He Was The One

Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today.

All right, so.

Sit down and let's get into it today.

I'm gonna sit down with you.

We'll get into the sermon a little differently. I'm gonna do it like if it was Jeopardy. Does anybody watch Jeopardy? At my mom's house on Wednesday night? She cooks for us and we watch We watch Jeopardy and then Wheel of Fortune. But I'm more on that Wheel of Fortune intelligence level. If I'm being honest with you, then the Jeopardy intelligence level. That's that's true, and so Wheel of Fortune is really our show. It's called Victuals, Vinyls, and Vanna.

And then and then we'll watch Vana White. Well, anyway, that's not the point.

I'm gonna do my sermon illustration like it's Jeopardy, and not to put you on the spot, but just to kind of get into the subject for today. And I want you to play along if you're at home. Okay, So I'm gonna say a description of like a Bible character. We won't go along with this, and then you just say, in the form of a question like they do on Jeopardy, who is blank?

If you know?

If you don't know, it's okay, okay, put it online if you do know it though, He was the one who built an arc.

Who was Noah Good? And put it on that wheel of fortune level for a minute? First? Okay? All right?

He was the one who stretched out his staff and who is Moses? That's right, I'm not going to trick you, but I am going to get harder. He was the one who fought the Battle of Jericho and the walls came Tom Blendown.

Who is Joshua Good? All right?

He was the one who took a rock a big old, ugly nine foot giants stand in front of him. Hit the giant with the rock had five, only needed one because he had good aim.

Who is David? Okay? Now, the next one. I got to read this one.

He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amasi arrested with his ancestors.

You got that chat gpt out, didn't you? For that man? That's right. I didn't know it either. We came across it in our Bible reading.

I'm gonna by reading club with my oldest son and Kelsey and beautiful Holifredic and we came across this passage. We're reading through Second Kings, and I am going to give you the answer. It's in Second Kings fourteen, twenty one and twenty two, and it came across this phrase.

And I'm trying these.

Days to give you the sermon in the spirit that I received it more and more so that means less distance between how God speaks it to me and how I speak it to you. And so I don't want to dress it up too much where it loses its impact. So for me, I was just reading the Book of Second Kings can get kind of monotonous. It's got all these bad kings. In the Northern Kingdom of Israel, there wasn't one good one, and then in Judah the southern

So you just kind of get in this mode reading it just.

Day after day, chapter after chapter where you're just hoping, like, maybe this guy will get it right because they keep letting the nation worship idols.

And keep going stop worshiping the idols, worship God.

And then you wonder if, like maybe somebody would say that about you if they watched your life too, So you know, stop worshiping money, stop worshiping stuff, stop worshiping acceptance.

Stop anyway.

Maybe not you just me, okay, okay, okay, just me, just me, okay, okay, okay. So we come across this and this phrase stood out to me. I'm going to give you two verses from Second Kings fourteen twenty one and twenty two coming up on the screen right now. Then all the people of Judah took Azariah. Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with his ancestor.

So Y's play again. He was the one who rebuilt.

Elath and restored it to Judah after Amazia arrested with his ancestors. Who is verse twenty one Azarayah the kid who became a king at sixteen years old?

Do any of you have teenagers? Have you been a teenager?

Can you imagine being a king at age sixteen?

And yet he was the one to do it.

And that's the title that I want to use for the message today, a very simple thought.

He was the one. He was the one say that out loud.

He was the one and put it in the chats for the comments if you're joining us online.

He was the one.

They didn't ask him, they didn't let him run for office. He didn't get to decide if he had a career in politics. The people, the Bible says, then all the people of Judah verse twenty one took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amasiah.

Amasiah. You know he did some dumb stuff. He did some good stuff, he did some dumb stuff.

There's a motivational speaker who likes to say every life is either a warning or an example.

Which one do you want your life to be.

I don't mean to argue with the motivational speaker, but don't you think every life.

Is a warning and an example? At some points? It depends on which part.

Of my life you're looking at, whether I'm a warning or an example. It depends on what point in time you judge it whether it would be a warning or an example. We've all seen people whose examples that we tried to follow until we found out that their example that was being set was leading toward an end that we couldn't have seen coming. And yet I'm grateful for

He was the one the.

Bible says, let's go back to that phrase again, because this is where I want to focus. He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah his father rested with his ancestors.

So I was telling.

Holly after we read that chapter that day, I said, that really spoke to me, how the Bible said he was the one. And she's like, okay, and she actually said this to me. She's like, I thought it was the most boring chapter we've read in weeks. I didn't get anything out of it, I said, but let me tell you, and went for a walk, and I said, it made me realize that when it's all said and done, the summary of your life usually will be condensed to

Dad thought you'd support me in that. I don't know that. I don't care about you.

I just know that, either by choice or if it was by coercion, I know you don't want another pastor.

You know, like that be a downgrade, right, But no, no, I'm kidding about that.

I mean, there's different people God we used to feed you in different seasons, and I don't have any problem if God uses somebody else in your life, but she only gets one. In fact, I was remembering when I read the phrase he was the one. Somebody say he was the one.

He was the one. That's what I want to talk to you about.

I was remembering when I went to a wrestling tournament to watch Graham and he won the whole tournament, and after the tournament was the first big tournament that he won. This a few years ago, and he won, and I almost didn't go to the tournament because I had to schedule somebody else to preach for me to go.

To the tournament. And I looked at him after he won.

We're sitting at Pizza Hut where all great bookeet and athletics celebrations happened, and I said, can you imagine if you had won the whole tournament and I hadn't been here? And he goes, but if you hadn't been here, I probably wouldn't have won it. Remember that, and I miss stuff that my kids do, just like you do all

So many of us do. I think that's the thing.

The devil just tries to get you to believe over and over again in different ways, and he'll put evidence in front of you. In thoughts inside of you to try to convince you that I am no one. I have no one those two things. Write those down because I want you to be like a detective on the

I mean, come on, Pastor.

Steve, and you're preaching about a king in the Bible who restored and rebuilt a city.

What does this have to do with me.

I'm just trying to get my kid to school one time on time next week, Just one.

Time on time. That would be my Bible verse. He was the one who got his kid to school one time on time.

And if he can't tell you that y're no I want to tell you have no one. So I said to Holly, I said, that really touched me to know that the Bible said he was the one. In fact, in Second Kings, I knew I couldn't stay in that chair very long. How long did I make it? Five minutes? In Second Kings it goes three times. It says he was the one and it talks about one certain king. He was the one, and it talks about another certain king. He was the one, and it talks about another certain king.

And at first you're reading.

This going, well, this has nothing to do with me, because I'm not a king, and I'm not in charge of military resources. Or they won't even trust me to bring coffee because they know it'll be spilled by the time I get there. I can't even get the coffee order right. I'm not the one like that.

But I read it.

Over and over again, and I thought about Graham, and I thought about my life, and I thought about the things that God has called me to do, and I thought about the people that God has called me a shepherd, and I realized that we need to talk about He was the one for all of those times in your life where you feel like I am no one.

And I have no one. So what I said to Holly, was this guy in the Bible.

There are three of them, I said, They list their accomplishments, even though all three of them technically failed at turning the nation around, But it still gives you this little glimpse in there. He didn't get it all right, but he was the one who did something right.

And I think we need to learn how to.

I don't want to say talk back to the devil, because we probably better to talk to God. But just can I say we need to defy the devil every once in a while, to defy the devil when he says, you know you're no one, because look how many followers they have, Look how many friends they have, Look how far along they are in their career.

Look how much money they have. You don't know how much money they have.

Every bit of what they're wearing on their body might be borrowed. You don't know if they paid for that brand name in cash.

So you don't even know.

Oh I'm no one and I have no one. And the Bible steaks up for this king Azariah, and it says he was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah. He rebuilt and he restored, He rebuilt and he restored. He was the one. He didn't get it all right, he didn't remove the high places where they were worshiping the Canaanite gods. But he was the one who rebuilt and restored. And I came to remind

Right, you even think that's godly. I must decrease that he may increase.

It does not increase God for you to shrink back from what he called you to do.

Somebody say he was the one. He was the one. Yeah, yeah, And.

It's important that we know that because if you just read about this, it's kind of like and his name was Azariah. But I even studied about Azariah, and you know what I found out what I'm playing fennis with myself up here sometimes.

I found out that the king named Azariah, who I thought I had never heard.

Of before, is the same guy called Yousiah that Isaiah mentions in the famous throne.

Room scene in Isaiah chapter six. And I checked this out.

He was the prophet who prophesied to Azariah, whose name was also Eusiah. Usiah was his throne name, Azariah was his personal name. And there's only one consonant different in Hebrew. So if we need van a white to come out, and we just changed one letter, this is the guy who Isaiah, the prophet.

Says Isaiah chapter six or one.

In the year King Eusiah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple.

In the year that Usiah died. That's the same guy, Usiah. That's the same guy that is talking about.

He was the one that died the year Isaiah saw the Lord and had his lips touched with Cole. Now that connection doesn't seem too significant to you yet, but it will when I'm done, because I want you to understand something right right quick, right off the bat, right right now, right here, right now, and never doubt it again.

If you knew what God was doing through you right now.

And what God was going to do through you, the devil could never discourage you again.

If you knew.

Ah touch your neighbors say, if you knew what God was doing through you, put it in the future in case, in case they have a hard time seeing it right now, in case they have a low bank balance right now, in case their kids aren't speaking to him right now, in case their mom isn't speaking to him right now, in case their job sucks right now, in case they're single right now and wishing that they weren't single. I mean, there's nothing wrong with being single unless you wish you

Me, just make the announcements.

Say.

If you knew what God was gonna do, the devil couldn't discourage you, couldn't pay you enough to quit, couldn't defeat you, couldn't press you. If you knew he was the one and they made him king at age sixteen, you haven't been thrust into something you felt like you weren't ready for yet. Have you ever just had somebody put something on you that you didn't even want to wear? Have you ever had that moment? I think every parent has this moment. Oh, I am the grown up.

And this guy he's sixteen years old.

And he has to become a king, and he did something so amazing that we're talking about it today. He's the one. I'm sure he wondered, just like you're doing I do. Why would I be the one? I'm sure he felt in the shadow of his father, just like you feel in the shadow of some of your challenges. I'm sure he felt insufficient, but yet he was the one who got the other one.

Yeah, there's three of them. I read the role one.

He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah. So I'm thinking to myself right reading this, let me sit back down. I'm going Elith must be a really big place if the Bible takes time to say that, of everything that he did, he rebuilt and restored Elath. And I pulled out this map in my Bible, y'all, and Elath isn't that big. It wasn't its size that made it significant. It was where it was situated. Elath was a port city. E Lath was at the northern tip of a gulf. Elath was

There are some things that the enemy.

Will fight you over in your life that don't seem very big on the surface, but he knows it is a port city in your life.

And if you get this one right, and if you get this one back, and if you get this one fixed, and if you get this one under control, and if you get this one flowing, and if you get this one working, and if you get this one open, and if you get this one rebuilt. And see, that's why you can.

Never judge the significance of the seas and that you're in by the size of the opportunity. According to your eyes if you only knew, I will prove it to you, not from the Bible. I'll prove it from my life because I've never seen E laugh. I've never been there. But I have had moments in my life where God was using something that I didn't think it was important, but it was a port. So when Elijah went to college a few weeks ago, he said, I got to get a job. I said probably. He said, how do

Let me see your resume. All right, But.

When I got to college, I felt like I was called to preach right. Nobody else shared that opinion at college. Back at home, I preached my first sermon when I was sixteen. I wasn't a king like Usaiah at sixteen, but I preached my first sermon at Monk's Corner of United Methodist Church.

And then Pastor Mickey.

He was the one who sat on my parents' floor and said God's hand is on your.

Son, and for my mom and my dad. They were the ones who.

Let me go be a youth minister while I was still a youth. But when I went to college, nobody was asking me to pre I found a guy on campus.

This is what I told Elijah. I said, you need to one day.

If you ever meet him, think j Hardwick. He said, who's Jay Hardwick? I said he was the one I talked to him in fifteen years. I would text him, but I don't have this number, so maybe he'll see this Jay.

Reaching out. You were the.

One when I came up to you in the cafeteria and I said I heard your preacher, and you said, yeah, I mean I'm trying to be it. I said me too, I want to preach like you preach. And you said to me, Okay, when somebody calls me for an invitation and I can't go, I'll tell him to get you instead. And I said I'll eat your crumbs. I'm not I'm not I'm not picky. I'm not picky.

Once you've run a crematory, you you'll preach anywhere, I said, I said that would be awesome.

He was the one that told Mason to put me on the Summer Impact team where I ended up traveling with Holly. He was the one, and he never sent me a bill. He never took a commission. Far as I know, he never took credit. They'd be running all around the state of wherever he lives now saying yeah, I gave Ferdiic his start over there over there at elevation, but he didn't.

Really care about that.

It's like he was so important in my life and I never even told my son about him. So just the other day, So the next time the devil tells you you have no one and he starts hitting you with this loneliness that he hits you with. When he hits you with loneliness, hit him with a list. Somebody say he was the one, all right, let's get inclusive.

Say she was the one. I knew y'all were getting offended.

Reflect this Friday night, and I don't want to start anything early. I mean, I've told you a thousand times that really Hoghy started the church, not me. I was gonna start it when I was about the age I am now, and eighteen years ago she turned me and said, it's time for you to start church, God's colture start. We got people around us we need, and you got what you need right now to do it. And we're

I would have learned too much the one. She was the one. And I look around the room like this, see and I don't just see a crowd, I see ones. I see ones.

He was the one that convinced me we could do elevation nights. He was the one that was with me at Green Day when Billy Joe Armstrong called me on stage to play guitar. Y'all that happened before.

I was sixteen years old.

I was at a Green Day concert and I turned to my other friend that isn't here anymore, and I said, what if Billy Joe calls me to play his guitar on stage? He said, shut up? That's stupid. It's never gonna happen. And in the middle till the Holy Ghost six, in the middle of the Operation Ivy Song Knowledge, Billy Joe Armstrong stops and say, does anybody out there play guitar? And my friends picked me up, and he was one of them and picked me up like I was Mufasa,

I never met him and say, hey, you remember that night in Charleston in nineteen ninety four.

Now he did it every night, so for him it was just another night.

But to me, it was the one. That's why I preach harror, because I preach every six days.

But for you, this might be the the one.

I'm gonna preach a lot of messages. But for somebody, this is the one.

For someone, this is the one. And I'm not talking about me just to talk about me.

I'm trying to get you to see.

That for someone, you're the one.

You're the one. You may not even know it.

You might be like Billy Billy Joe Armstrong go on to do another city. He went on to Charleston, West Virginia. He went on to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He never even knew he left a boy back in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. He boosted my popularity past the high school.

Quarterback in one moment. But he just went on.

And So when the devil tells you that you have no one, that you are no one, and that you can't see how God is using you, Oh, I got a tip for you. Ready, Ready, assume that God is using you. Assume that God is using you.

You got it? How do I know God is using me?

You won't assume that God is using you. Assume that God is using you. Usually they say, you know what, assuming does it makes a you know whatever, whatever. But in this case, I am actually advocating that you assume that you are the one that God wanted that person to come across in their path because you might have something valuable that they need. And for everybody who's been stuck in self pity, there is no quicker way out of self pity than to fulfill God's purpose.

So assume. I know y'all don't like this, because sometimes.

We don't want to be the one. I don't want to encourage anybody. When is somebody gonna encourage me? Sometimes I don't feel like preaching and I want to hnd you on the microphone. You'll say something.

I'm gonna do it. One day.

I'm gonna walk in, I'm gonna take the stage, and the first person that looks bored, I'm gonna throw.

My microphone say here, you do it. You're doing it just talking. He was the one.

He was the one he rebuilt and restored.

He was remembered for what he restored. Will you be this is the decision.

In this season of your life that you are making without even knowing that you are making it on behalf of others you know? Asked Holly, and I began to talk. We started to realize something about relationships.

Now I'm gonna try to talk about this.

If I don't really do a good job with that, I'll come on YouTube this week and do a bonus teaching on it. So pray I do a good job so I don't have to go back in and do it again. There's a lot of relational resentment that can build up in your life. People that disappoint you, And I'm no different than you. I get disappointed in people. The men that we're reading about in this scripture, Usiah, in many ways, he was a disappointment because he didn't

Jesus is the one, Stephen, Jesus, He's the one, and I'm gonna say it for you.

But you know, moving thus long from there, there's people that you think they're going to be the one to be with you forever, but they're not. But just because they're not the one, that was with you for a little while, or just because they're not with you forever, doesn't mean that they didn't serve an important purpose in your life. Now know this is for but I really need to say it. Some people in your life are port people. They move through, you move on, they move on.

And what this will help you do when the enemy says you have nobody.

Look at how they let you down. Look at how they didn't come through for you. Look at how they don't get you. Look at what they weren't able to do. Look at how you believed in them. Look at how you thought they were going to be the perfect partner. Look at how you thought they were.

Going to be.

I want to revisit this for a moment so that you stop focusing on the disappointment and start focusing on the deposit. Because I could tell you somebody right now and you could do the same for me. You could say, man, she was the one that I counted on and she let me down. But if we took it a little deeper, there was something God used that person in your life for. And even if it was just a port moving through.

And if we're not careful, so careful with our soul rules.

The devil will set up camp in that disappointment and say, you have no one, but they.

Were the one.

They were the one for a while. Look at what they added to your life. Yeah, but they betrayed me. It was Judas that got Jesus to the cross.

He was the one.

That God used more than any of the other disciples, because it was Judas that God used to get Jesus to the place where he paid for your sins and mine. Even the people that hurt you God used. I don't see that coldly. I don't see that to celebrate abuse or neglect or abandonment. I just know that someone has been living in this place for a long time.

I have no one, and.

You are so good at the disappointments that you're missing the deposits. And not only those that are gone, not only the people that planted seeds, not everybody that starts with you is supposed to stay with you. Not only that, but there are fresh people that God is bringing into the part of your life. And if you do not do the work in this season of setting free and forgiving the things that disappointed you, you will not be open to the deposit. And so you stay poor, and

In your life to bring you to a new level.

I declare and the creed he will rebuild and restore everything that the locas said every year that the kicker worm not up.

After all, it wasn't them that blessed you anyway. He was the one. God was the one. His mercy was the conduit, His grace was the power. Get ready to shout. You've had your eyes on people. Put your eyes on Jesus. He what's the.

One got to focus on others got too focused on stuff.

Forgot that he was the one.

Somebody say he was the one who brought me through depression. Say he was the one who forgave all my sins and healed all my diseases. He was the one whose blood washed me clean. And he was the one who knelt in a garden of got seventy with me on.

His mind and thrust through to La Crosse. He was the one.

And that's why I know he's not through with you, because it was him all along.

Usiah rebuilt and restored the port.

I'm gonna ask you a question when we write Your Second Kings Chapter fourteen, verse twenty one and twenty two, what are we gonna say?

He was the one. He was the one. I know some of you in here. I want your I want your Second King's fourteen twenty two to read like this.

He was the one who battled through the addiction that his dad couldn't defeat and beat it for his own kids.

He was the one. She was the one who.

Forgave her mom for never telling her that she was loved, for making her perform. And because she forgave her mom, she was able to face herself and love herself and see herself as a daughter of God. She was the one.

I'll see crowds today. I don't know.

I don't know why God gave me this annoying. I just see ones. I just see ones. I just see ones. One God, one person which one you want to be, because this can go the other way too. He was the one who gave up on himself because he really got tired of making excuses, and so eventually he just brought his lifestyle his belief in God down to the level of his lifestyle, rather than bringing his lifestyle up

Yusaiah, they're really good.

In fact, Second Chronicles twenty six it kind of says the same thing about him, but it gives us a little more detail. And I bring you this in a spirit of humility, because look, I know when you're a strong word from God. And for some of you, this is a strong word from God.

And it's not because of me.

It's because of the importance of your life to what God wants to do through you. And so this word is hitting you right now because this is an elath message for you. This is a a port sermon for you. What goes forth from here is important. You don't think it is yet you don't even know why.

You're the one.

I had a man come up to me after I preach one time and he said, preacher, when you were preaching, you said this message is for someone I don't know who, and he goes, I just want to let you know I was the one, and he said a little bit of what he was going through. I said, thank you for telling me. Then somebody else came up and they had overheard, and it was a man and a woman, and the woman.

Said she was really funny.

She said, I didn't mean the eavesdrop, but I heard that man that came before, and this is my husband, Joe, and I just want you to know that man that was here before he was wrong because he was the one you were talking to.

And pointed at her husband.

Somebody say, I'm the one. See, I'm the one that decides which one I'm going to be. He was the one who rebuilt and restored. If you're life this is in ruins right now. You didn't control that. You may have contributed to it, but but will you be the one who rebuilds in restores. I know God wants to be the one who helps you do that. I know that he'll be the one that will empower you to do it.

Usiah does amazing things, y'all. He for a guy who had to start being a king at age sixteen. Wow.

He defeats three of the Philistine countries, knocks down their walls. He puts these watch towers all around Jerusalem where they can see where their enemies are coming from.

And then after he.

Builds the watch towers, he puts these special military devices where they can shoot the arrows and hurl the stones and their enemies can't see them. He buys new military equipment for every single one of the soldiers. And there are three hundred, five thousand and seven hundred of them soldiers. He gives them all new equipment. He's also a gardener. He does amazing things with agriculture. This guy is amazing, amazing,

Let's look at it. Second Chronicles twenty six.

Then all the people of Judah took Usaiah, who's sixteen years old, made him king in place with his father Amasi.

We already read that. This is a different account of it.

He was the one who rebuilt eleth and restored it to Judah after Emasi arrested with his ancestors. We already read that, But this is a different account, and I watched this. Usaiah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty two years. His mother's name was Jekaliah, and she was from Jerusalem. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Amaziah had done. He sought God during

And listened to this verse, it's going to feel haunting.

As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success. The next several verses really break that down. All the successes God gave him. It says that God strengthened him, God helped him, God upheld him, God resourced him. If you go all the way down to verse sixteen, it says, but after Usiah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord as God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. Now listen to this, as Aria the priest,

And see, Usiah was powerful. God called him. Don't get it twisted. God anointed him.

God put the crown on his head, no matter whose hands he used to position it there. It was God that did it. But then he got out of his place, and even when he was corrected, he wouldn't listen. Now, listen to this verse nineteen because God is bringing you to this point today, and I want you to hear this as a warning.

For your life.

Usiah, who had a censor in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. And while he was raging at the priest in their presence before the incense alter in the lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead.

When Azariah, the.

Chief priest, and all the other priests looked at him, they saw you at leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself.

Was eager to leave because the Lord had afflicted him. Now listen to this. I wish the story ended, but.

I got to give it to you how it is in the Bible, because I don't write the book.

I'm just giving you the mail.

The Bible says King Usiah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house Lepross, and banned from the temple of the Lord.

Jotham.

His son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

Now listen to this.

The other events of Usiah's reign from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of amos Usiah arrested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings. For the people said he had leprosy, and Jotham, his son succeeded him as king. All he did, and the people said, give me verse twenty three again.

You see that, I'm gonna wait for you to find it. You see it.

People said he had leprosy, and he died like that. And he died like that because he forgot that God was the one. And you die alone when you forget that God is the one, and you live alone when you forget that God is the one, and your worship gets weak when you forget that God is the one, and you start running from what God has called you to, when you forget that God is the one, and you feel cut off when you forget that God is the one.

How many are grateful.

That of all the kings that are in second Kings fourteen, none of those kings are the one that we came to worship today.

Good and too.

Because people will disappoint you, but God will carry you. People will leave you. God never will. And the Bible says that King Usiah died with leprosy, a skin condition that isolated him.

But you don't have to You don't have to stay away.

You know why because Isaiah prophesied to Usiah, but he did not prophesy about Usiah. Isaiah prophesied about another king, a king that would come at a later date, A king that will not come through any human father, but a king that would come not in a palace, a king that would come in a Palestinian environment that would have been unfit for many animals. See the thing that I want you to know today, for all of you who feel alone.

I have no one, I am no one. I can't rebuild, I can't recover.

I'm down here and I have to stay here, and there is no more for me.

And I'm not the one. And this sermon is for.

Somebody else because I've tried this before and it didn't work.

I wanted you to know.

This from the heart of God today for his child. Your leprosy is not your legacy.

This leprosy, this issue.

Everybody has something like that, not a skin disease, not something that others can see on your four, but a label that follows you.

Through life, a condition, an issue, a struggle, a tendency, something that has been with you and may even be consuming you.

But somebody shall.

This leprosy will not be my legacy. Say it by faith, This leprosy.

Will not be my legacy.

One more time, say this leprosy, this label, this limitation, this loneliness will not be my legacy. Now look at your neighbor and say, God is not through with you. Let me tell you how I know God's not.

Through with you.

You know how I know He's not through with you because it did not end in Second Chronicles twenty six with Issiah. Flip on over to Matthew chapter one.

I feel I.

Preach him because the Bible says, no piano, give me some organ. Usiah who was Usiah, the father of.

Jotham, right, and he.

Died of leprosy and people said he had leprosy. Well that's what people said, but that's not what God said. God said he was the one who rebuilt Eli. So I need everybody to give God praise if you're grateful that.

People don't have the final word in your life. In your life, people, people.

I'll give God praise if you're said, pray for what the people say. People can say what they want to say. People can say what they want to say. I'm not listening to people. I'm listening to Prophecy.

What they got say about you? And he said you're the one? Yes what You're the one?

All right?

So come with me to Matthew chapter one, verse nine. Because you're reading, you're like, that's sad. He died of leprosy. But somebody say this leprosy is not my legacy. No, because Ysiah, who was he? Well, he was the one who was the father of.

Jotham, who was Jontham. Let's play jeopardy.

He was the one who was the father of a Has who is a Has?

He was the one.

I'm getting happy because I'm thinking about everything God's still going to do in your life that you can't see right now, Everything God's going to bring through you, everything important.

That God still has in your future. That's why the devil's fighting you so hard. That's why you can't sleep at night. That's why you're tossing and turning. That's why you're kind of restless. That's why you're kind of lonely. Because God is raising you up, all right. Just preach the text. Just preach the text. Let's go back to the text. Back to the text.

Somebody say, he was the one, yeah, yeah, yeah, he was the.

One a has who was he? He was the one who.

Was the father of Hezekiah verse ten, Hazekiah. He was the one who was the father of Manassa. He was the one who was the father of Emmin. He was the one who was the father of Josiah. He was the one that was the father of Jackaniah. Who was Jackaniah? Somebody shout he was the one, no shout at. He was the one verse twelve who was the father of Shiltiel. Who was Shiltiel. He was the one who was the father of Zaruba Bel. He was the one who was the father of Abitadag. He was the one that was

He was the one that was the father of Joseph. He was the one that was the husband of Mary. She was the one that was.

The mother of.

Who was.

The one who is O? Holy God?

Going to the prison prisons? Rise him on the port city, rights us for the purpose? Lights up?

Oh, he's bringing through rites Us for the purposey right, just for the sacred. Hey are the water and the leprosy. It's not your like you say, what's big Jesus.

Over your life?

Hot's big Jesus over your business?

What big Jesus over your mind?

Jesus, Jesus sister one, Jesus, Jesus, sister one, Jesus, Jesus sister one.

Who's started going Jesus.

Who's gonna see you through Jesus?

Always been him, It's always been him, Bro.

Since you were a little boy, he was watching out for you, since you were a little girl.

He was raising you up. They called you and he chose you.

And you are going to be the one to rebuild and restore so that Jesus can come forth in your life.

I declare God is bringing something forth in this moment. Who receives it, Who receives it? Come on, make your.

Heart a port city right now, say God, I receive it, I receive it, I receive it.

Now you're going to be the one.

She was the one who went to counseling and worked through her past so that it did not become the lid of her future.

She was the one. He was the one who decided to give his gifts to God rather than using them to serve the world. He was the one.

He was the one who decided to open a door for others rather than always trying to make it about himself.

He was the one. What one will you be?

I love that story in the Bible where ten lepers came up to Jesus. They knew that he was the one who could heal them. I don't know if you get the richness of this. He was the prophet, the priest, and the king, all of those things in one.

They had been to their priest, their priest couldn't do it.

They came to Jesus and he told them, go to the priest, and you will be healed as you go. And in Luke seventeen, verse fifteen, the Bible says that one of them, one of the ten, when he saw that he was healed, came back praising God man a whispered thank you, Lord, thank you so much, thank.

You so much.

What does the Bible say? In a loud voice? Because he realized, dyeleprosy is not my legacy. You don't have to stay outside anymore. He is Manuel God with us.

One of them came back. If I preach this sermon.

Everything I've said today, for one person to come back, it will be worth it. Because I believe you are a port city. I believe things are going to flow through you that are going to change lives. You will never meet who receives it, who receives it, who receives it? Online say I receive it, but I received it.

I see it.

Oh God, He was the one, Jesus was the one with healing, and it is at his feet that we fall today.

Lord God, this is the part of the sermon.

Where I stop speaking, but you don't, because there are things that you want to open up for the people that you brought to hear this word today. They have been labeled by life, labeled by lies. But I declare that label will not be their legacy. Alcoholic will not be their legacy. Addict will not be their legacy. Bitter will not be their legacy. Failure will not be their legacy. Defeat will not be their legacy. The heritage of the servants of God is the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ,

I have someone.

His name is Jesus, and he is the one who opens blind eyes.

He is the one who causes the lame to walk.

He is the one who forgives the sinner. He is the one who raises the dead.

He is the one who speaks for the.

Word, and we are healed. I wonder who is that one today that God gave me this message? For with your head bowed and your eyes closed, there's someone in here, and you need to throw yourself at the feet of Jesus.

Today.

We're going to pray a prayer right now. And this prayer is not the people. This prayer to Jesus. He's the one who can save you. I said he's the one. Somebody say it. He's the one. You've been running to everything else. You've been running to sex, you've been running too drugs, you've been running too religion.

You've been running to others.

You've been running too achievement, you've been running too aspiration.

But he's the one. He's the one who can say.

So. Right now, in the stillness of this moment, I want to lead you in a prayer.

And if you pray this prayer from your heart.

The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

It is your faith in Christ that saves You're not your good works, just your faith in Him.

So right now, if you need to come back to God, if you are that one who needs to come back and receive the.

Grace of God, I want you to pray this with me.

We're praying it as a church family, everybody all together praying out loud, repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I am the one. I am a sinner in need of a and I believe that Jesus Christ is the one true God. I believe he died that I could be forgiven and rose again to give me life. I receive this new life. This is my new beginning. I am a child of God. On the counter, three, shoot your hand up if you prayed that one two, three.

Hands up online, Hands up online. I celebrate you. I celebrate you. A church, the Bible says, says for rejoicing over one sinner in heaven. All the angels rechoice when one comes back.

Let's celebrate the wine. Hold on, Let's celebrate.

Somebody's daughter, somebody's son, somebody's brother, somebody's sister.

Let's celebrate.

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