It's About Time // God Chose You (Part 1) // Charles Metcalf

The Bible is the story of God choosing people at the right time. In Week 1 of our God Chose You series, Pastor Charles Metcalf reminds us that God didn’t just choose us on purpose—He chose us on time. And that time is now.Even when it feels slow or still, God’s timing is always intentional. While you’re waiting on what He promised, Pastor Charles encourages us to wrestle with three key questions that will shape who we’re becoming in the meantime. This message will challenge you to let go of your timeline and trust God’s appointed time.


Get Pastor Charles’ latest book, God Chose Me, at https://charlesmetcalf.com/


Scripture References:
Galatians 4:1-7 CEV
Habakkuk 2:2-3 NIV
Isaiah 11:1-5 NLT

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
God will transform your life. Do today's message.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, Good morning friends. I hope you're doing well.
You can grab a seat, Grab a seat. What a
great sunday to be a church.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I mean, there's so many amazing things about our church.
I tell you what I'm about getting sick tired of
this ridiculousness that's happening between Pastor Michael and Rowe. They
writing all these songs up on stage. That last one,
I said, what is happening?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I looked at six people on my row, I said,
what song is this? Like, we don't know. I think
it's happening right now. So some people you just see, it's.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Like it's just like they just walk up and it's
just like that is crazy that you are that good
at that.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
But I love our church so much, I really do.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's such a beautiful place to be. And before we
jump into the word today, I just want to take
a moment and just tell you, because many of y'all know.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Pastor Michael as Pastor Michael up on.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
This stage, who is doing an example and convicting you
and encouraging you and punching you and the kidney and
lifting you up at the same time. I know him
as that as well, but I also get.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
The privilege to know him off this platform as.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
A friend, as a father, as one of the greatest
encouragers in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And you just need to know, our pastor is very rare.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's not rare to just be a pastor, but it's
rare to be a pastor. And the thing I told him,
I said, you did not have to share everything God
did in your life with me.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
You didn't have to.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
You didn't have to share your influence, you didn't have
to share your relationships.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You didn't have to do. But you've done that in abundance.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And I just want to take a moment and say
to you, wherever you are, that there you are.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Hello, and Pastor that hello, You're so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Give it up for nat the Queen of all queens
the best.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I love you a lot, I love you. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Both of you means so much to me and my family,
and I've said it to you so many times. But
the greatest thing about both of you is you can
look at someone's life and see the fruit of it.
And there's hundreds of thousands of people around the world,
but I know Charles, metcalf Abbey, Metcalf, r Low, Luna, Jade,
and Blue are all a result of who you are.

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And someone said one time, they were like, man, I'm
looking for somebody at my church to do what you
do for Pastor Michael. And it's just so cool to
see all the stuff that happens. And I said, my
life and influence and ministry and all those things are
only as big as Pastor Michael has created space for
and I get to, by the grace of God, see

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a lot of big things happen in my life. And
I want you to know we have pastors who aren't
just there in the big moments, but that they're in
the low moment. This book actually opens with the story
of two in the morning when I'm going through it,
and they showed up at my house with all four
of those kids and prayed over me. And so can
we take a moment just think our pastors.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I love you, thank you, I love you very very much.
The our point stand as well. Also before I preach.
I have to thank my wife. I wouldn't have been
able to write this book without my wife. She yes,
you give it for Abby Rose. I love you genuinely.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
She heard all the revisions, the ideas, the two am
sitting up next to her, and so I want you
to know how much I love you and I'm so
grateful just all of this. I'll get emotional talk about it,
but beautiful thing about wives and the power of a
woman in your life. And this Pastor Michael said it
about the words you speak.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
But she saw all this when I didn't. I remember
being nineteen.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Years old meeting each other and she was like, you're
gonna do this and this.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
You're gonna be an author, be a preacher. You're gonna
blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
And I was like, girl, I'm just trying to wake
up in the morning and not die.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Like and you just you spoke so much life. So
I love you so much. I love you so much.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
All right, y'all ready for the word today. Let's get
into it. Thank your keyboard player. I will not be
needing you anymore. Okay, Sorry, I'm the worst that like.
It's just let's just get into it. Okay, we're gonna
start a brand new series today. Oh a cool thing
that's happening. Sorry, real quick for you jumping this Friday

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at the Barnes.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
And Noble at seventy first Memorials. This is just toasted people.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
If you want to drive, you can, but we're gonna
be having like a book party signing. So this Friday,
seven pm Barnes and Noble, come hang out.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, now we can get to the word. Sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Uh, okay, We're starting a brand new series today called
God Chose Me.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Somebody say God Chose Me? Always about to get ridiculous
up in here.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Okay, this series, I gotta say this about the series.
Gonna be in this series for the next including today.
It'll be a total of seven weeks. I need you
to know this is not the book. So if you like, okay,
I'm gonna read two chapters and you're gonna come tell
me about those two chapters.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, no, them chapters is in the book.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
You're gonna have to read the book if you want
to know what it's say. This is all the stuff
that was in me that didn't make the cut for
the book or God gave it to me. After the
book had already been sent off. So this is all
new stuff. So don't be shown up like, oh I
know what he about to say. No you ain't, because
this is all the fresh stuff, the good stories, the
wild stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
They wouldn't let me say in the book. I like
bet I'll show up at my church and say it.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
So over the next couple weeks, we're about to be
in this series. And I know for a fact that
if you have been living in a season of your
life where you've been tired of hiding, you've been tired
of the hurt you've been in, and you have something
has to change.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I know this is the series for you.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is gonna give you the confidence to be who
you've known you've always been. It's going to give you
the confidence to stop fighting those lame and useless fights
with insecurity.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Because here's what I've realized.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Many of us spend the energy God gave you to
take ground in your life fighting insecurity and.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
A lack of confidence.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Half the energy that God put on the inside of
you spend looking in the mirror, worry about how you look,
and wondering what your teammate's doing, and wondering what they
think about you. We are done fighting fights that are
a waste of time. We've got ground to take, We've
got people to share the gospel with.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
So I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
If you want to stay the same and you like
just where you are, okay, but if you're tired of
some if you sick or tired of being sick and
tired is the way I really want to say it,
This is the series for you. One of the most
beautiful things that's happened as I've written this book, and
Pastor Michael said it, but this book was born out
of a sermon I preached in twenty twenty three. And

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one of the things that has happened is as the
message of the book has started to come out and
people have heard about it. I love our church because
our church is so encouraging, like we are the most
like anytime you do anything, our staff is the same way.
We and b staff meeting and we we'd wins every
single week and somebody will be like, hey, how y'all doing.
They're like okay, It's like okay, they haven't even said anything,

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and they're like, so you know, the Bible says like ooh,
it's like you don't even know what was gonna happen,
but it's a spirit of encouragement. But one thing that's
happened to me is as I I'd be out and
around in the city, people walk up to be like, hey,
past draws, God chose you, and I'd be like, oh,
thank you, brother, God bless you.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
And there was one time a genuate, I was riding
my bike.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'd be cycling around in Tulsa and I'll just be
riding out just hear.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Somebody scream out the window gotcha.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm like just throwing my hands up, like ah. And
I was talking to somebody And this has happened multiple times.
And I was traveling this past week and someone put
their hand on their shoulder and they got really serious
and kind of got emotional, and I was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
JESU, what's happening. And they looked at me these.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Ambassador Charles, I wants you to know that God really
did choose you, and it's just it's not a mistake,
it's not a fluke, and just you are. And they
start going in and I can tell you know this
was a moment really for them.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
But can I be honest you with I was thinking.
I was thinking, baby, I know God chose you. Maybe
I feel good. I don't know. I didn't well.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
The sentiment I got to and this is gonna help
our sermon today is I didn't write this book so
that you would know God chose me. That's not what
this is about. I wrote this book so you would
know God chose you, that he gave you a call
on your life, that he puts something on the inside
of you, that your family needs, that the world needs.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
And as long as you keep.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Backing up and comparing yourself and showing up halfway, we
are missing out on you. So the title of this series,
I told the team I was gonna do this.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
The title of the.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Series is no longer God Chose Me. That lasted the
whole six seconds. The title of the series is God
chose you. Somebody look at your neighbor and say, God
chose you.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm telling you you need to know this.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
God chose you father to be the parent of those kids.
Nobody else is showing up. I know you feel like
you don't have what it takes. I know you didn't
have the example. I know you feel insecure, but God
chose you to raise those kids.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
God chose you to be in this city.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I know it feels like it was happenstance and it's
an accident and you just happen to land here and
you're really just here for school until something else comes along. No, no, no,
God chose you to be in this city at this time.
God chose you to have those relationships. He chose you
to start that business. He chose you to be exactly
where you are right now, and over the next six

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weeks we're about to walk through and I promise you
at the end of this you're gonna stand up with
the confidence that nobody can mess with and a spirit
that says, I know why I'm here, I know what
I'm called to do, and the devil better watch out.
He messed up letting you wake up and get to
church this morning.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
All Right, we're gonna jump in today's sermon.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I need you.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
If you have your Bibles, turn into the Book of Galatians.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Book of Galatians is.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Where we're gonna be, and Galatians chapter number four, I'm
gonna read a nice little chunk of scripture, but we're
gonna focus in on one verse, but we're.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Gonna go ahead.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Galatians chapter four, starting in verse number one. Shout out
to the team, How dope is the yellow stool in
the chair?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Anyways? That was just for me? Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Galatians four, starting in verse one, it says is children
who are underage are no better off than slaves, even
though everything their parents own will someday be theirs. This
is because children are placed in the care of guardians
and teachers until the time their parents have set This
is how it was with us. We were like children,

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ruled by the powers of this world.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
But when the.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Time was right, God sent his son, and a woman
gave birth to him. His son obeyed the law so
he could set us free of the law. We became
God's children. Now that we are as children, God has
sent his spirit of his son into our hearts, and
his spirit tells us that God is our father. You

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are no longer slaves. You are God's children. Is the
good part, It says this, and you will be given
what he has promised. I'm gonna focus on one verse.
I want to read it one more time. But when
the time was right, the title of my sermon. If
you're taking notes, write it down. It's about time. It's

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about time. It's about time you realize what God put
on the inside of you. It's about time you stand
up and stop playing like he didn't give you. Let
me calm down, Okay, Jesus help us to realize.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's about time. And everybody said, amen, Amen, Amen, amen, Okay.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Here's the thing about time, kiddos, and they are learning
to tell time.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
My son Arlo is six and he is learning.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
To tell time. And so who asked me all the time?
Hey Dad, what time does this say? And he's got
a little washing so we'll be going back and forth.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
The other day, he was like.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
How many minutes till we get home? And I was like,
like three minutes. He's like, how long is three minutes?
And I was like, well, a minute of sixty second?
So you got to count to sixty like three times.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
He's like all right, one, two, three.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
And so then we were like around the corner of
our househo I intentionally started driving slower so I know
i'd be right, I'm like, and we pulled in the neighborhood.
I was like, bam, So he told you three minutes.
But what I've learned about time is Your relationship with
time is all about your engagement and your expectation.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Let me explain it to you this way.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I got some friends that love Marvel movies, and they
will go sit in a movie for I think the
last movie Marvel movie was eighteen hours.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Is what it was. I think the last one. But
you will sit in a movie.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
And my wife went to go see Mission Impossibles out
our Time Cruise.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't know how you look the same, but you do.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
But we sit in this movie and it's like, what's
the run time? It's like three hours and forty nine minutes,
like Jesus.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
But it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
You can sit and watch a movie for three hours.
But then you ever.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Get like a heat up meal, Like, come on, I
grew up on banquet meals, y'all.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Don't ever have that salisberry steak with the corn and
the mashed potatoes.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Come on, don't get it.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm wearing leather now, but I was not back then. Okay,
But you put that thing in and you look on
the back and it says three minutes, and you put
it in your beat, and then you just sitting there
and stare and that three minutes might as well be
six days.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
It feel like, why is it taking so long. It's
because many of.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Us our relationship with time depending on our expectation and
how engaged we feel and what we thought was gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
We get unsettled with time. We don't know how to
deal with time.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
And the truth is, before we go in talking about
the importance of God choosing you and the call he
has on your life, I have to talk to you
about time because one of the most potential, biggest disappointments
of your life when you realize you're chosen by God,
is sitting around waiting and wondering.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
When is it gonna happen? When is it gonna happen?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
He said, he chose me, He gave me the idea.
But I don't see nothing in my life that looks
like what he said.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
He said he chose me to be a parent.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
But right now, when I look at my situation, it
feels different. It feels disappointing, it feels unsettling. We have
to talk about time. Here's the first thing you need
to know. I want you to write this down if
you're taking notes when it comes to the timing of God.
Is God chose you at the right time, and right

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now is the right time.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
God chose you at the right time.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
It was not an accident accident, it was not happenstance.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's not a delayed time. Right now is the right time.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
He's chosen you for this, this moment, this hour, this day,
this second.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
God has chosen every part of you.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
It's not the part of you that doesn't have the weakness.
It's not the part of you that gets somewhere else.
He's chosen you right now, how you are, who you are,
He's chosen you right now. Let me help you understand
time in this way. I wrote this statement out and
I'm gonna walk you through it, so just bear with me.
But here's how time works with God. God stood outside

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of time. Then he created time, and he placed you
in time so at the right time you would be
on time for his appointed time. Let me say it
to you again. God was standing outside of time. He's
not bound by time.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
He doesn't stand on your time.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
He was standing outside of time and he looked at
time and he said, what is missing? And he created it.
Then he placed you in time so at the right time,
not too early, not too late, you would be on time.
Because he has an appointed time.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Some of you haven't picked it up. Let me help you.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
God was standing outside of time, and then he created time,
and he placed Abraham in time so at the right
time he would have a son named Isaac, so he
would be on time at the top of that mountain
about to sacrifice him, and the Ram would walk.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Out at just the right time.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Because God always has an appointed time. God was standing
outside of time, and then he created time and he
placed David in time, so at the right time, a
prophet Samuel would walk up asking for a son to annoint,
and David would be on time at the right time

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because God had an appointed time for him to be
the King of Israel.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
God's always on time. Don't get it twisted.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Just because you feel like he's late does not mean
he's late. He stands outside of time and he created time,
and then at the right time he placed Esther in
time for an appointed time. He was standing outside of
time and then he created time and he placed Paul
in time so at the right time, he'd be on

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a path and would get knocked off his donkey and
Jesus would say, hey, I have needed you because at
the right time he was on time because he had
an appointed time. He knew he called Paul while he
was being called Saul and killing Christians. He knew there
was an appointed time. And let me tell you, friend,
just because you feel delayed and discouraged, do not get

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a twisted God has an appointed time for your life.
Every detail, every pain you've went through, the disappointment you experience,
the things you didn't see coming.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
God is always on time.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
When he looked at your life, he was standing outside
of time, and he created time. Then he placed you
in time because he knew there would be a right time.
Even though it feels disappointing, even though it feels like
you don't know what happened, there was a right time,
so you would be on time.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Because He's got an appointed time. There's a scripture in Habaccic.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Team, I know I didn't give you this scripture, but
that's the way the Bible works. Sometimes it works all
to let me find it. Let me find it, let
me read you the scripture in Habaccic too. Because this
thing is gangster. It says this. The vision is for
a future time. It describes the end, and it will
be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently for it

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will sure.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Take place and it will not be delayed.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
It might seem slow right now, but trust me, friend,
it is on the way.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
It might seem slow.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Right now, it's taking a while to get the business
off the ground, but let me tell you something.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
It's on the way.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
It may seem shaky right now because the marriage isn't
working out, but let me tell you something, friend, it's
on the way.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
I serve and on time. God He's always on time.
And no matter where you find yourself, elf.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
In his timeline. And let me tell you that the truth.
It's his timeline, it's not yours. I hate to break
it to you. I know we love plans. I know
we got ideas. I know there's things that we expected
and it didn't happen and we were disappointed. But let's
be clear about it. It was your expectation, not his
promise that disappointed you. We can acknowledge that that's important,

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we need to talk about it, but let's be clear.
He didn't say that you thought of it, held him
to it. He didn't do it. Now you're mad at him,
that's okay.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I'm not mad at you. Doesn't do it all the time.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
And he has an appointed time, and he knows every
single detail of your life, how it needs to come together,
and who you need to meet, and where you need
to live, and how.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
It needs to go. There's a divine timing of God.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Many of us spend most of our time frustrated with
his time.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, God, if you chose me, how come it's not happening?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Come this happening? How come I don't feel this way?
And how can let me tell you something? Let me
just talk about this any part of my sermon I
understand as a formally completely controlled by my emotions.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Individual.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Formally, I say, because I got them jokers under lock.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
We had to bring them in. They tried to take
us out.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
I said, hey, brother, you're gonna have to calm down.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
You can't. You can't even let you drive the car
for too long.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
We done hit six mailboxes and we almost ran off
the road. Brother, my emotions did not pass the driver's
test of my life. And some of y'all have been
letting that thing drive your emotions, your attitude, your opinions. Okay,
but just because you don't feel like something does not mean.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's not true. God has the right.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Time, and he chose you at exactly the right time.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
You see. You need to understand this about the scripture.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
The scriptures are all all about God choosing people at.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
The right time.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
And here's the beautiful thing about the right time. The
right time is not always your time. Let's start off
with Abraham. I mean, if I'm choosing somebody to be
the father of nations, let me tell you who I'm
not choosing and what time I'm not choosing. Your mouth, brother, Abraham, father.
Abraham was old then a muck. When God came and

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found him, it didn't seem like the right time to say,
walk out from your tent and look into the stars.
As many stars as you see are the descendants you
will have. It didn't seem like the right time. But
because God was standing outside of time and placed him
in time, he knew it was always the right time.

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Some of you feel like this is the most disappointing
thing that's happened to many believers. You feel like you
ran out of time. You feel like you made too
many bad choices.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Is you feel like you missed your moment.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
And on the other side of that coin, some of
you feel like you don't have enough time. It's like, well,
I just need I just need more time, and I
need more things, and I need more if there was
just more hours in the day. I was having a
conversation with a friend this past week and we were
talking about timing and some people say, you know, I
just need more time.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's like, let's be clear about time.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
You got just as much time in the day as Beyonce.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So you know, we all making decisions with our life.
So you got just as.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Much time as anybody doing anything you look up to.
So we all given the same time. But it's how
you relate to that time. It's how you use that time.
God was standing outside of time. He created time, placed
you in time so at the right time, you'd be
on time for his appointed time. Now there's something when

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it comes to the life of Jesus. There is a
prophetic word that is given.

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Through the prophet Isaiah.

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The prophet is Isaiah is before the time of God,
and he starts to speak of this king that will come.
And I want to read you the scripture out of Isaiah.

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It says this.

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In Isaiah, it says, out of the stump of David,
a family will grow up, a new branch fruit from
the old root, and the spirit of the Lord will
rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and.

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The fear of the Lord. He will delight in obeying
the Lord.

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He will not judge by appearance, nor make decision based
on heresy. This whole chapter goes on to be one
of the most formative prophetic words about.

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The soon coming Savior.

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Fast forward to Luke chapter two, and the scripture says,
when it came time for Mary to have the baby,
you want to know how much time is between Isaiah
and the right time?

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Seven hundred years. I don't know about you.

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If I don't know if you've ever received a prophetic word,
and you be like, all right, so tomorrow.

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I think this is a real life say. I was
talking about for about this other day. I got a.

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Prophetic word back in twenty nineteen, and it was like, man,
you actually it's crazy. One of the things I said
is you need to start writing, because you're gonna write well.
When I tell you, I made so many dramatic decisions
in that moment. I was like, all right, I need
like eight people to help me do this, and we
got I got all my friends in on stuff, and
we just now getting.

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To the time. I was like, wow, I definitely missed
the timing on that one.

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But many times when you're waiting for that timing, you feel.

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Like it's about time.

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It's about time God comes through on what he said.
It's about time the marriage works out. I'm running out
of time. I feel like he's missed his time. But
here's what you need to understand about God. While we
are many times sitting around frustrated thinking it's about time,
you need to understand when it comes to Jesus and

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his very life, it was always about time. I'm gonna
I'm gonna walk you through this. It's about time with God.
It's not about the time and when you thought it was,
but it's about his time.

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Let me explain it to you this way.

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There's a lot of things that had to happen for
Jesus to come into this world. The reason you need
to understand the importance. There are parts of your Bible
that you skip over where it's got the list of
all the names and so and so, be God so
and so, and be.

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God so and so.

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What that is is actually testimony of the faithfulness of
God and his tying mean because Jesus couldn't come at
any time. He had to come at the right time.
He had to be there, which said he had to
be the seed of Abraham, he had to be of
the tribe of Judah, he had to be the line
of David. He had to be at the right time

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in Bethlehem. Because even with the life of Jesus, God
stood outside of time and it created time, and he
brought Jesus at the right time.

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Think of the.

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Birth of Jesus. It wasn't an accidental time. What happens
if Caesar Augustus at the time doesn't call a census.

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You want to know what happens five.

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Hundred and seven hundred years what the prophecy don't happen?
Because he couldn't be born anywhere. He had to be
born in Bethlehem. And the only way Jesus gets to
Bethlahelm is if God calls Caesar Augustus, stands outside of time,
places him in time at the right time. He calls
a census so that the savior of the world can
fulfill the prophecy right.

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On time for his appointed time.

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There's a story in the scripture of a father that
comes up to Jesus and he says, my daughter is dying,
and he says, okay, I'm coming, just wait a second,
and on the way the father is rudely interrupted by
a woman who dragged her way through the ground and
touched the harm him of his garment. And it seems
frustrating until you realize that the same day the Bible
says it says this the girl was twelve years old,

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and at the end of mark five it puts in parentheses,
and the woman suffered for twelve years. Let me tell you,
God was standing outside of time and then he created time.
And in one hospital room there's a little girl being
born and the parents.

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Are full of excitement.

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And down the other hallway there's a woman getting a
diagnosis and she doesn't understand why it's happening. That's because
God was standing outside of time and he created time,
and then he placed both of them in time. Because
the only reason Jesus is passing by that woman's house
is because there was a girl who was born at
the right time. Some of y'all gonna catch this on Thursday,

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but at the right time, Mary, her brother dies Lazarus,
and she goes to Jesus and she says, Jesus, can
you please save our brother? And he says, yeah, yeah,
I'll be there, and he waits four days. He doesn't
wait four days on accident. He waits four days because
at the culture of the time, at four days was

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when it was absolutely done and scientifically your body starts
to decompose at four days.

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He waited four days because they.

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Knew him as a healer, they knew him as a provider,
but they did not know him as a resurrector. And
he wanted to make sure, Baby, I'm always on time,
even if it feels late, even if it feels dead.
Do not doubt the timing of God. He's always on time.

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And I know it feels frustrating waiting. I know it
feels frustrating being delayed. But if you could see the
timing of your life. I was telling this the pastor,
some of the most crazy things and the most gratitude
and most powerful worship you will ever have in your
life is do you start to look at the timing
of your life.

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Bishop Gary McIntosh.

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And pastor that we started this church back in nineteen
ninety nine and one of the first buildings they ever had.

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There's a few people in the room that will remember this.

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There was a building on First Street downtown. There was
a school bus in the building. If I remembers, shout
out to black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black, and.

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This is where they start. They eventually moved to fifteen nineteen.

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Fast forward years later, there's a young couple starting a
church and they're looking for a building and they walk
up to this club on First Street and they walk
in and they say, Hey, we're looking for a venue
to start this church, and this will be the perfect venue.
And the owner of the building says, you know, that'd
be perfect because this place used to be a church.
And this couple, they created a whole branding goud of

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how they were going to launch the church, and the
tagline was this the Church's back Baby. You don't know
how I know this story because that was me.

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Me and my wife were starting.

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A church and we walked into First Street and we said, oh,
this used to be a church.

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It's about the time.

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I had no idea I was going to be here.
February first, when Pastor Michael became the pastor. You know
what was beautifully happening in the timing of God. Me
and my wife were meeting at a Super Bowl party,
and Pastor Will was sitting in court trying to decide
if he was going to jail or not. But the
timing of God had worked all things together because he
knew he stood outside of time.

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I'm about to act a fool.

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He stood outside of time, and then he created time,
and he placed me and Will and Bishop and passed
through Mike in time.

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And he said, there's a right time for them to.

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Be on time, because I've got an appointed time. God's
got you. It's on the way. Do not get it twisted.
But it's about time. It's about his plan. It's about
who you need to meet. It's about who you need
to become. The Bible says that he is not being

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slow as some of you would think. But he's giving
you time. Some of y'all ain't happen yet because you
need time. You need time to figure out who you
really were. You needed time to stop dating them, you
needed time to get over that, you needed time to
let that go.

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You needed time.

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And don't get frustrated at it, because with God.

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You never lose time.

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Some of y'all feel like you lost time that you
were in that marriage, in that relationship, and you lost
so oh, do not get it twisted. He was right
on time. He knew what he had to make in you.
He knew what he was doing when he placed you
in that family. He knew what he was doing when
he sent you to that school and you didn't get
the degree.

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He knew what he was doing.

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He was standing outside of time looking at the timeline
of your life, and he looked at it and said, Okay,
I'm gonna if they make this decision over here, and
then they meet that person and they feel like they
missed it, and then they got pregnant and they didn't
know they were gonna get pregnant, and it feels like
an accident now.

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But I don't do accidents.

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And I know you're surprised, and I know you're wondering
what you're gonna do, and I know you don't feel
like But what I know is they don't know down
here that child is.

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Gonna be raised.

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And they don't know that down here, I'm gonna break
something off their family, and they don't know down here
I'm gonna raise them up.

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And they don't know down.

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Here, So I'm gonna come back over here because I'm
standing outside of time and I'm looking at their life,
and I'm saying, baby, keep going. I've given you everything
you need to raise that kid. God chose you to
raise that kid. Yeah, don't send them to that school.
Yeah they can't go over to that house. Okay, send
them to that college. Okay, they came home. Don't make
them feel bad. Just lift them up because I have
an appointed time. There is no accident with God. There

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is no mistake with God. Just because you are surprised
does not mean he is surprised. He's standing outside of
the time looking at your life, and he knows the details.

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He knows where you're at. He knows.

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And here's the beautiful thing you can say when you
realize this, You say this, It had to happen.

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I may not have wanted it.

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I wouldn't want to go through it again, and I
wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

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But it had to happen.

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I tell you right now, I stand here right now
knowing what God did in me, and I didn't want
to go I wouldn't want to go through the depression.
I went through back in twenty twenty, and I wouldn't
want to have to write those letters wondering if I
was gonna lend but live. But let me tell you
right now, pastor mind, it had to happen because what
God put on the inside of me was the thing
I didn't know would become.

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The thing that would help so many people. And as long.

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As you spend time discounting and dismissing, you lose the
beauty of the story he's writing in your life. There's
something he's connecting. There's dots you don't see, there's threat,
there's people that you lost that I understand. And we
grieve because it's pain, and we grieve because we were

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never supposed to experience. And at the same time, he
knows I know it's painful, I know it's broken. I
know you feel like you don't know what you're gonna
do without him. But also I placed the legacy on
the inside of you, and this is gonna show you
that there's.

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More in you than you think.

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And it's gonna show you that you are strong even
if you don't have the people you thought you needed.

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It's gonna show you some.

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Of y'all don't know how strong you are, but the
things God has taken you through, it's been about his time.

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So the question is what do you do in the meantime.

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If he's got his Because I be feeling it's great,
it's a great preaching point, but it sometimes it feel like.

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Okay, okay, okay, he's got the time at the right time.
We get a.

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Doctor Seuss, you got you. It was really powerful the
way you did that. But what do I do in
the meantime? Because here's the truth, many of us we
either worry or we waste our time. So you can
get a word from God, you can get an encouragement

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for God. You can finally accept that God chose you,
and then you spend the whole process worried.

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About when it's gonna happen.

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Okay, so I don't want to miss it, and I
don't want to and what am I gonna do?

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And where's it be? And oh I'm too late, now
I'm too early. Okay, let me back up and let
me good.

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And you got to bring peace? What do you do
in the meantime? I'm gonna give you three questions to
ask yourself, three words to think about when you are
trying to figure out what to do.

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In the meantime.

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The first question I would ask you is what are
you believing?

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What do you believe? What do you believe about God?

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This question is very important to ask yourself because if
you don't know what you believe about God, it'll shape
a lot of your frustration about.

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His timing and his plan. Do you believe the.

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Scripture when it says all things work together for the
good of those who love God and are called according
to His purposes? Because if you have the power to
believe that scripture, there's a level of peace and trust
and security you can have no matter what happens, no
matter what happens when you wake up, no matter what
the world's going through, no matter the unrest, no matter
you can understand. What I believe about God is that

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He's faithful. So even though I don't see how it's
working out right now, even though this is frustrating, even
though I don't know what's happening, I trust because I
know what I believe. What do you believe about God?
The other question to ask you that what do you
believe about you? Because some of us have been chosen
by God.

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But here's the tension.

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God chose you, but at some point you're gonna have
to choose you.

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I can't. I can't.

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I can't even go into how important this is. But
at some point it doesn't matter if I chose you.
If I said, right now, hey, come up on a stage,
I'm gonna give a million dollars, I chose you. You
still somebody else said, hey, is this is this?

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Is this crazy? Say Sunday? No, this aint.

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If I chose you, you still have to stand up
and walk up here. And many of you, you know,
God places something in you. You know he's given you
a vision. You know he wants you to make some
steps and dedicate yourself to some things. But the truth is,
what you believe about yourself is you're not enough. You'll
never be enough, and so you don't choose you. Every
day God speaks, so you go speak to that person God.

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What you believe about yourself is you don't hear from God.
The last time you heard from God, it wasn't right,
or it didn't happen, or you don't know how. And
so what happens is you slowly work yourself out of.

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The time he already had. Now here's the beautiful grace.

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Message of Jesus is you actually can't work yourself out
of the time.

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I mean, he knows everything. So while you're sitting there like.

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I don't know what I'm gonna do, I don' know
if I'm obey or disobey. He knows you're gonna disobey.
You don't worry about it. I know what you're gonna do.
You pray, and this is nice, But you're gonna do
the same thing you always do. You gonna get emotion,
You're gonna compare yourself. You're gonna try to get somewhere
early before you're supposed to be there, and so.

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You're gonna circumvent the whole process I.

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Have for you just to get there and realize you
don't have what you need to be where you are,
So then you gotta go back and start over.

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He knows what he's doing.

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But what do you believe about God? What do you
believe about yourself? What do you believe about what He's
placed on the.

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Inside of you? What do you believe about your voice?

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Some of you don't believe your voice is important, so
you don't speak up In sitting in the middle of
the problem, you have to answer. You have to answer,
not even send the time. But what you'll do is
you'll just sit there and be like, Okay, yeah, interesting, you.

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Got anything to say? No, no, guys, No, I don't
want to. Hey listen, I'm just here so I don't
get fined. That's what you just be What do you believe?

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Because in the timing of this thing, there's something that
God is creating.

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And here's the question you have to ask.

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You talk about what you believe because what you believe
it shapes the next thing. What you believe shapes who
you become. And in the meantime, you got to ask
yourself who am I becoming? Because we all want to
pray prayers about where we're gonna be. The truth is
who are you gonna be when you get there?

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I told this to my wife.

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There have been some moments that have happened in my
life where I'm standing in a moment and I'm just like,
this is wow, this is actually crazy, and I take
a moment just to register like this is wild.

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And last Sunday it was one of those sundays.

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I got to speak at elevation and I was like,
what is happening?

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This is kind of crazy.

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And I've spoken at their youth conferences, been in the room,
stepped on the stage. But I came around the corner
and Elevation Worship was singing Elevation songs.

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And I looked up on.

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That stage and looked around that room and passed Stevens
faces on the screen and he was just smiling.

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And I was like, all right, brother, we're from Kentucky.

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This is kind of crazy, yo, saying he trying to
act cool, keep it together.

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But this is crazy. And I'm sitting in that moment
thinking how wild it was.

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But what I told my wife after I got done,
I said, more proud than where I am.

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It's pretty cool where I'm this is wild. I never
thought I'll get to speak at.

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This place, but more proud than where I am. I'm
proud of who I am when I got here.

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The truth is many of us.

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If you don't realize the timing of God, this is
a moment He's intentionally trying to make you into who
you've always been.

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This is the beauty and the grace of God. Let
me explain it to you this way.

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When I stood at the altar with my wife ten
years ago and said, I do. I became a husband,
but how many of you know I had no idea
what it meant to be a husband. The last ten
years have been me becoming who I've always been.

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It's the same way with you.

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God has chosen you right now, and you feel like
you don't have the tools, and you feel like you
don't know.

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What you're doing.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
But the process of him choosing you, and the timing
of him choosing you is He's giving you space to become,
space to become the man of integrity that needs to
run that business. Because what good is the business if
you're gonna do the wrong thing when you get it?
What good is the marriage if you're gonna cheat anyway?
So He's given you this time.

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See somebody like that hit you, They're like, ah, dang,
you gotta be honest. The truth is, if he answered
some of our prayers tomorrow.

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We would not be who we need to be to
stay there longer.

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Than a day.

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So we ask ourselves in the meantime, we're praying God,
would you shape me, would you mold me, would you
change me? Would you take that comparison off of me?

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Would you break this insecure? Would you have me stop
people pleasing God. I don't want to do it.

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He's trying to make you into something. In the meantime,
what do you believe? Who are you becoming? The last
one is what are you breaking? I gotta tell you something.
In order for you to be, to believe and become

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who God has chosen you to be, there's some stuff
you're gonna have to break. This past week, we had
a staff retreat here on the campus and Pastor Michael
was teaching through the story of Gideon.

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And the story of Gideon, he.

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Comes to this moment where God calls him a mighty
warrior and he steps out and he's about to go
step into battle and he's about to have one of
the greatest victories of all time. But before he goes
to war, God says, you gotta go back to your
father's idols and tear them down because you cannot go

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build what I've called you to build until you break
some things off of your family that have always been
their friend. The reason God chose you is there's some
stuff that's been on your family. There's some stuff that's
been on the men in your family. There's a lack
of commitment that's been in your life, and God has
chosen you to break those things, to break the patterns,

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to break the habits, to break the insecurities, to break
the comparison. He's chosen you. But if you want to
step into this timing, there's some stuff you're gonna have
to break. You're gonna have to stop doing the same
thing you've always done. You're gonna have to invite some people. Men,
let me talk to you for a moment. I know,
it's Father's Day and it's awesome, and we're kind of like, dang,
how come it's not as little as Mother's Day.

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That's just how it be. I know, so sorry.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
They gonna give us some bacon when we go outside.
I don't know what we got. We all like bacon
and chain saws apparently, but Father's Day, let's get some
chain saws.

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And some hot rods. And it's like, dang, bruh.

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We got mom a pedal laced vase from Italy and.

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We're like, yeah, just get them bacon donuts. They'll all
be good. Okay, man, we up here. I'm in a
leather suit, sweating, like I don't like bacon.

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Okay, But men, you gotta if you want to become
and believe some things.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
There are some patterns you're going to have to break.
You're gonna have to break the.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Pattern with all your homies that y'all all pull up
at that person's house and play video games till three
in the morning.

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So you go like, come on, man, would you go
against Minecraft?

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I ain't got nothing against Minecraft, but it's taking.

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All of your mind and energy off.

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Of your wife. And your wife needs you right now.
So you gotta tell the homies, hey, dog, now gonna
be there on Minecraft Monday nights because I have marriage
Monday nights.

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And when y'all gone and y'all live in.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Ya mama's basement, i still have a wife to take
care of and I've got kids to rape. So I
gotta break this pattern because I've got something to build.
Some of You have to break the pattern of waiting
on the approved of your family to do what you.

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Know you're supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I'm thinking about going to this school, and I'm thinking
about doing this thing, and I just want to make
sure my parents. I hope they are proud of everything,
and at the same time, they may not understand it,
they may not get it at this moment. And your
responsibility is not to make sure everybody heard from God
just like you did. Did you hear from God? Did
you hear from God? Okay, I just need confirmation.

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I just what. You don't need confirmation, You need courage.
You need the boldness to do what he said to do.
You don't need to compare. You don't need more confirmation.

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You need to pray, God give me the boldness to
do what you've asked me to do in the face
of disappointment, in the face of being insecure.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
You gotta break something. Some of you need to break
the pattern.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
I'm not committing all the way.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
You commit halfway.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
And the only problem is we don't know if you
didn't make it because you committed halfway, or you don't
have what it takes. So the enemy is able to
convince you you don't have what it takes, and that
is not true. You just didn't commit all the way
because you were so afraid of failing. You think, if
I commit all the way and I failed, then I
can say why I didn't give it everything I had,
and that's why I failed. And it's more fearful to
risk the fact. And maybe you've got some stuff to learn,

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maybe you've got some stuff. Maybe your fosts try wasn't
good enough.

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Now I know we in church will be like the
devil is a liar. He's giving me everything. Okay.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, And and you're gonna have to learn, You're gonna
have to grow, you're gonna have to fail, You're gonna
have to figure some things out.

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But it all goes back to what do you believe?
Because your earthly father rejected.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
You when you failed, you think God will reject you
when you fail. So you believe that, and so you
become someone who doesn't take risk because you're trying to
avoid losing love. Because when I take risk, I fail,
and when I fail, I lose love. So there's no
reason for me to break these patterns because these patterns
keep me safe.

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That's all our patterns are.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
There's just things we've developed as a kid to keep
us safe. And I'm not mad at everyone's need for safety.
It's psychologically true. We all need safety. The only question
and really the message of God chose me. It's not
an issue with your safety, it's not an issue with
your confidence. It's just the issue of where do you

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get it from. I'm not mad at you wanted to
be safe. I'm not mad at you being frustrated about
the timing. I'm just questioning where do you go to
get your security about the timing.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Abraham was frustrated with the timing.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
The only problem is when he had questions about the timing,
he went to his wife's servant to get security.

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About the timing of God. So he said, Okay, I
know I'm supposed to have a kid. It hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Ooh, and then his wife gonna come to him and
say you can leave with my servant.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
You had to know that.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Brother was like, girl, I know you planning. This is
not I am. You ain't gonna get me April Fools not.
But it was frustrating with the time. And all I
want to submit to you this morning in the first
week of this series, is instead of sitting around frustrated
thinking it's about time, what if you backed up.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
And looked at your life and trusted.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
I know I'm frustrated, I know I'm disappointed, but I
can trust it's about.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Time. It's about when he wants me to get there.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Because many of you have spent your whole life asking
if you were gonna get there. That's been your frustration,
that's been your disappointment, that's been your anger. Is if
God was gonna do it, if you'll be single your
whole life, if you're gonna get married, if God's gonna heal,
if he's gonna be faithful, and let me just change
your mind for a second today and submit to you.

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It's not a question of if, but it's the matter
of when. And God has been standing outside of time
your whole life, and he created time. Here's the beautiful
thing about time. If you think about it, it's just
a testimony of his love.

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He didn't create time for him. He don't need time.
He got time.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
He created time for you so you could wake up
and know, okay, his mercies are new every morning.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
He did that for you.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
He created stood outside of time, created time and placed you,
placed you in that family, placed you at that school,
He placed you in that business, He placed you in
your daughter's life. He placed you in that church, He

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placed you on that row, and he stood outside of time,
and he puts you in time because he knew there
would be a right time. Some of you have been
asking this whole sermon, Charles, when is the right time,
because I'm just where. Let me tell you, with God,
right now is always the right time, and the reaches

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a point in your life. What I love about that
scripture and Lucas says, when it came time for Mary
to give.

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Birth to Jesus, it reaches.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
A point in your life where it's no longer preparation.
It's no longer about planning, it's no longer about the
prophetic word. There reaches a point where Mary had to
step up and say it's time to have this baby.
And there are some of you. You've been waiting on
the timing. You've been waiting on the plan, You've been

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waiting on the preparation, thinking God, when is it gonna happen?
But the Bible says today is the day of salvation.

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The Bible says, right now He's put something on the
inside of you.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
And so I want to submit to you today that
God has chosen you at the right time and right
now is the right time. I know you wanted to
believe it before. I know some of you are thinking, dang,
I really could have used this in high school.

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But that doesn't matter. Now it's behind you.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Right now is the right time to be confident. Right
now is the time to step up and be who
God's called.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Right now is the time.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Nobody about your head and close your eyes, nobody moving
around for the next five minutes. There are a couple
groups of people in this room. The first group of
people is you've been frustrated with time, frustrate with how
long it's taken, Frustrated with the time. You feel like
you missed, you missed out, whatever it is, but time
when you think about waiting on God, when you're thinking

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about wondering what's happened. It's been frustrating. And maybe you
don't know how to wait, or maybe you just need
some faith while you wait, or maybe you need a
courage to step up in this right time. If time
at all has been an issue with you, I'm gonna
ask you right now, all over this room and everyone
watching online, take a moment. I just want you to
lift your hand, and we're gonna lift our hands. And

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what we're saying is God, we surrender our timeline.

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God.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Right now, I'll pray for every person with their hand lifted,
Lord God, and we're submitting our timeline to.

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You, whatever time you want to do, whatever you have planned.
We will say yes.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
If it's tomorrow, if it's an next day, God, we
say yes. But in the meantime, you will find us faithful.
Give us the courage to change what we believe, give
us the courage to become somebody we've never seen before,
and give us the courage to break some habits we
thought we couldn't ever break.

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Every hand down. I still close there some of you
in this room. I said it already, but the Bible
says that today is the day of salvation.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
And you need to know, no matter what you've went through,
no matter what's happened in your life, God was standing
outside of time, and for some of you, he saw
this time, He saw today, and he knew today would
be the day that you would surrender everything to him.
Some of you've been fighting, you've been wrestling, You've been
trying to do it by yourself, and let's be honest,
you've run out of energy and hope. You don't have
to put on a face for anybody in this room

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or online.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
You don't have to pretend for anybody.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
The truth is you're tired, you're worn out, and you
don't have any answers. Let me tell you Jesus will
meet you right where you are, and you don't have
to change stuff about you.

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You don't have to stop being being a bad person.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
We are all bad people who met a.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Very good God.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
But when you say yes to him, when you surrender
to him, when you say I don't have.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
The answers, he meets you at that point.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
And today, for some of you, this is the time
to give your life to Jesus. I'm going to count
to three, and on the count of three, everybody watching
online and everybody under the sound of my voice.

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In this room, you're gonna lift your hand boldly.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
And what you're saying when you lift your hand is
this is the time I give up control.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Of my life.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
I don't want to be my own boss. I don't
want to make my own decisions. I need God, I
need a savior. I need a hero to do something
I can't do. So I want you to lift your
hand boldly on the count of three. Don't worry about anything,
don't worry about anybody else.

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You're giving your life to Jesus today in the room
and online. One he loves you. Two. Today is that day. Three.
Lift your hand all over this room, all over this room.

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Oh, come on, can we sell people giving their life
to Jesus. I'm so proud of you, so proud of you,
so proud of you, so proud of you.

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But everybody bow their heads and closed eyes.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
We're gonna say a prayer together as a family. Everybody say,
Dear God, I admit I've made mistakes, Save me, change me,
transform me.

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I'm yours in Jesus name, I pray.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Everybody said, can we celebrate everybody who just gave their
life to Jesus.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Oh, come on, y'all, hey listen. If you just made that.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Decision, this is super, super important. We would love to
know about it. We just want to help you on
this journey of following Jesus. If you just made the
choice to follow Jesus, text the word save to the
number that comes up on the screen.

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We want to send you some resources. We have some
gifts we.

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Want to give you to say congratulations on giving your
life to Christ. Now, the whole time I was preaching
this message, there are some of you that you felt
like you missed.

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Your time to get baptized. Some of you, if you
are going to.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Become somebody different and you're gonna believe something different, and
you're gonna break some things off of your life.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
So now is the time.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
For you to go public with your faith. You've been
feeling it. You feel like, I don't know, we got
stuff for you. The team's prepared for you. This is
that moment you're like, really, this is that moment?

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Yes, right now is the time. Here's what I'll do.
I'm gonna invite the worship team to come back up.
We're gonna worship.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Together, and if you wanna get baptized today, not tomorrow,
and not the next day, you don't wanna wait for
another time. We have our team who are in these
amazing blue baptism shirts. They're getting in the pool. But
our team is gonna put up a big sign that
says prayer on the back wall.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
I think they'll throw that in just a second.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Walk straight under that sign where it says prayer, and
the team can get you all the resources and they
gonna get you right in line to come up here
and get baptized. I'm telling you, some of you, you've
been waiting for a moment in time to take a
new step. This is that moment. Don't wait on anything else.
Some of y'all, you ain't gonna get baptized, but you're
gonna stay and encourage and worship together as people take

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this step up faith. I'm gonna text say a prayer
over us as we close out our service.

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God, I thank you that you're always on time.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
God, I pray right now even for everyone who is
making the decision to.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Get baptized today.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Lord Jesus, that you are working out the timing of
their life, and there would be a courage and a
boldness and a beauty that shows up in this moment
as their life is transform God, we love you so much.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
To the name of Jesus.

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We pray, and everybody said, would you stand up on
your feet.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
We're about to celebrate people going public with their faith.
We love you so so much. Come on, let's do it.
Thank you for joining us today.

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If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into
your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.
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