Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your

faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

Well I want to share a scripture today. You may be seated. I'll tell you what, there's

a great energy in this room. I wish you were here. I know how I thought I was crazy because

last night getting ready to preach, I started playing all the old elevation worship videos.

And I know she must have thought like this is kind of weird. You're in there listening

the songs that you wrote kind of weird. But I just need to see everything like it was.

I started crying. I started crying. I'm not a cryer. I don't know. I thought I wasn't a

cryer. But I guess I'm not what I thought I was. Let's just call the sermon then. Can we

call this sermon? I'm not what I thought. I'm not what I thought. And if you'll join

me in the Bible and also share this message with someone who needs to hear it, I'm going

to be sharing it from Mark chapter 5. And if you share this message, the Lord will bless you

with something better than a stimulus check this week. You will have treasure in heaven. Amen.

And if you share this message, everybody who shares this message will receive a blessing.

Let's make it super vague like that, right? I'm not what I thought. And after you've written that

down, and now remember, you can misinterpret my messages. Do not look at your husband and say,

you're not what I thought. Because that's not the idea here. But I'm not what I thought. Thank

you, Jesus. Mark chapter 5 verse 21 says, when Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side

of the lake, other side of the lake, I was just thinking about Brandon Lake when I read that.

A large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. Come on, Anna, say, I'm by the lake.

Then one of the synagogue leaders named Jairus, important dude, important dude, came in when he

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