This Wasn't Part of The Plan
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Walk out these doors. Your people are seeking and encounter with you that will be fruitful in their lives forever. So we submit ourselves to your plan, asking that you destroy the very types of the enemy through the power of your annoying, whether they're tuning in online or are in the room.

I pray that you do something right now done in the midst of this worship experience that your people can testify that this is you're doing and it's moveless in our side. We pray and ask these things in the midy name of jesus to cries, come on and say, men change church. Come on and say, men change church.

We often hear our past or doctor areas, then you will say this. We want to hear him say that your greatest gift does not come rolling in on four wheels, but your greatest gifts in your life will come walking in on two legs. Now he often gets the chance to extend this when he's honoring somebody else.

But I want to say that if you believe that Peter darias dangles is one of the greatest gifts to the body of cries, I need you to make some noise in the absence of our senior leader, the terms, or some Daniel and washed ed, this, washed this, we like to say, behind every great man is a great woman. But I got some theology to disprove that. Because when adam was created, eve wasn't taken from a spine.

SHE was taken from israel. So I want to say, next to every great man is a great woman. Can we make some noise for pastor? Show me a Daniel. For law, god, listening for those that don't know me unpassed dance on Robin and have the privilege.

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You're set out. I have the privilege of service you in this season as your campus pastor here at our good net location, and i'm excited. Bring the word of god off you like preaching the day you're ready.

Foot word. God be the glory. I want to enjoy your attention to the book of x chapter twenty eight, book of x shaft to twenty eight, the word of got to reads.

Once safely onshore, we found out that the island was called multa. The island has showed us kindness. They build a fire, welcomed us all. Because IT was raining and cold, paul gathered a pile of rush wood, and as he put IT on fire, a fie driven out by the heat fascinated cellphones hand.

When the island to saw the Sunny hanging from his hand, they said to each other, this man must be a murderer, for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess justice has not allowed him to live with paul the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. The people expected him to swee l up or suddenly fall day. I think, okay, the people expected him to swell up or suddenly for bed.

Okay, I got some eight ends over here. Hold on, because someone missing IT. The people expected him to sweep up or suddenly fall day.

Now i'm married of one more time past the kinds. I only want you to respond. If the enemy had plans for you that were not successful because god had another plan, the people expected him.

To swell up or but after waiting a long time and saying nothing unusual happens to him, they change their minds and said he was god. The people expected him to swell up or suddenly found. I want to talk from this subject with the twenty six minutes I have left.

This was in part of the plane. This, this was in part of the plan. Drop on fire in a chat.

Change global. This, what's in part of the plan? I'm the sun of a pasty. I'm a PK. My dad .

passed .

red the same church in bricklin, new york for thirty two years. I am a by product of the rich traditions of the second saint john missionary. R yes, now this new age type of betis church, this this old school type of betis, I need to see who's wait me.

I'm talking about the type, the type of church dead had sunday school before morning service. Okay, I got a few. I'm talking about the type church.

We didn't have praise and worship. There was no rehearseth or in ears. We had devotional. There was no tim, no t no tailor, no Charles, no MeLinda.

Anybody could pop up in sing for devotional, whether you can say, and that just just had to catch whatever song you study i'm talking. And I grew up in the type of church. I grew up in the type of church where where in the middle of devotional, someone can stand up and give a testimony.

And they could testify of the goodness of god. And most of the testimony would start like this. First given on that have got. IT sounds like you ve been the second age, but but, but persecution, one of the Richie's traditions that I personally appreciate in the context of the choi grew up in is the wisdom of the season sense.

I don't know if we got church mothers like we used to that i'll pull you a sad and give you a word from the lord that was burnt on their heart. I appreciated so much because they would say things that may not always have been dramatically correct. You may not find IT in the bible rebating, but you know, when they spoke that they were speaking from an experience with god, that you knew I was the truth of his word coming out, say stuff like they would, say stuff like, maybe you can beat god, given no matter how you try.

Is that verba in the bible? No, but but what they were articulating, that is a theological truth, is if we as messed up, jack up, people can give good gift to to our children and to people we love. How much more can the father in heaven do for years? They would say stuff like like what pd preach last week when they saw you acting up, they say, now god don't like ugly is IT in the .

bible? no.

But in principle what they were articulating was you cannot say you love god, but yet treat people in your kind of nasty, mean, got a attach all the time, and they are god's create.

But of all the saying, of all the saying that that used to encourage me the most, the statements of the of the season says they would say something like, now I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds. What they were trying to express was a limited awareness of all of god's plans, but full conviction that he was in control.

What they were trying to express was that watch this off for my no takers that our schedule is subject to god sovereignty um i'm a saying that to gain that is that what they were trying to help us to see was that our schedule is subject to god southern. In other words, I might have an agenda, but my agenda must be aligned with god's assignment for my life. Every deter and delay in my life is only divine direction to his best in place for me. So even in seasons when god is a making audacious request that I either feel too old for or too in experience for, I came to encourage you that god is right on time.

I say, you said IT .

like this in shape, the forty six. He says, only god knows the beginning. From the end, we must be reminded that that the hands on our clock are controlled by the hands of god.

Watch this today. I got messed up with their daylight savings. IT too. IT threw me off or what IT showed me was that man can change your clock, but only god can alter destiny.

Therefore, even in seasons when when IT seems like i'm either too early or too late, i'm not ready. I just want na let you know that you are on time in god's. As I know you thought you'd be married by now, but but you're right on time.

Don't make no silly decisions at a desperate ation. You're right on time. I know you thought you would have kids, but now god said they say that wait on the lord here were no your strength.

You're right on time. I know you thought you'd pass the bar or the inlets by now, but god said, let you know that whatever may not look like it's working in your favor. It's because you are comparing IT to man made expectations.

Somebody says he's on time. We often are too consumed with measuring our sales against timelines that the culture or uh, our family has established. But we must get to a place we must get to a place where when we're going through something, we're not seeking god just about the win. He's gna indi, but we're seeking god about the what he wants us to know or do.

While we're in IT.

we get caught in the the dominic scare of comparison. So the only the reason you feel like your out of alignment is because you're not looking at god's vision for your life. You're looking at somebody else's.

You're looking at where they are and say, and i'm behind. You're looking at where they are and say I should be there. You're looking at their place and letting get dict your pace.

Don't want to cheers today. We are looking at other people's place and let me get dict our pace. But i'm more on god's timing. I'm not a slave to man's expectations washed this because man's expectations can keep you from destiny.

We see a scriptural .

sample of this in Matthew sixteen. Matthew sixteen. Look what he says. He says from that time on, jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to jerusalem and suffer many things.

What is when he's explained to them that I got ta go to across? I have to die for humanity to reconcile generations back onto god. But look what Peter says.

Peter says he took a aside, and Peter rebuked jesus. He says, never learned, this shall never happen to you. Cheese has turned to Peter.

C, get behind me, saying you are a stumbling black to me. You do not have the empty part. You do not have in mind the concerns of god, but merely human concerns. His he is, he saying, he's saying you don't even have the inside to assess whether i'm at a place. All right, all right, you got people who are telling you where you should be and where you should go, who don't have enough inside .

into the designer's point.

Peter's response is based out of a poor interpretation of jesus's conditions. Peter o thinks, because that sounds bad, you're going to the crowd, you ve got to suffer. Hit takes, because that sounds bad.

IT is big. He thinks because he sounds bad, that he is bad. So he looks at what's gonna en on cover and doesn't understand the glory that will come three days later.

Last action, rome twenty eight, told me that all things work together for the good of them that are the court who love the lord and other cold according to his purpose. That means all my stuff works for the good. The good is the CEO of my circumstances.

Good is the shift supervisor of my circumstances. When bad comes into worker is working for the good. When storms coming in, the works is working for the good.

When sickness comes into work is working for the good. When in comes into work is boss is the good work. Together for the good.

the good .

is the CEO of my conditions. We must trust the time and of god. We will see a concrete example of this need for trust.

And look chapter one, and look chapter the one. This gospel of look, there are two cousins by the name of Elizabeth and mary. Mary is an older lady. She's up in age, and he has a husband.

Name's a arria. SHE has a little .

cousin who's a teenager named mary. Look with her seventies were seven. Is that they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they both were very old. Bin, the text says that the Angel Gabriel comes to ecri, whose eliza's hub husband, he lets him know that they will have a baby and look what happens if we're study for the same.

Angel now goes to mary, tells mary SHE don't have the baby ng s sh'll be impregnable ted about a holy spirit and mary says, how will this happen since I am a virgin? Some translations say, since I have not been with a man. So here IT is the same Angel come into two different ladies, one feels is too late.

The other things is too early, but for both of them, got is right on time. Missed, missed, missed. For one is too late for the other is too early for both of them.

God is right on time. I don't know about you, but I feel prophetic in this house. And I decree that in the last quarter of this year, you will not be a slow to the agents of humans got, say, over your life. And IT looks too, look, looks to go back to school experience. God said that what I have to care, I have to care.

I will .

watch .

over .

my word. I speak a season of anche lic assistant over your life that you will have Angels visit you to review the agenda of the living proper, a holy hunch properties I proper and just to review.

Mojo, we're so in growth with the win, something is .

gonna happen that we miss the win.

And what's happening. We're so in gross with the W H, E, N, when you go on, bring me out. When he go on, come.

When my human coming, when the money come in, when you go on, indeed, when is IT over? But we miss the wind. W I, in.

I got saying you're up on the win something going happen, but you miss in the win in the season that you are in at somebody who wants a shift in perspective to begin a praise god and say, uncover the scales of my eyes so that I would not wait. I would not for the win. I am you for no.

How do you want me to win in this season? Who do you want me to minister to in this season? What do you want to happen?

We worried about the W, H, E, N, and I can prove in scripture how god revealing his coming to us is not a priority. He should not believe in the four gust was matter, mark, luke and john jesus as over three hundred questions within those four books. Most of the questions that we ask have a framework, framework of who, what, where win, why, how.

Jesus ask who questions matter you six and twenty seven, who of you worrying can add an hour to your life? He asked what questions. He says, what credit is IT to you to love those who love you? It's only credit if you love those who hate you.

He asked why questions. He said, why do you look at the sort doesn't your brother's are and ignore the pink in your own? He ask where questions in john six, he says, we are all we to by brain that people may in.

He ask how questions, he asked the plans, how long should I be with you? But at all, three hundred questions. Not one of them is a win question. Tim, he's teaching us that if we are submitted to the south retty of god and the wind is up to him, i'm not worried about the time. I need you to show me what I need to do, how I need to do IT who that needs to be for where you want me to go. I don't matter about the win.

With slaves the clocks. With slaves .

the calendars.

Were slaves, the clocks were slaves to calendars, and overlooked that was used to be servants of quest. He wouldn't even reveal when the sun of, and will return when they asked them. He said, not even the son of man knows another words, I don't want you making decisions based on win, because if we all knew when stuff would happen, we'd act different and we would not actually engage in the season.

And that he has a sin. If I knew my death date, then I would act like a little different. When is not .

his priority to reveal to us?

I got ten minutes left. Wash this. I even get to the text. Now, foundational text lexi x twenty eight is a powerful, very copy that highlights how our timing may not always be gods.

God will use what we think are our agendas, our schedules, our planes to pull out his wheel. Here in the text in x twenty eight, this is the follow up from x twenty seven. In x twenty seven, there are over two hundred and seventy prisoners travelling with the apostle pole to rome.

They are headed there because paul was arrested unjustly, and paul is saying, I need to go state my case so I could get out of jail. And as they're heading there in x twenty seven, the bible says that a violent storm comes a storm so bad that he recks the ship that they are on. And now watch this, they they get deserted on this island called motor.

Some translation, same a leader. It's not a, not A A fantasy place. It's a real place, historically about fifty eight mouth south of cessile.

So here paul is with an intention to get to a place that's going to serve you. But a ship break happens. That detours him from his plans to get before the king, because god need some miles done.

Their plan was to go straight to wrong. But most of their disappointment, they are now stranded on this unknown island. First, one of this chapter says, and they made IT safely.

For some of you, oh, just read over that. But the celebration is twenty eight. And one only happens when you understand the devastation in x two ty seven.

When a ship almost takes your life, making IT safely means a lot and some. You may not be on a ship, but you've been in some metaphoric proverbial ships call relationships, and they broke apart. You had some friendships and they broke apart.

You had some old fellowships and they broke apart. You ve been through some hard ships that tried to break you apart. But in the mist of IT all, I just want to take some preach proactive to give you twenty seconds the thank god for every ship that you survived. Even when he broke, you still made IT. Even when I didn't work out, you still made IT even when I didn't go the way you wanted.

She's, I can clean. We ve got to go. We to go. We got ta go. But every ship that fell apart in your life is a testimony that god is worthy of your praise. Every ship that fell apart in your life a testimony that god is worthy of your prayer, that no happen from the. 下 be able。

What's this? The text says, the text says, IT says this. The nations welcomed them on the island.

IT says they started a fire because IT was raining and cold. Wait a minute. P A fire, because this cold makes sense. But kindling a fire while its rain does IT.

Now some would argue.

no, they were brought under routine or brought to a place, but no way in the text that says they were brought up under roof. It's not until a verse seven that he says a leader in in the community name probably is bring them into their house. So before then it's safe to assume outside.

And yet IT rains is cold. And next start of fire. The fire represents many things in this tips, but one of the things that represents tes is something that god is igniting in you, that the conditions outside of you can't put out.

God is, say, and build IT, even while is really started, even while is rain started, even while this storm will, even while is rain down. God said, the rain cannot stop the fire that I put on the inside of you, just like zero is just like fire. Something god is doing on the inside of you that the conditions around .

you cannot stop.

Look at some asset or a more stop us, the rain. Stop us.

I GTA go. Gotten, I got ta go.

I gott go.

I gotta, I got to go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. If we are going to be able to properly hand deep tours and untimely stuff in our life, we need some tools for our tool kit and some weapons in our arsenal.

Alright, the first thing we need to know, the first thing we need to know is how to ensure foreign aces. Mota historically is a real place, but it's also a metaphor in the text for a dear in your life that has unfamiliar terrain, unfamiliar people and unrevealing ans of god. Motor is a metaphor for a place or a detail in your life that has unfamiliar to rain, unfamiliar people, and on reveal plans are god.

It's the place that you end up in because of a storm, not a strategy. Do you get here because your five year plane worked out? You've got here because they fell apart.

And this is how you went that up IT. Okay, you can get here because the marriage work. Do you get here because they fell apart? And that's that you went to appear.

Motor represents a place that fell apart. That's receiving you after so but you don't know why you're there. So many of us are in seasons washes.

We're in assignments that we can articulate. People ask, why do you move to a different day on that show? I felt a sign.

I don't know why you stop hanging with us, I don't know. I felt on the sign. I don't. motor.

God says, if you're going to be able to properly steal with the detail in your life and know what my plan is for you in that season, you've got to indoor, a foreign. It's uncomfortable. I don't know the people. I don't speak the language, I don't know friends, I don't know such that is, i'm living in my car, I don't know what's going on. And yet god is saying you still long time.

There's a second thing. The second thing, we have to be able to indoor fire. Fire, in this case, is the thing that is keeping you safe, but exposing the snakes.

After good.

the bible says the .

fire stocks to go down a little bit. Cut of Christine and paul goes to get brushwood to add more to the fire. The fiber that comes out to bite him, the bible says, is driven out by the heat.

Fire only exposes what's not real. The reason he could not see the vapor is because the vapor looks like the twigs. So the twist is what he needed to build fire.

But there was a stake stuck in the thing he needed that he was building fire only comes in your life to reveal what's not real IT exposes what looks like the business plan, what looks like the next level, what looks like the next stage. God said, I said fire, but I won't destroy you. IT will expose the vipers.

My relationship is with jesus is exposed under fire. How committed I am to his work is exposed under fire. How committed people lots of my life is exposed under. They was there when I could pay for the bill, but when I stop being able to foot the bill, for some reason, they don't want to to hang out. no.

Is the last thing the last thing I want you to be able to endure? Christian gotto be able to indoor false and narrative tips. Worth four, they called him a murderer.

Then, after seeing what he survived, they are perspectives change, and he called them a god. Those that cannot describe our affliction demonize our affliction. When they can get a grip to understand why god is putting me through a thing, they make up their own stories.

I gotto rush through this. I got to rest through this. This is what we learn from paul.

Is that nowhere in the text does paul a tip to change their mind about him. He spends no mental, real estor emotional energy trying to change their mind. He allows their perspective of him to shift based on what he survives.

See, some of us are underselling our testimonies. We have a cheap version of our testimony. We think we've been brought through just so we can shout and dance. And god is saying, I helps you survive because you're gonna a blessing to others.

I help you overcome because you're gonna a blessing or others I gotto change their mind about you has when they see what you survive, they can say, how is still standing paying the bills with all that going on? Is he taking kids? Kids when he walk out her life? How is he keep in that business of float all of the what you survive?

That helps me.

Don't give a cheap version of your testimony. If all you get out of your survival .

is a shoup your selling .

god's plans too short. Your survival is attached to souls. Your overcoming is attached to others. I got get out here.

So even though snakes were not .

part of a .

plan ship recks were imported to plan. Storms were important .

to plant.

My survival .

was he was part .

of goslin was important to enemies plan.

What you're going through is not .

part of your schedule.

but is part of got sovereignty. Here's another thing that that snake represents. That snake is also a metaphor to represent the serpent ingenious. The serpent that stung humanity with his cunning tone to try to poison us from reconciliation with god, paul now stands as a Christ type and says, i'll take the bit of snake. With no effect .

so that .

your life can be saved.