SPEAKER_00: Please pick up our Bibles and let's get into the Word together and lift those Bibles up, make Jesus glad, the devil mad.
SPEAKER_00: Let's say this together.
SPEAKER_00: Say, Heavenly Father, I'm glad to be here this morning among people of light, precious faith.
SPEAKER_00: Love plus unity equals miracles.
SPEAKER_00: And there's a miracle atmosphere in this place.
SPEAKER_00: I intend to take full advantage of the Word of God and the Holy Ghost to see miracles in my life, to see miracles in my ministry.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I have a ministry.
SPEAKER_00: It's called the Believer's Ministry.
SPEAKER_00: I am a believer.
SPEAKER_00: I'm making an impact on this world in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Amen, amen.
SPEAKER_00: Let's turn to Matthew chapter 11.
SPEAKER_00: And verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is speaking, and he's talking about John the Baptist.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't want to get into all of that.
SPEAKER_00: I want to just see verse 12 here.
SPEAKER_00: In the King James it says, From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
SPEAKER_00: And but what I wanted to read is that in the amplified.
SPEAKER_00: And this is Jesus talking now.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, and from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault.
SPEAKER_00: And violent men seize it by force.
SPEAKER_00: And then parenthesis, it says, seize it by force as a precious prize.
SPEAKER_00: A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion.
SPEAKER_00: Most ardent zeal and intense exertion.
SPEAKER_00: And so today my message is entitled Having Violet Faith.
SPEAKER_00: Having violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: When I see this verse that Jesus spoke, I see a plumb line.
SPEAKER_00: You know, being a home builder, you know, you got to get you got to know about square and level.
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you don't build a house square and level, you're going to have a mess.
SPEAKER_00: You could have something fall down.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, if a brick wall isn't plumb, I mean, these brick brick houses in Houston, they're not made of brick.
SPEAKER_00: That brick is a veneer, you know.
SPEAKER_00: And uh I've seen brick walls that were just a little bit out of plum.
SPEAKER_00: And after a while, you know, it's a heavy storm.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, those, if they're not vertical, if they're kind of tilted, I mean, they can fall right out into the yard, fall right on top of your house or on your head or something if you happen to be standing there.
SPEAKER_00: So um, I see a plum line drop down from heaven uh between hot and lukewarm.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said in Revelation, he said, you know, the Laodicean church, tell the Laodicians, he said, you know, I would that they were hot or cold, but because they're lukewarm, I'm gonna spew them out of my mouth.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna vomit them out.
SPEAKER_00: You mean he'd rather be cold?
SPEAKER_00: Well, somebody that's cold is just cold because they haven't been exposed to the word.
SPEAKER_00: They haven't been exposed.
SPEAKER_00: They've got potential to get saved.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I was cold at one time, but thank God I got saved.
SPEAKER_00: And if you're hot, well, that's desirable.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you're hot for God, you're on fire for God.
SPEAKER_00: I talked about the fire of the Holy Ghost recently.
SPEAKER_00: But if you're lukewarm, that's disgusting to God.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because you've been exposed to the heat and chose not to take it all.
SPEAKER_00: You said, no, that's too extreme.
SPEAKER_00: No, I don't want to be that, I don't want to be hot.
SPEAKER_00: I just, let's just be, I just won't be lukewarm.
SPEAKER_00: Lukewarm's fine.
SPEAKER_00: And so I see that plumb line.
SPEAKER_00: I see a plumb line between confrontation and resignation.
SPEAKER_00: Just resigned to the present circumstance.
SPEAKER_00: There's not much I can do.
SPEAKER_00: I might as well just learn to live with it.
SPEAKER_00: See?
SPEAKER_00: Or between intensity and indifference.
SPEAKER_00: I see that plumb line.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, one side is plumbed up with the way God wants it, the way that it thrills God to see it, and the other side is disgusting to him.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, violent faith is great faith.
SPEAKER_00: You know, the Thessalonians were were congratulated.
SPEAKER_00: He said, I see that your faith is growing.
SPEAKER_00: It's all over the world.
SPEAKER_00: People see that your growth, your faith is growing.
SPEAKER_00: See, faith ought to be growing, it ought to not be shrinking.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we ought to have greater results as time goes on.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because our faith is bringing greater results.
SPEAKER_00: I believe this is one of those years where we've got to break through some of these resignations and these indifferences.
SPEAKER_00: And let's break over and let's get hot, red hot.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jesus talked about the desire of faith.
SPEAKER_00: He said in Mark 11, 24, therefore, what things soever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, you shall have them.
SPEAKER_00: Not what Uncle Harry desires, what not what Aunt You know, Opal desires.
SPEAKER_00: But what do you desire?
SPEAKER_00: What not what mama desires, grandma desires, what do you desire?
SPEAKER_00: And then it says, therefore.
SPEAKER_00: Well, you've got to find out what it's there for.
SPEAKER_00: So you go back up to the previous verse in Mark 11, 23, and what does that say?
SPEAKER_00: It says, Verily, verily, double annunciation to God.
SPEAKER_00: Pay attention.
SPEAKER_00: Look here now.
SPEAKER_00: Behold.
SPEAKER_00: Whosoever.
SPEAKER_00: Does that include you?
SPEAKER_00: Whosoever is everybody.
SPEAKER_00: Whosoever shall say unto this pebble, to this gnat, to this flea.
SPEAKER_00: No, to this mountain.
SPEAKER_00: Was Jesus exaggerating?
SPEAKER_00: No, he wasn't exaggerating.
SPEAKER_00: He's putting forth a truth upon how powerful faith is.
SPEAKER_00: It's the switch that turns on God's majestic power.
SPEAKER_00: I mean power to move mountains.
SPEAKER_00: Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed.
SPEAKER_00: Be thou cast in the sea.
SPEAKER_00: Shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe those things which he saith shall come to pass.
SPEAKER_00: He shall have whatsoever he saith.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, what things soever you desire?
SPEAKER_00: Well, have you desired that mountain to be moved, or have you decided to figure out how to get around it and how to deal with it and how to, you know, live life with it there.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to get out on my porch.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to see the snows on top of the mountain.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the snow's up there.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's pretty.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, look at the trees.
SPEAKER_00: They're turning, turning colors this time.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, look, look at the trees on the side.
SPEAKER_00: We could admire the mountain or we can get rid of it.
SPEAKER_00: Depending on our what?
SPEAKER_00: Desire.
SPEAKER_00: How violent is your desire.
SPEAKER_00: How violet is your faith.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Jesus indicated that violent faith was desirable to God.
SPEAKER_00: Because he's using John the Baptist as an example.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you talk about somebody that had violent faith, that's John the Baptist.
SPEAKER_00: John the Baptist knew he wasn't the one.
SPEAKER_00: He knew his role.
SPEAKER_00: He knew that Isaiah 40 was his place in the Bible that described his ministry.
SPEAKER_00: I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: Prepare you the way of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And when the real Messiah came up, he didn't try to stay around.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't try to hang around.
SPEAKER_00: He was so violent, he told the king, you can't have your brother's wife, I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_00: You can't do it.
SPEAKER_00: Man, you don't boss the king around.
SPEAKER_00: You know, but he did.
SPEAKER_00: That's violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: It just stands up and tells the truth and rebukes the woke and rebukes all these crazy ideas that the left-wing commies have put forth in this country to destroy it.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to stand up and say, no, you're not.
SPEAKER_00: But it's going to take something more than just kind of, well, you know, I couldn't vote today.
SPEAKER_00: I my foot was hurting.
SPEAKER_00: I had the rheumatism.
SPEAKER_00: I just couldn't get there.
SPEAKER_00: Man, you know, indifference is going to destroy America unless the church gets red-happy violent in its faith, and I don't mean physically violent, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Talking about faith.
SPEAKER_00: So how violent is your faith?
SPEAKER_00: See, that's a good question we can need to ask about when we're talking about uh receiving new things.
SPEAKER_00: Because receiving new things means that the old has to go.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's just simple.
SPEAKER_00: It's not hard to understand.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the old has to go, bring, you know, put in the new.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Jesus said, you know, you can't put new wine in old bottles.
SPEAKER_00: You can they'll they'll they'll exp the bottles will explode.
SPEAKER_00: You can't take an old garment and put a new piece of cloth, it'll just rip apart.
SPEAKER_00: It won't, it doesn't agree.
SPEAKER_00: So he he's talking about how we need to progress and how we need to let go of things and get the new things on a continuous.
SPEAKER_00: I just think about my life and my ministry.
SPEAKER_00: I've had to do this over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_00: And I think most of us have had to do.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we didn't think about it in the way that I'm talking about it today, but you know, it takes a determination to change and to grow.
SPEAKER_00: It takes a determination.
SPEAKER_00: You can't be indifferent and do it.
SPEAKER_00: It's not going to come just because.
SPEAKER_00: No, no, you've got everything to do about it.
SPEAKER_00: How violent is your faith, how hot, how intense.
SPEAKER_00: How ardent.
SPEAKER_00: Whatever you desire, he said.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, in Matthew, uh rather in uh John chapter 15, verse 7, if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.
SPEAKER_00: Man, what an amazing statement.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus again is challenging the believer.
SPEAKER_00: If you're born again, you abide in him.
SPEAKER_00: Well, do you live like you abide in him?
SPEAKER_00: See, that's the legal and the vital side.
SPEAKER_00: There's two sides to the word.
SPEAKER_00: The legal side is if you're born again, you've been baptized into the body of Christ, therefore you abide in him.
SPEAKER_00: But do you live like it?
SPEAKER_00: See, that a lot of people live in the world, they live according to the flesh, and so even though legally they're in Christ, they don't manifest it.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're not going to get spiritual things with flesh works.
SPEAKER_00: You, if you, if you're in Christ, if you if you abide in me, and my words abide in you.
SPEAKER_00: The measure of the words abiding in you is your obedience to them as they come to you.
SPEAKER_00: This is the general word of God.
SPEAKER_00: You certainly have to line up with the general word of God, but I've asked you to do three things this year in week one.
SPEAKER_00: Ask and keep on asking, seek, keep on seeking, knock, keep on knocking.
SPEAKER_00: To find out three things.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, what are the things I need to let go?
SPEAKER_00: What are the new things I need to pick up?
SPEAKER_00: What are the new assignments I have this year?
SPEAKER_00: And what do I do right now?
SPEAKER_00: There's a right now action I need to take, even before I find out the other two things.
SPEAKER_00: You might not know the other two things just yet.
SPEAKER_00: Don't get in a hurry.
SPEAKER_00: Find out what they are.
SPEAKER_00: I said, find out what they are.
SPEAKER_00: How do I do that?
SPEAKER_00: Well, stand in the word in prayer.
SPEAKER_00: Having a word life and a prayer life.
SPEAKER_00: I sound like a broken record, don't I?
SPEAKER_00: There's no shortcuts.
SPEAKER_00: No shortcuts.
SPEAKER_00: And so he said, You ask what you will and it'll be done unto you.
SPEAKER_00: That word ask also means to make a demand.
SPEAKER_00: See, you're not demanding from God, you're demanding on the basis of your covenant.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, my covenant.
SPEAKER_00: So we've been exploring this, you know, for five weeks about Israel and their discovering of their covenant and making a demand on their covenant.
SPEAKER_00: And they they made that demand to cross a flooded river Jordan.
SPEAKER_00: They made that demand to get on the other side, and they gave up the manna, and they celebrated Passover, and they got circumcised on the other side, and then they went into, you know, they went into Jericho and just cleaned their clock, defeated the greatest military might there was on the earth, the greatest military city, and uh and just started their journey.
SPEAKER_00: And uh took great faith, didn't it?
SPEAKER_00: So you don't demand of God, you demand, you make a demand on the covenant, you demand the devil to get off and to get out.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Get off my body and get out of it.
SPEAKER_00: Get off my finances and get out of them.
SPEAKER_00: See, you you know, violent faith will make you bold to take action.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all getting this now?
SPEAKER_00: But I say the desire of faith.
SPEAKER_00: I could say it this way: how big is your want-to?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, some people just don't have a big enough want-to to get what God has for them.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes they can actually discover what it is, and then it just seems like it's just pie in the sky, and they and they find every reason in the world to say, well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I can't see myself ever being there.
SPEAKER_00: Well, see, there you go.
SPEAKER_00: You're not, you've just got resignation now.
SPEAKER_00: You don't have violent anything.
SPEAKER_00: There's no nothing violent except the violence you're gonna suffer from the devil.
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna keep you under his foot for the longest time instead of the other way around.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: So let's look at Matthew 15, and here's a wonderful example of violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: One of my favorites in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many times I've preached out of these verses.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 21, Jesus went from where he was thence and departed into the coast of Tyre and Sidon.
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's basically present-day Lebanon.
SPEAKER_00: Those cities are still there.
SPEAKER_00: And uh behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast.
SPEAKER_00: Luke calls her a Syro-Phoenician woman, which means that she was a mixture of Syrian and Phoenicia, which again Lebanese essentially.
SPEAKER_00: She's from that area.
SPEAKER_00: Those people still around today.
SPEAKER_00: And and they had uh a big, you know, the Muslims took over that whole area, and now instead of what they were, now they're Muslims.
SPEAKER_00: And Muslim is not a religion, it's a it's a death cult.
SPEAKER_00: It's a it it has really it's not even a religion, really.
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing much different than Nazis and communists.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they have the same goal, they want world domination.
SPEAKER_00: That's their that's their goal.
SPEAKER_00: So this woman, see, now she's a gentile.
SPEAKER_00: She came out of the same coast and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me.
SPEAKER_00: O Lord, thou son of David.
SPEAKER_00: My daughter's grievously vexed with a demon.
SPEAKER_00: Not just vexed, grievously vexed.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this dev, she was really uh demon-possessed.
SPEAKER_00: She had no ability to function really as a human being.
SPEAKER_00: You can imagine having to try to control a daughter like that, that she's just uncontrollable.
SPEAKER_00: And this poor mother.
SPEAKER_00: When you read this this account in Luke, it says she heard of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You know, somebody told her about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say how she heard about him here in Mark and Matthew, but somebody told her about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't tell her about a Jesus that didn't care.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't tell her about a Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You got to belong to his club or he's not gonna even.
SPEAKER_00: No, they talked about a Jesus that cast out demons.
SPEAKER_00: He cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were sick.
SPEAKER_00: Romans Matthew 8, 17.
SPEAKER_00: Cast out the spirit with his word and healed all who were sick.
SPEAKER_00: They heard about a healing Jesus, a delivering Jesus, a merciful Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: They heard about a Jesus that was the Messiah.
SPEAKER_00: That's why she greeted him with, oh Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Lord means master.
SPEAKER_00: Oh master, thou son of David.
SPEAKER_00: You're the Messiah.
SPEAKER_00: You're not my Messiah, but you're the Messiah of these people.
SPEAKER_00: Have mercy on me too.
SPEAKER_00: And she didn't say too, but she just she just included herself as a non-covenant woman.
SPEAKER_00: She had no promise from God.
SPEAKER_00: She had no covenant with God.
SPEAKER_00: She had no right to even ask him, but she did anyway.
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: Have mercy on me, oh Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Oh sir.
SPEAKER_00: It means sir.
SPEAKER_00: It means master.
SPEAKER_00: Now, son of David, my daughter, is grievously vexed with a demon.
SPEAKER_00: That's my need.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus started weeping with her and hugged her.
SPEAKER_00: No, he answered her not a word.
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine?
SPEAKER_00: Answered her not a word.
SPEAKER_00: And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away.
SPEAKER_00: She cries after us.
SPEAKER_00: You do it and wouldn't give her the time of day, and now she's after us.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Get rid of her.
SPEAKER_00: She's crying after us.
SPEAKER_00: The word cry is crotzo.
SPEAKER_00: It means to shriek, it means to scream.
SPEAKER_00: She wasn't being quiet about it.
SPEAKER_00: She's disturbing our peace.
SPEAKER_00: Get her out.
SPEAKER_00: We can't have these running around the church.
SPEAKER_00: Stop that running.
SPEAKER_00: Unless you're just get those people running.
SPEAKER_00: Quit them, get them to stop running around the church.
SPEAKER_00: We can't have that.
SPEAKER_00: We can't have these people standing up and shouting and raising their hands.
SPEAKER_00: Let's get some order up in here.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to beat your knuckles with a ruler.
SPEAKER_00: See, I was trained in the Catholic.
SPEAKER_00: I had to cross my hands like this.
SPEAKER_00: Look down like this.
SPEAKER_00: Never don't be looking around like that.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to go, whap.
SPEAKER_00: A ruler comes from way back.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: They sound a longer ruler.
SPEAKER_00: Get rid of her.
SPEAKER_00: Send her away.
SPEAKER_00: She cries after us.
SPEAKER_00: But he answered and said to her, I'm not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not sent to you.
SPEAKER_00: I'm only sent to the lost sheep, which was accurate.
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
SPEAKER_00: Then came she.
SPEAKER_00: See, she's standing over here in the middle of all this people not wanting her to be there.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus wasn't giving her the time of day.
SPEAKER_00: The disciples didn't want to deal with her.
SPEAKER_00: She's not being accepted and received or even treated politely.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: How do people not be offended?
SPEAKER_00: How did she not just leave?
SPEAKER_00: How did she just shake the dust off her feet and just say, well, this is a bunch of phony baloney here?
SPEAKER_00: What I heard is not true.
SPEAKER_00: No, she didn't do that.
SPEAKER_00: She came to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: She came and she worshiped him.
SPEAKER_00: Worship means to lay prostrate on the ground.
SPEAKER_00: It means to kiss a hand like a little dog will lick your hand.
SPEAKER_00: She probably kissed his feet.
SPEAKER_00: She got right down on the ground in front of him, prostrated herself and worshiped him.
SPEAKER_00: See, when you worship somebody, you say they're God then, don't you?
SPEAKER_00: That's her violet faith, letting him know, you know, I know these people might be, you know, got your covenant, but I believe too.
SPEAKER_00: See, and not everybody that got something out of God was was really a Jew in the gospels.
SPEAKER_00: How about how about the Roman centurion?
SPEAKER_00: He wasn't a believer, but he came on behalf of his servant.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus marveled at his faith.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Oh, you don't have to come to my house.
SPEAKER_00: Just speak the word only, and my servant will be healed because I'm a man under authority.
SPEAKER_00: I know what authority looks like.
SPEAKER_00: And I say to this man, go and he goes, and this man come and he comes, and this man do that do this and he does it.
SPEAKER_00: I understand there's no nothing could happen unless you had the authority.
SPEAKER_00: So that's all I need out of you.
SPEAKER_00: Just speak the word.
SPEAKER_00: That's all I need.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus marveled.
SPEAKER_00: I have not found so great faith.
SPEAKER_00: No, not in Israel.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, folks, you're gonna have to have faith in this word that we have right now, to the exclusion of all the evidences that you see with your natural eyes.
SPEAKER_00: Violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Oh, it's not.
SPEAKER_00: He's he answered and said, it's not me to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
SPEAKER_00: Now he's calling her a dog.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know very many people that could stand that.
SPEAKER_00: I think most people would just be really offended, wouldn't they be?
SPEAKER_00: Let's be honest.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, people get offended at the silliest stuff.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, red carpet, yeah.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, people do.
SPEAKER_00: They get offended at the drop of a hat.
SPEAKER_00: Well, you didn't speak to me.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't even know you.
SPEAKER_00: And so he said, look, it's not, it's not meat, it's not proper, it's not in order to take the children's bread and cast it to the dog.
SPEAKER_00: And what did she say?
SPEAKER_00: I know that's right, preacher.
SPEAKER_00: You said it right.
SPEAKER_00: That's true, true, true.
SPEAKER_00: I agree with you.
SPEAKER_00: That's absolutely true.
SPEAKER_00: But let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_00: Even the little puppies eat the crumbs off of the master's table.
SPEAKER_00: She just called him master.
SPEAKER_00: Lord means master.
SPEAKER_00: Even even the little puppies, dogs means little dog or puppy.
SPEAKER_00: Even the little puppies eat the crumbs off the master's table.
SPEAKER_00: What is she saying?
SPEAKER_00: You know, Lord, I don't need a loaf of bread.
SPEAKER_00: I don't need a slice of bread.
SPEAKER_00: All I need is a crumb falling off the side of your mouth, and that's enough to drive the devil out of my daughter.
SPEAKER_00: I don't, they're not gonna miss the children.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on, lift your hand right now.
SPEAKER_00: Well, he gave us more than a crumb this year.
SPEAKER_00: He gave us more than a crumb this year.
SPEAKER_00: He said, I'm uh I'm gonna do new things, and that makes the old obsolete.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get rid of the obsolete.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, she she would not be denied, she would not be offended.
SPEAKER_00: She kept on until she got results.
SPEAKER_00: There's no quitting.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, and he sold Jesus, you know, at that.
SPEAKER_00: He went from paying no attention to really kind of insulting her.
SPEAKER_00: He told her the truth, but it was kind of brutal.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, let's face it.
SPEAKER_00: Let's face it.
SPEAKER_00: It it was it was why why would he do that?
SPEAKER_00: He he he had to test where her faith was.
SPEAKER_00: Many times Jesus is walking along and and he's about to go past.
SPEAKER_00: He was walking on the water, and it looked like he was gonna go past the boat, and they had to constrain him to come to the boat.
SPEAKER_00: When he was on the road to Emmaus, he was gonna go past the place where they took off and gonna go eat supper, and they had to constrain him.
SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes your faith has got to reach out and grab Jesus' attention, and no matter whether you've heard anything, whether you've seen anything, but your faith is still going, it's still out there.
SPEAKER_00: It will not be denied.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, Oh, woman, great is thy faith.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say that to the disciples.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Where is your faith?
SPEAKER_00: How is it that you have no faith?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the ones that travel with him all the time.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, there were times when how is it that you have no faith?
SPEAKER_00: Where is your faith?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, ye of little faith.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Jesus is always looking for faith, he's measuring faith.
SPEAKER_00: And he, where did he find the great faith?
SPEAKER_00: He found the great faith among the Gentiles.
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that amazing?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that makes the Jews so mad when that when he started preaching that it made them so mad they wanted to throw him off the hill.
SPEAKER_00: All through the Bible, you have non-covenant people receiving great things from God.
SPEAKER_00: See, so that that's a type and shadow of us.
SPEAKER_00: We except now we have a better covenant than they did.
SPEAKER_00: We have no excuse not to accept, not to get what we have coming to us.
SPEAKER_00: So, oh woman, great is thy faith.
SPEAKER_00: Be it unto thee even as you will.
SPEAKER_00: See, her desire was so big, it wouldn't be denied.
SPEAKER_00: And she got it just like she wanted it.
SPEAKER_00: This is Burger King.
SPEAKER_00: Special orders, don't it?
SPEAKER_00: Upset us.
SPEAKER_00: Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, so forth and so on.
SPEAKER_00: You can have it the way you want it, as you will.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say, My great mercy has made your daughter.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't even address the devil.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't cast the devil out of.
SPEAKER_00: He just said, Be it unto thee as you will.
SPEAKER_00: So her faith turned on the switch, and it says that the devil went out of her daughter in the same hour.
SPEAKER_00: Well, in the same hour, when you look that up in the in the Greek, it means at the selfsame moment.
SPEAKER_00: I mean instantly when he said that, the devil left her daughter.
SPEAKER_00: The devil, she's over there in Tyre somewhere on the other side of town, and he's over here, and he just said, Go your way, your uh be it unto thee, even as you will.
SPEAKER_00: Click, and that was it.
SPEAKER_00: That was the end of the devil.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on right now.
SPEAKER_00: What are we saying about our problem?
SPEAKER_00: What are we saying about the things that are we're facing?
SPEAKER_00: What do you will?
SPEAKER_00: What is your desire?
SPEAKER_00: Is it violent?
SPEAKER_00: Are you unwilling to live without it?
SPEAKER_00: See, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_00: That's so many times we face things and and and we and it's kind of a big thing, and we kind of equivocate and we say, well, you know, that's I don't it'd be great if I had that, but I don't have to have that.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's not that's not that doesn't make God glad.
SPEAKER_00: What makes God glad is that we want everything that Jesus' blood paid for.
SPEAKER_00: I think about Brother Hagin, you know, his story, and he was born a what we used to call a blue baby.
SPEAKER_00: He had a heart uh defect, and that he had circulation problems, and uh and then also he had I think like eight diseases of the blood.
SPEAKER_00: So he uh he was a uh a sickly child, and when he got to be a teenager, about 14, he he was paralyzed, he was so sick, uh he had to just lay in bed all day, and the doctors couldn't do anything with him.
SPEAKER_00: The doctors had no answer, and they talked to the grandmother and the mother and said, Look, you just have to get him to accept his fate.
SPEAKER_00: He's he's not gonna survive this uh this problem.
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's got too many problems, and then we and even if he gets up and he gets some you know short-term relief from it, uh I don't think they were treating it.
SPEAKER_00: They had nothing to give him.
SPEAKER_00: But he said, you know, if if perchance he did get back up and start to move around, he wouldn't live very long anyway.
SPEAKER_00: People with this syndrome may not live long lives.
SPEAKER_00: You're just gonna have to get him to understand this is how it is.
SPEAKER_00: And his uh pastor, the Baptist preacher, the Baptist guy said, Oh no, healing has passed away.
SPEAKER_00: He he just, I've come to get him comfortable with dying.
SPEAKER_00: He needs to get comfortable, he'd just go to heaven, and he just needs to understand that that healing is, you know, healing has passed away.
SPEAKER_00: Well, something in Brother Hagin would not be denied.
SPEAKER_00: You know, he had the beginnings of a violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: And I can understand that.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're 15, 16 years old, you don't want to die.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't want to die.
SPEAKER_00: But he read his Bible, and you know, he'd read it and he'd get a little help, and then the devil would come and discourage him.
SPEAKER_00: It was like this.
SPEAKER_00: And one day he was reading about the woman with the issue of blood, came in the press behind, touched him of Jesus' garment.
SPEAKER_00: For she said, If I can just touch him of his garment, I shall be whole.
SPEAKER_00: And when she touched it, he felt virtue or power go out of him, and she felt in her body she was healed of that plague.
SPEAKER_00: Said, Who touched me?
SPEAKER_00: I did.
SPEAKER_00: And said, Go your way.
SPEAKER_00: You've been healed of this plague.
SPEAKER_00: Your faith has made you whole.
SPEAKER_00: Your faith, not my mercy, not my goodness, nothing.
SPEAKER_00: Your faith made you whole.
SPEAKER_00: See, he's reading that.
SPEAKER_00: And the Holy Ghost one day.
SPEAKER_00: Even speak to the young Baptist boys that don't have the baptism.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Ghost spoke to him.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Have you uh ever heard anybody say that faith has been done away with?
SPEAKER_00: See, healing has been done away with, healing passed away.
SPEAKER_00: Have you ever heard anybody say faith has passed away?
SPEAKER_00: He said, Oh, well, no, Lord, I sure haven't.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody's ever said that to me.
SPEAKER_00: He said, No, and they won't, because if faith passed away, then nobody can ever be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody's lost and everybody's going to hell.
SPEAKER_00: So there's no faith, there's no salvation.
SPEAKER_00: You'll never hear that.
SPEAKER_00: Her faith made her whole, your faith makes you whole.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: It turned the flood lamp on in his spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And he began to say, I believe I've received healing from this malformed heart.
SPEAKER_00: I believe I've received healing from these blood diseases.
SPEAKER_00: I believe I've received my healing from being paralyzed.
SPEAKER_00: I believe I've received healing from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.
SPEAKER_00: And he put his feet over the bed and tried to stand.
SPEAKER_00: He got dizzy, couldn't stand up, so he went back to bed and came that afternoon, got up.
SPEAKER_00: This time he got up, walked across the room and got dressed and went down and ate a meal for the first time in a year and a half.
SPEAKER_00: His faith made him whole.
SPEAKER_00: But here's what I wanted you to see if you follow his life, which I have.
SPEAKER_00: There were numbers of occasions where the devil tried to steal that healing from him.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he got healed by his own faith, and I believe that's the best way to get healed.
SPEAKER_00: Because when you get healed by the laying on of hands by somebody else's faith or some healing meeting, that's fine.
SPEAKER_00: I'm glad.
SPEAKER_00: You get healed any way you can get it.
SPEAKER_00: But at some point you're going to have to believe for yourself.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to have to defend what God gives you.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to have to come, you're going to have to keep what God gives you.
SPEAKER_00: The devil will always come and try to take it back.
SPEAKER_00: And so one time he talks about, you know, in the middle of the night, he was traveling and he spent the night in the spare bedroom of the parsonage of the church where he was, you know, preaching a series of messages, and he woke up in the middle of the night with horrible symptoms.
SPEAKER_00: And the devil came to him and said, the devil said, This time you're not going to get your healing.
SPEAKER_00: And Brother Hagin just started laughing.
SPEAKER_00: Ha ha ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_00: Was it holy laughter?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Was it real laughter?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: He just made himself go, ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't feel like laughing.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't wasn't joyful like that.
SPEAKER_00: He just went, ha ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_00: He did that for 30, 45 minutes.
SPEAKER_00: Would you do that with symptoms raging in your heart?
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say what symptoms, but I can just imagine maybe angina, maybe hearts racing, maybe there's, you know, skipping a beat and all.
SPEAKER_00: I've had all kinds of symptoms in my past.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have them anymore.
SPEAKER_00: But I know what they are.
SPEAKER_00: He's just laughing.
SPEAKER_00: Ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_00: And finally, the devil says, What are you laughing at?
SPEAKER_00: He said, I'm laughing at you, Mr.
SPEAKER_00: Devil, because you said I'm not going to get my healing this time.
SPEAKER_00: I don't intend on getting it.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus got it for me.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have to get it.
SPEAKER_00: Ha ha ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_00: Take your symptoms and get out.
SPEAKER_00: And they did.
SPEAKER_00: And he went out.
SPEAKER_00: Another time.
SPEAKER_00: There were some alarming symptoms.
SPEAKER_00: And he, you know, he just was really resisting the devil, you know, believing God and speaking and confessing.
SPEAKER_00: But the symptoms remain.
SPEAKER_00: And on and on.
SPEAKER_00: He's battling this thing.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, and it took a while.
SPEAKER_00: He's already received his healing when he's 16, and here this stuff comes back when he's a preacher.
SPEAKER_00: And he's a whole lot more mature now.
SPEAKER_00: He's got the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_00: He's got more knowledge of the word, and yet here these symptoms come.
SPEAKER_00: Would he get offended?
SPEAKER_00: Did he get offended at God?
SPEAKER_00: Why, God, how come you allowed?
SPEAKER_00: See, get that out of your vocabulary.
SPEAKER_00: It's not God allowing anything.
SPEAKER_00: No, he didn't get offended.
SPEAKER_00: He just kept standing against it, and finally one night he went to sleep and he had a dream.
SPEAKER_00: And in the dream, him and another man were walking down this parade ground, beautiful green grass, looked like a football field, only that where you march and all that and have bleacher on one side.
SPEAKER_00: And they're there walking on this parade ground, and this man that was with him turned around and says, Oh, look, it's lions, run.
SPEAKER_00: And he broke out and started running away.
SPEAKER_00: And Brother Hagin looked over his shoulder and saw these two big old huge lions galloping toward him.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, In the dream, there's no point in running.
SPEAKER_00: I can't outrun these things.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to just stand my ground.
SPEAKER_00: He turned around and faced those lions.
SPEAKER_00: And they're running full speed toward him.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Man, I had goosebumps everywhere.
SPEAKER_00: He's in my and I just hair on the back of my neck rose up.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm I'm just, you know, it's it's a terrifying sight in the dream.
SPEAKER_00: And they they come right up to his feet and stop and they circle him and they sniff at his feet and they turned and trotted away.
SPEAKER_00: And he woke up and every symptom was gone.
SPEAKER_00: Because why?
SPEAKER_00: He because he had stood against that.
SPEAKER_00: He stood against it and stood against it.
SPEAKER_00: And yet another time.
SPEAKER_00: Even after that, another time, alarming symptoms.
SPEAKER_00: Symptoms that would send most people to the emergency room.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why he didn't go to the emergency room.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying don't go.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, I'm saying go when you have alarming symptoms.
SPEAKER_00: Don't fiddle around with it.
SPEAKER_00: Because we have a lot better medical care.
SPEAKER_00: But you know, in those days they didn't have much.
SPEAKER_00: You know, a stethoscope.
SPEAKER_00: You know, what are they gonna what are they gonna do?
SPEAKER_00: They didn't have what we have now.
SPEAKER_00: And I believe God provided all that in that area.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, uh so he kept resisting, resisting, and and and standing against these symptoms.
SPEAKER_00: And finally one day, he said, Lord, I'm telling you, I know that I know that I'm healed, and I'm not gonna come off this word.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna just I'm gonna prove it to you.
SPEAKER_00: And he just put that Bible on the floor, took his shoes off, and he stood.
SPEAKER_00: He stood on top of his Bible.
SPEAKER_00: He said, I'm standing on your word.
SPEAKER_00: Your word has to come to pass.
SPEAKER_00: It will come to pass.
SPEAKER_00: And every symptom left him.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hand right now.
SPEAKER_00: Talking about violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, 2026 is the year of the new.
SPEAKER_00: It's new health.
SPEAKER_00: Some of us need new health.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, that mountain that's been in your way.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he doesn't want you to live with it.
SPEAKER_00: He wants you to get rid of it once and for all.
SPEAKER_00: New prosperity.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't want you barely making it.
SPEAKER_00: He wouldn't, he doesn't want you to, you know, just be in constant financial pressure.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to provide a way for you to walk in his covenant, blessings of prosperity.
SPEAKER_00: New favor, new love in the home.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people get so crosswise with one another, you know, they just need something new to flow through the house.
SPEAKER_00: A fresh breeze, just blow all that uh conflict and all that mess out.
SPEAKER_00: That's the devil.
SPEAKER_00: Fill your house with an atmosphere of praise and begin to praise God for new love in your house, new love for your children, new, you know, end of conflict and disobedience and rebellion and all the stuff that we face nowadays.
SPEAKER_00: New doors of opportunity, new ways of speaking, new ways of thinking, new ways of doing things, new kingdom strategies.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, right now, let's lift our hands.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, you've got you've got a multitude of new things you want to do.
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know all about them yet.
SPEAKER_00: I know some of the things I want to go, and I'm standing against those things that I know have to go.
SPEAKER_00: And they are going in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The question is, are you prepared to answer the devil's attack with violent faith?
SPEAKER_00: Brother Haken did.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, people in the Bible did.
SPEAKER_00: You can't answer the devil's attack in the flesh.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to have you have to fight him in the arena of faith.
SPEAKER_00: That's the only arena where you win.
SPEAKER_00: You don't win in the natural, you don't win just working harder.
SPEAKER_00: I did you should you work hard?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I believe you ought to be faithful.
SPEAKER_00: Wherever you're working, you ought to give them a good day's work for a good day's pay.
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
SPEAKER_00: You ought to do what you can do.
SPEAKER_00: But but really, though, your real victory is in the area of your faith, in the spirit realm.
SPEAKER_00: All the victory starts in the spirit and your revelation of God's word and his will.
SPEAKER_00: So James chapter 4, verse 7 is just real simple.
SPEAKER_00: Three things.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, submit yourself to God.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, get on God's side.
SPEAKER_00: Line yourself in a get in alignment with God's plan.
SPEAKER_00: Get in alignment with God's thinking.
SPEAKER_00: The verse before that says, draw near to God and he'll draw near to you.
SPEAKER_00: I see people sometimes complaining about how they just feel like it's, well, when I pray, it just feels like it's brass.
SPEAKER_00: Well, quit going by how it feels.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says if you draw near to God, he'll draw near to you.
SPEAKER_00: And so then there won't be that feeling of a brass ceiling.
SPEAKER_00: Or whatever it is that you're describing.
SPEAKER_00: It's a bunch of baloney.
SPEAKER_00: That's just somebody's dumb religious excuse for not praying.
SPEAKER_00: See, some people are already offended.
SPEAKER_00: They've been offended ever since they got saved.
SPEAKER_00: I don't understand it.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I guess it's because they go to the wrong church, they hear the wrong message.
SPEAKER_00: But I mean, you know, if you're offended, you can't possibly get anything from God.
SPEAKER_00: So if you just own that it's your responsibility, you draw near to God, he'll draw near to you.
SPEAKER_00: Line up with his plan, line up with the new things he wants to do.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, resist the devil.
SPEAKER_00: We described resisting the devil.
SPEAKER_00: This woman this morning, she she resisted all attempts to say no.
SPEAKER_00: Really, legally, she had she did not have access, but her faith made a place for her.
SPEAKER_00: Because God, I'm telling you right now, God, God recognizes faith.
SPEAKER_00: He recognizes faith no matter who it's coming from.
SPEAKER_00: Resist the devil.
SPEAKER_00: Violently resist.
SPEAKER_00: Don't accept the status quo.
SPEAKER_00: Make him sorry he ever attacked you.
SPEAKER_00: How can I do that by telling everybody your victory?
SPEAKER_00: Talk about your victory all the time.
SPEAKER_00: Talk about what God did.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, just be a walk in testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody that stands that slows down fast, you know, to a walk, you just start walking with them and tell them everything Jesus did for me.
SPEAKER_00: This is all Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Brag on him.
SPEAKER_00: Brag on the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: And then finally, watch the devil flee as in terror.
SPEAKER_00: Watch the sickness flee.
SPEAKER_00: Watch the strife flee.
SPEAKER_00: Watch the lack in poverty flee.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, it's gonna go as if you just do the simple things this year.
SPEAKER_00: The simple things.
SPEAKER_00: Have the violent faith to bring in the new things.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hands and receive today.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I've got violent faith.
SPEAKER_00: I'm determined.
SPEAKER_00: I'm determined to have all the new.
SPEAKER_00: My share in the kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: I'm determined to have it.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: You know, your share doesn't diminish my share.
SPEAKER_00: That uh Saurophoenician woman, she got a hold of that.
SPEAKER_00: She said, you know, you're not going to miss a crumb off the loaf of bread.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the bread has belonged to the kids, but I just want a crumb.
SPEAKER_00: They're never going to even know that I was here.
SPEAKER_00: There's plenty enough healing for them when I leave.
SPEAKER_00: There's plenty enough healing.
SPEAKER_00: There's plenty.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody said, there's plenty for me, and there's plenty for all of us.
SPEAKER_00: That's why when someone gets what they've been believing for, we ought to be the loudest to rejoice.
SPEAKER_00: If we haven't had ours yet, we ought to be the loudest to rejoice.
SPEAKER_00: Amen?
SPEAKER_00: Because we know ours is on the way.