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00:00 Hey YouTube family, I want you man to make sure that you really you probably want to sit down and watch this one
00:05 I don't know if you normally work while you watch but you you really want to tap in I believe God's about to speak to
00:10 You from this message. It's a New Year's Eve message that we taught and it's called you've got the green light and it's not a prophecy
00:16 That's not what it is. But I do think it has prophetic implications
00:20 the most significant shifts in my life have been made where in some way or another God gave me a green light and
00:26 I want you to know how to discern what that is for you
00:29 And I want you to have the courage to press the gas when he gives a green light
00:33 I'm gonna teach you how in this message. All right one request if it blesses you, that's it
00:37 I want you to share with somebody else. All right, take care. God bless
00:42 Amen
00:43 So we're gonna talk about that, but I want to jump right into the word on today
00:47 I am I've got a message on my heart from Mark chapter 5 verse number 25 and
00:53 We're gonna read a few verses there starting at verse
00:57 Starting at verse 25 in an ending at verse 29 and it says and a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12
01:05 Years, she had suffered a great deal
01:07 Under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had yet instead of getting better
01:13 She grew worse
01:15 when she heard
01:17 About Jesus she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak because she thought
01:25 If I could just touch his clothes, I will be healed
01:29 Here's what I want to happen for all of us in 29 and 24 verse 29 says immediately
01:36 Let me say it one more time
01:42 Immediately
01:47 Her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering
01:53 I want to attach this subject to this scripture in our time together today. You've got the green light
01:59 Clap your hands if you're ready to receive God's Word
02:04 So family recently I was on my way home from a day at the office and I stopped at a red light and
02:15 while I was
02:17 Postured in that position a text message came through
02:22 now
02:23 Typically a strategy typically I use a strategy for my sanity and it is a pathway for optimal productivity
02:31 For me and that is to react and to respond to certain requests in batches
02:37 So I'll return my phone calls in batches
02:41 I return text in batches that protects my sanity and it is the pathway to optimal productivity
02:49 for me
02:51 Sitting in the seat of a spiritual leader. You have to use two sides of your brain
02:56 You've got to use the leadership side, which is strategic and managerial and monotonous
03:03 But then you have to create content each week
03:06 So you've got to use the creative side which requires a spiritual flow state
03:12 If flow state is interrupted even momentarily
03:18 Studies show that it can take close to 20 to 30 minutes
03:22 To re-enter flow state if you're able to re-enter it at all
03:26 If that is the case for flow state naturally, what are the implications of flow state spiritually?
03:35 When you're interrupted when God is giving you downloads
03:39 So I have to respond in batches
03:42 So I typically would have waited until I got home to start responding to the text
03:48 but because of who the text was for I paused for the cause of
03:52 Investigating it and while I was looking down at my phone reading the text
03:57 I'm startled by the frequent honking of the horn behind me
04:03 Now I'm saved
04:06 And I love Jesus and I'm trying to follow him
04:12 Yet at the same time don't be honking at me like that
04:17 He I know I'm not the only one right?
04:21 So here it is. I look back with the who are you honking at look?
04:27 and
04:30 I'm assuming the individual saw the intensity of my facial expression and that person
04:35 Pointed forward and as I look forward I saw the light was green
04:41 And
04:43 So the person was honking in an attempt to get me to go because they didn't want to miss their
04:50 Opportunity to take advantage of a green light
04:53 Am I making sense here and as a communicator as a teacher of the Bible, I'm always looking for
05:05 Opportunities to teach the way Jesus taught and that is to take natural things that people can understand and help them
05:13 Understand spiritual things that they couldn't understand. I'm always looking for opportunities to exegete and
05:19 Experience Shakespeare says there's some sermons in stones when you see a rock you see a rock
05:26 But when a preacher sees a rock they need to see Jesus
05:31 You didn't hear what I just said when a preacher sees a rock they ought to see water
05:35 Cuz just because you can't see the water in a rock doesn't mean water doesn't absorb moisture and just because something looks like it doesn't
05:45 Have it on the outside
05:46 Doesn't mean it don't have it on the inside and some people are missing water because you looking at somebody that look like a rock
05:54 But I need somebody to just speak this over your life. Don't let the looks fool you
06:00 Yeah, there's some people I know there's some stuff on the inside of me that you might need
06:04 so while you are looking over me and walking past me and playing me small and
06:10 Ignoring me you have no idea
06:13 The treasure that is in this earthen vessel just because I don't brag about it don't mean I'm not carrying it
06:20 Just because I don't broadcast it doesn't mean I don't have it just because I'm not telling you I can do it
06:26 Doesn't mean I can't do it. You don't know what I can do
06:30 so
06:32 I'm looking for experiences to exegete
06:35 And I saw some exegetical value from this experience. I saw at this red light a
06:42 revelation that served as an asset for my life and hopefully for yours this red light gave me a revelation of
06:49 the power of divine partnerships
06:54 Did you hear what I just said that that God by his grace has chosen to partner with you and me in
07:01 Co-creating the life he ordains for us
07:05 We are co-laborers
07:08 with him not just in our ministries
07:12 But we are co-laborers with him in the creation of the life
07:18 he has pre-ordained and arranged for us here's here is the way that a
07:25 Theologian and a pastoral theologian named John Wesley put it John Wesley says when it comes to your life in my life
07:32 He says without God man cannot
07:36 But without man God will not
07:45 He says that when it comes to the performance of some promises in our life God requires our
07:50 Participation and your participation is actually an expression of your faith. It's not works. It's faith working
07:57 Did you hear what I just said it is it is it is based on a revelation that there is a part that God has to
08:05 Play and there is a part that I have to play and the course and the quality of my life is predicated on me
08:13 Understanding who's responsible for what?
08:15 So I don't want to step into God's responsibility
08:17 Because when I step into God's responsibility
08:20 I start carrying God weight and when you carry God weight you carry weight
08:26 You weren't created to handle and so now instead of functioning you start this
08:31 Come on instead of functioning we start this
08:37 Functioning because God's like I didn't create you to carry that so now your mind is letting you know
08:43 You're not supposed to be worried about that and your body's letting you know
08:46 You're not supposed to be worried about that and and your heart is letting you know
08:50 You're not supposed to be worried about that. Am I making sense here?
08:53 It's God weight and we carry God weight when we assume
08:57 Or we confuse our ability to influence outcomes
09:02 With God's ability to control them
09:07 I
09:09 Can influence an outcome I can't control an outcome a couple of weeks ago
09:16 I talked to you about an experience I had growing a garden in my backyard growing up the garden taught me something
09:22 You can have the land
09:24 You can till the ground you can plant the seed, but you can't make the sunshine
09:32 Did you hear me you can water the field but you can't make it rain
09:36 You can build scarecrows, but if deers want to get in that garden
09:41 There are external factors beyond your control that determine whether or not your efforts are fruitful
09:50 So I need to get the land till the ground plant the seed put up the scarecrow and go to sleep
10:01 I
10:03 Because I got a partner
10:08 I'm getting ready to run that other people don't have see if they don't have a divine partnership. They got to stay up all night
10:14 But because I have a divine partner, I'm gonna go to sleep because when I'm sleeping my partner working I
10:22 Said when I'm sleeping my partners fixing stuff
10:27 I can't fix my partners arranging things I can't arrange I'm in partnership with God
10:33 And I can't I can't control I mean I should confuse those two roles and here's what the light taught me the light gave me
10:45 some light I
10:46 Say the light gave me some light
10:48 The light gave me some light the light gave me some light about life. Here's what it gave me. It showed me
10:55 God's job
10:57 Is to give the green light
11:00 Green light means you got permission to go
11:08 Okay, let me a green light means you got the legal right to go a
11:14 Green light let me see if y'all if y'all get this one there a green light means it's your turn to go
11:24 See when you add a red light you watching everybody else go and
11:28 You watching everybody else get they turn and you watching everybody else move when you get the green light you say it's my time
11:36 And it's my turn. I don't know who receives this for your life. But as you go into
11:43 2024 may your testimony be all
11:47 2023 I watch you go and I celebrate it when you went
11:53 but in
11:54 2024 I
11:56 Got the green light and I'm getting ready to press the gas for me. It's my turn
12:02 God gives the green light. Are you here? My job is to press the gas
12:16 God given the green light is his way of saying
12:23 I'm responsible
12:25 For carrying out my responsibilities during this season
12:32 It's him saying I've aligned timing strategically
12:40 where if you will intentionally
12:43 put to use your ability and
12:48 Press the gas and do the things you can do what I will do is take
12:55 Responsibility to do the things you can't do
12:59 Plant the seed till the ground because I'm gonna make it rain
13:04 Because my work doesn't work without rain
13:14 And
13:16 Here's the issue many people are spending many years stopped at a green light
13:25 Did you hear because I said it the way I meant to say it
13:33 Many people are spending many years stopped
13:39 at a green light
13:42 Okay, when they're stopped at a green light, here's what they're saying. I'm waiting on God
13:46 But when the lights green
13:52 When you've got divine permission when you've had divine promptings
13:56 When you've received signs and signals that you need to move with intentionality
14:02 God's like the light green you're not waiting on me
14:05 Cuz my job is to turn it green
14:09 My job is not to get in the car with you grab your foot and press the gas
14:14 You got to discern the lights green and then you've got to intentionally use your abilities
14:21 To press the gas many people spend many years stopped at a green light
14:29 Pasadena's why do many people spend many years
14:36 Stopped at a green light. There are few potential reasons
14:39 one reason that many people
14:43 Spend many years stopped at a green light because maybe they're like me
14:46 They're distracted
14:49 from the light
14:51 Because they have prioritized
14:53 someone else's priorities
14:55 See are y'all ready for this
15:05 The person that takes me they weren't bad not a bad person. It's that it's not their job to try to figure out my schedule
15:11 Their job is they need something they need to answer their job is to text me my schedule my responsibility
15:18 But the person that text text because what they text me about was a priority
15:25 And I almost missed my light
15:33 Y'all miss this I almost missed my opportunity to advance
15:38 Because I was prioritizing
15:40 someone else's priorities and the truth of the matter is
15:44 Many people don't progress and advance the way they could advance because they confuse making someone a priority
15:52 with prioritizing their priorities
15:55 Just because I don't prioritize your priorities doesn't mean you're not a priority to me
16:01 It means I got other priorities other than you and I need you to love me enough to understand that
16:06 I love you enough to get to it when I can't
16:08 and
16:10 Don't take my pro. Are y'all hearing what I'm saying? And many people have been prioritizing other people's feelings
16:17 Let me move on you've been prioritizing other people's issues
16:20 You have been imprisoned by their unwillingness to get over whatever
16:25 Issues that cause them to put your actions through a filter of rejection
16:30 I'm not rejecting you I'm prioritizing my priorities
16:34 But I got to give something back to you that belongs to you and that's your issue
16:38 Let me go to this side I
16:44 Said I got to give something back to you that belongs to you and that is your issue
16:50 If you willing to live with it, I got to be willing to live without it
16:56 I
16:58 What have you not moved on
17:05 Because you've been prioritizing
17:08 someone else's priorities
17:11 Because they have confused you prioritizing them
17:15 With you prioritizing their priorities
17:18 Just because I love you don't mean I got to do that
17:24 Just
17:26 Because that is the most important thing in your life for me right now
17:33 Doesn't mean that's the most important thing in my life
17:37 I got to go. Yeah
17:45 Okay
17:47 Maybe other stay at the green light not because they're distracted. Maybe other said the green light longer than they have to
17:54 Because are y'all ready for this?
17:56 They overestimate how long a light stay green
18:01 Now maybe statistically
18:09 red lights and green lights
18:12 stay
18:13 Lit the same amount of time. I don't know but it anecdotally
18:18 Experientially it feel like them green lights
18:22 Are
18:24 A lot shorter than the red lights
18:28 But when you assume
18:31 That the light will stay green
18:33 Longer than it will you won't take advantage and move with urgency
18:40 Don't move with the absence of wisdom don't move rushed, but there's a difference between being rushed and moving with urgency
18:47 And
18:50 many people
18:52 are assuming
18:54 That the lights gonna stay greener is because they have a mindset
18:58 That has been molded with misinformation
19:02 I'm gonna talk about that in a minute. So they're living life according to their beliefs and the beliefs are
19:10 Real, but that doesn't mean they're right
19:12 Did you hear what I just said
19:18 Yep, the like like the Bible talks about this when it talks about procrastination and Ecclesiastes
19:24 It says he who regards the wind will never sow
19:27 It's like does that make sense it's not there's never going to be a perfect time
19:34 Right, so he who is always waiting for the perfect time it's gonna end up procrastinating
19:42 But that's a mind that's been boned molded by misinformation
19:47 Because procrastination is based on the assumption that you'll have another opportunity
19:52 That you're entitled to a green light
19:56 When green light is a gift and
20:01 God determines how long he gives the green light because the green light isn't just for what God wants to do for you
20:09 It's what God wants to do through you and what he wants to do through you is attached to certain time frames
20:17 and
20:19 So because he has to get it done in a certain time frame the assignments bigger than the individual
20:25 So if you won't do it in the time frame, it needs to be done
20:29 Saul if you won't do it
20:32 He's gonna send Samuel to Jesse's house and he's gonna find a David
20:38 I'm I make a sense
20:44 Or maybe maybe people stay at green lights longer than they have to because they're like the woman with
20:48 Excuse me, they're individuals who have what I call an unbalanced theology. They have been taught the danger of getting ahead of God
20:55 But they hadn't been taught the danger of being too far behind him I
21:01 Heard one preacher defined backsliding as this God moved and you didn't
21:07 The
21:12 The pillar of cloud
21:14 The pillar of cloud moved but you did
21:17 Here it is
21:22 There's a lot of conversation about my season and that's true
21:26 Please ask these three to everything there's a season time to every purpose under heaven, but seasons must be seized
21:33 The question isn't did my season come the question is did I seize it when it came
21:44 Now, let me up. I feel this one now. I didn't do this at the other server. Here it is
21:48 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Come on, Holy Ghost. Um
21:51 And I want to right now I want to deal with some disappointment and discouragement
21:55 In the hearts of some of you who are hearing this who mismanaged some previous seasons
22:01 Did you hear what I just said the prodigal son in?
22:06 Luke 15 is an amazing indication of how God in his
22:13 grace and graciousness
22:15 has enough
22:17 To cover you twice
22:20 The enemy
22:26 Wants to use missed opportunities to push us to a place of misery
22:31 where we engage in self-defeating talk and
22:35 self-condemnation
22:37 Where we assassinate our own faith for the future because of the way we didn't wisely steward something in the past and we say
22:45 I messed it up. I missed it. I blew it and you're right
22:49 But what is also right is that we have a God prodigal son that will spin the block
22:56 Who will say now did you learn the lesson did you grow did you develop now? I'm gonna sit it one more time
23:07 And when I send that green light this time, you better press that gas. I
23:11 Want somebody that needs another chance?
23:15 Just say I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready
23:17 When you send it this time, I'm pressing that guy
23:20 Seasons come
23:26 But they must be seized
23:28 And if you want to know what seizing a season looks like
23:33 There's an unnamed sister
23:37 Whose story is told by a man named Mark
23:40 Who's a powerful picture of what it means to seize a season?
23:46 We are introduced to a woman
23:49 Who the Bible says has an issue of bleeding?
23:54 She has an issue of bleeding that she's dealt with for 12 long years
24:04 Years
24:06 12
24:10 long years
24:12 And I'm wondering why especially in the Gospels the gospel writers get really specific about how long someone dealt with something
24:19 man at the pool of Bethesda 38 years
24:23 woman with the bent over back 18 years
24:26 Got men who were blind since birth and here the text says 12
24:33 long
24:35 years
24:36 from
24:38 2012 to
24:40 2024
24:43 She's bleeding
24:45 It was a problem, but it was what I call a pregnant problem and a pregnant problem is when you've got one problem
24:56 That gives birth to many problems
25:01 The text says 12 years she's got a bleeding issue. That's a physical problem
25:06 Right. She goes to doctor after doctor. It didn't get better. It got worse
25:13 Okay, that's got to be an emotional problem because every time she's going to a new doctor she's probably got new hope
25:23 Maybe this one can figure out what's wrong with me
25:30 Maybe this prescription is actually going to work and for 12 years
25:35 I don't have time she had to deal with the disappointment of something. She thought was going to work not working
25:43 Did you hear what I just said
25:49 Here it is. And the text says she spent all she had
25:54 So now she got a financial problem
25:58 So
26:00 She's got a physical problem this calls an emotional problem that's causing a financial problem
26:05 But it also caused relational problems because if she was of the Jewish faith the bleeding made her unclean
26:10 So she had to be relationally quarantined
26:13 So if she had children she had to be separated from if she had a spouse she had to be separated from them
26:18 If not, they would be considered unclean
26:20 Because you know some relationship problems aren't relationship problems there are other problems
26:27 Money problems can cause relationship problem stress problems can cause work problem. Am I making sense?
26:32 Pregnant problems and the enemy wants to use the pregnant problems to make us feel so overwhelmed that we believe addressing the issues
26:40 Are absolutely impossible. She's dealing with a pregnant problem
26:44 Number two, she's dealing with a persistent problem
26:46 12 years see different struggles have different degrees of stubbornness
26:54 And for 12 years she's dealing with this
26:57 It's causing pain to her body. It's a painful problem, but the Bible says I
27:05 Got to go she heard
27:08 About Jesus
27:13 Come get me. Did you hear what I said? She heard about Jesus
27:20 What do you mean well Jesus had been approached by a man named Jarius who had a 12 year old daughter that was sick and
27:26 Jarius said I need you to come to my house so that you can address and to heal my daughter and as Jesus is walking
27:32 To the house a crowd begins to form and follow him and the woman heard that Jesus was in the city
27:38 And because Jesus had an itinerant ministry he didn't stay forever
27:43 He stayed for a few days and then he left and he came back and he was in the city
27:47 But because Jesus had an itinerant ministry, he didn't stay forever in one city
27:52 So she said all right. He in my city
27:56 There's a window
28:01 Did you hear what I just said
28:04 He's in my city. I gotta take advantage
28:07 Of the opportunity while he was here. Y'all not ready for this
28:12 She says she came up behind him in the crowd. Are y'all ready for this? I said, are you ready for this?
28:20 The crowd
28:22 Is following Jesus
28:24 She comes up behind and has to get through the crowd to get to Jesus
28:29 Come here
28:32 I said come here
28:33 But she's supposed to be relationally quarantined
28:40 I'm not going to let religious tradition
28:43 Trap me
28:46 From a miracle this religion can't give me
28:49 And I know people don't normally do this
28:52 But if I got to bump around some people
28:56 to get to Jesus
28:58 And the bible says
29:06 That as Jesus is walking listen to text it says that he stopped
29:12 And said who touched me
29:16 It says he felt power had gone out of him
29:25 The disciple said you see all the people crowding against you yet you ask who touched you everybody touching you
29:36 But Jesus kept looking around
29:38 To see who had done it
29:41 He says because everybody did the same thing, but they didn't do it the same way
29:44 Did you hear what I don't care how many people doing it
29:49 I don't care how did you hear me? I don't care how many people doing it
29:54 When you do it with faith
29:57 You can get a result they can get
29:59 They doing it, but they're using their own ingenuity. They're using their own intellect
30:04 They're using their own strength. You're gonna do the same thing and get a different result because you can copy my function
30:11 But you can't copy my faith
30:13 I
30:15 believe
30:16 God
30:18 I got four minutes. Here it is
30:22 The text says I felt power go out of me
30:30 Let this shake your theological tree
30:34 I felt power go out of me
30:36 I felt power go out of me
30:39 I felt power go out of me
30:42 I felt power go out of me
30:44 I felt power go out of me
30:47 I felt power go out of me
30:50 I felt power go out of me
30:53 I felt power go out of me
30:55 I felt power go out of me
30:58 I felt power go out of me
31:01 You know what I said
31:03 Because when faith meets power
31:06 You get an indiscriminate blessing
31:10 this woman
31:13 Had to come to jesus
31:15 And tell her tell him and watch what jesus said to her. He said verse 34. He says daughter
31:22 Now he only 33
31:24 So it's a relational term
31:31 Because she's been relationally quarantined
31:33 Did you hear what I just said yeah, he uses a relational term because she's been relationally
31:41 Quarantined and he says I know you've been isolated and separated from those that you love
31:47 So i'ma use a term here that lets you know i'm getting ready to resurrect something in you relationally. You're a daughter
31:54 And then watch what he says are y'all ready for this
32:00 I'm, just gonna read the bible now
32:02 Your faith has healed you
32:04 Your your faith did this
32:11 I had the power you still would have been bleeding if it was just dependent on my power
32:28 You would have been bleeding and you didn't even have to bleed anymore
32:31 You would have went into a new year carrying something you didn't even have to carry anymore
32:37 You would have been living with something that you don't have to live with anymore
32:42 Your faith
32:50 How do you see her faith in her willingness to press through a crowd and touch it?
32:53 She pressed the gas. She took the initiative
32:56 to use her ability
32:58 Because she realized you're gonna be with me. You're only gonna be here for a season
33:02 I'm, not assuming you're coming back to this city
33:05 So while the light is green i've got to seize this season
33:10 Notice what jesus says to her in verse 34 your faith has healed you then he says go in peace
33:17 And be free from your suffering now. Give me verse 29. I want them to see this so that they don't
33:22 It says immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body. She was freed from her suffering now
33:27 She's in a public place so she can't check to see
33:30 She's just got to believe what she can't see
33:33 I don't see it yet, but I believe it something's getting ready to stop
33:39 Come on here before you go into 2024
33:43 You may not see it yet
33:46 But you need to believe
33:48 Something's getting ready to stop. I can't verify it yet, but in my soul
33:53 Jesus said watch this
33:57 Go in peace and be free from your suffering. That's what jesus said go back to verse 29. It says she felt in her
34:03 Body that she was free from the suffering now go back to verse 34
34:07 Jesus said unto her be free from your suffering
34:11 So what she felt in her spirit in verse 29
34:16 is confirmed
34:18 by jesus
34:20 in verse 34
34:22 But if she's free from her suffering in verse 29
34:27 What is jesus freeing her from in verse 34? Well, the first part of jesus's statement says go in peace
34:34 Because maybe in verse 29 she's suffering physically
34:40 Y'all aren't talking to me see the king james puts it this way your faith has made you whole
34:55 Because you can be healed physically
34:57 But not whole emotionally
35:00 So he says go in peace
35:03 Because even though it's gone physically fear is going to try to grip you emotionally
35:08 And in your future you're going to be wondering is it coming back?
35:13 Is it going to happen again?
35:15 Here's this I hear this in the holy ghost. How long is it going to last?
35:23 But the words of this of jesus to this woman in mark 5 need to be words you receive in your soul
35:30 And that is go in peace
35:33 in other words
35:35 the emotional fear
35:37 That you are carrying about the possibility
35:40 Of this resurfacing in the future. I'm telling you you don't have to worry about that
35:47 anymore
35:49 Go in peace
35:53 Go in peace
35:55 Is it go go in peace in other words, it's gonna be all right
36:00 Because sometimes when you deal with an issue you deal with the worry regarding whether or not it's going to resurface
36:10 So we say I need you to go in peace
36:18 So she not only got physical healing healing she got emotional emotional consolation
36:24 Because she was willing to seize
36:29 A season
36:35 And just so that you know, this is an isolated incident
36:40 I could take you over to mark chapter 10 and I could show you five chapters later
36:44 Same writer of the book mark peter's disciple his spiritual son. This is really peter's gospel. It's the first gospel
36:50 It's the oldest gospel and this is what it says. It says when I say first not the first
36:55 Chronologically not the first in the bible, but it's the first chronologically. It's the oldest gospel
37:00 Got me. Okay
37:02 Here it is in mark 10. It says then they came to jericho and jesus and his disciples together with a large crowd
37:08 Were leaving the city y'all missed it
37:10 Five chapters later
37:14 Then they came to jericho
37:16 Then it says they were leaving the city
37:20 And a blind man named bartimaeus which means son of timaeus was sitting by the roadside begging y'all missed it
37:26 Text says they were coming into the city. Then he says they left the city
37:31 That quick
37:34 Bartimaeus had enough sense to say I missed him on the way in
37:42 I missed him on the way in
37:44 But i'ma catch him on the way out
37:48 I missed it at the beginning of the year, but i'ma catch it at the end of the year
37:53 I miss it in the past season of my life, but i'm gonna catch it in this season of my life
37:58 It's not ice he seized
38:06 a season
38:08 I'm done. Tyle and here it is family
38:11 Here it is
38:13 I believe many of us want to seize the season
38:18 But in order to seize the season you got to upgrade some areas
38:23 I'm done. Tyle here it is number one
38:27 This year you got to upgrade your information
38:30 Pastor what do you mean?
38:35 In mark 5 and mark 10 both people had to rely on information regarding the whereabouts of jesus
38:40 Bartimaeus was blind. He couldn't even see if it was really him
38:42 So he's relying totally on information
38:47 The bible says mark 5 that the woman with the issue of blood heard about jesus
38:53 So she's relying on information
38:56 They were able to seize their season christian because they got information from credible sources
39:00 And some people are living life not vetting your sources
39:10 Some people think because it's viral it's true
39:12 Some people think because it's logical it's true
39:22 And many people are operating with unreliable sources and therefore they're experimenting with their life
39:29 I need somebody to make this conviction in your heart. My season of experimentation is over
39:38 See there's a cultural colloquialism that says experience is the best teacher
39:42 It probably should be reframed that is sometimes experience is the most effective one
39:46 It's not god's preferred one
39:49 His preferred method of learning is instruction
39:53 He said I want you to believe me enough on the front end to obey
39:56 I don't want to have to teach you fire is hot all the time by you burning your hand
40:01 I need you to trust me as hot so that you never stick your hand in it
40:07 I'm, not saying that there isn't a place for experience, but some of some experiential learning is unnecessary
40:12 You don't have to learn everything the hard way
40:16 Because learning through experience there's there's there's tuition attached to all education
40:23 So to learn through information, you got to pay the tuition of humility
40:27 But when you learn through experience you pay the tuition of time
40:35 And that's a non-renewable asset you don't get that back
40:38 Sometimes it took you five years to learn a lesson
40:41 That you can't get back
40:44 That tuition is too expensive
40:47 This year we must be willing to revisit the reliability of our sources of information
41:02 If it doesn't line up with what god say I don't want it
41:05 It is remember I trust the bible I don't trust people's interpretation of the bible
41:15 But how long you gambling relationally
41:20 How long you gambling financially how long you gambling emotionally
41:26 What information is fueling your decisions
41:32 and
41:34 We got to upgrade our information number two, we got to upgrade our execution
41:39 None of these miracles happen in mark 5 or 10 if they don't execute on the information
41:46 James says don't merely listen to the word
41:51 And so deceive yourselves do what it says
41:54 The red sea was parted because of execution
41:57 Jericho walls fell because of execution naman was healed of leprosy because of execution the miracle in the wedding of canaan and galilee
42:03 Galilee was was happened because of execution
42:06 And so many people don't have an execution issue. You have an execution issue when it comes to godly instruction
42:14 And if you're gonna seize the season
42:27 You got to be willing to execute on a word
42:29 To move on what god says to not attach conditions to your obedience
42:38 Naming almost missed the miracle because he felt like he had to understand it to do it
42:44 Dipping jordan why that one man just dip
42:48 You tired of itch and dip why not other rivers, okay
42:54 I'm not gonna bother this but see
42:56 God uses some methods with some people because he's trying to fix not the thing you want to be fixed
43:02 But to fix the other thing that needs to be fixed
43:04 So it's like naming I could have did this in another river. You just know you got leprosy
43:08 You don't know you got arrogance and you shouldn't have it because you're a leper
43:11 But because you're a captain in the army your leprosy is covered by armor
43:20 So people don't see your leprosy so you act like you don't have it
43:23 So you're arrogant not because you don't know you're a leper you're arrogant because other people don't know what's under your armor
43:32 All right, we out of time here it is
43:42 So he says i'm gonna do this this way because i'm trying to fix some other stuff
43:47 That's gonna destroy you worse than leprosy will
43:49 Lord use the things I can see to fix the things I can't
44:02 Number three y'all ready for this one number three. We've got to upgrade our insulation
44:10 So i've been i've been doing some studying recently and I don't know if y'all heard this but
44:15 Recently and I don't know if y'all heard of this term. I just learned about it this year called emotional contagion
44:20 Have you heard of that?
44:22 Right. Well, anyway emotional contagion
44:25 Uh, it refers to
44:27 The the reality that emotions can spread in a way that are similar to infectious diseases
44:33 Right that I can be emotionally positive optimistic
44:41 Right zealous and then i'm overexposed to people that are negative
44:46 and cynical
44:49 and full of doubt
44:51 and then
44:52 unconsciously
44:53 my emotional disposition changes
44:56 It was an emotional contagion. I picked up some of the emotions
45:01 Of those that were exposed to me first corinthians 15 33 says don't be misled bad company corrupts good character
45:07 Yeah
45:09 So sometimes listen to me sometimes you can't do separation
45:15 Because sometimes you're living with a negative
45:19 Let me go over here y'all
45:23 Was that too real are y'all all right something separate so what is what if it's your mama
45:29 What if it's your spouse
45:36 So
45:38 When there can't be separation you've got to learn insulation
45:41 How can I insulate myself from that which I can't separate myself from because i'm a steward of the condition of my soul
45:50 Beloved I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health even as your soul
45:54 prospers
45:57 I need to select how much exposure
46:04 I
46:06 Subject myself to when it comes to that which isn't healthy for my soul
46:13 It doesn't mean we can't have conversations it just means they might not be long
46:20 And if you're not ready for that you're not ready for a new season
46:33 If you're not ready if if you're not ready to engage in uncomfortable activity like that
46:38 It means your current season is not uncomfortable enough for you
46:41 And you're not being selfish you're being a steward
46:51 Because I got to go your assignment requires a healthy soul
46:55 I can't do this
46:59 without a healthy soul
47:01 I got to believe god
47:03 I gotta believe all things are possible. I gotta believe we can do it
47:07 I gotta believe that i'm from faithful and I teach this bible and I love people right and I serve people
47:16 Well that we'll see a difference
47:18 Your your assignment requires I got to go and last but not least y'all ready for this you got to upgrade your determination
47:27 I'm telling here's what i'm telling you right now
47:31 When ash Wednesday come and we come into lint, here's what most some of us need to give up
47:35 Let your pastor tell you what you need to quit
47:37 You need to quit quitting
47:40 One of people's greatest challenges is assuming that because it's god it's going to be easy
47:58 First corinthians 16 9 says because a great door for effective work has opened to me. There are many who oppose me
48:05 Adversity is in front of most doors
48:11 Great door
48:17 Signifies great opportunities
48:19 And there are three types of doors. There are doors that require keys
48:22 doors that require codes
48:25 And doors that require closeness
48:28 Yeah
48:30 Some doors you just get close enough and they open
48:33 Some doors you need a code
48:38 And they open and some doors you need keys
48:41 No matter what kind of door it is
48:44 The enemy will send adversity
48:46 To try to keep you through the are you determined
48:56 And if you will upgrade
48:58 Your information your execution your insulation and your determination
49:02 You can seize the season
49:05 And stop bleeding
49:08 And this is your year to do just that
49:12 You know, I think I want to leave on this right here
49:15 We're going to sit in this
49:19 We're going to leave thinking not dancing
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50:51 For the past couple of years god's had you in a holding pattern this holding place that was orlando
50:58 And then he says but it is time to launch out into the deep again
51:04 And he says this to me this is your green light season
51:11 I knew then I had to press the gas
51:20 And I said, listen
51:22 We sitting in
51:24 A response to a green light
51:33 You got a green light heaven backing you
51:39 I say heaven's backing you
51:49 And sometimes I walk in this room and I look around I say
51:51 To myself lord, what would I have missed?
51:55 I had no idea this was on the other side of my ears
52:02 Not in my wildest dreams did I ever see anything like this
52:17 It's your green light season.
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