1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,240 Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,840 gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,520 heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,600 changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,760 Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,840 life. Let's join the service already 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,440 Acts chapter 27, Let's start at verse #31. 11 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,200 And Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,280 these abide in the ship, you cannot be saved. 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,640 Verse 32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:06,040 let her fall off. 33 And while the day was coming on, Paul the 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:11,680 apostle besought them all to take me, saying, This day is the 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,600 14th day that you have tarried and continued fasting, having 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,360 taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take 18 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,480 some meat, for this is for your health, for there shall not a 19 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,480 hair fall from the head of any of you. 35 And when he had thus 20 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:32,080 spoken, he took bread and gave thanks to God in presence of 21 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,800 them all. And when he hadn't broken it, he 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:41,920 began to eat. 36 Then were they all of good cheer? 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,320 Help me out, somebody say Good cheer, good cheer, good cheer. 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:52,600 And they also took some meat. 37 And we were all in the ship. 203 25 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,320 score and 16 souls. And when they had eaten enough, 26 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,160 they lightened the ship, and cast off the wheat into the sea. 27 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,080 And when it was day, they knew not the land, but they 28 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:10,440 discovered a certain Creek with a shore into the which they were 29 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,560 minded, if it were possible to thrust in the ship. 30 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,560 Verse 40. Here's where I really want to 31 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,680 be. And then they had taken up the 32 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,080 anchors. They committed themselves unto 33 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,720 the sea, and loosen the rooter bands, and hoist up the main 34 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,760 sail to the wind, and made towards shore. 41 And falling 35 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:37,240 into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground, and 36 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,760 the four parts stuck fast and remained unmovable. 37 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,800 But the hinder part, the hanged part, was broken with the 38 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,800 violence of the waves. 42 And the soldiers Council was to kill 39 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,480 the prisoners. Any of them should swim out and 40 00:02:54,480 --> 00:03:00,520 escape. 43 But this interior, and willing to say Paul, kept 41 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,680 them from their purpose, and commanded that they that which 42 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,080 could swim should cast themselves first into the sea 43 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:15,000 and get to the land. 44 and the rest, the rest, the rest, some 44 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,480 on boards and some unbroken pieces of the ship. 45 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:26,080 And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land the 46 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,280 word of God for the people of God. 47 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,440 Thanks be unto God. I just want to jump in for a few 48 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,920 moments into the ship and I'm going to preach from the 49 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:37,360 thought. Somehow I made it. 50 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,480 OK, I don't like your response. Help me. 51 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,840 I'll turn to a neighbor. Say neighbor, somehow I made it. 52 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,520 Somehow I made it. My dear brothers and sisters, 53 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,600 life has a way of taking you into storms. 54 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,320 Storms you didn't schedule Sister Shirley matter of fact, 55 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,360 mother Gordine seasons you didn't see coming and battles 56 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,040 you didn't even volunteer for. But somehow, somehow, somehow, 57 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:10,520 Sister Shay, somehow by the grace of God, you, me, I, us, we 58 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:17,880 uses, we're still here. Not because life was easy, not 59 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,320 because the journey was smooth as the penny, not because the 60 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,360 ship held everything together, but simply this. 61 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,360 The testimony is like this. I made it because everything 62 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,720 worked out. I made it because God carried me 63 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,280 through what fell upon my dear brothers and sisters. 64 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,720 That's where we find ourselves in between the black and white 65 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:47,280 pages of the book before you and a moment of time and a season in 66 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:49,760 the sailboat that seemed to be falling apart. 67 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,960 Let's read it together. Acts chapter 27 verse #41 You 68 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,200 got your Bible? Jump on board. 69 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,720 I feel like rolling just a little bit. 70 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:05,000 It says I'm falling into a place where two seas met. 71 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,200 They ran the ship aground. Let me stop right there. 72 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,360 The text teaches us 3 movements to which I think we all should 73 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,400 look at a three lessons, should I say. 74 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,040 Such a shame. The very first lesson for your 75 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,040 notes, Mother Spurgeon. Good to see you today. 76 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,640 Is it broke? But that's where God began. 77 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,440 I said to Shelly, he didn't like my first point. 78 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:29,960 I'm I'm going to say it again. I'm going to say it again for 79 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,240 the person online. I said it broke. 80 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,520 But that's where God began. Look, look, look, look, look, 81 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,040 look at the text. Look at the text. 82 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:44,440 Acts chapter 27, verse 41 a look simple until you sit with it. 83 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,760 It looks simple until you pray through it. 84 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,040 It even looks simple until you wrestle with it. 85 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,120 And then suddenly the verse opens up with so much meeting 86 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:02,360 shape because the ship didn't break in calm water, it broke 87 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,040 where 2 seeds met. That's not just geography, 88 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:12,160 that's really the study of God or theology in motion because 89 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:17,200 this is the place of collision, where currents clash and crash, 90 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,600 where life pulls in two directions at once. 91 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:28,440 The text says Acts chapter 27, verse 41 and falling into a 92 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:35,520 place, a place, a place where two seas met 2 seas met Monday. 93 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,000 Brothers and sisters, I want to let you know that breaking does 94 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,280 not happen anywhere. Breaking happens where God 95 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,200 allows. OK, I'm going to make sure you 96 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,840 still in the room with me. I said breaking does not happen 97 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,040 anywhere, but breaking happens where God allows. 98 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:56,000 There is a place, yeah, where purpose meets pressure, 99 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,320 recalling meets meets cost and where faith meets fatigue. 100 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,880 And that that there's even a place where forward progress 101 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,640 meets resistance. Come here. 102 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,240 You had, like you never had any resistance before. 103 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,560 But I want to let you know that this isn't random breaking, but 104 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,400 look at the text. It's really orchestrated 105 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,080 breaking, some breaking. Some breaking would have killed 106 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,720 them in the deep, but God let it happen near the shore. 107 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,720 My dear brothers and sisters, please understand that the 108 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,400 breaking is discomforting, but breaking position them. 109 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,200 And for some of us, as we have sat through here and you've 110 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,160 thought about whether or not to give your testimony for 2025, 111 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,080 the truth of the matter is you was going through in your mind 112 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,840 about some of the breakings, some of the breakings that that 113 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,760 actually felt discomforting but positioned you differently. 114 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,960 And I'm going to let you know that God allowed this ship to 115 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:58,080 break in a place where survival was still possible. 116 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,600 I said God allowed the ship to break in a place where survival 117 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,440 was still possible. And God does not always allow, 118 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,760 He does not always save the ship. 119 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,440 Sometimes He allows what carries us to break so he can mature. 120 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:19,560 But He is forming in US. I think I better work through 121 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,760 here. The breaking point is not the 122 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,400 end. It is often the birth place of 123 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,200 becoming. Help me out. 124 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,800 Turn to your neighbor and say neighbor. 125 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,000 I don't like the voice. Say neighbor, you're becoming. 126 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,360 You are becoming. And, and I know you see wrinkles 127 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,600 on your face right now, but you're becoming. 128 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,480 And I know you still don't see commas in your bank account, but 129 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,920 you're becoming. And I know you still got some 130 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,040 sleepless nights, but you're becoming. 131 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,880 I know you still got the same clothes from 1945, but you're 132 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,400 becoming I want to let you know that you're becoming you're 133 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,240 becoming you're becoming you're becoming and the text says here 134 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,320 and that's chapter 27, verse 41 and verse 40. 135 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:13,080 I'm sorry verse 41 that they ran the ship aground. 136 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,160 They ran the ship aground. That's forward motion. 137 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:18,800 Check this out Mother Thornerson. 138 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:26,360 It stopped that that's that's momentum frozen and what's once 139 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,000 carried the could not carry them anymore. 140 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,840 The text says the ship ran the ground. 141 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:35,280 Let me drop some revelation on you real quick. 142 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,000 When you said in this text you realized that God didn't fail 143 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,960 them, He redirected them. This was an abandonment. 144 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,800 This was divine interruption because sometimes God will let 145 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,040 the vessel break so that the people he is forming will not. 146 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,560 Hallelujah. OK, you don't like my little 147 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:58,800 point. It's all right that it's not 148 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,760 human shrimp. This is really God's sovereignty 149 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,440 because to run aground means to be lodged into resistance. 150 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,600 It means to be forced into steelness. 151 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,080 It means to be pressed into a stop by out side force. 152 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,200 My dear brothers and sisters, if you want to be honest to 153 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,200 yourself, it's all cool. I'll be honest out loud. 2025 154 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,560 felt like I had ran the ground, felt like I had found myself 155 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:34,560 harbored in resistance and and forced into a steel place. 156 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,480 And stop not by my. Own desire, but by outside 157 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,760 force. And it's because of that, my new 158 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,720 brothers and sisters, I think it is. 159 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,160 It is only fair to share with you that it wasn't an accidental 160 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,080 pause. The text really teaches us that 161 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:55,720 it was divinely, divinely, divinely the ship arrested in 162 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,160 motion. Let me pour this in your teeth 163 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,160 so you can sip on this while you think about this message. 164 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:07,240 Sometimes God doesn't ask you to slow down, He makes the ship 165 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:15,640 stop so your soul can breathe. OK, OK, OK, you, you might, you 166 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,840 might have been like one of the persons on the ship and found 167 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,320 yourself and thinking the ground stopped you, but God really was 168 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,880 protecting you from going further on momentum without 169 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,200 maturity. OK, if I can take a short TV 170 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,760 commercial break, I need to call your attention. 171 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,240 Because some of us were moving fast but not healing deeply, 172 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:45,400 accomplishing publicly, unraveling privately, successful 173 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:51,600 outwardly yet slipping silently. But yet God is saying to you and 174 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:57,400 me today, I love you too much to let you keep keep succeeding by 175 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,920 silently suffering. So he let the ship, he let the 176 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,080 vessel run aground so that your soul could come up for air. 177 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,720 And if I could be vulnerable and honest, my generation learned to 178 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,760 survive. John on emotional autopilot, 179 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:21,160 Greg on on silent strain. Sister Chris even on unspoken 180 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,840 burnout. Sister Jackie on smiling while 181 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,640 slipping. Because we were taught to just 182 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:30,880 push through it. OK. 183 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,280 Thank you, Sir. Ain't got no help. 184 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,200 No help. I've been no help out there. 185 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,040 I mean, we we we will talk. We will talk. 186 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,000 We will talk to just handle it. We will talk. 187 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,800 Don't show your weakness. But my dear brothers and 188 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,600 sisters, listen to me real quick. 189 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,440 Strength without healing isn't strength. 190 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,160 It's survival on delay. I think that's so good. 191 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,560 I better say it for my own self. I said strength without healing 192 00:12:56,560 --> 00:13:00,320 isn't strength, it's survival on the lane. 193 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,960 And sometimes God let something break you, not to expose you, 194 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,600 but to heal you. Sometimes God let's break into 195 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,200 occur not to shame you, but to reshape you. 196 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,280 Sometimes God allows the break and not to end your calling, but 197 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,000 to stabilize your becoming. And my dear brothers and 198 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,920 sisters, because of that it pays to keep your Bible open because 199 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:31,880 the text never says they broke. The text says the ship broke. 200 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,960 I think your neighbor's trying to go to sleep on me as I try to 201 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,720 get out of this message. Help me out. 202 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,040 Turn to neighbor. Say neighbor, the ship broke. 203 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,800 The ship broke. The text never says they broke. 204 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,320 Only the ship broke. No, it's not New Year's Eve, but 205 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:51,800 it is purpose. Even. 206 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,920 I need you to realize God don't lie. 207 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I said God don't lie. 208 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,280 Matter of fact, I know you try to talk in the text, but I need 209 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,520 your voice a little bit. God will let external systems 210 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,160 fail to protect the internal work he is forming in you. 211 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:16,680 Come here, come here. Jobs may collapse, plans may 212 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:20,200 shift. Yeah, resources may even dry up. 213 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:27,840 Relationships may end, but the people of God will remain the 214 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,320 ship. The ship was never the source. 215 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,760 God was. I need to remind you. 216 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:41,760 I need to remind you that breaking removes certainty and 217 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:47,720 breaking removes predictability and even breaking removes 218 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,520 something some of us struggle with call control. 219 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,760 Breaking does teach us that we were never in control. 220 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,440 Come here, that we were really carried by grace. 221 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,320 I got to get out this first point, but do know that breaking 222 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,640 is not cruelty. Breaking is sanctification. 223 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,800 Come here hymn rider, I feel like I need that old red Baptist 224 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,560 hymnal for a second hold to be kept by Jesus. 225 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:24,400 Lord at thy feet. I thought I would be Nothing, 226 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:31,680 nothing, nothing thou shall be. All in all, help me out. 227 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,120 Peek into the text one more time because I feel like the sky is 228 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,080 opening up. Peek into the text with your 229 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,840 imagination. Can't catch you here the way 230 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,040 roaring can't catch you here, Mother Gordine, the wood 231 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,840 cracking, Who said to share the splinters of the wood flying? 232 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,240 But God does not shout, Brother Roseman. 233 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,520 There's no Thunder. No, there's no announcement. 234 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:03,600 No, there's no intervention. No, only the Providence of God 235 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,320 at work. Come here. 236 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,240 I know you said Providence. Big word. 237 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,240 Help me out. Providence means the provincial. 238 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,080 I'm sorry. The protective care of God. 239 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:18,160 Yeah, let me say it this way. Only the protective care of God 240 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,840 at work. I guess I better give you 241 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,280 something else for your notes if you're online. 242 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,400 In person. Sometimes God speaks through 243 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,880 outcomes more than through explanations, preach Matthew D 244 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,320 Long, Junior. I said sometimes God. 245 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,440 He speaks to outcomes more than explanations. 246 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,520 He doesn't always explain the break. 247 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:47,520 He reveals himself inside, minding brothers and sisters. 248 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,360 The truth of the matter is, if the ship stayed intact, they 249 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,480 would have clung to what was familiar, but breaking forced 250 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,840 them to release. Breaking into their idols. 251 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,480 Breaking. Close the season that they would 252 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,040 have never closed all by themselves. 253 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,319 Come here, come here. I'm not done yet, my dear 254 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,920 brothers and sisters. That's why God will break what 255 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,119 you were never meant to build your identity on. 256 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,480 And some of us are struggling, struggling even though it's a 257 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,440 new year because we have built our identity on ships, 258 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:34,320 friendships, relationships. We build our identity. 259 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:41,880 On all of these types of ships, the ship was a resource, not a 260 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,800 refuge. God breaks false refuges. 261 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,280 So we discover the God who truly carries us. 262 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,280 That's why. And that's why you must be 263 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,640 careful what you label certain seasons of your life. 264 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,200 I'm not a fact be all that time. Be careful, but we call a 265 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,800 setback. Let me add a little bit more to 266 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,800 it. Stop calling it a set back when 267 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,520 God really was protecting you. The truth of the matter is you 268 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,080 weren't stuck. You were being kept from 269 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,080 becoming great Too fast and rise too slow. 270 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,560 OK, You don't like it? I found some help in the Bible. 271 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,000 Come here, Joseph. Joseph had a dream, but God 272 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,160 blocked the throne. Come here, David. 273 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,160 David was anointed, but God sent him to a cave. 274 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,280 Moses, I think we need your help. 275 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,520 In the room. Moses was called, but God hid 276 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,400 him. Him, the wilderness, because 277 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,800 unformed character is a dangerous success. 278 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,920 And sometimes God isn't delaying you, He is saving your future 279 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,280 from the version of you that wasn't ready yet. 280 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,320 I've been here too long. I've been here too long. 281 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,160 But the break is where God begins. 282 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,840 It's when God begins. A matter of fact breaking has 283 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,720 always been a part of God's redemptive process. 284 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,000 Can I add a little bit more before I take it away? 285 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,280 I could get in but tell you that he broke his jars and light came 286 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,760 out. The woman would tell you that 287 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,400 she broke the alabaster box and worship filled the room. 288 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,320 The disciples would tell you that the bread was broken on the 289 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:27,600 heel and the multitude was fed in a desert. 290 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,560 Jesus was he will holler in front of your face that he was 291 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,080 broken and the world was saved in the hands of God. 292 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:41,280 Breaking never destroys value, it transforms purpose. 293 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,640 Monday, brothers and sisters, I want to let you know that I 294 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,880 experienced this one time in college. 295 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,080 I was serving as a music minister about 40 minutes away 296 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,960 from my college storm. Worship was rebuilding, 297 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,960 musicians were coming back of the singers were singing. 298 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,000 We were having momentum in the music ministry department. 299 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,520 And then, right in the middle of obedience, being a college 300 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,400 student, guess what, Sister Ella, My car died. 301 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,160 Now, now, now, now, now. If if you don't, if you've never 302 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,480 been a college student, you've been, you've never been able to 303 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,200 understand this. But but to a college student, 304 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,320 your car is everything. You know when you've been, 305 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,880 you've been confounded to a college campus. 306 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:30,720 And then you finally have a mode of of a vehicle, a device to get 307 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:37,200 you off, get you out. My car died. 308 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,400 My car dies, mayor and I didn't have a backup. 309 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,600 I didn't I didn't I didn't have any convenience. 310 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,600 I didn't have any options. But but but I did pray Lord, 311 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,360 Lord, why, why? Why let it break now? 312 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,280 It didn't break before I got here. 313 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,080 Why? Why let it break now? 314 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,520 But it was later I learned that God wasn't weakening me while I 315 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,480 was in college, but God was deepening my dependence on Him. 316 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,680 He wasn't attacking my calling even though I was trying to work 317 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,640 in the church. He was maturing my calling. 318 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,440 And I got to let you know that the ship broke. 319 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,240 But God began, He began something in me. 320 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,240 He began something to me that the breaking could not stop. 321 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,280 And that's why the very first movement of this text is 322 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,560 important. This first lesson is important 323 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:29,200 to realize that it broke, but that's really where God begins. 324 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,200 I better move on. I didn't got much time left on 325 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,040 the clock. Acts chapter 27 verse 41 326 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:39,160 continues reading as such and says and falling into a place 327 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,080 where two seas met. They ran the ship aground. 328 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:50,920 Look now and the four part stuck fans and remained unmovable, but 329 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:56,400 the Honda part was broken with the violence of the waves. 330 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,880 My name, brothers and sisters, the very second lesson of this 331 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:04,480 text or movement for your notes is it failed, but that's where 332 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:09,200 God finished what he started. But I'm saying that's good right 333 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,760 there. I said it failed, but that's 334 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,120 where God finished what he started. 335 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,080 Other than the front. The front of the ship stuck. 336 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:22,840 Fast forward, momentum seized and the pack of the ship broke 337 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,920 apart. That the structure failed. 338 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,280 The system collapsed. What once worked now no longer 339 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,880 worked anymore. But the text never says the 340 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,280 people failed. Look at the text it only says 341 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:44,400 the ship did digging house. And this is not coincidence 342 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:49,400 because sometimes God allows a thing to fail so he's working 343 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,240 you can't succeed. Y'all don't like my preach? 344 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,640 It's OK, I'm a preach to me. I said sometimes God allows a 345 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,280 thing to fail, so he's working. You can't succeed. 346 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,840 I need you to catch this revelation. 347 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,680 Failure wasn't the end, it was God finishing a season. 348 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:12,960 Some things don't fall apart because they were wrong. 349 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:16,200 They fall apart because God finished his purpose than them. 350 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,000 I, I, I, I think I need to share that with you one more time 351 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,080 because 2025 was hard for some of us. 352 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,680 We lost some people, we lost some places, we lost some 353 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,920 things, we lost some access. But I want you to know that some 354 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,160 things don't fall apart because they were wrong. 355 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,080 They fall apart because God finished his purpose in them. 356 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,080 I think I need to slide this one more time into your little 357 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,960 teacup because we will be stuck in grief. 358 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,880 I'm a God trying to move us to a new glory because we keep crying 359 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,000 about the ship that's broken when God's saying, look, I'm 360 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,440 keeping your life. There are moments when God says 361 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,800 the assignment is complete. The vehicle is no longer 362 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,000 necessary. OK, you don't like me. 363 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,240 I get it. Mother Donaldson, I got Bible 364 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,520 come here Philippians chapter one verse 6 he who begun a good 365 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:19,240 work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. 366 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,560 That means God is not committed to the structure. 367 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,120 God is committed to the work inside of you. 368 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,800 Boy, that's real good. I said God is not committed to 369 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,320 the structure. God is committed to the work 370 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,880 inside you look at the text. The ship was temporary, but the 371 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,720 people were eternal. The ship was temporary, but the 372 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,960 purpose was eternal. So God let the vessel fail 373 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,800 because the mission inside them had already been fulfilled. 374 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,400 Help me climb into the side, into the sky. 375 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,000 Turn to your neighbor real quick and say, neighbor, God is 376 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,080 committed to you. I don't think your neighbor 377 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,760 believed you. They didn't respond, right? 378 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,080 Turn back to your neighbor again. 379 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:11,160 Say, hey neighbor, God is committed to you, God is 380 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,280 committed to you, God is committed to you. 381 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,520 On the very first Sunday of 2026, I need you to know that 382 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,240 God is committed to good God. He's committed to you. 383 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,400 Who? Abraham left her right because 384 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,800 God was committed to him. And Joseph lost the coat, not 385 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,360 because the calling, but because God had finished the season. 386 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,400 Come here. Jonah's ship had failed because 387 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,960 obedience could only rise when following God. 388 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,400 Elijah Brooke had dried up so that faith could move forward. 389 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,720 And then you know what happened with Jesus is on the cross, the 390 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,280 veil, and the temple tour because redemption had advanced. 391 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,480 For God is committed. He's committed to you. 392 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,000 He's committed to you the same the same Paul in this text 393 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,800 related rights in Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 89, 394 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,720 he says we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. 395 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,320 I better skip a little bit, He says. 396 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,960 Cast down but not destroyed. My dear brothers and sisters, 397 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,400 please know that structures may fail, systems may collapse, but 398 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:25,320 purpose survives. I'm reminded of a story of a 399 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,600 friend told me. He took what looked like the 400 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,480 greatest opportunity of his life. 401 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,360 He had relocated, he sacrificed, and he built with excellence and 402 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:36,040 integrity. He restored unbroken 403 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,680 organization in another state. He went there to rebuild morale, 404 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,480 to raise leaders, and poured himself out faithfully to all he 405 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,120 served. And just when fruit began to 406 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,720 appear, the support he had shifted that. 407 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,680 The climate change, the tone change, the room change. 408 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,520 He wasn't celebrated anymore. He kept getting sidelined. 409 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,280 Sidelined by the boss. Sidelined by the boss's boss. 410 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,160 And one night, sitting alone in his car, he prayed through 411 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,640 tears. Lord, did I fail or did 412 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,760 something around me fail? He told me that the spirit had 413 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,080 respite. To him, no, you didn't fail. 414 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,280 The season fulfilled its purpose. 415 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:22,240 But I wanted to grow in you. I have now completed and he said 416 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,040 something to me that I don't want you to forget, he said, but 417 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,680 I thought was failure was actually God finishing something 418 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,440 in me. OK, you, you missed it, but it's 419 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,840 OK. Go back to YouTube and hit 420 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,600 rewind. I got to move on. 421 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,400 But but I, I, I need you to know. 422 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,760 I need you to know that the boat did its job. 423 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,200 The ship did its job, The vessel did its job. 424 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,440 Come here. But the boat was never your 425 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,440 destiny. I think I've got some witnesses 426 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,520 who know. You build ministries that 427 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,480 shifted. You stood on doorposts that 428 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,640 shifted. You work jobs that close. 429 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,160 You stayed faithful in seasons that broke beneath you. 430 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,840 But through every loss, every transition, every broken 431 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:10,440 structure, God kept your faith. Come here, my mom. 432 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,200 I hear you right now. She will jump in right there and 433 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,560 she will say just another day that the Lord has kept me. 434 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:24,280 She was saying He has kept me from all evil with my mind 435 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,920 stayed on Him. Just another day that the Lord 436 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,840 has kept me And, and if you can be honest, many of us can 437 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,680 testify today that programs ended, but the purpose kept 438 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,360 living in me because the truth of the matter is it didn't fail 439 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,240 to destroy you. It failed because God finished 440 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,240 his work in that place. Come here. 441 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,080 I know, I know we have attachment issues to ships. 442 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,400 And I'm trying to help you get unstuck because the chapter 443 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,800 closed, but the calling continued. 444 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,960 The ship broke, but God continued. 445 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,160 Something in your spirit I failure, failure, failure in the 446 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,080 text. Since the housing was not their 447 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,040 funeral, but failure really was the doorway to survival. 448 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,840 I'm sorry. That was good to me because the 449 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,800 failure of the ship became the stage for God's deliverance. 450 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,080 What failed around them positioned what God was about to 451 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,720 do through them. If the ship failed and we still 452 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,640 survived, then survival must be a miracle of God. 453 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,320 I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. 454 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,320 But it's for that reason to keep on journeying into the text. 455 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,200 The text reads in Acts chapter 27, verse 43. 456 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:54,480 But the centurion willing to say Paul kept them from the purpose, 457 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,120 and commanded that they which could swim should cast 458 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,160 themselves first into the sea and get to land. 459 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:09,440 Verse 44, it says, And the rest, some on boards and some unbroken 460 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:14,480 pieces, but pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they 461 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,680 are escaped, escaped to the land. 462 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,680 My brothers and sisters, I got to get out of here. 463 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,720 But my last point for you today that you need to understand is 464 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,200 that it shattered. But that's where God saved my 465 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,640 life. I said it shattered, but that's 466 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,560 when God saved my life. The ship didn't carry them the 467 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,720 way they planned, but the pieces still carried them by the hand 468 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,440 of God. The vessel shattered, yeah, but 469 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,880 God did not waste the fragments. And for somebody listening 470 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:54,120 online and in person, this isn't just Paul's storm, but this is 471 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,000 somebody else's life story. Because some of us are not 472 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,680 surviving our whole plans, but we're surviving on what's love 473 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,800 and God is still caring us. I got to let this know. 474 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,720 I got to let it be known today. But the person whose dream 475 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,000 didn't unfold the way you imagined. 476 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,800 For the person who find themself in the family that didn't stay 477 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,840 together like you hope. For the one whose career shifted 478 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,720 out from under you. For the one who lost resources, 479 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,400 relationships, and even support. Even for the one who had to keep 480 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,960 going about something broke beneath you. 481 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,360 I got to let you know that you're still standing. 482 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,840 I'm sorry, I'm done. Y'all have a happy new year. 483 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,160 I said you're still standing. You didn't make it on the ship 484 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,840 of certainty, but you made it on the pieces of faith God refused 485 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:55,040 to let sink. Because God, God will never let 486 00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,360 you, but never let you fail. Hell let up what's around. 487 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,040 You fail before he allows you to fail. 488 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:10,840 Because God, I said God, God is committed to you. 489 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,480 I got to get on out of here now. But they didn't lie to the sore. 490 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,200 They clung to it. They didn't even sail in 491 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,800 trumpet. No, they survived in trust. 492 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,000 And that's where many of us are living right now. 493 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:35,000 We're not gliding in 2020 26 but we're holding on and believe in 494 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,160 God day and night. believe in God night and day. 495 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,880 And that's not a weakness. No, help me, I'm up in the sky. 496 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,080 Let's go for real. That's faith and depression. 497 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,120 Here's the revelation for you. But wholeness doesn't activate 498 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,000 the supernatural, but surrenders and brokenness does. 499 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,880 I said surrenders and brokenness does. 500 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,640 I said surrenders and brokenness does. 501 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,280 I said surrenders and brokenness does. 502 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,040 You can act all hard as you want. 503 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:12,240 You can act all tough as you want, but if you want the Lord 504 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,560 and this year we're in right now, they're going to have to 505 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,640 have a broken and strike spirit. I've got to go now, but I'm so 506 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:28,080 glad y'all, that when they stop depending on the ship, God 507 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,160 carried them. He carried them on the pieces. 508 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,840 He carried them on the pieces. He carried them on the pieces. 509 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,680 I said he carried them on the pieces. 510 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,280 Some of us right now are only surviving on the pieces. 511 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,920 You thought the ship was going to carry you, but allow precious 512 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:56,240 memories or how they linger carry you on. 513 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,800 I gotta go. I gotta. 514 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:06,600 Go now because the text tells us that when they release what 515 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:22,920 failed, Grace declares that they escaped all safe to land your 516 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,440 neighbors sleep. I don't know what's wrong with 517 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:29,560 them I. Said and they escaped all. 518 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,920 Safe to land. It must have been the breakfast. 519 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,040 That's what it was. Help me out, I said, and they 520 00:34:37,040 --> 00:35:33,000 escaped all Escaped heartache, escaped 521 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:45,280 headache, escaped persecution, escaped disease, escaped 522 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:54,280 disappointment and all y'all. Don't like this word? 523 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,160 I said all of them. Help me preach Deke I'm. 524 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,720 Trying to go somewhere, I said. All, all into the land. 525 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,840 I gotta go for real. Now, but I need you to. 526 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:15,280 Know that God may not preserve the structure, but God will 527 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,840 preserve your life. Let me break what you trusted. 528 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:22,280 But God. God. 529 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,360 Yeah. Yeah, real mind. 530 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:37,440 He won't break his promise. You may lose predictability, but 531 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,000 you will not lose God's presence. 532 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,200 You may come out different, but you will. 533 00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:02,120 at the text. The truth of the matter is the 534 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:07,280 only reason we're going to make it, the only reason we're going 535 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:11,480 to survive the storm, the only reason the breaking isn't going 536 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:16,920 to bury you is because somebody else it was broken. 537 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,840 So you can survive your breaking. 538 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,080 I got to go to because the first Sunday. 539 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:31,640 But you do know on a hill far, far away stood on rugged cross 540 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,680 the. Emblem of. 541 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,560 Suffering and shame. How I love. 542 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:41,720 That old rugged cross. You know why? 543 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,160 Because there was not that cross at the. 544 00:39:44,240 --> 00:40:40,880 Gross, Raff, When you go home today, I just 545 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,120 want you to walk in your house and say somehow I made it. 546 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,160 When you get up in the morning to fix your toe, Somehow I made 547 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,800 it. It wasn't what I thought it was 548 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,360 going to be, but somehow I made it. 549 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,720 I don't see it in my bank account but somehow I made it. 550 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:09,400 I don't feel the love like I want but somehow I made it. made 551 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,080 it. Who made it? 552 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:13,320 Sure. The matter. 553 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,720 Check this out. They were those on the ship who 554 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:25,560 were not believers. They they they weren't, but they 555 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,800 made it. They made it because Paul was on 556 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:37,800 the ship. I feel like running. 557 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:43,240 I told John I wanted to dance today because because I I need 558 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:47,040 you to know that this year that there are some people in your 559 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,840 family and some people in your family who are not safe. 560 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,680 But you know what? They're going to make it too. 561 00:41:54,680 --> 00:42:04,040 Why? Because you on the ship. to make 562 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:09,240 it because you on the ship, because God knows he won't let 563 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,960 you fail. It's only some people who still 564 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,880 floating. They they, they, they think it's 565 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,720 all the other stuff they got going on, but they, they, they 566 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:23,240 still bouncing and what should be swallowing them up only 567 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:26,360 because she was on the ship. And I want to let you know that 568 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,720 no matter what you do this year, don't you lose your testimony. 569 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,360 Don't you lose sight. It ain't nobody giving you a 570 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,120 stimulus. It ain't nobody giving you no 571 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,560 snaps, Ain't nobody snapping you Hallelujah. 572 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:46,560 But, but, but, but it's the goodness of the law that's going 573 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:53,040 to keep you and keep us in 2026. And whatever you do, don't you 574 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,240 lose your praise. I'm going to tell you whatever, 575 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:57,840 don't you? I don't care if you ain't got no 576 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,480 lone fan whatever, don't you lose your praise. 577 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,600 If all you got is a foot, then you better tap that foot because 578 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,680 all 2026 praise is going to get you through it. 579 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,680 I said, oh, your praise is going to get you through it because if 580 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,880 you don't praise, you're going to get stuck in the ship that's 581 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,880 already broken. So what you you might just get 582 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,640 hit and praise them, because if they had not been for the Lord 583 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:51,720 on my side, I'm a stop. 584 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,840 I'm at my time for real. I'm at my time for real. 585 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,680 Whatever you do, you better give him a brace. 586 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,120 I don't care if you got to be in the in the house in the mirror 587 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,200 and you got to practice your little pitter pad. 588 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,560 You got practice your pitter pad at the house because I'm telling 589 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,720 you, it's not the stuff I hear that's going to get you. 590 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:11,920 It's going to be what you got at the house. 591 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,320 It's going to be what you got because the enemy ain't going to 592 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,200 fight you in here. He going to fight you as soon as 593 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,760 you hit that parking lot and you take your phone off but do not 594 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,960 disturb and those those text messages start rolling back 595 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,640 those phone calls start rolling back, but it's going to be 596 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,800 praised. That's going to keep that's 597 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,960 going to keep you. It's going to keep you. 598 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,520 I got to stop. You may not know Jesus in the 599 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,240 free partner of your sin. I want you to know him for 600 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:41,840 yourself. It's real simple. 601 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,960 You can stay right there because I got to get out of here. 602 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,640 together. If you received that word 603 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,520 somehow I made it. Thank you for tuning in to the 604 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,880 Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 Podcast. 605 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,560 We pray today's message planted something in your spirit and 606 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,040 gave you the strength to keep growing here at the Rock Hill 607 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,160 Baptist Church 2. We're a growing church, and 608 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,640 growth starts with one step. If you're ready to go deeper, 609 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:24,080 visit us online at www.myrockhill2.org and click 610 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:28,040 Next Steps to get connected. Join a ministry or give your 611 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,680 life to Christ. Be sure to follow the podcast so 612 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,080 you never miss a message and share this episode with someone 613 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,600 you know is ready to grow too. 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