1 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,800 Will somebody say thank you Jesus? 2 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,640 Amen. If you have your Bibles turned 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,400 with me to the word of the Lord, to the book of Psalms, chapter 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,200 40, I want to hasten to the word of the Lord tonight. 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:30,040 We are thankful for all that are here, our guests that are here 6 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,760 this evening in house. If you're joining us online 7 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,640 tonight, we welcome you and we greet you in Jesus name. 8 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,560 The book of Psalms, chapter 40 and the verse #1 There's been a 9 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:47,120 few references to waiting in both song and in Word already 10 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:54,560 this evening and this afternoon in preparation for this service. 11 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,120 I really felt to pick up a little bit from where we left 12 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,720 off this morning. We, we ended this morning 13 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,880 talking about the waiting being the difficult part. 14 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:16,760 And I can't tell you why, I don't know, but I just felt 15 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,840 inclined to continue from that vein of thought tonight. 16 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,440 And it's been confirmed a couple of times tonight already. 17 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,800 The book of Psalms 40 and verse #1 David writes and he says, I 18 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:33,280 waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and 19 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,800 heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an 20 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,360 horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet up on a 21 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:51,160 rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my 22 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,000 mouth. I want you to look at your 23 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,120 neighbor tonight, if you're willing, and tell them I have a 24 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:04,480 new song in my mouth. It's all right if you're saying 25 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,880 it by faith. Even praise unto our God. 26 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:15,040 Many shall see it in fear, and shall trust in the Lord for a 27 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,720 few moments. Tonight I want to minister on 28 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:22,960 this thought. A new reason to praise, because 29 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,600 that's what the waiting brings us is a new reason to praise. 30 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,560 Would you lift your hands one more time and ask God to 31 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,560 minister Jesus in your precious name? 32 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,800 God, we're, we're thankful for this opportunity. 33 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,440 God, we're, we're able to stand in your house. 34 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,280 We're able to stand saturated by your presence. 35 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,640 Now we ask God that your anointing would go before us, 36 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,760 make every crooked way straight. Lord, minister our minds, our 37 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,920 hearts, our lives. Help me to minister with wisdom 38 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:53,640 and clarity tonight and on our ears to hear what the Spirit 39 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,000 would say. It will not fail to praise you 40 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,360 for it in Jesus name. And the church said, Amen, Hey 41 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,200 man, you may be seated. The Lord bless you. 42 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,520 A new reason to praise. Truly, if there is anything 43 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,040 involved in this life that requires the subject of waiting, 44 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:17,440 a certain amount of patience is in order if you're going to be 45 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,440 successful. I'm not here to take a poll and 46 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,200 I'm not going to start going around asking you how patient 47 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,200 you are. I don't need to. 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,920 All I have to do is just observe. 49 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:31,920 I've already told you before. Maybe I mentioned it this 50 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:33,160 morning. I'm not sure. 51 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,080 But if you know me at all, and you know me well, you know that 52 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,240 patience is not my dearest virtue. 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,160 I am a little bit better than I used to be, thank God. 54 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:47,280 But patience is. The lack of patience often often 55 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,440 sparks problems and difficulties and situations in life, 56 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,160 arguments and things that we possibly could have avoided had 57 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,840 we had a moment of patience. Sometimes the lack of patience 58 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,760 only serves to aggravate situations and cause the person 59 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:09,840 with less than pleasant patience to become even more impatient 60 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,600 because things aren't going the way that they think that they 61 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,240 should go. What is patience? 62 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,680 It's important that we define and have a mutual understanding 63 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,079 tonight of what we're actually talking about. 64 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,200 Patience is simply the act or quality of waiting for a long 65 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:36,280 time without discontent. Now that's the key, right? 66 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,400 That's the patience factor. It's not the actor quality of 67 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,120 waiting for a long time. It's doing so without 68 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,560 discontent. Now I didn't plan it this way 69 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,720 obviously, because I didn't plan on pastor being sick and didn't 70 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,000 plan on the B team stepping up tonight. 71 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,600 But I, I'll tell you we're entering or we're in the throes 72 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,640 of the Thanksgiving season and we're going to go, some of us, 73 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,920 several of us are going to go to Nashville, TN this week as is 74 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,800 our custom. And we're going to go to 75 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,600 National Youth Convention and we're going to have a great time 76 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:15,960 and we're looking forward to that. 77 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:28,200 But Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, it's not Mom's home cooking. 78 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,280 It's not the impatience of pacing the living room floor 79 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:36,160 because you you smell the rolls in the oven. 80 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,880 It's not the I'm trying to paint you just a little bit of imagery 81 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,040 here. You know, the, the steam coming 82 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,800 up from the bird as he's taken out of the oven and, and, and 83 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,960 you've got the mashed potatoes being mixed and the, the heaps 84 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,680 of butter being thrown in. And if you don't do it that way, 85 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,920 God bless you. But I won't butter in my 86 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,800 potatoes. You can tell I've had a little 87 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,080 butter in my potatoes before. But you, you, you can smell it 88 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,880 waffing in from the kitchen and you've got a little bit of 89 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,560 impatience because you know what's about to happen. 90 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,800 Well, for those of us that's going this week, it's a little 91 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,160 bit of a different tradition, our tradition, and some of you 92 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,000 are probably going to remind me of this in four days and that's 93 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,640 all right. But our tradition is after 94 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,640 service, we head out a few miles away from the Convention Center 95 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,760 to a Golden Corral that normally whenever we drive into the 96 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:38,400 parking lot, they are already about 70 or 80 deep in the 97 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:49,520 parking lot just standing. Phones out, fidgeting, you 98 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,240 shift. Little weight on this foot, 99 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:57,240 little weight on this foot. I'm hungry, I'm famished, I'm 100 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,640 melting away to nothing. And we we're demonstrating the 101 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,600 actor quality of waiting on something for a very long time. 102 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,800 Sometimes it's snowing. There's been times it's rained, 103 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,480 there's been time the wind would blow so hard. 104 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:21,040 Your hair just goes like this. I would like to stand here and 105 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,880 tell you tonight that we've done so without discontentment. 106 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,360 I won't tell you that. Patience. 107 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:41,000 It is the suffering of afflictions, pain or calamity. 108 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,320 It's being provoked. It's being provoked and 109 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:53,800 withstanding it or other evils with a calm, unruffled temper. 110 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,120 Or it could be defined as endurance without murmuring. 111 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,080 I could endure a whole lot of things, but I tend to mutter 112 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,560 under my breath every once in a while. 113 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,800 You don't have to enjoy it that much. 114 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:16,120 Patience. Now I'm I'm giving you a, a bit 115 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,520 of transparency here that some of you already know. 116 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,600 Maybe some of you don't know, and that's all right. 117 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,080 I would beg to say that some of your experiences in your own 118 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,240 personal life while you laugh at me, might not be much different, 119 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,679 the psalmist writes. I waited patiently for the Lord. 120 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:44,280 He wasn't waiting on Bathsheba to fix her hair. 121 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:49,440 He wasn't waiting on McDonald's. We talked about that this 122 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,720 morning. He wasn't waiting on Burger 123 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,440 King. He wasn't waiting on his wife to 124 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,760 pick out her clothes. He wasn't waiting on the traffic 125 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,760 light to turn green. He wasn't waiting on his early 126 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,280 morning coffee to brew. He was waiting on God. 127 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,560 So let's talk about this for a moment because it's worth noting 128 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:12,280 in our relationship with God, it should not be something we just 129 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,400 simply try to present on Sundays. 130 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,960 Our relationship with God needs to be at the very core of who we 131 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,280 are. If you proclaim to be a 132 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,880 Christian, Christianity is not about attending church. 133 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:34,560 I attend church because I want to be Christ like, but attending 134 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:36,320 church doesn't make me Christ like. 135 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:46,440 It needs to be who I am, not what I do, because if it becomes 136 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,560 who I am, what I do will become natural. 137 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,800 The reason why some people struggle in their walk with God 138 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,960 so much is because they're only focused on what they're doing 139 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,040 and not who they're becoming. If we'll just simply become like 140 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,560 Him first, what I do will just follow. 141 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,720 So my relationship with God needs to be who I am. 142 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,800 And there are times in my walk with God I'm waiting on Him. 143 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,240 But we, we need to consider, if we're going to stop and consider 144 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:28,000 tonight who we are and this being at the core of us, it begs 145 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,760 the questions of who are we and what do we believe? 146 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,040 Paul David Hewson, known by his stage name of Bono of the rock 147 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,880 band group U2, made a declaration a few years ago that 148 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,840 it was time for all of Abraham's children to come together. 149 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,480 The Jews, the Muslims and the Christian, he said, and I quote, 150 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,320 must all come together and put away their differences and be as 151 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,800 one. Now, I've come to declare 152 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,040 tonight to this Apostolic Church that we need to make no mistake 153 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,040 about it. There is a difference. 154 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,560 There is a difference. There is a real difference 155 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:11,280 between US and them. And I'm not trying to be 156 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,520 divisive tonight, but we need to understand who we are. 157 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,080 We are the only three, only one of those three groups who 158 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:24,920 worship Jesus as God. They will call him a great 159 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,160 teacher, but in doing so they undermine him. 160 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,680 They will call him even a prophet, but they're still 161 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:34,960 undermining him. If they say he had good things 162 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,800 to say. They are undermining him because 163 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,240 they are not acknowledging the power and the demonstration and 164 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,480 the glory of who Jesus Christ really is. 165 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,760 And the Bible declares that every knee shall bow and every 166 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,320 tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 167 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,680 When God was manifest in the flesh, He was the Father and the 168 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:02,280 Son at the same time. Just like he's the root in the 169 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,040 branch at the same time. He's the Rose and the Lily, He's 170 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,560 the shepherd and the Lamb. He's the door to the sheepfold, 171 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:12,360 and He's also the scapegoat at the same time. 172 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,840 He's the 1st and the last. He's the Alpha and the Omega. 173 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:21,000 He's wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince 174 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,880 of Peace, For in Jesus dwells all the fullness of the Godhead 175 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,400 bodily. We are complete in Him without 176 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,880 controversy. Great is the mystery of 177 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,800 godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. 178 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,880 God was justified in the Spirit. God was seed of angels. 179 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,320 God was preached unto the Gentiles. 180 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:46,440 He was believed on in the world, and He was received up into 181 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,480 glory. In the beginning was the Word, 182 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,920 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the same 183 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,440 was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and 184 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,040 without Him was not anything made that was made here. 185 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:08,600 O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord. 186 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:13,480 He is the epitome of everything. He's the total package. 187 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:20,440 He's God all at the same time. Somebody shout Hallelujah. 188 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,080 So that's a little bit about who he is. 189 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,240 What do we believe? We believe in the doctoral 190 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,200 message of the one God in Christ. 191 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,440 We believe in receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 192 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,040 We believe in being baptized in Jesus name for the remission of 193 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:45,200 our sins. How you are baptized matters. 194 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,160 It's 4. It's not. 195 00:13:52,640 --> 00:14:03,280 It's not for ceremony, it's not for tradition, it's not for pomp 196 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,520 and circumstance. We enjoy it. 197 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,280 We like it, but we like it because we know what's behind 198 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,280 it. We enjoy it and we celebrate it 199 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,240 because we know what it represents. 200 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,080 It's not just getting wet. It's not just following a decree 201 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:22,360 that some man wrote. It is for the remission of sins. 202 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:29,080 It is for the removal of sins. It is for me being buried in 203 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:35,400 Christ so that when my old man goes down and I come back up, I 204 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,960 am, The Bible declares a new creature. 205 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,840 I'm not the same person I was before I got wet. 206 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,720 And it wasn't the power of the water, it wasn't the power of 207 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,240 the baptizer, it wasn't the power of the ceremony. 208 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,720 It was simply the power of the unmatched name of Jesus that we 209 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,640 invoke over a life as they are baptized. 210 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,240 So it matters. That's why we pray for over our 211 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:11,520 food in Jesus name. I tell you what, in today's 212 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,240 society, you better pray over your food. 213 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,120 I was. You need to pray over your food 214 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,680 in more times than when you just don't know what it is. 215 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:37,720 But that's a good one to start. When I was in Japan a few weeks 216 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,160 ago, I had a thought, and it wasn't about where I was at. 217 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,760 It wasn't even about, it wasn't even, it wasn't about that 218 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,560 restaurant or the particular food that I was about to eat. 219 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,120 It was just about a situation that I became aware of that I 220 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,080 had never really thought about before. 221 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,280 And that is the amount of trust that we put in people that we 222 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,520 don't even know. And I'm not trying to scare you 223 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,680 from going out to eat. I'll go out to eat probably 224 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,040 tomorrow and I'll pray over my food and say thank you, Jesus. 225 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:11,280 But we put in an amount of uninhibited trust in someone 226 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:18,400 that when we eat, it's safe to eat well. 227 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,760 That's an awful lot of trust for me to put in somebody I don't 228 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:25,160 know. So it's important that I give 229 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:31,520 thanks to somebody that I do know for his protection. 230 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:39,760 We send our kids to school in Jesus name or we should we lay 231 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,680 hands on the sick in Jesus name. Everything we do in Word or 232 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:51,280 deed, we do it in Jesus name. Some people struggle Monday 233 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,760 through Saturday because their walk with God is not about him. 234 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,880 We need to make our walk with God about him. 235 00:17:11,140 --> 00:17:15,240 We use the term being sold out to God. 236 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:20,760 That is simply nothing more than surrender. 237 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:25,560 That's all it is. It's surrender. 238 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:34,080 Total surrender. It's surrender beyond what your 239 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:43,680 family expects. Because that can be big for some 240 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,280 people. I know plenty of people that I 241 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,760 have experienced in my walk with God that hold themselves back 242 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:57,280 because of how their parents lived, of how their parents were 243 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,200 raised and how their parents raised them. 244 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,520 What their family believes of the hell they go through to get 245 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,440 to church because of the things their family says to them about 246 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:12,840 the church. I know where I know I'm right, 247 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:21,480 where I need to be right now. If that defines you, I want you 248 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:22,800 to. And I say this with respect 249 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,640 tonight, but you need to understand one thing. 250 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,840 When you stand before God, it will not be about what somebody 251 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:35,120 else said. And we've only got one life to 252 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:40,320 get that right. Well, it's a lot of pressure. 253 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:45,720 I understand that. And you don't have to have 254 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,000 family that's out of church in order to go through that 255 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,480 pressure. You just have to sell out a bit 256 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,200 more. That brings attention. 257 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,560 So if you're struggling with that tonight, I want to 258 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,960 encourage you. I'm not here to indict you or or 259 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,000 to condemn you, but I want to encourage you because when you 260 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,560 get in the presence of God, total surrender is about you and 261 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:18,600 him and where you need to get in your walk with God according to 262 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:27,040 the word of God requires you. Everybody say that's me requires 263 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:32,000 you to make a decision on your surrender between you and God, 264 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:40,240 regardless of what it causes, and I'm not making light of it. 265 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,440 I know people that have went through some serious junk 266 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,200 because they made a decision to follow him. 267 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,120 There are people that talk about who we are, what we believe, and 268 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:59,080 whom we believe. They don't understand. 269 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:03,680 They haven't sold. They haven't put in the 270 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:08,400 investment of understanding who He is and why He's worth waiting 271 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,960 on because that's where we're all coming. 272 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,160 We're coming back around to our scripture text here because 273 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,720 David said that he waited patiently for the Lord. 274 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,760 You are not going to wait for something that you don't think 275 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:28,160 is worth it. When I'm going back to my 276 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,160 Thanksgiving meal and I think back to my childhood and I think 277 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,920 to being being at Aunt Joyce's house and, and, and, and who, 278 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,360 Lord have mercy. See, I always made a mistake. 279 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,960 I made a serious mistake and, and I made the mistake because 280 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,960 I'm weak, all right. But I always made a mistake that 281 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:54,240 whenever we got in the house and as soon as oh, thank you, Jesus, 282 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:55,960 as soon as I would smell the food. 283 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,520 Mike Trout I didn't I didn't stay at a distance. 284 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:05,200 I had to go survey the kitchen and I had to go inspect. 285 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,440 I was the the the the health department inspector of the 286 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,240 family. I had to go check things out and 287 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,680 just see what stage are the are the dumplings at in in in the 288 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:16,720 pot? I'm not cooked. 289 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,800 So, but what stage are they at in the cooking process? 290 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,920 And what do the potatoes look? Are they putting enough butter 291 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,600 in the potatoes? And what's the birds smell? 292 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,240 After I got older, I, I got old enough to cut the burden. 293 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,280 Man, I just enjoyed that so much. 294 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,560 That was so much fun because when no one's looking, you can 295 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,520 accidentally cut a slice in half and just hope that we can't 296 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,760 serve that one. So I better just eat that one 297 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,200 right now. And, and just, and so I made a 298 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,160 mistake. That was a mistake because it, 299 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,160 it made the waiting worse. But there's one thing I 300 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,600 understood about it. And if you're not hungry yet, I 301 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:50,880 don't know what else to do for you. 302 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,600 So that's all the imagery I plan on giving you. 303 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:59,200 But the, the, the problem was I, I struggled to wait, but it was 304 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,760 because it was so much waiting for. 305 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,440 I was looking forward to it. I was excited about it, right? 306 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,600 I, I knew that there was chocolate chip pecan pie in the 307 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,120 dessert room. I didn't care what else was in 308 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:23,720 there, but as long as there was a pecan pie with melted 309 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:28,000 chocolate chip morsels in it, Holy Ghost take me right now. 310 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,400 But it was worth waiting for. I had excitement built up 311 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,880 because of the anticipation of waiting. 312 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,560 You're not going to wait for something that's not worth it. 313 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,040 And one of the reasons why we're struggling to wait on God is 314 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,760 because we've not yet determined His worth in our life. 315 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,400 I've come to remind somebody tonight, He's worth waiting on. 316 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,320 I've come to encourage somebody keep waiting because He's worth 317 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,280 it. He's better than the chocolate 318 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,880 pecan pie. I promise you that. 319 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,400 He is worth waiting. He is worth understanding. 320 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,600 He is worth worshipping. He is worth praising. 321 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,840 He is worth declaring my thanks to Him, because He is above all 322 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:21,680 through all in it all. So David waited patiently for 323 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,080 the Lord. Now watch this. 324 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:31,400 Now in Hebrew, this statement translates to in waiting. 325 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:40,080 I waited, meaning I waited and I continued to wait. 326 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:49,200 I waited and I kept waiting. I waited and I kept waiting. 327 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,840 We talked about this morning how waiting is oftentimes the larger 328 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,360 problem of our affliction or the larger problem of our valley 329 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,680 experiences because we don't like to wait. 330 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,280 And the more that society becomes an instantaneous 331 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,280 gratification society. And we want what we want right 332 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,160 now and we get what we want right now. 333 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:13,520 And the algorithms know what we're thinking right now. 334 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,320 And it takes us exactly to the information we want right now. 335 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,200 And we get into a place where that we've had to wait .025 336 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,800 seconds to get our answer. We are spoiled by society and we 337 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,120 are punished by God. It feels like because He doesn't 338 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:32,040 operate off of the same algorithm that Google does. 339 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:36,720 He still requires you to wait. He still requires you to wait 340 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,000 patiently for Him because there are things in this life that are 341 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,640 worth waiting for. It was not a one time prayer. 342 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,440 It required commitment. Waiting patiently on the Lord 343 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,640 required commitment. It required focus. 344 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,680 It required dedication. It required a seriousness. 345 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:09,080 That said, I don't know when the answer's coming, but I'm not 346 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,880 stopping my anticipation of my answer until I get it. 347 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:23,760 It was continuous. His prayer was not answered 348 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,720 immediately. I do not know the length of time 349 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,120 that it took David to see the fruit of his prayer and the 350 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,080 fruit of his dedication for God in this particular certain 351 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,520 circumstance. But I also don't believe tonight 352 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,800 that waiting in this context means that we do nothing, 353 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,720 because one of the most dangerous things you can do in 354 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,920 your walk with God is to do nothing. 355 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,080 I do not believe it is God's will for us to say, well, I'm 356 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,600 going through something tonight, so I'm just waiting on him so 357 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,320 when he answers me, I'll, I'll get up. 358 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:09,080 When you don't know what to do, you keep doing what you're 359 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,240 doing. That's why I have said it 360 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,440 before. I will repeat myself again, 361 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,280 Quitting what you're doing because of a Valley experience 362 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,560 is exactly what your adversary wants you to do. 363 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,280 Because when you stop engaging in fellowship and you stop 364 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,480 engaging in the the word of God and you isolate yourself, 365 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:44,080 isolation makes you a target of the enemy, makes you an easy 366 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:50,920 target because it's just you. That's why this isn't in my 367 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,320 notes tonight, but I'll share it with you. 368 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,000 That's why in the the occasions where my wife and I have went 369 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,680 through some to us Extreme Valley experiences, do you know 370 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,600 what we did? We kept coming to church. 371 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,240 We kept worshiping. We kept leading in worship. 372 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,880 We kept praising. We kept singing songs. 373 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,320 We kept playing music. We kept teaching Sunday school 374 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,840 classes, we kept teaching Friday night Youth Services. 375 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,680 We kept something busy in front of us because that was the will 376 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:30,240 of God. Waiting did not make it easy. 377 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,800 Serving didn't make it easy, but it did make it right. 378 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:51,560 So waiting tonight we find we we we go from verse one for the 379 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,760 Trevor, if you can put verse one up for us tonight. 380 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,520 He says I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me 381 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,160 and heard my cry. Now that we say that quickly and 382 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,000 somewhat poetic and it sounds like it. 383 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,880 He just he waited and he prayed and God answered him. 384 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:12,320 I don't know what length of time that verse covers, likely likely 385 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,040 a sizeable amount of time, otherwise it wouldn't have 386 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,720 required patience. But if you go to verse #3 by the 387 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,920 time we get to verse 3, we've went from waiting patiently to 388 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:32,440 having a new song. So the lesson for us here is 389 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:38,160 that when we're waiting and in the waiting we continue to 390 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:43,640 praise, and in the waiting we continue to be patient on God. 391 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:55,280 God will deliver with a new song and he hath put a new song in my 392 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,800 mouth. I find it a bit interesting 393 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,880 tonight that when he's he, he writes this verse and he shares 394 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,680 with us by the holy writ of God that he didn't say he put a new 395 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,280 song in my mind. He could have just as easily 396 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,320 said he put a new song in my heart because there's so many 397 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,320 people today because they don't want to worship God outside. 398 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,320 They say that they worship him in their heart. 399 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,160 I'm not making fun and I'm not trying to be critical tonight, 400 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,680 but that's not what the Bible says. 401 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,200 The Bible does not support us worshipping Him in our mind. 402 00:29:36,650 --> 00:29:40,050 It just doesn't. The Bible doesn't even support 403 00:29:40,450 --> 00:29:50,170 private praise. Not a new song in my mind. 404 00:29:50,170 --> 00:29:54,170 Not a new song in my heart. Not a new song in my thoughts. 405 00:29:54,610 --> 00:29:57,130 The non spiritual people who want you to pray will ask you to 406 00:29:57,130 --> 00:30:01,890 think about them. It's not a new song in my 407 00:30:01,890 --> 00:30:05,010 thoughts. It's a new song in my mouth. 408 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:11,760 What do we use our mouth for? For communicating, for talking. 409 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:19,320 Some more than others, some at louder volumes than others. 410 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,920 We we covered that this morning. But we talk. 411 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:28,200 We use our mouth to engage with one another, to talk to each 412 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,760 other. So if a new song is in my mouth, 413 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,560 then a new song requires me to do something with my mouth about 414 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:40,200 the song. I don't think it's any deeper 415 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,600 than that even. Praise to our God. 416 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,440 Many shall see it in fear and shall trust the Lord. 417 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,920 That is a witness and a testimony that when people see a 418 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:58,160 new song in your life that it will cause them to see it, to 419 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:05,360 fear and to trust in God. We often talk about this being 420 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,000 an actual song, and I think perhaps it can be. 421 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,640 But there's a translation in the original script here that goes 422 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:17,920 deeper than just an actual song. It literally means a new reason 423 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,360 to praise. The deliverance was so great 424 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,280 that a new expression of thanks was required, such a grand 425 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,360 deliverance from God that the old expressions of praise were 426 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,200 no longer good enough. I need to find a new reason. 427 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,680 And the new reason is I waited patiently, and in waiting I 428 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,600 praised Him. In waiting I followed him. 429 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,840 In waiting I showed up for him and he put a new song in my 430 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,520 mouth. Could you lift your hands and 431 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,880 thank the Lord? Tonight, as our musicians come, 432 00:31:53,720 --> 00:32:01,240 we have a new reason to praise. If you'll stand with me tonight, 433 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:11,000 I want to declare I love the shout, but I want you to 434 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,200 understand something tonight because I don't want there to be 435 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,960 a misunderstanding when we talk about it. 436 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,280 When we say praise, that does not mean shout. 437 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,800 Nothing wrong with the shout. I love some good shouting music, 438 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,240 some good toe tapping devil stomping. 439 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,320 Let's let's get it on. I like it. 440 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,680 There's a time and a place for that, but that's not every time 441 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,280 and that's not every place. And if you, if you are worried 442 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,440 and and hesitant because you think every time we talk about 443 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,280 worship and praise, we think you ought to be Hucka bucket and 444 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,440 running the aisles and jumping over the Pew the the seats. 445 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,800 That's not what we're talking about. 446 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,720 What we're talking about is surrender. 447 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:04,120 You surrender that will lead you to the other on occasion, but 448 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,360 surrender is a new song in my mouth. 449 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,000 Surrender is a private opportunity where I publicly, 450 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,480 and I say private because it's it's just you, you and God. 451 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,600 But even when I'm in public, it's an opportunity where my 452 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,160 hands are lifted and my mouth is open to Him. 453 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,280 I've got a new reason to worship Him. 454 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,000 And the new reason is I waited and He showed up. 455 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,960 And if you're in a valley experience today and he hasn't 456 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,560 showed up fully yet, understand that what you think he hasn't 457 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:41,760 shown up for, he's still there. There are things that you 458 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,840 haven't faced yet that he's likely in front of you on. 459 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:55,240 I waited patiently for the Lord, and He heard my cry. 460 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,440 I want to encourage someone tonight to know that you've got 461 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,880 a new reason to praise. All you have to do is surrender. 462 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:09,400 Amen. Surrender. 463 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,760 I know it sounds scary because we don't know exactly what's 464 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,760 waiting for us on the other side, but let me tell you what's 465 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,920 waiting for you on the other side of surrender. 466 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:30,480 Acceptance, love, mercy, support in ways that you can't find 467 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,280 anywhere else. This altar is open. 468 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,520 I invite you to come tonight. And collectively as the body of 469 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,679 Christ, worship him, surrender to Him. 470 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:44,320 But just understand every day brings new reasons to praise. 471 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,600 I don't have to be stuck in what He did for me 10 years ago 472 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:54,320 because he's still a real God today and he's still a real God 473 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,160 tomorrow, and he's still doing great things. 474 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:58,960 Let's sing to the Lord.