This May Be Plan C

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.080 gives your perspective to see God is moving. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.440 In your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.360 I was looking back on the sermons that I preached 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.759 to you this year, just really trying to put in 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.919 context what the Lord has spoken and remember some of 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.120 the things that he shared with us. And it was 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.040 just powerful for me to remember the times that we've 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:33.479 shared together in his presence. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.559 I did a series called Cold, I did a series 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.200 called That's What I Thought. I did a series called 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.000 same Lies, New Loops. Thank you. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:52.400 I already forgot that one, And yeah, that's what you 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:53.000 think about that? 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.400 Huh. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:00.000 Indeed, that must mean the Lord wanted to send you 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.440 a score update. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.200 To let you know that no matter. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.959 How far down you are in the fourth quarter of 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.240 twenty twenty five. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.640 Touch somebody and say I feel a comeback. Come on, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.120 it's the last quarter of the year. But God can 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.760 do anything. Look at your neighbors, say da da da 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.679 da da da. Sometimes you gotta tell the devil Da 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:25.440 da da. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:32.000 Da Philippians, chapter three, verse ten. Thank you to all 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.880 of our campus pastors who preached so beautifully last week. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.720 Thank you for leading, thank you for shepherd, and thank you. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.600 For sharing for the people of God. Making sure you're 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.320 still standing. It's good for your circulation. Philippians, chapter three, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:54.280 verse ten. I can't speak for you, but I. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.800 Want to know Christ. I do. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.640 I want to know Christ, yes to the power of 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.520 his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.400 in his death, and so somehow love that word. It 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.200 means I'm more focused on the person than the plan. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.440 I want to know Christ so that somehow, however, he 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.160 chooses to do it. And that's what we're going to 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.560 talk about today, by the way, So somehow I can 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.560 attain to the resurrection from the dead. Now this part 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.959 is important, not that I've already obtained all this. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.560 Or have already arrived at my goal. Wearn't your neighbor, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:39.120 I'm not there yet, Yeah, tell him? I might. I might. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.279 I might cuss you out leaving the parking. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.320 Lot today if the Lord doesn't do a work because 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:45.160 I'm not there yet. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.320 I don't want to. But as possible. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:56.160 If the traffic's real bad, if you drive stupid, all right, focus, 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:58.639 I should read the whole verse again. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:02:59.320 I messed it up. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.880 Not that I have already obtained all this or have 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.560 already arrived at my goal. But I press on to 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.680 take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.200 of me. Beautiful brothers and sisters. I do not consider 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.160 myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:21.160 I do. Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.440 is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.840 the prize for which God has called me heavenward in 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:29.880 Christ Jesus. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:35.000 Give the Lord praise for his word. Now. Exodus chapter 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.920 number thirteen for our Old Testament demonstration. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:45.960 Exodus chapter thirteen, verse seventeen says this, when Pharaoh let 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.280 the people go, God did not lead them on the 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.920 road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter, for 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.360 God said, if they face war, they might change their 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.640 minds and return to Egypt. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:06.520 So God led the people around by the desert road 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.880 toward the Red Sea. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.560 The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.160 Now, I want you to sit down in this order. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.479 Okay, if you are at one of our physical locations today. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.680 Play along. If you're online, just raise your hand in 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.320 the chat or something like that. If everything went the 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.840 way you planned it this year, and you are exactly 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.360 where you intended to be in every area of your 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.440 life at the end of this year. When you started 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.560 the year, you planned it, and right now. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.640 You possess it. You may be seated. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.640 Because we want to look at who to hire to 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.560 be our therapist or our coach or pray for because. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:50.240 You're a liar, but everybody else that had a plan 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.080 A and then a plan B. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.960 I want you to look at your neighbor and tell 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:57.960 them my title, because I think. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.279 The whole church is still standing. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.799 Tell him this must be my plan. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:10.120 See. Hey, you may be seated. Plan see. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.640 That's what I'm calling the message, Chris, this must be 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.320 my plan see, and we'll talk a little bit about 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.880 what that means in just a moment. There was an 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.880 apocalyptic fog in the air as we drove to church today. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.839 Abby and I were driving into church and I looked 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.440 at her and said, this is kind of freaky. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.279 She said, I know, but it's kind of cool. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.680 We were listening to a song that we just recorded 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.279 you don't have it yet, you will soon. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:41.360 It's called so be It. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.919 And as I was saying this to her, the voice 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.159 of the lead vocalist on our song called so be 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.880 It said, like a thief in the night, he'll returned 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.120 for his bride. Even so, Jesus come, Jesus come, split 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:53.800 the skies. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.279 So be it God. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:57.760 And I looked at Abby and said, wouldn't it be 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.680 wild if while we're listening into that, Jesus just came 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.360 back on. It's like six in the morning. She's rolling 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.599 her eyes at me and stuff. But I looked at her. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.920 I'm just messing with her. I said, would you be ready? 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.840 And she said, uh, not really, I've got some work 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:13.359 to do. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.440 Just keeping it honest. Like I wouldn't want him to 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:17.880 come exactly right now. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.640 I don't know what's going on in young Abbey's life 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.840 that she needs to repent of. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:29.960 Y'all pray for her as well. When the Israelites left Egypt, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:30.800 the Bible us. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.960 As an interesting phrase, and I call your attention to 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.320 it once again as we bring these two amazing, amazing 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.640 scriptures together today. One is located out of four hundred 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.200 years of slavery, where God set his people free, and 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.760 one is located in a prison cell where an apostle 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.239 is being held captive for his obedience to God. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:51.839 Let me set this up, Okay. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.400 The richness of it is the second scripture I read you, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:07:00.400 they're coming out of captivity, and the first sure I 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.720 read you, he is still in captivity. But I think 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.840 there is a thread that will help us evaluate where 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.120 we are, where we wanted to be, the plan we had, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.120 and what God actually did while we were making our plans, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:23.679 which was laugh. The Egyptians had held God's people captive 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.640 to the point that they cried out to God. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.920 And I want to speak this sermon in three different 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:30.680 stages today. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.600 One I want to talk about the crying, the crying, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:40.160 and then I want to talk about the crossing, the crossing. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.400 Why aren't you writing down the points? What if there's 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:43.440 a pop quiz on this? 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.200 What if the devil tries to beat you up next 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.880 week and you need to go back and refer to this, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.680 write it down. The crying, the crossing, and then the covering. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.760 Those three things that I want to talk to you 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.640 about today. They cried out to go Godd, it says 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.600 in Exodus chapter three, verse seven. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.240 This is not for the screen, but just listen to 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:05.840 it real quick. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.800 When the Lord appeared to Moses, he said, I've come 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.920 down because I'm concerned about my people. I have seen 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.360 the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:21.440 them crying out. I have devices all over my house 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.120 that listen to me. I know they listen to me 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.520 because I talk about a restaurant and it shows up 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.360 on my phone without being typed in. I'm thankful that 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.120 the Lord listens to me as well, and that he 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.560 puts things in my path in response to the prayers 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.000 that I pray. Have you ever noticed that God will 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.120 put something in your path in response to the prayer 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:43.720 that you prayed. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.040 God won't always pick you up and carry you where 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.000 you need to go, but he'll put something in your path. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.040 I believe for somebody right now. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.840 God put this message in your algorithm because he's putting 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.120 something in your path. You almost tripped over this video, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.439 didn't you. You didn't even want to see a forty 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.400 five year old middle aged man in a black hoodie 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:03.199 with a Bible open. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.560 You were looking for something much more entertaining. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.880 But God puts something in your path because he knows 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.800 about the things that you're going through, and he wanted 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.400 you to accidentally trip over this video. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.920 It's not the algorithm. It's the anointing of the. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.200 God who loves you so much and called you from 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.560 an early age that he would put this message in 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:21.640 your path at this time. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:22.680 Oh, it's not an accident. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.840 Don't switch it off, don't mute it, don't scroll past it, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.800 don't fast forward till I really start going good. I'm 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.200 going right now to tell you that often God will 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.679 answer your prayer by putting something in your path, and 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.880 we praise him when he does. We praise him when 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.000 he does. We praise him when he does. Now, it's 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.160 not luck. It was the Lord. The Lord put that 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.360 in my path. It wasn't happenstance. It wasn't coincidence. Stop 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.600 blaming coincidence for God's work. You see what I'm saying. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.440 When you call it coincidence, you diminish the divine. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.760 It was God that put it in your path. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.439 God puts things in our path in response to our prayers. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.640 We are not aware of the things that He puts 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.040 in our path, and answer to our prayers, we will 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.120 trip right over what he put in front of us, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.120 trying to get to what we think we wanted. I said, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.760 you can trip right in front of what God put Well, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.720 I said that wrong. You can trip over what God 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.960 put right in front of you, trying to get where 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.959 you think you need to be, or trying to get 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.120 to what you think you want it. Paul said, I 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.880 want to know Christ. I'm clear about the outcome. I 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.560 want to draw closer to him. If I have to 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.000 suffer to get to know him. I would rather suffer 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.320 and know him than succeed and forget him. I would 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.719 rather go through something hard and have him than to 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.360 be far from him and everybody else think my life 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.720 is wonderful. I would rather have Christ. I would rather 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.480 have him. I don't want to miss him on the 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.319 way to it. And it's so important that you understand 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.920 whatever you're going through in your life that God hears 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:01.880 your Christ. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.240 What do we mean when we say that, Well, let 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:05.120 me break it down for you. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.000 And I can't exactly explain this to you, but when 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.960 I describe it, the Holy Spirit will. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.120 Help you to know what I'm talking about. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.199 Sometimes God answers your prayer by putting something in your 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.600 path that looks like what you prayed for that happens. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.440 But today I want to talk with you for a 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:30.080 little bit about when God sends a problem in answer 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:40.800 to a prayer. Sometimes God will send a problem in 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.640 answer to a prayer. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.360 The example that I'm thinking about in my. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.120 Life right now is too personal to share with you, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.760 But I just recently prayed about something and then a 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.400 problem arose and I didn't see the connection between the 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.840 two at the time, but the Lord didn't showed me. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.800 You know, that problem that you are now praying for 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:09.040 me to remove from your life. That problem that you're 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.560 praying for me to remove, I sent to answer the 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:14.720 last prayer you prayed. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.640 I don't know if this is clear or not. It's 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.440 like I asked God. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.640 To do something in my life and then something happened 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.520 that did not resemble what I asked God to do, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.040 and so I'm like, oh God, I got to get 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.840 rid of this problem, so you can answer this prayer. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.800 Right I'm praying about this, here comes the problem. I'm like, oh, God, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.240 take this problem out and answer the prayer. And the 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.600 Lord's like, I just did, but I did it different. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.320 I did it different, and so now the answer doesn't 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.760 resemble the prayer. So you are too blind to see 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.600 that the thing that you're continuing to pray for me 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.120 to take away is the thing that I sent to 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.000 answer the prayer that you were praying to begin with. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.559 I know it's not very clear. Let me try to 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.920 make it clear from the Bible. In Exodus chapter thirteen, 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.880 God's people are coming out of Egyptian slavery. God answered 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.480 their prayer. He sent Moses to get them out of slavery. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.280 But they're not just concerned with coming out of Egypt, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.320 because where will they go from Egypt. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.960 I have to have somewhere to live. I have to 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.920 have some type of soil to cultivate. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.280 I have to have some type of agriculture by which. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.400 I can partner with the earth so that our babies 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:26.880 can eat. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.640 I have to have some kind of formation. I have 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.640 to have some sort of government. And God is always 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.160 taking you out of something, bringing you into something, taking 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.160 you out of something, bringing you into something, taking you 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.800 out of something, and bringing you into something. And the 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:47.160 Bible says something very powerful in Exodus chapter thirteen, verse seventeen, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:53.720 when Pharaoh let the people go. What's interesting about that 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.040 God knew that although Pharaoh had let his people go 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.040 with just ten plagues. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.400 His people had still not let Pharaoh go. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.760 In an amazing that it only took God ten plagues. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.080 I know that's a lot, but it's only ten. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.760 It only took God ten plagues to get Pharaoh to 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.960 let his people go. Now, Pharaoh didn't let them go quickly. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.720 The enemy will never let you go quickly, not if 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.920 you're gifted. Why would he Why would he let you 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.840 go quickly? Why would he release his grip on you? 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.320 Why would he allow you to forgive without feeling bitterness? 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.440 Why would he give up your services? Why would he 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.480 let you go easily? He knows what you're capable of, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.440 if you ever get liberated. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.320 Why would he let you go? 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.360 Come on, somebody in New York shout, The reason the 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.080 devil is squeezing you is because there's something he sees 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.080 in you that if you ever get free, if you 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.800 ever get loose, if you ever shake this off, if 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:01.440 you ever. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.760 Get out of here, if I ever get out of 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.920 this place, if I ever get out of this mindset, 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.920 I'm gonna do something for God. Somebody shout, God has 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:16.600 something for me. God's got something for you. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.440 That's what the attack means that's what the enemy is 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:21.320 fighting you over. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.320 God's got something for you. And isn't it. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.960 Amazing that although it only took ten plagues for God 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.440 to get Pharaoh to let his people go, it took 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.360 forty years of wilderness wandering for God to get his 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:44.720 people to let Pharaoh go. Relief is easy. Freedom is 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:50.920 a process I felt annointed to teach today. Let's don't 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.120 worry about all three points. Let's just talk about crying 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.680 real quick. What if you are crying about something that 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.440 God is using, that God is trying to use. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.280 What if you are crying. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.440 About something right now and the Lord is saying, those 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.360 who's so in tears will reap with joy. See you 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.040 think those tears are wasted, They're not wasted their water 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.240 They are watering a harvest that you can't see right now. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.840 So some of you, God puts something in your life. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.560 It's a great challenge. It's a terrible situation. It's a 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.360 horrible situation. It's about as bad as being at a 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:24.800 red sea. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.480 Look at this scripture. The Bible says God could have 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:34.960 taken them a short way, but he didn't. And this 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:36.080 is really the challenge. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.800 Right when God could but he doesn't look at the 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.720 scripture again. He led the people around by the desert 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:50.080 road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.920 of Egypt ready for battle. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.120 So now I'm confused. Work with me. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.440 If they were ready for battle eighteen, then why in 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.800 verse seventeen say does God say if they face war, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.960 they might change their minds and return to Egypt. God 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.960 is the only one who really knows when you're ready. Wow. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.280 God is the only one who really knows what's in you. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.920 So God is the only one who can fully determine 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.040 what to take you through and win because He's the 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.280 only one who knows what's really in you. There is 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.800 a powerful thing that happens when I begin to decide 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.639 in my life that God has me where he wants me, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.480 even if it was caused by an attack of the enemy. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:39.840 God has me where he wants me. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.760 Now, what would it look like if, at the end 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.440 of this year, because I'm trying to help you, as 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.000 you reflect and as you expect and as you accept 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.520 and you do all the things that we have to 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.399 do at this time of the year, what would it 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.160 look like for you to have the kind of empathy 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:58.480 for yourself and trust in God to realize that even 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.919 if it's taking you a little little longer than you 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.040 expected it to take you, watch this. You're still going 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:13.159 to get there. Tell your neighbor You're still going to 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.840 get there. Maybe that's what we'll call the message when 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.199 we put it online. Because I know you're running a 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.399 little late. I know you got a little bit of 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.040 a limp. I know you're not looking as fresh as 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.399 you were when you started out the journey. I know 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.960 it's not exactly the right time. But you're still gonna 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.240 get there. Tell them again and say it with faith. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.080 You're still going to get there. You're still gonna get there. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.960 And it might have some detours along the way, and 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.080 it might have some disappointments along the way, and you 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.440 might not get there with who you thought was going 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.680 to be. Not everybody that started on the road trip 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.360 is going to be in the car when you pull up. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.720 But you're still going to get there. You understand what 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.040 I'm saying. You might not get through it all unscathed 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:57.880 and unscarred. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.520 You might have to show a few of your wound us. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.560 And your scars along the way to encourage somebody else. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:08.520 But You're still going to get there. The tears will 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.159 not stop you. The trials will not stop you. The 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.360 trauma will not stop you. The traffic will. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:16.000 Not stop you. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.720 It will not stop you. Your boss will not stop you. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.000 The economy will not stop you. The weather will not 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:23.639 stop you. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.719 That's why I like a day where the fog is out, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.159 because there was somebody who got up and saw the 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.800 weather was bad, and Charlotte but said, I still gotta 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.840 get there. And I'm looking for a few rough riders 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.320 in the house today who say, come hell or high water, 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:44.840 come wind, come rain, come storm, come set back, come difficulty, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.040 come depression. Now shove your neighbor and testify. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.960 Say I'm still gonna get there. I'm still gonna get there. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:58.560 Don't cancel my reservation. I'm still gonna get there. Don't 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.200 give my ticket away. I'm still gonna get there. Don't 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:03.560 give away my seat. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.720 At the table. I'm still gonna get there. I'm not 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.080 gonna be on the fast bus, but I'm still gonna 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:10.560 get there. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.720 I'm not the valedictorian, but I intend to grant away. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:16.760 I'm still gonna get there. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.679 I might not do it like she did it, but 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:20.720 I'm still. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:21.320 Gonna get there. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.800 I might not have the right shoes on, but I'm 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.120 still gonna get there. 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:28.360 I might have a story. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:33.479 To tell, but I've tell my story how I've overcome. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.520 High five three people say, just get there, Just get there, 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.840 Just get there, Just get there. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.200 Wipe your deers and drive, wipe your deers and walk, 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.440 wipe your tears and lift your hands. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.240 I'm still gonna get there. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.360 I would have despair had I not. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.800 Believe that, I would see. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:02.119 What shi of the Lord? 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.320 So, Moses, why are we going this way? Can't we 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:13.280 go the straight way? And see there's a difference between 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:19.879 the straight way and the right way. 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:22.159 This is plan A. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:29.600 This is plan A, and this is plan B. This 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:31.080 is plan C. 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:36.000 Watch me. 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:39.040 This. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:45.480 Tell your neighbor. This might be your Plan C. Plan 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:46.240 C is like this. 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:49.560 Okay, here's where they were Egypt, right, here's where they 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:50.440 were going Canaan. 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.720 That's plan A. And then plan B is go back. 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.080 That's what B stands for. We're going back to Egypt. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:08.119 This is Plan C. Plan C doesn't make any sense. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:10.560 Plan C. 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:17.480 Is wait a minute, we're going around in a circle. 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:22.880 Why are you taking us this way? Moses? 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:31.800 Moses must be bad with a map, sometimes the mission 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.480 doesn't look like the map. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.920 Now this is so true for your life. I need 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.760 you to know that you're still gonna get there. Say it. 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.080 I'm still gonna get there. I'm still gonna get there. 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.679 Graham came to me this weekend. He said, something horrible happened. 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:52.919 We had the speaker lined up to speak Sunday night 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:54.520 at the living room and they. 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.320 Can't speak now. And so what do I do? I said, Oh, 0:22:57.440 --> 0:22:58.520 it's time for plan. 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:10.080 See. Plan see is cry out to the Lord. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:16.520 And then cram and then cram the message as fast 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.080 as you can, because this is plan see. I know 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.959 it's nice when you get to prepare Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.399 but this is Friday and you got to speak Sunday. 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:28.520 So this is plan. This is when you thought you 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:28.880 were going. 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.639 To have a week off, But this is when you 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:34.760 thought you were going to retire at age sixty two, 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:35.800 but you got to refire. 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:39.720 Now this is plan See. I'm preaching to somebody. 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:44.280 I'm setting somebody free just to see this plan see. 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:46.280 This is when it could have happened that fast, and 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:47.960 you wanted to go back, but God won't let you 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:50.000 go back, but you can't go forward, and God's taken 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:56.680 you on plan see back in rehab, plan see back 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:57.440 in recovery. 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.160 Plan see sending the children to their mother's house. 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.159 On the weekends. You didn't plan that getting married. This 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:08.000 is plan see. This is plan see. I didn't want 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:09.600 to lose my virginity, but I did. 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:10.280 And now I'm. 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.399 Asking God, can he help me move past this in 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:12.840 a new way. 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:14.760 This is plan see. 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.280 And it doesn't mean that God left you. It just 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.400 means he's leading me differently. 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:21.160 This is plan. 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:28.520 Ough. Ough, I feel the testimony's coming back to me 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:30.840 even as I preach the word, it's just going to 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:31.280 be one. 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:33.800 Of those words where the reapers overtake the solers. 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:36.160 Means, by the time I can even release this word 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:38.400 into your heart, you are going to see. What God 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:41.040 is saying to you is that you thought you were 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:44.080 going here and then you wanted to go back. And 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.760 it's not Plan A, and it's not Plan B. It's 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:51.960 going to be Plan C. Because there is something that 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:55.480 God knows about me that he finds it necessary for 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.800 this stage of my life to take me not like 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:03.640 this and not like this, but like this and I'm 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:06.800 still gonna get there, but I'm gonna get there in 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.119 a circular route. And I write this down. Not every 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:16.320 circle is a sin. Not every circle is a sin. 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:20.399 The Israelites spent forty years in the wilderness because they 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:21.480 would not believe. 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:24.399 But before they spent forty years. 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:26.800 Because of their unbelief, God took them on a two 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:32.280 week detour because of his mercy. He knew there's something 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.520 I need to do in you. So I'm just trying 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:40.560 to see will you let go of Plan A and 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:47.080 will you refuse Plan B so you can see what 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:49.960 God wants to do in your life. 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.040 I could go home right now, but we can keep 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:52.840 going if you want to. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.160 Let's talk about the crossing. We talked about the crying. 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:02.520 Let's talk about the crossing. Who should I use for 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:11.080 this illustration? Volunteer yourself if you if you dare somebody 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:13.200 that now you don't have to do this. So put 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.679 your hand down and I'm going to ask you this question. Somebody, 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:17.480 do it if you want to do it, if you 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:19.080 feel called to do it, if you feel led to 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:19.320 do it. 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:21.800 You do not have to expose yourself. I wouldn't, but 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:26.159 just if Christmas is going to be tight for you 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:26.640 this year. 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:30.600 And you want to use as a volunteer, and you 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:33.280 want me to use here, we're gonna do this. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:39.439 You're committee. You don't know what I'm gonna do. So 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:45.520 whatever I want to do for this illustration, you'll do it. Yeah, yeah, 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:45.920 all right. 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:48.600 You have to do exactly what I say, nothing more, 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:50.520 nothing less. You committed to the illustration. 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:54.480 Thank you. Put your hand out, yeah, open like that. 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:55.800 Can we see this on. 0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:59.439 The cameras everybody, Let's get our optimal camera angle so 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:02.159 this illustrate and put them up a litt higher, little higher, 0:27:02.600 --> 0:27:09.320 lit higher, Yeah, right there. Now I prayed about whether 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:14.600 to do this. You know what I'm about to do. 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:19.199 Anybody else want to volunteer. I'm gonna just show this 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:26.200 real quick. It's gonna be very simple. If I give 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:31.880 you this and it says ten, and you take it and. 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:35.239 Then you squeeze it, I mean ball it up and 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:36.000 squeeze it. 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:38.520 Squeeze the other hand to just to complete the illustration, 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:42.560 and squeeze it. Squeeze the thumb in there, to the thumb. 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:44.280 Put the thumb where you can't get to it for 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:47.280 the sake of the illustration. There we go and she 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:53.000 squeezes it so tight, squeeze it so tight till it hurts. 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:57.800 And then I have one of these and I say, okay, 0:27:57.840 --> 0:28:00.560 I would like to give you this too. No no, no, 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:02.800 no, no no no, put the thumb and lamb. 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:09.160 But what you instinctively did is what you would have 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:20.200 to do. You would have to release to receive right now, 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:23.160 ball it up. And this is what we do. This 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:26.919 is what we do. We get real tight when. 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:27.680 God gives us something. 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:35.760 Right, But what if God wants to give you something else? 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:39.720 You're like, I knew he was a prosperity preacher. It's 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:46.360 a metaphor, it's an analogy. This is my own personal money. 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:49.600 I'm giving it away. I'm not asking her for money. 0:28:49.840 --> 0:28:52.760 I'm trying to give her something. But if I'm trying 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:53.600 to give. 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:57.120 Her something and her grip on what I just gave 0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:59.080 her is too tight. 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:03.400 I I can try to give her something. No no, no, no, no. 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:05.240 You're creative. 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:12.160 Don't mess up my illustration. Now you can receive when 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:17.720 you release, release, ball. 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:22.000 It up, ball it up, ball it up, till when 0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:24.160 you hand it to somebody, they wonder what has she 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:24.880 been through? 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:27.240 What? What happened, ball it up. 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:30.040 But if you hold it too tight, there may be 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:32.720 more that God wants to give you, but he can't. 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.360 Oh, oh, I hear I heard like this. God said, 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:47.320 I can't fill your fists. You want one, you want one? 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:49.520 Come on, do it real quick. I got plenty of 0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:53.479 this as long as you've got open hands on Now. 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:57.920 It's getting really good, y'all. It's getting better and better 0:29:58.240 --> 0:29:58.840 and better. 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:01.080 But but if she she wants to hold on to 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:04.959 what that was, she can't get what this is. 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:08.600 And this is a but watch what she did because 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:11.960 she has learned by now. 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:14.960 That this person standing in front of me is a giver, 0:30:16.360 --> 0:30:17.040 not a taker. 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:23.720 When you learn that about God, it's just absolutely amazing. 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:28.040 Because God's like, if you'll open your hands, come on, 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:31.680 opening all the way up, and keep your hands open, 0:30:32.240 --> 0:30:37.320 and keep your heart open, and keep your mind open. 0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:39.280 And keep your. 0:30:39.080 --> 0:30:45.480 Spirit open, and keep your faith high and keep your hope. 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:53.200 I will never stop meeting your needs. 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:57.040 God sees you. 0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:16.240 God sees you season, he sees me, He sees me 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:21.760 empty handed, he sees me broken hearted, he sees me 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:23.480 crying at night. 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:29.440 He sees me, and he holds me. Did you notice 0:31:29.640 --> 0:31:31.280 now listen, you gotta get through this so I can 0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:32.280 appreciate this next point. 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:36.880 Did you notice that Paul said, I'm striving to take 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:37.640 hold of that. 0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:44.760 For which Jesus already took hold of me. That means 0:31:44.800 --> 0:31:53.280 that I don't have to grab it because God grabed me. Man, 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:58.880 y'all give her a hand. Merry Christmas. 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:02.880 Everybody, hugger quick, everybody in that section. I'm gonna give 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:06.560 her a hug too. Hey, thank you for helping me preach. 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:08.880 Thank you for helping. 0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:14.760 Me show that the secret in this season of your life. Hey, 0:32:15.640 --> 0:32:26.080 it's not this, that's this. Is this. 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.600 Because you raised your hand, God filled it. 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:38.520 I love it. I love the Lord. He heard my crawl. 0:32:39.560 --> 0:32:40.920 He pitied every girl. 0:32:44.360 --> 0:32:46.440 And not only did he lead them through the desert, 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:49.400 but he led them through the water. That's the crossing, 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:54.080 the crossing. Why is God taking me through this? Why 0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:56.200 is God letting it be like this? Why is God 0:32:56.240 --> 0:33:00.400 allowing this season in my life? It's the crossing. It's 0:33:00.480 --> 0:33:04.480 the crossing because God knew they were too weak for war, 0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:11.960 so he led them to water. He knew they were 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:14.960 too weak for war, so he led them to water. 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:19.080 God knew that even though Pharaoh had temporarily let them go. 0:33:19.240 --> 0:33:20.920 He was coming back to get them. 0:33:21.720 --> 0:33:23.960 For the Bible says that no sooner had they got 0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:26.920 to that place at the Red Sea, than the chariots 0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:31.720 of Pharaoh begin to click clack behind them. And as 0:33:31.840 --> 0:33:35.000 those chariots begin to make their sound and the engines 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:37.840 of the enemy began to rev the Bible says in 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:40.880 Exodus fourteen fifteen that they cried. 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:42.120 Out to the. 0:33:42.080 --> 0:33:45.080 Lord and to Moses, why did you bring us out 0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:47.080 here to die? 0:33:47.280 --> 0:33:52.040 No, we're going across this water. 0:33:53.080 --> 0:33:56.080 We're going across this water because what is against you 0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:59.960 is more than what's with you. And if you fight 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:04.160 this enemy hand to hand, you will die. But God 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:06.680 knew something very strategic. Now watch this. 0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:10.000 This is another reason that I love God is. 0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:15.080 Because for God, this is the strategic route, even if 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:18.560 it's not the short route. And so they're standing in 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:20.640 a red sea, and this is where it all comes together. 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:27.160 For me. The red Sea is a problem. 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:33.439 But they are praying a prayer, so God leads them 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:39.480 to a problem in answer to a prayer. 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:40.920 Is this the best sermon? 0:34:41.000 --> 0:34:44.600 I ap precaw year or am I just capfeinated? 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.480 So I be like God? Take me around this. What 0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:53.959 am I gonna do with a sea? 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:58.120 And God says, oh, you'll see. 0:34:57.280 --> 0:34:59.640 Because I didn't bring you out here because I'm done 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:03.640 with you. I brought you out here to deal with 0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:05.279 your enemies and. 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:10.360 To drown them in this. See. 0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:13.120 This is my plan. 0:35:14.360 --> 0:35:20.360 See. 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:24.879 And the Egyptians you see today, you will see them 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:26.320 no more. 0:35:27.560 --> 0:35:30.359 But you got to let go now, You've got to. 0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:34.000 Let go of what you were holding on to. Paul said, 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:34.600 I didn't. 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:39.480 Forget about Paul forgetting what is behind me and reaching 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:44.239 toward what's ahead. I press toward the mark for the 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:50.239 prize of the High Calling of God. In Christ, Jesus 0:35:50.560 --> 0:35:54.720 and Paul wrote about the prize from a prison, which 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:59.320 goes to show me God's got me right where. 0:35:59.120 --> 0:36:06.279 He and I'm still gonna get there. Well, y'all used 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:08.920 up all your shout, or you will be shouting about. 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:11.000 This red sea in front of you. You would be 0:36:11.120 --> 0:36:12.719 shouting about your problem. 0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:16.160 If you knew the nature of your God, it's that 0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:20.839 he leads us to impossible situations. He leads us to 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:23.840 the deep end so that we might learn to depend 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:24.439 on him. 0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:28.399 He leads us to the water because he knows we're 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:32.560 not ready for war. So God sees what you're fighting against. 0:36:32.880 --> 0:36:36.799 God sees what you're up against. God sees you're outnumbered 0:36:36.840 --> 0:36:39.520 for it. God sees you're too young to do it. 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:41.759 God sees you're too old to carry it. 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:45.280 God sees you're too small to do it. God sees 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:46.880 you're not smart enough to know it. 0:36:47.160 --> 0:36:50.880 And he says, I have a seed to deal with that, 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:56.319 if you will move forward in faith. The presence of 0:36:56.360 --> 0:36:59.719 the Lord is in this place. The presence of the 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:03.719 Lord is in this place. The spirit of God is 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:04.600 in this place. 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:11.440 And it's the most amazing thing. 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:13.719 Man. If you never read the story, the Bible says 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:18.840 that they crossed through on dry ground and their enemies didn't. 0:37:20.280 --> 0:37:22.200 There's going to be some things you look back on 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:25.200 at the end of this year that tried to kill you. 0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:28.640 But what you didn't understand about what you were going 0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:29.719 through in your situation. 0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:33.520 That wasn't your Plan A, and it wasn't Plan B. 0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:39.040 It was Plan See, it was a crossing. 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.720 After all, none of the disciples signed up to follow 0:37:43.800 --> 0:37:44.600 Jesus to death. 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:50.480 Wow, none of them signed up for a cross Well 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:50.879 he did. 0:37:52.239 --> 0:37:55.719 He said, if there's any other way, Plan B, take 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:58.520 this cup from me, but he went to the cross 0:37:58.520 --> 0:37:59.160 and he died. 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:01.160 Why it was his plan? 0:38:02.040 --> 0:38:05.600 See, Paul said, I want to know Christ. 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:06.279 That's my plan. 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:08.400 See hey, all of y'all that are praying about stuff, 0:38:08.440 --> 0:38:10.520 you can't control time to go to plans. 0:38:10.560 --> 0:38:13.799 See God, I can't control this. You can. I want 0:38:13.800 --> 0:38:18.560 to know you. I want to know you. I want 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:20.600 to know you more than I want to get her number. 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:22.520 I want to know you more than I want them 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:24.919 to follow me back. I want to know you more 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:27.439 than I want to like on this close. I want 0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:32.000 to know you. What good is knowing what college to 0:38:32.080 --> 0:38:33.920 go to? If you don't take Christ with you when 0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:40.640 you get there. I want to know you. God brought 0:38:40.680 --> 0:38:43.840 you to this water. Devil can't drown you in a 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:45.279 crossing that God brought you to. 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:49.319 Paul said, even if I have to suffer, even if 0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:51.759 I have to stay in this cell, this is not. 0:38:51.760 --> 0:38:52.799 Where I'm meant to be. 0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:55.799 And one thing the text shows us is that whether 0:38:55.880 --> 0:39:00.480 you are in captivity or whether you're headed toward freedom, God. 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:05.160 Is with you on this plan. See somebody, stop planning. 0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:08.719 See just all over your life this year, things you 0:39:08.760 --> 0:39:09.520 don't understand. 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:12.359 Just boom boom, don't. God's not done. 0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:15.480 It's a plan c when when he does his see 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.720 with your see is going to all come full circle 0:39:19.000 --> 0:39:21.960 and you are going to understand the goodness of God 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:23.279 at a level that you. 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:24.440 Have never known before. 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:37.720 Right, just crying, and there's crossing, and there's covering, there's covering. 0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:49.360 Stand up, I'm done. As they went through the sea, 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:55.840 the Bible says that Moses had one job to do, 0:39:57.440 --> 0:40:01.120 and if he did this job, God would handle every 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:02.840 part of the battle that he could not handle. 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:08.480 And it's pretty simple, but it's kind of hard to 0:40:08.520 --> 0:40:09.080 do sometimes. 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:15.640 In Exitus chapter fourteen, as the people are standing in 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:21.480 front of a red sea, up against battles that they're 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:25.000 not ready to fight, surrounded by enemies that they are 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:29.480 not strong enough to subdue, you feel like that. I'm 0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:31.760 gonna stop my sermon for a minute. If you feel 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:36.680 like that, watch what Moses did because he thought the 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:38.799 Lord was just going to do something. This is so 0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:41.960 funny in the Bible sometimes there's little jokes, but you 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:44.279 just you think the Bible's boring, so you don't get them. 0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:47.640 Moses gives a speech to the people. He says verse 0:40:47.640 --> 0:40:49.839 fourteen Exitus fourteen, the Lord will fight for you. 0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:51.560 You need only to be still. Then the Lord said 0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:54.480 to Moses, why are you crying out to me? Tell 0:40:54.520 --> 0:40:55.799 the Israelites to move on. 0:40:57.760 --> 0:41:04.640 Crying is no substitute for cross. You can stand there 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:08.560 and cry and get killed, or you can move forward 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:17.799 in the season with what you have because play LJ. 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:19.759 The Lord said, why are you crying out to me? 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:24.520 Tell the Israelites to move on? Raise your staff and 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:30.680 stretch out your hand. So the Lord says that the 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:34.120 key to this is going to be what Paul said 0:41:34.680 --> 0:41:40.200 in Philippians chapter three, that I am letting go of 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:44.840 what's behind me and letting God deal with that, and 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:47.680 I'm reaching toward what's ahead of me. 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:59.520 And if you will do this, God will do that. 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:09.160 And the Bible says that they had to go through 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:12.759 some raging waters in UF two. You know, let's just 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:14.680 rejoice for a moment in our hearts. You don't have 0:42:14.680 --> 0:42:17.279 to clap or shout or nothing like that. Just in 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:21.359 your own heart kind of tell the Lord Lake, I 0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:25.319 know it's amazing what you brought me through. See, because 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.520 nobody else really knows what it cost you to get here. 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:31.840 Nobody knows what it cost you nobody knows what you cried. 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:36.280 Nobody really knows how much you're having to let go of. Look, 0:42:36.360 --> 0:42:38.880 there are people in this room today who are having 0:42:38.920 --> 0:42:42.839 to unlearn their entire upbringing to follow Christ. They were 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:45.680 not raised in a Christian family, they were not shown 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.520 how to read the Bible, they were not taught about Jesus. 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:52.960 And God has brought you this far. So as we 0:42:53.040 --> 0:42:54.960 thank God for that and what you've been through. I mean, 0:42:55.120 --> 0:42:55.440 if you. 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:58.840 Really just would think about it for one split second 0:42:58.880 --> 0:43:01.680 of your life, the fear of what's next would look 0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:07.280 much smaller in the context of all you've been through already. 0:43:07.360 --> 0:43:09.880 I mean, the devil missed his window to take you 0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:13.560 out because there had been some things that you have 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:16.600 been through that were much bigger than this. 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:21.480 And as they walk through the waters, I love to. 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:24.280 Get a picture of it man, because at this point 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:27.560 they've basically already given up faith in their leader because 0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:30.800 he's taken them the long way. But God was leading 0:43:30.840 --> 0:43:33.640 them through him, and they have no idea what's going 0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:36.000 to happen next, only that this man is holding up 0:43:36.040 --> 0:43:39.160 a stick in front of a sea. So if you 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:42.040 feel like that today, I need you to know that 0:43:42.120 --> 0:43:46.320 God has you covered. The Bible says in verse sixteen, 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:48.920 raiz your staff and stretch out your hand over the 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:52.080 sea to divide the water, so that the Israelites can 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:55.880 go through on dry ground. I will harden the hearts 0:43:55.920 --> 0:43:58.000 of the Egyptians so that they will go. 0:43:58.040 --> 0:43:59.040 In after them. 0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:04.000 And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and his army, 0:44:04.680 --> 0:44:08.160 through his chariots and his horsemen. Did you notice that 0:44:08.280 --> 0:44:11.799 everything that was going to kill them was an instrument 0:44:12.120 --> 0:44:14.560 in the hands of God for a greater glory. 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:19.000 I prophesy it over your life, what the enemy meant 0:44:19.000 --> 0:44:24.560 for evil. Help me preach. Then somebody shout. 0:44:24.800 --> 0:44:29.120 Now, Then the Angel of God, who had been traveling 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:32.320 in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them. 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:34.680 And the pillar of cloud also moved from in front 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:37.800 and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:40.720 and Israel. And throughout the night, the cloud brought darkness 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:43.520 to the one side and light to the other side, 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:47.080 so neither went near the other all night long. Then 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:52.840 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:53.879 that night the. 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:56.759 Lord drove the seed back. You see it. Moses is 0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:59.239 doing this, and God is doing this. 0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:03.759 Moses is doing this, and God is doing this, and 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:08.360 Moses is and God has you covered in this season 0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:13.200 of your life. The waters were divided, and the Israelites 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:16.239 went through the sea on dry ground, with the wall 0:45:16.320 --> 0:45:20.400 of water on their right and on their left. The 0:45:20.400 --> 0:45:24.719 Egyptians pursued them, and all pharaohs, horses and chariots and 0:45:24.760 --> 0:45:26.319 horsemen followed them into the sea. 0:45:27.040 --> 0:45:28.160 During the last watch of. 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:29.800 The night, the Lord looked down from the pillar of 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:32.080 fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:35.280 into confusion. And he jammed the wheels of their chariots 0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:39.120 so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians, the enemies, 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:42.680 the forces that came to conspire against the people of God, 0:45:42.800 --> 0:45:45.360 said let's get away from the Israelites. 0:45:45.560 --> 0:45:49.120 The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt. 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:52.879 Then the Lord said to Moses, watch this, stretch out 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:58.160 your hand over the sea, so that the waters may 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:03.760 flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen. 0:46:03.800 --> 0:46:06.000 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:08.560 daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:10.800 were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:16.680 the sea. The water flowed back and covered the chariots 0:46:17.400 --> 0:46:21.279 and the horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh that had 0:46:21.320 --> 0:46:29.640 followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived, hallelujah. 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:34.640 But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground. 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:39.120 Notice how many times it says, see because this is planned. 0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:44.320 See the Israelites went through the sea, they were covered. 0:46:44.520 --> 0:46:48.160 The Egyptians drowned in the sea. It covered them. God 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:50.640 is working all things together for your good. God is 0:46:50.680 --> 0:46:53.239 working all things together for his glory. God is working 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:56.240 all things together for a purpose. God is working all things. 0:46:56.080 --> 0:47:02.959 Together for a plant. You just keep doing this verse 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:05.560 thirty and I'll finish that day. 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:09.879 The Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, 0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:17.640 and all Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. 0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:19.920 So I don't have to see it to believe it. 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:25.319 Because I know that God is with me. And I've 0:47:25.360 --> 0:47:27.160 been praying about some things in my life, like you've 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:29.200 been praying about some things in your life, and I've 0:47:29.200 --> 0:47:31.000 had some things in my life that didn't quite. 0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:33.520 Match up at this point. And honestly, I'm gonna get 0:47:33.560 --> 0:47:34.600 real specific with you. 0:47:35.480 --> 0:47:38.160 There's not that many things about my life that I 0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:41.600 can complain about. But sometimes there's some things about me 0:47:42.440 --> 0:47:47.520 that I thought would be better by now y'all just 0:47:47.600 --> 0:47:49.959 leaving me up here like I'm the only dog on 0:47:49.960 --> 0:48:01.279 one doing like this sometimes. But the Lord will bring 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:04.680 you to the water for the worst that you're not 0:48:04.719 --> 0:48:08.319 ready for. I want to challenge you, y'all. We've got 0:48:08.360 --> 0:48:14.000 like a few weeks left and we'll be saying goodbye yesterday. 0:48:15.000 --> 0:48:17.200 I'm gonna tell you, if you take the chariots with 0:48:17.280 --> 0:48:19.600 you into the Promised Land, you won't be there long. 0:48:21.760 --> 0:48:24.160 There are some things that God wants to deal with 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:28.000 in your life. And God might have sent a problem 0:48:28.719 --> 0:48:29.560 to answer a prayer. 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:32.160 What was Paul's prayer? I want to know Christ. So 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:35.160 God put him in a prison and said you'll get 0:48:35.200 --> 0:48:40.680 to know me here. So Paul said, I have a 0:48:40.719 --> 0:48:45.000 prize in the prison. So do you a prize in 0:48:45.080 --> 0:48:45.520 the prison? 0:48:45.600 --> 0:48:48.520 You hear that? A prize in the prison? 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:54.560 Father? These are your people. I didn't make them, I 0:48:54.560 --> 0:48:56.760 didn't create them. I can't lead them through deep waters. 0:48:56.800 --> 0:49:02.040 You can now, God, we're holding on to so much. 0:49:03.120 --> 0:49:05.800 I mean, we've got our fist bald up so tight 0:49:06.400 --> 0:49:10.400 on a ten dollars blessing We've got our fist bald 0:49:10.520 --> 0:49:12.919 up so tight on the way we think about us, 0:49:12.920 --> 0:49:14.800 on the way that we think about others. 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:17.080 We've got our fist bald up so tight on our 0:49:17.120 --> 0:49:17.480 Plan A. 0:49:18.719 --> 0:49:21.759 Some of us are thinking about going back Plan bing, 0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:26.279 but today you told us that Plan C. It's for 0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:29.920 us to trust you, give the situation to you, follow 0:49:29.920 --> 0:49:30.279 you for it. 0:49:30.640 --> 0:49:35.200 And I believe God. Yeah, dude, I believe that. 0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:39.560 You're going to bring them across this red seed that 0:49:39.600 --> 0:49:40.359 they're going through. 0:49:40.480 --> 0:49:42.920 I'm not saying that is a cute metaphor. God, I 0:49:43.000 --> 0:49:45.600 have faith for it for them, And. 0:49:45.600 --> 0:49:48.960 Even if they don't believe right now, would you just 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:53.480 give them the strength to let go? Is such a 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:56.160 strange thing to pray for. We think is so strong 0:49:56.239 --> 0:50:00.880 to hold on, but the strength to let go and 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:05.359 to go forward. It's time for Plan See. It's time 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:08.120 for you to see what God can do when you 0:50:08.200 --> 0:50:11.600 trust Him with your life. Head's bowed, eyes closed. There's 0:50:11.640 --> 0:50:14.880 someone here today. And the assignment on my life for 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:18.160 this message with you is to give you the opportunity 0:50:18.640 --> 0:50:21.960 to give your life to Jesus Christ, like, to really 0:50:22.400 --> 0:50:26.560 give him your life, not just to say I'm religious, 0:50:26.640 --> 0:50:28.160 not just to say, yeah, I'm going to pray to 0:50:28.200 --> 0:50:30.600 God make my life better. Know to really give him 0:50:30.640 --> 0:50:34.480 your life is that you. God has brought you to 0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:35.080 this moment. 0:50:35.120 --> 0:50:36.960 This is a threshold for you. 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:39.680 You are here today because God has been drawing you 0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:42.439 and leading you and calling you out of your sin, 0:50:42.800 --> 0:50:43.560 out of your. 0:50:43.400 --> 0:50:45.160 Shame, and into his love. 0:50:46.040 --> 0:50:47.920 The Bible says that if you will confess with your 0:50:48.000 --> 0:50:50.040 mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:52.880 God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 0:50:53.719 --> 0:50:56.279 I believe that this day God wants to save you. 0:50:56.960 --> 0:50:59.080 Right now, I'm going to pray a prayer for the 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:01.400 benefit of those who are coming to God and listen. 0:51:01.560 --> 0:51:03.640 If this is you and you feel it in your 0:51:03.640 --> 0:51:06.239 heart and you're ready to repent of your sin and 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:09.080 trust in God and give him your life, I want 0:51:09.120 --> 0:51:12.520 you to know that the work has already been done. 0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:15.760 Jesus already died the death we should have died. 0:51:16.120 --> 0:51:18.040 He lived the life we could not live. 0:51:18.400 --> 0:51:20.879 He paid a debt he did not owe, so that 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:22.080 you could be saved. 0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:26.040 The only thing for you to do is to believe. 0:51:27.000 --> 0:51:29.520 So right now, if you're ready for that, to give 0:51:29.520 --> 0:51:31.960 your life to Christ, I want you to repeat this 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:32.680 prayer after me. 0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:34.479 Church family, we're praying it. 0:51:34.400 --> 0:51:37.520 Out loud together for all those who are coming to God. 0:51:37.600 --> 0:51:39.400 Repeat after me, Heavenly Father. 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:44.719 I am a sinner in need of a savior, and 0:51:44.800 --> 0:51:49.360 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:56.000 and the savior of the world. Today I make Jesus the. 0:51:55.960 --> 0:51:57.880 Lord of my life. 0:51:57.960 --> 0:52:02.400 I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:05.239 rose again to give me life. 0:52:05.840 --> 0:52:08.840 I receive this new life. 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:14.439 This is my new beginning. I am a child of God. 0:52:15.200 --> 0:52:17.320 On the counter, three, raise your hand. If you prayed 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:20.680 that one, two, three hands went up before I even 0:52:20.719 --> 0:52:21.200 said three. 0:52:22.040 --> 0:52:25.840 That's awesome. Let's give the Lord a great hand of praise. 0:52:25.920 --> 0:52:31.600 Come on, everybody can praise God. Come on, I see 0:52:31.640 --> 0:52:34.440 a lot of hands. Welcome to the Family of God. 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:38.239 Praise the Lord for all those online. You can put 0:52:38.280 --> 0:52:41.360 in the comments. I receive Jesus. 0:52:42.480 --> 0:52:44.840 Come on, cleft those hands for what God did in 0:52:44.920 --> 0:52:45.680 the house today. 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:49.520 Praise the Lord. 0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:53.879 Hug seven people. Tell them you're still gonna get there. 0:52:55.480 --> 0:52:59.719 You're still gonna get there. Yes you are, You're still 0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:04.600 gonna get there. Yeah, you're gonna get there. 0:53:06.120 --> 0:53:11.120 Might be twelve pounds heavier in December. Still gonna get there. 0:53:12.160 --> 0:53:13.160 Still gonna get there. 0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:18.359 This is plan to see how many got something out 0:53:18.360 --> 0:53:20.520 of the word of God today. 0:53:21.360 --> 0:53:25.000 Campus Maasters, you can take it? Can I close here? 0:53:26.280 --> 0:53:31.160 You got anything important to say? We got a big 0:53:31.200 --> 0:53:37.279 offering next weekend y'all this envelope right here, Open this up, 0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:43.200 fill it out, fill it up, bring it back, put 0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:46.400 it in, and expect God to move in a great 0:53:46.400 --> 0:53:52.520 way in our church. What else you need to tell them? 0:53:52.600 --> 0:53:56.799 I don't want to oversimplify it is that all. Come 0:53:56.880 --> 0:53:57.400 up here with me. 0:53:57.480 --> 0:54:02.280 Jj come on, Holly, come on, Graham, come on, Abby, 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:06.120 come on, Trucks, come on, Amy, come on, Brick. 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:09.440 Come on, JT, come on, come on, come on, come on. 0:54:09.440 --> 0:54:14.480 Home, Come on Mom, come on, Eve, get up here, 0:54:14.880 --> 0:54:17.480 Come on, Mike, come on, Elane, get. 0:54:17.360 --> 0:54:21.400 Up here, Come on Anna. 0:54:22.600 --> 0:54:23.600 Who else wants to come? 0:54:25.160 --> 0:54:27.719 Where is my sister that got the blessing today? 0:54:27.760 --> 0:54:41.960 Come on join us. Do your hands like this, repeat 0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:42.360 after me. 0:54:42.520 --> 0:54:48.200 Now, unto Hell, who is able to do immeasurably more 0:54:49.440 --> 0:54:54.759 than you ask or imagine to him, be glory through 0:54:54.840 --> 0:54:56.120 Christ Jesus. 0:54:56.680 --> 0:55:03.200 In the church now and forever, say man, hey, then 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:08.279 again I'll see you next week. You're so great. This 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:14.560 is your husband. Thank you for joining us. 0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:17.319 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:55:17.400 --> 0:55:20.880 this ministry. 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