Mike Hoesch // Healing Evangelist // Service 3

[Music] is your name hey i don't want you get to get used to being late now huh you feel like you feel like you feel like they're miss candies don't you it feels good doesn't it does it feel good did you have a good afternoon have a good afternoon restful afternoon i hope [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] you know just just coming out just coming out on sunday night so [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] so we're we're actually on facebook live so hey share this with your friends um go back and tell them to watch it you know on youtube it's on youtube and facebook and so welcome we're glad that you're here tonight we have some some guests we're glad that you're here tonight welcome welcome welcome and um and we welcome our facebook all of our facebook fans too so hopefully if they're not in the house of god they're what they're watching they're watching it tonight amen god is good amen so father we just thank you and praise you god for your goodness lord thank you god for the spoken word the written word god the word that is spirit and life hallelujah we have just we have been feeding on that and we are just so grateful god we're believing lord your word does not return void but it will accomplish your purposes your will in your church and your people lord hallelujah so lord we once again we just ask that uh you lord we don't have to ask that you're going to bless this time because we know this time is blessed already because we're here you're here and we just lift up the name of jesus amen amen so let's praise god for a few moments come on let's just lift up our hands to the lord if you feel comfortable doing that and just welcome hallelujah lord we just thank you and praise you god for your goodness your mercy in our lives so god and we just declare that our god is good amen that devil's a liar and god has never spoken anything untrue amen and so we just thank you god open our hearts god prepare our hearts to hear your word tonight and we give you praise for in jesus name amen amen amen amen [Music] all your promises are precious [Music] your promises are true all your promises are yes and amen lord jesus we'll keep running after you [Music] hallelujah keep running after him amen [Music] in [Music] your promises are yes and amen jesus your promises are true [Music] all your promises are yes [Music] amen [Music] i almost lost my way till i enter the house of the lord and i heard your sweet spirit all your promises are yes and amen jesus your promises are true all your promises are yes your promises are true all your promises are yes and amen lord jesus we'll keep running after you [Music] amen amen amen thank you lord gonna keep running after jesus amen hallelujah i don't think we have to worry about passing them what do you think amen just keep running after him amen let's not lag behind amen god you're so good [Music] see what our savior has done see how his love overcomes he has done grace [Music] monitoring that again come let us worship come let us worship our king come let [Music] he us done grace see what our savior has done see how his love overcomes he has done grace [Music] [Music] oh jesus forsake your name [Music] [Music] amen you have been faithful to every [Music] and i know you will do it again for your promises [Music] and break every chain [Applause] [Music] oh jesus our savior your name and break [Music] our savior [Music] hallelujah [Music] you have done great things [Music] it hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and break everything [Music] [Applause] we dance in your freedom awakens alive [Music] [Music] and break every chain [Music] oh jesus our savior your negative you have done grace [Music] lord we just bless your name tonight we just want to spend some time just worshiping [Music] the lord our god [Music] the lord [Music] will you sing with me [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah come on let's just lift up our praises to him we don't just make up your own words and just just sing unto him lord we praise you tonight so wonderful [Music] hallelujah [Music] we praise your name [Music] we adore you [Music] big the lord our god [Music] come on with all your heart with all your soul and mind and strength [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah and i worship you [Music] i give my to you i fall [Music] down on my hallelujah [Music] for you are the king of glory the creator of all things [Music] upon me now you meet my deepest needs and i lift my hands up to your throat and i worship you i give my life [Music] i fall down on [Music] you've said this [Music] [Music] and my worship [Music] i fall [Music] and i worship you [Music] the second and third verse because what we've been hearing this weekend is that we've been sensing the spirit of god just moving and he's been meeting perhaps needs that we didn't know what we even had and by his spirit through his word he's breaking chains breaking chains of fears the lies of the enemy we're free amen we're just we're just free free tonight [Music] just free to worship and free to [Music] what you have for me i just want to be like that that little baby bird with my mouth wide open say daddy mama bird daddy daddy in heaven [Music] [Music] upon me now [Music] up to you have broken chains you said this kept it [Music] my free to praise your names [Music] and i worship you i give my life to [Music] one more time i give my to you [Music] is [Music] hallelujah thank you lord lord we just come before you this evening and lord we are so thankful to be here in your house lord and as we come before you to your table to hear your word lord god i just asked that you would speak to each one of us tonight lord we are hungry for more of you lord we are hungry for the truth lord and to hear the truth the truth that will make us free so lord we come to you this evening lord i pray for those that are watching via facebook live we just ask lord all of our hearts are opened unto you lord teach us lord we are here listening lord and we just thank you and we praise you for this time and we ask all of this in the mighty name of jesus and all god's people said amen amen amen hallelujah amen brother al spirit of the lord is saying do you not believe when i told you years ago what i was going to do in this house how i was going to bring the people in i brought in marlene i brought in mike and there are several others i'm going to bring into this house this is going to be house that will be fulfilled with people coming in one way and walking out totally a different way i've got people lined up and ready to bring them they're going to be calling saying god told me to come to this place and minister gifts of healing gifts of miracles prophecies so that people will be changed and this house will be full says the lord just like i told you years ago it will happen that's right amen amen amen praise god hallelujah hallelujah yes amen i mean we've been hearing that for years and it's happening right before us yes we have you may be seated amen well we want to welcome you tonight we're so glad you're here we're sad our weekend is almost over but god is on the move and we know that he has a great word those of you that have been here um for all three services hasn't it been wonderful yes yes yes we are so thankful for mike and caroline and just the ministry that they've had and we just can't thank you enough can't thank you enough it's just it's just been revolutionary so what we've done is each night we've give come ask for people to come forward to give a love offering for mike um and so that's what we have this right here now for is that if you'd like to come up and bring in love offering if you have your tithes and offerings if you're a member of the church you can bring your tithes and offerings and bring them up so but i guess we have no music should i sing no i don't think so all right praise yeah okay okay well that's okay amen god is good amen and you know we're just you know we've just been so blessed uh just to meet mike and caroline they're just down home folk amen you know something you're part of the yens he's a yenzer now okay those from altoona you know what that means right okay are you guys the engines out there yes anyway god that's not an insult that's good okay amen i'm i i i don't think it is is it a curse word i'm not sure i i don't think it is okay uh but you know i'm from i'm from virginia so i like from the you all country okay but uh god is good it's just been it's been awesome mike we're just so grateful for you and your wife to come and be with us and um and uh you know we we we would hope that you would come again okay that we would love to you know amen we'd just like to just kidnap you and say andrew you can't you know you can't have him you know you can't have caroline okay we need you here but but god is good so please once you come my friend do you want do you want the uh you want the earpiece again okay yes yes yes yes let me just turn this on uh jesse do you have this on up here i was sleeping on the helm so while you put that on i'll just ramble a little bit how about that i don't know what to do i don't know how i can well some of you know that i can ramble on right yes yeah i can do whatever i want right [Laughter] amen um so just it only takes a moment or two just to get that on so it is on right okay good good good praise god well anyway hey we can just we can just watch him put the microphone on okay we can just watch mike do the very [Laughter] now you can here we go hello i'm still not used to my voice are you used to yours after all this year i'm [Laughter] it's like who is that guy really really okay so i thought i would review for a second i have a friend that that edits my teachings from my website and he said you know what he said he said you know if you would spend less time reviewing you'd have more time to teach what god's put on your heart i said you know but it the the bad thing is is you know i record classes so everybody that comes it's like they've eaten and slept several times since the last message so you got to remind them where where we left off so and you know i'm a people too so i need the same help that's right the key the key key you know um our message we're continuing with the topic that we began on friday and so saturday seems like friday it was just such a good night and uh but uh the topic has been uh compromise and not in a positive sense okay you know in in the world uh i guess you would call it like um what do they call it now it's called uh pluralism anybody heard that term before pluralism where everything has to be correct you know like gender correct or you know but that's compromising you know what i mean that that's like saying sin is not sin that's like calling uh a darkness light you know and and it's not and when you do mix that together it's called compromise and compromise is something that is of the devil and it's designed to lead you away from who you've been made in christ jesus and i just want to read the definition one more time um i should probably ask albert to just share it because he's heard it three times right nothing like putting you on the spot huh brother so it says compromise is to settle differences by each side making concessions you know when i hear the word concession it's not a very endearing term is it concession always means to me you got to give something up you know what i mean and it can't be good if we're complete in christ do you want to give any of that up what would you want to trade that for would you want to trade what you are in christ for anything of this world you'd be trading down folks do you realize that so any bit of the world that you take into yourself thinking it's going to be a benefit to you is actually robbing you and destroying in your life and it's separating you from what god has established in your life so it's a place you don't want to go amen it also means a weakening of one's principles or standards boy think about that when you think of jesus do you think of someone who had was wishy-washy about his principles or standards no no i mean think about i think it's in mark where it says he was in the temple and he was preaching and it said he suffered no one to carry anything through the temple you say wow how legalistic no that's just that was a demonstration of his steadfastness on what his father had called him to do you know how many of us allow trafficking in our temples you ever thought of it like that see when these things were written in the word well that well i've heard this preached so many times i just want to barf each time i hear it but you know they all say well that was in their culture that's the way they did it then if that if it's not applicable to us today it would not be in this word okay now i'm going to go ahead and read you a scripture because the lord told me to to show you what god included in here and who it's for you might know it already but this is very important especially what it's attached to because it has to do with what we're talking about i didn't plan to share this but in listen to this i'm going to read just a few verses in romans chapter 4. and this is about abraham it says who against hope believed in hope verse 18 that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken so shall thy seed be listen very carefully and being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old neither yet the deadness of sarah's womb he staggered not at the promise of god through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to god and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform just pause there for a second fully persuaded compromise are those two words equal they're polar opposites okay just think about that for a second okay time's up it says and being fully persuaded what he had promised he was able also to reform to perform and therefore was imputed unto him for righteousness now this is the verse now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up jesus our lord from the dead this is saying that if if this promise was only for abraham it would not be written in this book so everything written in this book is not just about who it's writing about but it's written for who it starts with an m and it ends in an e me that's what it should be to your heart you should be saying this was written for me you know all the time i tell myself this i say and and it's it's not a rote memorization or you know i'm not rehearsing something but i just remind myself i say i believe god's word i believe god's word is true every word of god's word is true and i believe that it was written for me i remind myself of that constantly because i can forget things too i live in the same world you do and it's very distracting out there amen and those distractions are avenues of compromise for the enemy in our life and we have to choose not to accept those compromises in our life so over the last two meetings that we've had i've shared like just a few things about how compromise gets into us and i focused on uh one in particular that i really focused on uh well uh saturday night i focused on lot how the world and the things of the world how he just began looking at them and seeing how other people lived and then he started moving closer and closer and closer to it until he was living the same life it says that that righteous man vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds which means he knew better god didn't change his status god said he was still a righteous man but what was he doing he was vexing his righteous soul by what he was compromising he was allowing the things that were going on in sodom to go on in his life maybe not to the same degree that they were but consider we didn't talk about this but here the two angels came to his house he didn't really perceive that they were angels in the sense that you know they just seemed like men and they're knocking on his door the men of sodom and they want to take these two men and know them as a man would know a woman and lot says listen to this this is compromise he's willing to throw out his two daughters that have never known a man because he didn't want these uh his guests to be offended think about that just stop for a second think about that how does your heart get to that place that's called compromise folks i guarantee you when he was with abraham he would have never considered that he would have he would have probably single-handedly whipped all those guys you know what i mean but here now he's to the point where he just throws his daughters to the wolves that doesn't happen overnight you know and i i talked about saturday night how that was over a 10-year period a little over 10 years that he got to that place where without abraham interceding for him he would have been destroyed with all the other wicked even though he was righteous and that starts with compromise and then this morning i talked about fear i think you might agree too that fear is like the number one weapon of the enemy and you know why he uses fear because it works it's successful he understands that and it keeps and he keeps coming he's relentless with fear amen by the way i just want to throw this in uh if you're not aware i have a website mike ministries.com and i struggled with fear for many many years and uh you know fear was connected to the lie that i was believing uh when i was very sick and it was overcoming that fear that opened my eyes to to hear i guess you would say not something that i didn't know but to see what was really going on in my heart and i wrote an article on my website it's called the end of fear you can download it for free and it was just a simple it's less than a page eight and a half by 11 page of just very simple principles to allow your heart to be perfected in love because the bible says that perfect love casts out fear okay and and if you'll if you'll read that article you'll see that it's not this ethereal or ethereal uh smoke you know oh god loves me or you know what i mean god does love you how many of you know that god loves you now leave those hands up okay how many of you still have fear so does knowing that god loves you cast that fear out there's something more to perfect love casting out fear that you have not accepted yet and that's why i wrote that article because i used to think well okay perfect love casts out fear well i i know god loves me and i love god but maybe i don't know what perfect love is and the devil used to bug me all the time you can't even do regular love how are you ever going to do perfect love you know i said you're right anyway i just wanted to throw that in so uh and there's many more free teachings on uh my website and uh i haven't plugged this i hope this is okay but um that the website all the teachings on the website came from uh well let me back up for a second when i was very sick and uh during that whole process of eight years of you know seeking deliverance and wanting to be free and then finally really understanding what it means to believe and then embracing the word through that belief that's what set my heart free to embrace what was already mine okay and then after i received healing you can imagine i was just like very happy and i remember having this conversation with god i said father i said boy am i happy that i am not dead but i'm not just uh existing but i'm alive you know and i said what this was in my heart i said father i said this is great and i in in no way i don't want you to think what i'm saying is is like a complaint but i said what good is just me being healed if it's not helping anybody else and so i asked him i said would you please show me and teach me what happened to me you know how i got to this place because i really wasn't sure i just kind of started believing the word but being able to articulate it to other people that was my heart's desire to be able to communicate it in such a way where people wouldn't have to go through the journey that i went through so i'm thinking after that happened that i'm going to get all these new downloads you know and you know but you know what he did he took me back and he showed me from i would say over like the 15 years previous to me being sick he took me back and showed me how he was trying to teach me all along the way and how he was faithful to bring back to my remembrance every place i could have turned at any moment and embraced healing but i didn't because i was indoctrinated with teaching okay and so what he did was he just brought those back to my remembrance and i began to esteem that word over what i had been taught to the point where it was like everybody's got to know this you know what i mean so that's what i did on my website i just systematically sat down and began to teach the things that i feel like god wants everyone to know that opens their eyes to see the deliverance that he has already worked in your life so if you're struggling i encourage you to go to the website and you know i don't have a corner on you know god's healing message but i know this i speak with thousands of people and what i've discovered is i'm just like you and the things that i've struggled with they struggle with and the things that i wrote in and recorded and taught are the same issues at the very root that everyone else is dealing with so i encourage you give it a listen let god use the truths that's in those words to communicate the way of escape that he's already provided for you in christ jesus amen amen okay i think of that as a plug but really it's not a plug it's like it's the truth you know what i mean and it sets people free it's it's awesome to me and it's very humbling you know i think to myself lord that's awesome i believe it or not i listen to all my own teachings and all the time and i'm like man that was good i mean it sounds funny and even for me to say this but i know it's the truth because i know me you know what i mean i know how i am and uh i can be well caroline can give you all the details on that but we won't go into that it might distract from it might compromise the message so anyway we've discussed that and we really focused this morning on fear how many of you were here this morning for the fear wasn't that good i mean it gave us a perspective that we don't always see that's why james said that the word of god is a mirror and what that mirror does is it shows us our reflection and not always what i've discovered is when we look in the mirror with a natural mind we see all of our shortcomings our failures the flesh and all that but when we look in the mirror and we look at that perfect law of liberty do you know what it reflects to us the christ in us and that inspires hope in our heart because when you see christ in you you want to let him out you know think of all these people that are and please don't take this wrong think of all the people that want to go out and rescue animals okay but yet they're falling apart in their life and in christ wouldn't you want to let out the captive christ in you do you know how much more joy peace love you'd have in your life if you began to focus on who you are in christ it's huge folks it's huge and why we don't do that is what we've talked about the last two lessons is the compromise amen we've allowed that compromise to hinder our hearts from being focused on the truth that of what god has actually done in our life do you know the the scripture says whom the sun sets free is still bound in this world no no that's the carnal version right this is not a personal testimony no the scripture says whom the son sets free is what is free in deed amen so th so the question is why if we are in christ why are we still bound and know that the enemy cannot do that without your consent or cooperation do you do you all know that do you realize that the enemy if he could he would have already taken you out he wouldn't just be messing around playing with you he would take you out but he can't it's impossible he needs you to destroy you amen think about that for a minute you know when when i was very sick at the end of that eight years i remember being so what's a nice word for pissed off i was so mad when i realized that i was being used by the devil to destroy me and i was going along with it you know and i wondered what's going on god why can't you do something but when i saw the christ in me and really began to realize that what he did was so much greater than i really had ever in had ever embraced that when i embraced that and began to see that greatness i mean i felt like a giant and it's like no devil you're out of here you're gone all the religiousness that i had just went out the window with a few swear words and my father wasn't offended at all at me swearing that might sound funny in an a.g church huh right assemblies of god do not advocate swearing amen amen but when i was swearing god wasn't looking at my behavior he saw my heart was in the same place that jesus's was when he cast those money changers out of the temple when he said to those people no you're not carrying anything through this temple see there was no compromise in jesus the authority that he had from his father he valued that and he lived in that and that was him living in freedom now he was made free by walking after the spirit and never departing from it so he never experienced any kind of bondage from the enemy in his life until the day he took our sin upon himself and then the presence of his father was gone that's why he said my god my god why have you forsaken me why are you so far from hearing the words of my roaring can you imagine that feeling we can't imagine it because the majority of our experience has been unsaved amen how many of you have been saved for like 10 years okay 20 years long time but yet you still feel disconnected sometimes don't you and the reason is because of the sin consciousness that we've never completely let go of where we've never looked at the identity that god has given us in christ and valued that above our own personal experience amen but jesus didn't do that it says that jesus was tempted in all things as we are yet without sin okay and i teach on this a lot because everybody pulls the son of god card on you when you became born again whose child did you become that's a question you became god's child so what are you now you're a son or a daughter of god so don't ever use that with me in a conversation well he was the son of god so are you jesus said jesus made this statement he said he prayed and asked the father that we would be one with the father as he was one with the father and he's the one that inspired john to write as jesus is seated at the right hand of the father so are we in this world do you know that is the key to breaking compromise in your life is to live after the status that god has given you where you choose to decide that what god says about you is true regardless of what your your senses are telling you regardless of the pains that you're having in your body regardless of the disease that the enemy's thrown at you you make a decision to choose the life that christ has given you and the only way you can make that choice without compromise is by embracing the truth of the word of god you have to accept the truth even jesus said this he said if you continue in my word then you're a taught or a trained one and he said and you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free it's not just it's not just having a bunch of knowledge about the word or about god it's knowing god it's knowing god like you know your own body you know what i mean or where you you just know something you know where you don't have to think about it like driving okay how many of you drove here today okay when you see the light change from red to green are you like what do i do what do i do i i don't i don't know what to do you don't do that and why don't you do that because how many stop signs have you i mean uh traffic lights have you ran i mean uh gone through or you know you know what i'm saying you you know the drill and your body just automatically functions that way you know when when you see the tail lights in front of you go bright red you just move your foot off the gas onto the brake right and nobody needs to remind you of that and how did you do that you became exercised in a truth to where now you know it now it's just part of you you're living it you're you're breathing it no one has to tell you you don't ask like well what do i do now the car's slowing down in front of me no you just go there automatically well that's what happens when you begin to embrace the truth of god's word and you begin to esteem that as more necessary to your life as job said than your daily food in other words you can't get by without it you can't skip it for anything else you won't fast the word of god you'll fast food before you'll fast the word of god amen you know listen to what peter said peter made this statement that i think is very uh it applies to no compromise he says as newborn babes this is first peter 2 2. as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow there by see without the milk would your baby grow how many of you have children okay so if you never fed your baby would it grow no and when that baby's crying and squirming it wants to be fed and you feed it the milk why so it will grow peter's likening the word of god to be the same thing he's saying without the word of god you are not going to grow you're not going to develop into what you have the potential to be you know the baby has all the the dna everything necessary to become a full-grown human being but if you don't feed it to where the all those processes can be fueled to turn it into what it was designed to be it will never be or reach the fullness that it was designed to be and the same thing is true we're in christ and he sowed in us his incorruptible seed the spirit came into us and the spirit uses his word to nourish us so that we can be so that let me put it this way so that the spirit can release and manifest everything that it was given to us to do amen so it's like that the word is like what activates it it's like you know we lived in tucson for 20 some odd years and we would have a rainy season they called it the monsoon season so it was dry the whole year except for like end of june through the beginning of september and we would drive by these parking lots and they would just be dust bowls barren dust bowls and just bare as can be it would rain for two days and you'd drive by and the weeds would be this tall not from the carpet up where did they come from see those seeds were always in the dirt but they needed water they needed something to activate their growth see you've been made a new creature in christ the spirit of god has been planted in you but are you watering it are you watering it with the with the incorruptible word of god are you feasting on the truth of god's word are you compromising are you mixing a little bit of the world in there there's other lots we would drive by and they would stay dirt no matter how much it rained you know what they did to those lots they went out and they sprayed a pre-emergence which coats the seeds with a chemical so that when the water hits them it doesn't penetrate to release the life that's in the seed so it can germinate the seed is still there but it's coated do you know that's what compromise does it prevents the incorruptible seed that you've been born of from germinating and producing the fruit that god placed it in you to produce think about that for a moment see those examples are everywhere around us and we don't see them okay we miss god's talking to us all the time like me driving by those parking lots all the time and one day the lord just said that's a dirt lot i said okay yeah it's a dirt lot that's good [Laughter] you know and then the next day you know the rainy season started he said look at that dirt lot it's not dirt anymore and i'm thinking to myself well yeah that's pretty observant god and then he brought this to my mind and i'm like oh wow see you know your father's trying to teach you all the time those little things but if you've compromised your heart to where you're so busy in the world where you're always on your phone connecting with so and so answering a text texting so and so connecting with this person watching youtube unless you're watching my teachings no no but if you're just always busy you're going to miss all those lessons that our father is trying to communicate to us he can you know he can get a text in once in a while to you you know but usually you just read it and you move on but that's because of compromise so we don't want to compromise am i getting that across okay very good so let's move on okay compromise i want to read an example of a man who realized the danger of compromise i'm going to second samuel chapter 22 and i think it's repeated it's written as a psalm also because david wrote it and i think it's psalms maybe i don't know psalms 18 maybe i can't remember this is a it's called the psalm of praise i'm not going to read the whole thing but i do encourage you to read it i'm in second samuel 22. and i want to read this because when i read this it really spoke to me wow am i really living this heart of god am i living this in my life okay listen to what he says i'm just going to jump into the middle of it i'm going to start in let's see in verse 31 but please take the time to read the the whole thing you'll be blessed it says uh as for god his way is perfect the word of the lord is tried he is a buckler to all them that what trust in him how do you trust someone you don't know well you know you do that every once in a while have you ever called an uber to get a ride somewhere do you know when you step into his car you're trusting that person how do you know do you ask to see his license do you ask him how long he's been driving most people don't they just hop in the car it's cheap you know that's their thought is that a good way to to evaluate it i think not that's why i love he says the word of the lord is tried in other words it's been tried it's been tested i think i believe the same word is used for like how they purify silver verse 32 for who is god save the lord and who is a rock save our god god is my strength and power he maketh my way perfect did you get up this morning and say that did you say god is my strength and my power he maketh my way perfect was that in your heart this morning you know that was in david's heart when he wrote that that can be in our heart you know when jesus woke up in the morning these are things that he had on his mind and why did he have them there it says in psalms 119 thy word o lord have i hid in my heart that i might not sin against you see that's where we stop compromise see if there's no room for compromise in your heart it won't even come to your mind you won't even consider concession you people will be trying to get you to conceive but you'll say no i'm not giving up anything amen i'm not giving up any ground that jesus gave his life to get for me if you think of it in that terms when the enemy comes and knocks on your door and offers you something you're going to say no way i'm not my own i've been bought with a price i'm a steward of what god gave me and i'll share it with other people but i'm not going to concede or can or a compromise in any way with it amen let me read on it says in verse 34 he maketh my feet like hines feet and setteth me upon high places how many of you seen the video of these goats that uh walk across this dam that's it's got a slope like this and they're walking on these little edges of rocks just to go out and get a little bit of salt you know one false step and they slide to the bottom but they're not thinking about that you know why they're not thinking about it because god programmed in them sure-footedness okay it's not that they can't fall they you know the devil can take them out or they can misstep and slide to the bottom but the point is the majority of them they have no fear because they're just following after something that was programmed in their heart if we saw the edge of the dam we'd say i'm going out there even you put a harness on me i ain't going out there true most of us would not go out there but they go out there just to get a little bit of salt okay because they need that salt okay think about that for a second and god said he maketh our feet like hinds feet that means we're not going to slip on on uh on uneven surfaces we can go through rocky places but because our heart is fixed on him we're not going to slip we're not going to be worried about falling it gets better listen on he teacheth my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms think about that david a man of war wasn't afraid he said you you know most people will take a a wooden bow and crack it over their knee he says the lord's made my hands to break a bow of steel in half don't settle for what your mind thinks you're able to do except what god says you are able to do and that opening that door in your heart is going to empower you to do what your flesh says you can't do that and you'll say oh yeah watch amen because your confidence isn't in your ability it's in what god has done in your life already through jesus christ amen do you think when jesus got to that shore and sees his disciples way out there and he's ready you know he's like gosh how am i going to get out there i guess i'll have to walk around no the father said go this way what do you think he did do you think he did this number no he just did this praise god he just started walking why because he knew his father and when his father said go this way he didn't say but dad i've never walked on the water before amen what do we do that's impossible nobody's walked on the water what are you nuts you know i've walked on the water but it was frozen the lake of galilee was not frozen when he walked on it okay amen listen to this this is beautiful folks it just really inspires me it says thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation and thy gentleness has made me great wow that just melts me inside thy gentleness has made me great we might say today the grace of god has made me great his gentleness you know i was taught i was raised lutheran and and i was taught like god was this austere man you know uh sitting on a on a throne you know ice cold marble and he was irritated low blood sugar all the time didn't have his coffee was just waiting to you know do something bad to you you know what i mean that's what i was taught and not directly but indirectly but notice david's heart thy gentleness hath made me great well i've learned that my father is a loving gentle father amen he's not out to put me down he's always there lifting me up putting me in a place that's good for me i trust him i know that he's never going to do anything to jeopardize my safety ever amen but i learned that i wasn't taught it i learned that just like david did walking with the father he says thou hast enlarged my steps under me so that my feet did not slip you know that we talked about fear this morning you know fear is always telling you oh you're going to slip you're going gonna fall don't do that don't go here don't go there don't do that don't do this look out but what did david say thou hast enlarged my steps under me so my feet did not slip what confidence he had he said i'm safe wherever i go there's plenty of room where my feet won't slip that means even if i'm on a narrow ledge there's plenty of room that i won't slip i remember we like to hike and i remember i i went on this hike and man all of a sudden there was no path and they had this cable in the wall along the way and they had this thing about like this wide to walk on and my wife who's part billy goat just no no no no no walking along there and the guy that i'm with we're like are you serious i mean it was scary because it's 500 feet down you know what i mean and we're on this and i'm like i had to remind myself that my feet will not slip under me i had to refocus okay because fear was right there telling me dude this is it say goodbye to caroline make sure you give her the keys you know little subtle things like that to get you to compromise hey honey let me just give you the keys why she says why i don't know they're heavy they got me out of balance you know we think of all these things to say to do what to remain compromised instead of saying wait a minute the lord is my shepherd i'm not going to laugh amen you know he's my shield and buckler he doesn't have any ledge to walk on and he's perfectly okay you know what i mean it's awesome listen to this he says i have pursued my enemies and destroyed them and turned not again until i had consumed them you know folks that's an attitude that we all need what we're trying to do is just if i could just get rid of this one symptom then i know i could be okay then i would be able to stand that's compromise folks why would you want any symptom left david said i've pursued my enemies he turned around and said wait a minute you ever have a bear chasing you he stopped one day when the bear was chasing me said wait a minute you should be running from me that's the attitude we should have we should say no to the devil hey what are you doing pursuing me and we should chase him down like it says here and destroyed them and turn not again until he had consumed them and i have consumed them and wounded them that they should not arise yea they are fallen under my feet think about that you know the devil is under our feet because of what jesus christ has done but the only way he remains there is when our heart embraces these truths see he deceives us into thinking that he has certain powers and abilities that we must compromise with and we it's like every day it's like let's make a deal you know what i mean you want what's behind door number one door number two or door number three tell him i ain't go i don't want any of your doors i have the door his name is jesus christ and i've already entered in and i ain't trading for any of your doors but we're all we all well what do you got behind door number one he's going to make it good well i've got some pain relief for you behind this door remember you've had pain for a long time just open this door and you'll have some relief think about it now i'm not against herbs and vitamins and nutrition but that often the enemy offers us something like that and we get into our eyeballs above our eyeballs with oh i need to take this i need to take that you know how you know if you're overtaken by supplements or nutrition or whatever go on a trip and watch what happens when you unpack and your special supplement is not there you're instantly on the internet where's the nearest whole foods i gotta buy that i can't live without it honey you forgot to pack this you know i'm serious you'll know where your heart's at same thing if you forget your meds what do you do do you freak out that tells you where your heart is connected to now i'm not saying don't take your meds okay don't hear that what i'm saying is your heart should be connected to what god has done for you in christ that should be your primary thing and if you do happen to remember you forgot your meds you could say jesus i thank you that you're there to sustain me that you have enlarged my steps under me so i won't slip even if i forgot my meds amen that's the way you wean yourself off of things of this world is you begin to esteem that what jesus did for you is enough for you every day your father is teaching you that open your ears open your eyes and look at that and say yes father that's good i like that show me teach me how to cooperate with you in this you know that's his heart for you he wants you to have that amen let me read on he says i love this part he says i'll read it again i've pursued mine enemies and destroyed them and turned not again till i had consumed them it says i have consumed them and wounded them so they could not rise do you know when when a person gets set free from sickness or disease and i've talked to many people who've had that the enemy's right there in most cases telling you knocking at your door i'm coming back i'll be back you know arnold wasn't the first one to say that it was actually jesus he told his disciples i'll be back amen so but the enemy is using that to weaken you and what what how should we reply well how did david reply i've consumed them so that they cannot rise that's the way we should be no i did have sickness i did have disease but now i know that jesus has freed me from it it's not mine anymore so there's no negotiation the devil knocks on your door we can just laugh at him no you're too late i already know it's you amen and we say no to the enemy we refuse to cooperate amen uh listen verse 40 it says for thou has girded me with strength to battle them that rose up against against me hast thou subdued under me thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies that i might destroy them that hate me does the devil like you you might think he's because he spends so much time talking to you that he likes you but no he's totally opposed to you not because and you know it's nothing personal he just hates jesus christ and it's christ in you that's the hope of glory so he's against you but notice what david says you've given me the necks of my enemy that i might destroy them that hate me you know hate means to oppose and the devil is opposed to you and god has given you luke 10 19 behold i give you power over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy that nothing what does nothing include nothing that nothing would by any means cause you and injustice but that's power is given to us to do what with you know write it on a three by five card and stick it on our wall and quote it all the time no if you live it you won't need to have it on a three by five card when the enemy comes to you and you live what that verse says you don't have to quote it to him he's afraid of you he doesn't want to mess with you do you remember what happened when jesus walked into the synagogue in mark chapter one or two one mark 125. he walked into the synagogue and this man like here in this church let's just you know let's say we're in this church and all of a sudden somebody stands up and starts saying i know who you are you're the son of god the holy one of god okay and everyone in the church oh that's just joe joe's just that way he's just this weird guy but what did jesus say he said come out of him and the guy fell to the ground jesus discerned right away who that was he didn't hesitate he didn't say time out dad what should i do no the spirit rose up in him and he knew right away that that was a spirit of the devil speaking through a man trying to engage him why did that spirit speak up because it was afraid of jesus he was afraid the uh what was it the um the man at the gatherings they were terrified when jesus came they said you haven't come to torment us before the time they were afraid of him why because jesus walked in holiness there was nothing of the devil in him jesus wasn't afraid he wasn't afraid of that man who could have probably just whipped him after the flesh could have just jumped all over him and beat pounded his flesh to smithereens okay but they were afraid of jesus look what they did they they this man was bound by chains and he broke the chains but they were so afraid of the power that was in jesus that they were begging him not to hurt them thousands of them were afraid of jesus do you know jesus said we have that same spirit within us that the enemy trembles at but see we've been duped by the enemy to where we're we're afraid of the devil i'm not afraid of the devil he's afraid of me why because the same spirit that dwelt in christ is dwelling in me he's dwelling in you don't be afraid of the devil just poke him in the eye he'll run away from you we do that through the word of god but compromise hinders our heart from speaking boldly listen to what god said to you i think it's right here the wicked flee when no man pursueth but the righteous are as bold as a kitten the righteous are as bold as the lion who's the lion afraid of you ever watched those uh what are they those national geographic shows lions aren't afraid of anything they're just laying around and when they get hungry they just go kill whatever they want they don't ask they just take it and the lord likened us unto that he said we're as bold as life what are lions called the king of the jungle and the lord said but the righteous are as bold as a lion listen to this do we want to be in the category of this first part the wicked flee when no man pursueth let's read that backwards are you running from anything in your life are you running from a fear in your life are you scrambling when they say oh a new strain of covet are you fearful are you running to your mask or or compromising your life in any way because of that fear you're you're running when no one's pursuing you turn around and say no i'm not running anymore enough already christ in me is greater than any challenge that can come against me why am i running stop just stop running what are you afraid of you don't need to run the creator of the earth sent his son and empowered you with the same spirit that spoke this earth into being you're a partaker of that spirit why would you be afraid of anything but let me throw this out here very comforting verse david the writer of second samuel that we're reading also said this he said what times i am afraid i will trust in you see fear comes to all of us but when that fear comes if you put your trust in what god says about you there'll be no more place for the fear it will flee from you fear comes to all of us but don't accept it don't compromise and just receive a little bit of it i remember after i received healing uh during that eight year process i had bought i don't know hundreds of books on natural healing and natural medicine herbs vitamins i was doing all this reading because you know i was encouraged that i didn't you know the reason i wasn't getting healed was because it was just a nutritional problem so you know i accepted that because i didn't have any other understanding so i was doing all the studying and i would share all these things with caroline so after i received healing caroline ran across an article from a friend who gave her about it was called eat right for your blood type and so she uh she knew what my blood type is guess what my blood type is can anyone guess what it is no nope it's be positive i do too it's in my blood amen anyway after she brought this article home one day and you know i'm i'm still high on being alive and and healthy and whole and and i read this article just you know it was a quick read you know i'm reading through it and so the next morning i'm getting up getting ready to go to work and she says to me what do you want for breakfast and i said uh i said oh i'll have some oatmeal she goes the regular you know oatmeal honey all this no no no no no no blueberries no honey you know and she says well what else do you want with it toast what do you want on your toast ah just toast dry toast and she comes down the hall and she does this it's funny did you read that article i said yeah i did because the article said if you're be positive you shouldn't eat blueberries you shouldn't have honey you shouldn't have butter do you see how that that little bitty message caused my heart to pull away even after i went through all that that little that little thing caused me to draw away and when she called me out praise god for my wife she's very blunt i love it i love blunt you know anyway she goes uh did you puts her hands on her side did you read that article i said yeah i did i said so i want twice as many blueberries twice as much honey and i want so much butter on the toast i can't even taste the toast see so i used the authority god gave me once i realized what i was doing and i didn't i just canceled compromise in that moment now i went to the extreme but that's what my heart said to do i'm not going to give in i'm not going to compromise because that's how i got sick was through that compromise there was another place i wanted to read how much time do i got oh my goodness okay great you shouldn't tell me that i'm still looking for my eudicrys crowd that's why they closed the balcony you know about eutychus right he was the one where paul preached all night too and the guy fell off the balcony that's why whenever i go someplace they always close the balcony anyway no i'm just kidding uh where was i gonna go caroline yeah um let's see i thought of something that was really good anyway go with me to psalms 91 oh no wait that's what i wanted thank you lord psalms uh back to psalms i mean uh back to uh samuel 22 i missed a very good point it says i was in 41 thousand also given me the next of mine enemies that i might destroy them that hate me they looked but there was none to save they even looked unto the lord but he answered them not do you know what when i was very sick you know some of the worst enemies to me were my brothers and sisters in christ now that's a sad testimony i'm not condemning them but i'm just saying that they came with religious ideas and they were always pointing a finger at me telling me what i was doing wrong and that's why you're sick i was condemned for everything okay they they became and you know i have to give them benefit of the doubt i don't think they were intentionally doing that i think they were just afraid within themselves of getting something so they just reacted that way and they thought they were helping me but it was terrible i just felt so condemned it's like i didn't want to talk to any of them you know and they were using and talking to me in the name of the lord i can't tell you how many people had a word from god for me they just came out of the woodwork oh the lord said you're sinning oh the lord said this and i'm like really i repented of things that i never even thought i could do because i thought i needed to to be free you know and that's what this is saying it says there was none to save they even looked unto the lord but he answered them not it goes on to say then did i beat them small as the dust of the earth i did stamp them as the mire of the street and did spread them abroad wow is that a good word picture do you know when moses came down off the mount and god said to him your people have corrupted themselves and he came down that that mount and he saw what they had made a golden calf do you know what he did to that golden calf it said he pounded it into dust i want you to think about that for a minute gold do you know how malleable gold is do you know how hard it is to pound it into dust that's how serious moses was about not having anything around his people that would corrupt them that took some effort on his part that's what david said i have stamped them to dust and do you know what moses did with that golden calf after he pounded it to dust he threw it on their drinking water think about that he despised it see that's what we need to do with thoughts of the enemy that become exalted in our minds and heart they become little golden calves in our lives and we find ourselves bowing down to them but you know folks when you do discover that golden calf don't let it remain pound it to dust don't let one bit of that dust remain in your life that's what the truth of god's word will do in your life it will empower you it will show you what it is that the enemy has used in your life and when you see that take this read this over that remind yourself that you're not going to let that rise again in your life do you know if you just leave a little bit of it how many of you know what bermuda grass is well bermuda grass is like you get one blade of it in your lawn and it spreads like oh it just grows like and you can't kill it okay you have to eradicate the whole thing and that's what the enemy's like he's like bermuda grass you let a little bit of it grow and it's going to take over your whole lawn in like you know a couple weeks so when you see it what do you do you gotta dig down and take all the dirt out around it and throw it away because if you don't it's gonna spread and that's what the enemy does and he does it with thoughts he starts with a thought in your mind that you either allow to rattle around in there or you agree with it you say oh yeah i never thought of that yeah what about that instead of saying wait a minute no it is written where you take that thought and you compare it with what the truth of god's word says and then there will be no room for compromise let me read you how paul put that second corinthians chapter 12 no chapter 10 you're all familiar with this verse but please listen afresh it says uh for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh so you know thoughts are spiritual do you guys realize that how many of you realize that your thoughts are spiritual because they're going straight into the spiritual part of you your brain is just gray matter that's all it is the real you the real mind of you is part of the spirit of god and the flesh that it's connected to is how your spirit manifests itself in this world this tangible world that we live in but the real you is 100 spirit and the enemy is communicating to you spiritually through thoughts amen and and paul makes it very clear he says though we're in this physical body walking around our war the warfare that we're in is not according to the flesh okay he goes on to say for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal they're not in the flesh but they are mighty through god to do what it says to pull down strongholds you know strongholds call a start in your life compromise you compromise a little bit and that comes into you and it becomes a stronghold what is a stronghold how many know what a stronghold is a stronghold is something that has a strong hold on you or you have a strong hold on and many people have a strong hold on doctrines false doctrines like me that's what almost killed me i was believing i had to get all my ducks in a row before i could be healed where did i learn that in church i was taught you had to be perfect god heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshiper of god and doeth his will him god heareth so i'm thinking this sinner boy is never going to get healed if god can't hear me but i didn't consider that adam and eve sinned and who came to them and did god hear them he surely heard them the first sinners and god heard them god went after them so it's important to bring captive those thoughts paul says here lost my place he says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they are mighty through god to the pulling down of those strongholds see the spirit of christ in you is greater than the stronghold even if the stronghold has you or whether you're holding on to it you know fear will cause you to have a strong hold on something that you think you need to be safe that's the deception in it the devil connects your freedom or your safety through that fear that you have to have x y or z or you're not going to be okay how many of you have experienced that i have yeah and you have to recognize wait a minute is it jesus plus this thing i have to have to be free or is it jesus alone that makes me free anything that you connect to jesus compromises your victory amen folks this is powerful stuff it's good it's what we need to hear it's what we need to think on meditate in day and night you know you say i've talked about compromise the last two days you say well what's the cure the bible says that we are transformed by the renewing of our mind and through that transformation we prove we try our test we prove what is the good acceptable and perfect will of god what is the good acceptable and perfect will of god it's right here between these two covers it's called truth it's the word of god and when your heart is connected to that you have discernment beyond your own physical senses and you hear what god is saying you recognize the enemy you know when you're reading that article about eat right for your blood type the lord's saying dude don't read that and you hear it and you say yeah you're right what am i doing putting that in my mind amen and you know what even though i like to point this out even though i read the article and i allowed that compromise into my heart my father never forsook me he sent caroline after me you know and he'll do that he'll bring that way of escape into your life he's that faithful he doesn't care how much stupid stuff we embrace he's right there to say son this way no no come this way okay you went that way now let's see okay now come this way so he's always there to help us to refocus on what is good what is true what is acceptable what is perfect that's our loving father his gentleness is always there for us and then this is good verse five he says casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of christ see there's the key to victory see even if you're knee-deep or up to your eyeballs in compromise if you will begin to compare your thoughts with the word of god and begin to cast them down one at a time you'll find yourself walking in freedom because you can't think two opposite things about one subject at the exact same time it's impossible god we can switch back and forth really fast remember the cartoons you know the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other and the head's going back and forth listening to him we can switch back and forth really quick but or we can just be single-minded and stay focused on what the word of god says and what's that going to do it's going to produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness in you and that's not something coming from the outside it's something that's in the spirit within you already so through us bringing our thoughts captive to the word of god we're actually giving place to the spirit within us to freely manifest everything he was given to us to do all these really terrible things like love joy peace gentleness meekness temperance faith goodness health prosperity how many of you have too much of those things in your life anybody no but we we're the we're the obstacle to the spirit manifesting them out of us because we've accepted ideas we've taken on thoughts we've let them compromise our heart to where the spirit who cannot violate our will can't freely do what he was given to us to do amen that i just so loved the how our father had jesus just manifest the word through his life and then recorded it for us where he showed us what it looks like to live the word see jesus lived the word the bible puts it this way the word became flesh and dwelt among us you know i used to think that it was some you know weird mystical thing but no jesus just took the word that he learned from his father you know his father taught jesus the word the bible says that he learned obedience through the things that he endured who taught him his father how did he teach him the same way he teaches us the holy spirit the comforter will lead and teach and bring to our remembrance everything that the word says if we will hear and jesus took that to heart he lived it thy word i quoted it already thy word have i hid in mine heart that i might not sin against thee so jesus was capturing thoughts that came to him just like they come to you consider in the wilderness when he was tempted in the wilderness how was he tempted did the devil appear to him no the devil has no shape he's an evil spirit he has no presence at all he has no way to manifest himself except through us accepting his thoughts and when we embrace his thought he manifests his personality through us well jesus when he heard that thought come into his mind what did he do did he get out his notes to the sermon he heard last week did he pull out his three by five cards no he drew on what was written in his heart and what was written in his heart man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god where did he get that from it's in deuteronomy chapter 8. he didn't have the chapter part but he knew what the word said that through hunger god tried and tested the children of israel to see where their hearts were at so he knew that his time in the wilderness was a trial a test not by his father testing him of evil but by the father showing him that he could endure by just trusting the father and jesus realized that when that thought came to his mind if you're the son of god make that stone bread why why would he do that he thought to himself i don't live by bread alone i live by the word of my father i've been sustained for these 39 days what's another few days true but where did that come from he knew his father's word he knew that when an imagination came into his mind that didn't agree with his father's word he would lean on what his father taught him not what this thought was presenting him and he cast it down how did he cast it down he moved away from it he did not obey it he didn't compromise with it he didn't debate it he just went to the truth in his heart and that's where he stayed i'm staying with truth it served me well amen and that's what god has told us cast down imaginations and every other thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god right no he said everything not every other thing everything i remember the first time i read this i thought no way every thought god do you know how much i think it ain't gonna happen but you know what if you do it one thought at a time it's quite easy if you just take that one that's come into your mind now like i wonder when he's going to stop talking bring it captive cast it down i'll be done when i quit amen praise god amen you know what i i think i think i am done i think i'm just going to quit there father was there anything else that was on my heart or your heart i think there was one more thing i feel like i'm incomplete with what i was going to share oh yeah thank you so much yes isaiah turned isaiah 54. this is good okay i'm circling the runway right now we have clearance for landing okay so we'll be done in a second here i'd say a 54 but i i would feel remiss if i dismissed you without reading this because this is so awesome isaiah 54. it says in isaiah 54. let me read this here it says i'm going to start in verse 14. it says in righteousness thou shalt be established thou shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear think about that for a minute when you're established in righteousness fear will not have a place in your heart it doesn't mean that fear won't come and knock on your door and you know boo scare you but it means that in you're going to default to the righteousness that god has made you in christ jesus that's going to be the place that you withdraw to because that's your strength like david said in psalms 91 he said thy word is my shield and buckler amen you know a buckler was something that was a shield from you know the you know like right above your feet all the way to like right here it was a shield that completely guarded you okay where you could dunk or drop it to the ground and be safe from anything that's being shot at you and david said the word of god was his shield and buckler he let that word be his protection you know and jesus demonstrated that like i just quoted he said man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god that's beautiful that's our defense folks that is our defense it says verse 15 oh no let me finish 14. and righteousness thou shalt be established thou shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terror for it shall not come near thee okay just stop for a second come near thee what is near i'll read you that in a minute verse 15 behold they shall surely gather together but not by me see god is saying i'm not bringing trouble into your life i'm not bringing the devil to to check you out or to try you or to prove you god's not going to do that he says they're going to gather together against you how many of you have been challenged with sickness at some time in your life every person in this room has we've all been attacked but god said i'm not the one doing that but what is he doing he says they shall surely together gather together not by me whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake that is awesome think about that for a minute he is doing that for our sake he's stopping them from overtaking us but we have to yield to that protection it doesn't just happen god shows us the way of escape and we have to choose it remember when jesus went to his hometown to preach there and it was a good message so good that they wanted to throw him off the cliff and they're taking him out there and he just says i'm not going that way and he just walked through their midst see god his father showed him son go this way right now go this way and he did he just walked that way and they couldn't find him just like you know i was talking about lot when the angels that were with lot they just blinded the men that were outside of his door it says they groped to try and find the door and they couldn't find the door that's what happened with jesus see jesus read that account about lot and he said hey the father will do the same for me he said go right i'm going right they're trying to take me left but i'm going right and they can you imagine they all got to the cliff where is he i thought you had him did you have him no i thought and he's like out of town already why because he followed the way of escape that the father provided for him and what's more important than that i believe is that he yielded to what the father was saying you know every challenge that you have your father has already pa prepared a way of escape for you but that will not help you if you don't choose that way amen verse 17 it says no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn for this is the heritage of the lord and their righteousness is of me saith the lord you know second corinthians 5 21 tells us that we have been made the righteousness of god in christ jesus that seals the deal folks believe the word it says that you have been made the righteousness of god so that means if you read this verb verse backwards that you have the heritage of the lord you're his child you have his inheritance and it says that you have the the right to condemn any voice that is speaking against you that includes that thought coming into your mind you need to condemn that thought you know um these are actually legal terms here that it's using it says every every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment you know that word judgment there it's a legal term in the hebrew that that is like saying you know they have a legal or a law and they're judging you according to a law and they're saying that you must submit to this law okay and the enemy does he comes to us and he says well you've got all these symptoms so you have this disease people that have those symptoms have this disease he comes at you with a legal thing and saying you have to submit to this disease but you know what the next part says and it says thou shalt condemn those voices do you know what the word condemn their means it's the same legal term but it's a higher term in other words it's like a supreme court judgment over a a local jurisdiction which one's going to stand it's the higher court so god says yes the devil's going to come to you with judgments he's going to come to you with legal mumbo jumbo and he's going to tell you you have this look at all these reports look at this diagnosis and they have all these machines that tell you that you've got this problem well you know what you've got a word from god that's greater than their machines and that word says that by his stripes you were healed god doesn't deny that you might have those symptoms in you but he says condemn them don't let them remain you i've given you the power that's part of your heritage you make the call you say no amen don't compromise with it don't let the enemy convince you that you're not going to be better till all the symptoms are gone you're submitting to his judgment say no jesus paid a high price for me to be free so get the bleepety bleep out of here and take your stinking symptoms with you but you know what you'll never rise in judgment against that you'll never stand up to that until you believe the truth and when you believe the truth folks it's going to make you bold as a lion you're going to esteem the righteousness that jesus has as being greater than anything the enemy can throw at you you're going to say you know what this is my heritage i'm not giving it up what if you're p what if say you have a a wealthy relative they pass away there's they gave you a million bucks okay two million dollars okay and then some distant relative who claims to be you know some heir comes and tries to get it from you what are you going to do oh i guess you can have it i think not you'd probably spend half of the money on a lawyer just to keep it true it's the principle of the thing right well folks let me tell you jesus died and gave you inheritance that is worth more than all the money in the world what are you going to do to keep it the world's going to try and take it from you but if you'll rest in what jesus christ has done with you and you won't concede or give up an inch of it the power that i read that david experienced in second samuel that's what you have in you stand up don't let him take another inch push back you know what it's not your strength it's not your power it's the power of christ in you you know within myself i feel weak i feel like you know i know me you know i know what i'm physically capable of okay but i don't stop there i say you know what i may not be able to do this but the word of god says through christ i can do all things so like paul said though we war though we're in the flesh we don't war after the flesh but the weapons of our warfare they're mighty through god to pull down all strongholds amen isn't that a good thing everybody stand to your feet amen it'll keep you from uh falling asleep at the wheel okay ready jumping jacks on the count of ten i wouldn't do that to any of you amen i want you all to just just if you would you don't have to but you know i think it'd be good for your heart just to say father i thank you for making me the very righteousness of god i thank you that i can do all things through christ jesus through christ amen and i want you to do this also do you have a pain in your body do you have some symptom that's been pulling you down or some weakness i want you to judge that right now and condemn it and it might sound something like this in the name of jesus satan i break all agreement with you i command this oppression to leave my body now in the name of jesus amen just speak that out to your own heart just take a second right now i'm watching you no i'm serious do that speak to right now and i agree with you in jesus name amen and the lord told me to do this i agree with you in jesus name you are free in jesus name amen praise god awesome god praise god and the victory is ours folks it is awesome father we all rejoice we thank you for this wonderful time that we've had together i thank you for the seeds that you have sown through your word into all of us father and i thank you that as all these words these truths are watered by your other words that you're sowing into us father that those dots will be connected and those truths will produce fruit in our life fruit that others will be able to feast on as well so we thank you for just how your word is addition and multiplication there's no subtraction and we thank you for that and we just praise you and father i thank you that that uh the anointing that you've placed upon jason father that that's just going to be multiplied through peace and through your word father that will be stirred in his heart that he will learn to cooperate with your leading and we thank you for that in jesus name amen amen praise god awesome whatever you want to come up here and jesus and amen hey wasn't this just so awesome yes thank you so much foreign them oh root lord and grow up and do awesome of god amen all right

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Length: 134min 1sec (8041 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 27 2022