WEBVTT 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:10.880 Hey, I'm Steve Holt, the senior pastor of The Road at Chapel Hills. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:12.320 This is the Road Podcast. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:13.679 Thanks for joining us. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.039 My heart is to empower you to change the world. 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.839 I hope this message impacts you. 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:27.359 So Liz, Liz and I were talking, and at first Liz was gonna do the message. 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:31.280 Then as we talked, we realized this really isn't a message for the women. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:32.799 This is a message for everybody. 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:35.600 So we're gonna we're gonna do this together. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.600 We're gonna toggle back and forth. 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:39.200 It'll probably be messy. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:44.320 Okay, because she's a firstborn, and I'm a firstborn. 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:49.359 And we've always locked horns over most things important in life. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:55.200 But she's found out I'm right, so true. 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.880 So that's the key to a happy marriage is when she's right, go with it, baby. 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:03.679 And when you're right, she needs to learn to go with it. 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:09.680 So um, so anybody does anybody have any marriages with two firstborns? 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:10.799 Anybody in here? 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.640 Okay, there's a few, yeah. 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:13.439 All right. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.799 Some of you feel like that the other one was a firstborn, right? 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:17.359 Okay. 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.400 Well, Liz had it her way when she was growing up. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.000 I had it my way when I was growing up. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.120 And we both had little brothers to boss around so we could practice here. 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:27.760 Yeah. 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.599 So we're gonna go back and forth and interrupt each other and stuff like that. 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:37.280 And uh we're calling this the Fear of the Lord Revolution for Disabled Saints. 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:38.799 Because that's Liz's title. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:39.599 I thought it was pretty good. 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.239 The Fear of the Lord Revolution is for disabled saints. 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:59.920 Now, here's why we're saying that is because the last year and three months has to have been the biggest paradigm shift that our country has ever gone through. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:05.599 And most of it has created fear in most of us. 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.280 And because of that, it has been disabling. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:16.319 And in some cases, it's actually brought kind of spiritual, emotional paralysis. 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:24.719 At this church, we want to do our part in breaking fear off of you and setting you free. 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:30.240 And listen, listen, to walk in a different kind of fear. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:38.719 So here's the bottom line: unless you discover the fear of God, you will walk in tons of phobias. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.280 You will. 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:41.520 You'll fear this, you'll fear because here's why. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.919 Most of us fear death. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:53.840 But when you get free from the fear of death and you walk as a wholehearted disciple in the fear of the Lord, which by the way, when you walk in the fear of the Lord, it breaks off the fear of death. 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.240 Nobody's got nothing on you. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.360 And it's really freeing, it's really exciting. 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:00.560 So that's a process. 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.840 It doesn't happen overnight. 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.879 It's not gonna happen today in many cases. 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:05.439 It might. 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:06.960 It'd be awesome if it did. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:14.319 But the reality is you're in a process, and we're chipping away at the fear of man to talk about the fear of God. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:19.360 And so on February 21st of this year, I taught on the fear of God. 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.360 And in that message, I talked about what the fear of God is. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:24.800 This message is different. 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.159 It's really not about what the fear of God is, it's about how to walk in the fear of God. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:33.919 So turn in your Bibles to the book of Ecclesiastes. 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:42.319 One of the coolest verses in the Bible because the smartest man in the world is the one who wrote it. 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:46.879 Okay, Solomon is considered the wisest man who ever lived. 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.080 But he messed up his life. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.120 How many of you know that just because you're wise doesn't mean you're smart? 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:57.280 Okay, so one of the smartest men in the world right now is trying to ruin our life. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:58.960 But I won't name his name. 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.240 Let me just give you a hint. 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.960 The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:06.240 Okay, just a little hint. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.919 Okay, turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 12. 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.000 So here he's writing Ecclesiastes. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:20.720 The book of Ecclesiastes, you guys, is really about, I would say, if I would put a rubric over it, it'd be the chagrin of Solomon. 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:31.759 It's kind of a book where he's just so despairing about his life and what he's learned in life, how much he's blown it in his life, but he comes to this conclusion. 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:33.040 It's beautiful. 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.879 Ecclesiastes 12, 13, you should underline it, highlight it, star it, check it, however you do it. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.560 Mine's underlined with a check beside it because it's so important. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.720 He says, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:57.759 So the conclusion of everything that he's talked about in Ecclesiastes, fear God, keep his commandments, for this is man's all. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:10.800 So we are dovetailing into Solomon's wisdom and perspective that you could blow it in a lot of areas of your life. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:28.639 You may not be the smartest guy in the room, you may not be the sharpest pencil in the drawer, you may not have had anything but failure in your life, but he's saying if I could sum up everything, if you learn to fear God and walk in his commandments, that's what life is all about. 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.399 So that's what this message is about. 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:35.600 It's about the fear of God and even the disabilities that we carry. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:44.560 Well, in order to have a kingdom of God revolution, which we've been talking about a lot here, you have to have a fear of the Lord revolution. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:50.720 And I would say, for me, I accidentally fell into a fear of the Lord revolution. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.160 I'm gonna tell you how that happens because it didn't happen for you. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:02.160 So it started with a prayer meeting that three of us had right here. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:17.120 And it was on the stage, and we were praying about somebody who that we had a heart for badly, and it was somebody who was telling their kids, you can be any gender you want. 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:31.759 So we we decided, um three of us, and one person's right here, Miss Christine Hawk, we said, we're not gonna leave here until God shows us he's answered that prayer. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.920 We didn't know what exactly we were doing, but we were like, he's gonna tell us. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.839 You know, when you go into prayer, you should go in for that kind of victory. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:41.439 Yes, you should. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:42.000 That's right. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.319 Everything, you should, and you should battle because he says he'll answer our prayers. 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:46.800 That's right. 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:55.199 But we don't wait enough, we don't do, we just want it like microwave, and sometimes you have a crock pot thing going on. 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:57.680 So we stayed here hours praying. 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:03.199 We prayed, we cried out to God, and you know what happened the next week. 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:08.160 That person called another strong believer and said, I don't know the truth. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.439 Can you tell me what it is? 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.439 I just want to know about truth. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:13.439 Like, whoa. 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.199 We were like, he answered, like he did it. 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:17.920 Whoa. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:22.319 And then the other thing is um school in a box. 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:28.639 That's the other thing with that kind of prayer that's created an inferno in my life. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.800 And if and I said yes to that assignment. 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:35.680 I like that. 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:37.279 Yeah, I really like that. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:40.480 When you say I'm on an inferno, you're in a you're an inferno. 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:41.120 Damn, I'm sorry. 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:42.879 But this is how it happened. 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.279 If you want it, I'm telling you how to get it. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.399 This is the recipe, right here. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:47.360 Do you guys like that? 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:48.079 Inferno. 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:48.720 Yes. 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:54.480 You go after all your prayers that you have, and you say, I'm not leaving until you answer. 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:55.279 That's right. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.480 And he does, but because we believe. 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:00.720 So anyway, the school in a box. 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.000 So I'm like, ugh, I have to do school in a box, really. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.360 Like, ugh, I was like so reluctant to do it. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.759 And um, and what's happened is we're going through Genesis. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:20.240 And when we go through it, the team, we feel very responsible that we're not gonna teach heresy to any kids. 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:22.800 So we go through it with a fine-toothed comb. 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.959 We go through Bible commentaries, we go through the lexicon, Hebrew lexicon. 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.800 We go through it so much that it's like, ugh. 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:32.799 And then we kid friendly it. 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:34.399 So we're always thinking about it. 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.360 And God's saying, You thought it was for the kids? 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:38.799 It's for you. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:41.120 Ah, yeah. 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:42.720 So that's created. 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:46.720 I have a different walk with God because of those two things in my life. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:48.799 And I didn't do it, God did it. 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.679 I give him the praise, he set me on fire. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.879 Sorry, everybody, it's sometimes obnoxious, but all right. 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.440 So here's an inferno quote for you. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.200 Okay, this is an inferno quote. 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:02.879 This is good by Oswald Chambers. 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:04.080 Write this down. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:11.519 By the way, the reason I say write things down is because 80% of your retention is based on what you write down. 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.080 If you don't write it down, you lose 80%. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.399 If you do write it down, you retain 80%. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.080 And I want you to retain what's happening here. 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:21.840 So here's what Oswald Chambers says. 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:29.759 He said, The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear him, you fear nothing else. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:31.519 That's pretty good. 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:37.519 Whereas if you do not fear him, you fear everything else. 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:38.320 Hello? 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.399 So here's some powerful promises about the fear of the Lord. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:44.080 Proverbs 29, 25. 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:44.639 Write that down. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.159 Proverbs 29, 25. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.240 The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.320 It's a good word to us these days. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.240 Psalm 27, 1. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:01.519 David says, The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:08.000 So, in other words, if the Lord's your light and the Lord's your salvation, why do you have anything to fear? 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:12.879 The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.000 Psalm 118, 5 and 6. 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.480 I called on the Lord in distress. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.559 The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:27.279 The Lord is on my side, I will not fear. 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:29.840 What can man do to me? 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.399 Proverbs 1 7. 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:40.080 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:41.679 So here's the way I would describe it. 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:50.720 This is uh, if there was a Proverbs 1-7B, okay, that's you heard Proverbs 1-7, that's Solomon. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.000 Now Proverbs 1-7B, Steve. 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:54.879 Okay? 00:10:55.279 --> 00:11:04.080 So here's how it would read: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of man is the beginning of stupidity. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.279 Okay, now we all fear man, right? 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.600 So, so we all have this struggle. 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.840 You're born with the fear of man. 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:13.120 That's the way you're born. 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.799 So it's not weird that kids have peer pressure. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.000 It's not strange that gangs get formed. 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:28.799 It's not strange that we want to know what everybody is thinking, and it's not strange that we want to wear fashions that everybody thinks is cool. 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.080 Because it's probably related to just our human nature that way. 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.360 But here's what happens when we get born again again. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.639 How many of you would like to be born again again? 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:41.600 All right, so that's a lot of you. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:42.960 Let's get born again again. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:49.759 And by the way, in a lifetime, it should be born again, again, again, again, again, because you keep growing, right? 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:57.440 So the fear of the Lord breaks the power of the fear of man, and you start to think right. 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.480 You actually start to have God's thoughts. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.000 And so that's key. 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:08.720 Because, hello, God's thoughts are not our thoughts, right? 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:17.600 So I'm gonna tell you what a fear of the Lord looks like in my life and we both in his life, because we both collaborated. 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.720 It's standing in awe of him. 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.240 And we stand because we respect. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:30.799 We stand in awe of God, wanting to honor him with my life. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.519 That's all I have to give, my life. 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.639 Um, utmost respect for God. 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.480 Loving his reputation over mine. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:42.080 We can write these down. 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:43.919 Good things write down. 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:51.279 Loving his reputation over mine, willing to love his thoughts over my thoughts. 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:59.759 Willing to say yes to his thoughts over my thoughts, willing to love his ways over my ways. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:08.399 Well, um, I just want to say a little bit about this Isaiah 55, 8 and 9. 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:23.679 It says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts than your thoughts. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:32.879 The way God's designed us is we can have a lot of information in our heads, but we can only have one thought we're focusing on. 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:38.159 So pretty much every thought, well, think about thoughts. 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.639 Thoughts make our ways, ways make our life, right? 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.120 So every thought is important. 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:52.080 So every thought is going to be a God thought, a flesh thought, or a devil thought. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.559 And it's up to us to decide what one we have room for. 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:06.320 And it's it's I'm gonna tell you, it's hard to get the God thought just because it's usually about libs. 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:19.519 Like, oh, you know, so God's thoughts aren't my thoughts, but if I make room for them, I get and I ask him, and I'm thinking, I want to have an antenna that I am understanding your thoughts, God. 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:27.600 It's a reverence, it's a standing in awe, it's getting giving him my attention, even as I go through my day. 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:32.799 I want to have his thoughts because they will make up my ways, and that will make up my life. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:33.840 That's good. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:45.200 And so when we think about God's thoughts, I I have actually two really quick stories about how God sometimes leads us to things that we actually fear to do. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:49.919 So sometimes you know God's thoughts because there's no way you would do that. 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:50.960 All right. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:56.879 So I think about a year and a half ago, God giving me this dream. 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:58.159 And you guys remember that dream? 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.120 I if you've been a part, if you were part of a church the last year, then you remember me sharing it, so I'll do it really quickly. 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:22.639 But in the dream, I saw this landscape, this sea cityscape in front of me of black buildings against a sky, a white sky, but then I saw darkness coming across this city in my dream, and the Lord said, ominous times are coming. 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:24.399 This is eight months before COVID. 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.000 Ominous times are coming. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:32.559 And then written in white across the buildings was 2 Chronicles 7.14. 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.399 That's about prayer. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:39.519 And so we began to pray, you guys, and all last summer on Wednesday nights we began to pray. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.200 We started noonday prayer. 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.720 I think we're at 215 straight days of noonday war room. 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:53.200 We've done we've done Elijah Fire prayer, which is an invitation only, small group of prayer that's kind of growing. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:00.159 But prayer, we we went from being a church that does prayer meetings to being a praying church. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.720 And the more we've prayed, the more the power has come. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:11.759 The more people get healed, the more we see freedom in people's lives, the more we take stands. 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.759 And so, in the midst of that, COVID comes, right? 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:21.039 And so I drank the Kool-Aid for about six weeks. 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:21.679 Okay? 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:28.320 And then in May, I started calling pastors, and I said, You guys, let's just open up our churches. 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.320 I don't care what the governor says. 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.960 Because I'm, I believe we have a higher power than our governor. 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.080 And so 85 pastors showed up. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:50.559 85 pastors showed up in this room, and and Al Pittman and me and Lawson Purdue and others, we challenged them to open up their churches, and I think like 25 or 30 did do that. 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.639 Now, some closed later, but there were about 20 of us that never closed. 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.799 We closed one time in COVID. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.720 Guys, we've had 10,000 or more people come through our doors. 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.080 You see it. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:03.279 Here we are. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.920 One person hospitalized for two days. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:12.400 I'm telling you, this thing has been planned for a long time. 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.319 It's a pandemic, not a pandemic. 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:20.480 And you're gonna get the flu sometimes. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:23.920 And this is a bad flu for some people, I have no doubt about it, but it's a flu. 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.480 It's a flu vein, okay? 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:28.559 I'm gonna tell you this. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.119 You take this one to the bank. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.920 We've had this vaccine going for about three months. 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.759 I know more people that have died of the vaccine than anybody who died of COVID. 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.000 So I'm just warning you be careful. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.240 Be careful, hear from God. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:45.920 I'm not telling you what to do. 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:47.920 I'm just telling you, be careful. 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:53.440 And as your pastor, if I'm your pastor, I'm gonna tell you from time to time maybe some things you don't want to hear. 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.920 But that's okay, right? 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:01.519 Because the best truth I know, and this is coming from scientific evidence. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.359 Be careful, be careful. 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:12.480 And I'm so proud of Pam Heiler and others in our church that have gone before school boards and challenged some of the stuff that's going on in our schools. 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:20.160 I'm so proud of Jeff Hall and others that took guys and went, and so, guys, this is a time to be engaged. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.240 But here's the reason I share that. 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:36.319 When you make the fear of God your primary responsibility by standing in awe, as Liz was talking about, standing in awe of him, fear of man melts off and you do sometimes radical things. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:41.839 And this is not a time for sitting on the sidelines, this is a time for engagement. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:43.440 And so I want to challenge you. 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:49.839 That's why I think a kingdom revolution is preceded by a fear of God revolution. 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:55.119 You can't be a revolutionary if you're always walking around scared of everything. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.880 And some of you grew up in a fear-based family. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:00.640 Seriously. 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:03.119 Pam grew up in a fear-based family, totally. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.720 And God's just broken that off her, and she's a revolutionary now. 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:12.240 I've seen transformation, unbelievable transformation in her life over the last two years. 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:13.759 It's been awesome. 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.279 So if anybody understands what I'm saying, go like this. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:18.720 Yeah, there you go. 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:22.319 If you're gonna have a kingdom, you gotta have a king. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:24.720 And you're the one that puts enthrones him. 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:25.359 That's good. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.519 He's not gonna beg to be up there. 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:28.559 You enthrone him. 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:30.640 I need to take notes every time you speak. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.079 I mean, you just talk about the sex ed bill. 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:34.880 I mean, that's saying that. 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:52.640 Okay, so I one of my favorite stories that I ever got to be a part of is when Pam Heiler, again, and I accidentally got to a God thing got to be um influential in the sex ed bill. 00:19:52.799 --> 00:20:04.960 It was five 5280 in 2019, and um it was the most controversial bill that year, that legislative year, and it was the sex ed bill saying lots of stuff. 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:19.279 And it was written by Planned Parenthood and another state representative, and the final edit was going to be with a certain senator, and so we just knew that. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:30.400 And um anyway, um, I was the children's director here, and I'm thinking, you know, maybe I should pray, just kind of like I'm gonna jump through a hoop. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:43.039 You know, I like I don't really think God's gonna answer like the way I don't want him to, but I thought, you know, I'm just gonna pray if I should go up there to the Capitol, that he'll just let me know. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:55.920 I'm like, well, I'm sure he can see my life, and I'm so busy, and I have many important things to do here, so I'm sure he'll say, No, you don't have to go. 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.480 So then um, then I said to the Lord, well, you know what? 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:02.240 I don't know how to get there. 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:04.640 I don't know where to park, so I'm gonna need a ride. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:11.440 So I remember sitting at my kitchen table and I get this text from Pam Heiler as I right after I prayed. 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:18.720 And it says, I don't really want to go to the Capitol, but I think God wants me to go, and I have a ride for you and me. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:23.039 I'm like, Yeah. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:26.559 I'm like, I have a lot to do that day. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:28.000 It's busy for me. 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:37.839 I'm like, okay, I don't even have time to make a really cool poster because all the media is gonna be there, like some really catchy slogan, and you know, like, I don't even have time for that. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.640 Like, I don't know why God has me going because I'm just gonna be a warm body there. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:44.720 But I'm like, okay, I'll go. 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:46.160 I do say yes. 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:52.720 I usually complain, or a lot of times I complain about the things God asked me to do because I don't understand them. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:55.279 Yeah, I don't see what God's doing. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:56.400 Wait, wait, I don't see what's going on. 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:58.880 My thoughts are not your thoughts. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.680 Yes, so I'm Telling you what my thoughts are, okay? 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:02.960 I'm I'm hearing from God. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:05.920 I'm like and and I'm like, oh, really? 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:06.400 Ugh. 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.799 So I and then God says, take your anointing oil. 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:17.119 I'm like, oh, and by the way, our ride was with a warrior here who always speaks at the Capitol. 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:20.400 Her name is Jana Anderson, and she fights for us all the time. 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:21.680 And I love that lady. 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:22.640 Is she here? 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:24.319 Not here today. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:24.720 Okay. 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:25.680 She's amazing. 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:26.799 I love her. 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:30.559 So I thought, well, this will be to anoint Jana. 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.680 This is obviously, because I know what God's doing. 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:36.160 So I'm like, oh sure, I'll do that. 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:43.519 So then we get up there, and um I'm just imagining, like, I don't have time to do a cool poster. 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:47.200 Maybe I can stand by somebody who has one, like just like this. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:50.559 Like, go. 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.160 Yeah, like that's what I'm thinking I'm gonna do. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:23:04.720 So um, so then we're all sitting there, and all the hearing rooms get clogged up, overcrowded, and Pam and I are sitting in the hall. 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:07.759 I'm like, we don't even go into a hearing room. 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:09.119 I'm like, this is weird. 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:10.880 Like, what are we doing up here? 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:14.799 So we said, let's just pray, because God told us to come. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.240 We don't know what we're doing here. 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:17.440 What are we doing here? 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:25.759 So we just sat in the hall, and we're about the like, we were like among maybe 20 people who couldn't get into a room. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:30.160 And so we're like, Lord, what tell us what you want us to do? 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:31.519 We just want to know. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:42.000 And so as we pray that, Pam gets a text from the lady who is editing the sex ed bill. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:50.160 And she has um emailed her that day and said, This is what I don't like about the bill, and actually she knew her son. 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:53.759 Okay, so that lady texts Pam, texts. 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:54.799 She's a senator. 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:01.519 She's a senator in the she texts Pam and says, Can you come to my office in 15 minutes? 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:03.440 I want to talk to you about the bill. 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:08.240 And then she looks at me and she goes, You're the leader of my church, so you're going with me. 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:16.079 And I'll be honest, about that time, we feel like we're Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz at the Capitol. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.680 We're like, what are we doing? 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:18.559 Like, what? 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:23.680 Like, God, we're gonna go and talk to them about everybody that's under 40. 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:28.720 That was a sitcom that old people used to watch. 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:29.519 Yeah. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:30.319 Yeah. 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:34.160 So anyway, we're like, what is going on? 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:36.880 And I was thinking, we didn't, I didn't even prepare. 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:37.359 Ugh. 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.960 Like, what am I gonna say? 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:40.799 And you know what the Holy Spirit said? 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:42.400 He's like, I'm gonna give you the words. 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:47.359 So we are, but we honestly feel like we want to run away. 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:50.319 Not because we're afraid of the sinner, we're afraid of the opportunity. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:52.079 You know what God says about that? 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.480 He's like, oh, I see that lady, Liz. 00:24:54.640 --> 00:25:02.559 She doesn't want to do unimportant things, but she doesn't want to do important things, and so I think she's a proud, mediocre Christian. 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.559 I mean, that's what I feel felt like. 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:06.799 So anyway, but I like those rebukes. 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:07.519 I do. 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:14.799 Because they help me get better, and those are instructions from the Lord, and he promises to instruct us by our by correcting us. 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:15.200 Yeah. 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:24.160 So anyway, we go up there, and as we're going up, I hear the Lord say, anoint the meeting place. 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:27.119 And I'm like, oh my gosh, anoint the meeting place? 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:35.680 I'm thinking, okay, they're gonna arrest me for putting strange liquid on the Capitol, and I'm gonna be really in trouble now. 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:45.680 And I'm like, okay, and so so what I did was I stuck some oil on my finger, and when I walked through the door, I went like, Jesus, this is your place. 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:50.079 Yeah, and I and then she and I said it together. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:51.519 We're like, this is yours. 00:25:51.839 --> 00:26:02.240 So um the senator talks about why she wants to do the bill, then she says, My emails are so clogged up with all these people against the bill. 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:06.960 And by the way, we should email because she told she called us in for that reason. 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.160 And she said, What's wrong with this bill? 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:11.359 What do you guys think? 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:13.359 We're like, really? 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:28.880 Um so uh I went first, like the one who thought she didn't have anything to say, and I said, you know, I said, what I don't like about it is you're presenting every uh sexual orientation as equal. 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:36.559 I said, you're you're doing heterosexual, homosexual, transgender, as if like you can just pick one. 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:38.319 And I said, they're not equal. 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:52.319 Um, there are different uh health effects, there are different suicide rate, there's a different life expectancy, there's a different exposure to violence in these um these lifestyles. 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.160 You can't do that to the kids. 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:57.279 We can't do that, and she's writing down what I'm saying. 00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.039 I'm like, she goes, you know what? 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:00.079 I didn't know that. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:02.799 I'm just a farm girl from Kansas. 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.160 I'm like, okay, like it's great. 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:17.279 And then Pam says, you know what I am struggling with is that you've made this bill does not leave any room for a Christian student to say, I have a different perspective. 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:18.960 Because it was shut down in the bill. 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.240 You weren't allowed to share another perspective. 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.000 And she was like, Oh, that's that's true. 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:40.400 So she wrote down everything that happened, and when Planned Parenthood does something, they put the sting of death in it, and I believe God had us go up there to take out the sting of death. 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.640 It was it wasn't great, but it was headed to be worse. 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:49.279 And then at the end, we said, let's all gather and pray. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:54.720 And we all stood around in a circle and we prayed for this bill with the author. 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.400 Only God could do that. 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:57.440 Only God. 00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:06.079 So, what what causes us to be disabled? 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:08.799 So, if you just jot this down, why are we disabled? 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.440 Why do we struggle with hearing God's voice? 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:13.119 Why do we struggle with the fear of God? 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:16.400 Here's the first one, and this is the most important one: pride. 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:17.599 Pride. 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:26.720