WEBVTT 00:02.521 --> 00:03.922 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:03.942 --> 00:10.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.629 --> 00:15.633 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.134 --> 00:20.038 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.438 --> 00:24.342 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:25.954 --> 00:28.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Grab your Bible and go to James chapter one. 00:29.435 --> 00:33.095 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been in this series on the authority of the believer. 00:33.115 --> 00:34.316 [SPEAKER_00]: And we've been talking about this. 00:34.356 --> 00:37.276 [SPEAKER_00]: The Scripture tells us that Jesus is seated far above. 00:37.296 --> 00:38.116 [SPEAKER_00]: So I say far above. 00:39.157 --> 00:40.137 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not just above. 00:40.177 --> 00:41.117 [SPEAKER_00]: He's far above. 00:41.177 --> 00:45.218 [SPEAKER_00]: Every principality, every power, every mind, every dominion. 00:45.578 --> 00:51.779 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the Scripture tells us this, that we have been raised up to sit together in Him in heavenly places. 00:56.150 --> 01:01.353 [SPEAKER_00]: and we have been raised up to be seated in Him, then we are also seated far above. 01:02.674 --> 01:05.256 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on somebody, I said, we are also seated far above. 01:05.836 --> 01:13.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus also told His disciples this, that He gave them authority over every power, right? 01:14.101 --> 01:16.163 [SPEAKER_00]: Authority is better than power. 01:16.923 --> 01:21.326 [SPEAKER_00]: You may feel weak, but you don't have to worry, even when you feel weak, you still have authority. 01:22.671 --> 01:26.994 [SPEAKER_00]: And authority can look at something that appears stronger than it and say, stop. 01:27.894 --> 01:39.101 [SPEAKER_00]: And because of authority, what appears stronger than you still has to respond, because it's not responding to you, it's responding to the authority given to you by Jesus. 01:40.202 --> 01:43.544 [SPEAKER_00]: Which means this, that we are his representatives. 01:44.204 --> 01:48.827 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever we command principalities powers to stop, they've got to stop. 01:50.191 --> 01:52.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, somebody, are y'all awake this morning? 01:52.512 --> 01:55.253 [SPEAKER_00]: I know school just went back, but I need y'all to lock him in me this morning. 01:55.273 --> 01:55.653 [SPEAKER_00]: We good? 01:56.053 --> 01:57.113 [SPEAKER_00]: I know our buys tired. 01:57.593 --> 02:00.134 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you've been in that school pickup line for an hour. 02:04.235 --> 02:04.515 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 02:05.436 --> 02:07.116 [SPEAKER_00]: But we're gonna get encouraged this morning. 02:07.876 --> 02:11.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Through our union with Christ, we've been made alive, we've been raised. 02:11.918 --> 02:13.198 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been seated with him. 02:14.140 --> 02:16.523 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been talking about what belongs to us in Christ. 02:17.163 --> 02:25.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Our position, our identity, our authority, but I want you to hear me, revelation is always intended to become reliance. 02:26.854 --> 02:33.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Revelation and revelation alone won't change anything unless you begin to rest in the revelation that he's given. 02:34.571 --> 02:44.362 [SPEAKER_00]: unless you begin to be seated in the revelation that he's given us, if you can't rest in the revelation and be sure of it, then you won't reap the benefits. 02:45.724 --> 02:52.271 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll talk about this probably more a little bit later, but there's a big difference between knowing something and knowing something. 02:53.104 --> 02:57.306 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a big difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge, right? 02:57.546 --> 02:58.587 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not against head knowledge. 02:58.607 --> 02:59.548 [SPEAKER_00]: We need head knowledge. 02:59.968 --> 03:05.391 [SPEAKER_00]: We've started, we're entering our third year of high praise school of ministries tonight, which we're really fired up about. 03:05.411 --> 03:05.991 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be great. 03:06.271 --> 03:07.892 [SPEAKER_00]: We have nearly 100 students. 03:07.932 --> 03:10.414 [SPEAKER_00]: I think 95 is the last to hurt. 03:10.494 --> 03:13.375 [SPEAKER_00]: 95 students have registered for HPSM this year. 03:13.595 --> 03:14.796 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, give Laura the praise for that. 03:14.816 --> 03:15.476 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exciting. 03:16.357 --> 03:17.958 [SPEAKER_00]: We're super fired up about that. 03:19.233 --> 03:20.777 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to be teaching, right? 03:20.797 --> 03:26.411 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to be giving head knowledge, but we're not giving head knowledge, we're going to be giving heart and spirit knowledge as well. 03:26.591 --> 03:28.636 [SPEAKER_00]: Because head knowledge alone won't change your life. 03:30.226 --> 03:53.979 [SPEAKER_00]: but whenever something begins to get in your spirit man and you become aware of place where you cannot be shaken no matter what I face and no matter what life throws at me I still know some things even if it doesn't look like it I still know some things when it looks like I'm healed I know I'm healed and even when I'm sick I still know I'm healed 03:55.322 --> 03:57.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever I have peace, I know I have peace. 03:57.783 --> 04:06.167 [SPEAKER_00]: And even when I'm going through some things, I still know that I have peace because what the scripture say it, God has declared it. 04:06.407 --> 04:13.450 [SPEAKER_00]: It's what Jesus says and what He says is greater than what I'm experiencing in any given moment. 04:13.570 --> 04:22.074 [SPEAKER_00]: That faith is being completely reliant and understanding this, you don't need to hold yourself up. 04:26.015 --> 04:30.578 [SPEAKER_00]: They say, and you don't have to hold yourself up, you just need to trust what's holding you. 04:30.598 --> 04:31.899 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you bring me that chair, please? 04:32.499 --> 04:33.500 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll give it up for Cooper. 04:33.540 --> 04:35.101 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna come help me for a second today. 04:37.862 --> 04:41.685 [SPEAKER_00]: I got Cooper to come help me because about a month ago he said, I'm really sad. 04:42.565 --> 04:43.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, why are you sad? 04:43.426 --> 04:45.447 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes, you never tell any funny stories about me. 04:49.126 --> 04:51.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, just put it right here, just stand right there for a moment. 04:52.208 --> 04:52.888 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a chair. 04:53.508 --> 04:55.189 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have eyes, this is a chair. 04:55.209 --> 04:56.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you like model it for me, Cooper? 04:56.830 --> 04:57.610 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a chair, right there. 04:57.630 --> 04:58.851 [SPEAKER_00]: There you go, that's a chair. 05:00.152 --> 05:00.372 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 05:02.420 --> 05:03.680 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can study this chair. 05:04.040 --> 05:06.401 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can know every measurement of this chair. 05:06.461 --> 05:08.522 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, this is a 30 year old chair. 05:08.542 --> 05:10.122 [SPEAKER_00]: This is some of the first chairs we had. 05:10.482 --> 05:11.423 [SPEAKER_00]: And it seemed better days. 05:11.443 --> 05:14.403 [SPEAKER_00]: So those got some sheetrock mud on under something. 05:14.543 --> 05:17.404 [SPEAKER_00]: But I can know every measurement of this chair. 05:17.604 --> 05:18.585 [SPEAKER_00]: I can look at this chair. 05:19.025 --> 05:24.326 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can be confident that this chair was assembled rightly. 05:24.346 --> 05:26.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we agree this chair is probably assembled rightly? 05:26.647 --> 05:27.347 [SPEAKER_00]: It got sold. 05:28.967 --> 05:30.468 [SPEAKER_00]: It probably went through some inspections. 05:31.738 --> 05:37.062 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have a measure of confidence that this chair can hold me. 05:37.923 --> 05:44.888 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is one thing to look at that chair and have a thought that it can hold me. 05:45.789 --> 05:49.032 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's another thing to actually sit in the chair. 05:49.292 --> 05:50.713 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of us will do this, even. 05:50.793 --> 05:54.896 [SPEAKER_00]: We can look at the Lord, like we look at this chair, and we go, I know what your promise is. 05:55.997 --> 05:57.058 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what you're declaring. 05:58.583 --> 06:08.247 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what you're saying is true, but I'm not willing to actually take the step and sit and rest in that chair. 06:09.227 --> 06:11.368 [SPEAKER_00]: And other people will do this, sit down on that chair for a second, Cooper. 06:11.768 --> 06:12.268 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll do this. 06:13.029 --> 06:13.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 06:13.909 --> 06:20.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I can see Cooper sitting in that chair and that chair is strong enough to hold him. 06:21.092 --> 06:26.554 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever he set down that chair didn't collapse, I've got a few pounds on Cooper. 06:29.168 --> 06:33.511 [SPEAKER_00]: But whenever Cooper sat down that chair didn't collapse, it didn't fold, it didn't break, it didn't crumble. 06:34.211 --> 06:35.132 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's good for him. 06:36.353 --> 06:40.796 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes what we can do is we can look at what God has done for other people. 06:42.477 --> 06:44.678 [SPEAKER_00]: And we can say, God, I know you held them. 06:45.939 --> 06:48.541 [SPEAKER_00]: And God, I know that what you promised was good for them. 06:48.561 --> 06:52.023 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that your promise was manifested for them. 06:52.944 --> 06:57.107 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm not quite sure still if it's good enough for me. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.380 [SPEAKER_00]: And let me let you in on a secret. 06:59.701 --> 07:00.701 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not faith. 07:03.522 --> 07:04.402 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not faith. 07:05.422 --> 07:09.343 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't say you have faith and say it's good enough for somebody else, but not good enough for me. 07:10.884 --> 07:16.046 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't have faith and look and go, I know that's good enough to hold Cooper, but I'm not sure if it'll hold me. 07:16.766 --> 07:19.066 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't look and say what God did for R.L. 07:19.106 --> 07:19.867 [SPEAKER_00]: and Wanda. 07:19.887 --> 07:24.088 [SPEAKER_00]: Go away, I know God did it for them, but I'm not sure if he'll do it for me. 07:24.963 --> 07:25.183 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 07:25.603 --> 07:26.403 [SPEAKER_00]: That's good, good, good. 07:26.443 --> 07:27.564 [SPEAKER_00]: You know I'll give Cooper a hand. 07:27.724 --> 07:28.764 [SPEAKER_00]: Just leave the chair, leave the chair. 07:29.444 --> 07:29.904 [SPEAKER_00]: Leave the chair. 07:29.964 --> 07:30.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 07:32.244 --> 07:33.185 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what a faith is. 07:33.945 --> 07:36.885 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is not just watching somebody else sit in the chair. 07:37.825 --> 07:40.726 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is whenever you actually go, okay. 07:41.846 --> 07:45.627 [SPEAKER_00]: I know the chair is sturdy. 07:47.007 --> 07:47.787 [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's true. 07:48.908 --> 07:50.448 [SPEAKER_00]: I've watched it hold other people. 07:51.440 --> 07:58.524 [SPEAKER_00]: But now what I am confident enough to do is I'm confident enough to come and rest in this chair by self. 07:59.625 --> 08:04.408 [SPEAKER_00]: There are far too many believers that are unwilling to rest in the promise of God. 08:05.749 --> 08:07.390 [SPEAKER_00]: We are good to believe the promise. 08:08.190 --> 08:09.971 [SPEAKER_00]: We are good to think about the promise. 08:10.552 --> 08:12.393 [SPEAKER_00]: We are good to talk about the promise. 08:13.033 --> 08:15.775 [SPEAKER_00]: But are we willing to actually sit and rest in the promise? 08:16.055 --> 08:18.717 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't like to rest because we like to try to make it happen ourselves. 08:20.240 --> 08:22.160 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Lord isn't asking you to do better. 08:22.301 --> 08:23.561 [SPEAKER_00]: He's asking you to trust more. 08:24.581 --> 08:26.422 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is not asking you to try harder. 08:26.942 --> 08:35.284 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is asking you to rest in the promise of what he's already done and be confident that what he's already done is enough to carry you through. 08:35.624 --> 08:38.865 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you don't need to run harder, you need to rest better. 08:41.385 --> 08:43.886 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you don't need to work harder, you need to rest more. 08:44.526 --> 08:48.707 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna talk about this rest, and I say rest, I don't mean passivity. 08:50.320 --> 08:57.947 [SPEAKER_00]: What I mean is being confident in God's promises enough that you can sit in the midst of everything going on and go no matter what it looks like. 08:57.987 --> 08:59.988 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen the promise and God's got this under control. 09:01.310 --> 09:05.093 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter what everybody's saying in the world, I'm confident that he's still gonna hold me. 09:05.613 --> 09:11.198 [SPEAKER_00]: That if this building started shaking right now, that I'm still confident that this is enough to hold me. 09:11.438 --> 09:17.984 [SPEAKER_00]: That if everything got topsy-turvy, I still believe that his promise is good enough to hold me. 09:18.204 --> 09:20.786 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter what happens, this chair is going to keep me. 09:21.006 --> 09:23.588 [SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what happens, the Lord is going to keep you. 09:23.828 --> 09:24.989 [SPEAKER_00]: And He's going to be with you. 09:25.209 --> 09:31.594 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can actually sit and rest in His promise and know that He's true, and know that He's sure, and know that He's good. 09:31.794 --> 09:35.797 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't have to work harder in order to see the fulfillment of what God is saying. 09:36.017 --> 09:40.921 [SPEAKER_00]: You've just got to sit in His presence more and know that He's going to do exactly what He said He was going to do. 09:47.091 --> 09:48.732 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have to get in to resting. 09:49.492 --> 09:52.233 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't do enough to make God move in your life. 09:54.274 --> 09:56.495 [SPEAKER_00]: He moves not because you're good enough. 09:57.355 --> 09:58.916 [SPEAKER_00]: He moves because he's good. 09:59.676 --> 10:02.317 [SPEAKER_00]: He moves not because necessarily because of your faithfulness. 10:02.357 --> 10:05.598 [SPEAKER_00]: Although we believe obviously we do our part and God finishes the rest. 10:05.779 --> 10:11.801 [SPEAKER_00]: But he doesn't move because well, once you fill up the cup of faithfulness enough, then you're qualified. 10:12.101 --> 10:14.022 [SPEAKER_00]: He moves because he is faithful. 10:15.390 --> 10:18.132 [SPEAKER_00]: And we can rest in his promise in what he said. 10:18.852 --> 10:20.773 [SPEAKER_00]: We can rest knowing that he is good. 10:21.233 --> 10:24.775 [SPEAKER_00]: We can sit and see the salvation of the Lord. 10:24.815 --> 10:32.559 [SPEAKER_00]: James chapter one, y'all with me says this, but be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 10:33.180 --> 10:37.162 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, if you only hear, but you're not a doer, you are deceiving yourself. 10:37.957 --> 10:42.559 [SPEAKER_00]: For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he's like a man observing his natural face in a mirror. 10:43.099 --> 10:47.081 [SPEAKER_00]: For he observes himself, goes away and immediately forgets what kind of man he is. 10:47.701 --> 10:58.106 [SPEAKER_00]: But he looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this one will be blessed in what he does. 10:58.126 --> 11:01.967 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me and this goes back to our chair. 11:02.087 --> 11:05.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is not trying to make God strong enough to hold you. 11:07.356 --> 11:13.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is making this decision that God is already strong enough to lean on, right? 11:15.057 --> 11:17.738 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about actually believing His word is true. 11:18.078 --> 11:21.619 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to give you real quick this morning, three movements of faith. 11:21.679 --> 11:24.539 [SPEAKER_00]: The first one is see it, somebody says see it. 11:25.739 --> 11:28.140 [SPEAKER_00]: James says here that the word functions like a mirror. 11:29.080 --> 11:33.801 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, a mirror doesn't create your appearance, it reveals what's already there. 11:34.778 --> 11:39.500 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you looked in a mirror this morning, the mirror didn't decide what you looked like. 11:41.401 --> 11:43.362 [SPEAKER_00]: It reflected what you already looked like. 11:44.302 --> 11:46.303 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of you were disappointed in that this morning. 11:49.124 --> 11:51.826 [SPEAKER_00]: But the mirror doesn't make you look different. 11:52.506 --> 11:54.967 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror just reveals who you already are. 11:55.767 --> 12:00.209 [SPEAKER_00]: If the word is a mirror, hear me, the word doesn't make you look different. 12:00.549 --> 12:03.791 [SPEAKER_00]: The word simply reveals who you've already been made in Christ. 12:04.599 --> 12:06.540 [SPEAKER_00]: The word doesn't change who you are. 12:06.880 --> 12:08.360 [SPEAKER_00]: It tells you who you really are. 12:08.780 --> 12:10.721 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of y'all thought you looked one way this morning. 12:10.741 --> 12:12.502 [SPEAKER_00]: When you looked in the mirror, you realized it was different. 12:14.423 --> 12:15.623 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, come on y'all know what I'm talking about. 12:17.504 --> 12:17.684 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 12:18.204 --> 12:22.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have thought you looked one way, but whenever you look in the word, you should find something different. 12:23.706 --> 12:26.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you thought you were defeated, but the word tells you your victorious. 12:27.410 --> 12:30.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you thought you were rejected, but the word tells you you're accepted in the beloved. 12:31.294 --> 12:34.357 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you thought you were broken, but Scripture says he's put you back together. 12:34.937 --> 12:40.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you thought that you were broke, but Scripture says my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 12:41.203 --> 12:49.391 [SPEAKER_00]: You might think that you're one way, but the reason the word is there is to reveal who you already were created to be and who you already are. 12:49.711 --> 12:50.692 [SPEAKER_00]: You just need to believe it. 12:52.285 --> 12:55.430 [SPEAKER_00]: The word isn't there, and I want you to hear me. 12:55.470 --> 12:56.512 [SPEAKER_00]: The word does shape us. 12:56.532 --> 12:57.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't misunderstand me. 12:57.674 --> 12:59.998 [SPEAKER_00]: But it shapes you into who you already are. 13:01.059 --> 13:04.225 [SPEAKER_00]: The version of you that isn't what the word says is a lie. 13:05.700 --> 13:08.502 [SPEAKER_00]: The version of you that's not what the word says is a lie. 13:08.923 --> 13:12.866 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how you feel, I don't care how you feel. 13:13.146 --> 13:18.830 [SPEAKER_00]: If the way you feel is different than the word, then your feeling is a liar, but his word is always true. 13:19.551 --> 13:21.993 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say, I don't care, I don't mean I'm uncaring. 13:23.014 --> 13:26.937 [SPEAKER_00]: What I mean is we have to come to a point where we believe the word more than our flesh. 13:28.023 --> 13:31.304 [SPEAKER_00]: to where we believe a better word of prophecy over our experiences. 13:31.684 --> 13:33.665 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying your feelings aren't valid. 13:33.965 --> 13:35.525 [SPEAKER_00]: What I am saying is they're not true. 13:37.926 --> 13:38.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 13:38.666 --> 13:39.287 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a difference. 13:39.567 --> 13:40.387 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be valid. 13:40.407 --> 13:43.088 [SPEAKER_00]: You may have experienced some things that make you feel that way. 13:43.448 --> 13:46.949 [SPEAKER_00]: But just because you feel that way doesn't mean that's truly what God has said over your life. 13:48.389 --> 13:50.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever felt a way that you just knew wasn't true? 13:52.691 --> 13:53.051 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on. 13:53.551 --> 13:56.352 [SPEAKER_00]: You ever been in a spat with your spouse, 13:58.083 --> 13:59.664 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, I don't know, they love me or not. 14:02.025 --> 14:03.746 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they care about me anymore. 14:05.027 --> 14:07.068 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'll laughing uncomfortably right now. 14:08.209 --> 14:10.930 [SPEAKER_00]: This morning on the way to church after the kid's screen, well, I'm getting ready. 14:11.731 --> 14:14.572 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we sang, this is the day the Lord has made Albert Choice and Begladini. 14:14.792 --> 14:16.473 [SPEAKER_00]: But I really know they want to kill me right now. 14:18.855 --> 14:20.295 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I got a really laughing uncomfortably. 14:20.315 --> 14:22.337 [SPEAKER_00]: The ones who are laughing right now, that's them. 14:27.685 --> 14:30.207 [SPEAKER_00]: Ever felt that before, but at the same time, you knew it was a lie. 14:31.368 --> 14:33.930 [SPEAKER_00]: You knew it wasn't true, but your flesh was telling you something different. 14:34.350 --> 14:37.873 [SPEAKER_00]: Your flesh will lie to you, but the word always speaks to the truth. 14:38.694 --> 14:40.355 [SPEAKER_00]: The word always is a mirror. 14:41.296 --> 14:43.458 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror doesn't lie, unfortunately. 14:45.339 --> 14:47.221 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror always tells the truth. 14:48.262 --> 14:48.762 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 14:49.062 --> 14:50.884 [SPEAKER_00]: The word always tells the truth. 14:51.124 --> 14:53.846 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you feel a certain kind of way, you know what you need to do? 14:54.066 --> 14:54.767 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to see it. 14:55.945 --> 15:01.168 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to go get the mirror of the word and look into it and say, well, I know I feel this, but what does the word say? 15:02.809 --> 15:03.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody at church likes me. 15:03.890 --> 15:04.950 [SPEAKER_00]: You're accepted in the beloved. 15:07.032 --> 15:10.113 [SPEAKER_00]: That person saw me at Walmart and didn't even say, hey, to me, you're accepted in the beloved. 15:10.153 --> 15:11.334 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, you just say, hey, to them either. 15:15.897 --> 15:16.537 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't believe it. 15:16.577 --> 15:19.359 [SPEAKER_00]: We made eye contact and everything, and they didn't even say nothing. 15:21.480 --> 15:23.041 [SPEAKER_00]: Communication is a two-way street. 15:24.528 --> 15:25.809 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's be like, they didn't even call me. 15:25.849 --> 15:27.529 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the phone works, both ways. 15:32.091 --> 15:33.572 [SPEAKER_00]: And also, maybe they just didn't see you. 15:34.372 --> 15:34.872 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's all right. 15:37.933 --> 15:39.394 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to remember what the mirror said. 15:40.435 --> 15:42.375 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you've been in my life in Christ. 15:44.096 --> 15:45.797 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you've been raised with Christ. 15:46.877 --> 15:48.738 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you've been seated in Christ. 15:48.758 --> 15:49.878 [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like you've been seated with Christ. 15:49.898 --> 15:51.139 [SPEAKER_00]: It says you've been seated in Christ. 15:54.363 --> 15:55.784 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you're a new creation. 15:57.346 --> 15:59.688 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you've been delivered from the power of darkness. 16:00.368 --> 16:01.689 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you're healed. 16:02.170 --> 16:03.631 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you're restored. 16:04.011 --> 16:05.493 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you're accepted. 16:05.773 --> 16:07.054 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says you're loved. 16:07.735 --> 16:10.817 [SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what we're facing, we have to hold up that mirror. 16:12.218 --> 16:14.540 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have to see what it actually says. 16:14.560 --> 16:18.544 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, the first fight of faith is often deciding which voice gets to be true in your head. 16:18.564 --> 16:21.847 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that's got great books. 16:23.150 --> 16:27.834 [SPEAKER_00]: on voices, and if you haven't read it, you should change the way you view a lot of things. 16:27.934 --> 16:36.661 [SPEAKER_00]: But there are, especially in the modern world, there's a million voices, always competing to tell you something. 16:37.882 --> 16:43.367 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, social media is the king of this, and the algorithm is the king of this, right? 16:44.007 --> 16:45.389 [SPEAKER_00]: It's always telling you something. 16:45.509 --> 16:47.410 [SPEAKER_00]: And specifically on social media, you know what it's telling you? 16:47.630 --> 16:48.371 [SPEAKER_00]: What you want to hear? 16:49.452 --> 16:50.273 [SPEAKER_00]: What you want to see? 16:50.673 --> 16:51.634 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not telling you the truth. 16:52.557 --> 16:53.977 [SPEAKER_00]: It's telling you what you want to hear. 16:54.657 --> 16:56.918 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're seeing certain things all the time like, why am I seeing this? 16:57.018 --> 16:58.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you're looking at it. 16:59.979 --> 17:00.599 [SPEAKER_00]: Constantly. 17:01.359 --> 17:02.379 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what it's going to be. 17:03.219 --> 17:05.080 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have time to get into social media and some of that. 17:05.160 --> 17:07.800 [SPEAKER_00]: And the echo chamber is it creates and how it's forming us. 17:08.181 --> 17:09.181 [SPEAKER_00]: It's malforming us. 17:09.841 --> 17:14.502 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, just get off of social media for a moment and touch grass and read your Bible. 17:21.700 --> 17:22.981 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I tell those young people. 17:23.021 --> 17:26.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, Facebook is used by people over 45 more than anything else. 17:27.965 --> 17:29.307 [SPEAKER_00]: So it ain't just the young people. 17:30.468 --> 17:31.088 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about that. 17:31.128 --> 17:34.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Check your screen time, and then come talk to me. 17:36.393 --> 17:38.074 [SPEAKER_00]: You got real quiet in here real fast. 17:39.976 --> 17:41.777 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we're quick to clap for them. 17:44.479 --> 17:45.100 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got to keep going. 17:46.281 --> 17:48.083 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, you have to see it even when pressure's there. 17:49.065 --> 17:53.146 [SPEAKER_00]: Beer says you can't, but the word says that you've not been given a spirit of fear, but a power loving a sound by. 17:54.387 --> 17:58.748 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, that's about more than just being scared of the dark, or scared of spiders. 17:59.689 --> 18:01.769 [SPEAKER_00]: Even as adults, we have fears and concerns. 18:02.390 --> 18:03.430 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna be able to pay the bills. 18:04.607 --> 18:11.792 [SPEAKER_00]: was going to happen with my job, was going on with my retirement accounts, was going on with my kids that are growing into being adults, trust me. 18:12.192 --> 18:22.158 [SPEAKER_00]: We all have concerns, we all have things we face, we all have issues that we are trying to overcome, but God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind. 18:22.418 --> 18:23.579 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the mirror says. 18:23.899 --> 18:27.501 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror doesn't say you have to be wrapped in fear and anxiety all of your life. 18:27.762 --> 18:29.703 [SPEAKER_00]: The mirror says fear is not your portion. 18:31.251 --> 18:36.594 [SPEAKER_00]: This is about having authority, authority is about more than just laying hands on sick people. 18:36.974 --> 18:50.100 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about having authority over the intrusive thoughts that want to get you going down the rabbit hole that leads you nowhere good in your mental state, and in your spiritual state, you have to take every thought you have to bring every thought into captivity. 18:51.941 --> 18:52.501 [SPEAKER_00]: Every thought. 18:55.317 --> 19:01.418 [SPEAKER_00]: hear me stop allowing your circumstances to tell you who you are after the word has already shown you who you are. 19:02.098 --> 19:04.059 [SPEAKER_00]: The word shows you everything else tells you. 19:06.599 --> 19:07.800 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on now, I want you to hear me. 19:08.180 --> 19:13.161 [SPEAKER_00]: The word, the word shows you, but everything else is trying to tell you, right? 19:13.421 --> 19:21.522 [SPEAKER_00]: If somebody came and tried to tell me that I weighed 450 pounds, they can tell me that, 19:27.166 --> 19:32.888 [SPEAKER_00]: If somebody tried to tell me I was a bodybuilder, y'all did not have to laugh. 19:32.908 --> 19:35.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all laughed harder for that than the 450 pounds. 19:37.550 --> 19:39.031 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how to take that this morning. 19:39.071 --> 19:39.811 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel attacked. 19:40.772 --> 19:43.513 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good thing the mirror says I'm accepted in the bill of it this morning. 19:43.533 --> 19:43.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise God. 19:47.129 --> 19:48.910 [SPEAKER_00]: If somebody tried to tell me, I was a bodybuilder. 19:49.950 --> 19:52.451 [SPEAKER_00]: They could tell me that, but the mirror tells me something different. 19:53.011 --> 19:57.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do we believe what everyone tries to tell us when the word shows us? 19:59.013 --> 20:03.435 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do we believe what everyone says when the word actually will show us who we are? 20:04.415 --> 20:08.957 [SPEAKER_00]: And hear me, even if you don't feel like the person the word tells you are, that's not the name. 20:09.890 --> 20:10.630 [SPEAKER_00]: That's faith. 20:11.631 --> 20:13.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith isn't pretending it's not real. 20:14.053 --> 20:17.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith refuses to let pressure and outside voices become the highest authority. 20:18.375 --> 20:21.677 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't allow pressure and outside voices to be the biggest authority. 20:21.937 --> 20:27.261 [SPEAKER_00]: The word has to be the authority in our lives and what we believe at the end of the day. 20:27.561 --> 20:29.442 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know this is a cake I've been on. 20:29.482 --> 20:31.743 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna keep being on this cake until it changes. 20:31.924 --> 20:37.427 [SPEAKER_00]: But one of the biggest issues and problems and reasons we can't live that way is because we simply don't know the word. 20:39.655 --> 20:42.696 [SPEAKER_00]: We misquoted, we misrepresent it. 20:43.416 --> 20:44.896 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know what it's talking about. 20:45.656 --> 20:46.796 [SPEAKER_00]: I started by this on Wednesday night. 20:47.116 --> 20:55.778 [SPEAKER_00]: Recently, there was a major public figure in the political sphere that started quoting a scripture. 20:56.998 --> 20:59.218 [SPEAKER_00]: And it turns out that scripture was not a scripture at all. 21:00.159 --> 21:03.299 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a quote from pulp fiction, the Quentin Tarantino movie. 21:06.340 --> 21:07.540 [SPEAKER_00]: Not making this up, this is real. 21:08.463 --> 21:09.604 [SPEAKER_00]: gave a reference and everything. 21:11.164 --> 21:14.006 [SPEAKER_00]: And I saw Christians like praise God. 21:14.106 --> 21:18.888 [SPEAKER_00]: It's good to see men and God quote in the word in the public square and I'm like, that's Quentin Tarantino. 21:21.430 --> 21:24.311 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you're calling Quentin Tarantino, God, that's not the word of God. 21:25.852 --> 21:26.592 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know the problem? 21:26.792 --> 21:27.473 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know the word. 21:27.493 --> 21:28.633 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the problem? 21:28.673 --> 21:29.474 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know the scriptures. 21:29.894 --> 21:34.116 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to know what you look like, you have to actually know the word, which I'm sorry to inform you. 21:37.758 --> 21:38.378 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like to read. 21:38.479 --> 21:38.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Do a bad! 21:39.980 --> 21:40.860 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know how many of them book. 21:42.001 --> 21:45.144 [SPEAKER_00]: You can listen to, you can listen to Morgan Freeman read you the Bible, if you want to. 21:48.686 --> 21:51.408 [SPEAKER_00]: Basically, I mean, that's probably what God sounds like anyways. 21:58.714 --> 21:59.715 [SPEAKER_00]: James Earl Jones. 22:02.857 --> 22:04.058 [SPEAKER_00]: Simba, all right, to come on. 22:09.284 --> 22:16.268 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how you get the word, just find a way to get it in your heart, find a way to get it in your spirit, find a way to hold that mirror up and look at it all the time. 22:18.009 --> 22:20.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want to give you some balance to this, I want you to hear me. 22:21.231 --> 22:26.775 [SPEAKER_00]: You're allowed to be in process and still believe in God, right? 22:27.715 --> 22:30.537 [SPEAKER_00]: You're allowed to be in a battle and still believe God. 22:31.637 --> 22:34.799 [SPEAKER_00]: You're allowed to be going, I'm really struggling right now. 22:35.319 --> 22:39.021 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're struggling, I'm not saying you're not saved, or you're unfaithful, you're gonna do this. 22:39.241 --> 22:41.542 [SPEAKER_00]: What I'm saying is at the end of the day, we have to go back to the word. 22:42.403 --> 22:42.603 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 22:43.223 --> 22:46.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas struggled and was still a disciple. 22:48.566 --> 22:49.807 [SPEAKER_00]: His faith was frustrated. 22:49.827 --> 22:52.789 [SPEAKER_00]: It was frustrated for a valid legitimate reason. 22:55.330 --> 23:00.513 [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus didn't say, your apostleship and discipleship is revoked. 23:02.758 --> 23:05.540 [SPEAKER_00]: He picked him up and he put him on the road again. 23:05.580 --> 23:08.182 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, I'm just going to say this, and there's a whole other message. 23:08.222 --> 23:11.644 [SPEAKER_00]: But as a church, it's really, it's really high time. 23:11.684 --> 23:20.109 [SPEAKER_00]: We stop labeling people by their momentary dysfunction or problems when they have lifetimes of service. 23:21.050 --> 23:21.270 [SPEAKER_00]: All right? 23:21.870 --> 23:28.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas is the same one who earlier in Jesus ministry says, Jesus, if you go and they kill you, they're going to have to kill us too. 23:30.565 --> 23:33.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas is the same one that later is going to be martyred for the gospel. 23:34.127 --> 23:45.912 [SPEAKER_00]: But whenever we talk about Thomas, we still call them doubting Thomas, what a disservice to a disciple in a man of God who had a lot more faith than probably any of us have ever had in our lives. 23:45.932 --> 23:54.956 [SPEAKER_00]: We're like doubted how Thomas, all doubting Thomas, if I would have been there, I wouldn't have been like that. 23:54.996 --> 23:56.076 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you would have been worse. 23:57.597 --> 23:58.037 [SPEAKER_00]: You're right. 24:03.460 --> 24:07.983 [SPEAKER_00]: The denier, not the one who's crucified upside down for the faith. 24:10.024 --> 24:11.625 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, not the one who walked on water. 24:11.905 --> 24:12.685 [SPEAKER_00]: He sank, though. 24:15.807 --> 24:17.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but he walked on the water first. 24:20.230 --> 24:21.110 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, something you ain't done. 24:24.092 --> 24:24.532 [SPEAKER_00]: We keep going. 24:24.612 --> 24:25.193 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to go fast. 24:26.191 --> 24:27.852 [SPEAKER_00]: The next one is to trust it, so I say, trust it. 24:28.793 --> 24:30.394 [SPEAKER_00]: Turn it up, throw up Hebrews four for me, please. 24:30.834 --> 24:31.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews four says this. 24:32.295 --> 24:35.317 [SPEAKER_00]: For indeed, the gospel was preached to us as well as to them. 24:35.858 --> 24:42.502 [SPEAKER_00]: But the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 24:42.923 --> 24:46.025 [SPEAKER_00]: They heard the word, but they didn't mix it with faith, so it did nothing for them. 24:47.042 --> 24:56.307 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why people can sit in our churches year after year, week after week, and yet hear the word, and it not profit them anything, because they don't mix faith with it. 24:57.668 --> 24:58.468 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't mix faith with it. 24:58.869 --> 25:00.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Simply hearing the word is not enough. 25:01.710 --> 25:05.972 [SPEAKER_00]: James says this, the writer of Hebrew says this, simply hearing it is not enough. 25:06.253 --> 25:10.355 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to mix faith with it, which means this, you have to actually trust it. 25:11.430 --> 25:13.431 [SPEAKER_00]: not just hear it, but trust it. 25:13.772 --> 25:15.353 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to be willing to rest in it. 25:15.573 --> 25:17.314 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to be willing to sit on the work. 25:17.614 --> 25:20.557 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a difference between mental, a scent, and heart faith. 25:21.117 --> 25:26.100 [SPEAKER_00]: Mental, a scent says, I know the Bible says that, but heart faith says that I'm gonna rest in it. 25:27.381 --> 25:30.003 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just, I know it says it, but I'm willing to stand on it. 25:30.043 --> 25:31.384 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm willing to rest in it. 25:31.744 --> 25:35.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Mental, a scent, waits for circumstances to change to believe the word. 25:36.548 --> 25:37.909 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, I believe when. 25:40.742 --> 25:43.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Heart Faith says, even though it doesn't look like it, I'll still believe. 25:45.649 --> 25:48.253 [SPEAKER_00]: Heart Faith says, even when I don't see it, it's still short. 25:49.230 --> 25:56.191 [SPEAKER_00]: Hartfaith says this, even whenever I'm not experiencing it right now, his word is still true, and I'm going to see it be a reality in my life. 25:56.631 --> 26:00.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Hartfaith, even when we're going through the difficult seasons, we can still stand strong. 26:00.592 --> 26:08.454 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got to give so much credit and honor to Mr. Cliff today, one just the way that he's handled this entire week in these situations. 26:08.694 --> 26:16.175 [SPEAKER_00]: But I was standing in the lobby talking to Harvey, and Harvey was asking me how Cliff was doing, and I said, he's doing well, you know what I talked to him several times just week. 26:16.495 --> 26:21.079 [SPEAKER_00]: And literally I see, I'll go, there it goes, Cliff right now, pull it into church, right? 26:21.359 --> 26:41.456 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got to get, that's when you're going through a difficult season, one of the most difficult weeks that any of us could go through in these situations, heart faith says, no, I'm mental descent doesn't just say he's good and he's worthy to be praised, heart faith says, I'm going to do it anyways, no matter what I feel, because I know that Jesus is worthy. 26:43.075 --> 26:43.775 [SPEAKER_00]: That's heart faith. 26:44.456 --> 26:45.356 [SPEAKER_00]: That's trusting it. 26:46.296 --> 26:48.678 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just admiring the promise from a distance. 26:49.318 --> 26:51.499 [SPEAKER_00]: It sits down on his promise and he rests. 26:53.220 --> 26:55.201 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, your faith doesn't hold God up. 26:57.161 --> 26:58.862 [SPEAKER_00]: God is faithful enough to hold your faith up. 27:00.563 --> 27:02.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Your faith doesn't hold God up. 27:02.084 --> 27:03.684 [SPEAKER_00]: God is faithful enough to hold your faith up. 27:04.705 --> 27:07.906 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to feel the chair before you sit in it. 27:09.687 --> 27:11.428 [SPEAKER_00]: You can rest in it knowing that it's there. 27:12.555 --> 27:13.956 [SPEAKER_00]: You can rest in a knowing it's there. 27:15.716 --> 27:17.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let me jump ahead. 27:17.477 --> 27:21.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Last one is this, act on it, act on it, which means this. 27:21.119 --> 27:22.919 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, this is real faith. 27:23.360 --> 27:26.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith goes beyond just believing, but faith then goes into doing. 27:27.441 --> 27:35.845 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why James says that faith without works is, you can say you believe it, but I can look at your life and see what you really believe. 27:37.666 --> 27:38.066 [SPEAKER_00]: All right? 27:38.566 --> 27:40.047 [SPEAKER_00]: We say this way, talk is cheap. 27:41.432 --> 27:44.134 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't tell me what you believe, show me what you believe. 27:45.215 --> 27:48.097 [SPEAKER_00]: You show me someone's actions, and I'll tell you what they really believe. 27:49.138 --> 27:50.559 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe this, but what are you doing? 27:51.540 --> 27:54.062 [SPEAKER_00]: Because what you do says a lot more than what you say. 27:55.423 --> 28:00.167 [SPEAKER_00]: If I told my wife, I loved her, but I never showed her any affection. 28:02.228 --> 28:04.650 [SPEAKER_00]: She might have reason to question if I actually loved her. 28:05.250 --> 28:08.273 [SPEAKER_00]: If I told her, I loved her, but I didn't actually spend any time with her. 28:09.278 --> 28:13.680 [SPEAKER_00]: She might have questioned, if I actually, if I told her, I loved her, but I wasn't willing to do things for her. 28:14.880 --> 28:15.381 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you all with me? 28:16.061 --> 28:19.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have a lot of people who say they love Jesus, but they're not willing to spend time with him. 28:20.823 --> 28:23.944 [SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot of people who say they love Jesus, but they put everything else before him. 28:24.785 --> 28:28.426 [SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot of you who say they believe, but they're actions say something completely different. 28:28.486 --> 28:30.727 [SPEAKER_00]: Acts chapter three verse four through Adam and Reed is real quick. 28:30.988 --> 28:32.648 [SPEAKER_00]: I promise I'm gonna wrap up fast, y'all hang with me. 28:32.988 --> 28:34.589 [SPEAKER_00]: And fixing his eyes on him with John. 28:34.689 --> 28:36.030 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter said, look at us. 28:37.015 --> 28:40.037 [SPEAKER_00]: So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 28:40.658 --> 28:43.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Then Peter said, silver and gold, I do not have. 28:43.360 --> 28:48.364 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I do have, I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 28:49.205 --> 28:54.269 [SPEAKER_00]: And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones receive strength. 28:55.111 --> 29:00.115 [SPEAKER_00]: So he leaping, stood up and walked and entered the temple with them walking, leaping and praising God. 29:00.455 --> 29:05.380 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the account of Peter, encountering this lame man and releasing healing into his life. 29:05.700 --> 29:07.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter knew something. 29:08.844 --> 29:12.245 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew that Jesus had given him authority over sickness. 29:12.766 --> 29:15.727 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew Jesus said, you will lay hands on the sick and you will recover. 29:16.027 --> 29:18.068 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew what the Lord had said in his life. 29:18.328 --> 29:20.509 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew what belonged to him in Christ Jesus. 29:20.869 --> 29:27.131 [SPEAKER_00]: Authority had moved in him and he was convicted of this and he had a conviction that it was true. 29:28.292 --> 29:30.113 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't hoping something might happen. 29:30.553 --> 29:32.874 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew something, right? 29:32.994 --> 29:34.134 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he says something. 29:34.494 --> 29:35.935 [SPEAKER_00]: He's you have to put the word in your mouth. 29:38.105 --> 29:44.789 [SPEAKER_00]: He spoke in the name of Peter, he spoke in the name of Jesus, because he's the one who's authority, he's operating on. 29:48.211 --> 29:51.693 [SPEAKER_00]: His words came into agreement with the authority that the Lord had already given him. 29:52.834 --> 29:58.037 [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is not only what you believe privately, it's what you're willing to say publicly, right? 29:58.577 --> 30:00.338 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Peter does something. 30:00.978 --> 30:06.181 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't just know something, he doesn't just say something, but then he does something. 30:08.666 --> 30:11.648 [SPEAKER_00]: He reached and took the man by the hand and he lifted him up. 30:12.609 --> 30:15.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter didn't stop would just correct theology of authority. 30:16.792 --> 30:18.893 [SPEAKER_00]: He moved into actually operating in a thought. 30:19.854 --> 30:21.035 [SPEAKER_00]: He took that next step. 30:21.055 --> 30:22.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what happens if nothing happens? 30:22.556 --> 30:23.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what if it dies? 30:26.399 --> 30:28.580 [SPEAKER_00]: What happens if we don't see what we're living or what if we do? 30:30.642 --> 30:36.026 [SPEAKER_00]: What if we are actually audacious enough to believe that Jesus is going to do exactly what he said? 30:37.941 --> 30:41.304 [SPEAKER_00]: What if we actually didn't just say we believe something but we did something? 30:42.725 --> 30:50.131 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, this moves beyond miracles as well that we believe in the miraculous, what if we actually loved the unlovable in faith? 30:52.533 --> 30:55.856 [SPEAKER_00]: What if you forgave the person you've been holding the grudge against? 30:58.678 --> 30:59.158 [SPEAKER_00]: In faith? 31:01.100 --> 31:02.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't feel like forgiving him. 31:02.401 --> 31:03.122 [SPEAKER_00]: I say it in faith. 31:09.895 --> 31:14.958 [SPEAKER_00]: I know no one's ever forgiven through gritted teeth before, gritted teeth and high blood pressure. 31:17.299 --> 31:18.740 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody know what I'm talking about this morning? 31:19.281 --> 31:21.522 [SPEAKER_00]: I've forgiven through gritted teeth and high blood pressure. 31:21.882 --> 31:25.724 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've done it again and again and again and again and again. 31:26.325 --> 31:28.646 [SPEAKER_00]: But you find this, the more you just say, I've forgiven you. 31:29.587 --> 31:31.168 [SPEAKER_00]: You can just say it to yourself. 31:33.269 --> 31:35.210 [SPEAKER_00]: You find it gets a little easier every time. 31:37.074 --> 32:00.716 [SPEAKER_00]: all right y'all getting real quiet against like well I want to talk about raising people up off the floor all this forgiving stuff is not what I want to do in faith if you can't forgive you're not going to move in the miraculous if you can't love you're not going to move in miracles Peter did something Peter didn't just preach the authority believe or he acted like what Jesus said was true 32:01.664 --> 32:02.865 [SPEAKER_00]: So here's what I want to encourage you to come up with. 32:02.885 --> 32:03.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I want to encourage you with. 32:03.765 --> 32:04.465 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to stop. 32:05.225 --> 32:06.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I encourage you with. 32:06.526 --> 32:09.407 [SPEAKER_00]: This morning, take the next obedient step. 32:10.888 --> 32:12.768 [SPEAKER_00]: What does that action look like in your life? 32:14.689 --> 32:18.331 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it the Lord has put in your life that you need to step out in authority over? 32:19.491 --> 32:22.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's praying for the sick person, instead of only talking about their healing. 32:22.933 --> 32:23.753 [SPEAKER_00]: Or even better, yeah. 32:23.913 --> 32:27.334 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you said to just talk about their sickness all the time you need to talk about their healing and pray for. 32:29.535 --> 32:30.216 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, somebody. 32:32.370 --> 32:35.912 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's resisting fear, instead of arranging your life around. 32:35.932 --> 32:38.233 [SPEAKER_00]: The fear the enemies tried to attack you with. 32:40.534 --> 32:44.356 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's forgiving that person even when the emotions catch up. 32:44.536 --> 32:45.797 [SPEAKER_00]: You get all wrapped up in them. 32:46.817 --> 32:50.719 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's letting go of the bitterness of the hurt and the offense that you've held on to. 32:50.959 --> 32:52.920 [SPEAKER_00]: But isn't hurting them, it's only hurting you. 32:57.542 --> 32:57.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's. 33:00.102 --> 33:04.564 [SPEAKER_00]: believing again for that lost love that you've given up and you've thrown the towel. 33:04.624 --> 33:05.565 [SPEAKER_00]: You said they're never. 33:07.365 --> 33:11.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe instead of they'll never, it's time for you to once again say yes for me and by house. 33:12.648 --> 33:16.950 [SPEAKER_00]: We will circle and pick up the phone and make a phone call. 33:17.030 --> 33:24.193 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it is one thing to say you believe it and then it's another thing to do something. 33:24.273 --> 33:27.615 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm waiting to call me, why don't you be the bigger person? 33:29.549 --> 33:30.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Why don't you be a Christian? 33:32.111 --> 33:33.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't say that. 33:33.892 --> 33:35.713 [SPEAKER_00]: Give me that next that might seem small. 33:36.713 --> 33:40.716 [SPEAKER_00]: When Noah started building an art, it seemed small. 33:42.837 --> 33:44.338 [SPEAKER_00]: But it grew into this large thing. 33:44.418 --> 33:45.118 [SPEAKER_00]: People talked about it. 33:45.178 --> 33:51.782 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're talking about it when the rain came. 33:52.223 --> 33:56.205 [SPEAKER_00]: Your faithfulness might seem small, but we don't know what is repairing it. 33:57.687 --> 34:01.832 [SPEAKER_00]: The step might seek small, but you don't know what is preparing you for. 34:02.093 --> 34:04.656 [SPEAKER_00]: Abraham just went before he had every detail. 34:05.237 --> 34:08.581 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to have the perfect road map, you just have to say, yes, Lord. 34:10.744 --> 34:11.985 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd be willing to take this step. 34:13.287 --> 34:15.670 [SPEAKER_00]: The servants filled the water pots before they saw the water. 34:18.483 --> 34:23.367 [SPEAKER_00]: The man with a wither hands stretched me for he saw straight name and dip before he saw him. 34:24.488 --> 34:28.371 [SPEAKER_00]: The scripture is full of people who took action before he anything ever happened. 34:28.931 --> 34:34.395 [SPEAKER_00]: We wait for things to happen and then we say we're going to take action but the scriptures tell us something completely different. 34:34.575 --> 34:37.037 [SPEAKER_00]: He says you take action and then let God do the rest. 34:38.678 --> 34:40.980 [SPEAKER_00]: You step out and then he's going to meet you there. 34:41.521 --> 34:43.963 [SPEAKER_00]: You'd be faithful to take the first step and he's going to catch you. 34:44.223 --> 34:46.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Even when you feel like you're stepping off the cliff, 34:48.406 --> 34:54.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Even whenever you feel like you're stepping in the nothing he knows and he has you and he got you. 34:55.420 --> 34:57.704 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need enough strength to instance. 34:58.807 --> 34:59.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Just need one. 35:00.958 --> 35:01.398 [SPEAKER_00]: just need one. 35:02.339 --> 35:05.361 [SPEAKER_00]: God's gonna beat you and he's gonna give you authority. 35:05.421 --> 35:06.181 [SPEAKER_00]: He's already given to you. 35:07.362 --> 35:08.122 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna give you authority. 35:08.142 --> 35:08.923 [SPEAKER_00]: Believe the word. 35:10.063 --> 35:10.504 [SPEAKER_00]: See it. 35:11.544 --> 35:12.165 [SPEAKER_00]: Trust it. 35:12.985 --> 35:13.445 [SPEAKER_00]: Act on it. 35:14.286 --> 35:14.726 [SPEAKER_00]: See it. 35:15.406 --> 35:16.027 [SPEAKER_00]: Trust it. 35:16.407 --> 35:17.147 [SPEAKER_00]: And act on it. 35:17.808 --> 35:19.229 [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, I see the chair. 35:20.850 --> 35:21.770 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what it's made for. 35:23.851 --> 35:24.752 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what it's made. 35:25.893 --> 35:26.633 [SPEAKER_00]: I trust it. 35:27.914 --> 35:29.895 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it's strong enough to handle me. 35:30.911 --> 35:35.372 [SPEAKER_00]: But until I'm actually willing to sit in it, I don't actually trust it. 35:36.853 --> 35:37.513 [SPEAKER_00]: I just say I can. 35:39.133 --> 35:43.575 [SPEAKER_00]: Until I'm willing to rest in it, he can't even do what it's made to do. 35:44.015 --> 35:50.937 [SPEAKER_00]: What it's created to do, what it's therefore, hear me the Lord can't even fully do when you're alive, what He wants to do so you see it. 35:51.757 --> 35:53.537 [SPEAKER_00]: Trust it, and then you act on it. 35:54.578 --> 35:58.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see it, you trust it, and you act on it. 35:58.119 --> 35:59.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Then, he'll move it. 36:00.358 --> 36:02.319 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for downloading this podcast. 36:02.379 --> 36:06.220 [SPEAKER_00]: We trusted this message has blessed and encouraged and identified you. 36:06.680 --> 36:10.381 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you subscribe so you never miss a message here from Highbraze. 36:10.862 --> 36:18.824 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, you can follow us on social media, on Facebook and on Instagram, and don't forget to go subscribe to our YouTube channel. 36:19.424 --> 36:21.665 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back soon with another incredible message. 36:21.805 --> 36:23.646 [SPEAKER_00]: God bless you and have a great week.