The Blessing Of Both | Elevation Church | Pastor Steven Furtick

how awesome how awesome what a wonderful wonderful time of worship amen do me a favor real quick before you take your seat I'm kind of torn I'm gonna preach in just a moment I'm excited to preach I'm in a little bit of a dilemma I have two different scriptures one is from the Old Testament and one is from the New Testament and I kind of can't decide which one I want to give you so I thought we put it up for a vote huh she said both well it's a good thing because my message today is the blessing of both let's do it let's do it you may be seated God Bless you God bless you choir God bless you Anna God bless you Matt God bless you Pastor Sean Seay in the house from Athens Church let's thank God for this great man of God thanks for stopping by it's good to have my brother pastor Mike Todd on the second row representing the Oakland Athletics you're not a fan at all are you oh man that's terrible you just watched Moneyball and bought an Oakland A's hat is that what happened oh man this feels good so if I'm not preaching good I can throw the mic on the first row the second row and somebody else can pick it up it's so good to be here and just touch somebody and say if pastor if Pastor had time he would say thank God for you and mention your name too will do that if he had time so many wonderful things to share from the Word of God hey thank you for serving this Love Week whatever you did if you uh if you did something this week or really what I like to thank God for is consistency because it's not just one week out of the year that builds a great Church and so while this week there are many people we could highlight and thank for their contribution I want to say thank you to those of you who never make a lot of noise but you just contribute in meaningful ways prayer giving service it's a big deal and you lead an eGroup whether it's the spectacular thing whether it's 40 people or 4 people you just do it that's really how you can know that you're doing it for God and not for the approval of others or the praises of people it's just really beautiful and I appreciate you I don't know how to say it any more than that but I appreciate you and I hope you can feel that that's sincere from my heart thank you to those of you you don't you don't blow a trumpet or anything like that you don't announce it you just do it and that means a lot it's not just a Nike slogan it's the way that a great local church is built when people are just willing to do it and not necessarily have to be known for it but I thank God for each and every one of you on every location I just wanted to say that and in the spirit of love I wore pink now let's get into the Bible let me read you this from Ecclesiastes chapter 11 verses 5 and 6 now I'm gonna take my time because I've been waiting to preach these passages since since the beginning of June and I couldn't figure out how God wanted me to preach them but today I saw it and I've just been pacing all day waiting for you to put on your makeup and get here so we could talk about it together and now I can't find Ecclesiastes in the Bible everything's falling apart here it is it's right there it said verse 5 as you do not know the way the Spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child so you do not know the work of God who makes everything in the morning sow your seed and at evening withhold not your hand for you do not know which will prosper this or that or whether both alike will be good there's our word both go over to Matthew chapter 13 verse 24 for my second scripture you told me you wanted both so I'm fulfilling your request he put another parable before them verse 24 saying the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field but while his men were sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away so when the plants came up and bore grain then the weeds appeared also by the way by the time something destructive appears in your life it's been planted for a little while there's a difference between the time when it was deposited in the soil and the time it showed up in your life so when they woke up to the weeds he said the servant said master did you not sow good seed in your field I thought you raised your kids right you know things like that I thought you went to church I thought you prayed but he said if you sowed good seeds how then does it have weeds in the field and he said to them an enemy has done this so the servant said to him then do you want us to go and gather them take care of it sort it out he's like no you you gotta you gotta be careful because less gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them let both everybody say both let both grow together interesting until the harvest and at harvest time I will tell the reapers gather the weeds first bind them in bundles to be burned but gather the wheat into my barn when Jesus was teaching about the kingdom of God it was a new phrase and an entirely new concept for his hearers it had never been said that way before the kingdom of God now Israel thought of themselves as a kingdom in a military and nationalistic sense but to think of the Kingdom of Heaven or the kingdom of God in an invisible realm required Jesus to not only explain it but to demonstrate it and both are always necessary everybody say both that's why Love Week was so important in our church those 100,000 hours that we served validated the message that we preached it is one thing to explain love but it's another thing to hand somebody some warm food or a blanket or to be with somebody in their time of need and so Jesus had to do both and he had quite a challenge on his hands because he would he would demonstrate something by working a miracle but then he would have to explain it because the people who saw the miracle would miss the point I told you about one last week when he took the happy meal and fed everybody and they thought that the point of the miracle was that their stomachs were full and because they wanted him to be their Burger King he had to shut that whole thing down and say eat my flesh drink my blood you missed the entire point so he's always having to explain it he was always having to demonstrate so they could see it and then explain it so they could understand it he said if you see it but don't understand it it'll be like a seed that was sown but the bird snatches it up before it has the opportunity to hit the soil and so if you don't get the lesson in your heart through the power of demonstration then you will miss the intention of the message but if you only see the demonstration and don't hear the explanation then you'll understand the miracle on the wrong level and you'll always live your life thinking that the physical thing is the real thing and you'll not understand what it's really pointing to so you'll engage in behavior modification to try to fix your life not understanding that every habit in your life started with something in your heart and until God turns to the soil of your heart and weeds out the stuff that is choking the seed of his word like I said it's a lot in the text and Jesus must have felt overwhelmed because in the crowd he had his disciples and he needed them to take the message after he left and then there were the people who were just coming just to see the show and just to eat the fries and he had to separate the two out and he would often have to pull the disciples aside and say now when I said this this is what I meant he had to not only teach to the crowds but he had to teach his disciples too he had to do both I relate to that challenge because some of you in this church know so much of the Bible you know I'm like you know Matthew 13:24 wheating the tares wow and then others are like Matthew who is that his brother's name what are we doing and it's like all over the place in terms of knowledge and just frame of reference right but Jesus was always able to to speak to both unless they thought he could only do one or the other he'd do stuff like this he'd say to a paralytic friend your sins are forgiven and then when the people doubted if he had the power to forgive sins he would tell him now get up and take up your bed and walk the reason that he told him to get up and take up his bed and walk was to give them a physical demonstration of his spiritual authority so it's demonstration and explanation and Jesus is doing both in the context of the kingdom of God he would often have to teach this principle of the already and not yet eschatological woo $20 word the eschatological tension of the kingdom of God and so it simply means that some things have already come the kingdom of God is here and then some things are still coming isn't it that way in our life to know that if we have trusted in Christ we are saved we have been saved and yet we are being saved and we will be saved because there are certain things in my life right now that God has already done I can see the fruit of it but there are other changes that are still taking root in my life and what I've noticed about this is that as my devotion to Christ grows so do the things that distract me to try to pull me away from that pure devotion and simple childlike faith in the grace of God and Jesus is using a parable so he can use an earthly symbol to convey a spiritual truth he said it's like if a man was planting weed weeds with the plural yeah it might be legal but it ain't always just the best thing to do but that's a different sermon but he said it's like if he was planning wheat and then somebody else planted weeds he said I want you to know that both grow together which is symbolic of how as the Ministry of Jesus increased so did the opposition the more that his popularity grew the more vocal his opponents became because both grow together in the church I grew up in Moncks Corner United Methodist Church we used to go upstairs to the youth room Rick Burnett would lead us in praise and worship songs like it only takes a spark to get a fire going shine Jesus shine what was the other one he used to love so much oh I remember the other one I'm not gonna tell you what it was I'll tell you you know how James Taylor sang the Carole King song you've got a friend he would do you've got a friend but then he would go into what a friend we have in Jesus and it was like a medley and then he would stop after he played the songs and it was only about 10 of us in the youth group but he would always say and now it's time for praise reports and prayer requests so it's a bunch of teenagers right so what you would usually happen is everybody that would raise their hand will raise their hand and say I have an unspoken unspoken is code for it's probably about a girl or it's about a guy I have an unspoken but you know maybe every once in a while somebody would raise their hand and give a praise report about a test that they passed or a prayer request about a test that they were taking here's what's weird and I wonder if you've experienced this in your life is that in our lives we will we will often see the cycle that what will be our prayer requests in one season of our life will become our praise report in the next season only to become our prayer requests again there's probably a couple in here who right now is pregnant with child and you probably prayed that God would enable you to have a child and maybe in like 5 months 3 months 7 months you will give birth to your prayer request you had your friends praying probably even in a crowd this size somebody who had trouble conceiving and maybe even through the course of many different miscarriages this may be the third or fourth or fifth time you tried and now you're on the way to giving birth to what you prayed about others are still waiting for that and and and we're all at different places but let me tell you what's gonna happen cuz I've had she's had three babies and you pray for it and then you have it and you praise God for it and then you start praying about it all over again so watch this y'all pray we're trying to have a baby y'all pray we haven't slept in 34 days y'all pray our toddler is now showing some developmental delays y'all pray we're trying to get him into this school but we can't get him with the right teacher y'all pray he's got his driver's license y'all better pray for yourselves as a matter of fact y'all might want to stay off the road for the next few years y'all pray it was your prayer request that became your praise report that turned back into your prayer request so here's what I'm trying to say you prayed for your problems yes you did you prayed for the promotion on the job and the promotion came with people and people are stupid and lazy and late and tardy you prayed for that touch somebody say you prayed for it you asked for it don't get mad about it now you prayed for it you prayed for a man I heard one girl praying for a husband one time she was praying for a future husband she had a whole list about it she was praying she was like God I pray that he would be godly and I pray that he would be tall but God I'd rather him be godly then tall but God if he could be both if he could be both if he could be both it's both you need both you need both they say in marriage like you know don't marry somebody you're attracted to marry somebody that you know loves the Lord you better be attracted to them too it better be both no I'm for real about this most preachers won't say these things because they sound carnal and unspiritual but it needs to be both you need to like to look at each other you're gonna be looking at each other all the time in this thing y'all can be prayer partners you don't have to get married you gotta have some chemistry and Christ so it goes back to the idea that humans are always wanting to categorize and we always want to divide things you want us to get the you want us to get the wheat separated from the weeds that's what we always want to do we always want to separate the good from the bad you know we want to talk about I'm in a season of blessing right now or I'm going through a really hard season right now let me tell you the truth all of us are going through a season of blessing right now and all of us are going through a really hard season right now it just depends on which angle that you catch me from as to what season I look like I'm going through if you see me from one side from my good side I might look like the most blessed man in the United States of America in the continental United States of America but on the other side I yelled at one of my kids who shall remain nameless right before I came to preach to you but you didn't have to see that so now I'm a man full of the spirit and wisdom up here give him a praise let it be done receive your rain like a flood I was coming through like a flood but a different kind of flood just a few minutes before I got on the stage it's both I could preach the Bible and want to beat your behind both in the same two-hour period in the same 120 minutes because I'm a Pastor but I'm also a daddy and if you disrespect my wife I will turn into something else cuz I'm a transformer I'm a gobot I'm both gotta know how to be both whoa wasn't in my notes but he kept trying to describe the kingdom he said it's like the seed was good and the weeds were bad but they both grow together isn't that so true they both grow together the opportunities grow and so do the responsibilities God take me deeper in my walk with you okay as you go deeper you're gonna gain intimacy with Christ and then you're gonna also gain awareness of your ignorance because the closer to him you get the more you're gonna realize how much you don't know so it's like I want to know you more but the more you come to know Christ the more you're going to know that you didn't know him at all that's why I liked Ecclesiastes 11 I was reading that how Solomon had chased things that he called vanity or meaningless it was like the sense that in the context of having success and fulfillment if you have one without the other it's problematic what you really want is both see like if you have success but not fulfillment or wholeness that will feel to you like the ultimate failure because to chase what you thought you wanted and to get it and it didn't do what you needed done makes you feel like well what do I do now that's the point that he was writing from where he said that there are certain things that you just don't know and he mentions two things in Ecclesiastes 11 because all of us struggle from time to time when we are sowing when we are investing when we are living our lives and doing the things that we believe that God has called us to do without knowing whether it's making a difference at all there's so much you don't know Solomon says if you if you watch the wind to see if it's blowing right you will never sow and if you watch the clouds to see if it's dry enough you will never reap your mind will always find an excuse for you will always find a reason will always find an indication that this is not the right time and so Salomon is giving advice he's saying just like you don't know how the breath enters the bones of a woman in the womb now granted we have ultrasounds now but it still it's still true to be said today that there is a part of the process of human life that we can't put on a sonogram there's a part of it he says there's the bones and then there's the spirit or the breath Hebrew word ruach it's the same way that God breathed it's it's the Spirit of God the ruach of God in the Old Testament he said there's the bones and there's the breath there's the structure and there's the spirit and if you have structure but not spirit you don't have life if you have spirit but you don't have structure you don't have life in a few weeks I'm going to be teaching our staff on our annual staff advance and I'm doing a whole session just around this verse for leadership because in church you can pray for the Spirit of God to come but if you don't have structure if you don't have any capacity to manage what God brings you it will simply be irresponsibility and wishful thinking on the other hand you can have organizational charts and resources and all of the things that would tend to make people think you are successful but without the Spirit just without that thing that only God can do can I tell you something I can get up here with an outline and an outfit and think that I have something to say but there's a part of me that knows because I've been doing this for 14 years now on this stage well not this one we had different buildings but at this church as the pastor and there is a certain thing that God has to do that I can't do and I don't always know what he's going to do so there's a part of me that came today excited to preach to you because I had a structure I have some scriptures but there's a part of me that knows that God if you don't blow on this if you don't breathe on this if you don't do that thing that you do that I can't do if you don't tear open somebody's facade and speak down deep in the places of their heart then I'll just be a clanging cymbal I'll just lose my voice but I won't say anything God I need you to breathe on my life I need you to breathe peace I need you to breathe joy cause God I can get a big house a nice car the right clothes and a lot of people but if you don't breathe I won't be fulfilled if you don't do it it won't be done I need both I need the bones and the breath I need the structure and the spirit I need I mean here's what I love about it I need the friends and the enemies I need both I was amazed how Jesus when he was putting together his kingdom Dream Team knew that one of them was a devil and kept him anyway John I understand the disciple that Jesus loved at least that's what he put in his own bio of course you chose John he's gonna take care of your mama when you're gone and of course he chose Judas because Judas was the one who got him to the cross where he paid the price that he came to pay you need both you need wheat and weeds and if you try to pull them up if you try to get the stuff out of your life that you don't like you'll tear out the wheat the substance you'll tear out the thing that God is growing because see what would happen if you planted this particular type of weed or some versions call it the tares the wheat and the tares it looked the same on the surface but but but where it was really difficult was underground where the tares would intermingle with the wheat and the root systems would get intertwined and sometimes what God is doing in your life beneath the surface the pain is intertwined with the purpose you hear me the thing that you don't like about yourself is sometimes the thing that God is using and we ask God to use us and we ask God to do his will in our lives unless we don't like it and then we want to root that out and so then it's like well God I want you to do this but not that and what Solomon said is what Jesus said you don't know which one is which and so we have to be very careful when we are trying to do our own gardening because I don't know about you but I am not a horticulturist I don't have a lot of agriculture experience I was preparing this message and I had this weird memory of being a little boy and my mom had this little flower bed outside our house and one day I decided to be helpful and I came back to the door and I was so proud I was like mom and I had my hands full and I said I got all the weeds out of your flowerbed and she looked like she wanted to slap me but she restrained herself she said those were the flowers but I didn't know the difference because I was too immature to know the difference and sometimes we are spiritually immature and we are running from things and removing things and resisting things and in the process of trying to pluck out the weeds you're removing the wheat if God answered every prayer you prayed right now I'm sorry Bruce Almighty was a pretty good movie it would screw up the universe it would ruin your training look can I teach a little bit all right so I use to not be able to do a pull-up I'm not gonna lie to you I was 22 years old and I had never done a pull-up in my life so I start training to do pull-ups and I could do some pull-ups one day this guy told me that I had to do not only pull-ups which was a feat of accomplishment for me that I worked my whole life toward to this point a culmination of my entire life's effort in the realm of exercise he's like now I need you to do a negative I said what's a negative he said well there's two parts to every rep there's when you're going up and there's when you're coming down but there's just as much benefit in coming down as there is in coming up I'm gonna give you seven seconds because if that hits you right you will start to see that the things in your life right now that you perceive as negative might be a crucial function in building your strength and your stamina and your hope there are some things about God that you can only learn going down ask Peter beginning to sink when he felt the grip of the grace of God through the hands of Jesus of Nazareth and he said now I know that you're Lord it's the blessing of both and you don't know touch somebody say you don't know you don't know the difference between wheat and weed you can't do the angels job let God sort that out I heard the Lord say keep sowing and stop sorting sorting keep sowing and stop sorting stop judging the experience the moment it happens give it some time to see what it is as a matter of fact I don't know if you have experienced this but some of my successes have been the fruit of my failures some of the things that have produced the most in my life were the things that honestly at the time I was the most embarrassed about some of the things that have actually I know that most of you in this church know the song o come to the altar the song that almost never was there were 12 versions of that song all of them sucked all right write this down you want a deep revelation success starts with sucks he said sow it in the morning sow it in the evening because you don't know seeds can be deceiving seeds can look awfully small seeds can look impotent and they may be dormant for a while and when you sow them they go away for a little while but they didn't go to die they went to multiply some of the things in your life that you said goodbye to you need to say see you later I'm expecting you to come back up again cuz I believe in resurrection mmm the blessing of both both I need both in my life Paul needed both I guess I do too Paul had this thing he called a thorn and he kept trying to weed it out asked God three times take it away now if you've ever asked God to take something away that's fine but if he doesn't do it leave it alone and here's why you can leave it alone because the presence of weeds will not cancel out the power of the wheat what is supposed to grow will grow leave it alone for a little while and see what it becomes see if it will be the fruit this this failure that you're processing right now some of you started the business you did the thing you took the step and you made a mess out of it see if maybe that might that might be the seed of something that becomes something that people will celebrate in the future and you will know and God will know that you almost gave up and the enemy was there telling you stop sowing it's not working but you kept sewing and you sowed in the morning and you sowed in the evening and you loved anyway and you forgave anyway and you showed up anyway and you did it anyway and you memorized the scripture and quoted it anyway even though it wasn't happening in your life but you kept quoting it and you kept sowing and you didn't try to sort it out and you didn't try to root it up and you didn't get impatient and immature but you waited for the will of God to come to pass in your life don't you ever stop sewing cuz you don't know Solomon said you don't know the way that the breath enters the bones and you don't know the way God works either you don't know we don't know which sermons God's gonna use to touch people didn't you ever preach one you hated and then everybody wanted to talk about it for the next year and you preached one you loved and nobody ever remembered it it'll make you mad but that's how the breath operates so you'll be reminded that you need the Spirit of God not just structure and skill and some things in your life it's gonna surprise you because you don't know he said one might work and one might not or both might do equally well in fact he said in the ESV both may be good now that made me think of Joseph naturally Old Testament Joseph with the coat Joseph the coat that got him beat up the coat that got him thrown in a pit the coat that represented the favor of his father the coat that was kind of loud and obnoxious but he wore it anyway the coat that let him know he was chosen even if people didn't like him remember you need both everybody's not supposed to like you if everybody likes you you are doing nothing if everybody likes you you stand for nothing if everybody agrees with you you are saying nothing you don't need everybody to like you this is spoken like a true prophet now because one time I was going through some criticism and I asked God to make it stop he said well if I stop that then I got to stop the blessing that created the criticism to begin with because both grow together both grow together oh I want to be used by God and I want everybody to agree with all of my decisions and validate my existence both grow together and so when Joseph did get pushed in a pit it was no surprise to me that the Ishmaelite caravan was the one that picked him up it didn't surprise me at all because that's just like God he always uses both Ishmael was the son that Abraham had doing it his own way Isaac was the one that he had doing it God's Way but guess which one got used guess which one got used both you mean God will use my mistakes to bring about a deliverance in my future you mean God will use the dumb thing I did I'm saying absolutely if he's sovereign he will if it's his field if it's his harvest if it's his job to superintend your life even the Ishmaelites served a purpose when David slept with Bathsheba after the child died the next son he had was named Solomon who was the wisest man who ever lived who wrote Ecclesiastes 11 his dumbest decision led to the world's greatest wisdom i'ma try i'ma try because I saw it in my mind like this I saw that God is using both in your life right now he's using both so when Joseph gets thrown in prison it's not good but God uses that to introduce him to somebody who is going to bring him before Pharaoh when he comes before Pharaoh Pharaoh was telling him about a dream that means there's going to be a famine in the land well the famine isn't good but God is using the famine to create a position of favor for his people now when they finally got there Joseph is standing before his brothers and he has a revelation that everything that has happened in his life wasn't good but everything that happened in his life has been held in the hand of God so God wasn't just using the stuff that felt good to you not just the stuff that you praised him for not just the stuff that you thanked him for Paul finally came to the point where he said I learned to thank God for my thorn I learned to thank him for the things that he is using that I did not choose for myself the things that he is using that tormented me at one time but the tormentor was my mentor that transformed me into who I needed to be so that I would rely on the grace of God it's the blessing of both it's both so when Joseph said you meant it to harm me but God meant it for good he's not speaking out of both sides of his mouth it's both they meant it but God used it God is going to use both I promise you he is I promise you he is that's what the cross represents after all it's two beams one vertical that's you and God one horizontal that's you and people it's both love the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind strength love your neighbor as yourself it's both it's not one or the other it's both I praise God when I feel it I praise God when I don't feel it I praise God when I sense him I praise him when it's so distant that I wonder sometimes is any of this even real I praise him in the good times I praise Him in the bad times I praise Him when he does what I asked I praise Him when he runs a little late to Lazarus funeral because I know even on the fourth day he can say something and Joseph said oh it's both it's pain and purpose it's both and we keep waiting to this day when everything in our life will be stable and all of our relationships will be harmonious and God said I need you to learn how to celebrate the wheat even while you're looking at the weeds even the enemy serves a purpose even the devil works for God the devil is not in charge of what happens in my life God doesn't do everything that happens to me but he uses everything that happens to me there is nothing that is happening in your life that will not have to pass through the hand of God by the time it's said and done and so I saw this picture that really moved me of how Joseph's father Jacob at the end of his life was sitting on his deathbed and Jacob was an interesting character because he had two names Jacob deceiver Israel Prince which one was he if you'll be really honest you're both too so please don't judge people just because their shortcomings are exposed if it weren't for the grace of God who knows where you would be come on how many know what you're capable of I didn't have a problem I didn't have a problem preaching in that prison the other day because I'm not in that same situation but I could be there's nothing better about me than anybody that I was preaching to it wasn't a problem for me to preach it's the power of both it's the blessing of both and when Jacob was about to die Joseph wanted to get his kids in front of Jacob so that they could be blessed and he brought these two sons that he had in Egypt the oldest one was named Manasseh the younger one was named Ephraim and they sat on Jacobs knees for a minute Jacob couldn't see very well and after all that Joseph has been through God has blessed them anyway these two sons have significant names Manasseh means to forget because he said I'm going to forget the shame and the pain of Egypt God has made me forget and then Ephraim means fruitful isn't that beautiful how God can produce fruit in even the hardest and worst situations well anyway when Jacob was sitting up to bless the boys he did something weird now I want to show you this real quick I don't know who this is for but in Genesis 48:13 you got it 48:13 please it said and Joseph took them he took both of them Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh in his left hand God's gonna bless both and he brought them near him next verse and Israel stretched out his right hand laid it on the head of Ephraim who was the younger and his left hand on the head of Manasseh crossing his hands for Manasseh was the firstborn now understand when he did that it broke every protocol and violated every expectation because he was supposed to bless the oldest one first but God doesn't do things the way we think that he should do things and we don't get what we deserve from God we get so much more we get His grace and His mercy and when he when he crossed his hands over to bless the younger one first do any of you know that God has blessed you in ways that you don't deserve and didn't earn and there's no way in the world you could have built a resume to afford it so when he did it Joseph got really upset it said when Joseph saw verse 17 that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim it displeased him and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head watch the next verse and Joseph said to his father not this way my father this was the first born you know I know you're getting old and you can't you you used to do this when you're a little kid you've been trying to switch things up your whole life but put your right hand on his head watch the next verse but his father refused and said I know my son I know he shall also become a people he shall also be great in other words he said I'm gonna bless both you know why I don't ever have to be jealous of anybody else's life you know why I don't ever have to worry about comparing myself to what God does for somebody else because God is big enough to bless both of us when you know that come on when you know that this is the blessing of both to know that what I call good what I call bad God is going to bless both don't you go trying to pluck stuff yourself that's above your paygrade don't you go on a self-improvement project without God's help you'll mess up the masterpiece God said it's all working together for the good I'm gonna bless both they were singing a minute ago come here Tiff she was singing you never lost a battle you never lost a battle I felt that when we were writing that song I felt it she was we were just singing that you never lost a battle and we just started singing that oh man I was like yes Lord the church is gonna want to sing this come here come here and then I was like keep singing it but then I was like Chris why don't you uh why don't you help her and then she sang it I said what if they what if they both what if they both what if they both yeah what if they both what if what if it was both what if it was both what if Paul and Silas start praising God together what if we come together in his name and we begin to lift him up what if we praise Him let all things work together thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube 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Published: Mon Aug 05 2019