Pastor Robert Morris – Symbols – More Than Words

I'm gonna continue the series more than words that's the series I was doing if when the health crisis happened in the spring and this summer my daughter kind of has a way with words we were on family vacation we were guys around the table and she said when you come back dad I think you ought to continue that series you were doing before you died I said sugar I didn't die she said well you made us think you were dying so so I'm gonna continue that series more than words and what I'm talking about is that the Bible is more than words it is God's Word and if you remember I said the next attack in our country is going to come against this book and the reason is because if people can somehow claim that this is not God's Word it's just a piece of literature then in essence if this is not God's Word then man can be God then man can have the final say and God is supposed to have the final say but right after I said that that was in March in April GQ magazine did an article on the 21 books you don't need to read and put the Bible on the list yeah and of course obviously if we can all understand if you're looking for an expert literary review you'd go to GQ magazine a fashion magazine I have no clue they also put Huckleberry Finn on there the old man in the sea by Ernest Hemingway Lonesome Dove which is about Texas don't mess with Texas Gulliver's Travels Lord of the Rings it just shows I can't you can't even imagine yes yeah again come on a fashion magazine did a literary review I wish someone would talk talk about that but anyway we'll go on but the Bible is much more than that the Bible is God's Word it's more than words and so I I had three or four messages in the spring and I've got three men three more messages to continue this series this past week we were in Los Angeles and the driver that was driving us said new girl was and so he said hey can I ask you a question about a passage of Scripture you know I get that Laden he said I want to know your interpretation I said well let me say something first before you say that the Bible is of no private interpretation so it really doesn't matter what my interpretation is or your interpretation it matters what the Bible says but we do that quite a bit and so the the way to understand the Bible it's called a method of Bible interpretation and that is exegesis to exegete the scripture exegete comes from two greek words and it means to draw out it's like drawing water out of the will so we exegete or we draw out the meaning of the scripture and there are several ways to do that which we'll talk about but exegete is in contrast to ICG which is to IC g the scripture means r2i sujeet a passage or anything you read it literally means it's the opposite of a set of out it means in it means to read into I mean to read a meaning into so that's what's going on a lot today instead of people trying to draw out the meaning of Scripture they're trying to read into the meaning of that scripture are you following me so there are several forms of biblical exegesis historical what did it mean at the time contextual what's the context of it allegorical what what is the the story or the parable the allegory behind it revelatory some theologians don't recognize this as exegesis but I do it means what is God saying to me through this passage but even when you do that it's all got to line up with what we call cohesive exegesis that means it has to be cohesive with the entire Bible and the nature and the character of God and I've already talked about that son so today the title of the message is symbols just the the not black drum cymbals with an ass here cymbals because I want to show you some symbols in Scripture and the Bible is full of symbolic Scripture and so if when I first all this when I was in my early 20s I got saved at 19 this is what caused me to just devour the Bible to read it and read it and read it because I saw all these symbols now let me say this too about about the book and about us okay let me say this about about us first we have a tendency to believe that we are humans having a spiritual experience but the truth is we are spirits having a human experience don't merely say that again and if you like to tweet people will think you're smart if you tweet this will tell you that right now we believe that we're humans having a spiritual experience but in truth we are spirits having a human experience okay so we're spirits so now let me make this statement about the Bible this is a spiritual book written by a spiritual being to spiritual beings let me tell you what that means that's why GQ magazine doesn't have a clue what they're talking about because this is a spiritual book written by a spiritual being to spiritual beings and by the way the natural man which means the Bann who's not born again here's what the Bible says can't even understand this book can't even understand it so I'm going to show you some spiritual sign singers point number one the Bible is full of spiritual symbols the Bible's full of spiritual symbols now also you need to know this buck or your seat belt because I'm going to go through a lot of Scripture and I don't have time to exegete everyone know what that means hell - all of these passages doctrinally I'm just going to show you some symbols and I hope that you listen to this message about 10 times and then I hope you get so hungry for the Bible that you read it matter of fact one time after I spoke about symbols this guy said to me I'm gonna read the Bible see if we follow that stuff you said it's true I said great I would love for you to read the Bible to see of everything I say it's true I'd love you to do that so let me show you some spiritual symbols we'll get to Luke chapter 10 in a moment Psalm 105 verses 40 and 41 the people asked and he brought quail and satisfied them with bread the bread of heaven the bread of heaven he opened the rock and water gushed out their seat bread water rock I talked about bread and water in the spring in this series they you say yeah but we're I don't understand how you get this spiritual symbols okay let me make another statement here the Bible interprets itself here's another good one you don't interpret the Bible the Bible interprets you but the Bible will also interpret itself when I say there's a spiritual symbol I've got a book chapter in verse 4 so let me show you spiritual symbols here now I read that in Psalm 105 now let me show you the New Testament that tells me what the symbols are first Corinthians 10 verse 1 moreover brethren I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud and they all passed through the sea by the way verse 2 have three symbols and these are the three baptisms right here all were baptized in the Moses that was into their deliverer which for us we have baptized into Jesus forming a say in the cloud that would represent spirit and in the sea that we represent water so there are the three baptisms right there a symbols of them but watch verse three and they all ate the same spiritual food they all drank the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ okay so where do I get spiritual symbols from right there because it said they ate spiritual food and we read about bread there's a whole message on bread in this series if you want to you may want to go back and listen to those those messages so we kind of catch up because we had this little break in the series bread representing Jesus water representing Jesus and the Word of God and then the rock represented Jesus but you see it says right there spiritual these did the spear laid of Oh Brad spiritual water and that rock was Christ let me show you another scripture about something having a spiritual meaning in the Bible revelation 11 this is about the two witnesses verse 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified but spiritually he says there's a name for it in the spirit realm alright now look at Luke 10 I'm going to show you some symbols and we'll show you how easy it is to let the Bible define symbols okay Luke 10 verse 17 Luke 10:17 then the seventy returned with joy saying Lord even the demons are subject to us in your name and he said them really know how to eat it take that much just imagine them saying even demons were subject Jesus going wow you know that's really it's amazing so he all right watch what he does say I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven and then in other words here's what he's saying I'm unimpressed I'm unimpressed that demons are subject to my name I want when Satan came against my father and me we kicked him out and fell like lightning from heaven alright but I want you to notice the context we're doing really a contextual exegesis of these four verses they're talking about demons then Jesus uses the word Satan then verse 19 watch behold I gave you authority to trample on here are two symbols serpents and scorpions Watch and over all the power of the enemy look at the word enemy say I'm just showing you the context and nothing shall by any means hurt you nevertheless do not rejoice in this that the spirits see the context demonic spirits are subject to you but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven did you see that verse 17 matter of fact look you can look at the whole all four verses at once here when you show you all four at once look look at this look before serpents and scorpions look at demons and say after serpents and scorpions look at enemy and spirits does everyone see that okay I'm Lyle Norton let me go here and ask these people because these people were sleeping or something I don't know does everyone see that Hey I'm joking with yard okay look look at it look how clear it is this is Jesus talking you will know where I get symbols from from Jesus himself jesus said I gave you the power to tread on serpents and scorpions he is not talking about snakes and stinging craters he is talking about demons the evil spirits Satan the enemy that's the context everyone with me but it says serpents and scorpions but let me just remind you of something one guy wrote this whole thing listen thirty-nine me and pinned it but there's only one offer so are serpents and scorpions represents demons and Luke 10 wonder what they represent revelation wonder what they represent Genesis wonder what they represent musical wonder what they represent Jeremiah same thing this is what got me so excited this is why you hear when you hear me preach I show you scriptures from all over this book because I see it as one book there's one book written by a spiritual being two spiritual beings are you following me so by the way he saw about authority over demons oh all right I'll do it real quickly look at verse 21 in that hour Jesus rejoiced in the spirit and said I thank you Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that you've hidden these things what things what were they just talking about authority over demons watch you've hidden these from the wise and the prudent on people who think they're smart and revealed them to these babies right here these baby believers even so father for it seemed good in your sight I just love that scripture I didn't know them had enough time to do it but I did anyway but here's the point when you start talking about the demonic spirits the smart people say oh there aren't any more demons what I want to say is huh they're talking to you right now because Jesus said there there are demonic spirits and then he said I gave you authority and Jesus called them serpents and scorpions is that right so let me show you how easy it is to understand the Bible many people say I can't understand the book of Revelation read it in context with the rest of the Bible it's got all these things in it all these mounds and if you took those nouns and read and everywhere else in the Bible like scorpions you know what they are right here in glooty and scorpions represent demonic spirits watch revelation 9 verse 3 then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth locusts now wonder what these locusts are well watch and at the EM was given power see I don't think these are natural locusts till then was given power watch as the Scorpions of the earth have power well we know what scorpions are because Jesus told us see demonic spirits now watch how this works they were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth or any green thing or any tree but only men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads hey if you don't understand symbols that's hard to understand but think about he said they can't harm green trees that's basically said grass trees and green things green trees they can't harm green trees Psalm 1 says a man who will meditate on the Word of God is like a tree planted by the water when the demonic spirits are released of the end times they can harm me and who don't have the seal of God on their forehead but they can't harm men who meditate on the Word of God that's what that says that's what that's this you might not know everything yet there might be some things in this book you've never seen and some things I've never seen and that's why I read it every day every day because this book was written by a higher being a spiritual being and it has all sorts of spiritual symbols in it all right so number one the Bible is full of spiritual symbols number two sheep have an enemy the reason I'm doing this is because we know sheep represents some Psalm 100 verse 3 we are his people and the Sheep of his pasture everyone know that so we're we're called sheep right ok so now we're gonna read another verse see you already believe in symbols you believe when the Bible talks about the Sheep of his pasture that's talking about the people of God right ok Ezekiel 34 verse 1 and the word of the Lord came to me saying son of man prophesy against the Shepherd's of Israel right stop for a moment do you think he's talking about literal Shepherd's of course not he's not talking about a guy on the side of a hill with a dress and a stick that's not what he's talking about what's he talking about hearing so I'm not pastors spiritual leaders right but it says Shepherds all right because bit wise it's a Shepherds because we're she okay woe to the shepherds prophesy against the shepherds and say to them thus says the Lord God to the Shepherd's woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves should not the Shepherd's feed the flocks you see that so shepherds are spiritual leaders flocks were the people of God right okay so I'm going to show you another verse where flocks mean people the Sheep mean people Shepherds mean pastors but there's another symbol and you need to understand that there's a symbol for that it means something to in the spiritual language alright in the spiritual world that's going on around us Ezekiel 34 verse 5 so they that sheep that's his people were scattered because there was no Shepherd no Shepherd feeding him the Word of God and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered now see here's what bothers me we say now sheep it says she but doesn't mean sheep pasture it means people and it says Shepherds but doesn't mean literal shepherds it means pastures but beasts of the field that means lions and tigers no it means demonic spirits and I'll prove it to you I'm going to show you some more scriptures on the beasts of the field but here's what's amazing just just get you a Bible program and look at beasts of the field and birds of the air we're going to know the birds just look all through the Bible and watch how many times that it represents the enemy and I'll show you Jesus himself I just mentioned birds here I'll show Jesus himself showing you that in just a moment okay so now I'm like we're gonna let me show you another symbol that you already know Genesis 3:1 starts with three words now the serpent now the serpent okay who's the serpent you can answer Satan right okay how do you know no no no here's well no what book chapter and verse do you have that that's close revelation I which I'll show it to you but here's the reason I'm saying that you have to have a book chapter in verse if you tell me that something represents something in the Bible otherwise I'm not gonna believe you so we know that the serpent is Satan but here here's I'm gonna show it to you but here's what I'm gonna tell you you already believe in symbols because when you read Genesis 3 and it says now the serpent you don't think about literal snake even though it could have been you know a little snake you think about Satan is that right okay so here's the symbol here's revelation 12 verse 9 so the Great Dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the devil and Satan so that tells us who the surface you see you follow me but I'm not just making it up I'm not just saying well I think that this represents the devil there's a verse that tells me it represents available alright now remember I told you beasts of the field represented demonic spirits remember when Satan fell he took a third of the angels with him then those are the demonic spirits all right and beasts of the field okay you know when you read Genesis 3 verse 1 that you read those first 3 words now the serpent you know the serpent represents something right he represents Satan watch the rest of the verse you might see something you've never seen before Genesis 3:1 now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God made it's the most cunning of all the fallen angels we just read that when the people of God aren't fed the Word of God they become food for all the beasts of the field and now we read that Satan is the most subtle of all the beasts of the field he's the smartest one if you follow me I'm telling you this book is more exciting than you think it is it really is it is very exciting it's a spiritual book ok so Jesus went into the wilderness for forty days right who was with him in the wilderness the devil was the whole forty days by the way most people think he he did tempt him and we have the three temptations at the end but the Bible tells us he was there the whole time okay why was he there because he knew who Jesus was okay so if you're the devil and the Son of God shows up on the earth and you're gonna go tempt him let me just have some would you take anybody with you oh yeah you take every fallen angel you could get with you you would not want to go wrestle with Jesus by yourself which it wouldn't have lasted very long if it'd been all of him anyway but I just want you to see something that maybe you've never seen mark 1 verse 13 and he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan and was with the wild beast okay may that means that there were lions and tigers in the wilderness but why would the Bible tell us listen that God is a spirit those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth I'm telling you a spiritual being wrote this book and it's much more spiritual sometimes than we think it is it has all these spiritual meanings in it that we can find they're like pearls okay mark chapter 4 then he taught them many things by parables all right stop did Jesus teach by parables okay did Jesus also say I don't do anything unless I first see my father do it remember that okay I wrote the reference down just in case John 5:19 if you wanted the reference he said the Sun of the Sun does nothing unless he first sees the father did okay so did Jesus be comparable as you said yes did he also say I don't do anything unless I first see the father do it did he say that so when did he see the father first speak in parables Old Testament now everything happened but there were many times God spoke in parables in the Old Testament I got one for you in Ezekiel he was talking about the king of Egypt and the king of Babylon and this is not the king of Egypt with Moses and charlton heston and all that that one that one is that this one okay there were lots of Pharaohs okay here's what he said he said I'm gonna break Pharaoh's arms but never broke his little arms so either God lied or he was speaking allegorically he meant I'm gonna tell him on a break his strength here's what he also said I'm gonna strengthen the king of babylons arms and I'm gonna break pharaoh's arms and this is what he said both of them this one that does this and this one that does this he wasn't know about right left arms he was speaking in a parable matter of fact I remember I said I have a versatile night on all of it Psalm 78 verse 2 I didn't put it on the screen but you can read look at that later God said when I speak I speak in parables that's in the Old Testament Jesus said Jesus taught many things by parables then he said I won't do anything unless I first see my father do it he'd see his father do when the father talked about shepherds and sheep and beasts of the field and serpents and all of that and all through the Bible all right so now watch he's gonna speak in a parable verse two then he taught them many things by parables and he said to them in his teaching listen behold the sower went out to sow and it happened as he sowed that some seed fell by the wayside and the birds of the air came and devoured it everyone see that birds of the air then later the disciples asked him about it they said what what does this mean here was his response verse 13 and he said them do you not understand this parable now this would be important I don't have time to go into it I wish I did how then will you understand all the parables I'd like you to just think about that here we are in mark 4 jesus said you don't understand this one how're you gonna understand any of them if you can't understand this one it's pretty strong might be a parable you might want to study later this week some okay because of what Jesus said all right so he explains it the sower shows the word sow seed represents the Word of God and these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sowed when they hear Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts okay Jesus so you say where you get your symbols I just showed you out from Jesus himself he talked about demonic spirits and he called him serpents and scorpions right here he's talking about safety stealing the word and he calls Satan and his army in essence because he has armed people to do his bidding fallen angels he called them birds of the air okay Jesus did that so y'all follow me G and by the way sometimes when the Bible talks about Satan it's talking about the person of Satan sometimes he's talking about the work of Satan I've had people say to me Satan came to me well probably a demonic spirit came to you you you I don't mean it's wrong but you probably don't merit Satan's personal attention I think Jesus merited his personal attention and I think there been many women of God that had merited Satan's personal attention throughout centuries there's a great story about Smith Wigglesworth if you've never read his biography you ought to read it unbelievable man of God and he talks about Satan come in one night and I think Satan probably did try to take him out okay but here's what happened I just love his confidence in God he said he was asleep and he woke up and he said I knew that Satan was in my house I felt evil so he said I got up in our little candle he didn't know electricity and he said he's walking down the hallway where the candle thing about this he came face-to-face with Satan he's he's on one side of the candle Satan's on the other side of the candle and Smith Wigglesworth said oh it's only you believe the candle out went back to bed okay so we talked about beast of the field and birds of the air I don't have time remember to go into all this but Deuteronomy 28 talks about the blessings and the curses said when he gets to the curses what happens if you disobey God just want you to notice something first 25 and 26 the Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies demonic spirits and to them of course there were natural enemies to us we have spiritual enemies you shall go out one way against them and flee seven waves before them and you shall become troublesome to all the kings on the earth watch your carcass this shall be food remember while ago said food for the beasts of the field food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth there's just a whole lot of symbols in this Bible so here's 0.3 but God has a plan God has a plan now there's a tree in Daniel that's it a dream Nebuchadnezzar has a dream remember and it's about a big tree and nobody can interpret the dream except Daniel why can Daniel interpret the dream because Daniel is a spirit that knows the Great Spirit the the divine being he knows God all right and no one else could interpret it but just watch and see the symbolism in this dream ok Daniel 4 verse 10 these were the visions this is Nebuchadnezzar speaking of my head while on my bed I was looking behold a tree in the midst of the earth it's okay let me do it I got to tell you one more thing when he finishes Daniel says the tree is you the tree is Babylon and you you represent the tree and it's the king of babylon babylon represents a mixture of the world in the church the church went into bondage to babylon and they so co-mingled get this they were there for seven years because they disobeyed God when God set them free this will shock you only ten percent went back ninety percent of them stayed so when Yuri Babylon because remember Babylon is also mentioned in the book of Revelation we're going to read about just a minute so it represents something it represents a mixture of the church in the world it's a mixture okay watch when with this tree that's growing up is this worldly church this worldly mixture of the church in the world look at verse 11 the tree grew and became strong its height reached to the heavens and it could be seen to the ends of the earth its leaves were very lovely its fruit abundant and it was food for all we keep seeing this word food now watch this the beasts of the field found shade under it and the birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches and all flesh was fed from it just once you know it doesn't say spirit misled fed from it it says flesh I saw the visions of my head while on my bed there was a watcher a holy one coming down from heaven he cried aloud and said chop down the tree cut off its branches strip off its leaves and scattered fruit let the Beast get out from under it and the birds from its branches nevertheless leave the stump leave the stuff okay so when they're going into bondage the Prophet is standing there prophesied and he saved the city that leaves by a thousand we'll only only 100 of you will return the one who goes out by a hundred only Taylor he's already prophesied there's gonna be a remnant that comes back only a remnant and yes dear wood this is the tree and he talks about this tree Isaiah prophesied about this captivity before it ever happens he talks about this bondage but remember the famous story Bob's Isiah everybody knows it he goes in the temple the Lord appears to him and then Isaiah says these famous where the Lord says to him whom whom shall I send and who will go for us again us represents the Trinity Isaiah says the famous words member Lord here am I send me right Lord send me Lord send me then it says I'm gonna send you to a people who have ears but they can't hear and have eyes but they can't see this one I won't preach till next week spiritual sight they and he said and their hearts are dull and they're not gonna repeat most note nobody I've never heard anybody preach on this do you know what I say I said then so the first time Isaiah says Lord send me then he says okay I'm gonna send you to a rebellious people and you're gonna preach and they're not gonna listen to you Isaiah said Lord how long look look it up and I said six that's the next thing you said how long did you want me to hold that revival Lord and this is what he did God's answer is until I chop down the tree but I'm gonna leave the stump now watch this member tommix cymbals I love it Isaiah 613 who stump remains when he does cut down so the holy seed shall be its stump in other words the true believers the remnant they'll be left when I bring judgment on this worldly Church all right Ezekiel 31 verse 6 all the birds of the heavens made their nest in its bowels that's branches under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young and in its shadow all great nations made their home all nations were talking about a worldly church notice birds and beasts by the way oh by the way notice where the birds nests where the birds nest in the branches anyone got a scripture or what branches are John 15 verse 5 I am the vine you are the branches let me just tell you yes demons would love to come and build the nest in your house they would love to they'd love to nest in the branches if you let them okay so you got this worldly thing Church and it says all great nations now just to give you a little just a little tidbit just I'm throwing in a little tidbit for you Solomon had a thousand wives that's not a good thing and minium were pagan so on a hill east of Jerusalem he built a shrine for every one of his wives pagan gods on a hill heats of Jerusalem I've seen male years later a thousand years later 970 to be exact but about a thousand years later a high priest named Caiaphas owns that house built on that hill owns a house he built a house on that hill or Solomon built a shrine to all of his pagan wives gods in that house is where Judas agreed to sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver on that hill it is called the heel of evil let me just make sure I get this right yeah the heal of evil counsel you know what sets on that heel now the United Nations building that's where they built it now I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to unite with other nations but I am saying that the United States should never compromise what the Bible says about Israel when it's working with United Nations just just look it up the heel of evil counsel it's kind of odd that they built their building there all right okay so we're told that Babylon I've just got a couple more scriptures revelation 18 verses 1 & 2 after these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven having great Authority and the earth was illuminated with his glory and he cried mightily with a loud voice saying Babylon the Great this worldly church is fallen is fallen now watch the context and watched watch another symbol and it has become a dwelling place of demons demons a prison for every foul spirit and a cage for every unclean and hated bird see if that's not literal Birds also by the way I'm not saying if you have a parakeet it's a demon I'm not saying that but how else would you explain that Scripture when it says it's become a place for every four demons foul spirits and birds and jesus said the birds of the air come and try to devour the Word of God they say what's that mean he's so that's Satan that's Satan the work of Satan and that's all his demonic spirits are y'all follow me all right few more scriptures Matthew 12 verse 43 Jesus speaking when an unclean spirit goes out of a man that means he can get in one he goes through Dry places seeking rest and finding none and then he says I will return to my house he calls the body a house from which I came and when he comes he finds it watch three words empty swept and then of course more than three words I guess but just three sayings here and put in order empty swept and put in order empty swept clean DUP and put in order then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter and dwell there and the last say the man is worse than the first okay so how did the demonic spirits get back in his house was swept he cleaned everything clean his act up he put things in order but he was empty he didn't fill his house with Jesus the Holy Spirit and the Word of God think about this have you ever known someone that was in bondage to something started going to church but really didn't come in all the way really didn't go all the way with God didn't read the Bible didn't get they give his life to Jesus totally didn t get filled up with the Spirit of God didn't do this and then he goes back into bondage and the bondage and he goes back into his worse than even when he came out of okay but here it's saying this guy gets kind of set free but then he gets seven more ok watch an Old Testament scripture with a symbol in it when the children of Israel went into the promised land they were to drive the enemies out do you realize that many times we say you know the Promised Land represents heaven no doesn't represent heaven because there were still enemies there it represents the overcoming Christian life and the way you're gonna have an overcoming Christian life life is if you drive the enemies out of your land that's the way you overcome okay so but watch what God says watch this symbol this last scripture Deuteronomy 7 22 and the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little you will be unable to destroy them at once lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you I don't think that's all about lions and tigers I think he's saying we're gonna drive these nations out little by little so you get stronger and you have more faith and you grow less the beasts of the field become too numerous and I think that's a symbol to us that we've got to keep walking with God we've got to keep reading the Bible we've got to keep learning we've got to keep growing because we're driving out the beasts of the field out of our land you don't follow me here was the whole point of this message I wrestled with it because I thought I've got way too much to unload on them in one message but here's the whole point I hope you understand this is a spiritual book written by a spiritual being to spiritual beings and there are things in here that you probably have never even seen yet and I hope you get so hungry for this book that you read it every day I want you to bow your heads and close your eyes we want to pray with you if you're going through a difficulty maybe you need to give your life for Jesus maybe there was a bondage in your life and you got free for a while now you've gone back into bondage and you're even worse than you were we want to pray with you we want to help you maybe you need to give your life totally Jesus Christ and not just believe in your head in Jesus but you need to believe in your heart we want to help you we want to pray with you so in a moment we have a worship song this is maybe your first time here we'll have a worship song at every campus and we're gonna have leaders at the front of every campus and if you need prayer for any area of your life you just come to one of the leaders let's pray with you let me make this clear to you we're not asking you to join this church you don't have to join this church that's not where ask at all we won't even talk to you about that okay that's not it all we will do is pray with you many many people come for prayer every week and you're not this big bad sinner just because you need prayer everybody needs prayer I ask people to pray with for me before I came out here today to talk to you so we all need prayer so if you need prayer for any area of your life any of your life but especially if you need to give your life to Jesus but any area of your life as soon as we stand up and ever campus you just stand up step out come to the front one of the leaders and we'll pray for you all right Holy Spirit I pray you'll draw every person that needs prayer at every campus right now in Jesus name Amen

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Published: Mon Sep 10 2018