WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Disruptive Glory 4 - No Hold Over Me Publishing Date: 2021-12-12T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/disruptive-glory-4-no-hold-over-me/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 The title for today is No Hold Over Me. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:11.120 And so we talk about how God's glory is disruptive in the sense that it devastates the enemy 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:15.440 and it just builds us up as people. 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:20.960 His glory is basically his splendor, his weight, his magnificence, his power, his laughter, 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:22.080 his goodness. 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:23.680 Laughter is part of his glory. 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:25.840 This God isn't a sad God. 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:28.760 This God is just so joyful. 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.720 Which is why he hates stuff like death and sorrow. 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:36.560 Which is why when you finally get to where he lives at present, you'll find that there 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.760 is no death, there is no sorrow, there is no tears, there is no fears. 00:00:40.760 --> 00:00:43.960 There's only this thing called laughter and joy. 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:46.040 That alone should be a selling point. 00:00:46.040 --> 00:00:53.440 Can you imagine a life where you don't cry, where you don't have pain, where there is 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:56.980 no shame, no guilt, no fear? 00:00:56.980 --> 00:00:58.380 So this is part of his glory. 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:04.060 The idea of his power, his laughter, his goodness, his magnificence, his weight. 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:10.260 That's the actual word for glory in Hebrew, kabod, or the weight of him. 00:01:10.260 --> 00:01:16.580 And so we are saying that God's glory is so disruptive that on one hand it devastates 00:01:16.580 --> 00:01:19.860 Satan's plans, devastates, nothing is left. 00:01:19.860 --> 00:01:22.260 He decimates Satan's plans. 00:01:22.260 --> 00:01:28.300 And on the other hand for the people of the earth, as in the ones he's created, us, his 00:01:28.300 --> 00:01:33.180 power, his laughter, his weight, his magnificence, his splendor, just lifts us up into another 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:34.180 plane. 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:35.180 And that's what we've been talking about. 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:41.660 And so today we'll talk about how one of the things he did, and the Bible talks about it, 00:01:41.660 --> 00:01:49.580 it says in Colossians 2, 15 for instance, the glory of Christ reached its apex, the 00:01:49.580 --> 00:01:54.940 glory of Christ reached its apex in his obedient sacrifice on the cross. 00:01:54.940 --> 00:02:08.260 The glory of Christ, the glory of Christ reached its peak on the cross. 00:02:08.260 --> 00:02:12.700 That's when you realize, oh shucks, look at what he's done. 00:02:12.700 --> 00:02:30.420 And it was devastatingly disruptive for Satan. 00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:31.420 Devastatingly disruptive for Satan. 00:02:31.420 --> 00:02:50.980 And if you read Colossians 2, 15, Colossians 2, 15, Colossians 2, 15, it says that, I'll 00:02:50.980 --> 00:02:58.220 read from verse 14 onwards, it says, verse 13, when you were dead in your sins, God made 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:02.660 you, when you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, 00:03:02.660 --> 00:03:04.060 God made you alive with Christ. 00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:10.220 He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code with its regulations that 00:03:10.220 --> 00:03:13.200 was against us and that stood opposed to us. 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:19.540 He took it away, nailing it to the cross, and having disarmed powers and authorities, 00:03:19.540 --> 00:03:23.540 he made them a public spectacle, triumphing over them by the cross. 00:03:23.540 --> 00:03:25.860 Let me read that from the message. 00:03:25.860 --> 00:03:31.660 Colossians 2, 15. 00:03:31.660 --> 00:03:36.220 Here's what it says. 00:03:36.220 --> 00:03:42.100 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. 00:03:42.100 --> 00:03:44.580 God brought you alive right along with Christ. 00:03:44.580 --> 00:03:51.300 Think of it, all sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled, 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:53.260 nailed to Christ's cross. 00:03:53.260 --> 00:03:58.620 He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:03.780 cross and marched them naked through the streets. 00:04:03.780 --> 00:04:09.100 That's what happens at the cross, where his glory is so tremendous that it absolutely 00:04:09.100 --> 00:04:12.780 devastates every device of the devil. 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:19.940 That's what we're going to focus on today for the next hour or so. 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:31.260 If you read John 13, 31. 00:04:31.260 --> 00:04:38.140 This is a statement Jesus makes immediately after Judas dips his bread in the bowl and 00:04:38.140 --> 00:04:40.740 eats it and he's leaving to betray Jesus. 00:04:40.740 --> 00:04:43.460 That's when Jesus makes his statement. 00:04:43.460 --> 00:04:45.220 John 13, 31. 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:51.100 When Judas was gone, Jesus said, now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified 00:04:51.100 --> 00:04:52.100 in him. 00:04:52.100 --> 00:05:00.180 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself and glorify him at once. 00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:02.160 Complicated sentence, but here's what he's saying. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.940 At the moment that he's going to be betrayed and he's going to be crucified, look at the 00:05:04.940 --> 00:05:05.940 statement he makes. 00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:11.500 At this moment, I have never been as glorified as at this moment. 00:05:11.500 --> 00:05:16.720 As I go to the cross, you will see my glory like no other time. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.860 This is why when you watch the movie, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, you see 00:05:20.860 --> 00:05:26.220 Aslan, who represents Jesus Christ, lying on that slab, absolutely cold, and you see 00:05:26.220 --> 00:05:28.700 those demonic beings dancing around him. 00:05:28.700 --> 00:05:33.420 I don't know if you remember that scene where the white witch has just stabbed him with 00:05:33.420 --> 00:05:37.200 that spear and he lies there dead. 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:45.840 The stone is kind of broken and these demonic beings are surrounding him with glee. 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:50.720 That was one of the most glorious moments in the universe. 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.840 In that moment was the devastation of the devil. 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.240 That's why here is Judas betraying him and he's going to have Jesus crucified and Jesus 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:07.780 says, now the son is glorified and the father will glorify the son. 00:06:07.780 --> 00:06:12.300 Look at another scripture in 1 Corinthians 1.24. 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:17.060 1 Corinthians 1.24. 00:06:17.060 --> 00:06:20.060 1 Corinthians 1.24. 00:06:20.060 --> 00:06:27.560 It says there, starting at 22, Jews demand miraculous signs. 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:33.560 Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews, 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:38.000 foolishness to the Gentiles, but to those whom God has called both Jews and Greeks, 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.600 Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:41.600 Read it from the message. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.600 1 Corinthians 1.24. 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:49.000 Here's what it says. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:54.000 While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go for philosophical wisdom, we 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.400 go right on proclaiming Christ the crucified. 00:06:57.400 --> 00:06:59.360 Jews treat this like an anti-miracle. 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:04.640 Greeks pass it off as absurd, but to us who are personally called by God himself, both 00:07:04.640 --> 00:07:12.040 Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped in one. 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:17.760 And so at the end of the day, the reason Paul kept saying, hey, listen, focus on Christ 00:07:17.760 --> 00:07:22.840 crucified is simply because it's the most glorious moment in the universe. 00:07:22.840 --> 00:07:26.960 Any questions on that before we go on? 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:42.240 So if he's devastated the works of the devil, then we don't have to labor under it, and 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.080 that's perhaps where we want to go today. 00:07:45.080 --> 00:07:46.240 So here's a question I have. 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.600 Turn to John 14.30. 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.840 Can we get to a point where we can say this? 00:07:52.840 --> 00:07:53.840 John 14.30. 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:55.160 Here's what it says. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:07.160 The prince of the world, as in Satan, is coming. 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.160 But I love the next thing. 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:28.160 But he has no hold over or on me. 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:38.160 The King James Version says he has nothing in me. 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:43.160 This is where I want all of us to get to. 00:08:43.160 --> 00:08:46.160 John 14.30. 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:49.160 I will not speak to you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. 00:08:49.160 --> 00:08:51.160 He has no hold over me. 00:08:51.160 --> 00:08:53.160 He has no hold over me. 00:08:53.160 --> 00:08:56.160 I want us to come to a place as a church where we can say this. 00:08:56.160 --> 00:08:59.160 He has no hold over me. 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:01.160 No hold over me. 00:09:01.160 --> 00:09:08.160 Because if Jesus has dealt such a devastating blow on the cross to the works of the devil, 00:09:08.160 --> 00:09:11.160 why is it that we need to continue under it? 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:14.160 He has no hold over me. 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:21.160 It's very hard to minister freedom to someone if I am wrestling or struggling with the bondage. 00:09:21.160 --> 00:09:30.160 So if he has no hold over me, then I can then set people free from situations where there's a hold on them. 00:09:30.160 --> 00:09:32.160 He has no hold over me. 00:09:32.160 --> 00:09:36.160 How do we get to a place where we can say that? 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:40.160 So let's start with who Satan is. 00:09:40.160 --> 00:09:42.160 Very short. 00:09:42.160 --> 00:09:46.160 He was a serpent in the garden. 00:09:46.160 --> 00:09:50.160 And you see that in Genesis 1 and 2. 00:09:50.160 --> 00:09:56.160 He's called the devil, and the devil means slanderer. 00:09:56.160 --> 00:10:03.160 He's also called Satan, which means accuser. 00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:09.160 He's also called the deceiver, which means he deceives obviously. 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:11.160 He's got some other problems too. 00:10:11.160 --> 00:10:14.160 He's a rebel. 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:24.160 He's set on a course of self-exaltation, as in he loves exalting himself. 00:10:24.160 --> 00:10:26.160 That's what got him into trouble in the first place. 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:30.160 He wanted to exalt himself beyond God, above God. 00:10:30.160 --> 00:10:38.160 And he also is set on a course of self-determination, as in I determine my future. 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:42.160 And that is at the heart of Satanism and witchcraft. 00:10:42.160 --> 00:10:50.160 Satanism and witchcraft thrive on the simple premise that we self-determine our paths, 00:10:51.160 --> 00:10:54.160 that man is a self-determined creature. 00:10:54.160 --> 00:10:57.160 What I call good is good. What I call evil is evil. 00:10:57.160 --> 00:10:59.160 Morals are relative. 00:10:59.160 --> 00:11:02.160 Self-determination lies at the heart of Satanism and witchcraft. 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:06.160 Witchcraft is actually being an authority unto oneself. 00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:13.160 In its simplest core form, witchcraft is being an authority unto oneself. 00:11:13.160 --> 00:11:15.160 He's a liar. 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:18.160 Jesus said that in John 8, 44. 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:20.160 He said Satan's a liar. 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:24.160 And every time, Jacob, you lie, you are following in the paths of your father. 00:11:24.160 --> 00:11:28.160 He wasn't talking about his father. He was talking about Satan as a liar. 00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:30.160 These are characteristics then. 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:35.160 If you want to live a life that is free of bondage, 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:39.160 and you want to begin to live a life where John 14, 30 is something you and I can say, 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:41.160 that he has no hold over me. 00:11:41.160 --> 00:11:47.160 One of the simplest places we can begin at is if we decide not to live, 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:52.160 we need to share in these characteristics. 00:11:57.160 --> 00:11:59.160 It may not happen overnight. 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:06.160 It's odd how kids learn to do this by the time they're three years old. 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:12.160 Kids slander, kids accuse, kids lie, kids deceive, kids rebel. 00:12:13.160 --> 00:12:17.160 And so sometimes this is not possible to overcome it overnight. 00:12:17.160 --> 00:12:21.160 So what if every time I slander, or I speak ill of you, or I gossip, 00:12:21.160 --> 00:12:26.160 every time I accuse you, every time I deceive you, every time I lie, 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:29.160 every time I rebel against order or what is set in place, 00:12:29.160 --> 00:12:34.160 every time I self-exalt myself, every time I take over the reins of my life, 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:40.160 every time I lie, what if I decided I wouldn't participate in these characteristics? 00:12:41.160 --> 00:12:45.160 I get to a place where he will have no hold on me. 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:50.160 That's a great place to be, not just for yourself because it benefits others. 00:12:50.160 --> 00:12:53.160 The moment you get to this place where he has no hold on you, 00:12:53.160 --> 00:12:56.160 you begin to set others free, easily. 00:13:01.160 --> 00:13:03.160 Any questions? 00:13:06.160 --> 00:13:09.160 Hate these, hate these characteristics with a passion. 00:13:09.160 --> 00:13:14.160 Hate it. Every time you see yourself aligning under these, hate it. 00:13:15.160 --> 00:13:19.160 Like I said last week, hate is the only way to get rid of some things. 00:13:19.160 --> 00:13:22.160 Anything that you don't hate, you will tolerate. 00:13:30.160 --> 00:13:32.160 Any questions? 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:37.160 Okay. 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:40.160 So what was the disruptive work at the cross? 00:13:40.160 --> 00:13:42.160 What was the disruptive work at the cross? 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:47.160 Because if we can identify the disruptive work that happened at the cross, 00:13:48.160 --> 00:13:51.160 then we can make sure that we never labor under it again. 00:13:51.160 --> 00:13:53.160 And here, what is it? 00:13:53.160 --> 00:13:55.160 Here was the disruptive work at the cross. 00:13:55.160 --> 00:13:57.160 It's in Colossians 2, verse 16. 00:13:57.160 --> 00:13:58.160 It's brilliant. 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:01.160 And I pray that you and I never labor under it again 00:14:01.160 --> 00:14:03.160 and every time we get caught in it, that we, 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:05.160 break free, saying, I know what Jesus did. 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:07.160 I am going to go under that yoke. 00:14:07.160 --> 00:14:11.160 Colossians 2, verse 15. 00:14:11.160 --> 00:14:14.160 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:16.160 he made a public spectacle of them, 00:14:16.160 --> 00:14:18.160 triumphing over them by the cross. 00:14:18.160 --> 00:14:19.160 Verse 14. 00:14:19.160 --> 00:14:22.160 Having canceled the written code with its regulations, 00:14:22.160 --> 00:14:24.160 that was against us and that stood opposed to us. 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:27.160 So here's the thing about the disruptive work at the cross. 00:14:27.160 --> 00:14:31.160 It's a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:33.160 very, very, very, very, very, very, very, 00:14:33.160 --> 00:14:35.160 very, very, very, very, very, very, 00:14:35.160 --> 00:14:38.160 very powerful, powerful, powerful act stood opposed to us. 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:45.160 So here's the thing, guys, when Jesus said that he disarmed powers at the cross, 00:14:49.160 --> 00:14:52.160 when Jesus said he disarmed powers at the cross, 00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:56.160 what he was really saying was that he took away 00:14:56.160 --> 00:15:07.840 hold me or hold anybody to the debt of their sins. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.120 That's what he did. 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:12.520 Spend some time here. 00:15:12.520 --> 00:15:18.480 Hey, when you do harm to somebody and you know you're wrong and that they were innocent, 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.320 you struggle with the guilt of it. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.320 Hey, you feel obliged to now make it up. 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.040 You try to get back into the good books of people. 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:28.400 Meet your husband, your wife, your father, your mother, your friend. 00:15:28.400 --> 00:15:30.720 With God it is the same thing. 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:35.240 For a people who are restored and forgiven, I'm talking about those that have given their 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:40.520 lives to Jesus Christ, for a people that are restored and forgiven, we labor under sin 00:15:40.520 --> 00:15:42.080 way too much. 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:48.160 And let today be a day when we are forever set free from laboring under it, as in carrying 00:15:48.160 --> 00:15:55.000 it around for a day or two, walking in the sense of not being sure whether it's taken 00:15:55.000 --> 00:16:00.880 care of, whether I'm fully accepted or not, whether I have to be a good day or two, whether 00:16:00.880 --> 00:16:02.680 I have to promise him stuff. 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:07.480 Now, one of the things that Jesus did at the cross when he disarmed the powers at the cross 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:13.440 was to disarm Satan's power to hold the debt of sin against me. 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.440 And Satan used to have the legal right to do this. 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:17.440 You must understand that. 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.560 Let's write that down and we can talk about it. 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:44.400 Satan used, Satan used, Satan uses the legal standing he had in wielding the law to separate 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:45.400 us from God. 00:16:45.880 --> 00:16:50.920 I know these are unnecessarily complex sentences, to separate us from God. 00:16:50.920 --> 00:16:52.920 So here's how it is. 00:16:52.920 --> 00:16:55.560 It is that I set a law. 00:16:55.560 --> 00:16:59.360 The law is you cannot breathe for the next 20 seconds. 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:00.360 He breaks the law. 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:01.560 He starts breathing. 00:17:01.560 --> 00:17:06.800 Now that he starts breathing and doesn't not breathe for 20 seconds, I come around and 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:09.840 say, hey, you've been breathing for the last 20 seconds. 00:17:09.840 --> 00:17:13.080 Because you've been breathing for the last 20 seconds, I have the legal right to do you 00:17:13.080 --> 00:17:14.080 harm. 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.880 Because you've been breathing for the last 20 seconds, and it's God's law that you're 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.360 not supposed to breathe for the last 20 seconds, God is going to punish you. 00:17:23.360 --> 00:17:27.400 Because you've been breathing for the last 20 seconds, God is not happy with you. 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.420 Because you've been breathing for the last 20 seconds, you will now have to make sure 00:17:30.420 --> 00:17:34.920 you don't breathe for 40 seconds so that you can make up for the sin you committed. 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:39.440 Because you have not breathed, you are no longer qualified to stand there and breathe. 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.680 Because you breathe for the last 20 seconds, you need to read the Bible a little more, 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:44.380 sing a few more songs. 00:17:44.380 --> 00:17:48.340 Because you breathe for the last 20 seconds, show me that you're actually repentant. 00:17:48.340 --> 00:17:50.200 How do you show it, man? 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:53.580 It's a condition of the heart. 00:17:53.580 --> 00:17:58.940 Or because you breathe for the last 20 seconds, you have to spend at least two days following 00:17:58.940 --> 00:18:04.100 everything that God has specified to the T before you can say, oh, God, use me again. 00:18:04.100 --> 00:18:10.820 We make ourselves so separated from God, so unused of God, so guilt-ridden, so unforgiven, 00:18:10.820 --> 00:18:13.980 till we work our ways back into God's good books. 00:18:13.980 --> 00:18:14.980 Why? 00:18:14.980 --> 00:18:15.980 Because this is our human experience. 00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:18.780 Our human experience is when I disappoint you, you disappoint me. 00:18:18.780 --> 00:18:21.160 When I do you harm and you do me harm. 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.660 We have to now begin to make up before we can get back into people's good books. 00:18:25.660 --> 00:18:26.900 There's always fear involved. 00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:28.700 There's always a sense of penalty involved. 00:18:28.700 --> 00:18:32.420 There's always a sense of not fully accepted involved. 00:18:32.420 --> 00:18:37.580 God wants to say to you, you're fully accepted. 00:18:37.580 --> 00:18:41.660 Right from the day you were born, regardless of where you've been, regardless of the different 00:18:41.660 --> 00:18:47.020 homes you've spent time in, regardless of how others treated you, God wants you, Marisa, 00:18:47.020 --> 00:18:49.980 to know that you are fully accepted. 00:18:49.980 --> 00:18:50.980 Fully accepted. 00:18:50.980 --> 00:18:53.560 You don't have to do a thing. 00:18:53.560 --> 00:18:58.740 What I'm saying to Marisa is what applies to all of us. 00:18:58.740 --> 00:19:00.300 Fully accepted. 00:19:00.300 --> 00:19:02.860 All the time. 00:19:02.860 --> 00:19:07.140 I have to stop letting sin become anything that prevents me from approaching God. 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:10.660 I've got to stop it. 00:19:10.660 --> 00:19:14.900 Just make up your mind today that one of the things that happened on the cross that 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:20.660 was so disruptive was Satan lost the power to use the debt of sin to separate you, keep 00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:24.740 you away, make you unacceptable, make you unusable. 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:26.660 He completely lost that power. 00:19:26.660 --> 00:19:30.140 How does he perpetuate it now? 00:19:30.140 --> 00:19:34.180 By enforcing a lie, sometimes through pastors, sometimes through Christian circles, sometimes 00:19:34.180 --> 00:19:36.620 through parents, sometimes through Sunday school. 00:19:36.620 --> 00:19:40.540 Our kids are taught right from when they are born that you do something wrong, God's going 00:19:40.540 --> 00:19:41.700 to punish you. 00:19:41.700 --> 00:19:46.140 I know this is old stories being rehashed again and again, but this is the truth. 00:19:46.140 --> 00:19:51.540 We in this church, we in many other churches, we as Christians are supposed to be a restored 00:19:51.540 --> 00:19:56.660 forgiven people, but we do not walk as restored forgiven people. 00:19:56.660 --> 00:19:57.660 Make up your mind today. 00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:03.860 I made up my mind a couple of days ago that it is impossible for me to live without sinning 00:20:03.860 --> 00:20:06.460 for the next 50 years. 00:20:06.460 --> 00:20:10.140 But every time I sin, I will go to God and say, I messed up again. 00:20:10.140 --> 00:20:16.420 And then I will not labor under the debt of trying to earn my way back, of trying to 00:20:16.420 --> 00:20:20.780 be restored, of trying to be forgiven, of trying to be good, of trying to work my mind 00:20:20.780 --> 00:20:22.340 around, will God use me? 00:20:22.340 --> 00:20:24.780 Will I be effective? 00:20:24.780 --> 00:20:26.540 I'm done with that. 00:20:26.540 --> 00:20:30.140 You got to decide today that you are done with it. 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:34.180 But Jacob, does that mean that I can keep on sinning because by feeling guilty, I perhaps 00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:35.180 don't sin? 00:20:35.420 --> 00:20:40.660 If you are forgiven and you choose to sin, that's your problem, man. 00:20:40.660 --> 00:20:51.660 When someone loves you like crazy, you begin to change the right way, not the wrong way. 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:56.060 We cannot put guardrails for people. 00:20:56.060 --> 00:20:57.540 Love is the only guardrail we have. 00:20:57.540 --> 00:21:00.780 God loves you so much that it should begin to change my heart to the point where I hate 00:21:00.780 --> 00:21:02.580 sinning and that I like him too much. 00:21:02.980 --> 00:21:06.020 And the only reason I stop sinning is because I like him too much. 00:21:06.020 --> 00:21:07.100 That should be the only guardrail. 00:21:07.100 --> 00:21:16.660 The only guardrail in a Christian's life must be, gosh, he likes me too much. 00:21:16.660 --> 00:21:27.660 This church must decide that we will never labor under the shame, the guilt of sin again. 00:21:27.660 --> 00:21:31.700 It was one of the most glorious things that happened on the cross, taking away the power 00:21:31.820 --> 00:21:39.380 of someone, to use a weapon that was actually forged by the Old Testament. 00:21:39.380 --> 00:21:41.700 You do this, you will be punished. 00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:47.660 First Corinthians 1556 says it, the sting of death is sin and sin is given its power 00:21:47.660 --> 00:21:49.420 by the law. 00:21:49.420 --> 00:21:54.500 The sting of death is sin and sin is given its power by the law. 00:21:54.500 --> 00:21:57.300 As in, God said, don't do this, don't do this, don't do this. 00:21:57.300 --> 00:21:59.260 You do that, now you sin. 00:21:59.260 --> 00:22:01.580 And if you sin, you die. 00:22:02.460 --> 00:22:04.660 And that is the most glorious thing that happened on the cross. 00:22:04.660 --> 00:22:06.660 He took it away. 00:22:06.660 --> 00:22:07.660 How? 00:22:07.660 --> 00:22:10.300 By taking on the sting of death and dying. 00:22:10.300 --> 00:22:13.380 The law was forever fulfilled. 00:22:15.380 --> 00:22:17.380 Any questions? 00:22:26.380 --> 00:22:28.780 Teach your kids differently. 00:22:28.780 --> 00:22:30.140 Teach your kids differently. 00:22:30.700 --> 00:22:33.420 Why are we the way we are? 00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:36.420 Because all our lives we've been told otherwise. 00:22:39.420 --> 00:22:44.420 A heart that is truly broken before God is forgiven instantly. 00:22:44.420 --> 00:22:49.900 A heart that is in the process of breaking is seen at a distance and you are forgiven 00:22:49.900 --> 00:22:50.900 instantly. 00:22:50.900 --> 00:22:52.420 Case in point, Prodigal Son. 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:54.100 He's planning a speech, man. 00:22:54.100 --> 00:22:57.300 I've got to get back to my father, I've got to tell him, treat me as a servant, I'm really 00:22:57.300 --> 00:22:58.300 sorry for what I did. 00:22:58.460 --> 00:23:02.820 The father sees him at a distance, the guy hasn't even launched into his speech and he's 00:23:02.820 --> 00:23:03.820 already taken care of. 00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:04.820 Why? 00:23:04.820 --> 00:23:07.020 Because God sees repentance at a distance. 00:23:07.020 --> 00:23:08.500 God sees a turnaround at a distance. 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:10.580 He doesn't wait for it to complete even. 00:23:10.580 --> 00:23:11.580 What kind of God is this? 00:23:11.580 --> 00:23:14.420 I mean, at least wait to see if it is real. 00:23:14.420 --> 00:23:17.020 Nah, he looks at the heart and he says, Jacob, that is real. 00:23:17.020 --> 00:23:22.180 I don't even know if you can, God knows whether I can really walk in it or not, but he sees 00:23:22.180 --> 00:23:26.660 such real turnering around that he says, don't say a word. 00:23:26.660 --> 00:23:29.980 You had me at the Tom Cruise line. 00:23:29.980 --> 00:23:30.980 Yeah. 00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:32.740 You had me at hello. 00:23:32.740 --> 00:23:35.540 It's a, yeah. 00:23:35.540 --> 00:23:40.260 That's how this works. 00:23:40.260 --> 00:23:45.180 This is what Satan has used for centuries, man, and he'll continue using. 00:23:45.180 --> 00:23:47.860 There's only two reactions to this from the world. 00:23:47.860 --> 00:23:51.820 Either they feel terribly guilty and they don't want to approach a holy God or they 00:23:51.820 --> 00:23:53.820 say to heck with you. 00:23:53.820 --> 00:23:55.580 I can't labor under this. 00:23:55.580 --> 00:23:58.100 We Christians are caught somewhere in between. 00:23:58.100 --> 00:24:04.580 We are guys who have been forgiven, but don't walk in it. 00:24:04.580 --> 00:24:07.560 Set people free from this, man. 00:24:07.560 --> 00:24:10.820 But how can I set people free from this if I'm not free myself? 00:24:10.820 --> 00:24:15.620 Religiosity, religion, tradition is exactly this. 00:24:15.620 --> 00:24:18.220 Work your way back into the good books of God. 00:24:18.220 --> 00:24:22.100 A, I only occupy one book and it's a good book. 00:24:22.100 --> 00:24:23.620 I'm always on that page. 00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:26.180 I'm always present before the father. 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:31.180 The only way I will disappear from the presence of the father is if Jesus disappears from 00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:33.340 the presence of the father. 00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:38.420 It's the only way I'm getting out of there. 00:24:38.420 --> 00:24:42.660 The only thing that happens now when I sin is that I am unable to relate to him like 00:24:42.660 --> 00:24:44.540 I need to. 00:24:44.540 --> 00:24:46.540 That's the only thing that happens, guys. 00:24:46.540 --> 00:24:50.860 When I sin, I'm unable to relate to him the way I need to. 00:24:50.860 --> 00:24:55.180 And when I'm unable to relate to him the way I need to, I start making mistakes. 00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:07.620 And in those mistakes, cause and effect happens. 00:25:07.620 --> 00:25:13.300 Repentance is actually saying, I know I'm forgiven, but I want relationship. 00:25:13.300 --> 00:25:16.020 Forgiveness is not enough anymore as a Christian. 00:25:16.020 --> 00:25:17.020 Can you believe that? 00:25:17.020 --> 00:25:18.260 Look at what we are saying. 00:25:18.260 --> 00:25:21.460 The world is hungering for forgiveness. 00:25:21.460 --> 00:25:25.020 Christians must be hungering for relationship. 00:25:25.020 --> 00:25:26.540 The world needs forgiveness. 00:25:26.540 --> 00:25:27.540 Give them Jesus Christ. 00:25:27.540 --> 00:25:32.020 Tell them, here is a man who paid for your sins and therefore can forgive you. 00:25:32.020 --> 00:25:35.340 But to Christians, that's not the message. 00:25:35.340 --> 00:25:39.040 1 John 1, 9 wasn't written to Christians. 00:25:39.040 --> 00:25:44.100 If you will confess your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive you. 00:25:44.100 --> 00:25:46.280 That wasn't being said. 00:25:46.280 --> 00:25:48.160 What if someone says he does not have sin? 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:49.560 You cannot be a Christian if you say that. 00:25:49.560 --> 00:25:54.640 It was being written as a message to people outside saying, hey, if you confess your sins, 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:56.060 Jesus Christ will forgive you. 00:25:56.060 --> 00:26:00.720 But for us Christians, it's not that I'm looking for forgiveness anymore. 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:06.280 I'm looking to be restored back into relationship because I was forgiven and the debt can never 00:26:06.280 --> 00:26:07.480 be imposed on me. 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.260 It can never be said of Jacob that you are separate from God. 00:26:11.260 --> 00:26:14.640 It can never be said of Jacob that you don't have his favor. 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:18.440 It can never be said of Jacob that you will now have to work your way. 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:19.440 You're not usable. 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:21.400 You have to show great repentance. 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.400 He sees my heart at a distance and he says, there's my boy. 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:28.040 He's coming back again. 00:26:28.040 --> 00:26:29.600 All I want now is relationship. 00:26:29.600 --> 00:26:34.640 Now that I'm forgiven and restored, give me back the sweetness of my relationship with 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:39.240 you because I hear your voice. 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:41.320 What's the next line? 00:26:41.320 --> 00:26:45.560 I hear your voice. 00:26:45.560 --> 00:26:46.560 Sorry? 00:26:46.560 --> 00:26:52.600 You have led me through the fire. 00:26:52.600 --> 00:26:53.600 Next line? 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:54.600 You have... 00:26:54.600 --> 00:26:58.520 And then the next two lines. 00:26:58.520 --> 00:27:00.840 I know you as a father. 00:27:00.840 --> 00:27:06.440 I know you as a friend and I have lived in the goodness of God. 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.360 That's all I'm after. 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:16.600 Show me to the joy of your fatherhood because I have gotten so used to it that I hate sin 00:27:16.600 --> 00:27:22.760 because it doesn't allow me to relate to you like I normally relate to you. 00:27:22.760 --> 00:27:25.700 You know, that's the thing with good friendships. 00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:29.020 Why do we go back and want good friendships? 00:27:29.020 --> 00:27:35.360 Because it breaks your heart not to be able to walk with your friend like you used to. 00:27:38.860 --> 00:27:43.360 Why do people pine about a broken heart, a lost love? 00:27:43.360 --> 00:27:46.880 Why? 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:49.880 Because you miss. 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:54.760 You miss it. 00:27:54.760 --> 00:28:00.640 Draw me close to you. 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.640 Come guys. 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:06.920 Let's just get back into the place that we are located in. 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:07.920 Yeah? 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:12.920 Sing this song and I will continue. 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:26.920 Yeah. 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:43.920 Let this be a milestone in our lives. 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:58.520 Do you guys want to sing? 00:28:58.520 --> 00:29:00.520 Just me or you want them to play? 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:15.400 We'll change the words around a little. 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.400 We are saying draw me, you draw me close to you. 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:19.920 You never let me go. 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:20.920 Yeah? 00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:25.000 Just put you in it so that you're telling him who he, how he is to you. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.960 You're not asking him this. 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.960 We are forgiven. 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.960 We are restored. 00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:34.400 We are saying from now on we will not labor under the guilt, the shame, the making of 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:38.640 the obligation, the all that stuff is done. 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.160 We are desperate after relationship. 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:45.480 We know you do this so here we are. 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:52.200 You draw me close to you. 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:57.120 You never let me go. 00:29:57.120 --> 00:29:58.120 Lay down. 00:29:58.280 --> 00:30:03.280 Lay down again. 00:30:03.280 --> 00:30:04.280 Beautiful father. 00:30:04.280 --> 00:30:12.280 Just to hear you say that I'm your friend. 00:30:12.280 --> 00:30:18.720 You are my desire. 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:25.000 No one else will do. 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:31.720 Nothing else can take your place. 00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:38.320 To feel the warmth of your embrace. 00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:41.720 You'll help me find my way. 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:47.000 You bring me back to you. 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.800 One more time from the beginning. 00:30:51.800 --> 00:30:54.920 You draw me close to you. 00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:58.320 You always do father. 00:30:58.320 --> 00:31:03.320 And you never let me go. 00:31:03.320 --> 00:31:11.600 I lay it all down again. 00:31:11.600 --> 00:31:16.600 To hear you say that I'm your friend. 00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:18.400 Beautiful. 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:25.000 You are my desire. 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.000 No one else will do. 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:38.000 Nothing else can take your place. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:43.000 To feel the warmth of your embrace. 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:48.000 You'll help me find my way. 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:53.000 You bring me back to you. 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:03.000 And you're all I want. 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:10.000 And you're all I've ever needed. 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.000 And you're all I want. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.000 I know that you are near. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.000 I know that you are near. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.000 You're all I want. 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:29.000 You're all I want. 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:36.000 And you're all I've ever needed. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:42.000 You're all I want. 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:48.000 I know that you are near. 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.000 Hallelujah. 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:56.000 I know that you are near. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:03.000 Help me know you are here. 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:06.000 So thank you Holy Spirit that today, 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:09.000 right now at this moment in this place, 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:12.000 you have begun the work of setting us free 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.000 from laboring under the guilt and the shame 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:18.000 and the fear and the penalty 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.000 of separation, of sin, 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.000 of you being unhappy, of favor being withdrawn, 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.000 of a father with a frown, 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.000 of having to work again. 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:31.000 We are tired Aba. 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:35.000 And this was not a tiredness caused by you or the Word. 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.000 We have listened to lies. 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.000 We have listened to the Word today. 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.000 We will miss relating to you every time we sin. 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:52.000 Our hearts should be powerful enough to draw us back to you. 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.000 Thank you for seeing our hearts, 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.000 knowing repentance at a distance. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:01.000 Not only do you run to meet me, 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:05.000 you then embrace me and kiss me seven times. 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.000 Then I bow to my knee and it says in Psalm 2, 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:11.000 I kiss the sun. 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:13.000 Not because he's angry, 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:18.000 because my heart leaps towards him. 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:24.000 As the deer pants for the water, 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:32.000 so my soul longs after you. 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:38.000 You are all that my heart desires 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:46.000 and I long to worship you. 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:53.000 You alone are my strength, my shield. 00:34:53.000 --> 00:35:01.000 To you alone may my spirit yield. 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:08.000 You are all that my heart desires 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:14.000 and I long to worship you. 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.000 Bless you Father. 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:20.000 Thanks James. 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.000 Remember he's an accuser. 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000 Accusation is his chief activity. 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.000 Be wise to that. 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:31.000 One of the most powerful weapons of the enemy is accusation. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.000 He's an accuser. 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:34.000 He's been doing this. 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.000 He did this to Job in Job chapter 1 and 9. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.000 He did it to Joshua and Zechariah 3 and 9. 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:43.000 He did it to Jesus. 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.000 He did it to... 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.000 It says in Revelation 12, 10 that he does it to believers, 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:51.000 that he accuses them day and night. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:56.000 But here's a statement I want you to remember for the rest of your life. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:19.000 He cannot bring a successful charge against you. 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:23.000 Romans 8, 33. 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:29.000 He accuses Job, he accuses Jesus, he accuses Joshua in Zechariah 3 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.000 where Joshua is a high priest and he says, 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.000 and every time these things happen, God has always come and rescued. 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:40.000 And then it says in Revelation 12, 10 that he accuses the believers, the saints, day and night. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.000 But here's the cool thing. 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.000 He cannot bring a successful accusation or charge against me. 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:46.000 Why? 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.000 Because it says in Romans 8, 33. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.000 Romans 8, 33. 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:58.000 Here's what it says. 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:02.000 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.000 If God is he who justifies, who is he that condemns? 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:11.000 Listen to it again. 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:17.000 Who will bring any charge against Jacob who God has chosen? 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:25.000 If it is God who has justified Jacob, who is he that condemns? 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.000 Not a successful charge for the rest of my life against me. 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:34.000 Even when it is true, it's taken care of because of what Christ did. 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:38.000 And then he checks my heart to see, okay Jacob, so what do you want to do about this? 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:43.000 Very often repentance should be preceded by conversation. 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:44.000 Write that down. 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:48.000 Very often repentance should be preceded by conversation. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:54.000 When repentance is just confessing your sins, you are slowly beginning to drift into religion again. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:59.000 Your madras will come and I can be your Catholic priest for a while. 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:04.000 Or you go through a series of things that you say and I forgive you. 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:07.000 Or God forgives you and you just come to me. 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:11.000 Repentance must be preceded by conversation. 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:15.000 Talk to God about what you did, why you did it, how you felt. 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:18.000 Talk to God about how you feel right now. 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:23.000 If you don't feel sorry about it, talk to God and tell him that you don't feel sorry about it, 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:28.000 that you need help feeling sorry about what you did because you really don't. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.000 Go ahead, Dana. 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:39.000 Very often it should be preceded by conversation. 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.000 When I know that I'm just trying to get rid of my sin, 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:48.000 every time I try to get rid of my sin, I must realize that I'm not interested in a relationship. 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.000 I'm just interested in getting my slate clean. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.000 I'm living in the Old Testament. 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:58.000 David was a man after God's own heart because instead of confessing his sins, he would write a song. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.000 Psalm 51. It's a result of a relationship. 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.000 It's not a result of confessing of sins. 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:07.000 There were special prayers for confessing of sins, special rituals you could do for confessing your sins. 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:12.000 Oh my God, David had this ability to go into the detail of it. 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:16.000 I can't bear this. My bones are drying up. If I don't speak, it won't work. 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.000 You've got to take care of my inequity. Then he goes, 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:21.000 Inequity isn't enough. You've got to take care of my transgressions. 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.000 That ain't enough. You've got to take care of my sins. 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.000 That ain't enough. You've got to take care of my unrighteousness. 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:26.000 Wash me with hyssop. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:29.000 If you wash me with hyssop, I'll be clean inside and outside. 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.000 I know you desire truth in the inward parts. 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:33.000 Can you do something inside me? 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.000 But let me tell you why I want this. 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:38.000 I want this because I want the joy within me restored. 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.000 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.000 He was hardly interested in sin. 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:47.000 He was so interested in relationship that God after him doing the things he's done, 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.000 keeps saying, here's a man after my heart. 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.000 You know you're stepping into religion when you find out that you're only interested in getting rid of your sins. 00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:10.000 One of the ways we know repentance is when very often repentance is preceded by conversation. 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:20.000 Long for this, guys. It's the only thing that's so worth living for. 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.000 And then you become a blessing to others. 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:28.000 We must transmit relationship, not just proclamation of the gospel. 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:31.000 Proclamation of the gospel, any herald can announce it. 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:34.000 Sons convey their father. 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:39.000 And once the father is conveyed, people will want him. 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:48.000 Once you convey the father, people will want him. 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:56.000 You think listening to what I'm saying now, if someone who does not know Jesus hears this, they won't long for it. 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:59.000 They can shut it down, but they will long for it. 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:02.000 They can shut it down, but they will long for it. 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:08.000 If only I could relate this way to the God of the universe who made me, who's waiting for me. 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:29.000 What are the demonic assignments that have worked against you in the past? 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:34.000 Let's deal with that now and over the next 15 minutes or so and then we can conclude. 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:38.000 What are the demonic assignments that have worked against you in the past? 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:43.000 Because if you look at these characters, they had certain things that they kept making mistakes in. 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.000 Noah, Abraham. 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.000 With Noah, it perhaps was drunkenness. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.000 With Abraham, it was lying. 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.000 With Moses, it was perhaps his anger. 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:11.000 With David, it was wrong place, wrong time. 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:16.000 Lust. 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:28.000 Where in your life do you see demonic assignments against you having unusual success? 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:36.000 I've been looking at my life in the areas where Satan seems to have quite a lot of success in tripping me up. 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.000 Those traps seem to work. 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:47.000 I might have three good weeks and then I end up doing the same thing that I know I should be much smarter at. 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.000 What is it in your life? 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:55.000 Because what Jesus said in Luke 22, verse 31 or thereabouts applies to you. 00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:02.000 Nick, Nick, Satan has demanded or asked me permission to sift you. 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:09.000 You think Satan does not want to sift Marcus, Derek, me, Matt, Diana? 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:13.000 He wants to sift you. He goes ask you for permission. 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.000 And Jesus didn't say, I don't give you permission. 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:21.000 Jesus said, after you fall, you will rise up and you will be strengthened and you will be a benefit to your brothers. 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:27.000 What are the areas in your life where he seems to sift and have sufficient success? 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:42.000 Sometimes Jesus can do it himself where he comes and helps you with it. 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:51.000 Sometimes Jesus, even though he can do it himself, deliberately has me depend on you to help me with my area of weakness. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:57.000 It's a deliberate thing. He can wave a wand if he had a divine wand. 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:02.000 And all your hair gets restored and everything becomes normal. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.000 But that is not how it works. 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.000 Sorry, Tony. Bad joke. 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.000 I could have left it alone. 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000 He could have done it that way. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:19.000 But one of the things he does is makes me dependent on you where you need to help me with my area of weakness. 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000 That's not fun. I would prefer that he deals with it. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.000 Because now I'll have to go and tell you about it. 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:32.000 But this is where we come back to what she started with when she said, you cannot do this life that is together alone. 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.000 You cannot. And if you try to, you will not succeed. 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.000 You will not succeed. Why? 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:43.000 Because Jesus Christ can be pretty stubborn when it comes to certain things he does. 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.000 Is there scripture to back this up? Yeah. 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:56.000 James, confess your sins to one another so that you may be healed and restored. 00:44:56.000 --> 00:45:01.000 There are more. 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.000 That one comes immediately to mind. 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:09.000 Here's another area that you and I need to check. 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.000 Where am I blind? Where am I blind? 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.000 How do I know my blindness? 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:18.000 I know my blindness by recognizing that a certain way of thinking is still there. 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.000 I know that I am blind. 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.000 I know that I am blind. 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.000 I know that I am blind. 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.000 I know that I am blind. 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.000 I know that I am blind. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:34.000 I know my blindness by recognizing that a certain way of thinking is still persisting even though I've heard that it is not true. 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.000 I keep thinking that way. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:41.000 And how is my thinking made obvious in the way I behave? 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.000 That needs to be drawn. 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.000 Here's how it works, guys. 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:55.000 See, 2 Corinthians 4.4 is addressing unbelievers, but the scheme is the same for believers or unbelievers. 00:45:55.000 --> 00:46:00.000 In 2 Corinthians 4.4, it says, Satan blinds the minds of unbelievers. 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:05.000 While it is referring to unbelievers, let me also say to you that Satan tries the same trick with believers, 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:08.000 which is why believers have strongholds in their lives. 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:19.000 Strongholds are fortresses, vales, walls, towers, Jeremy, that are so strong that they become a certain pattern of thinking. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:23.000 So he blinds. 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:25.000 He blinds. 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:28.000 How do you know an area where you're blind? 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:32.000 You think a certain way. 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:57.000 You think a certain way even though you've heard it otherwise a hundred times. 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:02.000 But it's almost like there's a dullness. 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.000 How do you know what you think? 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:24.000 What you think shows in how you behave. 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:32.000 This is another method that, this is another thing that I have to try and destroy because of the disruptive glory of God that can help me. 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:40.000 So I don't take some, just stick in the mud ways that I have that doesn't change even though people have told me otherwise, 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:46.000 even though the Bible says otherwise, even though I've been taught otherwise, even though you preach to me and tell me otherwise. 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:51.000 It doesn't change and I've got to change this. 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:55.000 One of the easiest ways to find this out is Jacob, where are you stuck? 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.000 Why haven't you been able to progress for years on end in some areas? 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:03.000 Why? Why are you stuck there? 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.000 Examine it yourself. 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:11.000 There may be many external physical reasons, but why are you stuck? 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:19.000 Let me assure you, as I look around, and you can look at me, as I look around, most of us are stuck in some area or the other. 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:30.000 Do you really want to take this into 2022? 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:33.000 No, man. 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:38.000 I remember this Turkish guy who gave his life to the Lord and I asked him, 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:41.000 So what do you feel? And he said, I feel like a bird. 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:45.000 That's what you should feel like in 2022. I feel like a bird. 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.000 I've also told you about this bird in South Africa. It's like a vulture kind of a bird. 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:54.000 And so hunters go after these birds and they wait. Why? 00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:01.000 Because these birds are feeding on dead animals and these birds eat more than they should. 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.000 They eat more than they wait. 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:10.000 And when the hunters come, they flap their wings and they cannot fly because they are so full that they cannot take off. 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:14.000 Stuck in the mud is exactly that. 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:22.000 You've eaten so much of the same way of thinking that your stomach is so full that even if you flap your wings, you cannot fly. 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.000 I want to be free of that in some areas of my life. 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.000 I didn't say some one area of my life, some areas of my life. 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:32.000 I plead with you. Examine it. 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:40.000 That's when strongholds break. That's when strongholds break. 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:46.000 That's when you tear down walls and towers in your life, veils. 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.000 2 Corinthians 4 says, Satan blinds our mind. 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:58.000 2 Corinthians 4 says, but the light of the knowledge of the glory of God comes and breaks it. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:17.000 I want to end a few minutes early so we can destroy some of these things. 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:29.000 Let me end with this last line, which has 6 parts as usual. 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:39.000 You know, when I'm making these notes, I think that if I can stop before the page ends, it's short. 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:44.000 So I crowd 6 points into one line and I feel like, oh, it's only one page. This is a short sermon. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:47.000 But then when I come here and speak, the one page goes on forever, man. 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:50.000 And trust me, I'm only here right now. 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:55.000 But don't worry, we'll stop here and the rest we can do another time. 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.000 The another time never happens, still about 6 months later. 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:02.000 But it is what it is. These are stuck in the mud things. 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.000 When it comes to certain demonic assignments against you, 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:13.000 and so what do you mean by demonic assignments? 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:17.000 I'm saying that Satan knows patterns in your life and my life. 00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:21.000 Some of them are based on the culture we come from, the traditions we come from, 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:25.000 the background we come from, the environment we grew up in, 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.000 the problems we are dealing with, our physical situations. 00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:36.000 And he uses these to keep assailing us with it so that we don't make progress quickly, 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.000 so that it takes forever to get anywhere. 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:42.000 And we have valid excuses, valid reasons. 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:47.000 And remember, I'm saying valid for saying, but this is my situation. 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.000 But these are demonic assignments. 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:56.000 And in a church like this, demonic assignments are not abnormal, 00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:02.000 because if this church can be slowed down, the world can be less affected. 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.000 I say that with absolute modesty. 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.000 So when it comes to these demonic assignments, here are some things you should do. 00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:22.000 One, expose them. And by expose them, as in call them, name them. 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:26.000 Call them, name them, confess them. 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:28.000 As in these are the things that are happening. 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.000 You keep a demonic assignment in secret within your heart. 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.000 I assure you its roots will continue growing. 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.000 Guaranteed. It's biblical. 00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.000 The light must shine there. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:47.000 Second, resist them. Resist it. 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:52.000 Resist it. Resist it with hate. Resist it with hate. 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:59.000 You know, this morning I was thinking of a certain area in my life where 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:08.000 for the last 38 years, see I remember the 38 years the devils always tried to 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:11.000 trap me in this sin. 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:17.000 And I was thinking of it this morning and I, immediately my mind flipped to 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:25.000 a man at the Pool of Bethesda who for 38 years had lay there. 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:27.000 And there was nobody to help him. 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:30.000 I began reading the scripture from John chapter 5. 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.000 I was telling the Lord this morning that today will be the last day of my life 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.000 that this trick will ever work against me. 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:39.000 I will never be discouraged by it. I will never be trapped by it. 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:41.000 I will never succumb to it. I will never bend to it. 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:45.000 Because I know that you are asking me today, do you want to be healed? 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.000 And my response is, yes. 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:55.000 And I have the simple faith to believe that God will take care of it again from here on. 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:00.000 What is it in your life? 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.000 The older you are, the more you can claim things like 38 years. 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.000 Some of you can't claim 24 years. 00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:13.000 Can you imagine 38 years is 14 years away for you? 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:19.000 Resist. Pardon? 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:27.000 Resist. Resist evil. 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:29.000 That these assignments. 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:35.000 Third, in some cases it might be situations where you are trapped in a situation 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:41.000 not because of your own doing, but because of your environment, your surrounding, your present condition. 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.000 Endure. But endure in a way that resists. 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:52.000 Endure in a way that is not succumbing, but able to rise up and sing, O barren woman. 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.000 It's that kind of enduring. Endure. 00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:59.000 Endure. Sometimes certain things that happen to you are not your fault. 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:02.000 But it is pressing on you. It is trying to crush you. 00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:06.000 Endure. And one of the ways you endure is to go to Isaiah 58. 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.000 And you must sing if you want to endure. 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:11.000 You must sing if you want to endure. 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:17.000 That sounds like a very simple thing. Oh, just sing and you'll be fine. 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:21.000 No, not really. What I'm trying to say is read Isaiah 58 and you'll get an idea of it. 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:23.000 Fourth, escape. 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:32.000 As in, change your situation. Escape. Change your situation. Get out of it. 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:39.000 It'll mean relocating. It'll mean changing things, changing your job, changing situations. 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:43.000 Some evil things will continue till I actually escape. 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:52.000 Next one, hate. Hate what is happening to you. 00:55:56.000 --> 00:56:02.000 I was telling my brother-in-law yesterday that he was talking about this right arm of mine that keeps freezing up. 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.000 And so I can lift it this way, but I can't lift it this way. 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.000 It begins to ache here. And it's a frozen shoulder. 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:12.000 And some days it's fine, some days it doesn't. 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:15.000 But one of the things I hate is that I'm learning how to live with it. 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:18.000 And I hate that I'm learning how to live with it. 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:23.000 You must hate something so much that you begin to say, 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:26.000 Now, this won't do. It must go up like this. 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:28.000 Hate it. 00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:32.000 Like I said before, if you don't hate it, you will tolerate it. 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:40.000 And then the last one is overcome. 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:42.000 Overcome. 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:48.000 As in, sometimes evil with good. 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.000 Sometimes evil with weaponry. 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:55.000 Which we have talked about in the past, 00:56:55.000 --> 00:57:01.000 where you use what God has given you to combat that which happens or comes against you. 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:10.000 Evil with good, evil with weaponry. 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.000 We'll stop there. 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:20.000 We've got to get into this new year as a people who will be a benefit to others. 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:23.000 I've got to go into the next year with less of this. 00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.000 So that... 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000 Any questions? 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:31.000 Any questions, guys? 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:37.000 Sorry, say that again. 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.000 I can't hear you. You might have to pull up your mic. 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:43.000 Sometimes promises that have been given to me. 00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000 Sometimes promises from the word. 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.000 Sometimes truth that opposes a lie. 00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:54.000 Sometimes the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed and that Satan is fearful of. 00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:59.000 Sometimes the name of Jesus Christ that makes him so fearful that the hair on the back of his neck stands. 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:03.000 Sometimes the word of God used as a sword to... 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:06.000 To cut off the hair on the back of his neck. 00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:11.000 Sometimes the word of God used as a sword to cut down things. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.000 Sometimes prayer. 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.000 There's such an amazing array of weapons that I can use. 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:23.000 And we talked about this when we talked about the prevailing church. 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:27.000 Any other questions? 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:36.000 Okay, so one of the things I want us to have end in our lives is any torment that comes in the form of... 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.000 Certain ways of thinking. 00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:43.000 Be it... 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:45.000 Like what she said earlier that... 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:50.000 I want to be independent. I want to be alone. I can handle my own problems by myself. 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.000 Or certain forms of torment which are not so much about the way I think. 00:58:54.000 --> 00:59:00.000 Or certain forms of torment where you go into your own form of sadness or... 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.000 Some form of being depressed or sad or alone. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:12.000 Ways of shame and guilt that crop up because of something you did that keeps being brought up again and again. 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:17.000 An inability to sleep at night because of tormenting spirits that bring back thoughts. 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:24.000 Past thoughts of doing yourself harm or taking your life that keep coming up. 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:31.000 Conditions of shame that have sunk so deep into my soul that the enemy now begins to use it against me. 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:34.000 Tormenting spirits. 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:40.000 That is one thing Jesus wants us to say to him, come deal with it today. 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:45.000 So how do I best define torment? And we'll sing this song, I speak Jesus. 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:48.000 And you don't necessarily have to sing it. 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:51.000 Just listen to the words and as the words are being sung, receive your healing. 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:56.000 Because I really believe something will transpire over the next 10 minutes in this area. 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:04.000 The best way to describe torment is... 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:07.000 It's obviously not from God. God doesn't torment. 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:17.000 It is something from my present or past or some fear from my present or past or future. 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:29.000 That is being used to hobble me, cripple me, hamstring me, slow me down, separate me from God, doubt him, be suspicious of him. 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:32.000 It's constantly being used. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:38.000 Where I can't trust, where I can't sleep, where it keeps coming back up, where it resurfaces. 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:47.000 It's like a huge shovel being sent right into the bottom of the ocean where things are buried and digging it up so that it churns up murkyly to the surface. 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.000 And I'm caught in the muddiness of it again. 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:52.000 I want it to be there. 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:55.000 I'm going to ask Jane to come up. 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:05.000 Try not to sing it the first time around. 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:07.000 Free yourself from it. 01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:10.000 It's a very hard thing to do. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:12.000 But you can do it. 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.000 You can sing it. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:16.000 You can sing it. 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:18.000 You can sing it. 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:20.000 You can sing it. 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:22.000 Don't free yourself from it. 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:26.000 And if you are not someone who is affected by it, free someone else from it. 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:28.000 Torment can lead to habits. 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:31.000 Torment is medicated by habits. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:34.000 Torment is medicated by habits. 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:36.000 Torment is medicated by habits. 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:49.000 Habits from watching porn to getting drunk to taking some form of thing that will make you feel better, indulging in things. 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.000 Just to take away the pain of torment. 01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:04.000 Obviously my words are not going to remove this. 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:06.000 Jesus is going to remove this. 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:14.000 And I'm just saying to you in a very non-dramatic, non-sensational fashion that Jesus wants to do it for us today. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:18.000 And if it isn't something that you are struggling with, think of someone else who is struggling with it. 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:20.000 And receive it for them. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.000 But know that this is sheer work of the Spirit. 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:28.000 And I want to make it so non-dramatic that it will have to be the Holy Spirit. 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:30.000 And no ra-ra. 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:40.000 I just want to speak the name of Jesus. 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:46.000 Over every heart and every mind. 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:53.000 Because I know there is peace within your presence. 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:57.000 I speak Jesus. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:07.000 I just want to speak the name of Jesus. 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:13.000 So every dark addiction starts to break. 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:15.000 Can you put up the words please? 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:20.000 Declaring there is hope and there is freedom. 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:24.000 I speak Jesus. 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:27.000 I'll go back to the beginning. 01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:33.000 I just want to speak the name of Jesus. 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:37.000 Once you've surrendered it to Him, feel free to sing. 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:40.000 Over every heart and every mind. 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.000 Whatever torments you. 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:47.000 Because I know there is peace within your presence. 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:51.000 I speak Jesus. 01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:01.000 I just want to speak the name of Jesus. 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:07.000 So every dark addiction starts to break. 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:13.000 Declaring there is hope and there is freedom. 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:19.000 I speak Jesus. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.000 Your name is power. 01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:27.000 Your name is healing. 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:32.000 Your name is light. 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:34.000 Hallelujah! 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:40.000 Breaks every stronghold and shines through the darkness. 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:46.000 It burns like a fire. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:54.000 I just want to speak the name of Jesus. 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:59.000 Over fear and all anxiety. 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:02.000 Thank you Father for your presence right now. 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:07.000 Every soul held captive by depression. 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:10.000 I speak Jesus. 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.000 One more time. 01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:16.000 Jesus I thank you for setting us free. 01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:20.000 Sing that one again? 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.000 Yeah. 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:27.000 I just want to speak the name of Jesus. 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:32.000 Over fear and all anxiety. 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:39.000 Every soul held captive by depression. 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:44.000 I speak Jesus. 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:49.000 Your name is power. 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:53.000 Your name is healing. 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:58.000 Your name is light. 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:06.000 It breaks every stronghold and shines through the shadows. 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.000 It burns like a fire. 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.000 Your name is power. 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:16.000 Your name is power. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:20.000 Your name is healing. 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:25.000 Your name is light. 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:33.000 It breaks every stronghold and shines through the shadows. 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:38.000 It burns like a fire. 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:41.000 Shout Jesus. 01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:44.000 Jesus from the mountains. 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:48.000 Jesus from the streets. 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:54.000 Jesus in the darkness over every enemy. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:07:04.000 Jesus for my family I speak the holy name of Jesus. 01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:06.000 One more time. 01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:11.000 Shout Jesus from the mountains. 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.000 Jesus in the streets. 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:20.000 Jesus in the darkness over every enemy. 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:31.000 Jesus for my family I speak the holy name of Jesus. 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:36.000 Your name is power. 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:40.000 Your name is healing. 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:45.000 Your name is light. 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:54.000 It breaks every stronghold and shines through the darkness. 01:07:54.000 --> 01:08:00.000 It burns like a fire. 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:03.000 Your name is power. 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:07.000 Your name is healing. 01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:12.000 Your name is light. 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:21.000 It breaks every stronghold and shines through the shadows. 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:26.000 It burns like a fire. 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:31.000 Father, we bless whoever wrote this song. 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:36.000 I mean now we speak the name of Jesus over our lives. 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:39.000 Together we voice it right now. 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:41.000 We speak the name of Jesus.