Your Label Is Lying | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church Well, it's time. It's time for a word from God and it's time for Elevation Nights. October 21st through 30th, we are headed your way. If you're in the following areas: St. Paul, Minnesota, Omaha, St. Louis, Louisville, Atlanta, or somewhere in Florida, maybe around Tampa, Miami, or Orlando. You can go to elevationnights.com. Now, these nights are amazing. I want to see you there. I believe God is going to meet us in a powerful way. Me, Holly, Elevation Worship, Elevation Rhythm, and you go to elevation.com. But right now, get ready for the word of God. God bless you. But if you've been redeemed and you know it. If he snapped you out of the pit and you know it. If he brought you this far and you know it. Say Jesus beus. We can sing it all day. We've been singing all night, but we got to stop cuz it's preaching time. ((music playing)) The word of the Lord is coming your way. ((music playing)) >> Whether you're in this room or whether you're watching this later or whether you're listening in a car, I hope you're not watching in a car unless you're a passenger. Just listen and watch the road. The Lord has something he wants to show you today in his word. This is the final message in the greatest series in the history of our church. Y'all don't like it? My favorite series in the history of our church because it's the one that I needed the most because it's called Same Lies, New Loops. Same lies, new loops. And the Lord is giving you some new ways of thinking, some new ways of being, some new ways of talking, some new ways of seeing, new loops. It's going to be amazing today because we're going to see a picture of somebody who had believed a lie for so long that to him it was true. And when you have believed a lie long enough is true to you, >> even though everybody else can see that it's not. Today, God wants to show you something about the way that he sees you. Go ahead and put your name in the comments. And since you can't do that live, tell the person next to you your name. Tell them your full name. The one on your driver's license. Go ahead, give him your name real quick. Give me your driver's license name. We're going to be spending a few moments today. Oh, that's a long name. I didn't say your eye color and your height. I didn't say tell them about your DUI either. Leave that part out. But we're going to be spending some time today together in John chapter 5. Remain standing if you're able for the reading of God's word. And as I share this with you today, the Lord wants to give us a picture of what it means to leave the lies behind. >> To leave the lies behind. That's what we come to church for, right? We don't come to church and hear truth and just take lies home with us like we didn't hear the truth. >> We want to come to church, receive the truth of God's word, and take it forward >> into the world that he's called us to change. John 5 verse one. I may just read all 16 verses. I was going to stop around verse 67, but I thought I would go on down and read the whole thing. Now y'all listen. What's wrong with y'all? John 5:1. Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the sheep gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda. That word means house of mercy. It's like Bethlehem means house of bread. Beth is house. And then seda from the word that means covenant love or favor or grace or mercy. It means all of those things. It's the house of mercy. At least that's what it's called. It's supposed to be a place where people can come and get grace. But it isn't. And you'll see that in the passage. It's called Bethesda and it's surrounded by five covered colonades. And incidentally, since we're in John 5, five in the Bible is often symbolic of grace. It's the number of grace. So this is supposed to be a place of grace. You know, can I say that about our church? This is supposed to be a place >> of grace >> where anybody can come like they are >> and not leave that way. Amen. >> It was surrounded by five covered colonates. And here a great number of disabled people used to lie. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well, sir?" the invalid reply. I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me. Then Jesus said to him, "Get up. Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured. He picked up his mat and walked. But that's not the end of the verse, is it? The day on which this took place was a Sabbath. And so the Jewish leader said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath. The law forbids you to carry your mat." But he replied, "Well, I love this Bible verse right here. >> The man who made me well >> said to me, I hear what you're saying to me. >> But the one who walked by me and told me I could walk too told me to do this. >> The man who made me well said to me, "Pick up your mat and walk." >> I got good news for you today, church. >> The title of my message is, "The word says otherwise." The word the word says otherwise. Tell your neighbor, I know you feel kind of depressed. >> I know it looks like it's over. >> But the word >> says otherwise. Put it in all caps in the chat. Put it in your language. Put it in your native tongue. Put it in emojis. I don't care. The word says otherwise. And we're going to give this message a subtitle also. We're going to call it home. See if I can explain this. ((music playing)) Your label is lying. >> Your label is lying. >> You know how that thing said it was it was a healthy food? Your label is lying. You know how that guy said he was a Christian guy? Your your label and he wore a Christian shirt. Your label is lying. >> You know how people say when you come to Christ everything will just be better all at once. >> Your label >> is lying. >> But God's word is true. >> Father, thank you for your word in Jesus name. Amen. Be seated. >> Your label is lying. I'll share by way of anecdote what I mean by this statement. But first, write the statement down. Don't label it until later. Don't label it until later. Now, you're going to write that down. You don't even know what I mean by that, but you will later. I was in a songwriting session recently and we were just starting to work on a song. We had really not identified the tempo of the song, the time signature of the song or even the theme of the song. I didn't know yet whether it wanted to be a ballad or a bop. Sometimes you don't know. Sometimes a song starts like really really worshipful and the next thing you know you're dancing on a table and you don't know what happened. So, the key to this is to be patient. Be patient. Let the song tell you what it wants to be. Let the spirit of God have his way if you're writing a worship song. And we were just starting to write a song and the producer who was recording the session and needed to save the song on his computer stopped and asked a question. He said, "What is this song called?" Well, I looked back at him and I knew that he needed to save the file so he could access it and be organized. But I looked at him and said, "I can't name it. We haven't even made it yet. >> We need to make it before we name it." If we name it before we make it, there may be something else that the song wants to be that we don't allow it to become because we already gave it a name. So, what we need to do is just save the file as a work in progress >> and then we can see what it's going to be by the end of the day because we'll label it later. We'll make it now and label it later. >> I don't know who this is for, but maybe that's the word that you came to get today. Make it now and name it later. We're so specific in our time about trying to diagnose everything. >> Even every child is diagnosed with all of these conditions before they are seven years old. >> And sometimes that can be helpful, but other times it can be a hurdle. Because if I give a child a label before that child has even had the chance to develop beyond those developmental limitations, I may limit what the child thinks that the child can be because I gave the child a label too soon that limited their potential mentally even though their potential in God was unlimited. Label it later. And I'm not talking about not going to doctors and specialists. You understand? I'm using this as a way to get you to see that sometimes you are trying to label your life as you are living your life. And it is causing you to misdiagnose some of the things about you that only God can reveal in time. It is causing you to name things and save things to the hard drive of your mind. And you call yourself things and you call situations things that they really aren't because you are trying to label it before you have even lived it. So you say things like this is the worst season of my life. How do you know that yet? The seed hasn't even given the harvest for it. You have no idea. As a matter of fact, I would imagine that anytime the dirt is being plowed, it is hard for the dirt. But we understand that this is the part of the process that is absolutely necessary for anything good to be cultivated. And so it is true in your heart that some of the hardest seasons you will go through, some of the heartbreak seasons that you will go through, some of the things that you would wish away if God came down and asked you would you like to skip those stages will be the very stages that later you will look back and label it and you will say that was the season where God taught me the most. That was the season, am I right? Where God got me out of that relationship and I'm so glad that he did. That was the season where God set me free from something I thought I needed. And if he would have kept giving me what I wanted, I would have never gotten what I needed. And when I label my situation while I'm still in it, I limit my situation to how I see it. And the problem with me is I can't see things like they are. I only see things as I am. And I am limited. And so if I look at my situation and label it with my mind, I will always find a way to zoom into the microscopically bad or maybe I'm maybe I'm just wanting this one thing to happen so bad or or maybe something happens in my life and I don't like the package that it came in so I don't receive the purpose that it came for. >> I'm going to stop and breathe for a minute. Clap your hands and give God praise now. Clap your hands and give God praise for all of the gifts that he gave you that you didn't know it was a gift when he gave it. Praise God for all the gifts that he gave you that you grumbled about when he gave it to you. You got to remember John wrote John. Okay, you know that. Okay. John, the disciple who Jesus loved, that's what he called himself. Yeah. >> That's how he labeled himself. That's wild to me. Who are you? The one he loves. Not one of the one he loves. The one he loves. >> John did not write his gospel as the ministry of Jesus was happening though. He wrote it somewhere around 50 years after the events transpire. Now, there's a reason I'm telling you this. Sometimes I think we read these stories in the Bible like they're coming from the journal of one of the disciples. And so we read a story like this and it's wonderful. There was a man who couldn't move and he got up and he was healed and it was amazing. And even the titles that are in the Bible, like over John chapter 5, it says the healing at the pool. That's what this story is called in retrospect. But in real time, this was not a healing at the pool. In real time, this was a confrontation with the authorities. >> I'll explain that later. >> Y'all see what I'm doing? >> I'm going to say it now. I'm going to explain it later. Jesus a lot of times as he was doing things in his ministry would not explain it to his disciples. He would just do it. And as he would do it, they might think about it. Boy, that was a really bad move. I mean, Jesus should have waited until Tuesday to heal this guy. Did you see it in the text? It said he healed him on a bad day. Now, let me ask you a question. If you haven't walked for 38 years >> and you have the opportunity to walk, >> is it ever a bad time >> to do a good thing for somebody? Yeah. >> And yet that's what the religious leaders said. They said he should have done it on a different day. And Jesus knew that. But when John is writing the gospel, he's not writing it later that night. He's not taking what he saw happen in John's gospel is a little different because Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are all written uh somewhat differently. Uh Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called synoptic gospel. It means see with. They kind of use the same source material. They refer to the same events and they just take them from different angles. John's gospel is wild. He just shows you stuff from the bonus footage from the cutting room that none of the other disciples showed you. Maybe it was the special way he felt about his relationship with Jesus that he includes things that the others don't. And this miracle is only included in John's gospel. That's the first thing I wanted to tell you. But the second thing I wanted to tell you is that it was included in John's gospel after decades had passed. Which means that sometimes it is better to evaluate your situation later. >> If you look at it in the moment, all you can see is, man, this is a lot of trouble Jesus is about to get in. Man, Jesus really is wasting time. I mean, imagine this. They're setting out to go to the festival. They're they're on their way. The Bible doesn't mention which of the three festivals, but it's one of the major ones. And they get to Jerusalem and Jesus stops by this porch where, look at verse three. These kinds of people are lying. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. Please circle those three words, Justin, if you can. Verse three, the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. Jesus is stopping by to see somebody. He is the most important figure in human history. He is the centerpiece of civilization. He is the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valley, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the alpha and the omega, the master and the maker of the universe, the king of kings, the lord of lords, the shepherd of the lost, the one that the angels worship 24/7 around the throne, and he stops by to see about somebody that doesn't even have a name. Of course, he has a name, >> but his name has been replaced by his label. >> So, we don't know who he is or what he can do. The only thing we know about him is that for 38 years, watch this, he has not been able to move. And there are some of you listening to me preach today who have been labeled so long by what you can't do that you forgot your name. You have been labeled so long by what you don't have that you have forgotten your true nature. You have been labeled so long by what life didn't give you that you have forgotten your blessings. But the devil is a liar. >> I said the devil is a liar. I'll preach this another 10 weeks if I need to. He's telling the same lies over and over and over and over again. And what he wants to get you to do if he's effective at his job and the devil is really sneaky at it because he will try to convince you that your issue is you. Come on. >> But I found out that God is masterful at using situations that we would not wish to accomplish purposes for which we don't even know to pray. >> I'll give you an example. I can tell I'm kind of uh overwhelming you with information today about five is the number of grace and Bethesda means house of mercy and synoptic gospels and all this. So let me just break it down like this. When Holly gives gifts at our house, I will say that she is the best giftgiver that I have ever known in my life. I'll also say she is the greatest gift that I have ever known in my life other than you, Lord. Amen. And I will also say that I'm not even saying that just so you'll clap for it. I really feel that way. But she used to do something when she would give gifts that was so disappointing and we finally got her to stop a few years ago. But let me tell you what she would do. I don't know if she was this intentionally. I don't know if it was just something she did out of efficiency. I don't know what she do. Okay, I already told you she gives great gifts. But let's say Christmas will roll around, right? And there's several gifts for each person that Holly bought, right? So, she wraps them. They're beautiful and all that. You take the wrapping paper off and then there would be a box that she would put the gift in, but the box was absolutely no indication of the value of the gift. And here's what I mean by that. She would take the box from the nicest store you can imagine. Like, picture your favorite store, your favorite brand, right? Like the fanciest, nicest box. So you peel the paper back and you'd be like, "Oh yeah, yeah, this is going to be good. This is about to be good." And then when you would take the lid off the box, she had put the the worst gifts, the box would say Nordstrom and the gift would say Dollar Tree. And you'd be looking at the you'd be looking at the gift talking about what is this? that she would put the worst gift >> in the best box. >> God does just the opposite. ((music playing)) >> I'm sorry, Holly, but this is one time where you are nothing like God because God will take the worst box, the worst situation, >> the worst hell you've ever been through, the worst insult, the worst persecution. God will hand you a box and the box will be so beat up and the box will look so small and the box will look like it's been rained on and the box will look like the dog chewed it up and the box will look like betrayal and the box will look like God I don't know what to do and the box will look like there's no way out of this but if you open that box and trust in God not the box I said trust God not the box cuz my God is out the box and God will put the best stuff. Can I preach like I'm in St. Paul, Minnesota on a Tuesday night? God will take the worst box and put the best gift. And I'm saying this in case life dropped off a box on your doorstep and it doesn't look like what you prayed for and it doesn't make any sense with what you feel called to and it doesn't line up with your expectations. But open that box cuz God has a way of putting the best blessings in the ugliest boxes. So the box doesn't have to be beautiful for the gift to be from him. High five. Somebody say, "Open the box. Open the box. Open the box. God can do what he wants to. Open the box. Let God out the box." You got your little puny way of labeling what God can do and who God can do it through. But open the box. You're not even in church today, but God can meet you in the kitchen. Open the box. Put down the fork in the night. Lift your hands and give God praise. God is out the box now. ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) Jesus said to the man, "I know this situation isn't what you would have chosen, and I know this is not the place you want to be, but your label >> is lying." >> Now, I wish I could draw this, but I didn't bring my screen out this week, and I'm not going to slow down the momentum of this message for technology. But just imagine, boop, boop, loop, right? You've seen it. And imagine one of the loops says, "You can't do that." >> That's the That's the lie, right? >> But when everything that's around you looks like sickness long enough, You begin to believe the box >> when everything that your eyes can see, when everything that your emotions feel tell you, well, I guess alcoholism is just a genetic thing and there's no amount of therapy or recovery that can break those chains off of you. And there's not even enough prayers for it because didn't you pray about this last year? 38 years, man, that's a long that's a long time to circle the situation. It brings me all the way back to the first story I shared in this series when the Israelites wandered >> in the same loop. >> Yeah. >> For 40 years. You know, technically it was 38. >> Yeah, it was 38 cuz one year they spent getting out of Egypt, one year they spent getting into the promised land. Those years aren't counted in the 40. It was 38 >> years. And people will always tell the story of your first year and your last year, but they don't see the 38-year >> loop. >> So, please do this. When you're sharing your testimony with somebody, be honest with them. >> Don't make your label a lie. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Don't tell them, "And the Lord just set me free from anxiety." >> I had somebody tell me that one time. "And the Lord set me free from anxiety." Now, I said, "I believe that he does that, and I believe that he did that for you, and I praise him for it." But what exactly do you mean he set you free from anxiety? Because when they said it, they said, 'The Lord set me free from anxiety in 1984. So what I wanted to ask was, and since then, >> what did you do? Swallowed the key? The Lord set you free, friend? You swallowed the key or the Lord swallowed the key? Like what happened? And as they began to share in more detail, it was actually more powerful to hear about their process >> than it was to hear about their product. Because what they meant by it when they labeled it, "The Lord set me free was they meant he began to show me ways to deal with it that were not harmful and destructive and sinful." >> And so instead of just going to porn every time I felt anxious, instead of just going to drugs every time I felt anxious, instead of just going to self mutilation every time I felt anxious, instead of just waiting up all night, I learned some, they didn't say this, but they basically said, "I learned some loops. I learned some new loops and I I quit just going around and around spiraling and I found out how to interrupt my worry with the word of God. >> Isn't that more powerful? >> Come on. Isn't that more powerful to hear that than to hear somebody say, "Well, the Lord just set me free." And then you're like, "Well, I guess he doesn't love me. He must not love me like that, or I must be doing something wrong." Maybe they're just not describing freedom fully. >> Come on. >> That's great. to know that freedom involves a journey of 38 years. This is powerful, man. >> I even feel it as I'm preaching right now. I feel the Lord telling me to slow down and tell you what it really means, that this man got up and walked. It doesn't say that he knew where to go. It doesn't say that his life was problem free. In fact, Jesus finds him a few verses later and tells him, "Stop sinning or something worse is going to happen." He's not even finished with his issue yet. But the powerful thing about Jesus when I get to the part of my sermon where I know this is the word of the Lord because there is a moment in a sermon where the word of the Lord comes. It's all the word of the Lord. This this whole passage it's the word of the Lord. But there is a moment where the word of the Lord comes to you. And what what what happens in that moment is your condition is interrupted by a command. So, it's like this. The man's condition is sick, paralyzed, and stuck on the porch. The command of Jesus makes no sense in the face of that condition. Get up, take your mat, and walk. Sometimes God will give you a command that makes no sense in the face of your condition. >> Sometimes God will tell you as a teenager, "I don't care what all your friends do. I don't care what they say you're weird about. I don't care what they call you for it. You be pure. I don't care what a thousand people do over here. A thousand people just like your parents used to say. I don't care if everybody else is doing it. If everybody else was jumping off a bridge and you'd be like, "Shut up." But see, I don't say if everybody else was jumping off a bridge. I just want to tell you what Jesus did. Everybody else didn't die on the cross for you. Everybody else can't rise from the grave. Everybody else isn't going to be there for you in the midnight hour. Everybody else didn't make you, knit you, call you, choose you, gift you. Don't let them label you. Don't even let them tell you what kind of kid you need to be to be cool. I'm I'm not concerned with you being cool. I'm concerned with you being called. I'm concerned with a God who can raise you up and make your name great. And I'm I'm I'm concerned with a God whose name is greater than any other name. And that's what I'm concerned about in this season of my life, not what they label me. I don't care what they say about me. I don't care what they say about my preaching. I care when I close this Bible today. Did I say the word of the Lord? Did I speak the word of the Lord? Did I say what God gave me to say the best I could say it with a stammering tongue and a limited vocabulary and a monks corner South Carolina accent? Did I say the word of the Lord? Not how somebody else said it. Not how I should say it. not how I would say it if I was smarter. Did I say it to the limit of my IQ? Did I speak the words of God? >> And when the word of the Lord came to this man, it was so personal. The Bible says something that I think you need to see. Before you hear what Jesus said to him, I want to show you something in John 5:5. This is the part that made me cry when it says when Jesus saw him. Excuse me. That's verse six. That's verse six. When Jesus saw him, go back to verse five, though. One was lying there. Now, lying is not his name, it's his label. That's the condition he was in. and he was lying on a mat. Matt was not his name. >> Could have been. >> It is a name, but it's not his name. >> It's where he is, >> not who he is. I'm I'm going to preach this, Lord. I am going to preach this just like you showed me. Cuz it was so beautiful how the Lord showed me in verse six. The key to all of this is when Jesus saw him. Justin circle the word him. Now contrast that. When Jesus walked by, there's a blind person. There's a person who can't move. There's another person. I'm not sure of their condition. There's somebody who's only been at the pool two weeks. Here's somebody who's been here two years. Here's someone who has been here 38 years. I'm speaking to somebody today. And this is not your first day in this situation. This is not your first frustration. That's all right. Because the Bible says that Jesus saw him. >> I still got to show you what I mean. It says that Jesus saw him lying there. Now, if you fast forward, when the man gets up, the religious leaders see the man, but they see him a little differently. They label him differently. They label him according to his condition and they label him according to their expectation. The Sabbath was supposed to be a day of no work, but they see him carrying a mat. The Sabbath was not a day where you can't make up your bed. The Sabbath was a day where you couldn't do commerce in the city. But they've twisted it. They have labeled it. Their label has become a lie. Did you know that religion will always try to label something that the Lord gave you? And instead of using it to lift a burden, it will create one. So you begin to see God as the person who's perpetually disappointed in you. God is not disappointed in you. How can he be disappointed in what he appointed? If he called you, that means he knew you would be in this situation before you were in this situation. You think you can surprise God? You think God's like, "I wish I would have done a scouting report on them." You think God is somehow mesmerized by your weakness. Now, people are people are very different. The religious leaders in verse 10, they have their focus somewhere completely different. The Bible says that the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath. The law forbids you to carry your mat." Now, hold on. I'm confused. They are looking at a man and they are talking about a mat. >> How can they only see the mat >> and not the man? >> No, no, no. I I'm I'm honestly asking, how can they see a man who has never walked before >> if he's 38 years old? >> Yeah, >> maybe he did walk a little while before those 38 years. We don't know. But for almost 40 years, he hasn't been able to walk. And he's walking and they walk up to him and say, "Hey, you can't do that." And he's like, "I know. I didn't think I could either, but I met a man." And he walked by me and he stopped for me and he talked to me and he told me to get up and take it up and walk. And I'm walking in the power of his word. And I'm walking in the potential of a brighter tomorrow. And I'm living in the light of a new day. ((applause)) I'm just speculating. I think this man started singing at this point. I think he started singing, "Look at what the Lord has done. I'm never going back to the way I That's why I got my mat. Cuz I'm not going back. Say it. Not going back. Say it. Not going back. Give them my spot. >> Cuz I'm Cuz I'm >> Take my mat cuz I'm >> All right. We need to work on y'all's rhythm and call him a spot. >> My man is walking. And you talking about a math about practice. >> You talking about a Mac? I'm a man. >> You can't see the man for the Mac. >> And it makes me wonder, what's your Mac that I can't see that's got you magnifying mine? ((applause)) This man has to be singing, carrying a mat. He's not going back to the place he's been for 38 years that isn't working anymore. >> Man, he's happy, too. He's happy carrying that mat cuz he's holding something that's been holding him his whole life. Boy, he's happy. He turns around. Goodbye yesterday. Hold on. Five covered colonies. Goodbye colonates. Y'all missed it. I'm living in the light of a new day. I won't waste another minute on my old ways. Praise the Lord. He not even saved yet. Not even born again. He doesn't even know it's Jesus yet. >> He doesn't find that out till later. >> See, sometimes God does it now, but you praise him later cuz you didn't even know he was doing it at the time. I feel God saying, "Praise me now and I'll explain it later." My man is walking talking about I'm dancing on the I'm I'm carrying the mat that I once laid on. Carrying the mat that I once laid on. Carrying the mat that I once laid on. Carrying the mat that I mean this mat ain't heavy. Carrying the mat. Carry. Yeah. You can't do that. You can't do that. Yes, I can. We're not doing the stairs. Get out. And here's the Pharisee. He's like, "Daddy in the mat that I want." Yeah. You can't do that. No, you're doing it wrong. Carry in the mat that I want. You can't do that. No, you're doing it wrong. Carry in the mat where I used to lay. You can't do that cuz this is the wrong day. >> Now we got confrontation. ((music playing)) ((applause)) Y'all don't know how to act in church. What kind of church is this? What kind of church is this? This is the house of mercy. This is a place for grace. This is a place where I am not what I did. I am not what I was. I am who God says I ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) can't do that. Can't do that. There's just no way. Can't do new loop. I listen to what that man say. I'm making this up on the c off the cuff. I don't know if it's any good. But they said the law says you can't. >> The man said the word says Otherwise, somebody shout otherwise. Otherwise, and the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he took me down to the valley, and the valley was full of bones, and they were very dry. And the bones said death, and the bones said over. But the word said otherwise. And God said, "Prophesy to the bones. Prophesy to the marriage. Prophesy to the bankruptcy. Prophesy to the depression. Prophesy to the blindness. Prophesy to the lameness. I prophesy to your legs. I prophesy to your righteousness in Christ. I prophesy there is a better word than condemnation. Shame said die but God said live live. I'm dancing on the grave. I'm dancing on the grave. I'm dancing on the grave. You can't do that. >> You can't dance in church. >> You can't be happy. You're going through hell. ((applause)) >> I might be in it, >> but it is not in me. I'm not my match. I'm not my match. I'm not my bad decision. I'm not my shame. I'm not the abuse. I'm not my past. I'm not myself. I am the one he loves. I'm the one he stopped by for. And I'm dancing on the grave. I'm dancing on the grave. I'm dancing. You can't dance. You got moves. Show me your church dance. Get up on your feet and praise the Lord. Jump up and holler. ((music playing)) You can't do that. You can't dance on a grave. You can't give beauty for ashes. >> You can't be grateful when you still got a kid who's far away from God. You can't give worshiping through tears. You can't keep trusting that God is good through cancer. You can't do that. But the word says otherwise. I said the word says otherwise. The soul said yes, but the word says rise. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get out of that grave. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get out of that grave. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get out of that grave. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get out of that grave. >> The word. The word. Get out of that grave. >> The word. The word. Get out of that grave. the word. The word get out of that. >> I'll see y'all soon. Keep dancing. >> Keep dancing. Get up out of that. >> Hey, thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube. I want you to subscribe. That way you can know when we go live and post new content. Make sure to leave me a comment. Let me know what spoke to you today, where you're watching from, and what we can pray for you about. And if you'd like to support the ministry financially, you can click the give button now and help us continue reaching people around the world for Jesus Christ. Thanks again. I'll see you next time.