1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:18,040 Javi Bible is going to be a few places this morning, but how 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,240 many is ready to take a ride in the Word this morning? 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,360 Proverbs chapter 3, verse five and six, if you'd stay in the 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:29,520 reading of the Word, very familiar passages of Scripture. 9 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,800 I'm preaching to you this morning, but I want to preach it 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,160 to you in a way it'll change your life. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,880 Amen. I found that just reading the 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,400 Bible sometimes didn't change my life, but when I begin to apply 13 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,520 it and I begin to live it, it changed my life. 14 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,440 Can somebody say Amen, We can read about trusting, we can read 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,760 about leaning. We can read about all of those 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,200 things, but life will throw you some curves sometimes and 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,400 there's sometimes that you have to practice what you read right 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:04,319 or practice what you preach. Proverbs chapter 3 and verse 5, 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,800 it says trust, say trust. So I know you're here this 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,280 morning. Trust in the Lord. 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,320 I love this not with some of your heart, but all of your 22 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:19,960 heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways 23 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,240 acknowledge Him and he shall direct your paths. 24 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,720 I like that we like to read verse 6 and all your ways. 25 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,720 Just say a little prayer and think about God and he'll he 26 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,480 will direct your paths, but that you got to put the verse 5 with 27 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,520 it. Trust in the Lord with all your 28 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,320 heart. I titled this today and lean not 29 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,320 on your own understanding, but in all of your ways. 30 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,240 Acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. 31 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,600 Father, we thank you for your word. 32 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,640 We thank you for the opportunity to preach your word once again. 33 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,080 We pray that you would touch it, You would anoint it, that you'd 34 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,560 give me the strength annoying to preach it as you showed it unto 35 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,920 me. It's in your Son's name, we 36 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,440 pray. Amen. 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:08,039 Lean not. It's hard not to lean sometimes. 38 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,600 We have all kinds of directions. We lean in. 39 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,800 We lean into doubt, we lean into fear. 40 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,720 Many lean into sin and things of the world. 41 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,680 It's hard many times to lean not. 42 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,520 But yet in Proverbs it says trust in the Lord with all your 43 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:25,880 heart. We're to lean on Christ. 44 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:27,520 We're to lean on the word of God. 45 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,560 But what he's talking about and what I'm talking about, go, 46 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:33,800 don't go tell somebody. The pastor said lean not on the 47 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,080 Lord. I'm saying lean not on your own 48 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,160 understanding. So if we're leaning not and 49 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,920 we're trusting, see many times we pray about things and many 50 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:47,200 people go as far as to fast about things, right? 51 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:51,800 And maybe they even move into the realm of faith and believing 52 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,280 some things in God, believing for that which you cannot see, 53 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,080 which is faith, right? So we step into that realm of 54 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,960 it, but yet do we really trust? There has to come a time that we 55 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,640 trust God, right? We've had the faith, we prayed 56 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:10,160 the prayer, we've read the word, we sing the song, but we have to 57 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,400 move into the realm of trusting God. 58 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,760 I want to look at this word trust a little bit in the 59 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,920 Hebrew. I, I like looking in the Hebrew 60 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:19,960 words a lot because sometimes they don't mean what we think 61 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,280 they mean translated into our English language. 62 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:28,120 But it has a huge meaning is to feel safe, to be confident. 63 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,760 That's what trusting is to, to feel safe, to be confident. 64 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,760 And it often implies an active physical surrender or a welding 65 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:38,880 to God. I like that. 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,920 You ever tried to cut something loose that's been welded really 67 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,640 good? It takes a little while and it's 68 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,640 really hard sometimes you, you might have to beat, you might 69 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:48,840 have to bang. And you know, I don't like 70 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,280 welding something up. I Weld a lot and I don't like 71 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,760 cutting it loose because it's hard. 72 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,720 Hey, man. And that's what this is saying 73 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,200 here. It's welded to God, welding 74 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,360 oneself to God. This this word in the Hebrew it 75 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,200 suggests what am I talking about? 76 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,640 Are y'all with me trusting the word trust? 77 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,440 It suggests us as to lie helpless like a baby. 78 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,360 I like that. Don't you to lie helpless like a 79 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,440 baby because you're trusting God, right? 80 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,040 And Jesus said that too. He said unless you become as a 81 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,880 little child and cast all your cares up on me and begin to 82 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,440 trust in me, Amen. He said that's how you enter 83 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,920 into the Kingdom of heaven. He said unless you become as a 84 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,800 little child, you may not get in the Kingdom of heaven, right? 85 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,200 So we have to be welded to God. We have to be laying helpless 86 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,480 like a baby, but yet entirely secure in the care of the 87 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,320 protector. I like that I'm in his care this 88 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,760 morning. How about you representing an 89 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,680 unshakable deep confidence in divine faithfulness? 90 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,400 That's what trust means. Are you trusting God this 91 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,480 morning? Are you leaning not on your own 92 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,880 understanding, but in all of your ways, trust in the Lord? 93 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,880 Psalms 37, three and four. Let's read that. 94 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,040 It's a good one too. The psalmist says in Psalms 37 95 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,800 chapters 3, verse three and four, it says, here it is again. 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,760 Say it with me, Trust in the Lord and do good. 97 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,360 Dwell in the land. We got to live in the land, so 98 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,680 why not feed off the faithfulness of God? 99 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,600 Delight yourself in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of 100 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,760 your heart. There that word is again trust 101 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:37,400 in the Lord and do good see we as we actively rely on God's 102 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,000 character while living righteously, something begins to 103 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,800 happen even when we're facing uncertain times. 104 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,880 Anybody facing uncertain times today and, and we all are. 105 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:54,920 See, trust encourages, it shifts us away from where can I say 106 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,040 that again? Trust, you need shifting away 107 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,560 from weary today. Amen. 108 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,480 We all worry, but trust encourages shifting us away from 109 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,160 weary to confidence in divine sovereignty. 110 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:13,800 Can I say that again? Trust encourages sifting us away 111 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,560 from weary to confidence in divine sovereignty. 112 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,400 If I came to you today and I said what does sovereignty mean? 113 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,200 You know, we know that God is omnipotent. 114 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,280 We we learn that God is sovereign. 115 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:28,000 He's all being but I want to look at this word in the Hebrew 116 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,680 before I get to preaching this morning. 117 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,560 Sovereignty in the Hebrew is an absolute who I got excited when 118 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,320 I read this. Something is absolutely you 119 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,520 know, you hear somebody get real serious. 120 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,880 They say absolutely, absolutely. I like to hunt Coon dogs. 121 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,520 You know, when a Coon dog barks real loud, you hear this big old 122 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,000 ball and before he locates and changes it over to a tree, you 123 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,040 know, you think, boy, there it is. 124 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,120 And I was hunting with a young man one time. 125 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,480 I had this dog. He would trick you. 126 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,000 He would give this big old ball. And then he's supposed to go, 127 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,480 oh, oh, oh, and that means he's got a Coon. 128 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,880 And if you're the competition hunt, you can tree him right 129 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,640 there, win the hunt. But see, he would give this big 130 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,240 A, He'd do it half the night. And I told this young boy, I 131 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,480 said, boy, He said, boy, that's nice. 132 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,520 Yeah. I said, boy, you hear that? 133 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,360 He said, yeah. And I said, you know what that 134 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,000 means? He said, yeah, I said, means 135 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,400 absolutely nothing. He does it all the time. 136 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,280 Don't mean anything, absolute nothing. 137 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,960 But see, in this word of sovereignty, it means absolute 138 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,640 dominion and kingship. Isn't that cool? 139 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,240 God is sovereign. He has absolute dominion over 140 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,720 not just you and I, not just over church denominations, not 141 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,200 just over our leadership, but everything. 142 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,080 That's what sovereignty of God is. 143 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,960 He's got absolute dominion and kingship, and it is rightful 144 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,560 authority. Isn't that powerful? 145 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,720 God has rightful authority. See Satan. 146 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:03,680 He has authority over many in this world, but it's not 147 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,520 rightful authority. He has no right to come in and 148 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,760 take anything from us because Jesus Christ at the cross of 149 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,960 Calvary, He placed him under the soles of our feet. 150 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Hey man, so Satan, when he comes upon you and he's attacking you, 151 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,520 he has no rightful authority. So you got to realize that you 152 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,840 serve a sovereign God that has rightful authority because He 153 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,560 sent His only begotten Son to planet earth that died upon an 154 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,360 old rugged cross and shed His blood for you and I that we can 155 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,240 have the right to enter into this kinship. 156 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,280 And not only did He go to the cross, but he went farther than 157 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,039 that. He went to an old tomb. 158 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,080 Amen. And on the third day He walked 159 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,360 out of that old tomb, and he went farther than the tomb. 160 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,720 He appeared to many with signs, wonders, and miracles. 161 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,560 And then he ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand 162 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:56,080 of the Father. And he's making intercession for 163 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,440 you and I. That's rightful authority. 164 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,760 Amen. What has the devil ever done? 165 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,120 Caused me a lot of heartache, caused me a lot of worry because 166 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,600 I want to. I want to give him some 167 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,560 authority. He has no authority. 168 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:13,280 Hey, man, I have to remind him on a daily basis. 169 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,720 Enemy, you have no authority in my life. 170 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,400 I have a rightful authority with Jesus Christ and I have a blood 171 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,040 covenant that I entered in that he poured on my life and he has 172 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,440 no authority. Whoa. 173 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,040 Somebody ought to be out of their seat. 174 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,360 We have a rightful authority. He has rightful authority to 175 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,720 come to this earth. And what did Jesus say He came 176 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,760 for? To seek and save that which was 177 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,160 lost. And He's commanded us to do the 178 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,040 same thing. And he ascended back to heaven 179 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,280 and he sat down at the right hand of his father. 180 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,120 And it didn't end there, thank God. 181 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,760 He said, because I'm going to the right hand of the Father and 182 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,000 I'm going to sit down. I'm going to send you something 183 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,040 powerful that that, that then when I was on this earth called 184 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,880 the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. I'm going to send it back to 185 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,600 planet earth. And I'm going to show you some 186 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,040 signs and some wonders and miracles. 187 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,680 And if you'll just believe in me, these signs, wonders and 188 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:08,760 miracles will follow you. He said, I'm going to teach you 189 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,160 things to come man, and I'm going to bring you into all 190 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,000 wisdom and all knowledge and understanding of my word. 191 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,440 You're not going to be this little confused, dumb Christian 192 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,280 running around not knowing what the Bible says and not 193 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,800 understanding the Bible. Never let your ears hear your 194 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,880 mouth say I don't understand the Bible. 195 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,520 I may not right now, but I'm going to dig and I'm going to 196 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,560 seek the Holy Ghost and I'm understand what it says about my 197 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:36,760 situation. Somebody ought to say a man, you 198 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:41,080 can trust him this morning, but you can't trust him if you're 199 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:42,560 leaning on your own understanding. 200 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,000 Can't do it. It's not going to happen. 201 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,960 But you see, church, it's hard to trust when you lean on your 202 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,040 own understanding. Many think it's about 203 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,040 understanding. This Christian walk preached a 204 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,600 message one time, real country Hick message. 205 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,600 It ain't no thinking thing. Hey man, this ain't no thinking 206 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,000 thing. If you got to think about 207 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,040 serving God, guess what, you're not serving Him because the 208 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,400 enemy's in your thought process and he's fixing to Jack you all 209 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,840 up and mess you all up, and it ain't no thinking thing. 210 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,600 I don't, I'm going to thank God. I ain't got to get up in the 211 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,960 morning and think, Well, am I going to serve God or the devil 212 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,080 that it ain't no thinking thing. I settled that a long time ago. 213 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,400 Hey, man, it ain't no thinking thing. 214 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,160 I wake up, say, God, what we going to do today? 215 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,320 Whoo, what are we going to do today? 216 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,280 I don't understand it. I don't understand it. 217 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,200 For most, it's like this. They try to understand it. 218 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,480 They spend a lifetime trying to understand it, trying to fight 219 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,120 with their denomination about what they can and can't do. 220 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,880 I found God to let me do about anything I want to do, as long 221 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,800 as he's involved. Hey, man. 222 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,720 And it don't go against his word. 223 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:00,920 You say anything you want to do. Yeah. 224 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,120 Because see, there's some things change in my life when I got 225 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,040 born again that I don't want to do. 226 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,800 So the things the world's battling with and want to do, 227 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,840 guess what? I don't want to do them anymore. 228 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,920 Why? Because I trust. 229 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,960 I trust, but I don't understand it. 230 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:25,680 It's where most hang out. Show me and I will believe God. 231 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:29,280 Do something. God bless me, give me something. 232 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,240 For most, they're not wanting anything spiritual. 233 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,160 Hello. We talk about blessing. 234 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,120 It's very seldom in the intellect of the mind. 235 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,760 Come on, somebody does. Does bless me mean spiritual in 236 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,400 the church anymore? It's material, physical, 237 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,680 financial. But yet the word of God says 238 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:52,880 many are the afflictions of the righteous. 239 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,760 But God knows how to deliver us out of them all. 240 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,240 Bless me Lord, and I'll follow. No, He says, follow me and I 241 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,120 will bless you. See, that's the first thing we 242 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,280 have to we have to remember, am I the only one that has things 243 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,040 going on their life this morning that they don't understand? 244 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,480 But you'll drive yourself crazy trying to understand. 245 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,320 I just choose to not understand anymore the Holy Spirit. 246 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,080 A few weeks ago I was praying and praying for brother. 247 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,680 I don't understand why someone has to go through what he went 248 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:24,600 through. I can't even understand 249 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,000 especially some, you know, I was praying to God. 250 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I said God, I deal with people every day. 251 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,080 They're able bodied and they got all these excuses of why they 252 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,000 can't get up and why they can't go to work when there's a job on 253 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,480 every corner and they can find a way to provide for their self 254 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,560 and their family and help their self esteem. 255 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,680 And all my brother wants is a chance. 256 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:45,600 A man, I'd go see him with tubes hanging all out of him. 257 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,520 And he said I just got to get back to work. 258 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,960 I want to get back to do it. So I'm tired of laying here. 259 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,320 But yeah, those people that can that just waste their life on 260 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,480 their excuse and what's going on with it? 261 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,400 I don't understand it. I said, God, all my brother 262 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,040 wants is a chance. Would you give him a chance? 263 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:09,480 I said I don't understand it. Hey man, the Holy Spirit a few 264 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,800 weeks nights ago and I was praying that weeks ago it spoke 265 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,000 to me and he said this and you don't have to understand 266 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:17,880 somebody needs that this morning. 267 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,600 You don't have to understand. You just got to trust you got to 268 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:28,720 trust Isaiah chapter 55 verse 8 and 9 since for my thoughts are 269 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,720 not your thoughts. Don't look at your wife and 270 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:38,280 repeat that my thoughts are not your thoughts. 271 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,080 You know when you get born again, the thoughts that you 272 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,320 used to have, they're not your thoughts anymore. 273 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,720 They may enter into your mind, but they're not yours because 274 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,560 they have no rightful authority to beware in your mind, because 275 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:58,200 you now have what the mind of Christ, so that it may enter in, 276 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,000 but it has no rightful authority. 277 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,760 And I have to count down and count that, cast down 278 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,320 imaginations and every stronghold that enters into my 279 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,280 mind and take it captive, right? That's what the apostle Paul 280 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,520 said, lest it becomes a part of me. 281 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,680 And I have to bring down all those things and bring them 282 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,840 under the authority in the submission of God. 283 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,920 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor my ways or your 284 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,360 ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher 285 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,480 than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. 286 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,160 See, we can understand the things of God. 287 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,040 If God could give you His purpose and plan for your life 288 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,720 today and what he really had for us that we're missing, we 289 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,040 wouldn't understand it. We wouldn't go do it most 290 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,240 because there's so much higher than our thoughts, right? 291 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,880 The more the closer I get to God, the more I realize, the 292 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,920 less I understand. I, I guess I'm backwards for 293 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,000 most preachers, they seem to be the senior pastor and have it 294 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,560 all figured out. I'm not that guy. 295 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,440 Hey man, I'm figuring it out every time I step up here. 296 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,680 I was sitting in the middle of traffic the other day and Friday 297 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,560 when I when I seen brother and went and prayed with him and I 298 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,040 was sitting there at this red light. 299 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,080 And if you ever go over there, it's a different world to me. 300 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,920 It's a world I don't want no part of, but I'm setting 301 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,560 downtown with all the buildings and my wife is hooked up to a 302 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,760 chemo and fusion. And I said I'm going to run, see 303 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,560 my brother because I know he's not doing good. 304 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,000 I want to pray with him. And so I'm trying to get over 305 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,280 there and I'm sitting at a red light and this phone's talking 306 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:36,440 to me. Turn this way. 307 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,000 And I know I need to turn that way. 308 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,200 I like to argue with it. I just got this sense of 309 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,240 direction that God give me and it's very, it's wrong sometimes, 310 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,040 but that's my wife. But the older I get, the more 311 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,960 it's getting wrong. But I always know which way I'm 312 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,920 going most time N SE or West. The problem is they change 313 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,080 directions to some of them streets over the years and they 314 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:58,920 they don't go the same direction. 315 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,760 But I'm sitting there and I'm thinking about all these things 316 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,240 and going, how do I pray with my brother that's been in here? 317 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,280 How God, what do you give me? And I'm sitting in a red light 318 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,800 and trying to understand and the Spirit of the Lord is still 319 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,480 speaking to me. Don't, you don't have to 320 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:23,640 understand, just trust distrust. And as I'm sitting there at this 321 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,760 red light, I see this thing come by me turning. 322 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,880 I look and it's got propellers on the top of it just to spin 323 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,520 it. It's got things on the side of 324 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,760 it, just a flopping. And I look and there's nobody in 325 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,840 it. Traveler's car. 326 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,080 I hadn't seen one like it, but I'm sitting there looking at it 327 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,800 and I think, is this thing going to hit me who's driving a nobody 328 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:53,960 in it and it knew the turn when the light that zooms by me, I'm 329 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:59,640 like, Lord, I heard my dad say one time he said I've outlived 330 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,080 my time. I'm understanding that 331 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:08,880 statement, but I see this car go by and I and I'm already being 332 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,880 told by the Holy Ghost to trust going to pray for somebody that 333 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,640 you really don't know if God wants them to go on the glory, 334 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,360 pray against the plan of God or God wants to heal them and and 335 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,520 and keep them lit the mind just sometimes go God saying trust. 336 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,080 I said Lord, I trust, but that car ain't got nobody in it. 337 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,280 You give wisdom too. Surely people got no sense not 338 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:38,040 to turn a loose car on the road. God I do trust, but I got wisdom 339 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:47,560 and then I hear lean not so I lean not on my own understanding 340 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,520 and went on and prayed with my brother and pick my wife up, did 341 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,240 what I was there to do. And I'm not leaning on my own 342 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,200 understanding. But I, but you know, later on 343 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,120 the Holy Spirit spoke to me about that. 344 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,280 And because I, I mean, I'm against it, I'll tell you 345 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,840 somebody not driving a car or a big truck. 346 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,360 But you know what the Holy Spirit told me later, He said, 347 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:14,200 I've given human beings a head, some of them the size of a 348 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,120 softball, some of them a basketball. 349 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,600 God's humorous. And he said I've given them 350 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,880 enough brain in there and enough sense that yes, they can drive a 351 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,560 car. I just had this thought, you 352 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,880 know, I thought they were just talking, he said. 353 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,600 But they got something in their hand that causes them not to use 354 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,280 anybody guilty their brain at all. 355 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,800 So I've created something that has more intellect and is more 356 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,520 responsible than what I created to do what I put it on this 357 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,960 earth to do. But yet it's so distracted 358 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:58,840 talking about us that that driverless car has probably has 359 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,040 less percentage of having an accident than my children do 360 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:08,000 with distraction. I thought that could be true. 361 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:13,400 Lean not. On your own understanding, but 362 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,200 in all thy ways acknowledge him. I still don't agree with the 363 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:18,960 space shot. I thought it was a storm chaser. 364 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,080 I thought matter we under tornado watch or what they got 365 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,960 all these deals on this. That's my first thought. 366 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,600 It's a storm chaser car, but no one was a driverless car and 367 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,080 they're doing them with big trucks. 368 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,400 We're to lean on Jesus, but we're never to lean on our what 369 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,680 our own understanding. Trust in the Lord with all your 370 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,760 heart. Somebody getting this this 371 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,160 morning, lean not on your own understanding, but in all your 372 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,840 ways. Acknowledge Him and he shall 373 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,120 direct your paths. I think of the paths that he's 374 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:51,600 directed in my life, Man, I'm glad I was trusted. 375 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,640 Man, I'm glad I was leaning. See, when I lean on my own 376 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:02,560 understanding and I begin to trust God, I move into a 377 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:09,640 different realm of faith. See that cars more focused on a 378 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:15,640 task than I can be because it has one goal in mind. 379 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,640 What would life be like if we quit focusing on all the tasks 380 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,080 and begin to focus on what God has for us? 381 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,560 What would the church be like if we entered into the doors and 382 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,120 didn't worry about somebody playing off key or the preacher 383 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,480 getting the word wrong? Hello. 384 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,040 But we come in and say God, what are you trying to teach me 385 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,560 today? What are you trying to show me 386 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,640 today? Where do you want me? 387 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:44,520 I think of a story that I heard years ago and many modern day 388 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,920 preachers have preached this story, but I heard it when I was 389 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,600 a little kid by an old Pentecostal preacher and I've 390 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,040 never forgot it. It's, it's been preached by a 391 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:56,280 lot of people, different sermons, but it's about a story 392 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,600 of a young man and his grandfather, which was an old 393 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,400 farmer. And he had this old barn out 394 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,960 there. And from the time the boy was 395 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,240 young till he got a little bit older, he, he would fall over it 396 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,440 off and trip over these posts that the old farmer had cut 397 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,920 because the barn was leaning a little bit. 398 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,440 And he had cut the post to just the right angle and propped them 399 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,600 up against this barn. And the barn was leaning and the 400 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,400 old posts were always in the way. 401 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,800 And the kid asked his grandpa one day. 402 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,080 He said, I've not known for years what these old poles are 403 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,560 for, but they're up against this barn. 404 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,000 And his grandpa tells him the story. 405 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,400 He said, well, son, there was a time I didn't have enough money 406 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,120 to build a barn and I had cattle and I had things I had to put in 407 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,040 that barn. And he said that barn was 408 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,160 leaning. So he said I cut those poles and 409 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,760 I took him on the lean inside of that barn and he said I, I 410 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:55,280 propped it up and he said that barn's lasted a long time. 411 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,080 How many's got to lean inside this morning? 412 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,400 See, we lean on our own understanding and in most of our 413 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,960 ways, if I could rewrite that scripture to fit us today, we 414 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,320 don't acknowledge God. He don't direct our paths 415 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,080 because we have leaned on our own understanding and we've not 416 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,880 trusted God, right? So he's not directing our paths. 417 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,400 The leadership of our country, you could transfer it to them 418 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,600 and say, oh, they're leading us in a godly direction. 419 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,320 Not if they're leaning on their own understanding, not if 420 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,400 they're not trusting God. They're not. 421 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,200 It may be the best for your pocketbook. 422 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:37,160 We're so dumb now. We follow leadership and they 423 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,600 say, oh, it's going to get better. 424 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,760 And then we pay $5 a gallon for gas. 425 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,000 But boy, we lean on their understanding. 426 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,240 I'm just being honest with you. I like results. 427 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,600 Go ahead and laugh. But this young man, he said, I 428 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,440 still don't understand. Why didn't you just build 429 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,280 another one? You know, I begin to think about 430 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,680 that story. I need propping up on my lean 431 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,480 inside sometimes because I lean on my own understanding. 432 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,360 Y'all don't do that do you? I lean on my own understanding 433 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,600 and I get all messed up and then to me tries to get in my mind 434 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,680 and make me lean on my own understanding. 435 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,320 God can prop you up on your leaning side. 436 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,800 He said I've propped that old barn up years ago and he said 437 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,840 you know how many storms it's kept off my cattle? 438 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,120 You know how many storms that it's led me through? 439 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,440 See if we'll let God prop us up on our leaning side and lean not 440 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,600 on our own understanding, but in all of our ways. 441 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,120 Acknowledge Him. You may be leaning, you may be 442 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:47,480 broken a little bit, but He can prop you up when you begin to 443 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,320 not lean on your own understanding. 444 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,200 Everybody said tear the barn down, but the old man said no, 445 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,480 it's still got some use in it. Aren't you glad when God found 446 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,200 you? When Jesus come into your life, 447 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,720 He just props you up on your leaning side. 448 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,000 Everyone thought it was finished, it was done with, but 449 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,120 it's still held a purpose. God prop us up on our leaning 450 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:11,640 side. But in First Corinthians 1 and 451 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,680 18 it said for the message of the cross is foolishness to 452 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:21,360 those who are perishing. You ever remember a time in your 453 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,680 life when the message of the cross was foolishness? 454 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,680 You didn't want to hear it. You thought that doing things in 455 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,720 this life was more important than what that ain't giving time 456 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,400 to God. The message of the cross is 457 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,760 foolishness to those who are perishing but to those of us who 458 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:44,280 I love this right here. But to those who are what we got 459 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,680 a lot of Christians that like to walk around. 460 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:51,120 I'm saved what Paul said but to those of us who are being saved. 461 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:57,520 Hey man, daily to those of us who are being, it feels real 462 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,240 good to the mind and the intellect to say, oh, I'm saved, 463 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,680 I'm saved. We really encourage ourself for 464 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,040 that. But I'd rather say, you know 465 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,440 what, without Christ, I'm nothing. 466 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:14,720 I'm saved, but I'm being saved from glory to glory, from 467 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,080 victory to victory, he said. But to the for the message of 468 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,880 the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to 469 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,240 us who are being saved, it's the power of God. 470 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,800 Isn't that powerful? It will destroy. 471 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:35,560 In Corinthians 1, I think it's it goes on to say that it will 472 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:40,080 destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the 473 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:44,120 understanding of the prudence. Anybody know what that word 474 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:44,760 means? There? 475 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,520 They're prude. Prima Donna, I guess, is the way 476 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,120 that I always thought of it. But prudent in the gree, in the 477 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:56,680 Hebrew and the Greek is to behave wisely, to show 478 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,760 discernment. You know, a lot of people show 479 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,920 discernment, but they don't have discernment, right? 480 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,480 They show it by telling other people what they should do or 481 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,480 what they think they should see. And I'll never forget one time 482 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,720 we was in a prayer line, me and my wife, and there was everybody 483 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,120 was all hyped up because there was a new evangelist that came 484 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,480 and he'd been doing all these things and he'd come by and laid 485 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,880 hands on us and prophesied over us. 486 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,800 And you know, what he prophesied was absolutely nothing that was 487 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,360 going on in our life at the time. 488 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:26,800 I didn't say, hey, you're wrong, bro. 489 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,720 I just like, well, maybe Miss God, I don't know, He was 490 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,400 showing discernment, but that's what this says. 491 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,440 He says I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to 492 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:43,440 nothing the understanding of the prudent, to behave wisely, to 493 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:50,200 show discernment, have insight or prosper through intelligent 494 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,760 action. That's prudent. 495 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,840 And then the Word of God says that He will bring that down. 496 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,840 1st Corinthians 1 and 27 it says, But God has chosen the 497 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,560 what? The foolish things of the world 498 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,640 to put to shame the wise. And God has chosen the weak 499 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:13,840 things of the world to put to shame the things which are might 500 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,480 lean not on your own understanding, but in all your 501 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,520 ways acknowledge him. Can I tell you then this 502 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,880 Christian walk, that we walk in this faith walk, don't even call 503 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,920 it a Christian walk anymore because I'm not sure what a 504 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,440 Christian is. The biblical definition of it is 505 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,160 to be Christ like. But I see a lot of people 506 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,400 professing to be Christians that aren't Christ like. 507 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:43,920 Can I get a witness? But you must never come to a 508 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,480 place that in all of your ways you do not acknowledge him. 509 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,080 I've been there. I've not acknowledged God in all 510 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,120 of our ways, and we still do it many times, you know, and when 511 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,680 we're, you know, a good place to be is when we're really wanting 512 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,760 something in the flesh. Anybody ever really wanted 513 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,800 something, you just didn't want to pray about it? 514 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,200 I'm just going to get it, just going to do it anybody. 515 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,720 I only need to know that you wasn't supposed to do it in all 516 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:19,000 your ways. Acknowledge Him and He shall 517 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,800 direct your paths. And I'm going to close on this 518 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,480 note. There was a young man one time 519 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,600 and I got a call this week. I told this story years ago and 520 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,240 somebody asked me, brought it back to my memory to I guess I 521 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,000 was preaching and told they want to hear it. 522 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,600 There was a young man and his grandfather was fishing. 523 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,240 He was a teenage boy and he was trying to figure out how to 524 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,960 acknowledge God. How do you acknowledge God? 525 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,480 Well, I know he's the creator of the universe. 526 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,120 I know that God exists. Is that acknowledging God? 527 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,360 Not really. It's acknowledging who he is. 528 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,920 He saved my soul and I'm thankful for years ago when I 529 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,720 prayed the sinner's prayer and he baptized me and I got 530 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,600 baptized and I've been forgiven. And is that acknowledging God or 531 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,320 acknowledging what he did? Few questions that I have and my 532 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:20,840 question today is in the times that we live and the 533 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,240 distractions that I shared earlier that are so prevalent in 534 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:29,240 life today, how do you get people to acknowledge God in all 535 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,640 their ways? But back to this grandpa and 536 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,760 this young teenage boy that were fishing and they were sitting 537 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,560 there by the Creek and this boy was battling with everything 538 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,960 that teenagers battle with. And his grandpa had been talking 539 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,360 to him about the Lord and he said, he said, grandpa, he said, 540 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,200 I've heard you talk about that stuff since I was a kid. 541 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,480 And he said, I just come to tell you today, I can't do it. 542 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,600 I can't live for this God that you're talking about. 543 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,120 And I begin to ponder on that. When I got asked to to to tell 544 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,920 someone the story, they wanted to tell it to the youth group. 545 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,320 And the young boy was sitting there. 546 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,000 He said, I'm just giving. I can't do it. 547 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,160 There's no way. An old man was old, but he was 548 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,360 still strong, and the kid had a little mullet. 549 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,640 I used to love the mullets. You know, when you got to fight 550 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:21,800 with somebody, you get a hold of them. 551 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,680 I was little. I had to cheat. 552 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,440 I had the mullets were good, good holders, you know, I'll 553 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,800 give you a little leverage. But he had this mullet and his 554 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,160 grandpa grabbed him, twisted that mullet up in the back of 555 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,920 his hand and he got him down there by the Creek and he just 556 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,960 dunked him, boy. And he held him to how that boy 557 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:41,960 was breathing. He was. 558 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,040 He'd let him up. He'd stick him back under. 559 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,960 After about the third time he's about to pass out, he just held 560 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,080 him under. He'd come. 561 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,640 You like to kill me, Grandpa, he said. 562 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,640 When you hunger and thirst after the things of God and you hunger 563 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,120 after righteousness like you did that breath of air, he said 564 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:11,080 you'll be able to live for God. And when I told that man, he's 565 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,720 teaching a youth group that he's just started and he, he confides 566 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,400 in me for some stories and some things from time to time. 567 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,560 And I sit there and pondered on that. 568 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,480 And that's a true story. If we could hunger and thirst 569 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:30,520 after God like we do a breath of air, then we could trust, then 570 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,160 we could lean not on our own understanding. 571 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:40,360 But how do you get somebody, How do you get young people today to 572 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,600 hunger? Prayed for hours about this, 573 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:45,840 this way? How do you get them? 574 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,200 How do you get grown-ups to hunger? 575 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,160 Minnie's hungry right now, but it's for the Mexican food place. 576 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,280 How do we get that? If there's one thing I thank God 577 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,720 every day for, because I pray with so many people that do not 578 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,520 have it that do not have it, I can be over driving down to be 579 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,960 here in in a, you know, in a truck with somebody and turn a 580 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,800 song on and they just sit there and I got tears running down my 581 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,960 eyes. They do not have that. 582 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,040 I pray that God imparts that, but I thank God, no matter how 583 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,680 hard as you stand your feet that your life gets, if you're in the 584 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,440 House of God today, there's something that brought you here. 585 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,880 There was something that pulled you to the House of God today. 586 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,920 You are to give up on everything in life that's bothering you 587 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,720 right now and just thank Him. Thank him that I didn't lean on 588 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,400 my own understanding today, but I acknowledge you in you and I 589 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,880 thank you for that. God, I don't know if you what 590 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,960 you call it. I hadn't come up with the word 591 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,440 for it because all I know is he said I place within everyone. 592 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,840 Only scripture I've found that kind of backs it up is he says I 593 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,800 place within everyone a measure of the spirit. 594 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,640 So he says it's in everybody. But but you know the thing I if 595 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,520 you don't find somewhere some way to feed it and so many 596 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,840 aren't going to the House of God today and here in biblical 597 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,280 teaching. So I believe God is relying on 598 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,560 us, a man out in the world to put something within somebody. 599 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,199 But the problem is the Christian today hadn't acknowledged God in 600 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:29,159 all their ways. They have not quit leaning on 601 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,800 their own understanding and just doing what the Bible says. 602 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,320 And most Christians aren't living holy and pleasing to God. 603 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,159 So when the young people see us falling and stumbling and 604 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:43,440 allowing things into our life that God said don't need to be 605 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,719 there, what how do we get that hunger? 606 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,000 I think it's placed upon us sometimes that they see the 607 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,600 things of God in our life. They see the miracles of God in 608 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,520 our life and they begin to want some of it, Amen. 609 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,880 I know when I was in the rodeo world, I LED more people to the 610 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,640 Lord by just living it. They've come up semantic. 611 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,040 It seems that this stuff don't shake you. 612 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,640 It seems that you just keep living. 613 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,280 I won't want to know what makes you do it. 614 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,360 I said it's all about the blood, Amen? 615 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,120 When you realize that there was a Savior that died for you, that 616 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,120 can cleanse you, that can give you something better than 617 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,360 anything. Anything that your eyes seen or 618 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,120 your ear is heard or your mind can imagine. 619 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,560 The Bible says that's what's laid up for us. 620 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,920 Neither eyes seen, ear is heard nor has it been revealed to the 621 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,160 heart of the man for what God has waiting for those that love 622 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,720 him. My Mama, God help us to not 623 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,160 lean. Say it with me. 624 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:52,160 Lean not on your own understanding, go practice it. 625 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,960 Thanks for listening. To the Cross Power Church 626 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,120 Podcast May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can 627 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,960 only be found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 628 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,120 would love for you to join us in person. 629 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,680 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.