Remember your testimony by Corey Haynes

shabbat shalom everybody it never fails no matter how well-prepared I am to speak there's always a brief moment during worship where my mind goes blank and I think what was I going to talk about I think that's God reminded me to be humble without him without his help nothing I say tonight would be impactful or meaningful it'd just be a positive speech I'm so very dependent on his spirit to teach and guide so with that said we are right on the door of Sokoto most of us have spent our week preparing and in the next 24 hours we'll be in camp wherever we have been gathered to celebrate Deuteronomy 16 we get some instructions about Sokoto starting at verse 12 you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt and you are to take care to do these statutes you are to keep the feast of Sukkot for seven days after gathering in the produce from your threshing floor and winepress so you will rejoice in your feast you your son and daughter slave and maid Levite and outsider orphan and Widow within your gates seven days you will feast to Adonai your God in the place he chooses because Adonai your God will bless you and all your produce and in all the work of your hand and you will be completely filled with joy verse 12 states you will remember I think it's very important for all of us to remember the state that we were in before Yahweh's salvation not as a source of humiliation but so that we can remember that he saved us from something I was a slave to my sin living in selfishness and depravity until he reached out to me showed me a better way I thought it was so great last Shabbat when Hayley stood up here and and gave us the exhortation to to remember our testimony because nobody can take that away she was correct in that no scholar or theologian can argue your personal experience with God away the king has given you your salvation you can give it up you can give up your testimony you can forget it you can decide that it doesn't matter anymore but I don't believe it can be taken away from you I think that we need to remember so that we can be grateful that we can say thank you for an act of His grace and kindness when we did not deserve it in verse 14 the word sama to rejoice means to brighten up to cheer up to be full of joy the first time that that word is used in the Bible is when God is speaking to Moses encouraging him to meet with Pharaoh and with the Israelites to lead them out and Moses is arguing with God and God speaks he says in fact Aaron the Levite is your brother I know that he can speak well moreover he is on his way to meet you when he sees you he will be glad in his heart Smok immediately I thought of that meeting and that joyful heartfelt expression when Miriam while pregnant with our Messiah came to Elizabeth Luke one Sarnia verse 39 now in those days Miriam got up quickly traveled into the hill country to a town in Judah she entered Zechariah's home and happily greeted Elizabeth when Elizabeth heard Miriam's greeting the unborn child leaped in her womb and Elizabeth was completely filled with the ruach ha'qodesh she then cried out with a great shout saying you are blessed among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb Who am I that the mother of my master should come to me or even when I just heard the sound of your greeting in my ear the unborn child beeped with joy in my womb blessed is she who trusted that there would be a fulfillment of those things spoken to her by Adonai would pray with me please our father our King I thank you so much for your appointed times for your feast I thank you for how you use them to gather your people to teach us and to lead us while there I pray that that you would meet with every one of us in camp wherever you have placed us to camp or to celebrate but I pray that your spirit would be there and that we would all be filled that we would all come with an expectancy of of greeting you and one another with joy that your spirit would overwhelm us and fill us all Father father I pray right now that if there's anything that hinders us from coming to you with joy really we could deal with that tonight that that the message you've laid on my heart would help in that area and that you would use me as a vessel as a messenger of your word of your love and your kindness that we can come and celebrate with Samak with joy while there it's in your great son's name Yeshua our Messiah that we pray amen you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt were a slave but no longer I think sometimes some of us are still slaves and that we haven't fully embraced what our Messiah has done for us we've not fully accepted salvation we've not fully accepted forgiveness of sin we have not fully accepted healing about once a month I Drive back to Missouri for business and to visit with my parents it's about a three hour drive but it gives me some good alone time to to listen to some worship music and pray this last trip I was on my way I hadn't quite made it to Tulsa yet it's early in the morning it's just me and one other vehicle that's pulled up beside me cruising along I'm happy the praying in this car swerves in front of me slams on his brakes and takes the exit in front of us now it's just the two of us all he had to do was slow down pull in behind me and he's on into that exit but he chose a different method of that so I honked my horn and I stared him down while he was going down the exit ramp I'm sure I was quite intimidating or maybe he just didn't see me at all because it was still dark outside my piece is messed up all angry so I count to ten I start reading deep I relax again get into Tulsa and somebody pulls in behind me tailgating me trying to get around me swerving around you know how people do when they want to get around you again I get angry I get frustrated by this eventually the guy gets around me but I'm sure I was overheated overboiled sure I said some things at least in my mind and spirit that weren't appropriate that's that happened I immediately turn to God and I prayed where does this come from inside of me why is it so easy for me to to be so angry I mean these were just silly little things traffic it happens everyday to all of us I'm sure but what inside of me was triggered and boiling with this anger that I would I would be just enraged so father show me this verse and it's in Luke 6 but there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit nor again does a rotten tree produce good fruit each tree comes to be known by its own fruit or figs are not gleaned out of briars neither our bunches of grapes gathered from thorn bushes out of the good treasure of his heart the good man brings forth good and out of the evil the evil man brings forth evil we're from from the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks why do you call me master master and do not do what I say everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them I will show you what he is like he is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock and when the flood came the torrid burst against his house but could not shake it because it had been well built out of the good treasure of his heart the good man brings forth good and out of the evil the evil man brings forth evil or from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks that cut me it hurt is a painful thing to think that I could get to that point of anger and emotion because that's what was inside of my heart again I went back to my father in prayer and I asked him to help me understand why do I have this in me where did this where did this come from why do I have this junk in me or fathers kind and gentle as he can be he reminds me of a message that Lex gave a few weeks ago about Yeshua at the temple when the Pharisees came to questioning him he makes this beautiful claim of deity the Pharisees pick up stones to stone him Alec's brought forth the idea that they had used the stones from the prior temple that had been desecrated during the Hanukkah event but I want to suggest that maybe there's an alternative what if they already had those stones with them what if they were carrying around those stones just waiting for the opportunity to stone our Messiah or order stone anybody who disagreed with them challenged their authority it was kind of like a light switch to my to myself supposing mean that anger inside of me was the equivalent of me carrying a stone waiting waiting to pass judgment on somebody waiting to not just pass judgment to but to execute a sentence on them what can I do father that I can let go of that stone I don't want to carry that around with me have you ever thought what it would actually look like a stoning I mean the biblical mandate of what that would be being in my mind I guess I pictured it there would be a guilty party and everybody gathered around maybe at some distance throwing stones at them but and be like that I mean if you're more than 510 feet away from somebody you're gonna miss 9 out of 10 times now this this was intimate it was close you could see their face in the expression in their eyes and they could see yours my research on the topic what I found that generally what they would do is that they would march you to a cliff not too high though but just enough that hopefully you would die on impact and the first witness while you were bound would push you from behind causing you to tumble headfirst over the cliff and if that didn't work the next witness would stand above you with a big Euler big rock they throw that down upon your chest if that still didn't work than the others would start to throw stones there's nothing pretty about it there's nothing remote about it yet I was carrying around a stone waiting to pass that kind of judgment maybe I wouldn't actually be throwing a rock but the emotional damage would be there just the same right I think there are probably two groups of people that carry around stones with them the first group I thought probably was kind of like that Tora terrorists just waiting to correct people or challenge them with arguments online and maybe to show off how much they knew about scripture or how little somebody else knew about scripture more accurately but the more I thought about it it's actually much more sinister it's not people with misplaced zeal or an eager to show off their knowledge now this is premeditated it's somebody that carries around that stone waiting for the opportunity to attack the first group or should I say individual that carries that stone would be Satan the accuser of the Brethren revelation 10 and war broke out in heaven Michael and his angels making war against the dragon the dragon and his angels fought but they were not strong enough and there was no longer any place for them in heaven and the Great Dragon was thrown down the ancient serpent called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world he was thrown down to earth and his angels were thrown down with him then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying now have come the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed One for the accuser of our brothers and sisters the one who accuses them before our God day and night has been thrown out they overcame him by the blood of the lamb the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives even in the face of death the first person that carries stones is Satan what is Satan want to do he wants to kill he wants to destroy John 10 so Yeshua said again amen amen I tell you I am the gate for the Sheep all those who come before me are thieves and robbers but the Sheep did not listen to them I am the gate if anyone comes in through me he will be saved he will come and go and find pasture the thief comes only to steal slaughter and destroy I have come that they might have life and have it abundantly second group that might carry stones are like Satan they're the thieves false leaders they've stolen Authority or power they will use that to destroy anybody that comes against them first Peter five therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God so that he may lift you up at the appropriate time cast all your worries on him for he cares for you stay alert watch out your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion searching for someone to devour stand up against him firm in your faith knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being laid upon your brothers and sisters throughout the world Burton person entity to carry stones is Satan but I will offer this warning if you are that Torah terrorist if you are that person seeking to show everybody how smart you are and correct other people your patterning your walk after Satan that should be enough of a deterrent to cause you to humble yourself and think about how you present scriptures how you represent God and not to try and use the Torah to beat down a fellow believer the second group or second category of people that are carrying stones are the wounded scarred those people that have been hurt or abused and now they they carry stones for defense or they're looking to retaliate an attack nothing or nobody is going to hurt them again I wonder how many of us at times have fallen into that group I have I know what times that I have I fall into that group I remember the past hurts scars things that have happened in my life sometimes I carry around that stone and I'm waiting to retaliate or defend myself have your stone ready to strike the next person but you won't be striking the right person you'll be striking the next person won't be passing judgment at the time of the offense you'll be passing judgment on somebody else the next person that comes along you'll just pass along that bitterness and hurt onto them somehow it won't make you feel any better I imagine that everyone in this room has suffered either at the hands of someone you trusted or loved or maybe you just suffered at life the brokenness of this world and how things just go betrayal abuse injustice perversion of love or intimacy from someone that you loved and respected illness death of somebody you loved a cancer diagnosis a miscarriage a wound that came not through anyone's fault but just through this broken world these things wound us they hurt and if they hurt and wound us then there's a scar how many of us have scars and because we have those scars we carry around a stone ready to issue out the same kind of pain on others that life is issued to us how do we heal from those scars even believe that you can be healed maybe the more appropriate question is do you want to be healed how many people wear their scars like a badge how many people use them as a source of ride almost to issue pain and bitterness out into the world believing that they have a right to be angry because the world has been harsh to them do you want to be healed again you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt as tents you were Isaiah 53 who has believed our report to whom is the arm of adonai revealed or he grew up before him like a tender shoot like a root out of dry ground he had no form or majesty that we should look at him nor beauty that we should desire him he was despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows acquainted with grief one from whom that people hide their faces he was despised and we did not esteem him surely he has borne our griefs and carried our pains yet we esteemed him stricken struck by God and afflicted but he was pierced because of our transgressions and crushed because of our iniquities the chastisement for our peace was upon him and by His stripes we are healed leave Scripture you believe what the Bible has to say about healing believe it then you can be healed from these things I'm not saying it won't require some work or sometime maybe God will do it for you in an instant but you can be healed the scars can go away and they will no longer affect how you walk can let go of that stone that you've been carrying around waiting to deal out the same kind of abuse you received won't have that weight or burden one of the things exercises that I do when I read Scripture is I like to put myself into the scripture I like to imagine when I'm reading what it would be like if I were there but I'd like for you to do that with me right now if you can close your eyes that's great if not that's okay just think about it I want you to think and imagine ourselves at the crucifixion and we're going to think about this in three ways as a witness as the Crucified and as the guard that was dealing out the blows Jerusalem at Passover the one called Yeshua has been tried handed over to Pilate and Pilate now hands him over to the guards you're there you're in the crowd why are you there are you there to mock him or are you there to watch just the blood and the gore or are you there because you heard him speak maybe he healed somebody close to you maybe he healed you maybe he fed you maybe you were one of the 5,000 and now you have to watch you have to be there to see what becomes of this person that you love and that loved you they take him bound to a public area they strip him they're masters of humiliation and fear the guard stands back he prepares his weapon a crack of the whip on bare skin the blood the pain the anguish in his eyes the expression that only pain and trauma can cause the shudder of guilt that you must feel because you did not stand to defend him the tortured put yourself in his place you're bound humiliated mocked jeered by people that you have helped and prayed for people that you have shown nothing but love your back is turned to the guard you don't see it coming here the crack of the whip you feel the flash of searing pain the flesh ripping apart sudden surge of adrenaline forcing every muscle in your body to react the breath fleeing from your lungs as you gasp for air as your mind races to figure out what is going on what it should do the second crack the third crack the sound of the crowd cheering I hate in their voices the mob the guard it's your job to inflict pain humiliation fear your victim is helpless bound he cannot run he cannot defend himself ready yourself shift and balance your weight you raise your arm and you deliver the blow the crowd reacts and stun moans and cheers encouraging you to liver another and another I imagine that everyone here tonight has played all three of these roles I have been a witness I've seen people that I cared about hurt abused bullied mocked and I did not stand up to help them I've seen people that I care about sick ill in the hospital and I didn't take time to go visit them I didn't extend a helping hand to friends or family when they needed it I was too busy or too selfish I've been that guard I've hurt people I've heard my stones at them either as a defense or the mechanism to licked painting upon them I've struck out at the person next to me it might not have even been their fault or guilt that I was angry they were just around me I have been the victim bullied humiliated taken advantage of by someone that should have I should have been able to trust wrongfully hurt just because I was smaller weaker unable to defend myself I've been the victim losing people that I care about seeing them afflicted by illness seeing them hurt by the slow progression of time as we enter into Sokoto a time of rejoicing before our King it is hard to rejoice and celebrate if we're loaded down with stones you're loaded down with anger and bitterness it is hard to rejoice if we are bound up by old wounds festering never allowed to heal if we are still concerned or we are harboring anger and pain from past scars do we really believe that Yeshua bore our stripes do we really believe that you should forgives us of our sins every lash every pain that you ever felt he felt and not just yours imagine that he felt the pain of every person that lived is living or will live my pain is pretty trivial compared to that he took our pain film 34 the righteous cry out and out on I hears and delivers them from all their troubles Adonai is close to the brokenhearted and saves those crushed in spirit many are the de-stresses of the righteous but adenine delivers him out of them all he keeps all his bones not one of them is broken so I'm 103 of David blessed own I owe my soul and all that is within me bless His Holy Name bless out and I owe my soul and forget not all his benefits he forgives all your iniquities he heals all of your diseases he redeems your life from the pit he crowns you with loving-kindness and compassion he satisfies your years with good things so that your youth is renewed like an eagle Psalm 147 hallelujah how good it is to sing praise to our God how pleasant and fitting is praise Adonai builds up Jerusalem he gathers together the X Isles of Israel he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds he determines the number of stars and he gives them all their names great is our Lord and mighty in power his understanding is infinite understanding is infinite do you believe Scripture believe that our God is big enough strong enough to heal up your wounds our Messiah died not only to make atonement for our sins to bridge that separation that sin has created in us but also to bring healing he was despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows acquainted with grief one from whom people hide their faces he was despised and we did not esteem him surely he has borne our griefs and carried our pains go back to what we read when Miriam came to visit Elizabeth Elizabeth said blessed is she who trusted that there would be a fulfillment of those things spoken to her by Adonai lest if we can remember that there will be fulfillment other things spoken to us by our God it's very scriptures that attest to the fact that we have suffered and we have borne pain emotional pain real pain there's healing for those things shilling for that but you have to trust that you sure did that for us I have to accept that and you have to want that you have to rejoice that there's healing you've been healed of something you've been set free of a bondage shouldn't go back to that right you've been freed from addiction it would be a mistake to do the very same thing that you've claimed you were healed by or healed of if God has granted you healing in an emotional wound have to let it go you can't hold on to that anymore like a stone ready to hurl at whomever is next in line there is healing no matter what you've been through matter how painful those things are all real emotional pain is real I get that I've felt it but the healing is real as well do you believe in Scripture do you believe that our God is strong enough powerful enough to set you free from old wounds to give you a peace that will allow you to let go and put your guard down to drop those stones that you've carried around for years maybe and walk into Sokoto and truly truly rejoice it's easy to say yes we're gonna go to Sukkot and we're gonna celebrate but it's naive to think that we can bring in past hurt and junk and truly celebrate with our king if you would pray with me one more time father you're so good so gracious and so kind other right now I want to lift up a prayer to anybody that's here in this room or watching online and they've got a pain they've got a scar in their life they've got a hurt that they're holding on to they were abused or mistreated maybe they lost somebody that they cared about dearly and they're broken about it father well they're pre right now that that one they would ask for your spirit to come into that situation I'm pretty father that you would be quick and merciful to help them who would heal just as your word says over and over again there I'm praying for the 10 year old version of me as suffered at the hands of somebody that should have been a figure of love and respect I'm asking father for healing in that situation so that I let go of anything associated with that that I forget it that I forgive and I move on I come into your camp I rejoice father truly a hundred percent completely filled with nothing but your Ruach nothing but your spirit father I pray for everyone here everyone listening that that would they would enter into the feast of Sukkot nothing but joy nothing but rejoicing before their king and father that you would meet every one of us in your camp and you would be there to celebrate with us mother I love you I'm so very grateful for your word so very grateful that your spirit is a lie of an active so grateful for your son I may have suffered a little suffered everything by the half other I praise you and I thank you may your kingdom be forever and ever thank you Father for your anointed salvation and my healing sure our Messiah amen I've encouraged you all and hours we have left before sicko Bree asked God to reveal any wounds any scars may be painful at first and ask him for his help ask him for his spirit to come inside of you and be alive and active ille so excited about this sicko say that every year next year I'll be even more excited we're one year closer I figured to his return I want nothing but the best for all of you I want you to come into this a coat with hands raised high and expection expectations of meeting your king rejoicing with him that's my plan simple enough show up celebrate Masaya has done so much for us at least we can do is be grateful to sing and shout for joy in his presence amen that's all I have so I'll let Lex if he wants to come up and send us home or not thank you very much all right Thank You Cory does anybody have any requests tonight right you guys ready for scope yeah all right may the Lord bless you and keep you mendler causes face to shine upon you and be gracious to you may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace you are dismissed

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Length: 43min 57sec (2637 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 12 2019