# Make Room For The New

An episode of [Elevation with Steven Furtick](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/216015753), 20 Mar 2026, 53 min.

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You can’t receive new miracles with old mindsets. In “Make Room For The New,” Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church challenges us to release what’s familiar so we can recognize what God is bringing into our lives right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik.
[0:02] Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our
[0:05] Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
[0:08] Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
[0:10] Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
[0:12] Speaker 2: in your life.
[0:13] Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
[0:17] Speaker 2: I want to tell you something that happened to me
[0:19] Speaker 2: last summer. I have a friend who lives in another country,
[0:23] Speaker 2: Kin Costa. He's originally from South Africa. He resides now
[0:28] Speaker 2: in London, England. He travels the world. He comes to
[0:30] Speaker 2: see me once a year. Just turned seventy. It's good man.
[0:34] Speaker 2: He has a book out called Joseph of Arimathea. Free
[0:37] Speaker 2: plug for my friend, because he gave me the scripture
[0:40] Speaker 2: that I want to use to frame our message. Not
[0:43] Speaker 2: necessarily to preach the scripture, but to frame the message.
[0:47] Speaker 2: And I figured I owed him a book plug. So
[0:49] Speaker 2: check it out on Amazon, Kin Costa, Joseph of Arimathea.
[0:54] Speaker 1: Now that that's out the way. When he comes to
[0:56] Speaker 1: see me, he will usually bring three or four scriptures
[1:00] Speaker 1: and we'll read the scriptures together. He jot them down.
[1:05] Speaker 2: This is the paper that he brought me in July
[1:07] Speaker 2: when he came to see me after my break family
[1:10] Speaker 2: break this summer, and he brought me these scriptures and
[1:13] Speaker 2: we sat on the porch and we looked at the
[1:16] Speaker 2: scriptures and the first one was Exitus fourteen fourteen, and
[1:19] Speaker 2: we read it together, and he said, that's the wrong one,
[1:22] Speaker 2: and so we moved on. He gave me Joshua three four,
[1:26] Speaker 2: Isaiah forty two sixteen, and then Leviticus twenty six ten.
[1:32] Speaker 2: I probably should admit this, but I normally skipped Leviticus
[1:37] Speaker 2: on the Bible reading plans. It's not my go to
[1:40] Speaker 2: book to fight discouragement. But we looked at it and
[1:48] Speaker 2: we read it together.
[1:49] Speaker 1: Put that one on the screen. Leviticus twenty six ten.
[1:53] Speaker 2: The Lord says you will still be eating last year's
[1:56] Speaker 2: harvest when you will have to move it out to
[1:59] Speaker 2: make room for the new.
[2:04] Speaker 1: And we read that together, and I said, well, what
[2:08] Speaker 1: does it mean? He said, I don't know.
[2:13] Speaker 2: I put it in my Bible in a few weeks ago.
[2:15] Speaker 2: I Uh, it fell out of my Bible on a
[2:19] Speaker 2: Friday night. I started looking at it again and I
[2:21] Speaker 2: texted it over to Bishop td Jakes.
[2:23] Speaker 1: I said, what does it mean? He said, Oh, that's
[2:25] Speaker 1: a good one. And he preached about it and that
[2:30] Speaker 1: was good. Well.
[2:35] Speaker 2: The phrase that I want to use and put it
[2:38] Speaker 2: up there again is where it says, make room for
[2:41] Speaker 2: the new. And the Lord told me to tell you today,
[2:45] Speaker 2: make room for the new. This is a word from
[2:50] Speaker 2: the Lord for somebody who is in this room or
[2:55] Speaker 2: at one of our campuses. Come on, let's thank God
[2:57] Speaker 2: for all of our locations. From Lake Norman all the
[3:02] Speaker 2: all the way to Matthews. We are spanning South Charlotte
[3:08] Speaker 2: with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and beyond Melbourne, Florida
[3:12] Speaker 2: University City. You wouldn't believe it. Raleigh, North Carolina is
[3:17] Speaker 2: even joining us. I gotta admit I didn't see that coming.
[3:24] Speaker 2: So y'all drove in for make room for the new.
[3:30] Speaker 2: This is a word for you, make room for the new.
[3:35] Speaker 2: You know I'm getting into old stuff now. I've got
[3:39] Speaker 2: about eighty records upstairs in my office at my house
[3:43] Speaker 2: and a turntable vinyl. Something about getting up and having
[3:47] Speaker 2: to only listen to three songs at a time is
[3:49] Speaker 2: preferable to having every song in the history of the
[3:52] Speaker 2: universe on my phone at my fingertips. For some reason
[3:55] Speaker 2: I would rather listen through a scratchy analog representation of
[3:58] Speaker 2: the music than a digital re creation of the music
[4:01] Speaker 2: that fits.
[4:01] Speaker 1: In my pocket.
[4:02] Speaker 2: I think there's something comforting about something that you used
[4:07] Speaker 2: to touch and hold old.
[4:11] Speaker 1: You know.
[4:12] Speaker 2: I used to like something and be attracted to it
[4:14] Speaker 2: if it was new. But now I like old stuff.
[4:19] Speaker 2: It's just I like I like old. I like old,
[4:22] Speaker 2: I like old songs, I like smashing pumpkins. I don't
[4:29] Speaker 2: need any of this new stuff. I don't need any
[4:33] Speaker 2: of the I like the old stuff. The hymns that
[4:36] Speaker 2: I used to yawn through in church are the ones
[4:39] Speaker 2: that I now write songs around as as a grown man.
[4:43] Speaker 2: And so a lot of things come full circle in
[4:45] Speaker 2: your life that you don't appreciate at the time. Uh.
[4:48] Speaker 1: But the the.
[4:50] Speaker 2: The challenges now to hold on to the old to
[4:54] Speaker 2: the exclusion of receiving the new. When I shared with
[4:59] Speaker 2: you last last week, we were given a picture of
[5:02] Speaker 2: Peter who was having to fight against the traditions and
[5:06] Speaker 2: the customs of the well meaning circumcised believers. And one
[5:10] Speaker 2: thing that it is difficult for us to appreciate about
[5:13] Speaker 2: this community is that they were receiving from God an
[5:18] Speaker 2: entirely new system by which to relate to him. Imagine
[5:22] Speaker 2: that at one point you had to atone for your
[5:24] Speaker 2: sins with the blood of bulls and goats, and now
[5:28] Speaker 2: instead of shedding the blood of an animal, you were
[5:30] Speaker 2: trusting in the blood of Christ. That's a very difficult
[5:34] Speaker 2: thing to apprehend when you had something tactile, something you
[5:38] Speaker 2: could touch, and now you have to believe something by
[5:41] Speaker 2: faith the paradigm of justification. We call it justification by faith,
[5:47] Speaker 2: but it's actually justification by grace through faith. See, it's
[5:52] Speaker 2: not how much faith you have that saves you, it's
[5:54] Speaker 2: how much grace God has that saves you. Because if
[5:58] Speaker 2: it was about how much faith I had, I would
[6:01] Speaker 2: be going to heaven one five minute period, and I
[6:04] Speaker 2: would be bound for the same hell as a serial
[6:06] Speaker 2: killer in the next five I don't always have that
[6:09] Speaker 2: much faith, sometimes high, sometimes low. And depending on whether
[6:14] Speaker 2: you catch me at nine am and I've had my
[6:16] Speaker 2: coffee or whether you catch me after one of my
[6:18] Speaker 2: kids said something disrespectful, I might have a lot of
[6:21] Speaker 2: faith or a little bit of faith. The point is
[6:24] Speaker 2: not how much faith that I have, it's who I
[6:25] Speaker 2: have my faith in y'all ain't gonna help.
[6:28] Speaker 1: Me preach a bit today.
[6:31] Speaker 2: This Bible says that it is by grace you have
[6:33] Speaker 2: been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves. It
[6:36] Speaker 2: is the gift of God, not of works. So that
[6:39] Speaker 2: no one can boast and think about this. God's people
[6:42] Speaker 2: had always related to God through a covenant that was
[6:47] Speaker 2: based on works, that was based on keeping the law.
[6:52] Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden, in the passage I
[6:54] Speaker 2: shared last week, not only are they learning to relate
[6:58] Speaker 2: to God by faith, which is the hardest thing in
[7:01] Speaker 2: the world, to just take it by faith. We talk
[7:05] Speaker 2: a good game when it comes to faith. We say
[7:08] Speaker 2: we're trusting in the Lord with all of our heart
[7:12] Speaker 2: and leaning not to our own understanding. But it still
[7:16] Speaker 2: creates a tension, which is how much should I trust God?
[7:20] Speaker 1: And how much should I try myself?
[7:24] Speaker 2: This tension is written into the very script. The nascent
[7:28] Speaker 2: days of the church were filled with this kind of tension.
[7:32] Speaker 2: So the community God's people, they are now learning to
[7:36] Speaker 2: relate to God in a brand new way. Touch somebody say,
[7:40] Speaker 2: make room for the new. And just about the time
[7:44] Speaker 2: they're getting used to this paradigm of grace, here come
[7:48] Speaker 2: the gentiles who were the ones they were supposed to
[7:51] Speaker 2: stay away from. And the point guard of the New
[7:56] Speaker 2: Testament All Star team, Peter, is going in eating with
[8:01] Speaker 2: these people who are contagious. I use that word for reason,
[8:09] Speaker 2: because when I told you that they wouldn't associate with gentiles,
[8:13] Speaker 2: you're like, well, that's wrong. You know, it's easy to
[8:16] Speaker 2: recognize a truth when you're not living in the tension
[8:20] Speaker 2: of it. It's easy for us to look back on
[8:27] Speaker 2: certain issues of racial segregation now and say why in
[8:32] Speaker 2: the world. But when you're living in the tension of it.
[8:36] Speaker 2: When you're living in the tension, you can lose sight
[8:40] Speaker 2: of the truth. And in the tension of the New
[8:44] Speaker 2: Testament Church, there's not only grace versus works, but there's
[8:48] Speaker 2: this exclusive idea that God is blessing a select group
[8:53] Speaker 2: of people.
[8:54] Speaker 1: And then now get this tension with me.
[8:56] Speaker 2: They have to try to figure out how to protect
[8:58] Speaker 2: what they've been entrusted with at the same time that
[9:01] Speaker 2: they don't hold it too tightly.
[9:04] Speaker 1: Every parent can relate to this.
[9:07] Speaker 2: How do I protect my kids while not putting my
[9:11] Speaker 2: kids in some sort of bubble where they won't be.
[9:14] Speaker 1: Prepared for the real world.
[9:17] Speaker 2: How do I I'm thinking this about Abbey right now,
[9:19] Speaker 2: She's probably going to be pretty. She's already pretty nine
[9:23] Speaker 2: year old, probably going to be a pretty thirteen year old.
[9:26] Speaker 2: Then there's probably going to be some thirteen year old
[9:28] Speaker 2: boy that wants to come.
[9:29] Speaker 1: Up and talk to her about something. And how am
[9:31] Speaker 1: I supposed to let her out of her room.
[9:34] Speaker 2: And trust a thirteen year old boy when I've been one?
[9:39] Speaker 1: How will I do that? I don't know. But what
[9:41] Speaker 1: I do know is this. You ready.
[9:44] Speaker 2: This is the first thing I've said that you probably
[9:46] Speaker 2: will want to write down today, but hopefully.
[9:48] Speaker 1: Not the last. Okay.
[9:51] Speaker 2: Your tolerance for tension determines your potential for growth.
[10:02] Speaker 1: Your tolerance for tension determines.
[10:09] Speaker 2: What I say, your potential for growth. And we don't
[10:16] Speaker 2: like tension when it comes to Christianity.
[10:20] Speaker 1: God said it, I believe it. That settles it.
[10:26] Speaker 2: Let me tell you right now, brother, it doesn't matter
[10:28] Speaker 2: if you believe it or not.
[10:29] Speaker 1: God said it. That settles it. You can just take
[10:31] Speaker 1: the middle of it right there out. God said it,
[10:33] Speaker 1: That settles it.
[10:33] Speaker 2: But wait a minute, wait a minut, Wait a minute,
[10:35] Speaker 2: wait a minute to sit with the tension of what
[10:39] Speaker 2: God actually said.
[10:43] Speaker 1: As opposed to the.
[10:45] Speaker 2: Tradition of what we heard God said through the filter
[10:49] Speaker 2: of personal preference and prejudice.
[10:54] Speaker 1: It's the gift of tension.
[10:56] Speaker 2: If you hire a trainer at what's the name of
[10:59] Speaker 2: a planet fitness. If you hire a trainer, I don't
[11:02] Speaker 2: even know if you can do that at planet fitness.
[11:04] Speaker 2: But if you hire a trainer at the gym, they
[11:07] Speaker 2: are going to at some point teach you about the
[11:10] Speaker 2: gift of tension for the building of muscle. If you
[11:14] Speaker 2: hire a trainer and they do not employ tension in
[11:18] Speaker 2: the training regimen, you should fire the trainer because time
[11:23] Speaker 2: under tension is the.
[11:24] Speaker 1: Formula for growth.
[11:27] Speaker 2: And yet when it comes to our movies, we love tension.
[11:32] Speaker 2: When it comes to our television entertainment Netflix binging content,
[11:38] Speaker 2: we love tension. I don't want to watch a show
[11:40] Speaker 2: about somebody who had a good day. I want to
[11:43] Speaker 2: watch a show about somebody who ended up on drugs
[11:46] Speaker 2: and had to fight a whole gang single handedly and
[11:49] Speaker 2: almost died in the process, and got a divorce and
[11:52] Speaker 2: went bankrupt. But what makes for a good TV show
[11:56] Speaker 2: is the kind of stuff we try to pray away
[11:58] Speaker 2: from our lives. So I started the year praying something
[12:03] Speaker 2: really weird. I said, God, increased the quality of my problems. Lord,
[12:14] Speaker 2: I want higher quality problems in twenty twenty. The reason
[12:20] Speaker 2: I prayed that is because I tried asking Him in
[12:23] Speaker 2: previous years take my problems away.
[12:27] Speaker 1: That was an ineffective prayer. He did not.
[12:30] Speaker 2: Seem too interested in answering that prayer to take my
[12:33] Speaker 2: problems away.
[12:35] Speaker 1: In fact, it seems as if some of.
[12:38] Speaker 2: The things that came into my life in one season
[12:41] Speaker 2: as a problem, some of the things that came into
[12:44] Speaker 2: my life as opposition, were the things that God used
[12:49] Speaker 2: to create opportunities for me to know him and make
[12:54] Speaker 2: him known.
[12:57] Speaker 1: So what's crazy? What's crazy?
[13:02] Speaker 2: Everybody say it's crazy. What's crazy about Leviticus twenty six
[13:08] Speaker 2: ten is it can be interpreted as either a blessing
[13:15] Speaker 2: or an inconvenience, because the scripture said that if you
[13:23] Speaker 2: live in alignment with God in an agreement with his covenant.
[13:26] Speaker 1: This is the old covenant, which was by works.
[13:30] Speaker 2: Remember, they had to conditionally receive the favor of God
[13:35] Speaker 2: through certain behaviors in community, and so as Moses is
[13:39] Speaker 2: giving them all of this law. They've been out of
[13:42] Speaker 2: Egypt only for a very short time. They've constructed a tabernacle,
[13:46] Speaker 2: which is a space where they can.
[13:47] Speaker 1: Meet with God.
[13:49] Speaker 2: And he says, in verse nine, let's just get a
[13:51] Speaker 2: running start at it. I will look on favor with
[13:55] Speaker 2: you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers. And
[13:58] Speaker 2: I will keep my covenant with you, old covenant, the
[14:03] Speaker 2: covenant that was established through obedience and works. It was
[14:08] Speaker 2: still grace, but it was grace measured out through behavior.
[14:12] Speaker 2: Can I teach the Bible on this particular worship service?
[14:17] Speaker 2: So then when he gets to verse ten, he says,
[14:20] Speaker 2: if you will keep your end of the covenant, then
[14:24] Speaker 2: you will still be eating last year's harvest when we
[14:26] Speaker 2: have to move it out to make room for the new.
[14:30] Speaker 2: I'm so glad that I am not under that contract anymore.
[14:37] Speaker 2: I really am. I don't want God to give.
[14:40] Speaker 1: Me what I deserve. I don't want God to be
[14:43] Speaker 1: fair to me.
[14:45] Speaker 2: I don't want God to relate to me on the
[14:48] Speaker 2: basis of how much I prayed last week.
[14:51] Speaker 1: I really don't.
[14:52] Speaker 2: I don't want him to I don't want him to
[14:54] Speaker 2: treat me according to what my lifestyle would merit. And
[14:58] Speaker 2: so we understand now. I think most of us in
[15:00] Speaker 2: this church understand that this is the Old Covenant, but
[15:03] Speaker 2: it's the same community. They have progressed from a point
[15:07] Speaker 2: where they were wandering in the wilderness until we get
[15:10] Speaker 2: to Acts chapter eleven, and now they are becoming a church.
[15:14] Speaker 2: Now in that setup, I want to go back into
[15:16] Speaker 2: Acts chapter ten and I want to read the story
[15:19] Speaker 2: to you again, or as we said last week, the
[15:22] Speaker 2: whole story. You never really know the whole story. That's
[15:26] Speaker 2: why you got to keep living. That's why you got
[15:28] Speaker 2: to keep praying. That's why you got to keep believing.
[15:32] Speaker 2: That's why you got to keep trusting. That's why you
[15:35] Speaker 2: got to keep swinging. Because you don't know the whole story.
[15:39] Speaker 2: That's why you can't kill your kids. It might grow
[15:43] Speaker 2: up and pay for your retirement or something like that.
[15:46] Speaker 2: Because you don't know the whole story. That's why you
[15:49] Speaker 2: can't judge anything too soon. And you're going to see
[15:51] Speaker 2: this in the scripture right here, is that in the
[15:55] Speaker 2: midst of great tension, a great truth was shown make
[16:00] Speaker 2: room for the new Verse one says, the apostles and
[16:05] Speaker 2: the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also
[16:10] Speaker 2: received the Word of God. The gospel is spreading, it's spreading.
[16:16] Speaker 2: I guess you could say Grace is going viral. It's
[16:21] Speaker 2: just out of control. Can't stop it. It's just all
[16:24] Speaker 2: over the place. And they didn't like that because they
[16:27] Speaker 2: are in the tension of trying to protect the old,
[16:31] Speaker 2: and when you are protecting the old, what's new looks.
[16:37] Speaker 1: Like a threat. When I asked my dad one time,
[16:43] Speaker 1: are you threatening me?
[16:45] Speaker 2: He said something, I'm sure you've heard this before. He said,
[16:48] Speaker 2: it's not a threat. It's a promise. I was like, oh,
[16:54] Speaker 2: he was six two. I was like, got it, I'm good,
[16:57] Speaker 2: No further questions.
[17:00] Speaker 1: It's not a threat, it's a promise. He said that.
[17:04] Speaker 2: It's not a threat, it's a blessing. They were threatened
[17:10] Speaker 2: by the blessing because they did not recognize it and
[17:15] Speaker 2: it did not remind them of what they were used
[17:18] Speaker 2: to in their religious routine. Are you threatened by your
[17:24] Speaker 2: very own blessings?
[17:28] Speaker 1: Come on, Raleigh. They get used to it. I know
[17:30] Speaker 1: y'all love the Word of God and.
[17:32] Speaker 2: Raleigh and so they are being blessed. The church is growing.
[17:39] Speaker 2: That's exactly what they want. And sometimes God can be
[17:43] Speaker 2: giving you exactly what you want, but the tension that
[17:46] Speaker 2: it takes to produce the growth is super uncomfortable.
[17:51] Speaker 1: We don't like tension in our Christianity. Rapture me Jesus
[17:55] Speaker 1: and get me out of here.
[18:00] Speaker 2: In the meantime, you need to pay your taxes and
[18:03] Speaker 2: change your oil and do all this stuff. Just in
[18:05] Speaker 2: case he doesn't get you out of it. You need
[18:08] Speaker 2: to learn how to bring God into it. And so
[18:18] Speaker 2: as the message is going to the gentiles, they're not
[18:20] Speaker 2: the Jewish people.
[18:22] Speaker 1: They're the gentiles. That's all of us who do not
[18:24] Speaker 1: have a Jewish ancestry. We're like these people. And they
[18:29] Speaker 1: didn't want to let him in the church.
[18:31] Speaker 2: So next time you don't want to let somebody in
[18:33] Speaker 2: church because something about them offends you, just to remember
[18:38] Speaker 2: that by that standard, you wouldn't be here either. So
[18:47] Speaker 2: the circumcised believers criticized him. It is a criticism that
[18:52] Speaker 2: is birth out of ignorance. And they said, you went
[18:56] Speaker 2: into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them
[18:59] Speaker 2: and start darting from the beginning. Peter told them the
[19:01] Speaker 2: whole story. He said, I was in the city of
[19:05] Speaker 2: Japa praying and in a trance I saw a vision.
[19:09] Speaker 2: I saw something like a large sheep being let down
[19:13] Speaker 2: from heaven by its four corners, and it came down.
[19:18] Speaker 1: To where I was. I saw something being.
[19:22] Speaker 2: Let down from heaven, and it came down to where
[19:26] Speaker 2: I was. When I read that, the Lord said to me,
[19:31] Speaker 2: I'm going to bring it to you when you are
[19:37] Speaker 2: positioning yourself according to the peace and the purpose of God,
[19:43] Speaker 2: and when you are present in the situation where He.
[19:45] Speaker 1: Has placed you.
[19:47] Speaker 2: God said, all the other things that people run after,
[19:51] Speaker 2: I'm going to bring it to you. If you want
[19:55] Speaker 2: in on this word, shout, God's going to bring it
[19:57] Speaker 2: to me. I'm gonna tell the person next to you,
[20:01] Speaker 2: I don't have to chase it, stress about it, cheat
[20:04] Speaker 2: to get it, violate my morality or my ethics. God's
[20:08] Speaker 2: gonna bring it to me. This is the Covenant of Grace.
[20:13] Speaker 2: Watch this. I tried to get to God, I couldn't.
[20:17] Speaker 2: So he ripped open Heaven step down to come inside
[20:21] Speaker 2: of me so that the righteous requirements of the law
[20:25] Speaker 2: might be fully met in us. No, I cannot achieve
[20:29] Speaker 2: his holiness. But God's gonna bring it to me. Heaven's
[20:32] Speaker 2: gonna come to my house, Heaven's gonna come to my mind.
[20:36] Speaker 2: Peace is gonna come to my marriage. God's gonna bring
[20:39] Speaker 2: it to me. I wanna shut the whole sermon down
[20:46] Speaker 2: for a minute and give God praise by faith that
[20:50] Speaker 2: he's gonna bring it to me. What's your need, He's
[20:54] Speaker 2: got it. God's gonna bring it to me. God's gonna
[20:58] Speaker 2: bring it to me. Praise him, Blessings come down. God's
[21:03] Speaker 2: gonna bring it to me. I don't have to begging.
[21:06] Speaker 2: COB's gonna bring it. Peter wasn't looking for a vision
[21:20] Speaker 2: for his life. God brought it to him. All he
[21:26] Speaker 2: did was go to Joppa. Can we talk about Joppa.
[21:29] Speaker 1: For a minute. Joppa? Everybody say Joppa.
[21:35] Speaker 2: I thought about calling this message the Opportunity of a lifetime,
[21:39] Speaker 2: but that was corny.
[21:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll scratched that one out real quick. You can
[21:45] Speaker 1: have it. That's not a good title for a message.
[21:51] Speaker 1: But it got me that he was in Joppa because
[21:53] Speaker 1: I was like, Joppa.
[21:57] Speaker 2: Joppa, Joppa, Joppa, Joppa, Joppa, Joppa, support city. I know
[22:03] Speaker 2: that they put the timber there. They take the timber,
[22:07] Speaker 2: and the timber came there when they built Solomon's temple.
[22:09] Speaker 2: I think I think they brought the timber from Lebanon
[22:12] Speaker 2: to Joppa because it's on the Mediterranean coast. They brought
[22:14] Speaker 2: timber there and then they sent it to build the temple. Oh,
[22:17] Speaker 2: maybe Japa is something where God takes the raw materials.
[22:24] Speaker 1: Joppa. No, that's not it.
[22:26] Speaker 2: Japa, Jappa, Joppa, Joppa. Why does it say over and
[22:30] Speaker 2: over again he was in Joppa. Go to Acts ten,
[22:32] Speaker 2: verse one. It says it a couple of times, because
[22:36] Speaker 2: remember Peter got in trouble. He didn't have to go
[22:39] Speaker 2: looking for trouble. Trouble came looking for him. Well, y'all
[22:45] Speaker 2: were shouting a minute ago, we just killed the vibe.
[22:51] Speaker 2: I think we killed the vibe. Peter wasn't looking for controversy,
[22:55] Speaker 2: wasn't looking for conflict, wasn't looking for problems.
[22:59] Speaker 1: He was in Joa.
[23:02] Speaker 2: Because there was a woman in the church at Joppa
[23:06] Speaker 2: who was very important to the believers there. And he
[23:09] Speaker 2: was in Lida raising people from the dead, you know,
[23:12] Speaker 2: just the stuff you do.
[23:16] Speaker 1: And when he was in the.
[23:19] Speaker 2: Middle of this crazy revival in Lida, which wasn't too
[23:24] Speaker 2: far from Joppa, this amazing e Kids volunteer died.
[23:29] Speaker 1: Her name was Dorcas, her Greek name was Dorcas.
[23:35] Speaker 2: Her name was also Tabitha, And they asked Peter if
[23:39] Speaker 2: he would come to comfort them. And he got there
[23:44] Speaker 2: and he saw how important she was to all of
[23:46] Speaker 2: them in Japa, and he started. He started looking at
[23:51] Speaker 2: all the clothes that she sewed for widows, and she
[23:54] Speaker 2: had a ministry to the poor. She cared about people
[23:58] Speaker 2: she served on the parking team, about people she worked
[24:02] Speaker 2: on production at Raleigh Durham. She was.
[24:11] Speaker 1: They hated to lose Dorcas. And Peter got kind of bored.
[24:17] Speaker 2: You know, he was a man of action, so he's like,
[24:19] Speaker 2: this is cool, like taking a tour of everything she did.
[24:22] Speaker 1: But y'all leave the room. Check out this scripture real quick.
[24:25] Speaker 1: I know, I said AX ten, but I want to
[24:26] Speaker 1: go back to AX nine real quick.
[24:27] Speaker 2: I want to give you the whole story because we
[24:31] Speaker 2: know what happened when he got to Joppa. How did
[24:32] Speaker 2: he get there? It's important. He went to Joppa to
[24:36] Speaker 2: visit Dorcas. Give me nine forty. Peter sent them all
[24:40] Speaker 2: out of the room. She's been washed and placed for
[24:44] Speaker 2: burial in the upper room, and as they're memorializing her,
[24:46] Speaker 2: he got down on his knees and prayed, and turning
[24:49] Speaker 2: toward the dead woman, he said, Tabitha, get up, Peter's like,
[24:56] Speaker 2: we can have a funeral or we could have a resurrection.
[25:02] Speaker 1: Peter was Peter was bold. He tried it like Jesus.
[25:08] Speaker 1: One time. Jesus did the same exact thing, but it
[25:11] Speaker 1: was with.
[25:11] Speaker 2: The little girl. This little girl was dead. And Jesus
[25:16] Speaker 2: sent everybody out of the room because he knew that
[25:20] Speaker 2: if they stayed in the room that their doubt might
[25:25] Speaker 2: make it impossible for faith to really do what faith
[25:29] Speaker 2: can do when it is unencumbered by doubt.
[25:33] Speaker 1: What's the title of this message, make room for the
[25:37] Speaker 1: new And when Jesus.
[25:39] Speaker 2: Sent them all out, he said something in Aramaic, Talitha
[25:43] Speaker 2: kom It means little girl, get up, Little girl, get
[25:46] Speaker 2: up now watch Peter, imitating his master. He sent them
[25:49] Speaker 2: all out of the room and turned toward the woman
[25:51] Speaker 2: and said, Tabitha, get up.
[25:54] Speaker 1: It's almost like Talita. It's just one letter different.
[25:59] Speaker 2: And he thought something, if he did it, if Jesus
[26:02] Speaker 2: did it, and if his spirit lives in me, I
[26:08] Speaker 2: came with a message for somebody, Make room for resurrection,
[26:12] Speaker 2: make room for things in your life that you were
[26:15] Speaker 2: just about ready to bury.
[26:18] Speaker 1: To Breathe again, Tabitha, get.
[26:23] Speaker 2: Up, and she did she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter,
[26:27] Speaker 2: she sat up. Well, I guess, so she sat up.
[26:31] Speaker 2: And he stayed in Japa a little while, and they
[26:35] Speaker 2: liked him. He was very popular in Joppa. Peter could
[26:39] Speaker 2: have run for mayor of Joppa because he demonstrated great
[26:44] Speaker 2: power in Joppa.
[26:47] Speaker 1: Joppa, Joppa.
[26:50] Speaker 2: It's a place where, it's a place where you don't
[26:53] Speaker 2: expect anything great to happen, but something does Joppa.
[26:57] Speaker 1: Joppa is like your job Jaba Joppa.
[27:05] Speaker 2: He was just doing his job, just going to see
[27:07] Speaker 2: it in a miracle happened. He was just going to
[27:09] Speaker 2: see it in a miracle happened. He was just going
[27:11] Speaker 2: to see it and going to comfort them and going
[27:13] Speaker 2: to do what he did in a miracle happened, Joppa, Joppa.
[27:17] Speaker 2: Place where God puts stuff together, Joppa. While he was
[27:21] Speaker 2: in Joppa, Joppa, it's kind of familiar. Who else went
[27:29] Speaker 2: to Joppa?
[27:29] Speaker 1: In the Bible?
[27:32] Speaker 3: I was trying to remember. I was talking to the
[27:35] Speaker 3: interns this week, and I put him on the spot.
[27:38] Speaker 3: We had such a good time then with I said,
[27:40] Speaker 3: who else went to Joppa? They went through every character
[27:43] Speaker 3: in the Bible, guessing zach Kiyas Bartimaeus Luke Matthew John.
[27:51] Speaker 3: I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
[27:53] Speaker 3: it's somebody in the Bible. I'm gonna give you a hand.
[27:58] Speaker 3: It involves a fish rhymes with corona. Jonah went to Joppa.
[28:15] Speaker 3: But watch what he did in Japa?
[28:17] Speaker 1: You ready? Jonah won? Three says.
[28:20] Speaker 2: Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed to Tarshish.
[28:25] Speaker 2: He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship
[28:29] Speaker 2: bound for that port.
[28:31] Speaker 1: God called him to Ninevah, but he resisted it.
[28:35] Speaker 2: He resisted going to Ninevah because those were not the
[28:39] Speaker 2: people he expected God to bless. He resisted what he
[28:43] Speaker 2: did not understand. He resisted what he could not conceptualize.
[28:48] Speaker 2: He resisted what he had no frame of reference for.
[28:52] Speaker 2: He went down to Joppa and boarded a ship heading
[28:56] Speaker 2: away from the Lord. So now I've got a contrast,
[28:59] Speaker 2: and I want to ask ask what will you do
[29:01] Speaker 2: in Joppa? Will you be like Peter who when he
[29:05] Speaker 2: got to Joppa and God send him an opportunity to say, Peter,
[29:10] Speaker 2: I want you to make room for something new.
[29:13] Speaker 1: I want you to believe that I can break a
[29:15] Speaker 1: barrier in your life.
[29:17] Speaker 2: I want you to believe that I'm about to do
[29:19] Speaker 2: something that your mind has not conceived. Will you be
[29:24] Speaker 2: like Peter who went with it? Or are you going
[29:28] Speaker 2: to be like Jonah who ran from it? Peter went
[29:35] Speaker 2: to Joppa. While he was in Japa praying, he saw
[29:40] Speaker 2: something amazing that he didn't expect. And he looked and
[29:43] Speaker 2: he saw a sheep from the four corners four corners
[29:48] Speaker 2: representing the four corners of the earth. God's like, I'm
[29:50] Speaker 2: about to break all of your barriers. I'm about to
[29:53] Speaker 2: break through your unbelief. See, we talk about making room
[29:56] Speaker 2: for the new. You want to go have a yard
[29:57] Speaker 2: sale or something like that, or put everything on It's
[30:01] Speaker 2: not about closet space. It's not about it's not about
[30:07] Speaker 2: clearing out your closet. It's about the transformation.
[30:12] Speaker 1: Of your mind. Do you have room for the new
[30:21] Speaker 1: in your mind? Because they didn't.
[30:23] Speaker 2: Peter didn't when God showed Peter what he was about
[30:27] Speaker 2: to do, Like, this is the way it always is.
[30:29] Speaker 2: When God shows us something, we compare it to our
[30:32] Speaker 2: previous point of reference and then we start consulting our
[30:36] Speaker 2: resources and God wants to bring us new relationships. But
[30:40] Speaker 2: watch this, if you're not ready for new people in
[30:43] Speaker 2: your life, you will bring the same patterns to the
[30:48] Speaker 2: new relationships that you brought to the old relationships, and
[30:53] Speaker 2: we literally keep people out of our lives that God
[30:55] Speaker 2: wants to send because we are holding on to the
[30:58] Speaker 2: hurts from the one who have already left. I feel
[31:07] Speaker 2: the spirit of God breaking barriers as I preach right now,
[31:12] Speaker 2: because you're like, what is this message you have to
[31:13] Speaker 2: do to me? I'm not getting on an airplane and
[31:15] Speaker 2: going to preach to somebody in cessarea like Peter did.
[31:18] Speaker 1: You don't have to.
[31:19] Speaker 2: All you have to do is dare to believe that
[31:23] Speaker 2: God is making room for the new in your life
[31:26] Speaker 2: right now. And even sometimes when it was painful for
[31:32] Speaker 2: me and I thought I was losing things in my life,
[31:36] Speaker 2: I wasn't losing it.
[31:39] Speaker 1: God was moving it. Who is this for?
[31:45] Speaker 2: I just need to know, probably about twenty people, you
[31:48] Speaker 2: didn't lose it.
[31:50] Speaker 1: God moved it.
[31:53] Speaker 2: He said, you will still be eating last year's harvest.
[31:57] Speaker 1: When you have to move it out. Somebody shall move
[32:01] Speaker 1: it out. God.
[32:03] Speaker 2: Anything that is in the way of me being who
[32:06] Speaker 2: I need to be in this season, get it out
[32:09] Speaker 2: of my heart, get it out of my mind, get
[32:12] Speaker 2: it out.
[32:12] Speaker 1: Of my habits. You can have it, God, I don't
[32:15] Speaker 1: want it.
[32:15] Speaker 2: I want what you've got, So you can't receive new
[32:23] Speaker 2: miracles with old mindsets.
[32:31] Speaker 1: Make room for the new.
[32:32] Speaker 2: It looks like this, emptying yourself, humbling yourself and asking God,
[32:39] Speaker 2: what do you.
[32:39] Speaker 1: Want to do in my job of Or you can
[32:45] Speaker 1: run from it and resist it, and you can keep
[32:49] Speaker 1: remembering when the kids were so cute. They are forty
[32:54] Speaker 1: three now they stop being cute. Quite a while ago.
[33:02] Speaker 2: And the church was trying to figure out how do
[33:04] Speaker 2: we protect what we loved while we embrace.
[33:09] Speaker 1: What is new? And I don't know.
[33:12] Speaker 2: I think there are at least three lessons in this text.
[33:15] Speaker 2: Y'all got a minute, make room for the new. Number one,
[33:18] Speaker 2: God says this, don't limit yourself by labels. The first
[33:30] Speaker 2: thing God told Peter, he said, you've got your nice
[33:33] Speaker 2: little neat categories, because when the sheet came down, Peter
[33:36] Speaker 2: saw all kinds of animals, and y'all need to know.
[33:39] Speaker 2: In this culture, they respected visions. This was not like
[33:43] Speaker 2: Peter's hallucination or you know how some people now are
[33:46] Speaker 2: so weird and they're like, well, the Lord showed me
[33:48] Speaker 2: a vision of us walking on the beach. It's like, bro,
[33:50] Speaker 2: you need to ask her out and stop trying to
[33:52] Speaker 2: embed it in this weird spirituality.
[33:58] Speaker 1: So Peter actually saw.
[34:00] Speaker 2: But remember there's sometimes a tension between what you thought
[34:03] Speaker 2: God showed you. It's at tension, and that tension is
[34:07] Speaker 2: a real gift because that's where growth happens, where it's
[34:10] Speaker 2: like God. I thought. I thought I was going to
[34:13] Speaker 2: be married to her the rest of my life, but
[34:15] Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not married now, and that's painful. But
[34:20] Speaker 2: what you do with it becomes your japa, which determines
[34:23] Speaker 2: do you run from God's purpose for your future or
[34:27] Speaker 2: do you run toward it. That's jappa. And the word
[34:31] Speaker 2: God gave me was don't limit it with the label,
[34:35] Speaker 2: because the first thing he told Peter, he said. Peter said,
[34:38] Speaker 2: in verse six, acts eleven, I looked into it and
[34:41] Speaker 2: saw four footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles,
[34:43] Speaker 2: and birds. And then after he saw the pigs in
[34:46] Speaker 2: a blanket, he said, I try to keep y'all awake.
[34:50] Speaker 1: Then I heard a voice telling me get up, Peter,
[34:53] Speaker 1: kill and eat.
[34:53] Speaker 2: Now.
[34:53] Speaker 1: When I read that, I said, God was trying to
[34:56] Speaker 1: get Peter to go hunting. No, wasn't. It wasn't about
[34:59] Speaker 1: the animals.
[35:00] Speaker 2: He was about to send Cornelius, whom Peter saw as
[35:03] Speaker 2: an unclean gentile.
[35:05] Speaker 1: So he was using this. It wasn't about bacon. It
[35:09] Speaker 1: was about barriers, mental barriers.
[35:13] Speaker 2: So when he said, get up, Peter, kill an e,
[35:15] Speaker 2: it wasn't that God wanted Peter to kill a pig.
[35:19] Speaker 1: It was that he was trying to kill Peter's categories.
[35:24] Speaker 1: In this season of.
[35:25] Speaker 2: Your life, God is trying to kill your categories. He's
[35:30] Speaker 2: going to use people you did not even like to
[35:35] Speaker 2: grow you up and mature you. There was one person
[35:39] Speaker 2: the other day that shared a Bible verse with one
[35:41] Speaker 2: of my kids, and they left our church years ago.
[35:44] Speaker 1: They didn't even like me when they left.
[35:47] Speaker 2: But when they gave a Bible verse to my kids,
[35:49] Speaker 2: I said, God, I don't care who hands them the scriptures.
[35:52] Speaker 2: I'll take a cold cup of water in the pit
[35:54] Speaker 2: of hell from anybody. I don't care who hands it
[35:56] Speaker 2: to them. Use who you want to use, God, do
[35:59] Speaker 2: what you want to do, kill my categories. As a
[36:02] Speaker 2: matter of fact, when we say all things work together
[36:04] Speaker 2: for the good, what we mean when we quote Romans eight.
[36:07] Speaker 1: Twenty eight out of context?
[36:09] Speaker 2: Because Romans eight twenty eight is connected and conjoined incidentally
[36:12] Speaker 2: to Romans eight twenty nine, which says, according to his purpose.
[36:16] Speaker 2: So what it means by good is this going to
[36:18] Speaker 2: fulfill his purpose? Not my preference. Y'all can shout right now.
[36:24] Speaker 2: What it means is I can't categorize. That's God's job.
[36:29] Speaker 2: It is God's job to know what's best for me.
[36:32] Speaker 2: It is God's job to know what needs to happen.
[36:34] Speaker 2: It is God's job to know what experiences I need
[36:38] Speaker 2: to get. So God says, stop limiting it by labels.
[36:44] Speaker 2: Labels labels can apply to a group of people. He said,
[36:49] Speaker 2: look what the Lord said when he said, arise, Peter,
[36:52] Speaker 2: kill and eat. Peter says, surely not, Lord, nothing impure
[36:55] Speaker 2: or unclean has ever entered my mouth.
[36:57] Speaker 1: Now watch what God said in verse nine. Those are
[36:59] Speaker 1: your category, is not mine.
[37:03] Speaker 2: The voice spoke from heaven a second time, saying, do
[37:06] Speaker 2: not call anything impure that God has made clean. Stop
[37:10] Speaker 2: limiting God with your labels. Most people that live in
[37:21] Speaker 2: Charlotte weren't born in Charlotte. So you come here and
[37:24] Speaker 2: it's like, I don't really like Southerners. Well, you're stuck
[37:29] Speaker 2: with us for this season, So do not overgeneralize the
[37:33] Speaker 2: people that you have to live with. Now, the same
[37:36] Speaker 2: thing can be said of any group of people, northern
[37:39] Speaker 2: or southern, or anything.
[37:40] Speaker 1: We want to mention.
[37:41] Speaker 2: This is the problem. We are all so prejudiced. We
[37:44] Speaker 2: stopped realizing it a long time ago. You're like, I'm
[37:46] Speaker 2: not prejudiced. I'm not prejudiced. Prejudge. You do it all
[37:49] Speaker 2: the time. I do it all the time. We think
[37:54] Speaker 2: we know what is and what isn't going to be
[37:55] Speaker 2: good all the time. We even think we know who
[37:59] Speaker 2: is holy and who is not holy by what they wear.
[38:03] Speaker 2: You know, even with people, we think we know who
[38:06] Speaker 2: is important and who is not. You have no idea.
[38:10] Speaker 2: You have no idea. And then we size up opportunities
[38:13] Speaker 2: by how public they are to see how significant they are.
[38:17] Speaker 2: But Peter was in Joppa doing something that was off
[38:20] Speaker 2: the radar when God led him to Cornelius's house to
[38:24] Speaker 2: take the Gospel to the gentiles, and I just wanted
[38:28] Speaker 2: to say, don't limit your life by labels.
[38:31] Speaker 1: Don't limit what God can do through you through labels.
[38:35] Speaker 2: Somebody say you single, say, well, first of all, I'm saved, sanctified,
[38:42] Speaker 2: and then i'm single.
[38:44] Speaker 1: But don't put that as my first label. There's a
[38:46] Speaker 1: whole lot more to me than what's going on on
[38:49] Speaker 1: one finger on my left hand, So please do not
[38:52] Speaker 1: limit me. Preach. Pastor Stephen Ferne, I am one guy
[39:04] Speaker 1: said to me.
[39:04] Speaker 2: He was, like, your preaching has gotten more Pentecostal these days.
[39:09] Speaker 1: All he meant was I yell more.
[39:12] Speaker 2: And the only reason I yell more now than I
[39:14] Speaker 2: used to is because when the church was small, I
[39:17] Speaker 2: needed people and I was didn't want to scare them off.
[39:21] Speaker 1: Now we got enough. If we scare a few off,
[39:24] Speaker 1: a few more will come and I can holler like
[39:26] Speaker 1: I want to. I can great. It'suck. I feel it, not.
[39:30] Speaker 2: Theological stylistic, So don't be limited by labels. I'm white,
[39:42] Speaker 2: but I'm not only white. I'm black, but I'm not
[39:46] Speaker 2: only black. Please do not prejudge me based on something
[39:51] Speaker 2: I had no control over. I want you to get
[39:54] Speaker 2: to know my character. I want you to get to
[39:57] Speaker 2: see the God in me, rather than labeling me. So
[40:03] Speaker 2: don't judge me by mine. Ask little nas X ask
[40:08] Speaker 2: him about labels. Is it country?
[40:10] Speaker 1: Is it wrap? I'll tell you what it is.
[40:13] Speaker 2: It's a billion streams, it's a Grammy, and it's multimillion dollars.
[40:17] Speaker 1: You could take me, write out this box and drive
[40:19] Speaker 1: me to the bank.
[40:20] Speaker 2: And God wants to do something bigger. But you will
[40:23] Speaker 2: limit yourself with the label, and you limit others the label.
[40:27] Speaker 2: Who you can and can't receive from, who God can
[40:29] Speaker 2: and can't use in your life, What God can and
[40:31] Speaker 2: can't use in your life.
[40:32] Speaker 1: Oh well, they're insulting me, are they? Or is God
[40:36] Speaker 1: using them to instruct you?
[40:39] Speaker 2: I don't like it, doesn't feel good, So don't limit
[40:44] Speaker 2: yourself with labels. And number two, don't be loyal to
[40:51] Speaker 2: a lie. I don't have time to show you. But
[40:58] Speaker 2: the passage and acts in with Peter and the counsel
[41:05] Speaker 2: there the deacon board that called him in as a
[41:10] Speaker 2: Baptist flashback I was having right there when they called
[41:16] Speaker 2: him in. By the end of it, I said this
[41:19] Speaker 2: on Sunday. I didn't say it on Saturday last week.
[41:22] Speaker 2: It said that it started with protest and ended in praise.
[41:26] Speaker 2: When they brought him in. They were protesting, like we
[41:28] Speaker 2: always do when God is doing something new in our lives.
[41:30] Speaker 1: God, I don't like it. I don't like it. I
[41:32] Speaker 1: don't like it.
[41:33] Speaker 2: Now everybody that hears new will hear something different. When
[41:36] Speaker 2: I preach, people will quit their jobs over this marriage.
[41:40] Speaker 2: People are over this message. People will put their marriage
[41:43] Speaker 2: over this message. Some will quit their job and their
[41:46] Speaker 2: marriage over this message. And they're missing the point. Because
[41:51] Speaker 2: what I mean is make room for the new in you,
[41:56] Speaker 2: so you don't have to find out after you moved
[41:58] Speaker 2: a five different running from yourself.
[42:03] Speaker 1: That sometimes the environment is not the issue.
[42:10] Speaker 2: And what we will do a lot of times is
[42:12] Speaker 2: we will hold on so tightly to a lie because
[42:15] Speaker 2: it's familiar that we will miss what God is bringing
[42:19] Speaker 2: to us by faith because we don't like how it feels.
[42:24] Speaker 2: Don't be loyal to a lie. And my third one
[42:29] Speaker 2: is don't be late. Don't be late. One thing the
[42:37] Speaker 2: Spirit told Peter that I wanted to say to you
[42:41] Speaker 2: through the power of the Holy Spirit today. Yeah, you
[42:44] Speaker 2: got it. They're so good in the back they anticipated
[42:46] Speaker 2: my verse I love them Acts eleven twelve says that
[42:50] Speaker 2: the Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going
[42:53] Speaker 2: with them. Don't be late, because if you hold on
[42:59] Speaker 2: to what's old, the way you thought and what you
[43:02] Speaker 2: wanted and how it was, you might miss today's miracle.
[43:09] Speaker 2: Trying to hold onto yesterday's blessing. What am I holding
[43:15] Speaker 2: that's old? It's keeping me from receiving what's new, what's now,
[43:20] Speaker 2: what's your I don't mean that we don't value tradition
[43:23] Speaker 2: and experience and continuity.
[43:25] Speaker 1: That's not my message.
[43:28] Speaker 2: But the scripture said in Leviticus twenty six' ten you
[43:31] Speaker 2: will still be eating last year's, harvest that's the, old
[43:36] Speaker 2: when you will have to move it out to make
[43:39] Speaker 2: room for the. New it's not that the old was,
[43:42] Speaker 2: Bad it's just that the new is, here a new,
[43:49] Speaker 2: covenant a new, day a new. Season some of you
[43:53] Speaker 2: are really destabilized right.
[43:56] Speaker 1: Now in, life.
[43:58] Speaker 2: We all go through these season of instability that really
[44:01] Speaker 2: tests our. Faith And god gives us this tension in
[44:04] Speaker 2: these moments to see what will we do In? Joppa
[44:08] Speaker 2: run From god or run Toward? God and if that's
[44:14] Speaker 2: where you are today In, JOPPA i mean in a psychological, sense,
[44:18] Speaker 2: obviously not a geographical sense or a spiritual, sense an emotional,
[44:22] Speaker 2: sense trying to figure, Out, god what are you doing
[44:25] Speaker 2: in my? Life i've never seen this, Before i've never
[44:27] Speaker 2: felt this. Before i've never been in my forties. BEFORE
[44:34] Speaker 2: i wonder what you will do In Joppa the thing
[44:39] Speaker 2: About god's blessing is it rarely checks your schedule to
[44:42] Speaker 2: see if this would be a convenient. Time in, Fact leviticus,
[44:48] Speaker 2: said as they were giving all the instructions for worship
[44:51] Speaker 2: and the covenant to set up the, community and how
[44:54] Speaker 2: to deal with diseases and, poverty and how to deal with,
[44:57] Speaker 2: indebtedness and how to be a, people and as they
[44:59] Speaker 2: were a and acclimating to be out Of egyptian slavery
[45:02] Speaker 2: and coming into a new, place Before god made them the,
[45:06] Speaker 2: promise he, said you need to know that you're still
[45:07] Speaker 2: going to be eating.
[45:08] Speaker 1: Last year's harvest when you have to move it out
[45:12] Speaker 1: to make room for the. New this is how it.
[45:14] Speaker 2: Works you're not even used to it, yet and here
[45:19] Speaker 2: comes something, new and you have to learn to multitask your.
[45:24] Speaker 2: Miracles you have to learn to multitask your. Miracles you
[45:31] Speaker 2: have to learn to move between things and to Trust
[45:33] Speaker 2: god and keep, giving keep, going keep, trusting and keep
[45:39] Speaker 2: believing by, faith or else you're going to find yourself
[45:44] Speaker 2: missing today's opportunity because you are too attached to yesterday's.
[45:49] Speaker 2: BLESSING i wonder what new Mindset god is creating in
[45:55] Speaker 2: me in this.
[45:56] Speaker 1: SEASON i want to. KNOW i wonder what barriers he's
[45:59] Speaker 1: going to break through your. LIFE i want to.
[46:01] Speaker 2: Know he, said you will still be eating last year's
[46:04] Speaker 2: harvest when you will have to move it out to
[46:08] Speaker 2: make room for the. New that's what repentance. Is it's
[46:14] Speaker 2: a change of. Mind it makes room for the, new
[46:19] Speaker 2: new way of. Thinking you're doing it the old. Way
[46:23] Speaker 2: you keep, manipulating keep, forcing keep getting. Angry that's the old.
[46:26] Speaker 2: Way that's not how you do it. Anymore if anyone
[46:29] Speaker 2: is In, christ he is a new. Creation the old has,
[46:32] Speaker 2: gone the new has. Come there's a new.
[46:35] Speaker 1: Way to do, this a new way to, live a
[46:40] Speaker 1: new way to, love a new.
[46:41] Speaker 2: Way to, serve a way that seems upside down but
[46:44] Speaker 2: is actually right side. Up And god, said if you
[46:47] Speaker 2: will make room for the, new you will still be eating.
[46:50] Speaker 1: Last year's harvest when you will have to move it.
[46:53] Speaker 2: Out, FATHER i thank you for your word, today the
[46:58] Speaker 2: power of, it the precision of.
[46:59] Speaker 1: It you are so on.
[47:02] Speaker 2: TIME i trust. YOU i trust you that it will
[47:07] Speaker 2: not return. Void what you spoke in this place today
[47:12] Speaker 2: is not just About. Peter this is not a history
[47:15] Speaker 2: lesson or an agricultural. Lesson this is a word from
[47:21] Speaker 2: heaven for someone's, life make room for the. NEW i
[47:27] Speaker 2: pray for your, People, lord whatever they're holding on to
[47:31] Speaker 2: that is, old that needs to be moved out to
[47:35] Speaker 2: make room for the. New maybe all their life they
[47:38] Speaker 2: thought they had to earn, acceptance so they're stuck in
[47:42] Speaker 2: performance and they think you are like that. TOO i
[47:45] Speaker 2: pray that today that grace would clear the way to
[47:50] Speaker 2: make room for the. New AND i thank you today
[47:55] Speaker 2: that strongholds in our minds are being broken by the
[47:59] Speaker 2: power of The spirit Of. God we thought we had
[48:04] Speaker 2: To we thought we had to run to something else
[48:06] Speaker 2: to get our needs. Met that's the old way of.
[48:09] Speaker 2: Thinking that's the old way of, living that's the old
[48:11] Speaker 2: way of. Coping but we came into your presence today
[48:15] Speaker 2: to make room for the. New we thank you that
[48:20] Speaker 2: you're doing something in our life right. Now we never
[48:24] Speaker 2: truly know the power of this moment until it's. Over
[48:28] Speaker 2: we never fully understand the reason for this season until
[48:33] Speaker 2: we're in the next. One BUT i asked that you
[48:36] Speaker 2: would grant unto us the gift of faith so we
[48:39] Speaker 2: can trust you for what's. Next everyone's, standing no one.
[48:43] Speaker 2: Moving If god brought you here today and you've been
[48:47] Speaker 2: holding on to something. Old maybe it's an offense or,
[48:51] Speaker 2: regret could be a pattern of, habits or just a
[48:59] Speaker 2: way that you get your. Way god KNOWS i have,
[49:03] Speaker 2: plenty and you want to release.
[49:06] Speaker 1: That right, now.
[49:08] Speaker 2: In the presence of The, LORD i invite you to
[49:10] Speaker 2: just lift your hands To heaven like you're letting something,
[49:12] Speaker 2: go and just keep your hands, Up just keep them, up.
[49:19] Speaker 1: BECAUSE i don't want to miss.
[49:20] Speaker 2: It, GOD i don't want to miss what you have for.
[49:24] Speaker 2: Me we don't want to miss what you have for
[49:26] Speaker 2: us because we were, afraid because we thought we were
[49:31] Speaker 2: smarter than. You you are the, potter we are the.
[49:36] Speaker 1: Clay we ask you to mold us and fill us
[49:40] Speaker 1: and make.
[49:41] Speaker 2: Us Oh, lord touch each, heart each, mind lift the,
[49:48] Speaker 2: bird and break the. Barrier whatever they think you can't,
[49:51] Speaker 2: do do. It show them what kind Of god you.
[49:55] Speaker 2: Are show them how you can raise the, dead how
[50:00] Speaker 2: you kill categories and make ways and do stuff that
[50:03] Speaker 2: human minds cannot innovate or. Imagine do it in our, Lives,
[50:07] Speaker 2: god do it through our. Children do it in our,
[50:09] Speaker 2: generation do it in our, world do it in our.
[50:11] Speaker 2: Church do it in this. Movement create in us a clean,
[50:15] Speaker 2: heart make room for the. New we're letting go of
[50:18] Speaker 2: what it. Was we're letting go of what we. Thought
[50:21] Speaker 2: we are embracing your, ways for your ways are higher
[50:25] Speaker 2: than our, ways and your thoughts are higher than our.
[50:28] Speaker 1: Thoughts and we.
[50:31] Speaker 2: Came in this place today as your tabernacle to make
[50:36] Speaker 2: room in our hearts for.
[50:37] Speaker 3: You.
[50:41] Speaker 2: Lord if there's someone here today who needs a new,
[50:43] Speaker 2: beginning who needs to be, saved who needs to be
[50:48] Speaker 2: brought into the family Of, god right, now in this,
[50:52] Speaker 2: moment would you touch their heart and bring them to
[50:57] Speaker 2: faith In Jesus. Christ they can be saved and forgiven
[51:03] Speaker 2: and set. Free right, now at all of our, Locations
[51:07] Speaker 2: i'm going to give an invitation for someone who wants
[51:11] Speaker 2: to receive the grace Of Jesus christ for your, life
[51:15] Speaker 2: who wants to, Say, God i'm giving up my life
[51:20] Speaker 2: to you And i'm embracing your life and your plan for.
[51:22] Speaker 2: Me The bible says that it is by grace you are,
[51:26] Speaker 2: saved not of. Works no one can boast about.
[51:31] Speaker 1: It it is the gift Of. God so for everyone
[51:34] Speaker 1: who wants to receive this.
[51:35] Speaker 2: Gift the scripture says that we were dead in our
[51:38] Speaker 2: sins And christ died for. Us he didn't just die
[51:41] Speaker 2: for us to be good. People he died to give us.
[51:44] Speaker 2: Life he died to give us a new. Beginning he
[51:47] Speaker 2: died to make us brand. New so right, now if
[51:50] Speaker 2: this is your, day and you have Felt god speaking
[51:52] Speaker 2: to you While i've been, preaching and you have Felt
[51:55] Speaker 2: god calling you, home and you are ready to make
[51:57] Speaker 2: room for the new in your, LIFE i want you
[51:59] Speaker 2: to repeat this prayer after. Me we pray together as
[52:02] Speaker 2: a church, family repeat after, Me Heavenly, father today is my.
[52:07] Speaker 2: DAY i believe That Jesus christ is The son Of
[52:12] Speaker 2: god and The savior of the. World and TODAY i
[52:17] Speaker 2: Make jesus the lord of my. LIFE i believe he
[52:21] Speaker 2: died THAT i would be forgiven and rose again to
[52:26] Speaker 2: give me. LIFE i receive this new. Life this is
[52:32] Speaker 2: my new. BEGINNING i am a child Of. God on
[52:36] Speaker 2: the count of, three shoots your hand. Up if you
[52:38] Speaker 2: prayed that, one, two, three shoot him, Up shoot him. Up,
[52:41] Speaker 2: God bless, You, god bless. You come. On let's celebrate new.
[52:47] Speaker 2: Life let's celebrate new. Beginnings let's celebrate new.
[52:52] Speaker 1: Stories come, on, chirch thank you for joining.
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