Are-you-important?

I'll tell you the greatest secret God ever showed me

about you. Yes, you, He told me that all y'all

are crazy.

True story.

I was getting ready to preach one time, and I

wanted to preach from my own dysfunction, and I was

embarrassed to do it because I thought, like everybody that

I was preaching to had their act together, and why

you're gonna listen to a preacher that's crazier than you.

And it was very interesting for me, the path that

I went on in those two years that I was

learning this lesson, watching millionaires who were miserable, and I

realized the devil doesn't check your net worth before he

tries to wreck your house.

And I saw really nice smelling.

People with like country club members and stuff, who drive

eco friendly cars and eat hummus, freaking out on depression medication.

And yeah, And once I found out y'all were crazy,

I was no longer intimidated to preach this Bible like

it really is.

Once I realized.

That you might be out of control and your spending,

you're eating your sexuality. If I kept going long enough,

i'd clear the whole room out of self righteousness. There

would not be one more Pharisee spirit left to hear

this sermon. If I kept going, dare me to do it,

I will name every demon in this room, because once

I stopped talking about the stuff you can see, then

I would move over to gossip. Some of y'all can't

stop talking about.

People you are so ugly to.

Okay, see what I told you, I told you, I

told you.

You were crazy.

He knew the man was crazy when he got.

On the boat.

It didn't stop him from coming. That got me excited.

I figure maybe he knows about.

My issues too.

I am Legion, And he said, Legion is six thousand

foot soldiers. That's a lot of demons. Jesus said, what

is your name? You know my name? Do you know yours?

Do you know who you are? Or do you have

so many different personas you know, because we're all Legion,

we're all a little bit of lesion. There are many mes.

Somebody told me that Abby looks just like me. They

say she's your mini me. I was like, you don't

know how true that is. There are many mes.

Huh. There's online you, there's Sunday Morning you. That's the

only one I ever get to see. But then I

found out there's a Friday night.

You don't make me interview your spouse. Please, I won't

pull them up here and give them the mic. There's

a you only she knows, he knows. There's a youth

that only you know. There's a youth that cries out

dare night. You don't cut yourself with stones. I understand that.

But sometimes you inflict pain on yourself and you can't

stop it, and you don't even know why you keep

pushing people away. You've been living among the tombs so long.

Somebody's tomb is them all to him is pornography. Somebody's

tomb is an addiction that if we named it in

the room, you think surely that person wouldn't come to church.

You'd be surprised how quick the demons run to Jesus.

Those demons ran before Jesus and fell before him and said,

don't make us leave. Got it like we wanted here?

We got these people on lockdown. But they knew that

this man was important to Jesus, and they knew they

knew that they were about to have to vacate the

premises of this man's personality and his psychology. And they

knew that someone strong enough to subdue them had finally

showed up in the region of the Gharri scenes.

Because you've tried.

Everything else, and you've run to everyone else, But I

declared today you were in the presence.

Of a greater grace.

And what works couldn't do, and the law couldn't do,

and chains couldn't do, and shackles couldn't do, God's.

About to do it in your life. Grace can do

what change can't do. So now we get to the

part about the pigs. We hadn't even got to the

pigs yet. The pigs are the most important part. This

is the part where I'm wondering why the demons wanted

to get inside the pigs. And on the surface, I

understand that the devil never wants to give up any ground.

You understand once he has established a foothold. How many

of you don't believe in the devil? I want to

see who hadn't had kids yet? That's all I'm trying

to do.

He doesn't want you to be the first one in

your family not to need drink feel good about yourself.

He doesn't want you to be the first one in

your family to be able to stay stable in a

relationship rather than running around. So what does he want?

He wants to stand guard in the area. And this

is a brilliant strategy. I gotta give it to these devils.

The devils are smarter than a lot of church people.

They know how to get information, they know how to

accomplish a purpose, and they know how to discern what

is valuable.

This is it. Stay with me? Are you with me?

Come on, We're on something. Are you with me? Lean

into this word. The word you resist is the one

that you need.

Jesus is in this house. The presence of God is

in this place. The power of a mighty God is

in this moment. Now, so Jesus says, you gotta go.

Let that man go. He's important to me.

I went through the storm to get to him. I

went through the thunder and the lightning to get to him.

I went through bucketfuls of water bill out of Peter's

boat to get to him. I came two hours across

the Sea of Galilee. And I've only got three years

to change the world. This man is a vip. I

know everybody else has forgotten about him, but I want

him now. Let me say something real quick, if he

went through the storm for this man and he went

to the cross for you, how.

Valuable must you be? How much is your life for

he said God? And Jesus said, okay, you can go

into the pigs. And they went into the pigs.

And then they made the pigs trail because the demons

know two things. One, pigs can't swim. But we all

know that what the demons know that we don't know.

I think the demons understood that the people in the

region cared more about the pigs than they did.

About the man. This is two thousand pigs.

This represents a significant part of the portfolio of these

pig owners. This is a region that is known for

raising pigs. So what does the enemy attack? Whatever you

value the most, and yes, he knows what you value,

And yes he knows how to hit you where it

hurts the most. And that's why he'll use people to

get to your relationship with God. What's really most valuable

is your relationship with God. But he knows if he

can get people to offend you, you will.

Do what the people did.

You will send Jesus away because you were offended by people.

He knows where to hit you. He knows where your

insecurity is.

He knows your playlist, what you say to yourself about yourself.

He knows your proclivities, your perversions.

He knows what makes you feel ashamed, so he hits

you there to make you lash out in anger.

He knows how to keep you bound.

And since he couldn't stay in the man, the devil

went into the pigs. If I killed the pigs, they'll

send Jesus away.

Let me hurt Job.

This is when the devil had a meeting with God.

He said, I've been going to and fro looking for

somebody to devour. And God said, have you checked out

my boy? Job?

Job's a bad dude. This is an updated it's a

little more modern. Probably says it in your Bible. And

the devil said, he's only serving you. He's only serving

you because his herd is still intact.

Let me touch his body, let me touch his children.

The enemy will use anything to get to your faith.

What he's after is your relationship with God. But he

will use the pigs to get you to push away

the presence of God. He knows exactly where you're vulnerable.

Guess where you're the most vulnerable. Wherever you place the

greatest value.

These pigs were worth two million dollars in modern money.

He said, if I can.

Get in the pigs and make the pigs drown in

the water, the people will be so afraid because they

lost their pigs that they will send Jesus away. I

wonder where the enemy attacked you. I bet it was

in the place of your greatest value. But guess what

I got good news. He only attacks what's valuable. So

if he has attacked you lately, get ready to shallow.

Guess what that means about you? You must be important, you,

o God. The devil knows more about your destiny than

you do. There must be something on your life. Can

I preach this like God gave it to me? God said,

some of you are breaking generational curses and you don't

even know it. And that's why it's been so hard,

and that's why it's been so strong, and that's why

it's been so dark, because you're so strong, and you're

so positioned, and you're so important to his purpose.

You must be important.

The devil wouldn't tie you up if he wasn't afraid

of what would happen if you got loose.

I can't buy an amen, but I don't need one.

This is good in my soul. I said he wouldn't

tie you up.

It's the opposite. I thought the storm meant God had

left me. I found out it meant that grace was

on the way. I thought the shackles meant God couldn't

use me. I found out that the shackles mean God

is looking for someone who.

Knows how to break sames.

Now I just wonder, are there any chain breakers in

the house today? I mean, you see chain breakers, rock

hill shain breakers. If you're a chain breaker and you

know it, and you've been through some things, and you

have some issues, and you forgot.

Who you were for a moment, But in.

The presence of God today, you're starting to remember.

I am a child of God.

Take a few moments and praise Him for what's on

the other side. Come on, children, come on, come on,

say breakers, come on and praise him.

I don't care I'm on the screen.

Shallah to God with the voice of trial.

I don't care you belong to a country club.

Shallah to God, with the voice of trial. I'm a

same breaker.

You must be important.

He threw you in the fire so he could so

never commiss her that he is God.

You must be important.

He lets you spend the night with the lions so

he could shut the lion's mouth and demonstrate his strength.

You must be important.

He drowned all those horses in the Red Sea so

that the nations would.

Know that he is God. You must be important.

Hot, fine, everybody looks happy.

Say you must be import.

You gotta be, You gotta be.

How else do you explain the fact.

That you're still here.

Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so that

only that which cannot be shaken will remain. You know

what it means if you're still here. You weren't shaken.

The trial came the.

Foundation's quick, but the house stood firm because it wasn't

on the sand.

This man.

It was so important that Jesus went the storm to.

Get to him.

And you were so important that Jesus went through gethsemone

to get to you. And you were so important that

he passed through the membrane of eternity into the construct

called time to come to you. Don't you ever let

the devil tell you against somebody else needs to raise

those kids.

Don't you ever.

Let the devil tell you against somebody else belongs in

that spot you don't, and the next storm that comes,

I want you to wave it on by because there

must be something so great on the other side.

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