1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,740 God says you're gonna make it. 2 00:00:10,740 --> 00:00:13,880 God says you're gonna make it. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,200 Oh, God says you're gonna make it. 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:25,600 Though the winds are raging high, don't you worry about the thunder. 5 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,100 Oh, for you're not going under. 6 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:33,400 God says you're gonna make it. 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,400 You're gonna make it, cause the Master's on board. 8 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:38,400 Let's sing that together. 9 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,100 God says I'm gonna make it. 10 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:45,300 Oh, God says I'm gonna make it. 11 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,900 God says I'm gonna make it. 12 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:57,500 Though the winds are raging high, don't you worry about the thunder. 13 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:02,000 For you're not, I'm not, we're not going under. 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,800 God says we're gonna make it. 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:14,300 We're gonna make it, cause the Master's on board. 16 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:16,840 That feels good, doesn't it? 17 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,900 We're gonna make it, the Master's on board. 18 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:24,300 While you're standing, just reach and take hold of your Bible. 19 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:32,880 Open with me to a familiar passage, the book of Acts chapter 3, as we are continuing in 20 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:46,200 this advancement into the kingdom of God's goodness. 21 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:54,540 Seeing all that the Lord has for us, what he wants to do in our lives and for our lives. 22 00:01:54,540 --> 00:01:55,540 He's a great God. 23 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:56,540 Amen. 24 00:01:56,540 --> 00:01:59,040 Never let the enemy cause you to doubt that. 25 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,040 He's a great God. 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:06,460 He's on time and you're not going under if you just stay in the boat. 27 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:08,880 Don't abandon ship. 28 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,280 Amen. 29 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:21,840 The old ship of Zion, the old songwriter wrote, you're gonna make it. 30 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:26,240 It's tattered and worn, but he's going all the way. 31 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,520 There's an old, right? 32 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,040 Is that the old ship of Zion, I see. 33 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:40,800 My mind's really spinning this morning, old songs are popping up verse by verse. 34 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,720 Amen. 35 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,760 Happens to me that way from time to time. 36 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,840 I can start a hundred, but can't finish but about two. 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:53,440 That's the reason I don't sing much more than I do without the words. 38 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,760 I can get you started. 39 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:59,880 We'll sing a hymn, half the red back, with starting with I'll Fly Away and just sing 40 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:05,360 them all nearly. 41 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:06,360 Well it's early. 42 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:07,360 I'm getting started early. 43 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,360 It's just 20 after, so we got plenty of time. 44 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,360 Amen. 45 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,760 Thank you for worshiping the Lord today. 46 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:16,760 He's our Lord. 47 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:23,640 Acts chapter three, beginning at verse one. 48 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:28,600 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer being the ninth 49 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:38,720 hour and a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried whom they laid daily at the 50 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:44,400 gate of the temple which is called beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the 51 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,160 temple. 52 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:54,280 Who's seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple ask and alms for some money. 53 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:01,160 Peter fashioning his eyes upon him with John said, look on us. 54 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:07,360 And he gave heed unto them expecting to receive something of them. 55 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:15,640 You ever look at folks expecting one thing and get totally something else. 56 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:25,580 Then Peter said silver and gold have I none but such as I have give I thee in the name 57 00:04:25,580 --> 00:04:31,880 of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. 58 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:42,100 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle 59 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:44,520 bones received strength. 60 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:51,380 And he leaping up stood and walked and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping 61 00:04:51,380 --> 00:05:01,160 and praising God and all the people saw him walking and praising God and they knew that 62 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,440 it was he what sat for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with 63 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:15,160 wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. 64 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:21,520 Let's talk a little bit this morning about advancing beyond the labels. 65 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,360 Advancing beyond the labels. 66 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:29,600 I'll pray for you because you probably need a little more than I am. 67 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,560 Prayer that is. 68 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,040 If you'll pray for me. 69 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,720 Father we love you again. 70 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,680 We approach your throne of grace and mercy. 71 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:45,400 I ask God for the touch of your anointing that causes it to be easy to preach for where 72 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,900 the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty and we know that you're here and your presence 73 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:52,780 is here. 74 00:05:52,780 --> 00:05:59,520 Your spirit is in this house for truly we have worshiped you in spirit and truth and 75 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,640 we know according to your word that you dwell and inhabit within the praises of your people. 76 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,000 So help us now together. 77 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,680 Help me to preach. 78 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:14,880 Help me to preach Lord that which is edifying to the body lifting up the body glorifying 79 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:21,200 your name that we together as we leave here this morning know that we've been in your 80 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,200 presence. 81 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,960 To you be praised forever. 82 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,440 Christ holy and mighty name and the church said. 83 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:35,760 Amen advancing beyond the labels. 84 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:41,320 Been talking about this subject now for a couple of weeks moving past moving beyond 85 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:48,320 not just the breakthrough but getting all that God has for us on the other side of breakthrough 86 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,360 for us many times if we're not careful. 87 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,820 The breakthrough is enough. 88 00:06:54,820 --> 00:07:01,120 You know when you just get through and the load lightens right and the burden may be 89 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:06,560 rolled away and you just break through to to where you could just catch your breath 90 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:14,520 from the battle and we we often times are satisfied right there but there's so much 91 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,080 more the breakthrough comes for a reason. 92 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,680 The breakthrough is more than just relief. 93 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:30,200 Breakthrough is to usher us to the promise that God has for us. 94 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:36,560 Breakthrough is that we are strengthened and enabled to go forward and claim all that God 95 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,760 has set out. 96 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:44,060 It's again I just repeat we it's not just coming out of the wilderness but it's crossing 97 00:07:44,060 --> 00:07:45,240 a Jordan. 98 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,960 It's not just crossing a Jordan but it's claiming a Jericho. 99 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:54,760 Oh come on it's not just claiming a Jericho but it's acquiring the whole of the promise 100 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,600 the land of milk and honey. 101 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,640 It works that way in our lives as well. 102 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:04,560 It's not just getting saved and getting out of hell free cart. 103 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:05,800 There's more to it than that. 104 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,840 There's you know when I mean remember when that burden of sin you repented and accepted 105 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,920 the Lord and it just lightened your load. 106 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,120 How many remember that? 107 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:16,120 Amen. 108 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,560 I didn't wonder if that's just all there was to it but there was so much more goodness 109 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,340 of God in our salvation than just not going to hell. 110 00:08:24,340 --> 00:08:26,240 You know he actually loves you. 111 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,120 He actually desires to bless you and to cause you to prosper and to bring good things into 112 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,080 your life not just keep you out of hell. 113 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:35,320 I'm so glad of that. 114 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,940 There's so much more to God than just not going to hell. 115 00:08:39,940 --> 00:08:43,120 There's going to heaven. 116 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,580 Well hallelujah. 117 00:08:44,580 --> 00:08:49,320 And when you begin to change your perspective I'm no longer on my way to a devil's hell 118 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,920 but the promise of the breakthrough of salvation is there's a home prepared for me and the 119 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:00,240 promise that I receive of that is my heart does not have to be troubled because I believe 120 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,240 in him. 121 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:02,240 Amen. 122 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,260 And where he is I may also be. 123 00:09:04,260 --> 00:09:08,960 So there's so much more to advancing beyond the limits than just getting by. 124 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:14,440 We discussed the man by the name of Jabez last week just a little bit and how he was 125 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,480 labeled at birth and and we were starting to get into the goodness of God and how God's 126 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:25,720 word promises his blessings on our life and how that Jabez called out to the Lord God 127 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:31,000 and God heard him and God answered his prayer that prayer that went like this Lord bless 128 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,200 me enlarge my coast that your right hand be with me and that you keep me from evil and 129 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,880 that it may not grieve me. 130 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,320 And God granted him his petition. 131 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,840 You know there is a danger of becoming too selfish in prayer but then there's also the 132 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:51,840 danger on the other side that we never ask God for ourself because the enemy can also 133 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,360 convince us that that we're too selfish. 134 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,960 But I don't think so. 135 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:01,480 I think the healthier we are spiritually the healthy we are emotionally and financially 136 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:06,680 then the greater assistance we can be to others when we pray for them. 137 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:11,040 If I'm in misery then my prayer is going to be misery even though I'm trying to pray for 138 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,720 you but but my prayer is going to be not as energetic. 139 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,760 Just think about it when you come through your breakthrough and the power of your prayer 140 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,560 when God has touched you and blessed you and the healthier you are a man and the stronger 141 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:29,560 you are it helps us to engage the battle on behalf of others when we bring our supplication 142 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,880 and our prayers and and our admonitions to the Lord. 143 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:33,880 Why? 144 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,120 Because he has heard and answered our prayer and it helps me believe that when I pray for 145 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,680 you he's going to answer your prayer and I become invigorated by faith and and it just 146 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:47,320 causes me to rise up and trust God when God has heard my prayer and when he's heard my 147 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:52,440 plea and he's put his blessing on my life it lets me know that he loves you as much 148 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:57,160 as he loves me and if he blesses me when I call out your name in prayer he's going to 149 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,600 bless you he's going to enlarge your coast he's going to cause you to be blessed and 150 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,920 cause you to prosper. 151 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,920 Why? 152 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,120 Because I trust him because of what he's done for me. 153 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,520 So don't allow the enemy to condemn you into praying for yourself before you pray for others 154 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:16,160 because the stronger you are then the greater depth of prayer you're going to enter into 155 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,880 to intercede on behalf of one another. 156 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:24,120 So ask God to bless you ask God to enlarge your coast ask God and you just never know 157 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,760 it's not out of pride it's not out of greed but it's out of love for the Lord and the 158 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,440 Lord will love you. 159 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,880 You know he's not going to do anything to add to your greed and add to your pride but 160 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:40,600 he will bless you because he loves you so I can ask him oh God bless me that I may bless 161 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:45,960 others oh God strengthen me that I may strengthen others help me oh God and God will hear a 162 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:52,400 prayer of humble heart and knowing that our desire is not ourself only but for others 163 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,240 as well. 164 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,760 Somebody need to hear that this morning that was not in the train of my thought today. 165 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,720 It's okay to pray for yourself. 166 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:06,440 Matter of fact you better pray for yourself you never know who's not praying for you. 167 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:11,680 Am I the only one that's ever done this knowing it's your own self? 168 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:15,280 That's how I learned not to be so heavy handy in the altar. 169 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,520 I didn't like being slapped in the head. 170 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,320 My own self. 171 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:26,140 Right? 172 00:12:26,140 --> 00:12:31,920 Pray for yourself J.B.A.S. did and God was honored by that prayer and honored him by 173 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,200 his answer. 174 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,560 So the Lord will bless your life. 175 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:40,680 When we think about all the goodness of God and how it is God's desire to increase us 176 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:46,080 we get the principle and we understand even though we face trials discouragement in our 177 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,880 own lives and on our own cells. 178 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:49,880 It's like J.B.A.S. 179 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,880 We can go to the Lord look to the Lord and expect the Lord to hear and to answer our 180 00:12:54,880 --> 00:13:00,400 prayer because God has promised his people throughout scripture that he would bless them. 181 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,500 And if God has promised to bless you it's okay to ask for that blessing. 182 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:05,940 Make sure your heart's in alignment. 183 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:10,120 Make sure your life's in alignment with his word and then it's okay for you to come and 184 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:15,560 ask for that blessing from God because God has promised those blessings. 185 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:21,360 Exodus 34 24 for I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders neither 186 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:26,760 shall any man desire your land when you shall go up to appear before the Lord your God three 187 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:27,760 times in a year. 188 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,640 No one's going to stop you from worshiping. 189 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:30,760 I'm going to drive them out. 190 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:31,960 I'm going to cast them out. 191 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,800 I'm going to enlarge your borders. 192 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,360 In other words God said I'm taking you beyond the limits. 193 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,880 I'm taking you beyond the Jordan. 194 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,600 I'm taking you beyond the Jericho. 195 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,920 I promised you this land the land where Abraham had trotted out the land that he had put the 196 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:46,260 foot border on. 197 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:47,920 It all belongs to you. 198 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,920 It is all yours. 199 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,520 I will not allow any to stand in your way. 200 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,480 This is a promise that I make to you. 201 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:58,240 It wonderful to know that God has already established borders and we got to break our 202 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:04,640 own limits in order to get to the land which he has proclaimed. 203 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:10,960 He has promises in my and your life that we have yet to acquire because we put limits. 204 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:12,540 We stop. 205 00:14:12,540 --> 00:14:16,440 We wander through disobedience. 206 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,840 Right obedience is the key. 207 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,920 I equate obedience right along with faith. 208 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,440 I mean they're just about hand in hand. 209 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:33,200 If you don't obey it doesn't matter how much faith you've got because faith is demonstrated 210 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,320 by your obedience to the word and the promises of God. 211 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:44,520 My faith in God's promises is demonstrated as I obey thus saith the Lord in my life. 212 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,440 So if you get in line and I get in line and we align ourselves in accordance to his word 213 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,160 then every promise that he has made can be acquired. 214 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:54,160 He wants to bless. 215 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,160 He wants to prosper. 216 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,720 He wants to enlarge. 217 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,040 It's God's desire to take you beyond your own limitations. 218 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:05,160 Oh I'm trying to get over to the text this morning. 219 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,080 Y'all pray for me. 220 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,640 That ain't the only place that he made that promise. 221 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,640 Isaiah 54. 222 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,840 The Lord said I'll enlarge the place of your tent. 223 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,080 Stretch your tent curtains wide. 224 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,560 He's telling them get ready. 225 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:25,640 Set you some borders out. 226 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,680 Set your tent stakes. 227 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:28,760 Move those tent stakes. 228 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:29,760 Get them out. 229 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,280 Stretch your tents curtains wide. 230 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,200 Do not hold back. 231 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,200 Lengthen your cords. 232 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,880 Strengthen your stakes for you will spread out to the right and to the left. 233 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:43,480 Your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. 234 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:50,160 It is God's word and encouragement to us to enlarge, to stretch, to lengthen, to strengthen. 235 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:56,680 God is bigger than any opposition that presents itself or crisis or disappointment or discouragement 236 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,520 or any other thing that's able to arise in my in your life. 237 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:06,320 God is so much bigger than the circumstances of life and the sooner you get that settled 238 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:11,920 in your mind the sooner you'll take down your own limits and your own restrictors and you'll 239 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,200 be able to move forward in what God has for you. 240 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,680 But you've got to become convinced. 241 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:22,200 I must be convinced that God is bigger, that God is still in charge, that God is still 242 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,800 on the throne and that he still loves you. 243 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,600 He still loves me and his promises are still. 244 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:34,440 Yay and amen in his son Jesus Christ. 245 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:43,600 But unless you're convinced you will limit him in your life, you won't receive all that 246 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:55,200 God has and you will refine yourself to the labels that are given. 247 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,840 Labels, labels like J.Baz. 248 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,040 He caused his sorrow. 249 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:12,920 Had he not sought God and it just accepted the fact that he was born in pain, that only 250 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,120 pain would result from his life. 251 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:21,240 Had he not saw that God was bigger than that pain of that moment of his birth and to know 252 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:28,400 that God had made promises to his people and that J.Baz, an obscure person, just a couple 253 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:34,120 of verses mention this whole in-depth story. 254 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:42,040 Had he not trusted God and called out on God, then the Chronicle would not have listed him 255 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:49,360 in the ancient sacred text to be a reminder to you and I thousands of years, millennia 256 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:56,080 later here we are still holding on that God heard J.Baz and that God had promised his 257 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:00,640 people that they would be blessed and that their borders would be enlarged and strengthened. 258 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:09,200 You don't have to live beneath the label that's been placed on you. 259 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:10,200 Think about labels. 260 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,240 They don't leave a lot of time. 261 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,280 It's hard to peel some labels off, isn't it? 262 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:22,400 You may get the paper off but there's always some stuff left behind. 263 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,400 Hello? 264 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,040 There's always some stuff left behind. 265 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:33,240 You might not be able to tell what the price was but those white pieces, how many other 266 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,960 people does that irritate besides me? 267 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:43,160 It just won't come off. 268 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:51,520 I don't know what glue they put them on with but it's good stuff. 269 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,960 The only label that I found that comes off easy is that one that's in the bottom of the 270 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,960 pie pan. 271 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,880 Ironically. 272 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:09,320 That glue comes out quite easily, doesn't it? 273 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:14,480 Some of the labels that get stuck on us in life, it's hard to get rid of. 274 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,560 Like some of them things, you get a scraper, you get a razor blade, you do everything you 275 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,760 can to get it off. 276 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,680 Some of you have been scraping some labels in your own life and you just haven't been 277 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,280 able to get it off. 278 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:36,840 There's this solvent that I found for humanity and for the use of human beings. 279 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,400 There's this solvent that I have found that's the only thing that will take care of it and 280 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,760 remove it and get all of it off. 281 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,720 It is the blood that flows from Immanuel's veins. 282 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:56,640 It when applied to whatever label of life, it just begins to curl up and just blow it 283 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:57,640 away. 284 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,640 You don't have to rub it. 285 00:19:58,640 --> 00:19:59,840 You don't have to scrub it. 286 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,440 You don't have to try to peel it. 287 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,960 You don't have to find the alcohol or the bleach. 288 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:09,360 You don't have to get any of the goop won't get it but the blood of Jesus in the labels 289 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:12,560 and the lives of human beings. 290 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,280 Labels like son of sorrow and the son of pain. 291 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:22,000 That labels remove why because God intervenes and blessing is poured out. 292 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,120 Labels. 293 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:28,880 This man in our story in our text this morning had a label placed on him in verse two. 294 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:33,560 There's this certain man who was lame from his mother's womb. 295 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:39,320 From the day he was born his legs were of no use and so he was labeled lame. 296 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:45,520 He had this lame sticker put on him that now he's an older man in his 30s maybe 40 years 297 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:51,600 old and every day that he was old enough every day that he had to take care of himself. 298 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,160 Some friends carried him. 299 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,160 He was carried. 300 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,200 Oh have you ever seen labels on your life that carry you? 301 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:02,440 You ever seen things that carry you from crisis to crisis and trouble to trouble, problem 302 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:03,440 to problem. 303 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,000 That label that has got stuck on your life. 304 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,360 Sorry, no good, drunk, addict, whatever. 305 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:14,360 It may have been stuck on your life and it still seems like you can't get it off of you. 306 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:18,960 You've got somebody that's going to carry you to the solvent this morning. 307 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:24,320 You've got somebody carrying you today to the agent that is able to take the label off 308 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,320 of your life and get the label out of your mind. 309 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:35,120 He was carried. 310 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:42,280 He was labeled lame. 311 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,640 So they carried him. 312 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:53,280 Sometimes labels carry you places you don't want to go but they carried him and laid him 313 00:21:53,280 --> 00:22:02,340 at the beautiful gate of the temple so he may beg alms of all those who entered in. 314 00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:05,560 Labels get placed on people. 315 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,840 Labels get applied where you want them or not sometimes. 316 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:18,600 It's like we find in scripture in Luke 8, the woman with the issue of blood. 317 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,800 You don't think she wanted that label, do you? 318 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:21,800 No. 319 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,640 No, I'm sure she didn't want the circumstance that brought about the label. 320 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:29,360 My God in heaven. 321 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,800 How many of us didn't ask for the circumstance that came with the label? 322 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,320 You didn't ask for it but you got the label anyway. 323 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,740 You got stuck with it. 324 00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:38,740 You didn't ask for it. 325 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:39,740 You didn't require it. 326 00:22:39,740 --> 00:22:40,740 You didn't search it out. 327 00:22:40,740 --> 00:22:47,160 It came to you into your life by happenstance or by reason it's entered into your life and 328 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,440 you're stuck with the label but thank God we're not stuck alone. 329 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:56,040 There's somebody going to carry and help us get to a place where we're able. 330 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,720 The woman with the issue of blood. 331 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,520 I talked to you a moment ago. 332 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,280 Obedience and faith have a lot to go together to receive the goodness of God. 333 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:09,640 When we are obedient to the word then the word's promises are available to our life. 334 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:15,240 When we are in alignment with God's word, God's structure, God's statutes then we are 335 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,640 in line for all that they proclaim over our life. 336 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:23,000 That woman with the issue of blood had to get some type of obedience working with a 337 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,520 faith and an action had to take place. 338 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,800 She had to hear that Jesus was coming to town and then something happened within her. 339 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,040 If I want this label off of me nobody's been able to help me. 340 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:38,520 They've carried me to every doctor around the country and I'm worse than I was when 341 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,400 I started and in spite of that I'm flat broke. 342 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,560 Can't afford to do anything but this man Jesus is coming to town and I've heard if I can 343 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:51,720 just get toward him then there is this ointment that he can apply. 344 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:57,480 There's this solvent that can happen in my life if I can just touch the hem of his garment 345 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:07,720 then then then then then then I know I'll be made whole. 346 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,280 Second Samuel 9 there's a powerful story. 347 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,720 David's securely king of Israel now. 348 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:23,760 Fought battles, won wars, has the full confidence of the people and he calls one of the servants 349 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:31,000 of Saul and says is there anyone left of the house of Saul? 350 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,600 He have any kinfolk left? 351 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,600 I want to bless them. 352 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:39,800 Hello I'm gonna look for a fourth or fifth cousin somewhere. 353 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,920 Right? 354 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:48,880 Zibia who was a servant of Saul said well I heard and this is where it really gets good. 355 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:57,200 He said I heard that Jonathan's got a son left and do you not know that that delighted 356 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,760 the heart of David because Jonathan was his buddy. 357 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:02,760 They were friends. 358 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:03,760 Amen. 359 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,800 They were close Jonathan and David. 360 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,480 Jonathan spared David's life from Saul's spear. 361 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:14,960 Yeah oh I was going to bless Saul but now my blessings changed. 362 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,680 I'm gonna bless Jonathan my buddy. 363 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,080 Where is this boy at? 364 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,400 Well I've heard he's at so-and-so's house over in Lodobar. 365 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,120 Now you've heard Lodobar preached on many different occasions. 366 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:32,440 Lodobar that barren fruitless place where where nothing good is at the end of the road 367 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,720 at the old desert pathway where there's nothing but dry desert winds and there's no green 368 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,440 luscious oasis around. 369 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,440 It's just Lodobar. 370 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,120 Why is he there? 371 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:47,400 Because he was afraid for his life when the powers changed and everything went over so 372 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,900 he's afraid for his life. 373 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:50,480 But you know how that happened? 374 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:51,920 Do you know he had a label? 375 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:57,200 Mephibosheph had a label and the label was this he too was lame. 376 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,200 He was lame. 377 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,960 The Bible says that he was lame, Zeba said he's lame on both feet. 378 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:03,960 Why? 379 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:11,080 So when the war took place and Saul had died and his his nurse picked him up to run and 380 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:17,440 to flee and she she tripped she falls and he is broken on the ground and he's paralyzed 381 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:23,200 in both legs and he still had to escape for what he thought was his life not knowing that 382 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:28,560 in the future God had a plan for Mephibosheph that God wasn't going to leave Mephibosheph 383 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,360 isolated in Lodobar. 384 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:34,720 Some of you may feel like you're in a Lodobar condition and position today. 385 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,120 There's nothing there's no fruitfulness there's no joy there's no happiness there's just 386 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:41,000 existence for you where you are. 387 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,400 Well let me tell you something the king of glory is mindful to bless you. 388 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,480 I said the king of glory not an earthly king like David. 389 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,880 He said I want to bless him because of Saul his daddy go get him and retrieve him. 390 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,920 Oh I don't have time to indulge and go deeply into the blessing of Mephibosheph. 391 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,960 He got all of daddy's land he got servants to work it but he didn't have to lift another 392 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,440 finger for the rest of his life for he was at the king's table with a label of lame removed 393 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:14,280 because his feet was beneath the table. 394 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,760 I don't like getting old. 395 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:21,480 I can't shout the way I want to shout. 396 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,640 I want to run for you and I'm afraid to run till I get suspenders. 397 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:36,680 I've already had one wardrobe malfunction this morning we sure don't need another one. 398 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:47,400 Mephibosheph sat at the king's table three different occasions I believe I read where 399 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:53,760 David made it clear to Zeba that Jonathan was staying with him. 400 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,080 You and your I think he had 15 sons and like 20 servants. 401 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,160 Y'all go till you go plow you go reap harvest. 402 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,480 He's got a younger Mephibosheph's got a younger son but he's staying here with me. 403 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,640 Doesn't matter what your label is once you get to the king's table. 404 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:13,680 It doesn't matter what life is stuck on you. 405 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,320 It doesn't matter what people have tried to label you with. 406 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,480 It doesn't matter what they say about you. 407 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,240 It doesn't matter what's sticking to you. 408 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,600 What's the king's sense? 409 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,600 What's the king's sense for you? 410 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,400 What's the king comes for you? 411 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,200 Then your life is changed and changed forever. 412 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:49,560 You'll always have a seat as a son of the king at the king's table. 413 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:50,560 Labels. 414 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:59,400 A woman with the issue of blood determined to go past her label. 415 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:08,280 The lame man at the gate called Beautiful was carried and laid, limited, labeled. 416 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,560 He was outside the gate but couldn't go in. 417 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:19,120 His condition wasn't permitted on the inside. 418 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,400 So he was outside church. 419 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:33,520 How many times have you felt like you didn't belong in there? 420 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:38,360 Your condition, your label didn't belong on the inside. 421 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,560 You relegated to the outside. 422 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,560 Well let me tell you something. 423 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,560 Nope. 424 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,240 That's a lie of the devil for you. 425 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,640 Yeah. 426 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,320 The doors are open wide. 427 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,320 Come on in. 428 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:57,320 Come on in. 429 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,200 You can make your way in. 430 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,840 You don't have to be limited to your positioning. 431 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:10,200 The only limit to your position, to the access of God's grace and glory is you. 432 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:16,200 Oh, I know there's still churches that if you don't look right and smell right, then 433 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,120 the outside is all there is for you. 434 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,200 We're not that place. 435 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,520 Because you see, most all of us remember when we were stuck on the outside with our own 436 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,000 label. 437 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,320 Huh? 438 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,560 Yeah. 439 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,720 And if you don't, let me remind you, you were on the outside with your own label. 440 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:33,920 Amen. 441 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,760 So we get too pious sometimes. 442 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:37,800 Amen. 443 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:38,800 We do. 444 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,400 No wonder the Lord went in, flipped tables, took a whip and drove them out and He said, 445 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,520 this house shall be called a house of prayer. 446 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,520 This is where people come to meet me. 447 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,480 This is where people enter in and leave chains and labels removed. 448 00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:01,560 Let him in. 449 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,080 Left out, limited and labeled. 450 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,120 But not left alone. 451 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:15,080 Well, Peter and John's going at the hour of prayer. 452 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,800 Well, couldn't we preach about the hour of prayer? 453 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:25,360 Couldn't we talk about praying or the lack thereof? 454 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,360 Got a little insight for you. 455 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,120 Prayer's coming to Hopewell. 456 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,840 Prayer is making its way toward Hopewell. 457 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:39,800 There's about to be a re-emphasized instruction to pray. 458 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,120 And you're going to be very uncomfortable around here if you don't pray before you get 459 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,120 here. 460 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,120 Why? 461 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,440 Because we're going to stir up His presence in greater levels. 462 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,200 And if it's comfort you want, you might order to find somewhere else with a show going on 463 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,960 the stage because that's not what we're praying for. 464 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:03,520 We're praying for the deep stirring, the label erasing power and presence of God. 465 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,280 And at the hour of prayer, they made their way. 466 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,680 This man looked on them expecting to receive something. 467 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,240 But what they received was beyond his expectation. 468 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,400 Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have. 469 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,880 You can't give something you ain't got. 470 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,680 Pardon my English, but you can't give what you don't have. 471 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,120 So I'm saying let's pray up and get it. 472 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,680 Let's pray up and get it. 473 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,920 Let's get our knees bent and doubled over in prayer. 474 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,760 Let's get something worth giving and get something worth sharing so that we can cast our eyes 475 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:48,400 on those limited and labeled and left on the outside and help lift them up such as I have. 476 00:32:48,400 --> 00:33:07,840 I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 477 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,920 And he took him by the right hand. 478 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:19,320 So sometimes folks need a little faith starter. 479 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,320 What do you mean? 480 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,160 That fella been laying outside church most of his life. 481 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,960 They laid him there every day. 482 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,640 Nobody else had offered to do anything for him. 483 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:35,400 Maybe drop a denarii or something in his cup or a half one. 484 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,040 Maybe a mite like the poor widow woman gave in her offering. 485 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:49,080 Just a very miniscule gift just to say to their own piety, I rattled his cup. 486 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:55,480 So he looked on them expecting to receive something. 487 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,560 But not, I assure you, what he received. 488 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:07,160 Wouldn't it be wonderful that you have prayed to you've got something to give? 489 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:13,400 That you've prayed until you've got something to give? 490 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:20,480 And then your circle of life and your web of connections, when those people are pouring 491 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:28,720 out their soul to you of how bad life is, you've got something to give them. 492 00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:32,440 And you can take them by the hand and say come go with me. 493 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,080 In the name of Jesus we take authority over the label that's on your life. 494 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:43,440 What the enemy's trying to stick on you and sell you for and pardon you off and just let 495 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,440 you just be disgraced and disgruntled in life. 496 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,160 I've got something to give you that you're not expecting. 497 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,760 Come go with me because there is a place where we can enter in. 498 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:54,760 There's help. 499 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:55,760 There is hope. 500 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:05,080 There's a lifting up. 501 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:12,600 And immediately after Peter took him by the hand, I'd say John had the left hand, Peter 502 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,520 might have had the right, I'd say John got him by the left hand and together, my lord 503 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,440 we don't have time to preach together do we? 504 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,840 This thing's loaded. 505 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:34,200 They lift him and immediately his feet and his ankle bones come together. 506 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,360 Labels. 507 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:45,240 Thomas was labeled doubting until Jesus showed up. 508 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:47,240 Right? 509 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:52,000 Bartimaeus was labeled blind until Jesus was passing by. 510 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,600 Now he's just Bart. 511 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,760 He who sees has seen Jesus. 512 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:13,600 That's the only problem preaching like this. 513 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,400 You can't shout to your own preacher. 514 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:27,800 If I was sitting somewhere and a preacher said that, I'd shout. 515 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,200 Bartimaeus' label was immediately removed. 516 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,160 The woman's issue was immediately resolved. 517 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,160 Right? 518 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:43,960 Thomas' faith was immediately restored. 519 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,880 He didn't even have to stick his finger in his palm. 520 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:48,880 Did he? 521 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:56,160 He said unless I stick my finger in the nail and my hand in his side, I won't believe. 522 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:01,200 Thomas? 523 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,800 In his confession, Lord, go ahead. 524 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,000 If you need to, I don't need to. 525 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,360 I'm good. 526 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:20,760 Seeing is believing. 527 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:29,320 The demoniac of Gadara maddened in his mind by the influence of the enemy. 528 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,560 He's crazy. 529 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,280 He lives in the tombs. 530 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,960 We've tried to chain the crazy nut. 531 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:43,400 And he keeps breaking loose. 532 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:54,400 But even a crazy man recognized his help. 533 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,440 I'd say later, he said, and y'all thought I was crazy. 534 00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,440 What were you thinking? 535 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:05,680 As he falls at his feet and is delivered. 536 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:13,120 And when it come time for Jesus to depart, the scripture says that he was in his right 537 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,120 mind. 538 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,960 Some of y'all need to get in your right mind. 539 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,280 Oh, devil's played with your head long enough. 540 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,880 He's played with your head long enough. 541 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,560 And it's time to get in your right mind. 542 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:26,920 And who can do that? 543 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:32,000 Saul that we were talking about, the blood that flows from Emmanuel's veins. 544 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,000 You see, when you meet Jesus and you cast yourself at his feet, there's deliverance, 545 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,160 there's power. 546 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:44,320 And they couldn't call him the demoniac of Gadara anymore. 547 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,920 That label's peeled off. 548 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,340 It's washed clean. 549 00:38:47,340 --> 00:38:50,720 There's no more residue of that label. 550 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:52,720 That was no longer his description. 551 00:38:52,720 --> 00:39:06,640 They actually had to call the man by his name. 552 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:14,700 She said, no, you just, you stay here and let your testimony be a witness to everybody. 553 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:17,320 They knew who you were. 554 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:26,120 Now let them see what you are. 555 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,240 You got to get some things in your head. 556 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:33,480 It's not, you're no longer who you were. 557 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,640 So you have to show people who you are. 558 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,200 Well, who am I? 559 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:42,320 I am glad you inquired. 560 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:50,240 You are a son or daughter of the most high. 561 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,240 You are loved. 562 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,880 You are wanted. 563 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,640 You are desired. 564 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:08,400 You are worthy of all that he bestows on you. 565 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:15,840 So quit telling yourself that you're not. 566 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,920 Get your own label off. 567 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:37,680 So many have gotten so used to your condition 568 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,880 that you are accepting it. 569 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:44,720 Well, honey, you don't have to do that. 570 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,080 He's taking your label. 571 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:53,320 So convince yourself, I am not who I was. 572 00:40:53,320 --> 00:41:00,360 Do you think if I still thought of myself, of what I was, that I'd be here? 573 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,360 No. 574 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,360 No. 575 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:13,160 It's 62 degrees today and crappier biting somewhere. 576 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:20,560 If my mental perception of myself was I still what I was, then what's the use of sitting 577 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,200 here? 578 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:29,520 Convince yourself of what Christ is already convinced on. 579 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,120 You are a new creature. 580 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,040 You are a new creation. 581 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,640 And by virtue of being new, that means different than the old. 582 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,160 Old things pass away. 583 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:51,600 Behold, all things are new. 584 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,800 So get over yourself. 585 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,800 The past rights kind of look smart, don't you? 586 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,520 Well, some of us need it like that. 587 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,120 Others of you I can talk gently and calmly to, but some of you just need to be told, 588 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,920 get over yourself. 589 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,640 Quit holding yourself down. 590 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,240 God's got you on a catapult. 591 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:21,160 He's ready to release the trigger and you're holding onto the rope. 592 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,040 You better stand. 593 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:30,360 There's a shifting in the atmosphere. 594 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:39,920 Labeled, limited, lifted, left out. 595 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:49,160 And the last thing the old boy did is he went on in to church with Peter and John that day. 596 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:57,640 But he didn't just show up like K. Saral. 597 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:07,360 He come in like a man had been labeled lame all his life who could walk. 598 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,960 That's how he went into church. 599 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:17,520 Leaping, rejoicing. 600 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,960 And they all looked on him and said, ain't that the old boy that's out at the gate? 601 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,520 Well, what's he doing? 602 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,240 I thought he was lame. 603 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:34,000 The key to that is he was lame, but lame no more. 604 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:42,640 You were whatever the label declared, but you're not anymore. 605 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:49,200 There's a lot of labels out there, depressed, oppressed, right? 606 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,120 There's a lot of labels out there. 607 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:57,020 We could go down the sin column and just lay a bunch of them off. 608 00:43:57,020 --> 00:44:00,680 But before I invite you down here, let me tell you about a couple more labels that I 609 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,760 found. 610 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:11,000 I read about one woman who was labeled the woman with the alabaster box. 611 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,960 Now, that's not such a bad label. 612 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:22,560 She broke the box, poured out all of the value on Jesus. 613 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:27,560 That's pretty good, wasn't there? 614 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,160 Labels. 615 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:34,440 They're not all bad. 616 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,440 Gideon. 617 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:47,160 Smallest tribe, smallest of the tribe, least in the family, hiding at the wine press, thrashing 618 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,080 wheat so the enemy won't find and steal his heart. 619 00:44:51,080 --> 00:45:00,760 And the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and said, Gideon, thy mighty man of valor. 620 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:08,280 He could have said, Gideon, thou coward at the wine press, but that wouldn't have helped 621 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,400 old Gideon for the charge he was about to receive, would it? 622 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:24,560 And Gideon said, God thinks more of you and I than we think of ourselves. 623 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:30,360 Thy mighty man or woman of valor. 624 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,760 That's who you are. 625 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:37,560 I just wondered this morning, anybody need lifted today? 626 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:38,880 You know what your label's been. 627 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,920 You know that you've been limited. 628 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:47,080 You've been left out feeling like the enemy's got you on the outside looking in. 629 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,520 But I want to lift you up today. 630 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:57,960 Brother Ron, you a handsome man. 631 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,640 He got on this morning, he said, I've been sleeping, do I look any better? 632 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,360 I said, no. 633 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,000 He said, way to encourage me, pastor. 634 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,480 And I felt a little twinge way down deep. 635 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,640 Deep, it was way down there. 636 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,920 I thought, well, I could have told him, yeah, but then I'd have had to repent and there 637 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,480 would have been. 638 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,160 It's a face only a mother could love and his wife. 639 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,880 And they love him deeply and cherish him a lot. 640 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,920 And pastor, you're off track. 641 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,920 No, I'm not. 642 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,240 We need joy in our life. 643 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:38,960 I need joy. 644 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,760 I need some joy. 645 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,600 And you can preach with power and anointing and still stir joy because you know what the 646 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,880 enemy's stuck on you. 647 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,720 You know what label you've been trying to outlive. 648 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:53,080 Stop trying to outlive it. 649 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,680 You don't have to outlive it. 650 00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:00,680 If you're washed in his blood, it's no longer who you are. 651 00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,640 And I'm here to lift you up today. 652 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:05,640 Come on. 653 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:06,640 So pastor, I just need a hand. 654 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:07,640 I just need a hand up. 655 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:08,640 Anybody? 656 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:09,640 Come on. 657 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,360 It doesn't matter what the world's labeled to you. 658 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,360 Doesn't matter what the devil's labeled to you. 659 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,800 Doesn't matter what people's labeled to you. 660 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,800 If you're tired of living under it and you need to lift it up, come on. 661 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,800 I wasted a good sermon. 662 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:27,800 The wrong crowd. 663 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,320 I probably should preach this next week. 664 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,280 Mm-mm-mm. 665 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:36,280 Lord help us today. 666 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:41,080 Well, I'm glad you don't have a label on you. 667 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,640 And as you come across people this week that do, remind them of what the preacher said 668 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,360 this morning. 669 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,920 Let me lift you. 670 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,720 Grief. 671 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:54,520 Grief's a label. 672 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,880 Pain's a label. 673 00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,480 Emotionally distraught is a label. 674 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:06,480 Financially distraught is a label. 675 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:07,480 All kind of labels. 676 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:08,480 What are you dealing with? 677 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,600 What's the enemy trying to paste on you this morning? 678 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,680 What's he trying to stick you with? 679 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:15,680 God is able. 680 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,240 Father, just stretch your hands this way. 681 00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:21,840 Y'all, lift your hands up toward heaven, one toward this way. 682 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,440 Father, those who have stepped forward this morning. 683 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:32,360 Lord, to outlive the labels because of your amazing grace. 684 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:37,520 To move beyond them because of your love and your affection toward us. 685 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:43,920 Lord, those who may be in the load of our places, I pray this morning that you dispatch 686 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,800 and may they see your banner coming toward them. 687 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,800 The banner of the king on his way to deliver. 688 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:58,240 The banner of the king coming to lift and to lighten the load. 689 00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:01,600 To lift and to lighten the load. 690 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,080 I need you every hour. 691 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:10,560 Oh, Father God, in the name of Jesus. 692 00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:13,680 I'm not what I've been labeled. 693 00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,320 By your stripes I'm healed. 694 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:22,760 And until I'm healed, I claim those precious blood flowed stripes. 695 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,480 In the name of Jesus, strengthen and encourage this morning. 696 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:34,760 Be the lifter so that we may go forth leaping for joy into your house. 697 00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:41,760 Father God.