Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
This amazing, this amazing.
This amazed.
I just wanted to give you a chance, in case you're still amazed by the grace of God, to celebrate him.
It's amazing.
Tell your neighbor if you only knew, tell him, if you only knew what I've been through and the wrong things I've done, you'd be amazed that I'm still singing.
Tell them what I am. I am what I am by the grace of God. I know that much.
It's amazing.
Come on, shout out loud.
It's amazed. It's amazed.
It's Amazay's amazed where he brought me from.
It's amazed.
It's amazed.
Why the same messy easy, it's amazed.
Glory to God. Well, let's lift up a praise like amazed people. How do amaze people praise God? Glory to God? Absolutely amazing.
I thank God that I get the opportunity to shepherd you and to serve you.
As a minister of the Word of God.
My job is to put God's word in your heart in every way that I possibly can. If it needs a song, if it needs a sermon, if it needs a book, If God has it and he gives it to me, I won't even wrap it.
I'll just give it to you unwrapped, out the box. How many love those out of the box words from God? Well, I've got one today. Yeah, I got one today. Oh, I'm excited what he shared with me to share with you. Be in prayer for us.
We're due to be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, about sixty hours from now or so, maybe a little less than that. We're gonna be ministering to people all over the northeastern United States, and we're gonna be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Chicago, Illinois, Columbus, Ohio, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and three other places Boston and Philly.
And Long Island. Now listen.
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When you do, you will get the audiobook of.
Do the New You for free, and that'll be great. So I'm excited those of you that will be seeing in the next few days. We're gonna sing and worship and pray. God is gonna move and break chains and part seas and lift the spirit of heaviness, and he's gonna save people and heal people and deliver people. And we're counting on our church family to pray for us and to lift us up before the throne and ask that God would use our entire teams, a whole army to go out there and do it.
And thank you for having our back. Do you have our back? Do you have our back?
All right?
Then well I'm good. If you got my back, I'm good.
Also I want to thank every single one of you who have supported the new book this week. Thank you if you bought it, if you shared about it, if you left a positive review, thank you. I believe the message is important. We're taking our time over the next few weeks because we're on a journey together, a journey to be more like Jesus, a journey to follow him into our future. And this journey of following Jesus cannot.
Be done alone.
And that's why I'm so grateful that we don't have to today. I want to pray one more time before we take our seat, that the Holy Spirit would be our guide.
I also want to encourage you.
Every single one of you, whether online or at a camp, has an opportunity to join what we call our E groups today. The E stands for empowerment. I bet you didn't know that. You thought it stood for elevation. Nope, it stands for empowerment because getting the instructions from God without having the empowerment to live them out.
Will frustrate you.
So these groups are our way of putting some very wonderful people in front of you who voluntarily have given their time, their homes, their caprice sons and their fudge rounds to feed you physically and spiritually. So please click on the link, stop by at the location. You cannot do the new you without the right y'all. You know that the Bible says you are a chosen people, people plural, you singular.
You got to get around the right people.
And this year, I'm looking for some people who are headed where I'm headed, and are hearing what I'm hearing, and who want to be like.
Jesus with me. So let's follow Jesus together.
Are you ready for mindset one?
All right?
Somebody shouted, and after you shout this, you can take your seat.
Say I'm not stuck unless I stop now. High five six people say, don't stop now. The ain't mad. You may be seated.
Bring the screen, let's teach, let's preach. Put it in the comments. I'm not stuck unless I stop. I'm not stuck unless I stop.
Pray for my handwriting. I'm gonna put some words on that screen.
First, I want to read this word to you from Matthew chapter twenty.
There's some water, this sweater is in my mouth. Pomeranian anointing.
Ah, thank you, Congratulations to Graham Ferdick State Champion. Congratulations to Elijah Ferdick, who released my most personal interview ever on the Youth Nation podcast. This league, we'll put it out together, and y'all have had some amazing guests, but I checked in mindus the highest of you y'all ever put out.
It's congratulations. More so, congratulations to Abby who's taking pictures on the photography team somewhere. I asked her when I woke her up this morning, I said, how many smiles do you want during the sermon today because they have to get pictures of me smiling?
And she says, sometimes I don't smile at them. She said ten, so we'll try to get there.
She said, I need you to smile ten times, but not all in a row. Matthew Chapter twenty, Matthew Chapter twenty, verse twenty nine through thirty four.
You know what, Let's do it on screen. Yeah, let's do it on the screen.
I asked, Brody, can you put the whole Bible on the screen for me and I can just pull it up at will?
And he did that for me. You'll give it up for Brody. Thank you, Brodie.
Matthew Chapter twenty. What am I doing? I got a stylist back here. Aha, all the way down to verse twenty nine. Two blind men receive side. As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. Two blind men, we're sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by. I think y'all need to get the whole thing on the screen, don't you. Yeah, there it is. You got to see all this. And those of you that are adjusting to the font size,
you're old like me. This is like size five hundred font and some of us are still struggling.
Happy birth, all right.
Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, Lord, Son of David. I'm not going to use my whole full shouting right now, not this early in the sermon. When they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, Lord Love, Lord son of David, have mercy on us. The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet.
But they.
Shouted all the louder.
I like these guys, I said, I like these guys. The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, Lord.
Son of David, have mercy on us.
Let's shout that, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.
Now. If you don't need mercy, keep your mouth shut.
But if you need mercy in your life because you're not always perfect, shout with me.
Lord son of David, have mercy on us. Yeah.
And Jesus stopped and called them, what do you want me to do for you?
He asked Lord.
They answered, we want our sight, and Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him. So say it again. I'm not stuck unless I stop. I want to make a connection. As we study this today where it says they received their sight and followed him, I want to draw your attention to something. Is that, if you go back to the beginning of the passage, these men have experienced an
amazing change. How many believe that God can still change your life in an amazing way at any moment, at any age, at any stage, And it can come from a direction that you never see it coming. And it can happen at a time when you had convinced yourself that it was over, and when you feel the stuckest.
That's when God does some of his best stuff.
I had a friend in high school who had a big truck, and he just lived for when somebody got stuck so he could show off his truck.
I got a God who has a big truck.
He lives for the moments when somebody gets stuck so he can show what he's got. The stuck word is kind of a nice word to use to describe how we feel. Sometimes we could use a lot of other words as well, depression and anxiety, and states that we
get stuck in situations and circumstances that seem insurmountable. Relational profiles that never seem to change though everyone else seems to change theirs, Monthly habits that seem unbreakable, in patterns of thought that seem to be embedded into the very way that you are.
That's what we're challenging in this series. Do the new You.
That's why I wrote the book. I don't just want to be your life coach. I want to be your holy ghost life coach. Can I be your holy ghost life coach for a few minutes today and talk about the way that discipleship, which is really what we're talking about following Jesus' discipleship. Put that word in the comments, please, discipleship. Discipleship is always about redefinition. And I'll explain in the passage we just read. These two men had a physical problem.
They were blind. This blindness is not only limited to the physical realm. The disciples who followed Jesus were blind not because they couldn't use their eyes, but because they could not see what he was doing even as he did it. They would fight over position. As he was speaking about purpose, and even as he was moving toward the cross to save the world from its sins, they were arguing about status and who gets the best seats in heaven? Can you believe that the disciples were blind?
The men were blind? The Bible says that there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, probably begging, because the procession called Passover was happen. And now Passover was an annual feast for the Jews. This one was different. This one was different because Jesus was going not to see the lamb that was sacrificed in the Passover, but to be the lamb. He wasn't going just to commemorate an event in history. He was coming to redefine history
as we knew it. It's a significant moment in Jesus's life, and yet everything in the passage screams of limitation. For although Jesus is fully God and able to do whatever he wants, he doesn't have much time left to walk the earth as a man. He's one week away from hanging on a cross, just a little bit over a week away from rising from the dead.
He's headed to Jerusalem.
He's headed to Jerusalem to face the cheers of the crowd when he arrives, riding on a donkey as they spread their palm branches on the road, saying Hosanna, Hosanna, which.
Means save now.
Yet days later, many of the same crowds that shouted Hosannah.
Will be shouting crucify him.
Don't ever commit your view of yourself to a crowd.
If they like you, wonderful.
If they don't like you, and God still loves you, you'll still have something to eat and somewhere to live in His presence. I don't know what I'm talking about, and therefore Jesus never committed his identity to the opinion of a crowd, and you can't either. I wish I was preaching just to the youth right now. I would talk to you about your crowd, and I would tell you that you are becoming too much like your crowd and too little like your Christ. Your Christ can help
you stand out from the crowd. Your Christ can help you go the right way, even if the whole crowd goes the wrong way. But I'm getting ahead of myself, because I want to talk about the two men who were blind. And notice it says two things happened to them because they shouted. Everybody shouts, say whoo, everybody say, Lord, have mercy on me. That's what they shouted. And when they shouted, he called them. And when he called them, he touched them. And when he touched them, he healed them.
And when he healed them, this is what I thought was the best part of the text. In verse thirty four, it said they received their site and followed him. Now all the way back to the beginning of the passage, you see this little chapter heading right here.
That is not originally in the Bible.
Okay, this is the part that is the word of God that was translated from the original language.
This is something somebody put.
In a study Bible to tell you this is a new section. But the Bible isn't like Netflix with chapter titles, and you know, the Bible doesn't have track ID.
The Bible is just written.
There's no chapter in verse divisions, and there are certainly no subject headings. So what was written here I want to talk about for a moment, and I want us to think about for a moment. And the reason that I wanted it to be on the screen is so that you can see it for yourself. And I have a question. It says two blind men receive site. And here's my question. If this happened, why are they still called that? If they received their site, it stands.
The reason that they are no longer blind.
I would like to suggest that we retitle this passage. Don't change the passage. Just call it what actually happened. Call it what actually happened. Maybe instead of calling this chapter two blind men received their sight, because if they see, they're no longer blind. But people will memorize how they met you and call you that for the rest of your natural days.
I would suggest that God is the author of your story.
I would suggest that he is the Alpha and Omega. I would suggest that it's him holding the pen. I'm smiling, Abby, Do you see me smiling. I'm smiling because I know he turned it around for me. I'm smiling because I know it doesn't matter what they called me. I'm smiling because I know he did some things for me. And it's amazing grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me? Hot once was lost, but now I'm found?
Was blind West line? West line?
Somebody shoutst line, I'm waiting.
For this section. Y'all are sleeping touch.
Somebody say I was line, but I'm not now now I see.
How about we.
Call this passage not two blind men received sidewatch this? Can I do this? Am I gonna get in trouble? In trouble? No, I don't think I'm gonna get in trouble because I think we need to.
Call it too bold men. How you like that devil.
I'm not gonna call them what their condition said they were. I'm not gonna call them what their past had them trapped in. I'm not gonna call them what they had known up to that point before they met the Savior who knew them from before they were born. How about we call this passage two, bold men become disciples because in verse twenty nine three people like it.
You don't have to like it.
God did it anyway. You don't have to love for it. God does what he wants to do. The whole crowd was telling them stop shouting. Stop that, that's ridiculous. Would you stomp that? Look at your never say stomp that?
Do it like I did it with that whatever voice that.
Was, stomp that na stomp that. The whole crowd told them to be quiet. The whole crowd told them to be quiet. I circled the phrase I'm looking for you there it is, told them, told them, let's circle it again. The whole crowd told them this is pointless. Don't you see you're blind. No making jokes. I'm just bringing the irony of it to the surface. But I love their boldness. Now, I just want to speculate that maybe their blindness contributed
to their boldness. The Bible says that we walk by faith, not by sight, and maybe if they had seen how big the crowd was around Jesus, they wouldn't have had the faith to say anything about their own condition. For all of you who think that we shouldn't preach about personal growth from the pulpit. When Jesus asked them in and what do you want? They didn't pray about environmental pollution or carbon footprint or world hunger. They asked for
something that they needed. And Jesus did not turn them away as selfish, but he enabled them to experience what their previous tradition had indicated was not possible. There are some of you here, and there is a whole crowd telling you just keep it down, don't even bother, don't even worry about it. But the interesting thing is not all crowds are outside.
Some of the crowds that tell us to keep it down.
Are the crowds you carry inside from.
The voices of fear that you've accumulated in your life.
I mean, you don't even really understand sometimes how the trauma of what you went through became your template for where you think God.
Can take you.
And here's the problem that I have when people say I'm finding myself. If I'm finding myself, it means I'm lost. If I'm lost, I need a guide. I have come to the point in my life that the only way I'm going to find me is to follow Jesus, because the only one who really knows what my life is supposed to be, or mean or produce is the manufacturer or the Bible calls the gardener who planted the potential in me to begin with, let's talk for a moment
about this crowd that told them to be quiet. And I don't know what your insecurities are trying to tell you today. I don't know what your regrets are trying to tell you today.
For some of you, it's this constant voice that.
Says, you missed it, you blew it. It's over, you wasted it. It's gone, and you can't now if it was going to it would have by now.
It's stronger than you and you can't go back now.
And you shouldn't have done it, but you did do it, and now you have to.
Keep doing it. It is the voice of the crowd telling you stop it.
Even being at church today was a struggle for some of us, because while you want to hear God's voice, there's another voice telling you you really need to stop going to church. It's not changing your life anyway. Why do you keep serving God? Why do you keep trying to be a person of integrity? Don't you notice that the nice guy's finished last anyway?
Why are you trying to be pure?
Didn't you notice that all your friends who have no sexual morals are getting the girls and you're not. Why are you even trying to reclaim this part of your life when every time you try it only gets harder. Why are you even going back to rehab right now? Why would you even try again? Just stop, Just give up on yourself. Everybody else has given up on you. The voice of the crowd on the inside is louder
than the voice of the crowd on the outside. There is no noise cancelation for the voice of the crowd on the outside. There is no numbing of the things that you say inside of yourself that keep you down.
So I know that while the voice of God is going forth today, calling you forward into some things, calling you out of some things and into some others, calling you above some things, so that the things that are under your feet can stay there where they belong, and you can walk on ahead into your future, I know there is another voice telling you just stop. But I love these gold blind, these bold men. If you get to heaven and you want to meet these two men
from Matthew twenty. Make sure you ask for them by the right name, because if you ask for the blind men in Matthew chapter twenty, nobody will come.
To meet you and sign your book.
So say, I want to meet those bold brothers from Matthew chapter twenty.
I want to meet those bold brothers who.
Decided I'm leaving the life I knew and following into the new, I'm going forward. They shouted, and the crowd said stop. They shouted, Lord, have mercy on us.
They shouted. Everybody say they shouted. Nobody shouted saying they shouted, And I love that they shouted.
Don't you everybody shout some kind of way, Just shout some kind of way. What is amazing about their shout. What is amazing about their shout is that it indicates a principle that I think will be very important to you in this season of your life. Don't ever let what you don't have keep you from using what you do. Remember, Saints, they couldn't see, but you don't have to see the shout.
I said, you don't have to see to shout. Not only did they shout, but watch this when Jesus called, they came because you don't have to see to step. It's harder, but you can still do it. I came to preach to somebody today who feels stuck. And the issue is not that you're stuck. The issue is that you've stopped. The issue is not.
That God has done with you, not by a long shot.
The issue is that you have allowed what you don't have, your sight, to keep you from using what you do have,
your shout and your steps. Because even if I have to shout and stumble and shout and stumble and shout and stumble, I can still get there, even if I have to proclaim I am the righteousness of God, and stumble and sin and proclaim that I am the righteousness of God, and stumble and sin and proclaim that I am the righteousness of God because Jesus died for me, and stumble and sin and carry the heavy burden of my habits. But know that every day He's transforming me.
And if I have to stumble, a stumble is still a step. Put it in the chat right now while it's fresh.
A stumble is still a step, and a shout is still a shout. Even if I shout with my eyes closed, Watch this, Lord, I close my eyes, I couldn't see, but I could shout. Right now, I'm in the season of my life where there are some things.
I can't see clearly. I don't know which one God wants me to do next. I don't know how God's gonna make away on this.
I don't know how he's gonna help me pay it off.
I don't know how I'm gonna bounce back from it. I really don't know who's gonna be with me in this season. But the fact that I can't see it will not stop me from shouting about it.
That's my decision. Come on, tell somebody you're not stuck. You just stopped. You just stopped. You just stopped.
You Stop being optimistic because you didn't see any evidence. You stop believing you could rise above it because nobody in your family ever had. You'll stop believing that it could really be true for you, even though God spoke it.
Now.
I'm not trying to be ignorant about the challenges that you face. I'm just trying to issue a higher point of view than the one you've been living with. They heard that Jesus was coming and they shouted, I'm gonna take this message to a Pentecostal church and preach it like it needs to be preached. This bapt Episcopalian community fellowship don't know how to preach for the Word of God because we would have shouted. We would have shouted seven times by now have we really been listening? Yeah,
I'm getting warmed up. I need you to know something. I need you to know something. There is nothing that you're not that God will require to do what He intends to do through your life. You know how many people give up and stop on something that God spoke to them just because they don't see I talked to one.
Guy who told me I would have started at church. He's seventy.
He said I would have started at church, but I didn't know how to do children's ministry.
It would surprise you what stops people.
He was anointed to preach, he was anointed to teach, he was anointed to lead, and yet he couldn't see that in leading someone else to do what they were gifted to do children's ministry, he could have moved past the limitation. The key premise of my message is this and the mindset that I'm.
Not stuck unless I stop. It's very simple but I feel like I should break it down for you.
And so.
What what what? What? What? What? Why? Well, maybe that's the word God wanted you to get to today. You're telling me, and I'm.
Telling you, I'm ded knowing, get go ahead.
Through the valley, through the storm. I'm the worship it all the more. Raise is a weapon. It's more than a sound.
Raise this the water my enemy's drout is I'm not dying in this red sea. Pharaoh is, I'm not dying in this red seat. Fear is, I'm not dying in this red sea. See it is.
Shame is just races getting praise.
If you know how to shout, do it now? How abom now?
How of them?
Now?
Would be a very good time the show. No, no, don't shout now. Save it for a football game. No no, don't shout now, Save it for a baseball game.
No, don't shout now, say that for march madness. It's not like God brought through this far.
It's not like hey, mad way after a way.
It's not like he's for a com miracol sh after miracle.
It's not like he open no after floor watch this dun for many.
Southing.
I'm like those two bold men. I'm shouting before I can see it. Oh, I saw something, y'all. I saw something, y'all. I saw something in my Bible. I brought this Bible up here on this screen to show you something. I want to show it to you right now. I've been saving this. I'm excited about it. I'm excited about what God did. I'm excited about who he did it for. He did it for the ones that no one else was paying attention to. He did it for the ones
who are in the most desperate situation. He's gonna do it for the one here today who's hurting the most. He's gonna do it for the one here today who is confused. He's gonna do it here for the one today who is reaching out to him. He's gonna do it for the one today who doesn't have much time left. He's gonna do it for the one today who wasted some of the good seasons. He's gonna do it here today for somebody who's weak in your body. He's gonna
do it for somebody who's stuck. Because he's got a really big truck and he likes to show you what he can pull you out off.
So, if you've been in something, the.
Bible says that Jesus did it for the blind men, and he did it instantly, and he did it compassionately, and he touched them. And when he touched them, did you see that he touched them? He didn't need to shout anymore because God doesn't have.
To shout when he's close to you.
So if you can't hear him right now, if you can't feel him right now, if you can't see him right now, maybe you will hear the still small voice and feel a touch and of a sudden what the crowd told them had no power over the Savior who touched them. When God touches you, no matter what fear tells you, no matter what the enemy tells you, tim no matter what he told you, when God touches you, did you wear those sunglasses to help me illustrate this sermon today? When God touches you, and he says, I
don't care what they've told you. I don't care what they've called you. I don't care how they've labeled you. I don't care if they said it's a learning disability.
Knock. When this ability meets the disability, God.
Will raise up something that is absolutely race compounding amazing.
It's amazing grace.
And he did it for people who couldn't see it, and he didn't for people who couldn't do it for themself. And he called them and they followed. And I was reading this passage over and over again, and I realized that he did not come to them.
He called them because when he found them, they were sitting.
But he didn't want to leave them sitting in Jericho. He wanted to get them stepping toward Jerusalem. This is why God doesn't always make it easy for you. This is why even in the moments where he has compassion, sometimes in his compassion, he'll tell you come. It does not say Jesus went to them. As a matter of fact, what it says is absolutely amazing. Everybody say amazing. I
want y'all to love this Bible. I want y'all to get a highlight or a blue one and a yellow one, and a pink one, and a raspberry one and a scented one.
Then I want you to sniff that raspberry in the morning.
And start looking for the righteousness of God in the Word of God and the revelation of God with your raspberry highlighter and start circling stuff that God speaks to you so you can get a better word over your family.
Yeah, got ge go, got got go, get y'all.
I'm shutting upbout what I'll see.
Everybody shout Lord, say Lord, and now be the crowd say stop, say Lord, not be the crowd say stop.
Desides say Lord, say loud, loud. By the way, I'm gonna say something. I love these guys, it says. When the crowd told them to be quiet, they shouted all the louder. So let's practice. Everybody say stop on this side. Now say Lord. Now say stop louder, louder, louder, say stop. Now watch this stop. Crowd says stop. Fear says stop.
Insecurity says stop past that stop did she says stop?
The pressure say stop. Anxiety says stop. And because they didn't stop, because put it back on the screen, tech team. I gotta show this to my Epham. I gotta show this to somebody who has made.
Up your mind.
I'm not gonna stop following Jesus. I'm not gonna stop praying about it. I'm not gonna stop seeking him. I'm not gonna stop encouraging. I'm not gonna stop using my gift. I'm not gonna stop using this annoying thing. I'm not gonna stop speaking life. I'm not gonna stop praising him. I'm not gonna stop trusting him. I'm not gonna stop. I'm not gonna stop. And because they didn't stop, Jesus did.
He did.
Because they didn't stop, they just shouted, louder I love him. Not only did they not stop, they took it to another level. Not only did they not stop, they took it to another level. And not only did they get here, they followed Jesus and they didn't go back to Jericho.
All of this started with a shout. I'm not going back to Jericho. And it started with a shout. Now, I seem to remember something in the Bible. I don't know if you can help me pull it on about a shout in Jericho.
I seem to remember something. Can we find it in the Bible? Come on, everybody who wants this good part of the words, shout right now, shout lader. Everybody who wants God to give you an update and make you a disciple, and purge you, and purify you and get your mind right and bring his spirit to break change, make some noose. This is not the first shout in Jericho. The Bible says in Joshua, chapter six, verse number.
One, somebody shout. Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred.
You remember Jericho. You remember Jericho. It was the first city that God called his people to take over. After forty years of stuck in the wilderness, after forty years of going in circles, after forty years of saying.
Those giants are bigger.
Than us, after a whole generation complained and wasted away and waged not a war against.
Their enemies, but a war against their own destiny. Now Jericho was securely barred up.
Talk about stuck. You're standing at the edge of something. How many feel like this. I'm at the edge of something and I can't get in. I'm at the edge of joy, but I can't keep it. I'm at the edge of a blessing, but I keep messing it up. And I get a little bit, and I spend more, and I get a little bit, and I eat more, and I stuff in a numb and I don't understand why.
Now Jericho was securely barred because.
Of the Israelites. Remember, the enemy is intimidated by you because he knows who's fighting for you.
No one went in, no one came out. They are stuck. But where the previous generation stopped, they didn't, The Bible says in verse two.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, see, I have delivered past tense Jericho into your hands, along with its king and it's fighting men. March around the city once. Oh cool, Okay, I could do that. Yeah, I'll march around the city once. You're gonna give me the victory. If I just march around the city once.
That sign me. I'm doing to do it. Absolutely do.
I'm join Jim and I'm gonna meditation app on my phone as well in a Bible blam, the Bible blam.
I'm gonna reading the message Bible. I really like the message Bible. That's great. But nothing happened once. March around the city once. Is what I told Josha. What this is what I told you. March aro on once with all the arm men.
Do this for.
Six days.
Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams horns in front of the art. Now on the seventh day, take a few deep breaks because you're about to shot again.
Tell the people in your apartment. Don't get nervous. I'm about to shot again, though. Just tell them, Just tell them, Hey, you're gonna hear me holler. But don't call nine one one. Don't call nine one one, Just call Joshua was six.
Because I'm shouting about something that I can't see right now, because.
I'm shouting about something I can't feel.
I'm shouting about something I don't have the factual backing for right now.
Eh, I'm shouting about something you can't see right now.
Have them march around seven times with the priest blowing the trumpets. Remember every day they marched and nothing happened.
Took faith.
Every day you pray and believe and nothing comes back in the form of love toward your life.
Is a day that takes faith. Every day that the desire.
Doesn't leave you, but you commit to get back up even though.
You slip, takes faith.
And so you're waiting for the walls to fall, and so you're waiting for the pain to go away, and so you're waiting for it to get easier, and so you're waiting for the right pill to fix it. And so you're waiting for the right key to break it and unlock it forever. But the Bible says that it took six days of stuck, and on the seventh day, I appreached a message one time called don't stop on six. I preached that message when I was going through hell.
I preached that message when the media was saying that I was a liar and a hypocrite and that I was buying my way onto a bestseller list with my book that I never did, and that we were faking baptisms, and that I preached that message don't stop on six.
And I walked around the podium and I got down on my face.
And I'm forty four now, so I'm not going to do that part anymore because getting up is different. But I got down on my face and I talked about the lapse where you have to crawl, and I talked about the nights where you have to fake it, and I talked about the days where you have to go in the bathroom at work and cry and go I can't even get through the day.
And it's nine forty five in the morning, and the Bible seems it's.
Just hieroglyphics to me right now, and the impulse is stronger than my integrity right now.
And I preached and I.
Said, don't stop on six because on the seventh day, you never.
Know, this might be the one.
I mean, this might be the time, and this might be the day, and this might be the seed, and this might be the season, and this might be the moment, and you might be the one to break it off of everybody with your last.
Name who is yet to be born. So don't stop.
And the Bible says when you march around the city seven times, everybody shouts seven.
That's the number of completion.
Now high five to seven people and say, I'm getting this done.
I'm getting this done. I'm getting this done. I'm getting this done.
What you say, kid going, keep going, keep going, kid going?
Yeah, stumble yeah, slip, Yeah, I did it. Yeah. I struggle with it, but I'm done it.
No, I'm not it.
No, I'm not in. I got a new man. I'm not a blond man. I'm a bold man.
I'm not the old man.
I'm a new man. I'm a new man. I'm a new man. Yeah, I'm an man.
Watch this.
Verse five is my verse. Verse five is my verse. Put it on the lower thirds, so I can preach it. Somebody shout, don't stop.
They didn't stop shouting, and Jesus stopped in the middle of the street on the way to the cross to save the world, and he's calling you right now.
He stopped this moment in time.
Some of you, God stopped the relationship that you were addicted to so he could open your eyes to who you really are. Some of you, God stopped the job that you were greater than, so that you would develop your skill and humility to go to the next level and learn from the mistake.
When you don't stop, God does.
A silence, accusation, A silence condemnation.
I silence.
What the crowd says, I what your instagram feed says I silence?
What your negative result says? Silence.
Now that the crowd has to be quiet, and the Christ has called you, let's look at this Jericho shout. I didn't realize when I read about the blind Man that the shout that they released in Jericho was an echo.
It was the echo in Jericho.
And if you know anything about what happens next in this passage in chapter six, verse five of Joshua, now we're ready. The Bible says, when you hear them, sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a.
What you're gonna do? You mean I preached an hour in this heavy sweater and you still don't know what to do? Are you kidding me?
You mean I wrote a whole book, I've been pastor a whole trip, and you still eighteen years and we still don't know what to do with the wall.
What's this thing?
What's a wall? To away? Megger?
What's a wall to away? Meger?
What's a day?
Joza Bregger? What's a day? Joazagleger?
Shut down? What's a wall? What's a wa way?
Mega?
And here it is?
The Bible says, when you hear them, sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army gives.
A loud.
Shout. Watch this wats this? No, no, no, stop stop. If you shout, you might get joy. If you shout, you might get an answer.
If you shout, can I get out of your self consciousness and get Christ's conscious?
Go shout loud.
Have the whole army give a loud shout, And it says, then the wall will collapse.
Watch this, not shout? Win? Can you read that well, look, I think it's got an eraser. I'll do it again. Not shout win the wall collapses, shout, shout what you're showing about? What your showing about? Something I can't see.
But they stop at and it's gotta cook down.
It's gotta clok down, saying it's gotta come down.
I said this gotta cook down.
Stop this gotta pump down. Tell your neighbor it's kinda come down. It's gotta come down. It's gotta colm down. It's gotta come down. When we show this, gotta come down. When your sad gotta come down. I said this gotta bump down, it's gotta come down, gotta come down.
I praise when outnumbered.
I praise when surrounded, because praises the waters my enemy's drowning. I praise when I feel it. I praise when I go. I praise because I know what. You're still in control.
I'm on this.
I praise because you're faithful. I praise because you're true what you're shouting about. I praise gous.
Sais nobody come here, Chris greater than you?
Not give him the good purse. My praise is a weapon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's lolling in a sound Why Why.
My praise is a show down that breaks caer coo down. Yeah, Chios, cool down, that breaks carriers?
Cool down. Yeah, my praise is a show.
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