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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcoming to Richard Ellis Talks with Richard Ellis. Richard's going
to take the next few minutes to share some great
words of hope, insight, humor, and relevance in today's lost
and searching world. That's something everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Desperately needs to hear.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
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In fact, there's so many ways to connect with us
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go ahead and get things off and running with today's talk.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Here's Richard Ellis.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
The title today's message is if it ain't broke, whether
you know it or not, you may be actually saying
to God, if it ain't broke, then don't fix it.

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The problem is it is broke or broken.

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If I want to say it properly, and He is
the only one who can fix it. We'll go to
Psalm thirty four. Let's just start and we'll read through
some of these. There's a two kinds of I'm gonna
talk about today. They'll be pretty self explanatories. We go
through these verses, and they'll be a little mixed together.
Psalm thirty four, let's just jump in. I'm gonna read
you a few of these verses to get down to
where I'm going. We'll start with verse one. And if

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you stay around church is long enough, or at least
this one long enough, you'll see when I even read
this Psalm, there'll be lines out of the Psalms that
show up in songs that you sing.

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First line here, I.

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Will bless the Lord at all times, why for he
is good, and we sing a song that includes that
part of the psalm. I will bless the Lord at
all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boasting the Lord. The humble
and the look at these words. The humbles shall hear
of it and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

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and let us exalt his name together. Before I go on,
let me just make an observation. I even sit here
sometimes when we're singing and watch all this go on,
and go what are we doing?

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Who are we singing to?

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There's nobody even here to sing to, and yet we
claim to be singing to this amazing, awesome magnificent God
that we can't even see. All we can see is
the evidence that he exists and the change he's made
in our lives. If you actually believe all this, you
look Looney Tunes to most people in the world until

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something goes wrong, until they are broken and realize they
can't fix it, and then all of a sudden they
go looking. And then all of a sudden they go
looking for whether they.

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Call it a higher power or God.

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Himself or give it the name Jesus, they go, you
know what, I can't fix this anymore. My life, my
way is not working. The world system does not work.
And so what may seem crazy to us. Even at
some point when you invite someone into a gathering like this,
or you say to someone, hey, listen to this CD
or check this out on the radio or whatever they're doing,

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you go, well, why would they do that? Because they're
searching for answers, because you feel completely empty, hopeless, helpless.
There has to be something more than just this, because
no matter how much I accume eight, it doesn't work,
no matter what job they give me, it doesn't satisfy,
no matter how many partners I have, it doesn't fix anything.

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Even if my.

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Marriage is great, it's still not the best thing. Something
is missing between me and my wife, my wife and I,
because there's got to be more than just this. So
you read these verses, we sing these songs, and all
of a sudden, the Holy Spirit says, is it. This
is what you've been looking for, And these words kind
of come off the page and take on a life

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of their own. Good Ouniverse four. In this Psalm thirty four,
he says, I sought the Lord, and he heard me
and delivered me from all my fears. Good out of
verse eight, Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blesses the man who trusts in him. You are the
taste test, whether you know it or not. You go
out in the world and you are the salt. You

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are the light. You are the taste. And so they
see your life. And the reason that lives are ultimately
changed is because in the same way we worship a
God that we have never seen, we see the manifestation
of this God, what he has created, and how he's
changed us. Then the same thing happens in these relationships
you have with other people. They look at you and say,
you live on the same planet I live on. You

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got the same challenges or similar ones, and yet you
have something.

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I don't have. I can taste it.

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It is so close. I can taste it. What is
going on with you? And do you think you could
help me? Then you talk to them and they see
that change, They see that love you have from God
for yourself for other people, and they go, I gotta
get some of that. And then when you invite him
to come to a church gathering of some kind, they go,
that makes sense. And even if they come in and go, wow,
this is a little bizarre. It looks like you love
these other people, they love you. I don't have this.

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Keep reading down. Let's just jump down to verse seventeen.
The righteous and these are people that are right with God,
he says. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears
and delivers them out of all their troubles. And then
verse eighteen, the Lord is near to those who have
a broken heart, and save such as have a contrite spirit.
Now read you this word broken heart here, and by

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the way, the heart is kind of your affections. The will,
your mind is the seed of all those things. But
a broken heart here the word is translated crushed. He's
talking about a broken heart being you feel like you
have been crushed literally powder and figuratively. It can also
mean contrite, which is feeling or expressing pain or sorrow

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for sins or offenses. So you say, well, I'm broken
hearted about I lost someone, a relationship or whatever. We'll
get to that before that. Even you, at some point
you get broken hearted about your relationship with God and
what your sin, what my sin do to him? And
I go, God, I can't do this anymore. I can't
have this kind of relationship with you anymore. And at

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some point it starts to break your heart that God's
heart is broken by what we do. And you feel
that and you say, God, something's got to change. And
the scripture says, the Lord is near to those who
have a broken heart. Where something you are contrite, there
is real, genuine repentance, and He saves such is have
a contrite spirit. You feel crushed, I'll tell you something

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sooner or later. Your sin, my sin will crush you.
I promise you that. And you say, no, I'm getting
away with my sin. I'm doing what I want to do.
I'm gotten caught. I have a lot of fun with it.
I actually enjoy it. And you say I'm good to go.
Let me tell you some problems with that scenario. My
God chastens his children, He disciplines his own. So if

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you're not being disciplined for disobeying, you need to find
out if you're in a family, because if you are disobeying,
you are going to be disciplined in my house. The
reason I come down hard on my girls when I
do is I don't want them mistaking that I love them.
I don't want them going around acting like I don't care.
And when you put parameters and boundaries and restrictions and

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there is pain involved in consequence, then I go, I
don't want to do this anymore.

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I realize it's.

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Causing pain to me, but it's also causing pain to
my family and in this case, to my father God himself.
So it starts to break your heart. You realize what's
going on. So he's near to those people. Go to
Psalm fifty one, Psalm fifty one, and let's read. I
want to throw verse six in here, and then we'll
jump down to another verse. Psalm fifty one, Verse six.

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Look at what he says, Behold, you desire truth in
the inward parts and in the hidden part. You will
make me to know wisdom, truth in the inner part,
somewhere deep down inside where you live, and you say, okay, God,
what is really going on? Who am I? What am
I thinking? How am I living? What am I doing?

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Where you get real? I personally can't get real like that.
A lot of times by myself, I have to say
the words out loud to somebody else. I have to
say to somebody, Look, dude, I am messed up. I
am thinking this way, I am feeling this way. These
are my struggles, and somehow saying it out loud, it
just it crumbles in some cases because I go, wow,

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that's really what I'm doing.

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I heard myself say that.

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And you say, well, I'm crying out to God and
telling him and nothing's changing. Then try telling somebody else,
someone you trust, someone you know loves you, he desires
truth in the inward parts. Then jump down to verse seventeen.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken
and a contrite heart. These, O God, you will not despise.

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If you wonder why you're not getting through to God,
why don't you try humbling yourself and approaching him with
a broken heart, a contrite heart, a repentant heart, and saying, God, look,
I can't go blowing in and out of here getting
you to stamp validate my sin and forgive me and
then go back out and do what I want to do.
I'm tired of this. I love you. I know you
love me. I know you want the best for me.

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I don't want the best for me. I want what
I think is best for me, and it's not the best.
So let's figure out what you're trying to do. And
you've got to help me. God, stay on the right
path and do the right thing. Go to Psalm one
forty seven, and then this is where it'll cross over
a little bit into the broken hearted. I look what
he says to this Psalm one forty seven, Verse one.

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Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises
to our God, for it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.

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The Lord builds up Jerusalem.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Look at this, He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.
You got a broken heart, something go wrong, something go bad.
You got betrayed, someone deceived you, someone deliberately just crushed you.
How are you going to fix that? You say, well,

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it ain't broke. Oh yeah, it is broke, and there's
only one person who can fix it. Now, how do
you actually go about that? And is it done instantaneously?
The thing I get frustrated with. I read the New
Testament and Jesus walks around, he speaks to people, he
spits on people, he does crazy stuff, and they get
well just like that, or at least within a few
minutes or hours. And I pray and pray and pray

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and pray and pray and pray, and I got no game.
And maybe somebody it gets healed. Maybe they don't.

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I pray for somebody they drop dead or get sick
and die. Anyway to go? What is it?

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I don't understand how all that works, but I'm not
gonna quit praying because I got nowhere else to go
with it, because he is the only one who can
ultimately heal it, and it may take some time. I
got a scar down here on my left shin. My
brother and I were in a hotel room and I
was probably I don't want to say how old because
that would be embarrassing, but anyhow, you know, I got
double beds in a hotel room. We were in the room,

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my parents in another room, and we were jumping from
one bed to the next bed, and I missed one
time and went from that bed to that bed and
kind of lunched too far toward the window and caught
the arm of a chair, the corner on the arm
on my shin right here, And of course his kids,
you go, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay,
I'm okamill him, you know, I'm okay until you pull

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your pant leg up in gushing blood and you gotta
split there.

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So I have a big old scar there. I have
not thought about that scar.

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In years and years and years and years, but I
can remember, and I can tell you the story.

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I can show the scar and live it.

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That scar will be there till the day I die.
Does that mean I haven't healed? Certainly, I've healed, but
I still got a scar from what happened. And some
of you are still working on healing, and some of
you are still working on the scarring process. And you say, well,
I see the scar, and the enemy uses it against me.
I look down and go and the enemy says, well,

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Look what a stupid.

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Thing you did. You jumped off the bed into a chair.
You idiot. What were you thinking?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Is that always going to beat me up? Is that
always going to be the problem. Let me give you
a different approach to your scars. If you want to
be healed, you want to be fixed. Every time the
enemy shows you the star and you think about the scar,
you'll think about it. You go, Wow, Lord, not what
I did wrong. I've already dealt with that. I thank
you for healing my scar. I thank you for healing

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my broken heart. I thank you that you still are
healing my broken heart. And even if what is scarred,
and even if what is being healed is a direct
result of my crazy behavior, sinful deliberate behavior, I still
believe you can heal that. Now, let me tell you
what the devil will stop doing. He will stop pointing
out your scar if every time you look at the

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scar and start praising and thanking God for what's happened,
because it ain't working anymore. Let's go to Isaiah fifty
seven Isaiah fifty seven, verse fifteen. Will start there Isaiah
fifty seven fifteen. Let's read there together. He says, for
thus says the high and lofty One. And by the

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way you look at the Hebrew on this it's as
high as you can get. It's higher than high, says
the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name
is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place
with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the
heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend forever,

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nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would
fail before me and the souls which I have made
for the iniquity of his coveteousness.

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I was angry and struck him.

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I hid and was angry, and he went on backsliding
in the way of his heart to sound familiar.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
God hits this and we go.

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I don't care. God, keep it coming, because I'm gonna
keep going what I want to do. I have seen
his ways, and I will heal him. I will also
lead him and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
You're not gonna out, sind God. Whatever you can come
up with, you can't get away from this God, no
matter what you do, no matter how far you run

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he will find you. Or is the story in the
Prodigal Sun, It says, and he came to himself. What
happens to me along the way? Is I just get
tired certain sins. I just go God, I am tired
of this sin. I used to have a little fun
with this. It used to bring some pleasure, It used
to be some satisfaction.

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Let's say your deal is angry. You're angry all the time.
Your deal is anger, and so you.

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Burst out and you scream and holler and have your
way and scare everybody to death, and you get away
with that, and then later you go, wow, what was
I thinking?

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Why did I do that?

Speaker 3 (13:56):
And you got some satisfaction, some rush from being angry,
and then you feel horrible later, and then you get
angry again, and you feel horrible later, you get angry again,
and pretty soon you go you're gonna get sick of
being angry because it's so much devastation you're creating. And
at some point you would think, you go, God, enough already,
You've got to change my heart. You've got to fix this.

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I am broken. This doesn't work. We've got to do
something and get under control, under God's control. And let
him fix whatever it may be. And my theory is
that God wins or you die. One of the two
is gonna happen. You're gonna yield, You're gonna say uncle,
You're gonna repent. At some point are you just driving
in the ground? You run out of living, run out

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of life, and then it's too late. Go to one
more here in Isaiah chapter sixty six.

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Isaiah sixty six, verse two.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
If you'll notice, as you study scripture, find out what
God is looking for when he comes, looking for people
that worship him, that know him. For all those things,
my hand is made verse two. And all those things exist,
says the Lord. But on on this one will I
look of him who is poor and of a contrite spirit?
And look at this last phrase, and who trembles at

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my word?

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Does it even do anything to you anymore? Do you
read his word?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I grew up in a house when I had a
dad six foot nine, two hundred and seventy something pounds.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
When my dad got angry and my dad said words,
you sat up and you paid attention. Anybody grew up
in that house, you did not mess around with my dad.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
You can get hurt.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I was afraid I had respect for the words that
my dad said because there could be implications, there would
be consequences. I don't think we take God seriously at all.
I think we open the word, we read the scriptures,
we go, yeah, whatever, he loves me, so no matter what,
He's going to take care of me. There's no consequence.
I think the thing we miss out on is consequence.

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You think I can do whatever I want to do
and God is going to be merciful and loving and gracious,
and he's going to forgive and it's all going to
be okay. Let me tell you something. It's not always okay.
All that is true, but there is consequence. And part
of the reason we are broken hearted is because we
have not been broken hearted when we should have been

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and let him heal us and rescue us. And then
we have the consequences of our choices, and then we're
broken hearted because we don't like what happened that we
feel crushed.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Now jump over to Luke chapter four.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
And maybe we're done with this Luke chapter four, and
then this past is Jesus goes back to his hometown
in Nazareth. Luke chapter four let's jump in here at
verse fourteen, and Jesus, just by the way, contextually here,
he has just been out in the wilderness for forty days,
forty nights, fasted, been tempted of the devil. He survived
all that tempted, all sin, as we are yet without sin.

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Then Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee,
and news of him went throughout all the surrounding region,
and he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
So he came to Nazareth, his hometown where he had
been brought up, and as his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up
to read. And by the way, back then they sat

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to teach, but they stood to read the word of God,
because they respected the word of God. And he was
handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when they
say handed the book of the Prophet, it was a scroll.
It wasn't turning pages. And by the way, if you
read the Hebrew scriptures, there are no numbers, there are
no headings, It's just scripture.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Right, anybody ever.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Seen this this way, So when you undo a scroll,
if you don't know what you're doing, and you don't
know where you are in the scroll and how to
do it. You're completely lost. Jesus knew the book. He
actually wrote this particular book and all of them. So
he's reading his own material here. But he's handed the
Book of Isaiah. He opens the book, he found the
place in it where it was written, and then he quotes.

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This is what he's quoting in Isaiah chapter sixty one,
verse one and following, and this is what he says.
So he's standing in his hometown in the synagogue, the
handing the Book of Isaiah, unrolls the scroll and picks this.
He says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to
the poor. Now see if I'm reading out of Isaiah,

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you go, okay, good.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's just reading the scripture. But what he's about to
do with the scripture.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Plenty of people for hundreds of years had read these
scriptures out loud in the synagogue.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
But now something different happens.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
He says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to
the poor. He has sent me to what to heal
the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord. Then he closed the book and gave it
back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes

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of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on him,
and begin to say to them, today, the scripture is
fulfilled in your hearing. In other words, you've been reading
this for one hundreds of years. I'm the guy. Now
that's a claim what Isaiah wrote and what he spoke.
I am this person. I am the man that is
going to bring this to pass. And one of the

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phrases obviously that I'm highlighting here is he has sent
me to heal the broken hearted. Now the tragedy of
this specific sermon that he preached, and this thing that
he said here, they like it so far. He says today,
this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. So all bar
witnessed him and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded
out of his mouth.

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They're shocked, like, wow, he's very eloquent. It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
And they said, is this not Joseph's son? And that's
where they made the mistake. Isn't this just some kid
who grew up in our town? He said to them,
you will surely say this proverb to me, physicians, heal yourself.
Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here
in your country. Now there's we've heard the stories about
who you are. But you're just some kid that grew

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up here. You're nobody. You're Joseph's son. You're not God's son.
And if you're going to go healing all over the place,
heal yourself, heal your own people, your own town. But
I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in
the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up
three years and six months, and there was a great
famine throughout all the land. But to none of them
was Elijah sent except to Zarapath in the region of Saidon,

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to a woman who was a widow. And many lepers
were in Israel in the time of Elijah the Prophet,
and none of them was cleansed except name. And the
Syrian cites two instances. And by the way, this is
one of the very perplexing things to me. Also about
Jesus coming to earth as he healed a lot of people.
He never got one hundred miles from Nazareth or from
where he was born, where he grew up.

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He stayed in this tiny little area.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
And I'm thinking, you know what, tell him once and
then hit China, hit Africa, go tell the American Indians.
Get out of town. Dude, get out there. You're God
on the planet.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Move. But he didn't do that. He stayed in that one.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Area to reach the Jews so it would be clear
that he had come after his own people. And then
once that was done, it goes to the Gentiles, and
then it is ir responsibility to take it beyond there.
But he's in his hometown. He uses these examples, and
then so verse twenty eight. So all those in the
synagogue when they heard these things, were filled with wrath.
In other words, he said, I'm not doing anything here,

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and rose up and thrust him out of the city.
And they let him do the brow of the hill
on which their city was built, that they might throw
him down over the cliff. Then, passing through the midst
of them, he went his way. Now were they any
less broken than anybody else? He had said, I'm the
guy this scripture's talking about He'll have broken hearted. But
I can't even do it here. Why because you don't believe.

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You don't know who I am. You don't believe I'm
who I say I am. Now I can't do what
I'd like to do here with my own hometown, my
own people. So you got a broken heart, You've got
sin of your life that you will not let your
heart be broken over and let God deal with. Then
what's the consequence going to be of that? You're stuck
with your sin? And I'll tell you this, your heart
will be broken sooner or later, somehow, some way. I

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highly recommend turning yourself in if there is a warrant
out for your arrest, turn yourself in before you get
picked up, because God has his ways of picking you up.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
And it is very humbling.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
You say, Okay, well, I'm willing to do that, but
now I got a broken heart because I realize I've.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Cost so much pain.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Then let him do what he did there, what he
spoke about there, and that passage specifically read it again.
He sent me to heal the broken hearted. And by
the way, the word heal here means to make whole,
to cure. He can fix it. And the word broken
hearted here means to crush completely, that is, to shatter,

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break in pieces, broken shivers, to bruise. You feel like
that Sometimes I got nobody else who can fix that.
I'm not saying counseling doesn't help, and maybe medication in
some cases people think, well, I feel better. You are
never going to feel better than you do when Jesus
gets done with you. Because nobody can heal like he
can heal, nobody can restore, nobody can fix it. And

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God has a way have taken our disasters and keeping
us really close to Him because of them. If you
go read the story of the Lost Sheep in Luke
chapter fifteen, I'm done after this. The shepherd leaves ninety nine,
goes finds the one, and when he finds the one,
he cares enough about all of him, but he'd leave
ninety nine to goet the one. He gets the one,
it says, he lays it on his shoulders and returns

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rejoicing him. But what it doesn't tell you is that
shepherd's back in the day when they found that sheep
who'd run off and jeopardize the whole flock, would break
the legs of that sheep. And the reason why he
didn't drag it home, he had to carry it home
is because that little sheep had broken his legs. And
then that sheep healed on the shepherd's shoulders or at
the shepherd's side. And I will tell you something, They

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don't leave the shepherd anymore. When you healed at the
shepherd's side, there is no running away anymore.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Before Richard comes back to wrap things up for us today,
I'd like to share a couple important things with you.
Let me encourage you to take a minute and check
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So being broken and all bad if you let him
heal the broken hearted and do what only he can do.
And he said, well, where do these messages come from, Richard?
It comes from listening to lots of stories and looking
at a lot of busted up eyes, tear filled eyes, broken people.
He said, well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It

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is broken, and only one man can fix it. And
his sweet name is Jesus, and I highly recommend letting
him take a shot at whatever you guy, because there's
no one else who can.

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