1 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,560 Well, could you lift your hands and just thank the Lord for the 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,600 chance to be at his house today? Let's magnify him. 3 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,280 Jesus, we glorify you. Jesus, we thank you. 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,200 Hallelujah, we, we love you. Jesus, you are worthy today. 5 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,240 If you would stand with me this morning for the reading of the 6 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,720 word of the Lord, I'd like to turn your attention to the book 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:38,800 of Romans, Chapter 7. What a privilege it is to be in 8 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,880 God's house today. Amen. 9 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,360 We're so very thankful for that. Thank you Jesus, it's good to 10 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,960 see everyone here this morning. Please do not forget this 11 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,240 evening service at 6:00. Our very own Bishop will be 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,200 ministering the word of the Lord to you tonight. 13 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,160 So we are looking forward to that. 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:04,120 Somebody say Amen. Romans Chapter 7 and verse 22. 15 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:16,520 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I see 16 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,240 another law in my members warring against the law of my 17 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:26,600 mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin 18 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:36,160 which is in my members. O wretched man that I am, let me 19 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,160 back up there. I want to read that the way I 20 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,120 hear it in my, my, my, the depths of my soul. 21 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:50,360 O wretched man that I am. It's almost as if it's a 22 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:56,400 declaration. Who shall deliver me from the 23 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,880 body of this death for a few moments this morning? 24 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,440 And I might make a whole lot of friends today because I'm not 25 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:09,720 going to break any time records. But for your few moments this 26 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,120 morning, with God's help, I want to minister to you on this 27 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,360 subject. It's time to bury the dead 28 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,640 bodies. It's time to bury the dead 29 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,160 bodies. Would you put your Bible down, 30 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,640 lift your hands and your voice to the Lord right now and ask 31 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:32,360 God for his help today. Hallelujah, Jesus, we love you. 32 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:38,160 Holy Ghost, sweep through this house right now. 33 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,840 Minister today by the empowered and anointed word of Almighty 34 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,440 God. Help me to minister today with 35 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,720 wisdom and clarity in Jesus name. 36 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,440 The Lord bless you, You may be seated this morning. 37 00:03:30,470 --> 00:03:38,070 On November 13th, 1985, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted 38 00:03:39,150 --> 00:03:44,710 in Colombia, South America. It resulted in fast moving mud 39 00:03:44,710 --> 00:03:49,590 slides that buried the town of our Marrow some 30 miles away, 40 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,360 killing an estimated 20 to 25,000 people. 41 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:01,120 Among the aftermath of this historic volcano eruption was 13 42 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:07,720 year old Omaira Sanchez, who was buried alive in the resulting 43 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,880 landslide. Omaira became trapped under the 44 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:18,720 ruins of her home and submerged chest deep in Muddy Waters for 45 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:24,520 nearly 60 hours. Emergency responders arrived but 46 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,280 lacked critical equipment such as cranes and hydraulic pumps 47 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,600 needed to remove the debris without causing further harm. 48 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,520 Omira was pinned beneath heavy objects, including concrete 49 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,960 slabs and including the body of her aunt who lay beneath her 50 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,240 feet under the Muddy Waters. With her body wrapped around her 51 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:55,080 legs and feet of Omira, attempts to free her wrists Serious 52 00:04:55,160 --> 00:05:01,080 spinal or limb damage. Doctors judged without proper 53 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,360 surgical facilities, amputation was not feasible and that 54 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,000 allowing her to die peacefully was the most humane option. 55 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,920 Despite agony and exposure, Omira showed remarkable 56 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,240 fortitude. She sang, she accepted soda and 57 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,400 sweets. She carried on conversations. 58 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,600 She even worried about being late for school in a math exam. 59 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,600 As time passed, her condition deteriorated dramatically. 60 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:39,880 So at approximately 10:05 AM on November 16th, 1985, 13 year old 61 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:45,360 Omaira Sanchez of Armero, Columbia, South America quietly 62 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:51,000 passed away. Romans Chapter 7 describes the 63 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,200 spiritual and psychological battle faced by humanity. 64 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,840 The Apostle Paul. Contrast that the law of God 65 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:04,200 which is holy and good and just, and there is the flesh which is 66 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:09,440 weak and prone to sin. The will to do good is present, 67 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,960 but the inability to perform that good consistently due to 68 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:19,560 sins influence is also present. To further explain this 69 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:25,040 phenomenon we see in Romans 7 and 21 I find then the apostle 70 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,200 Paul writes a law. A law here is defined as a 71 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:35,920 binding rule or guiding principle that when I would do 72 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:47,160 good, evil is present with me. This verse carefully explains to 73 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,880 us the nature of the law of sin. So when Paul says in verse 21, 74 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,680 evil is present with me, he is acknowledging a law or principle 75 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,160 that even when he sincerely wants to do good, there is 76 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:08,240 another force at work within him that resists the good that 77 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,400 undermines his desire to do good. 78 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,440 In an explanation of the evil referred to in this passage, the 79 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,920 Greek translation refers generally to moral evil, 80 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,760 wickedness, or something harmful or bad. 81 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,120 It's not just referring to acts of sin, but to a corrupting 82 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:34,520 force or presence that lingers and influences our actions. 83 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,680 This evil, ladies and gentlemen, is internal. 84 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,880 It's not external. It's something that is not 85 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:46,880 outside tempting Paul, but it's something that is within him. 86 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,640 And of course, when I refer to Paul, I am referring likewise to 87 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,720 us, using him as an example. This evil is persistent. 88 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:03,560 It is ever present with me, which implies it really doesn't 89 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,040 leave. It coexists with all of my 90 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,360 desires to do good. This evil is contrary to my true 91 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,400 self, as Paul describes in the following verses of this this 92 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,360 this layout of of the law of sin that he is describing. 93 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:29,760 It's not what he wants, but it's what he does, showing a split 94 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:37,320 between intention and behavior. I need to tell somebody this 95 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,320 morning that you will not make it successfully in your walk 96 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:48,320 with God solely on your intentions, because your 97 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,560 adversary, the devil, has an evil that coexist alongside you 98 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,200 every day. When you wake up in the morning, 99 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,960 it's there. When you go to sleep at night, 100 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,960 it's there. And its sole purpose is to 101 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,600 derail you. Its sole purpose is to misguide 102 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,920 you. Its sole purpose is to influence 103 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:15,480 your intentions so that your intentions never become your 104 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:23,920 behavior. Have you ever said I didn't mean 105 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:29,560 to do that? Have you ever said, whoa, I 106 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:35,480 didn't mean to say that? Or have you ever said, whoa, 107 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:41,920 where did that come from? If you won't admit to it, that's 108 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:43,080 fine. I've said all three. 109 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:51,160 Paul calls this principle a law, not in the sense of divine 110 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,760 command, but a principle of consistent operation, somewhat 111 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,440 similar to gravity. It just exists. 112 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,360 In other words, it's a pattern that he saw in himself that also 113 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,920 applies to us. The moment he tries to do what's 114 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:13,040 right, this law, this principle, this contrary nation nature 115 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:18,560 between a saved man and his actual behavior, this evil kicks 116 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:22,760 in. It's almost as if it senses that 117 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,480 good is about to happen, so it has to kick in and engage to 118 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,400 influence the action to disrupt good intentions and further draw 119 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:39,040 a person towards sin. The sin nature, also known as 120 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:46,680 the flesh or the old man of sin, is the part of human nature 121 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:51,760 corrupted by the fallen Eden. It coexist with a regenerate 122 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,960 mind and what that means is even after conversion, believers 123 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:02,640 still battle with sin. You're mistaken today if you 124 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,440 think that coming to God is going to solve all of your 125 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:11,240 problems. I'm sorry to be that honestly 126 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,560 blunt with you this morning and I don't want to derail anyone's 127 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,560 viewpoint of God. Yes, He is omnipotent. 128 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,320 Yes He is great. Yes, He is all knowing and all 129 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,640 powerful and we worship Him and we love Him. 130 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,800 I'm not trying to downplay that or being sensitive to that at 131 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,960 all. But here's one fact that I do 132 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,080 know that I have learned through a life of walking with Him and 133 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,480 that is He leaves up to me what I can do. 134 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:46,560 So mankind, because we have a responsibility in our 135 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:51,560 relationship with God. Being saved is not some 136 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:56,360 miraculous magical act that poof, I'm never going to 137 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:03,200 struggle with sin again. All that that were the case, all 138 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,280 that that would just be the life of Euphoria, Brother Fred, that 139 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,240 we could attain somehow through the power of the blood. 140 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,880 That once we cross over that line of conversion and 141 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,080 regeneration, that we no longer struggle with those things that 142 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,640 we once struggled with. But it's not as a matter of 143 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,920 fact, the, the, the point of the matter might be today that it 144 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:26,640 could be. And I don't know if it is 145 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,440 literally or figuratively, if it just it's just in my 146 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,960 imagination. But there are times that I feel 147 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,760 like after walking across the line of conversion and putting a 148 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,480 stake in the ground Bishop that says I'm going to serve God, 149 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,600 There are times in my life that I have felt like the things that 150 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,800 I once battled with, now I battled even more. 151 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,560 So if you are struggling with this or you have witnessed this 152 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:55,360 or you're facing this, you're who I'm talking to today. 153 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,720 Because I want somebody to understand today that even 154 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,120 though this may be a fact, it may be, as the Apostle Paul 155 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,480 stated, a law, it may be a guiding principle. 156 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,400 It may be that for the rest of my saved life, every day when I 157 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,480 wake up, my intentions to do good are met in parallel with a 158 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,280 coexisting evil nature. That may very well be the fact, 159 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,320 ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, but I've come to declare hope to 160 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,640 somebody today that for every ounce of evil that coexist 161 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,080 alongside my good, I've got a God that's still ever present. 162 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,680 I've got a God that's just as powerful. 163 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:38,000 We serve a God today that is ever able to do exceeding and 164 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,600 abundantly above what we can ask or what we can think. 165 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:57,440 So this evil, this sin, cannot be overcome by human willpower 166 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,200 alone. Because you see, what we're 167 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,960 talking about is not just an occasional bad behavior. 168 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:11,600 I have a temptation for a bad behavior every day, but it's a 169 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:19,960 deeply ingrained presence of sin that wars against the believers 170 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:28,720 desire to obey God. Let me give you an example why. 171 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,560 And if this doesn't apply to you, I implore you today just to 172 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,040 say God bless him because I obviously need it. 173 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:46,880 But why do you think on many occasions the best sleep you've 174 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,640 had all week is on a Sunday morning? 175 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,840 Oh, thank you, Jesus. Let me just lay here and bask in 176 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:06,360 the presence of God. Let me hit the snooze button 177 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:17,680 just three more times and then before you know it, I was facing 178 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,840 forward this morning. I have very little idea when 179 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:26,160 anybody got here today. We're either late for church or 180 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:32,040 we don't show for church because we lost to the opposing force. 181 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:47,320 What was not a sin became sin. So it's a law like force, it's 182 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,320 internal, it's persistent, it doesn't give up, reveals our 183 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,920 need for deliverance. But we must recognize the 184 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,360 spiritual nature of this phenomenon and the spiritual 185 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,720 activity that takes place when these opposing forces face off. 186 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:09,840 The result when we lose the result is death. 187 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,200 We need only look at James 1:15 to understand this a bit 188 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,320 further. When it says sin when it is 189 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:31,920 finished, sin when it is finished, it does not matter if 190 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:36,160 it was the intentional sin, it doesn't matter if it was the 191 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,680 premeditated sin, and it doesn't matter if it was the accidental. 192 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:48,120 Oops, I didn't mean to say that. Sin, sin when it is finished, 193 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:54,480 bringeth forth death. Somebody shout that's bad news. 194 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,520 Sin is not a harmless temptation. 195 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,720 Sin is a process with a fatal ending. 196 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:09,160 And it's not just that sin leads to death. 197 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:10,640 I want you to hear this this morning. 198 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:16,400 Sin doesn't just lead to death. Sin produces death. 199 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,000 The apostle Paul carefully explains to us in our Scripture 200 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,800 reading from the book of Romans about the weight of sin, this 201 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,640 weight that is felt like carrying dead bodies. 202 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:34,280 The inevitable consequence of unrestrained sin is that it is 203 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,440 heavy, it's grotesque, it's clingy, it doesn't want to let 204 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,920 go. You can't shake it by yourself. 205 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,360 So the writer of the book of James shows us how we get the 206 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:52,720 dead bodies on our back. But thankfully today the writer 207 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,040 of the book of Romans shows us how to get rid of the dead 208 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,840 bodies. Somebody shout. 209 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,560 I have hope. I have hope, so I turn your 210 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,760 attention now to the book of Romans chapter 8 and verse one. 211 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,360 I'll read several verses here that I believe are very powerful 212 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,760 to help us understand the hope that we have in this particular 213 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,680 situation. The Bible reads. 214 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,400 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are 215 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,880 in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the 216 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:21,680 Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of 217 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:28,080 life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and 218 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,120 death. For what the Law could not do, 219 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:33,720 and that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son 220 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,680 in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in 221 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,800 the flesh, that the righteousness of the Law might 222 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,720 be fulfilled in US who walk not after the flesh, but after the 223 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,440 Spirit. For they that are after the 224 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,600 flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after 225 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,120 the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 226 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:57,040 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually 227 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:01,240 minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind is 228 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,240 enmity against God. For it is not subject to the law 229 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,200 of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the 230 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,320 flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but 231 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,280 in the Spirit. If so be that the Spirit of God 232 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,240 dwell in you, that's hope. Now if any man have not the 233 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,240 Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 234 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:25,000 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but 235 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,320 the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 236 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,320 Watch verse #11 Now. But if the Spirit of him that 237 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,560 raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, that's Holy Ghost 238 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,040 Field believers. He that raised up Christ from 239 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:46,080 the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that 240 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,360 dwelleth in you. We have hope today. 241 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:55,280 There may be a law, there may be an opposing force, there may be 242 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,800 an evil that wants to work coexistently with me in my walk 243 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,160 of life and my walk with God. But when I wake up and evil is 244 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,400 there, God is there just as well. 245 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:12,440 And God is more powerful, God is more gracious, and God is well 246 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,960 able to do what I need him to do today. 247 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,800 We are not destined to live life bound by the law of sin. 248 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,440 The law of the Spirit has made me free. 249 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,440 The law was weak, so Jesus condemned the law of sin. 250 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,520 To be spiritually minded is life and it is peace. 251 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,720 And if Christ being you, the Spirit is life because of 252 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,720 righteousness. So today I declare to you this 253 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,000 morning that it is time to bury the dead bodies. 254 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,480 It's time to be done carrying around the guilt and the shame 255 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,600 and the perpetual consequence of past wrong. 256 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,360 It's time to get the weight and the heaviness off of your back. 257 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,720 If God has forgiven you, let go of the dead bodies you've been 258 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,800 carrying. Let go of the weight. 259 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,560 Let go of the heaviness. Let go of the fear of man's 260 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,840 judgement. Let it go, let it go. 261 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,600 I'm not talking about frozen, but let it go. 262 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:30,600 Drop those dead bodies and keep on walking. 263 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:39,880 Walk in the grace, walk in the mercy, Walk in the power of God. 264 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,520 Because it's not God's divine will for you to walk around 265 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,000 heavy. Because when He's forgiven you, 266 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,520 He's liberated you. He's freed you from the guilt. 267 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,200 He's freed you from the weight. He's freed you from the shame. 268 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:05,320 Your past is redeemed. Don't usurp the authority of God 269 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,600 by keeping the things that He is buried fresh and alive in your 270 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,480 life. If God has said it's gone, let 271 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:22,520 it be gone, let go of it. Well, I can't. 272 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:29,240 He says you can because when he has made you free by the his 273 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:35,840 Spirit, he has unlocked the padlock, the dead arms that have 274 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,360 been around your neck holding and their chains so that they 275 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:45,080 don't let go. I wanted so bad to find me an 276 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:48,720 old dead, sloppy mannequin for this this morning, but it didn't 277 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,160 work out. I'll remember you next time, 278 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,040 Brother Brown. But when they're hanging around 279 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:04,320 your neck and God Forgives you and God frees you, He's unlocked 280 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:10,680 the chains. And when he unlocks the chains 281 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,800 and those arms fall off, guess what happens? 282 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,640 Dead body not hanging on anymore. 283 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,680 He's letting go. And when he falls, don't be 284 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,360 concerned about him. He's dead. 285 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,200 Don't stop and check on it. He's dead. 286 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,480 Don't stop and work. I hope you're understanding it. 287 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,880 Don't stop and think about he's dead. 288 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,080 It's sin. It's old man. 289 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,040 He needs to stay dead. He needs to stay down. 290 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:45,280 Let him fall where he falls. It's time somebody shout. 291 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:51,800 It's time today. It's time bury the dead bodies 292 00:23:54,320 --> 00:24:00,880 because Christ has set you free. He set you free. 293 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,560 The news media, musicians will come. 294 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,520 I know I'm just 23 minutes in, but that's all right. 295 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:18,240 Get you to lunch early. The news media and journalist in 296 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:27,360 1985 ensured that there was a global impact from the tragedy 297 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:32,720 of Omira Sanchez. French photojournalist Frank 298 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,280 Fourier documented it in one of his photos became iconic, 299 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,480 winning the 1986 World Press Photo of the Year Board. 300 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,680 Due to the outrage that was sparked about the negligence of 301 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,480 Colombian government's lack of disaster preparedness, the 302 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,280 country of Colombia established a National Disaster Preparedness 303 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,880 Office to avoid such tragedies in the future. 304 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,120 The town of our Mero Columbia, South America no longer exists. 305 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:16,240 It's an abandoned memorial site, with exception to the memorials 306 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,520 that have been established there from that volcanic eruption in 307 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,800 the mud slides that followed, that whole town was virtually 308 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:33,600 wiped off the face of the earth. The facts are nice, the global 309 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,440 impact is nice. There's annual commemorations 310 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,240 and tributes to Omira Sanchez. That's nice. 311 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,160 But we must understand one of the fundamental reasons why this 312 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:52,400 situation ever occurred was because of a dead body. 313 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,680 The take away for us from Omira Story is not the memorial site, 314 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,920 it's not the annual tributes, it's not the commemorations, 315 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,280 it's not the Colombians government, Colombian 316 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,280 government's establishment of a disaster preparedness office. 317 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,960 All that's good stuff, but that's not our key take away 318 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,280 today. The take away for us today is 319 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,320 that one of the primary reasons Omira could not be rescued was 320 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,280 because her aunt's dead body was wrapped around her legs 321 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:33,320 underneath the Muddy Waters and she couldn't get freed. 322 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,680 I feel the Holy Ghost in this house. 323 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,200 Could you lift your hands right now and just receive what God is 324 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,760 trying to speak to us right here? 325 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,560 There's a ministering Spirit of God in this house this morning. 326 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,920 God's wanting to touch somebody today, somebody's mind, mental 327 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,800 anguish and anxiety. You need to be set free right 328 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,520 now in the name of Jesus from the worry and the anguish and 329 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:11,870 the haunting of mistakes that you have made in the name of 330 00:27:12,030 --> 00:27:18,990 Jesus. It was her aunt's dead body. 331 00:27:19,030 --> 00:27:22,070 And I, I, I realized this morning that that sounds morbid. 332 00:27:22,070 --> 00:27:25,910 And I'm not, I'm not trying to be dark, but I'm trying to be 333 00:27:25,910 --> 00:27:31,840 factual. Under the murky waters where 334 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:46,000 Omira had been chest deep for 60 hours, lay a dead body wrapped 335 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:57,880 around her legs. Heavy wouldn't let go, lack the 336 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:09,760 capacity to let go, and she could do nothing to set herself 337 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:17,200 free. The impact of the weight of the 338 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,480 dead body that clung on to another life resulted in another 339 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:30,840 death. What I've come to say this 340 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,640 morning is this Dead bodies create more dead bodies. 341 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,000 You will not survive forever with the weight of dead bodies 342 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:56,640 hanging on you. God is pleading with you to get 343 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,840 the dead bodies off of your life, to allow Him to fully and 344 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:09,280 completely free you. He's giving each of us an 345 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,440 opportunity today to let go of that letting go as a powerful 346 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,760 act of spiritual release and hope in Jesus. 347 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,760 Letting go today is the spiritual equivalent of burying 348 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,800 those dead bodies and getting them out of our life. 349 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,080 Because here's the fact, ladies and gentlemen, as you stand with 350 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,440 me this morning and we draw to a close, here's the fact. 351 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:41,360 The point, the point of Romans 7 and Romans 8. 352 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,520 The point is not not making mistakes. 353 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,520 That's not the point, because here's the fact of the matter. 354 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:03,680 Mistakes are going to happen. Now, I've not come today with a 355 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,520 certification or license to give anybody and grant you the 356 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,920 authority to send and do what you want to. 357 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,920 But in human nature, mistakes are going to happen. 358 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,920 And here's what happens. You are the worst critic and 359 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:27,880 judge of your own mistake. No one will judge you as harshly 360 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,680 as you do. And in that trick of our 361 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,400 adversary, a tool that he uses is when you are judging 362 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,440 yourself, you automatically believe everybody feels this way 363 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:49,840 about me. If I feel this way, everybody 364 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:55,560 else must too. If I if I look at myself this 365 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,680 way, then the world must too. So I just need to blend in and 366 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,720 be quiet and I'll just be a chameleon and I'll coexist along 367 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,320 with everybody. But I don't feel the freedom to 368 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,480 step out. I don't feel the freedom to 369 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,400 worship. I don't feel the freedom to be 370 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,240 me because I've messed up too much. 371 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,320 I've come to tell somebody this morning that that is a lie from 372 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,200 hell. You've not messed up too much. 373 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,720 The only problem that's haunting you right now is the weight of 374 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,400 dead bodies. It's the weight of a past of 375 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800 mistake. E taka takaoho moho sataya. 376 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,560 Somebody hear me today in the authority of the Spirit of God. 377 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,760 God is lifting the weight today. All you have to do is let go of 378 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,520 it. God wants to free you. 379 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,880 He wants to liberate you. He wants to help you get free. 380 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,040 He wants to help you bury those dead bodies of a haunting of 381 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,600 memories, a haunting of past. You don't understand the weight 382 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,720 of the mistakes I made. I'm telling you today in the 383 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,840 word of God, it does not matter because when he said I'll bury 384 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,800 it in the sea of forgetfulness, I'll put it as far as the east 385 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,560 is from the West. That's the measurement of every 386 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:16,800 sin. That weight you have, that 387 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:27,360 heaviness you have. There's a freeing spirit of God 388 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,360 in this house this morning. This altar is open. 389 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,760 Would you come? They're going to sing, we're 390 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,160 going to worship. But I'm asking if you are heavy 391 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,840 today, if you are weighted today. 392 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,320 I know your legs feel heavy and it's like your feet can't move, 393 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,200 they're buried in concrete. But I'm asking you just to take 394 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:52,240 a chance, take a step or two by faith and allow God to help you 395 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:56,680 free the weight of the dead bodies that's hanging on to you. 396 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000 God wants you walking in liberty. 397 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,080 God wants you walking in freedom. 398 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,840 God wants you walking in the power and in the admonition of 399 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,040 His Spirit today, if you'll come.