# The Glitch That Keeps On Giving

An episode of [Elevation with Steven Furtick](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/216015753), 20 Feb 2026, 48 min.

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Do I have what it takes? In “The Glitch That Keeps On Giving,” Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church shows how God can work through the flaws we notice most and reveals that the weaknesses we fear might be the very places His strength shows up the clearest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
[0:02] Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
[0:05] Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
[0:08] Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
[0:11] Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.
[0:13] Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Two Corinthians, chapter ten, verse seven through twelve.
[0:25] Speaker 2: The apostle Paul wants to tell you something. He has
[0:28] Speaker 2: some expert advice for you on how to deal with
[0:34] Speaker 2: this question.
[0:35] Speaker 1: And here's the question. You're ready.
[0:36] Speaker 2: This the question every man, woman, boy, and girl in
[0:39] Speaker 2: the room is asking. And you've been asking it your
[0:41] Speaker 2: whole life in different ways, with different amounts of money
[0:44] Speaker 2: in your bank account, and different color hair on your head,
[0:49] Speaker 2: and different numbers on the scale when you step on it,
[0:53] Speaker 2: and different places that you've lived, and different jobs you've had.
[0:56] Speaker 2: You've been asking this question your whole life. Do I
[0:58] Speaker 2: have what it takes? Do I have what it takes?
[1:04] Speaker 1: Well? Paul has.
[1:09] Speaker 2: A way of dealing with this question that I thought
[1:11] Speaker 2: would be helpful for us today, and.
[1:14] Speaker 1: Let's read together.
[1:15] Speaker 2: Two Corinthians, chapter ten, verse seven. He says, your first
[1:18] Speaker 2: problem is this, you are judging by appearances. He said,
[1:23] Speaker 2: if anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they
[1:26] Speaker 2: should consider again that we belong to Christ just as
[1:30] Speaker 2: much as they do.
[1:31] Speaker 1: Touch somebody say, you're not better than me.
[1:35] Speaker 2: So even if I both, what are y'all arguing about it?
[1:40] Speaker 2: It was just one line? Get back on the scriptures.
[1:44] Speaker 2: So even if I both somewhat freely about the authority
[1:46] Speaker 2: the Lord gave us from building you up rather than
[1:49] Speaker 2: tearing you down, motives are important.
[1:51] Speaker 1: I will not be ashamed of it.
[1:53] Speaker 2: I do not want to seem to be trying to
[1:56] Speaker 2: frighten you with my letters. For some say his letters
[1:59] Speaker 2: are way and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive
[2:03] Speaker 2: and his speaking amounts to nothing. Such people should realize
[2:08] Speaker 2: that what we are in our letters when we are absent,
[2:11] Speaker 2: we will be in our actions when we are present.
[2:14] Speaker 1: In other words, Paul says, I'm about to back it up.
[2:16] Speaker 1: I don't just.
[2:17] Speaker 2: Talk big because verse twelve, we'll stop here. We do
[2:22] Speaker 2: not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who
[2:26] Speaker 2: commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare
[2:32] Speaker 2: themselves with themselves, they are not wise. Wait, I'm confused,
[2:38] Speaker 2: I thought we were reading the Bible. This sounds like
[2:40] Speaker 2: it could be a relevant Facebook post.
[2:46] Speaker 1: People say the Bible is outdated.
[2:48] Speaker 2: That sounds like a pretty good word for twenty sixteen
[2:51] Speaker 2: to me. Comparison and competition, self commendation.
[3:00] Speaker 1: He said, it's not wise.
[3:03] Speaker 2: Well, where I really want to focus is verse ten,
[3:05] Speaker 2: So let me read that again. And Paul says, there
[3:10] Speaker 2: are some who are saying that my letters are weighty
[3:13] Speaker 2: and forceful, but in person I'm unimpressive and that my
[3:19] Speaker 2: speaking amounts to nothing. So I want to speak to
[3:22] Speaker 2: you today from this subject. I want to talk about
[3:26] Speaker 2: the glitch that keeps on giving, the glitch that keeps
[3:33] Speaker 2: on giving, And let's pray one more time. Father opened
[3:38] Speaker 2: our hearts, our ears, our minds, and most importantly, what
[3:41] Speaker 2: we learned today, we're going to need the courage to
[3:43] Speaker 2: put it into practice and the application to know what
[3:46] Speaker 2: that means to do it in Jesus' name, Amen, touch
[3:49] Speaker 2: your neighbors. Say you got a glitch on your way
[3:50] Speaker 2: down to your seat.
[3:51] Speaker 1: You got a glitch? Amen, thank you? Spec Yeah, anything
[4:00] Speaker 1: right now, but just in case.
[4:01] Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I feel like I might get to preach
[4:06] Speaker 2: it in a minute.
[4:06] Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. So it's just stay
[4:08] Speaker 1: right there.
[4:11] Speaker 2: Well, I want to give you a list of all
[4:12] Speaker 2: the movies that have made me cry. I went back
[4:14] Speaker 2: through my life and I thought about the first movie
[4:17] Speaker 2: that made me cry was called Follow that Bird, very
[4:20] Speaker 2: emotional experience to me to see big bird ostracized and
[4:23] Speaker 2: alienated trying to find his way back home. Second movie
[4:27] Speaker 2: that made me cry, and I maybe should have reconciled
[4:29] Speaker 2: this list with my mom's memory, but I remember crying
[4:32] Speaker 2: for this movie called Harry and the Henderson's Harry and
[4:36] Speaker 2: the Henderson's when they were slapping Harry, and I know
[4:38] Speaker 2: its for his own good, but it.
[4:40] Speaker 1: Just couldn't take that.
[4:41] Speaker 2: Then you know, you've ben tour a little bit in life,
[4:43] Speaker 2: and it takes more, you know, you develop emotionally and stuff,
[4:45] Speaker 2: So that kind of stuff doesn't make you cry anymore.
[4:47] Speaker 2: Then the movies that make you cry change. And so
[4:50] Speaker 2: the next movie that made me cry, of course, was
[4:52] Speaker 2: Rocky two, followed by Rocky three and Rocky four while
[4:58] Speaker 2: we're at it, and a movie that still.
[5:01] Speaker 1: Makes me cry every time I watch it to this day.
[5:03] Speaker 2: And if this movie does not make you cry, I
[5:04] Speaker 2: question your compassion and your Christianity. In fact, I question
[5:08] Speaker 2: your humanity and your ability to feel at all. I
[5:10] Speaker 2: think you might be a sociopath if you can watch
[5:12] Speaker 2: the movie Rudy and not cry or at least have
[5:15] Speaker 2: a lip quiver.
[5:16] Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any passion.
[5:18] Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any reason for God to
[5:19] Speaker 2: leave you on this earth.
[5:20] Speaker 1: And I think you're probably going to go to Hell
[5:22] Speaker 1: when you leave this place. So it gets me every time.
[5:26] Speaker 2: It was a sunny afternoon, Saturday afternoon when normally I
[5:32] Speaker 2: would be heading in to prepare for church, but I
[5:34] Speaker 2: had a guest speaker, and it afforded me the rare
[5:36] Speaker 2: privilege and opportunity to take my two sons to see
[5:40] Speaker 2: a movie.
[5:41] Speaker 1: And I was not.
[5:42] Speaker 2: Expecting that day to be wrecked by the movie Wreck
[5:48] Speaker 2: at Ralph, but it happened. When they put that girl
[5:52] Speaker 2: on the screen called Vanelope, and she was stuck in
[5:56] Speaker 2: a video game where they were supposed to race, but
[5:58] Speaker 2: she couldn't race, and they called her glitch Girl because
[6:02] Speaker 2: there was something wrong with her programming and pixelation, and
[6:06] Speaker 2: so she wanted to race, but she couldn't race, and
[6:09] Speaker 2: it was because of her glitch, and the movie.
[6:11] Speaker 1: Kind of takes a few turns.
[6:12] Speaker 2: And at one point in the movie, I was watching
[6:14] Speaker 2: Glitch girl glitch and she wanted to race, and I
[6:17] Speaker 2: started crying in the movie and I told Grim shut
[6:19] Speaker 2: up when he asked me, are you crying, Daddy?
[6:22] Speaker 1: And it just got me thinking about thinking.
[6:27] Speaker 2: About all the ways that my glitches have caused me
[6:31] Speaker 2: to miss God in.
[6:32] Speaker 1: My life, and thinking about how many.
[6:35] Speaker 2: People would go further faster if they knew how to
[6:38] Speaker 2: deal with their glitch. Just reminds your neighbor again, They're
[6:41] Speaker 2: not going to be offended because I made you say it.
[6:43] Speaker 2: Just remind them one more time you got a glitch.
[6:45] Speaker 2: Just make sure that they're well aware of that fact.
[6:48] Speaker 2: And well, I didn't say give him a whole paragraph
[6:51] Speaker 2: of evidence. We preach things sometimes that are easy to
[7:00] Speaker 2: accept but a little bit harder to apply. And I
[7:04] Speaker 2: understand that writing this book How God Uses Broken People
[7:08] Speaker 2: to Do Big Things is two parts. One is just
[7:11] Speaker 2: convincing you that God uses broken people to do big things.
[7:16] Speaker 2: I bet you don't believe that to the level that
[7:18] Speaker 2: you should. And all the efforts that we've made to
[7:21] Speaker 2: convince you, well, sometimes they fall short. And we can
[7:25] Speaker 2: tell you all the Bible characters. I'm trying to pull
[7:27] Speaker 2: this thing up. Just one that I found online, how
[7:31] Speaker 2: God doesn't pick the ideal candidates.
[7:36] Speaker 1: For the offices that he appoints him to.
[7:39] Speaker 2: And one guy put it online. I've seen this before,
[7:42] Speaker 2: maybe you have. But he went through a list. He said,
[7:44] Speaker 2: you know, Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old,
[7:49] Speaker 2: Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar. Leah wasn't
[7:52] Speaker 2: very good looking. Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem.
[7:58] Speaker 2: Gideon was afraid. Samson had long hair. We all know,
[8:02] Speaker 2: God kid use you with long hair tattoos. Rahab was
[8:06] Speaker 2: a prostitute. Jeremiah and Timothy were too young. David had
[8:11] Speaker 2: an affair and was a murderer. Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah
[8:15] Speaker 2: preached naked. You know, I've done a lot of things
[8:17] Speaker 2: to get attention.
[8:19] Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip that point at the stage.
[8:24] Speaker 2: Somebody and say, miss me with that, Pastor, Stephen, I don't.
[8:29] Speaker 1: Let's say God told him to.
[8:34] Speaker 2: Jonah ran from God. Naomi was a widow, Job went
[8:37] Speaker 2: through bankruptcy. Peter denied Christ. The Disciples fell asleep while
[8:42] Speaker 2: praying Martha worried about everything. The Samaritan woman was divorced
[8:47] Speaker 2: more than once, Zachius was too short, Timothy had an ulcer,
[8:52] Speaker 2: and Lazarus was dead. Now touch your other neighbor and say,
[8:58] Speaker 2: what's your excuse? The question is can God use broken
[9:04] Speaker 2: people to do big things? I wonder what you put
[9:06] Speaker 2: my book title up, not my sermon title. My book
[9:08] Speaker 2: title up one more time, just so you can see.
[9:09] Speaker 2: I want to focus for week one on this one
[9:12] Speaker 2: where how God uses, how God uses, and I want
[9:17] Speaker 2: to talk about how he does that. And of course
[9:21] Speaker 2: we could have no better consultant than Paul. I didn't
[9:25] Speaker 2: put him in the.
[9:26] Speaker 1: List that I read because Paul is more known for
[9:30] Speaker 1: his gifts. He was very gifted. Paul was very gifted.
[9:35] Speaker 2: We know he was gifted because God chose him, of
[9:38] Speaker 2: all people to take the Gospel to the Gentiles, and
[9:40] Speaker 2: he was the first one to take it beyond the
[9:43] Speaker 2: original Jewish converts, along with Barnabas.
[9:45] Speaker 1: He was very gifted.
[9:47] Speaker 2: Paul was very gifted in debate and in reasoning as
[9:51] Speaker 2: well as philosophy, because he had studied under Gamaliel Gamaleo
[9:55] Speaker 2: was a part of the Jewish Sanhedron, and he was
[9:57] Speaker 2: known as a guru. So Paul had that kind of degree,
[10:01] Speaker 2: added to the fact that he was a Roman citizen,
[10:03] Speaker 2: which gave him entree and prestige into places that common
[10:07] Speaker 2: people could not go. Makes sense God would choose him
[10:10] Speaker 2: then to preach in Europe and in northern Africa and
[10:13] Speaker 2: parts of Asia, and to establish churches in the most
[10:17] Speaker 2: strategic cities of his day. So we see him in Rome,
[10:21] Speaker 2: and we see him in Athens, and we see him
[10:24] Speaker 2: establishing churches in Philippi and Galatia and Ephesus and Corinth,
[10:30] Speaker 2: just to name a few. But in Second Corinthians we
[10:33] Speaker 2: watch him writing back to the church at Corinth, and
[10:36] Speaker 2: he's having to do something that you would never imagine
[10:38] Speaker 2: Paul would have to do at this stage of his
[10:40] Speaker 2: life and ministry, considering his accomplishments.
[10:43] Speaker 1: He's having to defend his credentials.
[10:47] Speaker 2: How could a man that learned, How can a man
[10:49] Speaker 2: whose life had meant so much to so many find
[10:54] Speaker 2: himself in a spot where he's having to defend his credentials.
[10:58] Speaker 1: In fact, I don't take it as.
[11:01] Speaker 2: As much of a dilemma as I do as an
[11:05] Speaker 2: encouragement to know that even Paul, at this point in
[11:10] Speaker 2: his ministry, was still answering the question do you have
[11:14] Speaker 2: what it takes? I put that out there because if
[11:18] Speaker 2: you thought that question was going to go away when
[11:21] Speaker 2: you hit forty, and it didn't. If you thought that
[11:23] Speaker 2: question was going to go when you.
[11:25] Speaker 1: Graduated high school and it did it.
[11:28] Speaker 2: If you thought that question was going to go away
[11:30] Speaker 2: when you got married and it didn't. If you thought
[11:32] Speaker 2: that question was going to go away when you first
[11:34] Speaker 2: started making six figures and it did it. If you
[11:37] Speaker 2: thought that question was going to go away, you know,
[11:40] Speaker 2: when you finally prove to your ex that you could
[11:43] Speaker 2: get somebody to and it did it. Paul is at
[11:47] Speaker 2: the pinnacle of his ministry effectiveness, and he's still dealing
[11:52] Speaker 2: with people who are calling him unqualified, and so he
[11:57] Speaker 2: deals with this question and he confronts challenge because what
[12:02] Speaker 2: he has to do in his life is too important
[12:05] Speaker 2: for him to leave these issues unconfronted. Now, I want
[12:09] Speaker 2: to say that over your life today, whether you believe
[12:11] Speaker 2: it or not, that what God has purposed for you
[12:14] Speaker 2: to accomplish is too important for you to leave your
[12:17] Speaker 2: issues unconfronted. Touch somebody say confront it. Sometimes You've got
[12:24] Speaker 2: to take a stand for what you know God has
[12:26] Speaker 2: called you to do. And sometimes that means standing against
[12:29] Speaker 2: what others say, and sometimes that means taking a stand
[12:32] Speaker 2: within yourself, against yourself. Paul said, you can't strip me
[12:39] Speaker 2: of my credentials. You can't take away from me what
[12:42] Speaker 2: I know God is placed on me.
[12:44] Speaker 1: I'm confident of it, he said.
[12:46] Speaker 2: And the reason that you're getting into trouble, and the
[12:49] Speaker 2: reason that you come to the conclusion that you don't
[12:51] Speaker 2: have what it takes, and the reason that you are
[12:54] Speaker 2: spending so much time trying to impress people, is because
[12:58] Speaker 2: you are judging by appearances.
[13:00] Speaker 1: There it is. That's the number one problem with our
[13:03] Speaker 1: world today.
[13:03] Speaker 2: I think that's the number one reason we get ourselves
[13:06] Speaker 2: in trouble, and that's.
[13:07] Speaker 1: The number one reason that potential is.
[13:08] Speaker 2: Unfulfilled because we judge by appearances. But touch your neighbor
[13:13] Speaker 2: and say there's more to me than what you see.
[13:18] Speaker 2: Turn to her and tell her there's more to me
[13:21] Speaker 2: than what you see. So don't judge me by what
[13:24] Speaker 2: you see on the surface. Don't judge me by what.
[13:27] Speaker 1: I look like.
[13:27] Speaker 2: Right now, That's what Paul was saying to these super apostles.
[13:31] Speaker 2: They had permeated and pervaded the Corinthian Church that he
[13:35] Speaker 2: had established, and now they were claiming superiority over him
[13:39] Speaker 2: and threatening to undermine the work that he had established.
[13:41] Speaker 2: He wrote back to the church, and he said, you
[13:44] Speaker 2: need to take another look.
[13:46] Speaker 1: Another look.
[13:47] Speaker 2: I wonder how many things in our lives would look
[13:50] Speaker 2: differently if we look beneath the surface. That's it, beneath
[13:55] Speaker 2: the surface, if you got past your first impressions. I
[14:00] Speaker 2: want to preach a sermon one day, and I may
[14:01] Speaker 2: preach it next week, and I may preach it in
[14:03] Speaker 2: three years. I want to call it the estimation game.
[14:07] Speaker 2: And I hadn't quite figured out everything I'll put in
[14:09] Speaker 2: it yet, But it's just this idea that most of
[14:12] Speaker 2: us vacillate between wildly overestimating what we can do without
[14:16] Speaker 2: God and underestimating what we could do with Him.
[14:22] Speaker 1: Because we look at it at the surface.
[14:27] Speaker 2: And just in honor of the sermon that I may
[14:28] Speaker 2: preach one day, I just want to give a little
[14:31] Speaker 2: illustration or something like that. I want to play a
[14:33] Speaker 2: little game with somebody right over here and.
[14:36] Speaker 1: Play it with him. I like his hat. Yeah, come
[14:40] Speaker 1: on over, man, Why not just a little game. You know.
[14:43] Speaker 1: I like to do stuff like this to keep people
[14:44] Speaker 1: from fall asleep during the sermon. But I got some money.
[14:48] Speaker 2: You like money, A little money.
[14:53] Speaker 1: I'm short right here for everybody to see. Got a
[14:58] Speaker 1: little role, golla something, not much, but if you can guess.
[15:03] Speaker 2: How much it is, I give it to you. You
[15:07] Speaker 2: want to feel it, you wanna hold it? He said something.
[15:15] Speaker 2: He said something. I've done this in all the other
[15:18] Speaker 2: worship experiences, but for Adorable, he's the first one that
[15:24] Speaker 2: did what he was supposed to do. He did what
[15:28] Speaker 2: he was supposed to do. He said, I see blue
[15:32] Speaker 2: under there, so I know there are some hundreds in
[15:36] Speaker 2: the role. I don't know what you do recreationally to
[15:41] Speaker 2: make money, but touch somebody and say, look beneath the surface.
[15:53] Speaker 1: See he got it right.
[15:54] Speaker 2: If you judge this stack by what you see on
[15:57] Speaker 2: the surface, you are going to underrest to me. But
[16:01] Speaker 2: if you peel back and look, come on, I'm preaching
[16:04] Speaker 2: and you don't even realize that.
[16:05] Speaker 1: If you peel it back.
[16:08] Speaker 2: You're gonna see that there's more to the stack than
[16:11] Speaker 2: you can see.
[16:12] Speaker 1: On the surface. That's my message. I wanted to let
[16:15] Speaker 1: you know your video and I preach to your iPhone.
[16:18] Speaker 1: I don't mind.
[16:19] Speaker 2: There's more to the stack than you can see on
[16:22] Speaker 2: the surface. Touch somebody and say I got layers. I
[16:26] Speaker 2: got layers, And what you see is not all there
[16:29] Speaker 2: is to me. And what I see in the mirror
[16:32] Speaker 2: is not indicative. Up my ministry, up my life, up
[16:35] Speaker 2: my potential.
[16:36] Speaker 1: Take another look at me, tiger, Look at me now.
[16:45] Speaker 2: Something's happening beneath the surface. I'm kind of struggling right
[16:48] Speaker 2: now and trying to get some stuff in order. But
[16:50] Speaker 2: there's something inside of me. Then it is greater. What
[16:53] Speaker 2: I'm rapped with is not indicative of what I'm made of.
[16:56] Speaker 1: There's more inside of me.
[16:58] Speaker 2: And if you know this, I walked away away from
[17:00] Speaker 2: him before he could guess the amount because I was
[17:02] Speaker 2: scared he was onto something. That's why the devil's been
[17:05] Speaker 2: fighting you, because he knows you're onto something. You're starting
[17:08] Speaker 2: to see yourself in a new life. You're starting to
[17:11] Speaker 2: see yourself in a divine to fit.
[17:13] Speaker 3: I've seen them, so so look beneath the surface, and
[17:23] Speaker 3: it would give you confidence when you do.
[17:25] Speaker 1: Confidence.
[17:26] Speaker 2: That's what we're all trying to project into the world,
[17:28] Speaker 2: but often we're trying to project something that we don't possess.
[17:31] Speaker 2: Talk to me. Often we're trying to project a confidence
[17:34] Speaker 2: that we don't possess because we.
[17:36] Speaker 1: See our cracks.
[17:37] Speaker 2: But Paul said that if you're confident that you belong
[17:40] Speaker 2: to Christ, you should consider that I belong just as
[17:44] Speaker 2: much as anybody. Now, I want to make an announcement,
[17:47] Speaker 2: and this is in the book, and I'm gonna say
[17:48] Speaker 2: it right now, and I'm gonna.
[17:49] Speaker 1: Say it to everybody whoever felt like.
[17:51] Speaker 2: You couldn't come to church because of your conflicts. I
[17:54] Speaker 2: want to say it to everybody who ever felt like
[17:56] Speaker 2: you didn't fit in a church because everybody was so pretty.
[17:59] Speaker 2: And so I want to say it to everybody who
[18:01] Speaker 2: has ever felt like that that the presence of God
[18:04] Speaker 2: is the last place you should be because of what
[18:06] Speaker 2: your clothes smell like, because of who you've been hanging
[18:08] Speaker 2: out with, or I want to say it to everybody
[18:10] Speaker 2: who came into church with a religious pretense that is
[18:13] Speaker 2: much more impressive than your actual performance. I want to
[18:15] Speaker 2: say to everybody who feels like there's too there are
[18:18] Speaker 2: no second class citizens in the Kingdom of God. It
[18:26] Speaker 2: took the same blood and the same beating of the
[18:30] Speaker 2: same savior to get me in that it took to
[18:34] Speaker 2: get you in. So I'm confident. It's believing that I
[18:43] Speaker 2: belong watch this. True confidence is a byproduct of belonging.
[18:50] Speaker 2: True confidence is a byproduct of belonging. True confidence that
[18:58] Speaker 2: will just run up in my room between the nine
[19:01] Speaker 2: thirty and eleven thirty and barge.
[19:04] Speaker 1: In and say, Daddy, can I get us? BRT zero.
[19:09] Speaker 2: The only person bold enough to run up in my
[19:11] Speaker 2: room and ask a question like that is my ten
[19:14] Speaker 2: year old who knows.
[19:16] Speaker 1: That he belongs to me.
[19:18] Speaker 2: Do you know that the Bible says that you can
[19:20] Speaker 2: come to the throne room boldly and look for grace
[19:23] Speaker 2: in your time of need?
[19:25] Speaker 1: But you don't pray like this.
[19:27] Speaker 2: You keep associating your confidence with your conflicts, and so
[19:32] Speaker 2: because you're conflicted, and because you're cracked, and because you're
[19:35] Speaker 2: screwed up beneath the surface and you know it, you
[19:38] Speaker 2: don't come.
[19:38] Speaker 1: To God boldly.
[19:40] Speaker 2: You don't run up and get in his face and
[19:43] Speaker 2: tell him that you need him on the level that
[19:44] Speaker 2: you really need him. You don't walk with your headheld
[19:48] Speaker 2: high like somebody who has been redeemed. But the moment
[19:51] Speaker 2: that you realize, you know what, I belong here.
[19:55] Speaker 1: I belong here. I belong here, not.
[20:00] Speaker 2: Not necessarily because of my behavior, but my admission price
[20:09] Speaker 2: was purchased. This does not speak well in a self
[20:16] Speaker 2: help oriented culture, because I believe in helping yourself, but
[20:19] Speaker 2: I also believe that there are sometimes when you can't,
[20:23] Speaker 2: and so the essence of church needs.
[20:27] Speaker 1: To be restated.
[20:28] Speaker 2: You know, we've made the church so much like a
[20:31] Speaker 2: country club that it's a wonder they let us.
[20:32] Speaker 1: Keep our tax exempt status. Do you know what I mean?
[20:36] Speaker 2: We've made the church so exclusive. We've made the church
[20:40] Speaker 2: such a place that you have to become something in
[20:45] Speaker 2: order to belong somewhere.
[20:47] Speaker 1: That might be church, but that's not the gospel.
[20:51] Speaker 2: The gospel is not you can belong when you become.
[20:55] Speaker 2: The gospel is you belong so you can become because
[21:00] Speaker 2: nothing will change you. Like realizing that I have a father,
[21:05] Speaker 2: nothing will change you, Like realizing before I ever take
[21:09] Speaker 2: my first breath he loves me, Nothing will change you,
[21:12] Speaker 2: Like realizing I belong here.
[21:15] Speaker 1: Say three people tell him, I belong here. I belong here.
[21:19] Speaker 1: I belong here. He purchased my right to be here.
[21:23] Speaker 2: He gave me access into his throne room, and nobody
[21:26] Speaker 2: can strip my credentials because nobody gave them to me.
[21:29] Speaker 1: But Christ, I belong here. I belong here.
[21:37] Speaker 2: That's the greatest sensation I feel. You know, everywhere that
[21:41] Speaker 2: God puts me, He's giving me opportunities. But I never
[21:43] Speaker 2: feel like I belong I never feel every week. Every
[21:47] Speaker 2: week when I walk up on the stage, I wonder,
[21:49] Speaker 2: when are they gonna stop handing the mic to the
[21:51] Speaker 2: wrong guy. Where are they gonna find the real qualified preacher.
[22:00] Speaker 2: I'm looking around for him because I know there's somebody
[22:04] Speaker 2: out here with superior qualifications to me. I know I
[22:09] Speaker 2: because I know me, I know my cracks, I know
[22:17] Speaker 2: my glitches, and in case I don't, there's people always.
[22:21] Speaker 1: To remind me.
[22:27] Speaker 2: Do you know how I came up with the title
[22:28] Speaker 2: for this book? If you do, just pretend like you don't,
[22:30] Speaker 2: because I'm gonna.
[22:31] Speaker 1: Tell you again now.
[22:33] Speaker 2: I wish I could say I went on a prairie
[22:35] Speaker 2: retreat to the smoky mountains, and the clouds formed the
[22:37] Speaker 2: shape of the parentheses, And but what actually happened.
[22:41] Speaker 1: I was on YouTube.
[22:44] Speaker 2: Right, I was getting ready to preach on a Saturday, and.
[22:48] Speaker 1: I put on YouTube.
[22:49] Speaker 2: Because I like that background noise, so I don't have
[22:51] Speaker 2: to be alone with myself.
[22:54] Speaker 1: That that was honest, that was raw.
[22:56] Speaker 2: It's kind of slipped out, and I had it on
[23:00] Speaker 2: a preacher, right. And you know how YouTube will take
[23:04] Speaker 2: an algorithm and recommend something for you to watch next,
[23:06] Speaker 2: the little sidebar thing, you know. I figured, hey, I
[23:11] Speaker 2: may as well trust in the sovereignty of YouTube, so
[23:13] Speaker 2: I went.
[23:14] Speaker 1: They recommended this video up to me next.
[23:16] Speaker 2: These people are professionals, These people know my habits, these
[23:19] Speaker 2: people are acquainted with my desires. So it said that
[23:22] Speaker 2: there was one I should watch next. So I watched
[23:24] Speaker 2: it next, and it was a theologian. This theologian is
[23:27] Speaker 2: very well known, very well respected, and he was doing
[23:29] Speaker 2: like a pastor's conference and he was doing some question
[23:31] Speaker 2: and answer. So I put it on the theologian and
[23:34] Speaker 2: I kind of walked out of the room and then.
[23:36] Speaker 1: I heard him call my name.
[23:37] Speaker 2: They were doing a lightning round where the interviewer was
[23:39] Speaker 2: asking the theologian.
[23:41] Speaker 1: Now, this guy is famous. I didn't know he knew
[23:43] Speaker 1: who I was.
[23:45] Speaker 2: When they said my name and asked him what he
[23:47] Speaker 2: thought about me. I thought he would say who That's
[23:50] Speaker 2: what I was expecting because I read this guy's book,
[23:53] Speaker 2: or I should say I was assigned this guy's book.
[23:56] Speaker 1: To read in seminary, and I told you I wouldn't qualify.
[24:07] Speaker 1: Come take the mic.
[24:08] Speaker 2: Anybody, well, they said, Stephen Ferdick. They were going through names.
[24:15] Speaker 2: What do you think about this? And what do you
[24:16] Speaker 2: think about that? Stephen Ford, You know how kind of
[24:19] Speaker 2: when you hear some overhear somebody talking about.
[24:20] Speaker 1: You makes you feel important, you know, so I ran
[24:22] Speaker 1: back in. He said my name, said my name.
[24:27] Speaker 2: I made it now, and he said, Stephen Ferdick, well
[24:32] Speaker 2: the theologian.
[24:33] Speaker 1: I should show you the clip, but I don't.
[24:34] Speaker 2: Want you to see who he is because some of you,
[24:37] Speaker 2: when you hear what he said about me, if I
[24:39] Speaker 2: told you who he was, you're not saved enough.
[24:44] Speaker 1: I'm serious.
[24:45] Speaker 2: What my mom has thought about cutting his brake cables
[24:48] Speaker 2: in his car, but I told her not to do that.
[24:51] Speaker 2: She's not as Christian as me, they said, Stephen Ferdick.
[24:57] Speaker 2: And he goes. His body language said it all. He goes,
[25:01] Speaker 2: He drops his head, he slumps his shoulder, and he exhales,
[25:05] Speaker 2: as if the mere consideration of my name was so
[25:08] Speaker 2: weirisome to the great man's theological brain that he could
[25:12] Speaker 2: not bear the burden. It was like he was flushing
[25:16] Speaker 2: out the toxins of hearing my name just.
[25:23] Speaker 1: And the crowd chuckled.
[25:25] Speaker 2: And he summarized my whole minister, which is interesting because
[25:28] Speaker 2: I never met him.
[25:31] Speaker 1: You are judging by appearances.
[25:34] Speaker 2: Summarize my whole minister with one word, and I guess
[25:39] Speaker 2: by now I don't need to tell you what that
[25:43] Speaker 2: word was, because it became the title of my.
[25:48] Speaker 1: Book, Stephen Fernick, Stephen Fernick.
[26:01] Speaker 4: And he said it so serious too, He said, it's
[26:03] Speaker 4: so serious. He said, unqualified sound like a gaffle in Texas,
[26:17] Speaker 4: a death penalty case. Unqualified.
[26:24] Speaker 1: Now, there would have been a time.
[26:30] Speaker 2: Where that word would have triggered some words in my
[26:34] Speaker 2: mind that would make unqualified sound like a Valentine's stakeharde But.
[26:46] Speaker 1: I was surprised at my reaction. I started laughing. You
[26:53] Speaker 1: know what I've thought. If you only knew, you know
[26:57] Speaker 1: what I thought.
[26:59] Speaker 2: Thank you doctor, Thank you sir for horm a slip.
[27:03] Speaker 1: I thought, thank you. Oh, by the way, you know
[27:05] Speaker 1: what I did this week?
[27:06] Speaker 2: You'd I signed him a copy of the book and
[27:08] Speaker 2: sent it to him with a skinny red tie. I
[27:10] Speaker 2: just wanted to thank him for the reminder, for saying
[27:15] Speaker 2: what I felt my whole life. And now that we've
[27:18] Speaker 2: got that out of the way.
[27:20] Speaker 1: Let's have church. See. You just gotta own it? Does
[27:29] Speaker 1: somebody say own it? Own it?
[27:32] Speaker 3: Yeah?
[27:32] Speaker 2: I'm unqualified. Yeah I feel stupid sometimes. Yeah, I feel
[27:36] Speaker 2: inadequate from time to time.
[27:38] Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not where I'm gonna be, but I'm not
[27:40] Speaker 1: where I used to be.
[27:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, I got some cracks, but I'm also called Yeah.
[27:45] Speaker 1: I got some weakness, but I also got some strength.
[27:48] Speaker 2: I'm as a matter of fact, call me unqualified.
[27:55] Speaker 1: It puts me in some pretty good company. Abraham Moses, Jacob, Joseph.
[28:02] Speaker 2: Reha, David, Paul, Peter. Reach over to your neighbor and
[28:11] Speaker 2: tell him join the club. Club, unqualified club, dysfunctional club,
[28:17] Speaker 2: screwed up club, I lose my mind sometimes. Club, tempted club,
[28:23] Speaker 2: unsure club, insecure club.
[28:26] Speaker 1: I'm not quite there yet. Club. Please be patient. I'm
[28:29] Speaker 1: gonna work in progress.
[28:31] Speaker 2: Join the club where is my unqualified club?
[28:37] Speaker 1: Membership is free. All you gotta do is come in
[28:41] Speaker 1: on your knees.
[28:51] Speaker 2: Paul had Paul had a great gift, but he still
[28:55] Speaker 2: had to defend his credentials, and the way he defends
[28:59] Speaker 2: them is funny to me, because if you want to
[29:01] Speaker 2: defend yourself, you know, you put up a front. But
[29:06] Speaker 2: he gets real honest and real raw, real honest and
[29:11] Speaker 2: real raw, and he's hurt. And I can tell that
[29:15] Speaker 2: he's hurt because he starts talking.
[29:19] Speaker 1: About his letters versus his speaking.
[29:27] Speaker 2: He said that some of you verse ten are saying
[29:32] Speaker 2: that my letters are better than my preaching. Did you
[29:38] Speaker 2: read the verse? Look at it with me. For some say,
[29:42] Speaker 2: you're always going to have those voices. They're never gonna
[29:44] Speaker 2: go away. If Paul had people saying it, you're gonna
[29:47] Speaker 2: have people saying it. And by the way, most of
[29:50] Speaker 2: us don't need YouTube to inform us that we're unqualified.
[29:52] Speaker 2: We have a little tatterbox that's alive and well reminding
[29:57] Speaker 2: us of the fact. So he said, I know that
[30:02] Speaker 2: some of you are comparing my letters to my speech.
[30:06] Speaker 2: For some say his letters are weighty and forceful, but
[30:10] Speaker 2: in person.
[30:11] Speaker 3: He is.
[30:13] Speaker 2: Unimpressive, unworthy, unskilled, untrained. I know he wrestled with it,
[30:26] Speaker 2: because he mentions it again in the next chapter. In
[30:27] Speaker 2: Second Corinthians, Chapter eleven, verses five and six, he starts
[30:30] Speaker 2: talking about I may not be trained as a speaker.
[30:33] Speaker 2: I know I'm not trained as a speaker, but.
[30:35] Speaker 1: I have knowledge. Now, you don't talk like this unless
[30:39] Speaker 1: you're wrestling with it. If you're a Christian for.
[30:46] Speaker 2: Very long, you're eventually going to have somebody ask you
[30:51] Speaker 2: this question. And it's kind of a funny question, but
[30:53] Speaker 2: they'll ask us something we do as Christians. We say,
[30:55] Speaker 2: when you get to Heaven, who do you want to see?
[30:57] Speaker 1: First?
[30:58] Speaker 2: Now, when I ask you that, the first thing you
[31:00] Speaker 2: got to say, I don't want to see Jesus. But
[31:05] Speaker 2: then after you say that, I've asked people that before,
[31:07] Speaker 2: and you usually hear a.
[31:08] Speaker 1: Lot of people say they want to see Paul. But
[31:09] Speaker 1: I don't know if they do.
[31:12] Speaker 2: I don't know if Paul's the first person you want
[31:13] Speaker 2: to see, because we know Paul according to his gift.
[31:20] Speaker 1: But apparently Paul had a glitch.
[31:26] Speaker 2: Is that this man who wrote twenty three percent of
[31:30] Speaker 2: the New Testament. You total up the number of words
[31:34] Speaker 2: of coin a Greek, which is the type of Greek
[31:36] Speaker 2: that the New Testament was written in, and you look
[31:38] Speaker 2: at how many are attributed to Paul. It was up
[31:40] Speaker 2: to twenty three percent. Makes him the second biggest human
[31:45] Speaker 2: contributor to what we have as our New Testament canon
[31:48] Speaker 2: of Scripture, second only to Luke who wrote Luke.
[31:55] Speaker 1: And Acts. That guy who.
[32:00] Speaker 2: We could argue was the most effective preacher of the
[32:03] Speaker 2: last twenty centuries, who took the Gospel to new frontiers.
[32:11] Speaker 2: That gifted guy had a glitch and apparently the way
[32:16] Speaker 2: he preached, this preacher, because you know, when you picture Paul,
[32:19] Speaker 2: I bet you picture him with a big, booming voice,
[32:23] Speaker 2: funny illustrations B three or again. But Paul stood up
[32:28] Speaker 2: to preach, and some people said he ain't nothing.
[32:35] Speaker 1: He can't preach like a Polos.
[32:37] Speaker 2: Apollos was another preacher during his day, and people always
[32:40] Speaker 2: wanted to compare Paul in a Polus, and they say,
[32:43] Speaker 2: I follow Apolus because Apollos was an orator.
[32:47] Speaker 1: He was spellbinding. He had a vocabulary like a thesaurus.
[32:53] Speaker 1: He had metaphors and.
[32:56] Speaker 2: Analogies and synonyms and antonyms, other grammar tools, and boy.
[33:06] Speaker 1: He could preach. So he preach. He's just spellbinding. He preached,
[33:09] Speaker 1: and people will leave. Paul said, I know I'm not
[33:14] Speaker 1: a very good preacher. I know him.
[33:19] Speaker 2: That gets me because he's talking about confidence, but then
[33:23] Speaker 2: he talks about the conflict he fulfilled a great destiny,
[33:28] Speaker 2: but he illuminates his deficiency. One of the great things
[33:32] Speaker 2: about pastoring a large church now is that I get
[33:35] Speaker 2: to know some of the people who have always been
[33:37] Speaker 2: my heroes from a distance personally, and sometimes you wish
[33:43] Speaker 2: that you had kept them at a distance. But sometimes
[33:47] Speaker 2: you get to know them and you realize that the
[33:48] Speaker 2: secret of their strength isn't what you thought it was.
[33:54] Speaker 2: So there are three pastors that I consider the best,
[33:58] Speaker 2: just my personal ranking for whatever it's worth.
[34:01] Speaker 1: I've seen certain things that they do.
[34:04] Speaker 2: And I respect them all on different levels for different reasons,
[34:07] Speaker 2: but they all in some way represent something that I
[34:09] Speaker 2: would love to emulate. And I've asked them over the
[34:12] Speaker 2: last I would say, eight months, the same question across
[34:17] Speaker 2: three different areas. So the first one, he's really great
[34:21] Speaker 2: with money, and his church reflects this. He has millions
[34:25] Speaker 2: in assets and zero in debt, both in his.
[34:28] Speaker 1: Personal life and his church life.
[34:30] Speaker 2: And I see how he orders his life and how
[34:32] Speaker 2: strategic and efficient it is.
[34:34] Speaker 1: And I asked him, what made you that way? What
[34:37] Speaker 1: do you think made you that way?
[34:39] Speaker 2: He answered quickly, I was so broke growing up, I
[34:44] Speaker 2: was so poor.
[34:45] Speaker 1: I had nothing.
[34:47] Speaker 2: So when I finally got something, it was the poverty
[34:52] Speaker 2: that I experienced growing up that gave me the discipline
[34:55] Speaker 2: to handle what I had when I got it. Okay,
[35:00] Speaker 2: the second guy, he's the best empower Is that a word?
[35:06] Speaker 2: He is the best at empowering other leaders that I've
[35:09] Speaker 2: ever seen, and now, at around age sixty, he's got
[35:13] Speaker 2: leaders that he raised up and sent out all over
[35:16] Speaker 2: the world who are doing more than he could ever
[35:19] Speaker 2: do through the power of his life multiplied. So I
[35:22] Speaker 2: asked him, how have you always had the virtue or
[35:27] Speaker 2: the humility to be able to empower other leaders in
[35:31] Speaker 2: the way that you have, you know he said? He said,
[35:35] Speaker 2: I don't think it was humility as much as it
[35:36] Speaker 2: was my insecurity. I never saw myself as a great leader,
[35:41] Speaker 2: so I had no other choice but to lean on
[35:43] Speaker 2: other people.
[35:45] Speaker 1: That's the second one.
[35:47] Speaker 2: I want you to look for the common thread in
[35:48] Speaker 2: the three of these, because the third one he's the
[35:51] Speaker 2: best preacher I've ever heard, the best, the best, and
[35:55] Speaker 2: I'll fight you over that.
[35:56] Speaker 1: He's the best.
[35:58] Speaker 2: I heard him say twice in the last couple of weeks,
[36:01] Speaker 2: something that shocked me because I see his gift.
[36:05] Speaker 1: I see his gift, but I never saw his glitch.
[36:09] Speaker 1: I see his.
[36:10] Speaker 2: Gift, and it surprised me when he said, when I
[36:12] Speaker 2: first started preaching, my hand would shake so bad I
[36:15] Speaker 2: could hardly hold the microphone.
[36:17] Speaker 1: I had to get a microphone.
[36:18] Speaker 2: That would clip on me because if I held one,
[36:20] Speaker 2: my hand would shake too bad and I couldn't hold
[36:22] Speaker 2: it still.
[36:24] Speaker 1: And he said, when.
[36:25] Speaker 2: I first started preaching, he said, I preached harder than
[36:29] Speaker 2: anybody else.
[36:29] Speaker 1: I preach for two hours, three hours.
[36:32] Speaker 2: He said, I would preach so hard that not only
[36:35] Speaker 2: would I sweat through my suit, I would sweat through
[36:38] Speaker 2: my shoes. You could ring sweat out of my shoelaces.
[36:42] Speaker 2: When I got done preaching, and he said, watch this.
[36:45] Speaker 2: This made me cry like Vanilope on record Ralph when
[36:48] Speaker 2: he said it. He said, the reason I preached so
[36:52] Speaker 2: hard is because I never thought I preached that good.
[37:01] Speaker 2: In each of those cases, it was their glitch that
[37:06] Speaker 2: made them great. It was the thing that they would
[37:16] Speaker 2: have asked God to take away, or it was the
[37:21] Speaker 2: thing that they would have asked God to put in
[37:25] Speaker 2: that he didn't, that fed their strength through their weakness.
[37:34] Speaker 2: This is such a powerful revelation when you consider that
[37:38] Speaker 2: Paul wrote twenty three percent of the New Testament, and
[37:43] Speaker 2: I found myself wondering, if Paul had been a better speaker,
[37:49] Speaker 2: would he have picked up his pen and written all
[37:52] Speaker 2: those letters? I wonder if Paul could have preached like
[37:59] Speaker 2: a PAULA, would we have Second Corinthians?
[38:04] Speaker 1: Would we have Romans? Would we have Ephesians three? Twenty now?
[38:08] Speaker 2: And him, he was able to do a measure a
[38:09] Speaker 2: little bit more than all we ask himage Accordey's.
[38:11] Speaker 1: Powerhich words mightily en us. He picked up.
[38:13] Speaker 2: His pen, perhaps because he couldn't preach like a Polus.
[38:22] Speaker 1: It was.
[38:25] Speaker 2: I gotta be careful because I'll get choked up thinking
[38:27] Speaker 2: about it, because I've spent so much time feeling like
[38:29] Speaker 2: my glitch was gonna keep me from being used by God.
[38:33] Speaker 2: But it was his glitch that became his gift. The
[38:41] Speaker 2: words that you read today that Paul wrote may not
[38:46] Speaker 2: even be on the page if he could have preached better.
[38:51] Speaker 2: It was because he couldn't preach like a Polus that
[38:55] Speaker 2: he wrote like Paul.
[39:01] Speaker 1: His glitch was the gift that keeps on giving.
[39:09] Speaker 2: How many Bible verses can you quote that a Polus wrote, but.
[39:15] Speaker 1: A Polus could preach.
[39:18] Speaker 2: A Polus was impressive, no doubt what he said was profound.
[39:22] Speaker 1: But he said it, and it died.
[39:26] Speaker 2: Paul couldn't preach like a Polus, so it forced him
[39:30] Speaker 2: to sit down. He said, I gotta take my glitch
[39:35] Speaker 2: and find a way to turn it into a gift.
[39:40] Speaker 2: And because he had a glitch, you gotta get this
[39:42] Speaker 2: in your heart. Because he had a glitch. His words
[39:46] Speaker 2: are still reverberating today.
[39:50] Speaker 1: I thought you might want to take fifteen seconds.
[39:52] Speaker 2: And praise God for your glitch, and praise God for
[39:56] Speaker 2: your weakness, and.
[39:57] Speaker 1: Praise God for your struggle.
[40:08] Speaker 2: You might as well put your weakness to work, because
[40:11] Speaker 2: it's not going away. I'm not saying don't improve. I'm
[40:19] Speaker 2: not saying don't get more intelligent. I'm not saying don't
[40:21] Speaker 2: take the class. I'm saying that there is a glitch
[40:23] Speaker 2: in all of us.
[40:25] Speaker 1: That's a lie. There are multiple glitches in all of us.
[40:32] Speaker 2: When Vanelope found out, I'm gonna tie it all together,
[40:35] Speaker 2: wreck it.
[40:36] Speaker 1: Ralph, Apostle, Paul, here they come. They're meeting up. Watch this.
[40:41] Speaker 1: Vanelope is stuck.
[40:43] Speaker 2: In a game and she can't race because she's a glitch.
[40:46] Speaker 1: But guess what.
[40:47] Speaker 2: The reason that they unplugged the machine to try to
[40:49] Speaker 2: turn her into a glitch to begin with is because
[40:52] Speaker 2: she was royalty.
[40:53] Speaker 1: She was a hero.
[40:54] Speaker 2: You gotta watch the movie to get the full revelation
[40:56] Speaker 2: of this sermon. I want you to sit down and
[40:58] Speaker 2: watch it for your quiet time this week, because when
[41:00] Speaker 2: you watch her, you'll find out that the way she
[41:03] Speaker 2: ended up saving the game was that she glitched to
[41:06] Speaker 2: the finish line. It was her glitch. God, don don't
[41:09] Speaker 2: hear me, Y, don't hear me. You keep thinking that
[41:12] Speaker 2: your glitch is getting in the way. I'm trying to
[41:14] Speaker 2: tell you that Paul's clinch became the gift that we're
[41:18] Speaker 2: reading today.
[41:19] Speaker 1: And if you.
[41:20] Speaker 2: Got a glitch, and if you got a weakness, and
[41:23] Speaker 2: you got a broken spot in your life, and you'll
[41:25] Speaker 2: bring it to godnedge.
[41:26] Speaker 1: Humility and sincerity. Your weakness is about to become your
[41:36] Speaker 1: secret weapon. Your weakness is about to the come your
[41:44] Speaker 1: portal to God's power.
[41:48] Speaker 2: Not givin praise if you believe it, given praise if
[41:53] Speaker 2: you believe it.
[41:55] Speaker 1: Givin praise if you're receiving.
[42:01] Speaker 2: So the reason I'm so smart with money is I
[42:08] Speaker 2: was so broke. My glitch became my gift. The reason
[42:12] Speaker 2: I empowered so many leaders is because I didn't think
[42:14] Speaker 2: I was a very good one. My glitch became my gift.
[42:18] Speaker 2: The reason I can preach and connect with people is
[42:21] Speaker 2: because I was convinced I never could see. People who
[42:24] Speaker 2: have a great gift often find that the gift stunts
[42:27] Speaker 2: their growth. But when you know you have a glitch,
[42:37] Speaker 2: when you know that you have a deficiency, and you
[42:41] Speaker 2: begin to believe that my deficiency is connected to my destiny.
[42:48] Speaker 1: That's how God uses broken people to do big things.
[42:57] Speaker 1: Jump up on your feet.
[42:58] Speaker 2: If you receive this word on any level, will clap
[43:00] Speaker 2: your hands and give God praise.
[43:07] Speaker 1: I want, I want, I want, I want you.
[43:08] Speaker 2: To summarize my message, hug at least six people and
[43:12] Speaker 2: tell him your glitches, your gift, your glitches, your gift,
[43:14] Speaker 2: your glitches.
[43:14] Speaker 1: Your gift. If if, if, if.
[43:28] Speaker 2: He could have preached better, maybe he wouldn't have written it.
[43:32] Speaker 1: Down if he.
[43:38] Speaker 2: Sometimes what God leaves out is just as important as
[43:42] Speaker 2: what he puts in. If Paul had spoken Second Corinthians
[43:53] Speaker 2: twelve to ten, we wouldn't be able to throw.
[43:56] Speaker 1: It up on the screen. They didn't have a tape recorder.
[44:00] Speaker 2: I ain't have pro tools, reason logic ableton, I'm just
[44:08] Speaker 2: saying stuff now. He would have said it, but because
[44:15] Speaker 2: of his glitch, oh God, because of what he couldn't do.
[44:24] Speaker 1: I would have liked to have been a better athlete.
[44:27] Speaker 2: I would love to be able to run the forty
[44:29] Speaker 2: faster than over five seconds.
[44:30] Speaker 1: I would love that.
[44:33] Speaker 2: Well, maybe if I had been a better athlete, I
[44:35] Speaker 2: wouldn't have been a youth minister. I know some of
[44:39] Speaker 2: you would have loved to have had a dad that
[44:40] Speaker 2: raised you, and you should have. But maybe your deficiency,
[44:46] Speaker 2: maybe the fact that you didn't have a great dad,
[44:49] Speaker 2: is going to be the thing that drives you to
[44:50] Speaker 2: become one h I don't think it's coincidence that the
[45:03] Speaker 2: nerdy kids become the most successful ones, because since they
[45:08] Speaker 2: don't have a whole lot of people around, they have
[45:11] Speaker 2: to get.
[45:12] Speaker 1: To know themselves and they have to develop themselves.
[45:16] Speaker 2: And so then what in high school is loneliness becomes
[45:20] Speaker 2: later in life success.
[45:23] Speaker 1: It's the glitch that keeps giving.
[45:29] Speaker 2: You know, the thing that didn't happen for you that
[45:30] Speaker 2: you prayed it would happen, and you felt like a
[45:31] Speaker 2: failure when it didn't happen, the thing you didn't get,
[45:36] Speaker 2: the opportunity that you screwed up. Hey, maybe you screwed
[45:38] Speaker 2: it up. Maybe God didn't do it. But Paul said,
[45:43] Speaker 2: when I am weak, then.
[45:47] Speaker 1: I am strong. Joint hands with the person next to You.
[46:00] Speaker 2: Think God doesn't see your glitch, you think he's limited
[46:04] Speaker 2: by it. You think the manufacturer doesn't know your defect.
[46:11] Speaker 1: Of course he does chose you anyway.
[46:16] Speaker 2: And I know a lot of preachings says, you know,
[46:18] Speaker 2: God's going to use you in spite of that thing.
[46:19] Speaker 1: Uhh, that's not my message.
[46:21] Speaker 2: I'm saying He's gonna use you because of it. It
[46:28] Speaker 2: is going to be your weakness that feeds your strength. Father,
[46:32] Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus, I declare over every glitchy
[46:36] Speaker 2: person that the broken places in their lives, in the
[46:41] Speaker 2: cracks in their heart, are about to become the spaces
[46:44] Speaker 2: through which your glory most freely flows. We thank you
[46:48] Speaker 2: that we are broken vessels, and we thank you that
[46:51] Speaker 2: what is broken is full of oil. And we thank
[46:54] Speaker 2: you that in our lives that you are not limited
[46:57] Speaker 2: by our liabilities, but rather you specialize in turning weakness
[47:02] Speaker 2: into strength. Now lift your hands in the air. I
[47:05] Speaker 2: want you to reach for God today. God, empower these
[47:08] Speaker 2: people by your grace. Empower these people to realize a
[47:14] Speaker 2: great calling. Empower your sons and daughters with the kind
[47:18] Speaker 2: of blessing, with the kind of anointing, with the kind
[47:22] Speaker 2: of glory that can only.
[47:24] Speaker 1: Enter through broken spaces.
[47:26] Speaker 2: Now clap those same hands and give God graise.
[47:30] Speaker 1: If you'll know your glas it's your gift. If you'll
[47:34] Speaker 1: know your weakness is your strength, the clear victory over
[47:39] Speaker 1: your mind. Thank you for joining us.
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