Speaker 1: How y'all doing Elevation now? This is your first time here,
Speaker 1: a first time in a long time, and you're confused
Speaker 1: right now, You're like, yo, Bester, Stephen looked different. Let
Speaker 1: me help you a little bit. I am not faster, Stephen. Verdict.
Speaker 1: My name is Robert Madeu and I'm home. I'm home.
Speaker 1: And the reason there was no introduction is because you
Speaker 1: don't introduce family. I'm part of the Elevation family and
Speaker 1: I've had the privilege to come to this church now
Speaker 1: the last three or four years, and it is always
Speaker 1: just the highest honor to be here. How many know
Speaker 1: you are a part of the greatest church on the planet,
Speaker 1: Like y'all are crazy blessed. And I'm not just saying
Speaker 1: that as a matter of fact. The reason Pastor Stephen
Speaker 1: is not here and Passor Holly's not here in the
Speaker 1: sum of the team is Elevation Nights are happening right
Speaker 1: now in so many different cities. And if you need
Speaker 1: empirical evidence for how awesome this church is, you realize
Speaker 1: people across the nation are paying to pack out arenas
Speaker 1: for what you get for free. Earth y'all are crazy blessed,
Speaker 1: and that's a gift that should not be taken for granted.
Speaker 1: I pray you never take this church for granted. How
Speaker 1: pray you never take your pastors for granted, or two
Speaker 1: of the greatest people, not just leaders, but people on
Speaker 1: the planet. So right now, in case they're watching, which
Speaker 1: I have the strain suspicion they might be, can we
Speaker 1: let pastors Stephen and Holly Ferdick know how much we
Speaker 1: love them, how much we appreciate them. Come on, y'all
Speaker 1: can do better than that across every location. E fam,
Speaker 1: help me thank God for your pastors, for your leaders.
Speaker 1: I absolutely positively love them so much. I bring you
Speaker 1: greetings from the great country of Texas and my wife Taylor,
Speaker 1: she sends her love. She is holding down the fort
Speaker 1: at home. A year ago, in fact, we just celebrated
Speaker 1: our one year anniversary. We planted a church called Social Dallas,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing God do incredible things. But here's another
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about your pastors. A year ago,
Speaker 1: when we launched out to plant this church, one of
Speaker 1: the first checks that we ever received, as we were
Speaker 1: just stepping out on faith, was from your pastor saying,
Speaker 1: I believe in you and I'm sowing in to you.
Speaker 1: Come on, you have an incredibly generous leader, and he
Speaker 1: just did it, didn't put on TikTok and nothing, just
Speaker 1: just blessed us. And I love them so much and
Speaker 1: counted the privilege to be here. And I can't wait
Speaker 1: to preach the word if you're ready to hear it yet,
Speaker 1: you come to get a word from God, and he
Speaker 1: telling me if you feel like hearing it like I
Speaker 1: feel like preaching it, it's gonna be good in here today.
Speaker 1: I want you to go with me to Second Kings today,
Speaker 1: Second King chapter five, and I want to look at
Speaker 1: verses one through four, and then we'll hop down to
Speaker 1: verse number nine and go to verse fourteen. The Second
Speaker 1: King's chapter five, starting at verse number one. When you're
Speaker 1: ready to read it, say yeah. If you're not ready,
Speaker 1: you need some time to find this, say hold on,
Speaker 1: I heard those hold ups. I'm away for you. I'm
Speaker 1: away for you. I know that's Old Testament's stressful for somehow.
Speaker 1: Second King's Chapter five, And I really believe this is
Speaker 1: a word for somebody who's in this place watching online,
Speaker 1: but this is a word for our culture, and I
Speaker 1: know it's going to speak to you. Starting at verse
Speaker 1: number one, it says, now Naman was commander of the
Speaker 1: army of the king of Aram. He was a great
Speaker 1: man in the sight of his master, and highly regarded
Speaker 1: because through him the lord had given victory to Aram.
Speaker 1: He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. Now
Speaker 1: bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had
Speaker 1: taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served
Speaker 1: Nayman's wife. She said to her mistress, if only my
Speaker 1: master would see the prophet who was in Samaria, he
Speaker 1: would cure him of his leprosy. Namon went to his
Speaker 1: master and told him what the young girl from Israel
Speaker 1: had said. Verse nine it says, so Naman went with
Speaker 1: his horses and his cheerios, and stopped at the door
Speaker 1: of Elisha's house. And Elisha sent a messenger to say
Speaker 1: to him, go wash seven times in the Jordan, and
Speaker 1: your flesh will be restored, and you will be cleansed.
Speaker 1: But Namon went away angry and said, whom I thought,
Speaker 1: those two words right there are the tension in the
Speaker 1: entire text. I thought, come on, just us talking. Have
Speaker 1: you ever got in trouble or got frustrated or agitated
Speaker 1: or angry? Not over what happened in your life, but
Speaker 1: over what you thought was gonna happen and what actually happened.
Speaker 1: Come on, I'm the only one like I thought you
Speaker 1: were coming to help me, you actually coming to hurt me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought I was getting a raise. Oh y'all firing me? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I thought that you were about to propose. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you're breaking up with me. Come on, am I the
Speaker 1: only one has ever gotten frustrated or angry, not because
Speaker 1: of what was happening, but because of a preconceived notion
Speaker 1: and idea of what you thought. He said, I thought
Speaker 1: he would surely come out to me and stand and
Speaker 1: calling the name of the Lord is God, and wave
Speaker 1: his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy?
Speaker 1: Are not a bana and far part in the rivers
Speaker 1: of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't
Speaker 1: not wash in them and be cleansed? So he turned
Speaker 1: and went off in a rage. The name and servant
Speaker 1: went to him and said, my father, if the prophet
Speaker 1: had told you to do some great thing, would you
Speaker 1: not have done it? How much more then, when he
Speaker 1: tells you to wash and be cleansed, so he went
Speaker 1: down and dipped himself in the Jordans seven times, as
Speaker 1: the Man of God had told him, and his flesh
Speaker 1: was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.
Speaker 1: Can you say, a man, I love this passage. But
Speaker 1: what got my attention is that when Nayman gets the
Speaker 1: prescription for his healing that will stop the leprosy, his
Speaker 1: immediate reaction was anger, and the Bible says that he
Speaker 1: turned and went off. He went off. I want to
Speaker 1: appreciate to you today at Elevation Church for about five
Speaker 1: and a half hours, using this as a title, The
Speaker 1: Cost of going off, The Cost of going off, quick
Speaker 1: sermonic disclaimer. If you have never gone off or been
Speaker 1: tempted to go off, I don't have a message for
Speaker 1: you today. If you have never ever been tempted to
Speaker 1: go off on somebody. If you have never responded to
Speaker 1: an email or a text message with all caps, if
Speaker 1: you have never had somebody say something so sideways to
Speaker 1: you that your nose began to flare, and your eyebrows
Speaker 1: got furled, and your heart began to palpitate. If you
Speaker 1: have never been driving behind somebody that was driving so
Speaker 1: crazy that you had to pull up next to them
Speaker 1: at the stop like just to look at them. You
Speaker 1: ain't never done that. I ain't gonna work for you today.
Speaker 1: Just gone go home? Love offee fail you've ever gone off,
Speaker 1: had rage or anger? I want to talk to you today.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be good. Would you bow your heads?
Speaker 1: Let's pray along. Prayer God, you are awesome, speak today? Amen.
Speaker 1: Are there are there any parents in the house today?
Speaker 1: Any parents? Can I see your hand? Come all the parents?
Speaker 1: Make some noise? Been trying something different? Are there are
Speaker 1: there any single people with our kids in the house?
Speaker 1: Y'all make some noise? Do you notice the difference in
Speaker 1: the screens? See the reason y'all gotta all that NLC
Speaker 1: Because you ain't in the fight of your life. You
Speaker 1: don't know the pains. You don't know the struggle it
Speaker 1: is to raise little humans. You don't know what we're
Speaker 1: going through. Of course you can wow because you don't know. Parents.
Speaker 1: I had y'all scream first because I need to see
Speaker 1: what my support group is today. Can't we be honest
Speaker 1: parents that there is nothing more challenging. There was nothing
Speaker 1: more daunting. Yes, this rewarding, but there was nothing more
Speaker 1: daunting than parenting, trying to raise little humans. I have
Speaker 1: often said, often said that if you're struggling to have
Speaker 1: a prayer life, have some kids. Just have some kids,
Speaker 1: and I promise you will pray real quick. If you
Speaker 1: want to be an intercessor, then just have a bunch
Speaker 1: of kids. And I'm telling you will learn how to
Speaker 1: call on the name of the Father, the Son, and
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. You will make a trip to Costco
Speaker 1: and get a big bottle of annoint to oil ats
Speaker 1: find you a prayer closet, because parenting it is the
Speaker 1: fight of your life. I'm telling you this because I know.
Speaker 1: I know. Let me show you my family. We have
Speaker 1: three little humans, we have three kids. Can you put
Speaker 1: up that picture of my family. I want you to see.
Speaker 1: I want you to see my family. There it is
Speaker 1: right there. That's my bride and those are our kids.
Speaker 1: Watch the ages here we go, seven, six and four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pray for your boy. Pray for your boy. It's not
Speaker 1: just their ages. Those are the times that they wake
Speaker 1: up throughout the night. And I'm in the fight of
Speaker 1: my life. And I'll be honest with you today, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: I'm scared a little bit because there's nothing more that
Speaker 1: I fear. There's nothing more that I fear than then
Speaker 1: projecting onto these little humans my own idiosyncrasies and my
Speaker 1: own deficiencies, Like I don't want my crazy to cap
Speaker 1: their capacity, you know, I want them to be all
Speaker 1: that God has created and called them to be. It is.
Speaker 1: It is challenging to raise children. And shout out to
Speaker 1: all y'all if you got teenagers too, who hadn't even
Speaker 1: got to that stage yet, that's a whole another thing
Speaker 1: right there. You realize in the Bible, in the Bible,
Speaker 1: we only hear about Jesus from birth to twelve and
Speaker 1: then boom, he shows up on the sand at age thirty.
Speaker 1: Even the Bible don't even tell you about Jesus teenage
Speaker 1: years just like are you on, y'awn. It's a challenge.
Speaker 1: It's a challenge to parent. And so uh, I pray,
Speaker 1: I call on the name of the Lord, and I
Speaker 1: also look for resources to read. And I was recently
Speaker 1: reading a book and the title of the book was
Speaker 1: Parenting from the inside Out, Parenting from the inside out,
Speaker 1: And what the book postulates is that parenthood can and
Speaker 1: will trigger the unprocessed emotions of your childhood. Parenthood can
Speaker 1: and will trigger the unprocessed emotions of your childhood. So
Speaker 1: what the book says is that if you can heal
Speaker 1: the child that's in every parent, then that parent will
Speaker 1: produce healthier children. So this is the book that I'm
Speaker 1: reading before I take my youngest to kindergarten. First, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm reading before I take him to his
Speaker 1: kindergarten class. And I'll never get it. I walk into
Speaker 1: the K five class and his teacher's there, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking through the room, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: saw something in the corner that I've never seen in
Speaker 1: the classroom before. I saw this small whiteboard and all
Speaker 1: these little markers, and I asked the teacher, I said,
Speaker 1: what is that. She said, that is the calm down corner.
Speaker 1: Say excuse me, she said, that is the calm down corner.
Speaker 1: She said. These kids are young, their brains are still
Speaker 1: developing to sometimes their emotions get the best of them,
Speaker 1: and whenever they're having a moment, they can go to
Speaker 1: the calm down corner and pick out whatever colors they
Speaker 1: want and they can process their emotions on the board.
Speaker 1: She said, that's the calm down corner. And as soon
Speaker 1: as she said it, I asked her, are these just
Speaker 1: for the kids or can parents us to calm down corner?
Speaker 1: A be honest and this climate we live in, I
Speaker 1: need a calm down corner. Oh, don't look at me
Speaker 1: like that. You need a calm down corner. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I think our world right now needs
Speaker 1: a calm down corner. So is it just me? Does
Speaker 1: it seem like everybody is on edge? Everybody is going off?
Speaker 1: Everybody these patients has worn thin. Fact, I was studying
Speaker 1: for this message and I saw this article, and I
Speaker 1: love the title of this article. It says that watch
Speaker 1: this that adults are throwing tantrums in restaurants, planes, and
Speaker 1: at home. Blame the pandemic, they said, now more than
Speaker 1: ever in our world, at restaurants, at airlines, the customer
Speaker 1: service industry doesn't know what to do. They're calling in
Speaker 1: for extra security because everybody is on edge, everybody's going off,
Speaker 1: everybody's blowing up. All of us went through a trauma
Speaker 1: collectively called a pandemic. And you are naive if you
Speaker 1: don't understand how that's affecting your emotions and what's triggering
Speaker 1: you and what's making you go off. So today I'm
Speaker 1: going to ask you a question that maybe a preacher's
Speaker 1: never ask you in church today. I want to know
Speaker 1: who how's your anger? How's your anger? What I love
Speaker 1: about this message today is that nobody can dismiss this message.
Speaker 1: I don't care what campus you're at, I don't care
Speaker 1: who you are, where you're watching this from. You cannot
Speaker 1: dismiss this message because I want to talk about anger,
Speaker 1: and then what comes to anger. Anger is a universal emotion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the message. You can say, Oh, I know
Speaker 1: three people that need this, I'm gonna send it to them. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. Anger is a universal emotion. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the issue of anger, the question is not if
Speaker 1: you are going to get angry. The question is when
Speaker 1: you get angry, what are you going to do when
Speaker 1: those feelings of rage well up inside of you? Oo
Speaker 1: house your anger? Today, everybody has to face this message today.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, you came in the world angry.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, not a single baby came into the world
Speaker 1: calm and collected, saying I'm not gonna yell. I would
Speaker 1: just slic some milk right now, please. No, you came
Speaker 1: into the world going screaming and raging, and now we're
Speaker 1: doing it as adults. What are we gonna do about
Speaker 1: this issue of anger? Look at your neighbors, say, I
Speaker 1: know this for you today. I know this is for
Speaker 1: you today. What do you do? What do you do
Speaker 1: when you get angry? Let's talk about it. We're just talking.
Speaker 1: What do you do when you get angry? Do you yell?
Speaker 1: You kick? You scream? You punch a hole in the wall?
Speaker 1: Who use profanity? Because don't answer? What? No? What? No? For?
Speaker 1: What do you do when you get out? You explode? Oh?
Speaker 1: Do you leave? Do you leave? Your stormtroopers? Just let you? Oh,
Speaker 1: don't stay at home? Shelters mess up by y'all stormtroopers
Speaker 1: because you couldn't go outside, you had nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you just go off and yell?
Speaker 1: I want to talk first to all of you erupts eruptors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because y'all listening to this message. Erupts, erupts, y'all are crazy,
Speaker 1: because whenever y'all get mad, we know about it, and
Speaker 1: we know it quickly. Because you explode, eruptors, y'all go off.
Speaker 1: You will throw a staple across the cubicle. You will
Speaker 1: throw a chair, you erupt and eruptors, y'all are funny
Speaker 1: because after you go off, you look back at yourself,
Speaker 1: once you've calmed down for a minute, and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, did I just do that? Did I just
Speaker 1: do that? Did I just walk up on stage and slap?
Speaker 1: Did I do that? Did I just what did I?
Speaker 1: Because once you come down, you realize what in the
Speaker 1: world did I just do? And I laugh at y'all.
Speaker 1: I laughed at y'all because you are crazy. You are
Speaker 1: crazy because you understand it is impossible for you to
Speaker 1: function and wisdom and anger at the same time. The
Speaker 1: a lot the Book of Proverbs. The Book of Proverbs
Speaker 1: is replete with scriptures about anger, about anger and how
Speaker 1: you handle it. I love this verse in Proverbs fourteen.
Speaker 1: It says people with understanding control their anger. A hot
Speaker 1: temper shows great foolishness. Translation, you are craig ray when
Speaker 1: you get angry. And I laugh at you erupts when
Speaker 1: you explode. I judge you erupts when you explode. I
Speaker 1: do you know why, Because I'm not an erupt I
Speaker 1: am what you call a stuffer and stuffers we are
Speaker 1: different than those erupters because stuffers whenever we get mad,
Speaker 1: we don't kick, we don't yell, we don't scream, We
Speaker 1: just calmly say. Even when you ask us, are you mad,
Speaker 1: we will look at you and go, no, I'm not mad. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I am fine, It's okay. It happens. And
Speaker 1: all while we're saying it, we are ruminating and rehearsing
Speaker 1: over every single thing that you did. We cannot believe
Speaker 1: you had the nerve and the audacity to do it.
Speaker 1: And we are smiling telling you I'm fine. But all
Speaker 1: the while we are pushing it down into the basement
Speaker 1: of our soul until it becomes a cantanguerous cesspool of bitterness,
Speaker 1: and we will isolate and pull away a mom all
Speaker 1: while we're smiling and saying I'm fine. Oh, and stuffers
Speaker 1: might be worse than eruptors because all that stuffing. Your
Speaker 1: physical body can't even handle the stuffing. Do your research.
Speaker 1: Scientists and the medical community will tell you that anger
Speaker 1: does more damage to your physical body than grief or anxiety.
Speaker 1: Anger will give you a heart attack, Anger will destroy
Speaker 1: your nervous system, Anger will mess up your blood pressure,
Speaker 1: anger will aid you. Oh yeah, you can forgive bout
Speaker 1: all that exfoliation. Just keep getting mad. You'll mess up
Speaker 1: your skin and your life. Stuffing down the anger and
Speaker 1: even erupters, and even stuffers become erupts. So I have
Speaker 1: the inevitability of anger, and I can't rupt, and I
Speaker 1: can't stuff, Then what do I do with it? If
Speaker 1: it's coming? I've learned that anger it's much like having
Speaker 1: a toddler in the car how me. You know you
Speaker 1: don't want that toddler behind the steering wheel eruptors. You
Speaker 1: also don't want that toddler in the trunk stuffers. What
Speaker 1: you want is to put that toddler in a car seat,
Speaker 1: buckled in and periodically check in the rearview mirror to
Speaker 1: make sure it is in its proper place. God says,
Speaker 1: I want you to use that emotion that I gave
Speaker 1: and created, anger to be in its proper place. Anger
Speaker 1: has a proper place. But if anger is not in
Speaker 1: its proper place, hear me, you will destroy your destiny.
Speaker 1: You will mess up the call of God on your life.
Speaker 1: You will forfeit your purpose if you don't get your
Speaker 1: anger in its proper place. You don't believe me. Ask Moses,
Speaker 1: who missed out on a promised land that he was
Speaker 1: able to see but not enter into. Why because of
Speaker 1: the frustration, the agitation that made him go off. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering today, are you forfeiting your promise because you haven't
Speaker 1: put anger in its proper place? I love the Apostle Paul.
Speaker 1: Y'all good. I love the Apostle Paul and Ephesian chapter four.
Speaker 1: The Apostle Paul, in brevity, actually gives us the biblical
Speaker 1: worldview of anger. In Ephesian chapter four, verse twenty six.
Speaker 1: What Paul says, he says, be angry and do not sin.
Speaker 1: He says, do not let the sun go down on
Speaker 1: your wrath. In other words, when it comes to anger
Speaker 1: from a Biblical perspective, the goal is not to get
Speaker 1: rid of the anger. God does not call for you
Speaker 1: to just stop getting angry. No, because he just said,
Speaker 1: be angry still a holy ghost. Two step on that
Speaker 1: right there. You can get angry, he said, But don't
Speaker 1: let that anger lead you to sin. In other words,
Speaker 1: anger has its proper place because if you never get
Speaker 1: angry about anything, then you don't love anything. You don't
Speaker 1: love anything. As a matter of fact, if you want
Speaker 1: to check what you really love, watch what you get
Speaker 1: angry about. Whatever you get angry about is the sign
Speaker 1: of the thing that you really love. If you care
Speaker 1: about your image, anytime somebody attexts your image, you're gonna
Speaker 1: explode because that's what you love. Whatever you love is
Speaker 1: the thing that will get a reaction out of you
Speaker 1: and get angry. So Christians aren't called to not have anger.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, gusts, I want you to
Speaker 1: have anger, but use anger in its proper place. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, there are things we should see
Speaker 1: in the world that actually make us angry. We should
Speaker 1: be angry about poverty. We should be angry about injustice,
Speaker 1: we should be angry about people who are abused and marginalized.
Speaker 1: But we shouldn't get angry just to get angry. We
Speaker 1: should get angry and say, God, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 1: light in the midst of darkness. I'm gonna do something
Speaker 1: about it. I'm gonna make a change in the earth. God,
Speaker 1: you didn't call me to just come to church and
Speaker 1: listen to sermons and same songs off a screen like
Speaker 1: it's Christian karaoke. No, you called me to bring the
Speaker 1: Kingdom on Heaven into the earth and affect every sphere
Speaker 1: of society and that step into let that anger push
Speaker 1: you to do something. Oh, don't you forget your God?
Speaker 1: That one day cleared a whole temple because they were
Speaker 1: making it difficult for people to worship God. And he said,
Speaker 1: don't you know my house will be a house of prayer.
Speaker 1: Don't you ever stop people from coming in the house
Speaker 1: of God and lifting up my name. I will turn
Speaker 1: over tables and kick people out. I get angry sometime,
Speaker 1: so this is not a call to passivity. Doll says,
Speaker 1: you can get angry, but make sure that anger is
Speaker 1: in its proper place. Woo. Anger is interesting because what
Speaker 1: makes you angry doesn't make me angry. What makes her
Speaker 1: angry doesn't make her angry. This is what triguing about
Speaker 1: anger is that it is ubiquitous, but it is unique.
Speaker 1: And that's why you have to understand it. Because a
Speaker 1: lot of people will think, well, if they hadn't said it,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done it. Now they don't want to
Speaker 1: cut me off. Now you saw I could have died,
Speaker 1: and then the fundy whenever you get angry about someonever
Speaker 1: you go off. We always try to blame the external factors,
Speaker 1: but if it's really the external factor. How come what
Speaker 1: made you go off didn't make somebody else go off. See,
Speaker 1: this is what we don't understand that anger is a
Speaker 1: secondary emotion. Whenever somebody goes off, it's really about what
Speaker 1: they're going off about. It's always something deeper. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, when it comes to anger, you can't
Speaker 1: look at anger. You have to look under it because
Speaker 1: there's always something deeper. Which brings me to my text today.
Speaker 1: Who all of that was intro? I'm confused. I'm confused
Speaker 1: about naming because this is a man who has a leprosy,
Speaker 1: the incurable skin disease of leprosy, the disease that there
Speaker 1: is no cure, the disease that starts off in your
Speaker 1: skin and spreads all over your entire body. A disease
Speaker 1: that had social ramifications because as soon as you had it,
Speaker 1: you had to isolate yourself from people. You had to
Speaker 1: tell people, I'm unclean. You were stripped away from your family,
Speaker 1: you were stripped away from everybody you loved, and there
Speaker 1: was no cure for it. This is what Naman has
Speaker 1: and the prophet Elisha says. For you to be cured
Speaker 1: and healed, all you gotta go do is take seven
Speaker 1: dips in the Jordan River. That's the cure. And his
Speaker 1: reaction to the cure. What is to go off in
Speaker 1: a range? Come on, contextualize it. Can you imagine going
Speaker 1: to the doctor's office and you got a call and
Speaker 1: doctor says that it's not a big deal, he's just
Speaker 1: gonna have to take this medicine. Go to nurses station.
Speaker 1: She'll give you a prescription two times a day. And
Speaker 1: you walk out the doctor's office grabs two times a day.
Speaker 1: Are you serious, Namen? Shouldn't you be more concerned about
Speaker 1: the hill? What are you going off about? Don't look
Speaker 1: at anger? Look under him? And I think the blues
Speaker 1: clue to Naman's anger and his rage is in the
Speaker 1: very first verse. It says that Naman was highly regarded.
Speaker 1: He was a commander in the army. Naman had the
Speaker 1: thing that everybody in our world seems to be fighting for,
Speaker 1: name and had status. Who naming was the man? This
Speaker 1: was not a regular dude. Please understand, Naming was the
Speaker 1: man that everybody when they walked in a room, they said,
Speaker 1: there is, there is, there is, Oh my godness, do
Speaker 1: you think I'll take a picture this? What's the name?
Speaker 1: And he was on the cover of every wheaties box.
Speaker 1: He is the one that every kid wanted to be like,
Speaker 1: every man desired to be like every woman wanted name it,
Speaker 1: naming what's the man? He had status. He had a
Speaker 1: blue check next to his name, naming was the man
Speaker 1: and the Bible lets you know right up front about
Speaker 1: his status and who he was. And I think his
Speaker 1: status is connected to his rage. Isn't it funny today
Speaker 1: that everybody seems to be obsessed with status. Oh, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to either be the somebody, beat the somebody, or
Speaker 1: be connected to the somebody. Everybody wants status. Everybody wants
Speaker 1: to be known. Everybody wants to be the person that
Speaker 1: everybody looks at and goes, oh, there they are. We
Speaker 1: are obsessed with status. If you don't believe it, talk
Speaker 1: to a kid today. There used to be a time
Speaker 1: in the history of a world. You talk to a kid,
Speaker 1: you said, what do you want to be when you
Speaker 1: grow up? They'll tak you firemen, school teacher. Ask the
Speaker 1: kid today. They don't care famous, just name. Do you
Speaker 1: see my TikTok video? We're just famous. They don't care.
Speaker 1: Whatever will get views, they will climb on crates, they
Speaker 1: will go crazy in the class, do a prank. As
Speaker 1: long as I can get some status, as long as
Speaker 1: I can get acknowledged. Not just kids, adults too, thinking
Speaker 1: if I just got that house, if I just got
Speaker 1: that job, I would be somebody, because we buy into
Speaker 1: the live that if I just reached that place, whatever
Speaker 1: that place is, then maybe I won't have any issues.
Speaker 1: Maybe I won't have any problems. But Naming is a
Speaker 1: beautiful picture that status and success does not stop suffering.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when you get successful, you
Speaker 1: have to be careful because success has a way of
Speaker 1: sedating you to the point that whenever you go through suffering,
Speaker 1: it's generally not the suffering that destroys you. It's the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't think you should be going through
Speaker 1: what you're going through. Oh, Naming had the status. Naming
Speaker 1: was the man until one day he came home, perhaps
Speaker 1: after fighting the battle, and he's in the bathroom and
Speaker 1: he takes off his armor. You know how you do
Speaker 1: when it's just you and the house in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: he's looking in the mirror. Who's the man? Name Man,
Speaker 1: who's the man? Namen? You know how you do when
Speaker 1: it's just you by yourself, and as he's looking and flexing,
Speaker 1: perhaps he turns his back to go to his steam
Speaker 1: shower and he sees us a spot on this again,
Speaker 1: and the moment he sees the spot, he knows what
Speaker 1: it is. Perhaps he falls to his knees in his
Speaker 1: bathroom trying to figure out, how can I be such
Speaker 1: a valiant soldier? And now I've gotten let proceed? How
Speaker 1: did this happen to me? How do I have a spot?
Speaker 1: Can I tell you? One of the first things I
Speaker 1: saw in this text that you have to get today
Speaker 1: is that everybody's got a spot. Everybody's got a spot.
Speaker 1: I don't care how much money you have. I don't
Speaker 1: care how saved you are. You could have floated into
Speaker 1: a campus and had manner for breakfast. Every single person
Speaker 1: has a spot, some area in your life that makes
Speaker 1: you get on your knees and say God, I need you,
Speaker 1: some area in your life that makes you say, God,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with me? How can I be so
Speaker 1: oh good over here? But I got this issue over here.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got a spot, and don't let anybody's success for you.
Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy? How you can be so good in
Speaker 1: the boardroom horrible at home, so good with balancing the budget,
Speaker 1: but can't stop over eating. You can communicate to thousands,
Speaker 1: but then not communicate to the one person that you love.
Speaker 1: Every single person has gotten a spot. That's why biblically,
Speaker 1: leprosy is a metaphor for sin, because it is an
Speaker 1: issue that starts in your flesh. It starts eating itself.
Speaker 1: And all of us had issues with our flesh, things
Speaker 1: that we say, God, you are not through with me yet.
Speaker 1: Everybody's God a spot. And now this warrior is weeping
Speaker 1: because he's got a spot. And perhaps his wife comes
Speaker 1: in and sees her husband for the first time in
Speaker 1: the fetal position, crying, Gord, what is wrong. But before
Speaker 1: she touches him, she sees it and she says, it's okay, baby,
Speaker 1: it hasn't spread it yet. It's okay, it's okay. We'll
Speaker 1: do something. Just just put on your armor, just cover
Speaker 1: it up so nobody will see. Because isn't that what
Speaker 1: we do? Oh, we love to cover up our issues
Speaker 1: so nobody will see what we're fay saying. We love
Speaker 1: to post better than we actually live in because we
Speaker 1: don't want anybody to see our spot. He said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll cover it up. But I think the walls in
Speaker 1: Nayman's house were thin. They had to be thin because
Speaker 1: this servant girl from Israel. Bible says, she's just a
Speaker 1: servant girl. We don't even know her name. This servant
Speaker 1: girl one day, perhaps says she's mopping the floors. She
Speaker 1: goes to Namon's wife, and maybe she sees her crying,
Speaker 1: and this servant girl goes, I know it's not my
Speaker 1: place to speak, and I know you just brought me
Speaker 1: here to mop the floors. But I'm telling you, if naming,
Speaker 1: we'll go see the prophet in Samaria. I know he'll
Speaker 1: be healed when I get to Heaven. I want to
Speaker 1: meet this girl right here. I want to meet the
Speaker 1: servant girl from Israel. You know why I want to
Speaker 1: meet her because she might not have a name, she's nameless,
Speaker 1: but she is not faithless. Did you hear what this
Speaker 1: girl said. She said, I'm telling you, if you will,
Speaker 1: just go see the prophet in Israel. She did not
Speaker 1: say he might be healed. She didn't say it's possible, purchase.
Speaker 1: She said, no, no, no, I know he'll be healed
Speaker 1: if he goes and sees the prophet This girl was
Speaker 1: a slave girl from Israel, but she knew the God
Speaker 1: of Israel. She had a history with God to know
Speaker 1: that if there's a situation that looks impossible or incurable,
Speaker 1: there is a God that you need to call on.
Speaker 1: A God that opens up blind eyes, a God that
Speaker 1: opens up deaf ears, a God that can split a
Speaker 1: red said, my God that can do the miraculous and
Speaker 1: the impossible. I don't know who this is for today,
Speaker 1: but I need somebody to give God some praise. If
Speaker 1: you know that he can steal through miracles, he can
Speaker 1: steal do the things that everybody said was impossible. We
Speaker 1: serve a wonder working, miracle working dad. Oh see, y'all
Speaker 1: give me that golf clap, like you don't believe it.
Speaker 1: But I wish somebody that would really testify that's ever
Speaker 1: been in a situation in your lives where it was
Speaker 1: impossible what the doctors told you, There's no way, But somehow,
Speaker 1: some way God stepped in and showed you that. I'm
Speaker 1: praying to the impossible. I'm so thankful the miracles are
Speaker 1: not relegated to the past. Then he still does miracles today. Wow,
Speaker 1: look at this serving girl. This girl started the whole miracle.
Speaker 1: If she didn't speak up, Nayman doesn't get his miracle
Speaker 1: she started. Oh that's what I want to tell you too.
Speaker 1: Not only do you have to understand that everybody's got
Speaker 1: a spot, you gotta know that servants always start miracles.
Speaker 1: Servants always start miracles. The reason people miss out on
Speaker 1: miracles often is because they don't ever want to get
Speaker 1: low and serve. But I'm telling you, servants always start miracles. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad Love Week is happening. You ought to
Speaker 1: be racing to sign up for Love Week. You know why,
Speaker 1: because servants always start the miracles. The miracles are not
Speaker 1: in high, lofty places. The miracles are always in lowly places.
Speaker 1: You gotta look low. We missed out on miracles because
Speaker 1: we're looking in the wrong place. You gotta get low.
Speaker 1: Come here. Don't you understand that God could not redeem
Speaker 1: us from heaven. That's why Jesus had to get low
Speaker 1: and put on human skin and sit where we sat
Speaker 1: and feel what we feel. You know why, because servants
Speaker 1: always start the miracles. The King of Glory started not robbery,
Speaker 1: to empty himself of divinity and come down from heaven
Speaker 1: to earth and your Savior, my God, and your God.
Speaker 1: He washed disciples feet. You know Peter had nasty feet.
Speaker 1: Look at our God. He got low. Why because servants
Speaker 1: always start the miracles. Maybe you're missing out on the
Speaker 1: miracle because you become so narcissistic and so consumed with you.
Speaker 1: You're not serving somebody else. But if you would serve,
Speaker 1: you would see the miracle. This girl started the whole miracle.
Speaker 1: Be careful who you look down on, because you don't
Speaker 1: know where God will send the miracle to you from.
Speaker 1: Here's how I know name is he was bad. He
Speaker 1: say all know who he listened. He listened. That's how
Speaker 1: I know his leprosy was bad because he listened to
Speaker 1: the girl that he would have dismissed. He listened to her.
Speaker 1: And I love that. Life will do that. Life has
Speaker 1: a way of humbling you to a place where you
Speaker 1: will have to listen to some people that you would
Speaker 1: have dismissed and looked past. Life will hit you with
Speaker 1: some stuff. You was so cool coming in places with
Speaker 1: sunglasses on inside till life hits you in the gut.
Speaker 1: And now Naming is listening to the servant, And I
Speaker 1: love it because he doesn't do it at first, he
Speaker 1: doesn't go straight to a Licia's house. I wish you
Speaker 1: would have, but it takes a while, especially when you've
Speaker 1: been in pride and you've been pretentious for so long.
Speaker 1: He actually goes to the King of Israel first, with
Speaker 1: all kinds of gold and silver, and he comes to
Speaker 1: the king visery with an official letter. Hello, King of Israel,
Speaker 1: got my official letter. You see my gold, you see
Speaker 1: my bitny chariot six horsepower, And he's trying to buy
Speaker 1: his healing. And I love it because when he gives
Speaker 1: the letter to the King of Israel, the King of Israel,
Speaker 1: I didn't read it because I gave you just the
Speaker 1: abbreviated version. The King of Israel goes off, he said,
Speaker 1: what am i God? I can't do a miracle. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love that. The King of Israel he
Speaker 1: had the title, but Elisha, who was the prophet in Israel,
Speaker 1: he had the authority. The King of Israel had the position,
Speaker 1: but Elisha had the power. Can I just parandemically pause
Speaker 1: right there and tell somebody who's seeking after a title,
Speaker 1: don't seek after the title. Ask God to give you
Speaker 1: some authority. Don't seek after a position after God. They
Speaker 1: give you some holy ghost power. Because if you've got
Speaker 1: the power, God and give you the position. If you're
Speaker 1: not the authority, God will give you a title. The
Speaker 1: King of Israel had the position, but he had no power,
Speaker 1: so he thought it was a catastrophe. And Elisha said, no,
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity to me. He'll know there's a
Speaker 1: prophet in Israel. So now watch this. Naming has to
Speaker 1: go to a licious house, now where he should have
Speaker 1: gone in the first place. Can you see him, who bentley, chariot,
Speaker 1: nice armor, going to a licious house? You know Elisha
Speaker 1: lived in the hood. Oh yeah, And I can see
Speaker 1: people walking watching name and coming town. They said, what
Speaker 1: is naming doing in this part of town? Gets all
Speaker 1: the way to a licious house. And I love it.
Speaker 1: Because Elisia's servant sees naming pull up. He's like, wow,
Speaker 1: it's name is up there. Do you know how many
Speaker 1: followers he has? Oh my goodness, Elisha, he looks better
Speaker 1: in person that he does on the ground. Elisha's like,
Speaker 1: calm down, calm down, don't be impressed with all that.
Speaker 1: You don't even know. He is falling apart underneath all
Speaker 1: that art. Don't let the thin veneer of success, fool you.
Speaker 1: His life is falling apart. He says, well, what we
Speaker 1: gotta do something? He's here. What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: He says, uh, go tell him to watch seven Times
Speaker 1: in the Jordan. He'll be cleansed. At your service. The
Speaker 1: you're not gonna say anything to him, No, you go
Speaker 1: tell him then, if you watch the seven Times in
Speaker 1: the Jordan, he'll be cleansed. Did you know who that is?
Speaker 1: I do, but I'm also watching Law and Order, So
Speaker 1: go tell him what I said. Servant starts going out,
Speaker 1: and she's like, and put your phone away? How they
Speaker 1: have it? Out? Goes up to naming. Can you see naming?
Speaker 1: He still in his high horse. I just sert like, hey,
Speaker 1: beautiful chariot. Hey uh Namon uh. Elisha said, if you
Speaker 1: just gonna wash seven times, you'll be cleansed. Namon says,
Speaker 1: excuse me, look, don't kill the messenger. Bro. He just
Speaker 1: he told me to tell you, if you go wash
Speaker 1: seven times, you'll be cleansed. And naming goes? Is he
Speaker 1: not gonna come see me? Just? He noful who I am?
Speaker 1: He does, but you know you know he's a prophety
Speaker 1: praying Namon looks at his side. He's watching Law and Order.
Speaker 1: That's what he does before he prays. Okay, just the
Speaker 1: Bible says the naming turned off. You had a rage.
Speaker 1: He was so upset name and why are you upset?
Speaker 1: He's upset for the same reason you're upset because life
Speaker 1: is not turning out the way he thought. He's upset
Speaker 1: because of the chasm between his experience and what he
Speaker 1: was expecting. And any time there's a gap between your
Speaker 1: experience and your expectations, sometimes rage and anger it's the reaction.
Speaker 1: I know you can't say anything right now, but I
Speaker 1: know there's some of you that since twenty twenty, there
Speaker 1: has been such an anger and such a rage, and
Speaker 1: you're lashing out on other people and you are added God,
Speaker 1: not just because of what's happening, because of what you thought.
Speaker 1: And you're about to do what Naman did and turn
Speaker 1: off and go off and say forget it. God. I'm tired,
Speaker 1: and I still lost the business. I came to church
Speaker 1: and I still went through the divorce. I was there.
Speaker 1: I dedicated my child to you. Garda strung out on drudge,
Speaker 1: You're about to turn off in the rage, and God
Speaker 1: told me to tell you, please, don't go off, Please
Speaker 1: don't go off. If you go off, you're gonna miss
Speaker 1: out on the greatest miracle. If you go off, you're
Speaker 1: gonna miss out on the thing that God wants to
Speaker 1: do in you and through you. Don't go off. Naman
Speaker 1: was willing to sacrifice his miracle because of the rage,
Speaker 1: because life didn't turn out the way he thought. Thank
Speaker 1: God for the servant. Servants always start the miracles. Now
Speaker 1: the servant stops naming in his rage and says, naming,
Speaker 1: if he would have asked you to do something great,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you have done it? Naming? Why can't you do
Speaker 1: something so simple? Do you see the brilliance of what
Speaker 1: the servant is trying to get naming to see? Don't
Speaker 1: forget naming is a great man. If Elisha would have
Speaker 1: told him to go kill a thousand men to get
Speaker 1: his healing, he would have done it. If he would
Speaker 1: have told him to go fight a lion and rip
Speaker 1: his jaw in have, he would have done it. He
Speaker 1: was a great man. He would have done anything that
Speaker 1: he could have gotten the credit for. If he could
Speaker 1: have paid for the healing, he would have done it.
Speaker 1: He already had the gold, He already had the silver.
Speaker 1: But he was trying to get him to understand this
Speaker 1: powerful principle called grace, called salvation. How many No, you
Speaker 1: cannot purchase grace. You cannot buyas how va should. It
Speaker 1: is a free gift that you have to receive. It
Speaker 1: is a gift that was paid for about the precious
Speaker 1: blood of Jesus Christ. You can't buy this, you can't
Speaker 1: earn this, you can't work for this. You just gotta
Speaker 1: receive it and be all be here. Wow, hear me.
Speaker 1: Today some of you are trying to earn a gift
Speaker 1: that has already been given to you, and naming the
Speaker 1: great warrior, naming who could scale a mountain and kill armies,
Speaker 1: couldn't do something so simple as split splash, I was
Speaker 1: taken a bath. You laugh, But I see it all
Speaker 1: the time. You know how many people reject Christianity not
Speaker 1: because it's too difficult, but because it seems too easy.
Speaker 1: Oh that's it. Just confess with my mouth, believe in
Speaker 1: my heart that He's the Lord, and just like ah,
Speaker 1: everything's washed away. That's it. Yeah, Nah, nah man, I
Speaker 1: got at least fast for a week, I got a
Speaker 1: least memberize the book of Limitticus say they came here
Speaker 1: that easy. Isn't it funny how we make some of
Speaker 1: the most simple things complex? And Naming was about to
Speaker 1: find out the last thing. I want to tell you
Speaker 1: that simple obedience is strength. Your strength is not in
Speaker 1: your ability and your degrees and your money. Your strength
Speaker 1: is directly connected to your ability to obey what God,
Speaker 1: don't you? Simple obedience is strength? Thank God. Naming turned around,
Speaker 1: he did with somebody who's watching this message has to do?
Speaker 1: Humbled himself said, I gotta forget about what I thought.
Speaker 1: I gotta obey, even if it doesn't makes sense. And
Speaker 1: here's Naming going down to the Jordan River, the dirty
Speaker 1: Jordan River. He was fighting all the way, he said,
Speaker 1: getting there, clear of water, No obey, Your strength is
Speaker 1: in your obedience. Namon had to get off his high horse,
Speaker 1: take off all that armor, covering up his skin that
Speaker 1: was already falling off. Can't you see the crowd looking
Speaker 1: Is that, nameMan, I didn't know you had leprosy? Wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't know? Is that? He can hear them talking
Speaker 1: as he gets in the water. I can see him fighting.
Speaker 1: His pride was fighting him all the way. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's you today, and maybe that's why you haven't surrendered
Speaker 1: your life to Jesus because of pride. But you got
Speaker 1: to get to a place in your life where you
Speaker 1: care more about what God thinks about you than you
Speaker 1: care about the opinions and the applause and the accolates
Speaker 1: of other people. Humble yourself, naming. I know it hurts.
Speaker 1: Simple obedience is strength. It takes off all that armor.
Speaker 1: He gets in the dirty Chortan river who he has
Speaker 1: to dip seven times, which means he can't even stay
Speaker 1: in the shallow. He's gotta go deep as he gets
Speaker 1: sin he dips the first time. Come on, put yourself there.
Speaker 1: You know what you would have done? He starts chicking. Oh,
Speaker 1: nothing's changed, Come on in there. What we do? And
Speaker 1: then how we sometimes bargain with God? All right, God,
Speaker 1: I came to church. Where's the race? All right? God?
Speaker 1: I did it. What you produce that is religion, That's
Speaker 1: not relationship religion, says God. I produce. Now you produce
Speaker 1: that is religion, not relationship. Relationship, says I trust you
Speaker 1: you are God and I am. I gotta obey, even
Speaker 1: when it doesn't make sense. I gotta obey. Even when
Speaker 1: I don't see evidence of it. I gotta do what
Speaker 1: you told me to do because my strength is not
Speaker 1: in my cognitive aptitude. My strength is in my obedience.
Speaker 1: And you said, dimp seventh time. He dipped the second time,
Speaker 1: nothing happened. He dipped the third time, nothing happened. He
Speaker 1: dipped the fourth time, nothing happened. He dipped the fifth time,
Speaker 1: nothing happened. You know, he wanted to quit on the
Speaker 1: fifth time. But just like some of you, you gotta
Speaker 1: understand that God is not Amazon Prime, and just because
Speaker 1: it didn't happen on your time schedule, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that his word is not true. You gotta do what
Speaker 1: he told you to do. He dipped the sixth times.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was ready to walk away. Oh but
Speaker 1: I thank God he didn't quit on that sixth time,
Speaker 1: because the Bible says when he dipped the seventh time,
Speaker 1: he got up and his skin was completely healed. It
Speaker 1: was restored, and it proved that God still can't do
Speaker 1: the impossible. God still can't heal. Then terrible, and he'll
Speaker 1: know it. Nobody take ten seconds and give on God
Speaker 1: some praise, and there's hi right, I'm done. Everybody stand,
Speaker 1: everybody stand watch this. Don't miss the miracle. Don't miss
Speaker 1: the miracles. Watch when he got up the seven time.
Speaker 1: It says his skin was restored and became like a
Speaker 1: little child. Don't miss that. It's two miracles. It's one
Speaker 1: thing for my skin to be restored to the way
Speaker 1: it was before. It's a whole another thing. It took
Speaker 1: go all the way back too, when I was a
Speaker 1: little child. Wow, look at the greatness of our car.
Speaker 1: He doesn't just restore, he says, I cannot only restore,
Speaker 1: but I can reverse and take it back better than
Speaker 1: it was before. Oh. I don't just want to restore
Speaker 1: the marriage. I can take it back to how it
Speaker 1: was when you were a dayton talking about girl you.
Speaker 1: I will take it back looking, naming, looking like a
Speaker 1: little gerber baby. Skin healed, And the power of the
Speaker 1: text is not just that his skin was restored to
Speaker 1: being a little child. Hear me, His heart was, Oh
Speaker 1: if we could just have that childlike obedience. It says,
Speaker 1: whatever you say, I'll do it. Stop trying to flex
Speaker 1: and show who you are. Simple obedience his strength. Naman says,
Speaker 1: Now I know the God of Israel. He's the living
Speaker 1: and true God, I'm so glad that he did not
Speaker 1: allow his rage and his anger and going off to
Speaker 1: stop him from missing the greatest miracle of his life.
Speaker 1: Hear me today talking to somebody who's anger is stopping
Speaker 1: you from receiving the greatest miracle. Maybe you didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that's what it was. And you've been wondering why
Speaker 1: you've been lashing out on other people, why you've been
Speaker 1: so on edge and going off. Maybe this message gave
Speaker 1: words to an internal feeling. Hear me today. I'll say
Speaker 1: it again. We collectively went through trauma together. Many of
Speaker 1: us are on the edge, filled with rage. But don't
Speaker 1: let that anger make you miss out on your miracle. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a cost to going on. You will miss out
Speaker 1: on the greatest miracle of your life. Oh, I feel
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit in here. Maybe you're saying I have
Speaker 1: a right to be angry. You don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying the hurt, I'm not denying the betrayal.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking is it worth missing out on your miracle?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, who started this miracle? The servant girl
Speaker 1: from where Israel? Don't forget who name it is. This
Speaker 1: is a pagan name. It does not worship the God
Speaker 1: of Israel. He is the enemy. He's got a slave
Speaker 1: girl from Israel in his house. Scholars and theologists will
Speaker 1: tell you that it is most likely that this girl's
Speaker 1: family was probably killed and she was taken captive at
Speaker 1: the command of naming. Do you realize this girl had
Speaker 1: every right, soon as naming got leprosy to say, that's
Speaker 1: what you get to God, be the glory that you
Speaker 1: now have leprosy. She had every right to say, Dad's
Speaker 1: paying you back for what you did to me. You
Speaker 1: took me from my family, you took me from my home.
Speaker 1: That's what you get. But she did this perfect girl said,
Speaker 1: if you would just go to the prophet, she'll be healed.
Speaker 1: Who offers the remedy of healing to their enemy? I
Speaker 1: don't know of anybody that does that. And for a
Speaker 1: savior who hung on a cross, said, Father, forgiveting, They
Speaker 1: don't know what. And if he forgave you, what right
Speaker 1: do you have to hold onto that anger? What right
Speaker 1: do you have to not forgive? As every head be bound?
Speaker 1: I was close Father, Thank you today for your word. God,
Speaker 1: thank you that you did not respond in anger and
Speaker 1: rage when it was our sin that put you on
Speaker 1: the cross. But yet it was your forgiveness, your blood
Speaker 1: that was shed, that gave us the gift of salvation.
Speaker 1: So Father, we can't do this on our own. Lord,
Speaker 1: we need the Holy Spirit to help us to live
Speaker 1: the values of the Kingdom and not this earth. Let
Speaker 1: us respond with love. Let us not take the easy
Speaker 1: route to love those that love us. Let us not
Speaker 1: take the evil route to do evil to those who
Speaker 1: love us. But Father, let us reflect your character, which
Speaker 1: is to love our enemies. God, I pray today that
Speaker 1: you would heal hearts of anger, hearts of rage and bitterness.
Speaker 1: Let healing take place now, even the anger that's affecting
Speaker 1: physical bodies. Let your healing take place now. Heads are
Speaker 1: still bound, ours are still close. If you're here today
Speaker 1: and you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, whether you're
Speaker 1: watching Epham or any location, I'd love to give you
Speaker 1: that opportunity. Heads are still bound, houses still close. Hear me,
Speaker 1: You don't have to earn this free gift of salvation.
Speaker 1: Naman was trying to buy it. You cannot buy this gift.
Speaker 1: You just have to receive it. So stop trying to
Speaker 1: get yourself together before you give your life to him.
Speaker 1: You can't get yourself together. That's why you need a savior.
Speaker 1: So it heads about ho's closed. I don't care. If
Speaker 1: just one person you'd be worth my flight from Dallas,
Speaker 1: Texas today. If you're saying Pastor Roberty, include me in
Speaker 1: this closing prayer. I need to give my life to Jesus.
Speaker 1: If that's you what you lift up your hand across
Speaker 1: every location, even at home, right there in your living room,
Speaker 1: say today's my day. I'm giving it my life. Just
Speaker 1: lift it up high enough and long enough to where
Speaker 1: I can see it. Thank you God, Thank you God.
Speaker 1: I see hands all over this place today. Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. Come on, let's pray this closing prayer.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna say it as one big family. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's say it. Say Jesus, I need you. I cannot
Speaker 1: do life without you. Jesus. I know I'm a great sinner,
Speaker 1: but I also know you're a great savior. So today
Speaker 1: I surrender. I confess with my mouth and believe in
Speaker 1: my heart that you, Jesus, are the son of the
Speaker 1: Living God. You died for me, you got up from
Speaker 1: the grave for me, and you're coming back for me.
Speaker 1: But until that day, I am walking with you. All
Speaker 1: that I am is yours in Jesus's name. Come on, somebody,
Speaker 1: say hey man and give God the best hang type
Speaker 1: of praise that you've got. Oh, come on, you could
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