WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.040 Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.279 the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.359 glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe 4 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:15.400 God will transform your life. Do today's message? 5 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.559 All right? Are you all ready for the word today? 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.000 Let's get to it. We're starting a brand. 7 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:29.800 New series called Fearless, So everybody say Fearless. Oh yeah, 8 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.600 this is about to be good, a cool thing if 9 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:35.840 you don't know. I've got the opportunity every summer for 10 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.719 the last six summers to preach. 11 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:39.600 A series over the summer. 12 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.799 And because during this time, our lead pastors, Pastors Michael 13 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.560 and Natalie, take a sabbatical every single year to refresh, 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:47.840 to reset, to get vision. 15 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:50.200 Every time we come in January, we have a Word 16 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:50.600 of the year. 17 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.880 Pastor Michael spends this time praying and fasting and getting 18 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.000 that word for the year. And so one, I'm just 19 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.560 grateful for our pastors. And I always love the summer 20 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.240 because it's just a fun, wild time. 21 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:04.200 So one thing I'm gonna ask. 22 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.560 You before we jump into this message is this summer, 23 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:09.519 would you be praying for our pastors as they are away. 24 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:11.560 Resting and resetting. You have no idea. 25 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.120 The toll it is to lead a global movement and 26 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:17.760 do all the stuff, just the regular stuff, just raising 27 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.239 your kids, making Peter butter, jelly sandwiches, you know, just 28 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:25.040 regular life stuff. Meanwhile, also pastoring and covering all of us. 29 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.560 So if you make a commitment to pray for our pastors, 30 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:28.879 can everybody just say I will? 31 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:31.000 All right? All right, all right. 32 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:34.040 So we're starting a brand new series called Fearless. 33 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:37.359 And the truth is there's this old. 34 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.439 Preacher saying that I heard a long time ago, which 35 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:43.640 is study yourself full, pray yourself hot, and preach yourself empty. 36 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.040 And I'm about to do all three. So just prepare 37 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.359 your spirits. I have so much information to share with you. 38 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:54.239 You literally yesterday and my wife will tell you I 39 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:57.760 was in our room for like three hours studying neuroscience 40 00:01:57.799 --> 00:01:58.519 and your brain. 41 00:01:58.359 --> 00:01:59.879 And how it responds to danger and fears. 42 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.319 So if we have a nerd moment together and you 43 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:03.599 check out, it's all right. 44 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:05.079 I won't even hold you to it. 45 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:06.920 Just go back and listen to it. But we're gonna 46 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:08.719 start off. We're gonna read Psalms fifty six, So if 47 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.560 you got your Bible, will go to Psalms, chapter number 48 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:17.560 fifty six, and we will read that scripture Psalm fifty six. 49 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:18.800 If you got it, say I got it? 50 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.719 Great? Three people. I love that Three people. 51 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.159 Y'all are like, oh, it's just a rhetorical question. 52 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:27.759 Now I'm away for you. We a beout to read God. 53 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.840 There you go. I love the trickle in got it? 54 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.159 Got it? Come on, some of y'all you just typing 55 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:33.840 it into Google. Man, shouldn't take that long. Come on, 56 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:37.159 you have to forgive us. We had a power outage 57 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.560 today at like nine to fifty five. All the power 58 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.879 shut out, and so we don't have the massive sky Bible, 59 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:44.360 as I call it, the back screen. So you have 60 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:47.319 to really read it for yourself and see if I'm 61 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:49.919 telling the truth. Okay, here we go, Psalm fifty six, 62 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:51.240 first number one. 63 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:52.840 We'll go one through four. 64 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.960 The Bible says, Oh God, have mercy on me, for 65 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:02.240 people are hounding me. You ever had anybody hound you? 66 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:05.560 Come on, I feel like my kids was hounding me yesterday. Jesus, 67 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.319 I was yesterday almost had one of those you just 68 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:09.159 stop like that. 69 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.439 You've ever done that one? No? Just me okay? 70 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.639 Now, literally it feels like my whole body gets electrocuted. 71 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.639 I'm like, come on, calm down, stop it. 72 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.080 Okay. My foes attack me all day long. 73 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:27.120 I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and 74 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.319 many are boldly attacking me. 75 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:30.360 Come on. 76 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.639 It's one thing if they're trying to be passive aggressive, 77 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:33.879 but it's some people are. 78 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.759 Like, that's what you're gonna wear. Okay. It's those type 79 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:37.520 of people that get you. 80 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:43.400 First number three says, but when I am afraid, I 81 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.879 will put my trust in you. I praise God for 82 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.879 what he has promised. I trust in God. So why 83 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:55.120 should I be afraid? One of the most gangster lines 84 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.520 right here. What can mere mortals do to me? 85 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:02.039 It's a gangster all right. 86 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.199 Here's the title of today's sermon, week number one, Fearless. 87 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.599 The title is write it down. Born for danger, Born 88 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.800 for danger. I was born for danger. 89 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:12.919 I don't know what you what's something? 90 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:13.080 Tea? 91 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.240 How you doing? My lower up? Vadis get to see you? Hey, 92 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:19.240 I just recognize my friends. Okay, Ah, I was born 93 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.839 for danger. Okay, all right, we're gonna pray. 94 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.120 Lord, thank you that we are all born for danger, 95 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:26.519 and Jesus that we pray. 96 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:31.240 Everybody said, all right, now let's get into it. Here's 97 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:31.600 the thing. 98 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.560 I don't know if you know where you come from now, 99 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.519 I'm not talking about like where you were born. I 100 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.399 was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. So I was raised 101 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.720 Bowling Green one fifteen Clearview Avenue. That's where my grandma stayed. 102 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:45.800 That's where we spent the summers. We was wilding out 103 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:47.319 back in the day when they just used to get 104 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.480 on your bike in the morning, come back, get food 105 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:51.360 at noon, and then go back on your bike until 106 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:52.240 the street light came on. 107 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:53.560 That's how I grew up. 108 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.079 Now, ain't no way my kids getting on the bike 109 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:56.720 to go down the street. 110 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:58.519 What you crazy? 111 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:03.879 No, you pedaling the circle in this driveway? That's exactly 112 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:05.920 abby is way more great that could be? 113 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:06.959 Like can we go on the street. No, you can't 114 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:08.399 go on the street. What a car run you over? 115 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:10.759 A car will literally hit you and you will break 116 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:11.839 your neck and I'm gonna have to take you. 117 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.560 I say it exactly like that. They're like, yeah, they're 118 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:18.879 not gonna break our neck. And so but I grew up. 119 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.720 And here's what I'm trying to get at is everybody, 120 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:25.639 you have something in you that didn't start with you, 121 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:28.319 and it's kind of your genes and your makeup and 122 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.120 your family of origin, and there's just stuff about your 123 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.480 DNA that makes you who you are. I got four kiddos, 124 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.000 and they all look and act like me and my 125 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:38.759 wife in different ways. 126 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.360 And the other night, I gotta tell you a story. 127 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.600 This is last time O. The night before, we're. 128 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.879 Sitting at the dinner table and we're going around and 129 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:47.600 this is just a random family activity. 130 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:49.199 We're making up jokes and. 131 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.560 Riddles, just making them up on the spot, and people 132 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:52.120 got a guess. 133 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.439 I'm not gonna lie it. I was crushing it. I was. 134 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.879 I was doing so well. I'll give you one right here. 135 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:58.040 I'll see if I remember it. 136 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.480 Well was uh, okay, what has I but no face? 137 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:03.759 What has uh? What was it? 138 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:03.959 Well? 139 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.519 Runs but has no legs? And then what was the 140 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:06.959 last one? 141 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.199 I don't remember the last part, But. 142 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:10.680 Anyways, anybody got a guess? 143 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:17.079 A shoe eyelets on the shoe, runs but doesn't have legs, 144 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:18.839 stinks and doesn't have a nose. 145 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.639 Boom, That was it? Shoe. I'm great a riddles. Okay. 146 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:26.079 Anyways, so we're doing riddles. Some of y'all get that. 147 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.000 Next week that's how good that riddle was. Man, I've 148 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:35.399 got so much time. Okay, uh, so we're doing riddles. 149 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.680 Abby goes, Now, listen, here's the thing. We've all got 150 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.839 our strengths. Clearly, I'm up here doing mine. So Abby goes. 151 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.639 And I'm not saying the riddles aren't her strength, but. 152 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.759 So Abby goes to do her riddle and we're all just. 153 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.279 Staring at her like I don't even what are you? 154 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.800 And the kids are doing this as well, and so 155 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.439 we're like, you gotta add that state. 156 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.560 She only had one identifier, she didn't even have three. 157 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.720 It was just like, what is high but not low? 158 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.839 I don't know what she said, but it was rains 159 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.800 but no clouds. I don't even know. 160 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.279 I still don't even remember what you said. See it's 161 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.519 bad right now, it's bad. Then it was bad now 162 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:16.240 she said it's a. 163 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.439 Shower, rains but no clouds, a shower. 164 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:19.240 Yeah. 165 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.360 Oh okay, Yeah, that's how. 166 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.040 I felt when she did it the first time. So 167 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.959 but I promise I'm going to preach, but just wait. 168 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.759 So she does that exactly how that just. 169 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.720 Went, where y'all are like, what, I don't we do that? 170 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:41.959 And Luna Rose Metcalf who has strong Metcalf DNA, and 171 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.800 I mean that in her soul. She is a strong 172 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.959 black woman in her soul. On the outside, she's blonde hair, 173 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.879 blue eyes. Oh look, the screen's back. 174 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:51.199 Okay. 175 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:57.240 So but Luna, right when Abby says a shower, she goes, 176 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:02.040 oh my gosh, that joke was so dumb. 177 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.560 She said, this girl is so dumb. 178 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:12.399 And unfortunately I busted out laughing early and I was like, Luna, 179 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:14.360 you cannot say that. 180 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:17.000 She's like, what that joke was so dumb? 181 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.040 And I wish I could say she didn't get that 182 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:21.399 from me. 183 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:23.120 But she did, because that's what I thought when she 184 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:27.800 said it. That is such a bad joke. But that's 185 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.040 just looked like that came up out of her soul. 186 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:32.480 She did. Ain't nobody teach her that, and she ain't. 187 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.639 I'm not out out here, call up here. She just 188 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.279 felt that. And what I'm getting at is there. 189 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.919 Stuff that is in your lineage that only in the 190 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:46.279 right circumstances will it present itself. And I want to 191 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.639 let you know in case you don't know that the 192 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.879 history of the church is. 193 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.440 A people who were born for danger. 194 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.639 Now I know this isn't something that we commonly talk 195 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:58.519 about because we think we're just supposed to be in here, 196 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:00.279 and we sing her songs. And then we got out 197 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.639 in the world and we live very shy, quiet, don't 198 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.200 interrupt anybody, don't be weird, don't be strange. And then 199 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.399 we come back and we do our thing all over again. 200 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.480 But this heritage of this movement started with people who 201 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.559 could care less about danger because they knew where they 202 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:15.759 were going when they died. 203 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.960 And I am afraid the core element. 204 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.679 That makes the church the church has gotten lost in 205 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.600 the last two thousand years. The origin in this movement 206 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.279 was not made in pews. It was made by people 207 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:31.759 who were writing in prison saying they're. 208 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:32.480 About to kill me. 209 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.320 But before they do, let me tell you something. To 210 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.639 live is Christ and to die is Gain, so they 211 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.000 can take my life. 212 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:42.480 You're born from danger. 213 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.080 This was not born from just some cute little things 214 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.720 that we do on the side. It was born from 215 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.960 people like a young man named David. David's who we 216 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.200 read in this scripture, who's a young shepherd boy and 217 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.360 there's a giant who is attacking God's people, and he 218 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:00.080 rolls up as a teenager while all of Israelites the 219 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.120 best warriors are hiding. 220 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.000 And he says, who is this and listen to how 221 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:07.639 gangster this is? He says, who is this? Uncircumcised philistine? 222 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:09.320 He really cooked that man. 223 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:13.559 It's like God's up, but he rolls up on a 224 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:19.879 giant kills him. Born from danger, Born from danger. God 225 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.840 named Moses. Born from danger, goes up to Pharaoh call 226 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.000 himself a god at the time. This is why God 227 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.240 deals so harshly with Pharaoh, by the way, because some 228 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:31.879 people have beef with like the ten plagues and like, 229 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:34.000 oh my gosh, God, such a terrible god. No, Pharaoh 230 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.360 was one of the only people in ancient times that 231 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.399 compared himself and said I am a god. 232 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.720 There is no other god. Did it? Wasn't the claim 233 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:41.799 that they worshiped other gods. 234 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:43.960 Pharaoh thought he was God. So God said, oh you 235 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:45.799 think you are a god? Okay, bet, I'm gonna take 236 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.080 your river, I'm gonna take your food, I'm gonna take 237 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.879 your stuff. And just to remind you, nobody else, there's 238 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:57.759 no other God like me. Born from danger, girl named 239 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:02.840 Esther who rolls up on the king. Born from danger, 240 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.279 you go to the New Testament. Born from danger, Jesus 241 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:07.679 Born from Danger. 242 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.240 Paul all the scriptures we love to read. He's writing 243 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.039 from prison. They're throwing him in jail. He's about to 244 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.159 get out. Born from Danger. 245 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:19.559 There's apostles who they boiled them in hot oil and 246 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.799 they wouldn't die. Ship them to an island. They won't die. 247 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:27.080 Born from Danger. Early Church history, if you study early 248 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.600 church history, there's a girl named Perpetua, and she's in 249 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:34.240 the colosseum, like the Roman colosseum, and they tell her 250 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:36.519 she's a high Let me give you the context. She's 251 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.039 a high Roman official's daughter. She gets into the movement 252 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:43.799 of Christianity, and to prove a point, they say, we 253 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.279 don't care who your daddy is. We're killing all Christians. 254 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:50.080 So they come to her and say deny your faith 255 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.840 or will throw you in the colosseum or in the arena. 256 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:54.399 She says, I'm sorry, I can't do that. 257 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.200 So they take the government's daughter thrower in the arena. 258 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:04.639 She's standing there. The gladiators are fighting. They stab her. 259 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.080 She stands there, pulls the knife in a little closer 260 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:10.000 and says, thank you. 261 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.879 Now, help me reconcile that movement. 262 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.039 With a bunch of people commenting back and forth in 263 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:20.720 the comments. 264 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.919 And that's supposed to be brave. That's what our faith 265 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.320 has become. Our faith hasme. 266 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:30.679 I come in here, I sing my songs, I go 267 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.720 argue on the internet. Nobody at work knows I'm saved. 268 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.000 I don't want to be too weird. And now I'm 269 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:39.679 a part of the same movement. Baby, No, no, don't no. 270 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.919 Not the same thing. Not the same thing. You were 271 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.639 born from danger. Now, when I originally said that, some 272 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.440 of you had issue with that because because you think danger, Like, bro, 273 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:52.039 we're supposed to. 274 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.399 Be Oh, what's happening where y'all lefting at? 275 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.360 Sermon title goes here? Yeah, hey, give us a second. 276 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:03.120 We had a power outah. But when I said born 277 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.720 from danger, some of you are are danger adverse. 278 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.200 You're like, I don't mess with danger. We don't do danger. 279 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:12.039 Why because as a kid, we are all reminded and 280 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:13.120 think if. 281 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.399 It's dangerous, we don't want to do it. Because y'all 282 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:17.879 want to do dangerous things. Because when you're afraid, it's 283 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:18.840 because it's dangerous. 284 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.679 My daughter Blue, she was on the back of the couch, 285 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:23.679 standing on it. They're jumping off. We clearly have no 286 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.240 rules in our house. We gave up rules a long 287 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:25.840 time ago. 288 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.200 And they're standing on the couch, they're. 289 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.279 Jumping off, and Sonny, she's thinking, I cannot jump, I 290 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.639 might fall. So the assumption is it's dangerous, you don't 291 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:39.960 want to do it. And here's the connection. Many believers 292 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:42.960 and many people think, if I want to have less fear, 293 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.200 I need to have less danger in my life. That's 294 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.679 how you control your fear, because things are dangerous make 295 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:50.159 you afraid. 296 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:52.679 But here's what I can't reconcile. 297 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:58.480 Why would the marker of our movement being God calling 298 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:02.080 us to do dangerous things? Things meaning like all of 299 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:06.000 jesus friends were murdered because they, like Stephen stoned to 300 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.159 death for his faith. 301 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:13.799 So clearly dangerous, clearly and over three hundred times the 302 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:14.960 Bible says, do not be afraid. 303 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.440 Why is it the mark of our faith is for 304 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:24.279 us to live a dangerous life, meaning dangerous relationally, because 305 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:27.279 we're not connected. Dangerous in how we live, dangerous in 306 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.840 taking risk, dangerous and starting things people. 307 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:31.919 Won't start, standing up. When people won't stand up. 308 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.000 We are called to live a dangerous life, and he 309 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:39.080 calls us not to be afraid. Here's the connection. I 310 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:40.519 want to say, this will kind of act as like 311 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.360 a core point, and then I'm gonna We're gonna go 312 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.840 through the Bible. Here's the idea. Danger is inevitable. Fear 313 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:47.559 is optional. 314 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:52.679 Danger is inevitable. 315 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:55.039 There is something in your life that will be quote 316 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:56.159 unquote dangerous. 317 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:56.840 What do I mean by that. 318 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.039 I'm not talking about evil caneval I'm talking about in 319 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.360 some theory, it'sous to get married because you don't know 320 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.960 if you could trust that person, so you don't know 321 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.399 how it's gonna go. You in theory, is dangerous to 322 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:08.080 try to have friends because you don't. 323 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:09.679 Know if they'll be with you or they'll a bandy. 324 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.159 It's dangerous to have kids because what if something happens 325 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.600 and it goes wrong. It is dangerous to do I'm 326 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:17.360 talking about there is danger in life. 327 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.399 But you being afraid is optional. You have the choice 328 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:23.519 whether you want to be afraid or not. 329 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:27.000 Now I know it's like, what do you What does 330 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:27.519 this man say? 331 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.559 Okay, let's go. We all ready for the nerd part 332 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:30.039 of the sermon. 333 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.519 Okay, she said, we'll try I love that. Okay, here's 334 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:39.559 the thing. Uh, there's a scientist, neuroscientist named Joseph. I'll 335 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:41.759 spare his last name because I mispronounce it. Every Diman 336 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.039 said for the last forty years, he's stead of your brain. 337 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.679 Here's how people traditionally understand fear. Fear happens in your amygdala, 338 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.399 which is your reptile brain, just instincts. That's what people understood. 339 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:54.600 When you're afraid. Your brain says, oh my gosh, we're terrified. 340 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.720 Palm sweat, heart races, adrenaline, and you do a couple 341 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.480 of things fight, flight or freeze. There's a new in 342 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:02.759 the added fawn, which is like people pleasing. Is anybody 343 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:04.559 ever heard of this fight or flight? Anybody just heard 344 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.039 that term? Okay, So that's how people understand fear. When 345 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.679 you're afraid, your body immediately goes into that thing because 346 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:13.399 it sense is danger. Here's what his research has been 347 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.559 proven over the last forty years that your body processing 348 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.919 danger and you being afraid are two totally separate things. 349 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:24.480 You can be in danger and not be afraid. 350 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:29.480 Here's what fear is. Fear is not just the awareness 351 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.080 of danger. It's the awareness that it's happening to you. 352 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:34.080 Here's what I mean by that. 353 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.840 If you go into the woods and the bushes. 354 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:40.240 Rustle, danger. Your brain's gonna. 355 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.840 Go whoa hold up, Hey, what is that? 356 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:44.000 What are we doing? 357 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.039 Boom, heart rate spipes, your palms start sweating, and you 358 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:48.080 go into one of three. 359 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:49.600 Some of you are like, I'm about to fight a bear. 360 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:51.440 Some of you all like I'm running. 361 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.399 Some of y'all freeze and you don't even realize what's happening. 362 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.519 That's the danger part. So danger is information. Fear is 363 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.639 the meaning you assigned to that information. 364 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:05.039 Danger says something's gonna happen. I need a run. 365 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.240 Your brain says it's a bear. It's gonna eat me. 366 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:09.200 I'm gonna die. And when the bear eats me, I'm 367 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:10.680 gonna die. Then who's gonna take care of my kids? 368 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.079 And then I'm gonna do? And then anxiety is you 369 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:17.200 continuing to build out that scenario. I'm really trying to 370 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:20.319 help you because this is gonna all click danger, this 371 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:21.839 is this is strange. I don't know how this feels. 372 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.720 Fear says, yeah, but let's make up a story about 373 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:27.599 that that includes our involvement. 374 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.240 Now we're gonna go to our scripture. 375 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:32.480 I promise it is all gonna come together at the end, 376 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.839 because you're all staring at me like I stared at 377 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.519 my college teacher when I went for one month and bailed. 378 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:41.920 But we're gonna do it. Here's the thing we're in 379 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.960 Psalms fifty six. The context of this, which is important 380 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.480 for you to know. He's writing this, my foes are 381 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:51.559 attacking me. I'm getting hounded, but I won't be afraid. 382 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:56.480 The context is Samuel twenty one, the story of David. 383 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.920 He's on the run from a guy named Saul. All 384 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.640 you need to know about that saw hates him. He's 385 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.119 on the run. Guess where he runs to. He runs 386 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:08.359 to Goliath's hometown. So the guy he killed, y'all remember 387 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.400 he slung the thing bam, knocked the guy down. 388 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.240 He runs to his enemy's hometown and is. 389 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.920 Hiding because he's terrified he's gonna get killed. That's what 390 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.079 Sosng fifty six is. So when he's riding, my foes 391 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:26.279 are attacking me. I'm scared. He is in his enemy's hometown, terrified. 392 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:28.200 And here's what the Bible says. 393 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.799 This is hilarious to be because when you picture him 394 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.960 writing this scripture, you don't picture this part. But the 395 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.839 Bible says, in order for the king not to kill him. 396 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:39.559 He starts acting crazy. Y'all don't know this, okay, let 397 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:40.519 me read it to you. Let me read it to you. 398 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:41.759 Let me read it to you. Let me read it 399 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:42.839 to you. Let me read it to you. Hold on, 400 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.599 where's it at? Samauh okay? First, sam of yo, look 401 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:45.880