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00:00 Hey family, listen, you're about to watch a message entitled. I'm being stretched
00:05 I'm telling you some of you right now that are watching this. Well, this is what I felt for our church
00:09 You're in a season where you're being stretched. You're calling it stress. You're calling it suffering, but God's stretching you
00:16 I'm gonna teach you what to do with it and what he's stretching you into and pulling you out of enjoy the message
00:22 And so today I want to continue in this third installment
00:26 I want us to look at the book of Exodus chapter number 7 beginning at verse number 14
00:31 I'm gonna read a couple of verses the scripture will be on the screen for your reading
00:35 It says this then the Lord said to Moses Pharaoh's heart is unyielding and he refuses to let the people go
00:42 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river
00:45 Confront him on the bank of the Nile and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake
00:52 Then say to him the Lord the God of the Hebrews has sent me to say to you
00:57 Let my people go so that they may worship me in the wilderness
01:04 This is church anniversary and there's a message on my heart that I believe
01:08 Will hopefully bring some clarity to the season some of us are in personally
01:15 But also bring some clarity to the assignment that is on our church our spiritual family
01:21 Corporately, so here's the topic of today's teaching. I want to talk from this subject. I'm being stretched
01:28 I said I'm being stretched clap your hands if you're receiving the Word of God already. I'm being
01:37 stretched
01:40 Family, I recently came across a quote that is simple yet very
01:45 Significant and I'd like to lift it up for our learning today for my note-takers. The quote is as follows
01:51 growth and comfort
01:54 cannot coexist
01:56 I'm gonna say it again and see if I can get a better a man than that
02:02 growth and comfort
02:06 cannot coexist
02:11 In other words if I want to experience radical development
02:15 I must be willing to undergo radical discomfort as
02:20 a matter of fact
02:23 the seasons where we experience the most discomfort are
02:27 Often the seasons that we're experiencing the most development
02:33 God often
02:37 orchestrates and allows these seasons of discomfort to initiate something called spiritual
02:44 stretching
02:46 it is when God
02:48 exposes the irrelevance of
02:50 past and present spiritual practices and
02:54 Initiates the process of pulling us from where we were
03:00 Spiritually to where we need to be
03:04 Spiritually, and if we don't understand this stretching we will ultimately end up
03:10 mislabeling and mismanaging
03:13 these seasons
03:15 calling them stress
03:17 sadness suffering and
03:19 stagnation when it is really a season of
03:23 spiritual stretching and
03:26 If we will submit to the stretch
03:30 God will expose us to a version of him and he will also
03:35 Introduce you to a version of you that your eyes haven't seen and your ears
03:42 Haven't heard and your heart hasn't conceived if you let him stretch you he'll stretch you until you're stronger
03:49 He'll stretch you until you're wiser. He'll stretch you until you're more resilient
03:55 He'll stretch you until you're more prudent. He'll stretch you until you're more discerning
04:00 He'll stretch you until you become a version of you that the enemy can't handle and you can't recognize
04:08 Your blessing is on the other side of the stretch
04:11 The next level is on the other side of the stretch and I'm wondering am I talking to anyone online or in this room?
04:20 Who is sick of resisting the stretching and you're ready to tap out and say God have your way with me
04:28 In this season because I know my blessing is on the other side of the stretching
04:34 And
04:39 And stretching looks different for us in different seasons on last week
04:44 We explored the necessity of being stretched being pulled on as it relates to our
04:50 Mindset, but I was reading this text on today in Exodus and it exposes another area where we all need to be
04:59 Open to stretching and that is not just our mindsets. Let me see if I can get an amen here. It is our ministry models
05:06 I'm gonna say that one more time. I
05:12 said the text exposes us to another area where we may need to be open to stretching from time to time and
05:20 That's not just our mindset. It's our ministry models
05:24 We're getting ready to go there today because what if I told you that sometimes your current spiritual practices are
05:31 Actually in the way of your desired spiritual growth
05:37 Whoo, what if I told you that it's very easy to confuse what did work with what's working
05:44 That it is possible to have an allegiance to a way you have historically
05:53 Practiced your faith that served you in the seasons in the past
05:58 but no longer serve you in the season that you're in and when you are in seasons and
06:05 Situations like this you may experience what I call the theology of divine withdrawal
06:11 God who is omnipresent is everywhere at the same time, but omnipresent doesn't mean manifest presence
06:20 Manifest presence it is when he shows up and there are times on our spiritual journey where he doesn't give you
06:28 Manifest presence and it feels like withdrawal
06:31 So you feel like you dealing with spiritual stagnation and you're wondering why you don't feel and sense his nearness
06:38 The way that you used to he hasn't watched this left you but he's came out of manifest presence
06:46 Because he knows if he keeps allowing you to experience manifest presence where you are
06:52 You will never see the irrelevance of your current spiritual practices
06:57 So he withdraws himself to make you chase him
07:00 (crowd cheers)
07:02 You didn't hear what I just said. Yeah, he says I cannot let you keep sensing me the way you've historically sensed me
07:10 Utilizing those old practices because if you keep sensing my nearness you won't make the adjustments that's necessary
07:17 So I'm going to withdraw the manifestation of my presence because I want you to see I'm getting ready to do a new thing
07:25 In you and now you got to chase
07:29 The glory am I talking to anybody in the room today?
07:33 Spiritual
07:40 stretching
07:42 Where he pulls you out of a one iteration of the faith
07:46 to a new iteration of the faith
07:50 Paul says we behold
07:54 Come on like in a glass the glory of God and we are being changed
08:00 Into that which we see faith to faith
08:03 Glory to glory
08:08 So this stretching is a divine pulling
08:11 It is when he pulls you out of
08:15 What you won't walk out of wait a minute. I gotta
08:20 I'm not talking about that, but I just heard I said is when he pulls you out of
08:25 When you what you will not walk out of wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute
08:30 It is when he pulls you out of what you want. What wait a minute
08:35 Am I where's the honest section?
08:38 Am I talking to anybody that is honest enough to admit the way you got out?
08:43 Am I talking to anybody that has enough
08:49 Self-awareness to admit that there are some things I got out of pastor not because I walked out
08:56 There are some things I got out of because he pulled me out
09:02 It's some relationships
09:04 He had to pull me out of some mindsets
09:07 He had to pull me out of and I want to know is there anybody that will give him a you pulled me praise. I
09:17 Didn't have enough sense to get out I liked it when I was in it, but it was killing me softly
09:23 But you love me so much
09:25 You won't even let me get in the way of what you got for me. So when I won't walk out you pull me out
09:32 See you got to catch this because he's really particular with the pulling
09:42 Because his pulling is purposeful so he's particular with the pulling he doesn't pull everybody
09:50 This is why you have to accept
09:56 He is not gonna let let some of you stay in what he let your friends stay in. Let me go to this side
10:03 He is not going to let you stay in what he let some of your family stay in
10:10 You get in it you get caught you get in it you get convicted because God's like what I got for you
10:17 Requires me to pull you out. I
10:21 Don't know who I'm talking to
10:23 But God is getting ready to pull you out of a old thing into a new thing
10:30 You say no, I'm not gonna let you get away with that I
10:36 Got something for you and every time you get comfortable, I'm a boy
10:40 And every time you forget who you are
10:43 I'm a boy and when you run and get on a ship and go in the wrong direction like Jonah
10:49 I'm a Cinderella. I'm a chase you down
10:51 Because my name is on you. My assignment is on your life. I've got a purpose for you to fulfill
10:58 And
11:00 Then the text shows us how sometimes it's necessary
11:11 To be pulled from one set of spiritual practices
11:14 That used to serve you that are no longer serving you
11:23 That used to add spiritual value that no longer add spiritual value
11:29 to pull us out of
11:32 Iterations of practicing our faith that we have an emotional attachment to
11:38 Because that iteration got us through
11:42 When I was in Egypt and my life was falling apart it was this iteration of the faith that brought me through
11:52 Pastor this iteration of my faith was my foundation and
11:58 Thank God for that foundation. We need to honor that foundation
12:03 We need that foundation
12:05 But for where God has some of you and is taking others of you
12:10 You need more than a foundation and all that iteration was able to give you was a foundation
12:17 Where you're going you're gonna need more than a spiritual foundation
12:20 You're gonna need a spiritual structure that is strong enough to help you withhold yourself
12:28 Underneath the weight and the pressure and the stress
12:32 Associated with your assignment you are under too much stress to have shallow
12:38 Spirituality you've got too many decisions to make to simply lean on your own
12:45 Simply lean on your own
12:47 Understanding in this season of your life. You need more than what worked
12:53 You need something that is working
12:59 And the text the text reveals this to us because in the text we get the eavesdrop on a
13:06 Conversation that God is having with Moses and he's given Moses language. I don't even have time to deal with that
13:13 Right, but he's giving he's arming him with language that Moses needs for an assignment with someone. He's intimidated by
13:21 I ran from this man to save my life
13:28 Now I got to come back and
13:32 Tell this same man Pharaoh what you said to me so God gives him language
13:37 He says this is what you need to say to Pharaoh. Tell him let my people go
13:43 Now when this story is told that's often where we stop the statement
13:48 Let my people go but when we read the text that is not
13:53 Where the statement stops?
13:55 Tech says let my people go watch this verse is it a feature seven?
14:03 Exeter seven let my people go
14:05 so that
14:12 So that they may worship me
14:15 In the wilderness
14:19 See he didn't just say what needed to happen. He said why it needed to happen
14:26 He says I need you to let them go so that they can worship me in the wilderness
14:31 The wilderness represented an in-between season for Israel
14:38 It was when they were out of Egypt, but they were not into Canaan
14:43 It was where they not where they were
14:46 But they weren't where they were going
14:49 It's things were not as bad as they used to be
14:52 But they are not as good as they're going to be and he says Moses
14:58 I'm getting ready to teach my people how to worship in the middle
15:04 Cuz some people only know how to praise me at the end
15:07 But faith y'all not talking to me see appreciation praises him at the end
15:17 But faith praises him in the middle and I want to know am I talking to anybody that will say I'm not gonna wait until
15:26 I get through the door to praise him
15:28 I'm a praise them in the hallway
15:33 I'm appraising while I'm on my way
15:35 If there's anybody on your way to another level on your way to a new season
15:40 Don't wait until you get through the door. Somebody praise him in the hallway
15:45 He says I want them to worship me in the wilderness
15:53 tweener season
15:56 season season of
15:58 Purging a season where we feel like man. This is a nuisance God's like it's necessary
16:03 Because it's a season of purging purging or what purging of attitudes
16:08 Purging of issues purging of individuals
16:18 Did you hear what I just said yeah, what if there no I can't say that
16:28 Yes, what if there are some things that God is holding up in your life because of you who you're hanging out with
16:35 He says you don't know that they are not in covenant with you
16:44 You don't know that they are secretly intimidated by you
16:47 You don't know that they're about to be a Judas to you
16:50 And if I do what I want to do in your life now because of their proximity to you
16:54 They will get the overflow of a blessing. That's not a sign to them
16:58 So I'm gonna move them out of your life and push you into the season when I do what I'm getting ready to do in
17:06 Your life the right people are gonna be around you to catch the overflow
17:10 So I'm reading the text I'm like what God why do they have to
17:24 Why do they have to leave Egypt to worship aren't you God
17:28 Why can't they worship right where they are
17:32 Because it's not like they weren't worshiping already in Egypt
17:38 These were a people with a rich spiritual heritage
17:43 These are the people who are the descendants of Abraham
17:48 These are the people who are the descendants of Isaac and Jacob
17:52 These are the people who only came into Egypt because God by his grace
17:58 positioned Joseph in a place of prominence in Pharaoh's administration and
18:03 Joseph used his spiritual gifts and his prophetic insight and his keen discernment to make business
18:11 decisions that caused Egypt to prosper during the famine and because Egypt
18:17 Prospered during the famine they were in position to feed and to save
18:22 Joseph's family I
18:24 Shared this at the 1030. I don't know if y'all wanted or not
18:29 Joseph wasn't a preacher
18:39 Did you hear what I just said he didn't even work in church
18:43 But he's utilizing his spiritual gifts in the marketplace
18:51 If the only place your gift works is church
18:57 That's a church gift
19:00 Not a spiritual gift
19:02 Because a spiritual gift will go to work
19:07 wherever God said work
19:09 It will not only work in this room it'll work in the boardroom
19:15 Did you hear what I just said I said that prophetic insight and that
19:21 Discernment will have you getting ready to make a deal and something on the inside of your knower said don't you sign that?
19:28 Don't you partner with them? Don't you do that?
19:31 Is there anybody here that says after you show me the data after I've looked at the numbers?
19:37 I still need a word from the Lord
19:39 These people are from that heritage
19:46 So they were already worshiping
19:49 So why is God saying I need to pull you out of Egypt?
19:54 So that you can worship me in the wilderness
19:57 Don't miss this
20:00 They were practicing their faith
20:02 But they were practicing a diluted iteration of it
20:08 Wow
20:10 They were practicing a faith that they combined with Egyptian cultural practices
20:17 and
20:19 They did not know that in watch this that in that syncretism
20:24 They were diluting the purity of the faith and they were having an inferior spiritual experience
20:33 But because they were more spiritual than the people in Egypt. They didn't know they were still dealing with a spiritual deficit
20:41 Y'all are hearing what I'm saying, this is the danger of comparison
20:48 God never calls you and I to compare ourselves to other people. You must compare yourself to your potential
20:56 and
20:58 If you're comparing yourself to other people you can give yourself a grade
21:03 That's higher than your real performance
21:06 Because it don't take much to be better than Egypt
21:11 Darius how do you know they were engaging in those practices?
21:21 Because when they get out of Egypt and they get into the wilderness and Moses goes to Mount Sinai to commune and connect with God
21:27 They because of their trauma
21:30 confused Moses's distance with abandonment
21:32 (crowd laughing)
21:34 He's gone to get some instruction to help them but because of all of their trauma they think he's abandoned them
21:43 (crowd laughing)
21:45 They're imposing their experience with their old leader Pharaoh on their new leader Moses
21:51 So what do they do in their anxiety they reach back for what they familiar with
22:00 (crowd laughing)
22:06 And they build a golden calf
22:08 Here's my question. How do Hebrews know how to build a golden calf? They learned it in Egypt
22:16 (crowd cheering)
22:18 (crowd cheering)
22:20 And what they didn't know is if you've got Jehovah you don't need the calf
22:27 (crowd cheering)
22:31 Did you hear what I just said
22:33 God was not intimidated by the calf. God was not insecure because of the calf
22:40 God did not want them to have the calf because that negatively affected God
22:45 God didn't want them practicing calf religion because it negatively affected them
22:52 Because the calf would make promises that the calf can't deliver on
22:56 The calf can't heal you the calf can't set you free
23:01 The calf can't wipe away tears from your eyes
23:04 The calf can't deliver you from habits and y'all aren't talking to me and addiction and bondage and God
23:12 Wanted them to know that the calf didn't bring you out of Egypt. That was me
23:18 That wasn't luck. That was me. That wasn't the universe. That was a creator of the universe. That was me
23:25 (crowd cheering)
23:27 (crowd cheering)
23:29 (crowd cheering)
23:31 Don't give the calf
23:33 Credit for what God did I feel that right there. I need somebody in the room to shout God did it
23:41 Yeah, every door that was open for me
23:44 God did it the ways that were made God did it what I came back from God did it and that's why God is
23:51 Gonna get all the glory
23:53 (crowd cheering)
23:55 (crowd cheering)
23:57 I got 12 minutes
23:59 (crowd cheering)
24:01 (crowd cheering)
24:03 (crowd cheering)
24:05 (crowd cheering)
24:07 (crowd cheering)
24:09 They go back to the calf
24:11 because the calf
24:13 Gives them consolation
24:15 but not transformation
24:17 But that's all they had to use religion for
24:20 So that's all they thought religion could do
24:23 All they had to use religion for
24:28 Was consolation
24:31 Was to give me relief in the midst of a life I hate
24:36 As opposed to giving me a revelation on how to create a life I love
24:43 (crowd cheering)
24:45 Y'all are not talking to me
24:47 Yet this kind of religious expression uses church as a 90-minute relief session
24:55 Let me go to this side, I'm just trying to find a
25:00 90-minute relief session from a life that I hate
25:08 (crowd cheering)
25:10 But I don't know how to change
25:15 A relief session that distracts me
25:18 From the dilemmas that are waiting on me as soon as I leave these doors
25:24 It's religion that give me consolation and inspiration but no transformation
25:37 That's all the calf can do
25:39 It's an inferior spiritual experience
25:52 And we hit seasons in our life where God has to show, now this is what's interesting, the calf was evil
26:03 But watch this, it represents more than evil, it represents, come on, Egypt
26:08 Irrelevance
26:10 It represents a way you did it before you got taught
26:14 It's I'm doing the best I can based off what I know
26:23 Because remember when they come out of Egypt
26:29 When they're building the golden calf, that's when Moses is actually getting the commandments
26:34 So they're saved but untaught
26:38 They're saved but untaught so because they're untaught they don't even know they shouldn't be including the calf
26:56 (crowd exclaims)
26:58 Because all they're accustomed to is the 90-minute inspiration session
27:05 So God is pulling them out of that iteration
27:20 Saying listen, it may have served you in a season
27:26 But you're in love with what don't work anymore
27:30 And you're actually overestimating the value it added
27:36 Because if you look at your struggles you can see it didn't work the way you thought it did, is that too heavy?
27:44 I'm on it today though. I'm not playing. Yeah, if you I mean if you really look at it's like, uh, that didn't really do what I thought it did
27:54 It gave me conviction
27:56 I practiced penance. I knew I needed to change but I didn't know how
28:06 And so God says I gotta I gotta change church for you
28:19 (crowd cheers)
28:21 He says that way of church
28:30 Has impacted you to this level, but where I'm getting ready to take you
28:36 requires a change in
28:39 The way you've been churching. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna send you one
28:47 I'm gonna send you a place
28:49 Where when you come you feel pulled
28:51 you feel comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time a
28:57 Place that is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Y'all aren't talking to me
29:03 He's pulling us out of calves now, we don't have calves literally I got six minutes y'all. All right
29:17 Okay, we don't have calves literally
29:19 But we have calves metaphorically
29:22 these iterations
29:25 That God has to expose and then stretch us out of so here are just a few examples
29:30 Number one is an iteration called crisis Christianity
29:34 This is when our spiritual commitment is crisis contingent
29:46 Did you hear what I just said it's when we are only spiritually committed when we're in crisis
29:51 Did you hear what I just said it it is it
29:58 It is when things have to go real bad for us to get real serious spiritually
30:04 It and watch this now I'm not hating on this type of Christianity because most of us came to Christ because of crisis
30:15 And he's a God that'll meet you in the crisis he met Bartimaeus in a crisis
30:20 He met the woman with the issue of blood at a crisis
30:23 He met the woman at the well in John 4 at a crisis the man in John 5 at the pool of Bethesda at a crisis
30:30 The Syrophoenician woman whose daughter needed an exorcism at a crisis. He is a crisis manager
30:36 but
30:39 It shouldn't take crisis
30:42 To
30:44 Keep us committed see crisis Christianity means you've learned to trust God, but it also means God can't trust you
30:52 He says you want me to throw you into this season of blessing
30:59 But I can't trust how you're gonna behave when things go. Well, I can only trust your behavior when you're in crisis
31:10 But am I talking to anybody that's honest enough to admit Lord
31:15 I don't want you to have to keep me in crisis to keep me committed
31:18 I want to be just as committed when the windows of heaven are open over my life
31:23 I want to be just as committed when you're doing what my eyes haven't seen and my ears haven't heard pull me out of
31:31 Crisis Christianity, maybe maybe not that maybe not that maybe not that
31:39 Maybe maybe the next one is it consumeristic Christianity
31:43 This is when people incorrectly assume that their spiritual satisfaction comes only from their consumption and not their contribution
31:53 This is when come on come on this version of the faith assumes we can have spiritual satisfaction
32:03 without communal responsibility
32:06 When the truth of the matter is you'll never get spiritually full just receiving
32:11 See the way the kingdom works is it works in reverse
32:17 See in the kingdom. You don't go up by going up in
32:22 The kingdom you got to go down to go up humble yourself
32:27 Under the mighty hand of God and he will exalt you come on in due season in the kingdom
32:34 You don't get to get in
32:36 The kingdom you give to get so you will never be spiritually satisfied
32:44 Just consuming God has taken your fulfillment and hid it in your contribution
32:51 and so it is only when you start contributing and
32:54 Utilizing that which God has placed on the inside of you that you will actually experience the fulfillment
33:02 That you are looking for
33:04 However, if we simply treat God as a vendor of religious services who is no different than my accountant
33:11 Then you end up robbed of the highest form of compensation, which is fulfillment
33:16 And God's like I want you to understand contribution because it keeps you from being a person of exploitation
33:24 He says cuz you're not gonna treat them better than you treat me
33:32 and
33:34 If all you do is consume and you do not contribute in your relationship with me
33:40 Then you're gonna get in relationships with others and do the same thing
33:44 and
33:47 They not God so they will not handle your consumption the way I do
33:51 I'm God so I have an endless supply and I can't be bankrupt
33:56 But because they not God if you keep staying in relationship with them and all you're doing is making withdrawals
34:02 And you're not making deposits at some point that relationship is going to go bankrupt
34:07 Y'all ready to go here's here's another number three carnal Christianity
34:20 This is the version of the faith that accepts Jesus as Lord cognitively but refuses to submit to his ways practically
34:28 It is it is come on come on it is what Dallas Willett calls vampire Christianity
34:36 It's the version of the faith that wants Jesus's blood but wants nothing else. I
34:41 Want you to forgive me on the back end, but don't tell me what to do on the front. I
34:48 Want you to be my Savior, but don't be my shepherd
34:50 however, this version of Christianity robs you of the benefits of shepherd leadership because if you'll let him be your shepherd you shall not
34:59 Want I got to go only the Lord is my shepherd
35:04 I shall not walk if you let him be your shepherd
35:07 He'll lead you to green pastures if you let him be your shepherd
35:10 He'll lead you to still waters if you let him be your shepherd
35:14 He'll restore your soul if you let him be the shepherd you can say yay though
35:18 I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil because of thou art with me
35:24 Tario let's go. It's 205 we out of here
35:29 Can I give you another one
35:34 Cognitively challenged Christianity
35:41 This is a version of the faith that is characterized by a zeal that is absent of knowledge
35:47 It hmm. It is
35:50 Charismatic. Y'all aren't talking to me. I said it is mark 12 30 says love the Lord
35:58 You're God with all your heart all your soul and all your mind and all your strength
36:03 Which means God wants the utilization of my mind when it comes to worshiping him not just my heart
36:09 But also my mind but this version of Christianity requires you to leave your brain in the car when you come into certain religious spaces
36:17 It is a diet of spiritual sugar
36:26 filled with religious rhetoric and church colloquialisms that have no theological grounding and make no logical sense
36:35 Turn around three times three cartwheels scream and so a triple triple quadruple
36:40 Breakthrough seed and now everything in your house is gonna be set free. I got to leave my brain in the car to hear that
36:48 And it is perpetuating itself because we keep eating it
36:56 (crowd shouting)
37:14 I'm done Tario
37:16 Can I give you another one?
37:18 Claustrophobic Christianity
37:21 Claustrophobic Christianity
37:25 I came through I came across this concept called spiritual temperaments and it set me free. I am neo
37:31 Neo charismatic in my pneumatology. I believe in the infilling of the spirit and
37:36 I wear a seat belt based on 1st Corinthians 14, so I don't want charismania, but but even though that's my pneumatology
37:44 I is certain stuff temperamentally. I don't do and
37:47 That doesn't mean I'm less spiritual
37:50 It means that my spiritual temperament has a certain sacred pathway
37:54 But claustrophobic Christianity tries to put everybody in the same category
38:01 So it's like if I don't dance like you dance, then it means I don't love him like you love him
38:08 But the evidence of your spiritual maturity is not what you do with your feet in here
38:13 The evidence of your spiritual maturity is where your feet take you out there
38:18 Dance all you want to it doesn't make you more spiritual than me
38:22 I
38:31 Can take you to the scriptures and show you what the Bible says David dance?
38:34 Until he came out of his kingly garments and then I can take you to the scriptures and where it says in Jacob in
38:41 His old age leaned on his staff and worship some people dance some people lean some people cry
38:47 Some people shout some people clap some people rock some people moan some people yell
38:53 But whatever it is, don't put me in your box
38:57 Tario I'm done
39:01 And people get on platforms like this and start fussing
39:14 You
39:16 Ain't
39:20 You don't understand different people have different pathways
39:28 They got a different spiritual temperament. Don't put me in your box
39:34 That's your box
39:38 Sometimes my temperament requires reflection
39:43 We were in Jersey and we were having a moment yesterday
39:45 I mean the presence of God was just like manifested itself and I told the team I said
39:50 There was a moment where everything was just quiet and I felt the awkwardness in the room with the congregation
39:56 And so I told the congregation see don't be afraid of the silence
39:59 Because that's the only time you hear
40:02 You can't hear when you talking and you can't hear when other people are talking so there needs to be silence
40:12 So you can hear
40:14 And last but not least there's cognitively dominated Christianity
40:26 These are people
40:30 It's a version of Christianity
40:32 That is so obsessed with information and principles. They don't understand the importance of presence
40:40 It
40:42 Is a version of Christianity has a form of godliness but denies power
40:49 It fails to recognize the limitations of sermons
40:55 Sermons are only a part of this dispensation
41:05 When Jesus returns all things to his original intent there will be presence but no sermons
41:10 There was presence in Eden no sermons
41:16 We don't need sermons in heaven we need sermons on earth
41:23 We need presence a sermon can't heal you
41:34 A sermon won't break a yoke of compulsive behavior
41:38 Only presence
41:42 Does that and some of you come into this church and it's like
41:46 y'all don't shout enough and
41:49 then others come and it's like
41:51 y'all shout
41:53 Too much like some of you if we don't have a moment like we just had earlier prior to me preaching if we don't have
41:58 A moment like that every Sunday you you don't even feel like you had church
42:01 And
42:03 Then others others of you are anxiously waiting on us to stop that
42:09 When PD gonna preach that's why I came
42:14 And God's got both of you here cuz he's stretching you both
42:29 That's why when you try to describe this church you can't
42:34 Like they like what kind of church is it you like I don't know
42:38 Because it's changing church and it's changing us
42:48 God is stretching us
42:52 But I want to pray a benediction over you and I want you to receive this
43:00 final blessing father bless us and keep us
43:02 Cause your face a favor to shine upon us
43:07 Be gracious to us
43:09 Protect us provide for us and above all else. Would you grant us peace?
43:15 Lord stretch us
43:18 Until we come out of the old and into the new in Jesus name
43:27 Amen, God bless you. I love you. We'll see you next week
43:31 You
43:34 You
43:36 ♪ We wait on you ♪