1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,520 The goodness of God, it's a great thing. 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,320 And I preach to you today out of Acts chapter 3. 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,760 Very familiar passage of Scripture here, but there's a 8 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,479 whole lot here. The setting of the Scripture in 9 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:35,920 Acts chapter 3, the day of Pentecost, one of the greatest 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:42,120 outpourings upon planet earth had happened, and Peter, which 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,280 had denied Christ, was now enabled by the Holy Spirit to 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,960 preach Christ. Thousands were saved that day 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,760 and it was a great outpouring. And you know, many sit around 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,560 and wait for the next outpouring. 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,080 But Peter took that which had been given to him. 16 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,160 Will you, will you listen up this morning? 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,280 He took that which had been given to him and he did 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,720 something with it. And I titled this today. 19 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:17,760 What have I done? What have I done? 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,560 You know, when we look it out, I think of this worship team up 21 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,560 here and I think of us. We've been together 16 years. 22 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:28,560 Doesn't happen, doesn't happen in a praise and worship team in 23 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,560 the church most of the time. And you know, we face a lot of 24 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,480 persecution up here a lot of times. 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,880 And should have did this, should have did that. 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,640 But, you know, one common denominator I found, and I've 27 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,200 been in prayer about it this week that has binded us 28 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,120 together, that has helped us together. 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,320 And I'm so blessed to have two ladies here and my daughter that 30 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,040 was raised in church. And there's one common 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,240 denominator and I and it's missing in the body of Christ. 32 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,800 And anytime we have persecution, we face an issue. 33 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,200 They come, they have come to me with it and they always say, 34 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,160 what have I done? Can I do something different? 35 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,320 What a testimony. See if we all looked at ourself 36 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,240 that way, it's we always want to talk about what everybody else 37 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,360 has done. But what have I done with what 38 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,720 God has given me? But see what I have to do? 39 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,440 I have to give. And that's what Peter said on 40 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,120 this passage of Scripture here. Let's read it. 41 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,520 Let's stand in the reading of the word. 42 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,200 You know, the word's the most important thing in our life. 43 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:37,840 In Acts chapter 3, Peter was about to partake and be a 44 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:43,240 witness of a great healing and he was headed to church. 45 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,960 He was headed to the temple. In verse one it says Peter and 46 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,680 John, they, they went up together to the temple at the 47 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,320 hour of prayer. They was headed to the temple. 48 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,760 It was a day is that was very familiar to much of them. 49 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,560 The 9th hour that they would go to the temple to pray and and to 50 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,120 bring alms. And in verse 2 it says there was 51 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:12,040 a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb, and it says 52 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,680 he was carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, 53 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,840 which was called beautiful. So you got to get the picture of 54 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,920 this. Had I had the question, had 55 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:23,120 Peter and John went to the temple before? 56 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,240 Had they walked by this man many times? 57 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,840 You know, we, we don't know, we will never know until we walk up 58 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,880 and say, hey Peter, how many times did you walk by him before 59 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,000 the Holy Ghost came upon you and you decided to pray for him? 60 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,040 We don't know. It says the man was laid there 61 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,200 every day and the man that was laid at the gate every day. 62 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,520 How many think he was expecting the same thing every day? 63 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,760 He was only hoping that someone would come by and drop something 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,760 in his bucket or something in his hat because he had been 65 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,960 crippled from birth. This man that Peter came upon, 66 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,240 he never knew what it was like to get up out of the bed in the 67 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,440 morning and complain about putting his shoes on and 68 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,160 complain about had his feet hurting. 69 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,080 He never had that privilege. Amen. 70 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,640 Because he was crippled from birth. 71 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,680 He had never took a step. He did not know what it was like 72 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,440 to walk. Can you imagine? 73 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,800 But his life was about to change. 74 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,680 And it says a certain man he was lame from his mother's womb. 75 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,160 Get that? He had always been crippled. 76 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,800 That's what the enemy likes to do to us spiritually today. 77 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,360 You've always been this way. You've always had this in your 78 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,800 life. It's a generational thing and it 79 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,680 can't be changed. It can't be broke. 80 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,600 Come on, somebody, That's what the enemy wants to do. 81 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,720 But this day was different as he laid by the gate of the temple, 82 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,320 which was called beautiful, to ask for something from those who 83 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,120 entered the temple, who's seen Peter and John? 84 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,400 He's seen them and he recognized something. 85 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,640 You're talking about people that have been in the presence of 86 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,760 God. They knew his name and it said 87 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,520 he was about to go into the temple and and ask for alms and 88 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,560 fixing his eyes on him. Something this day caught John 89 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,280 and Peter's eye about this man and he got their attention. 90 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:18,200 He said, look at us, see if you're not looking to the 91 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,160 healing and the healer, if you're not looking for the 92 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,120 anointing, you might not find it. 93 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,040 Preach that Wednesday night about distractions and about 94 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,920 grieving the Holy Spirit. So he gave them his attention. 95 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,240 You got to give the Holy Ghost your attention if you want the 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,400 Holy Spirit to fall upon you. He was expecting to receive 97 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,280 something from them, but what he was expecting to receive was not 98 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,920 what he got at all. He was hoping for some money in 99 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,440 the hat that would satisfy the flesh, I'm sure. 100 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,400 And Peter looks at it. Think about Peter. 101 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,280 What was Peter really saying here? 102 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,000 He had no money, but he knew where to get money because the 103 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,840 master had told him to go to the mouth of the fish and collect 104 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,640 the coins and pay Caesar that which was Caesar's. 105 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:11,360 So Peter knew money wasn't the issue in his life or that man's 106 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,360 life. But Peter knew that he didn't 107 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,960 need the money to do what God had called him to do. 108 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,240 And as Peter looked at him, he knew that the man, he knew what 109 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,440 the man was thinking. He knew it because he was 110 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,440 hearing from the Holy Spirit. And he immediately says, what 111 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,840 you're looking for. The silver and the gold I do not 112 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:38,240 have. But what I have I give you in 113 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,400 the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise and walk. 114 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,680 And he took him by the right hand. 115 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:49,240 I love that. You know, you always mention the 116 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:50,920 right in the Bible. It's always good. 117 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,880 The left is always bad. That was free, but he took him 118 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,440 by the right hand. Where is Jesus seated at the 119 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,760 right hand. Peter didn't only know who Jesus 120 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,960 was, bless God. He knew his name. 121 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,320 He knew where he was from and he knew where he was setting and he 122 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,840 knew what hand that Jesus was going to touch him. 123 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,800 And when he touched his right hand, the power of God shot 124 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,880 down. His hands plumped to his feet. 125 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,520 And he said, now rise up and begin to walk. 126 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,160 What I have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of 127 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,200 Nazareth. Rise up, been walking. 128 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,080 He took him by the right hand and he lifted him up, and 129 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,920 immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. 130 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:36,120 So he was leaped up and he stood and he was walking and he 131 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,760 entered the temple. I preached the message on that 132 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,600 before. Before he entered the temple, he 133 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,560 was walking and leaping and praising God, one translation 134 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,000 said. But when he got in the temple he 135 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,360 begin to walk. See, sometimes the church folk 136 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,400 will slow you down, sometimes the temple will slow you down. 137 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,800 Just come on into the house, keep praising, keep leaping. 138 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,120 Don't let the House of God or what somebody thinks ever slow 139 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,240 you down. Keep going. 140 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,400 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 141 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,280 See, when he entered the temple he was just walking and 142 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:06,480 praising. He wasn't leaping. 143 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,200 Keep leaping. And then they knew that it was 144 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,360 he who set begging for alms at the beautiful gate of the 145 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,160 temple. And they were filled with wonder 146 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,440 and amazement at what had happened to him. 147 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,600 Father, we thank you for your word this morning. 148 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,640 We thinking that your word is real, it's truth, it's life to a 149 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,440 lost and dying world. I pray for the anointing to 150 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,840 preach the gospel as you've given it to me this week, 151 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,520 Father, and that you would just touch the hearts and the souls 152 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,640 of those. I pray that what's keeping us 153 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,840 from walking and leaping and praising God would fall off of 154 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,880 us this morning, that we would realize who we worship and where 155 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,160 He's from and where we're going. It's in your Son's name, we ask 156 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,760 and we pray. Amen. 157 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,120 Lane from birth never took a step, had to be carried and laid 158 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,600 at the gate called beautiful to lay there daily. 159 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,160 You know, we relate this to our life. 160 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,480 We can drive down the road. We see a lot of this today. 161 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,800 We see a lot of it and we look for a cure. 162 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,400 Our leaders that we elect, they look for a cure. 163 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,760 How do we stop it? What do we do? 164 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,760 We see a lot of this today. Some are lame, but some are not. 165 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,600 Hello. Some are healthy, some are able, 166 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,360 but some refuse to go forward and it's no different in the 167 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,760 spirit realm. Some are crippled because they 168 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,320 choose not to get up and not to go forward. 169 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:33,840 With labor shortages across America at an all time high, I 170 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,520 believe if someone wanted to go forward a man, they could go 171 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,040 forward. But the root of this problem, 172 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,400 the root of the lame man's problem, could it be in what 173 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,720 they have been given? Peter said. 174 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,600 I don't have silver and gold, but what I have, I give you. 175 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,560 What we have is a is a hidden treasure in a vessel. 176 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,200 Amen. Of eternity and of hope of and 177 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,200 grace for the world. But yet we choose to give the 178 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:07,160 wrong thing Many times when I watched my father die of 179 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,160 alcoholism, I watched his flesh deteriorate off of his bones 180 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,240 that I watched him in alcohol poison. 181 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,920 Many times when I would stop by his house, I witnessed this. 182 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,280 And you know, every time I prayed the holy, I prayed for 183 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,080 him, but I also prayed God give him the knowledge that you have 184 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,680 given me in my mind to overcome this thing and let it get in his 185 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:30,520 heart. Because I, I believed if he 186 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,600 could just take the knowledge of how to defeat the enemy. 187 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,000 Amen. I believe if you could take 188 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,040 what's taught here and just take the knowledge of what's in the 189 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,600 Word of God and begin to give it, begin to apply it. 190 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:46,520 There's nothing that we cannot overcome, but we choose not to 191 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,520 give it. You need to give the knowledge 192 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,680 of the Word of God to your problem, not to somebody else. 193 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:54,000 A lot of time and say what can I do? 194 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,520 What do I need to face? But see, the root of the problem 195 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,640 many times is what we have been given. 196 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,000 I always thought that though. I thought how easy is the 197 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,160 addiction to overcome if you can just get the knowledge of the 198 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:10,000 Word of God within your mind and let it fall from your mind into 199 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,600 your heart and begin to give and do what it says. 200 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,720 What was going on in their mind that day? 201 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,600 What was going on in the lame man's mind? 202 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,080 Just let the holy they just let the Holy Spirit minister to that 203 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,720 man. He he could get up at any time 204 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:30,960 if he had faith in God. But Satan had made it his life. 205 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,640 The enemy makes our failures. The enemy makes our addictions. 206 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,120 The enemy takes our mouth and uses it for his masterpiece to 207 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,280 defeat others. But see on this day, two men 208 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,680 that had been with Jesus that knew that money couldn't and 209 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:52,400 wouldn't fix the situation. Somebody ought to say, man, why 210 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,640 don't we keep chasing it? It will not fix the situation. 211 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,840 And Peter said silver and gold I do not have, but I love what he 212 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,360 said here. But he said, what I do have, 213 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:09,600 What I do have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of 214 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,000 Nazareth. Rise up and walk. 215 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,000 Peter. What was Peter really saying? 216 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,760 He was saying I know a name. Hey, man, he said, I know a name 217 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,760 that can raise the dead. I know a name that opened 218 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,240 blinded eyes. I know a name that when he was 219 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,840 three days late, he called Lazarus name and he came forth. 220 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,760 I know a name, man, that paid the taxes when we couldn't pay 221 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:36,480 him, when we had nothing. I know a name and I believe 222 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,760 Peter had to be thinking, guess what, I have that name dwelling 223 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,400 in the inside of me. And he said I can use it. 224 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:46,880 You can use the name above all names. 225 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,560 Why don't we use it? And he even told us greater 226 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:53,480 worse than he did, we can do because he goes to where the 227 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,320 right hand of the father. And in Acts 4-7 and nine, we 228 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,440 have a great promise that says when he ascended on high, he led 229 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,000 captivity captive. Think about that those it was 230 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,520 captive to sin and in captivity he said I took you captive and I 231 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,040 gave you some good gifts. What did Christ do? 232 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,440 He gave. So what did Peter do that day? 233 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,160 He gave and all the disciples, what did they do? 234 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,840 They gave a man they gave their life. 235 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,360 They gave for this for this privilege that we have to 236 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,480 approach the throne of grace with boldness in our time of 237 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,560 need. What do you have this morning 238 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:31,520 and what are you giving is my question. 239 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,120 Peter gave him Jesus, the name above all names, but but he 240 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,240 didn't stop there. He reached down. 241 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,200 You know, we're good at praying and we're good at seeking the 242 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,200 seeking the Lord for our neighbor until it begins to cost 243 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,400 us something. And I, I want to pray for him. 244 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,160 I want to give God bless him, but I don't want to be involved 245 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,920 in the blessing. I really don't want to have to 246 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,680 get out of my little routine on Monday morning or through the 247 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:55,200 week to do anything. Come on, somebody out of the 248 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,040 way. But what you're giving, someone 249 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,920 can receive it and run with it. What did the man do? 250 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,240 He didn't just receive it, he was received it. 251 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,400 And he said, I got to get up. I got to go to see, let somebody 252 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,400 be amazed at what God has done for me. 253 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,000 But see today so many only give advice. 254 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,640 Somebody say man, anybody, Hey man, you've had advice, right? 255 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,160 I get a lot. I hate advice. 256 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,880 I really don't if it's good advice. 257 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,960 I just don't like the people that give it to me. 258 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,960 No, I'm kidding. I just don't like receiving it 259 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,400 from some people. Right? 260 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:36,960 Advice. What is it? 261 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,520 It's a recommendation offered for a future action. 262 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,440 That's what advice is. It's you. 263 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,080 It's you recommended me do something different or somebody 264 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,880 recommended you do something different at a different date, 265 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,880 at a different time. And most of the time, if what's 266 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,360 working in your life, you may not need advice in that area. 267 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,800 You might just keep doing it right. 268 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,520 I wonder if this man said anything. 269 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,520 Well, Peter, you ain't going to give me any money. 270 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,400 You're going to give me what you have. 271 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,760 What do you have? I don't believe that was the 272 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,200 case. I believe the anointing of Peter 273 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,960 was so strong because the Holy Ghost had just fell upon Peter, 274 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,320 something which Peter had been promised by the Father. 275 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:17,920 He said it's going to come to you. 276 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,400 And when the Holy Spirit falls upon you, Peter, you're going to 277 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,000 be much different than you are today. 278 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,600 You're not going to stand by a fire when the pretty women walk 279 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,200 by and say, hey, you're that one that was with Jesus of Nazareth. 280 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,080 You're not going to say no, I didn't know the man, I didn't 281 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,480 even know him and lie to their face. 282 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,880 But when the Holy Spirit falls upon you, Peter, all things are 283 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,800 going to become new. And even when the shadow of you 284 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,520 falls upon those that are sick and the lame, they're going to 285 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,000 feel something. I wonder if the lame man offered 286 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,560 advice to Peter, they would today if you went back. 287 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,360 You go, you go ministering on the streets. 288 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,240 I have. And you go talk to somebody and 289 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,240 you say, hey, God has called me to pray for you in this area. 290 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,160 They said, no, I really, I think we need to pray in this. 291 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,000 What do you know? You're a beggar. 292 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,960 You want to tell someone that's been fasting and praying and 293 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,880 seeking God about where to walk and where to go and what to do, 294 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,240 and you're laying there begging and you're going to tell me how 295 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,720 to pray for you. Go witness. 296 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,680 You will find that to be prominent in a lot of people's 297 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,680 lives. And I say no. 298 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,280 God wants you to deliver from this so he can fix that. 299 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,280 Let me pray for Noah. I don't want to pray for that 300 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,920 preacher. Uh oh, that's mine. 301 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,280 I ain't giving it to nobody, not even God, is what they're 302 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,640 saying. But yet we want the blessing, 303 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,400 yet we want the healing, yet we want the Holy Ghost. 304 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,160 Hello. I'll never forget when I learned 305 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,240 this in ministry. Never take criticism. 306 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,000 How many take criticism? We take it. 307 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,360 And then after we take it, what it does to us can devastate some 308 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,920 people. It can cause people to it can 309 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:05,220 cause them to sit down and never get back up your criticism. 310 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,720 It can do it. But see, I have learnt to never 311 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:11,880 take trouble. I love this. 312 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,440 I'll never forget to take God. Give me that. 313 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,119 He said, what do you do? Take it? 314 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,640 Would you take advice from that guy or that one? 315 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,920 I said, well, Lord, no, I'm not sure they even read their Bible. 316 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,240 Hey man, I see their life and they're more concerned about 317 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,240 their phone than they are anything. 318 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,920 Hello gossip. Would you take advice from that 319 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,080 is eat me up. Anybody ever had to eat you up? 320 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,120 Especially in the rodeo business, when you make a really 321 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:42,840 good ride, some yo-yo comes up and tells you, hey, no, you 322 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:43,760 should have did that. Really. 323 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:51,160 You ain't never even done it. Where was I going? 324 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,880 Never take criticism. Write this down if you remember 325 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,200 this. It'll change your life because 326 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,920 you take criticism. You either take it and use it, 327 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,320 you use it in a positive way, or it will just tear you down and 328 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:05,720 put you in neutral and you're just idling. 329 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,360 I'll try this and they criticize. 330 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,440 Never take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice 331 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,520 from. If I would take advice from you, 332 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,600 I will take criticism from you. But if you've never stood up 333 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,400 here and preached, I'm not taking criticism from you. 334 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,360 I'm going to let it go, right? But see today, people that have 335 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,840 never done the things of God, what God has called them to do 336 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,120 in our lives, seem to have the most advice. 337 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:35,200 Hello. Had the cripple had that advice, 338 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,360 giving tongue in his mouth, he might not have got up. 339 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,920 Peter said. Son, you no more than I do, just 340 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,440 lay there and stay crippled. But I got something I can give 341 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,520 you. Bless God that when it gets into 342 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:53,400 you fitting to get up and you fitting to do something, what I 343 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,560 have, I give you. But I have learned this and it's 344 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,800 really helped me in ministry and in life. 345 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,000 Write it down. Never take criticism from 346 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,640 someone you wouldn't take advice from. 347 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,200 And I have learned that people cannot give and I cannot give. 348 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,240 I had a young man that went to a church one time. 349 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,240 I knew the preacher and he come to me. 350 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,360 I've had this happen on more than one occasion. 351 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,760 And he said preacher, I've been told me pastor been reading my 352 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,800 Bible and I'm going to church over here. 353 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,720 And I don't get this. I don't get that. 354 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:23,960 And it's like the preacher stopped. 355 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,200 Sure. He said why, why, why does he 356 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,200 stop right there? Why does he read the rest of the 357 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,880 why, why, why, why? And it come out of my mouth. 358 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,400 I said it's because it's all he has. 359 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Kind of cruel I guess, but it's true. 360 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,560 If I haven't seen healing and I can claim healing, but if I 361 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,320 haven't participated in the healing, I can't tell you what 362 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,400 it's like. If I've never been addicted, I 363 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,720 can't tell you what it's like. So take your addiction that God 364 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,880 has set you free with and go give it to somebody and say I 365 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,840 had it, but I ain't got it anymore. 366 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,000 But let me tell you what Jesus did for me and let me tell you 367 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,680 how life can be. What do we give? 368 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,720 Peter didn't give money. It's easier to pull out a 20 and 369 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,800 say God bless you and never engage and feel good about it 370 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,280 when you walked away because you did help something. 371 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:15,920 You don't know what you helped but you may have helped 372 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,560 something. But spiritually you probably 373 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,400 didn't help anything, right? I've learned this. 374 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,080 You can't give that what you do not have. 375 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,600 And if you don't have it, many try to create that which they do 376 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,760 not have by intellectual thinking. 377 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,080 Y'all ready for this intellectual thinking? 378 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,560 What is it? Have you ever thought about what 379 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,000 intellectual thinking does? We have brilliant minds teaching 380 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,400 the Bible but have never performed any of the miracles in 381 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,920 the Bible. Hello, none of the disciples 382 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,280 that tell me if I'm wrong but I don't read where they had any 383 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,440 intellect. It says that Paul and them was 384 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,560 uneducated unlearned men but there was something different 385 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,200 about them. They had spent time with Jesus 386 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,040 Christ. Reading the Word is a great 387 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,960 thing. But what do you do with the 388 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,920 Word? What do you do with it? 389 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,360 Go practice it. Because, see, intellectual 390 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,400 thinking always does something. Intellectual thinking about the 391 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,640 Bible and about the things of the God and about the things of 392 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,920 the Kingdom, it does. This intellectual thinking makes 393 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,760 us blind to the simplicity of it all. 394 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,640 There's people that don't get healings because they think they 395 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,680 can't understand the healing. There's people that don't get 396 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,160 see miracles in their life and see the supernatural power of 397 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,960 God supply the needs of their life because they can't 398 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,960 understand it. There's people that don't forget 399 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,320 filled with the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in unknown 400 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,480 tongues because they try to put their intellect and own it and 401 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,200 understand it. You can't understand it. 402 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,160 I like what Brandon I went and seen his baby the other night 403 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,720 and he said of Mexican family come over and prayed for us. 404 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,440 He said I didn't understand a word they said. 405 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,520 He said I guess they were praying in tongues over me, but 406 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,360 I and his wife looked at me. You know what she said But I 407 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:00,080 felt it. Hey man, you don't have to 408 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,200 understand it, you just got to feel it. 409 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,720 The crippled didn't understand how the legs that was under him, 410 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,920 that had never took a step, the legs under him and the feet that 411 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,320 had never strapped the sandals on because there was no need to. 412 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,120 He didn't understand it. Hey man. 413 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,280 But when he did not understand it and Peter gave him something 414 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,040 of that which he couldn't understand, he had to run to the 415 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,080 store and buy him a new pair of sandals because the feet that he 416 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,080 now had were blessed of God and anointed of God. 417 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,680 How are you sitting there this morning? 418 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,560 And they was fixing to take him somewhere that he had never 419 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,120 been. Intellectual thinking only makes 420 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:38,160 us blind to the simplicity of it all. 421 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,760 Just answer Jesus call. I love those words. 422 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,440 Your answer is not on the computer. 423 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,960 You must realize, just as Jesus taught, the answer is not on the 424 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,520 computer. It's not on the Google. 425 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,120 It's on the knee in the sand. It's on the knee in the sand 426 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,120 writing a word with something that God made the dirt of the 427 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:02,040 earth and that somebody could read that shut every mouth and 428 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,960 every advice giver around him. He stooped down and he wrote 429 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,480 something and they walked away. They couldn't condemn. 430 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,160 Man, I'm like Landry, when I get to heaven, I want to know what 431 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,120 he wrote. I want to know what he wrote. 432 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:16,880 Hey, man. Because it changed a lot of 433 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:23,600 lives, changed a lot of lies. Are you getting this this 434 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,720 morning? If the computers would crash, it 435 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,640 would mess up a lot of people, All right. 436 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,480 But I think the power of God could become more prevalent in 437 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,040 her life because we wouldn't be reading about it. 438 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:44,200 We'd be experiencing it. It's better to do what give than 439 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,240 to receive. Most spiritual people today only 440 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,040 want to receive. They don't want to give. 441 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,920 So what I do, I must give you. See, if you're not operating 442 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,960 under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the enemy will send you 443 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:04,200 someone your way, someone your way with their mouth open. 444 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,600 You never know what the someone that you open your mouth to is 445 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,840 going through. Man, that's hit me in the face a 446 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,640 lot of times what they're going through. 447 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,200 Because see, the enemy doesn't want you to give anything he 448 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,400 doesn't want, if any, if anything, he wants you to give 449 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,640 false advice, negative down grading things. 450 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,080 And so many fall into this towel and into this trout. 451 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,360 But the enemy will send you to those that are trying to do 452 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:37,560 something for the Kingdom many times and that might be tired, 453 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,920 they might be struggling. What do you give them? 454 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,800 What do you give them? Give them Jesus, grab them by 455 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,760 the right hand, lift them up, lift them up. 456 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,160 Have something to give them from God, from the throne room. 457 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,080 Not what you've read in the number one best seller. 458 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:02,360 Have something from God. I want to be this. 459 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:04,440 How about you? I want to have something to give 460 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,720 them other than silver and gold. What I have, I give you. 461 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,640 In the name of who? Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 462 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,720 Peter not only knew his name, he knew where he was from. 463 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:18,280 He had spent time with him. But when you know his name, 464 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,560 Amen. When you know his name, you can 465 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,600 be loosed from whatever binds you, being loosed from whatever 466 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,840 binds you. But I challenge you to ask 467 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,280 yourself the question, what do I give? 468 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,640 I can't give that which I do not have spiritually. 469 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,000 I cannot do it. I cannot do it. 470 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,600 I've tried it. We go to Daniel, chapter 3. 471 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:48,320 We read of three Hebrew boys that were facing criticism. 472 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:54,920 They were being criticized for something that most people don't 473 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,760 want to do today. What was it? 474 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,520 Pray and not worshipping a fake God? 475 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,240 People today had rather stay at home and worship a fake God. 476 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,280 They were being thrown in the fiery furnace. 477 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,680 Why? Because they wanted to worship, 478 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,440 and the king declared A decree and they said, we don't care 479 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,400 what your decree is, we're going to keep worshipping you do what 480 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,080 you got to do, but I'm going to do what I got to do. 481 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,640 And I know that silver and gold and anything you got to offer 482 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,560 me, King, it's not going to be better than what my God has. 483 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,960 But what I have, I'm going to give to my God. 484 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,520 When I give it, someone can receive it and run with it. 485 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,120 But think about this story we read. 486 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,000 You need to go home and read if you hadn't read it in a while. 487 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,360 It's a great story. But I was reading this story 488 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:49,200 this week and it really got in my spirit. 489 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,320 I've read it preached on it many times, but something this time 490 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:58,200 was was a lot different. But in Daniel chapter 3 three we 491 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,840 read of the Hebrew boys a great story, but they were being put 492 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,640 in the fiery furnace because of what? 493 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,200 Because of their worship, because they they were 494 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:17,080 worshipping God, and it aggravated the king and 495 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,360 Nebuchadnezzar. In Daniel 3 and 13 it says 496 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:24,120 Nebuchadnezzar was in his rage and fury and he gave a 497 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:26,840 commandment to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 498 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:32,160 So they brought these men before the king, and Nebuchadnezzar 499 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,800 spoke, saying to them, Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and 500 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,600 Abednego, that you do not serve the gods or worship the golden 501 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,840 image which we have set up? Now if you're ready at the time, 502 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,240 you hear the sound of the horn and the flute and the harp and 503 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,480 the all these things, he said, I want you to fall down and you're 504 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,320 going to worship the image which I have made. 505 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,320 But if you do not worship, you should be cast immediately into 506 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,760 the midst of the fiery furnace. All they want to do was worship 507 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,840 man that got in my spirit. All they want to do is pray to 508 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,280 their God and be left alone. But the devil had to get to 509 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,560 medley. Somebody need to tell the devil 510 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,880 don't meddle with my God, because you finna lose. 511 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,480 You go to meddle with my God. If if I give that which my God 512 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,840 has given me, they something unique fixing to happen to all 513 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,560 the people around me, right? But if I don't give it ain't 514 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:26,320 nothing going to happen. And it says, get this, It says, 515 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,760 And who is the God who will deliver you from the hands? 516 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,840 And Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego answered, and they said 517 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,800 to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in 518 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,640 this manner. You ain't got to defend God. 519 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,440 Just let him be God. If that is the case, our God 520 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,840 whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery 521 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,600 furnace. And then he shows great faith, 522 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,960 and he will deliver us from your hand, O King. 523 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,880 But I love what he says. Every Christian needs to get 524 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,720 this, but if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do 525 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:11,680 not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you 526 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,200 have set up. So, Nebuchadnezzar. 527 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,120 He was full of fur. He was full of fire and full of 528 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,280 madness. An expression on his face 529 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,280 changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 530 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,240 He spoke and commanded that they heed the furnace seven more 531 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,040 times than it was ever heated before. 532 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,280 Think about it. That'd been a great place for 533 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,120 Christians to run. I know what I said, but I didn't 534 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,360 mean it. And he commanded certain mighty 535 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,760 men of valor who were in this army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, 536 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,760 and Abednego, and they cast them into the burning, fiery furnace. 537 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,360 Think about that. They bound them. 538 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,880 They rapped, probably burlap around them, where they would 539 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,080 burn faster and hotter. And then these men were bound in 540 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,040 their coats and their trousers and their turbans and their 541 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,760 other garments, and they were cast in the midst of the burning 542 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,960 fiery furnace. Therefore, because the King's 543 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,280 command was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot, the 544 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,320 flame of the fire. Think about it. 545 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,760 They were in the fire and it killed those men who took up 546 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,640 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They didn't get in the fire and 547 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:22,840 it killed him. It was so hot. 548 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,240 How many's ever been there? How many's ever been in that 549 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,360 spiritual battle? It it was so hot. 550 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,920 You didn't even want to get in it because you could just feel 551 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,600 the heat from it and you didn't want to fight it and you didn't 552 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,560 have faith that God would deliver you. 553 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,520 And you just wanted to get back from that thing. 554 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,760 You just wanted it to be gone. And it killed all those around 555 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,720 you that had faith. Maybe not them, but it killed 556 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,400 their faith. Anybody ever been there? 557 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,480 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they fell 558 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,400 down into the midst of the fiery furnace. 559 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,080 Then King Conevor was Nebuchadnezzar was astonished, 560 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,400 and he arose in haste, and he spoke, saying to his counselors, 561 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,000 Man, I can picture this king up there. 562 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:12,600 He said that we not cast 3 into the midst of the fire. 563 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,520 We all stay with me this morning. 564 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,760 Somebody needs this. Did we not cast three men? 565 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,360 Not only are they walking around, but they were bound. 566 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,440 See, sometimes it's in the fire that God has placed you so that 567 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,760 the things that are binding you can be melted and pulled off of 568 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,840 you. But yet we cry about the fire 569 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,200 instead of trusting that the God that we serve knows what needs 570 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,680 to be unbound on us, knows what needs to fall off of us. 571 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,280 We get in the complaining mode when God is working a plan. 572 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,760 Don't. Don't run from the fiery trial. 573 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,880 Did we not cast three men bound in the midst of the fire? 574 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,960 I can picture him looking in this dungeon. 575 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,000 Did we not cast 3 in there? And they answered, O King, true 576 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,040 King, yes, look, he said, but I see something different. 577 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,320 He said, I see four men and they're not bound, they're 578 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,480 loosed and they're walking around in the midst of the fire 579 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,720 and they're not hurt. And the 4th man has a form of 580 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,320 the Son of God. I begin to read that. 581 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,480 I thought, how did King Nebuchadnezzar, how did he know 582 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,560 he didn't believe in God? How did he know what the Son of 583 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,680 God was? See the enemy that you're fury. 584 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,720 He knows what your God looks like. 585 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,280 He know because somebody stand to their feet and give him 586 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,760 praise in the my house. Maybe you're in the fiery 587 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,200 furnace this morning, but he's burning that off of you. 588 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,360 Who is the 4th man in the fire? He looks as the Son of God. 589 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,600 He has the image. See the enemy knew. 590 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,360 The enemy knew what Jesus looked like. 591 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,440 Maybe he had read the book of Isaiah and heard about it and 592 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,880 heard about the prophecy of it, but there was no way he had seen 593 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,120 that. But my God, he, the power of God 594 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,680 was so strong. He knew who Jesus was. 595 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,440 Amen. When you're in the deepest, 596 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,160 darkest trial of your life, the enemy knows what your Jesus 597 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,600 looks like. You just have to keep the faith. 598 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,760 Keep the faith, keep the faith, he answered. 599 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,800 I see four men. Now. 600 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,240 I want to tell you what God revealed to me. 601 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,640 This. I'd never caught this. 602 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,640 I had never caught this. Who's seen the 4th man? 603 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,800 What was Nebuchadnezzar doing? He was inflicting the man that 604 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,840 was inflicting seen the 4th man. And it caused him to stop. 605 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,640 Hello. It caused him to stop the 606 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,760 affliction because he's seen an image of the Son of God. 607 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,360 You ready for this? Did Shadrach and Meshach see the 608 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,720 4th man? Whoa. 609 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,240 They didn't see him, but I bet they felt him. 610 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,880 Amen. They didn't see him. 611 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,200 As you may not see him this morning, you may help me. 612 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,760 Holy Ghost, You may not see him this morning. 613 00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,200 How many would stand as we close and say I may not see him, but 614 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,240 he's there. The enemy sees him. 615 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,760 He's working things out to your good. 616 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,679 The enemy did not see the 4th man. 617 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:10,320 There's no record of it in Scripture. 618 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,719 He didn't seem when you're walking around and you're all 619 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,760 bound up. I just need to hear from God. 620 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,000 He's there. He's there when you're if you're 621 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,960 the crippled man that's laid by the gate that that's taking 622 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,960 money is the answer. Silver and gold will not help 623 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,440 you. But Peter said what I have, I 624 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:36,520 give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Why didn't 625 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,560 King Nebuchadnezzar see the image of the? 626 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,840 Why did he see the image of Christ? 627 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,639 I guess it's for the atheists. They can't understand the 628 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:45,600 Trinity. Hello. 629 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,760 The enemy seen him before he was even born. 630 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,760 The enemy knew that there was something that he was going to 631 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,840 have to reckon with. He knew that when Grace hit 632 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,120 planet Earth that there was a king that would die on a cross. 633 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,200 That when you're walking through the fire and you think it's out 634 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,680 to get you, it's just burning some things off of you. 635 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,400 It's just melting some things off. 636 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,920 It's just some binding you. Hey, man, how many need unbound? 637 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,720 Church? If we've ever need unbound in 638 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:15,640 our life, we need unbound today. We need unbound today. 639 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,880 We need to be to the place where criticism doesn't even enter 640 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,640 into my head because I know what I'm here for. 641 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,880 I don't know what you came here for, but I know what I came here 642 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,920 for. Hey, man, I'll start tomorrow, 643 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,400 tonight getting ready for the next one, and I'm going to be 644 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:31,360 ready. Hey, man. 645 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,480 Because what I have, I want to give you and I want to have 646 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,080 something to give you. Hey, man, I want the enemy to 647 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,240 know that there's a fourth man that's walking around in my 648 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,760 fire. He's unbinding me this morning. 649 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,240 There's a great scripture in the Bible that says whatever we buy. 650 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,440 Can you imagine Jesus looking at those people that day? 651 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:59,400 He said whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. 652 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,520 Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 653 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:05,760 I got to tell it. Can I tell it? 654 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,360 Can y'all stand? I've been standing a long time. 655 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,000 Y'all stand? Some of you has heard it, some 656 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,000 of you need to hear it. I was going through a trial at 657 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,120 this point in my life. I had silver and gold, but I 658 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,960 hadn't been spending time with God. 659 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,920 I'd been busy chasing the dollar, working, and I was even 660 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,720 preaching at a few places, enough to make me feel good. 661 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,120 Come on, somebody, don't make me think I'm the only one. 662 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,480 Just hadn't been giving God His time. 663 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,160 And that can become a sin in your life. 664 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,200 When you get rid of all the other stuff and purge it out of 665 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,160 your life, there can be a little thing that so easily beset you. 666 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,120 I'd heard a story many times, a brother, Ron Canaster, talking 667 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,160 about an Angel coming to his rodeo arena. 668 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,120 And I'd pick the rodeo up that week, and I'd stayed after the 669 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,880 rodeo. My family come home. 670 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,360 I couldn't be with them because I had to go make money, had to 671 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,040 be away another week. And Brother Ron had told me 672 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,880 about this guy that would show up and be sitting in the 673 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,560 grandstands of his rodeo arena when nobody was there on a 674 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,400 Monday morning, whenever it was he only had a rodeo once a year. 675 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,120 He said he always shows up. He's in dirty clothes. 676 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,080 He shows up at the time that I am going through stuff here at 677 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,040 this church. He was pastoring that church. 678 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,600 So I stayed over on a Monday morning and we were about to 679 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,200 have coffee. And Brother Ron looked up and he 680 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,280 said, that's him. That's the Angel I've been 681 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:32,280 telling you about and he come up there, we're going in and he 682 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,560 looked at brother Ron and I was coming around the corner. 683 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,360 He said I need to talk to somebody that's here today, but 684 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,160 it's not you, it's somebody else. 685 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,560 He pointed over there to me. He's the only one here. 686 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:48,440 He's the only one here. I walked over and he said can I 687 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,000 talk to you? We went in, we sat down, just me 688 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000 and him. Had a little smell to him, was a 689 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,560 little dirty. He reached across the table from 690 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,040 me and I'll never forget it. He said the Lord has called me 691 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,680 here today to tell you that whatever you bind on earth will 692 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,360 be pound in heaven. Whatever you lose on earth will 693 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,160 be loosed in heaven. I spent about a year praying 694 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,560 God, what am I binding? He walked off and he said, I 695 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,040 walked outside. I said where'd he go? 696 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,760 And I didn't even see him. I didn't try to judge who he 697 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,520 was. I just knew the word he had and 698 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,920 the Holy Ghost begin to deal with me about what I was 699 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,120 binding. I spent a year praying God, what 700 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,400 am I binding, what I need to loose. 701 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,360 Hello, I was one of them early on I didn't see no need in 702 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,960 standing raising a hand. I couldn't hardly talk about 703 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,200 Jesus loud in front of people. I said God, what am I binding, 704 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,920 what I need to loose. I spent a year figuring that out 705 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,600 a year. Don't tell me God won't meet you 706 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,720 in the fiery furnace. Don't tell me God won't loose 707 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,120 those things that's bound to you that only the Holy Spirit can 708 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,160 really can, can open your eyes and loose you from the things 709 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,560 that's keeping you from being all that Christ has called you 710 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,800 to be. God is not in a shortage of 711 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,480 power. We're shortage in the way we 712 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,760 speak of the power of God. We talk in such a way that we're 713 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,600 defeated. But I challenge you as a song 714 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:30,000 plays, how many's going through a hard felt Hallelujah this 715 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,160 morning? Let's play that song. 716 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,040 A hard felt Hallelujah. Sometimes it's hard to say 717 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,760 Hallelujah. Would you bow your heads and 718 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,920 just get in the spirit? Well, if God wants me in the 719 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,680 spirit, he'll put no, no, no. You put yourself in the spirit 720 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,200 this morning. Learn to just step out. 721 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,120 Because see, that's what binding and loosening is. 722 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:57,800 Whatever I bind on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever I 723 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,920 lose. What did Peter do that day when 724 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,240 he walked by that beggar that had been crippled from birth? 725 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:06,120 What did he do? He he loosed Steven. 726 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,520 But Peter had to unbind his spirit, right? 727 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,240 Had Peter not unbound himself, he couldn't have loosed the man. 728 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,760 Thanks for listening to the Cross Powered Church podcast. 729 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,720 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 730 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:24,120 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 731 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,280 would love for you to join us in person. 732 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,840 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.