Are you important Pastor Steven Furtick

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

are you 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 memberships 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

in your spending, your 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't see,

then I would move over to gossip. Some of y'all

can't stop talking about people.

You are so ugly.

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,

he said. Legion is 6,000 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 legions. We're all a little bit of legion.

There are many me's. Somebody told me that Abby looks

just like me. They said, she's your mini me. I

was like, you don't know how true that is. There

are many me's.

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 will pull

him up here and give him the mic. There's a

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

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

and 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 the mall. Somebody's tomb is pornography. Somebody's tomb is

an addiction that if we named it in the room,

you'd 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 want it 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 Gerasenes.

Because you've tried everything else and you've run to everyone else.

But I declare today, you are in the presence of

a greater grace. And while 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 chains can't do. So now we get to

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

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

This is the part where I'm wondering why. 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 wanna 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 to 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 he wants to stand guard in

the area and.

This is a.

Brilliant strategy i got to 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 got to 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 bailed 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 worth to God?

And Jesus said, okay, you can go into the pigs.

And they went into the pigs, and then they made

the pigs drown.

Because the demons know two things. One, pigs can't swim,

but we all know that. What do 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 than they did about the man.

This is 2,000 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 kill the pigs, they'll

send Jesus away. Let me.

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 translation. 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 $ 2.

Million 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 shout. Guess what that means about you?

You must be important. 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 chains.

Now, I just wonder, are there any chain breakers in

the house today? I mean, you see chain breakers. Rock

Hill chain 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, chain breakers. Come on and praise him. I

don't care I'm on the screen. Shout out to God

with the voice of triumph. I don't care you belong

to a country club. Shout out to God with the

voice of triumph. I'm a chain breaker.

Must be important he threw you in the.

Fire so he could show nebuchadnezzar.

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 high five everybody

looks happy say you must be important.

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 foundations quaked.

But the house stood firm because it wasn't on the sand.

This man.

Was so important that Jesus went through the storm to

get to him. You were so important that Jesus went

through Gethsemane to get to you. 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. 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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