1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,960 Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,520 We hope today's message is encouraging to you. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,360 I want to ask you as we begin if you've ever had any dreams like 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,160 the ones I'm about to describe, two of them that are similar in 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,480 nature but different experiences, and I have these 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,320 dreams recurring. That doesn't mean I have them 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,920 like every night, but like it seems like two or three times a 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:26,160 year I have these kind of dreams. 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,480 To this fact that I've. Taken note of them. 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,240 Like wow, I have that dream quite often. 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,080 One of them. Is me trying to get. 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,960 Dressed and I can't get the clothes on just right. 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,560 I don't know if this ever happened to you. 14 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,040 I can't get my arm through the. Armhole. 15 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,120 It's like. Struggling to get through or I 16 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,000 can't get my. Foot through the pant hole. 17 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:44,640 If you want to call it that. My shoe doesn't fit right on my 18 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,560 foot. I have problems tying to tie. 19 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,600 I can't get the button like in my dream I'm doing. 20 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,640 Like get through the hole. Right in anyone and whatever I'm 21 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,280 doing to. Try to get dressed. 22 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,320 It's. Frustrating. 23 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,480 It is slow. It is agonizingly, painfully, 24 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,800 frustratingly I can't get done what I want to get done. 25 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,840 I know you are psychoanalyzing me right now. 26 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,200 I wonder what this dream means about our pastor. 27 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,760 It means I looked it up myself, that I will marry a beautiful 28 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:14,920 woman, and that's what's happened. 29 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:21,080 Hey. Yeah, the other. 30 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,200 Dream, which is similar but different, is that I'm trying to 31 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,680 get someplace I have somewhere I need to be and I cannot get 32 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,560 there. Like I. 33 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:31,560 Don't know if you've ever done this. 34 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,160 You're trying to run in your dreams and your feet feel like 35 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,440 they're concreted to the ground. You're like running in. 36 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,920 Super, super slow. Motion anybody anyway Yep Yep, 37 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:45,080 Yep Or you make the turn that you think is the final turn, or 38 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,560 open the door that you think is the final door to your arrival 39 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,760 and you find out you got many more ways to go the. 40 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,520 Closer you get, the farther. You are, and when I'm in my 41 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,480 sleep it's just frustrating. I can't get to where I want to 42 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,440 get to. And I feel myself frustrated in 43 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,160 the middle of my sleep now. I'm wondering if you've ever had 44 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,080 a dream like this where you have something, where you have 45 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,840 somewhere to go or something? To do essentially this you're 46 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,920 trying to accomplish. Something and you can't get it 47 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:16,480 done. If you've ever had a dream like 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,840 that on your hand, on, on on your hand, on the count of 49 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,040 three, raise your hand 123. OK. 50 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:25,160 You like raising your hand in church? 51 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:26,920 Where's my people who like raising their hands in church? 52 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,840 Yep. Where's my people who don't like 53 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,760 raising their hands in church? Got them. 54 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,440 Yeah, maybe these aren't dreams at all. 55 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:41,240 Is what I was really. Pondering this week, what if 56 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,120 what I'm experiencing in my dream and what you've 57 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,960 experienced in your dream is? Actually real life for you. 58 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,640 And if we were being honest with each other, being candid here in 59 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:54,800 the House of the Lord. You would say I can't. 60 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,280 Seem to accomplish the very thing in my life that I've set. 61 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,280 Out to do the goal. That I'm trying to reach the 62 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,360 peace, that I'm trying to experience the breakthrough that 63 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,160 you've been waiting for, the reconciliation in a 64 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,680 relationship, that all sorts of things where you could. 65 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,400 Feel like there's this this. Block going on all these years, 66 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,160 so many attempts, this thing. Just out of reach. 67 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:26,160 It feels stuck like. It's never going to happen and 68 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,840 for each person in the room it might be different, but you know 69 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,840 what it is. Even as I'm talking about it, 70 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,520 maybe something is bubbling to your mind. 71 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,960 That man, I just can't seem to win in this. 72 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,960 I can't ever finish that. Well, I believe I have good news 73 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,400 for you today. In Jesus name according to the 74 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:46,440 glory. Of God, I believe that. 75 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,800 God wants to unlock for you the very thing in your. 76 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,760 Life that's locked up today, whatever is. 77 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,160 Stuck, he wants to unstuck, if you will. 78 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,960 Unstick today that if you've been wanting victory in an area. 79 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:01,920 Of your life where? You keep feeling defeated that 80 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,640 God can and will bring victory for you. 81 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,520 Today. Today is Victory Day. 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,720 In Jesus name, somebody say in Jesus name, it's Victory Day. 83 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,280 Yeah, look at your neighbor. And say it's Victory Day. 84 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,800 Believe it. And every human being, I would 85 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,920 assume. I don't know you, but you know 86 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,480 you. There are things. 87 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:27,560 Which are yet healed, yet healed the status. 88 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,040 Of those things in the. Folder of your heart that you 89 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,600 have there that you've. Placed these yet healed things 90 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,480 you've written at the top in the notch of that folder, the word 91 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,760 unhealed, which is an important word. 92 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,440 You could have chosen other. Words like broken. 93 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:51,880 But you chose the word. Unhealed because you are a 94 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,360 positive person. Even more than that, you are a 95 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,000 person of. Faith. 96 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,680 A person of great hope. So you don't write. 97 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,800 Broken at. The top of this file you write 98 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,920 the word unhealed. Because there's potential in 99 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,800 that word. It's. 100 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,080 Going to be healed it's. Just not healed yet. 101 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,560 And so you have this faith, you have this perseverance that the 102 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,120 healing is coming. But here it is, July. 4th 6th 103 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:26,960 excuse me, 2025 and it's still not healed, The relationship's 104 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,380 not restored. Your Peace of Mind is non 105 00:05:30,380 --> 00:05:38,800 existent, whatever your list is. And so if we were to be honest 106 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,360 here in the House of God, if we were to be candid with one 107 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,400 another, you would say I've been waiting a long time. 108 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:53,000 I've been trying many things and this still still feels. 109 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,960 Broken, it still feels. Stuck. 110 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,360 Your relationships, your body, your Peace of Mind, your 111 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:05,760 circumstances, your secret sin, all of these things unhealed so 112 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,640 long that you wonder. If they will ever get. 113 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,880 Healed and the enemy starts telling you it won't ever. 114 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,000 Change that ain't. Never going to get fixed. 115 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:18,280 You're going to. Die with this problem if I were 116 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:19,400 to. Have you raise your hand and say 117 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,480 has the enemy? Whispered this to you before. 118 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,880 A lot of hands. Maybe every hand. 119 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,560 Would go up. And because of it, things like 120 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,760 faith and perseverance that we have them, they are weakening. 121 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,480 Yes, I believe in God, but I'm starting to believe that this 122 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,040 won't. Get better, this won't change. 123 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,960 This is the human experience. We're stuck. 124 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,640 We're broken and the way we now. Live our lives because. 125 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,360 Of our stuckness. Our brokenness impacts greatly 126 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,760 the way that we think, the way that we behave, and especially 127 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,640 the way that we interact with one another. 128 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,840 We live from our brokenness. We live from what stuck within 129 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,040 us. We live from our wounds. 130 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:14,200 They become our constant. They become our identity. 131 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:25,840 They become our excuse. Nobody's smiling as we're 132 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,160 talking in this series about becoming Jesus. 133 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,680 People, The Seven Habits. Of Jesus, people, we're talking. 134 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,080 About adhering to a life that causes us to think and behave 135 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,800 like Philippians. Chapter 2 verse 15 says that we 136 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,720 will shine like stars in the darkness. 137 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,200 We were going to be particularly different than the rest of the 138 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,880 world and how we think and how we behave. 139 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,840 And all of it is. Based and shaped by our faith 140 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,080 and devotion in Jesus. Christ the issue I believe. 141 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,280 That God wants us to. Address today is this why do 142 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,240 people. In the church look as unhealthy. 143 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:09,360 As people outside the church, nothing is peculiar. 144 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,840 About the people who attend the church in the areas of health, 145 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:15,320 when we think about mental. Physical. 146 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:21,160 Spiritual. Relational, emotional, and I 147 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:22,960 believe and I know that. You would believe that the 148 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,880 Church should be peculiarly healthy. 149 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,360 If the living God in this. Power to. 150 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:35,240 Heal are among us then why is there so much sickness of body, 151 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,039 soul, mind and spirit inside the household of. 152 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:43,280 Faith. If you want to open your bibles. 153 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,760 To Luke chapter 4. I want to. 154 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,880 Show you Jesus's job description. 155 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,000 What he came to earth to accomplish. 156 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,040 If you need a Bible, raise your hand and 1:00 will be brought to 157 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,200 you. Jesus has just begun his. 158 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,080 Public ministry he was. 30 years old, he got. 159 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,560 Baptized by John and began his ministry. 160 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,640 Publicly, I just said that twice. 161 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,800 For your benefit, no. Because I just repeated it Luke 162 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,200 chapter. 4 verse 16 Jesus goes back to his hometown where he 163 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,080 was raised in Nazareth and we get this incredible scene where 164 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,360 Jesus reveals what he's come to the. 165 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,960 Earth to do, verse 16. Says he, Jesus went to Nazareth 166 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,480 where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went 167 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,080 into the synagogue as was his custom. 168 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:28,560 He stood up to read. And the. 169 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:30,560 Scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Was handed to him. 170 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,000 Unfolding it, unrolling it, he found the. 171 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,200 Place where it is written. Here's his job. 172 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,040 Description Verse 18 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because he 173 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,080 has anointed me to proclaim good news. 174 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,280 To the poor he has. Sent me to proclaim freedom for 175 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,600 the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind. 176 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,640 To set the oppressed free. To proclaim the year of. 177 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,440 The Lord's favor. When he rolled. 178 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,600 Up the scroll he gave. It back to the attendant and he 179 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,280 sat down. It says that eyes of. 180 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,000 Everyone in the synagogue were fastened on Jesus. 181 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:02,840 Everyone's. Like. 182 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,160 Looking at him and he began by saying to them today. 183 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,040 This scripture. Is fulfilled in your hearing 184 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,600 Jesus job description it's listed for us he has come to 185 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,920 bring. Breakthrough where there was 186 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,960 none. He has come to bring healing 187 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,400 where only sickness had been. He's come to bring freedom where 188 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,920 they had only been chains. And he ends by saying, y'all, 189 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:38,760 you don't have to wait anymore. No more waiting. 190 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,200 The hour has arrived. That the fulfillment. 191 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:48,920 Of these prophecies has. Come, it's me, I'm sitting 192 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,200 right? Here today, right here, right? 193 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,040 Now bondage. Broken bodies healed. 194 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,960 Hearts healed if you said. It and meant it. 195 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,560 Then would you agree and believe with me that he means it? 196 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:16,280 Still today, July 6th. 2025 South. 197 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,440 Again, I asked the question, why don't we see as much healing in 198 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,360 the? Church, as we should. 199 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:29,120 Why doesn't the church look? Brilliantly, peculiarly healthy 200 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,680 compared to the rest of the world a few weeks ago. 201 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:35,880 A friend of mine couldn't drive himself. 202 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,920 To the orthopedic doctor's office because of the procedure 203 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:40,960 they're. Going to do on him would make 204 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,280 him unable. To drive, so I took. 205 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:44,240 Him to the. Office. 206 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,360 It was a short. Procedure. 207 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:46,720 So I'm like, I'm just going to hang out in the car. 208 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,360 And I sat in the car and I parked facing the. 209 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:54,080 Doors of the orthopedic doctor's office, whatever. 210 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,040 However, you say that the doctor of orthopedics, whatever that 211 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:01,160 you call that guy. The orthopedic, I don't know 212 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,560 what you call it, not an orthodontist, that's. 213 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:09,400 Teeth. And I sat there and looked at 214 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,920 the door. About 20 minutes he was in there 215 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,120 and I saw all sorts. Of people all sorts of ages. 216 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,200 Both. Genders, everything walking into 217 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,840 this building kind of the same in one way shape or form or the. 218 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:28,320 Other got a limp. Bent over, holding thing in a 219 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,120 sling, whatever that somebody Wheeling them in you got. 220 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,360 The the Walker. Things, crutches. 221 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,280 Everyone is walking in with some sort of infirmity. 222 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,640 I'm like, wow, wow, that guy's hurting and the Lord bless them 223 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:40,840 and all. I'm just thinking all these 224 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,480 things as they're walking in now. 225 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,000 As I sat there. An interesting thing happened 226 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:49,840 when they walked out. This is what they look like. 227 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,520 And I was thinking to myself, man, if you guys are walking in 228 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,920 to get healing from the sky and you walk out the same way, maybe 229 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,520 you shouldn't be going to this place because there's no healing 230 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:11,440 in that place. Are you picking up what I'm 231 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,240 putting down? I know. 232 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,600 And I'm so glad that if I were to sit in this parking lot and 233 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,080 watch everybody walk in and we. All war physically. 234 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,080 Our ailments, whatever they are, mental, spiritual, emotional, we 235 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,920 would all walk in with limps. We would all walk in with the I 236 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,040 got a pain into this and my arm and a sling. 237 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,240 But what the world is? Seeing is that we walk out the 238 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:42,360 same way and they're wondering. Where is the hope of the gospel 239 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,880 if the very people who. Proclaim it are still unhealthy 240 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,280 themselves. I'm not going to go to that 241 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,480 doctor if he ain't healing. I'm not going to that church if 242 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:58,160 there's no. Healing, I believe you. 243 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,520 Ready. For some good news, almost. 244 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:05,960 I believe that not yet. I believe God wants to show us 245 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,520 the major. Issue today. 246 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,200 Bring it to mind. I think you. 247 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,680 Already are aware of this. But bring it to mind so that it 248 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:13,560 can be dealt. With right, it's like. 249 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,280 Oh wow, now I know the. Issue. 250 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,280 Let's deal with it. The single most impactful block 251 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,960 that inhibits our lives from receiving the power of. 252 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:29,320 God is sin. Yay, it's. 253 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,680 Sin. I want to show you 2 examples in 254 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:37,240 the scripture of how our SIN inhibits our lives from 255 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,200 receiving the power. Of God first Peter, chapter 3. 256 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,400 Verse 7. Husbands, in the same way be 257 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,720 considered as you live with your wives and treat them with 258 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,960 respect as the weaker partner and as heirs. 259 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:54,880 With you of the gracious gift of life, so that. 260 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:57,240 Nothing will hinder your prayers. 261 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,320 Treat your wife as a coheir. She's equal to you. 262 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,320 In the Kingdom. So treat her as such, and when 263 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,720 you don't, you're in sin. And when you're in sin, your 264 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,320 prayers are hindered. What does that mean? 265 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,320 Well, let's talk about it in a minute. 266 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,320 Let me show you another scripture. 267 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,520 Matthew chapter 5 May be more familiar to you, verse 23. 268 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,520 Therefore, if you are. Offering your. 269 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:31,200 Gift at the altar I've. Come to worship and remember 270 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,960 that. Your brother or sister has. 271 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,680 Something against you, which means I've sinned against my. 272 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,800 Brother or sister, look what Jesus says. 273 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,640 Leave. Your gift there in front of the. 274 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:49,360 Altar first before you worship. And make offering go and be 275 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,400 reconciled to them. Then come and offer your gift. 276 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,400 Before you make your offering. Go and make it right. 277 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,160 Both of these verses are. Indicating to us that our sin 278 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,800 has an impact on our connection to the. 279 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:13,160 Power of God, Yes, let it be stated. 280 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:18,920 Clearly that faith in Jesus. Has granted to us. 281 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:24,360 Forgiveness from the Father removing from us the penalty of 282 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:29,320 sin, but that does not mean that the consequences of our sin 283 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,840 don't have an effect on the way. That we relate to the. 284 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:39,200 Power of God, prayers hindered, worship delayed. 285 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,080 I need to clear. Up a lot of theological. 286 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,440 Things here because. This could get really 287 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,120 legalistic. And really overburdened with 288 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,440 what is not truth. So I want to make it as clear as 289 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,480 I can. If you have questions, Info at 290 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,760 Illuminate dot church. I will respond to you. 291 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,960 Info at Illuminate. Dot church the. 292 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:02,680 Hindrance that is spoken about in First Peter chapter 3 is not 293 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,119 on the. Power of God. 294 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,200 God's power. Cannot be diminished. 295 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,839 He's omnipotent. Rather, what is hindered is our. 296 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:15,599 Ability to agree with to. Partner with the power of God 297 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:17,240 and so the effects. Of the. 298 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,119 Power of God are diminished in us as we do not receive them as 299 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,400 they're meant to be. Received How does this work? 300 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,760 Well, Prayer. Is an activity of faith. 301 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,840 It's by faith that we pray. We pray. 302 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,560 To that which is unseen, it's. Faith. 303 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,160 It's belief. God, I'm. 304 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,320 Trusting your word. It's faith. 305 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,000 Prayer is also the. Exchange of wills the most. 306 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,600 Beautiful prayer ever, Jesus says. 307 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,320 Not my will be done. But your will. 308 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:48,280 Be done, and when we sin, we're in the. 309 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,040 Opposite of faith. And when we sin, we're in the 310 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,720 opposite of exchanging wills. Faith. 311 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,040 Says God I trust. In you and all of your ways. 312 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,680 Sin says I trust. In myself and in all of my ways. 313 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,360 Faith says I agree with you God. Sin says I don't agree. 314 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,680 With you, and in this way, our prayers are hindered and our 315 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:15,720 offerings are. Delayed. 316 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,480 To be clear, theologically. Get this right? 317 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,520 Does this mean when we sin that God doesn't hear? 318 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,440 Our prayers, Yeah, if you. Say no. 319 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,400 Say it no with some authority. Absolutely not. 320 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,320 Does this mean that? God isn't attentive. 321 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:41,320 To me, when I sin again, the answer is thank you wife. 322 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,080 I don't think it'll surprise. You that God hears every. 323 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,360 Prayer, and every prayer is uttered from the lips of 324 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:55,840 sinners. He hears them all. 325 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,600 The sin hinders our ability to partner. 326 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,800 With the work of God. Hindered in the Bible literally 327 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,440 means to impede a moving. Object. 328 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,800 So God's activity. Is moving. 329 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,360 The Bible says that it the word. Of God is alive and active. 330 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,280 This thing is moving. The Word is moving the. 331 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,240 Spirit of God is. Moving the healing of God is 332 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,360 moving the. Power of God is upon. 333 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:36,000 Us, and we hinder it, we impede that which is moving by our sin. 334 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,760 If you want to think of it this way, you got a hose the water. 335 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,200 Is the power of God. And we take our hands and sin, 336 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,600 and we go kink, and we block what God is trying to do and 337 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,280 move in our lives. And thus even in the. 338 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:57,440 Church unhealth abides. Unhealth persists. 339 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,880 Now Are you ready for some good news? 340 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,480 Don't shoot the messenger. What's the? 341 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,000 Solution as I said. Last week, Week 2 or week 3. 342 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,320 But habit 2 Jesus people apply the word of God. 343 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,920 If you have a question, ask the Bible. 344 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,560 And you'll find your answers. So let's. 345 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,880 Ask the Bible this question how do I unkink unleash the power of 346 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,640 God's healing in my life so that I am peculiarly. 347 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,240 Healthy. My marriage is healthy, my 348 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:37,080 mental state is healthy, my finances are healthy, my. 349 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:43,680 Body is healthy 2 scriptures. One from the old, one from the 350 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,440 new. Which means this is a theme, a 351 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,640 banner in Christianity. Proverbs chapter 28, verse 13. 352 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,360 We begin to see the solution through the word. 353 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,400 Of God, whoever. Conceals their sins, does not. 354 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,560 Prosper. But the one who confesses and 355 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:07,600 renounces them finds mercy. James chapter 5, verse 16 356 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,520 you'll. See a word repeated therefore. 357 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,280 Confess. There's the repeated word in 358 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,040 both verses, your sins to each other, and pray for each other 359 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,760 so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous 360 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:29,880 person. Is powerful and effective habit 361 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,760 three of the. 7 Habits of Jesus people. 362 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,000 Jesus. People use confession to unleash 363 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:46,430 the power of God in their lives. Is this a habit of yours? 364 00:21:48,190 --> 00:21:52,710 Confession. We value right relationship with 365 00:21:52,710 --> 00:21:54,950 God. We value His power in our life. 366 00:21:54,950 --> 00:21:58,360 Therefore, we will practice. Confession if you're putting 367 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:00,200 together a rule of life value and. 368 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,680 Practice value the. Power of God in our lives. 369 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:09,280 Practice confession. Let's talk about Catholicism for 370 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,840 a second. I have never been in a 371 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,640 confessional booth, but I've seen one on TV. 372 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,880 I've seen them in the movies. Quite honestly, they scare me to 373 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,280 death. I don't like small spaces and 374 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,880 that little curtain and talking to somebody. 375 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,480 I don't know how it works and I'm not making fun. 376 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,120 It sounds like I'm making fun. I shouldn't make fun. 377 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,040 Forgive. Me But when James says confess 378 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,440 your sins one to another, and never says confess your sins 379 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:46,150 only to a priest. And so when you hear the word 380 00:22:46,150 --> 00:22:50,030 confession, don't put a stereotype or an old practice 381 00:22:50,030 --> 00:22:53,550 from another denomination in your mind. 382 00:22:54,550 --> 00:22:57,480 Let's let the Lord reset that. And speak to us. 383 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,360 Clearly, what this powerful gift. 384 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,600 That he commands us to do invites. 385 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,240 Us to do. Can bring about in our lives 386 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,000 confession. What does it even mean? 387 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,760 Confession means to acknowledge full agreement. 388 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:18,080 Openly acknowledge. That means mental awareness that 389 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,040 I'm coming into full agreement. I'm 100% convinced I'm bought 390 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,040 in. But the key to confession is the 391 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:31,680 openly part. Publicly to speak about that 392 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,040 which you have. Believed internally last. 393 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:38,320 Week we had 62. People make confession when they 394 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,440 went in the waters of baptism, was it? 395 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:45,160 Wait, I hope you got to see it. Look at that. 396 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,920 And look at that and look at that and look at that. 397 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,520 I only have 4 pictures. We could have taken 6200 398 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:57,920 pictures. There's. 399 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,640 Always tears of joy, Sweet. Surrender. 400 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,640 Just incredible healing going on in the. 401 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,680 Waters of Christ, Jesus, beautiful, all of these. 402 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,040 People are making a confession. I acknowledge that I have come 403 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,960 into full agreement with Jesus as my Savior and Jesus as my 404 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,960 Lord, and I'm now publicly making that declaration. 405 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,840 Baptism is a confession. Powerful. 406 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,920 Beautiful. If you're waiting to get 407 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,720 baptized in here next time, don't. 408 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,120 Delay it any longer next. Time we do this like 3 or 4 * a 409 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,240 year I can't even remember. 62 people. 410 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,200 Praise God, Amen. In terms of sin, when we 411 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:44,480 confess, we are agreeing with God that our ways are not. 412 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,760 His ways that his ways are perfect. 413 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,520 In design for us to have the most abundant life possible. 414 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,280 And I'm coming into agreement. God, your ways are right. 415 00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:00,040 And my ways lead to death. I'm out of alignment. 416 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,840 To kill your people, confess Jesus, People who are light. 417 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,800 In the darkness. Confess and as they confess. 418 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,400 The Word of God promises this mercy and healing. 419 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,560 Apply that to wherever you're locked. 420 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,240 Up in your life, mercy and healing. 421 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,960 And it comes via confession. Let's again talk theology. 422 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,520 When you put your faith in Jesus, you are forgiven of your 423 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:32,560 sins, but you might not be. Healed of them you are. 424 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,880 Forgiven of the penalty. Do you? 425 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,320 Which is death. Do me? 426 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,960 Which is death, because Jesus took our place on the cross, 427 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,080 paid the ultimate sacrifice. Once and. 428 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,480 For all that, whoever. Believes in Him will not perish 429 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,160 but have everlasting life. Our we, We won't die because of 430 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,320 our sin. However, the power of. 431 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,840 Sin and its consequences still is on the earth. 432 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,760 And how do we overcome those? By healing. 433 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,880 And how do we heal? Confession. 434 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,560 Faith helps us with our forgiveness. 435 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:15,160 Confession helps us with healing from the power and the 436 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:20,160 consequences of sin. Thank God. 437 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,320 So how does it work? How does confession work? 438 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:29,120 How does confession unkink the hose and allow healing and 439 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,840 breakthrough to come to your life? 440 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,680 4 things I want to share. With you briefly 4 healing. 441 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,160 Benefits of confession if you're. 442 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,720 Ready to say yes? First, confession heals pride. 443 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,840 And by the way, when you see these 4. 444 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,360 All four, Well, the. Three of the first ones, I 445 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:48,280 should say. The three first ones are weapons 446 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:53,320 of the enemy. Their attempts to have 447 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:58,880 brokenness reside in your home for you to remain in bondage 448 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,600 though. Christ has set you free. 449 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,120 Pride, everyone say pride. Pride is the basis. 450 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,120 Of all sin. If you're to build a. 451 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:10,760 House called Sin. The foundation would be called 452 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,600 Pride. If you're to bake bread. 453 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,360 Called sin, the flour is pride. It's the center. 454 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,480 Of it all and. It's the genesis of the very 455 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:28,960 first sin ever created, which was when Lucifer decided that he 456 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:36,600 wanted to be God in heaven. God kicked him out of heaven and 457 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,520 then he used the same tactic, he being the devil on us in the 458 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:44,400 garden and says, you know, maybe you should eat from this tree 459 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,000 that God told you not to eat from it because when you do eat 460 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,520 from it, you will be like him. Don't you want to be like? 461 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,600 Him. Don't you want to be God? 462 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,880 That's not what it says, but. That's what it says. 463 00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,120 And Adam. And Eve. 464 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:00,160 And Tim. And Christine. 465 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,240 Whoever was there would have. Eaten because that's our nature. 466 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,960 Confession heals pride. Because if you were build a 467 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,960 house called. Confession The foundation is 468 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:22,600 called humility. When you confess, what you're 469 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,160 doing is taking yourself from your. 470 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,560 Lofty place where you thought you were right. 471 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,400 And you're lowering yourself and confessing to the Lord. 472 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,800 Your ways are right. And I was wrong or you're 473 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,240 confessing to somebody else, human to human. 474 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:41,080 I was wrong and I am apologizing. 475 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:49,880 You're lowering yourself and in humility, pride begins to erode 476 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,920 in your life. And the more you confess, the 477 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,920 more that pride is eroded, and the more that. 478 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,760 Pride is eroded. The less you sin because pride 479 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:07,360 is the foundation of sin. Humility can wipe it out, and 480 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,840 that happens via confession. I have to humble myself. 481 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,560 I'm going to tell you this now for later. 482 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,800 Today for the victory. To come to you, it's going to 483 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:22,240 take some humility. You're going to have to not 484 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,400 worry about what other people think and just. 485 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,160 Do what? God's. 486 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:32,760 Asking you to do humbly. Just seating that in now #2 487 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,200 Confession heals isolation, another tactic of the enemy. 488 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:43,040 Sin seeks to draw a person away from community in two ways. 489 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,320 Maybe three. The first is. 490 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,480 I've sinned. I'm such a terrible human being. 491 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,080 I am not worth love or being loving somebody else. 492 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,440 I'm just. An awful, terrible, guilty, 493 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,800 yucky man. So I isolate that's. 494 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,680 One way. The other way is. 495 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,160 I'm enjoying my sin, but I don't want to be. 496 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,520 Caught because that would be. Embarrassing. 497 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,240 So I'm going to hide in the darkness away from everybody so 498 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,080 they don't see my sin. And then I become a fraud. 499 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:18,040 So I'm going to hide. I'm drawing away from community 500 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,040 in my sin. The third way is the enemy 501 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,840 telling you you're the only one who's got this problem. 502 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,600 You're all alone. Ain't nobody. 503 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,200 But you? That's as terrible as you. 504 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:45,400 A sack of potatoes. Confession, as James has taught 505 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,080 us, to another human being, takes me from isolation back 506 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,560 into community. I've got to confess to a human. 507 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,160 That's what James is telling us. I can't hide in the corners over 508 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,880 here. I'm going to come forward and 509 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:06,360 confess to you. Couple notes. 510 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,520 By the way, if you're the one receiving a confession, receive 511 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,320 it in the same manner that. You hope that you are. 512 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,320 Received in When You Confess, Gracious, compassionate, knowing 513 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,240 that I am no better than the one confessing. 514 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,200 And secondarily, when we confess, we realize we're not 515 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,560 alone. There's been times you've heard 516 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,560 me from this platform say, hey, I got anxiety. 517 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,920 Which is hard to say because the preach is supposed to have it 518 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:30,920 all together. Guess what? 519 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,000 I'm looking at Pastor Voldemear Preach. 520 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,240 You don't have it all together. One time I punched a hole 521 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,880 through my wall and I confessed that in front of the church and 522 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,760 I had so many people come up to me like you're not alone. 523 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,280 I'm like let's journey. This Let's get Better Together. 524 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,200 Sin wants to. Isolate you, the devil. 525 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,240 Wants to isolate you. Confession draws you into 526 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,360 community and heals you of isolation #3 Confession. 527 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:11,760 Heals you of this secret tactic. Of the enemy Denial Denial is a 528 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:17,880 weapon of the enemy. Alcoholics Anonymous was formed 529 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,480 in 1930 by two guys named Bill Wilson and Bob Smith. 530 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,400 They're not. Positive because it's. 531 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,440 Hard to count these things, but there are over 2 million people 532 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,280 who have been freed of alcoholism because of the. 533 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,680 Start of this 12 step. Group called Alcoholics 534 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,640 Anonymous. And of course now there's 535 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,840 Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, all sorts of 536 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,400 anonymous things that are helping people break free. 537 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,960 And maybe you're familiar with this, maybe not, but they run 538 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,560 through 12 steps. Do you know what step number one 539 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,360 is? Confession. 540 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,800 Here are the words actually. We admitted we were powerless 541 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,880 over. Alcohol that our lives had. 542 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:07,240 Become unmanageable. All three that I've talked about 543 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,640 so far this. Takes humility to admit this. 544 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,200 This is drawing them back into community. 545 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,000 They meet in these groups, right? 546 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,720 And then they're breaking this denial. 547 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:24,680 I am not able to handle alcohol. It's owning me my. 548 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,280 Life, as a result, has. Become unmanageable. 549 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,240 It's part of the healing process in the 12 steps. 550 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,520 The very. First step, it's confession. 551 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,880 Healing takes place because we finally own our ailment. 552 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,240 It happens through something called introspection. 553 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,880 Everyone say introspection. I'm going to look inwardly and 554 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,280 determine what it is in here that's not doing so well. 555 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,880 I'm going to look inwardly and determine what in here is not 556 00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,800 behaving so well, not thinking so well. 557 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:05,960 And then I'm going to be honest about it. 558 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,719 And in terms of confession, I'm not going to be honest about it 559 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,600 privately. I'm going to be honest about it 560 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:23,560 publicly to heal me of pride, to heal me of isolation, to draw me 561 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,679 into the family. Denial is partnering with the 562 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,840 enemy because to deny the. Truth is to lie. 563 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:32,360 And the devil. Is the father of lies. 564 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,920 And so when we deny what's going on in here, we're just agreeing 565 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,120 to the darkness. But when we confess, we. 566 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,360 Partner. With and agree with the actual 567 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,679 truth and Jesus. Told us what the truth does, he 568 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:47,600 says. You will know the truth and. 569 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,280 It will set you free. Confession is bringing to light 570 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,520 what the enemy wants you to keep in darkness. 571 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,680 Denial, denial, denial. Stay in the dark, Stay in the 572 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,320 dark, stay in the dark. Confession. 573 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,840 Light breaks. In and the darkness is repealed. 574 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,480 Confession heals pride, heals Isolation heals denial, and 575 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,600 here's the 4th 1. Confession heals relationships. 576 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,840 When we obey Jesus. And we go and reconcile with 577 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,720 those who have something against us, somebody that we have sinned 578 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,280 against. We are participating in 579 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,440 confession, my friend, my wife, my brother, whoever. 580 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:32,760 I have sinned against you and I'm acknowledging it. 581 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,200 Publicly, and for that I apologize. 582 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,080 Two quick notes. Note #1 Confession and apology 583 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,920 are not the same thing. We often just do 1. 584 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,240 Do both. I'm sorry. 585 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:52,640 And when somebody. Apologizes to you. 586 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,920 Maybe, maybe you have the gumption to say this, but 587 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,440 sometimes I'm like. For what? 588 00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,640 And do you know what you're apologizing for? 589 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,880 Do you know how you hurt me? I confession is me saying to 590 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:05,880 you. Exactly what I. 591 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,520 Think I did. That hurt you, that. 592 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,000 Wronged you and then the apologies to say I'm sorry. 593 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,440 Will you forgive? Me and the second note about 594 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,240 this healing relationships. Confession should be made to the 595 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:24,200 one sinned against. Let me just read what I wrote 596 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,520 here. Most Christians display a 597 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,440 preference for confession in secret before God. 598 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,680 Even concerning matters which involve other people To confess 599 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:40,480 to God seems to be the easiest. Way out, Jesus says. 600 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,600 Before you bring your offering to me, go and make your 601 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:49,120 confession. To those that you've hurt. 602 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:54,440 And then bring your offering to me. 603 00:36:54,440 --> 00:37:03,960 Go and confess 3 words. Introspection, responsibility 604 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:10,760 and acknowledgement. This is how you confess, if 605 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,920 you're wondering how I'm going to introspect. 606 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,920 I'm. Going to realize where I am out 607 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,040 of alignment with another person, with the Lord my God, 608 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,200 I'm going to acknowledge it. Which is to take. 609 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,280 Personal responsibility for it, and then I'm going to go and 610 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,400 make I said that backwards introspection. 611 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,440 Responsibility and acknowledgement this last part 612 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,920 of. Speaking it out loud, no longer 613 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,720 hiding it in the darkness. Well, I told it to God. 614 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,480 Nobody else needs to know. Well, the healing comes because 615 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,760 your pride needs to go away, which heals you from. 616 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,720 The desire to do. Sin your isolation goes away, 617 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:51,920 which means you're not out there in the wilderness by yourself. 618 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,720 Easily to be picked off. Goes away. 619 00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:56,400 Your denial goes away, which means you're partnering with the 620 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:05,760 enemy when you confess to another person in the 1700s. 621 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,560 The. Revival swept over the nation of 622 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,400 England and even made its way to the United States of America. 623 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,640 There is this group of people that practiced the habit. 624 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:29,520 Of confession. It was one of their methods and 625 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,320 this movement began what is today known as the Methodist. 626 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:37,680 Church say what? You will about the denomination 627 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,160 today, but when it began. It was a wildfire that broke out 628 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:45,880 of spiritual power. Across two nations, 2 continents 629 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,080 and the root of. It was the habit of public. 630 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,160 Confession. Standing before your brothers 631 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,760 and sisters and saying this is where I'm out of alignment with 632 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:57,760 the Lord. This is where I'm out of 633 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:08,400 alignment with you, and I want to come back on a return into 634 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,560 community, into the power of God and the healing is released. 635 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:18,040 What we're going to do here today is allow you the 636 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:24,840 opportunity to make your confession in three ways. 637 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,720 On the sides of the platform here are going to be our prayer 638 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,280 altar ministry team. If you all want to come forward 639 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,560 now, you can come now. And in the middle are going to 640 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,360 be three of our elders, Pastor Valdemir, Pastor Kim, Dakota 641 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,280 Page. They'll be here if you. 642 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:46,160 Want to confess something that's been going on in your life? 643 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,280 You know, say I've been out of alignment with the Lord. 644 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,800 I'm coming into agreement that his ways are better than my 645 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,000 ways, than these prayer altar ministry. 646 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,360 Folks are here to receive. Your confession? 647 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,640 They're not. Judges they are with. 648 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,040 You they're bringing you back into community out of isolation, 649 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,000 helping you to diminish the pride in your life getting rid 650 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,520 of denial these. Folks are here for that. 651 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,320 Why are the elders here? Well, James chapter 5 which says 652 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,680 confess your sins one to another and you will be healed is in the 653 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,840 context of physical healing. And right before James chapter 5 654 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,640 verse 16, it says if any of you is sick, come before the church 655 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,360 and let the elders anoint you with oil and they'll be healing. 656 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:28,880 And what we find so often in the. 657 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,480 Church. Is that physical? 658 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,240 Elements are tied to spiritual elements. 659 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,960 There's something going on your life, unconfessed sin, a block 660 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,520 of some sort, and so you get to come to an elder and say, hey, 661 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,200 I'm confessing this in my life and then we're going to. 662 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,280 Pray they have oil. They're going to anoint you with 663 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,040 oil because it says that in James Chapter 5. 664 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,840 Anointed with oil and pray and there will be healing. 665 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,560 We're believing for that today. As I said, it's going to take 666 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,120 humility because you're going to think, well, if I go up, 667 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,840 everyone's going to think that I've done something wrong. 668 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:04,840 Guess what we all have? We all have a confession to 669 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,240 make, and so we're going to linger. 670 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,200 Here the third is this. And I'm just going to pray a 671 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,080 prayer real quickly. Maybe not, maybe. 672 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,000 Probably there's somebody you need to go and make confession 673 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,280 to. As Jesus has taught us. 674 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:25,680 That you have sinned against and you've been for so long holding 675 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,960 on to your pride, saying I'm not going to apologize, I'm not 676 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,080 going to them. Regardless of what they do. 677 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,320 The command of God is upon you to go and make your confession 678 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:40,800 to them and make it right. Don't just apologize, confess. 679 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,480 So my prayer that I'm going to pray is Lord put a name on my. 680 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,560 Heart of A. Person that I need. 681 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,520 To go to today. And make my confession. 682 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:53,680 Let's just pray that prayer real quick. 683 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:58,000 Father you are, you are wise. You know every person in this 684 00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,520 room, you know how many hairs are on their head. 685 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,320 I mean, you know. Every detail about us. 686 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,680 So this is easy for you, Lord. To know the situation and the 687 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,280 relationships of our lives and who it is that we need to make 688 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,000 confession. To so Holy Spirit. 689 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,000 Now, right now, would you just fill in the blank for each of 690 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,760 us? A name, a Co worker, a friend, a 691 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:24,520 family member that I need to make my confession to today and 692 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,360 say I have done this to you and I am wrong and I apologize. 693 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,720 Father, I pray that you would. Back that up now with your. 694 00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:35,800 Spirit, that you would give power to us to do what you have 695 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,280 called us to do. And Lord, now I pray for your 696 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,600 spirit of faith and peace. To rise over the House today. 697 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,200 As you've opened up your altar for anyone to come and make 698 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,960 confession, God and I pray in the name of Jesus that you would 699 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,720 release your healing as we come. We are trusting your word that 700 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:00,000 as we confess our sins one to another. 701 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,040 We will be healed body. Mind, soul, spirit, 702 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:09,600 relationships in Jesus name. Thanks for joining us today. 703 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,640 We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message. 704 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,640 If you'd like to connect with us, you can text Connect to 4:07 705 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,160 588-0115 or visit Illuminate dot Church. 706 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:23,840 Have a great week.