SHAKING OFF SNAKES & STEPPING INTO PURPOSE | Pastor Paul Daugherty | Saint Paul Series pt. 10

well welcome those that are watching online and on TV all over the world we're so glad that you tuned in with this but if you have a Bible go to acts 28 acts 28 come on has anyone ever had a bad day before you're like yep maybe right now maybe on the way to church maybe some things that happened that you weren't planning on really that's the story of the Apostle Paul I mean he goes went from from one bad day to another bad day from one bad experience to another bad experience but the amazing thing that we learned from the Apostle Paul is that he just keeps on smiling no matter what comes his way no matter what catastrophes he faces he just keeps on moving forward and here's what we're gonna learn today from the Apostle Paul is that bad days happen bad things happen even to good people but we have a choice everybody say I have a choice my response will determine my results in this life I can't determine what you do to me I can't determine what life throws at me but I can determine how I respond to what life throws my way what you say to me what you do to me so in acts 28 I want to go to verse 1 Paul said once we were safely on shore by the way when he said safely on shore they shipwrecked on this island if you were here last week we talked about the storm that Paul walked through I mean he should have died it was a crazy hurricane and he says once we safely arrived on shore we found out that this island we were on was called Malta everybody say Malta so here Paul finds himself on an island that he wasn't planning to be on Paul was wanting to go to Rome but he's stranded in Malta Malta was a place that wasn't really part of Paul's journey it wasn't a dream destination it wasn't someplace that he was hoping one day to visit it wasn't part of the ministry itinerary in fact it felt like a setback for Paul have you ever been to Malta before in your life been in a setback a place that you didn't plan on being in a season that you were kind of like I thought I'd be married by now or I thought we would have kids by now well I thought I thought I would be this far in my company I thought I would be by now I've thought I would be here Paul finds himself in a place that he never thought he would be in a place that felt like it was backwards God had told him Paul you will go to Rome but sometimes the way that God leads us he takes us a few steps backwards so he can propel us forward I like a and I like Z I'm not a huge fan of LMNOP but here Paul finds himself in the middle waiting for a future destination some of you are here right now you're in the middle you're in a waiting season you're in Malta you're in a place where maybe you didn't plan on being you don't really want to be and you're trying to figure out how to make the most in Malta how to make the most in this season that you didn't plan on so it says the Islanders verse 2 they showed us unusual kindness now these Islanders by the way they were barbarians they were cannibals typically they would eat people that landed on this part of the shore in the Greek translation these guys were not friendly but somehow God turned enemies into friends for Paul and his friends and sometimes God uses the people that you think are against you to actually help you get out of the crisis that you've got into and you can't be picky when you're in a crisis you can't be like I don't want their help you need all the help you can get when you're on Malta so you receive the people and it says the Islanders treated Paul and his buddies with great kindness they didn't realize they were starting to realize that Paul was a prisoner and that 276 people that were on this ship were actually most of them prisoners that had escaped this hurricane and now they're stranded on Malta and so these Islanders are treating them with unusual kindness they start making a fire they're welcoming the people and so Paul is you know he's tired he's weary the same day that the ship wrecks on Malta they're building this fire and Paul decides you know even though I'm tired I'm gonna I'm gonna get involved I'm gonna help so he starts picking up sticks and he gets a bundle of sticks in verse 3 and it says as he's getting closer to the fire he lays the sticks on the fire and all of the sudden a viper jumps out and when I say viper I mean like an intense poisonous snake this Viper jumps out bites Paul's arm bites him on the arm and fastens himself to his arm now I wanted to know what did you do when you are bit by a poisonous snake so I went online and I looked at all the different directions on what to do when you are bit by a poisonous snake I want to know how do I handle a poisonous snake bite so Red Cross had some steps for me and I want to share them with you and they said first off if you haven't been bit by a snake let's talk about how to avoid poisonous snake bites and it said number one stay away from snakes stay away from snakes how many all know there's some snakes in this life the Bible says that snakes are deceptive they're cunning right they kind of worm themselves into places and they hide in places and the truth is in life there are some people there are some relationships that are snaky that are deceptive they might look one way but they have venom on the inside stay away from snakes that girl is poison stay away from snakes that could try to mess see some people that get too close to snakes thinking I'm just gonna have some fun we're just gonna play around we're just gonna do whatever want to do this snake won't bite me I mean we can sleep around we can you know we could try out this stuff we could do these drugs we can try I mean we're not gonna get hurt the snakes won't but they said in order to avoid a poisonous snake bite the most important thing is stay away from snakes then they said the second thing is this avoid areas of tall grass and brush because it's in the secret places that the poisonous snakes like to hide it's in the secret places it's in the places where the I cannot see along that same line they said do not put your hands or your feet in dark holes or crevices because snakes like to hide in the dark you know I think about how in our own lives secret sins like to hide in the secret places they like to hide in the dark we can appear one way but underneath it all there's secret things that are happening in our life snakes like to hide in the dark places there's certain places that you don't belong there's certain places you shouldn't just go into there's environments that as a child of God you say you know what I'm not gonna go into that place I'm not going to put my hand there I'm not gonna stick my foot I just know it's not good for my destiny you see the snake wants to stop you from your purpose and listen to this as Paul was getting closer to the fire that's when the Viper jumped out snakes only bite when you get closer to your purpose when you get closer to the fire of God when you get closer to the things of God you might think man what am I doing wrong but chances are you're doing something right when the snake tries to bite then he says this he says stay alert and cautious at all times this is Red Cross telling you what to do how to avoid poisonous snakes stay alert and cautious at all times I couldn't help but think about how Paul preached constantly to believers to churches be alert be cautious for the adversary the enemy the devil he's not stupid don't underestimate his tactics he knows how to lure you away he knows what kind of poison is gonna take you out did you know eight thousand poisonous snake bites happen a year in the United States eight thousand poisonous snake bites happen every year just in the USA a hundred thousand poisonous snake bites happen in one year in the entire world a hundred thousand snake bites last year 11 thousand people died in India because of poisonous snake bites there are certain snakes I think we got some pictures of what these snakes might look like and I want to just show them to you so you can kind of get some ideas these snakes that slither around they may look pretty they may look nice but they are packed full of venom their goal is to stop you from moving forward with your purpose the devil is cunning and deceptive he's not stupid you've got to be cautious you've got to be alert the red cross training said let me remind you snakes can climb they like to hang from trees right next to your head I'll never forget I'll never forget when I was at Camp Victory as a little kid out in Manford Oklahoma I remember sitting on this log and when I was talking with my friends I was there with my brother Daniel Grothe a couple of guys I was like seven or eight years old and we're all talking all of a sudden I hear this and I was looking around where is that man I you know I start looking around and this cottonmouth snake was slithering right up near my body headed towards my head and it had been crawling up the back side of this wooden log that I was sitting on and I didn't even know it I think sometimes we don't even realize that we're so close to things that we should not be near we're not paying attention to what's going on in our life it's almost like we're living naive and we just kind of think the devil's dumb he doesn't know what he's doing he's not done the good news is God is so much more powerful than the devil but don't underestimate your adversary he's cunning he knows how to flirt with you how to get you pulled into that conversation how to get you to take off your wedding ring how to get into places you shouldn't be in talking to people you shouldn't be talked to his goal is to mess up your marriage mess up your family mess up your future mess up your purity mess up your thoughts but the good news is he cannot defeat what God has already blessed hell cannot curse what heaven has ordained so the devil may try all his tactics but no weapon formed against you shall prosper and any tongue that rises against you shall be condemned everybody say stay alert the fourth thing that Red Cross tells us is wear protective clothing when you are near the wilderness wear protective clothing and men as soon as I saw that I started thinking about Ephesians 6:4 we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers of this dark world so therefore be on your guard put on the full armor of God wear your protective clothing you see when I got the helmet of salvation on this snake can't bite my mind he cannot get into my thoughts he cannot bite the the negativity in my mind he can't put poison when I'm wearing the helmet of salvation then when I put on the breastplate of righteousness I'm covering my heart I'm covering myself from being bitten by life's offenses from people from deception from whatever it is that would try to mess with my heart I put on the belt of truth what is the belt of truth dukeman it holds your pants up so you don't have pants on the ground pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground 2009 hello I'm gonna take it back have I said put your belts on the belts of truth it protects me from deception self-deception it protects me from being deceived in situations I shouldn't be in then I put on the shoes of peace you see snakes are on the ground so the first thing they're gonna try to bite is your feet you've got to be wearing the shoes of peace by the way it says if you're bitten by a poisonous snake the first thing you should do is not panic that's the first thing that I'm thinking I'm gonna do they say don't panic you see when you're wearing the shoes of peace you might be walking through storms of life difficulties but you can have peace even in the middle of the snake bite you can no see Paul had a revelation this is not how it ends I know there's a snake hanging from my arm but this is not how it ends it's not going to end like this as a kid I watch this movie with my brother growing up it was called pure luck it was with Martin Short the guy who played Franck on father of the bride one of the three amigos next to Chevy Chase come on somebody so so did anybody ever see pure luck all right so the point of the movie was that he went through catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe it was comical but it was sad I mean every bad thing that could happen kept happening to Martin Short but he had this smile it was almost like he knew the script of his life that this is not how it is I'm gonna make it through this bee sting through this plane crash through this car flying off the cliff somehow I'm the guy that doesn't die in the movie you know those guys that just never die in the movie like Batman gets killed 20 times but he's still alive at the end come on somebody say this is not how it is when I'm wearing the shoes of peace I'm not freaking out about the bad things that may be happening cuz I know this is not how it ends and then the full armor of God Ephesians 6 says lift up your shield of faith which blocks every fiery dart of the enemy I think there's people here today you've been bitten because you've not lifted up your shield you've been bitten because you've just kind of been so tired you've forgotten to put on your armor you've forgotten to be dressed for war dressed for battle you've got to keep your shield up and then the Bible says we have the sword of the Spirit again this is Paul's teaching to us the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God it is my offensive weapon against the enemy you need to take that sword and chop that snake's head off you need to chop his head off I had to do this three weeks ago I had a snake slithering up into my house on the front driveway how many I'll know there's been some snakes and Tulsa lately there's some snake there's been an increase of snakes in our state but you know what you have power over every dark deceptive spirit that tries to come into your house that tries to mess with your family it tries to mess with your mind it tries to mess with your future you got to cut his head off but remember when you cut a snake's head off it can still bite this actually happened on the mic this was on the news two weeks ago some guy chopped off a rattlesnake head and he went down to go pick up the body and the snip that the head that was literally all by itself it went so you got to be careful you got to be careful you got to smash that head everybody said killed a snake the last thing that Red Cross says is don't make venomous snakes a pet in your house you think that would be obvious I'm like duh but some people do it they're sleeping with the enemy and they think well she won't bite yes she will she did the last guy she will with you well he won't mess with me he won't bite he won't hit if he did it I'm telling you you've got to be careful you've got to be so careful in this day and age what you allow to fasten onto you what are you allowing to fasten on to your life what are you fastening yourself to in verse 4 of Acts 28 it says the people watched as the snake was hanging from Paul's hand so look at this get a picture this take bites I got a snake with me here snake bites his hand and look at verse 4 it says the islanders they watch where was Paul's friends where were the guys that were gonna pull the snake off it's almost like everybody was just watching him go through this crisis how many all have ever had people just watching you go through a crisis and you're like hello I could use a little bit of help a little bit of help now got a snake hanging from my hand can somebody yank the snake off of my arm right but they're just watching and it says that the Islanders came to their conclusions that he must be a murderer people always come up with their own assumptions about why you're being bit by a snake people love to come up with their conclusions of why you're going through hard times and and they call it prayer meetings come on come on now listen Suzie's going through a snake bite right now we're gonna pray for it but if you ask me let me tell you why I think she got bit by a snake did we ask you and and then we just jumped to conclusions mom what did you say some people the only exercise they have is yeah she says some people the only exercise they have is jumping to conclusions and running down their relatives hey can I just can we be the church that doesn't jump to conclusions when people are going through problems the instead of jumping to conclusions we're gonna jump and pull the snake off their arm and try to administer some medicine to them in the middle of the snake bite nonetheless these Islanders are sitting there and they're watching them hmm he must be in sin Paul's ministry is not going real well right now he must be sinning I mean if Paul was a great minister the whole island would be safe and the snake wouldn't have been him what if you're doing the right thing and you still get bit what if you have your shield and your sword and the snake still bites you I mean isn't that the story of the Apostle Paul like this wasn't a guy who was living in sin he was doing the right thing in fact he was working he was trying to serve the Islanders he's picking up sex even though he's exhausted he's weary some of you are working even while you're weary right now and sometimes the devil loves to attack us when we're tired he loves to fasten himself onto you when you're working when you're weary the symptoms of a poisonous snake bite first is blurry vision you start not seeing things right when you've been bit by a poisonous snake you start having blurred vision the second symptom is you start having vertigo you start spinning in your head you don't even know where you are you start spinning around and the third symptom is paralysis and I think there's three reasons why the snake bites Paul there's three reasons why a snake tries to bite you or me number one the snake bites you to stop you from working to stop you from working here Paul is using his hands to work to serve the Islanders and the snake bites him in the middle of his work he gets closer to the fire as he's trying to be a part of kindling a fire on the island the snake bites him to stop him from working so many people have stopped working in the purpose of God for their life they've stopped kindling a fire in the church because they've been bitten by a snake in the fire so here's what it looks like CJ can I borrow you for saying here's what it looks like CJ will you stretch your hand out as a greeter at this church so here's CJ's trying to serve God he's trying to sir he's at the Dream Center he's trying to help people he's out on the worship he was in the choir singing and you know what happens snake and and face the camera now look look this happens in church this happens because here's what will happen people will be going to a church and they say well man somebody somebody said something mean to me the pastor forgot my name they didn't even acknowledge me I was serving as an usher and nobody said thank you man I was out in the parking lot people cussed me out man I was serving a children's church I was at the dream Center I was doing this I was serving and I just got bit while I was served Thank You CJ give him a big hand I got bit while I was working and here's what people do by the way isn't it interesting he's bit by the fire the Bible says that the fire is the all-consuming the fire is often described as the power the presence of God when we come together as a church what we're doing is we're kindling a fire but don't be surprised if you're near a fire and the snake tries to bite God may not stop the bite but he will stop the bite from killing you in other words there's gonna be people I mean life is unfair companies are gonna do things that they shouldn't do they're gonna let you go they're gonna hurt you at times friends are going to betray the people you thought would be for you they're gonna hurt you they're going to lash out there's sometimes hurt people hurt other people we can't stop it the snake bites him as he's near the fire here's what a lot of people do when they're bitten by a snake in the fire in the church they go man I'm staying away from the fire I just I mean last time I was near the fire I got bit so you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go to bedside Baptist I'm gonna sleep over here I'm gonna be a church with sister sheets and brother pillow and I'm just gonna I'm gonna watch brother joel osteen on TV that's my church service or brother Paul Doherty on the Hillsong Channel and and listen there's nothing wrong with watching ministry on TV but you need to be a part of a local church you need relationship you need to be together with people you say but Paul people bite people hurt they sting though I mean I every time I've gotten close to people every time I get close it just seems like I get betrayed people hurt me and how many fathers have walked away from the work the calling to be in the family because they've been bitten by either a child or by someone a spouse someone close to they just said you're not good at this you're not good enough and those words they latch on and they paralyze men and so men just walk away from the fire they walk away from their work that's what the snake wants to be the snake wants to stop you from working in the purpose that God's called you to work on secondly the snake bites to stop you from worshiping you use your hands to worship I'm gonna give you three double use I want the snake once to stop you from he wants to stop you from working he wants to stop you from worshipping see Paul was a worshiper he would use his hands to worship and what happens is when you're bit by a snake it's hard to lift your hands your hands don't want to be lifted they get weary they get tired and I stopped wanting to worship now listen to me Church this is so important this is so important I remember sometimes snake bites aren't even what people do to you it's what you do it's what you do you get bitten by your own failure and you get bitten by shame and guilt and so you come to church and it's hard for you to raise your hands because you feel ashamed in the presence of God I I remember when I got into some sin my senior year of high school and man when I went to youth group when I went to church I couldn't even sit in the worship service I had to walk out I'd be going to the bathroom like 20 times during service because I couldn't be in there I just didn't feel worthy and then I remember when my father passed away here's another thing that tries to bite you from worshiping I got mad for a little bit I was I was confused I didn't understand why it happened and and it was hard to lift my hands some people have been bitten and they think that God is their problem and so they don't want to lift their hands that's what the snake wants it he wants to stop you from worshiping God because you think God's the cause of all your problems you think God caused the snake bite he didn't cause the snake bite but man he sure knows how to heal the snake bite the third thing that the snake bites to try to stop you from doing is from riding Paul was a writer he would write half the New Testament Romans first Corinthians second Corinthians first and second Thessalonians first and second Timothy Titus Philemon Colossians right Paul was a writer his his goal was to write what God was speaking to him but the snake bit the place where he was strongest in the body of Christ he was strongest as being a writer the Bible says write down the vision make it plain so that he who reads it might run with it to fulfill that which has been written see writing describes moving towards your future if you can't write you can't write the next chapter in your life you can't move forward with hope that God has more in store for you so you just start rehearsing the past the devil tries to stop you from working from worshiping from writing I looked at this and I asked you know I was looking on Google and I was trying to find websites to tell you so what do I do if I have been bitten by a poisonous snake it said don't panic and then it said keep the wound below your heart keep the wound below your heart I thought that's interesting and it said because when it's below your heart the blood flow the blood flow the blood flow is what it needs most don't put a tourniquet around it don't most people think they need to tie it up and isolate the wound the wound needs the blood flow and then as I saw that all of a sudden it started jumping off what can wash away my sins nothing but the blood of Jesus what can make me whole again nothing but the blood of Jesus and Oh precious here's the flow that makes me white as snow no no thin but down blood uh G [Music] everybody say let the blood flow let the blood flow so watch what Paul does the Islanders are watching he's been bitten by a snake it's a Viper Vipers are supposed to by the way there's lots of different kinds of snakes there's rattlesnakes copperheads water moccasins mambas anacondas Boas we got all kind of snakes in the world there's coral snakes they look pretty on the outside but they're full of venom on the inside the Viper is hanging from his arm and at verse 5 Paul does something here he does what Taylor Swift tells all of us to do haters gonna hate hey hey players gonna play play play Heartbreakers gonna break break break but I'm just gonna shake shake shake it off come on shake it off ray shake it off Stella shake it off somebody say shake it off I'm almost done but this is so important because some of you came in here and you still have the snake fastened so you don't realize it you still got that thing fastened on you've almost turned it into a pet just just nursing nursing this okay well I'm so offended at this person I'm so mad at them I'm here but I don't want to be here I don't even like me I'm loved above a blob mad at God and what's happening is it's sucking the life out of you it's injecting poison and when you've got that poison inside you you're toxic you start fighting back you start biting your family back you start biting your co-workers back they took your company they took your client list they tried to do something to you they were wrong to you they did something to you when you were a little girl they said something to you when you were a little boy you've been holding on to that poison from your dad for too long it's time to bet man you've got to shake that snake off your arm you've got to move on get rid of that poison get rid of the poison of hurt of whatever it is that you should have could have wish you would have done it's time to move forward at some point we've got to shake off our regrets we've got to shake off the wounds there was a long time I was rehearsing I wish I could have said this to my dad I wish I would have done this with my dad I wish that I could have heard this from my dad I wish I wish and at some point I just gotta stop living in the past and I've got to shake it off and say I'm moving forward I'm moving forward and I can't change what's behind me but I can change what's in front of me and I'm gonna respond to light I'm gonna shake it off now watch what happens verse 6 it says as soon as he shook it off the people were watching everybody say they're watching oh oh look they were expecting him to swell up and die suddenly there are some people saying that are waiting for you to die they are waiting for you to fall they almost find joy in you messing up did you know there are actual websites that they take joy and watching ministers fail and fall one of the worst and yet the most fueling things I heard my first few weeks of being a pastor somebody said you won't last a year can you throw me that snake again right you won't last a year as pastor here I'm still here by the grace of God it's not me it's not me it's by the grace of God Daniel can't pass through that snake again I remember meeting this guy I worked for a guy when I was 20 years old who in Maryland the state of Maryland I went there to work for a summer and I'm sitting down I'm interviewing with him he said where you from us at Tulsa said man I hate Tulsa said why he said I used to be part of this church he wasn't looking close at my resume they said this church called victory he said man I hate the pastors Billy Joe and Sharon Daugherty I'm just sitting there shrinking in my seat I'm being interviewed for a job and he says you know about that church I said yeah a little bit he said man I blah blah blah blah he'll fake hora you could tell when someone's been bitten man I would not hang around someone who's got that venom inside them if you're hanging out with friends that love to slander other ministries you either shut it down or you move on from that friendship because that venom is gonna get inside you stop it you never you never succeed by slander and other people don't slander another ministry even if they did you wrong just forgive them and move on that poison is not worth keeping in your veins you got a deject that stuff get rid of the venom whatever they said whatever they did just move on but man he's just spewing it out he's just I mean he's finally looked at him I said sir that's my dad and mom you're talking about nobody talks about my mama like that I'm about to cut you about to cut the head of the snake off no but I said listen you got it all wrong I said I don't know what happened man by the end of the summer he came to me in tears he said watching you work this summer at this camp he said I realized I was in the wrong your parents didn't do anything wrong he said it was all me I've made up my own little offenses in my head I was creating this is what people do when you've been bitten by a snake you have blurred vision you start turning everybody into the perpetrator and you're always the victim you start allowing anything to build up poison on the inside him so here's what happens pay attention here's what happens at the end of the summer he shakes the snake off he gets healed it gets restored and he forgives and he moves on so these Islanders are watching they're waiting for Paul to die some people are waiting for you to die they're hoping you will fall just shake it off don't fight them back Paul doesn't shout at him Paul doesn't say look at me now the best way to answer your critics is just to keep on succeeding Paul just goes no worries [Applause] verse seven I'm gonna end at verse ten so I promise you we're gonna land this plane verse seven there was a state nearby owned by a man named Publius that's a good name for your next child if it's your name I love you god bless you the chief official of the island now listen Publius he was wealthy he was famous he had status he had power but there was one thing that he didn't have and verse 8 and this is where I'm going or Father's Day right here this is where I want to end it his father was sick you can have everything in the world but when your father's sick when you and your dad aren't getting along there's a wound there's a hole in the heart that only a father can fill there's a wound in the world 80% of the inmates in prisons around the entire world have admitted to having a wound from their dad something between them and their dad in fact this was a study that was done here in the United States prisons they gave inmates the chance to write on Mother's Day or Father's Day have card two for free they would provide the cards they provide the mailing all of that a gift to give to their mom or to their dad all the inmates opted for Mother's Day none opted for Father's Day when there's a wound in your heart between you and your dad either he wasn't there for you or he said something to your he did something to you it goes with you and you can walk out of this service you can turn this off on TV but the wound stays there so I'd encourage you just wait five minutes because I might give you something to help you with that wound that's been messing with you here Publius is Publius whatever you want to call and he's he's got everything in the world but he's hurting because his dad's bleeding from the inside its internal self destructive Malta fever so dysentery now he's not showing on the outside it's it's dirty it's sad it's nasty he's dying on the inside it's starting to surface on the outside and pall all the sudden gets it this is why I'm here what if on the other side of your shipwreck what off on the other side of your storm CJ what if on the other side of the snakebite God has someone waiting for you that only you can heal that only you can reach what if there's someone waiting for you to move forward from the snakebite so that you could step into your destiny all of a sudden I think Paul is thinking about it oh so I was shipwrecked in the Mediterranean Sea I floated on a plank I was beaten I was left for dead I was starving I washed up on this island that I've never been to it wasn't on the itinerary but here it is here's why I'm here now I get it I was bitten by a snake I was driven from the fire and I'm in this house and he's looking at this father and watched this I need some help I need some help I want to use al Richardson will you step up real quick it says in verse 8 so Paul walks into the room where the dying father is and it says Paul put his hands on his head now remember this hand was the hand that had been bitten by the Feinberg the same hand that had been bitten the same hand that was harmed here Paul is and and he's probably looking at his hand he doesn't want anyone to see what he's walked through doesn't want anyone to see what would happen there and God says I'm gonna use the place that you've been hiding as the place to bring healing I'm gonna use the thing that you're embarrassed about that happened you and you were a little boy a little girl I'm gonna use the testimony yeah when that happened he walked in on on them and you saw that you had to pick him up you had to carry him to the hospital I'm gonna use that testimony that suicide I'm gonna use that to bring healing to so many people the wounds in your hand the venom the poison by the way did you know the anti-venom that cures snake poison by its poisonous snake bites is made from the same poison that bit you the only way to cure a viper snake bite is for you to take the blood from that Viper that the very venom that that Viper released to take it and mix it with chemicals that's the cure for the venom so here here's here's what happens in fact Ebola virus just figured this out a few years ago the cure for the Ebola virus is actually Ebola they have to find someone who's had the Ebola virus take the blood of that patient mix it with chemicals to then administer it on others the cure for the venom is from the venom he became sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus the healing is in the blood the healing is in the blood what she walked through is actually going to bring healing as you stretch out your hand what you've been trying to hide what you've been trying to conceal God says I want you to stretch it out because I'm gonna use that to bring healing to another generation I'm gonna use that to bring healing to the father's in this house this father is waiting for what you walk through to stretch out and say can be healed you will be healed in Jesus name and that day the father was he'll give a limb big hand stand up all over this place [Applause] everybody say shake it off and reach out your hand reach out your hand I want you to look at your hands say there's healing in my hands how many have been snake bitten before my life you've been bitten by discouragement you've been bitten by temptation you've been bitten by people who did you wrong some of you have been the recipient of so much poison so many people have tried to poison they've been trying to just stop you but you're still here you're still here you're still alive this was the crazy thing with balls everyone was waiting for him to die and he's I'm still here I'm still here I'm gonna keep moving forward there's healing in your hands God just spoke this to me and I've got to say it the very thing that tried to kill you the very place where you've been injured the most is going to be the place that God releases the most anointing out of you and and and the stuff that you've walked through the enemy attacks the area where God wants to use you the most so he attacks the mind because God's going to use your mind to help more people he's going to give you ideas creativity he's gonna deliver and download sermons and words and he's going to give you new inventions and new ideas he's gonna it's going to help you but the enemy comes after the mind the enemy attacks your hands because the hands were made to work the hands are made to worship the hands are made to write some of you have a writing calling on your life you're called to write your future you're called the write to other people that are in storms but the devil's been attacking your hand he's been bringing all kinds of things against your life your marriage some of you have been attacked in your marriage and God's called your marriage to be a testimony to lead other marriages through the storms they've walked some of you've been attacked with addictions you've been bitten by certain addictions generational curses God says I'm gonna use what the devil meant for harm for your good I'm gonna take the poison that tried to kill you I'm gonna use it to bring cure healing to so many people in the world God wants to use you there's healing in your hands but I feel to encourage you today that some of you need to shake the snake off of your arm shake the snakes out of your life whatever it is that's been trying to paralyze you whatever it is that's latched hold fastened on to you it's time to shake it off with every head bowed every eye closed right here right now if you're here today and you say Paul there's some cigs snakes I need to shake off I want you to raise your hand all over this place yes sir yes sir yes ma'am yeah it could be a fence could be hurt could be hate could be an addiction could be temptation could be a toxic relationship could be some thoughts that you just need to shake out could be some labels words that have been spoken over you you've allowed that to sit on you it's time to shake it off and get rid of the poison it's time to let those hands be used for healing stop worrying about what other people are thinking and start getting focused on God if you raised your hand or you're here today and you said Paul man I just need God's grace I need God's forgiveness I need God's strength I want to get right with God I want you to leave your seat come and join me at this altar just step out come on right here right now some of y'all been waiting the whole service to get down here it's your time it's your moment this snakebite is not gonna kill you but you gotta shake it off you've got to shake it into the fire this is exactly what Paul did he shook the snake into the fire the fire is the all-consuming God he wants to burn up the hurt he wants to burn up the hate he wants to consume what the enemy tried to use to kill you God says bring it to the fire bring the words bring the abuse bring the sexual immorality bring the lust bring the porn addiction bring it all to the fire don't hold on to it anymore this Father's Day come back to the Father come back to the Father bring it to the fire the blood of Jesus [Music] [Music] I'm gonna be the father [Music] hey what a powerful message man we really hope this message inspires you encourages you and really ministers to you this week hey there's a link right on the page that you can be a part of what we're doing all around the world you can click there to partner with us it's a continue to reach our world with the mission to love God and love people hey we also encourage you to 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Id: 4oVOwRtDmjQ

Length: 43min 41sec (2621 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 17 2018