1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,120 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,040 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,040 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,040 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,720 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,420 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:34,700 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,140 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:41,660 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,180 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:47,900 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,940 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,980 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:00,100 pastor Ross Stackhound. 20 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:04,900 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:13,940 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:19,860 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,580 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:25,230 --> 00:01:31,470 and on the website, which is heavenearthchurch.org here. 25 00:01:31,470 --> 00:01:35,630 Now with part two of the message series, Eliminating Hurry. 26 00:01:36,670 --> 00:01:40,910 The great enemy of the spiritual life is Heaven Earth Church 27 00:01:40,910 --> 00:01:42,990 Pastor Ross Stackhouse. 28 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:46,750 Lord, help us to be aware of you. 29 00:01:51,390 --> 00:01:57,660 Help us to be aware of your grace, your presence with us in Jesus. 30 00:01:58,460 --> 00:01:59,100 Amen. 31 00:02:00,140 --> 00:02:08,060 Okay, I want to know what app you're addicted to right now. 32 00:02:09,580 --> 00:02:15,180 So if you went to your screen time, your weekly screen time, what's 33 00:02:15,180 --> 00:02:18,300 the app that's really just chewing into that screen time? 34 00:02:18,460 --> 00:02:19,940 And some of you might be like, I'm not. 35 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:21,580 I don't use my cell phone that much. 36 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,600 What about a TV show? 37 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:31,240 What TV show or app are you giving minutes and hours of your 38 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:31,840 day to? 39 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,280 Let's hear it. 40 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:38,720 Your diabetic sensor. 41 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,680 You got to do better than that TV show. 42 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:41,080 Patty. 43 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,320 I know you got a TV show. 44 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:45,440 I said, but TV show. 45 00:02:48,330 --> 00:02:49,130 Price is Right. 46 00:02:50,890 --> 00:02:54,570 Do you like Bob Barker or Drew Carey better? 47 00:02:55,610 --> 00:02:56,650 He's all, you know. 48 00:02:56,730 --> 00:02:57,290 Oh, my. 49 00:02:58,570 --> 00:02:59,450 Oh, okay. 50 00:02:59,530 --> 00:03:00,170 What else? 51 00:03:00,170 --> 00:03:01,370 TV show or app? 52 00:03:01,530 --> 00:03:03,810 Paul Dexter. 53 00:03:03,810 --> 00:03:05,210 Okay, I've never watched it. 54 00:03:06,730 --> 00:03:07,650 Paramount Plus. 55 00:03:07,650 --> 00:03:08,170 Okay. 56 00:03:08,890 --> 00:03:09,690 Gotta watch it. 57 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:10,170 Okay. 58 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:13,940 Facebook. 59 00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:23,140 How many hours you spend in a day on that, Dina? 60 00:03:32,580 --> 00:03:36,180 Okay, so there's a specific channel you're watching on Facebook. 61 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:39,470 Yeah, you need to get off of that. 62 00:03:39,470 --> 00:03:39,950 What else? 63 00:03:39,950 --> 00:03:40,750 What apps? 64 00:03:42,430 --> 00:03:42,830 What? 65 00:03:43,310 --> 00:03:45,070 What's chewing up your screen time? 66 00:03:46,190 --> 00:03:46,910 Jamin. 67 00:03:48,190 --> 00:03:49,230 I couldn't hear him. 68 00:03:50,830 --> 00:03:52,510 Cookie run Kingdom. 69 00:03:53,390 --> 00:03:56,550 Okay, I'm guessing it's a really good game on the. 70 00:03:56,550 --> 00:04:00,910 Okay, dad. 71 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:01,790 YouTube. 72 00:04:02,910 --> 00:04:03,470 YouTube. 73 00:04:03,470 --> 00:04:05,070 Chewing up your screen time, dad. 74 00:04:05,970 --> 00:04:07,890 Okay, all right. 75 00:04:07,890 --> 00:04:08,290 What else? 76 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:08,890 What you got? 77 00:04:08,890 --> 00:04:09,730 Online people? 78 00:04:09,970 --> 00:04:10,530 Wake up. 79 00:04:10,530 --> 00:04:11,170 Online people. 80 00:04:11,170 --> 00:04:11,890 What you got? 81 00:04:12,610 --> 00:04:14,610 What are you using for your screen time? 82 00:04:14,690 --> 00:04:15,570 TV time. 83 00:04:15,810 --> 00:04:20,850 Valerie Benjamin app. 84 00:04:24,130 --> 00:04:24,770 Okay. 85 00:04:26,530 --> 00:04:32,250 Oh, good thing I don't know about that because I'm such a penny 86 00:04:32,250 --> 00:04:34,290 pincher, I'd find any way to save a buck. 87 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:42,920 Yeah, no, no, no. 88 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:44,080 Don't share it, Valerie. 89 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:44,360 Don't. 90 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:44,760 Don't. 91 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:50,920 Survey junkie. 92 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:51,480 Huh? 93 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:54,760 Wow. 94 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:56,320 What else? 95 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,920 Come on, Natalie. 96 00:05:01,090 --> 00:05:01,490 Yeah. 97 00:05:04,530 --> 00:05:05,090 How many. 98 00:05:05,090 --> 00:05:09,970 How many of you would say you watch more than an hour a day of 99 00:05:09,970 --> 00:05:11,250 Netflix on average? 100 00:05:11,970 --> 00:05:13,410 I think I probably do. 101 00:05:14,370 --> 00:05:15,130 Oh, man. 102 00:05:15,130 --> 00:05:16,210 Thou shalt not. 103 00:05:16,370 --> 00:05:17,050 Hey, listen. 104 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:19,490 Thou shalt not lie is one of the Ten Commandments. 105 00:05:19,490 --> 00:05:20,050 Okay? 106 00:05:24,370 --> 00:05:25,250 What'd you say? 107 00:05:26,860 --> 00:05:29,500 Oh, you're too busy on Facebook and Instagram to be able 108 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:30,180 to do that. 109 00:05:30,180 --> 00:05:31,420 Yeah, yeah. 110 00:05:32,140 --> 00:05:39,740 Jamin Facebook and work emails. 111 00:05:41,260 --> 00:05:41,819 Okay. 112 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:42,380 Jay. 113 00:05:43,180 --> 00:05:44,140 Tick tock. 114 00:05:45,340 --> 00:05:45,820 Yeah. 115 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:53,110 Pokemon Hallmark. 116 00:05:54,870 --> 00:05:55,710 I don't get it. 117 00:05:55,710 --> 00:05:57,510 Every Hallmark movie is the same. 118 00:05:57,750 --> 00:06:00,710 But, but, but, but maybe that's the comfort in it. 119 00:06:00,710 --> 00:06:03,470 It's that it's the same kind of plot trajectory every time. 120 00:06:03,470 --> 00:06:05,190 Joey the Ch. 121 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,680 Watermelon Game. 122 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:20,480 Is it not? 123 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:21,160 Fruit Ninja. 124 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:21,520 Is that. 125 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:22,560 Is that a thing anymore? 126 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,120 Okay, it was so. 127 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:28,440 My. 128 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,440 The addiction of these apps is so. 129 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:35,840 I don't have Facebook on my phone. 130 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:36,360 I don't. 131 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,680 The only social media app I have is Instagram, and I have something 132 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,360 called the Be Present app that limits how much you spend on it a 133 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:43,520 day. 134 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,600 But don't worry, I'm about to tell you how bad I am. 135 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:45,920 Still. 136 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:51,360 I got into chess a lot recently and downloaded the Chess 137 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:51,720 app. 138 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,280 And even that stupid app is built to make you addictive. 139 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,480 You win so many games and you get trophies, and then it's like, 140 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,720 hey, here's the next level that you can get. 141 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,520 I love trophies. 142 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,320 You know this. 143 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,680 And so here I was, starting to play chess. 144 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:11,720 Like an addiction. 145 00:07:13,550 --> 00:07:14,190 It's serious. 146 00:07:14,590 --> 00:07:20,830 So on Friday, I deleted the app because I asked myself, ross, 147 00:07:20,830 --> 00:07:21,630 what do you want to be? 148 00:07:22,110 --> 00:07:24,590 Do you want to be good at chess or do you want to be present? 149 00:07:25,470 --> 00:07:26,910 Because I wasn't achieving both. 150 00:07:29,790 --> 00:07:31,550 And you're like, gosh, this guy's a. 151 00:07:31,550 --> 00:07:32,390 He's an addict. 152 00:07:32,390 --> 00:07:33,230 He's in trouble. 153 00:07:33,230 --> 00:07:33,750 Yeah. 154 00:07:33,750 --> 00:07:34,830 Yep, you got it. 155 00:07:36,430 --> 00:07:37,960 So here's. 156 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:39,400 Yeah. 157 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:45,760 So here's this number right here. 158 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,720 That struck me. 159 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:49,560 I did some research. 160 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:52,440 You know what that is? 161 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:55,160 What is it? 162 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:57,360 Duncan's Theorem. 163 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,720 It may be that that's not what I was looking for here. 164 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,730 PT I'm looking at, on average, cell phone Users look at their phones 165 00:08:03,730 --> 00:08:05,050 that many times a day. 166 00:08:13,850 --> 00:08:15,090 Oh, yeah, I've heard of this. 167 00:08:15,090 --> 00:08:15,610 Yeah. 168 00:08:25,290 --> 00:08:26,410 Way to make that tie. 169 00:08:26,410 --> 00:08:26,850 P.T. 170 00:08:26,850 --> 00:08:27,770 that sounds good. 171 00:08:27,850 --> 00:08:31,140 Yeah, it's true, though, actually. 172 00:08:31,140 --> 00:08:32,940 You've already beat me to the punch today. 173 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:33,580 Pretty much. 174 00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:35,420 I know. 175 00:08:35,420 --> 00:08:35,740 Yeah. 176 00:08:35,740 --> 00:08:36,220 We can. 177 00:08:37,260 --> 00:08:38,780 We can make quick work of this. 178 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:42,620 Guess what that is. 179 00:08:44,620 --> 00:08:51,580 Average time spent back in 2718. 180 00:08:51,580 --> 00:08:52,860 It was in the twos. 181 00:08:57,030 --> 00:08:59,910 It's going up really quickly, that number. 182 00:09:02,630 --> 00:09:04,310 And some of you are like, I don't spend. 183 00:09:04,550 --> 00:09:05,190 What's that? 184 00:09:05,190 --> 00:09:08,630 PT could be. 185 00:09:08,790 --> 00:09:10,470 I didn't see that part of the research. 186 00:09:10,949 --> 00:09:13,190 I think I did see this part of the research. 187 00:09:13,270 --> 00:09:13,990 Part of it is. 188 00:09:13,990 --> 00:09:16,390 Is that one. 189 00:09:16,550 --> 00:09:18,950 Apps are being designed to be more addictive. 190 00:09:20,390 --> 00:09:21,910 So the drug is getting better. 191 00:09:23,260 --> 00:09:25,660 The quality of the drug is better, More addictive. 192 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:29,780 But also younger generations are driving up the average of that 193 00:09:29,780 --> 00:09:30,060 number. 194 00:09:31,660 --> 00:09:32,620 Millennials. 195 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:33,020 Z. 196 00:09:33,180 --> 00:09:34,140 Driving it up. 197 00:09:37,420 --> 00:09:38,019 What's that? 198 00:09:38,019 --> 00:09:40,540 Melissa Gin. 199 00:09:40,540 --> 00:09:40,940 What? 200 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:42,300 Alpha. 201 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:42,940 What's that? 202 00:09:44,860 --> 00:09:45,820 It's my son. 203 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:47,140 Oh, my. 204 00:09:47,140 --> 00:09:47,740 Okay. 205 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:52,880 All right. 206 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,280 This number, it is not the number of Greek soldiers who fought 207 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,120 bravely at Thermopylae. 208 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:00,960 Gerard Butler. 209 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:01,960 This is Sparta. 210 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:02,480 Not that. 211 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:06,280 It is not. 212 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:06,960 You're actually. 213 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:07,920 It's correct. 214 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:10,560 True. 215 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,040 This is the. 216 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,880 According to Nielsen National TV Panel data, US adults spent roughly 217 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,440 300 minutes a day watching TV, according to quarter four of 22. 218 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,360 So whether you're a phone person or a TV person or both, a 219 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:38,040 lot of our time has been lost to the digital invasion to the screen. 220 00:10:39,410 --> 00:10:40,930 And so what is the result of that? 221 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:49,650 According to a 2015 Time article. 222 00:10:49,650 --> 00:10:50,770 So it's worse now. 223 00:10:51,890 --> 00:10:55,730 Goldfish have an attention span of nine seconds. 224 00:10:56,290 --> 00:10:58,210 We have an attention span of eight. 225 00:10:59,490 --> 00:11:00,690 And it's worse now. 226 00:11:02,290 --> 00:11:03,010 It's worse. 227 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:08,620 So have I lost your attention so far? 228 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:17,260 Yeah. 229 00:11:20,220 --> 00:11:20,700 Yeah. 230 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:23,340 Everything is competing for your attention. 231 00:11:24,540 --> 00:11:24,940 Everything. 232 00:11:25,980 --> 00:11:29,100 Go ahead, PT and it's going faster. 233 00:11:39,510 --> 00:11:42,110 PT Says I can't go see an action movie anymore because the 234 00:11:42,110 --> 00:11:43,590 speed of the action's too fast. 235 00:11:43,590 --> 00:11:44,030 It's like. 236 00:11:44,030 --> 00:11:44,950 It's overwhelming. 237 00:11:45,910 --> 00:11:47,510 There's so much that's going on. 238 00:11:49,670 --> 00:11:51,270 One researcher said that we. 239 00:11:51,270 --> 00:11:53,590 Now everybody is in this boat. 240 00:11:53,830 --> 00:11:59,680 We suffer from this phenomenon, continuous partial attention. 241 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,360 I feel that every day. 242 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:07,080 You guys, if Angela are here right now, if you asked her, what's 243 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,120 one thing that Ross does that makes you want to kill him in his 244 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:10,560 sleep? 245 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,720 And you think that's extreme, but you should see her face when 246 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:16,320 I do it. 247 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,520 She will talk to me while I'm in the room. 248 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,710 She'll ask me a question, and I won't even respond because I legitimately 249 00:12:25,710 --> 00:12:30,630 have not heard a Word that just came out of her mouth, Continuous 250 00:12:30,630 --> 00:12:31,590 partial attention. 251 00:12:33,350 --> 00:12:35,590 Any spouses got that going on in your house? 252 00:12:35,590 --> 00:12:35,910 Any. 253 00:12:35,910 --> 00:12:36,950 Come on, help me out. 254 00:12:38,790 --> 00:12:39,910 Don't leave me alone. 255 00:12:43,750 --> 00:12:45,830 And here's what is. 256 00:12:47,350 --> 00:12:50,780 This is worrisome for many reasons, right? 257 00:12:51,820 --> 00:12:52,700 Many reasons. 258 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:55,700 But here's the one that I'm going to point to that's going to. 259 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:56,100 It's going to. 260 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:57,660 We're going to pick this back up at the end. 261 00:12:58,060 --> 00:12:59,820 Mary Oliver, have you ever heard of her? 262 00:12:59,820 --> 00:13:00,540 She's a poet. 263 00:13:01,340 --> 00:13:05,580 She says that attention is the beginning of devotion. 264 00:13:08,540 --> 00:13:11,660 Attention is the beginning of devotion. 265 00:13:12,780 --> 00:13:17,020 And as John Mark Comer says in this book toward the end of the chapters 266 00:13:17,020 --> 00:13:22,610 on the problem, he says, attention is so important because 267 00:13:22,610 --> 00:13:23,730 it leads to awareness. 268 00:13:24,530 --> 00:13:25,970 And awareness is everything. 269 00:13:28,050 --> 00:13:31,610 All of spiritual maturity, emotional maturity comes from an 270 00:13:31,610 --> 00:13:32,130 awareness. 271 00:13:34,049 --> 00:13:39,850 Awareness of God's presence, awareness of ourselves, awareness 272 00:13:39,850 --> 00:13:40,450 of others. 273 00:13:42,130 --> 00:13:46,120 We are losing attention at a sickening rate. 274 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,760 And so we are losing awareness at an exponential rate. 275 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,520 Attention is the beginning of devotion. 276 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,960 Awareness is at the root of all forms of spiritual and emotional 277 00:13:58,960 --> 00:13:59,560 maturity. 278 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,600 Aren't you excited you came to church today? 279 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,080 How's your attention span right now, Ross? 280 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,960 You need more pictures, we need videos. 281 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:12,840 You need to go, this is too many words. 282 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:20,960 So Joanna beat me to the punch. 283 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:23,600 So we've already. 284 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,000 This is all the quantitative effect of attention, but what we 285 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,280 need to talk about is more the qualitative effect. 286 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,520 John Mark Comer says this in this book. 287 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,440 The ruthless elimination of Hurry. 288 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,920 What you give your attention to is the person you become. 289 00:14:41,290 --> 00:14:42,890 You agree with that or disagree with that. 290 00:14:46,330 --> 00:14:48,090 Think it's true, not true. 291 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:52,330 We got to vote for true. 292 00:14:56,970 --> 00:15:01,050 If you don't think it's true, I'll make a case real quick. 293 00:15:01,050 --> 00:15:01,610 Real quick. 294 00:15:02,010 --> 00:15:06,080 If you were to watch Fox News for, say, an hour and a half a day, 295 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,560 how would that affect your mindset? 296 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,280 What you care about, who you become? 297 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,760 If you were to watch MSNBC for an hour and a half, two hours a day, 298 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:23,360 how would that shape. 299 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:29,320 If you watch YouTube clips of a certain personality and you trusted 300 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,760 everything that came out of their mouth or podcast, how would 301 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:32,720 that affect what you become? 302 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,640 I think to all this, there's a moment when I got to show you this. 303 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:42,480 We. 304 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:48,999 We neglect these moments where Jesus, we're so fixated on what he 305 00:15:48,999 --> 00:15:50,080 says and what he does. 306 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,920 But sometimes I think there. 307 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,480 There are moments when he doesn't say anything and he really 308 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,760 doesn't do much that say a lot about where God's heart is. 309 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:58,320 Watch this. 310 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:05,530 This is in Mark, chapter 8. 311 00:16:05,530 --> 00:16:08,690 The Pharisees came and began to Question Jesus to test him. 312 00:16:08,690 --> 00:16:10,730 They asked him for a sign from heaven. 313 00:16:12,570 --> 00:16:14,490 He can you read the next two words? 314 00:16:16,570 --> 00:16:18,050 Can you practice that real quick? 315 00:16:18,050 --> 00:16:19,290 Give me a deep sigh. 316 00:16:22,730 --> 00:16:24,810 Have you done any deep sighing this week? 317 00:16:30,150 --> 00:16:33,910 That right there says a lot about where Jesus is with his peers. 318 00:16:38,470 --> 00:16:40,230 You know what he did right before this? 319 00:16:42,790 --> 00:16:46,070 The story says that he fed a crowd of about 4,000 people. 320 00:16:46,150 --> 00:16:49,670 And then these powerful folks said, hey, we need a sign from you. 321 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,720 He sighs and moves on. 322 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:04,080 I think when I'm going to go back to this in a minute. 323 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:08,640 I think when Jesus looks at what's happening to our attention 324 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:14,080 and our awareness, which I said last week, we're coming by honestly. 325 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:17,600 We're not trying to be hurry sick people. 326 00:17:19,730 --> 00:17:23,650 One, the technology that we're leaning on so much is designed to 327 00:17:23,650 --> 00:17:30,370 make us hurry sick, to make us be hurry distracted, busy and sick. 328 00:17:32,450 --> 00:17:35,570 We know that because people who worked in Silicon Valley, they 329 00:17:35,570 --> 00:17:38,210 left the industry and said, let me tell you what's really happening 330 00:17:38,210 --> 00:17:38,530 there. 331 00:17:38,610 --> 00:17:41,890 The drug is getting better and they're working on making it better. 332 00:17:44,460 --> 00:17:45,780 That's one reason we're coming by. 333 00:17:45,780 --> 00:17:51,180 This hurry sickness, this attention erosive existence. 334 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,700 But the second thing is as human beings, we tend to run from 335 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:57,100 sickness to sickness. 336 00:17:59,420 --> 00:18:02,460 We talk about this in the rooms in the recovery rooms. 337 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:06,380 A lot of people who are in addiction were running from one misery 338 00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:07,420 to another misery. 339 00:18:10,310 --> 00:18:11,190 Why do we do this? 340 00:18:11,510 --> 00:18:14,190 Why are we signing up for a more distracted life? 341 00:18:14,190 --> 00:18:17,390 Because to not be distracted would be to be attentive to our own 342 00:18:17,390 --> 00:18:20,310 lives and to be aware of our misery and pain and trauma. 343 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:29,510 Who wants to face that distraction is hurry. 344 00:18:30,310 --> 00:18:32,710 We're hurrying away from our pain. 345 00:18:33,910 --> 00:18:34,870 We're hurrying away. 346 00:18:34,950 --> 00:18:40,430 And so Jesus looks at this, I think, and will you do it? 347 00:18:40,430 --> 00:18:41,750 Go ahead and sigh deeply again. 348 00:18:45,270 --> 00:18:46,470 I think that's what he does. 349 00:18:48,150 --> 00:18:49,190 I think he's sad. 350 00:18:52,630 --> 00:18:53,910 I think he's heartsick. 351 00:18:55,990 --> 00:18:58,470 Like a friend who keeps knocking on your door. 352 00:18:59,670 --> 00:19:04,590 I think of my daughter going to our neighbor's house and knocking 353 00:19:04,590 --> 00:19:06,950 on the door and asking if she wants to come out and play. 354 00:19:08,810 --> 00:19:11,210 And it's like that person never opens the door. 355 00:19:13,290 --> 00:19:14,490 Jesus is knocking. 356 00:19:17,290 --> 00:19:18,250 Nobody's home. 357 00:19:19,130 --> 00:19:21,210 They're there, but they're not there. 358 00:19:22,490 --> 00:19:27,490 They're suffering from continuous partial attention lost 359 00:19:27,490 --> 00:19:30,010 in a TV or a screen, running from pain. 360 00:19:31,690 --> 00:19:35,690 When Jesus says, he says this right here. 361 00:19:36,010 --> 00:19:36,810 Oh, man. 362 00:19:40,090 --> 00:19:44,410 Actually, let me go to the scripture itself if I can find it. 363 00:19:49,290 --> 00:19:50,570 That isn't it, is it? 364 00:19:52,170 --> 00:19:53,530 I've got it on here somewhere. 365 00:19:53,530 --> 00:19:54,330 Maybe I don't. 366 00:19:54,970 --> 00:19:59,850 He says In John chapter 10, he's talking about being the good 367 00:19:59,850 --> 00:20:00,210 shepherd. 368 00:20:00,210 --> 00:20:02,250 He says, I came that they may have life. 369 00:20:03,210 --> 00:20:04,050 Oh, I do have it. 370 00:20:04,050 --> 00:20:05,010 Where did that come from? 371 00:20:05,010 --> 00:20:06,490 Thank you, Jamin, for the win. 372 00:20:07,370 --> 00:20:08,570 God bless you, man. 373 00:20:11,290 --> 00:20:12,970 He says this in John 10. 374 00:20:16,970 --> 00:20:18,370 I am the gate for the sheep. 375 00:20:18,370 --> 00:20:20,730 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers. 376 00:20:20,730 --> 00:20:22,410 Jesus is grieved that people are. 377 00:20:22,410 --> 00:20:24,090 Their lives are getting stolen away. 378 00:20:25,930 --> 00:20:28,010 He's like, I've come to rescue my sheep. 379 00:20:34,020 --> 00:20:34,900 That last part. 380 00:20:36,260 --> 00:20:40,260 I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. 381 00:20:40,980 --> 00:20:42,980 That's the one thing I have for you today. 382 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:46,820 The Son of God has drawn near to us so that we may have life and 383 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:47,700 have it to the full. 384 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:50,100 But what's that last word that I have with a period there? 385 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:50,900 Can you read that? 386 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:53,980 Any grammar nerds? 387 00:20:53,980 --> 00:20:57,390 Want to tell me what that tenses there with that? 388 00:20:57,710 --> 00:20:58,190 Sorry. 389 00:20:59,070 --> 00:21:00,750 It's like the subjunctive. 390 00:21:01,630 --> 00:21:04,230 People are like, oh, God, this guy's getting too nerdy. 391 00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:04,910 Now I'm loose. 392 00:21:04,910 --> 00:21:06,070 My attention's gone. 393 00:21:06,070 --> 00:21:07,630 This is really too nerdy. 394 00:21:10,510 --> 00:21:12,269 It's something that might happen. 395 00:21:12,830 --> 00:21:13,630 Could happen. 396 00:21:14,590 --> 00:21:15,870 It may happen. 397 00:21:17,390 --> 00:21:24,430 I have drawn near to you so that you may have life and you may 398 00:21:24,430 --> 00:21:24,750 not. 399 00:21:27,870 --> 00:21:29,190 I'm knocking on the door. 400 00:21:29,190 --> 00:21:30,030 Will you answer? 401 00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:33,150 I'm sitting in the room. 402 00:21:33,710 --> 00:21:34,590 Do you know it? 403 00:21:39,230 --> 00:21:40,030 I've come. 404 00:21:41,950 --> 00:21:45,550 What we give our attention to is the people that we become. 405 00:21:46,750 --> 00:21:51,620 So Jesus, he says to his disciples, this thing right here, 406 00:21:51,620 --> 00:21:54,700 he's telling them something they didn't. 407 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:58,100 I don't know if you know this, but Apple phones weren't a thing 408 00:21:58,420 --> 00:22:01,220 in the year 34, 33. 409 00:22:02,420 --> 00:22:04,220 I know that's shocking news to you. 410 00:22:04,220 --> 00:22:06,660 So they didn't really struggle as much with hurry sickness. 411 00:22:06,660 --> 00:22:11,620 People have always been in a hurry, always. 412 00:22:13,060 --> 00:22:14,420 But now it's just worse. 413 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:16,500 The intensity is harder. 414 00:22:16,980 --> 00:22:21,460 But he is telling them his disciples later in that same chapter, 415 00:22:22,180 --> 00:22:25,980 watch out and be on your guard for the yeast of the Pharisees as 416 00:22:25,980 --> 00:22:28,820 well as the yeast of Herod and right on Brand. 417 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:33,700 The disciples are like, I don't even have any bread with me 418 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:34,260 right now. 419 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:37,740 So take heart. 420 00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:40,580 When you feel like you have no idea what Jesus is saying, they never 421 00:22:40,580 --> 00:22:40,900 did. 422 00:22:43,310 --> 00:22:46,510 He comes back like, that's not what I'm talking about, you idiots. 423 00:22:46,910 --> 00:22:47,990 No, he doesn't say that. 424 00:22:47,990 --> 00:22:48,830 He's nicer. 425 00:22:49,230 --> 00:22:50,590 No, he's more patient. 426 00:22:51,630 --> 00:22:54,750 We talked about last week how Jesus is slow and steady. 427 00:22:54,750 --> 00:22:55,870 He's intentional. 428 00:22:58,349 --> 00:23:05,630 He's saying, guys, do not give your attention to these two powerful 429 00:23:05,630 --> 00:23:06,350 groups of people. 430 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,000 Everybody has their eyes on them and wants to be like them. 431 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,680 And so they're becoming like them. 432 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,960 They're giving their attention to these people who exploit religion 433 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:18,520 for power. 434 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,040 Don't pay attention to them. 435 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,920 Don't give your precious attention to them. 436 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:32,520 Because he says later to them in that chapter, they're gaining 437 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:33,240 the world. 438 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,530 They are the Pharisees and Herod. 439 00:23:35,530 --> 00:23:35,850 They're. 440 00:23:35,850 --> 00:23:39,770 They're amassing more power, more stuff for themselves, and they're 441 00:23:39,770 --> 00:23:41,250 losing their lives along the way. 442 00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:41,650 That's it. 443 00:23:41,650 --> 00:23:42,890 This is at the end of the chapter. 444 00:23:45,290 --> 00:23:48,410 Another translation says, what does it profit a man to gain the 445 00:23:48,410 --> 00:23:50,010 whole world but lose his soul? 446 00:23:50,970 --> 00:23:52,890 The word in the Greek is pasuke. 447 00:23:52,890 --> 00:23:55,490 We get the Greek prefix psyche from it. 448 00:23:55,490 --> 00:23:57,930 Like psychology, it's your essence. 449 00:23:57,930 --> 00:23:58,370 It's the. 450 00:23:58,370 --> 00:23:59,610 It's the essential you. 451 00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:02,810 What if you gain all the things you're running after? 452 00:24:04,420 --> 00:24:05,380 You gain it all. 453 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:10,500 What if you want to be like that Instagram influencer? 454 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:11,780 You're like, ross, that's not true. 455 00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:13,220 But somewhere deep down, is it. 456 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:16,420 What if you gain all that influence? 457 00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:23,580 What does it cost you if you gain all the things you're running 458 00:24:23,580 --> 00:24:23,820 after? 459 00:24:23,820 --> 00:24:30,670 What is it costing you for all the things you're giving your attention 460 00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:30,990 to? 461 00:24:30,990 --> 00:24:32,670 Guys, what's it costing you? 462 00:24:32,830 --> 00:24:39,190 Ross, your wife is asking you a question in the kitchen, and you 463 00:24:39,190 --> 00:24:40,030 don't even hear it. 464 00:24:41,150 --> 00:24:49,430 Jesus, Are the things that you're giving your attention to worth 465 00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:49,710 it? 466 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,800 If Jesus knocks, do you hear it? 467 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:06,680 Listen, some of you are rightly saying, like, you have good 468 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:07,800 reason to feel this way. 469 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,720 You have good reason to feel like God is. 470 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,160 God is absent. 471 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,320 I'm sick of it. 472 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,000 God show up in my life. 473 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,240 Where are you? 474 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,440 The psalms sound like that a lot. 475 00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:22,810 And some of you have, like, that's. 476 00:25:22,810 --> 00:25:23,530 That's real. 477 00:25:25,210 --> 00:25:25,970 Full stop. 478 00:25:25,970 --> 00:25:26,370 Okay? 479 00:25:26,370 --> 00:25:27,130 Did you hear that? 480 00:25:28,730 --> 00:25:41,050 And I do wonder if God is showing up and we have no attention, 481 00:25:41,930 --> 00:25:42,370 and we. 482 00:25:42,370 --> 00:25:43,610 And so we have no awareness. 483 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:50,540 All right, last question, then I'm going to finish for the day. 484 00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:51,140 Okay. 485 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:55,540 I asked you to pay attention to your hurry sickness this week. 486 00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:57,620 Now maybe you don't remember it. 487 00:25:57,940 --> 00:25:58,980 What did you notice? 488 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:03,100 What did you notice about. 489 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:06,260 Notice about your tendencies of being hurried, distracted, and 490 00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:06,820 busy. 491 00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:27,630 Did you notice, Nick, by Monday, I forgot. 492 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,560 I'm with you, brother Jay. 493 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,320 It brought more awareness into my life. 494 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,200 Heather. 495 00:27:21,370 --> 00:27:22,810 Heather just admitted. 496 00:27:22,810 --> 00:27:23,610 Brought to the table. 497 00:27:23,610 --> 00:27:25,690 Like, I'm very uncomfortable just sitting still. 498 00:27:26,810 --> 00:27:28,730 Sitting by myself and being still. 499 00:27:29,290 --> 00:27:29,930 Me too. 500 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,880 God has called me to a season of extended periods of stillness 501 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:35,520 and silence. 502 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,120 The last, like, 30, 40 days. 503 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,200 I'm noticing. 504 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:45,680 It takes me 10 to 15 minutes to even be able to hear what's underneath 505 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,400 but it keeps happening. 506 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,600 I keep getting there. 507 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,720 And I've told you guys, I'm seeing how much scarcity drives my 508 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,040 life. 509 00:27:56,810 --> 00:27:59,210 This belief that there is not enough. 510 00:28:00,650 --> 00:28:01,850 Even my prayers. 511 00:28:01,850 --> 00:28:05,290 I need to pray in a certain way to motivate God to act. 512 00:28:07,370 --> 00:28:08,170 Scarcity. 513 00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:11,290 I'm hearing that humming in my life more. 514 00:28:11,930 --> 00:28:15,530 But it's taking me 10 to 15 minutes to sit still because I'm 515 00:28:15,530 --> 00:28:20,970 sitting there going, I'll sit outside of my porch like, oh, gosh, 516 00:28:21,860 --> 00:28:23,860 I should go pull those weeds real quick. 517 00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:28,020 My yard looks like a disaster. 518 00:28:30,260 --> 00:28:30,900 You know what? 519 00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:31,380 Really quick. 520 00:28:31,380 --> 00:28:32,820 I need to text that person back. 521 00:28:32,820 --> 00:28:34,100 I forgot to text back. 522 00:28:34,420 --> 00:28:38,820 How many of you have been on the end of a forgotten. 523 00:28:39,060 --> 00:28:40,340 No reply from me. 524 00:28:41,780 --> 00:28:43,300 Don't show your hands right now. 525 00:28:43,620 --> 00:28:44,580 Don't do it. 526 00:28:47,070 --> 00:28:48,590 Listen, can I tell you something? 527 00:28:49,470 --> 00:28:50,870 I'm being straight up with you. 528 00:28:50,870 --> 00:28:51,870 It's going to happen more. 529 00:28:53,870 --> 00:28:57,430 I'm not going to text back as quickly, okay? 530 00:28:57,430 --> 00:28:58,390 But I'm getting to the solution. 531 00:28:58,390 --> 00:28:59,070 I'm jumping ahead. 532 00:28:59,070 --> 00:29:03,149 What'd you notice about your week, Kaylee? 533 00:29:09,150 --> 00:29:09,710 Yep. 534 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,920 Have a hard time? 535 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:22,800 Yes. 536 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:35,200 Yeah, thanks for sharing that, Kaylee. 537 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,320 Kaylee was talking about how she started her junior year in day 538 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,840 one, homework in every class. 539 00:29:43,570 --> 00:29:44,050 There's. 540 00:29:44,530 --> 00:29:48,130 There literally is not margin to do it. 541 00:29:50,210 --> 00:29:52,770 So what Kaylee's talking about is there's a. 542 00:29:52,770 --> 00:29:57,450 It's kind of like PT said about action movies, the speed of 543 00:29:57,450 --> 00:29:58,850 our world anymore. 544 00:29:58,850 --> 00:30:01,450 It's like you can't, you can't even be present in it because the 545 00:30:01,450 --> 00:30:02,770 speed is just so fast. 546 00:30:04,050 --> 00:30:05,410 The go ahead. 547 00:30:19,580 --> 00:30:24,620 Yeah, yeah. 548 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:28,700 Thank you for sharing that, Melissa. 549 00:30:47,350 --> 00:30:52,390 Yeah, yeah. 550 00:30:52,390 --> 00:30:53,510 Melissa said it her. 551 00:30:53,910 --> 00:30:57,750 Melissa works in a school and she's like, I have to carry on a 552 00:30:57,830 --> 00:31:00,670 notebook to take note of things or I won't remember what happened 553 00:31:00,670 --> 00:31:01,750 in the last five minutes. 554 00:31:02,530 --> 00:31:03,650 Because you're just bombarded. 555 00:31:04,370 --> 00:31:04,930 Yeah. 556 00:31:07,170 --> 00:31:13,410 Did I say the speed of the world is intensifying, Adam, Go ahead. 557 00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:30,540 You would have been able to do, you know, even 20 years ago. 558 00:31:30,940 --> 00:31:38,220 But the dark side of that is, you know, for me, focusing in on 559 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:43,300 a task in one project can feel virtually impossible because I'm 560 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:44,460 always accessible. 561 00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:49,500 There's things simultaneously happening with a handful of projects 562 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:50,140 all the time. 563 00:31:50,540 --> 00:31:51,340 And so I'm just. 564 00:31:51,340 --> 00:31:51,980 It's like whack. 565 00:31:51,980 --> 00:31:52,380 A full. 566 00:31:53,990 --> 00:31:54,390 Yeah. 567 00:31:55,510 --> 00:31:55,990 Yes. 568 00:31:57,830 --> 00:31:58,870 It's a game, folks. 569 00:31:58,870 --> 00:32:01,110 Like where there'd be these holes, like nine of them, and then 570 00:32:01,110 --> 00:32:03,470 this mole would pop up and you got to take the thing and hit it 571 00:32:03,470 --> 00:32:03,910 on the head. 572 00:32:03,910 --> 00:32:04,390 Go ahead. 573 00:32:17,190 --> 00:32:20,400 It's just non stop back and forth. 574 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,240 And I did a few days, I Don't even know. 575 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,960 Like, what did I work on? 576 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:30,240 Yeah, y. 577 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:38,600 Just really focus so I can do my job. 578 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,520 But it seems like that pursuit and that Chase is also my job. 579 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,400 Yeah. 580 00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:49,900 Part of what I'm hearing from you is that the world is not going 581 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:51,220 to slow down for us. 582 00:32:51,380 --> 00:32:52,980 It's actually going to get faster. 583 00:32:55,220 --> 00:32:55,860 It's going to. 584 00:32:55,860 --> 00:33:00,740 This is going to get harder, and I think the technology is only 585 00:33:00,740 --> 00:33:01,220 going to. 586 00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:04,260 The drug is going to keep getting better. 587 00:33:06,180 --> 00:33:06,740 Dina. 588 00:33:26,269 --> 00:33:30,270 Yeah, sure. 589 00:33:31,390 --> 00:33:31,870 Yeah. 590 00:33:33,070 --> 00:33:35,750 Even your bosses are explaining the new policy that you 591 00:33:35,750 --> 00:33:38,850 need to adhere to with a speed at which you can't comprehend it. 592 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:40,570 So you're doomed from the start. 593 00:33:42,650 --> 00:33:45,050 All right, I'm ending here. 594 00:33:45,930 --> 00:33:46,970 Do you know what that is? 595 00:33:50,810 --> 00:33:52,970 This is what you and me want to be like. 596 00:33:59,690 --> 00:34:05,140 Yeah, yeah. 597 00:34:05,780 --> 00:34:06,340 Sheep. 598 00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:14,980 I've heard people give sheep a bad rap because they're stupid, silly, 599 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:18,740 or, you know, they're stupid, smelly, can't see. 600 00:34:18,740 --> 00:34:19,139 Great. 601 00:34:22,340 --> 00:34:26,020 Well, because I like to do such things, I wanted to research. 602 00:34:26,020 --> 00:34:27,220 Is that actually true? 603 00:34:39,310 --> 00:34:39,870 Interesting. 604 00:34:43,950 --> 00:34:47,790 So it turns out they can hear better than humans can. 605 00:34:49,470 --> 00:34:54,550 Anatomically, they're very similar to us from a hearing standpoint, 606 00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:58,840 but they can hear better than we can hear frequencies that we can't 607 00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,120 hear. 608 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,680 Have you all seen the video of these sheep who are all scattered 609 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:03,200 and such? 610 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,880 And people are hollering at them, but then their shepherd comes 611 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,600 along and hollers out to them, and they're like, yes, go look it 612 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:11,840 up. 613 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:27,190 I think what we're trying to recover is our ability to hear, our 614 00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:34,870 ability to just have an ear for the shepherd who says to us, 615 00:35:37,910 --> 00:35:41,750 life to the full. 616 00:35:44,630 --> 00:35:46,470 Life like you can't imagine it. 617 00:35:47,510 --> 00:35:49,830 Life like you're currently not experiencing it. 618 00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:52,380 Look, the bad news here. 619 00:35:52,620 --> 00:35:53,260 Oh, my God. 620 00:35:53,260 --> 00:35:54,180 I just about did it. 621 00:35:54,180 --> 00:35:54,980 I didn't mean to. 622 00:35:54,980 --> 00:35:55,340 Bad. 623 00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:00,500 I wasn't even going for that. 624 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:01,180 I swear. 625 00:36:01,420 --> 00:36:02,860 And it just, like, came out. 626 00:36:07,260 --> 00:36:08,700 This is the bad news. 627 00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:11,260 Is that May? 628 00:36:14,220 --> 00:36:15,980 Because the bad news is May not. 629 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:27,560 But the good news is May he will show up every day and knock 630 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:32,840 on your door every single day. 631 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,640 And what I'm learning in this extended time of stillness and silence 632 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:38,760 I've been called to recently. 633 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,120 I keep having this realization that keeps bringing me to tears. 634 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,300 It's like, oh, yes, a Hook reference. 635 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:46,220 Yeah, it's coming. 636 00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:47,420 I didn't even plan for this. 637 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:52,460 There's this part where Peter Banning comes to Neverland. 638 00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:53,980 How many people have never seen Hook? 639 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:56,580 You gotta go see it now. 640 00:36:56,580 --> 00:37:04,820 Amanda Daggonet, Peter Banning, who's a lawyer, he is the 641 00:37:04,820 --> 00:37:05,420 most hurry. 642 00:37:05,420 --> 00:37:05,980 Sick person. 643 00:37:05,980 --> 00:37:06,860 You've ever seen. 644 00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:10,700 He was once one of the lost boys, once Peter Pan. 645 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:14,340 He comes back to Neverland and they're trying to find out who he 646 00:37:14,340 --> 00:37:14,620 is. 647 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,760 And then this kid gets up on his face and starts spreading his 648 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,040 face around and he goes, oh, there. 649 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:23,640 Anyone? 650 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,080 Oh, there you are. 651 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:33,520 In my time of stillness and silence, it takes me a while, but 652 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,160 I keep going, oh, there you are. 653 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,730 He was there all the while. 654 00:37:43,250 --> 00:37:44,850 It wasn't about his presence. 655 00:37:45,010 --> 00:37:47,090 It was about my awareness of his presence. 656 00:37:49,890 --> 00:37:52,770 So my prayer for us in the coming days that we would be like 657 00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:58,050 sheep whose hearing gets restored to the shepherd. 658 00:37:59,090 --> 00:38:01,530 I haven't even spoken about the solution yet. 659 00:38:01,530 --> 00:38:03,810 There's a whole section in this book about the solution. 660 00:38:03,970 --> 00:38:06,210 These first two weeks have been about the problem. 661 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,200 Ross, can you get to the solution already? 662 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,400 Do you feel it? 663 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,200 We want, even in our lives, the way that we try to get out of 664 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,880 our sickness is we try to hurry and make a leap toward the 665 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:20,320 solution. 666 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,160 And so we never get to it. 667 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,320 So I just wanted us to sit with our problem for a minute and 668 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,320 ask you, like, do you accept that it is a problem? 669 00:38:34,570 --> 00:38:38,130 Furthermore, do you accept that your willpower ain't gonna be 670 00:38:38,130 --> 00:38:38,410 enough? 671 00:38:41,770 --> 00:38:44,010 Do you accept that your willpower is not enough? 672 00:38:48,090 --> 00:38:51,650 By the way, that's the first step, first couple steps of Alcoholics 673 00:38:51,650 --> 00:38:53,050 Anonymous, if you didn't know. 674 00:38:55,770 --> 00:38:59,090 Do you accept that this thing has become unmanageable and your 675 00:38:59,090 --> 00:39:02,950 willpower is not enough if you do? 676 00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:06,230 If we do, we got a shot. 677 00:39:08,710 --> 00:39:11,910 The next step coming next week, surrender. 678 00:39:13,510 --> 00:39:15,710 So next week we're going to start talking about the solution, 679 00:39:15,710 --> 00:39:16,950 but we're going to do it slowly. 680 00:39:17,190 --> 00:39:18,550 We're going to do it for four weeks. 681 00:39:22,070 --> 00:39:22,790 Four weeks. 682 00:39:22,870 --> 00:39:27,230 We're going to talk about the solution to hurry sickness to this 683 00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:28,270 hurried, busy life. 684 00:39:28,270 --> 00:39:31,320 But I just pray for us spiritually that we would become 685 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,040 like sheep who start to have like. 686 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,840 By some act of God, our attention and our awareness are restored. 687 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,920 A minute of stillness and silence, and then I'll pray. 688 00:40:56,830 --> 00:40:59,070 We are sick, Lord, and in need of healing. 689 00:41:01,790 --> 00:41:05,390 And so we ask, Lord, that you would come to us and heal us and 690 00:41:05,390 --> 00:41:05,950 help us. 691 00:41:09,790 --> 00:41:11,630 Give us strength with our attention. 692 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:15,400 Restore our attention and awareness. 693 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,400 In Jesus name, amen. 694 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,560 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 695 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:30,680 Earth Church. 696 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:36,440 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 697 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:42,050 Eastern Time, either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 698 00:41:42,050 --> 00:41:46,050 Indiana, or online at YouTube Live. 699 00:41:46,450 --> 00:41:53,730 That's@YouTube.com heavenerthchurch the audio podcast 700 00:41:53,730 --> 00:41:59,250 is always available at Apple podcast and on Spotify. 701 00:41:59,730 --> 00:42:04,050 You can help others find out about the Heaven Earth Church podcast 702 00:42:04,590 --> 00:42:09,150 by going to Apple Podcasts and or Spotify and leaving a five star 703 00:42:09,150 --> 00:42:10,830 rating in your review. 704 00:42:11,550 --> 00:42:15,550 Instructions on how to do just that and links are in the show notes. 705 00:42:16,350 --> 00:42:21,870 You can always find out more by going to the church website heavenearthchurch.org 706 00:42:23,150 --> 00:42:23,470 we. 707 00:42:23,470 --> 00:42:25,630 Want to thank you for spending time with us today. 708 00:42:25,790 --> 00:42:29,150 My name is Ross Stackhouse, the pastor to Heaven Earth Church 709 00:42:29,470 --> 00:42:32,440 and and you may think out there that your story is over, but 710 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,960 in fact your faith story may just be beginning. 711 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,120 If you want more information about our church or you're interested 712 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,160 in the next step, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org Otherwise, 713 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,320 we look forward to being with you next time at the Heaven Earth 714 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,320 Church podcast. 715 00:42:55,490 --> 00:42:55,730 SA.