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I'm just going to say this right now.

I don't mean to offend you, but some of you

have way too many limits on what you will and

won't do to obey God. You have too many limits,

You have too many conditions. You don't want to look weird,

you don't want to be different, you don't want to

stand out, you don't want people to talk about you,

and so you're starving inside. But these men, they didn't

have the option to stay inside, and they couldn't stay

where they were. The Bible says that they eventually, after

many days of this, said to each other, why stay

here until we die?

What a question?

In other words, it is complacency that kills us. It

is our willingness to stay in places where we are

starving because we fear the repercussions of our obedience.

And so we don't join.

An e group because we're scared of being seen. So

we stay in isolation, and we die outside because we

won't let anybody in. But they didn't have that option anymore.

They did not have the luxury to sit back and

wait and see what God would do. They no longer

had the luxury of patience, So they said to one

another we can't stay here, and if we say verse four,

we'll go into the city.

The famine is.

There, so we can't go there, and we can't stay here.

So we only have one thing left to do. Let's go.

Somebody shout, let's go.

You didn't shout it, shout, let's go. So let's go

over to the enemy's camp and surrender. If they spare us,

we live. If they kill us, at least we die quick.

Because I'm hungry. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We

can't stay here.

And we can't go there because we're outside the gate.

Here's what I love. If you've ever felt like an outsider,

raise your hand right now. If you've ever felt, yeah,

like an outsider, that surprises you, right because where are

the insiders? If we all feel like outsiders? That was

kind of weird. How more of us feel like outsiders?

Here's good news for the outsiders. These men were on

the outside of the city gate because of their condition.

But what I love is God was using their condition

to position them in the place so that they would

not be comfortable enough to stay. And their condition here's

what I love. I love appreciated to you. I'm appreciate

this whole point just to you, their condition position them

to be God's secret weapon to save the whole nation.

I am trying to say that sometimes the thing that

you hate is the thing that God will use. Sometimes,

the thing that may people not like you and reject you,

it's the very thing I'm about to fall off the

stage that will cause God to select you and choose

you and use you for a breakthrough.

Does anybody believe?

Then? To show the billers rejected, Wait a y'all leave

and I'm preaching good. Somebody saunded, you know, God's human

unlikely people. If they had been inside the camp, they

would have died. It was the fact that they were

not allowed in the camp that led to them. Look

what they did. This is so stupid what they did.

It makes no sense. It makes no sense. Sometimes, in

order to see what God has spoken come to pass,

you can't be so focused on making sin. Your senses

are killing you. Living by what you see is killing you.

Living by what you feel is killing you. Living by

what you hear is killing you. And they had no choice.

These are not the people who come to church to

check it off a list because it's a nice thing.

To do, and their grandma would be proud if she

was still alive today.

These are the.

People who come to church because I need God to survive.

These are not people who come to church so they

can get a good parking space, perhaps on Tuesday morning.

These are the people that come to church because I.

Can't make it.

I live and I breathe, and I move, and I

have my.

Being in Him.

And that dusk, before the light came, they got up

and went to the camp of the Aramians. And when

they reached the edge of the camp, watch this. Nobody

was there. God had already displaced their enemies.

All they had to do was show up.

See they went to surrender to the enemy, but the

enemy had already surrendered to them. When will we realize

that when we run from the devil, we are running

from a defeated foe. See the Bible says that he

is already under my feet. So all I have to

do to have the victory in my life is to

take another step. See God moves when you move, the

devil runs.

When you take your stand, when.

You put on your seal of faith, the firing darks

of a wicked.

One will be quenched.

So when when they got to the edge, So somebody

say I'm moving, I'm moving. I'm moving. I'm not dying here.

I'm not dying like this. I'm living in this mess.

I'm not passing this on to my kids. I'm not

going out like this. I'm not stuggling. When my God

owns the cattle on a thousand hills, not like this.

For the Lord had caused the Aramians to hear the

sound of chariots and horses. God casts the enemy to

hear an army that wasn't even there when he lies

to release.

The word of God.

When you make a declaration of faith, it goes before

you into your future.

Matter of fact, why not shall right now?

Because when we praise God, the devil gets a panic

attash and.

He has to turn loose out sword. I feel like

the price.

No, I'm real sorry if you don't like it loud

like this, But somebody is starving in this church today.

And it wouldn't be so bad if you were starving

and there was no food. But when Christ died to

give you life, and the thief came to us, kill,

steal and destroy, I'm sorry, but I.

Can't stand by silent while the devil white silent generation.

I can't stand by silent while teaching suicide is in

it all time on.

I can't stay silent, then, James of Hell.

Won't I If we stay silent, we die.

If we hide our leprosy, it kills us.

God youse somebody who wasn't even allowed in the city

to save it. God's going to use all of you

who feel unworthy, and all of you who feel not

good enough, and all of you who have been ostracized,

and all of you who feel limited.

That's how God works. It is through your limitation.

These men were so diseased that no one was allowed

to even touch them.

Come here. He couldn't even touch them. And that's who

God chose. So they went in the camp. Let me

show this.

They went in the camp, and they saw that the

enemy was already gone. Because a lot of times what

you're scared from got what you're running scared from, God

has already dealt with. But the enemy has you under siege,

and he puts a spirit of fear on you know,

because if the spirit of fear ever lifts, you will

find out who you really are in Christ. But when

they got there, they saw that it was theirs for

the taking. So now the first thing they did wasn't

to pray and give God their glory. First thing they

did it was heat, and they went in this tent

and when they reached the edge of the camp, they

entered one of the tenths and they ate and drank.

No no, no, no, no, no no no no, no no no.

And then they started carrying away the spoils.

The silver, gold, clothes, vibranium.

This is good, this is good, this is good.

But then they went off and hit them, went off

and hit them, because that's what you do when you're

a leper.

You hide.

That's what you do when you're ashamed, you hide. That's

when you do when you feel like an outsider. Remember

the man in the parable that said, I was afraid,

so I took what you gave me and I hid it.

The enemy wants to keep you in hiding, and if

he can, he give you a condition that will cause

you to hide your gift. You hear this word I'm

trying to preach to you. I wish I could sit

down one on one with everybody in the church and say,

what are you hiding?

Because here they are. God has given them the victory,

and they're hiding it.

And sometimes we hide because we are convinced that we

are not worthy. And sometimes we hide because we are

afraid of what might happen if we let our life shine.

But they had a revelation in verse ten.

I believe it is those first nine, and they said

to each other, you know this is not right. Here

we are we don't deserve to be here. This is

a day of good news, and we're keeping it to ourselves.

Now.

If we wait till daylight, if we hold this in,

if we keep this to ourselves, punishment will overtake us.

What you hold inside. When you don't show your issues,

you die. When you don't share your gift, you die.

You are dying because of what you are hiding. If

we wait, if we sit on this, we die. If

we expose our sin, we can be healed. If we

hide it, we will die. And here's the thing. A

lot of us are dying on the inside because our

issues are beneath our skin. So we stay outside the camp.

Won't tell anybody. Fine, I'm good, good good. We post

and we pretend to our thing. But they had a revelation.

God is blessing us now, and we have to share

what the Lord has done, even though we're lepers, even

though I'm imperfect. You know how preposterous it is for

me to preach to you.

When I struggle.

Like I struggle, I stand on this stage before you

each week by faith.

See what the thing about it is?

What if the reason God chose the lepers to discover

the treasure.

Was because they knew how to make an announcement.

See, once they found the goodness of God, they said,

let's go at once and report this in the royal Palace,

and then look at verse ten.

So they went and called out, because that's what lepers do.

Only this time they were not shouting unclean, unclean. This

time they were shouting, let's go, let's go.

The only one.

Who can really shout the victory is the one that

God has raised from the ashes of defeat.

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