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It's Time to Come Out — Josiah Spall

Southwest Apostolic Church

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  1. Welcome to the Southwest Apostolic Church podcast.

  2. This podcast is brought to you by the Southwest Apostolic Church,

  3. located at 3161 South Rowena Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, 46241.

  4. The podcast will feature preaching,

  5. from our pastor and from other ministers, so we hope you enjoy it.

  6. Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless.

  7. Amen. Isn't it good to be in the house of the Lord on this Wednesday night?

  8. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. There is no better place you could be than in God's house tonight.

  9. Amen. You made the right decision when you said, I'm going to go to church on this Wednesday night.

  10. Hallelujah. Because the Bible says when two or three are gathered together in

  11. his name, there he is in the midst of them.

  12. You see, there's a lot of social gatherings that God is not in the midst of.

  13. But all it takes is two or three to be gathered together with our focus and.

  14. Our attention upon his name.

  15. And whenever we focus, whenever we gather together and put our attention upon him, he shows up.

  16. And whenever he shows up, anything can happen.

  17. Amen. Whenever Jesus steps into the room, there is no telling what God can do in that place.

  18. Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. David said in Psalms chapter 27 and verse 4,

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  19. one thing, everybody say one thing,

  20. one thing if I desire to the Lord and that will I seek after that I may dwell

  21. in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the

  22. Lord and to inquire in his temple.

  23. Amen. The house of God is more than just a gathering place.

  24. Amen. But it is a place where we gather together, and in that place we can behold

  25. the beauty of the Lord, and we can inquire in his temple.

  26. I don't know about you, but I've come to church tonight for more than just to

  27. mark it off my calendar that I came to church.

  28. But I've come to inquire, amen, of what is in the temple of the Lord. Amen.

  29. I want to behold the beauty of the Lord, amen, that is in this place tonight,

  30. amen, with God's people, where he is. If you could grab your Bibles,

  31. let's turn to Psalm chapter 40.

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  32. Amen. I give honor to your pastor,

  33. his wife, family. I love and appreciate Brother Young so very much.

  34. If there is anything that I have learned about your pastor, it is that not only

  35. is he a man after the heart of God, but he has a heart for people and he loves people so much.

  36. Amen. And God can use somebody like that. I give honor to you,

  37. Pastor Young. I don't take this lightly.

  38. And I just want the Lord to have his way in the remainder of this service tonight.

  39. Psalm chapter 40, verse 1 and 2, I waited patiently for the Lord.

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  40. He inclined unto me and heard my cry.

  41. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit.

  42. He brought me out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet

  43. upon a rock and established my goings.

  44. Amen. he brought me out psalm chapter 68 psalm chapter 68 just a few pages over.

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  45. Psalms chapter 68, we'll be reading verses 5 and 6.

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  46. It says, A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God in his holy habitation.

  47. God setteth the solitary and family together.

  48. There it is again. He brings out those who are bound with chains.

  49. But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

  50. And man, as I was on my way driving here from Evansville, Indiana this afternoon,

  51. there was one word that I just could not get out of my mind.

  52. And that word was cycles, cycles. And man, I feel like God wants to break some

  53. sin cycles in people's lives tonight.

  54. Amen. Or maybe it's some generational cycles, whatever it is, whether,

  55. it's addictions, whether it's struggles that you've had for a long time or temptations

  56. that you continuously fall to or hidden sin, amen, that you just cannot escape.

  57. Amen. I believe God wants to break some cycles, amen, in somebody's life tonight.

  58. Hallelujah. He can bring you out.

  59. He can bring you out. Amen. For a few moments tonight, I'm going to preach on

  60. this thought. It's time to come out.

  61. Amen. It's time to come out.

  62. If we could all lay our Bibles down, amen, and all of us all across the house,

  63. if we could lift our hands together and lift our voices for just a moment,

  64. amen, let's pray that the Lord has his way in the remainder of this service.

  65. Come on, let's all bind together right now. Lord, in the name of Jesus.

  66. God, we ask, Lord, that your perfect will would be accomplished in this place.

  67. God, we don't want to leave this house the same way that we came,

  68. Lord. But, God, let every chain that needs to be broken be broken tonight.

  69. God, let every stronghold be brought down.

  70. In the name of Jesus, Lord, let somebody, God, come out of the cycle,

  71. Lord, that they have become accustomed to living in, Lord. Break,

  72. Lord, every cycle of sin, every cycle of addiction, God, every struggle, Lord.

  73. In the name of Jesus, Lord. We pray, God, that your will would be done in this

  74. place. We're not going to fail to give you all the praise, honor,

  75. and glory for it. Amen. Let's clap our hands to the Lord before you're seated tonight in Jesus' name.

  76. Oh, you're worthy, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. Be seated tonight in Jesus' name.

  77. Hallelujah. The first part of Isaiah or Psalm chapter 68 in verse 6 says,

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  78. God setteth the solitary in families.

  79. Solitary is referring to an isolated individual, one who is lost,

  80. one who is without friends, wretched, forsaken, lonely.

  81. Amen. It's referring to an outcast. Man, it says that God setteth the solitary in families.

  82. This word family actually is referring to a house or a household.

  83. Amen. And this is exactly what God does. God looks for the solitary one.

  84. He looks for the lost individual.

  85. Amen. The wretched, the forsaken, the isolated one.

  86. And he brings them into a household, a family.

  87. Amen. The house of God, the church, the people of God is a household.

  88. It is a family.

  89. The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19, "...now therefore ye are no more strangers,".

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  90. And foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God.

  91. Amen. We are gathered together here as the body of Christ. Amen.

  92. We are a family. Amen. That is a part of a household, the household of Christ.

  93. And all throughout the life and ministry of Jesus, while he was here upon this

  94. earth, he was looking for the strangers. He was looking for the solitary ones.

  95. He was looking for the lost ones.

  96. He was looking for those who were broken, those who were wretched,

  97. those who were forsaken. And his purpose was to bring them out of where they

  98. were living and to save them.

  99. His purpose was to bring them out and to bring them into a household.

  100. Amen. To bring them to a home. To give them a family.

  101. Amen. This is why the Bible says that Jesus would leave the 99 sheep,

  102. and he would go after that one lost sheep.

  103. Amen. Jesus came, the Bible says, for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  104. Amen. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. He didn't come for the

  105. righteous. Amen. He didn't come for those who were perfect or for those who

  106. thought they had it all together. No, my friend, Jesus came to save those who were lost.

  107. Jesus came to save those who were broken.

  108. Jesus came to save those who were in need of a.

  109. Hallelujah. Amen. There's a

  110. scripture in Psalms that says he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

  111. That's who God is interested in. God is interested in the outcasts.

  112. Amen. God finds interest in the ones that nobody else believed in.

  113. Hallelujah. God finds interest in the ones that nobody thought they would ever

  114. amount to anything. Amen.

  115. He's interested in the solitary ones, in the lost ones. Amen.

  116. The broken ones, and he's interested in bringing them together and planting

  117. them in the household of God, giving them a family.

  118. Man, the remainder of that verse says, God set at the solitarian families,

  119. and he bringeth out those who are bound with chains.

  120. Hallelujah. He places them in the house of God, and he brings them out of the

  121. chains that are attached to them.

  122. Hallelujah. You see, the purpose of God bringing his people into his house is

  123. so that he can bring them out of their bondage and of their chains and of their sinful lifestyles.

  124. Whenever God brings an individual into the house of God, he does it with the

  125. purpose of bringing them out of their bondage.

  126. God does not bring people here so that they can leave the same way that they came.

  127. But God's desire, amen, for every individual in this house tonight,

  128. amen, is for you to leave different.

  129. Amen. He wants to bring us out of our chains. He wants to bring us out of our cycles, amen.

  130. He wants to bring us out of whatever, amen, bondage that might be in our lives.

  131. Hallelujah, Jesus. He wants to break the chains of sin in your life. Amen.

  132. No matter what you are bound by, I want you to know I know a God who is bigger,

  133. and who can bring you out.

  134. Hallelujah, Jesus. All throughout the Bible, amen, our God is known for bringing

  135. people out of their situation.

  136. Amen. Our God is known for bringing people out of bondage, bringing people out

  137. of pits, bringing people out of prisons, bringing people out of sin,

  138. bringing people out of brokenness, out of confusion, amen, out of idolatry.

  139. In the Old Testament, the Lord brought Lot out of Sodom and Gomorrah.

  140. He brought Joseph out of the pit and out of the dungeon.

  141. He brought Moses and the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt.

  142. Hallelujah. He brought David out of the deep miry clay. He brought Elijah out

  143. of a cave and out of depression. He brought Jonah out of the belly of a whale.

  144. Hallelujah. He brought Daniel out of the lion's den. He brought Shadrach,

  145. Meshach, and Abednego out of the fiery fir.

  146. In the New Testament, Jesus brought the woman at the whale out of fornication and adultery.

  147. Amen. He brought the man with the legion of devils out of a life of torment and oppression.

  148. He brought the woman with the issue of blood out of sickness and health issues.

  149. He brought blind Bartimaeus out of darkness. He brought Saul out of a life of

  150. persecution and hatred toward the church.

  151. He brought Peter out of prison. And he brought Paul and Silas out of chains

  152. that they were bound by in prison.

  153. It does not matter what you are bound by here tonight. Our God can bring you out.

  154. I'm going to say that again. It does not matter what you have walked into this place.

  155. Attached to your mind, attached to your spirit, our God can bring you out tonight.

  156. Oh, hallelujah, Jesus. Oh, come on, let's worship the Lord right now.

  157. Oh, we worship you, Jesus. God, we give you glory and honor and praise, Jesus.

  158. Hallelujah. I want to remind somebody tonight, our God is still bigger.

  159. He's still bigger than every sickness and every disease. Amen.

  160. Our God is still bigger than cancer.

  161. He's still bigger than diabetes. He's still bigger than heart problems.

  162. He is still bigger than lung problems. He is still bigger than psychological

  163. issues. He is still bigger than every virus.

  164. Amen. Our God is still bigger than every battle in your mind.

  165. He's bigger than depression. He's bigger than anxiety. He's bigger than torment. He's bigger than fear.

  166. He's bigger than bitterness. He's bigger than anger.

  167. He's bigger than lust. He's bigger than hatred. He's bigger than pride.

  168. He's bigger than shame. He's bigger than condemnation.

  169. My God, I feel the Holy Ghost.

  170. Our God is still bigger than every addiction.

  171. Hallelujah. He's bigger than alcohol. He's bigger than drugs.

  172. He's bigger than nicotine.

  173. He's bigger than pills. He is bigger than every ungodly and impure addiction.

  174. Amen. Our God is still bigger than emotional hurt and pain.

  175. Hallelujah. I'm going to say that again. Our God is still bigger than emotional

  176. hurt and pain, scars that you may have had because of things that have happened to you.

  177. Come on, there might be people in this house who have been deeply wounded by

  178. some circumstances that have happened in your life.

  179. I want you to know tonight our God is still bigger than every wound.

  180. He is bigger than every hurt.

  181. He is bigger than the pain that you are carrying. Come on, maybe you've walked

  182. into here and you've carried generational curses that have been attached to your family for years.

  183. Our God is still bigger but every generational cycle and curse that the devil

  184. has told you, you can never escape, you can never...

  185. Oh my God, I feel the Holy Ghost. I'm a priest. I'm a priest.

  186. Hallelujah. Maybe it's been attached to you for a long time.

  187. I want to tell you right now, it does not matter how long that spirit has been

  188. attached to you, that addiction has been attached to you, all it takes is one encounter.

  189. All it takes is one moment in his presence, and everything can change.

  190. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm reminded of the man that was possessed with the

  191. legion of devils in the Bible.

  192. The Bible says that he had been possessed with devils for a long time.

  193. Amen. A legion, many people believe that that number of devils is around 5,000 to 7,000.

  194. No doubt that man had done a lot of wrong to get to that place in his life.

  195. Where he was possessed with thousands of devils. It had been that way for a

  196. long time, but all it took was one encounter.

  197. All it took was one moment in the presence of the King of Kings,

  198. where he didn't let the devils keep him from running to Jesus and worshiping,

  199. but in spite of how bound he was, he ran to Jesus and began to worship.

  200. And in that moment when he was worshiping, God set him free completely.

  201. Hallelujah from the devils that he was possessed by. It had been a long time,

  202. but all it took was one moment where God completely liberated me.

  203. You say, you don't understand, Brother Josiah. You don't understand I've had

  204. this struggle in my mind.

  205. You don't understand how long I've struggled with this secret sin.

  206. Come on, you don't understand how many times I've fallen back into the same

  207. cycle. Well, I don't care how long.

  208. All it takes is one encounter. All it takes is one moment.

  209. And Jesus can completely and totally liberate you.

  210. He can completely and totally set your mind free.

  211. Oh, Jesus. Hallelujah.

  212. Come on, I feel like there's some people that have had some things happen to

  213. you, and you've questioned, why has this happened to me?

  214. Why have I had to walk through this? Why have I had to go through this?

  215. And it's attached some scars to your life. But I feel like telling somebody,

  216. when you get on the other side of this, you're going to have a testimony that

  217. so many are going to look to, and you're going to realize, this is why I had to go through that.

  218. This is why God took me through that this is why God allowed this to come on

  219. it's just building a bigger and greater testimonial that you can share with somebody someday.

  220. Oh, Jesus. Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed

  221. me to preach the gospel to the poor.

  222. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,

  223. to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,

  224. to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year.

  225. Hallelujah. Everywhere Jesus went throughout his ministry, these things were

  226. taking place. People were being delivered.

  227. People were being healed. Blinded eyes were being opened. Hallelujah.

  228. And I want you to know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  229. And everywhere the Spirit of God goes, everywhere Jesus shows up,

  230. these things can still take place.

  231. Why is Jesus here tonight? I believe he has come here on this Wednesday night

  232. to heal somebody's broken heart.

  233. I believe he has come here on this Wednesday night to deliver somebody's mind

  234. from being held captive by the enemy.

  235. My God, I believe he has come on this Wednesday night because he desires to

  236. perform a miracle in somebody's life.

  237. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  238. Hallelujah. He was in the middle of night in Acts chapter 16.

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  239. Hallelujah. Paul and Silas had been beaten and they were thrown in prison,

  240. amen, for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  241. Amen. They were truly faultless, but they did not let the circumstances that

  242. they were in keep them from praising God. Amen. They were bound with chains.

  243. Their hands and their feet were.

  244. Amen. But they did not let that stop them, amen, from worshiping him.

  245. And in spite of the pain that they were in, in spite of the prison that they

  246. were in, they made up in their mind, we're going to praise God anyway.

  247. And so they gathered together, Paul and Silas. Maybe they hooked up.

  248. They began to pray, and they began to sing praises until something began to

  249. change in the atmosphere.

  250. And the Bible says that there was a suddenly, there was a great earthquake.

  251. Amen. All of the doors were open, and everyone's bands were loose.

  252. He was in that moment when they made up in their mind, I'm not going to let

  253. this circumstance that I am in depict how I worship God, but I'm going to worship God anyway.

  254. And whenever they did that, God loosed them. God set them free.

  255. God broke the chains that were binding them.

  256. I want to tell somebody on this Wednesday night, if you make up in your mind,

  257. I'm not going to let what I'm going through keep me from worshiping God.

  258. I'm not gonna let this storm silence my voice of praise. I'm not gonna let this

  259. pain that I'm in keep me quiet, but no, I'm gonna worship God anyway.

  260. I'm gonna praise him through the struggle. I'm gonna praise him through the pain.

  261. I believe God will set you free and break the chain.

  262. How do I get out tonight? Maybe you're asking that question.

  263. And that meant that question tonight. How do I get out of these chains?

  264. Come on, how do I escape this pain that I am feeling?

  265. Jesus said in John chapter 14 and verse 6, I am the way.

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  266. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.

  267. You know what the way out is? The way out is through Jesus.

  268. The only way out is through Jesus. Come on, somebody. The way out isn't through a pill.

  269. The way out isn't through another drink. Hallelujah. Come on,

  270. the way out isn't through nicotine or drink.

  271. You got to get to Jesus. You got to call upon Jesus.

  272. You got to say, Jesus, I need your deliverance. I need your help. I need your strength.

  273. The Bible says, if the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

  274. Amen. Jesus, my friend, can make you free tonight.

  275. And whenever Jesus sets you free, he will set you free indeed.

  276. God does not deliver people halfway.

  277. Amen. God does not deliver people halfway, but when God sets you free,

  278. he will deliver you all the way.

  279. You will be truly free indeed.

  280. Hallelujah. Jesus said, John chapter 9, or John chapter 10, verse 9, he said, I am the door.

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  281. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, shall go in and out and find pasture.

  282. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy.

  283. But I am come that they might have a life, that they might have it more abundant.

  284. He said, I am the door. You've got to come through me.

  285. You've got to obey the gospel. Neither is there salvation in any other, the Bible says.

  286. For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

  287. Jesus is the door, my friend. The only way in is through Jesus.

  288. The devil comes. Why? To steal, to kill, and to destroy.

  289. I mean, I want to remind somebody tonight, the devil hates you and wants to

  290. destroy your soul for each other.

  291. But my God, the God that we serve cares for you.

  292. Our God wants to save you. Our God wants to keep you. Our God wants to heal you.

  293. And he wants to deliver you. I once heard a preacher say, why in the world would

  294. you submit to a devil that hates you and wants to destroy your soul for eternity,

  295. when you could simply submit to a God that loves you and wants what's best for you,

  296. and wants to save your soul for eternity.

  297. Hallelujah. The way out is through Jesus. Hallelujah. Jesus is the door.

  298. The way out, hallelujah, the way I'm going to get out is by going through the

  299. door and getting in. Going through Jesus.

  300. Getting in the church. Getting in the kingdom of God.

  301. Well, how do I get in? How do you get in the door? If the door is locked, what do you need?

  302. Keys. Hallelujah. A key is the way you get in a closed door.

  303. Matthew chapter 16, the Bible said in verse 17, Jesus answered and said unto

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  304. him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed

  305. unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

  306. And I say unto you, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,

  307. and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

  308. And I will give unto you, Peter, what the keys to the kingdom of heaven.

  309. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.

  310. And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

  311. Peter was given the keys to the kingdom of heaven.

  312. You know what that tells me? Peter knew what it took to open the door.

  313. Peter knew what it took to unlock the door. Peter had the keys of salvation.

  314. Amen. We preach about it a little on Sunday night, but on the day of Pentecost,

  315. the birthday of the church, hallelujah, the first church service ever recorded

  316. after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  317. It was on that day that God's church was born. People were filled with the Holy

  318. Ghost. And people were speaking in other tongues as God gave the utterance.

  319. The crowd began to ask, what meaneth this? What is going on? Some mocked.

  320. Some were saying that they were drunken with wine. But Peter,

  321. the one who had the keys to the kingdom of heaven, stood up and began to preach to them.

  322. The Bible says that Peter, standing up with the eleven.

  323. Lifted up his voice and said unto them, in Acts 2.14, Ye men of Judea,

  324. and all ye that dwell out of Jerusalem, be this known unto you,

  325. and hearken to my words, for these are not drunken as ye suppose,

  326. seeing it is by the third hour of the day.

  327. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.

  328. Hallelujah. And it shall come to past in the last days, saith God,

  329. I will pour out of my spirit upon all.

  330. Hallelujah. And then we see Peter, he was declaring to them that this was the

  331. fulfilled promise. Amen. This was the prophecy fulfilled that God was going to pour out his spirit.

  332. And Peter began to preach to those Jews, Jesus. He began to preach to them the gospel. Amen.

  333. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  334. And he began to preach to them that the one that they had crucified was not

  335. just a man, but that he was both Lord and Christ.

  336. Hallelujah. And it was in verse 37 when they heard this, when the Jews heard

  337. this anointed preaching, there began to be a pricking of their hearts.

  338. They were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the

  339. apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

  340. Then Peter said, this is what you need to do. I've got the keys.

  341. I've got the answer to what you need. I've got the way for you to get out.

  342. And to get into the church, you've got to repent.

  343. You've got to be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ,

  344. for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah, Jesus.

  345. And then these Jews heard the word of God preached to them.

  346. And what happened? They were pricked in their hearts.

  347. You know, the Bible says, it likens the word of God to a sword.

  348. And it says the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword,

  349. piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit.

  350. Sometimes whenever the word of God is going forth, because it's a sword,

  351. we begin to feel that pricking.

  352. And we began to feel that sword pricking at our hearts and convicting us and

  353. saying, I'm trying to talk to you, amen.

  354. I want you to obey what I'm trying to say, amen.

  355. These Jews were feeling that same conviction, amen. They were feeling that same

  356. pricking, and they wanted to know what they needed to do to get out of the lifestyle

  357. that they were living in, to get out of the chains that they were in,

  358. amen, to get out of the condemnation.

  359. And so they asked Peter in the arrest of the apostles, men and brethren,

  360. what is it that we needed to do?

  361. Peter, amen, he said, I got the keys. Amen, I know what you need to do. Jesus gave them to me.

  362. He began to unlock the door of salvation. Amen, for the very first time when

  363. he began to preach to them, you've got to repent.

  364. You've got to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.

  365. And it is a promise that he will fill you with The gift of the Holy Spirit.

  366. Hallelujah, Jesus. May I say to you, the message has never changed.

  367. The keys have never changed.

  368. They are still the same.

  369. Amen. You've still got to repent.

  370. Hallelujah. Repentance is more than saying I'm sorry.

  371. The word repent in the Bible literally means to change one's mind.

  372. Hallelujah. I once heard it said that in the old days, whenever the military

  373. was marching one way, the guards would holler out, repent,

  374. and everybody would turn around and begin walking the other way.

  375. That's what true repentance is.

  376. Amen. It's not simply saying I'm sorry and going back to the same old ways,

  377. but it's saying I'm sorry and meaning it.

  378. It's saying, God, I'm willing to change.

  379. I'm willing to lay aside my sin. son, whatever it takes for me to escape this

  380. bondage that is in my mind, God, I'm done with it. I'm tired of living this way.

  381. I'm tired of this ruling in my mind. Hallelujah. And if you will do that,

  382. God will forgive you. Hallelujah.

  383. Hallelujah.

  384. Hallelujah. But it doesn't stop there. It's got to go beyond that.

  385. And the Bible says that you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for

  386. the remission of your sins. Here's an example that I heard once and I love to give.

  387. And man, if I was to be preaching to you with purple Kool-Aid,

  388. and all of a sudden, for some reason, I would trip and spill this Kool-Aid all

  389. over the carpet, that would be a bummer, first of all.

  390. And it would leave a purple stain on this carpet. it.

  391. And I would see it and I would feel bad in my heart. And so I would go to your

  392. pastor, say, Pastor Young, I apologize.

  393. There is a purple stain in the carpet. And you would say, I forgive you. And he would mean it.

  394. And I would be forgiven. But the stain is still there.

  395. What does it take to remove the stain? You've got to get water and you've got

  396. to get something that will remit or remove the stain.

  397. You see, whenever we mess up, we fall, we make a mistake. We come to God and

  398. when we repent, and what does God do?

  399. He doesn't push a true repentant heart away. No, he forgives us,

  400. but it doesn't fix the stains on our heart.

  401. And that's why we've got to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of your sins.

  402. Amen. That's what baptism does. It truly remits, it removes,

  403. amen, it washes away your sins.

  404. And it is a promise that if you do this, if you repent, I mean,

  405. if you're baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the mission of your sins,

  406. God's desire is to fill you with the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  407. Amen. Musicians come, I'm getting close to finished. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus.

  408. Amen. When you obey the gospel, hallelujah, of Jesus Christ,

  409. the same God who brought Joseph out,

  410. the same God who brought David out, the same God who brought Paul out,

  411. amen, can bring you out too.

  412. Psalm 68, verse 6, I'm going to read it again. God sets the solitary in families,

    Psalms 68:6

  413. and he bringeth out those who are bound with chains.

  414. Amen. I believe that God wants to bring somebody out of some chains that they're attached to tonight.

  415. Hallelujah, Jesus.

  416. Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. When Israel was in Egypt, he brought them out.

  417. When Joseph was in prison, he brought him out.

  418. When Daniel was in the lion's den, he brought him out. When Peter was in prison, he brought him out.

  419. When Paul and Silas were bound in their chains, he brought them out.

  420. And if God did it for them, he can do it for you too.

  421. Amen, let's all stand all over this house together. Amen, let's stand together right now.

  422. Some of you are bound tonight. Hallelujah. Amen, maybe nobody else knows about it.

  423. Maybe you smile on the outside while you're fighting battles on the inside.

  424. Bound by fear, bound by shame, bound by guilt, bound by addiction,

  425. bound by bitterness, bound by depression, bound by unforgiveness.

  426. Maybe you're bound by a past that you can't seem to escape.

  427. I wanna tell you tonight, God did not bring you to this house to leave you in

  428. chains, but he brought you here so that he could bring you out.

  429. The same God who opened the prison doors in Acts chapter 16 is in this house tonight.

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  430. The same God who filled people with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost is in this house tonight.

  431. Amen. The same God who delivered legion, amen, is in this house tonight.

  432. The same God who healed the woman with the issue of blood, amen,

  433. who healed a blind Bartimaeus.

  434. Is in this house tonight and our God is still bringing people out.

  435. You don't have to leave tonight the same way that you came.

  436. Amen. You don't have to leave tonight carrying the same burden.

  437. You don't have to leave tonight bound by the same chains.

  438. But Jesus is the way, my friend. Hallelujah. I said Jesus is the way,

  439. my friend. Jesus is the way out tonight.

  440. Hallelujah. Peter gave us the keys. He said, repent and to be baptized every

  441. one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.

  442. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Amen. It is a promise.

  443. And maybe these things have already

  444. happened to you and you've just simply fallen back into some cycles.

  445. Amen. I want you to know tonight that God can break every cycle.

  446. Amen. He can break every chain, whatever sin it is. Amen.

  447. I want you to know tonight that God wants to bring you out. Amen.

  448. Let's all pray together right now.

  449. Amen. All across this house. Amen.

  450. All across this house. Could we lift our hands and just begin to talk to the

  451. Lord right now? Come on, I feel like the Lord is talking to some people in this house.

  452. And I don't know what it is. You know what it is. Come on, you don't know what

  453. it is that God is dealing with you about.

  454. Come on, maybe it's unforgiveness tonight. Maybe it's bitterness tonight.

  455. Come on, maybe it's anger. Maybe you've come and you're just carrying hurt and

  456. pain from some things that have happened to you in the past.

  457. Come on, I wonder if you could just begin to release that and put it in the

  458. hands of Jesus right now.

  459. Come on, I wonder if you could just release the hurt right now and say, God, I give it to you.

  460. God, I place it in your hands, Lord. I don't want to carry this weight any longer.

  461. I don't want to carry these burdens any longer. God, I give it to you right

  462. now, Lord. Come on, he wants to break some chains for some people tonight.

  463. Come on, he wants to break the chains in your mind tonight.

  464. Come on.

  465. Come on, if you feel like talking to the Lord, could you step out of where you

  466. are? Can we just come up here, gather together for just a few moments?

  467. Come on, can we come up here and lift our hands and just say,

  468. Lord, I give my all to you.

  469. God, I don't want to hold anything back from you, God. But I give it all to you at this moment.

  470. Come on, I'm inviting you to come right now.

  471. Come on, don't worry about what anybody else does. Maybe you could just come

  472. and just have a conversation between you and the Lord.

  473. Say, God, I need you tonight. I need your help tonight, I need your strength

  474. tonight, come on, that's,

  475. it.

  476. Come on, just give it to him tonight, just give it to him tonight,

  477. come on, you're gonna have a testimony, you're gonna have a story to tell,

  478. if you just yield your heart to him right now.

  479. Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.

  480. If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number, 317-469-3100.

  481. If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.