1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,120 Hey, Go Church Family, welcome back. This is Gilbert and I'm here with Pastor Matt. 2 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:21,760 Praise the Lord. We're back at it talking about Able since last month and we're going 3 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:27,600 through this series this whole month as well. Yeah, last month we were able through. This 4 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:34,880 month we are able to. Absolutely. So we've been allowing the word to grow in us and be built 5 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:40,240 up in us and now we want to see it put into practice and put into action. We want to see 6 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:50,160 results in our lives. Yeah, because this word is working in us. Praise God. Amen. Amen. This message 7 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,440 we're doing this and we're doing this over these two months because there's a purpose behind it 8 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:03,360 and we want everyone in the Go Church Family to know that through God's supernatural ability, 9 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:13,360 we are able to see, to say and do things that the world around us cannot. We talked about that last 10 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:21,680 week about seeing things that others can't means that we can receive things that others won't. 11 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:32,400 But what I want to focus on is that we as a church are able to break down the limits that maybe 12 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:40,720 have been applied to us by assumptions or just because we think this is the natural order or 13 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,600 natural course. We break those limits down and emerge into the place that God has called us 14 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:54,000 both individually and as a church. Absolutely. I just on that subject, it gets me thinking about 15 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:01,760 the limits that are put on us and there are so many limits that we just get used to because of 16 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:08,320 the facts and the circumstances around us. Just that's the way things are because that's the way 17 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:14,000 things are because that's what the world says that we are. That's what the world says that we have. 18 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,720 That's the world says that we can do and that's what the world says that we have to deal with. 19 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:28,320 And the fact is we don't. We just, we can experience the truth of God's Word in our lives. 20 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:36,080 The more we live there in our minds, in our thinking and what we believe, what we say, 21 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:41,200 we can experience that to a greater degree and that's why we're spending two months on this. 22 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:49,360 Praise God. It's because we really want this to be so big in us and bigger than the things people 23 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:54,800 say around us, bigger than the things that we receive with our minds. So we have been talking 24 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:02,000 about we are able through Jesus, we are able through the love of God, the Father, we are able 25 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,480 through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. And now we're going further and saying, 26 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:13,040 what are we able to do? What are we able to see? What are we able to say? And these are things 27 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:20,640 that we need to move forward in as individuals, but also as a church. And that's why we really 28 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:27,520 want to dig deeper into that. So like you said, Pastor Matt, last week we talked about able to 29 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:35,920 see. This week we're going to talk about able to say. Praise God. And next week we're going to talk 30 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,120 about able to do. But before we get there, let's talk about saying. Why is saying so important? 31 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:49,200 Well, you know, really the new covenant, the dispensation of the church, dispensation, 32 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,320 that's a big theological word. But let's just say the days that we're living in, 33 00:03:54,320 --> 00:04:07,680 in terms of God's calendar, are really marked by our speaking. In fact, our speaking is the 34 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:18,160 predominant determiner of our life. That's Mark chapter 11, verse 23 and 24. And there's a verse 35 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:25,520 of scripture from the Old Testament that I want to look at. And it's in this, I mean, 36 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:33,680 you can look at it, it's Job chapter 22, verse 28. I want to read this from the voice 37 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:43,920 Bible. And the voice Bible is a, it's a paraphrase. It's not a translation. What they do though, 38 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:51,120 is they do a pretty good job of identifying who's speaking. And that is actually a key 39 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:58,000 to good Bible interpretation, knowing who is speaking and who is being spoken to. 40 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:09,040 But here in the voice Bible, in Job, there's this wonderful, wonderful statement. It says, 41 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:19,840 you will pronounce something to be and he who, he God, he who makes planets, he who 42 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:32,240 speaks and is so he will make it so. That's amazing. Because we are invited into the same 43 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:45,680 class and method of creation as God himself to declare something and he will make it so. 44 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:54,400 He will make it so. And that makes me think about Hebrews chapter 11, verse three, 45 00:05:54,400 --> 00:06:05,120 Hebrews chapter 11, the, I mean, I would say Hebrews is one of my favorite epistles in the 46 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:16,400 New Testament. And Hebrews chapter 11 is so big on the truth of faith. Hebrews 11, three says, 47 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:26,320 faith convinces us, this is God's word translation, faith convinces us that God created or framed 48 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:36,000 the world through his word. This means that we can, sorry, this means that what can be seen 49 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:43,920 was made by something that could not be seen. Genesis chapter one, the book of beginnings, 50 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:55,760 the, the words of God created the world that we see. Yep. Hebrews 11, three says that God's word, 51 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:06,640 and I love this, framed the world. My, my grandfather, basically a lot of the men in my, 52 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:17,360 my dad's side of the family, including my dad, were builders, you know, my dad built mostly 53 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:24,320 musical instruments and furniture, but his dad and a lot of the people in my family were builders, 54 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:33,360 construction workers. And the thing that you do before you build the building is you build the frame 55 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:43,280 that you are going to hang the building on. And the frame of the whole world is the words that are 56 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:50,960 spoken. There are things that you see, but those things were made of things that are not seen. 57 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:58,800 Yep. This building that we're sitting in, there are things that make it stand that are not seen. 58 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:06,720 The things that make the world that we live in not seen are the words. And this brings us, 59 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:16,880 of course, to Mark chapter 11, Mark chapter 11, verse 23. Jesus said that if you speak to a mountain, 60 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:23,200 which is immovable, and you tell it to do the impossible, and you believe in your heart, 61 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:31,440 that what you say will happen, you'll have what you say. Mark 11, 23 says you can have what you say. 62 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:43,680 Yeah. Actually, Mark 11, 23 says you have what you say. You have what you believe that comes out of 63 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:49,200 your mouth. Yeah. I mean, what you're talking about is a truth that has so much depth. Yeah. Like, 64 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:55,360 when we talk about Genesis one, a lot of the translations we read, it's almost like God was 65 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:02,000 making a suggestion, like, let there be light. And in the literal translation, so like Young's 66 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:09,440 literal translation, I just find it amazing, you know. And basically, the direct translation is 67 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:19,120 light B. Yes. It's it's it's even the word command cheapens it. Yes. It's a reality. It's like the 68 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:28,480 light B, and then light was that's literally what it says. He's not arguing with it. No, he commands 69 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:40,080 it. Yeah, to be in fact, Romans 4 17. God calls those things that are not as though they already were. 70 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:50,880 Yes. Yes. Light B, and B, according to wisdom, be according to the perfect plan, be 71 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:59,760 exactly everything that is necessary. Yeah. Our words were never designed to be idle. Yeah. Our 72 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:04,400 words were always designed to accomplish something because God's word is designed to 73 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:11,840 accomplish something we were made in his image. So because our environment, because our habits, 74 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:17,760 because of our culture, you know, we, we enjoy talking. Sometimes to our own detriment, we 75 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:25,440 enjoy joking a little bit too much. And with those things, we just assume that our words carry no 76 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:33,680 weight. So that's how a lot of people live. But that was not God's design. God's design was for 77 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:44,640 words to carry weight. Words carry weight. And the reality is they carry weight, whether we want to 78 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:50,000 whether we want to act like it or not. Yeah. And there are just some things that you can't get me 79 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:57,920 to say. Like I was, I was chatting with someone and they, they made a comment. They said, Oh, 80 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:06,720 um, if I sit with the air conditioner blowing on me, I will wake up and be sick tomorrow. 81 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,960 You, you couldn't make me sit. You couldn't make me say that if you hit me with a, like, a stick. 82 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:22,240 I'm not going to say that. It's good to be wise. It's good to, uh, it's good to take care of our 83 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:30,960 physical body. I should do more of that. But at the same time, it's also important to recognize 84 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:37,440 that our words carry power and define actually the limits and boundaries of our life. Absolutely. 85 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:45,040 So in the proverbs chapter 18, verses 2021 says a man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit 86 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:50,960 of his mouth. Yes. And from the produce of his lips, he shall be filled. That can be healthy 87 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,960 produce and that can be packaged food. Right. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And 88 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,200 verse 21 says death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. 89 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:08,560 Yeah. No, it notices as death and life. And your example in Mark chapter 11, verse 23, 90 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:14,880 Jesus was giving us an example, not of life with words, but death, right? He gave that example 91 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:20,480 of the fig tree. He cursed it and it died. So there is that side to it. And as you're saying, 92 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:26,480 our words do contain that power. And sometimes whether we grasp it or not, 93 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:35,680 we can release it that way or this way. And I remember just last week, actually, I was 94 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:42,880 at a point where I traveled for a few weeks and I was quite tired. And I sat down with the Lord. 95 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,960 I was just that day tired, frustrated. So I sat down for a couple of minutes and I'm like, 96 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:55,520 oh, Lord, you know, like I'm being all, you know, bringing things to him. Oh, I'm tired and I'm 97 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,200 frustrated and I'm this and in my heart, like immediately he said, 98 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:10,400 remember what I said in my word about let the weak say I'm strong. And I'm talking to him just, 99 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:18,320 you know, why are you always trying to correct me? And he instantly responded to my heart, 100 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:24,000 I'm trying to help you. Right. I'm not trying to correct you. And that's the difference. Like we 101 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:31,040 sometimes we might hear it like this is just a religious thing that word of faith people say. 102 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:35,680 And that's not the case. Well, it can become a religion if it's just an empty habit. 103 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:41,360 But it's not the case. The case is this is how God designed the world. This is how God designed 104 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:51,280 us. This is who he made us. And he made us with power and life or death in our words. So when 105 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:55,760 he's correcting me about what I'm saying, he's actually not correcting me. He's trying to help 106 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:02,160 me. He's giving me the solution. And the solution is already there in the ability to change things 107 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:08,160 with what I say. Yeah. And that's what we're talking about the ability to say. He gave me the 108 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:15,280 ability to say when he created me. And of course, he keeps giving me the ability to say as and when 109 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:23,360 it's required. And that's that's what's so powerful, so fast. Actually, actually, in the book of Hebrews, 110 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:30,880 which you say is one of your favorite epistles in chapters three and four talks about how Jesus 111 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:40,560 is the high priest of our confession. Yes. So Jesus works with what we say. Say it again. I mean, 112 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:49,680 it's it's such a truth because religion has has made us focus so much on the sovereignty of God. 113 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:57,760 And here God in his sovereignty has Jesus has said, I am I am going to become the high priest. 114 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:06,000 What's the high priest do the high priest? We see in scripture, the high priest takes what is offered 115 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:18,240 to God. So Jesus, what did you just say he works with what we say, right? So able to say, 116 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:34,880 able to say, you know, Jesus needs people here in Lebanon now to start saying things that he can work 117 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:43,760 with. That's right. That's right. There's not a shortage of people that will talk about how bad 118 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:51,680 this politician is, how much money this politician stole. How many people are willing to stand up and 119 00:15:51,680 --> 00:16:02,800 say, Jesus loves Lebanon, the people of Lebanon are blessed. The people of Lebanon are chosen by the 120 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:09,360 Lord. Or just even if you don't have your own words, say the words that the Lord says in Isaiah 121 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:18,720 29, fruitful feel. That's right. That's right. He he goes on to say that the poor among men will 122 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:24,880 rejoice. Yes. What is why would a poor man rejoice? Well, not because he's going to stay poor. That's 123 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:33,200 right. I mean, glory to God, he has worked specifically for Lebanon, which that's good news 124 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:39,920 for Lebanon. Yes, we're talking about Isaiah chapter 29 verses 17 through 19 through 17 through 19. 125 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:49,200 And I would encourage you to look that up and just say it. We're able to say those things. Jesus is 126 00:16:49,200 --> 00:17:00,880 calling Gochurch Beirut to be a voice of declaration of God's will here. Yeah. That's right. This is 127 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:08,560 the you said it. This is the way God has designed. He's created the world. The things that are seen 128 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:17,280 are not made of things which do appear. So the funny illustration is in Genesis chapter one. 129 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:26,560 We don't have a record of God saying, it's so dark. I can't see. It's so dark. I don't know what to do. 130 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:37,280 He said light be right when there was no light and light was hell. That's the beautiful thing. 131 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:44,320 But it's it's light be light was right Genesis chapter one. That's in Young's literal translation. 132 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,720 You can that's the thing. So what when the Lord let's go back to the same verse when the Lord says 133 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:54,720 let the weak say I'm strong as the Lord suggesting that the weak person should light. No, what he's 134 00:17:54,720 --> 00:18:04,240 what he's suggesting or what he's telling us to do is call things that be not as though they were. 135 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:10,720 Yeah, because in that word is a is a is a that word is a container. What's inside the container 136 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:18,560 able able able is inside the container. Yes. So instead of saying, hmm, I don't I don't 137 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:28,320 got no able right. No, that's bad English. But say I'm strong. I always know what to do. I always 138 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:34,560 make the right decision. Yeah, there's some really amazing teachers who teach on faith and 139 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:40,320 one of them is Charles Caps. Yeah. He has this amazing illustration, which I heard about, 140 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:47,840 you know, if if the dog is across the field, you call the dog if you want him to come right. 141 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:53,120 If the dog's here, you don't need to call him, right? So there's no point, you know, for a strong 142 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:57,840 person to say I am strong. Well, obviously, it's good to say it. And it's good to remind yourself 143 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:03,520 what the Lord said. But especially the person who's dealing with weakness needs to say it. 144 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,520 Yes, turn the situation around. That's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right. 145 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:20,160 Right. The there there is no help for me in me painting with my words, the current picture 146 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:27,280 of my world. What I need to do is reach into God's word, which is alive and powerful, 147 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:36,880 and fill my mouth with His words and paint His will for my life with my mouth using His words. 148 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:49,360 And according to Job, I will pronounce something to be and he who is able, he will make it so. 149 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,160 Yeah, he's the high priest of our confession. He works with what we say. That's right. 150 00:19:54,160 --> 00:20:02,880 Right. So Pastor Matt, you you actually shared a message a few weeks ago at a church called 151 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:10,000 CTK Christ. And before we we talk about actually what you spoke about then, I do want to say it's 152 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:18,080 amazing that Go Church and you know what we do is not only strengthen ourselves, but we're here to 153 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:24,480 strengthen other churches. And we're here to help other churches get built up. And it's just it's 154 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:30,000 a privilege to be part of that. It's a privilege to see Lebanon come up and the people of God in 155 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:37,520 Lebanon come up. So it's nice that we get to go around and be part of what other churches are 156 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:44,640 doing as well. And I think that's that's something that the Lord intends for us to connect and for 157 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:50,880 us to move together because the body moves together, right? You don't have a left leg 158 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:57,600 moving out of sync with the right leg. It doesn't work that way. So I think having said that, you 159 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:06,240 shared a message and the subject was actually in 2 Kings chapter seven. And it's related to 160 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,760 saying, right? Can you can you share a little bit about that? Yeah. So 2 Kings chapter seven is a 161 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:22,800 story, a record of Elisha in the city of Samaria. And he is surrounded, the city of Samaria, I should 162 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:34,800 say, is surrounded, besieged by an enemy army. The army's intent is to destroy the city and take 163 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:45,920 everything of value out of it. The conditions, if you read 2nd Kings chapter six, toward the end 164 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:52,960 of the chapter, you see the conditions are so bad that the people are resulting to cannibalism. 165 00:21:54,880 --> 00:22:02,240 That's amazing. That's bad. I mean, shockingly bad, right? Yeah. How desperate is your situation 166 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:09,760 if this is this is where you've arrived to? And it's so bad that the king is like, okay, 167 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:18,000 this is certainly God's fault. It's funny how the politician wants to blame the preacher. 168 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:31,680 And so the king comes to Elisha and they're going to cut his head off. And there was a whole little 169 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:39,280 showdown about that. And but Elisha says in 2 Kings chapter seven verse one, he said, 170 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:44,160 listen to this message from the Lord, listen to this word from the Lord. What are we talking 171 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:53,920 about here? Something to say. We should really in the grow group kind of dig into this a little bit. 172 00:22:53,920 --> 00:23:00,720 And I would encourage you just to read this and spend a little time thinking about how dark 173 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:10,720 life is inside of this city, where outside there's an enemy that you they the people in there, 174 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:19,040 they could not overcome. And they are they're facing imminent death. 175 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,640 And in that, Elisha stands up and says, this is what the Lord says by this time tomorrow. 176 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:41,200 So 24 hours, whatever day this is. He said this time tomorrow, in the markets of Samaria, 177 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:49,040 six quarts of choice flower will cost only one piece of silver and 12 quarts of barley grain 178 00:23:49,040 --> 00:24:00,560 will cost only one piece of silver. Now, in the chapter, you see in chapter six, you see that 179 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:10,240 they're actually selling the head of a donkey, which would have almost no meat on it for these, 180 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:19,520 you know, for way more than this. And they're selling the dung of birds 181 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,320 for these prices, because there's no flower. There's none. 182 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:35,040 So he says here, by this time tomorrow, what is priceless 183 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:43,520 will be so cheap, it's equal to what today is almost worthless. 184 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:54,000 There's going to be that much change in the situation. In other words, he said, 185 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:04,480 what is today completely impossible tomorrow will already be common. 186 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:13,520 That's that's supernatural saying. He will pronounce a thing and the Lord will make it so. 187 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:20,560 Yeah. And it seemed impossible. And then only did it seem impossible. The Kings guard said, 188 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:28,240 not even the Lord could do what you're saying. Like that was his reaction. He said, 189 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:33,760 if the Lord opened the windows of heaven, what you said still would not come to pass. 190 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:41,280 And the life just said, you're going to see this happen, but you won't benefit from it. 191 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:49,520 And if you keep reading, that's exactly what happened. Yeah. The story ends there in second 192 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:56,160 Kings seven, it says, and so it was just as the man of the man of God said, 193 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:05,440 the price of six quarts of choice flower was one piece of silver and 12 court, 194 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,640 12 courts of barley grain was one piece of silver, just as the man of the man of God said. 195 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:20,320 And that Kings guard, he was sadly trampled by people rushing out because 196 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:27,440 they thought there was this huge army outside, but that army had left. 197 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,320 They had not just left, they had abandoned everything that they had brought with them. 198 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:39,680 And this army, it wasn't like a bunch of soldiers like we think of today. 199 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:46,320 They were more like a group of like armed thieves, where they had been other places 200 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:52,880 and they had stolen other things. And so they have this camp that's full of things, 201 00:26:53,840 --> 00:27:02,400 full of, and I'm saying things, it says that they found equipment, garments and food. 202 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:10,880 And food equipment, how many of you could think of some equipment that you need for your business 203 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:19,440 or for your home furnishings, clothes and food? Yeah. 204 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:32,880 Right. The difference is the saying. He said something impossible and the Lord made it so. 205 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:39,440 You know, talking about saying last year, the Holy Spirit Conference, there was something 206 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:47,760 amazing that Pastor Joel Sims had shared about the fact that everything that the Lord accomplished 207 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:56,640 in the world was at some point first spoken out by a prophet or spoken out by a man of God or 208 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:05,920 spoken out by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So everything that the Lord did, a voice needed to 209 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:15,360 go out before him to accomplish it. And that's how the Lord works. I mean, this is how the world 210 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:25,600 was framed by words. Yes. So I do, I actually do want to share another story which I see in the 211 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:32,080 New Testament, which meant a lot to me and this is something I was thinking about when we're 212 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:39,280 talking about, you know, week two able to say, and it's about the exchange between Paul and Timothy. 213 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:47,760 And if we look at the letters of first and second Timothy, there are basically letters that Paul had 214 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:55,520 written to Timothy, who he calls his spiritual, his son and the faith, his spiritual son. And Timothy 215 00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:03,360 was basically so close to Paul and he was also part of Paul's team. And he was put in ethicists as 216 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:13,600 the pastor of the Ephesian church while Paul was going around accomplishing his mission. And 217 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,680 let me, let me give some background. So we know from scripture, we can see from scripture that 218 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:27,040 Timothy was someone who dealt with fear on and off. This is, we see that in second Timothy, 219 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:38,320 chapter one verse seven, where we see a scripture which a lot of us like to pick up and speak over 220 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:44,560 ourselves, which is God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind. 221 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:50,880 And he was rebinding Timothy of that. And we also see from scripture that Timothy was someone who 222 00:29:50,880 --> 00:30:00,480 dealt with some timidity and some shyness. We see that from first Corinthians 16, in verses 10 and 11, 223 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:07,520 where Paul is encouraging the Corinthian church to open, you know, with open arms, receive Timothy, 224 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:12,400 who's going to come to you, who's going to support you and help you. And you should respect him like 225 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:20,800 you're respecting me. And you get the sense that he's kind of trying to help Timothy fit in where 226 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:29,120 Timothy might struggle a little bit. So you see that, that, you know, maybe that idea of Timothy 227 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:34,960 and you start building up a picture of his character, you know, very, very committed to the purpose, 228 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:41,200 man of God, but he deals with a bit of fear, a bit of timidity, a little. So you can imagine 229 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:47,360 that someone like that is not a person who speaks up, you know. And basically, when you start looking 230 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:55,120 through 1st and 2nd Timothy, you see that actually Paul is inspired by the Holy Spirit to equip the 231 00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:01,920 leader of the church of Ephesus to say what he needs to say to accomplish the plan of God in Ephesus. 232 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:10,160 So going through 1st Timothy, for example, you see that the majority of the instruction that Paul 233 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:20,240 gives Timothy is basically instruction like this. He says command. He says teach and preach. He says 234 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:27,440 read publicly. He says give instruction. He says urge and encourage the people. Which is all saying. 235 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:39,360 Saying, right. So basically, God was trying to get ability to say to Timothy to accomplish the plan 236 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:46,720 that he had in Ephesus for the church and not only in Ephesus for the church, but for all the 237 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:52,240 churches to us, because this instruction is not limited to Ephesus. This instruction is for the 238 00:31:52,240 --> 00:32:01,920 whole church of God. So we see that and more than that, Paul was well aware of the need for this 239 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:12,080 ability to say. And he actually at some point asked the Ephesian church to pray for him that he would 240 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:18,240 have utterance to boldly preach the word of God. He was well aware that even him with all the 241 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:24,640 revelation, you know, we see from 2nd Corinthians that he was caught up to heaven. He had all these 242 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:31,680 visions. His life turned around when he personally met Jesus. And even with all of that, 243 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:39,120 he still needed ability from the Lord to say something. You know, that's what I want. Let me 244 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:44,800 just say, if you're thinking of a good thing, you know, what should we, how should we pray for 245 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:54,080 the leadership of the church? Pray for utterance. Yeah. You want your church leaders to have utterance. 246 00:32:54,080 --> 00:33:03,600 Paul said, pray for me that I will have utterance. What is utterance? It's inspired. It's the, the 247 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:15,040 ability to speak by Holy Spirit's inspiration. Now, why that's key is because you don't just want 248 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:28,080 talking. You want a Holy Spirit inspired saying and that ability is inside that saying. Yes. 249 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,800 Yeah. Praise God. You know, I can, I can tell you for me personally, at some point, you know, 250 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:41,920 when I come to be part of Go Church and I started, you know, doing my part and I started fitting in, 251 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:48,160 I realized that I somehow ended up doing a lot of speaking stuff. Like just, just as I'm sitting 252 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,440 here on podcast talking, you know, I'm glad that I, I direct all this talking to you guys and not 253 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:59,840 to my wife because she probably stabbed me in my sleep. But I'm just joking. But, but basically, 254 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:06,800 I, you know, growing up, I was never this person who thought, yeah, that's what I want to do. I 255 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:12,320 just want to be a public speaker and I want to do this on a regular basis. And I'm super good at that. 256 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:17,520 In fact, here's something I should have, I should never say is, you know, getting into these things 257 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:22,320 like, Oh, I hate public speaking. This is, this is something I learned to not say, you know, 258 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:28,640 I say the opposite of that. But I do acknowledge that that was never my comfort zone. That was 259 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,920 never easy for me. And that was not something that comes naturally to me. And the fact is, 260 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:40,800 is I recognize God's ability to do something through me when it comes to saying, 261 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:47,120 Do you feel like Timothy will say, I get it? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I relate to him. I get it. I 262 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:54,000 understand. There's a point where he finds himself suddenly as the pastor of like one of the biggest 263 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,880 churches ever. And he's dealing with those things. So 50,000 people. Yeah, absolutely. Actually, 264 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,720 it could be more. Yeah, that's the thing. I can recognize myself in this and say, 265 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,960 you know, the Lord definitely gave me ability to say or ability to speak in order to accomplish 266 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:17,600 what he wants to accomplish in the church. And that that would be the case for a lot of us. 267 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:25,440 You know, you wrote something that is so, it's so powerful by saying, 268 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:35,120 we, me and you, by saying, we can make an impact in the world and accomplish the plan of God 269 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:42,000 through the church in the world. Yeah. Pastor Joel Sims, when he was here, he 270 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:50,880 said something. He said a word. He said it's time to emerge. He shared that he really, 271 00:35:50,880 --> 00:36:00,480 he felt as though the Lord had given him that word for us as a church. And, 272 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:07,920 you know, he kind of helped us see what that, what that word kind of unpacked a little bit, 273 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:17,760 emerge meant to become visible, become prominent and to move into a position to help Lebanon recover 274 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:24,800 from a difficult situation. There's, there's no denying the fact that Lebanon is in a difficult 275 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:38,240 situation. But the ability to change that is in that word for Go Church Beirut. And I believe 276 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:46,000 that God is going to use all of the Jesus preaching Christ following churches in Lebanon 277 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:55,520 that are and those that will launch. But I, you know, for us, this is the Go Church podcast. I think 278 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:04,960 it's important that we say Go Church Beirut will do our part. That's right. Can I, can I close with 279 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:11,680 this scripture that Pastor Joel actually shared and just resonated so much with me is in 1st 280 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:18,400 Timothy, talk about Timothy 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse 14. It says, do not neglect the gift that is 281 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:26,400 in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of hands of the eldership. We saw 282 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:32,320 that happen. But we also saw that there was a, you know, a gift imparted, but there was also 283 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:40,880 a word spoken by prophecy about emerge, right? And let me, let me read on 1st 15 meditate on 284 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:46,320 these things. Give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all. 285 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:52,160 That's something that we should do. It's something that we should be aware of. We should be aware 286 00:37:52,160 --> 00:38:01,040 of what the Lord has put in us. So talking about my discomfort with public speaking, 287 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,640 if I'm more aware of that, and I keep saying I hate public speaking, I'm no good at it. I'll, 288 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,680 you know, never be comfortable with it. If I say that, and I'm more aware of that versus what the 289 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,880 Lord has already put in me saying, you know, you're able because I need you to do that. 290 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:24,400 And I just reflect on that, keep thinking of that, keep applying that in my life. So if I do that more 291 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:31,120 than I listen to the other things, I will be able to accomplish that. And that's, that's important, 292 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:38,880 especially with the ability to say, as this is how much Paul had put in his letter to Timothy. 293 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,080 He kept telling him, command the people, teach and preach to the people, read publicly, give 294 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:51,360 instruction, encourage the people. It's, there's so much power in what the Holy Spirit imparted 295 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:57,360 to Timothy about what he was able to do. And Timothy just, he could have ignored all that. 296 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,040 That's the fact. He could have just ignored all that and never paid attention to that and kept 297 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,680 saying, Oh, I'm really bad at this. I'm really weak at this. You notice the same pattern with Moses 298 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:12,720 and Aaron and the, in the Old Testament, but it's important to not neglect neglect the gift that is 299 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:18,960 already in us. And that was given to us by prophecy. So just the same way, I appreciate that, 300 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:26,000 you know, you as the pastor, I go to church, Beirut, keep going back to that word about emerge 301 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,960 and keep reminding us of that word, because that's the direction of the Lord for us. That's not just 302 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:36,560 you know, something that sounded good to someone who came to preach to us once. This is the word 303 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:44,960 of God for us as a church. Yeah. And to, to that point, really to make this kind of 304 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:57,600 more practical and help all of us get, go further when something stands out, like if you're, 305 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:02,320 you're reading something in your Bible this morning and a verse of scripture just, 306 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:11,680 you know, like it just stands out to you. Don't walk away from that. Instead, 307 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:22,640 write it down, spend time looking at it, focus on it. Why? Because that's, we see this pattern in, 308 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:30,400 in the Old Testament where when God said something to Abraham or to Abram before he changed his name, 309 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:36,480 he didn't just say, huh, that was nice. That was an interesting Tuesday. We'll see what happens 310 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:44,400 tomorrow. No, the Bible says that he would build a memorial and then make an offering. 311 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:57,200 Why? Because he said this, this word, this saying that happened this day, 312 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:03,280 this is heavenly, this is holy, and I'm not just going to treat it like it's ordinary. 313 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:13,120 And if, if you and I will start doing that when the spirit of God inspires an utterance, 314 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:19,360 inspires a word, inspires a saying that we hear and we'll make a big deal out of it, 315 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:24,320 we'll keep revisiting it, we'll keep going back to it. You know what will happen? We'll get more. 316 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:31,680 That's right. There'll be more of those sayings. Yeah, like we said last week, the willingness 317 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:39,360 to give or the willingness to make a big deal out of the eternal things, yeah, gives your ability 318 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:46,720 to see more. Yeah, that's right. Well, I know we're out of time, but this is a big subject. I feel 319 00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:51,920 like we, we just opened it and of course we'll dig more into this in the grow groups. But 320 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:59,440 one thing that I want to say is if no one told you yet today, we love you and we are 321 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:01,920 believing God's very best for you. 322 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:10,560 Thank you for listening to this message. We want everyone to experience the unconditional love 323 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:15,680 of God growing his love and go with his love to the rest of their world. We invite you to connect 324 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:21,440 with us at one of our groups or our next gathering. And if no one told you yet today, we love you and 325 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:34,000 believe God's very best for you.