Elevation with Steven Furtick - This Isn't Working

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

No one wants to admit when something isn’t working. Learn how Jesus came to challenge the systems we’ve been unwilling to confront.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message. We're continuing in a series called Savage Jesus. I planned the conclusion of this series to align with Easter. Then when I found out that we were learning so much and having our paradigm of Jesus challenged and really starting to see him in a fresh way, I thought we would continue for a little while longer. So we're in the bonus round today of this series from Mark's Gospel. And I'll pick up at Mark chapter 3, verse 1.

And now that you've rested for a four minutes, stand up for the reading of God's word. Thank you so much. Another time Jesus went into the synagogue and a man with a shriveled hand was there. and some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus. So they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. Jesus said to the man with a shriveled hand, stand up in front of everyone. Then Jesus asked them, which is lawful on the Sabbath, to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill. But they remained silent.

He looked around at them in anger, in anger. Come on, be nice, Jesus. You say, nice for what? He looked around in anger and deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went out and began to. and to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

Now, this is going to be a fun title to tell the person next to you. So look at them like you're frustrated with them and disappointed in them. If you could do that for me, and just look at them and say real slow, real deliberate. This isn't working. Now shake your head and sit out. Have you had anything in your life lately that doesn't seem to be working? I mean, maybe it worked at once. And I'm not talking about a washing machine or something like that.

I'm talking about real stuff like a relationship. That sounded fresh. It really takes courage to admit that a relationship isn't working, especially if it feels comfortable to you. I preached one message called dysfunctional comfort and how that sometimes it's easier to stay in familiar bondage. than it is to embrace uncomfortable freedom. And so to admit that it's not working requires a certain amount of courage to say it used to work

or it may appear to others to be working, but this isn't working. Just coming to that point alone can be difficult from time to time because sometimes we don't really know if it's going to work if we keep doing it, if we just need to give bit more time and it will work, which is typically what we preach. Just keep trying, just keep moving. But I've been to the gym. And the way that some of us work out, we can keep working out until the rapture, and it will not work, not the way we're working.

Our form is off. We take more breaks than we do reps. Yeah, this isn't going to work. That's what my 12-year-old, my man, Elijah, the one that I raise and pay for, He was saying the other day, like he's starting to try to lift weights, so we put him on a little program, didn't we buck? And after two days, he came to me and said, this isn't working. He wants pecs real quick. And what he didn't understand is process.

Touched somebody saying, no process, no pecs. Or if you don't want to tell him that, that's really weird. What a cringy toucher neighbor. Now listen to the Bible. Bible says, another time Jesus went into the synagogue and a man with a shriveled hand was there. And there were some people there who were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus. Now, I'll stop there because what we have in this passage is a, let me see, I want to say this, a failed system and a frustrated Savior.

And really what bridges the gap between the failed system and the frustrated Savior is a man who is there that day. The Bible calls him this. Mark calls him this. He says he was a man, verse three, with a shriveled hand. In verse one, they're announcing his presence in the synagogue. It says Jesus, who is the most important person in human history, was in the synagogue. and a man, and I'm expecting for it to be, and a man with a $100 million net worth. I'm expecting if we're going to take time to call this guy out by name, it would be a man with a Grammy, or it would be a man, you know what I'm saying, with a contract to play in the NBA. But yet, when Mark gets ready to call the role for who is in attendance that day,

he does not mention a man with a BMW, a Mercedes, or a Maserati. He mentions a man with a situation that could have and should have prohibited him from being there in the first place. With this kind of deformity, it is likely that he would have been excluded from synagogue worship. The good thing is, he only had a deformity in one hand. And when you have a deformity in one hand, that means you can shake hands with your good hands while you hide your bad one. Yet much to this man's chagrin, it must have felt like a nightmare when Jesus called him out in front of anyone. stood him up and used him as an object lesson. Really to say that sounds cruel, but Jesus will always use your situation to fix the system that created it.

This is the premise of Mark 3, 1 through 6. And we all have situations in the place today. Don't make me guess. When you look at me smug, when I say we all have situations. It makes me want to ask God to show me what you did last week So I could start saying your situation if I said every situation in this room if I started throwing your real sit not not your not your not Not your Sunday situation. That's much different. I really didn't come to preach to Sunday and neither did Jesus Jesus speaks to that place that is not working

He speaks to that place that is not functioning He speaks to that place that you have learned to conceal and reveals his glory and and his strength through your weakness. One thing I'm grateful for that I learned from Paul, who wrote a lot of the New Testament letters. He taught me that it is a theological impossibility for my situation to separate me from God. It's a wonderful list that he gives us in Romans 8, if you're ever inclined to read it. If you're having one of those days where you find yourself in a situation that you don't feel God, since God or maybe even believe he's there.

Go to Romans 835 where you will find a list of situations that cannot, will not, may not do not have the permission or the power to separate you from God. So Paul makes a list. And in his list, he starts with trouble. It's almost like he's picking a fight. He says, who shall separate us from the law? love of God. And then he starts naming situations. In personifying the situations, he wants us to understand the power of the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's always greater. That's why we say his name is above all other names. What that means is if you can name a situation,

there is a name that is greater and a work that is greater and a savior that is greater and a grace that is greater than your situation. Paul says, who? Somebody say who? Come on, get your owl on. Say who? Shall trouble? That's a situation.

Shall hardship? That's a situation. Shall persecution? Who doesn't like you? Who talks about you? Who doesn't think well of you? Who doesn't speak kindly about you? That's a situation.

Shall famine? What you don't have? Shall nakedness or exposure to the elements? Shall danger or trouble, shall sword, shall, watch this, we're going to raise the stakes. Death or life, that's a situation. Or angels or demons, that's a situation you can't even see. Or the present, what I'm dealing with, or the future, what I'm worried about that I don't even know yet. Shall height nor depth.

And watch this clause. Or anything else in all creation. See, there Paul gets it. He wants to close it all in. He says, if you can name a situation, I can point you to a grace that is greater than your situation. So then, I don't care what you did, what they said, what you lost, what you don't have, where you've been, or where you're going. It is impossible for your situation to separate you from your source. Now shove somebody and say it's just a situation.

It's not my identity. is just my situation. And this man has a situation, but his situation is not him. Somebody went through a divorce, but a divorce is not you. Somebody is dealing with an addiction, but the addiction is not your identity. We know this because Mark calls him a man with his shriveled hand. Not the shrivel-handed man. He's a man with an issue, but the issue.

is not the man. Y'all don't want to help me preach it all today. I feel so alone. Situation. But the real situation in this text is not the man's hand. It's the people's hearts. Did you notice that?

It's one thing to have a bad hand, especially in Vegas. But when you have a bad heart, and so what I saw when I was reading this very familiar text, that is simple on the surface was a depth of understanding of five things that Jesus came to fix. Now, he's going to fix this man's situation. You saw it.

The man left home with two good hands. But before he fixes the situation, he is going to challenge the system because that's what God does. The reason he does it that way, rather than just fix the situation without addressing the system, is because if he fixes the situation without addressing the system that created the situation, you will stay stuck in the same system that created that situation, and then you will have seven more baby situations that are worse than the first. Now, many of us live our lives going from situation to situation to situation to situation. And we can't even find time to pray because when we go to pray, we feel like we have to get through every situation that we're dealing with.

We've got to pray for our mom, and she's sick, and we've got to pray for the missionaries, and we never even met them. And by the time we get done praying with every situation in our lives, we're asleep. If you ever identify, this is for leaders. Any of you own a business or leader department? I want to share something with you real quick. This is a free breakout leadership John Maxwell seminar. When you run around fixing situations all day, you actually disempower the decision-making ability in your organization.

Because it's one thing to know when something isn't working. A lot of people are good at that. How many know that it doesn't take a genius to see when something isn't working? All it takes is a Facebook account. And you can spend your whole day telling everybody who doesn't care what's wrong with everything that you don't know how to fix either. Good thing I brought my own Holy Ghost today because y'all ain't given me no love. It's one thing to know when this isn't working.

I'm pretty good at that. It's another thing to know why this isn't working. It's one thing to know that this tennis ball isn't going over the net. It's another thing to know why it's not going over the net. It's one thing to know I want to kill my kids. It's another thing to know why our communication is breaking down as they are getting older and the approach needs to change. It's one thing to know I feel lonely.

It's another thing to know why do I feel lonely and maybe it's not everybody. else's fault, maybe the system that is keeping me lonely is within my heart. See, we always want to point fingers at situations, but you might just find that the situation you're pointing at is trying to alert you to a system within yourself that God wants to deal with because God is not a situational God. God is a God of systems. God is a God of systems. who gets to root causes. So he went to the synagogue, which was their system of worship, and he went on the Sabbath, which was their day of rest.

And he found a situation, and he stood it up in front of everyone, and he used the situation to fix their system. And the first thing that he has to fix is their pessimism. There are five of these. Will we get to all five? Who knows? But I'll be here next week. She said me too. Pessimism is the result of considering your situation before you consider your source. It's what makes you look at your life and feel so overwhelmed by all your situations. And I'm guilty of it. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm guilty of evaluating my situation

without considering my source. And when I do, I always feel overwhelmed. You will notice that there were some there that day who were actually, verse 2, looking for a reason to accuse Jesus. They were looking for something wrong. Principle of the universe. You don't have to be a Christian to believe this.

You will always find what you're looking for. If you are looking for a reason to be, offended, you will find it every time. If you are looking for a reason to be bitter, you will find one any time. When you come through a church like this, I am well aware that in a crowd this size, there are many people here today who are looking for something not to like about our church. It's okay. I understand it.

I understand it because we have almost been trained for it. We have been trained not to trust our politicians. We have been trained, and maybe for good reason in many cases. We have been trained sometimes by our disappointments, not to expect much out of life. We have been trained by our insecurities, not to expect people to like us. And so guess what happens when we go around all day believing secretly that nobody likes us? When we're telling ourselves before we even go out into our day, nobody really cares about me. Nobody ever checks on me.

Nobody appreciates me. Nobody talks to me. Nobody notices me. Nobody texts me. Nobody friends me. Nobody likes me. Nobody friends me. Nobody likes me.

Guess what's going to happen? Your situation is going to reflect your psychology. Has a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. So it's just a matter of time before your situation looks like your self-talk. And now you've said it enough to yourself. You are looking for a reason to prove to yourself a verdict that you arrived at before you even collected evidence. So it causes you to look at people and situations and think it can't get any better.

because it's always been this way. But Jesus said, stretch out your hand. I came to speak a better word and fix what you say within yourself. Nobody likes me. Nobody touched me. Nobody empath me.

Why are you surprised when they fulfill your prophecy? Well, they always, and they never. There's the second thing that Jesus came to fix is our prejudice. Yet there's nothing in the passage about the man's skin color. There's nothing in the passage about gender equality. There's nothing in the passage about his sexual orientation.

None of that, yet I still see prejudice in the synagogue on the Sabbath in Mark 3. And this prejudice is not directed at the man. They are prejudice toward Jesus. I see you. You look like you want to believe me, but you're confusing. Let's take the word apart. Prejudice. The definition is in the word.

Pre-judge. That's what prejudice is. And it doesn't just happen racially or socioeconomically. Prejudice is when you put yourself in the judge's seat or the jury box. These men had the opportunity to, witness a miracle. But rather than be a witness, they wanted to be a judge. And every day that you and I wake up, we have an opportunity to witness resurrection power all around us. We get to witness it in the lives of others, and we get to witness it on our

own behalf. We get to be a witness, but you can't be a witness if you insist on being a judge. What I'm trying to say is this. Have you already made up your mind how God can bless and who God can bless and when God can bless? Have you already made up your mind about how God can do it to the extent that you miss that the very author of life is right in front of you? And they are trying to kill the very thing that God sent to save them. Why? Why? Because they've already made up their minds. We pray for wisdom and God tries to send it through our wives.

But we are prejudiced. We prejudge the people that God sins to help us. So rather than accept the wisdom, since we don't like the truck that it came in, we'll send back the wisdom because, well, she's always like that. Well, she's the one that God might use to show you your system. He might... This whole chapter is worth preaching. I wish we had all week. All right, touch your neighbor, say, fix the system.

Fix the system. They were looking. I see it sometimes. I see people who look like they came to church as a favor. Or like a last resort or something. Like, will you stop asking me if I come once? And man, they are looking for something not to like. I just, sometimes you can feel the energy of somebody where it's just like, and they will miss a revelation because one of the worship leaders had a rip in his jeans.

I just don't know if, and God was trying to show you how holy he is. And God was looking for a reason. Looking for a reason. He was a threat to them. So they already made up their mind. They already had their verdict, and now they just needed to collect the evidence. It's called confirmation bias. When you wake up believing God is for me, you look for evidence to support that verdict. When you wake up believing that all things work together for my good and that nothing can separate me from the love of God,

here's how good it is. When you believe that, when you are looking for a reason to rejoice rather than a reason to accuse, it causes you to weigh things differently. So you say like Paul said in Corinthians, he said, on one hand we're pressed, but on the other hand we're not crushed. On one hand, we're persecuted, but on the other hand, we're not abandoned. On one hand, we're struck down, but on the other hand, we're not destroyed. In other words, what I'm trying to say is that if you would get out of the judge's seat

and get a witness mentality, God, I want to see the good in people. I want to see the best in people. I want to believe the best about people. I want to see the opportunity and opposition. Somebody shout, I'm looking for it. I'm not looking for a reason to be offended. I'm looking for a way to forgive. How many are glad that God looked beyond your faults and saw your knees.

He could have accused you. He could have condemned you. He could have cast you down. But he didn't. How many are grateful for you? what he didn't do, for what he overlooked. But they got it twisted. We get it twisted.

Instead of looking for an opportunity to meet a need, they were looking for a reason to accuse. Sometimes God puts you in difficult situations and you get it twisted. He puts you there to change it, not to complain about it. And you're out of order. You're out of order. I wish I had a gavel. This isn't working. The man can't work because his right hand, Luke tells us, it's his right hand.

It must mean is his dominant hand. It must mean it's the hand of blessing. In Jewish culture, they use the right hand to bless. So he needs a blessing to be a blessing. Sometimes we try to be something that we have not received from God, and it never works. stands the man up and he picks a fight. I'm sorry to disrupt your Mr. Rogers' Jesus relationship with the Lord. You know, the one word Jesus is wondering. Come on, come on, stop it. We're not finding that Jesus so far in Mark. Maybe he'll come later, you know, the exasperated mom,

guys, be nice. He hasn't made an appearance so far, and we're in Mark Chapter 3, and he's still, So he's challenging their whole system because, number one, two things I noticed. He could have taken the man to the side. He didn't. He could have easily been like, Peter. Peter was always ready to do something. Grab that guy with the bad hand. You want to throw him out?

No, no, Peter. Is he distracting you? No, Peter. I want to talk to him after I'm going to fix his hand. But it's the Sabbath, and we're not supposed to work. on the Sabbath and I don't want to offend anybody. Spino decide. I talk to him later. I'll when I wrap it up. Just make sure he doesn't leave. I want to see him.

Because on the Sabbath, remember it's the day of rest. Six days God created, one day God rested. It was the order of creation. The Sabbath is the only one of the Ten Commandments that reflects the order of creation. It's like a chance for us to be like God, how he rested. Okay, but notice work, work, work, work, work, work. Why am I? I, sounded like Rihanna on this stage. I didn't mean to. Rest. Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, rest. Work, work, work, work, work, work.

Okay, so for everybody who wants to just pray, not rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, work. That's out of order. But after you have worked rest, like God rested from his labor. It's a shadow, though. It's not the substance, because the real Sabbath is Jesus himself. It's his work that enables us to rest from ours. I love the gospel. So they are so consumed with their Sabbath that they are missing God's Sabbath.

It's a perversion. I know we usually use the word prejudice for racial reasons, and we use the word perversion for sexual reasons, but this is a perversion. A perversion is any time that a gift is used against its intention. That's a perversion. And Jesus heals him. Not only does he stand him out publicly and call him out publicly, but he does it on the Sabbath, which is understandable if the guy has a gunshot wound. Because the Sabbath had, okay, here's what the teachers of the law did.

God gave them this gift called the Sabbath. He said, I want you to rest one day. When you rest like that, it is a picture of how I rested. It is a gift to you. And it is a shadow of a rest that is to come for the people of God where you can cease from your works and receive by grace what you could not attain by labor. So I want you to rest to get into the rhythm of resting from your works. But they did what we tend to do with the gifts that God gives us when we don't understand the intention of the gift. We get it twisted.

We get it twisted. So Jesus shows up on the day where they're not supposed to work. Little rules like this they made. They had over 600 of them. There was one command and they made 600 rules around it. They had like a system for every possible situation that could come up. Okay, so if you need to take a journey, you can go 1,99 paces. but if you take a 2,000th step, then that's technically work.

So you had to count your steps. If somebody has a dislocated foot or a dislocated hand, you can't set it back into place on the Sabbath. That's from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, observant Jews still celebrate the Sabbath in the same way today, sabbat, and you can't set the bones back in place on the Sabbath. the Sabbath, but there's an exception. If the person's about to die, you can do it. That's awfully nice of the pastors to make that exception. If you see someone about to die and you can save their life,

you can do it on the Sabbath. It sounds crazy to us that they would take a gift that God gave, like a day off, like a day to rest from their labor, and twist it to the point. where they forgot what Jesus said in Mark 2, 27, when his disciples were working one day on the Sabbath. They were actually walking, and they did something that was considered work. They took some heads of grain, and they were hungry. So they rubbed the, what do you call it on the grain, the membrane. I'm going to call it. It's not called that, but I'm going to call it that.

They rubbed that hard part off and ate the stuff they could eat. And the Pharisees said, ah, they're working on the Sabbath. Jesus said you missed the entire point of the Sabbath, which was a gift, because you were so caught up in your system that you perverted and twisted the gift. Watch what he says. This is very, very strategic, that the Son of God would say to the people that he came to save, the Sabbath is made for man. not man for the Sabbath. I know it's a little difficult for us to get much meaning out of that because we don't celebrate the Sabbath in the same way. So let me try this. Stuff was made for man.

Not man for stuff. The essence of the lesson is this. When you take a good gift and turn to you. it into a God, it becomes destructive. Let me try another one. Sex was made for man, not man for sex. And what the enemy loves to do is to take a good gift that God gave you and twist it and disfigure it like this man's hand was disfigured.

What's what had happened to the people's hearts so that they had taken a gift and turned it into a prison. They were serving something that was supposed to be serving them. When God sees you chasing material possessions, he says, that stuff is meant to serve you. Why are you serving what I gave to serve you? It's out of order. can't work because he has a condition, a situation. We've got a system of religion that

won't work. Why? It's the Sabbath. We can't do it on the Sabbath. Jesus said the Sabbath is for you, not you for the Sabbath. I gave it as a gift. Why would you twist the gift? And it causes me to wonder how many gifts has God given me in my life that I have twisted. God gives you people in your life so you can encourage them and then you begin. You become You become so needy, you twist the gift and ruin the friendship. Now y'all are quiet. How many gifts has God given us? How many people will you sleep with before you realize that sex is a gift?

It's a wonderful gift, but it's a terrible master. Within a certain context, it's a wonderful gift, but if you get it twisted, it begins to take over your life. out of order. You put the Sabbath before people. God puts people before the Sabbath. Religion always gets it twisted, though. And we always tell you ten things you got to do to be a good Christian. But God taught me that I don't change so he will love me. I change because he has loved me. This is the revelation of the cross. We love him because he first loved us. And when you get that out of order, you will twist great gifts that God gives you in your life. Jesus looked around and said, this isn't working. So he calls the man as an object lesson. Are you

ready for this? He doesn't give a speech. He gives a lesson. He gives a demonstration. Faith is a demonstration, not an explanation. So stand up. He could have called him back tomorrow, by the way. I mean, the guy's not dying. He lived this long with a bad hand. He can live with another Oh, by the way, when life deals you a bad hand, let me tell you what to do. Don't fold. I know some of you are holding a bad hand today, and it's a terrible situation you're in, and I understand all of that, and Christ has compassion for you, but whatever you do, touch somebody, say, don't fold. Because God is about to change the entire system through the most desperate situations.

This is how hope works. He says, stand up and stretch out. Stand up and stretch out. Because if you keep procrastinating, this is the fourth. Procrastination will always keep you from experiencing the power of God. Always. When you wait until, when you put it off, I did it the other day. I'm almost 40 now.

I got some grade coming in. I'm not worried about that. That makes me feel like a lot. I've been a good pastor. If I could pastor this church 12 years and not a little gray on the beard, Jerry, I'm sleeping. But I said the other day, there are about three things in my life I really want to change. You got it. You got at least three things you want to change.

Let me see if you've arrived, and I'm just up here by myself trying to improve. I was like, yeah. So by the time I'm 40, it was the first thing I thought. It's a nice round number. By the time I'm 40, God said, why not now? because it would require action, not theory. So they do it all the time. The way I want the verse to work, the moment that the miracle happens,

I wanted to work like this. I looked around at them in anger, deeply distressed their stubborn hearts. Remember what this man's heart looks like externally, or his hand looks like externally. their hearts look like inwardly. He's using the visible, the situation. That's what he does. Trouble, hardship, persecution, sword, the things that come against you. He uses those situations to show you a system, to fix the system. And he looked around in frustration at the failed system. And he had asked them a question because he's so savage, he answered a question that they didn't ask

with a question they couldn't answer. He's such a savage. He's such a savage. And deeply distressed at their stubborn heart, said to the man, stretch out your hand. The way I want the verse to work, is it up on the screens? I wanted to say, his hand was completely restored, and he stretched it out. In my mind, that's the way it should work when God changes my situation.

is that he fixed the man's hand that was restored, and there, because the man's hand was restored, he stretched it out. What we find instead in the syntax is this. In the order it happens, there is a revelation of the way God works. The man stretched his hand, and then it was restored. He did what he couldn't do. and in doing what he could not do, and in loving who you cannot love, and in forgiving who you can't forgive, and in trusting and believing what your eyes cannot see. He did not stretch out his hand because it was healed. His hand was healed because he stretched it out. And we keep waiting for feelings, but feelings follow faith. You don't have to feel it to believe it. If you believe it,

you will see it, the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. So God says to everybody with a bad hand, because I know you come to church sometimes with your good hand out. And I know you go through life sometimes with your good hand out. And we have all these profiles. and all these images and all these personas and all these one-sentence bios on our social media accounts. But God doesn't bless your bio. He blesses your brokenness. And it is only when you lay down, here's the fifth one, your pride to stand up in the middle of controversy, to stand up in the middle of a hopeless, desperate, naked situation, to stand up in the middle of famine, To stand up in the middle of lack, to stand up in the middle of weakness, to stand up in the

middle of discouragement, to stand up in the middle of failure, and stretch out your hand, and stretch out your faith, and open your heart and believe that He is here, and all things are possible. You're not going to get this blessing with your arms crossed, waiting to see if God will do it, and pretending like you don't need it. He stretched his hand. Jesus healed him in an unusual way at an unusual time on an unusual day. On the day they weren't supposed to do any work, the men's hands started working again.

You know when God's going to do it, when you least expect it. You know who God's going to do it through, the ones who least deserve it. You know who's not going to get it? The one who's just sit there waiting. But if you don't mind praising him right now, I would love to see you stretch your hands. Clap your hands. Come on, Blakeney, come on Rock Hill, and lift your voice. Don't praise him because you got the blessing.

Praise him because he is the blessing. did what he shouldn't do so the man could do what he couldn't do right there with all the critics watching and all the people who didn't like it didn't matter because they were out of order you keep going to people you're out of order but if you'll do what he told you to do I promise you this look it's simple stretch your hand don't you know he was tempted to show the good one. So then it's on the other hand, right hand, the hand that you need to be a good husband, the hand that you need to be a good father, the hand that you need to get the disciplines working in your life. Because you got some things that aren't working, but you didn't know why.

You keep running from situation, and you're so stressed out from situation to situation to relationship, to relationship, to thing, to thing, to thing, to job, to job, to job. From high to high to high It's a system. So he said I'm gonna do this. Jesus found a loophole because he's a savage He said I can't set the man's hand back in place today because it's the Sabbath and I didn't come to break the law but to fulfill it So watch what he does Jesus tells the man stretch Everybody say stretch and he doesn't touch him

The Pharisees are watching watching. You can't do that. It's the Sabbath. No working on the Sabbath. Jesus said, oh, this, this isn't working. It's a word. I didn't stretch my hand. He stretched his. So that's why, now I know why he went to the cross. So it wouldn't be from my words. Now I know why he stretched his arms. Now I know why he did you do. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry.

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