Passion 2018 - Christine Caine

I love this Center anthem and infinite passions become just a little bit like god it's like omnipresent we are everywhere so it has been phenomenal this is year number six that are we've had the privilege of of being kind of woven into the passion story and I'm here to watch my daughter's I can't say that I really understood one lyric that was just said but my daughters were going off and I thought thank God for a generation of people that are worshiping King Jesus and at my 12 year old and my 15 year olds are being raised up under that thank God for this movement my daughter's been part of it since they were like nine and five and I'm I'm trying to work out how all they are so Louie and Shelly are just such great personal friends of Nick and mine and we are serious about making the name of Jesus famous so I've loved it I love Levi's message last night I was already running laps I was yelling Amen louder than anyone this morning was off the chain and I really believe that the Holy Spirit has sent me here we you will see what God continues to do every passion that I've been a part of is he just builds line upon line precept upon precept and with God it just gets better and better and better so you've got to stay tuned in right to the very end so that God can do what he wants to do in and through your life when I was in kindergarten which was way before anybody in this room was born I was in kindergarten in 1972 so that was in the last millennium and so I went to school and I am Greek so I don't know if anyone here has ever seen my Big Fat Greek Wedding yes okay well that is fully my big fat Greek life I grew up I did not speak English until I was five my parents were spoke Greek that were born in Alexandria Egypt and they emigrated to Australia they spoke five languages so if they didn't want us to understand what they were saying they would either speak in French Italian or Arabic because we spoke Greek and English and when I got older and so in my household there was always a lot of languages and the best benefit about coming from parents who were born in Egypt but a Greek is that you got to eat a lot of food that is very yummy like a lot of Middle Eastern food a lot of Greek food and so and everything was always loud everything was always crazy so you wonder why G Chris is really passionate and she talks really fast although after hearing Andy rap just then I'm thinking I need to up my gain in terms of how many words a minute I can I can say but I went to school and my mother used to send me to school with feta cheese sandwiches and I don't know if you know what feta cheese is but it will be served at the marriage supper of the land like definitely it is awesome and Greeks like to put garlic on everything so I would go to school with my feta cheese and garlic sandwich which was just like normal food the problem is all the Aussie kids would eat Vegemite sandwiches so now I don't know if you know what Vegemite is but it is a black thick substance it's a yeast extract and when the American students come to Bible College in Australia we sort of have like a Vegemite competition where we put it you're only supposed to have it very very thin but we make it about two inches thick put it on toast and then watch everyone buff so that's what you do for kicks when you ah see but I think Ozzy kids would have Vegemite sandwiches I would have feta cheese sandwiches and I remember the first time I did this there was a little boy called way and another boy called raymond and i was christine carry off Alice back then because that's what my name was Nick thought I made a good move to marry a cane but I like carry awfulest so it was christine carry office there was no other carry awfulest at my school in fact there was no one else in my school with any ethnic last name because I was grew up in a part of Australia that was just kind of very very Australian so I went to school with my little lunch box when I opened it Raymond began laughing at me and Wayne and they started calling me names because of this food that I was eating because I I didn't know there was anything wrong with feta cheese and garlic but at five years old when you're shamed like that at school it kind of affects a lot of stuff so they laughed at me because of my sandwich and then really for the whole rest of that year at school my mum would make my sandwich and I would throw my sandwich in the bin before I got into school so that the kids wouldn't laugh at me at school shame is a horrible thing that's probably not one person in this room that hasn't experienced some form of shame in some way shape or form it wasn't just my school lunch being feta cheese and garlic that was being laughed at what those boys didn't know is that I'd also by that stage by the time I'd already gone to school I had already been the victim of sexual abuse and that continued right through to my teen years so in my life I never ever knew a time that I didn't know Shane I didn't know what shame was whether was because of my ethnicity growing up the only Greek migrant in a very Australian culture or because I was sexually abused or because I was a woman that loved to play soccer and not play with Barbie dolls or because I like to read books and not just cook in the kitchen I didn't fit in the traditional Greek girl mold and what I heard from the time I was a very little girl was Christine why can't you be normal Christine why can't you be like all the other girls so if it wasn't my gender if it wasn't my ethnicity it was being abused and right from the time that I have my earliest memories in life I remember there was a tape recorder in my mind what is wrong with me I always thought there was something wrong with me which set me on a trajectory in life to make a whole lot of poor decisions to make a whole lot of poor relational decisions to be looking for love and affirmation in all of the wrong places to be looking for fulfillment in all the wrong things because that's what shame - shame tells you there's something wrong with you and you and I in 2018 have come out of a year where I've not seen more shamed flown around the earth probably because of the internet and social media an article in The New York Times called this a shame culture and there's barely a day that anyone wakes up where you don't feel like you're not good enough you're not smart enough you're not pretty enough you're not thin enough you're not handsome enough you're not connected enough there's something wrong with you you feel good until you get onto social media and go wow I was feeling okay until I logged on today there wouldn't be a person in here or in anthem or the infinite energy arena that hasn't in some way shape or form felt some sense of shame our culture does that to us can't even go to the supermarket and buy something without the magazine telling you you're too fat well you're too ugly or you're not connected or you're not celebrity enough for it's just the world in which we live and I want to pose a question today from Scripture to tell you this is nothing new we're in 2018 but when you go right back to the beginning in Genesis chapter 2 and 3 you will see right there at the beginning of scripture the enemy only ever had one plan and through that one plan he's come to steal kill and destroy our purpose in our destiny and he's still doing the same thing he is not original he's doing the same thing in 2018 that he started in the Garden of Eden and it's about time that we the people of God wake up to this because we've got a culture that heaps shame on us and I've come to passion 2018 to declare and decree shame off every one of you in Jesus name because Jesus came to set us free from shame Jesus came to set us free from guilt and condemnation turn with me to Genesis chapter 2 we're going to go to verse 25 the Bible says and the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made he said to the woman did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden and the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden neither shall you touch it lest you die but the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise she took of its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate then the eyes of both were open and they knew they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin cloth and they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden but the Lord God called to the man said to him where are you and he said I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten of the tree which I commanded you not to eat the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me the fruit of the tree and I ate it it's awful then the Lord God said to the woman what is this that it's her fault so not in there just in case you I just you know don't send me a text and go that's not in there and then the Lord God said to the woman what is this that you have done the woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate and there comes victim culture and there comes the blame culture he blamed her she blamed the serpent everyone blames everyone no because no things anybody's fault anymore everybody is someone's fourth time you know kind of before I was born 16th centuries ago this happened and this happened and this happened this happened because of that and they did that and they did this and this is why I'm where I am today and so no one wants to assume any personal responsibility for anything and so that's why we've ended up in the world in which we live today but it started right back in the Garden of Eden right there did you notice in Genesis 2:25 the very last verse before we go into the fall of Genesis 3 the very last verse of Genesis 2 we have the Garden of Eden explain the creation of Adam and Eve and then all of a sudden the last thing God wants us to know before we go into the fall he says Adam and Eve were naked and they knew no shame Adam and Eve were naked and they were unashamed it doesn't say they were unafraid it doesn't say that they were happy or joyful it doesn't say anything it says they weren't unashamed God wants us to know before we went into the fall that there was one thing that humanity was never created to bear the burden of and that's the burden of shame because God wanted us to know they were naked and they knew no shame were not created to know what Shane feels like we were not created to carry the burden of shame so if you were the enemy and you wanted to take out the one thing that was created in the image of God wouldn't it make sense that you would try to put something on them that God created them to never know what it felt like it's no doubt he said Shane so you and I are created in the image of God Genesis 1:26 27 says in His image he created them male and female were created in the image of God and in that image God created us to not know what shame is so the enemy the Bible says in Genesis chapter 3 comes into the garden and the serpent being more crafty than any other animal why was he more crafty because he knew that if he was going to take down humanity he was gonna do what God had done in Genesis chapter 1 in Genesis chapter 1 God spoke the world into being nothing existed until God said it God said it and it became so the Bible says in Genesis 3 the serpent was more crafty than any other animal so he said oh our words are powerful our words are very powerful this power of life and death scripture teaches us in the tongue and dare I say in the 21st century in our thumbs or our fingers what we tweet what we Facebook what we put out there in the atmosphere there is life and death God constructed and framed the world in which we live with the words that he spoke he gave us his word and the enemy thought if I'm going to take them down heap shame on them I'm gonna start with saying did God really say question number one oh it hasn't changed in 2018 the question for our generation is did God really say how much of this are you gonna believe what parts of this don't you like if it doesn't suit you how about we change it we dilute it did God really say has it changed he started right there first words we see in Scripture was testing the authority of God's Word questioning the authority of God's Word because if we can undermine the authority of God's Word we can take the power out of what our faith is all about and so the enemy has not changed we're in 2018 and the question for us on campuses all around or all around the world is did God really say did God really say so you guys did good actually saying because here's the deal if you do not know what God says you will believe what the media says you will believe what your friends say you will believe what some teachers said you will believe what some friend ex-lover said if you don't know what God says about you you will believe the lies of the enemy and we need a generation that loves the Word of God that knows what God says about us so we can rise up and be who God has called us to be and do what God has called us to do that the devil will always say did God really say do you could really say that's how we want you to live morally to God really say you shouldn't cheat on you tax return to God really say you don't really have to tell the whole truth to God really say you can't sleep with that to God really say all that question will always be there did God really say because if he can sow that seed of doubt as to what God really said but if you go back to the original Greek Hebrew Aramaic twist it turn it upside down put it through the dishwasher then through the washing machine then maybe you know we can make it say what we wanted to say did God really say so she goes on here's the first mistake don't talk back to the devil like this she enters into a dialogue with him once he starts and you know that the enemy has begun to come and have a conversation in your mind you know what not today devil it's a really good line not today I'm not gonna have a dialogue with you but here was her first mistake she begins to have a chat what God did say that we shouldn't eat here's the challenge she said but God did say and she quoted what God said see you can read your Bible you can memorize your Bible you can quote back what the Word of God says but if you don't believe what God says and you don't believe that the character of God is good you can quote it to the cows come home but you won't live it and if you don't live it you won't affect change in your life knowing the Word of God is not enough you have got to put it into action and actually believe it and actually live it I want us to go beyond just being able to quote cute Bible verses to saying this word is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword and I'm going on to my campus full of the love of God full of the word of God full of the power of God because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and you will not have faith for what you do not hear so do you hear the word of God she said this is what God said don't eat from this tree of the knowledge of good and evil because then we're gonna die and here comes the enemy he says you will not surely die you won't die nothing Bad's gonna happen to you you can go there you can do that you can smoke that you can drink that you can sleep with them you can nothing bad will happen to you the enemy has not changed but what he's doing in that moment is undermining the character of God see the truth is that if you don't believe your God is good and that your God does good and they your God is working all things together for your good and for his glory if you do not believe that God ultimately has your good in mind it is so easy to disobey the will of God when you doubt the character of God so if you doubt the character that God is good it's so much easier to go and do what you want to do and not do what the Word of God instructs you to do but when you know that anything God has asked us to do in this word is for how good and for his glory it changes everything so what the enemy wanted to do was undermine the character of God you will not die nothing Bad's gonna happen to you you can take God's words you can twist it upside down you can make it suit whatever you want and it's okay but the truth is it's not okay have you looked at the world in which we live in our world is cray-cray but just because the world is cray-cray doesn't mean we have to be in the midst of this darkness God has called us to be his soul to be his my God has called us to bring hope and love and justice and mercy to a lost in a broken world you our God's plan a for your University not one day when now but you're going to have to go through this test did God really say and he's the deal God doesn't want you to do this because God knows that if you eat from that tree then you will be like God and God doesn't want you to be like that now here's the deal remember Genesis chapter 1 she already was created in the image of God but because she forgot who she was the enemy made her do the very thing God told her not to do so that she could become who she already was you see if you understand who you are as a son or a daughter of the king of kings and the Lord of lords you won't be looking for God in all the wrong places the enemy is lying to a generation and saying why don't you do the antithesis of what God has told you to do so that you can be fulfilled when you seek your fulfillment outside of the will of God it is a lie from the enemy the only way you will ever be fulfilled is to do what God has put you on the planet to do and become the son and daughter of the king you already ah that's how you get ultimate fulfillment see when you know you're a son or a daughter of the king you act like one a daughter of the king she's not going to jump into bed with everyone because you don't do that when you're royalty you know who you are no one has to put some moral guilt trip on me Christianity is not a behavior modification program when your whole pursuit is personal piety and behavior modification we've turned Christianity into this rules and regulations that is not what the gospel is about but when you discover who you are when you know that you're a son of the king you're not gonna trip a woman like she's some object for you to use and abuse you're not gonna do that because you know who you are and you know who she is guilt and condemnation doesn't change anyone Nick and I with a 21-hour life is spent rescuing slaves and putting traffickers in jail what I have discovered and we need to do that but legislation you cannot legislate the human heart Jesus Christ transforms the human heart and that's why legislation alone isn't gonna do it we need God to move in our world if we are going to see injustice turned around it's gonna take a whole lot of Christians living just upright moral lives that show this world that there is a higher way and we're not doing out of legalism or guilt or condemnation but we're doing it because we love the Lord Jesus Christ and he has transformed our hearts he's transformed our hearts so it's not because I'm better than you and so I don't get stoned on campus or I don't get drunk on campus or I don't screw around it's not this moral supremacy it's a revelation of Who I am as a son and daughter of the king when you get a revelation that you already are that you're not going to try to seek that through everything else but see what Shane does is it comes to separate you from God so you spend your whole life looking for what you already have in Christ but you're looking for it everywhere else so you're never going to be fulfilled and you're going to continue to heap shame on yourself and then you're not going to feel worthy enough to do what God has called you to do and so your Christian life becomes one whole yo-yo three steps forward two steps back three steps forward two steps back but I've come to passion 2018 drawing a line in the sand saying no a generation is going to move forward when you get a revelation of who we are in Christ and what our mandate is in Christ on the earth because what happened next was Adam and Eve recognized that they were naked and the Bible says so they hid from God and that's what the enemy wants you to do the reason he tries to make us walk outside of the will of God he said that we will then feel shame and guilt and condemnation and hide from God and many of us have Christian life amounts to not much more than coming into the presence of God for a second and then running away because I've done something wrong and in and out and in and out rather than taking ground and moving forward and I'm believing God that's going to break in this place today and DC infinite I'm believing God that shame is going to lift off people we're going to stop playing this Christian yo-yo game come and get fired up live mock live good fruit a couple of weeks and then bang we're back into patterns of destructive behavior but a lot of us we live like that because of what has happened to us or because of things that we've done that's what happened to me I had developed a life of patterns of destructive behavior because I was abused from a young girl I was so broken I had built so many defense mechanisms in my life so the Lord comes into the garden and the first question we see this is the first dialog between God and man in Scripture God's question is where are you I think God's asking that to our generation that where are you he's coming to your college campus and he's like where are you where are my sons and daughters where is the salt and light on this campus where are you why did you go into hiding why have you run from me and the first question Adam GaSe we were naked afraid and so we hid fear shame and hiding the first conversation between God and man still there today I was naked and frayed and so I hid I wonder when we go to our campuses we come into this environment in any of the 3 venues and then we're fired up to be Christian because there's tens of thousands of us online thousands of us but we go into our campus which is where we've been sent and we go into hiding especially in the 21st century because we have a world that wants to make us feel like idiots because we're Christians man you guys are not tolerant enough you guys are too legalistic you guys are not loving enough you guys are not inclusive enough your tables aren't long enough you guys are just judgmental and because we don't know actually who we are we believe these lies and so we go into hiding on campus we go into hiding and we don't profess the gospel because truth be told we're a little bit ashamed because we don't know how to reconcile a pluralistic culture and a gospel and so we think oh yeah maybe we are not loving enough maybe we aren't just not inclusive enough and maybe disgust I mean Jesus said I am the way the truth the life and no one comes to the Father but by me maybe that's just like a bit much and if I just pull back and I just love from a distance and we think that's loving and the reason we're running away is because we actually don't know the gospel and I wonder whether we've really encountered Jesus Christ because if you've really encountered Jesus and you've really been set free and you really understand the power of gospel there's nothing condemn natori about it there is nothing that would hold anyone back there is something in you that would be compelled to want to tell everyone you know about the love and the grace and the mercy and the freedom that he's ours to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ that's why Paul in Romans 1:16 says I am not ashamed of the gospel of his name because it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes first to the Jew and then to the Gentile man when you get a revelation of the power of the gospel of the freedom of the Lord Jesus Christ you're not going to go into hiding but if shame has been heaped on you whether it's by culture or because of what's happened to you or because of the mistakes that you've made in your life you're gonna do exactly what Adam and Eve did you're going to try to cover yourself and go into hiding and the challenge with us as a generation is we've got a generation of Christians on college campuses that are hiding hiding and Jesus is like I sent you their assault and light and we're hiding because either we don't feel worthy to proclaim the gospel because our life doesn't match up with how we know we should be living or because we just feel like we don't know enough or we feel like our testimony is not dramatic enough all we feel embarrassed because of the culture that we live in and we have allowed the enemy to lie to us and we've believed the lie that this thing is too narrow this thing is too exclusive this thing is just too narrow for anyone to come in and when you believe the enemy you will live a life far less than what God has called you to live you're going to go into hiding so God's like where are you and I believe God is asking us in 2018 at passion where are you our world is desperate our world is dark our world is dying Christians where are you you know when I was at Sydney University before all of you were born I was in my final year and I grew up in the poorest ZIP code in New South Wales the state I grew up in I told you I'd been sexually abused I was broken I was the ethnic kid so I carried the shame of all of that and I remember I made friends with a girl called Deborah and Deborah was awesome but she went to the best private school in New South Wales she was a cheerleader and just a beautiful young woman very athletic and academically I mean she was just like a 4.0 student she was brilliant came from a very affluent family and we became friends and I remember thinking I sort of wanted to tell her about Jesus but I thought what can I tell her why would she need Jesus she comes from an affluent family she lives in a beautiful home she's a top student she's got a great boyfriend she's got a great social life she's gonna laugh at me and think well I'm a loser and I needed Jesus she's a winner she doesn't need Jesus see I hadn't really had a revelation of the gospel at that point religion yes but not the power that is in the gospel to set people free cuz I was still so bound by shame I was still so bound by what had happened to me I was heaven bound but I was going to heaven in chains and shackles and bondages I was not going to heaven in the freedom that was mine to have here on earth so that I could set other people free there would be no a21 there would be no propel because I was bound and you can get to heaven bound spiritually free but not out working that freedom here on earth that's what shame does to you and I remember one day I didn't see Deb for three days I was at the home building at Sydney University in the cafeteria and I was a bit worried I thought I haven't seen her for a few days and then I looked up and she was walking into the cafeteria and she came into the cafeteria and she runs up to me she goes Chris Chris I go Deb where have you been she goes Chris and this was 1989 so rave parties had just hit Australia she goes Chris I just went to a rave party it was in this warehouse in the back of Sydney she it was so awesome I haven't slept for three days we danced for three days we partied it was so awesome Christine I've never felt so much love I never felt so much joy I never felt so much peace in my life and with that she put a hand in a pocket and she goes Christine I so wanted you to feel the love and the joy and the peace that I felt that I saved you half an ecstasy tablet because I wanted you to experience what I experienced and in that moment everything changed for me because I thought my friend loves me way more than I love her she's more passionate about a synthetic drug that I am about Jesus and the last time I checked love joy and peace were fruits of the Holy Spirit of God not fruits of ecstasy so my friend that I thought had everything money boy Fred academic prowess the girl that I thought had everything what she was looking for on the inside was acceptance and love and joy and peace and that day when you wonder why's Chris of 52 such a radical revolutionary still for Jesus Christ because that day in the home building of Sydney University I made a decision I shall never again be ashamed of the gospel of his name for it is the power of God unto salvation it is the power of God unto salvation people are dying for you and I to tell them the gospel and if you and I are pulling back from it it's because of shame either because we've not encountered Christ Paul wrote that on the way to Rome where he would be so ridiculed a man that was killing Christians has a major conversion on the road to Damascus he encounters Jesus and it all changes see once you encounter Jesus it changes everything he says I'm not ashamed I'm not ashamed I might look like an idiot the Greeks think I'm an idiot the Romans with all the science and technology and roadworks and philosophers they're gonna think I'm an idiot are we willing for our generation to maybe think hey you mean you really believe in an immaculate conception yeah you really believe in a bodily resurrection yeah you really believe that the sins of humanity will return from the crop yes and you really believe that scars gonna split and he's coming back and you haven't been smoking crack yep absolutely I believe it all I believe it all are you willing to look like an idiot why do I believe that because this Jesus I encountered him see you can say what you want I feel like Peter and John the Bible says they looked at them and said in acts 4:20 they were unwanted and uneducated men but they could see they had been with Jesus and they said you could try to shut us up but we cannot help but speak of the things that we have seen and heard if you're not talking about it have you been seeing and hearing what Jesus is doing because he is alive you don't have to just fill your mind with fear and doubt and negativity and the naysayers you can see Jesus Christ is at work on the earth today transforming lives setting people free healing bodies delivering people saving souls Jesus is alive today Jesus is alive today Jesus Christ and our universities are dying for a bunch of radical Christians they'll say this thing is real so what do you do do you keep venting about your anger the unforgiveness the bitterness girls listen to me there is something huge happening out there and I thank God that abuse is being highlighted highlighted because abuse is never okay ever ever ever ever ever ever but I want you to hear what I'm saying I'm fifty-one years old two daughters sitting over there a husband around a 21 we see people rescued set free propelled women helping women around the world there would be none of that if all I did was hung on to my anger and my unforgiveness and my bitterness and just kept tweeting about it for the last 30 years there came a point where I had to show that what Jesus did for me was bigger than what they did to me and there comes a point where we have to make a decision Jesus sets us free don't live bound by anger or bitterness or unforgiveness don't get caught up with the naysayers don't get caught up in the world of anger out there we love all people and I'm here to tell you there is hope there is redemption there is freedom Jesus Christ set me free and the same Jesus that set me free can set anybody free on this earth Jesus Christ sets us free let me finish with this who told you Jesus says where are you and then he comes out the Lord's walking through the garden and then he said this and I'm asking you who told you who told you who told you you were naked where is the lie that you believed where did you believe it who told you you were dumb who told you you were fat who told you you were stupid who told you you were ugly who told you you'll never amount to anything who told you was it like me in kindergarten if someone said something to you someone abused you twenty or thirty years ago or ten years ago somebody a parent said I wish you were never born somebody said you're unlovable who told you where locate where you believed the lie and we're gonna be set free at this passion Jesus the Lord said to them in the garden who told you who told you who told you what is it that you read that's what's so important to monitor what are you reading what are you listening to because if you're not listening to what God says it comes by hearing Romans 10:17 and hearing by the Word of God if you're not listening to God you're listening to the lies of someone and you've got to replace the lie with the truth listen I was abused for 12 years nothing's gonna change that but I'm 51 years old I have not been being abused for 39 years so I haven't been being abused a lot longer than I was abused I am NOT going to allow one moment one incident one season one chapter of my story to determine my whole story Jesus Christ is the one that determines my whole story you can be set free you can be set free I don't know what they told you but if it doesn't line up with the word of God you've got to replace the lie with the truth and that's what I had to do replace the lie with the truth let me show you this my birth certificate if you guys have got this can you put it up on the screen I think it's good my birth certificate up there it says child's name unnamed number 2 508 of 1966 I don't have a name on my birth certificate that's why to me Human Trafficking 40 million slaves numbers and numbing numbers of dehumanizing numbers of desensitizing it is easy to ignore suffering when it's nameless and faceless that's why people are never numbers people are created in the image of God because I'm one degree of separation away from that I've got a social worker report that was released two weeks before I was born if you put that up it says I think you could bring the one that's a bit closer it talks about my biological mother she does not seem to be too emotionally involved with a child she seems to want to get it all over and done with and get back to work as soon as possible who told you see that document says that I'm unwanted the Department of Community Services said I'm unnamed the Royal Hospital for Women said that I'm unwanted and over here this is the University of New South Wales on the 23rd of March 1993 25 years ago this says that I'm unqualified to do what I'm doing now remember I run a 2112 offices around the world if you would just put up the picture a month ago Nick and I or three weeks ago we're in India that guy next to me is Gandhi's great-grandson and Nick a knife on behalf of a21 received the mother teresa memorial award for social justice in India last week so three weeks ago and that was given to us by Gandhi's great-grandson why am i showing you that because if you go back to the other document sorry guys the other documents what they said in 1993 that's what the experts said they said I was unqualified to do what I'm doing today so why am i showing you this I'm showing you these three documents because the Lord in the Garden of Eden said who told you three questions did God really say will always be the question to every generation God will always ask where are you where did you go and then he's gonna ask who told you because this is what the experts said about me the government said I was unnamed black and white ink on paper the editor if you guys would leave those up for a minute the the other the Royal Hospital for Women said that I was unwanted black and white ink on paper that's the medical report that's the diagnosis that's what they declared over me that's what they my identity was and then the University of New South Wales said that I was unqualified I'm not denying it black and white ink on paper it's the facts I can see it but you know what I found another black and white ink on paper and it's called the truth of the word of God and you get to choose which black and white ink on paper are you gonna believe are you gonna believe the facts of your circumstances or the truth of the word of God my Bible says if you abide in the word then you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free in Jesus name it's the truth of the word of God so we have a generation that the New York Times called a shame culture I've come to passion infinite Anthon Phillips there is an assignment by the enemy to steal kill and destroy a generation by heaping shame on you but we were created to never know what shame is like and where the devil has declared shame on you I'm here today in the name of Jesus and by the authority of his word to declare shame off you in Jesus name shame off you in Jesus name I want every head bowed and every eye closed infinite anthem here you don't have to live with this for one more second I don't know what was done to you maybe the shame that you carry is things that you've done yourself guilt is when I've done something wrong and some of us were so confused our who are now do we think because we've done something wrong we are wrong you are not wrong you're created in the image of God shame says I am wrong guilt says I did something wrong we confess our sins and God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness but shame is this feeling that says there's something wrong with me there's something wrong with me and maybe you've experienced abuse failure of some sort someone has heat something on you I'm believing for that to be broken over your life in Jesus name if that's for you right where you are in any of our three venues and you say I want to walk shame free I'm gonna pray for you but I want you to have the courage just where you are just to stand to your feet wherever you are guys and girls and just stand up and say I want this shame lifted off my life in Jesus name in Jesus name takes courage but there's some strength to stand up we're saying enemy no more you might like me have the facts screaming at you but we're going to declare the truth of the word of God above the facts of the lies of the enemy right now in Jesus name that's awesome it's a father we come before you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth the name that is above every other name and Lord you know the pain and the hurt and the story behind every person that is standing father in the name of Jesus I break the curse of the enemy the lies of the enemy that have been screaming at these young people telling him there's something wrong with you you're not enough there's something wrong with you and father I declare the truth of the word of God that every one of these young people has created in your image filled with god-given purpose and filled with god-given destiny and where the devil has lied and said shame on you father I declare right now in the name of Jesus Christ shame off every one of them in the name of Jesus Christ that from this day forth they shall walk into their future with their head held high knowing who they are as a son and daughter of the king of kings and the Lord of lords and a shame has come off us father we would walk shame free onto our college campuses around the world and we shall not be ashamed of the gospel of your name for it is true the power of God unto salvation in Jesus name Amen amen god bless you guys say man you

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Published: Thu Jan 04 2018