Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast.
We hope today's message is encouraging to you.
Good morning. Good morning.
My name is Valdemir Arnezi. I am a discipleship pastor here
at Illuminate Church. And I'm so glad you came.
I'm so glad that we have people in overflow.
Welcome. We are so glad you were here.
We are in a series named Weeds in my Garden and I want to share
my weed and the name of my weed is Vladimir.
You are laughing. I need to tell you, Vladimir is
not a easy name, is not an easy name.
I can tell you all my life explaining, you know, when you
arrive in a place and what's your name?
Vladimir. What?
Then they used to say Vladimir. Then I said no, no, no,
Vladimir. Oh, Vladimir.
No, Vladimir. You know, we went to Ukraine.
Can you imagine when we were going?
King Landry said, Are you ready, pastor?
Everybody will call you Vladimir for yes.
All my life I was prepared for that.
But you know, sometimes not so easy.
When I arrived in Ukraine, I was saying Vladimir and they were
saying, oh, Vladimir, but how can you understand?
I'm saying Vladimir and they were saying Vladimir.
When I start working at the church tester team, invite me if
I can, you go with me when a meeting with some pastors and I
will introduce you the pastors. And I told him a pastor, let me
alert you, you introduce me as Vladimir.
They will answer Vladimir, then Pastor Tiff.
No, no, no, no. I will speak your name in
Portuguese. Vladimir.
And we arrived there and the first guy came and hey, this is
Pastor Vladimir. Oh, Vladimir.
Pastor team, look at the river. You see, everybody was Vladimir.
Vladimir. Vladimir.
No, no, John the Jo. So all my life I had to explain
or correct when I arrived in a place or someone who is new for
me and it's not so wonderful. I'm good with that today, you
know. But this became a weed and I
spent many years thinking about Can you imagine me with four
years old, five years old, my name is rounding me.
And the guy said what? And you know, when you get
there, the person stopped saying Vladimir.
And when they realize it's Vladimir, they say, Oh, Vladimir
with that faith that it's so uncomfortable.
And if you oh, I am so I I have I spent many times like thinking
about I'm afraid to go to a new place or to meet new people
because when I meet them, they was my name and I'll have to
explain. So this became something my mind
new people, I'll have to say vow there they will say, Oh,
Vladimir. So feeling like shame about my
name and this kind of feelings and emotions can fracture us and
lead our personality and the way we respond.
I was thinking about how can I have a girlfriend?
Can you imagine? Hey, how are you?
My name is Vladimir. You see what you just did?
I was thinking about how I will never have a girlfriend.
In my mind came the idea anyone who accept me can be my
girlfriend. So it's usual to face some
situations in our lives that can fracture our emotions and create
pain and still our mental health.
So we the name of this series is Weeds in My Garden and we are
talking. It's all about mental health and
the way God loves you and how God is working to provide for
you and me health. And many times when we think
about mental health, the first understanding is about clinical
issues. And through this series we want
to address is spiritual issues that leads to mental health
issues. So today we will talk about a
new name, John. Can you imagine you arrive in a
place? What's your name, John?
They will not say, oh, Hallelujah.
No, Joan, just Joan. You see, So the name of this
message today is a new name. When Celia was pregnant, my
wonderful wife, when she was pregnant, she was always
pregnant. I just call her and she was
pregnant. Well, so she when she was
pregnant of ours first son, we were thinking about the name.
Can you imagine your baby? And you think about the name.
And I was just thinking, never Vladimir.
Can you imagine Vladimir Junior? What?
No, no, no, but never Vladimir. And I was just thinking, I need
to find the easy name. He will arrive in a place, he
will say whatever and everybody will understand.
No more questions, you know, name.
No questions. This is what might go.
Wow. I don't know if I have this
experience I had. So we decide for Bruno.
You see. Bruno.
Easy.
Oh, Bruno 2 ends 2B2R No, no, no.
Bruno. What's your name?
Bruno, I have never this experience in my life.
What's your name? Vladimir. 15 minutes.
Oh, Vladimir. So Bruno.
We decide his name will be Bruno.
He will never face what I face. And every place, every place he
will arrive, he will never explain about his name.
Luca, it's simple. Don't listen to stupid Bruno.
Why is his name Bruno? I don't care.
It doesn't matter. Cover whatever you want.
Shut him up. Say Silencio Bruno.
Silencio Bruno. Louder.
Silencio Bruno. Silencio Bruno.
Can you still hear it? Nope.
Just you. Good.
Now hang on. Celine.
Ciao, Bruno. And that's not all.
Thank you so much, Disney. Every place Bruno arrives.
Bruno. We don't talk about Bruno.
We can take care and try to cover everything, but we always
can face unexpected things in our lives.
I did my best. I prayed with my wife to find a
name and we decide the same at Disney.
Bruno. 2 movies in a row. Celencia, Bruno.
Stupid Bruno. We don't talk.
We can try to cover everything in our lives, everything we can
do, but sometimes or many times we can face what we were not
expecting. Life just happens and unexpected
things can change our lives and I'm sure most of us experienced
change in our lives. The impact of your choices or
the choices that others make for you can impact to fracture you
and create wounds, and the wounds can create different
behaviors. Let me introduce you, a person
who designed to live under fractures.
Wait, have you? Been in here.
Patching the cracks. Oh, that.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm too scared to go near those
things. All the patching's done by
Hernando. Who is Hernando?
I'm Hernando, and I'm scared of nothing.
It's actually me, I say. My real gift was acting.
I'm holy. I made to sparkle.
How long have you been back here?
You never left. Hi, Hernando, I am Jorge.
You see, Hernando and Jorge were who could deal with the cracks.
When he was Fernando, I am Fernando, it was me.
When he came back, it was me. Fractures can lead our lives.
I know it's funny, but at the same time it's terrible and for
sure not healthy. The movie shows that bad
experience usually create fractures and this guy in the
movie he developed weird behaviors to solve the cracks of
his life. Just being Hernando or Jorge, he
could face that things and many times you receive this false,
true, you cannot handle the things in your life because you
are not that person. You cannot handle because you
don't know how to use that. We don't have some tools.
The fracture, look at this, the fracture in his life led him to
prefer isolation, to prefer. He didn't like it did that, but
he preferred isolation. He preferred to be apart from
his family that he loved because of the fracture.
He preferred to be with rats. Did you see the rats?
He preferred close to the family but living with rats Sometimes
we didn't leave our houses, we didn't leave the family, but we
prefer the rats. Who are the rats?
How many divorce came from from fractures?
Adultery in the family but preferring the rats?
Pornography. I'm the family, close to the
family, but I prefer the rats. How many conversations between
parents and kids? Spouse broke, broken because of
the fracture, the fracture leading what you will do.
So I love the family, but because of the fracture, I'm
living with rats. So we become who the fractures
says we are. At the Bible we see a lot of
names with meaning, but sometimes their lives were not
going according according to their names, meaning Naomi.
In the Old Testament, Naomi means my sweetness much better
than Vladimir. What's your name?
Naomi, you know, So Naomi means my sweetness.
But her life faced some really hard impacts.
Naomi she had her husband and two sons and her husband died
passed and right after her husband passed her two sons
passed as well. Naomi she decide my name is not
Naomi anymore. My name is Mara.
I'm speaking the names in Portuguese because it's easier
for me, maybe in English mirror, you know, but for me it's Mara.
And Naomi said don't call me Naomi anymore, my sweetness.
Now my name is Mara, my bitterness.
So call me my bitterness. This is my name.
And first thing she did after change her name, she said to her
daughters in law. Daughters in law.
Hey, go back to your father's house.
Leave me alone. Fractures works.
Fractures work to lead you to be alone.
So, Naomi, just change her name. The fractures decide who I am.
And now I am Mara. I am my bitterness.
So we have other Bible characters who change their
names. And I want to talk with you
today about the story of Mary Bao.
Mary Bao. It's also in Portuguese.
He was not Brazilian, but so Mary Bao.
Mary Bao means the one who opposes Bao.
And Bao was a idol, bad idol in Israel and his father gave his
name like Mary Bao, the one who opposes Bao.
Strong guy. I am here to protect what Lord
said I am against this idol strong enough.
Can you feel that? What's her name?
Mary Bao, you know the one who opposes Bao many Bao.
He was look at this, he was son of Jonathan.
Jonathan was the son of the King Saul, the king of Israel.
So he was the grandson of the king and the king Saul.
He betrayed the Lord and he went to a battle and when he when he
was in that battle, he was killed.
So the king saw was killed. Same battle, his son Jonathan,
Mary Bao's father was also killed.
When the news arrived at the Mary Bao's house, the nurse
listen, all this terrible news, she took Mary Bao.
He was 5 at that time. She took Mary Bow and start
running. When she was running she dropped
Mary Bow. Mary Bow broke his feet and
could never walk again. He lost family.
He lost grandfather, father, he lost the Kingdom, he lost the
place you were living, he lost everything and this became
reality. And none of this were his fault.
After Saul, Saul the king Saul died, David, who was best friend
of Jonathan, Medibao's father Dave, who became the king, Dave
was best friend of Jonathan. And Dave mourn this death of
Saul and especially his friend Jonathan.
And he decide to do something. And I invite you to open your
Bible in Second Samwell Chapter 9.
If you don't have a Bible here on the overflow, just raise your
hand. The ushers will help you here in
front. Second Samuel Chapter 9.
We will read verse 1 to 8 to
Second Samuel Chapter 9. Dave asked, Is there anyone
still left of the House of Saul to whom I can show kindness for
Jonathan's sake? Now there was a servant of
Saul's household named Zeba. They summoned him to appear
before Dave, and the king said to him, Are you Zeba at your
service? He replied.
The king asked. Is there no one still alive from
the House of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?
Zeba answered the king. There is still a son of
Jonathan. He is laying in both feet.
Where is he? The king asked.
Zeba answered. He is at the House of Mercur in
Portuguese. He's the House of Mercur, son of
Amiel in Lou de Bar, almost Vladimir.
So, so King Dave had him brought from Lodibar from the House of
Marquis, son of Amiel. When Mephibosheth son of
Jonathan, the son of Saul, came today, he bowed down to pay him
honor. Dave said Mephibosheth.
Let me tell you something, this guy is Mary Bao.
When he arrived, Dave call him Mephibosheth.
Dave didn't call him Mehriba, he called him Mephibosheth and the
guy answered at your service. He replied.
Don't be afraid, Dave said to him, For I will surely show you
kindness. For the sake of your father,
Jonathan, I will restore to you all the land that belong to your
grandfather's soul, and you will always eat at my table.
Mephibosheth bowed down and said, What is your servant?
That you should notice a dead dog like me.
A dead dog like me, that's pretty low self esteem.
And that's the problem with self esteem.
It's based in self esteem is what we need, but it's the self
that's the problem. So esteem.
Esteem means to have respect and a demeration, but it's hard to
have that for yourself when you know what you are going through,
what what you did. The dead sting can be the weeds
in my garden and we invite you to work to receive the restored
new self esteem coming from the Lord in Jesus name, Amen.
Can you say a better Amen? Now you're good.
So let's talk about self esteem. It's important to identify who
is the self so we don't use to change our names would be
amazing. Vowdermil to John, Can you
imagine three days after I was born, my dad think about oh,
it's not good, let's change to John.
Oh, he didn't. But we don't use to change our
name names. But a lot of times we identify
ourselves in our soul and emotions by the experience or
traumas we had, the fractures. So I'm not sweet anymore, I'm
bitter. Call me bitter.
I'm deciding my new life is bitter.
I'm not the one who opposes Bow the idol, the dead idol.
I am the one who everything opposed to me.
Then under these fractures we receive the bad self esteem.
Hebrews 12/15 says look after the Bible is amazing.
It's not in Hebrews 12/15 I'm telling you the Bible is.
I mean every time you open your Bible something is going to
happen. God is talking with you.
So Hebrews 12/15 says look after each other so that none of you
fails to receive the grace of God.
Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grow up to trouble
you corrupting many. So in the Hebrew culture any
poisonous plant was called bitter plant.
So something we eat or allow to enter in US and become the bad
self esteem. So maybe you received a
nickname, sometimes a terrible one that you hated or
automatically open an emotion door to become another person
and to develop behaviors and decisions under the decisions
under this concept or fracture yourself esteem.
And we need to consider, look at this.
We need to consider we have an enemy and the Bible says he is
not just an enemy against your finances or against your health,
against your future plans. The Bible says the enemy is
against and he is the enemy of our soul.
He wants to devour who we are. He wants to devour your esteem
first. Peter 58 says be alert and of
sober mind. Your enemy, the devil, prowls
around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Let's think about this. The enemy plays like a lion the
way we we are. We are reading here.
But he prowls around, you know what?
Prowls around like you know. But why?
This noise means that he's stronger than you.
He's trying to say that so you feel weak under him.
He wants to devour who you are, so he prowls.
You cannot do this. The fractures many times
fragilize, make you fragile, make you weak, make us weak in
our soul, and we open a new understanding.
You know Vladimir, You know what means a name that you have to
explain to every No, no, no. So Vladimir means governor.
I cannot have power even to explain my name.
So how I am governor, if people cannot understand, cannot
understand my name. So in my mind, I decide I'll not
talk with anybody, I'll not talk with people, I'll not say my
name. I'm shame of my name.
And you know, God gave me something.
God gave me something to talk with people.
I talk with people even when they don't want to talk with me.
I like to be in a place, I like to talk with people.
I like to be in new place, even in new language.
When I went to Ukraine and said, hey, what are you saying?
I don't know. I'm trying to say speak your
language. This is the calling that God
gave to me. But how can I be this if I am
Vowdermere, nobody can understand my name.
So the fractures trying to live my life, the fractures trying to
say who I am, Are you following me?
This is my calling. I love to talk with people.
Pastor Tim. Tim just said to make disciples.
It's amazing. You talk with someone and they
say something to you and you can lead them to Jesus.
The best thing ever. So the fractures and the lion
try to proud around to make us feel we are weak, we are under
that fracture. And this passage says be alert
and of sober mind. I need to tell you this, the
Greek word for sober mind is nepsati is also in Portuguese
nepsati, which means look at this, be of sound judgment with
the Spirit for the purpose of prayer.
So be alert and sober mind. Sober mind means I see what the
enemy is doing with the Spirit to pray.
I will pray. I will not be under the
emotions. I will pray Nepsat sober mind.
The enemy's way is to lie to us, but you know he does not use the
way they I will destroy you. So I want to talk with you about
the enemy's strategy. Are you ready?
So he tried to act as you, saying to you your feelings that
you don't have, trying to convince you.
So he comes after you and say he is saying I am rejected.
And we feel these thoughts came from our hearts.
It's not this is the threat. A lot of things that we think
came from that the fractures that happened.
God can help us and he's saying there's no way for me.
He's saying there's no way for me.
He's saying and we live and death thinking about we are
thinking about this. I am thinking this kind of
thoughts. Are you following me?
So he comes and say I am rejected and we feel it's me.
He's saying if you are at I4 wonderful place, a lot of people
there OK or Disney lines, you have 3 hours to get that place
and someone close to you says to you I am rejected if Oh no God
loves you you know, but the enemies tries try to speak as
you. So you think that you are
thinking about this by yourself? Are you following me?
I'm trying to speak Portuguese. So he's saying I am rejected.
Nobody want to be with me. He's saying I'm not good enough
for my family, for this place. I need to run out of my life.
It's not your thoughts. He's I need to get out of here.
My life means disgrace. Everything in my life is
terrible, my life. He's saying that the enemy is
working to create thoughts, but I need to tell you that thoughts
are not yours. Thought have you ever listened
this kind of thoughts? Please in Jesus name consider
the truth. Pray to hear God's voice and not
the enemy's voice acting as you two wonderful actions to
practice. Submit and resist.
Can you say with me to be listened in Brazil?
Submit and resist. OK 123 perfection, submit and
resist. James chapter 4 verse 7 says
submit yourselves then to God, resist the devil and he will
flee from you. Are you receiving this submit
yourself then to God, submit to God.
You know what means submit to God is I'm reading the Bible and
wow, he's saying that I'm submitting my life to this
submit yourself. Oh, I'm learning about God's
love. He sent his son.
He said his son to die for you. He loves you.
I will submit my life under this love.
So the the way to fight is submit yourselves under to God.
So I will learn you need to read the Bible.
You need to know our God so you can submit and practice that you
are coming to church where listen the message so submit
yourselves to God. I'm hearing that from the Lord.
I will submit my life for this. You know this is the way.
Then the second step, resist the devil is not resist the devil
alone, but submit to God and resist the devil.
Can you imagine you're reading the Bible this evening?
How many healing are coming from you?
Just because you are deciding? I will.
I will read and I will submit. I will not just know the
information, but I will submit. God said everything is possible.
I will submit my life, everything is possible.
I will see my family change. I will see the blessings on the
Lord come into my life. I will see because he said it's
possible. I sue me.
Then the second step, resist. Resist the devil.
It's amazing. Resist and he will flee from
you. The guy will remove.
He will flee from you. This is the Bible.
How do you resist when you listen the voice, I'm rejected,
I'm not good enough. This year is going to be
terrible. Everything is saying is going to
be terrible. God said that.
Resist, Submit to God and resist.
Stand against. Nobody loves you.
God said that resist so let's start to resist.
Ephesians 611 says put on the full armor of God so that you
can take your stand against the devil schemes put on the full
armor of God. So I want to pray for us now.
Just. Rejecting that voice, do you
agree with me? Lord, in Jesus name we are in
your house. We don't want that voice
anymore. We understood that this is a
strategy from the enemy and in Jesus name we are against this.
We submit our lives to you. We want to learn from you.
We want to learn more about your love.
We want to learn more about your way because we are deciding to
submit to you. This next week is going to be a
God's week in our life because we want to submit our next week
to you in Jesus name. And now Lord, we resist the
enemy. We resist the enemy all the
lies. We don't want that lies.
We ask you Holy Spirit, come and take all the lies from my soul.
Come Holy Spirit and clean my mind because I want to submit.
Today I decide to submit my life to you as my only God and I need
your thoughts in Jesus name. Amen.
Maybe praise the Lord.
Maybe you arrived here today, or you were watching online, or at
the overflow, and the fractures of your life came like Mehdi
Bao, a dead dog. He was naming himself by dead
dog, but King Dave called him Mephibosheth.
And you know what Mephibosheth means.
No more shame. No more shame.
We need a new name. Completely disconnect with all
the lies the enemy is saying. And I believe God is leading you
this morning to give you a new name.
No more shame. Amen.
Can I ask you something? Do you trust me?
You are crazy so please stand up and find one person can be your
family, the person you came with.
Find one person and be in front of this person that is close to
you. Just one person and I will give
you instructions. So today we will do something
here with a spiritual meaning. Are you following me with a
spiritual meaning? I know I'm always funny, I'm
vulnerable, but now we will do something that will be recorded
in our spiritual helm. So I will give you how you do
this, but you will introduce yourself to that person and you
say to that person, nice to meet you.
My name is no more shame. Are you ready?
Go. Amen.
Amen.
Welcome to Illuminate Church.
No more shame. We are so glad you came.
Amen. Amen.
I want to close I want to close this message reading 2nd
Corinthians 517. You can still be stand 2nd
Corinthians 517. Therefore look at this.
Therefore, if any words, it's amazing if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation has come, the old has gone, the new is here.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, if anyone is in Christ
and the Bible says if you believe that Jesus is the Son of
God, if you believe in your heart and you speak in your
mouth, you receive the new life he he brings to you, he has for
you. So I just want to invite you to
pray this morning to receive Jesus as your Savior.
Amen. If you believe in your heart and
you will speak in your mouth, you will receive.
So I invite everybody to pray with me.
Repeat with me. Lord, this morning I want to say
that you are the Son of God. Jesus are the Son of God, and I
receive you as my Savior. I need you in my life and I give
my life to you. I pray in Jesus name, Amen,
Amen. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen,
Amen. If you, we have something for
you, if you did that prayer for the very first time in your
life, receiving Jesus as a Savior, we want to pray for you.
And I ask you to just raise your hand most high level you can.
We want to pray for you. Amen, Lord.
Lord, thank you. Thank you for your salvation.
Thank you for the way you are leading our lives.
We want to submit to you. We want to submit our lives to
you and resist the enemy because you are the only one who can
provide us life. Today we receive the name no
more shame and we want to walk with you.
We pray in Jesus name, Amen. Thanks for joining us today.
We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message.
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