Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.
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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Free Me from My Anxiety | May 26, 2026
- And now he has given us an assignment.
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- And that assignment is to spread the gospel all over the world.
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- So today we get to celebrate jesus.
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- God would rather you be real with him
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- And say you're struggling with your faith
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- Than to walk into church
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- Every sunday pretending you got it going on.
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- Because you can fool people.
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- You can't. fool god.
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- You can smile to people.
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- God sees brokenness on the inside.
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- He's telling you over and over again,
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- When are you going to run to me?
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- And the devil uses fear
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- And anxiety and something.
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- Let me just tell you what i'm here for.
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- I'm here to attack the anxiety that's attacking you. but
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- Because for a lot of us today, anxiety has become our god.
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- But we have made anxiety everything about our life.
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- You have planned your schedules
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- And your life around the anxiety and the attacks that you feel.
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- But i am telling you today, jesus can set you free.
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- You want to know why?
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- Because listen to the verse again.
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- God did not give us a spirit of fear but a power.
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- Not panic,
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- Not panic attacks, but a power
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- So that we could be self set free.
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- Power. love.
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- Listen to this self-discipline.
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- How many of you struggle with self-discipline?
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- Pastor, i said i was going on a diet
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- And i hate donuts at night.
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- Like i don't know what to do.
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- It's okay. donuts are holy.
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- I told you that this morning.
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- God showed some grace right there.
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- Right? right.
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- Listen, the holy spirit starts
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- To change your mind, and you start to see
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- Powerful revelations. okay?
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- If i go back to that, it's heartbreak again.
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- If i if i do this in my life, i go back to that addiction.
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- No, no, no, i've tasted what god has for me.
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- It's way better.
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- And let me tell you, if the devil gets your mind
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- Set at a point where you think the only way
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- For you to have fun is to live for the world and listen.
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- The devil has your mind
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- Right now, but we can set a free tonight.
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- We can set a free tonight.
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- I thought this was not weird,
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- But a little bit different for a message at a conference.
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- But i felt like the lord said, cast our spirits tonight. wow.
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- And i tell you what.
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- All the confirmations
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- That have come through your testimonies
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- Today, the things that i've heard,
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- The things that have been said, i said,
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- Okay, god, this is your message.
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- I see the weight of your glory today.
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- And so the title of tonight's
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- Message is, this freed me of my anxiety,
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- Free me of my anxiety.
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- And so let's go ahead and dive
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- Into point number one, which is this
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- When pride is the root anxiety, it's the fruit.
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- When pride is the root of your life, anxiety is the fruit.
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- And so our first wake up call
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- Is this anxiety often has a root in our life.
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- And it's pride. it's not listening to god.
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- When you feel like you're out of god's plan,
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- You start to have stress because you're no longer in control.
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- But newsflash, you never been in control.
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- It was always god's plan for you.
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- But somehow we moved out of it because of our feelings.
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- Feelings can lead you into the wrong direction
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- Lovingly.
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- Your feelings can lead you to hell.
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- Yeah.
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- It. we need the holy spirit.
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- The holy spirit would check your feelings.
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- You ever been mad at somebody?
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- You want to call them some names and post some things?
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- And then you look at that one verse and like, come on, god,
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- I come on, you gotta give me that first.
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- Like that first.
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- Love my neighbor as myself.
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- Like that verse. yeah.
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- Because the holy spirit is telling you
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- To put your emotions into check your emotions.
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- So run your life now.
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- God is allowing you to feel that's a good thing,
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- But he's allowing you to feel
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- His holy presence and walk in obedience.
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- That's how you see his glory in your life.
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- But i want to ask you, like, do you have
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- A root of pride in your life?
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- You know what's funny about the question?
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- Most of us are not going to raise our hand.
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- Most of us would never admit that we have pride
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- In our life. why? because some of you are.
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- But listen to this.
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- A lot of times when we hear pride, what are we doing?
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- Oh yeah.
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- Yeah, we need that message tonight
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- Because my my friend over here.
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- Got a lot of pride.
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- No, i'm speaking to you.
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- I'm speaking to you tonight.
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- Maybe there's a root of pride on the inside.
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- And that's where your anxiety comes.
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- Because in this story, i'm going.
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- To show you there's some pride.
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- Where? right.
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- We're about to get there.
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- All right, let's examine the story.
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- Jesus comes back
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- With the three disciples to see the other nine.
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- And there's a lot of stress and fear happening in the story.
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- And the nine disciples have been left
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- To take care of the ministry while jesus and the others away.
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- And so i think it's kind of funny
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- Because they're probably
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- Thinking to themselves, like, go figure,
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- That jesus leaves us in charge
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- And now we see a possessed boy, like,
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- What are we supposed to do with this?
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- Like, couldn't it just been a better day?
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- Like somebody kind of hurt their foot?
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- We just say a little prayer, go get a meal.
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- We love to eat together,
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- You know, like, why can't we do that? god?
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- And instead of, please listen to this,
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- Instead of seeing deliverance
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- In the ministry, they came back to arguing.
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- They came back to just confrontation.
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- They came back to a lot of opinions
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- From other people, a lot of suggestions
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- From other people.
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- Instead of deliverance,
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- There's arguing
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- And nothing is getting done.
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- And the father is looking around who will help me?
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- I came to you.
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- You're fighting each other.
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- My boy is suffering.
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- And you want to have confrontation with each other
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- Because of your opinions and your feelings.
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- And the poor father of this boy begs for help.
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- And everybody was arguing. let me show you the verse again.
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- Mark. mark chapter nine, verse 14.
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- When they returned to the other disciples,
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- They saw a large crowd surrounding them,
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- And some teachers of religious law were arguing with them.
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- Okay, so imagine the nine disciples.
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- Okay, jesus came down.
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- We've been arguing that boy is still suffering,
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- And jesus wants to hear what's happening.
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- Now imagine jesus hearing this in front of them.
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- Verses 15 to 17 again
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- The father said, lord, have mercy on my son.
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- He has seizures and suffers terribly.
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- He often falls into the.
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- Fire or into the water.
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- So i brought him to your discipl
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- I would think, okay, jesus, i'm going to go get some food.
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- Do you want me to go get some food?
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- You want to talk about this?
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- Because i would be embarrassed.
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- Jesus already gave them authority to cast out demons.
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- There's something going on there.
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- There's a root to something.
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- There's something deeper.
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- I want us to see it here tonight. okay?
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- So let's pay attention
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- To what jesus actually says, because it looks like jesus.
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- It's just almost condemning them. can i bringing them down.
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- He's not doing that.
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- He's actually allowing.
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- Them to see the root problem of everyone's.
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- Anxiety in this story.
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- So let's look at the book of matthew. okay.
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- I'm gonna show you a few different gospels here.
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- Book of matthew chapter 17, verse 17.
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- You can just look on the screen. don't have to turn there.
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- Right? jesus said.
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- And this right here, you faithless,
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- You faithless and corrupt people.
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- How long must i put up with you?
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- I there's something big here.
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- All right, let me go back to mark.
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- Chapter nine should already be there.
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- Mark chapter nine, verse 19.
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- Jesus said to them again, okay, same.
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- Same already, you faithless people,
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- Faithless, one more time.
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- Did you know the stories in luke chapter nine,
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- Going to luke chapter nine, verse 41, jesus said
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- The same thing you faithless and corrupt people.
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- And so i looked at that, and i'm looking at the wording here,
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- Okay?
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- Because it only seems confusing.
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- All the gospels say the same thing, you faithless
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- People, you faithless.
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- And some of your translations say unbelieving people
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- You have not believed.
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- But then.
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- But then, if we go to matthew chapter 17.
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- Verses 19 through 20, it says.
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- Afterward the disciples asked jesus privately, why couldn't
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- We cast out that demon?
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- And in this text says, you don't have enough faith.
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- You don't have enough faith.
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- But listen to what jesus says.
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- But i tell you the truth,
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- If you had the faith even as small as a mustard seed,
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- Which is so small,
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- You could say to this mountain, move from here to there,
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- And it would move, nothing would be impossible for you.
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- I used to struggle with this verse
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- Because i would ask god then
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- How much like, how much faith do i need?
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- How much faith are you telling me to have like you.
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- As my faith? too little.
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- But you say at the same time,
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- The faith the size of a mustard seed can move this mountain.
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- God, i don't understand
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- And i realize there is something deeper here.
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- The reason it is confusing.
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- Is because there is a translation issue.
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- I want to show you this.
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- This is really cool. all right.
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- This is a translation issue at play here.
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- How do i know this?
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- Because the greek word used in matthew chapter 17 verse 20,
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- Which says you don't have enough faith.
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- Sometimes it says you have
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- Too little of faith or just have little faith
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- Is actually the greek word a psa,
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- Which actually means not little faith.
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- Like a lot of translations state.
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- Okay, but it actually means it's no faith at all.
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- Not believing.
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- Completely unbelieving, not submitting it over to god,
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- Being faithful.
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- Why are you prideful?
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- Because you're telling.
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- God, i'm not even going to try.
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- I'm not even going to try to listen.
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- This situation is impossible.
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- It would be dumb for me to try something different in this.
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- In my environment, i can't handle it.
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- And what happens?
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- Anxiety starts to attack
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- Because of this pride of route when you do not listen to god.
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- It wasn't little faith because jesus said,
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- The faith the size of a mustard seed can move these mountains.
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- And when he said mountains, he's
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- Talking about spiritual warfare, by the way,
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- Because it completes the story
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- After the demonic attack, jesus is telling them
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- If you prepare and have just even a little bit of faith.
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- You win the battle of spiritual
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- Warfare over your life.
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- Do you get that?
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- Do you see what i'm saying?
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- Like, if you just have a little bit
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- Of faith the size of a mustard seed, you see addiction gone.
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- We have the faith, the size of.
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- A mustard seed.
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- You see relationships restored.
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- You see your family restored.
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- You see healing in your life, healing over your heart.
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- You can let go of hate
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- From somebody who hurt you a very long time ago.
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- And you said, god, i don't know if i believe it,
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- Believe it, because that's part.
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- It's actually arrogant.
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- And that's heavy.
- 00:11:10.866 --> 00:11:12.167
- But it's arrogant to say, god, you can't do.
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- Now, we don't always know god's plan.
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- We just have to trust. so.
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- But let me be very clear.
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- Here at authentic church, we believe
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- God can do anything he wants to do.
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- He can do anything he wants to do.
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- He can free you right now.
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- There's nothing holding him back.
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- He can meet you right here. okay?
- 00:11:36.358 --> 00:11:39.128
- But i'm seeing this in the faith.
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- The size of the mustard seed.
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- Meaning the issue again, was after
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- Their faith was too small, they weren't relying on god.
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- And as i'm writing this message, i felt from the lord,
- 00:11:48.737 --> 00:11:51.406
- My people are relying on me anymore.
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- They're not seeking me.
- 00:11:54.843 --> 00:11:56.845
- They seek google and chat more than they seek me.
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- They don't want to be in my presence.
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- They want to be in the presence of other people.
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- They want to get likes and comments and shares
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- And the same people that love you today may hate you tomorrow.
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- People in your life, they said they would be there
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- Forever.
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- May never step
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- Into the promised land with you.
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- I do want to encourage you.
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- If that's you today and you are moving by
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- Faith, listen, that is completely normal.
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- By the way,
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- When you look at joshua, we look at caleb.
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- When you look at moses, a lot of the israelites
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- Who didn't believe they never stepped into the promised land.
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- They were in the beginning, but they didn't
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- Step into the promised land. but joshua and caleb did. why?
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- Because they spoke by faith from the very beginning.
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- I believe.
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- I just see faith.
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- Everybody else is telling the no, no, no, no, the giants.
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- Are too big.
- 00:12:51.066 --> 00:12:51.967
- But have you.
- 00:12:51.967 --> 00:12:52.601
- Seen the sight of my god?
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- I've seen what my lord can do.
- 00:12:55.437 --> 00:12:57.506
- My god would destroy these giants.
- 00:12:57.506 --> 00:13:02.311
- What would happen in your life if you had faith like that?
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- When's the last time you spoke that hope for your.
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- Family over your life right?
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- When's the last time you believed?
- 00:13:13.222 --> 00:13:15.290
- When?
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- But also, i want to be clear because some of you may
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- Be saying, but pastor, i have believed.
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- I have prayed over and over and over again,
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- And i still have not seen the healing i want.
- 00:13:26.201 --> 00:13:29.905
- I still have not seen the miracle in my life.
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- So i do want to say this lovingly
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- God's plan is bigger than ours.
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- Okay,
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- But you're not wrong.
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- You're not wrong.
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- If you say that
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- You live by faith and you actually live it out,
- 00:13:43.552 --> 00:13:45.053
- And you still don't see the miracle, but
- 00:13:45.053 --> 00:13:47.623
- The deep biblical truth that we need to understand
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- Is this faith is not a button you push to get what you want.
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- Very good.
- 00:13:54.796 --> 00:13:57.132
- And a lot of us have come to church
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- For that very reason.
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- God, i came here with faith to believe
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- That you would give me the relationship.
- 00:14:04.106 --> 00:14:06.875
- God, i came here with faith to believe
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- That you would give me the job.
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- I came here
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- With faith to believe even when it's a good thing.
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- God, i believe that you would bring healing.
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- And i get it. it's painful.
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- Some of you are lonely.
- 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.054
- Some of you are hurting.
- 00:14:19.054 --> 00:14:20.422
- Some of you are asking god, how long is it going to be?
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- But i need you to understand.
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- The definition of faith is actually to connect us
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- To god, to connect our hearts with the heart of god.
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- God, i trust you.
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- I trust you.
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- Meshach and abednego
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- Facing king nebuchadnezzar.
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- They won't.
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- They won't bow down to the statue, to the idol.
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- Nebuchadnezzar says, do you realize the power that i have?
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- I'll throw you into the fire.
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- It's going to kill you.
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- It's going to be so hot, you're going to be tortured.
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- It's not going to be good for you.
- 00:14:59.461 --> 00:15:01.096
- And you know what they said?
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- He said, listen, my god can save me, but
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- I will not bow to you because i bow
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- To the one true king, the one true king who meets me.
- 00:15:08.503 --> 00:15:11.740
- I know the power. of my god.
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- I will not. bow down to this idol.
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- It is against my lord.
- 00:15:15.644 --> 00:15:17.145
- My god can save me.
- 00:15:17.145 --> 00:15:18.880
- But they did it up there because that's what a lot of us like.
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- They didn't stop there.
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- They kept going.
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- But they said even if he does it.
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- Yes. even if he does it, he's still my god.
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- It's good.
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- And i trust his plan.
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- The fire.
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- Jesus.
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- Jesus said in luke chapter 22, verse 40 to 42,
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- Listen to this moment.
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- Jesus said, father, willing,
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- Please take this cup of suffering away from me.
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- Son of god.
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- For safe, god prayed that prayer,
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- Prayed, and then
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- He said, yet i want you fill to be done
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- That mine.
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- He humbled himself to.
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- Feel what we feel.
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- What i love about this text, it reminds us
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- That he's not a distant god
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- That doesn't know the pain that you're going through.
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- He understands it.
- 00:16:21.877 --> 00:16:23.745
- The heavenly father knows what it's like to lose a son
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- In a brutal way.
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- To plead
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- To fight temptation.
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- Yet jesus knew no sin.
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- And he showed us that there
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- Is always a way in his name.
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- Is. and so,
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- As the question, you know, what was it?
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- Listen, this is what we can do.
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- Jesus also revealed something else
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- In mark chapter nine, verse 29.
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- It's a new living translation, but it states, says jesus
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- Replied, this kind of demon can only be cast out by what
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- This this kind of demon can only be cast out by what
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- Look at somebody next to would say by prayer.
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- Demons can be cast out.
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- All right.
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- Why aren't you praying over your home?
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- A lot of torment is happening in your house right now.
- 00:17:15.597 --> 00:17:17.666
- Why aren't you praying over your home now?
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- Some translations also say fasting.
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- And again, we talked about fasting today.
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- Okay.
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- You may fast in a season. why?
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- Because god told you to do it.
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- But listen, let that be between you and god.
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- Don't let it be a show.
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- Don't tell people i holy you are.
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- You just lost it all.
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- That's not the reason you fast.
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- Very good.
- 00:17:37.886 --> 00:17:38.753
- You do it for the lord, between him and
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- And between you and god.
- 00:17:40.322 --> 00:17:41.756
- And listen, it's really hard sometimes to get a smile
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- At people when you're hungry.
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- You're hungry?
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- Yeah, and i had caffeine in a week or.
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- God, i can't do this anymore.
- 00:17:47.963 --> 00:17:51.867
- But you realize you can overcome your flesh
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- If you give it to god at prayer.
- 00:17:53.635 --> 00:17:57.205
- And i thought maybe they didn't pray.
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- The bible doesn't say they tried to pray,
- 00:18:01.643 --> 00:18:04.079
- And maybe they didn't pray. why?
- 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:05.514
- Because maybe listening to this,
- 00:18:05.514 --> 00:18:07.282
- Just maybe they thought because they were with jesus,
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- They had a position by themselves
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- To cast out this demon,
- 00:18:12.521 --> 00:18:15.390
- But they actually never gave it over to god.
- 00:18:15.390 --> 00:18:17.592
- Maybe they thought in their mind they had a title
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- And their title. would bring deliverance.
- 00:18:20.996 --> 00:18:23.131
- But your title and your position and your money
- 00:18:23.131 --> 00:18:26.034
- And the things that you have will not bring freedom.
- 00:18:26.034 --> 00:18:28.770
- It's only by praying to jesus.
- 00:18:28.770 --> 00:18:31.907
- It's only by giving it to him completely.
- 00:18:31.907 --> 00:18:34.743
- But here's what i need you to understand.
- 00:18:35.577 --> 00:18:37.445
- Not praying is pride and disguise.
- 00:18:37.445 --> 00:18:40.715
- And that's why anxiety and fear is all over you.
- 00:18:41.683 --> 00:18:46.321
- Consuming your mind because you have it.
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- Giving it over to the lord.
- 00:18:49.291 --> 00:18:52.694
- Who it's yeah,
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- It's god healing you tonight.
- 00:18:55.463 --> 00:18:57.732
- God healing you.
- 00:18:57.732 --> 00:19:00.035
- Come on.
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- My last point is this
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- Point me to cast your anxieties on.
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- Have.
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- Jesus said you could do that.
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- Why are you holding on to.
- 00:19:16.284 --> 00:19:19.688
- Well, that's my situation,
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- That i'm hurt.
- 00:19:22.991 --> 00:19:24.159
- And listen, i get that
- 00:19:24.159 --> 00:19:27.495
- I've been through it.
- 00:19:27.495 --> 00:19:28.730
- But jesus still said, listen, you can cast you in the 80s.
- 00:19:28.730 --> 00:19:33.868
- Your stress, your pain, everything that you're
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- Dealing with on him because he can handle it.
- 00:19:37.305 --> 00:19:41.977
- And so this is a special moment in the story.
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- The father of the son does something no one else does.
- 00:19:44.713 --> 00:19:47.082
- And again, what does he do?
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- Mark chapter nine, verse 22 to 24.
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- The spirit often throws him into the fire
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- And water, trying to kill my son.
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- Have mercy on. us and help us.
- 00:19:54.990 --> 00:19:57.993
- He's saying this while everybody else. is arguing.
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- Have mercy on us, have come help us and if you can.
- 00:20:01.630 --> 00:20:04.899
- And jesus said, what do you mean, if i can?
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- Anything is possible if a person believes.
- 00:20:07.402 --> 00:20:09.137
- And then the father did what he internally
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- Cried out, i do believe, help me overcome my unbelief.
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- He is the only one broken enough, broken
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- Enough to be real with god.
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- Wow, that's
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- How you see healing in your life.
- 00:20:22.417 --> 00:20:25.887
- Okay, let me show you like one more cool thing here.
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- Here's what we all want.
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- First peter chapter five, verse seven.
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- You just listen to this. here's what we all want.
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- Give all your worries and cares to god. why?
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- Why? let's say it louder.
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- Come on. why
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- One more time.
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- Really loud. i didn't write that.
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- And those are not my words.
- 00:20:50.712 --> 00:20:53.948
- So what is the lord?
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- And it may feel like sometimes he doesn't care.
- 00:20:56.818 --> 00:20:58.486
- He cares.
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- And so this message right here
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- Is freedom for your life.
- 00:21:03.258 --> 00:21:04.359
- Give all your worries and your cares over to god,
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- Because he cares for you and
- 00:21:07.595 --> 00:21:11.199
- And again, a lot of us the same.
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- But god, i'm trying.
- 00:21:12.334 --> 00:21:15.170
- I prayed so many times.
- 00:21:15.170 --> 00:21:16.304
- God take my anxiety.
- 00:21:16.304 --> 00:21:19.107
- I want peace.
- 00:21:19.107 --> 00:21:22.577
- But then maybe he's torn.
- 00:21:22.577 --> 00:21:23.445
- I don't even know what pieces anymore.
- 00:21:23.445 --> 00:21:27.015
- I don't know what it could look like.
- 00:21:27.816 --> 00:21:28.983
- I don't know what healing can look like because
- 00:21:28.983 --> 00:21:30.618
- I've been through so many things verbal abuse, physical abuse,
- 00:21:30.618 --> 00:21:34.155
- Abandonment,
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- Addiction,
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- Hurt.
- 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.661
- What is what is peace look like?
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- How do i receive that?
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- How do i get my anxieties over to you? okay.
- 00:21:43.698 --> 00:21:47.969
- See, we all want verse seven.
- 00:21:48.603 --> 00:21:52.407
- But again, when you don't read the entire bible,
- 00:21:52.407 --> 00:21:54.376
- You missed the context and you miss revelations.
- 00:21:54.376 --> 00:21:57.278
- Well, let's go back one verse.
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- Let's go back one verse, verse six.
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- Okay. first peter chapter five, verse six.
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- So humble
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- Yourselves
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- Under the mighty power of god,
- 00:22:09.157 --> 00:22:12.026
- And at the right time he will lift you up.
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- Now listen to this.
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- Humble yourself, and then you can cast
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- During society's heart to him because he cares for you.
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- Did you hear me?
- 00:22:26.341 --> 00:22:28.977
- Humble yourself.
- 00:22:28.977 --> 00:22:31.379
- A lot of us want to cast on anxiety, but we haven't.
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- Humble yourself and we have it.
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- Allow god to tear out the root of pride.
- 00:22:37.752 --> 00:22:40.054
- We haven't prayed in years because of that one situation.
- 00:22:40.054 --> 00:22:44.292
- For that one church hurt that you still don't understand.
- 00:22:44.292 --> 00:22:48.329
- And again, i know it's painful, but pride tells you to keep it.
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- Pride says store this up on the inside.
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- Don't trust anybody.
- 00:22:54.302 --> 00:22:56.471
- That's pride.
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- Pride will always cause a fall.
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- Pride
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- In yourself, not in god will come to destroy you.
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- It's the first sin we see out of the bible.
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- It's the first sin we see of satan.
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- And it's so strong that one third of the angels fell
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- From heaven because of pride.
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- Why are you being stubborn
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- With god?
- 00:23:27.068 --> 00:23:30.138
- Why are you fighting out?
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- Why are you arch?
- 00:23:33.007 --> 00:23:35.977
- Why are you causing confrontation?
- 00:23:35.977 --> 00:23:38.112
- Because you don't want to talk about it.
- 00:23:38.112 --> 00:23:39.781
- Then it's never going to heal.
- 00:23:39.781 --> 00:23:43.151
- You gotta talk about it.
- 00:23:43.151 --> 00:23:44.419
- You gotta give it over to god.
- 00:23:44.419 --> 00:23:45.854
- But that's what the altar is here.
- 00:23:45.854 --> 00:23:49.290
- That's why the heaviness of his holiness is here.
- 00:23:49.290 --> 00:23:53.027
- That's the mountain top there.
- 00:23:53.027 --> 00:23:55.563
- No matter how low the valley is, you can still meet god.
- 00:23:55.563 --> 00:24:00.168
- I can't.
- 00:24:00.168 --> 00:24:08.009
- It was humility
- 00:24:08.376 --> 00:24:09.210
- Plus faith that brought healing.
- 00:24:09.210 --> 00:24:12.413
- Let me be very clear. anxiety.
- 00:24:12.413 --> 00:24:14.282
- It's not meant to be managed.
- 00:24:14.282 --> 00:24:15.984
- It is meant to be thrown at the feet of jesus.
- 00:24:15.984 --> 00:24:20.255
- You cannot overcome
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- Anxiety with happy thoughts.
- 00:24:22.524 --> 00:24:25.627
- You can overcome anxiety,
- 00:24:26.194 --> 00:24:28.229
- Though, by the blood of jesus.
- 00:24:28.229 --> 00:24:31.232
- You can overcome depression by.
- 00:24:31.232 --> 00:24:33.701
- The blood of jesus.
- 00:24:33.701 --> 00:24:34.869
- You can overcome the stress in your life by the blood
- 00:24:34.869 --> 00:24:38.139
- Of jesus.
- 00:24:38.139 --> 00:24:38.940
- The moment you release.
- 00:24:38.940 --> 00:24:42.277
- I had a vision last week
- 00:24:42.810 --> 00:24:45.780
- At the beginning of my prayer, and i was about to preach,
- 00:24:45.780 --> 00:24:49.117
- And i remember telling the congregation
- 00:24:49.117 --> 00:24:51.019
- I just had this vision
- 00:24:51.019 --> 00:24:52.387
- That a lot of us, when we worship, it's this.
- 00:24:52.387 --> 00:24:54.255
- It's this.
- 00:24:54.255 --> 00:24:57.692
- And that's i was talking to the lord.
- 00:24:58.493 --> 00:24:59.894
- I was asking him, why are the fist closed?
- 00:24:59.894 --> 00:25:02.130
- And i just felt it. i,
- 00:25:02.130 --> 00:25:04.465
- I thought in my heart
- 00:25:04.966 --> 00:25:07.669
- The heaviness
- 00:25:07.669 --> 00:25:08.903
- That people hold on to and they do not give over to god.
- 00:25:08.903 --> 00:25:12.240
- And so when they worship my holy.
- 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.741
- Name, their hands are up,
- 00:25:13.741 --> 00:25:15.877
- But their fists are close because they're.
- 00:25:15.877 --> 00:25:17.412
- Still holding on to things.
- 00:25:17.412 --> 00:25:20.682
- I want to share a story with you.
- 00:25:21.416 --> 00:25:24.586
- Yeah.
- 00:25:24.586 --> 00:25:25.286
- Somebody told me a long time ago
- 00:25:25.286 --> 00:25:26.187
- That new levels bring new demons.
- 00:25:26.187 --> 00:25:28.356
- New devils in your life.
- 00:25:28.356 --> 00:25:30.925
- So meaning as you, as you get into ministry
- 00:25:30.925 --> 00:25:33.261
- More and more, as you follow jesus, more and more
- 00:25:33.261 --> 00:25:35.797
- You see new demons come after you.
- 00:25:35.797 --> 00:25:37.532
- But again, jesus is always with you.
- 00:25:37.532 --> 00:25:39.767
- And i remember within our evangel ministry,
- 00:25:39.767 --> 00:25:43.237
- There was a girl that came to me and my wife and
- 00:25:44.172 --> 00:25:46.441
- She said, please help me.
- 00:25:46.441 --> 00:25:49.177
- And she was kind of scared to
- 00:25:49.811 --> 00:25:50.812
- Tell us what she was going through.
- 00:25:50.812 --> 00:25:52.113
- And she said, i'm, i'm seeing demons.
- 00:25:52.113 --> 00:25:57.251
- She said, i'm
- 00:25:57.619 --> 00:25:58.453
- Seeing them in my room and i'm scared.
- 00:25:58.453 --> 00:26:01.756
- And and i could tell, like, she was very real,
- 00:26:01.756 --> 00:26:04.759
- Very authentic.
- 00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:07.762
- And she wasn't weird.
- 00:26:07.762 --> 00:26:08.630
- She wasn't like, crazy.
- 00:26:08.630 --> 00:26:12.033
- And so we realized she she didn't know jesus yet.
- 00:26:12.033 --> 00:26:15.503
- You know what's crazy to me?
- 00:26:15.503 --> 00:26:16.638
- She shared this with us, and i'll never forget this.
- 00:26:16.638 --> 00:26:18.172
- She said, the demons tell me that jesus isn't real.
- 00:26:18.172 --> 00:26:21.709
- This girl is seeing demons, seeing spiritual warfare.
- 00:26:22.810 --> 00:26:27.615
- Yet at the same time, she's doubting if jesus is real
- 00:26:27.615 --> 00:26:30.685
- And that crazy.
- 00:26:30.685 --> 00:26:31.619
- What demons can try to do to your mind.
- 00:26:31.619 --> 00:26:34.922
- And so one night we were at a gathering and my friend
- 00:26:34.922 --> 00:26:38.726
- Said to me,
- 00:26:39.060 --> 00:26:39.994
- She can't say the name of jesus.
- 00:26:39.994 --> 00:26:43.031
- We need to pray over her.
- 00:26:43.031 --> 00:26:45.967
- So i said, okay.
- 00:26:45.967 --> 00:26:46.801
- And so we go over to her
- 00:26:46.801 --> 00:26:48.403
- And we just started speaking the name of jesus.
- 00:26:48.403 --> 00:26:51.439
- And again, she was a lovely girl,
- 00:26:51.439 --> 00:26:54.008
- Very sweet, very kind.
- 00:26:54.008 --> 00:26:56.344
- But as we started praying in the name of jesus,
- 00:26:56.344 --> 00:26:58.413
- She just said out loud, i'm getting really angry.
- 00:26:58.413 --> 00:27:02.216
- I'm feeling rage.
- 00:27:02.650 --> 00:27:05.386
- And in that moment i'll never forget this.
- 00:27:05.386 --> 00:27:07.789
- She just randomly looked at me and says, it does not like you.
- 00:27:07.789 --> 00:27:12.293
- And the old me would have ran out.
- 00:27:13.027 --> 00:27:14.762
- Of there. i'll be honest with you. okay.
- 00:27:14.762 --> 00:27:17.231
- Good night guys. let's be done.
- 00:27:17.231 --> 00:27:18.466
- I let's go get that pizza.
- 00:27:18.466 --> 00:27:23.237
- But god was there,
- 00:27:23.671 --> 00:27:26.774
- And it wasn't me and it wasn't me.
- 00:27:26.774 --> 00:27:29.277
- I'm not brave enough to say this,
- 00:27:29.277 --> 00:27:30.912
- But i felt the holy spirit on the inside,
- 00:27:30.912 --> 00:27:33.147
- And i said it's because.
- 00:27:33.147 --> 00:27:34.382
- I'm covered by. the blood of jesus.
- 00:27:34.382 --> 00:27:37.185
- That's why.
- 00:27:37.518 --> 00:27:38.586
- Because that demon can't touch me.
- 00:27:38.586 --> 00:27:41.355
- And we started praying over her for deliverance.
- 00:27:41.355 --> 00:27:44.425
- But let me tell you something that i was powerful.
- 00:27:44.425 --> 00:27:47.261
- But the demons kept coming back for a while.
- 00:27:47.261 --> 00:27:48.730
- You wouldn't know why? because it was an open door.
- 00:27:48.730 --> 00:27:51.632
- See, it took a while for her to give her life over to christ.
- 00:27:51.632 --> 00:27:55.036
- But the open door was this.
- 00:27:55.636 --> 00:27:58.573
- She was abused as a child in our home.
- 00:27:58.573 --> 00:28:02.076
- A lot of things took place in her home
- 00:28:02.910 --> 00:28:05.947
- That's very private and disturbing.
- 00:28:05.947 --> 00:28:08.816
- None of her family was a believer.
- 00:28:08.816 --> 00:28:10.852
- Nobody was a believer.
- 00:28:10.852 --> 00:28:11.753
- It was a it was demon infested.
- 00:28:11.753 --> 00:28:14.922
- And it took a while.
- 00:28:14.922 --> 00:28:17.725
- It took a while, even in that situation,
- 00:28:17.725 --> 00:28:20.728
- To hand over her pride
- 00:28:20.728 --> 00:28:24.198
- Over to the lord so that she could be healed.
- 00:28:24.198 --> 00:28:27.602
- And today, she's completely
- 00:28:28.202 --> 00:28:29.403
- Set free from these things.
- 00:28:29.403 --> 00:28:32.907
- She. you.
- 00:28:33.207 --> 00:28:36.878
- Heard me read this, my chapter nine, verse 25 to 27.
- 00:28:36.878 --> 00:28:40.381
- When jesus saw the
- 00:28:40.381 --> 00:28:41.616
- Crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked the evil spirit.
- 00:28:41.616 --> 00:28:45.086
- Listen, you spirit,
- 00:28:45.086 --> 00:28:46.854
- That makes this boy unable to hear and speak.
- 00:28:46.854 --> 00:28:50.158
- I command you
- 00:28:50.158 --> 00:28:51.292
- To come out of this child and never enter him again.
- 00:28:51.292 --> 00:28:54.829
- Then this spirit screamed and threw the boy into another
- 00:28:54.829 --> 00:28:58.432
- Violent convulsion and left him.
- 00:28:58.432 --> 00:29:00.902
- And the boy appeared to be dead again.
- 00:29:00.902 --> 00:29:03.337
- The father was like, come on, come on, jesus, can you do it?
- 00:29:03.337 --> 00:29:06.674
- And a murmur ran to the crowd as people said, he's dead.
- 00:29:06.674 --> 00:29:10.645
- Do not listen to rumors.
- 00:29:10.645 --> 00:29:13.681
- Do not listen to what other people are telling you.
- 00:29:13.681 --> 00:29:16.284
- Believe what god has spoken over you
- 00:29:16.284 --> 00:29:19.921
- Because jesus took him by the hand
- 00:29:19.921 --> 00:29:22.924
- And helped him to his feet.
- 00:29:23.524 --> 00:29:25.760
- And the boy stood up.
- 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:34.902
- Because this man got to a special place of humility.
- 00:29:35.937 --> 00:29:38.940
- That's why
- 00:29:38.940 --> 00:29:41.008
- This this father said, i can't move without you. god,
- 00:29:41.008 --> 00:29:44.645
- I can't see this breakthrough without you. god.
- 00:29:45.646 --> 00:29:48.783
- Our future is nothing without you. god,
- 00:29:49.650 --> 00:29:53.087
- I need you right now because i don't know where i'm going.
- 00:29:53.087 --> 00:29:56.858
- And i'm helpless and i'm restless.
- 00:29:56.858 --> 00:29:59.994
- But i want to know if the stories are true.
- 00:29:59.994 --> 00:30:03.397
- Here's the messiah.
- 00:30:03.865 --> 00:30:06.133
- Here's what they tell me.
- 00:30:06.133 --> 00:30:09.637
- He had an open his fist.
- 00:30:10.171 --> 00:30:13.908
- And hand over something
- 00:30:14.408 --> 00:30:17.178
- To jesus
- 00:30:17.178 --> 00:30:19.547
- For the healing to take place here,
- 00:30:19.547 --> 00:30:22.617
- Let me ask you a question.
- 00:30:23.184 --> 00:30:25.353
- Is god talking to you tonight
- 00:30:25.353 --> 00:30:28.890
- Or is he talking to you?
- 00:30:29.423 --> 00:30:32.326
- It's his message for you.
- 00:30:32.326 --> 00:30:34.362
- Has fear and anxiety clouded your mind
- 00:30:34.362 --> 00:30:37.732
- And your thoughts and your future?
- 00:30:37.732 --> 00:30:40.167
- And you're afraid of everything?
- 00:30:40.167 --> 00:30:41.836
- Do you wake up in the middle of the night with panic attacks?
- 00:30:41.836 --> 00:30:46.007
- Hit? this is you.
- 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:48.209
- Let me tell you right now.
- 00:30:48.209 --> 00:30:49.510
- Jesus will meet you right here.
- 00:30:49.510 --> 00:30:52.813
- Anything is possible.
- 00:30:52.813 --> 00:30:55.383
- If you believe that anything is possible.
- 00:30:55.383 --> 00:30:58.653
- If you move, anything is possible.
- 00:30:58.653 --> 00:31:01.389
- When you humble yourself before.
- 00:31:01.389 --> 00:31:03.724
- The almighty god.
- 00:31:03.724 --> 00:31:06.327
- Right before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
- 00:31:06.327 --> 00:31:08.996
- And this one's a big one.
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- Okay.
- 00:31:10.164 --> 00:31:10.531
- This year
- 00:31:10.531 --> 00:31:11.332
- We held
- 00:31:11.332 --> 00:31:12.533
- Our very first awaken conference in hickory, north carolina
- 00:31:12.533 --> 00:31:15.636
- For authentic church.
- 00:31:15.636 --> 00:31:16.837
- And we saw
- 00:31:16.837 --> 00:31:18.005
- People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
- 00:31:18.005 --> 00:31:21.876
- And even outside of the country
- 00:31:21.876 --> 00:31:23.611
- To experience what god is doing here.
- 00:31:23.611 --> 00:31:25.846
- So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
- 00:31:25.846 --> 00:31:31.252
- We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
- 00:31:31.252 --> 00:31:34.055
- And if you want to look into more details
- 00:31:34.055 --> 00:31:36.424
- Over the conference,
- 00:31:36.424 --> 00:31:37.391
- All you have to do is click the link below.
- 00:31:37.391 --> 00:31:39.160
- In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did for.
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- Me? and
- 00:31:50.738 --> 00:32:07.555
- The reason i even bring it up tonight
- 00:32:07.555 --> 00:32:11.058
- Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus, the man,
- 00:32:11.058 --> 00:32:15.830
- The gospel message is all about
- 00:32:15.830 --> 00:32:18.766
- Your understanding of the message about
- 00:32:18.766 --> 00:32:21.936
- The man who will inform your methods of getting.
- 00:32:21.936 --> 00:32:25.072
- To know the man.
- 00:32:25.072 --> 00:32:38.552
- He. left.
- 00:32:38.853 --> 00:32:57.271
- This job doesn't work out for me.
- 00:32:57.271 --> 00:32:59.507
- What if i move my life by faith and it all just
- 00:32:59.507 --> 00:33:03.411
- Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
- 00:33:03.411 --> 00:33:06.147
- What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
- 00:33:06.147 --> 00:33:09.083
- But i would rather move by faith
- 00:33:09.083 --> 00:33:10.885
- And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
- 00:33:10.885 --> 00:33:14.755
- And i ended up exactly.
- 00:33:14.755 --> 00:33:15.990
- Where i needed to be.
- 00:33:15.990 --> 00:33:47.354
- You know what today is
- 00:33:47.822 --> 00:33:49.890
- Pentecost sunday.
- 00:33:49.890 --> 00:33:53.027
- Pentecost sunday.
- 00:33:53.461 --> 00:33:56.664
- Who? you better
- 00:33:57.031 --> 00:33:59.100
- Not ask the holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
- 00:33:59.100 --> 00:34:02.837
- I came here to remind you.
- 00:34:03.404 --> 00:34:05.206
- You need the holy spirit.
- 00:34:05.206 --> 00:34:34.502
- We need.
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