WEBVTT 00:00:01.260 --> 00:00:04.219 Sharing good news of great joy to all people. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:09.580 Elation Church. Today's week number five. Everybody 00:00:09.580 --> 00:00:13.500 say week number five. In our series that we've 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:17.039 entitled, You Can Hear God. Look to the person 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:18.679 beside you or behind you or in front of you and 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.719 say, You can hear God. You can hear God. You 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:24.760 can hear God. As a matter of fact, we learned 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.559 this in week number one. If you are a Christian, 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.059 you have heard God. You might say, Like a lot 00:00:31.059 --> 00:00:32.880 of people tell us, you know, that's just not 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.460 my relationship with God. I don't hear God. That's 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:37.759 not my experience. Well, if you're a Christian, 00:00:37.859 --> 00:00:44.020 you have heard God. You have heard God. So, this 00:00:44.020 --> 00:00:46.859 week, we're going to take another direction. 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:49.119 We're going to talk about the inward witness. 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.119 Everybody say the inward witness. Last week, 00:00:53.179 --> 00:00:57.200 if you were not here, I encourage you. to go 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.439 to podcast, anywhere you listen to podcasts, 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.299 and look up Galatian Church, because last week 00:01:02.299 --> 00:01:04.280 we talked about hearing God through Scripture, 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:07.840 hearing God through His Word, and that's one 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.560 of the most important ones. All right? So, if 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:14.219 you haven't heard that one, you need to hear 00:01:14.219 --> 00:01:15.659 it. As a matter of fact, just go ahead and listen 00:01:15.659 --> 00:01:19.000 to all four of them, if you haven't been here 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.500 for this series. It won't take too long. You 00:01:22.500 --> 00:01:26.390 can hear God. Romans 8, 14 says this. For all 00:01:26.390 --> 00:01:30.469 who are led by the Spirit of God are children 00:01:30.469 --> 00:01:35.569 of God. All who are led by the Spirit of God 00:01:35.569 --> 00:01:40.269 are children of God. So how do you follow? How 00:01:40.269 --> 00:01:44.129 do you follow the Holy Spirit's leading? How 00:01:44.129 --> 00:01:48.689 do you follow any leading? Well, you've got to 00:01:48.689 --> 00:01:53.370 know, right? You've got to hear the directions. 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:58.560 Before you can follow. A characteristic of being 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.340 a Christian is that you're led. That means you 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:06.840 hear and follow. It's not just hearing. It's 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.460 also following. Because if you just hear and 00:02:10.460 --> 00:02:13.819 don't follow, then you're not led. Somebody smile. 00:02:14.139 --> 00:02:19.199 This isn't that hard. This is easy. So a characteristic. 00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:22.219 One of the big characteristics of being a Christian 00:02:22.219 --> 00:02:25.210 is. that you hear and follow the Spirit of God. 00:02:28.650 --> 00:02:32.650 Not just show up to church every week. Rub a 00:02:32.650 --> 00:02:38.750 little Jesus on you every week. Coming to church 00:02:38.750 --> 00:02:40.330 and thinking that that makes you a Christian 00:02:40.330 --> 00:02:43.069 is just like standing in your garage all week 00:02:43.069 --> 00:02:46.409 and thinking that you're a car. That's not original, 00:02:46.590 --> 00:02:50.009 but that's... You could even make car noises 00:02:50.009 --> 00:02:56.960 with your mouth. You still won't be a car. So 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:58.620 you can come to church and you can make noises 00:02:58.620 --> 00:02:59.879 with your mouth. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:05.800 And still not be a Christian. My car noises were 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:09.900 pretty good. Is that what you said? I can't sound 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:11.719 like one of them little Hondas with a motorcycle 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:16.900 muffler on it that goes down there. Anyway. I 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:19.280 can't. That wasn't as good as the other one. 00:03:19.939 --> 00:03:26.719 Wasn't as good as the other one. Put that with 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:28.419 my dancing from last week. Is that what you said? 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:44.240 Oh, man. People online are wondering what in 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.500 the world is going on. Because they can't hear 00:03:46.500 --> 00:03:50.000 you. All they can do is hear me. Come to church. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.180 Come to church. If you want to know what's really 00:03:53.180 --> 00:03:55.360 going on at Elysian Church, come to Elysian Church. 00:03:55.979 --> 00:03:57.840 Because there's a lot more going on than what 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.719 you see through this camera, I promise. So here's 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.819 my question today. What do you do when you don't 00:04:04.819 --> 00:04:07.719 hear words? We said that faith comes by hearing 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.139 and hearing by the Word of God. That means that 00:04:10.139 --> 00:04:14.000 we hear the anointed utterance of God, the anointed 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.800 voice of God when you look at those words. So 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:26.839 what do you do when you don't hear words? Because 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.860 let's be honest. We don't just walk around and 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:34.759 hear words, right? We don't always walk around 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:36.879 with our Bible open saying, God, speak to me, 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.259 speak to me, and then all of a sudden He causes 00:04:39.259 --> 00:04:41.720 a word to come alive in your heart. And that's 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.899 not the way we live our lives a moment -by -moment 00:04:45.899 --> 00:04:51.420 basis. Now, we need to hear Him. We need to hear 00:04:51.420 --> 00:04:54.279 Him. But like we talked about, I believe, in 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.540 week number... Three, there's a lot of ways that 00:04:57.540 --> 00:05:01.420 He speaks to us. A lot of ways, a lot of different 00:05:01.420 --> 00:05:06.279 ways. And today, we're talking about Him speaking 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:10.980 to us. We're not hearing words, but He speaks 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:14.879 to us through an inner witness so many times. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:20.160 And we have to be aware of that in order to hear 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:26.720 Him. Some of you are looking at me funny. But 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.180 when He speaks to us through an inner witness, 00:05:29.300 --> 00:05:31.519 when the Holy Spirit speaks to us through an 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.339 inner witness, we have to acknowledge that He 00:05:34.339 --> 00:05:37.980 is speaking so that we can know how to follow 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:42.459 Him. Because those who are led by the Spirit 00:05:42.459 --> 00:05:46.180 of God are the children of God. So it's important 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:50.819 that we are hearing and following. What if you 00:05:50.819 --> 00:05:52.379 don't hear words? What if you don't hear those 00:05:52.379 --> 00:05:56.100 anointed utterances? directly concerning the 00:05:56.100 --> 00:06:01.300 life issues that you're facing today. I'm telling 00:06:01.300 --> 00:06:07.180 you, God is speaking. God is speaking about everything. 00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:09.639 He wants to communicate with you about every 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:14.939 part of your life. A lot of people think, oh, 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.259 God wants to talk to me about spiritual things 00:06:17.259 --> 00:06:20.259 and not natural things. No, God wants you to 00:06:20.259 --> 00:06:27.500 follow Him in everything. We're going to drive 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:31.000 that truth into your heart if you'll receive 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.399 it by the time we're done today. And we've talked 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.300 about this a lot of times, and I'm not going 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:38.319 to go back and completely explain everything, 00:06:38.540 --> 00:06:42.660 but everybody say, God is a spirit, and we are 00:06:42.660 --> 00:06:48.560 created in His image. Okay? So this is something 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.920 that a lot of people have never recognized before. 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:56.509 You are a spirit being. Unlike any other living 00:06:56.509 --> 00:07:00.170 thing on this earth, you are a spirit being. 00:07:01.990 --> 00:07:06.189 You're not just flesh and blood and soul. You 00:07:06.189 --> 00:07:08.610 are a spirit created in the image of God. You 00:07:08.610 --> 00:07:15.410 have a soul. And you live in a body. But you 00:07:15.410 --> 00:07:19.189 are a spirit. Your spirit comes alive when you 00:07:19.189 --> 00:07:21.509 come into a relationship with Christ. That's 00:07:21.509 --> 00:07:25.120 the description of being born again. Because 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:30.079 our spirit man is dead in trespasses and sins. 00:07:30.899 --> 00:07:33.259 But when we are born again, our spirit becomes 00:07:33.259 --> 00:07:39.360 alive. We are born again. We're new. New creation. 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.540 Now, up until the time when we came to Christ, 00:07:43.620 --> 00:07:47.939 we just lived our life in a soulish and fleshly 00:07:47.939 --> 00:07:52.680 nature. That's all we had. So we just survive 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:57.670 in this world. With what we have. But then when 00:07:57.670 --> 00:08:00.610 we're born again. Our spirits come alive. And 00:08:00.610 --> 00:08:03.970 we're connected to God. We're connected to the 00:08:03.970 --> 00:08:08.410 Holy Spirit. We're alive. Look at the person 00:08:08.410 --> 00:08:12.790 beside you and say I'm alive. I'm alive. I'm 00:08:12.790 --> 00:08:17.490 alive. In Christ I am alive. My spirit is alive. 00:08:20.290 --> 00:08:24.329 Now. You can't just live being led by the flesh, 00:08:24.470 --> 00:08:32.169 by everything externally, you know. Just living 00:08:32.169 --> 00:08:37.870 by human nature, living by the flesh. You can 00:08:37.870 --> 00:08:40.529 live being led by the soul, and that's where 00:08:40.529 --> 00:08:44.769 most of us, after we grow up, most of us get 00:08:44.769 --> 00:08:50.289 pretty good at letting our soul lead us and direct 00:08:50.289 --> 00:08:55.399 us. Your soul is made up of three things. It's 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:58.159 made up of your thoughts. Everybody say thoughts. 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.580 Everybody say thought life. You can say mind, 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.059 will, and emotions, or you can say thoughts, 00:09:04.220 --> 00:09:09.899 desires, and feelings. Okay? That's what we're 00:09:09.899 --> 00:09:14.480 made up of. Our reasoning, our intellect, our 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:20.629 thoughts, our developed mind. Then... Your soul 00:09:20.629 --> 00:09:24.970 is your emotions. And we have positive and negative 00:09:24.970 --> 00:09:29.470 emotions. And a lot of times when we're talking 00:09:29.470 --> 00:09:31.230 about emotions at church, we're talking about 00:09:31.230 --> 00:09:35.169 the negative ones. But there are some godly emotions 00:09:35.169 --> 00:09:39.950 and some positive emotions. Just like there can 00:09:39.950 --> 00:09:44.549 be some godly thoughts. But how many of you know 00:09:44.549 --> 00:09:46.149 that all of our thoughts, every thought that 00:09:46.149 --> 00:09:51.070 comes to our mind is not godly? Come on. Let's 00:09:51.070 --> 00:09:55.950 be honest. And then our desires, our wants, our 00:09:55.950 --> 00:10:04.830 will. That's our soul. Romans 8, 16 says this. 00:10:05.289 --> 00:10:07.750 For His Spirit, everybody say the Holy Spirit. 00:10:08.169 --> 00:10:15.429 For His Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm 00:10:15.429 --> 00:10:20.779 that we are God's children. So when we're born 00:10:20.779 --> 00:10:26.639 again, His Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:29.659 that we are God's children, to affirm that we 00:10:29.659 --> 00:10:36.360 are born again. So we are connected and we're 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:40.899 joined. Our spirit joins with the Holy Spirit. 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:47.659 Connection takes place with God. A spirit connection. 00:10:48.909 --> 00:10:56.490 takes place with God. So at that point, things 00:10:56.490 --> 00:11:02.250 are going to have to change. The way we live 00:11:02.250 --> 00:11:07.129 needs to change. When we come to Christ, what 00:11:07.129 --> 00:11:11.909 does the Bible say? Old things pass away. Behold, 00:11:11.950 --> 00:11:16.250 all things become new. So, after we come to Christ, 00:11:16.970 --> 00:11:21.730 We begin a process of spiritual growth and spiritual 00:11:21.730 --> 00:11:26.129 maturity. We're not supposed to stay the same 00:11:26.129 --> 00:11:31.210 we were before we came to Christ. Now, some people 00:11:31.210 --> 00:11:35.690 do. Okay, I'm saved now, so I'm going to go to 00:11:35.690 --> 00:11:38.649 heaven one day, so I'll just keep living in my 00:11:38.649 --> 00:11:41.830 flesh and living in my soul until the trumpet 00:11:41.830 --> 00:11:43.970 sounds or I take my last breath and I'm in the 00:11:43.970 --> 00:11:48.250 presence of God. And so many people do that because 00:11:48.250 --> 00:11:51.269 they don't know any different. Never been taught 00:11:51.269 --> 00:11:54.590 any different. They don't understand that they 00:11:54.590 --> 00:11:57.809 are spirit beings. And their spirit, they can 00:11:57.809 --> 00:12:02.230 yield to the Holy Spirit and yield to their spirit. 00:12:02.330 --> 00:12:05.710 Your soul needs to yield to your spirit who is 00:12:05.710 --> 00:12:13.289 connected to the Holy Spirit. Your flesh needs 00:12:13.289 --> 00:12:17.309 to yield. to your spirit that's joined to the 00:12:17.309 --> 00:12:23.009 Holy Spirit. And when that happens, God will 00:12:23.009 --> 00:12:25.509 begin to give you the desires of your heart. 00:12:26.789 --> 00:12:29.409 That doesn't mean whatever you desire, He's going 00:12:29.409 --> 00:12:31.029 to give it to you. No, He's going to give you 00:12:31.029 --> 00:12:35.970 desires. There's multiple verses. Jeffrey's already 00:12:35.970 --> 00:12:40.870 shared one of these. But God gives you desires. 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.460 See, when we're led by the Holy Spirit, the flow 00:12:45.460 --> 00:12:48.659 is from the Holy Spirit to our spirit to our 00:12:48.659 --> 00:12:54.539 soul. God will give us godly desires. How many 00:12:54.539 --> 00:12:56.360 of you know that all of your desires are probably 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:07.840 not godly? So we need some godly desires. Holy 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:12.629 Spirit to our spirit. To our soul. He will stir 00:13:12.629 --> 00:13:18.769 our emotions. In a good way. Good emotions. Joy. 00:13:21.210 --> 00:13:36.429 Peace. Come on. He stirs us. He wants to renew 00:13:36.429 --> 00:13:41.279 our minds. So we think different than we used 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:46.720 to think. Do you know God wants you to think 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.220 different than the world thinks? Do you know 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:58.620 your thought life can be different? Do you know 00:13:58.620 --> 00:14:03.120 your emotions can be different? Do you know your 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:10.080 desires can be different? Well, if you don't 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:11.720 think that any of this can happen, it's probably 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.279 not going to happen. You've got to realize that 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:21.580 God wants to impact you and transform you in 00:14:21.580 --> 00:14:25.559 all the areas of your soul. And He's big enough 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:32.070 and powerful enough to do it. But we're talking 00:14:32.070 --> 00:14:34.350 about now, okay, so God's going to give us desires. 00:14:34.570 --> 00:14:36.289 God's going to give us emotions. God's going 00:14:36.289 --> 00:14:38.649 to give us thoughts. He's going to renew our 00:14:38.649 --> 00:14:41.169 thought life. So I've just got to tell you, when 00:14:41.169 --> 00:14:42.929 we're talking about being led by the inner witness, 00:14:43.070 --> 00:14:45.190 we need to know something. Not every feeling 00:14:45.190 --> 00:14:55.350 that you have is from God. Because you can say, 00:14:55.450 --> 00:14:59.850 I feel afraid. We know that's not from God because 00:14:59.850 --> 00:15:03.990 God hasn't given you a spirit of fear. But you 00:15:03.990 --> 00:15:08.970 can also feel something in my spirit doesn't 00:15:08.970 --> 00:15:15.250 have peace about this. I don't have peace about 00:15:15.250 --> 00:15:22.470 this. See the difference? Not every desire is 00:15:22.470 --> 00:15:27.240 from God. There's a difference between boy, I 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:35.299 really want this. I really want this. And God's 00:15:35.299 --> 00:15:41.299 producing a desire in me. This desire that I'm 00:15:41.299 --> 00:15:43.279 having, I mean, this is coming from God because 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:47.659 this is not like naturally, it's not like naturally 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:53.659 the way my desires flow. So God's given me. He's 00:15:53.659 --> 00:15:58.700 producing. a desire in me. Not every thought 00:15:58.700 --> 00:16:01.299 is from God. This one's the easiest one to see. 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.700 There's a difference between, listen, this really, 00:16:04.779 --> 00:16:07.419 this makes good sense to me. I have reasoned 00:16:07.419 --> 00:16:10.240 this out and I have researched this and I have 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.500 come to this conclusion and this makes really 00:16:12.500 --> 00:16:18.000 good sense to me. There's a difference between 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:23.259 that and I have an inward witness that this is 00:16:23.259 --> 00:16:28.710 right. I just know that this is right. And sometimes 00:16:28.710 --> 00:16:32.330 this is in contrast to your human reasoning. 00:16:34.649 --> 00:16:37.690 But you can just know by the inward witness. 00:16:39.029 --> 00:16:41.370 This is just right. It's the right thing to do. 00:16:41.789 --> 00:16:46.830 It's the right thing to say. Proverbs 14, 12. 00:16:47.509 --> 00:16:52.470 JT knows this one very well. But he knows it 00:16:52.470 --> 00:16:56.539 like this. There's a way that seems right to 00:16:56.539 --> 00:17:03.740 a man. But the end, oh, and crickets. Chirp, 00:17:03.740 --> 00:17:06.339 chirp. Anyway, if you were here when Ken Freeman 00:17:06.339 --> 00:17:09.099 was here, he preached this text a lot. Listen, 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.259 Proverbs 14, 12, that only humored a few people 00:17:12.259 --> 00:17:15.640 in the room. Proverbs 14, 12 says this, there 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:21.000 is a path before each person that seems right. 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:31.539 But it ends in death. There's a path before each 00:17:31.539 --> 00:17:34.960 person that seems right. I mean, to you, it seems 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:46.859 right. To do what feels good. To do what seems 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:53.690 right in my own eyes. And so many times that's 00:17:53.690 --> 00:17:57.490 in opposition to what God says. But it seems 00:17:57.490 --> 00:18:02.549 right and it feels good. But God is warning us. 00:18:03.329 --> 00:18:07.029 It's going to end in death. It's going to end 00:18:07.029 --> 00:18:12.109 in death of some form or another. Something can 00:18:12.109 --> 00:18:17.650 seem right intellectually and still not be God's 00:18:17.650 --> 00:18:23.539 direction. I see some of you shaking your head 00:18:23.539 --> 00:18:26.720 and some of you looking at me like, I hope you're 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:28.359 looking at me like, I wish somebody would have 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.180 told me this a long time ago because I'm just 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:34.759 about to change some things. Something can seem 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.640 right intellectually and still not be God's direction. 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.420 Even good things. We're not just talking about 00:18:41.420 --> 00:18:43.339 bad things. We're not just talking about sin. 00:18:43.460 --> 00:18:44.920 We're talking about life. We're talking about 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:49.210 everyday life. But listen, the Bible does not 00:18:49.210 --> 00:18:51.849 say all who are led by their feelings, desires, 00:18:52.210 --> 00:18:54.549 or what makes sense at the moment are children 00:18:54.549 --> 00:18:57.569 of God. Is that what it said? No, it says all 00:18:57.569 --> 00:19:00.630 who are led by the Spirit of God are the children 00:19:00.630 --> 00:19:07.190 of God. So we can't, I mean, if we want to experience 00:19:07.190 --> 00:19:10.890 the life and the victory and the joy of God, 00:19:10.990 --> 00:19:19.259 we can't continue living soulish lives. Because 00:19:19.259 --> 00:19:21.140 we're going to experience the goodness of God 00:19:21.140 --> 00:19:28.160 when we live Spirit -led lives. Let's take a 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:37.599 look at a story. A very good application of what 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:39.940 we're talking about. Acts 16, verses 6 through 00:19:39.940 --> 00:19:45.319 10. Next, Paul and Silas, they're on their missionary 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.079 journey, right? Next, Paul and Silas traveled 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:55.420 through the area of Phrygia and Galatia because 00:19:55.420 --> 00:20:00.839 the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.460 the word in the province of Asia at that time. 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:11.559 What? Does that sound like a good thing? To preach 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.279 in Asia and tell people about Jesus and tell 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.079 people about... Yeah, I mean, it seems like a 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:25.859 good thing. Even with good motives. But the Holy 00:20:25.859 --> 00:20:33.539 Spirit said, nope. I know you have some pretty 00:20:33.539 --> 00:20:37.339 good plans in your own thought life and some 00:20:37.339 --> 00:20:39.619 pretty good desires in your heart. Somebody listen 00:20:39.619 --> 00:20:43.099 to me. You've got some good plans in your thought 00:20:43.099 --> 00:20:45.559 life and you've got some... You've got some good 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:49.960 desires in your heart. You feel like this is 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:55.779 what you're supposed to do. Nope. The Holy Spirit 00:20:55.779 --> 00:21:01.039 had prevented them from preaching the word in 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:05.980 the province of Asia at that time. Then coming 00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:11.319 to the borders of... I should have looked up 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:13.279 the pronunciation on all these words. Pronunciation. 00:21:14.470 --> 00:21:18.910 Then coming up to the borders of Mysia, Mysia, 00:21:19.009 --> 00:21:24.410 Mysia, they headed north for the province of 00:21:24.410 --> 00:21:33.990 Bithynia. But again, well, God, if you don't 00:21:33.990 --> 00:21:36.250 want us to preach in Asia, if you told us you 00:21:36.250 --> 00:21:38.289 didn't want us to go there, well, then obviously, 00:21:38.589 --> 00:21:41.750 you know, I know where you want me to go. So 00:21:41.750 --> 00:21:45.049 the next best place to my human reasoning and 00:21:45.049 --> 00:21:48.029 understanding would be to go to the province 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:51.569 of Bithynia. That's where I'm headed. That's 00:21:51.569 --> 00:21:56.289 where we're headed. But again, the Spirit of 00:21:56.289 --> 00:22:02.009 Jesus did not allow them to go there. Good plans, 00:22:02.089 --> 00:22:09.430 good motive, good desires. Nope. So instead, 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:17.220 They went through Mysia, Mysia, to the seaport 00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:23.920 of Troas. That's where he's from, right? Let's 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.339 go to some familiar place here. Let's go to Troas. 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:31.440 And that night, everybody say that night. That 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:35.380 night, Paul had a vision. A man from Macedonia 00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:38.599 in northern Greece was standing there. pleading 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.619 with him, come over to Macedonia and help us. 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:45.579 Everybody say vision. Now we're not talking about 00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:47.480 visions, but that was one of the ways that God 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:53.380 speaks, right? Dreams and visions. Now he's having 00:22:53.380 --> 00:23:00.460 a vision. God has stopped him from going to two 00:23:00.460 --> 00:23:03.680 different places, and then when he goes to sleep, 00:23:03.819 --> 00:23:09.619 all of a sudden, A Macedonian call. For those 00:23:09.619 --> 00:23:12.000 of you who know that hymn. We have heard the 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.619 Macedonian call today. Send the light. How many 00:23:15.619 --> 00:23:21.079 of you know that one? Anyway. Come over to Macedonia 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:26.400 to help us. So, we decided to leave from Macedonia 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.779 at once. Having concluded that God was calling 00:23:29.779 --> 00:23:35.190 us to preach the good news there. I had some 00:23:35.190 --> 00:23:39.650 good ideas, but God gave me a vision, and we 00:23:39.650 --> 00:23:43.670 need to go immediately and do what God said to 00:23:43.670 --> 00:23:45.670 us. And guess what? God didn't stop them that 00:23:45.670 --> 00:23:48.630 time, because that's where God wanted them to 00:23:48.630 --> 00:23:51.430 go. Paul had a good plan. He wanted to preach 00:23:51.430 --> 00:23:54.029 the gospel in Asia. There's nothing sinful about 00:23:54.029 --> 00:23:56.869 that. There's nothing selfish about that. It 00:23:56.869 --> 00:24:00.569 aligns with what God had called him to do, right? 00:24:03.309 --> 00:24:06.309 But even then, the Holy Spirit prevented them. 00:24:06.470 --> 00:24:09.029 Then he decided to go to Bithynia. The Spirit 00:24:09.029 --> 00:24:11.450 would not allow them. Then he received the Macedonian 00:24:11.450 --> 00:24:16.769 vision. Did anyone go through a red light on 00:24:16.769 --> 00:24:22.349 the way here? Most people did. I didn't say you 00:24:22.349 --> 00:24:29.269 ran it. I said, did you... When the light's red, 00:24:29.390 --> 00:24:33.849 what do you do? Stop. When the light's green, 00:24:33.950 --> 00:24:38.990 what do you do? Go. So I want you to think about 00:24:38.990 --> 00:24:48.730 the red light, all right? Asia, red light. Myzit, 00:24:48.829 --> 00:24:57.450 red light. Green light, go to Macedonia. When 00:24:57.450 --> 00:25:05.059 we're led by the inward witness, We need to be 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:08.200 aware of when it's time to stop and when it's 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:14.480 time to go. And I'll tell you from experience, 00:25:14.819 --> 00:25:23.599 you don't want to go when it's red. Can anybody 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:25.740 say, I can look back at my life and I had some 00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:30.680 good plans and I was going after it, but there 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.500 was a red light, but I just went ahead and ran 00:25:32.500 --> 00:25:49.470 the red light. Spiritually. Ah. Ironically enough, 00:25:49.730 --> 00:25:53.309 JT ran a red light, guy was telling him not to 00:25:53.309 --> 00:25:56.690 buy a car, and then somebody ran through a red 00:25:56.690 --> 00:26:02.650 light, totaled the car. But he got out of his 00:26:02.650 --> 00:26:05.769 bad decision, but he, you know, had some physical 00:26:05.769 --> 00:26:11.359 issues. Financial issues after that. But God 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:16.779 took care of you. He saw you through. Sometimes 00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:19.720 God leading gives you direction without giving 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:23.500 you any explanation. I'm going to say this happens 00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:25.839 more, you know, instead of just sometimes, I'm 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:31.519 going to change that to most often. God's leading 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:35.440 gives you direction without giving you a full 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:41.309 explanation. And so many times we're like, well, 00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:43.869 God, I need everything spelled out before I'm 00:26:43.869 --> 00:26:50.170 going to go. Anybody remember Abraham? Abraham 00:26:50.170 --> 00:26:52.609 said, all right, it's time to load up, head out. 00:26:53.349 --> 00:26:55.990 Where do you want me to go, God? I'll show you. 00:26:58.450 --> 00:27:00.470 If he would have never loaded up and headed out, 00:27:00.509 --> 00:27:02.269 God would have never showed him. He had to take 00:27:02.269 --> 00:27:06.549 that step first and had to trust, had to keep 00:27:06.549 --> 00:27:10.619 going, had to move by faith. And the more he 00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:14.619 went, the more he knew. But if he would have 00:27:14.619 --> 00:27:19.279 stayed in Ur, he would have not, it would have 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:22.299 been over. You'd never know his name. We wouldn't 00:27:22.299 --> 00:27:23.819 know his name if he would have stayed in Ur. 00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:31.579 Been somebody else. Listen, you don't have to 00:27:31.579 --> 00:27:36.380 understand the why to obey the what. You don't 00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:45.009 have to. You might want to, but you don't have 00:27:45.009 --> 00:27:56.329 to. And this is very important. Because I've... 00:27:56.329 --> 00:28:04.769 I've got multiple testimonies to go with this 00:28:04.769 --> 00:28:09.980 statement. Don't run every red light in your 00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:15.200 spirit and then ask God why you crashed. God 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.400 said, you run a red light, you on your own. Don't 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.519 blame me for the crash. Blame yourself for the 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:26.920 crash. I tried to lead you. I tried to help you. 00:28:27.940 --> 00:28:30.440 You wouldn't listen. You wouldn't hear. You wouldn't 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:32.960 follow. You thought you were smarter than I am. 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:35.880 And you thought you had to know all. everything 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:39.720 about it. You've got to have it all written out 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:43.099 in spreadsheet form and all this stuff. And you've 00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:44.819 got to understand everything before you take 00:28:44.819 --> 00:28:47.539 a move. Listen, don't blame me for your crash. 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:53.740 Because the way you're going is not the way I 00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:57.339 want you to go anyway. We always want to blame 00:28:57.339 --> 00:29:01.859 God for the crashes, right? Anybody beside me 00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:04.950 every once in a while think, well, God... Why 00:29:04.950 --> 00:29:06.809 did you let me down? God didn't let me down. 00:29:09.750 --> 00:29:13.109 My decision got me into that mess and God was 00:29:13.109 --> 00:29:20.309 trying to stop me. I'm going to share one of 00:29:20.309 --> 00:29:24.849 those with you here in a minute. Listen to what 00:29:24.849 --> 00:29:29.930 the Bible says. Let the peace that comes from 00:29:29.930 --> 00:29:36.000 Christ rule. In your hearts. If you're going 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.079 to follow the inward witness of God, you need 00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:41.000 to know this right here. Let the peace that comes 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:46.059 from God rule in your hearts. Now here's that 00:29:46.059 --> 00:29:52.039 word rule. Brabuo. I put the phonetics on that. 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:56.460 Here's what it means. It means to rule. Let the 00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:59.440 peace of God rule in your heart, right? It means 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:05.119 to arbitrate. It means to decide. It means to 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:09.440 govern. And if you look this up, and just Google 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:15.339 it, you know, this verse, Colossians 3 .15, interlinear, 00:30:15.420 --> 00:30:19.539 and look it up on the Bible Hub. Is that where 00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:22.799 it is? I think that's what will come up if you 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:29.000 Google it. You'll find this information. We're 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:34.970 supposed to let the peace of God Decide as an 00:30:34.970 --> 00:30:42.430 umpire. Let the peace of God be the umpire in 00:30:42.430 --> 00:30:50.009 your life. Now what does an umpire do? An umpire 00:30:50.009 --> 00:30:55.289 makes the call in a conflict between two contending 00:30:55.289 --> 00:31:01.390 forces. Let me see if I've got this up here before 00:31:01.390 --> 00:31:04.349 I describe it. Yeah. So there's two contending 00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:06.529 forces. There's the pitcher, if we're talking 00:31:06.529 --> 00:31:08.829 about baseball. There's the pitcher throwing 00:31:08.829 --> 00:31:13.029 the ball. There's the batter. If you know anything 00:31:13.029 --> 00:31:18.309 about baseball, the pitcher always thinks it's 00:31:18.309 --> 00:31:24.670 a strike. I threw a strike. And the batter, if 00:31:24.670 --> 00:31:28.690 he doesn't hit the ball, it's always a ball. 00:31:30.909 --> 00:31:36.109 I love it. I love it when it's full count, and 00:31:36.109 --> 00:31:38.369 the batter just stands there, and then he throws 00:31:38.369 --> 00:31:40.009 the bat, and he starts trotting down the first 00:31:40.009 --> 00:31:44.410 baseline, and then the umpire says, you're out. 00:31:46.569 --> 00:31:53.849 That was a ball. The umpire makes the final call. 00:31:57.470 --> 00:32:02.880 Here's the deal. We always have contending issues 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.700 going on in our lives. We always have the Spirit 00:32:07.700 --> 00:32:11.220 and what the Spirit is leading us to do, and 00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:14.339 we always have our soul. You're never going to 00:32:14.339 --> 00:32:16.299 grow up to the point that you never have to deal 00:32:16.299 --> 00:32:19.660 with your soul anymore. Your thought life, your 00:32:19.660 --> 00:32:23.920 desires, your feelings, your emotions, none of 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:25.900 us will ever get to where those things don't 00:32:25.900 --> 00:32:35.619 affect any of us anymore. Okay? And peace. Everybody 00:32:35.619 --> 00:32:46.759 say peace. The peace of God is the umpire. We 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:48.839 need to allow the peace of God to make the final 00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:55.079 call because we're not... This might hurt some 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.180 of your feelings. Bless your heart. You're not 00:32:59.180 --> 00:33:06.680 capable. Your soul is not capable of always through 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:10.220 intellect and reasoning to make the right call. 00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:16.319 We're not capable. We just have a 50 -50 chance. 00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:31.539 But the peace of God. The peace of God. Because 00:33:31.539 --> 00:33:33.859 so many times, if we're following our flesh, 00:33:33.980 --> 00:33:37.599 we're not going to have the peace of God. But 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:39.180 if we're following the Spirit, we're going to 00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:42.559 have the peace of God. As a matter of fact, anytime 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.859 you are led by the Spirit of God, you're going 00:33:44.859 --> 00:33:49.240 to have the peace of God. And the peace of God 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:57.799 is the umpire. Go. Stop. The peace of God is 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.349 the red light. Giving you a red light. He's giving 00:34:00.349 --> 00:34:03.670 you a red light or a green light. He's the umpire. 00:34:04.029 --> 00:34:08.909 Peace is the umpire. And here's the good news. 00:34:09.730 --> 00:34:13.630 The peace of God always, always, always, always 00:34:13.630 --> 00:34:19.869 makes the right call. He always, you know, unlike 00:34:19.869 --> 00:34:21.889 an umpire at a baseball game, he might make a 00:34:21.889 --> 00:34:24.570 bad call every once in a while, but the peace 00:34:24.570 --> 00:34:27.329 of God is always going to make the right call 00:34:27.329 --> 00:34:33.099 in your life. 1 Thessalonians 5 .19 tells us 00:34:33.099 --> 00:34:36.800 this, do not stifle the Holy Spirit. Do not quench 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:38.659 the Holy Spirit. Most of the time when we're 00:34:38.659 --> 00:34:41.019 looking at this verse, we're saying, oh, sin's 00:34:41.019 --> 00:34:42.900 going to stifle Him and sin's going to quench 00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:46.559 Him. And we just always focus on sin when we're 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:48.440 talking about don't quench or stifle the Holy 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:53.199 Spirit. I want to bring a new application to 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:57.880 you. Do not override the Holy Spirit. Do not 00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:05.019 override the peace of God. Every single one of 00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:07.940 us have overridden the peace of God in situations 00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:12.760 in our lives. We've overridden it. Sometimes 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:17.000 we've crashed. Sometimes we've came out okay. 00:35:19.420 --> 00:35:24.250 But none of the times we've came out... Completely 00:35:24.250 --> 00:35:30.789 victorious. So don't stifle the Holy Spirit. 00:35:32.269 --> 00:35:34.210 He's wanting to lead you. He's wanting to guide 00:35:34.210 --> 00:35:37.130 you. Don't stifle Him. Don't quench Him. Don't 00:35:37.130 --> 00:35:40.170 say, no, I know the right way. I know I'm a little 00:35:40.170 --> 00:35:42.449 uneasy about this, but I just know it's the right 00:35:42.449 --> 00:35:44.889 way. And I know I need to keep proceeding. And 00:35:44.889 --> 00:35:49.730 I know I got this, you know, I don't have a velvety 00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:54.210 feeling on the inside. I just want it so bad. 00:35:54.289 --> 00:35:58.170 I desire it so much. I think I've figured it 00:35:58.170 --> 00:36:06.010 out. It seems right to me. This will make me 00:36:06.010 --> 00:36:17.050 happy. God's saying, hmm? That uneasiness on 00:36:17.050 --> 00:36:18.929 the inside of you is telling you that this is 00:36:18.929 --> 00:36:22.280 the wrong way. Peace. It needs to be your umpire. 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:27.699 Never ignore or mentally override an uneasiness 00:36:27.699 --> 00:36:31.440 in your spirit. Never. Don't do it. Don't do 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:34.659 it. If you want to be led by the Holy Spirit, 00:36:34.739 --> 00:36:40.179 do not do it. And listen, don't make permanent 00:36:40.179 --> 00:36:45.960 decisions during an emotional turmoil. When you're 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:49.440 frightened, when you're angry, when you're offended, 00:36:50.090 --> 00:36:53.630 when you're anxious, when you're exhausted, when 00:36:53.630 --> 00:36:59.030 you're desperate. Listen, the loudest voice you're 00:36:59.030 --> 00:37:01.409 going to hear during those times is not the Holy 00:37:01.409 --> 00:37:05.670 Spirit. The loudest voice is going to be your 00:37:05.670 --> 00:37:13.769 soul screaming, not your spirit. So don't be 00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:22.440 quick. We could say this is yellow light. Philippians 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:26.340 4, 6 and 7 says this, don't worry about anything. 00:37:29.219 --> 00:37:32.340 God says it, if God commands us not to do something, 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:36.619 we can do it. Don't worry about anything. Instead, 00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:41.139 instead of worrying, pray about everything. Tell 00:37:41.139 --> 00:37:44.980 God what you need and thank Him for all He has 00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:53.429 done. So when you're in those situations, that 00:37:53.429 --> 00:37:58.170 are giving you, you know, I just read them all. 00:37:59.210 --> 00:38:01.130 When you're frightened, when you're angry, when 00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:02.429 you're offended, when you're anxious, when you're 00:38:02.429 --> 00:38:05.650 exhausted, desperate, you know, just be still. 00:38:08.110 --> 00:38:16.349 Start praying. Tell God what you need. And begin 00:38:16.349 --> 00:38:19.409 to thank Him. You're like, how could I thank 00:38:19.409 --> 00:38:21.599 God in the middle of this? You've got something 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.880 to thank God for. We all have something to thank 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:28.300 God for. Like the song that we sang, counting 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:31.659 every blessing. I mean, look at God's faithfulness 00:38:31.659 --> 00:38:35.719 in your life. Start thanking Him. Thanking Him 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.280 for what He's done, even in the middle of you 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:42.960 just don't know. Thank Him for all He has done. 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:52.989 God knows. See, God knows what we need. Some 00:38:52.989 --> 00:38:55.150 of you are thinking way too hard. God knows what 00:38:55.150 --> 00:38:59.949 you need. He knows that you need to stop the 00:38:59.949 --> 00:39:02.949 chaos and start talking to Him because what you 00:39:02.949 --> 00:39:06.309 need is to hear from Him. That's what you need 00:39:06.309 --> 00:39:09.630 about the situation that you're experiencing. 00:39:09.650 --> 00:39:15.530 You need to hear from Him. And if you'll do that, 00:39:15.610 --> 00:39:21.139 if you'll turn to Him, What does it say? You 00:39:21.139 --> 00:39:24.039 will experience his peace. You will experience 00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:28.079 God's peace, which exceeds anything you can understand. 00:39:30.380 --> 00:39:35.460 His peace will be your umpire, but his peace 00:39:35.460 --> 00:39:38.380 will also guard your hearts and your minds as 00:39:38.380 --> 00:39:43.840 you live in Christ Jesus. Look to the person 00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:45.639 beside you and tell them, always follow peace. 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.019 And if you don't have peace, pray till you get 00:39:51.019 --> 00:39:56.880 peace. Talk to God so that you can hear His voice 00:39:56.880 --> 00:40:00.059 and receive His peace. Because He's going to 00:40:00.059 --> 00:40:08.119 lead you by peace. I shared this at Bible study 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:11.880 at our life group over at Salo's house the last 00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:16.360 time, I think, or two times ago. But when we 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:18.039 were on the road, if you don't know it, we were 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:21.460 on the road for 20 years. Going from place to 00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:27.039 place, event to event. You know, it's all over. 00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:29.840 One of the events that we were going to one time 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:32.280 is an event that JT was putting on in Montgomery, 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:35.340 Alabama at Delray to Baptist Church. We were 00:40:35.340 --> 00:40:40.360 having hearts, hearts on fire. Revolution of 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:43.750 the Heart was the name of JT's event. One hit 00:40:43.750 --> 00:40:47.309 wonder, he said. Revolution of the heart. And 00:40:47.309 --> 00:40:50.949 we were going and we had like, was it two bands? 00:40:53.050 --> 00:40:57.030 Three bands, full bands. You know, with drums, 00:40:57.070 --> 00:41:03.329 bass, guitar, vocals, all that stuff. And we 00:41:03.329 --> 00:41:08.230 had, Ken was there. George Smith was there doing 00:41:08.230 --> 00:41:11.050 the power team kind of stuff. Breaking stuff. 00:41:12.809 --> 00:41:17.889 A magician, a Christian magician was there. I 00:41:17.889 --> 00:41:21.929 mean, it was a big deal. And part of what we 00:41:21.929 --> 00:41:25.469 were doing is we were leading worship, and then 00:41:25.469 --> 00:41:31.210 we were also providing sound for everybody. Well, 00:41:31.429 --> 00:41:35.829 our sound mixer has 18 channels. That's what 00:41:35.829 --> 00:41:39.719 we run church on every week, 18 channels. How 00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:41.860 many of you know when you've got full drum kits 00:41:41.860 --> 00:41:44.039 and you're micing everything and micing all the 00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:46.679 instruments, running direct boxes and a bunch 00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:48.500 of microphones and singers, you've got to have 00:41:48.500 --> 00:41:52.000 more than 18 channels? I've been wanting to have 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.719 more than 18 channels a long time. It just so 00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:56.960 happened we were coming from South Carolina to 00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:59.860 Alabama and right in the middle of Atlanta, Georgia 00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:04.119 is the original Guitar Center. They sell a lot 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:06.820 of equipment. I bought... Me and my friends had 00:42:06.820 --> 00:42:08.920 bought a lot of equipment from Guitar Center. 00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:12.119 We went in that day, on the way to the event, 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:23.300 and there it was. A used 40 -channel mixer. 40 00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:28.300 -channel, not 18, 40. I'd had Mackie mixers before, 00:42:28.460 --> 00:42:30.960 that's a brand name, and they had served me well. 00:42:31.659 --> 00:42:33.980 This one was used and on sale. It had been over 00:42:33.980 --> 00:42:38.280 $8 ,000. It was on sale for $3 ,000. For you 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:47.900 today, $3 ,000. Boy, I wanted that. It's a good 00:42:47.900 --> 00:42:50.219 buy, wasn't it? It's a good buy. Made a lot of 00:42:50.219 --> 00:42:54.400 sense. I'm going to this event. I mean, in between 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.280 everybody, I'm going to be having to unplug stuff 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:58.900 and plug stuff and do all this, you know, do 00:42:58.900 --> 00:43:03.179 cartwheels to make it all work. But if I had 00:43:03.179 --> 00:43:07.960 that 40 -channel mixer, it's going to make this 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.719 thing good. And I did a lot of events like JT's 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.579 event myself, so I needed that because we would 00:43:15.579 --> 00:43:17.519 have bands and different people and stuff, and 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:21.440 I said, boy, I need that. So my feelings got 00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:26.760 stirred up. My desires got stirred up. My thoughts 00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:36.789 got stirred up. It's worse than that, Irv. My 00:43:36.789 --> 00:43:40.090 credit card got stirred up. Because I didn't 00:43:40.090 --> 00:43:46.769 have the money. I didn't have the money. And 00:43:46.769 --> 00:43:50.510 then the salesman just worked me. He's like, 00:43:50.710 --> 00:43:58.230 well, we just put it on the floor. We just put 00:43:58.230 --> 00:44:02.199 it on the floor. You know, the first person that 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:08.099 says they want it is theirs. And I'm just, all 00:44:08.099 --> 00:44:13.539 of a sudden, had this bad feeling on the inside. 00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:20.860 I just, I mean, you know, just, I didn't have 00:44:20.860 --> 00:44:24.239 any peace about it. There was pressure. Everybody 00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:33.929 say pressure. I wanted it. I said, I got to walk 00:44:33.929 --> 00:44:37.449 outside and think about this a little bit. So 00:44:37.449 --> 00:44:39.409 Gannon and I and Jeffrey, we all went outside 00:44:39.409 --> 00:44:43.289 and we're all talking in the parking lot. And 00:44:43.289 --> 00:44:45.090 he said, well, if you wait too long in the parking 00:44:45.090 --> 00:44:46.409 lot, if somebody comes in here, they're going 00:44:46.409 --> 00:44:50.389 to buy it. You know, first person that wants 00:44:50.389 --> 00:44:51.989 it is going to get it. I'm not holding it for 00:44:51.989 --> 00:44:57.050 you while you go to the parking lot. I needed 00:44:57.050 --> 00:45:08.300 it. And I can persuade people pretty good. Gannon 00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:10.500 didn't have a good feeling about it. Jeffrey 00:45:10.500 --> 00:45:16.440 was too young to have a vote. And I was like, 00:45:16.539 --> 00:45:22.599 giving all these pros, you know, we've been needing 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:26.980 it, we need it, it's a good deal, we can put 00:45:26.980 --> 00:45:30.929 it on the credit card. You know, it's going to 00:45:30.929 --> 00:45:33.510 make today and future big event days, it's going 00:45:33.510 --> 00:45:38.530 to make it so much better. So I persuaded Ghana. 00:45:40.230 --> 00:45:42.469 And I went in there and put out my credit card 00:45:42.469 --> 00:45:49.250 and bought this $3 ,000 mixer. Having a red light 00:45:49.250 --> 00:45:58.150 in my gut the whole time. But I let my soul override 00:45:58.150 --> 00:46:02.300 my spirit. Because God was saying, don't buy. 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.139 Don't go into $3 ,000 worth of debt. This is 00:46:07.139 --> 00:46:12.119 not what you need. But my soul said it was. And 00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.519 my soul won. And if I would have allowed peace 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.500 to be my umpire, if I would have allowed peace 00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:22.239 to be my umpire and make the call, I would not 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:28.369 have bought it. I don't want to blame anybody, 00:46:28.489 --> 00:46:30.329 but nobody ever told me what I'm telling you 00:46:30.329 --> 00:46:32.690 today. And I've learned the hard way through 00:46:32.690 --> 00:46:36.869 experience that we all need to hear this. Bought 00:46:36.869 --> 00:46:42.730 it. As is. Can't bring it back tomorrow on the 00:46:42.730 --> 00:46:44.889 way back to South Carolina. I mean, this is it. 00:46:45.869 --> 00:46:51.170 No road case. Big old long board. Put it on the 00:46:51.170 --> 00:46:54.869 bed in the RV. That's the only place it would 00:46:54.869 --> 00:47:00.070 fit. Got there, pulled it out. Some of these 00:47:00.070 --> 00:47:04.909 channels ain't working. But we had enough. We 00:47:04.909 --> 00:47:07.889 had like 30 something. So we had enough to do 00:47:07.889 --> 00:47:14.590 the event. But I took it to, I think we went 00:47:14.590 --> 00:47:16.889 to Myrtle Beach from there. And when I took it 00:47:16.889 --> 00:47:20.670 to the guy to work on it, because I had a guy 00:47:20.670 --> 00:47:22.329 who could work on equipment there. And I was 00:47:22.329 --> 00:47:24.550 like, he can get these channels working. You 00:47:24.550 --> 00:47:27.960 know, it's just. They come in like sections of 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:31.239 four and they just can replace that section and 00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:34.519 everything will be good. Right when I brought 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:41.039 it into his shop, he went, hmm. He said, they 00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:45.860 didn't make this more modular. So I can't just 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:49.860 pull out a section of four. And it's so long 00:47:49.860 --> 00:47:53.260 and it's not rigid enough. And when you carry 00:47:53.260 --> 00:47:56.300 it, it bends. and the circuit board breaks and 00:47:56.300 --> 00:48:03.480 cracks. He says, as a matter of fact, Mackie 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:07.800 has recalled the mixer, and they'll give you 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:12.440 $300 if you leave it here, and let me smash it 00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:14.199 with a sledgehammer and send them a picture. 00:48:21.219 --> 00:48:28.179 That was a bad deal. I got my $300, but I still 00:48:28.179 --> 00:48:31.760 had $2 ,700 on my credit card. I'm telling you, 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:38.260 let the peace of God be your umpire. Don't override. 00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:49.219 Don't quench Him. When you want to do something, 00:48:49.300 --> 00:48:51.800 but the Holy Spirit puts a check or uneasiness 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:55.239 in your spirit, He's not trying to deprive you. 00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:59.739 He's trying to protect you. Because he knows. 00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:04.500 Everybody say, he knows. He knows. He knew that 00:49:04.500 --> 00:49:06.579 Mackie's first attempt at a 40 -channel mixer 00:49:06.579 --> 00:49:10.159 had fatal design flaws. God knew that. Dean didn't 00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:15.199 know that. You couldn't even Google it at that 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:21.260 point, right? This is before that. Listen, God 00:49:21.260 --> 00:49:23.860 is able to deliver us from the fallout of our 00:49:23.860 --> 00:49:27.760 bad decisions. Say amen, JT. He delivered you 00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:29.599 when He told you not to buy the car and you bought 00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:35.760 it anyway. I was able to pay off the credit card. 00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:38.139 God is able to deliver us from the fallout of 00:49:38.139 --> 00:49:40.420 our bad decisions. But this is what He wants 00:49:40.420 --> 00:49:44.719 more than delivering us. He wants to lead us 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:47.239 in a way to avoid the bad decisions in the first 00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:53.409 place. And we're just talking about regular life 00:49:53.409 --> 00:49:57.530 stuff here. See, it's not just about the spiritual 00:49:57.530 --> 00:50:01.130 stuff. God even knows about mixers, and God knows 00:50:01.130 --> 00:50:04.849 about cars, and God knows about all this stuff. 00:50:10.369 --> 00:50:13.809 I know I'm not the only one who's ever done it. 00:50:14.670 --> 00:50:17.590 Listen, but here's what we need to know. Peace. 00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:21.480 does not always mean it's the easiest path or 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:24.699 the most comfortable path either. That's not 00:50:24.699 --> 00:50:29.519 peace either. Sometimes we confuse that. The 00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:32.980 easy way is God's way. The comfortable way is 00:50:32.980 --> 00:50:44.300 always God's way. Not always. God called our 00:50:44.300 --> 00:50:49.239 family. To plant a church. Yeah, see, it's not 00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:52.280 always bad. And I'm going to give you a good 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:57.239 one. God called us to come here and plant Elation 00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.059 Church. We didn't know anybody within this five 00:51:00.059 --> 00:51:06.320 -mile radius. Now, we had met Jeff and Pam, who 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:08.360 are watching right now from Citrus Ridge. We 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:11.679 met them in Myrtle Beach. And we knew that they 00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:13.559 lived here somewhere, but we didn't even know 00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:16.750 at the time where they actually lived. We just 00:51:16.750 --> 00:51:18.409 knew that they were in Davenport. How many of 00:51:18.409 --> 00:51:21.389 you know Davenport can be a long distance? I 00:51:21.389 --> 00:51:23.789 mean, you know, it's spread out. I didn't know 00:51:23.789 --> 00:51:25.789 if they were even going to be close to even potentially, 00:51:25.889 --> 00:51:28.289 you know, other than just show up every once 00:51:28.289 --> 00:51:32.250 in a while. I had no idea. But God called us 00:51:32.250 --> 00:51:35.889 to move here and start a church, not knowing 00:51:35.889 --> 00:51:40.710 anybody. I want to tell you something. That was 00:51:40.710 --> 00:51:43.840 not the easiest thing. I had to choose from. 00:51:43.980 --> 00:51:45.380 Me and my family had to choose from. It wasn't 00:51:45.380 --> 00:51:53.280 the easiest thing. I was getting a... Jeffrey 00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:57.199 and I were getting a paycheck every week. Like 00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:05.260 clockwork. Every week. Gayna and I had a 1 ,800 00:52:05.260 --> 00:52:11.150 plus square foot house with two golf carts. On 00:52:11.150 --> 00:52:18.829 the beach, inside of a gated community. All these 00:52:18.829 --> 00:52:23.329 people, you know. All these people coming who, 00:52:23.389 --> 00:52:26.769 you know, over 5 ,000 people accepted Christ 00:52:26.769 --> 00:52:32.329 in the nine years that we were there. Life is 00:52:32.329 --> 00:52:36.469 good. I hadn't had a paycheck every Friday since 00:52:36.469 --> 00:52:41.719 before I went on the road. Some weeks would make 00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:46.960 nothing. Some weeks it would cost us more to 00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:49.519 go somewhere than we left with. You were on the 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:54.460 road, you know that. Some weeks we were blessed. 00:52:55.980 --> 00:52:58.260 It wasn't all bad. There were some great times. 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:04.880 But moving here to start the church wasn't the 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:08.130 easiest step. Because I could still be drawing 00:53:08.130 --> 00:53:09.989 that paycheck every Friday for the last five 00:53:09.989 --> 00:53:14.090 years. After we came down here, they kept calling 00:53:14.090 --> 00:53:18.730 me and begging me to come back. When we had 12 00:53:18.730 --> 00:53:23.309 people at church on Sunday morning. Outside with 00:53:23.309 --> 00:53:31.429 love bugs and termites. Ants. All of them found 00:53:31.429 --> 00:53:45.110 Alyssa's pocketbook. No paychecks. Having to 00:53:45.110 --> 00:53:50.909 take money that God had given us, not from here, 00:53:51.030 --> 00:53:55.969 to pay for it, to rent. Love bugs and mosquitoes 00:53:55.969 --> 00:54:00.269 and termites, not mosquitoes, but ants. Moving 00:54:00.269 --> 00:54:09.250 in here for years. Moving out of an 1 ,800 plus 00:54:09.250 --> 00:54:13.269 square foot house. into, what is it, 380 feet? 00:54:15.010 --> 00:54:20.070 Our bus? A 1981 Prevo bus that we customized 00:54:20.070 --> 00:54:23.789 ourselves? Is that the most comfortable thing? 00:54:24.949 --> 00:54:27.769 Hello? Come on, somebody. Is that comfortable? 00:54:28.329 --> 00:54:31.489 Is that easy? I mean, we were on Easy Street. 00:54:33.389 --> 00:54:38.730 If I sat down with spreadsheets and budgets and... 00:54:39.460 --> 00:54:45.679 And human reasoning, did it make any sense? No, 00:54:45.699 --> 00:54:51.800 it don't make any sense. But when we drove down 00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:56.739 here, never been on Highway 27 ever in our life. 00:54:56.820 --> 00:55:00.500 When we drove down here, I mean, I just opened 00:55:00.500 --> 00:55:03.619 up the computer. This is before you could just 00:55:03.619 --> 00:55:05.500 have it on your phone and stuff, GPS on your 00:55:05.500 --> 00:55:07.639 phone. opened up the computer, or at least we 00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:10.460 didn't do it that way. I Googled and I said, 00:55:10.500 --> 00:55:12.639 let's go drive this road right here. And if there's 00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:14.599 a church in every little strip mall and all, 00:55:14.659 --> 00:55:16.500 if there's just a bunch of churches, we'll know 00:55:16.500 --> 00:55:18.500 that this isn't God. And we came and we could 00:55:18.500 --> 00:55:20.860 find one church. And then we searched, searched, 00:55:20.940 --> 00:55:23.719 searched, found another church, all these places. 00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:26.440 And now they built way more. And it's just like, 00:55:26.539 --> 00:55:35.630 but when we drove from I -4 to 192, Our entire 00:55:35.630 --> 00:55:42.150 family, all four of us, just had a peace. Didn't 00:55:42.150 --> 00:55:54.409 make any sense. This is it. This is it. So don't 00:55:54.409 --> 00:56:00.210 confuse peace with easiness or comfortableness 00:56:00.210 --> 00:56:06.369 because that's not the same thing. Being led 00:56:06.369 --> 00:56:08.610 by the Spirit doesn't mean you never have conflicting 00:56:08.610 --> 00:56:13.269 feelings. It just means your feelings don't get 00:56:13.269 --> 00:56:16.070 the final vote anymore. When you're led by the 00:56:16.070 --> 00:56:18.650 Spirit, your feelings just say, nope, you're 00:56:18.650 --> 00:56:21.610 not getting the final vote. The peace of God 00:56:21.610 --> 00:56:26.750 is going to be my own power. Your desire can 00:56:26.750 --> 00:56:32.230 say, I don't want to. Applying it to what we 00:56:32.230 --> 00:56:35.170 said. I don't want to move out of 1 ,800 plus 00:56:35.170 --> 00:56:37.889 square feet into 380 square feet. I don't want 00:56:37.889 --> 00:56:43.929 to. Your reasoning can say, this just doesn't 00:56:43.929 --> 00:56:47.309 make sense. This will never work out on paper. 00:56:49.710 --> 00:56:52.670 Your emotions can say, what in the world is going 00:56:52.670 --> 00:56:56.090 to happen if it don't work? We're going to be 00:56:56.090 --> 00:56:59.639 in a mess. Because we've been off the road for 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:01.280 20 years, so it's not like I can just pick up 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:02.880 the phone and go right back on the road and be 00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:06.079 booked and just wait on people to call me like 00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:08.699 I was before we went to Myrtle Beach. What if 00:57:08.699 --> 00:57:13.019 it don't work? We didn't know that they were 00:57:13.019 --> 00:57:14.800 going to keep calling us and saying, why don't 00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:16.559 you come back? Because then it's a temptation, 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:19.960 right? It's like, well, you don't have as much 00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:22.880 money as you used to. You don't have as much 00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:26.639 room at your house as you used to. There's only 00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:33.570 12 people coming. Why don't you come back? No 00:57:33.570 --> 00:57:36.929 peace. When they invited us, when they're begging 00:57:36.929 --> 00:57:38.670 us to come back, there was no peace to go back. 00:57:39.809 --> 00:57:46.369 The peace was to stay. But listen, this ain't 00:57:46.369 --> 00:57:50.550 about me. This is about what you face every day. 00:57:51.690 --> 00:57:53.650 This is about the situations that you're in. 00:57:53.730 --> 00:57:55.690 This is about what you're looking at, what you 00:57:55.690 --> 00:57:58.840 need to do or don't need to do. I'm just sharing 00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:01.539 these practical stories so that you can understand 00:58:01.539 --> 00:58:04.900 that this is the way it works. I've already told 00:58:04.900 --> 00:58:09.760 you, I don't always follow it correctly. But 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:16.480 when I do, there's peace. When I don't, there's 00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:19.900 an uneasy feeling. When it's not the right direction, 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:29.719 there's always an uneasy feeling. Your soul can 00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:31.880 be doing all those things while your spirit is 00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:34.340 saying, this is what God's leading me to do. 00:58:35.300 --> 00:58:40.480 This is the direction I need to take. Isaiah 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.460 46 .10, this is God talking about His omniscience 00:58:45.460 --> 00:58:50.380 prophetically. He says this, and He's telling 00:58:50.380 --> 00:58:53.360 you this today. God is saying, hey, I'm God, 00:58:53.500 --> 00:58:57.179 and only I can tell you the future before it 00:58:57.179 --> 00:59:10.329 even happens. I can tell you the future before 00:59:10.329 --> 00:59:15.309 it happens. Don't need witchcraft. Don't need 00:59:15.309 --> 00:59:18.130 Ouija boards. Don't need the little, you know, 00:59:18.150 --> 00:59:20.929 the little Swami machine, put a quarter in, it 00:59:20.929 --> 00:59:24.849 spits out some kind of fortune. Only God can 00:59:24.849 --> 00:59:29.030 tell you the future before it even happens. How 00:59:29.030 --> 00:59:33.150 many of you know if you knew the future that 00:59:33.150 --> 00:59:35.070 you would probably make some better decisions 00:59:35.070 --> 00:59:41.059 along the way? Hindsight is always 20 -20. Man, 00:59:41.059 --> 00:59:43.460 I mean, you can look at it and say, if I would 00:59:43.460 --> 00:59:46.900 have only known this, I would have made this 00:59:46.900 --> 00:59:52.860 decision. Well, God knows this. Your mind only 00:59:52.860 --> 00:59:56.940 knows what you know. The Holy Spirit, He's God, 00:59:57.039 --> 01:00:01.619 so He knows what God knows. God knows what you 01:00:01.619 --> 01:00:06.579 don't. And He wants to lead you for your good. 01:00:06.820 --> 01:00:09.980 Everybody say good. For your good and for His 01:00:09.980 --> 01:00:14.900 glory, He wants to lead you. You don't know what's 01:00:14.900 --> 01:00:22.000 around the next corner. But God does. God knows. 01:00:22.260 --> 01:00:25.800 Everybody say, God knows. You don't know what 01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:28.480 the opportunity that you're confronted with or 01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:30.380 the opportunity that's been set in front of you, 01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:34.940 you don't know what will become of that. Listen, 01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:40.550 good or bad, But who knows? God knows. Everybody 01:00:40.550 --> 01:00:43.550 say, God knows. You don't know the consequences 01:00:43.550 --> 01:00:46.949 attached to the decision that you're about to 01:00:46.949 --> 01:00:53.690 make. You don't know. But who knows? You're catching 01:00:53.690 --> 01:00:59.650 on. Say, God knows. You don't know what you're 01:00:59.650 --> 01:01:06.489 being protected from. Who knows? God knows. Everybody 01:01:06.489 --> 01:01:13.610 say, God knows. Psalm 32, verse 8. This is God. 01:01:13.949 --> 01:01:19.809 He's talking again. He says, only I know. Only 01:01:19.809 --> 01:01:27.409 I know. And then he says, I will guide you along 01:01:27.409 --> 01:01:36.519 the hardest pathway. Are you reading? Somebody 01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:38.719 should have said no, that's not what it says. 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.519 God says, I will guide you along the best pathway 01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:56.420 for your life. He says, I will advise you. I 01:01:56.420 --> 01:02:02.440 will watch over you. I will guide you along the 01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:12.139 best pathway. Listen, the shepherd isn't speaking 01:02:12.139 --> 01:02:15.559 just because he wants to control you. He's not 01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:21.019 a control freak. God is not a control freak. 01:02:21.699 --> 01:02:28.079 He's not doing it for kicks and giggles. He's 01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:31.480 speaking and leading and guiding you because 01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:35.940 he sees what you can't see. He knows what you 01:02:35.940 --> 01:02:44.159 don't know. In every area of your life. He's 01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:50.480 concerned. He cares. You don't have to say, oh, 01:02:50.519 --> 01:02:52.619 well, I'm just on my own on this. God don't really 01:02:52.619 --> 01:02:54.599 care. So I just got to figure it out myself. 01:02:55.099 --> 01:03:02.179 God cares. Sometimes He's going to say go. Sometimes 01:03:02.179 --> 01:03:05.900 He's going to say stop. Sometimes He's going 01:03:05.900 --> 01:03:09.460 to give you peace. Sometimes He's going to... 01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:12.179 Do something inside you that says, no, don't 01:03:12.179 --> 01:03:20.360 do it. Don't do it. And he's doing it because 01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:27.219 he knows. John 10, 27, my sheep hear my voice. 01:03:29.019 --> 01:03:31.400 This is God talking and he's calling you a sheep. 01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:35.500 He's saying, my sheep hear my voice and I know 01:03:35.500 --> 01:03:42.030 them and they follow me. God's heart is the heart 01:03:42.030 --> 01:03:46.550 of a good shepherd who wants to lead you beside 01:03:46.550 --> 01:03:50.630 still waters. He wants to take you to green pastures. 01:03:54.929 --> 01:03:59.690 And when trouble or terror comes your way, he's 01:03:59.690 --> 01:04:01.730 going to be right there with you to guide you 01:04:01.730 --> 01:04:05.110 through and to lead you through. Because he's 01:04:05.110 --> 01:04:07.690 a good shepherd. He's not going to abandon you. 01:04:08.590 --> 01:04:15.380 He's there. He cares. He wants to lead you. If 01:04:15.380 --> 01:04:21.179 we'll follow him, we won't crash. Listen, your 01:04:21.179 --> 01:04:23.440 responsibility is not to understand everything 01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:28.880 the shepherd knows. Your responsibility is to 01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:33.619 know his voice and to know it well enough to 01:04:33.619 --> 01:04:42.000 follow him. Again. The inward witness is not 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:46.880 words. We might talk about this later. I don't 01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:49.860 know how long the series is going, but every 01:04:49.860 --> 01:04:58.099 time God has given me a word, I mean, a big -time 01:04:58.099 --> 01:05:05.420 word, it's always been because I would probably 01:05:05.420 --> 01:05:11.719 get it wrong. If I didn't get that word, it's 01:05:11.719 --> 01:05:14.599 always been about something big that I probably 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:21.059 wouldn't even, it would just lock me up. But 01:05:21.059 --> 01:05:22.940 because I had a word from God, I wasn't locked 01:05:22.940 --> 01:05:28.139 up. Like the day during the revival service when 01:05:28.139 --> 01:05:31.940 he told me through an evangelist, any security 01:05:31.940 --> 01:05:35.539 outside of Jesus is idolatry. He had to tell 01:05:35.539 --> 01:05:38.280 me that, and it had to be crystal clear for me 01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:43.300 to go in and quit my job the next day and tell 01:05:43.300 --> 01:05:47.599 my wife that, you know, who's, I mean, Jeffrey 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:52.619 wasn't even one year old yet. Dana had already 01:05:52.619 --> 01:05:54.820 quit work to take care of him, and then now I'm 01:05:54.820 --> 01:06:00.239 going to quit my job and go on the road in evangelism? 01:06:01.059 --> 01:06:07.050 I better have a word from God. Because the warm 01:06:07.050 --> 01:06:11.030 fuzzies on the inside wouldn't have worked for 01:06:11.030 --> 01:06:15.510 this one. I mean, that was a big one. So don't 01:06:15.510 --> 01:06:18.050 say, oh, I've got to have a word from God. I've 01:06:18.050 --> 01:06:20.289 got to have some kind of supernatural thing. 01:06:21.429 --> 01:06:27.230 If you get that, it's only because you've got 01:06:27.230 --> 01:06:34.739 to have it to survive the next instruction. I 01:06:34.739 --> 01:06:38.760 don't know why I got into that. Our responsibility 01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:41.800 is to know His voice, to know His inward witness 01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:49.559 enough to just follow Him. Let peace be the umpire. 01:06:51.380 --> 01:06:58.619 No peace, no go. When you don't have peace, that's 01:06:58.619 --> 01:07:02.920 the red light. When you have peace, that's the 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:06.500 green light. This online worship experience was 01:07:06.500 --> 01:07:08.920 brought to you by the friends and partners of 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:09.619 Elation Church.