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All month long we've been in a series called Heal, and from Sunday to Sunday we've been

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experiencing different levels of healing.

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We started with physical healing, and then inner healing, and then emotional relationship

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healing last week.

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And today we're going to conclude this series, but we're not going to conclude the work of

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healing and miracles, because that's just getting started.

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Amen.

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I believe that this series has also been setting the tone for what God is going to continue

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to do for the rest of this year as we run with the theme of arise and build.

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We're going to see a greater demonstration of the spirit and power, both here on Sundays,

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in our city groups, wherever it is that we go, in our families, in our personal lives,

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God is going to move in miraculous ways.

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And I want you today to join me in the book of Mark, the Gospel according to Mark chapter

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5 and verse 1.

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This is where the Spirit of the Lord has led me today, and I want to share with you this

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message.

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Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes, and when

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he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs, a man with an unclean

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spirit who had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could bind him, not even with chains,

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because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been pulled

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apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces, neither could anyone tame him.

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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself

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with stones.

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Then he saw Jesus from afar.

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He ran and worshiped him, and he cried out with a loud voice and said, What have I to

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do with you, Jesus, son of the most high God?

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I implore you by God that you do not torment me, for he said to him, Come out of the man

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with an unclean spirit.

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My message today is shake the shackles, or shaking the shackles, and we're going to speak

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today on spiritual healing and deliverance.

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Why don't we pray?

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I know we've been praying, I know we've been worshiping all service long, and what a great

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time we've had.

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Annointed, talented worship and praise has gone forth, but right now we're going to talk

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to the Lord and we're going to ask Him to speak to us.

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Father, we come before you once again.

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We thank you, Father, for your spirit that we feel so powerfully, so real in this place

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today, and we come to this point of hearing your word.

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Annoint our hearing, God, so that we would have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying

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to all of us.

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And anoint my lips of clay to speak with clarity, with power and precision, to the hearts, to

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the spirits of everyone here today, or those that are watching online.

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Father, we submit and surrender the remainder of the service into the hands of the Holy

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Ghost, and we do this right now in the name of Jesus Christ.

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We do this in Jesus' name.

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Some would say, in Jesus' name.

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Amen, amen.

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You may be seated in the presence of God.

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The story before us is one of the more dramatic scenes in the Gospels, a vivid display of

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darkness colliding into light, of misery running into mercy.

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And at the center of it is a man trapped in a world of spiritual bondage, a shackled spirit

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whose oppression drove him over the edges of sanity, into the fringes of society, and

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to a place far beyond the reach of human intervention.

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All the townspeople there and even in the surrounding areas knew of this man.

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They knew him as the tomb dweller.

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The madman who lived and made his dwelling among the dead.

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If you ever saw this man up close, you could never scrub his image from your mind.

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It was so disturbing.

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His dirty, bloody, wild appearance would have disturbed your eyes and would have marked

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you in such a way you could never erase it from your memory.

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It's just one of those things that when you see it, you can never unsee it.

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That's how badly of a condition that he was in.

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If you never saw him, then you would have definitely heard his hair-raising cries and

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deep howls as they pierced through the hush and the silence of night.

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So even if you never saw him laying at night and the stillness of the midnight hour, you

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could hear the echo of this madman's cries off in the distance of the tombs.

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So whether you heard or saw him, you knew that this was the type of person who was overwhelmed

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and consumed by such a ravenous problem, such a horrendous situation.

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But I want you to understand today that this man was not a monster.

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He was not a monster.

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In fact, he was of no harm to anyone but himself.

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And though there might have been urban legends and rumors that spread around town like the

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boogeyman, you know, the kakooey, be careful because he's out there.

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You don't want to be walking around in the middle of the night.

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Parents would warm their children.

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If you see this guy, run the other direction.

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But truly, this man was of no harm to anyone else, only to himself.

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He was a man, a regular man with an ugly problem.

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I feel like in stories like this, they get sensationalized, right?

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They get dramatized.

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And often we lose sight of the human being, the man or the person that's in the center

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of the controversy or the problem.

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We need to humanize this man today.

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He was someone's son.

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Amen.

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He was someone's brother.

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He was someone's friend, perhaps.

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He was even somebody's father.

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This was a human being with real-life connections, with real-life relationships.

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He was a man at one point in his life with ambitions, at one point in his life with dreams

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and desires who, for reasons unknown to us, lost control of his life.

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It's important to see him as just a regular man with an irregular problem.

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As a human being, as a precious soul in the sight of God who has an ugly, monstrous problem

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in his life.

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He himself was not a demon.

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He himself was not a monster.

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He was simply plagued by demonic forces that were at work.

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And it begs the question, how does a man, a man possibly with a family and a loving community

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end up living in a graveyard?

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How does someone in that regard, how does anyone lose control of their lives and become

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a prisoner of their flesh, a prisoner of sin, a slave to Satan's influence?

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To answer that question, we first must come to terms with three realities that I want

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to expose to you.

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First of all today, three realities that we must understand.

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First is the reality of the spirit realm, a world about which many are unconscious or

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unaware.

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But we need to understand that the spirit realm is real.

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Amen.

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Somebody, I said, amen.

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Somebody, it's real.

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The spirit realm is in fact more real than the physical world that we interact with every

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day.

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The world that we can see, touch, taste, smell and hear.

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The physical world, the spiritual world is more real than the tangible world because the

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tangible world came out of the intangible world.

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Are you following me?

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The seen world came out of the unseen world.

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And so that makes the unseen world that much more real.

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The second reality is that man is a three-part being made up of spirit, soul and body.

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Spirit, soul and body.

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The realest part of you is your spirit, which is your eternal essence.

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That is that eternity that the writer of Ecclesiastes said, God set eternity in the human heart.

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That is your spirit, which lives forever.

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That is eternal.

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This is your body, your body.

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You're talking about your physical body, your flesh and bones.

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That is your temporary home.

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Then there's your soul.

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Your soul is the area of your mind, your emotions.

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That's the area of your desires.

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That's the area of your memories.

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That's the unseen area of your life.

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And when we talk about the flesh, what we are usually referring to, even though we don't

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characterize it this way.

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Biblically, this is what we're talking about.

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The flesh is really your soul and your body.

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Your body and your soul make up your flesh.

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And that is typically where most of the problems in life occur.

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They occur in the body or they occur in the soul.

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Remember the soul?

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It's the area of the mind.

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It's the area of your emotions, your memories, your body.

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Those were most of the afflictions and the troubles of life occur in that realm.

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Now the reason why most of those problems occur in that realm and that is very important

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for us to understand because there's a third reality.

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And it's that Satan seeks to shackle your spirit, that eternal essence, that part of

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you that God fashioned to live forever.

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He seeks to shackle your spirit by dominating your soul and your body.

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Since Satan cannot access your spirit especially, and I say this very importantly, if you have

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the Holy Ghost, if you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Satan cannot take residence

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in your life if the Holy Ghost is there.

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Somebody say amen for that.

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But that doesn't mean simply because he cannot possess you, doesn't mean he cannot oppress

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you.

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And he can do that by dominating your flesh or your soul and your body.

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He may not be able to touch your spirit through direct contact, but if he can mess with your

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body and your soul just enough, he by virtue of a series of it or as a matter of cause

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and effect can get to your spirit.

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This is ultimately what he wants to do.

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He achieves this through demonic influence.

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I'm laying the foundation right now.

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He achieves this through demonic influence by exploiting the areas of your flesh, your

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soul and your body, by playing on your emotions, by tampering with the wounds of your past.

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He looks for any opening, any portal in your soulish area in order to inflict pain, in order

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to somehow oppress you, to dominate your thinking, your weaknesses.

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He is hoping to use these things against you.

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He works through the broken places of your past to fulfill your desires, to plant a root

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of bitterness somewhere in there.

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He hopes to inject something into the soulish or to the physical area of your life that

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might chain you or bind you.

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Because what he wants to do is use all of your passions, your desires, your memories,

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your lusts, your temper, all of these things against you so that you will in essence enslave

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yourself so that you will become a prisoner of those things.

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Amen.

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And it's important that we see how Satan works and how the kingdom of darkness works.

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I find it interesting that this man, as we read in the Gospel stories, which is actually

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found in all three synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, we see this story.

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It must have been so powerful of a moment.

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It must have really struck the disciples that all three of those writers would write about

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it.

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It's all there.

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What's interesting is that this man broke his physical chains, but he couldn't break

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his spiritual chains.

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He appeared free on the outside.

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The Bible says no man could tame him.

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They tried to shackle him, and they thought they were helping him by shackling him and

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by putting these fetters and chains on his body.

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They tried to chain him up, and then because he was so possessed with these demonic power,

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he would break those chains free.

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And so he appeared to be free, but he was still bound on the inside.

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His real bondage was not on the outside.

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His real bondage was on the inside.

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And someone here today may be struggling with the very same issue.

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You appear free on the outside, but on the inside, you're oppressed and you're bound

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in some unseen area that you can't seem to break free from.

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And it's very difficult to direct and to operate in those areas and to fix those areas because

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they're so deep and you can't seem, no matter how hard you try, to break that cycle in your

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life, that cycle of sin, that cycle of abuse, that cycle of self-infliction, that cycle

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of deadly habits, that cycle of addiction, of sin, no matter how hard you try.

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We look for, like this man found others that were trying to help him through these chains.

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There are lots of different methods and philosophies and things that we can find in this world

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to try to resolve and calm us and fix us and settle the issue and resolve what's going

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on in our life and going on in our hearts.

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But none of those things seem to work because it seems like even though we appear free on

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the outside, maybe we're smiling to our friends or checking in at work and checking out.

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And everyone thinks we're fine.

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And we've got our spouses convinced that we're okay.

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We've got our children fooled that we're all right.

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We got everybody thinking that we're free.

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We come to church.

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We clap our hands.

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We shout.

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We dance.

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But God's will for you today is that your spirit man would be free, free at last.

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That your spirit person would finally break out of the place.

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I wish somebody would hear what I'm saying because if your spirit is set free and delivered,

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then your emotions will be free and then your body will be free and then your mind would

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be free.

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Somebody say, man, the first thing you need to do is you got to come out of the tombs.

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Someone say, come out.

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Come out of the tombs.

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He was in the tombs of all places to live.

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This man chose to live among the tombs.

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He chose to surround himself with death and the Bible teaches us this truth in Romans

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6.23.

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It tells us that the wages of sin is death.

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The wages of sin is death.

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You must understand that sin is a spiritual disease.

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And once it affects you, it starts to spread and it causes death, spiritual death.

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Emotional death, relational death, and sometimes even physical death.

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Somewhere in his body or soul, his heart and mind, this man in the story gave a little

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room for the devil.

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I'm not here to judge him.

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I'm here to analyze the situation.

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At some point in his life, this man gave a little room for the devil to work and to

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plant something in his life.

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We don't know what it is.

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We don't know what he dabbled in.

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We don't know what he opened himself up to, but he opened himself up to something.

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And I can assure you that even though the Bible says that he had a legion of devils,

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he had somewhere around 2,000 demons were abiding in him.

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I can tell you that probably not all 2,000 devils possessed him at one time.

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It probably started off with just one little devil, you know?

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It probably started off with just one little thing, one thing that he allowed to come into

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his life, one place that he allowed for the enemy to work.

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This is how sin begins to take hold of someone's life.

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Satan only needs you to give him an inch.

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He doesn't need a mile.

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He doesn't need yards.

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He only needs you to give him an inch, just a millimeter of space for him to work with.

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He only needs you to give him just one moment, just one drink.

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Come on now.

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Just one peek or one glance, just one touch, just one little act of anger, just one little

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rumor spread.

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And the Bible tells us this in Ephesians 4, 27.

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It says, do not give the devil a foothold.

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Under the verses say, do not give place to the devil.

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And he's giving us a principle.

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He's telling us that even if you give the devil just a little foothold, just a little

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place, he's going to take that space you give him and he's going to stretch it and he's

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going to work in that space.

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That's all that he needs because when you give the devil a foothold, he will take a

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stronghold and he begins to work and develop and that stronghold will eventually drive you

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to the tombs of life.

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There is somebody here today under the sound of my voice.

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Your struggle is that maybe someday or one day in your past or one day not too many days

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from now, you gave the enemy a little bit of room to work.

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You gave him a foothold.

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You allowed him to work in some area of your life through your relationship or through

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a little sin.

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You told a little white lie.

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You just let something creep in and all of a sudden now you've got a problem in your

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life.

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Now you're bound and now you're oppressed and you don't know how you got there.

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Oh, hallelujah.

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I've come to tell you today that God wants to set you free because our Bible says that

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the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty in God through the pulling down

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of strongholds.

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I've got good news for you today, my friend.

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There is no stronghold too great that the power of God cannot bring down.

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I wish I had a witness today.

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There is no stronghold too great that the spirit of God, that the word of God cannot

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break.

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There is no yoke too strong that the anointing cannot break.

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Somebody ought to give God some praise today.

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Ah, we have come into this house to lift up the name of Jesus so that God would come and

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break the stronghold that is in your life, brother, so that you can finally get the victory.

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He lift up that name right now.

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Somebody magnify him today.

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Hallelujah.

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I did not come simply to preach a message.

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I came to set up those who are captive free.

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When you read what Jesus said about himself, when he talks about what he came to do, he

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said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to

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the poor.

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He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted and then he said to proclaim liberty to the captives,

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the recovery of sight to the blind and set at liberty those who are oppressed.

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I will tell you there in that verse, you can read it for yourself in Luke chapter 4 verse

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18.

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He said, proclaim liberty and then set liberty.

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He said, proclaim it and then do it.

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We can't just preach about it.

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We've got to demonstrate it.

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I didn't come today just to preach a message about deliverance.

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I came here today to actually see somebody get delivered.

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My God, I've got an anointing upon my life this afternoon.

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I don't care what your sin is, what your hang up is, how long you've been battling,

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how hard it's been, how ferocious it's been.

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There is an anointing in this house today that can set you free once and for all.

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I feel the Holy Ghost in this house right now.

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I feel the spirit of the Lord.

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You've got to come out of the tombs.

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You've got to come out of the grave.

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Get out of that place of death.

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Get out of that place of sorrow.

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Get out of that place of misery.

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Get out of that place of sin.

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Get out of that place of darkness and say, I'm not going to live here any longer.

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He came running out of the grave.

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He came running out of the darkness like we sing in that song into a glorious day.

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He said, I'm coming out.

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Someone say, I'm coming out of this.

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I'm coming out of this.

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I'm coming out.

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He said, I see my answer and I've got to come out of the tombs.

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I've got to get out of this place of death.

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I got to get out of this place of darkness.

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The tombs is no place for a child of God to live.

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Amen, somebody.

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The tomb is no place for you to live.

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The spiritual tombs are places of unrealized potential where unrealized potential is buried.

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Buried behind the soil and buried beneath the ground in the tombs are dreams that have

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never come to pass.

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Songs that have never been sung.

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Books that have never been written.

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Ideas that were never shared.

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Plans that never materialized and purposes that were never fulfilled.

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That is exactly where someone is today.

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You've got gifts that are buried.

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My God, you've got treasures that are buried.

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You've got, my Lord, you've got a destiny that's been buried.

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Maybe you come to church, but you're still buried.

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Maybe you know the song, but you're still buried.

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Maybe you say, hallelujah, but you're still buried.

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But God sent me here today to bring you out of that grave, but you got to want to come

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out of it.

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Notice that all Jesus had to do was set foot in the city or the region of the gatherings.

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And this man went 2000 devils inside of him.

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I got to get to Jesus.

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And the Bible said that he ran and he came down to where Jesus was.

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And so many people missed their miracle because they're waiting for Jesus to come all the

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way to, no, no, no, no, no.

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He already came 2000 years ago.

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Who shan't alamakai?

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He already stepped foot on this world.

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He already died on the cross.

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And now it is up to somebody today that says, I'm sick and tired of living with this.

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I'm sick and tired of being bound in my private life.

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I'm sick and tired of being bound to pornography, being bound to drug addiction, being bound

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to fear, being bound to bitterness.

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I'm tired of where I am.

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And I see Jesus as in the house today.

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I see Jesus as in the church today.

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So I've got to come out of my tomb.

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I know there's somebody today that needs to come out of your tomb.

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Come on, somebody, say, man.

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You got to come out of somebody, say, man.

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You got to come out of your tomb and make up in your mind.

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I don't care what anybody thinks about me.

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I don't care if they talk about me.

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I don't care if they write about me.

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I don't care what rumors they spread about me.

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This is my moment to get free.

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This is my moment to be healed.

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This is my moment to be delivered.

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Oh, rabbi yashanda, I feel the holy ghost in this place today.

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The second thing God told me to tell you is that you need to stop cutting yourself down.

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This man is a classic example of somebody with no self-esteem, or at least a self-esteem

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that had been tattered and so broken that he didn't know what to do with himself.

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He did not value his life.

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He did not value himself the way that he ought to as someone who is fearfully and wonderfully

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made in the image of God.

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And this man, the Bible said, would deliberately harm himself by taking stones and rubbing

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them harshly against his skin, cutting himself in the darkness of night, cutting himself

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in the bleaching hot day of summer, cutting himself because he didn't know what to do.

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He was so trapped with this condition and he didn't see himself as being a respectable,

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dignified man.

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He looked at himself when he drank from the pools and he saw his reflection.

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He saw an animal.

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He saw a wild man.

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He saw a mad man.

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He saw a man with no control.

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He saw a man that was hurting, that was wounded.

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And ultimately, he saw somebody that he didn't respect anymore.

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He didn't even know who that man was anymore.

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Can I minister today?

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Is that all right?

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He couldn't even recognize himself.

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And sometimes you get to a place in your life when you look in the mirror.

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You don't even recognize who you see anymore.

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You don't even recognize because you don't pray like you used to pray.

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You used to be on fire for God.

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And somewhere along the way, you lost your fire.

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You used to sing loud for God.

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And somewhere along the way, thank you, brother, you lost that.

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You don't even recognize who you are anymore.

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All you are when you look at yourself as an empty shell of who you used to be.

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And it seems no matter who says what, no matter all the pain and the walls of the church could

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be coming off and it doesn't touch your spirit because you have so convinced yourself through

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the lies of the enemy that you're not worth it and you have no value.

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And this man was cutting himself down.

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And some of you may not be using stones to do it, but you're cutting yourself down with

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your words.

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You've heard the word you've heard that sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will

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never hurt me.

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That's a lie.

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I don't know whoever said that because words can hurt.

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And the things that you might be telling yourself like you're not worthy and you're not good

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enough and no one will ever love you and no one's ever going to accept you and God want

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to accept you.

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And these are all lies from the devil that he's got circulating in your mind.

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And it's just causing you to cut yourself down.

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You cut yourself out of opportunities.

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You cut yourself up.

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Oh my God, I'm getting into something right now.

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You cut yourself out of the team.

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You cut yourself out of places that God wants to take you.

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You cut yourself out of the equation.

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You cut yourself out of miracles.

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You cut yourself out of the plan of God.

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You cut yourself out of what God can do.

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You cut yourself short and you cut yourself out and you're constantly chipping away at

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your life.

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Oh, but God wants you to know, my friend.

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Your life has value and your life means something and your life is precious in the sight of God.

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I don't know who I came to preach this to today.

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I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but you need to know that it only takes

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one voice from God to shatter every lie that the devil has spoken about you and everything

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that you've been telling yourself.

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Everybody needs to hear right now another sound of my voice that you matter, that you are

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loved and therefore God so loved the world.

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And that's you.

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And that's you that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever would believe in him would

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not perish but have everlasting life.

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I came to tell you today, stop cutting yourself down because you are the head of God.

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You are the head and not the tail.

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You are above and not beneath.

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I wish somebody would believe that right now.

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I wish somebody would thank God for that right now.

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I wish somebody would recognize that in this house.

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Come on for about 30 seconds.

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For about 30 seconds.

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Is there somebody that can lift up your voice?

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Is there somebody that can lift up your hands?

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Come on, come on.

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Keep it going.

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Keep it going.

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Praise him.

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Come on, come on.

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Praise him.

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The psalmist said, I will praise him for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

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If you can't praise him that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, then what are we doing

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right now?

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Oh, to God be the glory.

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So give me a few more moments of your time.

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And this man was self-inflicting himself.

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And today I say this very respectfully with a lot of reverence, with a lot of care and

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respect for whatever it is that you might be going through in your private life.

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But you need to understand that you might be hurting yourself in ways that you cannot

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even begin to imagine.

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You're cutting yourself down with words, with decision, self-neglect.

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Somebody under the sound of my voice is continually to punish yourself over things that God has

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already forgiven you of.

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You need to, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ.

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00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:10,500
And yet you continue to condemn yourself for things that God has already released you from.

476
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,500
Oh my God.

477
00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:16,780
Let me give this to you before I move on.

478
00:31:16,780 --> 00:31:22,860
How you treat yourself, result from how you view yourself.

479
00:31:22,860 --> 00:31:24,180
Hallelujah.

480
00:31:24,180 --> 00:31:30,140
And how you view yourself, result from what you believe.

481
00:31:30,140 --> 00:31:35,740
And what you believe, result from what you hear.

482
00:31:35,740 --> 00:31:42,340
I have reverse engineered the way, and to help somebody understand why it is you see

483
00:31:42,340 --> 00:31:45,180
yourself and treat yourself the way you do.

484
00:31:45,180 --> 00:31:51,660
It comes back to what it is you believe about your life.

485
00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:58,460
And not only that, you go one step further, what you believe as a result of what you hear.

486
00:31:58,460 --> 00:32:04,220
Fear, the Bible tells us that faith comes by hearing of the word of God.

487
00:32:04,220 --> 00:32:10,860
And the opposite is also true brother, fear comes by hearing of the word of the enemy.

488
00:32:10,860 --> 00:32:15,980
My question to you today is, who or what are you hearing?

489
00:32:15,980 --> 00:32:19,340
Who or what are you listening to?

490
00:32:19,340 --> 00:32:26,900
It's time to stop cutting yourself down and start accepting who you are in Christ.

491
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:30,300
That you are blessed with every spiritual blessing.

492
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:37,300
God wants to set somebody's spirit free by restoring the dignity of who you are as a

493
00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:39,420
child of God.

494
00:32:39,420 --> 00:32:44,500
And restoring your sense of self-worth and self-appraisal.

495
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:48,980
You need to have a high value of yourself.

496
00:32:48,980 --> 00:32:52,460
You need to stop letting other people appraise your value.

497
00:32:52,460 --> 00:32:54,660
My God, hallelujah.

498
00:32:54,660 --> 00:32:58,420
You need to stop letting other people assess whether you're worthy or not.

499
00:32:58,420 --> 00:33:04,700
No, you are worthy because God says you're worthy.

500
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,340
I wish I had a believer today.

501
00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:10,940
The Bible says for you were bought at a price.

502
00:33:10,940 --> 00:33:14,180
Oh my God, it was costly.

503
00:33:14,180 --> 00:33:19,300
Jesus paid a costly price to purchase our salvation with his own blood.

504
00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:24,980
Therefore glorify God in your body and where else?

505
00:33:24,980 --> 00:33:30,940
Your spirit that in our part of you, which belongs to God.

506
00:33:30,940 --> 00:33:31,940
I belong to God.

507
00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:34,580
Someone say I belong to God.

508
00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:36,660
I belong to God.

509
00:33:36,660 --> 00:33:39,980
God wants to restore your sense of self-worth today.

510
00:33:39,980 --> 00:33:45,940
He wants to restore your sense of who you are in Christ so that you can start loving

511
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:46,940
yourself again.

512
00:33:46,940 --> 00:33:48,700
Because here's what begins to happen.

513
00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:54,220
As you begin to love yourself rightly, you start to be able to love others rightly.

514
00:33:54,220 --> 00:33:59,860
Jesus said you love your neighbor as yourself.

515
00:33:59,860 --> 00:34:06,060
You can't love others when you hate yourself.

516
00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:11,260
Those that struggle the most to serve and love others don't because they hate others.

517
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:13,660
I'm going to help somebody.

518
00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:17,460
They don't because they hate themselves.

519
00:34:17,460 --> 00:34:18,460
We think they don't like people.

520
00:34:18,460 --> 00:34:20,380
No, it's got nothing to do with other people.

521
00:34:20,380 --> 00:34:22,940
They don't like them.

522
00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:31,460
But when you are secure, when you are secure and confident about who you are in God and

523
00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:37,300
that you are wonderfully made and that you are free on the inside, cheerfulness, charity,

524
00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:41,940
love and service pours out to others.

525
00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:45,460
It has to get fixed in here.

526
00:34:45,460 --> 00:34:50,980
The third thing God wants me to tell you is that you today, before you leave this service,

527
00:34:50,980 --> 00:34:56,740
can worship away your chains.

528
00:34:56,740 --> 00:35:03,500
The Bible recounts that this man did something completely unexpected.

529
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:08,060
Imagine you're with Jesus when you get to the region of the Gadarenes.

530
00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:09,620
Here comes this man.

531
00:35:09,620 --> 00:35:13,780
Now, I tried to give you the rated PG version.

532
00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:17,260
This man wasn't wearing anything.

533
00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:20,980
Now it's PG 13.

534
00:35:20,980 --> 00:35:21,980
He come running.

535
00:35:21,980 --> 00:35:22,980
That's in your Bible.

536
00:35:22,980 --> 00:35:23,980
We can say it.

537
00:35:23,980 --> 00:35:24,980
You see, it's in the Bible.

538
00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:25,980
Read it.

539
00:35:25,980 --> 00:35:26,980
You can handle that.

540
00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:28,820
And this guy's coming.

541
00:35:28,820 --> 00:35:29,820
He's all cut up.

542
00:35:29,820 --> 00:35:33,780
He's just foaming up the mouth.

543
00:35:33,780 --> 00:35:36,260
His hair is all unkempt.

544
00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:39,220
And he's just sprinting towards Jesus.

545
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:42,660
Now, I know we want to act all holy and righteous, right?

546
00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:45,340
But if I'm hanging around with Jesus and I see this guy coming out, I'm hiding behind

547
00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:46,340
Jesus.

548
00:35:46,340 --> 00:35:50,180
I'm like, you better get him, Lord.

549
00:35:50,180 --> 00:35:54,500
I'm not spiritual enough to do with this guy.

550
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:58,500
This guy just came running, barreling down out of the mountains.

551
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:03,060
And he just falls down, the Bible says.

552
00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:08,060
He falls down and he just begins to worship.

553
00:36:08,060 --> 00:36:09,780
He starts crying out to God.

554
00:36:09,780 --> 00:36:13,180
God, I worship you.

555
00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:15,660
Praise you, God.

556
00:36:15,660 --> 00:36:17,060
And all the disciples are around.

557
00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:19,580
And they're scratching their hands.

558
00:36:19,580 --> 00:36:20,860
They can't believe their eyes.

559
00:36:20,860 --> 00:36:21,860
What's happening here?

560
00:36:21,860 --> 00:36:22,860
They can't compute.

561
00:36:22,860 --> 00:36:26,100
The non-lookers, the townspeople, the village people that are around, they're all wondering

562
00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:28,300
like, wait a minute, what's going on?

563
00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:30,220
Nobody can make sense of this guy.

564
00:36:30,220 --> 00:36:37,980
He's got a legion of devils in him, around 2,000 demons possessed in this man.

565
00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:46,940
And with all of those demons in him, was able to get to an altar.

566
00:36:46,940 --> 00:36:53,820
Brother, some of us don't have any demons and we struggle to get to an altar.

567
00:36:53,820 --> 00:36:56,340
Y'all, y'all want me to shut up now?

568
00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:57,620
I understand, I understand.

569
00:36:57,620 --> 00:36:58,620
I'm poking on somebody.

570
00:36:58,620 --> 00:37:00,620
I'm poking on you.

571
00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:03,820
2,000 devils in his life.

572
00:37:03,820 --> 00:37:12,660
And he recognized that there is something greater than what I'm dealing with right here.

573
00:37:12,660 --> 00:37:19,300
When you ever have a true encounter with the Holy One of Israel, with God Almighty and

574
00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:24,660
flesh, when you ever see Him in the light of His glory, there is something that begins

575
00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:25,660
to happen.

576
00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:29,500
And you say, I've got to get to the feet of Jesus.

577
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:30,940
And so he begins to worship.

578
00:37:30,940 --> 00:37:32,180
He begins to call out.

579
00:37:32,180 --> 00:37:33,460
He begins to pray.

580
00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:37,340
He begins to just lift up his voice to God.

581
00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:38,820
He starts to worship him.

582
00:37:38,820 --> 00:37:40,220
He starts to worship him.

583
00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:43,900
And something just begins to hit me as I see this scene.

584
00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:47,460
And how even with all of his problems, he still got to it.

585
00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:49,140
And the Lord showed me this.

586
00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:51,740
Maybe it's not going to be deep to you, but it was deep to me.

587
00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:57,700
And it was this, that how could this man with 2,000 devils come and worship at the feet

588
00:37:57,700 --> 00:37:58,700
of Jesus?

589
00:37:58,700 --> 00:37:59,700
I'll tell you how.

590
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:01,580
Someone say, how?

591
00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:08,500
Because nothing can stop a worshipper.

592
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:11,780
Nothing can stop a worshipper, brother.

593
00:38:11,780 --> 00:38:13,860
Nothing can stop a worshipper.

594
00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:15,860
I don't care how bad your situation is.

595
00:38:15,860 --> 00:38:18,020
I don't care how many devils you're fighting in your life.

596
00:38:18,020 --> 00:38:19,300
I don't care who said what.

597
00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:20,940
I don't care how long you've been bound.

598
00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:23,100
I don't care how private your battle is.

599
00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:28,140
Some of us, you know, we don't just, some people don't get free or as time goes on.

600
00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,740
They just get better at covering it up.

601
00:38:30,740 --> 00:38:37,500
Brother David, I've been in church long enough to know that a lot of times, even church folk,

602
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:39,220
we don't get free or as time goes by.

603
00:38:39,220 --> 00:38:42,580
We just get better at hiding what's going on.

604
00:38:42,580 --> 00:38:43,940
We don't want the pastor to know.

605
00:38:43,940 --> 00:38:45,180
We don't want the brothers to know.

606
00:38:45,180 --> 00:38:47,620
We don't want anybody knowing.

607
00:38:47,620 --> 00:38:51,380
But there's a place that's bound.

608
00:38:51,380 --> 00:38:53,340
But here's what I know.

609
00:38:53,340 --> 00:38:57,220
Nothing can stop a worshipper.

610
00:38:57,220 --> 00:38:58,460
You know why?

611
00:38:58,460 --> 00:39:04,540
Because that's the one area that the devil.

612
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:10,620
That's the one area that the devil cannot win.

613
00:39:10,620 --> 00:39:17,060
Because once you have elevated the name and the presence of Jesus above all else, once

614
00:39:17,060 --> 00:39:25,460
you have made up in your mind that I'm going to worship you, even watch with my chains.

615
00:39:25,460 --> 00:39:27,020
I can't worship him until I'm free.

616
00:39:27,020 --> 00:39:32,500
I've got to be 110% free before I can lift my hands and lift my, maybe a pinky, but not

617
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:33,500
much more than that.

618
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:36,380
I can't lift too much more until I'm 100% free.

619
00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:44,020
Tell that to Paul and Silas who were all chained up.

620
00:39:44,020 --> 00:39:46,260
The Bible says at midnight, right?

621
00:39:46,260 --> 00:39:48,940
He began to sing.

622
00:39:48,940 --> 00:39:54,100
Because I don't care how shackled one is on the outside or in the inside.

623
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,980
There is power in your worship.

624
00:39:56,980 --> 00:40:04,980
Oh my God, there is power in your worship.

625
00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:05,980
What?

626
00:40:05,980 --> 00:40:11,020
Because God inhabits the praises of his people.

627
00:40:11,020 --> 00:40:18,500
And if worship and praise gets God into my situation, gets God into my private battle,

628
00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:21,820
gets God into my place of bondage and oppression.

629
00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:26,940
If worship is what draws him closer to me, the more I worship, the more of his presence

630
00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:30,020
begins to consume and saturate my life.

631
00:40:30,020 --> 00:40:35,780
And it gets to a point where there's only room for one.

632
00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:41,300
And so this man begins to worship and he begins to praise and there's nothing the devil can

633
00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:44,780
do about it.

634
00:40:44,780 --> 00:40:50,420
I imagine at this moment as I close that Satan saw what this man was doing, Brother Ricky.

635
00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:52,580
Maybe he called an emergency meeting with all the devils.

636
00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:55,820
It says, guys, we got to, everybody meet in the boardroom.

637
00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:58,420
We got a problem on our hands.

638
00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:00,660
This guy is now starting to worship him.

639
00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:02,660
What are we going to do?

640
00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:03,660
You got to stop him.

641
00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:05,100
You know, demon number three, is there anything you got?

642
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:06,300
Can you dial up one of those memories?

643
00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:09,420
You know, one of those really sick things that happened in his past that kind of throw

644
00:41:09,420 --> 00:41:10,420
him off guard.

645
00:41:10,420 --> 00:41:13,460
You know, devil number four over there, can you, you know, you got anything that you

646
00:41:13,460 --> 00:41:16,580
know, an old rumor or something you can remind him about, something that just kind of, you

647
00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:18,700
know, break his focus.

648
00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:20,380
Devil number, you know, 2,000.

649
00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:22,260
Can you, can you do something?

650
00:41:22,260 --> 00:41:25,620
Can you just, you know, let a fly land on him somewhere and distract?

651
00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:30,500
He got to do something to stop this guy because if he keeps worshiping like this, if he keeps

652
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:36,380
praising like this, he's going to get free from all of us.

653
00:41:36,380 --> 00:41:57,140
And nothing they did can stop what was happening.