Whisper

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But the reality is that the all of us throughout our lives have moments where we sense that there's more going on than meets the art. And one of the great challenges in life is not to stop short of intimacy with God and stopping at religion. Because when we believe in God, we've at least stepped into a space that others would call religion. But when you engage with God, now it becomes something transcendent. You are designed to hear the voice of God. That's the premise of everything we're talking about, that you are designed to hear the siren of God's voice, calling you toward life, you're designed to resonate at the deepest level of who you are with the deepest level of who God is. And so we've looked together at the siren and the resonance. But today I want to talk about the whisper. A whisper is an unusual form of communication. It's sound without vibration. It's only possible when there's intimacy and proximity and closeness. You cannot whisper to someone across the street. You can't whisper to someone in a loud room. You cannot whisper with someone when there's too much noise. The whisper is lost. The whisper can only come when there's an intimate, personal, contact-to-contact face-to-face, breath-to-brath, in cagement. But I think a part of the challenge is that many times, and we think of God speaking, we tend to think of, well, request and response. That's what communication with God should be. We make requests, God responds, hopefully, in the affirmative. Or sometimes it gets a little more profound. And we go, well, it's really about questions and answers. We ask God questions, and He gives us answers. And I think so oftentimes we miss the whisper because we expect the whisper to be an answer when the whisper is most often a question. I think we get the relationship backwards. We're supposed to ask the questions God is supposed to give, the answers, but what if? When you move into a relationship with God, it's actually God who's asking the questions. And we are the ones who are entrusted with the answer. There are at least four domains in your inner world where God will have conversations with you that are driven by questions. And I think this can be really frustrating for us because I know it was frustrating for our kids. Because I tried to parent with questions, not answers. In fact, I had a personal philosophy that if you give people the answers, you make them weak. And there would be many, many times where both Aaron and Mariah when they were just small children would just come and beg for me just to tell them the answer. Just tell me what to do. And I think sometimes in life we just throw our hands up. We're exhausted. We don't want to think, we're brain numb. I think a lot of us hope God exists just so that we can stop thinking, stop choosing, stop deciding, stop taking responsibility. Wouldn't it just be nice sometimes to just go, "God, just tell me what to do so that I don't have to have a moral compass?" Just tell me what to do so I don't have to think and grow in insight and wisdom. And there's this interesting tension among us where we don't want anyone to tell us what to do except when we really want them to tell us what to do. But the problem when someone tells you what to do is that you can abdicate yourself from responsibility of the outcome. Which is one of the reasons I am convinced God parents us. He leads us more from the questions he asks than the answers he gives. So the answers that we bring to the questions God asks reveal who we are. So I want to talk about these four different domains that God will speak into our lives as we journey with God because in a very beautiful way we're all on a quest. And God is trying to take us on a journey not from here to Delaware or Los Angeles to Tokyo. That would be acceptable. But that's not the quest that God is focused on for us. The question for God, the quest for God is not where are you going from here but who are you becoming from here. And the way that God guides us on this quest are through the questions. And the questions that God asks begin and we find it in the beginning. In Genesis chapter three verses 8 through 11 and you know the context we're going to look at a few passages today but we're just going to stay there for a moment. So is it the man and his wife? This is the context of Adam and Eve? Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day which I think is an important side note. It describes Adam and Eve, the man the one being able to identify the sound of God walking. And we're wondering if again identify the sound of God speaking. They heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day and they hid from the Lord God up among the trees of the garden but the Lord called to the man, where are you? Now by the way just in case you're wondering it wasn't just so thick in the garden the God couldn't find them. The where are you is on a geographic question. It's a relational question. What are you doing so far away from me? This is the first time there was any distance between God and humanity. Up to this point God never had to ask where are you because where he was we were and where we were he was. There were there was never we have this app on the phone or what's it called where someone else can find you. Find my. Find my. That's an incomplete sentence. Find my. Now Kim and I we've lived long enough where it feels a little strange where someone can track you where you are. But I have people in my life who do track me and they do know where I am and it kind of makes me nervous and they go oh yeah you're 11 minutes away and I'm like how did you know? We have a tracking device that follows you just like the government. And the only way reason we need to find my is because we're not at the same place. It would be kind of crazy to be sitting next to Jake and to look up where's Jake? Find my Jake. (Laughter) Be insane. Be walking with someone and pull out your phone and go, "What are you doing?" Because I need to know where you are. See, so when God opens up, this is the first question. By the way, the Old Testament itself has God asking at least 300 questions. And the story opens up with God's first question of them. Where are you? Why are you not where I am? But that to me is not the question that becomes so seismic. Because in that moment, the man answers, "I heard you in the garden," so he could hear God. That was not the question. Adam and Eve are not going to a conference learning how to hear the voice of God. It was inherent. It was natural to who they were. "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked." So I hid. And God said, "Who told you that you were naked?" That is the seismic question that God asked Adam. I think it's kind of an odd question. He's got an trusted Adam and Eve with all of creation. And basically, he got said, "You can eat from any tree you want, but you can't eat from this one tree. And if he's from this one tree, you're going to die." And by the way, later we discover the whole universe goes into chaos because of that one wrong decision. And so if I'm God and you blow it big time, I only give you one command, one thing you cannot do and you can't stay away from it. And by the way, if you study the whole dynamic of paradise, it's not like a small lot. It's not like LA, zero lot lines. This was an endless expanse. There were rivers flowing through paradise. They were naked and on a shape. They couldn't think of anything to do except hang around the one bad tree. The snake could not have a conversation with Eve if she wasn't around the tree. I didn't have to scoop her up. Cut out a canoe from a tree, put her on the Euphrates, a baby, we're going traveling. We're going to get as far away from that tree as possible. It's that human thing of how much can I get away with? How close can I get to the wrong line? Wrong conversations happen when you're in the wrong audience, when you're in the wrong room with the wrong people. And in this moment God asked him a question that seemed so odd. He said, "Why did you destroy the balance of the universe?" He says, "Who told you you were naked?" That just seems kind of an odd question, right? Rather than, "Why did you disobey me? Why did you introduce death into the human story? Why were you having him conversation with the snake? There's so many other questions. I would have asked if I were God. Did you forget what I said?" Was I unclear? But the question is, why? Who told you you were naked? The first question God asked was about identity. Who stole your identity? What voice did you allow into your soul that told you who you were and who you were not? There are a series of questions you will have all of your life and it will come to you like a whisper. And that whisper will ask you, "Where are you getting your identity from? Where are you getting your sense of value? Where are you getting the picture, the reflection of who you are and why you exist?" And I wish this was a question that could be asked and answered once. But it's a question that will stay with you and haunt you all your life. Your search for identity is a quest. You will always be on. Who am I? What's my worth? What's my value? Can I find any way to be free of my guilt and shame? There was a radical shift of identity from being created in the image of like this of God and never questioning their value to now hiding from God because they're naked and ashamed. God didn't care that they ate the fruits. He cared the choice to store them. And so I guess the question I would begin with for you is, what voice are you listening to that informs you about your identity? What voices have you allowed to get into your soul? What voices have you allowed to shape you that keep you trapped inside of guilt and shame? It's kind of crazy, don't you think? We talk about God as this is ominous, supreme being who is judgmental and condemning and filled with wrath. And yet I find that it's people that become judgmental and condemning and are full of wrath because God does not want to define you by your worst moment. God does not want to define you by the worst attribute that other people will absolutely try to define you by. God wants to forgive you of the worst decisions you've ever made but people want to imprison you by the worst decisions you've ever made. So if you let people define your identity, you will always find yourself running knowing that you are naked and adequate, not good enough, not worthy of love. The first question is God asks us around our identity. Who are you listening to that tells you who you are? And by the way, that might be a good reason to take some time and listen to what God says to you through the scriptures. Letting you know that you are wonderfully, beautifully made. In fact, just be awkward for a moment. Look at the person on each side of you who say, "Wow, you're looking good." But you know what? You said it so loud. You said it so loud because our identities come in the whisper when we're alone. We're in the dark. And no one else sees us or knows us and we hear those voices screaming at us, telling us we will never be enough. That's why you have to get quiet enough to hear God's voice. Tell you, "I love you." You are mine. The first domain will ask us questions around identity. But then I want you to move ahead with me. We're going to be traveling through time. In 1 Kings 19, this is a moment, the life of Elijah. Beginning in verse 9, it says, "There, Elijah went into a cave and spent the night." And the word of the Lord came to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" He replied, "I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty." The Israelites have projected your covenant, torn down your altars and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left. Let me repeat that. And now they are trying to kill me too, which is the highlight I want you to focus in on. And the Lord God said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord for the Lord is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountain apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the earthquake. All the earthquake came a fire. But the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" See God will begin the conversation with us around our identity. But then God will begin to have a conversation to us around our motivation. What moved you here? It's interesting thing because we live in LA and of course this is the center, epicenter of entertainment and storytelling and filmmaking and probably everyone in LA has tried to be an actor at some point. And one of the things you know it's almost like a cliche is like what's my motivation? I see the character, I see the script but what's my motivation? And what the actor is actually asking is why is my character about to do this? Because it's that enough to know what you're going to do to really understand and to make the character rich and have texture, you have to understand why he's going to do it. Because you can do the same thing for different motives and you are a different person. And here in this moment Elijah is running for his life if you don't know the backstory, he just had the best moment of his life. He prayed fire came down from heaven, consumed altars. I mean it was so obvious God was with Elijah. You think this guy's ever going to doubt himself again? He's never going to doubt God again but then there's this woman. There's always a woman and her name is Jezebel and you don't have to know anything about the Bible to know Jezebel is not a good person because nobody names their kid Jezebel. That's how you know, right? I don't care how many daughters you have. You'll never run out of names and go well we have left. It is Jezebel. But Jezebel sends a message to Elijah and says I'm going to kill you. And he ran for his life. He was terrified of Jezebel, not even Ahab who was the King. He was so afraid of Jezebel that he ran for his life and went hiding away and sorry, moaning the God saying I'm going to die. They're going to kill me. I'm the only one left which wasn't true. None of this was true. It was all in his head. Because the question God's asking him when he says what are you doing here is what are you writing from? What moved you from where you were with me to where you are without me? See a huge part of the conversation is God's going to have with you in your life on this quest where he drives you the questions is going he's going to keep pressing into your soul what moves you? Two people can be sitting in this room at the same time and be moved by different forces. One of you might be here because of fear. You've run from the life you're supposed to live. You've run from the opportunities that were waiting for you. You're so afraid of failure. You're so afraid of rejection. You're afraid of pain and suffering. You're afraid of looking foolish. You're afraid of being embarrassed and you've lived your life fueled by fear. Someone else can be sitting next to you. Fueled by courage and bravery. Fueled with a by a hope that is unstoppable and what's crazy is that it wasn't where Elijah was that was a problem. It's why he was where he was that was a problem. When God says to Elijah what are you doing here? He didn't mean this is the wrong cave. Is that you're hiding in this cave. You are running from your life rather than running to it. And the questions God asks us constantly are about our motivations before they are even about our actions. See people ask you about your actions because that's what they see. But long before your actions reveal who you are your motives are shaping who you are. Two people can gain great wealth. One because to determine to make the world better and one because it determined to have more things. Different motives for the same outcome. Some people move into relationships with the motivation of serving other people and vassing in their life and enhancing their experience as a human being. Other people move into relationships for what they can take, what they can get for what they need. Your motive defines you. And when God has his conversation with Elijah and I think it's so powerful that God sort of sets up the whole thing so that your my presence is about to pass by you and God first sends a wind and it tears the mountain apart and shatters all the rocks. But as God's presence was not there and then after the wind there was an earthquake and everything shook but God was not in the earthquake and after it came a fire but God was not in the fire and what God is saying to Elijah is you just experienced me in the most phenomenal moments and it wasn't enough to keep you moving with me as you're do north. So this is all the things I can do but this is not who I am. And then God comes in a gentle whisper in Elijah this is what you've lost. The whisper that reminds you that recalibrates you. What moves you? What makes you up in the morning? What drives at your life? What fuels your inner world? What is it that makes your furnace hotter and hotter and hotter? Sometimes we accomplish great things because we are so insecure. We have to prove to everyone that we're important. And other people will look at you and applaud you and celebrate you and think what incredible even being you are and they don't even realize that all of your accomplishments are simply the materialization of your sense of insignificance and your lack of self-worth. So God isn't trying to give you the answers to your motivation he's trying to get you to answer what moves you. The questions come not only in the space of identity and space of motive but I want you to look at me we're going to keep traveling ahead Isaiah chapter 6 verses 1-8. We're God asked another question. Have you noticed that each one of these conversations God is the one asking the question? In Isaiah chapter 6 verses 1-8 it says in the year the King Ziah died I saw the Lord high and exalted seated on a throne and the train of his drove filled the temple above him were Sarah from each with six wings with two wings they covered their faces with two they covered their feet with two they were flying and they were calling to one another holy holy holy is the Lord almighty the whole earth is filled with his glory. The sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. "Woe to me I cried I am ruined for I am a man with unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips and my eyes have seen the King the Lord almighty. They wanted the Sarah from flew to me with a live call in his hand which he had taken with tongs from the altar with it he touched my mouth and said see this has touched your lips your guilt has taken away and you're sin the tone for then I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send who will go for us and I said here am I Sunday God begins by asking the question who stole your identity and he moves to ask in the question what are you running from but here he asks the question will you accept your mission the question that God asks Isaiah is who will go for it say it's almost like an open question and by the way I wanted to read the grandness of this moment you know Sarah from six wings kind of an epic moment right if you were creating this moment and you had this tiny little human this speck of dust and the spectrum of the universe would you invite him to something or would you tell him to do something I'm not gonna waste Sarah if if I'm gonna bring Sarah for men I'm gonna tell you what to do like that's that's how I roll all right and I need someone to do this and I'm picking you but he doesn't he sees the greatness the glory of God and God still poshers himself with the question and on top of that he knows he's a person of unclean lips he experiences the the holiness of God and he knows his own inadequacy he's filled with so much shame and I can tell you that if you ever come to know God. And then here is invitation you will feel as if you are unworthy of it. Any calling that you feel absolutely worthy of isn't the one that is waiting for you. And so the angel takes tongs and takes a cold so hot, so hot, an angel can't touch it. Can you imagine that? Get that cold angel, like give me tongs, I'm not touching that thing. And can you imagine me allizing it, watching an angel get tongs and grab the cold and then bring it toward your face? Put it on your mouth. And when it touches his mouth, he's not burned, he's clean. God says, "I've taken, I've touched your lips, I've taken your guilt away." And your sin is a tone for it. This is the perfect moment, by the way, if you're God you say, "And now you're going to do this." You'd have a willing participant and yet God still doesn't give him an answer. He doesn't give him a command, he gives him a question. Because without the question, it's no longer a quest. And this quest is now about calling. Will you accept God's invitation to the calling of your life? And I think this is important because I am absolutely convinced that God doesn't really draft He allows volunteers. And he opens up the invitation. It's a little tricky because Isaiah is the only one there. So it's a moment. Whoever he goes, like, "Who shall we send?" I imagine if I'm saying, "I'd send the Sarah fam." Like, they work. They got my attention and they would really get the job done. As if God says, "I do not need Sarah fam. I need a broken imperfect human who's experienced the power of forgiveness and grace to go for me." "Whom shall I send?" God seems so confused, so perplexed. Who's going to do this for me? Isn't it crazy that God may be actually waiting for you to step into what He longs to do for humanity? There's so many people who get angry. If God actually exists, why doesn't He show up? If God is real, why doesn't He do something about this? Has it ever occurred to us that we are God's answer to the deep human questions? Which is why God can't make it simply commanded, has to be an invitation. Because if it's simply a command that you are obeying out of obligation, you will not reflect His character. Because you will not carry His essence. When you embrace the invitation, you absorb the essence. Who will go for us? And I said, "Here am I, sent me." So the quest, the journey, can only be accomplished as you hear the whisper that reforms your identity into the image of God. It's the whisper that speaks into your deepest motivation so you're no longer fueled by fear or self-doubt or anger or greed or bitterness. It's the whisper that speaks to us and invites us into a great calling, to give your life for the sake of others. Which is why you don't want to waste your time ending someone else's life. The reason you do not have their life is that you do not have their calling. What you don't want to miss in life is the calling God has placed on you. Because that's what elevates your life to the deepest meaning you could ever have. I want us to just travel one more time. Tezekiel chapter 37 beginning in verse 1 says, "The handle Lord was on me and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, "Son of a man, can these bones live?" Once again, God leading with a question. "Son of a man, can these bones live?" I said, "Sovereign Lord, you alone know." In other words, God, I'm not the one that should be answering the questions. I'm the one that should be asking the questions. You're the one that should be answering the questions. God says, "Do you think you know who should be asking the questions or do you think I know who should be asking the questions?" Sovereign Lord, you alone know that He said to me, "Profess out to these bones and say to them, "Dry bones? Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones. I will make breath into you and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and bones came together, bone to bone. I looked and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then He said to me, "Profess out to the breath, prophesize to the man and say to it, "This is what the Sovereign Lord says. Come, breath from the four winds and breathe into the slain that they may live." So I prophesied as He commanded me and breath entered them and they came to life and they stood up on their feet of vast army. The question God asks, "Ezekiel, as can these bones live." But the question God asks us all is, "Will you speak the impossible into existence?" You see, the quest that God is taking us on driven by the questions begins with our identity and it moves toward our motive. Drives us to our calling, but in the end it's an invitation to decide what level of faith we are willing to live at. When I have heard when God whispers into my soul, "Are impossible things." God will drive you to madness because He will whisper into your soul. He will whisper a future that you don't know how it could possibly ever come to pass. God will whisper inside of you and your imagination will begin to see a picture of a person you can become or a life you can live or a world you can impact. And it seems to you could to be true. And if you say it out loud, it's almost as if you've defiled it because it's so sacred that God whispers to you, "Can these bones live?" Now I've never been taken by God to a valley of dry bones to see a valley filled with bones and being asked the question, "Can these bones live?" But I haven't needed that valley because when I wake up in the morning and I look into the mirror, I hear the question. Because every single day of your life you will have to answer a question, "Can these bones live?" And God asks you that question because God is always a God who invites us to more. I don't understand it. It's a little crazy when I think about it, but God will let you live with no faith. It breaks his heart, but He will. He will let you live with the smallest amount of faith and you'll just exist. It breaks his heart, but He will allow you to live like that, but God's always going to call you to more faith. He's going to call you to a bigger life. He's going to call you to greater dreams. He's going to call you to greater sacrifice. And I'm out. Absolutely convinced there's a domain in your life for God is speaking to you and challenging your faith. And you can point backwards to where you've shown faith. And God will say to you, "That was great for yesterday." But it's not enough for today and completely inadequate for tomorrow. (audience applauding) You see this with God all the time. He takes Moses to the edge of the red sea, says, "Hold up your staff and I'll part the waters." That's God technique, right? Once God does it once, you want God to always do it like that, but just next person in line, Joshua, he comes up to the Jordan. And instead of saying, "Jasha, hold up Moses to staff." Remember how Moses did it? The water's gonna part right in front of you. And said, "God says you gotta step out and wherever the souls of your feet touch, that's where the water's gonna divide." And you look at and go, "Why?" Because yesterday's faith is just today's obedience. (audience applauding) And some of you are living on the momentum of yesterday's faith. Because the invitation comes in the whisper. God will never shout at you. The great dreams he has for you. He will never scream from a distance. If you could just trust me and believe you would see unbelievable things. Those are not the things you shot across the room. If you're not willing to get close and quiet, if you're not willing to get to that stillness, where you can hear your heartbeat in his, if you're not willing to whisper to God, God, I, I want it all. I don't wanna just exist. I wanna live a life beyond my capacity. God, I want you to whisper to my soul, the impossible that you will make possible in me and through me. And God's, "Oh, no, I wanna do it with you." Do you really think God needed Ezekiel to speak to the pones? I mean, honestly, that's how I know God's different than me. If I were God, I would have said, "Deciel, watch this." (audience laughing) Wait till the rattling, that's gonna be the cool part. You do not get the vast army until you hear the dental whisper. Until you hear the question that presses you, that challenges you, that terrifies you, the whisper in your soul that disrupts all your comfort and all your safety, jeopardizing everything you control. With an invitation to believe that God is bigger than you ever imagined, and that you were created for more than you ever dreamed of. That way God answers prayers, is that He does more than you could ever mask or imagine. God, I don't wanna be the one asking you the questions, the mading and answer. I wanna be the one to hear your questions and turns my life into the answer. How about you? The first question Jesus asks us, and it comes in a command as well, is follow man. He looks at His disciples at a moment of crisis and He says, "Will you leave me also?" It's an amazing thing that God will step into human history and still simply ask us to choose Him for He has already chosen us. Would you bow your heads at me just for a moment? Just close your eyes. If you're here today, and maybe you've understood that you need God, that you need Jesus in your life, but something has kept you, something has made you hold back, but today you know that you need this quest, this journey, this life, and you're ready to trust Jesus with your life. You're ready to cross the line of faith and put your trust in Him. I want to lead you in a simple prayer right now. It's just one sentence, Jesus. I give you my life, that's it. Right now, just whisper, a gentle whisper to God. Jesus, I give you my life. You can whisper that prayer because God is right here. He's not far, he's not distant. He is so close, just waiting for you, just tell Him Jesus. I give you my life. If this is your prayer, I want to pray for you. So if you just whisper to that prayer, Jesus, I give you my life. I just want you to hold your hand up really high. I just want to see you, and I want to pray for you before we dismiss today. Right now, I just hold you in a pie, beautiful. I see you up in the balcony, anyone else, beautiful. Beautiful. Jesus, I give you my life right now. Wonderful. Father, I thank you for each person who in this moment has opened up their life to you. God, I pray that you would speak to them in the whisper. That they would hear you say, "I love you. You belong to me." God, I thank you that you sent your son, Jesus, to die for them. And when he rose from the dead, he conquered death. He brought to all of us the forgiveness of our sin. The freedom our soul's long for. I pray God, you just wrap them up in your love, let them know they belong to you. We thank you and pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Can we just thank God for all those who responded to that right now? 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