Reverse The Ripple

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.120 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.600 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.920 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.000 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:22.560 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.639 We honor your presence. God. That's never an interruption to 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.800 our plans to give you praise. Anytime we can make 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:40.160 an altar and worship you our sacrifice, it brings us joy. Lord. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.879 I thank you for a palpable sense of faith and 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.800 expectation rooted in the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Today. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.680 Feel it in my bones. I sense it in my 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.640 brothers and sisters who have gathered, and I speak it 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.440 over everyone who may not be able to feel it 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.800 right now that you are able to do immeasurably more 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:07.880 for every I can't. We have a great I Am, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:13.520 and today we celebrate that all things are possible through You. Now, God, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.679 we're not going to stop worshiping. We might stop singing, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.760 but this service is just getting started. I thank you 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.399 that there is a powerful plowing word that has been 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.559 planted in my spirit for this occasion, and I pray 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:32.679 that today you would help. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.120 Me to deliver it just how you would say it 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.600 through my mouth, through my vocal cords, but your words, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.000 your thoughts, your heart in Jesus' name, Amen. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:53.480 Hug seventeen Bulligion, Come a big hawk raised the Lord, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:02.080 raised the Lord. Don't take your seat yet. After you 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.320 gave out all the hugs, you can stand, clap your 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:10.800 hands and give God glory for bringing you through another day, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:18.919 another week. It feels kind of fired up today. It 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.519 feels like we're getting a little pre Elevation Night's annointing. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.480 Chris Yall flows are ridiculous. Today we're getting ready to 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.880 head out to the West Coast and we're gonna tell 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.480 you some liberals out there about geez. I'm just kidding. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:39.080 We love the West Coast. Well, if you live in 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.799 any of these cities, there are still some tickets available, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.760 not many. You want to act fast. We start on 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.400 September to twenty fourth, and we'll be out through October 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.679 third and the following cities. Go to Elevation Nights dot 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:58.519 com Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, BC, Sacramento, California, Los Angeles, and Anaheim, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.160 Boise Idaho, Salt Lake City, are you shouting for Boise? 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:12.160 That's never happened. Indeed, the Lord can do anything that's crazy. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:18.920 I said, La no shout, Seattle, no shout. I said, Boise. Okay, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.760 that's what it's gonna be like when we get to Boise. Hey, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.200 remind me to drink a Celsius before we get to 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.840 Boise because they're fired up. And Salt Lake City, did 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.080 I say that already? In Denver, Colorado? Elevation Nights dot com. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.600 And if you want to come to one, go and 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.120 get a ticket, and get a plane ticket and come 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.120 on out one day when the Lord really blesses me, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.600 I'm gonna load y'all all up on a plane like 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.520 Oprah did one time and take you with us. Until then, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.200 you just have to pray for us. And I also 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.840 want to celebrate because it's not a small thing that 0:03:53.920 --> 0:04:05.680 over a thousand people were baptized in our church class school. Incredible. Man, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.080 if you knew the starting point of this ministry, you 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.280 would know how much that means to me. That's amazing, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.000 that's amazing. And I think one of the reasons that 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.400 the worship is so powerful today. I think the ladies 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:24.279 lest some residual, annoying thing from your life. One of 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.919 our worship leaders said, leading room in a leading excuse me, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.920 leading worship in a room full of women is a 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:34.680 cheat code. They're just much more expressive, and that's crazy 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.240 to me. But it's absolutely amazing, Holly, God used you 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.520 in a great way. Thank you for the word, Thank 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.440 you for your vision, for your leadership, all the moments 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.640 that will continue to unfold because of the moment that 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.160 you may possible through your faith. We celebrate you, and 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.640 today I'm gonna do my best to get in the 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.880 slipstream of what God spoke and preach a word to 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.039 you today. I prayed that you would lean in to 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.279 receive it last week when I left you, I left 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.120 you in the muddy puddles of the Jordan River. Let's 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.720 go back there for a moment. From Joshua chapter four. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.160 I'll be sharing with you today from Joshua chapter four, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.680 verses fifteen through Joshua five, and only one verse from 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:26.000 Joshua five, verse one. Let's take a moment to remember 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.800 how much this meant to me when God showed it 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.159 to me, so I can appreciate to you from that 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.360 same place, only reason I bring my notes up here. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.920 I know somebody said, why do you take all those 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.960 notes up there? We don't see you look at them, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.920 And it's true. I get into it and I forget 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.240 to look at the notes. But at least seeing it 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.240 reminds me how excited I was writing it. And then 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.320 I can come at it and remember when I was 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.400 scribbling this, I was picturing us sharing in the word together. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.880 So what an honor to share God's word with you today. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.600 I'm so thankful for the opportunity. And wherever you are, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.320 even if you're online today, the word is no less effective. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.800 So get ready to receive it. And made this word 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.280 reach you right where you are. Joshua, Chapter four, verse fifteen, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:18.920 say I'm ready. Then the Lord said to Joshua, wash 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:24.240 my hands. Then the Lord said to Joshua, okay, so 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.680 picture the scripture visually as well as verbally. Then the 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:34.680 Lord said to Joshua verse sixteen, command the priests, carrying 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:39.080 the ark of the Covenant Law to come up out 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:45.880 of the Jordan. So Joshua commanded the priests come up 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.920 out of the Jordan. And the priests came up out 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.520 of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.800 the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.120 the dry ground, than the of the Jordan returned to 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.720 their place and ran at floodstage as before. On the 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.440 tenth day of the first month, the people went up 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.600 from the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua. Joshua said 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.440 to the priests, and then the people went up. So 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.480 watch I'm doing like this. Boom, boom, boom. The people 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.080 went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.720 the eastern border of Jericho. On the eastern border of Jericho, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:37.400 what do you know about Jericho? Walls do fall? Somebody 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.360 say it, walls do fall now, but before the walls 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.840 of Jericho can fall, and before the Battle of Jericho 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.640 can be won, because this will be the first fight 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.240 for the children of God to occupy the Promised Lam. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:57.800 Before their first fight, Joshua is setting the frame verse twenty. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.920 Verse twenty. Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:08.640 they had taken out of the Jordan. He said to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.800 the Israelites in the future, when your descendants asked their parents, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.280 we've gone from the Lord said to Joshua. To Joshua 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.200 said to the priest to the priest did it for 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.520 the people. For the people are doing something that will 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.880 not even accomplish a purpose that may be seen in 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.640 their own lives, but in a generation that is yet 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.080 to come in the future. When your descendants asked their 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:36.640 parents what do these stones mean, tell them, Israel, cross 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.240 the Jordan on dry ground, for the Lord, your God 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.480 dried up the Jordan before you, until you had crossed over. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:52.440 The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.000 had done to the Red Sea, when he dried it 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:00.679 up before us until we had crossed over. He did this. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.560 That's the best thing I've read in a long time. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.440 Tell somebody he did this. So we were testifying last week, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.280 we're talking about rescue your testimony. Rescue your testimony from 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.320 the clutches of depression. Rescue your testimony from the clutches 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.320 of despair, Rescue your testimony from the regrets of your past, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.160 and testify to your neighbors. Say he did this. He 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.480 did this. I'm standing here because he did this. Come on, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.400 let's have a testimony service real quick. How many No, 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:37.199 God did yes, let's practice. Let's see if you rescued 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.800 your testimony last week. I'm gonna ask you a question, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:45.120 and you say, what you think? Who opened your prison doors? 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.720 God did? Then say it, say God did? Who dried 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:57.439 up your ocean floors? Think about that thing? Who saved 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.600 you and set you free, Who gave you victory right, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.760 who gave you another day, who made you another way, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.120 who gave you the breath of prays, who gave you 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.320 a brand new name? 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.400 Ah, somebody shot God did put. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:28.320 It in the comments? Not did Now? He did this 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.160 so that all the peoples of the earth might know 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.360 that the hand of the Lord is powerful, and so 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.560 that you might always fear the Lord, your God. The 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.520 final verse I'm going to read, and then I'll tell 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.040 you what we're going to talk about today. But we're 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:48.840 already talking because God is speaking now. When all the 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.480 Canaanite emrich kings west of the Jordan and the kings 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.200 along the coast heard how the Lord had dried up 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.400 the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.760 their hearts melted in fear. It's no longer just the 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.120 people of God who know who God is. It's the 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:13.280 enemies to Ah. I see this, and they no longer 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.560 had the courage to face the Israelites today God wants 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.199 to do something very special in your life. He wants 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:25.960 to reverse the ripple. That's the word of the Lord 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.920 and Father. As we declare it today. We walk in it, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.000 we stand in it, we decree it, and we believe that. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.400 Most of all, we thank you for it, because only 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.760 you could do it in Jesus' name. Amen, you may 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:49.480 be seated. You may be seated reverse the ripple. You 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.360 will know what that means in about thirty two minutes. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.960 I do my job because the Lord has some things 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:03.760 that he wants to turn around your life. Yeah, rescue 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.920 our testimony, and God is going to reverse the ripple. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.680 I wish we could teach this on the lake. It 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.200 would be a good illustration. Right, how many of you 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.120 like the lake? How many you got a boat? You 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.520 could take me out on the lake. I'm gonna hitch 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.120 you up. You got how many of you? How many 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.640 you have a boat. So if we went out on 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.920 the lake, I could demonstrate the ripple effect. Right, you 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.679 know what it is. It's when one thing happens and 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.160 another thing happens, and another thing happens. And we use 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.920 it metaphorically, but it would be good if we could 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.920 be at the lake because we could. We could get 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.280 a rock, and then we could drop the rock and 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.439 we could watch the ripple, and then I could teach 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.440 the lesson. I could say, and just like this rock 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.000 hit the water, and we wouldn't even have to get 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.520 in the water because I know it's getting kind of cold. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.079 We could just do it from the shore right there 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.719 in your boat. We could drop the rock, watch the 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.120 rip and we could talk about how things in our 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.640 life happen that cause a ripple. And sometimes it's not 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.920 even until you're living in the ripple that you realize 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:18.840 the rock was dropped. If we're at the lake, and 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.880 maybe you could have me a bottle of diet coke. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.360 Don't text me about aspertain, I don't care. I've made 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:30.480 peace with Aspertame, and we would talk about the ripple 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.840 effects of decisions that you and I have both made, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.160 words that we spoken. Man, I could probably teach a 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.160 whole leadership class just from a rock and a ripple. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.079 Many times as a leader, I never saw myself as 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.400 being that important, and I don't think I am important. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.120 I think God is important, but I think he uses 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.400 people in important ways. And I think that when you 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:59.040 speak for God your word's way more because many times 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.440 I said things to people in passing as a leader, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.720 and for good I said them and they kept those 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:10.120 things with them for three years, good and bad, good 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.319 and bad. And one lady I met one time. I'm 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.840 not going to take a long time with this setup, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.360 but I want us to get at the lake. Dropped 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.560 a rock, We see the ripple. A lady one time 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.960 told me she kept a voicemail that I sent her 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.520 when her husband died. She kept it for four years. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.800 Never met her one time on the Before you get 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.080 too impressed with me, because I'm just ride around leaving 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.120 voice memos, praying for people all the time. My kids 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:41.600 have told me things I said that I said because 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.680 they were true, but the way I said it, it 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.840 stuck with them in a way that they weren't ready 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.560 to hear it Like that, And with all three of 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.120 my kids and with my wife, I can go back 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.680 to times where I spoke something not realizing the weight 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.960 of the rock that I dropped and the ripple that 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.240 it calls for the person that I spoke to. So 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.280 now I got to walk into situations and scenarios and 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:12.080 take responsibility for my ripple. That's a whole word, take 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:17.160 responsibility for your ripple. The things you just say passing, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.120 Oh well, I'm just speaking my mind. Well, why don't 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:24.920 you just speak your mind inside, do a little internal 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.200 monologue and scream in your pillow. But make sure that 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:34.600 you respect you're calling enough to take responsibility for your ripple. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.760 When the Lord said to Joshua, and Joshua said to 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.520 the priest, and the priest led the people, and the 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.880 people demonstrated God's stathfulness in a way that even impressed 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.480 their enemies. We are watching the ripple effect of a 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.520 revelation from God. The very fact that we are sitting 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.600 here today preaching about an incident that happened, an event 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.080 that occurred this long ago go proves my point the 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.760 power of a ripple, the ripple effect of your thoughts 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.920 leading to your actions, leading to your habits, leading to 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:14.000 your character becoming concrete, so that what you call destiny 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.760 later was actually a decision when the rock was dropped. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.000 And yet, wouldn't it be nice if life were as 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.160 simple spiritually as it is physically, Because if we were 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.080 at the lake doing this lesson, we could look at 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.920 the rock and we could predict with a few inches, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.760 you know how big the ripple would be. If we 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.160 had a few minutes, we could drop a little rock, 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.160 a big rock, a medium rock, and we could start saying, 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.760 you know, this one's gonna ripple. I'm just saying the 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.320 bigger the rock was, the bigger the ripple would be Physically. Spiritually, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.200 it's a little different. You never can tell looking at 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.240 the rock how big the ripple is going to be. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.440 Not in the Kingdom of God, so that Jesus walks 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.159 around saying things like, if you have the faith of 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.880 a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. What kind 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.640 of mustard seed moves a mountain? A supernatural one, one 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.440 that has been watered by the word of God, one 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.800 that has been cultivated by a heart of faith. What 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.879 kind of lunch has the power to provide for the 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.600 physical hunger of five thousand You would think such a 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.720 little lunch could maybe only feed a little boy. But 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.199 when God dits it, the ripple becomes something that you 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:41.200 would have never realized. Oh, I feel like preaching, because 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.480 a rock in the hands of a shepherd should not 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.520 bring down a nine foot giant. But you can't tell 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.479 the size of the ripple from the size of this 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.879 rock if it's in God's hands. So we came to 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.639 remind the devil today that my rock might be little, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.640 but a little rock can make a big ripple if 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.920 God gets a hold of them. Yeah, let's switch this 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.800 thing around. Let's stop looking at the size of our resource, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.680 the size of our strength, the size of our knowledge, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.920 the scope of our understanding to determine what God can do. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.120 Let's stop letting the waves of unbelief block us from 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:28.800 the reality of the ocean of God's provision. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.439 let's reverse the ripple. And what I mean by that 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.399 when I say reverse the ripple, well, I mean a 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:35.920 few things. Let me break it down a little bit. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.200 The first thing that I mean by reverse the ripple 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:45.840 is that instead of starting with what you see, start 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:52.000 with what God has said. Life changing, life changing right there, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:58.200 just if you would start with what God said. And 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.720 many times, we like the Nation of Israel and Joshua 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:07.359 chapter four, come to places in our own lives where 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.080 we need God to do something and apologize if I'm 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.800 not preaching to you right now that if He doesn't 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.120 do it. So this is not like I need God 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.720 to help me wake up on time. You sent alarm 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:24.000 clock for that. But this is something different. And one 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.199 of the things that I respect about the Bible is 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.520 that it will repeat something over and over again because 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.840 we learn through repetition. And if you look at this 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.679 Joshua chapter four, there are several times that God tells Joshua, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:41.760 take these stones out of the water, kind of like 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:46.280 they're building an altar. Okay, like Holly preached on reflect 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.199 about the altar. Go on her YouTube and watch that 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.439 message and wear your steel toed boots because she was 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.800 stepping on our toes. But she did it so sweetly. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:04.000 She did it in ballet flats. It was unbelievable. And 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.960 the Lord is telling Joshua, like, before you get to 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.600 your first fight, I want you to approach it from 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.480 a place of thinking about your future. Now, this is marvelous. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.000 Frame the fight that you're facing from a place of 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:23.760 future faith. And that is often very hard, right because 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.960 we're just in the moment and knowing in the moment. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.760 Remember it's like that rock in that ripple, knowing in 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.840 the moment what the ripple is going to be. It's 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.720 not always predictable in the spirit, is it? Is it 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.280 you came to church? Because she was cute and asked 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.520 you to come. Then you messed around and got too 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.439 close to the boat, and Jesus hooked you and pulled 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:53.120 you in, and now you're one of us. Boy, God 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.920 is tricky with that ripple. God is tricky with that ripple. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:58.760 You didn't even know. I was just gonna go. So 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.600 I just just going to get to shut up, And 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.679 now I'm bringing people. I don't know what happened. Tell 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.800 your neighbor. It's the ripples, the ripples. To ripple, it's 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.119 the ripple. It's the ripples. The ripple. God will drop something. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.680 God will just put you somewhere. God will drop you somewhere. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.440 You will think that you're there because it's a new job. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.200 And then you meet Gene, and Gene is going through chemotherapy, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.560 and you went through chemotherapy. So now you minister to 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:24.800 Gene out of what you went through, so that you 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:26.840 can comfort him with the comfort by which you have 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.240 been comforted. This is the ripple, the ripple, the ripple, 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.280 the ripple, the ripple. And by the way, what if 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.160 we did that more often? What if we started asking God, 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.480 what do you want to do? Not just for me 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.920 but through me? God who can I touch you touched me? 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.040 Who can I help you healed me? Who can I 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.399 be a blessing to you? Blessed me? When are you 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.000 gonna hand somebody a fifty dollars bill one time? In 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.919 set a waiting on one? When will you be the ripple? 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.000 This is not my message, so pace yourself. I'm just 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:09.840 setting up this idea of reverse the ripple, reverse the ripple. 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.280 And I have learned in my life that if I 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.639 do not consider please listen to me. If I do 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:21.240 not consider causes, I will spend my life chasing consequences. 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.680 Consider the cause, or you will spend the rest of 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:38.200 your life managing consequences. Consider the cause, or you can 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:40.800 spend the rest of your life looking for tips on 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.320 TikTok for how to be more peaceful. But after you 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.280 have done everything TikTok told you to do, I mean 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:52.440 you can do everything. You could take your walk barefoot 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:57.080 on the grass, walk backwards, barefoot on the grass, sipping 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:02.480 of protein smoothie with collagens in the smoothie. You can 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.480 do all of that. You can do red light, blue light, 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.920 black light, blue light, stroke light, you can do all 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.879 the lights on your face. You can do all of it. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:16.160 You can meditate, you can pontificate, you can blow be eight, 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:20.600 you can hyperventilate because you are not getting peace until 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:30.120 you consider the source. You get all attempts you want, 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:34.560 but until you get the truth, you will not come 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:42.720 through this. Jordan, here's what I'm trying to say. You 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:51.480 can't fix the ripple till you find the rock. I'm 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:55.760 appreciate this in Boise too. Tell them get ready. You 0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:00.040 can't fix the ripple till you find the rock. I 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:07.560 think a lot of religion is ripple management, behavior modification, 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:12.920 empty tradition. God, I promise I'll never do it again 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:15.199 until three point thirty, and it's three twenty five right now. 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:26.679 That's ripple management. That's white knuckling, not worship. Ripple management 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:32.199 cannot bring you to a place of restoration. It can 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:37.320 only bring you to a place of relief temporarily. So 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:40.760 what are the areas in your life right now where 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:45.000 you are trying to fix ripples but you don't even 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:47.480 know what rock was dropped that cost it to begin with. 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.320 This is like quoting Bible versus on top of trauma 0:24:52.400 --> 0:25:00.359 that you won't deal with. This is like whitch in 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:04.200 friend groups. Every time they see what's really secret hidden 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:08.800 in you and call it out and confront it, It's 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.480 gonna get quieter and quiet. It's gonna be a reverse 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:15.160 ripple today. Usually we start small and get big. Were 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:17.680 going the other way today. We're reversing the ripple today 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:21.760 until we get down to what is the thing that 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:27.280 was dropped that caused you to do it? What was 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.720 dropped that caused me to do it? Why did I 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:36.560 lose my temper because they're annoying? Really because the people 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:38.119 at work were annoying, but you didn't go off on 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.119 them because you knew you couldn't get away with it. 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:44.440 You went off on them at home, not because they're annoying, 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:50.600 but because you know they'll forgive you. And the real 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:53.639 rock that made you do it was the fact that 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:57.080 you don't take responsibility for it. And until we get 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:01.000 real about this stuff, we will spend our entire lives 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:06.520 riding the waves of our ripples going I'm so anxious, 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:11.040 I'm so anxious, I'm so anxious. Well, cut your thumb off. 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:15.000 Jesus said it'd be better to lose your whole hand 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:21.440 then go to help. So I'd rather fix it. I'd 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:25.040 rather fix it wear the rock drop than live the 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:28.200 rest of my life frustrated by the ripples it You 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:30.119 say this is just an Old Testament story, are you 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.560 absolutely crazy out of your mind? Ridiculous? Do you not 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.080 understand that this is the entire threat of the New Testament. 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:40.359 It is law versus grace, It is us never really understanding. 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:41.560 And I hope to come back to this in a 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:44.280 moment if this sermon comes full circle. But speaking of 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.800 full circle, there is a place called Gilgal and Joshua 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:49.119 chapter four. If you've never heard of it, you can 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:54.920 be forgiven. But the word gilgal actually means circle. And 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:58.280 isn't it interesting in a passage that demonstrates the power 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:00.800 of the Lord spoke to Joshua, Joshua spoke to the priest, 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:02.760 The priest spoke to the people. The people did what 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:04.560 God told them, and it was a demonstration to the 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:06.960 nations that didn't even know God. Isn't it interesting that 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:12.479 circle after circle after circle after concentric circles, And let 0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:15.800 us not forget about the circle of the generation that 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:18.200 isn't even old enough to ask the question yet that 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:23.480 is being affected by their faith or lack thereof, which 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:25.359 brings us back to the Red Sea, which was the 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:30.119 central motif of Israel's identity. Now Rugeman says that it 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:33.800 is the I think his exact wording is the primal narrative, 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:36.320 but I just I like the simplified things. So core 0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:41.159 story that better. Primal narrative. I sound like you got 0:27:41.240 --> 0:27:42.520 to pay to hear about something like that, and you 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:44.640 didn't pay anything to get in here today. So core 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:49.000 story and when God brought them through the Red Sea 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:53.680 was their core story. In fact, even when Joshua says, 0:27:54.040 --> 0:27:56.440 go get some rocks, tell your neighbor, get some rocks 0:27:57.840 --> 0:28:02.639 to tell your kids what God did, why would he 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:06.399 think like this. Surely you have more important things to do, namely, 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:08.320 when they get to Gilgal, they got to cut off 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:12.640 everybody's foreskin because none of these people have been circumcised yet. 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:15.800 And I'm not going to illustrate how this whole text 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:21.720 is circular. But this all has to happen at Gilgal. 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:24.680 But before you get to Guild, go listen to me good. 0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:27.400 Before you get to Gilgal, before you go to Jericho, 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:29.720 before you even get to the place of cutting away, 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:33.159 that's going to happen. Before you go in, get some 0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:39.360 rocks to tell your kids what God did. I like that. 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:43.880 Get some rocks to tell your kids what God did, 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:46.600 and you're going to tell them what God did, not 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:52.080 what you did, because all you did was walk. Y'all. 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:55.960 We take too much credit. Sometimes. I see everybody of 0:28:56.160 --> 0:28:59.800 hustle and grind on Instagram, but I saw you also. 0:28:59.880 --> 0:29:01.560 I saw you hustle and grind. But I also saw 0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:06.160 you hide and grumble and groan and grieve. I saw 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:08.800 all of that too, And the real testimony of it 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:12.120 from my life is what God did. When they showed 0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:14.720 that video, I want to thank our creative team for 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:17.840 the video they showed earlier in the service of the 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:22.200 ripple effect of this ministry. Thank you. That was excellent. 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:25.920 That was well done. It wasn't bragging on us, but 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:28.760 it was showing the people that all the way from 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:33.640 Valentine to Boise to Botswana. Anytime the sermon ain't going 0:29:33.680 --> 0:29:37.320 good today, I just say Boise and all the way. 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:39.680 But I'm gonna show you something that's gonna blow your mind. 0:29:40.040 --> 0:29:41.920 I got teary on the front row. I said for 0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:44.600 to keep it together, save your emotion for when you 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:47.200 get up there. Do not leak this thing out on 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:48.880 the front Rule and I'm like, but God, this is 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:51.320 touching me right now, and he said, stuff it down 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:55.440 and share it with them. So here's what it is. 0:29:55.640 --> 0:29:59.160 Because you said whoa and I said boise, And there 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:01.400 was somebody on the video that said that they were 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.600 from Botswana and we're here at Valentine. But it took 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:09.000 me back. It took me back to just yesterday a 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:12.440 story that I was telling my son on the second row, 0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:16.680 because he asked me something about the early days of 0:30:16.720 --> 0:30:20.160 this church, and he asked me something about the phase 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:23.080 when we were just moving here and we only had 0:30:23.160 --> 0:30:26.200 our core team, and he asked me something about the 0:30:26.240 --> 0:30:28.120 way it is now and the way it was then, 0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:31.240 and going out to minister to people all over the world, 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:34.840 and the reach and the ripple of the ministry. He 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:37.400 didn't say ripple, but that's what we were talking about. 0:30:38.400 --> 0:30:40.440 And I was sitting there talking to him and I said, 0:30:40.440 --> 0:30:42.520 I'm sorry, I got to compose myself for a minute, 0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:47.440 because this conversation takes me back to how before I 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:49.880 would come out to our team and tell them we're 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:52.440 going to reach the world. We're gonna touch the world. 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:55.600 God's gonna use us, God's gonna do something. It's going 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:59.760 to be amazing. It takes me back to how before 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:03.880 I would go and boldly speak to them. I would 0:31:03.920 --> 0:31:07.760 sneak into the bathroom and I would lock myself in 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:12.160 the stall, and I would fight back my own reflex 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:15.160 to walk out, because how can I walk out and 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:18.200 tell them this? When I'm wondering did I mislead all 0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:22.000 of them? Can we really do this? Because I stood 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:27.680 it a Jordan and I thought God spoke. But sometimes 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:29.520 you think it and don't feel it when it comes 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:35.200 time to do it. But I locked that stall and 0:31:35.360 --> 0:31:38.920 I said, God, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna have 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:42.880 to be you. And when I tell my kids one 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:48.160 day from Valentine, what you did all the way to Boisi? 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.680 What's your did all the way to bock Swater, When 0:31:51.760 --> 0:31:56.280 I tell my children, what a thankful God you said? 0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:07.040 Truer worse ever, visss Fucus. And my stones will tell 0:32:07.120 --> 0:32:12.360 my story, and my stones will tell my story, and 0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:16.920 my stones will tell my story, and my sleepless nights 0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:17.600 will give. 0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:21.280 Way to a new day, and my stones will tell 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:26.120 my story. And we'll shout it, validies, and we'll shout 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:30.240 in noisy, and we'll shout in my slaughter and will 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:32.120 shot till you get numb. 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:43.360 Break through. Yeah, we're gonna turn this thing around right now. 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:49.200 You keep talking how big these Amalekites are, how big 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:52.960 these Canaanites are. We need to reverse this ripple. It 0:32:53.080 --> 0:32:56.280 doesn't start with the size of the Canaanites. It starts 0:32:56.320 --> 0:33:03.080 with the size of the God that you serve. Well, Oh, preachy, creachy, preachy, freechie, 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:05.800 preachy preachie. I got a big God. 0:33:06.360 --> 0:33:09.600 I got a good God. I keep telling God how 0:33:09.720 --> 0:33:10.360 big it is. 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:13.120 I want to tell him how big. 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:22.640 Ah, if you saw my God, you'dn't understand my stout 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:25.120 shout now like you need a wall to fall. 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:34.600 Oh my mona, sound like boisey, sound like boisey. 0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:44.120 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, high five. Your neighbors say, 0:33:44.200 --> 0:33:50.560 reverse it, reverse it, reverse it, reverse it. Yeah, because 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:54.080 when you rehearse it, you reverse it. You missed it. 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:56.280 You were high five, and I said, when you rehearse it, 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:01.520 you reverse it. When you tell him how you locked 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:05.040 yourself in the bathroom stall, you remember that there is 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:09.480 no space too tight, no mountains too high, no need 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:13.600 too great, no ravine too dry For God to show 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:16.480 up and do what God does. He did it at 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:19.600 the Red Sea, he did it at the Jordans. He's 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:24.799 doing it in you right now. It will be by 0:34:24.960 --> 0:34:27.760 faith who did God set me on fire for today? 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:33.640 That you need to reverse the ripple because every time 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:36.840 you think about the court case you go into panic attacks. 0:34:37.400 --> 0:34:39.520 Think about the judge and give it over to him 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:44.919 and you're gonna be all right, baby boy. Every time 0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:47.640 you think about it, it sends a ripple. It sends 0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:50.440 you into fear, It sends you into self loathing, It 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:53.200 sends you into hiding. It sends you back to drugs, 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:55.640 it sends you back to sex. You shouldn't be having 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:58.239 with people who are the ripple of a decision that 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:00.440 you made that you never would have made had you 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:06.640 been in your right place, in your right mind. Well, 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:10.520 we got to find the rock or we can't fix 0:35:10.600 --> 0:35:15.480 the ripple. And see why I think Joshua was so intentional, 0:35:15.480 --> 0:35:18.680 everybody say intentional in this moment. And why God is 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:20.480 so intentional with you and why He is revealing things 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:25.440 even now for you, is because for forty years the 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:29.759 story was told. Wat's just we went through the Red Sea. 0:35:31.200 --> 0:35:36.440 We clap when we talk about that. They cried because 0:35:36.440 --> 0:35:41.400 after they got through the Red Sea, they stopped. And 0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:44.719 I like to show you why. Well, sit down, let 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:49.719 me show you why. When numbers chapter thirteen gets the 0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:53.120 verse thirty one, it's kind of a battle of opinions, 0:35:54.600 --> 0:35:56.560 kind of like you got going on in the world 0:35:56.640 --> 0:36:00.680 right now. Everybody's shouting about everything. A bunch of noise, 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:06.959 a whole lot of ripple, not a lot of revelation. Yeah, 0:36:08.520 --> 0:36:11.000 And when Caleb stood up, he was like, shut up, 0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:13.359 we can do it because they're about to go into 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:16.239 the Promised Lamp. That's the saddest thing to me. When 0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:18.359 Holly was preaching, they built the altar, and God gave 0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:20.040 him the ten Commandments, and then they went in the 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:27.920 wilderness forty years why ripple watch number thirteen go to 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:30.120 thirty one. But the men who had gone up with 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:32.920 Caleb only ones who said we can do it, as 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:36.160 Joshua and Caleb to ten others said this, we can't 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:40.759 attack those people. That's why I had you just singing 0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:44.600 I can't do it, but the Great I Am can. Earlier, 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:47.400 that's why we wrote that so you can acknowledge it. 0:36:47.680 --> 0:36:52.279 We can't attack those people. They are stronger than we are. 0:36:52.480 --> 0:37:01.799 Now stay there, back right there, stronger then we are, 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:07.120 and now watch what happens. Verse thirty two. They spread 0:37:07.200 --> 0:37:14.239 among the Israelites a bad ripple, a bad report. Bad 0:37:14.320 --> 0:37:19.000 reports have ripples, a bad report about the land they 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:21.120 had explored about what God wanted to give them, about 0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:23.239 the size of the giants, And they said, the land 0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:26.440 we explored devours those living in it. All the people 0:37:26.480 --> 0:37:29.680 we saw there are of great size. We saw the 0:37:29.760 --> 0:37:32.040 Nephilm there, the descendants of Anac come from the Nephilm. 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:36.880 We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, in our 0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:39.320 own eyes, and we looked the same to them. But 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:41.400 why in the world would you start with your eyes 0:37:42.400 --> 0:37:47.200 if you're receiving God's promise? I told you at the 0:37:47.239 --> 0:37:49.400 beginning of my sermon, is what you see and what 0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:51.120 God says. God said you can have it, and you 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:56.200 see that you can't. Which one is your rock? What 0:37:56.280 --> 0:38:00.839 are you building on? Verse thirty one Again, Please, they 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:06.279 are stronger than we are. That's true. The disease is 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:10.080 stronger than your body right now. That is true. The 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:14.319 shame is real because the event really happened. That's true. 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:17.399 The guilt is real. Because you really would have done 0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:20.920 it differently. That's true. All of that is true, but 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:25.560 it's not your starting place. And this is a principle 0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:26.960 that I want you to receive from the word of 0:38:26.960 --> 0:38:30.960 the Lord today. If you start with your strength, you 0:38:31.160 --> 0:38:38.200 end in defeating. If you start with your strength, if 0:38:38.239 --> 0:38:41.800 you start with your smarts, if you start with your anything, 0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:48.080 you end in defeat because you run out reverse the ripple. 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:55.880 Start with God. Tell your neighbor I'm a name dropper. Now, 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:57.160 I don't mean that how you think I tell them. 0:38:57.200 --> 0:38:58.360 I don't mean it how you think I mean it. 0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:04.320 But I know the Great I am. So whatever I'm not, 0:39:05.920 --> 0:39:11.600 he is. I don't start with who I am. I 0:39:11.800 --> 0:39:16.759 drop the name of the Great I am. That's good 0:39:16.840 --> 0:39:22.600 right there, That's good like syuh right there. Because when 0:39:22.640 --> 0:39:25.960 you put the name of your God, the promise of 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:30.399 your God, on the thing that you're facing, it reverses, 0:39:30.520 --> 0:39:35.040 not necessarily the situation, but it taps you into His strength. 0:39:35.200 --> 0:39:40.880 I can do all things through I gotta teach you 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:44.120 all the Bible. Now, come on, I can do all 0:39:44.239 --> 0:39:47.840 things through Christ, who strengthens me. So I am not 0:39:48.120 --> 0:39:51.400 starting with my strength. Stop waking up in the morning, 0:39:51.480 --> 0:39:53.799 and discerning what you can do today based on how 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:59.600 strong you feel when you wake up. You gotta reverse that. No, No, 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:01.400 the first thing I'm not doing when I wake up 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:04.960 in the morning is consulting my stress level. My stress 0:40:05.040 --> 0:40:08.160 level will keep me under all these sheets. But at 0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:11.359 some point, I've got to throw off the covers. I've 0:40:11.400 --> 0:40:13.960 got to stand up on my feet. I've got to 0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:16.919 declare that what God called me to do today will 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:19.840 be done today, and what he called me to do 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:23.439 tomorrow can wait till tomorrow. And what he never called 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:25.759 me to do, somebody else can do. Because I am 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:35.000 not responsible for their ripple. So you cannot fix the 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:39.480 ripple until you find the rock. And the problem with 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:43.600 God's people in this passage has really not changed very 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:48.040 much at all, has it. They have allowed their identity 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:56.720 to become filtered through an event, an event we didn't 0:40:57.080 --> 0:41:00.399 go in to the will. We've stayed in the wilderness 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.960 because of an event. We did not have our confidence 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:08.239 because we came from Egypt where we were slaves. But 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:13.720 slavery was the event, not the identity. Help me, Holy Spirit, 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:18.720 somebody right now who's been divorced, Somebody right now who's 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:21.799 had an abortion, somebody right now who tried to take 0:41:21.880 --> 0:41:24.880 your own life, somebody right now who has never been 0:41:24.920 --> 0:41:27.640 able to hold down a job, somebody right now who 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:30.439 has never been able to be good with money. Those 0:41:30.560 --> 0:41:36.840 are events, They are not identities. Identities come from within. 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:41.160 It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:45.960 is your rock. And for everybody who has ever been rejected. 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:49.520 Let me jump a few centuries to first Peter two seven, 0:41:49.960 --> 0:41:53.319 where Peter quotes the prophet saying, but to you who 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:58.840 believe this stone, we're talking about stones right this stone 0:41:59.040 --> 0:42:03.279 being Christ, this stone is precious. But to those who 0:42:03.400 --> 0:42:06.960 do not believe, watch this. The stone that the builders 0:42:07.080 --> 0:42:13.400 rejected has become the corner stone. Stop living in the 0:42:13.560 --> 0:42:20.560 ripple of their rejection. They are not your rock. I said, 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:24.640 They're not your rock. They're not your rock. They're not 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:29.040 your rock. To the point that human ingenuity is so 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:31.600 limited that they throw tried to throw Jesus away. They 0:42:31.760 --> 0:42:34.400 rejected the stone that God built the whole thing on. 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:50.000 God is my rock. But first, something must happen at 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:53.239 this place where your feet are right now. Something must 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.200 happen at the place where you've stalled out. Something must 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:58.279 happen at the place where you laid down. Something must 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:00.560 happen at the place where you remain uncircum size. Something 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:05.840 must happen here. And then then amazing how almost everything 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:13.480 with God is opposite. Across brings life. What as across 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:16.360 across his gruesome, across his death, No across is glorious. 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:22.440 Rocks bring down giants. I'm gonna take you one more thing, 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:23.839 just to throw it in because I feel like it's 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:25.759 for somebody. I don't know what it's for. I don't 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:31.080 want to miss it. M Uh. How fast the ripple 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:33.880 happens doesn't always tell you how far it's going to go. 0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:39.719 Some things in your life are going slow because God 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:45.480 is building something that's really really good. Put that in 0:43:45.600 --> 0:43:51.440 for free. This ripple may start slow, but it may 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:55.239 spread wide. You don't know. You don't know. Somebody packed 0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:57.800 that little boy's lunch that he fed to the crowd 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:01.239 that day. You might be a mom packing the lunch 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:03.640 that we're gonna be talking about in Boise and Valentine 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:07.840 and Botswana. That's the ripple. That's the ripple. That's the ripple. 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.839 That's the ripple. That's the that's the ripple, that's how 0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:13.440 God does it. He takes something as simple as a stone, 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:18.000 and I love him because sometimes the smallest pebbles have 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:22.960 the greatest purpose. There was a widow in church one day. 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:25.120 She put two mites, two coins in the offer, and 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:27.279 Jesus said, that's the biggest ripple that's been put in 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:30.839 that temple that today. All the rich people they didn't 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:33.520 ripple at all. Jesus thought, I lott pebble. He said, 0:44:33.520 --> 0:44:36.360 that's all she has right there. You see how the 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:40.759 smallest pebble can serve the biggest purpose. You see how 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:44.680 the smallest rock, if the right guy's got it just 0:44:44.840 --> 0:44:48.920 enough rotations booming. We are preaching about him every Sunday. 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:51.000 There's not a Sunday that goes by that I don't 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:57.600 tell you David killed Goliath. Little pebble, big purpose. And 0:44:57.760 --> 0:45:01.799 yet we want to look at a fort twenty because 0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:05.799 this one is a little different. Where he said take 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:12.840 the twelve stones out. Everybody say out of the Jordan, 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:19.719 because normally a ripple happens when you throw a stone in, 0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:31.120 but this ripple is in reverse. You're gonna tell your 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:35.879 children what I did. And you think a ripple only 0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:40.560 happens when a stone is thrown in. But this ripple, 0:45:41.280 --> 0:45:45.120 somebody shout, this ripple. Come on, After all I've been through, 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:50.080 after all I've seen God do, after all the reasons 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:53.600 I shouldn't be here, This ripple is not gonna happen 0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:56.879 because of a stone you threw in. It's gonna happen 0:45:57.000 --> 0:46:00.319 because of a stone that you take out. Now, now 0:46:00.400 --> 0:46:05.479 shall it Because there are some stones, Yeah, yeah, there's 0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:09.880 some ripples. There are some ripples that can only happen 0:46:10.040 --> 0:46:13.920 through removal. Touch three. People say, get it out, get 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:16.080 it out, get it out, get it out, get it out, 0:46:16.120 --> 0:46:18.120 get it out, get it out, get it out, get 0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:19.839 it out, get it out, get it out, get it out. 0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:22.560 All that bitterness, get it out, get it out, get 0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:25.359 it out, get it out. All that regret, get it out, 0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:25.879 get it out. 0:46:26.400 --> 0:46:29.880 All that bias, all that judtment, all that president is. 0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:36.320 All that is security. Get it out. Because this ripple, 0:46:37.400 --> 0:46:38.439 the burst. 0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:43.239 Shall be last, and the last shall be burst. They 0:46:43.400 --> 0:46:47.840 that's so its we'll rad be joy this. 0:46:49.400 --> 0:46:56.000 Ripple. Come on. Twelve high fives say, this ripple is 0:46:56.120 --> 0:47:03.879 in reverse. Yeah. You keep waiting for God to put 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:09.319 something in, But God said, I will reveal it when 0:47:09.400 --> 0:47:14.560 you remove it. Oh that was good to me. I'll 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:19.280 try it again. I'll try it again. God removes to reveal. 0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:24.000 God wants to show you through this story. God wants 0:47:24.080 --> 0:47:26.919 to show you through this moment. God wants to show 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:29.360 you through what you call a burden. God wants to 0:47:29.520 --> 0:47:32.040 show you through what you can't carry. God wants to 0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:34.680 show you through what you can't do. God is even 0:47:34.840 --> 0:47:37.399 using your enemies to cause you to depend on him. 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:43.200 So this ripple is in reverse. Don't wait for something 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:47.320 else to come. Take that thing out that is keeping 0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:51.520 you from believing what he spoke. If it's an addiction, 0:47:51.640 --> 0:47:54.480 it's got to go. If it's pride, it's got to go. 0:47:55.239 --> 0:47:57.600 If it's your thoughts of yourself, it's got to go. 0:47:58.200 --> 0:48:01.280 If it's your need to be right to go. Every 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:06.399 stone must go. And this woman, this woman of God, 0:48:06.560 --> 0:48:10.840 confirmed my message. She preached on altars. She talked about rocks. 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:14.520 I was already getting ready to preach. She talked about rocks, 0:48:14.800 --> 0:48:16.640 and then she went home and sent a verse to 0:48:16.760 --> 0:48:19.840 our Bible club. We've been we've been going through the 0:48:19.880 --> 0:48:21.960 Book of Ezekiel. I wanted to say, stuck in the 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.759 weird part of the Book of Ezekiel. But that sounds sacrilegious. 0:48:25.400 --> 0:48:26.879 But the reason y'all don't think it's weird is because 0:48:26.920 --> 0:48:29.719 y'all don't read it. So anyway, judge me all you want. 0:48:30.160 --> 0:48:33.640 You can't condemn me. But but she said, she said 0:48:33.680 --> 0:48:35.800 it was. It was one thirty in the morning. She 0:48:35.920 --> 0:48:38.480 had preached from reflect she had poured her heart out, 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:40.239 and she said, I gotta go do my key verse, 0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:42.399 because we swap around and do the key verse. I said, 0:48:42.400 --> 0:48:44.200 I'll do it for you today, Babe, I can do 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:46.200 this for you. I'm gonna chat gpt a little bit 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:48.680 and said over. But she said, I'm gonna go do it. 0:48:48.920 --> 0:48:50.520 And she said, she said, I'm gonna do it, and 0:48:50.600 --> 0:48:52.360 I'm gonna go do it. And she sent it to me, 0:48:52.719 --> 0:48:55.600 and she sent Ezekiel eleven nineteen. And the Lord said, 0:48:55.640 --> 0:48:57.480 now you know that I got the right message for 0:48:57.560 --> 0:49:01.160 you about removing the rocks, because the Office said, I 0:49:01.200 --> 0:49:08.279 will give them an undevii hour watch this, Holly, one 0:49:08.440 --> 0:49:11.399 thirty in the morning, and I put a new spirit 0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:21.360 in them. My will removed from them their heart of stone. 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:28.919 Now I can fix the ripple because I found the rock. Yeah, 0:49:30.280 --> 0:49:34.600 it's been my hard heart and the nature of the 0:49:34.640 --> 0:49:39.480 Lord is that he removes to reveal, because verse twenty says, 0:49:39.520 --> 0:49:41.680 and then when he does that, when he gives to 0:49:41.760 --> 0:49:44.600 this Jesus heart, this heart that is sensitive to the 0:49:44.640 --> 0:49:46.520 ways of grace, This heart that knows that you need them, 0:49:46.560 --> 0:49:47.880 This heart that knows that he did it, not you. 0:49:48.200 --> 0:49:51.120 This heart that remembers that you are in the bathroom 0:49:51.160 --> 0:49:53.560 stall long before you are in. Boy. See the heart 0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:56.480 that remembers that the Lord did this, and that he's 0:49:56.480 --> 0:49:58.479 bigger than our enemies. That heart, that heart of flesh, 0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:00.840 that heart that is justified only by Jesus, made righteous 0:50:00.880 --> 0:50:05.879 only through him, his blood, his word, his covenant, his water. 0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:09.759 Verse twenty. Please, then they will follow my decrease. Watch 0:50:09.800 --> 0:50:17.760 the ripple. When I remove it, then they will follow, beautiful, 0:50:18.920 --> 0:50:20.719 and be careful to keep my loss. Now stay with 0:50:20.800 --> 0:50:23.960 me for one more minute, because there is one more 0:50:24.040 --> 0:50:27.160 story that has nothing to do with Jordan Rivers. But 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.920 it is in John's Gospel, and the Lord alerted it 0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:33.120 to me as a confirmation and a word for those 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:36.600 who are struggling with shame, condemnation, and rejection and guilt. 0:50:36.640 --> 0:50:41.680 And it has been ripping through your sanity. It's been 0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:44.279 ripping through your relationships. It has been ripping through your 0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:46.600 professional life. It has been ripping through every part of 0:50:46.640 --> 0:50:48.839 your life. And what's going to happen if we don't 0:50:49.080 --> 0:50:51.560 share this story right now is that you're going to 0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:53.000 think that the point of my message is that you've 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:54.680 got to pick up a big heavy stone and carry 0:50:54.719 --> 0:50:56.600 it and show God that you really mean it this time. 0:50:58.000 --> 0:51:06.080 But that's religion ripples. We're dealing with rocks today. And 0:51:06.400 --> 0:51:09.799 when Jesus walked the earth, he did something very very 0:51:09.880 --> 0:51:13.399 interesting because he was the rock, right, he was the rock, 0:51:14.600 --> 0:51:17.200 and he demonstrated something one day in an unlikely way 0:51:18.400 --> 0:51:20.920 to win. John chapter eight, verse three, Please on the 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:26.720 Screens says they brought a woman who was caught in adultery. 0:51:26.800 --> 0:51:28.200 Now I think that has a double meaning. I think 0:51:28.239 --> 0:51:30.080 that she was caught means that they saw her doing it. 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:32.640 I also think that means that she didn't want to 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:40.120 do it. She was caught. Follow me, I think when 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:44.880 we get caught, usually we were caught. It's not that 0:51:45.000 --> 0:51:48.719 we wanted to do it. I wonder what rocks were 0:51:48.800 --> 0:51:52.560 dropped in her life to cause this ripple. But nobody 0:51:52.640 --> 0:51:54.480 wanted to know that did that? Now? They just brought her, 0:51:55.080 --> 0:51:57.799 charged her, made her stand before the group verse at 0:51:57.920 --> 0:52:00.880 verse four, and said to Jesus, teacher, this woman was 0:52:01.000 --> 0:52:03.600 caught in the act of adultery. How right they were, 0:52:04.120 --> 0:52:06.760 And in the law of Moses commanded us to stone 0:52:06.800 --> 0:52:12.160 such women, to stone such women. I just told you, 0:52:12.320 --> 0:52:15.360 an event is not an identity. She's not such woman. 0:52:16.760 --> 0:52:20.640 She's not a such woman. Who in the world do 0:52:20.760 --> 0:52:23.720 you think you are labeling people according to their worse mistake? 0:52:23.760 --> 0:52:26.400 In lowis moment, I'm about to show you what Jesus 0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:30.840 thinks about this, and for when you label yourself. So 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:33.399 we got a stoner, right, what do you say? Inn't 0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:35.879 that crazy? How our text in Joshua had a question 0:52:36.160 --> 0:52:38.719 what do these stones mean? And now you've got a 0:52:38.760 --> 0:52:42.000 group of people, probably men. The Pharisees and the teachers 0:52:42.000 --> 0:52:44.000 of the law were men, and they want to stone 0:52:44.040 --> 0:52:47.359 the woman because they put her identity through the grid 0:52:47.440 --> 0:52:50.200 of the event. So here's where we are, Here's where 0:52:50.239 --> 0:52:52.520 you are. You've been there, you might be there right now? 0:52:54.200 --> 0:52:56.560 What do you say? What do these stones mean? What 0:52:56.760 --> 0:52:59.840 do you see? Let's see how the rock responds to 0:52:59.880 --> 0:53:06.640 their rocks verse six. They were using this question as 0:53:06.680 --> 0:53:12.440 a trap in order to have a basis for accusing 0:53:12.560 --> 0:53:15.239 him a trap. They're trying to trip him up. But 0:53:15.280 --> 0:53:16.920 he's the rock. He ain't go trip over what he is, 0:53:19.680 --> 0:53:23.160 stumbling block or a cornerstone. It all depends on how 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:26.000 you see him in order to have a basis for 0:53:26.080 --> 0:53:30.960 accusing him. But Jesus bent down, Uh huh. Zoom out 0:53:31.040 --> 0:53:33.360 so they can see online what I'm doing, not that 0:53:33.440 --> 0:53:35.600 I'm Jesus. I'm just trying to make the text come alive, 0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:38.600 and started to write on the ground with his finger. 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:41.640 Maybe he's writing her a new story. Maybe he's writing 0:53:41.680 --> 0:53:44.440 a new chapter. Maybe he's writing something that she's gonna do. 0:53:44.960 --> 0:53:47.080 Maybe he's writing down all their sins. Because watch this. 0:53:47.800 --> 0:53:50.520 Watch what happened when he did when he stooped verse 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:54.400 number seven. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened 0:53:54.520 --> 0:53:56.680 up and said, let any one of you who is 0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:59.839 without sin be the first to throw the stone at her. 0:54:01.520 --> 0:54:04.000 Watch what God does when they go to throw their rocks. 0:54:04.640 --> 0:54:06.920 Watch what he does. The next time guilt tries to 0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:09.919 tell you that you can never recover, watch what God 0:54:10.000 --> 0:54:12.160 does the next time you try to go back to 0:54:12.280 --> 0:54:16.240 your past and imprison yourself over something everybody else has forgiven, 0:54:16.719 --> 0:54:21.319 but you. Verse number eight says as they circled around her. 0:54:22.120 --> 0:54:26.520 As they circled around her, he again stooped and wrote 0:54:26.880 --> 0:54:30.359 on the ground. Next verse that this those who heard 0:54:30.440 --> 0:54:33.960 begin to go away, one at a time. This is 0:54:34.040 --> 0:54:39.040 comical the older ones first, because if he was writing 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:43.279 their sins in the dirt, the ones who had lived 0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:46.719 the longest had the most ripples. So they took off 0:54:46.840 --> 0:54:50.880 running because I got ripples. If we really started listening 0:54:50.960 --> 0:54:53.960 what you've been through, you wouldn't be commenting on anybody 0:54:54.000 --> 0:55:01.680 else's Instagram, would you arm them? So I'm talking about 0:55:02.040 --> 0:55:06.239 the rock, not their rocks. The rock. He got down 0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:08.000 in the ground, and he began to write, and they 0:55:08.040 --> 0:55:11.200 all started leaving. Watch this until say it with me. 0:55:11.640 --> 0:55:19.000 Only Jesus was left sit again. Only Jesus was left 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:24.240 one more time for repetition. Only Jesus was left, because 0:55:24.280 --> 0:55:33.680 only Jesus was right. Until the only one right was 0:55:33.840 --> 0:55:39.560 the only one left, the only one who had the 0:55:39.800 --> 0:55:43.440 right to throw a stone. He didn't throw it, He 0:55:43.640 --> 0:55:49.840 took it. You tell me about your sin, let me 0:55:49.960 --> 0:55:56.320 tell you about his grace. Grace, grace, God's grace, grace. 0:55:56.360 --> 0:56:05.160 Second pardon and cleanse within somebody self grace, grace, grace 0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:11.400 that is greater than all of my sin. So my 0:56:11.640 --> 0:56:16.800 sin sent a ripple, and his righteousness sin forgiveness. So 0:56:17.040 --> 0:56:20.279 my sin sent a ripple, but his death sent a 0:56:20.360 --> 0:56:25.000 different message to my shame. And the Bible says that 0:56:25.120 --> 0:56:30.719 it was just Jesus and her, and he looked around 0:56:30.800 --> 0:56:34.880 like he didn't know Verse ten, and asked her a question, woman, 0:56:35.800 --> 0:56:38.839 where are they? 0:56:40.040 --> 0:56:40.200 Oh? 0:56:40.280 --> 0:56:43.919 They didn't throw their rocks. That's because I am your rock. 0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:48.840 You let me defend you, You let me vindicate you, 0:56:49.480 --> 0:56:51.879 You let me justify you. You hear me. You don't 0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:54.400 even have to prove it to them. Stop posting to 0:56:54.520 --> 0:56:56.880 prove it, and pray about it, and get down on 0:56:56.960 --> 0:57:00.640 your knees with Jesus and let him restore you reputation. 0:57:01.840 --> 0:57:06.640 You walk different because while you're trying to fix the ripple, 0:57:07.719 --> 0:57:11.160 he's trying to get you to drop the rocks. Yeah. 0:57:13.239 --> 0:57:15.000 And I love what he gave her as a gift 0:57:15.040 --> 0:57:16.640 in verse eleven, And I give it to you as 0:57:16.680 --> 0:57:19.800 I close today, God, this message is heavy in my heart. 0:57:20.440 --> 0:57:22.640 There must be somebody with a heavy heart of stone 0:57:22.680 --> 0:57:27.720 today that the Lord wants to break and he looked 0:57:27.760 --> 0:57:32.320 all around, and all the rocks were gone but one. 0:57:34.560 --> 0:57:38.560 All the rocks were gone but one. And then he 0:57:38.680 --> 0:57:45.080 told her, now that we got rid of their rocks, 0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:54.200 let's get rid of yours neither. I don't even know 0:57:54.240 --> 0:57:57.080 who was scorn. I don't even know who was skilled. 0:57:57.120 --> 0:57:59.760 They don't even be in the room. But he said, 0:57:59.800 --> 0:58:05.040 you can go now and leave your life of sin. 0:58:06.640 --> 0:58:09.480 You keep trying to fix the sin, that's the ripple. 0:58:11.320 --> 0:58:16.200 But when he removes the stone, Yes, when he takes 0:58:16.280 --> 0:58:20.520 that that hard place away. In fact, right now, I 0:58:20.600 --> 0:58:22.200 want us to stand to our feet and just lift 0:58:22.280 --> 0:58:24.960 our hands to the Lord. Just do it. Quit being 0:58:25.080 --> 0:58:30.080 so stubborn about surrendering to God. Quit letting that heart 0:58:30.120 --> 0:58:32.080 of stone tell you what to do and when to 0:58:32.200 --> 0:58:36.160 do it. Because there are some things that can happen 0:58:36.280 --> 0:58:37.960 in a moment, in the presence of God, that can 0:58:38.040 --> 0:58:41.560 ripple back to your home. Do you know that if 0:58:41.600 --> 0:58:44.240 you just get this word from God and feel an emotion, great, 0:58:44.920 --> 0:58:46.840 If I can give you one hour to escape the 0:58:46.880 --> 0:58:48.800 hell that you have to go through, I'll show up 0:58:48.840 --> 0:58:50.840 and do it. But what if we could send a ripple. 0:58:53.680 --> 0:58:56.640 What if in this moment you drop some rocks. Today. 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:00.960 I know that we keep waiting for something else to come, 0:59:01.000 --> 0:59:04.520 another blessing, another opportunity. But the Lord gave me a 0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:08.680 different message today. He said, we're reversing the ripple. We 0:59:08.840 --> 0:59:11.720 are not starting with what is coming in. We are 0:59:11.800 --> 0:59:15.480 starting with what is coming out. So I call you 0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:20.880 out today, say out out of fear, out of bondage, 0:59:21.120 --> 0:59:23.960 out of shame, out of it, out of it, out 0:59:24.040 --> 0:59:26.680 of it, come out, come out, come out, come out, 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:34.919 come out, come out, come out, part of stone, come out. 0:59:36.920 --> 0:59:40.560 Until the only one left. He's the only one right. 0:59:40.920 --> 0:59:43.920 Listen to me. What God says about you is right. 0:59:44.320 --> 0:59:48.200 Everything else is wrong. What you call yourself is wrong. 0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:50.680 What you thought your life was supposed to be is wrong. 0:59:50.960 --> 0:59:52.960 Who you thought was supposed to still be in your 0:59:53.000 --> 0:59:58.200 life right now it was wrong. He's right. And this 0:59:58.480 --> 1:00:02.040 rock just hear saying God in my spirit, Chris, can 1:00:02.080 --> 1:00:03.760 you sing it that high? Oh God, my God, I 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:08.720 need you, Oh God, my God, I need you now now, 1:00:09.280 --> 1:00:18.040 Oh God, God. I reckon. This is why I heard it, 1:00:18.160 --> 1:00:25.320 this line right here, to call on it. I'll standing 1:00:25.560 --> 1:00:30.320 on you. So hang on right there, stay right there, 1:00:30.360 --> 1:00:32.840 stay right there. We're gonna go back into the bridge 1:00:32.840 --> 1:00:35.200 in a minute. But we're gonna hit verse twenty four 1:00:35.240 --> 1:00:40.400 one more time. You tell them what God did? You 1:00:40.560 --> 1:00:44.200 tell them what the central event of your life was 1:00:44.280 --> 1:00:52.200 not a failure. It was a cross your course story, 1:00:53.320 --> 1:01:01.800 your primal narrative. Your rock is a stone that was 1:01:01.920 --> 1:01:10.200 rolled away, and now this is the reverse ripple. The 1:01:10.320 --> 1:01:13.440 stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 1:01:13.720 --> 1:01:18.760 You can build your life on him. He removes to reveal. 1:01:19.280 --> 1:01:24.520 He reveals to restore, and the word restore must literally 1:01:24.680 --> 1:01:30.840 mean restory, a new story. When the stone goes, the 1:01:30.960 --> 1:01:39.360 new story comes. So I'll give you this and I'll 1:01:39.360 --> 1:01:41.640 get out of your way. That he said what I 1:01:41.720 --> 1:01:44.400 did at the Red Sea, you weren't ready for yet. 1:01:45.720 --> 1:01:47.880 And you've stayed stuck in that regret for so long, 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:52.400 and it has rippled the bad report, rippled through forty 1:01:52.520 --> 1:01:54.720 years of wilderness living. But now I want you to 1:01:54.800 --> 1:01:57.919 take a stone with you, because you are going into 1:01:57.960 --> 1:02:02.480 a season where I am rolling away your regrets. I 1:02:02.600 --> 1:02:08.280 am rolling away your reproach. Hallelujah, I am cutting away 1:02:08.360 --> 1:02:17.200 your flesh. Who opened your prison doors? God did, who 1:02:17.360 --> 1:02:21.240 dried up your ocean floors? God did, who raced you 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:25.480 up from the dead. God did who justified, redeemed you, 1:02:25.640 --> 1:02:28.680 called you, created you, and breathed the very breath of 1:02:28.800 --> 1:02:38.560 life into you. So if he did it, then you 1:02:38.800 --> 1:02:45.360 heard your children. Then you hear your children. Now you 1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:52.160 are je. 1:02:54.720 --> 1:02:58.479 Don't hold it back, let it flow, Let it flow, 1:03:01.520 --> 1:03:05.960 let it flow. No flu unlock right now, no flu. 1:03:09.360 --> 1:03:17.600 You say, this is a holy moment. Now he said. 1:03:19.160 --> 1:03:25.280 You come on, let's take it up higher. Let's take 1:03:25.320 --> 1:03:33.040 it up higher. 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