At our core, we want something solid, something steadfast. Over the ages people have searched for truth, hoping to find a sure foundation to build their lives upon. Even Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” For many this is a hard question—and for far too long, we’ve been willing to leave it unanswered. Watch my full Adamant Course on MessengerX: https://app.messengerx.com/en-US/watc…
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#lisabevere #lisabeverestudy #lisabeverecourse #lisabevere #adamant #adamantbook #lisabevereadamant #christianstudy #theadamant # #onlinecourses #truthisarock #truth #whatistruth ______________ Chapters: 0:00 – Lesson Teaser 0:10 – Adamant Introduction 1:19 – Welcome to the Adamant Course 5:10 – What Is Adamant 10:05 – Jesus Is Truth 11:53 – Jesus Is Our Rock 15:14 – You Have to Build Your Life on Something Solid 17:28 – The Church May Let You Down but Jesus Won’t 20:46 – Closing Thoughts
people are going to fail us people are
going to fail to see us
but Jesus sees you and he will not fail
you
welcome to the adamant companion lessons
I am so excited that you have decided to
to gather women and be part of this
really a movement to understand what
truth is you know truth is never
supposed to be harsh but sometimes it is
hard truth is always supposed to be
tender it’s supposed to touch and
transform our hearts but we have gotten
so confused as a culture of what truth
is we’ve confused opinions with truth
we’ve it confused feelings with truth
and I believe that in these last days
God is raising up women who are going to
be standard bearers for truth they’re
going to have compassion and empathy but
they are going to be adamant they are
going to be unmovable they are going to
be invincible and I believe that you are
those kind of women so welcome to these
lessons I am already praying that God is
gathering your women in strength and
that we are going to rise up and such a
beautiful day of Truth and Splendor in
Jesus name
welcome to adamette
excited to be joined by these women I’ve
asked them to come and be part of these
lessons and I want to introduce them to
you I’ve got Hannah Cusack Cowart who is
actually here with a baby there is a
baby underneath the table and Hannah is
amazing Hannah how long did you work
with us at messenger
um just over nine years yeah so we we
lost her to her husband which is a great
thing to do and she’s built an
incredible work with her husband at
church for all nations and we’re just so
glad you would join us Hannah I don’t
even know how I could do a lesson
without you he said he’s just been here
for all of my lessons and she’s just an
incredible treasure and then we have
Bonnie and uh Bonnie does all of her
travel Arrangements I can’t even tell
you I’ve been in the airport before and
I’ve called you and hung up and people
are like I want a Bonnie because I’m
like Bonnie fix this and she’s like I’m
on it I’m calling global Service and uh
Bonnie tell us just a little bit about
you I didn’t let Hannah tell anything
about herself
I have two daughters and a grand son and
I worked for United Airlines for 20
years and that’s how I kind of first of
all even knew who John and Lisa was when
they would come out to the airport and
sometimes John would like his trip was
going to be canceled because America
West had canceled their flight so he ran
over to the ticket counter and I’m like
oh my gosh I listened to you I’ll help
you and got him on us and you know so
yeah and we pretty much fly only United
yeah United props let’s give us some
upgrades and we have Aspen join us and
Aspen’s a newlywed tell us a little bit
about yourself I’m Aspen Hazel and
newlywed as Lisa said a year ago I got
married to my husband John and live here
in Colorado Springs I love working at
messenger I’ve been here for four months
only can’t believe it it feels like so
much longer such a family here and I
love to play sports and getting my
masters right now and
and then last but certainly not least is
Juliana my daughter-in-law go ahead and
tell them you are
just like whatever you want to say this
is your chance I usually just make up
things from the stage it’s your chance
to save me one that’s true no I am her
daughter-in-law and contributor of four
only grandchildren yes hopefully yeah
not for long though
but um yeah
and yeah I just love being a part of
messenger and you’re right it is a
family and so much incredible stuff just
I don’t know it lends such strength to
the body of Christ and it is excited for
this message today and we’re excited now
I don’t know if you’ve seen uh Julie and
Hannah together but they’re sisters and
they were featured in sons and daughters
and they talked about relationships and
waiting and an incredible uh privilege
for John and I to actually see this next
Generation rise up Bonnie and I are the
same generation here we’re the
grandmothers but uh yeah thank you guys
for joining us and it means a lot and
I’m so excited about this lesson and
this is my actually my first time to
really teach this and I and as I was
praying about this I really felt that
all of these lessons were more about the
tone than the content I’m pretty sure
that you wouldn’t be doing the course if
you didn’t already have the book Adam at
finding truth in a universe of opinions
but I feel like we live in a day and a
time where it is going to be so
important that we have core
conversations core relationships and a
core connection with the word of God
which is truth and so we’re going to
Dive Right In and and you know it’s kind
of like adamant when is that don’t be
like so when you when you hear the word
adamant what like just throw it out here
what do you guys think of when you hear
the word adamant Resolute Resolute I
love that word very firm that’s what
comes to mind how about you Bonnie
strong unchangeable okay
perseverance consistency yeah yeah I
love that what about you I kind of think
of like stubborn yeah like digging
digging your heels in adamant has a very
bad reputation as I’m yielding and
stubborn and so people are like what are
you writing a book called adamant about
but here here’s the truth long before
adamant was an adjective or an adverb it
was actually a noun among the Greek
philosophers mistakes and scientists
they had these conversations in my mind
they’ve done it around Fires at night
and they had this mineral in mind that
would be Invincible it would be
impervious it would be unassailable it
would be something they could Forge
weapons out of make armor out of and
they just began to think well I don’t
know if it’s in the ocean or if it’s in
the deep heat of a volcano but if we
find this thing called adamus that’s
what it was originally called if we find
adamus we will be the nation that is
undefeatable and they never found it but
it was so uh compelling this idea of
some kind of stone or some kind kind of
rock or some kind of mineral that it
traveled up to the island of the mighty
which is Great Britain and in Great
Britain they called it adamant and they
continued to think that Adam was a real
thing and they used the word adamant and
diamonds interchangeable diamonds were
discovered at 400 BC and they thought
when they discovered the diamond which
this is not a real diamond that’d be
nice if it was uh when they discovered
diamonds they said this is the adamant
because they believed that the adamant
Not only was impervious and unassailable
and Invincible but they also believed
that would have a unique relationship
with light that it could actually draw
light reconfigure it and send Rays out
they also believe that the adamant was
magnetic that it could draw but not be
drawn I don’t know why they had all
these random things like attached to it
because diamonds don’t do any of that
but when diamonds were discovered in the
1700s to vaporize when you put them in a
vacuum and give them enough light
they’re like okay they can’t be the
adamant because the adamant is
indestructible and so it changed from a
noun to an adjective and an adverb and
it moved forward so I just was
completely fascinated by this concept
of a rock that would draw of a rock that
had a relationship with light that a
rock that was a refuge a rock that was a
weapon and when I began to look into
scripture Isaiah 51 verse 1 says look to
the Rock from which you were hewn and
the Quarry from which you were dug it’s
really hard for us to think of living
flesh coming out of a quarry of rock but
the longer I looked about this I thought
you know this is so fascinating that
they had like stones of power and Quests
for this hidden adamant and I started to
think we don’t we don’t do that anymore
but it would be nice to have something
in our world in our lives that was
constant yeah
immovable
invincible
and unassailable
see we’re a generation that’s been
stripped of our awe we know that stars
are just Vapor we have decided to bind
ourselves to monetary systems that are
designed to entrap us in debt we have
political systems that are forefathers
said this is going to make it so it’s
fair that actually have only served to
divide our nation our networks are
incredibly vast but our intimate
connections are really fractured right
now we have chosen to become what we do
and yet we are all unfulfilled
we use technology to throw stones at
people we never have to see
so when the truth becomes fluid we lose
all contact with answers larger than
ourselves
and this is what I decided I decided
that the Greek philosophers and Poets
actually were looking for something
that they failed to see it’s always been
there I believe that Christ is our
Cornerstone
he is our adamant he is irresistible he
is the one that draws but will not be
moved and so I began to look into this
that the real truth is rock is adamant
it’s invisible it’s Invincible it’s
immovable and Jesus is truth he is our
adamant he is the stone not born of
Earth not shape with hands he is that
rock that God quarried and this is why
we need to understand that we cannot
move with the culture and the occurrence
of our time we need to fasten our lives
in the Rock there’s a lot of people that
talk about being on the Rock but see
you’re actually in Christ which means
you’ve actually been hewn and there is a
place in him because you can be standing
on a rock and get hit with a wave and
get knocked off but if you are in Christ
there is no moving you you know the rock
is actually long been Among Us most
Moses declared in Deuteronomy 32 4 he
said the Rock and this against Capital
The Rock he was referring to Christ his
work is perfect for all his ways are
Justice a god of faithfulness and
without iniquity just an upright is he
that is our stone that is what we’re
supposed to build our lives on David
cried out to God on the day of
Deliverance when he was being chased by
his enemies through wildernesses of
plural and I know some of you may feel
like that’s where you are right now he
said I love you Lord my strength the
Lord is my rock and my Fortress my
deliverer my God my rock and whom I take
refuge my shield and the Horn of my
salvation my stronghold this word Rock
in Hebrew means an unassailable Refuge
it’s interesting that Jesus was actually
that rock that followed them through the
Wilderness he followed them through it
all they had the pillar in front of them
and they had the rock behind them and so
we need to talk about Jesus because
Jesus is our Rock he is our sure footing
in a world that is completely streamed
with gravel right now people are
slipping people are falling people are
trying to find their way and I think we
need to say that in a lot of ways we are
all refugees we are passing through this
world this world is not our home and so
we’re never going to feel like it is and
so we need to be people who actually
believe that what he said to us in
Matthew was an invitation for our
strength Matthew 21 44 says and the one
who falls on this Stone will be broken
to pieces and when it falls on anyone it
will crush him God is asking us to fall
upon the rock he is saying not this
Brokenness that he works in our lives
it’s not a Brokenness for Destruction
it’s a broken that he might heal it he’s
that so we would turn from things that
are unfaithful to the one that is
faithful and so he’s asking us he’s
saying I need a generation to fall on
the Rock because if not all these other
things they’re going to fall they’re
destined to a kingdom that’s going to be
crushed by the adamant Jesus is the
stone and he is the Son and both the
stone and the sun were both rejected by
the people that were sent to but they
were authored by God I love the
foreshadowing of Christ I love the
foreshadowing of the Cornerstone I love
the foreshadowing of the adamant that we
find when Daniel he interpreted as
King’s Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and Daniel
2 verse 31-35 he tells not only the king
his interpretation he tells him what he
actually dreamed he said you saw O King
and behold a great image this image
Mighty and of exceeding brightness stood
before you and its appearance was
frightening the head of this image was a
fine gold its chest and arms of silver
it’s mid little and thighs of bronze
it’s legs of iron its feet partly of
iron and partly of clay as you looked a
stone was cut out by no human hand and
it struck the image on its feet of iron
and clay and broke them in pieces then
the arm the clay the bronze the silver
and the gold all together were broken in
pieces and became like chaff in the
summer threshing floors and the wind
carried them away so that not a trace of
them could be found but the stone that
struck the image became a great mountain
and filled the Earth I believe Jesus is
the seed that becomes the stone and the
stone becomes the mountain and the
mountain fills the Earth and when I read
this I just get so excited because we’re
actually called to be living stones and
the church is called Zion which is a
living Mountain it’s not a dead Mountain
it’s not a frightening Mountain it’s a
living mountain and so we look at this
invitation of living stones and it’s
written by Peter which I love because
Peter had a name change he went from
Simon which means to be read like it
means to bend so Simon lived in a
constant thing of whatever he heard
swayed him and Jesus was like you know
what if I’m going to build my church I’m
going to need you to be Rock and if
God’s gonna do what he wants to do in
your life you can no longer be read like
you can no longer be swayed by
everything you hear on social media
everything you feel in a moment you have
to build your life on something more
solid you have to be a rock first Peter
2 4-5 says as you come to him that’s who
we’re all coming to is Jesus a living
Stone rejected by men but in the sight
of God Chosen and precious you yourself
like living stones are being built up as
a spiritual house to be a holy
priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ
that is actually what we’re called to do
we’re called to build up a spiritual
house you’re individually housed housing
a spirit but you’re called to build up a
spiritual house I loved how the message
opened it up it said welcome to the
living Stone The Source of Life the
incredible dichotomy of a stone being
life is just crazy when you think about
it Stone it’s like a dead is a stone I
mean it’s not a thing of life but that
is what God does he’s like you have no
idea and Christ our heart Hearts go from
hearts of stone that’s right to Hearts
of Flesh hearts that were dead and
trespassing sin to hearts that actually
believe that we are precious and we can
be holy unto God that we can actually
live in such a way that we’re part of
building this incredible refuge for
other people so this is what it says
also in First Peter 2 6 or 8 for it
stands in scripture why is he saying
that because Isaiah had previously
prophesied it it stands in scripture
behold I am laying in Zion a stone a
Cornerstone Chosen and precious and
whoever believes in him will not be put
to shame so the honor is for you who
believe but for those who do not believe
the stone that the builders rejected has
become the Cornerstone and a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offense they
stumble because they disobey the word as
they were destined to
no I’m just going to say something here
we all know the church can be really
mean-spirited and sometimes it can be
embarrassing to say yeah I’m a Christian
because of just the association of some
of the harshness
but never be ashamed of Jesus that’s
right never be shamed of our adamant our
our Prince our Flawless Cornerstone do
you know the Cornerstone used to be so
important that they would set it
according to the Stars it was called the
seed of a building they would take so
much care The Architects to set it just
perfectly because if the Cornerstone is
off then the entire building becomes off
you have come to a perfect Cornerstone
and this is what our amazing Flawless
Lord does he takes each of us and he
places us where our flaws are diminished
and our strengths are enhanced so that
together we can actually glorify him
people are going to fail us
people are going to fail to see us
but Jesus sees you and he will not fail
you so we’re going to honor him with
everything for all of our days so Isaiah
28 which is what Peter was quoting he
says therefore thus says the Lord God
behold I am the one who is laid as a
foundation in Zion a stone a tested
Stone a precious Cornerstone a sure
Foundation whoever believes in him shall
not make haste and I was like what does
that even mean not make Haze like don’t
run don’t move slow it actually means to
be at peace it means to not be stressful
to be at peace again we’re going back to
this pattern it says in First
Corinthians 10 4 Paul explained the rock
of Exodus to the church accordance he
said for they drank from that spiritual
rock that followed them and The Rock was
Christ you know I have a brilliant
Messianic Rabbi friend and whenever I
come into something like this like wait
people are drinking from a rock and it
followed them wait are you saying the
rock moved and he actually said that a
lot of the rabbinical texts says that
the rock actually rolled behind them and
would stop right by the temple and it
was set up where water would just come
out of it so he followed and then he
refreshed and he followed and he
refreshed and that’s why Moses got so
much trouble when he struck the rock
because he was supposed to only speak to
it because that rock
was Christ and so I want you to know
this isn’t just some random thing that
we just kind of pulled out there there
is a universe of opinions there is
rivers of lawlessness right now and I’m
just going to say this as a mother and
as a grandmother and as somebody who
wants to honor Jesus with all of her
life you cannot build on what is fluid
you have to build on what is solid and
Jesus is that Cornerstone and I want you
to understand that no matter what
Wilderness you are in right now he’s
aware he’s following you he is willing
to be your refreshing I don’t care how
dry that desert looks there is not a
river around you everywhere you look but
there is a river within you and you need
to draw on that well this book is set up
for you to establish yourself in what it
means to be in Christ and in his truth
truth is a rock not a river let’s build
our lives with strength and with Grace
in Jesus name
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