1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,160 I want to talk this morning from this subject at the crossroads of hope and despair. 2 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:50,280 The seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, the theologian Arthur Professor and Augustinian 3 00:00:50,280 --> 00:01:03,200 Friar and German priest named Martin Luther. Martin Luther called doubt the monster of 4 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:15,600 uncertainty. Luther says that doubt is the gospel of despair. While Alfred Lord Tennyson 5 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:27,360 wrote, there lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds. According to the book in our 6 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:34,520 study for this week and for these next several weeks, Getting Through the Tough Stuff by Dr. 7 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:43,120 Charles Swindall, Daniel Taylor in the chapter on doubt commenting about this matter of doubting 8 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:53,160 does not choose the term doubting Christians, but refers to people with questions as reflective 9 00:01:53,160 --> 00:02:03,840 Christians. Those who grapple not only with unanswered questions, but with unquestioned answers. 10 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:12,000 Listen to that one more time. He talks about people who are not doubters, but reflective. They 11 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:19,480 are thinking because the Christian religion is a thinking religion. When we come to God, 12 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:28,120 we don't leave our brains outside. It's a thinking religion. We don't we don't just deal with unanswered 13 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:40,800 questions, but we have to grapple with unquestioned answers. A see in in anchor captured this thought 14 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:50,000 succinctly, commenting on Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska in her vice presidential run with Senator 15 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:58,880 John McCain. The CNN anchor says it is not that she doesn't know the answers. She doesn't understand 16 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:11,880 the question. And sadly, beloved, if you do not ask your questions, you will end up believing 17 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:25,160 somebody else's answers. Simply put, many Christians are guilty of credulity. Credulity is 18 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:35,240 believing without examination. We inherited our religion from our parents. We borrowed 19 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:43,280 religion from our friends. We come to church because it is socially acceptable and expedient, 20 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:54,600 and it's a good place to hook up with a man or woman. And to God's chagrin, we are in 21 00:03:54,600 --> 00:04:06,760 possession of an unexamined faith because we come to Jesus with the wrong questions. Brothers and 22 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:17,920 sisters, we have been taught and wrongly, I suggest, we have been taught not to question God. But 23 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:28,160 what kind of God would he be if he were intimidated by questions raised by my little finite, 24 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:41,240 infinitesimal mind? And we are in good biblical company when we ask God some questions. Abraham 25 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:49,920 asked him, why would you destroy the righteous with the wicked? Rebecca asked him, how long? 26 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:59,600 Moses asked him, why would you bring your people out and then not be able to bring them in? David 27 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:09,000 asked him, why do the heathen rage and the wicked imagine a vain thing? Job said, if I knew where 28 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:17,320 I could find him, I would rise and ask him some questions. Jeremiah asked, is there no bomb in 29 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:24,120 Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then it's not the health of the daughter of my people 30 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:31,160 recovered? Jesus asked him, why has thou forsaken me? And there's somebody in here this morning who 31 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:38,040 is a serious Christian, but you've got some serious questions. Why am I going through what I'm going 32 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:49,520 through and folk who don't even love your name never even have a bad day? Brothers and sisters, 33 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:58,160 hear me, a faith that cannot be tested is a faith that cannot be trusted. And if you are a serious 34 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:05,640 believer, there are some days when you don't understand what God is doing. You don't know what God 35 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,360 is up to in your life. You don't know why God is allowing some things to happen. That's why you 36 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:18,600 got to have more than saving faith. You've got to have charismatic faith. Let me see if I can help 37 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:26,080 you right there. The Charismatics have beat us Baptist at this kind of faith. Charismatics just 38 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:33,200 believe that God can do anything, no matter how crazy it sounds, no matter how wild it looks, 39 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:38,640 no matter how many people are denying it's never going to happen. Charismatic faith is saying, 40 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:45,320 I don't know how he's going to fix it. I just believe he will. Charismatic faith says it may 41 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:51,160 not look like I'm going to come through this, but you wait until the battle is over. Charismatics 42 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:58,480 just start shouting before they get the answer, because if God does not give me an answer, he's 43 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:09,400 the answer. I wish I had some Charismatics in here this morning who are on the other side of 44 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:15,880 your situation and you don't know how God worked it out. You just shouted before you got the 45 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:32,480 victory. Now to you little weak 90-pound Christians, to you little anemic Christians who just 46 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:39,080 saying Jesus loved me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. I need some of us here who have 47 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:47,600 grown in our faith, who've gotten away from now I lay me down to sleep. I pray to Lord my soul to 48 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:55,880 keep it. No, no, no, your prayer is Lord, here I am. My back is up against the wall. I've done all 49 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:03,280 I know how to do with that child. I have tried and I prayed and I prayed and I've tried. I've done 50 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,840 everything my supervisor has told me to do and they're still trying to fire me. God, I need you 51 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:16,000 to build a fence around me so that when my enemy thinks that he has me trapped, I got charismatic 52 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:37,800 faith. Faith that can move mountain. We owe to Mark's Gospel the fullest account 53 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:49,640 of the pathetic incident of the healing of the demon possessed boy. Mark's Gospel alone gives us 54 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:59,160 the conversation between our Lord and the afflicted child's father. But before a homiletical 55 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:10,200 unfolding and an exegetical presentation, that is, I think, a very evident and intentional contrast 56 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:20,720 between verses one through thirteen and our parikope presently. Between the transfiguration on 57 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:30,400 Mount Tabor and the healing of the young boy. There's a difference between the calm serenity of 58 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:41,480 the mountain and the hell-tortured misery in the valley. There's a contrast between the conversation 59 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:51,160 with the sainted, perfected dead, Moses and Elijah and the conversation with their unworthy 60 00:09:51,160 --> 00:10:02,320 successors. Jesus had just been displayed in the resplendent glory he knew with his father in 61 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:12,360 eternity past. He spoke with Moses and Elijah and he heard the voice of his father say, this is my 62 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:26,840 beloved son, hear him. Only to come down to a demon possessed boy and agonizing father, the 63 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:36,080 sneering faces of the scribes and the impotence of the disciples who should have been able to do in 64 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:47,200 his absence what he empowered them to do in his presence. I need to say to us, Lily Grove, enjoy 65 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:56,240 these mountaintop experiences on Sunday morning. Have a good time worshiping every time you come 66 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:05,200 to church here because if you would live godly in Christ Jesus, a valley is in your future. 67 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:15,560 Because if you notice it's when we have a good time in worship that when you go to work Monday, 68 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:22,960 all hell breaks loose. I wish I had somebody to help me. Or even before Monday, sometimes when 69 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:28,640 you get out of church in the parking lot or sometimes before you walk out of the church with 70 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:38,560 these hellish people you got to worship with because all the hell is not in hell. Some of the 71 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:46,280 hell is in your family. Some of the hell is in your coworkers. Some of the hell is on your pew. 72 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:56,440 And sometimes before you can get undressed from Sunday worship, there's a valley in your path. 73 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:04,520 So enjoy yourself, give God glory, praise him, shout hallelujah, raise your hands, hear the prayer, 74 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:14,320 hear the choir, shout on the sermon. But know this, in this world you will have tribulation. 75 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:25,360 But I've got some good news for you. Be of good cheer. Jesus said I have overcome the world. 76 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:39,520 And we are more, more, more than conquerors through him that loved us. Walk with me around the text. 77 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:57,080 Look with me at a sad father. A sad father. This father brings his boy to the church 78 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:12,560 because he's heard about Jesus. The word has gotten out that he's a healer. The word has gotten out 79 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:20,760 that he turned water in the wine. The word has gotten out that the crowd was in the desert place 80 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:26,960 and there was nowhere to buy any bread. And he took a little boy's lunch of two fish and five loaves 81 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:37,320 and fed 5,000 men not counting women and children. The word got out that it was a man in the tombs 82 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:44,080 cutting himself with stones. He didn't have any clothes on. He was a wild man. He was a 83 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:54,000 gathering demoniac and he met Jesus. And the next time they saw him, he had clothes on and he was 84 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:03,240 in his right mind. So this man figured if he brought his boy to Jesus, Jesus could heal him. 85 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:10,280 But when the man got there, Jesus was not present. But the ones who should have known how to do it 86 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:21,080 because of their association with Jesus, he brought him to Jesus' disciples and they could not. 87 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:30,840 And I don't know because I'm not in your personal business like that, but I don't know how many 88 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:39,080 parents are in here this morning who are burdened with a child who just won't act the way you raised. 89 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:49,000 A boy who's strung out on some substance. A girl who thinks she's a woman before her time. 90 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,120 You are struggling trying to raise children against the sensitivity of all that was going on 91 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:03,800 on Instagram, on Facebook, on Twitter. You are trying to get your children to see that these 92 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:11,720 people are not your role models, but they still want to be homosexual. They still want to be gay. 93 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,760 They still want to go out and do what they want to do. You have raised them in the fear of God. 94 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:23,080 You watched them from babies sleeping in their crib. You fed them. You have clothed them. You have 95 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:36,840 lived right before them and they've broken your heart. You brought them to church. You made them 96 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:48,280 go to Sunday school, but things have gone left. And like this father, we understand the heartbreak 97 00:15:48,280 --> 00:16:01,880 of watching your child demon possessed. They have a demonic spirit that makes them talk back, 98 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:13,480 makes them disobey. It's the devil that has turned them into this gothic clothing that they're wearing. 99 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:24,440 It's demonic to walk out of your house looking like a fool, talking like an idiot. It is demonic 100 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:31,080 to disrespect your teacher and the principal and the guidance counselor. It's demonic for your 101 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:42,120 parents to raise you right and you want to do what you want to do. There's some parents in here 102 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:50,360 like myself who've had some days to question whether or not you picked up the wrong baby at the hospital. 103 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:06,280 I need two or three parents here who has wanted to go to the Bureau of Vital Statistics 104 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:18,360 and ask them, can I see that fool's birth certificate? He looks like me. She talks like me, 105 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:27,880 but it can't be the baby that I gave birth to because the devil and the influence of Satan 106 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:40,520 turns parents, men and women sad. But they brought him or he brought him to the right place. 107 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:51,800 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus was on the mountain being transfigured and his disciples, 108 00:17:51,800 --> 00:18:01,880 nine of them, well, now you mean nine preachers can't hear one bar? Nine of them because the other 109 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:09,160 three are on the mount, on the mount of transfiguration. Nine of them are in the valley and Jesus is 110 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:18,920 where with him and these boys, this parent brings this bar to where Jesus was and brings into Jesus 111 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:31,000 disciples and the sad word is they could not. So with this sad father, we see a sobering failure. 112 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,520 The church failed. 113 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:51,080 God and beloved, the church is not this beauty. It's not budgets. It's not parking lots. 114 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:59,800 It's not ministry. It's not programming. It's not singing. The church is the power of God 115 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:08,440 and every church on every street, on every corner that stands up with a steeple and 116 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:15,560 advertises itself as a church is saying to the world, if you come in here, we got power. 117 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:23,720 If you come in here, you can find God. If you come in here, you can find restoration 118 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:31,560 and when they come in here and don't find it, that's false advertising. 119 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,160 If you claim to be one thing and people come here and don't get it, 120 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,680 that's false advertising. 121 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:57,240 They soberly failed because like many of us, they did not recognize that the only power they had 122 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:03,720 was reflective from Jesus and they should have been able to do in his absence what they could 123 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:09,640 do in his presence because Jesus has empowered them to cast out devils. 124 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:16,440 But they forgot about Jesus and started trying to cast them out in his own power. 125 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,640 You can't cast out devils with midnight basketball. 126 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:31,160 You can't cast out devils with a feeding program. You can't cast out devils with 127 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:41,080 boy scouts and girl scouts. You cast out devils with prayer and fasting. Fast over your children. 128 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:48,520 Fast over your problems. Fast over your depression. Fast over your misery. 129 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:54,200 Fast over your heartbreak because God moves when you deny yourself. 130 00:20:54,200 --> 00:21:06,040 If any man would come after me, let him deny himself. 131 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:15,640 Take up a cross and follow me. My brothers and sisters, I want to move quickly from this 132 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:24,760 sad father and this sobering failure to a satanic fiend. This kind of devil 133 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:38,840 is torturing this young boy. He's so tortured. He's so twisted that the devil has him mute. 134 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:45,560 He's sick and he can't tell his daddy what's wrong with him. 135 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:55,000 He's twisted and he can't even hear when his father speaks to him because the devil not only 136 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:04,120 has him dumb from speaking, but the devil has him deaf. And when the devil gets hold 137 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:13,080 to our children, we can talk till we're blue in the face. They don't hear a word we say 138 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:19,960 because they are possessed by a named devil. 139 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:31,320 And then that man brings him to Jesus and this devil is convulsing him, twisting him, 140 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:40,200 flipping him on the ground. He's gnashing his teeth. He's foaming at the mouth. 141 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,640 We would call it medically an epileptic seizure. 142 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:57,880 But the devil does not seize him and convulse him and twist him and render him unable to speak 143 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:06,120 and to hear until somebody comes around. You notice how your children don't act the food till you've 144 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:19,240 got company? And they don't have to be old to do that. They can be two, three, five years old, 145 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:27,720 run out the room naked, grabbing food off the table like you don't even feed them. 146 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,600 Somebody ought to help me talk here. If you parent children, you know what I'm talking about. 147 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,160 They don't want to go to bed. Then you put them to bed. You got to read them another story. 148 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,600 Then you read them another story and they don't want to go to bed. Then they come getting to bed 149 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,120 with you. And if you don't let them in, they'll sleep by the door all night long. 150 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:56,520 You know, just demon possessed, just wild. And this child acts up so, but when he gets 151 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:07,240 him to Jesus, I want somebody to hear this. The demon knows who Jesus is. 152 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:16,360 Because the scripture says, when the demon saw him, 153 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:24,920 he really started acting the food. He really started convulsing him and flipping him and 154 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:32,040 making him foam at the mouth. And when Jesus saw that flipping and violent term of the devil, 155 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:38,120 he asked the father, how long has he been like that? 156 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:47,960 And the father said he's been like that from a child. He says the devil has flipped him and 157 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,840 violently thrown him in the fire and thrown him in the water and tried to drown him. 158 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,800 When he couldn't drown him, he tried to set him on fire. He's tried to kill him. He said, 159 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:05,800 Lord, I brought him to your disciples and they couldn't do anything. Here's the sermon. 160 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:13,720 He says to Jesus, if you can do anything, 161 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:24,040 he says to Jesus, 162 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:39,320 the prince of peace, the bright morning star, the son of God without sin 163 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:45,960 and the son of man with power, he says to the one who created the heavens and the earth, 164 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:53,400 he says to the one who's alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last, 165 00:25:53,400 --> 00:26:09,400 he says to Jesus, if you can do anything, Jesus said, 166 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:19,800 say that again. I just got through walking on water. 167 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:31,000 I just got through taking a lunch and feeding 25,000 people and you talking about if I can do 168 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:41,640 anything? You got your if in the wrong place. The real question is if you can believe. 169 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:51,480 Because if you can believe, all things are possible. Is there anybody here this morning? 170 00:26:51,480 --> 00:27:01,000 No, all things are possible if you believe. 171 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:11,880 And then the father, the father says to Jesus, Lord, I believe, 172 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:26,440 but I need you to help my unbelief. Lord, I believe, but all I have is weak faith. 173 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,040 Lord, I believe, I've seen what you've done for somebody else, but I need you to do something for 174 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:45,880 me. And so I'm just trying to mix what I heard with what I believe. And my belief is not that 175 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:52,200 strong. My faith is not that strong. I don't know any Bible verses. Matter of fact, I don't even have 176 00:27:52,200 --> 00:28:00,840 a Bible. I don't know anything about prayer and devotion. I've never been to a service where the 177 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:06,200 choir sings. I don't know anything about faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 178 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:12,040 I don't know anything about Jehovah El Shaddai. I don't know anything about Jehovah Shalom or Jehovah 179 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:19,080 Nise or Jehovah Sid Canoe. I'm just trying to mix what I heard with what I'm trying to believe. 180 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:27,080 So I'm going to ask you, Lord, if you can do anything, have pity on us. Jesus said, 181 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:34,920 you if is in the wrong place, let's reorder your thinking. If you can believe, I can make it happen. 182 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:45,480 And He said, Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief. You're going to help me close this 183 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:50,840 little lesson, won't you? And then Jesus said something that makes me shout every time I read it. 184 00:28:50,840 --> 00:29:03,960 Jesus said, bring Him to me. My boys did the best they could, but bring Him to me. 185 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:13,880 The mission did the best they could, bring Him to me. The men's ministry are trying all they can 186 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:20,760 to make Him a man, but bring Him to me. I wish I had somebody to help me. If your child 187 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:26,680 won't act right, I've got some way you can bring it. If your girl won't stop being a fool, I've got 188 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:32,680 some way you can bring her. If that boy's drug habit seems to be something you can't pray your 189 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:39,160 way out of, I know somebody who can handle drug addicted men, because there are some used to be 190 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:46,040 drug addicts in here this morning, but somebody brought them to Jesus. There's some used to be 191 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:52,280 wild girls in here this morning, but now there are strong Christian women in here today, 192 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,360 because somebody had the good sense to bring them to Jesus. I wish I had help to close here. 193 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,920 There are some folk here used to be wild and in the streets when you were younger, 194 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:10,680 but your mama kept on praying for you. You had a praying grandmother. You had a praying 195 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:18,760 Sunday school teacher. You had a praying aunt or uncle. Somebody raised you in the fear and the 196 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:27,400 admonition of God, and mama is going to be with the Lord now, but you still remember mama's prayers 197 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:34,840 for you. You still remember somebody asked God to bless your life, and you're sitting in this 198 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:44,120 church this morning saved because somebody brought you to Jesus. Jesus said bring him to me, 199 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:52,280 and when they brought the boy to Jesus, I wish I had somebody to help me close here. Jesus didn't 200 00:30:52,280 --> 00:31:01,080 speak to the father. Jesus didn't speak to the sick boy. Jesus spoke to the demon in the boy, 201 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:10,920 and Jesus said to that demon, you know who I am. You know what I have power to do. Here is what I 202 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:22,920 want you to do. Come out of that boy and never go back in him again. And when the demon heard that, 203 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:31,560 he twisted the boy one more time. He violently shook him one more time and left the boy like 204 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:41,160 he was dead. And then Jesus did something else. He said bring him to me, but when the boy looked 205 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:51,000 like he was dead, Jesus took him by the hand and did what only Jesus knows how to do. He raised 206 00:31:51,000 --> 00:32:06,840 him up. Is there anybody here? Came to Jesus and he raised you up. I heard the voice of Jesus say, 207 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:21,480 come on to me and rest. Lay down weary one, lay down thy head upon my breast. I came to Jesus as 208 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:37,560 I was weary, worn and sad, but I found in him, I wish I had a witness here, I found in him a resting 209 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:50,360 place and he has made me glad. Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Won't he raise you up? Won't he put 210 00:32:50,360 --> 00:33:00,600 your feet on solid ground? Won't he make the devil leave you alone? Is there anybody here? 211 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:11,000 Know you've been delivered. Is there anybody here? No God has raised you up. Is there anybody here? 212 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:18,760 Glad God kept you so that you don't go back to the same things you used to do. 213 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:32,920 You saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost. Won't he save you? Won't he raise you? Won't he keep 214 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:39,880 you? Won't he deliver you? You're going to help me preach this, won't you? I want you to use your 215 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:47,640 preaching voice. I want you to look at somebody now and repeat these words after me. Use your 216 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:57,240 preaching voice. Put some music in your voice. Tell your neighbor, living, he loved me. 217 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:17,480 He saved me. He carried my sins for me. Rising, rising, rising. He justified. 218 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:35,480 Freed me. Freed me. Freed me. I am free. I am free. Whom the Son has set free. 219 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:48,760 He is free indeed. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, use your preaching voice. 220 00:34:48,760 --> 00:35:06,040 Ah, no, he's alright. 221 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:15,320 Ah, no, he's alright. 222 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:31,160 He walks with me. He talks with me. He tells me I have his own. Won't he pick you up? Won't 223 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:41,080 he turn it around? Won't he make it alright? Tell him thank you. Thank you for deliverance. 224 00:35:41,080 --> 00:36:06,360 Thank you for the answer. Thank you for the victory. Thank you. I know he's alright. 225 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:24,280 When it was over. When it was over. When the exorcism was over. 226 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:31,080 The disciples waited till they got behind closed doors. 227 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:43,160 And he asked Jesus, how come we couldn't do that? Jesus said, you want to know? 228 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:57,240 This kind of devil can only come out through prayer and fasting. 229 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:06,440 It may not happen right away, but keep praying. Keep trusting God. 230 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:26,600 Keep believing that he can do anything and watch God work a miracle.