Come Out // INSANITY (PART X) - Pastor Mike Jr.

mark chapter 5 verse 18. and i love this particular text and i want to read from the nasb version if you don't mind it literally says as he was getting into the boat the man who what's the name of the series what's the name of this series insanity let me see if you can catch this real quick as he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon possessed can i contemporize modernize and maclurize the brother who was insane was imploring him that he might accompany him oh you can be seated i want to jump into this this year and i want to start with a very simplistic statement if you're listening today i want you to take really really good notes you may find a praise break you may not but i really believe if you take today's principle and make it applicable to your life something in your life has no choice but to share i want to say this and i want to say if five people can receive it this year has to be bigger than a praise break i thought three people would have received that this year has to be bigger than a praise break too many of us are dealing with the residual effects of foolishness and frustration and this is critical and this year for you you must construct and cultivate please put this in your notes self-awareness that's good we must cultivate and construct self-awareness for those of you who purchased the little book i wrote last year i don't like my life but i love it in that book i shared a principle with you that i really believe will evolut revolutionize your thinking cause within you a paradigm shift and self-awareness define self-awareness is about learning to better understand please catch this why you feel what you feel that's good right there self-awareness is about better understanding why you feel what you feel and why you behave in a particular way let's leave that there for them in a second let's do this together class self-awareness is a better way to understand why you feel what you feel and more importantly why you behave in a particular way aisha it's one thing to go crazy and just say he made me mad self-awareness is understanding the triggers that people push i wanna i wanna break down the dichotomy between the mature and the immature the immature attacks the person the mature takes the trigger i don't think you heard what i just said the immature attacks the person you did it imma make you pay the mature discovers what about me keeps allowing them to trigger this in me so if i this is good if i take the trigger i take the power this is why if for those of you who are not self-aware you can keep putting people out of your life but then the next person who walks in is able to do exactly what the last person did is simply because you are not self-aware about why you feel what you feel and why you behave in a particular way somebody say self-awareness what do i want for those of you listening and watching me today we've had an incredible time in this series insanity and as we were praying about insanity one of the things that i struggled with and i struggled on how to articulate and become conversant about is how do i um inculcate you overwhelm you with the knowledge of self-awareness that's cold-blooded ain't it can i make a statement that may not be popular in church but may help three of y'all who ain't got time to be fake i am insecure you can sit in here and be swagged out all you want to i am insecure i think i'm secure but let him let me feel somebody don't like me or let me feel somebody is saying something about me there are triggers that i have not addressed and whenever you don't properly have self-awareness you do you enter into something called the persona now before you put that on the screen i want to share what the persona is before you add that to the screen all of you sitting in this room and all of you watching at home have a persona that you like to uh share with people it is my persona let's look at the definition of persona the latin term for persona watch this is stage mask so what's your persona i want to pers i want my persona to come off as if i'm educated that's why so many of us wear those glasses that don't have no medicine in them but they make us look smart who know what i'm talking about i want to give off a certain persona this is why you post so many bay picks and so many relationship pics even though both of y'all about to kill each other you're trying to present your best persona this is why this is why if i talk to you for five seconds i can't even talk to you about you without you telling me everything you've accomplished because you're trying to get me to see you through the lens of your persona when we don't even realize the persona is the latin term stage mass what does that mean pmj your persona is not really you it's what you put on priest pastor mike which is why all of my single folks stopped falling in love so quick because you fallen in love with the mask which is why when they take the mask off in six months you asking who is this it's because you fell in love i'm helping somebody already with the persona and i want to submit to you if the latin term for persona is stage mass here's a strong statement i am real enough to admit that the mask for me can become suffocating the mask for me can become suffocating i hope you like this mask for my birthday i asked god what could i do just to be a blessing so i want you to be on the lookout cause this nice little rock city mask we're about to give a thousand of them away uh coming up soon and we're just gonna do a drive-by and give some stuff away and do some other things but as i was wearing my mask yesterday i became overwhelmingly frustrated at how suffocating it is jesus how suffocating it is and i want to speak to somebody who's watching me this morning who is overwhelmed and irritated not by people but by what you have to be to be around people oh my god did you hear that hey i i hope you catch it this is why i just have no room for people i can't be me around i'm gonna talk and they sleep i'm gonna talk to y'all over here i don't have time to be around people i can't be me around because when you are around people that cannot handle the authentic you they force you to wear the persona which is the mask and what the problem is the reason so many of you are snappy irritated upset about to lose your mind it's because you around people you thought you could be you around they got a glimpse of you started judging you so now your safe place has become a prison and now you are overly irritated because i am tired of having to portray perfect just to be in your circle ain't it crazy how people want you to be something that they're not ain't it crazy how people hold you to standards that they can't even keep you supposed to be saying how you cussing like that you supposed to be saved i'm cussing like that cause i thought i could cuss around you did i just say that in the message no it is the persona and it is the mask and i hope you catch it i think it was lawrence dunbar leslie who said we wear the mask and what i'm trying to get us to a place now that insanity for many of you is the insanity for many of you is the struggle between when and when not to wear the mask can i help somebody real quickly this is so critical and i pray you catched it many of us are suffering please put this in your notes from unhealthy unaddressed emotional issues are we going there today ain't we we shut it down last week let's bring some balance we are suffering from unhealthy unaddressed emotional issues and if i can be honest you get out of one relationship jump into another you leave one church join another you lose one job you find another you lose loved ones and you stay busy so you don't have to deal with it too many of us are suffering in silence because i'm preaching today too many of us are suffering in silence because we have never had a safe outlet to deal with the emotional and mental trauma that we have been through you were touched as a child you were left by your parents you went through a bankruptcy you went through a foreclosure friends turned their back on you a divorce life hit you fast and at no point did you ever deal with it you got over it i don't think you heard what i just said at no point did you deal with it you just what got over it and too many of you are building bridges getting over stuff that you should have dug out and removed i don't think you heard what i just said my boys think they slick right my boys think they slick i wake them up i said first thing you gonna do is brush your teeth wash your face make up your bed boys i want y'all to be disciplined make up your bed where they think they slick james i go in there and the cover is on the bed the pillow is on the bed but there is a lump all throughout the bed and i'm sitting there looking at him saying boys did you make up your bed yes sir i said did you make up your bed i'm asked you one more time yes sir i said so what's that lump i made up my beard dad i pulled the cover back the sheet balled up right here the the fitted sheet coming off this side is socks at the bottom of the bed they thought making up their bed was just putting one layer over foolishness and the reason so many of your lives are lumpy the reason so many of your seasons are lumpy the reason your peace is always lumpy is because you thought you could just cover up what you should have took off and made straight and this is not the season for a cover-up this is the season to deal with the stuff that i don't want to deal with this is the season to look in the mirror and say michael there are some things you have been running from some things you have not addressed some things about yourself that you don't like and until you address it the enemy can keep using it did you hear what i just said did you hear what i just said until you address it the enemy can keep using it i am about to run and scream because i don't think you heard what came out of my mouth until you address it the enemy can use it watch this because god put this in your nose are you listening are you listening put this in your notes god is a creator the devil is a manipulator the devil has no creation powers god is a creator the devil is a manipulator what the the devil takes what god creates and he manipulates it this is crazy so if the devil then is a manipulator the feeling you have he didn't create he manipulated god said i'm going to create joy you can't let the devil manipulate it into depression i'm going to create love don't let the devil manipulate your love into lust i'm going to create peace don't allow the devil to manipulate it into chaos manipulation filters somebody say filters okay i was tripping the other day filters filters all right so i i found a filter on instagram that i love right it it kind of makes my skin look smooth i can't explain it it puts this right and y'all know what i'm talking about right it's i don't play i've been seeing your pictures aisha that ain't what you look like in real life don't play with me now don't do that now you know exactly what i'm talking about you know that filter that you kind of put a little color on it then all of a sudden it's like your face gets get gets smooth and you get a little bit more light-skinned you know what i'm talking about as i notice every time i go on instagram now tristan i won't do a post without the filter now let me show you how how insane i am i know everybody who looking at it know that ain't my skin because instagram made it possible to at the top it tells you that i'm using a filter but because it makes me feel good i rather hide behind something that the world know is fake so my insecurity can be free i'm preaching to somebody and too many of you because you won't address the stuff that you've been running from you keep putting this filter up church for many people is nothing more than a filter singing on the praise team for many of us is nothing but a filter because if i can act like i'm worshiping in front of you it covers up the fact i ain't worshiped in my house i'm preaching to somebody in here and if we ain't careful many of you are dating people that you never would have dated they're just a filter unhealthy unaddressed emotional issues and until you address it the devil can keep using it that's crazy ain't it chris you don't know what the devil does he takes the things that you are insecure about because insecurity let me free you security says this is who i am insecurity says all right i'ma put this over here because i don't want nobody to see i'm sensitive about that the devil goes into that lock box pulls that out and plays on it and because you want to address it it makes you go deeper into insecurity to keep covering it up this is cold blooded i need you to catch this mark doesn't give me enough information we tiptoe into the corridors of today's text we find ourselves situated and acculturated in this pregnant marking text in this present marking text this present powerful pericappy we find a dilemma that needs our attention it is cold-blooded mark doesn't give me enough he gives me the geography and the pathology but not his biology geography he's situated and acculturated in the tombs pathology he has some type of tormenting spirit because he's cutting himself but i do not have his biography and that's the problem with everybody in your life they know your geography where you are they know your pathology what they think your issue is the problem is and the reason they finna get hurt is because they won't take time to do a biography yes i live here yes this is what you think is wrong but until you go deep into my history and discover what caused me to be this way i wasn't a mean person in 97 i wasn't a mean person in 2010 the reason i'm mean in 2020 is because it's some stuff that jumped off and whenever people deal with your now without taking time to understand your yesterday they abuse who you can become i'm talking heavy today see see if i don't understand you're now see as a pastor especially of high level people i got a lot of high level people around me i was laughing the other day because i'm just looking at all y'all and all the stuff you guys do and all the people that god has connected me to in my church and i'm like god i have to have a very high level of discernment watch this not of your current gift but of your past pain most pastors fail at discipling and leading high level individuals because they are too caught up on their gift and not enough on their pain [Music] see james i love your pen and i love your anointing but i have to be equally enamored by your past and your pain because if all i want from your gift i am nothing more than a spiritual pimp give me your gift then go home you miss what i just said i love the prophetic anointing on your life tristan but if i am not deeply involved in the levels of your pain i'm gonna prostitute you for a word but leave you when you're warring many of us are dealing with insanity because we have too many people in our life who love what we do but don't care about who we are michael we got people who love what we do you make me laugh i want to oh i'm going to get some people in trouble i want you to take time this week and just ask people simple questions like what you love about me what you like about me if everything that comes out their mouth is something you do that benefits them that relationship may not be as strong as we think because the thing that's holding this building up ain't the stuff i see it's the stuff i don't see and i'm trying to get to a place where i am tired of cosmetic christianity cosmetic relationships there are some things i can't put makeup on no more there are some things i can't cover up no more i know this brother's geology i know where he is geography i know his pathology that is his sickness geography his location pathology his sickness what i don't know is his biography all mark tells me is when he got out the boat immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met him see mark i'm frustrated with mark and when i get to heaven me and mark go chop it up because mark reminds me in this particular sense like a whole lot of messy people he tells me about this brother's issue but don't tell me his story that's critical ain't it tells me his issue but don't tell me a story and i want to pause and parenthetically digress and submit to you that the reason so many churches are empty is because there are too many people in the pews assessing people's story without facts people don't feel comfortable coming to your church they don't feel comfortable coming around you because what you do is just because you've seen one person's story you make everybody's story their story that's crazy ain't it i had a sister stop me in walmart and say pastor mike i just want to tell you thank you i said for what she said me and my three kids go to your church and you've never made me feel bad you've never talk down to me my boys love you she just kept talking kept talking and she said something i thought about when i got in the car she said everybody treat me like a crazy baby mama because they see three kids and i'm single she said ain't never slept around i married the person i went to the prom with he lost his mind left us now it's me and three babies but every place i go people treat me like i got all these baby daddies and kids and it made me think everybody who's single don't have the same story and the improper assessment of the uniqueness of everybody's story will cause you to treat everybody the same y'all don't like me today when he got out of the boat immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit somebody said unclean spirit notice the text didn't say an unclean man but rather he had an unclean spirit it didn't say an unclaimed man put the scripture on the screen it never said an unclean man it said immediately a man who just happens to have an unclean spirit don't allow your issue to define you that's crazy you are a person who just happens to have because of the adamic fall because of what adam did all of us got something can i say something and you can't pick it it picked you hear me he said he said a man with an unclean spirit what did i say don't allow your issue to do what define you if you're not careful people will try to label you and i want to submit to you what asks you the question what have they labeled you can i say something that's so powerful don't call me by my issue don't call me by my issue please don't call me by my issue i want you to understand it's too much yeah you have to understand that what god is attempting to do in your life the enemy masters weapons of mass distractions he will allow people to put labels on you that try to hold you postage through your past in other words i have an issue i'm gonna see you can get excited about this but my issue doesn't have me can i say that again i have an issue i want to be real cause too many of y'all faking this morning if you got some real issues just type me in the comment right there if you have some real issues just type me somebody type you preaching to me if you make your life look good but truth be told you got some issues hear me when i say this i'm not preaching to everybody cause some of y'all gonna keep faking in front like you got this whole thing figured out even the folk with good money in the bank with a good house and a good family still got some issues can i celebrate and have church by myself i'm so grateful that yes i have issues but my issues don't have me yes i have issues but my issues don't have me this man issue has him out of control look at verse two when he got out of the boat immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met him and he had his dwelling among the what tombs be careful when you're comfortable in dead places and around dead people the evil spirit caused the man to dwell in the darkest most eerie place imaginable and living in the dark and eeriness further aggravated his condition that's critical he says and he was dwelling among the tombs can i help you real quickly can i help you why was this man living among the tombs now culturally understand that at the graveyard there were these caves that were sort of like apartments so it was not unnatural for somebody to live in a tomb that's where poor people would stay but we have to understand the reason this man was comfortable in the tunes was not because the man wanted to be there because if you keep reading further jesus tells him once he heals this brother go to your family which is indicative of the fact that the man's family he comes from something life drove him to nothing i'm in the wrong church today he comes from something but life drove him to nothing can i pause and parenthetically digress and submit to somebody who finds yourself in a difficult dark season right now around people that the old you would have never been around that you've been beating yourself up frustrated and irritated and aggravated like god how did i end up here stop beating yourself up sometimes life happens this brother is in the tomb watch this because his issue thrived there if you're not careful your geography will be based off your pathology if you're dealing with cancer they have a certain place you can go for that you're dealing with uh plastic surgery you want plastic surgery there's a certain type of place you go for that all right so so you you just don't go to a regular hospital for that no they have a certain type of place you go for that ear nose and throat there's a certain place you go for that if you tell your acl there's a certain place you go for that is it possible that you grew enough to know you got an issue but not enough to know who to take it to i'm talking heavy today i'm talking heavy today that's why seven of y'all keep sneaking on this stream every week and can't figure out why you can't stop watching it it's because for years you knew you had something wrong you just been taking it to the wrong doctor there are certain things there are certain when i tore my acl i didn't go to my primary care physician when i tore my acl i didn't go to my primary care physician i didn't go to dr smith no no i went to another doctor who specialized in joints but when i need a yearly physical i go to my primary care physician now here's what's crazy my primary care physician can recommend a specialist but my specialists don't have authority to tell me who my primary care position can be too many of you got your roles mixed up you you you got people who trying to take care of everything who should have just been focusing on one thing i'm preaching today this is why i am so secure as a pastor that i can look at you and say yes i'm your pastor primary care but you might need to watch so and so for this did you guess that that's why i'll bring in the latrice ryan cause our sense that we need some deliverance in our church it's something it's something that i can do but may not specialize in so i bring it you are an immature spouse immature leader immature parent if you think you can be everything to this individual there are certain times when i tell my wife now go hang with your friends because they're going to give you a level of laughing and joy that you just can't get from the responsibility of being my wife and too many of us i'm talking heavy today too many of us are comfortable in dead places that's cold-blooded comfortable and dead places he was living amongst the tomb i need you to catch this now because look at this verse three and he had his dwelling among the tombs and no one was able to bind him anymore did you catch that did you catch that we're gonna always be a church that researches all the texts no one was able to bind him what's the key word anymore no one was able to bind him anymore why's that important pmj that speaks to a gradual progression of his issue i want to do that again buying him anymore that speaks to a gradual progression of the strength of his issue so what happens is when he first got the issue he had a problem but folk would contain it the text says the issue grew so strong that it got to the point now where could nobody bind it this is for seven of y'all who your attitude used to be a point where certain people can calm you down now can't nobody tell you nothing that's for father y'all who yes you've always had a smart mouth but at least in the company of certain people you ain't cussing at the food but now your issue is so dominant you actually think it can come out in front of anybody i'm preaching to somebody and one of the most toxic places you can be insanity is when you get to a place that you can no longer control your issue if i'm preaching to somebody somebody ought to just shout preach pastor mike preach pastor mike cause they sitting here sleeping on me and they're gonna make me prophesy all their issues in a minute because i this sermon must be making some of them uncomfortable because any other sunday they would be shouting and standing up and looking at me doing stuff like this and all that right there and they would have been walking around and all that but today everybody want to sit on your boy cause when i was talking about the new house you wanted to shout when i was talking about the promotion you wanted to shout but when i started talking about that little demon that's in your closet that don't come out until about 9 45 when i started talking about that foolishness that's in your nightstand that you pull out whenever you feel by yourself you now you don't want to shout but i came to submit to you that the devil should have killed you when he had the chance you about to break loose from every insane cycle every insane person every insane issue the devil better loose you and let you somebody ought to just shout i feel that i feel that i feel oh you gonna shout now huh i feel that hear me when i say this no one could bind him [Music] anymore my wife and i can be fussing or i can be super mad when my dad get in the room it's got to stop he has the key to my lock that's cold-blooded if you are comfortable allowing your issue to thrive around everybody you my friend are possessed some of us have issues in our possession and some of us are possessed by issues oh my god i'mma back that up and say it again some of us have issues in our possession meaning yes we'd like to do this yes we like to do you may smoke you may drink you may lie you may cuss you may sleep around uh you may be depressed i don't know what the issue is all of us have different issues but whatever it is some of us have it in our possession which is why you can be doing good there's something to happen and makes an appearance but then conviction sets in and you do what you dominated again then some of you are possessed by your issue which means you couldn't stop if you wanted to i bet my stream's going down everybody logging off this morning everybody logging off this morning seven of y'all ought to tag three people and shout you better get your butt in here you need to hear this because i've been trying i'm preaching i am preaching to the people who were in this conversation this week about stuff you've been trying to stop and couldn't and you've been saying god give me strength the problem is you've been trying to allow people who aren't strong enough to bind what you're dealing with y'all don't like me today and no one was able to bind him anymore even with a chain no one i ain't through i got a minute even with a chain let's go line by line precept my precept because the church has been uh too many of us are are guilty of spiritual malpractice there are too many pastors and too many worship leaders songwriters who are guilty of spiritual malpractice we are giving a culture phrases without doctrine we say what we heard without the conviction of what it meant if we're not careful we're going to be telling people to be chain breakers when we don't realize it is not us who's supposed to break the chain god is the chain breaker insanity is when you switch roles with god am i preaching to anybody insanity tristan is when you switch roads with god waymaker miracle worker promise keeper light in the darkness my god there's none like you then we say he's a chain breaker and we get excited but the immature ear hurt chain breaker and went home and tried to break some stuff that they weren't qualified to break the chain in this instant wasn't to hurt him it was to help him see insanity is the improper assessment of what tool god is using y'all miss what i just said improper assessment improper assessment improper assessment this this is a belt this is the belt trisome okay so so you remember you use a little boy you get in trouble and what they do they say don't make me take my belt off all right and then you'd be terrified of the belt why are you terrified of the belt because the belt in the right hand represented a weapon but now that you've grown and picked up some weight you appreciate that belt cause the same thing in one hand that is discipline and another function is support so so insanity is viewing all things as equal this might be the heaviest sermon of the series insanity it's viewing all things as equal so when i see a chain i need to break it no no no no god said no we chained him why pmj is right there because he was cutting himself i put him in chains to help him the devil put you in chains to hurt you i'ma break his chains i'ma leave you with knees the chains and what i've discovered is i hope you catch this the season of my life where i lost my mind was the season i broke the chain y'all don't hear me and chains had been torn apart by who him and the shackles broken in what pieces and no one was strong enough to what subdue him no one was strong enough to subdue him i wish i had a young person watching me who swear your mama don't want you to shine and your parents getting on your nerves be very careful when you that young that immature and can't be bound subdue them that's critical that's critical look look at mark 5 5. constantly night and day he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains and gnashing himself with what stones i want to read an excerpt from my book i don't like myself it's available on um wherever you purchase your books i want you to catch this it says by becoming self-aware you gain ownership of reality and becoming real you become the master of both inner and outer life that's deepak shapar i want you to catch this now it says by becoming self-aware you gain ownership of reality and becoming real you become the master of both inner and outer life when you don't possess self-awareness you experience perpetual pain caused by detrimental decisions birth out of a morbid maladjusted mindset that's a heavy prognosis right there when you don't possess self-awareness you you you are possessed by perpetual pain caused by detrimental decisions they're going to leave it on the screen for you birthed out of a morbid maladjusted mindset let me make that make sense perpetual means what cycles pain means what things that hurt you have a perpetual a cycle of pain what is causing this cycle of pain detrimental decisions what does detrimental mean destructive bad so i now have a cycle of pain that is caused by bad decisions that were birthed out of a morbid what's morbid death what's maladjusted a dead mindset did you catch that so can i read it backwards a dead mindset causes you to birth detrimental decisions and leave you in perpetual pain the problem with many of you insanity the problem with many of you is not the fact that you live it it's the fact that you live it same word two different ways you doing all you can to please you and i need you to understand detrimental decisions can i ask you a real question that won't nobody ask you how many decisions do you wish you could give back huh how many contracts have you signed that you wish you could rip up how many yeses have you given to people who weren't even worthy of a note i saw you post something this morning james that just tickled me you said them hey you said then this is you going on now like you already let's not do this you already know what it is let's not even stop entertaining gay at people one of my favorite movies growing up was six cents who ever seen that sixth sense that was my joint they said when dead people walked in the room the lights would flicker then all of a sudden they get cold you can see your breath so i'm tripping this morning right so everything that could go wrong this morning going wrong i can't find my jeans i can't find my shirts like i'm tearing the room i can't find nothing to wear all of a sudden the lights start flickering all right so y'all know i'm crazy lights start flickering i'm like i did what any normal christian would do god forgive me who else tried to get that quick god forgive me here real quick god forgive me but anyway i just saw the light flickering and it made me think about the movie and i said to myself this is so cold-blooded that movie the theology of sixth sense said that when death was near or dead people were near there were signs maybe we'll talk about this this tuesday what are the signs of the walking dead jesus christ the text says he is in the tombs day and night screaming among the tombs and in the mountains gnashing himself we must also have a commitment not only to self-awareness am i helping anybody am i helping you this morning self-improvement we're not just going to be aware of an issue we're going to improve on that issue i want you to look at this quote it's going to bless your life formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune a formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune a lot of you are intelligent and ignorant that was a heavy statement ain't it a lot of you watching me are intelligent and ignorant you know everything in a book don't know nothing about you you can read every self-help book you want and listen to every life coach you got if you don't have a grasp on who you are you're not going to become what god called you to be in today's society it's more acceptable to make a post on social media about what our goals are and what we plan on doing to achieve them than it is to actually achieve them i often see post about someone's first day towards a new goal and a hashtag day one rarely do i see a follow-up just reading a couple excerpts from my book look what it says to that end i don't know if it really helps us to post our ambitions on social media that false sense of accomplishment we feel when we receive affirmation in the form of likes shares and reposts is flattery of the worst kind subtle and sneaky it swindles our subconscious into evoking emotions of satisfaction we don't yet deserve to feel because we haven't actually done anything to earn that kind of gratification that like that shared that comment tricks you into believing you've earned something you have yet to earn you want to work out you take a picture at the gym day one we never see day nine y'all don't like me today with that said thank you terrell less announcements more moves stop being a slave to instant gratification that's cold-blooded ain't it mark five and six y'all tired of me but when he saw jesus with all of this stuff wrong with him this could preach can't it when he saw jesus watch this afar off pause let's leave that on the screen for a second i want to see who can catch this if this was bible study i put a mic in front of you what's the coldest thing about this when he saw jesus from afar off what's the coldest thing come on think with me far off why is far off important you can't see him from that far but it is a negligence to the prodigal son how the father saw the sun from afar off which lets us know that there is a principle of vision that even with an issue there is still the ability to see what you need which means he wanted to be better he didn't have the strength to be better but i'm going to help you real quick because pastor mike i don't know if that's true i don't know if that's true because i want you to see this seeing jesus from a distance he ran up and bowed down before him that means he paid homage he paid homage to jesus even with my issue i worship james 2 and 19 i may have church you say you have faith for you to believe that there is one god good for you even the demons believe this and they tremble that's good and terror i want you to catch this even the issue said that's jesus uh we gotta we gotta press rerun right i don't think they caught that no one could bind him so when tristan walked up to him with the chains the demons laughed when you walked up to him with chains the demons laughed when the demon saw jesus from a distance he ran to jesus now here's what's cold-blooded here's what's cold-blooded here's what's cold-blooded here's what's cold-blooded he's in the what tombs there's only one man can make you come out of dead places the text says i gotta catch you that at that name i'm gonna have church by myself of jesus every knee should bow in heaven on earth and under the earth we miss that enter in heaven on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that jesus christ fix it is lord to the glory of god the father i'm gonna say something and only seven real saints gonna catch this i'm gonna say something and ten of y'all ought to cut your volume up so the kids in your house can hear it if your house is going to hell and people in your house is losing their mind i'm gonna say a name that at that name everything has to bow jesus i wish i had a hundred people who can just say that name with me jesus i dare a hundred folk to type that name jesus that if your children acting crazy i say jesus if your marriage has been crazy jesus i'ma give you 30 seconds i need somebody to say that name i need somebody to say that name jesus if covet is in your body jesus if cancer is in your body jesus if depression has your mind jesus if low self-esteem is trying to drive you crazy jesus if your family is divided jesus if your finances are low jesus if your mind is driving you're crazy jesus i need a hundred folks who believe that there is a name above every name and at that name every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess and that name is jesus somebody type jesus somebody type jesus somebody type jesus somebody type jesus it's old school but it still works that name still works that name still works that name still works that name still works that name still works that name still works that name [Applause] [Music] some of our kids get ready to go back to school and i don't agree with it but i gotta say since i have no control over it right now i just speak jesus over every school in this city over every school in this county over every school your child go to over every school in america i declare jesus for every teacher that sickness has to bow covet has to bow demons have to bow there is a name [Music] demon tripping right demon in the cave in the man he see jesus from a distance he runs up he bows that's a beautiful word which means props he pays homage one of my favorite movies is planet of the apes uh one of my nicknames is caesar i want to be one of those people who lead my people out of bondage right and caesar does something in his culture that he has a bond which means authority tristan whenever he wanted to do something that he didn't know he could do he would hold his hand out and this and his owner would graze his hand which means i give you authority when he gets locked up he's being bullied he does an assessment of where he is he lets the biggest ape out the person who's in charge the little monkey who's in charge he stands in front of him and puts his hand out the monkey looks at his protection and says i can't win this and he submits what happens is when this demon sees jesus the demon knows the power that's in him this is why when you're going through you don't want to come to church it ain't that you feel fake the demon in you is telling you don't go whoever been sick and didn't even want to go to the hospital you say something i'm gonna be good i feel like i go to the hospital they gonna say something wrong look at this y'all don't like me today cause we quote scripture wrong i'm gonna read it again philippians 2 10 and 11 that at that name jesus every knee should bow and we go to shout no we can't stop there because there's a comma in it in heaven and on earth and under the earth [Music] angels humans demons angels humans devils he runs up to jesus and he bows but look at verse 7 and shouting with the loud voice he said what business do we have with each other jesus son of god the most high in other words no i see you all right can i can i show you how cold-blooded this is there's a man inside the man is away demons okay he sees a man walking up who's jesus but inside of him is who son of god most high jesus earthly name messianic title watch this you ain't just mary's baby jesus you ain't joseph's son jesus you ain't the carpenter jesus you are the savior watch this death which is the demon saw life coming darkness saw light coming depression saw peace coming hell so heaven coming you you want to know what when i first saw you i didn't even much like you it ain't because i did not to you your insecurity saw my boldness coming be careful because watch what he says jesus son of the most high god i implore you by god hold on how'd the demon go to worshipping now we gotta y'all be sleeping y'all be sleeping demon's so strong people can't even hold his brother demons so strong he breaking handcuffs off ripping chains the scripture says into pieces breaking shackles into pieces jesus rose up with no chains no ropes no physical force and his whole demeanor change seven people gonna catch this and may scream if you break your computer that's on you this is why folk change when they're around you they know better i had somebody tell me the other day so-and-so don't act like that when you around cause they know better they foolishness can see i'm not to be played with what business do we have with each other i implore you by god do not torment me i want to deal with the superstition of some sayings on somebody's name i'm gonna say it again i want to deal with the superstition of saying one's name the fall of dress is not a confession of jesus's dignity but a desperate attempt to gain control over jesus see the demon didn't say jesus son of the most high god to pay homage he tried to use reverse psychology and subdue him make that make sense pmj i hope you catch this i hope you catch this boys yes sir can somebody bring me the remote doo yeah michael was acting up at school michael get in here see when you got in trouble the street knew you by your nickname mama then would call you by your government name michael dwayne mcclure jr get your butt in here now when i heard the fullness of my name i knew i was in trouble [Music] tiffany renee samuel james how a fortune you better get curtis william glenn that was a superstition if i knew a person's full name i'll let you know i knew where you come from i know who you are and i can have authority over you i don't think you heard what i just said i don't think you heard what i just said this was a desperate attempt to gain control over him he said i implore you by god do not torment me torment beautiful greek word by zeno byzano that's a critical critical important greek word which means pain toil torment toss vex oh hold on demon sees jesus says don't torment me benzeno don't toss me hurt me vex me in other words don't do to me what i've been doing to him [Music] [Applause] [Music] but he had been saying to him come out of the man your unclean spirit verse 9 and he was asking him what is your name and he said to him my name is legion look at the insanity for we are many see i love how the text is verse eight and nine isn't separate it's it's it's the collective i want to read it together because i didn't do a good job of that for he had been saying to him come out of you come out of the man you unclean spirit what is your name that that goes together this is a conversation come out of the man come out of this man you unclean spirit what's your name and he said my name is legion for we are many i wonder how many of your relationships will be salvaged how much of your hurt would be fixed if you would just admit that my lips was moving but what came out i didn't mean because the demon is talking but he has to use the man's lips there are seasons of my life where i say stuff that i didn't agree with i just had some over me which is why when you get upset you pop off before you know it then mid argument people tell you what you said then you say what i ain't say that to you cause you said it from a bad spirit [Music] my name is legion singular for we are many plural i say it all the time within you is an anthropological duality i and we if you're not careful your issue will start speaking for you can i free you you don't want to date them your issue picked them you really don't even want to be on that job your issue picked that job your issue being you're greedy you don't know how to be content you're jealous which is why you're trying your best to acquire so much stuff because you want to get what you saw other people have your car was perfectly fine until so and so got one now all of a sudden you want one your greed caused you to make some decisions you don't think i want to have church i want to have church my love for people is stronger than my insecurity to feel love jesus as he was my name is legion for we are many leslie i didn't play in this but could you give me verses 10 through 17 because i want to read those form and cause somebody watching me today man i feel god it's some stuff you need to get out your mind and out your heart jesus truth of the matter is look at verse 10 and he began to employ him earnestly not to send them out the country now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain i've never paid attention to this this morning watch this the demons implored him saying send us watch this into the swine so that we may enter them jesus gave them watch this permission that's cold-blooded that's cold-blooded i want to argue i want to argue and we can go deeper this week did jesus cast this demon out or did he let him out i know it's semantics but i want to argue because jesus says come out of this man that could be a form of casting out right leslie tiffany that's come out that's what we do in church but then he also gave him permission on the location too many people leave church bound because people are so caught up in the theatrics of casting stuff out and horrible at placement that's why so many people aren't ready to be pastors there are people who portray to have a heart for people that really don't have a heart for people they have a persona that is a heart for people that's a mask if i can be on the phone with you and talk to you and give you lessons that help you come out but then leave when it's time for your placement i just hurt somebody else can i ask you a question can i ask you a question if you were to vomit right now all right and we said oh my god and we helped you get to the restroom but we didn't clean it up everybody left would be sick jesus says i'm not just gonna get it out of you i'm gonna make sure it doesn't get into anything else anyone else how do i know there were other people around i'm gonna show you jesus gave them permission and coming out the unclean spirits entered the swine and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and about 2 000 of them and they were drowned in the sea look at this verse their herdsmen had jesus just casted them out the demon could have gotten a herdsmen because watch this a demon is a spirit without a body which is why the devil couldn't do nothing on earth till he took over the snake once he got the snake he was then able to talk to eve because any any spirit without a body on earth is illegal i told you that which is why that's not liquor it's spirits which is why they don't call it the abc store they call it the what spirit store because in those bottles are the power to overcome you which is why the spirit takes control jesus says come out pause but the demon knew can we pick go into the pigs the herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country i want to pause for a minute i want to pause for a minute pause for a minute pray for me i see everything in the text i see the criticality of cleaning your circle [Music] i see the danger of proximity these people whole business crashed because one man was around him [Music] we so busy talking about the brother who got free we don't see the men who lost their whole herd herdsmen denotes that's their profession fisher man is a person who fishes their business died because you got delivered [Music] as we stand on the precipice of the stellars and all this stuff james i've been heavy because i've been everybody's been saying fast i'm like you're gonna win something i'm like god bless you but i've been feeling overwhelming weight because i don't know what got to die [Music] curtis you winning can cause some in them to die [Music] that's crazy ain't it pigs are known to be the filthy what animals pigs are known to be the filthiest how did jews feel about pigs say it leslie don't touch them don't touch that animal right there jesus i'll tell you what go where you belong the herdsmen ran away and reported in the city and in the country and the people came to see what it was that had happened verse 15. they came to jesus and observed the man i want you to pay very close attention to this and if you're still with me stay they came to jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down they saw the man who was insane sitting down clothed [Music] in his right mind the very man who had the legion and they became frightened paul's [Music] how he's screaming all night cutting himself and they sleep but when he in his right mind they scared there are certain people who like you better crazy there are certain people who like you better wild there are certain people who like you better broke they're not going to be able to deal with the fact that you got your money right you got your mind right you got your spirit right those who had said it described it to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man watch this and about the swine look at the next verse and they began to implore verse 17 is so important they employ they begin to implore him to leave their region verse 18 and as he was getting in the boat i want you to catch this this script that that virgin didn't do it justice they're asking jesus to leave not the man they see what happened now who did this hey jesus we need you to leave and i want to repent i want to repent because when i read this this morning holy spirit said michael how many times have you asked me to leave this is why curtis to everybody from rock city when the spirit get to move and i won't preach because my arrogance to feel like i gotta preach this sunday may be asking his spirit move that's why that's why that's why i spent all week preparing a message y'all getting here in worship and the glory fall and i say not today because my eagerness to to preach may be telling jesus leave it's my turn [Music] and the crowd began pleading verse 18. as he was getting in the boat the man who had been insane begged to go with him go 19 leslie but jesus said no you see this now go home to your family and tell them stay right there everything the lord has done for you and how merciful he is me i want you to catch this jesus i see something that me people miss jesus i see something that people miss what's that mike you told your disciples leave everything including your family and follow me you tell this brother who acts to come go to your family why is that jesus because there are certain people i'm assigned to then there are certain people who are just my assignments no those of you who are assigned to me leave them no brother i don't need you walking with me i need you to be a billboard for me it was my job to get you free now go home one of the hardest things you have to learn how to do the last quarter of 2020 is telling people no i was wondering if we can go to lunch no no no no this is crazy isn't it he let the other people who were who got miracles following why not him [Music] why not him next verse so the man started off to visit the 10 towns of that region and began to proclaim the great things jesus had done for him and everyone was amazed look at this here's the answer here's the answer i freed you to be a witness he went to ten towns telling them about who jesus this was all my spiritual sons who spiritual daughters sometimes who say past i just want to hang with you there are certain people going to hang with me there are certain people that your assignment does not require proximity can i free you real quickly can i free you can i free you this is my own revelation if it goes too deep just charge it to my head not my heart okay hey brother i freed you and jesus does nothing incomplete so when i freed you from the demon i fixed all the other stuff that was wrong here you good disciples y'all stay with me because y'all got some growing up to do stop thinking cause you ain't close something wrong with you sometimes the people close to you because them the ones you got to watch the most some of you think you special cause you hanging don't realize you're really hanging cause we realize if we don't keep you close you'll fall off [Music] and then certain people you never call cause you can see they've matured to the place where they can complete their assignment [Music] don't let your insecurity insanity is the improper assessment of where you've been planted i want to submit to you that god is doing a good thing in you i pray in the name of jesus real simple i heard dr jamal bryan say this and it blessed my life god your will nothing more nothing less nothing else i am real enough to admit there are some things in my life i need god to fix i'm not perfect i thank you for the love you showed me i thank you for the honor you give me but there are seasons of my life where i feel like that man nobody can find me [Music] i heard something that was so powerful yesterday and i hope i quote it right it said the light is on you because of the light that's in you but if the light that's on you is brighter than the light that's in you it'll burn you up did i say that right and as god begins to take me to heights and expose me to the world all i've been praying is god don't let the light that's on me be bigger than the light that's in me [Music] that's why we left from nashville and rushed back doing 100 miles an hour just to get to football practice i don't want my boys to feel like daddy blew up and disappeared that's why as exhausted as we are right now standing right here live preaching to you because i want you to know i love you i cherish this unique assignment that god has given me and i believe god has placed me in front of you this morning to say to you what he said to this unnamed brother we don't know his name the only name we know is the name of the demon legion he says come out and i look at you bowling and i say to you on the other side of this camera come out come out of depression come out of this cancerous cycle that you find yourself in come out of the pit come out of insecurity i want to speak to you that there is nothing wrong with you it's just not your time and no matter how hard you pray no matter how hard you work when it's not your time it's just not your time be comfortable in knowing that when god is ready it's gonna blow your mind can you lift your hands right where you are please please yeah lift your hands right there as they lift their hands in submission i touch and agree that the very thing they need god to do it shall be done for them if it's in his will and in his timing i pray right now that we will become sensitive to the spirit and realize god is not by power nor by might but by your spirit i pray god that we would humbly submit ourselves to your process that yes god we all have hopes dreams and ambitions nevertheless thy will be done god with our hands lifted we surrender we freeze have your way real soft rod have your way [Music] god we give you honor we give you praise we give you honor we give you praise god to the person who hasn't logged off who's crying tears because god they're overwhelmed tired [Music] i speak strength i speak joy we know the joy of the lord is our strength i pray right now god that you will let them know that there's more living to do that it's all a part of the process that you are molding and shaping and making mending and even breaking but it's for our purpose so father we thank you father oh yes god we thank you for just being god i want you to repeat after me say lord i surrender say lord i surrender i give you my heart give you my life i give you my mind take over you have my attention in jesus name

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Published: Sun Aug 16 2020