WEBVTT 00:00:01.459 --> 00:00:04.440 Sharing good news of great joy to all people. 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:11.839 Elation Church. For over four weeks now, every 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.400 day, this Bible verse has just popped up in my 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.140 head. Who has ever memorized Ephesians 3 .20? 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:26.760 A lot of us. It says this, now to him, everybody 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.160 say God. Not to him who is able to do exceedingly 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:36.799 abundantly above all that we ask or think, according 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.219 to the power that works within us. I've known 00:00:40.219 --> 00:00:43.460 this Bible verse for a long time. I might have 00:00:43.460 --> 00:00:46.600 mentioned it before, but it's never been the 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.979 foundation verse for a message that I preached 00:00:49.979 --> 00:00:53.659 until God began laying it on my heart. And I 00:00:53.659 --> 00:00:56.780 know... When I keep thinking about a Bible verse 00:00:56.780 --> 00:00:59.200 over and over, I mean, we were preaching through 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:01.859 the incarnation and having those services and 00:01:01.859 --> 00:01:04.599 preparing those services, but during the whole 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.840 time, over four weeks, like I said, almost every 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.459 day, the Holy Spirit kept bringing that up, bringing 00:01:11.459 --> 00:01:13.640 that up, and I'm like, well, how am I going to 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:17.340 preach that one verse? So I believe God's given 00:01:17.340 --> 00:01:20.879 me some new kind of insight through His Word. 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:26.260 And today, just to keep you engaged, we're going 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:29.939 to find the connection. Everybody say connection. 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:40.920 Between Legos, Legos, and Ephesians 3. There's 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.400 a connection. Is anyone interested yet? Okay. 00:01:46.780 --> 00:01:51.170 Here we go. So I've entitled this message, Exceedingly 00:01:51.170 --> 00:01:56.590 Abundantly More in 2024. So hopefully that will 00:01:56.590 --> 00:02:00.189 be burnt in your mind and you'll think about 00:02:00.189 --> 00:02:02.930 this all year, not just this week. See, most 00:02:02.930 --> 00:02:06.590 of the time we get excited about what we're thinking 00:02:06.590 --> 00:02:10.610 about right now and then we forget it. Get excited 00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:13.330 about the Word of God that's present in our lives 00:02:13.330 --> 00:02:16.069 and then we don't remember what God just did 00:02:16.069 --> 00:02:19.729 and what God just revealed to us. But I believe 00:02:19.729 --> 00:02:21.849 this can stay with us all year because of that 00:02:21.849 --> 00:02:24.370 funny little rhyme, exceedingly abundantly more 00:02:24.370 --> 00:02:28.509 in 2024. Now, I didn't get this from anybody 00:02:28.509 --> 00:02:32.229 else. Jeffrey said, who'd you hear say that? 00:02:33.629 --> 00:02:36.569 Where'd you get that at? Well, I'll tell you 00:02:36.569 --> 00:02:40.469 where I got it at. Back in the 90s, when we first 00:02:40.469 --> 00:02:42.349 went on the road in evangelism, I was preaching 00:02:42.349 --> 00:02:45.889 at Commission Road Baptist Church just outside 00:02:45.889 --> 00:02:52.199 of Gulfport, Mississippi. And they had a gravel 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:56.580 parking lot at the church. How many of you know 00:02:56.580 --> 00:03:00.039 if you wear dress shoes on gravel, it's rough 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:04.139 on leather heels and shoes? Or, you know, girls 00:03:04.139 --> 00:03:06.960 wearing spike heels. I mean, it's almost impossible 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.979 to walk on gravel, right? So their theme for 00:03:09.979 --> 00:03:19.509 1994 was gravel no more. In 94. That's the closest 00:03:19.509 --> 00:03:23.550 I've come to giving anybody credit for this message 00:03:23.550 --> 00:03:29.590 today. Exceedingly abundantly more in 2024. Like 00:03:29.590 --> 00:03:32.289 I said, that verse, Ephesians 3 .20. Now to Him, 00:03:32.389 --> 00:03:34.909 God, who is able? Everybody say, God is able. 00:03:35.569 --> 00:03:39.210 God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above 00:03:39.210 --> 00:03:43.509 all that you can ask or think. How many of you 00:03:43.509 --> 00:03:46.870 can ask a lot? How many of you can think about 00:03:46.870 --> 00:03:50.500 asking a lot? Well, God is able to do exceedingly 00:03:50.500 --> 00:03:54.099 abundantly more than that according to His power 00:03:54.099 --> 00:03:58.400 that is working in you. Everybody say, God is 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:02.219 able. Romans 16, 25. Now to Him, God, who is 00:04:02.219 --> 00:04:08.219 able to establish you according to the gospel 00:04:08.219 --> 00:04:11.960 and the preaching of Jesus Christ. Everybody 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.639 say, God is able. 2 Corinthians 9 .8 And God 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:18.579 is able to make all grace abound toward you, 00:04:18.660 --> 00:04:21.879 that you, always having all sufficiency in all 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.899 things, may have an abundance for every good 00:04:24.899 --> 00:04:28.279 work. And this is talking about our finances. 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.779 And as we give, and the same measure we give 00:04:30.779 --> 00:04:32.800 will be measured back to us. And it's saying 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:37.839 God is able to make all grace abound toward you. 00:04:38.699 --> 00:04:40.720 What does that word grace mean? Has anybody figured 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.160 that out yet? My definition for grace. I mean, 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:46.439 most people just quickly say unmerited favor. 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:49.839 Grace is unmerited favor. Mercy is not getting 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.220 what I deserve. Grace is unmerited favor. But 00:04:53.220 --> 00:04:57.920 to expand that a little bit, grace is God's acts, 00:04:58.100 --> 00:05:02.399 His activity, His actions of kindness and favor 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:09.620 towards you and towards me. I had to have an 00:05:09.620 --> 00:05:14.860 amen right there. Okay? God's acts of kindness 00:05:14.860 --> 00:05:18.779 and favor towards you and towards me. Not because 00:05:18.779 --> 00:05:21.339 we've earned it or deserve it or worked for it, 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:26.779 but because He's God. And He's good. And He's 00:05:26.779 --> 00:05:30.060 able. Everybody say, God is able. Now to Him, 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.699 Jude 1 .24, Now to Him who is able, there you 00:05:32.699 --> 00:05:35.519 go, God's able again, to keep you from stumbling 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:39.899 and to present you faultless before the presence 00:05:39.899 --> 00:05:46.269 of His glory. with exceeding joy. Amen. I'll 00:05:46.269 --> 00:05:50.029 start amening myself. Everybody say, God is able. 00:05:51.230 --> 00:05:55.050 He's able to keep you from stumbling and to present 00:05:55.050 --> 00:05:57.310 you faultless. You might look at yourself. So 00:05:57.310 --> 00:05:59.810 many times we look at ourselves and we want to 00:05:59.810 --> 00:06:02.089 beat ourselves up and we're like, but I've messed 00:06:02.089 --> 00:06:04.230 up. I'm not faultless. How many of you would 00:06:04.230 --> 00:06:07.430 say, I'm not faultless? Well, because of the 00:06:07.430 --> 00:06:10.889 cross, Jesus is able to present you to the Father 00:06:10.889 --> 00:06:17.209 as faultless. Isn't that freeing? I mean, doesn't 00:06:17.209 --> 00:06:21.910 that give you some freedom? 2 Timothy 1 .12. 00:06:23.029 --> 00:06:27.470 I know whom I have believed in, and I'm persuaded 00:06:27.470 --> 00:06:29.629 that He is able. Everybody say, God is able. 00:06:29.990 --> 00:06:32.850 God is able to keep what I've committed to Him 00:06:32.850 --> 00:06:39.040 until that day. Everybody say, God is able. Acts 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.500 20, verse 32. So now, brethren, I commend you 00:06:42.500 --> 00:06:46.740 to God and to the word of His grace, which is 00:06:46.740 --> 00:06:51.160 able to build you up and give you an inheritance 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:56.399 among all those who are sanctified. Well, He 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:00.899 sanctified us, right? So He's able to build us 00:07:00.899 --> 00:07:04.819 up. He's able to give us... An inheritance. We 00:07:04.819 --> 00:07:07.779 are joint heirs with Jesus. Joint heirs with 00:07:07.779 --> 00:07:10.379 Christ. That's what the Bible says. Everybody 00:07:10.379 --> 00:07:13.459 say God is able. See, y 'all need to smile when 00:07:13.459 --> 00:07:16.939 you say God is able. Do you believe that He's 00:07:16.939 --> 00:07:19.920 able? Well, that should put a smile on your face. 00:07:21.339 --> 00:07:26.699 Hebrews 7 .25 Therefore He is also able if you 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:29.480 didn't think He was able enough He's also able 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.319 to save To the uttermost, those who come to God 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:37.360 through him. That word save in the Greek is save, 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:43.360 deliver, protect. And he does it entirely. Full 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.620 ended, all the way through. Okay? He's able to 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:52.560 save to the uttermost. And then back to Ephesians 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.180 3 .20. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly 00:07:56.180 --> 00:07:58.220 abundantly above all that we ask your thing, 00:07:58.339 --> 00:08:04.009 according to the power. that works in us. Who 00:08:04.009 --> 00:08:10.089 would like to see God's promises and God's blessings 00:08:10.089 --> 00:08:15.889 and who God is? Who would like to see that in 00:08:15.889 --> 00:08:18.649 a greater measure in 2024 than you've ever seen 00:08:18.649 --> 00:08:24.189 in your life? Who wants to? Now I've got a question. 00:08:25.990 --> 00:08:30.160 Is there anything that can limit what God is 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:37.639 able to do for us? Think about it. We're going 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.860 to look at the Word, okay? I'm not just coming 00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:43.100 up with an answer that's not based on what God's 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:46.720 Word says. But is there anything that can limit 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:51.399 us, can limit what God can do for us, what He's 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.700 able to do for us? Is there anything that can 00:08:53.700 --> 00:08:59.320 make us not experience? exceedingly abundantly 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:06.539 more in this upcoming year. Turn your attention 00:09:06.539 --> 00:09:09.779 to Mark chapter 6, verses 1 through 6. And yeah, 00:09:09.899 --> 00:09:13.580 we've read this before maybe a time or two in 00:09:13.580 --> 00:09:18.299 the last three years. Mark 6, starting with verse 00:09:18.299 --> 00:09:22.799 1. Then he, Jesus, everybody say Jesus, went 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.740 out from there and came to his own country. And 00:09:26.740 --> 00:09:31.019 his disciples followed him. And when the Sabbath 00:09:31.019 --> 00:09:34.299 had come, he began to teach in the synagogue. 00:09:35.419 --> 00:09:40.240 And many hearing him were astonished, saying, 00:09:40.460 --> 00:09:46.620 Now, this word saying, the Greek word saying, 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:55.409 is lego. Everybody say lego. Lego. Lego. That's 00:09:55.409 --> 00:10:00.970 not where Lego came from. Because it's not Greek 00:10:00.970 --> 00:10:05.669 origins in the word of Lego. But this particular 00:10:05.669 --> 00:10:10.250 word is Lego. So the people who heard Jesus in 00:10:10.250 --> 00:10:13.710 his own hometown teaching in the synagogue, they 00:10:13.710 --> 00:10:16.129 were astonished, but then they began saying something. 00:10:16.950 --> 00:10:21.250 What were they saying? Where did this man get 00:10:21.250 --> 00:10:25.870 these things? And what wisdom. is this which 00:10:25.870 --> 00:10:30.490 is given to him, that such mighty works are performed 00:10:30.490 --> 00:10:37.350 by his hands. Is this not the carpenter, the 00:10:37.350 --> 00:10:39.690 son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, 00:10:39.830 --> 00:10:43.830 Judas, and Simon? And are not his sisters here 00:10:43.830 --> 00:10:54.620 with us? So they were offended at him. Do you 00:10:54.620 --> 00:10:58.879 get the picture? Jesus came back to his own hometown. 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.779 He came back to the synagogue. And he stood up 00:11:01.779 --> 00:11:04.759 and he read the scriptures in the synagogue and 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:07.679 talked about that a little bit. And the people 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:10.759 there said, now wait a minute. We know this guy. 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:16.259 He's just a carpenter. All of his brothers and 00:11:16.259 --> 00:11:20.340 sisters, we know him. We're familiar with him. 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:25.070 And they're basically saying, Why does he think 00:11:25.070 --> 00:11:33.190 that he's such big stuff? Okay? I mean, he's 00:11:33.190 --> 00:11:37.830 just like the rest of us. They were offended 00:11:37.830 --> 00:11:43.830 at who Jesus was. And Jesus responded in verse 00:11:43.830 --> 00:11:46.409 4. It says, but Jesus said to them, a prophet 00:11:46.409 --> 00:11:51.809 is not without honor except in his own country. 00:11:52.939 --> 00:11:56.679 among his own relatives, and in his own house. 00:11:58.580 --> 00:12:00.740 Even his brothers tried to pull him back and 00:12:00.740 --> 00:12:05.120 say, you know, you're just our brother. They 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.860 tried to pull him back. James, his brother, who 00:12:08.860 --> 00:12:10.919 became the pastor of the church in Jerusalem, 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.759 didn't believe until after the resurrection. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.960 Didn't believe it. I mean, it was always his 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:25.350 fault. It was never Jesus' fault. Hello? How 00:12:25.350 --> 00:12:26.830 would you like to grow up with somebody who is 00:12:26.830 --> 00:12:32.730 actually perfect and never sinned? Would you 00:12:32.730 --> 00:12:39.190 be upset at them? All right? You never do anything 00:12:39.190 --> 00:12:45.230 wrong. I always get in trouble, right? So, listen 00:12:45.230 --> 00:12:50.370 to verse 5. It says, now he could do no mighty 00:12:50.370 --> 00:12:55.110 work there. Everybody say, what? I mean, he's 00:12:55.110 --> 00:13:02.509 Jesus. He's God. He's God and man. I mean, he's 00:13:02.509 --> 00:13:06.710 the God man. He's doing all these miracles. I 00:13:06.710 --> 00:13:09.990 mean, changing water into wine and healing people 00:13:09.990 --> 00:13:14.789 and delivering people and all those things. But 00:13:14.789 --> 00:13:18.870 it says he couldn't do it in his own hometown, 00:13:19.149 --> 00:13:22.169 except that he laid hands on a few sick people. 00:13:23.179 --> 00:13:29.200 And healed them. And Jesus marveled. He went, 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:35.059 wow. Everybody go, wow. Say it backwards. He 00:13:35.059 --> 00:13:44.440 marveled because of their unbelief. He marveled 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:48.320 because of their unbelief. How many of you believe 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.120 Jesus wanted to do more in his own hometown than 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:55.789 he was able to do? Right? So, something limited 00:13:55.789 --> 00:14:01.330 him from being able to do what he wanted to do. 00:14:02.669 --> 00:14:06.389 He wanted them to experience all the miracles 00:14:06.389 --> 00:14:08.549 that he was going to share with the rest of the 00:14:08.549 --> 00:14:11.570 region. He wanted them to experience it too. 00:14:11.629 --> 00:14:13.809 He wanted that to happen in his own hometown. 00:14:14.230 --> 00:14:17.610 But it could not happen. It says he could not 00:14:17.610 --> 00:14:22.480 do mighty work there. He wanted to. But he couldn't. 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.580 Because of two things. Everybody say two things. 00:14:30.419 --> 00:14:34.600 Unbelief. Everybody say unbelief. And Lego. Everybody 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:42.779 say Lego. He couldn't do it. And just like their 00:14:42.779 --> 00:14:46.340 unbelief and their Lego, what they were saying, 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.980 just like that, limited what Jesus could do in 00:14:50.980 --> 00:14:57.220 his own hometown, those same two things can limit 00:14:57.220 --> 00:15:01.320 you and me from seeing God's ability and what 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:06.519 God wants to do. Hello? How many of you believe 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:10.279 God probably wanted to do more in 2023 than he 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:17.309 was able to do in your life? How many of you 00:15:17.309 --> 00:15:21.009 believe He wants to do more? Exceedingly abundantly 00:15:21.009 --> 00:15:23.889 more than you can ask or think. I mean, is it 00:15:23.889 --> 00:15:29.190 in the Bible or not? Are you with me? Don't get 00:15:29.190 --> 00:15:31.269 offended like they did because I'm sharing the 00:15:31.269 --> 00:15:36.970 truth with you. Because I know this rubs all 00:15:36.970 --> 00:15:42.110 up against what some of us have been taught. 00:15:44.049 --> 00:15:47.490 I mean, it rubs hard. Can anybody agree with 00:15:47.490 --> 00:15:55.269 me? But unbelief and words can limit what God 00:15:55.269 --> 00:16:00.210 can do in your life. I'm going to look at two 00:16:00.210 --> 00:16:03.789 words that are translated say in our English 00:16:03.789 --> 00:16:06.509 Bibles. The first one is epo. Everybody say epo. 00:16:07.750 --> 00:16:10.289 That means to speak or say. That means you've 00:16:10.289 --> 00:16:16.000 got to get it out. You can't just think it. And 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.620 this is something that I deal with every day 00:16:18.620 --> 00:16:22.159 in my walk of faith. Because I think it a lot. 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.840 And I think Bible verses. And I think all these 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.899 things. But I never get it out of my mouth. It's 00:16:29.899 --> 00:16:33.360 important to say it. Look to the person beside 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:35.919 you and tell them it's important to say it. It's 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:39.559 important to speak it. Epo. To speak or say. 00:16:40.700 --> 00:16:46.009 Not just think it. But say it. Okay, the other 00:16:46.009 --> 00:16:50.850 word is lego. Everybody say lego. Lego is different 00:16:50.850 --> 00:16:54.529 even though it's translated say or saying in 00:16:54.529 --> 00:16:59.269 our English language. And it means to lay forth 00:16:59.269 --> 00:17:05.089 in words. But it also carries this with it. Words 00:17:05.089 --> 00:17:12.930 of systematic or set discourse. Systematic or 00:17:12.930 --> 00:17:18.569 set discourse. Instead of just speaking it out, 00:17:18.650 --> 00:17:21.849 it means that there's a systematic or set discourse. 00:17:21.970 --> 00:17:24.910 We're building something. We're establishing 00:17:24.910 --> 00:17:30.589 something with our words. Are you with me? Don't 00:17:30.589 --> 00:17:34.029 look like a calf looking at a new gate, even 00:17:34.029 --> 00:17:39.130 though this is a new gate. Okay? Lego, to lay 00:17:39.130 --> 00:17:41.789 forth in words of systematic or set discourse. 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.500 We're building and establishing something with 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:48.079 our words. We're not just saying it one time. 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.400 I mean, it's what we say on a regular basis, 00:17:51.500 --> 00:17:55.420 on a repeated basis, is showing what we believe, 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:02.759 actually. So when these people saw Jesus come 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.640 back to their hometown, they began to build or 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:12.920 establish that Jesus is not all that. He's just 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.799 one of us. His brothers are here. His sisters 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.779 are here. He's just a carpenter's son. Who does 00:18:19.779 --> 00:18:25.160 he think he is? So they established that with 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:29.440 their words. And because of their words, Jesus 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:37.000 said, well, wow. I wanted to do so much more, 00:18:37.059 --> 00:18:39.099 but I can't because of their unbelief. That's 00:18:39.099 --> 00:18:43.880 what Jesus said. Because of what they had established 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:49.299 or built with their words. Are you with me? Are 00:18:49.299 --> 00:18:52.559 you with me? Say amen or oh me or something. 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.099 I mean, because you probably know where I'm going. 00:18:57.660 --> 00:19:00.900 Let's take a look at another example that's different. 00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:05.140 Mark chapter 5, start over verse 25, says this. 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.559 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.279 years and had suffered many things. from many 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.740 physicians. She had spent all that she had, everybody 00:19:15.740 --> 00:19:23.079 say broke, busted, disgusted. She had spent all 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:26.799 that she had, and was no better, but was worse. 00:19:28.140 --> 00:19:36.099 12 years. When she heard about Jesus. Does anybody 00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:37.920 remember that verse? Faith comes by hearing, 00:19:37.940 --> 00:19:39.779 and hearing by the word of God. So she heard 00:19:39.779 --> 00:19:43.099 something. She heard that there was a man named 00:19:43.099 --> 00:19:47.380 Jesus. She heard that he was helping people and 00:19:47.380 --> 00:19:50.039 delivering people and healing people and doing 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.059 all these great things for all these people. 00:19:52.099 --> 00:19:56.480 She heard about Jesus. It says, when she heard 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.380 about Jesus, she came behind him in the crowd 00:19:59.380 --> 00:20:05.579 and touched his garment. For she said, everybody 00:20:05.579 --> 00:20:12.539 say Lego. She said, if only I may touch his clothes, 00:20:12.700 --> 00:20:20.740 I shall be made well. I've got a question. Did 00:20:20.740 --> 00:20:27.680 she say that one time? I think if she said it 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:29.660 one time, we'd have the word epo here instead 00:20:29.660 --> 00:20:35.309 of lego. The word lego tells us. That as soon 00:20:35.309 --> 00:20:39.369 as she heard about Jesus, she began establishing 00:20:39.369 --> 00:20:46.410 and building with her words. And she said, I've 00:20:46.410 --> 00:20:49.869 heard about Jesus. If I can get to him and if 00:20:49.869 --> 00:20:53.109 I can touch the hem of his garment, I'll be made 00:20:53.109 --> 00:20:58.789 well. I'll be healed if I can get to Jesus. I 00:20:58.789 --> 00:21:02.470 bet she said that all the time. That became her 00:21:02.470 --> 00:21:06.930 set. She's building that. She heard about Jesus. 00:21:07.009 --> 00:21:10.230 He's not in town yet. But she's like, oh, if 00:21:10.230 --> 00:21:13.549 I can touch his clothes. And you know why she 00:21:13.549 --> 00:21:15.289 said, if I can touch the hem of his garment, 00:21:15.369 --> 00:21:17.390 right? Because the Bible said when the Messiah 00:21:17.390 --> 00:21:20.829 comes, he will have healing in his wings. And 00:21:20.829 --> 00:21:26.289 that word wings is also translated the hem. So 00:21:26.289 --> 00:21:30.769 she believed in Jesus. She believed that he was 00:21:30.769 --> 00:21:33.410 the Messiah. She believed. that he had healing 00:21:33.410 --> 00:21:38.329 even in the hems of his garment. And she began 00:21:38.329 --> 00:21:42.170 to say, everybody say believe. Everybody say 00:21:42.170 --> 00:21:45.529 say. Now, I'm going to tell you what she didn't 00:21:45.529 --> 00:21:50.569 say. I don't know if this will work or not. I 00:21:50.569 --> 00:21:54.490 doubt it. I've had this for 12 years. I'm going 00:21:54.490 --> 00:21:59.109 to give Jesus a chance. I'm going to try. I'm 00:21:59.109 --> 00:22:01.390 just going to try. I don't know if it will work 00:22:01.390 --> 00:22:04.799 or not. But I'm going to try it because, you 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.839 know, the guy at church last Sunday down at the 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:09.799 synagogue, he said, you know, well, if you say 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:12.740 it and believe it, then I'm going to try it. 00:22:12.740 --> 00:22:15.980 I'm just going to give it a shot. Probably won't 00:22:15.980 --> 00:22:19.440 work because I've been dealing with this for 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:26.000 12 years. It's really who I am. You know, everybody 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.180 in town knows who I am. Everybody knows I got 00:22:29.180 --> 00:22:32.670 this condition. Everybody knows I have this trouble. 00:22:33.190 --> 00:22:35.630 You know what? It probably won't work, but I'll 00:22:35.630 --> 00:22:47.569 give it a shot. She did not say that. Come on. 00:22:50.930 --> 00:22:54.410 Her systematic discourse. She's building a case. 00:22:55.150 --> 00:22:59.099 And over and over and over again. Not wavering, 00:22:59.099 --> 00:23:03.380 not doubting, she's saying, if only I may touch 00:23:03.380 --> 00:23:07.559 his clothes, I shall be made well. If I touch 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:08.980 the hem of his garment, I'm going to be healed. 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:11.579 It's going to happen. This is what's going to 00:23:11.579 --> 00:23:14.099 happen to me. I'm going to touch the hem of his 00:23:14.099 --> 00:23:20.200 garment, and I'm going to be made well. It was 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:26.339 her Lego. Immediately. The fountain of her blood 00:23:26.339 --> 00:23:28.700 was dried up. She felt in her body that she was 00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:33.480 healed of the affliction. And Jesus immediately, 00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:38.559 knowing in himself that power had gone out of 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:42.000 him, turned around in the crowd and said, Who 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:48.700 touched me? Who was it? Who touched me? But his 00:23:48.700 --> 00:23:53.839 disciples said to him, Jesus. There's people 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:57.059 all over the place. Everybody's bumping into 00:23:57.059 --> 00:23:59.039 everybody because everybody wants to be close 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.779 to you. And you see the multitude thronging and 00:24:02.779 --> 00:24:08.259 you're going to ask who touched you? 20 people 00:24:08.259 --> 00:24:12.059 have touched you in the last 30 seconds. What 00:24:12.059 --> 00:24:17.779 do you mean who touched you? Jesus was talking 00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:24.779 about a different touch. A bunch of people touched 00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:28.619 him. But only one reached out and touched him 00:24:28.619 --> 00:24:35.420 in faith. He looked around to see. And you know 00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:37.259 what? I believe Jesus could see it on her face. 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:42.759 He looked around to see her who had done this 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:44.900 thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:47.420 knowing what had happened to her, came and fell 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:49.839 down before him and told him the whole truth. 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:54.900 What was the truth? I heard about you, Jesus. 00:24:56.200 --> 00:25:01.619 And I knew if I could touch your clothes, I'd 00:25:01.619 --> 00:25:06.319 be made whole. I knew it. That was the whole 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:11.579 truth. And he said to her, whoo, I felt that 00:25:11.579 --> 00:25:14.740 power come out of me. Can't nobody do you like 00:25:14.740 --> 00:25:18.900 Jesus. Y 'all heard that song? Is that what he 00:25:18.900 --> 00:25:25.529 said? Y 'all ain't never heard that song? Can't 00:25:25.529 --> 00:25:30.390 nobody do me like Jesus. Nobody's heard that 00:25:30.390 --> 00:25:36.269 one? All right. That's not what he said. Power. 00:25:37.930 --> 00:25:42.769 You know, aren't you glad I was here today? With 00:25:42.769 --> 00:25:48.970 all my power. That's not what he said. Jesus 00:25:48.970 --> 00:25:53.390 said to her, daughter, your faith, has made you 00:25:53.390 --> 00:25:59.009 well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction. 00:26:03.930 --> 00:26:08.049 So, in this story, we see a combination of two 00:26:08.049 --> 00:26:14.009 things, right? Hello? Is anybody with me? Do 00:26:14.009 --> 00:26:17.809 you see a combination of two things? Actually, 00:26:17.829 --> 00:26:23.740 a combination of three things. We have her words. 00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:31.359 We have her faith. We know she had faith because 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:36.579 she acted on what she believed. And we have the 00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:42.000 ability and the power of God. We have all three 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.859 of those things, right? Are you with me? Come 00:26:44.859 --> 00:26:47.480 on, somebody. I know you're trying to figure 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:53.259 it out. But that's what we have. See, here's 00:26:53.259 --> 00:26:56.180 the deal. It was not all up to Jesus whether 00:26:56.180 --> 00:27:03.960 she got healed or not. It wasn't. But it wasn't 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:09.299 all up to her either. It wasn't all up to Jesus. 00:27:09.380 --> 00:27:13.019 Some people live their whole life, and I can't 00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:16.000 tell you how many years I lived my life saying, 00:27:16.099 --> 00:27:18.640 you know, it's just up to God whether good or 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:21.339 bad is going to happen to me. It's all coming 00:27:21.339 --> 00:27:24.099 from God. It's tragedy and it's stuff and it's 00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:26.980 loss and all this. I mean, it's just all coming 00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:29.420 from God because God's in control and it's all 00:27:29.420 --> 00:27:33.660 Him. I'm just a little puppet living through 00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:38.680 this life and it's all up to God. If God wants 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:40.880 to heal me, He can heal me. If He don't, He won't. 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:44.319 If God wants to provide for me, He'll provide 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.740 for me. But if He don't, He won't. It's just 00:27:47.740 --> 00:27:51.720 all up to God. Has anybody lived a day of their 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:54.240 life thinking that? It's just all up to God. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.180 I tell you, if you'll take hold of this truth 00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:10.059 today, it'll change your life. It wasn't all 00:28:10.059 --> 00:28:13.799 up to God. But that doesn't mean that it's all 00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:17.440 up to me and it's all up to you, right? It's 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:24.819 not up to us either. It's not all up to us. But 00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:30.140 we play a part in it. We play a part. Mark 11, 00:28:30.299 --> 00:28:32.759 22 says, So Jesus answered and said to them, 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:35.319 Have faith in God. And I know I've talked about 00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:37.779 this story before, but it just all came together 00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:41.819 in these words, all working out together. I had 00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:46.990 no idea until I began to study. These words are 00:28:46.990 --> 00:28:50.890 connected through these stories. Because I never 00:28:50.890 --> 00:28:55.730 looked it up. So Jesus answered and said to them. 00:28:57.690 --> 00:29:01.910 Now he had just went to get figs off of a fig 00:29:01.910 --> 00:29:07.130 tree. And when he got there, no figs. The tree 00:29:07.130 --> 00:29:09.630 was advertising. Everybody say advertising. The 00:29:09.630 --> 00:29:13.380 tree was advertising that it had figs. By the 00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:15.880 look of it, by the leaves, all this stuff. I 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.019 mean, Jesus thought there would be figs on this 00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:21.380 tree. And when he got there, he found out that 00:29:21.380 --> 00:29:25.099 the tree was false advertising. There were no 00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:29.240 figs on the tree. So he said, you know what? 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:32.940 Because of your false advertising, nobody will 00:29:32.940 --> 00:29:36.539 ever eat a fig off you again. You're done as 00:29:36.539 --> 00:29:40.470 a fig tree. And then the next morning, Jesus 00:29:40.470 --> 00:29:42.869 and his disciples were walking by. They saw the 00:29:42.869 --> 00:29:48.450 fig tree. They said, what? The leaves are falling 00:29:48.450 --> 00:29:54.670 off of it and wrinkled and dying. I mean, isn't 00:29:54.670 --> 00:29:58.269 this the tree that you talked to last night? 00:30:00.210 --> 00:30:08.650 And they were going, wow. Wow. His words are 00:30:08.650 --> 00:30:19.910 powerful. His words are powerful. As a matter 00:30:19.910 --> 00:30:25.390 of fact, when you look at Jesus, we don't see 00:30:25.390 --> 00:30:28.009 that people said, oh, he was handsome or had, 00:30:28.109 --> 00:30:31.690 you know, just penetrating eyes or anything like 00:30:31.690 --> 00:30:34.930 that. I mean, it doesn't say he had the best 00:30:34.930 --> 00:30:38.720 robe or the best sandals. People don't talk about 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.099 his Gucci robe or his whatever kind of shoes 00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:51.000 are very expensive. People said, when he talks, 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:55.160 something's different about the way he talks 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:59.180 than anybody else I've ever seen before. There's 00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:08.059 authority in what he says. They were asking Jesus 00:31:08.059 --> 00:31:11.900 all the time, Jesus, we see your faith in action. 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.519 We need faith. We need more faith. How does this 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:22.640 work, Jesus? And Jesus said, have faith in God. 00:31:24.220 --> 00:31:30.400 Everybody say, have faith in God. See, it's not 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:36.670 all up to you, and it's not all up to God. We're 00:31:36.670 --> 00:31:40.690 to have faith in God. Then he said this, for 00:31:40.690 --> 00:31:47.869 surely I say, Lego. Everybody say Lego. Because 00:31:47.869 --> 00:31:50.329 Jesus is establishing something. He's building 00:31:50.329 --> 00:31:52.470 something. And this probably isn't the first 00:31:52.470 --> 00:31:58.349 time he's ever said anything like this. But this 00:31:58.349 --> 00:32:03.410 is his systematic discourse. He says, here it 00:32:03.410 --> 00:32:06.819 is. I'm going to build something for you about 00:32:06.819 --> 00:32:11.900 faith. I'm building this. I'm establishing this 00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:16.559 about faith for you. And then he says, whoever 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:21.000 says epo, that means you got to say it with your 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.000 mouth, right? Not just thinking it in your head. 00:32:23.059 --> 00:32:25.500 You got to say it with your mouth. To this mountain. 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:35.789 Now, wait a minute. Can mountains hear? Can things 00:32:35.789 --> 00:32:39.890 that look really big in your life that are keeping 00:32:39.890 --> 00:32:45.849 you from God's promises or what God wants for 00:32:45.849 --> 00:32:51.029 you and has for you, can mountains hear? Some 00:32:51.029 --> 00:32:53.630 people are shaking their head no. Yes. What Jesus 00:32:53.630 --> 00:32:58.170 said to say to the mountain. Now, if Jesus tells 00:32:58.170 --> 00:33:00.529 you to say to the mountain, then mountains can 00:33:00.529 --> 00:33:05.359 hear. Can storms hear the storms of life that 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:09.980 you face? Can storms hear? Well, Jesus was out 00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:13.339 on the sea one night and a bad storm came up. 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.099 And He spoke. The Bible doesn't say He waved 00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:19.319 His hand or anything like that. He just said, 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:26.299 Peace, be still. So storms can hear. Can plants 00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:31.059 hear? They say if you talk real sweet to your 00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:36.019 plants in your house, they'll grow better. I've 00:33:36.019 --> 00:33:38.519 done research on this. You've got multiple plants. 00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:42.019 You scream at one plant. You talk nice to the 00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:44.039 other plant. The plants that you talk nice to 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:48.960 will grow better. Scientific studies. If you 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:52.420 don't believe it, do it at your own house. Okay? 00:33:53.380 --> 00:34:00.599 So plants here. Can fevers here? Well, Jesus 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:05.220 spoke to a fever, the Bible says, and the fever 00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:11.519 went away. So we may feel foolish or crazy speaking 00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:20.099 to inanimate things or to situations. See, this 00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:22.719 always gets me. Sometimes I think about what 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:26.039 God's Word says, I think about His promise, and 00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:28.260 then all of a sudden I'll have to tell myself, 00:34:28.969 --> 00:34:35.150 Don't just think it, say it. I've done that this 00:34:35.150 --> 00:34:38.190 week. I mean, I'm up here preaching this today, 00:34:38.269 --> 00:34:40.070 but I've done that this week where I've said, 00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:43.170 no, I don't need to just think it, I need to 00:34:43.170 --> 00:34:48.510 say it. Y 'all are looking at me way too intense. 00:34:50.989 --> 00:34:54.969 We gotta say it. Whoever says to this mountain, 00:34:55.050 --> 00:34:58.019 be removed and cast into the sea. Why didn't 00:34:58.019 --> 00:35:01.199 Jesus just say, move over just a little bit, 00:35:01.260 --> 00:35:04.960 just get out of my way so that I can get to what 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:10.559 God has for me? Why didn't he say, move over, 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:15.500 instead of moved and be cast into the sea? Here's 00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:20.039 a thought. The sea is the only thing big enough 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:24.900 to take a mountain and to make it look like it 00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:31.659 never existed. Hello? You put a mountain in the 00:35:31.659 --> 00:35:35.420 sea, it just dissolves all in there, and there's 00:35:35.420 --> 00:35:41.400 no trace that it ever existed. How many of you 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:44.420 have some mountains in your life? Not like dirt 00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:46.860 mountains, but things that are in your life that 00:35:46.860 --> 00:35:49.820 look like it's impossible to scale in front of 00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:51.940 you, and it's keeping you from what you feel 00:35:51.940 --> 00:35:54.559 like God wants as your future. And how many of 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:57.730 you would say, I sure would have liked that moved 00:35:57.730 --> 00:36:07.849 out of the way. Have you spoke to it? Because 00:36:07.849 --> 00:36:11.690 I believe that it can be removed and cast into 00:36:11.690 --> 00:36:13.570 the sea and there will be no evidence that it 00:36:13.570 --> 00:36:17.030 ever existed in your life. Jesus said that. And 00:36:17.030 --> 00:36:22.309 he says, and does not doubt in his heart. Everybody 00:36:22.309 --> 00:36:29.550 say waver. Waver. Has anybody ever wavered a 00:36:29.550 --> 00:36:33.369 little bit? I mean, you know, we're here at church, 00:36:33.690 --> 00:36:35.769 man. It's time to start speaking to those mountains. 00:36:35.809 --> 00:36:37.409 We're going to speak to them all the way. And 00:36:37.409 --> 00:36:41.070 then tomorrow morning, we're going to say, well, 00:36:41.250 --> 00:36:43.210 yesterday I was living by faith, but today I'm 00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:45.030 going to live by sight, and the mountain's still 00:36:45.030 --> 00:36:49.809 there. And I don't know if any, I don't know, 00:36:49.909 --> 00:36:56.010 you know, this don't work. This ain't going to 00:36:56.010 --> 00:37:08.000 work. That's wavering. The Bible says when we 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.420 waver like that, when we're back and forth on 00:37:10.420 --> 00:37:13.940 what God said and on our feelings or on our sight, 00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:16.539 if we just move back and forth and back and forth 00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:19.780 and back and forth and we waver, it's like we're 00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:22.679 tossed by the waves of the sea, the Bible says. 00:37:23.099 --> 00:37:26.559 And it says, don't let that person think that 00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:31.320 they're going to receive anything from God. I 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:35.340 didn't say it. I mean, if it's up to me, I'd 00:37:35.340 --> 00:37:37.659 say, you know, if you get it right 60 % of the 00:37:37.659 --> 00:37:44.039 time. But God said, if we just waver back and 00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:49.699 forth, don't expect to receive anything. Listen, 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.119 does not doubt in his heart, but believes that 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.619 those things he says, everybody say Lego, we 00:37:55.619 --> 00:37:57.300 just talked about Epo, now we're talking about 00:37:57.300 --> 00:38:05.070 Lego again. the systematic discourse of your 00:38:05.070 --> 00:38:11.650 words that you are laying forth, if you believe 00:38:11.650 --> 00:38:14.130 that those things you say will be done, Jesus 00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:18.650 said he will have whatsoever or whatever he says. 00:38:20.250 --> 00:38:23.250 He will have whatever he says. That's epo again. 00:38:24.409 --> 00:38:28.590 Whatever he says out of his mouth, if he says 00:38:28.590 --> 00:38:31.579 it, hey, if I touch the hem of his garment, I'm 00:38:31.579 --> 00:38:33.940 going to be whole. If I touch Jesus' clothes, 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.619 I'm going to be healed. I've heard that Jesus 00:38:37.619 --> 00:38:39.920 is healing people. I know He's not a respecter 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.179 of persons. I believe He's the Messiah. And I 00:38:42.179 --> 00:38:44.039 believe if I touch Him, I'm going to be healed. 00:38:47.659 --> 00:38:56.860 As we build with our words. Here's a question. 00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:00.300 What is your Lego? What is your systematic discourse 00:39:00.300 --> 00:39:05.769 of words? Over your life. What are you saying? 00:39:08.250 --> 00:39:13.050 What are you saying over yourself? Over your 00:39:13.050 --> 00:39:16.389 business? Over your family? What are you saying? 00:39:16.510 --> 00:39:24.230 What are you building? I've heard these sayings 00:39:24.230 --> 00:39:27.469 a lot. Seems like every time I get a step ahead, 00:39:27.590 --> 00:39:30.489 I take two steps backwards. Has anybody ever 00:39:30.489 --> 00:39:35.719 heard that? Has anybody ever said that? Has anybody 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:38.380 ever said, I always make the wrong decision? 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.460 You know? When it comes to getting in line to 00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:49.300 check out, I'm thinking I'm getting in the right 00:39:49.300 --> 00:39:51.880 line, but I always get in the slowest line in 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:56.099 the store. I always make the wrong decision. 00:39:58.539 --> 00:40:03.909 Is that what you want? Every time you get a step 00:40:03.909 --> 00:40:05.809 ahead, do you take two steps backwards? Is that 00:40:05.809 --> 00:40:08.789 what you want? Come on, somebody. Is that what 00:40:08.789 --> 00:40:14.510 you want? Well, by your systematic discourse, 00:40:14.789 --> 00:40:24.590 that's what you're building. Anybody used to 00:40:24.590 --> 00:40:32.750 watch Hee Haw? Come on. Only a few. You've seen 00:40:32.750 --> 00:40:37.230 reruns of it. I used to watch Hee Haw, Lawrence 00:40:37.230 --> 00:40:42.630 Welk. I mean, all those. But there was a song 00:40:42.630 --> 00:40:45.570 on Hee Haw. Every week they would sing it. If 00:40:45.570 --> 00:40:48.389 it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at 00:40:48.389 --> 00:40:54.329 all. Doom, despair, and agony on me. That was 00:40:54.329 --> 00:40:59.400 their song. Has anybody ever thought, if it wasn't 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:01.139 for bad luck, I wouldn't even have any luck? 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.039 I mean, it just seems like nothing turns out 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.219 right. Nothing ever works out for me. And this 00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:10.079 time of year, I hear people say it all the time, 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:12.099 if anyone's going to catch a flu, it's going 00:41:12.099 --> 00:41:15.840 to be me. You know, I get the flu about every 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:17.599 time this year. If anybody's going to catch it, 00:41:17.619 --> 00:41:23.440 I'm going to catch it. Is that your systematic 00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.070 discourse? Are you laying a foundation for what 00:41:27.070 --> 00:41:35.409 you want? Everybody say Lego. Lego. Now when 00:41:35.409 --> 00:41:37.030 Jeffrey was little, and when I was little, I 00:41:37.030 --> 00:41:40.750 got Legos, right? And they just came in a box. 00:41:41.969 --> 00:41:45.230 Just a bunch of different colored bright Legos. 00:41:46.469 --> 00:41:50.849 You know? I can't tell you how many little just 00:41:50.849 --> 00:41:56.510 towers I built. I didn't have any instructions. 00:41:58.130 --> 00:42:00.349 So I just went with my own imagination and I 00:42:00.349 --> 00:42:03.030 would build a tower and I'd try to build a little 00:42:03.030 --> 00:42:05.789 house. And you know what? It always looked terrible. 00:42:07.610 --> 00:42:13.210 Is anybody with me? Because Jeffrey did it. I 00:42:13.210 --> 00:42:15.530 did it. I mean, you know, just a bunch of blocks 00:42:15.530 --> 00:42:18.489 in a box. So you just, ooh, let's see how high 00:42:18.489 --> 00:42:20.869 I can build it and it'll stand up. It was always 00:42:20.869 --> 00:42:27.210 ugly. It wasn't. I didn't create anything that 00:42:27.210 --> 00:42:36.829 I was proud of. But I never got one of these. 00:42:38.550 --> 00:42:42.269 I never got a box from the person who made the 00:42:42.269 --> 00:42:46.570 Legos, from the people who made Legos. I think 00:42:46.570 --> 00:42:48.389 I'm too old. I'm not sure that there were even 00:42:48.389 --> 00:42:50.329 boxes when we were young, Mark. I don't know. 00:42:51.030 --> 00:42:56.579 It was just a container of Legos. Now we got 00:42:56.579 --> 00:43:00.619 stores and theme parks and all kind of stuff 00:43:00.619 --> 00:43:04.119 that are all just about Legos. And now you can 00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:07.659 go to the store and you can say, wow, that's 00:43:07.659 --> 00:43:12.599 nice. A Fast and Furious car. Now when you open 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:14.980 it up, it just has some little plastic bags in 00:43:14.980 --> 00:43:16.780 there that are filled with different colored 00:43:16.780 --> 00:43:19.179 Legos and different sizes and different things. 00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:25.849 But here's the cool thing. In the box, The people 00:43:25.849 --> 00:43:33.329 who made the Legos give you step -by -step, systematic, 00:43:33.489 --> 00:43:37.050 everybody say systematic, they give you systematic 00:43:37.050 --> 00:43:41.789 instructions to find certain pieces and begin 00:43:41.789 --> 00:43:48.150 putting those pieces together. And if you follow 00:43:48.150 --> 00:43:52.690 the people who made the Legos, if you follow... 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.460 What they tell you in your systematic building 00:43:57.460 --> 00:44:04.260 of Legos, you'll come out with something really 00:44:04.260 --> 00:44:24.980 nice. A person who made you has given you promises, 00:44:24.980 --> 00:44:30.280 and relationship information in order for your 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:36.079 life to be something beautiful in the eyes of 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:42.420 God and in the eyes of everyone else. But for 00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:44.659 most of us, all of our lives, we just opened 00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:47.440 up the big bucket full of Legos and just been 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:51.139 going after it in our systematic discourse of 00:44:51.139 --> 00:44:57.409 what we've been saying. And then we're just hit 00:44:57.409 --> 00:45:07.789 or miss. We're just hit or miss. But God shows 00:45:07.789 --> 00:45:15.409 us how to use our words and our faith to combine 00:45:15.409 --> 00:45:21.869 with his ability and his power so their lives 00:45:21.869 --> 00:45:25.110 can be... A lot better than they've been before 00:45:25.110 --> 00:45:31.590 now. There are promises in the Word of God pertaining 00:45:31.590 --> 00:45:35.110 to every aspect of your life. Everything that 00:45:35.110 --> 00:45:37.670 you deal with on a day -to -day basis, there 00:45:37.670 --> 00:45:41.070 are promises and blessings and provisions in 00:45:41.070 --> 00:45:44.050 the Word of God for everything you face. You 00:45:44.050 --> 00:45:46.809 might say, no, there's not. Well, you got to 00:45:46.809 --> 00:45:55.280 dig it out. And listen. I try to spoon feed as 00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:59.460 much as I can, but me just spoon feeding it isn't 00:45:59.460 --> 00:46:00.940 going to help you. You're going to have to be 00:46:00.940 --> 00:46:06.679 desperate and dig it out for yourself. You got 00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.940 to dig it out. Because I don't know what you're 00:46:09.940 --> 00:46:11.800 facing and what you're dealing with and how, 00:46:11.940 --> 00:46:14.840 I mean, I can help you if you want me to help 00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:17.639 you. I can do some research and try to help you, 00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:19.940 but you're not going to get it the easy way. 00:46:22.889 --> 00:46:26.250 Because it's going to have to be you. See, you 00:46:26.250 --> 00:46:29.550 can't say, hey, Dean, here's about 40 things, 00:46:29.670 --> 00:46:32.590 here's about 40 Bible verses that I want you 00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:35.670 to speak over me and over my family and over 00:46:35.670 --> 00:46:38.670 my business. I want you to do that every day. 00:46:39.170 --> 00:46:42.230 And I'll give you 20 bucks a day if you say these 00:46:42.230 --> 00:46:49.369 40 things every day for me. You know what's going 00:46:49.369 --> 00:46:53.409 to happen? I'm going to have you 20 bucks every 00:46:53.409 --> 00:46:55.550 day and I'm going to have all those promises 00:46:55.550 --> 00:46:57.309 or blessings because I'm the one who said them. 00:47:01.750 --> 00:47:05.090 Most people want to go to the gym starting January 00:47:05.090 --> 00:47:07.369 1st. I mean, it's the same thing if you say, 00:47:07.429 --> 00:47:10.030 hey Dean, I'll give you $20 a day to go to the 00:47:10.030 --> 00:47:14.989 gym and work out for me. Who's going to benefit? 00:47:16.809 --> 00:47:22.460 I would benefit. You can't pass it off on someone 00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:27.900 else. There are promises in the Word of God pertaining 00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:31.460 to every aspect of your life. Instead of saying 00:47:31.460 --> 00:47:33.500 those other things, I just picked out a couple 00:47:33.500 --> 00:47:39.059 of Bible verses and put them as me using Lego 00:47:39.059 --> 00:47:41.960 to build a foundation in my life. I have favor 00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:50.739 with man and God. I have favor. The Bible says 00:47:50.739 --> 00:47:53.960 we have favor with man and God, or God and man. 00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.579 Have you ever said that? Have you ever, when 00:47:59.579 --> 00:48:02.380 you went to a meeting or went to talk to someone, 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:12.820 I have favor. The Bible says everything I put 00:48:12.820 --> 00:48:16.579 my hand to prospers. Look it up. Google it. Find 00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:21.300 the verse. Everything I put my hand to prospers. 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.519 Then you've memorized this one. I can do all 00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:27.900 things through Christ, and it's actually in Christ 00:48:27.900 --> 00:48:31.519 when you look it up. I can do all things in Christ 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:39.199 because he empowers me to do all things. Do you 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:41.920 ever say that? Is that your systematic discourse 00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:52.320 over your life? Listen, it needs to be. If somebody 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:54.900 in your family begins to say something and it's 00:48:54.900 --> 00:48:57.719 like, I know that's not what God says about you, 00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:00.840 I want you to tell them this. I want you to say, 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.480 is that what you want? Is that what you want? 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.780 Is that your systematic discourse? Is that what 00:49:10.780 --> 00:49:13.599 you want? What you just said, is that what you 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:22.539 want? Through our faith, in our words our systematic 00:49:22.539 --> 00:49:26.920 discourse I believe we will see more promises 00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:30.119 more of God's promises manifest in our life in 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.579 2024 than we've ever had before and just like 00:49:34.579 --> 00:49:38.659 you agreed with me when I said do you think Jesus 00:49:38.659 --> 00:49:40.960 wanted to do more for those people in his own 00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:43.699 hometown and almost everybody said yeah I believe 00:49:43.699 --> 00:49:46.980 he did by what he said I believe God wanted to 00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:51.440 do more in your life Than you experienced last 00:49:51.440 --> 00:50:00.719 year. Because just like me. Through our words. 00:50:01.460 --> 00:50:06.920 And our faith. We limited. What he could do. 00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:14.480 Now to him who is able. To do exceedingly abundantly 00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:18.170 above all that we ask or think. According. to 00:50:18.170 --> 00:50:20.929 the power that works in us. By adding your faith 00:50:20.929 --> 00:50:24.610 and your systematic discourse words to God's 00:50:24.610 --> 00:50:31.210 ability and to God's promises. I'm going to be 00:50:31.210 --> 00:50:36.210 careful what I say over our church. I'm going 00:50:36.210 --> 00:50:40.130 to be careful what I say over everybody who comes. 00:50:41.849 --> 00:50:45.309 Because I want to add my faith and my words based 00:50:45.309 --> 00:50:49.239 on what God's promises are. I want to add my 00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:52.980 faith and my words to his ability and his promises 00:50:52.980 --> 00:51:01.199 so that I can experience exceedingly abundantly 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:12.949 more in 2024. I know this is heavy. Because we 00:51:12.949 --> 00:51:14.789 just want it all to be up to God and we don't 00:51:14.789 --> 00:51:17.050 want to take any personal responsibility. It's 00:51:17.050 --> 00:51:21.750 always got to be somebody else's fault. Is anybody 00:51:21.750 --> 00:51:24.210 with me? We live in a world where it's got to 00:51:24.210 --> 00:51:29.929 be somebody else's fault. We've got to take responsibility. 00:51:31.230 --> 00:51:36.250 Get our words in agreement with what God says 00:51:36.250 --> 00:51:42.480 and not waver. Not live by what we see. by what 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:47.000 we think, by what we feel, but live by the truth. 00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:53.000 Let's pray together. God, I thank you. Thank 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:59.860 you for your word. I pray that it'll be planted 00:51:59.860 --> 00:52:06.800 in our hearts. I pray that it'll find good soil 00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:15.139 in every single person's heart. Not just one 00:52:15.139 --> 00:52:19.820 or two, but everybody. Pray that your word would 00:52:19.820 --> 00:52:22.880 find good soil and that it will grow and it will 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:31.500 produce a harvest as we act on your truth. In 00:52:31.500 --> 00:52:35.659 Jesus' name I pray, amen. This online worship 00:52:35.659 --> 00:52:38.179 experience was brought to you by the friends 00:52:38.179 --> 00:52:39.820 and partners of Elation Church.