Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
cross. Now let's join the service.
Well, good morning. Oh, we almost got everybody to
say that, didn't we? Good morning.
There you go. Say, the more you put into this
service, the more you get out of this service.
If you sit here on your hands and look like the hogs just ate
your little brother, you ain't going to get nothing out of the
service, OK? We are the Eubanks.
We're from a big metropolitan area called Bismarck, Arkansas.
Boy, it got quiet in here quick, didn't it?
Hot Bismarck is down there. Hot Springs.
We we we're there now. Good deal.
We have been traveling. We sold our houses three years
ago or so and we are traveling full time.
You know, God kept telling us go full time, go full time, you
need to be out on the road. We'd stick our toe in that water
and we'd back up and say we did it.
God, he's no, you didn't stick our toe in that water.
We kept doing that. Everything we did failed
everything we tried because we tried.
If you hadn't been, and I'm starting, it's totally different
this morning and I if you ain't figured out in life if you'll
shut up and get out of the way and be still, you'll find out a
whole lot of stuff. Had an old man tell me one time,
if you can't hear God's voice, shut up.
Took me 40 years to figure out what he was trying to say.
We are from Bismarck. We are the Eubanks and I'm
trying to remember what else I was going to say.
We are not here to entertain you.
We are going to sing here in a few minutes.
We ain't your entertainment. We're here to uplift his name
because he is worthy. So you get into it.
Pastor, we didn't even discuss. Do y'all use these pieces of
wood over here or is that just decoration?
All right, let let me tell you, he and I have not discussed this
this morning and I apologize this is my fault.
But he said take liberty. So I'm about to.
I don't care what we're doing. I don't care what we're saying,
and I don't care what's going on in this.
If you need help, but if you need prayer this morning, you
get up here. Your salvation, your need, your
your Jesus mainline is far more important than anything we'll
ever sing. Our whole job with this
ministry. Everywhere we travel, we've got
#1 number one goal. And it is to make heaven as
crowded as possible. So without all that in mind, I
will, I, I'm going to do something else that I never do.
This one right here. Since y'all, how many of have
seen us before? 1 of you put your hand down,
Lonnie. You don't count dear friend of
ours. This is my much better half.
I out kicked my coverage. I'm thankful that you know I
used to make a joke that she drives everywhere we go.
All I'd had to do was hold the steering wheel mash gas in a
brake. Since this happened I set over
and be a passenger Princess and keep my mouth shut.
So I've had people ask did how? How hard did she hit you?
My brother, she didn't touch me or I wouldn't.
Both eyes would be covered. So could not imagine doing life.
Could not imagine doing ministry or anything else without this
one. You just it take me over an hour
to start beginning to explain what all she does for this
family. Would you make her welcome?
This is Jennifer Eubanks. Get you out of the way.
Like I said, we're doing this totally different than we've
ever done. So this one, huh?
Oh, well, you'll know who we are now.
So when you start throwing things at us, you'll know who to
hit. This one is 18 years old.
She graduated high school at 15, ranked number one in her class.
And of course, the fact that she was homeschooled helps that out
a whole bunch. She still hates that joke.
She is an incredible young lady of if.
If I remember and we have time here in a minute, I'll tell you
how her persistence and and her dedication to God is what put us
as a ministry together to continue on down the road
because we we were at a crossroads roads where we were
either going to stop or don't you do it.
She's quick witted too. And and but we're she believes
everything that we're singing. She is into this for God.
She's had opportunities to do other things at 18, and she
could, if she can hide from dad long enough to do it, because
I'm not going to let her. But she believes everything that
we're singing. She's born again Spirit Field,
and we could not be more blessed as parents.
This is Emma Eubanks. All right, All right.
I'm going to get the elephant in the room out of the way.
You ready? She really did marry.
No, that wasn't the that way. Hey, we're supposed to laugh as
Christians and have fun, right? If you can't laugh at yourself,
you call me and I'll laugh at you.
But all right, the eye patch. I'm going to congratulate y'all
because since June of last year is when this happened, y'all are
the second church and group of people that not a single person
made a joke about my eye patch. I'm serious.
I am very serious. There are no pirate jokes.
There hadn't been any. Any jokes like that don't bother
me. I'm retired cop.
I can handle a whole lot more than that.
But what bothered me about that? You go into a restaurant, ain't
nobody saying the thing about it.
You going to a church? They're making jokes and having
fun with it. What are we doing to people
outside of our church that's coming in here?
Y'all need to be proud of the fact that nobody did.
Pastor, You're, you're leading a good flock.
That's everybody's on it. We've had a bunch of people talk
to us this morning. Love meeting you, love meeting
more of you here in a little while.
But that, that's a big thing. And it's not because it, oh,
it's spared my feelings. It ain't got nothing to do with
that, but you bring somebody in. Why would I, as a center
outsider, want to come be a part of a God thing if all I'm going
to do is get hurt? I can get that in a bar.
So y'all, y'all are with me. I like this crowd.
So I'm going to shut up and we're going to sing now, all
right? For Joe that lost his health,
wealth and all the rest and as his troubles added up, he fell
down on his knees and said, Lord, I've still got one thing
that you love for me. You got to count your blessings.
You'll find one if. You drive, count on the Lord,
and watch that blessing multiply.
Those might have, could have, should have been, are nothing
but distressing. When you're down and down, it's
time to count your blessings. How many all are blessed this
morning You might go. Through hard times when you fall
into despair, remember you're surrounded by His blessings
everywhere. It's in a neighbors helping hand
or in the sunshine of a smile. One blessing leads to one more.
You'll be calm for a while. It's best to look at what you
have, forget what you have not, and just learn a lesson from old
job. Give thanks for what you got.
You got to count. Your blessings.
You'll find one if you try. Count on the Lord and watch that
blessing multiply. Those might have, could have,
should have been, are. Nothing but distressing.
When you're. Down and out.
It's time to count your. Blessings 1.
Risen Savior 1. Perfect love one only problem.
One is enough. You've got to count your
blessings. You find one if you try.
Count on the Lord and watch that blessing multiply.
Those might have, could have, should have been.
Are nothing but distressing. When you're down and out, it's
time to count your blessings. Thank you that.
Upset, lost and lone, I was living in
sin. Empty without.
I was dying within. And.
Then I met the Potter and he molded this clay.
I thank God for the changes. He made every drop of this
world. It washes whiter.
Than snow. 1. Such year this garment can hear
and make you home from the cross.
O Mount Calvary to win the stone roll.
Night way. I thank God for the changes he
made. How many are we thankful for the
those changes he made in your life?
A. Blind man can't see, the lame
can't walk again. I've been forgiven for all of my
sins and now the past is far behind me.
I know I've been saved. I thank God for the changes He
made every drop. Of his blood.
It washes whiter. Than snow. 1.
Touch of his garment can hear the naked woman from the cross O
Mount Calvary to win the song roll away.
I thank God for the changes he me.
I thank God for the changes. He me.
Real quick, I know we already talked about our sweet little
Emma. And as her Mama, I'm so proud of
her. She is incredibly smart,
incredibly talented. But at the end of the day, as
her Mama, I'm so thankful that she is willing to step out and
tell others about Christ. And, and she does that and the
Lord has given her a beautiful gift of discernment.
And sometimes that is a heavy load to bear, but she handles it
so well. And for a while she didn't want
to tell us about it because she thought she was being
judgmental. And we told her, you know, if
the Lord has given you a gift, you use it.
And it's not to be judgmental. It's because he's telling you
how to discern what's happening. And so we're extremely proud of
her, but she's going to sing this next song.
And, and I will introduce him in a minute, but this is Terry.
And he wrote this song when he was 17.
And it's a, it's a simple song, but it's so poignant for today
because we all need to just trust the Lord.
If you've given your heart and soul over to the Lord, then
there's no reason why we can't just trust.
But we try to get, you know, get in the middle of all of that and
we make things worse. But she started singing it
pretty regularly when she was 17.
And last year, it was really, it's kind of been her song now.
And for the Lord to take a song that Terry wrote at 17 and that
she could start using as a ministry tool when she was 17, I
love to see how the Lord works. So we hope that you enjoy this
song. It's called Trust in the Lord.
They took the man to Calvary, nailed him up for all they see,
and humiliate him. When they thought that he was
dead and gone, they placed his body in a tomb and forgot about
him. But they didn't know what they
were in for. When the storm was moved, he
wasn't there anymore. He had gone away.
Well, that same spirit still moves around.
He'll pick you up when you're feeling down if you trust in
Him. Trust in my Lord, He'll help you
every day. He died on the Grove to take
your sins away. Trust.
In our Lord, help free from your sin, no problem in life.
It's too big for him. How many y'all know that there's
nothing too big in my life that my God cannot handle?
And if your life's burning down with a heavy load and you feel
as though you cannot go on up a. And the going seems a little too
rough. No problem in life is ever too
tough. If you'll turn to him, just bow
your head and pray before him you're.
Free from your earth. Listen to Set You Free.
And through the blood of Jesus Christ, He is already paid the
price and is waiting for you. Trust in.
The Lord He'll help you every. He died on the to take you sins.
Away trust in. My Lord, He'll free you from
your sin. No problem in life is too big
for him. No problem in life.
Is too big for him. Amen.
I love that song. And Terry didn't expand kind on
what had happened with his eye. But last year was a it was a
wild year. And when you submit your life to
ministry, a lot of times the devil comes at you a whole lot
harder than anything else. And last year, so in June, he
had a stroke in the optic nerve behind his eyes.
So just the nerve, not a body stroke, but it's caused him to
be pretty much completely blind, according to the doctors.
And they say that it will not return.
But I know a healer and it between the two of us, we went
to the ERI don't know probably four or five times last year and
got a lot of new diagnosis that we were not prepared for.
And so I was pretty defeated. It doesn't take much when you
start getting, well, you got this and you got this and oh,
you're blind now in that eye and you can't see and it starts to
add up and it starts to weigh on you even as a Christian, because
I I know that the Lord has it in control, but I wasn't letting
him have control. And so I was reading one day and
I'm going to share this with you.
So this verse is Matthew 1720 and 21.
If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this
mountain, move from here to there and it will move.
Nothing will be impossible. And again, I love how the Lord
works. We were at a church and pastor
gave us some mustard seeds. And I carry this everywhere we
go. And I kind of at first when he
gave it to me, I thought, why is he giving me a jar of mustard
seeds? And I don't know why this is my
reminder to let and I'm sorry, but to let my faith take over my
fear because last year was a lot of fear.
But I got to reading because that verse kind of struck me
funny. You know, we get to we get to
thinking about how small a mustard seed is.
And growing up, it was always, you know, well, you just have to
have this amount of this amount of, and I just thought, oh, OK,
I got to have this tiny amount of faith.
But as I started reading, you know, I, I learned a whole lot
more and I can deep dive into things.
But if the Lord put it in his word, I want to know why.
There's a reason why God is sharing that with us.
So I kind of deep dived and went on this whole thing with a
mustard seed and I realized and I got real excited.
I, I figured out some 4 words and I wrote them in all caps in
my Bible. And I was chasing Emma down
trying to share them with her. She's looking at me like what
are you talking about? But way back when the mustard
seed was absolutely invasive. So when it was in a field and I
don't know if any of y'all farm, it took over.
So whatever you were farming, if there was a mustard seed there,
it crowded out everything. And you know it basically with
the soil, it just dominated it. So nothing else could, could
grow. And so farmers hated it because
they knew that they, they wouldn't be able to control it
or contain it and, or manage it. And so when Jesus was speaking
about having this faith as a mustard seed, at that time,
those readers and those listeners knew that these
mustard seeds were uncontainable, invasive,
dominating, and unstoppable. And so as I started, I kind of
sat there and I pondered that and I thought, OK, all right,
Lord, I get it. I got it.
And I had to do like a a little self check on my face.
So I'm going to ask you what I asked myself, is your faith this
morning uncontainable? Is your faith invasive?
Do you let it invade your entire life?
Is your faith dominating? Is your faith unstoppable?
I had to ask myself that. And I can promise you the answer
was to no. Every single one of those
because we've just been through so much.
And I just let everything just take over and become a negative
Nancy. But my God is bigger than that.
And so this year, and I'm not one of those that like picks a
word of the year, you know, and takes takes that.
But these words stuck with me because if a farmer who knew
that this little mustard seed was not tiny in his book, that
it was what was going to dominate his field, then I can
apply that to my life and my faith.
So I'm going to tell you these 4 words again and just think about
that with your faith. Let your faith be uncontainable,
invasive, dominating, and unstoppable.
I think we could almost change the world if all of us would let
our faith be unstoppable. There's a lighthouse on the
hillside there. Overlooks.
Live scene when I'm tossed it seems out of life that must see
the shin lanes in or out now. I will safely leave the storm if
it wasn't. For that lighthouse.
Yeah. Well, this ship would be known
and I thank God for the lighthouse.
I owe my life to Him, for Jesus is the lighthouse, and from the
rocks of sin He. Has shown.
The light around me that I can clear the sea.
If it was and for the lighthouse.
Where would this? Sure.
Be everybody that lives around us, says Tare.
That lighthouse? The big ships don't sail this
way anymore. There's no use of it standing
right. Then my mind goes back to that
storm, and I went just in time. I saw the light, yes, the light
from that old lighthouse that stands upon me.
And I think for the lighthouse, I owe my life.
To Him for Jesus is the light house, and from the rocks of sin
He has shown the light around me that I can clearly see.
If. It wasn't for the light house.
Where would this ship be? I walked in this morning, heard
him singing that, and I've drove many miles to that song.
Kept me going. In 1970, it was #1 by the
Hensons, and they're modest. They're not going to tell you,
but they got it at #8 right now, so that's awesome.
Hey man, the old is coming back and I'm glad you know it.
It doesn't take smoke and misters and dark house to
worship the Lord, you know, I found he's with me in the light
and he's with me in the darkness.
But them old songs mean something to me.
Amen. They were rolled out of out of
heartfelt stuff and I can understand them.
Some of this new stuff, I don't know what they're saying.
Is that part of getting old? Some of y'all that's older than
me? I mean, it sounds, it sounds
good, but I really don't know what they're saying.
So I can't get a blessing out of it, you know, kind of like
joining in on a picket line. Some of them don't know what
they're doing. They're just doing it.
You know, I'll never forget in Asheville, NC, I talked to some
animal rights activists one time and a guy had a toboggan on and,
and it was summertime and he was out there.
And I said, why don't you come and look at some of these horses
and bulls, how well they're taken care of.
And he said, dude, I could care less.
He said they're just paying me to hold this sign.
I fear there's a lot of churches I'm going to get to preaching.
I got to be quiet. There's a lot of churches like
that. They're just holding the sign,
Amen. But I'm glad I'm holding on to
Jesus, Amen. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. His mercy's never change, Amen.
I'm not just holding the sign, Amen.
The cross, This cross I'll that that I'll bear for Jesus, Amen.
Let's stand and go. The Lord in prayer.
Father, we thank you today for the service, and we thank you
today for this offering we're about to receive, that it would
be used to to help this great family get down the road and to
meet the needs of the church and to meet the needs of the giver.
Amen. And we just thank you for your
love. And you said in your word that
you give it back. And that which money can't buy.
Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running
over. You said you would open up the
windows of heaven and pour out things that we cannot contain,
and we thank you for that. We thank you for your love.
We thank you for your mercy. It's in his son's name We do
this. Amen.
Can I get some helpers this morning?
Kids can be dismissed to the back to the nursery and your
classes and appreciate all those y'all give these teachers and
helpers a hand. Amen.
It all right. You know, everywhere we go, no
matter what denomination we're in, no matter what city or state
or anything else, every church has one huge thing in common.
You'd think it would be God, but as pastor said, some of just
holding a sign these days, You know that they all want growth.
They all want visitors to come in.
As long as they don't sit in my seat.
There's never been a good way of telling anybody that that's
tactful. Well, you know, I, I dabble in
songwriting, so I had to come up with something.
So, well, long story, I've been working on a song that might
work for this, but I've only got part of it done.
Is that OK? Is it OK if I do just a little
bit of it that maybe this will this will help?
Well, excuse me, but I thank. You.
Oh y'all already heard that? I did that silliness for one
reason. The guy that wrote that song,
The Chair is named Dean Dillon. Dean is a incredible songwriter.
George Strait himself has written and has recorded 76 of
Dean's songs through the years, and most of those went #1 and
then there's tons of other artists that have recorded
Dean's songs. To my knowledge, Dean only writ
wrote. I could written, wrote, write,
writ. He put pen to paper to one
gospel song that I know of. I've asked Jennifer to sing it
this morning. It's a unique song.
Pay attention to the words to it.
It's about a fictitious a man named Jonas who has two jobs.
He builds Wooden Crosses and he drives nails through flesh.
Listen to the words of this. It's called lunatic, liar, or
Lord. Oh, it took me just to have a
day to make the cross seed bear and the soldiers 15 minutes for
the crown of thorns. He'd wear salmon from Cyrene.
They made him carry the cross as they marched him to the place of
the skull and offered him wine and gold.
But Jesus wouldn't take it. Some great setting free.
Someone turned to me and asked who do.
You believe? Do you take him at his word?
For it's a double edged sword. Is he a lunatic?
Hail, I roar. Well, me, my name is Jonas.
My trade is nails in men, but this one always different from
me. The other one of them with the
first back in his right hand, I looked him in the eye.
The guilty ones cry out for shame, but his they did not lie.
Was too early play for the sunset, yet so dark we could not
see. And I heard his voice cry out.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
We just cast our lots for his clothes, for none of us were
sure. See a little tick?
Hail, I roar. Who we gathered in our room in
our sorrow and despair. Mary rushed from the tomb, said
Our Lord is not there. It suddenly appeared to us with
spike marks on his feet, reached out his hands of blood and love
and turned to them and me, he said.
Now who? Who do you believe?
Do you take me at my word? It's a double edged sword in my
lunar take, Yes. I take him at his word.
He's my shield and sword. No lunar take.
He's my. Hallelujah.
This is an old song and I know a lot of y'all probably know this,
but I'm gonna try to do it. But we were in a church
yesterday that was full of mold and I am feeling it this
morning. And but this song still holds
true because without that blood that Jesus shed on Calvary, I
would have nothing. And he was willing to pay that
price that a lot of us aren't willing to pay.
And so if you know this song, you can sing along.
But it's an old good one, The blood.
The blood that Jesus shed for me way back on carry.
It's. That blood that gives me
strength from now to day, and it will never lose its purse.
It reaches the highest mountain and it flows to the lowest, the.
The blood that gives me strength from day-to-day, it will.
Never. Lose its.
It soothes my doubts and it calms all my feet in that same
man drives all of my tears. It's that blur that gives me
strength from day to. Day.
It will never lose it's power it.
Reaches to the highest mountain and it flows to the lowest
valley. Roar.
Of the. Lud.
That gives me strength from day to.
Day. It will never lose.
It will never. Lose.
It will. Never lose his.
He lies awake there, all alone most every night, looking back
on all of his mistakes. He's wishing through his tears
that he could just go back 'cause there's a lot of things
he'd like to change. He just can't forgive himself
and forgive even though God already did if he can love
someone. And find the good within, in
spite of what they've done, no matter where they've been.
If he can let it go and set the dead and free, if he can keep
forgiving you and me, why can't we?
There've been times I've been so hurt by someone.
Else I didn't want to give a second chance.
I let all the bitterness take control.
And took grace into my own head. But even Jesus said, whoever's
done, no. Wrong.
Let them throw the first storm. If he can love someone and find
the good within in spite of what they've done, no matter where
they've been. If he can let it go and set the
dead free. If he can keep forgiving you and
me, why can't we? He was hated and rejected,
betrayed by those he trusted, even hanging on a cross.
He said Father, please forgive them if he can love someone and.
Find the good within, in spite of what they've done, no matter
where they've been. If.
He can let it go. And.
Set the dead of three. If he can keep forgetting you
and me, why can't we? Why can't?
We, you know, when they dig up precious metals, gold and
silver, they have to clean it and they have to purify it.
Does anybody know how they purify it?
By heat? By fire?
My desire is that he takes his fire and he burns me till there
ain't nothing but His Holiness left in me.
And that's what this song is about.
When I first heard it, I had to do a double take.
You know, we were talking about newer songs and, and dear friend
of ours, matter of fact, Zach's aunt wrote, Melissa wrote this
when I first heard it. I'm like, wait a minute.
I thought I was getting fire insurance.
I don't want to. That's not the point of this
song. We're not talking about literal
fire. We're talking about heavenly
fire. We're talking about holy fire.
And I want him to burn it and I want him to purify me and
cleanse me till there ain't nothing left but His Holiness.
Y'all y'all listen as she sings. I'm so far from perfect.
I am riddled with flaws. I'm not living for earthly
applause. Come and transform me.
Renew my mind. Making me.
Golden. Purely refined.
So set me on fire, consume me with flames, till all that is
holy is all that remains here in your Old Town.
I'm taking my turn presenting my life. 1 sacrifice.
So let it burn. I'm tired of religion and I
refuse to play games. I'm weary from striving and
seeing no change. I long for revival that sets man
free. A true reformation beginning.
With me. So set.
Me on the consume me with flames to all that is holy is all that
remains in your order. I'm taking my turn presenting my
life once I revise. So let it burn.
Burnout the metal, Burnout the. Drawers.
Every ambition I count it has loss.
Lord, I surrender completely to you.
Make me acceptable. Send me on fire.
Consume. Me with flames, to all that is
holy is all that remains. Here in your.
Order I'm taking my. Let's turn presenting my life 1
sacrifice. So let it burn, let it burn, let
it burn. Well, thank you all so much for
letting us be here this morning. We're going to do one more song
and get out of the way. At least that's the plan.
Here's the deal. I can't go somewhere and tell
you how great my God is. Sit here and sing about how my
Savior, what He's done for me and not give you a chance to
meet Him. I may be sitting in a room full
of save people on their way to heaven, names in the Lamb book
of life and every other cliche and biblical term that you can
come up with, and that's awesome.
But he left the 99 for the one. If there is one in here, then
we're going to do this. A little different for me, yes,
maybe normal for y'all. If there is one in here, please
stop everything you're doing. Stop your mind for 30 seconds
and listen to my voice. This world is coming to a close.
Don't let anybody tell you the date, the time, the hour, the
the year or anything else. They're lying.
Just cut it blunt. They don't know what they're
talking about, but it's going to happen and if you're not ready
on that day, you will burn in hell for eternity.
There is no Gray area. It's heaven or hell.
There are churches out there that have false doctrine that
want you to feel warm and fuzzy. Warm and fuzzy will put you in
hell faster than everything you can do.
If you have any doubt this morning of where you will spend
eternity, let's fix that doubt. I want you to leave here knowing
that you know that you know that you know that you're on your way
to heaven. There's only one way to get
there. Came by, you can't go to church
every Sunday and and Wednesday and every other time that
there's no deed that you can do. You can't clean yourself up good
enough to make your way to heaven.
I have had people say, well, I'm going to look, I've still got a
few things. I'm going to clean them up in my
life before. You can't get clean enough to
deserve to get in the presence of God.
He said come as you are. So this morning I'm asking you
to come as you are. There's another group of people
that sitting in here told you they ain't no Gray area.
It's either A or B. So you're either unsaved and on
your way to hell or you are saved by the grace of God and
you are on your way to heaven. To those of us that are on our
way to heaven, we got up here and we probably got on our knees
and we surrendered all and, and we cried our tears and we piled
up everything that we have in our past about that high.
And then we got up off of our knees and a lot of us put about
8590% of it back in our pocket and walk through these doors
expecting to go into battle. Y'all, you don't have to carry
around that garbage anymore. You want to experience freedom
for the first time in your life, you come up here and unload it.
God said, come unto me all year weary and heavy laden, I'll give
you rest. You won't rest.
Some of you need the rest, and I'm not talking physical rest,
I'm talking that spiritual battle that's going on.
And here's the other thing that I need from you see, I've always
wondered why we close our eyes and we got to walk up and that's
embarrassing and that's it and that's it.
Did you know that one step that you do just to come up here and
pray, just to come up here and shed the garbage that you're
carrying around? Maybe just enough to encourage
somebody over here that's not safe to get up and walk down
here. Y'all may do it from where you
sit. Don't care.
I I know several people. Do you know this building ain't
always been here. Why did I say that?
Because the ground means absolutely nothing.
The man made structure that this is in that ain't going to get
you to heaven. This is for comfort.
Same people get baptized and after and we just talked about
it this morning pool and and I told church Christ kid one time
we were talking and he said well I can't get saved.
I said why he said because of baptism in our church is broke.
I said, son, you realize that that water supply and that pipe
is the same one that supplies water to that toilet sitting
over there. There is no holiness in that
water, but we can get some in you as we do this last night.
I want you to think long and hard about where you've been.
I want you to think about your past.
I want you to think about the things that you've done that
you're ashamed of. And then I want you to smile
because the Savior, if you're born again, has cleaned those of
you, Satan, now Satan wants you to remember these.
God says, I've got it. I'll cast it as far as the east
is from the West, never to be remembered again.
If you're carrying around that garbage today, do what Jesus
told you he was going to do. Cast it as far as he says from
the West. Now, I ain't the brightest bulb
in the box, but I can tell you that's a long way that I can't
comprehend. And if he's going to y'all
almost said it. There's another line that I use
that I don't want to offend anybody this morning.
So I'll a buddy of mine has to do with Walmart.
Anyway, the bottom line is this, if you ain't saved, you get up
here and let's get it done. And you can walk out of here
with your head held high, knowing that your child of the
one true king. And if you're carrying around
and if you've got issues, you got needs this morning, you need
prayer this morning, you got something you're dealing with.
Well, I don't know if I got things going on.
I tell you what if you don't know if things are going on in
your life and then you, you do right here, you put your fingers
right here. And if you feel that if you got
one of those, you're going through something this morning.
And Satan is a liar and he's out to kill, steal and destroy.
We're going to do this last song.
And it simply says, no matter what you've done, no matter what
your past looks like, no matter what you've been through, you're
never too broken to belong to him.
As we sing this, you come. The door is open.
Come on in as you are, all you need to bring is what remains of
your heart. I see the ears of fear and pain
on your face, but take a step inner in.
You are safe in this place. You.
Are never too broken to blow. Never too dead, never too far
gone. When you find Jesus, you'll find
your home. You're never too broken to move.
Come find the perfect love that no one is no one.
Is a. Piece so sweet it can't be put
into words. And grace that's greater than
the darkest of sin. Take a step in a ring.
Let the healing begin. You're never too broken to move,
never too net, never too far gone.
When you find Jesus, you'll find your home.
You're. Never too.
Broken. To born.
And we? Too are wounded and defeated, so
we know how you feel. And by the wounds of our
Redeemer we believed. We.
Were here you're never too broken to war you're.
Never too broken to war, never too.
Never too far gone. When you find Jesus, you'll find
your. Home, You're never too broken to
blown. You're never too broken to
blown. Never too broken.
Wow, what a song before we close, before we close we me and
my wife felt led to do something and she whispered there and the
Lord was moving and I want you. Can you sing that song about
trust again for us at closing? You know, the Bible says that we
do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the against
the principalities and the rulers of darkness.
And it that Scripture always intrigued me because it said
it's trying to live darkness is trying to live in a heavenly
place. But when Jesus came, he said, I
came to expose the darkness, the sickness, the pain.
And in Matthew chapter 14, there was a boy that got healed.
You know, healing was a big part of what Jesus did.
It's why he came. And in Matthew chapter 17 and
14, a boy had came, his father had brought him and he had laid
him at, he laid down at Jesus feet.
And he said, Lord have mercy on my son for he's an epileptic and
he suffers severely for he often throws himself into the fire and
often into the water. So I brought him to your
disciples, the closest ones with you.
I brought him to them. And they've been talking about
all the things you could do. We kind of fall under that
category. We talk about what all Jesus can
do, but when it comes our time to respond, we, we, we want to
turn the lights down a little bit and set in the darkness.
But he said, I brought him to your disciples.
And on this particular day, they could not heal him.
They've been hanging out with the healer.
They had been rubbing shoulders with Jesus.
They had been eating and sleeping with him and, and, and
going around and traveling and ministering.
And yet it says they couldn't cure him, couldn't cast out the
demon. And Jesus answered, how do you
think he answered that? He called him faithless and he
called him perverse, probably told him they didn't have the
faith of a mustard seed. And he said, how long shall I
bear with you? I wonder when God looks at the
church today and we, we raise our hands, we clap, we tell
everybody how God heals and all the things he does and how long
will he bear with us? But it, it goes back right here
to why it didn't happen. And Jesus, he rebuked the demon
and it came out. Can I say that again?
He rebuked the demon, we feed the demon and he said they were
faithless. They said they were perverse and
Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out in the child was cured.
That say it with me that very hour.
Then the disciples came to him privately and he said why could
we not cast it out? Why could we not?
He said this. You can put whatever theology
you want on to it, but it all goes back to faith, the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of what we cannot
see in Hebrews just described. But he said because of your
unbelief, he said for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith
as a mustard seed, not only did mustard seed take over the
field, but you know when, when I call them planologist, I don't
know the word horticulturalist, they say when you take this
seed, you know they breed seeds. I don't understand how seeds
breed and all that. But they say you can take one of
these mustard seeds and it will not cross with anything else.
It will not produce. So your faith doesn't produce in
your doubt. Faith does not produce in fear.
Y'all are getting quiet on me. And yet Jesus said, we don't see
things in our life because of unbelief.
For surely I say to you, you, if you have faith of a mustard
seed, you will say to this mountain, what's your mountain?
Would you stand to your feet this morning?
I said, what's your mountain? You got a mountain this morning.
Somebody's got a mountain. I want my wife to come down
here. She's she's facing the mountain
of cancer. And the Holy Spirit spoke to my
wife, I want you to come down here with my wife and pray with
her. We feel you're facing something
too, because all of you can look on, but you're facing the
mountain. The question is, have you, have
you spoke to the mountain? What did he say about the
mountain? He didn't say go believe the
greatest doctor. He said to this mountain, move
from here, move from here to there and be cast.
Where? Into the sea.
And he said this. He said in nothing.
Say that with me, nothing will be impossible for you if you
don't doubt it. But you believe.
But yeah, we're so weak Christians, we're scared to
bring it before God. We think that the doctors
already spoken that science already had.
No, he's fixing to rock some world this morning.
I'm not a preacher that sits here and tells you, you come up
here, you'll be healed. But I'm going to tell you, you
can. I don't know if God's going to
heal your situation. I don't know if the demons
you're carrying around are going to come out, but I can tell you
he can. He said we have not because we
ask not. Thanks for listening to the
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