1 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,320 In Luke chapter 12 verse 32, I'm going to talk to you about being 2 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,320 touched today. In Luke chapter 12 verse 32, it 3 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,680 says do not be afraid. A little flop. 4 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,320 For your father has chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom. 5 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,240 God has chosen gladly to what? Give you the Kingdom? 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,160 Aren't you glad He's given you a Kingdom that cannot be shaken? 7 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,040 Hallelujah. The Bible's about a king, his 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,880 Kingdom, and his royal offspring, who are the royal 9 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,800 offsprings of the king He is the king of. 10 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,320 Who are those kings? You are those kings. 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,440 So He's chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom. 12 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,600 So there's No Fear in us because our Father is the king of the 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,600 Kingdom by which He has given us that Kingdom and we can function 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,200 and operate in it today. How is it that you can get into 15 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,200 this Kingdom the Father wants to give you? 16 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,440 John 33 Jesus answered and said, truly, truly. 17 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,520 I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom 18 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,600 of God. So you cannot, through any other 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,040 form of immigration, make your way into the Kingdom. 20 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,040 Yet you must be born of it. Must be born of it. 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,880 Now what's so awesome? Naturally, you can be born in 22 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,600 any nation on the planet. But when you confess Jesus 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,440 Christ as your Lord, then you become born again, or rightly. 24 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,720 The correct word for again really means from above. 25 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,160 You are born from above. You become born spiritually 26 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,680 alive, you become a new creature in Christ, and you have now a 27 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,480 citizenship that is in heaven. Can I get an Amen? 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:02:00,360 So you were in a Kingdom that had a taskmaster who was your 29 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,480 father. Now there was a time that man 30 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,960 was created in the image of God, but when Adam fell from 31 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,040 dominion, Adam then created after his kind, which was no 32 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,440 longer of the God kind, but of his father, the devil. 33 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,920 He be his spirit. Man became dead, just like the 34 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:24,520 devil is cut off from God, separated eternally, and so he 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,680 produced after his kind. And Jesus said to the Pharisees, 36 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,520 which were religious people who had access to the word, but 37 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,920 their spirit man was dead. He said, you, if you were of me, 38 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:38,520 you would not try to kill me, but you are of your Father, the 39 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,720 devil. So our old father was the devil, 40 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,400 and we were in his domain, his authority, his rule, his power, 41 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:57,240 and he was a wicked father, very abusive to us. 42 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:03,240 But God being rich in mercy, come on now, while we were yet 43 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,840 sinners, children of the devil, he died for us so that we could 44 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,640 have a new Father, The Father that's supposed to be ours, the 45 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:16,000 one that rightfully created humanity in the 1st place. 46 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,200 We could be born again. That spirit man that was dead to 47 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,920 God leaves us. We become a new creature in 48 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:26,400 Christ, have a brand new Father who gives us a totally different 49 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,680 Kingdom. Hallelujah and so that comes 50 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,520 through confessing Jesus Christ as Lord. 51 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,120 Ephesians chapter 2 tells us in being born again. 52 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,240 It says this it says for by grace you have been saved 53 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,440 through faith and not of yourself. 54 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,920 It is a gift of God. So the grace of God in this 55 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,280 case, this definition of grace is unmerited favor. 56 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,760 Although grace has different definitions depending on the 57 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,000 application because there's a multi facets of grace. 58 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,600 Grace is not only unmerited favor, though it includes 59 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,680 unmerited favor. In this case. 60 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:10,400 We did not deserve it, nor did we earn it, but God, because of 61 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,000 the death, burial and resurrection and the finished 62 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,880 work that He did by paying for all of your debt of sin, that 63 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:26,680 when we accepted that payment, that blood that redeems us, 64 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:31,480 faith, meaning we called on the name of the Lord to be saved. 65 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,880 We were saved, Hallelujah. And then grace functioned in our 66 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,600 lives. So faith activated grace so that 67 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:46,520 we could be born of God. Now Galatians 220 says this, if 68 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,920 you have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who 69 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,200 live Paul saying, but Christ lives in me and the life I now 70 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,080 live in the flesh, meaning in the body I live. 71 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,840 How? How do we live by faith in the 72 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:04,480 Son of God who love me and gave himself up for me. 73 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,280 So Paul saying, listen, if Christ has died on the cross for 74 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:15,320 all of sin, he's taken on sin. The man who knew no sin became 75 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,080 sin. He took on your sin, your 76 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,760 transgression, your sickness, your disease, and he was 77 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,080 crucified and died on the cross. Well, we've died with him, 78 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,240 meaning our life apart from God. We willfully say I'm done with 79 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:34,480 it. I don't want it. 80 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:39,440 I'm dead to my old self, to my flesh, to my way of living, to 81 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,200 the the ways that honored a Father who did not love me, care 82 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,480 for me, but only wanted to destroy me. 83 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,240 I'm dead to that life. I've been crucified with Christ. 84 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:57,400 What I did, he put on him. Now that I'm alive to God and 85 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,400 I'm still in the earth, in my skin suit, I'm no longer going 86 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,400 to live like I used to. Live by what I saw, by what I 87 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:10,880 heard, by how I felt. But I now live by faith, and I 88 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,920 live by faith in the Son of God. That's Jesus Christ, who is the 89 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,480 King. I live by every word that 90 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,520 proceeds out of his mouth. That's how I live. 91 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,920 Another translation, the Amplified Classic, says it this 92 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:29,640 way. I've been crucified with Christ 93 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,560 in him. I share, I have shared his 94 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,200 crucifixion. It is no longer I live, but 95 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,680 Christ the Messiah lives in me and the life I now live in the 96 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:43,000 body I live by faith in. I live by faith in, by adherence 97 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:49,080 to and reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God who 98 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,720 loved me and gave himself up for me. 99 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:57,760 Hallelujah for Romans 117 says, for it is the righteousness of 100 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,360 God, for in it the righteous of God is revealed from faith to 101 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,520 faith as it is written. But the righteous man shall what 102 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,000 shall what live by faith. Again, when someone says, what 103 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,360 do you do for a living, do not say I'm a plumber, I'm an 104 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,320 architect, I'm an accountant, I'm whatever your title is at 105 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,480 work, business on whatever. You don't live that way, you 106 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,800 live by faith. The other is just an outlet by 107 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,880 which you witness to the world that you're not of this world, 108 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:33,040 that God pays you in those title positions to be an ambassador 109 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,600 for Him and show them the life of faith, what a person looks 110 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,600 like who lives by the word of God. 111 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,960 Because when you live by faith, you're no longer limited to the 112 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,600 pay associated with your title or position. 113 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,200 You're not limited to the healthcare associated with the 114 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,720 benefits associated with your employment. 115 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:59,200 You live by faith alone in God. Because when you do that, you 116 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,760 can leave a job. You're no longer bound to it. 117 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,200 Amen. You can move as God directs you 118 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,200 because you live in another realm. 119 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,080 Now if we are to live by faith, then what is faith? 120 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,600 Hebrews 11/1 says. Now faith is the assurance, this 121 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,720 is the amplified, the title deed, confirmation of things 122 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,440 hoped for, divinely guaranteed, the evidence of things not seen, 123 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,640 the conviction of their reality. Faith comprehenses facts, what 124 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,520 cannot be experienced by the physical senses. 125 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:38,480 So in essence, faith is the assurance of something no one 126 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,080 sees. Neither I see, but I see it 127 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,840 through the eyes of faith, or see it through the Word or what 128 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,280 the Word has said. It has painted a picture of what 129 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,040 it is that I can be, what I can possess, what the Church rightly 130 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,800 has. And I believe that even if I do 131 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,200 not see it in the natural. That's right. 132 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,680 That's what faith is. That's faith. 133 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,280 Faith is a firm persuasion. And the best way that I again 134 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:16,360 can describe what firmly persuaded feels like 2 + 3 135 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:21,640 equals do not answer. But are you confident you could 136 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,440 give the right answer? I mean, if someone put a gun to 137 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,240 your head and you had to answer that equation, are you confident 138 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,640 you would get it right? Do you have any doubt at all? 139 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:36,760 That's what it should be like when you read God's word 140 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,760 concerning a situation. You should see it as simple as 141 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,960 that kind of equation. And if you do not see it that 142 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:48,840 way, where I know the answer, I know it. 143 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,200 I mean, seriously, Ryan, do you know 2 + 3? 144 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,240 Do you know it? Are you pretty confident? 145 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,320 I mean, how confident are you? Would you bet your life on it? 146 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,520 I extremely. Would you? 147 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,800 Would you be willing to give all your money away? 148 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,080 Come on. Yeah, I mean, that's and that's 149 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,640 not arrogance, That's confidence in knowing the answer. 150 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,200 And this is the problem. Religion hates this because 151 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,520 religion wants to keep you in ambiguity. 152 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,880 It wants you to be guessing and act like you can't know and you 153 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,120 can't know, and God knows everything and you can't know 154 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,560 nothing and you just should be lucky that you're in. 155 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:27,520 But God says that's not what I gave to my kids. 156 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,000 I give them my word and they have confidence in it. 157 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,560 This is why you boldly with confidence, go before the throne 158 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:40,040 of grace with I'm confident. My dad wants me to know the 159 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,800 answer to come out of any situation I may be encountering. 160 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,360 And once I hear from him, I know I got it. 161 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,880 I got it and I call it that way. I say it that way, and this is 162 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:59,480 not mythical because it is this way, period. 163 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:05,120 So when I know 2 + 3 equals something you can't tell me, 4 164 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:10,640 you can't tell me -1 you can't tell me a you can't tell me. 165 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,800 I don't know enough yet. There, I should do some more 166 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:19,080 equational studies. No, I know, I know. 167 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,360 And if this is not how it is with healing, this is not it. 168 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,480 It is with prosperity. If this is not how it is with 169 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,840 mine renewal, this is not how it is with joy. 170 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,000 If this is not how it is with relationships, then you're not 171 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,880 in faith. So don't say you're something 172 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:43,240 that you're not, because faith is firm persuasion. 173 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,560 Romans chapter 4 verse 20 and 21 says he staggered not at the 174 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:53,000 promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving 175 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,160 glory to God and being fully persuaded that when what he had 176 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:02,640 promised he was able to perform fully, firmly, fully persuaded 177 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:07,880 means this, to fill one with any thought, to fill one with any 178 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,880 thought. It's a conviction and 179 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,480 inclination to make one certain to persuade. 180 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,800 Convince 1. Be persuaded, persuaded, fully 181 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:23,680 convinced or assured. That means I know that I know it 182 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,240 is what he said. Period. 183 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,240 And another thought I will not take. 184 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,920 Amen. That's why to take doubt is to 185 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,320 be in rebellion to the king and his Kingdom. 186 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,400 Because when you know the word to take a thought contrary to 187 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:47,920 that and put yourself in doubt. Because the enemy, all he wants 188 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:54,040 to give you is reasonable doubt. Because if he can make you 189 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:04,920 reason so that doubt can occur, then you're no longer in faith, 190 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:13,600 even if you're praying. It said that he stagger not, 191 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:19,000 which means he did not let his mind get intoxicated with other 192 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,480 thoughts contrary to the word of God. 193 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,960 And I'm telling you today, we are living in a society that 194 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:33,880 there is much intoxication. You understand the church in 195 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:41,520 general has a drinking problem in the natural, but what's worse 196 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:47,040 than that is the drinking of words more. 197 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:52,520 Saints are intoxicated with words that they cannot take 198 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:57,200 captive of because they do not have a healthy diet of reading 199 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:03,520 the word themselves. This is why Peter said to be 200 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,840 sober minded because he prophesied of a day in his 201 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,200 writings when there will be so much information, so many people 202 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,560 using things in a way that was to turn and manipulate and 203 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:20,880 basically create reasonable doubt in the believer. 204 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:28,400 So that Jesus himself said, when I return, will I find faith in 205 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:35,200 the earth? If there's any subject or any 206 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,240 situation in your life that you're like, well, you know, I'm 207 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,600 just not really sure that will can't will become problematic 208 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,720 for you to overcome because until you're firmly persuaded 209 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,240 what God says about it, then you will not overcome in that area. 210 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,920 So if faith is a perp persuasion, then how does faith 211 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,000 come? Now I'm talking to a lot of 212 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,440 people here that know these things. 213 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:09,080 But listen, please do not let go because I'm telling you right 214 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,520 now, faith comes by. So you need to hear this again. 215 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,480 You eat steak all the time because you tasted good. 216 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,840 Guess what? This tastes good. 217 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,240 And the first time you ever heard this, you were like, what? 218 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,720 Right. So don't let this be like what 219 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,240 Pastor Chase said last week, that these words are so common 220 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,000 that you're just like, well, wait till he gets the next 221 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,280 Scripture. No, you need to hear this again 222 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,480 because I can conclude right now, there are many even in this 223 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,960 building that may not be walking by faith, although they have 224 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,360 knowledge of how to walk by faith. 225 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,520 You have to stir yourself up. You have to keep yourself in 226 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,200 this constant firm persuasion because again, what are you 227 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,280 believing for that you can't see right now? 228 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,040 And if the answer is, well, I guess nothing, well then guess 229 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,120 what? You're not in faith because 230 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,600 faith is not religion. Well, I'm of the faith. 231 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,960 No, you're not. That's a religious statement. 232 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,640 That's a tradition of men. Faith is believing what God 233 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,280 says. And you know what? 234 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,600 If you don't have anything that you're personally believing for, 235 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,480 I can guarantee the church that God assigned you to has things 236 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,760 that you can. Because the reality is, if 237 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,440 you're going to grow in faith, you need to grow to a faith that 238 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,760 goes beyond believing for yourself. 239 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,280 This is what I love about Jesus only talked about great faith 240 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,960 for a couple of people. One of the occasions was a 241 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,240 centurion and he had great faith not even for himself. 242 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,200 He wasn't even believing God for him. 243 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,800 He was believing God for his servant. 244 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,760 He was healthy, he was had a position, he was taken care of, 245 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:01,200 he was honoring God, He was building churches for the Jews. 246 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:09,680 Yet one of his servants was sick and he sent word with some to 247 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:15,800 Jesus and say to him, would you kill my servant? 248 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:22,480 And as Jesus approached, because he was before the new birth 249 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,079 experience, obviously when you're confronted with Jesus, 250 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,360 your sin is laid bare. He said, I'm not even worthy for 251 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:34,920 you to come under my house. He said this, I am a man like 252 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:39,880 you, just speak the word only and my servant will be healed 253 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,800 because I'm a man like you. I'm under authority and I'm in 254 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,920 authority. And when I tell my servant to 255 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,280 go, he goes. When I tell him to come, he 256 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:47,800 comes and I tell him to do this, he does it. 257 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,520 And Jesus marveled and said, I've not seen such great faith. 258 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,200 No, not in all of Israel. Hadn't seen it. 259 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:59,640 Hadn't seen it that this guy is functioning to receive a word 260 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,760 and it's not even for himself yet. 261 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:09,200 We teach faith on the personal side so much that the minute 262 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:15,120 you're healthy, wealthy and wise, then we're not believing 263 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,840 for anyone else. How many lost people are in 264 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,280 Saint Johns County right now? How many are you actively 265 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:28,160 calling in the lost? How many are believe in God that 266 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,400 the North will give up the law, S will give up the laws, the 267 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,840 West will give up the law, E will give up the loss. 268 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,200 That's in Scripture. How many are believe? 269 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,760 Because we sure don't have a full place right now of people 270 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,160 lost being saved. So that's just activating your 271 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,560 faith in that arena. How many people do you come 272 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:53,120 across that are sick that we need to be believing God for? 273 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,280 So the principle of faith isn't just a personal revelation. 274 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,560 It goes beyond to a corporate and a church revelation where 275 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,040 the church and this is who God's coming back for. 276 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,680 A church that's not just thinking about themselves 277 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,040 individually, but thinking about things corporately and how they 278 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,440 can impact a community. Amen. 279 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,520 Hallelujah. Romans chapter 10 verse 16 and 280 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:22,600 17 says, however, they did not all heed the good news for 281 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,840 Isaiah said Lord, who has believed our report. 282 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,440 So faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of Christ. 283 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,960 And so the message says the latter verse. 284 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,720 The point is before you trust, you have to listen. 285 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,680 But unless Christ's word is preached, there's nothing to 286 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,560 listen to. Now I love this because faith 287 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,160 comes by hearing period. Faith, again, it's not a 288 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,400 religious word. We had like faith's a religious 289 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,440 word. It's not a religious word. 290 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:57,000 The lost live by faith. In one sense. 291 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,960 They live by faith. They live by what they hear. 292 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:05,280 There are people still to this day that are firmly persuaded 293 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,600 that wearing a mask protects them. 294 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:16,920 Still to this day, I can go into airports and still see people. 295 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,120 Wearing mad. Why 'cause they believe that 296 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:24,440 word. They believe it. 297 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,320 How do you know they believe they act on it. 298 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:30,000 Now, I'm not saying that's bad, I'm just saying that's an 299 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,520 evidence of their faith. They're acting on it. 300 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,480 Now, I don't know everyone, but some may be doing it and have 301 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,320 never actually looked at any study to determine what's the 302 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:48,120 outcome of that because the majority of the United States 303 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:53,520 has abandoned that idea. We've we've developed reasonable 304 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,400 doubt. Well, we doubt that is necessary 305 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 how? And that's why we don't act on 306 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,640 it. That's why we don't have them on 307 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,720 our face today. But there are people who have 308 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,000 that. There are people that have, are 309 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,000 firmly persuaded concerning fear, concerning failure, 310 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:15,160 concerning all kinds of things. So faith comes by hearing what 311 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,720 you hear and you allow to govern your life. 312 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,240 You are walking by faith. But our faith was to be built 313 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:28,400 only on the word of God, not on what our president says, not on 314 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,360 what's going on in the world, not what the stock market's 315 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:34,840 saying, not what the doctor tells me. 316 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,960 My faith is on the word of the King. 317 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,720 That is my firm persuasion. And so if I'm going to listen, I 318 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,600 need to be listening to Christ. So all the voices can say 319 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,280 something, but I'm only going to listen to the word of the King 320 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:56,320 and every other one I will cast out Hallelujah. 321 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,800 Here's the thing. If you are illiterate in the 322 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,800 word, you're going to have a very difficult time casting out 323 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:09,520 other thoughts. So what we hear is very 324 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,600 important. Faith comes by hearing. 325 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:17,440 Now you're not in faith just because you hear, but that's how 326 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,920 it comes that that's how you access it. 327 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,640 Mark chapter 4, verses 23 and 24 says this. 328 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,800 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. 329 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,160 Here we go again. Then he said to them, take heed, 330 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,280 say take heed. Come on, say take heed, take 331 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:36,800 heed what you hear. Can you say you're doing that? 332 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,840 Are you actually taking heed to what you hear? 333 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,280 Now I know a tangible take heed because when I'm hearing 334 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:54,240 something and it starts to modify my behavior, then I'll 335 00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:00,160 shut things off. Because if if what I'm hearing 336 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:05,320 starts to move my behavior and my words to not sound like what 337 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:10,480 the Scripture says as a believer I'm supposed to be like, then I 338 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:15,000 make adjustments. It doesn't say God will control 339 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,440 what you hear. It does not say that. 340 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,760 It does not say God will control what you God's in control. 341 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,120 He's not controlling what you hear. 342 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,760 You are controlling what you hear. 343 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,320 In fact, he says you need to take heed what you hear. 344 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,360 And why is this important? Because hearing is the gateway 345 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:36,880 of belief. Amen. 346 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,680 Bleep. Pastor Marcy, didn't you just 347 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,400 minister on this a little bit? All you want to. 348 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:52,080 OK, well, you get some notes then take heed what you hear. 349 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,720 Now, here's the thing with the measure. 350 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:00,920 You use it, it will be measured back to you and to you who hear 351 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:07,040 more will be given. Now what you're listening to is 352 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:13,640 and how much you listen is what This is why the Paul had to warn 353 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,360 in the last days. Some people will give themselves 354 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:23,520 to fables to to arguments. I mean I've been around Saints 355 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,560 who have released the title of Christian and picked up the 356 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:37,120 title of conservative. I mean they are in every 357 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:42,040 political scandal and they are tying every little thing and 358 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,200 they are so into it. But yet they can't love their 359 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,000 brother, can't walk in forgiveness. 360 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,960 Actually they instantly turn into self-righteous and they 361 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:59,520 don't even know it. News flash, the Republican 362 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:06,800 Party, it did not come from God. It didn't. 363 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,400 Now, that doesn't mean there's not principles within that party 364 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,080 that you can put in Scripture, but it is not technique. 365 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,520 It is not ordained by God. In that context. 366 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,120 You understand what I'm saying. Neither is the Democratic Party, 367 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,880 neither is the Independent or the Libertarian or the 368 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,680 Greenpeace Party or the Tea Party or whatever party you want 369 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,600 to have. I'm in the Kingdom Party myself. 370 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,480 That's the party I'm in. It's of every tribe, every 371 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,680 tongue, every nation. It's the only one where freedom 372 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,800 occurs. And I vote every year from that 373 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,880 platform. Amen. 374 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,720 But there are many believers that are turning in their 375 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:54,320 Christian for liberal, for progressive. 376 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,480 Well, you understand, in Christ there is liberty. 377 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,440 There's things you're pretty liberal about. 378 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,800 You know what? In Christ it's quite progressive 379 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,960 because it's not of this world and you'll progress out of the 380 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,960 things of this world. Amen. 381 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:18,240 Hallelujah. And there's a conservative side 382 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,320 because I can serve myself to not be in the flesh. 383 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,560 All right, see, And you want me to have conversations and yet 384 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,520 people lock up even on this little bit of stuff. 385 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:39,640 That's a test to see how you're hearing is tell us, Pastor, 386 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:45,360 really, do you want it? So what you hear, if all you do 387 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:47,760 is listen to CNN all the time, guess what? 388 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,160 That's what your belief system. If all you do is listen to Fox 389 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,640 News, that's your belief system. If all you listen to is Joe 390 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,360 Rogan, that's your belief system. 391 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:00,520 If all you listen to is Charlemagne, the the, the God, 392 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,160 that's going to be your belief system. 393 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,160 Cause the measure or standard that you put weight on, all of 394 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:13,920 those other words. Yeah, that's good. 395 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,240 Amen. We put all this above God and 396 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,120 His word. But if you'll give the most 397 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:28,080 earnest heed to the Word of God in the Spirit of God, then you 398 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,160 won't be duped by any of those platforms when they try to use 399 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,120 Scripture. All right, the Passion says it 400 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:40,240 this way. If you understand what I'm 401 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,080 saying, you need to respond. Then he said to them, Be 402 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,760 diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you 403 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,000 hear, for as you do, more understanding will be given, and 404 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,360 according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more 405 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,120 will be added. Are you hungry just to hear 406 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,760 God's Word? Amen. 407 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,160 James 122 But prove yourselves doers of the Word. 408 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,920 This is how they amplified. But prove yourself doers of the 409 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,400 Word. Notice James says you need to 410 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:19,280 prove it. As believers, we should prove 411 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:24,200 that we have faith, not just say we have faith. 412 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,840 Again, my wife can say I love you. 413 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:34,160 Prove it. I mean, we throw words around 414 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,240 like that. Well, you know I love you. 415 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,680 Well, your behavior doesn't let me know you love me. 416 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:47,000 Well, if you love me, you would. Amen. 417 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,600 Oh, Hallelujah. But prove. 418 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,880 I'll just stay there. I'm not going any further. 419 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,880 I don't want to lose you. But prove yourself doers of the 420 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,960 Word, actively and continually obeying God's precepts, and not 421 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,960 merely listeners who hear the Word but fail to internalize its 422 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,920 meaning. Deluding yourself. 423 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,560 That means deceiving yourself by unsound reasoning contrary to 424 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,200 the truth. You know how many people have 425 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,000 been in this sanctuary with you that when I preach from the 426 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,280 Word, line upon line, precept upon precept, they will reason 427 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:31,320 why they are not going to believe that for a reason. 428 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,760 Oh, I've never heard that before. 429 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,440 Well, that can't be right. Well, just 'cause you hadn't 430 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,360 heard it don't mean it's not right. 431 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,440 And again, I'm not, we're not like a lot of places where we 432 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,480 give a couple scriptures and a few, a bunch of stories and 433 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,360 antidotes and, you know, life scenarios and then, you know, 434 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,640 there you go. I mean, we, we unload Scripture 435 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,480 because it's the word that's the most important thing in our 436 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,880 lives. So again, you have to prove 437 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,640 yourself a doer. Faith has to be proven. 438 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,720 Anyone can say I'm in faith because it's an unseen thing, 439 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:10,080 but it's not till it comes in and you know what it should come 440 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,600 in. We say this, we say it. 441 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,120 When you receive the baptism of the Spirit, the physical 442 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,200 evidence is that you speak in an unknown tongue. 443 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,200 Now you're going for the power, not the tongue. 444 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,760 The tongue comes with it. It's evidence. 445 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,320 Do you understand what the evidence of your faith is? 446 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,040 We everyone gets to see what you're confessing that is not 447 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,400 yet here. And eventually it does show up. 448 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:44,360 Because if it does not show up, either you abandon your faith 449 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,280 concerning that, or you are believing for something that God 450 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,560 Himself did not authorize you to believe for. 451 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,320 So don't accept that you're in faith if you're not seeing a 452 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,520 result. Now I'm going to, I'm going to 453 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:08,040 bring everything down to this passage of Scripture in Mark 454 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,160 chapter 5, verse 25. I'm going to read the whole 455 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,160 passage, this account, and then we'll give some some points on 456 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,600 it. And then I'm going to lay hands 457 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,480 on the sick today. So if you have any symptom in 458 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,040 your body today, I want you to know that he is Jehovah Rapha. 459 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,200 He is the Lord that healed you. He's already done it. 460 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,520 He's paid that price. He has taken stripes on his back 461 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,840 and it is already done. And if you'll come down when I 462 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,240 give a call for it and I'll lay hands on you because the Bible 463 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,720 says lay hands on the sick and they will recover. 464 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,160 Not maybe not could they will you will recover. 465 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,360 Amen. So I want you to hear this 466 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,760 because you have a part to play in Mark chapter 5, starting in 467 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,960 verse 25. It says a woman who had who was 468 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,880 there who who had suffered from bleeding for 12 years. 469 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,600 So she's had a problem for 12 years. 470 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:10,080 She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and 471 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,400 had spent all she had but no, but to no avail. 472 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,840 Instead, her condition had only grown worse When the woman 473 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,680 heard, say, heard, When the woman heard, say, heard, heard 474 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,800 about Jesus, or we know that Jesus is the Word. 475 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,880 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. 476 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,280 In the Word was God. That's John 11. 477 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,760 Then John 114, and the Word became what's His name? 478 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,080 So Jesus is the Word. So we could easily say, when she 479 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,240 heard the word, when she heard about Jesus, she came up through 480 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,920 the crowd behind him and touched his cloak. 481 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,800 For she kept saying, for she what? 482 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,160 Kept saying, for she what? So when she heard Now let me, 483 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,760 let me read it all, and then I'll come back. 484 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,200 For she kept saying, If only I touch his garment, I will be 485 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,920 healed. Immediately her bleeding 486 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,280 stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed from 487 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,680 her afflict affliction. At once Jesus was aware that 488 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,000 power had gone out of him. Turning to the crowd, he said, 489 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,800 Who touched my garment? Then the disciples says, you 490 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,920 see, you can see the crowd pressing in on you, and yet you 491 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,440 asked who touched me? But he kept looking around to 492 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,120 see who had done this. When the woman, knowing what had 493 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,960 happened to her, came and fell before him, trembling in fear, 494 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,960 she told him the whole truth. Daughter said, Jesus, your faith 495 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,040 has healed you. Go in peace and be free from 496 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,840 your affliction. Now go back up to verse 28. 497 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:38,040 She kept saying, she kept saying, she kept saying. 498 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,040 So when she heard about Jesus that He was the healer and that 499 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:47,680 anyone that He touched was healed, She got it in her mind, 500 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:58,240 If I just touch His garment, I will be healed. 501 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,960 If I just touch His garment, I'm going to be healed. 502 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,640 And then she acted on it. How do we know it was a real 503 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,239 belief? Because she did not stay home, 504 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,120 nor did she let the weakness of her condition keep her confined 505 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:20,159 to her house, nor did she let the religion of the day keep her 506 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,199 to her house. Which is when you have an issue 507 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,600 of blood, you had to come out. And when you got in the crowd 508 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,639 you would say unclean. Unclean. 509 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:35,639 Because here's the thing, by according to the Law, she knew 510 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:40,000 Jesus can't touch me because he would be unclean according to 511 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,600 the law. So I'm just not going to touch 512 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,360 him. I'm just going to touch. 513 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,960 I don't even want nobody. So she pressed in. 514 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,920 And everybody she's touching right now, they don't know it, 515 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,040 but they're unclean according to the law. 516 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,720 But she don't care about them. What she cares about is what she 517 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,200 has heard and then what she is saying. 518 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,880 And what she is saying is that this 12 year issue is about to 519 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,800 end for my life because the minute I touch this man's 520 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,520 garment, it is going to dry up. I am going to be healed. 521 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,840 I am no longer going to suffer anymore. 522 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,280 He is the healer and I'm going to get to him no matter what. 523 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,240 And I have to believe, because it just seems one translation 524 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:28,440 says the hymn of the garment, she already knew in her 525 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:33,240 condition, by the time she pushed through that crowd, about 526 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:37,400 the only place she's going to be is at the lowest part dragging 527 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:44,880 herself to him. And so here's this crowd and 528 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,800 this woman somehow presses through and she finds herself 529 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:58,000 right at the edge and touches, and the minute she touches 530 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:05,680 something on the inside right, because something left God, 531 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,320 Jesus Christ, the King of glory, the whole healthcare system of 532 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,400 the Kingdom pulled out of his body and went right into that 533 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:20,280 woman. Well, glory to God and healed 534 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:27,640 her of her infirmity and she knew I'm healed. 535 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,640 I got it. Listen, there will be times 536 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,080 where the natural report appears to be more evident than his 537 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,680 report. But faith always believes the 538 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,080 report of the Lord. faith in God believes the report of the Lord. 539 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,080 We must never allow our natural experience to determine the 540 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,440 finality of our hearing. Go to the doctor? 541 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,200 No problem. Find out exactly what's wrong. 542 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:03,640 Find the name of your disease, please, so that you can speak 543 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:09,840 the name above that name because you say at the name of Jesus, 544 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:15,600 cystic fibrosis must die. At the name of Jesus, leukemia, 545 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:20,160 you're under his feet. At the name of Jesus, cancer at 546 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:26,680 stage 4 dies and goes to zero. And we're not talking remission, 547 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:33,400 we're talking go. Are you hearing me touched? 548 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:40,120 She had faith. faith in God will stop him in His tracks. 549 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:46,640 You want God's attention? Believe, believe it is stopping. 550 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,320 There will be issues in life, but your issues are not the only 551 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:56,920 voice you should listen to. Quit rehearsing your issue. 552 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,040 Quit letting it play over in your mind. 553 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:06,200 When the tax in my mind come and they seem to keep talking even 554 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,080 when I'm quoting scripture, the best way that I eradicate them 555 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,840 from playing over or making interest is I just begin to pray 556 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,400 in the spirit out loud. Because when I'm praying in an 557 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,960 unknown tongue, man, my mind cannot get bogged down with 558 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:29,400 natural thoughts. There are plenty of voices out 559 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,800 there that will want to shut up your faith. 560 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,280 Are you hearing me? So you got to keep yourself like 561 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,240 this woman. She kept saying, she kept 562 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:41,680 saying, she kept saying, she kept saying, she kept saying, 563 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,400 she kept saying, she kept saying do not allow anything or anyone 564 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,480 to talk you out of your faith in God. 565 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,000 Don't do it. Don't do it Randy Clay, y'all 566 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,080 know his testimony being cured of cancer. 567 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,400 There was a time that he was having some challenges and what 568 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,880 I knew that he knew. I'm like if you are believing 569 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:11,080 and we are seeing no progression anywhere, something's up. 570 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:20,280 So it became where I was a true friend, true love will confront 571 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,960 and I care about him. I said what is the problem, 572 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,360 'cause there's something that has not been addressed because 573 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,040 everything you're saying is not producing at all. 574 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:43,440 It's getting worse actually. Well, there was something on the 575 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,480 inside, a spiritual offense offense. 576 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:52,080 And when he yelled that out, you all, we all knew. 577 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,560 There it is. You're going to have to get 578 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,680 forgiveness right there. And the minute that happened, 579 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,520 everything began to change. Now, there was still a process, 580 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,160 but it changed. I said it changed. 581 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:14,280 So you got to understand you cannot let anything shut your 582 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,560 faith up. You can't let an offense on 583 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,560 forgiveness, bitterness. You can't let something of your 584 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,000 past. What you have to do is continue 585 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,760 to press on. You must decide that Jesus has 586 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,640 the final say to your situation. You must. 587 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,480 Now let me give you some general statements concerning faith real 588 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,560 quick. When you assemble around the 589 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,880 world Word, are you spectating or activating? 590 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,000 The woman was not the only one there. 591 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:49,320 There was a crowd and the crowd was around the Word, but they 592 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,080 were spectating the Word. They were not activating it, 593 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,160 which tells me I don't care how many people show up in a 594 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,560 congregation. If nobody's touching God, then 595 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,160 God's not being touched. Are you hearing me? 596 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,840 If we are not careful, we can become so familiar with the Word 597 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,960 that we become ignorant of when it is operating. 598 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:22,480 Peter is right beside the Word, and when power left him, left 599 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:30,120 Jesus, Peter didn't even know. Listen, Saints, this is a 600 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,560 problem because many Saints like, where are the miracles? 601 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,640 How come we're not seeing them? Have you become so familiar with 602 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,120 coming to church, sitting and spectating, that when it starts 603 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,000 to get in operation, you don't even know what's there? 604 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,760 Let me give you another little traditional myth. 605 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,960 All we need is the presence of God, because once you get in the 606 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,440 presence of God, it changes everything. 607 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,800 Didn't change the crowd at all. Only one, when they got in His 608 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,480 presence changed. It's the one who touched him. 609 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,800 The rest were not changed at all. 610 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,320 In fact, I would submit to you that the crowd that was there 611 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:14,760 spectating, wanting to see a miracle, not participate in a 612 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:22,480 miracle later said crucified. So again, church is all over the 613 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:23,760 place. We just need the presence of 614 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,360 God. The presence of God does nothing 615 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,960 if you have no faith when the presence is there, just like 616 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,160 when Pastor Marcy says he's here. 617 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:44,040 So because his Holy Spirit can blow right past you and you'd be 618 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,800 like, I didn't feel nothing, but the person beside you has got 619 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,600 healed, delivered, set free, got a word from God, got the next 620 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,240 assignment. I mean, God's done something 621 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,000 amazing. Why? 622 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,360 Because they're touching him. They're not spectating, they're 623 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,040 activating. You understand every service can 624 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:05,520 be an activation. Say Amen. 625 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,640 Being around the Word is not enough for it to work in your 626 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,760 life. Neither is being around others 627 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:17,880 who are around the word. What does matter is if. 628 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,320 What does it matter if we have a large crowd and nobody knows how 629 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,240 to touch? The word will never operate in 630 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,880 your life until you bow down and submit to it. 631 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:34,400 Until you choose. I'll do the word. 632 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,400 For the word is consistent. For the word to consistently 633 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,680 work in your life, you must believe yourself. 634 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,040 You must believe yourself, Hallelujah. 635 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:52,760 And even when you don't understand God's will or or 636 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,400 excuse me, even when you understand God's will through 637 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,360 his words, circumstances can change from bad to worse. 638 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,400 When this happens, you need to address the fear, resolve it, 639 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,720 and then say I only believe. I only believe. 640 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:12,480 I only believe, I only believe. Come on, do I have any believers 641 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:12,880 in here?