I Know God Can, I Know God Will, But I Don’t Know How | Pastor Jabin Chavez | Elevation Church

Chapters15 sections

1. 0:00Get Your Tickets NowThis opening section establishes the relational and communal soil in which faith flourishes. By honoring the local church and its pastors, the speaker frames faith not as a solo journey but as something cultivated in covenant community, setting the expectation that what follows will require a people, not just a person.
2. 0:49Grateful For This HouseGratitude for Elevation's legacy — its songs, sermons, and now its rising second generation — is more than sentimentality. It is living proof of the sermon's thesis: what began unseen in a pastor's heart is now visible in children leading worship. The house itself is a testimony that faith in the unseen produces what can eventually be seen.
3. 4:07Hebrews 11, verse 8The anchor text is unpacked not just as a historical account but as a structural map of faith. Every phrase — 'by faith,' 'obeyed,' 'called,' 'leave,' 'go,' 'would give' — is identified as a faith act, culminating in the climactic phrase 'without knowing where he was going,' which the sermon treats as the defining feature of genuine biblical faith.
4. 5:53Three Ways You Can Live Right NowThe tripartite framework — eyesight, regret, faith — is a diagnostic tool. Most listeners, the sermon argues, oscillate between what is obvious and what could have been, never arriving at the third option. Faith is presented as the only mode of living that has no reference point in the past, demanding a dependence on Jesus himself as the sole source of orientation.
5. 10:05Stop Praying For ClarityThis is perhaps the sermon's most confrontational pastoral move: reframing what many consider a virtuous prayer as a subtle form of spiritual avoidance. Clarity-seeking, when it delays obedience, becomes a spiritual cul-de-sac. The listener is challenged to ask whether their request for clarity is actually a request for courage — and then to act.
6. 13:35Your Dream Began In The DarkUsing Death Valley's dormant seed as an image, the sermon insists that invisible seasons are not empty seasons. The incorruptible seed of God's word is always working beneath the surface, and what looks like death or dormancy is actually gestation. This reframes suffering and delay as necessary preconditions rather than evidence of failure.
7. 16:40He Saw It Before Anyone Else DidThe Walt Disney illustration becomes a theological statement about the nature of vision: seeing in the Spirit is not metaphor but reality, as real to God as anything visible. The listener is invited to trust that the vision God gave them — even if they die before seeing its full fruit — is already accomplished in the unseen realm.
8. 19:03The Seed Was There The Whole TimePeter's language of incorruptible seed in 1 Peter 1:23 is applied directly to the listener's life circumstances. The seed of God's word deposited through church attendance, scripture reading, and worship is already active, regardless of felt experience. This challenges a consumer approach to spiritual growth that evaluates progress only by visible results.
9. 21:57Faith Doesn't Need All The DetailsThe lamp metaphor from Psalm 119 is sharpened by the historical detail of four-to-six lumens — just enough light for the next step. This reframes God's silence not as abandonment but as calibrated grace, protecting the believer from being overwhelmed by a future their faith is not yet sized to carry.
10. 25:43God Protects You By Not Telling You EverythingThe church-planting testimony about COVID makes the theological point personal and concrete: God's withholding of information is an act of mercy, not deception. The Joseph narrative reinforces that the very trials God omits from the preview are the training ground that qualifies the believer for the promise.
11. 28:23What Is God Asking You To DoFaith that knows and faith that doesn't know must resolve in faith that goes. The sermon here becomes directly applicational, pressing the listener to name the specific act of obedience they have been delaying. Mary's instruction — 'whatever he says, do it' — strips away the complexity of discernment and reduces it to a single posture: do it.
12. 32:50Familiar Isn't The Same As GoodThe daughter's attachment to outgrown toys is a disarmingly simple image for one of the soul's deepest resistances: the preference for what is known over what is better. The sermon argues that familiarity — even with unhealthy patterns, old identities, or past seasons — can masquerade as wisdom when it is actually fear, and God's call to 'go' is always into unfamiliar territory.
13. 36:25It's Time To Let Go And MoveSurrender is presented not as a single dramatic moment but as a recurring posture — whatever act of surrender is required today will not be the last. This normalizes the ongoing nature of discipleship and prevents the listener from treating one moment of release as the finish line rather than a step in a lifelong walk.
14. 38:56Give It To God Right NowThe altar moment is the sermon's kinetic climax, inviting the congregation to enact in their bodies what they have been processing in their minds. The physicality of lifted hands and movement toward the altar embodies the sermon's core argument: faith must get in your feet before it becomes a testimony.
15. 43:52Saying Yes To JesusThe salvation appeal draws the sermon's entire argument to its logical origin point: the first and most fundamental act of faith-without-knowing is saying yes to Jesus. The speaker's own testimony — 'I didn't know the valleys, I didn't know where I'd be, but I knew who' — models that Christian life is not clarity about circumstances but certainty about a Person.

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