1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,720 Speaker 1: On your way to your seat. 2 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 2: I know normally I would read my scripture while you're standing, 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: and then after the text, I would give you my title. 4 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 2: But I want to do it different today. I'm wild 5 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: and crazy, y'all. I'm going to give you my title 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: and then my text. 7 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa? 8 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 2: All right, but I need your help. Look at the 9 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 2: person next to give them my title. Say you must 10 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: be important, be seated. Amen. Hey, thank God for our 11 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: worship team. Many are just getting back from tour. Chris 12 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: Brown still smells like diesel fuel and holy ghosts just 13 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 2: rocking arenas with the presence of God all over the 14 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: country and representing our church. Well, let's thank God for 15 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: our team. 16 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: It's cool. A lot of unseen heroes too. 17 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 2: I should do a series called Hidden Figures about the 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: people in the church that we don't see or nobody 19 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 2: follows them, but they're very important. Have you noticed that 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 2: who we think is important sometimes maybe God doesn't think 21 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: is as important in culture? I mean, just like, have 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: you noticed that it seems like lately I'm praying more 23 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 2: and more God, show me what's important from your perspective. 24 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: I'm afraid that I'll live my life wasting my energy 25 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 2: on things that seem important to me, only to find 26 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: out that they weren't as important as I thought they were. 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 2: So I'm just praying more and more in the moment, 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 2: just a very short prayer. God, show me what's important, 29 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 2: and I'm praying it at the start of my week 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 2: more that God. There's a lot I could do this week, 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 2: but I need you to show me the difference between 32 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 2: what's urgent and what's important, because some things that will 33 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: be an emergency for other people cannot become my priority 34 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: just because they didn't make a plan. And so this week, 35 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: I need you to show me the difference between what's. 36 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: Urgent and what's important. 37 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 2: And sometimes it's urgent and important, but I need God 38 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 2: more and more to show me what's more important. Lately, 39 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 2: I find that it's not choosing between you know, Netflix 40 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 2: and Bible study. It's like which show on Netflix or Bible. 41 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I just want to take it there now. 42 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 2: It's two things that are equally to me, equal priorities, 43 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: because I know that I need to seek first the 44 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: Kingdom of God and his righteousness. I don't always know 45 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 2: what that looks like in this moment because my role 46 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: in the kingdom consists. 47 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: Of multiple roles. 48 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 2: So on one level, I am a pastor who needs 49 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 2: to prepare a sermon. On another level, I am a 50 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: dad with a kid who wants to throw the football. 51 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 2: And I know you think that you're more important than 52 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: my son's desire to throw a football. 53 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is, you. 54 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: Know, if I drop dead, there'd be another preacher standing 55 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: here this weekend. But he's only got one dad. It's true, 56 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: is so true. Some of the things that I thought 57 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: were more important in my twenties, now that I'm like 58 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: a wise sage at the age of thirty eight, I'm 59 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 2: realizing that I need God more and more to show 60 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: me what's important now, what's important now? What was important 61 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 2: to me in one season may not need the same 62 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: priority in this season. 63 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: And that even applies to people. 64 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: I know that everybody is equally important to somebody say, 65 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: I know you're important to God. But God is an 66 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: unlimited resource and he can love everybody equally. I'm not 67 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 2: that much like God. I only have so much to give. 68 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: Come on, there's only so many bags of chips in 69 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 2: the vending machine of my heart, and I can't just 70 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: have everybody grab and everything out of me all the time. 71 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 2: Eventually I will run out. So I need to I 72 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: need to be led by the spirit to know what's 73 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: most important in this moment, in this season of my life. 74 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: What is the priority of God for me? In Mark's Gospel, 75 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 2: we are going to study today briefly a story that 76 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: he thought was important to include to give us a 77 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: full picture of Jesus as we're coming to know him. 78 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: Savage Jesus. It's been shocking to us some of the 79 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 2: priorities that Jesus had, and how much different those priorities 80 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: are than maybe what we would have expected. When we 81 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: see him stopping to heal a woman in Mark five 82 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 2: point twenty one, and following on his way to heal 83 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 2: a little girl, we are shocked, confounded, and in some 84 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 2: ways challenged because the one he was going to heal 85 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 2: was the daughter of someone who was important. His name 86 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 2: was Gyrus, he was a synagogue leader. The woman who 87 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 2: came up behind Jesus isn't even given a name. Nobody 88 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 2: really cared about women like that in this culture. He 89 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 2: stops en route to the miracle that is more important 90 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 2: and more urgent, because the little girl has hours to 91 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,239 Speaker 2: live in fact, while he stops to heal this unimportant woman, 92 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 2: the important girl dies. Jesus isn't concerned about this, because 93 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: he is healer. Yes, also he is resurrection. His priority 94 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 2: in this moment is to show the people a deeper 95 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: revelation of who he is. The only way for him 96 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 2: to give them this revelation of the power of his 97 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 2: presence is to upset their priorities and stop for something 98 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: that they see as less important, so that when he 99 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: gets to the scene which was more important, the little 100 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: girl is already dead. This provides an opportunity for him 101 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: to do something that he couldn't have done if he 102 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 2: had gone according to their priorities. Sometimes God will upset 103 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: your priorities to show you his power in a new way. 104 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: And I know it's hard to clap for that. But 105 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 2: if God has been doing some unusual things in your 106 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: life lately and it seems difficult to get Jesus to 107 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:21,679 Speaker 2: follow your agenda, maybe he is reordering your priorities. Maybe 108 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 2: what was important to you then shouldn't be important to 109 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 2: you now, and he's trying to show you an order 110 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 2: of importance. That's how you can know when the presence 111 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 2: of God is really increasing in your day to day life. 112 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 2: It will shift your priorities. Goosebumps don't prove the presence 113 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 2: of God. I get goosebumps off of Bruno Mars every time. 114 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 2: Goose Bumpson sometimes I kiss Holly. Feelings don't prove the 115 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 2: presence of God. What proves the presence of God in 116 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: my life is when my priorities begin to align with his. 117 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 2: And this is going to require a collision because cultural 118 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 2: priorities are much different. Now we're ready for Mark chapter five, 119 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: a story that Mark thought was important enough to include 120 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 2: for us. Imagine you have to write a gospel account 121 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: and you have to decide what's the most important teaching 122 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: Jesus gave that you want to put in Mark four 123 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 2: or what stories are. 124 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: You going to leave out? 125 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: Because it's not like you could say, well, that wasn't 126 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: any good when he healed that line. Man, you know 127 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like it'd be hard to let something 128 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 2: hit the cutting room floor, right, Yeah, Well, I mean 129 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: he opened so many death fears. 130 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: You got to pick and choose which ones you're going 131 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: to include. 132 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: Like stuff that Jesus did on his way to his 133 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: appointments would have been our greatest accomplishment in our whole lifetime. 134 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 2: And now Mark has to decide, all right, what are 135 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 2: the most important stories, And so in order to do that, 136 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 2: he has to choose one theme. And he has to 137 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: get this theme across because Matthew, who wrote a gospel account, 138 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: he's gonna have a theme. Luke is is Mark's theme 139 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 2: he decides is going to be to show the authority 140 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: of Jesus. The authority of Jesus, and authority is illustrated, 141 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: not explained. Can I talk about that people who always 142 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 2: need to tell you they're in charge aren't really in control. 143 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 2: When you really have power, you don't have to shout. 144 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: Just walk through my house and watch Holly look at 145 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: one of our kids a certain way, and you will 146 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 2: see that power doesn't have to shout. I mean, there 147 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: is a look she can give. And I don't know 148 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 2: where the kids go after that. They crawl under parts 149 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 2: of the house I've never seen off of one look. 150 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 2: And this is a demonstration of Jesus authority that I 151 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 2: don't think you'll soon forget. 152 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: Mirrored it to you. Just relax and listen. 153 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 2: Okay, They went Mark five verse one across the lake 154 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 2: to the region of the Garrisones. When Jesus got out 155 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came 156 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 2: from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in 157 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 2: the tombs and bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 158 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: for he'd often been chained hand and foot. But he 159 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 2: tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. 160 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: No one was strong enough to subdue him, and that's 161 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 2: called foreshadowing. Class. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 162 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: And this is where we need a savage Jesus. Sweetheart. 163 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 2: Jesus can't help this man. Cutie pie, Jesus can't bless 164 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 2: this guy with a little cliche exthus on the back 165 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: of your car, Jesus, jewelry Jesus around your neck. Can't 166 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 2: do anything about this situation. But you might come to 167 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 2: a point in your life where you've lost sight of 168 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 2: who you are and who you are, and in those moments, 169 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: you don't want a little puny Jesus who stands over 170 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 2: on the side and waits till you rub your hands 171 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: together and pull him out the bottle on Christmas, in Easter, 172 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: or when you decide to bless him with your presence 173 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: at church. Knowing those moments you're gonna want a strong 174 00:09:55,679 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: savior with a mighty hand, and then outstretched arm, talking 175 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 2: about a savage Jesus. Somebody shout, I got a great 176 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: big God, night and day. Verse five. Among the tombs 177 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 2: and in the hills, he would cry out and cut 178 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 2: himself with stones. Verse six is interesting when he saw 179 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: Jesus from a distance. 180 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: Now this is the first time. 181 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: He's seen Jesus, but this is not Jesus' first vision 182 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: of him. He saw Jesus from a distance. Jesus did 183 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 2: his ministry in Capernaum. This account is from a Gentile region, 184 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 2: the region of the Garrisones. No one knows exactly where 185 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 2: that is. By the way, there's a lot of debate 186 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 2: about it. I went over to a spot where they 187 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 2: think this story might have happened last year, and he 188 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 2: showed me how Jesus would go up in the mountains 189 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: and pray early in the morning and late at night, 190 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 2: and across the sea of Galilee, where Jesus has just traveled, 191 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: the sound would have traveled. So if this man is 192 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 2: out day and night, there's a good chance Jesus would 193 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 2: have been up early while the man was up late, 194 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: and while the man was up late crying. 195 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: Jesus was up late praying, and maybe. 196 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 2: One morning, after hearing the man cry one more time, 197 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 2: Jesus decided, today is the day for me to make 198 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: my way toward this man and set him free. Could 199 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 2: it be that God has heard your cry, and he 200 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 2: has heard the secret petitions and disappointments of your heart, 201 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 2: and he had you log on or show up today, 202 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 2: because today is the day that He came to see 203 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: about you when you thought no one else was listening, 204 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 2: and you thought you were all alone. Could it be 205 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 2: that he heard you? And now the man sees Jesus, 206 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 2: possibly before Jesus even lays eyes on the man, and 207 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: he ran and fell on his knees in front of him, 208 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: Verse sevent He shouted, at the top of his voice, 209 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 2: what do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the 210 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,559 Speaker 2: Most High God? Oh, by the way, your first response 211 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: to God will often be feared. When he shows up 212 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 2: in your life in real power. There will be something 213 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: in you that will resist that authority, because it goes 214 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 2: against everything that is ingrained in our humanity to be 215 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: in the presence of one who is greater than us, 216 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 2: and it often causes us to reevaluate our priorities. Now, 217 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 2: in this man's case, there is a specific reason that 218 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 2: he falls on his knees and shouts, what do you 219 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 2: want with me, Jesus, son of the Most High God, 220 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 2: in God's name, don't torture me. For Jesus had said 221 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 2: to him here it is, come out of this man, 222 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 2: you impure spirit. And Jesus challenged the spirit that was 223 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 2: within the man, and the spirit within the man resisted 224 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: the challenge of Jesus because anytime the enemy has occupied 225 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 2: a territory for a while, he won't let it go. 226 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: Without a fight. 227 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 2: Jesus asked him a question, not for information, but for revelation. 228 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 2: He doesn't need to know this, he knows all things. 229 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: But he asked the man because the man might know 230 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 2: who Jesus is, but this man doesn't. 231 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: Know who he is. 232 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 2: And Jesus asked the man, what is your name? And 233 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 2: the man responded, my name is Legion, for we are many. 234 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 2: And he begged Jesus again and again not to send 235 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 2: them out of the area. The demons begged Jesus, don't 236 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 2: make us leave. And this is where the story gets 237 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 2: interesting verse eleven. And I promise you the Bible is 238 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 2: way more bizarre than you give it credit for. Exhibit 239 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: a verse eleven, A large herd of pigs. We know 240 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 2: we're not in Jewish territory anymore, right, because there would 241 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 2: not be. 242 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: A large herd of pigs. 243 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 2: Jesus has left this home turf and he's crossed over, 244 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 2: and now he's in Gentile territory, the region of the 245 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 2: gar seats. 246 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: And there's a large. 247 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 2: Herd of pigs standing nearby on the hillside feeding. And 248 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 2: the demons begged Jesus send us among the pigs, allow 249 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 2: us to go into them. He gave them permission. Okay, 250 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 2: you gotta leave the man, but you can jump on 251 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: the pigs. And the impure spirits came out and went 252 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 2: into the pigs, and the herd, about two thousand in number, 253 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 2: rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and we're droughting. 254 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 2: I know you're worried right now that I'm gonna find 255 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 2: a way to preach about this in a way that 256 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 2: applies to your life. But trust me, I've been doing 257 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 2: this a long time. I got a good track record, 258 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 2: and I promise you there is a connection between you 259 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 2: and these pigs. And if you give me a few 260 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: minutes and pay close attention. I'll show you what it 261 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: is Verse fourteen. Those tending the pigs ran off and 262 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: reported this in the town in countryside, And the people 263 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: went to see what had happened. And when they came 264 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 2: to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed 265 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: by the legion of demons sitting there, dressed and in 266 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: his right mind, and they were afraid. Those who had 267 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 2: seen it told the people what had happened to the 268 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: demon possessed man, and told about the pigs as well. 269 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 2: And then then then the people began to plead with 270 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 2: Jesus to leave their region. Touch them again and say 271 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: can I get your autograph? 272 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: Touch them? Say you must be important. 273 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 2: You must be important that Jesus would go through all 274 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 2: this trouble to keep an appointment with you. 275 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so sorry. I messed up. 276 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: I started reading in the wrong place in the Bible. 277 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 2: It happens. I'm sorry. This is my third time preaching it. 278 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 2: You will have to forgive me. I was supposed to 279 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 2: start at mark four thirty five, and I started in 280 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 2: mark five. And you can't understand mark five without mark 281 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 2: four thirty five through forty one. So if you will 282 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 2: forgive me for my slight oversight. I'm gonna do what 283 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 2: I should have done before. I want to tell you 284 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 2: about the storm. It came before the miracle. This passage 285 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 2: of scripture, we'll preach all by itself, because watch this. 286 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: How many of you are going through a storm in 287 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 2: your life today? Just raise your hand, or somebody close 288 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: to you is going through a storm. 289 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: Raise your hand. 290 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 2: Now see how easy it is to preach about storms. 291 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: Did you see the. 292 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 2: High percentage of hands that went up, except at Blakeney 293 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 2: They never raised their hands when I ask them to. 294 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 2: But let me try this one more time. How many 295 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 2: of you are going through a storm? You just came 296 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: out of a storm, or you know there's probably a 297 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 2: storm around the corner. Come on, be a meteorologist and 298 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,479 Speaker 2: touch your neighbor and say there's. 299 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: A storm out on the ocean. 300 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 2: So let me read this to you because it's important. 301 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 2: Somebody say it's important. That day when evening came, this 302 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 2: is the same day, Remember the same day. Mark didn't 303 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 2: divide this into chapters. 304 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: We did that later. 305 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: Mark's writing it all as one story. That day, when 306 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 2: evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, let's go over 307 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 2: to the other side. Note he doesn't tell him why. 308 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 2: He doesn't say, because I've got an appointment on the 309 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 2: other side. He doesn't tell them why. He just tells them. 310 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 2: What can you obey what God says when you don't know? 311 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: Why can you just get in and go? Even though 312 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 2: you don't know where this is going? If you believe 313 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 2: He has all authority, you don't need full details to 314 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 2: be obedient. This is just for the obedient Christians who 315 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 2: are willing to cross over. Now make a note of this. 316 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 2: You can't cross over without conflict. Jesus is moving the 317 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 2: mission forward. He's leaving the comfort zone of what do 318 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 2: we call it? Copernaum? Ooh nahum comfort Copernaum, Copernaum, it's 319 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 2: the place of the comforter. He's leaving the comfort zone 320 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 2: and he's moving into enemy territory. Like some of you 321 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 2: are doing right now in your life. You are beginning 322 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 2: to move forward in the things of God. You're changing 323 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 2: your circle, You're changing your value. You have begun to 324 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 2: prioritize the presence of God. But let me warn you 325 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: when you make God your priority, the enemy will send 326 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 2: a storm. You never cross over without conflict. Did you 327 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 2: expect the devil would let you. 328 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: Go without a fight. 329 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 2: Did you expect that he would let you leave Egypt 330 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 2: without sending his chariots to chase you down. You've been 331 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,479 Speaker 2: serving the devil forty two years, and now you decide 332 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 2: to stand up and be a godly man, and you 333 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 2: think it's just going. 334 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: To change overnight. 335 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I want to announce to you, 336 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 2: the reason the storm is raging might not be because 337 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 2: your Jonah headed. 338 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: Away from the will of God. 339 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 2: It might be because you're crossing over into the calling 340 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 2: that is on your life. This what the conflict is 341 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 2: all about. 342 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 3: It. 343 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: I know I should just calm down and talk to you, but. 344 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 2: Sometimes when you're in a storm, sometimes you need somebody 345 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 2: to holler at you and say, hey. 346 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: You're gonna make it through this. How do you know? 347 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 2: Because Jesus said, We're going to the other side, so. 348 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: You can't die in this. 349 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 2: You gotta make it to that. 350 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: That's what I came to say. 351 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: I've preached so many sermons about this storm, and I've 352 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 2: told so many people that they can survive what they're 353 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 2: going through. But there's a more important question than will 354 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 2: you survive. The better question to ask is why did 355 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 2: you survive the storm? 356 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: Have you thought about have you ever thought. 357 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 2: About how many things the enemy did, even early in 358 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 2: your life to try to stop you from having a 359 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 2: relationship with God. Remember this is Mark chapter four, not 360 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 2: Mark chapter five. This man has not even seen Jesus 361 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 2: yet yet there is a storm that is sent to 362 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 2: the Sea of Galilee to keep Jesus from getting to him. 363 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: I know you're like, well, how do you know the 364 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: devil started the storm? 365 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 2: Maybe it was just climate change because it said Jesus 366 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: rebuked the wind in the waves. Jesus doesn't rebuke natural elements. 367 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 2: He rebukes demons. The same demonic oppression that was oppressing 368 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 2: that man was in that sea trying to stop Jesus 369 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 2: from getting to the man. You were on the devil's 370 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 2: hit list before you were ever born. There were things 371 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 2: in your family line that were happening before you were 372 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 2: born that were designed to keep you from being in 373 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 2: church at this moment today, touch somebody say you must 374 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 2: be imported because in spite of all the storms that 375 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 2: had your name on them, in spite of all the 376 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 2: winds and the waves and the hurricane forces, in spite 377 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 2: of every attack, look at you in church. Look at 378 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 2: you clapping, Look at you taking notes, look at you 379 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 2: praising God, look at you believing for a brighter day. 380 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: Look how you made it. You must be important. You survive. 381 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: You know how I know you're important. 382 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 2: It takes boldness to call your sermon you must be important. 383 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 2: It takes boldness to call your sermon that. But I 384 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 2: know it. Not because of the car you drive, not 385 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 2: because of the house you live in, not because I 386 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 2: looked up how many Instagram. 387 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: Followers you have. 388 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 2: I know you're important because of your storm. See the 389 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 2: size of your storm tells me something about your importance. 390 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 2: The size of your storm lets me know the importance 391 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 2: of your assignment. 392 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: The devil doesn't start a storm. 393 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 2: For somebody who is not threatened by. 394 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 1: If you're going through a storm. 395 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 2: There's something so big on the other side. 396 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: And if you high five three people say you must. 397 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 2: Be important because that big, bad devil's. 398 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: Been huffing and puffing, and he thought he would blow 399 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: your house down. 400 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 2: But the trial to serve, to prove your foundation. 401 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 4: Come on, my. 402 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: House is on the rock. I can't. I was so confused. 403 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 2: So long. I thought this storm meant that God had 404 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,959 Speaker 2: left me. You know, but in this passage, the storm 405 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 2: means he's on the way. 406 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said? 407 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 5: If you're going through a storm right now, or if 408 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 5: one happens to hit on Thursday morning, I want you 409 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 5: to know that the storm is a sign that Grace 410 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 5: is on the way. 411 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 2: The Bible says the storm came up suddenly the moment 412 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 2: Jesus started in the direction of the man, here came 413 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 2: a storm, not because God wasn't with him, but precisely 414 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 2: because he was headed. 415 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: In his direction. 416 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 2: All right, So if that's true, if what I just 417 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 2: said is true, that there is a storm that proves 418 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 2: nobody attacks what isn't valuable, I promise you if I 419 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 2: went to play Game seven today, Lebron wouldn't guard me. 420 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: I promise you. 421 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 2: They would let me run all around that court and 422 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 2: do whatever I wanted to do. They would hand me 423 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 2: the ball gladly. You only guard. 424 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 3: Why would you guard someone who wasn't in a position 425 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 3: to score? 426 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: I know you're important. 427 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: Look here, Brooke, when I prepared this message, I was like, everybody. 428 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: Won't get this message because they'll do this thing. 429 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 2: When I get to this man called Legion, and I 430 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 2: say he was living among the tombs and cutting himself 431 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 2: with stones. They would disassociate themselves and say, well, I 432 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 2: got some problems, but I'm not that bad. And when 433 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 2: he says my name is Legion, they'll back up off 434 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 2: of him and they'll disassociate in the text and they'll say, well, 435 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: I'm like the Disciples going through a storm, but I'm 436 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 2: not the man called Legion. 437 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: Really, are you so sure? 438 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 2: Because it said he lived among the tombs, so you 439 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 2: don't go to dead places? Are you sure? Are you 440 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 2: sure this isn't you somewhere in here? It may have 441 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 2: a different demonstration, but it's the same dynamic because it 442 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 2: said they would try to chain him up and he 443 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 2: would break the chains and they couldn't hold him anymore, 444 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 2: and he would hurt himself. Are you telling me there's 445 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 2: no area of your life where you're out of control? 446 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 2: I started to study the text, thinking I was like Jesus, 447 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 2: and who do I need to go help. The more 448 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 2: I studied it, I thought maybe there's some Legion in me. 449 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 2: I don't mean demonic possession, but I do mean oppression. 450 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: I've got my own chains. 451 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 2: I'll tell you the greatest secret God ever showed me 452 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 2: about you. 453 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: Yes, you. 454 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 2: He told me that all y'all are crazy. 455 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 1: True story. 456 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 2: I was getting ready to preach one time, and I 457 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 2: wanted to preach from my own dysfunction, and I was 458 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,199 Speaker 2: embarrassed to do it because I thought, like everybody that 459 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: I was preaching to had their act together, and why 460 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 2: you're gonna listen to a preacher that's crazier than you. 461 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 2: And it was very interesting for me, the path that 462 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 2: I went on in those two years that I was 463 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: learning this lesson, watching millionaires who were miserable, and I 464 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 2: realized the devil doesn't check your net worth before he 465 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 2: tries to wreck your house. And I saw really nice 466 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: smelling people with like country club memberships and stuff, who 467 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 2: drive eco friendly cars and eat hummus, freaking out on 468 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 2: depression medication and yeah. And once I found out y'all 469 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 2: were crazy, I was no longer intimidated to preach this 470 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 2: Bible like. 471 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: It really is. Once I realized. 472 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 2: That you might be out of control and your spending, 473 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 2: you're eating your sexuality. If I kept going long enough, 474 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 2: i'd clear the whole room out of self righteousness. There 475 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 2: would not be one more Pharisee spirit left to hear 476 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 2: this sermon. If I kept going, dare me to do it. 477 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: I will name every demon in this room, because once 478 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,239 Speaker 2: I stopped talking about the stuff you can't see, then 479 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 2: I would move over to gossip. Some of y'all can't 480 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 2: stop talking about people. You are so ugly to. Okay, 481 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 2: see what I told you, I told you, I told you. 482 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 1: You were crazy. 483 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 2: He knew the man was crazy when he got on 484 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 2: the boat. It didn't stop him from coming. That got 485 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 2: me excited. I figure maybe he knows about my issues too. 486 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 2: I am Legion And he said, Legion is six thousand 487 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 2: foot soldiers. 488 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: That's a lot of demons. Jesus said, what is your name? 489 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 2: You know my name? Do you know yours? Do you 490 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 2: know who you are? Or do you have so many 491 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: different personas you know, because we're all Legion, we're all 492 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: a little bit of Legion. There are many mes. Somebody 493 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: told me that Abby looks just like me. They say 494 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 2: she's your mini me. I was like, you don't know 495 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 2: how true that is. There are many mes. 496 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: Huh. 497 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 2: There's online you. There's Sunday morning you. That's the only 498 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 2: one I ever get to see. But then I found 499 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 2: out there's a Friday night. You don't make me interview 500 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 2: your spouse, please, I won't pull them up here and 501 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 2: give them the mic. There's a you only she knows, 502 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 2: he knows. There's a youth that only you know. There's 503 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 2: a youth that cries out day and not. You don't 504 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 2: cut yourself with stones. I understand that. But sometimes you 505 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,239 Speaker 2: inflict pain on yourself and you can't stop it, and 506 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 2: you don't even know why you keep pushing people away. 507 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 2: You've been living among the tombs so long. Somebody's tomb 508 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 2: is them all. Somebody's tomb is pornography. Somebody's tomb is 509 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 2: an addiction that if we named it in the room, 510 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 2: you think, surely that person wouldn't come to church. You'd 511 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: be surprised how quick the demons run to Jesus. 512 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: Those demons ran. 513 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 2: Before Jesus and fell before him and said, don't make 514 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 2: us leave. Got it like we wanted here? We got 515 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 2: these people on lockdown. But they knew that this man 516 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 2: was important to Jesus, and they knew. 517 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: They knew. 518 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 2: That they were about to have to vacate the premises 519 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: of this man's personality and his psychology. And they knew 520 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: that someone strong enough to subdue them had finally shown 521 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 2: up in the region of the garri scenes because you've 522 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 2: tried everything else, and you've run to everyone else. But 523 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 2: I declared today you were in the presence of a 524 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: greater grace. And what works couldn't do, and the law 525 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 2: couldn't do, and chains couldn't do, and shackles couldn't do, 526 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 2: God's about to do it in your life. Grace can 527 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 2: do what change can't do. So now we get to 528 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 2: the part about the pigs. We hadn't even got to 529 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: the pigs yet. The pigs are the most important part. 530 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 2: This is the part where I'm wondering why the demons 531 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 2: wanted to get inside the pigs. And on the surface, 532 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 2: I understand that the devil never wants. 533 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: To give up any ground. 534 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 2: You understand once he has established a foothold. How many 535 00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 2: of you don't believe in the devil? I want to 536 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 2: see who had kids? Yet, That's all I'm trying to do. 537 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 2: He doesn't want you to be the first one in 538 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 2: your family not to need drink to. 539 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: Feel good about yourself. 540 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 2: He doesn't want you to be the first one in 541 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 2: your family to be able to stay stable in a 542 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 2: relationship rather than running around. So what does he want? 543 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 2: He wants to stand guard in the area. And this 544 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: is a brilliant strategy. I gotta give it to these devils. 545 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 2: The devils are smarter than a lot of church people. 546 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: They know how to get information, they know how to 547 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 2: accomplish a purpose, and they know how to discern what 548 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 2: is valuable. This is it. Stay with me? 549 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: Are you with me? 550 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 2: Come on, We're on something. 551 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: Are you with me? 552 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 2: Lean into this word. The word you resist is the 553 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 2: one that you need. Jesus is in this house. The 554 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: presence of God is in this place. The power of 555 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 2: a mighty God is in this moment. So Jesus says, 556 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 2: you gotta go. Let that man go. He's important to me. 557 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 2: I went through the storm to get to him. I 558 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 2: went through the thunder and the lightning to get to him. 559 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 2: I went through bucketfuls of water bill out of Peter's 560 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 2: boat to get to him. I came two hours across 561 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 2: the Sea of Galilee. And I've only got three years 562 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 2: to change the world. 563 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 1: This man is a vip. I know everybody else has. 564 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 2: Forgotten about him, but I want him now. 565 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: Let me say something real quick. 566 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 2: If he went through the storm for this man, and 567 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 2: he went to the cross for you. 568 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: How valuable must you be? How much is your life? 569 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 2: For he said. 570 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 3: God, and Jesus said, okay, you can go into the pigs. 571 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 2: And they went into the pigs. And then they made 572 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 2: trou because the demons know two things. One pigs can't swim. 573 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: But we all know that what the demons know that 574 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: we don't know. 575 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 2: I think the demons understood that the people in the 576 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,800 Speaker 2: region cared more about the pigs than they did about 577 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 2: the man. This is two thousand pigs. This represents a 578 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 2: significant part of the portfolio of these pig owners. This 579 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 2: is a region that is known for raising pigs. So 580 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 2: what does the enemy attack? Whatever you value the most, 581 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 2: and yes, he knows what you value. And yes he 582 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 2: knows how to hit you where it hurts the most. 583 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,319 Speaker 2: And that's why he'll use people to get to your 584 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 2: relationship with God. What's really most valuable is your relationship 585 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 2: with God. But he knows if he can get people 586 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 2: to offend you, you will do what the people that 587 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 2: you will send Jesus away because you are offended by people. 588 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 1: He knows where to hit you. 589 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 2: He knows where your insecurity is, he knows your playlist, 590 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 2: what you say to yourself, about yourself. He knows your proclivities, 591 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 2: your perversions. He knows what makes you feel ashamed, so 592 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,800 Speaker 2: he hits you there to make you lash out in anger. 593 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: He knows how to keep you bound. 594 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 2: And since he couldn't stay in the man, the devil 595 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 2: went into the pigs. 596 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:53,439 Speaker 4: If I killed the pigs, they'll send Jesus away. 597 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: Let me hurt Job. This is when the devil had 598 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 1: a meeting with God. He said, I've. 599 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 2: Been going to and fro looking for somebody to devour. 600 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: And God said, have you checked out my boy? Job? 601 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 3: Job's a bad dude. This is an updated translation. It's 602 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 3: a little more modern. Probably says it in your Bible. 603 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,720 Speaker 3: And the devil said, he's only serving you. He's only 604 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 3: serving you because his herd is still intact. Let me 605 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 3: touch his body, let me touch his children. The enemy 606 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,479 Speaker 3: will use anything to get to your faith. What he's 607 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 3: after is your relationship with God. But he will use 608 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 3: the pigs to get you to push away the presence 609 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:42,040 Speaker 3: of God. 610 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: He knows exactly where you're vulnerable. Guess where you're the 611 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: most vulnerable. 612 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 4: Wherever you place the greatest value. These pigs were worth 613 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 4: two million dollars in modern money. He said, if I 614 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,360 Speaker 4: can get in the pigs and make the pigs in 615 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 4: the water, the people will be so afraid because they 616 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,319 Speaker 4: lost their pigs that they. 617 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 2: Will send Jesus away. I wonder where the enemy attacked you. 618 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,240 Speaker 2: I bet it was in the place of your greatest value. 619 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,879 Speaker 2: But guess what I got good news. He only attacks 620 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 2: what's valuable. So if he has attacked you lately, get 621 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,040 Speaker 2: ready to shallow. Guess what that means about you? 622 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 1: You must be important, you, o God. 623 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 2: The devil knows more about your destiny than you do. 624 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 2: There must be something on your life. Can I preach 625 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 2: this like God gave it to me? God said, some 626 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,919 Speaker 2: of you are breaking generational curses and you don't even 627 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 2: know it. And that's why it's been so hard. And 628 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 2: that's why it's been so strong, and that's why it's 629 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 2: been so dark, because you're so strong, and you're so positioned, 630 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 2: and you're so important to his purpose. 631 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,160 Speaker 1: You must be important. 632 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 2: The devil wouldn't tie you up if he wasn't afraid 633 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 2: of what would happen if you got loose. I can't 634 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,719 Speaker 2: buy an amen, but I don't need one. This is 635 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 2: good in my soul, I said, he wouldn't tie you up. 636 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 2: It's the opposite. I thought the storm meant God had 637 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 2: left me. I found out it meant that Grace was 638 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,720 Speaker 2: on the way. I thought the shackles meant God couldn't 639 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 2: use me. 640 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 1: I found out that. 641 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 2: The shackles mean God is looking for someone who knows. 642 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: How to break sames. 643 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,360 Speaker 2: Now I just wonder, are there any chain breakers in 644 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:54,279 Speaker 2: the house today? I mean, you see chain breakers, rock 645 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 2: hill shain breakers. If you're a chain breaker and you 646 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,120 Speaker 2: know it, and you've been through some things and you 647 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 2: have some issues, and you forgot who you were for 648 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 2: a moment, but in the presence of God today, you're 649 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 2: starting to remember. 650 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 1: I am a child of God. 651 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 2: Take a few moments and praise Him. 652 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: For what's on the other side. 653 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:29,919 Speaker 2: Come on, children, come on, come on saying breakers, Come 654 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 2: on and praise him. 655 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 1: I don't care I'm on the screen. 656 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,720 Speaker 2: Shallah to God with the voice of trial. I don't 657 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,439 Speaker 2: care you belong to a country club. Shullah to God 658 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:48,800 Speaker 2: with the voice of trial. I'm a samee breaker. 659 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: You must be important. 660 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,879 Speaker 2: He threw you in the fire so he could show 661 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 2: never Cannissur that he is God. You must be important. 662 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 2: He lets you spend the night with the lions, so 663 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,920 Speaker 2: he could shut the lion's mouth and demonstrate his strength. 664 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: You must be important. 665 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,759 Speaker 2: He drowned all those horses in the Red Sea so 666 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 2: that the nations. 667 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,239 Speaker 1: Would know that he is God. You must be important. 668 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: Hot five. Everybody looks happy. Say you must be important. 669 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: You gotta be, You gotta be. 670 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 2: How else do you explain the fact that you're still here. 671 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,160 Speaker 2: Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so that 672 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,840 Speaker 2: only that which cannot be shaken will remain. 673 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,799 Speaker 1: You know what it means if you're still here. You 674 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: weren't shaken. 675 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,040 Speaker 2: The trial came the foundation's quick, but the house stood 676 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,000 Speaker 2: firm because it wasn't on the side. 677 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, this man. 678 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:14,359 Speaker 2: Was so important that Jesus went through the storm to. 679 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 1: Get to him. 680 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 2: And you were so important that Jesus went through gethsemine 681 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 2: to get to you. And you were so important that 682 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 2: he passed through the membrane of eternity into the construct 683 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 2: called time to come to you. Don't you ever let 684 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,799 Speaker 2: the devil tell you against somebody else needs to. 685 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,800 Speaker 1: Raise those kids. Don't you ever. 686 00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 2: Let the devil tell you against somebody. 687 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: Else belongs in that spot. Don't you don't. 688 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,879 Speaker 2: And the next storm that comes, I. 689 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 3: Want you to wave it on by, because there must 690 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,239 Speaker 3: be something so great on the other side. 691 00:41:51,960 --> 00:42:00,640 Speaker 1: Listen. In my Bible, it says something better, very strange. 692 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,960 Speaker 2: It says that when Jesus set the man free, the 693 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 2: man went and got down in the boat because he 694 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 2: was like, you are not leaving me here with these people. 695 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 2: Look at verse eighteen. I didn't read it to y'all 696 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,759 Speaker 2: saving him. As Jesus was getting into the boat, the 697 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 2: man who was demon possessed begged to go with him. 698 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,400 Speaker 2: That's like, if you're in my car on the way home, 699 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:38,200 Speaker 2: that would be weird. Now we got a contrast because 700 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,120 Speaker 2: the demons are like, don't make us leave, and the 701 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,279 Speaker 2: man is like, don't make me stay. 702 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 3: And it's sexy to want to step out into something new. 703 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:53,960 Speaker 3: And the brother is clothed. 704 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 2: And in his right mind, and he's amazed and he's grateful. 705 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:00,600 Speaker 1: And he wants to be on Jesus team. 706 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,240 Speaker 2: So he's like, I'm gonna come with you, all right, 707 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,000 Speaker 2: that's cool. I promise no more of that cutting, chain 708 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 2: breaking stuff. I'm let me keep the books. I see 709 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,239 Speaker 2: that guy you got Judas, I don't think he see 710 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:15,200 Speaker 2: the devil knows the devil. 711 00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,360 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, let me be your treasurer. 712 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,040 Speaker 2: But something happened so strange to me, because I just 713 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,319 Speaker 2: read in Mark two where Jesus called the disciples and 714 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,080 Speaker 2: he said, come follow me. Leave what you know and 715 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 2: follow me, and I'm gonna show you how to do 716 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,920 Speaker 2: something new for my glory. And they had the faith 717 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 2: to go, and it takes a lot of faith to 718 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:41,919 Speaker 2: leave a. 719 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:50,520 Speaker 3: Situation you're familiar with. Takes faith to go. But Jesus 720 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,319 Speaker 3: did something kind of strange. She looked back at the 721 00:43:52,320 --> 00:44:01,360 Speaker 3: man and he said, you can't follow me. Jesus didn't 722 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:08,280 Speaker 3: let him leave, but said, I need you to go home. 723 00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:10,800 Speaker 1: To the same. 724 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:17,080 Speaker 2: Situation that I delivered you in. I'm not going to 725 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,480 Speaker 2: take you out of it. I took it out of you. 726 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 2: I changed your condition, but I'm going to leave you 727 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:40,000 Speaker 2: in the circumstance because I want these people to watch this. 728 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:41,080 Speaker 2: Go home and tell. 729 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,400 Speaker 1: Them how much the Lord has done for you. 730 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,719 Speaker 2: Give me my verse, please thank you, and how he 731 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:52,680 Speaker 2: has had mercy on you. 732 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,239 Speaker 3: I want you to be a trophy. In fact, it's 733 00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:01,600 Speaker 3: better than that. Look at verse twenty. 734 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,120 Speaker 1: Touch somebody say you must be so important. 735 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,879 Speaker 2: I don't know why the ushers let me sit next 736 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 2: to you. 737 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,839 Speaker 1: You must be so important. And he went away. 738 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,360 Speaker 2: I begin to tell him to the capitalists, that's ten cities. 739 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,719 Speaker 2: The man became a missionary. You know, we could call 740 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 2: this sermon from maniac to missionary. I need somebody crazy enough, 741 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,359 Speaker 2: because when the people see how much you've changed, they're 742 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:40,240 Speaker 2: going to be amazed. Sometimes God gives you the faith 743 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:46,160 Speaker 2: to go. Other times he gives you the grace to stay. 744 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,680 Speaker 2: And I think that's amazing too, because some of you 745 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,520 Speaker 2: are in a difficult place and all you want to 746 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:54,360 Speaker 2: do is escape. 747 00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: Jesus, take me with you. I mean, let me get 748 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 1: a new start. 749 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,440 Speaker 3: And in those moments, and you know, if you're in 750 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,560 Speaker 3: one where you just want to escape the situation or 751 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,880 Speaker 3: the pain of the trial, God says, I'm going to 752 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,640 Speaker 3: give you something better than the faith to go. 753 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the grace to stay. See, 754 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 2: you are so important to me. And the man who 755 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:25,680 Speaker 2: wasn't even living with the people became the first missionary 756 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,600 Speaker 2: to the Gentiles. He was the first one. Some of 757 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,239 Speaker 2: you are going to be the first. You are going 758 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,279 Speaker 2: to be the first to break a chain. None of 759 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,920 Speaker 2: your friends have done it, none of your family did it. 760 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,799 Speaker 2: Nobody around you believes you can do it, and you 761 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,480 Speaker 2: didn't believe in yourself. But in this moment, the presence 762 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,359 Speaker 2: of the Lord is in this place. 763 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,759 Speaker 1: Because now I know who I am. 764 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,320 Speaker 2: I thought I was worthless. I believe that for years, 765 00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,759 Speaker 2: But now I know who I am. He came through 766 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,880 Speaker 2: all that for me. Now I know who I am. 767 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,920 Speaker 2: Because the enemy only attacks what's valuable. 768 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,080 Speaker 1: So now I know. 769 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,239 Speaker 2: Come on, I need about seventy more people who know 770 00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,399 Speaker 2: who got this word? And you know that you had 771 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,880 Speaker 2: to be here today, not just so you could survive 772 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,799 Speaker 2: the storm, so that after you've survived it, after you've 773 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,200 Speaker 2: lived through it, after you've broke the chains off of 774 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,719 Speaker 2: your life. Now God is ready to use you. If 775 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,920 Speaker 2: you're ready to be used by God, why don't you 776 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:37,760 Speaker 2: glorify him right now. 777 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,719 Speaker 1: In this moment. Come on, glorify him. 778 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:42,640 Speaker 2: I need some. 779 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,239 Speaker 1: Crazy people who know. 780 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:53,080 Speaker 2: Declary, thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those 781 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,080 Speaker 2: of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because 782 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,080 Speaker 2: of you that this ministry is possible. You can click 783 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,040 Speaker 2: the link in the description to give now, or visit 784 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,279 Speaker 2: Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information and if 785 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,600 Speaker 2: you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 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