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oaklandy'all gotta show some love. Y'all's ticket sales are way below all these other places, so I want to see in Oakland San Diego, California, and Los Angeles. Let's give God a praise. Elevation Nights dot Com starts October twenty fifth. Right, but touch somebody in and say right now, it starts in here. How many came asking God to speak to

you today. But we've worshiped him, We've opened our hearts, We've sang about his goodness, and now it is time for us to receive from him what He has prepared for us. And I'm excited to share it with you. I love this scripture Romans chapter four. Just stand up wherever you are for the word of God. Jump up on your feet, put the devil right under your left heeled in your right heel, and stand up for the Word of God and be ready to receive this blessing.

Thank you for your kindness and your expression of love shown for Pastor Appreciation Month. I'm going to have a Congregation appreciation month in return. I don't know what I'm gonna do yet, but I got a heart to do it. It's gonna be Congregation Appreciation Month. I got to meet with the Committee on Committees and figure out when, but make sure you come back because I think of our relationship as a partnership in the gospel. I think of it for all of you who give, serve and pray

for us. You will never know what that means. And even just you coming after I had to preach with nobody in the room for a couple months, even those of you who I used to fuss at because all you did is come and you don't serve and you don't give. Now I'm like, well, that's something. Thanks for coming. You know, my whole frame of reverence got reset during the pandemic. But thank you, thank you, Thank you for allowing me and Holly to be your imperfect pastors. We

appreciate the privilege to do ministry with you. You hear me, And to all of our campus pastors at every location, I appreciate you standing in the gap praying for people, visiting people, enlisting people, enrolling people. Let's thank God for all the leaders at all of our locations linking arms together for the cause of Christ. Oh yeah, you can't do it alone and you don't have to. And everything God gives me that I filter and find helpful, I will share it with you as long as He gives

me strength. Do we have a deal, shake on it? And then what you got to do, You gotta take it, multiply it, teach it to others, put it into practice, share it. Evangeliza, Come get strong in the Lord. Do what he's called you to do. Go out and be a witness for him. Go out and do your ministry, because that's my ministry, to get you ready for your ministry. I'm not in the ministry. Oh yeah, you are. You remember this, God uses people. Remember the little boy at

the Feeding of the five thousand. He wasn't in the ministry. Peter was, and Peter wanted to send the crowds away because he didn't have anything to give. It was somebody who wasn't in the ministry who created the ministry and the miracle. So don't ever ever underestimate how God can use you, okay, Romans Chapter four, You ready, Verse thirteen. It was not through the law that Abraham and his

offspring received the promise. It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that would that he would be heir of the world. That's a big promise. But through the righteousness that comes by faith. For if those who depend on the law are heerrs. Faith means nothing, and the promise is worthless because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there

is no transgression. Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations. He is our father and the sight of God in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that

were not. Oh, fellow, vibration, just allo shiver just went through you, and we start talking about what God can do against all hope. Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, so shall your offspring be. Without wavering in his faith. He faced the fact that his body was as good as dead since he was about one hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was also dead.

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being last verse fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. I'm gonna read that again before I ap preach this thing like I feel it, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. Now shift up back to verse sixteen, key verse not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who have

the faith of Abraham. I always have two titles for message, the one that I start with to study by it, and the one that I give you when I figure out what it's about. After I studied everything I thought it was about and found out it was about something different because God had to show me. I usually only give you the second one. I'm gonna give you both today, title number one the Faith of Abraham. The Faith of Abraham. Wow, that sounds like a whole book Sunday School lesson at

least the Faith of Abraham. But then I want to give it a second title in case that's a little too academic, and I want to call this message keep it a hundred. Keep it a hundred, and just pick the title you like, But at least look at your neighbor for a moment. On your way to your seat and say please keep it a hundred. You may be seated needs you to keep it a hundred. Yah. When I'm getting ready to preach and my mind starts getting all conceptual, I don't remind myself why I'm preaching who

I'm preaching to. Every once in a while, I remember one specific conversation that I had with the lady in our church who was a part of our Toronto campus. This was about five years ago. Her husband had died suddenly. I didn't know her, but I called her just to say I'm sorry that you lost your husband, and I'm praying for you and i'd like to pray for you right now. And I did, and she was emotional. The conversation was appropriately awkward, but I said, you don't need

to say anything. I just want to pray for you. And right when I finished the prayer, before we hung up, she said, I need to tell you one thing. Now. English wasn't her first language. I'm not saying she spoke Canadian she was, because, but she goes, I need to tell you one thing. While I got you, my husband didn't consider himself a good person. He was abused as a boy and he struggled a lot as an adult. It took me two years to get him to come

here you preach. But when I finally brought him, you told a story that Sunday a story about And then she reminded me of the story. I remember telling it. It was embarrassing. It was a story about me losing my temper, she said. When you told that story, he began to cry because he saw somebody who loved God but still had struggles. I want to thank you, she said, for keeping it real. I'm like, oh, I thought you were saying thank you for being deep, that you recognizing

my preaching for its intelligence. You know, when you did that thing with Romans chapter four, and then you went over to the Book of Revelations after you went to Walmarts call back. But she said, she didn't say thank you for being funny. See, you could tell just right then, my humor is not that good. That was polite laughter. That was church laughter. That was an offering of like

you've heard about, sacrifice of praise. That was the sacrifice of laugh that you gave me Because it wasn't funny, and I appreciate it, but I think about it often because when I hung up the phone. I was glad that God could use a broken vessel. But you know what else, deep down I hated it that that was the thing that she thanked me for, because that is

the most costly thing to be is real. If she had said, thank you so much for your alliterated outlines, thank you so much for all your tweetable moments, thank you so much for the way that you dissect and parse Greek and Hebrew, I could go back to school and for the price of a few thousand dollars, I could brush up on the original languages of the Bible.

The books don't cost that much. But when she said thank you for sharing the stuff that makes you embarrassed, I felt like she was saying, we need to see you struggle, and I rebuke you, devil. You know. It was a very tender moment for her, in a very

revelatory moment for me. That we all need those moments if we if we really will admit it, where someone that we respect, someone that we think, hey, they're really trying to someone that we may even feel like men they're a little further along in this than me, but

they still struggle. It was power for me for me to realize and at the same time terrifying for me to realize that the thing that connected with her husband, who was taken from this life without a warning, the thing that connected with him and brought him to a place where he eventually put his faith in Jesus was not my impressive side, but my imperfect side, which, to be honest with you, is the part that I want to hide from you the most, But it is the

part that God uses in the greatest way. I think about that conversation a lot, you know, how I get in there and think, Ah, what could I say this week that would be really really, you know, profound, And what could I say this week that would be really memorable and sticky and all that's great. You know, you got to bring everything you got to it, and people are gonna come out to you preach. They deserve that

you study. But it was that moment I told that story about the packing peanuts when they blew all over the yard and I was out there cussing, and Graham was listening, and I didn't know it and he was little, and I'm cussing its styrofoam packing peanuts. After preaching for thirteen Christmas services telling people about the incarnate Babe in the Manger who came down from heaven to show us a gentler kinder way, kinder way right. That dumb story. Yeah,

that dumb story. I bring it up because as much as I hate the feeling of being exposed, I'm recently learning some terms for this. One thing it can be called is recoil. When I share a lot with you and see, you don't have to tell me anything about you. You don't tell me anything about you. I meet, I meet, I meet your church version every week, and that's the only version of you that I really get close enough to. And uh, maybe it's better we keep it that way, Okay.

But at the same time that I hate the expense of exposure, because after I share something with you, I go back home and I'm like, did I say that out loud? That's typically what I do for twelve hours after I preach. Did I say that? And that and that? Holly? I only thought that, right, I didn't say it. Hell, you said it. I said that. You said that. Can we still edit it out of the video? No, it's already online. Oh as much as I I hate the expense of exposure, there's something I hate much more, and

I'm gonna tell you this. I hate fake. Hated hated. Maybe it's because a guy made me a custom suit one time and I found out it was fake, a custom suit off the rack. The way I found out was I looked at the belt and it said Kenneth Colch with a K. So if the belt is fake, I looked into the suit, what were you doing all that measuring for it was off the rack? I hate fake. That watch I bought in New York City. That thing broke in two weeks. I bought ten of them. I

was gonna give them out that's Christmas gifts. Mine broke. I threw them all away. I hate fake, I hate you. Hate fake. I don't even really like small talk. Holly said to me the other day. You are so bad at small talk. You have got to get better at small talk. I'm like, teach me. I want to know how to do it. I want to know ID just something about me. I just want to connect with the deepest part of you. I want to know what you struggle with. I want to know what you dream about.

I want to know what you're drifted by. I want to know what you think about when there's nobody but you and God and a pantry full of food. Let me in. I hate fake I hate fake friends. Just tell me you're my enemy, because the Bible says love your enemies. At least I know what to do with you if we could get the relationship established. I hate that you don't smile at me to flip me off. I turned the other cheek. Just slap me. Hate fake.

In fact, my life can be divided. I'm getting the romans for I promise my life can be divided into the years before and after I found this out. I remember the day one of my family members told me, you know, professional wrestling is fake? Right? That ruined my childhood, That took my innocence. They ought to put people in jail who tell you stuff like that, too young. You mean, Hulk Hogan is fake, The Ultimate Warrior is fake, the Big Boss Man is fake. Dusty Rhoads dust, the American Dreams,

Polka Dots feak too. She said, you know it's fake. And Gene Haynes took us to a wrestling match and he walked us up. I said, man, how are you ruining to go anymore? I found out it's fake, and He walked me up to the mat and he goes, stomp your foot on that and it was hard. And then he said, when you see them slamming each other on that hard floor, does that feel fake? Now? I don't know how I remember this, but he said something like this, and I've probably changed it a little bit.

I'm gonna keep it a hundred. I don't know if you say exactly like this or I'm just morphing it to be the perfect sermon quote. Got that keep it real? He says something like, just because the ending is scripted doesn't mean the impact isn't real. So I took this from it. It's fixed, but it's not fake. You still got to pick up two hundred and eighty pounds over your shoulder. You still got to do the Boston Crab. You remember the Boston Crab book? You still have. Boston

Crab still feels funny. But just because the ending is predetermined. I remember the day I found out it was fake. Do you remember the day that you found out that a lot of what happens in churches and faith circles is as fake as big men on steroids covered in oil, wearing spandex underwear and I'm just trying to make sure you're not hungry so you can listen to me. That's why I went into so much detail. I saw you get a little disgusted when I said that, because it is.

It's something about finding out that a lot of the people who were telling you, oh, we've been happily married thirty five years, you don't know they've been married forty five years, happily married for thirty through to math. And I don't tell you about those ten, those hidden ten. Oh, we just trust God. And I never set out to be this real preacher telling embarrassing stories on myself, but

I couldn't stand the fakeness that I sometimes experienced. I mean, come on, we all have moments where we aspire to one thing, we live another. That's not called hypocrisy, by the way, that's called humanity. Oh. I thought that preacher was a man of God. Then I found out they were a fake. Not necessarily they might have been really sincere in their faith, just weak in their humanity and flesh, just like you are. Let's keep it a hundred. We all need the grace of God. None of us want

all of our business on the front page of anything. Ever, so part of me in reading Romans four was realizing that we are hearing about a hero of the Jewish faith and the Christian faith. He's an interesting guy and his name is Abraham. You've heard of him. You've heard of him. He is nicknamed if you had a WWF the Worldwide Worship Federation. This stuff just comes to me. The Holy Spirit gives it to me on the spot. I just say it. I put that on the list

for Did I say that out loud? That was so corny. In the thing is said that Abraham is the father of many nations. Some call him the father of faith, not just for Jews speaking from a diasporic or a genetic or even a religious position, but everyone who believes in this God Yahweh revealed in the person of Jeshua Jesus can trace it back to Abraham's faith. That's what the passage is about. And one thing I want to show you in verse six, please write some of this

down so you can revisit it later. He says that the promise, speaking of the promise that God gave to Abraham, what was the promise? The promise was, I'm gonna bless the whole earth through you. I'm gonna give you a boy. Your boy is gonna have boys. Those boys are gonna have boys. There's gonna be women that give birth to the boys, and it's all gonna result in a nation

called Israel that will bless the earth. Right now, we find ourselves in Romans chapter four, where the apostle Paul is basically having to challenge these believers who want to

be circumcised. You know what that is. I'm not gonna keep it that reel to break that down all the way, you can google stuff, okay, and saying, all right, since God told Abraham when he was a hunter that he had to be circumcised as a sign of the Covenant, if you put your faith in Christ, you gotta go back and be so circumcized right now, keep it one hundred.

If that was the membership protocol for this church and you weren't yet circumcised, all the men who would join the church at this stage in your life stand up. No anesthetics, right right, right, right, right right. But that's what was happening to the gentile believers. They're being told you have to do this to belong you have to look like this, It's a contrast you'll see over and over again in the scriptures, maybe the main contrast in the New Testament, of the external signs of salvation and

the internal reality of the Kingdom of God. One comes from the works of the law or the works of the flesh. They're used interchangeably. One comes from the grace of God. And I love that. It says it so clearly. Follow me in verse sixteen, is so good? Is so good? Therefore the promise comes by faith? Repeat that the promise comes y'all gonna have to show y'all how to do call and response. Why so many dang white people in this church? I wouldn't have to teach this part? Repeat

after me. The promise comes by faith. Who did I really say that out loud? The promise comes by faith? Shouted? The promise comes by faith? Oh, thank God. Because if it came by works, if it came by effort, if it came by gold star behavior, I don't think God get it. But the promise comes by faith. Settle down. That's not the good part. The promise comes by faith. Why so that you got it verse sixteen, So that it may be by grace? Ah gets better. It comes

by faith. That's the vehicle, so that it may be by grace. That's the basis. Faith is the box that it comes in. Grace is the basis that it is built on in order. This is the part that got me that it may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring, not only to those who are of the law, the religious system for being right with God, but also those who have the faith of Abraham. So it comes through faith. What does the promise? I should clarify here. God keeps

one hundred percent of his promises. Let me stand right here and say it. Even though people die too early, even though people get sick in their bodies, even though abuse that should never happen happens. I'm saying it like the Bible said it. God keeps one hundred percent of his promises. But God does not keep one hundred percent of our preferences, our plans, or our desired positive outcomes. I gotta keep it real. I gotta keep it real because I could make you shout over that first part.

God keeps one hundred percent of his promises, and all you got to do to get the whole room to shout is substitute positive outcomes for promises, and people will shout because they'll be shouting over stuff that they think God is going to magically do because I said a word that hit a button called promise. And we don't know any better than to think that God promised us that everything in our life would be positive as it happens.

So we start shouting about stuff that we want to happen without ever consulting whether God ever said it would happen. And then we blame God and walk out of his house and walk away from our faith, and walk away from the family of believers and stop praying and stop praising when we're asking God to keep a promise he never made. Y'all told me to keep it real. I'm keeping it real. God did not promise, you know, bumps and bruises. God did not promise you no beast things

or break ups or broken hearts. It almost been too long here because I want to bring it down to negative. Let me keep it positive. This is a faith message, after all, But I want to point it out that the basis of Abraham's faith should be the basis of our faith, because he is the father of faith. And this is so profound that the basis of true faith is grace, and in order that it may be guaranteed. I love that it takes the same grace to save everybody in this room. You think grace is like a

custom suit. No, no, no, Grace is one size fits all. You need God to cover all of you. Let me tell you how. I know that the Bible says that even our righteousness is as filthy rags to him, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. The faith of Abraham is enough to know that this has to be by grace, by faith, by grace, in order that it may be guaranteed. Because if the promise depends on me. Now this is what I believe. You

have to come to your own conclusion. If the promise of what God wants to do through my life depends on me, we'll see maybe maybe not maybe Monday, maybe not Wednesday, if it depends on me. But if it's by grace, if it's by grace, if this whole thing called Stephen Ferdick started in the mind of God, if this whole thing called your life started in the heart of a father, if this whole thing was part of the blueprint that God created before the foundations of the earth.

To be a blessing to the world, not just to be blessed yourself, but to be a blessing if it starts with grace is guaranteed. And that's why I praise God for the guaranteed that wherever I go, Grace will beat me back home. Wherever I go, Grace will beat me to the boardroom. Wherever I go, Grace will beat me. Grace will meet me in the mistake. We'll be out of the mistake, turn it around and make it a miracle. I've got a guarantee. If it's up to me, there's

no guarantee. I want to caution you about this. A lot of people are out there trying to get you to put faith in faith, and a lot of people go broken, starving in la and Nashville because they were told you could be anything you want to be. Help me, God, because nobody's gonna like this part of the sermon. You can be what he calls you to be. I'm confused, now, Preacher,

hold on now. It said that he is our father Abraham in the sight of God, and whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being for seventeen things that were not sound like on the surface of that, if we don't take this and keep it a one hundred, like really read it, it sounds like that God's job is to be your genie.

It sounds like, you know, it sounds like in this verse that we could just get anything in our mind that we want to that we want God to do, and God's like, oh, dang it, I'm gonna be up all night working on this because I wasn't planning to do that, but they asked for it, and I'm gonna do it now. This is where I gotta keep it real with you. A lot of times in my life I was trying to get God's blessing on my blueprint.

Spoiler alert. He doesn't feel what he didn't build. I love this stuff because right now we get to enter into the tension of the faith of Abraham. It's not as simple as it sounds. It never is. You read this, and Paul's like, and Abraham believe God. And Abraham had faith and he didn't waver, and he stayed strong, and he was persuaded, and he didn't doubt. And a part of me, y'all respectfully. I'm just saying this respectfully. Part of me wants to be like, come on, Paul, keep

it a hundred. Because Abraham didn't always follow God in a straight line. That was confusing to me as I studied. The only reason it was confusing to me is because after Abraham was called by God to be the father of many nations, and God took him outside and showed him the stars the sky and sands the seashore and said, as many as you can count those, count those. That's how many your descendants are gonna be. You're gonna be

the father of many nations. Because he's calling things that be not as though they are according to his purpose. It dawns on Abraham. I'm seventy five years old and I don't have a son. So God comes back to Abrahm. Not on his seventy sixth birthday, you ready, Not on seventy seven, not on seventy eight, not on seventy nine, not on eighty. Let's count by tens for the sake of time, not by ninety. When Abraham is ninety nine

years old, I'll getting ready to preach. The Lord visits Abraham and he tells him I am God Almighty, I have given you this covenant, and this shall be the sign of the covenant, which a circumcision which we mentioned. But now look at this with Genesis chapter seventeen. Because in all of Paul's eloquence and all of his brilliance, the Book of Romans is the most logically organized, I believe document that has been written by human hands under

the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. That's my opinion. Maybe you could argue for something else, but Romans is a masterpiece. When he brings forward the example the exhibit of Abraham exhibit a exhibit Abraham for faith, he says he didn't waiver in his faith, but watch this when he was a hundred still waiting for a son. Now listen, he

didn't just wait patiently. He waited impatiently. He got so impatient his wife was like, sleep with my maid and she'll give us a son, and maybe that'll be close enough. Have you ever tried to follow God close enough? Like, all right, God, I'm not gonna tithe exactly, but here's a twenty just just close enough. Right. You know, God, I'm not gonna give it all to you. I'm not gonna give everything to you. But I'm gonna just come over here and like I'm gonna wship you. I'm I'm

gona go to church this Sunday. I'm not gonna make it a priority or anything. Abraham did all of that too, trying to produce in human power what had been promised by God's purpose. I do it too. I try to write sermons with human ingenuity. I try to solve problems with human logic. I try to figure out situations by manipulating them. That's the faith of Abraham. Abraham slept with Hagar, had a baby called Ishmael. God said, uh, that's not what I want to give you. There's gonna be your son.

Now watch the conversation because this is so enlightening. Genesis chapter seventeen. We're gonna cross reference to the apostle Paul and what he said. The Lord said. Go to verse fifteen. God said to Abraham, as for Sarah, your wife, you are no longer to call her SARAHI her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her, not Hagar, by her, not Hagar, by her not Hagar. God said, I'm gonna bless you the way that I'm supposed to bless you at the

time I'm gonna suppose to bless you. Stop trying to help God do what he's already doing in his perfect time, and leave it to him. I didn't even print planned to preach that part, but that just stood out to me. By her, not Hagar, I'm aa bless her, and we'll give you some by her. I'll bless her so that she'll be the mother of nations, and kings of people will come from her. Now, get ready for Father Abraham. He had many sons, and many sons had Father Abraham. I am one of them, and so are you so

less just vacation, Bible school, make some noise. Get ready for Father Abraham. Right foot Father. Get ready for right foot Father Abraham. You're ready for Father Abraham. Watch his faith, Watch his faith. The faith of Abraham Abraham fell face down. He laughed and said to himself, will a son be born to a man one hundred years old? And even if I can, will Sarah at age ninety huh. He didn't waver in his faith. He just laughed in God's face. Can I keep it a hundred? Can I keep it

a hundred? When Paul gets ready to share. He doesn't put this part in why I already told you like fifteen minutes ago. It's not based on Abraham's works. It's based on God's grace. You keep trying to build on the wrong foundation. Oh God, I'm fearful. Oh God, I'm anxious. Oh God, I'm depressed. Oh God, I'm messed up. Oh God, I'm not that smart. Oh God, I'm not prepared. Oh God, I'm not experienced. Oh God, I'm crazy. Oh God, I'm addicted. That is not the basis. I'm the faith of Abraham.

God said, it's all bye grace. I brought you in this world by grace. I spoke you into existence by grace. I made you born in the time you were born, so that the promise would be by grace. Let's take twenty seconds in praise him for amazing grace. God, sweet the selms, grace, grace, God's grace, God's grace, and listen

to me. If it's started with God's so now touch three people say, I gotta guarantee, I gotta guarantee, I gotta guarantee from the manufacturer that everything he intends to bring forth from my life shall come the past, and no mistake, no hay yard, no doubt. They'll laugh, can't stop. This is only good news if you need some grace. If you got it all right, see ya, go on home, keep getting it right. But for everybody who is here,

by five, by grace. If you gave me a enough time, I can hit everybody in this room and show you why you need grace. Oh no, I don't drink, I don't do do drugs. I don't do any of that. But you know what you do, you control and what else you do. You judge just like I'm judging you for judging me. So don't stand there like you don't need grace. The ground is level at the foot of the cross. I'm not the one on the middle. I'm not these saying, remember me, Jesus, give me that grace,

Give me that good news, gospel grace. The promise comes by faith. Faith in what not by faith? Cause I might fall face down and laugh. But God still say you gotta have the faith of Abraham. What's that the faith to fall down and get back up? I feel somebody getting up today, getting up in your spirit, getting up. You didn't just get up, get in your car, you got up and you walked into the promise of God. You're right smacked in the middle of the fulfillment of

God's promise on your life. And the danger is you have got to stay in faith so God can do everything he wants to do through you. Abraham turns eighty three. It's a bad thing when you're having your eighty fifth birthday still talking about you know, I got potential that's supposed to be when you're eighteen, y'all, not eighty. You know, I still got more I'm gonna do. I don't think you do. And I love this verse. I love this verse. Did you ever hear me preach this back in the day,

I did a whole thing on this verse nineteen? It said that he Romans four nineteen. Be more specific, that without weakening in his faith, all the pragmatic people are gonna love this. He faced the fact. I always love that because it gives room for the skeptic to get some grace too. I can almost see it when I preach some people, you say Romans, and they jump up and shout about Romans. I love Romans. Give me Romans. Some people. It doesn't matter how much faith you feel

in the room. You could kind of see it. They sit back there like, that's good. But bills that's good. But Bresidas in my knee, that's good. But custody battle that's good. But I got some pills in the bathroom, I having flush. Yet he faced the fact. You think God gave you the faith of Abraham to escape reality. He gave you grace to empower you for reality. You're listen my spirit, so you could look at the scoreboard.

Graham had a game the other night. They were down twenty football game, down twenty at halftime, came back won the game by two. I said, that must have been one heck of a halftime speech coach gave. I'm in the motivation business. So I asked him when he got home. I said, what did he say at halftime? He said, he only told us one thing, stay in it whoo whoo. Because you don't know yet. You don't know yet, You don't know yet, you don't know yet. You say, oh wow,

I'm just keeping it real. I'm just being me, which me to me you see, or the me that God's folk from eternity path that is uncorrupted by this mortal body. W's me God speaks to the me that's gonna be if I stay in it. Come on, channel, you're in a football coach. You know you want to pretend like your coach Taylor. Come on, tell Tim Ricks staying it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it,

stay in it, stay in it. I'm gonna preach this until it breaks through that artifice at your heart and heart, stay in it. Abraham was given a promise when he was seventy five. How old was Abraham when God made the promise? Seventy five? Well, I just said try again do this online in the comments. How old was Abraham when God made the promise? How old was he when he saw God? Keep it? What is my message called

keep it? Oh? You thought all I was talking about when I said keep it one hundred was just be real. Now I'm telling you what's real to you right now? Maybe a ceiling that God is trying to break you through. If you can believe by faith for the grace for the gaps in your life that caused you to laugh in the face of God when he shows you what's possible. I'm concerned that this phrase in our vernacular, keep it one hundred has become an excuse for us to never

improve and to never grow. And so if all I do in church and say, hey, you're a drunk, I'm a drunk. Let's drink. Everybody gets a twenty house communion beer, let's go, then I have not appropriated the grace of God in your life as a preacher of the Gospel to show you that the me that you see right now is not the core of who you are. And God is not through with you yet. Some of the promises that He made you is gonna take you your whole life to seal them. But give it a hundred.

If it texts me all night, if it takes me my thirties, if it texts me my forties, if it texts me going to meetings, if it takes me going to therapy, if it takes me changing my friends, if it takes me staying up late, reading my Bible, playing on the edge of the bed, if it takes it, I'm coming. I'm a kid at a hundred that I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord. Come on, five ninety nine people, hot five. I'm gonna tell them keep it a hundred, give it a hundred.

He's looking for you. God's looking for you. Gotta leave the ninety nine to buy the wood. Good That kid, that kid, that kid, that kid that you got a promise from God. Kid, that kid that that's word. He kid, that kid that you'll got Christ. You got said so on the outside working Ah, they outside God that oh go borry go nor. Abraham believed and so became. It didn't happen overnight. It didn't happen first year, it didn't happen second year. It's not going to happen as quick

as you want to. But this is not a five minute faith. That's that hagar hook up, that five minute faith where you try something. This is the faith. Thank you Jesus of Abraham, and you already got the grace of God. Stay in it, Stay in it, stay in it, stay in it. For the three hundred of you who are receiving this message. At a deep level, you feel that faith, you feel right now in your heart, Stay in it, staying in when you don't feel it. Stay in faith when you can't prove it. Stay in faith

when you look at your body. Like Abraham did, he faced the fact that his body wasn't doing too good, not as good as he once was. Can't do it like I used to do it. But he was fully persuaded because he had faith in God. What God? You know? You're so good at listing problems. But when I ask you what problems are you fighting? Why are you so much better at that than when I say what God?

Or do you believe in? Now? Lord told me. When you preach this, make sure that the message they get is not what faith they have, but what God they have. And make sure that your faith isn't in what promise you think he made you, because you might have heard him wrong. I love what he said. Give me seventeen. I close with this. I know I could preach another two hours, but I know you want to go to a cracker barrel. Come on, keep it a hundred. Y'all are ready to leave. I keep it a hundred, You

keep it one hundred. So give me my last verse. Stand up, Saints. I have made you stand up. I have made you a father of many nations, and he is our father. Preaching about the faith of Abraham today, preaching about the faith of Abraham, not whole Cogan, not Brutus, the barber, beefcake, Abraham, it's the father many nations. Isn't it crazy that it took him one hundred years to actually become what God called him All along? He said, I made you the Father. I gave you the seed.

Nobody can do it but you. What God called you to bring into the earth. Nobody can bring it but you. Yeah, stop thinking. If you screw it up bad enough, God will let you off the hook. You know, you're just gonna have to go to summer school. Give me the verse again. I'm not done with it. He is our father in the side of God, in whom he believed. What God? Somebody say, what God? You know, you say, Oh, what problem? What Bill? What this? What that? What? God?

The God who gives life to the dead. What God? The God who calls into being things that were not. So here's what happens, my beloved friend, my beloved brother, my beloved sister. Sometimes we are hooked up in a season where God is giving us a download. And do you remember when you used to hook your phone up to the computer and you'd be downloading something, but you didn't have time to wait for the whole thing, so

you unplug it early guess what. You lost everything that got downloaded before it because you disconnected before the download was done. But God said, I want you to stay in it and believe it till you become it. If God says you're righteous and free, then believe that I'm free until you feel free. Believe until you become That's what Abraham did. The God who calls things that are not and so they are. The God who says to a valley of dry bones, get up, come together and

start fighting like an army. The God who says to a sea, turn into a four eighty five. The God who does that has given you his promise. He ain't call you the father of many nations. Come on, I don't even want to have a fourth kid. I'm not trying to be the father of many nations. But I do want to be everything he called me to be. How about you? How about you? I want to be that. I want to be what you want me to be, God, not what my best friend is, not what this person

I admire on Instagram is. I want to be what God calls me. I want to grow in his grace. I want to grow in the gifts He's given me. I want to bring him glory through my life. That's what I want. That's what I really want. That's what I really want. But you got to keep it one hundred. You gotta be honest about where you are and refuse to stay there. I will go, I shall go. I want to see what the end is gonna be. May take me my whole life to find out. I may not even live to see it, but I want to

keep it. A hundred. God made a covenant with Abraham, and he said, I'll keep this covenant if you laugh, if you lie and say that Sarah is your sister and she's really your wife, y'all know about that. Paul didn't keep it one hundred diddy. He didn't put that in romans for it, but it happened, and yet he became. Nothing can stop you from becoming. Nothing can stop it. Nothing, no power of hell, no scheme of man, no devil, no death, no divorce, no debt, nothing nothing nothing. Because

it did comes by grace is guarantee. Lift your hands receive the download from heaven Father right now. We're going to take just a minute, and as we worship you, we are going to refresh our minds with the promises of God. Hey, it's been a little while since I've done one of these little homemade videos after the message, but it felt like we needed one today, very very vocally tired. As you could tell, my hair is all

over the place. In fact, keeping it one hundred. I had to make this video three times because my hair looks so bad in the first two. Just keeping it real. But I want to take a minute and pray with you, because the message that I spoke today, it needs to end with you coming into agreement with what God has spoken over your life. What God are you believing it? The one who raises the dead to life and calls things that are not into existence. Yeah, that God. He

calls you his child. He calls you righteous, He calls you holy. Now, it calls you more than a conqueror. But you have to believe it by faith. And when you believe it by faith, you can receive the grace of God. I want you to put that right now in the chat say I believe it, I receive it. Put it in the chap I believe it, I receive it, And I want to pray with you right now. Father, Thank you for each person who heard this message today.

I pray that it would be mixed with their faith, and that they would carry it with them, that it would go into good soil and produce one hundredfold return, that they would keep it a hundred Come in to you just as they are refusing to stay that way. As you change us by your spirit from grace to grace and glory to glory. I believe your promise will come to pass over their life in Jesus name. Amen. I love you, See you next time. Thank you so much for being a part of this world wide ministry.

God bless