1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,440 Welcome to Hub City Vineyard. 2 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:23,060 To get connected or to give online, go to connect.hcv.church or give.hcv.church. 3 00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:27,360 If at any point during this message you feel called to make a change in your life, text 4 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,840 change me to 970-00. 5 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,840 Thank you and enjoy the message. 6 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:38,800 If you haven't been here, we are concluding our series, Won't You Be My Neighbor? 7 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,720 And if you're anything like me, this series has just impacted me. 8 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:48,600 I want you all to know that as I share and prepare all these talks, there is much for 9 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:49,960 me as they are for you. 10 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,120 They challenge me to get outside of my box to make a difference in our community. 11 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,320 And I know that 20 plus other churches around the Tri-State area are all doing this series 12 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:04,540 together as a means to really get involved in our community and make a difference for 13 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:05,540 Jesus. 14 00:01:05,540 --> 00:01:10,920 So as I was praying about how to end this series, being that this is the last Sunday, 15 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,640 God led me to Matthew chapter 5. 16 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,280 And I want us all to read it together. 17 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,080 It should be up on the screen. 18 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,320 Do we have Matthew chapter 5? 19 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:20,320 Okay. 20 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:28,480 Matthew chapter 5.14 says this, you are the light of the world, like a city on a hilltop 21 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,160 that cannot be hidden. 22 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,360 You're the light of the world. 23 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,200 Okay, those are Jesus' words challenging people to be a difference maker. 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,220 Okay, to let the light shine out from within them. 25 00:01:43,220 --> 00:01:49,480 He goes on to say no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket. 26 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,480 And he challenges us to be outward focus. 27 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,480 Darkness, what is darkness? 28 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:01,880 If we were to shut off all the lights in this auditorium, it is simply the absence of light. 29 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:09,360 Now, within darkness, if we go after it and try to grab it and reach for it and put it 30 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,020 in a bag, it's not possible. 31 00:02:12,020 --> 00:02:16,040 Like when we're walking in the dark, if you will, you can't see where you're going. 32 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:17,620 You're running into things. 33 00:02:17,620 --> 00:02:20,400 You can't move it out of the way. 34 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:25,120 Only light is powerful enough to make darkness disappear. 35 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,760 Of course, Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, he made it clear, if you're in a relationship 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,480 with him, then let your light shine in the world. 37 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,980 We are called to shine. 38 00:02:36,980 --> 00:02:40,120 But the light we share is not our own. 39 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,900 It's not our good works. 40 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,400 It's not the things we do. 41 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,160 And on Monday, as I was out on my run, Monday is my run day. 42 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:53,040 I go out for a pretty long run somewhere in the neighborhood of five to eight miles. 43 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,960 And as I'm listening to the Bible and listening to worship music, God led me to a very obscure 44 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,560 section of the Bible. 45 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,440 It's very difficult to find. 46 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,400 So if you brought a Bible or you have your phone, I want you to pull it up because I'm 47 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,960 going to read it to you right now. 48 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,240 It's Genesis chapter one, verse one. 49 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,040 Okay, so very obscure. 50 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:23,560 It's very hard to find Genesis chapter one, verse one. 51 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,280 So if you want to pull it up on your phone if you have your Bible, I'm going to read 52 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,920 Genesis one, verse one through verse three. 53 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:37,400 And it says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 54 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,400 And it would be excellent. 55 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:44,800 It would be great, in fact, if the Bible began with a positive tone or a positive setting. 56 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,680 But listen to what it says. 57 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:56,260 The earth was formless and empty and darkness covered the deep waters. 58 00:03:56,260 --> 00:04:02,560 And when you hear that, I mean, doesn't that just sound like a hole or a pit or just complete 59 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,200 darkness? 60 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:12,320 And God begins the Bible, begins creation in a very difficult situation. 61 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,840 I mean, there was just complete and utter darkness. 62 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:22,800 And then it goes on to say, the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 63 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,080 Then God said, let there be light. 64 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,080 And there was light. 65 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:34,180 And see, from the very beginning of creation, God has been the source of light, both spiritually 66 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:36,440 and literally. 67 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:37,720 So imagine that. 68 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,560 Imagine a world full of darkness. 69 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,740 You can see nothing, a complete pit, if you will. 70 00:04:43,740 --> 00:04:49,420 And then with four small words, light just blazes forth. 71 00:04:49,420 --> 00:04:54,080 Light comes out of nowhere and just changes everything. 72 00:04:54,080 --> 00:05:00,280 And if we really think about light, everything within our world relies on light for its existence. 73 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:09,160 Plants, animals, people, and the God who brought light into the world also brings light into 74 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,160 our lives. 75 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,480 Listen to 2 Corinthians 4, 6. 76 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:20,200 For God who said, let light shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our hearts. 77 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,160 Made his light shine in our hearts. 78 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:29,480 And see, the best part of all is that we don't have to be like the light bulb that said, 79 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,840 I have to find a way to shine. 80 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:37,440 I mean, imagine a light bulb and within that light bulb, he's thinking or she is thinking, 81 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,960 I have to find a way to shine. 82 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:46,320 And the light bulb literally went to a self help meaning to learn about the inner capacity 83 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,000 of light. 84 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,320 And the light bulb began to read books about how to get brighter. 85 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:57,240 And each morning, the light bulb would get up and recite positive affirmations. 86 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:58,680 I am the light bulb. 87 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,080 I believe in myself. 88 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,040 I will shine, but nothing happened. 89 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:09,800 What does a light bulb need in order for it to shine? 90 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,560 It needs the source. 91 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:12,560 Right? 92 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:20,080 And if we're really honest, many of us struggle and we get weary in trying to do good. 93 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,480 I mean, we wake up, we read the news, and we see the darkness, and we think about the 94 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:31,120 negativity and the evil and just all that is around us and we get overwhelmed. 95 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,320 In fact, we can get burned out. 96 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,880 And if that light bulb would just stop and think, wait a minute, if I'm placed in a fixture 97 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,840 and turned, suddenly the light shines forth. 98 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:46,960 The light bulb didn't need to think about it. 99 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,260 The light bulb needed to be connected to the source. 100 00:06:51,260 --> 00:06:54,480 The same thing goes for you and me. 101 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,880 The same thing goes for anyone. 102 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:01,960 People get tired and weary because they're not connected to the source. 103 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:07,560 As we go through this series and think about being a good neighbor and reaching out and 104 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,660 we talked about the good Samaritan and serving people, we can get exhausted. 105 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:13,660 We can get overwhelmed. 106 00:07:13,660 --> 00:07:16,080 I mean, you can look at me like, Chris, enough is enough. 107 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,840 There's too many people with too many needs. 108 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:26,240 Friends, we're simply called to be connected to God who then uses us through the power 109 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,120 of his Holy Spirit. 110 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:33,680 And when we connect to the Holy Spirit, it's then his power that pours forth through us 111 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,140 and within us that changes our world. 112 00:07:36,140 --> 00:07:38,140 It's not us. 113 00:07:38,140 --> 00:07:41,000 It's him. 114 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:47,960 The ways we shine might not make news, but they make a greater difference than any news 115 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,520 article you could ever read. 116 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:59,920 I really feel like to close this series, God wants to change our world so that we can change 117 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,100 the world. 118 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:08,400 God wants to change our world, our hearts, our minds, so that we can then change the 119 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,400 world. 120 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,080 And let's stop and just invite him into our midst so that we can just connect to him now. 121 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,040 So Holy Spirit, we invite you to come. 122 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:21,120 God, I just silence any words of negativity or doubt. 123 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,720 I silence all phones and distractions. 124 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:30,120 And God, I just ask that your truth would just come forth. 125 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,320 That this would be a Sunday, God, like no other. 126 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:39,840 That we would encounter you, that we would be changed, that we'd be supernaturally ignited 127 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,420 with a fire and a passion like no other. 128 00:08:44,420 --> 00:08:47,600 We love you God and we thank you for this time here. 129 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,660 In Jesus name, amen. 130 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:55,960 So going back to that verse in Genesis 1, it says, the earth was formless and empty 131 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,300 and darkness covered the deep waters. 132 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:04,620 So God, he begins with a very difficult situation. 133 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:10,080 And he wants all of us to identify with how things can happen in our lives. 134 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,120 I mean things can be difficult in our everyday lives. 135 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,520 It could be our jobs, it could be our finances, it could be our children. 136 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:23,960 And what I want you to do is I want you to connect with the way God took a very difficult 137 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,120 situation at the beginning in Genesis 1, 1. 138 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:34,040 And then at the end of the chapter, he simply said, it is good. 139 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:39,320 And I want us all to see and connect with the reality that God wants our lives to be 140 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,320 good, to be our outlook to be good and positive. 141 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,320 And it's simply following the steps. 142 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:53,440 That if God in Genesis 1 outlines the steps to change a very difficult situation, if we 143 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,840 simply follow those steps, guess what? 144 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,040 Our world will change. 145 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:04,560 Our world, our outlook, our heart will simply change, which leads us to the first step this 146 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:05,560 morning. 147 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:06,560 And that's simply this. 148 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:09,640 We have to connect to the Holy Spirit. 149 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,280 We have to connect to the Holy Spirit. 150 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:18,600 Genesis 1, 1 and 2 says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 151 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,000 The earth was formless and empty and darkness covered the deep waters. 152 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,080 There's the difficult situation that God was in that we can find ourselves in. 153 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:33,960 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 154 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:41,080 And see, isn't it awesome that God provides a bridge with every difficult situation? 155 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,240 It doesn't matter what you're going through, a relationship, a marriage, financial, it 156 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,080 doesn't matter. 157 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,600 God provides his Spirit to help us in those situations. 158 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,160 But see, here's the problem. 159 00:10:55,160 --> 00:11:01,280 So many people believe that God's Spirit is kind of like an it, or it's kind of like gravity 160 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:08,040 or a force that's out there and kind of floats around and helps us. 161 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,360 And all those things that I just mentioned are just not true. 162 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,360 See, the Holy Spirit is actually a person. 163 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,860 And He is literally here at this very moment in this room. 164 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:23,560 When we were worshiping together, the Holy Spirit was here. 165 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:27,440 It's like Jesus was in this room. 166 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,600 As I am sharing with you now, He is in our midst. 167 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:38,080 He is here to deliver, to transform, to heal, to set free, to change our hearts. 168 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:43,520 But see, the problem is very often we don't connect to Him. 169 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,600 It's kind of like this building, right? 170 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,160 This microphone that I'm using is connected to these speakers. 171 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:55,440 These speakers are then plugged into an outlet and within those outlet runs what? 172 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,240 Power. 173 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,720 If those speakers are unplugged, there would be no power. 174 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,440 There would be no amplification of my voice. 175 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,240 But is that power still there? 176 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:08,700 Yes, it's in the walls. 177 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:10,600 It's all around. 178 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,680 We don't see it, but it's there and we recognize it when something is plugged into it. 179 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:22,740 See, quite often when we find ourselves in a difficult situation, we forget to simply 180 00:12:22,740 --> 00:12:26,420 choose to connect to the Holy Spirit. 181 00:12:26,420 --> 00:12:27,920 We just forget. 182 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:28,920 We get off track. 183 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,120 We get focused on things we shouldn't. 184 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:38,840 Genesis 1, 2 said the Holy Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. 185 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,540 In the Hebrew, the word hovering or moved was from a passive tense and it literally 186 00:12:44,540 --> 00:12:47,760 meant that the Holy Spirit was moved on the inside. 187 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:55,560 Remember the Holy Spirit is a person who was moved on the inside and was moving over the 188 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:56,560 darkness. 189 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:58,260 He was concerned. 190 00:12:58,260 --> 00:12:59,760 He was full of compassion. 191 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,040 He was like a mother watching over her child. 192 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:09,320 If the child goes through a difficult situation, the mother's heart goes out to that child 193 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:16,280 and wants to be there to comfort him or her with compassion and mercy. 194 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:17,520 But yet here's the reality. 195 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:22,440 If you're anything like me in the midst of a very difficult situation, the first thing 196 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,920 I think is, God, why are you a million miles away? 197 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,240 True or false? 198 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,560 In the midst of challenges and difficulty in life, we think God's a million miles away, 199 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:36,480 yet the person, the Holy Spirit is right here. 200 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,960 It's right around us and it's desiring that we what? 201 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,560 Connect to Him. 202 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:49,000 David in the midst of a very difficult place in his life wrote in Psalm 139, 7 through 203 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,520 8, I can never escape from your spirit. 204 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,820 I can never get away from your presence. 205 00:13:55,820 --> 00:13:58,400 If I go up to heaven, you are there. 206 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,200 If I go down to the grave, you are there. 207 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,480 See the Holy Spirit doesn't leave us when we're in a difficult place. 208 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:11,360 We need to connect to Him and then allow Him to speak through us. 209 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,880 Let's listen to Romans 8, 26. 210 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:19,480 Now, the moment we get tired and the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us 211 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,160 along. 212 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,860 If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. 213 00:14:24,860 --> 00:14:29,040 He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching 214 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:30,040 groans. 215 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:36,320 I mean, quite often in a difficult place, we will pray ungodly prayers. 216 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:37,600 We'll curse God. 217 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,560 We'll curse people as we're driving down the road. 218 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,360 We'll tell people where to go, but when we allow the Holy Spirit to speak through us, 219 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,880 when we connect through Him, suddenly our prayers become godly. 220 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:55,360 We may not want to pray those words, but the Holy Spirit prays them for us. 221 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:01,120 Friends in the midst of a difficult situation in order to change our world, we need to connect 222 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,320 to the Spirit, which moves us to our next step. 223 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,840 And next, you've got to speak life. 224 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:07,840 You've got to speak life. 225 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,520 Look at Genesis 1, 3. 226 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,080 And God said, let there be light. 227 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:15,280 And there was light. 228 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:20,900 See, this is the first mention in the Bible of the word said. 229 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:25,360 The first words ever spoken were from God. 230 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,480 God spoke the first words. 231 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:33,360 Now God created you and me in His image, and we are the only beings on this planet that 232 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:34,360 can speak. 233 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,640 We are the only beings on this planet that can use words. 234 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,240 Now don't get me wrong. 235 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,760 There's now been scientists that have discovered that dolphins and whales, they can communicate 236 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:44,760 through their sound. 237 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:50,200 I mean, we all know if you have a dog, right, the dog understands us and actually talks 238 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:55,760 back to us when we ask him or her a question through his barks or her barks or whimpering 239 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:56,760 or whining. 240 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,280 We know the dogs speak, but do they use words? 241 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:02,500 No. 242 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:10,080 We are the only beings on the planet that can sing, that can talk, that can communicate, 243 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:11,080 that can write poetry. 244 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:16,320 You know what this tells me? 245 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,820 This tells me that our mouths and our tongue, that our words are going to have to get involved 246 00:16:19,820 --> 00:16:22,420 in our miracle or our life change. 247 00:16:22,420 --> 00:16:24,460 We need to speak it out. 248 00:16:24,460 --> 00:16:26,440 We need to speak the promises of God. 249 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,360 We need to speak life into our difficult situation in darkness. 250 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,960 Listen to 1 John 1, 5. 251 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:36,880 This is the message we heard from Jesus and declare to you, God is light. 252 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:39,000 There's no darkness in him. 253 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,480 There's no darkness in God. 254 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:48,800 And God has shown me that many Jesus followers, including myself, we don't experience the 255 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,740 breakthroughs we want because we're not speaking out what we believe about God. 256 00:16:53,740 --> 00:16:58,760 We hear these truths Sunday after Sunday, week after week in our growth groups as we 257 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:06,560 read the Bible, but rather than speaking them out, we speak what we see, feel, and experience 258 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:07,560 in our circumstances. 259 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,400 You say, well, what do you mean by that, Chris? 260 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:17,440 For example, many of you, we believe that by Jesus's stripes, we are healed. 261 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:18,440 Right? 262 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,960 That's a truth found. 263 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:25,520 It's a prophetic voice that Jesus was going to bring healing from our infirmities, from 264 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:26,520 our diseases. 265 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,200 He was going to set us free. 266 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:34,860 But quite often when we have symptoms of sickness, we say things like, man, this headache is 267 00:17:34,860 --> 00:17:36,540 killing me. 268 00:17:36,540 --> 00:17:39,940 I'm constantly getting these migraines. 269 00:17:39,940 --> 00:17:42,120 I feel awful today. 270 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:44,800 I just knew I would get the flu from her. 271 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,800 Well, I'm depressed. 272 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:47,800 Right? 273 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:48,800 Right? 274 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,120 We speak death. 275 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:57,900 Or if you don't speak anything at all, you just kind of suffer in silence. 276 00:17:57,900 --> 00:18:02,600 You don't say anything good or bad because you have accepted the negative situation. 277 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,080 Oh, it's just what God wants. 278 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,000 And then we throw it back in God's face. 279 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,440 God doesn't want you to suffer. 280 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,440 He doesn't want you to suffer in silence. 281 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:18,960 God desires for you and me to be healthy, to be prosperous, to be full of joy, to live 282 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,680 a life of peace and hope. 283 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:27,520 And that's why He gave you the power to change your circumstances, to change your negativity, 284 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:28,920 to change your outlook. 285 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:35,880 When we are faced with a huge problem such as sickness or finances, our natural tendency 286 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,500 is to talk about the problem or the mountain. 287 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:41,120 We talk about it. 288 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,880 Or we have friends and we say, can you believe this is happening to me? 289 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,220 It's here we go again. 290 00:18:47,220 --> 00:18:48,360 It's in front of me. 291 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:49,820 It's constantly there. 292 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:50,820 Do we do that? 293 00:18:50,820 --> 00:18:53,740 It's what we do. 294 00:18:53,740 --> 00:18:55,680 We talk about it. 295 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,440 God doesn't want us to talk about the mountain. 296 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,120 What does He want us to do with the mountain? 297 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:04,120 He said, tell it to move. 298 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:05,120 They're not my words. 299 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:06,120 They're Jesus' words. 300 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:10,120 Jesus didn't say, hey, go have a conversation with your mountain and tell it how bad it 301 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:13,240 is. 302 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,360 Jesus said there's going to be mountains in your life. 303 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,940 Tell it to move and it will move. 304 00:19:18,940 --> 00:19:21,840 And so what is that? 305 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,120 That's speaking life. 306 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,800 Proverbs 18, 21 says, words kill, words give life. 307 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,120 They're either poison or fruit you choose. 308 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,120 Many of you have memorized that. 309 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:34,000 I use it all the time. 310 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,220 When are we going to start to live it? 311 00:19:37,220 --> 00:19:42,800 God is calling us, friends, to speak life because when we speak life, it changes our 312 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,600 world which moves us to our next step. 313 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,440 You got to separate from sin. 314 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:53,680 Continuing on in Genesis 1, remember there was a dark, formless void, empty. 315 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,360 But God brought life. 316 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:01,320 Genesis 1, 4 says, and God saw that the light was good. 317 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,360 Then He separated the light from the darkness. 318 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,840 The light was what, friends? 319 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,720 The light was good and He separated it. 320 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,580 I mean, we're talking about how to change our world. 321 00:20:16,580 --> 00:20:20,440 If we want to change our world, we have to separate from darkness. 322 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,440 And what does that mean? 323 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:27,800 If there's any areas of our lives that we have allowed the enemy and his sin, his negativity, 324 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,520 his junk to invade our lives, we need to make a decision to what? 325 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,120 To change. 326 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,120 To separate. 327 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,200 To say no more. 328 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,840 To say I'm no longer going to dabble. 329 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:46,800 I'm no longer going to put my big toe in the warm water of sin. 330 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:53,040 And I'm not talking about murder, immorality, or death. 331 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:58,640 I'm talking about the little choices of sin, like your integrity. 332 00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,640 Like truth. 333 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:05,400 Like just not telling a lie, no matter how small that lie is. 334 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,440 And you say, well, Chris, it's just a little white lie. 335 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,440 It's not going to hurt anybody. 336 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,440 What are you talking about? 337 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:12,440 The devil's a liar. 338 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:18,120 John 8 44 says, for you are the children of your father, the devil, and you love to do 339 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:20,200 the evil things he does. 340 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,040 He was a murderer from the beginning. 341 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,000 He always hated the truth because there was no truth in him. 342 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,320 When he lies, it is consistent with his character. 343 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,800 He's a liar and the father lies. 344 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,920 So if you lie, no matter if it's even a little lie, it's just slightly bending the truth. 345 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:40,040 Who are you connecting with? 346 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,040 The enemy. 347 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,760 It's okay to have crowd participation. 348 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,520 I mean, think about it. 349 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,520 When you go to the court of law now, if you're summoned and you have to speak before the 350 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,640 justice, you have to put your hand on the Bible and what do you say? 351 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,460 I agree to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 352 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:03,460 So help me God. 353 00:22:03,460 --> 00:22:06,320 Now why is it that we have to say truth three times? 354 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,160 Because our society knows how to lie. 355 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,840 True or false? 356 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:11,840 I didn't make that up. 357 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,560 I mean, that's in the court of law. 358 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:19,240 They're trying to hold people accountable because they know they're going to lie. 359 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,880 And they want to bring about the truth. 360 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,160 Well, I'm going to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 361 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:29,680 Friends, we cannot allow those little things to penetrate our heart. 362 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:34,860 I mean, when it comes to moral issues, you can't straddle the fence. 363 00:22:34,860 --> 00:22:40,300 You have to make a decision if you're in a relationship with Jesus to be in a relationship 364 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,840 or not. 365 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,840 It's just, it is what it is. 366 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,160 If your heart is invaded with unforgiveness and you're looking at a person with anger 367 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,560 and judgment, you're in sin. 368 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:57,360 You need to ask for forgiveness and go to that person and say, please forgive me. 369 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:02,200 If you're lusting after a computer screen that's sitting in front of you, you're in 370 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,240 sin. 371 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,920 I mean, that's just what God says. 372 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,120 It's not what Chris says. 373 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:10,840 It's your choice. 374 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:16,000 It's my choice to live in sin or to not live in sin. 375 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,800 I mean, we can't dabble on moral issues. 376 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:19,800 It's what the Bible says. 377 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:20,800 Oh, well, the Bible's old fashioned. 378 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,600 No, it's the truth. 379 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,880 Just because we live in 2019, it doesn't make it right that if you're not married, you live 380 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,440 with another person. 381 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,120 It's sin. 382 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:36,160 You either are in it or you're out of it. 383 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:43,120 And so often our world doesn't change because we choose to live in it and stay in it. 384 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,320 But God wants our world to change. 385 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,400 And that happens when we separate from sin. 386 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:54,560 First John 1 6, we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God, but go on living 387 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,580 in spiritual darkness. 388 00:23:56,580 --> 00:24:00,280 We are not practicing the truth. 389 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:06,880 When we choose to allow darkness into little areas of our life, then our light doesn't 390 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,520 shine. 391 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,880 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket. 392 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,320 What's the point? 393 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,320 What's the point? 394 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,360 Think about this small example. 395 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,640 You're in your backyard. 396 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:27,320 You're cleaning up your yard and you discover this piece of wood, maybe a, I don't know, 397 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:32,240 something that you were a two by four or something that's been laying in the grass for several 398 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,240 months. 399 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,000 And you think, oh, that can't be there. 400 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000 It's killing the grass. 401 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 I need to pick it up. 402 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:42,760 The second you lift up that board, what goes scurrying everywhere? 403 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,160 Bugs and nasty things. 404 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,560 True or false? 405 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:53,080 As soon as the light shines in upon those little creatures, they go everywhere. 406 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,080 Right? 407 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:01,000 Same happens with us. 408 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,160 See, when we let the light in, when we say, yes, come Holy Spirit, change me, when we 409 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,680 separate, those things scurry. 410 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,960 Because the enemy is a liar. 411 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:11,960 He's a deceiver. 412 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,160 He doesn't, he wants you to stay trapped in that sin. 413 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,920 He says as soon as you separate from it, it scurries. 414 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,080 But you have to recognize our next step, and it's the most important step of all. 415 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,680 You have to exercise authority. 416 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,160 Listen to Genesis 1 26. 417 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,720 This is when God makes it good. 418 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:36,280 Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion 419 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,280 over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock, over 420 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,840 all the earth and over every creepy thing that creeps on the earth. 421 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:53,760 The greatest gift God has given to mankind is dominion or authority. 422 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:59,280 I mean, God gave Adam the keys to the kingdom, the keys to the earth. 423 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,000 He said, you rule over it. 424 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,080 I've given you dominion. 425 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:11,440 However, when sin came into the world, the devil said, I'll take those keys. 426 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,020 Thank you. 427 00:26:13,020 --> 00:26:18,240 I now have the keys to the kingdom and he now controls the world. 428 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,400 And he said, well, where does it say that in scripture? 429 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,160 Well, the devil said to Jesus when he was tempting him, he said, I'll give you the kingdoms 430 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,160 of the earth. 431 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:31,480 I'll give you everything that is mine if you bow down and worship me. 432 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,640 Jesus didn't contest that. 433 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,680 He refused to bow down and said, be gone. 434 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:44,960 However, when Jesus died on the cross and rose on the third day, he began the process 435 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:52,560 of bringing dominion, bringing authority back to you and me. 436 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:57,940 And see the understanding and concept of dominion and authority, it can change your life. 437 00:26:57,940 --> 00:26:58,940 Can change my life. 438 00:26:58,940 --> 00:27:00,860 It can change all of our lives. 439 00:27:00,860 --> 00:27:01,860 How do I know that? 440 00:27:01,860 --> 00:27:04,600 Well, Joshua 1, 9 says, this is my command. 441 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,880 Be strong and courageous. 442 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:11,400 Do not be afraid or discouraged for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 443 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,160 When you walk in dominion, you say, really? 444 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,640 Did I see that in Joshua's life? 445 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:18,640 Yeah, read it. 446 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:19,640 Read, read it. 447 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:26,560 In Joshua chapter 10, Joshua commanded the sun to stop and it stopped. 448 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,640 Tell me that's not the coolest thing. 449 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,000 I mean, if you were a surfer, right, you could tell that sun to stop right there and all 450 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,760 those waves would be coming in because it was the perfect place to stop. 451 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,560 Now the problem is that's never happened before or since. 452 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,960 Only Joshua did that. 453 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:42,960 But is that authority? 454 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,560 Yeah, that's authority. 455 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,760 And see then later in the chapter, we read Joshua 10, 24 to 25, when they brought them 456 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:57,460 out, Joshua told the commanders of his army, come and put your feet on the king's necks. 457 00:27:57,460 --> 00:27:59,200 And they did as they were told. 458 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,240 And ever be afraid or discouraged, Joshua told his men, be strong and courageous for 459 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,240 the Lord is going to do this to all your enemies. 460 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:14,400 And see the word dominion comes from a word for the word foot. 461 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,520 And it means to tread. 462 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:21,040 And this is why Joshua, he spent seven days walking around the walls of Jericho. 463 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,040 He was what? 464 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,400 He was treading. 465 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,160 His foot was walking around the walls of his enemy. 466 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,160 Okay. 467 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:33,120 And this even says in Luke 10, 19, he says, look, I have given you authority over all 468 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,920 the power of the enemy. 469 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,200 Do you believe that? 470 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,200 I do. 471 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,360 How many toes do you have on your foot? 472 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,440 I said foot, not feet. 473 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:50,440 Five. 474 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,560 You have five toes on a foot. 475 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,240 If you don't, God bless you. 476 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,520 Just pretend like I didn't say that. 477 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,360 If you have six, that's awesome. 478 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,640 But I typically know that everyone has five. 479 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,280 So I'm going to focus on five. 480 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:14,080 See I believe that for many Jesus followers, there's five specific demonic powers that 481 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,760 negatively affect our lives and negatively affect our ability to follow God's call in 482 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,920 our life. 483 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:21,920 Five specific. 484 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,800 And you say, well, Chris, how do you know that? 485 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,240 Well, Ephesians six tells us that we're not fighting against flesh and blood, but against 486 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,640 evil rulers and authorities in the unci world, against mighty powers in this dark world, 487 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,160 against evil spirits in heavenly places. 488 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:40,640 That a lot of times our fight, our mountain, if you will, they're spiritual, but then we 489 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:45,320 try to justify them as earthly or physical. 490 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:52,080 And God is opening our eyes this morning to say, no, we need to take authority over the 491 00:29:52,080 --> 00:30:02,040 spiritual forces, the negative spiritual forces that are coming against us. 492 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,600 And the five I want to highlight this morning is this. 493 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,340 Guilt. 494 00:30:07,340 --> 00:30:11,440 For many of you, guilt's like your big toe that got stepped on. 495 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,160 Big big toe. 496 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,160 And what is guilt? 497 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,160 Guilt is like that voice in the back of your head that whispers to you, why are you going 498 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,760 to church? 499 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:23,960 You can't be forgiven for what you did yesterday or last month or last year or 10 years ago. 500 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,240 You can't be forgiven for that. 501 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,520 And it's that enemy whispering, it's that spiritual force whispering in your ear, you 502 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,660 got to look backwards. 503 00:30:33,660 --> 00:30:37,280 Look at all that stuff you did back there. 504 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,040 You can't be forgiven of that. 505 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,080 You're no good. 506 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,080 You can't live up. 507 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,880 A few months ago, I was talking about the windshield. 508 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,640 Everyone remember the windshield? 509 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,680 The car when you drive, right? 510 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,840 You look out the windshield. 511 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,640 The windshield's what? 512 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,440 Big and wide. 513 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,080 So that you can see forward where you're going. 514 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,880 Your rear view mirror is. 515 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:05,240 And a lot of times you pull it right off. 516 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,240 Here's the reality. 517 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,080 We got to stop dealing with guilt. 518 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,080 Everyone's sinned. 519 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,640 The Bible says for all have sinned. 520 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,260 Yet God in His grace makes us right because of Jesus. 521 00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:18,880 You got to stand on that authority. 522 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:19,880 So guilt. 523 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,120 Number two is sickness. 524 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:29,380 Doctors have now discovered that there's more than 12,000 diseases in the world. 525 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:30,840 Sickness is everywhere. 526 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:31,840 Right? 527 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:37,800 Doctors can now confirm that if you have the right gene, you could die of cancer. 528 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:43,280 Or you have a family line that struggles with heart disease and heart attack. 529 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,000 Chances are you're going to have the... 530 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,200 It doesn't have to be that way. 531 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,200 Okay? 532 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,920 Now I'm not saying you don't be smart. 533 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,860 You don't live right, eat right, make healthy choices. 534 00:31:53,860 --> 00:31:58,920 But what I'm saying is it doesn't mean that you have to die because it was in your family 535 00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,920 line. 536 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,880 I mean, I believe that God can heal. 537 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,840 I've seen Him do it. 538 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,200 Now He doesn't heal everyone. 539 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,060 But just because He doesn't heal everyone, does that mean we don't pray? 540 00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:12,120 Of course not. 541 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,560 I mean, the last time I checked, Jesus said that you will do even greater things than 542 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,000 I. 543 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,720 Jesus rose to dead. 544 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,700 So if Jesus rose to dead and we can do even greater things than He, then chances are we 545 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:28,340 can heal sickness. 546 00:32:28,340 --> 00:32:30,600 But we have to take authority. 547 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,240 Guilt, sickness. 548 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,440 Number three is bondage. 549 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,040 See, bondage is what the devil wants for us. 550 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,880 Alcohol, drugs, prescription drugs, pornography, sports, entertainment. 551 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:51,560 I mean, Jesus said very truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 552 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,640 And the enemy, he wants us distracted and off mission. 553 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,360 He doesn't want us focused on what's important. 554 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,620 He doesn't want our lights to shine because when our lights shine, what? 555 00:33:00,620 --> 00:33:02,900 People want the light. 556 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:04,780 People are attracted to the light. 557 00:33:04,780 --> 00:33:11,400 So when we get off mission, then we're not focused on God's call in our life. 558 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,040 But I know the Bible says, whose son sets free is free. 559 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,040 Indeed. 560 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,880 Have you invited the Holy Spirit to set you free? 561 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:27,640 So we got guilt, sickness, bondage. 562 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,320 The fourth one is weakness. 563 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:31,320 What is weakness? 564 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,920 He said, well, what does weakness mean? 565 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,000 Weakness means you're, you feel like you have, you're inadequate. 566 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000 You're lazy. 567 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000 You're not motivated. 568 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 You go through the motions. 569 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,520 You're living a normal life. 570 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,680 You feel weak. 571 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,180 Like you're never going to make it. 572 00:33:45,180 --> 00:33:46,180 Things will never change. 573 00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:48,200 You're hopeless. 574 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,040 Saying things like these problems will never end. 575 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,240 My marriage will never be happy. 576 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,840 Did you know that social scientists have now determined that people can have a fear of 577 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:56,840 fear? 578 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:01,080 I was like, what in the world was a fear of fear? 579 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:06,000 Like what does that even mean? 580 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000 That's weakness. 581 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000 It's what the enemy wants for people. 582 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,160 Don't walk in your authority. 583 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,160 Be weak. 584 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:17,320 But the Bible says that because we are weak, he is strong. 585 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:24,760 The Bible also says that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 586 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,040 And the last one is poverty. 587 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,640 Poverty? 588 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,520 None of us live in poverty, Chris. 589 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,800 Poverty is those feelings that we never have enough. 590 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,400 We're living in a society that we are defined by what we wear, what we drive, what we look 591 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,440 like, where we live. 592 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,800 We feel like we can never have enough. 593 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,440 I always need something new. 594 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,520 I've got to look better. 595 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,520 I've got to impress. 596 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,080 That's what the enemy wants you to believe. 597 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,900 He wants you to believe that you don't have enough. 598 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,640 He wants you to say my car doesn't work. 599 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,560 I need another credit card. 600 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,120 He wants you to say things like that. 601 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,840 But it's just simply untrue. 602 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,800 We're rich. 603 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,280 We're the wealthiest people in the world. 604 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,520 God blesses those that give back to him. 605 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,340 God blesses those that serve. 606 00:35:16,340 --> 00:35:26,280 He says you're rich, you're a son or a daughter in God. 607 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,040 So what I want to do this morning is this. 608 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,720 I want to do a little morning exercise together. 609 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:43,440 So it's going to involve you standing up. 610 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,440 Here's what we're going to do. 611 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:45,440 That's good. 612 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,920 Yeah, get a stretch in. 613 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,920 Move around. 614 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,320 Chances are here's the truth. 615 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,320 This is it. 616 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:59,880 I know this is happening because I was reading about public speaking. 617 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,320 And public speaking says this. 618 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,800 People are more engaged when they don't respond. 619 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,480 So when you don't yell out or laugh or say things to my questions, that means you're 620 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,480 more engaged. 621 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,160 Because that means the Holy Spirit is speaking to you and you're not quite sure what to do 622 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:20,880 with it. 623 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,600 So I know only two or three of you have responded to what I'm saying. 624 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:28,480 So I know you're all listening. 625 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:34,280 And see chances are when I was talking about those spiritual forces, those demonic forces 626 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:39,680 that battle against us that some of you related to that. 627 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,880 I know it. 628 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,400 Then when I was talking about guilt, you said, yeah, I deal with that. 629 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,440 When I was talking about you're sick, some of you here you're sick. 630 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:52,440 You got a headache. 631 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:53,440 You got a back pain. 632 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,040 You got knee aches. 633 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,280 You're just getting old. 634 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:00,280 I am. 635 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:07,040 I wake up every morning and feel that way. 636 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,360 Some of you are here and you're in bondage, man. 637 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,240 Let's tell you what it is. 638 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:19,120 You're trapped in some form of drug use or alcohol or I don't know. 639 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:23,520 You're just trapped in it. 640 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:24,520 Some of you here just weak. 641 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:25,520 You don't smile. 642 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,520 You're not positive. 643 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:31,920 Your outlook is just wrong. 644 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,880 Some of you here are just dealing with that poverty issue. 645 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,800 My car doesn't look right. 646 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,800 I need new tires. 647 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,600 Make it shiny. 648 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:41,600 Press everyone. 649 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,120 Gotta make my radio louder. 650 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,840 They're all just lies. 651 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,840 And I want you to hear that. 652 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,360 They're all just lies. 653 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,560 They're lies. 654 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,520 And if you're in a relationship with Jesus, here's the good news. 655 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:05,160 You've been given authority to overcome those issues. 656 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,660 And see, just like in Joshua, you know, he drug those kings out. 657 00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:11,360 Those kings are like your demonic forces. 658 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,040 And what did he tell his men to do? 659 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,800 He said, put your foot on their throats. 660 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,880 That's kind of cool, isn't it? 661 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,360 So this morning we're going to do that. 662 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,320 We're going to do a little exercise. 663 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,600 And we're going to lift our legs up. 664 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:28,600 Not yet. 665 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,440 Some of you won't be able to hold it that long. 666 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,040 Not yet. 667 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,680 We're going to lift our legs up. 668 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:40,640 And whatever it is that you're struggling with, if it was guilt, when you put that foot down, 669 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,020 you're going to say, I'm forgiven. 670 00:38:43,020 --> 00:38:45,440 If it's sickness, you're going to say, I am healed. 671 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,080 If it was bondage, you're going to say, I am free. 672 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,600 If it was weakness, you're going to say, I am strong. 673 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:55,480 And if it was poverty, you're going to say, I am rich. 674 00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:00,800 And I firmly believe that some of you are going to experience a miracle this morning. 675 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:06,480 That by simple actions and speaking it out, God can supernaturally heal you. 676 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,200 Do you believe that? 677 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,200 Do you believe it? 678 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,200 All right, you ready? 679 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,160 Has everyone got their, their, their, what, has everyone got their foot? 680 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,040 Man, they're, they're, now get ready because there's going to be demonic force just going 681 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,040 everywhere. 682 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:25,040 It's going to be like Ghostbusters. 683 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,720 Here we go. 684 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:29,720 Let's go. 685 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:30,720 Let's lift them up. 686 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:31,720 Lift them up. 687 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:32,720 Ready? 688 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:33,720 Go! 689 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,720 I am free. 690 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:40,200 Didn't that feel good? 691 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,200 You want to do it again? 692 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,200 Let's do it one more time. 693 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,920 One more time because some of you are struggling with many. 694 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:45,920 Here we go. 695 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:46,920 You ready? 696 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:47,920 You ready? 697 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:48,920 Pick it up. 698 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:49,920 Pick it up. 699 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:50,920 I am rich. 700 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:51,920 Man, that feels good. 701 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:56,760 Okay, you can sit down. 702 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,320 Now here's what I want you to learn. 703 00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,320 Right? 704 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:00,640 You don't have to do that on a Sunday morning. 705 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,160 You can do it tomorrow morning when you wake up. 706 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,080 Say you had a bad dream, right? 707 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,120 You had a bad dream and you're living in fear. 708 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,120 You know, I don't live in fear. 709 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,120 I'm strong. 710 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,360 Heck with that. 711 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,680 In Jesus' name. 712 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:13,680 Right? 713 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,680 You need to speak out the truths that we read about in the Bible. 714 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,880 Because that's the only way your light is going to shine. 715 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:27,320 If you allow the enemy to control who you are and what you do and what you say in your 716 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,640 outlook on life, you're not going to shine anywhere. 717 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,320 People aren't going to be attracted to you. 718 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,320 Right? 719 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,120 You're going to be like that board. 720 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,360 Just a board that gets thrown away. 721 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,560 No man, we've got to get rid of that board and let those creatures scatter so that our 722 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,160 light can then shine to others. 723 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:50,080 So to close our series, four simple steps that now that we're free, we can shine to 724 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,080 others. 725 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,080 Right? 726 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,080 What does it look like? 727 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,840 The first is just be counter-cultural. 728 00:40:54,840 --> 00:41:00,040 The one who is the true light who gives light to everyone who's coming into the world. 729 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,400 I mean, Jesus is the light of the world. 730 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,480 You're the light of the world like a city on a hilltop that can be not hidden. 731 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,640 You know, I looked up CNN and Fox News. 732 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,400 I looked them both up for Republicans and Democrats. 733 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,400 Don't worry. 734 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,640 I looked them both up this morning. 735 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:20,520 And the headline, okay, was bickering, arguing, finger pointing at negativity. 736 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:21,960 No good news. 737 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,080 There was no good news at either site. 738 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,260 Neither one. 739 00:41:28,260 --> 00:41:33,800 The world is full of darkness, full of lies, hate, negativity, and confusion. 740 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,960 And the Bible tells us in Romans 13, the night is almost gone. 741 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,720 The day of salvation will soon be here. 742 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:44,740 Remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes and put on the shining armor of right living. 743 00:41:44,740 --> 00:41:47,400 That means be counter-cultural. 744 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,800 Follow Jesus. 745 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:53,120 When Jesus walked and moved and lived, his light shined. 746 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:58,360 People were healed, set free, and wanted to be with him. 747 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,120 Don't participate in the darkness. 748 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,400 Instead, clothe yourself in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ and don't let yourself 749 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,400 think about ways to indulge your evil desires. 750 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,720 I don't care how old you are, where you work, where you go to school. 751 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:13,840 Swim upstream. 752 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:14,920 Be like this. 753 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:15,920 Is it hard? 754 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:16,920 Is it difficult? 755 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:17,920 Is it challenging? 756 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:18,920 Absolutely. 757 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,560 But the rewards are worth it. 758 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:26,760 Jesus tells us we're going to live and live abundantly if we are counter-cultural. 759 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,840 Number two, think of others. 760 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,840 You are the light of the world like a city on the hilltop that cannot be hidden. 761 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,160 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket. 762 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:43,040 Luke 6, do to others as you would like them to do to you. 763 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,360 Consider other people's needs and help meet them. 764 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,080 Encourage instead of criticize. 765 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,280 Be patient. 766 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,280 Give others the benefit of the doubt. 767 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,920 Consider God if you hear gossip, run. 768 00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:01,400 Just run. 769 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,000 Because gossip is lies. 770 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,400 That's all gossip is. 771 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,000 When you encounter a difficult person, remember this. 772 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,000 This is cool. 773 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,240 If you encounter a difficult person this week, think about it. 774 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:21,120 God gave you a dominion and authority over creeps. 775 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,840 Read it. 776 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:23,840 Read it. 777 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,240 Go back and read Genesis 1, 26. 778 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:32,800 He gave you dominion over all the creepy, creepy little things and creeps in the world. 779 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,700 So it doesn't mean you're rude to them, it just means you smile extra hard. 780 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:42,320 Because Luke 10, 27 says love your neighbor as yourself. 781 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,720 Write this whole series about loving your neighbor as yourself. 782 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:49,400 Think of others often and put them first, friends. 783 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,300 That's loving your neighbors. 784 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:54,480 Number three, be active. 785 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,280 Don't sit on your hands and live a normal life. 786 00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,560 Matthew 5, instead a lamp is placed on a stand where it gives light to everyone in the house. 787 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,200 In the same way let your good deeds shine out for all to see. 788 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,000 Remember it's not what you do. 789 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,160 It's the Holy Spirit using you and connecting through you. 790 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,480 Jesus said in Luke 10, 28, do this and you will live. 791 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,960 What does it mean to be active? 792 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,440 It means that you are involved in people's lives. 793 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,280 You're looking for opportunities to give, to serve, to pray for. 794 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,560 Next week we'll have 3,000 glow necklaces here to give to you. 795 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,800 We'll give you packs of 50 that you can give out at the Mummer's Day Pray. 796 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,940 You can give out a trick or treating or trunk or treat or wherever it is you go. 797 00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:39,560 Because we want to give you opportunities to be active in people's lives. 798 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:44,540 You can come and you can donate your shoes, you can donate candy, you can serve other 799 00:44:44,540 --> 00:44:48,720 people by simply giving and it makes a difference in people's lives. 800 00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:50,760 True or false? 801 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,040 It's true. 802 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,800 Luke 10, going over to him the Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged 803 00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:58,800 them. 804 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,320 Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn where he took care of him. 805 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,920 The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins telling him take care of this man. 806 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:12,640 If this bill runs higher than this I'll pay you the next time I'm here. 807 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,240 That friends is being active. 808 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:20,880 We need to follow that example and be active every single day. 809 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,200 We need to take the feeling and connections that we are having here this morning, wake 810 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,400 up tomorrow morning and say yes I want to have that outlook today. 811 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,560 Monday morning can no longer be dreaded. 812 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:36,360 It has to have an outlook of I'm going to change the world because my life has changed. 813 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:40,400 When our world has changed and we want to change other people's worlds it's simply 814 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,280 a choice. 815 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,520 And then finally when given the opportunity number four just point back. 816 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,360 It's not about you. 817 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,600 Following Jesus, being about the kingdom is pointing back to God. 818 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:57,880 In the same way let your good Dean shine out for all to see so that everyone will praise 819 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,040 your heavenly Father not you. 820 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,340 John 1, John himself was not the light. 821 00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:05,720 He was simply a witness to tell about the light. 822 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:07,900 Think about John the Baptist. 823 00:46:07,900 --> 00:46:11,000 He prepared the way. 824 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:17,520 Our goal should never be to bring recognition to ourselves because when we want to be recognized 825 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,000 then guess what the enemy has us. 826 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,360 It's all about pointing people back to Jesus. 827 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:30,520 And there's a fine line between being light and trying to get attention. 828 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,320 And you know what that fine line is? 829 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,280 It's a matter of the heart. 830 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:38,200 It's a matter of the heart. 831 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,960 When Jesus says take up your cross and follow me that means that you lay it all down. 832 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,200 It's not about you and me anymore. 833 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,960 It's about Jesus in us. 834 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:51,560 His Holy Spirit using us and moving through us so that we can then give that light away. 835 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:56,400 Let's stand together. 836 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:57,440 God I just thank you. 837 00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:58,440 Come Holy Spirit. 838 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:03,000 I just thank you. 839 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:10,040 Thank you God for this opportunity to just share, to stomp on the enemy's head. 840 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,720 I thank you God for new life. 841 00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:15,880 I thank you God for a group of people that want to sing out, that want to praise you. 842 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,480 God I pray that these praises, this connection with you, this authority that we've been given 843 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:25,720 just reigns throughout this week, throughout this month and for the rest of this year God. 844 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:30,520 That we begin to exercise what God has given us through Jesus' actions on the cross, through 845 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:34,960 his redemption, through his being raised from the dead God. 846 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,240 That we begin to exercise that authority. 847 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:40,880 That God we see people set free. 848 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,880 We see healings come God. 849 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:48,480 That we become a church known for pointing people to Jesus. 850 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,120 It's just not about us. 851 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,960 It's about Him and about Him using us. 852 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,840 So I just simply, God took me back to one spot. 853 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,360 Okay it's cool that we can put our foot down. 854 00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,600 It's cool that we can say things but God said look there's going to be people here this 855 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,280 morning that just simply need forgiveness. 856 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,360 That's just it. 857 00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:12,560 That's what he highlighted in my heart. 858 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,000 There's going to be people here and you need to pray for them. 859 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,360 So if you need any form of forgiveness for a choice that you made, something you did, 860 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:20,800 something you said, will you just put your hand up. 861 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,280 I want to pray for you right now because I believe that there's mercy in this place this 862 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:25,680 morning. 863 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,680 There's mercy. 864 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:33,080 So just pray it out. 865 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:39,640 God in your immense love, I am forgiven. 866 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:45,880 Thank you God for your grace, your love and your mercy. 867 00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:53,720 I speak against the lies of the enemy and I walk in your truth. 868 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,560 In Jesus name. 869 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:56,840 Amen. 870 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:01,400 Now whatever you were forgiven for, don't go back to it. 871 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:06,440 I mean that's what Jesus told the woman. 872 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,560 Go and sin no more. 873 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,760 So if you experienced some form of forgiveness this morning, some sort of healing, some form 874 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,680 of don't go back to it. 875 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:22,480 Walk in that freedom today and for the rest of your life. 876 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,480 God bless you guys. 877 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,240 It's been an incredible series. 878 00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:26,240 Have an incredible week. 879 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:35,240 There's no way I believe that you are working now. 880 00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:57,100 Oh boy.