1 00:00:07,158 --> 00:00:08,967 We serve a good God, don't we? 2 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:13,677 Amen. The Creator of heavens and the earth 3 00:00:14,756 --> 00:00:16,093 and the universe around us 4 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:22,471 knows you. He knows me. He wants to 5 00:00:22,488 --> 00:00:26,140 commune with us. He wants a relationship with 6 00:00:26,140 --> 00:00:29,887 us that would be eternal. I love that. 7 00:00:30,048 --> 00:00:32,779 It's beautiful. Um, 8 00:00:34,129 --> 00:00:37,214 and one of the beauties that we have in our church is we have lots, 9 00:00:37,969 --> 00:00:41,680 and we have lots of babies, and babies are great. 10 00:00:42,708 --> 00:00:46,548 Babies are a sign of the blessing of the Lord, the next generation. 11 00:00:47,689 --> 00:00:51,207 And, uh, so we're gonna have a baby dedication in a couple of 12 00:00:51,239 --> 00:00:53,842 weeks. Um, although there is a 13 00:00:55,799 --> 00:00:59,470 sign up by September 7th. We're gonna start 14 00:00:59,502 --> 00:01:02,916 doing baby dedications on a quarterly basis. 15 00:01:03,654 --> 00:01:07,437 So this, this next one is going to be September 13th, and if you 16 00:01:07,437 --> 00:01:10,852 have a baby and you are available to be a part of that service that 17 00:01:10,964 --> 00:01:14,491 day, please sign up. We would love to 18 00:01:14,491 --> 00:01:18,322 serve you in that way. And then that's in 2 weeks, and 19 00:01:18,322 --> 00:01:21,769 then 2 weeks after that, we will be having a Baptism Sunday, 20 00:01:22,330 --> 00:01:24,879 and that's gonna be a church-wide celebration. 21 00:01:26,258 --> 00:01:29,738 We're not having an early gathering that day. It's at 9 o'clock. 22 00:01:29,866 --> 00:01:33,268 We're not having the 12. We're gonna come in all 23 00:01:33,268 --> 00:01:37,104 together and have a worship and Baptism service. And 24 00:01:37,104 --> 00:01:40,766 there is also— I can't read it from here. I think the 25 00:01:40,766 --> 00:01:44,603 14th. Does that say— is that what it says? But there's 26 00:01:44,603 --> 00:01:48,353 also a limit for signups that ends after that day. So 27 00:01:48,353 --> 00:01:52,102 please sign up. if you're interested in being a part 28 00:01:52,102 --> 00:01:55,327 of that baptism service. There's some video 29 00:01:55,327 --> 00:01:58,727 elements that we want to incorporate that will 30 00:01:58,727 --> 00:02:01,954 require some time built into that, but we're 31 00:02:01,954 --> 00:02:05,529 planning that here in 4 weeks from today, and it's 32 00:02:05,529 --> 00:02:08,745 going to be a beautiful, beautiful service. 33 00:02:09,661 --> 00:02:13,338 I know that we serve a good and a mighty God, 34 00:02:14,317 --> 00:02:15,955 a God that has a word for us. 35 00:02:20,338 --> 00:02:24,047 God that wants to speak to us this morning. And my 36 00:02:24,047 --> 00:02:27,805 prayer for you is the same prayer that I've had for me this 37 00:02:27,821 --> 00:02:31,000 morning. And I came in with an attitude 38 00:02:32,397 --> 00:02:35,175 that I knew some people in my life that needed to hear what was being 39 00:02:35,271 --> 00:02:38,386 said this morning. And then I realized I needed to hear what was being said 40 00:02:38,402 --> 00:02:40,586 this morning. And 41 00:02:42,353 --> 00:02:45,686 And so I invite my brother, my spiritual 42 00:02:45,686 --> 00:02:49,048 pops, my elder, 43 00:02:49,889 --> 00:02:51,619 my elder of elders. I'll 44 00:02:51,619 --> 00:02:55,225 stop. 45 00:02:56,260 --> 00:02:56,582 Pastor 46 00:02:56,776 --> 00:03:02,877 Wayne. 47 00:03:03,313 --> 00:03:06,878 Good morning. I actually probably should 48 00:03:06,878 --> 00:03:10,700 stop before I start and get Dee to come back up 49 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:14,522 here. Yeah. And I think she— I glanced up. I think 50 00:03:14,522 --> 00:03:17,845 she read it, which is fine. God can anoint reading. 51 00:03:19,420 --> 00:03:23,074 But she should just— I'm not gonna 52 00:03:23,074 --> 00:03:25,554 invite her 'cause it's— I was given the time. 53 00:03:28,181 --> 00:03:31,735 But if she gets off book, you know, I mean, she 54 00:03:32,075 --> 00:03:35,839 walked over into some water. She walked over into some flow. 55 00:03:36,450 --> 00:03:40,034 That was, you know, I didn't hear enough of that. 56 00:03:40,357 --> 00:03:42,795 So maybe we'll invite her back. 57 00:03:43,667 --> 00:03:47,514 Yeah. Maybe we could do that. It's good to be 58 00:03:48,482 --> 00:03:49,089 with you all. 59 00:03:53,010 --> 00:03:54,575 Disclaimer right here at the top. 60 00:03:56,898 --> 00:04:00,255 I don't hope that you 61 00:04:01,917 --> 00:04:05,035 believe or agree with what I'm going to try and share. 62 00:04:06,558 --> 00:04:09,771 I hope that you receive what the Holy Ghost has for you 63 00:04:09,964 --> 00:04:13,724 today because that's 64 00:04:13,724 --> 00:04:17,496 important. If you're open and 65 00:04:17,496 --> 00:04:21,326 available, the Holy Spirit can work in ways that have nothing 66 00:04:21,358 --> 00:04:24,338 to do with microphones and conversation and slides. 67 00:04:24,824 --> 00:04:28,626 Yeah. If we're open and available to 68 00:04:28,626 --> 00:04:31,851 that. So, About 2 69 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:35,218 and a half months ago or so, 70 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:40,186 Pastor Barbie asked me if I would 71 00:04:41,491 --> 00:04:45,340 close out this series we've been doing the last 72 00:04:45,437 --> 00:04:49,220 4 weeks, all of the month. And I told her 73 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:52,743 I would be honored to do that. And so 74 00:04:53,033 --> 00:04:54,320 I'm going to. Amen. 75 00:04:57,654 --> 00:05:01,482 When? Shortly. No, no, no, no, no. 76 00:05:03,412 --> 00:05:07,042 This won't be a sermon. It's 77 00:05:07,042 --> 00:05:10,545 not a message. It's more 78 00:05:10,899 --> 00:05:13,904 of a review or a 79 00:05:13,952 --> 00:05:16,218 reflect of the last 4 weeks 80 00:05:18,532 --> 00:05:20,820 with a little teaching added in. 81 00:05:22,353 --> 00:05:24,824 The reason I was prompted to do that, 82 00:05:26,833 --> 00:05:30,255 when Pastor Barbie asked me to do it, you know, she just said, close it 83 00:05:30,271 --> 00:05:33,243 out. So that's sort of up to me. 84 00:05:34,304 --> 00:05:37,005 But the reason I felt like we needed to review, 85 00:05:37,842 --> 00:05:41,630 that's actually another message. But this isn't 86 00:05:41,630 --> 00:05:45,307 a message. So what needs to happen, I think, is that 87 00:05:45,307 --> 00:05:48,284 we need, just like in any other classroom 88 00:05:48,284 --> 00:05:51,523 structure, I think we just need refreshers. 89 00:05:51,523 --> 00:05:55,288 Because there's stuff that's happened in the last 4 90 00:05:55,288 --> 00:05:58,876 weeks that some of us perceive in ways that others 91 00:05:58,876 --> 00:06:02,464 don't. Some of us have been like zapped by the Holy 92 00:06:02,464 --> 00:06:06,141 Ghost. Some of us are still trying to figure out how 93 00:06:06,141 --> 00:06:09,555 to spell 'wells'. That's okay. And that's body 94 00:06:09,555 --> 00:06:12,268 life. That's the way body life works. 95 00:06:12,915 --> 00:06:16,660 Everybody's at a different place at a different moment. But 96 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:20,374 depending upon what your learnings and depending upon how 97 00:06:20,374 --> 00:06:23,606 the Holy Ghost works in your life, you could find yourself in 98 00:06:23,606 --> 00:06:27,320 situations where something on a repetitive nature 99 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,146 becomes, oh, I get it. So that's really more 100 00:06:31,339 --> 00:06:35,044 what this is about. That's how we're proceeding 101 00:06:35,077 --> 00:06:38,767 from here. And what I'm doing is basically in 3 102 00:06:39,469 --> 00:06:43,066 stages. The first being 103 00:06:43,066 --> 00:06:46,863 context. The second being content, 104 00:06:47,974 --> 00:06:51,548 and the third being conclusion. So that's where I'm going to 105 00:06:51,934 --> 00:06:55,732 proceed with this. Can you put that slide up, please? 106 00:06:56,956 --> 00:07:00,193 And I'm also going to pray 107 00:07:01,964 --> 00:07:03,668 for and with us. 108 00:07:08,381 --> 00:07:12,164 Father God, Our Abba, 109 00:07:15,267 --> 00:07:18,868 in you we live and move and have our being. 110 00:07:20,372 --> 00:07:24,142 Yes. And we are gathered 111 00:07:24,142 --> 00:07:27,846 here for your honor 112 00:07:27,943 --> 00:07:31,680 and your glory. I ask you to continue 113 00:07:31,744 --> 00:07:35,397 to lead us down the path of righteousness for the sake of 114 00:07:35,397 --> 00:07:38,907 your kingdom. And I ask that in Jesus' 115 00:07:39,036 --> 00:07:42,430 name, sanctioned by the Holy Ghost. 116 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,278 So let me move. You don't mind if I 117 00:07:48,278 --> 00:07:50,967 move? Most of— some of you know I'm gonna do that anyway, 118 00:07:51,939 --> 00:07:55,772 whether you like it or not. That's just— it's sort of 119 00:07:55,820 --> 00:07:59,412 quasi-old school, I guess, but I'm more than 120 00:07:59,444 --> 00:08:00,555 quasi-old school. 121 00:08:07,278 --> 00:08:08,530 See me after, would you? 122 00:08:13,229 --> 00:08:16,649 I could push that a little bit. Old school would be a little bit more 123 00:08:16,859 --> 00:08:20,570 disciplinarian than new school would be. So come see me afterward, 124 00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:24,388 would you? Careful, Bill. 125 00:08:24,778 --> 00:08:28,614 Oh, was that— who was— oh, stop, Ellen. Stop it. 126 00:08:28,743 --> 00:08:32,269 Or you or Fred, one of you over in the amen corner. 127 00:08:32,591 --> 00:08:35,473 Most of you don't know what an amen corner is, but those 2 do. 128 00:08:37,463 --> 00:08:41,280 Yeah. Okay. About 17 or 18 years ago, just for a 129 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,046 split second, just think where you were 17 or 18 130 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:48,811 years ago. That's all. That's all. Okay. About 131 00:08:48,811 --> 00:08:52,286 17 or 18 years ago, we used to do a song here in 132 00:08:52,286 --> 00:08:55,858 this building that was part of the hymnody of 133 00:08:55,858 --> 00:08:59,528 the church. I used to stand roughly over there 134 00:08:59,528 --> 00:09:03,295 where Johnny G is. And back then, I think Barbie 135 00:09:03,295 --> 00:09:06,602 was still part of the worship team. She was 136 00:09:07,348 --> 00:09:10,071 starting to teach more than she was in terms of 137 00:09:11,398 --> 00:09:15,007 worship team ministry. But give or take, that's what was 138 00:09:15,104 --> 00:09:18,745 happening. And so when she 139 00:09:18,745 --> 00:09:22,426 asked me, to take this session, what came up in me 140 00:09:22,506 --> 00:09:26,081 is this, because the 141 00:09:26,177 --> 00:09:29,559 genesis, the starting point for that song was this verse. 142 00:09:30,665 --> 00:09:34,015 With joy will you draw water out of the wells of salvation. 143 00:09:34,753 --> 00:09:38,263 And this is the day we will say, praise the Lord. So I'm not gonna 144 00:09:38,279 --> 00:09:41,821 work that whole verse. I want you to see the verse 'cause I'm setting this 145 00:09:41,821 --> 00:09:45,476 up for content. Okay? So this is 146 00:09:45,508 --> 00:09:48,935 not up there, but this is free. And I don't have time to open it 147 00:09:48,935 --> 00:09:52,290 up. I'm just gonna call your attention to it. This says, with joy 148 00:09:53,068 --> 00:09:56,693 will you draw water. The joy 149 00:09:58,159 --> 00:09:58,751 is the bucket. 150 00:10:03,445 --> 00:10:06,988 It's not saying with celebration or with happy 151 00:10:07,684 --> 00:10:10,758 or with shout and dance. It's not defining joy. 152 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,791 It's not— that verse is not telling us what joy is 153 00:10:15,233 --> 00:10:18,904 except that it says— bear with me— it says, 154 00:10:19,343 --> 00:10:22,091 with joy will we draw out. 155 00:10:23,372 --> 00:10:26,205 So if you read it that way, joy 156 00:10:26,511 --> 00:10:27,992 becomes a bucket 157 00:10:32,146 --> 00:10:35,721 because it's saying the way to get the water out of the well 158 00:10:36,236 --> 00:10:39,602 is with something. Yeah. It's not saying— 159 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,737 it's not feeling an emotional way. It's not saying, 160 00:10:44,419 --> 00:10:48,252 This is how joy manifests. That's another subject 161 00:10:48,496 --> 00:10:51,972 at another time. But if you 162 00:10:52,037 --> 00:10:55,010 permit me, and I have the mic, so I guess I can, 163 00:10:56,473 --> 00:11:00,224 it's saying joy is the container 164 00:11:00,661 --> 00:11:03,491 that will help me get the water. Yeah. 165 00:11:07,056 --> 00:11:10,380 I'm leaning on that just a little bit because however you 166 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:14,059 understand joy, I'm not getting back into the original language. That's not where I'm going. 167 00:11:14,727 --> 00:11:18,562 However you understand joy working, you can 168 00:11:18,658 --> 00:11:21,883 keep that as long as you'll add what I'm doing today. 169 00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:26,825 That says joy is how I will draw out 170 00:11:26,937 --> 00:11:30,740 water. Yeah. So you see the connect. So that 171 00:11:30,868 --> 00:11:34,414 would make, at least in Wayne speak, that would make 172 00:11:34,623 --> 00:11:38,105 joy the bucket. Okay, now 173 00:11:38,730 --> 00:11:42,517 the fact that we're living in the South makes this much easier to translate 174 00:11:42,758 --> 00:11:46,257 Okay, or to elaborate on. The passage is 175 00:11:46,289 --> 00:11:49,255 saying, with joy you, you see the asterisk? 176 00:11:50,844 --> 00:11:54,648 Okay, it's a plural. And what it really says to 177 00:11:54,746 --> 00:11:57,866 us is what y'all need to do is draw water. Yeah. 178 00:12:01,380 --> 00:12:04,311 It's not written to individuals. 179 00:12:04,311 --> 00:12:07,557 Individuals can receive it, but it's 180 00:12:07,557 --> 00:12:11,326 written to us, us'uns. It's kind of you and— 181 00:12:11,326 --> 00:12:14,781 thank you, Connie. You're not even from 182 00:12:14,781 --> 00:12:18,549 down around these parts. You're from way up 183 00:12:18,549 --> 00:12:22,223 north. I know. All right. No, it's just you and me. You know, I 184 00:12:22,223 --> 00:12:23,641 tend to get real. 185 00:12:26,187 --> 00:12:29,628 So what it's saying in the Old Testament prophetically, 186 00:12:30,131 --> 00:12:33,859 it's a prophetic directive. It's 187 00:12:33,859 --> 00:12:35,885 not a requirement. It's not a commandment. 188 00:12:38,248 --> 00:12:41,459 It's a passage that's saying— think of— put it in the 189 00:12:41,459 --> 00:12:45,073 context. It's thinking— it's saying, this is what 190 00:12:45,073 --> 00:12:46,476 y'all are gonna do. 191 00:12:49,378 --> 00:12:52,990 Look at it, okay, and wind the 192 00:12:52,990 --> 00:12:56,695 clock back a few thousand years. So the 193 00:12:56,839 --> 00:13:00,606 prophetic directive is the prophet is saying, 194 00:13:01,185 --> 00:13:05,010 this is in your future. to real people at a real 195 00:13:05,125 --> 00:13:08,047 time in history way back past us. 196 00:13:10,782 --> 00:13:12,808 But the irony is, or the 197 00:13:14,024 --> 00:13:17,298 majesty is, that it's speaking to us right now. 198 00:13:17,925 --> 00:13:21,187 Right. So it's not saying 199 00:13:22,329 --> 00:13:25,929 you need to draw water and y'all need to draw water 200 00:13:27,032 --> 00:13:30,533 and y'all need to draw water. It's saying we all need to draw water. 201 00:13:33,367 --> 00:13:36,903 Amen. But it's not saying find a well and draw water from it. It says 202 00:13:37,017 --> 00:13:38,113 wells. It's plural. 203 00:13:40,808 --> 00:13:44,381 And it's in your Bible. That's where the tune came from, and that's about 204 00:13:44,381 --> 00:13:48,131 17, 18 years ago. And real briefly, at the bottom 205 00:13:48,179 --> 00:13:51,013 of the slide, a well is a 206 00:13:51,013 --> 00:13:54,695 fountain. It's a source of satisfaction, A flowing 207 00:13:54,809 --> 00:13:58,322 spring. And salvation, if you work the language, is a 208 00:13:58,370 --> 00:14:01,981 place of deliverance. Oh, Jesus. Aid, 209 00:14:03,308 --> 00:14:07,123 victory, or prosperity. Sorry. A source of 210 00:14:07,172 --> 00:14:10,567 health and welfare from a word meaning to be 211 00:14:10,567 --> 00:14:14,074 safe or free. Those 212 00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:16,830 definitions for wells, 213 00:14:19,456 --> 00:14:22,450 those definitions for wells, Is magnificent. 214 00:14:23,913 --> 00:14:27,675 It's splendid. It's awe, A-W-E. 215 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:31,338 It's awe-inspiring. The fact that 216 00:14:31,532 --> 00:14:35,376 we have the potential to draw from wells 217 00:14:36,038 --> 00:14:37,464 that have that in them. 218 00:14:41,010 --> 00:14:43,905 Watch. How many people want that in their lives? 219 00:14:45,066 --> 00:14:48,039 All of us. Watch this. Watch this. 220 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:52,843 Watch, old school, old school. Since I 221 00:14:52,924 --> 00:14:56,246 didn't have any, I wasn't looking at anybody and I'm not, 222 00:14:56,635 --> 00:15:00,086 my intention is not to step on anybody's toes. It's just an interesting 223 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,477 dynamic from here looking back to there. 224 00:15:04,898 --> 00:15:08,658 What would keep anybody 225 00:15:08,755 --> 00:15:12,475 when I said, how many of y'all want that in your lives? 226 00:15:13,632 --> 00:15:17,386 And I did this. What would keep you from not raising your 227 00:15:17,386 --> 00:15:20,697 hand? Right. 228 00:15:22,529 --> 00:15:25,915 I'm not talking about salvation. I'm not talking about your level of 229 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:29,376 redemption or are you filled with the Holy Ghost. I'm going, wouldn't the 230 00:15:29,408 --> 00:15:32,966 response to those definitions, 231 00:15:33,273 --> 00:15:35,647 wouldn't the response be absolutely? 232 00:15:37,542 --> 00:15:41,348 So let me ask again, how many people want those things in 233 00:15:41,364 --> 00:15:45,017 their life? Yes. Okay, that's what 234 00:15:45,050 --> 00:15:46,772 corporate community looks like. 235 00:15:49,017 --> 00:15:52,602 That's what it looks like. Watch, watch. 236 00:15:53,502 --> 00:15:56,877 So somebody's up with a mic and somebody says what I just said, I just 237 00:15:56,877 --> 00:16:00,621 said, and somebody asks for that and raised their hand just like I did. And 238 00:16:00,621 --> 00:16:02,924 I'm sitting right here and I don't move. 239 00:16:05,204 --> 00:16:08,502 Now from up here, From up here, 240 00:16:09,193 --> 00:16:12,392 I don't know why that person didn't move. And I'm not making any 241 00:16:12,489 --> 00:16:16,270 judgment because I don't know why. So I can't fill in and go, 242 00:16:16,676 --> 00:16:18,885 oh, I bet. No, I can't do that 243 00:16:18,885 --> 00:16:22,655 because I don't know why that happened. All 244 00:16:22,769 --> 00:16:26,288 I know from this side is they didn't raise their 245 00:16:26,288 --> 00:16:29,824 hand. So I can make this assumption. Maybe they don't 246 00:16:29,824 --> 00:16:33,656 want that. Y'all excuse me. Could I 247 00:16:33,656 --> 00:16:37,486 pray for you? Is there— 248 00:16:37,810 --> 00:16:41,637 did you not read that? Do you not understand 249 00:16:41,637 --> 00:16:44,882 that? Or you want to see me after? Let me finish what I'm doing. 250 00:16:45,398 --> 00:16:48,596 Okay, thanks. Because 251 00:16:49,113 --> 00:16:52,022 from this side, that looks problematic. 252 00:16:53,222 --> 00:16:56,640 Why would you not raise your 253 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,868 hand in faith? Not 254 00:16:58,868 --> 00:17:01,096 presumption, not 255 00:17:01,096 --> 00:17:04,661 artificialness.. Why would 256 00:17:04,661 --> 00:17:08,375 your hand not go up? If you were 257 00:17:08,375 --> 00:17:10,901 at a big ballgame and 258 00:17:10,901 --> 00:17:14,169 something happened, both 259 00:17:14,169 --> 00:17:17,289 your hands would go up. If 260 00:17:17,289 --> 00:17:20,260 you're at a stadium rock 261 00:17:20,260 --> 00:17:23,825 concert, you might lose your 262 00:17:23,825 --> 00:17:27,390 mind. Wayne, come back, come 263 00:17:27,390 --> 00:17:31,104 back, come back. So that's the 264 00:17:31,104 --> 00:17:34,224 context of how we got here 265 00:17:34,224 --> 00:17:37,493 today in my life, because I 266 00:17:37,493 --> 00:17:40,910 have a history with this. So 267 00:17:40,910 --> 00:17:44,624 we're going to move to content 268 00:17:44,624 --> 00:17:47,892 now. The first Sunday that 269 00:17:47,892 --> 00:17:51,457 Pastor Barbie was up when she 270 00:17:51,457 --> 00:17:55,022 opened this series, what she 271 00:17:55,022 --> 00:17:58,440 did was she started there. I 272 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,708 don't mean literally that 273 00:18:01,708 --> 00:18:05,346 verse. I don't remember what verse she used, but she basically 274 00:18:05,346 --> 00:18:08,492 started at ancient wells. She 275 00:18:08,556 --> 00:18:12,168 went back historically to that. That's where she 276 00:18:12,168 --> 00:18:15,330 started 4 weeks ago. That was her starting place. 277 00:18:16,261 --> 00:18:19,439 And then she expanded from there. And what she was using 278 00:18:20,693 --> 00:18:24,408 Is she was using, for me, she was using this verse 279 00:18:24,522 --> 00:18:28,329 as a starting place. And then she brought her message. Now what 280 00:18:28,329 --> 00:18:31,574 I'm gonna do today is I've asked Rhonda 281 00:18:32,249 --> 00:18:36,089 to help translate or interpret 282 00:18:36,828 --> 00:18:38,760 on my behalf for your sake. 283 00:18:42,627 --> 00:18:44,787 Just let it sink in. Let it sink in. 284 00:18:47,239 --> 00:18:50,810 Yes. What she's reading is from 285 00:18:50,875 --> 00:18:54,526 notes from about 16 years ago that I 286 00:18:54,574 --> 00:18:58,232 wrote based on the song that I just talked to you about, Wealth of Salvation. 287 00:18:59,607 --> 00:19:03,359 And what I have been able to do because of my history, not only here 288 00:19:03,585 --> 00:19:07,338 in this building, but my history in terms of the kingdom, I've been 289 00:19:07,386 --> 00:19:10,981 able to see the last 4 services as 290 00:19:11,029 --> 00:19:13,954 astounding. Astounding. 291 00:19:14,066 --> 00:19:17,699 Yes. Here's why. Not because the sermons 292 00:19:17,747 --> 00:19:20,468 were so powerful and the Holy Ghost moved 293 00:19:20,969 --> 00:19:24,267 dynamically in an unbelievable way, but because 294 00:19:25,173 --> 00:19:29,005 all 4 messages in the last 4 weeks all marry up 295 00:19:29,231 --> 00:19:30,943 to the notes I wrote 17 years ago 296 00:19:33,576 --> 00:19:37,395 in order. It does. So 297 00:19:37,411 --> 00:19:40,818 I'll show you. She's doing this because 298 00:19:41,204 --> 00:19:44,966 she has a real gift of speaking 299 00:19:44,999 --> 00:19:47,660 so we understand, which I don't have. 300 00:19:52,308 --> 00:19:55,552 And she has a— how do I want to say this? 301 00:19:56,020 --> 00:19:59,715 She has an anointing. Oh, let's go there. She has 302 00:19:59,747 --> 00:20:02,184 an anointing to get your attention. 303 00:20:03,532 --> 00:20:05,459 Which I don't always have either. 304 00:20:07,526 --> 00:20:11,265 So, Rhonda, if you would. Ancient wells. 305 00:20:12,187 --> 00:20:15,516 Ancient wells are those which were dug out by our 306 00:20:15,645 --> 00:20:18,377 ancestors, or tribal leaders, if you will. 307 00:20:19,220 --> 00:20:22,434 These wells contain the doctrines and 308 00:20:22,450 --> 00:20:26,291 theology that have nurtured saints since the days 309 00:20:26,403 --> 00:20:30,174 when Moses and those wilderness children sojourned 310 00:20:30,174 --> 00:20:32,419 through the desert on their long journey to the Promised Land. 311 00:20:34,593 --> 00:20:38,408 They are in a very real sense the watering 312 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,678 holes that all saints must drink from 313 00:20:42,191 --> 00:20:45,606 for the life of the Spirit to remain fresh and 314 00:20:45,638 --> 00:20:48,667 vital in our lives. Without such 315 00:20:49,004 --> 00:20:52,771 historical wells, all God's children would 316 00:20:52,771 --> 00:20:56,522 surely die, as Psalm 63 says, 317 00:20:57,420 --> 00:21:00,177 in a dry and weary land where there's no water. 318 00:21:01,221 --> 00:21:04,611 Such ancient wells have been provided to us by God's 319 00:21:04,659 --> 00:21:07,375 sovereign mercy and grace. 320 00:21:08,419 --> 00:21:12,179 We've done nothing to dig them or preserve 321 00:21:12,372 --> 00:21:16,212 them. They are gifts from the Father's hand, 322 00:21:17,015 --> 00:21:20,759 and we may come— we must come 323 00:21:21,594 --> 00:21:24,840 and drink freely and deeply 324 00:21:25,531 --> 00:21:29,367 and often. As the Word says, let all 325 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:32,289 who are thirsty come. 326 00:21:41,742 --> 00:21:45,577 Ancient wells, opening service 4 weeks 327 00:21:45,642 --> 00:21:49,325 ago, 5 weeks ago today. Ancient wells are 328 00:21:49,438 --> 00:21:52,908 historical wells. I.e., 329 00:21:53,631 --> 00:21:57,420 they're ancient. They're long before us. 330 00:21:57,805 --> 00:22:01,611 They were dug thousands of years ago. 331 00:22:02,863 --> 00:22:06,380 And some of them, some of them physically, 332 00:22:06,797 --> 00:22:10,635 geographically, we could get on a big plane if we all— 333 00:22:10,747 --> 00:22:14,296 somebody gifted us with a ton of money and we could all go to those 334 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:16,624 wells. We could literally go to some of those wells. 335 00:22:19,714 --> 00:22:23,174 So ancient wells are historic on a 336 00:22:23,286 --> 00:22:26,842 physical level, but on a spiritual level or a 337 00:22:27,631 --> 00:22:31,311 metaphorical level, the concept of wells being 338 00:22:31,344 --> 00:22:34,782 passed down, obviously it's generational, but it's 339 00:22:34,782 --> 00:22:38,353 generational with time connected to it. 340 00:22:38,986 --> 00:22:42,345 Now, the reason I'm stressing that point is for this reason. We have 341 00:22:42,458 --> 00:22:45,555 lost all sense of— almost all sense of history. Yeah. 342 00:22:46,716 --> 00:22:50,235 Humanity has, not the people in this room, 343 00:22:50,235 --> 00:22:53,554 humanity. These folks are, yeah, these 344 00:22:53,554 --> 00:22:57,375 younger folks here, y'all's, isn't, you have 345 00:22:57,375 --> 00:23:00,492 less history on the planet. So unless 346 00:23:00,492 --> 00:23:04,312 somebody imparts it to you, you have little or 347 00:23:04,312 --> 00:23:08,032 no history of history or desire for history. 348 00:23:08,032 --> 00:23:11,752 It doesn't— look, I'm looking in your faces. 349 00:23:11,752 --> 00:23:15,474 It doesn't touch you. You don't care. I'm not 350 00:23:15,474 --> 00:23:18,689 upset. I'm not saying it's your fault. 351 00:23:19,613 --> 00:23:23,297 It's the planet you've inherited. The 352 00:23:23,297 --> 00:23:27,080 responsibility of passing on history 353 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,685 isn't to the people that are supposed to be receiving history. 354 00:23:31,215 --> 00:23:34,585 Right. It's supposed to happen from the people that 355 00:23:34,617 --> 00:23:38,294 have the history that are able to pass it on. Yes. 356 00:23:38,718 --> 00:23:42,535 So if our youth don't have it, just stop dumping on the kids. 357 00:23:44,984 --> 00:23:47,198 You cannot share stuff 358 00:23:49,832 --> 00:23:53,300 authentically if you haven't experienced it. 359 00:23:54,987 --> 00:23:58,795 Now, what I mean is I don't mean these kids need to somehow go back 360 00:23:58,876 --> 00:24:02,680 to the Dark Ages to get history. What I mean is they need to 361 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,525 have the experience of people that know something about the Dark 362 00:24:06,525 --> 00:24:10,106 Ages, for example, or the Renaissance. Pick something in time, 363 00:24:10,638 --> 00:24:13,085 you know, the Civil War, whatever. 364 00:24:14,821 --> 00:24:18,615 They're not liable to pick it up unless 365 00:24:18,615 --> 00:24:22,373 somebody imparts it. Yeah. So Ancient Wells, 366 00:24:22,486 --> 00:24:26,173 which is where Barbie started this, Pastor Barbie started this series, has 367 00:24:26,351 --> 00:24:29,800 to do with, if I could say it this way, looking back over our 368 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,578 shoulder. And going, are these wells wells that 369 00:24:33,643 --> 00:24:37,478 we need to be connected to? And the answer to that is absolutely. 370 00:24:38,682 --> 00:24:40,514 Yeah. Okay. So 371 00:24:43,728 --> 00:24:47,552 the next thing that happened is this. 372 00:24:50,736 --> 00:24:54,125 He established his testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in 373 00:24:54,238 --> 00:24:57,368 Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach their children. 374 00:24:58,022 --> 00:25:01,776 That the next generation might know them. See the process? 375 00:25:02,353 --> 00:25:06,155 The children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, 376 00:25:06,508 --> 00:25:10,309 so that they should set their hope in God. They should set their 377 00:25:10,357 --> 00:25:14,127 hope in God. They should set their hope in God and 378 00:25:14,223 --> 00:25:17,559 not forget the works of God, but keep His 379 00:25:17,592 --> 00:25:21,169 commandments. Not forget— I'm sorry. 380 00:25:21,361 --> 00:25:25,179 Set their hope in God and not forget to keep His commandments. 381 00:25:25,227 --> 00:25:28,278 Amen. This is an old passage. 382 00:25:29,450 --> 00:25:33,160 This is not a contemporary passage. This didn't happen 200 383 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,693 years ago. This happened, I haven't done the 384 00:25:36,693 --> 00:25:40,290 research, but this is probably 3,000 and change. I 385 00:25:40,306 --> 00:25:42,795 don't give or take. Somebody? 386 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,902 You're there. That's close, okay. So when this was said, 387 00:25:48,818 --> 00:25:52,351 when it was said to the people that heard it, 388 00:25:53,940 --> 00:25:57,616 What they were being told to do is what I just spent 10 minutes talking 389 00:25:57,632 --> 00:26:01,100 to you about just now. Yes. Yes. The 390 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,936 directive here is take the old data 391 00:26:05,017 --> 00:26:08,243 and move it up to a place where the kid— where the next 392 00:26:08,243 --> 00:26:12,048 generation might know them. It's in your Bible. 393 00:26:13,525 --> 00:26:16,912 This is not provocative. This is not, gee, here's a new 394 00:26:16,976 --> 00:26:20,441 paradigm to work with. It's ancient. Yeah. 395 00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:26,114 And when it breaks down, you lose a 396 00:26:26,114 --> 00:26:29,761 whole plethora of wells because you 397 00:26:29,761 --> 00:26:33,408 don't know where they are. You don't 398 00:26:33,408 --> 00:26:36,812 know how to look for them. And they 399 00:26:36,812 --> 00:26:40,459 become irrelevant. And if I could be 400 00:26:40,459 --> 00:26:44,105 so bold, If they become irrelevant, 401 00:26:44,105 --> 00:26:47,874 then the process right there becomes 402 00:26:47,874 --> 00:26:51,641 irrelevant. So week 2, Pastor Barbee 403 00:26:51,641 --> 00:26:54,802 was up again. And this is how she 404 00:26:54,802 --> 00:26:58,328 started. She said, after the first 405 00:26:58,328 --> 00:27:02,097 message on ancient wealth, she said, 406 00:27:02,097 --> 00:27:05,500 somebody contacted me this week. 407 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:09,260 This is 4 weeks ago, 5 weeks ago. And 408 00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:11,386 she said, they asked me, 409 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,436 What's it mean to dig wells? How do you dig wells? What 410 00:27:16,484 --> 00:27:19,128 does that look like to dig wells? I don't understand. 411 00:27:20,366 --> 00:27:22,979 And then she said, I don't wanna do this, 412 00:27:24,592 --> 00:27:26,981 but the Holy Ghost has told me to do it, so I'm going to do 413 00:27:26,998 --> 00:27:29,833 it. Now, I've known Barbie for 414 00:27:31,269 --> 00:27:35,044 32, 33 years. We know each other pretty well, 415 00:27:35,222 --> 00:27:37,609 and I know a lot about her ins and outs and her habits and her 416 00:27:37,722 --> 00:27:41,150 processing. So I know how she works. 417 00:27:43,319 --> 00:27:47,099 And she goes over and she gets a blanket, gets a bag full of tools, 418 00:27:49,557 --> 00:27:53,037 and she comes over and she sets it down. Then she— bless her heart— 419 00:27:53,345 --> 00:27:57,052 she plops herself down in front of everybody for the whole message. 420 00:27:57,392 --> 00:28:01,056 Never got up. She just sits there like she does in her office 421 00:28:01,786 --> 00:28:05,173 or her house or in the woods. or in an automobile 422 00:28:05,687 --> 00:28:08,915 or on a road trip or a vacation. I'll just keep going. That's what she 423 00:28:08,979 --> 00:28:12,511 does. That's who she is. That's what she does. Not a 424 00:28:12,576 --> 00:28:16,397 genius, not a, you know, not a super Christian. That's what she 425 00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:20,058 does. And she showed us how she does it. Right. And the 426 00:28:20,058 --> 00:28:23,799 reason she did it is pastoral. Somebody 427 00:28:23,815 --> 00:28:27,492 asked her a question. What does it mean? How does— what does 428 00:28:27,605 --> 00:28:30,685 digging wells look like? And her pastor's heart 429 00:28:30,733 --> 00:28:34,563 went, if somebody— if they've sent me that email or met me 430 00:28:34,563 --> 00:28:38,233 in the hallway, that represents more than one person. There's other 431 00:28:38,265 --> 00:28:41,935 people in this church that have the same question. So what I should 432 00:28:42,015 --> 00:28:45,861 do— Holy Ghost, what should I do? Holy Ghost goes, you just need to humble 433 00:28:45,861 --> 00:28:48,906 yourself and pick up some gear. You don't want to do that. You really don't 434 00:28:48,922 --> 00:28:52,495 want to draw attention to yourself. You really don't want to sit down on stage 435 00:28:52,592 --> 00:28:56,163 for an hour. But you need to do that. And you need to show 436 00:28:56,163 --> 00:29:00,000 them how you dig wells. That's what she 437 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,823 did. Everybody in this church should be thankful for that. Yes. 438 00:29:05,445 --> 00:29:08,737 That is a tool. That is a pastoral 439 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:13,145 show-and-tell tool to explain not how 440 00:29:13,355 --> 00:29:16,906 you should do it, how she does it. 441 00:29:17,568 --> 00:29:21,407 Because the question was to her, what's it— how does that 442 00:29:21,407 --> 00:29:24,947 work? The question wasn't, can I get the philosophy behind it? 443 00:29:25,254 --> 00:29:28,810 What do theologians say? They asked her how to do it, 444 00:29:29,133 --> 00:29:31,218 and she showed us how she does it. 445 00:29:33,528 --> 00:29:37,375 Now, in the process of doing that, what she effectively was doing is this. 446 00:29:39,509 --> 00:29:41,580 Barbie grew up in the hills of 447 00:29:43,135 --> 00:29:46,731 Tennessee, up in Dolly country. Shout it down. Don't shout me 448 00:29:46,780 --> 00:29:50,118 down. And she learned to 449 00:29:50,215 --> 00:29:53,899 cook what we would call home cooking from 450 00:29:53,996 --> 00:29:57,633 generations. If she learned it from her 451 00:29:57,633 --> 00:30:01,418 mom cooking, she learned it from her mom's mom. 452 00:30:01,677 --> 00:30:05,107 That's this. I'm sorry, that's the one we just looked at, 453 00:30:05,382 --> 00:30:09,184 the process of passing it to generations. Barbie can make some 454 00:30:09,282 --> 00:30:10,568 serious cornbread. Mm. 455 00:30:13,718 --> 00:30:15,923 But Barbie didn't invent the recipe. Right. 456 00:30:18,624 --> 00:30:21,202 But Barbie can make some serious cornbread. 457 00:30:23,288 --> 00:30:26,006 So what she did as part of the family 458 00:30:28,113 --> 00:30:30,896 is she sat down here and showed us 459 00:30:32,793 --> 00:30:36,423 how to make cornbread. Come on. Come on. That's what she did. 460 00:30:37,185 --> 00:30:40,835 Now watch, watch. I want a show of hands. I'm not 461 00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:44,448 messing with you. Yes, I am. I want a show of 462 00:30:44,448 --> 00:30:48,130 hands from these 2 sections, for real. And 463 00:30:48,567 --> 00:30:51,355 you won't be embarrassed. I'm not going to put you on the spot. I want 464 00:30:51,355 --> 00:30:54,952 to see a show of hands. How many of you can make good cornbread? 465 00:30:55,212 --> 00:30:58,860 Could I see your hand? Keep your 466 00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:02,485 hand up. Keep your hand up. Oh, I meant youngin'. Stop. Oh, youngin'. 467 00:31:02,565 --> 00:31:06,415 Stop it. Stop it. You're always doing this. Can you not pull him 468 00:31:06,528 --> 00:31:06,995 back a little? 469 00:31:11,869 --> 00:31:13,706 Now, now watch, watch. 470 00:31:15,834 --> 00:31:19,478 Literally watch one more time. Not 471 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:24,404 you, not you. Could I see a show of hands 472 00:31:24,857 --> 00:31:26,779 if you know you can make good cornbread? 473 00:31:28,818 --> 00:31:32,439 Do you see this? Do you see this? Let me say it another way. 474 00:31:32,682 --> 00:31:36,373 Do you see the lack of this? Yes. Okay, now, if 475 00:31:36,487 --> 00:31:40,288 I said to any one of these people, would you— could 476 00:31:40,288 --> 00:31:43,911 you take— could I come over maybe Saturday? Could you make me some 477 00:31:43,911 --> 00:31:47,701 cornbread? I can try. Oh, I appreciate that. She said she could try. 478 00:31:48,104 --> 00:31:50,263 Look, that's good. Bless your heart. 479 00:31:52,535 --> 00:31:56,328 The point is the process 480 00:31:56,393 --> 00:32:00,112 has broken down. I 481 00:32:00,112 --> 00:32:03,651 can't get good cornbread Other than, 482 00:32:03,991 --> 00:32:07,471 you know, my wife's help. My wife would do well to pay 483 00:32:07,471 --> 00:32:11,112 attention to Barbie. No, no, no, no. Whoa, 484 00:32:11,193 --> 00:32:13,059 whoa, whoa. Whoa. 485 00:32:16,031 --> 00:32:19,068 Whoa. Look, look, look, look. We've been married 486 00:32:19,068 --> 00:32:22,608 46 years. What I said that she heard ain't a 487 00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:26,409 problem. It's not a problem, okay? 488 00:32:28,243 --> 00:32:31,037 I'm not being deferential to my wife. 489 00:32:32,161 --> 00:32:35,402 You see, you jumped ahead of me. You heard the 490 00:32:35,402 --> 00:32:38,904 punchline when there was no punchline. What I'm 491 00:32:38,904 --> 00:32:42,493 inferring, watch, this is the way my world works. 492 00:32:42,493 --> 00:32:46,258 What I'm inferring is Jeanne grew up in St. Louis and 493 00:32:46,258 --> 00:32:50,026 her mom was Italian and her mom's mom was Italian and 494 00:32:50,026 --> 00:32:53,614 they immigrated to California. Historically in 495 00:32:53,614 --> 00:32:57,116 their life, Jeanne didn't learn how to make good 496 00:32:57,116 --> 00:33:00,594 Southern cornbread. It's not her fault. Right. 497 00:33:01,527 --> 00:33:05,177 She makes good cornbread, but it's not as good as Barbie's 498 00:33:07,459 --> 00:33:10,722 because Barbie's got several generations 499 00:33:11,703 --> 00:33:15,021 of cornbread makers. So what they know how to do 500 00:33:15,650 --> 00:33:19,341 is make some serious cornbread. And I don't even 501 00:33:19,357 --> 00:33:23,063 have to embellish that by going, Think of the other ingredients, 502 00:33:23,127 --> 00:33:26,683 y'all. Think of the— you don't— think of the other 503 00:33:26,683 --> 00:33:30,191 side items that go with that 504 00:33:30,224 --> 00:33:33,942 cornbread. If I come back over here and go, 505 00:33:34,492 --> 00:33:38,242 do you know how to start from scratch? Start from scratch 506 00:33:38,937 --> 00:33:42,473 with dried beans and make some good beans? Hands won't— they won't go up. 507 00:33:45,051 --> 00:33:46,360 Oh, stop. You're not a kid. 508 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,861 You— have I made enough of that point? Where this 509 00:33:52,861 --> 00:33:56,570 breaks down is we lose ancient history 510 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,374 and we lose family connectivity. Y'all want some good 511 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,691 banana pudding? Yeah. Would you raise your hand? 512 00:34:07,029 --> 00:34:09,996 Look, Justin will take orders. 513 00:34:11,785 --> 00:34:14,348 And knowing him, there'll probably be a surcharge. 514 00:34:17,244 --> 00:34:20,929 It's not 99. Right. But the 515 00:34:20,929 --> 00:34:24,599 point I'm making is it's generational 516 00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:28,445 transfer. It's how to get from one 517 00:34:28,445 --> 00:34:32,130 generation to another generation. And when a break— and 518 00:34:32,211 --> 00:34:35,976 a generation I'm rounding out biblically is 35 years, give or take. 519 00:34:36,457 --> 00:34:39,934 When enough generations go by where there's been a dent or a 520 00:34:39,934 --> 00:34:43,736 violation or a gap, You look up 100 years, 200 years, 521 00:34:43,833 --> 00:34:47,156 300 years down the road and you go, I don't have a clue 522 00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:52,423 about this or this or this or this or this. 523 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,052 Doesn't mean people are stupid. Doesn't mean they're not 524 00:34:56,116 --> 00:34:59,905 interested in having a fully orbed life. It means nobody 525 00:34:59,905 --> 00:35:03,374 showed them what to do. Yes. Oh my 526 00:35:03,438 --> 00:35:04,257 God. 527 00:35:07,889 --> 00:35:11,702 Our responsibility is not to grow ourselves up in the kingdom. 528 00:35:12,090 --> 00:35:14,740 Our responsibility is to help grow others up in the 529 00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:17,318 kingdom. 530 00:35:18,994 --> 00:35:19,896 Take up a note. 531 00:35:23,853 --> 00:35:26,319 So that's what she did. Now, have you? 532 00:35:27,940 --> 00:35:31,375 Would you please? Thank you. Thank you. 533 00:35:31,682 --> 00:35:35,279 Family wells are shown to us by those from within our household. 534 00:35:36,618 --> 00:35:40,451 These wells are the ones that we are led to by our family 535 00:35:40,563 --> 00:35:44,108 elders. They've been dug out or fashioned to 536 00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:47,027 suit the needs of those within a specific community. 537 00:35:47,925 --> 00:35:51,020 Throughout our generational history, these wells have been 538 00:35:51,069 --> 00:35:54,533 maintained by those who have raised us to make 539 00:35:54,533 --> 00:35:58,238 certain that we would not have to do without. 540 00:35:59,328 --> 00:36:03,081 Life-giving water from these wells have been provided 541 00:36:03,081 --> 00:36:06,834 through the direct actions and stewardship of others 542 00:36:07,027 --> 00:36:10,603 within our family of faith. They are the ones who 543 00:36:10,635 --> 00:36:13,939 paid the price so that we can have a 544 00:36:13,939 --> 00:36:17,579 spiritual life source to drink from wherever we choose. 545 00:36:18,734 --> 00:36:21,829 Like these, like ancient wells, these family wells 546 00:36:22,486 --> 00:36:26,223 were not of our doing. They too have been provided for 547 00:36:26,351 --> 00:36:29,863 us and to us. However, they're more localized and 548 00:36:29,863 --> 00:36:33,631 smaller, in size and resource. In a sense, they 549 00:36:33,631 --> 00:36:37,462 could be called chosen wells, ones which 550 00:36:37,495 --> 00:36:41,005 have been established to sustain specific family groups in 551 00:36:41,005 --> 00:36:44,757 specific areas. You could think of your local church congregation 552 00:36:45,334 --> 00:36:48,716 as a place where such family wells can be found. Right. 553 00:36:49,181 --> 00:36:52,339 Please consider this: you must go 554 00:36:53,205 --> 00:36:57,055 where they are, the wells and the 555 00:36:57,055 --> 00:37:00,341 water they contain cannot come to you. 556 00:37:01,243 --> 00:37:04,755 You must position yourself near them if you 557 00:37:04,787 --> 00:37:08,292 expect or desire to drink from them. 558 00:37:12,128 --> 00:37:15,800 Third Sunday. Sorry, 559 00:37:16,334 --> 00:37:18,017 third Sunday, my bad. 560 00:37:21,336 --> 00:37:24,620 Pastor Allen, Brought the Word that Sunday. 561 00:37:25,971 --> 00:37:29,394 And the text that came to my mind in these notes from 562 00:37:30,085 --> 00:37:33,513 15-plus years ago is this: O God, Thou art my God. 563 00:37:33,932 --> 00:37:37,667 I seek Thee. My soul thirsts for Thee. My flesh 564 00:37:37,796 --> 00:37:41,408 faints for Thee as in a dry and weary land 565 00:37:42,253 --> 00:37:45,615 where there's no water. I'll dig a well. 566 00:37:46,086 --> 00:37:49,784 Amen. It's personal wealth. Hold 567 00:37:49,784 --> 00:37:50,447 your thought. 568 00:37:59,050 --> 00:38:02,585 No, would you— did you just read this? No. 569 00:38:03,726 --> 00:38:07,438 That's what I thought. Okay. Remember elder, elder? 570 00:38:09,504 --> 00:38:13,262 In the second service when Pastor Al was up, he was 571 00:38:13,295 --> 00:38:16,966 talking to everybody. He was talking about the need 572 00:38:17,031 --> 00:38:20,852 to dig our own wells, the need to own 573 00:38:21,029 --> 00:38:24,063 up to our personal responsibility to do this 574 00:38:25,444 --> 00:38:28,720 independent— no, no, no, in conjunction with ancient wells 575 00:38:29,635 --> 00:38:32,895 and family wells. This is the next 576 00:38:32,991 --> 00:38:35,849 extension of the process. 577 00:38:36,764 --> 00:38:39,060 And in his message, he walked over here. 578 00:38:40,824 --> 00:38:43,511 Not at the expense of the rest of the church, but he walked over here 579 00:38:43,738 --> 00:38:47,262 and this is what he did. He said, I'm 580 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,347 paraphrasing, he said, I just need to talk to the young folks for a minute. 581 00:38:52,583 --> 00:38:56,393 And he didn't challenge you. He wasn't heavy-handed, but 582 00:38:56,474 --> 00:38:58,240 he encouraged you all 583 00:39:02,216 --> 00:39:04,759 to learn how to dig your own wells. 584 00:39:07,464 --> 00:39:11,222 Now, the beauty of that for me, because 585 00:39:11,286 --> 00:39:14,754 I was already carrying a bunch of this before I got here today, 586 00:39:15,862 --> 00:39:19,507 is when he did that, my heart leapt 587 00:39:20,936 --> 00:39:24,773 because what he was doing as an elder, as an older man, and as a 588 00:39:24,773 --> 00:39:28,129 spiritual elder and as a pastor, what he was doing 589 00:39:28,643 --> 00:39:32,453 is he was functioning pastorally to say to the 590 00:39:32,502 --> 00:39:35,498 kids, not, I challenge you, learn to 591 00:39:35,965 --> 00:39:39,510 memorize the book of Isaiah. No, no, no, no, no. He 592 00:39:39,897 --> 00:39:42,194 was saying, it's your 593 00:39:42,728 --> 00:39:44,896 responsibility. 594 00:39:46,287 --> 00:39:49,751 Yours. And since he was saying it to y'all 595 00:39:50,154 --> 00:39:53,613 at your age, he's sowing 596 00:39:53,872 --> 00:39:57,705 into your life to get a head start so that you don't lock 597 00:39:57,705 --> 00:40:01,528 up and— 20 years or 25 years or 45 years ago, I 598 00:40:01,657 --> 00:40:03,746 wish somebody had told me. Yes. 599 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:09,178 Because he did tell you. He told us all. 600 00:40:09,997 --> 00:40:13,516 He said, we have— do this, 601 00:40:13,950 --> 00:40:17,191 do this. Take your finger and point directly at your heart. 602 00:40:19,110 --> 00:40:22,657 Please, everybody, just talk. It's no energy involved. You'll be fine. 603 00:40:24,387 --> 00:40:26,470 If I can do it at my age, you can do 604 00:40:26,486 --> 00:40:30,332 it. He's functionally 605 00:40:30,332 --> 00:40:34,129 saying, nobody can do this 606 00:40:34,242 --> 00:40:37,863 for me except me with the help of the Holy 607 00:40:37,863 --> 00:40:41,196 Ghost. Yes. Okay? That's what he's saying. 608 00:40:41,693 --> 00:40:45,282 And I rejoice. I'm going, this is huge. This is fabulous in 609 00:40:45,539 --> 00:40:49,064 this church because we're in this church. We're not in 610 00:40:49,064 --> 00:40:52,827 another church. So, when Will mentioned something about baby 611 00:40:52,827 --> 00:40:55,495 dedications and he said, you know, a healthy sign of a church is when you 612 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,129 look, there's babies everywhere. Well, he's right. That is a 613 00:40:59,129 --> 00:41:02,797 sign of a healthy church. It's also signs of an active marriage. 614 00:41:09,773 --> 00:41:12,575 They can't fire me. I'm no longer on staff. 615 00:41:16,180 --> 00:41:19,731 And to push that point, I'm speaking today because Pastor 616 00:41:19,747 --> 00:41:23,379 Barbie said, will you do it? So if this is problematic, 617 00:41:24,105 --> 00:41:26,783 take it up with her. Oh, wait, she's not here. 618 00:41:30,939 --> 00:41:34,573 Oh, no, that's no fun if you do that. Okay, 619 00:41:34,896 --> 00:41:37,738 so would you now read that? Thank you. 620 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,943 Personal wells. Personal wells are those which we have dug out 621 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,455 with our own hands through the power of the Holy Ghost at work in us. 622 00:41:47,292 --> 00:41:50,680 and through the revelation that God has shown us personally. 623 00:41:51,547 --> 00:41:55,288 These wells are not due to the labor of others or 624 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,018 someone else's personal sacrifices. 625 00:41:59,158 --> 00:42:02,707 These wells have required a price to be 626 00:42:02,707 --> 00:42:05,693 paid by us and no one else. 627 00:42:06,544 --> 00:42:09,755 We did not stumble upon them. We followed a 628 00:42:09,755 --> 00:42:13,593 pathway which the Lord led us down. Along 629 00:42:13,625 --> 00:42:17,351 the way, we were shown by the Spirit, shown by 630 00:42:17,399 --> 00:42:20,787 the Spirit where to stop and dig. 631 00:42:21,638 --> 00:42:24,989 Not only did we have to travel some 632 00:42:24,989 --> 00:42:28,580 distance seeking and following the 633 00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:31,931 Lord, but we also had to lean in and 634 00:42:31,931 --> 00:42:35,402 learn to listen for his direction— 635 00:42:35,402 --> 00:42:39,232 where to stop, what to lay aside, to dig 636 00:42:39,232 --> 00:42:42,943 down into what he has shown us through 637 00:42:42,943 --> 00:42:46,773 Personal struggle, divine guidance, 638 00:42:46,773 --> 00:42:50,126 and holy insight. We've acquired 639 00:42:50,126 --> 00:42:53,836 blisters on our hands, muscles in our 640 00:42:53,836 --> 00:42:56,829 arms, stronger backs, deeper 641 00:42:56,829 --> 00:43:00,539 emotional and mental resolve so that 642 00:43:00,539 --> 00:43:04,251 these personal water resources have 643 00:43:04,251 --> 00:43:07,723 come into being. Although they may 644 00:43:07,723 --> 00:43:10,955 from time to time serve others by 645 00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:14,307 providing them with much-needed 646 00:43:14,307 --> 00:43:18,138 refreshment through our witness, our 647 00:43:18,138 --> 00:43:21,370 story, our song, our teaching or 648 00:43:21,370 --> 00:43:24,841 preaching, our testimony, for the 649 00:43:24,841 --> 00:43:28,193 most part these wells are for us to 650 00:43:28,193 --> 00:43:31,305 drink from and to be renewed on a 651 00:43:31,305 --> 00:43:35,136 regular basis. They are the wells that 652 00:43:35,136 --> 00:43:38,847 could— we could perhaps Hang a sign on 653 00:43:38,847 --> 00:43:42,677 that has our name on it because they're 654 00:43:42,677 --> 00:43:46,388 ours, like our own property. But that 655 00:43:46,388 --> 00:43:49,860 too is a gift from God, a gift coming 656 00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:53,690 down from the Father of lights, in whom 657 00:43:53,690 --> 00:43:56,682 there is no shadow of turning. 658 00:44:02,348 --> 00:44:05,434 3 weeks ago, at the end of Pastor Allen's 659 00:44:06,141 --> 00:44:09,837 service, between services, Justin and I ended up 660 00:44:09,902 --> 00:44:13,559 here. And 661 00:44:13,559 --> 00:44:17,278 we were having a random conversation. I have no idea how we got 662 00:44:17,278 --> 00:44:20,286 into it, but we're right here. 663 00:44:21,822 --> 00:44:25,176 And Justin turns to me and he says, I'm paraphrasing, 664 00:44:26,968 --> 00:44:29,256 He says, let me tell you 665 00:44:31,092 --> 00:44:34,620 how I'm ending my service, or the service, 666 00:44:34,877 --> 00:44:38,324 which was last week. But this is the week 667 00:44:38,421 --> 00:44:41,726 before that. You know, that's important. That's important. That's 668 00:44:41,839 --> 00:44:45,320 important to where we're going for the next 10, 12 minutes. Okay? 669 00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:50,142 Really. He says, 670 00:44:51,695 --> 00:44:55,175 he tells me, He tells— he quotes me or almost quotes 671 00:44:55,175 --> 00:44:58,689 me. He quotes me how he's going to end the service. 672 00:44:59,676 --> 00:45:03,344 So I look back at him and I said, really? 673 00:45:06,439 --> 00:45:09,602 That's how I ended my notes 15-plus years ago. 674 00:45:10,554 --> 00:45:12,636 Same verse. And Justin goes— 675 00:45:14,589 --> 00:45:17,093 Justin didn't do this often. Justin went— 676 00:45:20,664 --> 00:45:24,174 My point is, my point is his mouth is 677 00:45:24,352 --> 00:45:27,283 open, but there's no words coming out. 678 00:45:35,110 --> 00:45:37,588 I don't have my wallet. I'll pay you after. Okay. 679 00:45:39,252 --> 00:45:39,953 Not only that. 680 00:45:43,370 --> 00:45:46,351 So when he said that in me, 681 00:45:48,039 --> 00:45:51,825 I said, well, I'm not going to use that verse to end 682 00:45:51,825 --> 00:45:55,403 because, you know, however you treat it 683 00:45:56,382 --> 00:46:00,008 in Justin's universe, how— that's a dangerous 684 00:46:00,008 --> 00:46:03,184 place to hang out. However he treats it 685 00:46:03,778 --> 00:46:07,597 will be enough. I don't need to go back and push that again 686 00:46:08,270 --> 00:46:11,527 or put— Push it. Yeah, push that again. And so I told him I was 687 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,016 going to change it. And then during that week 688 00:46:16,157 --> 00:46:19,660 between 3 weeks ago and the end of his message 689 00:46:19,756 --> 00:46:23,411 last week, the Holy Ghost went, no, you need to go 690 00:46:23,411 --> 00:46:26,994 back to that verse because that verse needs to be unpacked 691 00:46:27,414 --> 00:46:31,161 in a way, not right or wrong, other, in an 692 00:46:31,161 --> 00:46:33,552 other way than what Justin did. 693 00:46:35,150 --> 00:46:36,934 So would you read that? 694 00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:42,699 Polluted wells. Polluted wells are sources we 695 00:46:42,699 --> 00:46:46,353 should no longer drink from, regardless of who dug them 696 00:46:47,266 --> 00:46:50,583 or how we were led to them. Such wells are 697 00:46:50,631 --> 00:46:54,317 dangerously unhealthy and should be sealed up and left 698 00:46:54,317 --> 00:46:58,035 deserted so that no one after us can try to draw 699 00:46:58,163 --> 00:47:01,849 water from them. They are poisoned and should be 700 00:47:01,849 --> 00:47:05,330 avoided at all cost. The enemy of our soul 701 00:47:05,555 --> 00:47:09,104 knows that if he can cut off our water supply, 702 00:47:10,035 --> 00:47:13,872 he can kill us. So anything and everything he 703 00:47:13,872 --> 00:47:17,694 can do to pollute the wells in our lives, he will 704 00:47:18,208 --> 00:47:21,997 try to do. He'll sneak up and pour all sorts 705 00:47:21,997 --> 00:47:25,321 of unholy, unhealthy, impure, 706 00:47:25,529 --> 00:47:29,127 vile things into them to sicken us. Or to 707 00:47:29,127 --> 00:47:32,726 make us so spiritually ill that our souls die from 708 00:47:32,790 --> 00:47:36,212 lack of pure, clean drinking water. 709 00:47:37,616 --> 00:47:41,425 That's one way that wells get polluted, but there are other 710 00:47:41,425 --> 00:47:44,395 ways that have nothing to do with the work of the enemy. 711 00:47:46,810 --> 00:47:49,962 These other ways are pollution done by us. 712 00:47:51,345 --> 00:47:54,288 We allow stagnation to set in. 713 00:47:56,347 --> 00:47:59,382 From lack of use, we stop 714 00:47:59,863 --> 00:48:03,508 dropping the joy bucket down. We no longer stir 715 00:48:03,636 --> 00:48:07,248 up the water. We allow it to stagnate where all 716 00:48:07,248 --> 00:48:10,893 types of impurities grow and fester and spread 717 00:48:11,358 --> 00:48:15,035 into the water source. When that happens, the 718 00:48:15,035 --> 00:48:18,872 water is harmful if you drink from it again. The best thing 719 00:48:18,984 --> 00:48:22,711 to do when that happens to a well Is to board it up 720 00:48:23,653 --> 00:48:25,536 and simply walk away. 721 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,669 I would be remiss if I didn't do this. Would you please 722 00:48:37,413 --> 00:48:40,960 put your hand on your forehead and say to 723 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,698 yourself quietly, engage. 724 00:48:45,637 --> 00:48:49,393 Okay, for the next 10-ish minutes. Hold 725 00:48:49,393 --> 00:48:49,916 that thought. 726 00:48:55,353 --> 00:48:58,914 But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. 727 00:48:59,543 --> 00:49:03,393 Be appalled, O heavens, at this. Be shocked. 728 00:49:03,490 --> 00:49:07,095 Be utterly desolate, says the Lord. 729 00:49:07,855 --> 00:49:11,519 My people have committed 2 730 00:49:11,519 --> 00:49:15,182 evils. They have forsaken 731 00:49:15,182 --> 00:49:18,846 me, the fountain of living 732 00:49:18,846 --> 00:49:22,344 waters, And they've hewn 733 00:49:22,344 --> 00:49:25,842 out cisterns, wells, for 734 00:49:25,842 --> 00:49:28,673 themselves, broken 735 00:49:28,673 --> 00:49:32,171 cisterns, wells that can 736 00:49:32,171 --> 00:49:35,501 hold no water. Now, when 737 00:49:35,501 --> 00:49:38,499 this was spoken by the 738 00:49:38,499 --> 00:49:42,329 prophet, it too is at least, 739 00:49:42,329 --> 00:49:45,827 give or take, 3,000 years 740 00:49:45,827 --> 00:49:48,492 ago. So through the 741 00:49:48,492 --> 00:49:52,322 prophet, what he's saying, 742 00:49:52,322 --> 00:49:55,819 speaking for Jehovah, is 743 00:49:55,819 --> 00:49:58,317 that's a problem. 744 00:49:58,317 --> 00:50:01,482 Hallelujah. And it's a 745 00:50:01,482 --> 00:50:04,980 problem for those people 746 00:50:04,980 --> 00:50:07,812 back then. But it's a 747 00:50:07,812 --> 00:50:10,461 problem right now. 748 00:50:19,548 --> 00:50:20,542 Yes. Okay. 749 00:50:24,106 --> 00:50:26,629 Jehovah says there are 2 problems. 750 00:50:28,327 --> 00:50:31,965 First, they have forsaken me, 751 00:50:32,191 --> 00:50:34,788 Jehovah. The fountain of living water, 752 00:50:35,675 --> 00:50:38,869 comma, and then the second problem arises. 753 00:50:39,966 --> 00:50:43,636 Now watch, please. The second 754 00:50:43,669 --> 00:50:47,469 problem only arises because of the 755 00:50:47,469 --> 00:50:48,114 first problem. Right. 756 00:50:52,602 --> 00:50:54,967 Had the first problem not arisen, 757 00:50:56,425 --> 00:50:58,485 the second problem wouldn't be in the text. 758 00:51:02,074 --> 00:51:05,885 Yes. Because in order for the people that heard this prophetically, 759 00:51:08,182 --> 00:51:11,807 in order for them to do the second part, which is 760 00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:14,672 dig their own wells or their own cisterns 761 00:51:15,626 --> 00:51:19,142 without any direction from the Holy Ghost or any scriptural 762 00:51:19,142 --> 00:51:22,905 narrative or any reflecting to the Torah or any thus saith 763 00:51:22,922 --> 00:51:26,411 the Lord from anywhere, they just went Why not? 764 00:51:28,321 --> 00:51:31,886 I'm a free agent. Oh, 765 00:51:31,967 --> 00:51:35,794 push it, Wayne. I'm free in Christ. I can do pretty much what I 766 00:51:35,907 --> 00:51:39,718 want to because Jesus loves me. He's given me all kinds of warm 767 00:51:39,718 --> 00:51:43,371 and fuzzy grace. You better come on now. You better start 768 00:51:43,371 --> 00:51:43,745 preaching. 769 00:51:48,110 --> 00:51:51,939 They wouldn't have dug wells that would 770 00:51:51,939 --> 00:51:55,722 hold no water if they hadn't forsaken the 771 00:51:55,738 --> 00:51:58,971 fountain of living waters. Right. Now, 772 00:51:59,375 --> 00:52:01,842 here's why I wanted you to put your hand on your head and engage. 773 00:52:03,816 --> 00:52:06,508 Everything that we know or think we know 774 00:52:07,863 --> 00:52:11,458 about Scripture that references water— out of your belly flow living water, 775 00:52:12,697 --> 00:52:16,355 the streams of the Lord are full— there's any number of verses that we 776 00:52:16,355 --> 00:52:19,683 sort of know or kind of know that reference how 777 00:52:20,214 --> 00:52:23,733 water works or living water works or the 778 00:52:23,829 --> 00:52:27,557 water of life works. Any of those things, they're 779 00:52:27,557 --> 00:52:31,326 not necessarily wrong. But when we have those 780 00:52:31,358 --> 00:52:34,658 things in our head, when we read passages, 781 00:52:37,087 --> 00:52:39,792 we read them in a way— help me, Jesus— 782 00:52:40,975 --> 00:52:44,474 predicated on what we think we know from these little pieces of 783 00:52:44,474 --> 00:52:47,950 Scripture. Amen. That we sort of kind of think maybe they connect. 784 00:52:49,583 --> 00:52:53,093 And they don't necessarily connect. Now I'm going to show you why. 785 00:52:56,178 --> 00:52:59,985 And I'm going to refer you back to my disclaimer. You don't have 786 00:53:00,018 --> 00:53:03,620 to believe me. I just hope you 787 00:53:03,620 --> 00:53:07,294 receive what the Holy Ghost shows you. That's where I started. 788 00:53:10,046 --> 00:53:12,048 Yes. Forsaken. can mean 789 00:53:13,050 --> 00:53:16,684 disregard. It can mean pay no attention to. 790 00:53:17,233 --> 00:53:20,905 It can mean that's irrelevant or he's 791 00:53:20,905 --> 00:53:24,608 irrelevant. That's what it— 792 00:53:25,205 --> 00:53:29,014 if you work the language, that's what forsaken— forsaken doesn't mean, oh 793 00:53:29,417 --> 00:53:32,775 gee, I overlooked. Right. Oh, will you 794 00:53:32,807 --> 00:53:35,214 forgive me? I made a boo-boo. 795 00:53:36,690 --> 00:53:40,412 That's not what it means. It means that's really 796 00:53:41,237 --> 00:53:44,975 how He wants to do this. It's not really an 797 00:53:44,975 --> 00:53:46,906 issue for us. Oh my God. 798 00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:54,910 And then He says, they have forsaken me, 799 00:53:56,185 --> 00:53:59,930 the fountain. Stop. This is what I was 800 00:53:59,930 --> 00:54:03,540 just talking about. Don't run over to living water. Don't go 801 00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:06,058 there. Stop. Back up. 802 00:54:07,357 --> 00:54:10,329 They have forsaken me, the fountain. 803 00:54:13,198 --> 00:54:16,994 Now this is what happens in our heads. Some 804 00:54:16,994 --> 00:54:20,682 of us. This is what happens. We read, they 805 00:54:20,682 --> 00:54:24,370 have forsaken me, the fountain of living 806 00:54:24,370 --> 00:54:27,950 water, and we equate living waters with 807 00:54:27,950 --> 00:54:31,529 all these little pieces of passages and 808 00:54:31,529 --> 00:54:34,782 nuances that we think we know, and we 809 00:54:34,782 --> 00:54:38,036 connect it to the fountain of living 810 00:54:38,036 --> 00:54:41,073 waters. So what, Wayne? So we make 811 00:54:41,073 --> 00:54:44,651 everything we understand about living 812 00:54:44,651 --> 00:54:47,688 waters connected directly to the 813 00:54:47,688 --> 00:54:50,941 fountain. But the living waters are 814 00:54:50,941 --> 00:54:53,869 manifestations coming from the 815 00:54:53,869 --> 00:54:57,339 fountain. Living waters, however you 816 00:54:57,339 --> 00:55:00,809 know that phrase, However you know it, 817 00:55:00,809 --> 00:55:04,280 living waters has to have someplace to 818 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,362 come from. That's right. It comes from 819 00:55:07,362 --> 00:55:10,378 someplace. And in this 820 00:55:10,733 --> 00:55:14,363 series, where it comes from is it comes from 821 00:55:14,702 --> 00:55:17,978 one or more living wells of salvation, 822 00:55:18,979 --> 00:55:22,758 which is where we started about the song from almost 823 00:55:22,758 --> 00:55:25,948 20 years ago. So this is what takes place. 824 00:55:26,621 --> 00:55:30,197 Fountain can mean source. 825 00:55:31,673 --> 00:55:35,329 Out loud one time to humor me, just say, my source. My 826 00:55:35,329 --> 00:55:38,889 source. Say it again with a little more gusto. My source. 827 00:55:39,386 --> 00:55:43,219 One more time with a little more gusto. My source. Thank 828 00:55:43,219 --> 00:55:46,651 you. Now, the problem with the first difficulty 829 00:55:46,827 --> 00:55:50,259 is not an issue about living waters. 830 00:55:54,803 --> 00:55:58,290 No! It's about an issue of being unengaged or disengaged 831 00:55:58,630 --> 00:56:02,260 or unconcerned or seeing the 832 00:56:02,260 --> 00:56:05,518 fountain as being irrelevant. Right. The 833 00:56:05,534 --> 00:56:09,358 fountain is where the water is! That's 834 00:56:10,758 --> 00:56:14,343 right. You can't get water out of something that doesn't have 835 00:56:14,343 --> 00:56:18,037 water in it. Amen. And what we do is we 836 00:56:18,037 --> 00:56:21,725 take this whole thing about— now I'm jumping 837 00:56:21,725 --> 00:56:25,113 to the New Covenant— Jesus being the, you 838 00:56:25,113 --> 00:56:28,501 know, the source of living water. Right, 839 00:56:28,501 --> 00:56:31,990 right, right, right, right. I know, I know 840 00:56:31,990 --> 00:56:35,677 that's going off in your heads. But what we do 841 00:56:35,677 --> 00:56:39,463 is we disconnect— no, no. We connect the water 842 00:56:39,463 --> 00:56:43,250 itself to the source and we ignore the source. 843 00:56:43,250 --> 00:56:47,037 Which is what they did right there. And that's 844 00:56:47,037 --> 00:56:50,325 what we're doing right now in the body of 845 00:56:50,325 --> 00:56:53,814 Christ on the planet. Because talking to— 846 00:56:53,814 --> 00:56:57,302 Jesus— talking to people about the living 847 00:56:57,302 --> 00:57:00,889 water coming out of our lives when we're not 848 00:57:00,889 --> 00:57:04,575 clear about where that source is in our lives 849 00:57:04,575 --> 00:57:06,074 is a big problem. Yeah. 850 00:57:08,814 --> 00:57:12,572 Because it tears our witness to pieces. You've 851 00:57:12,572 --> 00:57:15,895 got no leg to stand on. You've got no 852 00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,588 sponge to squeeze out with water in it. It's 853 00:57:19,588 --> 00:57:23,217 not there in the same way that the cornbread's not there. 854 00:57:24,341 --> 00:57:27,263 Come on. It's the same dynamic. 855 00:57:28,548 --> 00:57:32,209 What they did here— how am I? Okay. What they did here 856 00:57:34,334 --> 00:57:37,551 Is they did exactly, exactly 857 00:57:38,230 --> 00:57:41,838 what happened when Moses says to Aaron, 858 00:57:44,134 --> 00:57:47,618 what's this? And Aaron goes, oh, this? 859 00:57:50,010 --> 00:57:53,625 We were— the people, really not me, Moses, 860 00:57:55,811 --> 00:57:59,188 but the people were concerned. You've been gone and 861 00:57:59,532 --> 00:58:03,311 it's dark up there. There's clouds and lightning. They were concerned, we're going to be 862 00:58:03,311 --> 00:58:07,080 stuck here in the wilderness and you're not coming back. So they 863 00:58:07,096 --> 00:58:10,930 all fell back on the history of how they dealt with 864 00:58:10,930 --> 00:58:14,024 spirituality. And they went, we need an idol. 865 00:58:16,927 --> 00:58:20,646 And so I just trying to accommodate the people, I said, give me your jewelry. 866 00:58:21,435 --> 00:58:25,235 I love this. Don't y'all? We threw it in the fire. That's 867 00:58:25,235 --> 00:58:28,664 right. And out came this calf. Yeah. 868 00:58:28,664 --> 00:58:31,874 Tower of Babel. You know what we 869 00:58:31,874 --> 00:58:35,700 should do? We got this covered. We got 870 00:58:35,700 --> 00:58:39,527 off at this bus stop and we told Yahweh 871 00:58:39,527 --> 00:58:42,982 we can get off here and we've got it 872 00:58:42,982 --> 00:58:46,684 covered. So let's build a tower. And 873 00:58:46,684 --> 00:58:50,509 you go, well, Okay, sure, we can build 874 00:58:50,509 --> 00:58:54,335 a tower. And then somebody else says, 875 00:58:54,335 --> 00:58:58,161 you know what let's do? Let's build it 876 00:58:58,161 --> 00:59:01,920 to the heavens. And 877 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:05,480 people go, great idea. That's this. Yes, 878 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,640 it is. That's what this is. 879 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,980 It's idolatry. 880 00:59:13,010 --> 00:59:16,040 The broken cisterns 881 00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:17,960 are idols. 882 00:59:20,518 --> 00:59:22,593 And our lives are full of broken cisterns. 883 00:59:24,989 --> 00:59:28,384 The problem isn't the broken cisterns. The 884 00:59:28,481 --> 00:59:31,307 problem is we disengaged from our source. 885 00:59:33,458 --> 00:59:36,532 Yes. Because the outworking from the source is living water. 886 00:59:37,545 --> 00:59:41,289 It's healing. It's hope. It's salvation. It's freedom. It's all the things 887 00:59:41,811 --> 00:59:45,365 in those definitions that I asked you to raise your hand about. All of those 888 00:59:45,398 --> 00:59:49,247 things are in the source. All of those things are in the source. 889 00:59:49,716 --> 00:59:53,275 If those things are not in your life, you have a source problem. Right. 890 00:59:53,857 --> 00:59:57,530 Yeah. I didn't address your salvation. I'm 891 00:59:57,579 --> 01:00:00,785 not talking about redemption. I'm talking about 892 01:00:01,287 --> 01:00:05,023 working this out in our 893 01:00:05,023 --> 01:00:08,595 lives. So what we have to do, 894 01:00:09,856 --> 01:00:13,417 I think, is we have to sort of pony up. Can 895 01:00:13,693 --> 01:00:17,031 I— does that phrase still work? Do you have any idea what pony up would 896 01:00:17,031 --> 01:00:20,158 mean? Not a clue. Do you know what a pony is? 897 01:00:24,835 --> 01:00:28,536 We need to step up to the plate. You know what that means? Yeah. 898 01:00:28,939 --> 01:00:32,044 Okay, I'm just messing with y'all. We have to own, 899 01:00:32,559 --> 01:00:35,499 personally and corporately, we have to own 900 01:00:38,296 --> 01:00:40,785 how disengaged we've become from the source. 901 01:00:41,362 --> 01:00:45,108 Yes. I'm not talking about salvation. 902 01:00:45,108 --> 01:00:48,897 I'm not talking about redemption. I'm not talking 903 01:00:48,897 --> 01:00:52,145 about infilling of the Holy Spirit. I'm not 904 01:00:52,145 --> 01:00:55,933 talking about any of that. I'm talking about where 905 01:00:55,933 --> 01:00:59,722 is your source? When you define your source and the 906 01:00:59,722 --> 01:01:03,421 stuff that comes out of the source, not the stuff, 907 01:01:03,421 --> 01:01:06,760 not the stuff, not the stuff. The stuff is all 908 01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:10,459 byproducts from the source. You get connected to 909 01:01:10,459 --> 01:01:13,887 the source, you get the stuff. It's so quiet in 910 01:01:13,887 --> 01:01:17,361 here. See, 911 01:01:17,764 --> 01:01:21,519 at my age— don't shout me down. I might not get 912 01:01:21,552 --> 01:01:22,563 another shot at y'all. 913 01:01:25,518 --> 01:01:25,857 Michael. 914 01:01:29,897 --> 01:01:33,274 We're gonna— we're gonna open the altar up. 915 01:01:35,867 --> 01:01:38,501 If you're here to help pray, would you come please? 916 01:01:42,330 --> 01:01:46,081 Quickly, please. And the altar's open for 2 917 01:01:46,130 --> 01:01:49,643 reasons specifically. If you have a prayer request, a 918 01:01:49,756 --> 01:01:53,415 prayer need that you need to bring up, 919 01:01:54,289 --> 01:01:56,863 you should do that. If 920 01:01:57,284 --> 01:02:01,024 there's a prayer need in your life based on the 921 01:02:01,024 --> 01:02:03,861 last hour, That has to do with 922 01:02:04,295 --> 01:02:07,413 recalibrating or refocusing or realigning 923 01:02:08,088 --> 01:02:11,674 or redirect— redirecting how you 924 01:02:11,786 --> 01:02:15,635 understand your source. And you need somebody— 925 01:02:15,635 --> 01:02:19,113 you need to actually— look at, look at me, look at me— you actually need 926 01:02:19,113 --> 01:02:22,744 to open your mouth to another saint and go, 927 01:02:24,198 --> 01:02:27,802 I'm not as connected to my source as I need to be. I'm saved, 928 01:02:27,979 --> 01:02:31,656 I'm redeemed, I'm going to heaven when I die, but I'm just not 929 01:02:31,721 --> 01:02:34,710 connected to the source like I need to be. You need to 930 01:02:34,936 --> 01:02:36,503 confess that. 931 01:02:38,513 --> 01:02:41,921 Watch. Conviction— 932 01:02:42,291 --> 01:02:45,312 this is free— conviction comes 933 01:02:45,891 --> 01:02:49,423 either from the Holy Ghost or through the Holy 934 01:02:49,456 --> 01:02:53,299 Ghost in other people or circumstances. In 935 01:02:53,396 --> 01:02:55,609 other words, the Holy Ghost can go zap 936 01:02:56,457 --> 01:03:00,106 You're convicted. Or the Holy Ghost can set up 937 01:03:00,106 --> 01:03:03,820 circumstances where you go, uh-oh. Or he can put people in your 938 01:03:03,820 --> 01:03:07,533 path going, you know, that's problematic. And conviction 939 01:03:07,533 --> 01:03:11,375 sets in. Conviction moves to confession. 940 01:03:12,279 --> 01:03:15,233 You don't get to confession till you've been convicted. 941 01:03:17,412 --> 01:03:21,071 You do not confess stuff that you aren't 942 01:03:21,330 --> 01:03:25,106 feeling convicted of. problematic about. This is 943 01:03:25,106 --> 01:03:28,764 Psalm 51. If you move from conviction to 944 01:03:28,764 --> 01:03:32,463 confession, the next step after opening 945 01:03:32,512 --> 01:03:36,164 your mouth— I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a 946 01:03:36,228 --> 01:03:39,234 problem. I'm not connected to my source like I need to be. 947 01:03:39,980 --> 01:03:43,510 What would— now that I've told you that, would you pray for me about that? 948 01:03:44,283 --> 01:03:48,120 That's confession. When that happens 949 01:03:48,819 --> 01:03:52,453 The next step is repentance, and 950 01:03:52,533 --> 01:03:56,329 repentance boiled down is changing the 951 01:03:56,410 --> 01:04:00,195 way we think. Watch, and 952 01:04:00,211 --> 01:04:03,716 I'll stop. Changing the way we think— 953 01:04:03,716 --> 01:04:07,546 repentance is not flipping a light switch and 954 01:04:07,546 --> 01:04:10,469 it's done. Oh, don't shout me down. 955 01:04:10,469 --> 01:04:13,593 Repentance is— it will take whatever 956 01:04:13,593 --> 01:04:17,321 However, whenever, for how long, until how I 957 01:04:17,321 --> 01:04:20,748 think that got me into this problem is now 958 01:04:20,748 --> 01:04:24,011 corrected. Right. You can't get to 959 01:04:24,011 --> 01:04:27,861 restoration and renewal and revival without going through 960 01:04:27,861 --> 01:04:31,711 repentance. And if you think repentance is a one-shot deal, 961 01:04:31,711 --> 01:04:35,561 you make a confession, they lay hands on me and I go, I'm going 962 01:04:35,561 --> 01:04:39,180 to repent. I'm not going to do that anymore. And I turn and 963 01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:42,722 walk away. If you think you're through, you are kidding 964 01:04:42,722 --> 01:04:46,495 yourself. Amen. That's just not biblical. Repentance is a 965 01:04:46,495 --> 01:04:48,257 process. It's not an event. 966 01:04:50,380 --> 01:04:53,961 Conviction is an event, more than likely. 967 01:04:53,961 --> 01:04:57,337 Confession is an event. Will you pray? I 968 01:04:57,337 --> 01:05:01,020 messed up. Repentance is not, well, that's 969 01:05:01,020 --> 01:05:04,804 done. Excuse me, and I'm through. Youngins, 970 01:05:04,804 --> 01:05:08,384 youngins. Hear what I'm saying. If you're 971 01:05:08,384 --> 01:05:12,048 like— not today, not tomorrow. If your life— 972 01:05:12,514 --> 01:05:16,053 if you look up and go, I'm— I've kind of gotten out of kilter here. 973 01:05:17,727 --> 01:05:20,935 The process is conviction, confession, 974 01:05:21,677 --> 01:05:24,949 repentance, restoration, renewal, 975 01:05:25,610 --> 01:05:28,995 revival. Amen. That 976 01:05:29,108 --> 01:05:32,902 process, any one of those steps you break out, Messes 977 01:05:32,998 --> 01:05:36,758 the process up. So now that I've made everybody feel 978 01:05:36,790 --> 01:05:40,597 really guilty, if you want to come, come. And would you all 979 01:05:41,047 --> 01:05:42,842 please get me out of this? 980 01:05:44,850 --> 01:05:45,524 Oh my goodness.