and and what I wanted to challenge you to do with this year that we're leaving
and we're going into a new year but be very careful that you remember it right
your memory is a mess you know that you've been memorizing all the wrong
stuff you've been memorizing all the things that went wrong that's why you're
miserable because of your memory I'm gonna come to this side see if I can
find anybody anybody at all at the Praise Party at Elevation Church if you would
start recalling to your mind all of the ways he's made all of the promises he's
kept all of the things he's carried you through all of the valleys that he walked
you out of if you would remember you would rejoice if you would remember you
would open your mouth and praise God I
recall it to my mind I call it I call it master your memory
don't let your memory master you Paul said I'm not chained to this floor I'm
chained to the faithfulness of God he was faithful this morning and he's faithful at
midnight I'm not memorizing my pain this year
so I wanna get you in the right atmosphere tonight cuz you're sitting
there at Rock Hill you're sitting there at Lake Norman and you're going over and
over and over and over again I saw something on my phone it was called a
memory movie did you know that you can do that now if you have an iPhone you
can go on and set all the memories that you want and make a video out of it well
I'm gonna make a movie about this year but I'm gonna skip some scenes and it's
not that they didn't happen it's just that I'm not putting them on
my plot line
it's my memory and I've been remembering it wrong that's why I keep messing up
relationships you only remember the one time that they
said that rude thing to you twenty-seven thousand nine hundred
forty-two times they were nice to you you remember the one manage your memory
edit your movie Paul had mastered his memory here's how I know not only did he
sing the hymn at midnight which indicates the fact that he knew that God was going
to deliver him because maybe God had done it before maybe once you beat a
lion beat a bear Goliath ain't so bad maybe it's not so scary to go through
the Jordan when you've been across the Red Sea its memorize memorize memorize
memorize memorize muscle memory muscle memory did you know that the same way
you can develop muscle memory in the weight room you can develop miracle
memory in your spiritual life I got all night I got all night I got all night so
so so Paul 10 years later is writing to the Philippian church remember I told
you that he wrote a letter to the Philippians and he's talking to them and
he says uh this Philippians 1 verse 3 I don't have it memorized so I need it on the
screen
he's writing to the church that was founded when he went to a woman named
Lydia and he ended up going to prison and yet when he goes to speak to them a
decade later about what happened what he has to say about it in his memory he
says you know what I thank my God every time I remember you some of us have
we're writing this we said every time I remember you I think that that night I
spent when they beat my back every time I everytime Paul said no no when I
remember you I remember the outcome not the opposition the way I respond has to
do with the way I remember I thank my God every time I remember you in all my
prayers with you I thank my God I remember you with joy when I remember
I don't remember the pain I remember the purpose he doesn't even mention the
prison because by this time the purpose is so big that that night in prison
seems small it's just one night
memorize I was talking to Eric this morning I said do you remember what
happened when they when they sang praises to God he said yeah the prison
doors open and everyone's chains came off cuz I preached that before now I
mean any preacher can preach that you're trying to preach the Bible and you can't
preach on this passage you should definitely sharpen your other skills
resume out there but he said um ya and the prison doors flew open right and
I asked him I said and then what he didn't know he didn't remember he remembers his
fantasy football lineup but he didn't remember come on that's my best friend
I'm just having a good time we've been friends since high school but
that's that's that's you know what I want to happen next in the story and I
know I don't get to write the Bible and Luke is writing this right he's
recording it under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit what happened here and
it would be great though in the sermon on what happened at midnight cuz they
praised him at midnight chains came loose which represents freedom doors flew open which
represents escape but what happens next well I know what I do if I'm Paul it's
not hard first you gotta memorize and then you
got to mobilize so I'm out because God answered my prayer and that's what the
earthquake was for and there's the doors open and look isn't the Lord good I'm out
how many of you are with me you're out but remember how you always had that one
kid in your class that would raise their hand at the end of class and the teacher
forgot to take up the homework assignment but that one kid that one kid
would raise his hand and say um Miss Smith are you gonna take our math homework
cuz I totally do it Miss Smith look watch this I love finding the church people
who aren't used to having fun in church Paul is that kid cuz the doors fly open
right this is amazing we're out God is good praise the Lord Hallelujah great is thy faithfulness
but watch watch Paul is that kid huh the jailer woke up verse 27 and when he
saw the prison doors open he said oh crap tried to kill himself
he said it in Greek
because he thought the prisoners had escaped well of course he did because
that's what you do but apparently Paul is better at
preaching then he is at prison breaks up Paul messes up the whole thing cause what I
want to see next either want Shawshank Redemption Andy
Dufresne crawling through the sewer coming out like this in the rain on TBS
or I want Paul with his chains maybe I watched went to many Quinn Tarantino
movies I shouldn't confess that on the stage but I want to see some action the
doors are open earthquake boom this is anticlimactic
I'm just warning you because we always preach about what happened at midnight
but the miracle isn't what happened at midnight the miracle is what happened
after midnight it was what Paul had put in his heart before midnight that gave
them to him to sing when midnight hit and the way that he went through the
midnight is what gave him the credence and the validity to have a message to
share the way that you go through your trials the way that you go through your
dark seasons the way that you go through the confusing times and the crucible of
the trial a testing of your faith but Paul Paul baffles me man because the
doors fly open and instead of running Paul shouted
look what he shouted don't harm yourself we
Miss Smith this anticlimactic right why were you singing and praying if you were
just gonna stand in the same place with the doors open but maybe Paul had the
kind of faith that doesn't only give you the way of escape because that's what a
lot of us really want when we talk about a new year a new beginning what we
really want is a new situation I want out
I want out God get me out get me get me out of this debt but what what if God
wants to get in your budget I'm just trying to preach something helpful
because I don't want you to watch the dot disappear go home wake up with a
headache and think nothing happened no it's not what happens at midnight it's
what happened after midnight when Paul said I know you were expecting me to get
out but I didn't come to Philippi to get out I came to Philippi to get the gospel
in Paul wasn't trying to get out he was trying to bring the word of God in
high-five three people tell them to bring it in bring it in bring it in bring it in bring it in
I'm not just trying to get out of a sad situation I'm bringing in my joy I'm not just trying to get out of a hard situation I'm bringing in God's strength
bring it bring it in bring it in bring it in I'm bringing it in I'm not getting
out I came to Philippi to preach and now
I've got a captive audience don't kill yourself mr. prison guard I know you
were supposed to be guarding me but what happens when the one who was a hostage
becomes the host and Paul turns around and says don't worry about it I got good
news for you Paul saw an opportunity Paul didn't see an open prison door he
saw an open door for the gospel I want to declare over your life there is an
open door of opportunity
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