Dan Mohler Normal Christianity Part 3 of 3

amazing songs to go the word gospel' just means good news what you're preaching isn't good news you're not preaching the gospel I know it doesn't sound real deep but that's pretty profound to me look it's not the reprimand of God that changes your life it's the goodness of God and there's old school mindsets out there you gotta preach the fear of the Lord well when you see his love and you see his goodness there's an awesome reverence that comes I absolutely revere him no one has ever loved me like God loves me to me no one has ever touched me like he's touched me he hasn't enabled me to stay the same he's empowered me to change I'm just in love with Jesus and he's amazing the gospel is good news it almost hinges and borderlines on fairytale and it almost seems like a mystery and if not if it's not preached clear people can't understand the love he has for us so we get mystified by it and we have questions about and then we can never see his first love we just hear he loves us but we can't imagine why because we know our lives that were lived and sometimes our values based on what we've performed or not performed and then love is a mystery and we scratch our heads how can he love me and the reason you asked that question is because you weigh your value based on what you've lived instead of what you were created for and what he knows about your potential Jesus shed his blood to redeem what was lost guys he didn't shed his blood just because we're sinners he had to die because we sinned but he died to redeem our value I was taught my whole life he died on the cross because I'm a sinner no he had to die because I sinned he didn't die cuz I'm a sinner he didn't die to leave me a sinner he died to restore me back to truth and separate me from sin God cursed sin in the flesh sin shall have no dominion over me I'm supposed to wake up every day and present my members not unto unrighteousness but unto righteousness he said I'm free from sin reckon myself dead to sin in a under God in Christ Jesus to me that's good news to me that puts integrity inside of me it builds character back up in me it causes me to want to walk with one and live with one so lovely and amazing come on in my in my life I was judged for what I did and didn't do in Jesus I'm judged for what I'm created for and he's inviting me into that come on the cross doesn't expose your sin it removes yourself he's the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world let's stop trying to fight a battle he already won and this is reckon ourselves dead to it it's stained it's memory its reminder its impulses and let's say wait a minute I wasn't created for the flesh I was created for the spirit and if I live according to the spirit I will not fulfill the lust of the flesh Holy Spirit have your way in me ravaged me changed my heart I'm ready to roll with you I'm telling you we so relate to human failure we think we got to build up our ability to fail to make God higher he told us to come up higher he told us were seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus he said get your mind off the earth and into the place where heaven is it's not high-minded it's Jesus it's true he said anyone enlisted in the army of God in the book of Timothy no longer in tackles himself in the affairs of this life why he's been sanctified he's separated he's called out of darkness into the light you have been delivered and you're translated into the kingdom of the son of his love it's Colossians chapter 1 it's there it's amazing I'm not gonna live from the place of what I was I'm gonna live from the place of what I've become everything's changes the gospel brings change to everything my attitudes my perspectives my motivations my whole reason for being changes now that he lives inside of me I'm not here to survive I'm not praying for a better day I'm not hoping all my ducks line up or in a row I'm being transformed by being one with him in relationship with him so that no matter what happens I can shine and make known through my life he didn't promise me a smooth ride he promised me everything necessary to make me like him he really did guys it's in the Bible that stop saying well that was Jesus yeah we're the body of Christ and Christ in me is the hope of glory there's probably a relation there one of the biggest mistakes we make in the body of Christ in an attempt to be humble which is a false humility we think our ability to fail makes us failures we think our ability to sin makes us sinners and then the trees never clarified the trees never made good so the fruit remains the same you make a tree good you got brand-new fruit you teach somebody who they are and everything changes you tell them they shouldn't be doing that and they need to knock it off they probably won't understand and they'll feel like they're really failing and then if the tree is a failure then you better believe their fruits gonna look failed you teach somebody who they are their life will transform the only reason men are caught in the things they're caught in is because they don't know who they are Jesus proved it hanging on a cross forgive them father they don't know what they're doing what's he saying they're blind deceived they don't see but I'm the light man what a gospel guys I don't know why I feel so intense passionate about this thing like almost Stern don't don't hear me wrong don't think I'm mad at anybody this thing is amazing it's good news he shed his blood for it he gave his life he thinks that his death is worth you living in him that's what he believes he believes him dying come on I get serious about this thing I sit on my bed when you're nowhere around and I think about this stuff I think about I hope my by looking I think you your God and you let Holy Spirit put you inside a woman he sat in there for nine months just like you and me did in our mamas knew he was gonna do that he was born of a woman totally dependent on her she had to change his little raggy things because they didn't have pampers they went whatever they didn't have the conveniences in those days he had to nurse on her breasts the Son of God nursed by a woman I don't know about you I think about this he was God a minute ago now he laid everything down to become a man why because he had to win as a man he had to crush the devil as a man he had to fulfill what man failed and do it as a man so a man's blood is on the mercy seat paying for all men he didn't do it as God he did it as a man he must think a lot of you to go inside the womb of a woman no he's God he must think a lot of you to have to sweat get tired and poop and pee and be hungry he was God he didn't have to do any of that but he chose to he wanted to come in the likeness of sinful flesh yet without sin to pay the price for mankind to usher you back into what you were created for he must think about you when disgusted I know you can't tell I'm doing my best to calm down God became a man he must think a lot of human the captain of our salvation the perfect sacrifice why came in the likeness of sin and was tempted at all points yet without sin he fulfilled the law he didn't come to erase it he came to fulfill it He fulfilled all righteousness and then he died unjustly and now his innocent blood speaks on behalf of the guilty that would repent get humble and be ready for change the humble that would say I've been driving the car I'm giving you the wheel I was living for me in your name now I'm living for you in your name I used to incorporate you into my life now I'm letting you become my life I used to pray for you for what you could do for me now I pray to you for how you could make me more like you cuz I want this light to shine like you shown it in me come on I'm preaching the gospel to you and it's good news don't get mad at it and don't get frustrated at it and don't say well that ain't what I learned when I was growing up look if what you learned when you were grown up hasn't produced life and you're not super encouraged and excited about your existence then you probably haven't heard the truth because truth makes you free oops I step it on your Sunday School teachers ain't stepping on your Bible summer stuff what I'm saying is there's a lot of versions of Jesus out there and there's a lot of messages of the gospel but when I look at his life I see one and he said follow me and that's what I'm doing and that's what I'm compelling you to do I'm telling you don't just sing to him and don't just pray to him when things are tight and don't just pray to catch a break and get a better job you submit to him when nobody's looking you kneel before him and give yourself wholly to him and you ask that wonderful Holy Spirit to form you and shape you and make you like your father so that you look through his eyes and see what he sees so you begin to love like he loves so your days of anger and frustration and bitterness and pride and all that stuff is over and all the sudden you put it to death and you put on him it's good news I know I'm pretty passionate and serious about it but you can tell I'm happy I'm not mad at nobody and the last thing I want to do is miss what he accomplished I think about this stuff guys let me go back to that thing think about that he was slain before the foundation that were all born of a woman knew he was going to die knew it was going to be unjust and he did it to bring life to us and get us back to the truth get that lie off for you and me Matthew 18 says he came to save that which was lost not who he came to save that which was lost he's not talking about a drunk in a back alley he's not talking about a drug addict he's not talking about a prostitute she's talked about your destiny your identity and your created value and what you were made to be before sin he came to save that which was lost and it's the truth about creation and man's value mm-hmm he's so intense about it that he put himself in flesh to pay the price to get that thing back he must think a lot of you and me in him he must know what we look like when we're submitted and surrendered and he lives inside of us he must know who we are from the beginning huh I'll bet God's on to this thing bet he knows what we're capable of in faith in grace I'll bet he knows the potential of our lives and he thinks it's worth dying for let's not make this about a prayer to go to heaven please please please spare ourselves from just making this all about us catching a break now and then in a blessing let's let this be about his life in us and his life through us so all men would know that God sent his son man you chin up and you be excited the Spirit of God has come to live in us the same spirit of race Christ in the dead if I believe that I'm not taking your words personal I don't have people issues it's not a he-said she-said world I live in it's a Christ in me the hope of glory and I'm gonna love you period I promise you you can don't you think I'm like this cuz everything goes the way I wanted to I've been like this for 20 years and I'm getting worse you know I'm getting worse not because life is always great because he's faithful and amazing and I know him more than I ever knew him before he makes me this way I don't mean to look weird and flaky to you and overdramatic I'm just telling you he makes me this way sober serious calculated an understanding while I'm alive and I'm not gonna stumble over the weakness of flesh you know comment from a person or a derogatory thing or email that's not positive or I know who he is and I know who I am now that doesn't make me proud but it sure gives me great boldness and strength just for what you see in me is his fault [Laughter] and I'm left me and in love with me showed me who I am and who I'm created to be he's teaching me that I didn't just pray a prayer to go to heaven in fact I didn't get saved to go to heaven heaven came back into me the kingdom of God is at hand this thing is real he ain't playing he died and he rose from the dead and it says because he rose I'm justified justified means just as if you've never sinned so through the blood of Jesus he's looking at me as if I've never sinned he's not in denial he's seeing me for the present and for the future he's seeing me for potential and destiny he doesn't want me to look back I said it this morning I'm not Lot's wife I'm his wife I'm looking up from whence came my heart I'm not looking back from where I came I'm not looking back at what they did to me and what they didn't do to me what they said and what they didn't say I'm done feeling sorry for myself and making my story my reason for staying the same I'm gonna let his story be the reason to change I'm done living in yesterday it's not mine he paid for it the Bible says you have the present and things to come you don't have the past he bought it he threw it in a sea of forgetfulness you died remember why you remember in a dead man why are you letting all your emotions and all your feelings channel through the same old way of thinking instead letting Jesus make all things brand-new why don't you learn to not make it about yourself and make it about his name and glory and stuff won't bite so hard things people did to you won't hurt so bad I mean it's possible to be a young lady it's possibly a young man and don't you think that I don't understand what I'm talking about and you get touched wrong at a very young age it's possible to get in Christ and look back at that scenario and start to feel bad and sad for the person that did it because if they had any clue who they were they wouldn't be living in that depraved way and they wouldn't be putting that thing on the soul of a young person the Bible says if you hurt a little child if you caused a little one to stumble it'd be better you not even be born or a millstone around your neck and cast into the sea than you even be born and and he says don't you cause these little wants to stumble and you don't even understand and realize that somebody is so lost and so blind and so deceived to do something like they were just quick to say well they're evil they're this they are lost and they are deceived and there's blood crying out for them don't you tell me they're unredeemable don't you let what they did dictate your life for the rest of your life and make your heart hard and cold don't you hate them so bad that you don't even realize you're making them Lord because they're governing your life you're singing Jesus is Lord and you're who you are because of what they did not what he did now you've got walls and broken trust and you won't let anybody to arms-length and all this stuff and it's all because of what happened to you here instead of what happened to you here be very careful you don't make that mistake be very careful you don't get trapped in self-preservation self sorrow self-pity don't say Dan you can't talk to me that's insensitive you don't know my story friend you don't know my story we don't need to ask that all of our lives it's heaven on earth we're talking about come on I'm being real why do I need to tell my ugly and compared to your ugly it's not about the hell it's about heaven I'm sorry people have sinned I'm sorry people touched us wrong I'm sorry uncle's did bad things I'm sorry dads weren't there to love us like they could I wish it wouldn't happen but Adam ate that tree and we were born into him but I thought we got born again I thought we got born again I didn't think God said he had to make all that old stuff straight I didn't think people had to make up for what they failed I thought he just made it right I just thought he called me out of darkness and put me in the light I just thought he saved me from me and then he saved me from you see when I got free from me it makes me very free from you there's now you don't owe me anymore I can finally love you because if it's all about me I need you for me and if I need you for me that's not a good day Dale if I'm your friend man and I sincerely love you but I need you to be something for me to be okay I've set you up to fail me I've set you up to disappoint me I've set you up to fail my friend and then if you do that I have a reason for being the way I am because look what Dale did to me and all sudden when I hear Dale's name all I can think about is what he didn't fulfill instead of what he's called to and now I'm just another hurting Christian that goes to church that I doesn't understand the gospel now I said that I get reduced to another confessing Christian that goes to church and doesn't understand the gospel I'm not being mean I said that I said it twice in all you're getting get understanding if the way you're thinking isn't producing life isn't forgiving people isn't believing the best then it's not the kingdom of God because on your darkest day on your darkest most willful day he did not lose sight of you and he didn't lose sight of who you're called to be and when you came to him he didn't reprimand you he opened up his arms and embraced you and said welcome home son yeah don't you tell me I have a right to be offended now that I've been forgiven of everything I've ever done don't you tell me I have a right to have an attitude towards you and pride and presumption towards you now that he sees me for truth not yesterday don't you tell me I have a privilege to be in anything less than what I see in him and he's remarkable ain't gonna let what a man says or doesn't say change what he's done I'm gonna let him rule my life are you following me like Paul said I with great boldness of speech I talk to you do you know why because I've lived this way for twenty years and you don't have to believe me time will tell I got nothing to hide pastor sang and it's all out in the open baby yeah so when it all comes down you're gonna find out you ever hear me misty Edwards sing that song I don't want to be offended cuz it's all coming down you just think how petty an offense is one human being ruling who you are today one action giving you the right to cop an attitude talk a friend about it tell them off give them a piece of your mind while now the world's a better place come on man I want it to sound foolish so you don't ever give yourself to it now the Christ just come I'm not being smart I'm not being cynical I'm being real all sudden you're standing for your rights and defending yourself and all of a sudden you're letting people decide who you are and you're singing he's your potter and everything around you is deciding you instead of the one that lives inside of you and all the sudden life is speaking louder than truth but truth makes you free no the sudden you're no stronger than the weakness you're surrounded by and yet the Living Christ is on the inside come on man I'm preaching good news well I'm bringing it to I can feel it it feels like it feels like a sword it is isn't it his words sharper than any sword it's a hammer it'll break the hardest to heart and it'll go deep it'll discern and split asunder the thoughts of the soul go to the joints in the marrow where to go changes things look if we're not pursuing to become love and being more like him we're gonna miss the point of why he came the whole goal of our instruction is love guys Jesus didn't die on the cross to bless us he died on the cross to give us the life we were created for and that life is in him that's why when he rose from the dead he breathed into his disciples why he restored the breath that was lost throughout him sin God breathed into man and that was lost through sin so Jesus paid for sin and breathe back into man and all the sudden we're back to day one as if sin never happened say I didn't I never heard nobody teach me that when I was a kid they just told me I was gonna fail sometime today and probably already did probably woke up sin and probably sinning now and don't even know it that is a lie that's deception that is not the gospel and stop believing it it'll Mar your identity and it'll keep you veiled and it'll keep you feeling unworthy and you're always doing something that you aren't even desiring in your heart confessing for sin and you didn't even do nothing you're just thinking you people are teaching your sinning and you don't even know it you're sending while you're breathing we always send we always send stop that get born-again reckon yourself dead indeed to sin it's in there it's Romans 6 or maybe that ain't supposed to be in God's Word come on 1st Peter 2 says he bore your sin and my sending his body on a tree where is our sin and his body on a tree why so you having died to sin might live in righteousness and by His stripes were healed hmm why is there healing the forgiveness of sin there's not healing because of the consciousness of sin there's healing because of the forgiveness of sin he told the paralytic son take heart come on guys the house was so packed they couldn't get in they tore off the roof and lowered the dude down in through the roof he's paralyzed he can't walk why did they lower him down into the roof so Jesus would heal him probably huh what did Jesus say son take heart your sins are forgiven hey great pal how about getting him up come on I know how we think sometimes we make God a genie in a bottle sometimes we think he's our busboy that's why some folks don't tip him real well he ain't waiting the table right did I say that strike the take man back now come on man he's not your genie in the bottle he's not your wish granter he's not God why you let that happen I thought she loved me he proved his love through the cross not your circumstances if your circumstances have the power to challenge his love you'll never get rooted and grounded in his love and faith will never work through love because it's always in question and now your life is the barometer of his love instead of Christ crucified oh I'm bringing it I hope you're listening you guys listening don't let my passion stumble you I just can't help it the way it comes home he's the way I wasn't like this the whole weekend yeah the way I feel tonight I was coming across a little straight I was pretty silly this morning but boy it was straight but we had fun laughs we had open-heart surgery and didn't even know it didn't I said to her husband I said did you know your wife came and had open-heart surgery and she's doing well she's recovering father can't even tell you look at her he can't even tell what she said I had surgery man this gossip was awesome didn't it okay I know I was in the middle of stuff we need to go back and we'll go back there let's look at second Corinthians real quick seven thanks for being here guys thanks for having Hunger you young man thanks for hanging out this afternoon I had fun with you guys whoever you are wherever you are I know it was a bunch of you Thanks just fun early this morning 9 o'clock folks start rolling in about 9:30 they were really rolling in he's a good group of folks here this morning at 9:30 if you weren't able to come that's fine you're not judged for not being here I'm just thankful for the ones that showed up it's just awesome thanks for being here tonight you know why I'm here cuz I believed you were gonna be so I'm glad I was right you know I didn't come for that offering he took I didn't tell him to take no offering I came cuz I knew you were here he told me he's been sewn into some young folks and they're hungry and I said that's awesome he said I know you get a lot of invites they're not very big but we offer out to other churches or some things we can network we're very small group but would you come I said you better believe I come here cuz I want to be guys I'm here cuz you matter your sphere of influence is amazing we're a majority the faces I'm looking at in light of this community we're a majority when we walk in the light light exposes darkness when we walk in love it changes things guys your workplace the malls just hanging out as pumping gas man what is so hard about us being free and filled with Jesus and not self-conscious and not in fear man I'm gonna talk about presumptious and overbearing and over-aggressive I'm just talking about real and sincere you're pumping gas and you see the arm right beside you on the other side in the side of a body and you just lay around say hey man good morning how are you doing today Boyd you doing good yeah see people ain't used to that he's used to every man for himself each to his own get my gas get on the road and do my thing nope you just interrupt that hey man how are you doing you alright yeah man and as soon as you open the door and make that conversation you'd be amazed how God will put something and hearten the next thing you're saying you think you're making conversation and you're nailing something right on the head you don't even know it and then you realize it and now you got his attention big time all of a sudden you say something out of your mouth like man I feel like you've been overwhelmed like you've been hurting by something it's really close it's family there's your marriage okay you are married right dude who are you what are you asking me about my marriage I'll just feel my heart like man that was heavy in your heart you've been very concerned about something listen I'll just be straight with you I'm a Christian man and Jesus is teaching me Christianity is loving people I just care about you man I may never see you again but I'm telling you I care about how things work out I believe Jesus wants to be Lord and all this stuff it's your marriage okay no man actually you're freaking me out man and I'm wondering why I asked me just cuz I'm standing there thinking what am I gonna do about my mind come on man I can tell you so many stories that though it's so fun when you're self-conscious you won't live that way when you have a low esteem you won't live that way when you're in Christ you're in relationship with him you're in communion with Holy Spirit you understand who he is in you and you'll look through his eyes and it's just fun to be alive life is not a dread we're not trying to get through our high light isn't making it through the day and hugging our pillow at night and saying Oh God come on if that's what you're doing no wonder you can't get up in the morning we call it depression it's just a wrong eye you just don't want to get up and face what almost killed you it doesn't have to kill you people aren't your problem people aren't your enemy you drive we Wars not flesh and blood your war is a lack of understanding and living by faith you fight the good fight of faith you're not fighting the devil you're fighting the good fight of faith come oh I got people think I'll feel that right there in the room yeah but we wrestle not with flesh and blood yeah that's right it's principalities powers so there's a spirit of this age that's in our face all the time trying to subvert you from what you've become now that he came your fight is the good fight of faith why is it a good fight look I grew up in the city I'll fight to fight but it ain't a good fight if you bust it up more than here you'd be all busted up man your lip is swollen you can't even close your mouth right and you talking your friend Stan I told him up man I'm with you got blood busted up I your lip is so I lived I grew up in the city man I'm telling you I went to City Schools I understand it ain't a good fight unless he looks worse than you and it don't matter how you look if he looks worse it's a good fight why is it a good fight because you win it's a good fight because it's worth fighting it's a good fight because you don't have to punch nobody you just believe yeah everything out there's trying to rob you from identity from your god-given purpose everything's trying to tell you who you are everything's vying for your identity and your future don't you sell out to none of it you're not for sale Jesus came and told you who you are by shedding his blood and racing from the dead tilling it's true man preach it man you want it come on man you know you can preach it heaven knows your name man you all right I don't care what the devil says about you man [Laughter] can I turn you to second Corinthians 7 you guys alright good see we started getting silly and laughing and my sister says oh oh no here comes this scalpel I trained you this morning did not I said you know why we're laughing so much it's Holy Ghost anesthesia he gets you giggling in any slices who did she giggling and he dices and you sitting there going and then you're looking over to present are you bleeding no son you had full-blown circumcision of the heart and didn't even feel no pain and because you heard truth in this category when you walk out Holy Spirit has a forever voice in that arena because the words are lies so if you don't so truth no hope of freedom you say well they didn't receive it ah they heard it we spoke it harvest is coming baby something's gonna grow look man I planted so much seed of my life something's going to grow this you just pump you just pumping gas hey man what's that that too on your arm man there's a real story these aren't analogies they're true stories what's that tattoo I've never seen nothing like that pumping gas I said are you really a diabetic hit a circle around his wrist like a like a bracelet he had a tattooed bracelet around his wrist and it was open all through the middle and he had the word diabetic printed on his hand or he said oh yeah I did that in case I'm ever in action or something EMT comes they'll see that hopefully they'll see that understanding my diabetic and do whatever they needed to do and might help me in whatever situation I get in so I just thought wow that's amazing I've never seen anybody do that I said listen man I know you don't know me I'm just passing through town I was on a road trip I don't even know this guy I don't even know if I ever went back through that town again this is a Holy Ghost drive-by then walk and watch my goal is not to get him to pray a prayer to get his name in a book called life I'm there to love him people say well did you did you lead him to the Lord brother I gave him the Lord we get so religious we don't even we missed the whole point not a sudden word cattle ranching people just trying to get him to pray our prayer led 15 to the Lord now they might have tried to get it right for you and just prayed with you now coming out of the bar next week with a woman on her arm and it's not their wife and they say I prayed that prayer last week with that other dude everything's cool what are we teaching people it's lay down your life if it's any man come after me let him pray a prayer to go to heaven now if any man come after me let him deny himself it's not some rigid legalistic command what he's saying is realized you were never made for you you were made for God's image you were made for God's love the reason you're on the earth is to be like your father yourself is the biggest problem on the planet it's not the devil he just he just works with what you give him my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge not the tenacity of the devil he roams around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour who's vulnerable who doesn't understand and he listens and he watches and he tests and he pokes and prods and he finds vulnerability and he strikes people aren't destroyed because of it's nasty of the devil they're destroyed because of lack of knowledge and yet you grow up here in phrases like what you don't know won't hurt you it's a lie what you don't know is destroying you we've been trained by another voice and it wasn't God's you've been trained enough to get your hopes up and the Bible says get it sky-high you've been trained what you see is what you get the Bible says don't ever live by what you see it's subject to change what's unseen is eternal teacher eyes fixed you were raised where he made your bed it's time to lie in it the Bible teaches he made you a brand new one with clean sheets why don't you repent and jump in yeah I'll bet we were trained by a different language than what truth says I said it last night I said all the time we were homeschooled in the wrong home we all graduated nay nobody front the school the wisdom of the world we all passed with flying colors life taught me that way you do me wrong I either hate you mad at you get even or cut you off and talk bad about you try to get one up on you nobody ever taught me to forgive and love and make peace and show mercy that's a pushover passive wimpy dude no I think that's Jesus and I think he's amazing she ever see them cartoons growing up they got a devil on a guy's shoulder and an angel that's just so twisted and the angel is like oh they got it all weak and wishy now and then every once while the devil's like with the fork and just like I promise you it's not like that like a rooster crow [Laughter] I'm just telling you and they like that but that's that stuff that that life wants to put in you and get you thinking like that and thinking that God and angels is be a nice a week a position of weakness love and mercy weakness you got tough enough you won't let anybody walk on you you stand your ground you defend your space that's the devil yeah we don't have a weak Savior he's amazing Devils fear him freaked out my Jesus he's walking the earth they're falling on the ground he and even calling him out they just fallen on the ground cuz he's there ah it's you he's in a man's body he's walking in a man's body and they're like ah it's you who you doing here yep but you're here are you here to torment us before our time see they know their time they know they're done they're toast ain't no chance so they fighting hard to make people that are made in the cyma tune of God look like them take a many with them as they can in the lie they love when you're angry it's a charismatic worship service of the wrong one I love when you flanton Freya Freya and Flay oh and now and then you go to church holy come on holy reverence come on that stuff's been in the church there's circles like that that stuff but let somebody cut you off the road yeah are you a paper but go to church suppression no Express you get somebody kick you off that yeah charismatic worship service no wrong deity wrong God small G so much fun with you guys looking at your faces it's fun looks like a deliverance meeting you guys are awesome I don't know what I'm doing right now do you go you got pray for me man I'm having I'm silly right now another slug they're afraid of Jesus and they love when you're afraid of them spirits love when you're afraid of them the snakes in the grass man they hide they sneak around they don't like to let themselves be known they like to make you think it's your relative and no it's the spirit that they're yielding to it's just there there's an instigator no sudden you think it's flushing blood they usually snakes in the grass very deceitful there's times they come out of the grass and just go boo you know why they do that cuz you go ah they love that stuff people are wigged out by witchcraft spiritual stuff wigged out it's because we don't have a revelation of Jesus you got nothing to fear Jesus is amazing you don't know this about me but I've been involved in a lot of stuff I've been called in to a lot of things I've just experienced a lot of stuff in my life I've seen people levitate that were possessed and God walked that spirit I've seen stuff floating in rooms I've seen crib toys in the baby's crib hovering over the baby and the mom is freaked out seen flashlights going across from counter to counter come on it's an invisible sphere it's just a stupid magic trick why are you so freaked out because the flashlight floated across the room you just can't see the spirit so later you can see there it goes there it goes I'm thinking why so what do you do you just go take the flashlight and you say honey look it's happening right now you just see me come on man I don't know why I'm talking about this right now let's not be afraid we sang it when the motions rising on us that we sang it I'll keep our eyes on him right well let's not be afraid what are we afraid of when we're afraid we just revealed we don't know him like we can come on when we're afraid it's just that it's all about our well-being instead about his manifestation if you're just afraid you reveal to the enemy it's just about you being okay instead of him being lowered come on please don't you get trapped reducing Christianity to faith for you to make it well faith for you to be okay no faith is for you to manifest everything he accomplished and to become everything he paid for when you fight the good fight of faith the gospel Paul says the faith contending for the faith one in the faith the faith fight the good fight of faith what's he talking about he's not talking about praying for a new car he's talking about holding on to everything you've become now that he's he came and holding on to the identity of righteousness and sonship and holiness and purity and access to God and never letting anything steal you away from what he accomplished and gave you that's faith it's not just praying for full vats and barns prosperity your breakthrough TV ministry is just full of just catering to the needs of people and we're creating a ministry crazed discouraged people that are wondering when they're gonna get their breakthrough and catch a break it's not the gospel the stones already rolled away we've got our breakthrough if you were a Christian just to get more money stop go get a better job you're a Christian to become like him and I'm not against you getting more money but even if you get more money make sure you know what to do with it now to handle it and that you're accountable in your Stewart up you don't want more money just to be rich it's probably why it hasn't come you don't need a million dollars you need to know how to handle it and maybe it's possible come on guys you're rich in him and I don't have a poverty mentality I know what I'm talking about on this thing it's not just about prosperity it's about knowing how to Stewart your life I'm walking in the grey side making the most of every moment redeeming the time for the days are evil arising from sleep awakened to righteousness making the most of every day and leaving a legacy that speaks forever on behalf of the king you're not here to get through you're here to be like you guys we already won you can't lose now you're in we just covered this natural life so much it's crazy and some of us don't even really like this natural life and yet we covered it it's like ah so I'm just gonna be a little weird right now so you don't like what I'm saying you stand up and just shoot me right in the chest with a 44 in front of everybody right now I can't lose so already one here too late I'm serious and the worst that can happen is a little physical time lost with intimate family and spouse and children we freak out over that somehow we think God gave us those things for our sake instead of DES Stewart dam and manifest his presence he didn't give you those intimate relationships just to meet your needs he gave you those intimate relationships so you can model Christ and love one another look God never gave you the blessing of children parents at the cost of who he is he never gave you the gift to have children to run the risk of something bad happening or life catching up or some demonic thing or your child making a bad mistake and driving out of control and hitting a tree and now you get a phone call you never want to get and all sudden somehow God's the villain and God why did you let it happen in God and all of a sudden it's like God gave us the gift of having children at the expense of who he is no God gave us the children in light of who he is so we constantly Minister the truth of who he is in those relationships and if something unfortunately would happen traumatic we never crumble and die tuck tail turn tail and run we go after him all the more because we can't lose and one day we'll all rejoice together that we continue to believe oh you let your heart get broken let your heart get failed and you ask a million questions about God instead of having the already answers through Jesus Christ come on we're not called to covet life were called to covet him are you guys with me on this look i pastored long enough to know what happens to us a spouse dies early and people can't recover in the next 10 years they're asking why and they've lost their productivity they've lost their impact their legacy and all of a sudden they become a product of a deceased spouse and AK wandering of who God is where he is and I thought you loved me and all of a sudden they're shipwrecked because of a lack of understanding and emotional state are you guys with me when I started teaching in a home group at home I was nine months old in the Lord I had a pretty interesting ride I just surrendered tonight I got saved there was a lot of sovereignty and grace on it God came to work and showed me the inside of my heart and it was not a pretty picture it was ugly and I saw my heart and I didn't want to ever live another day with that heart I didn't want to put that heart on you I didn't want to live another day with that person and no it was me it it horrified me when I really got out of denial and looked into the motives of my heart and saw how selfish full of hypocrisy and pride I was I didn't even like myself and yet I'm living in Pride it was ridiculous when I saw in my heart and I bawled I cried I said I don't even know if you're real but so when I got saved I totally gave everything that I saw I was to him so that everything he was he could fill and put in all of me does that make sense so in three months without anybody telling me it was possible without anybody telling me I couldn't I saw God create something in a body that wasn't there in four months I had a hernia go closed under my hand and seal and cancel a surgery through a word of knowledge that I didn't even know where it was in the Bible and couldn't even taught on it yeah by nine months in the Lord I had moved in and experienced every of the nine gifts listed in the Bible I was preaching in churches at nine months old in the Lord and they were calling me Reverend and I wore nice suits because I thought you should cuz I was taught you look your best I'll tell you how you look your best you walk in love you wear suits if you want to I'm not against it I just don't feel comfortable so this is me so this is how you get me now but I used to clean up nice and look pretty good my wife would call me her Ken doll I'm just saying I'll be a little swag but throwing it she'd say whoo hey girl [Laughter] nine months old in the Lord I'm preaching in churches six months on the Lord teaching a class in our church about transformation why cuz everybody saw I was so he didn't care that I was six months old the Lord they weren't worried about putting me in a youthful spotted and you my youthfulness and getting caught in pride cuz they saw that I was in love and I just cried cuz my life was changed and I knew I didn't do anything but believe I wasn't here I wasn't a super Christian it wasn't about pride it was about man you love me so it was this okay I was in my own group one night the people would flood in my house man it was sitting all around up the stairs in the side room I'm like my house is back we had like 200 folks in a two year period different folks visit our house and stay four seasons in a two year period over 200 folks in my living room it was fun it was so intense my wife and I will walk through the house on Thursday meeting was Saturday like thirsty we walked through the room and just pray and thank all for having her home open and the blessing of people coming in the door and we'd look at the furniture and the places where we were going to set up chairs and the Lord would give us words and knowledge for the chair that somebody was gonna sit in it was so excited because we would like wait to see who's gonna sit in jail here we go there were so we were like little kids like this is so fun it was God loving people through us so all we had was love for people and and we would be like this meeting would start not saying they were just so excited Kim and I were pray and you know how sometimes the kids and they're like yeah did we pick the right chair okay well you did really yeah God showed us that the person sitting at the chair this this is [Music] we'll be free be healed so we're nine months old the Lord and I'm down on my knees crawling through the living room because I would preach that way a lot I know you can't see me being that passionate but I would be like because it was crowded so I just get down on my knees now I'm preaching I'm looking up the steps and back over my shoulder and I'm doing that that day I told buttons off my shirt I was so passionate I said it just came on me it was the Lord I said you see that girl sitting there and it was my Wi-Fi pointer she's looking I said you take her from me you take those two precious precious kids out of my life you burn down this house the shirt off my back you can't touch me and people were like I don't think we came for this sermon brother we came for you to tell us how God's gonna keep everything and protect everything and make sure every little duckies in a row and cracking in rhythm cuz that's the gospel to me I'm like no no no no come on you get thrown in that kind of stuff you find out what you really believe and the integrity of the cross is revealed you endure hardship is a good soldier you don't entangle yourself in the affairs of this life you don't see God why are you letting all this happened to me I thought you loved me why do you send us some when you didn't deserve it I bet he does maybe we asked the wrong questions maybe our questions are self-serving maybe they come from quandary you guys alright I preach that to them people you said seen him looking at me man they were like I don't get that brother what I was telling them is I finally Know Who I am and why and I'm gonna love less not that I don't love I'm gonna love less everything dear to my life so that I can steward it rightly the one that's most dear I don't have children so God can protect him I have children so I can manifest him to them yes I pray that God protects them yes I want God to protect them but the number one reason I have children is to manifest His image to them not draw from them covet them and let them be my world hello that's rarely heard in the church because we're so sentimental in our children's our children our lives that's where a lot of parents are disappointed because they're trying to live their children's lives for them paint their dreams for them and their children are set up to fail them and now they're older and they're mad and hurt by their kids because they had all these expectations but yet you say you love them maybe you need them and you're using them for identity and they're failing you yeah maybe we ought to get a grip and talk about some of this stuff have a few family meetings chat a little come on I've seen too many crushed parents because the kids I've seen too many crushed kids because the parents and we all sing Jesus is Lord you don't have to believe me my wife doesn't have the ability to break my heart nor my kids I love them and if they're living way out of conduct they probably need Jesus all the more they probably don't need a mad dad they probably don't need a disappointed dad we've had that enough in our lives guys we've gotten what we deserve enough just cut them off just don't talk to him for a while make sure we express our angry we are hoping it sets them straight come on you just fuel in a fire you just repay an evil for evil you're not overcoming evil with good God didn't treat us that way why do we treat each other that way we sure didn't learn it from Jesus psychology will disagree with what I'm saying and so with a lot of Christians and pastors but I'm telling you you don't have to be brokenhearted and you don't have to minister from a place of pain do you know ministers spend their whole life and ministry certain ministers who spend a whole life of ministry at a pulpit telling the congregation why they're brokenhearted and how this happened and how life is unfair and I know it's been tough this week and I'll snow some of you or this and some of you or that and you just need to come forward right now and receive the restoration of the Lord and just receive strength without and all the sudden you spend your whole life ministering to people saying then you know they're brokenhearted and they're compliant I said wait this is all how you fill the whole water with that order call and I'm saying why didn't anybody teach him why we don't have to be brokenhearted and you say boy God was really moving at the otter man they were crying and God was moving no they're just crying because they're brokenhearted and they're crying because they're probably going to be tomorrow the next week they're going to need you to call him up again I don't know what we're doing why are we teaching them that just teach them not to be brokenhearted teach them how not to be vulnerable that stop that stop praying praying pyaari why preying on the weakness of men's flesh and the vulnerabilities with the lack of understanding and turn it into ministry let's tell them who they are let's tell them why they can win let's turn why

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Published: Fri May 01 2015