Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: I hope you're doing good this morning.
Speaker 3: My name is Charles, and I'm glad you're here today.
Speaker 3: A fun piece of information, which is this past week
Speaker 3: I found out I was old. So that's why I
Speaker 3: got readers. I got readers this past week. And here's
Speaker 3: why I got them because a friend went to.
Speaker 2: Do an impression of me.
Speaker 3: I'll leave this friend unnamed, but he's our youth pastor, and.
Speaker 2: He went like this. He said, watch us, watch this.
Speaker 3: So the Bible says, So first of all, you wait
Speaker 3: till your eyes go you six foot twelve, you're gonna
Speaker 3: be needing big glasses. Okay, any all right, here we go.
Speaker 3: This is what the Bible says. Genesis, chapter number fifty.
Speaker 2: Where are we gonna start here?
Speaker 3: We're gonna start in verse number fourteen, Genesis fifty, Verse fourteen.
Speaker 3: After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers
Speaker 3: and all who had accompanied him to his father's burrier.
Speaker 2: But now that their father was.
Speaker 3: Dead, Joseph's brothers became fearful. Now Joseph is going to
Speaker 3: show his anger and pay us back for all the
Speaker 3: wrong we did. So they sent a message to Joseph
Speaker 3: before your father died. He instructed us to say, we're sorry.
Speaker 3: Please forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did
Speaker 3: to you, for their sin and treating you so cruelly.
Speaker 3: So we, the servants of God your father, begged you
Speaker 3: to forgive our sin. When Joseph received the message, he
Speaker 3: broke down and he wept. Then his brothers came and
Speaker 3: threw themselves down before Joseph.
Speaker 2: Look, we are your slaves, they said.
Speaker 3: But Joseph applied.
Speaker 2: Do not be afraid of me.
Speaker 3: Am I God that I can punish you. You intended
Speaker 3: to harm me. You intended to harm me, but God intended.
Speaker 3: I gotta say this because I'm not gonna preach it
Speaker 3: in the sermon. But those are the same word there.
Speaker 3: It's the same Greek word in the original language. And
Speaker 3: why I'm saying that is because we sing things like,
Speaker 3: oh the devil did it, but then God turned it.
Speaker 3: God is not so weak that he has to turn anything.
Speaker 3: The devil's doing. He's greater than the devil, so in
Speaker 3: his sovereignty and his understanding of the plan of our life,
Speaker 3: he accounted for that to go wrong, and he already
Speaker 3: knew it was gonna make you better. I don't have
Speaker 3: to make the God does not have to make do
Speaker 3: with stuff the devil is doing, and try to get
Speaker 3: it together. And oh, let me see if I can
Speaker 3: work this out.
Speaker 2: He already knows.
Speaker 3: Readers back on, you intended to harm me, but God
Speaker 3: intended it all for good, for he brought me to
Speaker 3: this position so I could save the lives of many people.
Speaker 3: So don't be afraid. I will continue to take care
Speaker 3: of you. So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them.
Speaker 3: The title of my sermon today three words, three important words,
Speaker 3: three powerful words, three words I think we need to embrace.
Speaker 3: Three words that I think will help you get through
Speaker 3: your week, your month, and your year. I was wrong.
Speaker 3: There was a second where I thought I wasn't gonna
Speaker 3: make it, But thank God, I was wrong. I spent
Speaker 3: a lot of my life afraid of what people thought
Speaker 3: about me, and I thought that my failures were gonna
Speaker 3: define me.
Speaker 2: But thanks be to God, I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I thought that last season of loneliness was gonna be
Speaker 3: the last season I would.
Speaker 2: Ever know, but thank god I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I thought anxiety was gonna always be my portion, but
Speaker 3: I was wrong. I thought his mercy only ran to
Speaker 3: good people, but I was wrong. I thought the grave
Speaker 3: was gonna hold him, but thank god I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I thought that my family's lineage was gonna keep on going,
Speaker 3: but thank god I was wrong. They said we wouldn't
Speaker 3: have a baby, and I believed it for a second,
Speaker 3: but thank god I was wrong. They said that this
Speaker 3: season would be my whole lifestyle, but thank god.
Speaker 2: I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I started to slip in the water when Jesus told
Speaker 3: me to get out, and I thought I was gonna.
Speaker 2: Drown, but he reached down. Thank God I was wrong.
Speaker 3: Spent a lot of my life trying to be right,
Speaker 3: but I'm grateful that there were some things.
Speaker 2: I got wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I
Speaker 2: was wrong, and I'm glad I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I was certain about some things and how they were
Speaker 3: gonna go, but I was wrong. I thought I knew
Speaker 3: how my life was gonna go, but I was wrong.
Speaker 2: Dear God, would you change us? Would you encounter us.
Speaker 2: Would you.
Speaker 3: Help us to see our lives and our future and
Speaker 3: our children the way you see them. We need your presence,
Speaker 3: we need your glory, We need your goodness, we need
Speaker 3: your mercy. And I think you over these next couple
Speaker 3: of moments that we spend together, that you would lead
Speaker 3: us and that you would guide us. It's in the
Speaker 3: beautiful name of Jesus we pray. And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen,
Speaker 3: Zach you just rock with me, man, because we're gonna
Speaker 3: get straight to business. We've been talking about fear, and
Speaker 3: I want to introduce something to you today that I
Speaker 3: think is vitally important.
Speaker 2: For not only the way you think, but the way
Speaker 2: you live.
Speaker 3: And here's the central theme of today's sermon. The most
Speaker 3: dangerous thing about fear is not that it makes you emotional,
Speaker 3: is that.
Speaker 2: It makes you certain.
Speaker 3: There's nothing like the certainty of fear, the certainty of
Speaker 3: knowing what's gonna happen, and fear has a way of
Speaker 3: doing that to all of us. Fear will have us
Speaker 3: certain about stuff there's no way we can know. Fear
Speaker 3: will have you obsessed with stuff that you can't control,
Speaker 3: and fear will cost you. The very thing fear is
Speaker 3: promising you, it's protecting, and today I just want to
Speaker 3: take a couple of moments to submit to you that
Speaker 3: maybe fear has been lying to you, because there's nothing.
Speaker 2: Like being certain. There's nothing like just knowing.
Speaker 3: I mean, for a second, I know we got the
Speaker 3: piano with us, so it's just to stay with me.
Speaker 2: But do you remember when you were young, how certain
Speaker 2: you were, how much you knew. Oh, I know exactly
Speaker 2: how my life is gonna go. I know exactly how.
Speaker 2: I mean that. I can bet you there is nobody.
Speaker 3: More certain than like a sixteen or seventeen year old
Speaker 3: with no job, no opportunities, no future, and they just
Speaker 3: be knowing something from about a certain section in our
Speaker 3: churches right over here.
Speaker 2: They just nothing I already know.
Speaker 3: But there's nothing like maturity that turns your certainty into mystery.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've had this experience, but the
Speaker 3: older I've gotten, it feels like I got more questions.
Speaker 3: I felt like, oh, the older you get, the more
Speaker 3: sure you become.
Speaker 2: And in some ways it's true.
Speaker 3: But in some other ways, I've been wrong enough times
Speaker 3: about stuff I knew I was gonna be right.
Speaker 2: About to know maybe I don't know as much as
Speaker 2: I think I know.
Speaker 3: Genesis, after number thirty seven, we meet a certain seventeen
Speaker 3: year old. His name is Joseph, and Joseph isn't anybody.
Speaker 3: He's a favored son. His great grandfather started this whole thing,
Speaker 3: Abraham Abraham Isaac Jacob. Jacob's name gets changed to Israel.
Speaker 3: He has twelve boys, one of them Joseph, and Joseph
Speaker 3: is seventeen years old when he meet him, and the
Speaker 3: Bible gives us detail in Genesis thirty seven that his
Speaker 3: daddy loves him more than all his other kids. Now
Speaker 3: you're not technically supposed to be saying that out loud,
Speaker 3: but his daddy don't care.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care at all.
Speaker 3: He loves him so much he gives him like a
Speaker 3: special jacket that he don't give.
Speaker 2: To nobody else. He gives him his jacket.
Speaker 3: The Bible tells us that around seventeen years old, that
Speaker 3: he has a dream, and in his dream, he's a
Speaker 3: he's stars, and his brothers are other stars, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, his brothers start to bow to him.
Speaker 3: And then he has another dream, and in this dreams,
Speaker 3: they're all bundles of wheat, and his is in the
Speaker 3: center and all his brothers bow to him. And with
Speaker 3: a dream like that and a coat like he had,
Speaker 3: I'm sure he was certain. Oh, I know how this
Speaker 3: is gonna go. Step number one. I gotta go tell
Speaker 3: my brothers. Bible tells O. Joseph rolls up on his
Speaker 3: brothers and he says, hey, y'all, I got a dream
Speaker 3: that black people and white people.
Speaker 2: The white man, instead of checking it has bounced.
Speaker 3: Come on, somebody, y'all don't know that about Martin Luther
Speaker 3: King jer At first, I have a dream speech. He
Speaker 3: comes up to his brothers and he tells some of
Speaker 3: the dream and he says, hey, listen, I don't know
Speaker 3: you know, I know you kind of mad at me
Speaker 3: because you know I got the coat. It ain't nothing
Speaker 3: about it but a g thing. But anyways, I had
Speaker 3: this dream and in the dream, you know I didn't
Speaker 3: I didn't give myself the dream.
Speaker 2: But you were bowing to me.
Speaker 3: And I can only imagine this ain't even biblical.
Speaker 2: This is just brothers. I got a brother. I know
Speaker 2: how brothers get down. Brother, you don't shut up right
Speaker 2: now'll be quiet. Ain't nobody bowing to you. Ain't nobody
Speaker 2: bout to be little do But I'm serious. I'm serious, bru.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I had a dream.
Speaker 2: I had another one too, Bro. Anybody want to hear
Speaker 2: your second dream?
Speaker 3: We don't hear the first dream.
Speaker 2: You better be quiet, no, bro, just listen, Just listen.
Speaker 2: That's probably it's just different. It's different. It's different.
Speaker 3: But don't play with me if this is the same.
Speaker 3: If you about to say something stupid, don't say it now, bro,
Speaker 3: Just listen. I swear all right, go ahead. So we're
Speaker 3: all in the field, right and then I'm in the middle,
Speaker 3: and y'all start the boy if he.
Speaker 2: Don't be quiet with this dream, I promise you.
Speaker 3: And the Bible tells us that he tells him the dream,
Speaker 3: and they start resenting him.
Speaker 2: And you may be familiar with this story.
Speaker 3: You may not, but if you grew up in church,
Speaker 3: we all kind of know Joseph's story. He's a young man,
Speaker 3: he has a dream, and we kind of skip through
Speaker 3: his story. He goes from the pit to the palace,
Speaker 3: to the pit to in charge, and we do all
Speaker 3: these things.
Speaker 2: But I want to zone in for a moment.
Speaker 3: On the fear of a seventeen.
Speaker 2: Year old man.
Speaker 3: That the Bible tells us gets jumped by his eleven brothers.
Speaker 2: And thrown into a pit. This is what happened.
Speaker 3: The Bible tells us that he's walking up and they
Speaker 3: see him coming.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm gonna I'm gonna read it for you. Just
Speaker 2: say all. I'm thinking like, man, he just making all
Speaker 2: this up.
Speaker 3: Man, come on, get out of here. Genesis thirty seven.
Speaker 3: I believe it is right here, Genesis thirty seven, eighteen.
Speaker 3: When Joseph's brothers saw him coming, they recognized him from
Speaker 3: a distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him.
Speaker 2: Here comes that dreamer. Come on, let's kill him and
Speaker 2: throw him into one of these cisterns.
Speaker 3: We'll tell our father wild animal has eaten him. But
Speaker 3: Ruben heard their scheme. Let's not kill him, and Ruben
Speaker 3: makes a plan. He says, listen, we'll just throw him
Speaker 3: in there. And Ruben's plan is to come back and get.
Speaker 2: Him when the other brothers leave.
Speaker 3: But if you think about the scene, I mean, this
Speaker 3: is a seventeen year old that this is. He is
Speaker 3: my brothers, this is my people, this is my family.
Speaker 2: What's up, guys? Hey, come here real quick.
Speaker 3: Let's talk to you, all right, what's up?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 3: Hey, come over here. What's going on? Guys? What's up
Speaker 3: with the vibes are a little weird?
Speaker 2: No, man, we ain't.
Speaker 3: We're done with the dream and stuff. Come here, Hey, yo, stop?
Speaker 2: What are y'all? Guys? And the Bible tells us eleven brothers.
Speaker 3: Grabbed their little brother and throw him into a pit.
Speaker 3: This is where certainty starts to fade for our character Joseph.
Speaker 3: Because I just knew. I knew God gave me this dream.
Speaker 3: I knew he was talking to me.
Speaker 2: I knew he had a plan.
Speaker 3: I knew I wasn't like everybody else. I knew that
Speaker 3: he put something in me. I just knew that it
Speaker 3: wasn't gonna be my story like everybody else's story. I
Speaker 3: just knew that it meant something different when God spoke
Speaker 3: to me. I just knew that he called me out
Speaker 3: before I was in my mother's womb.
Speaker 2: And he had a plan to prosper me and not
Speaker 2: to I just you knew it, And all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: what you think you know?
Speaker 3: You don't know no more. He was wrong. He was
Speaker 3: wrong about his brothers. Because I thought your family was
Speaker 3: the place you go to get your dreams. Reassured, supported
Speaker 3: and encouraged. But sadly, Joseph's not the only one to
Speaker 3: find out that you can be wrong about people. The
Speaker 3: Bible tells us he's in the pit, and this is
Speaker 3: what happens when you're in a pit, when you're in
Speaker 3: a dark season, when you thought your life was going
Speaker 3: to go one way and it starts going another way.
Speaker 3: Is your certainty has to It starts fading a little bit,
Speaker 3: but not too much, because the Bible tells us that
Speaker 3: they change up the plan and they come to get it.
Speaker 3: And now this is where the story turns, because if
Speaker 3: I'm Joseph, I'm in the pit, and I hear my
Speaker 3: brother say, yo, Joe, Joe, you down now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm down here. What's up? Hey, man, we're gonna
Speaker 2: get you out. I knew y'all was playing. Hey, don't
Speaker 2: even worry about it. They get him out, no doubt.
Speaker 2: He starts to feel hope again.
Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. And then it says
Speaker 3: there's travelers going by, and they sell him to these strangers.
Speaker 3: Wrong again, Joseph. Then the Bible tells us his story
Speaker 3: progresses a little bit. He finds himself in Egypt, and
Speaker 3: he finds himself working for a man named Potiphar, and
Speaker 3: Potiphar is a big deal. He's in charge. And no doubt,
Speaker 3: this is gotta be the dream.
Speaker 2: This is definitely it. This is definitely it. Brother's gone.
Speaker 3: I'm out of slavery. I've worked my way up, I've
Speaker 3: got a decent job. This is god to be a
Speaker 3: dream that he showed me when I was seventeen.
Speaker 2: This is it, for sure?
Speaker 3: Wrong again, that ain't the dream, Joe, because the Bible
Speaker 3: tells us that Potiphar's wife had an eye for Joseph.
Speaker 2: Now we always make light of this. I've definitely done it.
Speaker 3: Cougar came in, it's all josephin ain't nothing like an
Speaker 3: Egyptsuan cougar.
Speaker 2: He's like what he was that me. But the accusations
Speaker 2: are not a joke.
Speaker 3: Accusations can change your life.
Speaker 2: And he did nothing wrong.
Speaker 3: And there goes that certainty gone again.
Speaker 2: In prison. And what you don't know.
Speaker 3: About this unless you study into the scripture is from
Speaker 3: seventeen years old when he has the dream, working his
Speaker 3: way up in Potiphars and then thrown in jail. He's
Speaker 3: thirty years old. Years I guess they forgot about me.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: And it's interesting with fear is when your life starts
Speaker 3: going like this, Fear starts telling you stories of certainty.
Speaker 3: You didn't hear God. You ain't special, you think.
Speaker 2: God spoke to you.
Speaker 3: No, you'll always be overlooked. You'll always be like your dad.
Speaker 3: People will always know you by the mistakes you made.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how hard you try, it doesn't matter
Speaker 3: how hard you work.
Speaker 2: This is your story.
Speaker 3: Now, Joseph is in the pit, he's in prison, and again,
Speaker 3: I mean, his whole life is this roller coaster of certainty, fear, certainty, fear, certainty, fear,
Speaker 3: and it's this limbo. And there's these two people in
Speaker 3: the prison, a baker and a cupbearer, and they come
Speaker 3: to him and they're having dreams. And here's what you
Speaker 3: need to know, just to encourage somebody.
Speaker 2: No matter what.
Speaker 3: Season you're in, no matter how dark it may feel,
Speaker 3: God still put that gift on.
Speaker 2: The inside of you.
Speaker 3: And no matter where anybody puts you, it doesn't matter
Speaker 3: if they hire you, it doesn't matter if they promote you.
Speaker 3: They can't touch the gift on the inside of you
Speaker 3: because they didn't put it there.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we like to.
Speaker 3: Wait, like I'm gonna wait to do my gift until I.
Speaker 2: Really everybody can see it. But Joseph is in a
Speaker 2: prison with two people.
Speaker 3: That can do nothing from him, and he's sitting there thinking, well,
Speaker 3: why I'm down here, I might as well make a
Speaker 3: difference while I'm down here. I might as well do
Speaker 3: what God made me to do. While I'm down here,
Speaker 3: I might as well make the devil mad. While I'm
Speaker 3: down here, I might as well do something that's not
Speaker 3: about me.
Speaker 2: And they have these two dreams and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of Bible will come in today.
Speaker 3: Genesis thirty seven is Genesis fifty Go read it for
Speaker 3: yourself this week, just to make sure I ain't making
Speaker 3: up no parts of this story. He sits there two
Speaker 3: dreams and he's like, hey man, so good news and
Speaker 3: bad news. You gonna die, You're gonna get out in
Speaker 3: a couple of days, and you're gonna die. You though,
Speaker 3: you're gonna get out, and you're gonna get promoted. They're like, really,
Speaker 3: of course, the one guy that's down here, Look, she line,
Speaker 3: you don't know nothing.
Speaker 2: Nothing like you ever get a prophetic word line.
Speaker 3: They don't know nothing.
Speaker 2: It happens.
Speaker 3: Gets out, one man dies, the other man gets promoted
Speaker 3: back to his position.
Speaker 2: Of the cup bearer of the king.
Speaker 3: The only problem is Joseph asked, Yo, when you get out,
Speaker 3: don't forget about me like my brothers did. Don't forget
Speaker 3: about me like everybody else. Just promise me one thing.
Speaker 3: When you get out of here, remember me.
Speaker 2: He doesn't remember.
Speaker 3: Him until there's a scripture that says, your gift will
Speaker 3: make room for you. And Pharaoh had a lot of
Speaker 3: magicians around him, but he didn't have no profits.
Speaker 2: There's a difference.
Speaker 3: He starts being tormented by these dreams, and at just
Speaker 3: the right time, the cup bear remembers Joseph, Yo, King,
Speaker 3: there was.
Speaker 2: This guy in prison.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's still there, but he can
Speaker 3: his god be telling him what's going on. Goes and
Speaker 3: gets Hi brings before the king. He says, hey, listen,
Speaker 3: it's gonna seven years famine. You need to store up,
Speaker 3: and then there's gonna be there's gonna be seven years
Speaker 3: of plenty. You need to store up during that time,
Speaker 3: and then there's gonna be seven years of famine.
Speaker 2: And if you store up, and here's.
Speaker 3: The beautiful thing about our God, this is what I
Speaker 3: want to say real quick. Everybody that God is talking
Speaker 3: to ain't called to be a preacher.
Speaker 2: This is business strategy, This is economical insight. This is it. Everybody.
Speaker 3: You have a moment at the altar and it's like,
Speaker 3: I need to be on the host team. No, you
Speaker 3: don't go back to your job and let God speak
Speaker 3: to you about how to change that industry.
Speaker 2: If we all up in here, who's helping the people
Speaker 2: out there? So do what God made you to do.
Speaker 3: Start that business, run that company, create the app. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is, but God will empower you
Speaker 3: and give you divine wisdom.
Speaker 2: And insight to make a difference. He gives him this wisdom,
Speaker 2: and again here we go.
Speaker 3: This is got to be the dream. This is got
Speaker 3: to be the dream. Why because it's kind of the dream.
Speaker 3: Because some people.
Speaker 2: Are bowing to me.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing I've learned in my own life
Speaker 3: that fear will have you negotiate with your dream. This
Speaker 3: is close enough. This is I've been single so long.
Speaker 3: They're close, and they're close. They're not exactly what I saw.
Speaker 3: They're not exactly what God showed me. They're not exactly
Speaker 3: don't treat me exactly the way, but I can't be alone.
Speaker 3: So this this is probably this is probably it not
Speaker 3: the dream from Genesis thirty seven. It's Genesis fifty. We
Speaker 3: find out the moment when his dreams come true. Genesis
Speaker 3: chapter number forty five. Joseph reveals his identity as the heading.
Speaker 3: Joseph could stand it no longer. There were many people
Speaker 3: in the room, and he said, isn't his attendants out
Speaker 3: all of you? So he was alone with his brothers,
Speaker 3: and then he broke down and wept. The Bible says
Speaker 3: he wept so loudly all the Egyptians could hear him,
Speaker 3: and it quickly carried to Pharaoh's palace. I am Joseph,
Speaker 3: this is the dream. It wasn't when you were seventeen.
Speaker 3: It wasn't when you became number two in charge. It
Speaker 3: wasn't when God spoke to you and gave you the
Speaker 3: prophetic word of how to run the country of Egypt. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: that's not the dream. It's when you're curled up crying,
Speaker 3: fighting back frustration at the people who threw you in
Speaker 3: a pit, and they're now at your feet needing something
Speaker 3: you got, and it's God saying Can I trust you
Speaker 3: right here through all the fear, through all the anger,
Speaker 3: through all the frustration, through all the resentment, through all
Speaker 3: the bitterness, through all the hurt, through all the disappointment.
Speaker 2: You want a dream from God. This is a dream
Speaker 2: from God. The people who threw you in a.
Speaker 3: Pit come back talking about can I have something? Joseph says,
Speaker 3: I'm Joseph, and I.
Speaker 2: Can't help but imagine.
Speaker 3: Them sitting there looking at their little brother, and.
Speaker 2: All this going through their mind is I was wrong.
Speaker 2: I was wrong. I didn't know. I didn't know that
Speaker 2: you were. If I would have known, I never would
Speaker 2: have done that. Fear will have you certain about a
Speaker 2: lot of things.
Speaker 3: But today I want to give you three things that
Speaker 3: fear will have you certain of that you need to
Speaker 3: learn how to be wrong about. The first thing fear
Speaker 3: will have you certain about is people. Fear will have
Speaker 3: you think and I know who they are. Fear will
Speaker 3: have you looking at people who are different than you.
Speaker 2: Saying I already know what they're about. Fear of what
Speaker 2: you think about other people will have you making up stories.
Speaker 3: About people that are not true, and your pride does
Speaker 3: not care to confirm why.
Speaker 2: Because fear tries to protect.
Speaker 3: Itself, and the only way to protect me is to
Speaker 3: make you an enemy. This is why we get so segregated.
Speaker 2: And I wish I couldn't say it wasn't in the church,
Speaker 2: but sadly it still is, because we'll.
Speaker 3: Look at different people and will think, God, that I
Speaker 3: don't know about them.
Speaker 2: I don't know about them.
Speaker 3: And the truth, you're afraid, you're afraid, you're afraid, and
Speaker 3: instead of just saying you're afraid, you make up stories
Speaker 3: about people, You distance yourself from people, you talk about people,
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 2: Just say, we don't do stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And I'm not just talking about because of the color
Speaker 3: of somebody's skin.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about other churches we make up stories.
Speaker 3: Or that church you know, they just do this, and
Speaker 3: that church they worship a little much, and that church
Speaker 3: is just a little too intense for me, and that
Speaker 3: church is just a little too loose for me. And
Speaker 3: that person, I don't know if they really love God.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if their heart is right. I
Speaker 3: don't know what you know about their heart. You're afraid,
Speaker 3: and you're wrong about them. And don't get me started
Speaker 3: on some of my friends that a lot of us
Speaker 3: have been wrong about. And I'm talking about friends that
Speaker 3: I know in my real life, not people in.
Speaker 2: The church, people outside of the church. I had a
Speaker 2: friend I started trying to bring to church. I can't
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 3: How sideways people looked at him because he had tattoos.
Speaker 2: Who's this guy? Oh man, he may have it wrong?
Speaker 2: What what?
Speaker 3: What? Oh?
Speaker 2: I will jump off the stage? What please? Please? Please
Speaker 2: say something else? I don't know.
Speaker 3: They just look a little don't they know they shouldn't
Speaker 3: be wearing that?
Speaker 2: No, they don't, dummy, that's why they're in here. Don't
Speaker 2: they know? We don't do that here. We don't do
Speaker 2: what here. You don't do nothing here except for sit
Speaker 2: in that chair. So be quiet. Why you just sorry? Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 2: sorry sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: Let me calm down, Let me calm down. I've been
Speaker 2: wrong about people. I've been wrong.
Speaker 3: The fear will have you wrong about people thinking you know,
Speaker 3: people thinking you know why they do what they do.
Speaker 2: When you think you.
Speaker 3: Know why somebody did what they did, it's not a
Speaker 3: reflection of them, it's a reflection.
Speaker 2: Of you, because you thinking what you would do if
Speaker 2: you were.
Speaker 3: Them, and you ain't them. Well, I know if that
Speaker 3: was me The only reason I would have done that
Speaker 3: is what, Yeah, that's you. They don't say nothing about them.
Speaker 3: But fear will have you wrong about people. It'll also
Speaker 3: have you wrong about your path in life.
Speaker 2: It'll have you thinking, Oh, I know how God's gonna
Speaker 2: do this. I know exact.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go here, then I'm gonna go here, then
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go here.
Speaker 2: And God's like, what if we go this way? The
Speaker 2: devil is a liar. I'm supposed to go from glory
Speaker 2: to glory.
Speaker 3: Ask Paul getting flogged writing jails from prison. What glory
Speaker 3: to glory means. It doesn't mean rich to rich in
Speaker 3: check the check. It means obedience to obedience, faithfulness to faithfulness,
Speaker 3: kindness to kindness, love to love, gentleness to gentleness, self
Speaker 3: control to self control. No man ah man either way,
Speaker 3: I know if it's God and here's a dangerous here's
Speaker 3: some dangerous language I've used before, I'm just you know, I.
Speaker 2: Just feel peace about it. Okay, yes, but what do
Speaker 2: you mean by peace? Do you mean you just feel comfortable?
Speaker 2: Because that's not peace. You mean you feel safe? Oh,
Speaker 2: you mean you feel in control? I got it.
Speaker 3: So if you're in control, that's how you know. It's God,
Speaker 3: my best friends in the world. He has us saying
Speaker 3: is follow the nausea.
Speaker 2: Think Peter fell in control when God said, ay, step
Speaker 2: out of the boat. You sure Peter's better than me.
Speaker 2: I would have had a couple which one of us judas.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't risk your brother. Don't get don't get out?
Speaker 2: Whoa okay, hold on, hold no, no, let me.
Speaker 3: If following Jesus don't make you feel awkward every once
Speaker 3: in a while, let me kindly call out and encourage
Speaker 3: something that just happened a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago is Father's Day.
Speaker 3: We called all the men down to the front, and
Speaker 3: not everybody but I was standing up here. You didn't
Speaker 3: see yourself.
Speaker 2: So I will say this.
Speaker 3: Ninety nine zero point two percent of the men were
Speaker 3: like this. It was a good worship song. I want
Speaker 3: to challenge you, man of God, lift your hands. Oh
Speaker 3: I don't need to be doing all that. Don't be
Speaker 3: talking about me doing all that.
Speaker 2: Bruh.
Speaker 3: We saw you during the finals, talk about it. You
Speaker 3: had your whole joint painted and you was.
Speaker 2: This should feel a little uncomfortable Following Jesus should feel
Speaker 2: a little awkward if you following Jesus. It's like, man,
Speaker 2: this is great. My life is better. Everything's working out.
Speaker 2: I'm getting checks in the mail of God. I'm getting
Speaker 2: prophetic words about becoming a billionaire. And you know, I
Speaker 2: don't even have to really do anything.
Speaker 3: I can still just do whatever and apologize and man,
Speaker 3: God is great.
Speaker 2: That's not that's not what this book is like. Because
Speaker 2: Joe lost everything.
Speaker 3: Samson was in powered by God, but that disobedience did
Speaker 3: cost him something.
Speaker 2: It's not all.
Speaker 3: Jesus about to send out of the disciples. He says,
Speaker 3: a son a man has no place to lay his head.
Speaker 3: So just before you as gimps, why he's turning a
Speaker 3: bunch of people to follow me. He said, hey, real quick,
Speaker 3: if you want to follow me, all you got to
Speaker 3: do is just pick up your follow me.
Speaker 2: That'll be good.
Speaker 3: They're not thinking about a Jesus peace around their neck.
Speaker 3: All they know is Roman crucifixion. The cross isn't associated
Speaker 3: with Jesus. When he says this, you want to follow me,
Speaker 3: pick up your cross.
Speaker 2: Come on, I've been wrong about my path.
Speaker 3: I thought I knew God you do it this way,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna do it this way, and then you're
Speaker 3: gonna do it that way. And when it doesn't go
Speaker 3: the way I thought it, I think, Man, I don't
Speaker 3: know if this God's stuff. But I've been wrong about people.
Speaker 3: I've been wrong about my path, and there have been
Speaker 3: many times I had the wrong perspective.
Speaker 2: Because fear.
Speaker 3: Starts assigning meaning.
Speaker 2: To stuff.
Speaker 3: So fear, well have you saying, Oh, the reason they're
Speaker 3: not there, it's because you weren't enough. And if you
Speaker 3: were enough, your dad would have stayed. If you were
Speaker 3: good enough, you would have got promoted. But you're not
Speaker 3: good enough. Fear will have you making up stories before
Speaker 3: it's even happened. Fear will have you And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say this, I'm not even being silly. I feel this
Speaker 3: as a real thing because I know some people that
Speaker 3: have done this and.
Speaker 2: That struggle with this.
Speaker 3: Fear will have you standing on the edge of commitment,
Speaker 3: making up stories about why you won't commit. Got somebody
Speaker 3: you love, won't marry them because you've already made up
Speaker 3: a story.
Speaker 2: I already know I'm gonna cheat on them, because every
Speaker 2: man in my family has cheated, so.
Speaker 3: At least it's not as bad if we don't get married,
Speaker 3: at least it's not so. I have you ready to
Speaker 3: start a business, ready to do something, but already tense
Speaker 3: up ahead if it'll probably work for a little bit,
Speaker 3: and then it'll go sideways and I'll be back here
Speaker 3: and I have to come back and all this stuff. No, no, no, friend, fear,
Speaker 3: What have you certain about? Stuff that you don't know
Speaker 3: at all? Obsessed with stuff you can't control, and cost
Speaker 3: you the very thing it's promising you, it's protecting. Joseph
Speaker 3: the end of his story, his brothers are there, he listen,
Speaker 3: We did you wrong, man, We're so sorry, We're so sorry.
Speaker 2: And his response.
Speaker 3: His proof of the spirit of God on the inside
Speaker 3: of him. Oh you weren't wrong.
Speaker 2: God was right.
Speaker 3: You meant for this to hurt me, You meant for
Speaker 3: this to break me, But God was making me.
Speaker 2: See what you don't realize is I had to deal
Speaker 2: with me when y'all threw me in that first time.
Speaker 3: I had to figure out who I was without that code.
Speaker 3: I had to figure out who I was if everybody.
Speaker 2: Didn't agree with me.
Speaker 3: And that pig gave me something that your praise could
Speaker 3: have never given me.
Speaker 2: So I thought it was wrong but.
Speaker 3: Thank goodness, I was wrong about my process because when
Speaker 3: you sold me, I had to find a love that
Speaker 3: didn't come from the people that were close to me.
Speaker 3: And when they lied on me and said I didn't
Speaker 3: do something that I know I didn't do, but they
Speaker 3: charged me anyway, I had to figure out that God
Speaker 3: is the judge and that God.
Speaker 2: Is the one who controls my life. So I was
Speaker 2: wrong about that situation.
Speaker 3: And then when I was in prison, I had to
Speaker 3: find out that I can still use my gift if
Speaker 3: nobody sees it. Because for a long time I thought
Speaker 3: my gift was only important if people clapped for my.
Speaker 2: Gift was only important if they cheered for me. But
Speaker 2: I found out in that prison that I can work
Speaker 2: this gift no matter where I am. I was wrong
Speaker 2: about that situation.
Speaker 3: And I almost got it wrong when they put me
Speaker 3: over everybody, because I thought status meant I was all
Speaker 3: the way in purpose. But I was wrong. I realized
Speaker 3: God didn't put me here but for one reason. Scircier said,
Speaker 3: so many lives could be saved. All I want to
Speaker 3: say today is whatever story fear has made you certain about,
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: Some of you feel.
Speaker 3: Certain like, I don't know if that kid's ever gonna
Speaker 3: come home. You've been praying so long, you're certain that
Speaker 3: it's just too too much. Some of you are.
Speaker 2: Certain that you'll always be single. You're certain that the
Speaker 2: business isn't gonna work.
Speaker 3: You're shirt And all I'm saying is, you don't know
Speaker 3: that yet.
Speaker 2: You don't know. You don't know what God might do.
Speaker 2: You don't know what he's planning, You don't know how
Speaker 2: he's working. And be careful of the story your.
Speaker 3: Religion makes you certain of, because you.
Speaker 2: Don't know something that people were certain about.
Speaker 3: People were certain that nothing good could come out of Nazareth.
Speaker 3: People were certain that Mary's boy was just a boy.
Speaker 2: People were certain that.
Speaker 3: You couldn't do anything with people who had leprosy, so
Speaker 3: you had to throw them out.
Speaker 2: They were certain.
Speaker 3: About this thirty three year old man that he was
Speaker 3: causing a rebellion and he deserved to die.
Speaker 2: But there's one picture I love.
Speaker 3: The scripture tells us that Jesus up on the cross
Speaker 3: and he's in between two thieves, and they deserve to
Speaker 3: be up there. But this is the holy, merciful, gracious, kind, omnipotent,
Speaker 3: omniscient creator, of the universe, who has done nothing wrong,
Speaker 3: purest snow never an ill thought in his spirit. Only
Speaker 3: intention is to love, to.
Speaker 2: Give, to help you figure out how to be you.
Speaker 3: And the people he made pended him to a tree
Speaker 3: because they were certain he's say who we've been waiting for,
Speaker 3: Because the king we've been waiting for is gonna overthrow
Speaker 3: wrong the king we've been waiting for, it's gonna come
Speaker 3: back with raging war. And they didn't know he was
Speaker 3: raging war. But it wasn't on the external. It was
Speaker 3: on the internal. He was raging war on depression. He
Speaker 3: was raging war on our lack of righteousness. And they
Speaker 3: were certain they.
Speaker 2: Knew who he was.
Speaker 3: And the scripture tells us there's two different tracks of
Speaker 3: this story.
Speaker 4: In scripture, there's two different people. That's one story that
Speaker 4: I love. But the thieves that are on the cross,
Speaker 4: and one of them is standing there and he's on
Speaker 4: the cross and he looks over and I think he
Speaker 4: starts to look around and think, I think we're wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's beautiful because Jesus doesn't.
Speaker 3: Say nothing, but just when you get around Jesus, you
Speaker 3: can just feel this is why your life is so important.
Speaker 3: Now what you say, how you live, how you live
Speaker 3: and work.
Speaker 2: Now, what you say, now, what.
Speaker 3: You post, now, what you project, talk about how.
Speaker 2: You live, because if the spirit of.
Speaker 3: God is up on the inside of you, people will
Speaker 3: be sitting there in they're seeing.
Speaker 2: Talk about it. I think I got this wrong. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because they going through what I'm going through,
Speaker 3: but they're not going through it.
Speaker 2: How I'm going through it. I think I think I
Speaker 2: got this wrong.
Speaker 3: I don't know that their marriage looks different than ours.
Speaker 2: I think I think I got this wrong.
Speaker 3: And there's a thief on the cross, and he says, hey,
Speaker 3: I think I think I got it wrong.
Speaker 2: You think you can remember me?
Speaker 3: And there's another one that I love. It's a Roman
Speaker 3: soldier who probably helped nail his hands to that tree.
Speaker 3: And the scripture says, most see if I can find it,
Speaker 3: just give.
Speaker 2: Me a moment.
Speaker 3: He says in Matthew be sitting there, says this at noon,
Speaker 3: darkness fell across the whole land. You already know I
Speaker 3: can't see y'all see how close I was. Y'all say
Speaker 3: that look at that. Some bystanders misunderstood and thought he
Speaker 3: was calling for Elijah, and one of them ran and
Speaker 3: filled the sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him,
Speaker 3: but the rest said, wait, let's see if Elijah comes.
Speaker 3: Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit,
Speaker 3: and at that moment the curtain and the sanctuary of
Speaker 3: the temple was torn into not from the bottom to
Speaker 3: the top, because if it was from the bottom to
Speaker 3: the top.
Speaker 2: A man could have torn it.
Speaker 3: But the scripture says that from the top to the bottom,
Speaker 3: and the earth shook, and rocks split apart, and tombs
Speaker 3: opened up, and the bodies of many godly women and
Speaker 3: men who had died were raised from the dead, and
Speaker 3: they walked out of cemeteries after Jesus' resurrection, and they
Speaker 3: walked into Jerusalem and appeared to many people. Then the
Speaker 3: Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified,
Speaker 3: and they said, this man truly was the son of God.
Speaker 3: I just want to say it's okay to be wrong.
Speaker 3: We spent a lot of our life trying to be
Speaker 3: right and clinging to everything that makes us feel like
Speaker 3: we're more right. That's why you gotta be careful of
Speaker 3: what you're listening to. On social media, Be careful about
Speaker 3: the stories they tell you about why people are doing
Speaker 3: certain stuff.
Speaker 2: Find out for yourself.
Speaker 3: Don't believe somebody else's story, Go get your own story.
Speaker 2: Well you know those type of people? Do you know
Speaker 2: any of those type of people? Because I probably know
Speaker 2: some of those type of people that you think are
Speaker 2: those type of people. And I promise you them type
Speaker 2: of people. Ain't them type of people? That your type
Speaker 2: of people? Because we all we type of people.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pray.
Speaker 2: That wherever.
Speaker 3: Fear has told you a story specifically about your future,
Speaker 3: some of you there are decisions, opportunities, a life ahead
Speaker 3: of you that fear is currently telling you it's certain
Speaker 3: that can't happen, and it's just not true. I want
Speaker 3: to pray today that wherever you would have been wrong,
Speaker 3: you'd experience this. The Bible says that he who knew
Speaker 3: no sin became sin so that we could become the righteousness.
Speaker 2: Of Christ.
Speaker 3: Because God can give you the right people, He can
Speaker 3: put you on the right pass, and he can give
Speaker 3: you the right perspective.
Speaker 2: Would you pray with me, Lord.
Speaker 3: God, we thank you for who you are. That you're
Speaker 3: a right now God, So right now I pray for
Speaker 3: anybody who feels like fear has told them a story
Speaker 3: of what will happen and what won't happen. I thank
Speaker 3: you that you would redeem that story right now in
Speaker 3: the name of Jesus, that peace, peace that we can't understand,
Speaker 3: would enter into our hearts. And I pray right now
Speaker 3: for a super natural boldness, a boldness to live with courage,
Speaker 3: a boldness to step out and trust you, a boldness
Speaker 3: to live a life. Lord, God that we could only
Speaker 3: dream of. Forgive us where we've been wrong, wrong about people,
Speaker 3: wrong about plans.
Speaker 2: Wrong about perspectives.
Speaker 3: God, would you forgive us give us your eyes to
Speaker 3: see every doubt, every eye close.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're in here.
Speaker 3: And maybe you're starting to feel and find out that
Speaker 3: maybe you've been wrong about Jesus. Maybe you've been wrong
Speaker 3: about God. Maybe you thought God was mad at you.
Speaker 3: Maybe you thought God was waiting for you to be perfect.
Speaker 3: Maybe you thought God that was sitting there with his
Speaker 3: finger pointed you mad and waiting for you to prove it.
Speaker 2: And then he'll love you. No, friend, you're wrong about him.
Speaker 3: He loves you no matter what you've done.
Speaker 2: He loves you no matter where you've been.
Speaker 3: He loves you, no matter what people have said, and
Speaker 3: with his arms open wide waiting for his child to
Speaker 3: come home. And if you're in here or watching online
Speaker 3: and you feel like, man, I've been wrong about Jesus.
Speaker 3: Today you can become right about Jesus. And it starts
Speaker 3: with admitting I can't do this by myself.
Speaker 2: I need help.
Speaker 3: And in just a moment, I'm about to pray. And
Speaker 3: if you want to accept Jesus into your life. Before
Speaker 3: we pray, I'm gonna ask you, on account of three,
Speaker 3: to lift your hand.
Speaker 2: And it's you saying I want to get this right.
Speaker 2: You ain't got to worry about anybody else, ain't got
Speaker 2: to worry about what other people will think. This is
Speaker 2: your moment.
Speaker 3: To accept Jesus as your Lord and savior.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 3: He loves you.
Speaker 2: Two. Today is the day of salvation.
Speaker 3: Three right now in this room, lift your hand if
Speaker 3: you want to accept Jesus. So proud of you. I
Speaker 3: got your sister, so proud of you, so proud of you.
Speaker 2: I got you, I got you up there. I see you, man,
Speaker 2: So proud of you.
Speaker 3: Everybody out loud together, everybody repeat this prayer with me.
Speaker 3: Everybody say dear God, I admit I've gotten it wrong.
Speaker 3: I need you. I pray you would change my heart,
Speaker 3: forgive me and my sin us, make me brand new.
Speaker 3: It's in Jesus same I pray, Amen and amen. Can
Speaker 3: we celebrate people who just accepted Jesus.
Speaker 2: Standing all over this room. We're about to get out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, if you just text, if you just raise
Speaker 3: your hand or prayed that prayer, let us know.
Speaker 2: Text the word save to the number on the screen.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask our worship team to lead us in
Speaker 3: some worship, and maybe you want to stay and worship
Speaker 3: with us. Maybe on your way out, introduce yourself to somebody,
Speaker 3: get somebody's phone number, go to lunch with them. Listen,
Speaker 3: we love you so much. I would encourage you to
Speaker 3: join us next week. I'm gonna pray for your week.
Speaker 3: If you need prayer for anything, our prayer team in
Speaker 3: the back would love to meet you.
Speaker 2: But got to thank you for this week. I pray
Speaker 2: that we would have.
Speaker 3: A blessed week full of your grace, all of your mercy,
Speaker 3: and full of your favor. Thank you, Lord Jesus, that
Speaker 3: you are with us. You will lead us, and you
Speaker 3: will guide us. Is in the beautiful name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: We pray and everybody said Amen, Amen, Amen.
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