WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.919 Thanks for coming today. I'm so glad you're in the house. 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:07.919 I'm so glad the Lord is here. He's moving, he's touching. 3 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.240 If you feel like God did something already this morning 4 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.919 in your personal life, can you raise your hand wave it. 5 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:19.480 Come on. Oh so good, that's like fifty percent past 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.000 your Dane. The Lord is up to something. I mean, 7 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:26.359 something's happening. That's good. Oh. It's good to be in 8 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.199 a church that's alive. It's good to be more than words. 9 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:33.320 It's good to be in action. It's good to be 10 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:36.320 in a place where you can come in one way 11 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:39.479 and get touched and leave another way. Come on. You 12 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.119 can go all your life to church and hear good 13 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:49.600 messages and hear wonderful music and nothing changes. But man, 14 00:00:51.840 --> 00:01:00.320 when you have a visitation with the Holy Spirit, who 15 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.719 you were is no longer. I'm so thankful for the 16 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:11.280 Holy Spirit. To close your eyes. Holy Spirit, we give 17 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:18.840 you permission to do what you want to do for real. God. 18 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:28.280 We give you permission to put your hand on your heart. Say, 19 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:38.400 Holy Spirit, you have permission touch me, shape me, mold me, 20 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:47.239 change me in Jesus' name. Amen. Today I want to 21 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.319 talk about the God of my past. Next week I'll 22 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.079 be sharing as well, but I'll be talking about the 23 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.319 God of my future. Today I want to focus in 24 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.760 on the God of my past. Recently, more than ever, 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:05.079 it's just really been reminding me personally of the journey 26 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:09.960 he's taken me through and with us. If you heard 27 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.039 the baby walking out, it's actually my biological sister. She 28 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.599 means so much to me. She's six years older than me. 29 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.360 We had a brother in between us. I was sixteen, 30 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.240 he was eighteen, she was twenty, and he got killed 31 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.080 in the car accident. And it made her and my 32 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:31.199 bond very genuine, real and authentic, and both her and 33 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:33.080 I were crying out for the Lord and we wanted 34 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:38.960 to experience God. And so we drove three four times 35 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:43.280 a week to Lindland, where she now lives, to just 36 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:47.400 hear from the Lord, just to be in a place 37 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.280 where we knew there's hungry people who don't want to 38 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.960 just church it out. They want to actually know a 39 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.159 God who's alive, who's powerful, who's real. And I didn't 40 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:00.479 know the horizon at that time. So hey, Natalie, you 41 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.240 come on in, let the people see you. I just 42 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.360 want to honor her. She's here, good to see she 43 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.599 just had a baby two months ago, And I just 44 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.840 want you to know you mean so much to me. Truly. 45 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:18.319 I can cry right now just thinking about just the 46 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:22.919 history with the Lord and the rich, rich encounters we 47 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:28.879 had driving three four times a week out of Tacoma 48 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.719 through traffic, go place that people just want to see. 49 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.599 I experienced my first miracles there, heard from the Lord 50 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:41.159 the first time there. I encountered his presence, Like listen, 51 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.639 when you find a people who are hungry, you stay. 52 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.599 And not only you stay, you plant, and when you plant, 53 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:49.000 you produce fruit, like you just got to do it. 54 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.520 And so the Lord's just taking me on a journey 55 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:53.960 and reminding me of all the things he took me from, 56 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.800 pulled me out of, and brought me to and and 57 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.400 all this stuff. And this whole last probably month, I've 58 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:03.159 just been so emotional and just really encountering God. And 59 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:05.560 so today I want to talk about it because I 60 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.639 feel like God's going to take us on a journey 61 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.080 today and the things that we will hear today is 62 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.039 actually going to stick with us and walk with us, 63 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.319 teach us, guide us as we live our lives in 64 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.800 Jesus name. So as we do talk today, I ask 65 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.759 that your heart would be open to the tangible presence 66 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.040 of God, that you would experience Him. And if you 67 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.319 feel something changing, shifting, maybe in your heart, maybe you 68 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.560 feel like the heaviness of God. You might feel a 69 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:36.920 fire inside your being. I just don't resist, okay, I 70 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.759 won't resist speaking, but you don't resist his touch. Okay. 71 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.160 So if he touches you, or he's moving, you feel 72 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.800 like shaken, don't resist. Just lean in. Okay, agreed? Cool? 73 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:49.600 Open your Bibles if you have him. If you don't, 74 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:56.319 it's on the screen. Luke, chapter eight, Oh Jesus, Sweet, 75 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:01.680 Sweet Jesus. Luke, chapter eight. One day Jesus told a 76 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.480 story in the form of a parable to a large 77 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.759 crowd that had gathered from the many towns to hear him. 78 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.800 A farmer went to plant his seeds. He scattered it 79 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.120 across the field. Some seed fell along the footpath, where 80 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:20.600 it was stepped on, and the birds ate it. One 81 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:30.639 second other seed fell among the rocks, and it began 82 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.160 to grow. But the plant soon wiltered and died for 83 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.439 the lack of moisture. Verse seven. Other seed fell among 84 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:45.959 the thorns that grew up with it. I'm gonna read 85 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:53.480 that again. Some seed fell among the thorns that grew 86 00:05:53.600 --> 00:06:02.160 up with it and choked out the tender plant. I'm 87 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.519 going to jump into Jesus explanation, verse eleven. This is 88 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.959 the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word 89 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:14.519 of God, God's word. The seeds that fell on the 90 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:20.240 footpath represents those who heard the message only to have 91 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.720 the devil come and take it away from their hearts 92 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.279 and prevent them from believing in being saved. The seed 93 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:34.079 that fell on the rocky soil represents those who heard 94 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:39.439 the message and received it with joy, But since they 95 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:45.000 did not have deep roots, they believed for a while, 96 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:55.879 and then they fall away when they face temptation. When 97 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.920 the Lord called my wife and I to Pastor the 98 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.800 young adults here, he told us to move from where 99 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:05.120 we lived and move closer to the church. And in 100 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:10.519 our move the house that we moved into the front yard, 101 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.040 it was anything but a yard. It was a garden 102 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.600 of weeds. And not only was it a garden of weeds. 103 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.519 You know when your grass goes bad, it turns yellow. Right, 104 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.879 me have a weeder there. The grass was so bad, well, 105 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.040 there was no grass. The weeds were so bad they 106 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.079 were turning yellow. Okay, it was just it was bad. 107 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.600 And both my wife and I understood, if we're making 108 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:41.439 a move to come and have a residence in this place, 109 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.319 this has to change. We're not going to come to 110 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:50.720 this house with weeds in our front yard. And she, 111 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.600 like a wise woman, seeing my track record of me, 112 00:07:54.720 --> 00:08:01.600 saying I can handle it. She said, but you're hiring somebody. Well, 113 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:08.519 I said, all right, I did. And you know what 114 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:13.480 they did. They came, tore everything up. Come on, ooh, 115 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.079 they tore everything up. They did the whole rolling whatever 116 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:21.399 you do all that stuff. They went, got some top soil, 117 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:27.959 they you know, they did their thing. And then they 118 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:34.279 did the seeds right, and they said, I did my job, 119 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:39.759 now you do yours. You need to water. I said, 120 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.320 I can do that. I can manage. Why because I 121 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.240 have this timer you ever heard of them? You don't 122 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.240 have to do nothing except said it once. And when 123 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.080 you said it once, Hallelujah, praised the Lord. It's gonna do. 124 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.600 It's a machine. It's a robot. It's not a human. 125 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:55.519 That's not dependable. I'm not going to go there, but 126 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.320 it does what you ask it to do. And so 127 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.559 I was out was nuts. About it. I did six am, 128 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:06.879 ten am, two pm, six pm, like thirty minutes out 129 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.840 of time. I that thing was so wet. There was 130 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.919 nothing dry in that grass. Because I said, you said 131 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.000 I needed water. I'm gonna water and I don't care 132 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.960 how much money, but this thing, what once was dead, 133 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.840 is gonna be alive. It's gonna be green, it's gonna 134 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.399 be good, and I'm gonna be happy when I come home. 135 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.440 So I'm watering and this seed. I don't know what 136 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:28.159 kind of seed they put in there, because usually it 137 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.240 takes several weeks. I'm telling you, like seven days, and 138 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:37.679 I'm seeing the stuff come through. I'm thinking, huh, that's strange. 139 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.440 That is super quick. It must be my watering, you know, 140 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:45.799 because I just watered the life out of that grass. 141 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.679 And so as I was watering and then the grass 142 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.679 is growing day by day, you know, I'm grinning, I'm smiling. 143 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:53.480 I'm like, praise the Lord for a wife that told 144 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.519 me to hire, because this thing would have still been dead. 145 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:59.080 All this stuff, and I'm happy. And then I noticed 146 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.240 as the grass is coming up, I noticed there's several 147 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:07.480 weeds and I'm thinking, like, oh, that's just that's minor 148 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:10.519 not a big deal. Whatever, It's fine, not a big deal. 149 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.200 And as I continue to water, I'm seeing more weeds 150 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.120 and I'm thinking, like, it's just a new grass, you know, 151 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.919 maybe the weeds from the past or I don't know 152 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.679 what is really going on, but it's just day by day, 153 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.799 those weeds are popping out of nowhere. I promise they're like, 154 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.399 what did you do to my grass? I believe that 155 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.919 the soil they brought was infested. That's what I think, 156 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.639 because man, they really took out old weeds, and that 157 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.480 soil that they brought it. I don't know where they 158 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.480 bought it. They cheap, that was what happened to You 159 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.879 never hired anyway. So they brought this soil that was 160 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:53.080 infested with weeds, and pretty soon my green grass turned 161 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:56.480 into green weeds. And some of us get happy with 162 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.879 that because at least the weeds are not yellow. Listen, 163 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.799 I paid money for this grass. I want green grass. 164 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.360 I don't want green weeds. And so day by day 165 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.440 I'm living and these weeds are growing and they're multiplying 166 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.720 as though, like they come out of nowhere, and pretty 167 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:14.240 soon the thing I was rejoicing over is the very 168 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.639 thing that I'm very upset with I was more upset 169 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.159 with a new grass than I was with the old one, 170 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.960 because I'm invested. Now I'm there, I'm here. I'm like, 171 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.720 this is my house. Now I live here, Like this 172 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.159 is not just a representation to me, this is for 173 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.080 my enjoyment. I want to take my son and walk 174 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:36.639 on the grass, not on weeds. You know what I'm 175 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.879 talking about. And so finally I got so frustrated. I'm 176 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:47.279 my Lord, I'm plucked these weeds out, and so I 177 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:51.279 devote one day and it took me like half a day, NonStop. 178 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.799 I was broken after that experience, non stop on my knees. 179 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.279 I was so determined. I was so stubborn to see 180 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.519 my grass green. And I was plucking these weeds. I 181 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:04.159 was pulling them out, and I'm telling you, that weed 182 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:11.960 that looked this small on the surface, who would have known? 183 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:16.080 Those weeds went like this? They went and I was 184 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.559 pulling and it was like it was like, man, there 185 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.440 was one that was like a foot and a half long, 186 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:23.200 and it was just like connected to something else, and 187 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.080 I'm like, what in the world I'm pulling that one? 188 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.559 It just keeps going, and the Lord has showing me 189 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.159 the things on the surface that may seem minor have 190 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.279 very deep impacts into the soil. How many of us 191 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.639 know when Jesus talking about the soil is talking about 192 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:43.720 your heart. Yeah, and the things that seem normal, or 193 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.679 my grass isn't as bad as theirs, or all these 194 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:50.799 things are getting kind of out of hand. Tall, Let 195 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.559 me just mow over them and level it out, blend 196 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:59.440 it in. Sometimes what you blend in multiplies, and the 197 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:03.360 challenge when it multiplies, it begins to cover you. And 198 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.399 I are called to cover the earth with the glory 199 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.879 of God. But what are we covering our hearts with? 200 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.960 It's making sense. I gotta get my ladder. Some of 201 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:22.879 us don't understand. He's been raptured. I'm kidding. I don't 202 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:29.559 got a ladder. I got something else. I brought you, guys, 203 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.519 something because I feel like some of you don't understand. 204 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:41.159 I brought my two friends. Hello, Lord help us. Last 205 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.639 night for what ungodly reason, the Lord told me. I'm 206 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.559 just kidding. Forgive what I just said. But the Lord 207 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.879 told me at eleven at night last night, go outside 208 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.519 and pluck a weed. My grass still has weeds. By 209 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:55.679 the way, I spent half a day. But I plucked 210 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.919 all those weeds and they keep coming back. Restore Life. 211 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.960 It's a maintenance thing to make sure we're restored, redeemed. 212 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:04.279 If you haven't been in Restore Live, you need to 213 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.240 do it. If you haven't done KSC, you need to 214 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:08.399 do it. If you haven't been a youth Minisuy, you 215 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:12.879 gotta go. I'm telling you gotta stay connected, you gotta be. Oh, 216 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.039 Lord help us. So last night at eleven PM, there's 217 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.320 cars driving by, and I just went and I'm plucking weeds, okay, 218 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.960 and I'm thinking, I really wonder what they're thinking. This 219 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:26.279 crazy guy at eleven pm is sitting there in this 220 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:32.080 grass plucking weeds. But I'll plucked this weed yep, last night, 221 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:36.519 and for some some odd reason, I brought it in 222 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:40.600 to the house. It was, it was muddy, brought it in, 223 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.159 took it under the sink, washed its little leaves here, 224 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:46.399 made it look I don't even know what this is, 225 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:49.039 and I don't care, so don't tell me. But I 226 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.799 washed its little leaves, made sure it look pretty, all 227 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:57.360 that stuff. And then for some I feel on holy reason, 228 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:01.960 the Lord put a thing of water and put the 229 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:07.039 weed in the water. Why would I do that? Why 230 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:16.720 would I allow this double to flourish? But sometimes we 231 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.960 do work. We add soil to it. Soon this will 232 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.080 this thing will dry out soon and fade. But that 233 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:31.679 soil keeps it really fertilized. And sometimes instead of plucking it, 234 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.840 we just we just kind of shorten it, We manage it, 235 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:42.120 We make it seem relevant to who we are. Well, 236 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:46.320 this is just the way I am. Well, you don't 237 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:49.360 understand how I was raised. You don't know what they 238 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:54.000 did to me. You don't know how that made me feel. Well, 239 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:59.000 you don't understand this runs in my family line. Well, well, 240 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:00.720 if you would have been through what I've been through, 241 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.840 if you would have known how messed up life has been, 242 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.200 you would understand why I have so many weeds. I understand. 243 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:13.840 Maybe I don't, but I know one thing. He's a 244 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:19.399 wheed puller. Hey pulls weeds. And you give every reason 245 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:21.360 for your weeds. Why not give every reason for him 246 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:27.919 to pull them? So I want to just draw attention 247 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:31.960 to this. So many times we try to fix ourselves 248 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.559 and try to pluck the weeds, and what we do 249 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:38.799 is we just take off what's on the surface because 250 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.399 it's bugging us and it's in our face and it's 251 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.679 hurting us. It's harming us, it's harming the people around us, 252 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.039 and so we just break off the top, thinking I've 253 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:55.480 done it. I look a lot better now, it's managed, angers, managed, 254 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:07.400 under control. Everything's okay. Oh lord, anybody know what this is? 255 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:18.400 Try again? Anybody else, and something else? Anybody else. I'll 256 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:20.880 tell you what this is, and please take a good 257 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:26.000 look at this. This has a gender, it's a heat. 258 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:33.720 His name is Holy Spirit. You need to see this. 259 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.319 This is very, very important. Many times you and I 260 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:46.759 want to better our lives, manage our difficulties, live for 261 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:52.359 the king, tight end with demons. I know it's hard, 262 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:57.880 but we avoid Holy Spirit because we know when he 263 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:04.920 comes it hurts, and when he comes he actually changes things. 264 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.559 I was so upset that I had to take this 265 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.799 thing to my house, this little demon. I put it 266 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:14.519 in the water. I left it outside my door. I 267 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:16.920 was like, you will not breathe the same air I breathe, 268 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.000 but this thing. I slept with it, and no, I'm kidding, 269 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.599 I just sleep with it. But I'll put this thing 270 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.200 on my dining table. I said, Holy Spirit, you're with me. 271 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:28.880 Oh sweet, Holy spirits could I get a tishoe. Please, 272 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:41.319 oh Lord, please help us, I said, Holy Spirit, I 273 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.960 want everything that you have from me. And we avoid 274 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:50.119 Holy Spirit so many times because when he comes, something 275 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:55.119 has to shift, something has to change. And so we 276 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:57.799 have these weeds. Let me do this so we can 277 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:03.079 all see. We have these weeds under the surface, and 278 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:06.000 on the surface it looks like it's not that big 279 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:10.440 of a deal. It's not doing much. It's not harming 280 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.880 us too much. It's only affecting us personally, not necessarily 281 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.720 the people around us. And so what we do is 282 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.119 we learn to live with the very thing he paid 283 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.279 a price to remove. And so watch what happens when 284 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.240 the sweet Holy Spirit comes and you give him access 285 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:34.440 to your heart, if it's truly your heart, he goes, 286 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:41.960 he exposes the area of mass impact, and he goes 287 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:45.559 and he gets it by the root. And when he 288 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.119 gets it by the root, or you can feel it, 289 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:52.559 it's starting to hurt. Oh, he's talking you about your anger. 290 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:55.119 He's talking about things you've been holding onto because your 291 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:58.680 dad had it. He's talking about the stuff that you've 292 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:01.599 just been okay with because the people around you've been 293 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.920 living that way. But Mom, I'm telling you when you 294 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:05.920 yield to the Holy Spirit and what he'd paid a 295 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.599 price for, and you let him grab those roots, and 296 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.119 then he begins to apply that pressure, and that downward 297 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:16.160 pressure just hurts. And it hurts because it's affecting the 298 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.519 way you think and the way you feel, and the 299 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.319 way you imagine and what you desire in life. And 300 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.240 when he's taking that by the root and he puts 301 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:30.240 that downward pressure, you feel that. You feel that and 302 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.559 it hurts. And I'll tell you what, It doesn't necessarily 303 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.200 hurt so bad. It hurts so good. But we run 304 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.200 from the hurt because we know when the Lord removes 305 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:43.079 the weed out of our life, it leaves a pain, 306 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:48.400 It leaves an emptiness. How many of us know that 307 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.640 when the emptiness is not filled, the demon that left 308 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.839 it's coming for seven more. And so many times we 309 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.079 avoid the Holy Spirit because we don't fill the place 310 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:02.319 that God removed. And we know that if we haven't removed, 311 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.799 something worse is coming our way. But I'm here to 312 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:08.039 tell you if we give way to this Holy Spirit, 313 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:10.599 if we allow the Holy Spirit to make the most 314 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.720 impact in us, not only to weed us out, but 315 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:19.599 to also fill us deep. Oh sweet heaven is gonna explode. 316 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.119 I'm gonna leave this right here because it's very instrumental 317 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:28.039 to where we're headed today. These need to go where 318 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:35.559 they belong. Beneath your feet out left to dry, no nourishment, 319 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:39.079 no water, no hesitation. You are son, daughter of the 320 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:41.920 most high God. Your true identity is a living one, 321 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:45.400 not in those around you, not your life experiences. If 322 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:47.559 you're in here, you have not done restored life. You 323 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.039 need to do restore life. You just need to. You 324 00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:52.480 need to know what the devil has, what kind of roots, 325 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:57.200 PA's away, how many steps, how many different roots, twelve doors, 326 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.799 There's so many different tools that we have accessible to 327 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.960 the godly ones, that they may grow, that they may flourish. 328 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:06.480 But we're sitting here. I'm okay with my little life. 329 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:09.240 I have enough money to get by. I have some friends. 330 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:12.599 Maybe yes, maybe no, I'm okay. Just because everything seems 331 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:16.880 chill and we're comfortable. We don't know the comforter because 332 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:20.599 we're comfortable. We don't know the provider because we feel 333 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.799 like we can provide. We don't know the one who 334 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:26.680 says yes to the mountain moving because we're okay. We 335 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:32.680 learn to live with our mountains. Okay, beneath the feet. 336 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:40.640 Please remember this. Please Revelations, if you can, please, please 337 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:42.720 go there. If not, it's on the screen. I'm gonna 338 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:44.640 read in the Nalty. On the screen is going to 339 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.720 be NKJV, just because I want to get to that 340 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:51.359 one here in a second. But Revelations, chapter two, verse two, Jesus, 341 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:57.279 Jesus speaks to the church, and I don't know how 342 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:02.920 to say the right way, says there's no ficia, not that. Okay, 343 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:05.559 I'll just say Ephesian Church. I'll keep it simple for 344 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:08.480 all those who are language bothered by what I just said. 345 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:11.319 Jesus speaks to the Ephesian Church. And this is the 346 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.440 church that actually, if you remember, they had a mass revival, 347 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.359 thousands and thousands being safe, witch doctors throwing their throwing 348 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:24.000 their books into the fired, revival, repentance, transformation, healing, deliverance, 349 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:26.480 so many things are having. This church is on fire. 350 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:29.799 And in this verse Jesus talking to that church, okay, 351 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:31.839 and he says, I know your works. I'm gonna read 352 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:33.720 in the Enalty just because it makes more sense to 353 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:36.799 my mind. He says, I know all the things that 354 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.680 you do. I've seen your hard work and your patient endurance. 355 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:44.400 I know that you do not tolerate evil people. You 356 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.640 have examined the claims of those who say that their 357 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:50.000 apostles but are not. You have discovered that they are liars. 358 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:55.880 You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. But I 359 00:23:56.039 --> 00:24:03.359 have this complaint against you. How does the KHVC next verse? Nevertheless, 360 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:08.759 I have this against you. Listen before we go on, 361 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:13.000 you need to know something when the Holy Spirit, when 362 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:17.759 the God of the universe presents something to you that 363 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.720 he has a complaint with. This is your response right here? 364 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:28.200 Not this? This why? Because the Lord disciplines those he 365 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:34.640 when there's a discipline factor coming into your life. Oh 366 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:39.319 my God, I can feel it. That's his love. That's 367 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:43.119 the best thing for you. When he's telling you you 368 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:47.640 need to stop with this addiction. Oh my God, that's 369 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:51.960 his mercy. That's the divine love of God in your 370 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:57.200 current reality, giving you the opportunity to be free. Man. 371 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:04.839 So please, whenever God comes with conviction through a friend 372 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:09.039 and worship, through the sermon, through a something experience where 373 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:11.799 you hear it, you feel it, you know it, lean in, 374 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:17.000 don't resist, he said to them, But I have this 375 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:22.279 complaint against you. You don't love me or each other 376 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:24.480 the way you did that first. How does it say 377 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:34.160 you have left go back? You have left your first love. See, 378 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.119 Jesus never just reveals something that you're not only to 379 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.920 leave you there. He gives you a way out. How 380 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.279 many you know that's true. He gives you a solution. 381 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.759 He gives you something that you can cling on, to 382 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:49.839 grab on, to believe and contend. For the next verse, 383 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:52.559 I want you to catch this and very carefully listen. 384 00:25:53.039 --> 00:26:02.799 Remember therefore from where say this? Remember from when you remember? 385 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:05.720 You're here right now, we're all living in this room, 386 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:08.759 right here, in this present time. But when you remember 387 00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:15.720 what you're doing in the natural, you're remembering from where 388 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:19.759 here or here here, any place, But you're remembering in 389 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:24.000 the present. From is the distance and where is the position? 390 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:30.599 And Jesus says to them, remember from where you have fallen. 391 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:35.000 What is he saying. He's saying, remember who I called 392 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:38.039 you to be, Remember that first love. And he said 393 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:40.759 to them, repent and do the works you've done at first. 394 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:43.839 What's he saying? He is saying that who you are 395 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:46.680 is that very person you are when you believed, when 396 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:49.839 you would spend callless hours with the Lord when nothing 397 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:52.759 else mattered to you. That's who you are in the Lord. 398 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:57.240 Remember that, so watch this. What Jesus is revealing to 399 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:00.920 us is that remembering gives a plot or a place, 400 00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:04.920 or paves the way for repentance. When you're in the 401 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:08.000