Sadie Robertson – Keep Running

but today I won't tell you a little bit about myself whenever I was in high school I used to love sports how many sports fans in here yeah yeah okay anybody through track yeah okay so I did track but here's a little funny thing about me I did track but I never ran a day of practice okay like how is not a runner and I know some of y'all y'all like get over the morning y'all run that's never been me probably not ever gonna be me but praise the Lord for you guys that's awesome I just don't like to run and so I told the track coach I was like super interested in the field event so I was like listen let's strike a deal I'll do any field event that you want me to do but I'm not going to run and he was like he's like you know what that's okay let's see what you got and so I ended up going out there and throwing the javelin so random Chunkin Spears but it was awesome and that was my see I loved the thorough javelin so our sophomore year of high school I was just throwing javelin things were going pretty good and it was looking like our track team was gonna make it to state but before you get to state you got to get past regionals right so we were hosting the regionals event this year and it was like this massive track event the biggest track meet we've ever hosted at our school and our coach came up to us two days before the meet is like look guys I think we're gonna make it to stay but we need every single person on this team to contribute every single ounce of everything you have in order for us to get the state because everybody the track is a really interesting sport it's like everybody's in Deauville individual points add up to your whole team it's just kind of like a message in itself you know it's like unity but usually not preaching on that school and so I was like I'm like yeah we're all like in there were like we're gonna do this could be awesome and he's like alright now I need somebody to run the two mile and I'm like anybody else gotta rise up to the occasion you know like yeah I wish I could tell you it like the Spirit led me and I was like hell through it but I did not do that I was like hiding behind the fam you know and the coach shows out he's like nobody's gonna do it and I'm like come on please somebody just say it and he's like all right Sadie you're doing it and we just started laughing y'all like everybody started laughing I didn't just laugh my tea was laughing I was like huh the coach is like what's so funny and I'm like oh you're serious I was like coach I've never ran two laps around this track you expect me to run eight like two days from now I'm like I just I don't know about that one two days later there I am lined up you know getting ready and I'm like this is the worst idea ever like who thought it I'm like I'm not even gonna make it you know and all these people are like actually in middle school that was the most embarrassing thing on the sophomore in high school they're like point to body fat freak of nature's and I am a panic attack on wheels and I'm like this is not good and so I'm sitting down lined up the giant students you know we're pacing you know cuz I I didn't know they were pacing I was like pretty much running full-speed but hey they were pacing I'm like good you know I'm in this race you know move out lap three rolls around I'm not in this race anymore but I'm steady you know I'm still cruising lap six comes around and I'll remember this day like it was yesterday I was coming around and I look at the Sun and I'm like now would be the time to come in on the cloud it's like so Lord just like right now it's just end in hell like this is so embarrassing I'm wheezing I'm about to walk off this track this is not good so I'm getting ready to come around to do laps seven and this is about when my worst nightmare comes flying her on the track I realized that I'm about to get overlapped and I'm like oh that's so embarrassing and it wasn't even like the embarrassing thing was not the fact that I was about to get overlap it was the fact that I was about to get overlapped by everybody and so the revelation of that means that the eighth lap I'm doing alone like it's like I'm about to run this a lot by myself at the biggest tragedy of our whole entire season where everybody's there where everybody's watching it's the height of duck dynasty everybody knows who I am this is so embarrassing and so I'm like okay what are you teaching reward so you know they finished I'm like clapping for them I was I'm going from a last laugh good job guys see you in a second I'm walking on this one and my coach is like don't you stop running don't you stop running start around the corner and y'all this is whenever this becomes amazing cuz right before I'm about to do this last lap like I'm thinking of all like these scary thoughts I'm like okay first of all this is mortifying second of all I actually might pass out I might throw up I also might just get a pity clap from everybody and that's just as embarrassing as them all so I'm like this is just bad surrounding it and all of a sudden I see and my brother running down from the bleachers he has a speaker in his hand and he's playing it's the heart of a champion yes shoutout to John Luke Robertson he comes running down and he runs the last lap with me like and so but what happened when my brother came down he's playing it's all right to it heads at the crowd like it's no pity got baby rock there like and like me only run that last 100 and we're like come on everybody let's do we're like hopping down the last 100 I finished the two-mile like this whoo there's a picture to prove it it was awesome I tell you that story because I feel like God gave me such a specific thing to share in hell today and I've never seen anything like this before but I feel like God was just saying you know somebody in here thinks that the race is over because their reputation is ruined but it holds nothing on their Redemption story that's about to happen nothing because the story of your Redemption it's gonna fall out live the story of your reputation that you thought you once had and so I'm gonna turn to mark chapter 5 everybody just say it's about to get weird because this one of the weirdest stories of the Bible but it's so awesome so it's basically Jesus is coming and he's about to heal this demon-possessed man this man he was demon-possessed and it says that he was in this city and he was just going wild he was screaming out he was slashing in time I mean it was just really really bad situation what Jesus shows up and this man he had an impure spear in him he ran to Jesus and he fell on his knees and he said geez the son of the god what what do you have with me and Jesus looked at him and he said impure spirit come out then this is where it kind of gets weird because the impure spirit ends up going to the pigs and the pigs go and they drown super-weird but the point is something amazing was about to happen after this in verse 14 that's where we're gonna pick up it says those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town of the countryside and the people went out to see what had happened when they came to Jesus they saw the man who had been possessed by the Legion of demons sitting there dressed and in his right mind they were afraid those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also told him about the pigs as well then the people begged Jesus to leave their region as Jesus was getting into the boat the man who have once been demon-possessed begged him to go with him and listen to what Jesus said he said go home to your own people everybody say own people is that's important go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how much mercy he had on you so the man went away and began to beg them begins to tell all the people into capitalist how much Jesus had done for him and all the people were amazed see there is such a difference in telling your story in a way that makes you seem amazing and telling your story in a way that's going to amaze people like such a difference because this won't happen in the story that man which we all face that thing we all like oh man get me out of here like that seven clap I'm like get me out of here I do not want to take this pity clap this man who was once even possessed he's like give me out of here I don't want to have to go back to these people who have just watched me struggle who have watched me be afraid who have watched me scream out and agony I don't want to do it so let me just move on and Jesus is like no no no no because what Jesus was seeing and the reason why I believe Jesus felt okay to left is a key because he trusted him with his story he's like you know what I'm not just leaving this town with everybody else to just like be like whatever like Jesus just healed one person I'm leavin this town because I know I just came into a town and I touched the most desperate man in this town who had been screaming out who made himself very known and that man's Redemption story it's gonna be enough to change the whole town itself there's a difference between being known as amazing and amazing people the word amazing interesting that we're an amazing is an adjective and the word means to strikingly impress to be strikingly impressive the word amaze it's a verb and it means to fill with astonishment and you see sometimes where we get caught up is we have this story right we have this story we either have this story that we're gonna tell and we get to tell and whatever way we want to tell it if we tell it in a way that we want us to look amazing we might strikingly impress people we might but that's only to modify our story it sounds right to make it seem like a success story but when you tell the story to amaze other people to fill people with astonishment you fill them with this action of you know what what makes this amazing is that I once was really struggling and now I'm made new you know and it doesn't it doesn't just affect you it affects everyone who saw the story in the situation because what makes the whole point about the track story awesome is not my performance let me tell you like but this but the it's so important that you know about my performance right because then when you hear about the redemption that's what makes it so awesome you see it's amazing it's amazing that this man is in his right mind he's preaching about the gospel but it's even more amazing that that the day before he was demon-possessed it's amazing that I can be able to stand up here with the microphone and share to you but what amazes me is that I couldn't even read in class because I was so afraid you know like it's amazing that we serve a Jesus who's alive but it's even more amazing that he was dead for three days like that's what amazes people Anna I just I think about like this generation a lot you know I'm 21 I love Jesus while my heart I love this culture people who love Jesus too and you know we see how much of an exciting God he is like how many of you in here would say that like we know we serve the god of miracles yeah like we know that but so many people don't know that and I think about that I'm thinking man so many people in this generation you know they've read the Bible and they're like man this is a miraculous God right but he's not still a miraculous God and I think that sometimes it's because we only want to be seen on the other side of the miracle and we forget to tell him about what makes it miraculous because I think that we're actually be walking evidence that he is a miraculous God I can say myself I have my miracle because I've seen things that were so dead in me that I thought were that were so filled with shame that were so filled with fear absolutely come alive and be able to be seen because the miraculous God that he is so resurrection power the cross and I just think some people and here need to know that your race is not over that you might think you're less than amazing but something's about to amaze everybody in the room like it's not over and you need to know that you know the six lap the seventh lap in my little track story it's funny right it's funny that I was like die you're always thinking like but it's it's not funny in real life you know the sixth and seventh lap it's not funny it's actually really really hard it's that moment when you're you're actually your legs are getting really heavy cuz shame is getting really heavy it's that moment where like you're your chest is getting really tight cuz anxiety is very present it's the real things actually in life that get really hard and it's hard because they're actually very noticeable to the people around you but it fills you with embarrassment it's a hard lap it's a really hard lap but if you're in that position right here if you're literally came in this morning you realize I don't even know what's about to happen but oh my gosh I'm on the seventh lap you need to know that you're in the perfect position for your story to amaze people [Applause] you are literally one lap away but you gotta keep running and I that was kind of the word today that just I just want to remind you you got to keep running so you might be in here and you're like okay I need to keep running but how do I keep running because I remember that day before my brother came and ran with me my track coach was yelling at me and he was like ke prati don't stop it's like you don't understand I actually don't know how to keep running like my legs might not move like you might be in that position where you're like okay I hear you I want to keep running but how physically when I'm right here in this vision how do I keep running well let's give some biblical principles because the word activates things right so it's gonna activate our movement and Hebrews 12:1 it gives us this really really awesome awesome way to keep running and I'm gonna read it exactly because I want you to I want you to hear it for exactly what it is Hebrews 12 says therefore since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses let us throw off anything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles us and let us run with perseverance the race marked before us fixing your eyes on Jesus the Pioneer and the perfecter of our faith for the joy set before him he endured the agony of the cross so right now how do you keep running well you got to throw off anything that hinders you you got to throw off anything that's entangling you up any sin that you've been holding on to you got to throw it up because that's gonna make the run a whole lot harder if you're running and you've got all this stuff on you it's really hard to run right so let's identify what that is on you you probably know it it probably popped in your mind right now we gotta throw it off now the other thing we got to do is we got a fixer on so we had take our eyes off the crowd of people and we gotta fix our eyes on Jesus right the author and the perfecter of our faith because when Jesus when he was enduring the humiliation and the agony of the cross even Jesus went through a situation that's 6 and 7th lap right where he was losing breath when everybody saw him and he was once claiming that he was the son of God that he all these things he's the miraculous he's all things he's now on the cross but he fixed his eyes on what was gonna come he fixed his eyes on what was ahead you gotta fix your eyes you got to take it off you got to fix your eyes you got to keep running how do you keep running it says that if you just will put your trust in the Lord oh man don't you love this very if you'll just put your trust in the Lord man you're gonna run and you're not even gonna grow weary you're gonna walk and you're not gonna say if you just trust the Lord you don't have to even trust your ability to run thank God because that's heavy glad I wasn't getting anywhere you know I'm saying just trust the Lord you're gonna run you're not gonna grow weary why do you keep running because I remember thinking this that day too I was like why do I even keep running because like everybody's done I don't even run right like I could just actually stop and we could just never talk about this again but why do I keep running why do I finish when the winners are announced why do I finish when everybody's making fun of me why do I finish when nobody believes in me what you finish because the Lord says I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you a hope and a future there's a purpose in your rod you may be sitting here right now and you're just like me you're like why why their plans for you and even though right now you may not feel like a runner right now you might not feel like you're amazing you need to know that before the foundation of the world began he called you blameless in his sight and then he proceeded to knit you together in your mother's womb and for this time in history right now he breathed life into you and you're saying city I'm gonna be a miracle yes you're gonna Merrick be America how do I know that are you breathing you're a miracle are you breathing there's a purpose if you're still breathing even though it might be a really hard breath there's a reason keep running and don't stop you know I was thinking about this this just like yesterday I was preparing this message I was like you know what if like what if we stop writing what happens you know like what are we gonna miss what are we gonna miss out on who's an example of this I'm gonna tell you somebody who almost stopped running Moses Moses almost stopped running on the seventh lap he's actually the perfect example of this because Moses was once known as amazing from the world's standpoint right he was a prince of Egypt that's amazing but then he killed him and now he's a murder oh no now I'm a murder now I gotta run I gotta run I gotta get out of here he was just gonna run he was just gonna hide he probably just planned to hide his life away he almost stopped on the seventh lap before the Red Sea split before he met with God on the mountain before he led an entire generation out of slavery he almost stopped running because he thought I'm known as a murderer it's over he almost stopped but he was only one encounter away from his story becoming amazing you are only one encounter away from your story becoming amazing you're only one name away from everything about your story plot twist it's amazing one encounter Moses is running right he just murdered a man he's running he's now and that he sees this bush burning right he sees a burning bush and he looks and I love the whole dynamic of what's about to happen you know we hear this story a lot and we heard it as a child but but if you really think about the conversation between Moses and God it's really hilarious and it's really something we would all say probably because gods like Moses Moses and Moses is like there's a bush burning Here I am and gods like take your sandals off you're walking on holy ground and this conversation is about to happen and when he's sitting there I love what happens God kind of lays out what he's wanting to ask Moses to do he's like I'm gonna need you to go back to Egypt and I'm gonna need you to tell Pharaoh to let my people go and Moses is life Who am I Who am I that I can go back to Egypt until Pharaoh to let your people go God like Who am I and isn't that what we do really Who am I those people know me as a murderer I'm not going back that's like that demon-possessed man he's like no take me out of here they know me as a demon-possessed man I'm not going back guy says no no I want you to go back mostly how Who am I and God says no you're gonna go back because I'm gonna go with you you see there might not be confidence in your run right now cuz you're alone but the minute you have God running with you there's a confidence that starts to come into play right that goes back to that verse your pastor was talking about the other day Hebrews 10:35 so then do not forget the confident trust you have in the Lord for that will be richly rewarded patient endurance is why you need now so that you will be able to test and approve what God's good perfect and pleasing will is for your life I don't have to be confident that I'm gonna be able to make it a lot the last lap by myself but I'm gonna be confident in trusting in the Lord for what he's gonna do because he's the one that's gonna renew my strength but Moses still he's like nope not good enough why me why me got why me what am I gonna say to them when they see a murderer come but what am i what am I gonna say and God says you tell them I am Who I am because it really doesn't matter who you are it really just matters who I am and if I'm sending you I've already considered who you are and I'm still calling you to go because I'm gonna be with you and that that's what's gonna amaze people get past that reputation people aren't focused on your reputation at that point they're focused on the Redeemer when you let him be seen in your story look trust me you're gonna be overlooked in the best way you should actually welcome being overlooked because it's the best thing people to just catch a glimpse of who he is you watch people light up you watch people be filled with all in astonishment and wonder and you're able to say oh no please don't get it wrong don't think it's anything because of who I am it has everything to do with who the Creator is of this universe you know I love how God comes to Moses you know because he calls him by name you know Moses like I said Prince known as a prince amazing known as a murderer got a rod known as Moses he said Moses I'm gonna remind you of your name because if anybody knows the name Moses the whole story so beautiful Moses was literally put into a basket whenever he was very young because Pharaoh had called for every one of those little babies to be killed but Moses was put into a basket and the the kingdom like the people the Prince Pharaoh they found him and they named him Moses because they drew him out of the water he was a miracle and God saying you need to be reminded that you might have been known as a prince and you might have been known as a murderer but I named you Moses because I had a purpose for your life when I made sure you were drawn out of that water for this time in history to lead your generation out of slavery so do not stop running it's not time to stop running [Applause] it's not time to stop running last scene don't stop running because nobody believes in your run you only need one person to believe that you had the ability to run and it really might sound funny to you right now when I say that you only need your father God to believe in you you might be like Sadie that's such a church thing to say no no but I actually mean it because everybody I've talked about in this story it started with just one person that demon possessed man nobody was going up to him nobody was going up to him but Jesus went and set with him actually when that man ran to him Jesus set with him and heal him and then was sitting with him when everybody saw him when everybody saw Jesus with that man at first they were afraid but because of the fruit that was coming out of that man's life and how that man was no longer screaming in fear and pain but he was actually professing the gospel of Jesus Christ they couldn't help but be amazed it started with just Jesus Moses before anybody was running with him because he really ruined his reputation God's I'm gonna go with you started with God right then it was Aaron then it was all the Israelites coming out of slavery I think about my own story I was so afraid I was such a nervous person my teachers used to literally ask my mom as I talked like no joke it's like literally scared of people weird but that's what makes it so amazing now to me what God does started with just me and God in my room reading the word then it comes to this and that's what it's gonna be for every one of you don't stop believing don't stop getting you know discourage because nobody believes and you have to know that your God believes in you when he created you I was in Mogadishu Somalia last year it was a really insane trip I went with Bob Gough anybody know Bob Bob's awesome he's such a legend of faith and I learned so much from him he asked me to go to Mogadishu with him a week before we were going and we went and a week later I'm in the Somalian water with all of these child soldiers who had just gotten rescued by Bob's team and were there and there's this one kid and he just had the most radiant smile I mean he was glowing and so we and him surfed together all day and we didn't speak hardly any of the same language but an interpreter every now and then and so I began to ask him about his life about his story tell me his name and then I said what do you want to do with your life you know and he goes I want to travel around Africa and I want to tell him about Jesus and I said wow that's awesome he's like yeah and I just I went up to Bob after I said who is that kid I said was he one of like the people who worked in the home I didn't know anything about his story and Bob said yeah Oh No City six months ago we had to get him out of prison because when he was 11 years old he was a child soldier he was in a terrorist group he went through that for a little while then he went to prison whenever he was 15 and we were just able to get him out he said but it's been the hardest struggle with him until six months ago he said because every single day his dad would show up and he would say don't let this kid on a prison you don't know what he's gonna do to this nation he's a terrorist his own father would stand there and he would just just say there's no hope for him his story's over keep him in prison and every day Bob would show up and he would go please have mercy on your son come on please have mercy on your son and then one day the dad shows up and the dad goes to the kid I believe that you're gonna be different and every day he started showing up and he started saying I believe that you're gonna change I believe that your story is not over yet and his dad began to speak life into this kid and that was only six months before I met him and he told me that he wants to speak about the name of Jesus to all of Africa but it took him knowing it's okay knowing that my dad believes in me so I'm gonna keep running you might have came in here today and you were so scared to run that last lap alone you were like right on the edge of it your legs were so heavy with shame your chest was so tight with anxiety you didn't think anybody else believed in you but I'm here to tell you because my god believes in you this family believes in you because my god believes in you we as a church I'm claiming to be a church because this is the church we're gonna run with you right you're in a place where you don't have to run alone you're in a place where you really should not give up because I promise you it's about to get amazing and your story is about to amaze people so keep running we're to go into worship right now and then there's gonna give a moment well you can decide to keep running but decide to roam with God because I'm telling you it's gonna make everything about your run amazing it's got to be awesome I love you Church I'm so thankful to be with you today and I hope you're so encouraged and strengthened [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 28min 43sec (1723 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 17 2018