September 14, 2025 • 56 mins
The enemy loves to trap you in the same old lies: “It’s not enough” and “You’re not loved.” But God’s truth breaks the cycle. When you change what you say, you change what you see, and His presence opens a new loop of peace and hope.
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Scripture References:
Lamentations 3, verses 17-24
1 Kings 19, verses 9-19
Revelation 12, verses 7-9, 11
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
gives your perspective to see God is moving.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
In your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
When you give him a hug. Let him know we're
in this together. Let him know God is good. Bring
my screen out, would you? Let him know He's still
on the throne. Let him know I've got a king
named Jesus, and I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right no matter what happens.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
He already showed me that the worst can happen, and
He's still great. Somebody shall God is great, He's still great.
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Shall He's always great?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, if your God is that great, give him a
great shallt uf.
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Grey praise the Lord.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Love you, Stacy, Love you, Timothy. I'm looking around for
people I love.
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Love you, Brad, you do, she said, we love you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I want to tell you something. If we ever got
to know each other, we would be best friends.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I promise you, man, we would be texting each other
all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Silly stuff, stupid stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You feel a sense of love for those that you lead,
even if you don't personally know them. It's a strange
thing to describe. On Monday, I was praying for you now.
I was half hungover from my sermon on Sunday. It's
a holy hangover, and the Lord started showing me stuff.
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It was amazing.
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He gave me a phrase that I want to teach
on for the next six weeks.
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And as different.
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Events were unfurling and whirling about our heads this week,
I was so glad that God spoke to me and
gave me this for us, because it's exactly what.
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We need for right now. I want you to stand
to your feet and remain standing until I've read my scripture.
We welcome our EPAM around the world.
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Although it has been an incredibly difficult week in our nation,
we understand that in parts of the world there are
tragedies that we never mentioned from this pulpit, But we
want you to know that wherever you come from, whatever
you're going through, we are here to bring Jesus into
your situation, and we believe that if Jesus comes into
your situation, anything is possible. The scripture that I want
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to set up this series with is in Lamentations Chapter three,
Did you say, uh, oh, Lamentations is not the party
book of the Bible.
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The name kind of gives it away.
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And I think that the Lord, in the way that
he does, has something hidden in this for us today,
for the questions that we've been asking inside of ourselves,
for the isolation.
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That we've been dealing with and not knowing who to
reach out to.
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And the prophet Jeremiah was writing from a difficult time
in the history of the nation that he lived in
called Israel. In fact, their temple had been destroyed, many
of the people had been carried into exile in a
place called Babylon by a king called Nebekinezer. He had
the difficult task of preaching through his own tears into
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the tragedy of the people. In Lamentations chapter three, we
received a poetic collection of some of his thoughts after
he revised those prayers, and I want to share with
you from verse seventeen, as he writes about his feelings
from this place. Here's what he says, Lamentations three seventeen.
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I have been deprived of peace. I have forgotten what
prosperity is. In one translation, he says, I have rejected peace.
He says, I can't let peace in. I've got so
much anxiety, so much fear. I can't let it in.
I have rejected wholeness and peace.
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And in the ESV.
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He says, I have forgotten what happiness is. I've forgotten
not only how to be happy, but I don't even
really remember what it feels like. Now, after he says
that he gives a little bit of his internal monologue,
he says, so I say my splendor is gone, and
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all that I had hoped from the Lord. I remember
my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the goal,
I well remember them.
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And my soul is downcast within me.
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Yet this I call to mine, and therefore I have hope.
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Because of the Lord's great love. We are not consumed.
For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
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One more verse, I say to myself, the Lord is
my portion.
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God says, somebody needs to change what you say to yourself.
You need to change what you say to yourself. Somebody shout,
the Lord is my portion. Therefore I will wait for
him now. The word God gave me for us over
this season of our church, he said, to talk to
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you about same lies, new loops, Same lies, new loops.
His mercies are new every morning, so are the devil's temptations.
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Same lies, new loops.
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Father helped me give it to them, just like you
gave it to me. Don't water it down, don't weaken
it with my opinion, but preach it like your word.
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Help me do that.
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I give you glory in Jesus' name. Amen, you may
be seated. I have been waiting to worship with you.
I can tell when a sermon really gets a hold
of me because I start just drawing stuff and scribbling
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stuff everywhere. Whenever I start pulling out napkins and restaurants
and as skin, the server, would you please bring me
a napkin and a pen. The napkin they understand, but
the pen they look at you kind of funny. And
I've been writing all over the house, Same lies, new loops.
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Let me draw it for you.
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I even practiced my drawing, so cheer for me when
I do this, because I'm insecure about it.
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Same lies, new loops.
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I've been praying for years and the Lord still hasn't
healed my handwriting. So we're dealing with it.
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Same lives.
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You might say, same lies, new loops, thank you, thank you, appreciate.
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Like an infinity symbol. You know, yeah, same lies. Now.
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Holly is hosting Reflect on Friday, September the nineteenth. It's
going to be an amazing time. Holly is an amazing preacher.
She's an amazing teacher of the Word of God. You
better be here.
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It's going to be amazing.
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She's an amazing wife, even better wife than she is
a teacher of the Word of God. She's so good
at so many things. She's my favorite cook. It's a
great kisser, she's a great affirmer. She's a great mother,
she's a great encourager. All of these things are true.
There is one thing that she is not though. She
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is a horrible liar. Holly is a horrible liar. She
is the worst liar. Therefore, you have to be very
careful what you ask her about, because if I show
Holly one of my songs that I just wrote and
ask her how do you like it? I better really
want to know because she is a terrible lie I mean,
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horrible liar. You know, how do you like it? And
you know should do this thing? She'll go, what is it?
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Finished thought it was maybe not.
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She's just supposed to say, yeah, maybe that. I think
that could be the next gyro. I think that could
be the next grade. Just just lie to me long
enough to give me the confidence to put it out.
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There in the world.
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No, she's a horrible liar, even when she tries to
be polite, she's a horrible liar. You know, should I
wear this? Does this look good? And you can always
see it in her eyebrows. You can always see the
lie in her eyebrows because she's gonna look at you
so so distinctively before she tells you yeah, it looks
great that you're not gonna believe it because she's a
horrible liar. There's a game that our kids showed us
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called out of the Loop, and I think that's what
it's called Out of the Loop. And the way the
game works, you have to be a good liar to
win it, and you pass the phone around the table, right,
and everybody gets a category like animal, and then within
the category there is a.
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Certain animal we say, like hippopotamus.
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And then one person doesn't get to see what the
animal is, but they have to pretend like they know
what it is. And then you go around the circle
and ask questions and say this is it that could
you have this animal as a pet? And then the
person who doesn't know what the animal is they have
to pretend like they do so nobody will know that
they were out of the loop and didn't know it's
a hippopotamus. And so when we play this game with Holly,
it's the moment that we ask her can we have
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it as a pet?
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And she'll go, well, and everybody will go it's mom.
Mom's out of the loop.
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She's such a bad liar. And I'm glad she's a
bad liar. I'm glad for that. I don't want her
to get any better at lying. But there's a problem.
When you're not that good at inventing lies, sometimes you're
not that good at identifying lies either, and so sometimes
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it's hard for you, if you have a hard time
telling a lie, to tell when someone is lying to you.
And the problem with this is that I think she
needs to become a better liar. I don't want anybody
in this room to become a better liar. That'd be
a horrible thing to want for your church. But I
do want you to become better at identifying the lies
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that the enemy has been telling you all your life
that have kept you lost in a loop of his lies.
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The truth of the matter.
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Is, ladies and gentlemen, that God is the creator. He
summoned light, said let it be, and light was. If
he called light darkness, it would change and turn out.
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God cannot lie.
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If God said that blue shirt was read, you would
watch a transformation and it would be washed in the
blood real quick. God cannot tell a lie. It is
impossible for him to lie. He is not a man
that he should lie, nor the son of men that
he should repent. As impossible as it is for God
to lie, it is impossible for the devil to tell
the truth. Because Jesus said in John chapter eight that
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when he speaks, he speaks his native language. He's a
liar from the beginning. He's been lying a long time.
He was lying before you got here. He was lying
over your life when you.
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Were just a little baby.
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He has been planting lies in your mind before you
had a conscious thought. He has been lying to you
a long time, and it is difficult for you to
identify those lies, because rather than tell a whole bunch
of different lies, I have noticed that the enemy just
hammers the same lies over and over again. Why because
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the enemy is not creative God is. He has no
light to create, no stars to breathe forth, no sun
to put in its place, no waters to cost to
recede and bring forth fish in the sea.
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And he is not.
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Creative by nature. He is created and fallen. He is fallen.
He's fallen. And because he's not created, he cannot be creative.
And so since he can't make anything, he has to
make something up. But since he's not creative, he has
to be consistent.
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The devil is not very creative.
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If you look at your life, he says the same
things to you over and over again.
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He's not creative, but he's consistent.
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He'll tell you the same thing over and over again
until you can't tell the difference between his voice and
your thoughts. And that's what makes it so diabolical. The
lies come in disguise. If he said it with.
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A big, big voice up here, like.
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Holly, Oh, your song is great, I would know he
was lying because his voice changed. But did you ever
notice that the devil's voice doesn't change when he starts lying?
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In your mind?
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It sounds just like your own thoughts. And because you
are an honest person, you have a very difficult time
identifying the.
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Lies that he tells you.
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But if you can ever find the lie that he
is telling you, you can flow in the truth that
God has given you. And if you can ever find
the lie he's telling you, you can begin to fill
yourself with what God has spoken and receive the peace
that is your birthright and inheritance as a child of God.
And you can get your happy back, and you can
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get your home back, and you can get your heart back,
because the devil has hijacked your mind your heart with
lies long enough. And the reason that I know that
it's him is he is not created. He only has
two lies that he tells over and over again. And
the prophet Jeremiah is believing both of those lies and
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lamentations chapter three, and he's going to a very deep
dark place. See, there are really only two things the
devil ever tells you, And you might want to write
this down. So the next time he slithers up to you,
that ancient snake. The next time he slithers up to you,
he's under your feet. The next time he starts speaking
to you. The next time he starts suggesting to you,
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the next time he starts tempting you, the next time
he starts to make you move your feet off the
solid rock of Jesus Christ and the Word.
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Of God, you can find the lie. There are really
only two.
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One is it's not enough, and the second is you're
not loved.
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Every lie you've.
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Ever believed from the enemy, and every pit of self
pity you've ever dug for yourself, and every relationship you've
ever reached to that wasn't good for you but it
felt good to you was because of one of these
two lies that the enemy told you so consistently and
so convincingly. He told you it's not enough and you're
not loved.
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Am I right about it? Now? I prayed on my
knees this week. I said, I'm not going to get
up in front of my church and tell them there's
only two lies and just say a bunch of stuff.
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You got to show me, Lord, what are the two
things or three things or four things? He said, there's
really only two. There's really only two things. From the
time that your mind is conscious in choosing, the enemy
is whispering to.
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You it's not enough, and you're not loved.
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So I began to search the Bible to see if
that was correct, because I don't trust my impressions.
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The devil is a liar.
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And I went all the way back to the Book
of Genesis and all the way forward to the Book
of Revelation, and I found out that the snake only
says one thing.
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Did God really say? Did God really.
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Say that's why he's a snake? He's shaped like that
question mark? Did God really say to get you to
question what God clearly said, to get you to step
outside of how God identified you. He's a liar. And
so they tell you it's not enough. They tell you
that it's not enough for you to just believe in Jesus.
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You got to have a whole bunch of other beliefs.
You got to have a whole bunch of other dependencies.
It's not enough just to call on the name of
Jesus and be saved. You got to work your way
to God. Try to get you so trampled down with shame.
And the devil is so so good at lying. He's
nothing like Holly. Let me say that for the record,
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the devil is nothing like my wife. He's so good
at lying that he'll do it like this. When you're
tempted to sin, he'll say it's no big deal. He'll
get you to believe that the power of God to
resist temptation is not enough. Then, when you sin and
you need to come to God and confess your sin
so he can cleanse you from you and purify you
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from all unrighteousness.
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He'll try to tell you it's not enough.
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He'll try to get you to think that the blood
of Jesus is not enough, that the grace of God
is not enough.
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So, before you.
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Sin, he'll try to get you to think that the
power of God inside of you is not enough to
keep you from sin. After you sin, he'll try to
get you to think that the price that Jesus paid
for your sin is not enough to take that sin
off of you, to teach you to roll your shame away,
to bring you into a new beginning, to.
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Give you new mercies. With every sunrise, and every.
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Day the sun comes up, you're waking up in not enough,
because the devil is very effective through repetition.
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It's not enough. Think about everything you have to do today.
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You start thinking this before the covers come off in
the morning I know you do. It's not enough time
to get it all done. It's not enough money to
pay every bill, it's not enough sleep that I got
last night.
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It's not enough.
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People that I want to see it to make me
want to throw these covers off and get out of
these comfortable pajamas with the footies on them, and put
my uncomfortable shoes on and stand up for eight hours
all day because when I get home after eight hours
at work, there's not going to be enough of me
to go around for all these people.
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And since it's not enough, I'm not loved.
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Because if I don't show up enough, then everybody in
my life feels like a demand and nothing feels like
a supply. So now the enemy has got me in
an infinite loop of scarcity.
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Because it's not enough, and you are not loved.
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And now he's got you thinking that you are what
you do, and so if what you do isn't enough,
then you are not enough. Never mind that Christ is enough,
never mind that he wouldn't have created you, planned you,
brought you into this moment in your life, spoken you
into the earth at this time, put you in that family, yes,
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that family, the weird family, the dysfunctional family. Every family
is dysfunctional. Stop lying to yourself saying it. If my
family wasn't dysfunctional, I wouldn't be If your family wasn't dysfunctional,
you would be an angel. That's the only non dysfunctional
family that God ever made. They're called angels. They live
in heaven. We live on earth. It's called hell. Get
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used to it. Bring Heaven to earth and get on
with it. The family of God is dysfunctional, but we
are here.
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Do not be deceived.
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So I was scribbling this down on the napkin, and
I was thinking, same lies, new loops.
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And what I want you to do.
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Is pull back up Jeremiah the prophet in Lamentations chapter three,
And I want you to go all the way from
verse eighteen.
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To verse twenty one. And this is what we're working
on in our lesson today.
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Somebody say, same lies, new loops. Now, if a person
lied to you as much as the devil does, how
many times would you keep letting them in front door?
If every time they came through they stole something, If
every time they came through they tracked mud all over
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your beige carpet, how many times would it take, and
yet we go through the same lies over and over again.
Don't feel bad about it, Jeremiah did. And I am
looking for lamentations.
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On the screen. There we go. Oh, I was stollen.
I was stollen bad just now. But look at this
in verse eighteen. I want you to circle this, he said.
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So I say, my splendor is gone, or my glory
is gone, or it feels like God is gone, or
it feels like my imagination is gone, or my happy
is on hiatus and I can't find it.
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I forgot what it is to be happy, he said.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So I say my splendor is gone and all that
I had hoped from the Lord. Now I want you
to circle those three words I had hoped. I had
hoped put it in the comments. Please, if you're watching online,
I had hoped. I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall I well remember them. And
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my soul is downcast within me. And this is the
verse we felt so excited about when we read it,
because it gives us a new loop.
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I'll explain in a moment.
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Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope,
and I want you to circle those three words. Now,
I have hope, And the question is, Jonathan, how do
we get from here where hope is in the past tense?
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I had hoped to hear where I got it back?
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I am preaching better than your saying, Amen, that's the truth?
How do I get from I had hoped.
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To I have?
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It's not as easy of a journey as.
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You may think, because by the time you've been going
around the same lies over and over again in your mind,
and you've been looping. I've been teaching a lot on
looping in church, and it's the number one thing that
I've been having people send me text about. They said,
it was so helpful. How you explained to us that
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sometimes we don't get in the loop of the Word
of God, and because we don't continually meditate on it,
we just consume it, and then we go out into
the world and we get consumed.
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We get consumed and we get in a different loop.
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Now, the problem with the things that Jeremiah was saying
in Lamentations chapter three is that none of them were
outright lies. On the surface, they all sounded true. The
temple had been destroyed, that was true. Many of his
friends family had been taken away. That was true, it
would never be the same again.
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That was true. And there may be some things.
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That are true of you today, but just because they're
true of you does not mean that you have to
be trapped in them for the rest of your life.
This is where it's difficult, man, because the devil would
talk to you so good.
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He's such a good liar.
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He'd be talking about hippopotamus and trying to describe a hippopotamus,
you know, and he's not like Holly.
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He's a good liar. So he'll start talking to you
and he'll say, you know what, you have been afflicted.
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You are lost. There have been a lot of people
who have left your life. There is a lot of
evil in the world. You ought to be scared to
go out in public. Everybody is crazy. Everybody is against
each other. Everybody is fighting against one another.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And part of that is true. But you have got
to be very.
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Careful what you say to yourself as you go through
what we all go through. Because when he said I
am afflicted, when he said my splendor is when he
said verse nineteen, please on the lower thirds, I remember
my affliction and my wandering, and the bitterness and the
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gall We begin to understand that you cannot be full
of bitterness if you expect to be filled with peace.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Let me teach you for a moment.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
If I am filled with bitterness, I am going to
be empty of peace. Verse seventeen. He says, I have
been deprived of peace. But it's not exactly that somebody
took your piece away. Sometimes it's that you rejected it.
Sometimes you reject the peace that God wants to give
you about the situation because you believe the lie that
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the devil told you about the situation. And God really
wants to give you a peace, but you push the
peace away how by going around the same loop, the
same loop. Many times. For me, I find myself replaying offenses,
replaying movies in my mind that I didn't even like
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the first time I saw him. Why would you buy
a ticket back to the movie when you hate it
the first time.
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But Jeremiah is in a desperate place.
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Understand Not a flat tire, not a failed class, not
a drop college offer, not a little ache in his
pinky toe. He has lost everything I had hope, I
don't have hope. And he goes around and around, and
I'm going to tell you what he's doing in this situation.
I've done it before myself.
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He is.
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Circling his hurt. How you been circling your hurt? How
you been going around and around it and around it
and around it. Now, God left this book in the
Bible for a reason. I'm glad that God didn't edit
it out, because then I would feel like that being
an overcomer in Christ means that I feel no pain.
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I would think that being afraid was a lack of
faith if he didn't leave it all in.
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He said, I've been afflicted.
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I've wandered, I've tasted bitterness and gaud I am so
filled with it that I even began to wonder, not
only am I not enough?
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But is God enough?
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The devil won't tell you God isn't enough. You know
too many Bible verses for him to do that. He'll
start to tell him that He's not enough.
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For you.
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And your situation, and how it's different with you, and
you start circling how bad. It hurts, and it hurts,
and it hurts, and it did hurt. It hurt for
Jeremiah to lose everyone he loved. It hurt for them
to walk out on you. It hurt for them to
say that about you. It hurt for them to criticize you.
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It hurt in your body when you were diagnosed with
the illness and then you found out.
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It was worse than you thought. It hurt, and it hurt,
and it hurt.
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And if I were the devil, I would keep you
circling your hurt, because as long as you remember it
more than you recognize God in it, he can keep
you going around and around and around and around and
around and around and never get to verse twenty one. Now,
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what happens in verse twenty one of Lamentations.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Chapter three is very powerful. I wrote down in my notes.
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When you say this point, walk down and make sure
they're paying attention.
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That's what I'll do right now.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You would expect that with Jeremiah, who is a prophet
for God.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
What is Jeremiah not a bullfrog?
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He is a.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
For the old timers. I know you don't know about it.
You don't need to know about it.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
It's the same stuff as the same stuff as you
works every time. He's a prophet for God, which means
he speaks for God to people. So you will think
at this moment and you are understandably wrong that God
is going to speak to him because he speaks for God.
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But what blew my mind?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And I don't mean mind blow emoji, I mean cold
chills up and down my body while I was praying
about some of the hurts that I keep circling in
my life, some of the abandonment that I keep reliving
in my heart, some of the trauma, if I can
use an overused word, that enters my body during high
stress times. And I don't know what to do because
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I am expecting for God to.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Speak to Jeremiah. But in Lamentations three, God doesn't speak
Jeremiah does. That changed my life because I'm expecting him
to say, my hope is gone. God is gone. And
I'm expecting God to stand up and say, no, I'm
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not Jeremiah.
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I am here, and I am here.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
But God don't say a word Jeremiah does.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And when Jeremiah speaks, God comes. God is waiting for
you to change what you say, and you are going
to see what he spoke. When you change what you
say Shot three people tell him change what you say,
and if you change what you say, you'll change what
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you see and God will walk in the room, and
God will show up in the hospital, and God will
show up in a broken heart, and God will show
up at your job, and God will show up in
your emptiness, and God will show up in your loneliness,
and God will show up in your doubts. And Jesus
will come into your storm, and Jesus will step into
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your folk, and Jesus will make a.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Wind in a way.
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Die now when you see.
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Come on, call him right now.
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Somebody say, Jesus, I need to right now, not five
years from now. I don't have five years for therapy.
I need to right now.
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I need to right now, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So please believe me when I say that. I know
it hurts, but you have to make a decision, don't you.
Am I gonna keep circling my hurt or am I
going to summon my help?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Oh God?
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Because when you call Jesus, help is on the way.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Because when you say come Lord, because when you say
I'm MP and I need to be filled, Jesus shows up.
Yes I have hurt. That's an old story. Yes I
have hurt.
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It's human.
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Yes, some people suck, they're human, but some don't. And
God said to remind you that The longer you circle
your hurt, the less you can summon your help.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Let me draw you this.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I just pictured somebody in here today and I was like,
you've been circling hurt, circling hurt, circling hurt, cir circling hurt.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
But the moment.
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Who I've been drawing on that because I'm trying to
fight that devil.
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Get them beat you down.
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And let it know.
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Holt that to the hells?
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Where down my hell?
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Holler?
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Hell?
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Now how sid through hell?
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But I got how that hurts a long time.
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But I gotta down.
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You see that, Jeremiah, tell seven people, I got help,
Tell them the world's a real crazy but I got
hell tell him.
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The darkness does his best to try to keep us down,
but we have help. Our God is a very present
health in the time of trouble. The devil is a
very present devil in the time of trouble.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
But for every lie the devil speaks, there is a
new loop of the truth of the Word of God
that is flowing to his people.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And this rock is.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Jesus, He's the word. This rock is Jesus. And the
wind came and the storms.
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Blew from my house did not fall because it was hell.
I have Hell.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I'm not enough, but I have help. They don't love me,
but he does not but I have help. They don't
love me, but he does. Same lives say all you want, Devil,
keep on talking, Devil, wear your voice out, Devil, get
Laryngiti's Devil stuck to me in the night. Devil, tell
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me you're gonna kill me. Devil, tell me not to
preach this devil And I.
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Just opened my mouth and help ten.
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People on the left side of the turf. Who am
I preaching to? Who am I help? Is?
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Go?
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Lord send me to remind.
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You you he Hell, there's more with us then with them.
Speaker 10 (34:43):
There's more with us.
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Then with them.
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There's more with us then with them.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
There's more with us then with them. There's more with
us then with them.
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There's more with us then with them.
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I got angels all around me.
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I got family all around me, I got Jesus all
around me, I got help, I got hell.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's what the prophets said.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Eliza said, there's more with us then with them.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Same lives. The Devil's got you surrounded again. But whatever
is surrounding you, God made a loop surrounding it, same lies.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
H How did the prophet Elijah end up hiding.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
In a cave from a woman named Jezebel.
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He forgot he had help, and he sat down on
a broom tree and said, cant me God.
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And God wouldn't kill him. God wouldn't kill him because
he had a new loop for him. God wouldn't even
let you die. God wouldn't even let you abandon the faith.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
God wouldn't even let you not come to church today.
You had a bad attitude when you walked in, and
God dragged your bad attitude in with your worship in mouth.
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And now you found out I have hell. But you
don't know that when you're in the valley.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Bring me that Bible. In One Kings, chapter nineteen, I
already sat down. I don't feel like getting back up
to get mine. And this was mine before I gave
it to you. Somebody helped me. Come on, help me
preach all. I'm not up here by myself. I'm not
in this by myself. And the Bible said that Elijah
in forty days forty nights into the cave.
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And I want to show.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
You the loop that he was in because it might
be very meaningful to you. The Lord came to him,
and the Lord shows off man. When God comes, he
comes and does all kinds of stuff. See the mountain
that he's at is Mount Sinai. You remember when God gave.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
The Moses the law to Moses at Mount Sinai, and.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The earthquake came and like the fire of God and
the glory of God. So when Elijah goes to hide
in the cave because he called down the fire from heaven.
But sometimes the thing that makes you powerful on the
mountain can make you crazy in the cave. And he
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begins to say this thing to himself over and over
and over again. I mean it's written two times in
One Kings nineteen. The Bible says that the word of
the Lord came to him when he was in his cave,
and they said, what are you doing.
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Here, Elijah? And he replied, I gotta get up now,
I gotta draw it.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I really want you to get this. I really want
this to help you. I don't want you just to
hear me. I want to help you. I know that
the devil has been lying to you. I know he's
been telling you that there is something incurably wrong with you.
I know he's been telling you that it's your fault
from what happened five years ago, that you can't apologize
for again.
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But you can only move forward. I know what he's saying.
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But here is Elijah in the cave, and the Lord
ask him, what are you doing here?
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You're not happy either, he said.
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I am the only.
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One lie Sean First Kings nineteen, verse number seventeen.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I think that's the right one. Verse eighteen. God say, yet,
I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose needs have
not bowed to bail. Elijah said, I'm the only one
not serving the false God. I'm the only boy.
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He's got that song on a loop too. I'm the
only one. I'm the only one. Say long enough it'll
feel true. Treat people that way, long enough, it'll become true.
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Now it's not just a lie, it's a loop, and
it's your life. And you say, I had hoped, but
I lost it in the loop.
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Read the story Saints, First King, Chapter nineteen, verse ten.
The Lord said, what are you doing here? Elijah? What
are you doing here? He replied, I've been very zealous
for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant.
True they did. They did because humans hurt you. They
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torn down your altars. True, they did that. They put
your prophets to death with the sword. That's true, they
did that.
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And I am the only one left lie.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
But the devil had convinced him so much with stuff
that was true that once he got him in the loop,
it was easy to convince him of what wasn't true.
And now Elijah is giving this speech to God. How
are you going to start telling God how God's people
abandon God? How do you think it hurt you more
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than it hurt God. But He's been circling this hurt
for a long time. And when you circle your hurt
long enough, you don't summon your help. You forget how
to reach out to who you do have. You forget
to pray, how you know how to pray. You forget
to be grateful. Don't you You.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Stop saying those gratitude things in the morning. You stop
saying them.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Because he got up on not enough and not loved,
and that got on the loop.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Now watch what the Lord does. He is so kind.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Elijah says, now they are trying to kill me too.
And the Lord said, go out and stand on the
mountain in the presence of.
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The Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Then a great and powerful wind toward the mountains apart
and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord
wasn't in the wind, and the wind came, and then
after the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord
was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake came
a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
The Lord came in all of those ways in Moses's time,
but he's coming.
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A different way to Elijah.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Can you let God come to you a different way
and not think that he left you. I feel this
thing going deep. If y'all have a lunch appointment, please
feel free to leave. But I'm gonna finish this message
for the hundred people that need to hear it today
who had been on the loop.
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And after the fire came a gentle whisper. I've done
a whole.
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Messages where I whispered for ten minutes to talk to
you about how when the enemy.
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Is lying to you, he's loud because he can't get
to you.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
When God tells the truth to you.
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He whispers because he's close.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
That's why the devil's so much louder.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
That's why you have to draw near to God to
hear him. And the Bible says, when Elijah heard that
whisper Verse thirteen.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Boy, this font is so small.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
I can't believe I used to preach from this Bible.
When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his
face and went out and stood at the mouth of
the cave. And that a crazy phrase. The mouth of
the cave. The cave has been talking, just bouncing around.
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You're the only one the mouth. You ever heard, the
mouth of the cave.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
But then comes the voice of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
I cannot draw God, but I'm making bigger than Elijah.
I'm making happy. I'm gonna give him a crown. That's
the best I can do. Lord, But that represents you.
And God says, watch this, God says, watch.
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This new loop, I say, I say, And.
Speaker 7 (43:39):
The Lord, God of Elijah, brought you here today to
open a new loop over your life, a new way
of thinking, a new way of being, a new way
of handling adversity, a new.
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Way of processing pain.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
It's as small as a whisper, but it can change
your world.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
It can bring you out of the cycle of thinking.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
That put you in this place all alone, that made
you feel shut off and cut off, and forgot your
health and circling your hurt. Jeremiah said it two hundred
and fifty years after Elijah learned it.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
He ministered in a different place. But it's the.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Same lesson this I called to my mind. Therefore I
have hope. It is because of the Lord's new loop.
It is because of the Lord's voice. It is because
of the Lord's love. It is because his compassions are infinite.
It's a new loop. It's a loop of his love
that never stops. It means he's got me in his hand,
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even when I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
In my mind.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
It means he's got me in his plan, even when
I can't prove.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
It with my math.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
It means he's got me in his sovereign will, even
when I rebelled and got off course.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
And the Bible says he asked him a second time, what.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Are you doing here, Elijah? And Elijah replied verse fourteen,
I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty.
The Israelites have rejected your covenant and torn down your
altars and put your prophets to death with the sword.
I'm the only one left. He's still in the loop. Ah,
but give me verse fifteen, where the Lord said to
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him new loop. The Lord said to him, new loop,
go back the way you came. And when you get
to the desert, I've got somebody in Damascus for you
to anoint. His name is Hazel, and he will take
care of the international affairs verse sixteen. After you get
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done annoying Hazel, go anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, king
over Israel.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
He will handle the national affairs. And then, when you.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Get done annoying those two government leaders, annoying Elisha, son
of Sheifat from Abel Mahola to succeed you as prophet,
Jayhu will put to death any who escaped the sword
of hay y'all, and Elishah will put to deathty who.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Escaped the sword of Jayhu.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel, all whose.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Knees have not bowed down to bail and whose mouths
have not kissed him. And verse nineteen is the happiest.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Verse I read you all day, because it says, so Elijah.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Went from there new loop, new loop.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Not I've been very zealous in the Lord abandon me
and they It isn't about what they did. It's about
what he said. It's not about what they didn't do.
It's about what he still can do. It is not
about circling your heart. It is about summoning your help.
Speaker 13 (46:43):
And if you go all the way to the Book
of Revelation, not revelations, and it's not Walmarts either.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
It's just one mark that is wall and it's one
revelation from.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
John on the Island of Patmos, many revelations. I was
reading how it ended, and I realized something very powerful.
In verse seven, he said that a great war broke
out in heaven and Michael and his angels fought against
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the dragon.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
See, we say crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
When weird stuff happens in the world, and horrible things
happened in the world, and we're like, it's never been
like this before.
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Is in the first book and the last book of
the Bible, all of it.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
He said, there was a war that broke out in heaven,
and the angels started fighting for God against the dragon,
and the dragon and his angels fought back, but he.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Was not strong enough and they lost their place in heaven.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
Well, if y'all shouted over that verse you really like nine,
and the great dragon was hurled down.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Let me remind you who that.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Dragon is that's fighting against you today, That ancient serpent.
He's been lying a long time, and he's real good
at his job. But God has been creating longer than
he's been lying. And God is better at his job
than the enemy is at his. So I came to
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remind you today the dragon was cast down. So the
next time your soul gets down cast, call to your.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Mind the victoria that Jesus already won for me.
Speaker 19 (48:42):
And verse eleven says, and verse eleven says, and verse
eleven says they triumphed over him.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
Find the blood of the lamb and the word.
Speaker 10 (48:57):
Ah, there, Simony, if you gotta tempt Simony, stand up, stray,
Let the devil know. Great is his faithfulness, Great is.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
His faithfulness.
Speaker 20 (49:20):
And morning by morning, I've got new mercies, new loose
sing God, new loose same lies.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
New loops.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
We watched the movie A Beautiful Mind, and the man
in the movie always heard voices.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
He always heard voices. He always heard voices.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
And he was explaining to somebody after he had recovered
and gotten treatment He was played by Russell Crowe, the
Great John Nash. He was playing this man who suffered
from a terrible condition and he heard voices, and they
asked him at the end of the movie, did the
voices go away? And he said no, but you just
learn not to listen to them. So we will journey
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together over these next weeks, not only for your sanity,
but for your sanctification, so you can be set back
apart from God, for God, from the enemy.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
We will labor together.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
We will find out how to get from Lamentations three eighteen,
where the prophet said, man, I just I just kept
going over and over in my mind everything that I've lost.
And while I was going over everything I lost, I
was in a loop. And then in verse twenty one,
he says, yet I call this to my mind. Oh
I didn't even get to preach that to you.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Good.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
You come back next week, right, You come back next week?
Speaker 11 (50:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (50:51):
I really need you to tune back in next week,
because this word is going to be a reversal for
some of you, a reversal. This season is going to
be a season of reversal to where everything that the
enemy has been speaking over you is going to give
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way to what God says about you. I have so
many napkins around my house with these little loops. Don't
make me waste one. Don't make me waste one the
week that I might give the napkin that you need.
Don't be sleeping because there are some things that God
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wants to show you that are really true. But today
I feel like there's somebody that the Lord brought here
who has never begun this journey of following Jesus. You
never even took the first step to follow him, and
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maybe you thought that you weren't enough and he wouldn't
love you, and maybe you thought.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
That you didn't need him.
Speaker 3 (52:01):
But you have found in the season of your life
that you do need his grace and his strength. So
right now we have a very special tradition at our
church where we all bow our heads and close our
eyes together. This is for you online too, and at
every location. The Bible says that it is by grace
you are saved through faith. This is the gift of God,
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not of work, so that no one can boast. The
grace of God is enough to save you. All you
have to do is place your faith in him. The
Bible says that if you will confess with your mouth
that Jesus is Lord, and live in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
He'll come get you right now. He's already running your way,
got his arms wide open.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Just come to it. Just come to it with your
head bowed and your eyes closed.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
Our entire church family is going to pray out loud
for the benefit of those who are coming to God,
or maybe you're coming back to God. This is going
to be a new day, a new beginning for you
right now. If you want to give your life to
Jesus today, you don't have to wait another day.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
You could do it right now.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Repeat this prayer out loud after me, everybody praying together,
Heavenly Father, Today is my day of salvation.
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I am a sinner in need of a savior. And
I believe that.
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Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the savior
of the world. And today I make Jesus the Lord
of my life. I believe he died for my sin
and rose again to give me life. I receive this
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new life. This is my new beginning. I am a
child of God. If you prayed that, shoot your hand
up on the count of three, one coup three. I
want to celebrate you all over the room, all over
the church.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
God bless you.
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We got a bible.
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Come in your way.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
This was all worth it if it was just for you.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Come on, Welcome home, Welcome home, Welcome home, Welcome to
your full circle moment, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
I like it, l Jay, Let's sing it a few guys.
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Jesus.
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See the name, say it, Jesus, the name.
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Jesus.
Speaker 21 (54:33):
Say Jesus, Jesus, Jess.
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Every location, say Jesus.
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Leaving day, Jesus, Jesus, Jess.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Grab the hand of the person on either side.
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Of you, link up with somebody, get across the aisles
and look them right in the.
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Eyes and say, I know it's hard, I know it hurts.
I know it's heavy. But you have help. Squeeze their
hand real hard so they'll know.
Speaker 3 (55:25):
How strong their help is. Come on, squeeze it till
the circulation cuts off. Let them know how strong their
help is. Squeeze it till they realize.
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That God won't let you go, that God won't let
you down, that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above.
Speaker 10 (55:47):
All you ass thank Parmass it.
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It's Jesus' name.
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I miss you.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
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I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
When you give him a hug. Let him know we're
in this together. Let him know God is good. Bring
my screen out, would you? Let him know He's still
on the throne. Let him know I've got a king
named Jesus, and I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
All right no matter what happens.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
He already showed me that the worst can happen, and
He's still great. Somebody shall God is great, He's still great.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Shall He's always great?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, if your God is that great, give him a
great shallt uf.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Grey praise the Lord.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Love you, Stacy, Love you, Timothy. I'm looking around for
people I love.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Love you, Brad, you do, she said, we love you.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I want to tell you something. If we ever got
to know each other, we would be best friends.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I promise you, man, we would be texting each other
all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Silly stuff, stupid stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You feel a sense of love for those that you lead,
even if you don't personally know them. It's a strange
thing to describe. On Monday, I was praying for you now.
I was half hungover from my sermon on Sunday. It's
a holy hangover, and the Lord started showing me stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
He gave me a phrase that I want to teach
on for the next six weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And as different.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Events were unfurling and whirling about our heads this week,
I was so glad that God spoke to me and
gave me this for us, because it's exactly what.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We need for right now. I want you to stand
to your feet and remain standing until I've read my scripture.
We welcome our EPAM around the world.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Although it has been an incredibly difficult week in our nation,
we understand that in parts of the world there are
tragedies that we never mentioned from this pulpit, But we
want you to know that wherever you come from, whatever
you're going through, we are here to bring Jesus into
your situation, and we believe that if Jesus comes into
your situation, anything is possible. The scripture that I want
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to set up this series with is in Lamentations Chapter three,
Did you say, uh, oh, Lamentations is not the party
book of the Bible.
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The name kind of gives it away.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And I think that the Lord, in the way that
he does, has something hidden in this for us today,
for the questions that we've been asking inside of ourselves,
for the isolation.
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That we've been dealing with and not knowing who to
reach out to.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And the prophet Jeremiah was writing from a difficult time
in the history of the nation that he lived in
called Israel. In fact, their temple had been destroyed, many
of the people had been carried into exile in a
place called Babylon by a king called Nebekinezer. He had
the difficult task of preaching through his own tears into
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the tragedy of the people. In Lamentations chapter three, we
received a poetic collection of some of his thoughts after
he revised those prayers, and I want to share with
you from verse seventeen, as he writes about his feelings
from this place. Here's what he says, Lamentations three seventeen.
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I have been deprived of peace. I have forgotten what
prosperity is. In one translation, he says, I have rejected peace.
He says, I can't let peace in. I've got so
much anxiety, so much fear. I can't let it in.
I have rejected wholeness and peace.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And in the ESV.
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He says, I have forgotten what happiness is. I've forgotten
not only how to be happy, but I don't even
really remember what it feels like. Now, after he says
that he gives a little bit of his internal monologue,
he says, so I say my splendor is gone, and
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all that I had hoped from the Lord. I remember
my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the goal,
I well remember them.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And my soul is downcast within me.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yet this I call to mine, and therefore I have hope.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Because of the Lord's great love. We are not consumed.
For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
One more verse, I say to myself, the Lord is
my portion.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
God says, somebody needs to change what you say to yourself.
You need to change what you say to yourself. Somebody shout,
the Lord is my portion. Therefore I will wait for
him now. The word God gave me for us over
this season of our church, he said, to talk to
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you about same lies, new loops, Same lies, new loops.
His mercies are new every morning, so are the devil's temptations.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Father helped me give it to them, just like you
gave it to me. Don't water it down, don't weaken
it with my opinion, but preach it like your word.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Help me do that.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I give you glory in Jesus' name. Amen, you may
be seated. I have been waiting to worship with you.
I can tell when a sermon really gets a hold
of me because I start just drawing stuff and scribbling
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stuff everywhere. Whenever I start pulling out napkins and restaurants
and as skin, the server, would you please bring me
a napkin and a pen. The napkin they understand, but
the pen they look at you kind of funny. And
I've been writing all over the house, Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Let me draw it for you.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I even practiced my drawing, so cheer for me when
I do this, because I'm insecure about it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Same lies, new loops.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I've been praying for years and the Lord still hasn't
healed my handwriting. So we're dealing with it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Same lives.
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You might say, same lies, new loops, thank you, thank you, appreciate.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Like an infinity symbol. You know, yeah, same lies. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Holly is hosting Reflect on Friday, September the nineteenth. It's
going to be an amazing time. Holly is an amazing preacher.
She's an amazing teacher of the Word of God. You
better be here.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
She's an amazing wife, even better wife than she is
a teacher of the Word of God. She's so good
at so many things. She's my favorite cook. It's a
great kisser, she's a great affirmer. She's a great mother,
she's a great encourager. All of these things are true.
There is one thing that she is not though. She
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is a horrible liar. Holly is a horrible liar. She
is the worst liar. Therefore, you have to be very
careful what you ask her about, because if I show
Holly one of my songs that I just wrote and
ask her how do you like it? I better really
want to know because she is a terrible lie I mean,
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horrible liar. You know, how do you like it? And
you know should do this thing? She'll go, what is it?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Finished thought it was maybe not.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
She's just supposed to say, yeah, maybe that. I think
that could be the next gyro. I think that could
be the next grade. Just just lie to me long
enough to give me the confidence to put it out.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
There in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
No, she's a horrible liar, even when she tries to
be polite, she's a horrible liar. You know, should I
wear this? Does this look good? And you can always
see it in her eyebrows. You can always see the
lie in her eyebrows because she's gonna look at you
so so distinctively before she tells you yeah, it looks
great that you're not gonna believe it because she's a
horrible liar. There's a game that our kids showed us
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called out of the Loop, and I think that's what
it's called Out of the Loop. And the way the
game works, you have to be a good liar to
win it, and you pass the phone around the table, right,
and everybody gets a category like animal, and then within
the category there is a.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Certain animal we say, like hippopotamus.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And then one person doesn't get to see what the
animal is, but they have to pretend like they know
what it is. And then you go around the circle
and ask questions and say this is it that could
you have this animal as a pet? And then the
person who doesn't know what the animal is they have
to pretend like they do so nobody will know that
they were out of the loop and didn't know it's
a hippopotamus. And so when we play this game with Holly,
it's the moment that we ask her can we have
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it as a pet?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And she'll go, well, and everybody will go it's mom.
Mom's out of the loop.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
She's such a bad liar. And I'm glad she's a
bad liar. I'm glad for that. I don't want her
to get any better at lying. But there's a problem.
When you're not that good at inventing lies, sometimes you're
not that good at identifying lies either, and so sometimes
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it's hard for you, if you have a hard time
telling a lie, to tell when someone is lying to you.
And the problem with this is that I think she
needs to become a better liar. I don't want anybody
in this room to become a better liar. That'd be
a horrible thing to want for your church. But I
do want you to become better at identifying the lies
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that the enemy has been telling you all your life
that have kept you lost in a loop of his lies.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The truth of the matter.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Is, ladies and gentlemen, that God is the creator. He
summoned light, said let it be, and light was. If
he called light darkness, it would change and turn out.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
God cannot lie.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
If God said that blue shirt was read, you would
watch a transformation and it would be washed in the
blood real quick. God cannot tell a lie. It is
impossible for him to lie. He is not a man
that he should lie, nor the son of men that
he should repent. As impossible as it is for God
to lie, it is impossible for the devil to tell
the truth. Because Jesus said in John chapter eight that
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when he speaks, he speaks his native language. He's a
liar from the beginning. He's been lying a long time.
He was lying before you got here. He was lying
over your life when you.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Were just a little baby.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He has been planting lies in your mind before you
had a conscious thought. He has been lying to you
a long time, and it is difficult for you to
identify those lies, because rather than tell a whole bunch
of different lies, I have noticed that the enemy just
hammers the same lies over and over again. Why because
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the enemy is not creative God is. He has no
light to create, no stars to breathe forth, no sun
to put in its place, no waters to cost to
recede and bring forth fish in the sea.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And he is not.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Creative by nature. He is created and fallen. He is fallen.
He's fallen. And because he's not created, he cannot be creative.
And so since he can't make anything, he has to
make something up. But since he's not creative, he has
to be consistent.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The devil is not very creative.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
If you look at your life, he says the same
things to you over and over again.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
He's not creative, but he's consistent.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He'll tell you the same thing over and over again
until you can't tell the difference between his voice and
your thoughts. And that's what makes it so diabolical. The
lies come in disguise. If he said it with.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
A big, big voice up here, like.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Holly, Oh, your song is great, I would know he
was lying because his voice changed. But did you ever
notice that the devil's voice doesn't change when he starts lying?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
In your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
It sounds just like your own thoughts. And because you
are an honest person, you have a very difficult time
identifying the.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Lies that he tells you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
But if you can ever find the lie that he
is telling you, you can flow in the truth that
God has given you. And if you can ever find
the lie he's telling you, you can begin to fill
yourself with what God has spoken and receive the peace
that is your birthright and inheritance as a child of God.
And you can get your happy back, and you can
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get your home back, and you can get your heart back,
because the devil has hijacked your mind your heart with
lies long enough. And the reason that I know that
it's him is he is not created. He only has
two lies that he tells over and over again. And
the prophet Jeremiah is believing both of those lies and
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lamentations chapter three, and he's going to a very deep
dark place. See, there are really only two things the
devil ever tells you, And you might want to write
this down. So the next time he slithers up to you,
that ancient snake. The next time he slithers up to you,
he's under your feet. The next time he starts speaking
to you. The next time he starts suggesting to you,
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the next time he starts tempting you, the next time
he starts to make you move your feet off the
solid rock of Jesus Christ and the Word.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Of God, you can find the lie. There are really
only two.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
One is it's not enough, and the second is you're
not loved.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Every lie you've.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Ever believed from the enemy, and every pit of self
pity you've ever dug for yourself, and every relationship you've
ever reached to that wasn't good for you but it
felt good to you was because of one of these
two lies that the enemy told you so consistently and
so convincingly. He told you it's not enough and you're
not loved.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Am I right about it? Now? I prayed on my
knees this week. I said, I'm not going to get
up in front of my church and tell them there's
only two lies and just say a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You got to show me, Lord, what are the two
things or three things or four things? He said, there's
really only two. There's really only two things. From the
time that your mind is conscious in choosing, the enemy
is whispering to.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You it's not enough, and you're not loved.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So I began to search the Bible to see if
that was correct, because I don't trust my impressions.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The devil is a liar.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And I went all the way back to the Book
of Genesis and all the way forward to the Book
of Revelation, and I found out that the snake only
says one thing.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Did God really say? Did God really.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Say that's why he's a snake? He's shaped like that
question mark? Did God really say to get you to
question what God clearly said, to get you to step
outside of how God identified you. He's a liar. And
so they tell you it's not enough. They tell you
that it's not enough for you to just believe in Jesus.
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You got to have a whole bunch of other beliefs.
You got to have a whole bunch of other dependencies.
It's not enough just to call on the name of
Jesus and be saved. You got to work your way
to God. Try to get you so trampled down with shame.
And the devil is so so good at lying. He's
nothing like Holly. Let me say that for the record,
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the devil is nothing like my wife. He's so good
at lying that he'll do it like this. When you're
tempted to sin, he'll say it's no big deal. He'll
get you to believe that the power of God to
resist temptation is not enough. Then, when you sin and
you need to come to God and confess your sin
so he can cleanse you from you and purify you
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from all unrighteousness.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
He'll try to tell you it's not enough.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
He'll try to get you to think that the blood
of Jesus is not enough, that the grace of God
is not enough.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So, before you.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Sin, he'll try to get you to think that the
power of God inside of you is not enough to
keep you from sin. After you sin, he'll try to
get you to think that the price that Jesus paid
for your sin is not enough to take that sin
off of you, to teach you to roll your shame away,
to bring you into a new beginning, to.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Give you new mercies. With every sunrise, and every.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Day the sun comes up, you're waking up in not enough,
because the devil is very effective through repetition.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's not enough. Think about everything you have to do today.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You start thinking this before the covers come off in
the morning I know you do. It's not enough time
to get it all done. It's not enough money to
pay every bill, it's not enough sleep that I got
last night.
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It's not enough.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
People that I want to see it to make me
want to throw these covers off and get out of
these comfortable pajamas with the footies on them, and put
my uncomfortable shoes on and stand up for eight hours
all day because when I get home after eight hours
at work, there's not going to be enough of me
to go around for all these people.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And since it's not enough, I'm not loved.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Because if I don't show up enough, then everybody in
my life feels like a demand and nothing feels like
a supply. So now the enemy has got me in
an infinite loop of scarcity.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Because it's not enough, and you are not loved.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And now he's got you thinking that you are what
you do, and so if what you do isn't enough,
then you are not enough. Never mind that Christ is enough,
never mind that he wouldn't have created you, planned you,
brought you into this moment in your life, spoken you
into the earth at this time, put you in that family, yes,
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that family, the weird family, the dysfunctional family. Every family
is dysfunctional. Stop lying to yourself saying it. If my
family wasn't dysfunctional, I wouldn't be If your family wasn't dysfunctional,
you would be an angel. That's the only non dysfunctional
family that God ever made. They're called angels. They live
in heaven. We live on earth. It's called hell. Get
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used to it. Bring Heaven to earth and get on
with it. The family of God is dysfunctional, but we
are here.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Do not be deceived.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So I was scribbling this down on the napkin, and
I was thinking, same lies, new loops.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And what I want you to do.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Is pull back up Jeremiah the prophet in Lamentations chapter three,
And I want you to go all the way from
verse eighteen.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
To verse twenty one. And this is what we're working
on in our lesson today.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Somebody say, same lies, new loops. Now, if a person
lied to you as much as the devil does, how
many times would you keep letting them in front door?
If every time they came through they stole something, If
every time they came through they tracked mud all over
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your beige carpet, how many times would it take, and
yet we go through the same lies over and over again.
Don't feel bad about it, Jeremiah did. And I am
looking for lamentations.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
On the screen. There we go. Oh, I was stollen.
I was stollen bad just now. But look at this
in verse eighteen. I want you to circle this, he said.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
So I say, my splendor is gone, or my glory
is gone, or it feels like God is gone, or
it feels like my imagination is gone, or my happy
is on hiatus and I can't find it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I forgot what it is to be happy, he said.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So I say my splendor is gone and all that
I had hoped from the Lord. Now I want you
to circle those three words I had hoped. I had
hoped put it in the comments. Please, if you're watching online,
I had hoped. I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall I well remember them. And
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my soul is downcast within me. And this is the
verse we felt so excited about when we read it,
because it gives us a new loop.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I'll explain in a moment.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope,
and I want you to circle those three words. Now,
I have hope, And the question is, Jonathan, how do
we get from here where hope is in the past tense?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I had hoped to hear where I got it back?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I am preaching better than your saying, Amen, that's the truth?
How do I get from I had hoped.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
To I have?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It's not as easy of a journey as.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You may think, because by the time you've been going
around the same lies over and over again in your mind,
and you've been looping. I've been teaching a lot on
looping in church, and it's the number one thing that
I've been having people send me text about. They said,
it was so helpful. How you explained to us that
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sometimes we don't get in the loop of the Word
of God, and because we don't continually meditate on it,
we just consume it, and then we go out into
the world and we get consumed.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
We get consumed and we get in a different loop.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Now, the problem with the things that Jeremiah was saying
in Lamentations chapter three is that none of them were
outright lies. On the surface, they all sounded true. The
temple had been destroyed, that was true. Many of his
friends family had been taken away. That was true, it
would never be the same again.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That was true. And there may be some things.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That are true of you today, but just because they're
true of you does not mean that you have to
be trapped in them for the rest of your life.
This is where it's difficult, man, because the devil would
talk to you so good.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's such a good liar.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
He'd be talking about hippopotamus and trying to describe a hippopotamus,
you know, and he's not like Holly.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
He's a good liar. So he'll start talking to you
and he'll say, you know what, you have been afflicted.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
You are lost. There have been a lot of people
who have left your life. There is a lot of
evil in the world. You ought to be scared to
go out in public. Everybody is crazy. Everybody is against
each other. Everybody is fighting against one another.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And part of that is true. But you have got
to be very.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Careful what you say to yourself as you go through
what we all go through. Because when he said I
am afflicted, when he said my splendor is when he
said verse nineteen, please on the lower thirds, I remember
my affliction and my wandering, and the bitterness and the
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gall We begin to understand that you cannot be full
of bitterness if you expect to be filled with peace.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Let me teach you for a moment.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
If I am filled with bitterness, I am going to
be empty of peace. Verse seventeen. He says, I have
been deprived of peace. But it's not exactly that somebody
took your piece away. Sometimes it's that you rejected it.
Sometimes you reject the peace that God wants to give
you about the situation because you believe the lie that
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the devil told you about the situation. And God really
wants to give you a peace, but you push the
peace away how by going around the same loop, the
same loop. Many times. For me, I find myself replaying offenses,
replaying movies in my mind that I didn't even like
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the first time I saw him. Why would you buy
a ticket back to the movie when you hate it
the first time.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But Jeremiah is in a desperate place.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Understand Not a flat tire, not a failed class, not
a drop college offer, not a little ache in his
pinky toe. He has lost everything I had hope, I
don't have hope. And he goes around and around, and
I'm going to tell you what he's doing in this situation.
I've done it before myself.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
He is.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Circling his hurt. How you been circling your hurt? How
you been going around and around it and around it
and around it. Now, God left this book in the
Bible for a reason. I'm glad that God didn't edit
it out, because then I would feel like that being
an overcomer in Christ means that I feel no pain.
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I would think that being afraid was a lack of
faith if he didn't leave it all in.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
He said, I've been afflicted.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I've wandered, I've tasted bitterness and gaud I am so
filled with it that I even began to wonder, not
only am I not enough?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But is God enough?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
The devil won't tell you God isn't enough. You know
too many Bible verses for him to do that. He'll
start to tell him that He's not enough.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
For you.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
And your situation, and how it's different with you, and
you start circling how bad. It hurts, and it hurts,
and it hurts, and it did hurt. It hurt for
Jeremiah to lose everyone he loved. It hurt for them
to walk out on you. It hurt for them to
say that about you. It hurt for them to criticize you.
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It hurt in your body when you were diagnosed with
the illness and then you found out.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It was worse than you thought. It hurt, and it hurt,
and it hurt.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
And if I were the devil, I would keep you
circling your hurt, because as long as you remember it
more than you recognize God in it, he can keep
you going around and around and around and around and
around and around and never get to verse twenty one. Now,
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what happens in verse twenty one of Lamentations.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Chapter three is very powerful. I wrote down in my notes.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
When you say this point, walk down and make sure
they're paying attention.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
That's what I'll do right now.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You would expect that with Jeremiah, who is a prophet
for God.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
What is Jeremiah not a bullfrog?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
He is a.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
For the old timers. I know you don't know about it.
You don't need to know about it.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
It's the same stuff as the same stuff as you
works every time. He's a prophet for God, which means
he speaks for God to people. So you will think
at this moment and you are understandably wrong that God
is going to speak to him because he speaks for God.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But what blew my mind?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And I don't mean mind blow emoji, I mean cold
chills up and down my body while I was praying
about some of the hurts that I keep circling in
my life, some of the abandonment that I keep reliving
in my heart, some of the trauma, if I can
use an overused word, that enters my body during high
stress times. And I don't know what to do because
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I am expecting for God to.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Speak to Jeremiah. But in Lamentations three, God doesn't speak
Jeremiah does. That changed my life because I'm expecting him
to say, my hope is gone. God is gone. And
I'm expecting God to stand up and say, no, I'm
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not Jeremiah.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I am here, and I am here.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
But God don't say a word Jeremiah does.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And when Jeremiah speaks, God comes. God is waiting for
you to change what you say, and you are going
to see what he spoke. When you change what you
say Shot three people tell him change what you say,
and if you change what you say, you'll change what
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you see and God will walk in the room, and
God will show up in the hospital, and God will
show up in a broken heart, and God will show
up at your job, and God will show up in
your emptiness, and God will show up in your loneliness,
and God will show up in your doubts. And Jesus
will come into your storm, and Jesus will step into
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your folk, and Jesus will make a.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Wind in a way.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Die now when you see.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Come on, call him right now.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Somebody say, Jesus, I need to right now, not five
years from now. I don't have five years for therapy.
I need to right now.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I need to right now, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So please believe me when I say that. I know
it hurts, but you have to make a decision, don't you.
Am I gonna keep circling my hurt or am I
going to summon my help?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Oh God?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Because when you call Jesus, help is on the way.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Because when you say come Lord, because when you say
I'm MP and I need to be filled, Jesus shows up.
Yes I have hurt. That's an old story. Yes I
have hurt.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's human.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yes, some people suck, they're human, but some don't. And
God said to remind you that The longer you circle
your hurt, the less you can summon your help.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Let me draw you this.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I just pictured somebody in here today and I was like,
you've been circling hurt, circling hurt, circling hurt, cir circling hurt.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
But the moment.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Who I've been drawing on that because I'm trying to
fight that devil.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Get them beat you down.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
And let it know.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Holt that to the hells?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Where down my hell?
Speaker 11 (32:42):
Holler?
Speaker 12 (32:42):
Hell?
Speaker 10 (32:44):
Now how sid through hell?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
But I got how that hurts a long time.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
But I gotta down.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
You see that, Jeremiah, tell seven people, I got help,
Tell them the world's a real crazy but I got
hell tell him.
Speaker 15 (33:13):
The darkness does his best to try to keep us down,
but we have help. Our God is a very present
health in the time of trouble. The devil is a
very present devil in the time of trouble.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
But for every lie the devil speaks, there is a
new loop of the truth of the Word of God
that is flowing to his people.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And this rock is.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Jesus, He's the word. This rock is Jesus. And the
wind came and the storms.
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Blew from my house did not fall because it was hell.
I have Hell.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I'm not enough, but I have help. They don't love me,
but he does not but I have help. They don't
love me, but he does. Same lives say all you want, Devil,
keep on talking, Devil, wear your voice out, Devil, get
Laryngiti's Devil stuck to me in the night. Devil, tell
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me you're gonna kill me. Devil, tell me not to
preach this devil And I.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Just opened my mouth and help ten.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
People on the left side of the turf. Who am
I preaching to? Who am I help? Is?
Speaker 16 (34:30):
Go?
Speaker 10 (34:30):
Lord send me to remind.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
You you he Hell, there's more with us then with them.
Speaker 10 (34:43):
There's more with us.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Then with them.
Speaker 10 (34:46):
There's more with us then with them.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
There's more with us then with them. There's more with
us then with them.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
There's more with us then with them.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I got angels all around me.
Speaker 10 (35:07):
I got family all around me, I got Jesus all
around me, I got help, I got hell.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's what the prophets said.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Eliza said, there's more with us then with them.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Same lives. The Devil's got you surrounded again. But whatever
is surrounding you, God made a loop surrounding it, same lies.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
H How did the prophet Elijah end up hiding.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
In a cave from a woman named Jezebel.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
He forgot he had help, and he sat down on
a broom tree and said, cant me God.
Speaker 16 (36:01):
And God wouldn't kill him. God wouldn't kill him because
he had a new loop for him. God wouldn't even
let you die. God wouldn't even let you abandon the faith.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
God wouldn't even let you not come to church today.
You had a bad attitude when you walked in, and
God dragged your bad attitude in with your worship in mouth.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And now you found out I have hell. But you
don't know that when you're in the valley.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Bring me that Bible. In One Kings, chapter nineteen, I
already sat down. I don't feel like getting back up
to get mine. And this was mine before I gave
it to you. Somebody helped me. Come on, help me
preach all. I'm not up here by myself. I'm not
in this by myself. And the Bible said that Elijah
in forty days forty nights into the cave.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
And I want to show.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
You the loop that he was in because it might
be very meaningful to you. The Lord came to him,
and the Lord shows off man. When God comes, he
comes and does all kinds of stuff. See the mountain
that he's at is Mount Sinai. You remember when God gave.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
The Moses the law to Moses at Mount Sinai, and.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The earthquake came and like the fire of God and
the glory of God. So when Elijah goes to hide
in the cave because he called down the fire from heaven.
But sometimes the thing that makes you powerful on the
mountain can make you crazy in the cave. And he
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begins to say this thing to himself over and over
and over again. I mean it's written two times in
One Kings nineteen. The Bible says that the word of
the Lord came to him when he was in his cave,
and they said, what are you doing.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Here, Elijah? And he replied, I gotta get up now,
I gotta draw it.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I really want you to get this. I really want
this to help you. I don't want you just to
hear me. I want to help you. I know that
the devil has been lying to you. I know he's
been telling you that there is something incurably wrong with you.
I know he's been telling you that it's your fault
from what happened five years ago, that you can't apologize
for again.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But you can only move forward. I know what he's saying.
Speaker 17 (38:17):
But here is Elijah in the cave, and the Lord
ask him, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
You're not happy either, he said.
Speaker 18 (38:39):
I am the only.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
One lie Sean First Kings nineteen, verse number seventeen.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I think that's the right one. Verse eighteen. God say, yet,
I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose needs have
not bowed to bail. Elijah said, I'm the only one
not serving the false God. I'm the only boy.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
He's got that song on a loop too. I'm the
only one. I'm the only one. Say long enough it'll
feel true. Treat people that way, long enough, it'll become true.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Now it's not just a lie, it's a loop, and
it's your life. And you say, I had hoped, but
I lost it in the loop.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Read the story Saints, First King, Chapter nineteen, verse ten.
The Lord said, what are you doing here? Elijah? What
are you doing here? He replied, I've been very zealous
for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant.
True they did. They did because humans hurt you. They
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torn down your altars. True, they did that. They put
your prophets to death with the sword. That's true, they
did that.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
And I am the only one left lie.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
But the devil had convinced him so much with stuff
that was true that once he got him in the loop,
it was easy to convince him of what wasn't true.
And now Elijah is giving this speech to God. How
are you going to start telling God how God's people
abandon God? How do you think it hurt you more
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than it hurt God. But He's been circling this hurt
for a long time. And when you circle your hurt
long enough, you don't summon your help. You forget how
to reach out to who you do have. You forget
to pray, how you know how to pray. You forget
to be grateful. Don't you You.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Stop saying those gratitude things in the morning. You stop
saying them.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Because he got up on not enough and not loved,
and that got on the loop.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Now watch what the Lord does. He is so kind.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Elijah says, now they are trying to kill me too.
And the Lord said, go out and stand on the
mountain in the presence of.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
The Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Then a great and powerful wind toward the mountains apart
and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord
wasn't in the wind, and the wind came, and then
after the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord
was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake came
a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
The Lord came in all of those ways in Moses's time,
but he's coming.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
A different way to Elijah.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Can you let God come to you a different way
and not think that he left you. I feel this
thing going deep. If y'all have a lunch appointment, please
feel free to leave. But I'm gonna finish this message
for the hundred people that need to hear it today
who had been on the loop.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
And after the fire came a gentle whisper. I've done
a whole.
Speaker 12 (42:09):
Messages where I whispered for ten minutes to talk to
you about how when the enemy.
Speaker 16 (42:16):
Is lying to you, he's loud because he can't get
to you.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
When God tells the truth to you.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
He whispers because he's close.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
That's why the devil's so much louder.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
That's why you have to draw near to God to
hear him. And the Bible says, when Elijah heard that
whisper Verse thirteen.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Boy, this font is so small.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
I can't believe I used to preach from this Bible.
When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his
face and went out and stood at the mouth of
the cave. And that a crazy phrase. The mouth of
the cave. The cave has been talking, just bouncing around.
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You're the only one the mouth. You ever heard, the
mouth of the cave.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
But then comes the voice of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
I cannot draw God, but I'm making bigger than Elijah.
I'm making happy. I'm gonna give him a crown. That's
the best I can do. Lord, But that represents you.
And God says, watch this, God says, watch.
Speaker 8 (43:32):
This new loop, I say, I say, And.
Speaker 7 (43:39):
The Lord, God of Elijah, brought you here today to
open a new loop over your life, a new way
of thinking, a new way of being, a new way
of handling adversity, a new.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Way of processing pain.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
It's as small as a whisper, but it can change
your world.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
It can bring you out of the cycle of thinking.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
That put you in this place all alone, that made
you feel shut off and cut off, and forgot your
health and circling your hurt. Jeremiah said it two hundred
and fifty years after Elijah learned it.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
He ministered in a different place. But it's the.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Same lesson this I called to my mind. Therefore I
have hope. It is because of the Lord's new loop.
It is because of the Lord's voice. It is because
of the Lord's love. It is because his compassions are infinite.
It's a new loop. It's a loop of his love
that never stops. It means he's got me in his hand,
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even when I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
In my mind.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
It means he's got me in his plan, even when
I can't prove.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
It with my math.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
It means he's got me in his sovereign will, even
when I rebelled and got off course.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
And the Bible says he asked him a second time, what.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Are you doing here, Elijah? And Elijah replied verse fourteen,
I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty.
The Israelites have rejected your covenant and torn down your
altars and put your prophets to death with the sword.
I'm the only one left. He's still in the loop. Ah,
but give me verse fifteen, where the Lord said to
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him new loop. The Lord said to him, new loop,
go back the way you came. And when you get
to the desert, I've got somebody in Damascus for you
to anoint. His name is Hazel, and he will take
care of the international affairs verse sixteen. After you get
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done annoying Hazel, go anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, king
over Israel.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
He will handle the national affairs. And then, when you.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Get done annoying those two government leaders, annoying Elisha, son
of Sheifat from Abel Mahola to succeed you as prophet,
Jayhu will put to death any who escaped the sword
of hay y'all, and Elishah will put to deathty who.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Escaped the sword of Jayhu.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel, all whose.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Knees have not bowed down to bail and whose mouths
have not kissed him. And verse nineteen is the happiest.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Verse I read you all day, because it says, so Elijah.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Went from there new loop, new loop.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Not I've been very zealous in the Lord abandon me
and they It isn't about what they did. It's about
what he said. It's not about what they didn't do.
It's about what he still can do. It is not
about circling your heart. It is about summoning your help.
Speaker 13 (46:43):
And if you go all the way to the Book
of Revelation, not revelations, and it's not Walmarts either.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
It's just one mark that is wall and it's one
revelation from.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
John on the Island of Patmos, many revelations. I was
reading how it ended, and I realized something very powerful.
In verse seven, he said that a great war broke
out in heaven and Michael and his angels fought against
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the dragon.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
See, we say crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
When weird stuff happens in the world, and horrible things
happened in the world, and we're like, it's never been
like this before.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Is in the first book and the last book of
the Bible, all of it.
Speaker 3 (47:33):
He said, there was a war that broke out in heaven,
and the angels started fighting for God against the dragon,
and the dragon and his angels fought back, but he.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Was not strong enough and they lost their place in heaven.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
Well, if y'all shouted over that verse you really like nine,
and the great dragon was hurled down.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Let me remind you who that.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Dragon is that's fighting against you today, That ancient serpent.
He's been lying a long time, and he's real good
at his job. But God has been creating longer than
he's been lying. And God is better at his job
than the enemy is at his. So I came to
(48:26):
remind you today the dragon was cast down. So the
next time your soul gets down cast, call to your.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Mind the victoria that Jesus already won for me.
Speaker 19 (48:42):
And verse eleven says, and verse eleven says, and verse
eleven says they triumphed over him.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
Find the blood of the lamb and the word.
Speaker 10 (48:57):
Ah, there, Simony, if you gotta tempt Simony, stand up, stray,
Let the devil know. Great is his faithfulness, Great is.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
His faithfulness.
Speaker 20 (49:20):
And morning by morning, I've got new mercies, new loose
sing God, new loose same lies.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
New loops.
Speaker 3 (49:33):
We watched the movie A Beautiful Mind, and the man
in the movie always heard voices.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
He always heard voices. He always heard voices.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
And he was explaining to somebody after he had recovered
and gotten treatment He was played by Russell Crowe, the
Great John Nash. He was playing this man who suffered
from a terrible condition and he heard voices, and they
asked him at the end of the movie, did the
voices go away? And he said no, but you just
learn not to listen to them. So we will journey
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together over these next weeks, not only for your sanity,
but for your sanctification, so you can be set back
apart from God, for God, from the enemy.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
We will labor together.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
We will find out how to get from Lamentations three eighteen,
where the prophet said, man, I just I just kept
going over and over in my mind everything that I've lost.
And while I was going over everything I lost, I
was in a loop. And then in verse twenty one,
he says, yet I call this to my mind. Oh
I didn't even get to preach that to you.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Good.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
You come back next week, right, You come back next week?
Speaker 11 (50:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (50:51):
I really need you to tune back in next week,
because this word is going to be a reversal for
some of you, a reversal. This season is going to
be a season of reversal to where everything that the
enemy has been speaking over you is going to give
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way to what God says about you. I have so
many napkins around my house with these little loops. Don't
make me waste one. Don't make me waste one the
week that I might give the napkin that you need.
Don't be sleeping because there are some things that God
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wants to show you that are really true. But today
I feel like there's somebody that the Lord brought here
who has never begun this journey of following Jesus. You
never even took the first step to follow him, and
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maybe you thought that you weren't enough and he wouldn't
love you, and maybe you thought.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
That you didn't need him.
Speaker 3 (52:01):
But you have found in the season of your life
that you do need his grace and his strength. So
right now we have a very special tradition at our
church where we all bow our heads and close our
eyes together. This is for you online too, and at
every location. The Bible says that it is by grace
you are saved through faith. This is the gift of God,
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not of work, so that no one can boast. The
grace of God is enough to save you. All you
have to do is place your faith in him. The
Bible says that if you will confess with your mouth
that Jesus is Lord, and live in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
He'll come get you right now. He's already running your way,
got his arms wide open.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Just come to it. Just come to it with your
head bowed and your eyes closed.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
Our entire church family is going to pray out loud
for the benefit of those who are coming to God,
or maybe you're coming back to God. This is going
to be a new day, a new beginning for you
right now. If you want to give your life to
Jesus today, you don't have to wait another day.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
You could do it right now.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Repeat this prayer out loud after me, everybody praying together,
Heavenly Father, Today is my day of salvation.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
I am a sinner in need of a savior. And
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (53:24):
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the savior
of the world. And today I make Jesus the Lord
of my life. I believe he died for my sin
and rose again to give me life. I receive this
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new life. This is my new beginning. I am a
child of God. If you prayed that, shoot your hand
up on the count of three, one coup three. I
want to celebrate you all over the room, all over
the church.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
God bless you.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
We got a bible.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Come in your way.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
This was all worth it if it was just for you.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Come on, Welcome home, Welcome home, Welcome home, Welcome to
your full circle moment, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
I like it, l Jay, Let's sing it a few guys.
Speaker 12 (54:20):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (54:20):
See the name, say it, Jesus, the name.
Speaker 12 (54:31):
Jesus.
Speaker 21 (54:33):
Say Jesus, Jesus, Jess.
Speaker 4 (54:43):
Every location, say Jesus.
Speaker 21 (54:46):
Leaving day, Jesus, Jesus, Jess.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Grab the hand of the person on either side.
Speaker 3 (55:04):
Of you, link up with somebody, get across the aisles
and look them right in the.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
Eyes and say, I know it's hard, I know it hurts.
I know it's heavy. But you have help. Squeeze their
hand real hard so they'll know.
Speaker 3 (55:25):
How strong their help is. Come on, squeeze it till
the circulation cuts off. Let them know how strong their
help is. Squeeze it till they realize.
Speaker 8 (55:36):
That God won't let you go, that God won't let
you down, that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above.
Speaker 10 (55:47):
All you ass thank Parmass it.
Speaker 4 (55:52):
It's Jesus' name.
Speaker 10 (55:54):
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Special thanks to those of you who give generously to
this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.
You can click the link in the description to give
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