Dealing With Your Unbelief

Freedom doesn't always come easy, and sometimes it takes persistence.

And sometimes God has to let your situation look humanly

impossible so that he can reveal himself as to God

of all possibility. Sometimes Lazarus has to stay in the

grave a little while longer so when he gets up,

you won't just think it was the prayers of the church.

So no, it was the power of God that raised him.

Like so he says, this is what the Lord says,

he who made away.

Raise your hand.

If God ever made away for you, just even a

little way, just even if he ever healed a headache,

or just if he ever helped you get a job,

or even if somebody slipped your twenty whin you didn't

have a job and you got the gas.

Or maybe it was one time when you.

Were so depressed, crying your eyes out, and you woke

up one morning and you realize, you know, I feel

a little better today, and maybe I can get out

of the bed today, and maybe I wash a few

dishes today, and before you knew it, you were back

to normal. God made away? Has He ever made away

for you? Has He ever made away? If He made

away for you, just wave your hand. If he made away.

Just wave it. I don't know what you're talking about.

Don dun du don don dond.

When they started, when Isaiah said that the people that

that was remembered, that was their soundtrack to remind them

that they were no longer slaves.

He who made a way. Because this is a scene.

This is not an abstract, theoretical, metaphorical out of words

to say this. This is this is not what God

kind of like does in a.

Picture for him.

This is an actual, practical memory from the past of

what God did for his people.

He didn't do it for these people.

They're in a different situation, but he did it for

the people that they're a part of.

So it's part of their legacy. It's part of.

Their core story. Their core story is that we were slaves.

God brought us out of each We were there for

over four hundred years. He brought us out into a

promised land. And now they need to go back to

their core story so that they can survive their captivity.

Are you with me so far? So he brings them back.

Ton ton ton ton Toun to Toun, to Toun, chun

chun Chu toon Tun.

He made away.

Through the sea to a path through Tontan Tunt, the

mighty waters who threw out Tonton Dunt the cherry. Yes,

Tom Tuntunt and horses and army and reinforcements together.

They're never realize an exchange something out, so they're like, yeah, yes, Jesus,

won't he do it?

Won't he do it? Won't we make away?

So then I'm surprised when he says verse eighteen, com

he messes up the flow.

He got the people.

Remembering how strong and mighty cut wasn't the red sea

he made away?

Did it with no way? And then he says, forget

this is the next verse.

I promise you I'm not moving these all around. Forget

the former things. I understand that because if you live

in a state of regret over I mean, if you

relive over and over again every dumb thing you said,

or everything that every decision that you made, every purchase that.

You mean, it is paralyzing to live in the past.

And you really do have to understand that one thing

that the Cross of Jesus does is it gives me

the freedom to move past my mistakes.

I am so grateful for that.

And here's what I mean, I feel change breaking while

I preach today because I always as I always preach

that a certain way.

And then one day I realized that most people are

not living.

Enslaved to the mistakes that they made, like twenty three

years ago. It's that I keep making mistakes. So really,

when I say moving on past your mistakes, that might

not be very difficult if it was three years ago.

But what are those three minutes ago? And here you

are in church and God is trying to bless you.

Do you remember I said he's trying to bless you.

He was blessing Abraham to be a blessing. He wanted

to bless as people so they could bless the earth.

He's always blessing.

It's not just an activity, it is an attribute of

his character.

He is the God who blesses.

It's what he does, it's who he is.

It's what he does that flows from who he is.

And He's always trying to bless you.

But sometimes I've got to be honest about it. My unbelief,

not only my unbelief, but my stubborn refusal to really

accept the fact that whatever I did, He's already.

Done something about it.

It keeps me from entering until.

The present moment.

So now I'm stuck, and he gives me permission to

move on past my mistakes, and he says, see, I'm

doing a new thing.

Forget the past, which makes sense when we're.

Talking about the mistakes of my past.

But remember Isaiah did not just list the mistakes of

their past.

He just mentioned a miracle from their past.

And right after he mentions the miracle, he tells them

to forget it. Oh, I got you curious now because

that first thing I said, that's just normal preaching.

Forget it and move on.

That's bumper sticker stuff, Fido, you know, forget it, drive on.

I mean, that's that's not even really preaching. So you're

clapping for it right, moving on.

If only the credit card companies would get the same

spirit of forgiveness that God has.

Right, they didn't get the memo though, und.

He nail.

Were there was no way.

Through the Red Sea brought us out Egypt, and that God,

the same God who did that, wants you to do this.

Forget it, do not dwell on the past. Put my

verse back. I don't want to think I'm making this

up because I'm strange. I know, forget.

What I did.

I always assumed that the greatest barrier that keeps me

from being blessed by God is what the devil.

Did to me.

Sometimes the greatest barrier to the blessing.

Of God in your future. You got it. It's not

what the devil did to you.

It's what God did for you in one season that

you expect him to repeat in the next season. So

I've heard one hundred sermons, I probably preached a hundred

sermons on move on from the mistake.

But what about when God wants you to move on.

From the miracle? And this is the weirdest thing. I

don't know how to explain it to you, but we

have all these corese stories at our church. In business terminology,

your core story is the crux of your central value proposition,

where you describe what you do as a company that

differentiates you from all the other ones. Well, as a church,

we have a course story what makes us unique, the

faith of the early days. You know, maybe some of

the stuff y'all are talking about it backstage past weekend

on a history tour.

You know those stories are good. Can I be honest

with you.

The reason I'm not going to give you it the

tour is because I don't remember the stuff that a

lot of the stuff, And I used to think it

was because I wasn't grateful, because I felt like, you know,

if I was really grateful for what God did. I mean,

there are things that Hollywood remind me of a lot

of the times. And she'll be like, rems, remember when

God did this?

And she'll mention something that had me all up.

In nuts when it happened, but I don't even remember

about it anymore. And I used to think that there

was something wrong with me, or maybe I'm starting to

lose my memory or something, because I already told you

we're getting old, and maybe it's starting to deteriorate. My

brain isn't functioning the same way. Or maybe God doesn't

want me to rely on.

A memory of.

A miracle that he has already performed and miss the

miracle that is in progress. I'm trying to preach a

progressive message today, and here's the message. Remember the ways

he made but forget the.

Way he made it, just a run in place message.

I gotta get some energy, I so I'll holler, not

too bad.

Remember what he did for you, Remember how he kept you,

how he blessed you, how he sustained you, how he

opened doors, how he made opportunities, how he made.

Away out of no way.

But then you gotta forget exactly how he did it.

Remember how much fun your marriage was before you had children,

But then forget the freedom that you had before you.

Brought these.

Human beings and to exist this No, I'm serious, because

sometimes we get stuck in a season and we miss

God's supply. He said, I want you to remember what

I did, and then forget how I did it, because

I'm not going to do it the same way every time.

And here's why I'm not going to do it the

same way every time. I'm not gonna do it like

I used to do it.

Because you can imagine the people in captivity, they're hearing

this message, du da da duh, and they're remembering Moses.

Now by this time, Moses isn't somebody they know. He's

like no offense.

Most if you're listening to me preach, I don't imagine

he's tuning into my sermons of all the sermons.

That he has available, if you know. But however that

works with heaven and live streaming and stuff like that.

But just for the record, no, offense Moses.

But I gotta believe that they were waiting for Moses

to get them out of this captivity, because Moses was

kind of like a mascot. So they're looking, they're they're

in Babylonian captivity, and they're going, Okay, who's God going

to send to get us out of this? And so

then Isaiah says, does say it, the Lord, you're king,

your creator. Thus say it the Lord, the one who

spoke to Abraham and called him out of earth, the Chaldeans,

and made many out of one, and made you a nation,

and brought you out of slavery, and brought you through

the one who made away.

This is what he says. Don't look for it.

To look like what it used to look like, or

feel like what it used to feel like. Please do

not misapply my message today to leave your husband and

try to tell him that Preacher Stephens said that Moses

is dead, or any of this weird stuff that Christian

people do to try to make a message mean whatever

they wanted to be. What I'm saying to you is,

when Jesus walked the earth, he did miracles, he opened

blinded eyes, but he didn't do it the same way

every time he did it. And here's why. This is

what I believe. You believe whatever you want to believe.

I believe God doesn't want us to be more committed

to a system than we are to a.

So this is what the Lord says.

I'm gonna make away because that's what I do. How

many believe he's a waymaker? Yeah, yeah, he's a waymaker.

I'm gonna make a way, but not the way I

made it before.

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