1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,480 Thank you, Lord, for your sweet spirit. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,960 My God is a gentleman, ladies and gentlemen, my God is a 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:13,840 gentleman. He handles all things well, 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,120 Amen. And we should love and thank him 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,280 for that, Amen. You are not in the hands of 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:26,040 another man or humanity. You're in the hands of a living 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,120 God, Amen, That spun all these things into creation, Amen. 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,440 We honor him today, Amen. It's good to see each one of you 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,680 in the House of the Lord this morning. 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,000 So glad that you are here and come to be a part of the service 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,280 today, and we're thankful. I was talking to Scott a little 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,400 bit before service, and he really thinks that there needs 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,400 to be an auditing committee over all of the numbers of the 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,160 contest about the outcome. So I don't know if we're going 15 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:01,200 to give any ear to this concern. The meal has already been 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:07,200 purchased and ate or eaten so nonetheless, but we're glad to 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,200 have them with us again. Amen. 18 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,760 This morning in the House of the Lord in each one of you. 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,280 You're smiling faces today. So glad of it. 20 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,040 Now, I'm just going to give just a little warning today and that 21 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:19,880 is this. I'm wearing a light grey suit 22 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,640 and sometimes I have a tendency of rather than perspiring, 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,320 sweating, and so it may be dark grey by the time I finish this 24 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:29,480 morning. My wife really had banned me 25 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,480 several years ago, Sister Louis, from wearing light grey suits 26 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,320 whenever I preach. But here's the scenario folks. 27 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:38,920 We went to Spring conference this weekend. 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,560 My wife and I left about 8:00 Friday morning. 29 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,560 I had meetings and stuff to be in starting at 12 and we went to 30 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,400 meetings. I was in meetings all day, kind 31 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,080 of with what I would wear on a Wednesday night, and then went 32 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,920 to the hotel, unloaded our vehicle, mind you, put 33 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,040 everything into the hotel room, laid on the bed just for a 34 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,520 little bit to, you know, collect thoughts and just maybe breathe. 35 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,960 And got up to get ready for church. 36 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,280 And I couldn't find one stitch of the clothing that I had 37 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,880 thought I had brought. All of my hang up clothes were 38 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,320 still hanging in my restroom nice and neat. 39 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,640 So we were in a, a, a, just a bizarre thing of trying to find 40 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:23,320 me something to wear. So luckily I did wear something 41 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,120 that, you know, like I would wear on Wednesday. 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,600 So we went to JC folks, I'm not paying $300.00 for a sports 43 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:29,880 jacket. It's just not happening. 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:35,360 And so I did get a $50 tie with my wife's $10 birthday money 45 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:39,520 from JC Penney. I threw that old pup on there 46 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,320 and went to church. Goodwill, you know, I thought, 47 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,840 man, if we could just find the Goodwill, I, we, we might be in 48 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,600 business. And so I got up early the next 49 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,480 morning, again, another service. I didn't have another suit. 50 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,160 I went to Walmarts, went to Walmart, shopped around, got 51 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,920 myself some pants and a shirt and used the same jacket that I 52 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,240 did the night before. I told the people was on that 53 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,480 board. I was ready to go home and 54 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,480 change jackets. So I'm just glad to be at this 55 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,320 is what I was going to wear this weekend. 56 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,040 So here I am. You all got the appreciation of 57 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,880 it, and I'm just glad that you could participate in this 58 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,200 madness. Amen. 59 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,560 That my life is called my life. Daniel chapter #4 today, if you 60 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,000 understand with me, turn to Daniel chapter #4. 61 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,880 So even if I do sweat, folks, this is the reason I'm going to 62 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,640 wear this suit. I'm telling you, I'm going to 63 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,480 wear this. Wear this suit. 64 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,920 Daniel chapter #4 I am going to be skipping around just a little 65 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,920 bit this morning in this chapter of Daniel. 66 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,200 So if you can just follow my lead here a little bit today. 67 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,080 I, I wish we would afford us the time to read the whole chapter, 68 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,720 but we, we're not going to do that. 69 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,320 But I want to give you a, a scope of the chapter here and 70 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,400 what this really is. Starting verse #4 71 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,800 Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon is really recounting 72 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,880 something in this moment. He's recounting what he looks 73 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,680 back on in retrospect and calls one of the signs and the wonders 74 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,640 of God in his life, one of the signs and the wonders of God in 75 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,440 his life. And he says in verse #4 he says, 76 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,720 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in mine house and flourishing in 77 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,240 my palace. I saw a dream which made me 78 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:24,240 afraid, and the thoughts of mine, the thoughts upon my bed 79 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,280 and the vision of my head troubled me. 80 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,360 He had some thoughts that troubled him and made him 81 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,440 afraid. Verse 6. 82 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,720 Therefore made IA decree to bring in all the wise men of 83 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,640 Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the 84 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,640 interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the 85 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,000 astrologers, the child Deans, and the soothsayers, and I told 86 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,720 them the dream before them, but they did not make known unto me 87 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,680 the interpretation thereof. In other words, he has he has 88 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,720 expressed to them the thoughts that had troubled him to these 89 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,240 others that were. Quote. 90 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,400 UN quote professionals, he says. But at the last Daniel came in 91 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,480 before me, whose name was Belchazzar, according to the 92 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,560 name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. 93 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:21,360 And before him I told the dream, saying, O Beltazzar, master of 94 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,040 the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods 95 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,520 is in the and no trouble if thee, he said, I know this is 96 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,680 trouble me. But typically nothing troubles 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,280 you. Tell me the visions of my dream 98 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,920 that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof, skipping 99 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,440 now all the way to verse #19 if you will. 100 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,720 So there is the dream that is given that the thoughts of 101 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,360 Nebuchadnezzar's mind that's given unto Daniel. 102 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,080 Verse 19 follows up and says, Then Daniel, whose name was 103 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,560 Beltesar, was stoned or astonished for one hour, and his 104 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:03,680 thoughts troubled him. The king spake and said, Until 105 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,440 Belshazzar let not the dream nor the interpretation there of 106 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,680 trouble. The Belshazzar answered and 107 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,200 said, My Lord, the dream be to them that hate thee in the 108 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,240 interpretation thereof to thine enemies, skipping down to verse 109 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,480 #27 And wherefore, O King, let my counsel, this is Daniel 110 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,160 speaking, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break 111 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,680 off thy sins of thy righteousness and thy iniquities 112 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,960 by showing mercy to the poor. And if it be a a lengthening, 113 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,240 let it be a lengthening of thy tranquility. 114 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,000 He says, Let's do some things, that there can be some peace 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,120 brought to this matter and to the thoughts of your mind. 116 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,160 Verse 28 says, And all this came though everything of the dream, 117 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,120 everything of the thoughts that he had been entertaining. 118 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,800 All this, it came upon King Nebuchadnezzar skipping down to 119 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,520 verse #34 I know I'm doing a lot of skipping here. 120 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,680 Verse 34. And at the end of the days, 121 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,520 after these things that have been the thoughts of 122 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Nebuchadnezzar played out in his life, at the end of the days, I, 123 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,160 Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine 124 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,800 understanding returned unto me. And I bless the Most High and I 125 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,840 praise and honor to him that live forever, whose dominion is 126 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,840 an everlasting dominion and His Kingdom, Kingdom is from 127 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,600 generation to generation. What happened? 128 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,920 The Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar went to a state 129 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,600 where he almost, not almost, but took on almost, not almost. 130 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:37,320 He took on the likeness and the mindset of of a beast of the 131 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,360 field. This, this is even today, this 132 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,640 it can be a real diagnosis in the real world, a real diagnosis 133 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:49,160 of a person that would take on animal traits because of their 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:54,280 mind being so tormented with thoughts or a direction of 135 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,200 thoughts. But at the end of the days, 136 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,320 Amen. There came some clarity to all 137 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:00,960 of this with the help of the Holy Ghost. 138 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,400 And folks, I think it's no mistake how the services went 139 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,280 with the help of the Holy Ghost. Today I want to minister this 140 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:15,200 the healing of a mind, the healing of a mind today can we 141 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,000 ask the Lord to help us in the next little bit? 142 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,440 Father, I love you today Lord, and I trust you. 143 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,080 Lord, I trust you. My confidence, Lord, is squarely 144 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,960 upon you this morning. I pray, O Lord, God, I know 145 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,680 Lord, that you have set Lord a stage here. 146 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,400 You have set Lord a tempo. Lord God, in this room, God, 147 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,200 that none could do it any better but you. 148 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,760 I pray, O Lord, today God, let ministry Lord happen. 149 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,640 God in this building this morning. 150 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,440 I pray, O Lord Jesus, God, every heart, every mind, God, let 151 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,840 there be a compelling of your spirit through and in Lord the 152 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,360 lives that sit God upon these pews today, God, that they would 153 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,560 be ministered to by the Holy Ghost in the lovely name of 154 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:03,640 Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah and Amen of the 155 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,760 church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning 156 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,240 in Jesus name. There is something over the past 157 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,440 several years to put a time frame on it. 158 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,240 I don't know for sure. I would just say perhaps the 159 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,600 last decade that the whole concept of middle mental health 160 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,640 has come very, very sharp into focus over the years, perhaps 161 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,640 more than it's ever been. It's not as though it's never 162 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,680 existed. It's always existed mental 163 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,320 health or even mental difficulties and problems that 164 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,040 we even have as humans from day-to-day with the thoughts of 165 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,080 our mind. It has always been. 166 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,200 There's always been challenges. It's always existed, but in the 167 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,520 past decade or so, Brother Reese, they, they've been 168 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,480 brought out of these, these type of issues and difficulties and 169 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,040 challenges have been brought out of the recesses and, and the 170 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,040 shadows, if you will, of our world into the light. 171 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,720 And so there's been a greater concentration, Sister Sam, of 172 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,160 course, I believe if you live in this world, you know, there's 173 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,960 been a greater concentration, concentration on some of these 174 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,680 things. And so long ago, years ago, 175 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:17,280 challenges like depression and self harm and suicidal thoughts, 176 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,920 for that matter, were, were the suffering of what you might call 177 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,760 some silent victims, people that in, in the, the recesses of 178 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,120 their, their home and family. They suffered from some of these 179 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,080 things because a society in the world overall, they were taboo 180 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,840 subjects. It's not what you would talk 181 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,120 about or speak about or bring to the surface. 182 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,080 And even furthermore, there were many professionals in in that 183 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,960 day years ago that didn't really know quite how to approach some 184 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:51,440 of these things or how to best manage them or treat them or 185 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,920 relieve some of the tendencies that can be found from them. 186 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,840 And so over the years, society, just society really, and those 187 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,200 that are in these types of fields have. 188 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,080 Have come a long. Way to to help put in measures 189 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,440 to help and manage and to accommodate and even advocate, 190 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,760 if you will. For those that have been 191 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,280 marginalized at different times, society has marginalized with 192 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,920 these type of issues, you're just going to have to walk with 193 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,960 me just a little bit today. But the fact is that although we 194 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,880 can manage it better and there are are those that have 195 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:29,800 tendencies we can advocate for them, it does not erase the fact 196 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,200 that these things still exist in our world today, still exist in 197 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,400 homes and families and communities, maybe even some of 198 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,800 your own lives that are setting among me this morning. 199 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,200 These are real. They're still people that are 200 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,680 suffering with bouts of depression that have totally 201 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,360 just just just crippled the way that they have normally done 202 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,560 life and the way that they have have functioned before their 203 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:57,760 normal lifestyle was just totally upheaved by depression 204 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,680 that has entered their life. They they wear, if I could say 205 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:03,560 in the symbolic sense, they, they, they have worn the sheets 206 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:07,280 out on their bread from tossing back and forth and tugging on 207 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,080 them just to turn over. And and some of them they have 208 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,320 put, you know, darkening blinds in their bedroom and foil up on 209 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,120 their windows that might be radiant by by the sunlight, But 210 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,720 they're just trying to black everything out, black out the 211 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,520 day seal in the darkness of their room. 212 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,080 And in reality, the darkness of the room is just smearing the 213 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,800 darkness of their mind, the dark darkness of what's taking place 214 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,560 inside of their mind. They're, they're not welcoming a 215 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:38,880 new day. They, they, they're not 216 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,840 welcoming the day that has fresh observations and fresh 217 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,240 obligations and and potential. They're not welcoming the day 218 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,640 that has any type of burgeoning hope in it. 219 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,720 They're yearning in a real degree just for a eternal night 220 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,400 where they don't have to interact with anyone. 221 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,400 They don't have to ask any questions. 222 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,520 They don't have to give any responses, Only thing that they 223 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,800 have to answer therefore is themselves and the self 224 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,800 defeating thoughts of their mind. 225 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,880 They, they may even skip some meals and their hygiene might 226 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,520 become secondary and their responsibilities that they have 227 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,800 in their life, they become very optional because they're just 228 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,800 feeling one emotion, or at least one group of emotions of despair 229 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,240 and hopelessness and self pity. And, and then you have the, the 230 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:33,000 self harm participant whose life is just spiraling out of 231 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,560 control. Everything in their life seems 232 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:39,600 to be out of control and they can't reign. 233 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,000 It feels like under their own duress or power. 234 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,640 They can't reign in any parts of those aspects of their lives. 235 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,320 They even the circle of other people's lives around them. 236 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,160 They, they don't have no control over these things. 237 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,120 And so their life has been so, so riddled with suffering and 238 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,200 with pain on every level that that it's just hard for them 239 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,960 just even to self regulate to even do that for themselves. 240 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,360 It's just totally absurd. It's, it's beyond their minds 241 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:12,640 understanding yet in the privacy of their bedroom and in the 242 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:16,800 privacy of their bathroom, when the world all around them has 243 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:21,080 come to a standstill, they'll, they'll find that sharp blade or 244 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,800 that razor or that knife and, and they'll, they'll start 245 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,880 whatever implementation they can find. 246 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,520 They'll their hand then. And what's in their hand will 247 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,760 become a vice, and they'll begin to make incisions on their body 248 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,400 as a cutter because that's something they can control. 249 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,360 Everything in their world's out of control, but they can control 250 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,600 that. They can control how deep they 251 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,680 go, and they can control how long of a stride they make 252 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,120 across their flesh might be hidden by everybody else. 253 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,520 I can't control what's happening to me and I, I can't control the 254 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,960 circumstance, but I can control the incision that I'm making on 255 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,920 my body. I, I can't control that sphere 256 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,720 in my life, but I can control this and they can control all 257 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,000 the things about it. And you say, well, Pastor McGee, 258 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,560 there's pain. Yeah, there's pain, but it's 259 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,760 Lisa pain that they're in control of. 260 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,200 Everybody doing okay. It's a pain that they're in 261 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,040 control of, and perhaps it's the only real feeling that they felt 262 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,400 like they felt in a long time because they've been bombarded 263 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,080 by all types of feelings of anger and anxiety and 264 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,400 frustration and the bombarded and the OverDrive of emotions. 265 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,160 They thought, I'm just numbed all this. 266 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,760 I want to know that there's something real here. 267 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:45,040 Then the voices of no one would miss me if I were gone. 268 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,200 They'd be better off if I were not around. 269 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:59,080 I'm only a hindrance to them. If I can't stop what's happening 270 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:03,680 to me, I'll just stop me. No one cares about me. 271 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:10,240 Ambushment of thoughts, ambushment of lies become a 272 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,840 steady diet, turns in then into an appetite. 273 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,400 Someone's caught by the vice of suicide, Suicide. 274 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,320 Listen, ladies and gentlemen, suicide's not just about death. 275 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,120 Suicide's about trying to escape. 276 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,720 Suicide's about trying to escape. 277 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,000 They believe they're powerless to change anything in their 278 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,600 life. So they exercise the power that 279 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,600 they have over their life. And it may take different forms, 280 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,880 but whatever it may be, self harm, suicide, depression or 281 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,000 other thoughts, maybe even not quite as severe as those, all of 282 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,640 it is an interplay that takes place inside of our minds. 283 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,480 All of it is an interplay that takes place with thoughts and 284 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,440 choices and conversations all played out in our minds. 285 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,680 And the fact of the matter is, is when we find ourself in some 286 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:06,000 of these places, we say to ourselves that we know how the 287 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,359 future is going to go. And the reason why we say we 288 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,640 know is because we've already played out all the details in 289 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,760 our mind. Whether true or whether false, 290 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,480 we've played out the details in our mind. 291 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,680 And so if we're convinced in our mind, we are convinced everybody 292 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,720 did OK. The Bible says in our Scripture 293 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,600 texts that Nebuchadnezzar was troubled. 294 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:35,880 It goes to the degree that says that he was afraid and he was 295 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:40,640 troubled and afraid by the thoughts of his own mind while 296 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,240 he was lying there upon his bend. 297 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,040 These are thoughts that captivated his every waking 298 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,240 hour. He's captivated by these 299 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,480 thoughts. It's not as though they came 300 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:56,640 just one time and then died out. But what came only one time then 301 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,400 is replayed. You know how it goes. 302 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:03,560 It's replayed over and over and over in your mind when you're 303 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,080 alone, when you're lying still, when your eyes are closed, when 304 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,160 you're doing dishes with a dead stare out the window, The 305 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,560 thoughts come over and over again in your mind. 306 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,520 It's just like a real hey man that's on repeat, that's playing 307 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,080 over in Nebuchadnezzar's mind. And the fact of the matter is 308 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,720 this, the very things that he constantly thought of and 309 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,960 pondered upon seemingly became a self fulfilling prophecy for 310 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,080 him. Because nothing changed. 311 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,480 Nothing interrupted that mindset. 312 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,560 The Bible says and just put me today, but the Bible says he 313 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,680 sought out some help. He sought out some people of his 314 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,520 Kingdom that might have some insight, could help him with his 315 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,840 thoughts, help him with what was going on in his mind. 316 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,600 He sought out every professional that he knew to help him manage 317 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,160 and navigate through these troubling minefield that he was 318 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,400 a part of. Magicians and astrologers and 319 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,560 zoo Sayers and the list goes on. Because what he's wanting them 320 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,040 to do is interpret the thoughts of my mind. 321 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:14,880 Makes sense give me some sense and meaning of the thoughts of 322 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,720 my mind. But the Bible says although 323 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,640 these were people, the Kingdom that were known for these type 324 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,440 of things that none of them could aptly give unto 325 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,280 Nebuchadnezzar what he was looking for. 326 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,480 Amen. Since concerning the thoughts of 327 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,880 his mind. And then the Bible says at last 328 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,400 there's a man by the name of Daniel. 329 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:41,280 He may he's among that same classification, but he is is at 330 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,400 a level just a little different than the others because the 331 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,800 Bible says not only is he a professional, if you will, among 332 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,120 that Kingdom, but he also holds ranks with God. 333 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,440 And so Daniel takes the task for the friend of trying to make 334 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,760 sense of the mind. He hears the same story that the 335 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,400 other professionals heard. He hears the same thoughts, the 336 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,840 same troubling thoughts that Nebuchadnezzar had relate to 337 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:13,480 them. He he relays also unto Daniel. 338 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:18,440 And though Nebuchadnezzar didn't quite correctly identify the 339 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,000 difference that was between Daniel and the others, 340 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,640 Nebuchadnezzar seeing Daniel, he even named him A. 341 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:28,240 Different name after one of their gods GO little GODS. 342 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,960 And he said, well, surely the spirit of the holy gods, little 343 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,320 GODS, Amen is with Daniel. He didn't quite recognize yet at 344 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,000 this moment that it wasn't just another God of his land and 345 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,640 country that was with Daniel, but it was the God, the only 346 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,000 holy God. He, he calls Daniel the master 347 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,320 of magicians. He names him after his God, but 348 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,600 he's not quite put a real finger upon what the difference is 349 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,480 about Daniel. And he's convinced. 350 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,640 He told Daniel. Daniel, I know there's nothing 351 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,040 secret that troubles you. There's been a lot of things 352 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,920 come down the pipe to your door, and I know there's nothing 353 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,200 secret that that troubles you. Yet in our reading today, after 354 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:20,040 Daniel heard every thought of Nebuchadnezzar's mind, the Bible 355 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:28,840 says that Daniel was astonished and that he was troubled in his 356 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:31,560 thoughts. I don't know if Daniel's 357 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,640 countenance changed after hearing all the thoughts of his 358 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,520 mind, of what went on and what reached his ears. 359 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,240 But supposedly a man who's not normally troubled is troubled. 360 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:45,560 So what we have here, we have a troubled man who has troubling 361 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,000 thoughts, Amen. And he's telling a person that 362 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,400 usually don't get troubled, but after it's said and done, he's 363 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:58,640 troubled someone say Amen. Now, Daniel does very well. 364 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,360 He handles this quite delicately because he realizes the 365 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:09,600 seriousness of the matter and the thoughts of this man's mind. 366 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:15,200 Daniel doesn't shrug it off. Daniel doesn't say, well, let's 367 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,680 make an appointment for next Tuesday. 368 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,440 No, he doesn't tell the king, Take two Tylenol, go to bed and 369 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,960 tell me how things are in the morning. 370 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:27,480 No, quite frankly, this is what Daniel says. 371 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,160 I'm getting there, folks. Daniel's telling him he says 372 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,640 King, he said, and this is interpretation, distribution. 373 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,800 This is me paraphrasing King, I wish this wasn't happening to 374 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:44,880 you. I wish this is what was 375 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,880 happening to your enemies. I wish this wasn't happening to 376 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,920 you. I wish these destructive 377 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,000 thoughts that you're having were against those that were opposing 378 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,480 you, Amen. And not against you. 379 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,680 And so here's Daniel operating almost like a excellent 380 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,080 therapist here. He begins to try to make sense 381 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,800 of all the thoughts of the King's mind. 382 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,240 He begins to draw in correlations, Amen, that the 383 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,200 king has has entertained, of the thoughts that the king has 384 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,280 entertained in his mind. And so he starts to give some 385 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,400 meaning to all of the clutter, give meaning to all the 386 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,760 disjointed thoughts and ideas of his mind. 387 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,080 And here's the marvel. Yes, he is a man that's with 388 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,120 God. Yes, he is a man that has the 389 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:30,880 spirit of God. And Daniel could explain it all. 390 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 He'd explained to him the things that he's seen in that vision. 391 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,160 That's what that correlates to. That's what that's going to be. 392 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,520 That's that's how this is going to play out if nothing changes. 393 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,160 Here's the thing. Daniel could explain it all, but 394 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:58,120 he could not heal it. He could not heal it. 395 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,720 Daniel's counsel to him was basically this. 396 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,720 These thoughts, Nebuchadnezzar, that you're having in your mind, 397 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:11,000 they will become a self fulfilling prophecy if things 398 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,320 don't change. If not, patterns don't change. 399 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,840 If life patterns don't change, they will be a self fulfilling 400 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,240 prophecy. But Nebuchadnezzar, if we could 401 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,440 somehow get the pattern of the thoughts healed, if we could 402 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,320 somehow get the process of the patterns of your life healed, 403 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,000 you can't escape the doom that you're thinking in your mind. 404 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:45,280 You can, oh Jesus, someone say Jesus and I need the Holy Ghost 405 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,680 today because I am not ignorant today. 406 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,480 We're living in a world that is totally overtaken by the 407 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,160 thoughts of their mind. If there's ever a battle in our 408 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:59,000 world, it's not on soil. It's on Gray matter of minds of 409 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,920 those laws and those saved in the church and out of the 410 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,480 church. And many of you, maybe some of 411 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,320 you. And listen, my wife and I, if 412 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,520 you know us, you know this. We always say 2 prong approach. 413 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,720 We say practical. Get you some real physical help, 414 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,520 teach you some real mental health. 415 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,000 But there's also the spiritual as well. 416 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:21,920 But what I'm saying today, you may have run yourself ragged and 417 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,920 you're still dealing with thoughts, and you can come to us 418 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:27,240 and I might be able to explain part of it. 419 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,600 But Paul McGee can't heal you. Don McGee can't heal you. 420 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:38,680 The first Apostolic Church can't somebody you know, right? 421 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,240 The word of Scripture is this in verse #28 that Nebuchadnezzar's 422 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:50,680 thoughts became his trajectory. The Bible says all this came 423 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,440 upon the king. Everything that Daniel said 424 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:59,400 would happen if it didn't alter a change came upon the king. 425 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,120 You can read of this in verse #16 and let me read it. 426 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:04,080 I don't know if I had that up there, Brother Mason. 427 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,000 But in what Daniel was saying, the Bible says this. 428 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,120 Let his heart Speaking of Nebuchadnezzar and the word 429 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:13,200 heart there in the Old Testament, the same Hebrew word 430 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,840 that's translated heart can also be translated mine. 431 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,720 OK, so let his harder, if I may interject his mind, let his mind 432 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:26,240 be changed from a man's and let a beast mind be given to him and 433 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,960 let 7 times Passover him. In other words, there was 434 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,320 something that was going to happen to Nebuchadnezzar because 435 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,040 of these negative these fearful thoughts of his mind. 436 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,800 His mind was going to turn toward that of the beast of the 437 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,960 field and according to scripture, 7 times are going to 438 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,560 pass over him. Most would render that as those 439 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:51,040 seven years was going to pass over his his life and he was 440 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,440 going to have a mental capacity where he believed himself to be 441 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,440 an animal. You can read in Scripture that 442 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,480 he would like an ox eat grass and and that's the the the the 443 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,920 the the the the hair up on this body be as the feathers as a 444 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,480 eagle and his talons his his nails would grow like the talons 445 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,760 of a bird Amen thinking he was all these things all because of 446 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,240 the thoughts of his mind can let me preach to you today 447 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,640 Nebuchadnezzar in those seven times, whether it's seven years 448 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,360 or 7 something. Nonetheless, the period of time 449 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:27,800 that went over his life when he was totally deranged and hurt in 450 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,640 his mind, he. Never dreamt in his lifetime 451 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,680 that he would do what he did. In those seven years. 452 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,160 There were events. There were occasions in those 453 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:48,880 seven years that he missed. They carried on without 454 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,560 Nebuchadnezzar. He acted in such a way in the. 455 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,480 In those years, that wasn't like the actions of a king. 456 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,760 His mind, his compromising thoughts, he then led him 457 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,280 somewhere, a compromised place, a worry place. 458 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:09,120 The mind of a beast had materialized into the life of a 459 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:10,920 beast. All because of the thought 460 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,120 processes of what started as the thought processes of a mind. 461 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:27,640 Everybody OK, but when all these practical measures failed, the 462 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:35,480 professionals of the Kingdom, even Daniel, he's with God, he 463 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:38,800 can explain it, but he can't heal it. 464 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,440 And all these measures failed. And it seemed like for 465 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,160 Nebuchadnezzar they only maybe help move hope forward just a 466 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,880 little bit. Daniel's explanation only 467 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,400 soothed just a little bit. Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar 468 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,160 in the middle of the madness of the thoughts of his mind and 469 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,320 that which came upon him. The Bible says that in the 470 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:11,560 middle of those seven years. Verse 34 says he lifted up his 471 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:18,520 eyes to heaven and when he looked up his mind his 472 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,640 understanding. Came back to him, ladies and 473 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,600 gentlemen here, pastor today. That's just not a poetic way of 474 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,960 saying he lifted up his head. That is a scriptural way of 475 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,520 saying he lifted up his eyes to heaven. 476 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,120 That's a scriptural way of saying that Nebuchadnezzar 477 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,360 looked unto the Lord and that he prayed unto the Lord. 478 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:48,040 And this man that is body and soul and spirit tapped into 479 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,680 something that was beyond this world, tapped into something 480 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,280 beyond his Babylonian Kingdom, tapped into something beyond the 481 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,520 professionals, tapped into something. 482 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,720 The Bible says that his understanding returned. 483 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,320 Another place of a translation says his sanity returned. 484 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,560 Another one says that he could think normal again. 485 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:15,200 Another one says his mind was healed after seven years the 486 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:24,160 moment he lifted his eyes. No, please understand today, I 487 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,000 don't know what you walk through those double doors with this 488 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,200 morning. I don't know the links that you 489 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,920 went to to try to get a Peace of Mind. 490 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,320 And I understanding that is captivated by peace and 491 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,680 tranquility. But I'm asking you on this 492 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,000 Sunday morning, if you could just get the strength from 493 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:47,440 looking down to looking up and open your mouth and open. 494 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:57,240 My God is a healer even of the mind someone. 495 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:10,680 Hear me today, I'll tell you what the thoughts of your mind 496 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:15,280 do as it did for Nebuchadnezzar, those pervasive thoughts of his 497 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,000 mind kept him captivated, kept him isolated. 498 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,440 Amen from society, from his family, from those that he would 499 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,120 use to rub shoulders with Amen. It kept him isolated to 500 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,240 quarantine away from all those as everything that his mind just 501 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,080 kept playing over and playing out in his life. 502 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,680 But in a moment, what had been going on for seven years 503 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,440 vanished in a. Moment because a man lifted up 504 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,600 his hand. No therapy session. 505 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,880 What's going on in the field? There was no palace around him. 506 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,240 He had no dignity left but one look. 507 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,760 Change what 7 years could not change. 508 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,000 It's my admonition, Brother Heath. 509 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,240 Yes, let's be practical, but let's also be prayerful. 510 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,280 Let Daniel, the holy man of God, let him bring some explanation 511 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,600 perhaps to the thoughts, bring some meaning to your madness. 512 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,440 That's great. What a great holy man of God 513 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,440 that he is. But listen, and I can speak that 514 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,920 there are some holy men of God that can be shaken to the core. 515 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,160 By the merciless dilemmas of just this every day. 516 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,760 Life. Daniel was troubled. 517 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,440 Look here, the king was afraid and troubled by the thoughts. 518 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,080 A man who the king normally thought didn't get troubled 519 00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:00,040 became troubled. But when Nebuchadnezzar went to 520 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:08,400 God, God wasn't troubled. He's troubled. 521 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,200 Daniel's troubled, but God was in troubled. 522 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,240 Nebuchadnezzar is afraid. Daniel's astonished, but God 523 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,600 says that's nothing. Am I? 524 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,320 Doing all right. And it was years ago, Scott, 525 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,360 probably 20 plus years ago as an evangelist. 526 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:37,200 Thinner than, faster than, not any better looking. 527 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:44,880 About 20 years ago, I remember I preaching A sermon called It's 528 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,440 No Trouble. It's No Trouble based upon the 529 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,520 story in the Gospels for the lady that had the issue of blood 530 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:57,320 for 12 years and then also the young daughter of a synagogue 531 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,040 leader who also was 12 years old and dying. 532 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,320 Always been, always been amazed by this particular story in the 533 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,639 intersection of them, because the woman who's been suffering 534 00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:12,880 for 12 years, she's been suffering for the same number of 535 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,320 years that this girl has been alive and they both need 536 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:22,080 intervention from the Lord. The Bible says the story begins 537 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:26,600 firstly because the synagogue ruler has come and found Jesus 538 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,120 to take him to where his dying daughter is. 539 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:35,120 He wants to take him to his dying daughter with the chance 540 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,480 that he would speak something, say something, put his hand up 541 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,560 on her, and life would come back into her. 542 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,639 The Bible portrays that as the master is going with the 543 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:46,760 synagogue ruler whose daughter is dying. 544 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,320 As they're on their way, there's a lot of people thrown in Jesus, 545 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,520 one to touch Jesus because he's Jesus. 546 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:57,120 His reputation has preceded him concerning what can happen when 547 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,040 you have an audience with the Savior and the Bible says as 548 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,240 he's going by, there's this woman with the issue of blood 549 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,880 seems to be incurable. Hey, man, she's thinking in 550 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,880 herself that I can just but touch the hem of his garment. 551 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,840 I'll be made whole. This isn't my point right here, 552 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,880 but it's good to throw it in. This woman who has this 553 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,680 condition has went to a lot of professionals and the Bible says 554 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,800 she just rather grew worse. They could do nothing about her 555 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,280 condition. They could do nothing to help 556 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,280 her. We don't fault this woman for 557 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,400 that. We don't fault this woman that 558 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:37,440 she grew worse. Some things turned around 559 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,840 through practical measures, some things turned around through 560 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,520 practical measures and prayerful measures. 561 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,120 But evidently everything that she tried and was not working, 562 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400 the Bible says she could not be healed. 563 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,320 And Luke, she could not be healed by any of them. 564 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,560 Now again, I realized this was a legitimate physical issue, but 565 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,760 you cannot convince me I've rubbed shoulders with enough 566 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,680 people that physical, legitimate physical issues. 567 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,680 You cannot tell me that after 12 years of dealing with this 568 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,840 affliction that this woman wasn't attacked and weary in her 569 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:19,040 mind. Again, that's not my point. 570 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,400 The Bible says she touched Jesus. 571 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,880 She was made whole. And while he yet spake with this 572 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,200 women, you look at it and look at it. 573 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,640 While he yet spake with this women, there comes some servants 574 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,920 of the ruler of the synagogue, God that had got Jesus walking 575 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,400 with Jesus to take him back to his daughter. 576 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,440 Here comes some rulers of where he lives. 577 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:48,240 And they tell him, Sir, it's went from bad to worse 578 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,960 concerning your daughter. It's went from hopeful to 579 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,720 hopeless concerning your daughter. 580 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:06,770 Your dying daughter is now dead. Someone say glory. 581 00:37:07,690 --> 00:37:10,770 They may have even interjected. This is not in the Bible, but I 582 00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:13,210 could see them talking to that synagogue ruler. 583 00:37:13,370 --> 00:37:17,770 Sir, I know you've made this journey and I know you've made 584 00:37:17,770 --> 00:37:23,240 this trip to find Jesus and summon him to come back to you 585 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,840 where this dilemma was. But this thing has turned 586 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,760 hopeless. And their words to him was don't 587 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:39,800 trouble the Master. But ladies and gentlemen, this 588 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,960 is not the holy little GODS, gods that we're dealing with 589 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,600 here. This isn't even a man that's 590 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,640 devout to God that we're dealing with here. 591 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,320 We're dealing with God manifest in the flesh. 592 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,280 And when Jesus overheard that conversation, he said, and if 593 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,160 you allow me a little leniency here, when he overheard that 594 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:08,000 conversation, he basically responded to them, if I can like 595 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,200 this, listen, what troubles you? Don't trouble me. 596 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:17,120 You've run your hand on a stormy sea and I've slept in the boat 597 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,520 and walked on the water. It's no. 598 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,200 Because we get in our mind, we get to choose or not choose what 599 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,160 we trouble God with based upon whether or not He can. 600 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,920 You can trouble him as long as she's dying, but when she dies, 601 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:53,840 don't trouble the master. God's not sitting there on his 602 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:58,120 daily To Do List and saying impossibility scratch next. 603 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,280 We're the ones sitting down saying, oh, dead now, 604 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,520 impossible. Financial woe, impossible, new 605 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,880 diagnosis as terminal, impossible. 606 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,880 And God says, don't you stop. You think you're troubling me? 607 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,920 It's no trouble to me, honey. This is the reason why I am. 608 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,000 This is the reason why I came. I'm a healer of the mind. 609 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,200 I'm a healer of the body. I'm a healer of the spirit. 610 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:42,620 I know. Can I admire somebody today? 611 00:39:42,820 --> 00:39:46,420 You need to take your droopy head and your slouch shoulders 612 00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:50,380 and you need to lift them and square them back and look to 613 00:39:50,380 --> 00:39:53,380 heaven. I know it feels bad. 614 00:39:53,580 --> 00:39:58,300 I know there's thoughts in your mind, but God can heal your 615 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:24,650 mind. Listen, Patrick McGee, today 616 00:40:29,290 --> 00:40:33,050 it's not even in. Listen to me folks, You've been 617 00:40:33,050 --> 00:40:36,050 through sundry relationships. Your answer is not a new 618 00:40:36,050 --> 00:40:41,570 relationship. Colossians says we are complete 619 00:40:42,570 --> 00:40:49,480 in him Holly. We've mistakenly sometimes 620 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:56,720 sought out people to complete U.S. jobs to complete us, more 621 00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:01,000 possessions to complete us. Honey, you're digging and 622 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,840 looking for a bottom you'll never find. 623 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,320 As long as you look to those things. 624 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,400 You need to let your eyes and look to Jesus. 625 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,600 You can only find completion in Him. 626 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,760 Jobs will come and go, relationships might stand or 627 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,960 fall apart, but He's the anchor you can tie your SO to. 628 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:33,480 You can find complete in Him. Mark 5, the blessed popular Mark 629 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,120 5. Jesus comes on the shore of the 630 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:42,280 gatherings. There's a man living among the 631 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,640 tombs of all places. And you thought Motel 6 was bad? 632 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,480 He's not even paying by the hour. 633 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,400 I'm just telling you, he's living among the tombs. 634 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,640 Bible says no one could bind him. 635 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,840 They've tried with cheddar's. cheddar's chains and fetters. 636 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,600 I like to eat at Cheddar's Buffalo Chicken Wrap, one of my 637 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:10,960 favorites. To tell you the truth. 638 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,040 But chains and fetters, and the reason why it gives us this two 639 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,120 distinguishment of words is like 11 applies to what's around his 640 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,720 feet. The other applies to what's 641 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:27,240 around his hands. Anybody want to go to chatters 642 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,440 after? I praise God I just lost 643 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,720 everybody. They're in lunch now. 644 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:36,600 The mind, the mind. Bible says nobody contained him, 645 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:37,120 right? Yeah. 646 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,960 Let me put in this terminology. The professionals are at their 647 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,320 wit's end, right? Yeah, right, right. 648 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,920 He you want self harm in scripture, he's practicing self 649 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,560 harm. He's cutting himself with 650 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:58,880 stones. That's in your he's cutting 651 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:03,280 himself with stones. He wants help. 652 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,920 He rinsed to Jesus. Bible says there's a legion of 653 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,800 demons in him. Yet he may still makes his way 654 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:22,570 to Jesus because his need was greater than his torment, and 655 00:43:22,570 --> 00:43:25,930 that also spells your torment can't keep you from getting your 656 00:43:25,930 --> 00:43:36,600 need met. But the time, by the time 657 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,040 everything is over, the Scripture says these words 658 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,400 concerning this man, the wandering tune, cutting, 659 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:52,720 deranged, I mean to say this chattered man, when they come to 660 00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:56,440 find him next to Jesus, he's sitting, no longer wondering. 661 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:03,320 He's clothed and in his right mind. 662 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:10,680 Don't tell me, Dana, that God can't do it because he 663 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:21,760 specializes in the mine. One physical aspect of the cross 664 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:32,240 involved a crown of thorns, which had these thorny, long, 665 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:40,400 thorny piercings coming in from every direction toward the head 666 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,600 or the mind. If I may, piercing thoughts. 667 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:55,560 Trepidation of the mind symbolized at Calvary or 668 00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:00,960 symbolize in another tongue it says at Golgotha, which means 669 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:05,480 what the scripture says and interpreted to mean the place of 670 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:11,720 the skull. So at the place of the skull 671 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:18,120 there would be an impelling wooden member of redemption. 672 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:27,680 At the place of the skull on Golgotha's heel, Redemption 673 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:36,280 impaled through the skull. He who knew no sin bore sin in 674 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:42,600 his body for us, Scripture tells us He gave his life. 675 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,920 Therefore, he gave his back to the beatings that it received. 676 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:53,480 He gave his hands and he gave his feet and he gave his side to 677 00:45:53,480 --> 00:46:00,080 the piercings and those storms that were properly placed on his 678 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:05,960 head, coming in from every direction and angle, pointing at 679 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,960 penetrating toward every region of the brain. 680 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:18,080 This just hit me on to Thursday. This even really goes beyond 681 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,920 just storms and piercings toward our thoughts, but every region 682 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,400 of the brain. That means there's storms 683 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:29,240 pointing toward motor skills, there's storms pointing towards 684 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:31,160 language sets that's in your brain. 685 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,640 There's storms pointing toward memories talking about the 686 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,920 different regions of your brain around about your skull. 687 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,480 It's pointing towards your cognitive reasoning. 688 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,160 All these storms coming in and every angle. 689 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:51,200 And so in the Gospels, particularly of John 19, when 690 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,200 Jesus is hanging there on that cross and his head bowed with 691 00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:05,360 the thorns of his crown, he says it is finished. 692 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:14,040 Scripture says, and he bowed his head with that thorny crown. 693 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,880 He's in that moment, as he was with all the moments leading up 694 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,640 to this culmination. He's surrendering to all of the 695 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:31,480 devices, all of the tortures, all of humanity, sin, all of the 696 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,960 thoughts that are sin stricken in his mind that he's plagued 697 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,960 by. He's surrendering all and paying 698 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,880 the price for our victory. And this is what I want you to 699 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:48,720 understand. Christ bowed his head with the 700 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:54,720 thorny penetration of that that crown up on his head, so that 701 00:47:54,720 --> 00:48:02,960 you could lift your head. What are you trying to get 702 00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,920 across? There only needs to be 1 head 703 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,640 bowing here. There only needs to be 1 head 704 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,840 bowing there. You know how it is when people's 705 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,440 overwhelmed in their mind, seldom are they looking up. 706 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,400 It's as though the real weight of the thoughts of their mind 707 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,840 has cast their eyes down and cast their head down. 708 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,760 I'm telling you today there only needs to be 1 head that ever 709 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,720 bowed and that's his head. And because his head bowed, that 710 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,560 empowers me to lift mine. That empowers me to be like a 711 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,760 Nebuchadnezzar with all these thoughts that's plagued my mind. 712 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,640 I'm going to get the strength through him and I'm going to 713 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:43,520 lift my eyes until the heaven and I feel sanity coming back. 714 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,120 I feel. I feel healing coming. 715 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,720 I feel clarity coming because he bowed his. 716 00:48:49,720 --> 00:49:08,340 I can lift mine. You don't stand with me, so this 717 00:49:08,340 --> 00:49:13,140 is what I'm convinced of as a. Pastor here of a few. 718 00:49:13,140 --> 00:49:14,540 Great. People sitting in these Piers 719 00:49:14,540 --> 00:49:20,920 this morning, I'm convinced of this, that if God can restore 720 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:28,280 the mine of the Pagan heathen king in a field somewhere that's 721 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:33,080 taken on the actions of an animal, then he can restore the 722 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:37,080 minds of individuals right here in this room. 723 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:46,280 Yes, Amen. Yes, Jesus, yes, eaten has an 724 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,720 ox, talons of his hands. Somebody in the spiritual sense 725 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,000 today needs to tell the beasts of the field goodbye. 726 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:58,800 Pluck your feathers, trim your nails, lift up your eyes, lift 727 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,520 up your head and give praise to the Most High God. 728 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,720 Can we tilt our heads back whether they're your eyes are 729 00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:10,280 closed or open, Hands extended to God right now and just begin 730 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,800 to honor as Nebuchadnezzar did when his sanity came back to 731 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,640 him? On or the one who has, the Bible 732 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:24,160 says an everlasting dominion that spans all eternity. 733 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:28,480 You can't find out where his dominion started, and you can't 734 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,960 find out where his dominion has ended. 735 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:36,080 He's always had the dominion. So if you feel dominated today, 736 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,240 that's not God. Amen. 737 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:42,280 But if you'll lift up your head to the real dominator, he can 738 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,520 help you. He can heal your mind. 739 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,080 He can bring peace to your thoughts. 740 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:52,440 He can bring clarity. I can't do it today. 741 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,160 Nobody else in this building can do it today. 742 00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:09,400 But our God can. Our God can if your mind has 743 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,040 been the battlefield for the past few months. 744 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,040 If your thoughts have been louder than your faith for the 745 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,760 past few weeks, if you've just been rehearsing defeat and 746 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:26,840 despair and anxiety and escapism, it's time for you to 747 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,240 lift your. Head it's time for you to lift 748 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:35,640 your head. Lift a prayer right where you 749 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,720 are. Right where you are, you can 750 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:43,040 lift your eyes, you can lift your voice, you can lift your 751 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:50,080 mind to heaven and the healing, the healing can come. 752 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,880 You tell me, Brother McGee, stop my therapist. 753 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:58,640 No, I would never tell you that. Keep going to therapy, but pair 754 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,840 with that therapy a prayer and lifted eyes to heaven. 755 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,000 You tell me, don't see the doctor. 756 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,200 No, go to the doctor, please, I admonish. 757 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,120 You to do. So that that's being a good 758 00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,320 steward of your body. Go do it, but don't leave this 759 00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:17,000 other undone. Because I'm convinced the very 760 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,800 one that created the body and the snap seas of the brain and 761 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,160 the interconnections of the ligament in the joints. 762 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,520 If He's the creator of us and the owner of us, then I believe 763 00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:33,200 He has the power, if He wills, to take care of whatever it is 764 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:44,320 about us. Come on, somebody, if it's 765 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,400 appropriate, can you just lay your hand on your neighbor's 766 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:48,280 shoulder? Or on their. 767 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:52,520 Back if it's appropriate. Can you, can you start just to 768 00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:58,880 offer a simple prayer? God, we live in a real world. 769 00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:04,200 We come in sometimes with anxieties and fears and dismays 770 00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,640 and disappointments and God, there's things that ravage our 771 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,120 thoughts and God caused us to get in the gutter of thinking 772 00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,560 Lord the same thing over and over and it almost becomes self 773 00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:18,280 self fulfilling prophecy because we can't we can't allow anything 774 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,000 else to penetrate the thoughts of our mind and it's negative, 775 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,640 negative, negative, bad, bad, bad. 776 00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,000 It's not going to happen. It's hopeless, so and so forth. 777 00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,840 God, I pray today. God, help my friend, help my 778 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,800 neighbor. Help us as a church to let our 779 00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,320 rise. Help us, God, help us. 780 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,160 God, I look to you. God, you, you're where my help 781 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,280 comes from. You're where my help comes from. 782 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,120 You're where my help comes from. Sir. 783 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,880 Neighbor, just cast your care on the Lord today. 784 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:45,840 Cast your care on the Lord today. 785 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,680 Are you heavy laden? Are you heavy laden in your 786 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,720 mind? Then go to the Lord. 787 00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,680 His yoke is easy. His burden is light. 788 00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:55,640 Go to the Lord. Sir, it. 789 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:09,160 Come on, Sir, It's not hopeless. It's not beyond, it's not a lost 790 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,120 cause. It's no trouble to God. 791 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:27,760 It's it's no trouble. Come on, Sir, Come on, ma'am. 792 00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,880 You can respond to the Spirit of the Lord that you're feeling 793 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,120 right where you're standing. You can respond with a lift, 794 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,800 voice, lift hands, lift. You can respond right where 795 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,160 you're at. God can meet you right where you 796 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:59,560 are. Come on, Sir. 797 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,840 Come on, ma'am. Maybe means of symbolism. 798 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,040 Symbolism. You just need to come to this 799 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:07,960 altar. So, God, I'm just going to bring 800 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,520 it here. I'm going to leave it on the 801 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,160 altar today. I'm going to leave it there. 802 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,080 I'm not going to pick it up. God, I'm laying it down. 803 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,000 I can't allow this to dictate my life anymore. 804 00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:19,120 I can't allow this to have the stronghold. 805 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,480 I've casted my eyes up.