Speaker 1: You guys are awfully kind, awfully kind. That we have
Speaker 1: a Jesus who shed his love abroad for us by
Speaker 1: dying on the cross is the most tremendous thing ever.
Speaker 1: And that we're loved by him, we are so well
Speaker 1: cared for by Him, and that we have an awesome church.
Speaker 1: Do you know, There's been lots of goofy stuff happened
Speaker 1: in the past ten years in the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the things I love about
Speaker 1: this church is that the leaders of this church there's
Speaker 1: such a purity of heart, Like you know, nobody's perfect, right,
Speaker 1: but there's such a purity of heart. And this is
Speaker 1: a good a good place to be. It's a safe
Speaker 1: place to be. And so I just love our pastors
Speaker 1: Dwayne and Joel and everybody else, including you know, Frank
Speaker 1: and Angela and Rome.
Speaker 2: I mean, we just this is a wonderful.
Speaker 1: Church filled with really dynamic, powerful leaders of God. And
Speaker 1: so I consider it that being said, if you if
Speaker 1: you feel like you're from a really strong team, uh,
Speaker 1: if you have the opportunity to be at batuh, then
Speaker 1: I that it that means something because it's coming from
Speaker 1: wonderful people. Do you get what I'm saying, so I
Speaker 1: appreciate the opportunity to be here because you guys are
Speaker 1: getting Pastor Dwayne is my favorite preacher to listen to,
Speaker 1: and so anytime you're preaching in front of somebody who's
Speaker 1: your favorite, it always makes you feel a little funny,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna first start off by giving you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a story of two contrasts, Okay
Speaker 1: and I. I have an opportunity to to in my vocation,
Speaker 1: to interact with a lot of different people, people that
Speaker 1: are professionals, people that lead things, people that run things.
Speaker 1: And I I had the opportunity over the past twenty
Speaker 1: years to get to know two gentlemen, and they're kind
Speaker 1: of like leaders in there in their industries and professions.
Speaker 1: And both of them are really, like I would call them,
Speaker 1: remarkable individuals. They are really truly what I would call
Speaker 1: possibility thinkers. Like these are people who, like I would
Speaker 1: equate them to like an Elon Musk, you know, you
Speaker 1: know you, whatever your perceived ideas are about him. The
Speaker 1: guys like, we're going to put people on Mars, and
Speaker 1: we're going to do this, and we're going to send
Speaker 1: up rocket ships and when they come back down, we're
Speaker 1: going to catch the the propulsion canisters with something called
Speaker 1: a chopstick. I mean, the guy's amazing, like him or not.
Speaker 1: And you know what's amazing, This guy doesn't like he
Speaker 1: doesn't there's no quid in him.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And so these people that are like this, that are
Speaker 1: in the in the business world, the professional world, the
Speaker 1: leading things, frequently they have this character stick about them
Speaker 1: that I would call like it's like they have a
Speaker 1: spirit of possibility on them. Okay, they have a spirit
Speaker 1: of possibility on them. And and I happen to know
Speaker 1: two of these people closely. Most of my friends are
Speaker 1: all Christians.
Speaker 2: The two people. However, because I have a large.
Speaker 1: Portion of my life that's dealing in a professional and
Speaker 1: leadership community, I get a deal with other people who
Speaker 1: don't know Jesus. Okay, I prefer the knowing Jesus people better,
Speaker 1: but there's room for both. And so so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of conversations I have on a routine basis with
Speaker 1: people that that oftentimes as they're talking, you know, it's
Speaker 1: whatever is in our heart that comes out of our mouth, right,
Speaker 1: And so I'm talking with individuals and oftentimes in conversation.
Speaker 2: One of the things that happens is.
Speaker 1: That I realize while dialoguing that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who have a walk around conversation that tends to
Speaker 1: include a large amount of discontent or what I would
Speaker 1: call being downcast, okay, being discontent or downcast, maybe even
Speaker 1: like a little bit of like mild depression, okay.
Speaker 2: And I find it day in and day out.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because I have a lot of conversations
Speaker 1: with Christian people. I was talking with a gentleman in
Speaker 1: my office some time ago, and he was telling me.
Speaker 1: He was like, hey, Doc, I came to your church
Speaker 1: and you weren't there.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm sorry, I was gone at a conference.
Speaker 1: But he came here to the healing nights and the
Speaker 1: baptismal tanks, and he was telling me about it, and
Speaker 1: so I'm ready for him to give me like a
Speaker 1: really awesome testimony. And anyhow, we're chatting and he says, well,
Speaker 1: I ca to your church and I went down in
Speaker 1: the tank and and then I got up, and I'm
Speaker 1: expecting something real positive.
Speaker 2: And then he says to me, and nothing happened, and and.
Speaker 1: So then he starts off with a dialogue about how
Speaker 1: if it was the Lord's will, he would have gotten healed,
Speaker 1: but but it clearly wasn't the Lord's will. He actually
Speaker 1: said to me, I just really came expecting the Lord
Speaker 1: to zap me, he said, I wanted the Lord to
Speaker 1: zap me. Okay, So this was this gentleman's perspective. And
Speaker 1: so usually in conversation with people, I usually don't like
Speaker 1: to like, if we're having a dialogue and we disagree
Speaker 1: on something, I'm probably not gonna say to you, get
Speaker 1: behind me, Satan.
Speaker 2: I typically don't do that.
Speaker 1: However, that was what rose up within me while having
Speaker 1: a dialogue with the individual, and you're I'm serious. This
Speaker 1: actually is this all that every time I have one
Speaker 1: of these, This is what rolls around in the back.
Speaker 2: Of my head. This is how I think.
Speaker 1: And so however, I would never want to purposefully offend,
Speaker 1: and so I realize something in a dialogue with this individual.
Speaker 1: This is somebody that loves Jesus. This is somebody that's
Speaker 1: walked with Jesus for over forty years. This is somebody
Speaker 1: who's a good husband, a great parent, a good grandparent.
Speaker 1: They love the Lord. They're going to be in heaven. Okay,
Speaker 1: good person. However, I realized in my dialogue with him
Speaker 1: that he has a lot of worldview that's being shaped
Speaker 1: out of Matthew twenty four. In Matthew twenty four, there's
Speaker 1: passage of scripture like in verse nineteen where it says
Speaker 1: that it wouldn't be good for you to be a
Speaker 1: nursing mother or be pregnant, because there's this terrible day coming,
Speaker 1: and the day of distress is going to be so
Speaker 1: dreadful and horrible it will be unequaled from the beginning
Speaker 1: of the world until now. And I realize that this
Speaker 1: gentleman who loves Jesus, his worldview is this. He's actually
Speaker 1: looking forward to an upcoming event where this is what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in his mind.
Speaker 2: And I kind of want to just sit him down
Speaker 2: and say stop it. That actually already happened.
Speaker 1: It was in eighty seventy and that's not the purpose
Speaker 1: of today. But nonetheless, what I'm going to share with
Speaker 1: you is that oftentimes what we have is that in
Speaker 1: Protestant and Evangelical communities, we have a very large amount
Speaker 1: of Christian people whose worldview is being eclipsed or shaped.
Speaker 2: Their hope is.
Speaker 1: Being eclipsed because they are viewing forward or looking forward
Speaker 1: to something occurring which actually isn't even coming up. And
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of Christians have been so infused,
Speaker 1: if you will, bathed in saturated in this worldview that
Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot of people, not probably
Speaker 1: not none of you in here, because Pastor Duane does
Speaker 1: such a great job at winning victorious eschatology, but there
Speaker 1: could be a person or two in this room that
Speaker 1: still has that worldview. And what I'm going to share
Speaker 1: with you is that it won't breed what it's supposed
Speaker 1: to do. What do I mean by that? If people
Speaker 1: in the world think that all things are possible but
Speaker 1: they didn't know that that was actually a scriptural verse
Speaker 1: and the rest of it says with God, all things
Speaker 1: are possible with God right yes, for him who believes.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Christian people oftentimes don't have this worldview, but the unbelievers do.
Speaker 2: And that's not a thing. It's not a good thing.
Speaker 1: If doc if a bunch of people I know have this,
Speaker 1: anything's possible, We're gonna find a way in a solution
Speaker 1: for this. They're solutionaries. They are problem solvers. There's you
Speaker 1: can't get them down. There's no quit in them people.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, the body of Christ,
Speaker 1: due to a belief on Matthew twenty four, is actually
Speaker 1: functioning with a low level of possibility. And I don't
Speaker 1: believe that that's God's design. So I'm gonna give you,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a little story right now. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it was roughly it was the end of June or
Speaker 1: beginning of July. What happened is, Uh, I had a problem.
Speaker 2: And the problem goes like this.
Speaker 1: It first starts with my two sons, who haven't probably
Speaker 1: unhealthy infatuation with late eighties and early nineties two stroke
Speaker 1: stand up jet skis, and so my I two boys
Speaker 1: are they love this stuff and they think it's the
Speaker 1: coolest thing ever. And so they probably spend way too
Speaker 1: much time on Craigslist and offer up than they ought to,
Speaker 1: but they do nonetheless, and they they're one of their
Speaker 1: things is to try and find the Holy Grail. When
Speaker 1: I say the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail is a
Speaker 1: two stroke jet ski that is probably hot pink. It's
Speaker 1: probably shar Truce and and neon green. It's it's late eighties,
Speaker 1: early nineties, those of you who are old enough to
Speaker 1: remember that time. What happens is they'll find these things
Speaker 1: and somebody's had it in their garage. It's been in
Speaker 1: there for like thirty years, and they'll find them and
Speaker 1: they'll start sending me pictures constantly, Oh look at this, Dad,
Speaker 1: look at this.
Speaker 2: Oh, this one's incredible.
Speaker 1: And so they they already each have had the Holy
Speaker 1: Grail experience. Both of them have these stand up jet
Speaker 1: skis and and but they decided that they wanted to
Speaker 1: find a sit down. So they've been on this mission
Speaker 1: and eventually got the heavens opened up and on Craigslists.
Speaker 1: God used through Craigslist the desire of their hearts to
Speaker 1: be fully Yes, Pastor Dwayne knows this, fully, the desires
Speaker 1: of their heart were fully manifested. One evening where this
Speaker 1: thing shows up. They get on they're sending me the
Speaker 1: pictures and I'm like, if that's what it is, you
Speaker 1: need to go get that right now. And it like
Speaker 1: literally was I'm not gonna say it's free, but it's
Speaker 1: like these people were not charging enough. And so they
Speaker 1: go and they get this thing, they bring it back.
Speaker 1: It's like it literally looks like it rolled out of
Speaker 1: somebody's garage. It's been in a time capsule for thirty years.
Speaker 1: It's that awesome. So we go out to the lake.
Speaker 1: They're riding their stand up jet skis. I'm sitting on
Speaker 1: the sit down. I don't do anything like crazy or
Speaker 1: dangerous because I don't want to injure myself, okay, and
Speaker 1: so I lead.
Speaker 2: It relatively safe life.
Speaker 1: And I'm on the jet ski and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: turning it and I'm giving it some throttle, and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, it throws me off and I'm out there.
Speaker 2: Literally, I'm not even doing anything.
Speaker 1: I'm watching them, Like Lane's like jumping his jet ski
Speaker 1: off of wakes of boats and he's porpoising on one
Speaker 1: foot and doing these tricks and stuff like I can't do.
Speaker 1: I can't even like, I can't do any of that.
Speaker 1: I don't even do anything. I'm sitting on this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm literally it's this is terrible. I'm sitting on this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm barely doing anything. I fall off and I hit
Speaker 1: the bones in my hand right here on what I
Speaker 1: think is probably it happened quick, but I think it's
Speaker 1: the rear view mirror very hard plastic and so I
Speaker 1: fall in the water.
Speaker 2: I get up.
Speaker 1: When I get out of the water, I'm realizing my
Speaker 1: hand's in a lot of pain. And then I'm operating
Speaker 1: the jet ski and I'm realizing that as I'm operating it,
Speaker 1: there's vibration from it and it's going into my hand,
Speaker 1: and the vibration is really irritating my hand, and my
Speaker 1: hand is swelling up real bad fast, and it's disc
Speaker 1: and I'm remembering when I was in school. I'm remembering
Speaker 1: when I was in school something called a tuning fork.
Speaker 1: A tuning fork is a tool that people will use.
Speaker 1: They'll vibrate it and if you put it on a
Speaker 1: broken bone, it'll light somebody up, it'll like send them
Speaker 1: through the ceiling. And I'm experiencing this and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: tuning fork vibration from throttle and I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you've got to be kidding me. You've got to be
Speaker 1: kidding me. So long story short is that I end
Speaker 1: up going in. I have some images taken. My hand
Speaker 1: is in a spleeker cast and my vocation every day
Speaker 1: is to serve people and to help them with my hands.
Speaker 1: How do you do that? If you don't have one.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a problem. And so the long
Speaker 1: story short of it is that I've got a significant
Speaker 1: issue going on. I'm talking to doctors and they're giving
Speaker 1: me a progn for how long it's going to take
Speaker 1: for this thing to recover. And I'm really it's not
Speaker 1: going well with my soul.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Literally, I'm going to the office in the morning and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even know what the heck I'm
Speaker 1: going to do today. I can't function with one arm,
Speaker 1: but I guess I'm going to figure out how. Like
Speaker 1: it was like super, it was not good.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: Let me share you a little something with you first
Speaker 1: and foremost. I think all of you know this already,
Speaker 1: but believe it or not. If you know Jesus, he
Speaker 1: has a calling for your life. He has a mission
Speaker 1: for your life. He has a vision for you. He
Speaker 1: has something that for you in your day and in
Speaker 1: your season you are supposed to accomplish that will bring
Speaker 1: blessing to mankind, It will bless those around you, and
Speaker 1: it will bring the Kingdom to come to pass on earth.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, every single Christian, this is you. Raise
Speaker 1: your hand and say this is me. Okay, So here's
Speaker 1: the deal. The devil is a sneaky stinker, and he
Speaker 1: is going to realize that God wired you a certain
Speaker 1: way and that there's an anointing on your life to
Speaker 1: do a certain thing. Okay, there's an anointing, a gifting,
Speaker 1: a wiring that he has enabled, Like there's a grace
Speaker 1: for you to do a certain thing, and you can
Speaker 1: do it in a way other people can't do it,
Speaker 1: and God put you here for that, and your true
Speaker 1: fulfillment only comes when.
Speaker 2: You're walking that out. Okay.
Speaker 1: And so what happens is that I've got an anointing
Speaker 1: on my life to help people, and I do it
Speaker 1: with my hands and my wrists, and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the thing that I need is messed up.
Speaker 2: The devil goes after people differently.
Speaker 1: So if you are a if you're a worship leader,
Speaker 1: if you're a pastor, he's probably coming after your voice.
Speaker 1: He's coming after your vocal cords. Why because he's trying
Speaker 1: to shut you up. Because God wants you to open
Speaker 1: up your mouth and he wants you to preach the word.
Speaker 1: He wants you to sing the new melody unto him.
Speaker 2: He wants you to.
Speaker 1: Bring people into relationship jasmine with him as you open
Speaker 1: your voice, and he's going to attack you in the
Speaker 1: area of your anointing. This is how he works. But
Speaker 1: guess what, who are you hidden in? And who's Christ
Speaker 1: in the Father? And do you know that because he's
Speaker 1: in the Father and you're in him, that you have
Speaker 1: overcome the devil.
Speaker 2: That's a scripture. You have overcome the devil and he
Speaker 2: actually cannot beat you. He cannot beat you.
Speaker 1: So the devil is looking to attack the anointing to
Speaker 1: try and get you off of the call of God
Speaker 1: on your life. And anybody who walks with the Lord
Speaker 1: for a little while, you're going to run into this,
Speaker 1: if you haven't already or multiple times, you're gonna run
Speaker 1: into this. And so what happens is that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm in this place where I'm up in
Speaker 1: the morning, I've got my I'm getting ready to open
Speaker 1: my Bible, and I actually am planning on reading a
Speaker 1: certain thing, but it just falls open. And I felt
Speaker 1: like that was strange how that happened. And right in
Speaker 1: the middle of my Bible, the Lord some of us
Speaker 1: are slow, and so the Lord's got to slap you
Speaker 1: a couple of times. He's got to like do this,
Speaker 1: he's got to get a hold of your attention. And
Speaker 1: so he brings me to Psalm forty two, verse eleven.
Speaker 1: It says, why my soul, are you downcast? Why so
Speaker 1: disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I
Speaker 1: will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go down to verse forty three, three through five.
Speaker 1: It says, Oh, your light and your truth, let them
Speaker 1: lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill
Speaker 1: and to your dwelling place. Then I will go to
Speaker 1: the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. And
Speaker 1: upon the liar, I shall praise you, Oh God, my God,
Speaker 1: Where are you in despair?
Speaker 2: Or why are you in despair? Oh my soul? And
Speaker 2: why are you so disturbed? Within me?
Speaker 1: Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him the
Speaker 1: help of my countenance and my God.
Speaker 2: Well, so what happened is the Lord kind of woke.
Speaker 1: Me up to the fact that my countenance was becoming downcast.
Speaker 1: And the reason my countenance was becoming downcast is because
Speaker 1: what happens is that if you've got something that the
Speaker 1: Lord's got you to do, you're calling your mission, the
Speaker 1: thing he's wired you for, He's anointed you for this thing.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you got a problem
Speaker 1: that is derailing that or throwing that off track. You
Speaker 1: know what happens to you. You start to get downcast
Speaker 1: in your soul. I have a colleague of mine, a
Speaker 1: friend does the same thing as me, mentor of mine.
Speaker 1: He broke his wrist. And when he broke his wrist,
Speaker 1: he had a surgery. He didn't heal up well from it,
Speaker 1: he had to retire early. This is rolling in the
Speaker 1: back of my mind. That's how the devil will work.
Speaker 1: He will get in your head and he will start
Speaker 1: to say, but what about so and so. Look what
Speaker 1: happened to them. Their whole track record was derailed. That's
Speaker 1: how he works. And if we don't realize that, we
Speaker 1: can succumb to it. All of a sudden, I'm realizing this.
Speaker 2: Is coming on me.
Speaker 1: I'm relatively optimistic, like I'm a kind you can't really
Speaker 1: get hit me down kind of person, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm realizing, what in the heck are you doing?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? I had a friend text.
Speaker 1: Me saying, hey, we were hanging out the other day,
Speaker 1: Are you okay?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, now, I know I got a problem.
Speaker 1: I know I got a problem now because my countenance
Speaker 1: is not what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Proverbs thirteen twelve. Hope deferred.
Speaker 1: Makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree
Speaker 1: of life.
Speaker 2: So what happens is that.
Speaker 1: Your heart is made healthy when you are able to
Speaker 1: apply the anointing and the grace that God has on
Speaker 1: you to fulfill his mission, his calling, and his will
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: And that's where your fulfillment comes from.
Speaker 1: It's because you're in Him, but that's how you fulfill it.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Fulfillment comes when you're on the plan.
Speaker 1: He tells you to do something, you do it, you
Speaker 1: see the fruit and you're like, oh, thank you, Lord,
Speaker 1: that's so nice of you, thank.
Speaker 2: You for including me. And so this is first John
Speaker 2: one five.
Speaker 1: This is the message that we have heard from him
Speaker 1: and declare to you. God is light and in him
Speaker 1: there is no darkness at all, no darkness.
Speaker 2: I would call it, what's no darkness? No darkness is
Speaker 2: like zero darkness? How much? So no darkness is what percent?
Speaker 2: Uh darkness? Zero? Zero percent darkness?
Speaker 1: So that means that there can be zero percent darkness
Speaker 1: for you, there's no darkness at all. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm realizing the Lord's slap. He's like getting a hold
Speaker 1: of me, and he's realized. He's making me realize that
Speaker 1: I'm becoming downcast. He's making me realize that this is
Speaker 1: not who I am. I'm starting to function, not how
Speaker 1: I am, And all of a sudden, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: not okay with this, And you have to get a
Speaker 1: little bit like if you don't get ticked off with
Speaker 1: the devil and say I've had enough, I refuse to
Speaker 1: participate in this.
Speaker 2: I'm done.
Speaker 1: If you do not do that, you are going to
Speaker 1: have a problem in life. You are going to have
Speaker 1: a problem in life. And what I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you is that I got to this point where i'd
Speaker 1: already heard the Lord tell me when this happened to me.
Speaker 2: In not too many days from now, I'm gonna heal you.
Speaker 1: Problem is I'm like nine days in or something like that,
Speaker 1: and I'm having tremendous pain, like it's difficult to pay
Speaker 1: attention pain. I've got this spleika cast on. This person's
Speaker 1: telling me how long it's supposed to take me to heal.
Speaker 1: I don't like the prognosis I'm hearing. I'm not liking
Speaker 1: what I'm feeling. Do you see what I'm saying? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I've had enough. And so I started walking
Speaker 1: around all day morning, middle of the day, during the day,
Speaker 1: and I just started saying, I'm not okay with this.
Speaker 1: And I started saying, thank you Jesus that by your stripes,
Speaker 1: I have been healed. And surely you took up my infirmities.
Speaker 1: I thank you that you carry my pains. I started
Speaker 1: walking around and saying, I thank you that your word
Speaker 1: is like health and healing to all of my flesh.
Speaker 2: All of my flesh includes my wristbones.
Speaker 1: I started walking around and I started saying Psalm one
Speaker 1: oh three, I thank you for healing all of my diseases.
Speaker 1: I started declaring and forcing the Kingdom to come on
Speaker 1: my wrist.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, within three.
Speaker 1: Days, within three days, the Lord did something supernatural that's
Speaker 1: not supposed to occur like in the timeline that it
Speaker 1: occurred in Okay, And.
Speaker 2: I found myself able to use my hand again.
Speaker 1: And then not long after that, I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 1: well and I'm able to take care of people.
Speaker 2: I have full use of.
Speaker 1: Both of my hands and my wrists to fulfill the
Speaker 1: calling that.
Speaker 2: He has for my life.
Speaker 1: And what I'm here to tell you is that sometimes
Speaker 1: if people got in the tank once and then they
Speaker 1: said it must not have been his will, they're not
Speaker 1: familiar with Matthew eight Versus one through three.
Speaker 2: In Matthew eight versus one through three, somebody comes.
Speaker 1: To Jesus and they say he's leprosy needs healing, and
Speaker 1: he says.
Speaker 2: You know, if it's your will, you could heal me.
Speaker 2: And do you know what?
Speaker 1: Jesus replies, This is recorded, It's in red. It's recorded
Speaker 1: for you and me, for all humanity, for all time.
Speaker 1: And do you know what it says. It says, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is my will. Go now be healed in my name,
Speaker 1: and then he commends the person for their faith. I'm
Speaker 1: paraphrasing all of this, but go look it up Matthew
Speaker 1: eight verses one through three, and what you're going to
Speaker 1: see is the answer to the question of is it
Speaker 1: his will that you be healed? Is yes, it is
Speaker 1: my will. It's a done deal. He's answered the question.
Speaker 1: So what happens if we were dealing with a problem
Speaker 1: and we don't see something coming to pass.
Speaker 2: This happened with a lady.
Speaker 1: Who came to Jesus in a Matthew fifteen twenty one.
Speaker 1: This is not on the slides, but in Matthew fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty one, this person comes to Gay. She's got a
Speaker 1: demon possessed child. She needs healing for the demon possessed child.
Speaker 1: She comes, She's a Canaanite woman, she's from Tire and Sidon.
Speaker 2: She comes to him and.
Speaker 1: She's basically kind of like trying to nab him to
Speaker 1: get his attention and saying, I have a demon possessed
Speaker 1: a child. I need you to heal her. And Jesus
Speaker 1: ignores her. You can go read this. Jesus ignores her,
Speaker 1: and then what happens the disciples actually say, Lord, do
Speaker 1: you want us to get rid of her?
Speaker 2: She's annoying you? Like, what if that happened to you?
Speaker 1: Would you become offended if you didn't get the answer
Speaker 1: the first time on day one when you start praying?
Speaker 1: And so then what happens is that she goes back
Speaker 1: to him and she says, Lord, I know you can
Speaker 1: heal me, and he responds with well, I'm actually here
Speaker 1: for the lost sheep of Israel, not for you, because
Speaker 1: you're a Canaanite woman. And she then says she gets
Speaker 1: down on her knees and she says, but Lord, you
Speaker 1: can heal me. I need your help. And do you
Speaker 1: know what he responds to her. He says, well, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be good for me to give the children's bread
Speaker 1: to you. The children's bread isn't for dogs, it's for
Speaker 1: the children, because she's a Canaanite, not a Jew.
Speaker 2: Do you think she could have become offended? Do you
Speaker 2: know what she says to him?
Speaker 1: Well, Lord, I'm more than happy to eat the crumbs
Speaker 1: that come off of your table. And you know what
Speaker 1: he says, my daughter, your faith has healed you and
Speaker 1: made you whole. Go now be made well. So do
Speaker 1: you realize that she had to pursue Jesus a multitude
Speaker 1: of times when initially she thought he wasn't even giving
Speaker 1: her the time of day. Many Christian people pray one
Speaker 1: and stop, and then all of a sudden he got
Speaker 1: in and out of the tank and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So he concluded it wasn't God's will for him to
Speaker 1: be healed. No, it's God's will for him to be healed.
Speaker 1: We got to keep at it. So here's what I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you.
Speaker 2: I did this.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, Okay, first John one, we just discussed it.
Speaker 1: There's no darkness in him at all. That word darkness
Speaker 1: means skotia. Okay, scotia. Scotia means dimness. It means obscurity.
Speaker 1: It means darkness. So obscure is like if you have
Speaker 1: glasses on and there's stuff on your glasses and you
Speaker 1: can't see good. Dimness is like the lights are too
Speaker 1: low so you can't see. Okay, to obscure or blind,
Speaker 1: this is the plan of the demonic realm. It's to
Speaker 1: get in your head, and it's to dim your thinking.
Speaker 1: It's to dim your vision, and it's to obscure what
Speaker 1: it is that you're seeing, so that you can't see
Speaker 1: the vision anymore.
Speaker 2: What's the purpose of the dimness. It's to blind you
Speaker 2: to the Word of life. Okay.
Speaker 1: This is first John one seven out of an amplified Bible,
Speaker 1: so I don't know that we have that. So you're
Speaker 1: just gonna listen to me when I tell you this verse.
Speaker 1: But if we really walk in the light that is
Speaker 1: live each and every day in conformity to the precepts
Speaker 1: of God, as He himself is in the light. We
Speaker 1: have true, unbroken fellowship with one another. He with us,
Speaker 1: we with Him, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us
Speaker 1: from all sin by erasing the stain of sin, keeping
Speaker 1: us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations,
Speaker 1: all its forms and manifestations. Okay, So most people I
Speaker 1: think sin is adultery or murder. Sin is to miss
Speaker 1: the mark. It's the archer pulling back the bow and
Speaker 1: missing the mark.
Speaker 2: On the target. Okay.
Speaker 1: And so to truly walk with Christ is to take
Speaker 1: ourselves off of the throne of our own life and
Speaker 1: push through to attain the higher calling, no matter what
Speaker 1: it takes to bring the fulfillment of our life mission
Speaker 1: and our life calling. This is what Jesus says whenever,
Speaker 1: and and this is all throughout the Old Testament. He
Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, if you go look at your concordance,
Speaker 1: there is a word named not.
Speaker 2: Saul, and it means to deliver.
Speaker 1: So in the in if you go back and you
Speaker 1: look at this word in the Old Testament, a lot
Speaker 1: of times God delivers the people out of their distress. Right,
Speaker 1: he delivers them out of their distress. He does it
Speaker 1: again and again and again. That word no Saul is
Speaker 1: to deliver, to snatch away, to defend, to escape, to preserve,
Speaker 1: to recover, to bring you back what was stolen from you,
Speaker 1: to rescue you, to surely take you out, to escape
Speaker 1: without fail. What if there's an escape without fail every
Speaker 1: single time for you, no matter what. Hope springs eternal
Speaker 1: Romans fifteen thirteen. May the God of all hope fill
Speaker 1: you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him,
Speaker 1: so that you may overflow with hope by the power
Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: That's Romans fifteen thirteen.
Speaker 1: If hope isn't overflowing, our joy and peace levels will
Speaker 1: be low. It's when we don't see like God sees,
Speaker 1: that hope is low. Sight becomes dim and darkness attempts
Speaker 1: to overcome us. If hope is it not beaming out
Speaker 1: of us, our countenance will show it.
Speaker 2: You got to look at your countenance. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: As long as trepidation fear over the future is larger
Speaker 1: than our reality of existing in Him, we will not
Speaker 1: be expectantly looking forward, not expressing the joyful expectation of good.
Speaker 1: When we operate outside of in Him, it leaves us down,
Speaker 1: prone to despair and lacking hope. Many too far, many
Speaker 1: two Christians have adopted a woe is Me perspective and
Speaker 1: they're walking in it. I found that trying to come
Speaker 1: on me, and the Lord lifted me out. Do you
Speaker 1: know it's your job to stir your own spirit. It
Speaker 1: is not the responsibility of Pastor Dwayne and Joel Wolf.
Speaker 1: It is not the responsibility of the pastoral staff here,
Speaker 1: the elders, the Franken angela Roman. It is actually not
Speaker 1: the responsibility to stir you up. It's yours in your
Speaker 1: most holy faith. And what I'm going to share with
Speaker 1: you is the Lord I started doing what I was
Speaker 1: telling you in a very short period of time. I
Speaker 1: had to turn around like crazy. It was a supernatural
Speaker 1: miracle of God. What if I didn't do that? Could
Speaker 1: my future have been derailed? Might I then adopt a
Speaker 1: woe is me?
Speaker 2: Perspective?
Speaker 1: Might I despair? Might I just decide that I'm going
Speaker 1: to walk the rest of my life in darkness, dimness,
Speaker 1: and obscurity. This is Ephesians one eighteen. You could pull
Speaker 1: that up for me. I'm going to speed up. So
Speaker 1: when I was going through this season, I was camping
Speaker 1: in Ephesians one, three, four, And do you know in
Speaker 1: these verses, let me read this to you. I pray
Speaker 1: that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so
Speaker 1: that you will know the hope of His calling, which
Speaker 1: are the riches of His glory, of his inheritance in
Speaker 1: the Saints. He wants our eyes and heart to be
Speaker 1: enlightened to his hope, the riches of his glorious inheritance.
Speaker 1: I was camping in these verses and Ephesians. And do
Speaker 1: you know that in those few chapters Ephesians one through four,
Speaker 1: one through three, one through four, sixteen times in there
Speaker 1: it talks about you're in Him, in Christ, in Christ,
Speaker 1: in Him, in Christ, in Him, in Christ in Him.
Speaker 1: It keeps hitting you and again and again and again
Speaker 1: and again. And it's because in Ephesians two twenty two
Speaker 1: it wraps it up in telling you why in Him
Speaker 1: you are being built together to become a dwell in
Speaker 1: which God lives by his spirit.
Speaker 2: You're the dwelling of the Spirit in Him.
Speaker 1: The Lord gave me this, and I think that this
Speaker 1: is applicable for some of you, So listen to this.
Speaker 1: If our eyes are aren't open or are dim in
Speaker 1: their capacity to see the hope, if our eyes are
Speaker 1: not open or are dim in their capacity to see
Speaker 1: the hope to which He's called us, we diminish being
Speaker 1: built together as a dwelling for the spirit. And if
Speaker 1: we're diminished in the dwelling, we're diminished in the capacity
Speaker 1: to work out the calling. Ephesians three ten says his
Speaker 1: intent was that now through the Church, the manifold wisdom
Speaker 1: of God would be made known to the rulers and
Speaker 1: the authorities in the heavenly realms. Do you realize how
Speaker 1: crazy of a statement that is? Do you realize how
Speaker 1: crazy it is? His intent was that his multifaceted manifold
Speaker 1: wisdom would be made known to the rulers and the
Speaker 1: authorities in the heavenly realms.
Speaker 2: When I compute that in my brain, who's.
Speaker 1: Responsible for that is the Father, the Son, and then angels.
Speaker 2: But he says it's his intent that it's.
Speaker 1: You you would make the manifold wisdom of God known
Speaker 1: to the rulers the authorities.
Speaker 2: This is paradoxic. This messes you up.
Speaker 1: You start thinking about this too much. It's illogical and
Speaker 1: destiny team. I'm gonna have you come up for my
Speaker 1: first closing. I get that from you.
Speaker 2: That's a joke. It's supposed to be funny. You're supposed
Speaker 2: to laugh at that. I believe that the Lord.
Speaker 1: Wants to do something here this morning. He told me
Speaker 1: to do two things, and we're going to do those
Speaker 1: two things. I believe it's the Lord's desire that the
Speaker 1: countenance of the church would align with overcoming and would
Speaker 1: not just be changed temporarily temporarily, but that we would
Speaker 1: have a countenance that would be like so tied to
Speaker 1: being in Him that we wouldn't ever even want to
Speaker 1: take a day or two of the risk of not
Speaker 1: being in Him. That we would wake up in the
Speaker 1: morning for the rama word. Thank you last week, awesome job,
Speaker 1: Pastor Dwayne. We wake up in the morning for the
Speaker 1: ram a word, because without the ram a word, we're
Speaker 1: just a person with a mess risk who is wondering
Speaker 1: how their future is going to turn out. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I believe so. Number one, I believe that
Speaker 1: the Lord is here to heal this morning. What he's done.
Speaker 1: He's no respector of persons what he does for me.
Speaker 1: He's going to do for you what he did for
Speaker 1: my friend who dealt with seeliac disease for fifteen years.
Speaker 1: He's going to do for you what he did for
Speaker 1: multiple people this morning. He's going to do for you.
Speaker 1: So if you're in here and you have a problem
Speaker 1: in your body, I want you to come up here,
Speaker 1: and I want you to I don't care if you've
Speaker 1: been prayed for fifty times. I want you to get
Speaker 1: up here, and I want you to have agreement come
Speaker 1: from those people in our Destiny team, and I want
Speaker 1: there to be a declaration for healing and recovery for
Speaker 1: your body, because I think that the Devil's been trying
Speaker 1: to take the kids out, God's kids out, and we
Speaker 1: do not want to participate. We do not want to
Speaker 1: participate with Popper living, Popper thinking, and we don't want
Speaker 1: to let any royalty leak. As Pastor Dwayne was talking about,
Speaker 1: and as King's kids, we get the actual bread, the
Speaker 1: real bread from heaven, and we also get the bread
Speaker 1: of healing. And so if you have a problem in
Speaker 1: your body, you guys can start playing.
Speaker 2: I'm wrapping up. I'm so sorry if you.
Speaker 1: Got a problem in your body. I want you to
Speaker 1: come up and I want you to get prayed for
Speaker 1: for healing.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 1: If you are in here and you have been derailed
Speaker 1: at some point and you know that God called you
Speaker 1: to do something, prophetic words destiny are all over you,
Speaker 1: and you know that there's been something that's hindered that,
Speaker 1: and the train got off track, it got derailed, and
Speaker 1: now we're at a place where we just know we're
Speaker 1: not where we're supposed to be.
Speaker 2: I believe that this is a morning where the Lord.
Speaker 1: Is trying to call us back to remove the thing
Speaker 1: that inhibits the destin and he wants to restore hope
Speaker 1: to his church, that hope would be so abounding we
Speaker 1: would make our joy complete in him, because hope is
Speaker 1: just it's a brook running over outside of our innermost being.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. You cannot get those people down,
Speaker 1: and you cannot get them off of their calling and
Speaker 1: the mission and the vision that the Lord has for them.
Speaker 1: You can't do it because the devil's really got no
Speaker 1: power unless he can get us thinking dim and walking
Speaker 1: in the darkness.
Speaker 2: And there is no darkness for you and me who
Speaker 2: are in Christ. Jesus.
Speaker 1: What would it look like if the church we're living
Speaker 1: in a perspective of no more down, no more gloom,
Speaker 1: no more dread, optimism for the future, all of God's
Speaker 1: prophetic words and giftings coming to pass in our lives.
Speaker 1: What would it look like if the church would say,
Speaker 1: I agree, I partner with that. What would that look like?
Speaker 1: I'm telling you He's coming quicker if that happens. Do
Speaker 1: you know He's waiting for that. The earth is waiting
Speaker 1: for it, It's groaning and travailing for it. All of
Speaker 1: Heaven's yearning for it. We got the earth yearning, We got.
Speaker 2: The heaven earning. Guess what the variable is.
Speaker 1: Stand up with me if you would, I believe this
Speaker 1: this morning, we're gonna we're gonna pray for people, uh
Speaker 1: for their for to have God restore the thing that
Speaker 1: the devil tried to steal from you and and and
Speaker 1: provide a timely escape if you're in.
Speaker 2: A present situation.
Speaker 1: Okay, I also believe He's gonna heal a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people this morning. And so I want you to
Speaker 1: come forward in great faith and say, yes, Lord, thank
Speaker 1: you for your calling, your gift.
Speaker 2: You're healing.
Speaker 1: We receive your bread and those of you who are
Speaker 1: in here the rest of us. If that's not for you,
Speaker 1: I want you to do this with me. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna collectively start doing this. We're gonna shake off hopelessness.
Speaker 1: Take your hands and do this. We shake off hopelessness.
Speaker 1: We say that hopelessness has no rule, it has no rain,
Speaker 1: has no rain over us. It cannot affect us, it
Speaker 1: can do nothing to us. We just cast off, We
Speaker 1: dismiss hopelessness.
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: We say, hopelessness has got nothing on the King's kids,
Speaker 1: hopeless this has got nothing on the royal ones.
Speaker 2: Hopelessness has got nothing on the victorious ones.
Speaker 1: Hopelessness has got nothing on the overcoming ones.
Speaker 2: That nothing can get you down.
Speaker 1: Nothing then gets you off of your destiny, off of
Speaker 1: His fulfillment and plan for your life. And we say
Speaker 1: we agree with that. In the name of Yeshiah. Is
Speaker 1: this