SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Life Family Church Sermon Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Now let's get right to the message.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord is doing great things among us.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord is working miracles, changing lives.
SPEAKER_01: I'm so thankful.
SPEAKER_01: I really am.
SPEAKER_01: We're seeing such wonderful testimonies of people who are being set free from condemnation and guilt.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't know about you, but that does something to me.
SPEAKER_01: Because for too many years the devil has been condemning and beating up the church.
SPEAKER_01: God does not beat you up and tear you down.
SPEAKER_01: He builds you up and he encourages you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: He's a good God.
SPEAKER_01: And when we worship him, you don't have to worship him in fear and dread and condemnation and inferiority and with a with an attitude that he's mad at me.
SPEAKER_01: Let me just go ahead and just get that out of the way.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mad at you.
SPEAKER_01: He is in love with you, and he did everything in his power to bring to pass everything that you'll ever need to be free.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Now, this morning we're going to talk.
SPEAKER_01: I won't be too long because I know we got a lot of things going on, and I don't want to keep you here till dinner time.
SPEAKER_01: But I will be speaking this morning just a little bit on mixing the word of God with faith.
SPEAKER_01: And this morning we're going to talk a little bit in Numbers chapter 13, where Joshua and Caleb and 10 others were asked by Moses, who was instructed of the Lord, to send 12 people into a new land to spy it out, to check it out, to see if it was good, to see what it was about, to see what it was going to take to overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: Because there were people in the land, they needed to find out what their battle plan was going to be and where they were going to go from there.
SPEAKER_01: So they sent out the spies.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to read just a few things.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 13 or chapter 13.
SPEAKER_01: Says, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: Now I want you to underline that, which I am giving to the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: So this was God giving them a promise that I'm giving you this land.
SPEAKER_01: I need you to go and spy out the land which I'm giving you.
SPEAKER_01: That's very important to remember.
SPEAKER_01: So Moses sent from them from the wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of the men who were heads of the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: And it gives the twelve names of them.
SPEAKER_01: Then we just skip on down to verse 26.
SPEAKER_01: Now they departed and came back to Moses after going into the land.
SPEAKER_01: And in fact, they found out that surely this land was good.
SPEAKER_01: This was good land.
SPEAKER_01: The grapes, it took two men to carry the grape clusters.
SPEAKER_01: They were so big.
SPEAKER_01: It was a land truly flowing with milk and honey.
SPEAKER_01: Now they departed, verse 26, came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh.
SPEAKER_01: They brought back the word to them that all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
SPEAKER_01: Then they told him and said, We want, we went to the land where you sent us, it truly flows with milk and honey, and this is the fruit.
SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, underline that.
SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong.
SPEAKER_01: The cities are fortified and very large.
SPEAKER_01: Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
SPEAKER_01: The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south, the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites dwell, the mountains, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea along the banks of the Jordan.
SPEAKER_01: Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to underline that, let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: But the men who had gone up with them said, We are not able to go up against these people, for they are stronger than we are.
SPEAKER_01: And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw there are men of great stature.
SPEAKER_01: There we saw the giants, the descendants of Anak came from the giants, and when we were like gross, we were like grasshoppers in their sight, and so we were in their sight.
SPEAKER_01: So all the congregation of Israel decided we're gonna gripe and complain about it.
SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna we're gonna tell Moses, we're better off, let's just go back to Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: Let's just get rid of Moses, let's just change this whole thing, let's go back to Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: Now, this story is very important because what it does is it explains to all of us, me included, how faith being mixed with unbelief will keep you from the promise God has for you.
SPEAKER_01: That when we look and we see with our natural eyes the things that are ahead of us, it brings fear, it brings terror, it brings doubt and unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: It might be that bank account you have right now.
SPEAKER_01: It might look really shallow, it might look empty.
SPEAKER_01: But we're not looking at our bank account making decisions for God.
SPEAKER_01: But we're allowing God to tell us what to do and how to do it and how to overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: And we're not walking by sight, but we're walking by faith.
SPEAKER_01: You might be going through the hardest challenge that you've ever faced in your life, but know this God will give you a word that you can overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: But the problem is the children of Israel, those ten spies, they said, nevertheless, we're not able to overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: They're too big.
SPEAKER_01: The situation is too big.
SPEAKER_01: That sickness, it's too big.
SPEAKER_01: That that problem in your life is way too big.
SPEAKER_01: That marriage situation is way too big.
SPEAKER_01: That situation happening at work right now, it's way too big.
SPEAKER_01: I I we just can't, it I'm just I'm just I can't overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm here to tell you that if God gave you a word, you were more than able to overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: More than able to walk through and not be defeated.
SPEAKER_01: Too many people, this is this is all over the place.
SPEAKER_01: Too many people, all they ever think about is problems.
SPEAKER_01: They're meditating on problems all of the time.
SPEAKER_01: We watch the news and all we see is problems, problems, America's problems, the world's problems, all we see is problems.
SPEAKER_01: But God has not instructed us as his children to walk with the mindset of problems, problems, problems.
SPEAKER_01: If you want to see problems, you can always find them.
SPEAKER_01: They're easy.
SPEAKER_01: But we're called to go against the stream, to row upstream when everybody else is going downstream.
SPEAKER_01: We're called to do, to be different, to be peculiar, to be a different type of people.
SPEAKER_01: That we don't act the way the world acts.
SPEAKER_01: We don't walk in defeat.
SPEAKER_01: Even though you're going through trials and challenges in life, we don't walk as those who are defeated.
SPEAKER_01: But we walk in victory even when it seems like there's nothing around us but defeat.
SPEAKER_01: We proclaim I'm healed even when you got sniffles, even when your head is pounding.
SPEAKER_01: You don't declare what the world declares over you.
SPEAKER_01: You declare what God says about you.
SPEAKER_01: This is how we walk.
SPEAKER_01: We walk by faith and not by sight.
SPEAKER_01: The just shall live by faith.
SPEAKER_01: This is how we operate.
SPEAKER_01: When the world automatically assumes the worst, we say, praise God, there's something good about to happen.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: That's just who we are.
SPEAKER_01: We're people who are always uplifting, people who are bubbling over with joy.
SPEAKER_01: We have the joy of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength.
SPEAKER_01: So we have that.
SPEAKER_01: It's us, it's who we are.
SPEAKER_01: The greater one lives in you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So God has given you a word.
SPEAKER_01: His word is by his stripes.
SPEAKER_01: You are healed.
SPEAKER_01: You have that promise.
SPEAKER_01: It belongs to you.
SPEAKER_01: So when you go before God or go before the enemy or go before the people around town, you declare what God says about the situation.
SPEAKER_01: You don't talk about the problems.
SPEAKER_01: The other day I was sitting there just spouting off a bunch of unbelief, just doing what everybody else does, talking about how weak I was, how tired I was, how out of shape I was.
SPEAKER_01: Finally, I caught myself.
SPEAKER_01: I said, What am I doing?
SPEAKER_01: Here I am teaching and preaching, you know, you walk by faith and not by sight, and here I am talking about how out of shape I am.
SPEAKER_01: You know, whatever, don't look at me right now.
SPEAKER_01: I feel like you're judging me, everybody.
SPEAKER_01: You stand up here every day.
SPEAKER_01: But the truth is that I'm more than able to overcome it.
SPEAKER_01: I have to take what God promised me and I have to put it to work.
SPEAKER_01: And a lot of times, and this is just me talking about faith, a lot of times we hear a lot about faith, but faith requires us to get out from our seats and go do something with what God said.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm not saying you have to work to earn to deserve it, but I'm saying that if you're believing God for a new car, it might be a good idea to clean the one you got.
SPEAKER_01: Clean out your garage.
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and make a really nice spot for that brand new vehicle, build you a nice shed for that brand new truck.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: A boat.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not asking for a truck.
SPEAKER_01: I got a truck.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not asking for a boat either.
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't take it if you gave it to me right now, but my wife said no.
SPEAKER_01: That's one thing I can't overcome.
SPEAKER_01: So that's an obstacle too big for I don't even know.
SPEAKER_01: But the truth.
SPEAKER_01: Let's go over to Joshua chapter 2.
SPEAKER_01: I want to show you something.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible or God told Joshua, don't be afraid.
SPEAKER_01: Don't walk in fear.
SPEAKER_01: Follow the promise of God.
SPEAKER_01: Follow what God says to do.
SPEAKER_01: Step into the land that God promised you.
SPEAKER_01: Now here's what it goes on in chapter 2.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 9, it says this.
SPEAKER_01: And said to the uh let me go up one verse 8.
SPEAKER_01: Now before they lay down, she came up to them.
SPEAKER_01: This is talking about Rahab, the harlot.
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that there was a harlot named in the Hebrew's Hall of Fame, of Faith Hall of Fame.
SPEAKER_01: That in the lineage of Jesus, there was a prostitute.
SPEAKER_01: Don't tell me God can't forgive and heal and set free.
SPEAKER_01: He can.
SPEAKER_01: She said to the men, I know that the Lord has given you the land.
SPEAKER_01: This is Rahab, she was in that land that the ten spies were in previously.
SPEAKER_01: She was there.
SPEAKER_01: She saw firsthand what the people there were thinking.
SPEAKER_01: And she says, This, I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us.
SPEAKER_01: It has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are faint-hearted because of the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water from the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, whom you utterly destroyed.
SPEAKER_01: And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted.
SPEAKER_01: Neither did there remain any more courage in us, because you, for the Lord your God, he is the God of heaven and earth beneath.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I want you to see that.
SPEAKER_01: The perspective of the ten spies was we're not able.
SPEAKER_01: They're big people.
SPEAKER_01: They're great land.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it's this is impossible.
SPEAKER_01: But the people of that land, from their perspective, they were scared.
SPEAKER_01: They were full of terror.
SPEAKER_01: They were ready to run.
SPEAKER_01: They were going to give up immediately.
SPEAKER_01: All we had to do, all the children of Israel needed to do was step foot on that land, and they would have bowed their knees to God.
SPEAKER_01: But we allowed fear, doubt, and unbelief keep us from the promise.
SPEAKER_01: Now let's go over to Hebrews chapter 2, or chapter 4, sorry.
SPEAKER_01: Hebrews chapter 4, verse 1 through 3.
SPEAKER_01: It says this, Hebrews 4, verse 1 through 3.
SPEAKER_01: Therefore, since a promise remains of entering his rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
SPEAKER_01: Now, this is talking exactly about what I just explained about the children of Israel not entering in.
SPEAKER_01: This was what God promised them.
SPEAKER_01: You're going to enter into my rest.
SPEAKER_01: God gave them a promise.
SPEAKER_01: You're going to enter into the promised land, the place of my rest.
SPEAKER_01: You see, the place where we stand and trust and believe God is what the Bible calls that place of rest.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know that we can all just right now breathe and just rest, knowing that God has made a way.
SPEAKER_01: That we don't have to fear anymore.
SPEAKER_01: We don't have to have any doubt any longer, that we can have joy and peace knowing God is our supplier.
SPEAKER_01: Therefore, since a promise remains of entering his rest, the promise, let us fear, lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
SPEAKER_01: For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them.
SPEAKER_01: But the word which they heard, this is God speaking to them, to go and possess, the word that they heard did not profit them, because the word was not mixed with faith in those who heard it.
SPEAKER_01: For we who have believed do enter that rest.
SPEAKER_01: So this is explaining to us that we have to take the word of God when it is given to us, and we have to put it in our spirits, get it on the inside.
SPEAKER_01: And when it gets on the inside, it mixes on the inside of us.
SPEAKER_01: Our spirit and the spirit of God, the faith, the word that comes on the inside of us, it becomes alive.
SPEAKER_01: That word comes alive on the inside of us so much that we began to believe it.
SPEAKER_01: And it becomes so alive in us and so mixed within us that it becomes who we are.
SPEAKER_01: And then when it becomes who you are, then when you speak, it is released.
SPEAKER_01: It is yours.
SPEAKER_01: Many people they'll go and they'll hear a good word.
SPEAKER_01: Good words are great.
SPEAKER_01: But like the word said, it won't profit you unless you get it down on the inside of you and meditate on it.
SPEAKER_01: Allow it to become who you are.
SPEAKER_01: You're not trying to get healed, you are the healed.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: You're not trying to prosper, you are the prosperous.
SPEAKER_01: And you take the word that's given to you, and then you act upon it by faith.
SPEAKER_01: You go ahead and you go and work, and you do it by faith.
SPEAKER_01: You work, you operate, and you do the things you're supposed to do by faith.
SPEAKER_01: And that is how it works.
SPEAKER_01: Faith works this way.
SPEAKER_01: You take the word, get it on the inside, and then you activate it through believing it so much it becomes who you are.
SPEAKER_01: There's no doubt left.
SPEAKER_01: There's no unbelief there.
SPEAKER_01: Now let's go over to Mark chapter 5, and we're gonna go through a few verses, and then we'll end this morning.
SPEAKER_01: Mark chapter 5.
SPEAKER_01: Now, Jesus had just came from the other side of the lake of Genesareth where he had cast out a devil from a man who was possessed with a legion of demons.
SPEAKER_01: And that demons, those demon spirits wanted to be cast out into a herd of swine.
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all remember that story?
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus cast them out into the herd of swine, and those swine ran violently into the water and drowned.
SPEAKER_01: That tells you the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: That's why it's so important, so vital for all of us to remember to give him no place in our life.
SPEAKER_01: Do not give Satan inroads into your life.
SPEAKER_01: What happens when you give him inroads into your life?
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't just take a few things.
SPEAKER_01: He wants to take everything.
SPEAKER_01: He wants to kill, steal, and to destroy.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, I have come that they may have life and they may have it to the fullest.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what we're going to talk about in these few verses here.
SPEAKER_01: Mark chapter 5, verse 21.
SPEAKER_01: Now, when Jesus had crossed over again by the boat to the other sides, a great multitude gathered to him, and he was by the sea, and behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came, Jairus by name.
SPEAKER_01: And when he saw him, he fell at his feet and begged him earnestly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death.
SPEAKER_01: Come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed, and she will live.
SPEAKER_01: So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed him and thronged him, meaning they were they were so close to him that they were pushing him along.
SPEAKER_01: Now a certain woman, this is where I wanted to go.
SPEAKER_01: Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians.
SPEAKER_01: She had spent all that she had and was no more better, but rather grew worse.
SPEAKER_01: When she heard about Jesus, she came behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.
SPEAKER_01: For she said, If only I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well.
SPEAKER_01: Immediately, everybody say immediately, immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.
SPEAKER_01: And Jesus immediately stopped, knowing in himself that power had gone out of him, turned around in the crowd and said, Who touched me?
SPEAKER_01: Who touched my clothes?
SPEAKER_01: But his disciples said to him, You see the multitude thronging you, and you say, Who touched me?
SPEAKER_01: Isn't it interesting how you can see how Jesus was being pushed along and touched by Everybody in the crowd, but yet when faith touched him, he stopped.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus still today recognizes faith.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says he looks to and fro, looking for those who will believe.
SPEAKER_01: That means this morning, God is up there right now, and they're looking around.
SPEAKER_01: They're just searching all over the world.
SPEAKER_01: And they're looking, who will believe me?
SPEAKER_01: Who will trust me?
SPEAKER_01: And they're searching.
SPEAKER_01: His eyes are looking to and fro.
SPEAKER_01: He wants to see.
SPEAKER_01: Something about faith the Bible says pleases him.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus stops.
SPEAKER_01: He recognizes someone touched me.
SPEAKER_01: And he looked around to see her who had done this.
SPEAKER_01: But the woman, fearing, trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
SPEAKER_01: And he said to her, daughter, your faith, everybody say, your faith.
SPEAKER_01: Pointed someone right in the face and say, Your faith.
SPEAKER_01: Your faith has made you well.
SPEAKER_01: Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.
SPEAKER_01: Now, we're going to pause there just for a moment.
SPEAKER_01: I want to show a few things to you.
SPEAKER_01: Jewish custom, Jewish law was very stern against someone who had an issue of blood.
SPEAKER_01: You were not allowed to be amongst the people.
SPEAKER_01: You were literally an outcast.
SPEAKER_01: You had to be put aside, out of the way, until everything was clean, everything was dried up, and then after all that, then you had to present a gift to the priest, and they had to accept you back into the community.
SPEAKER_01: You were not allowed to be in there.
SPEAKER_01: In fact, the fact that she was in the crowd, the fact that she pushed through the crowd could have gotten her put to death.
SPEAKER_01: She had no right, according to the law, to go into that crowd.
SPEAKER_01: To stand or to crawl in between all these people's legs, to rub shoulders with all of them, to reach up and take the tassels of his prayer shawl or whatever you call it.
SPEAKER_01: To do that was illegal.
SPEAKER_01: But I don't know about you.
SPEAKER_01: But I think this is how I see it.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus, the Bible says, was full of grace and full of truth.
SPEAKER_01: So this woman crawled on her hands and knees, past the law, past the judgment, past the condemnation, past the guilt, past the fear of death.
SPEAKER_01: She passed those things.
SPEAKER_01: She crawled on her hands and knees and reached up and took hold of grace.
SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
SPEAKER_01: I can see that so clearly that she was not looking.
SPEAKER_01: She had tried everything else.
SPEAKER_01: She had pursued every possibility.
SPEAKER_01: You have gone to the doctor multiple times and they say to you, can't do nothing for you, but give us your money.
SPEAKER_01: Do I have any amen in here?
SPEAKER_01: Give us your money now.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, we can't really do nothing for you, but come back in a couple weeks and give us more money, and we'll tell you the same thing.
SPEAKER_01: For 12 years, she had been through this.
SPEAKER_01: That is a long time.
SPEAKER_01: She lost her sense of community.
SPEAKER_01: She lost her sense of her identity.
SPEAKER_01: She was an outcast.
SPEAKER_01: She was put aside.
SPEAKER_01: She was no good to anyone.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody could be around her.
SPEAKER_01: But she determined.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus is on the way to town.
SPEAKER_01: He's here.
SPEAKER_01: The Messiah is here.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, he's in this room right now.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: His presence is in this house right now.
SPEAKER_01: And you have to press past unbelief, press past fear, press past doubt.
SPEAKER_01: Just crawl on past it and reach up and take hold of the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: And don't let go until that virtue flows through your body and you know that by his stripes I'm healed.
SPEAKER_01: Now there was a problem.
SPEAKER_01: After she touched him, Jesus stopped.
SPEAKER_01: That means the whole crowd stopped.
SPEAKER_01: And everybody's attention was on her.
SPEAKER_01: The whole community was looking at her, staring at her.
SPEAKER_01: And she knew I messed up.
SPEAKER_01: I wasn't supposed to be here.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm so wild.
SPEAKER_01: And I have no other reason to live.
SPEAKER_01: I have no other reason to pursue life.
SPEAKER_01: I might as well go after it.
SPEAKER_01: Go after my healing.
SPEAKER_01: Go after what I'm believing God for.
SPEAKER_01: Put a little steps to my faith.
SPEAKER_01: So she went and did all she knew to do.
SPEAKER_01: And she grabbed hold of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And he turns around and he looks at her.
SPEAKER_01: And this is what he said to her.
SPEAKER_01: Stone her.
SPEAKER_01: Put her to death.
SPEAKER_01: Judgment upon her.
SPEAKER_01: For she should not be down here with you.
SPEAKER_01: She's unclean with an issue of blood.
SPEAKER_01: Now the Pharisees and the scribes, that's exactly what they would have done.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because it makes them look like they're somebody.
SPEAKER_01: But to her, she didn't care.
SPEAKER_01: She wasn't going to live unless she got a hold of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't want to, I don't want you to misunderstand anything I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01: If we don't have Jesus, we're not going to make it.
SPEAKER_01: We've got to be willing to get on our hands and knees and crawl and grab hold of grace this morning.
SPEAKER_01: And don't let go.
SPEAKER_01: Hold on to it.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus looked down on her and he said, This, daughter.
SPEAKER_01: Now I don't know about you, but that is a term of endearment.
SPEAKER_01: When I look at my beautiful girls, I don't say, hello, girl.
SPEAKER_01: I I remember an old John Wayne movie.
SPEAKER_01: Y'all remember the name of John Wayne's dog?
SPEAKER_01: What was it?
SPEAKER_01: Dog.
SPEAKER_01: To the people of Israel, to the people of that town, she was nothing but a dog.
SPEAKER_01: But he called her a daughter.
SPEAKER_01: What did that do?
SPEAKER_01: That put her back into the community.
SPEAKER_01: That put her back into her identity.
SPEAKER_01: That gave her back her dignity.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus is not just about healing you or setting you free, he's about giving you a new identity, putting a royal robe over you and calling you totally clean.
SPEAKER_01: You are a part of this community.
SPEAKER_01: Totally free.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: This morning we ought to all just grab a hold of grace.
SPEAKER_01: When God gives you a word, don't let go.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let go if it looks hard, don't let go if it looks if it looks impossible because God said, nothing is impossible with me.
SPEAKER_01: Only believe.
SPEAKER_01: What does that word only believe in the Greek?
SPEAKER_01: Anyone know?
SPEAKER_01: Only.
SPEAKER_01: Pretty impressive, aren't you?
SPEAKER_01: Only believe.
SPEAKER_01: But while he was speaking, some came from the rulers of the synagogue's house who said to J.R.is, your daughter's dead.
SPEAKER_01: As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not be afraid.
SPEAKER_01: Only believe.
SPEAKER_01: I'm speaking to the church today.
SPEAKER_01: Do not doubt, do not have unbelief, do not fear, only believe.
SPEAKER_01: Meaning, we don't put any contaminants into our faith.
SPEAKER_01: We only believe what God says.
SPEAKER_01: That's why it says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word and the word only.
SPEAKER_01: There is no other thing that God gave us to gain faith but the word.
SPEAKER_01: The word only.
SPEAKER_01: Speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus told him not to be afraid, only believe, and he permitted no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
SPEAKER_01: Then he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a tumult.
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know what that word is.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't study that word.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, it wasn't what I was going after.
SPEAKER_01: And those who wept and welled loudly.
SPEAKER_01: Did you know?
SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if you know this, some of you who went to Bible college probably do.
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that they hired professional weepers and mourners in those days?
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all would like that job?
SPEAKER_01: It only pays minimum wage, but man, that's that's all right when you're in New York,$30 an hour.
SPEAKER_01: How would you like that job?
SPEAKER_01: To just well and cry and scream and holler over someone who's passed away.
SPEAKER_01: This was their job.
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't want that job.
SPEAKER_01: And when he came in, Jesus, he said to them, Why make this commotion and weep?
SPEAKER_01: The child is not dead, it's sleeping.
SPEAKER_01: And they ridiculed him, but when he had put them all outside, this is where sometimes, sometimes, if it needs it, sometimes you might have to kick grandma out of the house.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you might have to kick uh some of the family members out of the house.
SPEAKER_01: Don't come in my house speaking doubt and unbelief and fear.
SPEAKER_01: If I have someone in my house who's death, deathly ill or has died, I don't need unbelief in my house.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I remember Thanksgiving of 2021.
SPEAKER_01: Everything was done at our house.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody wanted to come to our house for holidays and birthdays and special occasions, and that was fine.
SPEAKER_01: We had the we had a big old harvest table so everybody could eat together and it was nice.
SPEAKER_01: But there was one rule when you come in on uh on a holiday or any of those days, I would tell everybody when I pray over the food, I would say, we're not talking about how sick you've been this year.
SPEAKER_01: We're not talking about all the problems you're having at work.
SPEAKER_01: We're not talking about all the situations that's going on in your life.
SPEAKER_01: When you come into my house, you don't you don't come bringing that doubt and unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: You come in here and we'll talk faith, we'll talk the word, we'll talk about Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: But we're not talking all that junk.
SPEAKER_01: Is that mean?
SPEAKER_01: I I'm I sound I must be really mean.
SPEAKER_01: But guys, if it's life or death, you can't play around with this stuff.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: If you're believing God for something, you need to get bold about it.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says the righteous are bold as lions, meaning if there's doubt and unbelief around, kick it out.
SPEAKER_01: Get it out.
SPEAKER_01: You did not hear me say be mean to people, did you?
SPEAKER_01: I said doubt and unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: Guys, doubt and unbelief is like a poison.
SPEAKER_01: And if we allow it to inject its venom into our faith, it will contaminate it.
SPEAKER_01: And you will not see the promise come to pass.
SPEAKER_01: You have to mix your the Word of God, you have to mix the Word of God with faith, and don't allow unbelief to contaminate your faith.
SPEAKER_01: Believe only, and you'll see the results.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna wind this up.
SPEAKER_01: And they ridiculed him, but when he had put them all outside, he took the father and the mother and the child and those who were with him, and entered where the child was laying.
SPEAKER_01: Then he took the child by the hand and said to her, Talitha Kumai, which is translated translated, little girl, I say to you, arise.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't it funny how I could say that, and then I messed up which?
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, immediately the girl rose, walked, for she was twelve years of age, and they were overcome with great amazement.
SPEAKER_01: But then he commanded them strictly that no one should know it, and said that something should be given her to eat.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus is full of grace and full of truth.
SPEAKER_01: But we have to believe his word and not contaminate what he said with fear, doubt, and unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: The fight you're gonna have is not the fight of getting the word from God, because God has already given his word.
SPEAKER_01: The battle is always gonna be in the mind.
SPEAKER_01: The battlefield is in the mind where doubt and unbelief is gonna try to put its words in your mind to get you to line up, line up with the enemy.
SPEAKER_01: Because the moment you say, Well, I know what the Bible says, but you've already erased the possibility that God could have done a miracle in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: One quick story.
SPEAKER_01: When I was at Rhema, there was this big, huge paint building that had tons of paint.
SPEAKER_01: A lot of it was old.
SPEAKER_01: A lot of it had been frozen, a bunch of five-gallon buckets they had used in the past.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I was asked to be the painter there.
SPEAKER_01: Over a hundred-acre campus.
SPEAKER_01: Has anybody ever been there before?
SPEAKER_01: Big old place.
SPEAKER_01: I was the only painter there.
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SPEAKER_01: And they don't pay very good.
SPEAKER_01: I was barely over minimum wage, being the only painter over like 20 buildings.
SPEAKER_01: It was insane.
SPEAKER_01: One day they asked me to go do a project and I was looking for some paint.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I saw the label and I said, there it is.
SPEAKER_01: So I grabbed it.
SPEAKER_01: I opened it up, and when I opened it up, I was like, Whew, this stinks.
SPEAKER_01: I was like, this stuff is nasty.
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know if it's any good.
SPEAKER_01: So I got a drill and I got a paddle.
SPEAKER_01: And I thought, well, I'll just stir it up and see if it's if it's good.
SPEAKER_01: Because in paint, sometimes if it's frozen, all the pigments down at the bottom will they'll just harden up.
SPEAKER_01: So I got the paddle and I put it down in there.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yeah, it's not too bad.
SPEAKER_01: There's still some life in this thing.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: So I started the drill and the paddle, and it started to mix the colors.
SPEAKER_01: And I watched this dingy, nasty, watery, all kinds of nasty color that did not look like the color that I wanted.
SPEAKER_01: I watched it as I continued to stir it and mix it.
SPEAKER_01: I watched the vibrancy of this color come alive.
SPEAKER_01: And as I was sitting there doing that, as I was mixing, I watched the color come back.
SPEAKER_01: I watched, all right, I experienced the smell of it disappear.
SPEAKER_01: No longer did it stink.
SPEAKER_01: Everything inside that bucket was thoroughly mixed, and it was exactly what I needed to go and finish the project.
SPEAKER_01: You have everything on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: God has given you faith.
SPEAKER_01: He's given you a measure of faith.
SPEAKER_01: He's given you faith that's probably, he said, even with the grain of mustard seed faith, you can say to that mountain, be thou removed and be cast into the sea.
SPEAKER_01: And if you don't doubt in your heart, but believe what he said, you will see it come to pass.
SPEAKER_01: That's with a grain of mustard seed faith.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know about you, but I believe we got more than that here.
SPEAKER_01: We got the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwelling on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: You got faith on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: But we're not fighting to try to get faith.
SPEAKER_01: We're trying, we're fighting to keep it.
SPEAKER_01: We're fighting to mix that into our spirit so it comes alive so we can see the results desired.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Let's all stand up this morning.
SPEAKER_01: Little bit of a teaching service today, but I pray that it blessed you and encouraged your faith.
SPEAKER_01: God is wanting all of us to remember that it is faith that overcomes the world.
SPEAKER_01: We have that overcoming faith on the inside of us.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And we also have food back there, Bruin.
SPEAKER_01: So I figure a lot of y'all are gonna be like, I don't care how much faith I got, but you better end this thing quick.
SPEAKER_01: But um before we before we stop this morning, I do want to invite anyone who has not received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here today and you've never made that confession of faith to receive Jesus, that is the first step into a new identity in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: If you're looking for a life change, if you're looking your life to be different, if you know that you know that you know that you're not gonna be able to make it on your own that you need Jesus, if that's you, why don't you come up here, give your life to the Lord, allow him to change you.
SPEAKER_01: He'll do it.
SPEAKER_01: So if that's you, I don't care how long, I mean, obviously, we're not gonna wait all day, but if you need Jesus, we'll pray for you.
SPEAKER_01: Because that's number one.
SPEAKER_01: The main purpose of all of this is to get as many people to heaven as possible.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here and that's you, I'm gonna give you just a moment just to make that make that step of faith and come up here to the front and receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
SPEAKER_01: Is that you, anyone?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm gonna pray for you, and then I'm gonna give you some instruction.
SPEAKER_01: And um and I'll I'll remind you of something.
SPEAKER_01: So let me pray first.
SPEAKER_01: Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for this church.
SPEAKER_01: I thank you for the wonderful people in this body.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that you've given us so much.
SPEAKER_01: You said you've given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.
SPEAKER_01: So, Lord, I thank you that we have the promises, and you said your promises are to us, yes, and amen.
SPEAKER_01: So, Lord, you've given us everything we'll ever need.
SPEAKER_01: Now it's up to us to take those words, mix it with faith, and step out and receive what you've promised us through your grace.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that we have it.
SPEAKER_01: It belongs to us.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_00: We hope that this message helps you draw closer to God as you walk out your faith.
SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next week.