More Than What I Came For - Ps. Robert Madu

come on do you have a Bible with you come on even if his glowin what you're waving in the air like you just do care that's what I'm talking about go would me to mark chapter 2 tonight mark chapter 2 and I'm gonna look at verses 1 through 12 the Gospel according to Mark which started chapter 2 yeah verse 1 through 12 and why are you looking forward how many you've never heard me preach before good I see your hand if you've never heard me preach Oh Lord that's quite a few of you okay quick disclaimer I am a hollaback preacher I don't even have to say that at c3 but I'm just saying it over the next six and a half hours that we have together if anything I'm saying you're feeling you could say a man you could say preach that you could say that was good you could stand up in the meadow and go that was for me this is my favorite you can also stand up in the middle go oh that was for you just get responsive mark chapter 2 we'll start at verse number one and even before I read the scripture let me just kind of set the tone in the trajectory of where this message is gonna go I was reading this passage and I was immediately reminded about this story of a man who called up his doctor one day in a complete panic he said doc I got to see you now doctor said what's wrong he said doc everything doctor goes what do you mean everything he said doc every place in my body that I touch I immediately keel over in excruciating pain doctor goes every place in your body he said yeah every place of my body doctor goes okay touch your knee man touched his name doctor goes touch your elbow man touched his elbow doctor goes touch your hair man touched his hair oh the doctor goes dummy you got a dislocated finger somebody I'll get that tomorrow Satan had to say sometimes in life especially during this holiday season you can think there's something wrong with everything when in actuality there's just something wrong with one thing and if you get the one thing in order how many know that one thing would take care of everything I'm already preaching in here I believe that Jesus here me is concerned with getting to the one thing that's affecting everything else and we see it in mark chapter 2 it says a few days later when Jesus again enter Capernaum the people heard that he had come home and so many gathered that there was no room left not even outside the door they were in the lobby like it was a loud p.m. service and he preached them probably about five times tonight and then it says some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them carried by four of them and since they could not give him to Jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on when Jesus saw their faith their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven now some teachers of the law also known as the haters we're sitting there thinking to themselves why does this fellow talk like that he's blaspheming who can forgive sins but God alone immediately Jesus knew in a spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts and he said to them why are you thinking these things which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or to say get up take your mat and walk but that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins he said to the paralytic I tell you get up take your mat and go home he got up took his mat and walked out in full view of them all this amazed everyone and they praised God saying we have never seen anything like this can you say Amen I want to title this message today more than what I came for more than what I came for and come on let's pray it's gonna be a long prayer but just bear with me would you bow your heads God you are awesome speak tonight amen more what I gave a quick little sermonic survey before we delve into this text how many would say just by a showing of hands that you were raised in church can I see your hand if you were raised in church Oh Lord that's almost everybody held up keep it lifted raised in church I just need to see who needs the counseling with you I'll let you know that I too was raised in church and if you lifted up your hand then you are fully aware of the fact that the life of a church kid is distinctly different than the life of a regular kid oh come on somebody there are trials and tribulations and situations that you encounter as a church kid that other kids aren't even aware of okay I know this - well because growing up in our household in Dallas Texas we had to be in church everyday the doors are open had to be in church there were no discussions no debates no diatribes we don't have a democracy it was a dictatorship okay had to be in church I never forget one Sunday I think I was like 13 and I woke up that Sunday feeling kind of bold kind of gangster and I said to my father I said to my father I said to my Nigerian father I said no look I'm going this Sunday I don't feel like it I said that to my Nigerian father and do you know my Nigerian father immediately said back to me he said let me tell you something boy no no no let me tell you something huh you can't get out of that bed and go to church or I can kill you and we will go to church and have your funeral but either way you will be in church because as for me and my house we will serve hey that's not a joke that's a true story y'all are clapping at the abuse iron do it as a kid dinner's were different dinners were different in our house because you could not eat your food you could not touch your plate without my momma hitting you with one of these questions what's your favorite scripture before you get eat your food you had to give a scripture before you could touch the plate see three you don't know hunger until your mind is racing to the Bible just trying to find the scripture so you can eat your food I remember one dinner being so annoyed with my mama I looked at her and said Jesus Webb give it a chicken why you playing but people slow this is stupid honest to god that is the environment that I grew up in and to be honest with you tonight I am so thankful that's the environment that I grew up in because of what it produced in me it produced this insatiable desire for the word of God hear me I am obsessed with the Word of God it is the hinge upon which my faith has its mobility the Word of God is the irreducible substantive essence of what it means to know who Jesus is it's like a red ball from our spirit is steroids for my faith to those who think that the Bible is some boring antiquated but that doesn't really relate to your life you have lost your mind that is the only book that's still alive it is the only book that is still breathing it is the only book that really has power it is the the only book that was written in antiquity but yet somehow it can speak to the specificity of your life it's nothing like God's Word other books you can read but the Bible is different because the Bible will read you it will show you who you are and whose you are so I love the word of God I didn't believe in the maps in the back that's how crazy I am but I have a favorite section we all have our favorites and I think my favorite section in God's Word are the Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John I love the Gospels in fact I've spent so much time studying the Gospels I feel like that close personal friends of mine I'm called a Matt marky-mark uncle Luke and little char know the Gospels cuz it's in the Gospels we get to see the Ministry of Jesus Christ himself in fact if you're new to church and you're walking in you're like wow these people are crazy they are and you're trying to figure out what all this is and you reading the Bible maybe for the first time start with the Gospels just just do the gospel just the story of who Jesus is every but don't go to Leviticus my goodness just go to the gospel because the Gospels they pulsate with the personality of Jesus Christ here's what I love I love that these four gospel writers are all talking about the same Jesus but they do it in totally different ways totally different almost like for film directors who've been given the same subject to film but if each been given their own cinematic license to film it each one of them give us a different HD 4k view of who Jesus really is oh and that's why I'm glad Marky Mark is our director for today because if you like if you like long boring documentaries please read the book of Matthew okay cuz you know Matthew he is writing primarily to a Jewish audience so he starts off with the long and laborious process of a lady you know that Jesus is the fulfillment of over 300 Old Testament prophecies have you ever read Matthew chapter 1 get you some expresso when you read it people for the first chapter we're just scripturally inundated with baby daddy after baby daddy after baby that movie movies you gotta go to the Book of Luke because Luke is a doctor so Luke goes into detail to explain the miracles that Christ did and how his miracles could do what modern medicine could not do if you like those mushy gushy romantic chick flicks and series that some of our husbands are forced and coerced to watch you got to read the book of John okay if you love the movie Dear John read John cuz John he's the disciples are we laying his head on the chest of Jesus always cuddling with Jesus and it's all about love the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God but those of you who are like me like me and you like movies that have action where things get blown up and people get beat up come with me to the book of Mark mark is Jesus Christ in action mark is so gangster you don't even have time for baby Jesus no for real Rita when you get home you will not find a manger in the book of Mark this dude is twisted he skips Christmas and just go straight to full grown Jesus with hair on his chest smelling like old spice mark is not playing games with you Mike wants to let you know mark wants to let you know with clarity and precision that before there was a Russell Crowe in Gladiator before there was a Mel Gibson and Braveheart before there was a Denzel please believe there was the King Jesus and when he stepped in situations they had to come under his divine authority because he wasn't just a good man he was on a Sunday night oh this is what Christmas is that he is the Word made flesh dwelling among us and a mark chapter 2 Jesus has been traveling and picking up on his frequent Walker miles and he gets to a house a certain house historians believe this was actually Peter's house Bob says when Jesus gifts this house I'm assuming all he does he just sits down to chillax in this house and within minutes of him getting to this house all of a sudden throughout the entire region people start going hey come here come here guess who's in town Jesus just showed up you know I can't miss that here I know it was him yes Jesus just showed up before you know it people start texting and tweeting it getting on the gram and dropping him location so you get over here he just got into town and before you know it the entire house is jam-packed with people simply because his presence sat down to rest in one house people from different walks of life people from different backgrounds all converged in one spot because his presence sat down to rest in one house come on the Bible is clear uses picturesque language it says I'm not even room outside the door this is standing room only because his presence sat down to rest in one place come on what is it about the presence of God coming to rest in a place that causes people to be drawn from everywhere I'll tell you what it is people instinctively know if you can ever get God's presence just to rest in a place how many know something life-changing something supernatural something miraculous will happen if his presence shows up you don't believe me why are you here tonight hello you know you could be at the house right now you do know that right you could be having dinner right now you could be watching Netflix right now a Dateline why in the world would you come in here on your only day off put on your good shirt all that Mary Kay a Mac make up just to come into the house of God you're gonna come to hear the worship team as awesome as they are you didn't come to hear me preach I think I know why you came tonight you came because you knew God's presence would be rusting in this place and when his presence shows up Oh something is going to happen somebody just praise Him like you want his presence just to come in sit down oh here habits the praises of this people his presence that's why I'm here tonight I didn't come to see your shoes I came because God's presence would be here oh I love it I love it because he hadn't even done anything yet can't even tell anything but just his presence being in that house that day cause an atmosphere of expectation to be in the room oh I can use my exegetical imagination I can see them in this house I can see the sick in the house going if he touches me I know I'm gonna be made home I can see it my wife and I we got three little humans so I can't even see practical things like a momma with a little kid not even paying attention just on his high panties pay attention Jesus is in the house see that's why you get in trouble at school cuz you don't listen to anybody listen to Jesus he's gonna change all I can see I can even see some ladies in the house some ladies in the house cuz home you know Jesus was single and in the ministry hello so I could see some ladies in the back Tom bout girl yes your way is fine girl I heard last week at a wedding he turn water into wine yes he did don't let him ask me out I ordered water I mean I can and they're all waiting with tiptoe anticipation perhaps to see what Jesus was going to do cuz everybody loves the show they should have been waiting to hear what he was going to say Bob says that all Jesus does in this house as he stands up he clears his holy throw the Bible says that Jesus preached the word to them solid a as he preached the word I might not get you excited but that gets me excited because I'd love to hear people preach the Word of God you understand something powerful happens whenever you come to the house of God and you hear the word of God being declared over your life Martin Luther said when the word is preached that's when God speaks there's something about being a part of a church and you want to thank god you're a part of a church that has a pastor that would declare the Word of God oh please don't be naive to think that just because somebody's standing behind the pulpit that they're preaching the word Oh cuz we live in a day and age where people are preaching huge stories where their preacher pop psychology and and they wonder why there's no transformation in the people that they're preaching to because the only thing that can transform your soul is the infallible incorruptible everlasting unchanging that's the only thing that has power I love to hear people preach the word I don't even care your style of how you preach it you know some people get caught up on their style of preacher why is he shouting so much I don't even get how do we even get caught up on stars long as you're preaching the word I am with you I like calm preachers that preach the word and they just stay in one spot and smile a lot and say this is my Bible I am but it says I am it says I cannot like calm preachers that preach so I like which they get really excited when they preach in the word got a Hammond b3 organ behind them sound like they have an asthma attack between each word that's come on you're not also preaching that a preaching and singing [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] you know I preach like that at some churches about want to scare some of y'all here in San Diego I love to hear people preach the word but how do you know in my text today this is no ordinary preacher this is Jesus this is the greatest preacher to ever preach do you know how I preach like I had six Red Bull this morning because I had six Red Bull but you know I preach with so much passion and and no matter how I feel I give it everything I got is because I know when I get to heaven nobody wants to hear what I have to say come on we don't want to hear any preachers when we get to heaven put your little podcast to the side the only one we want to hear in heaven come on somebody is Jesus we want to hear from that means I got to get all my preaching out now you understand like when I preach a passage on preachers the pastor jörgen preaches we just have a word Jesus is the word he was the word made flesh something I'll miss that that means if Jesus really wanted to preach a good message it's all he had to say he still would have been preacher Word made flesh so what would it have been like to have been in that room that day packed house people in the lobby [Applause] listening to the Living Word preaching the written word and there they are trying to pay attention to Jesus or monic dissertation but I love this passage especially as a preacher and a communicator and a pontificate of the gospel because this lets me know that even the greatest communicator Jesus faced distractions in an audience because they're all trying to pay attention to Jesus sermon they really are but in the middle of it they go [Laughter] attention but before you know debris starts falling down in the middle of this house and a hole starts appearing and the roof and a few hands and a few heads appear and the hall as it gets bigger and bigger and a ray of sunlight comes through the room now understand historians believe this is Peter's house they put in the hole in Peters roof somebody I knew to church you don't know the disciple if there's any disciple you don't want to put a hole in his roof it's Peter okay put a hole in the disciple John's roof the one that's always cuddling with Jesus because he'll just look up and go now I can see the stars but don't let somebody cut you off on the highway okay Peter was working on some stuff Peter will cut you out you know what cuts you real quick getting bigger and bigger and Peter's like what and Jesus like watch your mouth feeder come down okay I'm the son of God I'll make you a new roof but be all right all of a sudden they start lowering this guy can you see it down down down down all the way at the feet of Jesus and a silence hits the room the Bible didn't tell us the man's name don't even tell us when his paralysis occurred all the Bible tells us is that he is a paralytic man why is that important it's important because if you study the Gospels one of the literary nuances you will find is that anytime Jesus interacts with a person rarely do we get their name well often then now we just get their gender in their condition ever notice this there was a man with the withered hand what was his name there was a woman with an issue of blood what was sister girl's name there was a man who was blond there was a man who was deaf we just get their gender in their condition and do you know what it speaks to I think it speaks to the human tendency to identify people by their issues oh yeah we do the same thing today people love to identify other people by the issue that they have we love to define people by dysfunctions we love to put people in categories and say that's a bad person you remember what they did how many know humans are the only people that will call you something for 15 years that you did one time in your past and five minutes and don't think that sum total of your life is some mistake that you made but I've got some good news from heaven for somebody in here today how many are thankful that if you are in Christ guess what you're a brand new creature your past is washed away I don't have to be defined by my dysfunction my issue is never my identity when Jesus looks at me he doesn't see my faults he doesn't see my mistakes he doesn't see where I'm messed up he just sees the blood of Jesus and said that's already been paid for come on somebody ought to give God some praise [Applause] some of you keep beating yourself up over something Jesus already paid the price for and you are identifying yourself with your issue well maybe you got people in your life to keep bringing up your mistakes and keep bringing up your past and you need to look at them and say you know what you know a whole lot about my history but you don't know anything about my destiny God's got greater in front of me than the mistakes of my past just called him a paralytic man and there he is in the presence of God but he still got his paralysis he made it to God's presence but he still got his paralysis I know you can't say anything because this church ain't gotta act real spiritual like you floated in here and had communion for lunch but we could be real tonight sometimes hard for church people to do I think you'd be shocked at the person sitting right next to you lifting up their hands singing all the songs but if they're honest about their current spiritual condition paralysis I'm talk about the thing that affects your walk with the Lord some of the things that maybe you cry out to God in a secret place I said God if I didn't have this I'll walk with you would be a whole lot better and maybe you feel like this man today you feel stuck you feel like giving up you feel like throwing in the towel but God said this crazy shouting sweating chocolate brother from Dallas Texas they tell you you can't give up you can't God has a unique way of putting you at the right place at the right time to hear the right word so you can get up and walk and everything that he has for you thank God for these four friends almost preached just on them these four unnamed friends how many know the success in your life will be contingent upon the circle that is around you oh these poor friends I'm just at a season in my life well I want tear the roof off friends in my life yes I don't want people to see me on the ground and say the ground is not that bad if that target got some mats on sale let me go get you a no give me a tear the roof off friends who won't let me stay in mediocrity but the average are settle for less than what God has for me I want some friends that will say I don't know what to do about that situation without do whatever it takes to get you into the carry somebody up a roof no wonder Jesus responded to their faith well don't miss that in the text their faith not just the faith of the man but the faith of the four friends I said I'll do whatever it takes for him to get a breakthrough tore the roof off and how many know if you preaching a sermon and somebody comes through the roof in the middle of that sermon shut the sermon down bring the keys out you have lost the room I can see the crowd the crowd shocked that somebody just comes to a roof but the crowd is also excited because come on this is what they paid their ticket to see you know it's already been rumored throughout the region that Jesus has supernatural transcendent power so as soon as the dude hits the floor I can see the crowd going it's about to go down tell me y'all Jesus got power he's got real power I'm nobody gonna take mud and rub it on his legs I don't know what he going to but it's gonna be good you better get your camera put this on you too and the man the man who had to be embarrassed I mean think about it to be lowered into the presence of all of these strangers all of a sudden his embarrassment is eradicated with a feeling of elation and hope cuz he knows for the first time in his life he's gonna be able to stand on his own two feet for the first time in his life he's gonna be able to feel the sand between his toes but the first time in his life when he's at a wedding and he do the cha-cha slide and it says one hop this time he's gonna be able to do [Applause] and love the crowd while the crowd is waiting to shout at the miracle and while the man is thinking about what dance he's about to do when he gets up Jesus please don't miss this who has the power to heal him the first thing he says the first thing he says to him is son your sins are forgiven what okay all you spiritual people in the room you identified yourself cuz as soon as I said that you probably thought mmm how'd I do yeah glory to God yes see that's always the problem isn't it but I don't know how you read the Bible here's how I read the Bible okay when I read the Bible I jump in the page of the Bible I imagine what it would be like to be that particular individual and that lets me know and I probably would have got kicked out of the Bible right around Genesis chapter 1 because because whenever I am annoyed pray for me whenever I'm annoyed I have the tendency to be a little bit sarcastic a little bit sardonic I'm still in process so if that's me if that's me and I've just been carried through a crowd up the side of a house a scene has been made a hole has been cut Construction has happened for me to get into the presence of a man everybody's gonna hear me and everybody saying is gonna make me walk again and the first thing the first thing he says is not get up and walk yes son your sins are forgiven I'm going oh Jesus we came all the way down here hey let's go home [Applause] you gotta read your Bible it is funny stuff in your Bible Jesus seems to be the only ignoramus in the room this man did not come to get his sins forgiven hello he wasn't in the moonwalk Oh what do you do when Jesus does not address the thing in your life but you thought he should have addressed what do you do when the need for him to fix is blatantly obvious to you but he seems to bypass the issue what do you do God seems to be acting ignorant to your situation I submit to you that's when you actually delay name closer because this man didn't even realize just like you and I don't realize that he was actually in the exact place posture and position that God often reveals himself to us hear me see through church there's a place of life that is annoying that is frustrating and yet it is the place that God often reveals himself to us and that place is this whenever your experience is not lining up with their expectation God is trying to give you a revelation of who he is I must say that again whenever your experience is not lining up with your expectation God is often trying to give you a revelation of who he is because rarely is Jesus recognized in our lives he's more often revealed and he'll reveal himself at the place where our experiences are not lining up with our expectations come on anybody ever been there before well your experience then line up with your expectation and in the moment you didn't see it but now in hindsight you look back and said it was good that I went through that it was good that that prayer I wanted answer that way God answered this way it was good that that door got shut it was good that I didn't get that job I wouldn't have my business now it's good that they said no when I asked him out on a date I see where they are now thank you Jesus for blocking sometimes in your experience doesn't line up with your expectation the whole thing is just a setup for God to reveal something to you Oh are y'all bored yet can I go deeper in this because I could take you deeper because the Bible here me is full of examples where people's experience didn't line up with their expectation but the whole thing was a setup for God to reveal himself to them can I give you my favorite one remember John chapter 11 John chapter 11 were introduced to a family member Mary and Martha with their brother Lazarus just out of the blue get sick just starts coughing I think I got the black lung and they don't chirp at first they don't trip about first cuz it's not that bad all of a sudden he gets worse and worse to the point Lazarus can't even get out of the bed anymore and in my mind my imagination Martha she's kind of keeping it boys she's together but Mary is having a panic attack she's freaking all the way out girl stop that crying okay let me ask you something when Jesus comes into town whose house does he stay at this whole house is covered in the presence of the Lord it's gonna be okay it's gonna be alright don't stress it's Matt back give my cellphone give myself up we all know this Bible story takes her cell phone since a text message to Jesus says hey Jesus the one you love don't even say Lazarus name he knows what I'm talking about the one you love is sick you Jesus do what you do send Jesus don't play just yet Jesus it's on the other side of town he's on the other side of town preaching the gospel as he's preaching the gospel cell phone text message noise goes off just like what I'll tell you about cell phones while I'm preaching this I was like Jesus that's your phone oh my bad blows out his cell phone sees the text message from Martha he immediately responds he says do not worry this cyclone this sickness predictive text will jack you up this sickness will not end in death sends it back to Martha Martha gets the text girl look who just text me Jesus look at what he said he said this sickness will not end in death I told you he's an on time god I mean this start having charged off of a text message Oh but watch this right after they finish dancing Lazarus died and Jesus had the nerve and the audacity to not come to the funeral he didn't come to the graveside service when they're having the prayer he didn't even come to the house when they eaten chicken casserole he comes into town cool calm and collected talk about how y'all doing y'all good y'all good y'all good marry your mother alike no he didn't Oh Rita John chapter 11 Rita we go home they were so many our brother wouldn't have died there's a method to my madness their experience did line up with their expectation they were expecting him to come as soon as they sent word that he was sick but Jesus didn't he waited to last was got worse and not just worse - he was dead and not just dead for days dead best dead right when their experience didn't line up with their expectation just like so you at that place right now he said show me where you laid him now goes to the graveyard now you can play make us our spiritual goes to the graveyard and preaches a three-point sermon and says Lazarus come forth and a dead man comes out of the grave and thank God it was a three-point sermon because you know his word is so powerful and potent if he would have just gone to that grave and said come forth every dead person in there what a bit like hold on he's talking about me and it would have been a further video so I want to thank God that he can get the right word to the right person at the right time come on he sees exactly where you are don't you ever put a period [Music] can you see Mary and Martha can you see him taking the grave clothes off of their brother who was there I my girl Jesus off the chain who God you say head see I thought he only had power to heal people when they were sick I didn't know he had power to raise people from the dead and we would have never known resurrection power was in him until our experience dead line up with our expectation do you hear what I'm saying to you today I'm saying to this situation you've been complaining about you could flip the script and just start praising God for because he is revealing himself to you in the middle of it sometimes it's not until you get the bad doctor's report that he'll reveal that he really is a healer sometimes it's not until that person you thought you could trust stabs you in the back he reveals that he's never gonna leave you he isn't never gonna forsake you sometimes it's not until your money is funny and you'll change you're strange you got more bills that you got income and you don't know where your kids and experience shoes are coming from that he will reveal to you that your giving is not an evade that you got a key be a generous keep Sola he hears every prayer I'll tell you he is revealing himself to you what's he revealing to this man well look at what he says he says son your sins are forgiven only the savior of the world can say that but in that moment that man had to be thinking ah Jesus hello my legs oh why don't I come to you sins forgiven you don't even know what my problem is and Jesus going no you don't know what your problem is tell me got a dislocated finger you think your legs are the big issue in your life and they're not it's not your legs are just the fruit of the issue sin is the root of the issue and I cannot deal with the fruit of an issue until I go deeper and deal with the root of an issue because if I deal with the fruit and not the root will have a perpetual cycle of dysfunction sin is the root not to say that this man personally sin to bring the paralysis on his body well that would be an erroneous theology and not congruent with the character of Christ but more so to say if the reason you're paralyzed in the first place is because of a decision that Adam and Eve made the garden a long time ago I never created paralysis but when sin entered the world paralysis came he said but I first got to deal with the disease of your heart before I do with the disease in your body I first got to deal with the ailment in your heart before your body cuz what good is it for me to heal your legs if your heart has not been healed that means please don't miss this Jesus could have said your sins are forgiven and then walked out the room and just left him there on the floor how many know he still did a miracle he still did a miracle cuz you are better off being paralyzed and forgiving than to be walking in sin but you're on thank God he can do both you don't want you paralyzed with a promise and you don't want you walking in sin how many know he wants you walking worthy [Music] ah God so he says so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins I'll tell you kids somebody's sake it up oh saying like you got some power shake it up like you got some authorities shake it up Jesus just told this man to get up you know say I might help you up you know Samba do a six week series on how you can get upset now not for this miracle I'm just giving you a word and you gonna have to activate your faith and respond to the word that you heard and do something you've never done before to receive something [Music] Oh [Music] he started Sheldon I imagined the whole place erupted if giving God praise even in the lobby and I love Jesus because he's not just powerful he's practical because if it was me I would've ended the miracle like get up drop the mic and walked out but not Jesus he says get up in the middle of the excitement of him getting up and that could only happen by the power of his word he gives him another commandment right after when I read it made me laugh out loud he goes get up yeah oh and pick up your mat no no you're not good pick him out hug I mean everything why I gotta carry this mat around I think it's because Jesus didn't want him to ever forget that it used to be down on the ground oh I've seen it in church sometimes when God raises you up and you've been walking with God for a while if you're not careful you'll get it twisted and get anointed amnesia and forget where you should have been and where you could have been you forgot in your life but your man is a constant reminder of God's faithfulness Oh God [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's what reminds you of God's faithfulness in your life your mat is what keeps you reaching out to other people who are down that's why you can never turn up your nose there's somebody else the church ought to be the most welcoming place [Music] oh I gotta finally take your man last thing he tells them this go home smell like can we go home I'm Landon for real says go home and I can see this guy walking to his house for the very first time carrying his men that's how you walk when you just got your legs you can see I'm knocking on the door of his house I guess there may be his kids coming to the front door going dad he's dead mom's like quit making up those stories you're always making up stories no mom come see comes to the front door perhaps these are husband's standing there for the first time imagine tears fill her eyes it just may be in that moment looks at her and says sweetheart you can't even see the real miracle the real miracle is not just that my legs have been healed and I'm thankful for that the real miracle is that my sins have been washed away he dealt with something nobody else my legs are just positive [Music] he always gives you more than what you came for his legs were just proved positive that healing had taken place on the inside the same Savior that did it for the man is willing and able to do it for you in this place tonight thank you for tuning in Church we hope this message reach your heart and was one in season for you we're eager to hear how God is moving in your world if you have a praise report or prayer request send us an email at online at c3 San Diego dot-com to share also to partner with us financially so we can reach people all over the world go to c3 give calm we know you'll be blessed by your giving thanks again Church and until next time we'll see you soon

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