You Didn't Lose It; God Moved It

So here's the tension.

Okay, we find these seasons in our life where we're

trying to protect something at the same time we're trying

to accept something that's the tension, and we're all there,

We're all there. It's like we're trying to receive what

God is doing. This is what the Church was doing.

They have just gotten used to the idea of justification

by faith.

That was new.

They were no longer shedding the blood of bulls and

goats in the sacrificial system in order to atone for

their sin. They are now having to believe.

By faith what they used to be able to touch.

They are having They are having to learn an entirely

new way to relate to God. They are having to

take what was visible the circumcision, and in an invisible covenant.

They are having to trust in an unseen God. And

just about the time they're getting the hang of that,

just about when they are getting used to this new

way of relating to God by grace, just about the

time they are getting used to it is not by

the works of the law that you are justified. That

none are righteous, no, not one. That the righteous requirements

of the law are fully met in Jesus, and then

through faith in him we are made right with God.

It is not our righteousness.

Our righteousness is like filthy rags. You could not keep

the law, you could not get to God.

So grace came to you. Just about the time they're

getting used to grace. Here come the gentiles, just about

the time they're learning how to do it this way,

you will still be eating last year's harvest when you

will have to move it out to make room.

For the new. Who am I preaching to?

God is moving stuff around in your life? God is

moving stuff around in your life. I just learned how

to use Instagram, and now everybody's on TikTok. It's just

stuff moves so fast, and I can't dance. Stuff moves

too fast.

I don't know.

I don't know if you feel it too. But everything

is moving.

And when God speaks to Peter about this, it's really

a message for us.

It's really a message.

About how do we protect what God did while accepting

what He's doing. How do we not get stuck in

a way of going. Man, I wish I wish it

could be like it was.

Well, it's not well.

I wish God would give me an announcement or make

an appointment with me on my calendar? Did you know

that change never makes an appointment with your calendar?

It just shows up when it wants to show up.

I think it's so crazy how Peter was like, look

at look at how he responds to them starting from

the beginning. Peter told them the whole story. And let

me give this to you from acts chapter five on.

And I'm gonna do my best to just be diligent

and read the text and not comment on it.

Will y'all pray for me? I love this text so much.

I'm gonna want to keep on saying stuff about it,

but I want to read this. I was in the

city of Japa praying and in a trance I saw

a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being

let down from heaven by its four corners, and it

came down to where I was, and it came down

to where I was, and it came down to where

I was, and it came down to where I was,

and it came down to where I was.

God said, don't chase it, chase me. I feel like

a Vinyl record that started skipping. It came down to

where I was. It came down to where I was.

It came down to where I was. It came down

to where I was. I wish you would shout, real quick,

God's gonna bring it to me. God's gonna bring it

to me. So many people are out chasing stuff. If

I will stay station in the will of God, in

the peace of God, and be planted by the streams

of living water, God's gonna bring it to me.

Somebody shout, God's gonna bring it to me.

See, Heaven opened up and Jesus came down to show

us that God came to me. Favor comes to me,

blessings come to me, Suy comes to me, Peace comes

to me, the right people come to me, the idea

comes to me, the wisdom comes to me. All I

gotta do is ask God stand still and.

See the salvation.

Oh the Lord, God said, I'm gonna bring it.

I don't care if you are contagious.

You gotta to touch somebody real quick on their shoulder

and tell them, real quick, God's gonna bring it to me.

God's gonna bring it to me. In the back that's

just sitting there. The word of the Lord for you

today is if you will stay in Joppa, if you

will stay in Joppa. When I studied the text, I

found out that God gave Peter an opportunity that he

wasn't even praying for Joppa Joppa. I was like, Lord,

what's significant about Joppa? Why was he in Jopa praying

when the Gospel went to the known world.

This is a big deal.

This is a big deal, mister president, This is a

big deal Peter. But he didn't know it. He went

up on the roof to pray. Let's look at the story.

Can we look at the story? All right?

Said Alan.

He was in Joppa. That's what he said in verse five.

I was in Joppa, not posting, praying.

I was in Joppa. Everybody say Joppa. Come on, you

gotta say it out loud, not in your head.

Say Joppa. There it is, because that's where some of

y'all are right now.

Peter went to Joppa because an e kids volunteer in

the church had just died.

Her name was Dorcas.

Dorcas, how are you gonna go all your Peter, how

are you gonna go out of your way to check

on Dorcas. She's not famous, she's not she don't have

a lot of followers.

But Peter was in Lida and he was preaching the gospel,

raising people from the dead and stuff.

Just you know, the things you do when you're Peter.

And when he went to Joppa to see all the

people who were discouraged in Choppa.

When he got there, look at Acts chapter nine.

I'm all over the scriptures today because this is such

a great, great, great passage of scripture, and the Lord

just keeps unfolding it for me.

Even as I appreached you. But give me Acts nine.

Peter sent them all out of the room.

Because Dorcas is dead, and he went to comfort them,

but he sent them all out of the room.

He sent them all out of the room. Y'all gotta go.

Y'all got it, y'all got to get out of here

real quick.

He sent them all out of the room, all out

of the room.

All what did we come here to do today?

To make room for the noon? Now he knew that

if he keeps people in the room who.

Have an old mindset, old mindsets cannot receive new miracles.

Preach the word verdict.

Old mindsets cannot receive new miracles.

So he said, y'all get out.

I love you, but get out.

I appreciate you, but get out because there's something new

that God wants to do, and I need my faith

focused right now.

So I'm sorry my phone was off. Make room.

I'm sorry I didn't respond to you.

Make room.

I'm sorry that I didn't come crawling back to you.

Make room.

I'm sorry, Make room. I'm sorry I was at church.

Make room.

I'm sorry I couldn't gossip with you.

I had to walk away.

Make room because if I allow an old mindset to

crowd the space of my heart.

Wow. Peter's like, y'all.

Gotta go for a minute, get out, get out. And

when he sent him out of the room, he got

down on his knees and prayed, and turning toward the

dead woman, he said, Tabitha.

Get up.

One time Jesus went in a room and there was

a little girl who had died. And the word for

a little girl in Hermeic.

Is talitha, and he said talitha. kOhm.

Now look back at the scripture again. What Peter said

was Tabitha. Her name was Dorcas in Greek, but the

name that they would have been familiar with was Tabitha.

It's one letter different than talitha little girl. He is

mimicking the miracle that he saw the Savior do. He

decided in this moment, I want to see if resurrection

power is real. And when he said Tabitha to Tabitha,

Tabitha komb Talitha khum, little girl, get up, and I

wonder what.

You need to say get up to today that is

lying dead and dormant in your spirit and in your life.

This message is not for everybody, but whoever it's for.

When he said.

Tabitha, get up, Tabitha komb Tabitha, get up, she opened

her eyes and seeing Peter, she sat up.

God said, make for resurrection.

I know there are some things in your life that

you have given up on, but whoever this is for today,

make room for the new And the only thing that

is blocking you from receiving the grace of God is

your unbelief. So I want to take a minute and

send an announcement to unbelief.

Get out the room.

Resurrection is here, Get out the room.

Grace is here.

Get out the room. Jesus is in the house. Come on,

shut about it.

Says, I'm preaching it to whoever He's sent me for.

He said, make room for the new. Make room.

Your mind is more crowded than your closet.

And people will apply this message so many different ways.

It's crazy.

They'll be like I heard the preacher say, you know,

make room for the new.

I want to, you know, divorce.

I'm gonna go tell my boss Monday Leviticus twenty six'.

Ten somebody Named Ken Coffee ken what was his? Name Ken,

costa he.

Told the, preacher he, Said leviticus twenty six.

TEN i, quit.

BUT i found out that the most crowded place is

not because of other people on.

My job.

Or even who is bringing me WHAT i perceived to

be external.

Conflict god needs to make room in.

Me I'm.

I'm the crowded.

One, joppa he was just hanging out In, japa raising

up dead, ushers. Greets dorcas would have been a volunteer

At Elevation. Church she would have served at the River walk.

Campus she would have been there, early greeting, people handing

out breath.

Mints in the bathroom or something like. That she did

the little.

Things and Because peter see he did not categorize it

as a little thing to go To joppa and when

he was preying on the, Roof.

God, said are you? Open are you?

OPEN i thought it was significant that he was on

the roof When god showed him what he was. DOING

i think a lot of times we get confined in

spaces where we think that's.

All there could ever.

Be we begin to look at our family and what

they've done for an indication of what we can.

Do But god, said make room for the.

New because for some of you you are a generational blessing.

Vessel god Shows peter to take The gospel to new,

people and that will always require. Conflict you are going

to have to confront your old ways of dealing with,

people because if you, Don't god can bring you new.

People but if you carry the same patterns from your

old relationships into the new, ones you didn't make room for.

Them that's WHY i was telling you this. Morning When

John butler, Came graham, said how fast did elevation grow

when we came? In and there's pictures on my wall

of different sizes of the. Church SO i told him

To John butler's story when he said came in and, said,

preacher you're.

Full we HAD i think that week twelve hundred people in.

Church he, said your church is. FULL i, said Praise.

God he, said that's a. Problem you're telling people to

invite their. Friends where you're going to put? Them where

are you going to put? It if your heart is

full of, bitterness where are you going to put?

Love If god sends.

It may his favor be upon where are you gonna put?

It, wow.

You pray the prayer jaba as all you.

Want god bless me, indeed but if you don't enlarge

your borders to receive, it and sometimes that means just

changing your mind about What god can.

Use Joppa. Japa why does that sound familiar to? Me

joppa a jap as a port, City So.

Mediterranean is on the, coaste so they would send. Temper

WHEN i studied, this When solomon built the temple and

when they built it after The babylonian, exile they got

the wood sent To joppa and then took it To

jerusalem to build the.

Temple SO i was, like, yeah that's What god does In.

Joppa he sends the raw materials and you decide what

to do with.

It that's What joppa. Is that's what the season of

your life. Is that's what this moment in your, mind

this moment in, time you will still be eating last year's.

Harvest when here comes the, new will you make room for?

It or you're gonna sit around looking at pictures of

when your kids were? Cute, ma'am he is forty.

Eight he stopped being cute about forty three.

Ago but can you now relate to this stage of

your life with?

Faith can you make room for the? New jop a

jop a jop A Joppa? Jopp who was it they

went To?

JOPPA i asked the interns this.

Week because we've been doing this scripture with campus, pastors

we did it with. Interns i've just been stuck in the.

SCRIPTURE i was, like jop a jop who went To?

Joppa and of COURSE i, knew BUT i was just

using the. TECHNIQUE i was, like who went To? Joppa

do you all know who went To? Joppa they were

saying Every bible character just a guessing. Game you, know

these interns they love The, lord but they don't know

The bible too good. Yet they were, like, Uh, david, No, goliath, no,

Everything larry Curly, mo you, know like everything in the

script Of, bartholomew random, Characters Ruth, Naomi, no.

Who went To. Joppa peter wasn't the first. One all,

right let me give your hens.

Water fish rhymes with. Corona that was not. Funny it's not.

Funny Jonah Shonah chapter, one verse.

Three But jonah ran away from The.

Lord peter went toward purpose From.

Joppa shonah ran away from The, lord went down To

tarsish and went down to jo but to get The

tarsish to run away from the purpose of The.

Lord AND i hear The lord, saying what are you

going to do in Jopp? Up you're going to run

toward and go with it or run? Away Because jonah

still had to go To. Nineveh you've still got to

learn the.

Lesson, look if you don't embrace, change it's still going to.

Change you can go on protest about, it make a picket.

Sign change doesn't.

CARE i remember When christians were boycott In.

Disney, yeah that really hurt.

Him y'all remember that you can't Fight disney with a picket,

sign with some elmer's glue and a sharpiet with a.

Sign you can't Fight, god can't fight, change can't fight.

LIFE i don't pray for. PROBLEMS i don't pray FOR

i don't pray for things to die in my. LIFE

i don't pray for controversy and. CONFLICT i think you're

stupid if you. DO i think you're stupid if you

pray for. Patience what kind of dumb prayer is?

That who taught? You? Lord we just. PRAY i heard

a god praying the other, Day lord humble.

ME i was, like, oh, no, no, no, NO i

think life will humble.

Me god will humble. Me my kids will humble. Me

five foot nine will humble, me forty will humble. Me

but when it.

COMES i almost called this message the opportunity of a

lifetime BECAUSE i.

WOULD i didn't call it. THAT i almost called it

that BECAUSE i thought it's what you. Do In.

Joppa peter, SAID i was In joppa, praying so three

things The lord gave. Me don't get. Nervous this is

the Conclusion part One. Joppa three things The lord gave,

me and we'll go that he Gave.

Peter When peter was.

Praying In, jappa not looking for something, new not chasing something,

new not quitting jobs and leaving.

Marriages but just, staying The lord showed him four. Corners

it was a vision That god showed him the vision

came to. Him, god what DO i? Do you Fulfill god's?

Purpose and you, pray and you'd be Who god has

called you to. Be and the sheet came down from.

Heaven heaven comes to. You you don't climb To. God

this is the new. Covenant this is the new way

of relating To. God god comes to you wise. Praying

the sheet came down from, heaven and he said it

came down to WHERE i.

Was verse.

SIX i looked into it and saw four footed animals

of the, earth wild, beasts, reptiles and. Birds next verse

AND i heard a voice telling me get, Up, peter

kill and eat and.

Watch peter resist the.

TENSION i thought it was this, way but maybe it's that.

WAY i Thought god was going to do. This maybe

he's going to do.

THAT i thought this was Who god was going to,

use but maybe he's going to use somebody.

DIFFERENT i Thought god gave me this, opportunity.

But maybe he's opening a.

DOOR i Thought god had opened that, door but then it.

Closed Maybe god closed that door to show me another

door THAT i wouldn't have seen if the one THAT

i wanted to walk through hadn't.

Closed who was this? For And peter, said surely, Not,

LORD i don't like. IT i don't want to make

room for. IT i like last year's. HARVEST i like

the way it. WAS i like the.

TABERNACLE i like the old. WAY i like. FIGHTING i like.

That surely, Not, lord nothing impure or unclean has ever

entered my. Mouth and the voice spoke from heaven a second, time,

saying do not call anything impure That god has made.

Clean so he went To cornelius and gave him The,

gospel and the gentile world opened up to the purpose

Of Jesus christ because of what happened In. JOPPA i

wonder what's at stake in This joppa moment of your.

Life and IF i could give you three things BEFORE

i send you, out it would be.

One don't be limited by a. Label god, said don't

call stuff WHAT i didn't call. It you keep calling

it impure or.

Unclean you have your categories for, life you have your

categories for. People you think you know what a blessing

is and what a blessing ISN'T i read a proverb

from A japanese proverb from a long time ago that,

said one day a farmer had a horse that ran

off and the neighbors came around later that night and.

Said we're so sorry for your. Loss that's. Horrible he. Said.

Maybe next day the horse came back with two other.

Horses the neighbors came around and, said, congratulations that's. Wonderful

you have two new. Horses he said. Maybe the next

day his son was out trying to train one of

the two new, horses or or one of the. HORSES

i don't know which. One it didn't say in the,

parable but he fell off and broke his. Arm the

neighbors came around and, said that's horrible that your son

broke his. Arm he said. Maybe the next day the

army recruiters were coming by to draft somebody to fight

in the, war but the son had the broken. Arm

the neighbors came around that night and, said that's. Wonderful

your son doesn't have to go to. War he, said. Maybe,

oh that's the. End y'all waiting on the. Punchline that's

where we have to, live, Church.

We have to live in the space Called maybe this

is the tension of the mystery of The gospel Of Jesus.

Christ what a? Blessing maybe what a?

Burden maybe what if they're the same. Thing maybe, maybe,

maybe MAYBE i don't want to MAYBE.

I want a.

Miracle the miracle is in The MAYBE.

I gotta close take the.

MIC i can't stop preaching this Because god, said make.

Room make.

Room stop being so closed minded about Who god can.

Use god might use somebody you don't even like to

bless your. Life what a?

Word what a?

Word this is a daylight, savings time. Annoycing this is

a one hour early.

Word this is a word for people who know you

cannot limit yourself with a. Label and number, two don't

be loyal to a.

Lie some of us will hold on to something that

is old because it feels, comfortable like sweatpants with holes

all up in. Them you wear it because it feels,

good but you look stupid wearing something you should have

thrown out a long time. Ago some of us would

rather believe what people said about us because it's what

we got used to, believing then stepping into who we really.

Are so don't be loyal to a.

Lie and as you stand to your, FEET i want

to tell you something That i'm gonna tell the whole next.

Service don't be. Late don't be. Late you will still

be eating last year's, harvest when you will have to

move it out to make room for the. New so

the prophetic declaration goes like, This you didn't lose, It

god moved.

It, hey thank you for.

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