Todd White - Let the Truth Set You Free

[Music] be free be free let the truth set you free believe don't be an unbelieving believer don't just believe enough to get there believe enough for him to redeem and to have redeemed what sin to file that's it let's go home thank you Dan some of you thought that was a miracle because that would have been if I walked off the stage right now that being miracle it be a miracle wow how many of you are not here today how many how many of you this is your first time here Wow come on all right well I hope I hope it I hope it helps are you ready okay sheesh what do you preach after Dan share today nothing just be done to say listen to the message this afternoon it's good it was amazing amazing you know when I shared a little bit today on the first time that I that Dan said he heard the Lord say that I was supposed to share you know I was traveling with Dan it's funny cuz I go to Teen Challenge I come out of Teen Challenge I have a dream when I'm in Teen Challenge Dan comes up and he's like visiting me he takes me out I had this picture - Dan laughed at me like Sarah he he did we had a platform we were standing on a platform and I was standing like this and Dan was standing like that and there were thousands of people I'm all sides and we're both preaching I told him I was only like two weeks in the Teen Challenge I mean I'm talking 22 years of drugs and all that and more twisted lived as a hypocrite for five and a half months intensely very convicted but also condemned because I didn't I didn't know how to read I didn't seek God on my own I tried to ride on Dan's revelation for those five and a half months I lived that way and Here I am get shot at and I'm only a couple days later than after I got shot at up at this program I'm like dude you gotta hear this man I just dream last night you and I were preaching he goes easy easy easy you seek Jesus buddy you just seek Jesus right now go after him with oh I am man I had to dream I'm telling you and I'm like thinking wasn't that just amazing that's a God dream but it would look like it's just a good thought man for years and years and years and years and years I've heard where did you go to school like did you go to Bible College well how did you get your degree did you go to seminary school did you do this did you do that know what I did I took Dan's advice I went into my closet literally I would go in my bedroom I would just go in there I would open the Bible and say God show me who you say I am it's constant and I found a scripture that validates it all when they came to the disciples and they were really upset because of miracles and stuff that was happening they like knew that they were untrained uneducated men I'm in I'm in but they noted that they had they had been with Jesus and the biggest the biggest deal here at this school at our LCU is that we want you to have a relationship see it's it's weird because there's a lot of people to talk about a relationship but don't have one there's a lot of people that talk about intimacy but really don't spend time with God like born again when you get born again that's essential but it's to unlock your potential it's to open up the reality of you being able to hear from God but the first thing that needs to be clear is your conscience regret thinking about what you wish you've never done keeps you bound for life you can never get free from that unless you live I love what Dan said today he said we have to start at the finished work and move forward we can't start before the finish work we have to start at the finished work we have to start and realize what was finished if you got saved what did you get saved from and what did you get saved to what does it mean to be saved getting saved doesn't just mean that I'm gonna that's my free ticket this isn't how to get out of hell free card it it's just not the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to the ends of the earth and then the end will come not the gospel of salvation alone although salvation includes it all it's just not pray a prayer to get there it's give up what didn't belong to you to begin with all God's asking you to do is to give up something you were never created to be because you were never created for you you were created for him so he's asking you to give up what you were never created for so you can finally become who he says you are but in order for us to do that we have to believe the blood and believe what the blood is done I feel like I want to come up here and I want to share a different message but I feel like I can't I actually no I can't cuz Dan said only speak the things that he's hearing from the Lord and the Lord wants us to get the same thing that he says is the new thing behold I will do a new thing everybody's like what's God saying what's he saying now what's he saying he's still saying the same thing that he said through the cross he still he wants us to really get it he wants us to get the reality of being forgiven he wants us to understand what it means to be forgiven much so that we can actually love much I said earlier today about Rome about Luke 7 about the lady that busted into the house she anointed Jesus's feet and Simon the Pharisee he they reasoned in their hearts Jesus knew it and he gave them a situation of one that owed 101 and owed a million pretty much and if the master freely forgave of both which one would be more loved or which one would love more I suppose the one that he forgave more but the fact is is that whether you were an addict for 22 years or you lied once you were equally sinful because if you miss one you transgress them all so no matter what our testimonies the same you missed them all yeah but I was a good person good doesn't cut it Holly cuts it and none of you are holy enough to get to God on your own now flesh your glory in his sight all have sinned and fell short of the glory of God so God sent his son so that we can actually have Christ in us the hope of glory come on you're not on I'm just not worthy you're right you are worthy of it all but if God saw fit to put himself inside of you why would you disqualify yourself and say you're not fit because when you disqualify yourself and say you're not fit you put your hands to the plow and look back on you're really not fit why cuz you can't steer straight when you're looking rear what if rearview christianity is illegal in the kingdom and what if we've looked into a mirror for something that's really not there because we don't know what it means to live from the finished work we live to try to fix the finished work and the devil knows it man he knows it if he could just touch you and plug you and hit you here and hit you there man if he can get you to look back just once then he gets you to question the cross because if God missed this what else did he miss think with me he paid a price for us to exit condemnation and enter conviction conviction is different than condemnation guilt shame and condemnation is Hell itself and you're thinking it's hell is thinking Moses was given the law it was the law engraved on stones and it was the Ministry of condemnation 2nd Corinthians 3 but we have a different ministry our ministry isn't the Ministry of condemnation see condemnation has glory because God's glorious he's holy he perfect there's no darkness in him so the law came to convict the world of sin to show that nobody's gonna make it nobody nobody makes it on their own here you can't just be good get to God man it's gonna work you're gonna stand before him well you know I did good that's not gonna cut it God gave you a simple way the way is Jesus he's the way to the Father he's not the way to heaven he's the way the truth and the life he's not the way to heaven he is but we've made it all about getting to heaven Jesus is the way to the Father he's the truth about the father he is the life of the Father in flesh when you see Jesus you see the father and everything in him was exactly how the father would act exactly what the father would say it but exactly how the father would heal exactly what the father would say like Jesus was the Express image of the father when you see him you see dad and you know what I don't know anybody that didn't want to be about around Jesus except the people that thought that they knew it all the very people that studied the Torah the very people that memorized the tour the very people that knew it all and had it all figured out the Messiah standing right in front of them and they wouldn't come to the Messiah because they thought that in the words that they read they had eternal life but the words that they read testified about Jesus and they weren't willing to come to him because it was too simple are you guys with me see when I got saved I really got saved people told me Todd you know what you have a special gift you're right I did it's righteousness I unwrapped that thing it's the gift of righteousness you all have the same gift just some people just sit on a tree no I'm okay I'm good hey I'm good I don't need anything you better receive this if you're to reign as a king through the free gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace and we don't unwrap that thing and we never know we're right with God the devil wants to in so many things on you that still exist when really they've been removed does Jesus just forgive or does he forget did Jesus just forgive your sin or he forget your sin the Covenant that you've entered into is the Covenant their sins in their lawless deeds I will keep remembering come on let's just break this down simple Jesus said this is the Covenant that I will make them with them in that day what was that day you're in it this is the Covenant that I will make with them in that day their sins and their lawless deeds I will keep bringing up for them to remember all the time no it's not see we know that yet we listen to the strangers voice because it sounds appealing it's not appealing it's demonic the devil tells me who I'm not so I can never get to Who I am you can't even receive the love of God that's in Christ Jesus unless you get rid of what God already got rid of this is like a huge stumbling block guys it's a huge stumbling block it's not your brilliance that gets you saved it's the simplicity of the Christ God wants to present us as a chaste virgin are you guys with me let's just go here ah look if I if it wasn't easy I couldn't have got it you don't get it see I I didn't do well in school I didn't mass was not my thing social studies wasn't my thing English wasn't my thing reading wasn't my thing I never read till hush 34 I got the whole way through school the whole way through they just pushed you through I did cuz I could skim and find the answers but I couldn't I didn't read I plagiarized that was easy I can write reports as long as I can find good stuff to write about that was in the books but I went the whole way through school man when I read my brain would go off in la-la land I would start reading and within four words in I was smoking a joint I'm not kidding I was riding a bike I was climbing a hill in my brain I was daydreaming and my eyes would still go down the page has anybody ever been there do you know that this is the dilemma in the Bible that we read this thing or you think that you can get it book smarts and memorization would be your answer memorization isn't your answer I couldn't memorize I went to Teen Challenge and they would have these index cards of Scripture and they would hold it up and like people would they'd say okay what did it say and it's gone um it was gone before they even went was holding it up I'm not kidding I was like man I don't even know what the first word on there duh I'm not kidding I'm so gone so fried so burnt so so gone like I could memorize I don't think so remember I don't know man but when God came when he saw me submit see the resistance of the devil isn't fighting him the devil's been beat the submission to God is the resistance of the devil see we think it's two steps first you submit to God then you resist the devil you have no ability to fight the devil you're not created to fight the devil this is how I fight my battles it may look like I'm surrounded but I'm surrounded by him that should be a song they'll be amazing see we don't see truth as a weapon but truth is a weapon if Jesus used truth to combat what the devil said what would make you think you don't need to if Jesus used truth when the devil tried to get him when he tempted Jesus Jesus didn't like he pulled the word on him I mean he is the word so it's crazy the word pulled the word I mean the devil can't fight it see we have resisted in fighting and we have commanded the devil to get behind us so many times and all he does is wait for you to shut your mouth and he comes again he just keeps coming he doesn't stop I rebuke you in the name of Jesus get behind me so tired until we say it he don't get behind you won't you command a devil to get behind you when he's really beneath you anyway guys it's easier than that we have to start with the very foundation of this thing righteousness just like we said today seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything will be added to you when I say Kingdom people think of Dominion and power and authority and it is those things but you can have Kingdom and power and authority but not know your right with God you can be in a place of warring and fighting the devil constantly and be worn out because we're warring on the outside of rest and you can't war outside of rest the devil will wear you out man he will make you punch drunk he'll keep hitting you and pounding you God where are you I'm right here it's like Dan saying the Holy Ghost right here it's the truth if the word is alive sharp active sharper than any two-edged sword able to divide and separate your soul from your spirit I've said it today I'm gonna touch this three parts spirit soul and body when you get born again your spirit you were headed the wrong way you realize that Jesus is real your heart gets dumped you say yes to Jesus and God makes your spirit and Holy Spirit one spirit you become one with him now your brain is whacked out because you just came out of life you just came out it's like waking up and so whole new world and all of a sudden it's amazing the sun's brighter people are amazing like wow I see colors like it's awesome I did I never saw sunrise for 34 years of my life man never remembered any and then one day I saw it that's amazing not just that like I used to watch TV shows that were not okay but had no idea they weren't okay and I get born again they come back from Teen Challenge and I'm like oh my gosh I never saw ginger that's lost the Gilligan's Island it sounds silly Thurston hell that's greed oh my gosh this is crazy really boy yeah he's me oh my Wow people Gus and swear I'm like oh I can't watch that am i hard cuz my heart woke up I saw Ruth I'm like why would I keep feeding myself something that he paid a price to do away with and call it chewing up the meat spitting out the bones so I'm a meat-eater buddy I don't need bones I don't need bone in when I can get bone out I'm not kidding guys we think that we can just bring in anything we want to people like Wes legalism no it's not I love Jesus why would I put that in he paid a price to do away with it why would I show it back in here well you know because man you can get something out of everything but why all things are permissible or permissible but not all things are beneficial why would I just do all things why would I say since like why would I have why would I put stuff in here that's not good and put stuff in here that's not good because this doesn't know truth that's why see what happens is you do it a little and you're like well that was wrong but then you don't you give yourself to it again and then your conscience just gets defiled and all of a sudden it's seared and you shipwreck your faith see the problem is you don't Shep wreck your faith to do miracles because you can still heal the second be totally twisted but you shipwreck your faith in the reality of righteousness that what it means to be right with God then all of a sudden you call good evil and evil good and hey you know we're okay we're under grace no way man no way I was reading Romans six today oh my gosh and three and four and five and six seven and eight it was just amazing amazing let me read Colossians real quick and then we're just gonna go sorry I'm excited cuz I honestly man I just if I can just make it as simple as can be and that you can get it like a little kid and grow up into him and be like right with God what if he just what if you never ever revisited your past again what if you know like when I met Dan like my past didn't exist it was real I mean I got a team challenge for two months I left a program ten months early and Dan came up to pick me up I mean I entered this program for 12 months I'm not telling people to leave early if it's not God you better not leave but I had an encounter with Jesus man the word opened up to me it was brand-new I'm like wow this is amazing I have these three nights where I encountered Jesus Jesus says go home third night I called Dan first thing cos man they ate my lunch when I came down the stairs in the morning I said I'm leaving what do you they were nailing me keep in mind I'm at the end of 22 years of addiction anger quit everything never follow through with anything so it looks like the same pattern I called Dan they said call your pasture cuz I had to leave once you make the decision to leave you have to leave cuz the little leaven leavens the whole bunch and all that the whole lump you got to get out so I'm in this program I'm gonna leave I called Dan I said hey man I said I need you to come get me dan said Tod is this God I said I met Jesus man he said I'm on my way he didn't say Tod no listen you need to be very careful about this cuz wisdom says that's what you need to say but faith says something different so Dan came up and got me I was sitting on the porch cry I was sitting on the steps team challenge crying my eyes out man in love with Jesus but I mean like in love with Jesus I've only been there for two months like it ain't no joke it's like boot camp for real it's no joke I'm in Teen Challenge for 12 months committed to 12 months my girl I've ruined her life just so you set the stage for this thing love you know this already but I mean it's not tedious to do it again it's not Dan comes up Nia's I'll be right back and I walk he walked inside I know how mad the counselors were at me get out the porch don't come back in here get your pastor up here so he's coming up you know Dan walks in I say hey man he was happy back he went and I heard Maurice the one counselor rah I didn't hear Dan but I know what he was getting because they gave it to me hardcore like intense because the guy that left before me was 19 years old he was a heroin addict two weeks later I found him dead in his bed from a heroin overdose so that's the pattern it's like drug addiction is intense there's two places two destinations jail or death because the wages of sin is death the devil wants to kill you unfortunately a lot of addicts don't understand that they're created to be addicted to Jesus because you cannot overdose on Jesus [Applause] but the place to the place that needs to be hit the hardest is your conscience there is nothing that fixes the conscience except the blood of Jesus there is nothing that can fix what sin has defiled and the first place that God wants to redeem is your soul your mind your will and your emotions there is nothing that fixes it no going back and revisiting nothing can fix it except the truth no I'm not against bringing truth where lies are because that's what it's all about but there is a much simpler way it is the application of the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ that enables us to live in his rest when we come to Jesus the first place he wants us to enter in is into his rest we strive to enter in to his rest and once you get in there it's a whole lot bigger than it was out there but the devil wants to take you out of that rest and get you back into worry he wants to get you back into guilt shame and condemnation and here's how it happens it's with an unbelieving heart that we exit rested it's with an unbelieving heart it's in Hebrews it's so powerful it do good to study the whole book of Hebrews again and again and again and again and again we can't afford to neglect the things that we've learned from Jesus we can't afford we can't we can't afford to escape because we get snared we can't afford to escape the truth of what he says about us and when I say escape I'm saying like walk away or turn away from or drift away from the truth we need to be steadfast in the truth and never go away the righteousness the righteousness of God is in the blood of Jesus always will be in the blood of Jesus it'll never will go away from the blood of Jesus it's gonna be like that for eternity it's the Lamb that was slain Jesus was one offering forever a sin offering forever eternally redeeming us putting him at the right head you hear that worthy worthy and at the right hand I saw scroll and saw who is fit to open the scroll the Lamb why because Jesus has attained eternal Redemption never ever ever ever it can never be taken away its eternal redemption toward Jesus Jesus not the blood of bulls and goats not the ashes of a heifer not two turtle doves none of that stuff none it wasn't all the bloodshed and all the stuff the streets run they ran with blood and David's days there were so many sacrifices that went on the blood cuz life Leviticus says that life is in the blood the blood is the only thing that God will take as an offering but it says the blood of bulls and goats he didn't desire the blood of animals he desired the blood Jesus his blood that was shed holy blood perfect blood that never ever can be changed he eternally redeemed you and if you don't see the power of that if you don't see that when you sing the song just the revelation of what can wash away my sins nothing about the blood of Jesus cry tears streamed down their face welcome make me whole again yeah nothing about the blood of Jesus Oh precious is the flow that makes me white us no no no nothing about the blood of Jesus there is nothing that can substitute for what our King did nothing you see this thing it'll hits you in such a way to where you will look in the mirror and say oh my gosh it says for real I remember looking in the mirror saying God this is real all that I've done you saw it all you knew it all you knew it all the Bible says really would someone die for somebody that's twisted I mean rarely maybe someone might die for somebody that's noble but that was none of us we were all twisted Jesus knew it and he paid the price and he knew it all he knew all the stuff you did he doesn't bring it back up again he knew it it's not like I said oh man that one right there I missed that one no he has more thoughts for you that outnumber the grains of sand in the whole world for each person one cubic foot has more than 1.6 billion grains of sand in it one foot cubed 1.6 billion thoughts for you he has our mind is full of the thoughts the devil is putting in there constantly whispering to us what if you had 10 thoughts that God thought about you that you couldn't get your mind off of all day long what if we're meditating on the wrong stuff CNN isn't what you're supposed to meditate on politics the newspaper it's Tom wants to be meditated on we have taken all these things because we need to know we need to know we're curious we need to know what's this person we get on Facebook what are they saying what's this person doing you went to lunch who cares did you bring Jesus to somebody when you were there and what I'm serious the Bible is so good it describes who you are and what he's done man the New Testament is like a love letter it's an inheritance that was given to you and you read it you find out what's yours you don't read it you never know what's yours and guess what's not yours you you don't belong to you you belong to him you're not yours you're his and he is yours I am my beloved in my beloved is mine you're important you're valuable you're precious precious you are you're the apple of his eye he saw you and redeemed you redemption isn't just being purchased redemption is bringing brought brought brought back to the original value that you had before you ever ate the tree and if you see yourself before you ever sinned well I remember I mean I apply sin when I was three if I did mine right but redemption is bringing you back as if you never missed it where you don't get what you deserve you get what he deserved he took what you deserved so that you could get something that you never deserved it's called grace grace is so beautiful grace and powers truth to happen grace meets you when you read the book I remember hearing Dan talk about this but when I would go in my bedroom and I would read that God loved me with an everlasting level and I would read that God wanted me to renew my mind when I would read that God forgave me and he forgot it he threw my sin into a sea go forget he named it forgetfulness he named that sea forgetfulness he named it my sins and my lawless deeds he said he'll remember him no more if he remembers them no more why can't I just believe that he remembers him no more going fishing in someone's life to try to fix them and coming up with nothing leaves them in despair wondering what they did wrong to not deserve a free gift that someone else paid for why would I make it a mystery that you can't receive it because of something you did you didn't earn this thing I see I know that we want to help people but I've seen more people in bondage it did he comes up to get me I get in the truck after he comes out of the Teen Challenge and then I know they were screaming he wasn't red in the face he wasn't foam and wiping spit off getting a car he wasn't it's amazing I get in the car and I'm like man he is gonna do amazing you started telling me all the things that I am and what God saw in me just like he always did man God sees this and this and this Wow Todd you're gonna do awesome I'm like man I met him he goes tell me about it so I start sharing my dreams and stuff and you know we're gonna go home and we're gonna go to my house so I could you know see my daughter and stuff it but I needed to stop by the church cuz Church was having a church workday now five and a half months I lived really bad and everybody in church knew my deal I lived as a hypocrite so I said damn I need you to take me to church cuz they're having a work day today that's where he said he was from he was going to I said man I go he goes are you sure I said I am man he's all right Todd he goes not everybody's gonna see the things that you see okay it's okay man I need to say thank you cuz the head pastor I needed to thank him he didn't want to hear me say thank you they did not want to see me keep her like well yeah well I went through that too I'm not here to let you look your church wounds I'm here to get you free cuz they're not your problem you were but then you died see when you die to you you live unto Him and you start to appreciate people even if they treat you like trash I'm brand-new I'm born again I'm a thumb-sucking Christian with spiritual Huggies are totally excited and he took me to the church and I went to the door and I meant man and they're out back I said man they're out back and Dan went like this damn just step back a little I walked up to the elder that put me in Teen Challenge I said hey man I just want Thank You Todd what are you doing I said man jeez Todd don't tell me that Jesus I said he did many set me free it's gonna be amazing cha just it's your flesh I know it's okay I'm over it trust me I am because I'm still free and it's 14 years later now listen I was like man I just meant Jesus this Jesus that I don't want to hear Todd it's your flesh you quit Todd again you quit now I was like no no I didn't yes Todd you quit just go live with your girlfriend I know that's why you're gonna what you're gonna do anyway that's your flesh turn his back I said man and I talked trying to talk to Pastor and Todd it's okay we don't need help I said I just want to help they're like why does that reflect on the truth why does that reflect on whether I had the encounter or not my actions out of that validate whether I met Jesus or not guys that's not where it ended do you understand that I wasn't even allowed to take out the trash I wasn't allowed to take out the trash I wanted to help because they believe that my trash hadn't been taken out the only one that knew was Dan but he only knew because I told him but love always hopes the best really so I remember me and I would go there because I went to these classes called transformers class and it was all about the transformation of the mind renewal of the mind don't be conformed but be transformed by the renewing in the mind so I went these classes in every answer that I gave was wrong all time now Dan wasn't a teacher there most days it was Peter that elder or or head pastor or other elders that believed that they needed to disciple me but part of their discipleship process was taught don't answer questions just listen and write things down so I did but I did believe I had answers and stuff because I go in my closet and take the answers that they said I was wrong and I wouldn't try to validate being right but I would try to ask them questions like how was this wrong when you say this cuz it's exactly what I heard in my heart they're like Todd it's okay listen just keep writing stuff down and keep studying and I did they weren't my problem I was but I wasn't a problem anymore cuz I love Jesus and I had quite the model like Dan was an amazing model like for me I was like dude I'm gonna be just like you dude I remember I remember the one head pastor I must say this but the head pastor said to me one day pulled me in the office about three months in he goes Todd it's come to my attention that you need discipled and I'm the one that's gonna be a spiritual father I said I can't have you do that I said Dan's helping me he goes Todd listen Dan's not the one that supposed to spiritually follow you I heard this in my heart and I'm supposed to you I said but I've never seen you love anybody and I wasn't being mean I'm not kidding you I'm not I wasn't being mean I honestly never saw him love anybody and I would not somebody I would not want somebody that doesn't love people to disciple me and I'm not being mean and I'm not saying bad stuff I'm telling you and he goes is that how you feel I said no I said that's all I've seen I said I love you he goes well we're done I said okay I said I'll see you on Saturday see people are like why would you go back because I can learn because I can grow and in that season it taught me how to love but if I didn't believe that my past was gone I would allow their presumption an assumption that it wasn't to be alive in my life no one is responsible for growth in your life except for you and Jesus and it's not on his end it's not on Jesus's n cuz he's given us everything according to life and godliness if I wasn't in my bedroom believing the truth and actively reading and believing I remember my first whole year in Christ I spent in Ephesians 1 III mean I would read a little bit outside of there but I was fascinated at the fact that God wanted to give to me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of it I was fascinated I'm like what does that mean oh my gosh you want to give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you do you know that the whole book is about the knowledge of God do you know that it's about you knowing him Paul said oh that I might know you more Paul knew him oh I'll count everything else as done for the sake of knowing you the power of your resurrection and the Fellowship of your sufferings you ain't gonna fellowship with sufferings unless you know him you're gonna deny him first chance you get denying him just by not talking to people when you don't talk to people about Jesus you really deny him that's not like condemnation I'm just telling you that if you're happy and you know it use your mouth you don't have to be an evangelist and preach a five-point sermon to tell somebody that God loves them but if you don't believe that you're forgiven much you can't love much and you won't tell them about God's love because you don't even know how to get free from guilt shame and condemnation and the Bible says it's very clear you haven't been given the ministry of condemnation but you've been given the ministry of righteousness we've been given the Ministry of reconciliation reconciliation reconciliation reconciliation you know what that means I've been reconciled to God through Jesus why good as God didn't impute a trespasses against me I don't deserve relationship with God but God saw fit to wipe it out when he put his son on a tree to tell people hey the jury's out you're not guilty what do you mean I'm not kill you freak yeah I know but wow it's so good like I'm not guilty yes you are you're all sinners well we I was a sinner then I got saved by grace and I became a saint wait a minute that's heresy no that's the Bible the Bible says that I've become a saint that doesn't mean that I'm perfect but it does mean that my habitual nature to sin has been cut off if I'm not guilty and God says not guilty righteousness says righteous judgment of God not guilty God said it not me I didn't say it God did it but what if I don't believe that that I'm guilty then I'm ashamed then I regret then I'm a condemnation then I have to use drugs to try to make this thing at peace you can't get peace from drugs drugs leave you can't get peace from sex sex is over it is sex doesn't give you peace it's just a very short period of time where you feel good it's gone soon as it's done you're done you don't have peace you have condemnation no no she makes me feel good no it's twisted man if I don't know this in my wife my wife has to satisfy me in a way that she's not created to you she's not created to satisfy me to give me peace I don't get peace from her I get peace from Jesus she doesn't get peace from me this is why marriage doesn't work because we're stressed and we're trying to get something from each other that we're not created to give a man gets who he is from God he gives that to his wife and the wife gets who she is from God he gives that to her husband and it's covenant it's completely different you're not created to give people peace even though Jesus says release your peace how can you release something that you don't even have and you can't have peace with God unless you're right with God been justified by faith you have peace with god why cuz I believe the cross is enough I believe the blood of Jesus is enough I believe he washed away my sin I don't believe God left anything outside of that I believe that he washed me see on the day of atonement they would offer the blood of animals and it would have turned for sin on the day of atonement but on that day of atonement it only claims the outside and inside they were still defiled their conscience was defiled only when the blood of Jesus was shed only when he put blood on the mercy seat Peter guilty ashamed denied Jesus what do you think happened on the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost came down and what happened Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes he's gonna convict the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment of sin because they don't believe in me of righteousness cuz I'm gonna go to be with the father and of judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged not you the ruler of this world has been judged the ruler of this world has been judged so he wants you to think judgement guilt shame condemnation cuz that's all the devil thinks cuz he's depressed he's angry he's bitter he's ashamed and he's afraid today might be the time the trumpet blows and he knows he's very short timeframe so he wants you to think the same and walk on eggshells it's time that we gird up our loins with the belt of truth it's time that we pick up the reality of our Shield of faith it's time that we put on the breastplate of righteousness it's time then we take a helmet of salvation and secure our identity and stop listening to lies it's time that we pick up the sword and go to bed with blood on that thing every day don't just lay it on a mantle don't just sit it on your nightstand it's not okay to sit your little sword on the nightstand and let dust gather on you don't put your Bible on your head to go into it boy I got eight alive for that one I put my Bible on my head and all kinds of people say all kinds of things about nothing because they don't know Jesus well I don't like it I don't care what you like I said the Bible doesn't just go in your head when you have it on your head just doesn't go in your brain okay do you think Jesus no God just meditate Doug says study and show yourself approved God says rightly divide the word of truth and says don't be unwise but know the will of the Lord we handle God's will like a hot potato God's will the Lord is Jesus his will is Jesus Jesus came to do God's will not his own will everything he did was God's will and he paid a price to set you free if you're in bondage it's because the Sun sets you free and you don't believe it come on man I'm preaching buddy all right Wow oh my goodness are you ready more oh oh ma okay look at this this is Colossians 2 I read it the other day in the school it's so good this is a translation called the passion translation cuz cuz God's passionate it's like a love letter Dan you ever read this one you got to see this this gloss it's too but this one right here clusters did you read it ever it's amazing you're gonna love it if anybody gets it you're gonna get it Jackie you'll get it too mom you get it you guys will get it you guys gonna get it look do you really want this or no uh what if you got free from guilt shame and condemnation what if the next time the liar came to tell you you knew it was the liar and you didn't rebuke him what if you allowed him to just push you in the truth and you just thank God for the truth well if the devil told you something that you're not you thank God for who you really are instead of rebuking the devil and commanding would get behind you don't waste your breath on the devil all he wants you to do is pay attention to him he's a liar he's a thief comes to steal kill and destroy why listen to him if you're hearing a voice it's not edifying you building you up and encouraging you it's not gone conviction is still edification encouragement it is instruction by the Lord is amazing if you're not instructed your illegitimate God chastises that where chastise means instructs God instructs his kids I want to be instructed by the Lord I want to read to say God cut me deep Lord teach me a word help me understand this help me display this in my life God I don't just want to smile at everybody and saying everything's okay be surprised and how many Christians do that how you doing pretty good what do you mean pretty good well you know no I don't help me well you know I'm going through we all go through it what are you going through and you find out that they don't believe the truth I'm not making light of people's circumstances and situations but if you're supposed to counter joy when you face trials why aren't we joyful because we don't know him what about God being Lord over the fire what if you put a Christian on fire in the fire what happens you come out with a crisper sharper more awareness of his love his reality and who he's created you to be what if you put a Christian that's cold in the fire they get burned wasn't God at all it's the enemy but we blame God wonder where God is God's here okay check this out verse verse 11 in Colossians 2 says through our union with him we have experienced circumcision of heart all of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away and is now extinct because of what Christ the Anointed One has accomplished for us I want to read it again I hope you connect with this through our union with him we have experienced circumcision of heart and all of the guilt power of sin has been cut away and is now extinct because of what Christ the Anointed One has accomplished for us some of your like it's not the King James you're right but it says the same thing yeah but it's different language it is but it says it's finished done he wiped it out okay for we've been buried with him into his death our baptism into death also means that we were raised with him and we believed in God's resurrection power the power that raised him from the death realm this realm of death describes our former state that we were held in sins grasp but now we've been resurrected out of the realm of death never to return for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sin Wow if we just grasp that simple truth which is really technical because we live by feelings I don't feel I'm forgiven it's not about feeling I'm forgiving it's knowing the truth to set you free it's not feeling the truth of such a free if the enemy can condemn you he will but if if you even feel bad for what you wish you've never done the reality of it is is the new you didn't do the old you stuff he canceled out every legal violation that we had on record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us he erased it all our sins are stained soul he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved oh my gosh listen again lord please ears to hear people have told me for years and years and years you can't it's not that simple you're wrong we've made it technical cuz we have to know well I gotta understand no it's by faith you understand it's not I understand that I get faith you have to believe by faith that what Jesus did is enough cuz if you don't believe there is nothing else you will go around and around and around instead of entering in and going around no fun you've got to live on fresh manna living bread every day brand new every day you can't afford to I talked to a guy was telling Dan in the car the other day I was telling him about pornography and how I was addicted in drugs and alcohol and how I got free my bed free for 14 years and he got mad they said man what are you tempted by them I said mean you know I'm tempted by relaxing the standard that's the only thing relaxing the standard not seeking him like I am in the morning and going after Jesus not seeking him every day thinking that yesterday's bread could be okay that's the temptation just relax a little coz when you relax a little you relax a little more a little bit more a little bit more you let your guard down all of a sudden your punch-drunk wondering where God is he goes what so what you're saying is you're tempted to not the Bible sometimes that's it man not just read but fellowship when I read like read just go through the motions here's a temptation let's just do devotions okay I read three chapters today cool alright that's over what's next what about letting three chapters read you what about giving God permission to cut you deep to change things that need to change God if I have any kind of withering branch I want you to trim it any branch that could bear more fruit I'm asking you to prune it back because I want to bear much fruit because God the seeds in the fruit and I'm gonna stop trying to sell fruit I'm gonna let people pick it god and he's like dude I don't get you like what do you mean well like come on every man has a vice the Bible says that nothing have a vice on you yeah but I mean we all got our stuff you've allowed Romans seven to influence your thinking bro and he's like what do you mean room 7 well even Paul it's exactly where the church is well even Paul had his vice maybe even Paul said I don't want to do these things not do them and I will not to in it man it's sin in him that did it so it isn't really me he said it's it in you but I thought you got saved well yeah but like what do you mean the Bible dant touched on it I know he'll pound it but the Bible doesn't say when you sin in first John it says if you sin people are like well I don't really like that man come on that's a little heresy when we all fall short no we all fell short we all fell short but if Jesus knew that we all fell short what does reconcile me come on man if we shortchange the cross and watered down the cross so much that we think that we still have to get up and sin every day do I get up in the morning brush my teeth and sin I hope not maybe can you make it past your brushing of your teeth well maybe could you make it to breakfast well no no it's pushing it what what are you meditating on if that's an issue what are you meditating on I'm not saying I never miss it but I don't I repent if I miss it I get up and realize the truth because my body and my heart and my soul are filled with the truth so when I miss it if I miss it God can fix me immediately it's not like the Holy Spirit goes let's wait a while come on the fact is is that there's a lot of good people with good hearts that love Jesus that the devil is having a field day with pounding them and hitting them they're good people they don't want to miss we don't always say man I hope I don't sin today no we're taught that we came and lived life that way we're taught it's so far out there there's no possible way but the truth is how far could you make it before you messed up could you make it like a couple hours maybe depends if people were around then people are still your problem which means you're your problem come on this is like I look at people or I lives people here with people are like oh see one of those guys do you think that my hair brings on happiness do you think it brings on the joy in the church had a guy in the gym the other day Christian guy nice guy I have my shirt I have my hair tucked into a jacket now he's good we talk as an older fella he comes up to me goes Wow new year new look and I took my I was I was dead lifted and I'm over there at the rack and he comes over he goes oh I'm really sorry buddy I I thought you cut your hair I go did you want me to you he goes well no have a good day walked away guys people aren't our problem if you've got a problem with this one in this one in this one it's you be free it's you you were like no that's not true you don't know what they did to me you don't understand what they said about me yeah but you know now they treated me yeah but if you were in my shoes you would see it when you stand before God and say Lord if you wouldn't give me that wife and maybe a sorry buddy that's not gonna fly not at all your wife's not your problem you are if you see this that you've been forgiven much the byproduct is loving much but if you don't believe that you're forgiven you can't love much people can hurt you people can hurt you man if you don't know you're forgiven you're in condemnation your guilt you're in shame still that's the most twisted place to live my Bible the passion translation the message treasure in the New Living Translation the New King James the Greek it says he cancelled it out he wiped it out it says this it says Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness stripping away from them every weapon of all their spiritual all their spiritual authority and power he made a public spectacle to any any made of spectacle of them and then I'll have the power to accuse us and by the power of the Cross Jesus led them around his prisoners in a procession of triumph he was not their prisoner they were his don't let anybody disqualify you from the prize don't let their pretended sincerity fool you as they deliberately lead you into initiation of angel worship for they take pleasure in pretending to be experts of something they don't even know about their reasoning is meet their reasoning is meaningless and comes only from their own opinions they refuse to take hold of the true source but we received directly from him and his life supplies vitality to every part of his body through the joining ligaments can connected us and connecting as all as one he is the divine head who guides his body and causes it to grow by the supernatural of God for you were included in the death of Christ and have died with him to the religious system the powers of this world don't retreat back to being bullied up by standards and opinions of religion for example their strict requirement you can't associate with that person or don't eat that or don't touch that these are doctrines of men with corrupt customs that are worthless to help you spiritually though they appear to possess the promise of wisdom and their submission to God through the deprivation of their physical bodies that actually it is actually nothing more than empty rules rooted in religious rituals oh we should read Colossians 3 because it's just as amazing Christ's resurrection is your resurrection - this is why we are to yearn for all that is above that is where Christ sits and thrown at the place of power and honor and authority yes feast on all the treasures of the heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with heavenly realities and not with the distractions of this natural realm for your crucifixion with Christ has severed the tide of this life and your new life is hidden away with God in Christ and as Christ himself is seen for who he really is who you really are will also be revealed for you are now one with him in his glory Oh live as one who has died - every form of sexual sin and impurity and live as one who has died two diseases and desires for forbidden things including desire for wealth which is the essence of idol worship when you live in these vices you ignite the anger of God against these acts of disobedience that's how you once behave you used to behave that way characterised by your evil deeds but now it's time to eliminate from your lives once and for all anger fits of Rage forms of lying hatred cursing filthy speech lay aside the old out himself with its masquerade in disguise for you have acquired new creation life which is continually being renewed into the likeness of the one who created you giving you the full revelation of God in this new creation life your nationality makes no difference or your ethnicity or your education or your economic status they matter nothing for it is Christ that means everything is he lives in every one of us you were always dearly loved by God so robe yourself with the virtues of God's since you have been divinely chosen to be holy be merciful as you endeavor to understand others would be compassionate showing kindness towards all be general be humble unoffending in your patience with others oh this is in the Bible tolerate the weakness of those in the family of faith forgiving one another in the same way that you've been graciously forgive about Jesus Christ and if you find fault with somebody release the same gift of forgiveness to them for love is supreme and must flow through each of these virtues love becomes the mark of true maturity let your heart always be guided by the Peace of the Anointed One who called you to peace as part of his own body and always be thankful let the word of Christ live and you richly flooding you with all wisdom apply the scriptures as you teach and instruct one another with the Psalms and with the festive praises and prophetic songs given to you spontaneously by the spirits so sing to the Lord with all your hearts and let every activity of your lives and every word that comes from your lips listen to this let every activity of your life and every word that you comes from your lips be drenched with the beauty of the Lord Jesus The Anointed One oh how can it be drenched with the words of Christ if Jesus is the word and we never get it in us we will give people our opinion apart from the truth and it's a detriment because people believe that Christians know God and if we give them the wrong God that's trouble and bring your constant praise to God the Father because of what Christ has done for you let every wife be supportive and tenderly devoted to her husband for it's a beautiful illustration of our devotion to Christ let every husband be filled with cherishing love for his wife and never be insensitive towards her let children respect and pay attention to their parents and everything for this pleases the Lord and fathers don't be unrealistic putting expectations on your children or else they may be discouraged let every employee I love this let every employee listen well and follow the instructions of their employer not just when their employers are watching not in pretense but faithful in all things for we are to live our lives with pure hearts in constant all and wonder of the Lord God put your heart and soul into every activity you do not as though you were doing it for people but you were doing it for the Lord himself and not merely for others for we know that we will receive a reward and inheritance from the Lord as we serve the Lord Yahweh the Anointed One a disciple will be repaid for what he has learned and followed for God pays no attention to the titles or prestige a man God is faithful and he loves you when I got saved I just believed I was forgiven the devil constantly tried to drag it up and as I built my arsenal of truth not being conformed to the world but being transformed by the renewing of my mind taking every word of God coz the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds taking every thought captive so when thoughts would come from the enemy and I didn't know it I didn't bite the bait I said father I thank you that I'm forgiven I would search the Bible to find the truth of what God said about me and when the enemy came I didn't rebuke him I just brought that thought captive to truth and soon enough that thought didn't come back any more because truth was the standard it's the Christian life and as the Christian grows we build our arsenal and we rightly divide the word of truth and we bring every thought that comes against the knowledge of him it's amazing because God has given us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him and he's given that to us so that we can understand the word that we don't read and understand with our natural mind so that I can take the Word of God that's alive sharp and active able to divide my soul from my spirit my born-again spirit and the holy spirit communicate together and they get the word my soul needs to be renewed and fixed the way that this thing gets fixed is my spirit reveals it to my soul and my soul uses word to rightly divide lies from truth and if you don't pick up your sword and use the weapons that you've been given you're at the mercy of a devil that has none and he will permeate your soul with with you with who you're not when Jesus is crying out from the cross this is who you are Jesus became sin so that you might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus he became sensing he might become something it's more than an Easter story and it's more than just the miracles the greatest miracle I've told people for years and years Todd what's the greatest miracle you ever saw I said a life that doesn't look anything like it did a person that actually thinks with the thoughts of God instead of the mind of man yeah but what's the greatest miracle you ever saw a person's mind that's redeemed that thinks like God thinks because God's giving us the mind of Christ yeah but I mean what's the greatest healing you saw it's when the soul gets completely healed the conscience gets completely cleaned and they don't think about the stuff that God finished they think about who they've been created to be it's amazing it's the gospel it's the only gospel it's the only gospel I want to know I believe 100% that if the body of Christ gets this right here righteousness it gets free from guilt shame and condemnation the byproduct is witnessing you would never be ashamed to witness about somebody that set you free if you've been set free like okay let's say you were in prison you had twenty near sentence and all of a sudden like they bring you back into court some witness comes out of the closet says I saw this as valid witness comes into a courtroom the judge calls the case again they gave you 20 years you're nine years in someone comes up someone comes to the surface and all of a sudden you get set free from jail would you have troubles telling people would you be like uh I'm gonna talk about that I'm Shane no no you're out you're not guilty like if you didn't do it and you spent years serving a sentence that you didn't do and someone came forward and validated the reality of your testimony being real would you have trouble rejoicing would you want to go back to jail okay would you rather rejoice or go back to jail okay would you be happy or would you be sad would you think about the nine years you've lost or the eleven years you gained where would you be see the truth is is God wiped out the sentence completely but if I don't believe it's been wiped out I revisit it and stay in the sentence it's like prison walls that are made of vapor that The Devil's created it's not real just be free yeah but I'm in the cell you're not guys there's nothing else it's it if we get this it's over the enemy doesn't want you to look Jesus is so King so amazing I just feel in my heart that like there's a lot of there's I know that we had some rehabs come if you are you from a rehab anybody from rehab that's in here there were some people that were coming from in rehabs and stuff anybody they said they were coming to some of these no okay well I just heard this in my heart so uh we're all right yay okay awesome okay I just I really heard in my heart right now just as soon as I start talking about this that we need to pray for people that are suffering with addiction III had a picture the other day I was talking to a friend of mine and I had a picture of God showed me these houses for men and women and I was like oh my god I told Tom I'm again man I got more vision he's like okay like we just got this building like what are you gonna do I saw houses filled with men and women filled men in the house women in the house completely walking in freedom I mean crazy I saw this I saw the university filled with addicts that have been set free that society is thrown away and like them going out there and making a serious dent on the Hells Kingdom I just love that so so I really feel my heart if you're here you don't have to come up front but if addiction is something and you don't have to be in a rehab for this prediction is something that is plaguing you uh really want you to stand and we'll pray for you right now so if that's you you're not ashamed to stand stand well no fear you don't have to come up front you stay where we're at mom look Jesus took me 22 years and cut that thing off gotta cut it off for you two because he's amazing but watch Jesus didn't cut off my addiction without me pursuing truth so God cuts your addiction off you better pursue truth because you better fill that place you fill that place with him because you can't overdose on him ever I believe there's a lot more people that are addicted but that's okay I could nope I'm just gonna look you lie you fry I'm just kidding right now I'm scared okay so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna gather around I just want some people to gather around them we're gonna put our hands on them we'll put our hands right on their head I do not want you to push I'm just gonna pray collectively as the body of Christ come on I've just seen so much breakthrough in the area of addiction buddy so good I get the worship team up here for a little bit so father first thing I'll just thank you right now for all guilt shame and condemnation getting wiped out with Jesus name right now in Jesus name right now father I thank you for freedom God coz whom the son sets free is free I'm here to tell you that you're forgiven that God has given us the Ministry of reconciliation reconciling people back to the Father God does not hold your sin against you jesus paid a price to wipe it out completely so father I thank you that whether it's a pornography addiction whether it's a drug addiction whether it's an alcohol addiction a pill addiction in the name of Jesus we command it to go now in Jesus name father I thank you for an encounter with raw truth Jesus name gaana thank you completely home brand-new god I thank you that the taste for whatever they were addicted to gets completely switched over because they taste and see that you are good just like you did with me I cannot get enough of Jesus even though I have him I can never get enough of him I eat sleep and breathe Jesus I need the truth God I'm asking you to give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you that they would encounter the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you that every bit every bit of thinking that says I'm not worth it will be cut out in Jesus name annihilated completely obliterated I thank you for the reality of redemption being brought back to the original value that you created us to be before we ever ate the tree god I thank you for a radical encounter with you Holy Spirit we welcome you we welcome your presence in Jesus name thank you Lord in Jesus name more in Jesus name more in Jesus name God I thank you that we wake up different in the morning completely transformed 100% transformed not a trace left in the mighty name of Jesus god I thank you that track marks disappeared because you're amazing and you do it all the time Jesus name father I command sexual addiction to drop-off right now in Jesus name I thank you for that secret pornography addiction being annihilated right now in Jesus name in Jesus name freedom freedom freedom brand-new creation a brand new creation where old things pass away and all things become new and we don't explain it away we just believe the simple gospel old things pass away all things become new old things pass away all things become new Jesus we give you glory we give you honor we praise You God we say yes to you we say yes to you father I thank you for people that are self-medicating because of depression in the name of Jesus I thank you that all depression leaves when righteousness takes hold in Jesus name Jesus name thank you Lord Jesus name thank you lord Jesus name thank you I really heard that in my heart that you will wake up different you will wake up different we've seen it time and time again you will wake up different you will wake up different you will wake up different you will wake up different you will wake up different [Applause] put your hand on the person to your right and left we are gonna pray corporately as the body for all sickness and disease to leave that includes cancer that includes every disease of what you all say this in the name of Jesus we command sickness disease pain organs discs joints be healed in Jesus name deaf ear open one eye open right now brand new lungs in Jesus name from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet be healed right now in Jesus name you

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