inability to open most of our campuses to full capacity, 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:53.120 God still grew us how I don't know. He left 0:41:53.160 --> 0:41:56.319 out what I thought we needed, and he gave us 0:41:56.800 --> 0:42:00.759 what we didn't know to ask for. True for you too. 0:42:03.400 --> 0:42:05.719 And I told Holly it was all these numbers and 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:08.120 chunks as our CFO. And he started the church with 0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:09.880 me chunks, and Amy started the church with me in Holly. 0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:12.000 And I was telling Holly afterwards how my eyes went 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:14.200 blurry while he was going through the numbers just a blessing. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:18.239 I was blurry with the blessings of God and a 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:21.240 little zoned out to me. I like words more than numbers. 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:25.359 But that's another thing I said one time preaching, I said, 0:42:25.360 --> 0:42:27.200 I'm not a business man, I'm a preacher. Holly said, 0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:30.279 leave that out. You are a businessman. You're everything God 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:32.560 called you to be. He built a great ministry. Dog's 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:36.799 annoying you so I never said it again until just 0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:38.640 now to tell you that I've never said it again. 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:42.000 It's not true. And I was telling Holly when we 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:44.000 were we went on a walk just to decompress before 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:46.720 I started getting into the sermon, and Holly I said, Holly, 0:42:46.719 --> 0:42:51.200 it's amazing that God sent us chunks. And Amy, I said, 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:57.040 it's just amazing, I said, I told her this. I said, 0:42:57.120 --> 0:43:00.239 even what makes him get on my nerves is what 0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:03.000 makes him so great for us to partner in the gospel. 0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:09.719 Sometimes you'll run up to me talking about I'll be 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:11.320 working on a book or a song or something and 0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:14.480 be like, are we ready to put it on Spotify? 0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:17.640 I'm like, on Spotify, I hadn't even finished the verse yet. 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:20.239 I don't even have a second verse. That's what makes 0:43:20.320 --> 0:43:26.640 us great is what God left out of me. What 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:30.399 God left out of me, he put in him. Now, 0:43:30.480 --> 0:43:34.080 don't get me wrong, You're complete in Christ. So if 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:36.920 a person leaves you, God is always faithful. That's not 0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:40.560 what I'm saying. But when we said the disappointment, when 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:44.320 we said the deficit, that's just the way you frame it. Yes, 0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:48.120 the place of the deficit will be the place of deposit. 0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:54.360 That's why we carry the unlovened bread. That's why we 0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:56.400 still eat it, just to remember, Oh God, well I 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.080 didn't have I didn't have yeast in the bread. Then 0:43:58.160 --> 0:43:59.680 I don't have money in the bank. Now I don't 0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:01.839 have this wis here, I don't have this experience here. 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:04.239 That's why you carry around that bread, and that's why 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:08.880 you eat it to remind yourself that God's presence is 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:12.040 often most evident in what he left out. We love 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:14.840 to celebrate what he gives us. If he gave you 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:18.000 a new house, praise him. I've received God's blessings in 0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:20.919 my home and my cars and all of those things. 0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:26.600 But sometimes what he left out makes it special. And 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:28.080 sometimes you got to leave with what you have. I 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:29.839 don't mean to leave your church, leave your marriage, leave 0:44:29.840 --> 0:44:31.840 your home. You'll quit misinterpret in my scripture before I 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:36.479 can even post it on Facebook. I'm saying that in you, 0:44:37.960 --> 0:44:43.080 that's the grace space. What is that space for you? 0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:44.759 I'm not good at that. I didn't learn that. I 0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:47.360 didn't have a dad to teach me that that's the 0:44:47.400 --> 0:44:52.200 grace space. Beautiful what God leaves out. I think of 0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:55.359 it musically, you know, I'm a songwriter. And it took 0:44:55.360 --> 0:44:57.719 me a long time to say that, but because I 0:44:57.760 --> 0:45:01.480 didn't think I was good at everything. But God surrounds you, 0:45:01.520 --> 0:45:04.399 like like LJ came from Toronto. I needed someone who 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:06.920 came and knew all of the hymns, and God sent 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:09.880 us l J. Praise God for him. He's amazing. You're amazing. 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:17.080 And all the people who used to sit on a 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:19.319 piano playing when I was preaching, you know, they were 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:23.600 great too. But then God sent an LJ, and he's awesome. 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:25.440 Play me real quick. I know this is way beyond 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:28.040 your capabilities. I don't know all the right terms, but 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:33.080 just play like a major scale. What key is that 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:42.600 the what are the actual notes? D Let's just do 0:45:42.640 --> 0:45:46.719 the numbers one, two, three, four, five six. I can 0:45:46.800 --> 0:45:52.000 play the notes, so don't always know what to call one, two, three, 0:45:52.040 --> 0:45:58.919 four five? When did you played again? That's the major skill? 0:46:02.200 --> 0:46:06.120 Play again one two three four No, no, no no, no, 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:12.520 do it again. First one. That's the first one. That's 0:46:12.520 --> 0:46:18.080 a major scale. K D. Leave out play one the 0:46:18.120 --> 0:46:26.720 one in the four right, Uh play the other ones. 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:33.920 Mum hmmm, do it again, five, six, and uh again 0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:41.160 drop the five. Uh that's the six. Do the six, 0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:50.200 one four six six. Oh that sounds like something. Uh 0:46:51.440 --> 0:47:01.280 uh again, just the one, four and six done. Uh uh, 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:14.600 may see grace one four, sax six. Nuh then grace, 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:21.120 do all the notes again. That's a scale. Leave out 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:25.520 the other ones to do the one force. That's a song. 0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:43.080 What turned the scale into a song wasn't what we 0:47:43.160 --> 0:47:57.120 put in. That's what we left out. God said, I 0:47:57.160 --> 0:47:59.160 brought you out of Egypt, out of shame, out of sin. 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:06.439 Leave it there, leave the rabble there, leave the regret there, 0:48:07.719 --> 0:48:15.080 leave it out, leave it out for Christ, our passover 0:48:15.200 --> 0:48:23.040 lamb has been sacrificed. So now, first Corinthians five seven says, 0:48:24.120 --> 0:48:30.080 let us eat the unleavened bread and get rid of 0:48:30.160 --> 0:48:35.040 the old yeast, so that you may be a new 0:48:35.400 --> 0:48:42.200 unleavened badge. Here's the anointed part. As you really are. 0:48:43.960 --> 0:48:50.120 All that other stuff, somebody make this confession, that's Egypt, 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:58.680 that's not me. All that take slop that's on you 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:02.239 when you come round, leave that out. Take that off, 0:49:02.400 --> 0:49:05.879 and leave that out for this next season of your life. 0:49:06.480 --> 0:49:10.040 All you need is the robe from your father's closet, 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:16.040 the ring on your finger, and somebody. Get ready for 0:49:16.200 --> 0:49:20.080 some unloving bread, because I am about to feast this 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:24.640 year on the faithfulness of God. How many of you 0:49:24.800 --> 0:49:32.000 have that flat bread faith, that one stone faith that 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:36.080 I know who I am and I'm chosen faith. Yeah, 0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:40.000 that little boy with five loaves and two fish. If 0:49:40.040 --> 0:49:43.640 you've got flat bread faith, if you've got a praise 0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:48.759 that is not dependent on a circumstance, give it to 0:49:48.840 --> 0:49:57.200 him right now. Come on. It's a grace space. That's 0:49:57.239 --> 0:50:01.399 where grace goes. That's where the annoyance goes. That's where 0:50:01.440 --> 0:50:05.479 the wisdom of the spirit goes. Right there, right there 0:50:06.520 --> 0:50:10.680 in your ignorance, that's the space for grace. Right there 0:50:10.840 --> 0:50:14.840 in your uncertainty, that's the space for grace, right there 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:18.879 in your addiction, that's the space for grace, right there 0:50:19.120 --> 0:50:22.600 in your heartbreak. They left you because they were not 0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:28.160 of you. And God is bringing something better in the 0:50:28.200 --> 0:50:38.000 grace space, the grace space that you are always with me, 0:50:40.040 --> 0:50:44.120 and all that you have is mind. So whatever you 0:50:44.160 --> 0:50:47.400 didn't put in me, you want to fill it yourself. 0:50:48.520 --> 0:50:56.120 Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, 0:50:56.800 --> 0:51:01.080 let's go, let's go, let's go. And no, I don't 0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:05.240 have enough yeast. Yeah, but I don't even want Egypt's yeast. 0:51:07.200 --> 0:51:12.839 I'm moving forward toward Canaan's grapes. I told you last 0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:18.480 week there is always a funeral before the feast. And 0:51:18.520 --> 0:51:22.080 what God is removing from you right now, it was 0:51:22.200 --> 0:51:26.200 just taking up too much space. I'm not driving a 0:51:26.239 --> 0:51:29.560 mac truck of a Bible verse over your pain. I'll 0:51:29.600 --> 0:51:32.239 never I would never do that. Yes we cry, yes 0:51:32.280 --> 0:51:34.440 we heard, Yes we struggle. I'm doing some of that 0:51:34.800 --> 0:51:37.720 right now in my life. I call that grieving Egypt. 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:44.640 That's all right. But so now I'm gonna let the 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:49.040 grief of Egypt cost me the grapes of Canaan. Nah. 0:51:50.239 --> 0:51:54.400 Uh uh uh huh. There are hired men in my 0:51:54.400 --> 0:51:56.319 father's house with food to spair, and here I am 0:51:56.360 --> 0:52:02.279 starving to death. Get it out, get it out, get 0:52:02.320 --> 0:52:06.680 the resentment out. This year. Yeah, they treated you bad, 0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:08.960 they treated you like crad. What you're gonna do beat 0:52:08.960 --> 0:52:11.000 them up in the mental gymnasium of your own misery, 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:13.560 and eventually they're gonna get a transported signal that you're mad. 0:52:13.600 --> 0:52:17.920 And it's gonna now you're gonna get an ulcer, an ulcer, 0:52:19.160 --> 0:52:25.120 an ulcer, and a doctor bill. So all the rabble, 0:52:25.200 --> 0:52:27.479 all the things we mentioned, all the things. When God 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:31.120 is bringing something that we love that we want, we 0:52:31.280 --> 0:52:36.359 lose something in the in the process. Wow, but all 0:52:36.400 --> 0:52:38.520 that he has is yours. All that he has is yours. 0:52:38.520 --> 0:52:43.759 So you lack nothing you like? Not that I know. 0:52:43.840 --> 0:52:45.640 I didn't get to all my d's that I said. 0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:47.520 I don't even remember the last one I said. But 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:50.600 lift your hands right now, everyone's standing. I think we 0:52:50.640 --> 0:52:53.880 need to receive this message actively. Yeast is an active ingredient, 0:52:56.120 --> 0:53:00.279 So activate your faith for a moment. I'm serious this man. 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:06.399 Your imagination is so crowded and cluttered it's ridiculous. God 0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:08.360 gave you a big life, a big vision, but some 0:53:08.800 --> 0:53:16.360 stuff's gotta go now. And I don't know what what 0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:18.399 flesh this will wear for you what I'm about to say, 0:53:18.440 --> 0:53:23.279 But why every time that God makes space in your 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:24.759 life to do what you asked him to do, why 0:53:24.800 --> 0:53:26.560 do you fill it right back with something he didn't 0:53:26.600 --> 0:53:31.640 give you before he can send it. Why do you 0:53:31.760 --> 0:53:33.879 keep cramming your day like that? What are you doing 0:53:35.680 --> 0:53:39.400 starving to death? Your father has plenty of food, Just 0:53:39.480 --> 0:53:45.600 make room. Why are you already leaving the service in 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:49.280 your mind? Why are you already back, You're already closing YouTube, 0:53:49.360 --> 0:53:54.360 You're already Why why not let this be a great space? 0:53:55.719 --> 0:53:58.680 Why are you standing looking into heaven? Jesus asked the disciples. 0:53:59.760 --> 0:54:04.160 The Angel said the same, Jesus, He's coming back. You 0:54:04.280 --> 0:54:08.200 focused on the wrong thing. Why do you want to 0:54:08.239 --> 0:54:13.440 go back to Pharaoh's fish when you can have canaan scraps. 0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:15.200 But in the meantime, listen, this is where we are. 0:54:15.560 --> 0:54:19.960 We're in between, right. We don't have it yet. He 0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:23.960 promised it, but we're not really experiencing it yet. That's 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:29.719 all right. That's why I gave you the flatbread. Flatbread 0:54:29.800 --> 0:54:37.440 travels better. You can eat it and remember that the 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:41.680 Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you. Lift those hands again, 0:54:41.760 --> 0:54:47.520 but not like you're giving God something. Read it. Lift 0:54:47.600 --> 0:54:51.560 it like you're reading it from his perspective, where Heaven said, 0:54:51.600 --> 0:54:56.040 all that I have is yours. I want you to 0:54:56.120 --> 0:54:58.799 keep your hands lifted. We rush so bad, and our 0:54:58.920 --> 0:55:03.200 rush robs us of our revelation. God's trying to show 0:55:03.200 --> 0:55:06.960 you something. Right now, lift your hands. I want one 0:55:07.000 --> 0:55:08.840 of my singers just to begin to minister to you. 0:55:08.960 --> 0:55:11.920 Right now, whatever is in your heart, make a throne, 0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:15.080 Make a throne, Make a space, make a space, make 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:20.160 a praise, make a praise. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:32.680 Right here right, that's it. You can have it. An 0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:35.680 that's the voice of the Father over you. You ride. 0:55:37.400 --> 0:55:42.320 He didn't leave you. He's here in the valley, in 0:55:42.400 --> 0:55:45.359 the mountain you you can have it in the winter, 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:48.600 in the spring, you can shime you see ever press 0:55:48.640 --> 0:55:55.680 that god. You ride, right, He says, you can have 0:55:55.840 --> 0:55:58.880 my joy. You can if you make room for it. 0:56:01.680 --> 0:56:06.320 Yeah here I am. Yeah, he didn't leave you. I 0:56:06.480 --> 0:56:11.799 promise you. He's running towards you. You can have his piece. 0:56:12.520 --> 0:56:16.480 You can have this jorn, you can have his healing. 0:56:17.600 --> 0:56:20.919 You can have freedom. Why would you go back to fish? 0:56:21.000 --> 0:56:24.400 You can have freedom. Come on, you gotta believe this. 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:29.360 This is how he feels about you. This is what 0:56:29.480 --> 0:56:35.520 he says. To make room for it. Get the shame out, 0:56:36.719 --> 0:56:41.600 get the yeas stock, give the leaven out, get the unbelievable. 0:56:45.600 --> 0:57:02.440 Use your horse, say the Father says, receiving. It's amazing. 0:57:02.600 --> 0:57:13.359 For zep. You can have it. Get the ring. Get 0:57:13.440 --> 0:57:22.120 the ring. You're the thing. That's a lot, Sonny, that's 0:57:22.240 --> 0:57:31.960 my sorrow. Honey, say we the whos she really is. 0:57:33.520 --> 0:57:39.800 That's my son. You can happen, you can wear it, 0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:47.400 you can walk, and you can receive them in the 0:57:47.640 --> 0:57:54.120 light name of Jesus. Received this lesson, received this life. 0:57:55.480 --> 0:58:23.560 It's yours. It's yours. Go. I know I already preached 0:58:23.600 --> 0:58:25.960 a lot of scriptures, and I promise you I'm not 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:28.240 going to pile more on you. But one thought that 0:58:28.320 --> 0:58:31.040 I had was when Paul said, one time, make room 0:58:31.120 --> 0:58:33.920 in your hearts for us. He said that to the 0:58:34.040 --> 0:58:37.040 church that he didn't get to personally be with, but 0:58:37.840 --> 0:58:39.880 he wanted to share in God's Word with them, And 0:58:39.920 --> 0:58:42.640 I feel that way about you. If we've never personally met, 0:58:43.360 --> 0:58:45.960 it's still such a privilege to partner with you in 0:58:46.040 --> 0:58:49.240 the gospel and to hopefully provide you with words that 0:58:49.320 --> 0:58:51.720 come from God so that you can do what He's 0:58:51.720 --> 0:58:53.280 called you to do and be all that He's called 0:58:53.320 --> 0:58:55.160 you to be. Just want to let you know we 0:58:55.240 --> 0:58:58.000 love you and thank you for sharing, thanks for giving. 0:58:58.760 --> 0:59:02.280 Your faithfulness is amazing. I feel so grateful to be 0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:05.160 the pastor of this movement. I'm excited about what God 0:59:05.240 --> 0:59:07.360 is speaking to us as the year has already started 0:59:07.440 --> 0:59:10.240 so strong, as we're making room to receive. Have you 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:12.280 done that in your life? How can you do that 0:59:12.400 --> 0:59:15.880 this week? How can you apply what you just heard 0:59:15.920 --> 0:59:19.080 in the message in a way that will give God 0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:22.320 the opportunity to lavish you with this grace. I pray 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:24.880 that for you, Holly, and I love you. We'll see 0:59:24.920 --> 0:59:25.440 you next time.