WEBVTT - Walking Tall Again -- Part 1 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.440 Today on Bold Steps with Marc Jobe. We're learning how 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.080 to get unstuck in our spiritual lives. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.200 I don't really have passion anymore. I don't have that 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.520 energy that I had before. My spiritual life is dry. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:20.040 My worship is cold. I've discovered over time that oftentimes 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.760 we're stuck because there's unfinished business in our life. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.720 Welcome to Bold Steps with Marc Jobe. Marc is founding 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.160 pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. Well, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.480 have you been stuck? You know where you should be, 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.480 but you're unable to move forward. Marc, this can happen 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:51.680 to us spiritually, cannon. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.960 It can happen to us. And it happens to most 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.200 people at certain stages of their life. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.040 That's true. Yeah. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.560 But this story in Luke chapter 13. Of a woman 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:07.720 who is crippled is an incredible story, full of insights 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.520 in someone that lived for a long time, a certain way, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.040 and how an encounter with Jesus got her out of 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:15.640 that place. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.959 That's terrific, isn't it? To have God's Word and have 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.040 these lessons for us. So let's turn now to God's Word, 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.440 the message walking Tall again from Luke chapter 13. Here's Mark. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.479 It's a terrible feeling to be stuck, right? I mean, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.640 we're from Chicago, so we've all experienced in the middle 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.280 of a bad, bad winter how your car gets stuck 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:45.560 in an alley or in a parking space. And so you, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.520 you accelerate and it spins and spins, and it seems 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.560 like the more gas you give your car, the more 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.480 the deeper it gets in its stuckness. And so we 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.320 have to, well, we have to try to get people 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.890 to push us out. Shovel out. And it's a terrible feeling. 0:02:05.970 --> 0:02:10.369 Terrible feeling to be stuck. Some of you have been. 0:02:10.410 --> 0:02:13.889 I've been stuck at airports before where I know that 0:02:13.889 --> 0:02:17.450 I should be on that plane, but it's going somewhere 0:02:17.450 --> 0:02:21.530 without me. And I know that I'm wasting time here. 0:02:21.530 --> 0:02:23.290 And I don't need to be here. This is not 0:02:23.290 --> 0:02:30.450 my spot. I remember getting stuck in Frankfurt, Germany, and 0:02:30.450 --> 0:02:33.250 going to the airline and they said, well, sorry, we're 0:02:33.290 --> 0:02:37.649 on strike. I know you're on strike, but you see, 0:02:37.650 --> 0:02:40.090 I got to get home. Sorry, sir. And it's a 0:02:40.090 --> 0:02:43.329 terrible feeling to know that this is not where you belong, 0:02:43.330 --> 0:02:47.130 that you should be somewhere else on your way to 0:02:47.169 --> 0:02:51.650 somewhere else. But you feel, well, you feel stuck. I've 0:02:51.650 --> 0:02:55.810 been on I-55 before. When there's an accident. Not even 0:02:55.810 --> 0:02:59.329 an accident that's blocking the road. Sometimes it's just a 0:02:59.370 --> 0:03:02.770 gapers Block. How many of you know what a gapers 0:03:02.770 --> 0:03:06.290 block is? It means we get stuck in traffic because 0:03:06.290 --> 0:03:09.889 a whole bunch of people are too curious and they 0:03:09.889 --> 0:03:11.649 slow down to see. Let me see what I see there. 0:03:11.690 --> 0:03:15.890 What's going on? And you get stuck in just long 0:03:15.930 --> 0:03:18.810 lines of traffic and you think, why am I wasting 0:03:18.810 --> 0:03:21.850 my time here? I should be over there, but I'm 0:03:21.850 --> 0:03:27.050 stuck here. And some of you feel that way in 0:03:27.050 --> 0:03:31.970 your life today. Spiritually, you feel like I've been stuck 0:03:31.970 --> 0:03:34.730 in a same spot for a long time. I know 0:03:34.730 --> 0:03:38.089 I should be further along, I know I have a 0:03:38.090 --> 0:03:41.810 purpose and a destiny because something inside of me tells 0:03:41.810 --> 0:03:46.610 me that there's more, that I have gifts that I 0:03:46.610 --> 0:03:50.290 have a calling that that my walk with God could 0:03:50.290 --> 0:03:53.730 be greater. But, well, I'm stuck in the same place 0:03:53.730 --> 0:03:57.610 I was at four years ago and I want to 0:03:57.650 --> 0:04:05.380 move forward. I remember speaking to a man several years 0:04:05.380 --> 0:04:08.900 back and he came up to me. I was speaking 0:04:08.900 --> 0:04:12.060 at a conference, and he came up to me, and 0:04:12.060 --> 0:04:14.660 I had known him for quite a few years. And 0:04:14.660 --> 0:04:17.300 he said, can I talk to you? I said, sure. 0:04:17.940 --> 0:04:19.859 He took me aside and he said, let's walk together. 0:04:19.900 --> 0:04:21.620 So we went on a walk together and he said, 0:04:21.620 --> 0:04:24.620 you know what? Quite a few years ago, I was 0:04:24.620 --> 0:04:28.540 really living for God, and I had excitement and vision 0:04:28.540 --> 0:04:33.140 and enthusiasm, and I was going somewhere. He said, but 0:04:33.140 --> 0:04:38.180 I've been stuck for the last three years. I don't 0:04:38.220 --> 0:04:42.860 really have passion anymore. I don't have that energy that 0:04:42.860 --> 0:04:48.620 I had before. My spiritual life is dry. My worship 0:04:48.620 --> 0:04:55.500 is cold. He said, I feel stuck. I've discovered over 0:04:55.500 --> 0:05:01.539 time that oftentimes we're stuck because there's unfinished Business in 0:05:01.540 --> 0:05:05.460 our life that oftentimes we get in a place of 0:05:05.460 --> 0:05:10.179 being stuck because there's unfinished business. And so I said, well, 0:05:10.220 --> 0:05:13.419 can you tell me where you got stuck and when 0:05:13.420 --> 0:05:16.740 you got stuck? And he said, well, I was living 0:05:16.740 --> 0:05:20.780 for God. I was doing pretty well. And he said, 0:05:20.779 --> 0:05:24.180 I have to admit, I had a well, I was 0:05:24.180 --> 0:05:28.500 even a spiritual leader. But he said, one day I, 0:05:29.339 --> 0:05:34.740 I just my old self came out and he looked 0:05:34.740 --> 0:05:38.860 down and he said, I, I went with a prostitute. 0:05:40.339 --> 0:05:44.500 I never told my wife. He said, I confessed it 0:05:44.500 --> 0:05:48.219 to God. But he said, I feel like something happened 0:05:48.220 --> 0:05:52.380 at that moment that just hasn't let me go forward 0:05:52.380 --> 0:05:56.140 in my life with God. He said, I know God 0:05:56.140 --> 0:06:01.110 forgives me, but I don't know why I'm stuck. I 0:06:01.150 --> 0:06:05.190 said to him, well, you have unfinished business. He said, 0:06:05.190 --> 0:06:07.070 I think you have some business to deal with with 0:06:07.070 --> 0:06:11.390 your wife. Thank God he went. Had a hard conversation 0:06:11.390 --> 0:06:15.230 with his wife. He sent me an email and he said, 0:06:15.790 --> 0:06:20.589 never felt freer than I do right now. I'm sleeping 0:06:20.589 --> 0:06:22.510 on the couch and I don't know how long I'll 0:06:22.510 --> 0:06:26.630 be there, but. But I think I'm on the road 0:06:26.790 --> 0:06:33.669 to freedom. Yeah. You see, he had unfinished business. This 0:06:33.670 --> 0:06:37.469 woman we find in Luke chapter 13 is a woman 0:06:37.470 --> 0:06:40.310 that was stuck. And I want to read to you 0:06:40.350 --> 0:06:44.790 out of Luke chapter 13, beginning in verse ten, Jesus 0:06:44.790 --> 0:06:48.990 encounters a woman of all places. This woman is actually 0:06:48.990 --> 0:06:54.990 in church, the equivalent of church, the synagogue. And it says, 0:06:55.029 --> 0:07:00.029 on a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues. 0:07:01.870 --> 0:07:05.670 and a woman was there who had been crippled by 0:07:05.670 --> 0:07:11.190 a spirit for 18 years. She was bent over and 0:07:11.190 --> 0:07:15.030 could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, 0:07:16.590 --> 0:07:20.070 he called her forward and said to her, woman, you 0:07:20.070 --> 0:07:23.670 are set free from your infirmity. Then he put his 0:07:23.670 --> 0:07:28.670 hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. 0:07:30.710 --> 0:07:33.230 I want to look for a moment at this passage 0:07:33.230 --> 0:07:36.710 in Luke chapter 13, because I believe that this woman 0:07:38.070 --> 0:07:44.830 is the epitome of someone that had been stuck for 0:07:44.830 --> 0:07:50.190 a long time. The journey to freedom begins with, well, 0:07:50.230 --> 0:07:54.750 right there, a spiritual encounter. And so I want us 0:07:54.750 --> 0:07:56.750 to take a look for a moment at a couple 0:07:56.790 --> 0:07:58.670 of things that need to happen if we are going 0:07:58.670 --> 0:08:02.560 to break free and stay free in our walk with God, 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.320 because I believe there's some of you here that deep 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.320 inside of your soul, you know that you're stuck and 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.360 you know you don't want to be there. And you 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.560 know God has called you to more than the place 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.320 where you're at. I believe that God wants to get 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.000 you unstuck so that you can live the purposeful life 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:27.000 that God has created you for. If you look at 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.040 this passage in Luke chapter 13, and we study the 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.800 story of this woman, we discover a couple things about 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:39.920 this woman and her journey towards freedom. Number one, we 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.559 discover that there are many people so stuck that although 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.760 they hang out at the doorway of the church, they 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:54.719 fail to experience spiritual power. Notice it says in verse 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.319 ten of Luke chapter 13 that on the Sabbath Jesus 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.120 was teaching in the synagogue, and the woman was in 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:06.680 the synagogue. This was a woman that that hung out 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.760 in the synagogue. We don't know exactly her story, but 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.960 it seems to be like she was a regular at church. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.080 You know, she showed up to church. She was stuck. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:24.000 But she was a church going person. She would sit 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:28.880 through the reading of scripture. She would participate in the singing. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:34.880 She knew other religious people. She had a desire. I'm 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.760 sure she prayed occasionally, and she hung around the things 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.160 of God. She believed in God or she would not 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.520 be at the synagogue. But although she believed in God, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.439 although she went to church, although she hung out with 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:53.120 the people, although she heard the message, she still lived 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:59.319 her life in a stuck way. Well, you see, well 0:10:00.610 --> 0:10:04.290 I've discovered over the years that just because you hang 0:10:04.330 --> 0:10:08.329 out in religious circles does not mean you're walking in freedom. 0:10:11.890 --> 0:10:15.650 Just because you attend a service does not mean that 0:10:15.650 --> 0:10:21.650 you have encountered God. Because it tells us in the Scripture, well, 0:10:21.929 --> 0:10:26.370 there's a difference between going to a service and experiencing 0:10:26.370 --> 0:10:30.210 the dynamic, real, powerful touch of God. How many of 0:10:30.210 --> 0:10:40.010 you know there's a difference? There's something about God. That 0:10:40.170 --> 0:10:42.610 cannot be contained in the four walls of the church. 0:10:42.610 --> 0:10:45.050 And sometimes we go to a religious service and there's 0:10:45.050 --> 0:10:48.250 a ritual and there's a prayer, but you can. Well, 0:10:48.250 --> 0:10:51.330 you can visit a place and never meet the owner 0:10:51.330 --> 0:10:58.609 of that place. You know, I've been to Ditka's restaurant before. 0:11:00.370 --> 0:11:07.530 Doesn't mean I know Ditka. I actually eaten at his 0:11:07.530 --> 0:11:10.250 restaurant a couple of times and never really met. My 0:11:10.250 --> 0:11:14.610 brother was doing a film documentary on arena football, and 0:11:14.610 --> 0:11:17.209 he owned a team. And so my brother said, hey, 0:11:17.210 --> 0:11:19.929 you want to go? I'm interviewing Mike Ditka. You want 0:11:19.970 --> 0:11:21.530 to go meet him? I said, sure, I've been to 0:11:21.570 --> 0:11:26.090 his restaurant. And so we went there and my brother 0:11:26.090 --> 0:11:29.090 filmed him and interviewed him. And it was the first 0:11:29.090 --> 0:11:32.690 time I met him. Man, I saw what football can 0:11:32.690 --> 0:11:34.770 do to your knees to just to get up was 0:11:34.770 --> 0:11:37.770 a struggle for him. But you see, I had been 0:11:37.770 --> 0:11:39.610 to his restaurant, but I had never met him. Some 0:11:39.610 --> 0:11:41.490 people have been to the house of God, but they've 0:11:41.490 --> 0:11:45.330 never encountered the power of God. And there's a difference 0:11:45.330 --> 0:11:47.770 between being in the house of God and encountering the 0:11:47.770 --> 0:11:49.449 power of God. 0:11:58.290 --> 0:12:01.220 You're listening to Mark Jobe right here on bold steps. 0:12:01.220 --> 0:12:03.380 And we're pausing today's program on what it means to 0:12:03.420 --> 0:12:05.780 walk tall again, to let you know that if you've 0:12:05.780 --> 0:12:08.380 missed this week's bold step or weekly, you're going to 0:12:08.380 --> 0:12:10.900 want to sign up right now to get next week's edition. 0:12:11.260 --> 0:12:13.740 This weekly email devotional is chocked full of the latest 0:12:13.740 --> 0:12:17.020 ministry updates, marks, insightful musings are there as well, and 0:12:17.020 --> 0:12:20.020 much more, and it's automatically delivered to your email every 0:12:20.020 --> 0:12:24.300 Monday morning. You can sign up today by visiting bold steps.org. 0:12:24.980 --> 0:12:27.260 Right now, let's get back into the message. Mark will 0:12:27.260 --> 0:12:30.100 be explaining how easy it is to confuse religion with 0:12:30.100 --> 0:12:33.460 true encounters with God, and yet only one can set 0:12:33.460 --> 0:12:34.220 you free. 0:12:40.020 --> 0:12:42.700 The second Timothy three five says that sometimes we have 0:12:42.700 --> 0:12:46.420 a form of godliness, but we deny the power thereof. 0:12:46.860 --> 0:12:51.340 You see, I think the enemy specializes in helping people 0:12:51.380 --> 0:12:57.060 become more religious without experiencing the true encounter with God 0:12:57.540 --> 0:13:02.900 that can set someone free. Imagine for a moment this 0:13:02.900 --> 0:13:09.460 woman and her condition. Luke, who was a physician. He 0:13:09.460 --> 0:13:12.540 wrote the Gospel of Luke, and he was a medical doctor. 0:13:12.820 --> 0:13:15.699 And he describes the condition of this woman as being 0:13:15.740 --> 0:13:22.939 stooped over a severe curvature of the spine. Not just well, 0:13:22.940 --> 0:13:28.459 she walked a little hunchback. No, she was severely curved over. 0:13:29.100 --> 0:13:33.660 The passage implies. Now, this woman, we don't know exactly 0:13:33.660 --> 0:13:35.700 how it started or when it started or when the 0:13:35.700 --> 0:13:38.020 door opened up, but we do know the nature of 0:13:38.020 --> 0:13:41.700 her being stuck. It was a spiritual condition that had 0:13:41.700 --> 0:13:46.620 led to a physical condition and a soul condition. You 0:13:46.660 --> 0:13:52.860 cannot separate body, soul and spirit. You are composed. It 0:13:52.860 --> 0:13:55.540 tells us in first Thessalonians that you're composed of a body, 0:13:55.540 --> 0:13:57.939 which is the physical part of you. You're composed of 0:13:57.940 --> 0:14:01.030 the spirit, which has to do with your personality, your will, 0:14:01.030 --> 0:14:04.590 your emotions, your intellect, and your composed of a spiritual part. 0:14:04.630 --> 0:14:07.230 That's the part of you that relates to God who 0:14:07.230 --> 0:14:12.590 is also spirit. And your body is affected by your spirit, 0:14:12.590 --> 0:14:16.470 and your spirit is affected by your soul. Someone can 0:14:16.510 --> 0:14:21.390 be can become depressed in their soul because maybe someone 0:14:21.390 --> 0:14:24.510 died or a tragedy happened. And so they start getting 0:14:24.510 --> 0:14:28.350 down in their thinking and then suddenly it starts affecting 0:14:28.350 --> 0:14:34.550 their body and they start, uh, having high blood pressure 0:14:34.750 --> 0:14:37.990 and they start having ulcers in their stomach and they 0:14:37.990 --> 0:14:40.830 feel like they can't get out of bed. And then 0:14:40.830 --> 0:14:45.550 suddenly they're, they spiritually feel like God is very distant, 0:14:45.550 --> 0:14:48.350 that they cannot connect with God. Well, where did it start? 0:14:48.430 --> 0:14:52.070 It started with their soul, but it affected their body 0:14:52.070 --> 0:14:55.590 and it damaged their spirit. Are you tracking with me? 0:14:56.670 --> 0:14:59.550 And a lot of times people it happens that way 0:14:59.550 --> 0:15:04.320 with people. And this woman, imagine this woman for 18 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.080 years had been stooped over, severely stooped over. But her 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.080 problem wasn't just a physical problem. Scripture tells us that 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.880 the root of her stuckness, the root of her bondage, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:24.160 was spiritual. It leads me to my second point. You 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.840 may have lived so long in a state of being 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.840 stuck that you learn to accept it as your normal 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:39.400 way of living. It tells us in verse 11, and 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.760 a woman was there who had been crippled by a 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:47.440 spirit for 18 years. She had been bent over and 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.960 could not straighten up at all. You see, I imagine 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.240 that when she first got bent over, she said, I 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.360 hate it. I'm going to try to fix it. I'm 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.160 going to try to do exercises so I won't be 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.480 bent over. I don't accept this way of life. I'm. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.680 I'm unhappy with it. I. I want to change it. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.960 I'm sure she went to doctors to try to get 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:13.360 out of it. But listen, when you've been there five years, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.760 when you've been there ten years when you've been there 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.200 15 years, suddenly you start accepting it and you start 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.960 viewing it as, this is the way I am. You 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.440 start accepting your being stuck as being normal. You embrace 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.560 that lifestyle and you just feel like for the rest 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.520 of my life, I will be this way. I talk 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.480 to individuals that are stuck, very stuck. They may be 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.040 stuck in their marriage. They may be stuck in depression. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.520 They may be stuck in an addiction. They may be 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.920 stuck in their spiritual life. And they've been that way 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.800 so long that they have just thrown up their arms 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.520 and said, well, that's just the way life is. I 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.400 will always be this way. I've been this way for 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.440 ten years. It's not going to change. I guess it's 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.680 just my destiny. So I learned to live in this 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.920 place of being stuck. There was a movie that came 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.760 out a while back, and I don't even remember the 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.840 title of the movie where a guy got stuck in 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.919 an airport. Do you remember that? And he just, like, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.360 started living in the bathroom, made his home there, and 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.960 lived there for months. You see, some of us have 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.600 gotten so used to being stuck that, well, we're not 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.080 even trying to get unstuck anymore. We're just trying to 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.040 get comfortable in our place of stuckness. You're not trying 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.240 to get out of your addiction anymore. You're just trying to, well, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.919 make your addiction not so painful to the people around you, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.119 but you're no longer trying to get out of it. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.240 You're no longer trying to move out of this place 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:52.000 of spiritual passivity in your life, and you're just trying to, well, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:53.920 you're just trying to learn to cope with it and 0:17:53.920 --> 0:18:01.570 excuse it and minimize it. Spiritually speaking. You're living on 0:18:01.570 --> 0:18:06.010 the street under Lower Wacker Drive, and you're not trying 0:18:06.010 --> 0:18:08.409 to get an apartment. You're not trying to get a house. 0:18:08.410 --> 0:18:11.330 You're just trying to straighten up your cardboards so that 0:18:11.369 --> 0:18:15.210 they're a little bit better. You're just trying to get 0:18:15.210 --> 0:18:18.970 another blanket to live under Wacker Drive, so you're a 0:18:18.970 --> 0:18:21.489 little warmer. You're no longer trying to get out of 0:18:21.490 --> 0:18:24.650 your homeless state, no longer trying to get out of that. 0:18:24.650 --> 0:18:27.410 You just decided that you're just going to well, you're 0:18:27.410 --> 0:18:30.889 just going to fix up your cardboard box under Lower 0:18:30.890 --> 0:18:34.649 Wacker Drive a little bit more, and you've accepted. That's 0:18:34.650 --> 0:18:36.530 just the way I'm going to be. That's the way 0:18:36.530 --> 0:18:39.450 I'm going to live. This woman had been bent over 0:18:39.450 --> 0:18:46.850 for 18 years. I can just imagine a little bit 0:18:47.810 --> 0:18:50.929 of the condition she faced in her life. Well, you 0:18:50.930 --> 0:18:54.810 know how cruel kids are. We don't know how old 0:18:54.810 --> 0:18:56.530 this woman was, but we know that she had been 0:18:56.530 --> 0:19:00.899 in this condition for 18 years. It seems to imply 0:19:00.900 --> 0:19:03.220 that this woman at one time had walked straight and 0:19:03.220 --> 0:19:06.860 was fine and gotten used to being living that way. 0:19:06.859 --> 0:19:10.700 But something had happened in her life. Some moment had 0:19:10.740 --> 0:19:14.419 changed things. She had allowed something to happen in her 0:19:14.420 --> 0:19:20.460 life that spiritually affected her and physically bent her over. 0:19:22.380 --> 0:19:25.020 So now when she walked, she no longer could look 0:19:25.020 --> 0:19:27.740 people straight in the face because she was so bent 0:19:27.740 --> 0:19:30.820 over that she would meet people and the first thing 0:19:30.820 --> 0:19:34.980 she would see is their shoes. See, when we get 0:19:35.020 --> 0:19:40.379 really stuck in our spiritual life, it creates deformity. We 0:19:40.380 --> 0:19:44.820 have dysfunction in our life. It doesn't allow us to 0:19:44.859 --> 0:19:49.340 function like God wants us to function. And imagine that, well, 0:19:49.660 --> 0:19:52.380 no longer did she want to go out that much, 0:19:52.380 --> 0:19:57.740 and now it prevented her from social activity. She was 0:19:57.740 --> 0:20:01.460 laughed at in the neighborhood. There was shame in her life. 0:20:01.660 --> 0:20:05.820 She was no longer able to participate in things that 0:20:05.820 --> 0:20:09.700 her family participated in. She was forced to look at 0:20:09.700 --> 0:20:12.140 the ground. Listen, I want to tell you that spiritually 0:20:12.140 --> 0:20:15.419 the enemy is out to steal, kill and destroy. He 0:20:15.420 --> 0:20:17.340 doesn't want you to be able to look at people 0:20:17.340 --> 0:20:20.060 in the face without shame. He doesn't want you to 0:20:20.100 --> 0:20:22.620 raise your face to heaven. He wants to put you 0:20:22.619 --> 0:20:28.260 in such a place of spiritual deformity, shame, guilt, oppression 0:20:28.260 --> 0:20:31.780 that you don't feel like you are normal anymore, where 0:20:31.780 --> 0:20:34.220 you feel like you are less than human, that there's 0:20:34.220 --> 0:20:37.180 something wrong with you, that you are broken and cause 0:20:37.180 --> 0:20:40.420 you to live that way. As long as he can 0:20:40.460 --> 0:20:43.899 keep you in that state and make you think there's 0:20:43.900 --> 0:20:50.220 no way of escaping this. This woman had been in 0:20:50.220 --> 0:20:57.140 this condition for 18 years. I want to be careful. 0:20:57.180 --> 0:21:01.619 Make sure you understand that not every physical condition has 0:21:01.619 --> 0:21:07.580 a spiritual root to it. There are 26 recorded miracles 0:21:07.580 --> 0:21:11.500 where Jesus heals someone of a physical problem, and only 0:21:11.500 --> 0:21:15.979 seven of those out of the 26 were caused by 0:21:16.540 --> 0:21:22.699 demonic or spiritual forces. But nonetheless, I do want you 0:21:22.700 --> 0:21:27.820 to understand that that you can be physically stuck because 0:21:27.820 --> 0:21:33.580 of a spiritual problem. Doctors call this. They call him 0:21:33.580 --> 0:21:41.100 psychosomatic illnesses. Psycho has to do with your mind. Soma 0:21:41.740 --> 0:21:50.260 means body, mind, body illnesses. There are many, many people 0:21:50.260 --> 0:21:55.900 that go to doctors today that have physical problems. But 0:21:55.900 --> 0:21:58.380 the root of their problem is not physical. The root 0:21:58.380 --> 0:22:03.510 of the The problem is the way they think. Doctors 0:22:03.510 --> 0:22:11.390 dispense anti-depression medication a lot because someone comes in and 0:22:11.390 --> 0:22:14.430 they say, doctor, I don't know. I'm I'm achy all 0:22:14.430 --> 0:22:17.350 over my body. I, I don't know, there's something wrong 0:22:17.350 --> 0:22:21.109 with me. I'm really having high palpitations. And I don't know, 0:22:21.150 --> 0:22:23.950 I just I don't have any energy and I can't 0:22:23.950 --> 0:22:26.550 get out of bed. And the doctor will listen. He'll 0:22:26.550 --> 0:22:30.590 test them. And oftentimes the doctor will say, are you depressed? Oh, no, 0:22:30.590 --> 0:22:33.430 I don't think so. And the doctor understands there's no 0:22:33.430 --> 0:22:38.830 physical problem, that the physical problem is rooted in the mindset, 0:22:38.830 --> 0:22:40.590 the thinking of an individual. 0:22:49.990 --> 0:22:53.030 You're listening to bold Steps, the Bible teaching of Mark Jobe. 0:22:53.030 --> 0:22:56.110 And today's message is called Walking Tall Again. You can 0:22:56.109 --> 0:22:58.630 hear part two of this message right here tomorrow. So 0:22:58.630 --> 0:23:01.629 please keep listening. In the meantime, we encourage you to 0:23:01.630 --> 0:23:04.190 visit our website and check out all the special resources 0:23:04.190 --> 0:23:07.710 and opportunities we have available by going to Bold steps.org. 0:23:08.590 --> 0:23:11.149 Right now, Mark, we're offering a powerful book by Louie 0:23:11.150 --> 0:23:14.510 Giglio called Goliath Must Fall. And we all know how 0:23:14.510 --> 0:23:17.629 the David and Goliath story ends. But Louie Giglio doesn't 0:23:17.630 --> 0:23:21.149 say Goliath did fall. He says he must fall. What's 0:23:21.150 --> 0:23:21.910 he getting at there? 0:23:22.630 --> 0:23:25.870 Yeah. And I think the point that Giglio is getting 0:23:25.869 --> 0:23:28.670 at is that we all have giants in our life, 0:23:29.230 --> 0:23:32.990 that we cannot live with those giants, or they'll defeat us. 0:23:33.030 --> 0:23:39.149 There you go. They must fall. Anxiety, fear, addiction. There's 0:23:39.150 --> 0:23:41.150 a lot of these giants that put their foot on 0:23:41.150 --> 0:23:45.070 our neck. And if we don't bring them down, they'll 0:23:45.070 --> 0:23:49.670 bring us down. Mhm. He breaks down the story of 0:23:49.710 --> 0:23:53.670 David and Goliath like Lou Giglio can. Yeah. He's used 0:23:53.670 --> 0:23:55.550 to speaking to a lot of youth. So he brings 0:23:55.550 --> 0:23:58.790 it alive, makes it alive, and makes it really practical. 0:23:58.790 --> 0:24:02.920 Easy to understand. 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