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I promise you 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.720 will make you feel right at home. These are the 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.120 finest people in all of Houston, Texas, right here at Lakewist. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.240 So you come out and be a part of one 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.120 of our services. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.120 I like to get started with something funny each week, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.160 and I heard about this hill billy family. They'd never 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.359 left their small town, never watched TV, never listen to 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.960 the radio. But one day they decided to take a 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.720 vacation to New York City. And on the first day, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.560 the father took his son to see one of the 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.080 huge buildings, and they were so impressed by it that 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.280 they were especially intrigued by the elevator. They didn't know 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.760 what it was, and they saw this older woman walk 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.000 up and punch the button, and all of a sudden, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.560 the walls opened up. She stepped inside this little room. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.680 When the walls closed, they were standing there just kind 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.320 of contemplating what they had just seen. Well, a few 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.720 moments later, those walls opened back up again, and outwalked 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.280 this beautiful twenty four year old woman. The son, almost 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.760 in disbelief, he said, Dad, what happened? Dad said, I 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.400 don't know, son, but go get your mama. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.960 All right, hold up your bible, say it like you 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.360 mean it. Ready, this is my Bible. I am what 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:19.239 it says. I am. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.480 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.280 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.639 talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.400 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.360 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. We've been 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.920 talking about how important it is that we face the 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.920 truth about ourselves and not go around making excuses for 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.280 our behavior. It's so easy to want to pass the 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.920 blame and to try to just justify the way we are. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.000 But as long as we're not taking responsibility, we're not 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.720 going to experience God's best. People today just live on 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.800 the surface. They never really look inside and get honest 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.320 with themselves. In other words, they don't ever get down 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.320 to the root of the problem. They just deal with 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.800 the fruit. They're negative, they can't get along in relationships, 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.440 they've got low self esteem, and so they're always trying 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.640 to fix their behavior. They're always trying to fix the 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.000 bad fruit. And that's good that they're trying but many 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.680 times that's only temporary, because as long as we've got 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.120 a bad root, we're gonna continue to produce bad fruit. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.800 And the scripture here in Hebrews twelve, verse fifteen, it 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.919 talks about how we should not let a root of 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.719 bitterness spring forth and contaminate our whole lives. I think 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.240 of it like a weed. You can go out and 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.080 pull that weed all day long. But if you're just 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.840 breaking it off at the surface and you're not really 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.400 getting down to the roots, then in a couple of 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.279 days you're gonna have that same weed to deal with again. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.560 And I'm challenging us today to go deeper and not 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.839 just look at what we do. We need to ask ourselves, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.760 why do I do this? Why am I always so defensive? 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.800 Why do the smallest things set me off? Or why 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.080 do I go around feeling like I always have to 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.560 prove myself to everybody. When we really get to the 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.480 root and start dealing with the source, then we can change. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.040 Then we can get free. Now. I heard about this 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.840 man that owned a bunch of horses, and one day 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.120 one of these horses accidentally kicked a wood fence and 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.680 scraped its leg very badly. Just tore that leg up, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.839 and so the men took the horse to his barn 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 and he cleaned the wound up and bandaged that leg 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.440 real good. Now, a couple of weeks later, he noticed 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.000 that the horse was still being very bothered by that leg, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.800 so he called his veterinarian up and they got the 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.720 horse started on some antibotics, and he began to do 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.719 much better. But a month or two went by and 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.120 he noticed that that wound just still had not healed up. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.760 Matter of fact, it looked worse than ever, and so 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.880 he started him on some more antibotics, and he was 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.640 fined for a few weeks. But then it happened all 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.240 over again. The wound just wouldn't healed up. And this 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.479 happened like three or four times over the course of 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.960 that year. Finally, this guy loaded up his horse and 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.960 he took him down to the veterinarian's clinic. He knew 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.880 he had to go deeper. He knew he had to 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.039 find out why this wound wouldn't heal, And so the 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.599 veterinarian put the horse under anesthesia and he began to 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.159 examine the wound. And while he was digging around, he 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.599 reached in there and all of a sudden, he pulled 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.640 out this big chunk of wood about the size of 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.799 a golf ball that had been buried way up inside 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.160 the horse's leg. So every time that horse went off 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:50.040 the antibotics, that infection just kept coming back. See, really, 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.240 they had been treating the symptoms rather than treating the 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.160 true source. And this is what we do. Many times, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.640 we just tried to fix the surface things. Well, let 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.240 me just clean up my behavior, let me just turn 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.440 over a new leaf, and I'm gonna try to start 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.799 being more friendly. I'm gonna try to not manipulate people anymore, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.800 or I'm gonna try to not get so angry and 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.880 get so upset. And again, it's good that we're trying, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.840 but so often, just like in this situation, we're not 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.920 dealing with the real source. And so no matter how 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.400 much we try, that issue just keeps coming back. Now, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.840 we've got to learn to get to the real source. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.640 And we need to examine our lives and let's find 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.200 the areas that we constantly struggle in. Is it really 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.160 our spouse at fault, is it really our circumstances, or 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.880 could it be that we have something like this horse, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.760 something that we're not dealing with is causing us to 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:49.120 quote be infected, and this is especially important in relationships. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.560 A lot of people today have a root of rejection. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.880 They've been through hurts in the past, somebody did them wrong, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.240 and rather than letting it go, they hold on to 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.240 it and it ends up poisoning their entire life. I 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.040 know people that have a root of insecurity. This causes 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.240 them to go around all defensive and they're always trying 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.400 to prove to everybody who they are. And sure, we 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.680 can try to correct all these things on the surface, 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.880 but really that's just like trying to put a bandage 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.000 on that horse's leg is gonna keep coming back until 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.880 we get to the real source. I knew this couple. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.880 They were always having problems in their marriage, and the 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.960 main thing was they just had a terrible time communicating. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.720 And almost every time they got into a discussion and 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.040 this husband didn't agree with the wife, then this lady 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.920 would get very defensive. She'd get all upset, los or cool. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.839 They'd end up having a great dig argument, and the 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.080 husband was constantly saying, why can't you just let me 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.320 have my opinion? Why do you have to get so 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.280 upset when I don't agree with you. This went on 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.920 year after year and was just tearing them apart. But 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.600 one day this lady decided to really get honest with herself. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.080 She decided to really look down on the inside, and 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.760 she began to realize the reason she was all defensive 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.840 was because she was so insecure. She had been through 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.199 a lot of hurts and pains in her own life. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.000 She'd had a lot of rejection from a previous relationship, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.280 and now every time this husband didn't agree with her, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.599 she felt like he was rejecting her. She took it personally, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.000 and so she would try to control him and manipulate 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.160 him to keep that from happening. But as she began 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.000 to realize, the true source wasn't that they couldn't communicate. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.440 It was the fact that she was so insecure and 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.240 over time didn't happen overnight, but as she began to 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.560 deal with these feelings, and as she began to ask 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.240 God to help her, little by little things begin to change. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.760 To see, the whole key was she got to the 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.840 root of the problem, and once she took care of 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.440 the bad root, then eventually the fruit took care of itself. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:00.520 We have to. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.160 Understand that most of our problems have deeper roots, not 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.120 all of them. I know, sometimes it's just our lack 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.920 of self control. But I think we'd be amazed at 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.200 how many times things affect us in a negative way, 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.760 and we're over here just trying to deal with the fruit. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.640 We're just trying to deal with the surface, and so 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.120 we end up going year after year having to face 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:26.000 these same difficulties. I think about the children of Israel. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.960 They never got to the root of their problem, and 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.199 it kept them out of their promised land. They wandered 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.680 around in the wilderness for some forty years for what 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.320 should have been an eleven day journey, and it was 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.200 in part because they never got honest with themselves. The 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.640 root cause of their problem was that they had a 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.600 victim mentality. They had been through a lot of unfair things, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.440 spent years in slavery, and so now they're going around 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.920 with a chip on their shoulder. They were always blaming Moses, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.440 blaming their circumstances, blaming the past, blaming the food, blaming 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.959 their enemies. It never dawned on them that they were 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.439 a part of the problem. It never dawned on them 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.200 to look inside and really get down to the root. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.520 And do you know they kept going around the same 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.960 mountain year after year after year, never making any progress. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.000 And some of you today, you have been stuck at 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.640 this same place in your life far too long. Negative, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.800 hard to get along with, defensive, critical. Know it's time 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.640 to get up and get going, and our attitude should 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.320 be God, show me the truth about myself. I don't 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.040 want to be at this same place next year. And God, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.440 if I have things holding me back, show me what 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.120 they are. God, help me to change, help me to 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.840 get to the root. See. I'm challenging us to get 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.559 on a journey to really get honest with ourselves, not 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.480 make excuses, not try to pray everything away. No, let's 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.520 go deeper so we can get to the source and 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:57.439 really get free. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:58.080 Now. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.120 I believe that God is knocking on the door of 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.480 new rooms in our hearts, maybe rooms that we haven't 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.439 let him in before. The only way he'll come in 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.880 is if we invite him the doorknobs on the inside. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.680 And I found we can allow God in some rooms 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.439 of our heart, but we keep him out of these 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.000 other rooms. It's because some of these rooms can be painful. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.440 It's where our hurts and wombs of the past are. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.319 It's where our weaknesses and shortcomings are. There's whole A 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.760 lot of times we just keep these rooms all locked off. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.040 In other words, we make excuses for our behavior. We 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.600 blame other people. We're negative, critical, hard to get along with, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.640 low self esteem. Hey man, that's just the way I am. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:40.040 No. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.840 God continues to knock. And if we want to come 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.080 up higher, if we want to really get to the 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:49.520 source and not have this reoccurring infection like that old horse, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.679 then we got to look inside and allow God in 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.920 every room of our heart. And by that I mean 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.200 when we have these feelings that we don't like, rather 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.680 than just high and try to bury them away in 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.240 one of these rooms, the best thing we can do 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.320 is just be honest and say, God, why do I 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.680 feel this way? Why can't I get along with my spouse? 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.080 Why do I try to manipulate everybody? God? Why I 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.360 always have to have my way? Or why do I 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.800 get upset so easily? And if you will be honest 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.480 and be willing to face that truth and not hide 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.160 behind all these excuses, let me tell you, God will 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.000 show you and as you begin to act on that truth, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.960 then you can come up here, and I'm asking us 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.520 to let God in every room of our hearts. If 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.560 you're impatient, just be honest and say, God, show me 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.920 why I'm so impatient. If you get around somebody and 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.599 you feel resentment toward them, you start to want to 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.480 be critical and have a fault finding spirit. First thing 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.600 we should do is say, God, show me why I 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.400 don't like this person. What's wrong on the inside of me? 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:53.000 Now. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.000 I don't know about you, but I don't want to 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.200 go around that same mountain another year. I want to 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.400 come up hire. I want to enter in to my 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.360 promised land. I heard about this young lady. She'd gotten married, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.920 and for the first several years of her marriage, she 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.040 could not have a healthy relationship with her husband. For 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.680 some reason, she could not physically give herself to this man. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.760 She loved him very much, but she just couldn't seem 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.240 to stand for him to get close or to even 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.200 touch her. And of course it was just ruining their relationship. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.280 And she had tried time and time again to change, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.040 but she just couldn't do it. And one day she 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.240 really got honest with herself. She allowed God to come 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.880 into that room of her heart, and she said God, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.360 why do I feel this way? What's wrong with me? 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.040 Why can't I be a normal wife? And she told how. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.520 Not long after that, she had a dream, and in 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.000 this dream, God reminded her of something that had happened 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.120 to her when she was a small child. She saw 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.400 herself down at the lake swimming, and all of a sudden, 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.240 these boys came over and took advantage of her, her 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.920 a terrible injustice, and she was so angry and so 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.240 filled with hatred toward them. She began to scream out, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.960 I hate you, I hate you, and I'll never let 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.920 another man touch me as long as I live. When 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.720 she woke up from the dream, she began to realize 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.840 she still had all this hatred in her heart toward 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.360 those boys. It was buried way down here on the inside, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.440 and now it was affecting her relationship with her husband. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.200 And she knew it wasn't going to be easy. But 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.320 if she was going to have a right relationship, she 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.960 was gonna have to deal with that unforgiveness. And she 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.680 was bold enough to just make a decision right then 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.200 and there, to release all that hurt and pain. She said, God, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.240 you know it's not fair. You saw what they did 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.800 to me. But God, I'm not gonna let it continue 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.360 to poison me. I'm gonna let it go. I forgive 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.480 them right now. She said, from that moment on she 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.520 was able to have a healthy relationship with her husband. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.840 But see, she could not get free by just trying 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.560 to deal with the fruit. She had to get down 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.960 to the root. And once she got rid of that 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.600 bitter root, then she could break out of that bondage. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.880 And I'm not saying that we should go back and 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.000 relive every negative experience. I'm not saying to go back 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.560 and open up every wound of the past. But I 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.240 am saying we have to make sure that we're not 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.880 carrying around all this junk on the inside. And if 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.240 you have areas in your own life when you constantly 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.920 struggle and you just can't seem to get free like 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.000 this lady, then you need to ask God to show 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.040 you what's holding you back. Ask God to show you 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.520 if you have any bitter roots that you need to 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.360 get rid of. And if God brings something to light, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.720 then you've got to be bold enough like this young 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.240 lady to just deal with it. Friends, God wants us 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.600 to come up higher. You can be happier, you can 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.440 have better relationships, you can break free from anything that's 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.160 holding you back. But you've got to do your part 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.120 and be honest and face the truth about yourself. And 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.720 let's not be like the children of Israel and go 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.520 year after year thinking it's somebody else's fault. And I 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.200 know some of you today you've had some very unfair 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.480 things happen in life. Maybe you've had some bad breaks 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.320 like this young lady, and I'm not minimalizing that. But 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.119 if you will handle that in the right way and 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.399 not get bitter and not start making excuses, and God's 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.400 promised he'll not only turn it around, but he'll use 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.720 it to your advantage. He'll bring you out better off 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.040 than you were before. And I know digging out these 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.280 roots can be painful. The easy thing is to just 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.080 stay up here on the surface. The easy thing is 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.080 to not change, because let me tell you, there's a 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.720 pain associated with coming up pier. It's uncomfortable to be 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.879 honest and really deal with these issues. It can be 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.760 uncomfortable to have to forgive when it was somebody else's fault, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.920 and it's hard sometimes to admit I'm holding on to 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.919 the bitterness or I'm defensive because I'm I'm so insecure, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.800 or I'm hard to get along with because I'm dragging 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.040 all my baggage from the past. As we shed these 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.960 superficial layers and really get honest, we're gonna feel a 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:15.400 little pressure. But please understand that discomfort is only temporary. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.440 It's like a growing pain, because once you get past that, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.560 you're gonna go up to a new level of victory. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.200 And I found the pain of change is much less 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.840 than the pain of staying in mediocrity. Are you allowing 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.080 God in every room of your heart? He won't come 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.240 in unless you ask. But if you ask him and 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.200 just say, God, show me why I am this way? 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.000 God show me what's going on in my life. If 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.679 you do that, God will show you. That's when you 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.840 can really begin to get free. And some of you today, 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.800 you've gone year after year not really being happy. Well, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.760 you need to be honest enough to just say, God, 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.920 show me what it is. Am I relying on other 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.000 people to make me happy? Do I have unrealistic expectations? 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.439 Am I only going to be happy if I get married? 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.400 Am I allowed my circumstances to keep me down? God 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.920 show me the truth about myself. You got to get 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.399 to the source. I was talking to a man not 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.440 too long ago, and he told how whenever he went 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.679 to enjoy his life and just relax and have fun, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.200 he felt guilty about it. He kind of felt condemned, 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.960 like he was doing something wrong and he didn't know why. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.359 But over the years, since he didn't understand this, he 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.800 just engrossed himself in his work. He became a workaholic, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.840 not taking any time for himself, not taking any time 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.640 for his family. And it was all because of these 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.399 feelings of guilt. His life was so out of balance. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.359 This one on year after year. But one day he 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.760 decided to let God in that room of his heart. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.800 He decided to really get honest and he said, God, 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.560 why do I feel this way? And he began to 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.959 realize that growing up, his father was very strict. He 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.200 came from a military family, and this dad didn't allow 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.520 any fun in house. Everything was serious and he didn't 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.080 really know what it was like to have a normal childhood. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.240 He was just taught to work, to be serious, no playtime, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.720 and he realized he had become just like his father. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.239 Those thoughts, those attitudes, those habits were what he had 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.320 learned early on, not that they were right, but that's 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.600 all that he had known. And once he recognized what 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.200 the source was and he recognized what was going on, 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.320 he was able to break that heaviness and really start 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.399 enjoying his life like God wants us to. We have 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.720 to understand there can be a lot of bondages that 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.399 have been passed down from previous generations. And it doesn't 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.480 mean that the people weren't good people, but a lot 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.000 of the things that we struggle with today, we can 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.639 look back and see how they've been in our family 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:52.880 line for years and years. Bad habits, negative thinking, wrong mindsets, addictions, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.520 and unfortunately, those things can just keep getting passed down 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.199 from generation to generation. Some of you, no doubt, can 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.880 look back in your family line and see divorce as 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.640 far as you can see. Or maybe you can look 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:11.480 back and see addictions strongholds, you know, low self esteem, anger, violence, 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.119 and today you're struggling with those same things. It's not 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.440 enough to just deal with the surface. You've got to 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.400 really get down to the root and say, God, I'm 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.480 taking authority over these things in the name of Jesus. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.320 We're not going to be bound by these bondages anymore. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.800 And I know some of you have come out of 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:34.800 a family where there was abuse. Maybe somebody else calls 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.280 you a lot of heartache and pain. The people that 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.320 raised you or somebody you were in a relationship with, 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.679 they made very poor decisions and now you're having to 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.639 deal with it. And I know that's not fair, but 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.600 please don't let that be an excuse. You can come 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.399 up higher, you can set a new standard. And we 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.840 hear a lot today about the generational curse, but we 0:21:55.920 --> 0:22:00.320 need to talk more about our generational choice. They may 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.119 have made bad decisions, but thank god, we don't have 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:04.160 to perpetuate it. 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:06.000 We don't have to continue that on. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.359 We can be the one to do something about it. 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.560 We can be the one to change. And just remember, 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.719 with every right choice you make, you begin to overturn 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.280 the wrong choices of those that have gone before you. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.439 And your parents, your grandparents, your relatives. They may have 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.840 struggled with addictions and low self esteem and anger that 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.760 your attitude should be. This is a new day. I'm 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.119 drawing that line in the sand. It's for me and 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.800 my family. We're gonna live under the blessing and not 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.160 the curse. See You've got to get down to the 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.400 source of that thing, and you can just sit idly 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.680 by and be passive. I have people tell me, well, Joel, 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.480 this is just the way we've always been. Now you 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.400 know what I found. You will never change what you tolerate. 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:52.880 You got to get fed up. You've got to come 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:54.840 to the point where you say, I am sick and 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.240 tired of being sick and tired. And we may have 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.960 been this way a long time, but I'm not gonna 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:02.040 dance around this issue. I'm going to get to the 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.399 source and I'm gonna start making better decisions for me 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.879 and my family. And the sad thing is that junk 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:12.760 will keep getting passed down until somebody rises up and 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.000 does something about it. Why don't you be the one. 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:17.920 You can make a difference for generations to come. 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:20.720 But one of the first things is we got to 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:24.000 quit making excuses. We got to quit blaming the past. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:26.359 And you may have been through a lot of junk. 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.040 That may be the reason you struggle with bad habits, 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.639 you have trouble in relationships, and you have low self esteem. 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:36.440 That may be the reason, but don't use that as 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:40.160 an excuse to stay the way you are. Take responsibility. 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:43.960 I know too many people today They've had unfair things 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.560 happen and they go their whole lifetime allowing that to 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:51.119 poison them. They're angry, they got a chip on their shoulder, 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:54.399 just like the children of Israel. They go around hard 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.160 to get along with and they always use that as 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.880 an excuse. Well, Joel, if you've been through what I've 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.720 done through, you would act this same way. Now, that 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.360 may be the reason you act that way. But thank God, 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:07.600 you don't have to stay that way. You can come 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:11.240 up higher. But you got to take responsibility. You got 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.439 to be willing to face the truth and say, you 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:16.240 know what, this is not right. They may have done 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.800 me wrong, but I'm not supposed to live upset and angry. 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:23.480 I'm not supposed to live hard to get along with God. 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:26.119 I'm asking you to help me to change. If you 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:29.400 have that attitude, God will always help you. Thinking about 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:31.399 this lady, she came up to me in the lobby 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:33.440 one time and she said, Joel, I wish you would 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.240 pray for me. I'm about to get married again for 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:41.919 my fifth time. I didn't laugh like y'all did, and 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:44.400 she said, I want you to really agree that this 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.480 man will be the one that finally starts treating me right. 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:50.400 I wanted to ask her, have you ever thought about 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.360 what the common denominator is in all these marriages? It's 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.560 you something wrong on the inside. But after we prayed, 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:59.680 I asked her, does anybody else in your family struggle 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:03.119 with the the same kind of difficulties? She said, oh, yeah, Joel, 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:06.200 my mother's been married four times and she just about 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:09.400 to get another divorce. And I thought, that's just what 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.800 the enemy loves for us, to keep passing this junk 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:17.240 down for generation to generation. It's like a negative cycle 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.720 that he sets up, and if we don't take responsibility 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:23.920 and do something about it, it'll just keep repeating itself, 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:28.040 and our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren will all 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.400 have to deal with it. Now. I don't know about you, 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:32.520 but I want to put a stop to everything that 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:39.840 I can. If I have bad habits, if I have insecurities, 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:42.560 if I have wrong thinking, I want to be honest 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:46.359 and open enough to deal with it and not make excuses. 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:49.040 Not blame my past, not blame my parents, not blame 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:51.880 my circumstances, not blame my spouse. No, you know what, 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:54.879 I can't change any of that, but I can change me. 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:58.000 May you say, Joe, if you just knew my family, 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:02.200 we are so dysfunctional. We have so many bad habits, 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:05.320 We got so many messed up people. No, I say 0:26:05.359 --> 0:26:09.080 this very respectfully, but I really believe today almost every 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.600 family has a little bit of dysfunction. Don't use that 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:15.000 as an excuse. We all have things to deal with. 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:17.359 I mean, I come out of a good family, but 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:21.680 y'all know, my brother Paul, we all. 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:22.800 Have things to overcome. 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:25.879 You know, I hear people tell me, Joel, you know 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:29.119 I'm all depressed because my parents were so depressed. Or 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:32.240 I'm hot tempered just like my father. I'm a worry 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:35.200 warp because my mother always worried. Now that's a cop 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:38.320 out you can change. Let me tell you you are 0:26:38.359 --> 0:26:43.000 a child of the most high God. You have on 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:46.520 the inside of you right now, the greatest power in 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:50.880 the universe. You can break any addiction, You can overcome 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:55.440 any stronghold, you can defeat any bondage. The scripture says 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:58.240 in First John four to four, greater is he that's 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:01.119 in you than he that's in the world. That simply 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:04.879 means there is not an obstacle on this planet that 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:08.640 you cannot overcome. You can fulfill your God given destiny. 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:12.080 You can accomplish your dreams. And yes, you may have 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.439 had a negative history, but please understand you don't have 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:16.800 to have a negative future. 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:20.240 What's important is not where we've come from. What's important 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:21.040 is where we are going. 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:26.840 One of the main ways we can honor God is 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:30.800 by taking responsibility for our actions, not blaming our past, 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:34.520 not blaming our circumstances. No, look inside and say, God, 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:37.520 show me the truth about myself, show me where I 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:40.119 need to change. See, we got to get down to 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:42.639 the root so that we don't just go through life 0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:44.119 trying to pick off the bad fruit. 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:46.200 Some of you keep going around that. 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:48.879 Same mountain again and again, and until you get to 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:51.840 the real source and do something about it, nothing's going 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:54.840 to change. I'm asking you to let God in every 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:58.280 room of your life. Don't just live on the surface. 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:00.920 Go a little deeper. Take time to find out why 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:03.400 you do what you do. And yes, it may be 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:06.040 because of what you've gone through. It may be because 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.600 of what somebody has passed down, but don't use that 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:12.520 as an excuse. Take responsibility, rise up and do something 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:16.639 about it. Let's pass down good things to the next generation. Friends, 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:19.239 I want you to enter into your promised land. I 0:28:19.280 --> 0:28:21.919 want you to experience the good things of God. And 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:24.719 I know if you'll do your part and face the 0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:28.000 truth about yourself, get to the source of the issue, 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:30.760 and make adjustments when you need to. If you do that, 0:28:31.160 --> 0:28:34.280 then I can promise you you'll have better relationships, you'll 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:36.879 be more fulfilled, you'll be happier, and you'll live that 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:39.000 life of victory God has in story. 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:41.480 Amen, if you receive it. 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