The Cost Of Going Off (Robert Madu)

0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:05.440 How y'all doing Elevation now? This is your first time here, 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.440 a first time in a long time, and you're confused 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.760 right now, You're like, yo, Bester, Stephen looked different. Let 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.560 me help you a little bit. I am not faster, Stephen. Verdict. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:22.720 My name is Robert Madeu and I'm home. I'm home. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:24.840 And the reason there was no introduction is because you 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.200 don't introduce family. I'm part of the Elevation family and 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.720 I've had the privilege to come to this church now 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.839 the last three or four years, and it is always 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.239 just the highest honor to be here. How many know 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.479 you are a part of the greatest church on the planet, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.000 Like y'all are crazy blessed. And I'm not just saying 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.400 that as a matter of fact. The reason Pastor Stephen 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.199 is not here and Passor Holly's not here in the 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.480 sum of the team is Elevation Nights are happening right 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.440 now in so many different cities. And if you need 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.840 empirical evidence for how awesome this church is, you realize 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.479 people across the nation are paying to pack out arenas 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:11.039 for what you get for free. Earth y'all are crazy blessed, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.520 and that's a gift that should not be taken for granted. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.080 I pray you never take this church for granted. How 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.320 pray you never take your pastors for granted, or two 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.000 of the greatest people, not just leaders, but people on 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.560 the planet. So right now, in case they're watching, which 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.720 I have the strain suspicion they might be, can we 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.240 let pastors Stephen and Holly Ferdick know how much we 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.840 love them, how much we appreciate them. Come on, y'all 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.360 can do better than that across every location. E fam, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:44.480 help me thank God for your pastors, for your leaders. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.360 I absolutely positively love them so much. I bring you 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:55.160 greetings from the great country of Texas and my wife Taylor, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.160 she sends her love. She is holding down the fort 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.840 at home. A year ago, in fact, we just celebrated 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.480 our one year anniversary. We planted a church called Social Dallas, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.240 and we're seeing God do incredible things. But here's another 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.040 thing you need to know about your pastors. A year ago, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.679 when we launched out to plant this church, one of 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.400 the first checks that we ever received, as we were 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.440 just stepping out on faith, was from your pastor saying, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.280 I believe in you and I'm sowing in to you. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.840 Come on, you have an incredibly generous leader, and he 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.359 just did it, didn't put on TikTok and nothing, just 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.080 just blessed us. And I love them so much and 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.440 counted the privilege to be here. And I can't wait 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.639 to preach the word if you're ready to hear it yet, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.919 you come to get a word from God, and he 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.720 telling me if you feel like hearing it like I 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.919 feel like preaching it, it's gonna be good in here today. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.240 I want you to go with me to Second Kings today, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.640 Second King chapter five, and I want to look at 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.560 verses one through four, and then we'll hop down to 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.720 verse number nine and go to verse fourteen. The Second 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:06.040 King's chapter five, starting at verse number one. When you're 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.640 ready to read it, say yeah. If you're not ready, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.639 you need some time to find this, say hold on, 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.440 I heard those hold ups. I'm away for you. I'm 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.280 away for you. I know that's Old Testament's stressful for somehow. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.800 Second King's Chapter five, And I really believe this is 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.919 a word for somebody who's in this place watching online, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.600 but this is a word for our culture, and I 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.440 know it's going to speak to you. Starting at verse 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.160 number one, it says, now Naman was commander of the 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.560 army of the king of Aram. He was a great 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.920 man in the sight of his master, and highly regarded 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.280 because through him the lord had given victory to Aram. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:58.000 He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. Now 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.440 bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.560 taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:08.000 Nayman's wife. She said to her mistress, if only my 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.840 master would see the prophet who was in Samaria, he 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.920 would cure him of his leprosy. Namon went to his 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.400 master and told him what the young girl from Israel 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.240 had said. Verse nine it says, so Naman went with 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.719 his horses and his cheerios, and stopped at the door 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.520 of Elisha's house. And Elisha sent a messenger to say 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.200 to him, go wash seven times in the Jordan, and 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.520 your flesh will be restored, and you will be cleansed. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:45.320 But Namon went away angry and said, whom I thought, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.280 those two words right there are the tension in the 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.320 entire text. I thought, come on, just us talking. Have 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.200 you ever got in trouble or got frustrated or agitated 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.599 or angry? Not over what happened in your life, but 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.719 over what you thought was gonna happen and what actually happened. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.960 Come on, I'm the only one like I thought you 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.520 were coming to help me, you actually coming to hurt me. Yeah, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.240 I thought I was getting a raise. Oh y'all firing me? Okay, okay, 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.760 I thought that you were about to propose. Wait a minute, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.320 you're breaking up with me. Come on, am I the 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:28.560 only one has ever gotten frustrated or angry, not because 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.679 of what was happening, but because of a preconceived notion 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.560 and idea of what you thought. He said, I thought 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.839 he would surely come out to me and stand and 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.440 calling the name of the Lord is God, and wave 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.600 his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy? 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.080 Are not a bana and far part in the rivers 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.000 of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.760 not wash in them and be cleansed? So he turned 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:55.240 and went off in a rage. The name and servant 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.000 went to him and said, my father, if the prophet 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.680 had told you to do some great thing, would you 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.400 not have done it? How much more then, when he 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.520 tells you to wash and be cleansed, so he went 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.200 down and dipped himself in the Jordans seven times, as 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.799 the Man of God had told him, and his flesh 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.200 was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:21.640 Can you say, a man, I love this passage. But 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.640 what got my attention is that when Nayman gets the 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.960 prescription for his healing that will stop the leprosy, his 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:36.080 immediate reaction was anger, and the Bible says that he 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:42.920 turned and went off. He went off. I want to 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.400 appreciate to you today at Elevation Church for about five 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.800 and a half hours, using this as a title, The 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:58.839 Cost of going off, The Cost of going off, quick 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:03.840 sermonic disclaimer. If you have never gone off or been 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.920 tempted to go off, I don't have a message for 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.320 you today. If you have never ever been tempted to 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.640 go off on somebody. If you have never responded to 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.280 an email or a text message with all caps, if 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.120 you have never had somebody say something so sideways to 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.280 you that your nose began to flare, and your eyebrows 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.400 got furled, and your heart began to palpitate. If you 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.880 have never been driving behind somebody that was driving so 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.040 crazy that you had to pull up next to them 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:41.400 at the stop like just to look at them. You 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.679 ain't never done that. I ain't gonna work for you today. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:50.200 Just gone go home? Love offee fail you've ever gone off, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.680 had rage or anger? I want to talk to you today. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:57.960 This is gonna be good. Would you bow your heads? 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:06.560 Let's pray along. Prayer God, you are awesome, speak today? Amen. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.800 Are there are there any parents in the house today? 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.120 Any parents? Can I see your hand? Come all the parents? 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:23.200 Make some noise? Been trying something different? Are there are 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.720 there any single people with our kids in the house? 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:33.280 Y'all make some noise? Do you notice the difference in 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:38.320 the screens? See the reason y'all gotta all that NLC 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.640 Because you ain't in the fight of your life. You 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.719 don't know the pains. You don't know the struggle it 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.559 is to raise little humans. You don't know what we're 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:53.320 going through. Of course you can wow because you don't know. Parents. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.640 I had y'all scream first because I need to see 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.440 what my support group is today. Can't we be honest 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.760 parents that there is nothing more challenging. There was nothing 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.120 more daunting. Yes, this rewarding, but there was nothing more 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:11.880 daunting than parenting, trying to raise little humans. I have 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.440 often said, often said that if you're struggling to have 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.520 a prayer life, have some kids. Just have some kids, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.640 and I promise you will pray real quick. If you 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.920 want to be an intercessor, then just have a bunch 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.800 of kids. And I'm telling you will learn how to 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.120 call on the name of the Father, the Son, and 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.720 the Holy Spirit. You will make a trip to Costco 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.480 and get a big bottle of annoint to oil ats 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.080 find you a prayer closet, because parenting it is the 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.800 fight of your life. I'm telling you this because I know. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.280 I know. Let me show you my family. We have 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.720 three little humans, we have three kids. Can you put 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.160 up that picture of my family. I want you to see. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.040 I want you to see my family. There it is 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.280 right there. That's my bride and those are our kids. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.000 Watch the ages here we go, seven, six and four. Yeah, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.559 pray for your boy. Pray for your boy. It's not 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.600 just their ages. Those are the times that they wake 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.240 up throughout the night. And I'm in the fight of 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.199 my life. And I'll be honest with you today, I'm scared. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.440 I'm scared a little bit because there's nothing more that 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.120 I fear. There's nothing more that I fear than then 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:21.280 projecting onto these little humans my own idiosyncrasies and my 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.280 own deficiencies, Like I don't want my crazy to cap 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.160 their capacity, you know, I want them to be all 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.000 that God has created and called them to be. It is. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.760 It is challenging to raise children. And shout out to 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.720 all y'all if you got teenagers too, who hadn't even 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.040 got to that stage yet, that's a whole another thing 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.400 right there. You realize in the Bible, in the Bible, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.160 we only hear about Jesus from birth to twelve and 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.960 then boom, he shows up on the sand at age thirty. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.880 Even the Bible don't even tell you about Jesus teenage 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.920 years just like are you on, y'awn. It's a challenge. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:03.319 It's a challenge to parent. And so uh, I pray, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.000 I call on the name of the Lord, and I 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.320 also look for resources to read. And I was recently 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.280 reading a book and the title of the book was 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.199 Parenting from the inside Out, Parenting from the inside out, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.520 And what the book postulates is that parenthood can and 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:26.559 will trigger the unprocessed emotions of your childhood. Parenthood can 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:31.040 and will trigger the unprocessed emotions of your childhood. So 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.000 what the book says is that if you can heal 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.320 the child that's in every parent, then that parent will 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.520 produce healthier children. So this is the book that I'm 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.120 reading before I take my youngest to kindergarten. First, this 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.560 is what I'm reading before I take him to his 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.840 kindergarten class. And I'll never get it. I walk into 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.040 the K five class and his teacher's there, and I'm 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.640 looking through the room, and all of a sudden, I 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.360 saw something in the corner that I've never seen in 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.560 the classroom before. I saw this small whiteboard and all 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.800 these little markers, and I asked the teacher, I said, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:06.080 what is that. She said, that is the calm down corner. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:12.000 Say excuse me, she said, that is the calm down corner. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.679 She said. These kids are young, their brains are still 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.680 developing to sometimes their emotions get the best of them, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.040 and whenever they're having a moment, they can go to 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.880 the calm down corner and pick out whatever colors they 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.199 want and they can process their emotions on the board. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.520 She said, that's the calm down corner. And as soon 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.920 as she said it, I asked her, are these just 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:37.160 for the kids or can parents us to calm down corner? 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.480 A be honest and this climate we live in, I 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.360 need a calm down corner. Oh, don't look at me 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.679 like that. You need a calm down corner. As a 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.559 matter of fact, I think our world right now needs 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:54.040 a calm down corner. So is it just me? Does 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:59.600 it seem like everybody is on edge? Everybody is going off? 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.920 Everybody these patients has worn thin. Fact, I was studying 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.160 for this message and I saw this article, and I 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.280 love the title of this article. It says that watch 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:14.560 this that adults are throwing tantrums in restaurants, planes, and 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.679 at home. Blame the pandemic, they said, now more than 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.280 ever in our world, at restaurants, at airlines, the customer 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.679 service industry doesn't know what to do. They're calling in 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.440 for extra security because everybody is on edge, everybody's going off, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.560 everybody's blowing up. All of us went through a trauma 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.160 collectively called a pandemic. And you are naive if you 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.400 don't understand how that's affecting your emotions and what's triggering 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.240 you and what's making you go off. So today I'm 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.760 going to ask you a question that maybe a preacher's 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.200 never ask you in church today. I want to know 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:55.920 who how's your anger? How's your anger? What I love 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.199 about this message today is that nobody can dismiss this message. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.400 I don't care what campus you're at, I don't care 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.160 who you are, where you're watching this from. You cannot 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.439 dismiss this message because I want to talk about anger, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.840 and then what comes to anger. Anger is a universal emotion. Yeah, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.199 this is the message. You can say, Oh, I know 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.439 three people that need this, I'm gonna send it to them. No, no, no, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:20.080 no no. Anger is a universal emotion. When it comes 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.880 to the issue of anger, the question is not if 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.640 you are going to get angry. The question is when 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.880 you get angry, what are you going to do when 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.120 those feelings of rage well up inside of you? Oo 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.280 house your anger? Today, everybody has to face this message today. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.280 As a matter of fact, you came in the world angry. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.200 Oh yes, not a single baby came into the world 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.680 calm and collected, saying I'm not gonna yell. I would 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.920 just slic some milk right now, please. No, you came 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:55.840 into the world going screaming and raging, and now we're 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.880 doing it as adults. What are we gonna do about 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.680 this issue of anger? Look at your neighbors, say, I 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.160 know this for you today. I know this is for 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:10.120 you today. What do you do? What do you do 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.160 when you get angry? Let's talk about it. We're just talking. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.000 What do you do when you get angry? Do you yell? 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.160 You kick? You scream? You punch a hole in the wall? 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:27.280 Who use profanity? Because don't answer? What? No? What? No? For? 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 What do you do when you get out? You explode? Oh? 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:35.840 Do you leave? Do you leave? Your stormtroopers? Just let you? Oh, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.560 don't stay at home? Shelters mess up by y'all stormtroopers 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.800 because you couldn't go outside, you had nowhere to go. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.440 What do you do? Do you just go off and yell? 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.880 I want to talk first to all of you erupts eruptors. Yeah, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.880 because y'all listening to this message. Erupts, erupts, y'all are crazy, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:57.120 because whenever y'all get mad, we know about it, and 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.800 we know it quickly. Because you explode, eruptors, y'all go off. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.080 You will throw a staple across the cubicle. You will 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.160 throw a chair, you erupt and eruptors, y'all are funny 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.880 because after you go off, you look back at yourself, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.720 once you've calmed down for a minute, and you go, oh, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.520 my goodness, did I just do that? Did I just 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.320 do that? Did I just walk up on stage and slap? 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.760 Did I do that? Did I just what did I? 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.000 Because once you come down, you realize what in the 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.160 world did I just do? And I laugh at y'all. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.280 I laughed at y'all because you are crazy. You are 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.840 crazy because you understand it is impossible for you to 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.600 function and wisdom and anger at the same time. The 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.520 a lot the Book of Proverbs. The Book of Proverbs 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.080 is replete with scriptures about anger, about anger and how 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.520 you handle it. I love this verse in Proverbs fourteen. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.320 It says people with understanding control their anger. A hot 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:58.680 temper shows great foolishness. Translation, you are craig ray when 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.120 you get angry. And I laugh at you erupts when 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:06.080 you explode. I judge you erupts when you explode. I 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.439 do you know why, Because I'm not an erupt I 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.919 am what you call a stuffer and stuffers we are 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.240 different than those erupters because stuffers whenever we get mad, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.040 we don't kick, we don't yell, we don't scream, We 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.720 just calmly say. Even when you ask us, are you mad, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:28.920 we will look at you and go, no, I'm not mad. No, No, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:35.919 I'm fine, I am fine, It's okay. It happens. And 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.240 all while we're saying it, we are ruminating and rehearsing 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.760 over every single thing that you did. We cannot believe 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.720 you had the nerve and the audacity to do it. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.119 And we are smiling telling you I'm fine. But all 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.200 the while we are pushing it down into the basement 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.679 of our soul until it becomes a cantanguerous cesspool of bitterness, 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.880 and we will isolate and pull away a mom all 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:06.480 while we're smiling and saying I'm fine. Oh, and stuffers 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.760 might be worse than eruptors because all that stuffing. Your 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:15.879 physical body can't even handle the stuffing. Do your research. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.720 Scientists and the medical community will tell you that anger 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:24.560 does more damage to your physical body than grief or anxiety. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.080 Anger will give you a heart attack, Anger will destroy 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.360 your nervous system, Anger will mess up your blood pressure, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.080 anger will aid you. Oh yeah, you can forgive bout 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:40.719 all that exfoliation. Just keep getting mad. You'll mess up 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:47.199 your skin and your life. Stuffing down the anger and 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:52.679 even erupters, and even stuffers become erupts. So I have 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.800 the inevitability of anger, and I can't rupt, and I 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.680 can't stuff, Then what do I do with it? If 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:05.280 it's coming? I've learned that anger it's much like having 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.439 a toddler in the car how me. You know you 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:16.439 don't want that toddler behind the steering wheel eruptors. You 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:24.720 also don't want that toddler in the trunk stuffers. What 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.400 you want is to put that toddler in a car seat, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.560 buckled in and periodically check in the rearview mirror to 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.840 make sure it is in its proper place. God says, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.920 I want you to use that emotion that I gave 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:47.520 and created, anger to be in its proper place. Anger 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.919 has a proper place. But if anger is not in 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.280 its proper place, hear me, you will destroy your destiny. 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.120 You will mess up the call of God on your life. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.880 You will forfeit your purpose if you don't get your 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.880 anger in its proper place. You don't believe me. Ask Moses, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.080 who missed out on a promised land that he was 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.800 able to see but not enter into. Why because of 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.840 the frustration, the agitation that made him go off. I'm 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.679 wondering today, are you forfeiting your promise because you haven't 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.040 put anger in its proper place? I love the Apostle Paul. 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.520 Y'all good. I love the Apostle Paul and Ephesian chapter four. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.040 The Apostle Paul, in brevity, actually gives us the biblical 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.240 worldview of anger. In Ephesian chapter four, verse twenty six. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.840 What Paul says, he says, be angry and do not sin. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.919 He says, do not let the sun go down on 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.600 your wrath. In other words, when it comes to anger 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.320 from a Biblical perspective, the goal is not to get 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.040 rid of the anger. God does not call for you 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.240 to just stop getting angry. No, because he just said, 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.040 be angry still a holy ghost. Two step on that 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.560 right there. You can get angry, he said, But don't 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.080 let that anger lead you to sin. In other words, 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.879 anger has its proper place because if you never get 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:11.200 angry about anything, then you don't love anything. You don't 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.120 love anything. As a matter of fact, if you want 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.760 to check what you really love, watch what you get 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.720 angry about. Whatever you get angry about is the sign 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:21.760 of the thing that you really love. If you care 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.920 about your image, anytime somebody attexts your image, you're gonna 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.439 explode because that's what you love. Whatever you love is 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.359 the thing that will get a reaction out of you 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.240 and get angry. So Christians aren't called to not have anger. 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.040 As a matter of fact, gusts, I want you to 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.040 have anger, but use anger in its proper place. As 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.000 a matter of fact, there are things we should see 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.800 in the world that actually make us angry. We should 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.680 be angry about poverty. We should be angry about injustice, 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.480 we should be angry about people who are abused and marginalized. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:52.439 But we shouldn't get angry just to get angry. We 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.720 should get angry and say, God, I'm gonna be a 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.480 light in the midst of darkness. I'm gonna do something 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.440 about it. I'm gonna make a change in the earth. God, 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:02.280 you didn't call me to just come to church and 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.040 listen to sermons and same songs off a screen like 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.280 it's Christian karaoke. No, you called me to bring the 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.480 Kingdom on Heaven into the earth and affect every sphere 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.040 of society and that step into let that anger push 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:20.600 you to do something. Oh, don't you forget your God? 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.880 That one day cleared a whole temple because they were 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.760 making it difficult for people to worship God. And he said, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.280 don't you know my house will be a house of prayer. 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.160 Don't you ever stop people from coming in the house 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.720 of God and lifting up my name. I will turn 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:39.040 over tables and kick people out. I get angry sometime, 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:44.240 so this is not a call to passivity. Doll says, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.159 you can get angry, but make sure that anger is 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:53.280 in its proper place. Woo. Anger is interesting because what 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.080 makes you angry doesn't make me angry. What makes her 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:00.680 angry doesn't make her angry. This is what triguing about 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:04.640 anger is that it is ubiquitous, but it is unique. 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.800 And that's why you have to understand it. Because a 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:08.640 lot of people will think, well, if they hadn't said it, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:12.359 I wouldn't have done it. Now they don't want to 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:14.640 cut me off. Now you saw I could have died, 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:18.520 and then the fundy whenever you get angry about someonever 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.640 you go off. We always try to blame the external factors, 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:25.720 but if it's really the external factor. How come what 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:30.560 made you go off didn't make somebody else go off. See, 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.040 this is what we don't understand that anger is a 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:39.000 secondary emotion. Whenever somebody goes off, it's really about what 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:43.040 they're going off about. It's always something deeper. As a 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:45.200 matter of fact, when it comes to anger, you can't 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:48.640 look at anger. You have to look under it because 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.040 there's always something deeper. Which brings me to my text today. 0:23:53.359 --> 0:24:00.000 Who all of that was intro? I'm confused. I'm confused 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:05.760 about naming because this is a man who has a leprosy, 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:11.040 the incurable skin disease of leprosy, the disease that there 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:13.400 is no cure, the disease that starts off in your 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:17.000 skin and spreads all over your entire body. A disease 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:20.439 that had social ramifications because as soon as you had it, 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.200 you had to isolate yourself from people. You had to 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:27.000 tell people, I'm unclean. You were stripped away from your family, 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:29.920 you were stripped away from everybody you loved, and there 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:32.760 was no cure for it. This is what Naman has 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.280 and the prophet Elisha says. For you to be cured 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:40.679 and healed, all you gotta go do is take seven 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:45.480 dips in the Jordan River. That's the cure. And his 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:53.240 reaction to the cure. What is to go off in 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:57.160 a range? Come on, contextualize it. Can you imagine going 0:24:57.160 --> 0:24:59.679 to the doctor's office and you got a call and 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.280 doctor says that it's not a big deal, he's just 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:03.480 gonna have to take this medicine. Go to nurses station. 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:06.080 She'll give you a prescription two times a day. And 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:10.520 you walk out the doctor's office grabs two times a day. 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:17.240 Are you serious, Namen? Shouldn't you be more concerned about 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:22.800 the hill? What are you going off about? Don't look 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:27.160 at anger? Look under him? And I think the blues 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:33.280 clue to Naman's anger and his rage is in the 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:39.160 very first verse. It says that Naman was highly regarded. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:45.280 He was a commander in the army. Naman had the 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:49.959 thing that everybody in our world seems to be fighting for, 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:55.879 name and had status. Who naming was the man? This 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:59.520 was not a regular dude. Please understand, Naming was the 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:02.440 man that everybody when they walked in a room, they said, 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:03.960 there is, there is, there is, Oh my godness, do 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.440 you think I'll take a picture this? What's the name? 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:08.720 And he was on the cover of every wheaties box. 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:11.439 He is the one that every kid wanted to be like, 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:14.879 every man desired to be like every woman wanted name it, 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:18.399 naming what's the man? He had status. He had a 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:22.560 blue check next to his name, naming was the man 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:27.200 and the Bible lets you know right up front about 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:30.919 his status and who he was. And I think his 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:35.320 status is connected to his rage. Isn't it funny today 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:40.880 that everybody seems to be obsessed with status. Oh, everybody 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:45.399 wants to either be the somebody, beat the somebody, or 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:49.960 be connected to the somebody. Everybody wants status. Everybody wants 0:26:50.000 --> 0:26:52.560 to be known. Everybody wants to be the person that 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:55.359 everybody looks at and goes, oh, there they are. We 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:58.240 are obsessed with status. If you don't believe it, talk 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:00.840 to a kid today. There used to be a time 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:02.440 in the history of a world. You talk to a kid, 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:03.560 you said, what do you want to be when you 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:07.520 grow up? They'll tak you firemen, school teacher. Ask the 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:11.760 kid today. They don't care famous, just name. Do you 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:14.240 see my TikTok video? We're just famous. They don't care. 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:17.760 Whatever will get views, they will climb on crates, they 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:20.080 will go crazy in the class, do a prank. As 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:23.320 long as I can get some status, as long as 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:28.240 I can get acknowledged. Not just kids, adults too, thinking 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.800 if I just got that house, if I just got 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:34.880 that job, I would be somebody, because we buy into 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:39.840 the live that if I just reached that place, whatever 0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:42.800 that place is, then maybe I won't have any issues. 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:46.679 Maybe I won't have any problems. But Naming is a 0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:51.720 beautiful picture that status and success does not stop suffering. 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:56.480 As a matter of fact, when you get successful, you 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.919 have to be careful because success has a way of 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:04.760 sedating you to the point that whenever you go through suffering, 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:08.679 it's generally not the suffering that destroys you. It's the 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:10.879 fact that you don't think you should be going through 0:28:13.040 --> 0:28:18.919 what you're going through. Oh, Naming had the status. Naming 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:23.639 was the man until one day he came home, perhaps 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:26.919 after fighting the battle, and he's in the bathroom and 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:30.119 he takes off his armor. You know how you do 0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:31.960 when it's just you and the house in the bathroom, 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:36.440 he's looking in the mirror. Who's the man? Name Man, 0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:41.360 who's the man? Namen? You know how you do when 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:46.400 it's just you by yourself, and as he's looking and flexing, 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:50.640 perhaps he turns his back to go to his steam 0:28:50.760 --> 0:29:01.040 shower and he sees us a spot on this again, 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:07.160 and the moment he sees the spot, he knows what 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:11.440 it is. Perhaps he falls to his knees in his 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:16.000 bathroom trying to figure out, how can I be such 0:29:16.000 --> 0:29:23.040 a valiant soldier? And now I've gotten let proceed? How 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:26.200 did this happen to me? How do I have a spot? 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:28.920 Can I tell you? One of the first things I 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.320 saw in this text that you have to get today 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:39.560 is that everybody's got a spot. Everybody's got a spot. 0:29:39.600 --> 0:29:41.600 I don't care how much money you have. I don't 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:44.120 care how saved you are. You could have floated into 0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:49.040 a campus and had manner for breakfast. Every single person 0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:52.640 has a spot, some area in your life that makes 0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:54.800 you get on your knees and say God, I need you, 0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:57.600 some area in your life that makes you say, God, 0:29:57.840 --> 0:29:59.920 what is wrong with me? How can I be so 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:02.800 oh good over here? But I got this issue over here. 0:30:03.000 --> 0:30:08.440 Everybody's got a spot, and don't let anybody's success for you. 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:10.640 Isn't it crazy? How you can be so good in 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:16.680 the boardroom horrible at home, so good with balancing the budget, 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:22.000 but can't stop over eating. You can communicate to thousands, 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:25.480 but then not communicate to the one person that you love. 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:31.360 Every single person has gotten a spot. That's why biblically, 0:30:31.560 --> 0:30:34.400 leprosy is a metaphor for sin, because it is an 0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:37.800 issue that starts in your flesh. It starts eating itself. 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:41.200 And all of us had issues with our flesh, things 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.080 that we say, God, you are not through with me yet. 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:49.800 Everybody's God a spot. And now this warrior is weeping 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:54.360 because he's got a spot. And perhaps his wife comes 0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:56.600 in and sees her husband for the first time in 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.920 the fetal position, crying, Gord, what is wrong. But before 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:05.680 she touches him, she sees it and she says, it's okay, baby, 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:07.960 it hasn't spread it yet. It's okay, it's okay. We'll 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:10.080 do something. Just just put on your armor, just cover 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:11.960 it up so nobody will see. Because isn't that what 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:14.640 we do? Oh, we love to cover up our issues 0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:17.480 so nobody will see what we're fay saying. We love 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:19.960 to post better than we actually live in because we 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:23.640 don't want anybody to see our spot. He said, Okay, 0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:26.800 I'll cover it up. But I think the walls in 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:30.840 Nayman's house were thin. They had to be thin because 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:36.000 this servant girl from Israel. Bible says, she's just a 0:31:36.120 --> 0:31:40.240 servant girl. We don't even know her name. This servant 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.960 girl one day, perhaps says she's mopping the floors. She 0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:47.680 goes to Namon's wife, and maybe she sees her crying, 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:52.200 and this servant girl goes, I know it's not my 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:56.040 place to speak, and I know you just brought me 0:31:56.080 --> 0:32:02.080 here to mop the floors. But I'm telling you, if naming, 0:32:05.400 --> 0:32:10.160 we'll go see the prophet in Samaria. I know he'll 0:32:10.160 --> 0:32:14.240 be healed when I get to Heaven. I want to 0:32:14.240 --> 0:32:17.120 meet this girl right here. I want to meet the 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:19.920 servant girl from Israel. You know why I want to 0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:22.560 meet her because she might not have a name, she's nameless, 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.080 but she is not faithless. Did you hear what this 0:32:25.160 --> 0:32:28.280 girl said. She said, I'm telling you, if you will, 0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:31.840 just go see the prophet in Israel. She did not 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:36.040 say he might be healed. She didn't say it's possible, purchase. 0:32:36.080 --> 0:32:38.840 She said, no, no, no, I know he'll be healed 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.560 if he goes and sees the prophet This girl was 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:44.280 a slave girl from Israel, but she knew the God 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:47.800 of Israel. She had a history with God to know 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:51.240 that if there's a situation that looks impossible or incurable, 0:32:51.520 --> 0:32:53.600 there is a God that you need to call on. 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:56.760 A God that opens up blind eyes, a God that 0:32:56.880 --> 0:32:59.360 opens up deaf ears, a God that can split a 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:02.200 red said, my God that can do the miraculous and 0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:04.720 the impossible. I don't know who this is for today, 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:07.160 but I need somebody to give God some praise. If 0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:10.280 you know that he can steal through miracles, he can 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:14.120 steal do the things that everybody said was impossible. We 0:33:14.280 --> 0:33:20.960 serve a wonder working, miracle working dad. Oh see, y'all 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.000 give me that golf clap, like you don't believe it. 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.960 But I wish somebody that would really testify that's ever 0:33:26.000 --> 0:33:28.400 been in a situation in your lives where it was 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:33.040 impossible what the doctors told you, There's no way, But somehow, 0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:37.000 some way God stepped in and showed you that. I'm 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:46.120 praying to the impossible. I'm so thankful the miracles are 0:33:46.160 --> 0:33:53.280 not relegated to the past. Then he still does miracles today. Wow, 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:58.920 look at this serving girl. This girl started the whole miracle. 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:03.000 If she didn't speak up, Nayman doesn't get his miracle 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:05.760 she started. Oh that's what I want to tell you too. 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:08.000 Not only do you have to understand that everybody's got 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:11.800 a spot, you gotta know that servants always start miracles. 0:34:13.520 --> 0:34:19.880 Servants always start miracles. The reason people miss out on 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:22.960 miracles often is because they don't ever want to get 0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:28.720 low and serve. But I'm telling you, servants always start miracles. Oh, 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:31.279 I'm so glad Love Week is happening. You ought to 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:34.000 be racing to sign up for Love Week. You know why, 0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:38.920 because servants always start the miracles. The miracles are not 0:34:39.040 --> 0:34:43.400 in high, lofty places. The miracles are always in lowly places. 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:46.279 You gotta look low. We missed out on miracles because 0:34:46.280 --> 0:34:48.680 we're looking in the wrong place. You gotta get low. 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:52.320 Come here. Don't you understand that God could not redeem 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:55.279 us from heaven. That's why Jesus had to get low 0:34:55.480 --> 0:34:58.160 and put on human skin and sit where we sat 0:34:58.440 --> 0:35:01.440 and feel what we feel. You know why, because servants 0:35:02.120 --> 0:35:07.920 always start the miracles. The King of Glory started not robbery, 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:11.960 to empty himself of divinity and come down from heaven 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:15.160 to earth and your Savior, my God, and your God. 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:20.680 He washed disciples feet. You know Peter had nasty feet. 0:35:20.880 --> 0:35:27.920 Look at our God. He got low. Why because servants 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:31.960 always start the miracles. Maybe you're missing out on the 0:35:31.960 --> 0:35:37.760 miracle because you become so narcissistic and so consumed with you. 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:41.560 You're not serving somebody else. But if you would serve, 0:35:41.640 --> 0:35:48.640 you would see the miracle. This girl started the whole miracle. 0:35:48.960 --> 0:35:54.879 Be careful who you look down on, because you don't 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:56.720 know where God will send the miracle to you from. 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:00.960 Here's how I know name is he was bad. He 0:36:01.000 --> 0:36:05.680 say all know who he listened. He listened. That's how 0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:08.239 I know his leprosy was bad because he listened to 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:11.239 the girl that he would have dismissed. He listened to her. 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:13.640 And I love that. Life will do that. Life has 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.080 a way of humbling you to a place where you 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:18.319 will have to listen to some people that you would 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:21.799 have dismissed and looked past. Life will hit you with 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:23.960 some stuff. You was so cool coming in places with 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:28.160 sunglasses on inside till life hits you in the gut. 0:36:29.040 --> 0:36:32.719 And now Naming is listening to the servant, And I 0:36:32.760 --> 0:36:35.239 love it because he doesn't do it at first, he 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:37.560 doesn't go straight to a Licia's house. I wish you 0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:40.239 would have, but it takes a while, especially when you've 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:42.840 been in pride and you've been pretentious for so long. 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:47.120 He actually goes to the King of Israel first, with 0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:50.600 all kinds of gold and silver, and he comes to 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:53.600 the king visery with an official letter. Hello, King of Israel, 0:36:54.280 --> 0:36:56.160 got my official letter. You see my gold, you see 0:36:56.160 --> 0:37:03.279 my bitny chariot six horsepower, And he's trying to buy 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:06.920 his healing. And I love it because when he gives 0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:08.800 the letter to the King of Israel, the King of Israel, 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:10.520 I didn't read it because I gave you just the 0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:14.240 abbreviated version. The King of Israel goes off, he said, 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:17.359 what am i God? I can't do a miracle. I 0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:19.840 love it. I love that. The King of Israel he 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:23.720 had the title, but Elisha, who was the prophet in Israel, 0:37:23.800 --> 0:37:28.040 he had the authority. The King of Israel had the position, 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:32.040 but Elisha had the power. Can I just parandemically pause 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:35.040 right there and tell somebody who's seeking after a title, 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:37.680 don't seek after the title. Ask God to give you 0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:41.000 some authority. Don't seek after a position after God. They 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:43.719 give you some holy ghost power. Because if you've got 0:37:43.719 --> 0:37:46.200 the power, God and give you the position. If you're 0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:48.640 not the authority, God will give you a title. The 0:37:48.760 --> 0:37:53.640 King of Israel had the position, but he had no power, 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.520 so he thought it was a catastrophe. And Elisha said, no, 0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:02.000 this is an opportunity to me. He'll know there's a 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:07.560 prophet in Israel. So now watch this. Naming has to 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:10.600 go to a licious house, now where he should have 0:38:10.600 --> 0:38:15.880 gone in the first place. Can you see him, who bentley, chariot, 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:23.440 nice armor, going to a licious house? You know Elisha 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:28.600 lived in the hood. Oh yeah, And I can see 0:38:28.600 --> 0:38:30.719 people walking watching name and coming town. They said, what 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:33.680 is naming doing in this part of town? Gets all 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:36.040 the way to a licious house. And I love it. 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:41.800 Because Elisia's servant sees naming pull up. He's like, wow, 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:45.879 it's name is up there. Do you know how many 0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:48.600 followers he has? Oh my goodness, Elisha, he looks better 0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:52.400 in person that he does on the ground. Elisha's like, 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:57.440 calm down, calm down, don't be impressed with all that. 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:02.920 You don't even know. He is falling apart underneath all 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:09.239 that art. Don't let the thin veneer of success, fool you. 0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:14.160 His life is falling apart. He says, well, what we 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:15.920 gotta do something? He's here. What do you want to do? 0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:21.120 He says, uh, go tell him to watch seven Times 0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:23.960 in the Jordan. He'll be cleansed. At your service. The 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:29.880 you're not gonna say anything to him, No, you go 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:32.799 tell him then, if you watch the seven Times in 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:36.440 the Jordan, he'll be cleansed. Did you know who that is? 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:39.719 I do, but I'm also watching Law and Order, So 0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:49.919 go tell him what I said. Servant starts going out, 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:53.880 and she's like, and put your phone away? How they 0:39:53.960 --> 0:39:59.919 have it? Out? Goes up to naming. Can you see naming? 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:06.640 He still in his high horse. I just sert like, hey, 0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:15.480 beautiful chariot. Hey uh Namon uh. Elisha said, if you 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:21.120 just gonna wash seven times, you'll be cleansed. Namon says, 0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:25.759 excuse me, look, don't kill the messenger. Bro. He just 0:40:27.680 --> 0:40:29.120 he told me to tell you, if you go wash 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:34.279 seven times, you'll be cleansed. And naming goes? Is he 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:43.040 not gonna come see me? Just? He noful who I am? 0:40:43.080 --> 0:40:45.080 He does, but you know you know he's a prophety 0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:53.719 praying Namon looks at his side. He's watching Law and Order. 0:40:54.000 --> 0:40:59.319 That's what he does before he prays. Okay, just the 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:06.920 Bible says the naming turned off. You had a rage. 0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:11.480 He was so upset name and why are you upset? 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:17.880 He's upset for the same reason you're upset because life 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:23.800 is not turning out the way he thought. He's upset 0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:29.040 because of the chasm between his experience and what he 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:34.480 was expecting. And any time there's a gap between your 0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:43.640 experience and your expectations, sometimes rage and anger it's the reaction. 0:41:45.800 --> 0:41:49.080 I know you can't say anything right now, but I 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:53.399 know there's some of you that since twenty twenty, there 0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:58.000 has been such an anger and such a rage, and 0:41:58.040 --> 0:42:00.760 you're lashing out on other people and you are added God, 0:42:02.239 --> 0:42:07.200 not just because of what's happening, because of what you thought. 0:42:08.960 --> 0:42:13.080 And you're about to do what Naman did and turn 0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:19.960 off and go off and say forget it. God. I'm tired, 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:23.640 and I still lost the business. I came to church 0:42:23.719 --> 0:42:28.120 and I still went through the divorce. I was there. 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:32.400 I dedicated my child to you. Garda strung out on drudge, 0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:34.840 You're about to turn off in the rage, and God 0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:39.080 told me to tell you, please, don't go off, Please 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:42.359 don't go off. If you go off, you're gonna miss 0:42:42.400 --> 0:42:45.799 out on the greatest miracle. If you go off, you're 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:48.080 gonna miss out on the thing that God wants to 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:52.240 do in you and through you. Don't go off. Naman 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:58.280 was willing to sacrifice his miracle because of the rage, 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:03.919 because life didn't turn out the way he thought. Thank 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:10.480 God for the servant. Servants always start the miracles. Now 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:14.280 the servant stops naming in his rage and says, naming, 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.600 if he would have asked you to do something great, 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:22.080 wouldn't you have done it? Naming? Why can't you do 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:25.759 something so simple? Do you see the brilliance of what 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:29.359 the servant is trying to get naming to see? Don't 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:32.840 forget naming is a great man. If Elisha would have 0:43:32.880 --> 0:43:34.879 told him to go kill a thousand men to get 0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:37.000 his healing, he would have done it. If he would 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:39.319 have told him to go fight a lion and rip 0:43:39.360 --> 0:43:41.840 his jaw in have, he would have done it. He 0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:44.640 was a great man. He would have done anything that 0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:47.520 he could have gotten the credit for. If he could 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:49.880 have paid for the healing, he would have done it. 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:52.880 He already had the gold, He already had the silver. 0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:55.480 But he was trying to get him to understand this 0:43:55.680 --> 0:43:59.480 powerful principle called grace, called salvation. How many No, you 0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:02.960 cannot purchase grace. You cannot buyas how va should. It 0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:05.640 is a free gift that you have to receive. It 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:08.400 is a gift that was paid for about the precious 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:11.920 blood of Jesus Christ. You can't buy this, you can't 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:14.760 earn this, you can't work for this. You just gotta 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:19.640 receive it and be all be here. Wow, hear me. 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:24.360 Today some of you are trying to earn a gift 0:44:24.440 --> 0:44:30.320 that has already been given to you, and naming the 0:44:30.440 --> 0:44:36.120 great warrior, naming who could scale a mountain and kill armies, 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:42.560 couldn't do something so simple as split splash, I was 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:49.920 taken a bath. You laugh, But I see it all 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:55.239 the time. You know how many people reject Christianity not 0:44:55.360 --> 0:45:00.080 because it's too difficult, but because it seems too easy. 0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:03.640 Oh that's it. Just confess with my mouth, believe in 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:04.879 my heart that He's the Lord, and just like ah, 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:08.000 everything's washed away. That's it. Yeah, Nah, nah man, I 0:45:08.040 --> 0:45:09.480 got at least fast for a week, I got a 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:11.480 least memberize the book of Limitticus say they came here 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:15.960 that easy. Isn't it funny how we make some of 0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:20.840 the most simple things complex? And Naming was about to 0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:22.799 find out the last thing. I want to tell you 0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:29.600 that simple obedience is strength. Your strength is not in 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:33.120 your ability and your degrees and your money. Your strength 0:45:33.280 --> 0:45:37.759 is directly connected to your ability to obey what God, 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:46.239 don't you? Simple obedience is strength? Thank God. Naming turned around, 0:45:48.120 --> 0:45:50.560 he did with somebody who's watching this message has to do? 0:45:52.239 --> 0:45:57.240 Humbled himself said, I gotta forget about what I thought. 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:02.799 I gotta obey, even if it doesn't makes sense. And 0:46:02.880 --> 0:46:08.480 here's Naming going down to the Jordan River, the dirty 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:12.680 Jordan River. He was fighting all the way, he said, 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:18.040 getting there, clear of water, No obey, Your strength is 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:23.200 in your obedience. Namon had to get off his high horse, 0:46:24.760 --> 0:46:29.319 take off all that armor, covering up his skin that 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:33.240 was already falling off. Can't you see the crowd looking 0:46:33.680 --> 0:46:40.800 Is that, nameMan, I didn't know you had leprosy? Wow, 0:46:40.840 --> 0:46:43.160 I didn't know? Is that? He can hear them talking 0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:45.640 as he gets in the water. I can see him fighting. 0:46:45.760 --> 0:46:48.400 His pride was fighting him all the way. And maybe 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:50.880 that's you today, and maybe that's why you haven't surrendered 0:46:50.960 --> 0:46:53.640 your life to Jesus because of pride. But you got 0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:55.160 to get to a place in your life where you 0:46:55.200 --> 0:46:57.400 care more about what God thinks about you than you 0:46:57.440 --> 0:47:00.520 care about the opinions and the applause and the accolates 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:08.160 of other people. Humble yourself, naming. I know it hurts. 0:47:08.200 --> 0:47:14.480 Simple obedience is strength. It takes off all that armor. 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:21.399 He gets in the dirty Chortan river who he has 0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:23.879 to dip seven times, which means he can't even stay 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:28.320 in the shallow. He's gotta go deep as he gets 0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:34.640 sin he dips the first time. Come on, put yourself there. 0:47:34.640 --> 0:47:37.600 You know what you would have done? He starts chicking. Oh, 0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:40.120 nothing's changed, Come on in there. What we do? And 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:42.520 then how we sometimes bargain with God? All right, God, 0:47:42.560 --> 0:47:46.200 I came to church. Where's the race? All right? God? 0:47:46.200 --> 0:47:49.759 I did it. What you produce that is religion, That's 0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:54.840 not relationship religion, says God. I produce. Now you produce 0:47:55.160 --> 0:47:59.040 that is religion, not relationship. Relationship, says I trust you 0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:01.399 you are God and I am. I gotta obey, even 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:03.960 when it doesn't make sense. I gotta obey. Even when 0:48:04.000 --> 0:48:06.239 I don't see evidence of it. I gotta do what 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:08.480 you told me to do because my strength is not 0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:12.080 in my cognitive aptitude. My strength is in my obedience. 0:48:12.239 --> 0:48:17.479 And you said, dimp seventh time. He dipped the second time, 0:48:18.360 --> 0:48:22.759 nothing happened. He dipped the third time, nothing happened. He 0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:26.799 dipped the fourth time, nothing happened. He dipped the fifth time, 0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:29.520 nothing happened. You know, he wanted to quit on the 0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:32.040 fifth time. But just like some of you, you gotta 0:48:32.120 --> 0:48:35.040 understand that God is not Amazon Prime, and just because 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:37.839 it didn't happen on your time schedule, it doesn't mean 0:48:37.880 --> 0:48:40.319 that his word is not true. You gotta do what 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:44.320 he told you to do. He dipped the sixth times. 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:47.239 I'm sure he was ready to walk away. Oh but 0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:49.879 I thank God he didn't quit on that sixth time, 0:48:50.080 --> 0:48:53.200 because the Bible says when he dipped the seventh time, 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:57.839 he got up and his skin was completely healed. It 0:48:58.040 --> 0:49:02.080 was restored, and it proved that God still can't do 0:49:02.280 --> 0:49:06.560 the impossible. God still can't heal. Then terrible, and he'll 0:49:06.560 --> 0:49:09.520 know it. Nobody take ten seconds and give on God 0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:25.520 some praise, and there's hi right, I'm done. Everybody stand, 0:49:25.560 --> 0:49:30.560 everybody stand watch this. Don't miss the miracle. Don't miss 0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:35.279 the miracles. Watch when he got up the seven time. 0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:44.440 It says his skin was restored and became like a 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:52.439 little child. Don't miss that. It's two miracles. It's one 0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:55.439 thing for my skin to be restored to the way 0:49:55.440 --> 0:50:00.640 it was before. It's a whole another thing. It took 0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:04.319 go all the way back too, when I was a 0:50:04.360 --> 0:50:09.919 little child. Wow, look at the greatness of our car. 0:50:10.840 --> 0:50:14.400 He doesn't just restore, he says, I cannot only restore, 0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:19.120 but I can reverse and take it back better than 0:50:19.160 --> 0:50:22.480 it was before. Oh. I don't just want to restore 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:25.880 the marriage. I can take it back to how it 0:50:26.000 --> 0:50:27.719 was when you were a dayton talking about girl you. 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:36.759 I will take it back looking, naming, looking like a 0:50:36.760 --> 0:50:43.279 little gerber baby. Skin healed, And the power of the 0:50:43.280 --> 0:50:47.160 text is not just that his skin was restored to 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:54.000 being a little child. Hear me, His heart was, Oh 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:58.319 if we could just have that childlike obedience. It says, 0:50:58.360 --> 0:51:02.800 whatever you say, I'll do it. Stop trying to flex 0:51:02.840 --> 0:51:10.640 and show who you are. Simple obedience his strength. Naman says, 0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:15.440 Now I know the God of Israel. He's the living 0:51:15.480 --> 0:51:19.359 and true God, I'm so glad that he did not 0:51:19.400 --> 0:51:25.120 allow his rage and his anger and going off to 0:51:25.239 --> 0:51:29.040 stop him from missing the greatest miracle of his life. 0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:36.400 Hear me today talking to somebody who's anger is stopping 0:51:36.440 --> 0:51:40.440 you from receiving the greatest miracle. Maybe you didn't even 0:51:40.520 --> 0:51:42.440 realize that's what it was. And you've been wondering why 0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:46.200 you've been lashing out on other people, why you've been 0:51:46.560 --> 0:51:48.879 so on edge and going off. Maybe this message gave 0:51:48.960 --> 0:51:52.520 words to an internal feeling. Hear me today. I'll say 0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:57.560 it again. We collectively went through trauma together. Many of 0:51:57.640 --> 0:52:00.640 us are on the edge, filled with rage. But don't 0:52:00.719 --> 0:52:06.439 let that anger make you miss out on your miracle. Oh, 0:52:06.480 --> 0:52:10.640 there's a cost to going on. You will miss out 0:52:10.680 --> 0:52:15.120 on the greatest miracle of your life. Oh, I feel 0:52:15.120 --> 0:52:18.239 the Holy Spirit in here. Maybe you're saying I have 0:52:18.320 --> 0:52:20.600 a right to be angry. You don't know what happened. 0:52:22.080 --> 0:52:25.600 I'm not denying the hurt, I'm not denying the betrayal. 0:52:27.000 --> 0:52:30.640 I'm just asking is it worth missing out on your miracle? 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:37.799 Wait a minute, who started this miracle? The servant girl 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:45.480 from where Israel? Don't forget who name it is. This 0:52:45.640 --> 0:52:49.279 is a pagan name. It does not worship the God 0:52:49.320 --> 0:52:55.080 of Israel. He is the enemy. He's got a slave 0:52:55.320 --> 0:53:01.759 girl from Israel in his house. Scholars and theologists will 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:05.880 tell you that it is most likely that this girl's 0:53:05.920 --> 0:53:11.759 family was probably killed and she was taken captive at 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:18.680 the command of naming. Do you realize this girl had 0:53:18.680 --> 0:53:23.160 every right, soon as naming got leprosy to say, that's 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:27.360 what you get to God, be the glory that you 0:53:27.520 --> 0:53:33.040 now have leprosy. She had every right to say, Dad's 0:53:33.120 --> 0:53:36.000 paying you back for what you did to me. You 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:38.399 took me from my family, you took me from my home. 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:44.479 That's what you get. But she did this perfect girl said, 0:53:44.520 --> 0:53:50.000 if you would just go to the prophet, she'll be healed. 0:53:51.680 --> 0:53:57.160 Who offers the remedy of healing to their enemy? I 0:53:57.239 --> 0:54:00.400 don't know of anybody that does that. And for a 0:54:00.480 --> 0:54:10.040 savior who hung on a cross, said, Father, forgiveting, They 0:54:10.040 --> 0:54:17.799 don't know what. And if he forgave you, what right 0:54:17.920 --> 0:54:22.000 do you have to hold onto that anger? What right 0:54:22.080 --> 0:54:26.560 do you have to not forgive? As every head be bound? 0:54:26.680 --> 0:54:31.799 I was close Father, Thank you today for your word. God, 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:36.400 thank you that you did not respond in anger and 0:54:36.520 --> 0:54:38.600 rage when it was our sin that put you on 0:54:38.680 --> 0:54:45.720 the cross. But yet it was your forgiveness, your blood 0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:49.920 that was shed, that gave us the gift of salvation. 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:57.399 So Father, we can't do this on our own. Lord, 0:54:57.440 --> 0:55:01.360 we need the Holy Spirit to help us to live 0:55:01.840 --> 0:55:07.080 the values of the Kingdom and not this earth. Let 0:55:07.160 --> 0:55:11.760 us respond with love. Let us not take the easy 0:55:11.840 --> 0:55:16.040 route to love those that love us. Let us not 0:55:16.160 --> 0:55:20.920 take the evil route to do evil to those who 0:55:20.960 --> 0:55:25.560 love us. But Father, let us reflect your character, which 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:30.400 is to love our enemies. God, I pray today that 0:55:31.200 --> 0:55:38.440 you would heal hearts of anger, hearts of rage and bitterness. 0:55:39.800 --> 0:55:46.360 Let healing take place now, even the anger that's affecting 0:55:46.360 --> 0:55:51.839 physical bodies. Let your healing take place now. Heads are 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:53.880 still bound, ours are still close. If you're here today 0:55:53.920 --> 0:55:58.160 and you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, whether you're 0:55:58.160 --> 0:56:01.359 watching Epham or any location, I'd love to give you 0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:04.640 that opportunity. Heads are still bound, houses still close. Hear me, 0:56:04.680 --> 0:56:07.160 You don't have to earn this free gift of salvation. 0:56:08.560 --> 0:56:11.160 Naman was trying to buy it. You cannot buy this gift. 0:56:11.239 --> 0:56:14.200 You just have to receive it. So stop trying to 0:56:14.239 --> 0:56:16.560 get yourself together before you give your life to him. 0:56:16.680 --> 0:56:19.360 You can't get yourself together. That's why you need a savior. 0:56:20.880 --> 0:56:22.440 So it heads about ho's closed. I don't care. If 0:56:22.600 --> 0:56:24.640 just one person you'd be worth my flight from Dallas, 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:27.400 Texas today. If you're saying Pastor Roberty, include me in 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:31.000 this closing prayer. I need to give my life to Jesus. 0:56:31.040 --> 0:56:33.080 If that's you what you lift up your hand across 0:56:33.120 --> 0:56:35.799 every location, even at home, right there in your living room, 0:56:35.800 --> 0:56:37.920 say today's my day. I'm giving it my life. Just 0:56:37.960 --> 0:56:40.120 lift it up high enough and long enough to where 0:56:40.120 --> 0:56:42.120 I can see it. Thank you God, Thank you God. 0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:46.240 I see hands all over this place today. Thank you Jesus. 0:56:47.440 --> 0:56:51.200 Thank you Jesus. Come on, let's pray this closing prayer. 0:56:51.280 --> 0:56:53.360 We're all gonna say it as one big family. Come on, 0:56:53.440 --> 0:56:57.400 let's say it. Say Jesus, I need you. I cannot 0:56:57.400 --> 0:57:03.360 do life without you. Jesus. I know I'm a great sinner, 0:57:04.360 --> 0:57:08.960 but I also know you're a great savior. So today 0:57:09.920 --> 0:57:14.400 I surrender. I confess with my mouth and believe in 0:57:14.400 --> 0:57:18.200 my heart that you, Jesus, are the son of the 0:57:18.200 --> 0:57:22.120 Living God. You died for me, you got up from 0:57:22.120 --> 0:57:24.960 the grave for me, and you're coming back for me. 0:57:25.840 --> 0:57:30.600 But until that day, I am walking with you. All 0:57:30.680 --> 0:57:36.080 that I am is yours in Jesus's name. Come on, somebody, 0:57:36.120 --> 0:57:38.720 say hey man and give God the best hang type 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:41.520 of praise that you've got. Oh, come on, you could 0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:43.440 do better than that. I mean, really praise Him today. 0:57:44.960 --> 0:57:48.960 God bless your elevation. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, 0:57:49.000 --> 0:57:51.080 there are a couple things I'd love for you to do. 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:55.560 Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. 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