In “When People Don’t Meet Your Expectation,” Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church challenges us to push past our own disappointments and move forward into the freedom God has for us.
come on give it up for this red jacket
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in living color I love you but beside to
hear you talk for the next seven hours
it’s good to see you it is good to be
seen and not viewed how many old
preacher jokes do you have like that
like give me another one yeah they
listen to me did they come organically
the first time you hung out with me you
scared me so bad so like he was nice
enough to spend a day with me talking
about preaching and in the middle of
telling me about preaching he starts
preaching about blind bartimaeus and he
starts acting out every character in the
story of blind bartimaeus and blind
Bartimaeus hollers in the story it’s
just me and him in the room and he
hollers full throat Bishop voice across
the desk at me and I spilled my I’ve
told people about that told him you can
preach on anything well it’s not really
that what we were talking about this is
spinning the text yeah because on one
hand I’m a preacher and I’m on the other
hand I’m a film producer and one of the
things you have to decide whenever you
do a film you have a story somebody
brings you a story and you decide to
write a script for it you have to decide
which character is going to be the
narrative who’s going to be talking and
so if you take that principle and you
apply it to the Bible is it gonna be
told to the eyes of blind bartimaeus or
is it gonna be told to the eyes of Jesus
or is it gonna be told to the houses of
disciples because every POV point of
view leads you into a different realm of
truth you see it depends on whose
perspective it’s like a husband and wife
live in the same house have same I had
dressy the same food but they’re having
two different experiences and so the
point of view determines the the
relativity of the truth to power the
truth the significance of the truth is
all brought about by who’s talking you
take the prodigal son it’s one thing to
talk about it from the son’s perspective
it’s another thing to talk about is
availible brothers perspective
yet a third thing to talk about it from
the father’s perspective okay each
perspective opens up a new ventricle of
truth and feeling and perspective and
when you look at it in his totality then
you see the sums the substratum of truth
itself all right we’ve been gone five
minutes you’ve already said ventricle
and substratum so there’s a reason I
played a my shot from Hamilton when you
came out can I tell ya Bishop Jake’s and
I got to watch Hamilton together a while
back so what I thought would be fun just
a game and then we’re gonna talk about
the book it’s gonna be very spiritual he
warned me to brace myself for something
that surprised me with so yeah write
grateful this is this better is better
than a dance-off but what I would like
to do is play a game
where I give you a song title from
Hamilton the musical oh and you preach
us a one-minute sermon on that song
title with the text and how many of you
would love to experience this I thought
you were I thought you would how y’all
doing over there this is gonna be the
best night of your life
starts right now starts with this okay
so the song that we came out to that you
came out to my shot