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Matthew 20, verse 29.

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And we're in a series on hope, obviously,

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by this behind me.

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And that is actually ending tonight.

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We've been doing a four-part series, number

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four's tonight.

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And I'm going to talk to you tonight

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about an interesting topic on when God doesn't

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heal.

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When God doesn't heal.

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And many times, maybe it's just me, but

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when I read the New Testament, I get

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a little jealous.

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Jesus went, and everywhere he went, he healed

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them.

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The Apostle Paul, just an handkerchief would fall,

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or a shadow, and they would be healed.

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They did miraculous signs.

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And my back, for example, what was a

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week, you know, of what is going on,

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Lord, and heal me in this area.

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And with that brought many different things.

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And you know, we've all prayed for things,

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and God didn't heal.

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I remember at A.V. Hospital, I was

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in the emergency room, a month and a

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half now, and just praying for a man

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who was in coma, Lord, heal this man.

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I felt great leaving, and then we did

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his funeral here a week and a half

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later.

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And another girl, this time last year, it's

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in my Bible, it was a journal note,

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I think she was dying of cancer at

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Very, very sad.

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Very sad to go to her home and

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experience that, and feeling God, and praying for

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prayer, and healing, and not being embarrassed about

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it.

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But yet, getting the word that she died

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two days later.

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And it's a very hard thing.

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I don't know if it's me, because I

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see it more, but God doesn't always heal.

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But he also does.

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And I've seen him do amazing things, and

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it's hard to be caught in that friction

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of, he can, but Lord, will you?

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And why doesn't he do it for others?

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And why doesn't he do it for these

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people?

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And why can't we just tell the people

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in the wheelchair, Lord, heal them, like you

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did, God, and have them, and it's a

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hard point to discuss.

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And I'll just tell you up front, I

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don't have the answer.

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I don't know why he does sometimes, and

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why he does in others, other than according

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to his sovereign will, and things that we're

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not aware of.

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And I've listened to Jerry, Johnny Eric Tata,

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I don't know how to pronounce her last

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name, I always get caught up on that.

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Many times where, even though it's difficult, she

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thinks, I mean, how many millions has she

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reached?

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Or if you've seen the guy, I don't

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even know his name, no arms and legs.

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Talk about a powerful speaker, and the joy

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of the Lord is in it.

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So you wonder, you know, how God just

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works through all of that.

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So I do want to encourage you, I

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went through tremendous back pain, and that turned

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into anxiety, and just, Lord, what is going

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on in my body here?

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And it's debilitating, and crying out to God,

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heal me, and it was a process.

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I'm glad I'm standing up here today, but,

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and that didn't spark the sermon, we just

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happened to find ourselves in Matthew 20, but

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I do pray for a lot of people.

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We go to the hospital homes, and many

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of you involved in the hospital homes, if

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you're not, I would encourage you to do

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so.

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those people to just be healed.

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I mean, Lord, what is going on?

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And so it's not always linked to faith,

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because there's some groups out there, you just

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don't have enough faith, brother.

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Oh, no, trust me, I've prayed until my

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faith has been worn out.

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It's not always just faith, we just don't

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know the sovereign plans of God.

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And I've actually found there's a lot of

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comfort in that, because if it was all

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up to my faith, like, Lord, what's wrong

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with me, and there must be, versus Lord,

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I don't know why I'm going through this.

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Now, one of the good things was I

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spent about three or four hours every morning

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in the Word, in prayer, and in Psalms,

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oh, thank God for the Psalms.

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And just, he redirected a lot of my

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heart, actually made me more compassionate again for

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people.

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So I can see how he uses these

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things.

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And that's the topic tonight, and it might

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go a few different directions.

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But the message is when God doesn't heal,

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based on Matthew 29, now as they went

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out of Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

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And behold, two blind men, sitting by the

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road, when they heard that Jesus was passing

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by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us,

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O Lord, Son of David.

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Then the multitude warned them that they should

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be quiet, but they cried out all the

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more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord,

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Son of David.

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So Jesus stood still, called them, and said,

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What do you want me to do for

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you?

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Then he said to them, Lord, that our

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eyes may be opened.

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So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes,

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and immediately their eyes received sight, and they

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followed him.

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And I also had more of the passage

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that I was going to read and go

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up, but I just got stuck on this

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for a while.

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And one page turned into two, and two

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turned into three, and three turned into four.

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And I said, I better stop there, or

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you'll leave before I'm done, or I'll have

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to do part two.

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And I usually prepare sermons based on what

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God puts on my heart.

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And if it's stirring me, it's going to

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stir you.

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And being led by the Spirit, not having

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to get through a whole text, and not

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being subject to a certain area.

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But one thing that I think is comforting

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is Jesus was God.

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He was the Son of God.

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And we talked about that last week, the

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hypostatic union of Christ.

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Fully God, yet fully man, a mystery we

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will not understand on this side of heaven.

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And because of that, he knew the perfect

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will of God.

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So when he would heal, they would be

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healed.

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He knew the perfect will of God.

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But in other spots, he would talk about

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going into cities, and he could not do

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many works there because of their unbelief.

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So you start to see that belief definitely

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plays a role, and faith definitely plays a

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role in healing.

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And I haven't found a scripture yet, maybe

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you can point one out for me, where

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Jesus healed somebody who didn't want to be

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healed, or was upset at God, had a

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terrible attitude, rebellious and unrepentant.

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Jesus said, well, I'm going to still heal

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you anyway.

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Usually their faith came in alignment with, Lord,

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help me.

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See, Lord, I need to be made well.

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Or the woman bent over because Satan afflicted

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her.

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Woman, thou art loose from your infirmities.

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And she rose up.

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Another girl, Talitha Akumai, a rise little girl,

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and a rise from your death.

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They mocked him.

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So just everywhere he went, he just was

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healing and delivering because he knew the perfect

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will of God.

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He had the power of God residing in

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him.

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So do we, but also our sinful flesh

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comes in.

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I mean, if we're honest, we pray for

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people sometimes, wouldn't this be so great, and

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Shane healed this person, aren't they so wonderful?

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So our flesh gets in there, and that's

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why we have to just rely on God.

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But a few things I pulled from this

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The first lesson is a lesson on spiritual

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wholeness.

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You can be physically blind but spiritually whole.

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These blind men, they said, Jesus, Son of

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David.

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Son of David was a messianic term that

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the Jews used knowing that the Messiah was

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going to follow the line of David.

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So they knew, Son of David, have mercy

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on us.

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So they were physically blind, they were physically

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impaired, but they knew who he was.

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But on the flip side, how many people

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are perfectly whole but don't know who he

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is?

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wholeness that we look at people, oh, look

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at them, they're this, they're that.

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But if they know the Savior, they're better

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off than the people who are perfectly fit

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who don't know him.

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And many of you know I worked in

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the gym industry for many years, and that

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was probably one of the most prideful, idolatrous

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places.

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I mean, there's mirrors everywhere, and everybody's just

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measuring this and this.

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shape, but if they don't know Christ, they're

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dead spiritually.

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can be hurting physically, but if you know

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the Savior, you're better than most of those

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on the planet because you're in right relationship

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in your spirit.

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We also gleaned a lesson on compassion.

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This point right here struck me very deeply

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this week because we're lacking in a lot

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of compassion, especially when I read a commentary

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by John Nolan.

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I would recommend his commentary on the Gospel

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of Matthew.

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He said, The crowd is not focused on

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what the blind people are saying, only on

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the disturbance that they create.

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No doubt they think that they are honoring

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the significance of Jesus by trying to silence

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the voice of such insignificant people.

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And I realize that we do that today.

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We silence the voice of insignificant people.

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And here's why.

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They don't help us, they don't promote us,

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and they don't benefit us.

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Have you ever thought about that?

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The people we stay in most contact with

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are usually the ones where there's a mutual

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benefit.

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We stay in contact with those friends who

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might have some pull, might have some money,

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might have some...

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What can you do for me?

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But insignificant people, they can't help me at

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all.

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They can't give me anything.

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They can't help me in any way.

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They can't promote me.

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Insignificant people.

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And that's why we have to be careful

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in a church.

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We can have the tendency to...

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I need the big givers.

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I need the influential people.

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No, we need everybody.

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Jesus had compassion on those who couldn't do

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anything for him.

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And if the truth be told, he had

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compassion on all of us.

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We're so insignificant in his eyes, yet he

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had mercy.

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And I just want to encourage you.

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There's people out there.

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There's people out there that you need to

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have mercy on.

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They're insignificant.

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I think of little kids, how people just

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treat little kids like trash sometimes.

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Get away from me, kid.

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Just bothering little kids.

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I want...

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We need...

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The heart of Christ is to minister to

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the insignificant people.

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So as a church, we should be focusing

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on those who are broken and hurting and

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don't have a family.

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And one of the wonderful things about the

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hospital home, you can't get into a harder

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ministry than that.

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I'm going to people who can't do anything

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for you.

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Nothing.

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And he had compassion.

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But these people are silencing the voice.

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Can you imagine the crowd telling blind people

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to shut up?

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Jesus, Son of David, have mercy.

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Oh, leave him alone.

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Leave him alone.

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He's too busy for you.

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God forbid when we get into that busy

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mode and we say we're too busy for

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insignificant people.

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Because we're not busy when it comes to

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people who can help propel us or help

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share the same thing.

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They'll cover lunch.

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They'll play for golf.

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They'll...

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Whatever it is.

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We tend to put insignificant people on the

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back burner.

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Quick test.

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Who are you going to call back first?

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The insignificant person or the person who might

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have some information for you that benefits?

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And that's a wonderful lesson right there.

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And the sad truth is we don't reach

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out to people who don't help us or

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promote us or benefit us.

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We consider them a burden.

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When somebody comes into your place of work,

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Jesus isn't going to...

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I don't have time for this person, but

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what about if your boss walks in?

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What's the difference?

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Because this insignificant person is bothering me.

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And I would just encourage you to change

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that heart, to have mercy on those that

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Christ had mercy on.

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Because you'll be filled with the Spirit.

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God will not bless a person who's not

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merciful.

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When Jesus taught on the Beatitudes, he said

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those who are merciful, those who are broke

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and humble in spirit, God will reward them

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because they're showing mercy to those who can't

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show it back.

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I think that's one reason Jesus said, care

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for widows and orphans.

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Go visit those in prison because they can't

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do anything for us.

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It's an act of mercy.

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I would encourage you to do that.

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It's one thing to say that sounds great,

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but it's another thing to put feet to

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it and actually do it.

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Also, a lesson on healing.

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This is interesting.

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A lesson on healing.

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Jesus would often ask people, and I really,

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theologians are divided on the answer, but he

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would often ask people, do you want to

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be made well?

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I mean, to me, that doesn't make, well,

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of course.

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Who doesn't?

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But do some people really want to be

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made well?

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We must want to change in this era

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of healing.

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We must want to change.

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You might say, well, Shane, no kidding.

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Well, think about this.

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We have Bruce Jenner, who's woman of the

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year.

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He's the world's most famous example of transgender

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identity.

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Then we have Rachel Dozal, the white woman

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who identifies as black, a prominent example of

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being transracial.

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Then there's Jewel Shepping, who blinded herself so

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her mind could be in harmony with her

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body.

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Now she's a poster woman for being transabled.

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Let's not forget about Gary Matthews, a.k

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.a. Boomer, who believes he's a dog, apparently

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has an example of being transspecies.

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You can see these videos on YouTube.

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You just cry.

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Hold on, I'm not done yet.

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And now there's Paul Wulst, W-O-L

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-S-C-H-T, who thinks he's actually

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a six-year-old girl stuck in the

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body of a 50-something man.

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As reported by Ashley Goldberg, at age 46,

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this man deserted his wife and seven children

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to live his true life.

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He says, I have an adopted mommy and

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daddy who are totally comfortable with me being

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a little girl, and their children and their

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grandchildren are totally supportive.

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We have a great time.

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We color, we do kid stuff.

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It's called play therapy.

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No medication, no suicidal thoughts.

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I just get to play.

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In the YouTube video, he's dressed like a

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little girl.

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I just...

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Lord, I mean, forgive me, but I don't

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know to laugh or cry.

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I just...

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Lord, what...

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But this is a culture void of God.

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When you remove God, you will see all

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Romans 1.

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How often have I quoted that?

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And I just might do that again today

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to remind us that this is what happens.

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When you...

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It's almost like when you say, Okay, God,

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get out of my way.

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I'm going to be whoever I want.

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Well, you're going to want to be a

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snail.

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You're going to want to be a dog.

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You're going to want...

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This guy Boomer, he eats dog food and

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walks like a dog.

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The girl who blinded herself is trans-abled,

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so now she can better connect with her

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mind.

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And that's just sad because this is the

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hope.

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We have it right here.

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Hope.

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It's right...

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What's right above the hope is the cross.

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That's the hope, so there's no shame in

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telling people that.

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As a matter of fact, like the statistics

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I gave you last week, I think that

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85-90% of the people, Christians, don't

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even tell people about Jesus.

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No wonder.

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We like to be closet Christians.

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We walk through the mall all day and

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not talk to anybody.

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Let me go shopping, not talk to anybody.

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I know people at work, I'm definitely not

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going to mention Jesus there at work because

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they're going to think I'm weird.

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And we never offer hope.

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I also received this email from an ER

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nurse.

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I think it was a year or two

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ago.

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She said, Shane, I'm an ER nurse and

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I care for many people.

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You're right about how they love their sin

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and play the victim.

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Most of them don't want to change.

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They do not believe in victory, and I'm

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including believers.

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They do not want to see themselves for

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who they really are.

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Their pride doesn't allow them to submit themselves

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to a holy God.

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And the more I talk to people, the

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more I counsel on different things, there's a

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lot of truth to this.

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Not everybody wants to change.

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Do you want to be met...

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That's why Jesus said, do you want to

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be made well?

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And people, yes, of course.

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But you have to want to be made

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well.

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Some people like that victim mentality.

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They don't really want to break free of

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that, what's holding them.

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How do you know, Shane?

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Because they don't apply God to their life

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to get out of that many times.

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You know somebody wants to stay trapped if

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they don't want to obey the Word of

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God.

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As much...

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I have a heart for addicts.

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As much as you want to help them,

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many of them want to continue in that.

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I don't like the consequence of shame, but

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I like the high.

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I don't really want to change, but I

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do.

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And they're caught in this thing.

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They're not prepared for change.

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They don't want to humbly acknowledge that God

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needs to change them.

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So on that note, healing must start...

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Once a person wants to change, then healing

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must start with the application of God's Word.

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Now if you've never heard that from here

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before, I'd be shocked.

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But there's nothing new under the sun.

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A lot of times when I work on

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a sermon, it's like, well that fits here

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again, that fits here again, because there's nothing

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new.

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The Bible says, the Old Testament says, choose

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the old path, the old way.

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It's the path on which you will never

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get lost.

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So it starts with the Word of God.

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Let me read again Romans 1.

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I'm going to skip all the way down

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to 21.

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And it might help shed light on what's

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going on with these stories I just read.

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Although they knew God, they did not glorify

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Him as God, nor were they thankful.

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See, the reason he's saying this is most

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people know there's a God, except there's an

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atheist, they'll put up signs about Christmas and

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different things.

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But most people look around and say, Creator,

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you know, and I've talked about this many

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times, right?

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The heart and the liver and the kidney

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and the function works together with the central

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nervous system and the skeletal system and the

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mind with the neurotransmitter seems to put all

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this into play.

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Yeah, that just happened, right?

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I mean, come on.

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It's ludicrous.

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Even if there's a stronger word.

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So that's why he's saying, if people know,

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before this it says, God's invisible attributes are

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clearly seen.

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Clearly seen.

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I mean, I was talking to a scientist

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the other day and I didn't realize, but

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if the oxygen and the nitrogen levels on

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the planet were just skewed, just a tiny

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bit by my life.

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Gone.

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I mean, you're talking just the ratio, just

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a little.

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So what keeps all that just perfect?

550
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I mean, come on, let's think this through.

551
00:19:20,730 --> 00:19:23,710
So his invisible attributes are clearly seen.

552
00:19:24,230 --> 00:19:25,930
That's why they said, although they knew God,

553
00:19:25,990 --> 00:19:27,290
there is a God out there, they don't

554
00:19:27,290 --> 00:19:28,590
glorify him as God.

555
00:19:28,950 --> 00:19:31,490
Nor were they thankful, but they became futile

556
00:19:31,490 --> 00:19:34,470
in their thoughts and their foolish hearts became

557
00:19:34,470 --> 00:19:37,950
dark and professing to be wise, they became

558
00:19:37,950 --> 00:19:38,570
fools.

559
00:19:38,910 --> 00:19:41,570
And they changed the glory of the incorruptible

560
00:19:41,570 --> 00:19:44,350
God into an image made like corruptible man.

561
00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:48,950
Therefore, God gave them over to uncleanness and

562
00:19:48,950 --> 00:19:49,990
the lust of their hearts.

563
00:19:50,050 --> 00:19:52,710
Basically, God said, I'm giving you over to

564
00:19:52,710 --> 00:19:53,470
what you desire.

565
00:19:53,970 --> 00:19:57,610
I'm giving you over to those evil thoughts.

566
00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:00,510
Dishonoring their bodies among themselves.

567
00:20:00,510 --> 00:20:04,490
Who, here's the key, exchanged the truth of

568
00:20:04,490 --> 00:20:05,510
God for a lie.

569
00:20:05,590 --> 00:20:07,390
So there's an exchange process here.

570
00:20:07,450 --> 00:20:08,890
There's always an exchange process.

571
00:20:09,290 --> 00:20:11,410
Either you grab the truth or you grab

572
00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:11,910
the lie.

573
00:20:12,230 --> 00:20:15,450
So they exchanged the truth with a lie.

574
00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:20,510
And then, they worship and serve the creature

575
00:20:21,050 --> 00:20:23,410
rather than the creator who is blessed forever.

576
00:20:23,530 --> 00:20:23,750
Amen.

577
00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:27,070
So once you exchange the truth, you say,

578
00:20:27,130 --> 00:20:28,850
here's the truth, I don't want the truth.

579
00:20:29,090 --> 00:20:31,070
I'm exchanging it for a lie.

580
00:20:31,450 --> 00:20:33,030
Once I do that, I begin to worship

581
00:20:33,030 --> 00:20:35,350
the creation, not the creator.

582
00:20:36,530 --> 00:20:38,330
And this is a great point to remind

583
00:20:38,330 --> 00:20:38,530
you.

584
00:20:38,650 --> 00:20:39,730
You can highlight this.

585
00:20:40,130 --> 00:20:41,870
You should have this come up in your

586
00:20:41,870 --> 00:20:44,130
calendar once a week to remember to help

587
00:20:44,130 --> 00:20:45,070
keep you on track.

588
00:20:45,530 --> 00:20:48,330
A lie is always the first step in

589
00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:49,190
the wrong direction.

590
00:20:52,020 --> 00:20:52,700
Satan came to Eve.

591
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,660
Did God really say?

592
00:20:57,230 --> 00:20:59,830
Listen, a lie is, believing a lie is

593
00:20:59,830 --> 00:21:02,030
always and acting upon that lie is always

594
00:21:02,030 --> 00:21:04,330
the first step in the wrong direction.

595
00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:07,230
Sometimes, I mean, I could list 20 examples.

596
00:21:07,350 --> 00:21:10,230
Sometimes we'll hear the example you don't deserve

597
00:21:10,230 --> 00:21:10,770
this.

598
00:21:11,310 --> 00:21:13,390
You'll hear that thought in a marriage, a

599
00:21:13,390 --> 00:21:14,230
hard, difficult marriage.

600
00:21:14,510 --> 00:21:15,950
You don't deserve this.

601
00:21:16,050 --> 00:21:17,350
Oh yeah, that's right, I don't.

602
00:21:17,630 --> 00:21:18,570
You can do better.

603
00:21:18,950 --> 00:21:19,970
Yeah, that's right, I can.

604
00:21:20,270 --> 00:21:23,450
Or the addict hears, just start tomorrow.

605
00:21:23,670 --> 00:21:24,290
Yeah, start tomorrow.

606
00:21:25,370 --> 00:21:26,930
Or, I've had a hard day today.

607
00:21:26,950 --> 00:21:28,370
I'm going to have whatever.

608
00:21:28,590 --> 00:21:29,370
You fill in the blank.

609
00:21:29,690 --> 00:21:30,330
Whatever, our favorite.

610
00:21:31,310 --> 00:21:32,390
Yeah, that's right.

611
00:21:32,430 --> 00:21:33,530
I've been doing good for a week and

612
00:21:33,530 --> 00:21:34,190
I deserve it.

613
00:21:34,650 --> 00:21:37,650
You believe that lie, that's the first step

614
00:21:37,650 --> 00:21:39,110
in the wrong direction.

615
00:21:39,690 --> 00:21:41,890
All the time, anytime, in your marriage, in

616
00:21:41,890 --> 00:21:43,330
whatever you're struggling with.

617
00:21:44,110 --> 00:21:48,110
Somehow, in some way, we believe a lie.

618
00:21:48,230 --> 00:21:49,530
That's always the first step.

619
00:21:49,670 --> 00:21:53,010
Or, you exchange that lie for the truth.

620
00:21:53,350 --> 00:21:55,150
Now you'll better understand what Paul said.

621
00:21:55,250 --> 00:21:59,070
Take every thought captive to the obedience of

622
00:21:59,070 --> 00:21:59,430
Christ.

623
00:21:59,770 --> 00:22:02,010
I'm putting my thoughts captive like in a

624
00:22:02,010 --> 00:22:02,490
jail cell.

625
00:22:02,830 --> 00:22:04,130
Is this thought a lie?

626
00:22:04,310 --> 00:22:05,270
Then you're going in jail.

627
00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:07,330
Or is it the truth?

628
00:22:07,410 --> 00:22:08,890
Then I'm going to act upon it.

629
00:22:09,170 --> 00:22:11,230
So anytime anybody goes in the wrong direction,

630
00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:13,870
the first step in the wrong direction began

631
00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:15,610
with a lie that they believed.

632
00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:19,070
I mean, think of dozens of examples.

633
00:22:19,170 --> 00:22:22,470
Not just in marriage, but in getting in

634
00:22:22,470 --> 00:22:23,190
trouble in something.

635
00:22:23,190 --> 00:22:24,170
Even financially.

636
00:22:24,630 --> 00:22:25,950
Nobody will ever find out.

637
00:22:26,090 --> 00:22:27,130
I've worked so hard.

638
00:22:27,790 --> 00:22:29,030
You know, we believe, and then we take

639
00:22:29,030 --> 00:22:29,590
the step.

640
00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:32,950
It always begins with believing a lie.

641
00:22:34,330 --> 00:22:34,890
And here's why.

642
00:22:34,970 --> 00:22:37,130
The truth turns me in the right direction.

643
00:22:38,030 --> 00:22:43,410
The truth of God's Word puts me back

644
00:22:43,410 --> 00:22:44,110
in the right direction.

645
00:22:44,250 --> 00:22:45,670
That's why if you do any form of

646
00:22:45,670 --> 00:22:47,810
counseling, if you're going to do any form

647
00:22:47,810 --> 00:22:50,370
of advice, start with the Word of God.

648
00:22:50,450 --> 00:22:51,970
And I tell people, listen, are you ready

649
00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:53,330
to apply what the Word of God says?

650
00:22:53,410 --> 00:22:54,410
No, I know what that says.

651
00:22:55,090 --> 00:22:56,450
This is beyond that, Shane.

652
00:22:56,530 --> 00:22:57,270
Well, you're not ready.

653
00:22:58,830 --> 00:23:00,510
That's not beyond that.

654
00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:01,850
That is the answer.

655
00:23:02,450 --> 00:23:06,050
So when you begin to embrace the truth,

656
00:23:06,130 --> 00:23:07,470
it will put you back in the right

657
00:23:07,470 --> 00:23:11,530
direction emotionally, physically, psychologically, and spiritually.

658
00:23:12,530 --> 00:23:14,790
But here's the big question I mentioned at

659
00:23:14,790 --> 00:23:15,010
the beginning.

660
00:23:15,230 --> 00:23:17,250
What do you do when God doesn't heal

661
00:23:17,250 --> 00:23:18,450
us on this side of heaven?

662
00:23:18,450 --> 00:23:22,570
And you might not need this sermon this

663
00:23:22,570 --> 00:23:24,010
week, but you'll probably need it someday.

664
00:23:25,930 --> 00:23:27,530
Because all of us pray for healing.

665
00:23:27,570 --> 00:23:28,330
I mean, I remember when I had a

666
00:23:28,330 --> 00:23:28,770
root canal.

667
00:23:30,650 --> 00:23:32,750
Oh, my God, did I want healing.

668
00:23:34,070 --> 00:23:34,390
Man!

669
00:23:35,270 --> 00:23:36,590
I'll just take Vicodin for a month.

670
00:23:36,670 --> 00:23:37,970
Oh, no, no, that's not going to happen.

671
00:23:38,770 --> 00:23:39,950
So I grinned and bared it, right?

672
00:23:40,010 --> 00:23:40,450
Tough guy.

673
00:23:41,410 --> 00:23:43,110
A couple of days, you know, finally wore

674
00:23:43,110 --> 00:23:44,530
off in the pain, but it was like

675
00:23:44,530 --> 00:23:45,490
unbelievable.

676
00:23:46,590 --> 00:23:48,630
And you're wondering, like, Lord, what's wrong here?

677
00:23:48,790 --> 00:23:49,510
I'm your man.

678
00:23:50,070 --> 00:23:51,970
I mean, you know, just help me here.

679
00:23:52,930 --> 00:23:56,750
And going through that, and those are insignificant.

680
00:23:56,890 --> 00:23:59,250
I mean, there's people going through living it

681
00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:02,170
with panic attacks and anxiety and fear and

682
00:24:02,170 --> 00:24:02,650
depression.

683
00:24:02,930 --> 00:24:04,790
So I'm not minimizing all of that, but

684
00:24:04,790 --> 00:24:06,090
I do want to remind you that there

685
00:24:06,090 --> 00:24:07,710
is an anchor you can hold on to.

686
00:24:08,470 --> 00:24:10,730
You can be going through hell but still

687
00:24:10,730 --> 00:24:11,630
holding on to heaven.

688
00:24:13,210 --> 00:24:16,110
You can be going through hell and still

689
00:24:16,110 --> 00:24:16,930
hold on to heaven.

690
00:24:17,910 --> 00:24:20,010
And still, it's where the thoughts go.

691
00:24:20,550 --> 00:24:21,710
That's why I left Philippians 4.

692
00:24:21,870 --> 00:24:22,590
Thank God for it.

693
00:24:22,630 --> 00:24:25,910
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true and honest

694
00:24:25,910 --> 00:24:30,030
and upright and just, pure things, meditate on

695
00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:31,950
those things and change where that direction of

696
00:24:31,950 --> 00:24:32,590
the mind is going.

697
00:24:33,110 --> 00:24:34,750
But I'm going to do something I haven't

698
00:24:34,750 --> 00:24:35,350
done before.

699
00:24:36,230 --> 00:24:38,050
I don't think I've talked about it in

700
00:24:38,050 --> 00:24:40,290
different places, but I'm going to talk about

701
00:24:40,290 --> 00:24:43,210
three things that may prevent healing.

702
00:24:43,210 --> 00:24:45,970
Three things that may prevent healing, and these

703
00:24:45,970 --> 00:24:47,350
are just true.

704
00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:49,850
These are biblical, and I think it'll really

705
00:24:49,850 --> 00:24:50,210
help.

706
00:24:51,370 --> 00:24:53,010
Number one, consequences.

707
00:24:53,830 --> 00:24:57,450
Some pain, depression, suffering, anxiety, and so on,

708
00:24:57,490 --> 00:25:00,850
you know the list, is the result of

709
00:25:00,850 --> 00:25:02,790
our lifestyle choices.

710
00:25:04,290 --> 00:25:06,070
This is where sometimes I upset people.

711
00:25:09,380 --> 00:25:11,360
Before you run to Xanax, run to Matthew,

712
00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:12,140
Mark, Luke, and John.

713
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,640
That's okay to do.

714
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,560
They're consequences.

715
00:25:17,740 --> 00:25:21,480
James 5.16 NIV That'll upset some people

716
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,300
too on that one.

717
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,800
Therefore, the nearly inspired version, right?

718
00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:29,860
James 5.16 Therefore, confess your sins to

719
00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:32,120
each other and pray for each other so

720
00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:33,380
that you may be healed.

721
00:25:33,980 --> 00:25:36,700
That tells me that if there's some sin

722
00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:40,060
in my life, God might use suffering and

723
00:25:40,060 --> 00:25:42,920
a physical ailment to get me back on

724
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:43,220
track.

725
00:25:43,340 --> 00:25:45,580
Because we don't listen until, I don't know

726
00:25:45,580 --> 00:25:48,640
about you, but my kids don't listen until

727
00:25:50,220 --> 00:25:51,560
you make them listen, somehow.

728
00:25:52,460 --> 00:25:54,340
Right now they've got this elf on the

729
00:25:54,340 --> 00:25:56,780
shelf to make kids good.

730
00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:57,920
I had Belt on the shelf.

731
00:25:59,220 --> 00:26:02,280
You know, it's that that something gets your

732
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:02,760
attention.

733
00:26:03,140 --> 00:26:05,040
So we cannot ignore this, and I hate

734
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,940
when psychologists or Christian therapists, whoever, oh no,

735
00:26:07,940 --> 00:26:10,360
no, no, you can't always just blame sin.

736
00:26:10,460 --> 00:26:11,920
I'm not always blaming sin, but I'm saying

737
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,380
it is one of the reasons why a

738
00:26:14,380 --> 00:26:18,640
person can stay in a spot of not

739
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:19,320
being healed.

740
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,580
Look what he says here.

741
00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:23,220
Confess your sins to each other and pray

742
00:26:23,220 --> 00:26:24,760
for each other so that you may be

743
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,100
healed.

744
00:26:26,260 --> 00:26:27,440
I don't know what else to say to

745
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:27,640
that.

746
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,400
That's pretty clear.

747
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,240
You don't need a degree in the Greek

748
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,620
language to understand what that means.

749
00:26:33,060 --> 00:26:35,280
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful

750
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:35,900
and effective.

751
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,040
In other words, what we sow we reap.

752
00:26:40,540 --> 00:26:41,560
What we sow we reap.

753
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,960
God is merciful, but often there are consequences.

754
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:48,500
So if there are consequences, it's still good

755
00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:50,020
to say, don't fight it.

756
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,960
Say, God, have mercy on me, just like

757
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:52,780
these blind men did.

758
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:54,420
God, have mercy on me.

759
00:26:54,620 --> 00:26:56,940
That's why this song, Good Good Father, man,

760
00:26:56,980 --> 00:26:58,740
that sometimes brings me to tears every time.

761
00:26:58,940 --> 00:27:00,540
He is a good, good father.

762
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,720
When you say, Lord, I've been a bad,

763
00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:03,300
bad boy.

764
00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,300
Say, have mercy on me.

765
00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:06,440
I shouldn't have done this.

766
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,280
Lord, have mercy on me.

767
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,500
I don't want these consequences.

768
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:10,720
I'm relying on you.

769
00:27:10,820 --> 00:27:13,040
I'm relying on your perfect strength and your

770
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:13,680
perfect will.

771
00:27:14,020 --> 00:27:15,140
Lord, begin to heal me.

772
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:15,620
Show me.

773
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:16,420
What can I do?

774
00:27:16,540 --> 00:27:17,520
How can I improve?

775
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:20,360
Lord, show me what is creating this.

776
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,680
Is there consequences to my sin or to

777
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,960
wrong choices I've made?

778
00:27:24,980 --> 00:27:26,240
I want to give you a great example.

779
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,520
If you didn't hear this, you should.

780
00:27:27,940 --> 00:27:29,760
Do you ever listen to Family Life Today

781
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,740
with Dennis Rainey?

782
00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:33,440
They had a pastor on there who I

783
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,080
enjoy.

784
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:35,960
I've followed his ministry for about 15 years.

785
00:27:36,060 --> 00:27:36,680
Tommy Nelson.

786
00:27:37,140 --> 00:27:38,320
He wrote on the Book of Solomon.

787
00:27:38,620 --> 00:27:40,160
He teaches on the Song of Solomon.

788
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,540
He teaches on the Song of Solomon.

789
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,400
He's a very powerful speaker on the board

790
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,840
at Dallas Theological Seminary.

791
00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:48,200
Well, he had a nervous breakdown.

792
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,580
And they call it the dark night of

793
00:27:50,580 --> 00:27:50,980
the soul.

794
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:52,800
And he said, I don't care how many

795
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:53,680
scriptures I quoted.

796
00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:58,020
My body was just on fire.

797
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,300
And before he said why, I already knew.

798
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:01,780
Listening.

799
00:28:03,340 --> 00:28:05,340
No Sabbath day for 30 years.

800
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,480
Preaching four or five times a weekend.

801
00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:08,580
Up early.

802
00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:09,960
Teaching young men's groups.

803
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:10,820
Men's studies.

804
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:11,220
This.

805
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:11,980
Conferences.

806
00:28:12,220 --> 00:28:12,340
Seminar.

807
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,520
He's just going.

808
00:28:13,860 --> 00:28:15,400
And you can only go so far before

809
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,440
your adrenal glands.

810
00:28:16,580 --> 00:28:20,360
It's what pumps in chemicals.

811
00:28:20,580 --> 00:28:25,300
Serotonin and L-Dopamine and all these chemicals.

812
00:28:25,460 --> 00:28:27,640
Cortisol, which is not actually good when you

813
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,260
need it, but if you're always running on

814
00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:31,680
this, your body's going to say, I'm done.

815
00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:37,200
So he went into this just total meltdown.

816
00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:38,080
Took off two months.

817
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:39,920
What's going on with him?

818
00:28:39,940 --> 00:28:40,620
What's going on?

819
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,060
But the condition was because of no Sabbath.

820
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,420
And he got to it later.

821
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:45,460
He said he didn't rest.

822
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:45,700
Ever.

823
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,120
He was just like my dad.

824
00:28:47,180 --> 00:28:47,940
Like I was raised to.

825
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:48,800
You just work.

826
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,120
So I have to force myself to take

827
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,120
a Sabbath because the body needs it.

828
00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:56,220
So when you go against God's design, there

829
00:28:56,220 --> 00:28:57,180
are consequences.

830
00:28:59,420 --> 00:29:02,000
And he was for months and having tests.

831
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,000
Blood tests are fine.

832
00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:03,940
Everything's fine.

833
00:29:03,980 --> 00:29:04,880
They don't know what's going on with him.

834
00:29:04,980 --> 00:29:05,540
It's very hard.

835
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,680
He met with somebody who said, oh, your

836
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,680
serotonin is completely depleted.

837
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:11,680
You need these.

838
00:29:11,860 --> 00:29:13,820
I think it's some type of inhibitor or

839
00:29:13,820 --> 00:29:16,860
something that actually will go in and help

840
00:29:16,860 --> 00:29:17,980
your body recreate.

841
00:29:18,380 --> 00:29:20,500
And serotonin is what allows us to experience

842
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:21,040
pleasure.

843
00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:21,920
I'm sorry.

844
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:22,520
L-Dopamine.

845
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,900
Dopamine experiences pleasure.

846
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,460
Serotonin is more the relaxing thing.

847
00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:30,040
And even talking about this, people say, oh,

848
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,180
come on that psychology.

849
00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:32,660
I want to say, no, that's how God

850
00:29:32,660 --> 00:29:33,360
designed us.

851
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,520
You don't tell a diabetic to stop your

852
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,220
insulin shots.

853
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,160
I mean, what's the difference?

854
00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:42,640
However, you don't run to that.

855
00:29:42,980 --> 00:29:44,580
That's my, I mean, I need Xanax.

856
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,640
I need Vicodin.

857
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:46,280
I need Valium.

858
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,200
You run to God first and take inventory

859
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,740
of your life and see what's going on

860
00:29:51,740 --> 00:29:51,980
there.

861
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,120
So he said there's no external reason why

862
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:55,900
this was happening.

863
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,080
I just had to stand back and trust

864
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,300
in the sovereignty of God and the bare

865
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:01,980
word of God to take me through this.

866
00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:04,720
Because your body doesn't care that you're quoting

867
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:05,240
scripture.

868
00:30:05,540 --> 00:30:06,040
You're hurting.

869
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:10,160
And he said the hardest people to deal

870
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,600
with were this time was those evangelical Christians

871
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,320
who don't believe in any type of getting

872
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,480
the body back balanced.

873
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:25,130
And it's an interesting topic because on one

874
00:30:25,130 --> 00:30:32,230
hand we don't run to, we don't want

875
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:34,470
to rely on certain drugs.

876
00:30:34,570 --> 00:30:35,630
We don't want to just go and give

877
00:30:35,630 --> 00:30:38,350
the doctor, but on the other hand, sometimes

878
00:30:38,350 --> 00:30:40,870
there's wisdom there in how the body operates

879
00:30:40,870 --> 00:30:42,110
and how it functions.

880
00:30:42,290 --> 00:30:44,830
He got on this little pill that readjusted

881
00:30:44,830 --> 00:30:47,070
his serotonin level and about three weeks later

882
00:30:47,070 --> 00:30:48,310
he came in to his wife and said,

883
00:30:48,370 --> 00:30:48,750
I'm back.

884
00:30:49,350 --> 00:30:50,110
I'm back.

885
00:30:51,730 --> 00:30:52,170
I'm back.

886
00:30:52,190 --> 00:30:52,670
I'm back.

887
00:30:53,130 --> 00:30:55,090
It recharged his battery.

888
00:30:55,550 --> 00:30:57,950
It redid because it's how God designed it.

889
00:30:58,210 --> 00:31:00,370
God designed cortisol to be in a fight

890
00:31:00,370 --> 00:31:00,770
and flight.

891
00:31:01,050 --> 00:31:01,930
Okay, here comes a lion.

892
00:31:02,030 --> 00:31:02,650
Here's my spear.

893
00:31:02,690 --> 00:31:03,130
I'm going to get it.

894
00:31:03,350 --> 00:31:03,950
Okay, that's good.

895
00:31:04,050 --> 00:31:06,630
But not to be in that constant state

896
00:31:06,630 --> 00:31:07,650
all the time.

897
00:31:07,910 --> 00:31:10,710
That's why I often come out against caffeine,

898
00:31:10,870 --> 00:31:13,490
all these monster drinks, because you're keeping your

899
00:31:13,490 --> 00:31:15,650
body in a constant state of fight or

900
00:31:15,650 --> 00:31:15,890
flight.

901
00:31:16,390 --> 00:31:17,350
It's hard to sleep.

902
00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:17,950
It's hard to get up.

903
00:31:17,950 --> 00:31:20,670
And we're just constantly living like that.

904
00:31:20,750 --> 00:31:22,030
There will be a price to pay.

905
00:31:22,450 --> 00:31:24,150
You're robbing Peter to pay Paul.

906
00:31:26,230 --> 00:31:27,470
That's how God designed it.

907
00:31:29,490 --> 00:31:31,530
Sometimes we have to look at our lifestyle

908
00:31:31,970 --> 00:31:34,050
and say, is this a consequence of this?

909
00:31:34,430 --> 00:31:35,870
Yeah, but Shane, what about be anxious for

910
00:31:35,870 --> 00:31:36,190
nothing?

911
00:31:36,270 --> 00:31:37,770
But everything in prayer is application.

912
00:31:37,990 --> 00:31:39,570
Yeah, be anxious for nothing.

913
00:31:39,670 --> 00:31:42,350
It's telling us don't worry about certain things.

914
00:31:42,850 --> 00:31:45,790
But when your body chemistry is going haywire,

915
00:31:46,470 --> 00:31:48,350
you know, it's just and you have to

916
00:31:48,350 --> 00:31:48,950
be careful.

917
00:31:49,570 --> 00:31:50,470
You have to be very careful.

918
00:31:51,690 --> 00:31:53,270
I want to be delicate here too, but

919
00:31:53,790 --> 00:31:56,550
sometimes the medical industry is more on prescribing

920
00:31:56,550 --> 00:31:59,450
something than looking at what's really going on.

921
00:32:02,580 --> 00:32:03,280
Funny story.

922
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:04,560
Hope this guy doesn't hear it.

923
00:32:05,460 --> 00:32:07,060
Went to the doctor for my back, right,

924
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:07,900
this week.

925
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:08,780
Did my blood pressure.

926
00:32:10,420 --> 00:32:12,620
Shane, you're 180 over 110.

927
00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:15,760
And you went and got these four beta

928
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,160
before things, this.

929
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:18,320
I'm going to get you on some blood

930
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:18,540
thinner.

931
00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:19,120
I'm sitting there going.

932
00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:22,700
Hold on.

933
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:25,060
That was a really small cuff.

934
00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:26,260
Can I try the bigger cuff?

935
00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:28,380
Oh, they didn't use the bigger cuff?

936
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:29,120
No, they didn't.

937
00:32:30,180 --> 00:32:31,300
Oh, okay, you're fine.

938
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,180
So that, I just almost started ingesting all

939
00:32:35,180 --> 00:32:35,620
of that.

940
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:39,020
Not wise.

941
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,260
That would have been very bad.

942
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,120
So that's something, trusting in God and not

943
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,740
always because that's all I want to do

944
00:32:46,740 --> 00:32:47,980
is prescribe something.

945
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,000
Prescribe something.

946
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,680
And from time to time, I think God

947
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,800
has given us certain things.

948
00:32:57,460 --> 00:32:59,060
But it can't be what we run to.

949
00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:00,880
We run to Him, ask for wisdom, and

950
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:01,940
let Him direct us.

951
00:33:02,940 --> 00:33:03,960
And I'm sure it's embarrassing.

952
00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:04,900
He took everything away.

953
00:33:04,980 --> 00:33:06,040
Oh no, your blood pressure's fine.

954
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:06,980
Yeah, I figured that.

955
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,180
I'm not going to jump on this stuff

956
00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:11,860
without consulting and looking at different things.

957
00:33:12,020 --> 00:33:13,140
So that's just one example.

958
00:33:14,260 --> 00:33:15,140
Another example.

959
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,920
Example B.

960
00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:18,540
From healing.

961
00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:19,880
This is big.

962
00:33:20,420 --> 00:33:23,240
Withdrawals and the usage of acceptable drugs.

963
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:24,860
Now a drug is a substance.

964
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,920
Anything that alters us psychologically.

965
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,260
There are what withdrawals are.

966
00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:34,900
It's not just the heroin addict that has

967
00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:35,540
withdrawals.

968
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,260
I'm actually working on a book.

969
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,380
It's the past year and a half.

970
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,460
I don't know when I'll finish it.

971
00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:42,000
It's on this topic of helping people addicted

972
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,780
from everything from sugar to caffeine to oxy

973
00:33:44,780 --> 00:33:46,860
to heroin to alcohol to marijuana to you

974
00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:47,180
name it.

975
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,660
There's addiction there.

976
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,920
There is a way to get out of

977
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:51,080
that.

978
00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:54,900
But in studying this topic, I came across

979
00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,600
something called post-acute withdrawal syndrome.

980
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,300
So although somebody can get through the initial

981
00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:02,900
stages of coming off of something, the first

982
00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:04,740
week which I call hell, I tell people

983
00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:06,180
pray for heaven but expect hell.

984
00:34:06,860 --> 00:34:09,460
Just try giving up coffee for two days.

985
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,440
You'll see what hell on earth is.

986
00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:16,120
We're in this culture of accepting all this

987
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:16,220
stuff.

988
00:34:16,620 --> 00:34:19,080
So anyway, once you get through the initial

989
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,960
stages, right?

990
00:34:21,139 --> 00:34:22,639
Okay, glad that's over.

991
00:34:23,139 --> 00:34:25,440
Well, in a couple weeks, even up to

992
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,159
a couple months, although your physical symptoms are

993
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,520
now subsided, now the mental ones kick in.

994
00:34:32,219 --> 00:34:34,940
That's why it's called post-acute withdrawal syndrome.

995
00:34:35,980 --> 00:34:37,560
And it happens months later.

996
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,000
And that's the number one cause of relapse

997
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,440
for any type of user.

998
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,340
It's because everything's going good and then BAM!

999
00:34:46,340 --> 00:34:47,560
Panic attacks.

1000
00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:50,380
Fear, irritability, palpitations.

1001
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:51,900
The heart's pounding.

1002
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:52,780
What's going on?

1003
00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:56,580
And then they go back to the source

1004
00:34:56,580 --> 00:34:59,580
that initially caused it instead of running to

1005
00:34:59,580 --> 00:34:59,900
God.

1006
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,080
So in those cases, I would tell people,

1007
00:35:04,540 --> 00:35:05,340
not dying.

1008
00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:07,300
You'll get through it.

1009
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:08,560
There's what's happening.

1010
00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:11,260
Your brain chemistry is all messed up.

1011
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,720
Your neurotransmitters are trying to function now correctly.

1012
00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:16,280
That's why you're having the heart rhythms.

1013
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,560
That's why you're going through anxiety attacks and

1014
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,060
panic attacks.

1015
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:22,280
That's why your body's trying to readjust because

1016
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,040
of the abuse that's been going on for

1017
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:24,640
many years.

1018
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:27,220
So see, oh Lord, heal me, heal me,

1019
00:35:27,260 --> 00:35:27,440
heal me.

1020
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:27,960
Why isn't he?

1021
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,500
Because of the consequences.

1022
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:30,880
So you see, a lot of this fits

1023
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,240
together.

1024
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,560
There's consequences for our actions, for our sins.

1025
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,380
Here's another consequence.

1026
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,040
Not spending time in God's Word so that

1027
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,060
healing takes place.

1028
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,980
The mind controls everything.

1029
00:35:42,180 --> 00:35:42,540
Everything.

1030
00:35:42,980 --> 00:35:43,940
The mind controls it.

1031
00:35:44,460 --> 00:35:46,180
So if all we're focused on is ISIS,

1032
00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:49,760
Monsanto, financial collapse, the war on Christmas, the

1033
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:50,280
Second Amendment.

1034
00:35:50,340 --> 00:35:51,860
I saw all this on Facebook within an

1035
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:52,020
hour.

1036
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,980
You know what Monsanto is that people are

1037
00:35:54,980 --> 00:35:55,140
saying?

1038
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,940
They're destroying our soil, they're spraying stuff in

1039
00:35:56,940 --> 00:35:59,400
the air, they're killing everything, there's no more

1040
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,840
seeds, and they're destroying our food.

1041
00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:03,900
Well, my king still sits on the throne.

1042
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,600
Use wisdom.

1043
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:06,720
ISIS, yeah, it's coming.

1044
00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:12,260
Second Amendment, we're in the fear factor mode.

1045
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:15,200
And the mind, I'm not going to belabor

1046
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,420
this point many times before, but I want

1047
00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:18,380
to show you the consequences of not being

1048
00:36:18,380 --> 00:36:19,120
in God's Word.

1049
00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:22,140
I mean, just turn to the Psalms, and

1050
00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:23,980
they're like, God, you are my refuge, you

1051
00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:26,140
are my strength, you are my provider.

1052
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,240
You'll bring mountains, wipe out entire mountains, just

1053
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:31,380
bring them to nothing.

1054
00:36:31,660 --> 00:36:33,700
The enemies will bow to you, nations will

1055
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:34,720
have to bow to you.

1056
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,840
You rise one king up, you put another

1057
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:37,300
king down.

1058
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,840
You control with just the word of your

1059
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,560
mouth, the waves in the sea obey him.

1060
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:43,600
That's power.

1061
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,080
So if you stay in the Word of

1062
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,740
God, and you change your mental diet to

1063
00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:50,220
focus on God, then you're joyful and thankful.

1064
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,440
That can change, and that can bring healing.

1065
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,220
I truly believe that.

1066
00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:56,820
So there's consequences.

1067
00:36:57,020 --> 00:36:58,380
One area why we're not healed.

1068
00:36:58,940 --> 00:37:01,220
The other area is condition.

1069
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,440
The condition of the body.

1070
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,240
Why do I go to a four-year

1071
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,580
-old's funeral who died of leukemia?

1072
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:12,140
Talk about sad funerals.

1073
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,560
I mean, we're in a sinful, fallen world,

1074
00:37:17,780 --> 00:37:20,220
and often there's not complete healing on this

1075
00:37:20,220 --> 00:37:20,780
side of heaven.

1076
00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:24,440
And just that statement's going to make people

1077
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,920
mad, because there are groups that think you

1078
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,620
should be healthy, wealthy, and wise no matter

1079
00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:29,180
what.

1080
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,860
What do you do with Paul?

1081
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,100
I mean, what do you do with some

1082
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:36,300
of the strongest Christians I know?

1083
00:37:37,580 --> 00:37:40,040
Sometimes healing doesn't come, and that's why I

1084
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,940
wanted to stress that point on mercy.

1085
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,340
Folks, we've got to start having mercy on

1086
00:37:45,340 --> 00:37:45,700
people.

1087
00:37:46,260 --> 00:37:48,520
The person on insulin chides the person on

1088
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,080
Xanax.

1089
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,560
The person on beta blockers chides the person

1090
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:52,580
on amoxicillin.

1091
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,540
What I mean by that is somebody's like,

1092
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,800
oh, you shouldn't take amoxicillin for your strep

1093
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:56,980
throat.

1094
00:37:57,060 --> 00:37:57,680
Let God heal you.

1095
00:37:57,740 --> 00:37:59,420
Well, why are you taking beta blockers and

1096
00:37:59,420 --> 00:38:01,160
Coumadin to lower your blood pressure and get

1097
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:01,660
your blood thin?

1098
00:38:02,020 --> 00:38:02,640
Well, that's different.

1099
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,660
No, it's a result of a bad diet

1100
00:38:04,660 --> 00:38:05,620
in and out every day.

1101
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,780
Oh, I might have struck a chord with

1102
00:38:11,780 --> 00:38:12,300
this crowd.

1103
00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:15,800
But think about how we do that.

1104
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,400
The person addicted to seven diet Pepsis a

1105
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,840
day mocks a person who can't stop Oxy.

1106
00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:24,240
We just, mercy, mercy, and then I love

1107
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,780
Christian leaders who chide everybody, and they weigh

1108
00:38:26,780 --> 00:38:27,960
350 pounds.

1109
00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:31,060
I want to tell them that's called gluttony,

1110
00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:32,860
and that's bad.

1111
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,840
I mean, we need to start having a

1112
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,940
little bit more mercy and understand that we're

1113
00:38:38,940 --> 00:38:40,660
all in this thing together.

1114
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,100
Doesn't make it right.

1115
00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:46,400
But let's, mercy, God, mercy.

1116
00:38:47,020 --> 00:38:48,760
Mercy as we're going through things.

1117
00:38:49,340 --> 00:38:52,220
And I've confessed before, I went through the

1118
00:38:52,220 --> 00:38:56,080
Judgmental Pharisee, you know, time frame.

1119
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:56,880
It was pretty long.

1120
00:38:58,180 --> 00:38:59,520
I could point out everything.

1121
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,020
Look at that, people.

1122
00:39:02,060 --> 00:39:03,500
But I had to have a venti coffee

1123
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:04,980
in the morning, a venti coffee at night.

1124
00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:07,560
600, 700 milligrams of caffeine, and I was

1125
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,300
addicted, but I could, oh, how come they

1126
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:10,060
can't stop that?

1127
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:11,300
How come they can't stop this?

1128
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:12,420
And they just eat too much, and they

1129
00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:13,540
just do this.

1130
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,620
They can't stop drinking.

1131
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,240
They can't stop their drug use.

1132
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,440
Well, I couldn't stop my drug use.

1133
00:39:20,140 --> 00:39:21,760
Shane, oh, absolutely.

1134
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,200
If you don't think caffeine is a drug,

1135
00:39:23,260 --> 00:39:23,860
just Google it.

1136
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:25,240
Just Google it.

1137
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,460
It's a central nervous stimulant that affects the

1138
00:39:29,460 --> 00:39:31,300
mind in the same way the opium does.

1139
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,200
I mean, we've just got to wake up.

1140
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,500
I know these aren't popular sermons, but I

1141
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:37,840
may have got a deal that I'm here

1142
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:38,260
to help.

1143
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,640
In order to help, it hurts.

1144
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:43,280
Right?

1145
00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:45,260
And all you have to do is take

1146
00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:45,840
this to God.

1147
00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:48,180
I am absolutely convinced if you say, Lord,

1148
00:39:48,860 --> 00:39:50,020
I don't like what he said, but do

1149
00:39:50,020 --> 00:39:51,140
I need to work on that, that you're,

1150
00:39:51,260 --> 00:39:54,260
yes, yes, the hound of heaven, the Holy

1151
00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:57,540
Spirit will work on certain areas of your

1152
00:39:57,540 --> 00:39:58,820
life that need correction.

1153
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,140
And that's why I love a loving father.

1154
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,940
He warns us, hey, you might want to

1155
00:40:03,940 --> 00:40:04,800
stop that.

1156
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,760
I mean, when I see 12-year-olds

1157
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,960
walk around with monster drinks, I get, oh,

1158
00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:11,740
do you have any clue what you're going

1159
00:40:11,740 --> 00:40:12,360
to turn into?

1160
00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:14,640
Exactly what the thing says.

1161
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:16,040
Monster.

1162
00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:19,140
Just go online.

1163
00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:21,840
How much has road rage increased?

1164
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,060
I think it's like one-third of all

1165
00:40:25,060 --> 00:40:27,120
fatalities now are due to road rage.

1166
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,140
Is there connections here with all this?

1167
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,280
And the suicide rate, and we're putting all

1168
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,180
this stuff in that stimulates.

1169
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,840
But you know this about drugs, right?

1170
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:39,420
Whatever it does to you, what does the

1171
00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:40,900
reverse happen when you come off?

1172
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:45,800
If you're taking something that accelerates, crystal meth

1173
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,340
or something, you're going to come down very

1174
00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:48,660
hard.

1175
00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:51,260
If you take something that brings you down,

1176
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,360
then you're going to come up and be

1177
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:54,580
anxious and irritable all the time.

1178
00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:56,040
There's a reverse effect there.

1179
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,100
I know this term is probably way more

1180
00:40:57,100 --> 00:40:59,160
than you wanted, but it's true.

1181
00:41:00,340 --> 00:41:02,120
And the next reason is combat.

1182
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,360
So we have consequences for our sins, just

1183
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,730
the condition of the body sometimes, and then

1184
00:41:09,730 --> 00:41:10,170
combat.

1185
00:41:10,930 --> 00:41:11,650
You know, I want to say something.

1186
00:41:11,670 --> 00:41:12,150
I don't know why.

1187
00:41:12,250 --> 00:41:14,490
I've ignored this twice now, feeling prompted to

1188
00:41:14,490 --> 00:41:14,990
say this.

1189
00:41:16,710 --> 00:41:18,310
On the condition of the body, you know,

1190
00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:19,610
a lot of people, there are people now,

1191
00:41:19,630 --> 00:41:20,730
a lot of people that need to take

1192
00:41:20,730 --> 00:41:22,870
insulin and different things for diabetics.

1193
00:41:23,210 --> 00:41:26,790
But I've seen countless people reverse that by

1194
00:41:26,790 --> 00:41:28,030
taking care of their body.

1195
00:41:28,630 --> 00:41:31,010
So you don't have to run to the

1196
00:41:31,010 --> 00:41:31,410
shot.

1197
00:41:33,550 --> 00:41:36,450
Now, there are some people 12 years old,

1198
00:41:36,790 --> 00:41:38,350
but now it's called, they've got a new

1199
00:41:38,350 --> 00:41:41,210
term, child onset obesity.

1200
00:41:43,690 --> 00:41:45,450
When you have little kids that are obese

1201
00:41:45,450 --> 00:41:46,830
at 10?

1202
00:41:48,510 --> 00:41:50,090
I'll just tell you right now whose fault

1203
00:41:50,090 --> 00:41:50,470
that is.

1204
00:41:50,510 --> 00:41:51,950
It's not the child's at that age.

1205
00:41:53,410 --> 00:41:55,790
It's the person putting the stuff in the

1206
00:41:55,790 --> 00:41:58,290
refrigerator, in the pantry, and not teaching and

1207
00:41:58,290 --> 00:41:58,630
helping.

1208
00:41:59,330 --> 00:42:00,630
And I have four kids that like to

1209
00:42:00,630 --> 00:42:01,730
eat a lot, so I know.

1210
00:42:02,110 --> 00:42:02,890
Very difficult.

1211
00:42:03,670 --> 00:42:04,230
Very difficult.

1212
00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:06,370
I said, well, now you're not eating anything

1213
00:42:06,370 --> 00:42:06,710
today.

1214
00:42:08,650 --> 00:42:09,530
I can't have anything.

1215
00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:10,930
Yeah, I'm going to cut up a pomegranate

1216
00:42:10,930 --> 00:42:11,330
right now.

1217
00:42:14,290 --> 00:42:16,170
It's interesting how you can lead your family.

1218
00:42:16,490 --> 00:42:19,290
I cannot buy enough pomegranates now to last

1219
00:42:19,290 --> 00:42:19,830
three days.

1220
00:42:20,350 --> 00:42:21,630
I'll buy 12 pomegranates.

1221
00:42:21,710 --> 00:42:22,410
They're gone in three days.

1222
00:42:22,750 --> 00:42:24,370
See, they follow.

1223
00:42:24,890 --> 00:42:26,670
If I want to get my wife to

1224
00:42:26,670 --> 00:42:28,330
eat, here's one thing we've always been challenged.

1225
00:42:28,390 --> 00:42:29,190
She was a sugar addict.

1226
00:42:29,190 --> 00:42:30,150
I was trying to be more healthy.

1227
00:42:30,430 --> 00:42:33,110
I just have salads and healthy stuff.

1228
00:42:33,230 --> 00:42:35,590
Now she starts eating the same thing.

1229
00:42:35,930 --> 00:42:38,110
See, you're leading by example in the home.

1230
00:42:38,690 --> 00:42:39,830
You're leading by example.

1231
00:42:40,250 --> 00:42:42,570
I see so many people running to the

1232
00:42:42,570 --> 00:42:44,350
doctor when they can cure themselves.

1233
00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:46,390
Not all the time, right?

1234
00:42:46,430 --> 00:42:47,030
Big disclaimer.

1235
00:42:49,190 --> 00:42:51,570
In the gym industry, I see so many

1236
00:42:51,570 --> 00:42:52,570
people, yeah, I'm a diabetic.

1237
00:42:53,950 --> 00:42:55,370
Can I be honest?

1238
00:42:55,590 --> 00:42:57,550
You're about 100 pounds overweight.

1239
00:42:58,510 --> 00:43:01,470
The diet is very unhealthy that you're on.

1240
00:43:02,450 --> 00:43:03,870
I mean, they'll tell me I can't have

1241
00:43:03,870 --> 00:43:05,570
carbohydrates, but they'll come in with a 32

1242
00:43:05,570 --> 00:43:06,150
-ounce Pepsi.

1243
00:43:07,530 --> 00:43:08,330
Well, Shane, it's a diet.

1244
00:43:08,450 --> 00:43:09,490
Well, it has aspartame.

1245
00:43:09,590 --> 00:43:13,830
Aspartame is a chemical that the FDA shouldn't

1246
00:43:13,830 --> 00:43:14,410
have proved.

1247
00:43:14,730 --> 00:43:16,470
And what that does is your body doesn't

1248
00:43:16,470 --> 00:43:17,410
know there's no calories.

1249
00:43:17,650 --> 00:43:20,470
Your body sees a sugar substitute, so it's

1250
00:43:20,470 --> 00:43:22,370
going to kick in everything as if it

1251
00:43:22,370 --> 00:43:26,410
was calories, and it's going to be a

1252
00:43:26,410 --> 00:43:27,130
detriment to the body.

1253
00:43:27,570 --> 00:43:29,650
That's why they're linking lots of Alzheimer's or

1254
00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:32,190
different things to people's diets, because you're not

1255
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:34,950
feeding the body what it needs to proper

1256
00:43:34,950 --> 00:43:35,530
functionally.

1257
00:43:36,470 --> 00:43:39,290
And every time somebody gets mad at this

1258
00:43:39,290 --> 00:43:40,890
type of sermon, or what I'm saying is

1259
00:43:40,890 --> 00:43:41,790
because they're convicted.

1260
00:43:43,550 --> 00:43:46,550
I've never had anybody say, get upset that

1261
00:43:46,550 --> 00:43:47,550
it's taking care of their body.

1262
00:43:49,250 --> 00:43:50,170
That's not true.

1263
00:43:50,590 --> 00:43:51,890
Diet patient says, right here, no calories.

1264
00:43:51,990 --> 00:43:52,690
Yeah, no calories.

1265
00:43:52,690 --> 00:43:54,930
A calorie is just a unit of energy.

1266
00:43:55,830 --> 00:43:57,870
If I consume 2,000, I can probably

1267
00:43:57,870 --> 00:44:00,510
consume 3,000 calories a day, but I

1268
00:44:00,510 --> 00:44:02,450
better burn 3,000 calories a day.

1269
00:44:02,510 --> 00:44:03,990
It's just a unit of energy.

1270
00:44:04,650 --> 00:44:07,070
So just because there's no calorie, fat free,

1271
00:44:07,170 --> 00:44:09,670
if it's junk and garbage, it's not going

1272
00:44:09,670 --> 00:44:10,350
to help the body.

1273
00:44:10,770 --> 00:44:12,390
And once you start to feed the body

1274
00:44:12,390 --> 00:44:16,270
what it needs, you won't be craving a

1275
00:44:16,270 --> 00:44:18,790
lot of the junk, because you're feeding it

1276
00:44:18,790 --> 00:44:19,510
what it needs.

1277
00:44:19,730 --> 00:44:20,910
So that's just a whole bunch of extra

1278
00:44:20,910 --> 00:44:23,070
advice on the condition of the body.

1279
00:44:23,550 --> 00:44:25,590
Yes, sometimes people need insulin.

1280
00:44:25,890 --> 00:44:26,610
I've recommended it.

1281
00:44:26,750 --> 00:44:28,770
I've recommended Xanax.

1282
00:44:29,790 --> 00:44:36,270
I've recommended what's that other word I just

1283
00:44:36,270 --> 00:44:37,190
mentioned for root canal?

1284
00:44:38,710 --> 00:44:39,190
Vicodin.

1285
00:44:39,290 --> 00:44:42,670
If somebody is going through tremendous pain, and

1286
00:44:42,670 --> 00:44:44,630
hey, try this for a day or two.

1287
00:44:44,670 --> 00:44:45,270
Don't get hooked.

1288
00:44:45,830 --> 00:44:46,550
Oh, I don't feel good.

1289
00:44:47,290 --> 00:44:49,230
But God has given us sometimes these things

1290
00:44:49,230 --> 00:44:50,630
to get...

1291
00:44:50,630 --> 00:44:52,530
And I know people don't agree with that.

1292
00:44:52,930 --> 00:44:54,710
But I don't recommend it often.

1293
00:44:54,870 --> 00:44:56,190
But if you need to do that, I

1294
00:44:56,190 --> 00:44:57,290
don't want somebody to feel guilty.

1295
00:44:59,330 --> 00:45:01,070
Some of these things are a gift from

1296
00:45:01,070 --> 00:45:01,410
God.

1297
00:45:01,910 --> 00:45:04,130
But when they become abused, they're not a

1298
00:45:04,130 --> 00:45:04,410
gift.

1299
00:45:04,770 --> 00:45:05,650
And that's the danger.

1300
00:45:06,150 --> 00:45:07,470
And the last thing is combat.

1301
00:45:08,350 --> 00:45:10,690
So there's consequences to our sins and to

1302
00:45:10,690 --> 00:45:11,250
our choices.

1303
00:45:11,990 --> 00:45:13,890
Sometimes it's just the condition of the body.

1304
00:45:15,010 --> 00:45:17,090
Many of you, you know young kids who

1305
00:45:17,090 --> 00:45:20,190
have died at four, five, six from leukemia

1306
00:45:20,190 --> 00:45:22,030
or cancer or God forbid asthma.

1307
00:45:22,450 --> 00:45:23,590
I mean, it's terrible.

1308
00:45:23,750 --> 00:45:25,050
It's just the condition of the body.

1309
00:45:25,790 --> 00:45:27,390
But the third thing is combat.

1310
00:45:28,310 --> 00:45:30,790
Some pain, depression, suffering, etc.

1311
00:45:30,930 --> 00:45:33,090
is the result of spiritual attack.

1312
00:45:33,590 --> 00:45:35,550
There's no way around this one.

1313
00:45:35,950 --> 00:45:36,910
No way around this one.

1314
00:45:37,630 --> 00:45:40,190
Jesus healed a lady bent over for 17

1315
00:45:40,190 --> 00:45:40,790
years.

1316
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,440
He didn't say, your sciatic nerve is kind

1317
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,900
of messed up here and you kind of

1318
00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:49,560
sleep wrong.

1319
00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:53,960
He said, why should this daughter of Abraham

1320
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,560
be inflicted, tormented by the devil?

1321
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,920
And then he said those famous words, woman

1322
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,180
thou art loosed from your infirmities.

1323
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,560
And she stood up.

1324
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,700
Why should this child being thrown in the

1325
00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:11,420
fire continue to convulse?

1326
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:12,920
Jesus said, out of him.

1327
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,480
The man sitting in the tombs, living among

1328
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:17,740
the tombs, Jesus came.

1329
00:46:18,060 --> 00:46:19,180
So what do we have to do with

1330
00:46:19,180 --> 00:46:19,340
you?

1331
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,820
Jesus, we are legion, we are many.

1332
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:22,560
Jesus said, I don't care.

1333
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:23,120
Out of him.

1334
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,540
So there's, unless you believe that that no

1335
00:46:26,540 --> 00:46:29,720
longer applies, well, I don't.

1336
00:46:29,780 --> 00:46:32,040
I mean, there's demonic influence and it's real.

1337
00:46:32,380 --> 00:46:34,640
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

1338
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:36,480
You're not going to beat the devil with

1339
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,100
your 9mm.

1340
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:39,040
Okay?

1341
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,620
You're not going to beat the devil with

1342
00:46:41,620 --> 00:46:42,960
putting extra locks on the door.

1343
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,040
The battle is spiritual.

1344
00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:46,960
You pull down strongholds.

1345
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:48,900
You cast down arguments.

1346
00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:50,340
If you look at the imagery there, that

1347
00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:51,660
would be a wonderful verse to teach on

1348
00:46:51,660 --> 00:46:52,060
sometimes.

1349
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,480
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but

1350
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,060
against principalities, against the powers of darkness, against

1351
00:46:58,060 --> 00:46:59,460
rulers of this age.

1352
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:03,020
And it talks about casting down arguments.

1353
00:47:03,540 --> 00:47:04,260
Like, what does that mean?

1354
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,120
Something that's going against God, you cast it

1355
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:08,320
down.

1356
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,440
You don't embrace it.

1357
00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:12,360
You bring every thought captive to the obedience

1358
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:13,020
of Christ.

1359
00:47:13,460 --> 00:47:14,940
You say, that's not a right thought.

1360
00:47:15,220 --> 00:47:16,440
That's a wrong thought.

1361
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,080
And if the devil's coming against you, this

1362
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,780
breaks down, and this is sick, God, help

1363
00:47:22,780 --> 00:47:22,980
me.

1364
00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:24,680
God, help me.

1365
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:27,860
And you fight demonic realm, you fight it

1366
00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:28,440
with prayer.

1367
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:29,860
You fight it with fasting.

1368
00:47:30,060 --> 00:47:31,800
You fight it with the spirit-filled life.

1369
00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:33,720
If I'm going through something, you know what

1370
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:34,360
I'd probably do?

1371
00:47:34,540 --> 00:47:36,480
I would fast, I would pray, and I

1372
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:37,920
would go visit all the hospital homes.

1373
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,040
And show mercy, and be filled with the

1374
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,680
spirit of God, and get off my trip,

1375
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,380
and count all my Christmas presents, and start

1376
00:47:47,380 --> 00:47:48,300
serving God.

1377
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,180
And the devil hates worship, he hates prayer,

1378
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,980
and he hates fasting, because you're starving the

1379
00:47:53,980 --> 00:47:55,880
flesh, the very thing he's using against you.

1380
00:47:57,740 --> 00:47:59,520
That's how you fight the devil.

1381
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:01,400
Well, Shane, it's not working.

1382
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:02,140
Well, keep trying.

1383
00:48:03,220 --> 00:48:04,020
What's the Bible say?

1384
00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:07,540
Knock, and it will be open to you.

1385
00:48:09,340 --> 00:48:11,920
The strongest Christians in God's kingdom are also

1386
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:13,020
the strongest knockers.

1387
00:48:14,660 --> 00:48:16,180
See, there's something we don't talk about anymore.

1388
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:17,300
Perseverance.

1389
00:48:18,420 --> 00:48:19,460
We don't talk about...

1390
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,760
I said a prayer for three minutes.

1391
00:48:22,860 --> 00:48:24,160
When is the last time you spent an

1392
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:24,980
hour on your knees?

1393
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:29,940
That's how you pull down arguments, and cast

1394
00:48:29,940 --> 00:48:33,360
away things that are highly exalting themselves.

1395
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:34,920
You cast them down.

1396
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,740
In order to keep Paul humble, he was

1397
00:48:38,740 --> 00:48:41,000
given a thorn in his flesh, a messenger

1398
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:41,560
of Satan.

1399
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:49,880
Well, somebody once asked me, Shane, what do

1400
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,440
you do if it's the consequences of sin?

1401
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:54,000
How do I know if it's a condition

1402
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:54,740
of my body?

1403
00:48:55,020 --> 00:48:56,760
Or how do I know if it's a

1404
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:57,580
demonic attack?

1405
00:48:59,420 --> 00:49:00,480
Good question, right?

1406
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,720
I'm going to give you a very, very

1407
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,640
good answer that works all the time.

1408
00:49:06,660 --> 00:49:08,180
I cover all my bases.

1409
00:49:11,540 --> 00:49:14,320
Lord, if this is a demonic attack, Satan

1410
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,440
has no power here.

1411
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,160
He's defeated on the cross.

1412
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:18,240
I'm not going to allow it in my

1413
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:18,600
home.

1414
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:19,960
I'm not going to allow it in my

1415
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:20,260
body.

1416
00:49:20,340 --> 00:49:21,200
I'm claiming victory.

1417
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:22,460
I'm speaking it out.

1418
00:49:22,860 --> 00:49:23,820
Go watch War Room.

1419
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,620
Watch what she did, walking around that house.

1420
00:49:25,660 --> 00:49:26,560
There's nothing wrong with that.

1421
00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:27,800
That's too Pentecostal.

1422
00:49:28,060 --> 00:49:29,740
No, I'm walking around my house saying, devil,

1423
00:49:29,860 --> 00:49:30,880
you are not welcome here.

1424
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,760
You're not going to bury my 10-year

1425
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:34,780
-old at 17 because of a heroin overdose.

1426
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,400
You're not going to take my son and

1427
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:37,560
get him addicted to alcohol.

1428
00:49:37,780 --> 00:49:39,120
You're not going to take my two daughters

1429
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:39,880
and get them raped.

1430
00:49:40,140 --> 00:49:42,960
You have no, no, no, no control in

1431
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:43,460
this house.

1432
00:49:43,620 --> 00:49:45,580
The demonic realm was crushed at the foot

1433
00:49:45,580 --> 00:49:46,060
of the cross.

1434
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,800
I'm going to sit, I'm going to pray,

1435
00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:48,700
and I'm going to worship.

1436
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:50,560
I don't care what I have to do.

1437
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,480
You have no power over me.

1438
00:49:52,860 --> 00:49:54,680
Greater is He that's in me than He

1439
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:55,420
that's in the world.

1440
00:49:55,660 --> 00:49:56,680
You've been defeated.

1441
00:49:56,860 --> 00:49:57,940
The lies are over.

1442
00:49:58,240 --> 00:49:59,320
You've been defeated.

1443
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:00,460
That's it.

1444
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:02,880
That's one.

1445
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,340
The next one is, Lord, if there is

1446
00:50:04,340 --> 00:50:05,940
any unclean thing in me, if there is

1447
00:50:05,940 --> 00:50:08,180
iniquity I'm holding in my heart, if these

1448
00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:10,360
things are happening because of the sins that

1449
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,280
I've done or something I'm doing, Lord, please

1450
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:13,460
show them to me.

1451
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,400
Reveal them to me like David said.

1452
00:50:15,820 --> 00:50:17,240
Created me a clean heart.

1453
00:50:17,580 --> 00:50:19,280
Renew a right spirit within me.

1454
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,140
I want to see the joy of my

1455
00:50:21,140 --> 00:50:23,280
salvation return to me.

1456
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,400
Lord, I'm justifying.

1457
00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:26,240
I'm blame-shifting.

1458
00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:26,820
I'm a sinner.

1459
00:50:26,820 --> 00:50:29,680
I can sneakily do things, but you illuminate.

1460
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:30,420
Show me.

1461
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,240
Show me if what is happening is directly

1462
00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:36,200
related to something I'm doing that I need

1463
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:36,980
to repent from.

1464
00:50:37,980 --> 00:50:39,500
But Lord, if it's a condition of my

1465
00:50:39,500 --> 00:50:41,840
body, I'm holding on to you.

1466
00:50:42,580 --> 00:50:43,300
You're my anchor.

1467
00:50:43,500 --> 00:50:44,240
You're everything.

1468
00:50:46,810 --> 00:50:50,310
Listen, I've felt anxiety and palpitations.

1469
00:50:50,410 --> 00:50:51,810
My wife will tell you so bad that

1470
00:50:51,810 --> 00:50:52,850
I thought I was going to die.

1471
00:50:54,450 --> 00:50:55,810
Let's make plans for the church.

1472
00:50:56,070 --> 00:50:57,090
I'm out of here tomorrow.

1473
00:50:58,110 --> 00:50:59,750
But I'm holding on to the rock.

1474
00:51:00,350 --> 00:51:01,690
I'm holding on to him as I go

1475
00:51:01,690 --> 00:51:02,110
down.

1476
00:51:03,010 --> 00:51:04,310
I don't know if that was...

1477
00:51:04,310 --> 00:51:05,290
What was that from?

1478
00:51:05,470 --> 00:51:05,870
Condition?

1479
00:51:06,330 --> 00:51:06,670
This?

1480
00:51:06,950 --> 00:51:07,190
This?

1481
00:51:07,290 --> 00:51:07,870
Demonic attack?

1482
00:51:07,970 --> 00:51:09,030
I'm covering all bases.

1483
00:51:09,730 --> 00:51:10,850
I think that's biblical.

1484
00:51:12,010 --> 00:51:13,250
Because woe be to the man that says,

1485
00:51:13,350 --> 00:51:14,890
no, I haven't done anything to cause this.

1486
00:51:15,610 --> 00:51:16,010
Really?

1487
00:51:20,260 --> 00:51:21,300
We just don't know.

1488
00:51:22,300 --> 00:51:23,580
That's why God says, come to me.

1489
00:51:23,620 --> 00:51:27,240
But he also says, whoever wants wisdom, wisdom,

1490
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:27,880
ask.

1491
00:51:28,060 --> 00:51:29,540
I mean, there are so many things that

1492
00:51:29,540 --> 00:51:32,160
God has showed me when I just ask,

1493
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:33,000
Lord, just show me.

1494
00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:35,620
From ways to heal our kids, from certain

1495
00:51:35,620 --> 00:51:37,260
things when they were sick growing up, to

1496
00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:39,080
certain ailments.

1497
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,000
One of the reasons I get hooked up

1498
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,340
on this caffeine thing with coffee is because

1499
00:51:45,340 --> 00:51:47,800
he's been showing me for probably 12 years,

1500
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,020
my wife will tell you.

1501
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:50,720
And what it does to me, it makes

1502
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:52,800
me irritable and anxious.

1503
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,280
And if we can just sum it up,

1504
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:55,800
a jerk.

1505
00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:58,280
Right?

1506
00:51:58,420 --> 00:51:58,940
Leave me alone.

1507
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,060
ADD, give me away.

1508
00:52:00,420 --> 00:52:01,180
Type A personality.

1509
00:52:01,740 --> 00:52:03,980
And you can't be a pastor and have

1510
00:52:03,980 --> 00:52:04,480
those qualities.

1511
00:52:05,300 --> 00:52:06,240
You know, it's not a good thing.

1512
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,480
You shouldn't even be a husband or a

1513
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:09,100
father or a mother.

1514
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,700
So he's showing me how what I'm doing

1515
00:52:11,700 --> 00:52:14,260
to my body is hurting others.

1516
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:15,480
And he's convicting.

1517
00:52:15,620 --> 00:52:16,640
It's a loving father.

1518
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,460
And I see people, so many people abusing

1519
00:52:19,460 --> 00:52:20,240
different things.

1520
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:21,860
I mean, I could spend 20 minutes on

1521
00:52:21,860 --> 00:52:23,240
sugar addiction that would make all of you

1522
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:24,220
get out here and squirm.

1523
00:52:26,460 --> 00:52:29,220
And the foods we're consuming, that some of

1524
00:52:29,220 --> 00:52:31,080
it has no nutritional value at all.

1525
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,420
The pesticides, the herbicides, the fungicide, everything, chemicals,

1526
00:52:34,540 --> 00:52:37,600
all kinds of junk going against God's design.

1527
00:52:38,380 --> 00:52:39,960
And here's the results.

1528
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:42,580
Childhood obesity is now an epidemic.

1529
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,340
Cancer, heart disease, number one killers.

1530
00:52:47,980 --> 00:52:50,960
I mean, this is not rocket science.

1531
00:52:52,340 --> 00:52:54,000
And it's so sad because it wasn't until

1532
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,660
I would see people in their 60s that

1533
00:52:56,660 --> 00:52:57,860
would come to me and say, Shane, I

1534
00:52:57,860 --> 00:52:59,080
got to make changes.

1535
00:52:59,540 --> 00:53:00,860
Doctor doesn't give me much time.

1536
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:04,520
Why waste an entire life?

1537
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,880
So see, God lovingly warns and confronts and

1538
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:08,340
challenges.

1539
00:53:13,150 --> 00:53:14,550
And it's still another page, but let me

1540
00:53:14,550 --> 00:53:15,870
just read one of my favorite Scriptures.

1541
00:53:16,550 --> 00:53:18,470
You will keep him in perfect peace whose

1542
00:53:18,470 --> 00:53:22,130
mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.

1543
00:53:22,790 --> 00:53:24,810
So the whole series on hope is staying

1544
00:53:24,810 --> 00:53:25,870
anchor to the anchor.

1545
00:53:26,850 --> 00:53:29,410
He will keep the person whose mind is

1546
00:53:29,410 --> 00:53:30,230
steadfast.

1547
00:53:30,630 --> 00:53:31,770
Now this is interesting.

1548
00:53:32,330 --> 00:53:34,130
He will keep you in perfect peace whose

1549
00:53:34,130 --> 00:53:35,430
mind is steadfast.

1550
00:53:35,530 --> 00:53:36,770
Well, all of us can say, I've been

1551
00:53:36,770 --> 00:53:38,310
there and I'm not in perfect peace sometimes.

1552
00:53:38,890 --> 00:53:41,250
That steadfast there is a word.

1553
00:53:41,870 --> 00:53:44,090
It's keeping your mind back.

1554
00:53:44,230 --> 00:53:45,910
It's going to drift, but it's back on

1555
00:53:45,910 --> 00:53:46,130
God.

1556
00:53:46,230 --> 00:53:47,050
You're steadfast.

1557
00:53:47,130 --> 00:53:48,050
You're persevering.

1558
00:53:48,370 --> 00:53:48,970
You're anchoring.

1559
00:53:49,170 --> 00:53:50,910
It's falling away, but you're going back.

1560
00:53:50,990 --> 00:53:52,090
Lord, this isn't right, but I'm going.

1561
00:53:52,230 --> 00:53:55,870
You're keeping your mind steadfast on him because

1562
00:53:55,870 --> 00:53:57,370
you trust in God.

1563
00:53:57,830 --> 00:53:59,890
And he will keep that person in perfect

1564
00:53:59,890 --> 00:54:00,310
peace.

1565
00:54:01,250 --> 00:54:03,450
I want to show you a video.

1566
00:54:04,070 --> 00:54:06,150
It shows the spread of Christianity.

1567
00:54:06,770 --> 00:54:10,250
And sometimes we forget about how big God's

1568
00:54:10,250 --> 00:54:12,810
mercy is and his love and his hope

1569
00:54:12,810 --> 00:54:15,530
and how he just encompasses everything.

1570
00:54:16,170 --> 00:54:17,890
And his mercy, his word will travel.

1571
00:54:18,030 --> 00:54:19,470
So as you watch this, just kind of

1572
00:54:19,470 --> 00:54:20,770
reflect on God's greatness.