WEBVTT 00:12.297 --> 00:26.700 [SPEAKER_01]: James chapter one, verse number 14, and 15, and it reads, but each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires. 00:26.960 --> 00:27.740 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at what it says. 00:28.160 --> 00:32.861 [SPEAKER_01]: There is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires. 00:32.921 --> 00:37.462 [SPEAKER_01]: Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. 00:38.062 --> 00:39.082 [SPEAKER_01]: When sin is fully 00:42.728 --> 00:50.675 [SPEAKER_01]: Then after that desire is conceived, it is, gives birth to sin and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death. 00:51.215 --> 00:55.599 [SPEAKER_01]: Do me a favor, turn to second kings, chapter number five. 00:55.619 --> 01:01.324 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got one verse, I'm gonna talk through the whole text, but I'm gonna give you one verse and I'm gonna get out of your way. 01:01.884 --> 01:03.525 [SPEAKER_01]: Second kings, chapter number five. 01:06.568 --> 01:07.969 [SPEAKER_01]: Second kings, five. 01:19.300 --> 01:40.560 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to read this one, I'm going to read this out of the new living translation and it says that, the servant of Elijah, the man of God, look at this, said to himself, my master should not let this army in get away without accepting any of his gifts. 01:41.581 --> 01:47.603 [SPEAKER_01]: And surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after him and get something from him. 01:47.643 --> 02:01.287 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a reading woman time, I'm guessing the servant of Elijah, the men of God, said to himself, my master should not have lit this army and get away without accepting any of his gifts. 02:02.214 --> 02:08.218 [SPEAKER_01]: As surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after Him and get something from Him. 02:09.138 --> 02:17.003 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk to you for the next few moments that I have with you from this thought, that sounds like me. 02:18.284 --> 02:21.486 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like me. 02:21.566 --> 02:22.606 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like me. 02:25.228 --> 02:31.192 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess as I was here in Pastor Austin talk, it sounds like you guys have been in a season. 02:32.030 --> 03:00.232 [SPEAKER_01]: in a place of revival where God is doing something in the life, in the moment, in the movement of church of the city, one of the things that I wasn't really good at math, but you know, you talk about math and you have equations and things and I put together a formula and an equation as it pertains to revival and one of the things that I found out as I examined the scriptures is that you do not get revival 03:00.772 --> 03:04.714 [SPEAKER_01]: without it being first led by repentance, right? 03:04.755 --> 03:10.658 [SPEAKER_01]: That before we get into revival, there has to be an understanding that there is something about me that needs to be changed. 03:10.678 --> 03:12.759 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about me that needs to be adjusted. 03:13.080 --> 03:20.504 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something about me that needs to be moved in order for the power of God to be shown in my life, right? 03:20.925 --> 03:24.507 [SPEAKER_01]: Because on the back end of revival, you get power. 03:25.067 --> 03:25.307 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 03:25.567 --> 03:27.028 [SPEAKER_01]: You get where you have right revelation. 03:27.048 --> 03:28.588 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something that's going to shift. 03:28.988 --> 03:31.829 [SPEAKER_01]: But before we step into revival, right? 03:32.429 --> 03:38.651 [SPEAKER_01]: We have to first come to understand it that maybe there was an adjustment about me that needs to be changed. 03:39.092 --> 03:43.533 [SPEAKER_01]: As I begin the late foundation for the message in the description of the text today, 03:44.013 --> 03:44.273 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 03:44.873 --> 03:47.534 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk about our introduction to God. 03:47.614 --> 03:47.794 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 03:47.814 --> 03:49.334 [SPEAKER_01]: We look at our introduction to God. 03:49.374 --> 03:50.554 [SPEAKER_01]: We look at it in Genesis. 03:50.594 --> 03:55.215 [SPEAKER_01]: Now Genesis, understand, is not the beginning of God. 03:55.575 --> 03:59.476 [SPEAKER_01]: That Genesis is our introduction to who he is, right? 04:00.576 --> 04:09.378 [SPEAKER_01]: And so in Genesis chapter number one, verse number one, it says that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, right? 04:09.738 --> 04:10.599 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the cue stuff. 04:10.619 --> 04:11.679 [SPEAKER_01]: We love that, right? 04:11.719 --> 04:16.042 [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds good and when you get and so you get the verse one You get the verse number two. 04:16.062 --> 04:23.446 [SPEAKER_01]: You get the verse number three and the scripture says, and don't said Let there be light and light showed up, right? 04:23.907 --> 04:32.212 [SPEAKER_01]: This is important because at the very beginning of our introduction to God, we do not see a mute God. 04:33.159 --> 04:36.280 [SPEAKER_01]: We are not introduced to a silent God. 04:36.780 --> 04:39.981 [SPEAKER_01]: What we are introduced to is a God who speaks. 04:44.062 --> 04:53.685 [SPEAKER_01]: That if you pay attention, that in fact, what you're breathing, what you're living in, what you're walking through is a word that he spoke. 04:54.745 --> 04:57.666 [SPEAKER_01]: So the reality is this, you don't need another word. 04:57.866 --> 04:59.946 [SPEAKER_01]: You just need to live in the one you already have. 05:03.568 --> 05:08.751 [SPEAKER_01]: Here it is, that in fact that you are living and walking in a word from God. 05:09.151 --> 05:16.855 [SPEAKER_01]: Here is the tension though, that if God is speaking and He's speaking God, our responsibility is to be a people back in here. 05:16.875 --> 05:20.897 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, let's go, let's go here. 05:20.937 --> 05:29.982 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, now, now, we do not need preachers who can preach and preach and preach and preach well, but cannot hear from Him. 05:33.510 --> 05:36.252 [SPEAKER_01]: People that commune with him and spend time with him, right? 05:36.573 --> 05:37.773 [SPEAKER_01]: That we don't need usures. 05:37.793 --> 05:40.055 [SPEAKER_01]: They can only open and greet people when they come in. 05:40.075 --> 05:42.117 [SPEAKER_01]: We need usures that can pray, right? 05:42.477 --> 05:45.019 [SPEAKER_01]: That our children's workers don't need to just be babysitting. 05:45.039 --> 05:47.381 [SPEAKER_01]: They need to be people who can pray, right? 05:47.601 --> 05:51.184 [SPEAKER_01]: That you can have your access and you can talk to him, right? 05:51.204 --> 05:59.071 [SPEAKER_01]: Now understand, you have your five vote gift and you have your teachers, you have your pastors, you have your prophets, you have your apostles, you have your pastors, right? 05:59.751 --> 06:02.995 [SPEAKER_01]: The beautiful thing about all of this is your evangelists, you have all those. 06:04.958 --> 06:08.042 [SPEAKER_01]: We may all not be prophets, right? 06:08.803 --> 06:12.928 [SPEAKER_01]: Some people may have and walk in the gift of prophecy, right? 06:13.208 --> 06:17.614 [SPEAKER_01]: We may all not be prophets, but we almost be prophetic people. 06:18.595 --> 06:24.696 [SPEAKER_01]: at this core, all I'm saying is, people that have an ability to hear from God, right? 06:25.036 --> 06:34.858 [SPEAKER_01]: That when we look at the finished work of Jesus on the cross and we talk about the veiled being torn, we do not have to go through a priest to have access to the Father. 06:35.599 --> 06:39.099 [SPEAKER_01]: That you and I have direct access to Him. 06:39.820 --> 06:41.300 [SPEAKER_01]: So if He's speaking, 06:42.160 --> 06:47.584 [SPEAKER_01]: We have to be people who can listen, who can hear what it is, right? 06:47.644 --> 06:53.207 [SPEAKER_01]: Here it is, that we have to be able to distinguish and recognize his voice, right? 06:53.227 --> 06:56.889 [SPEAKER_01]: So, in Genesis 1, God speak and creation responds. 06:57.530 --> 07:02.913 [SPEAKER_01]: Genesis chapter number 2, God speaks to Adam and gives him an instruction. 07:03.454 --> 07:08.137 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord said, in Genesis chapter 2, in the Lord God commanded the man saying, 07:12.039 --> 07:13.100 [SPEAKER_01]: freely, right? 07:13.420 --> 07:18.025 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's one that you cannot eat from that God gets him in the construction, right? 07:18.065 --> 07:24.691 [SPEAKER_01]: Why does God does not simply give Adam a create Adam and leave him without direction? 07:25.151 --> 07:27.954 [SPEAKER_01]: The God creates him and gives him direction. 07:28.254 --> 07:33.219 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives him instruction and God speaks to Adam and gives him resources, right? 07:33.279 --> 07:36.362 [SPEAKER_01]: When he goes through he gives him resources, like, hey, there's going to be food here. 07:36.702 --> 07:37.482 [SPEAKER_01]: There's stuff for you. 07:37.502 --> 07:38.923 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you resources, right? 07:39.223 --> 07:43.144 [SPEAKER_01]: The God also gives him responsibility that you have a responsibility. 07:43.164 --> 07:45.244 [SPEAKER_01]: Name the animal's dressing, keep the garden, right? 07:45.484 --> 07:47.745 [SPEAKER_01]: That we love the God of the resource, right? 07:48.045 --> 07:50.505 [SPEAKER_01]: We love God dropping a blessing again. 07:50.705 --> 07:51.185 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 07:51.205 --> 07:55.767 [SPEAKER_01]: We broke today and we balled it out tomorrow because in financial we love that kind of stuff, right? 07:56.067 --> 07:56.907 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 07:57.007 --> 07:57.887 [SPEAKER_01]: You're walking it then. 07:57.907 --> 07:59.127 [SPEAKER_01]: You got a new car tomorrow. 07:59.167 --> 07:59.807 [SPEAKER_01]: We like that kind. 08:00.028 --> 08:01.928 [SPEAKER_01]: We love the God of the resource, right? 08:02.228 --> 08:05.829 [SPEAKER_01]: We love God, the God of the responsibility because we like power. 08:06.129 --> 08:07.209 [SPEAKER_01]: We like position. 08:07.249 --> 08:08.290 [SPEAKER_01]: We like to look good. 08:08.630 --> 08:14.551 [SPEAKER_01]: What we do not like is this right here that we do not like the God who gives a boundary. 08:17.812 --> 08:19.672 [SPEAKER_01]: That God said, here's the garden. 08:19.692 --> 08:20.753 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you the garden. 08:21.613 --> 08:22.933 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the resources. 08:23.113 --> 08:24.473 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the responsibility. 08:25.234 --> 08:26.154 [SPEAKER_01]: But don't test this. 08:28.652 --> 08:35.337 [SPEAKER_01]: Notice that God's communication was this gives both permission and a restriction. 08:39.140 --> 08:43.803 [SPEAKER_01]: That He tells Adam what He freely made it and what He can eat. 08:45.124 --> 08:52.590 [SPEAKER_01]: From the beginning, God's voice wasn't limited to telling us as people what we could have. 08:53.550 --> 08:56.633 [SPEAKER_01]: His voice also established what we could not. 08:57.495 --> 09:05.382 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, that he is a guard of boundaries, lions, right, don't cross this point. 09:05.422 --> 09:08.885 [SPEAKER_01]: And if we're going to recognize God's voice, I'm talking about here from God. 09:08.905 --> 09:14.810 [SPEAKER_01]: If we're going to recognize God's voice, we must understand that sometimes his voice gives permission. 09:15.951 --> 09:18.153 [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes his voice gives a boundary. 09:19.234 --> 09:21.195 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes his voice gives permission. 09:22.136 --> 09:24.238 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes his voice gives a boundary. 09:25.937 --> 09:28.159 [SPEAKER_01]: that God does something, watch this. 09:28.279 --> 09:32.622 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going through your examine in Genesis, God goes through, doesn't mean by the name of Abraham. 09:32.763 --> 09:33.023 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 09:33.203 --> 09:43.471 [SPEAKER_01]: God tells Abraham, he's saying, hey man, like you're gonna be blessed, you're see gonna be blessed, your kids gonna be blessed, you're like your name gonna be big, you're gonna live it up. 09:43.872 --> 09:45.813 [SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna all the way up, watch this. 09:46.454 --> 09:49.176 [SPEAKER_01]: But it comes with a boundary. 09:50.437 --> 09:53.880 [SPEAKER_01]: As the parameter is, you gotta leave from where you had. 09:54.976 --> 10:05.522 [SPEAKER_01]: You gotta leave from your daddy and him, lead that stuff, and you gonna go to the place that I'm gonna show you, that it gets permission, that I'm gonna blow you up, but it comes with a boundary. 10:05.722 --> 10:08.284 [SPEAKER_01]: You go through, you keep going through an examine in the scripture. 10:08.624 --> 10:10.745 [SPEAKER_01]: As you go through it, that's a man by the name of Noah. 10:10.806 --> 10:12.667 [SPEAKER_01]: God tells Noah, hey, it's going to rain. 10:12.927 --> 10:13.607 [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna rain. 10:14.027 --> 10:18.310 [SPEAKER_01]: And then go out there and tell them people that's gonna rain and Noah's out there looking at the food, telling them that it's gonna rain today. 10:18.370 --> 10:19.771 [SPEAKER_01]: Never rain the day and they lie. 10:19.791 --> 10:19.911 [SPEAKER_01]: They 10:19.971 --> 10:23.573 [SPEAKER_01]: They like what is this rainbow that you speed in a rain that's so long. 10:23.913 --> 10:24.713 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, you trip it. 10:25.174 --> 10:32.917 [SPEAKER_01]: God tells him give them specific instructions on how to build what to build all this all this stuff And then he says all right now cool once you get this up. 10:33.257 --> 10:40.341 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna tell you what to allow on and what to and what came beyond here, right here is a boundary you go through 10:41.655 --> 11:04.115 [SPEAKER_01]: You go through one of my favorite stories in the scripture is when we look at the Prophet Samuel, Prophet Samuel shows up, he goes to Jesse's house because the Bible said that God has rejected Saul as the king and now he's gonna establish a new king and put a new king and he's like, go to the house and you're gonna find one and the oil is going bubble up and what's gonna happen is it's this right here. 11:05.096 --> 11:05.716 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes through 11:06.517 --> 11:10.258 [SPEAKER_01]: gets to Jesse's house and was like, hey man, I come in peace, you know what I mean? 11:10.278 --> 11:15.040 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the first thing that he said because y'all missed that part there because prophecy wouldn't always cute. 11:15.520 --> 11:22.203 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he had to let them know I come in peace because a lot of times when I show it wasn't a house in the car and you're going to get a financial breakthrough. 11:22.523 --> 11:27.505 [SPEAKER_01]: It was about alignment and getting you lined up with what the purpose and the plan of God was for your life, right? 11:28.545 --> 11:33.187 [SPEAKER_01]: So he goes through he gets to the house and he said the next King of Israel coming out of your house, Jesse. 11:34.067 --> 11:44.515 [SPEAKER_01]: and something interesting happens in the text that the first son comes out, he's being he's nice, he's strong, he looks the part, he fit, you know what I mean? 11:44.535 --> 11:49.339 [SPEAKER_01]: Like me, him being eaten and got a little stomach as they're on it, you know, he fit, he soldier fit, right? 11:49.839 --> 11:57.245 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bible says, that same you said it's surely, this is the one. 11:59.296 --> 12:04.060 [SPEAKER_01]: Samuel, the prophet says, surely, this is the one. 12:05.321 --> 12:18.911 [SPEAKER_01]: God says, and if you're not careful, we'll miss this, because we love to get to David, but we'll miss handle the seven, right? 12:19.271 --> 12:24.515 [SPEAKER_01]: What I'm saying is, before God ever gave him a yes, he got seven notes. 12:26.564 --> 12:50.090 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you're not careful, you'll look at the know as rejection, know that's not mean rejection, know it's given instruction and direction keep going, keep moving, keep pressing, keep going, keep moving, keep pressing, we should fall in love with more knows than yes. 12:52.455 --> 12:54.256 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's Andy Stanley. 12:54.736 --> 13:14.120 [SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Andy Stanley, he says this that when you're talking about churches and building churches and establishing culture, that when you're going through, you're trying to build your church and you're trying to grow your church into all these things, that it is much rather for you to have and examine the box of complaints versus the box of praises. 13:14.880 --> 13:20.762 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you always look at the box of praises, you are only surviving live in what you 13:22.545 --> 13:26.121 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you never examine the complaints, you never know what to fix. 13:27.192 --> 13:29.234 [SPEAKER_01]: We love the good parts about us. 13:29.894 --> 13:34.719 [SPEAKER_01]: We never want to examine the hard things that God is trying to get us to confront, right? 13:35.099 --> 13:45.528 [SPEAKER_01]: So you got seven knows before David shows up, David shows the yes, I don't even have the time because this ain't in part of my text, but to talk about the controversy surrounding David, right? 13:45.828 --> 13:53.415 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, we look at it as the scripture says that he didn't look like his brothers and we've taken as David being frail and David being, 13:53.795 --> 14:20.924 [SPEAKER_01]: a small and David just being oh he's just a little ruddy shepherd boy and whatever we don't even exist haven't even taken the time to examine that maybe maybe possibly when you go through and study this right that David potentially was a child that was born from a lover fair you don't have the time to deal the reason why he don't look like his brothers ain't the fact that that that that that that that he just don't look the same but we got some different 14:21.124 --> 14:44.020 [SPEAKER_01]: blood and there's got some different moments and that is alone the way that that when Samuel shows up what about told you that that when Samuel shows up it wasn't simply to annoy the next king of Israel but it was to show up to Jesse and come on and now we got to confront the secret the stuff you were hiding the stuff that you was hidden because you love the first one you 14:48.138 --> 14:48.798 [SPEAKER_01]: He's tucked away. 14:48.859 --> 14:50.099 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, I'm gonna get to my text. 14:50.940 --> 14:51.740 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get to my text. 14:51.761 --> 14:52.521 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get to my text. 14:52.541 --> 14:53.362 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get to my text. 14:55.543 --> 14:55.943 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch this. 14:57.144 --> 14:57.665 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes there. 14:58.065 --> 14:58.905 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the reality. 14:59.025 --> 15:00.446 [SPEAKER_01]: God is not looking for your approval. 15:00.687 --> 15:01.967 [SPEAKER_01]: God is looking for your alignment. 15:03.529 --> 15:04.409 [SPEAKER_01]: We have it backwards. 15:04.449 --> 15:06.210 [SPEAKER_01]: We think that God works for us. 15:06.691 --> 15:08.212 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we have to approve of what he does. 15:08.972 --> 15:11.334 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, not a fan of like you work for him. 15:12.195 --> 15:15.598 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, it is for you to get into alignment. 15:15.918 --> 15:17.399 [SPEAKER_01]: He ain't worried about your approval, right? 15:17.960 --> 15:22.463 [SPEAKER_01]: Then in Genesis chapter number three, another voice enters the conversation. 15:24.425 --> 15:30.550 [SPEAKER_01]: Satan comes in and he tells Adam and Eve in the garden, he's like, y'all like, did you really hear what the Lord said? 15:31.370 --> 15:36.054 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, did he really tell you that you could eat of every tree and not eat it from this one like? 15:36.554 --> 15:39.137 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, did he really say that in? 15:39.217 --> 15:40.558 [SPEAKER_01]: If you look at what Satan attacked, 15:41.696 --> 15:43.417 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not attack Adam Strith. 15:44.357 --> 15:46.419 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not attack E's intelligence. 15:47.459 --> 15:52.362 [SPEAKER_01]: He begins by questioning the word that God has spoken, right? 15:53.362 --> 16:03.568 [SPEAKER_01]: And when we look at James, the scripture that we read in James, that it teaches us something that we may even be more uncomfortable, really kind of lean again to. 16:03.588 --> 16:08.110 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to talk about it for a second, which is that the voice leading us away sometimes from God's 16:10.528 --> 16:20.950 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes, it's not always, in Genesis 3, we know, we know, in Genesis 3, that it was the devil that led them astray, right? 16:21.690 --> 16:30.692 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes, what we're gonna find out in an examine in the scripture today, is that sometimes, it is not the devil that is always leading us astray. 16:32.052 --> 16:38.033 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes, the devil that we call the devil is you and the mirror. 16:41.605 --> 16:43.827 [SPEAKER_01]: that the reality is this. 16:44.327 --> 16:46.228 [SPEAKER_01]: See, y'all don't stone me. 16:47.369 --> 16:48.369 [SPEAKER_01]: Y'all don't get mad at me. 16:49.110 --> 16:53.072 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to advocate for the devil just for about 30 seconds, right? 16:54.653 --> 16:58.896 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of what we call the devil ain't the devil. 17:00.117 --> 17:06.101 [SPEAKER_01]: When I examine the scripture, the only person who is omnipresent 17:11.347 --> 17:15.809 [SPEAKER_01]: Satan does not have that ability. 17:16.869 --> 17:19.711 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes what you fight ain't the devil. 17:20.971 --> 17:25.373 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes what you fight in is the consequence of your choices. 17:29.615 --> 17:34.216 [SPEAKER_01]: You got fire, not because the devil was mad. 17:34.977 --> 17:37.258 [SPEAKER_01]: You got fire because you kept showing up late. 17:37.698 --> 17:40.119 [SPEAKER_01]: Stop blaming the devil and get their own time. 17:46.395 --> 17:54.359 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you what we're going to be the first and lunch, come on, I've got to get to get to that. 17:54.879 --> 17:59.002 [SPEAKER_01]: As we step into the text, we're introduced to a man by the name of name, right? 17:59.022 --> 17:59.662 [SPEAKER_01]: So you go through it. 17:59.682 --> 18:03.324 [SPEAKER_01]: If you look at second king chapter five, you're introduced to a man by the name of name and right? 18:03.864 --> 18:07.466 [SPEAKER_01]: And naming the Bible says that naming is a man of honor. 18:07.486 --> 18:09.267 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a man of mighty warrior. 18:09.567 --> 18:10.687 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a mighty fighter. 18:11.808 --> 18:14.369 [SPEAKER_01]: He has secured a lot of victories. 18:14.409 --> 18:15.169 [SPEAKER_01]: He's gone through. 18:15.189 --> 18:16.150 [SPEAKER_01]: He's fought many battles. 18:16.190 --> 18:17.530 [SPEAKER_01]: He's won a lot of victories. 18:17.830 --> 18:20.612 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's this one thing about naming that he's suffering with. 18:20.632 --> 18:22.072 [SPEAKER_01]: That a lot of people don't know. 18:22.392 --> 18:25.034 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says that he though he's a mighty warrior. 18:25.074 --> 18:28.715 [SPEAKER_01]: That naming has what we call leprosy, right? 18:28.735 --> 18:30.356 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a leper, right? 18:30.736 --> 18:32.837 [SPEAKER_01]: And when you go through and you study, 18:33.257 --> 18:38.343 [SPEAKER_01]: names of the names and the meaning of names and things like that. 18:38.403 --> 18:44.830 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't name, they didn't give names in the Bible to people who just cause, you know what I mean? 18:44.850 --> 18:47.673 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't drop a fork on the ground and whatever sounded made. 18:47.693 --> 18:48.754 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they named it. 18:48.874 --> 18:49.635 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? 18:49.655 --> 18:50.916 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't anything like that. 18:51.156 --> 18:52.378 [SPEAKER_01]: The name had a meaning. 18:53.198 --> 19:02.367 [SPEAKER_01]: The name had, you know, I want to Mercedes, so I'm going to name my daughter Mercedes because it wasn't anything like that. 19:02.407 --> 19:09.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Their names had a meaning and when you look at the name, the name, the name meant to be beautiful. 19:09.814 --> 19:13.638 [SPEAKER_01]: They meant to find pleasure in it, all of these different things. 19:13.898 --> 19:14.879 [SPEAKER_01]: When you look at name, 19:16.300 --> 19:23.782 [SPEAKER_01]: And what his name meant, right, and the condition of his life that he was in, he was in a constant battle, right? 19:23.822 --> 19:27.364 [SPEAKER_01]: Because what I'm hearing and what I'm seeing ain't lining up, right? 19:27.664 --> 19:30.865 [SPEAKER_01]: Then when you call me name in, I hear beautiful. 19:30.965 --> 19:31.985 [SPEAKER_01]: I hear pleasure. 19:32.345 --> 19:33.285 [SPEAKER_01]: I hear delightful. 19:33.365 --> 19:34.206 [SPEAKER_01]: I hear sweet. 19:34.526 --> 19:37.987 [SPEAKER_01]: I hear all these things, but when I look at myself in the mirror, 19:38.367 --> 19:47.191 [SPEAKER_01]: I see crusted and and dusted and broke in and filthy and is nasty and he's in this constant tension, right? 19:48.431 --> 19:50.892 [SPEAKER_01]: Because of the leprosy that is on him, right? 19:50.912 --> 19:57.375 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible calls him a mighty warrior, a great of great honor and that he has specialized victories. 19:57.655 --> 19:58.316 [SPEAKER_01]: and all of this stuff. 19:58.336 --> 20:01.140 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, this is the good part that we have, and we love all of this stuff. 20:01.320 --> 20:09.951 [SPEAKER_01]: The good church quotes and all this, that we understand and know the beautiful thing that even though he has leprosy, that your condition is not your conclusion, right? 20:10.331 --> 20:11.413 [SPEAKER_01]: We love that, right? 20:11.773 --> 20:13.035 [SPEAKER_01]: But your condition, oh, 20:13.375 --> 20:17.336 [SPEAKER_01]: could be the result of your consequent, of your choices, right? 20:17.636 --> 20:24.698 [SPEAKER_01]: That we cannot deny that, that nobody, if you understand this, nobody is ever born, a leper, right? 20:25.138 --> 20:29.459 [SPEAKER_01]: Understanding medically, nobody is ever born, a leper, right? 20:29.779 --> 20:32.380 [SPEAKER_01]: That Scripture does not say this, right? 20:32.440 --> 20:35.661 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna tell you this, I'm gonna purpose it by this, so don't hang me to this. 20:36.161 --> 20:38.501 [SPEAKER_01]: I know we got some good Bible teachers in here, right? 20:38.802 --> 20:39.962 [SPEAKER_01]: Scripture does not say this. 20:40.542 --> 20:49.970 [SPEAKER_01]: But if I could creatively infer, because a naming was the leader in the Syrian army, because it was the leader in the Syrian army. 20:50.250 --> 21:00.358 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not have the same laws that Israelites had, that with the Israelite law that if you were a leper, you were commander to be an outcast. 21:00.378 --> 21:02.920 [SPEAKER_01]: You had to go and live amongst the lepers, right? 21:03.140 --> 21:08.463 [SPEAKER_01]: But because he was not under the Israelite law, the Levitical Law, because he was not under that, right? 21:09.863 --> 21:21.049 [SPEAKER_01]: I would argue that potentially at some point in name his life and in his journey, that maybe he came in contact with somebody who was a leper and what was on them got on him. 21:21.729 --> 21:22.029 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 21:22.469 --> 21:25.090 [SPEAKER_01]: I would I would creatively infer toward the green. 21:25.130 --> 21:27.330 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's we're not going to really press into that. 21:27.370 --> 21:44.775 [SPEAKER_01]: But if I could for a second, that could it be that some of the stuff that you deal with today in your life be a result of some people that you let get close to you, uh, that if we, that if we serve a gun of a boundary, then why would a people who are boundary less? 21:45.695 --> 21:49.576 [SPEAKER_01]: That we don't have any boundaries that we just let anybody close. 21:50.610 --> 21:55.273 [SPEAKER_01]: We just allow anybody to touch upon us and we never examine the heart. 21:55.333 --> 21:56.754 [SPEAKER_01]: We never examined the motives. 21:56.834 --> 22:00.857 [SPEAKER_01]: We never examined the mindset that it is that they have, right? 22:01.778 --> 22:04.760 [SPEAKER_01]: So I wonder what it is that we've allowed to get close. 22:06.101 --> 22:12.886 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not saying that that's how a name in became a leopard, because the barber doesn't say that what I am saying is that we need boundaries. 22:13.726 --> 22:17.689 [SPEAKER_01]: Because everything that has access to you should have influence over you. 22:18.742 --> 22:22.245 [SPEAKER_01]: that everything has access to you, shouldn't have influence over you right here. 22:22.885 --> 22:30.552 [SPEAKER_01]: And everything that gets close enough to speak shouldn't automatically be given authority to direct your life, right? 22:31.112 --> 22:34.895 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the issues that I have with church today, I got a few of them. 22:35.616 --> 22:37.518 [SPEAKER_01]: But one of my issues with church today, right? 22:38.438 --> 22:43.723 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that we allow people to chase after destiny, the purpose, 22:44.682 --> 22:50.046 [SPEAKER_01]: playing and all this cute stuff, we rust them and thrust them into that. 22:50.106 --> 22:54.010 [SPEAKER_01]: We never focus on getting them delivered from some stuff. 22:55.130 --> 23:02.156 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I know you can sing well, but at some point, you need to put that bottle down. 23:02.997 --> 23:08.241 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I know you're a sweet person to us, you to us. 23:08.801 --> 23:10.443 [SPEAKER_01]: But I can see that attitude you got. 23:12.110 --> 23:19.132 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I know that if you speak in the tongue of angels, but you also, you ain't careful. 23:19.572 --> 23:21.112 [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody cut you off in traffic. 23:21.212 --> 23:26.353 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a few birds that ain't ever seen before fly, that have come out of window. 23:27.873 --> 23:31.494 [SPEAKER_01]: There are some things about us that we gotta make some changes too. 23:32.294 --> 23:36.435 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't want to get to the promise of God in shackles. 23:38.728 --> 23:45.373 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to get what God has me, wants for me to go, and I'm still bound to something. 23:46.774 --> 23:48.095 [SPEAKER_01]: Right now, now hear me. 23:48.495 --> 23:56.741 [SPEAKER_01]: I do understand, right, that Paul writes in scripture about the Thorn and the Fless, that God intentionally leaves certain things and not like I understand that, right? 23:57.101 --> 23:59.823 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he leaves certain things in order for you to keep pursuing after him. 24:00.503 --> 24:04.026 [SPEAKER_01]: What I am saying is that I do not want to be a people 24:07.237 --> 24:11.240 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm still fighting to go after what it is that God wants for me, right? 24:11.981 --> 24:15.603 [SPEAKER_01]: That I believe that this next season that God is calling people to, right? 24:15.644 --> 24:18.726 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the platforms, it's not the microphones, it's not the stages. 24:19.266 --> 24:20.928 [SPEAKER_01]: God is calling people back to the altar. 24:21.788 --> 24:23.910 [SPEAKER_01]: He's calling them back to prayer. 24:24.130 --> 24:27.573 [SPEAKER_01]: He's calling back to communion with him, right? 24:27.953 --> 24:32.216 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think, you know, what was that last week? 24:32.517 --> 24:35.219 [SPEAKER_01]: Last week, Pastor Philip Mitchell. 24:36.090 --> 24:36.876 [SPEAKER_01]: at 80,000 people. 24:38.553 --> 24:42.155 [SPEAKER_01]: at AT&T Stadium, you can feel how everything is that you want to feel about that. 24:42.175 --> 24:43.655 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who I'm going to hear to talk about that. 24:43.775 --> 24:55.840 [SPEAKER_01]: This is one of the things, and I was talking to Pastor DeVundre about this, and I said, I've seen so many leaders upset and criticized and be mad and like about all of this and the negativity surrounded it, right? 24:56.200 --> 25:03.624 [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, maybe if we take a step back, why would God have to send a man from Atlanta to come to Dallas to pray? 25:04.224 --> 25:06.745 [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, that's the question we should be asking. 25:07.325 --> 25:10.668 [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, you man, because you don't get the popularity. 25:11.088 --> 25:12.049 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't get the stage. 25:12.389 --> 25:13.710 [SPEAKER_01]: Your missing was happening. 25:14.311 --> 25:19.936 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe God is trying to tell the people here in Dallas that I'm calling you the prayer. 25:20.776 --> 25:27.482 [SPEAKER_01]: But because you so upset that your name and on the platform and on the stage and all this other stuff, you upset and you mad. 25:28.323 --> 25:29.364 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at what he's saying. 25:30.124 --> 25:31.806 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm calling the people the prayer, right? 25:31.846 --> 25:34.588 [SPEAKER_01]: There's name in, is in Syria. 25:35.794 --> 26:00.012 [SPEAKER_01]: But his answer is in Israel, name is in Syria, his answer is in Israel, and even though God is used at name to secure victory for Syria, Syria doesn't serve God, they pray in worship and sacrifice the false gods and wherever there's a place you feel like you belong, there's a belief system attached to it. 26:01.393 --> 26:28.150 [SPEAKER_01]: You belong where you belong because you feel as though that's where you're going to belong and then you take on the police system of where you feel as though you're belong right so like if we were to say a prostitute for example just for she goes to the corner right some for some of them this is where they feel as though that they believe in community they find people that's there they feel as though that they belong there so while they're there there's a police system that there's a code there's a system that's there and 26:28.670 --> 26:33.651 [SPEAKER_01]: That goes along with that code in order to challenge what it is that she believes about herself. 26:34.012 --> 26:37.452 [SPEAKER_01]: I have to make her feel comfortable about where she feels as though she belongs, right? 26:37.873 --> 26:41.494 [SPEAKER_01]: So, so we have to talk about that, right? 26:41.514 --> 26:46.135 [SPEAKER_01]: So, there's always a belief system attached to what you feel as though you're belong, right? 26:46.475 --> 26:48.155 [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be hard to rush this though. 26:48.676 --> 26:53.017 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, name is answer, he's his inserio, his inserio, but his answers in Israel. 26:53.577 --> 27:04.143 [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be hard to help somebody in an area, or it's going to be, excuse me, it's going to be hard to find help in an area or an environment where you also found pain. 27:05.203 --> 27:14.288 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, that sometime God will remove you from an environment, and he will place you in a new environment to find what it is that God is in the YouTube, right? 27:14.989 --> 27:17.130 [SPEAKER_01]: That for some people, like, 27:21.151 --> 27:26.973 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe new relationship, like you're not going to abuse in a situation, in a relationship. 27:27.573 --> 27:28.494 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to stay there. 27:28.514 --> 27:31.315 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to go find somebody else that's not going to abuse you. 27:31.975 --> 27:32.715 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe different. 27:32.936 --> 27:35.036 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying y'all need church to the city. 27:35.216 --> 27:36.457 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that, please. 27:37.037 --> 27:48.161 [SPEAKER_01]: what I'm saying is that it may be another church, it may be another place, it may be another job or something that you're not going to stay in that same place in those environments, right? 27:48.981 --> 27:54.923 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we go through, I'm going to get to my text, I'm trying to speak through because I told you I want to get us to lunch, right? 27:55.383 --> 27:59.704 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Bible says it goes through and you're looking at the text and naming is at the house, right? 27:59.724 --> 28:15.029 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you he has leprosy and one of the, one of the, the, the, the spores of where that he had he end up inherited and taken on the slave girl and the shoe came and she came to work for his wife and one day naming and then went to house and the girl comes to the wife and tells 28:19.915 --> 28:21.436 [SPEAKER_01]: He can be helped. 28:21.576 --> 28:23.176 [SPEAKER_01]: My master, he can be helped. 28:23.277 --> 28:23.977 [SPEAKER_01]: I've seen him. 28:24.697 --> 28:25.958 [SPEAKER_01]: He's some discomfort. 28:25.998 --> 28:27.198 [SPEAKER_01]: I've seen some things about him. 28:27.278 --> 28:31.220 [SPEAKER_01]: If he goes to the profit, he can go and get some help. 28:31.380 --> 28:33.621 [SPEAKER_01]: And be cured of his leprosy. 28:33.641 --> 28:35.141 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bible said that he goes through. 28:35.741 --> 28:37.762 [SPEAKER_01]: And he leaves, goes to Israel. 28:38.262 --> 28:39.203 [SPEAKER_01]: And he gets to... 28:39.703 --> 28:46.549 [SPEAKER_01]: The house where Elijah, the prophet is, and when he gets there, Elijah does not come out the house. 28:46.889 --> 28:48.050 [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah don't come out the house. 28:48.090 --> 29:04.824 [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah stays in the crib, and the Bible says that he sends a messenger out to name it, and tells him he said, your name in, hey, go down there to the Jordan River, go dip yourself in the river seven times, and you're gonna be healed, and all of this. 29:05.344 --> 29:05.464 [SPEAKER_01]: And, 29:06.825 --> 29:13.166 [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I would have been cool with that, you know, because that's what I came for, you know, like, hey, bro, I got a brother, oh, okay. 29:13.386 --> 29:15.427 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you got to have no meat, cool, man. 29:15.527 --> 29:15.927 [SPEAKER_01]: Perfect. 29:16.027 --> 29:17.707 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, you know what I'm about to hear, right? 29:17.867 --> 29:19.347 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible said that name it gets upset. 29:19.867 --> 29:26.829 [SPEAKER_01]: He gets mad, because he was like, surely, I thought he was going to come out here and he was going to wave his hands and he was going to do some 29:34.830 --> 29:37.552 [SPEAKER_01]: We love church with a good little mysticism to him. 29:37.612 --> 29:41.774 [SPEAKER_01]: We want to, we got to feel something, we got to feel something, we love that, right? 29:43.395 --> 29:44.376 [SPEAKER_01]: And watch this, watch this. 29:45.877 --> 29:54.002 [SPEAKER_01]: Naming is upset because he doesn't have a problem with the promise. 29:56.103 --> 29:58.485 [SPEAKER_01]: He has a problem with the process. 30:00.786 --> 30:01.787 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be healed. 30:08.230 --> 30:11.713 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have a problem with the promise. 30:13.475 --> 30:17.579 [SPEAKER_01]: Your issue is with his process, what are you going to send you through? 30:18.459 --> 30:25.326 [SPEAKER_01]: How he's going to do it, when he's going to do it, where he's going to do it, how he's going to do it. 30:26.367 --> 30:33.093 [SPEAKER_01]: That's where your issue lies, you know, one of the lies that we tell in church, where there's a couple of lies we tell in church. 30:34.457 --> 30:38.379 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the first lives we tell in church is, one of the biggest ones is the lowest seed. 30:39.320 --> 30:42.281 [SPEAKER_01]: Because a lot of stuff that we said the lowest seed, he ain't seen it. 30:43.622 --> 30:50.666 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you find out an examined the scripture, that anything here it is, I'm going to give you a lesson, prophetic class 101, right? 30:51.286 --> 30:57.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Any prophecy that goes forward has to be backed by scripture, properly, doctrinally, correct, right? 30:58.310 --> 31:03.012 [SPEAKER_01]: The prophecy one, if I can't find it in the scripture, because God don't respond to your thoughts, 31:06.093 --> 31:06.414 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 31:08.214 --> 31:10.015 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the guy I see. 31:10.035 --> 31:11.596 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the second one. 31:11.616 --> 31:14.297 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the second one. 31:15.077 --> 31:19.059 [SPEAKER_01]: He may not come when you want them to, but he's always on time. 31:20.780 --> 31:21.380 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a lie. 31:23.241 --> 31:27.022 [SPEAKER_01]: Because when we say that, we've got to examine the scripture. 31:27.963 --> 31:28.663 [SPEAKER_01]: Lazarus. 31:30.912 --> 31:35.935 [SPEAKER_01]: They come to Him like, y'all Jesus, my brother, the one you love is, look how they did Him, though. 31:36.415 --> 31:38.917 [SPEAKER_01]: They said, Jesus, the one you love. 31:39.817 --> 31:45.120 [SPEAKER_01]: Like they're going to try to, I'm a buddy, you are real good and maybe, and he like, I cool, bad. 31:45.281 --> 31:49.483 [SPEAKER_01]: I get there, I get there, and he, the sickness, I'm, you know, I'm a get there. 31:51.404 --> 31:53.125 [SPEAKER_01]: Lazarus starts off sick. 31:54.046 --> 31:56.067 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus shows up, Lazarus in the grave. 31:59.018 --> 31:59.598 [SPEAKER_01]: How is it? 32:00.179 --> 32:02.360 [SPEAKER_01]: I needed you to show up when he was sick. 32:03.260 --> 32:09.303 [SPEAKER_01]: And when I get there, he's, so he meant, he's Jesus, you ain't on time. 32:11.044 --> 32:11.805 [SPEAKER_01]: You late. 32:13.705 --> 32:21.970 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, he doesn't beat us, he knows them and maggots us, he knows them and he's bandaged and wrapped and on Jesus. 32:22.130 --> 32:26.352 [SPEAKER_01]: You late, because when we came to you though, he was sick, he was still alive. 32:27.878 --> 32:29.199 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's make it a little bit more personal. 32:29.339 --> 32:32.221 [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever needed the Lord to pay a bill? 32:33.942 --> 32:39.045 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, like Lord Jesus, I got this light bill, I need to get paid Lord, I need this money by Friday. 32:40.006 --> 32:43.448 [SPEAKER_01]: And Friday come and you in the dark. 32:45.230 --> 32:45.610 [SPEAKER_01]: Whoo! 32:45.630 --> 32:45.810 [SPEAKER_01]: Whoo! 32:46.450 --> 32:48.011 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about pitch black. 32:48.452 --> 32:50.553 [SPEAKER_01]: House look like a movie theater without the screen. 32:52.535 --> 32:53.055 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch this. 32:56.687 --> 33:01.070 [SPEAKER_01]: But then Monday rolled around, and you go check the meal. 33:03.112 --> 33:08.896 [SPEAKER_01]: And somebody said, man, I didn't even know they owe me some money. 33:09.297 --> 33:14.060 [SPEAKER_01]: And I got a check in the mail on the Monday. 33:15.762 --> 33:18.324 [SPEAKER_01]: His timing may not be your timing. 33:20.305 --> 33:26.170 [SPEAKER_01]: Though he may not come when you won't him, too, he's going to show what we need needs to. 33:27.679 --> 33:36.965 [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes what he's trying to do, all the time what he's trying to do is build your fate, grow you, mature you in an area, in your reliance on him, right? 33:38.206 --> 33:39.807 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have a problem with the process. 33:40.307 --> 33:43.169 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean with the promise, you have a problem with the process. 33:44.590 --> 33:53.116 [SPEAKER_01]: And naming it to a point where he's like, yo, fam, like, if he ain't gonna come out here, I'm about to go back to the career. 33:54.537 --> 33:55.958 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't deal with leprosy this long. 33:57.859 --> 33:58.679 [SPEAKER_01]: What's the rest of my life? 33:59.339 --> 34:04.301 [SPEAKER_01]: And naming got some men around here, and they're like, yo fam, hey, let's just go tiss it out. 34:05.001 --> 34:06.141 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just go see, right? 34:06.501 --> 34:10.482 [SPEAKER_01]: So naming goes, and he gets to the Jordan River, right? 34:10.502 --> 34:18.164 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, before he gets to the Jordan right, he tells them, he's like, okay, you want me to go to the Jordan River and dip myself in the river, seven times and do all this. 34:18.524 --> 34:20.185 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, is there not? 34:21.470 --> 34:25.431 [SPEAKER_01]: You better water out there than the Jordan River. 34:25.791 --> 34:28.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you know the Jordan River, his murky is killed to his dirty. 34:29.432 --> 34:34.013 [SPEAKER_01]: And you understand about leprosy, it's an issue of the skin and the disease of the skin, right? 34:34.033 --> 34:37.714 [SPEAKER_01]: There are multiple variations of what leprosy is. 34:38.194 --> 34:41.515 [SPEAKER_01]: We do not know which condition that he was at, which one he had. 34:42.035 --> 34:43.175 [SPEAKER_01]: What were variations of it? 34:43.195 --> 34:46.236 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bible says that he's like, y'all feel like they're not going to want to 34:46.556 --> 34:50.599 [SPEAKER_01]: Rivers of Damascus, something like that is a little bit cleaner than going here. 34:52.640 --> 34:58.484 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's mad and, because, you know, the water's filthy as dirty is jacked up and all this light. 34:58.604 --> 35:00.005 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, no, Jordan River. 35:00.025 --> 35:01.606 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm saying, get to the Jordan River. 35:02.787 --> 35:07.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Bob would doesn't say this, but I would infer that when he gets to the river, 35:08.406 --> 35:19.463 [SPEAKER_01]: that naming is not given the gift of platform and the stage and the microphone and all of this cue stuff that we love, that naming when it gets to the Jordan River, what he's given is a mirror. 35:21.065 --> 35:39.258 [SPEAKER_01]: right because for him to dip himself means that all of this armor, all of these is clothing and everything that I've been wearing to hide my deficiency that in order for me to get healed and to be made whole that I got to remove what I've been using to hide. 35:39.918 --> 35:41.659 [SPEAKER_01]: And I got to step into the truth of this. 35:42.379 --> 35:45.201 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have to be uncomfortable for a moment, right? 35:45.501 --> 35:51.304 [SPEAKER_01]: So could it be potentially that there's some men around him that had not seen the scars of his leprosy? 35:51.784 --> 35:57.046 [SPEAKER_01]: And now, before them, I got to get on dressed and get naked and let them see me do something. 35:57.407 --> 35:59.147 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you saw me in battle. 36:00.208 --> 36:02.209 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's a battle that I have not won. 36:03.375 --> 36:10.058 [SPEAKER_01]: And now I have to dip myself in the gets into this river, and he starts dipping himself in the get himself the first time and nothing happens. 36:10.758 --> 36:12.279 [SPEAKER_01]: Second time and nothing happens. 36:12.839 --> 36:14.440 [SPEAKER_01]: Third time and nothing happens. 36:15.060 --> 36:30.427 [SPEAKER_01]: Gets to seven, and the Bible says that when he comes out of the water, I saw this in a text, and I wrestle with this, it said that he had skin like that of a young man, of a young baby. 36:32.903 --> 36:34.043 [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought about Laker. 36:35.404 --> 36:40.425 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought about Laker, and I thought about my skin as a little rough. 36:41.505 --> 36:42.985 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't, I didn't been burned before. 36:43.005 --> 36:45.146 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't been, I didn't been cut. 36:45.666 --> 36:46.806 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been through some stuff. 36:47.687 --> 36:48.687 [SPEAKER_01]: But his skin is new. 36:50.467 --> 36:55.028 [SPEAKER_01]: That God did not just fix his skin. 36:55.929 --> 36:57.789 [SPEAKER_01]: He gave him new skin. 36:59.569 --> 37:07.398 [SPEAKER_01]: that may be for some people in this room that you in the season, guiding about to just fix and just patch it up. 37:08.740 --> 37:14.227 [SPEAKER_01]: Like we like to do, put some duct tape and some super glue on it and but maybe God, I don't give you something new. 37:15.007 --> 37:15.788 [SPEAKER_01]: Some fresh. 37:17.460 --> 37:25.802 [SPEAKER_01]: that how you want your unrecognized of the next time that somebody said, like, I remember when you don't look like what you've been through, I'd know your story. 37:26.102 --> 37:28.203 [SPEAKER_01]: You look nothing like that. 37:28.223 --> 37:39.506 [SPEAKER_01]: So he goes through, he dips his self in the text and all of that, when he gets finished, watch this, when they make his finish at the pool out the water, naming does say nothing about leprosy. 37:40.807 --> 37:45.488 [SPEAKER_01]: The next voice or the next thing that you hear from his voice is about worship. 37:46.383 --> 37:54.650 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he tells Elijah, he says, yo, fam, like surely the God of Israel is the one true God. 37:55.311 --> 38:03.538 [SPEAKER_01]: Now here's the thing, where I come from, they don't worship the God that you worship, they don't serve the God that you serve. 38:04.239 --> 38:07.542 [SPEAKER_01]: He acts a lot for something that I thought was crazy. 38:08.547 --> 38:18.113 [SPEAKER_01]: Name and says, yo, Elijah, if you find it in your heart, let me grab two bags of dirt to be able to take the dirt back with me. 38:19.313 --> 38:26.598 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me take some of this dirt and let me take this back home because the king that I serve does not worship the God that you serve. 38:27.798 --> 38:30.200 [SPEAKER_01]: But the dirt is going to be a reminder. 38:31.230 --> 38:33.874 [SPEAKER_01]: of the God that transformed my life. 38:34.816 --> 38:42.787 [SPEAKER_01]: And if I could stop right here just for a moment, if you've been in revival, my next question that I would have with you is, can I see your hands? 38:43.893 --> 38:44.453 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I see you? 38:44.654 --> 38:49.778 [SPEAKER_01]: And the reason why I was say that is because if you've been with God, there should be some residue on you. 38:50.458 --> 38:55.102 [SPEAKER_01]: There should be a sign on you that I've been with God. 38:55.122 --> 38:56.723 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you got some dirt around you? 38:56.923 --> 39:03.529 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the dirt is the reminder of what God has done in your life, right? 39:04.309 --> 39:06.491 [SPEAKER_01]: We go through and he has the dirt. 39:07.532 --> 39:09.313 [SPEAKER_01]: And he takes that and he's like, he'll help him. 39:09.333 --> 39:11.035 [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate everything that you've done for me. 39:11.937 --> 39:23.487 [SPEAKER_01]: I got this silver, I got this gold, I got these servents, I have all of this stuff that the king has given me to give to you the prophet, to give it to you. 39:24.848 --> 39:31.234 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bible says that Elijah says surely as the Lord lives, I would have go, 39:32.398 --> 39:34.679 [SPEAKER_01]: all that silver and I'm service. 39:35.220 --> 39:36.440 [SPEAKER_01]: Take all that back home with you. 39:36.460 --> 39:37.641 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't need it. 39:38.282 --> 39:44.905 [SPEAKER_01]: Because God was more concerned about Nameless transformation than the lunch they'd get in the payday. 39:48.307 --> 39:57.853 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we go through and we, and he goes back home with brings me to second king, chapter five, verse number 20. 39:59.234 --> 40:00.915 [SPEAKER_01]: And the bomb is says that name and lease, 40:02.672 --> 40:13.641 [SPEAKER_01]: And Gehazah says to himself that, yo, I like you, you trippin', you didn't lose your mind. 40:14.802 --> 40:25.270 [SPEAKER_01]: This man became all of this way, asked for something that you had, because you had the answer to a problem he can fix. 40:31.639 --> 40:33.861 [SPEAKER_01]: You ain't going to take me that thing from here? 40:34.522 --> 40:35.243 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch what he says. 40:36.504 --> 40:38.846 [SPEAKER_01]: Surely as the Lord lives. 40:41.949 --> 40:44.632 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go and I'm going to go get something from here. 40:50.698 --> 40:55.162 [SPEAKER_01]: When I look at the text, I did not see God say anything. 40:59.552 --> 41:05.514 [SPEAKER_01]: When I looked at the text, it did not say Gehazard being overtaken by the devil. 41:10.035 --> 41:13.155 [SPEAKER_01]: What it said was, Gehazard said to himself. 41:20.177 --> 41:26.919 [SPEAKER_01]: Proximity or placement does not equate to posture. 41:29.706 --> 41:33.048 [SPEAKER_01]: Judas betrayed Jesus. 41:33.949 --> 41:35.170 [SPEAKER_01]: He's close to Jesus. 41:35.690 --> 41:36.971 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a part of the 12th. 41:37.331 --> 41:38.051 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a disciple. 41:39.452 --> 41:43.095 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to find in the Scripture where Judas hated Jesus. 41:45.056 --> 41:46.277 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you hear what I just said? 41:47.197 --> 41:50.579 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to find in the Scripture where Judas hated Jesus. 41:51.360 --> 41:52.721 [SPEAKER_01]: Judas didn't hate Jesus. 41:52.881 --> 41:53.962 [SPEAKER_01]: Judas loved Jesus. 41:54.762 --> 41:55.843 [SPEAKER_01]: He just loved something more. 42:03.106 --> 42:04.887 [SPEAKER_01]: So, look, I'll give you a little bubble. 42:05.047 --> 42:08.289 [SPEAKER_01]: I think I'll do a little bit a little bit, a little bit. 42:08.409 --> 42:10.249 [SPEAKER_01]: I do still a little bit, a little bit. 42:10.289 --> 42:12.210 [SPEAKER_01]: Judas, the Esqueria, right? 42:12.350 --> 42:14.271 [SPEAKER_01]: Esqueria does not his last name. 42:15.132 --> 42:21.455 [SPEAKER_01]: Esqueria is the sect of Jews that he was, it was his game, it was his homies, right? 42:22.270 --> 42:28.115 [SPEAKER_01]: They believe that the Messiah was going to come and overthrow the government, right? 42:28.475 --> 42:33.499 [SPEAKER_01]: So when Jesus came through and said, hey, man, I'm rendered the season, what's due to season, all of this, all of this stuff. 42:33.920 --> 42:50.093 [SPEAKER_01]: Judas was, he was fuming, because here it is, that Jesus, you're gonna do something that I don't want you to do, because my hope for you is to do this, but in actuality, you're gonna do something that's completely different, right? 42:51.477 --> 42:57.622 [SPEAKER_01]: Could it be that some of us in this room, not that we don't love Jesus, we just love some more? 43:01.105 --> 43:05.168 [SPEAKER_01]: Our frustration that we have with God is not that we don't believe that He can do it. 43:06.549 --> 43:09.051 [SPEAKER_01]: But what He chooses to do looks different than what we want Him to do. 43:12.674 --> 43:19.219 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we were there, we were there, rush and run to a finished line, instead of going through the process that He has for us. 43:21.254 --> 43:30.286 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I remember, I remember me and my wife, we got engaged and we were engaged for a few years. 43:30.967 --> 43:34.672 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I say, I didn't say weeks, I didn't say months, I said a few years. 43:35.633 --> 43:36.254 [SPEAKER_01]: A couple years. 43:37.075 --> 43:39.558 [SPEAKER_01]: How long, two years like two years, right? 43:43.310 --> 43:49.214 [SPEAKER_01]: There were things that I had before the Lord that I was waiting on him to give me clarity. 43:49.334 --> 43:55.259 [SPEAKER_01]: See, one of the things that you'll learn about me at Pastor De Vunger is my witness. 43:57.620 --> 43:59.482 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't make me do nothing. 44:01.703 --> 44:02.184 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. 44:03.905 --> 44:07.828 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't force me to do nothing. 44:09.662 --> 44:14.404 [SPEAKER_01]: But if God said to do a thing, you will see me do it. 44:15.524 --> 44:21.087 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, from 20, was this, 2020 to now. 44:21.827 --> 44:34.472 [SPEAKER_01]: Mayor Pastor De Vundra, we were talking about the day and I told him, I said, hey man, I said to be so funny and I said, I've been offered, I can count on both hands, how many pastors have offered churches to me? 44:35.524 --> 44:46.006 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about, they got money, they have people, they're like, hey, and I said, and God said, no, and I don't do it, I would love to have a platform. 44:46.830 --> 44:54.076 [SPEAKER_01]: I would love to have already established and to show up in the process of, I promise you, I preach much better than this. 44:54.116 --> 45:10.408 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't like this, I preach much better than this on another day, but I came, not as a, as a, as a preacher like that today, but I came to give an instruction from where I heard the Lord say to give to you and we're gonna get to that in the second. 45:11.669 --> 45:11.849 [SPEAKER_01]: But, 45:14.438 --> 45:22.084 [SPEAKER_01]: If God said, no, I'm not going to rush into do something that he's not given the clearance for, right? 45:23.565 --> 45:29.309 [SPEAKER_01]: And so many times, we rush because we want to be seeing, we want to be visible, we want to do all this other stuff. 45:30.450 --> 45:32.172 [SPEAKER_01]: And God is like, move. 45:33.293 --> 45:38.817 [SPEAKER_01]: I move at the speed of obedience, not at the speed of people's opinions. 45:40.381 --> 45:43.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Because here it is, Jesus is that say Seria Philippi. 45:44.143 --> 45:46.105 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus says, who do men say that I am? 45:47.085 --> 45:54.870 [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody has an opinion about what they, like some say you're the prophet, some say you're Elijah, some say you're mode, so like everybody got something to say, right, about Jesus. 45:55.270 --> 45:57.132 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he like, okay, cool, I don't care about that. 45:57.152 --> 45:58.232 [SPEAKER_01]: Who the all says that I am? 45:59.673 --> 46:01.694 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody was talking when he was asking about other people. 46:02.935 --> 46:05.777 [SPEAKER_01]: When the pressure was put on the disciples, only one spoke. 46:12.022 --> 46:13.883 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody always going to have an opinion about it. 46:13.983 --> 46:14.423 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything. 46:16.164 --> 46:20.026 [SPEAKER_01]: But this next season that we're moving in, it's not about opinions, it's about revelation. 46:21.466 --> 46:22.507 [SPEAKER_01]: Who has the revelation? 46:23.287 --> 46:23.567 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 46:24.588 --> 46:26.048 [SPEAKER_01]: Gehazard in the Scripture. 46:26.188 --> 46:26.929 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting out your way. 46:27.149 --> 46:28.089 [SPEAKER_01]: Gehazard in Scripture. 46:28.329 --> 46:29.750 [SPEAKER_01]: He has an unhealthy desire. 46:30.230 --> 46:32.951 [SPEAKER_01]: An appetite for something that leads to his demise. 46:33.031 --> 46:33.211 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 46:33.231 --> 46:39.654 [SPEAKER_01]: So you go through the Bible says that when it goes through, he chases naming down, he tells naming. 46:39.694 --> 46:40.495 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, hey, fam. 46:41.691 --> 46:51.101 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a couple of people that's moving to the city, a couple of young prophets, they're going to need some silver, they're going to need some service, they're going to need some clothes, can you hook a brother? 46:51.902 --> 46:55.687 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says that that, that, that, uh, name of the Lord, oh, perfect. 46:55.967 --> 46:58.490 [SPEAKER_01]: Here, take it, take more than what you need, take it. 46:59.442 --> 47:05.147 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bible says that your head's out takes it, and not only did they take it, but name it in a couple of his service with him. 47:05.207 --> 47:09.750 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bible says that when it get back to the city, that your head's out takes all of those stuff. 47:09.790 --> 47:12.232 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, hey, y'all ain't got to follow me back to the house. 47:12.573 --> 47:13.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Y'all just go on a bunch of business. 47:14.454 --> 47:21.420 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says that your head's out takes the silver, takes the clothes, takes all that, takes it into the house, and that he hides it in the house. 47:22.775 --> 47:25.776 [SPEAKER_01]: I said in the house that goes back to where Elijah is. 47:25.856 --> 47:27.436 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, hey, fam, what's good, bro? 47:28.056 --> 47:32.097 [SPEAKER_01]: Man, and in the beautiful day outside, man, it's so beautiful to be here. 47:32.997 --> 47:38.639 [SPEAKER_01]: And Elijah sits up and he says, was not my spirit with you. 47:41.099 --> 47:43.460 [SPEAKER_01]: When you did what you did. 47:45.921 --> 47:47.621 [SPEAKER_01]: Was my spirit not with you. 47:47.801 --> 47:51.102 [SPEAKER_01]: And when I saw that, I thought about in Genesis, 47:52.084 --> 47:59.510 [SPEAKER_01]: after they eaten from the tree and they closed themselves and fig leaves and God is like, oh, Adam, were you at found? 48:01.051 --> 48:03.734 [SPEAKER_01]: Cause the reality is, God already knows. 48:05.755 --> 48:08.538 [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to see what you confess it. 48:10.039 --> 48:11.040 [SPEAKER_01]: Will you be accountable? 48:12.841 --> 48:18.766 [SPEAKER_01]: And the scripture goes on and says that besides your tells, Gahezah, he said, because you did this to name it. 48:20.371 --> 48:27.654 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you pay attention out of the close, the name is, I mean, the guy that I said surely as the Lord lives, that he tried to pin it on God. 48:28.114 --> 48:34.197 [SPEAKER_01]: How many times have we missed handled people in the name of God? 48:38.378 --> 48:41.260 [SPEAKER_01]: We've abused people in his name. 48:44.521 --> 48:49.303 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he says, because of what you did to name it. 48:50.772 --> 48:56.596 [SPEAKER_01]: that the leprosy that was on him, be upon you for the rest of your days. 49:01.980 --> 49:06.823 [SPEAKER_01]: Gehazah's leprosy didn't come from the devil. 49:08.524 --> 49:12.927 [SPEAKER_01]: It came as a divine judgment from God because of his decisions. 49:16.827 --> 49:23.170 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the order was said, when Elijah said, I don't want it, don't touch it. 49:25.951 --> 49:39.217 [SPEAKER_01]: Could it be that the season that you're in, what it is that you're facing, what it is that you're going through, be a result of something that God took his hands off of and you still trying to touch it. 49:41.238 --> 49:43.739 [SPEAKER_01]: You trying to hide it, you trying to keep it for yourself. 49:46.268 --> 49:49.030 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to appetite a desire or a lust for something. 49:49.670 --> 49:50.951 [SPEAKER_01]: That God, here it is. 49:51.051 --> 49:51.471 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch this. 49:51.591 --> 49:53.633 [SPEAKER_01]: The John 10, John 10 talks about. 49:54.893 --> 49:59.236 [SPEAKER_01]: You go through your talk, Jesus is given a parable and he's talking about the sheet gate. 49:59.717 --> 50:08.222 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said that my sheet, no my voice, and I know them and the stranger that it goes longer to talk about that a stranger's voice, they won't follow. 50:09.278 --> 50:12.580 [SPEAKER_01]: One follow the voice over the stranger, but they know my voice, and they're going to follow me. 50:13.180 --> 50:17.782 [SPEAKER_01]: And when I looked at that, and I was like, okay, that's cute, but here's the tension I have in this text. 50:18.582 --> 50:20.483 [SPEAKER_01]: Because it uses the term stranger. 50:20.503 --> 50:25.806 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that you are a stranger to me? 50:27.366 --> 50:28.107 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not a stranger to me. 50:28.127 --> 50:29.567 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, I'm not a stranger to myself. 50:37.658 --> 50:42.123 [SPEAKER_01]: That sometimes, well, may lead you astray ain't on the outside. 50:43.945 --> 50:45.387 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe what's on the inside. 50:47.289 --> 50:49.631 [SPEAKER_01]: That, they can, he's a, has an unhealthy desire. 50:49.992 --> 50:55.258 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm in it with this, I'm gonna get out your way and worship, band, y'all can come and do all that cute stuff. 50:57.280 --> 50:57.961 [SPEAKER_01]: But watch this. 50:59.397 --> 51:07.242 [SPEAKER_01]: I know we love the Scripture that talks about that God will give me the desires of my heart, then in what the Scripture says. 51:08.323 --> 51:15.008 [SPEAKER_01]: The Scripture says that if you find pleasure in me, the light shall serve in me. 51:15.908 --> 51:25.495 [SPEAKER_01]: Then I will give you the desires of your heart, because the goal is that the heart and the desire and the plan and the preference of God. 51:26.373 --> 51:27.534 [SPEAKER_01]: would become yours. 51:28.294 --> 51:31.055 [SPEAKER_01]: So what he wants is what you would want. 51:33.576 --> 51:41.780 [SPEAKER_01]: That God is not more connected to your preference as much as he is to his purpose and his plan. 51:44.011 --> 51:45.833 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to today's message. 51:46.153 --> 51:49.536 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray you were inspired, challenged, and marked by the word you heard. 51:50.136 --> 51:54.780 [SPEAKER_00]: If this message blessed you today, we encourage you to subscribe to the Church of the City podcast. 51:55.401 --> 52:00.104 [SPEAKER_00]: There you can find more faith-filled messages to uplift you and help you on your journey of faith. 52:00.885 --> 52:09.412 [SPEAKER_00]: For more information about Church of the City, head on over to www.cotcdfw.com. 52:10.172 --> 52:14.136 [SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember this, the best is yet to come.