Glory Guaranteed

William James, the father of American psychology and one of the fathers of the

philosophy of pragmatism, once said this, if you change your mind, you

can change your life. That's profound. If you can change your mind,

you can change your life. He also said, be not afraid of life.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the

fact and a third nugget of wisdom from doctor William James, Thoughts become perception,

perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. It is

a fact that we tend to shape our future by how we interpret our past.

The facts of what happened to us goes to the filter of our mind,

our attitudes, and we create a future based on our interpretation what's happened

to us. The Swiss psychiatrist doctor Paul Turnyan, in his book Guilt and

Grace, shared from his many years of clinical psychology some important observations about guilt.

How many of you have ever felt guilty about something? Do you ever

have people you hang around with just make you feel guilty just being around them?

Okay, I mean I don't like sending people on guilt trips, and

I like people trying to send me on a guilt trip. How many of

you are in that camp? Some of you need therapy, psychopy, Okay,

I mean, look, we experience guilt. We should not be in

the business of trying to make other people feel a lot of it. Now,

he discovered that there are two central kinds of guilt, the guilt that

is horizontal and the guilt that is vertical. What do you mean by that.

Horizontal guilt is the guilt we feel when we wrong another person, or

we think we have wronged them, or they convince us that we have wronged

them. It's that kind of relational guilt that we have with people here in

the human playing. It's horizontal guilt. It's that kind of guilt. It's

possible to feel guilty when you aren't guilty at all. Have you ever felt

guilty for something you really shouldn't have felt guilty about? No, okay,

I think your guilt latent. People today, we're gonna work with you.

You know, this is the power of the mind, the power of someone

to oppress you by controlling your mind so that you feel guilty when you didn't

need to feel guilty. Vertical guilt is what we feel when we let God

down. So horizontal guilt is the human plain. Vertical guilt is what we

feel when we let God down in our minds, or we think we've let

God down. Sometimes we don't let God down, we feel guilty. It's

the kind of guilt that makes a person feel like God is far away.

You ever feel like God is far away in your life, He's just not

there. I have. The Swiss psychiatrist doctor Paulternier observed rightly that we frail,

flawed human beings tend to confuse horizontal guilt with vertical guilt. What we

feel as we experience guilt in our relationships with others affects how we interact with

God. Feel guilt toward God when we feel guilt from others or for others.

And so guilt is a messy thing sorting through it is tough stuff.

When you let a brother, a sister, or mom or a dad down,

they are disappointed with you. It's altogether human to feel that you have

let God down too. I mean, when David killed your eye the head

tide, he says against the only by sin, and that is what is

evil in thy sight. He went immediately from the horizontal to the vertical.

We do that we confuse horizontal guilt with vertical guilt. We see God in

the actions, the failures and successes of others, the judgments of friends,

of family, and of significant people in our lives on the horizontal plane of

human relationships is often mixed with how we see God in his attitude toward us

on the vertical plane. So we are messed up in how we interact with

God and others because of guilt. A child who is raised by an overbearing

and manipulative mother will have a view of God that is often harsh and distance

and insecure. A child whose father leaves them or abandoned them at an early

age when they are older will have a hard time believing that God will not

leave or abandon them. Because Dad left them, Maybe God leaves me too.

A wife with an unfaithful husband who's hurt by a divorce she never asked

for man time have a hard time believing that God will be faithful, that

God will hang in there, that God will not leave her, and so

we confuse the horizontal with the vertical. The childhood victim of deep trauma,

I mean, there are people here in the church today that have been victimized

by childhood deep trauma, and you don't have to raise your hand. But

the childhood victim of deep trauma will carry that deep trauma into their relationship with

God. And somehow, the God who knows and understands it all, will

have to sort it out in the life of the one who comes to God

with the tears and the fears that only God can understand. It is good

news that Jesus never turned away the person who comes to God with their tears

and their fears. Did you hear me? He doesn't turn away that person.

The great therapist, the great healer, the great comforter who works with

the other comforter is Jesus Christ, and he's in the business of healing the

human race. This is why Christ's name is called wonderful counselor we need a

wonderful counsel in our lives. There's a true story found in Luke thirteen of

a woman who came to the synagogue to be with God in her infirmity.

She came to church because she was sick. She came to church with her

sickness. The church she came to didn't seem to offer much hope but she

came, and that is a very good thing that she showed up. She

suffered from an illness for many years that affected her relationship with God. It

was the kind of illness that cannot easily be diagnosed by doctors or pastors or

rabbis or psychological shrinks. But it was real. It was an illness nonetheless,

and she knew she had it. Others couldn't tell, but she had

it. She came to the synagogue, she knew, and the synagogue means

a place of gathering. She came to the gathering place of God's people,

and the ruler of the synagogue didn't know that she was really sick inside.

Sometimes preachers can't figure out what's going on inside your head. We can't read

minds. Sometimes we got our own issues and it's hard to tell. She

came to the synagogue and she knew that maybe maybe there something could happen.

But over the years she settled into her church family at the synagogue with that

infirmity. It was just part of her life, an illness hard to recognize,

hard to live with, hard to heal, a sickness that most people

would never know was there at all, Yet it was there. Inside of

her turned to Luke thirteen, verse ten. Here it is introduced. Now

he Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. Now,

if I to ask you next week what day to Christ preach and teach each,

would it be Sunday or Sabbath Sabbath? Now the day before, the

week before Christ died on the Mount of Olives, he said, pray,

your flight will not be on the Sabbath, for then there will be great

tribulation in winter on the Sabbath. He put the Sabbath with importance all the

way to the end of time, just before he died. Now, if

you're going to change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, why would you do

that? So the Sabbath was a big deal in jesus worship experience. He

came and taught in the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold verse eleven,

there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bent

over and could in no way raise herself up. Luke is careful to record

that Jesus was teaching in an unnamed synagogue on the Sabbath day. He started

his ministry after his temptation in the wilderness in the synagogue on the Sabbath day.

That is how he taught. That's how his apostles taught. After he

died. On the Sabbath day, in the synagogue and Christ and Luke fourr

opened up the Girl of Isaiah the Prophet, and he read from it the

very prophecy that pointed forward to the beginning of his ministry. And he claimed

that the prophecy was fulfill that very day. In their hearing, Luke four

eighteen he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he

has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me

to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty of the captives, recovering of

sight to the blind, to set it liberty those who are pressed, to

proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. This is the year it reverses.

This is the year the damage is fixed. This is the year the devil

loves out. When I gained control of the planet, when I saved souls

instead of losing them. This is the good year of God's favor. Christ

didn't champion political causes. You say, wait a second, Pastor Mike he

didn't. He was not a social activist, did you know that? So

he's not using this to create liberation theology. He's using this to show what

he was going to do and the power of the Holy Spirit to save men

and women for God's kingdom. Christ championed the cause of meeting a person's needs

for God's glory. He championed the cause of saving the individual. Christ did

lift one finger to overthrow the Roman Empire because of social injustice. And yet

Jesus cast out demons by the finger of God, which is the Holy Spirit

of God. And that is a good thing. It overturned evil empires.

The Holy Spirit's work in the lives of individuals. People who never heard a

word of the good News of the Gospel in their lives heard Jesus teach and

preach the good news of a God who loves us, the good news of

a God who sent his son to die on the cross for us, the

good news of a God who can take any wretched person in any slime pit

of the earth, and transformed their life for eternity. Christ healed the broken

hearted, He set the captives free. The Holy Spirit, the power of

God, the finger of God was operative in his life, and he healed

the blind, both physically and spiritually. Christ set his people free. You

know why did Christ come? Christ came because God loves people, the Lord

of hosts, the Lord of people loves people, and all the people who

were oppressed, and he came right to the most depressed place on planet Earth,

the realm of Galilee, of the Gentiles, Nazareth, and all the

people who were oppressed by Satan, and Satan's human minions who often helping oppress

people. You know, you can be an agent of Satan if you try

to work to make someone else's life miserable. To make a point, you're

an agent of Satan. There are plenty of people like that in the world.

Christ came to set his people free, all the people who were oppressed

by Satan, and he did it. And Glatians five to one Paul says,

for freedom, Christ is set is free. Think about that. For

freedom, Christ is set is free. And that's exactly what Jesus did with

the gods on the Sabbath day. He preached the truth of a God of

love, and people were set free by the truth. Immediately after Jesus escaped

from the religious mob at Nazareth. You see, when he read that verse,

he sat down and said, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

You know what they did. They got a religious mob and they tried

to throw him off the cliff, and Christ escaped. And immediately after he

did that, Jesus immediately went down to Capernaum. Capernaum means the covering of

compassion or the atonement of compassion. The word copper c ap r. We

get a word Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, from that nam is

the Nacham in Hebrew means compassion, the covering, the atonement of compassion.

He went to a place that needed compassion. He went to a place that

needed the atonement that was named this, but didn't have it. In the

synagogue in Capernaum. On the Sabbath day, Jesus cast a demon out by

the power of God. Sometimes deemens go to church on the Sabbath day,

Jeremy. Sometimes demons go to church on the Sabbath day, where people who

should act like saints can be controlled by devils if their attitudes are wrong.

You see, attitudes matter more important than the correctness of your theology. Is

the attitude of your mind and heart and how you relate to others. The

synagogue in Jesus day had become a synagogue of Satan full of demons. According

to Revelation eighteen one to three, the same thing will happen to the Church

Universal, the Mother Church and her daughters at the time of the end,

She'll become a dwelling place of demons. The same had happened in Jesus Day

in the synagogues. I've seen ancient floor mosaics with the signs of the zodiac

on the floors of Jewish synagogues dating back to Jesus time, and so we

know they had mixed pagan religions the worship of the pagan gods and put it

right there on the floor of the synagogues. It was an eclected era in

Judaism were magic, sorcery, communication with evil spirits became part of Judaism.

And Christ came to that messed up church to set the captives free the demon

in luke For the demon in Lukefur recognized Jesus, and many demons cried out

as Us not an Ee at first us because the demons who took over that

man could not think of themselves as an individual, nor would they allow him

to be that. Then the demon spoke his eye, but only the eye

and the sense of the collective. First they said, let us alone,

did you come to destroy us? And then they spoke as an eye,

but only eye and the sense of the collective, which is the us of

the collective and modern communism that is legion. Some people say, why did

you bring up communism here? Because communism is a philosophy that was raised up

after the French Revolution that has killed one hundred million people, because it believes

that us is more important. And then I that the person doesn't matter.

And if you ever read Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, and I have, it's

only about fifty pages long, as you don't need a PhD. To read

it. You come to the end of it. He calls for a bloody

revolution. Christ doesn't kill people to get his way. The love of God,

the truth of God is meant to transform to life and the heart.

And you know, we, as seventh a Haavens, have no business affiliating

with any social movement or cause that has communist roots, because it's an atheistic,

materialistic philosophy that is identified arising in the Book of Relation and Revelation of

Love, and at the end of the Middle Ages, we should have nothing

to do with it, you know. I the cause that I want to

be a part of at the time of the end is the Three Angels messages.

I want to preach the Everlasting Gospel. I want men and women to

be set free. I want a warning of the mark of the beast.

I don't want to talk about the Church as much as I want to talk

about Jesus, but I do and identify the remnant Church and Bible prophety so

that men and women can find their way at the time of the end.

The demons would have any philosophy come into the church and mess us up,

so we cannot proclaim the Bible as we ought to in our time. The

value of a person is always lost in the strident march of the many to

oppress the person and the individual for the sake of the many. Dear heart,

Jesus died for persons. Wrap your heart and head around that he died

for you, as if no one else exists, because you matter to God

more. Karl Marx called for death and destruction, a revolution of sorts,

so that the many. The rights of the many would be preserved and the

rights of the few would be surrendered. That's how the demons operate as legion.

They kill the one for the good of the many. They said,

we are legion many. A demon has come into the heart of a weak

soul wounded by trauma and sin, resentment, anger, fear, childhood,

trauma. The devil will work with that to get into a person's life and

make a mess out of them with the and he comes with the false claim

of freedom, that if you get into this lifestyle, you leave God and

you go into that, that you'll be free. And it just leaves to

a deeper, deeper spiral into sin. I say this forthrightly based on the

evidence of the Testament. Jesus and demons don't get along. Beware if you

keep the company of demons, and if you want Jesus, let him get

rid of them. Jesus did not engage a demon in conversation, Luke,

for youn't never find Jesus debating with the devil. You never find Jesus having

a long conversation of theology. You find Jesus casting them out to look at

Luke four thirty five but Jesus rebuked him, saying, be quiet and come

out of him. And when the demon had thrown him in the midst it

came out of him and did not hurt him. And then they were all

amazed and spoken amon themselves, saying, what a word is this? For

with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.

I don't know about you, but I need authority and power every morning when

I wake up, because I discover when I look in the mirror, I

don't have authority and power to control my life. Are you that way?

My life would quickly descend if it were not. In the morning, I

say, Lord, take me, make consecrate my life. I am a

sinner by nature, I can be a sinner by deed. Help me to

live for others. Made the Cross of Christ cover me and make me a

loving Christian, not a mean one. That's a basic kind of prayer to

pray in the morning. That is, you know, so Jesus immediately the

demon came out. That is one way Jesus set the captives free. He

just said, be quiet and come out. Jesus cast out demons with authority

for the glory of God. The woman Luke thirteen, was not demon possessed.

This is all backdrop material. Her condition was different than this. She

was oppressed. You see, the devil can possess a person, but he

can also, through his angels and others, oppress people. This woman was

oppressed. Her internal state of mind had been altered by something external. Luke

thirteen, ten and eleven noticed the text. Now he was teaching in one

of the cityagogues on the Sabbath, and behold there was a woman who had

a spirit of infirmity eighteen years was bent over and could in no way raise

herself up. Luke is careful to record, doctor Luke. He records that

she had a spirit of infirmity the Greek is literally she had a spirit of

weakness, a spirit of weakness. Friend, Jesus came to this world to

set the captive is free. Jesus cast out demons to set people free.

But you know what, he had to deal with a different kind of slavery

in this woman's life. Demon possession is not how Satan works on everybody.

Most people are not demon possessed. Demons are evil spirits with evil attitudes.

In fact, why don't you repeat that with me. Demons are evil spirits

with evil what attitudes? Demons often introduce those evil attitudes into people's lives.

You get hurt and so soone. I got hurt. I got hurt by

them. They've hurt my feelings. And then you get it a pity spiral.

I feel so sorry for myself? What kind of person would do that

to me? And you get mad and name you ever do that? No,

you never do that. See, but an attitude changes who you are

if you own it long enough. So demons can't introduce evil attitudes in people's

lives through proxies or directly. And when this happens, people are oppressed,

and in time they can be controlled by evil attitudes in their lives. Christ

came to set us free from wrong thinking, from wrong feelings, so that

we are truly free. This woman had a spirit or attitude of weakness.

She was oppressed so that she became changed on the inside. Who knows who

put her down in life, so that she came to believe that she was

helpless and weak. That's how she felt, I'm helpless and weak. Maybe

she was born into a family perfectionists, where everybody had to be perfect to

measure up. You didn't wash your hands right, Little Johnny should have hung

the talent better. And you hear that like forty times in one day,

and a child just goes, I want to get out of the house right.

Or maybe perfectionistic theology was thrown at the child. Well, if you

don't get perfect enough for Jesus coming, you're gonna not make it and all

that stuff, And so kids get feeling that God's weighing them every five minutes

and if they mess up, they're gonna be lost. That kind of junk

theology wrecks kids, and it wrecks families. So maybe she came from a

place like that in Judaism. Maybe she was maybe a self centered father or

mother wore her down with constant complaining about how she was a failure in life.

Maybe she was laughed at by bullies. Have you ever been laughed at

by a bully in school? You had? It feels awful, doesn't it.

Boy, I was laughed at by a bully who was a girl once.

It's bad when you can't stand up to a bully who's a girl.

I was thin and lanky as a kid. Bullies come in all forms.

Maybe she was laughed at by bullies at school, or in the neighborhood,

all around. Maybe someone abused her and led her into sin, like Mary

Magdalene, so that guilt and shame overtook her in life. We don't know

what it was that gave her this spirit and attitude of weakness, but she

said she had it as an infirmity of the mind and of the heart for

a long time. It was a deep pattern in There are certain people today

who are sick all the time now legitimately, so there are people who have

illnesses, who have genetic predispositions, whose lives are characterized by real illnesses.

I'm not talking about that. But then there are people who get sick because

they're weak inside their mind and heart and emotions. They need to be sick,

they need to be weak because they draw love or they think something like

it from others attention maybe, and so in that sense of weakness they find

some kind of connection, like a helpless baby crying out for a mother or

father to soothe them. Adults can bring these insecurities into life, but they

have to be resolved in our relationship with God. And so this woman evidently

didn't have enough comfort, intervention and the like to heal her from the spirit

and attitude of weakness. A weak person can live on the food of others

pity when their wounded ego plays the role of a victim. Does God call

us to be victims in the church? Does he not? At all?

We should not in the least encourage that kind of thinking in men and women

who come to church. A person cannot accept a person excuse me. A

person can accept weakness instead of strength, an open wound instead of healing,

a grudge instead of forgiveness, a life of distress instead of success, and

a future without hope and purpose instead of prosperity and meaning, because they come

to believe they're a victim and this is something Jesus has to heal in the

life. The weak always need the strong to help them, or so they

think. God has no intention of any one of his dear children accepting the

spirit of weakness in their life. Dear heart, God has not called you

to weakness. God has called you to strength in Jesus' name. Take your

Bibles and turn of Joel three to them. Marie from two translations, the

New King James Version or Revised Standard vers be your plowshares into swords, your

pruning hooks into spears. Let the week say, and what does it say?

Let the week say I am strong. He doesn't say that. The

week say I'm a victim. Let the week say I'm not going to make

it. Let the week say I'm strong in Jesus name. Look at Joel

three two in the revised Stannard version next verse, be your plowshares and the

swords and your pruning hooks into spears. And let the week say, I

am a warrior. When you attack life with vitality and energy, because you

are a child of God, you are no longer a victim. And look

thirteen eleven. Looked records that this woman have been afflicted with the spirit of

weakness for eighteen years. And Judges three fourteen. King aguelin of Moab oppressed

and enslaved the children of Israel for eighteen years until God raised up Ehu to

destroy the enemy. A judge was a military leader who intervened and rescued God's

people. That's what the ear of the judges about, not people who sit

on a bench and pontificate. Samuel was a military leader of God's people.

It was a judge, the last judge before the Kings and Judges ten seven

and eight. The Philistines and the children I Am and oppressed and harassed the

children of Israel for eighteen years twice until God raised up Jeptha, who was

the son of a harlot, to defeat the enemies in the land. God

doesn't care where you came from. He'll use you to make a difference if

you can be used by God. God raised up Jesus. They thought he

was a son of a harlot or some with some you know, marry with

their indiscretions, because how could you get pregnant that early before you get married

and all that stuff. God raised up Jesus like the judges, to help

this poor woman, who symbolized the people of God in every age, who

suffer from an attitude of weakness suppressed by satan. Jesus is the true deliverer,

the true judge, who sets the oppressed free from an attitude of weakness.

We can't help ourselves become strong. You can trial your like I'm gonna

be strong, and that's not how it happens. We cannot do it without

the power of God. Through a relationship with Jesus Christ in our life.

That's how you do it. John says, Jesus is God. In John

one one, Sister White makes this point is it is the relevance of Christ,

is his humanity, his divinity is what we hang on to to overcome

in life. If Christ did not have this capacity, she said, he

could not heal us. So it is the divine and the human in one

that makes it possible for Jesus to be our savior. So John one just

says, in the beginning was the word, The word was with God.

The word was God. We need God in Christ, God with Us Emmanuel.

It takes divine power in Jesus's name to set the oppressed free. Here's

a statement from this prophecy found in the Bible Echo November twelve, eighteen ninety

four. It's Post eighteen eighty eight. The weakest child of God, the

most depressed, may find in Jesus' hope, mercy and love without a parallel.

Faith in Christ brings to us infinite power. What kind of power do

you have when you have faith in Christ? What does it say? Infinite

power? We may lay hold upon the divine nature, having escaped the corruption

that is in the world through lust. Therefore, not one soul needs to

faint, not a soul needs to be discouraged. Whatever may be your weakness,

however you may be compassed with infirmities, there is hope for you in

God, our precious Savior, came to save to the uttermost every soul that

will come unto him. He descended to the very depths of human woe for

our sake. He became poor, that through his poverty might be made rich,

rich in earthly treasured No, he made the world. He made the

world is his, and he placed it in its power proper position as subordinate.

She goes on to say, God and Eternity are be exalted as supreme

to those whose minds are engrossed with earthly things. He lifts the voice of

warning. He presents Eternity to review. He opens before you Heaven, the

threshold brightened with His glory and the glory streaming through the open door. Thank

God, the door is a jar. See Christ is the open door to

the glory of God. The power of God in your life and friends,

that's glory guaranteed if you have Jesus. Sister White says, the weakest child

of God, the most depressed may find in Jesus' hope, mercy and love

without parallel. This woman, Luke thirteen, had an infirmity of the mind,

a spirit of her attitude of weakness that kept her down in life.

As a result, Luke eleven thirteen records that she could not raise her up.

She was bent over for eighteen years because of this spirit of weakness inside

her mind. Jesus didn't enroll her in a five year psychotherapy plan to heal

her. He didn't. Now, I'm not against people who go and seek

help. It's valid at times people need counselors. But in her case,

that's not what he did. Christ didn't start a grief class on recovery for

her, and a grief class is for recovery or a good thing. Christ

didn't cycle analyze her deep secrets and sins and write a journal about and send

her off to the pharmacy with a minor altering prescription for an imbalance. There

are people who need that kind of help. You see, that wasn't her

problem. Jesus healed her outright because what needed to change was her frame of

mind. He could have healed her from all those other things too, but

she had infirmity of the mind, a weakness of mind, of heart,

and attitude, and he did it instantly, right there on the spot.

You see, friends, it's possible when you action onto Jesus to have a

change of mind. That reader acts your life so you can live for God

without fear. Look thirteen twelve. Look what it says when Jesus saw her.

He called her to him and said to her, woman, you are

loosed from your infirmity. And he laid his hand on her, and immediately

she was made straight and glorified God. That's an amazing sequence of events.

Here. Jesus performed four faith power actions for this woman's recovery. Write these

down. I'm gonna go through them. Four faith power actions for this woman's

recovery. Faith power action number one. Jesus saw her, doesn't say that

he saw her. That's significant. When you're a weak in isolated, the

cure starts with being noticed. The cure starts when God casts his eyes on

you with love. The cure starts not with you, but with God.

Christ saw her at the burning bush. God told Moses that he's not indifferent

to the needs of his people, that he has seen what's been going on.

Look at Acts seven thirty four. It's quoting Exodus three when God said,

I'd surely seen the in fact is the age of the Lord. Here,

it's the age of the Lord. Speaking as the Lord in the context

patriarchs and prophets, affirms that fact, I have surely seen the oppression of

my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their groaning, have come

down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt

Christ as Jehovah Yahweh, God saw haygard. It changed your life forever,

and I'll prove it to you. Look at Genesis sixteen, verse eleven.

Now follow the verses with me. The Angel the Lord said to who's speaking

in verse eleven, it's obvious who is it? What does it say?

The Angel of the Lord. Now we just happened to know that that's the

pre existent name for Jesus. He's called the Messenger, Angel the Covenant.

The Angel of the Lord is the Lord. If you want to find Christ

in the old tep not an angel, but the Angel of the Lord.

It's Christ. Now, he's not a created being like the Jehovah's witnesses say.

He is the Angel of the Lord. Now me demonstrate this to you.

The Angel Lord said to her, Behold, you're with child, and

you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, which means

God hears. Because the Lord has heard your affliction. Go to the next

verse, verse twelve. He shall be a wild man that sounds like my

son's. He shall be a wild man. His hand shall be against every

man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the

presence of all his brethren. Keep moving. Then she called the name of

who. What does it say in the text? Now, how's it spelled

in your Bible? Whenever you see L O, R D, all capitalize,

It's Jehovah Yahweh. She called the name of Jehovah Yahweh. Who spoke

to her? That was the Angel of the Lord. The Angel Lord is

the Lord. You are the God who sees. For she said, have

I also here seen him who sees me? Now here it's the Angel Lord.

And look thirteen and it's Jesus. We listen, dear heart, when

Christ looks into your eyes, God is looking at you through Jesus eyes.

Seven spirits of God, which are the seven eyes of God, are on

the Lamb in the book Revelation. In Revelation of Thought, the Angel the

Lord is the Lord who is yeahweh God. In this passage Deuteronomy ninet eighteen,

Oh my God, incline your ear and here open your eyes and see

our desolations. Daniel knew that God must look at us the city which is

called by your name. For we did not present our supplications before you because

of our righteous deeds, but because of your great mercies. Oh Lord,

here, o Lord, forgive, Oh Lord, haste, listen and act.

Do not delay for your own sake. In other words, your characters

in play My God, for your city and your people are called by your

name. Faith power action number two. Jesus called her to him. All

right, he first saw her. That's faith action. That's faith power action

number one. But number two Jesus called her to him. When God calls

out to you, God's word is operating your life. Let it work for

you because God's word can be used by Christ and God to save you.

God's word is God's decree that finds you. God's word is God's decree that

rebuilds your life. God's word is God's decree that gives you power to overcome

evil. God's word is God's decreed that makes you okay for the judgment day

because you are justified by faith in Christ alone. God created the universe through

Christ with his word. Christ is the living and abiding word of God in

the Bible, and he can heal and he can recreate you with the same

word of power that He used at the command of his father God to create

the universe time space itself. When God calls out to you, dear heart,

God saves you if you listen to Him in his word. So do

we need the Bible? Yes? Or no? Come on, I don't

want to hear a bunch of philosophers tell me how to fix my life.

I want Jesus to help me. It's in the word of God now Isaiah

forty three one. But now, thus says the Lord. Now, how

is it spelled there? Look at your Bible. Whenever you see Lord all

capital letters, that's Jehovah. That's Jehovah yahweh. It's two different. Sometimes

the Germans called it Jehovah, everybody else calls it Yahweh. So sister White

often calls it Jehovah. That was normal in the eighteen hundreds. But that's

the name, the divine name of the Lord given him out SINAI I am

who I am, Yahweh Jehovah is my name. Thus you to remember me

throughout all your generations. So that's the name he used here, the covenant

name. But now, thus says Jehovah, the Lord who created you of

Jacob and he who formed you Israel, fear not, for I have what

what does it say, I've redeemed you. I have called you by your

name, your mind and know that's what says. Next, when you pass

through the waters, I'm gonna leave you? Is that what it says?

What does it say? I will be with you through the rivers? Are

they gonna drown you? No, they shall not overflow you. When you

walk through the fire, Will it burn you up? You shall not be

burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For why does that happen?

Here's why. See, our salvation and redemption is rooted in who God is

his character, For I am the Lord. There it is L, O,

R, D all capital letters. Jehovah your God. Now this verse

says, Jehovah's God. He's our God. So if you're Jehovah, your

God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior. Wait a second,

Who's our savior? Okay? If the Father's called savior, you know Jesus

is called savior too. I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopian Ciba in

your place. Faith Power Action number three. Jesus freed her Zachary nine to

eleven. As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,

I will set your prisoners. And what does the word say in the Bible,

I will set your prisoners what free from the waterless pit Romans eight to

two. For the law the spirit of life in Christ. Jesus has set

me free from the law of sin and death. Christ was bound and taken

to the cross. He was whipped and beat around, but he went to

the cross. He set the captives free at the Cross of Calvary. We

are told by the hand of Inspiration that Jesus, with his own blood,

signed the emancipation papers of the human race, so that the message of God's

love and forgiveness would go to the ends of the earth, and that anyone

who would call in his name would be saved. He has set the captives

free. Faith Action Power Action number four, Jesus touched her and raised her

up. You know, it's one thing for God to see you. It's

another thing for God to hear you. But when God touches you, it

makes all the difference in the world. God sent Jesus in this world so

we could feel the touch of God. We could feel it in the touch

of Jesus Psalms twenty six to eight. Now I know that the Lord saves

is anointed. Now how's that spelled? Lord's Jehovah yahwah. He saves is

anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of

his right hand. Now the hand is that which touches. It also represents

power, some trust in chariots, some and horses. But we will remember

what now. When it says we remember the name of the Lord, our

God, it means the character God's name is who he is. It's his

character. They have bowed down and fallen, but we have risen and stand

upright, dear heart, when God touches you, he raises you up.

Maybe you've been touched or hurt your life by people that you don't even want

to talk about. God can touch you and heal you. Let's briefly review

the four faith power actions of Jesus that God used to heal this woman.

For faith power actions that can heal you also, let's just look at them.

Number one Jesus saw her. Number two, Jesus called her to him.

Number three Jesus freed her. Number four Jesus touched her and raised her

up. And Jesus heals a person in the church. Is always a scandal

for the hypocrites, who are more concerned with being right than healing. Somewhat.

I mean, people will always make a scandal out of something when a

sinner comes to God. Oh you see that person come through the church.

You know, you know where they came from. Praise God, they come

to the church. Look thirteen fourteen. But the rule of the synagogue answered

with indignation. You know here he is, this puffed up defender of what's

right. He did it because Jesus had healed on the sabbath. Oh,

think of the scandal of that healing someone on the sabbath. And he said

of the crowd, there are six days on which men ought to work.

He's quoting, you know, the fourth commandment, Sorda, Therefore, come

and be healed on them and not on the Sabbath day. It takes a

pretty sick person to get angry with Jesus for healing the person on the Sabbath

day. Jesus demonstrated that the Sabbath was relevant for the healing of the human

race when he healed the woman on the Sabbath day. The rule of the

synagogue didn't face Jesus when he spoke to the crowd only and said this.

He couldn't look at Jesus when he told the crowd to not come to the

synagogue to be healed on the Sabbath day. Show up on other six days,

but don't do that during church. He told them not to bother with

the Sabbath to be healed. Jesus fired right back with a powerful reputial I

like Christ, Christ rattles the boat for hypocrites. I don't want to be

one, But Christ rattles the boat. Look what he says in verse fifteen.

Lord then answered him and said, hypocryte. Now, if I was

say that, you'd call the conference a president. Pastor called me a hypocrite.

What did Jesus call the rule of the synagogue hypocrite? Does not each

one of you on the Sabbath, loose his ox or donkey from the stall

and lead away to water. It so ought not this woman. Now,

notice he calls her a woman, not an ox or a donkey. I'm

not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound. Think of

it for eighteen years. He's actually saying, start thinking, guy, you're

a teacher of the synagogue, but you're not thinking think of it for eighteen

years. Be loosed from this bond. On the Sabbath good questions Jesus is

asking for Jesus. The Sabbath is the freedom day for Jesus. The Sabbath

is the healing day for Jesus. The Sabbath is the first day of a

new life after eighteen years of oppression by the devil, a new day of

rest when God defeats the enemy in her life. On the Sabbath day,

forgiven, free, set for a new purpose in life. God loved that

woman. He showed it on the Sabbath day. For Jesus, the Sabbath

is the great day. This poor afflicted woman of the Synagogue found grace in

favor. She was healed from a spirit of weakness, and she learned from

Jesus that she's not a donkey or an ass, but a sweet daughter of

Abraham well worth setting free on the holy Sabbath day Luke thirteen seventeen. And

when he said these things, boy Jesus said a whole mouthful, didn't he?

When he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame,

and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

Glory guaranteed in Jesus on the Sabbath day. Fear begone, weakness begone,

any attitude which would enslave us begone, because for freedom Christ has set

us free. Their Father, is I bow my head today. I don't

ask you to correct our theology right now. I'm asking you to correct our

hearts, the mind, and the attitudes. Lord, we need Jesus here

in all of our lives. If one person in this church is lost,

then the whole church suffers, and eternity will bleed. In a way.

Father, help us to realize that you have loved us in Jesus as individuals,

that we've been put on this planet to love other people, and that

we bring our skill sets, our temperaments. True. But Lord, at

the end of the game. We need to be lifting burdens from people's lives,

not putting them on them. So Father, help us, help us

to grow. May the dear people of God that need to be saved,

including us, be saved in Jesus name. And may the calling and mission

of Christ to set the captives free be felt this day on the Sabbath day.

Thank you in Jesus' name. Amen,