WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:06.799 Thank you God. Stay standing. If you can, I should 2 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:12.240 put your hand on your heart. Say Jesus, everything is yours. 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:18.280 I hold nothing back. If you give it, I'll take 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:25.160 it in Jesus name. Amen. Oh right, Amen, Amen. I'm 5 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.800 so glad to be here. John. Are you in the 6 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.600 house where you at? John? John? Can you do me 7 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:35.000 a big favor? Can you just a little bit? I 8 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.759 feel like it's either I'm gonna run over it or 9 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:39.960 it's gonna trip me up one or the other. I 10 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.159 don't know. But if you can this way, this guy's 11 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:47.640 teasing me. Yeah, put her center. Thank you John, And 12 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.479 then when you're done, please come back. I wanna chat 13 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.520 with you for a second. I'm the new young adult 14 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.679 pasture here and I'm super excited to do that. It's 15 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.640 amazing journey. If you're eighteen plus in the building or 16 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.519 watching online, or you know somebody who needs community, we 17 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.480 want to get plugged in. We want to get connected. 18 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:13.519 Starting in September. Tomorrow, September, isn't it. Starting in September, 19 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.680 several times a month, we're going to go into the 20 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.760 homes and we're gonna do like fellowship style worship, encountering 21 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.200 God food. It's just gonna be tons of fun. So 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.840 if you want to get information on that, come see 23 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.120 me after service. That's perfect. John. Actually, when you were playing, man, 24 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.680 I saw you playing and you were like, you were 25 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.640 totally playing. You know what I'm saying. There's people who 26 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.400 can play, right, there's people who could totally play. And Man, 27 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.560 when you were playing, I was expecting that thing to 28 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.159 do what it did last year. It didn't break if 29 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:51.000 you weren't here. John was just totally worshiping like a 30 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:52.840 year ago, and he was in the middle. I was 31 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.519 standing right there and he was, and the whole thing 32 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.599 just went kaboom and it just broke off. And then 33 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:01.959 the Lord touched me when that happened, and he said, 34 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:06.239 why don't you worship that way? And it just blew 35 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:08.639 my mind and it set me on a trajectory somewhere. 36 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.240 But as you were worshiping, I felt like the Lord 37 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.560 was highlighting you to me. And I just felt like 38 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.520 the Lord said, now is your season and there's a 39 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.240 call on your life. Man. Everybody knows that your wife 40 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.960 knows that you're not perfect. Nobody's saying that, but there's 41 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.439 something in your heart, man, like when you're going for God, 42 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.240 you're going one hundred percent. If you're making a mistake, 43 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.360 you're going one hundred percent with it. True. Yeah, but 44 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.000 God loves that about you because you're a one hundred 45 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.080 percent and no matter what you're doing, Man, we just 46 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.680 stretch your hands. Father, We thank you for John, and 47 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.800 we thank you that the one hundred percent journey is 48 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.159 just the beauty of who you've made him to be. 49 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.120 And from this moment on, God, I thank you God 50 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.280 that your voice will become so clear, and the destination 51 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.360 of where he's headed will become so clear, and the 52 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:55.080 steps you will take will have so much purpose in 53 00:02:55.240 --> 00:03:03.919 Jesus name, we bless him. Amen. Ah, Well, does anybody 54 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.639 else want to move something on the stage? Now? I'll 55 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:10.120 get it. No, I felt like that. Just God's so good. Well, 56 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.080 if you're here for the first time, well, hi, family, 57 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:17.759 I got some family here. Hi guys sitting in the back. Girl, 58 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.560 that's so cool. If you're here for the first time, 59 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.360 welcome to the unexpected. We don't know what's going to happen, 60 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.719 except we want to see the Lord come through, encounter us, 61 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:29.400 let us know who he is, and maybe give us 62 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.400 a clearer picture of that so that we have something 63 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:38.520 to pursue stronger, sharper, more bold, with more authority. Last week, 64 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.599 if you were here, we talked about the God of 65 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:43.879 my past. If you weren't here, just briefly. Sometimes we 66 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.840 go through things in life and we have mountains too 67 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.879 high to climb and too wide to go around, and 68 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:54.120 the Lord and his Goodness sometimes takes us back memory lane, 69 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.039 and he takes us to revisit not our past and 70 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.800 sin or failure, but to revisit His glory in our past, 71 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.919 and sometimes to remember, oh, yeah, I remember, God, you 72 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.759 delivered me from so and so. You delivered me from sin, 73 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.800 this bondage. You gave me a hope when I had none. 74 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.439 You freed me from this when I wasn't free. And 75 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.519 you go through this memory of who God is. God 76 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:20.120 takes you into your past to remember who he is 77 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.079 and what he's done, so that when you come back 78 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.920 through that journey you have the faith and you realize 79 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.319 the mountain that was big actually isn't so big. And 80 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.959 you say to that mountain, get up and be thrown 81 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.680 into the sea. And it is so, it will, it 82 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.319 will be done. And we talked about all that last week, 83 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.160 and I don't have the time to really share more 84 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.720 about that, because today we're going to talk about the 85 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:49.839 God in my future. Say God of my future. Amen. 86 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.000 So I'm gonna dive right in, and i am gonna 87 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.519 go fast, Okay, and it's on purpose. Don't try to 88 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.720 retain it all, just taking what whatever the Lord's doing 89 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:02.879 in your life, and we'll just go from there. Cool. 90 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:08.560 Hebrews chapter eleven, Verse one. Please. Now, faith is the 91 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:14.160 substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 92 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:20.560 One more time, faith is the substance of things hoped 93 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.680 for and the evidence. Let's read all together. Now, faith 94 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.680 is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of 95 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:35.879 things not seen. A different translation says, faith is the 96 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:45.839 confidence that what you hope for will actually happen. Come 97 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:51.040 on the substance, it's the tangible thing that we have 98 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.000 that gets us to what we're hoping for. Here, let 99 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.759 me put it in a different way. We're all in 100 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:02.519 a vehicle, and this vehicle is driving us somewhere. This 101 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:07.199 vehicle is called faith, okay, and faith is driving you 102 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:13.920 to your hope. Put it back on the screen, Thank you, 103 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:19.040 my friend. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for. 104 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:28.839 So the question becomes what are we hoping? Right, you're 105 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:35.160 today looks like what you're hoping for now here in 106 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.920 the West and in the US, and and just culturally 107 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.720 we've we we use faith, or excuse me, we use 108 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.879 hope and wish interchangeably as those the same thing when 109 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:50.519 it's completely opposite. For example, something bad happens and you're like, 110 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.120 I really hope it gets better. What you're saying is 111 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.959 I really desire and wish for it to get better. 112 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:02.800 That's not hope. Hope is it will happen. It's just 113 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.480 a matter of time. Like when my wife and I 114 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:09.040 were going through infertility, I kept saying to her, this 115 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.399 will happen, we will have a child. I don't know 116 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.759 if it's this month, next month, or the month after that, 117 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.600 but my hope is confident it's gonna happen. And my faith, 118 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.040 my faith day in day out. We kept trying, we 119 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.920 kept believing, we kept praying until what we hope for 120 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.839 came into fruition. So our faith is the vehicle that's 121 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.800 driving us to where our hope is. So I would 122 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:44.879 challenge you church to stop using hope blatantly or as 123 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:56.439 though it carries no value. Hope is eternal value. Okay. 124 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.879 The challenge is that in today's society, we don't know 125 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:05.560 what we're hoping for, so we're confused. Like our hope 126 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.879 goes as far as I hope I get my bills paid. 127 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:15.399 I hope that my friend will be better to me, 128 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.720 or I hope my kids will listen better, or I 129 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.399 hope I get breakthrough in the financial realm, where I 130 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.279 hope people can see me or love me or accept me. 131 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:35.720 It goes so so low. We've diminished hope. And my 132 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.679 goal this morning, in the next twenty minutes, and please 133 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.279 Lord help me, is that we get a pretty clear 134 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.879 picture of what hope is, so that maybe we walk 135 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.480 out of these doors knowing who we are in the Lord, 136 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.960 walking out with confidence we never knew we had, walking 137 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.679 out with authority and believing for more than we've ever 138 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:58.600 believed for in our lives. Amen. Amen, Pastors that can 139 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:02.200 you help me? Please? Can you run somewhere from me? 140 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.320 I don't I know. I'm known as like the prop guy, 141 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.600 and I didn't bring any props today, but I figured 142 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.039 we need a prop and I use it the first service. 143 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.679 Can you go into the fellowship, Paul, You know those 144 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.799 two trees that sit on the side. Can you bring 145 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.039 one of them? Just bring one please? Thank you brother. 146 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.600 I love Zach. If you don't know, Zach, you're missing 147 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.720 out in life. Truly, you don't know. You don't know 148 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.840 the most encouraging person you've never met, you know, isn't 149 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.600 it true. He's like he just doesn't he doesn't quit. 150 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.919 He's just he's like, he'll find the goodness and he'll 151 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.919 call it out. You'll be living like garbage and be like, dude, 152 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:43.840 I could just see the man of God. You are man, 153 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.440 You're just amazing, and you'll see it right, He'll see 154 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.799 right through the ugly and see the beauty. And that's 155 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.639 just it's a gift to God. So as he's bringing 156 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:55.440 that for us to know and understand the hope of 157 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:59.000 God and to what we have been called to, we 158 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.919 have to go so where in history, we have to 159 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.879 go back to the beginning, say beginning. Thank you, Pastor Zach. 160 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.279 Just if you can place it right here. I can't 161 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.159 wait for what Pastor Joel has to say about this tree. 162 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:22.120 That's what happened in the garden. It fell apart. God 163 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.120 planned the garden for goodness and it just okay, well, 164 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.080 for us to understand why we even hope and what 165 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.080 we're hoping for, we have to go to the original 166 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:38.639 design and the intention of the author. Correct. So when 167 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:40.840 we go back into the garden, this is what this 168 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:44.639 tree represents, the garden of Eden where it began. When 169 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:47.279 we go back into the garden, we find that God 170 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:52.879 created man in whose image and in his image and 171 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.799 likeness he formed them, and then he ordained a few 172 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.440 things over man to be like. And first and almost 173 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:04.879 he said, be fruitful and multiply. And then he said, 174 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:11.039 I am giving you dominion, rule and reign over everything created. 175 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:17.600 He said, plow this ground and make beautiful things. When 176 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:22.039 God created Atom, he also brought the animals to Atom, 177 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.480 and he said, what would you name them? Adam. So 178 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:28.600 not only do we have the ability to rule, to reign, 179 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.000 but we also have the ability to imagine with God, 180 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:36.039 co labor with him in our original design. Like we 181 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.519 put so much pressure on God to do the thing 182 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.759 He's already done, and now it's our job to say, Okay, God, 183 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.159 you've done that. You've given me the power, and now 184 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.919 I have the authority to rule, to reign and make 185 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.240 things happen. And so when Moses was leading Egypt out 186 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.399 of or when Moses was leading the Israeli nation out 187 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:59.600 of Egypt and the Egyptians came to kill them, Moses 188 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:01.919 said to the people, watch what God will do. And 189 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:03.639 then God said, why are you crying out to me? 190 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.600 Take your staff, divide the sea? Walk. But so many 191 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.240 times we're like, just wait till what God will do. 192 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.480 Just wait, just wait on God. And there's nothing wrong 193 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.639 with waiting. And if you're in that season God's leading 194 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.120 you that way, please wait. But I'm telling you, when 195 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.159 you understand the same power that raised him from the 196 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.519 debt lives in you, You're gonna walk a different way. 197 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.320 So in this garden, God created them to rule, to reign, 198 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:32.879 to have dominion, to have authority, to expand. The idea 199 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:37.480 beyond multiplying and expanding, was that as the garden grew, 200 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.519 the entire earth would be filled with the knowledge and 201 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.679 the glory and the splendor and the wonder and the 202 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:50.120 majesty of this God we worship. Why because Adam and 203 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:53.720 Eve in his likeness, cause him to go that way. 204 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.039 We're created in his image. So lo and behold, we 205 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.600 know that there was a satan. There was a deceiver Lucifer. 206 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.960 And we all know the story the fall in the garden, 207 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:08.440 how the serpent came and deceived Eve. Eve gave out 208 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:10.799 of the fruit. They both ate, and when out of 209 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.360 eight their eyes were opened, they began to see things 210 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:15.480 they were never called to see. They began to feel 211 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.320 things they were never called to feel. They begin to 212 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.440 identify in ways they were never called to identify in. 213 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.240 So if you tell me you're a certain identity, I don't. 214 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:27.879 I don't necessarily not believe you, but I know your 215 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:31.559 true identity looks like something else. Okay, So they began 216 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.879 to live away. They did it they were never called 217 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.759 to live. And watch what happens when God comes into 218 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:40.519 the garden to address the situation. I want to highlight 219 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.039 what God says to the serpent. So if we go 220 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.240 real quick, we're going Genesis three point fifteen. I believe 221 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.840 the first one in Genesis says, I will cause thee 222 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.600 God is speaking to the serpent, the devil. I will 223 00:13:55.720 --> 00:14:02.759 cause hostility between you and the one, between your off 224 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:10.159 spring and her off spring. She will strike your head 225 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:20.200 and you will strike his heel. He will strike your head. Guys, 226 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:26.600 please understand from the fall from the very first breath 227 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.840 of the fall of man, when we lost the image 228 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.639 of God. One of the first things God says to 229 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.720 the Satan, the one who took authority in the spiritual 230 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.960 realm from Adam. He says, there is coming a day 231 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:45.519 where my son will come and he will cross your head. 232 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:49.559 Do you know? Do you know what it means to 233 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:58.360 strike ahead? It means to give a death blow. From 234 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.200 the very beginning, God is saying to us, Yes, you've fallen, 235 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.080 Yes you fell sure, yes you're not living to your 236 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.759 full potential. But if you look ahead, there's coming a 237 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:13.159 day where there's one that will strike the head of 238 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.840 the one who deceived you and took your place of authority. 239 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.039 Real quick. I'm gonna go real, real, real, real quick. 240 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:23.399 Genesis five twenty nine. Please lameck. Okay, who's lamex? We 241 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:26.559 all know Enoch? Who knows Enoch in the building. Enoch 242 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.399 is a guy who lived three hundred and sixty five years, 243 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.960 And when he lived three hundred sixty five years, he 244 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.960 lived in such close relationship and union with God that 245 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:41.360 one day he was no more because God took him. Okay, 246 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:45.120 three hundredsand how many days in a year? Three sixty five. 247 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:49.279 Enoch lived three hundred and sixty five years, representing one 248 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.279 day for every year, in such close proximity that he 249 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:55.399 was no more Enoch. It gives birth, not him, but 250 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:58.840 his wife gives birth to a man named metthus Lah 251 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:03.679 say methuse law Methuselah is the longest recorded individual we 252 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.519 know scripturally. He lived nine hundred and sixty nine years. 253 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.000 Some of you don't want to live another day, okay, 254 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:13.679 But he lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, and 255 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:19.240 he through him gives birth to a guy named Lameck. Lameck, 256 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.840 a guy who grandfather walked in such close proximity, whose 257 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:30.480 dad walked so long. Lamck begins to utter prophetic utterances. 258 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.120 And when Noah the scriptures say nay meg name or 259 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:37.559 Lamik named his son Noah, for he said, may he 260 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:43.639 bring us relief from our work and painful labor of 261 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:48.399 farming this ground that the Lord has cursed. What is 262 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.120 Lamix saying? He's saying, May there be one that comes 263 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:56.240 in the likeness of the one who steps on the 264 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.759 serpent's head and bring us relief from this curse that's 265 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.399 been released. So Noah, we know this to be true. 266 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.440 There was a flood, and Noah was ordained by God 267 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.720 to fulfill this word. And see, all these people in 268 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:14.680 history got glimpses of this hope, glimpses of this hope 269 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.920 that you and I carry. And so Noah builds this arc. 270 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.960 And in the arc, oh, such a beautiful story. There 271 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.039 is eight individuals. And so when the water for forty 272 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.200 days rains like crazy, water is coming out of the ground, 273 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.400 it's Mayhem for forty days, and the water covered the earth. 274 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.960 And God reveals to you and I that the only 275 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:41.079 way from the old to the new is through baptism, 276 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:46.440 when He baptizes the world. All of this a foreshadow, 277 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.559 all of this a foreshadow of what's to come. How 278 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:55.359 many in the arc eight? What does seven mean completion? 279 00:17:55.519 --> 00:18:01.519 What does eight mean? New beginnings? Oh? Lord, just way 280 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:04.440 too many things to ignore, way too many things, and 281 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:08.119 all these stories. Can you pull up Hebrews eleven? Is 282 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.000 it thirty nine or something like that? Watch this. All 283 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.359 these people earned a good reputation because of their faith. 284 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.000 Remember faith as a substance of things you're hoping for. 285 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:20.240 Excuse me, Yet none of them received all that God 286 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:25.000 had promised. So all these people, seeing the Christ coming, 287 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.599 that he's coming. We know he's coming. So we're doing 288 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.279 things today that's leading us to tomorrow, and one day 289 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.960 we will see. Maybe we won't experience the fullness of it, 290 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:37.720 but we will see it. Hebrews. Actually, this is not 291 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:39.839 this is not back there. But I gotta read this. 292 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:41.599 This is just way too good. This is the moment 293 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:48.000 for it. Hebrews. I gotta where you at Hebrews. One, one, one, 294 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.119 you gotta hear. This is just way too good. Long ago, 295 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:55.640 Listen carefully, God spoke many times and in many ways, 296 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:01.440 through our ancestors and the prophets. These final days, he 297 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:06.640 has spoken to us through his son. God promised everything 298 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:11.160 to the Sun and as an inheritance, and through the 299 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.400 Sun he created the universe. Listened very carefully. The sun 300 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:26.119 radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character. The 301 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:31.440 sun radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character 302 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:36.200 of God. So all these people are getting glimpses into 303 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:41.039 this sun that's coming. Remember when, oh Lord, remember when 304 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.039 Jesus was on the mountain of Transfiguration, and all of 305 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:49.599 a sudden there was Moses and and these two what 306 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.079 do they represent? They represent the law and the prophets, 307 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:53.960 you know, just a crazy thought. You don't have to 308 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.359 go deep into this one. But you know how God 309 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.359 does not live in time, right right? And you know 310 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:02.599 how God, you know, he could transport people from one 311 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:05.960 area to Okay, we're not gonna go there. But God 312 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.160 does not live in time. So God is outside of 313 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:11.480 time and we're living in a time zone. But there 314 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.759 was a moment that happened on that transfiguration a mountain 315 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:19.680 where Jesus transforms into something Elijah, Moses show up, and 316 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.559 I'm wondering if back in history when Moses was a 317 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.200 live that's actually when he showed up. Do you know 318 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:28.039 what I'm saying? Because God's not living in time, I'm 319 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.000 not trying to get We might get in trouble with 320 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.799 that one, but listen, that's not the point. The point 321 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:37.920 is that when Jesus shows up in the natural, he 322 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:49.079 expresses the very promise that God has released. Okay, I'm 323 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.559 gonna skip that one for the sake of time. Luke 324 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:57.000 chapter ten. We're gonna go right into the life of Jesus. Luke, 325 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:04.279 chapter ten, verse seventeen. When the seventy two disciples return, 326 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.079 they joyfully report to him Lord even the demons obey 327 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:11.440 us when we use your name. Yes, he told him, 328 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:19.359 I saw Satan fall from heaven like a lightning. Why 329 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:23.279 is Satan falling from heaven because heaven has been given 330 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:28.519 to Satan in this realm. When Satan deceived man, they 331 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:32.440 gave over their authority to rule into rain. So Satan 332 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:35.440 took that place. And what Jesus is saying when I 333 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:38.440 have come, I have give watched this. This is so 334 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:43.359 so good. Look verse nineteen. I have given you authority 335 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.480 over all the power of the enemy. You can walk 336 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:52.920 among snakes and scorpions and crush them. This this just remind 337 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:58.000 you of something spoken in the garden. Oh this is 338 00:21:58.039 --> 00:22:00.839 just so good. I don't know if anybody gets kiddy, 339 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:02.519 but when I see these kind of things, I'm like, 340 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:05.759 ooh so good. It gives me like this confidence that 341 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:07.960 what I believe is real. Like how many of us 342 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:09.920 come here. You don't want to just hear a good mess. 343 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.720 You need something that's gonna walk out there with you 344 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.240 and break the neck of the enemy. And your life 345 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.039 and your kid's life, and your financial life, and your 346 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:21.480 relational life and your marriage. You need something that's real. 347 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:24.680 You need something that's powerful. You don't need just somebody 348 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:26.759 saying to have a good week, see you next week. 349 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:33.400 You need a living gospel that transforms everything. Wooh, thank 350 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:44.680 you God. Watch this verse twenty. But don't rejoice because 351 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.599 evil spirits obey you. Rejoice because your names are registered 352 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:52.680 in heaven. So a lot of us take this as like, hey, 353 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:54.400 it's not about what you can do for the Lord, 354 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:59.200 it's about actually getting to heaven. False. What is Jesus 355 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:02.480 saying saying, don't rejoice because you have a hand that 356 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:06.680 can do something. Rejoice because you've been restored to the 357 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:11.359 original identity in Christ. Because when your name is registered 358 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.079 in heaven, that's God saying I have given you all 359 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:17.240 that is mine. I have returned you to the original 360 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:19.839 purpose that I have ordained, that you would be fruitful, 361 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:22.799 that you would multiply, that you would have dominion, that 362 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.000 you would rule and rain cover the earth with the 363 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:31.559 whole glory of God. Matthew twenty eight real Quick twenty eight, 364 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:35.359 verse eighteen. You know that Jesus came, He lived a 365 00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:39.039 perfect life, he died a gruesome death, and then when 366 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:41.559 he was buried for three days, he raised from the 367 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:44.640 dead by the power of the same spirit that lives 368 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.240 in us. And when he raised from the dead, Jesus 369 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:51.279 came and told his disciples, what I have been given 370 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:59.119 all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go, Can 371 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:06.000 you say go one more time? Go therefore, go and 372 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:10.319 make disciples of all the nations. He didn't say go 373 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:16.799 and try. He didn't. So he didn't say go and hide. 374 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:21.640 He said go and make How many of us know 375 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:25.400 that this is not a suggestion, This is not a 376 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:31.039 maybe yes, maybe no. This is a do it because 377 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:34.200 it's on your life to do it. Go and make 378 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.160 the disciples of all the nations. So what we have 379 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:40.440 here is we have the Gordon. We have people showing 380 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:44.799 up throughout the Gordon, or throughout history looking forward to 381 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.319 the time when Jesus shows up. How many of us 382 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:50.039 know that Jesus is the living, breathing Word of God. 383 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:53.720 So the Word shows up, he makes the menifest presence 384 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.799 of God in the very character and nature of God 385 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:58.519 redeems us back. And then what he does is he 386 00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:01.759 gives us a commission. So many of us are stuck 387 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:04.279 in win is the end happening? Is it happening tomorrow 388 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:06.759 or is it happening in two years? Is it happening 389 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:09.440 in ten or is it happening in one hundred? Listen, 390 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:14.640 nobody knows, but we know something. I need some shoes, Dennis, 391 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:24.839 Can I use your shoes again? Please? My brother, You 392 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:33.319 all need to see this. Praise the Lord. You see these, 393 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:46.839 This is your hope. It's right there. Second, God redeemed 394 00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:50.519 something that happened here through the cross, and he says, go, 395 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.680 this is your assignment right here. Go and you don't stop. 396 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:57.880 Can you pull that verse back up in Matthew twenty eight, 397 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:02.400 You don't stop until the nations have been disciples. We 398 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:06.279 don't let go until everything falls under the submission of Christ. 399 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:09.240 Don't you tell me that it's gonna get worse when 400 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:12.440 the Lord said, go make disciples. Don't you tell me 401 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:15.119