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Pull out what God has placed in you

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  1. Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.

  2. You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.

  3. We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the

  4. cross. Now let's join the service.

  5. Appreciate these songs once again, kids can be this Mr.

  6. classes. Just get one of the my wife or

  7. when the ladies back there they'll show you in the right

  8. direction could be in Romans chapter 8, verse 8.

    Romans 8:8

  9. You ever read something in the Bible in it just such in your

  10. spirit and it wants out. It wants out.

  11. I was talking to Brother Bob there for service.

  12. It kind of goes along what I was preaching.

  13. There was a guy we used to rodeo with and you could talk him into

  14. anything. He would do things to impress

  15. Bob and Bruce all the time, just to right or wrong, he would do

  16. it and that led me to same thoughts that I'm preaching

  17. today. We have to pull out what God has

  18. placed inside of us. We read it what Jesus Christ

  19. death and burial and resurrection did and what it

  20. placed within the hearts and the lives of his believers.

  21. I believe we're falling short at pulling out that which God has

  22. placed within us. There's so much and I'm going to

  23. preach some things today. It might, you know, it might

  24. freak some of you out if you've never been around it, but it'll

  25. grow you it'll it'll spur you on in the Lord because in first

  26. Peter and and and and Peter, it says in first Peter 224 that

  27. it's by his stripes that we are healed.

  28. Nothing else. And that also know the stripes

  29. that Jesus took can heal us. But sometimes I believe that

  30. healing is within us and it needs pulling out.

  31. Amen. I believe that the Holy Spirit

  32. is with each within each and every believer and it needs

  33. pulling out. But let's stand in the reading

  34. of the word today. And if you can grasp these

  35. verses right here in Romans chapter 8, let's go to verse

    Romans 8 chapter mention

  36. where we had our verse 8 on the screen it says that so then

  37. those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

  38. We have to get that. I can't please God in the flesh,

  39. but you're not in the flesh. If you've accepted Jesus Christ

  40. as your personal Savior. You transform from the flesh.

  41. Yes, you're walking around in an earthly body and it seems flesh.

  42. You feel the heat, you feel the cold, you feel the bruises, you

  43. feel the bumps, you feel the sickness.

  44. We are in this flesh, but we're not of this flesh.

  45. You're not in the flesh, but you're in the Spirit, if indeed

  46. the Spirit of God dwells within you, if you placed him in there

  47. by praying the sinner's prayer, the Spirit of God is there.

  48. Now, if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  49. Can't just know about him. He can't just be somebody else's

  50. God that you've heard about. He's got to be placed down

  51. inside of you. And I love this right here.

  52. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but

  53. the Spirit is life. I see a lot of people it seems

  54. right the opposite. It seems that the flesh is very

  55. well alive, but the Spirit is dead, he says.

  56. But the Spirit, it is life because of the righteousness I

  57. preach at a few Wednesday nights ago.

  58. Why is living for God and doing righteous things important?

  59. Because it's building a hedge of protection from evil around you,

  60. Amen. If you build your That's why

  61. righteousness and living right is important, because it builds

  62. a hedge that the enemy can't penetrate through.

  63. Amen. Because God looks down and he

  64. sees the righteous. Thank God He sees me when I'm

  65. not righteous, but he also corrects me.

  66. But get this right here. I want to preach to you about

  67. this today because it'll make you scratch your head.

  68. Verse 11 says, but if the spirit of him talking about God who

  69. raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, you ever thought

  70. about it that way? The same spirit that raised

  71. Jesus from the dead lives in me. I got to pull it out sometimes

  72. and use it. If it's alive in me, I got to

  73. release it, right? That's when people get all

  74. scared. I don't.

  75. But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead

  76. dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also

  77. give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells

  78. within you. Father, we thank you for

  79. dwelling in US today. We thank you that your spirit is

  80. truth and it's life giving. Father, I thank you today that

  81. that we love you that we have, that we that you give us

  82. strength each and every day. But I pray that day, Father,

  83. that you would teach us through Your word.

  84. There's some things that you have placed deep down within us

  85. in the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, dwells

  86. within us that you would pull it out of us today.

  87. You would help us to activate it, help us to use it in Jesus

  88. name, Amen. Man, does that do something to

  89. you The same Spirit that rave. You know, there was some cool

  90. stuff that happened when Jesus was raised from the dead.

  91. There was some people that had already died.

  92. The Bible says there was there was Saints that had already died

  93. in the and they were up walking around town.

  94. They were walking around witnessing because the power was

  95. so great that it raised people from the dead and it's going to

  96. happen again very soon. I believe that the earth was

  97. shook. The veil of the temple was

  98. rented to doing away with the with the law entering and sin to

  99. the new covenant. So there's some things we have

  100. to learn here in second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 5, the

    2 Timothy 1 chapter mention

  101. Apostle Paul, he said when I call to remembrance the genuine

  102. faith he was preaching to a young Timothy here giving him

  103. instructions to lead the early church.

  104. He said, I remember something about you, Timothy.

  105. There's a genuine faith in you because it also drilled in your

  106. grandmother Lois and Eunice. I've seen it before.

  107. It's in you, Timothy. Is that not what he was saying

  108. there? It was first in your grandmother

  109. Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that it's also in

  110. you. Therefore, I remind you to stir

  111. up the gift. Isn't that cool to stir?

  112. Christians aren't very good at stirring up the gift that God

  113. has placed within us. Once a new king, the King James

  114. says to fan the flame. You ever took an old fire that

  115. was trying to burn and the wind blew through?

  116. What fans the flame? The wind of the Holy Spirit

  117. blowing through your life will fan the flame that God has

  118. placed within you. We read of this many times in

  119. Second Timothy chapter 4 and six.

    2 Timothy 4 chapter mention

  120. We read the apostle Paul said I'm already being poured out as

  121. a drink offering. The Apostle Paul had something

  122. to pour out because he had been with Christ, because he had

  123. spent time. He said I'm already being poured

  124. out as a drink offering. I've read that many times.

  125. But this week it meant something different.

  126. He said I'm pouring the drink offering on the sacrifice and

  127. the service of your faith. What was the sacrifice?

  128. The supreme sacrifice was Jesus Christ, so sometimes we got to

  129. pour out our praise to Jesus Christ.

  130. Sometimes we got to pour out and remind the devil of who we are

  131. and what he's done for us. Have you ever just poured your

  132. drink offering on the sacrifice which is Jesus Christ?

  133. See what he was saying here was the lesser must be poured out on

  134. the greater for the supernatural to take place in our life.

  135. When we begin to pour out the drink offering the thing that

  136. he's filled our cup as we sing the song and we begin to pour it

  137. out, which is Christ that she has placed within us.

  138. Some great things happen. We leave.

  139. We read in Philippians 2 and seven there he says I'm being

  140. poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and the

  141. services of your faith. So it's clear in these few

  142. scriptures that I've read that they that it in Romans 8 and 11

  143. and these other writings that Paul wrote.

  144. There's something on the inside of us, right?

  145. If anyone, 2nd Corinthians 5 and 17, if anyone be in Christ, see,

  146. because we are in Christ, we are new creation.

  147. Behold, all old things have passed away and all.

  148. I love what that says. All things have become new.

  149. Therefore there's something on the inside of us.

  150. Y'all agree with that? It's placed there.

  151. You feel it, you know it when you hear a song and you can't

  152. contain it, pour it out, let it out, pull out that which God has

  153. placed within you. You'll see some supernatural

  154. things in second Corinthians, the apostle Paul chapter 4 and

  155. verse 7, he, he said we have a treasure in an earthen vessel.

  156. Isn't that powerful? I may be walking around.

  157. I may be getting older, I may be getting greyer there.

  158. There was a there was a man come on TV yesterday and she said,

  159. Paul, that looks like you. I said, there ain't nothing

  160. about that man looks like me. See, we got this image of our

  161. self of what we used to look like, right?

  162. But you got to remember, even when you walk by the mirror, you

  163. got to remember your eyes are bad.

  164. If you ain't got your glasses on, you really ain't seeing the

  165. real you. But kids, they got 2020 vision.

  166. When they look at us, they see all the wrinkles.

  167. They see all the Gray hair. They see all the things that she

  168. said Paul, that looks like you. I said, how does he look like

  169. me? I'm not that old, she said.

  170. His beard's white, his hair's white.

  171. He looks like you. I said, OK, but see, I've still

  172. got a treasure. Though this outward earthly

  173. vessel may be wasting away, there's a treasure that's inside

  174. that can be renewed daily. It says that the excellence of

  175. power may be of God and not of us.

  176. We are hard pressed on every side and yet not crushed.

  177. We're perplexed, but not in despair.

  178. We're persecuted, but we're not forsaken.

  179. We're struck down, but we're not destroyed.

  180. Why? Because I'm always, no matter

  181. what state I'm in, I'm always carrying around the body of the

  182. Lord Jesus Christ that the life of Jesus also may be manifested

  183. in our body. So how do I manifest this thing

  184. that, that he's talking about, this hidden treasure that's in

  185. this vessel that he's talking about?

  186. See manifest. The definition is to display or

  187. to show by one's appearance. Hello.

  188. Sometimes we don't display the hidden treasure that's inside of

  189. us. We let the flesh take over,

  190. right? But you see what we're carrying

  191. around about in this earth, earthen vessel, It wants out.

  192. How do we let it out? Pull out.

  193. What has God has placed on the inside of you?

  194. Because the world didn't give it to you, and the world can't take

  195. you away. Jeremiah often referred to as

  196. the weeping prophet. He had a message that people

  197. didn't want to hear. It wouldn't build a big church

  198. today. It wouldn't 'cause people to

  199. come and hear him because it. And I think we ought to be

  200. preaching just like Jeremiah did, because there's a day

  201. coming that it's all going to be dissolved.

  202. Amen. There's a day coming that if

  203. your loved ones don't get it right with Jesus Christ, they're

  204. not going to heaven. There's a world that's lost and

  205. dying that needs him. And Jeremiah was warning of the

  206. destruction of Judah. He said all Hell's going to

  207. break loose, you better get ready.

  208. And everywhere he went, he had to preach this message because

  209. it was inside of him. In Jeremiah 20 and 9, he said, I

  210. tried not to go tell him what was happening.

  211. I tried to hold it in. But he said his word was in my

  212. heart like a burning fire. It was shut up in my bones and I

  213. was weary and holding him back. And I could not hold it back.

  214. Don't hold back what's inside of you.

  215. Pull out your salvation and share it.

  216. Can somebody give him a praise? Pull out the peace that you have

  217. in your life that surpasses your understanding.

  218. Pull out your faith. Pull out your hope.

  219. Pull out your love that's inside of you.

  220. Don't be afraid to use it. Everywhere Jesus went, He pulled

  221. things out of people and replaced it with something

  222. greater. He pulled the demons out.

  223. He pulled the sickness out. He pulled the disease out.

  224. Amen. He healed leprosy.

  225. I think of the story of the lepers that he healed.

  226. There was 10 of them. And yeah, we had a little

  227. leprosy prayer Wednesday night, didn't we?

  228. We stayed here and prayed through it and and I said we got

  229. to get some leprosy worship in our life.

  230. Amen. He healed them 10, and they all

  231. went out, but one of them along the way, he was stepping.

  232. He said, wait a minute. He looked down and no disease

  233. that was eating at his body, his eyes was restored.

  234. He wasn't hurting anymore. He said, my God, I got to go

  235. back and I got to give this man some glory.

  236. I got to pull some things out of me and give to Him because of

  237. what He's done for me. Pull out some leprosy worship.

  238. Pull it out. It's real.

  239. I was once a Sinner, but now I'm saved.

  240. I was once sick, but now I'm healed.

  241. But see, when Jesus pulled that junk out of someone, He replaced

  242. it with faith, with hope, with love.

  243. He longs to pull some things out of us that he's placed in US.

  244. It wasn't placed there to keep my God.

  245. If we're carrying around the the death, the burial, the

  246. resurrection, and not only that, but we're carrying around the

  247. same spirit. But if the Spirit of him who

  248. raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised

  249. Christ from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies

  250. through his Spirit who dwells in US.

  251. It dwells in me, in you. I must let God pull those things

  252. out. If therefore we are a new

  253. creation in Christ Jesus be things within us that want out,

  254. that have to get out, that have to.

  255. And as Paul was talking to Timothy here, he said it's in

  256. you. It wants out.

  257. You have to you have to dig it out.

  258. You know, I think of the I think of the churches of yesterday.

  259. They were much different than the churches today.

  260. You know, they used to have these things called tent

  261. meanings, but it wasn't just about the tent.

  262. I've been to tent meetings. I've preached it some recently,

  263. but it seems much different. And it burdens my soul because

  264. when we come to church at these tent meetings and these

  265. gatherings that we have, and we have these tent meetings and,

  266. and people, they, they, they try to think about the tent and, and

  267. bring back the power that was in the tent somewhat.

  268. But the only thing they're worried about is what they're

  269. feeding that night at the tent, what the flesh is going to eat.

  270. See the old tent meetings, I can't help but think there was

  271. people that had been feeding the Spirit all day before they got

  272. there. Hey, man, there was people that

  273. went to the tent meeting that knew their God had some power.

  274. And they said tonight when they asked for the prayer line, I'm

  275. going to get in the prayer line with people that believe and I'm

  276. going to pray and I'm going to see my need met.

  277. I'm going to see God move in a miraculous way.

  278. The preachers that often preach these tent remedy, there was

  279. something in them that had to come out.

  280. They fasted days before they ever preached.

  281. They sought the Spirit of God and they seen supernatural

  282. things of it. I've listened to RW Schambach

  283. most all my life and I love what Tony's sister told me the other

  284. day. She said I got saved at a

  285. Schambach meeting in Tyler, TX and she said I was messed up on

  286. everything. You could be messed up on drugs

  287. and and life and everything. And he said when I went down for

  288. prayer, he said he walked by me and he slapped me.

  289. She said I got offended and didn't go back for a night or

  290. two. When I went back I knew he said,

  291. but when that happened, God begin to deal with me.

  292. And she said I went back as a preacher.

  293. Why did you slap me? He said I didn't slap you.

  294. I was slapping the devil that was in you and he laid hands on

  295. her. He said receive that.

  296. And she said I got drunk in the Holy Spirit.

  297. She said I backed into three cars when I left the meeting and

  298. she said I've never been the same.

  299. It was instantly. It was at that time that God

  300. healed me, save me, and delivered me.

  301. So the tent meetings was much different.

  302. They were much different. RW Schambach tells the story.

  303. How are they different now? We have to pry people from the

  304. Pew to let God supernaturally touch them.

  305. See, if you want to be well, you got to be willing to get rid of

  306. that which makes you sick. Many aren't willing to get rid

  307. of that which makes them sick. Sin makes us sick, right?

  308. Many of the things we take for Wellness makes us sick.

  309. If we really looked at it, we got to be willing to get rid of

  310. that which makes us sick. But RW Schambach, he had a, he

  311. had a double portion of what a preacher named Brother Allen had

  312. he and he said, I want to be the man that goes on that heals the

  313. sick. I want to raise the dead.

  314. I want to be your man. God placed to call in on his

  315. life. And he said he went to Bible

  316. college and he said, he said he was on AGI bill because he'd

  317. been in the military. And RW Schambach was asking his

  318. professor. He said they begin to teach

  319. these things. And he said, I was told I would

  320. learn the Bible here. And he said God has called me to

  321. heal the sick. God has called me to raise the

  322. dead. God has called me to open

  323. blinded eyes and to cast out demons.

  324. And he said, I've not heard any of that here.

  325. And he said he finally admitted the professor.

  326. He said that's because I don't know how to do it.

  327. I can't teach you that which I don't know.

  328. He said, well, I'm wasting time here.

  329. So we got out and he went and he followed this preacher named

  330. Brother Allen. And when Brother Allen died, he

  331. began to preach faith. And Brother Allen would come on

  332. that night and preach healings. If the same Spirit dwells in us

  333. that raised Jesus from the dead, First off you got to know that

  334. God's able, God's able. It doesn't matter what it is.

  335. But he said he would preach faith that day.

  336. People would come back that night.

  337. They would receive hairy healings.

  338. And when Brother Allen died, he said he told the Lord.

  339. He said I want a double portion. I want him to pray over me.

  340. I want to be that man. So years later they he was on an

  341. interview if you hear a while back before he went to be with

  342. the Lord and they said what was some of your greatest miracles?

  343. If I come to you and I come to many Christians today, the the

  344. greatest miracle that we told around many is the only miracle

  345. is when God took our sin sick heart and he began to wash away

  346. the sins. That's the greatest miracle.

  347. That's the greatest healing God could ever perform in the life

  348. of his children. But it does not stop there.

  349. Schambach said he was in a prayer line.

  350. They were coming through to pray for him and he said this young

  351. man come up there. He said he was a pretty tall man

  352. and he said he had a deformity from birth and he said his one

  353. arm was normal, but he said this arm right here, he said his hand

  354. was connected to his shoulder, a perfect hand right here at his

  355. shoulder. This is what give me this

  356. message this week. And when I heard the story, he

  357. said, he said, I looked at the young man said what would you

  358. have me pray for man? This got all over me when I when

  359. I heard it he said I want God to pull my arm out.

  360. He said you want God to pull your arm out and he said well I

  361. believe he can. He laid hands on him.

  362. He said instantly the arm grew 1 foot.

  363. Boy y'all are getting quiet. That boy knew something was in

  364. he he didn't say I want a bit new while he said I want him to

  365. pull that out in that faith. He said it's in me.

  366. God created this body and he's the God of nothing missing and

  367. nothing broken. He's not the God of

  368. deformalities, Amen. He's the God that heals them,

  369. right? And he said I want God to pull

  370. my arm out and he said that built my face and I prayed for

  371. him. He said instantly he went and

  372. set out. We prayed for others.

  373. What does God want to pull out of you see that boy #1 believed

  374. that it was inside of him, right?

  375. You got to believe that the same Spirit that raised Jesus from

  376. the dead. And when you get broke and when

  377. you get hungry and when you get dry spiritually, you ain't got

  378. to go running and reading best sellers.

  379. You just got to find you a place and say, my God, you placed it

  380. within me. I want it out.

  381. I want the Spirit to move in my life and you be got to get it.

  382. Begin to confess it over your life.

  383. He said I preached and prayed and he said at the end of

  384. service here, come, that boy said his arm was now down here.

  385. He said he walked up there and he said, son, what do you need

  386. now? He said I need another shot.

  387. He said I begin to pray for him and he said when he walked off,

  388. he said the arm was the exact same length.

  389. What a miracle serving what God we serve.

  390. But see, many of us refused to release those things.

  391. They're in US, but we refuse to release them.

  392. We walk around downtrodden. Instead of saying those things,

  393. many refuse to release it. Why?

  394. We're a new creation in Christ Jesus.

  395. Somebody should say, I'm giving praise.

  396. There's something new on the inside of you.

  397. You're carrying about the body of Jesus and the crucifixion and

  398. the resurrection of a Savior. Thank you, God, that I'm free.

  399. How many is glad they're set free today?

  400. I thank you. I'm delivered from those former

  401. things. It's Thanksgiving.

  402. Thank you, God, that I have peace that surpasses

  403. understanding and joy unspeakable and full of glory.

  404. Thank you, Jesus, it's by your stripes that I'm healed.

  405. Just pour it out this morning. Just pour out your praise.

  406. Just let him pull out that which is on the inside of you.

  407. See, thanks has to be given. That's why we call it

  408. Thanksgiving. If you don't give it, it's not

  409. thanks at all. Give the Lord some praise in the

  410. house. Have you given thanks to God,

  411. the God of the universe, for what He's done for you?

  412. Have you given thanks that He's healed you this morning and

  413. forgiven you? What a mighty God we serve.

  414. What's? What's on the inside of you that

  415. needs pulling out? You feel it at times wanting to

  416. come out, don't you? But yet we let pride still our

  417. blessing. We let what people think about

  418. us still our blessing. I got news for you.

  419. They ain't nobody going to be thinking about you in hell.

  420. Time as we know it will stop the existence in the presence.

  421. You know, the worst thing we, we think about the weeping, we

  422. think about the gnashing of the teeth.

  423. We think about the flames. But you know what's going to be

  424. the worst thing about being in hell is there's not going to be

  425. any presence of God. Hey, man, Yeah, we've had every

  426. chance. We've had the gospel.

  427. There's not going to be any presence of God.

  428. That's going to be the worst thing.

  429. There's never going to be hope. See, when we slip and fall

  430. today, thank God we've always got that hope that I may have

  431. failed yesterday, but I'm getting up today and I'm going

  432. on with God because it's shut up inside my bones and it comes

  433. out. Paul said I'm being poured out

  434. as a drink offering in March 16. Maybe a short arm seems a little

  435. strange to you. Maybe that happened.

  436. You know, I that's why I guess I preach against denominations

  437. because there's some denominations that preach the

  438. word of God, but they've never seen any healings.

  439. They go as far as to say it was for the disciples.

  440. Be sick if you want to, but I happen to read Mark 16 when I

  441. was very young. I don't see any stipulation on

  442. this. He was talking to the disciples,

  443. but he told him to go in all the world in verse 15 and preach the

  444. gospel to every living creature ever living creature.

  445. You know, I started praying over things I was at, I was at Bay

  446. City, TX one year and I was picking up rodeos and we had a

  447. bunch of them and I had, I only had four horses at the time.

  448. I needed eight. And I was using them and abusing

  449. them. And my best horse, he rolled out

  450. the arena that night. He couldn't pick his leg.

  451. It looked like a banana on the back of his leg.

  452. If you ever had horses, you know what a bow tendon it was bowed.

  453. I turned down a bunch of money for him, then used him hard.

  454. And I just, I was kind of down and Ronnie come by there where I

  455. said, I said, let's pray over this horse.

  456. And the guy walked by. He said, you might as well go

  457. on. He said, God, he said, that's a

  458. bow tendon. He'll be, he'll never be any

  459. good anymore. I mean, it was bad.

  460. We laid hands on him, anoint him with oil right there in that

  461. stall and begin to pray over him.

  462. And the next morning I went out there.

  463. There was no bow tendon. The next night I rode him.

  464. It was never a set back. But see, he says that we're to

  465. go into the gospel. Go go and preach the gospel to

  466. every creature. Preach to your dog.

  467. Hey man, preach to your spouse. When they seem like a creature,

  468. preach to them. Preach to them anyway.

  469. Every creature, sometimes he need preaching too.

  470. Sometimes you need preaching too.

  471. But he said this after he said he who believes and is baptized

  472. can be saved. But he who does not believe will

  473. be condemned. And verse 17 changes every

  474. believers world, changes everything that you've ever

  475. thought about church doctrine. And it says in these signs will

  476. follow those who believe. I didn't say it.

  477. Jesus said do you believe if they don't follow you?

  478. Ask Jesus. He said these signs will follow

  479. those who believe in my name. There's a lot of churches that

  480. are using his name, but it's not in his name.

  481. In my name they will cast out demons.

  482. But wait a minute that gets a little earic.

  483. Jesus just walked by. He said come out, you ain't no

  484. big deal. You ain't no big deal from where

  485. I came from, you just a thing. And I command you to leave in

  486. the name of Jesus. It says they will speak with new

  487. tongues. Christians been scared ever

  488. since they will take up serpents and they will drink anything

  489. deadly and it will by no means hurt them, and they will lay

  490. hands on the sick and they shall recover.

  491. Who will this? Who believes?

  492. Who believes, Who believes? Amen.

  493. These sides will follow those who believe.

  494. I want them following me. But you see, the problem is the

  495. flesh will come to a point that you can only pull so much from

  496. it. Those that are sitting on the

  497. pews and they're worshiping God only in the flesh.

  498. You can only pull so much from it.

  499. You can't see a miracle from the flesh because the flesh is going

  500. to get old. The flesh is going to get

  501. wrinkled. The flesh is going to

  502. deteriorate upon this earth. The flesh is going to ultimately

  503. die because the flesh is not an eternal being, but there's

  504. something on the inside of you that's going to live forever.

  505. It's going to live forever. Can I say that again?

  506. It's going to live forever. But the flesh will come to a

  507. point that you can only pull so much from it.

  508. It wears out. It becomes weary, serving God in

  509. the flesh. Anybody ever tried it?

  510. It will wear out. It will become eerie.

  511. You will hear the same songs over and over, and the preacher

  512. will probably preach the same message because he ain't got

  513. through to your flesh yet. And until you get that one,

  514. you're probably not going to get another one.

  515. Talked to a man one time. He said, I've been to five

  516. different churches that preach the same message.

  517. I said, maybe God's trying to tell you something.

  518. I said, you better figure out what God's trying to tell you.

  519. The flesh wears out, it aches, it pains.

  520. And we program it to do so. Boy, it's getting quiet.

  521. We program it. You know, I'll find the older we

  522. get, make conversation to talk about the weather pretty soon,

  523. if the weather ain't nothing to talk about, we enter into the

  524. aches and pains of yesterday. What's hurting, right?

  525. I told my wife at the desk. We got to get up and quit

  526. talking about what's hurting. It just hurts.

  527. All those talk about something else, the aches and the pains.

  528. We program it many times with our speech, and we spend too

  529. much time telling it that it's sick, telling it that it hurts,

  530. it can't do this, it can't do what it used to.

  531. And I know it's somewhat true, but the more you tell it, the

  532. worse it's going to get. But see, in the spirit realm,

  533. many do the same thing. I tried this church.

  534. I tried that church. I've tried reading it.

  535. If you're trying it, it ain't going to work.

  536. Trying it will not work. Anybody figured that out trying

  537. this, living this God, it will not work.

  538. You got to make your mind up and you got to say it doesn't matter

  539. devil what you pull on me today or tomorrow and in the future.

  540. Jesus is Lord, I'm not giving up.

  541. I'm not shutting up. I'm not quitting because I'm

  542. carrying around something on the inside of me and it shut up like

  543. a fire in my heart, my bones and it's got to come out in the

  544. spirit. Many do the same thing, but

  545. Jesus and the disciples, they were much different.

  546. Many times we say, well, that the disciples did it.

  547. You know why people say, well, that's for the disciples,

  548. because it's easier. They don't have to pull anything

  549. out and try. They don't have to pull it out

  550. and use it. Exercise it and begin to see,

  551. start praying for your sick dog, Amen.

  552. Start praying for the tree limb to fall that hadn't failed.

  553. Start. It's in the little things, Amen.

  554. He's the God of the little things.

  555. He cares about everything and he says if you can trust me in the

  556. little things, get ready because then you'll be able to pray for

  557. the big things and not doubt. He said ask whatsoever you will

  558. in my name and I can do it. The preacher does it, but I

  559. can't do it. Yes, you can begin to pull those

  560. things that God has placed in you.

  561. Be like the boy with the arm, but the fingers at the shoulder

  562. say God just pull it out of me. Just help me, just pull it out

  563. of me because the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead

  564. lives where within us. I was talking to someone the

  565. other day. We've, I'm sure all of you heard

  566. about the horse pandemic, the virus that's going around that's

  567. just devastating people, devastating them.

  568. I was in the woods when I heard about it hunting.

  569. I prayed. I said, God, this is bad.

  570. It's their livelihood. You know what I heard?

  571. I heard God say this is their God.

  572. This is their God. This is their God.

  573. I've been there before. You've been there before.

  574. It can become your God. And I heard this.

  575. Just let me work on it a little bit.

  576. Change the way I prayed about it.

  577. Change the people get so devastated today.

  578. People wasn't worried about and COVID about so much.

  579. All of them dying as they were. They wasn't going to get to go

  580. do what they wanted to do, right?

  581. That's what we do because we covet.

  582. We're not content with what we have.

  583. We can't pull the love of Christ out many times, right?

  584. But yet we serve a God that the same spirit as you stand your

  585. feet that raise Jesus from the dead dwells, dwells within us.

  586. And then as I begin to pray about it, I met back up with the

  587. truck, with the guys that I was hunting with that night.

  588. You know, I, they were talking about, I said, you know, what's,

  589. what's what, what's really happening here?

  590. I said, God's getting people ready because I said, as you got

  591. the call, the national finals could be shut down.

  592. This could be shut down, All this could be.

  593. And everybody's just panic. And I said, one day it ain't

  594. going to be horses dropping. One day you could get a call

  595. that there's a pandemic, Maybe it's a nuclear weapon, that

  596. that's prophecy. The Bible says it.

  597. The Bible says the earth and everything in it's going to melt

  598. with what fervent heat. It could be nuclear.

  599. All the Fruit Loops running around today they want to

  600. destroy at all cost for their agenda.

  601. I heard one said that it could have been the animal rights

  602. people sacrificing a few to to keep all the animals home from

  603. all the other events. So they release a pandemic?

  604. How many believe COVID was released?

  605. It's pretty much proven it didn't prevail.

  606. God give us another chance but what do we do?

  607. Churches were full for a little bit.

  608. People. All of a sudden I had a call and

  609. pastor, you canceling church. I said no, we didn't cancel the

  610. service. We've met outside a couple

  611. times. I said my God controls that.

  612. We lost a great warrior on the stage of COVID, but he wouldn't

  613. have backed down in his faith. We had it at the same time, but

  614. he still would have had church. I can promise you.

  615. But see, we get so scared. But I told this individual, I, I

  616. said, oh good, I'm glad you're not having church.

  617. I said, really, you ain't been too concerned about it for the

  618. last six months and all of a sudden now, now, But see, one

  619. day normality is not going to return.

  620. Normal is not going to return, but see the enemy's also

  621. working. We get over it so fast, we get

  622. over so fast millions die. We get over so fast and we

  623. forget the God that brought us out.

  624. Just like the children of Israel, just like the 10 lepers,

  625. other than the the 9 lepers that just kept going on.

  626. As you bow your head, will you give him some praise this

  627. morning? Thanks for listening to the

  628. Cross Powered Church podcast. May you know that true hope,

  629. peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus.

  630. If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in

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