WEBVTT 00:12.062 --> 00:20.305 [SPEAKER_01]: If you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book of Mark chapter number nine, Mark chapter nine. 00:20.365 --> 00:27.428 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a familiar story, but I want to bring something to you that I felt the lower gift to me. 00:28.048 --> 00:39.332 [SPEAKER_01]: Mark chapter number nine, when you got it, jump down to verse number 14, mark nine, chapter number nine, verse number 14. 00:39.372 --> 00:40.613 [SPEAKER_01]: When you got it, say I got it. 00:42.619 --> 00:44.520 [SPEAKER_01]: If you need a little bit more time, say, wait on me. 00:45.661 --> 00:48.142 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, I got this head of wait on me to hurry up. 00:48.402 --> 00:49.963 [SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to get to brunch. 00:50.303 --> 00:52.104 [SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to get there, Mark chapter nine. 00:54.845 --> 00:57.426 [SPEAKER_01]: And when you came to me, a favor and just stand. 00:57.546 --> 01:00.748 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's stand for the reading of the scripture this morning. 01:02.728 --> 01:03.689 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm reading from the N.I. 01:03.729 --> 01:22.371 [SPEAKER_01]: V. so my Bible may read a little differently than yours, Mark 9 and 14 and says when they came, when they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them, as soon as the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him. 01:23.632 --> 01:26.334 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you arguing with him about he acts? 01:26.794 --> 01:34.640 [SPEAKER_01]: A man in the crowd answered, teacher, brought to you my son who was possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of his speech. 01:35.220 --> 01:38.923 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever he sees it, he sees his him, it throws him to the ground. 01:39.303 --> 01:43.086 [SPEAKER_01]: He foams at the mount, Nationalist's teeth, and becomes rigid. 01:43.546 --> 01:46.929 [SPEAKER_01]: I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not. 01:48.263 --> 01:51.885 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus turns to the disciples and says, you unbelieving generation. 01:52.665 --> 01:54.246 [SPEAKER_01]: How long shall I stay with you? 01:54.846 --> 01:58.228 [SPEAKER_01]: How long shall I put up with you, bring the boy to me? 01:59.168 --> 02:04.411 [SPEAKER_01]: So they brought him when the Spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. 02:04.971 --> 02:07.732 [SPEAKER_01]: He fell to the ground and rolled around forming at the mouth. 02:08.232 --> 02:12.394 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus asked the boy's father how long has he been like this? 02:13.175 --> 02:14.876 [SPEAKER_01]: From childhood, he answered. 02:18.618 --> 02:24.242 [SPEAKER_01]: went to the water to kill him, but if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us. 02:26.523 --> 02:28.704 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus responds, if you can. 02:29.645 --> 02:33.127 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything is possible for one who believes. 02:33.928 --> 02:39.571 [SPEAKER_01]: Immediately, the boys found the exclaimed, I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief. 02:39.631 --> 02:41.032 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to read that one more time. 02:41.072 --> 02:45.255 [SPEAKER_01]: Verse 24, immediately, the boys' father exclaimed, I do believe. 02:46.597 --> 02:47.118 [SPEAKER_01]: below it. 02:47.238 --> 02:49.862 [SPEAKER_01]: Help my unbelief. 02:51.425 --> 02:59.137 [SPEAKER_01]: If I could preach and use for a title this morning, I would like to use this title, Battle for Belief. 03:00.820 --> 03:01.360 [SPEAKER_01]: Battle of 03:02.381 --> 03:03.922 [SPEAKER_01]: Father, we thank you this morning. 03:04.583 --> 03:05.643 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for this time. 03:05.684 --> 03:06.984 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for this moment. 03:07.244 --> 03:09.026 [SPEAKER_01]: God, just to lift your name to worship you. 03:09.066 --> 03:11.307 [SPEAKER_01]: To give your name all the glory and honor that you will do. 03:11.827 --> 03:14.689 [SPEAKER_01]: Father, we pray that you will speak to us in the midst of this message. 03:15.250 --> 03:16.390 [SPEAKER_01]: In Jesus name, we pray. 03:16.851 --> 03:17.271 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 03:17.911 --> 03:18.972 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen, you may be seated. 03:22.350 --> 03:22.710 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 03:22.750 --> 03:24.311 [SPEAKER_01]: Before we get into this, do me a favor. 03:24.331 --> 03:26.712 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, put your hands together for your passes and leaders. 03:27.332 --> 03:30.673 [SPEAKER_01]: Pass our arms then and Melissa, we honor them. 03:31.053 --> 03:32.114 [SPEAKER_01]: We celebrate them. 03:32.134 --> 03:35.515 [SPEAKER_01]: And I love them, love them so much. 03:36.175 --> 03:38.936 [SPEAKER_01]: Battle, battle for belief, battle for belief. 03:39.537 --> 03:48.360 [SPEAKER_01]: Church, one of the biggest battlefields that we're going to face and we're going to fight on in our life is not going to be within the confines of our body. 03:48.887 --> 03:53.950 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not going to be a bodily issue, it is not going to be a money issue. 03:54.310 --> 03:57.631 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not even going to be in your relationships that you have with people, right? 03:58.192 --> 04:06.456 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the biggest battles that you're going to fight in your day-to-day Christian life and walk is always going to be the battlefield of your belief, right? 04:06.976 --> 04:11.458 [SPEAKER_01]: The enemy knows system beginning of time since Genesis, if you know the story, right? 04:11.878 --> 04:16.861 [SPEAKER_01]: That if he can get you to doubt God, then everything in your life will crumble. 04:17.691 --> 04:17.891 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 04:18.191 --> 04:20.893 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been doing this sister garden of Eden, right? 04:21.533 --> 04:29.537 [SPEAKER_01]: He got to Adam and Eve in the garden after God had already given them instructions, not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 04:30.057 --> 04:35.560 [SPEAKER_01]: And what they say didn't come to them into, he says, did God really say that? 04:36.601 --> 04:48.615 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he understands and knows that if he can come in and distract you, if he can calls you to be uncertain about what the Lord has instructed you to do, that things in your life will begin to crumble. 04:48.735 --> 04:49.536 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 04:49.796 --> 04:54.762 [SPEAKER_01]: He may ask you questions like, if God really loved you, why hasn't He healed you? 04:56.062 --> 04:59.564 [SPEAKER_01]: If God is so faithful, why are you still struggling? 05:00.484 --> 05:03.286 [SPEAKER_01]: If God is real, why hasn't He shown up? 05:03.846 --> 05:08.649 [SPEAKER_01]: Now if you aren't listening real with yourself, some of you in this room have actual self-thins. 05:08.889 --> 05:13.111 [SPEAKER_01]: You're dealing with the problem and you say, God, why am I in this situation? 05:13.451 --> 05:20.575 [SPEAKER_01]: Why am I in this, because the devil is coming to distract you right here, this, see Satan doesn't have to take you or car. 05:22.132 --> 05:23.793 [SPEAKER_01]: Satan don't have to take your house. 05:24.753 --> 05:26.953 [SPEAKER_01]: Satan don't have to take your job. 05:27.854 --> 05:30.274 [SPEAKER_01]: If you can attack your belief system, right? 05:30.675 --> 05:33.655 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you stop believing, you'll stop praying. 05:35.516 --> 05:39.377 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you stop believing, you'll stop standing on the promises of God. 05:40.037 --> 05:45.899 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants you to stop because He knows that your faith connects you to the power of God. 05:47.176 --> 05:50.658 [SPEAKER_01]: Your faith connects you to the power of God. 05:50.698 --> 05:54.479 [SPEAKER_01]: Say it again, your faith connects you to the power of God. 05:54.559 --> 05:54.739 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 05:55.120 --> 06:00.102 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you in this room may have started caving into the whispers of the devil. 06:00.662 --> 06:04.484 [SPEAKER_01]: The whispers of the enemy and your faith has started to fade. 06:04.944 --> 06:06.164 [SPEAKER_01]: But I got good news for you. 06:06.184 --> 06:06.905 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this? 06:08.005 --> 06:11.667 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus does not run from imperfect faith. 06:16.124 --> 06:17.164 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you know what I just said? 06:17.925 --> 06:20.746 [SPEAKER_01]: That he don't run from imperfect faith. 06:21.266 --> 06:22.346 [SPEAKER_01]: He responds to it. 06:22.386 --> 06:24.928 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you text forward here in the minute, right? 06:25.808 --> 06:27.148 [SPEAKER_01]: We get into our text for the day. 06:27.609 --> 06:30.910 [SPEAKER_01]: And when you get to chapter number nine, and you get to the top of, 06:31.350 --> 06:46.796 [SPEAKER_01]: of chapter 9 and verse 1, we find down that Jesus is with Peter, he's with James and he's with John and there at the Mount of Transfiguration and this is the point in Jesus' ministry where Jesus is at the height of his ministry. 06:47.116 --> 07:06.061 [SPEAKER_01]: that the glory of the Lord has descended upon him and he's receiving affirmation and approval from God that God is with him and he tells him that this is my son and whom I'm well pleased that I love him, I've called him, I've approved of him, go and do what it is that you're supposed to do, right? 07:06.421 --> 07:15.344 [SPEAKER_01]: And the scripture let's us know that it was not only John that was present, it was not only that it was Peter that was present, it was not only James that was present, not only Jesus, 07:15.604 --> 07:16.244 [SPEAKER_01]: that was present. 07:16.365 --> 07:18.086 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't even only God that was present. 07:18.326 --> 07:24.469 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says that in and during this encounter that Elijah and Moses are there, right? 07:24.509 --> 07:24.990 [SPEAKER_01]: Here it is. 07:25.370 --> 07:30.333 [SPEAKER_01]: And the scripture says that while they're there, the disciples, they see Elijah. 07:30.693 --> 07:34.295 [SPEAKER_01]: And they see Moses and they're like, oh, okay, this is some different. 07:34.375 --> 07:36.376 [SPEAKER_01]: This is something going on Lord. 07:36.576 --> 07:37.757 [SPEAKER_01]: Should we build shelter? 07:37.777 --> 07:41.719 [SPEAKER_01]: Should we build a shelter for you and build a shelter for Elijah? 07:42.040 --> 07:45.862 [SPEAKER_01]: Build a shelter for Moses here in the text. 07:46.642 --> 07:49.684 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus and God tells them, he said, no, no, no, no. 07:49.744 --> 07:51.705 [SPEAKER_01]: This is my son and whom I'm well pleased. 07:52.226 --> 07:55.467 [SPEAKER_01]: And not only did he stop the he said, but I want you to listen to him. 07:56.548 --> 07:57.829 [SPEAKER_01]: I know Moses is present. 07:58.758 --> 08:00.159 [SPEAKER_01]: But I want you to listen to Jesus. 08:00.719 --> 08:17.852 [SPEAKER_01]: I know that Elijah is present here in the midst of this, but I want you to listen to Jesus because the old scriptures and the text will say that Elijah must come, that Elijah must come, that we understand and know that Elijah has to come and Moses had to come and all of these what things had been prophesied. 08:18.092 --> 08:20.254 [SPEAKER_01]: But guess what, Jesus is here present now. 08:20.814 --> 08:25.057 [SPEAKER_01]: And what God was trying to tell them, which is, I understand Moses came and he brought the law. 08:25.878 --> 08:28.300 [SPEAKER_01]: And the law was supposed to bring you closer to me. 08:29.102 --> 08:33.304 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know Elijah came and he was a prophet, and he prophesied of me. 08:33.984 --> 08:37.946 [SPEAKER_01]: But hearing this moment, what I don't need you to do, it still be connected to the law. 08:38.647 --> 08:46.711 [SPEAKER_01]: What I don't want you to do, it still be connected to the old prophecies because all Moses and Elijah could do was point you to the target. 08:47.531 --> 08:51.293 [SPEAKER_01]: But the target named Jesus is presenting your miss, listen to him. 08:52.750 --> 09:02.722 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen to him, listen to him, listen to him, because Moses and Elijah can only put you in the direction, but Jesus was always the target, right? 09:03.203 --> 09:09.130 [SPEAKER_01]: So Jesus sent that three disciples from this moment, this high moment, he's received approval from God, 09:11.516 --> 09:25.351 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been affirmed, he's been approved, and the walking down the side of the mountain, the coming down, and as he's walking down, the Bible says that there's a crowd that is present. 09:25.531 --> 09:32.179 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a crowd that's present, and the other nine disciples who weren't able to make the journey up the mountain, 09:33.385 --> 09:52.236 [SPEAKER_01]: They're there with this crowd, and there's a man who has a son who's demon possessed, possessed with a spirit, and the people in the crowd, the arguing because the disciples have been asked to cast a devil out of this boy, and they're unable to do it. 09:53.157 --> 09:57.439 [SPEAKER_01]: They're unable to fulfill what it is that they're asking from the people. 10:00.301 --> 10:02.022 [SPEAKER_01]: I have a question for you. 10:03.653 --> 10:09.438 [SPEAKER_01]: Because these nine disciples ate where Jesus ate, they slept where He slept. 10:10.459 --> 10:11.760 [SPEAKER_01]: They went to where He went. 10:13.302 --> 10:15.203 [SPEAKER_01]: They had proximity to Jesus. 10:16.304 --> 10:18.567 [SPEAKER_01]: They had posture themselves out to Jesus. 10:19.447 --> 10:22.010 [SPEAKER_01]: They hadn't even positioned themselves to be close to Him. 10:23.131 --> 10:29.837 [SPEAKER_01]: But here we're finding there's the lack in a power and an ability to do something that Christ possesses. 10:31.061 --> 10:39.503 [SPEAKER_01]: and it's not because they don't have the power because it's not, of course, we understand it, no, the power is not in them, the power is in Jesus. 10:40.184 --> 10:46.845 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm connected to the source, but I'm limited in my ability because there's something that's blocking it there. 10:46.865 --> 10:52.527 [SPEAKER_01]: How do you ever been to, I call it God's chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken. 10:55.901 --> 10:56.802 [SPEAKER_01]: It's God's chicken. 10:57.882 --> 11:22.701 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, before you get your spicy chicken sandwich, for you get your nuggets, your fries, your Polynesian sauce, your Chick-fil-A sauce, get your little lemonade, La Sun Joy, when you walk through the doors, or when you pull up in the parking lot, you are greeted by an individual who works for the company. 11:24.548 --> 11:39.216 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I mean, I've heard stories that I've never read into it yet, but I've heard stories that there are some root ones, but I've never read into a rude, chick-fil-A employee. 11:40.777 --> 11:49.881 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I every time I see them, they got a smile on their face, they are excited to be there. 11:49.942 --> 11:52.303 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't say, uh, uh, 11:53.394 --> 11:57.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Crazy stuff like all here and take this like, you know McDonald's in the door. 11:57.536 --> 12:20.246 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but But I check for late when I when I get my Polynesian, you know you haven't been to McDonald's or accent I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you have been to McDonald's and accent for extra sauce And it's like they act like they own the sauce baby ain't even yours go get me the sweet sour and rigotuby You're gonna check for late acts for the check for late sauce My pleasure 12:22.892 --> 12:31.255 [SPEAKER_01]: My pleasure, my pleasure, they go above and beyond to make you feel valued. 12:31.876 --> 12:36.877 [SPEAKER_01]: Here it is, because their employees aren't just representing themselves. 12:37.758 --> 12:42.340 [SPEAKER_01]: They're representing a whole organization, they're training, they're attitude, 12:49.058 --> 12:54.701 [SPEAKER_01]: People, when you walk away from the location, you don't say, man, that girl was nice. 12:55.302 --> 12:57.483 [SPEAKER_01]: You say, oh, I learned sick for late. 12:57.503 --> 13:03.426 [SPEAKER_01]: Because there's something about the way that they've been trained. 13:03.946 --> 13:06.908 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about the way that they've been developed. 13:07.248 --> 13:14.732 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about the way that they've been, they've gone through a training, a processing to get to this point. 13:14.773 --> 13:15.333 [SPEAKER_01]: Right here it is. 13:16.797 --> 13:26.694 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you a representation of the one you claim to serve when people investigate and encounter your life? 13:27.656 --> 13:30.260 [SPEAKER_01]: What do they see when they encounter you? 13:31.269 --> 13:32.390 [SPEAKER_01]: What comes on for you? 13:33.170 --> 13:35.992 [SPEAKER_01]: And what is exchange in their exchange with you? 13:36.012 --> 13:42.335 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I know you lift your hands and you worship and you serve at the door and you hug on people here at church. 13:43.016 --> 13:44.677 [SPEAKER_01]: But will you not in church context? 13:44.857 --> 13:45.757 [SPEAKER_01]: What does that look like? 13:46.258 --> 13:47.318 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you still love people? 13:48.919 --> 13:51.140 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you still show grace and mercy to people? 13:52.181 --> 13:53.582 [SPEAKER_01]: Are you still kind to people? 13:55.077 --> 13:58.799 [SPEAKER_01]: Does your life reflect the one that you claim to serve? 13:59.379 --> 14:02.220 [SPEAKER_01]: Here there's the Father tells Jesus when he gets there. 14:02.400 --> 14:03.001 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus is good there. 14:03.061 --> 14:11.064 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, my son has been overtaken with a demon, and he fones that come out, nation with his teeth, and he becomes rigid. 14:11.844 --> 14:15.686 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, I've asked the disciples to drown the devil out, but they could not. 14:16.867 --> 14:19.428 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus turns to the disciples. 14:20.544 --> 14:26.047 [SPEAKER_01]: and says, you unbelieve in generation, how long shall I stay with you, bring me the boy? 14:26.187 --> 14:28.109 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna give you my first point for the day. 14:28.169 --> 14:29.569 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this if you're taking notes? 14:29.589 --> 14:30.410 [SPEAKER_01]: This is my first point. 14:32.111 --> 14:39.075 [SPEAKER_01]: Say it in, attacks your faith because he knows that faith is power. 14:40.496 --> 14:44.038 [SPEAKER_01]: He attacks your faith because he knows that faith is power. 14:45.219 --> 14:48.501 [SPEAKER_01]: That we must understand that faith is the bridge. 14:49.339 --> 14:50.660 [SPEAKER_01]: between heaven and earth. 14:51.500 --> 14:53.541 [SPEAKER_01]: It is the bridge between heaven and earth. 14:53.721 --> 14:56.463 [SPEAKER_01]: Hebrews 11 and six says this, that without faith. 14:57.303 --> 14:59.664 [SPEAKER_01]: It is impossible to please God. 14:59.684 --> 15:00.244 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say it again. 15:00.284 --> 15:03.026 [SPEAKER_01]: Hebrews 11 and six says that without faith. 15:03.646 --> 15:05.647 [SPEAKER_01]: It is impossible to do what? 15:06.087 --> 15:07.028 [SPEAKER_01]: Please God. 15:07.888 --> 15:10.369 [SPEAKER_01]: That is why Satan attacks your faith. 15:11.170 --> 15:17.233 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he knows that it pleases God and unlocks God power in your life. 15:18.054 --> 15:22.276 [SPEAKER_01]: that when I use and exercise my faith in God, right? 15:22.737 --> 15:26.719 [SPEAKER_01]: That it unlocks the power of God in my life, right? 15:26.899 --> 15:27.659 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm gonna teach you this. 15:27.979 --> 15:32.442 [SPEAKER_01]: Their faith is twofold, say, twofold, right? 15:32.622 --> 15:38.085 [SPEAKER_01]: What I mean about that is you must have faith in something for something, right? 15:38.445 --> 15:44.608 [SPEAKER_01]: So I have my faith in God for God to do XYZ, right? 15:48.430 --> 15:50.632 [SPEAKER_01]: for me to become a millionaire, do a Lord quickly, thank you. 15:52.634 --> 15:56.297 [SPEAKER_01]: Right here, don't be surprised when your belief is under attack. 15:57.498 --> 16:00.961 [SPEAKER_01]: If your belief is under attack, this is an indication. 16:01.021 --> 16:01.681 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this? 16:02.242 --> 16:05.705 [SPEAKER_01]: That you're carrying something that the devil is nervous of. 16:07.765 --> 16:26.895 [SPEAKER_01]: What did I just said that when you're carrying something that makes hell nervous, the devil is going to try to distract you, he's going to try to destroy you, he's going to try to take some things from you because he knows that the moment you tap into it, you have access to a power that he can access. 16:27.716 --> 16:30.657 [SPEAKER_01]: You have access to something that he can enjoy. 16:31.638 --> 16:33.759 [SPEAKER_01]: You have access to the power of God, right? 16:33.819 --> 16:34.319 [SPEAKER_01]: You're ready for this? 16:34.339 --> 16:35.380 [SPEAKER_01]: This is my second point, right? 16:36.208 --> 16:41.116 [SPEAKER_01]: understand this and know that your faith will be tested. 16:42.698 --> 16:43.259 [SPEAKER_01]: You must know. 16:44.221 --> 16:49.963 [SPEAKER_01]: that in this journey in your walk with the Lord, your faith will be tested. 16:50.003 --> 16:55.244 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get to the Father in the Son and we're gonna scream and shout and have a good time, but let me set the scene for this. 16:56.084 --> 16:58.005 [SPEAKER_01]: Your faith will be tested. 16:58.045 --> 16:58.825 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna give you scripture. 16:58.865 --> 17:00.025 [SPEAKER_01]: James 1 and 3. 17:00.506 --> 17:01.066 [SPEAKER_01]: James 1 and 3. 17:01.466 --> 17:07.728 [SPEAKER_01]: Wasse is the Bible said that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 17:09.986 --> 17:14.347 [SPEAKER_01]: that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 17:15.047 --> 17:21.208 [SPEAKER_01]: Say it in a tax because he knows, watch this, that if your faith grows, your victory grows. 17:25.029 --> 17:28.610 [SPEAKER_01]: That as I increase in faith, I increase in victory. 17:29.530 --> 17:30.050 [SPEAKER_01]: You know why? 17:30.631 --> 17:31.931 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I can't stop believing. 17:33.071 --> 17:36.672 [SPEAKER_01]: That nothing is impossible to those who believe. 17:38.397 --> 17:39.498 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what the scripture said. 17:40.439 --> 17:45.624 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't confuse, when you're at it for this, don't confuse a test with abandonment. 17:46.885 --> 17:49.888 [SPEAKER_01]: A test means God is preparing you to show His power in your life. 17:49.948 --> 17:51.450 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember growing up as a kid. 17:52.902 --> 18:07.194 [SPEAKER_01]: I was, I've been safe for a really, really, really long time, church kid, my parents are pastors and they have a church and everything and I remember being a kid after school, you know, and some kids, you know, they go to the park and all of that stuff. 18:07.214 --> 18:20.505 [SPEAKER_01]: We used to go to the Christian store, bookstore, we would go to, we would go look at clergy collars and Bible man, what y'all know about Bible man? 18:21.658 --> 18:48.823 [SPEAKER_01]: If we go see Bible men and all, veggie tales, come on y'all, and in the store, I remember seeing a, there was a printout that I saw a lot, and it was a picture of some footsteps, and it was two sets of footprints, and as the picture, from left to right, you saw two sets of footprint become one, and the thing was, 18:50.331 --> 18:52.593 [SPEAKER_01]: Why did you leave me? 18:53.033 --> 18:56.816 [SPEAKER_01]: You were walking with me and you're gone. 18:57.217 --> 18:59.899 [SPEAKER_01]: It was two steps since a footprint's now, there's only one. 19:00.560 --> 19:02.842 [SPEAKER_01]: And the response from the Lord was, I didn't leave you. 19:03.842 --> 19:08.987 [SPEAKER_01]: I was carrying you, see when life got hard. 19:10.088 --> 19:12.550 [SPEAKER_01]: And you ran into an obstacle and a trial. 19:13.671 --> 19:14.992 [SPEAKER_01]: You had to faith in me. 19:16.153 --> 19:18.695 [SPEAKER_01]: And while you had faith in me, I was carrying you the whole time. 19:19.427 --> 19:22.928 [SPEAKER_01]: When you couldn't carry yourself, I was carrying you, right? 19:24.068 --> 19:26.609 [SPEAKER_01]: So when you thought I abandoned you, I didn't leave. 19:27.209 --> 19:28.049 [SPEAKER_01]: I was carrying you. 19:31.850 --> 19:35.550 [SPEAKER_01]: Mark 9, we jumped down to verse 21. 19:36.831 --> 19:44.612 [SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus asked the Father this, he says, how long has the boy been like this? 19:45.993 --> 19:47.693 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what the text gets interested. 19:49.708 --> 19:54.810 [SPEAKER_01]: The Father's response was not, he's been like this from child birth. 19:56.410 --> 20:00.752 [SPEAKER_01]: The Father's response was, he's been like this since childhood. 20:03.073 --> 20:15.637 [SPEAKER_01]: Not childbirth, but childhood, which would leave one to believe that this wasn't something that started in the womb, but rather somewhere along the way of his journey. 20:16.675 --> 20:21.859 [SPEAKER_01]: something happened that left the door open for the devil to get in. 20:24.121 --> 20:26.843 [SPEAKER_01]: You weren't always as mean as you are. 20:29.125 --> 20:32.047 [SPEAKER_01]: You didn't always have the attitude that you do. 20:33.848 --> 20:44.897 [SPEAKER_01]: You weren't always as, what is the word, disappointed and sad and bitter, depressed and anxious as you are. 20:46.108 --> 20:56.891 [SPEAKER_01]: something happened along the way, along the journey that opened the door for the devil to come in. 20:59.312 --> 21:04.634 [SPEAKER_01]: Watches that say, then, cannot hear me take over just that wheel. 21:05.874 --> 21:08.455 [SPEAKER_01]: He looks for open doors. 21:09.318 --> 21:13.140 [SPEAKER_01]: It could be trauma, it could be rejection, unforgiveness. 21:13.801 --> 21:15.582 [SPEAKER_01]: You got your little seeing on the side. 21:16.643 --> 21:23.307 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says that in Ephesians 4 and 27 is neither give place to the devil. 21:24.668 --> 21:36.175 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, don't leave the door cracked, because even in the small areas of your life, the devil will creep in. 21:37.492 --> 21:40.634 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some of us today are wrestling with things that didn't start at birth. 21:41.254 --> 21:43.695 [SPEAKER_01]: They happen, they started out to something happen in life. 21:44.376 --> 21:50.039 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it was a broken relationship, a painful experience, a moment of compromise. 21:51.299 --> 22:01.625 [SPEAKER_01]: But the good news is this, that even if the devil walked through the door, Jesus has the authority to evict him. 22:04.926 --> 22:05.987 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you what I just said? 22:07.978 --> 22:19.023 [SPEAKER_01]: that just because the devil walked in, you have served the greatest landlord of all time that he can evict the devil whenever you're ready. 22:21.604 --> 22:25.986 [SPEAKER_01]: Verse 22 says that the father said that often, he's been thrown into the fire. 22:27.727 --> 22:33.950 [SPEAKER_01]: And that often, when the spirit takes over him that he's thrown into the fire, he's thrown into the water, 22:34.732 --> 22:37.975 [SPEAKER_01]: and the devil is there to kill him, trying to kill him. 22:39.256 --> 22:43.719 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you're reading too fast, you'll miss the point to shout. 22:44.400 --> 22:46.822 [SPEAKER_01]: If you wanted a point to shout, here it is. 22:47.723 --> 22:54.128 [SPEAKER_01]: That the Bible said that the boy possessed with the demon, that the demon would throw him in the fire. 22:55.489 --> 22:56.750 [SPEAKER_01]: And it would throw him in the water. 22:57.891 --> 22:58.471 [SPEAKER_01]: But guess what? 22:59.452 --> 23:00.373 [SPEAKER_01]: The boy's still there. 23:03.089 --> 23:04.289 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you hear what I just said? 23:05.289 --> 23:07.910 [SPEAKER_01]: That I know the devil has done some stuff in your life. 23:08.810 --> 23:13.771 [SPEAKER_01]: He's taking this and taking a relationship and taking a job and taking some things in your health. 23:14.111 --> 23:14.932 [SPEAKER_01]: But guess what, baby? 23:15.112 --> 23:16.052 [SPEAKER_01]: You're still breathing. 23:16.732 --> 23:17.592 [SPEAKER_01]: You're still here. 23:19.433 --> 23:23.613 [SPEAKER_01]: So that let you know that the devil don't have the final say, God does. 23:26.974 --> 23:30.295 [SPEAKER_01]: That even why he was possessed, the devil couldn't take him out. 23:31.050 --> 23:31.690 [SPEAKER_01]: He couldn't kill them. 23:31.710 --> 23:53.795 [SPEAKER_01]: The Father says that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 24:01.902 --> 24:15.185 [SPEAKER_01]: because when the man says that if you can, Jesus turns to him and says, if you can, do you know who I am? 24:16.446 --> 24:28.949 [SPEAKER_01]: If you can, if you Peter was with me and Peter was fishing, 24:30.764 --> 24:41.628 [SPEAKER_01]: And I told Peter bring me the boat and I got in the boat and I preached and I told Peter the cast his net to the other side and he had been fishing all night and then catch nothing. 24:43.089 --> 24:58.475 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he threw his net to the other side, the Bible said that he called such great fish, not only did he just catch great fish, the Bible said that he had to call his homies to come pull up because I had so much fish that they next started breaking. 24:59.592 --> 25:14.664 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this is the same Peter that's rocking with me in the story that when a storm breaks out on the water at the I've been in the mountains praying and walking a water and Peter says Jesus if it's you tell me the car and Peter takes a step out of the boat. 25:17.086 --> 25:22.491 [SPEAKER_01]: And he takes another step and is walking on water the same way here it is I'm going to give you this. 25:30.009 --> 25:31.850 [SPEAKER_01]: The faith was in the second one. 25:33.371 --> 25:42.838 [SPEAKER_01]: See, the problem why I say it's in the second step, not the first one, because when he takes the first step out of the boat, he's still connected to the water and the boat. 25:44.819 --> 25:48.001 [SPEAKER_01]: But when he takes the second step, guess what? 25:48.121 --> 25:49.082 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna leave. 25:49.482 --> 25:50.443 [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing holding it. 25:50.503 --> 25:54.786 [SPEAKER_01]: There's no plan B. You got to kill the plan B today. 26:00.682 --> 26:22.781 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to be all in, here it is, if you can, if you can, if you can, everything is possible for those who believe, you ready for this, this is my third point here, the enemy attacks 26:28.157 --> 26:35.641 [SPEAKER_01]: Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 5 and 7, for we know this, that we walk by faith and not by sight. 26:35.862 --> 26:36.562 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say it again. 26:37.062 --> 26:40.504 [SPEAKER_01]: We walk by faith and not by sight. 26:41.905 --> 26:46.348 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to notice this, that the opposite of faith is not always down. 26:47.168 --> 26:49.610 [SPEAKER_01]: The opposite of faith is sight. 26:51.151 --> 26:51.791 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this? 26:52.892 --> 26:56.134 [SPEAKER_01]: It is when I see bills piling up. 26:57.087 --> 26:58.848 [SPEAKER_01]: It makes me question God's provision. 26:59.968 --> 27:05.349 [SPEAKER_01]: It is when I get a bad doctor's report, it shakes my confidence in God's healing. 27:06.470 --> 27:12.831 [SPEAKER_01]: It is when I see the storm around me, like Peter on the water, and I start sinking instead of standing. 27:13.412 --> 27:13.812 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch this. 27:14.252 --> 27:17.613 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not wrong to wrestle with doubt. 27:18.253 --> 27:19.553 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not wrong to wrestle with doubt. 27:20.253 --> 27:25.555 [SPEAKER_01]: The danger is this, when your doubt pushes you away from Jesus, instead of to him. 27:29.174 --> 27:36.438 [SPEAKER_01]: when it pushes you away from him and not to him, pushes you away from him and not to him. 27:37.918 --> 27:43.421 [SPEAKER_01]: That sometimes the opposition to your faith is what you see. 27:45.462 --> 27:58.389 [SPEAKER_01]: Because what I believe in God for, don't always look like what's happening in my life, that I'm believing God for healing but my body still not acting right. 27:59.724 --> 28:03.307 [SPEAKER_01]: leaving God for finances, but that bank account a little low. 28:04.828 --> 28:09.551 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm believing God for health and relationship, but me and my wife, we're still arguing. 28:10.252 --> 28:11.193 [SPEAKER_01]: We're still struggling. 28:11.773 --> 28:12.734 [SPEAKER_01]: We're still dealing. 28:14.735 --> 28:18.298 [SPEAKER_01]: And if I go by what I see, I'll stop believing. 28:19.419 --> 28:24.322 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's because it don't match what I believe that God said that I keep pressing into him. 28:30.162 --> 28:38.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, but help my unbelief, Lord I believe, but help my unbelief. 28:38.408 --> 28:45.573 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus hears the crowd, it's coming and the Bible says that it's at this point where He casts the devil out. 28:47.694 --> 28:49.195 [SPEAKER_01]: This is my last to find a point, right? 28:50.056 --> 28:50.916 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this? 28:51.797 --> 28:53.958 [SPEAKER_01]: Faith activates. 28:54.559 --> 28:55.279 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready for this? 28:55.700 --> 28:56.360 [SPEAKER_01]: Deliverance. 28:59.798 --> 29:01.039 [SPEAKER_01]: Activates deliverance. 29:01.139 --> 29:03.101 [SPEAKER_01]: I made a recent discovery. 29:03.801 --> 29:11.266 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll have to come back another time and give you more in depth in this and really walk this through, but I discovered. 29:11.527 --> 29:14.269 [SPEAKER_01]: So for you anybody heard of the love languages. 29:15.390 --> 29:20.293 [SPEAKER_01]: And I know for me the way that I receive love is quality time. 29:20.834 --> 29:23.075 [SPEAKER_01]: I like you to hang out with me kicking with me. 29:23.195 --> 29:23.956 [SPEAKER_01]: We have a good time. 29:23.976 --> 29:25.937 [SPEAKER_01]: You guys made no money on me kicking with me. 29:25.957 --> 29:26.318 [SPEAKER_01]: We good. 29:27.133 --> 29:30.677 [SPEAKER_01]: What are the ways that I give love is acts of service? 29:31.238 --> 29:36.524 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go out my way, I'm gonna do things for people to show them that I love them, my wife, she is. 29:37.064 --> 29:40.148 [SPEAKER_01]: She receives love through words of affirmation. 29:41.009 --> 29:43.512 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem is she's married to a jokester. 29:44.701 --> 29:48.204 [SPEAKER_01]: I am going to roast you, 90% of the time. 29:48.904 --> 29:50.725 [SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, you're never saying that nice to me. 29:50.745 --> 29:52.446 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little good today, and I'm like, you do. 29:52.607 --> 29:53.047 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 29:53.427 --> 29:56.889 [SPEAKER_01]: I love you, but I'm still talking about them toes, and they're talking about shit. 29:57.170 --> 29:58.611 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still trying to joke so you. 29:59.191 --> 30:00.132 [SPEAKER_01]: I love you. 30:00.232 --> 30:00.392 [SPEAKER_01]: Eda. 30:02.692 --> 30:08.736 [SPEAKER_01]: But I understand and know, and I realize that that, that heaven has a love language. 30:09.436 --> 30:11.498 [SPEAKER_01]: God has a love language. 30:11.618 --> 30:17.782 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the ways I believe that God receives love from us as his children is a spinning time with him. 30:18.302 --> 30:21.925 [SPEAKER_01]: Believe God is, I won't say God is like me, but I am like him. 30:22.645 --> 30:24.306 [SPEAKER_01]: We won't people to spend time with us. 30:26.207 --> 30:31.411 [SPEAKER_01]: But the way that God gives love is not the way that God, the man gives love. 30:32.372 --> 30:37.057 [SPEAKER_01]: that when God loves the people, he loves people with deliverance. 30:38.919 --> 30:47.289 [SPEAKER_01]: That in Genesis, that God has had the conversation with Abraham, and says, Abraham, I know you love your mama. 30:47.749 --> 30:49.972 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you love your daddy, but I'm gonna make your name great. 30:50.826 --> 30:52.587 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna make you a father of many nations. 30:53.127 --> 31:08.093 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna do all this stuff for you, but what I need from you to do, I need you to leave your mama house, your daddy house, leave all of this stuff, because what you don't know is during this point in Abram's journey, the Christianity was not a concept like how we know today, right? 31:08.133 --> 31:11.935 [SPEAKER_01]: The hymn and his people, they worship and serve the God of the Moon. 31:12.675 --> 31:15.858 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's at this point that God says, Abraham, I have a love for you. 31:16.158 --> 31:17.720 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to do some powerful in you. 31:18.220 --> 31:21.683 [SPEAKER_01]: But what you cannot do to receive what I have for you is stay here. 31:22.344 --> 31:25.346 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to move from here and go to where I'm telling you too. 31:25.767 --> 31:26.367 [SPEAKER_01]: Deliverance. 31:27.308 --> 31:28.890 [SPEAKER_01]: The children of Israel in Egypt. 31:29.730 --> 31:31.472 [SPEAKER_01]: And he tells Moses, I've heard their cry. 31:32.673 --> 31:33.294 [SPEAKER_01]: I've heard them. 31:34.214 --> 31:37.617 [SPEAKER_01]: And he says, I've come to deliver them. 31:38.515 --> 31:51.864 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm coming to the look because I love them, because I've heard them and they've been crying and it's done something to me that I'm going to send you to deliver that heavens love language is deliverance. 31:53.305 --> 31:58.489 [SPEAKER_01]: God loves you, John 3 said, for God's so love the world that He gave His Son. 32:01.390 --> 32:04.792 [SPEAKER_01]: Not just for you to sit here and say, oh my God, thank you. 32:05.653 --> 32:07.634 [SPEAKER_01]: It was for you to be poured out of something. 32:08.435 --> 32:13.759 [SPEAKER_01]: For you to walk in the newness of life that he's giving you, that faith activates the liver, right? 32:13.799 --> 32:23.266 [SPEAKER_01]: The miracle didn't happen because the father had perfect faith, but it was because the faith that he had, he brought it to Jesus. 32:25.067 --> 32:25.947 [SPEAKER_01]: Matthew 17 and 20 says this, 32:32.117 --> 32:33.958 [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever seen a must-to-see before? 32:33.978 --> 32:36.500 [SPEAKER_01]: A little bit of tiny thing. 32:38.081 --> 32:47.508 [SPEAKER_01]: And the scripture said that if you can have the faith of a must-to-see, you can move them out to stop worrying about the size of your faith. 32:47.748 --> 32:48.128 [SPEAKER_01]: You ready? 32:49.329 --> 32:52.111 [SPEAKER_01]: And start trusting the size of your God. 32:56.474 --> 32:59.356 [SPEAKER_01]: Fight for your faith. 33:00.800 --> 33:05.601 [SPEAKER_01]: Satan wants your belief because it's your lifeline to God. 33:06.702 --> 33:08.142 [SPEAKER_01]: Worship team y'all can come on. 33:09.302 --> 33:13.724 [SPEAKER_01]: Satan wants your belief because it's your lifeline to God. 33:15.264 --> 33:18.365 [SPEAKER_01]: The Father shows us this in a simple prayer. 33:21.066 --> 33:26.507 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, Lord, I believe but help my unbelief. 33:28.788 --> 33:29.628 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, I believe. 33:32.712 --> 33:33.312 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe. 33:33.573 --> 33:37.275 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, I believe, but help my unbelief. 33:37.396 --> 33:41.839 [SPEAKER_01]: This is something that's interesting that you've got to pay attention to in the text, right? 33:41.859 --> 33:42.580 [SPEAKER_01]: 14 all the way down. 33:43.320 --> 33:45.322 [SPEAKER_01]: The boy is possessed with a demon. 33:47.203 --> 33:47.984 [SPEAKER_01]: It's possessed. 33:48.684 --> 33:51.066 [SPEAKER_01]: The demon is in him, moving through here. 33:52.467 --> 33:58.472 [SPEAKER_01]: And the father and Jesus are the ones, I think, the conversation. 34:00.464 --> 34:05.667 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus never, during this point, stops and says anything to the boy. 34:06.848 --> 34:10.030 [SPEAKER_01]: The whole time, he's talking to the father. 34:13.071 --> 34:15.713 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem wasn't the boy. 34:17.534 --> 34:20.136 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem was his dad is belief. 34:23.297 --> 34:25.058 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem isn't your bills. 34:26.639 --> 34:27.300 [SPEAKER_01]: It's your belief. 34:28.825 --> 34:31.806 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem ain't your health, it's your belief. 34:35.628 --> 34:37.228 [SPEAKER_01]: What I come to tell you today is this. 34:37.368 --> 34:41.270 [SPEAKER_01]: If you got nothing from this, we are in a crisis. 34:42.270 --> 34:43.431 [SPEAKER_01]: We're in a crisis in the world. 34:43.491 --> 34:46.412 [SPEAKER_01]: Your petition was happening, was going on, right? 34:47.352 --> 34:55.716 [SPEAKER_01]: Even the recent events that happened in the world, that the crisis is not simply that we don't believe 34:56.716 --> 34:58.177 [SPEAKER_01]: We just don't even be on that. 34:58.317 --> 35:00.157 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't live like we believe. 35:02.698 --> 35:12.803 [SPEAKER_01]: I understand the tragedy of the recent weeks, but instead of unifying the body, we argued, we would rather post than the prey. 35:14.583 --> 35:20.886 [SPEAKER_01]: We would rather not reach out and love one another because the Bible even talks about that is a love covers. 35:22.243 --> 35:31.750 [SPEAKER_01]: a multitude of seeing, a multitude of wrongs, a month, it is love, the love, the scripture said that it is with love and kindness that I've drawn thee. 35:32.591 --> 35:34.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I, can I work in my grace? 35:35.553 --> 35:36.794 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I work in my office? 35:37.194 --> 35:37.954 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I work in this? 35:38.927 --> 35:43.469 [SPEAKER_01]: that the recent events and you can get mad at me, Austin is my brother, we can talk about this later. 35:43.509 --> 35:50.652 [SPEAKER_01]: But can I tell you the truth that what happened in the recent weeks, it didn't give a revival to America because the heart of America is still wrong. 35:51.412 --> 35:57.715 [SPEAKER_01]: It's still bad, what it did was it exposed the heart that we don't believe, like we want to believe. 35:59.876 --> 36:05.098 [SPEAKER_01]: What it should show you is that before we get to revival, we need repentance. 36:07.627 --> 36:30.574 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord I repent because I don't live like I believe like I say I believe that I don't walk in exercise like I say I believe that I believe has been tested and we have to Lord I repent because I don't believe like I confess to have believed Lord I believe but that's some areas of my life. 36:31.935 --> 36:32.275 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh no. 36:35.545 --> 36:43.908 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I trust in, I know you, but I don't see this happening, I don't see how this is going. 36:44.268 --> 36:44.668 [SPEAKER_01]: Happy. 36:45.749 --> 36:47.530 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe what the devil has been doing. 36:47.570 --> 36:49.150 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been robbing us of our belief. 36:51.391 --> 36:52.431 [SPEAKER_01]: But I believe revival. 36:52.692 --> 36:56.373 [SPEAKER_01]: True revival will hit this world when we get our belief back. 36:59.336 --> 37:01.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to today's message. 37:01.479 --> 37:04.844 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray you were inspired, challenged, and marked by the word you heard. 37:05.485 --> 37:10.131 [SPEAKER_00]: If this message blessed you today, we encourage you to subscribe to the Church of the City Podcast. 37:10.732 --> 37:15.398 [SPEAKER_00]: There you can find more faith-filled messages to uplift you and help you on your journey of faith. 37:16.219 --> 37:24.746 [SPEAKER_00]: For more information about Church of the City, head on over to www.cotcdfw.com. 37:25.507 --> 37:29.430 [SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember this, the best is yet to come.