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what in the world does that mean? I mean, God said that through the prophet to some exiles who were coming back and rebuilding the temple. And it was so small compared to Solomon's temple, and so plain and so simple. It says that the people who saw Solomon's temple started crying, and they were crying so much that the people who were shouting, because they never had a temple at all before, they were like, WHOA, this is awesome, this is amazing. This is a house for God. This is the place

we can meet with him. They couldn't be heard above the weeping of those who could only compare what they were looking at with what was before it. And so God said, I don't want you to look at it and compare it to the old Temple. And I believe you're saying that to somebody in this room. I don't want you to compare what I'm doing in your life right now to what I did in your life in a previous season when you didn't have a bad knee.

I'm preaching to the over forty now. I know you used to be the star wide receiver and receiver in Villain, Texas. But right now, right now, I need you to understand it's not what the temple is made of. I told our campus pastors. Even as our church is kind of coming back, and you know, after the pandemic, it takes time for people to come back, and so a lot of the buildings they don't look like they did before that thing that happened, which I can't say because Indo'll

take it out the YouTube algorithm. So I'm gonna just beep it out, the thing that happened, and then if you look at what it is right now and try to compare it to what it was, you missed the whole point. Because he said the glory of the Latter House, what I'm doing right now, He's pointing to Jesus, will be greater than the glory of the former house. So this is what I told them. Don't look for the gold, look for the glory. The gold is the external, that's

Solomon's temple. Look for the glory. So what God is doing right now, He's trying to get you to attenuate your mind to what he is filling you with. What do you want to be filled with? You want to be filled with fear, You want to be filled with depression. All you have to do if that's what you want to do, it's just do everything you see the world doing. Okay, But if you want to be filled with joy, unspeakable, full of glory in the holy ghulfs, you can't. Oh God,

I'm gonna start my sermon right now. Watch this. You can't do what the world does and get what the word says. So are you ready for the word of God? I want you on your feet in the ready position. I am gonna pick up where I left off last week. Somebody shall copy that, copy that copy that. That was the last thing in my sermon last week. So let's pick up with the scripture that I mentioned last week.

But I didn't get to mine it. Hebrews Chapter thirteen, verse seven, case your feet hurt from standing, only got one verse, then you can sit down. Did anybody come to church from over one hundred miles away today? What? For real? Where from? Huh? I love that place. That's one of my favorite places. I didn't hear a word they said, anybody come from over five hundred miles? Y'all remember the song from the nineties, I would walk five hundred And we're really gonna get YouTube flags the cite

who comes to Elevation Church. It's a great worship song, right. How about all the new songs we've been singing. You've been enjoying that hmm. Lately we've been getting in these writing rooms and just wanting to single word of God. And so you probably didn't hear it if you're watching this later, but we just sang a song and it

goes straight from Matthew five. I'm gonna talk a little bit about my dad today in the sermon, and I'm gonna talk about him kind of, you know, kind of tell you some of the good stuff, but the bad stuff or whatever. It's gonna be what it is. But one memory of my dad that's really precious to me? Is he loved? My mom can tell you the Sermon

on the Mount Matthew five six and seven. So I was thinking, like when we were writing that song where we just go through the attitudes blessed to the poor and spirit for their kingdom having blessed us and more they become, and just singing those scriptures, I was thinking, men, the el Tring would love this. He'd be running laps. And so it's just exciting. We're gonna be recording again, what is it, October sixth, So we're gonna be recording some new songs on October sixth, So you're all invited

for that. Also, you're all invited to Elevation Nights. We're gonna take this glory on the road. That's right, I'm gonna do it. So if you're in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, or Jacksonville, come on out. That's October twenty sixth through November fourth Elevation Nights dot com so they don't have to come from five hundred miles.

We'll come to you. Man. It's gonna be so exciting. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Wow, look at you you walking, talking miracle, you live in breathing miracle. The devil is so confused because you're you're praising God after all he puts you through. This week, he's like flipping out. He's summoning all his little junior demons, Like I thought, I told you to a tackle, then I got dead. But they ain't just take, They just take, They just tame, and they've made it a day. Hebrew's thirteen.

Hebrew's thirteen, verse seven. Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you, consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Say my title one more time to your neighbor. Copy that you may be seated, You may be seated. How many have you heard the sermon last week? Y'all? Do know they're free online, right, so if you ever sleep in or can't be here,

make sure you catch up. A lot of times it's on the second listen that you really get what God wanted to say to you, because on the first listen you're kind of like judging me, like, you know, if I agree with this, if you can do it? There? What are those shoes? You know? Just looking at stupid stuff. And then sometimes on the second time, it's not the distractions, but it goes deeper. It goes deeper. You go, oh, this is I got it on one level and I got it on the second. Listen. So there's a value

in repetition. There's there's also a danger in repetition. I felt like my sermon last week was a little more on the negative side. I'm not apologizing for it because I took it from the Bible where God warned Moses. It says he warned him, and I was warning you make sure or see to it that you build according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.

That's where God met with Moses and showed him how to build the tabernacle, Holy of Holy's, table of show bread, all that stuff he showed him on the mountain, because then he had to go down to where the people were. I always had these great ideas about ministry until people showed up and messed up my ideas of ministry because they don't do it like you tell them to, and they don't run the first base, then second based in third base. See them over there climbing the fence, playing

in the dirt and stuff. And that's me too, right, that's me too, and that's tricky to be a leader. How many leaders do we actually have here today? Worship leaders? Let's start their worship leaders? Really cool. I want to ask that again, but this time I want every parent to raise your hand. How many worship leaders do we have here today? Whether you want to or not, you are teaching your children not only how to worship, and

some of that, you're teaching them as well. If you're kind of a one hand in the pocket hand lifter, they'll probably do same thing. But it's also true that you're teaching them what to worship every time you set the schedule to say, well, we'll go to church if we have time. Wow, I just felt an arctic wind. It's true. And I'm so grateful that Christy Collins pulled out her iPhone and captured this video that I'm about to show you because I feel most of the time

like i'm failing. As to Dad, I'm wired. I'm hard wired to be hard on myself and some of you are too easy on yourself, and some of us are too hard on ourselves, and then we can help each other out. But Holly's really good about it too. She's always sending me these time hops do you'll do time hop where it shows you this is what you were doing five years ago, this is what you were doing seven years ago, this is what you do nine years ago.

And so it's just showed me it Charlotte Knights game with the boys, just to remind me, good dad, You're good dad, and I need that. But what Christie captured we were doing our recording with Elevation Worship in Maverick City called Old Church Basement. I sat right there with my kids on that ledge. Our whole family was on that ledge. The building still wasn't fully open. With COVID.

Tested made this album. It's touched the world. It's probably it's probably one of my favorite things I ever worked on as a songwriter, as a pastor, as a producer, and I'm so thankful for everyone who's involved. But the greatest part of the night wasn't on YouTube. The greatest parts never are. The greatest part was when we were recording the song wait on You, I'll trust in your primis. I'm gone on, wait on you gotta do with a little growl, I'm going no, you gotta aggressively wait on

the Lord. Wait when I just couldn't take it anymore. And we were about thirty seven minutes into the song and I shumped off the ledge and I ran down and I couldn't take it anymore. And I looked up and Abby was standing beside me. Now, my children are very competitive. Last week I baptized Gramma called him up on stage. I gave him a speech. I gave him a Bible and Abby said that was a that was good. When am I going to be in a sermon again? So I picked this out because it fit with my

theme of copy that. Watch this little fifty second video. I love this. I like that one. I favorited that one on my phone. I could see it in those moments, you know those moments. I will interview your wife this week and talk about those moments next week. If you don't nod your head at me, do you have those moments where you need an example, a better example. I want to go ahead and beat all the trolls to it. I'm not going to be on Dancing with the Stars

with those moves. I know that I understand that my moves are unorthodox. My kids tell me this all the time. They keep me humble. But we didn't choreograph that we didn't practice, that we didn't have to. I didn't tell her, you know, I think I'm gonna do this like this wounded eagle, move like an eagle that was shot but not killed. I'm gonna come through, and I need you to do it with me, so I don't look stupid.

It'd be cute if you don't. I watched her. I realized that there's what I say and there's what she sees. When people do what people see. Yeah, the challenge for a lot of people I'm preaching to is that sometimes you have to be something that you've never seen before. When I read my scripture, remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Put it on the screen again. Because there's no power in my words. There's

power in God's words. Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you, who told you I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, who told you God's hand is on you, who told you that there's nothing more important than God, who told you that if Christ isn't at the center of your life, the whole thing will fall apart. Who told you and taught you, who preached to you and taught to you that you

are who God says you are. But in reading this, I realized that a lot of the people that I preached to never really had someone to speak this word over their life. So then they went with what the world told them because they didn't know what the word said about them. That's uh, what I was going to tell you about my dad because one time my mom. My mom was so good at this. She would cover for his crazy as she'd pulled him to the side, and she'd say, you know, he's doing real good. I said,

he's not doing real good. He's crazy. He's crazy. I can't stand him. And he was doing he's coaching my teams, he's doing all this stuff. But one day she said, did you know he didn't have a dad growing up? I didn't know that. I knew he didn't have his dad long, but I didn't know that his dad had killed himself. I didn't know that my dad had found his dad dad on his own birthday when he was eight. I didn't know that. I didn't know that he was

making everything up. So even that one time when I said I hated him and I wanted to kill him, when I was a teenager, and he picked me up from school early and told me we were going out to the National Forest and he had two guns in the back of the truck and one of us was going to kill the other one. Even though that isn't necessarily the best parenting tactic, and it's not doctor Philip Roof. He didn't have focus on the family growing up. All right. I did the best I could. I did the best

I could. He's doing real good. If you saw, if you saw what he never got to see. So when the author of Hebrews is saying, here, remember your leaders who spoke the word of God concerning you, he's not so much talking about their words that they spoke, the word of God that they spoke. But then he says something really powerful. That's what I want to teach on today. Somebody shall copy that. Put it in the chat right now. Copy that. That's what they say on a walkie talkie

right copy that. It means I heard it, I've got it. I'm on it. You see these security people around our church keeping you safe. Thank God for them. If you knew how crazy some Christians are, you'd be clapping better than that for the security team. But they say it all the time I copy that, go, I assume Row four copy that. And I wanted to call the sermon that because that which you copy is that what you become.

That which you believe is that what you become. And so when he says, remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you, there are a lot of words that were spoken to you and over you and about you that have to be uprooted before the word

that God spoke about you can be planted. Now, remember the Hebrews have not been a part of Christianity for too millennium like we have, So they haven't had two thousand years to get used to the idea that we are justified by faith, not worse, it's all new to them. They have not had two thousand years to get used to the fact that it is by grace you have been saved through faith. It's not the blood that a

high priest takes. And remember I talked about this last week, that they serve in a tabernacle that is an earthly copy of a heavenly reality. But even Moses, as holy as he was, as important as he was, as amazing as he was, only Moses could only lead them so far, and In the middle of this, he gives them an instruction. As he concludes his letter, he says, consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith, or

in other words, copy that can I preach. If y'all have had enough, I'll go eat some Keto pancakes and chill. But the Lord said to me, first of all, consider the outcome. And that hard to do when really what you're seeing all day long in people's lives is you're seeing just what I called it last week, a snapshot. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. So question I've been thinking about is the way of life that I am choosing producing the outcome

that I desire? Is the way of life that I'm choosing producing the outcome that I desire? We need more leaders in the world today, less opinions. We need more leaders, less influencers. Oh yeah, oh yeah. This is the part to my sermon where I am a crotchety old man telling you that what you are seeing on your real r E E L is not real R E A L. This is the God's honest truth. The writer of Hebrews said, imitate their faith. But we live in a time where

we are imitating their faith. So consider the outcome. I wonder what happened five minutes after they took that picture. I wonder what happened five minutes after they posted that. I mean just five minutes, not five years. Let's talk about five minutes after one day in church. I was so sick of like preachers, always trying to be perfect. Me and my family we wake up every morning quote Ephesians,

pray and sing the Beatitude. And I said, let me show you what this family is really like, and showed one of our Christmas videos that was so beautiful and welcome elevation and made it unto you as a child is born and a savior this day in the city of David that the Xavier as the country Chrystlier. And then I showed the outtakes, and Holly Ferdick was one step short of having to be bleeped what she was saying to those kids in those outtakes. So watch this

outcome outtakes. Nobody is showing you their outtakes. You are imitating. Now I gotta get this across. I don't careful I have to say it every week for then I'll be up here seventy five years old, dragging my right leg behind me, talking about what you're copying is cropped. It is only showing you so much. And a lot of the people that we are emulating and imitating and talking like and captioning like. And you know what's the weirdest thing. I thought we as parents were supposed to set an

example for our kids. But now I see grown men and women trying to talk like a kid, and it's cringey, y'all, it's cringey. It's cringey when you're a dad of three and you're still trying to show you got it. You got game. You know what you got, You got dependence, you got bills to pay, you got a mortgage. Grow up man, that's over. When I became a man, I put away childish things. Now I'm not talking about not

having fun. I'm the goofiest dude in the world. But what I'm saying is a lot of times like Romans twelve to two is my favorite verse to explain this. It says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So a lot of people will make the distinction between the pattern of this world and the renewing of your mind. But really in the text, the juice of it is intwo different words. It's conform transform. Conform is something you

can change, just like an attitude or a posture. Transform is different. Transform is something that has to happen because of what's on the inside. So since you have Christ inside of you, now remember you're not serving that a tabernacle built with human hands. You don't have a high priest that was selected from among men. You are not serving a shadow or a copy. You have a risen Savior who set an example for you so that you

can copy that. And since that is in you, the spirit of God is in you, not the spirit of the world, not the spirit of worry, the spirit of the world. You get to reproduce that because it's on the inside, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So what's in you has to come out. And that's why the writer of Hebrew says, remember the word of God that was spoken to you, and copy that in your heart, and copy that in your life. Oh, I forgot to read you the verse after that. I really

truly forgot. This is not a little thing. I'm doing in my sermon. Verse eight says, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. So, he says, remember the leaders who spoke the word of God over you, consider the outcome, how it worked out for them. And we use all kinds of excuses for bad examples. And so we'll do the same dumb things that we saw growing up. And this is what we'll tag it with at the end. And look at me. I turned out all right, did you though?

Did you really? Because maybe it just hadn't caught up with you yet, Like, well, I don't cost it my kid. My dad did it too, and it was good for me. I turned out all right. I don't think. I don't think you're all right. I'm watching it right now. I'm seeing there's a little bit of a wound, just a little bit of a wound, just a little something. How do you copy what you never saw? And he said,

Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. So like the devil isn't very creative, God is a creator. The devil is not. The devil is so uncreative, everybody, how uncreative is he? He's so uncreative that he only has three temptations. That's the only way he can tempt you. First, John says, the lust of the world, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, lust of the eyes. This is the love of the world. I messed that up.

I'm gonna do this again. The love of the world is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Go to Matthew chapter four. We said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and a lot of time times we think we're facing a brand new temptation, but we're not. It's just the same devil in a different disguise. I love helping my kids navigate their life the best I can, but it's tricky sometimes because we didn't have Snapchat, we didn't have TikTok.

But the same devil that was busy on TikTok was busy on doss or the rotary phone or fax machine or whatever you did with your messaging pigeon. It's the same devil, everybody say. It's the same devil and the same three things that you're tempted with that derail you and sabotage you and bring you back down and get you out of the pattern God, children, noun. It's the same three things it's in Matthew. For so Jesus goes

to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Last week, when I finished Graham, you remember this is my son I love, whom I'm well pleased. Graham is so funny. I said, do you want a special meal after we baptize you? He said, Jesus didn't get a special meal. I'll eat whatever everybody else is eating. Jesuson gets special meal. He sisted, all right. So he wasn't saying it because he was holy. He just was making a joke. The next thing that happened, Matthew chapter four, I say, copy that.

So the affirmation of the Father and then the temptation from the enemy. Okay, this is a pattern that you can copy to be affirmed by your Father in heaven, so that when you are tempted by your enemy in the wilderness, you will have at your core your knowing of who you are. So Jesus was then led by the spirit in the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, and after fasting forty days and forty nights, you didn't

do that grim. He was hungry, and the tempter came to him and said, if you are the son of God, tell these stones to become bred. I know you know the scripture, but let's just move through, because there's a lesson here for today. Jesus answered, it is written, man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him up to the Holy City and had him

stand on the highest point of the temple. If you are the son of God, he said, throw yourself down, prove yourself, show everybody what you can do. If you got it flaunted, go ahead and show everybody who you really are. Go ahead, and you know you got to make it happen for yourself, For it is written he will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not

strike your foot against a stone. And Jesus answered him, it is also written, do not put the Lord your God to the test one more. Now we've already seen the lust of the flesh turn the stones into bread. That's when you try to turn things into things that

they were not meant to be. That's when you try to turn sex into an object to gratify a spiritual need, so that rather in the context of marriage expressing your sexuality, you express it in places where it spills over and contaminates all the places of your life, because it creates commitments that are not rooted in covenant, but are rather rooted in convenience and pleasure. And so then the enemy can rip you out because you turned a stone into bread.

This is when we go seeking for people's validations, when our father's voice is not enough, when we didn't have a leader that spoke the word of God over us. Then we are open to what the world thinks about, and we will change everything until we get the exact the exact compliment, the exact affirmation, the exact validation we were looking for. That's the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, you know, and the pride of life. This one right here, I've dealt with this a lot

in my life. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain verse eight, and showed him all the kinds thrown this splunder. All this I will give you, he said, if you bow down and worship me. Now, I never bowed down and worshiped the devil like that. But I have worshiped what the world worshiped. I have, at periods in my life, thought that a certain level of success would make me a real man. I have thought that a certain amount of money would make me secure.

And it really has to do with worship. I don't want to depend on God to be my provider. That's too uncertain. So I start worshiping what's in the world, plus the fleshless, the eyes, pride of life. All this I will give you. If you're about unworship me. And Jesus said, away from me, Satan, for it is written, worship the Lord, your God, and serve him only. So I realize now that I am a leader for these three kids, for my wife, and God's made me a

leader in this church. And now I'm asking myself the question, what example do I want to say of what we worship? Because I know what the world worships. The world worships talent, the world worships sensuality. And here's the weird thing about our culture. Okay, I appreciate the United States America shar North care Line, wouldn't rather be anywhere else. I'm born and raised in the Carolinas, and I'm proud of where I'm from. But the weirdest thing about our culture right

now is the way we worship youth. We don't remember our leaders that spoke the Word of God over us. They're irrelevant, they're not trendy. We rather go find somebody who hasn't even lived long enough that we can even know if they make it through their twinies. Huh do they even live to be thirty? And we will copy that. You're ready for a guest freacher or something like that. I'm just stirred up about it because I am watching us copy the world and slap a Christian vocabulary on it.

And there are no different values in the House of God than there are in the world. It's not about the external stuff. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the kingdom within you and the culture around you. And he said, you need to spend more time remembering those who spoke the Word over you, because that's what Jesus did every time he was tempted, and that's what you copy. You fight the world with the word, you

fight the spirit of the world with the word. So every time the devil said do it, Jesus said, it is written. He wasn't making this stuff up. All three things Jesus did to fight temptation, to fight hunger, to fight pride, to fight a census, and to agree with the spirit, all three things he said were already written in scripture. So Jesus said, I know what the word of my Father is on this situation, and I'm gonna copy that. I will not conform to this world. That's

why I'm glad. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. So it doesn't mean that the world stays the same, but my worship stays the same because I understand that what God did in my life yesterday it won't look like what he's doing today. But watch this, David, the same God that delivered me from that will deliver me from this. So I speak by the spirit of faith,

not fear, imitate their faith, don't copy their flass. The world is weird and it's not working, and it's broken, and it hasn't been since Eve listened to the serpent twist the words of her God, and then Adam, instead of being a good husband and a leader, blame the woman. So in my family, I gotta go through this whole time. I gotta weed out the worldly values daily, daily, transform your mind. You don't do that one time, you won't

even get out of church good. Today. It'll probably be somebody with elevation sticker in the parking lot that'll make you so upset. They'll probably be playing worship music too, probably be playing weight on you like quit flying and dry right there, right there. It doesn't take long. I'm gonna say it again. Stop copying crazy, consider the outcome. Where's this taking me? And now I ask that about thoughts? Right, some things that are really bad feel really good to

think really good. And I don't know if you should confess this or not. I love judging people. I am completely addicted to it. It's so fun. Oh, it's so fun. But how it feels the ooh, the outcome, the outcome of that thought process. One of my friends asked me the other day, how do you want to feel at the end of this day? Reverse engineer it with your decisions, consider the the what outcome, And to consider the outcome,

you got to monitor the inputs. Now, we live in a time where everybody wants this product, whether that's millions of dollars or the kinds of cars or the kind of success or the kind of marriage, or the kind of life. I want that outcome, but I don't want to emulate that process, so we get it backwards. The writer and Hebrews said, imitate their faith and consider their outcome. We want to imitate someone's outcome, but we don't want to invest our faith. So I want what you have,

but I don't want to do what you did. So now I'll put it on a credit card at age twenty three to have what you had at age thirty two that I didn't want to wait a decade to achieve. We need better examples. And I'm not just talking about cussing and drinking and chewing and tobacco and all this stuff we always love to say, the external stuff. I'm talking about the internal stuff too, and I'm talking about the values that we model. I told Elijah the other day,

we have so much good times. Man. He said, one day, I wish we could record all this stuff. Me and you talk about working out and just put it out to be the biggest podcast. I said. I said, well, we would all so get canceled. Because we talk about everything we talk about Hebrew's thirteen. We talk about other stuff too, and we talk about everything because he's sixteen, and I don't want him to imitate everything about me.

I really don't. He started driving recently and I'm like, every road rage that I ever showed him is coming up behind me in the rear view mirror and I see it coursing through my son, and I'm like, don't copy that, don't copy that, don't copy that. You know how nice to your mom? Copy that? You know, I study the order God, copy that, not that, not that, not that. But then my kids get mad at me because you know, like me and Holly, we do PDA stuff all over the house all the time because it's

my house. Because it's my house. And yes, I will walk up to your mom in my kitchen and I will kiss her with my whole mouth, right in front of you. And if you don't like it, you don't have to look. Oh, sexy stuff is only allowed on TikTok. I forgot not in the marriage because the world told us that the place for that is out of battance. But Devil, I don't coffee. You are technological batters. I'm not coffeeing crazy. I kiss my wife, I hold her hand with taking a nap. We are married. The marriage

bat is under fire Hebrew's thirteen four. Not kiss her again, you go play outside, build a ford, kick a can. I don't care, because I want you to know you are supposed to kiss your wife and love her more twenty years. I'll tell your marriage is dirty and gross and nasty, So save it for your wife. What I want to emulate something that's where them are dating. I

don't do it all the time. That's why that video meant so much to me because I saw a time I got it right, a time where I wasn't you know how we hit so self conscious, and I saw how she did it even better. She was about to start head banging. I don't know if you'll saw it because we watched guns n' Roses videos too. I'm gonna keep it real with you. So she was about to start head banging. Consider the outcome. Where's this headed? Not just what does it look like feel like in the moment?

Where is this headed? If you keep, if you keep emulating that, if you keep there's two sides of this, Okay. I think you got to think of yourself in this passage, thinking about what were the examples that were set for you. Because you copy what you saw and you don't even realize you're doing it. You don't copy what they told you to do. One thing my dad did that was

so brilliant is he struggled with alcoholism. And he took so many times to talk to me about what that was like for him, and he said, if you will commit yourself early, you can break this. This has been generational. He told me about his dad's death. He told me about what it was like to grow up in an abusive home like that. He said, but you can break it. Even though he couldn't break it, he struggled with it so long, sometimes victorious, sometimes defeated, but he was determined.

Watch this to give me permission to break a bad pattern. And I don't know who you are, but there's one person the Lord said to tell it to. You're a good person. You have bad patterns. Now the enemy condemns you. You're worthless, you're this, you're that, you're da dah da da dah. And then you start to believe that and you copy that and you identify yourself with that. You're a good person. Christ has made you new. You're a

new creation in Christ. God made you that way. But if you have bad patterns, pattern of their and they're new and on your mind. So there are always voices speaking over you and to you and about you. What are you gonna copy? There's the example that was set for you. Even in some cases, there's the season of life that you were in and the season of life that you are in. What are you gonna copy in this season of your life? Jesus knew what to do.

He said, it is written. It is also written. It is written because I am not consulting with my enemy for my life strategy. I'm not gonna copy it. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna take these thoughts and just think them because I know where they lead. Even recently, the Lord began to deal with me. He said, I want you to stop indulging your insecurities. He said, it gives you self pity, and you use that to sedate the pain of pressure. I wrote all this down as fast as I could so I could remember what I

was hearing from God's voice. But what it costs you is much greater than what it offers you. Consider the outcome. Because when you tell yourself lies about yourself and limitations about yourself, that do not. Now you do have limitations. Okay, so I'm not one of these. Can be anything you want to be. I think sometimes you need somebody to tell you get a backup career and keep your day job.

You are not going to make it on Kickstarter. That being said, the limitations and the lies that come from what you have copied in your heart or what you saw. See a lot of times God, like the people in Hebrews, He was bringing them. God was bringing them into a better covenant. Look at Hebrews eighty seven. I think this is the last scripture. IM gonna have time to show you today. Are you full? You fool? Did you save

room for dessert? It just says this, It says Hebrews said, for if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, that's the one Moses got from Sinai. That was the law that we broke. That we broke if it hadn't been for the limitations of that covenant in that insomuch as we were flawed, God is perfect. We are flawed. This isn't gonna work. No place would have been sought

for another. And the other one, of course, is the covenant that begins not with what we have done, but with what God has done and that we're accepted in Him. So this is our new starting place. But the enemy, he will take you back to what you saw all your life, and even as God is blessing you with something better, you will sink back down to the baseline of what you saw. Because what you copy in your heart the direction of your life. It is written. I

am not copying the world anymore. I did it. It's exhausting, it's depleting, it's depressing. I'm not doing it anymore. I'm not going to measure myself how I'm told I'm supposed to measure myself anymore. I did it. I barely lived through it. I'm not going to copy the way the world spends time anymore. Where the proof that you are significant is that you are so busy that you have no time or margin to consider anything that God might invite you to do. So now we're just all running around.

I asked one guy, when do you take your day off? He said, well, I don't take a day off. Devil never takes a day off. And in my mind, I'm like, are you copying the devil or God? Because God took a they are It's in our rhythms, it's in our rest, it's in what we receive and what we release. And the Lord wants you to release some things that were spoken over you by those wrong voices so that you can receive something better. And copy that, and copy that. Just get it on your mind all week long, and

copy that, the word of God that was spoken over you. Father. I thank you what you gave me today. I hear you speaking from heaven right now, and I want to hear your children say copy that. I hear you, God, I hear you talking to me. Pastor Stephen was talking to a lot of different people, but you were speaking to me. God. You showed me something on the mountain. You showed me something in your presence. You invested something in me, and the thief comes to kill still and

destroy it. So Lord, I want to bring the people before you today, such a vast group Lord that you've called us to. Pastor, some people just starting out in their faith, some people not even sure if they have faith. Yet your word says, imitate their faith. We've been copying the wrong stuff. Lord, We've been taking fear and just living in it and rehearsing it and regurgitating it and feeding it and living in it and regurgitating and rehearsing that, and so we repent of that. We repent. We want

to do it different. Gots to say that, God, I want to do it different. I'm on to stand up on your feet. We're going to pray this together. It's not my job to transform your mind. It's your job to cooperate with the Holy Spirit of God. So say Lord, I want to do it different. I want to do it different. I want to do it different. The way I've been doing it hasn't been working, and I'm tired

of it, and I'm weary and I'm heavy laden. So I'm taking your yoke today and I'm joining up with Jesus, and I'm hooking up with you Holy Spirit, because your burden is light. So for all the spirit of heaviness that we've been under this week, we exchange it now for the garment of praise. We thank you for your word that has been spoken over us. Maybe we didn't have a person to speak it to us. I pray for somebody today who was verbally abused and now the

trauma of that experience has them trapped. Your word says that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. So it's not too late. It's not too late for you to break the pattern. It is not too late for you to live. It is not too late for you to love. Maybe you weren't loved like you were supposed to be loved. Maybe you didn't have leaders, Maybe

you don't even know what to copy. And now here you are, and you're grown, and you're trying to raise kids, trying to be something that you never had the chance to see. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And even if Moses couldn't show you, there's something greater than Moses that's here. Oh, not only just an example.

You have the Holy Spirit inside of you. God has seen you as you really are, not as you thought you were, and not as you were last year, not as you were ten years ago, not as you were before this sermon. Today you are changing from glory to glory with ever increasing glory. And what God put in you is greater than anything but the world can throw against you. Now immitate that you know what. Look at me. You haven't even seen the blueprint of the true you.

You haven't even seen it. You haven't even seen it. I saw an interview where a man said Steve Jobs was walking him around before he died, and he was taking him through and he was showing him all this stuff that Apple had already invented, but people wouldn't find out about un till three years later. He said, And we went through this door in that door, and we had to put our eye on the thing and the

other eye on the other thing. And it was sixteen security clearances, and there was a table and he said, Steve Jobs said, look, he's walking me through. He was walking me through, showing me stuff that he had already designed, stuff that was already prototype. You know, God can walk you into your future and show you who you are going to be when you get free. Yeah, that's why I worship, because I need God to get me past all the security clearance and show me what he sees

that I'm gonna be that hasn't been released yet. Come on. I love the scripture. It says it does not yet appear what we shall be. That means no eye has seen, no gear has heard, neither has it even answered into your heart what God has revealed. But God has revealed it by his spirit. Show me, by your spirit, God, what you see in me. Show me, by your spirit, God, what I am stripped of the stuff that was said about me, that I repeated in my heart and helped me to take what you see in heaven, and as

it is in heaven, our Father, who ard in heaven. Hello, of your name, you Kingdom. Come, here will be done your kingdom. Come, Let the culture go, your kingdom. Come. You will be done on earth as it is in heaven. See to it that you build according to the pattern that God showed you on the mountain. See to it that you remember what your father spoke to you and the baptism at the Jordan, when you're facing that devil in the wilderness, and copy that that that that you

see that victorious Savior risen from the grave. The Bible says that as he has risen, so are we risen. So I'm coming up too. If he got up, I'm right behind him. I'm not staying down. My Savior didn't stay down. Happy that I hear you, Lord, And your word never returns. Boy, It accomplishes what you send it to do. Heads bowed, eyes closed, We seal this word now in the soil of our faith Lord, we make

a pact with you. We make a pact with you concerning our purpose and concerning our peace, that we are rejecting the world's patterns and aligning with your promise. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. You can click the link in the description to give now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more information and if you the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it with

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