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00:00:00 God's house. Are you glad to be
00:00:06 in God's house? Can we make some
00:00:07 noise for our social global
00:00:09 family that's watching from
00:00:11 around the world? Come on.
00:00:13 Y'all could do better than that.
00:00:14 Second service. Y'all be
00:00:17 bougie. Love our social global
00:00:19 family. Let us know in the
00:00:21 chats where you're watching
00:00:22 from. Not only that, we want to
00:00:23 welcome all of our inmates that
00:00:25 are watching this message right
00:00:26 now on Pando. You're a part of
00:00:29 us. We love you so much. We are
00:00:31 in a series that we've simply
00:00:34 been calling God loves. God
00:00:40 loves blank. And I honestly
00:00:42 believe that this is more than
00:00:43 a series. This is something that
00:00:45 God is really trying to get in
00:00:47 our hearts. And this might be
00:00:49 the most important series that
00:00:51 we ever do as a church to
00:00:53 understand that God loves
00:00:56 blank because you cannot be a
00:00:59 believer and not love well.
00:01:01 This is a gospel of love. Take
00:01:05 away all the commandments, take
00:01:06 away all the scriptures and you
00:01:08 reduce it to two things. You
00:01:09 are to love the Lord your God
00:01:10 by your heart, soul, mind and
00:01:12 strength and then love your
00:01:14 neighbor as yourself. This is a
00:01:17 gospel of love. It is central
00:01:20 to what God has called us to do.
00:01:21 So every week we've been filling
00:01:23 in the blank of God loves blank.
00:01:26 We started off the series with
00:01:28 God loves sinners right at
00:01:30 Strauss Square. How many were
00:01:32 at that service at Strauss? It
00:01:34 was unbelievable. It was an
00:01:36 open heaven. Literally over 300
00:01:39 people got baptized in that
00:01:41 service. It was unbelievable.
00:01:44 We started off the series
00:01:46 saying God loves sinners that
00:01:49 the thing that connects every
00:01:50 single one of us is that we are
00:01:51 all sinners saved by grace that
00:01:56 they're really only two
00:01:57 categories of people. There are
00:01:58 lost and found and you are one
00:02:00 of those and yet we serve a
00:02:02 shepherd who will leave the 99
00:02:05 to go find the one. He'll go
00:02:08 find the one. Why? Because God
00:02:09 does not love us equally. He
00:02:11 loves us uniquely. He loves you
00:02:14 crazy you with all of your
00:02:17 idiosyncrasies and all of your
00:02:19 perks and all of your quirks.
00:02:20 He loves us uniquely. God loves
00:02:23 sinners. And then last week we
00:02:25 had Watch Party Sunday and we
00:02:28 have what I believe is a
00:02:29 crucial and critical
00:02:30 conversation that the church has
00:02:32 got to have because if the
00:02:33 world is going to be loud about
00:02:34 some stuff the church cannot
00:02:36 afford to be quiet about stuff.
00:02:38 And so we had a conversation
00:02:40 with Angel and Louise and it
00:02:43 was simply titled God loves the
00:02:45 LGBTQ and we heard their
00:02:47 powerful testimonies of how
00:02:50 they survived the Pulse nightclub
00:02:52 shooting and how God delivered
00:02:53 them from that lifestyle. And
00:02:56 today we're going to fill in
00:02:57 another blank. We're going to
00:02:59 fill in another blank. And if
00:03:01 you remember we began this
00:03:02 series by understanding that
00:03:04 this series is not just about
00:03:06 us comprehending God's love for
00:03:09 us. Although that is powerful.
00:03:11 It is powerful to consider God's
00:03:14 love for every single one of us.
00:03:16 As a matter of fact let's look
00:03:17 at it in Romans chapter 5 verse
00:03:18 number 8. I love this. It says
00:03:20 but God demonstrates his own
00:03:23 love for us in this while we
00:03:26 were still sinners Christ died
00:03:29 for us. Oh if that don't make
00:03:31 you shout and do the Holy Ghost
00:03:32 two step I don't know what else
00:03:34 we are to think that while we
00:03:36 were sinners Christ loved us
00:03:38 and died for us. He did not
00:03:39 wait for you to get yourself
00:03:41 together before he chose to
00:03:42 love you because you can't get
00:03:44 yourself together. He
00:03:46 demonstrated his love for us
00:03:48 and how many know we could spend
00:03:49 all of our lives and even
00:03:51 eternity trying to contemplate
00:03:54 God's unfathomable love. It's
00:03:56 what made the Apostle Paul and
00:03:57 Ephesians pray for the church
00:03:59 at Ephesus. He says I pray that
00:04:01 you would have the power to
00:04:02 comprehend how wide how long
00:04:06 how high how deep the love of
00:04:09 Christ is. We will spend
00:04:11 forever trying to understand
00:04:13 the longitude the latitude the
00:04:16 circumference and the scope of
00:04:17 God's love. But this series is
00:04:19 not just about us comprehending
00:04:20 God's love for us. It is about
00:04:22 God's love coming through us
00:04:25 that God's love has to come
00:04:28 through every single one of us.
00:04:31 So watch this. You cannot say
00:04:34 you love God who you haven't
00:04:35 seen and you don't love the
00:04:37 person sitting right next to
00:04:38 you. Some of you haven't even
00:04:39 talked to your neighbor all
00:04:40 service. Come on. That's what
00:04:42 60 Socialists for this is a
00:04:44 gospel of love. So if God is
00:04:49 perpetually filling in the
00:04:50 blanks of his love, how many
00:04:52 know we will have to as well
00:04:54 and I've learned it is easy to
00:04:58 fill in the blank for the
00:04:59 people that you already like.
00:05:01 It's easy to fill in the blank
00:05:04 of God loves the person that
00:05:07 you try to get a connection
00:05:09 with. Amen, but it's hard to
00:05:12 fill in the blank for the
00:05:13 people. You can't stand. What
00:05:16 do you do when God makes you
00:05:17 fill in the blank for someone
00:05:19 or some people group that you
00:05:21 don't like because I have
00:05:23 learned God will make you fill
00:05:24 in the blank for the people
00:05:26 you don't like newsflash. God
00:05:29 loves your haters newsflash.
00:05:32 God loves your ex. Oh, see
00:05:34 y'all don't like that newsflash.
00:05:37 God loves your boss is so easy
00:05:41 to fill in the blank for the
00:05:43 people that you already like
00:05:45 that you already love. So I
00:05:46 just want to warn you if you
00:05:47 want to leave now, this series
00:05:49 is going to challenge you. This
00:05:51 series is not for the week.
00:05:53 This series. First of all is
00:05:54 going to challenge the
00:05:55 hypocrisy and the Pharisee and
00:05:58 all of our hearts that wants
00:05:59 to selectively pick and choose
00:06:01 who we think deserves God's
00:06:03 love. This series is going to
00:06:05 challenge all of us. Not only
00:06:07 that this series who is going
00:06:08 to challenge us because of the
00:06:10 climate and the culture in
00:06:11 which we live because we live
00:06:13 in a culture that defines love
00:06:16 as the endorsement and the
00:06:18 acceptance of people's sinful
00:06:20 lifestyle. So they think that
00:06:23 if you love me, you'll just
00:06:24 accept me for who I am. But
00:06:26 that is not what God has called
00:06:28 us to do nor has he called the
00:06:29 church to do that. Ladies and
00:06:31 gentlemen, we have to live in
00:06:33 the tension of truth and love
00:06:36 truth and love. We have to
00:06:39 speak the truth in love. But
00:06:41 how many of you know we cannot
00:06:43 sacrifice truth on the altar
00:06:45 of love. We've got to live in
00:06:48 the tension of grace and truth
00:06:51 and truth and love. That is
00:06:53 the mandate. That is the
00:06:54 clarion call that is on every
00:06:57 single one of us as believers.
00:06:59 So get ready to live in the
00:07:00 tension of truth and love
00:07:04 because hear me God loves
00:07:06 sinners, but God doesn't love
00:07:08 sin because sin damages that
00:07:11 which he loves. God loves the
00:07:13 prostitute. God doesn't love
00:07:16 prostitution because
00:07:17 prostitution damages that which
00:07:19 he loves. God loves the liar.
00:07:21 God doesn't love lying because
00:07:24 lying damages that which he
00:07:26 loves. God loves the cheater.
00:07:28 God doesn't love cheating
00:07:30 because cheating damages that
00:07:33 which he loves. And today we
00:07:35 fill another blank and that is
00:07:38 God loves addicts. God loves
00:07:44 addicts. He doesn't love
00:07:46 addiction because addiction
00:07:49 damages that which he loves.
00:07:53 And the reason I felt it was
00:07:55 incumbent of all the blanks
00:07:57 that we could fill in to put
00:07:58 in this blank of addicts
00:08:01 because I can't think of
00:08:02 anything more damaging anything
00:08:06 that Mars the image of God
00:08:09 anything that causes more
00:08:10 affliction and mass destruction
00:08:13 than addiction. I don't care
00:08:16 who you are in this room or
00:08:18 watching online every single
00:08:20 person under the sound of my
00:08:21 voice knows what it's like to
00:08:24 deal with the pain of addiction
00:08:27 whether you are the person
00:08:28 that has the addiction or
00:08:30 whether there's somebody in
00:08:31 your life that is wrestling
00:08:34 with addiction. It is something
00:08:36 that affects every single one
00:08:39 of us. As a matter of fact
00:08:41 the National Center for Drug
00:08:43 Abuse says the United States
00:08:45 is currently facing a major
00:08:47 opioid crisis with a reported
00:08:50 2.1 million Americans suffering
00:08:53 from opioid use disorder since
00:08:57 the year 2000 nearly 1 million
00:09:00 people have died of a drug
00:09:02 overdose drug abuse and
00:09:05 addiction has cost the United
00:09:06 States over 700 billion dollars
00:09:10 annually in health care
00:09:12 expenses crime related costs
00:09:14 and lost workplace productivity
00:09:16 behind me. No, we don't have
00:09:18 to read all those stats. I
00:09:20 could pass the microphone
00:09:21 around today and people in
00:09:23 this room could tell you tragic
00:09:25 stories of families torn apart
00:09:28 fathers who aren't at dinner
00:09:31 tables mothers who are gone
00:09:34 cousins who have died over
00:09:36 this one issue of addiction.
00:09:40 Here's what I learned about
00:09:42 addiction is that addiction
00:09:44 does not discriminate. How
00:09:46 many know addiction doesn't
00:09:48 care whether you're young or
00:09:49 you're old whether you upper
00:09:51 class middle class lower class
00:09:52 or no class at all. I have
00:09:54 found that addiction is an
00:09:56 equal opportunity employer
00:09:59 addiction will place its hook
00:10:01 in the mouth of any person
00:10:03 that has breath in their body
00:10:05 how many know you can be
00:10:06 educated and addicted you can
00:10:09 be illiterate and addicted you
00:10:11 can be famous and addicted
00:10:14 you can be nameless and have
00:10:16 two Instagram followers and
00:10:17 still be addicted. You can
00:10:19 live in Highland Park and be
00:10:21 addicted. You can be homeless
00:10:24 and be addicted. You can have
00:10:26 a hoopty and be addicted. You
00:10:28 can be cruising in a Bentley
00:10:29 and be addicted. I know people
00:10:32 that know a whole lot of
00:10:34 verses of Scripture and got
00:10:35 Leviticus memorized and they
00:10:37 are addicted. I know people
00:10:38 that don't even know John 3
00:10:40 16 and they are addicted. You
00:10:43 can be an atheist and be
00:10:45 addicted and hear me wait for
00:10:47 it. You can be in relationship
00:10:50 with Jesus and still be
00:10:52 addicted. You can love God
00:10:55 with all of your heart and
00:10:56 still be wrestling with an
00:10:59 addiction. Hear me you can
00:11:01 be anointed and addicted. You
00:11:04 can be highly gifted and
00:11:07 addicted as a matter of fact
00:11:08 some of the most gifted
00:11:09 people we know are privately
00:11:12 wrestling with secret
00:11:13 addictions and people just
00:11:15 embrace their gift and think
00:11:17 that because their gift is
00:11:18 okay. They are okay. And so
00:11:20 they walk away from the
00:11:22 spotlight with their strong
00:11:23 gift and they wrestle and
00:11:25 they go to these secret places
00:11:27 with addiction because they
00:11:29 worked on their gift, but they
00:11:30 didn't work on their soul and
00:11:32 there's a difference between
00:11:33 your gift and who you really
00:11:35 are and that's why you gotta
00:11:36 be careful who you turn up
00:11:38 your nose and who you point
00:11:40 your finger at and say how
00:11:42 could they how can they live
00:11:43 with themselves? You don't
00:11:45 know who you could become if
00:11:47 your soul was left unattended
00:11:49 because I'm telling you
00:11:51 can grip anybody addiction
00:11:55 can grip the soul of any
00:11:58 person especially a soul that
00:12:00 has been left unattended be
00:12:03 careful what you say you'll
00:12:04 never do because you don't
00:12:06 know who you could become if
00:12:08 you did not do the work of
00:12:10 working on your soul. This
00:12:13 is the challenge because life
00:12:15 is hard and life will life
00:12:17 on you sometimes and we all
00:12:19 go through some things and
00:12:20 even when I put my faith in
00:12:22 Jesus, yes, my spirit which
00:12:24 was dead came to life. But
00:12:25 how many of you know my soul
00:12:27 is being transformed my soul
00:12:30 that has my emotions and my
00:12:31 will it is being transformed
00:12:33 day by day and every day is
00:12:36 another battle and another
00:12:37 fight to crucify my flesh
00:12:40 and to surrender myself to
00:12:42 God because the challenge of
00:12:44 life is to fight the sin
00:12:47 nature on the inside of us
00:12:50 that would love for us to
00:12:51 be mastered by something hear
00:12:54 me the reason why this message
00:12:55 is critical for our body
00:12:58 our body is because sin by
00:13:03 its nature is addictive sin
00:13:06 by its nature wants to master
00:13:09 you it is addictive and to
00:13:11 all you who are super
00:13:12 spiritual right now and you're
00:13:13 ready to send this message to
00:13:14 somebody else like and that's
00:13:16 for that heroin addict that
00:13:17 really needs this I have been
00:13:18 saved my whole life and I
00:13:20 flipped it into church today
00:13:21 and I had communion for
00:13:22 breakfast and I really don't
00:13:23 need this okay all right if
00:13:25 that's you I want you to
00:13:26 explain to me Romans chapter
00:13:27 seven what Paul says in Romans
00:13:29 chapter 7 verse number 21 this
00:13:31 is the Apostle Paul who wrote
00:13:33 most of your New Testament
00:13:34 look at what Paul says in
00:13:35 Romans chapter 7 y'all got in
00:13:36 that bite-sized font y'all
00:13:37 know I'm getting old I mean
00:13:39 I got my glasses on can you
00:13:40 make it bigger there never
00:13:41 mind I'll read it here look
00:13:42 at what Paul said he says so
00:13:44 I find this law at work
00:13:47 although I want to do good
00:13:49 evil is right there with me
00:13:52 for in my inner being I
00:13:54 delight in God's law but I
00:13:56 see another law at work in
00:13:59 me waging war against the
00:14:01 law of my mind and making
00:14:03 me a prisoner of the law
00:14:04 of sin at work within me
00:14:07 what a wretched man I
00:14:09 have who will rescue me
00:14:11 from this body that is
00:14:13 subject to death that is
00:14:15 Paul being open and
00:14:16 vulnerable saying yes I'm
00:14:18 an apostle and yes I'm
00:14:19 writing the Bible that you
00:14:20 gonna read but I still live
00:14:22 in this body of flesh and
00:14:24 it is a war on the inside
00:14:26 of me to not become
00:14:28 subjugated to the sin
00:14:29 nature that wants to master
00:14:31 me and I love that he
00:14:32 talks about the battle but
00:14:33 then he has a praise break
00:14:34 right after the battle he
00:14:36 says thanks be to God who
00:14:37 delivers me through Jesus
00:14:39 Christ our Lord
00:14:41 he's talking about the
00:14:43 struggle he's talking about
00:14:44 the battle that all of us
00:14:46 are susceptible to being
00:14:48 addicts of anything here's
00:14:51 what I found out addiction
00:14:53 is often the fruit addiction
00:14:56 is often the symptom the
00:14:58 root of the problem is
00:15:00 idolatry the root of every
00:15:04 addiction is really
00:15:06 idolatry addiction is a
00:15:08 worship problem because
00:15:10 whatever you're addicted to
00:15:11 is what you're constantly
00:15:12 thinking about is what you
00:15:13 easily go to at the root
00:15:15 of every addiction is the
00:15:17 issue of idolatry because
00:15:20 we are allowing something
00:15:21 besides God to control
00:15:23 troll us that's why you
00:15:25 got to be careful what
00:15:26 you think you're free to
00:15:27 do because every addict
00:15:31 was first free to do what
00:15:33 they now can't stop doing
00:15:35 this is the challenge of
00:15:38 sin the challenge of sin
00:15:40 is first you do it and
00:15:43 then it does you
00:15:45 it becomes your master it
00:15:47 controls you and all of
00:15:49 us have that within us to
00:15:50 be mastered to be ruled
00:15:52 at the root of all
00:15:53 addiction is idolatry this
00:15:55 is why I will never
00:15:56 apologize for us praising
00:15:58 God exuberantly I was
00:15:59 telling them today you can
00:16:00 turn up the volume I will
00:16:02 never apologize for jumping
00:16:03 up and down and worship
00:16:05 but praising God I'm
00:16:06 never apologizing for
00:16:07 being generous and
00:16:08 forgiven and here's why
00:16:10 because I watched a lot
00:16:11 of y'all I watched all
00:16:12 y'all at the Taylor Swift
00:16:13 concert I watched y'all
00:16:15 at the Drizzy concert I
00:16:17 watched y'all at the
00:16:18 Beyonce concert all y'all
00:16:20 gladly gave in the
00:16:21 offering there I saw
00:16:23 people losing they mind
00:16:24 in arenas for Taylor
00:16:26 Swift for Drizzy for
00:16:27 Beyonce I ain't judging
00:16:29 you I'm just saying the
00:16:30 reason there was
00:16:31 something in you that
00:16:32 got dressed that got
00:16:33 ready that put on all
00:16:34 that glitter that started
00:16:35 shaking and dancing and
00:16:37 were unashamed to do it
00:16:39 the reason why you
00:16:40 excited about your favorite
00:16:41 sports team and you have
00:16:43 no problem losing your
00:16:44 mind in an arena is
00:16:45 because God put that in
00:16:47 you he put it in us to
00:16:48 worship he put it in us
00:16:50 to adore but it's got to
00:16:52 be put in the right
00:16:53 direction all of us are
00:17:00 worshipers every single
00:17:03 one of us worship
00:17:04 something it's never a
00:17:06 question of are you
00:17:07 going to worship it's
00:17:08 always a question of
00:17:09 what will you worship
00:17:13 so I want to ask you
00:17:14 what are you addicted
00:17:17 to see that's that's a
00:17:20 bad question because if
00:17:21 I ask that question you
00:17:22 immediately go to the
00:17:23 person that strung out
00:17:24 on the hardest drug you're
00:17:25 like well I'm not them
00:17:26 look at me I came to
00:17:28 church looking good no
00:17:29 I'm not them okay better
00:17:30 question what are you
00:17:34 mastered by yeah
00:17:37 actually let's go deeper
00:17:39 because that's that's too
00:17:40 much for some of y'all
00:17:41 here's the question what
00:17:45 do you consistently and
00:17:49 easily bow to if you
00:17:54 want some blues clues
00:17:55 after what you might be
00:17:56 addicted to look at what
00:17:59 you consistently and
00:18:00 easily bow to because
00:18:04 addiction at its root is
00:18:06 idolatry and it's all
00:18:08 about worship what do
00:18:09 you consistently bow to
00:18:11 whatever you consistently
00:18:12 and easily bow to that's
00:18:14 what you're addicted to
00:18:15 what do you bow to
00:18:17 what do you can see
00:18:23 but it's legal I know
00:18:27 but what do you
00:18:27 consistently
00:18:28 what do you consistently
00:18:36 bow to have a hit
00:18:39 what do you consistently
00:18:42 yeah you first took the
00:18:44 pills for the accident
00:18:45 but the accident is long
00:18:46 gone and now you can
00:18:49 sisterly bow to what on
00:18:53 your computer
00:18:54 late at night staring at
00:19:00 video after video deleting
00:19:03 your browser history what
00:19:05 what do you bow to I
00:19:08 don't know yours not
00:19:09 pornography but you on
00:19:10 the screen and you
00:19:10 clicking on Amazon because
00:19:12 oh yeah yours is yours
00:19:16 isn't lost my goodness
00:19:18 that's gross you you
00:19:19 just you just consistently
00:19:22 by and your bow is to
00:19:24 Amazon even when it
00:19:25 comes to your front door
00:19:26 you still what what
00:19:31 what do you consistently
00:19:34 bow to
00:19:35 just gambling your life
00:19:39 savings or what all of
00:19:41 us bow to something we
00:19:43 all is the thing you
00:19:45 consistently what
00:19:46 it's the thing that you
00:19:54 consistently bow to so
00:19:58 of course we judge the
00:20:00 heroin addict oh my
00:20:01 goodness are you serious
00:20:03 but you don't realize
00:20:04 that your your needle is
00:20:05 the one that you pull
00:20:06 out all the time trying
00:20:10 to get a digital hit of
00:20:11 dopamine have you ever
00:20:15 looked at your screen
00:20:16 time to see how much
00:20:23 time I spent but it's
00:20:25 the thing that I
00:20:26 consistently and easily
00:20:29 now I know why God
00:20:34 loves addicts now I
00:20:37 know why God is obsessed
00:20:40 with addicts the reason
00:20:42 God loves addicts is
00:20:43 because every addict is
00:20:45 a worshiper every addict
00:20:47 is somebody that has
00:20:48 bowed their head to
00:20:50 something consistently
00:20:52 and easily and God
00:20:53 knows that the fact
00:20:54 that you got addicted
00:20:56 proves that you are
00:20:57 hardwired for worship
00:20:58 the fact that you got
00:20:59 addicted to it means
00:21:01 that your soul actually
00:21:02 wants to be taken
00:21:03 captive by something
00:21:05 so the reason God
00:21:07 loves addicts because
00:21:08 he knows that if that
00:21:09 addiction can get all
00:21:10 your attention if he
00:21:12 could ever get the same
00:21:13 amount of attention
00:21:14 if he could ever switch
00:21:16 your addiction if he
00:21:17 could ever get you to
00:21:19 run to his spirit like
00:21:20 you ran to that bottle
00:21:21 if he could ever get
00:21:22 you to light up over
00:21:24 his word like you
00:21:25 light up when your
00:21:26 ex text you if he
00:21:27 could ever get you to
00:21:29 run to church like you
00:21:30 run to the pill he
00:21:32 would get the best
00:21:33 worshiper he's ever
00:21:35 seen and hell would
00:21:36 be nervous we just
00:21:38 gotta switch your
00:21:42 addiction I wish I
00:21:43 had some Jesus addicts
00:21:45 in this place that
00:21:46 aren't ashamed to
00:21:48 open up your mouth
00:21:49 and lift up your
00:21:50 hands and give him
00:21:52 the praise guess who
00:21:53 I want to be addicted
00:21:55 to no wonder he
00:22:00 loves addicts every
00:22:03 addict is just a
00:22:04 worshiper that's got
00:22:06 to switch their
00:22:07 attention no wonder
00:22:10 he loves addicts
00:22:11 because he knows that
00:22:14 if that can take you
00:22:15 captive and leave
00:22:16 you bound if you
00:22:18 would ever let me
00:22:19 take you captive if
00:22:22 you ever gave yourself
00:22:23 fully to me like you
00:22:24 gave yourself to that
00:22:26 I could do something
00:22:28 incredible in your
00:22:29 life our God is
00:22:31 obsessed with addicts
00:22:34 because in addiction
00:22:36 is a worship problem
00:22:38 and he wants your
00:22:40 gaze he wants your
00:22:41 attention our God
00:22:43 loves addicts because
00:22:44 he is the great
00:22:45 liberator who
00:22:46 specializes in setting
00:22:47 people free if you
00:22:49 don't believe that
00:22:51 God is a great
00:22:52 liberator you better
00:22:53 ask the children of
00:22:54 Israel who for 400
00:22:56 years had themselves
00:22:57 in shackles and
00:22:59 chains and they were
00:23:00 slaves they were
00:23:01 addicts to a system
00:23:03 in Egypt and after
00:23:04 400 years God
00:23:06 liberated them and
00:23:07 set them free use
00:23:09 Moses at his mouthpiece
00:23:11 to tell Pharaoh let
00:23:12 my people go because
00:23:14 God is a liberator
00:23:17 and he wants to set
00:23:18 you free how do you
00:23:20 know they were
00:23:20 addicts because they
00:23:21 tried to go back
00:23:22 isn't that crazy
00:23:26 the thing that God
00:23:28 pulled them out of
00:23:29 they were crying we
00:23:30 saw sick of Egypt
00:23:31 Lord please get us
00:23:33 out of here Lord if
00:23:33 you ever get me out
00:23:35 of you know that
00:23:35 prayer you pray Lord
00:23:36 if you just ever get
00:23:37 me out of this you're
00:23:38 playing that 9-1-1
00:23:38 prayer God I promise
00:23:40 this the last time
00:23:41 just get me out of
00:23:42 this and he gets
00:23:45 you out and isn't
00:23:47 it crazy that they
00:23:47 were feeling to go
00:23:50 back to Egypt
00:23:52 because it became
00:23:53 their addiction
00:23:54 that's what they were
00:23:56 addicted to and God
00:23:58 the great liberator
00:23:59 all throughout the
00:24:00 whole Testament you
00:24:00 see him trying to
00:24:02 pull his people away
00:24:04 from other gods and
00:24:06 other idols trying to
00:24:07 let them know those
00:24:09 idols are going to
00:24:09 keep you more bound
00:24:10 but I'm the only one
00:24:12 that has captivity
00:24:13 that actually brings
00:24:14 you Liberty and
00:24:15 freedom look at what
00:24:17 our God does and
00:24:18 Luke chapter 4 I'm
00:24:19 gonna read it but
00:24:19 before I read it let
00:24:20 me set it up it's a
00:24:21 powerful powerful moment
00:24:22 in Scripture Jesus he
00:24:24 goes into the temple
00:24:25 and the Bible says
00:24:26 that he was given a
00:24:29 scroll this isn't
00:24:30 abnormal because in
00:24:31 that time period they
00:24:33 would divide up the
00:24:34 Torah between different
00:24:36 families because the
00:24:37 scrolls were so
00:24:37 precious in the synagogue
00:24:39 and they would divide
00:24:40 up the Torah between
00:24:41 different families and
00:24:42 it was the family's
00:24:42 responsibility to hold
00:24:43 on to their section of
00:24:46 the Torah and they
00:24:47 would come into the
00:24:48 synagogue on certain
00:24:50 days and it was your
00:24:50 responsibility to read
00:24:52 the section that had
00:24:54 been given to your
00:24:54 family and Jesus steps
00:24:57 into the synagogue in
00:24:58 Luke chapter 4 and he
00:24:59 is about to read the
00:25:01 section that would
00:25:02 have been allotted to
00:25:03 him and his family
00:25:04 and of all the verses
00:25:07 that were given to
00:25:07 him he quotes Isaiah
00:25:09 chapter 61 let's look
00:25:11 at it in verse and
00:25:12 Luke chapter 4 it
00:25:13 says the Spirit of the
00:25:14 Lord is upon me
00:25:16 because he has anointed
00:25:18 me to preach the gospel
00:25:20 to the poor he has
00:25:21 sent me to heal the
00:25:23 brokenhearted to
00:25:24 proclaim Liberty to
00:25:26 the captives and
00:25:27 recovery of sight to
00:25:28 the blind to set at
00:25:30 Liberty those who are
00:25:32 oppressed to proclaim
00:25:33 the acceptable year of
00:25:35 the Lord and after he
00:25:37 read that he just sat
00:25:38 down in the temple
00:25:40 are you kidding me of
00:25:41 all the things that
00:25:42 Jesus could have read
00:25:44 of all the portions
00:25:45 of the Old Testament
00:25:46 to be allotted to him
00:25:47 he gets Isaiah 61
00:25:49 that says this is a
00:25:50 God who has an
00:25:51 anointing to preach
00:25:53 the good news to the
00:25:54 poor and to preach
00:25:55 Liberty to the
00:25:56 captives but it
00:25:57 doesn't just stop at
00:25:58 proclamation it goes
00:25:59 to emancipation and
00:26:01 he says I came to
00:26:02 set the captives free
00:26:04 do you think God
00:26:06 can't set you free
00:26:07 when he said this is
00:26:10 what I was put on
00:26:11 earth to do he
00:26:12 said this scripture
00:26:13 is fulfilled in me
00:26:15 today that I am the
00:26:17 great liberator no
00:26:19 wonder God loves
00:26:20 addicts it's because
00:26:21 he loves setting
00:26:23 people free so
00:26:26 I want to ask you
00:26:26 today how does
00:26:29 addiction start how
00:26:32 does addiction start
00:26:33 maybe you're in here
00:26:35 and your addiction
00:26:37 has gotten farther
00:26:40 than you wanted it to
00:26:41 go and you're asking
00:26:43 yourself how did I
00:26:44 get here I think
00:26:47 it's important to ask
00:26:48 yourself where did
00:26:49 it start how does
00:26:51 addiction start
00:26:51 addiction I used to
00:26:54 think it started with
00:26:55 temptation but it
00:26:56 doesn't start with
00:26:57 temptation addiction
00:26:58 starts with deception
00:26:59 it's deception it
00:27:03 goes actually like this
00:27:04 deception temptation
00:27:08 sin habitual sin
00:27:13 addiction one more
00:27:15 time for those of you
00:27:16 that are sleeping in
00:27:16 the back of my mind
00:27:18 deception
00:27:21 temptation
00:27:23 sin habitual sin
00:27:27 and now you're addicted
00:27:29 but it started with
00:27:31 deception and here's
00:27:33 the deception is not
00:27:34 a big deal.
00:27:35 It's just small.
00:27:38 This is going to bring
00:27:40 me peace.
00:27:41 I need this to relax.
00:27:44 It ain't that bad.
00:27:47 I hear I ain't doing it
00:27:49 like they doing it.
00:27:50 I mean I ain't way out
00:27:52 there.
00:27:53 Mine's just little
00:27:54 but it starts with
00:27:56 deception.
00:27:57 Let me see if I can break
00:27:58 it down.
00:27:59 God always make sure
00:28:00 make sure that my
00:28:00 personal life gives you
00:28:02 an illustration.
00:28:03 Many of you will know
00:28:04 that this week something
00:28:05 happened this actually
00:28:06 last week something
00:28:06 happened in our family.
00:28:07 We had a new addition
00:28:08 new addition in our
00:28:10 family not a child.
00:28:11 No don't clap.
00:28:12 We got we got another
00:28:15 dog. We got another
00:28:16 dog. We got another dog
00:28:17 and you have to know I
00:28:18 am not a dog person.
00:28:20 Okay. Matter of fact,
00:28:21 I told my beautiful
00:28:22 bride when we got
00:28:23 married. I said I don't
00:28:24 do animals. No dogs
00:28:26 since then. We have
00:28:27 two dogs. We've had
00:28:28 squirrels. We've had
00:28:29 parakeets. We've had
00:28:30 bunnies. We've had birds.
00:28:32 We've had all kinds of
00:28:32 animals proof that I
00:28:33 don't have any control
00:28:34 in my home.
00:28:36 So we got a golden doodle
00:28:38 first Theo. I've
00:28:39 tolerated him for six
00:28:41 years. He's not my
00:28:42 favorite. He needs
00:28:43 deliverance and I still
00:28:44 have issues with him.
00:28:46 But we got a new dog.
00:28:47 His name is Bruno.
00:28:50 Can y'all put Bruno on
00:28:52 the screen?
00:28:52 That's what I said.
00:28:54 Y'all you don't
00:28:56 understand. I get what
00:28:58 you dog lovers go
00:29:00 through now because
00:29:01 Bruno is different.
00:29:02 No, he's not like
00:29:04 he's not like Theo
00:29:05 this dog. He loves
00:29:07 me. I come in the
00:29:07 house. He runs up to
00:29:09 me right to my feet.
00:29:10 He licks my face.
00:29:12 He is the cutest
00:29:13 little thing. I look
00:29:14 forward to coming home
00:29:15 to Bruno every single
00:29:17 day. He is the best
00:29:18 dog. He's smart.
00:29:20 He obeys unlike
00:29:22 Theo. I love Bruno
00:29:25 have the best time
00:29:26 with Bruno. I let
00:29:27 Bruno come in my car
00:29:29 let him just chill
00:29:30 going around with me.
00:29:31 I love little Bruno.
00:29:32 He's so sweet licks
00:29:33 my little face having
00:29:34 the best time with
00:29:35 Bruno until two nights
00:29:36 ago. Bruno's been
00:29:40 amazing. He's been a
00:29:42 stellar dog until two
00:29:43 nights ago two nights
00:29:45 ago Bruno got a
00:29:47 little bone. I gave
00:29:49 him his little ball and
00:29:50 he's there with his
00:29:50 bone and I go to
00:29:51 take the bone away
00:29:53 from Bruno. I don't
00:29:55 know if you know if
00:29:55 you little right roller.
00:29:56 I go to take the
00:29:58 bone away from Bruno
00:30:00 to put him in his
00:30:01 crate my little sweet
00:30:03 shoot Bruno when I
00:30:06 went to take that
00:30:07 bone away. He looked
00:30:08 back and went. I
00:30:12 said Bruno. This is
00:30:15 not you don't do
00:30:16 that. Don't do that
00:30:17 member. Remember you
00:30:17 were licking my face
00:30:18 and licking my paw.
00:30:19 I go back to take
00:30:21 the bone again. This
00:30:22 one. I said, oh
00:30:24 Taylor come get your
00:30:25 dog. Because I
00:30:29 forgot that this is
00:30:32 a rottweiler and
00:30:34 although he is cute
00:30:35 and although he is
00:30:36 small and although
00:30:38 I love him and
00:30:39 although he is my
00:30:40 pet and although
00:30:41 that is the cutest
00:30:42 little face right
00:30:44 now at 12 weeks. I
00:30:46 cannot forget and
00:30:47 that little girl
00:30:48 reminded me this
00:30:50 is Bruno right
00:30:52 here. No, I've
00:30:56 seen his mama and
00:30:57 his daddy. That is a
00:30:58 preview of a coming
00:31:00 attraction. That
00:31:04 little is going to
00:31:06 turn into that. And
00:31:09 if I don't get this
00:31:10 little thing under
00:31:11 control. If I don't
00:31:17 teach him now who
00:31:18 his master is I'm
00:31:21 gonna be walking
00:31:21 around my whole house
00:31:23 scared trying to
00:31:24 figure out where to
00:31:25 sit. Now you tell me
00:31:25 what it said. I'll
00:31:26 see it. Okay. We're
00:31:27 here in my own
00:31:29 home because that
00:31:31 which starts off so
00:31:32 small always grows
00:31:36 to something larger.
00:31:37 I'm pleading with
00:31:40 somebody in here
00:31:41 today to let you
00:31:43 know that deception
00:31:44 is always the Genesis
00:31:48 of addiction. You
00:31:51 think is so small.
00:31:52 Do you think is so
00:31:54 cute? You think you
00:31:56 can handle it until
00:31:58 it becomes your
00:31:59 master? I'm not
00:32:02 preaching this as
00:32:03 somebody who's
00:32:05 standing at a
00:32:05 distance going.
00:32:08 This is something
00:32:08 y'all got to work
00:32:11 through. I preach
00:32:12 this as somebody
00:32:13 who knows what
00:32:15 it's like to
00:32:17 wrestle with addiction
00:32:18 said dictated to
00:32:20 pornography and it
00:32:23 started off small
00:32:24 small. It started
00:32:27 off with 11 year
00:32:28 old Robert going to
00:32:29 check the mail one
00:32:30 day and in the mail
00:32:32 was a Victoria's
00:32:33 Secret catalog. And
00:32:37 that's what piqued
00:32:38 my interest. I
00:32:40 said, wait a minute.
00:32:40 I like what I see
00:32:42 how many know natural
00:32:44 reaction for me to
00:32:45 find attraction. This
00:32:48 is what the enemy
00:32:49 always prays upon the
00:32:51 enemy wants you to
00:32:51 fulfill a legitimate
00:32:53 desire in the wrong
00:32:54 way. So often he
00:32:57 will pray on our
00:32:59 natural longings for
00:33:00 peace for love for
00:33:02 joy for comfort, but
00:33:04 he wants you to
00:33:05 fulfill it in an
00:33:06 illegitimate way
00:33:07 outside of God and
00:33:09 I'll tell you this
00:33:10 will give it to you
00:33:11 more than God can
00:33:12 and what started
00:33:13 with the Victoria's
00:33:14 Secret catalog small
00:33:17 crow and crow and
00:33:20 crow and sought to
00:33:22 destroy my marriage
00:33:24 until I got to the
00:33:26 place. I said I am
00:33:27 tired of being
00:33:29 mastered by this and
00:33:31 I got to the place
00:33:31 that somebody has to
00:33:32 get to where I said
00:33:33 I've got to come
00:33:35 clean and come out
00:33:36 of secrecy and hiding
00:33:38 and come out of
00:33:39 denial and say this
00:33:41 is an issue and I
00:33:42 need help. That's
00:33:45 the challenge for
00:33:46 some of you. The
00:33:47 first step is just
00:33:49 to get it out of
00:33:50 secrecy. No wonder
00:33:52 it's growing. No
00:33:53 wonder is festering
00:33:54 the enemy wants you
00:33:56 to keep quiet. He
00:33:57 wants you to keep it
00:33:58 in the dark. God
00:34:00 cannot heal that
00:34:02 which you keep trying
00:34:03 to cover and conceal.
00:34:04 I'm telling you
00:34:05 anything that you
00:34:06 expose our God
00:34:09 because he loves you
00:34:10 will cover but
00:34:12 anything you keep
00:34:13 trying to cover God
00:34:16 will expose and
00:34:19 the exposure is not
00:34:21 to destroy you. It's
00:34:23 because he loves you
00:34:24 and he doesn't want
00:34:25 you stuck in the
00:34:27 cycle of addiction.
00:34:29 That's the worship
00:34:31 team to come but
00:34:32 when I think of
00:34:33 addiction and I look
00:34:35 at the word of God.
00:34:36 I think of this man
00:34:38 Mark chapter number
00:34:39 five. If there was
00:34:41 ever a movie that
00:34:44 Hollywood should
00:34:46 release on Halloween
00:34:47 about a man in the
00:34:49 Bible, this should be
00:34:50 this man in Mark
00:34:52 chapter 5. He's got
00:34:54 to be one of the
00:34:55 scariest figures in
00:34:58 the Bible that Jesus
00:34:59 encounters and I
00:35:00 almost have issue with
00:35:01 Mark because Mark
00:35:02 doesn't tell us how
00:35:04 he got to the place
00:35:06 he was in. That's
00:35:08 the challenge with
00:35:08 judging people with
00:35:09 addictions is sometimes
00:35:10 you don't understand
00:35:12 how they even got
00:35:13 there. The Bible
00:35:14 tells us how Jesus
00:35:15 got there before he
00:35:16 encountered this man.
00:35:17 Really when you get
00:35:19 to the crib in Mark
00:35:20 chapter 5 Jesus is
00:35:21 with his disciples
00:35:22 and he says hey
00:35:24 let's go to the other
00:35:25 side and they get
00:35:28 ready to go to the
00:35:28 other side and when I
00:35:29 used to preach this
00:35:30 passage I would preach
00:35:31 the other side. I'd
00:35:32 be like whoo how
00:35:33 many know if God
00:35:33 said you're going to
00:35:34 get to the other
00:35:35 side you go get to
00:35:36 the other side. There
00:35:37 is a promise on the
00:35:38 other side and oh I
00:35:39 preach the other side
00:35:41 like the other side
00:35:41 was your dream your
00:35:42 business your spouse
00:35:44 your house all get to
00:35:45 the other side. How
00:35:47 many know you got to
00:35:47 study the Bible not
00:35:48 just the languages not
00:35:49 just the context you
00:35:50 got to study the
00:35:51 geography and I
00:35:54 studied the geography
00:35:55 and I found out the
00:35:57 other side was Gentile
00:35:58 territory. The other
00:36:01 side for the disciples
00:36:02 with this place that
00:36:03 they had been avoiding
00:36:04 their entire life and
00:36:06 they didn't want to
00:36:07 go it was the place
00:36:08 and the people they
00:36:09 had been avoiding
00:36:10 their entire life and
00:36:13 Jesus was trying to
00:36:14 reveal to them. I
00:36:15 don't just love the
00:36:17 Jews. I love Gentiles
00:36:20 too. I fill in the
00:36:22 blank for all people
00:36:24 God will often take
00:36:26 you to the other side
00:36:27 to let you know the
00:36:30 width and the breadth
00:36:31 of his love. They
00:36:33 get ready to go to
00:36:34 the other side. Can
00:36:34 you see him with
00:36:35 attitude think about
00:36:36 the people you don't
00:36:36 like think about your
00:36:37 hater. Can you imagine
00:36:38 God said hey, let's go
00:36:39 to their house and on
00:36:41 the way there a storm
00:36:42 breaks out which
00:36:43 probably to them is
00:36:44 evidence. We ain't
00:36:44 supposed to go over
00:36:45 there. See it's a
00:36:47 storm. Come on.
00:36:47 Imagine God telling
00:36:48 you go to your haters
00:36:49 house and all of a
00:36:50 sudden your car won't
00:36:50 start you like well
00:36:51 Lord, I tried a storm
00:36:55 breaks out on the
00:36:57 way to the other
00:36:59 side that they don't
00:37:00 want to go to to the
00:37:01 people. They don't
00:37:02 even like and in the
00:37:05 storm Jesus has
00:37:06 insulted injury because
00:37:07 he's sleeping now.
00:37:10 They're mad. I know
00:37:11 you don't care about
00:37:12 us making us go to
00:37:13 the other side to a
00:37:14 place. We don't like
00:37:15 the people we don't
00:37:16 like and now a
00:37:16 storm is breaking
00:37:17 out and you sleeping
00:37:18 don't you care and
00:37:20 he gets up in the
00:37:20 storm cool calm and
00:37:22 collected says peace
00:37:24 be still and the
00:37:26 winds and the waves
00:37:28 stop they get to
00:37:31 the other side. But
00:37:31 before they do they
00:37:33 Marvel and say who
00:37:34 is this man that even
00:37:36 the winds and the
00:37:37 waves obey him but
00:37:39 right there on the
00:37:40 shore waiting for
00:37:41 them on the other
00:37:41 side is a man to to
00:37:43 me personifies
00:37:44 addiction because
00:37:47 his life is a mess.
00:37:48 He's in isolation.
00:37:51 The Bible says that
00:37:54 he was naked which
00:37:55 means he had shame.
00:37:57 I can see his hair
00:38:00 that hasn't been
00:38:01 combed I can smell
00:38:03 the terrible stench
00:38:08 of a man who hasn't
00:38:10 been a community.
00:38:11 The Bible says that
00:38:13 he lived among the
00:38:14 tombs. His home was
00:38:17 the cemetery.
00:38:18 That's where he
00:38:20 stayed. And I don't
00:38:22 know. It's just the
00:38:23 way my mind works.
00:38:24 Nobody's supposed to
00:38:25 be in isolation living
00:38:26 in the cemetery, but
00:38:27 I'm just wondering
00:38:28 how did it get to
00:38:29 this place life doesn't
00:38:30 end up like this.
00:38:32 How did he get to
00:38:33 this place? I'm
00:38:34 wondering did he lose
00:38:35 somebody at the
00:38:35 cemetery and the
00:38:37 pain of that trauma
00:38:38 is what kept him
00:38:39 there. You got to be
00:38:40 real careful who you
00:38:41 turn up your nose
00:38:42 at you don't know
00:38:43 the trauma and the
00:38:44 pain that has brought
00:38:46 some people to the
00:38:46 place that they are
00:38:48 how many no trauma
00:38:49 does not excuse
00:38:50 behavior, but it
00:38:51 sure will explain
00:38:52 behavior. Sometimes
00:38:53 it'll let you know
00:38:54 why the person is
00:38:55 doing what they're
00:38:56 doing.
00:38:56 Bible says he's
00:38:59 cutting himself with
00:39:00 stones.
00:39:01 One of the only
00:39:03 people in the Bible
00:39:04 that we see doing
00:39:06 self-harm. That's
00:39:07 what addiction does.
00:39:09 It makes you harm
00:39:11 yourself and yet
00:39:12 this man
00:39:14 sees Jesus
00:39:17 has he comes across
00:39:19 the shore and he
00:39:20 lands and I can
00:39:21 see his disciples
00:39:22 with an attitude.
00:39:23 They don't even
00:39:23 want to be on this
00:39:24 part of the town
00:39:25 and notice what
00:39:26 the man does when
00:39:28 he sees Jesus.
00:39:29 It says he saw
00:39:30 Jesus from afar
00:39:31 off and he ran
00:39:33 and he worshipped
00:39:34 him. He ran right
00:39:35 to where he was
00:39:36 and he laid down
00:39:37 and worship him
00:39:38 look at him. He's
00:39:39 full of demons
00:39:40 and yet when Jesus
00:39:41 shows up he falls
00:39:43 down and worships
00:39:44 him. I came to
00:39:45 tell somebody you
00:39:46 need to switch your
00:39:47 addiction. Don't
00:39:48 ever let the addiction
00:39:49 make you run away
00:39:50 from the presence of
00:39:51 God. Take some
00:39:52 notes from this man
00:39:53 run to him run
00:39:54 to his present
00:39:56 run to him. He
00:39:56 fell at his feet
00:39:58 and he worshiped
00:40:00 look how conflicted
00:40:01 he is. He's
00:40:03 worshipping but the
00:40:03 demons in him cried
00:40:04 out with the loud
00:40:05 voice and said what
00:40:06 am I to do with you
00:40:07 Jesus son of the
00:40:09 most high God. I
00:40:10 implore you by God
00:40:11 that you do not
00:40:12 torment me. This
00:40:13 man is possessed.
00:40:15 This is a spirit
00:40:17 hear me. I'm not
00:40:18 saying every person
00:40:19 that has an addiction
00:40:20 is demon possessed,
00:40:21 but I am saying
00:40:22 every addiction does
00:40:24 have a spiritual
00:40:25 connection to it
00:40:26 and some of you
00:40:27 need to understand
00:40:28 there is a spirit
00:40:29 that the enemy has
00:40:30 launched against
00:40:31 you to get you to
00:40:32 keep damaging
00:40:33 yourself to get you
00:40:34 stuck in that
00:40:35 cycle and you need
00:40:36 to wake up and
00:40:36 open up your eyes
00:40:38 and know that the
00:40:38 weapons of our
00:40:39 warfare are not
00:40:40 carnal, but they're
00:40:41 mighty through God
00:40:42 for the pulling down
00:40:43 of strongholds. You
00:40:44 can have a good
00:40:45 AA meeting, but
00:40:46 you need more than
00:40:47 that. You better
00:40:47 seek the power and
00:40:49 the presence of
00:40:49 God. This is a
00:40:50 spiritual issue.
00:40:52 He's not just
00:40:52 trying to take you
00:40:53 out. He's trying to
00:40:54 take out your
00:40:55 children and your
00:40:56 children's children.
00:40:57 He's trying to
00:40:57 take out a generation
00:40:59 and the church has
00:40:59 got to stop playing
00:41:00 games and realize
00:41:02 this is warfare.
00:41:03 This is warfare.
00:41:06 So spiritual issue
00:41:08 it comes to Jesus
00:41:10 and even the demons
00:41:11 know who Jesus
00:41:12 is. They declare
00:41:15 son of the most
00:41:16 high God even
00:41:18 demons know who
00:41:19 Jesus is.
00:41:20 And he fell down
00:41:23 and he worshipped
00:41:24 him and Jesus
00:41:26 the great Liberator
00:41:29 says come out of
00:41:31 him. You want
00:41:32 clean spirit come
00:41:34 out of him. I
00:41:36 love the power of
00:41:38 our God. Here's
00:41:39 what I love about
00:41:40 God. How many
00:41:40 of you know he
00:41:41 can set you free
00:41:42 in a moment. He
00:41:43 can set you free
00:41:44 in an instant. I
00:41:45 have seen it. I
00:41:46 have seen people
00:41:47 addicted to things
00:41:48 for years and in
00:41:49 one moment, they
00:41:50 never had a taste
00:41:51 for it again, but
00:41:52 how many of you
00:41:53 know he'll do it
00:41:54 instantaneous, but
00:41:55 he'll also do it
00:41:55 through a process.
00:41:56 He'll do it day by
00:41:58 day. He has the
00:41:59 power to do it
00:42:00 both ways.
00:42:01 Says come out of
00:42:03 him. And even
00:42:05 after that, he
00:42:06 asked him a critical
00:42:07 question. He
00:42:09 says, what is
00:42:10 your name? This
00:42:12 is one of the only
00:42:13 places I've seen
00:42:14 in Scripture. Where
00:42:16 Jesus asked the
00:42:17 person's name as
00:42:19 he's delivering
00:42:19 them. What is
00:42:21 your name? He
00:42:23 says, we are
00:42:25 Legion. We are
00:42:27 many. In other
00:42:29 words, I got all
00:42:30 kinds of issues. I
00:42:31 got this and this
00:42:32 and this and Jesus
00:42:34 is asking his name
00:42:35 because he knows
00:42:36 that there is nothing
00:42:37 like addiction that
00:42:38 attaches itself to
00:42:39 your identity to
00:42:40 the point. You think
00:42:41 that what you are
00:42:42 doing is who you
00:42:43 are and I came to
00:42:45 make an announcement
00:42:45 to somebody today.
00:42:46 You are not what
00:42:48 you are doing. As
00:42:49 a matter of fact,
00:42:50 even when the enemy
00:42:50 is trying to get
00:42:51 you to go to it,
00:42:52 you need to start
00:42:53 declaring over
00:42:54 yourself. I am a
00:42:55 child of God. I
00:42:57 am the righteousness
00:42:58 and of Christ
00:42:59 Jesus speak to
00:43:02 your identity. So
00:43:04 many times we deal
00:43:05 with behavior
00:43:06 modification, but we
00:43:07 don't speak to the
00:43:07 identity of who
00:43:09 we are. What is
00:43:10 your name? Jesus
00:43:13 cast the demons
00:43:16 out of this man,
00:43:17 but before he does
00:43:18 the demons beg
00:43:21 they ask. I said
00:43:23 Lord, please don't
00:43:24 send us out of the
00:43:24 region. Just send
00:43:26 us into those pigs
00:43:28 over there. Notice
00:43:30 the demons just
00:43:31 didn't want to leave
00:43:32 the area. They
00:43:33 didn't mind leaving
00:43:34 him, but they wanted
00:43:35 to stay in the area
00:43:37 because demons and
00:43:39 demonic spirits want
00:43:40 to rule over regions
00:43:42 and households and
00:43:43 last names. And so
00:43:44 I don't mind
00:43:45 leaving him, but don't
00:43:46 let me leave the
00:43:46 region. Lord, send us
00:43:47 into those pigs and
00:43:49 Jesus gives them
00:43:51 permission to go into
00:43:52 a herd of pigs and
00:43:54 the pigs run off a
00:43:55 cliff into the water.
00:43:57 That made me shout
00:43:58 that made me shout
00:43:59 not just because I
00:44:01 don't eat bacon that
00:44:02 made me shout. It
00:44:03 made me shout because
00:44:04 the demons had to ask
00:44:05 permission from God
00:44:08 of where to go and
00:44:09 I don't know who
00:44:10 this is for but can
00:44:11 I tell you there is
00:44:12 no spirit that is
00:44:13 not subject to the
00:44:14 authority of our
00:44:15 God. You need to
00:44:17 know that our God
00:44:17 has all power that
00:44:19 he reigns Supreme.
00:44:20 Don't you ever be
00:44:21 afraid of demonic
00:44:22 oppression or
00:44:23 possession when you
00:44:24 know that there is
00:44:24 power. We sang it
00:44:26 earlier in the name
00:44:27 of Jesus at the
00:44:28 name of Jesus every
00:44:30 knee will bow every
00:44:31 tongue will confess
00:44:33 somebody needs to
00:44:34 walk in your house
00:44:35 today and in your
00:44:36 child's bedroom and
00:44:37 start declaring the
00:44:38 name that is above
00:44:39 every name. I speak
00:44:41 Jesus over my family.
00:44:42 I speak Jesus over
00:44:44 my children. I speak
00:44:45 the name of Jesus
00:44:46 over my marriage. I
00:44:47 speak the name of
00:44:48 Jesus over the city
00:44:49 of Dallas. I speak
00:44:51 the name of Jesus
00:44:52 in our culture. I
00:44:53 speak the name that
00:44:54 is above every name
00:44:56 there is power in
00:44:57 that name. Oh, you
00:45:01 better know what
00:45:01 name has the power
00:45:02 that even demons
00:45:04 have to ask permission
00:45:05 for where they can
00:45:06 go. Say can we go
00:45:13 into the pigs? Jesus
00:45:15 gives permission.
00:45:16 It says you can go
00:45:17 into the pigs and
00:45:20 the pigs jump off
00:45:21 the cliff because
00:45:23 addiction always
00:45:25 wants to destroy
00:45:26 your life. Another
00:45:28 crazy thing happens
00:45:29 in the text. The
00:45:31 people that own
00:45:33 the herd of pigs
00:45:34 got so mad that
00:45:37 they asked Jesus
00:45:38 to leave the region.
00:45:40 Jesus has just set
00:45:43 a man free. This
00:45:45 man gets clothing
00:45:46 in his right mind
00:45:47 and the people in
00:45:48 the region, especially
00:45:50 the people that
00:45:51 own the pigs said
00:45:53 Jesus. Can you
00:45:53 leave our region? I
00:45:55 need to warn some of
00:45:56 you that God is
00:45:57 about to set you
00:45:58 free from that
00:45:59 addiction. There
00:46:00 are people connected
00:46:01 to you that don't
00:46:02 want you free. There
00:46:03 are people connected
00:46:04 to you that want you
00:46:05 stuck in the cycle
00:46:07 because they are
00:46:07 benefiting from your
00:46:08 addiction. They are
00:46:09 benefiting from the
00:46:10 stronghold. They are
00:46:11 benefiting. It is a
00:46:12 codependent relationship
00:46:14 and some of you the
00:46:15 greatest freedom you'll
00:46:15 ever get is from
00:46:16 the people that are
00:46:17 tied to the thing
00:46:18 that you are addicted
00:46:20 to. Not everybody
00:46:21 wants your Liberty.
00:46:22 They ask Jesus to
00:46:24 leave the region.
00:46:26 The request of the
00:46:30 man is what got my
00:46:32 attention. He's been
00:46:34 set free. The Bible
00:46:36 says he's now clothed
00:46:38 because God will cover
00:46:39 up the shame. He's in
00:46:42 his right mind and
00:46:43 he goes Jesus. You're
00:46:46 about to leave. He
00:46:47 grants the request.
00:46:48 He's like, you want
00:46:48 me to leave? Okay,
00:46:49 I'll go back to the
00:46:49 other side and this
00:46:51 man goes, can I go
00:46:52 with you Jesus? Let
00:46:53 me go and look at
00:46:55 what Jesus says.
00:46:56 Jesus did not permit
00:46:58 him but said to
00:47:00 him go home to
00:47:03 your friends and
00:47:05 tell them what great
00:47:06 things the Lord has
00:47:06 done for you and
00:47:08 how he's had
00:47:08 compassion on you
00:47:10 Jesus. I'm confused.
00:47:12 You granted the
00:47:13 request of the
00:47:14 demons that said
00:47:16 send me into the
00:47:17 pigs. You granted
00:47:19 the request of the
00:47:20 people and say, hey,
00:47:21 you're messing up my
00:47:22 business. Go back to
00:47:23 the other side. Why
00:47:25 don't you grant the
00:47:26 request of this man
00:47:28 who was an addict
00:47:30 and is now set free?
00:47:32 Why wouldn't you
00:47:33 let him go with him?
00:47:34 He said no, no,
00:47:34 no, no, you can't
00:47:36 go with me because I
00:47:37 need your testimony
00:47:39 to spread across this
00:47:41 region. You because
00:47:43 of your addiction
00:47:44 have been in isolation
00:47:46 and I know you want
00:47:47 to come with me, but
00:47:48 the best thing you
00:47:48 can do is to get
00:47:50 back in community
00:47:51 and tell everybody
00:47:53 you meet the power
00:47:55 of what I did in
00:47:56 your life because
00:47:57 everybody in this
00:47:58 town knew that you
00:47:59 were the one that
00:48:00 walked around naked
00:48:01 and that had scars
00:48:02 everybody in the
00:48:03 town knew your
00:48:04 business. Who am I
00:48:05 preaching to God
00:48:06 will let your bad
00:48:07 news get around
00:48:09 town so that when
00:48:10 he sets you free
00:48:11 the good news of
00:48:12 what he's done
00:48:13 will change somebody's
00:48:16 life so you can
00:48:17 look at him and say
00:48:18 yeah, I'm the same
00:48:20 one that used to be
00:48:21 in the club. Yeah,
00:48:22 I'm the same one
00:48:23 that used to be
00:48:24 shooting up. Yeah,
00:48:25 I'm the same one
00:48:26 that used to sleep
00:48:27 around. Look at me.
00:48:29 I'm married now.
00:48:30 I got a family
00:48:31 now. I'm addicted
00:48:32 to his presence
00:48:34 now. Oh, we
00:48:35 overcome by the
00:48:37 blood of the Lamb
00:48:38 and the word of
00:48:39 our testimony.
00:48:40 Jesus
00:48:46 Jesus goes I'm not
00:48:48 gonna rob you of
00:48:49 the most powerful
00:48:51 thing that any
00:48:52 believer has
00:48:54 your story
00:48:55 your testimony
00:48:58 your testimony
00:49:00 is going to do
00:49:01 more damage to
00:49:02 the kingdom of
00:49:03 darkness than
00:49:04 you would ever do
00:49:05 getting on the
00:49:06 boat with me with
00:49:06 these other 12
00:49:07 dudes that I'm
00:49:08 still working on.
00:49:09 I want you to go
00:49:12 tell everybody
00:49:13 in this region
00:49:14 the power
00:49:16 of what I've done
00:49:17 in your life.
00:49:19 It breaks my heart
00:49:21 just real soft.
00:49:22 It breaks my heart
00:49:24 when I look at the
00:49:25 multiplicity
00:49:26 of things people can
00:49:28 be addicted to
00:49:29 but then when I
00:49:31 understand that God
00:49:32 loves addicts
00:49:33 and he is the great
00:49:34 Liberator.
00:49:35 It reminds me that
00:49:37 for every addiction
00:49:39 there is a possible
00:49:40 story and testimony
00:49:42 of somebody to
00:49:43 stand and proclaim
00:49:45 God set me free
00:49:48 from this.
00:49:49 Go home
00:49:53 go to your community
00:49:56 tell your friends
00:49:58 and your family
00:49:59 what I've done
00:50:01 would you stand to
00:50:02 your feet today?
00:50:03 I'm gonna ask that
00:50:06 nobody leave
00:50:07 addiction
00:50:11 put you in isolation
00:50:18 isolation from God
00:50:20 isolation from the
00:50:21 people that you love
00:50:23 oftentimes we talk
00:50:26 about the spiritual
00:50:27 but we don't talk
00:50:27 about the practical
00:50:29 of good community
00:50:31 that will hold you
00:50:33 accountable
00:50:34 so you don't get
00:50:36 stuck in the cycle.
00:50:37 I'm thankful that God
00:50:41 set me free, but I
00:50:41 still had to be
00:50:43 open and honest and
00:50:44 have boundaries and
00:50:45 community
00:50:47 be transparent and
00:50:48 vulnerable with my
00:50:49 wife and say hey
00:50:50 here's all my devices
00:50:52 look at it.
00:50:54 I want to be free
00:50:55 and over time
00:50:57 there's not even a
00:50:58 desire there, but
00:50:59 even then I still
00:51:00 have boundaries
00:51:01 of healthy community
00:51:04 of surrendering all
00:51:06 that I am to God
00:51:07 so many times we
00:51:08 talk about restraint
00:51:10 don't do that.
00:51:10 Don't do that.
00:51:11 We don't talk about
00:51:12 surrendering all that
00:51:13 you are to him
00:51:15 addiction is a worship
00:51:17 problem
00:51:18 the study they did
00:51:22 years ago.
00:51:23 They call it the rat
00:51:24 Park study.
00:51:25 They were trying to
00:51:27 study addiction
00:51:28 and they would put a
00:51:30 rat in a cage with
00:51:31 two different water
00:51:32 bottles
00:51:33 and one water bottle
00:51:35 had cocaine in it
00:51:36 and they were trying
00:51:38 to see which water
00:51:39 bottle the rats would
00:51:39 choose and in the
00:51:41 cage the rat always
00:51:42 went to the water
00:51:43 bottle that had
00:51:44 cocaine
00:51:46 and would overdose
00:51:47 and they kept looking
00:51:48 at study after study
00:51:50 rat after rat
00:51:51 overdosing
00:51:52 until one person in
00:51:53 the study said
00:51:54 the problem
00:51:56 is the cage
00:51:57 you didn't put anything
00:51:59 else in the cage
00:52:01 but the two water
00:52:02 bottles
00:52:03 the person said
00:52:05 why don't you put
00:52:06 a rat Park
00:52:07 and put some tunnels
00:52:09 in there and put
00:52:10 a little Ferris wheel
00:52:12 in there and by the
00:52:13 way you got the rat
00:52:14 in there by itself
00:52:15 put some other rats
00:52:16 in there and put
00:52:17 the rat in community
00:52:19 and put the rat in
00:52:20 a different environment
00:52:21 and then when you
00:52:22 put the rat in a
00:52:24 different environment
00:52:25 with other options
00:52:26 then see if it goes
00:52:28 to the water bottle
00:52:29 that has the cocaine
00:52:30 in it and when they
00:52:31 change the environment
00:52:32 and they got the rat
00:52:33 in community
00:52:35 every time the rat
00:52:36 actually went to
00:52:37 the water bottle
00:52:38 that was healthy
00:52:40 and rejected the
00:52:41 water bottle that
00:52:41 had a cocaine in it
00:52:43 and I'm trying to tell
00:52:44 you that is a picture
00:52:45 of you and I
00:52:46 it's not just what
00:52:47 you abstain from
00:52:49 it's what you're
00:52:49 surrendered to
00:52:50 and you've got to
00:52:51 surrender yourself
00:52:52 to God and get
00:52:53 yourself in the right
00:52:54 community
00:52:55 get yourself
00:52:58 with somebody that's
00:53:00 going to hold you
00:53:00 accountable. I'm talking
00:53:01 to somebody today
00:53:02 that because your
00:53:04 little addiction
00:53:06 has gone from puppy
00:53:07 to full-grown
00:53:09 Rottweiler
00:53:10 you're going to have
00:53:12 to do some drastic
00:53:13 things
00:53:14 if you have to move
00:53:16 to a different part
00:53:17 of the city move
00:53:18 to a different part
00:53:19 of the city
00:53:20 if you have to have
00:53:22 no internet and a
00:53:23 flip phone have no
00:53:25 internet and a flip
00:53:26 phone
00:53:27 to whatever you have
00:53:29 to do
00:53:30 to not get stuck
00:53:32 in the cycle
00:53:34 of deception
00:53:37 temptation
00:53:39 sin
00:53:42 habitual sin
00:53:43 addiction
00:53:44 start with the truth
00:53:46 and the truth is God
00:53:48 is a liberator
00:53:49 and he loves addicts
00:53:51 because he loves
00:53:52 setting people free
00:53:53 I'm going to ask every
00:53:55 head be bowed
00:53:56 and eyes be closed
00:53:59 today father
00:54:00 I thank you for this
00:54:02 moment
00:54:03 what I thank you that
00:54:06 you are still
00:54:07 setting the captives
00:54:11 free
00:54:12 so Lord I pray for
00:54:14 my brother I pray for
00:54:15 my sister
00:54:15 who feels like that
00:54:18 man who was in the
00:54:20 tombs
00:54:20 they feel the shame
00:54:23 they feel isolated
00:54:29 they don't even know
00:54:31 how it's gotten this
00:54:32 bad Lord let today
00:54:34 be their emancipation
00:54:36 day
00:54:37 let today
00:54:41 be the first step
00:54:42 of their freedom
00:54:44 Lord let their freedom
00:54:47 start
00:54:47 not denying the
00:54:50 power the problem
00:54:51 or even trying to rely
00:54:53 on our own strength
00:54:54 God we can we need
00:54:56 your power
00:54:57 the Lord set us free
00:55:00 today
00:55:00 in the name of Jesus
00:55:03 heads about eyes are
00:55:05 closed today
00:55:06 I need to know who I
00:55:09 came for
00:55:11 if you're here today and
00:55:12 you've never
00:55:13 first of all surrendered
00:55:15 your life to Jesus
00:55:17 today's your day
00:55:19 God
00:55:21 loves you
00:55:23 he's not mad at you
00:55:26 he's not upset with you
00:55:27 he hates the sin that
00:55:30 is destroying his image
00:55:32 in you and on you
00:55:34 and you don't have to
00:55:36 get yourself together to
00:55:37 come to him
00:55:40 come to him just as
00:55:41 you are
00:55:41 so with heads bowed
00:55:43 and eyes closed if
00:55:44 you're here today and
00:55:45 say Pastor Robert I've
00:55:45 never surrendered my
00:55:46 life to Jesus but
00:55:47 today
00:55:48 I need to respond
00:55:50 I need to give him
00:55:51 my life
00:55:53 I'd love to include you
00:55:55 in this closing prayer
00:55:56 if that's you would you
00:55:56 just lift up your hand
00:55:57 high enough
00:55:58 and long enough to
00:55:59 where I could see and
00:55:59 say today's the day
00:56:00 I'm giving him my life
00:56:01 and I'm coming home
00:56:02 yeah I see that hand
00:56:03 thank you Jesus
00:56:04 thank you God hands
00:56:05 are going up all over
00:56:06 this place today
00:56:07 thank you God
00:56:08 thank you God
00:56:09 anybody else thank you
00:56:10 God come on the day
00:56:11 you hear his voice
00:56:12 don't harden your heart
00:56:13 you know when he's
00:56:14 speaking to you I'm
00:56:15 talking to somebody
00:56:15 else watching me right
00:56:16 now online you're
00:56:18 watching this on the
00:56:18 YouTube replay and
00:56:20 you wonder why you
00:56:21 can't stop watching
00:56:22 this is because God
00:56:23 has your attention
00:56:24 and he wants you to
00:56:25 surrender your life to
00:56:26 him anybody else just
00:56:28 lift it up and put it
00:56:29 right back down
00:56:30 thank you Jesus
00:56:31 thank you God
00:56:32 if you're here today
00:56:33 and you'd be so honest
00:56:34 and say you know what
00:56:35 I'm trapped in a
00:56:38 cycle I'm trapped
00:56:39 in an addiction and
00:56:41 today
00:56:41 I need Liberty
00:56:43 I need freedom
00:56:45 I believe today's your
00:56:47 day
00:56:48 that man that was in
00:56:50 the tombs they tried
00:56:51 to chain him they
00:56:52 tried
00:56:53 but it didn't work
00:56:54 until he encountered
00:56:55 the real and the
00:56:56 living Savior today
00:56:57 is your day
00:56:58 he wants to set you
00:57:01 free
00:57:02 especially would you
00:57:04 just lift up your
00:57:04 hand high enough
00:57:05 and long enough to
00:57:06 work and see and
00:57:06 say today I need
00:57:08 I need Liberty I
00:57:08 need freedom thank
00:57:09 you God thank you
00:57:10 God Jesus thank
00:57:12 you thank you
00:57:13 Lord thank you
00:57:13 Lord thank you God
00:57:15 hallelujah
00:57:16 is I want us to do
00:57:18 I want the worship
00:57:19 team just to begin to
00:57:20 lead us
00:57:20 and in praise
00:57:23 and in worship
00:57:24 but if you lifted up
00:57:25 your hand for either
00:57:26 one of those I'm
00:57:27 gonna ask you to do
00:57:27 something so bold
00:57:29 and so brave
00:57:30 I don't want you to
00:57:31 worry what anybody
00:57:32 else thinks about you
00:57:33 this is between you
00:57:34 and God
00:57:36 I want you when I
00:57:37 count to three just
00:57:37 to get out of your
00:57:38 seat and come find
00:57:39 the place right here
00:57:40 at this altar I
00:57:42 want this to be
00:57:43 the shore just
00:57:44 like that man met
00:57:46 Jesus and I'm
00:57:46 believing today some
00:57:48 of you before our
00:57:49 prayer team or anybody
00:57:50 even lays hands on
00:57:51 you you're going to
00:57:52 experience the
00:57:53 freedom and the
00:57:54 liberating power of
00:57:56 our God who sets
00:57:57 captives free
00:57:59 so when I count to
00:58:00 three if you lifted
00:58:01 up your hand or you
00:58:02 should have lifted
00:58:03 up your hand come
00:58:03 on I just want you
00:58:04 to come right up here
00:58:05 to the front don't
00:58:06 worry about what
00:58:06 somebody else thinks
00:58:07 I don't care if you
00:58:08 all the way in the
00:58:09 back it's worth every
00:58:10 step come on I
00:58:11 want you to come one
00:58:12 come on two three
00:58:14 I want you to come
00:58:15 this is your day
00:58:15 this is your day
00:58:17 come on come on
00:58:18 come on come on
00:58:20 I'm tired of this
00:58:21 cycle I'm tired of
00:58:23 this routine come
00:58:24 on every addict is
00:58:26 just a worshiper
00:58:27 that's got to switch
00:58:27 their focus that's
00:58:29 got to switch their
00:58:29 attention come on
00:58:30 come on come on
00:58:32 come on come on
00:58:35 come on
00:58:37 thank you guys
00:58:37 get as close to the
00:58:38 front as you can
00:58:39 thank you Jesus
00:58:42 come on come on
00:58:49 would you come with
00:58:50 your hands lifted
00:58:51 and lift them up to
00:58:52 this table
00:58:53 come on I have the
00:58:55 power to break every
00:58:57 single chain
00:58:57 come on
00:58:58 to break every chain
00:59:04 to break every chain
00:59:06 break every chain
00:59:08 come on if you know
00:59:09 that your needs is
00:59:11 freedom I want you to
00:59:12 come
00:59:12 he whom the sun sets
00:59:18 free is free indeed
00:59:20 thank you Jesus
00:59:33 to break every chain
00:59:35 break every chain
00:59:37 break every
00:59:38 come on I want you to
00:59:39 keep declaring that
00:59:40 there's power come on
00:59:41 there is power
00:59:43 in the name of Jesus
00:59:46 thank you Father
00:59:48 there is power
00:59:50 in the name of Jesus
00:59:54 there is power
00:59:57 in the name of Jesus
01:00:02 to break every chain
01:00:04 break every chain
01:00:06 break every
01:00:07 to break every chain
01:00:09 to break every chain
01:00:11 break every chain
01:00:13 break every
01:00:15 to break every chain
01:00:17 break every chain
01:00:19 break every chain
01:00:20 break every chain
01:00:24 come on surrender
01:00:31 yourself to him today
01:00:33 come on give him every
01:00:38 aspect of you today
01:00:40 thank you
01:00:45 in his presence
01:00:46 I hear
01:00:47 I hear the chains
01:00:50 falling
01:00:51 I hear the chains
01:00:57 falling
01:00:58 I hear the chains
01:01:04 falling
01:01:06 I hear the chains
01:01:09 falling
01:01:14 I hear the chains
01:01:15 falling
01:01:16 I hear the chains
01:01:22 falling
01:01:24 oh there's power
01:01:28 in the name of Jesus
01:01:30 I hear the chains
01:01:32 falling
01:01:33 I hear the chains
01:01:37 falling
01:01:42 I hear the chains
01:01:44 falling
01:01:45 I hear the chains
01:01:47 falling
01:01:50 all over this place
01:01:52 can you just lift up your hands
01:01:54 in the same way
01:02:00 addiction has a way of
01:02:05 shaping our brains
01:02:08 and shaping our bodies
01:02:10 especially when it's been
01:02:13 going on for a long time
01:02:18 it makes me understand
01:02:19 what Paul said when he says
01:02:21 I present my body
01:02:23 to God as a living sacrifice
01:02:26 all that I am
01:02:29 one of the most powerful things you can do
01:02:33 even after this moment
01:02:34 is every day you wake up
01:02:37 is to start your day
01:02:39 by physically saying
01:02:41 God I give you every aspect of me
01:02:42 God I give you these hands
01:02:44 let these hands glorify you
01:02:45 God I give you my eyes
01:02:47 let these eyes look on things
01:02:49 that are holy and pure
01:02:50 God I give you my mind
01:02:52 let my mind think thoughts
01:02:54 that are from above
01:02:55 God I give you my feet
01:02:57 God let these feet
01:02:58 walk into places that bring you
01:03:00 glory and honor
01:03:01 start presenting your body to him
01:03:04 giving him all of you
01:03:07 so I want to lead us in this prayer
01:03:10 as one big family
01:03:12 we're all going to pray it
01:03:14 but if you want to stay here
01:03:16 and linger in worship
01:03:17 we're going to do that
01:03:18 our prayer team is going to just make their way
01:03:20 through here
01:03:20 they're going to lay hands
01:03:21 and pray for some of you
01:03:22 but even before they do
01:03:23 I want you to make this declaration
01:03:25 I want you to pray this prayer
01:03:28 because God wants to change your name
01:03:30 you are not that addiction
01:03:34 you are his beloved son
01:03:37 and his beloved daughter
01:03:39 and before there's any behavior change
01:03:42 there must be an identity change
01:03:46 declares I am your child
01:03:48 so come on with your hands lifted
01:03:50 can we pray this prayer and say Jesus
01:03:52 come on declare and say Jesus
01:03:55 I give you all of me
01:03:57 Lord today
01:04:00 I confess
01:04:02 I cannot do life
01:04:04 without you
01:04:06 I need you
01:04:08 Lord I know
01:04:10 you came
01:04:12 from heaven to earth
01:04:15 to live the life
01:04:16 that I was supposed to live
01:04:18 you died the death
01:04:21 that I was supposed to die
01:04:23 you took my place
01:04:26 Lord I thank you
01:04:28 that you came
01:04:30 to set the captives free
01:04:32 so today
01:04:35 I receive
01:04:37 my freedom
01:04:39 forgive me of my sin
01:04:41 wash me clean
01:04:44 make me brand new
01:04:46 from this moment forward
01:04:49 I'm walking with you
01:04:51 whole
01:04:53 and in freedom