You Are a Child of Promise

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She 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.200 was telling me what she was concerned about and what 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.839 she wanted me to pray for. And then she looked 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.880 right at me and she said, I feel unnoticed by God. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.480 I feel like God doesn't even care about what's going 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.800 on with me. You know, I believe that sometimes we 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.200 can all feel that way. We get struggling with something 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.440 so long in our life, we wonder, God, where are you? 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.400 Do you even see what's going on in my life? 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:15.120 Do you even care? Sometimes we're in a room like 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.400 this and we feel like just one person in the crowd. God, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.520 how do you find me in the midst of all 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.720 these people? But can I tell you today, God's eyes 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.440 are on you. I want to be the one that 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.880 reminds you. God sees you. The Bible says that He 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.840 knew you before the foundation of the world, that he 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.400 handpicked you. See, he knows every single hair on your head. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.920 Now that blows my mind. But God is God, and 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.360 if he said it, I believe it no matter what 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:57.480 I feel like, even if I feel alone in a 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.320 crowded room, I'm going to stand on the word that 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.320 God says he knew me. He knows my downsitting, he 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.680 knows my uprising, and Bible says he knows my thoughts 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.240 from Afar. I don't even have to speak anything, and 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.600 God already knows me. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:15.359 You see. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.760 God knows you today. But if we're gonna overcome those 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:27.200 crushing feelings of feeling alone, feeling uncared for, We're gonna 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.359 have to stir up our faith. We're gonna have to 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.959 remind ourself every day. God does know me, He does 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.960 care for me, and me and God we're a majority. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.560 We can do anything but fail. See with God, anything 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:47.760 is possible, anything is possible. Whatever you're faith things, it's 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:53.559 possible if you take hold of God. Luke, Chapter thirteen one, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.240 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on this 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:02.080 Sabbath day. There was people all around. It was crowded, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:03.680 and he began. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.840 To teach them. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.520 And in the middle of his teaching he stopped. He 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:13.040 stopped because he took notice of a woman that was 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.960 in the crowd. You see, the woman that was in 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.719 this crowd. She wasn't dressed beautifully, she didn't walk in late, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.599 and that's why he noticed her. The woman that was 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.440 in this crowd, the Bible says. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:27.520 Was crippled. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:33.200 In fact, she was bent over like a horseshoe. It said, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:38.200 she couldn't even straighten up. Luke describes her as a 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:43.200 woman that was afflicted with a spirit of infirmity. Now 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.359 we don't know what that infirmity was, but it was 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.880 something that had bound her up. We don't know what 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.640 had happened in her life, why her body was so 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.599 weak and so frail. But she was in the synagogue 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.039 that day bent over. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:00.080 Oh. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.000 Now, if I asked you to stand up right now, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.920 and I said, hey, let's everybody, let's bend over. You 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.240 would go Victoria, quit being so silly. You probably laugh 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:11.760 a little bit. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:13.039 You'd be there. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.919 But if you were bent over for eighteen years, it 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.760 wouldn't be so funny. You see, the Bible said she 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:27.880 was bent over for eighteen long years. You see. I'm 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.960 sure there were people standing, and there were people's city. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.080 The most amazing thing to me that day was that 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.760 Jesus noticed her. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.040 See he fixed his eyes on her that day. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.599 I'm sure when she came in she didn't feel like 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:47.880 anybody knew who she was. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.400 She felt very unnoticed. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.839 But the good news is Jesus saw her and he 0:05:55.920 --> 0:06:00.200 knew all about her. In fact, he immediately called that 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.440 woman forward. He stalked everything that he was doing, and 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.080 he called her forward. Can you imagine that sweet little woman. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.680 I don't know how old she was, but she has 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.640 been over. So she just appears to me like she'd 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:14.599 have felt pretty. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.440 Frill and old. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.920 She might not have been. We just know she had 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.560 it for eighteen years. But she began moving slowly towards Jesus, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.320 and he spoke this word to her. He said, woman, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:38.440 you are free from your infirmity. Today you're free. I mean, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.880 she was shuffling, and she heard those words, I'm free 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.880 from my infirmity today. Then he touched her, and the 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:51.040 Bible said, she immediately stood up. She hadn't stood up 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.240 for eighteen years. This woman had been looking at the ground. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.839 All she had seen was the dust of the ground 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:04.080 and people's feet. She didn't even see their faces. She 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.640 didn't even see Jesus that day. But when he said, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.360 you are loosed from what is binding you, and he 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.520 touched her and she stood up. Can you imagine the 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.240 first face she had seen in this upright position. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.360 Was a face of God. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:30.040 It was a face of Jesus. You see, she felt 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:35.840 like no one saw her. She had an identity of 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:41.720 being crippled. But Jesus saw her as a daughter of Abraham. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.160 You see, he didn't see a crippled woman when everyone 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.640 else did. He saw a daughter of promise. And he 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.600 set her free that day. Now I was thinking about this. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.240 She'd been crippled for eighteen years, she'd been looking down 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.360 at the ground. I wonder how long it took her 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.640 to realize that she was set free. But she wasn't 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.040 crippled anymore. I mean, she was standing up straight. But 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.640 you know when You've been a certain way for so long, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.160 it's hard to believe you could be another way. It's 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.360 kind of like an attitude when that attitude's had you 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.360 for so you've had this attitude for so long. Somehow 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:28.120 that attitude has you. I wonder how long it took 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.920 her to realize she just got set free. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.320 And I believe when. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.320 I'm talking to somebody today that's bent down under a 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:41.559 heavy load, you don't even realize that you're a son 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.640 or a daughter a promise, and that God has already 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.160 spoken the word and he's already set you free. He's 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:53.720 already freed you from what would bind you. But you 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:58.040 just don't realize it yet. You see, the enemy wants 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:04.080 you low, really, he wants you looking down. He certainly 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.319 doesn't want you to see the face of your savior. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.640 He doesn't want to see you to see that you 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.199 are a son and daughter of Promise. You see, he 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.160 called her a daughter of Abraham. There were some opponents 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.240 in the crowd that didn't want her healed that day. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.120 They were looking for all the reasons that women shouldn't 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.200 be healed. But you know what he said. He said, 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.880 this woman is the daughter of Abraham. She has every 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.720 right and every authority to be healed any day of 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:38.760 the week. And sometimes people try to keep you bent 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:43.440 over with their words, with the situation. Man, your own 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.160 mind tries to keep you weighed down. But can I 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.920 tell you you have all power and authority to stand 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:55.360 up straight because Jesus is already calling you forward. We 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.640 got to shake the dust off of us and stand 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.320 up and move move forward. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:02.640 You know. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:07.320 I admire about this woman. I admire the fact that 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.200 she was in the synagogue that day. She didn't let 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.960 her bent over cripple condition keep her from the position 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.800 of hearing what Jesus had to say. And too often 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.360 we allow the conditions in our life to keep us 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.760 from our position of faith. We say, I can't come 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.319 to church today. I'm too tired. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:31.240 Man. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.640 My boss has me working six days a week. My 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.120 children have me running them to every activity that there are. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.360 I'm tired. I need to rest. You see, nobody would 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.600 have blamed that woman for staying home on the Sabbath day, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:48.959 but she didn't. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:50.360 See. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:55.000 She didn't allow her condition to change her position. She 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.840 was a daughter of Promise, whether she knew it or not, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.239 and that's what kept her going. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.280 I want to encourage you today to stir your faith. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:11.440 Don't allow anything to bend you over, to bind you up, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:18.160 because whom the sun sets free is free. In deed, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:26.320 you are free. Indeed, today you've been bought with a 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:31.480 great Christ. You are joint heirs with Jesus Christ. You 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.360 have a covenant between you and God. You see, that's 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.720 what that woman had, That's what Jesus saw. He didn't 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.320 see her crippled body. He saw his covenant with her. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.000 He saw an agreement that couldn't be broken. And you 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.040 stand in a position today of covenant. There is an 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.040 agreement between you and God that cannot be broken. There's 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.720 no devil on earth that can bind you anymore because 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:04.200 you're free, free, free, indeed, you see, it's up to 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.880 us to get ourself under the word to understand that 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:13.800 Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 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